"I wasn't the one who found the seeds. Mr. Cheng went to great lengths to find them. They are all high-quality seeds, newly harvested this year, with a very high survival rate. As for the herb merchant, however, I was the one who found him."
Zhao Jing mentioned a person to Chen Wanqing. He was a fellow scholar he had met in the Prefecture, who had sat next to him during the prefectural examination. The man had even composed a very clever poem and was quite an interesting person.
The man was the top candidate from Taoli County, and his family had been herb merchants for generations. Every year, they would purchase medicinal herbs from all over the Prefecture and resell them in the northwest.
The two had long admired each other from afar, and they only had a chance to formally converse on the day of the banquet hosted by the Lord Prefect.
