A young errand boy spotted them and immediately came over to greet them.
"Are you two here to see a doctor or to pick up medicine?"
Lu Ye said loudly, "We're here to sell medicinal ingredients."
"Sell medicinal ingredients?" The young boy looked Bai Sheng and Lu Ye up and down. Although they were wearing relatively new rough cloth clothes, they didn't look like medicinal ingredient merchants.
Bai Sheng placed the Cistanche tubulosa in his hand in front of the boy. The boy stepped forward, took one look, and gasped. He quickly said, "Please wait a moment, sirs. I can't make a decision about this medicinal ingredient. I'll go call the shopkeeper."
Bai Sheng was secretly delighted. Judging by the boy's reaction, this Cistanche tubulosa should be quite expensive, otherwise, he wouldn't have been unable to make a decision.
A moment later, the grass curtain was lifted, and an old man with small eyes walked out.
He first glanced at Lu Ye and Bai Sheng and asked, "Are you two selling medicinal ingredients?"
Bai Sheng nodded and placed the Cistanche tubulosa back on the table.
The small-eyed old man picked it up and squinted his small eyes, examining it carefully.
The more he looked, the brighter the glint in his eyes became.
"This Cistanche tubulosa is truly excellent. How about this, I'll give you fifty taels of silver. What do you say?"
"Fifty taels?" Lu Ye was a little surprised. A stick that Wu Yun casually picked up could be sold for fifty taels!
The small-eyed old man thought Lu Ye was hesitant. He gritted his teeth and extended another five fingers, saying, "Fifty-five taels. This is the highest price I can offer. If you go to other pharmacies, you won't get this price!"
"Alright, deal!" Bai Sheng was very satisfied.
Lu Ye was also a little excited and unconsciously put his arm around Bai Sheng's shoulder.
Bai Sheng glanced at the five slender fingers on his shoulder from the corner of his eye and chuckled inwardly with a mischievous thought.
"Do you two prefer cash or bank notes?" the small-eyed shopkeeper asked.
"Cash," Bai Sheng said without thinking. In this era, only real silver was safe.
When the shopkeeper went inside to get the silver, Bai Sheng asked him to exchange twenty taels for small silver ingots, which would be more convenient for future use.
This was not difficult, and the shopkeeper complied.
As the two were collecting the silver and preparing to leave, the small-eyed shopkeeper called out to them after some thought, "My surname is Mo, and I am the shopkeeper of this pharmacy. If you have any good medicinal ingredients in the future, feel free to bring them to our pharmacy. I will definitely give you a fair price."
Bai Sheng nodded and smiled profoundly, "We will, Shopkeeper Mo."
With that, the two turned around潇洒, carrying their money bags full of silver, and walked out of the pharmacy with unsteady steps.
"Wu Yun, you're amazing!" Lu Ye patted Wu Yun's head, praising it.
Wu Yun knew his master's man was praising it. If his master hadn't forbidden it from making noise, it would have definitely whined "ang ang ang" to express its joy.
A large, heavy bag of silver was inconvenient to carry. Bai Sheng, unnoticed by the three children, quietly put it into his spatial dimension.
He needed to have Lu Ye quickly build a warehouse in the spatial dimension. In the future, when they had more food and silver, they couldn't just leave them lying around in the spatial dimension.
Bai Sheng was happy to have money in hand.
However, Bai Sheng was reluctant to spend this silver. She went to the steamed bun shop and exchanged a bucket of water for 20 steamed buns. After each person ate two, Bai Sheng secretly threw one into the spatial dimension for Hengheng to feed to Baoyu.
Passing by the wooden bucket shop, Bai Sheng went to Boss Liu again and exchanged two buckets of water for a new bucket. Now she had two large wooden buckets, and in the future, she could secretly release more water.
Bai Sheng looked at Wu Yun at the door and then asked Lu Ye, "Lu Ye, what do you think about buying a camel cart for our family?"
"Camel cart?" Lu Ye was a little surprised. He had seen horse-drawn carts and ox carts but had never seen a camel cart.
Bai Sheng looked into his eyes and blinked a few times, "Before the well is dug, we'll have to frequently 'buy' water with wooden buckets. Having a cart would be much more convenient."
Lu Ye thought for a moment and said, "Alright, let's order one then."
The children were all so happy to hear that their family would soon have a camel cart that they danced with joy.
Bai Sheng asked Boss Liu if he could order a camel cart.
Although Boss Liu was a carpenter who specialized in wooden buckets and basins, and had also made flatbed carts, he was very confused when Bai Sheng said she wanted to make a flatbed cart pulled by a camel. He had lived in Jade Town for decades and had never seen a flatbed cart pulled by a camel.
Bai Sheng smiled and said that any cart could be made, as long as one was flexible.
Camels were relatively tall, so the central axle of the cartwheels should be made higher. To explain more clearly what kind of wooden flatbed cart she wanted, Ji'er simply drew a diagram and marked the dimensions.
Boss Liu was greatly surprised by the diagram and stared at Bai Sheng for a long time. He couldn't believe that this diagram was drawn by a girl in her teens. He, who had been a carpenter his whole life, had never thought of these issues.
In this flatbed cart diagram, there were some round beads added in the middle of the wheels. This young lady called these round beads bearings, which could reduce the pressure when the wheels rolled and make pulling much easier.
Boss Liu excitedly said that if Bai Sheng could leave him the diagram, he would waive the labor fee for her.
Bai Sheng naturally agreed. She told Boss Liu that as long as he made the flatbed cart to her satisfaction, she would draw more woodworking diagrams for him in the future.
However, for the wood to make the wheels, Ji'er intended to use Chinese rosewood. Chinese rosewood was as hard as steel and very wear-resistant.
Boss Liu said that Chinese rosewood was very expensive and had to be purchased from the prefecture. Did Bai Sheng want to use it?
Bai Sheng said she was very sure. Just as she was about to take out silver, Boss Liu stopped her.
He touched the back of his neck and said with an awkward smile, "Little Lady Lu, could you use water instead of silver?"
Bai Sheng and Lu Ye exchanged glances. Lu Ye wanted her to refuse, but Bai Sheng gave him a "it's fine" look and then turned to Boss Liu and said, "Of course, Boss Liu. Calculate how many buckets of water we need to deliver."
Boss Liu counted on his fingers and said that Bai Sheng needed to deliver a total of 45 buckets of water, mainly because the Chinese rosewood was too expensive.
"No problem! How often will we deliver water?" Bai Sheng asked.
"Once every five days, two buckets each time. How about that?" Boss Liu said, rubbing his hands excitedly.
Bai Sheng nodded, "Then it's settled. Boss Liu, please write a receipt."
Boss Liu immediately turned to get paper and pen, and in his excitement, he almost tripped over some wood shavings on the ground.
While writing the receipt, Bai Sheng lowered her voice and instructed Boss Liu that the matter of their exchange of goods for water must be kept strictly confidential, otherwise, the 45 buckets of water would be difficult to deliver.
Boss Liu nodded profusely, saying he wasn't that foolish and would absolutely keep the secret.
After the receipt was written, Lu Ye asked Boss Liu if he knew of any skilled well-digging teams.
"You're still digging wells?" Boss Liu thought they had so much water, so their well must be producing abundantly. Then why were they still digging wells?
However, Boss Liu regretted asking this question immediately after. They were rich and could dig as many wells as they wanted. What was it to him!
Before Lu Ye and the others could answer, Boss Liu automatically cut off his question, "There's an old man named Duan on the east side of town. His skills are unmatched, but he's a bit eccentric, and his prices are not ordinary high."
After setting the date for picking up the cart, Bai Sheng and her party left.