Chapter 20 Drug Market
On the afternoon of the third day, return!
Because the next two days are weekends, Lhotse Yu did not return with the school on the grounds that he wanted to do something here.
Guan Shijing first considered Lhotse's safety, and never allowed Lhotse-you to stay alone in the local area. Luo Ziyou told Guan Shijing some reasons, so it was not easy to convince him.
When leaving, looking at Mu Qingwan's unhappy face, Luo Ziyu looked at Wen Wen'er helplessly, wanting Wen Wen'er to help him coax the little girl.
Wen Wen'er turned her head and pretended not to see it, ignoring him.
As soon as the front foot of the convoy left, a middle-aged man dressed in black stood behind Luo Ziyou. The man was none other than Chen Kang, who had been here for two or three days by Lhotse.
At five o'clock in the morning, Luo Ziyou turned over and got up and walked out of the door with Chen Kang in the next room.
After breakfast, Chen Kang drove Luo Ziyou to a town dozens of kilometers away.
The town has a very elegant name, called Zhonglin Town, which is said to be taken from "Zhong Shuyulin".
The town is a large, cross-shaped town with a population of tens of thousands, and it takes at least half an hour to walk around the town.
Zhonglin Town can develop like this because it is a famous medicinal herb market within a radius of 100 miles. Although no medicinal herbs are cultivated in the local area, there is an inexhaustible natural medicine field backed by mountains. There are more businessmen and tourists, and the economic effect will naturally go up.
At seven o'clock, the town woke up from a night of silence, and one after another there were business shops pushing open their doors, as well as vendors who wanted to take a good place in the market earlier, and surrounding villagers who came to the market with large and small boxes on their backs.
On the side of the street, vendors spread out their base cloths and began to put out the items for sale that they had made out of the mountains. There are also some large shops with wide storefronts, buying and selling all kinds of medicinal materials, from extremely rare century-old ginseng to small plant medicinal materials with various effects.
As time passed, the flow of people began to slowly converge, and Luo Ziyu walked and stopped among the street vendors, curiously looking at the surrounding environment, and constantly judging the medicinal effects and years of various medicinal materials with his sense of smell, eyesight and veteran experience.
Luo Ziyou squatted down on the side of the street, picked up a good-looking ginseng plant from a vendor's stall and asked, "Boss, how do you sell it?" ”
The boss was a shrewd fat uncle, and he looked at the young man in front of him, who was not as old as his son: "Little brother, my wild ginseng is a good thing made from the mountains, and the year is decades old, and this ginseng is not damaged at all, this thing costs at least 10,000 yuan!" ”
Luo Ziyou glanced at the fat uncle, and the corners of his mouth were a little mocking: "Uncle, this thing is indeed from the mountains, but the taste is only ten years at most, right?" I'll give a reasonable price, you see it's okay, I'll take it, if you don't think it's okay, then forget it. ”
The uncle looked at some old teenagers, and thought it was a stunned young man who had just entered the market, but he didn't expect it to be an old Jianghu, and suddenly said with some embarrassment: "Then the little brother quoted a price?" ”
Luo Ziyou raised his right hand, erected five fingers, and then broke them one after another, until finally only the index and middle fingers were still upright.
The fat uncle looked at the last two fingers, and the corners of his mouth twitched a little.
Luo Ziyou pouted and said, "It's okay, you still have something to earn." I also saw that this ginseng sold well, so I was a little excited, if you take this thing to sell outside, it will be about the same price. ”
The boss sighed and said: "Come on, the little brother has eyesight, so I will take it as a good start today!" ”
looked at Luo Ziyou and asked suspiciously: "Look at the little brother's experience!" I don't know which circle it is? ”
Luo Ziyou took the box packed by the boss, smiled very sunny and said, "I won't tell you!" ”
The sun rises in the east, there are more merchants who come out to do business, and the flow of people who come to catch up with the market is large, and there are not a few visitors from other places like Lhotse You who want to find some good things, and the originally empty streets are crowded one after another.
When Lhotse was studying pharmacology in a dream, she made some plans for the future. So he began to investigate the information of the Xiyue Mountains a long time ago, knowing that the rich natural resources in the mountains were of great benefit to him, and he was also taking the opportunity of traveling to come to the field to investigate, to see for a long time, and by the way, to master the professional knowledge learned in the dream.
The town is close to the Xiyue Mountains, and the market is mostly original medicinal materials. But if there is a market, it means that there are loopholes to exploit and be profitable.
Some of the unspoken rules of this industry have also been understood by Lhotse.
For example, some cunning businessmen use some tricks to deceive some fools who do not know the goods. In addition, a large number of cultivated medicinal herbs were purchased and brought here to pass off as wild medicinal herbs that grow naturally in the mountains.
Seeing the countless street vendors selling "mountain goods", Luo Ziyou couldn't help but think of a report he once saw.
The medicinal materials of different origins contain very different medicinal effects, once only two local medicines can save a life, but now no matter how many foreign medicines can not save a life.
Luo Ziyu looked at the "mountain medicine" all over the street, and he didn't know how many real mountain medicines were sold here.
Lhotse smelled a strong smell of medicinal herbs, patrolling one by one, and some of them were not accurate, and he would even identify the medicinal effects by tasting the spicy, sweet, and bitter ones.
Lhotse looked at the four directions, scanning which medicinal materials could enter his eyes. Listening to all directions, listening to which medicinal materials are good, and the nose is also smelling the medicinal materials with stronger medicinal properties.
Chen Kang carried a large bag and a small box, and followed behind Luo Ziyou with a look of surprise, although he knew that Luo Ziyou was well-read and had some knowledge, but he never thought that Luo Ziyou still had such a deep foundation in medicinal materials, and even he, an outsider, was stunned when he heard it.
For everything bought, Lhotse can accurately identify the origin, vintage, and medicinal effect, and also analyze its value. Some of the traders who wanted to deceive him were speechless to refute, shook their heads and expressed their convincing, and even gave some gifts when they traded.
In the morning, Luo Ziyou visited every stall in Zhonglin Town, and bought a lot of medicinal materials, and each one was carefully selected and excellent. From a few years to decades of wild ginseng, there are Cordyceps sinensis, which is hard to find in the high mountains, and He Shou Wu, which is a long year old......
Luo Ziyou stood at the intersection to rest, and a casual glance attracted him, and his breath was paused.
On the corner of the street where no one cared, a man with a beard squatted on the ground, looking at the crowded market with an indifferent face.
The man didn't have the full load of other vendors, only a black package or two on the ground.
Probably finding that Luo Ziyu was paying attention to him, the man looked over with a blank face. Seeing this, Luo Zi smiled at the man, and bowed his head slightly to show friendship.
The man didn't seem to expect someone to greet him, sat on the ground and was stunned for two seconds, and nodded indifferently to Luo Ziyou.
Luo Ziyou hesitantly walked to the corner, Chen Kang followed closely with a high guard, Luo Ziyou looked at Chen Kang and shook his head to indicate that it was okay.
Luo Ziyou squatted down in front of the black package, looked at the man, pointed to a piece of oily and smooth black brown textured wood on the package and said, "Uncle, what is the price of this agarwood?" ”
The man's voice was hoarse, and he didn't raise his head and said: "The thing weighs two catties and two taels, and 300,000 yuan will not be bargained!" ”
Luo Ziyou nodded and asked, "Can I pick it up and take a look?" ”
The man nodded in agreement.
Luo Ziyou carefully picked up the wooden block, touched the texture, brought it to the front of his eyes to observe the texture and color up close, and finally put it on the tip of his nose and smelled the fragrance carefully.
Luo Zi smiled and said, "Good thing! This agarwood has been incense since decades ago, and the quality is also excellent, and 300,000 yuan is a very reasonable price. ”
After that, Luo Ziyou clapped his hands and said quickly: "Boss, I want this thing!" ”
The man saw that the young man in front of him didn't seem to be joking, and his face finally eased slightly, "Before I was born, this agarwood was already there, and later this wood incense was also concocted by me." There were always fools who disdained it before, but now I finally met a person who knew the goods. ”
Luo Ziyou observed the man's expression, and pointed to another thing next to him and said, "I am also very interested in this mountain ginseng, and the uncle is also a knowledgeable person, give a fair price?" ”
The man's hand wrapped in agarwood paused, his face was serious, and his eyes stared sharply at Luo Ziyou.
Seeing that Luo Ziyou's face was sincere, there was no other superfluous meaning, his face was slightly softened, and he quoted the price word by word, "Two million!" ”
"Deal!" As soon as the man's words came out, Luo Ziyou immediately agreed.
The man was also full of surprise, he thought that Lhotse would bargain with him, but he didn't expect Lhotse to have no counteroffer.
Luo Ziyou said triumphantly: "Thank you uncle!" To be honest, I picked up a little cheap ginseng. ”
The man nodded, his face was indifferent, and he said hoarsely as always: "There are not many people who know the goods, and even fewer who dare to make a move." ”
Lhotse reminds of a saying, "Seven taels are ginseng, eight taels are treasures", seven or eight ginseng ginseng, it can be said that it is not encountered in a hundred years. How to estimate the ginseng that the middle-aged man dug up, there are still seven taels.
Luo Ziyou picked up the ginseng with intricate roots and scrutinized it, the main body grows in a herringbone shape, about two fingers long, the longest main beard is forty or fifty centimeters, and the ginseng beard is counted on both hands.
Luo Ziyou touched the remaining soil on the wild ginseng, determined that it was fresh wild ginseng, thought about it, and still asked: "Uncle, this mountain ginseng was unearthed only a few days ago, right?" ”
The man's eyes shrank, and his voice was cold: "It was just dug up a few days ago." ”
Luo Ziyou felt that the atmosphere was a little calm, and hurriedly waved his hand to explain: "Don't get me wrong, fresh ginseng is rarely seen, I'm just a little curious." ”
Seeing that Luo Ziyou's attitude was the same, the man said in a soothing tone: "I saw this mountain ginseng many years ago, and I was reluctant to dig it, but I just dug it up a few days ago. ”
Luo Ziyou looked like what you said, looked at the man's bulging baggage, and asked tentatively: "Uncle, in addition to this mountain ginseng, do you have any medicinal materials that you want to sell?" Another pair patted his chest and said in a wealthy tone: "The price is not a problem!" ”
The middle-aged man looked at the childish furry child in front of him, and looked like he didn't want to communicate with you in depth.
More than two million is not a small amount, and Luo Ziyou is not crazy, how can he bring so much cash with him, the only way is to go to the bank to transfer money.
At the door of the bank, Luo Ziyou handed over the money with one hand, and the middle-aged man handed over the goods with one hand. Luo Ziyou smiled, carefully stuffed a business card to the man, and said, "Uncle, don't refuse, leave a contact information." I'm very interested in collectible medicinal herbs, if you have something you want to sell, just call this number and I'll give you the fair price. ”
The man looked at the business card in his hand, which only had the word Lhotse and a phone number, and he didn't refuse, put it in his pocket, carried the bag, and left without looking back.
Luo Ziyou stood in place, touching the two boxes, the corners of his mouth curved, and his heart was full of joy.
One is a good agarwood, and the other is a century-old wild ginseng, both of which are good things that can be met but cannot be sought, and his luck today is really good.