On the far left side of the ancient bungalow is a gate more than two meters high, and there is a long wooden sign with black characters on a white background on the left and right doorposts.

That's right! This is it. Anxin pretended to tidy up the basket in his hand, and quickly stuffed the ginseng under the towel covering the eggs in the basket. Then he strode towards the gate.

After entering the gate, I walked in for about ten steps, and then I saw the house with the medicinal herb acquisition station written on the door, ignored the puzzled eyes of the people who came and went, and walked into the hall of the acquisition station.

This is a hall about 10 meters long and 5 or 6 meters wide, and as soon as you enter the door, you will be greeted by a counter made of cement, which is more than 1 meter high. There were four desks on the counter, facing each other, sitting two men and two women, a middle-aged woman in her 40s, knitting a sweater with both hands, and chatting with a man in his 30s opposite. The other was a 20-year-old girl who was dozing off with a newspaper in her hand and her desk on top of her head. Opposite the girl was an old man of about 60 years old, holding a thread-bound book in his hand, and he was looking at it.

Anxin looked at the counter for a while, and saw that the people inside were busy, so they didn't even look at her, so they had to say inside: "I sell medicinal herbs!" ”

The middle-aged woman who was knitting a sweater was giggling happily, when she was suddenly interrupted by Anxin's voice, her face collapsed suddenly, she turned her face and began to scare Anxin: "Whose child are you?" Why are you making trouble here? Go out and play. ”

The man in his 30s opposite the middle-aged woman also looked at Anxin with a puzzled expression: "Haven't you seen this child?" Could it be a relative of whose family? ”

The black line on Anxin's face, young and short, this is a hard injury! In desperation, he had to take out the ginseng from the basket, stand on tiptoe, and try to deliver the ginseng to the middle-aged woman: "Auntie, look! I'm here to sell ginseng, do you accept it here? ”

"Go, go, go, while playing ······"

The middle-aged woman waved her hand angrily, intending to blow the naughty little girl away, but before she finished speaking, she was shocked by the scene in front of her and swallowed again: "······ This is ······ Ginseng? It's really ginseng! Mr. Sun······, Mr. Sun, come and see ······"

Before the words were finished, the ginseng in front of her had already been taken away by one hand, and the middle-aged woman looked in the direction of her hand, and it turned out that it was an old man reading a book who took the ginseng away.

The old man held the ginseng in the air with both hands, stared at the treasure in his hand with his eyes, and muttered to himself: "Seven taels are ginseng, and eight taels are treasures." Why does this guy have more than 8 taels, right? The roots are hypertrophied, like a spindle, often bifurcated, and the whole appearance resembles a human head, hands, feet, and limbs. This is a thousand-year-old ginseng, this is a baby, a baby!"

The man in his 30s also walked behind Sun Lao in surprise, his two eyes were round, staring at the old man tightly, that is, the ginseng in Sun Lao's hand, and when he heard Sun Lao's words, he said in surprise: "Sun Lao, is this really a thousand-year-old ginseng?" ”

"Yes, this is the thousand-year-old ginseng, Xiao Guo, you go and get the scales and weigh this ginseng." Sun Lao kept his eyes firmly on the ginseng while instructing the man in his 30s on the side.

The girl who was sleeping on the desk was originally half asleep, and in a trance she heard someone talking about thousand-year-old ginseng, and she opened her eyes in surprise and looked in the direction of Sun Lao, and when she saw the ginseng in Sun Lao's hand, she also let out an exclamatory voice: "Sun Lao, you are reluctant to blink your eyes." Is it that rare? You've been fiddling with medicinal herbs for more than half your life, and you've never seen this thousand-year-old ginseng?

"Do you think this thousand-year-old ginseng is Chinese cabbage? I've lived this long time, and it's the first time I've seen something good in such a big year. I still have a good eye, some people have fiddled with medicinal materials all their lives and have never seen this thousand years of ginseng! As he spoke, Xiao Guo, a man in his 30s, carefully brought the balance over and gently placed it on the counter in front of Sun Lao.

"I usually tell you to read the book carefully and memorize the things in the book carefully with your head. But how are you guys? When I see such a good thing today, I don't know how to cherish the blessings, and I am ashamed of you when I listen to the layman's words just now. Sun Lao gently put the ginseng in his hand on the weighing pan, and his mouth kept counting it.

The girl in her 20s stuck out her tongue, quickly stood up, and walked behind Sun Lao.

When the middle-aged woman who knitted the sweater heard this, she pursed her lips, reluctantly put down the work in her hand, and walked to Sun Lao's side. With Xiao Guo and the girl, the three of them formed a semicircle around Sun Lao, and the eyes of several people were all on the ginseng on the scales, forgetting the master of Anxin.

Anxin also stared nervously at Sun Lao's movements, and she was also curious in her heart, how much this ginseng weighed, which was related to how much money could be earned.

"426 grams" Sun Lao carefully weighed the weight of the ginseng, and then remembered the person who sold the ginseng.

"Little girl, where is your family? Let the adults of your family come and talk. ”

Sun Lao searched for a long time and found no trace of the adult, only saw a small head exposed in front of the counter, so he had to say to the little girl: "Go, call the adult."

"No adult, I brought this ginseng." An An sighed in his heart, it's not that I want to deceive people, it's just that if I don't deceive people, others won't believe me. The circles under his eyes turned red all of a sudden: "My dad wasn't there (at home, didn't come along.) Is it not there? My mother was sick (my mother did die of illness), and the family had no money to buy medicine (the family was really nervous at the beginning), so I asked me to sell ginseng and treat my mother. ”