chapter 12 cucumber

Out of the hospital!

Verruckt took Bruno to the police station to apply for an ID card!

In fact, it was very troublesome to apply for an ID card for a person like him who appeared out of nowhere. Fortunately, he had a strong relationship and Verruckt opened the way. Within an hour, he got his ID card.

The newly printed second-generation ID card was still a little hot. Bruno flipped it over and said:

"The cameraman's skills are not up to par! The photo was ugly!"

"Mr. Ye, do you want to reshoot?"Verruckt suggested.

"Forget it, just make do with it!"

After collecting his ID card, Bruno was about to leave. Verruckt drove him personally to Qingye Hall!

Got off the bus!

Bruno said goodbye to Verruckt, turned around and walked into Qingye Hall.

As soon as I entered the door, I found an old farmer sitting in front of the counter. His face was wrinkled and his teeth were yellow. He was holding a jade cigarette rod and smoking a dry cigarette.

"sister Sabina, who is this old gentleman..."Bruno stepped forward and asked.

sister Sabina Yun turned around and said with a smile: "Bruno, you are back! This is Mr. Zhang from Pingshan Town. He comes to sell medicinal materials to us!"

It turned out to be a herbal collector!

Bruno looked at the counter, where there was a bamboo basket with more than a dozen medicinal materials, astragalus, wild panax notoginseng, licorice, honeysuckle, dendrobium...

"Little girl, have you figured it out clearly?" Old man Zhang knocked on the cigarette rod and shook out the ashes!

Xenia nodded and said: "Okay! The fifteen kinds of medicinal materials you sell are all of good quality and are worth a total of 3,782 yuan. I will give you the whole amount, 3,800 yuan!"

Mr. Zhang smiled and was very satisfied with the price!

"Little girl, I think you are sincere and much better than the shady bosses of other pharmacies! By coincidence, I have a fifty-year-old wild ginseng that I need to get rid of. Are you interested?"

"What, fifty-year-old wild ginseng!"Xenia exclaimed.

Wild ginseng is extremely valuable and is a rare and rare top-quality medicinal material. It has been sought after by dignitaries since ancient times. Last year, a 30-gram ginseng grown in Lanjiang City sold for a whopping two million yuan!

Uncle Zhang smiled proudly, "This is my coffin book. If my grandson hadn't gotten married and had to buy an apartment in the city, I wouldn't have exchanged ginseng for the down payment!"

As he spoke, he took out a wooden flat box from his arms, opened the lid, and found a golden ginseng fixed on the red satin!

Xenia didn't dare to neglect, took out a magnifying glass and carefully observed this fifty-year-old wild ginseng!

The main root has clear reed patterns, golden color, and the shape is distorted and thin, with iron lines. This is because the wild environment is changeable and it cannot grow in a round and plump shape!

There are not many fibrous roots but they are very long and slender. Each one is crooked and there are small white dots on every bend. These are called pearl spots. They are the traces left after the old roots fall off. You can judge by the number of pearl spots. The specific year of wild ginseng!

"The reed pattern is clear, the iron lines are dense, and there are fifty-eight pearl spots! It is indeed a fifty-year-old wild ginseng!"

Xenia put down the magnifying glass, then took out an electronic scale from the counter and weighed the wild ginseng!

"11.93 grams! According to the current market price, wild ginseng of this level is about 10,000 yuan per gram. I will give you 120,000 yuan!"

"Little girl, you are lucky. If it weren't for my grandson, I wouldn't take it out!"

Old man Zhang took a deep breath of dry cigarette, looking reluctant to give up!

Xenia smiled. She had indeed made a profit from this business. The price of wild ginseng had skyrocketed in recent years. In a few years, this ginseng would cost more than 120,000 yuan.

Taking out her mobile phone, Xenia was about to transfer money!

"Wait a minute!"Bruno interrupted:

"There seems to be something wrong with this wild ginseng!"

When Old Man Zhang heard this, he looked displeased and scolded: "Little baby, you know nothing. You don't have all your hair, yet you dare to say that there is something wrong with my ginseng!"

"Haha! This ginseng of yours is not a wild ginseng, it is a craft ginseng!"Bruno said.

"Nonsense, I dug this ginseng from the mountains. How could it be a craft ginseng? Could it be that your Qingye Tang store is bullying customers and maliciously suppressing prices!" Old Man Zhang held the cigarette rod with an angry expression.

Craft ginseng generally refers to fake ginseng that is spliced ​​together with defective ginseng glue. Some unscrupulous vendors will even carve reed patterns and iron lines to achieve the purpose of looking fake and real!

"The cost of this craft ginseng is very high, but it's a pity that I can't be fooled!"

Bruno twisted a ginseng beard with his fingers and gently touched it. The ginseng beard broke and the wound was smooth! These are obviously traces of gluing with special glue after cutting with a knife!

Uncle Zhang bit back: "Okay! Little baby, you actually ruined my ginseng. If you don't come up with 120,000 yuan, I will call someone and sue your store for bullying!"

Bruno shook his head and said: "I won't cry until I see the coffin!"

After that, I went back to the kitchen to get a glass of water, and then stuffed the ginseng in it!

After a while, the clear water turned yellow, and the golden ginseng revealed its original color, yellow yet white!

"Old man, your ginseng is amazing! It's actually dyed! Could it be that it was tampered with before it was dug out of the mountains!"Bruno said sarcastically.

With the irrefutable evidence, Mr. Zhang's face turned blue and white, and he hurriedly took a bamboo basket of medicinal materials and left in despair!

Xenia patted her chest and said with lingering fear: "Looking at how honest he looks, I didn't expect that he was so full of bad ideas that he almost defrauded him of 120,000 yuan. Fortunately, Bruno, even if you come back! It's my fault. You're not good at learning and don't even know how to participate in craftsmanship." I can’t tell the difference from wild ginseng.”

Bruno comforted: "sister Sabina, you don't have to blame yourself! Today's counterfeiting technology is advancing rapidly. Let alone you, even an old Chinese doctor in his seventies or eighties will make mistakes!"

"Also, when are we going to eat?"

"very hungry!"

Xenia slapped her forehead, "Oh! The vegetables I bought this morning haven't been cooked yet!"

She is used to living alone and eats three meals at will. I made a special trip to buy a lot of good food for Bruno, but accidentally forgot to cook!

Xenia hurriedly ran to the kitchen and started cooking.

Bruno also went over to take action!

"Bruno, wash the cucumbers. There are a lot of pesticide residues on them. You need to wash them twice!"Xenia said.

Bruno took out a cucumber and couldn't help but admired: "Cucumber is sweet in taste, cool in nature and good for the liver, and it is full of water. It is suitable for nourishing food in summer, clearing away heat and relieving fire!"

Xenia smiled and said: "Although cucumbers are good, they are cold foods after all and should not be eaten in large quantities. Only if they are paired with warm eggs to balance the warmth and coolness and appetize and benefit the liver can it be used as a qualified food tonic dish!"

Bruno chuckled and said: "sister Sabina, did you know? In addition to eating, cucumbers can also be used for other purposes. They are a woman's best friend!"

Xenia's pretty face turned red, and she quickly cleared the air and said, "Well! There are indeed many women who need the company of Cucumber, but I don't need it!"

"It's not a pity! sister Sabina Yun, you will be more beautiful with the nourishment of cucumber! I will leave a cucumber for you to use at night!"Bruno said with a smile.

Xenia's cheeks turned redder! He secretly scolded Bruno for being dirty, for teasing his sister so innocently.

"Go, go! My sister doesn't need this thing. Besides, after you came back, I slept peacefully and I don't need this thing to relieve my loneliness!"

Bruno scratched the back of his head and said doubtfully:

"Relieving loneliness? Does cucumber mask have this effect?"

Xenia was stunned!

Then the blush on her face spread from her cheeks to her ears.

How embarrassing!

It turns out I was thinking wrong!

You said those things shamelessly!

"Is it possible that cucumber has gained some new functions in the ten years since I left? And sister Sabina, your face is so red! Do you have a fever?"Bruno was even more confused.

"No, no! I'm very well, go ahead and chop the vegetables!"Xenia was so ashamed that she wished she could find a crack in the ground and crawl in!

Bruno stopped asking and concentrated on cutting vegetables.

When I was busy until six o'clock, four dishes and one soup were ready!

Soybean stewed pig's trotters, green pepper stir-fried pork, pickled pork with pickles, cucumber scrambled eggs, kelp and pork ribs soup! It whets one's appetite.

Bruno was not polite. He wolfed down the white rice and even chewed up the bones and swallowed them in his stomach!

After having enough wine and food, Xenia brought out a bowl of thick medicinal soup from the kitchen.

"Bruno, I have been boiling this bowl of Qi-condensing and Essence-strengthening soup for ten hours. Drink it quickly!"

"Qi-condensing and essence-strengthening soup! Isn't this a prescription for strengthening yang and replenishing qi? Why do you want to drink it for me?"Bruno asked doubtfully.

Xenia said: "Bruno, your face is pale, your pulse is weak, and your limbs are cold, which is exactly the sign of Yin and Yang declining. If you don't drink this medicine, who will drink it?"

Bruno smiled helplessly. He didn't have a strong yin or a weak yang. He was clearly in a state of extreme yin and absolute yang. The effect of this decoction was almost useless.

But this reminded him of something!