allonlinenovel Chapter 207 Ouch! The sky-high price of cattle and horses
Chapter 207 Ouch! The sky-high price of cattle and horses
The shopkeeper saw that the work was almost done, so he called a few doctors to check the pulses of Shen Zhiqiu and his group. However, he did not check all of them, but only selected those with thin bodies for examination.
The result is obvious. Although Shen Youyou and his group were also fleeing famine, what did they eat?
They ate all kinds of fish in the cave for the whole winter, and also all kinds of meat on the road. The key was that Li Jingshu also paid attention to the combination of meat and vegetables.
Besides, we all live in small apartments in winter, so we drink not only Pueraria powder every day, but also pine needle tea and Eucommia tea.
They also eat a lot of Zonglu oil and fish oil. How can they not be strong?
In the end, they did not have processed dry bark, so they sold 140 kilograms to the pharmacy at the price of wen per kilogram.
After all, it is impossible for the pharmacy to collect all the Eucommia bark they collected. It is simply unrealistic.
You should know that the amount of dry bark they harvested was about 15,000 kilograms.
As for why what is sold is not the prepared ones, but the unprepared ones.
That was mainly because Grandpa Guo only had one bag of dried tree bark prepared, weighing about fifty kilograms. The shopkeeper bought it at 240 wen per kilogram.
Under Shen Youyou's persuasion, the shopkeeper finally bought the Eucommia bark at double the price and sold some medicinal materials to Shen Zhiqiu and his group at the regular price.
When they set out again, their luggage was somewhat reduced.
Shen Zhiqiu touched the purse in his arms as he walked, feeling extremely proud: Look at his daughter, who went in and out of the pharmacy, bought cheap medicinal materials for their group of people, and even sold a lot of Eucommia bark at double the price.
What he has in his arms now are two hundred-tael bills, one fifty-tael bill, and two taels of cash!
It’s not that he has never seen money and is making a fuss about it. The key point is that this money is the first money his daughter has earned.
In their previous life, Youyou was the kind of person who only cared about spending money and not earning it. It can be seen that these two hundred and fifty-two taels of silver have a different meaning in his heart.
However, except for Shen Youyou, Shen Zhiqiu, Doctor Guo, and Shen Mazi who was responsible for taking the samples, no one else knew the real price.
The reason is simple; it's mainly because there are too many people and too many eyes.
Everyone only knew that Shen Youyou used Eucommia bark to exchange for a lot of medicinal herbs at the medicine shop.
And those officials and other families didn't quite understand the value of Eucommia bark. They just thought it was an ordinary herbal medicine. Didn't they see that they had so many bags of herbs and exchanged them for the limited herbs that the pharmacy had?
Shen Mazi was possessed by a spirit of drama and sighed as he complained to a yamen runner: "Ah, the price is too low, but for the sake of the little kids, I have to exchange it with them even if it hurts to bleed!"
As a result, everyone took it seriously. Those who had just complained that ten taels of silver for a bottle of medicine was too expensive, however, did not complain when they found out that so much Eucommia bark was exchanged for only a small amount of medicinal materials.
They also talked at once to comfort the four people.
"Why feel bad? Didn't we pick those up for free in the mountains? It's just a matter of putting in some effort."
"Of course we are. Although we don't have money to buy medicine, we have collected a lot of common herbs in the mountains. It's okay if we can't sell them. We can just keep them and exchange them with other medicine shops."
Wow, they are so honest, they really think no one wants Eucommia bark!
Old Lady Fang also asked carefully: "Is it because we didn't know how to harvest the herbs and destroyed their quality, that's why we were given less herbs in exchange?"
Shen Youyou was secretly happy. She had originally thought that her lies would be easily exposed, and she guessed that those knowledgeable people and these yamen runners might not really believe them.
As a result, getting everyone to cheer together makes it more credible.
I guess even those who know the medicinal properties of Eucommia bark would think that these old-fashioned people are ignorant of the market and have been cheated by the owner of the drug store.
The leader, Zhou Tou, who really knew nothing about medicine, didn't think much about it and said to everyone, "There are more than a dozen households waiting for us at the post station. We will leave together when the time comes."
When Shen Zhiqiu heard this, he guessed that this might have been arranged yesterday. They were not allowed to stay in the city, so they were arranged to go to the post station.
So it took two days to complete one escort mission. It seems that there is a shortage of manpower here!
Finally we got out of Jeju City. Not far from the city gate, there were many people from livestock shops waiting, it was very lively.
They were very enthusiastically invited to choose livestock, and no one knew who had come up with the words they used, but they were all very different.
Thank you fellow villagers for your hard work along the way. If you choose good animals, you will have a smooth journey ahead.
Listen, it’s obvious that this is not the first time we have received a big-name team.
Li Quan also took a look around and came back to explain to everyone: "Do you know how much a cow costs here?"
Shen Zhiqiu sighed, he understood what this sentence meant, the price must be not low.
Hunter Gao asked quietly, "Why, the price of livestock has doubled as well?"
"Double what? It's more than double. An ox, not counting the carriage, costs fifty taels."
As soon as Li Quan finished speaking, there were sounds of people gasping for air all around. Many people covered their chests, feeling sorry for the cattle and horses that died on the road.
The old man also sighed and said that their family bought the cow for 18 taels, and the whole family had to save for several years to have enough money to buy one.
Now that they have been killed and eaten, according to the prices in this area, how much money must they have wasted along the way!
Old Man Shen frowned and asked Shen Zhiqiu in a low voice: "San'er, you said that livestock and medicine are expensive in this place, so how are we going to survive in the future?"
Shen Zhiqiu shook his head slightly: "Dad, maybe it's just this expensive!"
"What?"
What can I do? Shen Zhiqiu thought, "The gatekeeper, the team leader, and the dozen or so yamen runners, with all these people, sleeping in the open air, it would take at least half a month to twenty days to go back and forth. Who would serve you for nothing?"
Just like what was said before, going to the porridge distribution points at the city gates of wealthy families, in the words of the previous life, was a fixed tourist attraction, a political task, and played an educational role.
As for the drugstore and the cattle shed, they are shopping and consumption attractions, just like shopping tours, with kickbacks;
Not to mention waiting at the city gate, in modern times, even if they have to take a long detour and there is heavy traffic, they will still take you there to spend money.
Are those rich people stupid?
Maybe there are those who are not smart but are lucky and are born with a silver spoon in their mouths.
But they would not be able to survive in this context of fleeing famine, and the people around them would probably eat them up.
The people who were traveling with them had brought their families all the way here until now, and the money they had had hadn’t been stolen, and they even had loyal servants and guards.
Shen Zhiqiu didn't believe them at all when he said they were stupid, but why did they buy it even though they knew it was expensive?
There is only one reason. If you don't buy, you will suffer. And the leader has also told you clearly that you will never see this shop again after this village. You will never come to the city again. If you don't buy now,
I can’t stand it anymore and won’t have the chance to buy it when I want to.
In fact, the key lies in a psychological warfare, to see whether you want the money to suffer or the person to suffer.
Similar to Shen Youyou's starting point of selling medicinal herbs, it depends on whether you are willing to buy the herbs at a high price and make a fortune later, or you are unwilling to do this business and miss the opportunity.