"Are you really Chinese?" the older man asked in an inquiring tone?

"How can this be fake? We are all Chinese.

I'm from Sanya, he's my relative, his name is Ah Lang, let's come here to find some medicine. Ah Cheng replied in an affirmative tone.

"My name is Ah Yuan, this is my grandson, my name is Ah Qian.

I came to this island eight years ago, and he arrived two years ago.

I heard that it was good to catch turtles and sell fresh water, so I came to this island, and the business was okay for the first few years, and I called my grandson again.

I didn't expect three foreigners to come in March last year, and since then, our life has not been easy. They don't allow us to do business, and even if we catch any seafood, we have to report it to them first and pay a certain amount of protection money.

We wanted to leave, but they didn't allow us to leave, saying that if we dared to leave, they would kill us at any time, and we couldn't stay, so we would leave when we had the chance.

What medicine are you looking for? Do you want to leave immediately? If you leave right away, it would be great, we can make it convenient. ”

Ah Yuan was very eager to leave with Ah Cheng and them.

"Don't be afraid, what's the situation slowly, now we are four people, three of them, we are not afraid of them.

We'll leave when we find the medicine, and if you want to leave by then, we can go together. ”

The arrival of Ah Cheng and Shen Lang seemed to have made Ah Yuan and Ah Qian's courage stronger, and the two of them walked with their waists straight.

"Ah Cheng, what kind of medicine are you two looking for? Is it cycad?" asked Ah Yuan with his back to the coconut tree.

A-Yuan's question made Shen Lang feel a little strange, they hadn't said it yet, how could A-Yuan know. Shen Lang asked in surprise:

"Uncle, the medicine we are looking for is cycads, how do you know that this is the medicine we are looking for?"

"There are a lot of people who come here to find cycads over the years, I came here eight years ago, and there is an old Chinese medicine doctor here, who specializes in the preparation of cycad Chinese medicine. His cycad Chinese medicine is famous.

Later, when he was old, and saw that I had been here for a long time and was an honest man, he recruited me as an apprentice and passed on this craft to me. After five years, my master became seriously ill and went back to his hometown.

I stopped fishing for turtles and selling fresh water, and I made a lot of money selling cycads as a traditional Chinese medicine.

Unexpectedly, three foreigners came here in March last year, and they only came here after hearing that the price of cycad Chinese medicine was high.

When they came here, they seized our shacks, destroyed our boats, and prevented us from fishing and selling, and we had to pay taxes for fishing and trafficking, saying that we needed their guarantors, and called them 'protection fees'.

He also asked us to work for them, forced me to make cycad Chinese medicine for them, and did not allow us to leave, saying that if we dared to leave, they would kill us. Now people don't dare to go if they want to. After Ah Yuan finished speaking, he looked sad.

"Uncle, are you still making Chinese medicine cycads, and what is the price?"

Shen Lang was concerned about the current situation of cycad traditional Chinese medicine, and first asked the old man about the cycad of traditional Chinese medicine.

"A year ago, it turned out that the price of this cycad Chinese medicine was fifty yuan per pill.

After these three foreigners came, in order to obtain greater benefits, they raised the price to 80 yuan a pill, and forced me to speed up the production and catch up with the progress, but if the raw materials of this medicine were not baked in place, the efficacy of the medicine would be reduced.

Now the price has not changed, but the reputation is no longer good, there are fewer and fewer buyers, and it is not easy to do.

Especially in the past six months, these three people want to learn this pharmaceutical technology from me, and they don't let me help them.

Due to the problem of raw materials, I also kept a hand in order to save my life, so to this day, they have not learned this craft in place, and they have not started with me, if I had passed this craft to them earlier, maybe the two of us would have been gone.

Since the Spring Festival this year, these three people have seen us unpleasantly everywhere, often looking for my fault, and we are in danger at any time.

In this position, there were two people who parked a boat in the month of last year, and we happened to be here when these two people were moored, and they said that they would go ashore to do business, and they would not leave until five or six days.

I told them that if they wanted to dock, they had to ask the three of them for permission first. The two also took the initiative to find these three people, and I heard that these three people also collected some parking fees and deposits.

But two days later, the boat and the people were gone, and I guess nine times out of ten they were killed by these three people. You have to be careful.

The medicine can still be made, and now I have someone to supervise it when I make it, whether it is the material or the finished product, I can't take a little bit away. If you want it, you have to agree to it. ”

Old man Ah Yuan looked at Ah Cheng and Shen Lang with concerned eyes as he spoke.

"What raw materials do you want, can't you pick them by yourself?" asked Shen Lang, looking at a few coconut trees in the distance.

"The raw materials are on this small island, and the effective content of raw materials in other places is not high or pure, and the medicinal properties produced are not enough, and the storage time is not long, so we can only ask for raw materials on this small island.

You can see here on the right that there are a couple of good raw materials. I'll show you the past. If they wake up and ask, you will say that they have come to buy medicine, and I will show you the coconut trees. ”

A-Yuan said as he pointed to the tall coconut trees on his right.

Shen Lang and Ah Cheng followed their grandson and walked towards a few tall coconut trees on the right, and introduced the raw materials needed for cycads in traditional Chinese medicine to the two as they walked.

He said that there were originally more than 300 coconut trees and more than 60 cycad trees on this small island, and there were fewer coconuts and cycads growing on the left side and more on the right.

It turned out that the two of them lived in the right shack, and the three of them started to live in the left shack, and after a month, the three of them forcibly kicked him out and let them live in the left shack, and the three of them lived in the right shack.

Shen Lang looked in the direction of Ah Yuan's finger, there were two shacks on this small island, small on the left and large on the right.

There are now about 100 coconut trees on the left side, and there are only more than 10 or 20 cycad trees, and there are about 200 coconut trees and about 40 or 50 cycad trees on the right.

There is a coconut tree on the right side, which is afraid to be 60 meters high, which is particularly conspicuous, like a giant umbrella propped up in the air of the island, and has the feeling of standing out from the crowd. The rest of the heights are generally around 30 meters.

The cycads are still growing luxuriantly, and the one on the right side is particularly outstanding, about ten meters high, with leafy branches, pinnate leaves about three meters long, and the crown of the tree is larger than the crown of the tall coconut tree.

If the coconut tree in front of it resembles a slim girl, then this cycad is a sturdy young man, watching and guarding her from afar.

A group of four people were walking and watching and chatting, when a rough voice came from the shack on the right:

"Ah Yuan, Ah Qian, what are you doing?