Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long looked at the people queuing in the yard in the severe cold and sighed.

Obviously, I was thinking of taking on less work in the winter and living a more relaxed life. It would be best if I had no work at all and just gave myself a holiday.

I didn't expect that I just came here to clean up the yard of the recycling station, but now I have got such a big job!
For three consecutive days, Li Long cleaned up the things that were piled up in the house and had not been cleared away.

Some of the wooden shelves can be used, but some of the leftover debris can only become garbage.

In order to prevent people from queuing up to buy things, he even closed the big iron gate.

Unfortunately, the closed iron gate could not stop these people’s enthusiasm for selling things. After all, Li Long had to set up a stove.

During the 49th day of the lunar year, the temperature outside was more than 20 degrees below zero during the day. It would be the same if there was no stove inside the house, so Li Long had to set up a stove.

After the previous day's baking, the outer stove is now burning very efficiently, as are the two inner stoves.

Li Long didn’t know much about the purchasing station before, but now he can see it.

The purchasing station is a row of bungalows in the shape of a "T", with three rooms in the front. The middle one is the counter room of the purchasing station that Li Long and his colleagues often go into. The one on the east is a temporary dormitory, and the one on the west is a utility room.

There is a corridor leading into the counter room. On the east side of the corridor are offices and utility rooms, and on the west side is a row of warehouses.

There was a stove in every office, and in the utility room there were newspapers that had not been taken away, wooden shelves, old carrying handles, broken brooms, and several old desks.

The original iron racks in the warehouse had been taken away, leaving only some boards and other things.

There is a door leading outside in the corridor. There is a coal shed, a car shed, and some sundries in the backyard, covered under the snow. Li Long has not had time to clean them up.

There was no rush to clean the snow in the backyard. He had originally planned to clean up the snow in the house before cleaning up the backyard.

Anyway, it was winter, so he had plenty of time. His strength had been increasing since his rebirth, so these tasks were nothing to him.

Moreover, the yard is very large, so it is really cost-effective to rent it.

Li Long was even thinking about putting the purchasing station and agricultural machinery sales here in the future. In this way, his large yard would be used entirely for living and would not be tied to work.

Anyway, the place is big, so you can put the harvesters, as well as the wheelbarrows, pesticide spray cans, etc. that may be used later, in the backyard.

You don’t even have to build a house. In a backyard that big, you can just put up a color steel shed… Oh, color steel sheds don’t seem to be realistic right now.

Say.

But I didn't expect that just as I started setting up the two stoves and cleaning, people came to sell things, and more and more people came.

The variety of things for sale also opened Li Long's eyes.

Not to mention the mother-of-pearl, jade, and skins of various wild animals that I had seen and received before, there was even wild donkey skin!

The herbs included not only Fritillaria, licorice, Cynomorium songaricum, and safflower, but also Astragalus, Dayun, and other things that he originally thought were not produced locally.

Of course, there are both velvet antlers and deer horns, which were also items that purchasing stations often collected in the past.

In just these three days, he has collected items of more than ten varieties and worth more than three thousand yuan, and he brought all these things back to the big yard - no one lives here, and although it is not far from the police station, Li Long did not dare to leave these valuable things here.

Afraid of being stolen.

He had no choice but to accept it now.

It wasn't that he was afraid of running away from the customers, but mainly because he couldn't open his mouth to say it when he saw the expectant eyes of those people.

Okay, there is a reason why I was called Secretary Re in my previous life. It was due to my personality. Although it has changed in this life, I still feel that I should help if I can. Actually, it’s not really helping, it’s a win-win situation.

Because Li Long did not bring a scale and was not as familiar with the market price as Chen Hongjun, the estimates he gave were actually on the low side.

He knew that he was different from the state-owned purchasing stations and did not have such strong risk resistance. He had to put up more funds himself, so the purchase price was lower than the price he had known before.

For example, he charged seventy yuan for a wild donkey skin - this was much more expensive than a wolf skin, but Li Long didn't dare to charge more.

A whole wolf skin costs fifty yuan. He vaguely remembered that when he sold it to Chen Hongjun, a very good whole skin cost more than sixty yuan. Now it only costs fifty yuan.

As for the Fritillaria, when those people brought it, Li Long gave it forty yuan per kilogram, which was an estimate because there was no scale.

He doesn't know whether the price of Fritillaria will increase next year, so he can only give this price.

He gave Cynomorium songaricum the price he sold it at in the previous two years, and so did Dayun.

As for safflower, Li Long did not collect it that day because it had been confiscated before. He went to the medicinal materials company to inquire about it the next day. Then the price he bought it at was half of the selling price.

There was no other way, because he found that the price of the dried Cynomorium songaricum sold by the medicinal materials company was twice as much as what he had sold at that time.

In other words, after the medicinal materials company collects the products and processes and cleans them, the selling price doubles.

The purchase price he offered for the jadeite was not high, mainly because the quantity of this stuff was too large. Except for those with better texture and no or very little fly shit, he would not accept ordinary Mahe jade.

If you have nowhere to sell it after collecting it, and you can't sell it at a good price even if you keep it for 20 or 30 years, it's better not to collect it.

Even though he was so picky, he still had to bring back a full cart of things every day.

Sometimes one car just isn't enough.

"Hey, man, you have a lot of stuff. I see you have come here twice." Li Long said as he looked at the leather placed on the counter by the forty-year-old man in front of him.

Two fox skins and one yellow sheepskin, both look fresh and are top-quality winter skins.

What surprised Li Long was that the winter leather obtained by this red-faced old man was intact, without a single bullet hole.

A master.

"Hey, I'm just helping my neighbor sell some leather." The old man grinned and said, "We heard that the purchasing station was closed, and we were very anxious. Now that you're open again, we quickly brought the leather we beat in the winter over and exchanged it for some money to buy some New Year's goods."

One fox skin was golden and looked very beautiful, and the other was grayish white. Although the fur color was not so beautiful, the skin was very good. Li Long paid thirty for each.

The remaining yellow sheepskin was larger than the one Li Long used to make a leather vest for my mother, so Li Long paid for it forty yuan.

"Brother, I will also be closed here in a few days. Actually, you can take this leather to the leather factory."

"They won't buy my leathers, which are one or two at a time." The old man was also an expert, and he didn't mind the price Li Long offered. He counted the money and explained, "The leather factory is a big company, and they buy leather at wholesale prices. How can ordinary people like us have so many leathers?"

Okay, in that case, Li Long will act as a middleman for once.

After processing the items brought by the people in the long queue, he was able to accept most of them, but some he could not - for example, there were two pieces of pockmarked jasper weighing seven or eight kilograms, which he really could not accept.

There was also a large pile of rabbit skins, but he was not sure about this and had to go to the leather factory to check.

I had originally planned to dispose of the skins in Lao Ma's shop as soon as possible, but since I came back I've been busy with the affairs of the purchasing station yard and haven't had time to go there yet.

After sending these people away, Li Long hurriedly moved all the things into the jeep, put the stove on it, locked the door, and drove away.

Driving the jeep to the gate of the yard, Li Long honked the horn as usual, and Han Fang's voice rang out in the yard:
"Here I come, Uncle Li, wait a minute!"

Han Fang is quite cheerful these days. After coming back from the fourth team, she worked hard on her homework during the day. Li Long said that he would go to the fourth team to collect sheepskin in two days, and he would take her there to play again. Han Fang was very happy.

After the gate opened and Li Long drove the jeep in, Han Fang immediately closed the gate and ran to the jeep.

After Li Long turned off the engine and got out of the car, Han Fang helped Li Long move his things downstairs, saying as she moved:

"Uncle, we have collected so many things today, are you still going?"

"No, I won't go for now." Li Long said, "I'll stop collecting things for now. I have to sort out the things I collected these days and then plan where to sell them."

The good leather and medicinal materials can wait for Jia Tianlong to come. It’s okay to keep them for a while, but the other things will have to be considered.

Of course, while waiting for the two men to come, Li Long also planned to go to the surrounding cities to ask, especially the purchasing stations in Beiting, Wucheng and Shicheng.

If the profit is sufficient, he can sell a batch first to recover the funds. However, Li Long was still cautious when doing this at the beginning.

"Uncle, when are you going to join the team?" Han Fang couldn't hide her thoughts and asked the question she wanted to ask most.

"Tomorrow." Li Long didn't tease her. He said as he moved things, "The collection station is almost done. I won't go there tomorrow. I'll sell the sheepskin first."

"Okay, okay!" Han Fang was very happy. Although Li Long would not stay in Team 4 for a long time, she was very happy to meet and play with her friends. Before dinner, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia about this, and Gu Xiaoxia naturally had no objection.

During dinner, Sister Yang found out that her daughter was going to Team 4, so she glared at her and asked Li Long if it would be too much trouble.

"That's no problem. We are all family. It's good to let Xiaofang and Juan play together. It's so lonely when the children are young and don't have many playmates."

If it weren't for the fact that they each had to make a living, Li Long would have thought of letting Hongqinxueqinxueping and the others stay together. With more children, playing together, there might be conflicts, but there would be more familiarity and intimacy, and their relationship would be better when they grow up.

"Then go ahead," Sister Yang said, "Don't cause any trouble to others when you get there, and finish your homework quickly when you come back."

"I know, I know." Han Fang smiled happily.

The homes of my classmates here are not close to each other, so it is not very realistic to go out and play with them. It’s okay to go there occasionally, but Sister Yang is worried if I go there too often.

But in the village, there is no such concern. You can have fun and no one cares.

The next day, Li Long waited for Sister Yang to clean up the kitchen and take over Mingming and Haohao before driving away in the jeep.

He took Han Fang to the department store first and bought a football and two gas needles. When the jeep passed the purchasing station, Li Long saw three or four people still gathered at the iron gate, holding bags in their hands, probably waiting for the purchasing station to open.

"Uncle, there are still people selling things." Han Fang knew the location of the yard of the purchasing station. After she saw those people through the window, she said to Li Long, "I don't know what's in the bags."

"There aren't many things, they should be medicinal herbs." Li Long said, "Ignore them, let's do our business first."

Li Long remembered that his elder brother would usually put the things he planted or collected in the spare house first. Now there is no bus from the village to the county, and it is not easy to go to the county, so usually he would gather many things together and then go to the county town, calculating the time to finish them all in one trip.

How can these people go to the county frequently now?
Thinking about it, Li Long laughed again.

The county now has a population of tens of thousands, and if people from the countryside move to the city, even if only one person comes in every month, there will be a considerable number of people gathering at the purchasing stations.

I took it for granted.

The jeep drove into Li Jianguo's yard, and Li Qiang and other kids who were kicking pig bladders in the snow in front ran over.

What surprised Li Long was that the pig bladder was still there. In his impression, this thing would only last for two or three days, and with the destructive power of these children, it would be destroyed.

I didn't expect it was still there.

"Qiangqiang, I'll buy you a football, go play." Li Long got out of the car and handed the football to Li Qiang, "Do you know how to cheer?"

"I know, I know!" Mingwa from Xu Chengjun's family was also there, and he hurriedly shouted, "I want a needle!"

"Yes." Li Long took out an air needle and handed it to him, "There is an air pump in the room, Qiangqiang, go get it."

The children excitedly surrounded Li Qiang and looked at the football. Their envious eyes made Li Qiang feel a little elated. He held the football with his head held high and went into the house to get the air pump.

After Han Fang got out of the car, she asked Li Qiang where his sister was. Li Qiang pointed to the house and said:

"My sister is in the house, playing with Xiaoni and the others." Han Fang immediately walked into the house.

Li Jianguo came out of the house after hearing the noise. Han Fang immediately called out to him:

"Hello, uncle!"

"Okay." Li Jianguo responded with a smile, "Go find Juan to play, she's in the house."

I met Li Long and Li Long told me the purpose of his visit.

"It's not easy to start the tractor." Li Jianguo's tractor was frozen. If he wanted to start it, he had to add boiling water and use charcoal fire to roast the bottom of the engine.

Li Long didn't drive his own tractor here because it was to save trouble and because the horse shop not only had his sheepskins but also Niu Dajun's rabbit skins. After selling the skins, he had to drive them back to pay the others or give an explanation, so he drove his brother's tractor here and parked the jeep here. After selling the skins, he drove the tractor back and then drove the jeep back.

Han Fang can also play here for a while longer.

Since Li Long said he wanted to use a tractor, Li Jianguo had no objection, so let's boil some water.

Now he has nothing to do at home. The pig has been killed. What he still has at home are chickens, a dog, and the yellow sheep that has recovered from its injuries.

This kind of work is not a big deal for farmers. He has been thinking about going to break the ice hole with his father to catch some fish these days. If they catch too much, they can sell it for money, and if they catch less, they can eat it at home.

Li Qiang and his friends pumped up the football, and then the kids rushed south like a flock of sparrows taking off. The open space there had been trampled out in the past two days, and it was just right for playing football.

Li Long walked out of the door and looked south. He saw the children who had already run there, led by Li Qiang and Mingwa, playing rock-paper-scissors, selecting people to form teams, and preparing to play football.

The person who was just chosen ran to find something to set up the goal post. Three hats and a pig's bladder were enough.

Soon, the kids on both sides took their positions and started kicking. Some children nearby also ran over there. It must be said that news spread really fast.

Du Chunfang stood at the door and looked at Li Long happily. After knowing that he wanted to use the tractor, he pointed to the stove in the east room and said:

"Put a pot on top of it, and boil water quickly!"

Indeed. One pot of boiling water is definitely not enough. The tractor was frozen through, and a pot of boiling water was poured into the water tank. The water quickly became cold, and the cold water was drained from the bottom, and then boiling water was added.

The charcoal fire under the engine also needs to be replaced constantly.

Li Long's great advantage is his great strength. With this advantage, he can save one third of the time required to start the tractor.

After the tractor started, Li Long asked Han Fang to play here while he drove the tractor to Laomahao.

Li Jianguo followed on the tractor. He wanted to go to the leather factory with Li Long.

Uncle Luo heard the sound of the tractor and came out with Yang Laoliu and a few others.

Seeing Li Long driving a tractor, Li Jianguo, holding the handrail of the truck bed, was a little surprised.

"Uncle Luo, I'm going to take the sheepskins to the county to sell today." Li Long jumped off the tractor and said, "Is everything ok?"

"Nothing much, it's just that Niu Dajun sent some more rabbit skins yesterday. There should be more than 30 of them now. This guy is really good at trapping rabbits!"

Li Long smiled. He knew that there were still a lot of rabbits in the wild. When he was trapping rabbits two years ago, he could catch twenty to thirty rabbits in the morning.

The sheepskins had frozen solid, and several people worked together to move them, piling them up in the bed of the tractor. There were more than a hundred sheepskins and more than thirty rabbit skins, filling up the bed.

Uncle Luo brought seven or eight sacks to Li Jianguo and put them on top, otherwise his butt would be cold if he sat on it.

The tractor drove out of the Laomahao and rumbled briskly all the way to the county.

After three years of household contract responsibility system, every household became richer and bought more things. They went to the county more often, and the road was paved over.

When the tractor started, a lot of snow powder was raised. Li Jianguo sat with his back to the front of the tractor to avoid the discomfort of the wind.

Li Long suffered more. Although he was wearing a fur hat with his ear and nose protectors lowered, the tractor was moving fast and the cold wind still penetrated into his head, face and body.

He didn't feel it when driving a jeep these days, but Li Long felt uncomfortable when driving a tractor.

It would be nice to have a motorcycle helmet, the kind that protects your face.

Unfortunately, there are no motorcycle helmets now, and there are no motorcycles either. For most people, having a bicycle is already a great thing.

Wait a minute, the development of the times takes time and cannot be rushed.

As a "big enterprise" in Ma County, the leather factory still has a very high status. It is no small project to pull a 15-caliber sewage pipe from the county to Dahaizi, 10 kilometers below.

Washing leather requires a lot of water, and the discharged wastewater flows into the reservoir, and after irrigation, it is discharged into sandbags.

So the security guard is also quite arrogant.

When Li Long's tractor stopped at the gate, he watched the gate guard turn away a man riding a bicycle carrying a dozen sheepskins:

"There are too few skins. We won't accept them."

I'm really proud of myself.

PS: Do you have any spare monthly tickets? I want one. The current monthly ticket ranking is a bit low. (End of this chapter)