All Heavens Pension started from the fiery era

Chapter 723 724. Homecoming and a Million Dollars (Part )
The eldest young master came to inspect the store, so Meng Zhengkun naturally took the initiative to report on the recent business situation. "With the precious medicinal materials supplied by the eldest young master, the sales of other ordinary medicinal materials in the store have also been boosted. The sales volume has been increasing in the past two months.

Especially the 100-year-old ginseng. Although I have been reluctant to sell it, the three ginsengs that the young master gave me last week were sold out very quickly. "

This situation did surprise Yue Wenxuan. "Is the price you set a little too low? How come it was sold so quickly?"

Meng Zhengkun smiled bitterly and said, "The price has been set very high. The average price of the three 100-year-old ginsengs we just sold is more than 15,000 yuan.

If the price is set a little higher, it can indeed be sold, but doing so will damage the reputation of our Baicaotang.

After all, the customers who buy these hundred-year-old ginseng are all dignitaries. Although they don’t care much about the price, they will definitely be unhappy if the price is far beyond the market price.”

Although Meng Zhengkun did not explain it clearly, Yue Wenxuan already understood his concerns.

The dignitaries who bought the century-old ginseng were all the leading figures in various industries in Shanghai, and some of them must not be offended. If they felt that Baicaotang was overcharging customers, they might secretly make things difficult for Baicaotang, and that would be more trouble than it would take.

Yue Wenxuan said: "You are right to worry. The three ginsengs I gave you last week were very ordinary. The average selling price of each ginseng was more than 15,000 yuan, which surprised me.

You have more experience and consideration than me on how to price medicinal materials. I just think that the speed at which the 100-year-old ginseng is sold is a little too fast. If this continues, even if I have a basket of 100-year-old ginseng, I will definitely not be able to supply it. "

For Meng Zhengkun, this was also a happy trouble. He said helplessly:
“Of the 100-year-old ginseng sold during this period, only a small portion was used to make medicines, and the vast majority was collected by wealthy families.

In recent years, century-old ginseng has become increasingly rare in the market. When patients urgently need it, they may not be able to buy it immediately even if they have money.

Those wealthy families with mountains of gold and silver are afraid that they will not be able to buy them when they need them urgently, so they usually stock up in advance, and often stock up a few more.

What the Demon City lacks the least is rich people. Once word gets out that a drugstore has reserves of century-old ginseng, people will surely come knocking.

Unless our Baicaotang's 100-year-old ginseng is kept secret, even if we really have a basketful of it, it will be sold out."

The degree to which people of this era pursued century-old ginseng exceeded Yue Wenxuan's expectations.

Medicine was not well developed in that era, and many people regarded century-old ginseng as a life-saving panacea. No matter what disease they had, they always thought that taking ginseng could make them three-quarters better.

Originally, Yue Wenxuan didn't have high expectations for the amount of his first pot of gold before going abroad, and it would be good enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars.

Now it seems that this goal is still too small.

Considering the degree to which the wealthy of this era pursue century-old ginseng, even if he took out several times more quantity, it would not affect the market price of century-old ginseng.

In this case, Yue Wenxuan does not need to be too cautious. Although he will not open the supply to the public, he can continue to increase the supply.

Among the precious medicinal materials stored in the small world, the largest quantity is the hundred-year-old ginseng, and Yue Wenxuan does not need to spend much effort to store it.

As long as he scatters the ginseng seeds in the deep mountains and forests, he won't have to worry about anything. After more than a hundred years, he will be able to harvest countless hundred-year-old ginseng.

After several lifetimes, even Yue Wenxuan himself had no idea how many hundred-year-old ginsengs were stored in the small world.

Moreover, Yue Wenxuan himself had very little demand for hundred-year-old ginseng. Apart from occasionally using it to make medicine for himself, he almost never sold it to others.

Meng Zhengkun also gave a detailed report on the sales of several other precious medicinal materials.

Among the four precious medicinal materials, only rhino horn and deer antler have slower sales. Except for century-old ginseng, bezoar has also been in short supply.

In this era, several effective Chinese patent medicines for reducing fever all use the herb of bezoar, and there is no artificial bezoar that can replace it. The production of natural bezoar is not that high, so the top-grade bezoars that Yue Wenxuan brought out certainly won't have trouble selling.

If Meng Zhengkun had not been reluctant to sell bezoar, given the shortage of bezoar in the market, even if Yue Wenxuan took out a hundred times more, it would have been sold out in a very short time.

After learning about the actual sales situation, Yue Wenxuan thought for a while and quickly decided to continue to increase the shipment quantity of century-old ginseng and top-grade bezoar.

As time entered the twelfth lunar month, before Yue Wenxuan was ready to return home, the total sales of the four kinds of precious medicinal materials he supplied to Baicaotang in the Magic City had reached a staggering 1.6 million oceans!

Excluding the 30% profit left to Baicaotang, the portion that belonged to Yue Wenxuan personally still reached a staggering 1.1 million oceans!

The Spring Festival is approaching, and Yue Wenxuan certainly can't stay in Shanghai to celebrate the New Year alone. Before the arrival of the Little New Year, Yue Wenxuan bought a batch of New Year's goods in Shanghai, and took all his followers and boarded the passenger ship back to Wuzhou.

This time there were no more accidents and everyone returned to Wuzhou safely.

Before Yue Wenxuan set off, he had already sent a telegram to his family, and his family's three cars were already waiting at the dock.

He had just stepped off the passenger ship and saw from afar his elder sister Yue Suzhi and younger brother Yue Wuxuan standing on the dock and waving their hands.

After a few months, seeing his family again, Yue Wenxuan felt a warm current in his heart, and his pace involuntarily quickened. The cold winter wind seemed to be infected by this family affection and became much softer.

He walked through the bustling crowd and ran straight towards the two familiar and expectant faces.

"Sister, Xiao Wu!"

There was some excitement and joy in Yue Wenxuan's voice. He opened his arms and picked up his brother who was trotting towards him.

Yue Suzhi's eyes were slightly red, and she said with concern: "Wenxuan, you are finally back, your family is looking forward to seeing you."

"When the twelfth lunar month just started, I had already planned to go home, but I had something else to do, so I just couldn't get away until now."

Afterwards, Yue Wenxuan put down his younger brother who had begun to struggle, and bent down slightly so that he could look at his younger brother Yue Wuxuan, who had grown a lot taller.

Xiao Wuxuan's eyes sparkled with excitement and admiration. He held his brother's hand tightly and shouted in a childish voice:
"Brother, what fun things did you bring me this time? I heard that there are a lot of foreign toys in the Great Demon City. Did you buy any for me?"

Yue Wenxuan smiled and touched his head, then took out a few novel toys he brought from the Magic City from his luggage and stuffed them all into his younger brother's arms.

Xiao Wuxuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he cheered loudly, and his attention shifted to the new toys. Yue Suzhi looked at this scene, feeling very pleased, and said happily:

"Wenxuan, you are now the pride of our family.

I never thought that you would pass the graduation examination of Nanyang University and obtain bachelor's degrees in three majors. This is simply a miracle. The whole family is happy for you.

When you were at home before, I never saw you studying university-level knowledge. How come you are so good? When did you secretly teach yourself university-level courses?"

Yue Suzhi was very curious about this. This question had been in her mind for a long time. Now that she finally met Yue Wenxuan, she asked it immediately.

Yue Wenxuan couldn't tell her the truth, so he could only evade the question by saying, "I have a master, right? These are the requirements my master has given me. I usually study at my own Sanshan Residence, and you don't go there often, so of course you don't know."

"I really want to meet your mysterious master. He is so amazing. I don't know how he taught you, but he made such a big change in you."

Not only Yue Suzhi had this idea, but everyone in the Yue family, young and old, thought so.

In their opinion, this fabricated master of Yue Wenxuan was too mysterious. Not only did he casually give Yue Wenxuan large quantities of precious medicinal materials, but he also made such a great progress in Yue Wenxuan's knowledge. He was simply like an omnipotent god.

Yue Wenxuan was a little surprised that his younger sister, who always liked to join in the fun, didn't come to the dock with him, so he asked, "Where's my younger sister? Why can't I see her?"

"Suqin caught a cold. She wanted to come with us, but her mother stopped her."

"Is it serious? Do you have a fever?"

"I have a slight fever. I've taken medicine. It's not serious. I should be fine in a day or two at most."

Yue Wenxuan then felt relieved and prepared to go back and take a look himself. If the situation was serious, he would personally prescribe some medicine for his younger sister to take.

The weather in Suzhou in December was still bitterly cold. The brother and sister exchanged a few words and then quickly asked everyone to get on the car.

As soon as the car entered the house, Yue Wenxuan hurried to Yongning Hall where his grandmother lived.

Knowing that his son Yue Wenxuan was going home today, even the head of the family, Yue Hanzhang, did not go out. He and his wife Tan Bingzhen came to his mother's Yongning Hall early in the morning.

Hearing the noise outside, Yue Hanzhang, the father, was still able to sit in the house with an air of dignity, but Yue Wenxuan's grandmother and mother could not wait any longer and went out to greet them.

As soon as Yue Wenxuan stepped over the threshold, he felt the warmth and deep family affection.

The old lady of the Yue family, wearing a dark red cotton-padded jacket embroidered with the word "Fu" and a headband woven with silver thread, came towards us with a loving face.

Tears glistened in her eyes, but she tried hard not to let them fall. She just kept holding the hand of her eldest grandson Yue Wenxuan, looking him up and down, as if she wanted to melt all the longing and worry of the past few months in this silent gaze.

After a long while, he choked up and said, "Wenxuan, you're finally back. Look, you've lost weight."

Mother Tan Bingzhen followed closely behind, holding a cup of hot ginger tea in her hand, and whispered softly:

"Hurry up and drink some hot tea to warm yourself up. You've been traveling so hard, don't catch a cold in this winter."

As he said this, he handed the teacup to Yue Wenxuan.

The heat in the cup seemed to carry the taste of home, warm and familiar.

Yue Wenxuan took the teacup, and his heart was filled with indescribable emotion. He took a sip, and the warmth instantly dispelled the fatigue and coldness of the journey, turning into a warm current that flowed into his heart.

He put down his teacup, took a few steps forward, bowed deeply, and said to his parents and grandmother, "I am an unfilial son. I am sorry to have caused you two to worry."

The two elders pulled Yue Wenxuan inside, one on each side. When he came in front of his father Yue Hanzhang, they bowed and greeted him again.

Yue Hanzhang acted like a father. Although he missed his father terribly in his heart, he pretended to be indifferent on the surface.

The family sat together in Yongning Hall. The table was filled with all kinds of hometown snacks, including soft and sweet glutinous rice cakes, crispy and delicious melon seeds and peanuts, and some of Yuan's favorite fruit snacks.

Old Madam Yue held Yue Wenxuan's hand and chattered on and on about the changes in the family during this period, and from time to time she asked Yue Wenxuan about what he had seen and heard in the Magic City during this period.

Yue Wenxuan listened quietly, occasionally interjecting a few words. The atmosphere was warm and harmonious, as if even time had slowed down at this moment.

The family chatted for a while, and Yue Wenxuan suggested going to visit his younger sister Yue Suqin.

When I walked into my younger sister's room, a faint scent of medicine wafted into my nose. My younger sister was lying on the bed. She was no longer as lively and alert as before, and her face was a little pale, but her eyes were shining with joy of seeing her brother return.

Yue Wenxuan sat beside the bed, gently touched her forehead, and confirmed that she was fine, then he felt relieved.

He took out a few fairy tale books he brought back from the Magic City from his luggage, handed them to his little sister, and said with a smile: "The stories in these books are very interesting. When you get better, I will read them to you."

The younger sister Yue Suqin took the book, her eyes sparkling with excitement, as if the pain was instantly relieved. She hugged the book tightly and said softly: "Thank you, brother, I will get better soon."

Yue Wenxuan sat with his younger sister for a while, and arranged for the accompanying maid to take good care of her, and then he reluctantly returned to his grandmother's Yongning Hall.

Returning to Yongning Hall, Yue Hanzhang first asked about Yue Wenxuan's studies. Although he had already learned these things from letters, he still felt extremely proud when he heard his son mention it again.

It is rare to see young people like Yue Wenxuan who can graduate from college at such a young age, not to mention that he obtained bachelor's degrees in three majors at once, which makes the whole family even more proud.

After talking about his studies, Yue Hanzhang began to inquire about the business status of the Magic City Baicaotang, "There has been no communication or telegrams recently, how is the business of Baicaotang?
The New Year is coming to an end, and it is the coldest time of the year. According to the practice in previous years, the business situation this month should be greatly improved. "

Yue Wenxuan said: "This month's business conditions are indeed very good. Apart from the precious medicinal materials I provided, other operating income has increased by at least a quarter compared to last month."