“Doctor Cai is right. Qingyang City is in trouble, and as citizens of the Great Chu Kingdom, we have a duty to lend a helping hand. I am willing to donate a five-hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng for sale, and all the proceeds will be donated to Qingyang City for disaster relief.”
Upon hearing this, the entire audience gasped in shock.
Cai Fanzhou and the four doctors who came with him all changed their expressions drastically.
As healers, they understand better than ordinary people what a 500-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng means.
Unlike ginseng, fire ginseng has a very strong medicinal property and is particularly effective for some extremely cold-related illnesses.
A five-hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng, if used properly, can snatch a dying person back from the clutches of Yama at a critical moment.
Many noble families have tried to purchase a single hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng at exorbitant prices, but to no avail, let alone a five-hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng.
If any medical clinic had a 500-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng, it would treasure it as a family heirloom. It would be difficult for outsiders to even catch a glimpse of it, let alone donate it.
Now, Su Ruojin is offering a five-hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng right off the bat. That's quite a generous gesture.
A hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng can sell for a thousand taels of silver, and a five-hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng starts at least at seven thousand taels of silver. Even then, there is no market for it. If a wealthy family is in urgent need, they would be willing to buy it for tens of thousands of taels, let alone seven thousand.
Su Ruojin's donation was equivalent to at least seven thousand taels of silver, and the amount she donated was the same as the total amount donated by the entire Yanyang Medical Hall.
If the price were higher, it would exceed the amount donated by Cai Fanzhou and his group.
Cai Fanzhou and the others quickly recovered from their shock. Doctor Zhang looked at Su Ruojin with a mocking expression: "Doctor Su, you are young. Could you have been deceived? I have heard that many people are now good at using short-aged Fire Spirit Ginseng to impersonate century-old Fire Spirit Ginseng."
This means that Su Ruojin lied and deceived people; she simply couldn't produce a 500-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng.
Yan Luo was so angry she wanted to curse. There was a whole box of five-hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng in the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion's warehouse, and a huge pile of hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng. There were also ten thousand-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng that could shake the Great Chu Kingdom if just one of them was thrown out.
Physicians at the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion who wish to conduct medicinal formula research can apply to their mistress for permission to use century-old Fire Spirit Ginseng for experiments, provided they provide research ideas and feasible steps.
What outsiders consider a rare and precious century-old Fire Spirit Ginseng is nothing more than an ordinary material used by the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion for developing medicinal formulas.
They actually dared to suspect that the young lady was lying.
Just as Yanluo was about to speak, Zhihua stopped her.
Zhihua shook her head at her, and Yanluo swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
Given Yanluo's personality, she might reveal her mistress's identity the moment she opens her mouth. Her mistress doesn't like to be ostentatious, otherwise she wouldn't have been willing to stay in Yanyang City all these years.
Cai Fanzhou smiled and said, "Dr. Su, a five-hundred-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng is truly rare. Why don't you bring it out and let everyone see it?"
Of all things to do, Su Ruojin had to insist on outdoing them by boasting about having a 500-year-old Fire Spirit Ginseng. Now let's see if they can produce it.
Su Ruojin chuckled: "Dr. Cai, as a fellow doctor, I didn't know that Fire Spirit Ginseng is most afraid of the cold. At the current temperature, if I take the Fire Spirit Ginseng out, it will turn black and lose its medicinal effect in less than a minute. Of course, if Dr. Cai is willing to bear this compensation, I don't mind taking it out now."
Cai Fanzhou was stunned. How could he have forgotten about this?
Fire Spirit Ginseng lives in the hottest places and is most afraid of cold. If a family has Fire Spirit Ginseng, they must keep a stove burning next to it for twelve hours a day to preserve its medicinal effects. Even during transportation, they must find a way to ensure the temperature around the Fire Spirit Ginseng.
Taunted by Su Ruojin's words, Cai Fanzhou's face turned ugly: "Who said I didn't know? I was just worried you'd be scammed, so I kindly reminded you. I wonder how Doctor Su plans to sell Fire Spirit Ginseng?"
"It's very simple. Interested buyers can come to the store to register and receive their own code. I will post a piece of white paper at the entrance of the clinic. Those who wish to buy can write their code and bid on the white paper at any time."
"The auction will end at midnight three days later. The highest bidder will win. The starting price is 5,000 taels of silver, and each bid must be at least 100 taels higher. This is fairer," Su Ruojin explained the sales method for the Fire Spirit Ginseng.
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