Chapter 2173: Chapter 2025: Prodigal Son (Part 5)

Just like a coral reef.

A faint sneer appeared on Song Xiaodong’s face.

Mr Fang continued: "Look here, the color is a mix of yellow and red, which means the climate change was significant this year, this part grew rather slowly, and there’s an obvious gap here because wild Lingzhi generally grow on decayed trees in the forest, the growing environment is complicated. This entire piece of Lingzhi looks irregular, the pattern is varied in thickness, just like tree rings, growing at different rates, and on the underside of the fruiting body, there’s an irregular insect hole. Only wild Lingzhi growing in natural environments have insect holes, and although there’s a glass cabinet between us, we can still smell the strong medicinal fragrance. Therefore, this is a wild Lingzhi with high medicinal value!"

After Mr Fang finished speaking, the onlookers nearby felt it made a lot of sense, and Mr Fang felt quite proud, squinting while using side glances to look at Song Xiaodong, he asked: "Young man, what do you think?"

Song Xiaodong nodded, mockingly said to Miss Zhang: "I really feel sorry for the wasted money you spent before!"

Mr Fang’s face turned gloomy again.

Song Xiaodong took a look at the piece of Lingzhi and said: "This piece, if you use it as firewood, it’d be too smoky. This obviously is greenhouse cultivated Lingzhi, how many years would naturally grown ones take to get this big? You said decades, look at the pattern, it grows this wide in a year, what outdoor environment Lingzhi could grow this big in a year? Decades of perfect weather every year? Also, insect holes, artificially cultivated Lingzhi don’t have insect holes? Couldn’t they avoid pesticides on purpose for show? And the smell, you can smell it through the glass? Wild Lingzhi is bitter, but can you smell the bitterness? What kind of nose?"

Mr Fang was so furious at Song Xiaodong that he was almost having a heart attack.

"Let’s compare again!" Mr Fang was still unconvinced.

Next to the Lingzhi, there was ginseng.

Inside the glass cabinet, there was a display stand, with a red velvet box on it, inside lay a silk handkerchief with a piece of ginseng on it.

Ginseng is a perennial herb, so the statement of multi-year ginseng is correct, generally ginseng blooms in three years, bears fruit in five, usually grows in Korean pine forests, mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest lands, in Northeast China, Japan and Korea, and northern Russia, it’s also known as wild ginseng, undisputed king of herbs.

Ginseng is one of the most ancient relict plants, according to "Shennong’s Materia Medica", traditional medicine started using ginseng in prescriptions 4000 years ago, believing ginseng is sweet and slightly cold, can calm the spirit, stop fright, dispel evil, nourish the heart and open the mind.

Modern medicine’s analysis of ginseng’s organic components also found multiple saponins, polysaccharide components can be directly absorbed by the human body, stimulating blood circulation, beautifying and whitening, enhancing nutrition, it’s a strong tonic, improving various weakness ailments such as blood pressure regulation, cardiopulmonary functions, neurasthenia, spleen deficiency, and urine retention.

Ginseng can even be used for the emergency rescue of shock, decocting and stewing large amounts can save various critical patients and those in shock, it’s truly a great tonic.

The one in front of us is a dry ginseng, yellow-white in color, with lush root tendrils, vaguely resembling a human shape, crumpled, not much different from dried radish.

The saying goes: Three years radish, little ginseng.

This time, Mr Fang asked Song Xiaodong to speak first.

Song Xiaodong glanced at it and said: "This is an artificially cultivated five-year ginseng, although it’s artificially grown, it’s relatively old, and you can see this piece of land is a first-time plantation for ginseng, the soil is still quite fertile, with sufficient strength, so the medicinal value is still there, but honestly, it’s not worthy of being in this glass cabinet."

"Hmph, you misjudged this time!"

Mr Fang said to Song Xiaodong.

"I never misjudge." Song Xiaodong smirked, challenging Mr Fang.

Then Mr Fang began: "Wild mountain ginseng generally grows in mountain mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests, mixed woodlands, mostly produced from the Xiao Xing’an Range and Changbai Mountain area, wild mountain ginseng’s roots are old and tough, with pearl dots, long and segmented collars, skin with yellow-brown dense sheen, shoulder with spiral patterns, the ginseng root is straight, there’s nothing incongruent about this one from top to bottom, so I believe this is a wild mountain ginseng, and it could easily be thirty or fifty years old!"

"Well said!"

The onlookers cheered for Mr Fang, waiting for Song Xiaodong to make a fool of himself.

Song Xiaodong remained unhurried, told Mr Fang: "Of course, Mr Fang is right, this piece of mountain ginseng indeed looks exactly like a wild one!"

"Hmph, nonsense, this is a truly rare wild mountain ginseng, what do you mean looks like?" Mr Fang said.

"Mr Fang, let me ask you, why do we need to determine if this piece of ginseng is indeed wild mountain ginseng?" Song Xiaodong asked Mr Fang.

"Is there a need to ask? It’s obviously because the medicinal value of wild mountain ginseng is much higher than that of artificially cultivated ginseng!" Mr Fang answered.

"Since Mr Fang insists that this wild mountain ginseng is genuine, let’s test its medicinal properties, whether true or false, will naturally be revealed!" Song Xiaodong said.

Chapter 2029: Gamble

"This piece of ginseng is worth at least tens of thousands, even a single root is worth a lot, just to test its medicinal properties?" Mr Fang said.

"Experienced practitioners in Traditional Chinese Medicine can identify the properties by a lick, pulling a root piece will tell you the true value of this ginseng, it’s worth it." Song Xiaodong told Mr Fang.

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