Chapter 225 Congratulations
"Okay, hurry up and go in! The leader is waiting for you!" The guard smiled and eased Li Wen's embarrassment.
"Let's go!" Zheng Kai gave the car keys to the guard, picked up the sack and walked into the house.
"You guys don't want to explain it to me. Is there anything I should pay attention to when I go in later?" Li Wen chased behind and asked in a low voice.
"Just go in with me. It's just like your own home. It's just a bunch of little old men who don't pay attention." Zheng Kai looked unconcerned.
"I haven't met the general yet!"
Li Wen took a deep breath to calm down and followed Zheng Kai.
When he walked into the door, there was a place to change shoes, but Li Wen saw that Zheng Kai had not changed and walked in directly without asking.
"Old man, grandfathers, you are in for a treat today, look what I am carrying!" Zheng Kai walked into the living room and said loudly to a group of middle-aged and elderly people sitting on the sofa.
Li Wen saw that the living room was full of people, mostly elderly people, with some middle-aged and young people sitting beside them.
"You brat have been making noises all day long. If you were my soldier back then, you would have looked better. Stop being so pretentious and bring it over quickly so I can see what it is!"
Sitting in the middle of the sofa is an old man in his sixties, with round eyes and a very imposing look. He should be Zheng Kai's grandfather.
Zheng Kai threw the sack into the crowd and slowly untied the rope.
"hiss!"
"Fuck!"
"My mother!"
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There was a sudden gasp in the living room.
"I haven't seen you with so much fat in a long time. Did you just move the meat stall here?" One of the middle-aged men, about forty years old, exclaimed.
This middle-aged man was wearing a military uniform and carrying two bars and three stars on his shoulders. He was clearly a colonel.
"Zheng Datou, you are really generous today! Then we are not welcome." The old people on the side were also very happy to see the pork.
Materials have been tight in recent years. Although they are all big leaders and receive a lot of monthly allowances, the benefits of pork are not much.
And as leaders, they often set an example and donate their wages for the development of the country.
These old leaders are very frugal in their food. It is considered good if they can eat meat twice a month. It can be said that they are truly serving the country and the people.
Mr. Zheng did not expect that Zheng Kai could get so much meat. Their family's family discipline was also very strict. The old man knew that his grandson would not be able to speculate and poach the country.
Today was a good day for him. The old man didn't ask any questions. He smiled and waved his hand and asked someone to take the meat into the kitchen to cook.
"Old man, this is my friend Li Wen, he helped get today's pork.
This friend of mine is very powerful and a great writer. He is Nuanyang who has been very popular in recent years.
He is now a buyer in a department store, and we have a very good relationship. Today is your birthday, so I will bring him along to celebrate your birthday." Zheng Kai pulled Li Wen aside to introduce him.
After all, Li Wen had experienced various scenes in later generations. He calmed down instantly and bowed to Mr. Zheng with a smile.
"Grandpa Zheng, I am here to congratulate you on your birthday. I wish you may be as blessed as the East Sea, and live as long as the Southern Mountains; the sun and the moon may be bright, the cranes and pines may grow in spring; you may always smile, and enjoy your family life forever."
"good!"
"As expected of a cultural man."
"That's a great talk."
Li Wen's congratulatory message drew applause and shouts from all over the living room.
"You need to study more! Look at how you behaved when you came one by one. You all made a fuss after a while."
After the old people present praised Li Wen's birthday greetings, they all turned around and cursed the younger ones who were applauding and shouting.
"Grandpa Zheng, this is a gift prepared for you by this junior. It is a tribute to your military life."
Li Wen came today and brought special congratulatory gifts in addition to Zheng Kai's pork. After shouting his congratulatory message, he took out the congratulatory gifts from his satchel and handed them to Zheng Kai.
"You didn't tell me when you came, but you actually prepared a gift?" Zheng Kai took the wooden box and asked in surprise.
"It goes without saying that when you visit someone else's home to celebrate your birthday, you can't be empty-handed." Li Wen rolled his eyes at Zheng Kai.
"Okay! People who are scholars know etiquette. Do you think you are the same as you and have never graduated from elementary school?" Mr. Zheng laughed and scolded Zheng Kai.
"Old Zheng, hurry up and take a look. What did the young man give you?" some old men on the side shouted.
"How can you old guys open gifts in front of other guests?"
Mr. Zheng glared at the old guys fiercely, and then set his sights on Li Wen.
"Old man, the things I gave you are yours, just be patient." Li Wen replied with a smile.
"Xiao Li, don't mind! These old guys really want to see it." The old man received a satisfactory reply and motioned to Zheng Kai to open the wooden box.
"What is this?"
"root?"
"You know what the heck, this is ginseng." Everyone stretched their heads to see what was in the box.
That's right, Li Wen's gift was a fresh wild ginseng known as Qinshan's fairy grass.
The ginseng is a real treasure of heaven and earth. It is extremely rare and only grows in the area of 1 to 2000 meters in Qinshan Mountain. It is known as the sacred grass.
Many people in later generations have only heard of Changbai Mountain ginseng, but not of Huan ginseng, because it is so rare.
Panax ginseng is recorded in many ancient pharmacopoeias, including the "Shen Nong Baicao Jing". Panax ginseng is a priceless treasure for the elderly.
In early October, Li Wen unexpectedly purchased two fresh ginseng plants in Daqin Mountain.
The person who picked the ginseng was a knowledgeable person and said that the two ginseng plants were forty or fifty years old. In the end, Li Wen bought two ginseng plants for 400 yuan, which can be said to be a sky-high price.
After returning to the city, Li Wen quickly planted them in Little World. After three months of growth, the two ginseng plants were both seventy or eighty years old.
The survival rate of Tiancai Dibao is indeed low. The growth of land in a hundred times of time in a few months is equivalent to more than 20 years in the outside world.
These two female plants only produced seeds four times in total, and a total of more than forty seedlings were cultivated.
Today, Li Wen took out a female ginseng plant as a gift. This is the largest ginseng plant in the small world and is about eighty years old.
Although everyone here has a high and powerful position, most of them have low academic qualifications. At most, they recognized it as a ginseng plant, but no one recognized the correct name of the ginseng.
In the end, the health doctor of the compound called out the correct name of ginseng and gave everyone a popular science.
"Be good!"
"This tree root is older than us? Lao Zhengtou, my appetite has not been very good recently, so you can give it to me." A thin old man said with a smile.
"Hurry up and get lost. This is a birthday gift from my grandson's friend. I haven't seen it yet!"
As soon as Mr. Zheng heard about the medicinal effects of ginseng, he immediately took the ginseng from Zheng Kai's hand and held the treasure in his arms.
This gift from Li Wen can be said to have been sent to the heart of the old man. After decades of war, who has not suffered from the sequelae of pain?
Through congratulatory gifts, Li Wen, introduced by Zheng Kai, became familiar with a number of junior figures from the third generation of the army, and the young people did not dare to look down upon Li Wen.
Many of these third-generation military personnel are still in school, and those who are not in school are mostly involved in the military and police systems. Some outstanding ones have become school-level officers.
The people sitting on the chairs and stools are of course the second generation of the military. That is, the generation of Mr. Zheng Kai.
Most of these middle-aged men have military ranks of lieutenant colonel or above. One middle-aged man carries a wheat star on his shoulder, and is obviously a major general.
As for the six old men sitting on the sofa wearing ordinary military green clothes, needless to say, they must be of the same generation as Mr. Zheng, and they are all generals.
Chapter completed!