A doctor who travels through two eras

The atmosphere at the first meeting between the Pan and Lin parents was very good, but the Lin family did not stay for dinner.

If more than ten people stayed for dinner, the Pan family would go bankrupt, although their family is no different from being bankrupt now.

Lin Sanqi has food, but Pan Zhengquan still has some dignity to use his future son-in-law's food to entertain the Lin family. He would not do such a shameless thing.

"Stay! Stay!"

"Go slowly, go slowly!"

The Pan family accompanied their guests all the way to the entrance of the alley, which was considered very polite.

For most guests, the host will escort them to their doorsteps.

For guests who are more important, they will be escorted to the gate of the courtyard and said goodbye. They are VIPs.

The Pan family accompanied them all the way to the entrance of the alley, almost to East 40th Street, which showed the Pan family's unparalleled importance to them.

Young people like Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye didn't think much of it and just followed the crowd, laughing and chatting.

Only old people like Dean Shen and Lin Kucan knew what this meant. So both sides were extremely polite, and both the host and the guest felt very proud.

As for a courtesy visit, it usually only takes an hour to sit there, so that both parties can have a first impression. As for the details of the engagement and marriage, the matchmaker will need to communicate with both families.

Once the matchmaker has made all the arrangements and agreed on the gift price, dowry and so on, when both families sit down again, the countdown to the wedding begins.

Walking on the street, Dean Shen saw Lin Sanqi with a silly smile on his face, and slapped him on the head:

"You little brat, I think Pan Ye is a good girl. She's an honest and decent girl. A female college student is willing to follow a primary school student like you. You're marrying up. Don't do anything to let her down in the future."

Lin Sanqi quickly assured:

"Don't worry, Uncle Shen. I promise Mao ZX that I will never do anything to let Pan Ye down in this world."

(Another world, yeah, at least the oath has not been broken.)
Jin Caifeng also followed suit and said:
"Also, I heard that Xiaoye is going to the Changping branch with you for an internship. There's no one to supervise you two in the branch, so you'd better behave yourself and don't do anything shameful, or I'll twist your ears off!"

Although Lin Kucan is a Buddhist, he is also quite traditional on this issue:

"Yes, it's normal for young people to kiss each other, but it should be done with affection and courtesy. This is not only a respect for the girl, but also a respect for yourself. Don't let people scold us Lin family for being uneducated."

Wang Huiqin burst out laughing:
"Oh, you two are still upset about the second son's wife? Haha, your granddaughter is already so big."

There is a reason why Mr. and Mrs. Lin are so afraid of having sexual relations before marriage.

One is conservative thinking. In the eyes of the older generation, women who have sex before marriage are considered promiscuous and definitely not suitable for marriage. (It doesn’t matter for men.)
The second one is that the second son Lin Duzhong and Pei Xuehua learned a painful lesson.

After graduating from nursing school, Pei Xuehua went to work at a traditional Chinese medicine hospital. She was in love for the first time and soon fell in love with Lin Duzhong.

Lin's father and mother originally disliked Pei Xuehua, mainly because Pei's parents were a well-known poor family in Caishikou. They had a bad reputation in the area and were greedy and quarrelsome.

And later I found out that Pei's father was a minor official during the Kuomintang period and had a bad background.

Lin Duzhong had no choice but to accept the marriage. He went into the grove and got pregnant without her noticing. Lin's father and mother had no choice but to accept the marriage.

Being pregnant before marriage became gossip at the dinner table of the Chinese medicine hospital staff, and the Lin family was ridiculed for a long time.

After the marriage, just as the old couple had expected, the second son and his wife tried to take advantage of the youngest son in every way, and even started clamoring to separate the family property on the day they found their youngest son.

Once again, the Lin family became a joke.

So now that the youngest son has a stable partner and is going to take her to the countryside, both Dean Shen and Lin Kucan are very worried that the two of them might get into the woods again out of passion.

There are more groves in the countryside of Changping, and they are more convenient.

If she gets pregnant before marriage again, the Lin family's reputation will be completely ruined.

Of course Lin Sanqi was not convinced. He was not a novice. Not to mention that he and Pan Ye had already been approved by both sides' parents and were almost engaged.

In the southern region, there is no difference between engagement and marriage. Men and women can publicly call each other husband and wife, and outsiders will not say anything if they sleep together.

Besides, from the perspective of young people, even if you are in a relationship, how can you know if there is any harmony or disharmony between the two parties if you have never tried?

If problems are discovered before marriage, losses can be stopped in time. However, if incompatibility is discovered after marriage, divorce could be devastating, so of course a "trial marriage" is necessary.

Especially Pan Ye, um, right A, then I have to bring him up by myself in advance, otherwise the child will be hungry in the future...

If Dean Shen and Doctor Lin knew that he had such dirty thoughts, the two old men would beat up this little gangster in the street. Haiyun Warehouse is not far from the Chinese Medicine Hospital, and it only takes more than 20 minutes to walk.

Along the way, Dean Shen pulled Lin Sanqi to his side and asked softly:
"The first batch of wild ginseng has been shipped by rail. Is your food supply reliable? I see you haven't been out doing any sales in the past few days!"

Dean Shen placed special emphasis on the three words "run business".

Lin Sanqi finally stopped being happy and promised seriously:
"Don't worry, Uncle Shen. I will go to do business tomorrow, but I can't go empty-handed. I have to bring ginseng with me, right?"

Dean Shen thought about it and it made sense. Food is more precious than gold now. You can't let Lin Sanqi get something for nothing, right?

"Okay, I tell you, now we need to take whatever food we have, don't be picky. And you should bring back as much as you can get. If you don't have enough money or ginseng, tell me and I'll find a way."

Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes again and again before he made up his mind.

He has grain, but he cannot sell it too cheaply. He must let everyone know that it is not easy for him, Lin Sanqi, to get grain. Otherwise, he will become the captain of the grain transportation team. How can he have time to do his "side job"?
"Uncle Shen, you know that rice on the black market is about 4 yuan per pound, and the best flour is 5 yuan per pound. Although I got coarse grains, at a ratio of 1 to , it's about yuan per pound. Can you accept this price?"

Dean Shen was shocked: "It's so expensive? Can it be cheaper? After all, we need a lot."

Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes:

"They said that because we want a large quantity, it is more difficult for others to collect food, so the price is higher. If it is 100 kilograms or 200 kilograms, I will take it for free."

Dean Shen began to think in his mind:
If calculated at one yuan per pound of coarse grain, 20 yuan worth of wild ginseng would require 100 tons of grain to exchange.

100 tons of grain is definitely not a small number. Even if it is transported by large trucks, it would take dozens of them, and it would be a huge procession. It takes a lot of connections and energy to gather so much grain.

Dean Shen sighed:
"Okay, Uncle Shen knows it's not easy for you to get food, but you should lower the price if possible, and buy more food if possible. I don't care about others, anyway, none of the more than 400 employees and thousands of family members of our Chinese medicine hospital can starve to death."

Lin Sanqi looked up at Dean Shen's graying hair, and thought that he must have been under even greater pressure in the past few years. So he thought to himself:

"I can't manage all the staff in the hospital, but I promise that your godfather and his family will not go hungry..."

The next day, Lin Sanqi arrived at the railway freight station in Fengtai, where Section Chief Kong Shuihu was already waiting.

Lin Sanqi drove a large truck specially here, and just after jumping off the truck, he said, "Uncle Kong!"

Kong Shuihu looked around and found that no one was paying attention, so he whispered:

"The ginseng is all in the warehouse. I have already counted it. There are actually 56 wild ginsengs that are over 400 years old. There are also ginsengs of other years, a total of more than 50, but all of them are over 10 years old, with a value of about yuan.

This is the first batch. Our purchasing team has already set out from Fusong to Tonghua, Ji'an and other places, and is preparing to travel throughout the Changbai Mountain area to continue purchasing. The wild ginseng you want is relatively old, so it may take quite some time."

Lin Sanqi was shaking with fear after hearing this. With so much wild ginseng, if they were to be sold by 2023, the value would start from hundreds of millions.

Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi couldn't wait any longer:
"Uncle Kong, open the warehouse door quickly. I want to check the goods."

Kong Shuihu laughed and said, "Don't worry, Zhou Mingzhe from the pharmacy department has helped you get these ginsengs through the inspection last night."

As the door opened, a pile of wooden boxes were seen in the middle of the warehouse, and a unique scent of ginseng wafted into the air.

Lin Sanqi roared, rushed over quickly, and opened a wooden box. It was a century-old wild ginseng from Northeast China, which was rare in later generations.

"Okay, okay, this much ginseng can be exchanged for at least 50 tons of food."

Even a fool can do the math. Now there are nearly 500 ginsengs in front of us. If handled properly, they can be sold for at least to million yuan.

Let alone 50 tons of sweet potato and corn flour, even 50 tons of rice flour, how much is it worth? At most, it would be 2 to 30 yuan.

This is almost the rhythm of buying for zero yuan.

What antique stamps do you collect?
If you have been collecting antiques and stamps since 1960, it would be very difficult to sell them for cash in 2023. The antique circle is very small, so small that ordinary people like you cannot fit in at all.

You can take it to auction, but they will charge you appraisal fees, storage fees, catalog fees, admission fees, exhibition fees, marketing and promotion fees, deposits, exit fees, contract penalties, etc.

Maybe your antique has not even been auctioned yet, but you have already paid hundreds of thousands or even millions for it, and this is the money that the auction house makes.

Besides, do you think that antiques and curios that are sold for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan are great antiques?

Maybe they are just trying to launder money and are playing a double act, just like a fraudulent stock trading group. You are the only fool in the whole group and the others are all agents.

Finally, someone tells you that your antique failed to sell at auction, but the handling fees, appraisal fees, etc. are not refundable. What can you do?
So being an antique dealer is not as profitable as being a dealer of precious medicinal materials. (End of this chapter)