In the movie "People Are Embarrassed Again", there is a scene where the protagonist Xu Lang is bitten by a poisonous snake, and his friend Wang Bao helps take drugs. As hilarious as the scene is, in reality, taking drugs with your mouth is very dangerous.
Snake venom enters the bloodstream through the mouth and poses a serious threat to the health of the rescuer. For a long time, people have had a fear of venomous snakes, mainly because snake venom is extremely venomous and has little chance of survival. However, with the advancement of medicine, snake venom has gradually been found to have a wide range of medicinal properties, such as analgesics, hemostatic agents, and even has certain effects in fighting malignant tumors.
The reason why snake venom is expensive is mainly because of the difficulty of extracting snake venom and the scarcity of snake venom resources. There are two ways to collect snake venom, one is "dead harvesting", which extracts venom from dead snakes, and the other is "live harvesting", which is collecting venom from live snakes. Although "dead mining" is relatively safe, it is not conducive to the protection of snake resources, so "live mining" is more common. However, the "live harvesting" process is extremely dangerous, not only with the risk of being bitten by a snake, but also from the risk of inhaling venom.
In the body of Lu Hua, the protagonist of this story, we see the legend of how an ordinary girl transforms into a "snake venom queen". After graduating from Sun Yat-sen University, Lu Hua joined the Guangzhou Foreign Trade Bureau, but she was not satisfied with a stable job, but with entrepreneurial ambitions. The first time she realized the business opportunity of snake venom was at the Foreign Trade Bureau exhibition, and a bottle of snake venom was priced at 3 million yuan, which made her eyes shine. She began to conduct in-depth research on the snake venom market and found that the domestic snake venom was much lower than that of the international market, so she began to cooperate with snake farmers and quietly entered the industry.
With his business acumen and connections, Lu Hua gradually became a leader in the snake venom trading market. She used her own resources to almost monopolize the snake venom market in Guangxi, Hunan and other places, and became the "queen of snake venom". However, when she realizes that she is only getting a small share of the profits, she decides to change the status quo. She began to seek cooperation with American pharmaceutical companies, and even cooperated with Guangxi Medical University to build a factory, hoping to gain a foothold in the industry.
However, the twist of fate always catches people off guard. When Lu Hua was in trouble due to the problem of the capital chain, she chose to illegally raise funds, which caused the company to fall into a whirlpool, and she was finally sentenced to prison. Perhaps Lu Hua didn't expect that her road to wealth would eventually fail, just like the "snake venom" industry she operated, which was lucrative but full of dangers.
In this story, we see the legendary story of a woman who, with her courage and wisdom, transformed from an ordinary person to an industry giant, but was eventually ruined by greed. This may be a warning that behind wealth there are often huge risks, and that success is not the end, but a new beginning.