Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

There are quite a lot of people selling mushrooms these days. Li Long guessed that it might be because the Fritillaria are gone now, and the only things that can be produced in the mountains are mushrooms - deer antlers are not so easy to pick up, so you have to rely on luck.

It is not yet the time to dig Codonopsis pilosula. It is okay to dig it now and sell it, but it is very weak and its weight cannot be measured by drying it. People who often collect herbs in the mountains are aware of this, so it is not that there are no people digging Codonopsis pilosula at this time, but they are relatively few.

Some people go into the mountains to collect other supplies and come across relatively large Codonopsis pilosula that has been washed apart by mountain water, so they bring them back.

The most common thing is mushrooms, both dried, semi-dried and fresh. Li Long told Sun Jiaqiang that he would not accept fresh or semi-dried straw mushrooms - they have worms in them, and if you pick them late, the mushrooms will be full of worm holes when you dry them.

So I only accept useful information, and it is best if it is high-quality.

Now the red brick floor in the backyard of the purchasing station has been cleaned and a lot of mushrooms are drying there.

Fortunately, most of the people selling morels and black tiger mushrooms are dry goods, which Gu Boyuan needs to assess their grades and Sun Jiaqiang needs to sort.

Now, the number of people who come to the purchasing station to sell things every day is basically maintained at around thirty to forty. Of course, occasionally someone will suddenly come to sell bulk goods, and there will also be a day when most of the people selling goods are individual.

Both Li Long and Gu Boyuan knew that this was already a virtuous cycle. Putting these thirty or forty people in a whole day was not a lot. It was precisely because of this that Sun Jiaqiang had time to sort the goods.

After Li Long gave him a bonus of fifty yuan, Sun Jiaqiang's enthusiasm for work suddenly increased - this month's salary was fifty yuan, and the bonus was fifty yuan, totaling one hundred yuan.

One hundred yuan! Before coming to the mountains of northern Xinjiang to make a living, my family couldn’t save up one hundred yuan even after working for three years!

That night, Sun Jiaqiang cried for half an hour under his quilt in his dormitory. He earned in just one month what his family earned in three years.

The next day, Sun Jiaqiang cheered up and worked harder. Although Li Long said that he might not get such a large bonus every month, it was still a good start.

This shows that my choice was correct. I was given such a high salary in the first month. How could I not work hard?

Sun Jiaqiang's unusual behavior actually shocked Gu Boyuan. After asking about the situation, he was also quite emotional, and then told Sun Jiaqiang that the country now says that the more you work, the more you get. Sun Jiaqiang does a lot of work, a lot of things, and is efficient, so he can naturally get more money.

The purchasing station's monthly net income is tens of thousands, and Gu Boyuan himself can earn about 10,000 per month. Can you imagine this?
It's like he's dreaming.

In the next few days, Li Long would go to the purchasing station every day. The purchasing station currently did not purchase any particularly large items, and was mainly for daily use.

It was his pleasure to occasionally come across someone selling copper coins or antiques.

Although some people have begun to slowly purchase those old items from various channels at this time, most of them are high-grade ones like those from official kilns or those with inheritances. Ordinary old folk items are not valuable unless they are precious items such as gold, silver, and jade.

Li Long has collected quite a few silver dollars, including ordinary Yuan Datou and those minted by local provinces.

In the past six months since the purchasing station was opened, we have collected hundreds of silver dollars - the cost has increased from two or three dollars per coin at the beginning to five dollars per coin now - the price has increased.

There is no way, we have to follow the market. The purchasing station in the market also sells at the same price, probably because they know the profit.

However, Li Long had no intention of selling them. After collecting them, he took them directly back to the yard, put them in the cellar, and cleaned them regularly.

Liu Xinjun has been visiting purchasing stations in several nearby counties and cities these past two days. What surprised him was that all of these purchasing stations were deserted and business was dismal.

But the attitude of the purchasing staff there was very bad, which made him dislike him very much.

Liu Xinjun even came out to take a look and asked around, and found out that it was a private company. Are all private companies so powerful now?

If the attitude was better, business wouldn't be so bad, right?

Although Liu Xinjun is sometimes quite arrogant, it depends on who he is with. He never hesitates to smile to those who can bring him profits and money.

There are many people in the business and the competition is fierce. Liu Xinjun has known this for a long time, otherwise he would not be able to make money.

After going around in circles and running around in other counties and cities for two days, Liu Xinjun thought of Li Long again.

The reason why this young man’s purchasing station business is so successful is that his service attitude is crucial. Of course, there must be other factors, but he is not quite sure about them at the moment.

In the past two days, Liu Xinjun collected less than 20 kilograms of dried mushrooms, and none of them were top quality. This made him think about going back to Li Long to try again.

At worst, I can give up the profits and earn less, but at least I can send the goods back.

After experiencing what happened in the past two or three days, Liu Xinjun also realized that at this time, holding on to someone who could continuously provide him with the supplies he needed was much more important than earning a few hundred or a few thousand dollars!

Liu Xinjun bought a ticket to Ma County in the morning. He planned to arrive in Ma County around 12 o'clock. He could chat with Li Long and treat him to a meal. Even if Li Long didn't have many dried mushrooms, he could collect them and build a good relationship with him so that he could guarantee to sell the dried mushrooms he collected to him in the future.

Such a prosperous purchasing station will definitely be able to collect a lot of dried mushrooms in the upcoming mushroom season. Black tiger palm mushrooms are a treasure in the mountains and make much more money than ordinary mushrooms.

Liu Xinjun was still dreaming when he got out of the car. Once he got to the purchasing station, he would have to have a good talk with Li Long and not be impatient. He had to take down this boss today.

When he walked from the bus station to the purchasing station, his Dacron shirt was soaked with sweat. Not only was his body hot, but his heart was also burning - mainly because of the long queues in the yard of the purchasing station. He could even smell the fragrance of wild mushrooms.

Look at this, this is a good partner. It's not like those purchasing stations I saw a few days ago, which were weak and lifeless.

Comparing people with others will lead to death, and comparing goods with goods will lead to throwing away!

Liu Xinjun has already regarded this purchasing station as his own partner. Seeing the booming business here, he feels very happy.

He walked into the yard with his bag, shouting "Make way, let me find the boss," and squeezed in, saying to Sun Jiaqiang:
"Comrade Sun, could you please go and call your boss again?"

"Looking for the boss?" Sun Jiaqiang looked at this person with a strange expression. He recognized this person as the second person to come to collect dried mushrooms, and he didn't know why Li Long didn't sell the remaining wild mushrooms to him.

"The boss is in the backyard. You can see him if you go around from the east." Sun Jiaqiang said, "Go ahead." That's great. Liu Xinjun thanked him with a smile, turned around and went out to the backyard.

Sun Jiaqiang immediately stood up and rushed to the back. Before Liu Xinjun arrived at the back, he had already told Li Long about this person's coming.

"He's here too?" Li Long looked a little surprised, then smiled and said, "Then let him come over."

Sun Jiaqiang went back to the front yard and started working, and Liu Xinjun went around to the back half a minute later.

He felt that this purchasing station was really good. The front and back yards were paved with red bricks and were swept cleanly. There was tea in the yard - he came here late just now because he had drunk half a bowl of tea.

When he arrived at the backyard, Liu Xinjun was thinking about how to greet Li Long appropriately. What caught his eye were wild mushrooms drying on the ground, most of which were morels, which looked very rare to him.

These will soon be my stuff - these goods are much better than what I saw at other purchasing stations a few days ago.

Then he looked up and was dumbfounded - why was Huang Lei here?
Yes, Huang Lei came too.

Yesterday afternoon he received a telegram and wired money from his partner. After withdrawing it, he hurried over early this morning.

Although Huang Lei didn't know that Liu Xinjun came to find Li Long, he was afraid that things would get more serious if something went wrong.

When he arrived at the purchasing station, he happened to meet Li Long and started chatting with him. In Huang Lei's opinion, it was a great opportunity to have a cooperative relationship with Li Long. Just look at the mushrooms drying in the yard to see it.

This time he came to take away the mushrooms that he had inspected before - his partner not only remitted the money, but also gave comments, saying that the dried mushrooms brought over this time were of very good quality. If they were all of this kind of mushrooms, he would take as many as possible, and could even raise the price later.

Huang Lei was very happy.

When Liu Xinjun came over, Li Long was settling accounts with Huang Lei - Huang Lei came early and had already conducted another routine inspection of the mushrooms that he had inspected last time, but this time the inspection was not as detailed.

After checking and weighing, they were paying. This time Huang Lei strongly requested to pay for the bag to Li Long, and Li Long did not refuse.

Although the black tiger's paw mushrooms this time were not as abundant and expensive as the morels last time, in just two or three days, Li Long received more than 50 kilograms of dried morels, 70 to 80 kilograms of old black tiger's paw mushrooms, and more than ten kilograms of this year's fresh black tiger's paw mushrooms.

In June, in places that are already relatively hot, black tiger paw fungus has begun to grow.

More than 50 kilograms of morels may sound like a lot, but these are harvested from the Nanshan mountains in several nearby counties and cities, so there won’t be much left if you spread them out.

Li Long's purchase price is higher than that of several other purchasing stations. Even after deducting the ticket price, he can still make a few more dollars. These people understand that they are a small business, so they hope to earn even a few dollars.

So when all was calculated, the money earned this time was actually more than the last time. The money Li Long received from Huang Lei was 12,926.80 yuan.

Huang Lei directly gave 12,930 yuan, and he counted the extra three yuan as the bag fee.

Li Long bought all the bags for the goods. Those who came to sell goods had to take the bags back - these days, a fertilizer bag was an important living resource for ordinary people, and it would not be given to others casually.

When Liu Xinjun saw Huang Lei, the expression on his face became much more interesting.

He looked at Li Long again, his eyes were much more complicated, and there was an extra bit of resentment in his heart: I obviously already regarded you as a partner, so how could you still hook up with this person?
You really have no professional ethics!

Li Long didn't know that Liu Xinjun had come up with a big drama in his mind, and said with a smile:

"Boss Liu is here? Hello. This is Boss Huang, who is also here to pick mushrooms."

"Didn't you say you didn't have any mushrooms? There are mushrooms in this yard, and all these bags are full of mushrooms?" Liu Xinjun wanted to keep his composure, but when he saw so many bags of mushrooms, he completely exploded: "Why didn't you tell me you had mushrooms when I came here last time? How can you lie to me? You are so dishonest!"

If I bought so many dried mushrooms myself and sent them to my hometown, I could earn at least two to three thousand yuan!

This Li Long is really a piece of shit!
"These mushrooms were reserved by Mr. Huang." Li Long was not angry. He could understand Mr. Liu's feelings and said seriously, "The day before you came, Mr. Huang reserved all the dried mushrooms here. Due to limited transportation capacity, he only took a part of them. These are the rest."

He had no conflicts with Liu Xinjun, so he would not completely offend Liu Xinjun because of Huang Lei.

But it would have been better if he didn't explain. After this explanation, Liu Xinjun became even angrier. So it was my fault after all?

When Huang Lei heard this, he was stunned at first, and then he became angry.

Liu Xinjun not only tricked him to southern Xinjiang, but also tried to steal his partners! If Li Long hadn't been honest in business and promised that what was his was his, he would probably have nothing to sell even if he took it!
While he was glad that he had found an excellent business partner, he was also angry at Liu Xinjun's shamelessness. For the first time, he put away his smile and looked at Liu Xinjun:
"Old Liu, aren't you going too far? You tricked me to come to Southern Xinjiang, and that's fine. I don't know how to judge people, and that's my bad luck, but you actually came to steal my girl. This is not what a decent businessman should do!"

"What's the matter? The mushrooms here have your name written on them?" Liu Xinjun had regained his composure and started to act like a rogue. "Even if you ordered these mushrooms, what about these on the ground? Dried mushrooms are good stuff, and the one with the highest price gets it, don't you understand? If you can buy them, then I can buy them too?
I'm really telling you, I'm not arguing with you, it was my suggestion that you go to Southern Xinjiang, I just want to separate from you so that it's not easy to have conflicts. As for the fact that you didn't receive the things in Southern Xinjiang, that's because you are not capable enough!"

Liu Xinjun knew that he would not get any advantage today, but he could see that Li Long was quite reasonable. After regaining his senses, he realized that since he and Li Long had not reached an agreement, there was nothing to say.

He planned to wait until Huang Lei left and then see if he could sign an exclusive contract with Li Long. That way, he would have a steady stream of dried mushrooms flowing into his pocket.

It doesn't matter if the price is high. As long as Huang Lei is squeezed out, the price can be adjusted later.

Huang Lei was extremely angry, but he also knew that he could not win the argument with this sharp-tongued fellow villager, so he ignored him, turned around and put a smile on his face again, settled the money with Li Long, called the temporary worker he had found at the bus station when he came here today, and left with the dried mushrooms on his back.

Whatever is in your pocket belongs to you. It is safe in your pocket. Huang Lei thought to himself that he should send the things away first.

Anyway, he has chosen Li Long, and he will come back immediately after the things are sent away!
Let’s see what tricks Liu Xinjun can come up with next!

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