I slept like this until 8 o'clock in the morning, when the network administrator changed his shift and woke me up. I dragged the box to Panjiayuan, found a stall, set up a stall, and put out the things.
I thought I could sell it today, but to my surprise, no one cared about it all morning. It was not until noon that an old man Shi Shiran came over and stood beside my stall for a while.
"Old sir, what do you want to buy?" I asked quickly.
"This ginseng is okay. I'll take these two for a hundred and fifty." The old man said without any politeness.
I was very angry, but I still said politely: "The price is too low, it's three hundred per head."
"What? Three hundred?" The old man also yelled with his eyes widened, "Why don't you go and grab it, the most is two hundred, I'll take both ends."
Are you kidding me? I got these two ginsengs at a price of 150 per head, with seeds and leaves attached. Although they don’t look big, they are genuine wild ginseng from the old forest, which is different from the American ginseng grown in greenhouses. .
In ancient times, this was called Huang Jing, also called goblin, the spirit of the earth, and it was a thing that could kill people.
He gave me a fixed price of 200, and he and I traveled two days to come here, and he still wanted to pay 100 more?
I was so angry that my face turned red and I stared at him fiercely. The old man got a sharp glare from me and became flustered. He immediately said, "I'll give you twenty more... No, I'll give you fifty. Any more will be gone."
"Keep your little money for yourself!" The young man was very angry, so I shouted and shouted at him to drive him away, which made many people in the market stop and look here.
Just when I thought there was no hope this time, the kind-hearted middle-aged man who was standing in front of my stall yesterday came to my stall, knelt down and said to me: "Young man is quite energetic."
"The stuff is good, but it's a pity that it's sold in the wrong place. The people here don't know the goods."
As soon as I heard this, I felt there was something wrong and quickly asked: "Uncle, where do you think I can go to sell?"
The uncle said with a smile: "Medicinal materials are difficult to identify for one thing. Wild ones have one price, and farmed ones have another price. They are both wild. They have one price on the south side of the mountain and another price on the north side. They are all from the same place." Medicines have different prices depending on the season, whether it’s sunny or rainy.”
I nodded quickly: "Uncle, you are an expert."
What this uncle said is correct. Traditional Chinese medicine cannot be compared to the synthetic powder of Western medicine. It uses natural materials and treasures. It pays attention to the right time, place and time. Now many people say that traditional Chinese medicine is not good. In fact, it is not that traditional Chinese medicine is not good. Because there are fewer and fewer good medicinal materials.
For the same prescription, the effect of using medicinal materials for ten years is not as good as that of medicinal materials that are used for a hundred years. Without good medicinal materials, no matter how skilled Chinese medicine is, it cannot cure the disease. It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice, let alone a doctor?
"Secondly, what you are selling are all imported products. As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of making money, you are afraid of risking your life. If you sell these medicinal materials, those who do not know the goods will not be able to tell the true from the false. If you buy them and eat them in your mouth, there will be We are both good and bad, and I will miss you when I come back." The uncle continued, and I nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
It does make sense. What I sell is no better than the antiques they sell. Buying fake ones will only make you lose money at most. These are real medicinal materials that can cure diseases and harm people.
"Then where should I sell it? In a pharmacy?" I remembered that there was a big pharmacy in Mujing called Tongrentang. There might be something going on there.
"Hey, I can't do it in Beijing." The uncle waved his hand, "The pharmacy won't accept such a small amount of things from you. If you want to meet someone who knows the goods, you don't know what year and month you have to wait."
"Go to Jinx, there are many interesting people there, and there are many knowledgeable people." The uncle said, "Now there are more people in Yanjing seeing Western medicine than Chinese medicine. People don't believe in the things of our ancestors, so that's it." Tianjin is still a good place."
As soon as I heard this, I became depressed again, and the little hope I had just raised was dashed again. Now I only have four yuan left in my pocket. This four yuan is not enough to take me to the train station, let alone go to Tianjin.
"What's the matter, young man?" He asked when he saw that I looked wrong.
"To tell you the truth, uncle, I'm so broke right now that I can't get enough money for a ticket." I said helplessly, "How about I give you a head of ginseng and you give me the money for the ticket."
He pondered for a while and then said: "Well, young man, I don't want any of your medicinal materials. I'm going to Tianjin tomorrow. I'll take you with me to meet a knowledgeable person. With luck, he Seeing that you like it, he collected all these things for you at a high price."
"Then how should I repay you?" I agreed at first, and then asked, because my grandfather told me since I was a child that if you borrow something, you must repay it, and the favor you owe must be repaid twice as much.
"Hey, with a little effort, I saw the shadow of my youth in you." The uncle patted me on the shoulder, his smile was full of smiles, "Don't say goodbye to you either. My surname is Wu, and your name is Wu." Just call me Uncle Wu."
"Hey, Uncle Wu." My heart warmed, and tears began to well up in my eyes. The young man's tears were shallow. He had suffered so much cold eyes and contempt along the way, but when he suddenly encountered warm kindness, his nose felt sore for a moment.
What Uncle Wu didn't know was that it was his small kindness that planted the seeds of kindness in my heart. No matter how desperate I was in the future, I would always retain the last bottom line of being a human being.
Having said that, Uncle Wu set a time with me and left. I still have to think of a way to spend tonight.
I had no choice but to reluctantly sell the eagle claw necklace that my grandfather gave me. It was Haidongqing's claw. In the Qing Dynasty, Haidongqing was only used by the royal family. Even if he died, his body would be handled by special people, so this Things are extremely rare.
As soon as I took it out, many people gathered around me. Finally, I sold it for 750 yuan, which made my wallet bulge.
I quickly closed the stall, booked a small hotel near the agreed place, and then went back to the noodle shop yesterday. This time I went in and ordered a lot of food. In the end, the old couple asked me not to order, for fear that I would I can't eat that much.
After I devoured my meal, I paid the bill, and before I left, I put a fifty-yuan bill on the bottom of the bowl, just to thank them for not chasing me out last night and letting me stay until closing time.
After dinner here, I went to the Internet cafe where I spent the night last night. After learning that the network administrator was not there, I asked his colleague to give him fifty yuan and a pack of good cigarettes.
My grandfather taught me since I was a child that a drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water!
After doing all this, I found another shop and bought two boxes of tea, which cost me four hundred yuan. Now I didn't have much money left, so I went back to the hotel and lay down.
But I was tossing and turning in bed, unable to fall asleep. I vaguely felt that my life was about to change, and that nervous feeling enveloped me all the time.
