On October 16th, the 17th National Medicinal Materials Exchange Conference of Zhangshu began!
Early in the morning, as soon as it dawned, the vendors living in the Yaodu Hotel got up one after another. They carried large and small bags of medicinal materials and began to walk towards the trade venue, busy setting up their stalls.
Gao Mingcheng also took Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi to move. The three of them carried the medicinal materials to the rented stall. Looking around, there were stalls and people everywhere.
Behind many stalls, there are many banners hanging with words similar to advertisements written on them.
For example, words such as: The medicine is not good enough for the camphor tree, or the medicine is not good enough for the camphor tree, and the words are more straightforward, directly writing the names of elixirs, pills, and medicinal wine, and promoting them.
Gao Mingcheng saw that there were banners on the stalls on the left and right next to him, but he had no preparation in advance and could not hang them up.
The medicinal materials he brought were not many, and the stall he rented was relatively far back and belonged to the small-volume trading area. Those units that could do large-scale transactions were all over the exhibition hall.
There wasn't much business in the morning. Gao Mingcheng asked Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi to guard the stalls, while he himself planned to stroll around. When he went to the new friends he met yesterday, he would say hello to them and exchange a few words about the latest news. information.
As he walked, he greeted people enthusiastically, and when he saw medicinal materials that he was interested in, he would stop to inquire about the price.
It’s not easy to go out. Gao Mingcheng wants to sell medicinal materials here, and also wants to buy some medicinal materials here, such as ginseng and deer antlers from Northeast China, cordyceps from XZ, wolfberry from Ningxia, etc.
It's just that these things are very expensive. With his current wealth, he can't buy many. After buying them back, he has to open up sales, so he needs to make a decision after careful consideration.
Seeing customers coming in one after another and other stalls opening one after another, Gao Mingcheng hurried back to his stall. He was worried that Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi would not be able to shout and discuss business.
After returning home, I saw these two people standing there with timid faces, not daring to take the initiative to shout. Even when customers came up to inquire about prices, they were stumbling over their words.
Gao Mingcheng didn't blame them either. He was old wine in new bottles, and the two of them were real young people. It was their first time to go out to do business. It was normal to be timid. After a few more experiences, they would become bolder and their horizons would broaden. .
Seeing Gao Mingcheng's return, a message for help flashed across Gao Zhuang's eyes, and at the same time, his panicked heart calmed down.
Gao Mingcheng began to take charge of the overall situation, and asked Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi to learn more, see how he did business, and then see how the people next to him did business, and then just follow suit.
The market price of each medicinal material is actually very similar. Gao Mingcheng sells it according to the market price. The price is neither high nor low. The quality of the medicinal materials is considered to be above average, so he spent the morning and did some business.
At noon, there were not many customers. Gao Mingcheng felt that he could handle the business alone, so he asked Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi to go around the trade venue and see more.
"Hey, let's go then." After a morning of experience, Gao Zhuang no longer felt timid at first, but was full of curiosity about this place. He and Huang Dazhi chose a direction and walked forward. If you are interested, slow down and take a look.
In the trade venue, the goods traded are not only Chinese medicinal materials, but also Chinese patent medicines, Western medicines, medical equipment, etc.
In addition to these, there are also stalls for medical treatment and medicine.
Some stall owners are extremely famous, and many patients are queuing up to see a doctor. The medicine jars on the stove nearby are steaming, and the smell of various medicines permeates the air.
Various methods such as decoction, acupuncture, bone setting, and pulse checking are frequently used.
When they reached the area where bulk medicinal materials were traded, Gao Zhuang and the others saw another business - the medicinal materials shop.
They support two families with one hand and become experts with nothing. As long as you have the vision and understand the market, you can do it without much capital.
Open a medicinal material store, and then use an abacus and a steelyard to ensure fair sales and reasonable commissions, and help wealthy medicinal material dealers to purchase and wholesale in large quantities.
Someone was talking, and what he was talking about was the business of medicinal herbs. The person said a series of jingles - the local medicine needs to be sufficient, the teacher needs to be old, the apprentice needs to be young, and the road needs to be adjusted. Xiao Li, if you can do these things, you can also make medicinal materials.
Gao Zhuang found it interesting and was about to listen again, but the topic had already been changed.
Walking all the way, he found that this trading venue was owned by a medicine shop, and he also heard a sentence - forty-eight medicine shops, and three selling sulfur.
After hearing this, he subconsciously went to find a shop selling sulfur.
As for what the sulfur is for, he doesn't even know.
Every time you pass a shop, you can hear loud sounds coming from inside, such as the crackle of abacus, the clang of medicine hammer, or the clang of grinding powder.
There were frequent sounds and the atmosphere was lively.
There are also many small vendors who have very few goods. They sit on a small bench and wait for customers to buy goods. The goods are very miscellaneous. Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi don't know much about medicinal materials, and they don't know many medicinal materials at all.
Gao Zhuang tried to inquire about the price, but when the other person spoke, he had a strong local accent, and he couldn't understand him at all.
The country is so big that there are different styles and customs, and the Medicine Fair brings together medicinal merchants from all over the country. Although Mandarin began to be popularized in 1956, many people can hear it but cannot speak it, and the older people have a strong accent. It's difficult to communicate.
Gao Zhuang's attention is focused on all kinds of people and things, full of curiosity and joy. But Huang Dazhi's face was full of confusion.
I don’t know why, but he encountered three thefts!
When he saw it for the first time, he instinctively wanted to remind the person who had stolen it, but then he remembered what happened on the train before, so he pursed his lips.
By the third time he saw it, his face was numb.
He turned to look at Gao Zhuang. The thief was standing not far from Gao Zhuang, but Gao Zhuang didn't notice it at all. Instead, he looked at the strange medicinal materials with great interest.
"Ah! You gangster! You touched my butt!" A scream resounded through half of the trading venue, and everyone around looked towards the source of the sound.
The screaming person was a woman about forty years old. She was squatting on the ground, focusing on the stall in front of her, but suddenly she felt someone touched her buttocks, so she immediately screamed.
However, that person was not touching her butt, but stealing the money in her trouser pocket. She just happened to move, so the thief not only failed to steal the money, but also accidentally touched her butt. Then there was this scene.
The middle-aged woman was very tough. She stepped forward and slapped the thief. The thief felt guilty and ran away after being beaten for a while.
So there were people talking around, saying that the young man was so hungry that he went to touch the middle-aged woman's buttocks.
Only Huang Dazhi looked on expressionlessly, because no one knew what was going on!
(End of chapter)
