Chapter 88 - 77: Violent Profits
Zhou Wulang and the others didn’t even have a scale, and in the end, it was the lady who brought a scale from the kitchen to weigh the wild yams.
They had dug up quite a bunch of wild yams, and since they’d just been unearthed not long ago, they were really heavy, weighing a total of twenty-five pounds and six taels.
Manbao generously offered to give them the extra six taels as well.
The lady glanced at Zhou Wulang and, seeing that he had no objections, knew the young girl was in charge. She smiled, calculated the money, and gave it to them, saying, "If you have more wild yams in the future, bring them to our mansion. The old lady here loves wild yam cakes and will take any amount you have."
Zhou Wulang happily agreed, feeling that selling herbs to wealthy families was more profitable.
Manbao felt the same way, but she also suspected in her heart that the seemingly amiable manager uncle was a swindler.
The system then said, "Host, the price Manager Zheng offered is fair."
Manbao asked, "Was the price offered by the Fu Family not fair?"
The system replied, "It’s fair. Whether it’s twenty wen or even fifty wen, as long as you can sell it, it’s considered fair."
The system said, "Wild yams can be cultivated, but no one in your area does so manually. Therefore, while dried wild yams can be bought from pharmacies, fresh wild yams are hard to come by."
"Moreover, Jishi Hall purchases herbs to conduct business; they also trade in medicinal materials. By buying from you, they not only use it themselves but can also sell it to other pharmacies or higher-level ones," the system explained. "The usual dose of dried wild yam in prescriptions is two or three qian, and when I scanned the pharmacy, their pricing was one qian of wild yam for one wen."