In Mr. Dong's pharmacy, a young boy was listening to a thin man in his thirties. While listening, he picked up a pen and wrote a few words on a piece of paper in his hand, and then stuck it on a cloth bag at the man's feet. superior.
The man bowed his hands and came out.
"Are these medicines sent for tasting?" Gu Shiba Niang asked.
"Yes." Peng Yizhen nodded, "... Mr. Dong will choose a disciple among them... Even if he can't choose, if he can get a few words of appreciation from Mr. Dong, it will be enough to make a name for himself... "
"So many?" Zhou Liniang also came over, looked inside, and curled her lips disdainfully, "As for it, he is just a craftsman, acting like a big shot, why, without his evaluation, this medicine Can’t sell it? Can’t do business? Can’t make money?”
Hearing this, Peng Yizhen looked at her with a bit of disdain in his eyes, but said nothing, then looked at Gu Shiba Niang and walked in.
"Who is the young lady?" The boy was a little surprised to see this little girl.
"This is my medicine, please register it." Gu Shiba Niang untied the small bamboo basket hanging from her waist and handed it to the little brother.
"Oh, it's your medicine." The boy automatically understood, took it, and looked at it, "It's Quanxiao."
Gu Shiba Niang nodded, the boy put down the medicine basket, took out a pen and paper, "Which family is this?"
"The Gu family in Xianren County." Gu Shiba Niang replied.
The boy wrote as he was told, and then asked, "The name of the medicine maker."
"Gu Shiba Niang."
"Gu Shiba...what?" The young man couldn't help but paused as he wrote, raised his head and asked again, with a pleasant expression, "My dear lady, I'm not asking for the medicine delivery person, but the medicine maker."
"That's me." Gu Shiba Niang smiled and said, "Xianren County, Gu family, Gu Ba Niang."
The boy couldn't help but look down at the bamboo basket again, then wrote his name and pasted it.
"Thank you, brother." Gu Shiba Niang bowed and stepped out. Seeing the young man, she couldn't help but glance at her and whispered to another young man.
"With so many medicines, it will take a few days to know the results..." Peng Yizhen said.
Gu Shiba Niang nodded and looked up at the plaque on the door of Mr. Dong's drug store. It was different from other drug stores. There was no signboard, only the two big black characters "Dong Zhai".
This is the sign!
After sending Quan Xie out, Gu Shiba Niang felt a little hot in her heart. She took a deep breath. Maybe after seven or eight years, the name of the first Qingshui Liangpin Quan Xie would no longer be Shunhetang's name, but hers. , Gu Shiba Niang.
Not only Quanxiao, but also Shunhetang. Shunhetang will also be stamped with her name. Everything related to Shen Anlin will become hers, everything, take away everything from him, destroy everything from him... .
However, the most important thing at the moment... Gu Shiba Niang suppressed her churning thoughts and glanced at Peng Yizhen, who was thoughtful, and Zhou Liniang, who was a bit impatient and sarcastic.
"Let's go and see if there are any herbs we can buy." She said with a slight smile.
Peng Yizhen did not follow.
"I'll just hang around here," he said to Gu Shiba Niang, while looking at Zhou Liniang with deep meaning, "If anything happens, come here to see me."
Zhou Liniang curled her lips, and Peng Yizhen heard what she said, telling Gu Shiba Niang that if she bullied her, he would support her.
"Uncle Peng is so kind to Shiba Niang..." She giggled and covered her mouth with a fan. Well, there will be better times for you!
Gu Shiba Niang smiled, nodded and said nothing.
Zhou Liniang pulled Gu Shiba Niang out of the bustling bulk medicinal materials stall and walked towards the retail merchants.
Gu Shiba Niang was not idle along the way, and asked about the prices of Polygala, Fangfeng, Whole Scorpion, etc. one by one.
"Baba Niang, the price is only for a few days, so it's not accurate." Zhou Liniang said to her, explaining expertly, "...the prices of some medicines will rise in the future, while others will be low. It all depends on the big medicines. What kind of medicine will Shang give this year to kill..."
Gu Shiba Niang was not very clear about this. She listened thoughtfully. It seems that she had heard the shopkeeper say before that medicinal materials are expensive every year and cheap every three years. Maybe this is the truth.
"How much does your polygala cost?" Zhou Liniang asked a medicine seller.
This is a man in his twenties, carrying a basket full of herbs that are produced nowadays.
"This was picked yesterday. Look, miss, it's very fresh..." The man hurriedly handed the medicine basket to them.
Zhou Liniang didn't even look at it. Gu Shiba Niang reached out and turned over it.
"I don't have much Polygala, only ten pounds. If I don't have more, I need..." The man stretched out his hand and gestured.
"Two hundred coins? You really dare to ask for it. Are you treating us as children?" Zhou Liniang sneered, then pulled Gu Shiba Niang and left.
"Hey, miss, the price of Polygala has increased recently..." the man shouted from behind, "How about... a hundred yuan..."
"Ignore him, these people are all second-rate dealers..." Zhou Liniang said expertly, dragging Gu Shiba Niang around.
Gu Shiba Niang just followed her, looking at what she needed to see and asking questions that needed to be asked, and soon they reached the intersection of the street again.
"Dad," Zhou Liniang suddenly shouted and ran over quickly.
Shopkeeper Zhou and two waiters were selecting herbs in front of a stall. Gu Shiba Niang watched the father and daughter perform a scene of encounter.
"We've been wandering around for a long time," Zhou Liniang waved over Gu Shiba Niang.
Shopkeeper Zhou didn't take the initiative to show her kindness when she came up and greeted her warmly, as Gu Shiba Niang had guessed. With a bit of discomfort on his face, he nodded at her as a greeting.
Gu Shiba Niang was slightly surprised and admired in her heart. This was true thoughtfulness. This was only reasonable and reasonable, and it also allowed her to relax her vigilance.
She nodded in return, and neither of them spoke.
"Dad, have you bought it?" Zhou Liniang asked as she watched the guys loading the goods.
Shopkeeper Zhou nodded, reached out and grabbed a handful and handed it to Zhou Liniang, "Take a look, what do you think of these goods?"
This is Gastrodia elata. Gu Shiba Niang glanced at it and listened to their father and daughter talking.
Zhou Liniang took Gastrodia elata and looked left and right.
"What can you tell by just looking at it..." Shopkeeper Zhou pointed out to his daughter.
A pharmacy clerk next to him hurriedly came over, picked up one respectfully to demonstrate, and said: "Miss, you have to chew it..."
Zhou Liniang looked at the earth-like Gastrodia elata and shook her head in disgust.
"Miss, look at the navel scar of this Gastrodia ball. There are red and brown buds here. This is the authentic parrot's beak..." the boy pointed and explained to her.
Zhou Liniang listened with half-understanding.
Gu Shiba Niang couldn't help but prick up her ears and listen, trying hard to combine it with the knowledge in the books she had read these days, listening and reading at the same time.
Her eyes fell on the stall in front of her. It was a medium-sized stall filled with goods. A thin old man sat behind the stall with a bamboo hat on his head to cover his face. He lowered his head. , seemed to be taking a nap, turning a blind eye to the excitement in front of him.
This medicine seller is different from others, Gu Shiba Niang thought, grabbing the nearest medicinal material, this is Qinpi, looking at it, she couldn't help but frown, and rubbed the Qinpi in her hand twice.
"Little girl, do you want this?" The old man's voice suddenly sounded.
Gu Shiba Niang looked up and saw the old man selling medicine lifting his bamboo hat and blinking at him with eyes as big as mung beans.
"I..." She was stunned before she opened her mouth.
"Ba Niang knows how to make Polygala, she wants to buy Polygala..." Zhou Liniang spoke first, pointing to a pile, "Hey, you have a lot of Polygala..."
There was a pile of Polygala roots placed there, stacked in a messy manner, roughly estimated to weigh more than a hundred kilograms.
"How do you sell Polygala?" Zhou Liniang asked.
The old man Mung Bean blinked his little eyes, looked at Gu Shiba Niang, then at Shopkeeper Zhou and the others, and said with a smile: "How many of them are together?"
Just when Gu Shiba was about to speak, Shopkeeper Zhou winked at her.
"Old man, please tell me a price." He said, without admitting that Gu Shiba Niang and him were together, but these words made people think that they were together.
"Since it belongs to the shopkeeper, this is just a bonus. I won't ask for more. Just give me a hundred coins." The old man replied cheerfully.
One hundred Wen bought nearly one hundred kilograms. After simple preparation, even if it is calculated based on today's lowest price of fifteen Wen per kilogram, she can earn more than one or two silver by changing hands!
That's a lot of silver. Besides, if she digs these one hundred kilograms of medicinal materials herself, it will take at least ten and a half days.
This will be the largest amount of money Gu Shiba Niang has made since selling medicine, and it is very easy