Chapter 314: The first income of the herbal medicine shop
Red hair strings are simple in style and not many in variety, costing three cents for one and five cents for two;
Head flowers are much more expensive and come in a variety of styles.
Cloth flowers, silk flowers, paper flowers, twine flowers, velvet flowers... the latter are too expensive, so the men only look at cloth flowers.
A small cloth flower costs nine cents, and the men are amazed.
"Not bad, look at a velvet flower that costs fifty or sixty cents, cloth flowers are very cheap." Boss Xu said this to others while convincing himself.
Although nine cents can only buy one inedible thing, and there is no cloth, isn't the velvet flower also inedible, but it costs fifty or sixty cents! Compared to that, nine cents is nothing.
Li Wen looked at the velvet flower and said enviously: "Velvet flowers are still beautiful."
"What's the use of being beautiful? The price is there! It's good to have a cloth flower." Fan Xiaoliu glanced at the various head flowers on the counter and felt that they were all the same.
I don't understand why the girl likes it so much. With this money, she can buy a pound of rice and make porridge.
But this is the money the girl earned herself. After paying the public, she can buy whatever she wants with the remaining sixty coins. No one else in the family can say anything.
Hey, he also wants to work in the herbal medicine shop, so that he can save sixty coins every month. You know, that's sixty coins! He has never had more than ten coins in his life. Now the girl can have sixty coins a month. She is so rich.
"You are right, then, little brother, give me that sky blue hair flower."
"I want a sky blue hair flower too."
"Me too."
Hearing the sky blue color coming one after another, Boss Xu got anxious and shouted: "Hey, why are you all the same as me? At least change the color, you have such a beautiful color!"
Really, why is he buying in front and they follow behind, so that all the girls in the village will be the same.
"Brother Xu, there is no way. My sister specifically asked for a sky blue head flower and a red hairband."
"Me too."
"Why are they all the same?"
The men scratched their heads, looking at a loss.
"Forget it, buy it. Maybe the girls agreed to buy the same ones."
"That's right, then the same ones!"
Hu Wenhua looked at the fluffy and pink velvet flowers, which were very suitable for the cold winter. He pointed at the velvet flowers and said to the shopkeeper: "I want this pink one."
The shopkeeper didn't expect that anyone among this group of men would buy velvet flowers. After a moment of surprise, he said: "Okay, I'll buy this for you, sir! Fifty-six cents for fifty-five cents."
The others swallowed a big mouthful of saliva.
Strange, that's fifty-five cents, and they actually used it to buy a small velvet flower?
Yes, there are three small flowers on a velvet flower, and it looks fluffy and beautiful, but no matter how beautiful it is, it can't be eaten as a meal.
Until Hu Wenhua paid fifty-five coins, the shopkeeper packed the velvet flower with a smile on his face and handed it to Hu Wenhua respectfully, but the men were still shocked.
"Waiter, pack a silk flower for me! I want the best one!"
A familiar voice came from the door, and the men in the shop turned around to look.
Then Fan Erzhu and his three friends walked in.
Fan Xiaoliu opened his mouth, he didn't expect to meet them here!
Didn't they sell their daughter because they had no food to eat? But Jin's cousin gave them food but no money. Even if they still had some money to buy coarse salt, he could understand, but he couldn't understand it at all for buying silk flowers with money!
Not only Fan Xiaoliu couldn't understand it, but other men couldn't understand it either.
It's not that women shouldn't wear it, but they sold their daughter for food when they had no rice to eat, but they had money to buy silk flowers? Besides, the daughter was gone, so how could the mother and grandma still have the mood to wear it?
The scene fell into a deathly silence for a while.
Fan Erzhu showed a trace of embarrassment on his face, and he turned his head away from everyone's gaze.
Fan Qian forced a smile, but he didn't prepare to explain.
When Erzhu or Sanzhu firmly grasped Ding Jiajia's heart, these people would understand how far-sighted he was!
It was not a good idea for a large group of men to stand in the grocery store. Li Wen shouted, "Let's go, let's go and meet up with Brother Ding first to see how the herbs are weighed. There are still important things to do later, so don't waste time."
Reading notices and buying hair ropes and flowers in the grocery store were just incidental, and selling rabbits to buy cloth for winter clothes was the real thing.
Originally, after selling rabbits, they should go to the cloth shop to buy cloth, but this time they still need to earn money from selling Pueraria root, so most of them want to wait until they have more money before buying.
The other men pursed their lips, and when they walked past Fan Qian and the other two, they didn't know whether they meant to or not, they said "Pooh", and then strode away.
In the backyard of the medicine shop, the herbs have been weighed one by one. The medicine boy opened the bag and carefully checked the appearance and dryness, and then called the shopkeeper and Ding Heli to check the accounts.
Shopkeeper Qin first calculated the kudzu root, which had the largest quantity but the lowest total price. He moved the abacus beads in his hand, and after a crackling sound, he looked up and said: "Twelve sacks of kudzu root, 830 catties, 18 coins per catty, a total of 14 taels, 940 coins, I'll round it up for you"
Ding Heli quickly interrupted: "No, no! No need to round it up, this is someone from my village, I help sell it on his behalf, the weight has been calculated long ago, how can I give you the extra money if you round it up? If it's hard to divide it, it will be difficult for me to live."
If you help others, either you don't settle the accounts clearly like Hu Wenhua, and get the share you deserve;
Or you don't earn a penny, but owe someone a favor. Remember to help half and take half, otherwise you won't earn much money and won't be appreciated.
Selling rabbits is a long-term thing, but there are only a few times when Pueraria root is sold, and it won't tire him out to help these times. Besides, helping the villagers sell medicinal materials is equivalent to escorting them along the way, which is a mutually beneficial thing.
Shopkeeper Qin immediately understood when he heard it, and said with a smile: "Okay, the fourteen taels should also be given as broken silver to facilitate their account sharing."
Then he dialed the abacus again: "Your tangerine peel is good, but it's too young, so it can only be 120 wen per tael, is it okay?"
Tang tangerine peel is rare, and only a little peel is taken from such a big fruit. If this little peel needs to be dried, there will be even less left.
But this batch of goods is too young. If it is older, it can even be worth a thousand gold!
When Ding Heli was at home, he had already had an approximate number for the price of this batch of goods. As long as the difference is not much, he will sell it.
One hundred and twenty wen per tael, one catty is one tael and two hundred wen, he nodded.
"Okay, 60 catties, 72 taels of silver."
"Yam is calculated by catty, so the price is the same as last time, 450 wen per catty, 560 catties, a total of 252 taels of silver."
"Polygonum multiflorum is expensive, black beans are 500 wen per tael, 1 catty is 5 taels of silver, 30 catties is 150 taels;
Ginger is 600 wen per tael, 1 catty is 6 taels of silver, 50 catties is 300 taels;
Wine is 700 wen per tael, 20 catties is 140 taels;
Cited tangerine peel, yam, and Polygonum multiflorum are 914 taels in total, I'll round it up for you, 915 taels!"