Named after its location in the Hung Yen Mountains, Hung Yen City is not the capital of the Northern Province, but it is also a thousand-year-old city. It used to be the political, cultural, economic and trade exchange center of the northern nomads.

From Yunhai County, I took the highway from Baishan to Xing'an, and drove for two hours to reach Xing'an.

Before leaving, I called Mr. Wang and told him that he would deliver the goods today. After Mr. Wang asked about the approximate time, he asked Ling Zikai to get off the highway from the Xing'an South Exit, which was not much away from the company, and someone would be sent to pick them up at that time.

Out of the toll booth, before Ling Zikai could call, a black Audi A6 stopped in front of him, and a person got out of the car, it was Wang Di, the boss of Ginseng Bao Oral Liquid Company.

Ling Zikai hurriedly got out of the car, greeted him, and said, "Mr. Wang, why did you come to pick us up in person." ”

Wang Di held Ling Zikai's hand and said with a smile: "Brother Ling, didn't you also deliver the goods yourself." Otherwise, I'll have someone come to your car, and you can take my car and go. ”

Ling Zikai shook his head and said, "Don't be so troublesome, you lead the way in front, and we'll follow." ”

Subsequently, Ling Zikai followed Wang Di's car and drove directly to the eastern suburbs of Xing'an City.

After about 20 minutes of driving, I entered the factory area and parked the car in front of a warehouse.

At this time, there were already five or six people waiting in front of the warehouse door. Ling Zikai unexpectedly saw a familiar face, wasn't it the old mallet!

"Senior, why are you here?"

"Why, is this the place where you are allowed to come?"

The old mallet still spoke in the same lukewarm tone, but the expression on his face showed the joy of seeing Ling Zikai again.

"Old mallet, could it be that Mr. Wang is not at ease, please come to the palm again!"

The cuckoo who got out of the car was also a little surprised to see the old mallet and said jokingly.

"You little girl, you really can't open any pot, with Brother Ling here, do you still need my old man's class to get an axe!"

Wang Di said with a smile: "Cuckoo girl, today's old mallet has greatly increased its value, and she has become a member of the appraisal committee of the King Participation Competition." If you want to participate in the King Participation Competition, I think it's better to take this opportunity to go through the back door and let him raise his noble hand when the time comes!"

The old mallet's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked at Ling Zikai and asked a little impatiently: "You brought the old mountain goods, did you find them from there, can you let me open my eyes first?"

Ling Zikai said: "We'll talk about that later, let's check the goods first!"

At that moment, the company's technicians moved the ten cartons off the pickup truck, opened the lids, and began to inspect them.

Probably because of the first cooperation, the two sides have not yet established integrity, and the price of each understory ginseng is also expensive, those technicians inspected very carefully, opened the birch bark and moss wrapped on the outside, and put it into the special crisper box in the factory after identification.

As a result, it will take a long time to complete the inspection of nearly 1,000 understory ginseng.

Wang Di proposed: "Brother Ling, let's go to the office and rest for a while!"

Seeing that Ling Zikai nodded, he led them to the factory office building.

Entering Wang Di's office, before the old mallet sat down, he shouted: "Brother Ling, quickly take out your old goods and take a look!"

Ling Zikai saw that there were only Wang Di and Lao Bang Mallet left in the office except for the three of them, thinking that he was going to participate in the King Ginseng Competition anyway, and let the Lao Bang Mallet, who was the appraisal judge, evaluate it first, and it was good to have a bottom in his heart, so he did not shirk, took the mountaineering bag on Su Guoer's body, took out a century-old ginseng that had undergone a reincarnation from it, and put it on the desk.

The old mallet carefully opened the outer layer of birch bark and moss. When the ginseng body inside was revealed, he suddenly exclaimed: "Good goods!"

Wang Di also leaned his head up, saw the tight and delicate neck lines wrapped around the ginseng reed, and after silently counting it, he also said in surprise: "Sure enough, it's a rare old mountain product! ”

The old mallet did not answer Wang Di's words, but after carefully examining it, he asked Ling Zikai with some hesitation: "Brother Ling, can you tell me what it looked like when you found this mallet at that time?"

Ling Zikai pondered that the age of this old mountain ginseng was, after all, he used the energy of the ancestral god to give birth to a reincarnation, and directly superimposed it, thinking that the other party had seen something, so he pretended to be puzzled and said: "When I saw it at the time, it was covered with five leaves, what's wrong, is there anything strange?"

The old mallet frowned and said, "Although according to the growth law of ginseng, when it grows to five leaves, even if it grows again, the number of compound leaves will always remain at five.

But when I was young, I heard the old people say that if this old mallet grows to more than 300 years, it will grow another compound leaf. That is, the six leaves that people often talk about but few people see;

And by 500 years, it will increase to seven leaves;

By the time it was eight hundred years, it was eight leaves;

And more than a thousand years later, it will become the legendary nine leaves, and it will become a ginseng doll.

Of course, don't talk about ginseng that is more than 300 years old now, even if it is a hundred years old, it is rare to come across it, so it is difficult to judge the specific age of an old mallet that is suspected to be more than 300 years old in front of you. ”

The old mallet paused and said, "Why don't I take this thing back and use the instrument to identify it first?"

Ling Zikai said: "It doesn't matter if you want to take it first, anyway, when the competition starts, it will also be handed over to the organizing committee for identification." Let's not care how many years it has been, let's just conclude in 300 years, do you think it is possible to win the championship of this competition!"

The old mallet was silent for a moment, then shook his head slowly.

The cuckoo asked strangely: "Old mallet, could it be that in this contest of participating in the king, someone else brought out the old ginseng that is older than that?"

The old mallet nodded and said, "If you take the last few competitions as an example, as long as you can come up with a wild ginseng that is more than 100 years old, you will be able to win the crown of the king of ginseng." However, this year, I heard rumors in the organizing committee that it seemed that someone had obtained a thousand-year-old ginseng and was going to participate in the competition. ”

The people present couldn't help but gasp when they heard this.

Wang Di said: "Old mallet, this news can't be fake, let's not say for the time being, whether there will really be wild ginseng in this world that can grow for thousands of years, even if someone digs it, it will be quietly sold, or hidden, and it will not be used to participate in the competition at all." If it is really a thousand-year-old ginseng, it must be a priceless treasure, who will have nothing to do, stupidly take it out and grandstand. ”

Ling Zikai also secretly said in his heart: "It's not that there are no thousand-year-old ginseng, Lao Tzu has encountered it before." Could it be that someone, like himself, also entered the Tiger Leaping Stream and found one?"

Although this probability is very small, since you can find one plant, there may be a second plant and a third plant.