Traveling through ancient times to survive

Zhao Qing booked an ordinary room in the inn, closed the door and opened the mall. He had been using the locator search function frequently recently, and his points were almost gone. After Zhao Qing recharged 500 taels, he directly bought the basic herbal knowledge and recovery pills, and still had some points left.

[Should we start teaching basic herbal knowledge? ]

The moment Zhao Qing confirmed it, a vast amount of knowledge flooded her mind. After a cup of tea, Zhao Qing digested the knowledge in her mind. Now she can say that except for a few species that may have become extinct, she can name all the herbs in the world.

After having lunch at the inn, Zhao Qing went to the cloth shop to buy two sets of high-quality ready-made clothes, went to the carpenter's shop to buy four exquisite wooden boxes, and went to the Yanzhi Building to buy some cosmetics.

He returned to the inn, changed his clothes, and used rouge to carefully disguise himself. All preparations were ready, and soon a domineering young master of a wealthy family appeared on the main street in the north of the city.

The north of the city is where wealthy people gather. As expected, the shops along the main street look more magnificent and there are many types of shops. The pedestrians on the street are dressed in gorgeous clothes, which is far beyond the comparison with the west of the city.

Zhao Qing randomly picked a few shops to go into, then left with dissatisfaction on his face, and finally came to the door of a medical clinic called Yiyuantang.

Zhao Qing walked into the clinic and said to the medicine boy in the front yard with an impatient look: "Ask your capable people to come out. I have an important business to discuss."

"Okay, please wait a moment, sir."

After a while, a wealthy middle-aged man led Zhao Qing to a small room. He poured tea and greeted him, "Please take a seat, sir. I am the owner of this clinic. What business do you want to discuss?"

Zhao Qing took the tea and put it aside. "I was passing by here with my family's caravan. I heard that your little place is short of medicine. I just happened to have an old mountain ginseng and five ganoderma lucidum. I wonder if your clinic will accept them?"

"Yes, the prices in this clinic are absolutely fair to everyone."

Zhao Qing untied the bag behind him, revealing two wooden boxes. The shopkeeper took the boxes and opened them, revealing a perfectly good and well-preserved wild ginseng.

"It is indeed a rare hundred-year-old ginseng. I wonder how much you are willing to pay for it?"

"This is more than a hundred years old. It must be at least two hundred years old. It can't be less than six hundred taels!"

The shopkeeper looked embarrassed and said, "This ginseng is indeed precious, but six hundred taels is too much for it. I am willing to offer four hundred and fifty taels."

"Since the shopkeeper is not sincere, it's better not to do business with him." Zhao Qing pretended to stand up and prepare to leave.

"Hey, don't worry, sir. If you are not satisfied, we can discuss it again."

"Then the price is one, five hundred and fifty taels."

"Five hundred taels!"

"The minimum is five hundred and thirty taels!"

The shopkeeper looked distressed: "Deal."

The shopkeeper opened another wooden box and asked, "How about the five Ganoderma lucidum in here for four hundred taels?"

"Those are two large and three medium-sized Ganoderma lucidums, all of which are the most rare yellow Ganoderma lucidum. They are worth at least four hundred and fifty taels."

"With your price, our clinic won't be able to make any money."

"You have scarce medicinal herbs recently. Even ordinary medicinal herbs have increased in price. Are you afraid that you won't be able to sell this rare treasure at a high price?"

Zhao Qing left with 980 taels of silver, squeezed into the crowd, turned left and right and entered a cloth shop, quickly changed his clothes, disguised himself and left, thus shaking off the people who were chasing him.

In Yiyuan Hall, the servant bowed his head and reported: "Manager, our people have been lost."

The manager said nonchalantly: "Forget it this time. It's probably someone from a nearby county who took the opportunity to make a fortune. He doesn't have much of this good medicine."

Zhao Qing changed his clothes and followed the same method to sell the remaining one ginseng and five ganoderma lucidum at the East City Medical Clinic. Because the ginseng was of a older age, he earned a total of 1,140 taels.

Zhao Qing changed back into his original clothes and returned to the inn room, with about 2,130 taels left. He topped up another 2,000 taels to buy a first-level space hub and primary gene evolution fluid, leaving him with a total of 100 points.

Zhao Qing took out the space button from the container, and a small silver-white ball the size of a button appeared in his palm.

According to the instructions, Zhao Qing plucked out a strand of hair and placed it on the ball for genetic binding. Then the ball turned into a necklace according to Zhao Qing's wishes, which he wore around his neck and hid in his clothes.

Holding the necklace in his hand, a small space of 100 cubic meters appeared in his mind, and Zhao Qing put the remaining money into it.

As for the genetic evolution liquid, Zhao Qing planned to prepare it before drinking it after returning home. After packing up his things, Zhao Qing checked out and left.

After completing the urgent task, Zhao Qing did not leave the county and go home. She was a little curious as to why there was a shortage of medicinal materials in the county recently, so she continued to go into various stores to inquire.

After touring the entire west side of the city, Zhao Qing looked solemn. She discovered that not only were medicinal herbs scarce, but even food and cloth were being bought up in large quantities by mysterious people.

Zhao Qing went to buy a new set of clothes and went to the grain stores in the north and east of the city to inquire, and came to the same conclusion.

Zhao Qing did not believe the shop assistant's words, saying that a passing rice merchant was planning to buy a large amount of food and goods to do business at the border. Even a fool would not believe this. After all, this place is too far from the border. Wouldn't it be better to buy food directly from a city closer to the border? Why spend a lot of manpower and resources to store food here?

Zhao Qing's danger perception radar was activated instantly. Was the world about to become uneasy? As expected, the mall was not given for free. Knowing that the future would not be stable, Zhao Qing was relieved.

Being at the bottom of society and having no access to information, Zhao Qing could only look for the clues he needed from the traces inadvertently leaked by those dignitaries.

Zhao Qing left the city with a heavy heart. On the way, she met many farmers carrying firewood to sell in the city. She was really curious, so she went up to ask: "Uncle, why are there so many people cutting firewood to sell in the middle of summer?"

"Hey, who knows what the nobles are thinking? The charcoal business in the city has been booming recently, and the price of firewood has increased by one cent."

"Do you know when it started?"

"About half a month ago."

"Are these days not enough?"

"Anyway, we're still collecting it now."

After bidding farewell to the farmer, Zhao Qing got on the ox cart. “Medicine, grain, cloth, and charcoal,” he thought carefully on the way back to town. “Medicine cures diseases, grain fills the stomach, cloth wraps the body, and charcoal keeps warm.” Zhao Qing reacted and said, “Could there be a war in winter? Never mind, let’s stock up on food first.”

Zhao Qing lost a lot of precious information in the apocalypse of his previous life, not to mention the novels that were just for entertainment. If you haven't read the novel, your imagination is not big, you don't know about rebirth, and returning to ancient times, technology has not developed at all, and weather forecasting is a daydream.

Zhao Qing could never have imagined that there would be a natural disaster in the future, and could only attribute it to war, thus deviating from the truth.

After returning to the town, Zhao Qing temporarily put aside his doubts and no longer cared about exposing the huge sum of money in his hands. He hurriedly bought an ox cart and went to all the major rice shops in all the nearby towns to buy grain.