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After lunch, Tao'er decided to go to the county town with her older brothers to sell the wild animals they had collected that day.

Including the sika deer, which is a favorite among wealthy families.

After all, every part of a sika deer is valuable.

She took out a lot of herbs from her spatial storage and mixed them with the herbs she had picked that day.

The mushrooms also have to be sold while they're fresh, otherwise they'll easily rot, which wouldn't be worth it.

So the three siblings drove a mule cart to the county town.

Qingge didn't go with them; Tao'er left her at home to take care of the two children.

The mule cart swayed and rattled for almost two hours before finally seeing the city walls of the county town.

Tao'er, familiar with the route, directed Da Niu to drive the cart to the back door of Li's Pharmacy in the south of the city.

The Li family was one of the most prominent families in the county. They owned pharmacies, restaurants, and cloth shops. They were especially famous for their pharmacies, as it was said that the medicines used by the nobles in the capital were all sourced from them.

Tao jumped out of the car and knocked on the door.

A short while later, a young man dressed in a silk robe opened the door; it was none other than Li Chenhao, the eldest son of the Li family.

As soon as he saw Tao'er, his face immediately lit up with a smile: "Miss Liu has arrived!"

Please come in, please come in.

Liu Tiezhu had met the eldest son of the Li family before, but he did not expect him to be so polite and warm to his younger sister.

Liu Tiechui wondered to himself: When did this girl meet such a respectable person?

Li Chenhao ushered the three siblings into the backyard, where workers came to help unload the goods.

Tao'er brought quite a lot of things, including two baskets full of common herbs dug from the mountain, but the truly valuable items were in the basket she carried on her back.

She put down her basket and took out an oil paper package containing a medium-sized Ganoderma lucidum mushroom. Its cap was thick and bright red, clearly indicating that it was no ordinary mushroom.

Li Chenhao held it in his hand, turning it over and over for a long time, then brought it to his nose to smell it, his eyes growing brighter and brighter: "What a fine Ganoderma! It must be hundreds of years old!"

Miss Liu, you've given me a real treasure!

Tao'er smiled and said, "Good luck!"

Besides Ganoderma lucidum, I also have other herbs.

After saying that, he took out several small cloth bags from his bundle, which contained several high-quality Solomon's seal, Polygonum multiflorum, Panax notoginseng, and saffron.

Some of the medicinal herbs were obtained from her spatial storage.

"Miss Liu, these are all really good things! You're incredibly lucky!"

"I was just so lucky today. It was my first time going up the mountain with my older brothers, and we found these things."

How much do you think these are worth?

Tao'er thought to herself that human relationships are human relationships, and business is business.

She won't sell if the price offered is too low.

"Miss Liu, these medicinal herbs of yours are all top-quality. I'll buy them at the highest market price plus an additional layer. Is that acceptable?"

This was the first time he had ever seen so many wonderful things.

Tao'er nodded, "Okay!"

Since Li Chenhao has said that, he won't treat her unfairly.

"This Ganoderma lucidum is worth 500 taels, and the He Shou Wu is worth 300 taels."

I calculated the other medicinal herbs, and they totaled a little over eighty taels. I'll round it up to ninety taels for you, making it a total of eight hundred and ninety taels.

After saying that, he took out several silver notes, some silver ingots, and some loose silver.

Tao'er asked her older brother to put the money away.

The two brothers were completely dumbfounded. Those medicinal herbs were worth so much money; they had never seen so much money in their entire lives.

"Young Master Li, I have another living creature here. Would you be interested?"

Tao'er continued to ask.

This person offered a high price; we can do long-term business with them.

So she wanted to sell it to him.

"What kind of living thing?"

"Please speak, Miss Liu."

"A sika deer!"

Tao'er said in a low voice.

"Huh? A sika deer?"

"Take me to see it quickly."

This is a good thing; many high-ranking officials and nobles like it.

"Young Master Li, please wait a moment. I'll go to the car and bring the sika deer over."

Tao turned around and went out to take a bamboo cage off the mule cart. Inside lay a small sika deer with a slightly injured front leg, but it was in good spirits.

"It's actually alive?"

Li Chenhao was so surprised he almost jumped for joy.

"Miss Liu, you're incredibly capable! I'll take this deer; one hundred taels will be yours!"

Iron Pillar and Iron Hammer stood to the side, their mouths agape, wide enough to fit an egg.

Good heavens, another hundred taels sold!

Tao'er remained calm and carefully put the silver notes into her bosom.

"My second brother caught some game and some mushrooms that I picked up. He wants to sell them for money. Does Young Master Li know any hotels with reasonable prices that you can recommend?"

Tao asked again.

"Miss Liu, you've come to the right person. Our family owns a hotel. Come on, I'll take you there myself."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Young Master Li."

Li Chenhao instructed the medicine boy to lead the sika deer to the backyard, and then took them to Fengyue Restaurant, the best restaurant in the county.

He instructed Manager Wang in front of him: "From now on, whatever Miss Liu and her brother send, whether it's wild game or mountain delicacies, buy it at the highest market price. No bargaining allowed, do you understand?"

Manager Wang was a shrewd man. Seeing how much the young master valued this country girl, he quickly nodded in agreement.

The wild game sold for two taels of silver, and the matsutake mushrooms sold for five taels of silver per catty. The total was five catties, which sold for twenty-five taels of silver.

Morel mushrooms cost three taels of silver per catty, so a total of three and a half catties would cost nine and a half taels of silver.

The other mushrooms are thirty catties, thirty coins per catty, ninety coins per catty.

In total, Manager Wang charged a total of thirty-six taels of silver.

After selling her things, Tao'er said she wanted to buy more and left with her two older brothers.

Tao'er, however, had something on her mind. She asked her brothers to buy chicks and piglets, while she herself went to the embroidery shop on West Street.

The embroidery shop wasn't big. The owner was a woman in her forties surnamed Wu, and everyone called her Wu San Niang. I heard that she used to be an embroiderer in the palace.

Tao'er took out two embroidery pieces from her bundle, both cross-stitch pieces. One was a huge "longevity" character, and the other was a peony the size of a bowl.

Cross-stitch didn't exist in this era.

Cross-stitch is different from regular embroidery, and it should be liked by many important people.

Wu San Niang's eyes widened the moment she looked at her.

She's been in this business for over a decade; what kind of fine embroidery hasn't she seen?

But this kind of needlework technique was something she had never seen before.

It's not particularly exquisite, but it has a novel design and bright colors.

If this were hung in a shop, it would surely attract the ladies and young women of wealthy families.

"Young lady, are you selling your embroidery?"

Wu San Niang suppressed her excitement and asked.

Tao'er nodded: "Boss, give me a price."

Wu San Niang gritted her teeth: "Five taels of silver for each piece, I'll take both."

If the girl has even larger sizes, the price is negotiable; I'd even take ten or twenty taels.

Tao'er understood and replied, "Okay, I'll send a few more large ones in a few days."

When Tao'er returned to the street corner with ten taels of silver, Da Niu and Er Niu had already bought the goods: twenty chicks and three little black pigs, all packed in bamboo baskets, chirping and humming noisily.

On the way back, the mule cart moved slowly.