Chapter 191 Selling Medicinal Herbs
After three consecutive days, the sliced astragalus on the first day was finally dried.
After four days of excavation, Jiang Xiangdong and his three companions had cleared out one and a half acres of land.
Before leaving, Shen Qing assigned tasks: "Old Four and I will go to the city, Old Eldest and Old Third, you plow the land, Xiaoyu and Xiaoshui, you two sow the rapeseed;
Plant more garlic and make sweet and sour garlic when you harvest it."
Rapeseed is easy to plant. Just spread the seeds evenly on the ground after leveling it. It doesn't matter if the seeds are spread too thickly. After the seedlings emerge, you can either transplant them or thin them out and eat the young ones.
Only trouble with garlic!
The soil should be deeply plowed and ridges should be built to keep the ridge surface flat and the soil loose. Drainage ditches should also be dug in advance.
Then break the garlic into cloves one by one, bury them one by one, and cover them with a layer of straw to keep them warm. It is very physically demanding.
But the sweet and sour garlic made from fresh garlic is really delicious, especially in winter, it is appetizing and can relieve greasiness. I don’t know if there is too much time to plant it now, but even if there is no time, it doesn’t matter, the garlic stalks soaked in vinegar can also stimulate the appetite and relieve greasiness!
Garlic leaves can be used to fry eggs or add to hot pot for a healthy and delicious taste.
What they are doing now is to grow as many varieties as possible and increase the quantity. The food consumed at home during the cold winter will exceed previous expectations.
"Okay, mom, you two can go to the city without worry. We are here at home." Jiang Xiangdong assured repeatedly.
I won’t dig medicinal herbs today. Mother said that vegetable seeds cannot wait, so we need to plant winter vegetables early. After all, we live in the mountains, and money is not as important as real food!
Shen Qing and Jiang Xiangbei set off driving their donkeys.
The two of them sat on the bicycle frame together, and the cold wind in the early morning blew on their faces with the chill of winter.
"Mom, why don't you go into the carriage and lie down for a while?" Jiang Xiangbei suggested with concern.
Shen Qing shook her head: "It's not too cold yet, mother will chat with you for a while."
The main reason is that it was early in the morning and the mountains were foggy, so it was easy to get tired driving alone.
The two of them chatted for a while, which was just the right time to cheer themselves up.
Jiang Xiangbei still wanted his mother to accompany him from the bottom of his heart, but he was also worried that she would be tired and cold after getting up so early. Just as he was struggling with this, he heard his mother ask, "Do you remember what we need to buy in the city today?"
Hearing the question, Jiang Xiangbei quickly straightened his mind and replied seriously: "I remember, lamb, lard, cotton, soybeans, mung beans..."
After replying, he asked curiously, "Mom, why didn't you tell the villagers about the discovery of the medicinal herbs?"
They will be happy if I tell them.
Shen Qing held the rope and looked forward. When he heard the fourth brother's question, a faint smile appeared on his lips: "Because we don't know if it is a medicinal herb, and we don't know the price, if we rashly say it and it doesn't sell for a high price, won't everyone be happy for nothing?"
She knew that this was the medicinal herb from a shopping mall, but the villagers didn't have a shopping mall, so she had to go to a pharmacy in the city to confirm it.
Jiang Xiangbei suddenly realized that his mother said it was a medicinal herb, and his family members immediately firmly believed that it was a medicinal herb. However, there are more than a hundred people in the village, how could everyone be like their family members!
Mom has thought of everything so carefully.
But, "Mom, it would be such a shame if they burned the herbs as firewood."
"No, we washed and sliced them and dried them yesterday. How could those whole roots with dirt on them dry so quickly?
Then there's the tarpaulin we use at home. People in the village build thatched huts, and it takes a whole family one or two days to build one. It's nowhere near as efficient as ours, which takes only half a day."
Jiang Xiangbei thought so too. They dug it up as early as yesterday afternoon and dried it only. It would be even more impossible for the villagers to dry it a day or two later than them.
"And most importantly, the land for building houses in the village has been divided, but the land for reclaiming wasteland has not yet been clearly defined. If it is announced too early, won't it cause more trouble?
"They've built their houses these past two days, and every household has been clearing the land. I'm sure by the time we return, everything will have been clearly divided. By then, no matter how cheap or expensive it is, everyone will decide for themselves what they will gain or lose."
Her house was the only one in the village whose boundary was the river, and there was no dispute with the other side.
Jiang Xiangbei was stunned. He didn't expect his mother to think so much and so comprehensively.
The admiration and respect in his eyes grew stronger as he turned his head to look at Shen Qing.
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After entering the city, they went straight to the pharmacy. Jiang Xiangbei stayed outside to guard the donkey cart and the astragalus in the carriage.
Shen Qing entered the pharmacy with a small cloth bag.
"Madam, are you here for a medical consultation or to get some medicine?" The medicine boy came forward and asked politely.
Shen Qing opened the bag and asked politely, "Little Second Brother, what do you think of this astragalus? Do you want to take it?"
The medicine boy didn't expect that the neatly dressed woman was not here to see a doctor or dispense medicine, but to sell medicine!
He looked carefully into the cloth bag and saw that it was indeed sliced astragalus, and the quality was excellent!
He opened his mouth, first looked towards the shopkeeper, made a superior gesture, then sighed and said regretfully: “Of course our medicine shop accepts astragalus;
It’s just that the quality of your astragalus is not good, so it can’t be sold at a high price. If I force myself to buy it, I’m afraid I can’t give you much.”
How could Shen Qing not understand!
The things that can be purchased in the mall are all top quality, and this guy is obviously trying to bargain for the price.
She also sighed: "Forget it, I'll go ask somewhere else."
The shopkeeper behind the wooden counter was so anxious that he almost came out in person and winked at the medicine boy frantically.
The medicine boy was also anxious. Why didn't this woman respond in a reasonable way?
He hurriedly said, "Aunt, although I can't give you much, at least you can offer a price, right? These herbs are useless in your hands, just like dead branches. But if you sell them to the pharmacy, no matter how much, it will be a profit, right?"
This woman looked unfamiliar, and was obviously a herbalist who had been found by chance. Since she didn't know much about the business, it would be easiest to fool her.
In the past, when I met people like this who came to sell medicinal herbs occasionally, I would always sell them to them at the lowest possible price. But why did she not even ask and just went to another store?
Besides, "We are the only pharmacy in the whole Jincheng, and you have nowhere else to go, Auntie."
Shen Qing glanced at the medicine boy in front of him and said with a smile: "Little Second Brother, you don't know that I have too many medicinal herbs. Your family can't eat them all, so you still have to go out;
Although you are the only store in Jincheng, we can sell our products to other stores in other cities."
Hearing the large quantity, the shopkeeper quickly came out from behind the counter, his fat face full of smiles: "Hey, let me take a look at the goods."
He then grabbed a handful of Astragalus and examined it carefully. After a while, he raised his head and angrily scolded the medicine boy, "I told you to study and watch more every day, but you always don't listen and are lazy!
The herbs here today are clearly top-quality, yet you claim they're not good-looking. This nearly caused the pharmacy to suffer a huge loss. Watch out for your misfortune later!"
The medicine boy immediately apologized to Shen Qing.
Shen Qing watched the two of them perform a duet, pretending not to notice and asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, what price can you offer for my astragalus?"
The shopkeeper stroked his beard, thought for a moment, and then quoted a price.
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