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Chapter 437 - Chapter 437 437. So much attention to detail_1

Chapter 437: 437. So much attention to detail_1 Chapter 437: 437. So much attention to detail_1 Wu Lan’s intention in saying this was to prepare the girl in front of her that their Golden Sakura could not be priced below this amount.

However, Guo Dong paused for a moment, then burst into laughter.

“Auntie, I’m guessing that 30 yuan per jin is just a gimmick, and you won’t easily get that price.”

She was telling the truth: “Like us, when following herbal merchants to Traditional Chinese Medicine production areas, the price of processed Golden Sakura can range from 30 to 80 yuan per kilogram, depending on the quality. 70 yuan would already be the price for top-quality late harvest dried fruit.”

“Kilogram? Late harvest?”

Wu Lan’s dreams shattered in an instant.

“Mhmm.” Guo Dong earnestly explained, “The harvest of Golden Sakura is divided into early, mid, and late harvest. The early harvest consists of immature small fruits with the lowest quality. The late harvest comprises naturally matured, golden-red large fruits, which are dried and processed for sale like this.”

“Also, many are now cultivating thornless varieties, which further reduces the harvesting costs.”

But this price gap was just too significant.

From fresh fruit to dried fruit wasn’t enough, even spanning from jin to kilograms–so what exactly was all the hard work for?

Wu Lan, now accustomed to high prices for things at home, found it difficult to accept such a discrepancy.

Her dejection was visibly apparent.

“It can’t be helped.”

Guo Dong smiled with particular empathy, “Nowadays, everyone is looking for scaled cultivation, which can ensure consistent quality and make harvesting easier. This brings down the prices of products.”

Scaled cultivation is all about mass production. By harvesting in bulk and then sorting by quality, though the prices may vary, overall, it is still quite profitable.

“However, your family does have an advantage. From the videos, the Golden Sakura from your place looks far superior to others; if it truly meets that standard, I could offer 50 yuan per jin for your dried product.”

“If you don’t believe me, let’s not discuss further today. You can go back and ask those you know in the herbal business to see what prices they offer.”

“I can assure you, my offer is the most fair.”

After all, most buyers purchase to resell, and the price cannot possibly hit the ceiling.

The reason Guo Dong had saved up a decent amount of money was because she had her excellent medicinal formulas, which happened to require the use of Golden Sakura.

Purchasing at a high price, processing it into pills back home… that’s where the real markup comes into play.

She was very confident about this.

After all, 50 yuan per jin was indeed a high price compared to the previous maximum of 80 yuan per kilogram.

For the average farmer, collecting one to two hundred jin of Golden Sakura in a day, even accounting for weight loss during processing, would be a significant bonus.

Based on Guo Dong’s past experiences, people would surely be thrilled.

But now…

She looked around and felt that things weren’t quite as she had expected.

It wasn’t just Wu Lan who lacked enthusiasm, but even the others following behind were disinterested and whispering, “50 yuan per jin, after processing–so just de-thorning and drying? That’s such a hassle; we’re better off just keeping it to brew wine.”

Guo Dong: …

Although the reaction of the group seemed off, she still tried to explain, “Oven-drying is also an option.”

“Golden Sakura has a high sugar content, so sun-drying won’t completely dry it out; it can only guarantee drying to about 90%, making it difficult to preserve.”

“Oven-drying is better, as it can thoroughly dry the fruit, and the sugar will look quite attractive without affecting the medicinal properties.”

“Golden Sakura also has some impressive effects–securing the kidney essence and stopping discharge, treating prolonged diarrhea due to deficient cold, and also firming the essence–”

Qiaoqiao also nodded and loudly added, “And boosting virility!”

Guo Dong: …

She couldn’t help but laugh.

“Don’t listen to those folk remedies; Golden Sakura isn’t used like that–it has the effect of firming the essence and reducing urination, but it can’t be used as a virility enhancer. It must be combined with other medicines… and it can only treat deficiency conditions, not excess conditions.”

What?

What deficiency syndrome or actual syndrome? And it can’t even help with virility?

Everyone was stunned.

…

Stunned as they were, everyone eventually made it up the mountain.

When they rounded the slope, what appeared before Guo Dong was a gigantic wall of flowers.

The verdant wall stretched and twined along a tall fence, with branches climbing over two meters high! Green leaves, golden-red fruits, and white flowers with yellow stamens trembled in the wind like butterfly wings…

Bees buzzed through the dense blossoms, and beautiful black butterflies perched on the branches. When the wind stirred, the entire flower wall looked like something out of a dream.

Although Guo Dong had already seen the dreamy scene in the video with music, when she witnessed it with her own eyes, she couldn’t help but stand there in awe, completely lost for words at the sight.

But the amazement didn’t last long.

Because Wu Lan, who went up the mountain to pick tea leaves every day, was already used to the sight and was now eagerly approaching the densely-packed, thorny Golden Sakura, asking expectantly:

“How much can you give for these?”

If it was too little, she might as well not sell at all. That’s what she was thinking.

After all, the dried ones go for fifty a pound, and the fresh fruits should be at least three pounds, right? With so many thorns, the money wouldn’t even cover the labor.

Before Guo Dong could speak, she heard the sound of panting from behind the flower wall.

Song Tan opened the iron gate, and Dabao and Erbao immediately came bounding over, sniffing around enthusiastically and wagging their tails.

“Dabao, Erbao!” Qiaoqiao was already crouching down happily, rubbing the two dog heads:

“You must have heard my footsteps, right? You’re so smart! What do you want to eat tonight? Is there still water for you? There are lots of melon rinds to eat today…”

He babbled on and on, one question after another, while Dabao and Erbao, unable to answer, began to lick him furiously.

Only then did Guo Dong notice that this tall boy who had been following her side with a clear and confused gaze seemed to be…

However, she soon turned her attention away and started to seriously inspect the Golden Sakura:

“They’ve grown really well…”

She murmured.

“This scale, it’s definitely not possible without seven or eight years of diligent trimming.”

“That’s right!”

Wu Lan started to feel proud: “This is our family’s specially selected big seedlings. They are all three or five years old, and there’s also a mother plant–look, that tallest and largest one is it.”

“What?”

Guo Dong was taken aback.

Her gaze swept across the overly lush Golden Sakura: “How many years have you been planting these?”

The branches were thick, the flowers abundant, the leaves glossy, and there were so many densely packed thorns… Even though it wasn’t the peak fruiting season, there were already so many ripe fruits…

The standardized management at the plantations, even the thornless Golden Sakura didn’t look this good!

“This year.”

Wu Lan was forthright.

In her memory, these plants could grow really long even in the wild, so with some fertilizer in their own family’s field, wasn’t it natural for them to grow to such a scale?

But in reality, this scale was especially astonishing.

At the very least, Guo Dong had never seen such quality in those famous plantations suitable for growing medicinal herbs.

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