Buying Medicinal Materials

Chen Mo stepped forward, first moving the jade stones that Zhang Liwei had cut to one side, and then began to auction them off one by one in a loud voice. There were many buyers from jewelry companies in the courtyard, including even some general managers and chairwomen.

Piece after piece of jade was sold by Chen Mo at a high price, and finally, only the Ice Jade Red Emerald was left.

"This red emerald is mine, I'll offer 45 million!" Chen Mo hadn't picked up the red emerald to bid yet, but a pleasant yet cold voice sounded in his ear.

Chen Mo turned his head and saw that it was Nangong Xue who had spoken. He hadn't expected her to interject, and her voice was truly pleasant. But it was so cold, had he owed her money and not repaid it? It was freezing!

Nodding to Nangong Xue, he said, "This one is not bad, I can sell it to you!"

45 million, of course, was a good price. Although he didn't fully understand the market price of jade, he felt that 45 million was a very good price. Whether he lost or gained, it was all wealth falling from the sky, so it was enough for him. Besides, after Nangong Xue called out the price, all the men, young and old, fell silent. Even if Chen Mo wanted to see if anyone else had a higher price, it was first come, first served, but there was no one else! Nangong Xue became the only choice.

He directly handed the red emerald to Nangong Xue, and then heard continuous 'Beep! Beep!' sounds. These were SMS notifications for transfers after selling the jade. The total price of all the jade sold came to 62.45 million yuan. Chen Mo had only one thought in his heart: "MMP, I'm rich!"

Although he was a cultivator at Qi Refining Layer One, his inner self had not yet shed the mentality of a poor nobody. With this money, he was filled with emotion. A poor nobody he was! After being poor for so many years, how could his mindset change so easily? He could only take it slowly and gradually shift his poor nobody mentality. Otherwise, it would be a disgrace to cultivators.

After all the procedures were settled, he also gave the stone cutting master a red envelope of 16,666 yuan. He asked the shop owner to find a small box truck and loaded the 5.5 million yuan stone into it, then drove directly towards the outskirts of the city.

Arriving at a provincial highway in the suburbs with not many people, he found an excuse to have the driver stop the car, and then unloaded the stone.

The small box truck had a manual hoist inside, making unloading very convenient. The stone, weighing about half a ton, was thrown to the roadside. Chen Mo directly threw the driver 500 yuan as a hard work fee and sent him away. As for the driver's confusion, it was suppressed in his heart when he received the 500 yuan. As long as he was paid, it was Chen Mo's business what he wanted to do. The driver just needed to deliver the goods to the designated location according to his instructions. As for where this location was, it was not for the driver to consider.

After waiting for a while and seeing no people or cars passing by, he directly put the stone into the Universe Bead. Then he waited for a bit, saw a shuttle bus returning to the city, and got on it to go back to the city. He got off where there were taxis and hailed one, directly asking the taxi to take him to the city's Medicinal Material Market.

The information from the Universe Bead to Chen Mo was originally for planting medicinal materials. Moreover, many medicinal materials in his pill formulas were available on Blue Sea Star, and several pill formulas could be concocted as long as the medicinal materials were present. Therefore, he planned to plant some medicinal materials in the Universe Bead, which would be making the best use of it. Vegetables and other things could be planted by soaking the seeds in stream water, which would not only generate benefits but also pose no risk of exposing the Universe Bead.

He wanted to buy some Ginseng Seeds and Saffron Seeds first. Ginseng seeds were generally artificially cultivated now, but he wanted to buy seeds of wild or understory ginseng. In addition, saffron was usually planted with bulbs, so he didn't know if the medicinal shops had them and would have to ask.

The Chinese medicine market was heavily mixed with fake goods. Chen Mo walked around twice and sensed with his Spiritual Sense that many medicinal materials were fake, and some were even made of flour. He really didn't know that such things could be sold for money.

After finally finding a medicinal shop called 'Hundred Herbs Hall', he felt a little better. The medicinal materials in this shop were acceptable, at least there were no fakes.

"Boss, do you have any ginseng seeds here?" Chen Mo asked directly after entering the shop and finding an old man picking herbs at the Chinese medicine counter.

"Oh? You're buying ginseng seeds, young man? I don't specialize in selling seeds here. You should check other shops," the old man said, looking up at Chen Mo, somewhat dismissively.

"Boss, if there were good seeds in the market, would I need to come to you? I want some wild seeds or understory ginseng seeds," Chen Mo explained.

"Haha, alright! I do have some understory ginseng seeds here. Five hundred yuan for a bag of one hundred seeds. As for wild ginseng seeds, I have about a dozen leftover from before. If you want them, you can take them for a thousand yuan," the old man said, somewhat gratified to hear Chen Mo's words. He hadn't expected that there were still young people who understood these things nowadays; it was quite unexpected.

"Okay, give me two bags of understory ginseng seeds, and I'll take the wild ginseng seeds too. Also, do you have any saffron bulbs or seeds of other medicinal materials that can be planted?" Chen Mo asked.

"I have saffron bulbs here too, but not many. As for other medicinal materials... I also have some Polygonatum seeds and living Dendrobium. If you want them, I'll give them to you," the old man said.

Chen Mo was instantly overjoyed. He hadn't expected this medicinal shop to be quite reliable. They had everything he wanted to plant, so he wanted it all.

The old man's surname was Huang, and he was the owner of Hundred Herbs Hall. He had been in the Chinese medicine business for decades. While the employee went to get the goods, they exchanged names and got acquainted. Seeing that Chen Mo was buying so many medicinal seeds, he asked, "Young man, are you buying these to plant?"

"Yes!" Chen Mo replied.

"Heh heh! Young man, I still advise you to proceed with caution, because some of these medicinal materials cannot be grown locally," the old man said kindly, seeing that Chen Mo looked steady.

"Haha, don't worry. Old Huang, I'm just researching methods for plant cultivation. Everything I buy is for experiments, so I won't consider climate or soil for now," Chen Mo couldn't reveal he had the Universe Bead, so he could only say it was experimental.

"Old Huang, I have a list here. Take a look and see if you can collect the seeds or live plants of these medicinal materials for me?" Chen Mo took out the list of medicinal materials he had long written and handed it to Old Huang. What he wrote was basically all the medicinal materials on the Blue Sea Star found in the pill formulas, all on one sheet of paper, so as not to leak the pill formulas.

Old Huang was startled when he took it and saw it. He hadn't expected there to be nearly a thousand kinds of medicinal materials. He was taken aback for a moment. However, many of the seeds or live plants were easy to find, so he frowned and then slowly relaxed.

"There are too many items on this list. If I were to collect them, it might be a bit slow. Most of them are fine, but some cannot be collected as live specimens. It's too much trouble, and there might be accidents!" Old Huang pointed to some names on the list.

Chen Mo looked and saw that they were some Animal Medicinal Materials he had categorized. He smiled and said to Old Huang, "Old Huang, collecting seeds and live plants is for plants. For Animal Medicinal Materials, Dried Bodies are better. Please try to prepare more for me, at least 10 jin of each animal medicinal material."

"This quantity will be a bit high in price," Old Huang said to Chen Mo, looking at the names of the Animal Medicinal Materials.

"Old Huang, here's what you do! Keep this list. Whether you have them or not, collect them all for me. Then, you can calculate the total cost, and I'll pay a deposit first. What do you think?" Chen Mo acted as if money was no object, leaving Old Huang speechless. Although there were many medicinal materials on the list, most of them were seeds or live plants, which weren't that expensive, just troublesome to collect. As for the Animal Medicinal Materials, that was easier; he could just ask some Old Suppliers to see if they had any remaining.

Old Huang looked at it and roughly estimated a price. "How about this? I can't give you the exact price for these items right now. You can pay a deposit of 200,000 first, and then I'll start collecting them according to the list. When I have a good amount, I'll deliver them to you. After payment, I'll look for the next batch."

Old Huang's suggestion was a good one. For Chen Mo, who had just received 60 million yuan, 200,000 was a small amount of money! Without a word, he transferred the money directly, leaving his home address and phone number, and asked to be contacted when the collection was complete.

When the employee brought the items over, the total came to a little over 3,000 yuan after calculation. It wasn't much, so he paid the bill.

Old Huang then found the seeds and Animal Medicinal Materials he had on hand, packed and weighed them, and gave them to Chen Mo. After settlement, it was about a hundred thousand yuan, which he transferred directly!

When everything was done, Chen Mo was about to leave but then stopped his departing step and asked, "Old Huang, do you buy medicinal materials here?"

"Yes! But I have high requirements for the Medicinal Properties of the materials. I don't buy ordinary ones or those with excessive Pesticide use," Old Huang said.

"Okay! Thank you for your trouble today, Old Huang. Goodbye!" Chen Mo said.

"Safe travels!" the old man said with a smile.