After breakfast, Lu Xinghe took the two turtles out of the water tank and put them into buckets. He then moved the buckets and the baskets containing the medicinal materials to the cart, and then he and Chu Yue pushed the cart to the entrance of the village.
When passing the village entrance, they saw the fourth aunt Jiang Xiuqin standing in the yard waving to them.
On the way, Chu Yue, who was sitting on the cart, looked at Lu Xinghe: "Ms. sir, our family conditions are better now. Do you want to consider continuing the scientific examination?"
Lu Xinghe looked slightly stunned and said nothing.
Why didn't he think about it?
He also thought that he would be able to find his father's whereabouts in the future.
But now that there is no man to take care of the situation at home, he really can't rest assured.
Seemingly aware of Lu Xinghe's concerns, Chu Yue continued: "Actually, you don't have to worry at home. I will slowly take care of my mother's health. If we rent a house, our family can travel between the town and the village, so we don't have to separate. You can still take care of the house and study at the same time."
When Lu Xinghe heard this, he thought this was a good idea.
"It is said that the people who rely on the people depend on the people who rely on the people. If this happens, won't our family lose its source of income?"
Chu Yue didn't think so.
"How do you think your husband will be successful this year?"
"not good."
That is to say, there are many trees in Banpo Village, and there are two pools of water in the pond, but the rest of the area is completely dry.
Chu Yue continued: "The year is not good, there is no harvest in the fields, and taxes have to be paid. The people who rely on the fields for a living have no money. When the weather gets cold, those families who have difficulty making a living will definitely sell their fields."
Naturally, the price for selling farmland in this famine year will not be much higher.
When the time comes, these fields will be collected and rented out next year. The rent alone will be a considerable amount of income.
Chu Yue didn't say the next words, but Lu Xinghe had already guessed it.
He looked at Chu Yue in surprise.
"You little kid, you're really..."
"Smart, right?"
Chu Yue took Lu Xinghe's words with a hint of pride on her face.
These days, the two of them eat and live together, and have gradually become familiar with each other, and sometimes they can even joke with each other.
Looking at her bright smile, Lu Xinghe shook his head helplessly.
"You are the only one with more ideas."
"That's not all." Chu Yue continued, "Didn't the fourth aunt come to our house yesterday and ask us to sell medicinal materials on our behalf? I'm thinking that in the future, we don't need to dig medicine by ourselves every day, but we can do it in the village. Collect medicinal materials.”
Lu Xinghe raised his eyebrows: "Collecting medicinal materials?"
"Well." Chu Yue grabbed the backpack on the trolley, "Think about it, finding precious medicinal materials such as ginseng depends on luck. Most of them are ordinary medicinal materials. In fact, the prices charged by drug stores for ordinary medicinal materials are not too high. Let's Isn't it much easier to collect it and sell it to a drug store to make a profit? Those villagers who don't understand medicine sell it by themselves, and they may not be able to get a good price."
Thinking of this, Lu Xinghe smiled.
"Indeed, we will go back to the village every half a month to collect medicinal materials, and then go back to the town to sell them."
Then he turned to look at Chu Yue.
"However, if the amount of medicinal materials collected by then is large, we won't be able to go back and forth on our own two legs."
"We don't have to worry about this. We will probably have to live in the town next year. If we don't succeed this year, let's get over it first." At this point, Chu Yue's eyes suddenly lit up, "Mr. Anyway, I’m not in a hurry to go back today. If we have time, how about we go to the dental shop?”
Looking at the little girl's shining eyes, Lu Xinghe nodded.
"good."
The two of them talked and laughed all the way, and Chu Yue would take advantage of the uphill climb to jump off the cart and help Lu Xinghe push the cart. An hour later, they finally arrived in town.
Because of the ginseng, after the two arrived in Nanping Town, they pushed the cart directly to Chenji Pharmacy.
Chenji Drug Store has a doctor visiting today, so there are a lot of people there.
The two clerks were busy grabbing medicine behind the counter, and they were in a hurry. Shopkeeper Chen, whom he had seen last time, was sweating profusely and calculating his abacus. He raised his head and glanced outside the pharmacy. When he saw Chu Yue and Lu When he saw Xinghe, he was stunned for a moment because he looked familiar, and then he seemed to remember something and put his abacus aside for the time being.
"You two are also here to bring out medicinal materials today?"
Lu Xinghe carried the basket into the drug store. Chu Yue looked at the heated scene in the store and approached the counter.
"Shopkeeper Chen, do you have some time to talk now?"
As she spoke, she opened a crack in the basket she was holding.
When he saw the ginseng, the shopkeeper immediately opened his eyes. Just now, someone came to him in a hurry to buy ginseng at a high price. However, such precious medicinal materials are hard to come by. In his shop There's no stock either.
It was a coincidence that when he turned around, someone brought it to him.
Shopkeeper Chen smiled happily and hurriedly walked out from behind the counter, making a gesture of invitation toward the backyard.
"You two, please come in."
Lu Xinghe followed Chu Yue to the backyard, and Chu Yue carefully took out the ginseng in the basket.
"Shopkeeper Chen, this is not the first time I've come to your place. You can take care of it and see how my ginseng is doing."
Shopkeeper Chen took the ginseng in his hand and looked at it carefully. After a moment, he said: "There are seven reed bowls of this ginseng. It should be about ten years old."
Chu Yue nodded, but he was on par with her.
"Shopkeeper Chen, please give me a real price."
Shopkeeper Chen smiled: "That's for sure. Ginseng is hard to find these days, and it's even harder to find ginseng with all the beard and tail. I can get this amount of ginseng in ten years."
he said, holding up a hand.
"Fifty taels."
Chu Yue felt happy, looked at each other with Lu Xinghe, and nodded.
"Okay, the shopkeeper will show you these other medicinal materials."
Shopkeeper Chen got the ginseng, and because he was anxious, he didn't bother to calculate it with Chu Yue: "It's just a coincidence that you two came here today. I'm busy at the front now. Besides, these medicinal materials are probably common medicinal materials, so I don't know how to calculate them." How about we count it as two taels of silver together?"
As if afraid that Chu Yue would disagree, she hurriedly explained: "Actually, you two also know that. If you calculate it specifically, I'm afraid it's less than two taels of silver."
Chu Yue took out the Panax notoginseng that Fourth Aunt had given her yesterday from the basket on her back.
"Shopkeeper, it's not that I'm stingy, it's just that there is a Panax notoginseng in this basket of medicinal materials. If we sell it for two taels of silver, we will indeed suffer a bit."
Shopkeeper Chen was stunned.
"I haven't considered this. In that case, how about two and a half? Any more, and I will lose money."
Chu Yue smiled and nodded.
"Okay, then two and a half."
The two of them put the fifty-two taels of silver settled by Chenji Pharmacy in Chu Yue's purse and put them into a backpack, letting Lu Xinghe carry it on his back. The other five hundred coins were placed in the basket carried by Chu Yue.
