Over the next two days, Li Long felt that Sun Jiaqiang kept giving him strange looks. He paid no attention, because Liu Gaolou had brought another large shipment. His energy went mainly into handling the goods: unloading the cars, scrap copper, and specialty products brought from Central Asia, then loading canned food and white sugar for them to haul away.
After those matters were all settled two days later, Sun Jiaqiang could not resist coming to see Li Long.
"Boss," he said, "do you have any more of that handful of herbs you gave me last time? If you do, could you get me some more? If not, tell me where they grow, and I'll go get some."
Only then did Li Long remember the handful of "Howling" herbs he had given Sun Jiaqiang to try. He asked with a smile, "What, did that stuff work?"
Sun Jiaqiang nodded a little sheepishly, scratched his head, and said, "I only tried it once. It seemed pretty useful."
"I still have some at home," Li Long said. "I'll bring it over when I come back after lunch. I came across it in the mountains and just picked a little.
"They probably don't sell it in our market. Wait until I go into the mountains again, and I'll see if there's any. Or come along when you have time and see how much you can pick."
Sun Jiaqiang eagerly awaited the herbs Li Long would bring that afternoon. Thinking that he had little use for them himself and knew where they grew, Li Long brought over everything drying on the rack at home.
He had tossed them there and forgotten about them. When he went looking now, he discovered that some had fallen to the floor and been swept away as rubbish. There