"Sure, what are your prices?" Li Xiang asked. He had almost forgotten about this.
The restaurant owner said, "Thirty a jin for live ones, twenty for dead. If you have any extra-large ones, over four hundred jin, it's fifty yuan a jin."
This was because the stomachs of large wild boars were very valuable. There was a folk belief that a wild boar's stomach could cure stomach ailments. The `Compendium of Materia Medica` also recorded that pig stomach is slightly warm in nature and sweet in taste, with the effects of alleviating gastritis, strengthening the stomach, and remedying deficiencies. As a result, people often sought to buy them at high prices.
For example, there was once a news story about a man whose son had suffered from stomach problems since he was six years old. In hot weather, he would feel nauseous no matter what he ate, and in cold weather, he was prone to acid reflux. They had been to many hospitals, but his condition never showed significant improvement.
