After entering the county seat, Li Shiqiang went straight to the purchasing station of the supply and marketing cooperative.
With his memory of the county seat in his previous life, he found it with little effort.
At this time, the Supply and Marketing Cooperative Purchasing Station has not opened yet, and there are people sitting on the steps outside, all carrying bamboo baskets filled with medicinal herbs.
Everyone was smoking dry cigarettes and making household chores.
The youngest among them looks older than his old man Li Nongchang.
"My dear, are you here to sell herbal medicine too?" An old man with a goatee and a cigarette smoked raised his head and asked with a strange look on his face.
"yes."
Li Shiqiang nodded with a smile, sat down next to the old man and said, "Old man, the door should be open soon, right?"
"Soon."
The old man nodded, turned his head and glanced at the bamboo basket behind him and asked, "My dear, what kind of herbs are you talking about?"
Li Shiqiang shook his head with a silly smile and said, "I dug up some white wormwood in the mountains, but I couldn't recognize many herbs."
White wormwood is the common saying for wormwood.
The old man took a puff of dry cigarette, with a slight smile on his lips: "The wormwood grows in March and the artemisia in April is used as firewood in May and June. If you don't pick it now, it will be worthless in the future."
Li Shiqiang nodded, said nothing, and looked at the surrounding environment.
Just as he was looking at it in awe, a group of old men around him stood up with a smile.
"Oops! Comrade Liu, are you here?"
"Comrade Liu, did you come so early today?"
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Li Shiqiang turned his head and looked around, and soon saw a middle-aged man wearing light blue work clothes with no patch on his body.
He looked at the group of people at the door without saying a word, nodded to everyone, took out the key from his waist, and walked to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative purchasing station with a little pride.
The people around him were used to seeing him like that.
In these days, if you can work in a supply and marketing cooperative, you can't exchange it for money.
The monthly salary is twenty to thirty, and there is a public canteen for three meals a day.
There was a saying that was circulated for a while: "Eighth generation will not be able to build a supply and marketing cooperative."
After the door of the purchasing station opened, the old man at the door swarmed into the door.
"Don't be anxious, come and inspect the goods one by one."
Li Shiqiang looked at these muscular old men and found it difficult to squeeze in with them, so he had to queue slowly at the back.
After waiting for a long time, it was finally his turn.
He picked up the bamboo basket behind his back and opened the herbs wrapped in oil paper.
"Hey! You're well protected." Comrade Liu, as everyone called him, had a look of surprise on his face. Said something unexpected.
He touched the herbs and said with some surprise again: "It's a good tan. Young man, do you still know these things?"
Li Shiqiang said with a bit of a smile: "I learned it all from others."
Comrade Liu nodded and began to rate them one by one: "This Sophora flavescens is first-class, honeysuckle is second-class, Beizhonglou is first-class, Yinchen is first-class, Gastrodia elata is first-class."
The first grade is the grade where the herbs are well preserved and have the best medicinal properties after being collected. It is also the grade with the highest purchase price.
After listening to these several sounds, many old men behind Li Shiqiang also stretched their necks and poked their heads to take a look.
"Why does a young baby have to wait so long?"
"Mostly it was handled by someone else, and he helped others sell it."
"Maybe I got it from someone else."
"Hey! Don't say this nonsense! No other baby is so young!"
An old man lowered his head and stopped talking nonsense.
"Go and weigh and count the money!"
Comrade Liu saw that Li Shiqiang was not moving in front of him and began to urge him.
Li Shiqiang shook his head, took out a can and bottle from his rucksack and said, "I have something else to comment on."
After the cans and bottles containing wild clams were placed on the table, Comrade Liu immediately shouted in surprise: "Calyx clams!?"
He raised his head and glanced at Li Shiqiang, opened the can and took out the wild clam inside.
“Wild clam is first class!”
After Comrade Liu finished shouting, the acquisition station immediately started talking again.
"Someone actually collected Hubei?"
"You're still a young baby!"
"I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money!"
"That's right, one Ebi plant can be worth several months of someone else's salary!"
At this time, Comrade Liu from the purchasing station also raised his head and said: "Young man, you are so lucky!"
With a year's salary from working at this purchasing station, he might not be able to afford the three wild clams in his hand.
Li Shiqiang didn't say anything, but asked with a smile on his face: "Uncle, how much does this Hubei plant cost?"
Comrade Liu stretched out his hand and made a gesture and said: "One hundred and eighty-one plants!"
After hearing that the price of the wild clam was indeed the same as he had imagined, Li Shiqiang quickly took his herbs to the side to weigh them and change them.
The staff responsible for weighing and exchanging money were the last two female employees at the purchasing station.
One is responsible for weighing, and the other is responsible for calculating accounts and giving money.
The two female employees, one older and one younger, looked somewhat similar. They might be relatives.
The younger female employee took the medicinal materials from Li Shiqiang's hand and asked curiously while weighing them: "Did you dig all these herbs?"
"Yes, they are all dug from the mountains."
The young female employee nodded and handed the written receipt to the woman next to her: "Second aunt, here it is."
The middle-aged woman held a receipt in one hand and a stack of money in the other and said: "One tael of first-class sophora, one yuan, one yuan. Three taels of second-class honeysuckle, three yuan. Two taels of first-class wormwood, one yuan. One yuan for first-class north. Twenty liang of Chonglou, two yuan. Twenty liang of first-grade gastrodia elata, twelve yuan. Three first-grade wild clams, five hundred and forty yuan.
A total of five hundred and fifty-nine dollars. "
Listening to the middle-aged woman shouting out five hundred and fifty-nine yuan, Li Shiqiang's heart beat hard several times.
He grinned and kept chanting: "Okay! Okay! Okay!"
If there weren't so many people at the acquisition station, he would be jumping for joy now.
"Young man, stop reading, come and count!"
The middle-aged woman felt a little sad at this time. The young man's money from selling medicine was almost enough for her two years' salary.
Li Shiqiang calmed down, reached out to take the large handful of banknotes, and counted them carefully.
After he counted it carefully three times and confirmed that there was no problem, he nodded to the middle-aged woman and said: "Sister, the money is correct!"
"That's right!"
The middle-aged woman nodded and turned to look at the next customer.
Li Shiqiang, on the other hand, turned sideways and put a thick stack of unity in his hand into various pockets on his body.
At this time, there were no 100-yuan notes, and the biggest thing was the 10-yuan unity.
After Li Shiqiang collected the money, he went to the mountain product counter at the purchasing station and sold the mountain muntjac leather he had just obtained.
It's a pity that no one else can take the whip from that mountain muntjac.
With nearly 600 yuan in his pocket, Li Shiqiang glanced at the counter selling goods next to the purchasing station, and finally left the supply and marketing cooperative.
