The next day when Li Long was still sleeping, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. When Li Long got up, he saw that she had left breakfast in the kitchen.
Breakfast is hot steamed buns, fried pickles, and boiled rice porridge.
Very simple and homely.
Li Long smiled, washed his face, and then had breakfast. After eating, he picked up the leathers and prepared to go to the purchasing station to have a look.
Today is Friday, and there is another day of work tomorrow, but Chen Hongjun should be there today.
Most of these skins are scraps, but with that lynx skin, the other skins are just a complement.
The leather is very good, but Li Long has no intention of staying. Not to mention this skin, Li Long also plans to take action at the right time, including the snow leopard skin. Leather has been relatively valuable for just a few years. In twenty or thirty years, not many people will wear fur clothes anymore. At that time, the once prosperous tanneries in the county will close down, and leather will no longer be valuable.
It snowed yesterday. The snow has not been cleared in some places on the street. Some people are clearing the snow, and some people are rushing to go to work. The units on both sides of the road are also organizing people to clear the snow from the yard. ——This is roughly the case for units in the north. Whenever it snows heavily, unless there is an emergency, everyone in the unit will come out to clear the snow in the yard first.
Later there was a saying that "snow is an order", including in schools. Once it snows and there are no snow-clearing tools in the class, students will take the initiative to bring the tools to school in the morning and use their morning reading time to clear the snow.
When Li Long arrived at the purchasing station, the snow in the yard had already piled up into a snowdrift. No one came out of the house, so he must be resting.
Li Long carried Lezi into the yard and came to the door. Seeing that the door was ajar, he knocked, then pushed the door open and went in.
When encountering such a situation these days, many people will not knock on the door. As long as the door is unlocked, in the eyes of these people, it means that the owner allows you to enter by default.
Okay, it's quite rude, but it becomes a habit. Later, after everyone had a sense of boundaries, things slowly changed.
The counter remains the same, and I don’t think it will change in the next few years. Li Long looked at the middle-aged man behind the counter and was a little puzzled. Chen Hongjun was not there.
The middle-aged man’s face is not very good, and he is the kind of person who is easy to deal with at first glance - his hair is combed smoothly, and it looks like he has applied oil on his hair. His face is slightly long, his eyes are small, and he looks at people with squinted eyes. I don’t know if it’s because he is rude or because he is short-sighted and doesn’t wear glasses. His expression is also like keeping strangers away from him. He is sitting behind the counter reading a newspaper. When Li Long came in, he took a look. Then he frowned.
After all, these leathers are only rough-processed, so they definitely don’t smell good.
And Li Long brought in such a big baby. The seven wolf skins were big and small, but most of the wolf skins didn't smell good. After all, they are wild animals, and their body odor is stronger than that of domestic animals.
Li Long put the leather on the counter. The middle-aged man stood up quickly and took two steps back. He covered his mouth and asked:
"Selling leather?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, let me take a look." Although this man hated the smell of leather, he did not refuse to look at the leather. He covered his nose and mouth and took two steps forward to start looking.
The top one was the lynx skin. The man took a look at it, touched it, and looked up at Li Long:
“Fox skin?”
Li Long almost Smiling, is this your eyesight?
“Lynx skin.”
"Lynx? It's impossible, right? Can you shoot this thing? There's no bullet hole in it... How did you get it?"
"Condom." Li Long was a little dissatisfied with this person, briefly He said, "It's in the trap."
"Bragging." The other party touched it again and shook his head. Said, "This beast has no head or claws. How can it be proved to be a lynx?"
"You can't tell, can you?" Li Long smiled. In fact, he has realized it now, How lucky I was to meet Chen Hongjun before. The leather I brought was immediately known to him as soon as he touched it. As a layman, I didn’t know how to leave my head on, which led to this... a layman really couldn’t see it!
Li Long thought about explaining, he stroked the lynx’s skin and said:
"Look, this doesn't look like a fox. The fox's fur is smaller than this, and the wool quality is different..."
Now he regrets it extremely, he should have kept the red fox.
But then I figured it out, even if I stayed, the other party probably wouldn't think it was a fox skin, but a lynx skin - this is what a layman is.
"No, no, no, no legs and no head, who can tell?" The middle-aged man looked extremely serious, "I'm not sure, the picture below... is a wolf skin? Is this... It can be seen clearly, but the leather is damaged, and the bullet holes on it affect the processing..."
"Okay." Li Long hugged the leather directly and said:
"Then I'll come back when someone who understands arrives."
"Who do you think doesn't understand?" When the middle-aged man heard that Li Long said he didn't understand, he became a little angry and shouted, " What don’t you understand? Am I right? If you’re being naughty and don’t keep your head, it’s someone else’s fault?”
Li Long laughed angrily. Fortunately, he was truly a man of two generations, and his self-cultivation was really practiced. He waved his hand to the man and said:
"Okay, okay, you are right. I'm leaving."
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The man didn't expect that Li Long wouldn't argue with him. He was surprised to see Li Long open the door and go out, then close the door again.
The leather was not sold, and Li Long was a little disappointed. Every time I came here in the past, no matter whether Chen Hongjun was there or not, I could always sell the things I brought and earn a lot of money every time.
This is very important to Li Long - although there are not many places where he needs to spend money now.
But there are a lot of things that cost money in the plan, a lot!
You need to buy a TV, a car...forget it, a motorcycle...forget it, let's just buy a tractor. Buying a tractor is also necessary. Just these two items will cost you almost half of the money you saved.
There are color TVs on the market now, so Li Long doesn't want to buy a black and white TV. Tickets are hard to get, but money is even harder to get.
In fact, if he sells the natural gold nugget and the snow leopard skin, he will have enough money, but he doesn't want to sell the former, and the latter will take some time. After all, it's not the best time to sell yet.
Do you still want to sell some jasper?
Li Long hesitated. The jasper material without black spots that I saved is very precious and will be difficult to see in future generations. It is indeed possible to get some money by selling it now, but it is hard to say whether we will be able to find such materials in the future.
Just wait. The elder brother should still have some money there, and then he will go to the mountains before the Chinese New Year to see if he can get some more prey.
Taking the leather back to the big yard, Li Long locked the door and went to the free market.
The market has indeed become bigger, but the snow here has not cleared yet, and many stalls are set up in the snow. The discerning stall owners cleared the snow themselves, and the snow around the stalls was pushed to the roadside behind them. Some simply stepped on the snow with their feet, so that there was not so much snow in front of the stalls - but it was definitely not easy to clean afterwards. of.
The market is very lively, and most stall owners will take the initiative to shout when they see someone coming, which is different from when Li Long first started selling fish. At that time, there were not many people like Li Long who shouted out. Now everyone knows to take the initiative to promote their own products, and there are only a few who are unknown.
Then Li Long saw Yang Xiulan and Han Fang selling rice on a cart. There is a fire in the stove in the car, and there is light smoke floating in the short chimney. The fire must be very bright.
There were two stall owners holding bowls and eating rice there. There was also an enamel basin on the trolley. Han Fang was washing a small basin beside it - there was a bucket of water beside it. First, scoop out a spoonful of water to rinse the small basin, and then scoop out water to rinse.
Everyone could see the entire cleaning process. It was so clean that Han Fang's hands were red from the cold.
After collecting the money, Yang Xiulan also washed with Han Fang. There were not many basins that she had eaten from before, so she finished washing them quickly. Yang Xiulan hurriedly took a towel to wipe Han Fang's hands, and then put on gloves for her.
When Li Long walked over, Yang Xiulan quickly spotted him, and then raised her hand to say hello from a distance:
"Uncle, are you back? Come on, come on, have a drink. Hot porridge! ”
It’s porridge today.
Li Long walked over with a smile. Seeing that Yang Xiulan was about to serve him a meal, he waved hurriedly:
"No, I've had breakfast. You guys came out early."
"It's okay. , come out early, sell out early, noon I just went back to cook." After Yang Xiulan finished speaking, she patted Han Fang gently:
"Girl, your uncle is here, why don't you call someone?"
"Hello, Uncle Li? !" Han Fang greeted with a smile, still a little shy.
"Uncle, are you back from the mountains? Your hair looks so long."
"Well, I came back yesterday and will go get a haircut later." Li Long asked a few more questions and then left. .
"His uncle, come to my house for dinner today at noon." Yang Xiulan shouted from a distance, Li Long turned around, nodded, and left.
There are many stalls, most of which are handmade and agricultural and sideline products, and a few are industrial products. You don’t know where they come from, including pots and pans.
But not seeing what he needed, Li Long turned from one end to the other and left again.
He really needs a haircut.
After all, he is someone who has a partner, so he needs to pay attention to his image.
The prices of the state-owned barber shops in the county are quite reasonable. When Li Long passed by, the snow outside the shop had been cleared away. At this time, an old man was getting a haircut inside. The barber was a middle-aged man. The movements were very skillful, and Li Long waited patiently. (End of this chapter)