You are unlucky and I am tough

When Cheng Lizheng finished his work and came out, Wei Qinglang was the only one left in the teahouse, and the table in front of him was full of melon seed shells.

Seeing the village head coming out, Wei Qinglang came out of the teahouse with a bowl of tea, "Grandpa Lizheng, you have worked hard. Please have a cup of tea first."

Cheng Lizheng smiled and said that everything was done. He drank the tea while sitting on the donkey cart. Wei Qinglang returned the bowl and paid the bill.

Then he turned the donkey cart around and said, "Let's go find a pharmacy to sell herbs."

Cheng Lizheng touched the medicinal herb in the bag that his son brought back from the old forest and said, "Okay, let's go ask if we can sell it for some money."

Wei Qinglang smiled. It could be sold for more than just a few dollars. She told Cheng Shuang about the size, and Cheng Shuang said it should be sold for around two hundred and fifty taels.

He definitely couldn't go to Baicaotang, so Wei Qinglang drove the donkey cart around the street and finally stopped in front of a medicine store called Changxintang.

The two entered the medicine shop, which was quite crowded. Wei Qinglang stopped a clerk and asked, "We are here to sell medicinal herbs. Could you please find your shopkeeper?"

"Over there." He was busy and gestured to a slightly plump middle-aged man at the counter.

Wei Qinglang helped Cheng Lizheng over and asked, "Boss, would you like to buy some medicinal herbs?"

The shopkeeper, who was writing something, looked up, glanced at the two of them, and asked casually, "What medicinal herbs?"

"Why don't we talk somewhere else?"

There are many people here and Wei Qinglang doesn't want to attract attention.

The shopkeeper put down his pen, looked at the two of them, thought for a moment, and then made a gesture of invitation.

When villagers come to sell medicine, they usually pick ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum from the mountains. These common people who make a living from working in the fields don’t know much about medicinal materials and can easily bargain down the price.

The two were invited into the inner hall. The shopkeeper looked at Cheng Lizheng with a businessman's smile and said, "Old man, you can take out your things now."

Cheng Lizheng nodded and took out the cloth-wrapped things from the bag. When he opened it, there was still dirt on it. His second son said that Wei Qinglang told him that it was best not to wash it, as washing some medicinal herbs might damage their medicinal properties.

As soon as the cloth bag was opened, the shopkeeper's eyes lit up and he reached out to take the thing. Then he felt that he was too obvious and sat down calmly with the thing.

The shopkeeper carefully examined the age and quality of the Gastrodia elata, and secretly looked at Cheng Lizheng. Seeing that he did not look like someone who was well versed in pharmacology, he stroked his beard.

"This is Gastrodia elata with a sheep's horn. If you want to sell it, old man, I'll give you twenty taels."

"Twenty taels!"

Cheng Lizheng was greatly surprised and immediately turned to look at Wei Qinglang with an expression of disbelief on his face. He couldn't believe that this thing could be worth so much money.

Wei Qinglang's expression was unusually calm. He went over and took the item back from the shopkeeper, saying calmly, "I'm not selling it anymore, Village Chief. Let's go."

"Hey, wait a minute, young man."

The shopkeeper got anxious and stopped him. "Why don't you sell it to me? If you are not satisfied with the price, we can discuss it again."

Wei Qinglang's face darkened. "We villagers may not understand pharmacology, but we are not fools. This is clearly wild Gastrodia elata, but you said it is Gastrodia elata with goat's horn. I don't think there is any need to talk to you anymore."

After saying that, he didn't even look at the shopkeeper again, and helped Cheng Lizheng leave. The shopkeeper was so angry that he smashed the cup on the table.

There were some things I hadn't been able to ask in the pharmacy. When I left, Cheng Lizheng pulled Wei Qinglang aside and hurriedly asked, "Qinglang, what did you mean? Do you recognize this herb? What is wild Gastrodia elata?"

Wei Qinglang didn't know how to explain, so he said, "Grandpa Lizheng, I'll explain this to you later. The owner of this shop is not a good person, let's change to another one."

Cheng Lizheng was confused, but he didn't ask any more questions, so the two of them found a larger pharmacy.

The owner of this drug store was quite straightforward. He directly said that this was wild Gastrodia elata and showed a strong desire to buy it.

After some bargaining, the wild Gastrodia elata was finally sold for two hundred and sixty taels.

Coming out of the pharmacy, Cheng Lizheng carefully put the two hundred and sixty taels in his arms.

He still couldn't believe that such a small herb could be sold at such a high price. He felt a heaviness in his arms and his legs felt like they were filled with lead, and he could hardly walk.

He also always felt that people on the street were staring at him, as if they all knew that he was carrying a huge amount of money in his arms.

Wei Qinglang noticed that he was still a little dazed, so he joked, "Grandpa Lizheng, you made some money today. I'm waiting for you to treat me to lunch."

"You kid, you can still pay for dinner with this old man."

Cheng Lizheng laughed and scolded, "Let's find a restaurant for lunch, Lizheng grandfather will treat us."

Wei Qinglang helped him get into the car. "Okay, let's find a restaurant. You wait inside first. I'll go get Cheng Shuang to come over for dinner."

Cheng Li had just made a lot of money, so Wei Qinglang naturally wouldn't charge him a lot of money. He chose an ordinary small restaurant on the street.

He went in and asked for a room on the second floor and asked the village head to go in and wait first, while he went to pick up Cheng Shuang.

He deliberately chose a house that was close to Baicaotang. It would not take long to walk straight ahead and he would arrive. He left the donkey cart at the restaurant with the waiter and walked there.

Baicaotang had previously advertised that female doctors would see patients on the first and tenth of every month, so Cheng Shuang didn't just see women when she came today. She sat in the shop like other doctors and saw patients, regardless of gender or age.

But since she was a woman after all, Doctor Tao had a screen installed to prevent her from being watched by others.

Cheng Shuang had just finished seeing her last patient of the morning and was telling Doctor Tao that she had come out with the villagers today and it would be inconvenient to keep the old man waiting for her, so she would stop here today and come back tomorrow.

Before she could finish her words, she saw a tall figure walking in. She raised her hand to signal him to wait, then went to the counter to get the medicine that Dr. Tao had packed for her when she arrived in the morning.

I took it back home to take care of my younger brother and sister-in-law.

Wei Qinglang stood by and waited, and talked to a medicine boy for a few words. When he saw Cheng Shuang coming over with the medicine, he took it and then the two of them left the pharmacy together.

Zhuzi, the medicine boy who had just spoken to Wei Qinglang, stretched his neck from behind to look at the two of them.

Doctor Tao patted him on the back of the head and asked, "Zhu Zi, what are you looking at?"

"These two look so good together, they're such a perfect match," Zhuzi said with a grin. "In two years, when I'm fifteen, I'll be getting married too. I want my mother to find me a girl as pretty as Doctor Cheng."

"When choosing a wife, you can't just look at her appearance." Doctor Tao said quietly, "You also have to look at your own appearance."

Zhuzi pouted, he thought he looked pretty good.

On the way, Wei Qinglang first asked what the medicine in his hand was used for, then told Cheng Shuang what happened when selling the medicinal materials, and discussed with her how to explain it to Cheng Lizheng later.

Cheng Shuang thought for a moment after hearing this and said, "We have to tell the village head in advance anyway, so why not tell him directly later? I've been chosen as a disciple by a wandering genius doctor. I've been studying medicine recently. You know Gastrodia elata because you saw it in the medical book the genius doctor gave me."

Wei Qinglang nodded, "I'll listen to you."

Back at the restaurant, the three of them ordered four dishes and started eating while chatting and laughing.

Cheng Shuang kept picking up some food for Li Zheng. When he was halfway through his meal, he said, "Grandpa Li Zheng, Qing Lang said you were curious about how he knew that herb was Gastrodia elata."

The village head nodded and said, "If Qing Lang hadn't recognized it, I would have sold the herb for twenty taels. I was wondering how he could recognize such a rare herb."

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang looked at each other, and Wei Qinglang nodded slightly, motioning for her to speak.