Chapter 40 The monopolized medicinal material market
Chen Zhen had a look of anger on his face and glared at the gangsters present.
"What's that look in your eyes?"
A leader-looking man with a mustache said coldly: "Be quick with your hands and feet. After grabbing those sixty copies, there are still medicines for four people waiting to be grabbed. Just finish them before dark. You can't afford to pay for delaying our treatment.
snort!"
Chen Zhen scratched his neck and said firmly: "I won't arrest him anymore."
The gangster with a mustache said with a fierce look in his eyes: "If you open a pharmacy without selling medicine, do you want to take off your sign and destroy your pharmacy?"
Chen Zhen was so angry that he was shaking all over and argued loudly: "You are not here to see a doctor at all, you are here to cause trouble!"
"Oh, this stupid young man finally figured it out. He made me laugh so hard, hahahaha!" Mustache and others covered their stomachs and laughed forward and backward.
Huang Mao laughed and said sarcastically: "Do you have any evidence that we are making trouble? Either take medicine or close the store, you choose one."
"I'm calling the police now!" Chen Zhen said, picking up the phone and preparing to make a call.
Huang Mao's expression changed when he saw it. He raised his hand and slapped Chen Zhen hard on the face, cursing: "Damn it, I'm going to give you some shame!"
Just when Chen Zhen was about to be slapped on the face, Huang Mao's wrist was suddenly grabbed. He struggled hard, but found that the other person's hand was like a steel hoop and he couldn't break free at all.
Huang Mao's face was a little confused, he turned around and cursed fiercely: "Let me go!"
"Keep your mouth clean!"
Jiang Xiaofan looked at him coldly, then squeezed it hard, and Huang Mao suddenly howled in pain.
"You dare to hit people in the store in broad daylight. Do you have any laws?" Jiang Xiaofan asked angrily.
"Wang Fa?" Mustache said arrogantly, as if he had heard a big joke: "In this territory, our Lord Tiger is Wang Fa. I advise you, kid, to stop meddling in other people's business."
"Master Tiger?"
Jiang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, thinking that the name sounded familiar.
He suddenly remembered that when he was selling goose egg mushrooms, Bai Susu's gold ring was packaged into a brass ring by someone, and that person at that time was the man who claimed to be Master Hu.
"Boy, are you scared? Quickly let go of my hand, kowtow to me a few more times, pay tens of thousands of yuan in medical expenses, and I will spare your life."
When Huang Mao saw that Jiang Xiaofan remained silent, he thought he was frightened by Lord Tiger's name, so he couldn't help but cursed arrogantly.
Jiang Xiaofan came back to his senses and slapped his mouth: "It seems that this Mr. Tiger is not a good guy."
"Gah!"
Huang Mao was shocked when he heard this, and looked at Jiang Xiaofan dumbfounded: "How dare you scold Mr. Tiger? This kid is dead, and no one in your family can escape!"
Jiang Xiaofan's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he clenched his palms tightly. There was a bang sound, and Huang Mao's wrists bent at a strange angle.
"Ah! Damn it! My hands!!"
Huang Mao screamed in pain, covering his hands and rolling on the ground.
"If you dare to take action, I won't kill you today!"
Upon seeing this, Mustache and the others rushed towards Jiang Xiaofan.
"Bang bang bang bang!" Outside the pharmacy, only a dull sound of meat was heard coming from inside, just like the intense beating of sandbags in a boxing gym.
Three minutes later, five or six gangsters with bruises and swollen faces were lying on the floor of the drugstore. Without exception, they were all injured, some with their arms and some with their legs, and intermittent screams came from their mouths.
Jiang Xiaofan flicked his wrist and said coldly: "Get out of here!"
Five or six gangsters, as if they had been granted amnesty, got up from the ground and rushed out. Then they heard a threat coming from outside: "Just wait, we are not done with this!"
After the gangsters left, Jiang Xiaofan looked at Chen Zhen's red and swollen face and asked, "Is your face okay?"
"I'm fine." Chen Zhen shook his head, but said with a worried look on his face: "If you hit Master Hu's people, they won't let it go."
Jiang Xiaofan looked puzzled and asked: "What are they here for? How come your pharmacy is in conflict with Mr. Hu's people?"
Chen Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "They are from a medicinal material dealer. They came to the pharmacy a few days ago to let me buy their medicinal materials, but I found that many of their medicinal materials were not up to standard. Some were smoked with sulfur, some were moldy, and some were inferior.
Not only is the product ineffective, but the patient's life is in danger if he eats it, so I did not agree to purchase it..."
"Then they came to cause trouble?" Jiang Xiaofan understood the whole story instantly. Chen Zhen refused to purchase their medicinal materials, which was equivalent to cutting off their way of making money.
"Yes, Mr. Hu has a monopoly on the vegetable and medicinal materials business in Qingyuan County. He bullies and bullies the market and does all kinds of evil. Everyone has to use its supply, and anyone who dares not to use his store will not be able to open a store." Chen Zhen said angrily.
Hearing this, Jiang Xiaofan couldn't help but said angrily: "This is the underworld!"
"Master Hu was originally a gangster, but he has been learning to clean up his reputation in recent years. I heard that he has hundreds of thugs. I am going to tell Mr. Yu about this."
After Chen Zhen finished venting his anger, he suddenly asked: "Xiaofan, are you here to take medicine today?"
"No, I picked some wild Gastrodia elata in the mountains yesterday. I'll bring it here for you to see." Jiang Xiaofan said, opening the bag and taking out the wild Gastrodia elata.
"Oh, wild Gastrodia elata?"
Chen Zhen looked at the medicinal materials carefully and said while looking at them: "There are very few wild medicinal materials now. Many people sell them artificially in greenhouses under the guise of wild medicinal materials... Uh, Xiaofan, I'm not talking about you.
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At the end of the sentence, Chen Zhen scratched his head in embarrassment.
"It's okay." Jiang Xiaofan smiled and didn't care. He had dealt with Chen Zhen many times and knew that he was an upright person with a first-class personality and heart.
Chen Zhen's eyes lit up when he saw Gastrodia elata, he put it under his nose and smelled it, and said excitedly: "It tastes bitter and cool. This is pure wild Gastrodia elata, which is rare now."
Jiang Xiaofan nodded: "Yes, I met it by accident yesterday. What price do you think is suitable?"
Chen Zhen thought for a moment and said, "Today I will make a decision for Mr. Yu and I will pay you 800 yuan per catty. What do you think?"
Jiang Xiaofan was surprised: "Wild Gastrodia elata is so expensive?"
He knew that wild gastrodia elata would be more expensive, but he didn't expect the price to be so outrageous. It was actually more expensive than wild goose egg mushrooms. There are still a lot of wild medicinal materials on Longtou Mountain. Wouldn't he make a fortune by contracting Longtou Mountain?
Chen Zhen sighed: "The main reason is that the current environmental pollution is serious, and it is difficult to find pure natural wild medicinal materials. For the same medicinal material, the efficacy of wild and cultivated medicinal materials is much different."
Jiang Xiaofan frowned: "So, the medicinal materials grown cannot be used?"
"Of course not. Planted medicinal materials are definitely the mainstream, and wild medicinal materials alone are not enough."
"Especially those that are carefully planted, the medicinal effects are actually not bad in all aspects. I am afraid that some farmers will not hesitate to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides for profit, resulting in the destruction of medicinal materials and land."
"Nowadays, it is difficult to receive wild medicinal materials. The quality of the cultivated medicines varies greatly. There is a problem at the source of the entire traditional Chinese medicine industry. Alas!" Chen Zhen said in one breath the current situation of the traditional Chinese medicine industry.