Courtyard houses: Those who are capable are rewarded, and many children bring many blessings.

This time I bought even more than last time. I rode my donkey back and forth five times until I bought the last fifty catties of flour on the black market before I stopped.

I bought fifty catties of wild boar meat, which I used to look down on. It's spring meat, but it's not as succulent as autumn meat. The main problem is that there's nowhere to buy pork now, so it's better than nothing.

The portable space contains more than a ton of coarse and refined grains, including what I bought at once. White flour and rice make up 70% of it, and there are eleven flour sacks, which is 1,100 jin (650 kg). There are also seven large sacks of rice, weighing 700 jin (350 kg).

The rest consisted of whole grains and miscellaneous grains. The whole grains were mainly cornmeal and corn kernels, along with a few bags of sweet potato flour. The miscellaneous grains were various beans, soybeans, millet, and red beans, which Niu Dazhuang didn't care about.

There was no need to count the cash; there were only a few bills left. Looking at the piles of grain, Niu Dazhuang felt much better.

He returned the donkey and hummed a little tune as he went back to his room to sleep.

The next day, the master and apprentice delivered the precision instrument to Fengtian Factory 410, also known as Fengtian No. 1 Machine Tool Factory.

This time, unloading was much easier; they didn't even need Niu Dazhuang and his team to lift a finger, for fear of damaging the equipment.

The master and apprentice, wanting to save themselves the trouble, watched them work while smoking. The other party provided lunch and even sent an office director to accompany them.

The factory manager's stuff was a bit too high-end, and neither the master nor the apprentice had any interest in tinkering with it.

After lunch, the car was empty, so Niu Dazhuang drove to the timber processing plant in the suburbs.

While the truck was being loaded, Niu Dazhuang borrowed a bicycle from a worker, went to the bank, and exchanged the large yellow croaker in his storage space for another 1300 yuan.

Although it's a little less than going to the black market, it's safer. This isn't Kyoto, and Niu Dazhuang doesn't even know which black market buys large yellow croakers. So it's okay if it's less.

After exchanging the money, I rode my bicycle back to the guesthouse.

"Comrade Niu, you're really lucky. You just mentioned wanting venison yesterday, and I found it for you this morning. Look, it's fresh. A whole red deer, can you eat it all?" Xiao Guan greeted Niu Dazhuang warmly and led him to the duty room.

In the duty room, there was a middle-aged man wearing a black felt hat and with a full beard, and a young man, about the same age as Niu Dazhuang.

Upon seeing people arrive, he quickly stood up. The young man seemed a bit awkward, while the middle-aged man was much more worldly.

"Qingxiaomin sent a message early this morning, saying that an old guest has come to Kyoto. I didn't expect you to be so young and promising!"

Niu Dazhuang took out a Daqianmen cigarette and handed one to each of them, then lit one for himself.

"You guys are really capable, you managed to hunt one in just one morning!"

"Old customer, we don't have that kind of ability. It was killed this morning, that's true, but we didn't catch it today. I weighed it at home, it's 220 jin (110 catties) tall. If you want it whole, we'll price it as a whole."

Niu Dazhuang was also a good hunter; he could tell at a glance that it was an adult male red deer.

"Ugh! The wild game is so different in spring and autumn. It's all dry and not plump at all!" Niu Dazhuang commented.

"Old customer, you're an expert. Come back in the fall, and I can hunt at least eight or ten for you. I can't guarantee more than that."

Niu Dazhuang thought to himself, "I just don't have time. If it were before I started work, I wouldn't need you. I've hunted more prey than you have."

If possible, I'll have to personally participate in the competition in the fall.

"You kept all the most valuable stuff—deer antlers, deer hide, deer penis—all that's left is this dry, stale venison."

"Old customer, Xiaomin sent back a message asking for venison, but didn't mention anything else. I won't haggle with you anymore, 220 catties, how about 220 yuan?"

"If it were autumn, this price would be reasonable, but it's spring, so 200 yuan..."

After several rounds of bargaining, Niu Dazhuang bought it for 208. He also promised to give Niu Dazhuang the deer penis for free next time he came.

He had the father and son carry the venison to Niu Dazhuang's house. After they left, he touched the venison, and with a thought, he stored it all in his spatial storage.

After smoking a cigarette, Niu Dazhuang was about to leave when Xiao Guan from the front desk brought someone over: "Comrade Niu, this is Wang..."

Before Xiao Guan could finish speaking, Wang Liujin, beaming, walked past Xiao Guan and grasped Niu Dazhuang's hands with both of them.

"Hahaha...what a coincidence!"

"Hehe... What a coincidence! Brother Wang, don't you work at the medicinal herb company? What's going on here?"

"Brother Niu, that's not right of you. Since you know I work at a medicinal herb company, why don't you come to me to buy deer antlers instead of going through all that trouble?"

"Do you two know each other?" Xiao Guan asked.

"Little Guan! We two brothers are really destined to meet. We met at the bathhouse. You don't know, back then Brother Niu was practically..." Wang Liujin stopped halfway through his sentence.

He couldn't very well tell the young girl that Niu Dazhuang was incredibly cool in the bathhouse!

"Since you know each other, I won't say any more. You can talk it out yourselves." With that, the young master left.

I thought to myself, as long as you sell your goods through me, you absolutely can't do without that one portion!

The two men simultaneously pulled out their cigarettes; Niu Dazhuang's was Daqianmen, and Wang Liujin's was Liaoye.

The two of them tacitly exchanged cigarettes.

"Brother Niu, we're quite fated to meet here. I see you often come here on business trips, so I won't try to fool you. This time I'm not bringing top-quality goods, but second-rate local sika deer. Of course, the price will be relatively cheaper." Wang Liujin was a straightforward man, speaking very directly.

Deer antlers are not only found in sika deer, but also in red deer, just not as effective as those from sika deer!

Most people can't tell the difference between red deer velvet and sika deer velvet. Let alone two-pronged or three-pronged pieces cut into slices.

There are many intricacies involved in Chinese medicinal herbs, no less than those in tea.

The newly grown antlers of sika deer, also called cone antlers, are generally not available on the market. The two-pronged antlers of sika deer that Wang Liujin brought are not considered a scam.

This Hua Ergang is considered to be among the top-tier items in circulation.

"Brother Wang, with you saying that, our acquaintance hasn't been in vain. How much did you bring? I'll take it all." Niu Dazhuang was a man of principle. These things would sell easily in Kyoto, and they were also excellent gifts!

"Haha, Brother Niu, you're so generous! After all, this stuff isn't cheap, so I didn't bring much, just eight taels! If you think it's not enough, I'll go back and get more now."

"Eight ounces is a bit low, so I'll trouble Brother Wang to make another trip and get two jin for two jiao, the sliced ​​kind. Do you have tiger bone? What about wild ginseng?"

"(ノ⊙ω⊙)ノWow! Brother Niu, you really know how to ask for things! These three items you requested are all treasures from Northeast China. We have tiger bone, and the oldest wild ginseng is only twenty or thirty years old. I wonder if you'd be interested?"