Chapter 16 Selling Herbal Medicine

Rong Qian wiped his nose again and felt that he would not die, so he approached Nalanjing and stared at the snake, looking left and right.

Naturally, Rong Qian couldn't see anything, so he quickly asked: "Sister-in-law, what kind of snake is this? Is it poisonous? Will I die if I get licked?"

Nalanjing saw that there were no wounds on his face and his complexion was rosy, then he said: "This is the mountain wind, and it is also a mountain snake. It is extremely poisonous, and one bite will kill you. Your face looks normal, and there should be no trace of it."

Apply venom."

Rong Qian and Rong Yu didn't know snakes, but they had heard of the venomous names of snakes in the mountains, and upon realizing they were filled with fear and joy.

Nalanjing was quite calm. As the old saying goes, if you always walk by the river, your shoes won't get wet. If you always run to the mountains, you will always encounter anything in the mountains.

Rong Qian said with a pale face: "Sister-in-law, is this snake still alive? You'd better put it on the ground first, put it on the ground first..."

Nalanjing raised his eyebrows and glanced at him: "If you can't kill it with one move, don't you look down on me a little?"

Rong Qian: "..."

Rong Yu: "..."

Of course, Nalanjing would not bring it back blatantly. They had just arrived in the village, so they tried to keep a low profile and do as little as possible to make people jealous.

Take out the basket of herbs, put the snake at the bottom, cover the herbs back, and press them hard, just enough to hold them.

Rong Yu carried a basket on her back, and her steps down the mountain were empty.

After Nalanjing knew that the old woman would light a fire and make a simple breakfast for the children, the three of them went to the town without delay.

There was a medicine shop in the town, and the shopkeeper was not surprised to see them selling herbal medicine. He just asked them to go to the backyard and pour out the medicinal herbs for a look.

The herbs collected by Nalan Jing were hard to find. The shopkeeper nodded with satisfaction. When he saw Rong Qian finally proposed a mountain snake as thick as a baby's arm, he jumped back in fright. In response, he pressed his chest and took a big breath.

Mother, where did this wild child come from? Why is he so ferocious that he dares to catch all the snakes in the mountains?

Mountain snakes are highly venomous, and even the immortals cannot save them from being bitten, which shows how dangerous they are.

However, its medicinal value is also very high. After the internal organs are removed, the whole body can be used as medicine.

After the shopkeeper was frightened, he began to examine the snake in surprise and asked the clerk to weigh it. It turned out to be eleven kilograms...

When the shopkeeper looked at Rong Qian and the others, he no longer looked at a group of naughty kids, but a group of crazy kids.

He actually didn't know whether to say: Alas, he is really lucky, or should he sympathize with this snake in the mountains: Alas, it is so tragic that the king of snakes died at the hands of a few crazy children.

The shopkeeper knew that they had paid for these things with their lives, so he didn't lower the price because of their young age and charged them at the actual price.

Ten thousand snakes in the mountains are worth five taels of silver, and a thousand herbs are worth one tael of silver.

Rong Qian and Rong Yu were shocked. They didn't expect that the snake could be sold for so much money, several times more than the herbs they had been looking for for a long time.

Nalanjing frowned, took only five taels of silver from the shopkeeper, and began to collect the herbs without saying a word.

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Little lady, the price I'm offering is not low. These herbs are all wet. We will process them and dry them when we take them back. By then there will only be a little left."

Rong Qian had already taken over Nalanjing's job and put the herbs into the basket.

Nalanjing had no intention of offending anyone and looked at the shopkeeper: "There is no need to explain, shopkeeper. I don't blame you in my heart. It's just that I suddenly didn't want to sell it."

Rong Qian collected the herbs in a few seconds and explained: "Uncle shopkeeper, my sister-in-law is also a doctor. She is reluctant to sell it, so we won't sell it."

When the shopkeeper heard the word "uncle", he felt relieved, and when he heard that the young lady was also a doctor, he suddenly looked surprised, and then nodded in understanding.

Although women rarely practice medicine, there are many families where the father is a doctor, and the women learn some superficial skills from them.

It is not an exaggeration to claim to be a doctor. Many village doctors have not even studied. If they cannot cure a disease, no one will blame them. As long as they cannot cure someone, there will always be someone who is greedy for cheap.

After leaving the medicine shop, Nalanjing took them to the market to buy grain and meat. Although he still had some at home, he still wanted to buy some more. He didn't panic since he had grain at home.

With more than four taels of silver left, Nalanjing did not dare to spend it randomly. There were many people in the family, and there would always be urgent needs. She had to save some for emergencies.

When she went back, Rong Qiantao used her own money to buy more than ten steamed buns, two for each person, one meat and one vegetarian.

Nalanjing's face gradually softened as he gnawed on the soft meat buns.

Seeing this, Rong Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He vaguely knew that Nalanjing was depressed because of the price given by the shopkeeper, but he didn't know why she had such a big reaction.

After understanding the price of food, he felt that one tael of silver was already a lot.

Nalanjing was actually not unhappy, she just felt that instead of selling them at such a low price, it would be better to keep them and make them herself. There would be many opportunities to use them in the future. Their value was far more than one tael of silver, so she naturally didn't want to sell them.

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It was already noon when we returned to the village.

After Nalanjing got home, he took out the meat he bought today, rolled up his sleeves and started cooking.

Rong Yu and Rong Qian went to see their elder brother and played with their little four, five and six. One went to the stove to help light the fire, and the other went to the backyard to sort out the herbs.

If the sister-in-law says not to sell it, then she won’t sell it. The sister-in-law says that if she concocts it herself, it will have greater value in the future, so she will definitely earn more money.

I had a hearty lunch, including corn rib soup, twice-cooked pork with celery, stuffed tofu with minced meat, stir-fried wild vegetables with lard residue, and a large bowl of white rice.

The family holds bowls and eats contentedly.

When they went to Beijing, they were well clothed and well-fed, but they didn't have this sense of satisfaction.

They don't know that there are really no families in the village who can eat meat every day, and even the Li Zheng family cannot eat meat every day.

Even if ordinary people can save dozens of taels of silver in their hands, they don't dare to buy meat every day. They are all poor people, so money can be saved.

Nalanjing didn't think so. When several uncles in the family were growing up, if they failed to maintain their health, they would only regret saving so much money.

After finishing the meal, Rong Qian took the basin and went to wash the dishes.

Nalanjing entered the main room to look at Rong Xuan. His breath was still in the breathing state, long and strong, and he didn't know what was going on.

Rong Yu was practicing calligraphy on bamboo with black charcoal. He wrote very seriously, as if he was holding a brush instead of black charcoal, and what he was writing was not bamboo, but a precious copybook.

Nalanjing went to the backyard again. The herbs had already been dried. She went up and flipped through them. When she clapped her hands and left, she saw Xiao Wu walking.

Sitting cross-legged on the side like a tree stump is Xiaosi.

"Who taught you Qigong?" Nalanjing asked in surprise.

Xiaowu is usually the most naughty person, and he is unambiguous in his horse stance. At this time, he raised his chin a little arrogantly: "My eldest brother taught me martial arts before. He said that I had stabilized my horse stance, so he taught me martial arts."

(End of chapter)

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