Chapter 216 The hype

Soon, there were only twelve juren left in the entire restaurant. The one who came first saw that it was still early, so they continued to rush to the road under the "urge" of the shopkeeper, and later they were blocked by Shizengteng's servants.

So, the two juren masters completely occupied the roadside hotel, and the guys had to take care of the group of people with all their might...

This is also a common phenomenon during scientific examinations. The juren has different identities. Although they have never been arrogant and domineering, most people cannot speak with them and cannot adapt to their way of speaking every word with allusions. So they simply vote with their feet...

This roadside hostel is not big, it only owns fifteen houses. Huang Yu, the juren, pays the bodyguard fee.

Except for Huang Yu's explanation, Shi Chuan had no obligation to take care of other juren, so after he set up the room of his team, he didn't care about how Liu Bancheng and his team stayed, but he was still kind enough to leave two rooms for Liu Bancheng.

The latter took the initiative and pulled his best companions into this hotel. After all, it would be safer to rely on him to stay close. As for the rest of the people... it is also common for them to sleep in the dining room.

Because there were not enough rooms, everyone naturally had to delay the party in the room for a longer time to show the joys and sorrows. The young lady of the pursing sing had already set a room in this hotel. Now the room fee is counting on these oranges, and of course she hopes that the sings of the sings of the genre. She smiled and sang the Honglian Temple that Liu Xu ordered, Liu Bancheng threw a bunch of money, about one hundred cents, and then greeted: "Young lady is thirsty, drink a few cups of hot tea before continuing to sing."

The little lady bowed: "I can rest after the rest of the juren ordered singing."

What this means is: a reward of 100 cents is not enough to satisfy the girl of the Ching. She wants to earn a little more. After all, if she missed it once every three years, she would have to regret it for at least three years.

In fact, the reward of 100 cigarettes is not stingy. Liu Bancheng gave copper coins. The purchasing power of copper coins is very strong these days. I remember when I first arrived in Haizhou City, I received a pension of 10 cents a day, one liter of rice.

But this is during a trip. The accommodation fee for a hotel house is about 300 yuan, plus the food cost, and the daily expense is at least 500 yuan. Among the notes left by the Song people in this era, many Song people have to sell their houses and land once they travel to complete their long-distance trips. This is also the reason why the abducted girls have not come to claim them for a long time.

Huang E's uncle Lin Xiang is also a juren. With such a wealthy family and tax-free treatment from the court, he has suffered all the money in his family for several consecutive scientific examinations. From this we can imagine how expensive long-distance travel expenses are these days.

It is precisely because of this that even with Liu Bancheng's generosity and wealth, the reward of only one hundred cents is only one hundred cents. This is the first day of the trip, and there is still two months left to go. If you give a reward of one hundred cents a day, and continue like this, Liu Bancheng has to pave a road with copper plates before he can reach the capital Bianliang.

When Liu Xu was giving a reward, Huang Yu was fiddling with something on his hand. He first chewed with his teeth for a long time. Because he couldn't chew, he reached out to Shi Chuan to borrow the knife: "Changqing, at lunch, I borrow the knife you used to use for the flesh... Little lady, continue singing, I'll order the next paragraph, any song, as long as it's beautiful."

Shi Chuan looked over and felt that the thing Huang Yu was fiddling with looked very familiar. He asked tentatively: "Ginseng?"

People in the Song Dynasty began to realize the role of ginseng? No, right?

Liu Bancheng glanced at the object in Huang Yu's hand and said calmly: "It turned out to be Polygonum multiflorum - "Wu Pu Materia Medica" written by Wu Pu, a native of Wei during the Three Kingdoms, said that this thing can improve energy. The book says that this thing is commonly known as "earth spirit, goblin, spiritual grass, Polygonum multiflorum, human entrapment, ghost cover, blood ginseng, and golden well jade lance".

Huang Yu looked at Liu Bancheng and added: "Asia, you can also call ginseng - this is called law in the Liao Kingdom. The Khitan Kingdom Records once recorded that "the southeast reaches the fifth Jiedu, and the shu Jurchen tribes have a total of more than 10,000 households. The ginseng, white aconite, aparagus, poria, pine nuts, pigling, white cloth and other substances produced are also built by the Khitan Privy Council, and are controlled by the Khitan or Bohai people. The area is more than 700 miles north and south, more than 400 miles east and west, and five hundred miles northwest to Tokyo."

This Khitan was the name of Liao Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty. After they founded the country, they were called "Liao", and their "Tokyo" was also called Liaoyang..."

Shi Tong took the ginseng, took out his knife, and praised while shaving the slices: "This ginseng is so fat."

Huang Yu looked reserved: "Of course, this time I went to the capital for the exam, and my father specially found a hundred-year-old ginseng for me. I just walked along the way and felt a little tired. I just put a piece in it to cheer up..."

The singing rang again, and in the melodious song, Shi Chuan looked disdainful: "Cut, how can ginseng be a hundred years old? This ginseng is a perennial herb, it is not a 'wood'.

Know what herbs are? ‘One year and one withering and flourishing’ is called herbs. Even perennial herbs can grow for seven years, up to eleven years, which is already very rare. If the growth cycle is longer, it should not be called ‘herbs’, but woody. So, it is grass after all, grass, do you know?

The longer the growth period of plants, the more severe the timber of their branches will be. If there is a hundred years of ginseng, it will be completely timbered, and its nutritional content is no different from the legs of the table.

This radish grows so big because it is suitable for growth and sufficient nutrition. I have seen farmers spend nine months to cultivate a guy that is thicker than this radish. If you see that thing, should you praise it as 'three hundred-year-old ginseng' or 'thousand-year-old ginseng' - By the way, does this radish have a birth certificate? How do you judge that it is 300 years old, is it based on size, or is there any other basis for judgment?"

Huang Yu was anxious: "You fool, how could you keep saying that this is a carrot? This is a goblin, a Polygonum, and of course, it is also called ginseng."

Shi Chuan looked contemptuous: "I told you that you don't understand. This thing belongs to the "Five-Grapeaceae" in plant taxonomy. It is just a kind of "Five-Grapeaceae". There are thousands of species in the family of Five-Grapeaceae, and they can all be called "Five-Grapeaceae". Radish and this thing are relatives and brothers. People often say "Radish-Grapeaceae", which means that radishes also contain a small amount of ginseng glycoside, which can have some alternative effects.

Hehe, as for the mysterious ginseng, it is just a hype method of the Jurchens - hype, do you know?”

Everyone basically didn't understand what Shi Chuan said. Huang Yu only understood one sentence. He pondered: "Yes, hype, it has this flavor. The Jurchens have almost no advantage in selling goods. Our porcelain and tea can be sold at a high price in the Jurchens, but the Jurchens don't have a few things to trade for our goods. If this continues, the Jurchens unilaterally buy our goods, where do they get the money to buy the goods?

Nowadays, the goods that Jurchens can take out are the same as ginseng and fur. Besides, there are only war horses. The value of a ginseng is worth several war horses. If you go back and forth, it is a 'buy and sale'. Only when you buy and sell it will it become a business... But, as you say, if it is purely out of the hype of the Jurchens, is this lingon, cough cough, call it Polygonatum or ginseng, really useless?"

Shi Chuan looked sarcastic: "It's useful. This thing is indeed useful, but it's not as mysterious as it is. For example, rumors say that ginseng can kill life, but when it's really in danger, the doctor would rather use adrenaline. Even if there is no adrenaline, it would rather use glucose liquid than use ginseng... What, I don't understand.

Well, this thing is just a rare thing. Maybe one day, this thing will allow farmers to plant it on a large scale, as if they are growing cabbage nowadays, so it is probably not much more expensive than cabbage. Of course, people who hype will also think of other methods, such as based on the principle of "flowering outside the wall and fragrance inside the wall", maybe they will say that large-scale ginseng cultivated in foreign countries is more powerful... Haha, it is rare in any case. Hehe, a century-old ginseng, this is the best joke I have ever heard, it is so funny."

The young lady who sang the purine loudly ended with a bit of a modern soprano. In the singing, Huang Yu looked at the ginseng with regret... To be honest, the young man was so angry that he wanted to part with Liu Bancheng, so he specially took out this "goblin", or "polygonum, ginseng" to show off. This thing was originally a piece of cake that his father repeatedly told him to start enjoying before taking the provincial examination. Unexpectedly, at this time, he was completely destroyed by Shideng.

The medicinal effect of ginseng is half dependent on ginseng glycoside and half hypnotic power of self-belief. There is no extreme worship. I will hold ginseng tablets in my mouth... Huang Yu now feels that it is indeed similar to dried radish.

The female traveler of the Singer bowed to Huang Yu. Huang Yu held ginseng slices in his mouth and felt bitter. He took out a piece of silver from his arms bitterly. The piece of silver was about half a tael. Huang Yu didn't even look at it and threw it to the Singer's wife. He agreed vaguely, and Shi Chuan next to him also threw a piece of silver... Liu Bancheng's face turned green.

Fighting wealth is better than Huang Yu. After all, the other party is Duke Jie Yuan, and his family is the number one tea merchant in Haizhou. The tea traded every year is about millions of yuan. This small amount of money is like eye droppings for Huang Yu, but now, even the bounty given by an escort bodyguard is more than that of him, Liu Bancheng, which is not depressing.

The female traveler who sang the purse didn't think the atmosphere was a little wrong. She bowed in a blink of an eye, then held the pipa and took a step back, asking the rest of the juren at the same table to continue singing.

The bounty given by Shi Chuan and Huang Yu was enough for her one day's expenses. It doesn't matter to her how much she earns in the next singing. But with Huang Yu and Shi Chuan, even Liu Bancheng suffered a loss. The other juren looked left and right and did not dare to respond.

Later, the inn owner brought the meal. The young lady repeatedly urged her to invite her. No one on the table continued to sing. Seeing that the atmosphere in the inn was a little awkward, Lo Wangjing finally broke the silence. He paid twenty cents for his sleeves and said calmly: "Little lady, there are only twenty cents for him. Can you order the next paragraph?"

The little lady did not answer, she bowed her head, then twisted the strings of the piano and sang in a singing voice. This technique of playing back the pipa while getting up and playing the pipa made everyone's eyes lit up. Liu Bancheng had a chance. He yelled loudly, and then threw down a string of 100-cigarette copper coins: "Reward"

Suddenly, the light and shadow swayed, and the string of copper coins did not land. It fell into the hands of Shitong. No one noticed how Shitong moved the figure. The string of money seemed to be put into Shitong's arms. Seeing this, Liu Bancheng stood up in shock, sweating all over his head, and bowed in panic: "Student..."

Shizhang calmly put the string of copper coins on the table: "It seems that Brother Ya is drunk too much." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come - Piaotianwen - vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.
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