Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Zhao Hui came the next day.

Li Long's call disrupted his plan. Zhao Hui originally planned to go to southern Xinjiang after returning from Yili. Someone in southern Xinjiang called and left a message saying that he had obtained some skins, including bear skins, and asked him to go and collect them quickly.

But after coming back, he read Li Long's message again. Zhao Hui thought that Li Long's place was close and it would only take a day at most, so he decided to come over first.

Knowing that Zhao Hui was coming today, Li Long had breakfast, took the snow leopard skins and bear skins, and went to the purchasing station with Gu Boyuan. At this time, there were already people waiting outside the purchasing station. Sun Jiaqiang opened the gate of the courtyard with a steamed bun in one hand and let people in, asking them to line up.

The tea in the yard was ready. It was obvious that Sun Jiaqiang made tea as soon as he got up. This stuff was too hot to drink. It was usually made first and was warm by the time people went to work. Even if it was a little hot when you scooped it into the bowl, you could drink it by blowing on it.

It seems that the bonus was not received in vain, this job is really good.

Li Long and Sun Jiaqiang greeted each other with a smile, put the skins into the warehouse at the back, and then went to the front yard.

The arrival of Li Long and Gu Boyuan meant that the purchasing station had officially started collecting items. Sun Jiaqiang put the steamed buns on the windowsill and prepared to come over to help. Li Long waved his hand and said:
"You go eat first, I'll help you here, come over and let me take over when you're done."

He is not a capitalist and does not have the idea of ​​exploiting his employees. Sun Jiaqiang works very well. When he wakes up in the morning, he first cleans the yard and then makes tea. Of course, he only eats dry steamed buns because he is lazy.

But after all, he is an adult and it is not convenient to talk about this matter, so Li Long took over his job.

A second vendor was joking at the door:

"Oh, Boss Li is personally helping me, so I'll accept the price even if it's a little lower today..."

"Okay, I'll just treat your yellow sheepskin as a remnant." Li Long smiled and said, "Twenty, what do you think?"

“No, no, no, no…” The dealer suddenly became nervous and waved his hands hastily: “I was just joking… Although my leather is not completely leather, there are only two bullet holes on it. Look, one on the buttocks and the other on the leg. They are both insignificant places. At least add a few more…”

"Hahaha, I was just joking. I don't have the final say on matters of valuation." Li Long responded while tidying up the counter.

"Thirty." Gu Boyuan looked over the leather and found that it was just as the dealer said, the two bullet holes were unimportant, but the leather was spring leather and the color was not very good, so he gave the price.

The dealer had obviously estimated the price himself and nodded. Gu Boyuan then recorded the price and paid the money. Li Long took the leather and put it aside. The leather had not been tanned and was like a piece of cardboard, hard and could not be rolled up. He would wait for other leather sellers to come and collect several leathers together before taking them to the back.

Sun Jiaqiang felt a little embarrassed. He ate the steamed bun in no time, but choked. He hurried outside, scooped up half a bowl of tea, blew on it while drinking, and after several sips he finally pushed the steamed bun down his throat. He let out a sigh, his face flushed red.

He returned to the counter and took over Li Long's work. Li Long smiled and went to the back. Seeing that Sun Jiaqiang had already hung the dried wild mushrooms out to dry, he went over to take a look.

These wild mushrooms only shrank a little when dried yesterday afternoon. It depends on how they perform during drying today.

He also checked the other skins in the warehouse. The skins that were to be sold to Zhao Hui were already sorted, with the snow leopard skin and most of the bear skin placed separately, as a surprise for Zhao Hui.

At around twelve o'clock in the morning, Zhao Hui came with his men.

After coming to Li Long's place several times, he was basically certain that every time he came, there were a lot of skins piled up here, and it was impossible for one person to handle it all.

He didn't really like hiring a car, so he brought people here and carried the skins directly to the station to save some shipping costs.

Pretty cost-conscious.

"Snow leopard skins? Three?" Zhao Hui originally looked at the many skins in the warehouse and thought they were quite good, but soon his eyes stopped on the snow leopard skins, and a surprised expression appeared on his face:
"Boss Li, you are really good... Let me see... Eh? There is still bear skin? This bear skin is a little small... Is it damaged? It's okay if it is damaged..."

The large quantity and the three snow leopard skins made Zhao Hui feel that this trip was a good one. Adding half a bear skin would be even better.

As for the hundreds of other skins left in the warehouse, they were of course the icing on the cake.

Of course, with Zhao Hui's vision, he knew that the money earned from those hundreds of skins added up was not less than the profit that these three snow leopard skins could bring him.

In the end, the three snow leopard skins and most of the bear skin came to a price of eight thousand seven hundred, which satisfied both parties.

The remaining two hundred or so pieces of skin were checked one by one - in fact, Zhao Hui was not so serious at that time. The final price was 9,500, which was about the same as Li Long's estimate.

He was already planning on not going to southern Xinjiang this time, but to personally press the three snow leopard skins into his mouth, tan them, and then talk about selling them.

The high-quality leather I got from northern Xinjiang in the past two years has been very popular among customers, and some people have already placed orders in advance.

Although this spring skin is not as good as the winter skin, it is snow leopard skin!
Currently, snow leopard skins are only produced in a few northwestern provinces in the country, and the quantity is not large.

Although this thing is not as noble as tiger skin, to be honest, it is quite popular among some noble ladies.

This time, Zhao Hui felt that he could earn at least 5,000 yuan!

Li Long was also quite satisfied. The total price was about the same as his estimate. The leather brought back from the mountains was less than the price of two tractors, but with the jade, it was almost the same.

Li Long didn't make much money from Yushanjiang and the others, but he did make more than 2,000 yuan from the skins he collected at the purchasing station.

That’s ok too.

Zhao Hui asked the people he brought with him to pack the skins and carry them out of the purchasing station. He shook hands with Li Long and left in a hurry.

It was not very safe to keep more than ten thousand yuan in one's hand, so Li Long put the money into his bag and walked out of the purchasing station with it, and put it away for the time being.

In fact, he has become accustomed to it. He can earn 10,000 to 20,000 yuan every once in a while, and Li Long either deposits it in the bank or keeps it at home. Part of it is placed in the purchasing station as working capital.

Basically, the purchasing station has entered a virtuous cycle stage. Li Long still has a lot of cash in his hands, but he doesn’t know where to invest it for the time being.

Although he knew the future development trend, he was still very cautious in investing.

After all, my economic acumen is being trained, but as a farmer in both of my lives, my vision still needs to be improved.

After depositing the money, the morning was over. He guessed that Xiaokelaiti or the animal husbandry team might go to the mountains, but Li Long was not in a hurry to go there.

Anyway, Yushanjiang and Talihar's tractors are now used to cut grass for their own tribes, so they cannot be withdrawn. Even if the conditions are negotiated, they can only start working ten days later.

Not urgent.

In July, the children have already had their holidays and there are more people on the streets. Even though the weather is hot, there are still many people from the countryside coming here to buy or sell things, or to bring their children out to see the world.

It will become more and more lively in the end.

The next day, Li Long drove his jeep to the mountains. The road on the mountain had dried and hardened, no longer muddy, and the original tire tracks were gradually becoming shallower.

When passing Qingshuihe Village, Li Long discovered that the wheat harvest here was nearing its end. A tractor was spinning on the wheat field, but it was a little far away, so he couldn't see clearly whether it was Meng Hai sitting on it.

His jeep did not stop, but drove directly into the mountains and arrived at Yushanjiang's winter home.

There was only one person in the winter nest preparing lunch, and everyone else had gone out.

The rumbling sound of tractors could be heard in the valley, and it was obvious that hay cutting was in progress.

Li Long vaguely remembered that the cook was called Ye Erlan, an honest and simple young man who didn't talk much. When he saw Li Long coming, he just smiled awkwardly.

He is making naan.

Kazakh naan is different from Uyghur naan. Naan is thicker and milk is usually added when kneading the dough - this is not the case now, so it is basically equivalent to a round flatbread.

Of course, it’s delicious.

There was broth in the pot. I had eaten most of the bones of the elk and wolf I had hunted a few days ago, but some of the meat was dried. Today I was going to eat naan with the broth.

"Did Talihar and the others get anything?" Li Long walked to the naan pit and asked Yerlan.

Some of these names are also quite confusing. There are many people named Buick, and there are also many people with the surname "Ye", such as Yelsen, Yellan, Yeljiang... There are also Revolutionary Buick and Red Star Duran. Well, it has a very contemporary flavor.

"No, Talihar went out for a while and said he encountered a group of wild boars, but he didn't kill them."

There is nothing we can do. We can't eat them even if we kill them. Besides, there is still meat here, so there is no rush.

"They picked some mushrooms and left them in that room," Yeerlan said. "They told you to take them when you come. Although we didn't kill any prey, there were a lot of mushrooms."

Li Long pushed open the door of the spare room in the winter den and saw four or five sacks of wild mushrooms inside. Some of them were piled on the ground because they could not fit in any more space.

Yushan Jiang Talihar and his family are mountain people, and they know exactly where things grow in the mountains. They didn’t pick mushrooms before because they didn’t eat them, but now if they need to, it’s easy to pick them.

Of course, this is only for people living in the mountains. It would be great if ordinary people could find wild vegetables and some wild mushrooms when they go into the mountains at this time. Only people who stay in the mountains all year round can pick seasonal things in any season.

Li Long looked at the two or three hundred kilograms of wild mushrooms, smiled, and loaded them into the car.

As Yushanjiang said, he didn't need to be polite with the herdsmen, because being polite meant looking down on his friends. When he helped Yushanjiang and the others, he didn't think about asking them to be polite, it was mutual.

The jeep was full and could barely hold all the mushrooms. Li Long then spoke to Ye Erlan and asked him to tell Yu Shanjiang and the others that he had taken the wild mushrooms away and would come back tomorrow.

When they left, Ye Erlan had already baked the first pit of naan. Li Long took one, broke off a piece, and started eating while opening it.

Well, it’s so sweet!

Before the car got out of the ditch, he saw Xiao Kelaiti leading a horse towards this side.

There were two bulging sacks on the horse's back. Needless to say, they were filled with wild mushrooms.

When he saw the jeep, Xiaokelaiti was overjoyed and hurriedly sped up to meet it. When the jeep arrived, he led the horse to the side of the road.

Li Long stopped, turned off the engine and got out of the car, smiling and asked:

"Are these all mushrooms? That's quite a harvest!"

"Haha, it's not bad." Xiao Kelaiti also smiled. He was also worried that he would not be able to meet Li Long when he came here. If that happened, he would not be able to get the money on the spot.

I didn't expect that Li Long was really there, so I was naturally happy about the transaction on the spot.

"Come, unload it and let me see it." When Li Long saw Xiao Kelaiti's expression, he knew that what he was anxious about at the moment was to sell the wild mushrooms to Li Long as soon as possible.

While Li Long was speaking, Xiao Kelaiti had already taken the sack off the horse's back and opened it for Li Long to see.

Li Long took a look, frowned, and said:

"Xiao Kelaiti, I told you that you have to clean the mushrooms. Look at the mushrooms you brought. Many of them have dirt and moss on their roots. There are too many impurities."

As he spoke, Li Long opened the door of the jeep, unzipped a bag, and let Xiao Ke take it:

"Look at this. The roots either need to be cleaned up or cut and pruned. Otherwise, we'll have to clean up again if we bring them back."

"Haha," Xiao Kelai laughed dryly, "Well, I did it in a hurry. Please bear with me for a while. Next time, I will definitely clean it up."

Xiao Kelai was Yelaya's uncle, and Li Long had some good feelings towards him at first. He had some business acumen, and when he mentioned it, he thought of collecting wild mushrooms, which should be profitable.

But now, with these things brought and what he said, Li Long felt that this person was a bit slick.

To be honest, that good impression was immediately destroyed - after all, I told him before that he had to handle it cleanly, otherwise he would be deducted money.

Obviously, he didn't listen, maybe he only took the two yuan per kilogram into account. Li Long looked through the other sack again, and found some clean and some dirty, which were obviously not picked by the same person.

This means that he collected these wild mushrooms.

Li Long doesn't care how much money he gets for the mushrooms, but he can't let this publicity run wild - if he does, he might not be able to keep down the price when he buys mushrooms in the future.

To be honest, Li Long was able to raise the price of these wild resources to the current level at the purchasing station thanks to his export channels.

Some small purchasing stations or middlemen offer low prices because their goods can only be sold locally and they cannot raise the price.

So the price given by Li Long is a bit low compared to his shipping price, but for the seller, this price is actually very high and there are basically not many competitors.

That's why Li Long is very strict about quality. If the quality is low, then the price will be low and there is no room for negotiation.

"Your mushrooms have a lot of stuff, but the quality is not good." Li Longzhi said, "So I can't give you two pieces. If you want two pieces, I will peel them for you now - you must have weighed them when you came, right?"

"We've weighed it, we've weighed it," Xiao Kelai saw that Li Long was serious. He originally wanted to argue, but now he lost his confidence. Li Long had told him about the quality issues, but he didn't care. He thought it would be fine as long as the goods were collected. With his relationship with Ye Laya, he could fool the young man with a few words and say a few nice things. Maybe he would be able to fool this young man.

I didn't expect people would be so serious about it.

"Let me weigh them." Li Long picked up a sack in each hand, weighed them and said, "Your two sacks of wild mushrooms should weigh about 81 or 82 kilograms, right? Including the sacks, they should not exceed 85 kilograms."

"Right, right, right..." Xiao Kelai was shocked by Li Long's display of skill and said hastily, "I weighed it, including the skin, 84.5 kilograms..."

"There are a lot of impurities in it." Li Long said, "If I calculate it based on two yuan, I have to remove at least 15 kilograms of impurities for you. You have too much dirt in it. I haven't looked at the bottom yet, but..."

Li Long put down the sack, stretched out his hand to pinch the bottom of the sack, and motioned for Xiao Ke to lift it:

"You don't even need to pour out the mushrooms. Look, these can be pinched together. They must be mud."

Xiao Kelai blushed and couldn't say anything.

"This is our first time doing business. Yelaya is here. I'll give you some face. I'll charge you 70 kilograms, which is 140 yuan." Li Long said, "How about it? Do you want to sell it?"

"Sell, sell, sell!" Xiao Kelaiti said hurriedly, "I will definitely sell it. Thank you!"

Li Long kept suppressing and mentioning Ye Laya, which made Xiao Kelai's heart fluctuate. Now that he finally said that he had accepted it, he felt relieved.

How much did I actually pay? It was less than 50 yuan in total, right? When I collected it, I actually saw these impurities, and Xiao Kelai also lowered the price.

But after he lowered the price and made a profit, he didn't care anymore. Now he regrets it. If he had been more strict when collecting the goods and processed them himself, could there be fewer impurities?
"If they are still this dirty, I won't buy them." Li Long took out some money, counted out fourteen big unity notes and handed them to Xiao Kelai, then said, "I'm telling you, I want to sell these mushrooms to eat. If they are too dirty, people won't want them, so I'll just be buying them for nothing."

Xiao Kelaiti took the money, dipped his finger in some saliva, counted it carefully twice, and then put it in his pocket.

Li Long had tied two sacks of mushrooms to the top of the jeep. There was no other way, as there was no more room inside. Although the jeep was covered with a soft tarpaulin, it had poles as a frame, so it could still hold up after being tied up.

"I will be in the mountains for the next two days. If you want to collect more mushrooms, just send them over. Of course, you can also send them to the county purchasing station." Li Long said to Xiao Kelai when he got in the car.

After saying that, he drove away. Xiao Kelaiti suddenly thought of something and reached out to greet Li Long, but the jeep had already driven away.

The sack hasn’t been returned to me yet!
But thinking about the fact that the sack was sold to Li Long at the price of wild mushrooms, Xiao Kelaiti suddenly felt like he had made a profit.

After all, two sacks weigh less than one kilogram and can be sold for less than two dollars!

I made nearly a hundred dollars a day, which was something I never dared to think about before!

Now, it is necessary, immediately, Xiaokelaiti can't wait to go to the mountain he is familiar with and continue to find people to pick mushrooms.

Of course, I have to be cleaner and more careful this time.

But, did I forget something? Something very important? (End of this chapter)