Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long had the Fritillaria that had been dried in the large yard packed into bags in the side room.

Now, whenever he has free time, he pulls over a small stool and gets two large basins to wash the Fritillaria at the well.

Every day, a lot of Fritillaria can be brought back from the wooden houses and purchasing stations in the mountains, ranging from dozens of kilograms to more than a hundred kilograms.

The Fritillarias received from the purchasing station are mostly dried goods, at least half-dried. On the contrary, the Fritillarias received from the wooden house are mostly fresh goods.

These fresh Fritillaria need to be dried in a large area before they can become the dried Fritillaria that Jia Tianlong is willing to purchase.

Of course, some of them still need Li Long to clean them. The mother-of-pearls collected by the purchasing station are generally clean, and Gu Boyuan either returns the unclean ones or lowers the price.

Therefore, those middlemen or people who dig medicinal herbs in the mountains will clean them beforehand.

The Fritillaria brought back from the wooden house was the one that gave Li Long the least worry. Sun Jiaqiang had already cleaned it when he loaded it into the car for Li Long.

The dirtiest ones are the Fritillaria bought from the forestry team. These Fritillaria bags are mixed with leaves, mud, and even stones.

Of course, it was not intentional on the part of the herbalists. When the forest rangers of the forestry team were collecting Fritillaria, the herbalists were digging Fritillaria, or had just finished digging. When digging Fritillaria, they could not pay attention to these details at all, and they just needed to be fast.

Li Long was thinking about random things while washing the Fritillaria.

Jia Tianlong called again yesterday, and this time he called the supply and marketing cooperative again. Fortunately, Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative in advance and told Section Chief Zhou Yuan that if Jia Tianlong called again, he should bring a large truck over, otherwise the things would not fit.

Yesterday, Zhou Yuan rode his bicycle to the big yard after get off work. These days, Li Long went into the mountains to visit Xiaobaiyanggou in the morning, then went to the wooden house to bring back the Fritillaria, and stayed at home in the afternoon, mainly waiting for Jia Tianlong's call.

Zhou Yuan came to Li Long and told him that Jia Tianlong would drive over to pick up the goods the next day, and asked Li Long to wait at home.

So after breakfast, Li Long washed the mother-of-pearl in the yard, and watched Mingming and Haohao playing in the cart.

Sister Yang had a rare moment of free time, so she rode her bicycle out for a walk and stopped by the large yard south of Wuyi Road to check out the vegetables that had been planted previously.

Before the Fritillaria braiding handles were collected, Li Long was watching Mingming and Haohao in the yard, so Sister Yang took the time to clean up the small yard over there.

Li Long understood that in Sister Yang's eyes, this large courtyard was Li Long's home after all, not Sister Yang's home. Sister Yang and Han Fang had already regarded the small courtyard in the south as their own home.

Mingming and Haohao were having fun with the lambs, elk and others at this time, and Xiaohei was lying beside the bed car watching them. He was very attentive, but it was mainly the lambs that bullied Mingming and Haohao - the goats were very aggressive and it was easy for them to really attack during play.

Although the two goats didn't have horns at that time and there was only a small bump on their heads, it would still be uncomfortable if they really used all their strength to push against them.

The sound of a car engine came closer and closer. Li Long showed a smile on his face. He stood up and shook off the water droplets on his hands. He first went over to push Mingming and Haohao's bed cart to the wall near the kitchen, then went to tie up Xiaohei, and finally went over to open the door.

At this time, the car had arrived at the gate, and the sound gradually became lower. I guess it stopped and someone got off.

When Li Long opened the door, Jia Tianlong, holding a bag, was just getting out of the car and was about to knock on the door.

"Hey, Comrade Li Long, you must be impatient, right?" Jia Tianlong's outstretched hand was suspended in the air. He reacted very quickly, lowered it and took the initiative to shake hands with Li Long, with a smile on his face. "You come to open the door before our car has even stopped. Are you thinking about me too much?"

"That's really bad. If you don't come, I will drive to Beiting City to sell these Fritillarias - there are too many goods left, and I can't afford it."

Li Long half-jokingly opened the gate and propped up the corner of it with a brick, then signaled the driver to drive the truck in.

"Hey, Mingming Haohao, right?" Jia Tianlong and Li Long entered the yard first. When he saw two children on the cart looking at the big truck curiously, the smile on his face became even bigger. He walked quickly to the cart, smiled and waved to the two children.

Li Long was actually quite worried. He thought that this guy looked exhausted from the journey and thought he should not pick up two children right away and scare the little ones.

Fortunately, Jia Tianlong was also very cautious and caring. He just waved to the two children across the bed, then took out two silver tiger-head locks wrapped in red cloth from his bag and hung them on a corner of the bed:
"This is a gift from your uncle. It was specially blessed by a master over here. Remember to wear it."

This was said to Mingming Haohao, but actually it was also meant for Li Long to hear.

Li Long smiled and said:
"Boss Jia, I'm sorry to have cost you money again. I appreciate your kindness."

"Alright, alright, Comrade Li Long, what you said is too serious. If we want to talk, I still owe you a favor. Let's not talk about this for now. I'm going to go and pay my respects to Yu first."

The piece of jasper was still on the stone table, and the copper incense burner that Jia Tianlong had brought was also there. Sister Yang would clean this area every day and occasionally burn a stick of incense. At this time, Jia Tianlong saw incense and matches placed next to him, so he picked up three sticks, lit them, held the incense in both hands, bowed three times, and then burned incense.

Seeing that the jade and the table were clean, Jia Tianlong was quite pleased.

Yes, even if it’s just superficial work, at least people take it seriously.

After Jia Tianlong finished worshipping the jade, he turned around and saw that the driver had already driven the truck into the yard. After getting off the truck, he considerately closed the gate and said to Li Long:

"Comrade Xiao Li, I heard that you collected a lot of Fritillaria. Can you let me, Lao Jia, open my eyes today?"

"Come, come, come, I've been waiting for you." Li Long smiled and led Jia Tianlong to open the door of the wing room, saying:
"Come and have a look. These are all dried Fritillaria. There are more than a ton of them. There are some that haven't been dried yet. How about that? A lot, right?"

"So many?" Although Jia Tianlong knew something about Li Long from Chen Hongjun, and knew that this young man had many connections and could get things done, he thought that after the county's purchasing station was withdrawn, he would be able to seize the opportunity to make a fortune, but he didn't expect that he would get so many dried Fritillaria fringewoods just after the Fritillaria season began!
"Come here, I'll get you a bag. Take a look first." Li Long went into the room and picked up a bag of Fritillaria. He put it in front of Jia Tianlong for him to see. He then went to the kitchen and brought out a pot of tea. He poured a bowl for Jia Tianlong and the driver.

Jia Tianlong reached his hand into the bag of Fritillaria. Just like Li Long did before, he reached in and tried to grab as far as the bottom of the bag. Only in this way could he get a true grasp of the Fritillaria - if there were a lot of broken Fritillaria or impurities, most of them would sink to the bottom of the bag.

Grab a handful, take it out, and spread your palm, and you will see full of pearl-like grains of mother-of-pearl in all sizes.

"Well, the quality is good." Jia Tianlong said, "If all the goods are like this, I will buy them at a high price."

"Don't worry." After Li Long handed the tea to him and the driver, he went to get a scale and a large flat basket and said, "We have a good relationship, but we still have to be honest in doing business. Each bag of these Fritillaria will be weighed in the basket so that you can see it clearly and buy with confidence."

"Hey, Comrade Li Long, I admire your business!"

The fact that he could say it so frankly was enough to prove that Li Long had confidence in his Fritillaria.

"Let's drink tea first." Li Long pointed at the tea leaves and said, "I don't know much about tea. This tea was bought from my leader at the supply and marketing cooperative. It's said to be good. Anyway, I think it's fine to drink."

Upon hearing that the tea was from the leader of the supply and marketing cooperative, Jia Tianlong said with a smile, "It seems that you have a good relationship with the leader, otherwise he would not let you smuggle the tea. This tea... well, it's good."

He actually didn't know much about tea, but he felt that it was indeed better than the tea he usually drank. Besides, it didn't cost anything to say something nice. Who wouldn't want to do something that would benefit them in no time?
Jia Tianlong and the driver were also thirsty. The tea that Li Long poured was warm, just the right temperature for drinking. Both of them drank half a bowl, then wiped their mouths and put down the tea bowls. Jia Tianlong then said to Li Long:
"Comrade Li Long, let's get down to business. I came here mainly to buy your mother-of-pearls. With Lao Chen here and the jade here, there's no need to talk about our relationship. I'll also tell you the truth today. If all the mother-of-pearls are of this quality, I can give you 65 yuan per kilogram. Of course, if the quality is lower, I'll downgrade it by one grade and reduce the price by 5 yuan. What do you think?"

Li Long didn't expect that Jia Tianlong would offer such a high price.

During the last period of time last year, the state-owned purchasing station priced Li Long's Fritillaria at less than 60 yuan, but this year the price has been raised by that much.

This price is really surprising. "To be honest, I can earn less than ten yuan per kilogram of this Fritillaria outside Xinjiang," said Jia Tianlong. "Now state-owned pharmaceutical factories outside Xinjiang are expanding production. Although Ili Fritillaria is not as famous as Sichuan Fritillaria, its medicinal effect is also very good. Therefore, the demand is very high, and the price is also rising."

Li Long didn't know how much Jia Tianlong made from one kilogram of Fritillaria, and he just listened to the ten yuan statement. However, sixty-five yuan was beyond his psychological expectations, so this deal was done.

"Okay, sixty-five dollars. Let's check the scale now." Li Long said.

"Okay." Jia Tianlong responded and called the driver to come over to help.

Li Long poured the bag of Fritillaria in front of him into the basket and spread it out evenly for Jia Tianlong to check.

Jia Tianlong became a professional this time, picking up a fritillaria, chewing it gently, and then spitting it out. This thing is extremely bitter, just taste it to feel the taste.

The three of them had a clear division of labor. The driver took down the pile of mother-of-pearl bags from the compartment, untied them and poured them into the big basket. Li Long and Jia Tianlong confirmed the order, and then the driver packed them in bags and put them on the car.

The driver does the heavy work, while Li Long and Jia Tianlong do the technical work.

This driver should be Jia Tianlong's confidant, about 26 or 27 years old, with a flat head, and he didn't say a word from beginning to end. He worked very efficiently and had a good eye.

Li Long and Jia Tianlong were checking the quality of the mother-of-pearl here and recording the numbers on the scale. Over there, the driver was pouring and loading the mother-of-pearl at the same time, and his movements did not seem slow at all.

Mingming and Haohao were playing with the small animals. The animals licked the children's hands through the gaps in the bed, making the two little guys giggle from time to time, adding a bit of homely atmosphere to this business scene.

When the fifth bag of Fritillaria was poured into the big basket, the door opened. Li Long turned his head and saw Sister Yang pushing a cart in from outside the door. Just as she was about to talk to Li Long, she saw the cart and the stranger.

"Sister Yang, you still recognize me, right? I'm Jia Tianlong." Jia Tianlong was very familiar and greeted Sister Yang.

"I know you. Your wife isn't here?" Sister Yang naturally knew this guest who gave Mingming Haohao a valuable gift. She smiled and said, "I happened to meet Liang Shuangcheng from the team today. He gave me more than two kilograms of crucian carp. It's a good thing that you are here. Let's stew the fish for lunch."

"Okay, okay, it's a good opportunity for me to try Sister Yang's cooking." Jia Tianlong wasn't polite either. After greeting her, he continued to weigh Fritillaria with Li Long.

Sister Yang parked her bicycle and carried the fish into the kitchen. She didn't clean up first. After washing her hands, she came over to change Mingming and Haohao's diapers. Then she went to feed the two children a snack. After the two children finished eating and she cleaned up, she watched the children play for a while and then went to prepare dinner.

Li Long and Jia Tianlong examined the Fritillaria bag by bag.

A bag of dried Fritillaria weighs more than 40 kilograms. It took more than an hour to weigh all 24 bags of Fritillaria.

"The total weight is 1072 kilograms." Jia Tianlong calculated the total, "65 yuan per kilogram, that is..." He took out a small calculator from his bag and explained to Li Long while pressing keys: "This is the calculator I bought from Kou, it's very convenient to calculate, you see, press 69680, then press the multiplication sign, then press , you see, press the equal sign, and here it comes out - , hey! Hurry up, it's much faster than pen and paper calculation!"

Li Long nodded repeatedly with a smile on his face - this was a lot of money!
"Old Jia, would you like to take the antlers, roe deer horns, snow lotus and codonopsis this time? I also have quite a few licorice and cynomorium here..."

"Let's not take them for now. I can't carry them all in my car." Jia Tianlong waved his hand and said, "To be honest, I didn't expect you to get so many Fritillaria, and I don't have enough money. How about this, I'll take the Fritillaria away today, and then in two days, I'll come back to take the rest, how do you think?"

Although Jia Tianlong was much richer than Li Longfu, he still had a hard time spending so much money on these medicinal herbs at once.

He also had a good eye. What Li Long took out were dried Fritillaria, and he still had quite a few that had not been dried - mainly because there were quite a few drying in the yard.

The largest transaction with Li Long was Fritillary, and for Jia Tianlong, the Fritillary was definitely the thing that made him the most money this year.

In the past, the state-owned purchasing stations had a monopoly on the Fritillaria. Most of the Fritillaria collected by the state-owned purchasing stations were sold directly to state-owned medicinal materials companies, and private drug dealers like them could only make a small profit. This year, Jia Tianlong was sure to grab so much from Li Long.

Codonopsis pilosula, licorice, Cynomorium songaricum and other plants can be obtained from other places, but it is not easy to obtain so much Fritillaria thunbergii from other places at once.

"That's fine." Li Long didn't force it. "Next time you come, I think I'll have several hundred kilograms of Fritillaria here. You have to bring more money next time. Don't make the same mistake this time."

"Okay, okay." Jia Tianlong was calculating the profits in his mind, with his mouth grinning, which seemed like it couldn't be closed.

With this order of more than one ton of dried fritters, he made a net profit of at least ten thousand yuan!
He would bring the goods to Wucheng, find someone familiar on the railway, rent half a car to transport them to Kouli, and someone would take over there. He didn't even have to make a trip here, and he could get more than 10,000 yuan.

It’s so easy to make money!
Connections! The people Lao Chen introduced to me were really amazing!
"Xiao Liu, get in the car, put these bags of Fritillaria in order, and then cover them with the tarpaulin." Jia Tianlong instructed the driver.

The driver complied.

Jia Tianlong got into the co-pilot seat and took out a suitcase. He carried it to the platform at the door of the compartment and opened the box.

There were clothes and other things on the surface of the box. Jia Tianlong pushed the clothes aside, and a few books appeared underneath.

He picked up the book and put it aside, revealing stacks of banknotes underneath!
many!

A stack of Great Unity notes was worth one thousand. Jia Tianlong handed the stacks to Li Long one by one, and Li Long counted the numbers.

Nearly 70,000 yuan, it’s a big bag!
Even for Li Long, this was the first time in his two lifetimes that he had seen so much unity!

"Sixty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty yuan." Jia Tianlong counted out sixty-nine stacks for Li Long, took out thirty-two bills from the last stack, and gave the rest to Li Long. "Take your time."

Li Long also had a backpack with him. He put a bunch of stuff into the backpack as he counted them. When he finished counting quickly, he nodded and said, "No problem."

"Hey, you've made a fortune this time." Jia Tianlong put away the suitcase, "This money... is a good thing, right?"

"Why should I be happy? I have a lot of money." Li Long shook his head. "I haven't paid the money for the porters in the mountains yet. The purchasing station still owes my father-in-law money, all of which was used for this Fritillaria. After I get the money, most of it has to be used to cover the cost. I can't make much. Of course, it's much better than farming."

This is what Li Long said, and Jia Tianlong also believed it.

Of course he didn't know that Li Long earned much more than he imagined!

He couldn't imagine how much Li Long could earn from it - the cost price of fresh Fritillaria at the wooden house was three or four yuan, and it was a little more expensive at the purchasing station, with dried Fritillaria costing 40 yuan. But the bulk of the profits came from the forestry team, where the comprehensive cost price of Fritillaria was 20 to 30 yuan per kilogram of dried goods - that is, Li Long could earn more than 30 yuan per kilogram of Fritillaria!
The money Li Long earned from this ton of Fritillaria was more than what he earned last year!
That’s just the money earned in less than half of the Fritillaria season.

If this continues, the money Li Long can earn from these Fritillarias during the entire Fritillaria season will reach more than 100,000!

Sure enough, only monopoly can bring huge profits!

After Jia Tianlong paid the money to Li Long, he was relieved. He was also terrified to put so much money in the suitcase. Now that the bulk of the money was given to Li Long, the remaining two or three thousand yuan was not so conspicuous.

Of course, looking at the cart of mother-of-pearl, Jia Tianlong also laughed.

This Li Long not only brought himself hope in life - the next generation - but also took his business to a higher level.

This person must be treated well! (End of this chapter)