The manager on duty in the VIP room was a middle-aged man in a suit with oily hair and powdered face, and when he saw the girl taking Zhang Lisheng and Tao Lielin into his territory, he asked enthusiastically: "Two customers, please take a seat first."

Yao Di, what business do these two gentlemen need to handle?"

"Manager Zhang, these two guests came to our bank to handle the Jinmai card business, and the pre-deposit amount is 700,000 yuan. The girl Yao Di smiled and replied.

The middle-aged man nodded, quietly gave a thumbs up to Yao Di, and said formulaically to Tao Lielin: "Sir, I am the West Sichuan Branch of Huaguo Agricultural Bank... Zhang Jiulin, the VIP manager of the business hall of Damu Town, whose work number is 09878, is honored to serve you today..."

"It's not that I want to get a card, it's him, I don't have so much spare money. Tao Lielin was stunned for a moment, pointed at Zhang Lisheng and said.

"He," Zhang Jiulin said with wide eyes, "You can't apply for this kind of consumption card under the age of sixteen." ”

"This gentleman turned 16 in July this year. Yao Di replied instead of Zhang Lisheng.

Tao Lielin, who was on the side, then added: "But the mountain worm didn't have an ID card, and Daddy didn't do it, I only brought his household registration book, the village's letter of introduction, and the official seal."

Manager Zhang, let's see what we do. ”

Zhang Jiulin smiled with relief and said: "This gentleman, don't worry, for high-end customers who apply for Golden Wheat Card, our bank only requires customers to show their identity certificates of being at least 16 years old."

All other certificates and certificates will be exempted or exempted.

In other words, as long as I give me the 700,000 cash deposited in advance and the account book, I can go through the card opening business immediately. ”

"Really, why is it different from what I've heard?" Tao Lielin said suspiciously.

"Aren't we constantly improving the quality of our services? Zhang Jiulin replied with a smile.

In this way, because he handled the 'high-end' business, coupled with a considerable amount of cash deposited in advance, Zhang Lisheng, who was under the age of 18 and did not apply for an ID card, did not experience any twists and turns, and received the first credit card in his life.

Taking the small silver card from Zhang Jiulin's hand, he said, "Xie Luxie." He touched it carefully and carefully put it in his pocket.

Coming out of the bank, Zhang Lisheng felt relaxed, he casually threw the wooden money box he brought with him into the garbage bin on the side of the road, and said, "Uncle Hunt, I want to go to the supermarket in the town to buy some food, toothpaste, soap or something?"

"Okay, I'll wait for you at the tea shed at the entrance of the town. Although Tao Lielin began to call Zhang Lisheng 'mountain worm' again, in fact, he had completely regarded him as an adult who he had to look up to, and replied with a smile.

After Tao Lielin left, Zhang Lisheng walked alone on the bustling streets of Damu Town, but did not go directly to the supermarket in the town, but walked into an old Miao pharmacy.

The area of the shop is not large, the four walls are blackened by the smoke of the medicine pot, and the coarse porcelain medicine jar containing medicinal materials according to the ancient method of Miaodi is placed in the middle of the medicine shop.

The medicine jar is more than one person high, and the mouth of the irrigation is more than one meter, under the medicine jar, an old man with white hair, who looks unenergetic, and is dozing off, is using a pu fan to fan a charcoal stove.

A pot full of herbs was boiling on the stove.

Seeing that there were customers overflowing, Lao Miaoren's eyes lit up and he wanted to stand up.

But when he saw that the visitor was a very poor-looking young man, he drooped his head listlessly.

Zhang Lisheng didn't mind the cold reception of the pharmacy owner, he smelled the medicinal fragrance in the shop, and asked, "Boss, you have ginseng leaves, iron chopsticks, turmeric... Fruit on the leaves?"

"Yes. Listening to the young man in front of him, there are thirty or forty kinds of medicinal materials, and the old Miao put down the pu fan and looked at him carefully.

"To be authentic wildland. ”

"Wild medicinal herbs are precious. ”

"It doesn't matter if it's expensive, as long as it's genuine.

I just said that everything in the earth medicinal materials needs two taels of dry powder, how much money does it cost?"

The old Miao man thought about it for a while and said, "I have to ask for two thousand four hundred yuan." ”

"Wrap me up and bring me ten more chains of fire. Zhang Lisheng nodded, pulled the zipper of the inner pocket of the overalls, pointed out twenty-four hundred-yuan bills, handed them to the old man of the Miao nationality and said: "You are like an old Miao guest in the mountains, and the medicinal herbs must be authentic and wild."

Otherwise, I will not follow the major affairs of my land. ”

Lao Miao took the money, nodded, checked the authenticity and said: "You are not those babies outside the mountain who come to play on the ground, what will I coax you to do." ”

After saying that, he staggered to the corner, brought a dirty wooden bench, and stepped on the wooden bench to open the wooden lid of the huge medicine jar.

Using a long wooden spoon, the powder was dug out from the bamboo tubes filled with medicinal herbs in the medicine jar, wrapped in pieces of straw paper, and then put it into a small yellow plastic bag together with the fire chain.

The old Miao handed the plastic bag to Zhang Lisheng, and shouted in a long voice: "Wild ginseng leaves, licking chopsticks, turmeric... Two taels of dry powder per flavor, authentic mountain goods, guests put it away. ”

The medicinal materials purchased this time were very important in Zhang Lisheng's planning, he took the plastic bag and opened it uneasily, poked a paper bag with his fingers at will, dipped a little black-brown powder from it, first sniffed it, and then tasted it again.

The powder tasted bad, and the powder was sour and astringent, with a heavy fishy bitterness, which made Zhang Lisheng's facial features shrink into a ball.

"Your baby still can't believe that I made up the Liudi medicine, and pretended to taste something?" The old Miao man saw that Zhang Lisheng had suffered a secret loss, and said sarcastically with a smile.

"I tasted fifteen years of black stones, good medicine. Zhang Lisheng spat a few mouthfuls of foam, and said with a smile that his tongue was inarticulate.

"Alas, alas, your baby is an expert!"

"Connoisseurs can't say it, they just know a little bit about medicinal properties. Zhang Lisheng shook his head and said in a crepe manner, after which he retied the plastic bag containing the medicinal herbs, turned around and left the Miao medicine shop.

After walking three or four hundred meters to the west, Zhang Lisheng came to a supermarket in the town that made 'Jiahe'.

The name is good, but this supermarket is actually just a few small shops that sold groceries in the past, and put department stores on the shelves for customers to choose from, which is not the same as the real large mass merchandiser supermarket in the city.

However, the goods for daily use are already very complete.

Zhang Lisheng picked out more than a dozen catties of raw dried beef, a few bags of seasonings, and some soap horns and other toiletries.

It was much more convenient to have a bamboo basket, put the plastic bag containing medicinal materials at the bottom, and packed everything else, Zhang Lisheng picked up the bamboo basket and walked out of the supermarket.

The town's quaint stone roads are full of tourists with backpacks and colorful travel hats, and among the tourists there are some mountain people wearing bright Miao costumes and white Yi costumes, which seem to have nothing to do.

In fact, as early as after the Red Revolution spread across the land of western Sichuan, the Miao Wei and Bai Yi people had already abandoned these complicated and cumbersome national costumes in their daily lives, and now they are only worn for subsidies issued by the government.

Zhang Lisheng carried a bamboo basket on his back, walked along the stone road to the entrance of the town, and saw at a glance the pottery hunting forest sitting in a tea shed on a field more than ten meters away.

The tea shed is very dirty, and the people who rest and drink tea are dressed like ordinary farmers in the Central Plains provinces, drinking big bowls of tea to 'squeak' and make a mess, and their speeches are all shouting and screaming, as if they are going to quarrel.

Ordinary marchers would think that the people sitting here are all migrant workers from other provinces who have come to this new town to work as construction teams and beg for a living, and they will not approach the tea shed at all.

The time was close to noon, and after drinking two large pots of tea, Tao Lielin, who was feeling impatient, saw Zhang Lisheng coming from a distance, and hurriedly stepped forward, "Mountain insects, why do you buy so many groceries." ”

"I'll buy more raw dried beef, and I won't be in town for a month. ”

"In the future, I want to come to the town to tell you Uncle Hunt that is..."

"Uncle Hunt, I don't want to trouble you all the time.

Okay, now that the goods are bought, let's go back to the village. ”

"Then you wait. With that, Tao Lielin walked to the tea shed and pushed out his motorcycle.

Helping Zhang Lisheng, who was carrying a bamboo basket, to sit in the back seat, he started the car and sped towards Ouwo Village.

Back in the mountain village, Zhang Lisheng first returned home with a bamboo basket on his back, while Tao Lielin ran to Ermu's house in a hurry.

Ermu has a lively mind, and was the first to drive a truck in Damu Town, selling mountain goods, taking into account illegal tourism, and making a lot of money, and built a three-story bamboo building made of steel imitation in the outermost part of the mountain village, and also circled a courtyard.

It's a pity that he was later addicted to gambling and led him astray, and finally embarked on a road of no return.

What's even more worrying is that several families have been invited to the funeral, but no one has even come to the door of relatives to help, which means that the entire Ouwo Village no longer treats this family as a villager, and is afraid that it will be completely isolated in the future.

Under such circumstances, one of the principals of the village, Tao Lielin, broke into his yard without knocking, and one of the Ermu family could imagine the surprise of the Ermu family.

After the whole family was stunned, they were smashing the cigarette pouch on the wooden bench, and Ermu Daddy, who looked old in his sixties, hurriedly stood up and said, "Nephew Lin, no, no, Village Chief Tao is here, sit down."

The baby is very angry, and he has committed our seedlings..."

"Dou (dou read three times) Uncle Shu, don't worry, Ermu is Ermu, your old man is your old man, no one is talking about it.

I have something urgent, let's not be polite, I remember that there is a green mule at home, take it quickly, I will lead it to the door of Zhang's house to ask for mourning. ”

"What!

Go to the door of Zhang's house to ask for funeral!" He Doushu said in surprise.

"Exactly, don't delay, the mule will take us and go. ”

"Yes, yes, I'll go to lead the cattle and let Ermu's daughter-in-law take the baby to Zhang's door to mourn.

Nephew Lin, the Zhang family spit out this, you must have worked hard to say that you had saved my family..."

Seeing the rolling old tears of He Doushu, Tao Lielin waved his hand again and again and said: "Uncle, it doesn't matter so much, I said that Ermu is Ermu, you are always you..."