Jiang Yue looked at the sky, and the bright sunlight shone through the leaves. She got up early in the morning, it should be around 8 am now.
She went down the mountain without much hesitation. He hid the backpack at the foot of the mountain, covered it with wild grass, stuffed the ginseng into his arms, and walked toward the town.
In the impression, Xiao Jiangyue was only taken to the town two or three times when her parents were still alive. So she can remember the general direction.
Not many people in the village go to the town every day. Only the eldest son of the village chief drives a mule cart to send a group of people to the town at around 7 o'clock every morning.
One penny per person for a trip and two pence for a round trip.
By doing this, he can earn an average of about twelve cents a day. In the village, this is considered a very good income. It aroused the jealousy of many people, but they couldn't afford a mule cart.
Driving a mule cart takes an hour to reach the town. Walking on legs alone takes about two hours, which is pretty fast.
Jiang Yue is not afraid to leave. This body is too weak. She is considering exercising more.
If you want to avoid crowds in the future, this is the perfect time to go to town. By walking back and forth for four or five hours every day, you should be able to build up your endurance and physical strength.
She assumed professional exercise postures, walked and ran, adjusting her breathing while exercising.
Two hours later, we arrived at the town hospital successfully.
The young boy in gray robes was busy cooking medicine. When he saw her walking in with empty hands, she was thin, her face was red, and she was breathing heavily, he thought she was here to see a doctor.
"Doctor Zhu is busy now. If you want to see a doctor, you will have to wait a while."
"I don't treat patients, and I want to ask if you will accept any medicinal materials."
Hearing the cold voice, the young man was surprised, "Girl, are you a medicine farmer?"
Jiang Yue neither admitted nor denied, "I have some medicinal materials on hand. I would like to ask if your store accepts them."
The boy didn't take it to heart. Usually there are some country people who go to the mountains to work as medicine farmers. The medical clinic naturally accepts medicinal materials, but it depends on the processing techniques and categories of the medicinal materials, and only accepts them if they are suitable.
"If you want to sell medicinal materials, you have to wait a moment, the shopkeeper is out."
As he said that, he was busy continuing to cook the medicine.
Jiang Yue nodded, then she had to wait.
When she saw a small chair next to her, she pulled it over and sat in the corner without disturbing others from coming in to see the doctor.
The "business" of the medical clinic seems to be good, with many people coming and going.
But Jiang Yue looked at their clothes and figures, and concluded that the family's conditions should be at least average or above.
Before taking medicine, you have to pay the doctor a consultation fee. The fee for a pulse diagnosis and medicine is at least dozens of yuan, and sometimes it can reach dozens of taels. How can ordinary families afford medical treatment?
Xiao Jiangyue's parents were infected with typhoid fever one after another, but they endured it and turned their minor illnesses into serious illnesses, and finally passed away...
It is also understandable that today's medicinal farmers have to go up mountains and rivers, and professional medicinal field cultivation has not yet appeared. This has resulted in a shortage of medicinal materials. Supply and demand affect prices, and medicinal material prices have remained high.
However, this is the price sold by medical clinics. As for the price they collect from drug farmers, it is hard to say. It is not an exaggeration to say that the price difference between the two is three times...
Jiang Yue asked all the vendors at the entrance of the town, and they all said that this medical clinic had a good reputation and was good at treating children and adults alike, so she came directly.
She waited for about ten minutes, and then the boy took her into the backyard.
A middle-aged man with half-white beard and hair asked with a smile, "Is this lady a medicine farmer?"
Why do you like to ask this?
"It doesn't matter. I just suddenly got a piece of medicinal material. It might be wasted in my own hands, so I wanted to take it to the medical clinic for a look."
"Oh, what kind of medicine is it?"
Jiang Yue turned around and took out a ginseng root from her arms. Then he turned around and handed it to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper took it and opened his eyes slightly, this, is this ginseng? Just stuff it into your arms without packing anything?
Looking at the other party's eyes that seemed to condemn him, Jiang Yue smiled and said nothing.
The shopkeeper held the ginseng in both hands, smelled it first, and then examined it under bright light.
"Is this newly dug? I didn't even dig out the roots carefully."
"The shopkeeper is great. It was indeed newly dug. Because I didn't have the tools at hand, I didn't dig it well."
After reading it, the shopkeeper stroked his beard and said, "This ginseng is not old, and it is not that expensive variety. Therefore, the price can only be one or two taels of silver at most."
He smiled again and said, "If you are worried, little lady, you can go to a few more medical clinics and ask."
Jiang Yue shook her head. She knew that the price of this small ginseng would not be high, but the price was slightly low. When the medical center prepares it, it can be sold in small quantities.
But she didn't have time to learn the craft, and besides, other medical clinics in the town might not be able to pay as well as this one.
"That's the price, shopkeeper."
The shopkeeper saw that she was very neat and tidy, and he was very satisfied. He took out the money to settle the bill, and then said that if there were other rare medicinal materials in the future, he could send them over.
Jiang Yue nodded in agreement and expected to cooperate frequently during this period.
She got the first money, looked down at her worn shoes with her big toes exposed, and was speechless.
I could only go to the cloth shop first and buy fifteen cents worth of rags and two pairs of shoe soles. Go back and sew and mend it yourself.
Alas, I made a mistake when I left out the thousand-layer cloth-soled shoes and didn’t buy them.
After shopping, Jiang Yue did not go back to the village. She first went to the place where people were bought and sold in the town that Yan Gu had mentioned to see if her "future husband" was there.
That place is not very far from the county government office and is quite lively.
She hid among the people watching the excitement and moved forward. I was shocked. The people in front of me were so skinny. Many of them had injuries on their bodies and faces, and their bones were clearly visible.
But the people responsible for management and sales are obviously used to it and their hearts are as hard as iron.
She was thinking that maybe the injuries on these people were not caused by themselves, but were caused by "training".
Within a few minutes, the housekeeper with a big belly took away several people, either boys or pretty ladies.
As Yan Gu said, few people care about those grown-up adults.
She didn't dislike him for eating too much, but after looking around, he was unshaven, thin and smelly.
She can't keep her mouth shut like this...
Uncomfortable, mushrooms.
She thought to herself that if she came a few more times, she might be able to find the "relict pearl". He turned around and ran back to the village.
The first time he was alive, the second time he was familiar, he ran back even faster than when he went there.
Jiang Yue returned to the foot of the mountain and quickly pulled a basket of pigweed.
When she returned to Uncle Jiang's house, Eugene frowned and looked at her without speaking, with disgust in her eyes.
Jiang Yue could tell that what she meant was: she must have been lazy if she came back so late.
Jiang Yue ignored her and went to chop pig grass to raise the little skinny pig.
Looking at the pig squealing and munching its food, she seemed to see what her future husband would look like...
