Legend of the Great Sage

Chapter 21: 21

Li Qingshan arrived at the finest establishment for alcohol in the town and bought over a dozen jars of fine alcohol, filling up the ox cart . Afterwards, he followed the detailed list the black ox had provided him with and bought most of the necessary items from the medicine store . However, the most important ginseng could not be bought there .

Within the largest inn in Cypress Stream town, a group of people with large bamboo hats and medicinal baskets on their backs drank tea quietly . Even when they were in the inn, they did not take off their hats or baskets .

From time to time, the shopkeepers of the larger medicine stores would enter the inn and open the baskets to take a look . Afterwards, they would put their hands into their sleeves and haggle prices with these people . If they were successful, they would take a packet of ginseng that varied in size from the baskets .

These people were ginseng foragers from the Ginseng King village . Similar to the Drawn Reins village, they resided deep within the mountains, but they made a living off gathering ginseng in the mountains . Obviously, they sold ginseng for the lowest price .

Li Qingshan parked the ox cart in front of the inn and looked around before striding to the corner . He said to the ginseng foragers, “I want to buy ginseng!”

The ginseng foragers saw how young he was and how he was dressed in tatters, so they scorned him . None of them actually answered him .

Li Qingshan frowned . He took out his remaining thousand or so silver notes from his clothes and placed it on the table, “I want to buy ginseng!”