The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 68, Medicinal Materials and Seeds

Li Weiguo rode his bike all the way to Gulou East Street.

Not long after, I found a Chinese medicine shop.

From the outside, it looks like an old drug store with old wooden plaques hanging on the door.

I found a place at the door, parked the car, locked it, and walked into the drug store.

On weekends, there are so many people buying medicines in drug stores. Dozens of people queue up in three lines, waiting in front of the counter to grab medicines.

The medicine cabinets in the traditional Chinese medicine shop all use the traditional Chinese medicine pieces counter. In front of it is a row of long wooden counters that separate customers from the medicine cabinets.

Behind it is a large medicine cabinet two or three meters high against the wall. It is densely packed with small medicine buckets filled with medicine, and there are small labels on the medicine buckets.

Looking at the counter, the salesperson inside took the prescription from the customer in front of him, lowered his head to carefully review and confirm, and occasionally raised his head to chat with the customer.

The dispensers in the back were bustling around, grabbing and weighing medicines in each medicine hopper without touching the ground. The scene was very lively and lively.

Li Weiguo was not in a hurry and just lined up behind the queue. While queuing, he watched with interest the dispensers at the drug store walking back and forth to grab medicine.

Not long after, it was Li Weiguo's turn.

Li Weiguo walked to the counter and handed over the prescription: "Comrade, please grab four sets of medicine."

The salesperson took the prescription and carefully reviewed the prescription for a while, then took the abacus and made calculations.

"Four doses of medicine, a total of twenty yuan and eight cents."

Li Weiguo was speechless when he heard the price.

Sure enough, he was poor in literature but rich in martial arts. A pair of medicinal materials cost five yuan and twenty cents. He really couldn't afford to practice without any financial resources.

I don’t blame them for being expensive, it’s just that the medicinal materials in the prescription are not cheap.

Rare medicinal materials such as ginseng, velvet antler, Codonopsis root, Polygonum multiflorum and other rare medicinal materials require a lot of weight. There are also many unrecognizable medicinal materials on the prescription, which are probably cheap.

Without hesitation, he quickly took out the money from his pocket, counted out the corresponding amount and handed it over.

After collecting the money, the salesman handed the prescription to the dispenser next to him and told him to grab four pairs of medicinal materials.

The dispenser next to me took it, read it carefully, pressed the prescription with a hardwood paperweight, and then picked up the spoon at hand to prepare the medicine.

According to the prescription list, find the corresponding medicinal material grid from the medicine cabinet. The dispenser holds a děng in his left hand and holds the pole with his thumb and index finger. He goes to the medicine hopper with his right hand to grab the medicine, and then pinches the string with his thumb and index finger to weigh it. After making sure the amount is accurate, put the medicinal ingredients in the kraft paper and continue to grab the next medicinal ingredient.

In about four or five minutes, all the medicinal materials were gathered. There were four pairs of medicinal materials in total. The dispenser signed his name on the lower corner of the prescription and handed it to the salesperson nearby for verification.

After the salesperson checked and confirmed that it was correct, he signed, packaged, and handed over the medicine.

After taking the four medicine bags, Li Weiguo went straight out, got on his car and headed back.

He was kicked out just after lunch, so Li Weiguo was not in a hurry to go back, and rode slowly while enjoying the surrounding scenery.

On both sides of the street are various public-private shops with various signboards. There are restaurants, barber shops, tailor shops, massage parlors, and shoe repair shops. Maybe they will all become public units in a few years.

He shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He continued riding forward and was about to turn at the next intersection when he discovered a seed shop.

Li Weiguo quickly slowed down the car and slipped towards the seed store.

There is also a purchase introduction letter that Li Huaide helped open in his space. He asked Li Huaide to prepare it during the previous transaction, but he never got around to buying it and almost forgot about it.

The car stopped at the entrance of the seed store, carrying the medicine bag, and walked into the store.

There were not many people in the seed store. The autumn harvest was over now, so there were fewer people buying seeds. There was only one salesperson knitting a sweater at the counter.

Li Weiguo walked directly to the counter and asked the salesperson: "Comrade, do you have any medicinal seeds or tea tree seeds?"

"Yes, where is your letter of introduction?"

"Here, here you go." With that said, Li Weiguo handed over the letter of introduction he took out of the space from his pocket.

The salesperson put down her needle and thread, took the letter of introduction and looked at it carefully, then raised her head and looked at Li Weiguo with a strange look on her face.

He questioned: "Usually farms, communes, and production teams go to the city to buy seeds. Steel rolling mills buy seeds. This is the first time I have encountered this."

"Hey, our steel rolling mill has an open space that has been abandoned all year round. The factory has planned to grow some food, medicinal materials, etc., all for the families of the factory employees to use as they please."

As he spoke, Li Weiguo took out a handful of fruit candies from his bag and put them in the hands of the salesperson: "Can you please help me?"

When the salesperson saw that it was fruit candy, her eyes lit up and she immediately became more enthusiastic: "Oh, what a big deal, what kind of seeds do you want?"

The salespersons in seed stores are not as good as the salespersons in supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores. They have good benefits and plenty of money, but it is rare for people to come to a seed store.

Li Weiguo smiled and immediately reported the types: "Tea tree, American ginseng, Panax notoginseng, ginseng, Dendrobium officinale, black wolfberry, Ganoderma lucidum, Codonopsis pilosula, Angelica sinensis, Polygonum multiflorum, Gastrodia elata. Not too much, just a small bag of each, they are all Used for trial planting."

In fact, his purpose was to get some tea tree seeds and ginseng seeds, and the rest was random. He didn't know how to plant them, so he just wanted to get some.

"Okay, please wait a moment."

The salesperson nodded, grabbed the candy with her big hand, put the candy into her pocket, and then turned around to prepare something for him.

Not long after, the salesperson took out a paper bag and spread it out. There were about a dozen small paper bags inside and said, "The things are all here. I have marked them for you. Please see if they are enough."

Although there are not many in each small paper package, there are about a hundred pills, and each small paper package has the name of the corresponding medicinal material.

"That's enough, that's enough. Please calculate the price and issue the invoice."

"Okay, five dollars and three in total." As he spoke, the salesperson quickly wrote him a receipt.

Li Weiguo didn't hesitate and paid the bill directly.

With the medicinal seeds, the idle half-acre of land in the space finally has a use.

Just like planting ginseng for ten years, the space will be there for 240 years without any need for maintenance.

After a few decades, when this ginseng is taken out, it will be worth thousands of years of treasure, but it will be worth money.

After coming out of the seed shop, Li Weiguo stopped wandering and went straight to his master Wang Zhenhai's yard. Passing by the deserted corner, he directly collected medicinal seeds and tea tree seeds into the space.

With a thought, I plowed through half an acre of medicinal fields, then opened all the paper packages and planted them one by one.

Tea trees, which take up more space, were planted less, maybe twenty trees. Ginseng was planted in three-thirds of the land. Other medicinal materials were dispensable, and they were planted a little, covering half an acre of medicinal fields. Until it is full, the unused seeds are temporarily stored.

Plant the seeds, send rain to the fields with your thoughts for three minutes, and then forget about it.

Li Weiguo didn't know how to grow these medicinal materials, so he might as well just let them grow.

It can grow in the wild, and given the fertility of the land in space, it can even sprout.