Chapter 71: Chapter 71: Gathering Herbs (1)_1 Chapter 71: Chapter 71: Gathering Herbs (1)_1 After the Town Celebration, Nan Feng’s mind returned to the matter of her livelihood.
If you are not blessed with good looks, you should work even harder.
Moreover, women, regardless of the era they live in, must rely on themselves.
This was the belief that the policeman couple from her previous life had inculcated in her.
Therefore, when Nan Feng went to town this time, she did not bother her adopted brother.
Instead, she caught a ride with a passing mule cart.
She did not have much capital, and currently could not afford to open a store in the town.
She thought of living off the land, to earn some small money first, and would do anything that could make money.
Qingshui Town had a market once every three days, which was bustling, but it was quite peaceful on other days.
Nan Feng walked around, and noticed that the businesses consistently doing well were the grain shop, restaurant and medical hall.
After some consideration, Nan Feng walked into a medical hall.
Inside, there were two people: a boss who was also the doctor and an assistant.
The smell of Chinese medicine was strong.
When the boss was free, Nan Feng asked him, “Do you buy medicinal herbs here?”
“We always do.
Little lady, do you have stock?
What do you have?” The boss curiously looked at the petite girl standing before him.
In fact, Nan Feng was no longer as thin as when she first arrived.
She had put on some weight, but due to her small frame, she still looked petite.
“I don’t have any right now, but if the boss can tell me which medicinal herbs sell the best, I can collect them from the mountains.” Nan Feng said.
“You?” The boss laughed, shaking his head and asking, “Little lady, do you understand medicine?”
“I only understand some medicinal plants for external injuries,” Nan Feng said.
“When you go to the mountains, how will you recognize the medicinal herbs?
I am afraid that even if you saw a fallopia multiflora plant, you would not recognize it,” the boss asked, somewhat amused.
“Just tell me which herbs are valuable, I will find a way to collect them,” Nan Feng said confidently.
There were not many patients in the medical hall at the moment, so seeing Nan Feng’s determination, the boss patiently said, “Alright, there’s no harm in telling you.
This medical hall is short of people who can collect herbs from the mountains.
If you have the goods, that would be great, but I won’t make an exception for you just because you’re young.
If you bring fake goods, I won’t buy them, and don’t say I bullied a little girl.”
“There will absolutely be no fake goods,” Nan Feng sworn sincerely.
The boss began to make a list: “This is just a small medical hall in town, we naturally do not accept medicinal herbs like snow lotus from the Heavenly Mountain.
The valuable ones we accept are long yams, ginseng and such.
Of course, we also buy common medicinal herbs such as fallopia multiflora, forsythia, aristolochia mollissima, casuarina, polyporus, and largeleaf gentian.
If you can collect these herbs, I will also pay you accordingly.
Remember, the rarer it is, the more valuable the herb.”
“Alright, when I have the herbs, I will come back and exchange them for silver,” Nan Feng said, and then briskly walked away.
After Nan Feng left, the medical hall boss looked in the direction she had left, and shook his head.
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Nan Feng left the medical hall and went to the town’s bookshop.
Coincidentally, there was a copy of “Compendium of Materia Medica”.
She excitedly borrowed it and left.
The “Compendium of Materia Medica” was easy to understand, with pictures and spare text.
Nan Feng quickly memorized the shapes of several herbal formulas needed by the medical hall’s boss.
“In the Hanwu era, there was a fallopia multiflora which could blacken human hair, its name was fallopia multiflora.
It had a chunky root of an elongated shape and was blackish-brown.
It grows in valley thickets, under the slopes of mountains, beside the ditches, in the crevices of rocks….”
Nan Feng carried a basket, while reciting in her heart and heading towards the foot of the mountain.
Just as she reached the foot of the mountain, Nan Feng heard someone call her from behind.
The voice was very familiar, and she felt a sudden throb in her heart.