Chapter 1313
The Feeling of Making More Money
Of course, in those days, due to limitations in printing technology, there weren't many counterfeit bills. Even if there were, they were mostly drawn by people with pens, and anyone with decent eyesight could tell the difference between real and fake bills at a glance.
Li Yongrui took out 10 stacks of cash, then randomly pulled out another stack and counted out 23 bills. He then pushed all 10 stacks and the 23 loose bills in front of Feng Chengmin.
He smiled and said to Feng Chengmin:
"That's 10222.7 yuan in total. Let's round it up to 10230 yuan. Hehehehe."
It was clear that not only Feng Chengmin was very happy, but Li Yongrui was also extremely pleased.
To everyone's surprise, as Feng Chengmin stood speechless in shock, holding a bundle of ten-yuan notes and 223 yuan in loose change, Wang An said to Li Yongrui:
“Brother Li, this is my uncle-in-law. We would never make money off him. As for the extra 10%, just give it all to my uncle-in-law.”
Back when they were at Li's Pharmacy, Li Ziqian had said that if Wang An and his two companions sold them bear bile, bezoar, and pig gallstones, they would raise the purchase price by 10%.
Wang An and the other two remembered this very well!
Li Yongrui was taken aback by what he heard, then nodded and smiled, saying:
"I thought you brought people here just to earn that extra 10%. I'm so sorry, so sorry."
So, to Feng Chengmin's utter bewilderment, Li Yongrui pulled out another stack of ten-yuan notes, counted out 1020 yuan, and handed it to Feng Chengmin, saying with a smile:
"This time, round it up for me, I'll give you 2.27 yuan less, hehehehe."
Feng Chengmin stared blankly at the stack of ten-yuan notes in front of him for two or three seconds before turning to look at Wang An.
Wang An smiled and said:
"This was all agreed upon beforehand. Uncle, you just need to collect the money and that's it."
Feng Chengmin took the money, his mouth practically twitching with a grin, and said politely:
“I’m already charging you too much. Why don’t you wait a moment and I’ll give you 5 yuan in change? Why would I charge you more?”
As he spoke, Feng Chengmin reached into his pocket, but Li Yongrui immediately laughed and said:
"No need, no need. This is the rule of our Li's Pharmacy. We'll cover the difference."
Turning around, Li Yongrui picked up the bear bile that Wang An had brought and continued to examine it.
Of the 10 bear gallbladders that Wang An brought, 3 were golden gallbladders from brown bears.
The largest bear gallbladder was the one from the bear that ambushed Wang An when everyone went to JY to pan for gold last year. This bear gallbladder belonged to Wang An himself.
The second brown bear gallbladder belonged to Wang An, who hunted a brown bear in Weizigou when he went there to help hunt brown bears.
The third brown bear golden gallstone was the one that Wang An and his two companions hunted in the mountains almost two months ago. It was the same brown bear that someone else had killed. Of course, this brown bear was also the one that Lao Xiao Pao from Sujiatun asked Mu Xueli and his two companions to hunt, but Wang An disagreed because the commission was too high.
The bear gallbladder found during the gold panning was from a bear weighing over 1000 jin (approximately 500 kg). Its weight was considerable. The bile powder was not only golden in color, but the weight of the pure bile powder was also as high as 299.94 grams, just a little short of 300 grams, or 6 liang (approximately 300 grams).
However, Li Yongrui was very accommodating and immediately decided to charge 300 grams at 14 yuan per gram, which would bring the price to exactly 4200 yuan!
If this bear gall bladder were sold to a supply and marketing cooperative or a medicinal herb purchasing station, it would only fetch around 1900 yuan at most, more than double the price.
Wang An's second brown bear gallbladder, the one from Weizigou, wasn't very large, and the bile powder was brownish-yellow. The net bile powder weighed only 154.97 grams, which rounds up to 155 grams. At 12 yuan per gram, the price was 1860 yuan.
Even so, it still made more than 900 yuan more than the supply and marketing cooperative.
When Li Yongrui was about to pick up the third bear gallbladder, Wang An handed him a very ordinary black bear gallbladder and a very small black bear iron gallbladder.
Because these two bear gallbladders also belonged to Wang An. Back then, when Wang An and Wang Li went into the mountains to hunt for meat, they unintentionally saved the three Gao brothers who were digging for ginseng and bringing them home, but at the same time, they also killed two bears, one large and one small.
To save time on accounting, Wang An gave Wang Li a larger share of the ginseng that the three Gao brothers had given him as payment, leaving the two bear gallbladders to Wang An alone.
Looking at the two bear gallbladders, especially the particularly small iron gallbladder, Li Yongrui couldn't help but chuckle softly:
"This gallbladder is too small. Is it the gallbladder of a young bear?"
Wang An nodded and said:
"Yeah, it only weighs a few dozen pounds, it's really small. If the mother bear hadn't hurt people, we wouldn't have bothered with it."
Li Yongrui placed the small iron bladder on the scale; it weighed just over 9 grams, less than 10 grams. Li Yongrui thought for a moment and said:
"How about we skip the inspection and just sell the powder? Let's just charge 100 yuan, okay?"
Upon hearing this, Wang An readily agreed:
"Sure, 100 yuan it is, you decide."
Wang An naturally agreed, mainly because although the iron gall was not large, its outer shell was quite thick. If the outer shell were removed, the gall powder from this small iron gall might be less than 7 grams. Even if the gall powder was dark brown, it would still cost less than 100 yuan in total, so 100 yuan was indeed quite a lot.
Seeing that Wang An agreed, Li Yongrui casually put the dried iron gall, which was only the size of an adult's thumb, aside without even glancing at it a second time, and picked up the grass gall.
After testing and weighing, the net weight of this gallbladder powder is 53.54 grams, which is 53.5 grams. At 9 yuan per gram, the price is 481.5 yuan.
Even such an ordinary grass gall is priced 140 or 150 yuan higher than the price at the supply and marketing cooperative.
Thus, the price of Wang An's four bear bile ducts was determined, totaling 6641.5 yuan.
The next six bear gallbladders belonged to Wang An and his two companions.
Brown Bear Bile Powder is golden yellow in color. The net weight of the bile powder is 267.63 grams, which is calculated as 267.6 grams. The price is 14 yuan per gram, and the total price is 3746.4 yuan.
The bear bile powder is golden yellow, with a net weight of 135.67 grams (approximately 135.7 grams). The price is 25 yuan per gram, totaling 3392.5 yuan.
The black bear gall bladder I also managed to get while fighting the bear was brownish-yellow in color. The net weight of the gall bladder powder was 51.25 grams, so let's say 51.3 grams. The price was 20 yuan per gram, so the total price was 1026 yuan.
There were also three grass gallbladders, which were from the time Wang An and his two companions went into the mountains to hunt meat. They killed three black bears in total, but all three bears dropped grass gallbladders, and there was also a small black bear.
Therefore, after inspection and weighing, the converted prices are 806.4 yuan, 326.7 yuan, and 100 yuan respectively.
That's right, another gallbladder for exactly 100 yuan appeared, the gallbladder of that little black bear. Li Yongrui was too lazy to even inspect the goods.
In the end, the three of them sold bear bile for a total of 9398 yuan. Including Wang An's own 6641.5 yuan, the total came to 16039.5 yuan.
I have to say, the feeling of making more money this way is truly exhilarating! (End of Chapter)