Chapter 26 Selling Medicinal Herbs
The shopkeeper looked puzzled.
Upon hearing the word "child," the young woman couldn't help but look over.
"It's not surprising that there are children there; children from the mountains often run into the area," the shopkeeper said.
Lu Qingqing shook her head vigorously, displaying the lack of composure expected of a village girl.
"No, it's the voice of two- or three-year-old children, several of them!"
"How could this be? What kind of parents are so irresponsible as to take such a young child into the mountains? What if they encounter a wild beast? They won't even have time to cry!" The lady couldn't help but interject.
And the voice was also breathy.
Lu Yun didn't understand what Lu Qingqing was trying to say, but he was very good at cooperating.
"Really, really, we were together at the time."
Lu Qingqing continued: "So my brother and I followed the sound to see what was going on, and guess what we saw?"
I saw four naked dolls!
The shopkeeper and the lady stared in astonishment.
"Those four dolls look exactly alike, they are so beautiful, they are only wearing red bibs, round and white, just like the white porcelain dolls sold during the Chinese New Year."
Strangely, they had no hair on their heads, only a small leaf growing on them.
"Ginseng doll?" the shopkeeper exclaimed.
“That’s right!” Lu Qingqing nodded emphatically, her face full of excitement.
"As soon as we appeared, the four dolls were so frightened that they disappeared!"
So my second brother and I searched and searched, and finally found the thirty-year-old ginseng, and then we found four small ginseng seedlings.”
As soon as the story was finished, the shrewd shopkeeper immediately understood Lu Qingqing's intentions.
His face turned cold.
"Add another five taels, thirty taels. If you agree, you can leave the ginseng; if not, you can leave."
Lu Qingqing smiled and said, "Then I'd better leave. My ginseng has a spirit, and its medicinal effects are incomparable to ordinary ginseng. I don't have to worry about selling it."
I still have four ginseng seedlings to take care of at home, so I won't linger here any longer.
"You even dug up ginseng seedlings! Once wild ginseng leaves the mountains, it's no longer wild ginseng!"
“My ginseng is different; it has a spirit,” Lu Qingqing insisted.
Then, without hesitation, he and Lu Yun left the clinic.
The shopkeeper was still chasing after him, shouting, "Thirty-five taels! That's the final price! Once you leave this village, you won't find another shop like this!"
Lu Qingqing and Lu Yun did not turn around.
As soon as he stepped out the door, the lady caught up with him.
"Girl, were you telling the truth or not? Did you really see the ginseng doll?"
"Really. But when I told people, they all said I was seeing things."
"Of course, you can't really see something that has a spiritual quality; it's just a fleeting moment."
The young woman had been buying ginseng from this clinic to nourish her husband's body.
Since you're going to buy something anyway, why not buy something with spiritual energy?
Maybe eating this will help you give birth to four chubby babies!
The image of the fair-skinned little baby wearing a bib that Lu Qingqing described was deeply ingrained in her mind and she couldn't shake it off.
"Where do you live? I'd like to see those four ginseng seedlings. If what you're saying is true, I can buy all four of your ginseng and seedlings."
“No, that won’t work.” Lu Qingqing shook her head. “Actually, what the shopkeeper said earlier was right. Wild ginseng is different once it leaves the mountain. Even if you cultivate it, it has no value.”
"You can't possibly not have ginseng seedlings, can you? Are you lying?"
"I'm not lying to you. You can buy my old ginseng, but I don't sell young ginseng."
I can frequently change the soil from the mountain to nourish it at home, but you can't do that.
If you're worried I'm lying to you, you can come home with me, but you'll have to wait a bit; I still have some medicinal herbs to sell.
They didn't sell many of the medicinal herbs they brought. Some clinics wouldn't accept them because they had their own herb gatherers. Others just made up for the missing ones. It was really hard work to sell them to each clinic in this scattered way.
Lu Qingqing felt that she had planned too well at the beginning.
The woman looked at the full baskets and asked, "Where are you going to sell them?"
"I don't know yet. Does Madam know which clinic accepts medicinal herbs from outside?"
"Why go to the clinic? You should sell to the herbal medicine merchant. Come on, I know one. I'll take you there, but whether you can sell your medicine depends on how good it is."
This is truly a delightful surprise.
Lu Qingqing suddenly realized that she had made a mistake from the beginning; she should have looked for wholesalers instead of retailers!
Lu Yun was the same; he had worked as a shop assistant in a cloth shop, but it was the kind where they produced and sold their own goods.
Therefore, he had no business experience.
Now they both understood.
The young woman's name was Li Moran. Her husband's family was in the porcelain business and knew many businessmen.
The herbal medicine merchant she introduced to the two of them was named Tian Leshan. He not only supplied medicines to clinics in Ming'an County, but also had business dealings with several nearby cities.
In addition, the items they collected were varied, including animal hides, dried mountain products, mushrooms, ginseng, and lingzhi.
The medicinal herbs that Lu Qingqing prepared were clean, plump, and intact, and Tian Leshan readily accepted them.
The basket contained four or five kinds of medicinal herbs, weighing fifteen catties. There were no particularly valuable herbs, and I was given two taels of silver.
If Li Molan hadn't already reserved the ginseng, he would have taken it all.
The two parties also agreed that all medicinal herbs would be delivered here from now on.
"There's news that things are getting unstable up north again. Many medicine dealers there are buying up herbs. You should try to find as much Panax notoginseng and other hemostatic herbs as you can," Tian Leshan advised.
"Is war about to break out?" Lu Yun asked.
"Perhaps," Tian Leshan said in a low voice. "Some places have started raising taxes... Sigh, I heard the former crown prince opposed it before, what a pity..."
It's a pity that the crown prince died.
Tian Leshan sighed.
"In short, just dig up more hemostatic drugs."
"Then, how about making it directly into wound medicine?" Lu Qingqing asked.
"You can also make wound medicine?"
“I can give it a try.”
Even if a herb gatherer isn't a doctor, he's still well-versed in pharmacology, so Tian Leshan didn't think much of it.
"If you can do it, of course you can. Make some first and take it to try. If it works well, then we'll keep it."
It was made by Lu Qingqing, so of course it works well.
With a stable source of income, the person they should be most grateful to is Li Moran, who introduced them to the company.
Lu Qingqing thanked her, and a few sincere words greatly increased Li Molan's goodwill towards her.
She was anxious to see the ginseng seedlings, so she called her own carriage over.
Lu Yun rode in Cui Shitou's donkey cart, while Lu Qingqing and Li Molan sat together, chatting all the way.
Li Molan has been married for three years without children. Although it is the man's fault, people who do not know the truth often blame the woman.
Therefore, she suffers a lot of grievances on a daily basis and has no friends.
Knowing that Lu Qingqing understood pharmacology, and hearing from Tian Leshan that the medicine they sold was of good quality, he felt that she was an honest person.
He couldn't help but tell her about his suffering.
Lu Qingqing then told her several good recipes for men to replenish their qi and blood.
He also taught her a few acupressure points to massage.
His condition wasn't serious; it was just premature aging caused by excessive masturbation in his youth, which could be reversed with rest.
Once they got home, Li Moran had come to trust Lu Qingqing quite a bit, calling her "little sister" repeatedly.
Lu Yun was utterly impressed by Lu Qingqing.
She actually had the audacity to say that to people...
"My mother used the first prescription and gave birth to two sons, my eldest brother and my second brother, in a row."
Later, she wanted a daughter, so she used the second prescription and gave birth to me.
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