Mountain village beauty: Brother, don't stop!

Chapter 104: Chapter 104 Le Tian Group

At this point, Wang Hao was at his wits’ end; he hadn’t expected Chen Hongying to go to such extremes.

"Since you’ve monopolized the high-end market, I’ll just earn a little less and start from the low-end market!"

Wang Hao couldn’t think of any other solution,

and could only settle for second best, starting from the low-end market.

Of course, this was only the beginning. In the future, Wang Hao still intended to dominate the high-end market. Chen Hongying might suppress him temporarily, but once he grew stronger, she wouldn’t be able to stop him anymore.

Most of Zao City was forested mountains, and there was a wide variety of medicinal herbs, so many towns had specialized markets for trading them.

Now was the season for harvesting mature medicinal herbs. Apart from precious ones like ginseng and Lingzhi, the rest needed to be dried before they could be traded.

Therefore, the market was quite quiet, and there were few traders.

Moreover, the locals all foraged in the mountains, and there were no reports of anyone cultivating their own, so everyone accumulated their stock little by little, leading to a wide variety of goods that looked quite disordered.

Wang Hao thought that he couldn’t sell like them at a stall in the future; how much sales volume could that possibly achieve?

Of course, there were also two small companies buying and wholesaling, but they were very small-scale.

"Yo, boss, you seem pretty free today!"

Wang Hao arrived at a small company that bought medicinal herbs at the western gate of the market and saw the owner was a middle-aged beauty with a mole between her eyebrows.

Though not stunningly beautiful, her well-proportioned figure was indeed enviable.

"The whole market’s so empty, you couldn’t even catch two ghosts here, of course, I’m free!"

The female owner continued cracking sunflower seeds and watching her drama series.

She glanced up at Wang Hao. Seeing his ordinary clothes and the absence of any medicinal herbs, she gave him an indifferent look.

"Do you buy Lingzhi here, boss?"

Wang Hao asked with a squint and a smile. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

"You have some?"

The female owner, upon hearing this, immediately paused the television, a smile appearing on her face as she approached Wang Hao. ƒгeewёbnovel.com

"Come come come, big brother, have a seat. If you’re selling Lingzhi, you’ve come to the right place. My prices are clearly marked, and absolutely no fakes!"

The female owner quickly poured a cup of tea.

"Big brother, take a sip of tea, and let’s chat slowly!"

She then went to get a price list but, worried that Wang Hao might leave, directly pulled him into the back room.

While it’s called a company, it was just made up of two partitions constructed of sheet metal, one for retail sales outside, and one inside serving as a warehouse.

Inside the back room, the female owner passed the price list to Wang Hao.

Wang Hao couldn’t help but laugh when he saw it. Although the prices were clearly marked, all the precious medicinal herbs had just one price, without any distinction for age or size, and the prices were pressed very low.

This meant either the female owner was a layperson who knew nothing about the need to differentiate precious herbs by age and quality or she saw Wang Hao’s youth and wanted to take advantage of him.

But seeing the female owner’s expression just now, Wang Hao was sure it was the latter.

"What do you think of these prices? Fair, right?"

The female owner asked anxiously.

"Madam boss, I think you might be mistaken, I’m not here to sell, I’m looking to buy your Lingzhi."

Wang Hao looked up and chuckled.

"Not selling, but buying?"

Upon hearing this, the female owner’s face immediately darkened, she sized up Wang Hao and said sarcastically.

"How much can you offer?"

"If you have any, I’ll buy it for triple the price listed here, how about that?"

Wang Hao asked tentatively.

"Triple?"

The female owner scoffed, giving Wang Hao a disdainful look.

"No goods, and even if there were, I wouldn’t sell!"

The female boss finished speaking, came out to sit on a chair, and started to crack open sunflower seeds, then continued watching her tv show.

"Look, you should try to buy from somewhere else, I don’t have what you want here!"

Without waiting for Wang Hao to speak again, the female boss started to shoo him away.

Wang Hao didn’t mind, exchanged a few polite words, and left.

"Country bumpkin!"

As soon as Wang Hao stepped out of the company, he heard the female boss curse behind his back with irritation.

Wang Hao didn’t react, considering that it was unnecessary to get upset with a woman.

After all, Wang Hao had already seen the information he needed from her.

He learned from the female boss that her supplier was someone who collected rare herbal medicines, and that the price was far higher than what she was paying—three times as much.

Wang Hao’s goal now was to find a way to get in touch with their supplier.

To confirm his speculation, Wang Hao visited another company and received almost the same reply as from the female boss.

However, this boss was a bit more honest than the female boss, perhaps because he saw Wang Hao coming from the woman’s company, so he offered Wang Hao a higher price.

But when he heard that Wang Hao wanted Lingzhi, he began to shoo him away just like the female boss did.

Therefore, Wang Hao concluded that there was a significant profit to be made with precious Lingzhi in the market.

The only difficulty now was how to get in contact with those upper buyers; directly asking these bosses would surely yield him no information.

"I heard that people from Le Tian Group are coming to buy herbal medicines tomorrow. What good stuff have you prepared?"

"What good stuff could I have? I haven’t even opened for business this year!"

"Really? I heard a few days ago that you gathered some Polygonum multiflorum. Maybe people from Le Tian might give you a good price for it!"

"They are just some common qualities. Who would be interested in those?"

Just as Wang Hao was about to leave the market, he overheard two vendors discussing and, curious, he moved closer to listen carefully.

Wang Hao had heard of Le Tian Group and was surprised that such a large corporation would come to buy herbal materials in a small county market.

To gain a more thorough understanding, Wang Hao offered a cigarette to each of the two bosses, and the three of them sat together, chatting more animatedly.

"Boss, I heard Le Tian Group is a famous national enterprise. Why would they come to such a small place to buy herbal medicines?" Wang Hao asked, puzzled.

"Haha, you don’t know this, do you? Of course, they wouldn’t come for ordinary herbal medicines. They have their own specialized suppliers. But for special herbal medicines, Le Tian’s executives only trust their own eyes," one of the bosses said, puffing out smoke with meaning.

"Is that so! But I’ve heard that some of Le Tian’s precious medicines are produced in very limited quantities each year. Do they really use all those ginseng and Lingzhi they purchase?" Wang Hao asked, skeptical.

"We aren’t sure about that, but rarity adds value. Those precious medicines they develop are Le Tian’s treasures and their brand signature. They only focus on quality."

"Le Tian looks for high-quality rare herbal medicines across the country every six months, I’ve heard. The selection is extremely rigorous; once selected, the price can be several times higher than the market rate!" the other boss explained in detail to Wang Hao.

"Oh!"

Wang Hao nodded, exchanged a few more pleasantries with the bosses, and swiftly left.

"Hey, Uncle Su, hurry to the back mountain and get me two Blood Ganoderma plants from Dragon Spring!"

As soon as he left the market, Wang Hao eagerly phoned Su Zhenping.

"What are you up to now, lad?" Su Zhenping asked, puzzled.

"I’ll explain later. Just go quickly! Harvest them and send them to Zao City straight away. I need to see them first thing tomorrow morning!" Wang Hao said urgently, then hung up.