West Main Street was the main street of Songhua Town, with shops lining both sides. At noon, there were relatively fewer passersby.

Liu Changning entered Jishi Hall according to the original owner’s memory.

Jishi Hall was the largest medicine shop in Songhua Town. It was said that because the owner had a deep background, there was a medicine shop named “Jishi Hall” in towns big and small throughout the Jin Feng Dynasty.

The shopkeeper was an old woman with a head of silver hair. She walked out from the inner hall where she was seeing patients, her cloudy eyes shrewd and wise.

Liu Changning was wearing a short, coarse cloth outfit with patches on it. She thought that entering the medicine shop, she would be driven out. But fortunately, in the entire medicine shop, whether it was the medicine boy or the shopkeeper, none of them showed any disdain.

Liu Changning’s eyes steadied slightly, and she bowed to the old woman who came out, saying, “I’m here to sell medicine. Can the shopkeeper spare a moment to talk?”

The shopkeeper’s cloudy eyes shot out a sharp light, and she did not respond, only secretly sizing up Liu Changning.

Although the peasant woman in front of her looked poor, her expression was calm and her bearing was extraordinary. Her every movement was polite and proper, unlike an ordinary peasant woman.

Usually, when people from rural households came to sell medicine, Shopkeeper Li did not personally handle it.

It was all handled by the medicine boys in the shop, but today, by chance, she happened to glance over and saw this person.

Her cloudy eyes looked past her to the basket on her back, which was covered with a piece of tattered cloth, making it impossible to see what was inside.

Shopkeeper Li nodded, a smile in her eyes.

It should be known that although some rural matrons occasionally came to sell medicinal materials, they did not know how to process the herbs from the mountains and exposed them to the sun. Herbs could not withstand direct sunlight, and many lost their medicinal properties as a result.

She put down the palm-leaf fan in her hand, a kind smile on her face, and led the other party into the inner hall.

After the medicine boy served the tea, Liu Changning did not act coy. With the shopkeeper’s permission, she picked up the porcelain cup and drank the tea in one gulp.

She put down the teacup in her hand, took off the bamboo basket on her back, and lifted the tattered cloth, revealing the lingzhi mushrooms inside.

The old shopkeeper’s originally squinting eyes suddenly opened wide. She quickly walked to the bamboo basket, squatted down, and placed her rough, dry hands on the roots of the lingzhi mushrooms.

The look of surprise on her face was unstoppable.

After a long while, she finally raised her head and asked, “Miss, are you selling lingzhi mushrooms?”

Liu Changning raised her hand, tucked the loose strands of hair behind her ear, and smiled, “Shopkeeper, this basket of herbs is all for sale. The roots are all well preserved. You are an expert in their medicinal value, so you must understand them better than I do!”

Shopkeeper Li’s gaze followed her fingertips to the bamboo basket. Wow, besides lingzhi mushrooms, there were even a few precious medicinal materials.

Originally, the shop lacked precious medicinal materials, but now a seemingly ordinary woman had brought so many medicinal materials. Her excitement was beyond words.

Shopkeeper Li’s eyes were full of light. She straightened up, and her gaze towards Liu Changning became even more amiable. She took out an abacus from the counter and replied straightforwardly, “Jishi Hall will buy all your herbs. Miss, give a price!”

Liu Changning tapped her slender fingers on the table. She was not flustered, her round eyes staring steadily at the shopkeeper who was fiddling with the abacus on the table. She said slowly, “I live in the mountains behind, and I will definitely have more herbs to sell to you in the future. So the price is for you to decide, Shopkeeper. If it’s reasonable, I will supply all the herbs to Jishi Hall in the future. What do you think?”

The smile at the corner of Shopkeeper Li’s lips deepened, and the satisfaction in her sunken eyes grew even more. The woman in front of her behaved properly and knew how to be accommodating. In the long run, she would definitely not be a mere fish in the pond. Anyway, making friends with such a character might bring unexpected rewards in the future.

“Since the young lady is so modest, this old woman will not refuse. The herbs you brought today are mostly well preserved, and there are a few rare herbs. Plus a precious black lingzhi mushroom. This old woman will buy this basket of herbs for twenty taels of silver. How about that?”

Liu Changning pondered for a moment and nodded, “Alright.”