Natural musk was easy to sell.
Xu Yang made a trip to the herbal medicine stores in the city, where several herbalists from various stores offered high prices.
Trading in such a market without standard rates required comparing offers from multiple sellers.
Xu Yang had to compare their prices before deciding whom to sell the natural musk to.
He was familiar with these herbal medicine stores, and the prices they offered were fair.
Eventually, Xu Yang chose one store and sold the natural musk for 6,000 yuan per gram, totaling a little over 140,000 yuan for one piece.
He sold two pieces; the other went for 150,000 yuan.
This was the advantage of finding the right channel.
If it had been those second-hand dealers who came to the village to buy, they would have offered around 20,000 to 30,000 yuan each.
Many villagers who found natural musk didn't know who else to sell it to. Second-hand dealers would dazzle them with fancy talk and then offer 20,000 yuan, convincing many to sell.