Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In June, the wheat in Beiting Province was full of grain, and the green wheat grains were already slightly hard. The children who loved to eat wheat were already roasting it in the fields.

Grab a handful of wheat ears, roast them over the fire, turn them over, and wait until all the wheat awns are burnt away and the wheat ears are burnt black. The green wheat grains are almost cooked, and then you can rub them and eat them.

Burning wheat is a technical job. The fire needs to burn only the wheat ears. During the turning process, the fire must not be allowed to burn the wheat stalks. This is because the wheat stalks are relatively thin. If the fire is not fine, they will break once burned. The broken wheat ears will fall into the fire and cannot be eaten.

Li Long was driving his jeep fast on Wuyi Road, looking at the wheat fields on both sides of the road. He wondered if he should stop in the middle on the way back, light a fire, and smell the smell of burning wheat.
It was already 1985, and there was no shortage of food in the countryside. If you lit a fire next to a wheat field and burned the wheat to eat, usually no one would care... It was just like what Runtu said, if you picked a melon from the melon field and ate it, the owner would not accuse you of stealing and would let you eat it.

Of course, it was just a thought. Li Long's main task now was to rush to Beiting City to find Chen Hongjun and ask him if there was any suitable way to sell the other things in his purchasing station's warehouse.

If there is one, that would be the best. If not, he would think of going to various state-owned and private companies in Wucheng and Beiting City to look for it.

Although the greenery in Beiting City in June was not as good as in later times, there were still many trees in the urban area. In addition, there were several parks and botanical gardens, which were lush and green, and it was not so hot in them.

The last time he met Chen Hongjun, Li Long already knew the location of his unit, so this time Li Long drove his jeep and found the place directly. Chen Hongjun's unit was on the street and had no yard, so Li Long parked the jeep at a suitable location on the roadside, got out of the car, locked the door, walked to the door of the unit, and registered with his work permit from the Beiting City Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

When Chen Hongjun heard that someone was looking for him, he was a little surprised to see Li Long when he came out of the office.

He is not a leader now and can only share an office with other people, so he did not take Li Long to his office. Instead, he led him out of the unit and chatted under the shade of the tree at the door.

"Why are you here to see me?" Chen Hongjun asked straight to the point. "What's the problem? Just tell me."

"Brother Chen, you're right." Li Long said under the shade of the tree, "My receiving station receives a lot of things, medicinal herbs, leather and other things. Jia Tianlong and Zhao Hui, who you introduced to me, have taken them away. I don't know where to sell some of the things, but I have to take them in..."

"I understand," Chen Hongjun smiled when he heard it. "Let me tell you, I was actually thinking about this when you left last time. I bought the yard, and then, taking advantage of the move, I called a few colleagues from our previous unit to have a meal together.

I told them about this while we were having dinner, and I thought you might need information in this regard.

At present, I have contacted someone who is willing to buy mushrooms. I think you must have some dried mushrooms like morels, and this buyer will buy them. I asked around and the price is not bad. "

"That's great." Li Long said with a smile, "Brother Chen, you really helped me a lot. I was thinking that if I couldn't find a market, I would have to run around looking for buyers."

"Well, but there is something I need to tell you," Chen Hongjun continued, "This client was introduced by a colleague of mine, so after the client receives your stuff, you'd better give that colleague some commission. As for the amount of the commission, it will be determined by the value of the stuff the client buys. What do you think?"

"Okay, of course, he should have it." Li Long said with a smile, "Not only does he have it, but you should have it too, Brother Chen. To be honest, I'm also worried. Although the mother-of-pearl and leather are in demand and can fetch a lot of money, the other things also hold a lot of money. If I don't sell these things, I'll never feel comfortable."

"You said you still have copper coins and other things. Actually, those things are mainly sold to state-owned foundries, metal processing plants and other manufacturers. Those things need to be melted down and reprocessed into metal." Chen Hongjun continued:

"It's actually very easy to find a market for this. Those scrap collection stations collect scrap copper and iron and sell them to these companies. As for other sales channels... I'll help you find them slowly. But the things you collect shouldn't be too diverse. If there are some unpopular things that can't be sold, you can stop buying them. You can't just buy everything people bring in, otherwise you'd be like a junk collector."

"That's right." Li Long smiled and said, "I'll make a note of it."

"Okay, our colleagues here will contact the people and come to find you. Your purchasing station is at the original location, right? I will have someone go there to find you directly, right?"

"Yes, let's go there." Li Long said, "I'm usually here sometimes. If I'm not here, my father-in-law and another helper will be there, so if we want to collect dried wild mushrooms, we can just go there directly."

"Okay." Chen Hongjun stopped talking about this matter.

Li Long's current purchase price for dried morels is ten yuan, and for dried black tiger's paw mushrooms is five to eight yuan.

The main reason is that the resources are abundant and the quantity is large. If you want to pick them, you can pick a lot in a month. The forest rangers will take care of you when you go to the mountains to dig for Fritillaria, but most of the forest rangers don't care much about picking mushrooms.

After all, digging Fritillaria is considered to be destroying the forest environment, so it is unreasonable to say that picking mushrooms destroys the environment.

At that time, Chen Hongjun and his colleagues priced one kilogram of morels at twenty-five to thirty yuan, and black tiger mushrooms at around twenty yuan.

It is easier to pick black tiger mushrooms. Once you find them, you usually find a nest of them, and one nest can usually weigh half a kilogram. But even if you find a nest of morels, you can only weigh a few dozen grams after drying.

Can't be compared.

It was not very convenient to chat outside, and Chen Hongjun was at work, so Li Long did not stay for long. He said goodbye to Lao Chen and left.

After Chen Hongjun saw Li Long off, he returned to the office. Several people in the office looked at him, and one of them couldn't help asking:

"Old Chen, who is that young man driving the jeep? Is he your relative?"

"Yes, I think he respects you very much. The young man is quite elegant. Is he the driver of some leader?"

Originally, colleagues in the office didn’t like Chen Hongjun very much, or rather, in their eyes, Lao Chen was a marginal person.

What can a person who comes from a county-level purchasing station do, even if he is the stationmaster? At this time, the cadres at the prefecture and city level still have a sense of superiority over those in the district and county.

But Lao Chen is quite capable and his leader assigned him a separate task, so Lao Chen didn't say a word to them. Everyone has their own way and there is no need to force their way in, which saves a lot of trouble.

However, when they saw the young man driving a jeep coming to find Li Long, although they could not hear what the two sides were talking about, they could clearly feel that the young man was very respectful to Chen Hongjun and looked like he was asking for advice, so these people became excited.

"You mean Li Long? He's not a leader's driver, just an ordinary employee." Chen Hongjun smiled and explained briefly, "The jeep was assigned to him by the leader of his unit."

After that, he went to do his own thing. He was still thinking about finishing the urgent work at hand and going to tell Qi Zhiguo about this matter, asking him to quickly contact the merchant who bought the dried mushrooms to facilitate the connection. Just as he was thinking, Qi Zhiguo had hurried over. He was not in the office, and was sent out by the leader to work. When he came back, he heard that a jeep driver came to see Chen Hongjun, and he immediately realized that it should be Li Long.

When he hurried over, the jeep had already left, so he came to find Chen Hongjun.

Seeing Qi Zhiguo coming in, Chen Hongjun stood up and pulled him out. Some things cannot be said here - the crime of speculation has not been abolished. It is not wrong to introduce business as a middleman, but here, if there is no clear regulation, you can be reported. It is better not to give these office colleagues a chance to talk about it.

Seeing the two people leave, someone said sourly:
"It's obvious that they are here to discuss something. The excitement on Qi's face is almost overflowing."

"Maybe he is from Ma County? Qi Zhiguo is also from the purchasing station in Ma County, right?"

"Why do you care so much? They obviously have something good to do, but they just don't want to take us with them."

……

Chen Hongjun and Qi Zhiguo went out and walked to the shade of a tree in the distance. Chen Hongjun said to Qi Zhiguo:

"Li Long came over, and I told him about your introducer. He was very happy. His purchasing station did collect a lot of dried mushrooms, and he just needed to sell them. He also made it clear that as long as the person you introduced offered the right price, he would definitely give you a considerable commission."

"Hey, I'll contact my friend as soon as possible!" Qi Zhiguo smiled happily. Chen Hongjun bought a yard in Beiting, and Qi Zhiguo was envious. He also wanted to buy one, but unfortunately the money was not enough. If the introduction fee could be higher this time, even if he couldn't buy a big yard, he could buy a suburban or bungalow.

After all, living apart is not a good thing.

But it is not so easy to contact a person now. Qi Zhiguo knows where the mushroom collector is from, but he must be collecting mushrooms in southern and northern Xinjiang now, so Qi Zhiguo can only try to contact him through his own connections.

After Li Long left Chen Hongjun's unit, he did not go back but drove directly to Wucheng.

He is going to bring his family here to visit in a few days. He is not sure about the route yet and he can't just find it on the spur of the moment.

Not only do you need to be familiar with the routes for driving the jeep, but you also need to understand the routes for your family members to drive.

Fortunately, there are jeeps and now there are buses in Wucheng. Although it is not as convenient as there are no taxis, it is also good to take a bus from the South Railway Station to the zoo and water park.

There are few cars on the streets of Wucheng, but there are many buses and bicycles. Li Long asked around while looking for places and familiarizing himself with the routes.

Wucheng is an old city, and it is not an old city like Chang'an and Taiyuan. The urban area is built on the mountain and the terrain. There are no straight roads, and there are many streets and alleys, so it is difficult to remember the roads.

Now the urban area is relatively small and there are fewer roads, so they are easier to remember. But in a few years, when the urban area becomes larger, the large and small roads will annoy some people who are road-blind - many locals have to use navigation in the city. After all, the roads here are repaired every year, and it is unpredictable which road will be blocked at any time.

Li Long drove for two hours in Wucheng. After getting familiar with the road, he found a state-owned canteen to eat. After the meal, he drove the jeep to a shady place to rest for half an hour before driving back to the county town.

Li Long first went to the purchasing station and told Gu Boyuan and Sun Jiaqiang that someone would come to collect mushrooms and asked them to contact him directly. He would not be in the big yard during this period, but in the supply and marketing cooperative or the fourth team.

At first, it was Li Long who bought things, then it was Li Long and Gu Boyuan, and now it was Gu Boyuan and Sun Jiaqiang. However, it was always Li Long who sold things, which meant that Li Long controlled the output channels of the purchasing station, and only Li Long knew how much money was earned in the end.

Li Long did not do this on purpose, mainly because Jia Tianlong and Zhao Hui, who purchased the fritillaria and leather, only recognized Li Long.

After explaining this, Li Long told two people to tell the middlemen who often come here to tell them not to come because the purchasing station is closed on Sunday. Then he went to the big yard. He was tired after running all day, so he went to rest early.

The next day, he got a piece of white paper and wrote that the purchasing station would be closed on Sunday, and posted it at the entrance of the purchasing station's courtyard. This was also an explanation to those people.

On Sunday morning, after Li Long finished his breakfast, he went to the purchasing station and gave Sun Jiaqiang a day off. He told him that if he went out for a walk, he should lock the gate, and if he did not go out, he should keep an eye on the gate and not open it.

The purchasing station has been open for so many days in a row, so it is normal for it to take a day off. The donkeys in the production team still have time to rest. It is impossible for the purchasing station to be open 365 days a year.

After talking to Sun Jiaqiang, I returned to the yard. Over there, Li Jianguo had already driven a tractor and brought his family to the yard.

Li Qingxia and his wife, Li Jianguo and his family of four, a total of six people came.

The yard was immediately bustling with activity. Li Juan and Li Qiang, wearing new Warrior shoes, were teasing Mingming and Haohao. Mingming and Haohao were not afraid either, and even stood up to ask their older sister and brother to hold them, making the two children love them very much.

After chatting for a while, Li Long first sent the people to the bus station. After coming back, he took my mother, Li Juan, Li Qiang, Mingming and Haohao - originally he wanted to take his sister-in-law in a jeep, but Liang Yuemei meant to let the two children ride in the jeep, which was more comfortable than riding in a car.

Parents are always worried about their children.

Li Long originally thought about whether he should bring Han Fang along as well, but Han Fang actually had no intention of going at all and was determined to stay with her mother.

So he said goodbye to them and drove away in the jeep.

"You don't want to go?" Sister Yang was also a little surprised. "If you want to go, you can go just now."

"Mom, I don't want to go." Han Fang said with a smile, "Our school will organize a trip to Wucheng in a while, and we'll have a chance later. Now it's just the two of us, so tell me, what should we do?"

"Then let's go to the south yard."

In the jeep, Li Qiang was already dreaming of going to the zoo to see monkeys. (End of this chapter)