"I'm in Wucheng." Yu Sufu said with a smile, "Adasi, I remember you said last time that as long as I find good small seed material, I can come to you. Is it true?"
"Of course." Li Long said with a smile, "Okay, okay. When will you come over?" ?”
“I plan to go to the jade factory to sell some large pieces. I’ll take the car to see you tomorrow morning, okay?”
“No, I don't have any good information here." Li Long thought it would be better to stay in the county. After all, Ma County is your own territory, so you don’t have to worry about being cheated. Although people these days are relatively "simple" compared to later generations, it is not ruled out that there will be things like the immortal dance.
"Well, I will take the car to look for you early tomorrow morning. Are you going to the supply and marketing cooperative to look for you?"
"Okay. When you arrive, just come here to find me." Li Long agreed.
After hanging up the phone, Li Xiangqian asked curiously:
"Did you contact a jade seller?"
"Well, he sells Hetian jade in southern Xinjiang." Li Long said, "The last time I went to Wucheng to sell jasper, , happened to meet him selling Hetian jade. He collected a lot of small pieces of Hetian jade seeds, but the jade factory refused to accept them because they were too small, so I said he might as well sell them to me and asked him to sell some to me if he had any. ."
"How big?"
Li Long gestured at the size of a pigeon egg.
"What's the point of that?" Li Xiangqian glanced with disdain, "If you want to buy it, buy it in big pieces and buy it into raw materials. Isn't the bracelet bad? Isn't the jade pendant bad? Is the pendant bad? I have to do it. What can I do with a small stone egg?”
“Make a bracelet or something.” Li Long said with a smile. "We don't have money."
"You can't even buy a bracelet for much. By the way, don't you have a partner? You can't buy a jade bracelet for your partner? Young people are a bit uncomfortable wearing gold bracelets. It’s rustic, but the jade one is good.”
When he said this, Li Long was really moved.
Why not go to the jade factory? We don’t need top-notch materials or top-notch carvings, just average ones. Of course, the current ordinary is just like the "ordinary" mentioned by King Li among the four heavenly kings. In future generations, it will also be a heavenly king-level existence.
After all, Li Long has watched short videos for a long time and knows the development in this industry. The best materials will be mined by the next century. So some not so good materials are slowly becoming popular.
For example, the famous jadeite. At the beginning of the 21st century, the brick material was not popular at all, and there was no water at all. The so-called iron dragon was only green. Twenty years later, it has become a new product and is very expensive. .
At the beginning of the century, such materials were looked down upon.
A truckload of Qinghai materials cost only a few thousand yuan in the early 1990s, but twenty years later it cost tens of thousands...
Li Long didn't want to hoard to make a fortune. At least he bought some for his family when he could afford it. When the price increased, at least others had it and his own family had it, that would be fine.
"Then you will come over tomorrow?" Li Qianqian asked when Li Long was silent.
"Come on. I'll pick him up tomorrow. If he has good stuff, I'll buy it and keep it for now. Treat him to a meal, send him off, and then I'll do my own business later. "
"Okay, just come over and wait in my office tomorrow," Li Xiangqian said, "I have nothing to do anyway."
Li Long rode his bicycle back. When the meal was ready, Gu Xiaoxia came back.
Li Long told her about his plans to buy a jade bracelet.
"No, no, no!" Gu Xiaoxia said in a very solemn tone, "No need to buy it for me! You... just buy it for auntie. I have a watch to wear, and people who work now don't wear these decorations. Everyone felt it was inappropriate."
Li Long reacted. Although reform and opening up have occurred, in fact people's thinking has not yet evolved from that era. Wearing something more traditional like this will attract some strange looks.
"Okay, I'll buy some for my wife and the others. These things will definitely become less and less in the future, so it's okay to just buy some and leave them alone."
"Yes." Gu Xiaoxia has no objection to this, " Today, Deputy Director Wang praised me again and said that if there are indicators in the fall, he can help me become a regular employee.”
"It's a good thing." Li Long smiled, "This is a great thing... But don't have too high expectations. After all, it's hard to say whether it will happen or not. Some people who have been seconded for several years may not be able to become full-time..."
"I know." Gu Xiaoxia didn't think Li Long was nagging. She knew that he was doing it for her own good, "Just do your own thing honestly."
< br>"You should report your thoughts to the leader more often. If you have any confusion, if you have any gossip in the office, you should also tell the leader. Since the leader seconded you, he is optimistic about you, so it is not just about work. Don't make small talk. Report, but don’t let yourself be wronged.”
Li Long said this, Gu Xiaoxia thought for a moment and nodded slowly.
This is still different from the education she received.
"I heard a saying, 'You have to lower your head to pull the cart but also know to raise your head to look at the road.' If you just know how to work, the road will not be long or far."
Gu Xiaoxia didn't go far until she went to work. I still think about Li Long's words from time to time.
Li Long rested in the house for a while, then rode his bicycle to the free market.
I originally wanted to see if I could meet someone selling antiques, but I didn’t. But the free market seems to have been reorganized. The stalls are much neater and there are more stalls. The distance between the stalls is about the same, and there is no messy garbage, so it looks much tidier. What surprised Li Long was that Meng Zhiqiang was still selling fish - there were a lot of fish in his stall, some were dead, and some crucian carp were still alive.
Li Long actually admires these wild crucian carp, they have such strong vitality.
There will be some puddles near residential areas, deep ditches at the water intakes of canals, and water accumulation areas where water from vegetable gardens collects.
It turns out that these are water flowing from Xiaohaizi, which will store water for a long time. Then if you don’t water it for a period of time, the water will gradually disappear in the puddle, and there will be a little mud left at the bottom, maybe even The surface of the mud is dry, but it will be damp underneath.
But as long as there is a heavy rain, a lot of water will accumulate in these puddles. Within a few hours, you will find palm-sized crucian carp swimming in the puddles.
Amazing.
This is definitely not the result of water hatching fish eggs. After all, it is impossible for them to be so big as soon as they hatch.
It is impossible to be like the story in the story club, where the water will be sucked into the air by the waterspout and then fall down with the rain. After all, there has never been a tornado here - a small local one. It's called a cyclone, not a tornado.
At this time, everyone is materialistic and knows that it cannot appear out of thin air, so there is only one explanation. It turns out that there are fish in the pit, and when there is no water, the crucian carp will crawl into the mud and linger, waiting for water to come. Then drill out.
Of course this also requires a certain favorable environment. The puddles that rush out under the gates of large canals will not work. The soft mud at the bottom of the puddle has been washed away, leaving only hard soil. Without the soft mud, crucian carp cannot get in. Finally, when the water disappears, the crucian carp dries up and dies, becoming a delicacy for flies and maggots.
Li Long has seen such a fish that seemed to "appear suddenly" more than once, and later he slowly analyzed the reason.
The survivability of crucian carp also reflects another aspect.
In the previous life, Li Long caught crucian carp more than once before freezing in winter. After catching these crucian carps, they were more than ten kilograms as big as a palm or as long as a chopstick. Of course, there were also small crucian carps less than ten centimeters mixed in, and then they disappeared. After peeling it, put it in a basket and put it in a spare room.
If you want to eat it, go over and get some - the temperature is not enough to freeze at this time, but there are no flies anymore. At this time, you will find a magical discovery. Even if three or four days have passed, just by virtue of the There were actually some crucian carp alive in that layer of mucus.
The one Li Long saw with his own eyes lived for a week at most.
You cannot release the fish into the water at this time. If you release this fish into the water, it will die quickly.
Now that they had met, Li Long stopped the car and asked:
"Lao Meng, is this fish not easy to sell today?"
"Yes." Meng Zhiqiang forced a smile and did not want to speak.
I thought, if your father and Tao Daqiang hadn’t brought dozens of kilograms of fish to sell in the early morning and attracted all the customers away, would I have been able to sell it?
He came over with a urea bag on his back. Li Qingxia and the others came over on bicycles, so naturally the other party was faster.
There is a layer of plastic inside the urea bag. Although it is not completely waterproof, the water will not leak out so quickly. Therefore, most of the fish Li Qingxia and the others get are live, so customers must like to buy them.
Meng Zhiqiang will also put some water in the bag when carrying fish, but not too much, otherwise he will not be able to carry it.
At this time he really wanted to buy a bicycle - but it was too expensive. Although I have made a lot of money from fishing, there is still a long way to go before I can buy a bicycle. And if you have money, you can spend it directly on things at home.
Can’t save much.
Seeing Li Long still riding a bicycle at this time, he was really envious.
Li Long and Meng Zhiqiang had a normal relationship, so they just said hello and left.
At this time, he saw that some stall owners took out steamed buns, pancakes, and steamed buns from their bags and started eating lunch with water from old kettles when they saw that there were no customers.
Their kettles are also varied, the most common ones are canned bottles, old military kettles, and liquor bottles.
Most of the food we eat is corn flour pancakes and steamed cakes. This made Li Long realize that there are still only a few people who can eat meat now.
My family’s living standard has exceeded that of most Chinese people.
He suddenly thought, if he set up a hot food stall here, could he also make money? After all, eating steamed buns dry, seeing these people swallowing uncomfortably, and choking, and rushing to get water to wash them down, wouldn't eating hot food be more popular?
This thought just flashed through my mind and had nothing to do with me. He would definitely not do such a thing. If he didn't have the leisure, how much money would he make?
As the market was approaching the end, Li Long saw someone wearing an armband walking over.
It turns out there are managers.
After passing these two people, Li Long saw a stall selling fresh potatoes, the size of a fist, evenly distributed. Li Long bought two kilograms. There were several tomatoes selling, and he picked the better ones. I weighed three kilograms, and then I saw someone selling skin sprouts, so I weighed a few, munched on the tomatoes and went back.
I have to say that the tomatoes at this time are really sweet and sour.
The next day, Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative to wait. Unexpectedly, Yu Sufu came over carrying a sack just a short while after going to work in the morning.
Look at that sack, the contents are quite heavy! (End of this chapter)