Chapter 165: Samarium is not easy to buy
Early the next morning, Li Long rode his bicycle out of the village after dinner. After taking Li Juan to the elementary school, he continued riding towards the county.
There is no samarium sickle in the sales department of the county supply and marketing cooperative, which makes Li Long a little disappointed.
He went to the department store again.
There are only some common tools in the hardware department in the department store, not even a sickle. Li Long thinks that he has been a little too smooth recently, so now his luck slot is empty?
"Comrade, what do you need to buy?"
A crisp voice rang.
Li Long turned his head and saw a slightly familiar face. He soon remembered that this was the salesman selling radios.
Huh? The sales staff now are quite enthusiastic, not bad.
Xiao Liu saw Li Long walking around in front of the counter twice and was about to leave without buying anything. He guessed that he didn't find what he wanted, so he couldn't help but ask.
"Samarium sickle, I want to buy a samarium sickle..." Li Long replied. Thinking that the girl probably didn't know what a samarium sickle was, he explained again: "It's a big scythe used by herdsmen to cut grass."
< br>"We don't have such tools here," Xiao Liu thought for a while and said, "The supply and marketing cooperative has more hardware items, over there..."
" I've been there." Li Long smiled bitterly, "No."
"Then we can only go to the district," said Xiao Liu, "or go to the department store over there. The supply and marketing cooperatives are of a higher level and have better things than we have here.”
Li Long actually thought so, he said:
"Thank you, then, I'll go over and take a look now."
Buying samarium sickles for the Duosen people in the mountains is the top priority at the moment. Li Long didn't want to waste time, so he said goodbye to Xiao Liu and left.
Xiao Liu regretted a little, why didn’t you ask him his name and what he did?
But girls are thin-skinned, how can they have the nerve to ask?
"Xiao Liu, when this young man comes over next time, do you want me to help you ask?" The elder sister next to him had already seen Xiao Liu's thoughts and said with a smile, "The young man looks good, talk to me Decent, seems to have a good family background, I don’t know which unit he is from..."
At this time, the salesperson defaults to looking for someone with a public company. Xiao Liu is beautiful and well-educated. If she finds someone from the countryside, she will most likely be laughed at. Of course, people from the countryside are not among the people to be introduced to her.
When Li Long rode his bicycle towards Shicheng, he was already thinking that if Shicheng didn't have one, he would go to the county to find a blacksmith shop to build one. It will take a little longer to build, and I hope it can be completed before Harimu and the others move on.
In the previous life, Li Long watched the millions-livestock transfer in Guozigou, Yisai Mudao, in a short video. At that time, the scale of the summer transition and winter transition was particularly large. It is said that the traffic flow was restricted because of the transition. Later, after the expressway was repaired, the transition became much easier, and it was even broadcast live on CCTV and the News Network.
The scale of Nanshan herdsmen's transition is much smaller, but it will also be a little earlier. After all, summer here comes earlier. The summer pastures of the herdsmen are deep in the mountains on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, where the water grass will be better in summer. After the transition, the grass in the winter pastures can grow quickly, making it easier for livestock to eat here in winter.
I hope it’s too late.
Riding to the old street, Li Long found that it was more lively than the morning market in Ma County, and there were many more stalls than before. There were several stalls where he previously set up a stall to sell fish, and everyone was shouting loudly. thing.
Li Long was not in the mood to visit stalls and went to the department store first.
As expected, although there are more items in the department store than in Ma County, there are also no scythes.
Li Long asked the salesperson the location of the sales department of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and the salesperson actually told her.
Going out to ride a bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long found that there were quite a lot of people here, unlike the occasional few in Ma County.
There was a carport on one side of the supply and marketing cooperative's sales department. Li Long put his bicycle in it, locked it, and entered the sales department.
This store is also much larger than Ma County. There are four salesmen at the counter. Li Long picked an older one who wore glasses. He subconsciously felt that this person was kinder, and this person At this time, I was patiently introducing the use of the sprayer to an old farmer.
Li Long waited patiently behind the old farmer. The salesman wearing glasses glanced at him and continued to explain.
After the old farmer finished listening, he finally said that the price of the sprayer was a bit expensive. After he refused to buy it, the man didn't say anything, and then looked at Li Long.
"I want to buy a samarium sickle - a big scythe used by herdsmen to cut grass." Li Long explained because he was worried that this person didn't know.
"Samarium sickle," the man thought for a while and said, "I remember that I bought a batch before, but it couldn't be sold. Then the price was reduced. There seems to be a little left. How many do you want?"
< br>As soon as he heard that the goods were available, Li Long immediately Xi said:
“I want fifteen handfuls.”
There are seven or eight young men building Dongwozi, including Yushanjiang Harimu, which counts as ten, and Li Long plans to prepare a few more handfuls. In this case, it will be easy to divide when divided.
"I'll go take a look. Just wait, there may not be so many." The salesperson said, "We don't have many herders here, so there are still few people who want this thing."
After waiting for a while, the salesperson came over with a bundle of things and placed them on the counter with a wooden frame and glass top. There was a crisp sound on the counter.
“Come and take a look, it’s not the samarium sickle you want.” The salesperson said with a smile.
These things are wrapped in kraft paper and then tied together with rope, which is quite tight.
The salesperson untied the rope and opened the kraft paper to reveal the metal object inside.
It was indeed a samarium sickle. The blade was about seventy or eighty centimeters long - Li Long touched the blade. It had been bladed and it felt very sharp.
"You need to add a wooden handle yourself," the salesperson said. "I remember that a small shelf needs to be nailed diagonally on top of the wooden handle. I have never used it, I have only seen it before."
This guy is quite knowledgeable. Li Long looked at the other party, and then counted fifteen.
"Comrade, are there any more?" He felt that if this thing was taken over, Harimu and the others would definitely like it.
“No more, these fifteen are the last ones in stock.” The salesperson said with a smile, “We have cleared the base. If you don’t want them, they may be returned in a few days.”
"Okay, how much does that one cost?" Li Long knew that he couldn't ask for more, and it was already a surprise to find it.
"We have cleared the inventory. The original price is four yuan and seven dollars. These samarium sickles will be given to you at the cost price, three yuan a piece."
"Okay." Li Long counted out forty-five yuan and handed it over:
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"Please give it to me Wrap it up. "No problem, please go over and make a ticket."
Holding the packaged samarium sickles, Li Long felt a big stone fall in his heart, at least these samariums fell to the ground. The sickle can do business.
Originally, he thought about going to the mountains to hand over the samarium sickle to Harimu and the others, but he gave it up after thinking about it. It's better to hitch up the carriage and go back, pull the deer back, and bring back a load of manure, and plant vegetables in the yard.
After finishing the matter, Li Long turned back to the old street again, so he could take a good look at it. When he saw someone selling fish, he paid special attention to it.
There are three fish stalls, one specializes in selling big silver carp, and the remaining two are the same as before, selling all kinds of fish, but the number of fish is not large, I don’t know if it is Because time has passed, most of the fish have been sold.
The price of fish is a little cheaper, which surprises Li Long. Although the small crucian carp is not as beautiful as the one he caught in Xiaohaizi, the price is 70 to 80 cents, and the large carp and grass carp are 9 cents. There are still quite a lot of people buying fish for a small amount of money.
Li Long guessed that the weather was getting hotter and fish were easier to catch, so the price dropped.
Ninety percent of the stalls on the old street sell handmade items and agricultural and sideline products, and the prices are not low at all.
Li Long thought of the suggestion he made to Qin Hongyan again, weaving baskets to sell.
There are several stalls selling baskets, both large and small, as well as pot steaks and hexagonal steamed bun plates made of sorghum poles (broom millet), etc., most of which cost one or two yuan.
XJ has a vast territory and sparsely populated areas, so labor has always been more expensive than food. Especially at this time, the country's light industry had not yet developed, and many tools and appliances were made by hand. The same thing, which costs fifty cents at home, might be sold here for one piece. After all, there are few people, but there are many things that need to be used.
So in the next few years, a large number of people came from the mouth to find work here.
Li Long remembers a well-known question on the Internet in later generations, why fewer people in XJ Inner Mongolia go to the mainland to work - naturally because there are more opportunities to work locally.
Of course, if you want to talk about upper-level channels and positions with particularly high wages, they are naturally not as good as those in the mainland. After all, development is slower.
From Li Long's perspective, he couldn't imagine that he was that high. He only knew that until he had a cerebral hemorrhage, the rural areas, especially the Corps, were still in constant need of people from the mainland to come and work.
Li Long saw someone selling rapeseed and bought some. The persimmons at this time tasted much better than the so-called fruit tomatoes of later generations. He decided to keep the seeds in the future, so as not to have to go to a seed company to buy seeds when growing vegetables in the 2000s, although the seeds would bear fruit. The longer one is beautiful, but the taste is not as good as the one from the 1980s.
Li Long once thought it was because he just missed the taste of his childhood. After all, there was not much food at that time.
Until one trip to the mountains, in a farmyard, he saw a few tomatoes that were not very good but were already red in a tomato field that was not very good. He picked one to try. , and then I knew - this is the smell of my childhood.
Unfortunately, after he ate it, the other people who came with him on the trip followed the same example and quickly picked and ate the ripe tomatoes, which made his plan to save seeds also come to nothing.
I regretted it for a year afterwards!
Why were you so greedy at that time?
After buying rapeseed and looking around for a while, Li Long stopped when he reached the Mahe Bridge on his bicycle.
The water in the Ma River has already risen, and the flood is rushing past. The waves beat on the bridge pillars with a loud sound.
What surprised Li Long was that he actually saw people on both sides of the upper reaches of the river looking down at something.
Looking for jade?
At this time, someone started to engage in jade?
Obviously, I am not the only smart person at this time. There are many opportunities, and there are many people who seize them.
After resting for a while, he continued riding towards the county. He came to the big yard, put down the sickle and put it away, and then planned to see if some vegetables could be grown in the yard.
There are two small areas in the yard, each less than 100 square meters. Li Long thought that he might as well just plant tomatoes and peppers. Tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are the most commonly fried dishes in rural areas of northern Xinjiang. If you have meat at home, add some roasted meat to it, and it will taste amazing.
There were tools standing beside the courtyard wall. Li Long took a columbine hook and dug ditches in the two fields. He then buried seeds in the ditches and used his feet to The trench is filled with soil and trampled firmly.
While he was planting, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Li Long shouted and continued to farm - who will come at this time? Do you charge water and electricity bills?
The person who came in was Officer Guo Tiebing, which surprised Li Long.
"Comrade Xiao Li, are you growing vegetables?" Guo Tiebing was a little surprised to see Li Long holding a columbine hook, "What kind of vegetables are you growing?"
"Foreign persimmons and spicy seeds." Li Long put down his tools and said with a smile:
"Officer Guo, are you entering the house?"
"Entering the house?" Guo Tiebing was a little unfamiliar with this word. He shook his head and said, "No. , Let me tell you what happened to the thief last time. We have found out that he came all the way from Kou Nei and stole seven families. He also stole some supplies on the train and injured three of us. After contacting his colleagues, it was determined that he had another injury case there. Now he has been taken away by his colleagues. It is conservatively estimated that he will be sentenced to more than ten years. "
"That's fine." Li Long didn't expect that he would encounter a very serious prisoner, and he was still a little scared. If he hadn't taken a gun that day, he would have probably been injured twice.
“You don’t live here often.” Guo Tiebing asked after reporting the situation, “I haven’t seen you for several days.”
“I work part-time as a buyer for a supply and marketing cooperative, and I work everywhere. Run." Li Long explained, "I just purchased a batch of supplies from Shicheng and want to send them to the mountains. Later, I had to pick up a batch of supplies from the mountains, and there was also the task of making up the handlers there, and I often had to keep an eye on him."
In fact, Guo Tiebing already knew that Li Long had been reported for speculation, and He also understood that Li Long was a part-time buyer at the supply and marketing cooperative, but he just felt that this person was not simple.
After Guo Tiebing left, Li Long finished planting the vegetables, watered them, and wandered around the yard again without anything else to do.
This courtyard is definitely more "luxurious" than the one in Dongwozi, but it always feels less intimate than there.
He wandered along the wall, and then he discovered that there was something inside the cracks in the blue brick wall!
The crack in the wall was a bit small, so Li Long went for a knife and slowly took out the small things in the crack in the wall.
Money!
Looking at the words "Bank of Communications" written from right to left and the traditional Chinese words "National Currency of the Republic of China", Li Long immediately confirmed that this thing is "legal currency"!
No wonder it was stuffed into the cracks in the wall.
Li Long suddenly became interested and searched through the cracks in the wall. Soon he had a stack of legal coins and gold yuan coupons in his hand. To his surprise, he also found a Yuan Datou!
What an unexpected surprise!
(End of this chapter)