Liu Shanren paused and continued: "This directly caused consumers to have great doubts about the effects of ginseng after using it. Over time, the market became worse and worse, and ginseng gradually began to be ignored. It can be said that wild ginseng
The market is completely over."
"Of course I am talking about the mass low-end market. The real high-end is still there, but it only exists in a very small circle. After all, the value of real wild ginseng is getting higher and higher, and the quantity is getting smaller and smaller. It is not within the reach of ordinary people.
."
When he said this, he glanced at Li Fei and Zhao Li again, and saw that they were listening with great interest. He felt that he had gone too far. Nowadays, few young people can calm down and listen to what he said.
, which makes him feel good.
So he nodded, took a breath and continued: "I just mentioned the age of wild ginseng. You have often heard about thousand-year-old wild ginseng. Let me tell you, that is impossible to exist."
"The oldest wild ginseng plant today is not 300 years old, only over 200 years old."
Li Fei asked in confusion: "Dr. Liu, why is this? Are the authors of those novels exaggerating?"
Dr. Liu shook his head, smiled faintly at him and said, "It's not that simple. To a large extent, the hearts of those profiteers are too dark."
Li Fei looked at him strangely, a little confused. What does the age of this wild ginseng have to do with those profiteers?
Dr. Liu sighed and continued: "In our Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, there is a wild ginseng that is more than a thousand years old. Specifically, it is more than 1,300 years old."
Li Fei was shocked and looked at him blankly. His mind was filled with one sentence: Isn't what Dr. Liu said contradicting himself?
He just said that the longest wild ginseng is only more than two hundred years old, so why did he suddenly say that there is one in the museum that is more than 1,300 years old?
He glanced at Zhao Li again, and Zhao Li also looked at him with a puzzled look.
Doctor Liu looked at the expressions of the two of them and seemed very satisfied. He touched the gray beard on his chin with his hand, and then said, "Don't you understand? This is the treachery of those profiteers."
"The age of ginseng refers to its actual growth age. From the moment it is dug out of the ground, its body will no longer continue to grow, and its medicinal effect will not increase. But those profiteers
However, the storage time and age of ginseng are added together and all are calculated as the age of ginseng. This artificially increases the age of ginseng. This is how the so-called thousand-year ginseng comes about. In fact, most of it refers to
It is the shelf life of ginseng, but in order to make more money, those profiteers are so evil that they pretend to be a deer and change the concept secretly. I don’t know how many people have been deceived, which has directly ruined the reputation of our traditional Chinese medicine!"
He shook his head as he spoke, deeply disdainful of this behavior.
Li Fei also took a deep breath and finally understood where those thousand-year-old ginseng came from. He couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Then the preservation time and the age of ginseng are two completely different concepts. If they are confused, this is
Such an act of deception, so abominable!”
Zhao Li also nodded repeatedly and said: "Who says it's not the case? Fortunately, wild ginseng has not appeared in our auction house a few times. I shouldn't have become an accomplice of those scammers, right?"
Zhao Li frowned as she spoke and glanced at Liu Shanren with worried eyes.
Liu Shanren smiled slightly and said: "The two auctions you asked me to inspect were all based on actual age."
Zhao Li hummed and said, "Then I'll be relieved."
At this time, all the dishes they ordered had been brought out. Liu Shanren picked up a piece of lamb chop and started eating it. While eating, he nodded and said to Li Fei: "Boss Li, try this lamb chop quickly. It tastes good. It's delicious."
Our restaurant is almost the most authentic mutton restaurant in Nanhai City. Unfortunately, there is no roasted whole lamb today. Let me tell you, roasted whole lamb is more delicious."
He then talked about food with Li Fei, and seemed to have completely forgotten what Li Fei had just said about asking him to sell ginseng. In his mind, he had already assumed that Li Fei regarded the storage age of ginseng as the actual age of the ginseng.
How could wild ginseng, which is more than 300 years old, appear?
When he answered Zhao Li's call, he thought that Zhao Li still had a ginseng similar to the two-hundred-year-old wild ginseng, so he rushed over proactively. But he didn't expect that Li Fei said that it was more than three hundred years old when he opened his mouth.
He concluded that this was absolutely impossible, so he did some science research with Li Fei and tactfully pointed out to Li Fei that he might have been deceived by profiteers.
Then he changed the topic and talked about food to avoid embarrassment between the two parties.
Li Fei ate a few dishes, but was not very interested in the food because he had eaten better ones. The purpose of his visit was to sell ginseng, so how could he have so much time to chat?
Liu Shanren put a small piece of pig ear into his mouth with chopsticks and chewed it twice. He looked at Li Fei with his eyes closed and said, "Boss Li, try this stir-fried Shunfeng. The taste is very authentic. According to the boss,
Their pig ears are made from piglets that are just a few months old. The pig ears are fried so soft and glutinous that they melt in your mouth. When you were young, you couldn't eat pork for a few months, but when you wait until the Chinese New Year, you can eat pork.
, so happy!”
He suddenly closed his mouth as he spoke, because Li Fei silently opened his backpack, took out the wild ginseng that was more than 300 years old, and placed it on the table.
Then Li Fei looked at him with a smile, pushed the wild ginseng in front of him forward, and pushed it in front of Liu Shanren.
With the piece of pig ear in his mouth, Liu Shanren forgot to chew it and swallowed it raw. Then he put down his chopsticks, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, widened his eyes, and then stretched out his trembling hands to pull out the piece of pig ear.
He picked up the ginseng, put it in front of his eyes, and observed it carefully.
His intuition told him that this ginseng was real, because from the moment he opened the zipper, he smelled a strong and familiar smell.
I had smelled this smell from the two-hundred-year-old wild ginseng at the last auction. It was so unique and was something that domestic wild ginseng definitely did not have.
The one in front of him was much thicker than the other one, with extremely developed roots. He held it in his hand and looked at it over and over for a long time. He became more and more excited and couldn't bear to put it down.
This kind of thing cannot be faked, because the person making the fake has never seen what it really looks like, and has no reference at all. This rich wild ginseng smell cannot be imitated. Only he can compare it with his professional knowledge.
Only by looking at the real thing can we identify it and identify it, oh, this is what it is!
