Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long was embarrassed to not do "private business" in the supply and marketing cooperative. Although someone from the next office came to watch the fun and asked to see what was in the sack, he still left the supply and marketing cooperative with Yusup. Before leaving, he joked that he would treat everyone to watermelon in two days.

Although everyone had a salary at that time, their families usually had heavy burdens, so it was rare for them to treat everyone to a meal. Li Long's words immediately calmed everyone's enthusiasm, and someone murmured:

“I don’t know if an office can get a melon?”

"Don't worry, Xiaolong is not so stingy." Li Xiangqian heard it and said with a smile. He was sure that Li Long was not a stingy person. How could an office not even get a melon?

Li Long brought Yusup to the small courtyard, opened the door, and said to Yusup as he walked in:

"Come on, just take a look in the yard. The house is still being cleaned up, so it's not very convenient."

Yusup looked at the yard and wondered in his heart whether Li Long was going to move or not live in this place anymore.

The reason why he dared to come here was because the people who attacked the supply and marketing cooperative directly found Li Long, proving that what Li Long said before was true and he was indeed an employee of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Otherwise, Yusup would not dare to come.

Nowadays, public servants naturally have a bonus of trust, and if they can be proven to be public servants, ordinary people will really trust them.

"Come and have a look. I got these from Adasi who was digging jade by the river. I didn't bring any bad ones. They must be very good."

Yusup was not shy and simply poured the jade seeds in the sack onto the ground for Li Long to see.

Li Long did not look directly at it. He first went down to the vegetable garden, picked two tomatoes, wiped them, handed one to Yusup and said:
"Try it first, I'll treat you to a meal later."

"Okay, okay." Li Long's promise made Yusup very happy. "Adasi, you look good!"

Li Long smiled, and while eating tomatoes he squatted down to look at the seeds.

Most of these seeds look good, and some are really beautiful.

The largest one was also larger than the previous one, and slightly smaller than Li Long's fist. It was a green-skinned white jade seed material, and in Li Long's opinion, it could reach the level of mutton fat.

He picked it up, looked at it, and asked:

"How much is this piece?"

"Twenty." Yusup said while eating a tomato, "The price is definitely not high. This one weighs 200 grams. It's first-class quality. The price I gave is very low."

"But the jade factory won't accept it because your piece is too small." Li Long sighed, "Ten yuan, maybe. What do you think you can do with it?"

"It's just a carving of a handle." Yusupu was not completely ignorant.

"But why doesn't the jade factory carve?" Li Long asked back.

Yusup stopped talking.

Of course, it is because now that the market has been liberalized, more people are going to dig for jade, and more jade materials are produced. Jade factories only buy large pieces and carve large products, so they naturally don't look down on these small materials.

To put it bluntly, why would he bring such a material here to sell to Li Long? Because those public or private merchants who bought it by the Yulong Kashi River would charge a few yuan per kilogram for such a small material, or even a few cents per grain!

"Ten dollars, okay?" Yusup knew that Li Long was also an expert and he couldn't bargain for a higher price.

OK, it's a good start, Li Long smiled, and then he didn't bargain by piece, he put the ones with similar quality together, and Yusup didn't care that much. To be honest, the price sold by Li Long was nearly ten times higher than those who came from the east coast.

So it’s already a lot of profit.

Li Long finally spent 210 yuan and bought more than 50 seeds.

There were still a dozen or so left that Li Long didn't want, so Yusup didn't take them back and gave them to Li Long.

He was already very satisfied. These materials were no longer needed by the jade factory. In previous years, they were either thrown away, carried back home, or sold at a discounted price to local people they knew - not even one-third of the price they paid to Li Long.

Although I don’t know why Li Long wants these cheap goods, it’s a good thing as long as they can be sold.

Yusup finally gave the sack to Li Long as well.

Li Long collected the seeds in a sack, put it into the house and locked it, then took Yusup to the free market.

"What are you doing here?" Yusup asked with some confusion.

"Buy watermelons. Didn't I tell my colleagues when I came out just now that I would treat them to watermelons?" Li Long found a watermelon seller. The stall owner was selling watermelons pulled by a horse-drawn carriage. Li Long asked:
“Is it the melon from Pingyuan Forest Farm?”

"Yes, yes." The stall owner said hurriedly and asked:
“Want to buy some melons?”

"If it's sweet, buy a sack." said Li Long.

"Guaranteed to be sweet!" Upon hearing that Li Long bought so much, the stall owner picked up a watermelon, smashed it open with his fist, broke it in half, and handed it to Li Long and Yusup.

Li Long tasted it and found it was indeed sweet.

Yusup was eating watermelon and the juice directly stained his beard, but he didn't care.

"Really sweet."

"Weigh it, weigh it..." Li Long counted and remembered that there seemed to be five offices in the supply and marketing cooperative, so he said, "Weigh sixteen watermelons. By the way, how much is one kilogram?"

"Two points."

This price is really touching.

Li Long looked around and saw four or five stalls selling watermelons. It was the season, so it was no wonder.

One hundred and eighteen kilograms, two dollars and thirty-six cents.

"Can it be sent to the supply and marketing cooperative?" Li Long asked.

"Okay, okay, no problem." Big customers still have conveniences.

The carriage delivered the watermelons directly to the supply and marketing cooperative, and Li Longrang unloaded them in Li Xiangqian's office.

"Wow, the watermelons came so fast." Li Xiangqian said with a smile. Li Long bought a sack of them directly, fulfilling his words, which really gave him face.

"Section Chief, please share the money with everyone. The rest can be kept in your office." Li Long said, "I will take Yusup to dinner."

"Go ahead." Li Xiangqian waved his hand, "Don't worry about it."

The supply and marketing cooperative actually distributed watermelons, but this was different from Li Long treating everyone. Li Xiangqian knew, and Li Long knew, that if some tasks were directly assigned to Li Long, there would definitely be people who would complain.

Li Long improved the quality of the handle and the broom to silence those people. But there should be other things as well.

This watermelon is good.

"Okay, okay, all offices come over to get your watermelons!" Li Xiangqian said loudly, "Xiao Wang and Xiao Cao, take two watermelons and give them to the director and secretary!"

Halal canteen.

Li Long treated Yusup to a meal of fried pork and noodles. Li Long didn't expect this guy to have six noodles in one meal!
"I'm full!" Yusup wiped his mouth and said while drinking the noodle soup, "I'm full. I don't need to eat tomorrow." Li Long could only express his admiration - this guy looked like he didn't have a big belly, but he didn't expect him to be able to eat so much.

He took Yusup to the naan shop and bought five naan for him.

"This naan is not as good as the big naan in Kuche." Although Yusup was complaining, he still took the naan. Li Long smiled. This was normal. After all, the big naan in Kuche was really famous.

After sending Yusup to the bus and buying a ticket, Li Long stopped caring about him.

He rode his bike back to the small yard, loaded the half sack of seed material onto the bike, and took it to the big yard.

Gu Xiaoxia knew that Li Long had something to do today, so she cooked for herself and has now gone back to work.

Li Long placed the seed material in the corner of the room and locked the door.

This thing is inconspicuous now. I guess even if a thief sees it, he won’t think it is valuable.

For dinner, Li Long made rice soup with potatoes. Making rice soup can better show his cooking skills.

When Gu Xiaoxia came back, Li Long took out some of the seed material to show her.

"These stones are so beautiful!" Gu Xiaoxia didn't know much about jade, but she could feel the difference between jade and stone by touching and looking at them. "They feel very comfortable to touch."

"Well, isn't it very smooth? This is the feeling of mutton-fat jade. Mutton fat is sheep oil."

"It does look like it, but it's so small, what can it do?" Gu Xiaoxia asked.

"You can make a bracelet with a small one. You can carve a big one into a hand-held ornament or a jade Guanyin or something like that." Li Long said based on his memory, "But put it aside for now. It's not worth much for now."

Gu Xiaoxia is not very interested in this for the time being. After all, she is not at that age yet, and there is no such atmosphere now.

After clearing the dishes, Li Long said:

"Shall we go shopping?"

"Shopping?" Gu Xiaoxia looked outside. It was already dark and there were few street lights outside. What was there to go shopping for?

"Let's go for a walk, just as a way to help digestion." Li Long stood up, took Gu Xiaoxia's hand and walked out, "You sit in the office every day, and sit and read books when you come back. You can't stay like this all the time."

When Li Long pulled her hand, Gu Xiaoxia's face turned red and she followed him involuntarily.

After going out, Li Long let go of her hand, locked the door, and then took Gu Xiaoxia's hand again and walked east - there was a road on the east side, but there were fewer people and it was closer to the urban-rural fringe.

Gu Xiaoxia struggled for a while and whispered:

"It's not good for others to see..."

Li Long smiled and said:
"It's dark now, who's going to see it? Besides, we're engaged, it's open and aboveboard."

"That won't work either..." Gu Xiaoxia was still shy. She always felt that she had to pay attention to the impact.

"Let's go. There won't be any people around if we go further away." Li Long pulled him and took a few quick steps. Seeing that she couldn't break free, Gu Xiaoxia stopped struggling. She also felt the excitement of breaking the taboo.

Nowadays, men and women are still very cautious. Even when they are dating, they have to avoid being in close contact. Although it is late now, it is not completely dark yet. If someone comes and sees the two of them holding hands, it will definitely have a bad impact.

The road to the east was not very good, there were potholes, and after walking for a while it became a gravel road. At this time there was no light pollution, and no mobile phones to affect vision. The two of them adapted to the darkness after walking for a while, and could basically see the situation on the ground clearly. The two walked side by side, and their pace slowed down.

"You are at work, no one is giving you any trouble, right?"

"No. Recently, we have to close the village primary school and deal with a large number of teachers. There are also many requests for instructions from the brigade primary schools. It's a lot of work to deal with these things, and everyone is very busy."

Gu Xiaoxia gradually got used to Li Long holding her hand. She said in a slightly brisk tone:

"Besides, I was transferred here by Deputy Director Wang. Deputy Director Wang often comes to our office to look for me. For her sake, everyone will not embarrass me."

Li Long nodded and said, "Well, ability is still the most important thing. Your leader will not turn a blind eye to your excellence."

After being praised by Li Long, Gu Xiaoxia felt sweet in her heart, even happier than when she was praised by Deputy Director Wang. She subconsciously held Li Long's hand and walked forward swayingly.

"It must be hard for you to stay in the mountains, right?" Gu Xiaoxia asked about Li Long's life in the mountains. "I stayed there for a while and felt pretty good. But it's so remote there, it must be inconvenient to do anything, right?"

"It's actually pretty good." Li Long saw a pit ahead, so he took Gu Xiaoxia's hand and led her a little closer to the side. Gu Xiaoxia thought Li Long was trying to get closer to her, so she felt a little shy, but she didn't refuse. The two of them got closer, and Li Long continued:
"I brought enough stuff. It's actually more comfortable there than here. Although it's sunny during the day, it's very comfortable in the woods and the air is good. It's very cool at night and you have to cover yourself with a blanket. Of course, it's even colder in winter..."

"Then are you still going there in winter?" Gu Xiaoxia subconsciously exerted force with her hands, "It's so cold..."

"I go there occasionally for hunting. Just like now, I don't live here all the time, but I go there occasionally." Li Long said with a smile, "Winter is suitable for hunting, and I have nothing to do anyway."

Gu Xiaoxia didn't say anything.

Two people were walking forward when a man turned out from about forty or fifty meters ahead and walked towards them, coughing.

Hearing the noise, Gu Xiaoxia subconsciously let go of Li Long's hand and walked two steps to the side. She was worried that Li Long would misunderstand, so she turned her head to take a look.

Li Long was looking at him with a smile. Gu Xiaoxia blushed and lowered her head.

Li Long turned his head to look at the person who came. He found that it was an old lady in her sixties or seventies, with a hunched back and holding a basket in her hand. He didn't know whether she was going to take out the garbage or do something else.

The old man kept coughing. When he passed by two people, he looked up and glanced at them respectively, then continued walking forward.

Li Long thought of something and pulled Gu Xiaoxia aside.

Gu Xiaoxia was a little confused, but still followed Li Long away from this place.

"Let's go back in another direction." Li Long whispered, "The old man just now might have tuberculosis."

"What?" Gu Xiaoxia was shocked. "Really?"

"I felt that from the coughing sound." Li Long whispered, "It's better to be careful."

Gu Xiaoxia knew a little about tuberculosis and knew that the disease was contagious, so she immediately followed Li Long in another direction and left quickly.

The county seat is an old city, and the main city has not changed much even after more than 20 years, except that a new urban area has been built to the south of the Wuyi Highway.

One advantage of the old city is that it was built on a relatively flat place, and the roads are usually straight and level, so after a few turns you can get back to the big courtyard.

The two of them walked into the yard hand in hand and washed up.

The relationship has reached a new level.

The next day, when Li Long got up, Gu Xiaoxia had already prepared breakfast. The two of them understood each other better and their hearts seemed to be closer.

After breakfast, Gu Xiaoxia went to work and Li Long went to the bus station.

He plans to go to Wucheng. (End of this chapter)