Chapter 75 Is this risk worth taking?
At the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative, thirty-six-year-old Li Xiangqian got off the passenger seat of the car, stamped his feet vigorously, and asked with a smile:
"What's wrong? Why are you all gathered here?" Welcome me? I can’t bear it!”
"Who greeted you?" the gatekeeper laughed and scolded:
"It's not that the New Year's benefits you provided are not in place, now everyone is looking outside to buy meat. Look at how good this young man's meat is. , one yuan per kilogram, and no meat coupons.”
"So good?" Li walked forward to the carriage, took off his gloves, pulled the neck of the remaining sheep and said:
"It's okay, it's fresh fat sheep, one yuan per kilogram? Worth it."
"It's a pity that there are only two, so they are sold out." Someone who wanted to have a leg of lamb, but couldn't get it in the end, interrupted.
"This young man can get a lot of sheep. I'll go to you, Chief Li, to see if I can take them." The old man told Li Long his purpose before he could speak. .
Li Long was also a little surprised. The old man was a little too enthusiastic, but at this time he knew that he had to come forward, so he smiled and said:
"Hello, Chief Li, I am from the fourth team of Xinhu Brigade of Hongqi Commune. I have a few friends in the mountains. They brought me these sheep. I can indeed get a lot of sheep from them. Where are they? The sheep are indeed grass-fed sheep.”
Not many can raise sheep in pens these days.
"How much can I get?" Li Long took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket. Li Long looked at the brand, Golden Leaf.
Li Qianqian took out a cigarette and handed it to the old gatekeeper. The old man waved his hand:
“I have a big front door given to me by the young man.”
"Let me tell you, how can you say nice things to others?" Li Qianqian smiled, lit a cigarette for himself, blew out a smoke ring, and asked Li Long:
"I won't accept less than ten. "
"That's... no problem." Li Long thought about it. Both the Harimu and Yushanjiang flocks were quite large. There were hundreds of sheep. It would be no problem to kill ten of them. .
“If the quality of the sheep is like this, then I want it.” Li Qiang pointed at the sheep’s neck on the carriage and said, “Of course, the wholesale purchase price is not one yuan, so I have to compensate. ”
“I know this.”
"Okay, come back to me after you bring the sheep." Li Xiangqian took another long puff of cigarette, smiled and said to the old gatekeeper:
"Second uncle, you have done it for me. It’s a difficult problem!”
“Then why don’t you say that I helped you solve the problem?” Look! The old man smiled and cursed, "Go to work quickly!"
He waved to the others: "Let's all scatter. There is no meat. You can't untie this roe deer either. Wait a minute." Approval."
The people slowly dispersed, and the old man said to Li Long:
"Young man, this is what's going on now. You see, you will definitely harvest, it just depends on how many sheep you can get."
"Thank you, old man!" Li Long said sincerely . If it hadn't been for the old man's words, he might not have been able to finalize the matter to this point.
"Okay, okay, I'll return the scale. You should hurry back. Xinhu Brigade is not close to here." The old man waved his hand, bent down, picked up the scale and walked to the sales department.
Li Long untied the horse's reins and led him back.
Now that the blood has subsided, Li Long calmed down and found that he was actually a little impulsive.
The head of the purchasing section of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative said he would collect the sheep, but if he really wanted to bring the sheep, Li Long was not sure whether he would collect them.
And I didn't discuss it with Harimu and Yushanjiang. I don't know whether they will slaughter sheep there, and I have to pay for the sheep first. A sheep is calculated at fifteen kilograms. Li Long collects it from Harimu and the others. How to calculate the price? Li Long hasn't asked what price their sheep were sold for before.
Li told the former unit chief that he wanted to charge it, but he would definitely not charge it one dollar. Is it ninety cents or eighty cents? If it's Qimao, then Li Long doesn't plan to sell it. He might as well take it to Shicheng and sell it together with the fish.
Thinking about it, I led the carriage to the north of the city, and happened to see an old man taking out the garbage.
"Yo? Young man, are you selling fish last time?" The old man said this, and Li Long woke up from his thoughts. When he saw it, he turned out to be the one in the big yard. For the first time The old man who came to sell fish and finally wrapped it into balls.
"Hello, old man, it's such a cold day, why don't you let your family come out to take out the garbage?"
"Family? Haha, your family is not here, in this big yard It’s just me.” The old man pointed to his old mansion.
"Are you alone? That's not very convenient." Li Long said, "Then the old man should hurry into the house, it's too cold outside."
"It won't take a while," The old man seemed to be in good spirits. He pointed at Li Long's carriage and asked, "Did you change the equipment? Did you drive the carriage to sell fish?"
"I didn't sell any fish today. I came back from the mountains and brought a roe deer and two sheep, but the sheep were sold out." Business is good, then...that's not Is it a sheep's neck? I just want this."
"You can eat it, old man." Li Long felt that the old man was quite pitiful, living alone in such a big house without his family. , quite desolate.
"It's not a loss for you, two yuan." The old man took out a bill from his pocket, "I can't eat more than once."
"What do you mean?" Li Long listened. Looking a little surprised, "Old man, your body..."
"You must have thought wrong." The old man smiled and went to get the sheep neck. "My eldest son is in Shanghai and has been rehabilitated. Now he is the deputy editor of a newspaper. He has been assigned a house. Let me go. I just can't bear to leave this house, but think about it. It's better to stay here alone than go over there."
"What about your house?" Li Long pointed to the big house. Said, "Is this house sold?"
"I want to sell it, but I haven't found the owner yet." The smile on the old man's face disappeared, "These days, people can spend hundreds of dollars to buy a house. Not much. If it doesn't sell in a few days, I'll sell it to the street. "A few hundred yuan?" Li Long was stunned. It's so cheap?
"What? Are you rich?" Seeing Li Long's expression, the old man smiled, "If you can afford five hundred yuan, I will sell it to you. It is better than selling it to the street for three hundred yuan. ”
"If you want to talk about five hundred yuan, I really have it." Li Long said, "But you are not joking, right?"
"Are you kidding me? I am so old, can I joke with you?" The old man glared. He glared and said, "Come on, come on, bring the carriage in, and I'll show you my house."
That's what Li Long said himself. He really had never thought about buying a house in the county.
But when he rushed here, he was really curious. He went into the yard first and took a brief look. Now that the old man was leading him, Li Long planned to take a good look at this imposing old house.
Maybe you really like it?
(End of this chapter)