Reincarnation - The Divine Doctor and Stay-at-home Dad

Chapter 10: Free of charge

Qin Haodong did have something to do — he was going out to get a present for Tang Tang. Lin Momo had agreed to let him be Tang Tang's godfather, and he needed a gift for when his daughter called him "father" for the first time.

The market was very big. There were small stalls lining the path for about two kilometers after the entrance, and behind them was a huge medicine wholesale market.

In the wholesale market were large-scale wholesalers of medicinal materials which had high quality, so the prices were naturally higher.

The stalls outside sold medicinal materials picked from the mountains by nearby medicine farmers. Their prices were lower, on average, but with good and bad materials mixed together, it was easy to get fake medicines.

Qin Haodong didn't need to worry about these. As a practitioner, he was very sensitive to Spiritual Qi. He could distinguish the authenticity and the year of the medicinal materials at a glance.

The two most important ingredients for the preparation of the Marrow-Cleansing Pill were Polygonum multiflorum and Ginseng. Normally, this would be very simple, but the pill required the herbs to be hundreds of years old.

He walked slowly along the stalls outside and hadn't found anything after walking past half the stalls. After all, there weren't many wild herbs in this era, let alone precious herbs aged hundreds of years.

The scattered stalls were coming to an end when Qin Haodong's eyes were caught by a Polygonum multiflorum in a stall. A quick glance told him the specimen was several hundred years old.

The stall owner was a middle-aged man about who stood out amongst the other vendors. It was midsummer in Jiangnan, and most people wore very little clothing; some had even stripped to the waist. This man, however, wore long clothes and trousers with his body all covered up as if he was afraid of catching a cold. He looked pale and fatigued.

"How much is this?" Qin Haodong asked, pointing at the hundred-year-old Polygonum multiflorum at the vendor's feet.

The vendor perked up at the sight of a customer. He said, "This Polygonum multiflorum is aged. It costs 20,000 yuan!"

"20,000?" Qin Haodong was surprised and said, "Isn't that a little overpriced?"

In fact, he was surprised that the price was so low. According to the normal market conditions, the price of Polygonum multiflorum this old should be over 100,000 yuan. It seemed that the vendor only knew that the herb was aged, but he did not know that it had reached 100 years.

The vendor said, "This is pure wild Polygonum multiflorum. I dug it out from a remote mountain, myself. It had been growing for at least 40 or 50 years. 20,000 yuan is not expensive at all."

Sure enough, the vendor did not know the value of his product.

Qin Haodong said, "The appearance of this Polygonum multiflorum is not good. It looks like it has been displayed for a long time. Most people would not buy it. I'll pay 10,000 yuan for it, no more."

The vendor hesitated for a moment. This particular herb was not appreciated, despite its age. It had been on display for over a month. "All right, 10,000 yuan." After all, it was hard for retail vendors to sell high-end medicinal materials when all the rich people would go to the wholesale market to avoid getting fake goods.

"Deal!"

Qin Haodong was delighted with the fact that he acquired one main ingredient for his prescription.

He took the medicinal material and reached into his pocket. His expression became awkward immediately when he pulled out only one coin.

Only then did he realize that he was no longer the Emperor Green Wood of the Divine World with endless money. This one-yuan coin was the only currency he had.