Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In the bedroom, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia switched places. Gu Xiaoxia was watching over Mingming and Haohao by the bed, while Li Long was sitting at the desk writing something.

As the summer solstice approaches, the days are getting longer, and Mingming and Haohao's bedtime is also being pushed back. The two children have already shown more energy than ordinary babies, and Gu Xiaoxia increasingly realizes that it must be very tiring for Sister Yang to watch over Mingming and Haohao during the day.

After waiting for a long time, Mingming Haohao finally fell asleep. Gu Xiaoxia walked to the desk and saw Li Long still writing something under the light of the desk lamp.

Gu Xiaoxia was standing next to Li Long, watching him write those vigorous-looking words without saying a word.

This was not the first time she had seen Li Long write - Li Long's handwriting shouldn't be so "beautiful" and "sophisticated".

Li Long did not finish middle school - he spent his last two years in Ma County just like Gu Xiaoxia. Gu Xiaoxia vaguely remembered that although Li Long's handwriting was quite neat at that time, it was far from the current level.

When did his handwriting become so "mature"?
While his own life went according to plan, Li Long's life was full of twists and turns and - legendary experiences.

Gu Xiaoxia actually wanted to know about Li Long's experiences that she had never participated in. However, every time she asked, Li Long just said a few words to pass by.

The lives of the young people in the team are mostly ordinary. They are born, go to school, graduate, work hard - mainly farming, then fall in love, get married, and have children...

Compared with the outside world, love here is mostly free at this time. Of course, it is also relatively conservative and there are very few cases of promiscuity.

It was a long time before Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia found out that there were also promiscuous boys and girls in their teens.

Damn, this really has a lot to do with education and family environment.

"Yellow sheepskin, whole skin, forty-five to fifty, broken skin, one bullet hole, thirty, two, twenty-five...

Fritillaria, first-grade dried goods are 50 yuan per kilogram, second-grade dried goods are 45 yuan per kilogram, and the prices decrease with each grade; fresh goods vary from 6 yuan to 3 yuan per kilogram depending on their cleanliness...

Licorice, 40 to 50 cents per kilogram, be careful of bitter bean roots impersonating licorice, the skin of bitter bean roots is black..."

"There's no need to write this, right?" Gu Xiaoxia pointed at the paragraph written by Li Long and said, "How could my dad not know the difference between licorice root and bitter bean root?"

"That's right." Li Long crossed out this item and continued writing.

"Your handwriting is quite nice, similar to that of an old colleague in our unit." Gu Xiaoxia sighed, "Have you practiced for a while?"

"Well, when I was a worker in Wucheng, I would practice calligraphy when I had nothing to do... You know my handwriting was very average when I was in school."

Gu Xiaoxia smiled and said nothing more.

Li Long wrote down most of the things he knew about being sold at the purchasing station. When he looked at the time, it was already past twelve o'clock.

rest.

The next day, Li Long got up, fed the little ones at home, and went to milk the goats. Gu Xiaoxia cleaned Mingming and Haohao's poop and urine, and then fed them.

Sister Yang was cooking in the kitchen. Han Fang wanted to help Gu Xiaoxia, but she refused. She asked Han Fang to go to morning reading and study hard.

When Gu Boyuan came over, everything in the courtyard had been arranged and breakfast was almost ready.

Seeing Gu Xiaoxia and Li Long holding bottles to feed Mingming Haohao boiled and warmed goat milk, Gu Boyuan nodded and said, "This is good, it replenishes nutrition. It's better now than when we were young. Back then, if I wanted to get some cow's milk or goat's milk for you, Xiaoxia, there was nowhere to get it."

"What should we do?" Li Long asked.

"What else can we do? Let's make some fish soup and let her drink it." Gu Boyuan said, "Team Four has a lot of fish. Crucian carp has a lot of bones, so we're afraid it might prick her, so we'll just stew it for a little longer and let her drink the fish soup to supplement her nutrition."

It is also a way.

After dinner, Li Long handed the notebook with the information written last night to Gu Boyuan. When Gu Boyuan read it, Li Long said:

"I wrote a lot of stuff. There are more than a dozen winter dens for herdsmen in the mountains. It took me about ten days to half a month to finish all of them. If you are unsure about them during this period, we can talk about it when I come back in the evening. But I have recorded most of them here in a relatively complete way."

"Dad, if you're not sure, just look it over again." Gu Xiaoxia also reminded him before going to work.

"Do I need to read it more? I can remember most of it after reading it once." Gu Boyuan clapped his hands with the notebook, "It's just some price figures, what's so hard to remember? Did you underestimate the value of our batch of college students back then?"

Li Long burst out laughing. That's right. His father-in-law Gu Boyuan was a serious college student. It was not easier to get into college back then. It could even be said to be more difficult than it is now.

It is definitely not easy to get into university. Personality or career path are another matter, but at least the IQ is definitely online.

Li Long felt relieved. He went into the house, took out three thousand yuan in cash, put it in a shoulder bag and gave it to Gu Boyuan.

Gu Boyuan carefully counted the money, put it in his bag, buttoned it, and rode his bicycle to the purchasing station. After Li Long and Sister Yang took over Mingming Haohao, they also drove away in a jeep.

There were already people waiting at the door of the purchasing station. They were a little surprised to see Gu Boyuan come over and open the door.

"Make way, make way. I'm here to be in charge of purchasing today. Please make way and let me open the door first." Gu Boyuan was not at all nervous when he saw these people. After all, he had been in the agricultural supply store for so many days and had met all kinds of people.

"The old comrade is here today?" someone asked. "Where is the young comrade Li?"

"He has something to do." Gu Boyuan opened the big iron gate, pushed the bicycle into the yard, propped it against the wall and locked it, then went to open the door, "Okay, line up, one by one."

These people got used to it and lined up one after another.

"Your Fritillaria isn't dry." Gu Boyuan frowned when he saw what the first person brought. "It's clean, but you washed it, right? You got it from someone else and washed it again? Why don't you dry it in the sun before selling it?"

"I'm short of money." The man said unnaturally, "I remember this isn't dried, you guys take it too?"

"Of course I will buy them, but the price won't be high." Gu Boyuan picked up a Fritillaria, squeezed it with his hands, and after squeezing it into several petals, he checked the moisture level and said, "Your Fritillaria wasn't dried in the first place, and it was soaked in water again. I can only give you ten yuan per kilogram."

"Ten dollars? Isn't that too little?" The man put the fritillaria back into the bag. "That young man didn't do that when he bought the fritillaria. Why are you trying to lower the price so much? Are you taking a kickback?"

After he said this, the people behind him also started to clamor. Who doesn’t want to sell their stuff at a high price?

"Same." Gu Boyuan ignored the noise from the people behind him and said, "I bought things according to his instructions. Your Fritillaria is not dry in the first place, and it has been washed once, so it is only worth this price.

You can sell it at a high price if you want, but first dry the Fritillaria. After it is dried, I will give you at least 40 per kilogram. How about that?"

The man argued:
"I need money urgently, I don't have time to post it..."

"Then it can only be worth this price. I can't possibly buy the water you mixed in at the price of Fritillaria, right?" Gu Boyuan didn't care at all about this person's pity, and his words were not pleasant.

Although this was his first time to do purchasing and grading, with his decades of experience, how could he not see that this man was definitely not a collector of Fritillaria? He was probably a second-hand dealer who washed the Fritillaria, soaked them in water, dried the surface and then sold them.

But I didn’t expect that Gu Boyuan had also dug Fritillaria, and he was familiar with this.

"Are you selling it? If not, please move aside. There are people behind you." Gu Boyuan knew that if he couldn't calm down the first customer on his first day, he wouldn't have to close the rest.

His face turned serious, and the man immediately softened and whispered:
"Brother, if you add a little more, I will sell it. You also know that it is not easy to dig the Fritillaria now. The forest rangers are watching it. It is not easy to get some out. The cost I charge is not low..."

"You can buy fresh Fritillaria in the forest for three yuan per kilogram. Yours is less than half dried, so ten yuan is not a low price." Gu Boyuan insisted, "Why don't you go out and think about it? I heard there is a purchasing station over there in the market. You can try there..."

"No, no, ten dollars is ten dollars." The man said hastily, "I'll sell it to you."

The person behind him whispered, "Everyone knows that the purchasing station is good at lowering prices and making random assessments. That place is stinking. Whoever wants to go can go, but I won't go."

"Of course. We all know that it is said that less than ten people go to that purchasing station every day. They can't buy much and it is about to close down." Gu Boyuan didn't care what others said. Since this person was willing to buy it, he poured the Fritillaria into the flat basket, rummaged around in it, and saw that there were indeed no impurities and not many broken pieces. Then he weighed it and paid the man.

His movements were neither fast nor slow, but methodical. Others could not tell that Gu Boyuan was actually a novice. They only felt that this old man was really calm and steady.

"Come here, 11 kilograms and 200 grams of skin removed, I'll give you 112 yuan, count it."

The man tucked the empty bag under his arm, took the money given by Gu Boyuan, counted it carefully, and after counting, took the money and prepared to leave.

"Don't go, sign it." Gu Boyuan took out a small book and said, "Once you sign it, the deal is done."

Although the man was a little confused and didn't know where the new rules came from, his momentum had been suppressed by Gu Boyuan just now, so he signed when asked to do so.

The first person was fooled by Gu Boyuan, so the second person no longer wanted to cheat newcomers and just wanted to sell the goods safely. Later, there were indeed people who sold inferior goods as good ones, some used bitter bean roots to pass as licorice roots, and some used rotten copper coins to sell copper - but they were all discovered by Gu Boyuan.

These people no longer dared to underestimate the newcomer Gu Boyuan - the news soon spread in their small circle that an old man had come to the purchasing station. Although he was new, his vision and calmness were no worse than those of the original Comrade Xiao Li.

But don't fool him. If you're found out, the ridicule he delivers will be unbearable!
At lunchtime, Gu Boyuan rode his bicycle back to the yard with two large bags full of things. There were some things that couldn't fit in, so he locked them up in the warehouse.

"How is it?" Gu Xiaoxia asked at the dinner table, "Dad, no one gave you any trouble today, right? Have you ever made a mistake in your calculations?"

"How could that be possible?" Gu Boyuan said proudly, "How could I make a mistake with something as simple as accounting? Let me tell you, today at least five vendors tried to fool me with inferior or fake goods, but I saw through them all."

"Then Dad is really awesome!"

"That's right, Uncle Gu, you're really awesome!" Han Fang also praised him, and Gu Boyuan was so proud.

"I think this purchasing station is much more interesting than the agricultural supply store." Gu Boyuan said while eating, "Most of those who come to buy agricultural supplies are honest farmers. They don't bargain when buying things. I tell them which fertilizer is suitable for which land, and they thank me. Unlike these people who come to sell things, they are all cunning and think about how to cheat."

"Then is there no one who comes here honestly to sell things?" Han Fang asked.

"Yes." Gu Boyuan said with a smile, "It probably accounts for less than half, the rest are mostly second-hand dealers."

"Then why don't you open the agricultural supply store directly inside this purchasing station?" Gu Xiaoxia found that her father was obviously more interested in this purchasing station than the agricultural supply store, so she said, "This way you can kill two birds with one stone."

"That's fine." Gu Boyuan really had an idea. "I'll ask Xiaolong when he comes back tonight. If he has no objection, I'll do it."

"He definitely has no objection. He doesn't want to be tied down to a store like this. He also said that after the Fritillaria season is over, he will hire someone to look after the store. If he really wants to hire someone, he can just look after the agricultural supply store. He will feel at ease if you manage the purchasing station."

Gu Xiaoxia certainly didn't say this on her own initiative. In fact, Li Long had mentioned this possibility when they were chatting in the evening before. She was just worried that her father-in-law Gu Boyuan would not agree.

Gu Boyuan thought for a while and said, "Then when Li Long comes back, I'll see if we can move the things from the agricultural supply store over here, and then put something up in the courtyard over there so that old customers can also know about it."

The matter was settled just like that.

After eating, Gu Boyuan rested for about ten minutes, then rode his bicycle to the purchasing station and continued to transport back the things that had been collected in the morning but not transported back.

He planned to discuss it with Li Long in the evening, so that when he collected things, he would not need to transport them to the big yard. While loading things, Gu Boyuan was thinking that he should get a dog, so that the yard of the collection station would be safer.

After transporting all the things, Gu Boyuan was sweating all over. He rode his bicycle back to the purchasing station, wanting to take a look at the environment inside and find a suitable place for himself to live before anyone arrived.

However, when he arrived at the purchasing station, he found that there were already people waiting at the door with bags and baskets.

The business of this purchasing station is really good.

Gu Boyuan now feels more and more that his son-in-law Li Long has a good vision and is far-sighted!

In fact, just by running such a purchasing station, not to mention making a fortune every day, it will definitely be no problem to become a millionaire in one or two months.

The purchase price of those items was recorded in the notebook Li Long gave him. Some of them he didn't understand, but some he was clear about.

For example, the seven or eight yellow sheepskins he collected in the morning. With the buying and selling of these things, Li Long could make at least 20 to 30 yuan for a complete skin, and even a damaged skin could make more than 10 to 20 yuan.

Another example is Fritillaria. The Fritillaria collected in the morning weighed more than 20 kilograms in dry form. Li Long could earn about 20 yuan for one kilogram of Fritillaria.

The net income for this morning was several hundred!

People came to sell things in the afternoon before work started. In Li Long's words, this is still the off-season!
The county has a population of 100,000, and there are too many people who want to live a good life. The money that can be earned from the land is limited. If you want to improve your life, you have to find money from side jobs.

How to sell the things you find? It used to be better with the purchasing stations, but now that the purchasing stations have been removed, everyone can only go to the market - Li Long's purchasing station fills this gap.

How good!

Some people are suitable for setting up stalls to sell things, and they want to maximize the profits from the things they get.

Some people really don't want to and are not suitable for setting up stalls. It is better to beat them up than to let them set up stalls. They would rather earn less money than sell things in the market.

The middlemen and these people are the largest and most high-quality customer group of Li Long's purchasing station.

Gu Boyuan pushed his bicycle and shouted:

"Make way, make way, I'll open the door..."

The people who came in the afternoon were the same as those who came in the morning. They had never seen Gu Boyuan, so they were a little confused about this person.

Gu Boyuan explained it again, then opened the door and started receiving the goods.

Just as they were admitting two people, a woman squeezed in from outside. She looked at Gu Boyuan, was stunned for a moment, and asked:

"Where's Comrade Li Long?"

Gu Boyuan saw that the woman was in her fifties and her tone of voice was not very good, so he asked calmly, "Who are you? What do you want to see Li Long for?"

"I'm here to apply for a job. I heard that Li Long's acquisition station was hiring, so I came to take a look... Who are you? Are you his father?"

"No. Don't worry about who I am. Li Long hasn't decided to recruit anyone yet. You are wrong. Please make way and don't delay me from collecting my things."

"You collect things? Do you know the prices of these things? Do you know how to classify these materials? How to store and handle them?" The woman said proudly: "Let me tell you, I worked in a supply and marketing cooperative before, I am an expert! If you are someone he hired, you'd better have some self-knowledge. This kind of thing is very professional and it is not something an amateur like you can do!"

When she said that, Gu Boyuan remembered something. Li Long once said at the dinner table that the purchasing station in the market hired a retired person from the supply and marketing cooperative to work, but this person deceived the superiors and subordinates, lowered the price to the outside, concealed the truth from the boss, and secretly took a lot of kickbacks. Could it be her? Wasn't she arrested? How could she still be out?

But no matter who it is, Gu Boyuan will not let such a person come to the purchasing station to be a parasite. He waved his hand:
"It's none of your business whether I can do it or not. Get out of here right now. Only people who want to sell things can come in here. Don't interfere with our purchase of things. If you make trouble here again, I'll call the police!"

Yang Guifang didn't expect that Gu Boyuan would not listen to her at all, so she turned around and left in disappointment.

Outside, Yang Guifang watched more and more people coming in to sell things, and she felt more and more that if she could get in here, she would make a lot of money.

Can not give up!

PS: First, there are many typos these days because I type with voice. My wrist hurts a bit recently, so I type with voice and make corrections on the computer. When I was speaking with voice, the homophones were misrecognized, and when I was correcting it, I didn't notice it with my eyes, so I made a mistake.

Second, thanks to kcman, Crocodile Tears L and other book friends for their rewards. (End of this chapter)