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Chapter 43: First Arrival in the Imperial Capital

After Zhao Zhengang talked to Tang Lei about the price of wild ginseng, Zhang Dehai began to popularize the knowledge of ginseng with Tang Lei.

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"Brother Zhao, Brother Zhang, I want to do business with the two brothers!" Tang Lei said with a smile.

"Brother Xiao Tang wants to do business with us? Do you want to buy ginseng?" Zhao Zhengang reacted immediately.

Tang Lei nodded and smiled, "Yes! But I only have the best pure wild ginseng, and it is best to be around 20 to 50 years old! I want to buy a few plants for my elders!"

"The most important thing is that I want fresh wild ginseng! I wonder if Brother Zhao has it?"

"It's okay to have one or two plants. I can sell it to you Brother Tang at the purchase price!" Zhao Zhengang replied with a smile.

"Can't you have too much?" Tang Lei asked with a frown.

"Brother Xiao Tang, what you want is wild ginseng! It's not artificially grown, so it's not easy to find wild things! You have to try your luck!"

"And mountain people usually find wild ginseng, and rarely let it continue to grow there! After they find them, they will dig it out immediately and sell it to buyers like us. After we buy it back, they will immediately process it into dry goods, so if you want fresh wild ginseng, you can only try your luck!"

"You can find a few more plants when you are lucky, but you don't have a single plant when you are unlucky! And you can't decide the age of wild ginseng found!" Zhang Dehai continued with a smile.

"Brother Zhang, where are you talking about moving ginseng?" Tang Lei continued to ask with a frown.

Tang Lei thinks that the word "江" in Moving Mountain Ginseng should be similar to the wild mountain japonica!

"Moving ginseng is actually the name of wild ginseng or under the forest ginseng seedlings after growth. Those seedlings were transplanted into artificial ginseng fields in the early stage and were cultivated by artificially!"

"The medicinal value of moving mountain ginseng is the same as that of the forest ginseng. The economic value of the forest ginseng is slightly higher than that of moving mountain ginseng, but it cannot be compared with wild mountain ginseng!"

"Ginseng under the forest is to manually sow ginseng seeds into the forest. If artificially does not interfere, the one that makes ginseng grow naturally is called Ginseng under the forest." Zhang Dehai continued to explain with a smile.

"Then the ginseng under the forest is also considered wild ginseng? Didn't they both grow up in the wild?" Tang Lei asked curiously.

"Although both of them grew up in the wild, the difference is very big!"

"First of all, the appearance is different. Those who understand ginseng can tell at a glance that the difference between ginseng under the forest and wild ginseng is not fake."

"There is the medicinal value different. Artificial ginseng can only be used as tonics, while wild ginseng can save lives!" Zhang Dehai explained seriously.

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Tang Lei thought for a while, looked at Zhang Dehai and Zhao Zhengang and said, "Can those two brothers help me collect it as much as possible? You have a wide range of ways. I want any of them, I want them all!"

"Okay! I'll leave my name and address to you later. Xiao Tang, you will also give me your address and name. I'll find it and go to the post office to call you." Zhao Zhengang said with a smile.

"Okay!" Tang Lei agreed with a smile, then took out a pen from his backpack and started writing the address he wanted to live in the imperial capital.

After writing the address, Tang Lei handed it over to Zhao Zhengang, who also took out a pen and wrote down the post office address of his hometown.

Looking at the post office address of Zhao Zhengang’s hometown, Tang Lei missed the smartphone in his backpack without hesitation, and also lamented that it was so difficult to make a phone call in 1980!

"By the way, Xiao Tang, I don't know what you are calling!" Zhang Dehai asked with a smile.

"Brother Zhang, my name is Tang Lei, and I am a sophomore in the Chinese Department of National University!"

"It's almost time. Let's go to the dining car to have dinner?" Tang Lei suggested with a smile.

"Brother Xiao Tang, let's not drink for lunch. My head still hurts!" Zhao Zhengang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Hahaha……"

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January 18, 1980 at 12:30 noon.

State-owned Hotel at the West Railway Station of Imperial Capital.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Zhao, that's it. I'll wait for news from my two brothers in the imperial capital. I'll set off immediately when there is good news!" Tang Lei looked at Zhang Dehai and Zhao Zhengang with red faces at the table and said with a smile.

"Brother, don't worry! We will definitely try our best to find it for you!" Zhang Dehai raised his glass and patted his chest and said.

"Yes, when there is good news, I will definitely call you right away!" Zhao Zhengang also raised his glass and said with a smile.

"When will the two brothers get the train tickets? When will they get home?" Tang Lei asked with a smile.

"Oh! It's almost time! We're at one half past the train from the Imperial Capital to Lin Province, and we won't be able to arrive in Lin Province tomorrow night!" Zhao Zhengang looked at his watch and frowned.

Tang Lei smiled and said, "Then I won't keep my two brothers, so as not to miss the train. I also have to go to the place where I live to see it. When I arrive in Lin Province, we will be drunk again!"

"Okay! But I have to finish drinking the wine on this table first! I am the most disgusted with others raising goldfish!" Zhang Dehai laughed and raised his glass.

"I'll toast you two brothers!" Tang Lei stood up and raised his glass to toast first!

"Dry!"

After Tang Lei and the other two wiped out the wine on the table, Tang Lei called the waiter to pay the bill, and Zhang Dehai next to him began to rush to pay the bill with Tang Lei.

Finally, Tang Lei said that he went to Lin Province to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and included all the money on Zhang Dehai and Zhao Zhengang, and Zhang Dehai gave up paying the bill.

After the three of them left the hotel, Tang Lei still bought some food from the train for Zhang Dehai and Zhao Zhengang in a shop near the train station, and then waved to leave.

Zhang Dehai looked at Tang Lei's back and said with a red face: "This little Tang treats me as generous as our Northeastern people! It's not as stingy as the southerners!"

"I didn't expect that I could get to know a good brother by taking a train and do a business, which is great!"

"But what Brother Xiao Tang told me, tsk! It's a bit difficult! It depends on luck to find wild ginseng!" Zhao Zhengang looked at Tang Lei's back and said with a frown.

"If you really can't find it, I won't let you forget the two wild ginseng trees I found when I entered the mountain last time!" Zhang Dehai smiled indifferently.

"Those two plants are almost 80 years old, and I'm afraid that Brother Xiao Tang can't afford it! If you are willing to sell half-sell and get half-get, I don't care!"

"I guess, Brother Xiao Tang bought ginseng to give it to his elders. I think Brother Xiao Tang's style is either a high-ranking official or a scholarly family!" Zhao Zhengang touched it and guessed.

"Is that so? Why didn't I see it!"

"You can tell, why do you want me to do!"

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After waiting for a while at the bus stop at the Imperial Capital Railway Station, Tang Lei took a bus and left the Imperial Capital Railway Station. Through the bus window, Tang Lei looked at the street view of the Imperial Capital outside the window.

The current imperial capital has no future high-rise buildings and CBD commercial streets, only low bungalows, courtyard houses in the Qingming Festival, and some construction sites under construction.

On the road, cars that are rare on the streets of Jiangcheng are flying by in the imperial capital one after another.

The island country's small Toyota taxi, Nissan, Warsaw 200 private cars, Crown, and Jiefang brand Sanbengzi taxi, pickup truck, Hongqi, and Tang Lei even saw an Audi sedan!

These cars that have only been seen in old movies rush past Tang Lei, making him feel like he is now in a mobile auto show!

It made Tang Lei feel excited and mixed emotions!

Tang Lei even saw a few young men in bell-bottom pants, carrying a tape recorder, twitching wildly on the street!

Tang Lei doesn't think they are dancing dances, but they themselves think they are dancing disco!

Tang Lei saw this scene and chuckled and shook his head. In 2018, bell-bottom trousers began to become popular again, and disco also became 857 at nightclubs.

Looking at everything in front of him, a word suddenly appeared in Tang Lei's mind: Reincarnation!

This may be the youthful charm of young people in every era.

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Fifty minutes later, Tang Lei got off the bus and walked to the Imperial Capital University Guesthouse.

"Hello comrade, I'm going to check in. This is my student ID and letter of introduction." Tang Lei said with a smile at the waiter.

After the waitress with a big figure quickly helped Tang Lei register, she said to Tang Lei lightly: "This is the key, room number is 206, one dollar a day. When you leave, you will get the invoice."

Tang Lei felt a little relieved after passing his fake student ID and fake letter of introduction.

"Okay! Thank you." Tang Lei smiled and thanked him, bent down and took his backpack and left the front desk.

Tang Lei entered the room with the key, and after seeing the furnishings in the room, he nodded slightly. Although this room costs one dollar a night, the supporting facilities in the room are still worth the price.

Moreover, the area of ​​this room is much larger than the room that Tang Lei rented in Jiangcheng, and it is a one-bedroom, one living room and one bathroom, two sofa chairs, coffee tables, and kettle. It is much better than the single room in Jiangcheng Twinzi Building.

After Tang Lei came to the bedroom and put down his backpack, he turned around the room. When he saw the shower head in the bathroom, he smiled happily.

Tang Lei turned on and tried the water temperature. There was still hot water. He immediately returned to the bedroom, took off all his clothes, and took a shower in the bathroom.

You should know that when he was in the tube building, he always used the iron bucket to collect hot water in the hot water room, then mixed the water temperature with cold water, and then returned to the room and wiped it in the toilet simply!

In the end, Tang Lei couldn't stand the simple wiping, and he could only run into the bathhouse after a few days.

But Tang Lei doesn't like the environment in the bathhouse. Who knows if anyone takes the opportunity to pee in the big bathhouse?

After Tang Lei came out of the bathroom with a comfortable body, he lay on the bed with his eyes closed and took a nap. Although there were sleepers on the train for two days and two nights, it slightly relieved his fatigue during the journey, but it also made him physically and mentally exhausted.

Perhaps it was the fatigue of the journey, or the relaxation after taking a shower, Tang Lei, who had originally taken a nap, gradually fell asleep.

When Tang Lei woke up, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

Tang Lei put on his clothes and went downstairs, smilingly asked the front desk where to have supper.

The waitress told him that every day at 12 noon and 6 pm, the guesthouse would prepare meals, exchange food tickets and money for meal tickets, and eat in the guesthouse's self-operated restaurant.

Tang Lei immediately took out some food coupons and money, exchanged some meal tickets with the waitress, and went out to visit the nearby Imperial Capital University before the meal was reached.

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