The parties have tentatively agreed on a deal, but the details of the deal would have to be negotiated and expert evaluation would be required.
The gold belonging to the tribe was refined by primitive methods, as was silver, the purity of which was not uniform and the price of which was uncertain.
The price of snake venom and serum was not easy to determine. Li Du did not know about these things, and it was not easy to assess the price of animal fur, deer antlers, horns, various herbs and so on.
The ginseng the chief brought out was American ginseng, which Li Du was familiar with from the time he was in China. The ginseng was uniform in the head, cylindrical and spindle-shaped in appearance. It was six or seven centimeters in length and more than one centimeter in diameter.
This was wild American ginseng. It didn't grow as big as Chinese or Korean ginseng. The specimens the tribe had reached the upper limit of wild ginseng growth.
