Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Sun Jiaqiang was anxious, but there were people who were even more anxious than him.

The day before yesterday, there were relatively few people at the Xingfu Purchasing Station, but Qi Shuohui didn't pay much attention to it. After all, the business of the purchasing station is very casual, and it is normal for the number of people coming here to increase or decrease from one day to the next.

But what he didn't expect was that there were relatively few people yesterday. The number of people coming here to sell things was more than 60% less than usual!
During this period, the owners of various purchasing stations collect Fritillaria, which is also the most profitable item in the purchasing stations in the summer.

In the past, we could receive at least 100 kilograms of dried Fritillaria every day.

Three or four hundred kilograms is normal when the output is high. Now that the market is active, everyone knows how to make money from side jobs to supplement family expenses or even get rich.

In the past, when there was a collective communal dining system, the Fritillaria thunbergii dug out from the mountains were used to generate sideline income for the villages. Now, if anyone digs it up, it’s theirs as long as they don’t get caught.

A kilogram of fresh Fritillaria can be sold for several dollars. If you dig quickly, you can get seven or eight kilograms a day and make dozens of dollars. How great!
Therefore, farming is not very busy at the moment, and many people go to the mountains to dig Fritillaria, so the purchasing station naturally collects more Fritillaria.

Who would have thought that they only harvested less than 50 kilograms of dried Fritillaria thunbergii that day - he naturally didn't know that the largest batch of Fritillaria thunbergii was snatched away by Li Long.

It’s normal to have more or less, this was Qi Shuohui’s thought yesterday - but the next day he collected 40 kilograms, which was even less!
This is not right!
Qi Shuohui reacted quickly and went to see his boss in the evening to report the situation.

Qi Shuohui is a veteran who was able to give up his stable job and come to work in this private purchasing station. On the one hand, it was because his boss paid him a lot of money, and on the other hand, he had seen a lot of trouble. He had done some not-so-good things in his previous unit. Now that a new leader has taken office, if he finds out, he will be in big trouble.

If you resign, then basically nothing will happen. After all, it is important to leave a way out for yourself so that you can meet again in the future. It is unlikely that you will come into direct contact or expose your past.

Having worked in the unit for a long time, his observation skills are still very sharp. He knew something was wrong when he saw that the number of people selling Fritillaria had decreased abnormally for two consecutive days.

Regardless of whether there is any situation, it is always a good thing to report it in advance - he is a receiver, and if he reports this matter in advance, it will give the boss a good impression. The matter has nothing to do with him, after all, he is only responsible for receiving. Although he has a factor in the pricing, it is also agreed by the boss.

When it comes to shirking responsibility and passing the buck, veterans are the most skilled.

The boss of the Happiness Purchasing Station has his own things to do and is usually very busy. For him, this purchasing station is the icing on the cake. Although it brings in a lot of money every month, it is not the most important thing in his daily life.

However, the boss named Jiang Chunlin was used to his purchasing station being the only one in Beiting. He also knew that there were some middlemen in Beiting who bought materials and resold them privately, and the prices would be higher than his, which could attract some people, but he usually turned a blind eye. Only when those people became big, Jiang Chunlin would use his connections to investigate speculation.

This not only hits competitors, but also adds a political achievement to your own relationship.

He has done this more than once. There are many people in Beiting City who want to set up private acquisition stations, but why didn't they succeed? It's because of Jiang Chunlin. At that time, many people's business thinking was still relatively primitive. With such tricks, Jiang Chunlin squeezed out many people and made his business bigger and bigger, and his network of contacts became wider and wider.

After hearing what Qi Shuohui said, Jiang Chunlin immediately took out a cigarette and handed it to Qi Shuohui:
"Old Qi, good, you responded quickly and reported in a timely manner. Take this back and take it. I know about this matter and I will handle it. Don't worry, the business of the purchasing station will return to normal in a day or two."

Qi Shuohui happily took the cigarette and left. The boss was generous, and this pack of cigarettes worth several dollars belonged to him.

After Qi Shuohui left, Jiang Chunlin immediately went out to call people to investigate the matter. In his opinion, it must be some blind middleman who intercepted his business. Although the business of the purchasing station was not the most important to him, he could not let it go in this regard. If someone intercepted him, he must retaliate.

Otherwise, those who are eyeing him will regard this incident as the first broken glass of an idle car, and then many people will snatch his other business!
What puzzled him was that after investigating, he found that almost all the middlemen in Beiting City had disappeared, and no one wanted to compete with him for the business. He got the news that those people had gone to other counties to collect and sell goods, as if they had given up the Beiting City market!
The problem is that the middlemen are gone, and many individual herbalists who used to dig Fritillaria have also disappeared, so the Fritillaria market is half empty!
Although Jiang Chunlin was not completely concerned about the purchasing station, he knew that it was the peak season for Fritillaria fringeii and that generally, at least 100 kilograms of dried Fritillaria fringeii were received every day.

According to Qi Shuohui's report, the daily purchase volume of Fritillaria is now only half of the original amount or even less. So where did these Fritillaria go?

Jiang Chunlin's network of contacts has not yet spread beyond Beiting City. He only knows that the people who dug Fritillaria recently are no longer in the city.

In the past, he and Qi Yanhui looked down on those herbalists and middlemen, and their attitude towards them was also condescending. In their opinion, those people were begging them to buy these things, and they could lower the price as much as they wanted. The state-owned purchasing stations were gone, and general herbal medicine companies did not accept private items or bulk goods. Purchasing stations like theirs became the only place where those who dug Fritillaria could ship their goods.

Jiang Chunlin used his connections to ask around in several surrounding counties and found that the situation was similar. Recently, fewer people came to sell Fritillaria.

Is it because the forestry department has tightened its control and arrested everyone who came out of the mountains. Have they confiscated the Fritillaria?
After the forestry team was established, the management of materials in the mountains was quite strict.

Timber, wild animal and plant resources are all supervised by forestry team rangers.

The zoning is stipulated in official documents, and no one can argue with it.

If the forestry department's control caused this situation, Jiang Chunlin couldn't do anything about it. His connections hadn't reached that level yet, but since the surrounding counties and cities were the same, he didn't care.

The day after returning from a meeting in Beiting City, Li Long's purchasing station collected more than 400 kilograms of dried Fritillaria cirrhosa.

He had to go to the bank to withdraw money again, otherwise he would have no money to receive the goods later.

Today, there are new changes in the situation of receiving goods. In addition to receiving a lot of Fritillaria, there are also a lot of skins from other counties. The person who said yesterday that he would bring snow lotus really brought two baskets of snow lotus. Those who buy snow lotus in bulk are experts. Before drying the snow lotus, they use ropes to wrap the petals and stamens of the snow lotus and tie them up, so that the stamens of the snow lotus will not fall apart.

When taking inventory in the courtyard after dinner in the evening, Gu Boyuan sighed:

"I finally understand what it means to spend money like water. If we continue to spend like this, we will soon spend all the gold we have."

"It's okay," Li Long said with a smile, "When Jia Tianlong comes, our money will be back."

"The goods come quickly when we receive them here." Gu Boyuan continued, "The quantity is much larger than that in the mountains. This is also an advantage over other counties..."

"Hehehe, I forgot about my brother in the mountains!" Li Long then remembered Sun Jiaqiang in the mountains, "These two days are the peak season for Fritillaria, and the supplies in the mountains are consumed quickly. I guess he has replaced all the things there! I have to send some things over early tomorrow, and then come back to the purchasing station."

"That's right, this kind of excitement will only last for a while." Gu Boyuan said, "The forestry team and the wooden house in the mountains are our base.

Who knows how long these things in other counties will last?”

Li Long is much more optimistic than Gu Boyuan. He said:

"I think it will last at least until the end of this Fritillaria season. Unless those purchasing stations change their policies and raise prices, we will continue this good momentum next year.

Uncle, have you noticed that these people come to us to sell things not only because of our good prices, but also because of our service attitude.

We have all been through hard times, and we know it is not easy for these people to dig Fritillaria. It is hard work, and we can understand their difficulties and efforts.

Unlike the people at the purchasing stations, who look up to us, look at how these people who come here to sell Fritillaria are described, it feels like they are begging them." "Well, just like what your eldest brother said, although some of them are from poor backgrounds, once they have status, become cadres or workers, they really think they have made the leap from a carp to a dragon, and they are different from us rural people.

How big of a difference can there be between people? A small county town can't produce a few dragons, right? Who doesn't have a chance to turn things around?"

Gu Boyuan also experienced ups and downs and had deep feelings.

"It's getting dark, uncle, come on, I'll take you back."

"What do you want to send? I have guns in my room." Gu Boyuan said with a smile, "The police station is right across the street. Who dares to set off a thorn here?"

Being extremely tired today and having to get up early tomorrow morning to go into the mountains, Li Long went to bed early.

After Gu Boyuan returned to the purchasing station, he locked the main door, entered the house, locked the front and back doors, closed the windows and pinned them, then returned to his room and took a basin to wash up.

He was also very tired today. After washing up, he went back to the room, closed the door, took the double-barreled shotgun and placed it beside the bed, loaded it with bullets, turned off the safety, pulled the quilt, turned off the lights, and went to sleep.

At around two o'clock in the middle of the night, two dark shadows sneaked up to the wall of the purchasing station.

They looked around and saw nothing moving, so they grabbed the wall with both hands and tried to climb up.

"Ouch!" One of them screamed miserably, fell off the wall, and kept shaking his hands.

"What's your name? Are you pricked by a thorn?" another person asked in a low voice.

"Damn, there's glass on the wall, it cut my hand!" The man who shook his hand said fiercely, "You can't see it in the daytime, you would think there's nothing on the wall. The person who did this is such a thief!"

Li Long renovated the top of this wall in the early spring of this year. He re-applied mud on it and inserted glass fragments. Only a little bit of the fragments were exposed, so it was not easy to see from the outside. However, when climbing up at night, it was easy to cut your hands and feet.

"Can you still come in?" another person asked, "How about you stay outside and I go in to look for the money?"

If I let you know how much money you took when you went in, how could I know?

The man whose hand was cut thought to himself and shook his head hastily:
"It's okay, it's not a big problem. I'm afraid you can't hold down the person inside by yourself."

"There's nothing wrong with that. He's just an old man."

"I don't think he's an old man, but a half-shell." The man with the cut hand whispered, "When I checked the place today, I found that he was quite strong in moving things. I tied the clothes around his hands. Let's go in."

Both of them were very careful. They wrapped the clothes around their hands, climbed over the wall, and touched the door.

I pushed the door and found that it was stuck from the inside and could not be opened.

These two people were also habitual offenders. When the door could not be opened, they went to the window. Nowadays, windows are pinned from the inside. The man with the better hand took out a piece of thin wire from his pocket, passed the wire through the crack of the window, and slowly adjusted the direction to hook the pin open.

He felt some resistance when he pushed the window, but it wasn't too much, so he continued pushing inside.

"boom!"

The window had just been half opened when a very crisp sound came out, and the two guys were startled!
It turned out that Lao Gu placed a glass bottle behind the window. When the window was pushed open, the glass bottle on the windowsill would roll to the ground and break. Lao Gu, who was sleeping, woke up immediately when he heard the sound. As soon as he opened his eyes, he reached out and touched the gun.

Someone is here to steal!
He didn't even bother to put on his clothes. He just walked to the door in a vest and shorts, holding a shotgun.

The two thieves outside were frightened by the noise. The one with a cut hand turned around and tried to run, but was stopped by his accomplice.

"Don't be in a hurry, let's listen first to see if there is any movement!" This person was quite brave, and when he thought about the money being paid out at the toll station during the day, and how much money was in the drawer under the counter, his heart was burning with excitement.

The yard of the purchasing station is independent, with no other houses on either side, so the noise did not cause any other noise outside.

The two thieves soon quieted down. After hearing that there was no movement in the purchasing station, the one whose hand was cut smiled softly and said:
"I didn't expect this half-shell to sleep so soundly."

"That will make our move easier. It would be best if we could take the money without alerting him."

"What if there is no money?"

"Then we can carry a few bags of Fritillaria away. This stuff is also very valuable! Wait until tomorrow to change the bags and bring them back to sell, and you still have to pay us!"

The two men climbed in through the window one after another. Inside the window was the counter of the purchasing station. The two men were overjoyed and ran to the counter together to climb up.

There were only two empty account books in the drawer under the counter, without a penny.

The two thieves looked at each other and were both very disappointed.

"Or we can get that half-shell and ask him where the money is?" The one whose hand was cut was unwilling to give up. He didn't want to carry Fritillaria on his back. It would be so convenient to take the money and spend it as soon as he got it.

"That's fine. Let's cover our faces first..."

The two were talking when the lights suddenly came on. Gu Boyuan reached the door without knowing when, and shouted at the two people with a shotgun in hand:
"Don't move! I'll kill anyone who moves!"

The man whose hand was cut was timid. When Gu Boyuan shouted, he knelt down immediately.

The other one was very brave. He knew he would be in trouble if he was caught, so he quickly jumped to the windowsill, pressed the windowsill with both hands, stood on the window, and prepared to jump out!

"Bang!" The gun went off!

In the quiet night sky, the sound spread far away and startled many people. (End of this chapter)