Free Web NovelChapter 371: Chapter 371 Withered Tree Meets Spring
Wang Hao was taken aback to see Chen Hongying; how could she be with this elderly person? From what Wang Hao knew of Chen Hongying, she wasn’t the kind to poke her nose into others’ business, unless this elder had some connection to her.
"I say, boss, aren’t you being too ruthless, palming off cultivated ginseng worth less than five hundred yuan to deceive an old man like me, how could you be so heartless!"
The elder grabbed the vendor’s hand and loudly addressed the passersby.
"Everybody, come and take a look, help a poor old man out here, this person sold me a piece of cultivated ginseng as a wild ginseng from the year before last, and charged me fifty thousand yuan for it—that’s the life-saving money for my partner!"
"You senile old man, let go of me at once, who told you this is cultivated ginseng, it’s clearly a thousand-year-old wild ginseng!"
The vendor was still arguing.
"It was me who told him!"
Standing to the side, Chen Hongying stepped forward.
"And you are?"
The vendor glanced at Chen Hongying and, seeing she was just a woman, didn’t take her seriously.
"I am the representative for the Sincerity Herbal Corporation Limited in Zao City, and I’ve been in the Chinese herbal medicine business for over ten years!"
Chen Hongying answered swiftly and decisively, displaying the presence of a female boss.
Upon hearing Chen Hongying say this, the vendor paused for a moment, momentarily taken aback by her commanding presence.
"What does your experience in the industry have to do with me? I’m warning you, if you don’t want to get hit, then scram!"
Seeing he had encountered an expert, the vendor shouted at both Chen Hongying and the elderly man.
"You senile old fool, let me remind you, you bought this willingly, I didn’t force you. Even if it is cultivated ginseng, it’s your fault for not recognizing its quality. If you dare to persist and block my business, watch out, I won’t be polite to you!"
The vendor snorted coldly, and a few burly men immediately appeared behind him; they seemed to be cohorts of the vendor.
"You unscrupulous vendors, have your consciences been eaten by dogs? That fifty thousand is someone’s life-saving money. What you are doing is tantamount to robbery and murder!"
Chen Hongying, fuming, pointed at the vendor and his accomplices and scolded them.
"You wretched woman, watch your mouth. We operate on a cash-and-carry basis. Now the old man has taken the goods, and even if the police come, they can’t do anything about it. And what are you going to do about it?"
The vendor, looking punchable, leaned in closer to Chen Hongying and continued.
"Besides, can a conscience be eaten as food? I was born without a conscience, so what can you do about it?"
Chen Hongying was also at a loss when faced with such unreasonableness, and turned her head to the onlookers, but the surrounding people chose to remain silent, seeing the imposing manner of the vendor and his burly men.
"My dear, I’ve failed you; it’s my fault!"
The elderly man suddenly knelt on the ground, looking up and sighing deeply.
Without that fifty thousand, the elder would have no money to continue paying for hospitalization, and the hospital would surely kick them out, which was tantamount to sentencing his partner to death.
"What’s happened here?"
Wang Hao knew that if he didn’t step in to save the day, Chen Hongying might be bullied.
"Wang Hao, what are you doing here?"
Chen Hongying was surprised to see Wang Hao; she had never expected to encounter him here.
"Wang Hao? Today, it wouldn’t matter if it was President Zhao, President Li, President Liu, or anyone else. Now that the money is in my hands, thinking you can make me refund it is utterly impossible!"
The vendor glanced at Wang Hao, completely dismissing him. frёeωebɳovel.com
Wang Hao merely smiled faintly.
"Elder, you’ve really wronged this boss, this truly is a fine piece of wild ginseng!"
Wang Hao’s words were astounding.
The people around couldn’t help but chuckle at Wang Hao’s words, seeing as they were clearly nothing but bold-faced lies; it wouldn’t be surprising if he was in cahoots with the merchant.
The merchant took one look and felt that Wang Hao was a pushover, sure that since they had the numbers, Wang Hao was intimidated and somewhat frightened.
"Old man, you heard me right, this is indeed real!"
The merchant said, brimming with pride.
The old man didn’t believe it either, still grieving over his lost fifty thousand yuan.
"Mr. Wang, this ginseng is clearly cultivated, how can you say it’s..."
At first, when Wang Hao showed up, Chen Hongying thought he was there to stand up for her and the old man.
But to her utter confusion, Wang Hao was now speaking up for this unscrupulous merchant. Chen Hongying didn’t understand. However, before she could finish her sentence, Wang Hao interrupted her with a gesture.
"Old man, if you still don’t believe it, please take out the ginseng, and I will prove it to you!"
Without waiting for the old man to respond, Wang Hao took the ginseng straight from the man’s hands and as he did so, he stimulated the energy within his own body and infused it into the ginseng.
Soon, significant changes occurred within the ginseng.
Previously, Wang Hao’s energy could only hasten the maturation of these herbs, shortening their growth cycle.
But after his last evolution, his powers were even more formidable, capable of not only hastening maturity but also bringing dead wood back to life.
Nevertheless, such subtle changes were difficult for the average person to detect.
"Old man, take a closer look at this ginseng, and although it’s dried, look here, do you see anything new?"
Wang Hao pointed at the fresh tendril that he had just revived and spoke.
"This tendril, it’s as if it’s just sprouted."
The old man said, amazed.
The bystanders couldn’t help but burst into laughter. freēwēbnovel.com
"Elder, once a ginseng is dug up, it has a fixed number of tendrils, and even if some are broken, they won’t grow back—especially not a dried ginseng, it’s absolutely impossible for a new tendril to appear," one of the bystanders said.
"Exactly, elder, you really don’t know the first thing about this, no wonder you got swindled!"
A few somewhat knowledgeable passersby shook their heads and kindly tried to enlighten the old man when they heard such absurd claims.
"But this tendril really does look like it just grew, it’s full of moisture, see for yourselves if you don’t believe me!"
The old man was bewildered, genuinely thinking he had made a mistake, so he checked again only to find a new tendril had indeed sprouted on the ginseng, and when he gently squeezed it, it even oozed water!
Following the old man’s gesture, everyone took a closer look and sensed something was amiss.
"My goodness, did this ginseng really become enchanted?"
A medicinal herb buyer stepped forward, touched it, and exclaimed in surprise.
A dried ginseng suddenly sprouting a fresh tendril; wasn’t that akin to becoming enchanted?
Before long, more people crowded around, vying with each other to witness such a spectacle.
The merchant also had some knowledge of medicinal herbs, or else he wouldn’t have been able to swindle others here.
But inside, he was puzzled; this was clearly ginseng he had cultivated himself, chosen to be sold as wild ginseng because it looked nicer than average.
Moreover, this ginseng had been dried for half a month and stored at home for half a year without being sold; logically, it couldn’t possibly be sprouting anew.
But when he looked closely, he distinctly saw that this ginseng had indeed grown a new tendril.
Seeing that the attention of the merchant had been drawn, Wang Hao started to clamor loudly.
"Elder, your ginseng is a rare thousand-year king of ginsengs, already in communion with the divine. It indeed possesses the miraculous effects of reviving the dead, as this boss said; your purchase is incredibly worthwhile."
