Chapter 1 Blood Ginseng
My name is Li Hongqi, and I'm a 'mountain goods'.
To put it bluntly, it is a pure wild thing in the mountains.
Mainly medicinal herbs.
In our line of work, we often deal with 'mountain rangers'.
Therefore, I have heard a lot of anecdotes in the deep mountains and old forests.
But I never imagined that this would happen to me one day.
There is really a saying, called 'the world is so big that there are no wonders'.
Speaking of which, this matter has to start a day ago.
That day, there was basically no one in the store all day, so I lay down in my chair and dozed off.
When I woke up, it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon.
It just so happened that it was time to eat, so I was ready to close the door and leave.
A thin old man suddenly came into my store and asked, "Boss, do you want to accept things?" ”
Let's not talk about the appearance, it's hard to say.
The point is, grinning and taking a bite of big yellow teeth, that breath almost didn't smoke me.
I don't think the phrase 'man should not be disguised' is not appropriate for him.
Although I was disgusted, in line with the concept of 'the customer is God', I still said: "Collect, what goods are there, take them out and palm your eyes." ”
Hearing me say this, he grinned and took out something like a dried radish from the wrapped cloth bag.
I took a closer look and realized that it was root ginseng.
Moreover, it is wild red ginseng!
My grandfather used to be the leader of the 'mountain herders', so I have been exposed to it since I was a child.
As a rough estimate, this red ginseng is at least a 'four-pint leaf'!
That is, more than 50 years.
Nowadays, 20-year-old wild ginseng is hard to see, let alone 50-year-old red ginseng?
I had only one thought in my mind, and that was to make a fortune!
Of course, I suppressed my inner excitement and behaved calmly.
"You can take this thing, tell me, what price do you want to sell it for?"
When I said this, the old man was immediately overjoyed.
He looked at me and timidly held out five fingers.
"Fifty thousand?"
I looked at him with some confusion.
He waved his hand anxiously: "No, no, no, five hundred!" ”
I almost didn't get a mouthful of old blood spurting.
50 years of red ginseng, 500?
Sell at least fifty W's for priming.
He smiled innocently: "Boss, this thing should be ginseng, it can be worth five hundred yuan, right?" ”
I nodded, "It's ginseng." ”
The old man was pleased to hear my exact answer.
After hesitating for a moment, I looked at him and said, "Give you 2000, I'll take this thing." ”
Four times more than his offer, the main thing is to buy peace of mind.
"Really...... Are you sure? ”
The old man's face was full of excitement.
I nodded, and directly took out two thousand yuan and handed it to him: "The money is here, can it be fake?" ”
He happily took the money, thanked me, turned around and ran out the door, as if I were afraid that I would regret it.
The old man left, and I quickly locked the door of the shop.
Putting the red ginseng on the table, I turned on the lamp again and looked at it carefully.
Wild red ginseng that is about fifty to sixty years old is indeed!
However, this red ginseng is a bit special, and the color is much darker than ordinary red ginseng.
It's like ...... Bloodstained as well!
At that time, my head was overwhelmed by the fifty W's, and I wanted to make a move as soon as possible, so I didn't care.
I contacted Lao Wu and said that I had a 'handful' here, and asked him to come and take a look.
As soon as he heard that it was a 'handful', Lao Wu was almost so excited that he choked to death.
A big mallet that is more than 50 years old has a 30 or 40-year-old mallet around it, so it is called a 'handful'.
However, the excitement is excited, Lao Wu said that he would go out to collect the mountain goods, and he would not be able to rush back until tomorrow at the earliest.
Lao Wu is my second uncle, but he is not biological, he was picked up by my grandfather.
His original name was Li Shouyi, and because he had a soft spot for Wu characters in the Three Kingdoms, I called him Lao Wu directly.
Of course, the Three Kingdoms here does not refer to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but the king of pesticides.
He didn't even graduate from elementary school, and I don't believe he can read the Three Kingdoms.
I didn't feel comfortable keeping red ginseng in the store, so I didn't plan to go out to eat.
After ordering a takeout and taking a casual bite, I put the red ginseng in my pocket and lay on the sofa to play with my phone.
I don't know when I fell asleep.
I only know that I was woken up coldly.
When I woke up, I looked at the time, and it was already one o'clock in the morning.
Twenty-eight or nine-degree weather, even in the early hours of the morning, there is no reason to wake me up.
Although I was confused, I went to get the bed blanket and covered it.
That doesn't seem to have much effect, though.
Covered with a blanket, I was still shivering with cold, like I was bare-bottomed in the snow in the middle of winter.
Maybe it was because I was so sleepy, I fell asleep in a daze after shaking.
I had a dream that seven or eight people suddenly came in the store and kept circling around me.
These people are as if they have just come out of the freezer, their bodies exude a cold breath, there is no trace of blood on their faces, and they are white enough to scare people to death!
It's like ...... Dead people alike.
The next day, it was Lao Wu who woke me up.
My head was groggy, like I had a hangover from too much alcohol last night.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a man in his thirties with a scruffy beard looking at me with a shocked face.
"My grass, what's that on your kid's face!!"
Frightened by him, although his head was still heavy, at least he was conscious.
I glanced at him: "Old Wu, what kind of spring are you sending early in the morning!" ”
Lao Wu's eyes widened, and he slapped me on the head.
"Little cub, believe it or not, Lao Tzu cut you!"
I said disdainfully, "I believe you have cut ......."
He didn't say anything more, but stared at me with a solemn expression.
After about ten seconds, he handed me a mirror: "Look at your decay." ”
Curious, I took the mirror and looked at it, and I was stunned for a moment.
"What is this!!"
I was horrified, and there were four or five gray-black spots on my face, as big as soybeans.
It's like ...... Lividity!
Lao Wu didn't respond to me, but just looked at me with a stern expression and asked, "The 'handful' you said last night is not a red ginseng?" ”
I was surprised: "How do you know?" ”
Lao Wu stretched out his hand: "Take it out and I'll take a look!" ”
As curious as I was, I pulled the red ginseng out of my pocket.
But what I didn't expect was that the red ginseng turned into the same yellow-brown color as ordinary ginseng!
"How could this be!!"
I looked at Lao Wu in disbelief: "Yesterday it was still a red ginseng, and I kept it in my pocket, could it be that someone came in in the middle of the night and dropped the bag?" ”
Speaking of which, I was reminded of last night's dream.
Seven or eight people suddenly appeared in the store and circled around me.
Don't...... Is that true?
It's just that they dropped my bag?
Old Wu's eyes shrank suddenly!
After a moment, he shook his head with an ugly face: "This is not red ginseng at all. ”
He looked at me and narrowed his eyes: "This is blood ginseng!" ”
"Blood ginseng?"
I asked, a little stunned.
Lao Wu nodded: "Did you see a few people appearing in the store last night to revolve around you?" ”