Medicine sold for 38 dollars

  It seems that a safe method must be thought of to sell the medicine while avoiding exposure of one's identity as much as possible.

  Ye Qin thought of this, withdrew his foot that was about to step out of the inner room, and turned back to Old Man Zhao with a faint smile: "I'm sorry, I don't know what advice you have for me, but I'd be happy to listen?"

  Old Zhao, the shop owner, burst out laughing.

  "This is right, Ye Xiaoge must have done this kind of thing before. Let's talk properly. Calculating it, we are fellow travelers, I am the incense master of Pingzhou Eight Harmonies Society in Zhujixian County, and my main business is operating jade stones. However, the top-grade medicinal materials and medicines from Caiyao Hall have always been essential items for me as a Jianghu person, and they are also the items that our Eight Harmonies Society spare no expense to purchase."

  I'm not just doing business with Ye Xiaoge, many disciples of the Medicine Hall have secretly sold me medicine before. Of course, I won't reveal their names to you, or it will cause a lot of trouble.

  "Yexiaoge, if you sell me some of your top-grade medicinal materials, it will definitely be more profitable for you than submitting them to the Medicine Hall. If you can get your hands on top-grade medicines, I would be even more grateful. The price I offer is absolutely fair, at 50% of the market price in the county town's trading market. What do you say?"

  When he heard Zhao's opening price, Ye Qin was slightly startled.

  Apprentice herbalist, submitting herbs to the herbalism hall, can only get a reward of 5% to 10% of the herb price. The treatment of herbalist is slightly better, with a reward of around 10% to 20%. Herbalists have a reward of around 30% to 50%.

  If he sells it privately to this old shopkeeper Zhao, he can get 50% of the money, which is ten times higher than the income of a medicine apprentice and even surpasses that of a medicine master.

  However, the risks involved are also enormous, and being discovered is a dead end.

  Zhao, the old shop owner, also did a lot of private business with many apprentices who collected medicinal herbs in Zhutiqi County. If any one of them was discovered, it would be easy to track down this Chunyu shop and possibly implicate himself.

  Mr. Zhao said he was a member of Pingzhou Hegemony Association.

  Ye Qin sneered in her heart.

  What a third-rate little gang, he had never even heard of the name of this gang before. Such a small gang is not in the eyes of the Medicine King Gang, the fifth largest gang in Pingzhou. If the Medicine King Gang knew that the people of the Eight Harmony Gang were instructing their disciples to privately sell medicinal materials, it's possible that the Medicine King Gang would wipe out the Eight Harmony Gang in a fit of rage. Those disciples who had private dealings with the Eight Harmony Gang would also likely be implicated. Therefore, doing private business transactions with the people of the Eight Harmony Gang is extremely unsafe.

  Ye Qin knew the inside story of Old Zhao's shop and had no confidence in him. She secretly made up her mind to thoroughly sever any connection with Chunyu's shop, lest she get burned by association. As long as she didn't leave any handles for Old Zhao to grasp, even if the Medicine King Gang investigated Old Zhao one day, they wouldn't be able to implicate her just because of Old Zhao's empty words.

  As for the white jade embryo, the treasure of Chunyu's store, it is expensive and Old Man Zhao will probably not be able to sell it in a short period of time. I'll think of a way to get some money first, and then consider coming up with a complete plan to safely get my hands on it later.

  "Old Zhao, let's not mention this matter again. This white jade embryo, you can sell it to whoever you want, I'm just a poor apprentice of medicine collection, my financial resources are limited, and I couldn't afford it." After finishing speaking, Ye Qin didn't give Old Zhao any more chance to persuade him, and he quickly left the inner room and walked away from Chunyu shop.

  Old Zhao, the shop owner, stood up with a smile and saw him off, puffing on his old pipe, blowing out clouds of smoke, and watching Ye Qin's back as he left with a rather playful expression. He chuckled coldly to himself: "That young whippersnapper is still pretending to be something he's not. As long as you want to buy this jade from me, sooner or later you'll have to scrape together the money to do so. What difference does it make whether you sell it to someone else or to an old man like myself? If you sell it to someone else, even more people will know about this matter."

  Ye Qin left Chunyu's shop when the sky had already darkened. The main streets of the entire county town were hung with lanterns, illuminating the crowded night market streets.

  He lost interest in continuing to visit other jade shops and returned directly to the Medicine Pavilion. What he was thinking about in his heart was how to get enough money to buy that piece of white jade embryo, so as to improve his cultivation speed.

  He had originally planned to find someone in the county town's Jianghu to sell the Lu Cao, exchange it for some gold leaves, and then go to the jade store to buy a piece of jade containing spiritual energy. However, now that he thinks about it, this plan seems not to be stable enough.

  He himself holds the露草 in high esteem, thinking it's worth at least one gold leaf or more.

  However, most of the people in Jianghu may not necessarily recognize what Lu Cao is, and it's hard to sell at a high price. Those who can recognize Lu Cao are mostly skilled pharmacists, and they might have a deep connection with Yao Wang Bang.

  If you go around the market one by one to ask people if they need Lu Cao, then the people from Cai Yao Tang will soon find out that you are secretly selling herbs.

  Ye Qin thought for a while, then took out the "Precious Grass Illustrated Guide" from his bosom and flipped through it. His eyes stopped at the last few pages on "Dew Grass". On it was recorded a formula that could refine Dew Grass into a medicinal product to regulate one's breath.

  It seems that the most suitable approach is to first make the Lu Cao into "Qing Xin Wan" and then sell it. This top-grade medicinal herb is a highly sought-after item in the Jianghu, and many people know about it, making it easy to sell at a higher price than selling Lu Cao directly.

  However, it is still necessary to avoid exposing one's identity as much as possible.

  Over the next two days, Ye Qin spent dozens of silver leaves to purchase medicine pots, wax and other items, as well as some auxiliary medicinal materials for making Qingxin pills, in different places at the county's trade market.

  Then he came alone to a secluded and remote forest ten miles outside the county town of Zhugou, where he secretly refined medicine.

  As a disciple of the Medicine Hall, he mainly mastered the skills of medicine collection and identification, but was not good at medicine production. Ye Qin only knew how to make a few ordinary wound-healing and detoxifying medicines such as "Hemostatic Powder", "Detoxification Powder" and "Insect-Repelling Incense".

  Fortunately, he had the complete formula for "Qing Xin Wan" in his hands, and some books on medicine collection and preparation in the library of Caiyao Hall were not too restrictive to his disciples, so it was not difficult to learn basic medicine preparation techniques.

  The main medicine, Rehmannia glutinosa, and over a dozen auxiliary medicines such as licorice, pearl powder, musk, cow bezoar, and Prunus mume, are dried, ground into a fine powder, mixed in a specific ratio, and then placed in a crucible. The mixture is decocted over low heat for half an hour until the medicinal properties are fully dissolved, the water content evaporated, and then formed into pills sealed with wax. After four processes of decoction, mixing, pill-making, and sealing, one Clear Heart Pill is produced, which is stored in a dan pot.

  He had just started refining the Clear Mind Pill and hadn't grasped the firing time yet, so he failed twice and ended up with two useless pills.

  As the refining times increased, it gradually entered a state of excellence, successfully refining a pale green pill. The fragrance of the medicine seemed to have a refreshing and invigorating air that refreshed one's mind and soul.

  Ye Qin was overjoyed. This was exactly the same as the color and fragrance of Qing Xin Dan recorded in the medicine book. A top-grade pill that could calm one's breath and ward off evil spirits had been successfully refined.

  He discovered that a single sprig of Luminous Grass could be refined into one Clear Mind Pill, and with the addition of over ten other supporting herbs, the cost of production was not high. As for the selling price of the Clear Mind Pills, it's hard to say, as the Medicine King Gang hadn't produced such a top-grade tonic in many years.

  Ye Qin continued to refine four more, preparing to take them out to find a buyer and sell them, to see how the price was. If the selling price was good, he planned to make some more, enough to gather thirty gold leaves, and then think of a way to buy back that piece of white jade embryo from Chunyu's shop.