Fleeing from famine and farming: I made a fortune by relying on medical skills

Chapter 28 The Doctor's Situation
He originally knew that doctors were scarce in this place, so there should be a shortage of medicinal materials, and medicinal materials should be sold at a high price here, but he did not expect that medicinal materials are so valuable here.

When he was managing his family's pharmacy before, he also bought medicinal materials that others sold to their family.

In their hometown, the ripe land is worth thirteen Wen a catty, the peony skin is ten Wen a catty, and the Chishao can be received at five or six Wen a catty.

Unexpectedly, when the medicinal materials arrived here, the price almost doubled.

No wonder it is expensive to see a doctor here, and even more expensive to drink medicine. There are few people who know medicine, no one goes to the mountains to dig up medicinal materials, no one works, and there is no source of things, so naturally they are scarce and expensive.

"Then according to this price, I'll ask the guy to weigh it and calculate the price. Let's talk about other things." Shopkeeper Wen asked the guy outside to take the medicinal materials down for weighing. He rubbed his hands and looked at Huangbai.

"Treasurer Wen doesn't know how your doctor is sitting in court." Huang Bai also knew what Shopkeeper Wen meant, and he also wanted to inquire about the situation of the doctor, so as to understand.

"The doctor who sits here earns four taels of silver a month and takes three days off every month. Every season, he will make two sets of clothes, shoes and socks for each season, and give out other things during festivals.

As long as you come to see a doctor, you can eat three meals a day at the pharmacy.

If someone asks him to go out to see a doctor, the pharmacy and the doctor will each pay half of the cost of going out to see a doctor.

Also, if you go out to a wealthy family to see a doctor, the pharmacy will give you one-third of the price of the medicinal materials sold.

In several nearby towns, the monthly salary offered by our pharmacy is top-notch, not much worse than some pharmacies in the county.

Brother Huang, if you have a doctor in your family, you can choose our pharmacy for consultation. I don’t know how many doctors you have in your family. Shopkeeper Wen glanced at Huang Bai, and asked tentatively.

"Treasurer Wen, if I want to leave your pharmacy after sitting here for a period of time in the future, I won't force you to stay!
Or, if someone opens another pharmacy in the town in the future, will there be any taboos or offend colleagues? " Huang Zisu glanced at Shopkeeper Wen and asked.

"You can stay as you like. As for opening another pharmacy in the town, it will rob some patients from our pharmacy, but it will have little impact on our pharmacy.

The entire city of Yunfu is short of doctors, let alone medicinal materials, but there are also many people who are sick. An unknown number of people die of illness in Shanshui Town every year.

There are few doctors. Whenever someone invites a doctor to go to the countryside, there will be no manpower available. Many people have an emergency and die without doctor treatment.

If you have a doctor in your family who wants to come to our pharmacy to see a doctor, it's fine. If you want to start your own business, you can do whatever you want. "The shopkeeper Wen also realized this. Hearing what the Huang family said, he had the idea of ​​​​opening a pharmacy on his own.

"Your pharmacy is really good, and the wages you pay are not low. Shopkeeper Wen, let me tell you the truth, as you said, my family is a refugee who escaped from a foreign country and has just settled here.

Moreover, my family is a medical family, and there is more than one doctor in the family.

But it is not a trivial matter to come to Wan'an Hall for a consultation. I have to go back and discuss it with my father and brother at home before I give you an answer.

It's getting late today, so we, father and daughter, will take our leave first. Seeing that he had found out what he wanted to know, Huang Bai said his goodbyes and left.

"Okay, I'll give it to you. This is the money for selling medicinal materials. You take it away. I'll wait for good news from your family." When the group of them went out, the waiter also weighed the medicinal materials and calculated the price, and shopkeeper Wen handed over the money. To Huang Bai, send their father and daughter out of the pharmacy.

"Father, how many herbs did you bring to the town this time? How much did you sell for this time?" Huang Zisu looked at the money bag in her father's hand and asked.

"I sold the three kinds of medicinal materials to Wan'antang for only ten catties each, and the total was only four taels of silver and eight hundred Wen.

Now that you have money, let's go, let's go to the cloth shop to find your mother and the others, they should pick out good things, and wait for us to go and pay. "Huang Bai said with some joy.

He really didn't expect that doctors are not only popular in Yunfu City, but medicinal materials are also expensive to sell here.

In this way, when they go to the mountains to dig a wave of medicinal materials a few years ago, their family can build a house with green bricks and large tiles in the spring or summer of next year.

After saving another sum of money next year, in the spring of the next year, they may be able to open a drug store in the town and start their old business.

"Father, Susu, we are here, you have sold out the medicinal materials." Bai Shu walked forward, seeing his father and Susu coming from the street on the left, he quickly waved and called for people.

"Second Uncle, did you sell the prey so quickly?" Huang Zisu saw that the pannier on her second uncle's back was empty, and was a little curious about how they sold all the prey so quickly.

"We were lucky. We met the manager of a big family who was buying wild game. He took a fancy to our bamboo rats and wiped out our bamboo rats. He also bought the three pheasants and a few rabbits.

The prey we hunted this morning sold for a total of [-] Wen. "This is Tiandong's first time selling things, or he got it down from the mountain to support himself, he said a little happily.

"Not bad." Huang Zisu nodded.

"Third brother, you sold all the medicinal materials, how much did you sell them for?" The three brothers and sisters Huang Zisu walked behind, and the brothers Huang Lian walked in front. Brothers Huang Lian and Huang Bai helped Susu resist the crowd so that she would not be hit by people. superior.

"Second brother, doctors are not only popular here, but medicinal materials are also expensive and popular here.

The price of medicinal materials is one-third more expensive than when we were in our hometown.

Today I only brought ten catties each of Rehmannia glutinosa, red peony root, and peony bark, and I sold them for about five taels of silver. "Huang Bai squeezed the money bag in his hand, and said happily.

"That's fine! Next year our family will be able to build a house with blue bricks and large tiles, and at the end of the year, we may even set up a medicine shop in the town.

Two years later, you can buy a house and a shop in the town, and three years later, Tiandong should be a teacher, and with the help of Susu and Bai Shao, you can also set up a shop in the county to open a medicine shop, by the way You can also buy a house in the county.

Say hello to Tian Dong and Mai Dong, four years later, our family will have more children and more tiles, is this life more and more hopeful? "Huang Lian's mind became active, planning what to buy and what to add in the next few years, feeling that the days are getting better and better, and there is more and more hope, and others can walk more easily.

"Second brother, you have changed. You never thought about these things before. The thing you want to do the most is to sleep when you are full, and eat when you are full.

If you have work to do, you can be lazy if you can. If you can't be lazy, work will also wear you out. It will definitely not be like these days, when you work hard and don't cheat. "Huang Bai was a little amazed at his second brother's such a big change, and he didn't know what caused his second brother to have such a big change.

(End of this chapter)