peasant girl allure

Chapter 29 Earning a lot of silver

After selling the things, the three of them were packing up and going to the pharmacy to sell herbs. Shen Chengyao just came back and did not find a part-time job. Now that there are more people looking for work during the slack season, many people did not find work and stayed at the pier.

Shen Chengyao moved two baskets of herbs to the bullock cart, and the three children jumped into the bullock cart and set off for Tongde Hall.

Tongdetang is the largest medical hall in the county and also has a pharmacy.After arriving at the entrance of the medical center, Shen Chengyao stayed outside to watch the oxcart. The three children went in by themselves to sell herbs. Originally, Shen Chengyao wanted to go in, but Xiaoer said they could handle it by themselves, so they gave up. It was good to give the children a chance to exercise up.

As soon as the three of them entered the pharmacy, someone came up and asked, "Do the three of you need to see a doctor or buy medicine?
Xiao'er asked Jingrui to sell. Jingrui is the eldest son of the third house. In the future, the family will need him to be in charge, so he must be cultivated early no matter what.

Jingrui was a little nervous, so he stepped forward and put the basket on the ground, pointed to the raw herbs in it and said, "We are here to sell medicinal herbs. Excuse me, brother, do you accept raw herbs here?"

The pharmacist glanced at the medicine in the basket, nodded, "I'll take it, please wait a moment." After speaking, he opened the curtain and walked in.Soon a 50-year-old shopkeeper came out: "Little brother, do you sell raw herbs?"

Jing Rui nodded: "Doctor, can you see if your pharmacy needs this herbal medicine?"

"Let me see what the medicinal materials are first." The doctor squatted down and carefully looked through the medicinal materials in the two baskets. Seeing that they were all medicinal materials, there was no mistake, and some were still growing well, so he nodded and then stood up. Get up and say: "We collect all these medicinal materials, follow me to the backyard, there is a scale there."

When we came to the backyard, a dedicated worker stepped forward to take over the baskets, and began to inspect, classify and weigh the medicinal materials.

"You dug these medicinal materials yourself? How do you know these medicinal materials?" The shopkeeper stood aside with a pen and paper to register.

"Seeing that the doctor in the village had dug, we followed suit."

"We collect all these medicinal materials, but because they are raw and have not been processed, the price is relatively cheap, and the quality of the medicinal materials in them is different, so the price is also different. Chicken bone grass generally charges six cents a catty, good eight cents, Eight articles like comfrey, ten articles for good ones; eight articles for smilax, ten articles for good ones, thirteen articles for Sanqi, fifteen articles for good ones, two articles for plantain grass, and three articles for good ones. You What do you think, if there is no problem, take it to the scale." The shopkeeper first explained the situation clearly.

Xiao'er felt that the herbs she took out from the space were really much better, so she pointed to the pile of herbs that were obviously much better when they were separated and said, "These are all high-quality raw herbs, can the price be higher?"

The shopkeeper glanced at it, and felt that the pile of herbs was much better than what he was used to, so he nodded after thinking for a while: "Then how about adding a penny and a catty to each one?"

Xiao'er nodded, and Jing Rui said, "Yes, let's leave it at this price. How much do you charge for the medicinal materials processed by the doctor?"

"The processing also depends on the quality. If the processing is good, it is at least twice as good as raw."

Jing Rui's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Then we'll pick it up and send it over next time, do you want more?"

The shopkeeper smiled: "Yes, we have branches all over the country in Tongdetang, and we need a lot of medicinal materials."

The buddy has already weighed all the medicinal materials. Chicken bone grass weighs [-] catties and [-] Wen, ten catties and [-] Wen; Ten catties and eleven wen; three to seven six catties and thirteen wen, twelve catties and sixteen wen;

The shopkeeper took the abacus and fiddled with it for a long time before he could come up with a number: "The total is 150 liters."

When Xiaoer really wanted to say it outright, forget it.

The shopkeeper asked the clerk to fetch the silver, and then took a book and taught the three of them to recognize several kinds of herbs, saying that they could sell them next time they were picked.

After receiving the money, the three happily left the pharmacy, met Shen Chengyao at the door, and got on a bullock cart to go to the grocery store.

Sitting in the bullock cart, Jing Hao happily said to Shen Chengyao, "Father, we sold a lot of money."

"Really? You are all better than dad." Shen Chengyao praised happily, the child is capable, of course the dad feels proud.But he thought they could earn a few tens of renminbi at most, and it was a lot to earn a few tens of renminbi.Now it costs only 20 to 30 yuan to do part-time jobs a day.

"Father, why didn't you ask how much money we made? You are too ignorant!" Jing Hao was upset, and his father didn't talk at all.

"Haha, if I don't ask, can't you tell me! How much money did you make?" Shen Chengyao was made to laugh out loud by his youngest son.

Xiao'er moved closer to Shen Chengyao's ear and said a number.

"What, Eleven..." Shen Chengyao couldn't help exclaiming.

Xiao'er quickly covered his mouth and said in a low voice, "Father, don't reveal your wealth."

Shen Chengyao also realized that he was too loud, and hurriedly nodded to show that he knew.And he didn't dare to ask any more questions, he just wanted to go home quickly.

Xiao'er originally wanted to go to the grocery store to sell jars to make wine, but Shen Chengyao said that he would go to the town to buy it tomorrow, and now he will go home first.He was worried that the children who had earned so much money from selling things would be missed by those who cared about them. It happened that the official road to go home was the most crowded time, so it was safer.

Xiao'er didn't insist on it either, it's better to do something more than something small.

When they arrived at the gate of the county, they saw Shen Zixuan and Li Zhewei just about to rent a carriage to go home. When they saw their ox cart, they didn't dislike getting into the ox cart and went back with them.

Li Zhewei didn't get used to sitting on the bullock cart at all, as if the bullock cart was a BMW.

"What are you doing in the county town?"

"We picked some mountain products, and we came here on the market day to sell them for some silver." Jing Rui handed him a straw hat. The sun is still a bit strong now, and the ox cart is open.

"Oh? What mountain stuff?" He reached out to take it, and put it on his head naturally. He hasn't hunted for a long time, and he also wants to go up the mountain to play.

"Chestnuts and herbs and some fruit."

"What money are these things worth? Why don't you get a sika deer, a fox or something like that."

Xiao'er was helpless, she thought about sika deer and foxes, but she didn't see their shadows after going up the mountain three times.

"What's worthless? We sold it for more than ten taels of silver!" Jing Hao was dissatisfied when he heard that.

Xiao'er couldn't help rolling her eyes in her heart, the two father and son were really biological, Jing Hao is quite smart sometimes, why did he suddenly lose the chain, how much did he need to say so loudly?Look at the people around you.

When Jing Hao saw that everyone else was looking over, he also realized that he was making too much noise, and he looked annoyed.

Li Zhewei didn't think more than ten taels of silver was too much, he just thought that they had picked more valuable herbs.

"Zixuan, have you ever gone up the mountain? Let's go up the mountain tomorrow to have fun too. By the way, catch some prey and visit the third uncle's house."

"Young Master Li is too polite, just come to my house directly and don't need to bring anything."

"I also miss Third Aunt and Xiao'er's cooking skills. Catching some prey is just enough to satisfy my hunger. Xiao'er, you need to get me some bait. Last time only one bag was useful."

……

Several people talked and laughed all the way back.

Back in the village, Shen Chengyao sent Shen Zixuan and the others home first, and then returned to his own home. As soon as they entered the yard, they could smell the unique aroma of chicken soup wafting from the kitchen in the east wing.Xiao'er's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition surged up. The two brothers obviously felt it too, and hurriedly ran to the back of their house.they
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