Chapter 90: Ginseng
Anyway, the old brother was a little surprised when he suddenly saw someone coming over, but then he obviously recognized me, looked at me with a nervous face, and said, "Boss, you...... Didn't you want it before? ”
I smiled and said, "Hey, didn't I understand the jargon you said before?" If I knew you had mountain goods in your hand, I wouldn't want it. ”
With that, I brought the plate of peanuts and wine on my table to his table, and asked the proprietress to add a glass and fill it for him.
I smiled hesitantly and asked him, "Brother, don't hide it, I came to Tianshan Town for Lingshen, but after looking for a day, I didn't find anyone with goods." This is also the brother's cloudy eyes, and he didn't understand your jargon at the time, alas. However, maybe we are really fated to meet you now, hehe, I don't know if my brother can take it out and give me long eyes? ”
The old brother looked at me carefully, and then said, "Boss, why don't I see that you are a collector?" ”
Seeing that he was off topic, I hurriedly said: "I am indeed not a person who specializes in collecting mountain goods, which is why I can't understand your jargon, but this time I do want to buy a spirit ginseng and give a gift to an official master. ”
I deliberately deceived him, there is no way, if he has a thousand-year-old ginseng, and he learns that I want to use the thousand-year-old ginseng to save my life, maybe he will have to sit on the sky, then even if I sell myself, I can't afford it. Of course, if his is not a thousand-year-old ginseng, I will not ask for it, after all, I also told him that I can't look down on the more than 100-year-old ginseng.
Hearing me say this, it was the old brother who was anxious and shouted: "Boss, mine is a real ginseng, not an ordinary old ginseng!" It's the child of the mountain god, and it's spiritual! ”
Seeing his anxious expression, I was happy in my heart, and I said that I really met someone this time. So he hurriedly said: "Brother, I heard that this kind of mountain goods have become fine, can you get them so easily?" Lie to me, huh? ”
The old brother shook his head violently: "What are you lying to do?" This is from the temple mountain, where can there be a fake. ”
"Temple Mountain?" I frowned and asked him, "Where is Temple Mountain?" Are there a lot of your kind out there? ”
"Temple Mountain......" The old brother said this, and suddenly hurriedly realized his mouth, and he wanted to speak and stopped, as if he was afraid to talk about this place.
"What's wrong, brother?" Seeing his expression, I was full of curiosity.
"It's nothing, it's nothing, let's talk about mountain goods." The elder brother hurriedly changed the topic to ginseng, for fear of mentioning the temple mountain again.
Seeing that he refused to speak, I became even more curious. But people don't want to say it now, and I can't force him. So he nodded and said, "Okay, then let's not talk about the temple mountain, you quickly take out your mountain goods and show them to me, I want to buy them, don't you have to take a look at the goods first?" ”
"Want, get." The old man smiled, then put a hand inside his coat, touched it inside his chest for a while, and then pulled out a cloth bag.
The bag was very old, and after he took it out, he looked around, and saw that except for the two of us, only the proprietress was behind the counter, so he put the bag on the table with confidence.
I watched him carefully take out a bag of things from the cloth bag, which was wrapped in a newspaper, slowly opened the newspaper, and then a large ginseng appeared!
I saw that the ginseng was like a little doll with no clothes on, naked. It really has a head and a face, arms and calves, and even the facial features can be seen, which is very surprising.
The ginseng looks like it has just been picked for a day or two, and there is still a small section of ginseng seedling stalk on the top of the ginseng, and there are one or two green leaves on the seedling stalk. The ginseng is tied with a lot of red threads, and I also know that the reason why I have to tie it with the red thread is because I am afraid that the ginseng will sneak away. Of course, this is also the focus of ginseng harvesting, in fact, ordinary ginseng can't run away, unless there is a spiritual ginseng essence will run. It is said that if a ginseng picker finds ginseng when he picks ginseng, he must tie a red thread to the ginseng seedlings before digging it, and then he will dig it.
At this time, because it was placed on the newspaper, if it was placed in the whole place, it was estimated that it would be more than a meter long. To be honest, this is really the first time I've seen such a big ginseng, Rao is a layman like me when I see it, and I can't help but be excited in my heart, how many years will it take to grow like this?
Seeing this, I hurriedly asked the old brother: "How many years has this mountain ginseng been, your brother is an insider, you should know, right?" ”
The elder brother said, "Two or three hundred years!" ”
Hearing this, I immediately felt lost, and at the same time a sense of powerlessness and despair, this rare mountain ginseng is only two or three hundred years old, how rare is the thousand-year-old ginseng? Maybe no one in the world has ever seen it, right? Can I still find it?
Seeing that I was a little sad and sighing, my brother was a little curious, frowned and asked me: "Boss, can't you even look down on this kind of goods?" ”
When I heard this, I knew he must have misunderstood me. I hurriedly shook my head and said, "No, this ginseng is very precious, I'm afraid I can't afford it." I don't know how much my brother wants to sell? ”
Although this ginseng is not a thousand-year-old ginseng, it can't save my life, but who wouldn't want to see such a rare thing? So, knowing that I couldn't afford it, I still asked him about the price.
The elder brother thought for a while and said, "I'm a beginner, and I don't know much about the price, so you can give a price." ”
The first person, I have heard of this, is also a jargon in the ginseng picking, which means that the person who puts the mountain for the first time, the so-called mountain, that is, the ginseng. He said that he was picking ginseng for the first time and did not understand the market.
I didn't expect that the old brother in front of me was really sincere, and I didn't know what the market was with such a treasure, so I sold it like this, wouldn't it be a loss to die.
To tell the truth, this kind of ginseng for two or three hundred years is worth 1.8 million yuan, to say the least, and now I only have a passbook of 20,000 yuan, which is only enough to cut one or two beards from ginseng.
When the elder brother saw that I didn't speak, he was anxious, and he said, "Doesn't the boss want to?" Otherwise, what do you think of 20,000 yuan? ”
When I heard this, my eyes widened, and I compared my fingers and exclaimed, "Twenty thousand? Your ginseng sells for 20,000? ”
When my brother saw my surprised look, he hurriedly said, "What, is it too expensive?" If you want to buy it, you can buy less, but boss, you have to give a price, don't you? ”
As soon as I heard this, a few black lines hung down from my forehead. The heart said that this person is honest, and fortunately he met me, if it is a different person, this old brother will lose his blood. But after thinking about it, the proprietress said before that the so-called "black ticket" refers to stealing ginseng, could it be that this brother is in such a hurry to change hands at such a low price because the ginseng was stolen?
Thinking of this, I asked him, "Brother, did you steal this thing?" ”
The old brother was startled, looked around, and hurriedly said to me nervously: "Brother, don't say it so loudly, but to be honest, I didn't steal this ginseng, I squatted there for a long time, and no one came to collect it, so I took it back." ”
When I heard this, I didn't understand, so I said, "Didn't you say that this thing was a 'black ticket'?" Why is it now self-picked? ”
When the elder brother heard this, he was stunned for a moment and said, "You don't understand? ”
I nodded, so he told me that the so-called black ticket does refer to stealing ginseng, but it is not from other people's homes, but it means that the ginseng is tied with a red rope by others, and there is already a master, if you go to pick it again, it will be called a black ticket.
Hearing this, I kind of understood, this is what it means to be emotionally black?
After thinking about it, I still held back the greed in my heart, sighed and said to him: "Brother, don't tell you, I don't think your price is too high, but your price is too low, this is not only one or two thousand, so let's do it, if my brother really wants to sell, I will help you go to the city to ask the price in the future, how about finding a buyer?" Otherwise, if you sell it like this, you will lose money. ”
My brother didn't expect me to say such a thing, so he was stunned for a moment, and then compared his fingers and said, "More than 20,000?" ”
I nodded, and then my brother became excited and said, "Boss, if you can really multiply it several times as you said, then once you help me find a buyer, I will definitely give you a few percent of the money, and I will never let you suffer." ”
I smiled, it seems that this old brother is really real. Now, knowing that this ginseng is not a thousand-year-old ginseng, I changed the subject. I said to him, "Brother, I can help you find a big buyer for your ginseng, which is worth hundreds of thousands, but I want to know where you picked your ginseng?" Or can you take me to the mountains where you picked your ginseng? ”
The old brother said thank you, looking very grateful. He said: "This ginseng was picked in the temple mountain, but you can't go there, and you will be caught by the mountain god, but you can't come back." ”
As soon as I heard this, I rolled my eyes and said in my heart, could it be that your honest appearance is not pretending? Still deceiving Lao Tzu like this, if you can't go to the temple mountain, and there is no return, how can you still have the life to come here to sell ginseng?
Thinking about this, I said, "Brother, didn't you pick this ginseng from there, how can you go and I can't go?" Could it be that the mountain god still can't recognize his life? ”
The old brother shook his head violently and said, "I ran there accidentally, but only I have the life to come out, and there are many people who have been there for generations, but none of them have come back." Brother, it's not that my brother scares you, you really can't go there, if you go, the mountain god will have to blame me. ”
When I heard this, I was very happy, and I said, "Then tell me where the temple mountain is, it's all right?" ”
How do you know that the old brother put on a solemn expression and said: "I can't say it, if you tell its location and let outsiders go, you will also be blamed by the mountain god." ”