A doctor who travels through two eras

Chapter 167: Ambush in the Mountains at Midnight

Tianma, Meijiang, Chakeng, Dongjia, Xijia and other villages are located in the vast Gudou Mountain area.

In the middle of the night, the forest was quiet, with only a truck driving on the winding mountain road.

The modified car lights were as bright as day, illuminating the mountain road just like daytime, except that the road was difficult to drive on, as it was all mud.

If the Jiefang truck had not been completely modified and had greater power, Lin Sanqi suspected that the truck would have been stuck countless times and then caught in a trap.

After driving for half an hour, we finally arrived at the agreed meeting point.

There is a row of bungalows next to the orange orchard, which is usually used as a factory for making tangerine peel and is also used as a warehouse. It is a long distance away from the village and is the best place to do bad things.

You can shout, but no one will hear you even if you shout at the top of your lungs...

Hearing the sound of a truck, some villagers came out from behind the wall.

Under the car lights, Lin Sanqi saw the district village chief waving his hands, indicating where to park the truck.

As soon as Lin Sanqi jumped out of the car, the district village chief couldn't wait to ask, "Comrade Li, how is it? Did you bring the food?"

"I have it. It's all in the back of the truck. If your dried tangerine peel is of good quality and in large quantities, I can transfer more food."

"Okay, okay, Comrade Li is indeed a leader from the provincial capital. He keeps his word. Let's go into the warehouse and take a look."

Under the guidance of Qu Bo, Lin Sanqi visited each warehouse one by one.

When Lin Sanqi first saw the warehouse full of jute bags, he knew that this batch of tangerine peels would not be too old.

We walked past another warehouse, which was filled with sealed pottery jars.

Qu Bo took Lin Sanqi inside. A villager had already opened the clay jar, and a pleasant aroma of tangerine peel wafted out.

"Comrade Li, look, this is the best 50-year-old tangerine peel we have here. It is not easy to preserve it. To preserve it, it must be kept away from the wall, the ground, and the ceiling. If it does not meet the requirements, the tangerine peel will become moldy and deteriorate.

In addition, we need to turn over and dry the tangerine peels that are less than five years old at least once a year. The tangerine peels that are newly picked and the tangerine peels that are less than three years old need to be turned over and dried one to three times a year, and each time they are turned over and dried, they need to be dried thoroughly.

So we farmers have a hard time. We have to take care of tangerine peel all year round and we can’t rest every day. Comrade Li, can you raise the purchase price of such good tangerine peel a little bit?..."

Lin Sanqi didn't say anything. He picked up a piece of tangerine peel and smelled it. The fragrance was refreshing and pleasant.

I broke off a small piece and put it in my mouth. It was indeed sweet, mellow and delicious, which I had never tasted before.

The village chief was watching Lin Sanqi from the side and found that he seemed to be quite knowledgeable and he described the characteristics of tangerine peel accurately.

In fact, Lin Sanqi knows nothing. He drinks tangerine peel tea frequently, but he used to drink the lowest-grade tangerine peel. This time when he came to Xinhui, he specially looked up information, precautions and identification methods on the Internet.

"Village Chief, this tangerine peel is good. I am very satisfied with it. I can raise the price by another 20%."

The village chief was overjoyed when he heard this, and patted Lin Sanqi on the shoulder: "Okay, okay, we are fellow villagers after all, take care of the people from your hometown."

Lin Sanqi was indeed soft-hearted, because it is very difficult to preserve tangerine peel. Without constant temperature and humidity, the tangerine peel needs to be preserved for decades and maintained every year. The farmers have to put in a huge amount of effort.

This is not abalone or shark fin from the seaside. You can catch it every year. It is all wild and you can catch as much as you want.

If it weren't for the fear of giving too much food and causing unnecessary trouble, this ceramic jar of tangerine peel alone would not be enough even if it contained a whole cartload of food.

"District head, how much inventory do we have now?"

“噢，我统计过了，50年以上陈皮不多，只有200斤；40年~50年有600斤；20~40年陈皮有1500斤左右。”

After hearing this, Lin Sanqi really wanted to laugh out loud three times. This was another fortune.

"Okay, District Village Chief, you guys quickly calculate how much food is needed, then move the food off my car, and help me load the tangerine peel back on the car."

The district village chief was delighted when he heard this and shouted to the people around him, "Why don't you calculate it quickly?"

A villager who looked like an old accountant took out an abacus and did some calculations, and finally gave a number:
"We need 7.5 tons of food, fine grain."

The accountant emphasized this point again, fearing that Lin Sanqi would take out sweet potatoes, potatoes and other coarse grains to fool people.

Lin Sanqi had no objection to this number.

"Okay, I'll give you 9 tons of rice, but I have to make another trip. I only have 5 tons of rice on my truck, so I have to make another trip."

When the village chief saw that Lin Sanqi was so understanding and was really willing to give more food, his eyes rolled:
"Comrade Li, I have a treasure at home, passed down from my ancestors, 2 kilograms of tangerine peel that has been preserved since the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. I wonder if Comrade Li is interested?"

Lin Sanqi's eyes lit up instantly.

Although he could not tell exactly what year it was during the Daoguang reign, he remembered the destruction of opium at Humen in the textbook, which happened during the Daoguang reign. If this tangerine peel was really handed down from the Qing Dynasty, it must have a history of more than a hundred years.

This kind of tangerine peel can no longer be described by its medicinal value; it can be considered a treasure of the museum.

So Lin Sanqi nodded hurriedly:

"It's really a good treasure. The tangerine peel that's over a hundred years old is amazing. What do you mean, Village Chief?"

The district village chief said somewhat proudly:

"I estimate that the amount of tangerine peel left over from the Daoguang era in the entire Dongguang would not exceed one hand. I don't want more. I want one ton of rice for one pound. What do you think, Comrade Li?"

The district village chief thought he was asking for too much.

Two tons of rice, 4000 kilograms of rice, mixed with some coarse grains, can feed a family for a long time, and perhaps they can successfully survive the famine.

The village chief is also a decisive person. He knows that tangerine peel cannot be eaten as a meal and that food is still needed at critical moments. Now that there is a sucker in front of him, of course he must grab it tightly.

If 4000 kilograms of rice and 2 kilograms of dried tangerine peel were put together for people to choose, even a fool in the village would know what to choose.

Lin Sanqi was ecstatic. A ton of rice cost several thousand yuan, but he could exchange it for hundred-year-old tangerine peel worth millions. Is there any bigger profit than this?
"Okay, District Village Chief, then we have a deal. Wait, I will go and transport the food."

With money comes motivation. Lin Sanqi was very motivated and immediately climbed onto the truck and went back to "transport grain".

Both parties were happy with this transaction. Tianma Village received two truckloads of rice, and Lin Sanqi transported away two truckloads of decades-old tangerine peels.

There were also 2 kilograms of auction-level Daoguang dried tangerine peel. Lin Sanqi specially prepared a plastic box and placed it solemnly on the passenger seat.

In this way, one village one night, in the next few days, Lin Sanqi had collected all the tangerine peels in Tianma, Chakeng, Dongjia, Xijia and other villages.

The treasures stored in these villages for hundreds of years were easily exchanged for rice. It has to be said that Lin Sanqi has the nature of a profiteer.

Just when Lin Sanqi thought that the trip to Xinhui would go smoothly and everything would go smoothly, he ran into a ghost.

He committed a big taboo. For a private transaction like his, he should have moved to another place after each transaction.

Just like the several times he traded grain for seafood at the seaside, he only traded once in each place, and after the transaction ended, he would retreat in time in the dark, so that he could do it without anyone noticing.

Even if some fishermen reported the incident, Lin Sanqi would have already fled far away and never come back. The relevant departments would not be able to catch him even if they wanted to ambush him, so the matter could only be left unresolved.

Perhaps the previous success had made Lin Sanqi complacent and he stayed in Xinhui for a full five days, exchanging food for tangerine peel every day.

On the sixth day, Lin Sanqi loaded another truckload of food and hummed a little tune as he headed for Meijiang Village.

Meijiang Village is located in the deepest part of the mountains and is also the last place he plans to acquire. After today, Lin Sanqi is ready to retreat.

There was only one truck moving forward alone in the dark mountains. It was quiet all around. After turning a few corners, Lin Sanqi suddenly found a piece of wood lying across the middle of the road.

There's a log in the middle of the road in the middle of the night?

This discovery instantly alarmed Lin Sanqi, and his mind quickly flashed back to what Section Chief Kong had taught him: if he encountered a similar situation while on a business trip, he must have been robbed.

It would be even more dangerous if it was in the wilderness where there was no village in front and no temple behind, because it meant that those people would not only rob you of your money, but they might also kill you.

Lin Sanqi took out his pistol with trembling hands and turned on the safety.

"I can't stop the car. If there are more than 10 or 20 people coming, it will be useless even if I have a gun. I will definitely be beaten to death."

Lin Sanqi gritted his teeth, thinking about the car he had spent 50 yuan to modify, which was the most advanced in terms of power and chassis. It was just a piece of wood, so he could just rush through.

Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi got furious and stepped on the accelerator hard. The car engine started to run violently and accelerated towards the wood.

The person lying in ambush on the roadside was a little dazed.

Seeing that the truck not only did not slow down but instead accelerated towards me, I thought that my car would definitely overturn or get stuck under the wood and could not be driven.

These eight people were all from the local supply and marketing cooperative. They received a tip-off from villagers that a mysterious man was exchanging grain for tangerine peel in the mountains.

This made the supply and marketing cooperative very annoyed. After all, the supply and marketing cooperative has always been responsible for the purchase of tangerine peel. Even if out-of-town units need to purchase goods, they have to go through the supply and marketing cooperative.

Now some people are bypassing the supply and marketing cooperatives. From a small perspective, this is damaging the interests of the supply and marketing cooperatives. From a broad perspective, this is a violation of national policy.

They also went to Tianma, Dongjia and other villages to conduct investigations during the day, but these villages all firmly denied it and refused to allow the supply and marketing cooperative investigation team to enter the warehouse to inspect the goods.

This made the people in the supply and marketing cooperative very helpless. After all, the clan forces in the countryside were not so easy to offend. These people were capable of doing anything. Once they came, the entire village would come to settle accounts with you. Who could stand that?
So when a villager reported that a mysterious outsider was going to Meijiang to buy tangerine peel tonight, they ambushed him halfway, ready to catch him both dirty and powerful.

(End of this chapter)