Xu Shang turned around and realized that he almost forgot about these earthworms.
Earthworm (Euphorbia sphaerocephala): It has the effect of breaking blood and removing blood stasis, and repairing tendons and bones. It is used for traumatic injuries, tendon injuries and fractures, blood stasis and amenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain due to blood stasis, and lumps and masses. The current market purchase average price is 52 yuan/kg.
Xu Shang then asked Jiang Xiaotiao, "Xiaotiao, how much does the grocery store charge for this thing?"
Jiang Xiaotiao looked at Xu Shang strangely and asked, "Why are you selling this to a grocery store?"
"You won't sell it to the grocery store?"
"When the market is open in town, there are still many people who want it at fifty or sixty yuan per pound! But if it's dead, it's not that valuable, and can only be sold for about thirty yuan... Brother Xu Shang, this tastes delicious after being fried! Let's fry it and eat it tonight!"
Xu Shang was stunned. The selling price Jiang Xiaotiao mentioned was actually higher than the average market purchase price given by the system.
Soon, Xu Shang figured out the reason.
If it is used as a medicinal material, it is definitely more valuable after processing, after all, it has gone through a process. But if it is used as a food, the fresher it is, the higher its value.
Moreover, the small amount of this sold in the town is generally assumed to be wild, and the price of wild ones is naturally higher than that of farmed ones.
Xu Shang's mind moved slightly. Maybe dealing with animal medicinal materials can make more money than dealing with plants?
After returning to Jiang Xiaotiao's home, Xu Shang began to process the fangfeng he had collected. Since he did not plan to sell it in Tianya Village, Xu Shang decided to process and dry the herbs.
This makes it easier to preserve, and after removing the moisture, it is also easier to carry.
What surprised Xu Shang was that the process of preparing medicinal materials also added experience points, and it was no less than that added by collecting herbs. Seeing the words "EXP +2" appearing on the medicinal materials in his hand, Xu Shang was very happy.
And at this moment, a strange feeling surged into Xu Shang's heart. At this moment, Xu Shang seemed to have a feeling of enlightenment.
"Congratulations, your herbalist level has increased to 2!"
"You can choose one of the following three options as an upgrade reward!"
Xu Shang was overjoyed and immediately looked at the options.
"Option 1: Veteran (New Skill - Passive), when you are brewing medicinal materials, the speed is permanently increased by 25%."
"Option 2: Radar enhancement. Increase the range of the current radar by 10 meters."
"Option three: Dynamic radar. Your radar will be more sensitive to animals, and animal-related medicinal materials will have new tags on the radar."
Xu Shang pondered for a moment, and among the three options, he ruled out option one first.
This is obviously an option whose effect becomes more obvious in the later stages, but for Xu Shang at the moment, it seems that this is not necessary for the time being, because what he currently lacks is not the efficiency in preparing medicinal materials.
As for options two and three, they are a bit confusing.
Xu Shang was more inclined to option three, but the improvement of option two was too great. The radar range increased by 10 meters, from 10 meters to 20 meters. This was not a one-fold increase, but a three-fold increase.
After pondering for a while, Xu Shang decisively chose option three.
Because Xu Shang realized that what he lacked most at the moment was not the ability to find medicinal materials, but the means to identify high-value medicinal materials.
After making the choice, Xu Shang immediately sensed the change, as if there was an extra fragment in his DNA chain. Then Xu Shang turned on the herbal medicine radar detector and found that the detector that originally only showed white dots began to show black dots again.
And two of the black spots were actually inside the house.
Xu Shang was stunned for a moment, then came to the corner of the wall according to the location of the radar. Although the village chief's house was made of bricks, the ground was not covered with cement, but was still a mud floor. There was an obvious gap in the mud in the corner of the wall.
According to the radar detector, the black spot is in the gap.
Xu Shang thought about it, found a straw nearby, and poked it in the gap a few times. Suddenly, a big guy with a red head and black armor rushed out from inside. He was not afraid of people at all and pounced towards Xu Shang with his teeth and claws bared.
What a big centipede!
Xu Shang was startled, then he took a quick look at the system and found that the average price given was:
1 yuan and 2 cents per piece.
Xu Shang subconsciously raised his eyebrows, thinking that centipedes were so cheap, only one dollar and twenty cents. He had the impression that this thing should be valuable, at least dozens of dollars per pound.
Then Xu Shang immediately discovered the problem.
He was wrong!
It’s not 1.2 yuan per kilogram, it’s 1.2 yuan per piece!
Xu Shang's eyes widened immediately, and even the ferocious-looking centipede in front of him became very cute in his eyes.
Oh my god!
Is this thing so valuable?
You have to know that this was a time when the national average wage was around 1,000 yuan, and monthly income in rural areas was only a few hundred yuan.
Xu Shang immediately found a plastic bottle and stuffed the big guy into the bottle, thinking happily that if he could catch a few hundred of them, that would be equivalent to a month's salary for a middle-aged man in the town.
Jiang Xiaotiao's voice rang out from outside the door: "Brother Xu Shang, come out for dinner! We have stewed tofu tonight!"
After opening the door, Jiang Xiaotiao immediately spotted the giant centipede in the plastic bottle in Xu Shang's hand and was immediately shocked: "Ah! What a huge centipede! Brother Xu Shang, quickly feed it to the chickens! It hurts so much when it gets bitten!"
Xu Shang immediately looked at Jiang Xiaotiao in shock.
How dare you use such an expensive thing to feed chickens?
But think about it, even if the children in the mountains know how to collect herbs, their parents will not tell them to catch centipedes to make money. After all, compared with harmless plant herbs such as windproof, centipedes are one of the five poisons!
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