Chapter 5 Selling Ginseng
The sun is setting in the west, sprinkled with red afterglow.
Since it is still on the edge of the city, it took a while to wait for a taxi.
"Master, go to Shenghua Road. ”
After getting in the car, Ye Xuan said the destination.
The driver nodded, drove towards the city with a familiar car, looked at the backpack through the rearview mirror, and asked with a smile: "Brother is going to buy ginseng or sell ginseng?"
Shenghua Road is the largest ginseng trading street in the city, but all outsiders who come to FS City, as long as Shenghua Road is mentioned, it must be related to ginseng. That's why the driver asked.
"Hehe, go sell ginseng. Ye Xuan glanced at the time on his mobile phone and found that it was almost six o'clock, so he couldn't help asking, "At this point, is there still anyone in the market on Shenghua Road?"
Hearing him ask, the driver immediately smiled and said: "Brother, you have just entered the industry, right? Autumn is the busiest time for the ginseng market, let alone go now, you just go at three or four o'clock in the morning, and there are still a lot of shops open over there!"
It seems that this driver has met a lot of people who are in the ginseng business, and he knows the way very well.
Half an hour later, the lights came on.
After Ye Xuan paid the fare, he walked out of the car with his backpack.
In front of him, there was a street. At this time, the streets are full of people, especially lively, and the sound of shouting and talking is endless. In addition to the shops on both sides of the street, there are also many scattered stalls, which suddenly look very much like Pan Jiayuan. However, these shops and stalls do not sell antique calligraphy and paintings, but ginseng and deer antler velvet.
"Brother, don't you want ginseng? Authentic forest ginseng, only 8 yuan a gram!"
As soon as he walked into the street, the stall owner on the side greeted him warmly.
After smiling and waving his hand to refuse, Ye Xuan slowly walked towards the street. Don't think that the ginseng market is the same as the farmers' market, in fact, it is no different from Panjiayuan, and fakes are rampant. It is normal to use artificially planted garden ginseng as understory ginseng.
If you want not to be deceived, you need enough experience and a pair of vicious eyes. Although Ye Xuan didn't have either, fortunately, he was only a seller, not a buyer.
Most of the shops and stalls on the periphery of the street only sold ginseng, and Ye Xuan walked about a hundred meters before he found a shop that received ginseng, and there was a wooden sign hanging at the door of the store, on which was written in chalk that said Buy ginseng!
"Ladies and gentlemen, let's go to this store first, and if it doesn't work, let's change it. After saying a word to the live camera, he walked into the store.
This shop is called Ginseng Garden, and after walking in, I found that the store is not big, but the decoration is very chic, all kinds of furniture decoration is antique, and the warm colors of a water make people feel very comfortable. There was a middle-aged man sitting at the bar, who seemed to be watching a video on a computer.
After looking at the middle-aged man a few times, Ye Xuan stepped forward and said, "Boss, do you accept ginseng?"
The middle-aged man watched and listened attentively, and it wasn't until he opened his mouth that he found Ye Xuan outside the bar.
"My name is Li Wen, what do you call my brother?"
While speaking, the middle-aged man took out a pack of cigarettes, handed one to Ye Xuan, and then diligently helped him light it.
"Ye Xuan!"
Taking advantage of the effort of lighting a cigarette, Li Wen glanced at Ye Xuan up and down, and then glanced at the bulging backpack behind him, and said euphemistically: "Brother Ye Xuan, my store is taking the boutique route, I don't know if your goods are old enough?"
The meaning of this is actually obvious, that is, as long as I have good things in this store, garbage goods such as garden ginseng and Yishan ginseng, don't take them out.
Businessmen like them have dealt with people from all over the world, and their eyes are very poisonous. Just by looking at the way you are dressed, you can tell what kind of person the other person is.
"Eighteen years of wild ginseng!"
It can be clearly seen that when Li Wen heard the three words of wild ginseng, instead of showing a look of surprise, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and the original enthusiastic smile gradually disappeared, and his whole face turned cold.
He has been buying and selling ginseng for 20 years, so he naturally knows everything about the ginseng market. With the influx of more and more people into Changbai Mountain in recent years, wild ginseng has become rare. If he had gone back a few decades and said that he had dug up wild ginseng, he would probably believe it.
This is indeed the case in today's ginseng market. The ginseng on the market is basically garden ginseng, moving mountain ginseng and understory ginseng, and the so-called wild ginseng can only deceive people who do not know how to do it. It is no exaggeration to say that wild ginseng is now almost completely extinct.
Obviously, in his heart, he already regarded Ye Xuan as a liar, and he was a clumsy liar.
Seeing Li Wen's cold face and completely different attitude from before, Ye Xuan didn't talk nonsense, directly put down his backpack and took out the T-shirt wrapped in wild ginseng. Then place it on the bar and open the T-shirt with a light movement.
For a while, the freshly baked wild ginseng appeared in Li Wen's eyes.
"Shhh
Seeing his actions, Li Wen's eyes originally had a look of disdain, but when he saw the wild ginseng in the T-shirt, he immediately gasped.
Ye Xuan put the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray and said with a smile: "Boss Li, is it okay?"
Li Wen did not speak, but took out a bright flashlight and carefully observed the ginseng on the bar little by little, not letting go of any detail. There is no way, it is true that the counterfeiting technology of the ginseng market is getting higher and higher, and many spliced ginseng can't see the flaws at all if you don't look carefully.
After a while, he raised his head and said with a smile on his face: "Brother Ye Xuan, I'm really sorry, I almost took you for a liar just now." Eighteen years of authentic understory seed goods are really rare!"
"Isn't it wild ginseng?" Ye Xuan frowned, his face full of doubts.
"Haha!" Li Wen explained with a smile: "To tell you the truth, don't say that we Fushun this piece, even if it is the entire Changbai Mountain Range, there is no real wild ginseng anymore." At present, the so-called wild ginseng on the market is almost all understory ginseng. ”
"In fact, strictly speaking, understory ginseng also belongs to wild ginseng. Ginseng is artificially dispersed in the primeval jungle by spreading ginseng seeds that are more than 15 years old to allow them to grow naturally. Wild ginseng, on the other hand, is sown by birds and beasts, and there is no difference between the two in terms of growth environment and nutritional value. The reason why the price of real wild ginseng can be sold at a sky-high price is mainly because it has a collection value. ”
After listening to Li Wen's explanation, Ye Xuan suddenly realized. Rare things are expensive, and wild ginseng is naturally the same.
He was most concerned about this question, "What about my ginseng?"
Li Wen looked at the ginseng with a loving gaze, and said in his mouth: "There are also different grades of understory ginseng, and the grade of yours is the most authentic understory seed goods, and the quality is intact, it can be classified as wild ginseng! If Brother Ye Xuan really wants to sell it, I am willing to buy it at a price of 300 yuan per gram!"
Looking at Li Wen's outstretched three fingers, Ye Xuan only groaned for a moment before agreeing.
Generally speaking, the premise of selling ginseng by the gram is dried ginseng after dehydration. At present, his ginseng is still freshly dug up, and the amount is almost twice as much as before dehydration, so the price of 300 yuan a gram is already very high. And he is not stupid, as early as when he was in the taxi, he had already checked the market price with his mobile phone. At present, the best understory ginseng on the market is only 500 yuan a gram, and it is also a dried product after dehydration.
After the deal was made, Li Wen then began to clean the ginseng and then weigh it.
"286 grams, that is, 85,800 pieces, a whole number of eighty-six thousand. Do Brother Ye Xuan want cash or transfer?" Li Wen clicked a few times on the calculator and quoted the final price.
"Let's transfer money!"
Ye Xuan said and handed over the bank card, and a few minutes later, his mobile phone received the transfer information.