"Brother Tang, are you trying this ginseng chicken! Ginseng from Changbai Mountain, plus this black chicken from Lin Province! The soup is absolutely chrysanthemum! The signature dish in Lin Province!"

"And Brother Tang, this ginseng chicken must drink soup first and then eat meat!" Zhang Dehai continued to introduce to Tang Lei with a smile.

"I'll try!"

“It tastes good!”

"Brother Zhang, what kind of ginseng is used in this ginseng chicken?" Tang Lei finished drinking the soup, looked at the ginseng in the soup, and asked Zhang Dehai with a smile.

Zhang Dehai said with a smile: "Brother Tang, this is Linxia Ginseng! I specially brought it here this morning and asked the chefs of this restaurant to put it in it. Usually when they cook this dish, they all put it in garden ginseng!"

Tang Lei looked at the five dishes on the table, looked at Zhang Dehai and Zhao Zhengang with a smile and said, "This meal costs a lot of money, the two big brothers are too wasteful!"

"You are here in Linsheng, and you will have food, drink, and accommodation. It's boring to talk about money! You have to be punished for wine!" Zhang Dehai said unhappy!

"Brother Zhang, I accept the punishment, I will punish myself three cups!" Tang Lei accused of guilt and said with a wry smile.

"Hahaha, it's refreshing!"

"Brother Zhao, I forgot to ask on the train last time, why did you, a native of Shanzhou, come to Linzhou? You even got together with Brother Zhang to sell medicinal materials!" Tang Lei asked casually after drinking the wine in the glass.

Zhao Zhengang said with a smile: "I came here when the educated youth went to the countryside to educate. After coming here, I found a wife and had children, so I took root here."

"Old Zhang is my brother-in-law. I, if I were 10 years younger, I would have taken the college entrance exam like you, brother!"

"Brother Zhao, it's OK now!" Tang Lei said with a laugh.

"No, I'm old, and there's a guy waiting to eat to support me!" Zhao Zhengang waved his hand and said with a wry smile.

Tang Lei patted Zhao Zhengang on the shoulder, raised his glass and said, "The times are so lucky. Brother Zhao, I will give you a cup!"

...

...

January 24, 1980 at 8 am.

"Brother Tang, how did you sleep last night?" Zhao Zhengang asked Tang Lei while eating breakfast.

"It's okay! I just don't want to get up when I get up!" Tang Lei said with a smile.

"The first time Brother Tang came to a place like the snowy and ice in Northeast China, it's normal not to adapt! I was like this at the beginning!" Zhao Zhengang said with a smile.

"It's great if you arrive at my house! When my earthen kang is burned, the house is so warm!" Zhang Dehai said with a smile at Tang Lei.

After breakfast, Zhang Dehai and Zhao Zhengang took Tang Lei and boarded the shuttle bus to Changxian.

Changxian is a small county town at the foot of the primeval forest of Changbai Mountain, and its economy is not developed.

After all, the economic source of the people near Changxian can only rely on Changbai Mountain behind them.

It takes more than four hours to take the bus from Chuncheng to Changxian. Tang Lei was not boring during the four hours. He chatted with Zhao Zhengang and Zhang Dehai from time to time, and then looked at the beautiful scenery of the northern country outside the window.

For Tang Lei, the scenery outside the window is indeed very beautiful. The snow is covered with snow and a beautiful snow scene. Tang Lei, who is a southerner, is both novel and envious of the world created by such a snow!

But now that Tang Lei is in the car, he can't stop and enjoy the beautiful scenery well, and he feels a little regretful!

After the shuttle bus arrives in Changxian, it will take a transfer to get to Zhang Dehai's home, but what Tang Lei has to take is the tractor trailer driven by Zhang Dehai.

"Dong, dong, dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

The sound from the front of the tractor truck made Tang Lei a little excited! This was the first time he had been riding a tractor in his life!

"Brother Tang, help me!" Zhang Dehai turned his head and looked at Tang Lei with a smile and said.

"Help it! Brother Zhang, let's go!" Tang Lei waved his hand and smiled.

...

Compared to the shuttle bus, Tang Lei, who was sitting on the convertible tractor, was obviously a little uncomfortable!

The cold wind blowing towards him made Tang Lei, who was originally ready to enjoy the scenery of the Northern Kingdom, tighten his neck and sit behind the low baffle of the trailer like Zhao Zhengang, avoiding the biting cold wind.

When Zhao Zhengang saw Tang Lei like this, he laughed and patted Tang Lei's shoulder and said loudly: "Brother Tang, I want to see the beautiful scenery, right? I was the same at the beginning! My brother will take you up the mountain in the afternoon and look down from the mountain more beautifully!"

"Okay!" Tang Lei also replied loudly with a smile.

...

Zhang Dehai drove a tractor and drove on the dirt road for half an hour, and finally arrived in Qianshantun.

Tang Lei jumped out of the tractor truck and stomped his feet. His butt and feet were now a little numb!

Frustrated!

"Brother Tang, this is our Qianshantun, how is the environment good?"

Zhang Dehai parked the tractor and helped Tang Lei take off his backpack while smiling.

Tang Lei was about to answer, and a little boy with earmuffs ran towards Zhang Dehai with a trembling head and calling him dad. When he saw Tang Lei, he looked at Tang Lei with curiosity.

"Brother Tang, this is my boy, Zhang Xiaohu!" Zhang Dehai introduced with a smile.

"Huzi, hurry up! Call Uncle Tang!" Zhang Dehai introduced to Tang Lei and educated his son.

"Hello Uncle Tang!" Zhang Xiaohu's tender childish voice shouted in a low voice.

"Oh! Come to uncle's side!" Tang Lei squatted down and smiled at Zhang Xiaohu.

Tang Lei could now be convinced that Zhang Dehai and Zhao Zhengang had no ill-heartedness towards him, otherwise Zhang Dehai would not have let Tang Lei see his son.

"Tell uncle, how old is this year?" Tang Lei asked in a low voice with a smile.

"I'm 9 years old!" Zhang Xiaohu counted his fingers, then smiled and replied as he looked at Tang Lei.

"So smart! Uncle Tang rewards you with a pack of candy!" Tang Lei first touched Zhang Xiaohu's head, and then took out a pack of big white rabbit milk candy from his bag.

"I'm not grateful to Uncle Tang!"

"Brother Tang, go to my house, the house is warm!" Zhang Dehai said with a smile.

"Okay!" Tang Lei agreed with a smile.

Zhang Dehai’s home is a typical Northeast bungalow courtyard, with a large chimney erected on the roof, which is specially used by Northeastern families to burn beds!

Tang Lei looked at the adjacent houses, but none of them were as big as Zhang Dehai's house. He could see that in the entire village, Zhang Dehai's house was one of the best!

Before Tang Lei could enter Zhang Dehai's yard, a woman stood outside the yard, waiting for Tang Lei and his group.

"Brother Tang, this is my wife, Wu Xiuying!" Zhang Dehai introduced with a smile.

"Hello, Sister Xiuying! I'm so embarrassed to come here to disturb you in the cold winter month!" Tang Lei nodded with a smile and greeted him.

"Brother Tang is inviting you in quickly, the meal is ready! I'm waiting for you to get home!" Wu Xiuying said with a smile.

...

Tang Lei sat on the kang of Zhang Dehai's house, eating stews from Northeast farmers, drinking Northeast sorghum ginseng wine, and accompanying the beautiful scenery of the Northland outside the window. Tang Lei couldn't sigh from the bottom of his heart that people in Northeast China really know how to enjoy it!

"Brother Zhang, you can talk about it now, what's going on with wild ginseng!" Tang Lei asked anxiously.

When drinking last night, when Tang Lei asked about wild ginseng, Zhang Dehai smiled and said, "You guy is so lucky"!

Tang Lei thought about it all at the time, thinking that Zhang Dehai and Zhao Zhengang were like Jia Liang again!

"Brother Tang, you are really lucky! As soon as Lao Zhao and I arrived home, my cousin of my generation came over and said that he found a piece of wild ginseng in the mountains! There are twenty or thirty trees!"

"The highest-age students have been around for more than 60 years! But there are only two or three plants."

"The rest of the wild ginseng are not very old, most of them are from a few years to thirty or forty years!"

After hearing Zhao Zhengang's words, Tang Lei felt half happy and half sad!

What I was happy about was that Zhao Zhengang and Zhang Dehai helped find more than 20 wild ginseng trees, so his trip was not a waste of time!

What I worry about is those wild ginseng that have been 20 years old. Even if Tang Lei brought it back, after the time has passed, the wild ginseng will only be about one hundred years old, and the taller ones will be only 170 or 80 years old.

Tang Lei doesn’t know much about the value of wild ginseng in the future, and he guesses that it should not be of great value...

"The highest wild ginseng is only 60 years old?" Tang Lei asked with a frown.

"What does it mean is only over 60 years! Do you think the wild ginseng with high ginseng is Chinese cabbage!" Zhang Dehai smiled angrily.

"Brother Tang, are you going to give it to the elderly at home for buying wild ginseng?" Zhao Zhengang picked up the wine glass and also touched Tang Lei for a while and asked.

When Tang Lei heard Zhao Zhengang ask him this, he was secretly distressed. He couldn't say that he was just a second-hand dealer, thinking about taking the ginseng back to the future and selling it!

After thinking about it in his mind, Tang Lei replied in accordance with Zhao Zhengang's words: "Yes! My old man is almost 80 years old this year. He was injured in the war years, and later he criticized and fought, and he was even more injured!"

"My father, because of the reform and opening up now, he went to the south to do business and couldn't go home for a long time!"

"I heard Brother Zhang say on the train that wild ginseng can bring life to life, so I thought about buying a few plants for spare!"

"Now I haven't found wild ginseng that has been aged 100 years or more. I can only use these wild ginseng with aged ginseng as New Year gifts to give to my elders!" After Tang Lei finished speaking, he sighed deliberately.

After hearing Tang Lei's words, Zhao Zhengang secretly gave Zhang Dehai a look.

"No, why are you winking at me? My two wild ginseng trees have only been in the age of 80 years, and it is useless to sell them to Brother Tang!" Zhang Dehai immediately looked at Zhao Zhen, and Gang said with a frown.

"I'm reminding you, didn't my dad say that there is a wild ginseng plant that has been ginseng for more than 100 years!" Zhao Zhengang looked at Tang Lei awkwardly, shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"I said you are getting worse and worse, and you are thinking about my dad's things coming! My dad has been guarding that ginseng for many years, how could he be willing to sell it?" Zhang Dehai frowned and looked at Zhao Zhengang and said.

"Brother Zhang! Do you really have two wild ginseng plants that have been 80 years old and more than 100 years old? Sell them to me! Money is not a problem!" Tang Lei said quickly.

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