Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After breakfast the next day, Li Long went to the purchasing station first and told Gu Boyuan about this.

Such a big thing, the county might have some explanation later, so he must inform his father-in-law, otherwise, if things really don’t go according to his plan and are announced, he will be in a passive position.

Li Long pulled Gu Boyuan to the backyard and told him about this matter. He spoke simply, but Gu Boyuan's expression became serious as he listened.

"Are you sure that Xie Youcai is alone?"

"Yes, I interrogated him, and he came here alone. By the way, he said his father also knew about this situation, and he was probably afraid that I would kill him."

"There are still some problems..." Gu Boyuan said, "Your case will definitely be good in the end. I'm just afraid that Xie Youcai will come out of prison for two years and cause trouble for you."

"That's right." Li Long smiled, "But since it's out, there's no point in being afraid. Let's see how to deal with it."

The thing has been done, Li Long will definitely not regret it, and he will definitely do the same if it happens again. This matter cannot be blamed on others. This guy destroyed his wooden house. No matter what, it has to be resolved in the end - when he was lying in bed last night, he reviewed it again, and it ended up being the same procedure.

Li Long was very pleased that both Gu Xiaoxia and Gu Boyuan thought of his safety first. As for the silver dollars, they did not pay much attention to them.

He believed that even if he returned to Team 4 and told his eldest brother, his parents, they would still be concerned about the same thing.

"I'm going to the supply and marketing cooperative to hear about the situation now." Li Long said, "After reporting this matter, I basically didn't get involved in anything. I went to hear about the situation, but I don't know how it will be handled in the end."

"Yes, it's right not to participate, but we must know the subsequent process." Gu Boyuan supported Li Long's decision, "There's nothing wrong here, don't worry, with Xiao Sun and I here, there won't be any problems."

"Okay." Li Long responded and went to the supply and marketing cooperative.

What surprised him was that Li Xiangqian was not there, saying that he had gone to the county for a meeting.

"The director answered the phone and left. When he left, he told me that if you wanted to come over, you should wait in his office."

"I won't be in his office anymore, Section Chief Zhou. Can I come to your place for a cup of tea?" Li Long said to Zhou Yuan with a smile.

"Hey, I couldn't ask for more. You haven't been here much lately." Zhou Yuan said with a smile, "Come on, come on, my tea isn't as good as the director's, but it's not bad either. Go and have a try."

Since Li Xiangqian was promoted to director, Li Long basically went directly to the director's office after arriving at the supply and marketing cooperative, and left after finishing his work. He hardly chatted with his former "colleagues", and now the only person he is familiar with is Zhou Yuan.

Some of his "colleagues" in the purchasing department were transferred, while others remained as unknown figures, and he didn't say much to them in total.

However, after Li Long came over today, these colleagues came over to say hello, chatted for a few minutes in Zhou Yuan, got to know each other, and then left after the next group of people came over.

Even Chief Hong from the security section came over and told Li Long to visit him when he was free and to let him know if he needed bullets.

Li Long was a little surprised. After all the people left and it was quiet, he took the tea handed over by Zhou Yuan and asked with some doubt:

"Section Chief, what's going on? I haven't been here for a few days, and the comrades are much more enthusiastic."

"What?" Zhou Yuan sat down and said with a smile, "It's because of you coming here yesterday. Also, the director revealed it during the morning meeting this morning, saying that you have done something big, and you may soon become the second county representative in our supply and marketing cooperative.

The director doesn't allow me to ask, so I won't ask you. We are all in the same department. If you get promoted in the future, just remember to let me know if there is anything good. "Zhou Yuan is the department head, but he is very humble. While Li Long was a little surprised, he also seemed to realize that he seemed to have underestimated the value of this representative.

It's just a hat, and it belongs to the county, not the state or autonomous region. Is it necessary to do this?
But it's normal to think about it. How old is Li Long now? Twenty-five or so? He's so young and about to become a county representative. Who says he can't become a state representative or an autonomous region representative in the future?
Didn’t you previously win the title of Advanced Individual for National Unity in the autonomous region?

Even if it's not a cold stove now, it's okay to heat it up a bit, at least to make him familiar. If you need his help in the future, he should know who you are, right?
After Li Long understood and thought it through, he stopped worrying about it. It wouldn't do him any harm anyway, so he stopped thinking about it and talked to Zhou Yuan about the recent situation of the supply and marketing cooperative.

The supply and marketing cooperatives themselves purchase and sell, and their main focus is wholesale. However, due to the tide of market economy, private transactions, and the rise of middlemen, the situation here has become a bit complicated.

Although some special materials such as salt still have to be purchased and sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives, more and more things that were originally sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives are being bought by private individuals in the market, which has a great impact on the supply and marketing cooperatives.

"Our benefits are not as good as before," Zhou Yuan said with emotion. "We are all thinking that if things continue like this, we may only be able to make a living on the basic salary in the future."

"That's definitely impossible." Li Long comforted him, "The allocation of large quantities of materials cannot be done by individuals in a short period of time. Small-scale operations are possible, but if you want to expand it, you still have to do it."

It’s hard to tell whether what Li Long said is true or not, but Zhou Yuan was quite happy to hear it.

After chatting for a while, there were noises and greetings outside. Li Xiangqian came back.

He hurried in and saw Li Long in the purchasing department. Li Xiangqian waved to him and Li Long hurriedly followed him. The two of them entered the director's office one after the other.

Zhou Yuan followed enviously from behind, went over to pour water for Li Xiangqian, and then left. He probably couldn't participate in this matter.

Seeing Zhou Yuan close the door, Li Xiangqian unbuttoned his shirt, took a notebook and fanned himself with it, while fanning himself he smiled and said to Li Long who was holding a cup:
"You feel comfortable and don't have to worry about anything."

"My rank is too low." Li Long joked, "I can't even reach you during the meeting. Besides, all I can do is tell you about my position. I can't do anything else myself."

"How clever." Li Xiangqian sighed, "Some people just try to get close to me. Although this is a credit, it is also a problem."

Li Long was a little surprised. Did something happen?

"Something happened." Li Xiangqian looked at the few silver dollars on the table that had not been put away, and then said to Li Long, "Xie Youcai is dead."

"What?" Li Long was startled. He stood up from his seated position, and the water in the cup he was holding spilled out. He was unaware of it and asked, "How did he die? He was fine when I handed him over to Bolati."

"He was beaten to death." Li Xiangqian said, "This incident spread among the forestry team yesterday. There are many ethnic minorities in the forestry team, including some Kazakhs. They regard Usman as a hero. One of them was drunk and took out his anger on Xie Youcai after learning about this incident."

"Wasn't he sent to the Public Security Bureau?" Li Long was a little surprised. "Shouldn't this matter be transferred?"

"It took until midnight just to move all those things yesterday and count them. The police wanted to hand them over today, but I didn't expect that he was beaten to death by that Kazakh in the middle of the night."

Li Xiangqian sighed and said, "In fact, the Kazakh forest ranger didn't hit Xie Youcai too hard. He was just beaten during the interrogation after he was arrested. He didn't eat, and was beaten when he was sleeping at night. He kicked him twice and broke his spleen. The man didn't pay attention and left after the beating. When I saw him this morning, he was hard."

Li Long had not expected this outcome. Although Xie Youcai was not a good person, in Li Long's opinion, his crime was not punishable by death. If he was imprisoned for a few years and then caused trouble for him after he was released, that would be fine, but to be beaten to death so easily, was it really... cruel?

In fact, even though Li Long thought about taking everything in the cave for himself yesterday, he didn't have the idea of ​​killing anyone.

The mood is a bit complicated.

"We just went to a meeting. This is the report from the forestry team. County Magistrate Hao severely criticized their team leader and said that they will have to deal with it. After all, they didn't find out anything and even killed the prisoner. The forest ranger who beat the man to death was fired and has now been transferred to the police station."

Li Long nodded. No matter what, he would be punished for killing someone.

It's a violation of the criminal law.

"The inventory of that batch of supplies was reported this morning." Li Xiangqian continued, "Let me take a look..."

He brought a black softcover notebook with him to the meeting and opened it to look at the data inside:
"102 rifles, 50 rounds of ammunition, 107 sabers, silver dollars, and pieces of various gold and silver jewelry." He looked up at Li Long, coughed lightly, and continued:
"34 US dollars; gold bars, weighing kilograms..."

"So many?" Li Long was also surprised. "So many US dollars and gold bars?"

"That's right." Li Xiangqian put down the notebook and said with emotion, "That's you. To be honest, if I had seen so many things at that time, especially so many gold bars and US dollars, I might have become greedy."

"I just wanted to leave quickly. With Xie Youcai beside me, I didn't think of looking through them carefully. I was afraid that if I saw all these things, I would not be able to bear to part with them..." Li Long was honest. "In fact, I didn't see the gold bars. If I had seen them, I don't know if I would be so determined."

"Hehe," Li Xiangqian pointed at him and said, "You are really a fool with good fortune. County Chief Tan reported the situation to the top two leaders in the county. After they knew the specific data and knew that the inside was basically untouched, they said that you are a good comrade and will praise and reward you."

"Hehe, I just did what I was supposed to do." Li Long smiled and took a sip of tea. "Did you say there was any praise or reward?"

"Nothing was said at the meeting. Among the supplies, guns and other items were handed over to the militia warehouse of the armed forces department, as were sabers. As for the silver dollars, US dollars, gold and the like, the county has no say in that. It has to report to the state, and most likely to the autonomous region. This matter will take a few more days."

Li Long listened and nodded without saying anything. He just handed these things over. Although he would occasionally feel a little regretful, reason would prevail in the end. If he kept them, it would definitely bring disaster to his family.

After returning from the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long arrived at the purchasing station and saw that Gu Boyuan and his team were still collecting things. In the past two days, they were selling more mushrooms. He did not intervene, but went to the backyard to help clean up the things, especially the things collected. Some fresh mushrooms still needed to be handled properly.

In the next two or three days, there was no news from the supply and marketing cooperative, but there were more people selling old things at the purchasing station, including silver dollars, copper coins, and old porcelain.

This surprised Li Long. Could it be that some relics or ancient tombs were discovered somewhere else?
Although I didn't have a good eye, I knew that counterfeiting had already occurred at that time, but the counterfeiting technology at that time was not as perfect as it was in later generations, so since it looked almost the same, I just accepted it.

After waiting for two days and seeing nothing happened, Li Long "borrowed" a truck from the transportation company and drove his jeep to the forestry team's garrison point.

He had promised Ali that he would come here as soon as possible to buy the things.

What surprised Li Long was that both Ali and Bolati were there.

It is rare for outsiders to come to the forestry team. Every time Li Long comes, he brings some supplies, so the young men here like him very much.

Ali organized people to move the things to the warehouse, and then took Li Long to see the things:

"During this period, there are more people in the mountains. We don't catch those who pick mushrooms, but we still collect some mushrooms. As for Fritillaria, there are fewer of them, so we basically keep them. But some people dug out some old things from the mountains, and we collected them too."

Li Long thought that he would just accept it, since he also collected these things at the purchasing station. If someone came to buy it, he would sell it at a suitable price. If no one bought it, it would definitely appreciate in value if he kept it.

He really doesn't care about this small amount of money for the time being.

"Since you're here today, don't leave at noon." Ali patted Li Long's shoulder enthusiastically and said, "Let's slaughter a sheep and have hand-pulled meat for lunch!"

As he said this, he turned to Bolati, who was winking at Li Long, and said:
"Bolati, go and ask them to slaughter a sheep, a fat one. We'll have some hand-grabbed meat for lunch, hurry up?"

"Okay, I'll go now." Bolati responded and turned away.

Ali and the young men who gathered around him started to move things out. Ali didn't bring a scale for these mushrooms and old items. He asked Li Long to make a rough estimate and then loaded them into the truck.

There were nearly 200 kilograms of Fritillaria in the cart, probably because the herbalists didn't have time to transport them down the mountain during the Fritillaria season. There were more than 180 kilograms of dried morels, more than 200 kilograms of black tiger palm mushrooms, and a lot of copper and silver wares. Even though they were silver wares at that time, they were actually not very valuable, and they were all black because of their age, so it was hard to estimate their value.

In the end, Li Long's estimated price was 6,000 yuan, but Ali insisted on accepting 5,000 yuan and refused to take more.

"Li Long, I'm telling you, you treat us as friends. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be the team leader, let alone the deputy team leader, about that mountain man. I have to thank you..."

When Ali was drinking tea with Li Long in the house, he spoke out his true feelings, "I'm telling you, because the captured man died, we can no longer be the deputy captain. As for me, I became the deputy captain because I made a contribution to this matter.

I tell you, from now on, I will still be responsible for the things in this warehouse. Others have also approached me before, but I will only sell to you! It’s whatever price you say, no bargaining! "

Li Long smiled, picked up the milk tea and said, "That's because you have the ability. If you don't, the leader won't let you be the deputy captain. Let's talk about our deal. Come, congratulations!"

"Hahahaha." Ali was also happy when he heard it.

Many people in the forestry team were originally herders, so they were very quick at slaughtering cattle and sheep and stewing them. After more than an hour, a large plate of meat was served, along with skin yams and naan.

Smelling the delicious hand-pulled meat, Li Long also felt hungry - there was meat for every meal at home, but he was not used to eating it this way, so he was a little greedy.

Then eat it!

After returning from the forestry team’s garrison point and unloading the goods, the driver went back very satisfied - he made some meat for lunch, it was worth it!

Two days later, Li Xiangqian sent news that his representative had really approved it!

When Li Long heard the news, he had just returned from the mountains.

It was several days later that he remembered that he had left something in the cabin in the mountains! (End of this chapter)