In years of famine and drought, their village even rejected fatty meat.

Chen Dao nodded and then started looking around the shop on his own.

This pharmacy is quite similar to the traditional Chinese medicine shop in my previous life. The smell of Chinese herbs is very strong inside. Behind the old man, there is a large cabinet on the wall, which is divided into many small cabinets, and the labels of the herbs inside are affixed to the outside.

Perhaps because the pharmacy was small, the old man who owned it did not hire any employees; he was the only one in the entire pharmacy responsible for seeing patients and selling medicines.

After seeing off the last customer, the old man looked at Chen Dao and asked, "Young man, are you here to see a doctor or to buy medicine?"

"Buy medicine."

Chen Dao said, "I would like to buy some sappanwood flowers. Do you have any for sale here, shopkeeper?"

"Of course there is."

The shopkeeper stood up and took out a dried sappan flower from a small cabinet behind him: "This is a sappan flower, priced at 3 coins per flower."

Chen Dao looked at the sappanwood flowers displayed on the counter and pondered, "Does the shopkeeper have any fresh sappanwood flowers for sale?"

Chen Dao remembered clearly that to advance from white-feathered chicken to yellow-feathered chicken, one needed to crush sappanwood flowers and chicken heart grass into juice and feed them to the chicken. However, the sappanwood flower in front of him had been dried, so it was obviously impossible to crush it into juice.

"Fresh sappan flowers?"

The old man was taken aback, then said, "Young man, you've come at a good time. We happen to have a batch of fresh medicinal herbs arriving today."

After saying that, the old man turned and called out to the inner hall, "Qiaoxi, come out for a moment."

"coming!"

A clear, crisp sound came from the inner room, followed by a beautiful young woman of about sixteen years old who stepped out from behind the beaded curtain.

"This is my granddaughter, Su Qiaoxi."

The old man introduced Chen Dao to the girl and then said, "Qiaoxi, this customer wants to buy fresh sappanwood flowers. Do you see if you have any of the medicinal herbs that have been delivered recently?"

"Please wait a moment, guest."

Su Qiaoxi turned and went into the inner room, and soon returned carrying a cloth bag.

She placed the cloth bag on the counter and then opened it: "Grandpa, this is all the sappanwood flowers that were delivered today."

"Ok!"

The old man nodded gently to Su Qiaoxi and then said, "Young man, these are all the fresh sappan flowers in our shop. How many would you like to buy?"

Chen Dao looked at the fresh sappanwood flowers on the counter, feeling delighted, but kept a calm expression on his face and said, "Shopkeeper, I plan to take all of these sappanwood flowers. How much do they cost?"

Want them all?

There were quite a few sappanwood flowers on the counter, a total of 30!

A hint of joy appeared on the old man's face. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I'll give you 2 coins each. There are 30 coins in total, so you can give me 60 coins."

"Row."

Chen Dao nodded in agreement, took out one tael of silver and handed it to the shopkeeper. After the shopkeeper gave him the change, he picked up the cloth bag containing the sappanwood flowers and left the pharmacy.

Outside the pharmacy, Chen Da, who was guarding the donkey cart, saw Chen Dao coming out and asked, "Xiao Dao, are you done with the business?"

"Ok!"

Chen Dao nodded and said, "Next, we can go buy gray-feathered chickens."

"okay!"

Chen Da happily drove the donkey cart towards the East Market.

Fifteen minutes later, the donkey cart stopped at the street where Chen Dao had previously sold white-feathered chickens. Chen Dao, who jumped off the donkey cart, unexpectedly saw an acquaintance.

"Brother Wu, what are you still doing here?"

Chen Dao looked at the stall owner in front of him with some surprise. This person was none other than Wu Han, who had sold chickens with Chen Dao before. However, today Wu Han was not selling chickens, but ducks.

"Oh, it's Brother Chen!"

Wu Han was very happy to see Chen Dao and said with a big smile, "Your brother here sells goods, where else would I be?"

Also.

Chen Dao nodded, then asked, "How did your goods change from chickens to ducks?"

"Hi!"

Wu Han waved his hand and said, "We sellers naturally sell whatever we have."

After speaking, Wu Han looked at Chen Da, who was standing next to Chen Dao, and asked, "And who is this?"

“This is my uncle, Chen Da.”

"So it's Brother Chen."

Wu Han praised, "Brother Chen's physique clearly indicates he's a fine man."

Because Chen Da practiced archery for many years and often went into the mountains to hunt, he was physically very strong due to his exercise and abundant meat. This was very different from that of ordinary farmers, which is why Li Ying said that Chen Da was suitable for martial arts.

"Brother Wu, you flatter me."

Chen Da responded somewhat embarrassedly.

Chen Dao then said, "Brother Wu, we plan to buy some gray-feathered chickens here. Do you sell them here?"

"Gone!"

Wu Han shook his head and said, "I've already sold out of my gray-feathered chickens."

After saying that, Wu Han added, "However, I can help you contact other chicken vendors. With my connections, the price should be much cheaper."

With an acquaintance offering help, Chen Dao naturally wouldn't refuse, and hurriedly said, "Then I'll have to trouble Brother Wu."

"It's no trouble, just watch my stall for me."

Wu Han got up and ran to a nearby chicken stall owner to talk for a while, and then quickly led the stall owner back.

"This is Old Man Li, who sells chickens."

Wu Han pointed to the stall owner he had brought and introduced him to Chen Dao and the other man, saying, "He has 20 gray-feathered chickens on hand, half of them male and half of them female. I have already negotiated with him that no matter how many you want, the price will be 100 coins for the female chickens and 90 coins for the male chickens."

Chen Dao sized up Old Man Li. The man had a dark face and a thin build. He didn't look like a peddler; he looked more like a farmer.

In fact, most of the men Chen Dao encountered in this world looked like Old Man Li. Being malnourished and emaciated was the normal appearance of the lower class in this world. Being as robust as Chen Da was actually abnormal. As for obesity...

Obesity is not a problem for people around the world, but a blessing!

People at the bottom of society can't even get enough to eat, let alone be obese.

Only in wealthy families could one possibly see obese people.

"Don't worry, Brother Chen."

Wu Han continued, "Old Li is an honest man; the chickens he sells are definitely not diseased."

"Ah."

Chen Dao nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and said to Old Man Li, "I plan to buy all your chickens. I wonder if you could give me a discount?"

Old Li's eyes lit up instantly, and he couldn't help but ask, "You want them all?"

Even Wu Han, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but be shocked. Twenty chickens cost about two taels of silver!

How could Chen Dao, the young man I met only once, be so rich?

"I want it all."

Chen Dao nodded solemnly.

Upon seeing this, Old Man Li's eyes lit up even more, and he said impatiently, "If you want them all, I can charge you 90 coins each, regardless of whether they are male or female."

Regardless of sex, even a hen would cost 90 coins, saving 100 coins. Chen Dao immediately nodded in agreement: "Okay."

So the two began their transaction. Chen Dao handed over one tael of silver and 800 copper coins to Old Man Li, and then loaded all four of Old Man Li's chicken coops onto the donkey cart.