Chapter 11 Purple Ginseng
The editor-in-chief of the magazine is called Zhou Ji, and she has to be called Angelina, who is also a small literary artist.
It takes half an hour to take the bus at home, a small corner in the middle of the office building. There was a half-new sign hanging at the door. A few years ago, she remembered that she still rented a bookstore and rented romance novels in front of her door every day. In the blink of an eye, these shops are gone, only Xinhua Bookstore is still slowly opening, bookstalls are closed, and paper media is also gone.
She published several periodicals in this magazine, all of which were magazines of chicken soup for the soul. Sales were also mediocre. The good thing that magazines do is that entertainment and fashion are quite strong.
What is done here is similar to Yilin, the kind of wisdom backpack.
I went to find out that their club couldn't recruit anyone, so I lowered the requirements and found a high school student. As an assistant to the editor-in-chief, I also have to be responsible for the illustrations on the cover and end pages.
"I remember that Shangyi was still a relatively large magazine. Why are you so low?"
Zhang Jingyi said as he chewed the gum in his mouth. "You too, have a chance to go back and finish your studies, so you can graduate from college." A group of our classmates are the worst of you.
After the farce of the class reunion, Qi Jiao and Guo Shan's gang completely broke up, and they didn't even have face for their classmates. In the past few days, she has come to play with Qi Jiao.
Qi Jiao's breath in her heart came out, and she was also happy, so she let her say.
Qi Jiao sighed. "Yes, I'm 24 now, and I'm still going to school."
"Shangyi is very famous, but it is its Shangyi fashion magazine, and we belong to a branch, a super company."
She said, holding the manuscript. Now Qi Jiao is wearing glasses, but she is flat, and she has nothing to do, pretending to be a cultured and knowledgeable young editor-in-chief who eats her very much.
She was just about to say when her phone rang.
The caller ID was Qi's mother, she didn't hesitate, and immediately pressed answer.
"Your dad is hospitalized, come here."
When Qi Jiao heard this, she forgot everything in a hurry, hurriedly greeted Zhang Jingyi, and quickly ran downstairs to stop the car. Her heart was beating fast, and her right eyelid was blinking, I don't know if it was because of her heart.
"Master, please go to the central hospital."
When she arrived at the hospital, the bearded man and his mother were waiting in the hospital bed. Qi Jiao came in a hurry, and heard Qi's mother say gloomily. "Your dad fell down the stairs, but luckily the bearded man was nearby and rushed over to bring your dad over."
"What did the doctor say, has the film been filmed?"
Qi Jiao spoke.
"The doctor said that your dad had a herniated disc in his waist before, and this time he didn't fall to ask for it, but his leg was broken."
Qi Jiao said: "That's okay, Mom, did Dad's factory go to ask for leave?" ”
Qi's mother said: "What kind of leave, you don't know your father's factory, when you came back a few days ago, your father took a few days off, this time it will definitely not work." ”
Qi Jiao now hates herself for being powerless.
She didn't have the ability to make her father quit her job. I can only support myself.
However, she is not a person who likes to be sad and sad, and when she saw that her father had fallen asleep and had been put on a plaster, she went home with a big beard. Along the way, the two mentioned the situation when they had just returned.
"Happy, I remember when we were about to come on an expedition, did you bring a lot of things?"
She asked, the bearded man remembered. "I'm worried that it will take a long time to pass the way, and I will bring all the food and things stored at home with me, and I will show it to you when I go back." The home he said was a cave on the top of a hillside, not to mention, in that primitive world, Qi Jiao and he didn't know how many good things he found during his expedition.
The cave they chose happened to have salt rocks next to it, as well as a water source.
When Qi Jiao was catching fish in the river, she saw a lot of beautiful blue crystals. and yellow crystals. Later, when I tasted it, I realized that it was salt stone.
They have also found gold and crystals. It's right between the cave oaks. No one picks it up, and it's not as valuable as a barbecue there. She was excited to pick it up when she first saw it, but then she turned a blind eye.
However, because she was going to go on an expedition home, she didn't let the beard bring any gems, and she had something else precious in mind.
Ginseng.
She opened the animal skin package, in fact, the animal skin is also a good fur. She opened it and saw that it was a bag she had woven out of fine rattan, crudely containing a few purple ginsengs with dirt.
These ginseng were dug by bearded men in the mountains next to their clan, called human babies.
Generally, it is dug to give food to the injured who are alive and injured. However, they orcs did not understand the usefulness of ginseng, so they used the most crude method - peeling and gnawing.
And ginseng is not delicious. There is a fishy smell.
So it was not popular there, Qi Jiao asked the bearded man to exchange the cured meat for many babies.
Originally, it was worthless, but here, the value of these hundred-year-old ginseng is difficult to calculate.
Qi Jiao originally planned to take it to traditional Chinese medicine or auctions to exchange it for money, but now Qi's father is sick and has broken his muscles and bones for a hundred days, not to mention that he is not young. This fall must have hurt his vitality. She'd have to find a way to give him a tonic for him.
After she said to the bearded man, he hurriedly took out all the purple human babies and said, "Give them all to Daddy, so that Daddy's body will get better soon." ”
Qi Jiao took the ginseng whisker and stewed the soup and sent it to Qi's father. Qi's mother usually has to go to work, so the people who take care of Qi's father in the hospital are all bearded. Her magazine work is still in the internship, so she can't just ask for leave, so she can only be troublesome and happy.
When she was on weekend, she brought a change of bedding over, and she usually had loose rice and soup and water.
Unexpectedly, when I went over again, I saw that Qi's father was white and fat. Qi Jiao was relieved.
Purple ginseng works so well?
Qi Jiao didn't understand traditional Chinese medicine, so she took a piece and went to the Chinese medicine hospital to ask about the purchase of medicinal materials. In recent years, the state has vigorously supported the important development, and there are professional Chinese medicine professions overseas.
She thought about it, so she had to take out the purple ginseng from the doctor who took the medicine at the front desk, put it in front of her, and said. "I would like to inquire about the medicinal use of this ginseng, which will be sold if possible.
The piece of ginseng that was close to 40CM startled the doctor, and when she put on her glasses, when she saw the ginseng, Qi Jiao felt that her eyes were a few degrees brighter, looking at the ginseng root baby.
When he lifted his head, he said, "Come with me." ”
After saying that, he took her to the place where the medicinal herbs were purchased. "Oh, Lao Chen, look at this ginseng." She led Qi Jiao to an old man and asked. "How?"
Purple ginseng is held by a handkerchief. As soon as the old man opened it, his eyes narrowed. First he sniffed carefully, then he rubbed his thumb on it with a little dust and skin, and rubbed it twice.
"Good stuff"
"You sell me this thing, 700,000, how about it."
He stared at Qi Jiao with an urgent gaze. "800,000. No two prices. ”
The female doctor didn't realize that this thing was so valuable, and exclaimed, "Lao Chen, are you going to collect it yourself?" As soon as she finished speaking, the old man said, "Nonsense, am I still taking it for the hospital?" "Such a good thing must be collected by yourself.
Is this piece of ginseng so valuable?
Although Qi Jiao didn't know whether it was a profit or a loss, this trip was not in vain. She was not in a hurry to sell, so she spoke: "I still have to ask my family for their opinions, and if I am sure to sell it, I will call you, and today I mainly want to consult how this ginseng is used medicinally?" How to determine the amount? ”