Chapter 228 Li Long, people like you can be called friends
The price of snow leopard skin surprised Li Long.
"Xiao Li, where did you get this snow leopard skin?" Chen Hongjun asked with a slightly serious expression when he saw the snow leopard skin.
"This was sent by friends from the herdsmen in the mountains." Li Long said calmly, "They are short of supplies in the mountains. Let's exchange this for something. By the way, they said that this snow leopard sneaked into their summer pasture. In the sheep pen, many sheep were killed and they were beaten to death if they could not be driven away.”
Li Long knew that it would take several years for the first version of the animal protection law in China to appear, so now. It is not illegal to kill a snow leopard. But he never expected that Harimu and the others would be able to hunt down snow leopards in the summer pasture!
This thing was rarely seen in later generations for twenty or thirty years. That is to say, some time later, when protection efforts were strengthened, this snow mountain elf gradually appeared in people's field of vision.
“This snow leopard skin is rare and relatively complete. In the whole region, no, probably in China, such complete skins should be rare. This thing... survives in the mountains. I really didn’t expect it to be there. Someone can hit me!"
"Comrade Chen, will you accept it here? If not, I will go to Shicheng or Wucheng. My herdsman friend is still very popular. Anxious..."
"Take it, how can you not take it?" When Chen Hongjun heard that Li Long was going elsewhere, he immediately pulled the snow leopard skin into his arms and said solemnly:
"Xiao Li, you have helped me a lot. With this snow leopard skin, my acquisition task this year can be completed ahead of schedule..."
Li Long smiled and said:
"Comrade Chen, just tell me directly how much you can charge. If it's suitable, I won't go to Shicheng."
"Xiao Li, I'm telling the truth. Let me tell you, the highest authority I have to purchase something like this here is three thousand yuan..."
"Is this skin so valuable?" Li Long was shocked.
"That's impossible." Chen Hongjun waved his hand and said, "Although snow leopard skin is rare, to be honest, this skin is not as beautiful as tiger skin or leopard skin. The pattern is black and white. Therefore, except for certain groups of people, , the demand is not as wide as other leathers... This leather is relatively complete, I priced it at 1,100 yuan..."
"It's less, it's less!" Li Long had basically determined the value of the snow leopard skin when Chen Hongjun lost his temper. He hoped to get the maximum benefit for Harimu and the others, so he said:
" At least 1,500 yuan, otherwise I will go to Shicheng."
"Xiao Li," Chen Hongjun smiled bitterly, "We are old acquaintances. Ever since you first sold antlers, do you think I told you that the price was false? If your goods are good, I will definitely give you the best price. A good price, this one thousand and fifty..."
"Comrade Chen, if this is I would definitely sell my own things without saying a word, but the lives of my herdsmen friends in the mountains are really hard. Even though they herd sheep, they are not easy to eat and sell. The only way to improve your life with some money is through occasional hunting like this - -This is not just one herdsman, there are more than a dozen herders in their summer pasture...
And you also said that this snow leopard skin is very rare, very rare, and is no worse than that tiger skin in terms of rarity. So fifteen hundred yuan is really not much..."
"Xiao Li, you are really...making things difficult for me!" Chen Hongjun hesitated.
"Comrade Chen, actually I have some money. If this snow leopard skin really can't be sold for that price, I will use my money to buy things for those herdsmen friends. I believe in this skin. , there should be someone from other buying stations asking for it.”
“Okay, Xiao Li,” Chen Hongjun thought for a while and said, “Then I’ll take it, but you have to promise that you will have this in the future. Such a good thing, you'd better send it to me."
"That's for sure." Li Long smiled, "Don't worry, Comrade Chen, you also said that we have been cooperating for so long, I will get it. Isn’t everything delivered to you as soon as possible?”
Although Chen Hongjun knew that the price of 1,500 yuan was a bit high, in fact, the value of the snow leopard skin was definitely higher.
He issued an invoice, inspected the goods again, and then asked someone to get money for Li Long.
Li Long felt heavy holding the thick stack of unity and felt happy in his heart.
He didn't plan to make a profit in the middle. Now he was going to buy batteries. He also planned to buy some other things, and then give the remaining money to Harimu.
And the snow lotus was regarded as the reward for Harimu's help.
In the department store, Xiao Liu couldn’t believe his ears:
"What did you say? You said you wanted thirty boxes of batteries?"
"Yes." Li Long said calmly.
Now Li Long has an unshaven beard and his hair is a bit messy. He doesn’t look at all in tune with his previous spirit.
Xiao Liu has now roughly guessed that Li Long should go into the mountains often, and his clothes are not clean. She is slightly mentally balanced, but still has a bit of pity. Why does this person work so hard? ?
When Li Long said he wanted thirty boxes of AA batteries, he really scared her.
What kind of person would want so many batteries?
“I also want thirty packs of salt and thirty packs of sugar cubes.” Li Long continued talking about his shopping list, “By the way, I also want some brick tea, which costs thirty yuan too. You guys Are the chicken cakes halal? Take five packs."
Xiao Liu was a little stunned. Is this person so rich? Or are you speculating?
Li Long saw her suspicion and took out a certificate and showed it to her:
"I am a part-time ranger of the forestry team. These things are for herdsmen friends in the mountains. ”
"Okay, okay, I'll get the goods for you now." The eldest sister next to Xiao Liu touched Xiao Liu and said with a smile, "How do you pretend to be?"
"I ride a bicycle with two I’ll put these things in two sacks and put them on both sides of the bicycle.”
The items were quickly brought over, and the salesperson carefully sorted them and wrapped them in paper, and then wrapped them in thin ropes. Tied up.
Li Long wrote the invoice and went to pay the money. After paying the money, he started loading things into the sack. "Xiao Liu, I just saw it. This young man... took out a thick stack of unity - the stack hasn't been opened yet, at least one thousand... it's really rich!" the eldest lady next to him whispered to Xiao Liu.
Xiao Liu's expression was a bit complicated.
Li Long put the things into the sack, adjusted it, carried it out and placed it on both sides of the bicycle.
The sack is a bit big, so Li Long needs to be careful when riding. Fortunately, now there are partitions on both sides of the rear wheel of the bicycle, so there is no need to worry about the sack getting caught in the wheel.
Li Long went to the grain store again and bought a bag of noodles. In fact, he wanted to buy more, but Harimu only had one horse and couldn't carry so many things.
The next step is to go to the pharmaceutical company. Commonly used medicines are bought in boxes. The staff here were also surprised that Li Long's certificate worked again.
The bicycle was fully loaded, and Li Long did not dare to delay and rode his bicycle towards the mountains.
By the time Li Long rode to Halimu's Dongwozi, it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still very high. Li Long saw Halimu clearing weeds in front of the Dongwozi. He collected a lot of thick wood, and Li Long guessed that he planned to completely block the door.
Seeing Li Long appear, Harimu immediately came up to him and asked:
"Why did you buy so many things?"
"They are all needed. "Li Long and Harimu pushed the bicycle and things across the ditch together, and arrived in front of Dongwozi. Then he took a rest and began to talk to Harimu about the situation.
"Harimu, let me tell you now, that snow leopard skin was sold for fifteen hundred yuan. It cost about five hundred yuan in total to buy these things, and the remaining one thousand yuan will be given to you."
< br>Li Long took out the money and handed it to Harimu, who waved his hand hurriedly:
"How can it be possible to sell so much? I don't want the money, I can't have it..."
The two refused for a long time. Li Long saw that Harimu was about to get angry, so he had to say:
"Okay, I'll save the money for you first."
"No, no, no, it's not about saving..." Harimu said seriously, "I'll exchange things for things, as long as we think it's appropriate. I originally wanted to change the batteries, but I didn't expect you to exchange them for so many things..."
"Halimu, my Duosen, you have to change your ideas." Li Long said with a smile, "Now is not the same as before, it doesn't mean that you have changed If you think it's appropriate, then you think it's fair. In fact, the value of what you get is much higher than what you want to exchange... If this continues, you will suffer."
"Duosen, you. Will it make us suffer?" Harimu asked, and then smiled, "You know, without you, many of our children in Xia Ranch would not know what they are doing. Those who have radios don’t know how big the outside world is, what kind of life our Kazakh fellow tribesmen live in other places, or how life can actually be so good...
Why does the radio work so fast? There is a signal in the summer pasture in the mountains. We can listen to the radio every day. Listen, in order to let everyone hear it, the sound will be loudest and placed outside, so the battery will use up so quickly...
But we are really happy this summer. We have had more fun than any other summer, our children learned a lot from the radio, and our people really appreciate you..."
Li Long stopped talking. But he still felt that it was necessary to instill a habit of reasonable exchange in Harimu and the others, otherwise, they would really suffer.
However, even if they suffer a loss, based on their character, Harimu and the others will most likely not take it to heart. They have their own minds.
"Those jade stones need to be sold in Wucheng," Li Long had to say other things, "So I will leave them alone for now. After they are sold, I can tell how much they are, but the money should not be there either." Less."
"Then I don't care, that's your business..." Harimu smiled slyly again, "That's your business. I have exchanged a lot more things than we expected."
"Well, I bring a pencil," Li Long took out a specially prepared pencil and said, "You must write down these medicines on it. Otherwise, you will be in trouble if you take the wrong medicine. Just like last time, come on, let me tell you what these medicines are for..."
Medicine is a necessity. Although the Kazakhs have their own herbal traditions, some acute diseases still require these patent medicines, which are efficient and timely.
Halimu also knew this truth, so when Li Long told him, he also wrote it seriously.
"These five packages of chicken cakes are halal. You can eat them. Look at the markings on them. Don't just eat naan on the way back. It's not nutritious enough." Li Long specially carried the chicken cakes Come out and say it.
Harimu smiled and stuffed the egg cake into the bag where he originally kept the naan.
After finishing all these things, Harimu put the things on his horse and said:
"Duosen, when I go back this time, I may come down later, or I may not come down until the transition. If you are not in the cabin when I come down, how should I find you?"
"You go to the supply and marketing cooperative in the county, or the post and telecommunications office, and call our village." Li Long used a pencil to call He wrote down the name of the village and wrote it on a box and said, "If I'm not here, you can find me by calling."
"Okay, then I'm leaving." Harimu mounted his horse and said: "Thank you."
After saying that, Harimu turned the horse's head and hurried toward the mountains.
Li Long watched the figure of Harimu disappear before he got on his bicycle and turned back to the wooden house.
The day was busy and felt like a dream.
(End of this chapter)