Of course, in this era, due to the limitations of printing technology, counterfeit money was not common. Even when it existed, most of it was hand-drawn with pens; as long as a person's eyesight was fine, they could basically tell the difference at a glance.
Li Yongrui took out ten stacks from the inside, then randomly pulled one stack and counted out 23 bills, pushing the ten stacks and the loose 23 "Big Unity" bills toward Feng Chengmin.
He said to Feng Chengmin with a beaming smile
"A total of 10,222.7 yuan. Let's round it up and call it 10,230 yuan, hehehehe..."
It was clear that not only was Feng Chengmin very happy, but Li Yongrui was also very pleased.
Unexpectedly, while Feng Chengmin was holding the bundle of Big Unity bills and the loose 223 yuan, shocked into silence, Wang An spoke to Li Yongrui
"Brother Li, this is my biological great-uncle. We can't make money off him. The extra ten percent from before should be given to my great-uncle now."
Back at the Li Family Pharmacy, Li Ziqian had said that as long as Wang An's trio sold bear gall, bezoars, and pig stones to them, they would increase the purchase price by another ten percent.
Wang An and his companions remembered this point very clearly!
Li Yongrui was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile and said
"I thought you brought him here just to earn that extra ten percent. My apologies, truly my apologies."
Thus, under Feng Chengmin's completely bewildered gaze, Li Yongrui took out another stack of Big Unity bills, counted out 1,020 yuan, and handed them to Feng Chengmin, saying with a smile
"This time, you round it for me; I'll give you 2.27 yuan less, hehehehe..."
Feng Chengmin stared at the stack of Big Unity bills in front of him, dazed for two or three seconds, before turning to look at Wang An.
Wang An smiled
"This was all agreed upon beforehand. Great-uncle, just take the money."
As Feng Chengmin took the money, the corners of his mouth nearly twisted sideways from smiling, and he said politely
"I'm taking too much of your money. How about you wait a moment and I'll find 5 yuan in change for you? Why would I take extra money from you?"
As he spoke, Feng Chengmin reached into his satchel, but Li Yongrui immediately smiled
"No need, no need. This is the rule of our Li Family Pharmacy; we cover the loose change."
Turning around, Li Yongrui picked up the bear galls Wang An had brought and continued the inspection.
Among the ten bear galls Wang An brought, three were "Golden Galls" from brown bears.
The largest one was the gall from the bear that had ambushed Wang An when everyone went gold prospecting in JY last year; this gall belonged to Wang An himself.
The second brown bear Golden Gall was from the one killed in Weizigou when Wang An went to help hunt brown bears; this gall also belonged to Wang An.
Only the third brown bear Golden Gall was from a brown bear that Wang An's trio had found half-killed in the mountains nearly two months ago. Of course, that brown bear was the one Old Xiao Pao from Sujiatun had asked Mu Xueli's trio to hunt, but Wang An had refused because the commission was too high.
The gall from the gold prospecting trip came from a massive bear weighing over 1,000 jin, so its weight was significant. Not only was the gall powder golden yellow, but the net weight of the powder was as high as 299.94 grams—just a tiny bit shy of 300 grams, or 6 liang.
However, Li Yongrui was very generous and immediately decided to count it as 300 grams. At 14 yuan per gram, the price was exactly 4,200 yuan!
If this brown bear Golden Gall were sold to a supply and marketing cooperative or a medicinal herb collection station, it would be worth at most around 1,900 yuan—a difference of more than double.
Wang An's second brown bear Golden Gall, the one from Weizigou, was not that large, and the powder was brownish-yellow. The net powder weight was 154.97 grams, rounded to 155 grams. At 12 yuan per gram, the price was 1,860 yuan.
Even so, it was still over 900 yuan more than what the supply and marketing cooperative would pay.
Just as Li Yongrui was about to pick up the third brown bear Golden Gall, Wang An instead handed over a very ordinary black bear "Grass Gall" and an exceptionally small black bear "Iron Gall."
This was because these two black bear galls also belonged to Wang An.
Previously, when Wang An and Wang Li went into the mountains for meat, they had accidentally saved the three Gao brothers who were digging for ginseng, but they had also killed one large and one small black bear.
Later, to make the accounting simpler, Wang An gave a larger share of the ginseng—which the Gao brothers had given as a reward—to Wang Li, so these two bear galls belonged solely to Wang An.
Looking at these two galls, especially the tiny Iron Gall, Li Yongrui couldn't help but chuckle softly
"This Iron Gall is too small. Is this from a cub?"
Wang An nodded
"Yep. It was only a few dozen jin, really small. If the mother bear hadn't attacked people, we wouldn't have bothered with it."
Li Yongrui placed the small Iron Gall on the scale; it was only 9 grams, not even 10. Li Yongrui thought for a moment and said
"How about we skip the inspection and powdering for this one and just call it 100 yuan? Does that work?"
Hearing this, Wang An agreed very readily
"Sure, 100 yuan it is. Whatever you say."
Wang An naturally agreed. The main reason was that although the Iron Gall wasn't large, the gall wall was quite thick. If the wall were removed, the powder might be less than 7 grams. Even if the powder were dark brown, the total would be less than 100 yuan, so 100 yuan was actually quite a lot.
Seeing Wang An agree, Li Yongrui casually set aside the dried Iron Gall, which was only the size of an adult's thumb, without a second glance, and picked up the Grass Gall.
After testing and weighing, the net powder weight of this Grass Gall was 53.54 grams, counted as 53.5 grams. At 9 yuan per gram, the price was 481.5 yuan.
Even for a Grass Gall as ordinary as could be, the price was still 140 to 150 yuan higher than the supply and marketing cooperative's price.
At this point, the prices for the four bear galls belonging to Wang An were settled, totaling 6,641.5 yuan.
The remaining six bear galls belonged to Wang An's trio.
A brown bear Golden Gall, golden yellow powder, net weight 267.63 grams, counted as 267.6 grams, unit price 14 yuan/gram, price 3,746.4 yuan.
A "Human-Bear" Golden Gall, golden yellow powder, net weight 135.67 grams, counted as 135.7 grams, unit price 25 yuan/gram, price 3,392.5 yuan.
A black bear Golden Gall killed alongside the Human-Bear, brownish-yellow powder, net weight 51.25 grams, counted as 51.3 grams, unit price 20 yuan/gram, price 1,026 yuan.
Then there were three Grass Galls from the time Wang An's trio went into the mountains for meat and killed three black bears, but all three yielded Grass Galls, including one small black bear.
Thus, after inspection and weighing, the converted prices were 806.4 yuan, 326.7 yuan, and 100 yuan respectively.
Indeed, another Grass Gall came out to exactly 100 yuan—the one from the small black bear. Li Yongrui didn't even bother to inspect it.
Finally, calculating the total, the bear galls for Wang An's trio sold for a total of 9,398 yuan. Adding Wang An's own 6,641.5 yuan, the grand total was 16,039.5 yuan.
It had to be said, this feeling of selling for more money was truly exhilarating! (End of Chapter)