Chapter 167 Ambush in the mountains in the middle of the night
Tianma, Meijiang, Chakeng, Dongjia, Xijia and other villages are located in the vast Gudou Mountain area.
In the middle of the night, the mountain forest was quiet, except for a truck driving on the winding mountain road.
The modified car lights were as bright as daylight, shining on the mountain road as if it were daytime, but the road was not easy to walk on, and it was all dirt.
If the Jiefang Truck hadn't been completely refitted with full power, Lin Sanqi would have suspected that the truck would be trapped countless times and then be trapped in a trap.
After driving for half an hour, we finally arrived at the prearranged meeting point.
There is a row of bungalows next to the orange garden, which are usually used as factories for making tangerine peel and are also used as warehouses. They are still a long way from the village and are the best place to do bad things.
You can shout, even if you shout loudly, no one will hear you...
Hearing the sound of a truck, some villagers came out of the wall.
Under the headlights, Lin Sanqi saw the district village chief waving his hands, telling Lin Sanqi where to park the truck.
As soon as Lin Sanqi jumped out of the car, the district village chief couldn't wait to ask: "Comrade Li, how are you? Have you brought the food?"
"I brought them and put them in the back of the truck. If your tangerine peels are of good quality and large in quantity, I can mobilize more grain."
"Okay, okay, Comrade Li is indeed a leader from the provincial capital. He keeps his word. Let's go and have a look at the warehouse."
Lin Sanqi, led by Uncle District, looked at the warehouses one by one.
First, when he saw the jute bags piled up in the warehouse, Lin Sanqi knew that this batch of tangerine peels would not be too old.
We passed another warehouse, with sealed clay pots inside.
Uncle Ou led Lin Sanqi in. A villager had already opened the clay pot, and the fragrance of tangerine peel wafted out. It smelled very good.
"Comrade Li, look, this is the best 50-year-old tangerine peel we have here. It is very difficult to preserve it. Preservation must be done in three ways-off the wall, off the ground, and off the top. If there is a little bit that does not meet the requirements, The tangerine peel will become moldy and spoilage
In addition, we need to turn and dry tangerine peels that are less than five years old at least once a year. Freshly picked tangerine peels and tangerine peels that have been aged for less than three years need to be turned and dried one to three times a year, and they need to be dried every time.
So we farmers have a hard time, we have to take care of the tangerine peel all year round, and we can’t rest every day. The tangerine peel is so good, Comrade Li, can you raise the purchase price a little bit more..."
Lin Sanqi didn't say anything. She picked up a piece of tangerine peel and smelled it. The fragrance was fragrant and refreshing.
He broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth. It was indeed sweet, mellow and fresh that he had never tasted before.
The district village chief looked at Lin Sanqi from the side and found that he seemed to be quite knowledgeable, and the characteristics of tangerine peel he mentioned were not bad at all.
In fact, what does Lin Sanqi know? He often drinks tangerine peel tea, but in the past he only drank the lowest-end tangerine peel. When he came to Xinhui this time, he specifically checked the information, precautions and identification methods on the Internet.
"District Village Head, this tangerine peel is good. I'm very satisfied. I can raise the price by another 20%."
The district village chief was overjoyed when he heard this and patted Lin Sanqi on the shoulder: "Okay, okay, after all, I am a fellow villager, and I take care of my hometown people."
Lin Sanqi really relented, because the preservation of tangerine peels is not easy. Without constant temperature and humidity, these tangerine peels need to be preserved for decades and must be maintained every year. The farmers have put in a lot of effort.
This is not abalone and shark fins on the beach. You can catch them every year. They are all wild. You can catch as much as you want.
If it weren't for the fear of giving too much food and causing unnecessary trouble, the clay pot of tangerine peel in front of me wouldn't even be enough to haul a wagonload of food.
"District Village Chief, how much inventory do we have now?"
"Oh, I have done statistics. There are not many tangerine peels over 50 years old, only 200 kilograms; there are 600 kilograms between 40 and 50 years old; there are about 1,500 kilograms of tangerine peels between 20 and 40 years old."
Lin Sanqi really wanted to laugh three times after hearing this. This was another huge fortune.
"Okay, district village chief, please quickly calculate how much food is needed, then take the food from my car and load the tangerine peel into the car for me."
The district village chief was delighted when he heard this and shouted to the people next to him: "Why don't you settle it quickly?"
A villager who looked like an old accountant took out his abacus and made calculations, and finally gave a figure:
"We need to give 7.5 tons of grain, fine grain."
The accountant emphasized the point, fearing that Lin Sanqi would bring out sweet potatoes and other whole grains to fool people.
Lin Sanqi has no objection to this number,
"Okay, I'll give you 9 tons of rice, but I still have to make a trip. I only have 5 tons of rice on my truck, so I have to make another trip."
The district village chief rolled his eyes when he saw that Lin Sanqi was so righteous and was really willing to give more food.
"Comrade Li, I still have a treasure at home, 2 pounds of tangerine peel handed down from my ancestors, which has been preserved since the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. I wonder if Comrade Li is interested?"
Lin Sanqi's eyes lit up instantly.
Although he couldn't tell exactly what year it was during the Daoguang reign, he remembered the Humen Smoking in the textbook, which happened during the Daoguang reign. If this tangerine peel is really handed down from the Qing Dynasty, it must have a history of more than a hundred years.
This kind of tangerine peel can no longer be described as having medicinal value, it can be regarded as a treasure.
So Lin Sanqi nodded hurriedly and said:
"It is indeed a good treasure. The dried tangerine peel that is more than a hundred years old is so awesome. District Village Chief, what do you mean?"
The district village chief said with some pride:
"I estimate that the tangerine peel left by Daoguang Nian can not be counted on one hand in Dongguang. I don't want more. I want you to have a ton of rice for one pound. What does Comrade Li think?"
The district village chief thought he was speaking out like a lion.
Two tons of rice weighing 4,000 kilograms, mixed with some whole grains, can feed the family for a long time, and maybe they can successfully survive the famine years.
The district village chief is also a decisive person. He knows that tangerine peel cannot be eaten as food, and must rely on food at critical moments. Now that there is an enemy in front of him, of course he must seize it tightly.
4,000 kilograms of rice and 2 kilograms of tangerine peel were put together for selection, and all the fools in the village knew what to choose.
Lin Sanqi was ecstatic. A ton of rice cost several thousand yuan, but it could be exchanged for centuries-old tangerine peel worth millions. Is there anything more profitable than this?
"Okay, district village chief, we have an agreement. Wait, I will go transport the food."
Money brings motivation. Lin Sanqi was so motivated that she immediately climbed into the truck and went back to "transport food."
Both parties in this transaction were happy. Tianma Village got two trucks of rice, and Lin Sanqi transported two full trucks of decades-old tangerine peel.
Among them was 2 kilograms of auction-grade Daoguang tangerine peel. Lin Sanqi specially prepared a plastic box and placed it solemnly in the passenger seat.
In this way, one night in one village, and in the next few days, Lin Sanqi had eaten up all the tangerine peel in Tianma, Chakeng, Dongjia, Xijia and other villages.
The treasures stored in these villages for hundreds of years were easily exchanged for rice. It must be said that Lin Sanqi already had the nature of a profiteer.
Just when Lin Sanqi thought that Xinhui's trip would go smoothly and Liuliu would go smoothly, he encountered a ghost.
He made a big mistake. In a private transaction like his, he should have taken a shot and changed the place.
Just like his several food-for-seafood trades at the beach, he only traded once in one place. After the trade was over, he retreated in time while it was dark, so that he could remain unnoticed.
Even if there were fishermen who reported the case, Lin Sanqi would have fled far away and would never come back again. The relevant departments could not catch anyone even if they tried to ambush him, so they could only let it go.
Perhaps the previous success made Lin Sanqi paralyzed. He stayed in Xinhui for five full days, exchanging food for tangerine peel every day.
On the sixth day, Lin Sanqi pulled another truck of grain and rushed to Meijiang Village while humming a ditty.
Meijiang Village is located in the deepest part of the mountain, and it is also the last place he plans to acquire. After today, Lin Sanqi is already preparing to retreat.
There was only one truck moving alone in the dark mountains, and everything was quiet. After turning a few corners, Lin Sanqi suddenly found a piece of wood lying across the middle of the road.
Is there a log in the middle of the road in the middle of the night?
This discovery immediately set Lin Sanqi's alarm bells ringing, and his mind quickly flashed back to what Section Chief Kong once taught him. If a similar situation is discovered during a business trip, it must have been robbed halfway.
It would be even more dangerous if they were in the wilderness with no village in front and no palace behind. This meant that those who not only wanted to rob money, but also could kill people.
Lin Sanqi took out the pistol with trembling hands and turned on the safety.
"You can't park. If there are more than ten or twenty people coming, it will be useless even if you have a gun in your hand. You will definitely be beaten to death with sticks."
Lin Sanqi gritted his teeth, thinking that the car he had spent 500,000 to modify was the most advanced in terms of power and chassis. It was just a piece of wood, so he could get through it.
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi got angry and stepped on the gas. The car engine started roaring violently and accelerated towards the wood.
The people lurking on the roadside were in a daze.
Seeing that the truck not only did not slow down, but accelerated towards me, I thought that the car would definitely overturn in a while, or it would be stuck on the bottom of the wood and unable to drive.
These eight people were all from the local supply and marketing cooperative. They received reports from villagers that a mysterious man was exchanging grain for tangerine peel in the mountains.
This makes the supply and marketing cooperative very angry. After all, the supply and marketing cooperative has always been responsible for the purchase of tangerine peel. Even if an out-of-town unit needs to purchase goods, it has to go through the supply and marketing cooperative.
Nowadays, some people are bypassing the supply and marketing cooperatives. From a small point of view, this damages the interests of the supply and marketing cooperatives. From a big point of view, this is a violation of national policy.
They also went to Tianma, Tangjia and other villages during the day to conduct investigations, but these villages firmly denied it and refused the investigation team of the supply and marketing cooperative to enter the warehouse to inspect the goods.
This makes the people in the supply and marketing cooperative very helpless. After all, rural clan forces are not easy to offend. These people can do anything. When they come, the whole village will come to settle accounts with you. Who can bear it?
So when a villager reported that a mysterious outsider was going to Meijiang to buy tangerine peel tonight, they lurked in the middle of the road, ready to do something dirty and get it.
(End of chapter)