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After exchanging a few pleasantries, old man Li stopped talking nonsense, and went straight to the topic, expressing his intention of coming.

However, when Oriole heard that they were here to get the guts of the five-step snake, Oriole was in a bit of trouble.

"Why, don't you have a five-step snake here?" Old man Li asked in amazement.

Hearing this, Huang Li shook her head and replied: "It's not that there are none, the dried five-step snakes have long since disappeared, but there are live five-step snakes in the warehouse, but they haven't reached maturity yet, and they are generally suitable for use. The five-step snake that is used as a medicinal material needs to wait until it is mature before it can be used as a medicine."

"Not to mention that you are talking about the mutated blood-colored Agkistrodon. There is indeed a blood-colored Agkistrodon that mutated through inbreeding in the warehouse. However, it is still not mature. The maturity period of the five-step snake is very long. Yes, it usually molts once a year before reaching maturity, but the mutated Agkistrodon has been more than a year, and there is no sign of molt, so I don’t know if it can be used as a medicinal material.”

"It should be possible. Even if it is not mature, its snake gallbladder can basically be used as medicine." Li Feng nodded and interjected.

Snakes usually have a short lifespan, and the maturity period is judged according to the molting. Some snakes have a short lifespan, and they usually complete the molting within a few months, which means maturity.

But most venomous snakes have a very long lifespan, ranging from three to four years to more than ten years. However, they have never seen a Agkistrodon that has not completely molted for such a long time.

"However, that Agkistrodon is extremely aggressive, and I even suspect it has a bit of spirituality..." Huang Li glanced at Li Feng with weird eyes, as if he didn't know what Li Feng was going to use this Agkistros.

"What do you mean?" Old man Li asked instead of Li Feng.

"It stayed in the warehouse for a long time. A Tibetan mastiff and several hounds were very scared when they saw the poisonous snake. They even tucked their legs when eating. They only dared to bark a few times during the day. I went to see it before. A few times, basically when feeding, it will show a very aggressive look, very scary."

"If you want to catch it alive now, it may be a bit difficult, even with the help of snake catching tools, it is difficult to catch it, because it is a bit intelligent and will try to avoid snake catching tools."

Li Feng and old man Li looked at each other with disbelief on their faces. Obviously, they had never heard of or seen such a poisonous snake with spirituality.

"By the way, how do you usually feed it and what do you feed it with? Has it ever attacked you?" Li Feng asked curiously.

"Of course it is fed with raw meat. There are two layers of glass inside. First throw it into the outer layer, and then open the inner isolation door from the outside. It will go outside to eat by itself." Oriole explained patiently.

"I heard from your grandfather, did he just get a mutated female viper to breed? From what you said, it seems that the one in the warehouse is a cub. What about the female snake?" Old man Li asked again.

"The female snake was bought half a year ago."

Hearing this, old man Li couldn't help scolding: "This old ghost, the female snake that makes medicine has been bought away a long time ago, and even said that there is a county town. I thought it was dried, but I didn't expect it to be sold now. If you want to capture it, it will be too late, if you capture it alive, it will take a day to drown it in alcohol."

"It's okay, the big deal is to catch it alive on the spot, but I want to ask, who bought the female snake?" Li Feng said calmly, then changed the subject, looked at Huang Li in a daze, and asked in a deep voice.

"I don't remember clearly, but my grandfather was at home at the time, and that person came to my grandfather to buy it in person. He bought it at a high price of more than 200 million yuan. He was a little short, with dark skin, and spoke a Wu dialect. It also sounds weird." Huang Li said while recalling.

The two looked at each other again. Old man Li seemed to know what Li Feng was thinking, but he didn't say it out of his mouth.

"Wu dialect is a dialect in the Yangtze River Delta, but we use Mandarin as the main language here, even with a little taste of Northeast dialect, but it's a bit strange that people from so far away come here to find your grandfather to buy medicinal materials in person, However, since your grandfather personally received him, he must be a good person." Li Feng muttered to himself.

After a pause for a few seconds, Li Feng raised his head again and said, "In this case, let's go catch the snake. It's better to take out the snake gall earlier."

"Then be careful. I'm a bit afraid of snakes, so I won't go there. Prepare your tools first. If you get bitten..." Before Old Man Li finished speaking, Huang Li said impatiently, "Don't worry, there is serum at home." , anyway, there are other snakes in the warehouse, the serum is specially used for poisoning after being bitten, I can go get a glass bottle, after filling the alcohol in advance, put it in the bottle immediately after you catch it, so that It can be drowned in the fastest time."

"I'm sorry to trouble you..." Li Feng nodded and said politely.

Although he did have something for this little beauty before, but seeing her being so polite now, it relieved the fear and scruples in his heart.

Seeing that the two of them were so harmonious, old man Li nodded in satisfaction without any doubt.

After all, old man Li is afraid of snakes, so he dare not go to the warehouse. In fact, many people are born afraid of snakes, and some people are even born to be afraid of animals like snakes, such as loaches, eels, etc., will also have inexplicable fears. Of course, Many timid people even have inexplicable fear of toads, spiders, geckos, etc., as long as they subconsciously believe that they are harmful and poisonous creatures.

Then, Huang Li brought a glass bottle for wine that is very common in ordinary families. The size of the Bi Li bottle is just enough to hold a snake about two meters long.

"Grandpa Li, let's go there first..." Huang Li said calmly.

Old man Li nodded without the slightest doubt.

Even Li Feng didn't have the slightest doubt. Huang Li took him to the warehouse next door to the villa. The warehouse was separated from the villa by a wall. The warehouse used to dry and dry medicinal materials has only one cold storage on the two sides in the middle, that is, two cold storages, with a combined area of ​​about [-] square meters.

Secretly thinking about this scene, Li Feng suddenly remembered something, and asked: "You have so many medicinal materials, and you can't sell them now, because you have collected more medicinal materials."

"There are two situations. The main reason is that they are restricted by the medicinal materials market. Now many pharmaceutical companies will choose cheaper medicinal materials. Moreover, people nowadays either drop needles or take various antibiotics when they see a doctor. They are dependent on pills. There are fewer and fewer, and there is also the impact of Western medicine, many Western medicines have impacted the traditional Chinese medicine market, but now the medicinal materials cannot be sold at a lower price, and the downstream industry is also in a recession.”

"What do you mean?" Li Feng is not a professional after all, and he doesn't know much about the medicinal material market and the pharmaceutical industry.

He just suddenly remembered that since the Huang family has so many medicinal materials and such a large inventory, if Yang Shuxue and the Huang family cooperate, maybe they can solve the problem of the source of medicinal materials.

"An industry must have a front-end service and a back-end resource processing industry. For example, medicinal material vendors usually sell medicinal materials to pharmaceutical companies, which is the main source of profit, and the conversion rate of medicinal materials is usually very low. A ton of medicinal materials, After processing and extracting the essence inside, more than half of the dregs will inevitably be left, and pharmaceutical companies usually transport these dregs to feed or aquaculture for use as feed, and after the feed is transformed, it becomes Without the energy of cultivating medicinal materials, this is a cycle.”

"But now, the downstream industry market has declined. On the one hand, it is affected by the national environmental protection Guofeng. Now it pays attention to safe production and cut production capacity. As a result, many downstream industries either close down or reduce production capacity. Therefore, after being squeezed If the medicinal material residue cannot be transported to the downstream industry, it is equivalent to wasting half of the money and resources, and the pharmaceutical company will deliberately lower the cost price of the medicinal material. There will be more and more, and if there is too much backlog, naturally it will not be sold.”