I'm wearing it, but I'm still suffering.

To change the subject, Dr. Chen asked, "I just heard someone want to sell medicinal herbs. I wonder if it's you?"

The "xiaoshi" that Doctor Chen mentioned was probably the little medicine boy that Liu Xiaoxiao and the others had just seen.

Grandpa Liu quickly said: "Yes, this was dug up by our family in the mountains by chance. I don't know if it is wild ginseng. Please ask Doctor Chen to take a look."

Seeing that no one took saving Xiaoxiao seriously, Grandpa Liu stopped worrying about it and took the opportunity to explain the purpose of their visit.

"Then follow me to the inner hall to discuss in detail." He then led them to a room inside. After all, the shop still had to be open outside, so it would not be a good idea to discuss it outside.

As soon as he entered the inner hall, Grandpa Liu took out the things.

Doctor Chen took the clod of earth that Grandpa Liu had just taken out of the backpack and looked at it carefully.

Doctor Chen spoke up after a short while. "This is indeed wild ginseng, but to be more precise it's called bamboo ginseng. I wonder if you found it near a bamboo forest, by a stream."

Grandpa Liu replied, "Yes, actually, my granddaughter found this while she was digging bamboo shoots. She thought it was ginseng, so she asked her brothers to dig it up."

"That's right. This bamboo ginseng likes damp places the most. And its appearance is indeed very similar to ginseng. It's no wonder the little girl made a mistake."

"When you dug it out and saw that it wasn't ginseng, were you disappointed?" Doctor Chen joked with Liu Xiaoxiao with a smile.

"Yes, at that time I thought I was digging up some tree root and almost wanted to throw it away. It was my brother at home who said it looked like Polygonatum sibiricum, so I kept it."

"This root does look a bit like Polygonatum, and your brother didn't lie to you, but it's not Polygonatum. What your grandfather just said about wild ginseng is actually correct, because that's its folk name."

"But I just heard you say: It seems to be called bamboo ginseng. Why is that?"

At this time, Doctor Chen handed the bamboo ginseng in his hand to Liu Xiaoxiao and asked, "Does the bamboo ginseng you see now look like a lump of earth, in clumps, as if they are growing together."

"Yes!"

"That's because it hasn't been processed yet. Once we wash it and dry out the excess moisture, it's like a bamboo root, segmented and connected."

Then he pointed out the knot he had just shown Liu Xiaoxiao and said, "Don't think this knot is ugly, it's not easy to make!"

Seeing that Liu Xiaoxiao was still puzzled, Doctor Chen continued, "They say you can tell the age of ginseng by looking at its leaves. But for this bamboo ginseng, you can tell by looking at its roots. This root only grows one section a year."

After listening to what Doctor Chen said, Liu Xiaoxiao started counting the nodes beside her. After counting, she found that the big one had 28 nodes, while the two small ones had only six nodes each. It seemed that the two small plants were grown in the same year.

"Doctor Chen's has twenty-eight sections, so does that mean it's twenty-eight years old?"

"Yes, the longer the bamboo ginseng grows, the more nodes it has, and those under five years old cannot be used as medicine because the medicine will be ineffective at that time."

Then he picked up Liu Xiaoxiao's other two bamboo ginseng and said, "You are lucky, these two small ones can also be used as medicine."

After hearing this, Grandpa Liu, Liu Xiaoxiao and Liu Kun were all very happy. After all, they had not expected that the bamboo ginseng could not be used as medicine if it was less than five years old.

After listening to Dr. Chen’s explanation, Liu Xiaoxiao wanted to ask the most crucial question: how much can it be sold for?

"Then it..."

The words were just on the tip of her tongue, but she thought of what Grandma Liu said yesterday. Grandma Liu asked her to listen to Grandpa. She must be afraid that she would be rash and ask for the price right away!

Seeing her tangled look, Doctor Chen took the initiative to speak: "Little girl, you seem to be hesitant to speak, are you trying to ask how much it is worth?"