"How about it." Mrs. Li also felt that she was losing her composure, wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and then said with a smile: "If you have dried ones, we will pay fifty-eight yuan a catty, and we will take as much as you have. From now on, what you collect will only be sold to us, how about Miss Lin?"
Fifty-eight Wen a catty
Lin Fufu was taken aback.
The price offered was not bad, far beyond her expectations.
Mrs. Li was also a little embarrassed. The husband said that at least sixty coins per catty would be accepted, and at most one tael of silver per catty, and only once if it exceeded one tael of silver.
But she was born with the lowest price, and even lowered two pennies. If she was dealing with those cunning and cunning medicine merchants, she would not feel bad at all.
But the other party is just a teenage country girl, and she can't bear it anymore. Although these new herbs are available in the fields, their weight will be greatly reduced when they are dried, and they can't dig out a few catties of dried herbs in a day. ah.
Li Yiyi was a little anxious when he heard that his aunt's lowest price was two cents: "Aunt... Master?"
"Miss Lin, if you don't talk, do you think the price is not satisfactory?" Mrs. Li ignored her nephew and looked at Lin Fufu with shrewd eyes.
Lin Fufu did some calculations in his mind. Although A Fen and A Fang can dig up dozens of catties a day, they are only less than ten catties of medicinal materials after washing and drying. Fifty-eight wen per catty, then ten catties is five hundred and eighty wen, which is more than five taels of silver.
But the capital she paid was only six yuan a day, plus a meal for lunch.
Calculated from this, at most ten fen per day can be paid out, but he can earn as much as five taels of silver! So this business is very profitable and worth doing.
So he straightened his face and said flatly: "Okay, as Mrs. Li said, I will sell this medicinal material for fifty-eight yuan a catty."
Mrs. Li didn't expect her to be so straightforward, and unconsciously, she had a feeling of meeting her opponent.
This girl is a good material for business!
But Li Yi couldn't bear it for a while. He felt that it was not easy for the little girl Lin Fufu to plan in the soil. If he came to negotiate this business, he would negotiate according to the highest price that the third uncle said.
But he also knew that the third aunt was right to do so. Although the third uncle practiced medicine, his family used to practice medicine and opened a pharmacy, and it was essentially a family of merchants.
Businessmen have always been profit-seeking, and there is nothing to say.
"Then it's settled." Mrs. Li said with a smile, suppressing the frustration in her heart.
Lin Fufu nodded, "I'm willing to do business with you, and you will have no regrets."
Even if the price of medicinal herbs is lowered this time, she has nothing to say. For a country girl who has no connections and no money, it is the most important and convenient way to get Dr. Li's line.
"Mrs. Li, but I still have one request. See if you can agree to me first." Lin Fufu looked at Mrs. Li with a smile.
"Oh? Miss Lin, what's your request?" Mrs. Li frowned and looked at Lin Fufu solemnly.
Lin Fufu said with a smile: "I think that this herb will spread out sooner or later, but before that, I would like to ask my wife to only collect the herb from Gospel. In case the villagers know that this herb is valuable, they will rush to dig it up and buy it for others. Not only will Madam suffer heavy losses, but this medicinal herb will also be extinct."
Mrs. Li was touching the ring on her finger, but when she heard this, she gave a pause.
"Miss Lin is very reasonable, I know what to do." Mrs. Li said solemnly.
Originally, she thought that she could also pay and send people to the countryside to collect a lower price in the future, but she completely dismissed this idea after hearing Lin Fufu's words.
Not to mention her loss, but the disappearance of this medicinal herb is really not just talk.
Although Li Yi also talked to her very much at the beginning, but at that time she was busy reconciling the account books, so she didn't think it was a problem at all, but she also blamed the child Li Yi for talking too much, far less straightforward and clear thinking than the girl Lin Fufu...
When several people were thinking about each other, Grandma Li's tea had already been boiled.
Mrs. Li stopped drinking after taking a sip.
This tea was left by the Chu family. Although it is considered good tea in the countryside, it tastes like chewing wax in the mouth of Mrs. Li who is used to drinking famous tea.
"Miss Lin, how many herbs do you have now, can I take them back with the carriage today?" Mrs. Li asked with a smile.
Lin Fufu didn't know how much the herbs weighed, so he said, "We haven't weighed the exact amount. Madam wants to take it away today, so let's go and weigh it."
So Grandma Li found the scale, and Lin Fufu took a few people to the warehouse.
Mrs. Li was very happy when she saw the dried medicinal herbs that were divided into three parts in the half warehouse.
These herbs were dried and cleaned up so cleanly, she liked Lin Fufu even more.
Coupled with the dried medicinal materials, it is not easy to distinguish what medicinal materials are, and the Li family can monopolize them for a while.
It turned out that Dr. Li did not collect these medicinal herbs for his own use, but planned to sell them to other pharmacies for a considerable profit.
These, Lin Fufu actually guessed, but they are Dr. Li's contacts, and it is Dr. Li's ability to earn a high price difference, and she is not uncomfortable.
However, she secretly told herself that in the future, she would earn more money by relying on the connections she had accumulated.
After they weighed in, Mrs. Li said with a smile: "This herb is well dried and clean, so I will do it like this from now on."
"Don't worry." Lin Fufu said with a smile.
Mrs. Li said: "I just saw the ones outside in the yard that haven't dried out. Let's take that one away too. Some of the dry ones are dry, and some of them are not dry."
Sure enough, she was the doctor's wife, and what she said was very jargon.
Lin Fufu smiled and complimented: "Ma'am is absolutely right. If you really want to talk about the efficacy of the medicine, these herbs are of course as fresh as possible. But they are easy to store after drying."
"Who says it's not." Mrs. Li was very happy, looked at her and said, "Then let's pay the price we agreed before. We will send a carriage to your house every few days to take it back, and you can show it to us." Dried more than half, keep a small half and don’t dry it all. Anyway, the price is the same.”
Lin Fufu responded with a smile, and didn't feel that Mrs. Li's positioning of dry and wet prices was just taking care of her.
But each takes what he needs.
"Master, Miss Lin, the warehouse is dry." Li Yi and Grandma Li came out after weighing themselves.
Mrs. Li nodded and asked, "How much dry goods are there?"
"Dry truck Qianzi weighs forty-eight catties and three taels, half branch lotus weighs forty-two catties and five taels, and Houttuynia cordata thirty catties and eight taels." Li Yi reported in a bright and clear voice.
Mrs. Li and Lin Fufu both nodded.
"Then weigh the outside as well," Madam Li said again.