That night, Li Long divided the jade he had brought back from Wucheng to his family.
"My mother, your bracelet." Li Long handed a jade bracelet with a small ring to Du Chunfang's hand, "This jade bracelet is made of mutton-fat jade. It feels comfortable when you touch it. You can’t give it to others if you wear it.”
“Why spend that money!” Du Chunfang looked dissatisfied, but in fact, the smile in the corner of her eyes betrayed her true thoughts. .
"Then give it to Xiaolong and let him sell it." Li Qingxia teased his wife, "You can still get the money back."
"If you don't know how to speak, don't speak!" Du Chunfang She glared at him and said, "It's not as good as Xiaolong. Xiaolong also knows how to buy me a bracelet."
"That's different." Li Qingxia didn't want to be fooled. Didn't he just live this good life here? Where can I buy it in my hometown?
“Dad, this handle is for you.” There were many things in Li Long’s satchel, and he distributed them one by one. “Take it and play with it, moving your fingers. This is also mutton-fat jade. The top Is it the sculpture of the poet Li Bai?"
"Okay!" Li Qingxia smiled and took the piece of jade that was about the size of Li Qiang's fist.
“Sister-in-law, this jade bracelet is for you. I bought it for my elder brother.” Li Long took another jade bracelet with a larger ring and said, “I was not very sensible in the past few years. You are angry."
Liang Yuemei was very happy at first, but after hearing what Li Long said, her nose felt sore. She turned her head, wiped the corners of her eyes, turned around and said with a smile:
"What are you talking about? I'm not polite."
She really liked this bracelet. She put it on and it looked really good, but she took it off again.
I can’t wear this when I’m working.
"Brother, this jade belt buckle is for you." Li Long handed the jade belt buckle to Li Jianguo, "Dad sent me here. You raised me as your son. The eldest brother is Father, I used to be a fool, but I won’t do it anymore.”
“Okay.” Although Li Jianguo was a little mentally prepared, he felt a little unbearable when he heard Li Long say this, “Okay, okay, it’s not the case now. Very good, now you are better than me!”
"That's your responsibility!" Li Long said sincerely.
"Uncle, uncle, are we?" Li Qiang was beside him and couldn't wait any longer.
"There are some." Li Long smiled and took out two more safety buckles, "Look, your sister and you, one each. These are called safety buckles, to keep you safe. Now take them Play with it and give it to your mother when you go to sleep. You can’t wear it now.”
“Okay, sister, it’s yours!” Li Qiang took the safety buckle and held it in his hand. Rico is happy.
"Is Xiaoxia there?" Liang Yuemei asked.
"Yes, I also bought a bracelet for her, but she can't wear it now."
"Does this cost a lot of money?" Du Chunfang couldn't help but ask while touching the bracelet.
"It's not much. I earned it in two days picking mushrooms." Li Long said nonchalantly, "You just spend the money you earn. There are so many of these things now and they are cheap. But I heard Yes, this Hetian jade is mainly produced in southern Xinjiang, and it will become increasingly rare in the future. It’s still cheap to buy now, but I won’t be able to buy it in the future.”
“Well, I have to keep it!” He hurriedly took off the jade bracelet and held it carefully in his hands.
"Brother, here is one from Xiaoxia's father, give it to him then. I will have to go to the mountains after selling the fish tomorrow. You can make money by picking these mushrooms, while there are still a few days left , earn one more is one.”
"Okay." Li Jianguo agreed readily.
The next morning, Li Long rode a bicycle and took the fish to Shicheng for sale. During this period, Li Qingxia had been selling fish in the county town. The fish sold well, but when he got up to fish in the morning, Li Qingxia also said To be honest, he and Tao Daqiang have been catching and selling fish these days, and they have never caught more than fifty kilograms of fish in the net on any one day.
"First of all, it should be that there are fewer fish in the small sea. After all, I heard from your elder brother that you have been catching fish in winter. From winter to now, you have caught several thousand kilograms of fish, right?" Li Qingxia analyzed while choosing fish, "There are other people catching fish now. I heard from Daqiang that there are a lot of fish in Dahaizi. If not, let's go there and have a look?"
"No. , not used for the time being. Li Long pointed at the fish on the plastic sheet and said, "I can say that I can get more than 60 kilograms today - including the ones in the basin, this amount is quite good. The fish in Xiaohaizi is fat and the fish in Dahaizi is thin." , We have many old customers now, we have to let them eat well."
Choose the fish, divide the bags, keep some miscellaneous fish, Tao Daqiang takes some, and Li Long takes the rest. Take it with you to Chushi City.
When passing by the bridge, Li Long still didn't see the mother and daughter, and he didn't care. Maybe they had moved away.
When they went to the big courtyard, Gu Xiaoxia was making breakfast, and Li Long handed over the prepared bracelet.
"Jade bracelet?" Gu Xiaoxia was a little surprised, "You are..."
"I went to Wucheng yesterday and bought it there." Li Long said with a smile, "Jade bracelet It’s a good thing, it’s for raising people. Of course, I also know that you are a member of the public and can’t wear it. It doesn’t matter. Just keep it.”
“Okay.” Gu Xiaoxia wanted to say a lot, but in the end it came down to this sentence. In the words.
Li Long was going to Shicheng to sell fish, so he hurriedly took the basin and scale and went out without waiting for Gu Xiaoxia to finish the meal.
Gu Xiaoxia looked at the bracelet, a little lost.
When Li Longqi arrived at Shicheng Old Street, he found that there were nearly twice as many people here as before, and all the stalls were occupied by vendors of all sizes.
The shouts were louder than before, one after another, no longer as "shy" as before.
For the market, this is a good thing and the vitality is greatly increased.
But it was a bit bad for Li Long. After all, it would be difficult for him to find a good stall.
After pushing his bicycle back and forth twice, Li Long reluctantly found a small spot at the corner of the street and squeezed in - the original stall owner was selling milk, and now he had sold out and closed the stall.
This space is not enough to place three pots, so Li Long can only place two, one in front of the other, one with ordinary fish and one with ditch fish.
Of course there are good things. Before he could say anything, someone came looking for him.
“Young man, it’s been a long time since you came here to sell fish!” The speaker was a slightly fat middle-aged man, “I come here every morning but I haven’t waited for you. I miss you so much! The other fish I eat just don’t taste as good as yours!”
"That's a repeat customer!" Li Long was amused when he heard this. "Today the scale is high for you. Do you want crucian carp, carp or this mountain loach?"
"The crucian carp costs three yuan, give me the loach." "Here comes a kilogram." The man said while taking out the money, "Wait a minute, I'll give you a shout. I'm not the only one who misses your fish!"
Li Long was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would sell fish here. Reputation sold.
"Hey, hey, sir, that Aunt Wang, that young man selling fish is here!" The middle-aged man shouted towards the old street bus station, "So the one selling delicious fish is here!" That young man is here, come here quickly!”
He shouted and many people came over.
Li Long was immediately surrounded, but he didn't panic at all. While weighing the fish for the big brother, he greeted people skillfully, and he didn't forget to remind everyone not to reach out. "Big brother, thank you. I am very generous and will give you another big crucian carp... Come, I will dress you with Achnatherum splendens."
People like to be lively, and other stalls There were not many people, and some people occasionally looked around. Li Long's place was almost packed, but people still squeezed in.
Some people are real regular customers, while others are just watching the fun. They heard that the fish is good, so they followed suit and bought it.
In less than half an hour, all the fish were sold out. Li Long was also sweating profusely and apologized to those who stayed:
"Everyone, I'm sorry. We can catch so many fish in one day. If we transport more fish, they will be crushed to death and they will no longer be fresh. Let's eat them when there are fish later. Thank you for your support!"
This Selling fish is like performing arts, and there are regular customers.
Li Long even had the idea of continuing to go back to the Internet today.
After thinking about it, I might as well forget it, take advantage of the last season of this mushroom to make some quick money, and then go back and talk about it.
For the next week, he kept picking mushrooms on the mountain, and finally dried two large bags of mushrooms.
When I came down the mountain, I not only carried dried mushrooms, but also more than ten kilograms of incompletely dried Codonopsis pilosula and ten jars of honey. Lu Dafeng originally wanted to give it as a gift, but Li Long definitely wanted to give him money. He doesn't lack the money either.
Back in the compound, Li Long unloaded the Codonopsis pilosula and honey and went to the purchasing station to sell the mushrooms.
“Is this the last season?” Chen Hongjun asked.
"Well, there won't be any later." Li Long said.
Actually, there are still some on the mountain, but he has no plans to do it anymore. There are not many scattered ones, and they are not worth it. Going further into the mountains, the round trip would be too long, and he estimated that even if he got mushrooms for next season, he might not be able to get ten kilograms of dry goods in the end, so forget it.
"Okay. You made nearly two thousand yuan for these two sacks." Chen Hongjun looked envious, "A worker can earn several years' salary!"
"Then look at my shoes!" Li Long stretched out his feet. Let him see, "The Jiefang shoes are worn out, it's hard work! It's just hard work and money."
"Haha, that's right, ordinary people can't do this." Chen Hongjun agreed.
Li Long returned to the big yard, washed briefly, then went to the supply and marketing cooperative with honey and a jade handle, and found Li Xiangqian.
"Commander, this is mountain nectar. I know that our supply and marketing cooperative has a lot of it, but this is pure mountain nectar, which is really collected from Chinese herbal medicine nectar. This is a jade handle. I I brought it back from Wucheng and gave it to you to play with.”
"Okay, I'm not polite. What are you going to do next?"
"I've been staying in the mountains for a long time, and I plan to go back to the village for a while." Li Long said, "I'm too tired, let's take a rest. "
"Okay. I'll call your team if anything happens," Li Xiangqian said. "There should be no more work until after autumn. Will the reeds be harvested by then? There are a lot of tasks in this area every year."
"Well, we have many resources there, two reed lakes, and In addition, there is a Xiaohaizi Reservoir, where there are too many reeds. "Li Long was very interested in this.
After coming out of the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long returned to the big yard, had lunch with Gu Xiaoxia, left two jars of honey for her, and then took the rest back.
He distributed them all, one can for Old Uncle Luo, one for Gu Boyuan, one for Tao Daqiang, and took the rest home.
As for Codonopsis pilosula, I took it back and left it to my parents to cut and soak in water to drink. Replenishing qi, as people get older, they definitely need to replenish qi and blood.
Only when Li Long arrived at Lao Ma Hao, he met a stranger.
A middle-aged man, wearing a white shirt and carrying a briefcase, was chatting with Uncle Luo.
As soon as Uncle Luo saw that Li Long was back, he immediately came over to introduce him and said:
"Xiao Long, this is from the other side of the state. He said he wanted to buy these two deer."
"Are you Comrade Li Long?" When the middle-aged man heard that this was Li Long, he immediately brought him He smiled and said:
“Hello, hello, I am Huang Xuejun, the director of Zhoufengnong Special Breeding Factory. I saw in the newspaper that you breed red deer. I really admire my experience! Our special breeding factory is short of young red deer, so I came here to discuss this matter with you."
"Do you have a letter of introduction?" Li Long didn't look like Mr. Uncle Luo is so excited. After all, he has been born in two generations. Although most people in this era are relatively simple, there is definitely no shortage of smart and cunning people.
"Yes, yes." The man took out a piece of paper from his briefcase, and along with the paper, there was a newspaper.
"Look, it's in this newspaper. It was only after I read this newspaper that I found out that you have started breeding red deer. It's really amazing!"
Old Luo suddenly became happy.
This is a factory director! Let the factory director praise it, how glorious it is!
Li Long just curled his lips and read the letter of introduction seriously.
The seal is real, but it is the seal of the factory. These days, factories may not always be accurate. After all, I don’t know what the factory is like.
He returned the letter of introduction to Huang Xuejun, then took the newspaper and read it. Sure enough, it was written by Director Qin.
He praised his eldest brother and himself, and then introduced him to the path of getting rich first and driving others to get rich later, and finally mentioned that he helped introduce tasks to the village.
It’s okay, I didn’t say much.
"Then how are you going to buy a deer?" Li Long got straight to the point. Don't talk about anything else these days, just ask about the money.
“I plan to negotiate in a cooperative way.” Huang Xuejun pointed to the two relatively active deer in Lao Ma and said, “I see you have not only deer, roe deer, but also wild boars here. And they are all very well raised. We actually raise a lot of wild animals in the factory, including hares, pheasants, wild goats, etc., and there are many varieties, but you don’t have any of these three..."
Li Long didn't answer, waiting for him to continue.
Huang Xuejun felt that Li Long was not a good interlocutor, so he had to continue:
"That's what I think, I can develop your place into our branch factory. This deer, Wild boar and roe deer seeds can be used as shares for you to invest in. Then, if there is a customer need, I will contact the customer and sell these things. The money from the sale can be divided into dividends...
Our factory is not small, and we have never opened a branch before. I only found you this time after reading the newspaper. In fact, your place is a bit small. There are not many animals, so it is a special case to become a branch factory. I think you should understand..."
Of course Li Long understood.
Are you just thinking about prostitution for free with my red deer and roe deer?
She is quite ugly, but she thinks so beautifully! (End of this chapter)