Chapter 644 - 644: A Rare Treasure

For a man who had been in the medicinal herb business for decades and seen countless fine specimens to be this shocked, this excited, was enough to prove that the Ginseng Zhao Yuan had produced was absolutely extraordinary!

But Song Ming couldn't help but ask, "Just how good is this Ginseng?"

This was the same question that Jin Wang, Li Xin, Yang Cai'Er, and the others wanted to ask.

They didn't know much about Ginseng, and they hadn't understood the technical terms Wen Hua had just used, like "root crowns" or "rhizomes." All they knew was that the Ginseng Zhao Yuan had presented was apparently a Wild Ginseng of perfect form, a rarity in the world. But as for just *how* good it was, they had no idea.

"Just how good is it?" Wen Hua thought for a moment before saying, "It's an absolutely precious medicinal herb. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a priceless treasure!"

GASP!

Hearing this, everyone simultaneously sucked in a sharp breath.

Jin Wang was so stunned that he blurted out, "A priceless treasure? Is it really that incredible?"

He wasn't questioning it; he was just deeply shocked by the news.

"Incredible? Not in the slightest!"

Fang Yi spoke up at this moment.

"Just now, Boss Wen only mentioned one of this Ginseng's amazing qualities. The truth is, besides its perfect form, this is also a Wild Ginseng over a hundred years old!"

Compared to the matter of its 'perfect form,' which only experts cared about, laymen preferred to judge a Ginseng's quality by its age. Even though Jin Wang, Song Ming, and the others didn't know much about Ginseng, they knew that most of the Ginseng on the market was only a few years old. A Wild Ginseng that was over a hundred years old was incredibly rare and extremely valuable.

Because of Fang Yi's words, the reception room erupted in gasps of astonishment:

"For real? A Centennial Wild Ginseng?"

"My god, it's actually a Centennial Wild Ginseng? No wonder they called it a priceless treasure!"

"I read a news story once about a thirty-something-gram Centennial Wild Ginseng that went for two or three million at auction!"

Fang Yi waited until everyone had quieted down a bit before continuing, "You're right. Centennial Wild Ginseng is very rare. A specimen with perfect form is as rare as a phoenix feather. As for a Wild Ginseng that possesses both of these characteristics... that is the rarest of the rare, the most uncommon of the uncommon!"

"The medicinal efficacy and value of this Ginseng are simply immeasurable! If a treasure like this were put up for auction, it would absolutely cause a sensation and a frenzy. I don't dare to guess what kind of final price it would fetch, but it would absolutely, positively be far more than just three or five million!"

As soon as he said this, another wave of gasps went through the reception room.

And when they remembered that Zhao Yuan had actually used a black garbage bag to carry this rare Wild Ginseng worth millions, they were left utterly speechless...

'It's such a rare and precious medicinal herb! Fine, you don't use a brocade box, but couldn't you have at least found a slightly nicer bag? Weren't you afraid the bag would get a hole in it and you'd lose this valuable Wild Ginseng?'

Fang Yi gingerly placed the Ginseng on the silk cushion, afraid of damaging even a single one of its rootlets.

Then he turned his head and asked Zhao Yuan, "Chairman Zhao, where did you buy this Ginseng? How much did you pay for it?"

"Whatever you paid, you got a bargain!" Wen Hua interjected. "A Centennial Wild Ginseng with such perfect form would absolutely fetch a staggering, sky-high price at auction!"

Zhao Yuan shook his head and said, "Buy it? Didn't I just say? This Ginseng was cultivated at my medicinal herb planting base."

Fang Yi didn't believe him. "Stop joking. I was the one who sent you the medicinal herb seeds for that base. All told, it's only been a little over two months. And this is a Centennial Wild Ginseng! You cultivated a Centennial Wild Ginseng in two months? What kind of joke is that!"

"You don't believe me?" Zhao Yuan asked.

Fang Yi shook his head. "I don't!"

It wasn't just him; Wen Hua, Jin Wang, and the others were all shaking their heads too.

'Cultivating a hundred-year-old Wild Ginseng in two months? What a joke!'

Zhao Yuan smiled. "I knew you wouldn't believe me. It's fine, I have a video."

"A video?" Everyone froze in unison.

"When I was digging up this Ginseng, I had Bai Mei help me record a video," Zhao Yuan said, motioning for Bai Mei to pull up the video on her phone.

Seeing everyone crowd around to watch the video, Fang Yi noted that the phone screen was too small for so many people. He said, "Hold on, no rush. I'll get the projector. We can connect it and watch on the big screen."

"Alright, go get it," Zhao Yuan nodded.

Fang Yi scurried off to the conference room and brought back the projector. With the help of Jin Wang, Song Ming, and the others, he quickly got it connected and played the video from the Bone Woman's phone.

The first thing to appear in the video was a verdant mountaintop. On the mountain, there were a few construction sites, but most of it was covered in vast, flourishing fields of medicinal herbs.

"This is your medicinal herb planting base?" Fang Yi asked in astonishment.

"That's right," Zhao Yuan nodded.

Fang Yi's expression went slack. "But... didn't your medicinal herb planting base just open a little over two months ago? What's with all these herbs covering the mountainside, growing in huge patches? How could they possibly grow like this in just two months?"

Zhao Yuan laughed. "Because back in my hometown, not only are the mountains, water, and air excellent, but I've also mastered a special technique for cultivating medicinal herbs. It's this very technique that allows me to cultivate herbs comparable to those decades or even centuries old in a very short amount of time!"

Zhao Yuan had no intention of hiding this matter.

He knew that even if he wanted to hide it, he couldn't. As soon as he started selling the herbs, his planting base would inevitably attract the attention of interested parties. With just a little investigation, they would discover that those hundred-year-old herbs were actually cultivated in a matter of months.

Rather than letting people make wild guesses and cause negative repercussions, it was better to be upfront and attribute it all to a special cultivation technique.

Although doing so would certainly attract the prying eyes of some unscrupulous individuals, he wasn't worried.

His medicinal herb planting base was secretly guarded by Xiaoyang. Anyone who truly tried to cause trouble would only find misfortune!

"What kind of cultivation technique is so incredible?" Fang Yi and Wen Hua asked in unison, their faces filled with shock.

They simply couldn't believe that such a powerful herb cultivation technique actually existed in this world.

"It's a secret!" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

At the same time, Zhao Yuan's figure appeared in the video.

He was seen walking into the Ginseng planting area, wandering around for a bit, then casually picking a spot. He crouched down, dug a few times with a small trowel, and pulled two Ginseng roots out of the ground.

Wen Hua and Fang Yi were both experts, and they could tell that these two Ginseng roots hadn't been recently buried there; they had genuinely grown in that spot.

"Two? What about the other one?" Fang Yi asked curiously.

"It was eaten," Zhao Yuan replied.