The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 68, Medicinal Materials and Seeds
Li Weiguo rode his bike all the way to Gulou East Street.

Not long after, I found a Chinese medicine shop.

From the outside, it looks like an old pharmacy, with wooden plaques hanging on the door.

I found a place at the door, parked the car, locked it, and walked into the drug store.

On weekends, there are so many people buying medicines in drug stores. Dozens of people queue up in three lines, waiting in front of the counter to grab medicines.

The medicine cabinets in the traditional Chinese medicine shop are all traditional Chinese medicine decoction counters, and there is a long row of wooden counters in front to separate customers from the medicine cabinets.

At the back is a large medicine cabinet placed against the wall two or three meters high. On it are densely packed small medicine hoppers filled with medicine, each with a small label attached to it.

Looking at the counter, the salesperson inside took the prescription from the customer in front of him, lowered his head to examine it carefully, and looked up from time to time to chat with the customer.

The dispensers in the back were bustling around, grabbing and weighing medicines in each medicine hopper without touching the ground. The scene was very lively and lively.

Li Weiguo was not in a hurry and just lined up behind the queue. While queuing, he watched with interest the dispensers at the drug store walking back and forth to grab medicine.

Not long after, it was Li Weiguo's turn.

Li Weiguo walked to the counter and handed over the prescription: "Comrade, please excuse me, grab four medicines."

The uncle salesperson took the prescription, carefully reviewed the prescription for a while, then took the abacus and calculated it.

"Four medicines, a total of 20 yuan and [-] cents."

Hearing the price, Li Weiguo couldn't help but be speechless.

If you are really poor, rich and powerful, a pair of medicinal materials costs five yuan and twenty cents, and you really can't afford to practice without any family background.

I don’t blame them for being expensive, it’s just that the medicinal materials in the prescription are not cheap.

Rare medicinal materials such as ginseng, velvet antler, Codonopsis pilosula, and Polygonum multiflorum all have a lot of weight, and there are many unknown medicinal materials on the prescription, which are probably not cheap.

Without hesitation, he quickly took out the money from his pocket, counted out the corresponding amount and handed it over.

After collecting the money, the salesman handed the prescription to the dispenser next to him and told him to grab four pairs of medicinal materials.

The dispenser next to him took it, read it carefully, pressed the prescription with a hardwood paperweight, and then picked up the box at hand to prepare to grab the medicine.

According to the list of prescriptions, find the corresponding grid of medicinal materials from the medicine cabinet. The dispenser holds the děng (děng) in his left hand and holds the lever with his thumb and forefinger, grabs the medicine with his right hand, and then uses his thumb and forefinger to pinch the rope for weighing. After ensuring that the amount is accurate, put the medicinal materials in kraft paper, and continue to grab another medicinal material.

In about four to five minutes, all the medicinal materials were collected, a total of four sets of medicinal materials, and the dispenser signed his name in the lower corner of the prescription, and then handed it to the uncle salesperson for verification.

After the salesperson checked and confirmed that it was correct, he signed, packaged, and handed over the medicine.

After taking the four medicine bags, Li Weiguo went straight out, got on his car and headed back.

He was kicked out just after lunch, so Li Weiguo was not in a hurry to go back, and rode slowly while enjoying the surrounding scenery.

On both sides of the street are various public-private shops with various signboards. There are restaurants, barber shops, tailor shops, massage parlors, and shoe repair shops. Maybe they will all become public units in a few years.

Shaking his head, he didn't think about it any more, and continued to ride forward. Just as he was about to turn at the next intersection, he found a seed shop.

Li Weiguo quickly slowed down the car and slipped towards the seed store.

There is also a purchase introduction letter that Li Huaide helped open in his space. He asked Li Huaide to prepare it during the previous transaction, but he never got around to buying it and almost forgot about it.

The car stopped at the entrance of the seed store, carrying the medicine bag, and walked into the store.

There are not many people in the seed shop. Now that the autumn harvest is over, there are fewer people buying seeds. There is only one salesperson at the counter knitting sweaters there.

Li Weiguo walked directly to the counter and asked the salesperson: "Comrade, do you have any medicinal seeds or tea tree seeds?"

"Yes, where is your letter of introduction?"

"Here, here you are." As he spoke, Li Weiguo handed over the introduction letter he took out from the space from his pocket.

The salesperson put down her needle and thread, took the letter of introduction and looked at it carefully, then raised her head and looked at Li Weiguo with a strange look on her face.

He questioned: "Usually farms, communes, and production teams go to the city to buy seeds. Steel rolling mills buy seeds. This is the first time I have encountered this."

"Hey, our steel rolling mill has an open space that has been abandoned all year round. The factory has planned to grow some food, medicinal materials, etc., all for the families of the factory employees to use as they please."

As he spoke, Li Weiguo took out a handful of fruit candies from his bag and put them in the hands of the salesperson: "Can you please help me?"

When the salesperson saw that it was fruit candy, her eyes lit up and she immediately became more enthusiastic: "Oh, what a big deal, what kind of seeds do you want?"

The salespersons in seed stores are not as good as the salespersons in supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores. They have good benefits and plenty of money, but it is rare for people to come to a seed store.

Li Weiguo smiled and immediately reported the types: "Tea tree, American ginseng, Panax notoginseng, ginseng, Dendrobium officinale, black wolfberry, Ganoderma lucidum, Codonopsis pilosula, Angelica sinensis, Polygonum multiflorum, Gastrodia elata. Not too much, just a small bag of each, they are all Used for trial planting."

In fact, his purpose is to get some tea tree seeds and ginseng seeds, and the others are random, and he doesn't know how to plant them, so just get some.

"Okay, wait a moment."

The salesperson nodded, grabbed the candy with her big hand, put the candy into her pocket, and then turned around to prepare something for him.

Not long after, the salesperson took out a paper bag and spread it out. There were about a dozen small paper bags inside and said, "The things are all here. I have marked them for you. Please see if they are enough."

Although there are not many in each small paper package, there are about a hundred pills, and each small paper package has the name of the corresponding medicinal material.

"That's enough, that's enough. Please calculate the price and issue the invoice."

"Okay, five dollars and three in total." As he spoke, the salesperson quickly wrote him a receipt.

Li Weiguo didn't hesitate, and paid the bill directly.

With the medicinal seeds, the idle half-acre of land in the space finally has a use.

For example, if ginseng is planted for ten years, there will be 240 years in the space, and there is no need to take care of it.

After a few decades, when this ginseng is taken out, it will be worth thousands of years of treasure, but it will be worth money.

After coming out of the seed shop, Li Weiguo didn't hesitate anymore, and went straight to Master Wang Zhenhai's yard, passing by a deserted corner, and directly put the medicinal seeds and tea tree seeds into the space.

With a thought, I plowed through half an acre of medicinal fields, then opened all the paper packages and planted them one by one.

Tea trees, which take up more space, were planted less, maybe twenty trees. Ginseng was planted in three-thirds of the land. Other medicinal materials were dispensable, but they were planted a little, so that half an acre of medicinal land was planted. Until it is full, the unused seeds are temporarily stored.

The seeds are planted, and the field is rained with the mind for 3 minutes, and then it is left alone.

Li Weiguo didn't know how to grow these medicinal materials, so he might as well just let them grow.

It can grow in the wild, and given the fertility of the land in space, it can even sprout.

(End of this chapter)