The family member carefully took the prescription and asked, "How much does these seven prescriptions cost?"
"Go to the counter and get the medicine and you'll find out. It's only about a penny. Go ahead!"
The family member bowed gratefully and went to the counter to get the medicine. They thought, "This Yishengtang is really fair. The medicine is much cheaper than that small pharmacy!"
Li Yan had been watching from the side for a long time, and finally found a chance to ask the waiter: "Do we buy medicinal herbs here?"
The young man shook his head and said, "Our herbs are all delivered by regular medicine dealers. We don't usually accept scattered orders."
There was no other way, so Li Yan had to go to other pharmacies to ask.
After coming out of Yishengtang, Li Yan walked along the main street for half a minute and finally saw Xingrentang at the end of the street. She walked in.
When I stepped into the room, I saw an old man sitting in the hall. It was Doctor Zhou.
Doctor Zhou was also a little surprised to see Li Yan.
Li Yan spoke first: "Uncle Zhou, why are you sitting here?"
Doctor Zhou sighed: "It's all for life!"
Li Yan nodded in understanding: "Uncle Zhou, I came here to ask if you accept medicinal herbs. I brought some Forsythia suspensa and was wondering if you would accept them?" After saying that, she handed the backpack behind her to Doctor Zhou.
Doctor Zhou took the basket and took out a handful of Forsythia suspensa. The fruits of this Forsythia suspensa were plump and green in color, and looked of high quality!
Doctor Zhou nodded repeatedly after examining it. "This Qingqiao is at its peak medicinal value right now. I want all of yours, but since it's unprocessed, the price is fourteen cents per pound. What do you think?"
Li Yan nodded and asked curiously, "How do you usually collect the prepared forsythia?"
Because she wanted to understand the current Forsythia market situation as soon as possible, Li Yan only brought the Forsythia that she had just picked yesterday.
Uncle Zhou handed the basket to the boy behind the counter and explained to Li Yan, "It takes five pounds of fresh forsythia to make one pound of medicinal herbs, so the price of prepared forsythia is generally seventy or eighty coins per pound."
Following Doctor Zhou's actions, Li Yan noticed that the boy was about twelve or thirteen years old, with a thin figure and a cold white complexion. What a handsome young boy.
Doctor Zhou introduced Li Yan: "This is my grandson Zhou Xun. I am old and I don't know how long I can accompany him. I want to bring him out to see the world!" Doctor Zhou couldn't help feeling a little sad at this moment.
The boy weighed it and said, "Grandpa, it's twelve and a half pounds."
Doctor Zhou ordered his grandson, "You give her one hundred and seventy-five coins!"
Li Yan took the money from the boy and asked a little embarrassedly, "Uncle Zhou, do we still sell forsythia in the back of our store?"
Uncle Zhou pondered for a moment. "You've seen this shop, and there aren't many patients. I estimate the amount needed is only a few dozen kilograms! I can make the decision on the small amount you just mentioned. As for large-scale purchases, I'll have to ask my old friend. I can't make the decision on my own!"
Li Yan was a little confused at this moment: "Uncle Zhou, why are there so few patients here this morning?"
"Patients dislike the high prices of medicine here, so they all go to Yirentang. In fact, a disease that can be cured with three prescriptions here requires ten prescriptions there." After saying this, he shook his head and sighed.
It turned out that Yirentang deliberately made the dosage of the medicine too light so that the patients could never recover, thus slowly wearing down the patients. In fact, the price of those more than ten prescriptions far exceeded that of three prescriptions.
But the patients didn’t know much. They just knew that medical treatment at Yirentang was cheap, so they all went there.
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