Female-to-male: I live on farming

In order to avoid any more trouble, and as Qin Ke did not know how to preserve medicinal herbs, he set out for the town with Lu Youqing early the next morning. At the entrance of the village, Qin Ke noticed a donkey cart passing by from afar. The driver looked familiar. It was the man who was responsible for breaking up the fight between Qin Ke and Song Yaozu that day. He lived not far from Qin Ke's home and his surname was Wu.

However, when he saw Qin Ke, his expression froze. He did not dare to stop for a second and drove away on the donkey cart. He even sped up when passing by them.

Looking at the dust raised by his donkey cart, Qin Ke's mouth twitched, and he said to Lu Youqing angrily: "Humph, when we have money, we will buy a donkey cart too."

The most commonly used carts by farmers were donkey carts. As for cows and horses, they were too expensive and ordinary people could hardly afford them.

If Qin Ke remembered correctly, the village chief had a cow at home, which was mostly used for plowing the land and would also be rented out during the spring plowing season.

Lu Youqing had now gotten used to his occasional childish side, and calmly walked towards the town.

The largest clinic in the town was called "Baicaotang". Not only that, Lu Youqing said that Baicaotang had a great history and had branches in every place, so after the two of them entered the town, they went straight to the clinic.

As soon as he stepped into the clinic, Qin Ke smelled the strong aroma of Chinese herbal medicine. It was early morning and there were not many people seeing the doctor. Those who came to see the doctor and get medicine were all wearing the same green clothes, which was very obvious.

After looking around, Qin Ke walked to the counter area and looked at the middle-aged man behind the counter.

The middle-aged man was originally looking down at the account book in his hand. When he noticed the shadow on the counter, he looked up. He first glanced at Qin Ke, then stared at Lu Youqing beside him for a while, stroked his beard, and said, "There is nothing I can do about the scar on this girl's face."

He originally thought that these two people were here to see a doctor and get medicine. Chinese medicine emphasizes observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation. At first glance, he thought that it was the girl with a disfigured face who came to get medicine.

Lu Youqing lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Qin Ke smiled and shook his head, "We are not here to see a doctor. We just want to ask if you accept medicinal herbs?"

The doctor said "Oh", put down the work in his hands, and said: "We do buy medicinal herbs here, I wonder what you have? Different herbs and different years have different prices, I need to see them first before I can make a judgment."

Upon hearing this, Qin Ke put down the backpack he had been carrying on his back.

The doctor watched him take out an item wrapped in coarse cloth from the backpack. He looked at the two men's clothes, standard farmer's attire, and didn't think they could take out any precious medicinal herbs.

It was not until Qin Ke lifted the wrapping cloth that the fleshy, yellowish-brown roots were revealed, with a light layer of soil covering the surface.

"This... this is wild ginseng!" The doctor could no longer remain calm. He excitedly took the ginseng from Qin Ke's hand and looked at it carefully. He muttered to himself as he looked at it: "It is short and thick, with dense spiral rings on the surface. The appearance is fine and moist, and the roots are slender..."

After a while, he reluctantly placed it on the counter, his movements were extremely careful, and his attitude became extremely enthusiastic: "Young man, how much do you want to sell this wild ginseng for?"

She stared at him without blinking, as if she was afraid that he would change his mind and not sell it.

Qin Ke thought to himself that he was an old fox, but pretended to be hesitant and said, "Five hundred taels!"

He didn't know much about the prices in ancient times, and there was no reference to the prices of medicinal materials in his original memory, but someone nearby knew. According to Lu Youqing, wild ginseng mostly grows in dense forests and is not easy to find, so the price is very high.

The one they dug is almost a hundred years old. If it were in Shangjing, it could be worth a thousand taels.

But this is just a small town, so it definitely cannot be sold at this price. Let Qin Ke estimate it.

Qin Ke was not greedy, but if the clinic ripped off his customers, he could just go somewhere else. If that didn't work, he could sell it to the wealthy businessmen in town.

All in all, this is a seller's market, not a buyer's market, and Qin Ke is not in a hurry.

After hearing Qin Ke's offer, the doctor's expression froze, and he discussed with Qin Ke hesitantly: "This price is indeed a bit difficult, I wonder if it is possible..."

Qin Ke didn't finish listening to his words. He grabbed the ginseng on the counter with one hand, pulled Lu Youqing with the other hand and was about to walk out.

"Hey, hey, hey! Young man, young man!" Seeing Qin Ke was about to leave, the doctor immediately became anxious. He hurriedly ran out from the counter and blocked Qin Ke and the others, panting and saying, "Don't go. Five hundred taels is five hundred taels."

Facts have proved that the ancients did not have so many tricks. Qin Ke, who deliberately slowed down his pace, saw that his plan had succeeded, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he smiled: "Deal!"

Qin Ke was in a good mood as he finally had a huge sum of money in his hands. He waved his hand at Lu Youqing and said, "Let's go shopping. You can buy whatever you want this time."

However, there were too many things to buy, and it would be difficult for the two of them to carry them all, so Qin Ke suggested, "Why don't we split up? I'll go buy a car, so that we can have a place to put the things we buy."

After that, he took out twenty taels of silver from his pocket and stuffed it into Lu Youqing's hand, and said, "Go buy some clothes and shoes first, buy more."

When Lu Youqing came, he had nothing but the worn-out and dirty clothes on his body. In the past few days, he had been wearing the old clothes left by his original mother.

Not only did it not fit well, but the fabric was also very rough. Qin Ke noticed that Lu Youqing, who had been spoiled since childhood and had delicate skin, had red rashes all over her body.

She didn't say a word, but Qin Ke kept it in mind, and the first thing he did after getting the money was to buy her some suitable clothes.

Lu Youqing didn't act pretentiously and nodded. Qin Ke sent her to the door of the clothing store and watched her go in before turning around and walking towards the place where the donkey carts were sold.

The donkey cart only cost four taels of silver. Qin Ke stroked his chin and thought for a while, then decided to solve the problem once and for all. He simply added one tael of silver to buy a carriage, which would provide shelter when it rained.

When Qin Ke drove the donkey cart back, Lu Youqing was already waiting at the door with a package in his arms.

"By the way, I bought you two sets of clothes, both in dark colors."

Unlike those costume dramas he had seen, when Qin Ke came here, he rarely saw people wearing white clothes. After all, most people needed to work in the fields, and white would get dirty easily. In addition, washing clothes was also very troublesome in ancient times.

Lu Youqing looked at the smile on Qin Ke's face and felt that his smile was too bright. She turned her face away awkwardly to avoid his burning gaze.

"Let's go, let's go get some rice, flour, grain and oil for the house first."