Old Hsu Kee Noodle House

The machine took down the phone number above.

"Well...pay in installments...how about this method? Hehe~~"

Xu Zhenbiao's foot slipped and he fell inexplicably.

"Ouch!"

Master was walking on the way up the mountain, looked back at him, smiled,

"Look, little calf~"

Xu Zhenbiao cursed, patted his butt, and cursed back,

"Old calf!"

The old calf waved the wooden stick in his hand,

"watch out!"

Xu Zhenbiao yo yo jumping feet,

"Don't hit, don't hit! Ouch, it hurts!!"

They walked along the mountain road for more than two hours, and reached the first mountain of this trip. The village was not small, and dozens of families lived there.

"You were introduced by Boss Wu."

An old man with a white beard was walking towards them, waving at them,

"I started preparing mountain mushrooms for you a few days ago. The earlier ones were dried, but they are still very fresh these two days."

The master walked over and handed the old man a cigarette with a smile on his face.

"thanks, thanks."

The old man took a breath of cigarettes and led them inside,

"Thank you, Boss Wu is the master of our place. We sell all the mountain mushrooms in our area to him, and the price is higher than outside."

Xu Zhenbiao thought that Senior Brother Wu was quite kind in his business.

Master understood, so he said,

"We will pay at the original price."

The old man led them into the house, waved his hands,

"Boss Wu said that the account should be kept with him. Aren't you his master?"

"Really? Haha, this kid is kind!"

After entering the main room, I saw several packed bamboo baskets. Before I got close, I could smell the unique damp smell of mushrooms.

"This is the elm fungus, which only exists in our Ershan Mountain, and the elm trees in other villages can't grow~~"

Xu Zhenbiao felt that it was novel, so he took a few flowers and looked at them carefully.

"why?"

"Water!"

Satisfied, the old man symbolically pointed to the mountain behind the house,

"Our place is full of spring water, and the water from the spring above is still hot!"

Suddenly, Xu Zhenbiao followed the old man's words to praise,

"Blessed."

After ordering some types of mushrooms, some people in the village offered to help deliver them. Master nodded and agreed, and gave 100 yuan to the young man who helped.

"Send it directly to my apprentice's shop, we are not in a hurry."

Xu Zhenbiao took a bite of the baked potato given by the host, and asked,

"Aren't you going down?"

"Let's go further inside. I'm not here this time to find some common stuff."

"Huh? Is there something better?"

"Does wild Ganoderma lucidum count?"

"Wow, it doesn't count if you can become a fairy!"

Master snorted twice, squatted under the eaves of the door and took a baked potato to eat,

"You are so virtuous!"

"Master, do you really want wild Ganoderma lucidum? Do you really have it?"

"Yes, it's very little. Your wife is not in good health. I'll buy a few and give your wife some water to drink."

Xu Zhenbiao was moved to tears,

"Master..."

The master raised his eyes, and felt that he was really a rare good man in the world~~~

Xu Zhenbiao found out his own wealth - 138 yuan, and handed it to the master devoutly, blinking his teary eyes,

"Master~~help me buy a few~~"

My parents are old and their health is not good~

The master looked at Xu Zhenbiao with resentful eyes, and it took him a long time to say something quietly,

"Do you think this is buying pork, more than ten yuan a catty?"

"kindness?"

Xu Zhenbiao looked at the money in his hand,

"too much?"

"..."

Master rolled his eyes and fell to the ground.

Walking up the narrower and narrower mountain road, I found a lot of wild mushrooms and wild vegetables along the way. The master is well-informed and knows what to eat and what not to eat. Running up and down, turning grass and climbing trees.

Xu Zhenbiao harvested quite a lot. He packed wild vegetables and mushrooms in a plastic bag, and he was so tired that he started to yell.

"Master, haven't you arrived yet?"

The master looked down, followed the slope of the mountain, and looked at the villages on the hills,

"Your senior brother said that there are several pharmacists here, who can pick good ingredients like Ganoderma lucidum from time to time."

"Brother won't you buy it?"

Master went up again,

"Buy it, sell it again."

Xu Zhenbiao followed behind, supporting his master,

"Oh, the price difference~"

Master knocked him on the head,

"The price difference is huge, so what do you think you can buy with your hundred dollars?"

"Hee hee~"

After walking along the path for more than an hour, I saw a few mud houses above a few fields, and they began to emit white smoke, which was peaceful.

The road made up of small stone slabs was clean, a few spotted chickens were clucking and pecking everywhere, and two black sheep grazing on the field raised their heads to look at them, their yellow eyes turning around.

In the yard in front of the earthen house, there are large roll mats, which are covered with various unknown herbs, and there are also two roll mats, where old grains and pickles are dried.

The peasant woman who was slaughtering pigweed looked at them, put down her knife and wiped her hands, and came over.

"What's the matter with you? Are you buying medicine?"

Master nodded and smiled,

"I'm buying medicine, do you have Ganoderma lucidum?"

The peasant woman shook her head, sat back down again,

"I just picked one last month, and it's not old yet, so I sold it long ago."

The master let out an oh and asked again,

"Where are the other families?"

The peasant woman still shook her head,

"How can Ganoderma lucidum be so good? Over the past few years, many people have been looking for it, and it was dug back before it even bloomed."

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy came out of the main room, with a few handfuls of medicinal herbs in his hand, he threw them all on the mat and said,

"Don't you have an old tree?"

The peasant woman laughed,

"Your uncle is keeping it for himself, so he is reluctant to sell it."

Master heard it, and immediately became energetic,

"Who is your uncle? I'll ask!"

The boy points out,

"There, I went to dig medicine on the mountain."

17—————

The next day when Xu Zhenbiao and his master went up the mountain again, they found several people in the yard in front of the earth house, and they all stared at them with piercing eyes.

Xu Zhenbiao grabbed his master by the corner of his clothes, wondering if it was robbery?In a while I have to drag Master to run!

The peasant woman came over, smiling all over her face,

"I heard that you want to buy Ganoderma lucidum. People from a few mountains away came here and brought you Ganoderma lucidum."

Master's eyes lit up,

"real!"

Then he passed the peasant woman and walked towards those people.

Those people were all carrying a bag in their hands, they couldn't see what was inside, they only felt that there was more than one bag.

He opened the pockets on the stone table and saw that there were quite a few of them. Xu Zhenbiao exclaimed in admiration, and the boy laughed beside him yesterday.

Master is not as ignorant as Xu Zhenbiao. These Ganoderma lucidum can be bought in the market for thousands of dollars, but they are nothing more than red Ganoderma lucidum and black Ganoderma lucidum, and they are not old enough. It is okay to deceive a fool like Xu Zhenbiao. Master, that can't be adulterated at all.

The master flipped through it a few times, picked out six or seven dark red and dark purple ones, and pointed to them.

"I want these, please make a price."

The few people looked at each other for a while, and they didn't know what information they exchanged. They probably wanted to set the price.

Both the boy and the peasant woman sighed, thinking that this man was a little bit smart, the few Ganoderma lucidum he picked out were real wild ones, and the ones left in his pockets were artificially grown.

One of them spoke,

"You make a price, and we'll see if it suits you."

It means to see whether the price you give is high or low. If it is low, you will raise it, and if it is high, you will agree.

Master pondered for a moment, stretched out two fingers,

"Two thousand, at most two thousand, I don't want any more."

Those people look at me and I look at you, and finally put their hands together,

"to make!"

This price is already much higher than other people who came to buy, because these few Ganoderma lucidum are not old enough, and they can't be sold at a good price if they are sold outside.

Xu Zhenbiao buried his head to look at the remaining Ganoderma lucidum, raised his head, smiled,

"Master, help me pick some flowers!"

While carefully packing the Ganoderma lucidum that he had chosen, the master said to the person who counted the money over there,

"I know that the rest of this is all grown by you yourself, and it will be packaged for 300 yuan."

Those people waved their hands without raising their heads,

"Three hundred is three hundred."

Xu Zhenbiao pouted,

"I only have 138 yuan..."

The master gave him two hundred and kicked him,

"I know I want it from Lao Tzu! Just remember to pay me back when the time comes!"

Xu Zhenbiao took the money with a smirk, took out three hundred with his own and gave it to those few people, then put away the Ganoderma lucidum with a happy face.

Just as Xu Zhenbiao and his master were about to go down the mountain, there was a shout from the earthen house, and a half-old man came out, holding a large ganoderma in his hand. Crowded together in a circle, it doesn't really look like the Ganoderma lucidum in people's impression, but everyone present except Xu Zhenbiao has sharp eyes and gasped.

the boy shouted,

"uncle."

Xu Zhenbiao remembered that the old man that the boy said yesterday had a good Ganoderma lucidum.

The half-old man responded, then looked at Xu Zhenbiao and the others, and said,

"I sell you half of this Ganoderma lucidum, how much do you think it's worth?"

The master was a little excited, and walked over quickly, but he didn't dare to take it, he just tilted his head and stretched his neck to look carefully.

Xu Zhenbiao followed and walked over, frowning, wondering why Master was so excited about this thing that obviously didn't look like Ganoderma lucidum?

The master kept nodding, as if he couldn't believe it.

"Are you wild?"

The half-aged man nodded,

"Couldn't it be, how did Yunzhi grow it by myself, if I wasn't in a hurry to ask for money, would I be willing to sell half of it to you.