I'm a big star

"Hey, I can't call you if I have nothing to do. Although we are both in Jiangcheng City, it always feels like the end of the world. I'm afraid we won't be able to see each other for the rest of our lives." Old man Li laughed.

"Stop talking nonsense. I haven't been running around for many years. I rarely stay in Jiangcheng. I'm in the northwest these days. If you call me, you must be asking for medicinal materials, right?" Big, rough and strong, it can be seen that he is usually a domineering and straightforward person.

However, judging from the conversation between the two, they are obviously friends who have known each other for many years, and there is always a naughty and funny voice in their tone.

"Yes, you often do some weird things here. A friend of mine happened to be looking for a very unpopular medicinal material, the blood-colored Agkistrodon, no, the snake gall of the five-paced viper, do you have it here?"

When talking about the blood-colored Agkistrodon, old man Li looked up at Li Feng, probably thinking that the old friend on the other end of the phone couldn't understand the name, so he changed his name to a five-step snake.

After all, five-paced snake, a poisonous snake, has different names in different medical books and different populations. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is called five-paced snake and hundred-paced snake, while in other places it is also called thousand-paced snake and Agkistrodon.

"Of course, there are only things you can't think of. I can't find anything here, but I'm not at home now. I'm in the northwest. It may take about half a month before I come back. Only my granddaughter is at home. You can just go and ask her to get it. .” The old man on the opposite side said very simply.

Seeing that his old friend was so straightforward, old man Li didn't talk nonsense, and said straight to the point: "The price of this rare medicinal material is not low, tell me a price."

"Well, when I first got it, I remember it was like 100 million. You can just go to Xiaoli." The old man on the opposite side said concisely.

The two didn't get entangled with too much politeness about money. If they were ordinary people, they would definitely be polite to each other because of the 100 million. One might say that it would be cheaper, and the other might say that they would give more.

In short, when Chinese people talk about money face to face, they will pretend to be polite to each other, but they will complain and even speak ill of each other when they turn around.

But old man Li and his friend are old friends who have known each other for most of their lives after all, and they are both making medicinal materials. The other party basically sells them to him at cost price, and they know each other well. Besides, the old friend has such a domineering and impatient personality, how could he dare to lower the price?

Since he was an old friend, he would naturally not intentionally raise the price to trick him, so old man Li was naturally very relieved of his old friend, as much as the price should be, was absolutely unambiguous.

"Okay, I'll go to the county to look for her in a while, then remember to come to me when you come back, we haven't seen each other for a long time." After talking, old man Li began to chat with his old friend politely.

"Fart, I haven't seen you for half a year, but this time I may have to stay at home for a long time when I come back. After all, I am old. By the way, the 54th of next month will be my [-]th birthday. I will come back to make arrangements Yes, you old Li, you have to prepare a big gift for me, right?" The old man on the opposite side laughed loudly, as if deliberately taking advantage of old man Li.

"That's necessary. We have known each other for most of our lives. For your birthday, of course I have to prepare a big gift. How about giving you a chamber pot? You are old and will be bedridden soon, so that you can get up in the middle of the night. Pee at any time, what do you think?" Old man Li said with a playful smile, and even Li Feng, who was sitting opposite him, couldn't help but smile.

This is the real bosom friend, you can joke casually, and don't care about the auspiciousness of what the other party says.

"Get out! If you dare to give it away, I'll hit your forehead in front of you!" After speaking, the old man on the opposite side also laughed twice, knowing that it was a joke, and teased each other.

"Okay, I know you're busy, so let's stop talking nonsense. My friend is also in a hurry. If you have anything to say, I'll talk about it when I come back..."

After the two exchanged a few pleasantries, old man Li hung up the phone reluctantly.

"Senior Li, your friend is actually younger than you? You will only be 55 next month?" Li Feng asked curiously.

Although on the phone, the old man said it was his 54th birthday, he actually celebrated his 55th birthday.

Because usually the old people have a saying that their birthday is reduced by one year. That is to say, the actual age is 55 years old, but in terms of saying, it is said to be 54 years old. This is an unwritten rule among the people. People's birthdays, there are lunar and solar calendars, and there are also false years.

Some people's imaginary age is one year younger than their actual age, even two or three years younger, and some people's imaginary age is one year older than their actual age. Therefore, the old people in the countryside and folks live a long life, and there is a saying of celebrating Yangshou.

However, he was very surprised that old man Li's friend was only in his 50s, while old man Li was already in his 60s, seven or eight years older than his friend.

"We met each other when we first entered the field of Chinese medicine. At that time, I was under the master's hands and had practiced for many years. Not long after I became a doctor of Chinese medicine, the new batch of Chinese medicine interns were still led by my master. He is one of them, but this guy is very talented. The family has a history of more than a century of medicinal materials. The ancestors of the family are either Chinese medicine or medicinal materials, so they are younger than me, but they are born with the ability to be Chinese medicine. talent."

"Unfortunately, people in the new era, after the reform and opening up, the country is growing stronger and new things are springing up like mushrooms, so he doesn't have much interest in being a doctor. The collection is also very interesting, and his granddaughter basically manages the medicinal materials company at home."

Hearing this, Li Feng didn't know why, he was very interested in this weird old man, and continued to ask: "Then does he have no relatives, daughters and sons, who are so old, and still running around all day? "

The old man Li was stunned, and patiently explained: "Well, he has two daughters, but it's strange to say that the younger of these two daughters, the younger one died for no reason other than an accident, and the eldest daughter heard that she was killed by something. Bitten, not found in time, a few years later because the poisoning was too deep, he died of illness, anyway, the death of his two daughters is a bit strange, but as a friend, I dare not mention this kind of thing in front of him, for fear that he will be sad Anyway, he is a weird person. He told me after drinking too much again that he has been running around outside for so many years, but he was actually looking for the murderer of his daughter. I didn't take it seriously at the time, after all he I am a master of martial arts, and there are some matters in the Jianghu. An ordinary person like me is not qualified to comment on other people's private affairs."

"So that's the case. Now he only has one daughter. How can he run around outside without being afraid that the murderer will find him?" Li Feng didn't know why he said such strange words. In short, he just felt that this strange old man It's kind of weird.

But what's strange, I can't tell.

In fact, subconsciously, he suddenly thought of his master Li Donglai just now.

I can't help but think, since old man Li knows Li Donglai and has met his master several times, is there such a possibility? Will this friend of old man Li also know Li Donglai.

After all, Jiangcheng is so big. After the master opened the Li's Traditional Chinese Medicine Center, the source of the medicinal materials may have been cooperated with this friend of old man Li. Who doesn't understand, old man Li also knows the master?

"It's strange to say that since his two daughters died, the only little granddaughter, he didn't let her study medicine at all, only let her manage medicinal materials, and usually taught her kung fu, although his little granddaughter also showed that she was also interested in Chinese medicine. Interested, but the old guy just refused to teach her medical skills, and said that if she found out that she was secretly learning medical skills, he would cut off one of her fingers. In short, it sounds a bit alarmist, but her little granddaughter is also very sensible, and did not violate his rules. The rule of this is that the relationship between the two is not very good, and those who love to answer are ignored, after all, they are relatives from the next generation, and they are both mother and grandfather, so there are usually many conflicts." Old man Li said patiently as before.