Chapter 230: Being warned not to cross the line
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 definitely 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 the guests all the way to the entrance of the alley, which was considered a very polite gesture.
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 attention.
Young people like Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye didn't think much of it and just followed the crowd, laughing and chatting.
Only senior figures like Dean Shen and Lin Kucan knew what this meant. Therefore, both sides were extremely polite, and both the host and the guest felt very honored.
As for a courtesy visit, it usually only takes an hour to sit down and make a first impression on both parties. As for the specific engagement and marriage procedures, a matchmaker will need to go to both families to negotiate.
Once the matchmaker has made all the arrangements and agreed on the gift price, dowry, etc., 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 will never do anything to let Pan Ye down in this world."
(Another world, yeah, at least I haven’t broken my oath.)
Jin Caifeng also followed suit and said:
"Also, I heard Xiaoye is going with you to the Changping branch for an internship. There's no one to supervise you two there, 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 within the bounds of propriety. This is not only a respect for the girl, but also a respect for yourself. Don't let people scold our 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 to men.)
The second one is the painful lesson learned by the second son Lin Duzhong and Pei Xuehua.
After graduating from nursing school, Pei Xuehua went to work at a traditional Chinese medicine hospital. She fell 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 that area and were greedy and quarrelsome.
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 fall in love with her. After a few visits, she went into the grove and got pregnant unknowingly, forcing Lin's father and mother 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 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 will get into the woods again in a fit of passion.
There are more small woods 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 it?
If you discover problems before marriage, you can stop the loss in time. If you find that you are not compatible after marriage, divorce will be very devastating, so of course you have to have a "trial marriage".
Especially Pan Ye, well, right A, then I have to raise him 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 hooligan in the new society in the street.
The shipping warehouse is not far from the Chinese medicine hospital, only about 20 minutes' walk away.
Along the way, Dean Shen pulled Lin Sanqi to his side and asked softly:
"The first batch of wild ginseng has arrived by rail. Is your grain supply reliable? I see you haven't been out doing any business these past few days!"
Dean Shen placed special emphasis on the three words "running business".
Lin Sanqi finally stopped being happy and promised seriously:
"Don't worry, Uncle Shen. I'll go on business tomorrow, but I can't leave empty-handed. I have to bring ginseng with me, right?"
Dean Shen thought about it and realized that food was more precious than gold now. He couldn't let Lin Sanqi get something for nothing, right?
"Okay, I'm telling you, take whatever food you can get now. Don't be picky. And bring back as much as you can. If you don't have enough money or ginseng, tell me and I'll find a way."
Lin Sanqi's eyes rolled around again and again before he made up his mind.
He has food, but he can't sell it too cheaply. He must let everyone know that it is not easy for him, Lin Sanqi, to get food. Otherwise, he will become the captain of the food 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 good flour is 5 yuan per pound. Although I got coarse grains, at a ratio of 1 to 4, it's about 1 yuan per pound. Is this price acceptable to you?"
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 wanted a large quantity, it would be more difficult for others to collect food, so the price would be higher. If it was 100 or 200 kilograms, I would take it for free."
Dean Shen began to think in his mind:
If calculated at one yuan per pound of coarse grain, 200,000 yuan worth of wild ginseng would require 100 tons of grain in exchange.
100 tons of grain is definitely not a small number. Even if it is transported by dozens of large trucks, it will be a huge procession. It takes a lot of connections and energy to gather so much grain.
Dean Shen sighed:
"Alright, Uncle Shen knows it's not easy for you to get food, but if the price can be lowered, try to lower it a bit, and if there is more food, buy more. I don't care about others, but 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 gray hair, and guessed that he had been under 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 for this purpose and just as he jumped out, he shouted, "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've already counted it. There are actually 56 wild ginsengs that are over 100 years old. There are also ginsengs of other years, totaling more than 400, but all of them are over 50 years old. They are worth about 100,000 yuan.
This is the first batch. Our purchasing team has already departed from Fusong and is heading to Tonghua, Ji'an, and other places. We plan to continue purchasing throughout the Changbai Mountain area. The wild ginseng you requested is quite old, so it may take quite some time."
Lin Sanqi was shaking with fear when he heard this. If so much wild ginseng was sold in 2013, 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 need to check the goods."
Kong Shuihu chuckled and said, "Don't worry, Zhou Mingzhe from the Pharmacy Department has already helped you get these ginseng through the inspection last night."
As the door opened, a pile of wooden boxes were placed in the middle of the warehouse, and the unique fragrance of ginseng hit me in the face.
Lin Sanqi roared, rushed over quickly, and opened a wooden box. It was a rare century-old wild ginseng from Northeast China 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, with nearly 500 ginsengs in front of us, if handled properly, we can sell them for at least 700 to 800 million yuan.
Forget 50 tons of sweet potato, potato, and cornmeal. Even 50 tons of rice and flour, how much is it worth? At most, it would be worth 200,000 to 300,000 yuan.
This is almost the rhythm of buying for zero yuan.
What kind of 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 2013. The antique circle is very small, so small that ordinary people like you cannot fit in at all.
You can put it up for 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 been auctioned yet, but you have already paid hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for it. 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 considered great antiques?
Maybe they are just laundering money and 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 shills.
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?
Therefore, being an antique dealer is not as profitable as being a dealer of precious medicinal materials.
(End of this chapter)
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