Chapter 225 Make money, make big money!
The carriage passed those people and came to the county seat.
Li Qingxia suddenly said:
"Don't you think those people can make money? There are so many good things in the mountains, and you can make a lot of money just by digging... Why do you have to be so sneaky? Killing and stealing goods What?”
“Because the money is easy to earn, because the spoils are unevenly distributed, and because human nature is greedy. If the money is not enough, some people will work hard to make money, and some people will try to do evil things...”< br>
Li Long just expressed his feelings, and suddenly laughed after saying:
"Dad, have you never encountered this when you were doing business in your youth?"
"At that time... I encountered Yes, but no one was killed. They pointed a gun at you, the kind of gun that sticks out and shoots one person. , You have to pay for it obediently... But it depends on the person. If you are five steps away from me, then I won't be afraid. It's difficult to hit that thing if it's far away... We gentlemen didn't grow up so big just for fun..."
Li Long just listened to his father bragging and drove the carriage to the purchasing station first.
Chen Hongjun of the acquisition station was chatting with his colleagues under the shade of a tree outside. When he saw Li Long driving the carriage, he took two steps forward with a smile and asked:
"Hey, Comrade Xiao Li, are you coming back from the mountains? What good things have you brought?"
"The house in the mountains was stolen, and it was just for me to catch him. He took all the things in my house. Everything was ruined, so I took some of their things to pay off the debt." Li Long said clearly, "Antlers, Fritillaria and Codonopsis pilosula, but this Codonopsis pilosula may not be enough. If it's too good, I won't sell it. It's mainly deer antlers and here should be Fritillaria."
After explaining, he introduced to Chen Hongjun:
"Comrade Chen, this is me. Dad, I came from the mainland some time ago."
"Hey, Uncle Li! Look, Uncle Li is in good health!"
"Haha, not bad." Li Qingxia had become somewhat accustomed to Li Long's connections and responded with a smile, not saying much for fear of showing his cowardice.
"Comrade Xiao Li, take the things inside and let's take a look."
"Okay." Li Long tied the horse to a tree on the side of the road, and then tied the horse behind it The sacks were unloaded and dragged into the purchasing station.
Li Qingxia hesitated for a moment and did not follow. He was afraid that something might happen to the car.
"Dad, come in, and you have your two antlers." Li Long greeted at the door.
"Just watch." Li Qingxia waved his hand.
"It's okay, the door is open, you can see if anything happens at a glance." Li Long said with a smile, "It's broad daylight, nothing will happen."
Li Qingxia then entered house.
Chen Hongjun was already there looking at the antlers.
“This pair of antlers is good...” He was looking at the antlers that Li Long returned from those two people. “The new ones fell off this year. They are big and of good quality. The current price is good. I'll give you six yuan for the kilogram, and I'll weigh these two...twelve kilograms each, seventy-two yuan and six cents."
Li Long didn't think anything of it, but Li Qingxia was shocked!
These two sticks, which look like firewood, only cost more than seventy yuan!
Two months’ salary for a worker!
Isn’t the thing in the mountains too greedy?
“This antler is big, but the quality is a bit inferior. It would be nice if it was a pair. Now these antlers can not only be used to make glue, but some people also like to take them back and put them in the house as decoration...” Chen Hongjun explained to Li Long as he looked at it, "One kilogram is calculated as five yuan and a half... This branch is not small, nine kilograms and eighty cents, that is fifty-three yuan and nine cents, and the two together are one hundred and twenty cents." Six dollars. Look at these two..."
He went to get the two branches that Li Qingxia picked up.
"These two branches are Chenjiao. They should have fallen off last year or the year before. The horniness is not very good. How about I give you four and a half yuan?"
Li Long turned to look at Li Qingxia. .
"Okay, okay!" Li Qingxia naturally did not disagree.
"Let's weigh this pair of horns...seven kilograms and nine, thirty-five yuan and fifty-five cents, well, that's the price."
Li Qingxia was also very happy. Although it was not as expensive as Li Long's, it was still a month's salary for a worker!
How can you make so much money just by picking up some random things in the mountains?
Li Long thought that he might as well educate the old man about science for a while, so as not to get too wild.
“This Fritillary...”
“It’s better to look at this Fritillary upside down.” Li Long saw Chen Hongjun looking at the Fritillary and said, “I’ll take a look at their den. I brought it from the bag and didn’t open it, so you should check it carefully.”
"Okay," Chen Hongjun found a basket, poured the caladium into it, pulled it, and said, "This caladium is a bit dirty - hey, why is there a mushroom? Morels? There are also these things. …”
"You collect these morels?" Li Long watched Chen Hongjun pick out a few leaves from the pile of Fritillaria, and then picked out a small dried morel, and asked: "I think there are some in the mountains. ”
“Yes, it’s not expensive. It’s only twenty or thirty yuan per kilogram of dry goods.”
“That’s not cheap,” Li Qingxia couldn’t help but say, “Is this thing... so expensive?”
“Old. "Uncle, this is a rare strain of bacteria," Chen Hongjun explained with a smile, "Your son should know that this thing only grows in the mountains for a month or two, and then disappears after the season...and it is difficult to dry dry goods. Only one kilogram of dry food is dried for every kilogram of fresh food.”
"No wonder it's so expensive..."
"I won't pick it up this year." Li Long said, "I can pick up some in the mountains and eat it at home. Let's wait until next year. By the way, Comrade Chen, that black tiger palm Are you collecting the bacteria?"
"Collect it." Chen Hongjun nodded and said, "But that one hasn't grown yet, has it?"
"It should be soon." Li Long nodded, "How to collect that one?"
"The dry goods are about 20, the quality is Well, the price can be higher.”
"Then I'll have to stay in the mountains for a while."
"Well, this is okay. The one grows into a large area, and it's not as small as this morel. Easy to ship.”
Li Long nodded.
In the end, these caladiums were collected at thirty-six per kilogram, mainly because the impurities were not removed and contained in them.
In total, Li Long's income from this batch of goods was close to 300 yuan. Although Li Qingxia only had more than 30 yuan, he was still happy.
After leaving the purchasing station, Li Long took Li Qingxia to buy some steamed buns from the Big Meat Canteen, and the two of them ate while walking back.
"Xiaolong, what is the black tiger palm fungus you are talking about?"
"A kind of mushroom." Li Long gestured, "Bigger than a palm, with patterns on it They are black strips, which look like tiger paws from a distance... By the way, ordinary mushrooms don't have stripes on their bottoms. It's very fluffy. "
"Is that one easy to find?" "It's easy to find. A big one can weigh half a kilogram. Once you find it, it's a big piece." Li Long went into the mountains in his last life. I picked it when I was playing. I didn’t know what mushrooms were at the time. It was popularized by others. Later I saw it on a short video.
"Then when this work is done, let's pick these mushrooms in the mountains," Li Qingxia said with a smile, "Then we can make more money."
"Okay." Li Long must have no objection. While staying in the mountains, I happened to take a look at the wooden house and Harimu's winter nest, so as not to be destroyed again.
Li Long drove the car directly to the captain's house.
Xu Chengjun was not at home. When Ma Hongmei saw Li Long pulling a cart of poles, she hurriedly ran out to call Xu Chengjun. She knew that Xu Chengjun had been worried about the pole issue in the past two days.
Xu Chengjun ran back, looked at a cart of poles, gasped for air, and then smiled, he asked Li Long:
"This pole...is not bad. You guys are very efficient!"
"How is the broom stick done by that team?" Li Long also asked, "How many sticks are there? Is there enough Jijiji?" ? The quality is acceptable?”
“Don’t worry about this!” Xu Cheng Jun's voice was loud, "On the day you left, I asked people to make a dozen more stakes (tools for tying brooms), and all the families in the team were sent to cut the grizzly. Now the grizzly is almost ready for use." ...Of course, I didn’t go to your house, so your house doesn’t lack this, right? By the way, I asked the accountant to buy a few. Let Lao Gu and Gu Boyuan distribute ten kilograms of thick iron wire to each family. If you can't find that many iron rings, iron wire will do. "
"The quality of the big broom must be guaranteed." Li Long. Knowing that Xu Chengjun deliberately pointed out Gu Boyuan to let him know that he understood, he smiled and nodded. Narrowing his head, he then said, "Outside the broom..."
"Don't worry, the red wicker strips must be braided in a circle." Xu Chengjun took over the words before Li Long finished speaking, "I still want to I will take on this job every year from now on, so I don’t dare to be careless about it.”
"Okay. This car contains 600 poles. It will be pulled down in two days. We will unload it first..."
"No, no, no, just wait, someone will come soon...he's here." Xu Chengjun is very polite to Li Long now. If he can get a big job for the team, a job that makes a lot of money, he must be polite!
Five or six young men hurriedly walked in from outside. They greeted Li Long and Li Qingxia with a smile, and then began to unload the poles without waiting for instructions.
After a cart of poles was unloaded, Xu Chengjun quietly asked Li Long:
"Xiaolong, this pole allocation..."
"That's your business." Li Long said with a smile, "I only care about cutting the poles and final inspection."
"Okay, okay." Li Long didn't care about so many things, and Xu Chengjun was very happy. , "Then did you eat for lunch..."
"In the county After eating. Now go back and take a rest. We have to go to the mountains quickly."
"Then I won't leave you alone. I'll write down the number of poles and we'll count them together then?"
"Of course let's forget it together." Li Long said and returned home with Li Qingxia.
The sun had begun to set. When Li Long and Li Qingxia returned home, Du Chunfang was chopping beet leaves under the shed.
"Hey, you're back?" Hearing the sound of the carriage, Du Chunfang raised his head and saw Li Qingxia and Li Long coming back. He stood up quickly, wiped his hands and said:
"Tired Are you ready? I’ll get you some water..."
"Mom, don't move, we'll do it ourselves." Li Long tied up the carriage and said, "We'll have to leave after a while."
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Du Chunfang asked, "No. Have dinner and leave tomorrow?”
"Then the job of making money is not urgent?" Li Qingxia said, "The whole village is waiting for this pole to stick the broom, how can we wait?"
As he said this, he took out a handful of bills and counted them out. Twenty was handed to Du Chunfang:
"Here you go, take it. I picked up antlers in the mountains. If Xiaolong hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have known that I could sell them for money... It's really easy to make money!"
" Dad, picking up antlers in the mountains is not that easy. Easy." Li Long interjected, "You're lucky, it won't be easy later. Think about the two you asked me to fight, and I only picked up those three after being in the mountains for so long."
< br>"Yes." Li Qingxia He smiled and said, "Anyway, if you can pick it up, it's an unexpected fortune. If you can't pick it up, you can make money by chopping poles. By the way, Xiaolong is very powerful. This time he went to hunt down a yellow sheep, and we also brought back some meat from the fire." .”
Du Chunfang smiled, her son is amazing!
Liang Yuemei went to the fields to pull weeds and would not be back for a while. Li Long and the others drank water, rested for a while, fed the horses some food, and then drove the carriage towards the mountains.
When he returned to the mountain, the sun was already on the top of the west mountain. Li Long saw two bundles of poles piled next to the wooden house. These should be the poles that Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang carried back at noon.
"Dad, you rest here in the house for a while, I will chop some poles."
"Okay, then you go." Li Qingxia knew that his son felt sorry for him, so he did not Say more. After all, I am not familiar with my son here, so it is really hard to say if I really encounter a wolf or something.
Li Long found a ditch nearby. There were no willow trees in the ditch. He went directly to the forest on the slope and started cutting branches of the big trees. Such branches are thick enough and can be used as broom handles.
When it got dark, Li Long cut a dozen poles and carried them back to the wooden house.
Li Jianguo has returned, and Tao Daqiang is walking back with a pole in the distance.
"Da Qiang is really capable of suffering." Li Jianguo looked at Tao Daqiang's figure and said, "Chopping more than a hundred poles a day, with blood blisters on his hands, without saying a word."
"That's it. It can cause hardship. "Li Qingxia is right. He turned on the fire on the stove and cooked rice soup. He cut the stewed liver, belly and other things into a plate and put it on the wooden table. Li Jianguo swatted flies trying to crawl over from time to time. Li Qingxia continued: "This kid is willing to do it." alive.”
Tao Daqiang didn't know what everyone thought of him, so he came over with a pole on his back. After putting it down, he went to the spring to wash himself, and then came over to see if there was anything he could do to help.
In the next two days, Li Long went to chop the poles honestly. The four of them worked together and chopped nearly a thousand poles. In the evening Li Long said:
"Get up early tomorrow morning and I'll go see if there are any wild boars. If I can hunt them, I'll keep them for eating and take some back home."
" Then I'll go too!" Li Qingxia really didn't pick up antlers in the past two days, so he was a little disappointed and said, "Can I use that small-caliber gun?"
Li Jianguo listened and asked with a smile:
"Dad, can you shoot that gun accurately?"
"That...can't."
"Then don't use it." Li Jianguo said, "Daqiang and I They have all been trained as militiamen and can be used as commanders, but you can’t shoot them accurately, so it’s not a waste.”
"Okay." Li Qingxia knew this and didn't insist on using the gun. "But I still have to follow."
"Then let's go all four." Li Jianguo said, "We can fight If you can’t hit, just get up and exercise.”
Li Long couldn't laugh or cry. He got up two or three hours early to exercise? I bet you are not tired from working, right?
But he also wanted to see if the wild boar was still there at the place he looked at earlier.
If it is true, hunting can be regarded as a way to adjust the tense pace of life.
Early the next morning, all four people got up and set off with their equipment.
(End of this chapter)