Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 225 Make money, make a lot of money!

The carriage passed those people and arrived at the county town.

Li Qingxia suddenly said:
"Don't you think those people can just make money? There are so many good things in the mountains, they can make a lot of money just by digging... Why do they have to steal, kill and rob?"

"Because the money is easy to make, because the spoils are not distributed evenly, and because human nature is greedy, it can never be satisfied. When it can't be satisfied, some people work hard to make money, while others try to take crooked approaches..."

Li Long was just speaking from his heart, and suddenly laughed:
"Dad, didn't you encounter this when you were young and doing business?"

"At that time... I did encounter it, but no one was killed. If someone pointed a gun at you, the kind with a single-handle, single-shot gun, you had no choice but to hand over your money... But it depends on the person. If he's five steps away from me, then I'm not afraid. You can't hit the target with that thing if you're far away... I'm not a man to play around with when I've grown up..."

Li Long just listened to his father bragging and drove the carriage to the purchasing station.

Chen Hongjun from the purchasing station was chatting with his colleagues under the shade of a tree outside. When he saw Li Long driving the carriage over, he smiled and took two steps forward and asked:

"Hey, Comrade Xiao Li, are you back from the mountains? What good stuff did you bring?"

"My house in the mountains was robbed, and I caught him in the act. He destroyed everything in my house, so I took some of their things to pay him back." Li Long said it clearly, "Deer antlers, Fritillaria, and Codonopsis. But the Codonopsis may not be very good, so I won't sell it. The main things are the deer antlers and this should be Fritillaria."

After the explanation, he introduced to Chen Hongjun:

"Comrade Chen, this is my father. He came here from the mainland some time ago."

"Hey, hello, Uncle Li! Uncle Li looks very healthy!"

"Haha, not bad." Li Qingxia had already gotten used to Li Long's connections, so he responded with a smile and didn't say much for fear of appearing timid.

"Comrade Xiao Li, take the things inside and let us take a look."

"Okay." Li Long tied the horse to a tree on the side of the road, then unloaded the sacks on the back and dragged them into the purchasing station.

Li Qingxia hesitated for a moment and did not follow in. He was afraid that something might happen to the car.

"Dad, come in, and here are your two deer antlers." Li Long called out at the door.

"Just watch." Li Qingxia waved his hand.

"It's okay, the door is open, and we can see anything at a glance." Li Long said with a smile, "It's broad daylight, nothing will happen."

Only then did Li Qingxia enter the house.

Chen Hongjun was already there looking at the antlers.

"This pair of antlers is pretty good..." He was looking at the antlers that Li Long had brought back from the two men. "They were newly shed this year, they are big and of good quality. The price is pretty good now. I'll charge you six yuan per kilogram. Let me weigh these two... 12 kilograms, seventy-two yuan and sixty cents."

Li Long didn't think anything of it, but Li Qingxia was shocked when he heard it!
These two things that look like firewood only cost more than 70 yuan!
Two months' salary for a worker!

Aren’t the things in these mountains too expensive?
"This one is big, and the quality is a little bit worse. It would be nice if it was a pair. Nowadays, deer antlers can not only be used to make glue, but some people also like to take them home and put them in their houses as decorations..." Chen Hongjun looked at it and explained to Li Long, "One kilogram is 5.5 yuan... This one is not small, 9.8 kilograms, that's 53.9 yuan, the two together are a total of 126 yuan. Look at these two..."

He went to pick up the two branches that Li Qingxia had picked up.

"These two are old horns. They must have fallen off last year or the year before. The horns are not in good condition. How about 4.50 bucks for them?"

Li Long turned his head and looked at Li Qingxia.

"Okay, okay!" Li Qingxia naturally had no objection.

"Then weigh it. This pair of corners... 7.9 kilograms, 35.55 yuan. That's the price."

Li Qingxia was also very happy. Although it was not as expensive as Li Long’s corner, it was still a worker’s monthly salary!
Can you make so much money just by picking up some things in the mountains?

Li Long thought that he should give the old man some scientific knowledge later to prevent him from having unrealistic ideas.

"This Fritillary..."

"You should open this Fritillaria and have a look." Li Long saw Chen Hongjun looking at the Fritillaria and said, "I took it from their cave and didn't open it. You should check it carefully."

"Okay," Chen Hongjun found a basket, poured the Fritillaria into it, shoveled it around, and said, "This Fritillaria is a bit dirty - hey, why is there a mushroom? Morel? There's this stuff too..."

"Do you collect these morels?" Li Long saw Chen Hongjun picking out a few leaves from the pile of Fritillaria and a small dried morel, so he asked, "I think there are some in the mountains."

"Yes, it's not expensive. One kilogram of dried goods is only about 20 or 30 yuan."

"That's not cheap either." Li Qingxia couldn't help but say, "This thing... is also so expensive?"

"Uncle, this is a rare mushroom," Chen Hongjun explained with a smile, "Your son should know that this thing only grows for one or two months in the mountains, and it's gone after the season... and it's hard to dry it. It takes seven or eight kilograms of fresh mushrooms to dry one kilogram of dried mushrooms."

"No wonder it's so expensive..."

"I won't pick them this year." Li Long said, "We can pick up some in the mountains and eat them at home. We'll talk about it next year. By the way, Comrade Chen, do you guys pick the black tiger palm mushrooms?"

"Yes." Chen Hongjun nodded and said, "But that thing hasn't grown out yet, right?"

"It should be soon." Li Long nodded, "How do we collect it?"

"Dried goods are around twenty bucks, and the price can be higher if the quality is good."

"Then I'm going to stay in the mountains for a while."

"Well, this one is OK. That one grows in large pieces, and it's not as small as these morels, which are difficult to ship."

Li Long nodded.

In the end, these Fritillaria were collected at thirty-six yuan per kilogram, mainly because the impurities were not removed and were still contained in it.

All in all, Li Long earned nearly three hundred yuan from this batch of goods. Although Li Qingxia only earned more than thirty yuan, he was also happy.

After leaving the purchasing station, Li Long took Li Qingxia to the big meat canteen to buy some buns, and the two of them walked back while eating.

"Xiaolong, what is this black tiger paw fungus you mentioned?"

"A kind of mushroom." Li Long gestured. "It's bigger than a palm, and the pattern on it is black stripes. From a distance it looks like a tiger's paw... Oh, right, ordinary mushrooms don't have stripes underneath, but this one is furry, which is quite special."

"Is it easy to find?" "Easy to find. A big one can weigh half a kilogram. Once you find the place, you can find a large area of ​​them." Li Long had picked them when he went into the mountains to play in his previous life. At that time, he didn't know what mushrooms were. It was others who taught him about them. Later, he saw them on a short video.

"Then when we finish this job, we can pick mushrooms in the mountains," Li Qingxia said with a smile, "that way we can make more money."

"Okay." Li Long certainly had no objection. When he stayed in the mountains, he could also take a look at the wooden house and the winter home of Halimu and the others to prevent them from being destroyed again.

Li Long drove directly to the captain's house.

Xu Chengjun was not at home. When Ma Hongmei saw Li Long pulling a cart of poles, she hurried out to call Xu Chengjun. She knew that Xu Chengjun had been worried about the pole problem these two days.

Xu Chengjun came back running, looked at the cart full of poles, panted heavily, then smiled, and asked Li Long:
"This pole... is great, you guys are quite efficient!"

"How are the brooms made on that team?" Li Long asked back, "How many have been made? Are the sponges strong enough? Is the quality up to standard?"

"Don't worry about this!" Xu Chengjun said in a loud voice, "On the day you left, I asked people to make a dozen more planting stakes (tools for tying brooms), and all the households in the team were sent to cut the sedge. Now the sedge is almost usable... Of course, your family didn't go, but you don't need this, right? By the way, I asked the accountant to buy dozens of kilograms of thick iron wire and asked Lao Gu and Gu Boyuan to distribute it to each family. If you can't find so many iron rings, iron wire will do."

"The quality of the big broom must be guaranteed." Li Long knew that Xu Chengjun deliberately pointed out Gu Boyuan to let him know that he understood. He smiled and nodded, then said, "The outside of the broom..."

"Don't worry, we have to weave a circle of red willow branches." Xu Chengjun took over the conversation before Li Long finished speaking, "I'm thinking of taking this job every year in the future, so I can't be careless about it."

"That's fine. There are 600 poles in this truck. We'll pull them down in two days. Let's unload them first..."

"No, no, wait a minute, someone will be here soon..." Xu Chengjun was very polite to Li Long now. He would definitely be polite to anyone who could bring big jobs to the team and make a lot of money!
Five or six young men hurried over from outside. They greeted Li Long and Li Qingxia with a smile, and then started to unload the poles without waiting for orders.

After unloading the poles from the truck, Xu Chengjun asked Li Long quietly:
"Xiaolong, the distribution of this pole..."

"That's your job." Li Long said with a smile, "I'll just cut the poles and do the final inspection."

"Okay, okay." Li Long didn't care about so many things, Xu Chengjun was very happy, "Then did you have lunch..."

"We've eaten in the county. Let's go back and have a rest now. We have to hurry to the mountains."

"Then I won't keep you here. I've noted the number of poles. Will we count them together later?"

"Of course, let's go together." Li Long said and went home with Li Qingxia.

The sun had begun to set. When Li Long and Li Qingxia returned home, Du Chunfang was chopping beet leaves under the shed.

"Oh, you're back?" Hearing the sound of the carriage, Du Chunfang looked up and saw Li Qingxia and Li Long coming back. He quickly stood up, wiped his hands and said:

"Are you tired? Let me pour you some water..."

"Mom, don't move. We can do it ourselves." Li Long tied up the carriage and said, "We have to leave after a while."

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Du Chunfang asked, "Can't you eat dinner and leave tomorrow?"

"How can we not be in a hurry to make money?" Li Qingxia said, "The whole village is waiting for this broomstick, how can we wait any longer?"

As he spoke, he took out a handful of bills, counted out twenty and handed them to Du Chunfang:
"Here, take it. I found some deer antlers in the mountains. If Xiaolong hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have known that I could sell them for money... It's really easy to make money!"

"Dad, it's not that easy to pick up deer antlers in the mountains." Li Long interjected, "You're lucky, but it won't be easy later. Think about the two I killed. I was in the mountains for such a long time, but I only picked up those three."

"That's right." Li Qingxia smiled. "Anyway, if we can pick it up, it's a windfall. If we can't pick it up, we can still make money by chopping poles. By the way, Xiaolong is really good. This time we killed a yellow sheep and brought back some braised meat."

Du Chunfang smiled, her son is so awesome!

Liang Yuemei went to the fields to weed and would not be back for a while. Li Long and his companions drank some water, rested for a while, fed the horses some food, and then drove the carriage into the mountains.

When they returned to the mountain, the sun was already on the top of the western mountain. Li Long saw two bundles of poles piled next to the wooden house. These should be the poles that Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang carried back at noon.

"Dad, you rest here in the house for a while, I'll go cut some poles."

"Okay, go ahead." Li Qingxia knew his son was worried about him, so he didn't say much. After all, he wasn't as familiar with this place as his son was, and if he really ran into a wolf or something, it was hard to say.

Li Long found a ditch nearby. There were no willow trees in the ditch, so he went directly to the forest on the slope and started to cut branches from the big trees. Such branches were thick enough to be used as broom handles.

When it got dark, Li Long cut down a dozen poles and carried them back to the cabin.

Li Jianguo has returned, and Tao Daqiang is walking back in the distance carrying a pole.

"Daqiang is really hardworking." Li Jianguo said, looking at Tao Daqiang's figure, "He cuts more than a hundred poles a day, and his hands are rubbed with blisters, but he never says a word."

"He is willing to work hard." Li Qingxia was adding fuel to the fire at the stove. He was boiling rice soup and cutting a plate of braised liver and stomach on the wooden table. Li Jianguo kept swatting away flies that tried to crawl over. Li Qingxia continued, "This kid is willing to work."

Tao Daqiang didn't know what everyone thought of him. He came over with his pole on his back, put it down and washed it at the spring, then came over to see if there was anything he could help with.

In the next two days, Li Long went to cut the poles honestly. The four of them worked together and cut nearly a thousand poles. In the evening, Li Long said:
"I'll get up early tomorrow morning and see if there are any wild boars. If I can, I'll kill them. I'll save some for eating and take some back home."

"Then I'll go too!" Li Qingxia really didn't pick up any deer antlers in the past two days, and was a little disappointed, so he said, "Can I use that small-caliber gun?"

Li Jianguo listened and asked with a smile:
"Dad, can you shoot accurately with that gun?"

"That...can't be done."

"Then don't use it." Li Jianguo said, "Daqiang and I have both received militia training, so we can use it. You can't hit it accurately, so it's a waste."

"Okay." Li Qingxia knew this was the truth and did not insist on using the gun, "But I still want to follow."

"Then all four of us will go," Li Jianguo said. "If we can fight, we'll fight. If we can't, then we'll just use it as exercise."

Li Long didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Getting up two or three hours early to exercise? You guys aren't tired from work, right?

But he also wanted to check the place he had looked at before to see if the wild boar was still there.

If that's true, hunting can be a way to adjust the busy pace of life.

The next morning, all four of them got up and set off with their equipment.

(End of this chapter)