CHAPTER 95: CHAPTER 95: THE BROCADE BOX

Ah Tie suddenly fell silent.

Doctor Liu seemed somewhat awkward, "Haha, I shouldn’t have asked."

Every doctor has their secret remedies, some discovered by themselves, others passed down from ancestors or masters.

If you tell others, how would you earn a living?

There’s an old saying, teach your apprentice well and the master starves.

Not just medical recipes, even a pickle recipe is often kept secret by many households.

Manager Wang listened thoughtfully on the side, does this mean the girl’s medical skills are stronger than her father’s?

Perhaps it was just a coincidence.

He cleared his throat, "Girl, you didn’t finish your sentence earlier; you said you needed my help?"

Yun Jiao then spoke with some embarrassment, "I was just saying, after the new year, I plan to open a pharmacy in the provincial capital."

"Ah Tie is an honest boy and literate, so I want him to follow me as an assistant. But currently, it’s inconvenient at home, so I hope he can learn with you first."

Manager Wang pondered for a while and shook his head, "Girl, it’s not that Uncle Wang won’t help you, but in our trade, you learn from a master starting as an apprentice. You plan to open a shop after the new year, what can you learn in a few months? It might damage the master’s reputation, and no one will take over."

Yun Jiao nodded, "Uncle Wang, I was too naive, thank you."

Manager Wang advised again, "You said you want to open a pharmacy in Prefecture City. It’s not that I underestimate you, but you don’t know how deep these waters run."

"Using medicine is a matter of life and death; it’s not something to joke about. You must be very cautious."

"I started as an apprentice at twelve and opened this shop only at thirty. Without ten years, you can’t grasp the intricacies."

Yun Jiao bowed to him, "Thank you, Uncle Wang. I know you’re looking out for me."

She then pulled Manager Wang aside and took out a brocade box from her luggage, opened it, revealing a piece of wild ginseng, "Will you accept this wild ginseng here?"

Manager Wang took the box, examining it while asking, "Are you sure it’s wild ginseng?"

Artificially cultivated ginseng has been around not just in modern times but also in ancient times.

An item with huge profits naturally attracts people to it.

Artificially cultivated ginseng includes types such as forest ginseng, which involve planting lab-grown seedlings in the mountains, and this is relatively better.

Then there’s the ginseng grown to a certain stage in nurseries and later transplanted to the mountains, also daring to call it wild ginseng.

It’s akin to a crab taking a bath in Yangcheng Lake and daring to be called Yangcheng Lake hairy crab.

Even these two types are not cheap because ginseng is extremely delicate, hard to grow, and only the climate in Northeast is suitable for its growth.

In modern times, there is also garden ginseng, cultivated with fertilizers and pesticides, growing thick and tall with a short growth cycle.

Yun Jiao nodded seriously, "It’s definitely over fifty years old wild ginseng."

Her medicine storehouse has two top-grade wild ginsengs.

One was over three hundred years old wild ginseng, auctioned at Christie’s.

Back then, there were many bidders, and her grandfather spent over ten million to win it.

The one Manager Wang is looking at now is also top-grade, fifty-plus years old. It’s smaller than the other one and much cheaper, costing only around eighty thousand when purchased.

If she wasn’t certain now that items used in the medicine storehouse could be restored, she wouldn’t have been willing to sell this one.

Old ginseng is hard to find; it’s something that can save lives in critical moments.