It's just wild wolfberries, and the price of eighty yuan a pound really frightened Zhao Xiaoning. At one point, he wondered if he was hallucinating.

"Is eighty-one catties expensive?" Miao Miao said: "The market price of ordinary wolfberries is about thirty yuan, and the price of fresh fruits will double." These wolfberries of yours are uniform in size and bright in color, and the quality of these wolfberries is better than that of Ningxia. Eighty dollars is worth this quality. ”

Zhao Xiaoning was overjoyed, if this is the case, then these wolfberries can be sold for eight or nine hundred yuan.

"A total of eleven catties and nine taels, for the sake of our old classmates, I will count twelve catties for you, a total of nine hundred and sixty yuan. After weighing, Miao Miao directly calculated the final value.

"Old classmate, I have a prescription here, can you help me prepare the medicinal materials on it?" Zhao Xiaoning took out the list of medicinal materials needed for the summer soup.

Miao Miao glanced at it a few times, and couldn't help but ask, "What is this prescription for?" ”

Zhao Xiaoning said: "It was the old Chinese medicine doctor in our village who asked me to catch it, and I don't know what it is." You can say if there is any. ”

"Yes. You wait a minute, I'll help you get the medicine. "Yangyitang is a chain institution with a hundred years of heritage, although it is a branch in the town, there are also many medicinal herbs.

After about twenty minutes, Miao Miao grasped all the medicinal materials on the prescription and said, "A total of two thousand three hundred and fifty-two yuan." After subtracting the previous nine hundred and sixty dollars, you still need to give me 1,300 or 12 dollars. ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Xiaoning was dumbfounded, and finally picked some wolfberries, originally planning to sell some money to fill the family, but now it is good, in order to buy the medicinal materials for the summer soup, not only can he not get the nine hundred and sixty yuan, but he also has to paste more than 1,300 yuan upside down. It's.

"Ahem, Miao Miao, I don't have much money, or I'll forget it first. Zhao Xiaoning said embarrassedly.

Miao Miao directly handed the medicinal materials in the plastic bag to Zhao Xiaoning: "You can use these medicinal materials first, and the rest of the money will be owed first." It's never too late to give me the money when you have it. ”

Zhao Xiaoning said: "This is not appropriate, right?"

Miao Miao smiled and said, "Who hasn't had a difficult time? As an old classmate, of course, I can help if I have the ability." There's nothing wrong with that, unless you don't take me as an old classmate seriously. ”

"Thank you. Zhao Xiaoning said solemnly.

At this time, someone came to buy medicinal herbs. Seeing this, Zhao Xiaoning said: "Miao Miao, I'll go back first, and I'll come back to you another day." ”

"Bye-bye. Miao Miao waved her hand.

After returning home, Zhao Xiaoning began to chop wood, and now that the medicinal materials for boiling the summer soup are available, it is time for him to make the next plan.

Chopping a large pile of wood, Zhao Xiaoning made two buckets of well water, then boiled the water, and at the same time put the medicinal herbs into the pot in turn according to the steps in the Shennong inheritance.

Slow boiling, simmering can make the medicinal effects of different herbs well and not evaporated by boiling water. Therefore, making summer soup is a waste of energy.

As time passed, the pot also emitted a burst of smell of medicinal herbs, which was pungent at first, but when different herbs entered the pot and merged with those herbs, the taste changed. There is a faint fragrance, which is particularly good.

After more than three hours, Zhao Xiaoning extinguished the fire, and after such a long time of boiling, the water in the pot also evaporated a little. The original clear water has turned brown. The summer soup is now complete.

Although the summer soup was boiled, Zhao Xiaoning did not move, and he had to wait for the medicinal materials in it to completely settle down, otherwise the taste would be affected when he drank it.

Suddenly, Zhao Xiaoning thought of a very serious question, how much should this pot of almost fifty catties of summer soup be sold for?

The principal of 2,352 is only about 50 catties of summer soup, that is to say, if you want not to lose money, you have to sell it for 47 yuan per catty. And this is only capital preservation, if you want to make money, the price must be raised.

It was very hot, but thinking of this, Zhao Xiaoning's heart was cold. Let's just say forty-seven servings, this price may not be accepted even in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, let alone in the town.

"Yaya, this business is not easy to do. I really should have calculated the cost in the first place. Zhao Xiaoning regretted it a little. However, there is no regret medicine in the world, so you can only try it boldly.

Early the next morning, Zhao Xiaoning went to Phoenix Mountain, and compared with the first day, the harvest this time was obviously worse, and only four hares were caught.

Disemboweled, Zhao Xiaoning put the rabbit meat into the well, and then put the summer soup in the pot with a water scoop and put it into a brand-new oil drum, because it was a fifty-pound oil drum, so it happened to be all loaded. Only some soup with the residue remained.

After working hard for so long and spending so much money, Zhao Xiaoning also became curious about the summer soup, scooped some, and then took a sip gently.

Although it is made with more than 30 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, the taste is not very strong, and there is no Chinese medicine flavor that is difficult to swallow. On the contrary, there is a sweet taste, which is not much different from the kind of herbal tea sold in the market.

Of course, after drinking it, Zhao Xiaoning felt the difference, and the summer soup entered his abdomen, and his whole body suddenly became cool. It's like drinking a bottle of chilled Sprite, not to mention how enjoyable it is.

The taste of the summer soup gave Zhao Xiaoning some confidence, rode to the bus station in the town, and spent fifteen yuan to buy a ticket to the county seat.

The cost of summer soup has already determined its market, and no one in the town is willing to buy it at all, and it is precisely because of this that Zhao Xiaoning decided to go to the county seat to give it a try.

Zhoucheng, a county-level city with a population of more than 3 million, although it is a county-level city, Zhoucheng is one of the top 100 counties and cities in the country, occupying the 30th place in the latest ranking. There are several large coal mines in Zhoucheng, and it is precisely because of these coal mines that Zhoucheng will have today's prosperity.

The spacious road is full of cars and new buildings on both sides of the road, revealing the city's prosperity.

Of course, what Zhao Xiaoning couldn't stand the most was that those scantily dressed women, countless long legs made him dizzy.

The bus did not arrive at the station, and Zhao Xiaoning got off in the center of Zhoucheng.

The washed yellow T-shirt, the black pants that have been washed into gray, and the mille-feuille bottom, are typical of the outfit of a poor boy in the countryside. I saw him holding an oil drum in one hand and a pack of disposable water cups in the other. In an instant, it became the focus of attention on the street, and countless people pointed and pointed at it, not knowing what they were talking about.

Finding a place where the sun is scorching, Zhao Xiaoning shouted loudly: "Summer soup, fifty yuan a cup, come and buy it." ”

As soon as these words came out, the passers-by immediately boiled, fifty yuan a cup? Is this guy crazy for money?