"I didn't mean to scare you." Xiao Mu said, "It hurt at first, but when I saw it, it didn't hurt that much anymore."
Ye Luoxin had never experienced such teasing before, and her face suddenly turned redder.
"Okay, go to sleep. If you sell the ginseng tomorrow, I will take you to get medicine." Xiao Mu came to her rescue.
Only then did Ye Luoxin realize that it was not just her who remembered the days, but Xiao Mu also remembered the days when she took medicine when she was away from home.
She was just about to finish her medicine, and he came back.
After being separated for more than ten days, the distance between the two seemed to have become much closer.
They were lying on the bed one mile apart, a little closer than before.
A night of silence.
The next morning, Xu Zhengxiang cooked himself and made thick corn mush, adding coarse salt and green cabbage leaves.
After eating, Xiao Mu carried a bamboo basket and went to the county town accompanied by Xiao Song.
Xiao Mu sells herbal medicines all year round and has a familiar pharmacy for a long time.
He didn't ask around and went directly to Xu's pharmacy with two ginseng.
Xu Nian, the shopkeeper of the drug store, is a short old man with a kindly fat face and bulging cheeks like a hamster. Even so, he cannot hide the shrewdness he has accumulated from years of doing business.
Seeing Xiao Mu, Xu Nian happily greeted him.
"I haven't seen you here for a long time. Did you find anything good this time?"
"All the medicinal materials at home have been dried, but there are also good things we just got." Xiao Mu replied.
Xiao Song put down the medicinal materials he was carrying, and Xu Nian motioned to the waiter to take him to the scale for inspection, while he kept staring at the basket in Xiao Mu's hand.
Xiao Mu is a very down-to-earth kid who doesn't brag easily. If he can say it's a good thing, it must be an uncommon good thing.
Xiao Mu put the backpack on the table and gently lifted the moss covering it, revealing the ginseng inside.
When the shopkeeper saw the reed top on the top of the ginseng, he immediately held down Xiao Mu's hand and said, "There are many people outside, so take this and let's go in and take a look."
With that said, shopkeeper Xu took Xiao Mu into the back room of the medicine shop.
The inside of the drug store is very quiet. Most of the area is a warehouse, and there is also a small tea room. Usually there are good things in the store, and the shopkeepers like to look at them here.
When they arrived at the teahouse, Xu Nian lifted up the moss by himself without using Xiao Mu to reveal the ginseng underneath.
He carefully took out the ginseng, looked at its shape, and then carefully counted the reed heads.
The knots on the reed head represent the age of the ginseng, but it is not that easy to count and laymen cannot understand it.
"Not bad, this ginseng doesn't look too big, but it is an old ginseng that is more than fifty years old."
Xu Nian stroked his goatee and asked Xiao Mu: "How much do you want?"
Xiao Mu didn't have much expression on his face, he just said: "This is also the first time I have dug such a big ginseng. I will take as much as Uncle Xu says."
"Well..." Xu Nian pinched his beard and nodded, "Although this ginseng is less than a century old, it is enough for medicinal purposes. It just so happened that shopkeeper Li from the state capital asked me if I had such a good thing a few days ago. You also It’s not easy, I’ll give you sixty taels, what do you think?”
According to Xiao Mu's idea, the master's original one that was about the same size sold for fifty taels, and his price should be the same. Xu Nian offered sixty taels when he opened his mouth, which was quite reasonable.
"Then just follow what Uncle Xu said." Xiao Mu said, "But I still have one underneath. Let's take a look at it together, Uncle Xu."
"There's another one!" Xu Nian was a little surprised and scolded with a smile: "You kid, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
After saying that, he turned over the moss and saw the one underneath again.
This ginseng was a little smaller than the one above, and it was not as old as the first one. Shopkeeper Xu put the two ginseng together and looked at them, and said, "Although these two ginseng are one big and one small, their shapes complement each other. Putting them together, they can make a pair of couple's ginseng, and some people will definitely like it. You are also lucky, so I will give you a round number for this one, giving you fifty taels, a total of one hundred and ten taels!"
Xiao Mu was overjoyed after hearing this.
One hundred and ten taels!
They grow crops for a year, and if the weather is good, they can sell them for about 20 taels of silver. Plus he digs some medicinal materials, and his income is only about 50 taels a year.
This sudden income of 110 taels will not only pay off the foreign debt, but at least there will be no need to worry about food and drink for a year.
"Then thank you Uncle Xu." Xiao Mu said.
"Oh, we two, why are you so polite? Just remember to come to me first when you get something good."
"That's for sure!" Xiao Mu replied.
The two people stood up while talking.
Xu Nian went outside and asked the waiter to pay Xiao Mu.
One hundred and one hundred taels of silver, he asked for ten ingots and ten taels of silver, and for the remaining ten taels he asked for some broken silver and copper plates.
Other herbal medicines sold for one tael or one tael also cost copper coins.
The two brothers didn't talk much. They packed up the money and went to the street to buy a bag of rice, a bag of noodles, and some pork, then hired a car and headed home.
Today Xu Zhengxiang and Xiao Changhe came back from the fields after only working for half a day.
They were waiting at home, eager to know how much the two ginseng they bought yesterday would cost.
This thing is rare. The main thing is that someone has to be willing to bid for it in order to sell it at a good price.
After Xiao Mu and Xiao Song came back, they first went to their parents' house.
Xiao Mu placed ten pieces of silver in front of the two of them and said, "Mom, here are one hundred taels of silver from selling ginseng, twenty taels to pay off the debt, and you put the rest away."
"Okay, okay." Xu Zhengxiang smiled so hard that she couldn't close her mouth. This was the first time in her life that she had seen so many silver ingots. She quickly took them in her hand and looked up and down.
"I will keep the remaining two taels of silver for myself." Xiao Mu continued.
They live together as a family, and Xu Zhengxiang usually pays for the household expenses, and the two brothers have to pay the money to their parents.
In the past, Xiao Mu didn't have a family, and all the money he earned was given to his parents. Xiao Song usually worked in the fields. During the slack time, he went out to work and did hard labor. The money he earned was basically given to the family. The two brothers never went out, and usually Don’t care about who pays more and who pays less.
Now that Xiao Mu is married, he naturally needs to save some money.
"Okay, if you pay so much money at once, Mom will remember it for you. If you want to use it, ask me for it again." Xu Zhengxiang also said.
After everything was explained, the mothers sighed, and the two brothers went back to their houses.
Xiao Mu returned to the room and took out all the money in his pocket.
He had no purse on him, and all the money was stuffed in his arms. When he took it out, it was scattered all over the bed.
"So much money!" Ye Luoxin sighed as she looked at the bed full of copper plates.
Since the death of his parents, the original owner has rarely seen more than three copper coins.
Sometimes Zou would give her a few copper coins when he asked her to run errands and buy things, but they were always just right.
For more than three copper coins, Zou would rather run away when she was tired than give the coins to Ye Luoxin, for fear that she would be jealous of the money and run away with the coins.
"The remaining one hundred taels were given to my mother. I specially exchanged them for two strings of copper plates for you. It's convenient to use."
"Put it here with me?" Ye Luoxin couldn't believe it.
