Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

During this period, Huang Lei would come to Li Long to collect dried mushrooms every five days to a week.

The dried wild mushrooms here are of very good quality and are processed very cleanly. After they are shipped back, the customers there are very satisfied.

When Li Long saw Huang Lei, Huang Lei had already come over with a smile and stretched out his hands.

At this time, Huang Lei was no longer as embarrassed as he was when he first saw Li Long buying dried mushrooms. He was wearing a white cool shirt, blue-black trousers, and leather shoes. Unfortunately, the ground was quite dusty here. Li Long could see that he had cleaned up well before coming.

But the environment does not allow it, so my feet are a bit messy.

But her mental state was very good, and she looked quite high-spirited. She had hair oil on her head, which was shining in the sunlight. Before she came up to her, Li Long could already smell the scent of osmanthus.

Huang Lei was followed by a sturdy young man, who looked a little curious. He kept glancing at the people in the purchasing station out of the corner of his eye, and was a little wary.

He was holding a black bag in his hand, which was bulging. The young man was half-holding the bag when he was holding it.

It's obvious that this bag contains something valuable.

This is a very traditional outfit and demeanor. Li Long wanted to laugh when he saw it, but the people around who were selling things, especially the middlemen, looked at Huang Lei's outfit and the people who followed him with envy.

Li Long knew that it was normal for a talent like Huang Lei to exist. If he was left alone for another two years, he would be able to show his wealth with a mobile phone in his hand. Although some people disparaged him as a nouveau riche, in fact, even a nouveau riche would be the object of envy of many people.

People like Li Long who don't care about their clothes, don't want to use hair oil, don't want to wear a white shirt and black trousers to be so formal, and don't bring their younger brothers with them to pretend to be rich are considered the alternative.

After all, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singaporean television have a huge influence on mainland Chinese people. In their view, the exaggerated looks in film and television programs are the sign of normal dress for developed people.

Bell-bottom pants, jeans, breakdancing, etc. are slowly spreading in small towns and becoming the fashion trend.

Although Huang Lei came from the oral tradition, to be honest, the aesthetic level of most people in mainland China at that time was just that, learning from movies and TV shows, and from celebrities.

"Hello, Comrade Li Long!" Huang Lei said with a smile, "I'm really envious of your booming business."

"What's there to envy?" Li Long shook hands with Huang Lei and led the two to the reception room at the back. As they walked, he said, "We are a small place here, so we can only collect some local specialties. It's not like you, who travel all over the country, see beautiful scenery, visit famous places in various places, and make money..."

"Hahahaha, Comrade Li Long, you are really good at talking. But to be honest, I think it's good for you this way. I'm running around everywhere, and it's not as easy as you say. Of course, it's much better than it was a month ago..."

Huang Lei is very satisfied with the current situation. Although the harvest is no longer limited to Li Long's family. After all, the growth range of black tiger palm fungus is all over the northern slope of Tianshan Mountain, all the way to the Yili River Valley.

So he has been patrolling various cities in Beipo. After all, the supply channel cannot be limited to Li Long. What if Li Long has a competitor, wouldn't he be at a loss?

But to be honest, the only one who collects black tiger paw fungus on a large scale is Li Long.

Firstly, Li Long's purchasing station has become famous in several nearby cities. Whether it is mountain travelers or middlemen in several cities east of Shicheng, they all know that Li Long pays high prices for the things he buys and buys from a wide range of people.

As for collecting dried wild mushrooms, this is also done on a large scale in Li Long's area. Other places don't collect them much because there are no channels for shipping. Li Long collects them first and then finds a sales channel.

So even though Huang Lei has visited cities like Beipo, and even recently went to Tacheng, the amount of dried wild mushrooms he actually received was not that much. The amount from other places combined was not as much as what Li Long received.

Of course, after purchasing goods several times, Huang Lei found that Li Long was still honest and did not sell dried mushrooms to his competitors, which made him feel relieved.

He made money, and Li Long also made money. This is what Li Long calls a win-win situation.

Of course, Huang Lei was also relieved because the quality of Li Long's products was very good. There were not many impurities in the dried mushrooms, and the soil and debris had been cleaned away.

Even if they are cleaned up, the dried mushrooms placed in the sack will inevitably be fragile and have residues, but at least there won't be that much.

Grab a handful of dried mushrooms and you can see that they have been processed, there is no dirt at the roots and no weeds overall, which is very good.

Or, in other words, it is very good. Huang Lei went to various places to buy dried wild mushrooms, and none of them were as clean as this one. At most, there were not many impurities, but it was inevitable that there would be broken pieces. After all, these were bought with money, and it was impossible for others to throw these pieces away.

But with Li Long, those scum are gone.

Sun Jiaqiang played an indispensable role in this, and this is also related to the quality that Li Long has repeatedly emphasized. The things that come out of the purchasing station must be of good quality - there is nothing you can do if the leather has holes, but at least you can clean the grease on it and comb the hair.

So when Huang Lei went out to receive the goods, he would occasionally have a look of disgust on his face. In fact, he knew that this was because his appetite had been spoiled by Li Long's goods.

But what could he do? He thought the amazing stuff he got the first time was normal, but he didn't expect it to be the peak.

"You businessmen are the ones who know how to talk." Li Long waved his hand and said, "There are a lot of dried wild mushrooms this time. Do you want to take a look now, or take a look first?"

"Just look at it now. I'll find a car to take it away after I'm done. I can still catch the train to the mainland tonight." Huang Lei didn't want to delay. His wild mushroom business is doing well now. He has a fixed market and it is still expanding. If he doesn't occupy the market during the peak season, he will have nothing to do when the off-season comes.

After all, he is not the only one who has wild mushrooms, nor is he the only one who has the connections. Although Liu Xinjun did not come to Li Long again, Huang Lei felt that this person was always eyeing him covetously, and he might come out to steal his business at any time.

"Okay, then come over and check it out." Li Long said with a smile, "I've collected a lot these days. If you don't take it away, I'll be thinking of some way to contact you. By the way, I have a phone number for this collection station. If you have any questions, you can call here. Xiao Sun can also answer it when I'm not around."

As he spoke, Sun Jiaqiang poured some tea over, listened to what Li Long said, smiled at Huang Lei, and then went to the front.

There are many people selling things, and he is still busy.

Li Long opened the warehouse and asked Huang Lei to check the dried mushrooms.

Now we check each bag and take it out. There is no need for repeated checking and it is also convenient to weigh the goods.

It's also convenient for Li Long.

The dried mushrooms in the warehouse are mainly black tiger palm mushrooms, and a quarter are straw mushrooms. If Huang Lei doesn't want the straw mushrooms, Li Long will store them. He believes that this stuff will also be in high demand in winter.

After all, although we have greenhouse technology now, it is not yet advanced, and there are only a few kinds of home-cooked dishes in winter. Whether it is a restaurant or an individual family, who wouldn’t want to get some more dried vegetables to spice up the meal?
Now you can buy dried straw mushrooms for one or two yuan, and after soaking 200 grams, you can stir-fry a large plate. In winter, Li Long will not sell them unless they can sell for three or five yuan.

Although it was not his first transaction, Huang Lei still carefully checked the dried mushrooms in the bag.

Fortunately, the quality is as good as ever, the appearance is very high, and the roots have been processed.

There were more than 500 kilograms of black tiger paw mushrooms in the warehouse, and Li Long earned more than 10,000 yuan.

Nearly half of them are pure profit.

After Huang Lei hired a car to take the dried mushrooms away, Li Long took out fifty yuan and gave it to Sun Jiaqiang, saying it was a bonus.

Sun Jiaqiang was so busy with the bonuses that he was almost numb. This month, he earned much more than he earned by digging Fritillaria in the mountains.

If I had known there was such a good job, why would I have gone to the mountains? How nice it would be to live in this purchasing station?

After all this trouble, seeing that it was almost time for lunch, Li Long no longer thought about going into the mountains.

In the afternoon, he went to the purchasing station and called Zhao Hui.

Zhao Hui has a room in a state-owned guesthouse in Wucheng all year round. Now that he is not in the mouth, he is looking for goods in the southern and northern Xinjiang areas. Li Long called the front desk and said that Zhao Hui was not there. Li Long asked the other party to tell Zhao Hui that there was good goods here and asked him to come quickly.

With a few snow leopard skins in his hands, Li Long thought it would be better to exchange them for money as soon as possible.

In the afternoon, Li Long went to the yard and took out the leathers and sorted them out.

The leather smelled strong. Haohao didn't even come over. He just watched their father busying himself there from afar.

Now the two children can walk, crawl and play on their own, but Sister Yang dare not leave their side for a moment. After all, the two children want to put anything they pick up into their mouths to see if they can eat it.

Comb the fur of the leather, clean the blood on the fur, scrape off the grease on the leather, and deal with the bullet holes.

Although the bear skin was in tatters, it was still much larger than an ordinary sheepskin. The bear skin and fur were smooth, and it was obvious that this guy had plenty of food when he was alive and was well-fed.

It was a pity that it encountered its natural enemy. Brown bears come in all sizes, and Li Long had seen them all. The big ones were more than two meters tall and weighed five or six hundred kilograms, while the small ones were about one and a half meters tall and weighed fifty or sixty kilograms. With such a small size, even a few gray wolves surrounding it would scare it away, let alone the northern tiger.

There are some brave brown bears in northern Xinjiang and some timid ones. The timid ones are the real white bears, which are so big that they can be chased by several wolves.

After cleaning the snow leopard skins and bear skins, it was time for lunch.

It's quite troublesome - of course, the leathers in the purchasing station don't need to be processed in this way. First of all, Li Long told Gu Boyuan and Sun Jiaqiang that he wanted to slowly instill an idea in those middlemen, that is, the cleaner and better the things sold at the purchasing station, the more valuable they are.

For the same leather, you can earn two or three dollars more by combing it clean, scraping off the grease and washing off the blood stains.

These people's time and energy are not that valuable, so gradually they developed a habit of cleaning up the things they collected at home before selling them. They can make a little more money each time, so why not?
After all, no matter how capable Sun Jiaqiang is and how much he works overtime, he doesn't have ten hands.

Only by cultivating good habits of customers can we save more time and effort.

After all, the quality is good and Li Long sells it at a high price, so just treat this money as transfer payment.

The next day, after breakfast, Li Long talked to his family and drove to the mountains.

What surprised Li Long was that it rained in the mountains yesterday.

After passing two layers of earth hills and gravel hills, and entering the mountainous area with vegetation, Li Long felt the air was particularly moist and fresh.

It smells very pleasant.

Of course, the trouble was also great, that is, the road was not easy to walk on, and after the ground was wet, there was mud. Although the jeep was powerful, the mud splashed and had a significant impact.

I can only go back and wash the car properly.

Li Long was somewhat puzzled by the fact that a tractor was driving out of the ditch - he did not see the tractor, but saw the traces left by the tractor.

Is it because it was difficult to cut grass due to the rain, so Yushanjiang went out to the pastoral team’s stay-behind point to visit his family?
This is what Li Long guessed.

When we arrived at Yushanjiang's winter home, we didn't see Yushanjiang as expected, but there were a few herdsmen chatting here.

Seeing Li Long coming, the herdsmen hurriedly got up and waited for the jeep to arrive.

Li Long did not drive the jeep to the winter camp because there was too much mud and he was afraid that it would be scattered everywhere. Also, the jeep was heavy and it would leave marks in the mud in front of the winter camp, which would be difficult to clean up after it dried.

He got off the jeep and walked carefully to the winter den. While cleaning the thick mud on his shoes, he asked:
"Has Yushanjiang gone to the guard post to see his sheep?"

"Yes." said a herdsman named Yeerjiang, "They left early in the morning."

The sound of "早" is drawn out long, which means leaving very early.

People in northern Xinjiang have the habit of using the length of sounds to describe the distance of a journey and the amount of time it takes.

The longer the sound is, the farther away it is or the longer the time is.

"Will we be unable to cut grass today?" Li Long asked again. There were still thin clouds in the sky, but they seemed to be drifting eastward, and the northwest direction was clear. In about an hour or two, the sun would be bright in the sky.

"In the afternoon, the sun will dry the rain water on the grass, and then we can harvest it." Yerjiang handed Li Long a piece of naan. Li Long shook his head to indicate that he had eaten, and Yerjiang started eating it himself.

I can play in the afternoon and have nothing to do in the morning, so Yushanjiang went to see his family. This is normal and there is nothing wrong with it.

After the weather cleared up, mushrooms began to grow. Li Long couldn't really help much with cutting grass, so he carried a sack and went to the mountains, intending to pick some mushrooms first.

A sack of dried mushrooms can weigh more than ten kilograms and can be exchanged for a lot of money. The speed and ease of making money is much better than harvesting wheat.

But it was just him. If you just randomly picked someone from the village and put him in the mountains, he really wouldn't have any idea - this kind of experience in picking mushrooms cannot be explained in a few words.

Li Long has been hanging out in the mountains every year in recent years and has gained a lot of experience.

When he had picked up most of the sack of mushrooms, he heard the sound of a tractor in the woods.

The news coming from the north was not that Talihar started the tractor, but that Yushanjiang had returned.

You came back early this time?
Li Long was a little surprised. According to this time, did he go there and come back directly?

Li Long hesitated for a moment and decided to fill the sack with mushrooms before going out - there were a lot of black tiger paw mushrooms in this ditch, and he had already filled up most of the sack in a short while. He was too lazy to run away when the time came.

Even for an experienced person, it is rare to encounter this kind of mushrooms in large groups, and they are even connected in groups, so you have to cherish them. (I wonder if anyone has been to the No. 15 ditch in Kangsugou. There are so many black tiger palm mushrooms there... back then.)
What surprised Li Long was that before he had filled his sack, he heard someone calling him from the entrance of the ditch.

He recognized it as Yushanjiang's voice.

The voice sounded a little urgent, and Li Long hurried out carrying a sack.

The area where we picked mushrooms was not very wet because it was covered with trees, but when we reached the mouth of the ditch, there was mud.

What Li Long saw was that there was another person next to Yushanjiang. He had seen him vaguely. He should be someone from the pastoral team's stay-behind point, but not the deputy captain.

The expression on Yushanjiang's face was a bit complicated, but the man looked at Li Long with some curiosity.

Li Long's heart skipped a beat and he realized that something was wrong.

It's normal to think about it. After all, Yushanjiang and his team are now nominally members of the animal husbandry team, which doesn't mean that all the cattle and sheep they herd are their own. The household registration is considered a collective household registration, and as an organized person, they must also fulfill some obligations.

Li Long had some guesses, but didn't say anything. He walked up to Yushan Jiang and greeted him. At the same time, he looked at the other person and asked:

"Who is this……"

"Xiao Kelaiti." The man introduced himself. "I'm the custodian of the animal husbandry team. I came here this time to use the tractor..."

This person's words were rather vague, but Li Long understood them.

He looked towards Yushanjiang.

Yushan Jiang said:
"I told you, the tractor is yours. The team said you would definitely agree..."

So that's how it is. However, Yushanjiang's excuse is also normal.

If the tractor belongs to Yushanjiang and he belongs to the pastoral team, then if the team wants to use the tractor to cut grass, can he not agree?
After all, my family still lives there. They also provided a house, which is shabby but at least habitable. They also sent my children to school without spending much money.

But Yushanjiang would definitely not be willing to give up his job of cutting grass here and go to the other side to cut grass.

Li Long has no choice but to take the blame.

There was an apologetic look on Yushanjiang's face.

Li Long smiled and said:

"How can that be possible? I will charge the tractor for mowing the grass here. After I get the money, I will definitely finish mowing the grass here first. As for mowing the grass over there - we had this kind of thing two years ago. We negotiated the price first, and then went over if it was suitable. If it wasn't suitable, I remember you also bought a harvester."

"Only one." Xiao Kelaiti shook his head and said, "Not enough."

That's right. There are so many people and so many livestock in the pastoral team. If there is only one harvester, it will definitely not be enough. But didn't they do it the same way before there were harvesters? Did the grass fall from the sky when there were no harvesters?
Of course Li Long doesn't mind having more business, but since they are not his own people, the price must be clearly stated.

Moreover, this time, he was negotiating business on behalf of Yushan Jiang and the others. (End of this chapter)