A tragic journey through ancient times, trying to make money

Zhang Yunyue: "Dad, have you ever been to the county town? How is the county town?"

Father Zhang pulled the rope to control the direction of the ox and replied:

"I've been there. The county town is much more lively and prosperous than our town. It's also bigger than the town, and there are many shops inside, selling everything. But I've never bought anything there, hahahaha."

When approaching the county town.

Zhang Yunyue discovered that even though it was not a market day and it was almost noon, the city gate near the county town was still bustling.

There are many tea stalls at the city gate, as well as stalls selling noodles and buns. They should be villagers from the vicinity of the county town who come here to set up stalls. The main thing is that you need to pay two cents to enter the county town, while ox carts, donkey carts, and horse carts require five cents.

Therefore, some villagers near the county town would set up their stalls at the city gate to save a few cents.

"Father, it's almost noon now. Let's eat something at the city gate first, and then go into the city and find a pharmacy directly."

"Okay, this cow has been driven all morning, so it's just right to put it in the place where ox carts can be stored at the city gate. You get off the cart first and wait for me. I'll go and deposit the cow first."

Zhang Yunyue jumped off the ox cart, took the backpack off the cart, and stood on the side of the road. Zhang's father then led the ox cart to the storage place. It cost 5 cents and he could store the animals for a day, and the father also helped feed them.

The father and daughter found a noodle stall and sat down. Each ordered a bowl of noodles and two eggs.

After eating the noodles, the father and daughter walked towards the city gate, paid the entrance fee, and entered the county town. There were many more people in the city than at the city gate. Zhang Yunyue asked passers-by about where the pharmacies in the county town were.

"Father, I've found out that there are many pharmacies on Xinglin Street, and most of the patients in the pharmacies are ordinary people, so it's cheaper to see a doctor and get medicine. Let's go there because there are many pharmacies and the prices should be cheaper."

"Okay, let's go to Xinglin Street, let's go!"

The father and daughter walked and asked passers-by for the direction of Xinglin Street. A quarter of an hour later, they finally arrived at Xinglin Street.

Zhang Yunyue bought spices in town once last time, so she knew the approximate price of the spices she wanted to buy.

Zhang Yunyue and his father walked towards Xinglin Street. Zhang Yunyue looked at the shops on both sides of the road, looking for a larger pharmacy.

"Yueyue, there's a pretty big pharmacy over there, let's go take a look."

"Okay, Dad."

The father and daughter went to the drugstore they saw. When they approached the drugstore, on one side of the shop, a doctor was examining a patient with an apprentice standing next to him. On the other side, there was a wall of medicine cabinets, and a pharmacist was dispensing medicine for the patients in line.

The pharmacist standing at the door of the pharmacy saw Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father and stepped forward and asked, "Do you want to see a doctor or get medicine?"

Zhang Yunyue: "Hello, we want to buy medicine. Can you please call your shopkeeper? I want to buy a lot of medicine."

The medicine boy looked at Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father and hesitated for a moment: "Please wait a moment, I will go find our shopkeeper."

After the medicine boy finished speaking, he went to the back of the pharmacy. Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father stood on one side of the pharmacy to avoid disturbing the patients' medical treatment and medication.

"Boss, these two guests are looking for you." The medicine boy came out from the back of the drugstore, followed closely by the owner. The medicine boy led the owner to Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father.

The owner of the medicine shop clasped his fists towards Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father, and then said, "I don't know what you two guests want from me. Just wait in line to see the doctor and get the medicine."

Zhang Yunyue: "Hello, shopkeeper, we want to buy some medicinal materials from your pharmacy. Because the quantity is quite large, we asked the waiter to invite you out to see us."

"I wonder what kind of herbs the girl needs? How much do you need?"

When Zhang Yunyue was at home, she wrote down all the medicinal ingredients for the Thirteen Spices, and only wrote two or three of them on each piece of paper. When she was preparing to purchase medicinal ingredients, she wrote one piece of paper for each pharmacy.

So when she heard the owner of the drugstore say what medicinal materials he needed, Zhang Yunyue took out a piece of paper from her purse and handed it to the owner.

"Shopkeeper, please look at the herbs on this paper. Each one requires 50 kilograms. I wonder how to calculate the price."

The owner of the drugstore took the paper handed over by Zhang Yunyue, but before he could unfold it, he was shocked to hear Zhang Yunyue's words "each type requires 50 kilograms". He looked at Zhang Yunyue for two seconds, then unfolded the paper.

The drugstore owner saw that the medicinal materials were normal and there were usually a lot of them in stock in the drugstore.

"The three herbs in your medicine are all common herbs. We have them in our pharmacy. The price is 20 yuan per pound. You can consider it."

Zhang Yunyue heard the price given by the drugstore owner, which was about the same as the price she had paid in town before. "Sure, please help me weigh it."

The shop owner called a medicine boy, handed him the paper, and told him to weigh 50 kilograms of each medicinal ingredient according to the paper.

After the medicine boy weighed the herbs and placed them in front of Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father, Zhang Yunyue handed the silver to the shopkeeper.

"Shopkeeper, my father and I need to go buy some other things. Our oxcart is outside the city. After we finish shopping, we will drive the oxcart over to load the goods. Now we can leave your medicine shop for a while, okay?"

"That's no problem. You've already paid. Just look for the medicine boy when you get here."

"OK, thanks."

After Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father came out, they went to five pharmacies one by one and bought all the spices according to the spices on each piece of paper. They bought 50 kilograms of each kind. This should last for a few months, and they can come back for more when they run out.

"Father, now that we have bought all the spices, I will wait for you in this pharmacy. Go outside the city and drive the oxcart over to load the goods. Otherwise, the two of us may not be able to carry so many things."

Zhang Yunyue handed some copper coins to Zhang's father so that they could go into the city later.

Father Zhang took the money and walked towards the city gate. Probably because he was driving a ox cart when he came back, Zhang Yunyue felt that he didn't have to wait long for Father Zhang to come back.

Zhang's father drove the ox cart back to the drugstore where Zhang Yunyue was staying. After loading all the spices bought from this drugstore onto the cart, he went to the other five drugstores where he had just bought spices and loaded all the spices onto the cart.

The main purpose of coming to the county town today was to buy spices, so Zhang Yunyue and Zhang's father did not delay after arriving in the county town. They went straight to the pharmacy, so they only stayed in the county town for an hour and bought everything.

When Zhang's father drove the ox cart out of the city gate, Zhang Yunyue thought that it would take several hours for the cart to return, so she asked Zhang's father to park the cart in front of the bun shop.

"Father, it will take several hours to get back. I just walked around the city for an hour. I think I will be hungry on the way. I will go to the bun shop and buy some buns to take with me."

"You're right. Okay, buy it."

Zhang Yunyue jumped off the ox cart and said to the owner of the bun shop, "Boss, give me five meat buns."

"Okay, sir, the meat buns are 3 cents each, a total of cents."