“Is this true or false?”
“Who would believe that?”
The villagers have also used this method to earn extra money. The small shop in the village only charges 3 yuan per pound. Even if you go to the town, it is only 5 yuan per pound, and the round-trip fare is 4 yuan. If you walk, you can save 4 yuan, but you will lose half a day's work.
What does twenty yuan per pound mean?
By the standards of Tianya Village, a poor village, it is hard to say how much money one can earn from farming in a year. Even if one can get two kilograms, it is equivalent to the income from a day's odd job in the town.
Xu Shang didn't care whether others believed it or not. He just believed that as long as there was someone who tried it first, everyone would flock to it.
Next, Xu Shang began to state some of his requests.
First of all, he only collected a few valuable herbs, represented by fangfeng. After all, with the carrying capacity he could carry alone, it was not cost-effective to take the cheap herbs to the city to sell.
As for animal-based medicinal materials, Xu Shang neither said that he would accept them nor that he would not accept them.
Because collecting this kind of medicinal material is dangerous, and Xu Shang intends to make a profit by processing the medicinal materials. For example, animal medicinal materials have no profit margin for processing, so he basically has no profit. Although he is seeking benefits for the villagers, it is equally important for him to make money.
The villagers all agreed with what Xu Shang said.
Because everyone thinks that these kinds of medicinal herbs are particularly valuable, so Xu Shang would collect them specifically.
However, Xu Shang’s second request made everyone dissatisfied.
Xu Shang not only requires that those smaller than a certain size not be collected, but also prohibits the collection, requiring that those smaller than a certain size be buried directly. If small ones are collected and sold here, large ones will not be collected.
Everyone was talking about it, and no one could figure out what was wrong with Xu Shang.
However, Xu Shang convinced the village chief. It was a very simple truth to avoid draining the pond of fish.
Although collecting herbs in Tianya Village of this size will not cause any destructive ecological impact on the mountains, if everyone rushes to collect herbs, the herbs around the village will definitely become fewer and fewer. In the future, if people want to collect herbs, they will have to go to more dangerous places in the mountains.
On the contrary, if the small ones are kept, everyone can have new harvests every year.
Moreover, the price of medicinal materials is originally related to the year, and small medicinal materials cannot be sold at a high price.
If Xu Shang had spoken, no one would have listened. But when the village chief spoke, everyone nodded seriously. I don't know how many people understood the principle of sustainable development. However, Jiang Fuguo's many years of character guarantee made them unconditionally believe that the village chief's words were right.
Finally, Xu Shang announced that he would start purchasing medicinal materials from tomorrow afternoon. In the morning, he would go to the town to buy a scale and print some pictures of the styles and grade classifications of the medicinal materials.
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"Only a fool would believe the nonsense told by a city kid!"
Sang Youcai, the owner of the grocery store, said to the villagers who were buying cigarettes and chatting with jealousy.
Purchasing medicinal materials has always been one of his core businesses for making money. Even if he buys fangfeng at 5 yuan like in the town, he can actually make a lot of money, because the big bosses in the county buy their own wild fangfeng at a price of ten yuan or so.
As for why they only give three yuan per pound, it’s nonsense. Why not make more money if you can? After all, isn’t the road from the mountains to the town easy to travel?
Sang Youcai could not have imagined that the purchase price offered by Xu Shang was actually higher than the price he sold it for. He felt that either Xu Shang was doing charity or he was crazy.
Who knows what the city kids are thinking about all day long.
Of course, Sang Youcai was not the only one who didn't believe it. Many people in the village didn't believe it.
But there are also many people who think that it doesn't matter if they try it or not. If it doesn't work, they can sell it in the town themselves, or just sell it directly to the store owner.
Finally, when the shop opened in the afternoon, Xu Shang waited for the first customer.
A little girl who was only about eight or nine years old, wearing dirty clothes, with a dusty face, hair that looked like it had not been washed for a long time, and slightly red cheeks.
She looked at Xu Shang timidly and asked cautiously, "Sell, sell medicine?"
When Xu Shang saw the girl's familiar eyes, he suddenly felt a very familiar feeling. He couldn't help but ask, "What's your name?"
"Ya, the girl doesn't have a name."
Xu Shang was startled, and a picture suddenly appeared in his mind.
She was a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old, holding a child in her arms. She came to me and asked if she could put the child in foster care at the school. The child was only two years old and was crying loudly in the girl's arms.
The girl's name was Yamei. She had no name until she left the village to work at the age of fourteen.
Yamei's mother ran away and her father worked in the city. Because she wanted to go to school, she was left alone in the village and was taken care of by several relatives...but she lived her life on her own.
It was not until she went out to work that her life seemed to be changing for the better. Unfortunately, things soon took a turn for the worse. She met a boy at the factory and accidentally got pregnant. After giving birth, she lost contact with the boy and had to return to the village.
However, life in the village quickly depleted her savings. It was difficult for her to take care of her children if she went out to work alone, and she could not support herself in the village.
As a volunteer teacher at the time, Xu Shang could hardly describe the helplessness he felt at the time. He could hardly help Yamei, and he didn't know what happened to her later.
Xu Shang thought that in this life, he might be able to help her.
"Yes, are you here to sell medicine?"
"Yeah." Yamei took out a windbreak from her pocket. The branches had been broken off by her, leaving only the roots.
Xu Shang wiped off the dirt and checked the quality of the two sticks.
The quality of these two roots is still good and can be regarded as second-class products. Xu Shang set three grades for Fangfeng, with the first-class product being 20 yuan per catty, the second-class product being 17 yuan per catty, and the third-class product being 15 yuan per catty.
Xu Shang weighed it and found it was a little over 3 liang and 2 qian. After thinking for a while, Xu Shang took out six yuan and handed it to Yamei.
When Yamei saw the money, she was a little excited, but she shook her head and said, "No money, I, I want to exchange it for rice!"
Xu Shang turned his head and saw some daily necessities he had purchased yesterday next to them. After all, he was living in the village chief's house, and it would be embarrassing to eat and drink for free every day. When he heard that Yamei wanted to exchange for rice, Xu Shang did not hesitate and directly scooped six yuan worth of rice into a convenient bag and handed it to Yamei.
Yamei was visibly excited, even her breathing became slightly rapid.
"Wait a moment!"
Just when Yamei was about to leave, Xu Shang called her again. Seeing that she was holding the plastic bag tightly, as if she was afraid that Xu Shang would change his mind and snatch the rice away, Xu Shang felt distressed again and took two raw eggs and stuffed them into Yamei's hands.
“Thank you!”
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