Chapter 289: Delicious and Plenty of Quantity Through the food pickup window, you can see the middle-aged boss cooking noodles inside. Cheng Ming deliberately sat in the seat closest to the window, and then pretended to talk to the boss casually. "Brother, there seem to be a lot of medicinal gardens in your Guantang Town?" The boss was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect the customer to chat with him, but he quickly reacted. "Yes, we don't have much else in Guantang, but there are a lot of medicinal fields and gardens! I dare say you won't find a town with more in the surrounding area!" "Why are there so many?" Cheng Ming asked. "Because there are several pharmaceutical factories in Wucheng that collect it." The noodle shop owner said, "Many bosses come to the town to rent land, open medicinal gardens, and grow medicinal herbs. There are also many cash crops, but most of them are medicinal herbs." "Oh?" Cheng Ming showed a curious look, "How many are there?" Speaking of this, the noodle shop owner seemed to get excited.
"We have eight villages under Guantang, with tens of thousands of acres of land. Do you know how much grain we can grow?" Cheng Ming knew that he was about to talk about the news he wanted to know, so he shook his head cooperatively. "It's probably less than a thousand acres. Of the tens of thousands of acres, only the locals grow a thousand acres for their own food, and the rest are all rented to the herb garden owner!" Cheng Ming was stunned: "That's really a lot." "Of course, there are more than 500 medicinal gardens of various sizes in the eight villages, and they mainly grow a lot of medicinal herbs, such as Isatis Root, Lysimachia, and Andrographis paniculata." "Brother, it sounds like you are very familiar with these medicinal gardens in this town?" Cheng Ming asked. The older brother couldn't help but smile. It seemed that it was rare to have a conversation with him, but he started talking all of a sudden. "That's right. I'm familiar with most of the herbal gardens in town. I know people there." The elder brother was cooking noodles and took the time to turn his head and glance at Cheng Ming. "Brother, what are you doing here? Are you looking for work in our herbal garden?" Cheng Ming asked: "Is there any work to do in the medicine garden?" "Of course! Did you see those workers eating outside? They are all workers who come to our Guantang to find work. They come from the herb garden at noon to find a place to eat and rest, and then continue to work in the afternoon." "Oh" Cheng Ming understood. No wonder I saw so many people rushing into the fast food restaurant to eat just now. It turns out they were all workers from the nearby medicinal garden. "Are you here looking for a job? If so, I can help you find a job." The noodle shop owner said enthusiastically. Cheng Ming shook his head repeatedly. "I'm not here to look for work. I heard that there are people growing ginseng here. I just wanted to see if I can buy some to take back." "So you sell Chinese medicine?" The boss suddenly realized. Cheng Ming nodded. I guess so, right? Doesn’t Yinhai Pharmaceutical sell Chinese medicine?
"Then you've asked the right person. There are hundreds of medicinal gardens of all sizes in Guanyong Town, and I basically know what's planted in each one." “As for ginseng, there are probably 20 to 30 medicinal gardens growing it,” said the boss. Cheng Ming was stunned; this number was unexpectedly small. As if seeing Cheng Ming's thoughts, the boss said, "To be honest, the conditions for growing ginseng are still relatively high, and the investment must be high. Only some large medicinal gardens have more." "But there are many kinds of ginseng, including red ginseng, Scrophularia, American ginseng, and Adenophora. Which one are you looking for?" Cheng Mingdao: "Scrophularia, how many medicinal gardens are there that grow Scrophularia?" As soon as I asked, the boss answered without thinking: "There are not many people growing Scrophularia, there are five in total, namely Tianshui Medicinal Garden in Dashui Village, Renhe Medicinal Garden, Chunlai Medicinal Garden, Fengshou Medicinal Garden in Renhe Village, and Xiahe Medicinal Garden in Xiahe Village." Cheng Ming was really surprised. You know this in so much detail? "Brother, you are awesome!" He gave a thumbs up sincerely. After receiving Cheng Ming's praise, the boss couldn't suppress his smile. Cheng Ming thought that he would have to work hard to get this information, but he didn't expect to find it directly in a noodle shop. The five medicinal gardens were his goal. I don’t know which medicinal garden that magical Scrophularia ginseng is in, so why not check them one by one? As for whether the boss of the medicine garden would let him go and find it Give me money. The owner of the medicine garden opened it to make money. He wouldn't go against money, right? "Brother, your beef noodles are ready." The boss brought the noodles to Cheng Ming. Cheng Ming took a look and saw a large bowl, which was only slightly smaller than a washbasin, filled with a large bowl of noodles with a layer of beef floating on top. The boss is really honest, giving so much meat. The portion size is indeed large. Cheng Ming picked it up and took a bite, and his smile froze. He finally understood why no one came to eat at this noodle shop. Cheng Ming ate a few bites, thanked the boss, and left the noodle shop. According to what the noodle shop owner said. There are a total of five medicinal gardens that grow the herb Scrophularia ningpoensis. Cheng Ming thought about it carefully and decided to go to Renhe Village first. Because the boss said that there are three medicinal gardens in Renhe Village that have the drug Scrophularia, so the probability of finding the magical Scrophularia is higher. Once you find it, you don't have to run around. Cheng Ming came to the parking place, got in the car, turned on the navigation, and drove along the road. In less than ten minutes, he arrived in front of Renhe Village and Renhe Medicine Garden. This man and the medicine garden seemed to be quite large. The entire garden was surrounded by a fence, and you couldn't tell how big it was at a glance. At least you couldn't see how long the fence was from a distance. The navigation led us to the gate of the medicine garden. It was a doorplate made of wood with the words "Renhe Medicinal Herb Planting Base" written on it in large letters. There was a big wooden door that was casually nailed together and it was closed. Cheng Ming approached the gate and looked into the garden through the cracks in the wood. He saw only lush green vegetation and no one. The door was clean, with nothing on it except a name, not even a phone number.
Cheng Ming wanted to find his boss but didn't know who he was. Cheng Ming knocked on the door. However, there was silence all around, and no response. Obviously, no one was near the entrance of the medicine garden. After waiting for a long time, no one came out. Cheng Ming was about to give up. He wanted to go into Renhe Village to ask someone. If that didn't work, he could go to the other two medicine gardens in Renhe Village first. Just as I was about to leave, a villager who looked to be in his forties passed by. Cheng Ming quickly stepped forward and asked, "Brother, do you know how to contact this person and the owner of the medicine garden?" "You want to contact my fifth brother?" "Your fifth brother?" "Yes, my fifth brother is this man and the owner of the medicine garden." "Oh, then can you give me his contact information?" The villagers looked at Cheng Ming, not daring to respond, and asked, "What do you want to see my fifth brother for?" "Buy ginseng. I heard that you have ginseng in your herb garden. I'm a herb buyer." Cheng Ming thought that he could use this excuse to get the contact information of the owner of the medicine garden. But the villager actually said: "Buyer? But the herbs in the medicine garden cannot be sold to you. It's no use for you to ask my fifth brother." "You can't sell it to me? Why?" "Because the medicine garden has signed contracts with pharmaceutical factories in the city, it can only be sold to pharmaceutical factories and cannot be sold to others." said the villager. (End of this chapter)