Chapter 6 It’s better to think twice before things happen

From that day on, Fang Shu went into the mountains every day. She harvested something every day, the most abundant of which were dried fruits.

Father Tiandao did not favor Fang Shu again.

Every day, Fang Shu only went a little deeper, grinding it out slowly, vowing to grind out a safe path in the deep mountains.

Just like this, more than ten days passed by.

This day was another day when the salesman came into the village, and Fang Shu came to the roadside early to wait.

When Yang Erlang arrived, he drove a donkey cart with a smile on his face.

"Thanks to the third lady, the salesman I am doing now is really beautiful. I sold the fungus and the recipe to a restaurant in the town, and the shopkeeper gave me fifty taels. He said he would buy the fungus next time for five hundred cents a piece.

Harvest by a pound."

Fang Shu nodded: "Thank you, Brother Yang, for taking the trouble."

The clothes, shoes, and hats cost a total of 20,000 yuan and 300 yuan. After Fang Shu and the salesman paid the purchasing fee, the total amount remained was 30,000 yuan, 607 yuan.

"I am too small and weak to hunt with my eldest brother. My eldest brother only knows a few medicinal materials.

"Calculate separately based on potency and quality. This pile is classified as top grade, which is ten taels. This pile is classified as top grade, which is eight taels. What do you think, little friend?"

The market is very lively. There are food stalls, tea stalls, food sellers, vegetable sellers, live chickens and fish sellers, cloth sellers, clothes sellers, rouge, gouache, and jewelry. They are all in good order.

I have made enough mental preparations for this trip, and I can never be too careful.

The old man smiled: "But it doesn't matter."

Then she selected a fat pheasant and put it in the hands of the big man. It weighed five or six kilograms. The pheasant asked for two hundred coins. Fang Shu took out a tael of silver and handed it over, and the big man hurriedly found Fang Shu's nine hundred coins.

"I brought more than thirty ganoderma here. My elder brother sells the prey in the market first, and he still has some." Fang Shu took out a pack of ganoderma and spread it out.

Returning to Jishitang again, shopkeeper Li still smiled and divided the Ganoderma lucidum into grades. There were still more than thirty pieces, and sold nearly 180 taels to give them together. Fang Shu asked for 150 taels of silver and 30 taels.

Two pieces of silver.

"My eldest brother said that this Ganoderma lucidum is of high quality and we won't sell it for less than ten taels." Fang Shu opened a big one and tried to get a good price.

I started with the soup, which was just average, without much flavor. Then I took a bite of the wontons, which were full of raw meat flavor and had very little seasoning.

Fang Shu told him to wait for her on the side of the road when he came out of the village, and then hurriedly turned around and went home.

After leaving the market, I went straight to various medical clinics and pharmacies, claiming that they were in urgent need of red Ganoderma lucidum medicines and asking for prices. Most pharmacies sold the medicine for about five taels of silver. According to the prices I learned while shopping, the price of Ganoderma lucidum was very expensive.

Fang Shu sat at the door, basking in the sun and watching the people and cars passing by. She slowly reviewed all the movements in the town. It was okay, her whole face was basically not exposed, and there were no loopholes.

Her ears, pierced chest, are all disguised.

I want to go up the mountain with my elder brother and learn to collect herbs and prepare them.

The boy glanced at Fang Shu:

"Honored guest, please wait a moment. Please follow me. I'll go fetch the shopkeeper."

"It's all calculated as ten taels. I have to listen to the eldest brother. The eldest brother always goes to Chang'an City to sell." Fang Shu pointed at the increase in price, not knowing whether the asking price was too high or too low.

Fang Shu thought for a while and asked:

It was too late, but not too soon. Fang Shu carefully checked the supplies in the basket again. Guessing that the salesman was about to leave the village, she locked the door and set off.

The salesman laughed again and said:

"I have a fast pace now, and I will come to Wujiapo every seven days from now on. If you can take a ride, I will take you to the town for more than eight miles. It is very fast. It will not delay me from going to other villages."

The shopkeeper weighed more than thirty Ganoderma lucidum and calculated it to be one hundred and fifty-seven taels. He gave it directly to Fang Shu for one hundred and sixty taels. Fang Shu asked for the banknote, put it in her purse and hid it in her sleeve.

I wonder if there is a book on identifying herbal medicines and preparing herbal medicines. Could you give me a copy?"

This town is named after water and is called Qujiangchi Town. It is located between Wujiapo and Chang'an City and is very prosperous.

"Then what do you think the purchase price is...?" Fang Shu asked.

The prices at one of Xuji's dry goods stores were relatively good, more than ten cents higher than the salesman's purchase price. Fang Shu sold the pine nuts and sunflower seeds that she brought the most and almost emptied her backpack, selling them for two taels and four hundred and fifty cents.

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I borrowed a stool from the tailor shop and said I would sit on the steps in front of the shop and wait for my brother to find him after selling his prey. The shopkeeper agreed.

Fang Shu's trip to town has been planned for a long time and the supplies are also ready.

When we arrived at the market, we looked for stalls selling game. As we walked, we looked at roadside stalls and carefully observed the hunters selling their goods. There was a man with a beard who had the most game in front of him, and he was the one.

Huge sums of money, huge sums of money, getting rich, Fang Shu was so excited that her heart almost jumped out of her chest. She was calm, calm, pretending to be calm.

Rich people use good medicine, otherwise they will not be worthy of their status. If they don't use it, they will be suspicious. Good medicine is expensive, so you need more money.

Fang Shu then tore the three-foot cotton cloth of the same style as the coat horizontally from the middle, removed several rows of longitude and latitude lines from the edge, and made a scarf to cover her mouth and nose. Overall, she looked like a short boy who was not very clean.

Fang Shu was not surprised. There was an unwritten rule in the Chinese medicine practice: make money from the rich and help the poor with their illnesses.

Fang Shu saw that the salesman had made a comfortable seat for her, so she quickly thanked her and gave her two cents for the fare.

Wear a short cotton jacket and cotton trousers, a coarse round-neck shirt, a cloth belt around the waist, and cotton soap boots with a white base and black cloth cover.

There were neat shops on both sides, including the restaurant Fumanlou and the pharmacy Jishitang. Fang Shu smiled and sighed, "Hey, there's really nothing new."

"My surname is Li. My little friend has red Ganoderma lucidum?"

Fang Shu thought to herself that I can't guard Baoshan and suffer from hunger and cold. If one day I'm seriously injured by ginseng, I don't even know who did it. My skills should be strengthened.

"Chang'an City also has our Jishitang. My bid is higher than the selling price, and the quality of this item is really high-quality, so it's worth the increase. Our store is big, but we don't bully customers. Don't worry, little friend."

"The lower grade is four taels, the middle grade is five taels, and the upper grade is eight taels."

When I saw a stall selling medicinal herbs, I made some inquiries about the prices. After carefully identifying most of the medicinal herbs, there were indeed a few that were usually used as grass or wild vegetables.

Fang Shu tried her best to dress up as close to an ordinary country boy. She would not look down on anyone in this era, let alone stand from the perspective of God and prophets. She knew very well that she was ordinary in modern times and useless in ancient times.

I have a very clear positioning for myself.

Fang Shu still had dark and yellow skin. She painted her eyebrows slightly in front of the water urn, thickened the peaks of her eyebrows and swept away the charcoal foam. She also sketched the shape of her eyes a little, and then her eyes drooped. Well, she looked a little listless.

I ordered three sets of muslin pajamas from my tailor sister. I lied that they were made for my sister who has a similar figure. I told the tailor how to make a small V-neck for the pullover and how to tie the trouser waist. The sleeves, waist and trouser legs should not be too fat, so I measured them.

Specific dimensions, paid deposit, and agreed on a pick-up date.

He didn't talk much along the way, he just focused on driving. The sandy dirt road was fairly smooth and not too bumpy. When he arrived at the entrance of the town, the salesman put down the pedestal and turned in another direction.

The shopkeeper gave Fang Shu a copy of "Herborist Collection". As expected, it had pictures and text explanations, which was very practical.

Shopkeeper Li looked at Fang Shu, still smiling like Maitreya Buddha, and agreed to donate the book. But he asked Fang Shu to give priority to the world if he had rare medicinal materials in the future. Fang Shu→_→ Oh, the old fox is so cunning.

After asking the shopkeeper about the location of the market, I went straight to the market.

Fang Shu first found a few dry goods stores, bought some snacks from each one, and asked about the price of the dry goods.

Fang Shu read a lot of fairy tales and was afraid that there was a tail behind her, so she put on a whole show. She also made an appointment with the big man to meet at a tailor shop near the exit of the town.

After leaving the hospital, Fang Shu turned to Liu Ji Tailor Shop at the entrance of the town.

Finally, we came to Jishi Tang, the largest medical center in town. I took out the largest red Ganoderma lucidum and asked the clerk:

"Brother, take a look, is this acceptable?"

When she got home, she changed into men's clothing. Fang Shu put her hair into a bun on top of her head, fixed it with a bare wooden hairpin, tied it tightly with a hair tie, and covered her forehead with a bun.

"Not bad, not bad, top quality." The old man smelled it again and again, looked at it over and over again, scraped the edges with his fingernails, tasted it, and gave his evaluation.

Yang Erlang repeatedly said no need.

After Fang Shu finished eating, she went shopping. There were many things she was lacking, so she bought them whenever she saw them. Bronze mirrors, eyebrow pencils, gouache, women's clothing, men's clothing, shoes and socks, cotton cloth, oilcloth, cotton, straw paper, etc.

Fang Shu left Jishi Hall and went straight to the market. She had to find a "big brother", otherwise so much money would be a source of trouble, so she had to be on guard against others.

"How many do you have to sell in total? I have to see them all."

The old man kept his composure and checked each one and divided it into two piles.

When she arrived at the main road, she arrived early enough. Fang Shu waited for another quarter of an hour before she saw the salesman leaving the village entrance in the distance.

Fang Shu bought a few pieces of wonton cakes and sat at a wonton stall, waiting to eat them. Well, it was finally time to eat meat. It was not easy.

Crowds of people were coming and going on the streets, men and women riding horses, riding sedans, driving carts, most of them had a leisurely attitude.

"That's great, thank you very much. I'll pay your fare."

"Shopkeeper, after I finish selling, I'll go find my elder brother and get the Ganoderma lucidum."

"Brother, please eat. I want to buy a pheasant. I'm afraid you won't be able to sell it. I'll give you a deposit of 100 cash first and leave it with you. I'll come back to pick it up after I finish shopping."

Fang Shu focused on the girls, and sure enough, there were many fat aunts, fat sisters, and fat little girls with fair faces, thick brows and light eyebrows, and cherry lips covered with rouge. Oh, this aesthetic really reflects the characteristics of the times.

"Well, my eldest brother picked it while hunting. Shopkeeper Li, please take a look."

Fang Shu estimated based on the selling price, and the price should indeed be in place. After thinking about it, she said:

"It's okay without increasing the price. I have a request, and I hope the shopkeeper will grant it."

"Brother Yang, will he go to other villages or to the town later? If he goes to the town, can I take your car?"

Fang Shu simply bought more than five kilograms of lean pork meat and a few bones. The butcher was very happy. Now there was no need to leave lean meat without oil. He gave it to Fang Shu very cheaply and spent more than 200 Wen.
To be continued...