Ding Ning was worried, thinking that with one million in his hand, he could do whatever he wanted.

Unexpectedly, I wanted to cultivate Cuihui and some rare rainforest medicinal materials on a whim. Just a basic environment would cost three to four million.

This is based on the premise that the property rights of the land belong to Ling Fei. Otherwise, plus the land leasing fee, it would be impossible to get it without five million.

Ding Ning calculated it and found that the funding gap was about two million, and the maintenance cost after operation would be about hundreds of thousands per month, which meant that he would continue to make money in the future.

Ling Fei actually had more than one million in hand, which was given to him by the person who had secretly helped them in the past few years. They usually didn't need much money, so they wanted to give it to Ding Ning.

Ding Ning refused, not to mention that more than one million was simply not enough. Even if it was enough, he would be embarrassed to use their money.

Originally, he just wanted to plant some rainforest medicinal materials for his own medicine, but now he has a new idea.

Since the investment is so large, he might as well treat it as an industry, which would require him to make another trip to southern Yunnan to transplant a batch of medicinal materials with extremely high medicinal value and cultivate them.

Those wild and rare medicinal materials are basically all priced and have no market. Even if they are auctioned, each plant can be auctioned for tens or millions of dollars.

His biggest advantage is that not many people dare to enter the virgin forest, but he can come and go freely.

The natural treasure house there is equivalent to his back garden. The resources in it are inexhaustible and are more than enough to support this planting base.

After the transplanted herbs have reached a certain scale in the breeding base, they will be processed into products and sold externally to achieve final profit.

What he wants to sell is not raw materials, but products made from these herbs. The prescriptions he holds are the most core value of this industry chain.

But that is a follow-up plan. The immediate priority is to find ways to get money to build the base so that it can operate normally and become a transit base.

He believed that if he spoke to Mr. Hu and Mr. Zhang, the money would not be a problem at all. Even if he spoke to Mr. Shen Muqing, it would be easily solved.

But he has never been in the habit of asking people to borrow money, so he took out the package of medicinal herbs he brought back from the rainforest and planned to sell the medicinal herbs in his hand first in exchange for start-up capital.

Although the herbs in the bag were shriveled, he used a special method to preserve them. The efficacy of the medicine was not lost and could still be sold at a high price. After saying hello to Ling Fei and Chu Yunna, Ding Ning took the herb bag and packed it.

Take the car and drive to Ninghai City God Temple.

Ninghai City God Temple is located in Jingpu District, not far from Ninghai University and Yangtze River Hospital. It is one of the most prosperous commercial and tourist areas in Ninghai City.

Under the detailed planning of the Ninghai government, various commercial streets have been formed radiating in all directions around this landmark building.

There is a snack street, a traditional Chinese medicine wholesale market, a clothing wholesale market, an antique calligraphy and painting street, Ninghai specialty shops, a handicraft street, a bar street, etc.

An hour later, Ding Ning appeared at the Chinese medicinal materials wholesale market.

Since the Ninghai government wants to build a commercial tourism center around the Chenghuang Temple attractions, several characteristic streets nearby, even if they were built later, all have the ancient architectural style of the City God Temple.

The Traditional Chinese Medicine Wholesale Market is no exception. It is said to be a wholesale market, but in fact it is a street with antique shops on both sides.

The trees on both sides of the street are full of greenery and canopies are shady. The street is paved with bluestone slabs, neat and clean, and looks full of the vicissitudes of history.

The architectural style of the shops is coordinated and unified. They are all three-story buildings with red walls and yellow tiles. They have an antique look. You can smell a strong medicinal fragrance from a long distance away.

The first floor is a shop, the second floor is an office for business negotiations, and the third floor is a resting place. Of course, it can also temporarily store some small but extremely rare medicinal materials.

This street is just the front door of the shops. In fact, each small building has a courtyard behind it as a warehouse. The courtyard has a special gate to facilitate the entry and exit of vehicles to transport medicinal materials.

At ten o'clock in the morning, merchants of medicinal herbs from all over the world were going back and forth among major shops, preparing to buy or sell the medicinal herbs in their hands. The sound of bargaining was heard one after another, and it was a lively scene.

Ding Ning did not stop in front of these shops with gold-lettered plaques, but went straight to the only eight-story building at the eastern end of the medicinal materials market - the Linghang Auction House.

Linghang Auction House is located at the intersection of the medicinal materials market and the antique street, with specialized appraisal experts on staff.

When some antique merchants and medicinal materials dealers are unsure about a certain antique calligraphy, painting or medicinal material, they will spend a certain amount of money to hire appraisal experts to help identify it. This makes the appraisal experts of Leading Auction House extremely popular.

Of course, the main business of the auction house is auctions. If there is something they like, they don't mind buying it at a fair price and then auctioning it to make profits.

Ding Ning did not have time to wait for the auction house to conduct the auction. He planned to directly take out the medicinal materials and let the appraiser identify them, and then let the auction house purchase them directly.

Although he didn't get as much money from participating in the auction, it saved him a lot of time and he didn't lose much. At least once the auction house took a fancy to it, the price it offered would definitely be more reasonable than those from those shops.

Entering the door, you will see a hall of 3,000 square meters divided into two parts by a glass partition, with appraisers sitting inside the partition windows.

It is similar to the way of handling business in a bank. There is an automatic number-taking machine when you enter the door. Those who come to do business must take the number first, and whoever has the number in line can go forward to handle the business.

Ding Ning reached out and took out a number, which was No. 00987. He looked at the neon display above the barrier and saw that the number at the end of the transaction being processed was No. 00953.

This meant that there were more than thirty people waiting before him, but he didn't care. He sat down on the rest chair specially prepared for customers, and out of boredom, he took out his mobile phone and texted Ling Yun to pass the time.

After the two of them broke through the last layer of their relationship, Ling Yun, who already had no taboos, seemed to be even more voluptuous. The content of the text messages was so explicit that it was so filthy.

Ding Ning was so aroused that her mouth went dry and her evil fire was rising. She wished she could rush to the hospital right now and fuck this dirty bitch a hundred times.

At this moment, dozens of people rushed in, and a fat man who was sweating profusely yelled in a loud voice that the bet had gone up. Mr. Liu came to help and see how much this jade was worth.

Money instantly attracted everyone's attention.

An old man with gray hair and wearing thick glasses walked out of an office nearby and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, did you increase your bet?"

"Mr. Liu, how could I have such a fate? It was this brother whose bet went up. This girl and I both offered 3.5 million. This brother said he would sell to whoever offered 5 million. Me and

This girl is a little unsure, so I want you to keep a close eye on me. No matter who this brother sells the jade to in the end, the appraisal fee will be charged to me, Fatty Zhang."

The fat man weighed more than two hundred kilograms. He was panting heavily even when he spoke and was constantly wiping sweat. He had great respect for Mr. Liu, with a respectful look on his face.

Ding Ning looked at it subconsciously, and his eyes suddenly lit up. The brother the fat man was talking about who got rich in gambling was a young man in his thirties. Judging from the brand name he was wearing and the Piaget watch on his wrist, he was obviously a man who was not short of money.

, no wonder he looked very calm and calm even when the bets went up, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, showing a faint look of joy.

But it was not him who caught Ding Ning's attention, but a woman that the young man always glanced at secretly. She must be the girl that the fat man said was bidding against him.

The woman is about 25 or 26 years old, with ink-like black hair flowing down to her waist. She is wearing a finely tailored black and white short-sleeved casual dress, with a round neckline that reveals her clear and beautiful collarbones, and a black hip skirt with a bottom layer.

The trousers perfectly show off the slender legs, the white stiletto sandals are simple and elegant, and a Patek Philippe watch is worn on the snow-white wrist.

Eyes as deep as black crystals, curved willow eyebrows, long eyelashes, fair and flawless skin with a hint of pink, and thin lips as delicate as rose petals, she is like a graceful woman walking out of an ink painting.

But her temperament and appearance formed a strange contradictory contrast. Her whole person was like an ice cube, exuding a chill from the inside out. It was so cold that it made people palpitate, and it was so cold that even the surrounding temperature seemed to start to drop.

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She just stood there, as if an icy cold current was flowing quietly, slowly spreading in everyone's heart.

No matter how many people around her were watching her, she looked like she was alone in a deserted wilderness. Her cold eyes and brows all exuded an aura of indifference that meant people should not approach her.

Pride, the first impression she gave Ding Ning was that of pride. She was like a lofty queen, overlooking all living beings without any emotion. No one could shake her will, and no one could attract her attention.

Different from Xiao Nuo who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and different from Ling Yun's tomboyish queen, this is a queen who truly has a super strong aura.

No wonder the wealthy young man had no courage to approach her and strike up a conversation when he peeked at her. Even the group of people around him were the same. They only dared to peek and admire her, but no one dared to come close. They consciously kept one meter away from her.

distance away.

Ding Ning was excited, as if he had been given a shot of blood. His eyes were shining with desire, as if he had seen the most delicious prey, and a strong desire to conquer was constantly rising.

He never denies that he is a queen-controller, not only to prove himself, but more importantly, conquering a queen will make him feel a sense of accomplishment.

The woman seemed to be aware of his fiery gaze and glanced at him casually. Her beautiful brows only furrowed slightly before returning to her icy face that had not changed for thousands of years.

A good-looking boy, but nothing more than that, nothing surprising. Compared with the buzzing flies that have surrounded her since she was a child, he can't even stir up a small wave, and he has no ability at all.

Let her take another look.

Ignoring, being nakedly ignored, Ding Ning was not depressed, but the blood in her whole body was boiling. Damn, this is the real queen, how challenging it is!

It's just that this is their first meeting, and the process of conquest is still long and long. Ding Ning, who doesn't want to make a bad impression on the Queen at first glance, immediately turns his attention to other places.

Following the discussions of people around him, he finally understood the general situation. The sentimental antiques industry is not only about antique calligraphy and paintings and some old objects, but also the game of gambling on stones.

The second master once mentioned to him about stone gambling. He always thought that stone gambling was only found in the border cities in southern Yunnan, but he did not expect that Ninghai also had a stone gambling business.

This cheered him up, gambling on stones, one sword will make you poor, one sword will make you rich, and one sword will pierce sackcloth; madmen sell, madmen buy, and there are madmen waiting.
Chapter completed!