As soon as he entered the convention and exhibition center from the seventh gate, Jiang Yiming asked about the strong smell of medicinal herbs, and he couldn't suck it if he wanted to. This kind of smell is not fragrant, it is said that it is not smelly, and the smell emitted by hundreds of thousands of medicinal herbs is mixed together, and the breath feels slightly suffocating, as if the oxygen content has decreased.

The glass counters on both sides of the aisle are placed with all kinds of medicinal materials, including plant medicinal materials, animal medicinal materials, and mineral medicinal materials. However, the largest number is the plant medicine.

"There are too many types of these medicinal herbs, most of them can't be named, do you know most of them?" Jiang Yiming asked Old Chen beside him.

Chen Lao smiled and said proudly: "That's natural, after being a Chinese medicine practitioner for thirty or forty years, can you not know most Chinese herbal medicines, so what kind of Chinese medicine medicine?" However, now there are fewer people boiling medicine, many people take tablets directly, and there are fewer people who know Chinese herbal medicines, and you young people do not know Chinese herbal medicines. ”

Jiang Yiming looked left and right, and saw a lot of strange-shaped medicinal materials, but he didn't pay much attention to their efficacy, and he couldn't recognize them all.

"This old Chen, not long ago, we had a teacher Tu who studied traditional Chinese medicine in China won the Nobel Prize, which was extracted from Artemisia annua. I think it's much better to figure out the active ingredients and the chemical formula of the active ingredients from Chinese herbal medicines like this than to decoction water in a big pot of medicinal herbs. The old way of confusing and not knowing what the role of each herb is is not very suitable for modern society. ”

Chen Lao sighed after hearing this, and then fell silent. After a long while, he frowned and said, "I also know this news, which shows that the prescriptions of our Chinese medicine are still useful, and it is really a great merit to restrain malaria."

I heard from the elders that before liberation, malaria was still a very common disease, and the fate of it was not good. Later, when the sanitary conditions improved, I gradually did not hear about malaria.

However, there are five or six kinds of medicinal materials for each kind of treatment, and there are more than ten kinds of medicinal materials, and there are dozens or hundreds of components of each medicinal material. It's astronomical, it's too hard. ”

Of course, Jiang Yiming doesn't know how to solve this problem, according to the situation, traditional Chinese medicine is really getting lower and lower, and there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat diseases, which everyone in the country knows. Even in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, most of the treatments are surgery.

"Old Chen, it's time to Chen's Pharmacy!"

He stopped and pulled Old Chen, who was still walking forward. Of course, he hadn't been here before, but when he saw Chen Xi's beautiful face again, he knew that his destination had arrived. It turned out that she also came to participate in the Chinese herbal medicine conference, no wonder she was not seen in Chen's pharmacy.

"Hey, you're here for this Chinese herbal medicine conference? No wonder I didn't see you at the pharmacy. Jiang Yiming stepped forward to greet him.

Chen Xi, who was wearing a moon-white ruffled long skirt, was like an open lily, exuding a beautiful and refined atmosphere.

She was holding a stack of leaflets in her hand and was about to go out to distribute them, when she stopped when she saw Chen Lao and Jiang Yiming: "Grandpa, you're here, Jiang Yiming, it's just right that you're here, go with me to distribute leaflets." I'm not like you, who didn't have classes in your senior year, and I still asked the teacher for leave today. ”

"Come back early, and then we will go to participate in the auction of precious Chinese medicinal materials, and then there will be no need to send leaflets, and merchants will automatically come to the door." Chen Lao said with a smile.

"Got it, grandpa."

Jiang Yiming, who was arrested as a coolie, did not object, and after distributing half of the leaflets from Chen Xi's hand, he followed her with some joy and stuffed leaflets into the hands of strangers.

It took more than half an hour to walk all the way down. However, with a beautiful woman with him, he didn't feel tired at all, but felt that the number of leaflets was a bit small, and it would be nice if there were more.

Jiang Yiming was a little worried about the auction of precious medicinal materials, and said to Chen Xi on the left: "Chen Xi, we have finished distributing this leaflet, let's go back quickly, the medicinal materials on the auction house should be well seen." ”

"Well, that's fine. Since you were pulled here by your grandfather, it seems that the main medicinal herb of the pharmacy this time is the century-old ginseng. ”

There was no need to take a detour or go around to hand out leaflets, and I returned to the booth of Chen's Pharmacy, where Mr. Chen was instructing the staff to guard the place. I was about to go to the herb auction house.

"Grandpa, we're back." Chen Xi came behind Chen Lao, snatched the bag from his hand, and said.

"Alright, let's go. Today, you must make Lao Li's eyeballs fall out, hum! Last year, he made a big splash with his humanoid form He Shou Wu, and said that I won't be able to get good goods this year. ”

Chen Lao said with deep resentment, and then laughed again, as if he had seen Lao Li's surprised mouth open in advance.

Jiang Yiming asked Chen Xi in a low voice: "Which one is that Lao Li?" And your grandfather is a competitor? ”

Chen Xi stretched out his white and tender fingers, nodded in the air, and said with a smile: "Grandpa Li is also an old Chinese medicine doctor, and he also opened a Chinese medicine shop, so he is really grandpa's opponent." But the two of them have known each other for decades and are old friends. ”

The three of them walked all the way to the third floor of the convention and exhibition center, and there was no elevator but stairs. After all, this Chinese herbal medicine conference is not as good as the auto show and game show, and the higher it goes, the less popular it is. The second floor is not very popular, and the third floor is only one-tenth of the traffic on the first floor.

However, at this time, the auction house of precious medicinal materials attracted many onlookers, and in a short period of time, it exceeded the popularity of the second floor. It's a pity that as long as the auction is over, there will be no such good thing for the exhibitors on the third floor.

The negotiation matters were handled by Chen Lao, and Jiang Yiming and Chen Xi were mixed into two chairs in the name of Chen's pharmacy, so that they could sit down and watch the auction. There are many more people who can't get in, only to stand on the periphery and watch the pictures on the huge TV.

As a middle-aged man with combed hair came to the stage, the auction officially began, and the first auction was a tiger bone weighing a total of twenty kilograms, which attracted the attention of many people.

"This tiger bone can also be sold, isn't the tiger a protected animal?" Jiang Yiming felt a little surprised when he saw such a bright auction of tiger bones.

Chen Xi's answer was very familiar, as if he had known it for a long time: "Except for Huaxia, there are tigers in other countries, isn't there a tiger bone?" ”

This tiger bone was bought for 420,000 yuan, almost 10,000 yuan a catty.

"Wow, this tiger's bones are so much more expensive than silver! It's almost six or seven times as much as silver. ”

Tiger bones are generally used to make bruise medicine, Jiang Yiming probably calculated, few people can afford to use real tiger bone medicine.

The second lot is the famous Cordyceps sinensis, followed by the 20-year-old Huangjing and the 40-year-old Polygonum multiflori......

The moderator suddenly raised his voice and excited. The voice of love said: "The auction below is a fresh century-old ginseng plant, with a starting price of 500,000 yuan!" Each increase shall not be less than 10,000. ”

Jiang Yiming cheered up and guessed that this was his century-old ginseng, but didn't there be two of them, and now there was only one, did Chen Lao plan to auction them separately?

"Jiang Yiming, this starting price is deliberately set relatively low, which is easy to arouse the bidding atmosphere of interested people and easy to reach a high price." Chen Xi explained on the side.