Chapter 401

The original intention behind Wu Lan saying this was to have the girl before her prepare herself, as the Jin Yingzi from their family could absolutely not be sold for less than this price.

However, Guo Dong was stunned for a moment, then began to laugh:

"Auntie, 30 yuan per jin is likely just a gimmick; you won't easily be able to get that."

She was speaking the truth: "For those of us who follow medicinal herb merchants to the production areas, the price of well-processed Jin Yingzi, depending on the grade, is only about 30 to 80 yuan per kilogram. 70 yuan is already the price for high-grade, late-harvest dried goods."

"Kilogram? Late-harvest?"

In an instant, Wu Lan's dream was shattered.

"Yes," Guo Dong explained earnestly: "The harvest of Jin Yingzi is divided into early, middle, and late fruits. Early fruits are small fruits that haven't matured yet, and their quality is the lowest. Late fruits are the naturally matured, golden-red large fruits, which are sold this way after being processed."

"Moreover, many are now thornless varieties that have been cultivated, so the cost of picking is even lower."

But this price gap was just too large.

It wasn't enough to go from fresh fruit to dried fruit, but it even crossed from jin to kilograms—then what kind of money is there to be made from all this hard work?

Now accustomed to the high prices of things at home, Wu Lan found it very difficult to accept this discrepancy.

Her disappointment was also visible to the naked eye.

"There's no way around it."

Guo Dong smiled with extra consideration: "Nowadays, everyone emphasizes large-scale planting, which can both ensure consistent quality and make harvesting easier. The price of the goods naturally comes down."

Large-scale planting, after all, emphasizes mass production. Concentrated harvesting, followed by sorting according to quality—although the prices vary, overall, one can still earn quite a bit.

"However, your family also has an advantage. I saw the Jin Yingzi in the video, and its quality is far better than others. If it really reaches that level, I can give 50 yuan per jin for the dried ones."

"If you don't believe me, let's not talk about it today. You can ask those you know who deal in medicinal herbs later to see what prices they quote."

"I dare say, my price is definitely the most fair."

After all, most others who purchase them are just reselling them, so it's impossible for them to offer the top price.

And the reason Guo Dong was able to save up quite a bit of money was because she had a good medicinal formula that happened to be able to use this Jin Yingzi.

Purchasing at a high price, taking it back to formulate and process it well, and selling the finished medicinal pills... that is what can truly increase the price.

Regarding this, she was very confident.

After all, 50 per jin, compared to the previous maximum of 80 per kilogram, is truly a high price.

For ordinary farmers, Jin Yingzi can be processed at a rate of eighty or a hundred jin a day; even if the weight drops after processing, it's still a large sum of extra income.

According to Guo Dong's past experience, everyone would surely be overjoyed.

But now...

She looked left and right, always feeling that things didn't seem to be what she had imagined.

In fact, it wasn't just Wu Lan; even the people following behind were uninterested, and they whispered: "50 per jin, and it still has to be processed well—that means removing the thorns and drying it, right? It's very troublesome; it's not as good as us keeping it ourselves to soak in wine."

Guo Dong:...

Although everyone's reaction wasn't quite right, she still tried hard to explain: "Drying it in a dryer is also possible."

"Jin Yingzi has a high sugar content, so if you sun-dry it, it can't be dried thoroughly; you can only ensure it's 90% dry, which isn't very convenient for storage."

"It's better to use a dryer; drying it in a dryer can make it thoroughly dry, and the sugar content will look very good, without affecting the medicinal efficacy."

"The function of Jin Yingzi is also great; it firms the essence and stops discharge, helps with long-term deficiency-cold diarrhea, and also firms the essence—"

Qiao Qiao also nodded and said loudly: "Strengthens the yang!"

Guo Dong:...

She let out a "pfft" and laughed.

"Everyone, don't listen to this folk remedy; Jin Yingzi isn't used that way—it does have the function of firming the essence and reducing urination, but it cannot be used to strengthen the yang. It must be formulated with other drugs... and it can only treat deficiency syndromes; it cannot be used for excess syndromes."

What?

What deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome? And it can't strengthen the yang?

Everyone was stunned.

【401-41】

While stunned, everyone eventually arrived at the mountain.

When they bypassed that hillside, what appeared before Guo Dong was a huge flower wall.

That flower wall was emerald green, winding along the high fence to both sides, with branches spreading and climbing more than two meters high! Emerald green leaves, golden-red fruits, and white flowers with yellow cores trembling in the wind like butterfly wings...

Bees buzzed back and forth among these dense flowers, and beautiful black butterflies rested on the branches. When the wind blew, the entire flower wall was like a dream.

Even though Guo Dong had already seen the dreamy scene with music in the video, when she saw it with her own eyes, she couldn't help but stand still, shocked.

But this shock didn't last long.

Because Wu Lan looked at it every day when she went up the mountain to pick tea and was already used to it. Now, she just couldn't wait to walk in front of this Jin Yingzi, which was densely covered with thorns, and asked expectantly:

"Look at this, how much can you pay?"

If it's too little, forget about selling it. She thought to herself.

After all, if it's dried, it's 50 per jin, so fresh fruit should at least be three jin, right? With so many thorns, the money wouldn't even cover the labor.

Before Guo Dong could speak, she heard heavy panting coming from behind the flower wall.

Song Tan opened the iron gate, and Da Bao and Er Bao had already happily surrounded them, sniffing one by one, their tails wagging with extra enthusiasm.

"Da Bao, Er Bao!" Qiao Qiao had already happily squatted down and started rubbing the two dogs' heads:

"You must have heard my footsteps, right? So smart! What do you want to eat tonight? Do you still have water? There are so many melon rinds to eat today..."

He talked endlessly, asking questions one after another. Da Bao and Er Bao couldn't answer and had already started their crazy licking technique.

Only then did Guo Dong discover that this big boy who had been following along with clear eyes and ignorance seemed to be...

However, she quickly withdrew her gaze and then earnestly examined this patch of Jin Yingzi:

"It grows really well..."

She murmured.

"With this scale, it definitely couldn't have grown without seven or eight years of careful pruning."

"That's right!"

Wu Lan became proud: "This was specifically found by our family as large seedlings, all 3 or 5 years old, and there is even a mother plant—look, this tallest and biggest one is it."

"What?"

Guo Dong was stunned.

Her eyes circled around this excessively lush Jin Yingzi: "You... how many years has this been planted?"

The branches are thick, the flowers are numerous, the leaves are shiny, and there are many, many dense thorns... It's clearly not the peak fruiting period, yet so many fruits have already matured...

Even the standardized management in the base doesn't have thornless Jin Yingzi this good!

"This year."

Wu Lan was frank and open.

In her impression, this thing can grow very long even in the wild; isn't it natural for it to grow to this scale in one's own field with some fertilizer?

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But in reality, this scale was already extremely shocking.

At the very least, Guo Dong had never seen such quality in those famous planting bases suitable for medicinal herb growth.