Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 105 Selling Herbs

A middle-aged woman slowly walked down from the carriage, immediately breaking the previous silence.

When Doctor Zhang saw someone coming into the shop, he quickly wiped the tears from his face and hurried to greet the customer.

The woman slowly loosened her arms around An Yue, wiped the tears from her cheeks, and said, "Yueyue, thank you."

I kept saying, "Thank you, thank you."

The woman's tears were still flowing out uncontrollably.

An Yue didn't even know when tears started to flow down her face.

She raised her hand to wipe away her tears, a layer of sadness in her eyes, and said, "Aunt, to be honest, I miss my father and mother a little bit."

When the woman heard An Yue say this, she quickly asked, "What happened to Yue Yue's father and mother?"

An Yue lowered her eyelids and said, "Last year, my sister and I also experienced the death of our parents."

When the woman heard An Yue say this, she couldn't help but frown, a trace of pity flashed in her eyes, and she quickly hugged the siblings and choked with sobs, "What a poor child."

The woman asked cautiously, "So what are you doing now...?"

An Yue cried and said, "Now we are the only ones left to depend on each other. We used to live with our grandparents, but my aunt didn't like us, so a few days ago, my brother and I moved back to the An family to live on our own."

The woman touched An Nian's face and said softly, "Two good children, you have suffered."

An Yue suddenly remembered that the siblings still had a lot of things to do when they came to town.

An Yue quickly wiped away her tears, adjusted her mood, and said, "Aunt, we are not miserable. Here... we have delivered some medicinal herbs today."

After An Yue finished speaking, she pointed to the two backpacks placed next to the gate.

The woman hurried over to take a look at the herbs, then turned to look at the siblings, and said with a distressed look on her face, "Good children, digging herbs must be very hard, right?"

An Yue shook her head and said, "Auntie, we are not working hard. As long as we can exchange it for money, Yueyue believes that we will live better and better in the future."

Seeing her two children trying so hard to live, the woman's heart suddenly became bright, as if the clouds had cleared away and the sky was clear.

The corners of her mouth slightly raised as she said, "Okay, okay, I'll take you to the scale right away."

An Yue took out the yam from the basket and asked, "Auntie, can you buy this?"

The woman asked in confusion: "What is this?"

"This is Chinese yam. I dug it up in the mountains a few days ago. I wanted to bring it to the medicine shop for inspection."

"This... let your uncle show it later. Auntie only knows common medicinal herbs."

After a while, after weighing, the three of them came to the counter of the shop.

"Master, can you show me what kind of medicinal herb this is?" The woman handed the yam to her husband.

Doctor Zhang took it, looked at it carefully, and smelled it. His expression gradually became excited and he said, "This is yam, a good medicinal material that is not easy to find."

"It can nourish the spleen and stomach, promote fluid production and benefit the lungs, and treat asthma and cough due to lung deficiency, among other medicinal effects."

He turned to An Yue and asked, "Yueyue, did you dig this up?"

An Yue nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes! We found it accidentally when we were collecting firewood in the mountains a few days ago, so Yueyue thought of bringing it here for you to take a look."

"Do you still have this yam?"

"Yes, yes." An Yuexi nodded with a smile.

"Come, come, come, Yueyue. Bring this kind of yam to your uncle. I'll buy it from you at fifty cents per pound." After Doctor Zhang said this, he turned around and continued to greet the people who were dispensing medicine in the shop.

At this moment, An Yue's joy was hard to hide, and the brother and sister smiled at each other.

After everyone in the shop had left, the woman said to Doctor Zhang, "Master, the brother and sister brought seven pounds of dandelions and ten pounds of plantain."

Doctor Zhang smiled and said, "Okay, okay, uncle promised to buy it at a high price."

"Then uncle will buy these fresh plantains and dandelions at five cents and six cents per pound respectively. What do you think, Yueyue?"

"Very good, very good." An Yue nodded with satisfaction.

Doctor Zhang patted his chest and said with a smile: "Don't think that uncle is giving too little. Uncle dares to say that this price is the highest purchase price in this shop in Shijing Town."

An Yuexi smiled and said, "Yueyue knows what kind of people uncle and aunt are. They will definitely not deceive us siblings."

Doctor Zhang said: "If it is dried plantain or dandelion, the price will naturally be higher."

An Yue asked curiously: "Uncle, if we dry these two herbs, how much can we sell them for per pound?"

"Plantain can be bought at 20 wen per jin, while dandelions are a little more expensive, at 30 wen per jin."

An Yue smiled playfully and said, "Okay, then Yueyue will dig more next time, dry them and send them back."

Then the woman walked to the counter and counted the money.

After the woman counted the copper coins, she gave them all to An Yue and said, "Yue Yue, the total is ninety-five coins. Auntie, just give Yue Yue one hundred coins."

An Yue waved her hand and said, "Auntie, you can't do this. Uncle has already paid Yueyue a high price for the goods, which is against the rules. How can Yueyue accept any more money from you?"

When the woman saw that An Yue refused to accept it, she walked over from the counter and forced the money into An Yue's hand.

An Yue thought to herself that even though someone had forced the money into her hands, she couldn't let others think she was a petty person just because of this small amount of money.

An Yue took out five copper coins from her pocket and placed them on the counter, then pulled An Nian and ran out of the shop.

While running, he waved and said, "Uncle, aunt, see you later!"

With ill-fated fate and hard life, their meeting in the sea of ​​people turned out to be a mutual redemption.

The brother and sister ran out of the shop, and An Nian asked in confusion: "Sister, why don't we take their extra money?"

An Yue stopped, bent down, put her hands on An Nian's shoulders, and said to him seriously: "Niannian, I hope that no matter whether you are poor or rich in the future, no matter how great the temptation is, you will always remember the saying 'no merit, no reward'."

An Nian nodded, scratched his head again, and was a little confused. He was about to ask his sister what she meant, but his sister stopped him abruptly and said, "Don't ask yet, Nian Nian, you will know it after you enter the school!"

"Now sister will take Nian Nian to buy the six gifts."

The brother and sister carried an empty backpack and bought celery, red beans, lotus seeds, dates, longan, and meat strips along the way, spending a total of three taels of silver.

After buying the six gifts, he took An Nian to the tailor shop to buy two sets of clothes and shoes for An Nian.

Although An Yue does not have any extra money now, she still has to spend the money when she thinks about the children in the school, all of whom are children from rich and powerful families in this town.

An Nian was really worried when he saw his sister spending money on him. He said, "Sister, we have clothes every year. You don't need to buy more."

After saying that, he started to pull An Yue out of the shop.