Yushanjiang helped Li Long hitch the carriage, and after moving the boar and bear, he rode away.
This man is so straightforward. Li Long smiled, turned around and put out the fire in the stove, cleaned two rooms, took out the slightly dry bear bile and put it in his satchel. , locked the door, led the carriage and rushed out of the mountain.
Although No. 76 is pulling something weighing more than 300 kilograms, its pace is very brisk. It seems to know that this mission is about to end, and it has to go out of the cold mountains and return to In the warm circle of home.
Being a horse is really tiring, and it’s hard to live in the winter.
After leaving the mountain pass, the sun had already risen. He could feel a little warmth, but it was not enough to dispel the cold air in the sky. Li Long tightened his coat tightly, and finally jumped out of the carriage and followed it. a paragraph.
Smoke slowly rises from the homes of households in Qingshuihe Township. Some people are picking up feces on the roadside, and some are emptying garbage into ditches on the roadside - mainly charcoal ash from stoves.
Li Long followed the carriage for a while, and after passing Qingshuihe Township, he got on the carriage again and headed toward the county leisurely.
When we arrived at the county, it was already noon, and Li Long drove the carriage to the big yard.
The door is locked. Gu Xiaoxia should be having lunch at Sister Yang's place. Li Long has no intention of going there. Sister Yang is a meticulous person, and she usually doesn't cook too much to save waste. If she went there to eat rashly, there was a high probability that Sister Yang and her daughter would starve.
He set up the carriage and hid the gun in the house. He went to the big meat restaurant and ordered a fried pork noodle. He paid the money and food stamps, and soon the waiter brought the noodles. Li Long was really hungry. He poured the vegetables into the noodles and couldn't wait to eat them.
While Li Long was eating, Zhong Guoqiang came over, sat opposite him, and said with a smile:
"Comrade Li, I haven't seen you eating noodles after noon in a few days. What have you been busy with recently?"
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“I’m going into the mountains to deliver some food to my friends in the mountains.” Li Long swallowed the noodles in his mouth and said, “I was wondering if I could go into the mountains to get some game.”
"Did you hit it?" Zhong Guoqiang was very interested. He asked, "If you catch it, can you get me some game? We have to host a reception here recently, and the usual food is not special."
"This..." Li Long was a little embarrassed, After thinking for a while, he said, "The most I can give you is a balanced wild boar, the kind that has not been skinned. Manager Zhong, I have hunted something, but I don't dare to make the decision on someone else's reservation. I only killed two more wild boars, and I still have I can give you a haircut.”
"Wild boar... is fine." Zhong Guoqiang thought for a while and said, "It's better than nothing. So, when can you send it to me? I'll charge you the price of a domestic pig, how about it?"
< br>"Okay." Li Long smiled, "It's definitely okay."
Wild boar meat won't taste good without seasonings or if you don't know how to cook it. If Li Long goes to the market to set up a stall, he will definitely sell it at a high price. It is lower than domestic pork.
After all, not many people can cook wild boar these days, and people are not as enthusiastic about game now as they were ten or twenty years ago. When there was no animal protection law, wild animals were not very rare to people in northern Xinjiang - at least hares were still easy to get.
"I will bring it to you after I have eaten later." Li Long said, "It was shot this morning. After the beating, it was disemboweled. The stomach and intestines were simply cleaned, but the skin has not yet been peeled."
"It's better that it's not skinned, it's better that it's not skinned." Manager Zhong said with a smile, "At least it can prove that this is a wild boar, otherwise it will be hard to tell."
After Zhong Guoqiang left, Li Long divided three times by five, and finished eating Then he took a few sips of the soup, wiped his mouth, put on his hat and left.
He didn't say anything about the bear, and planned to come over and ask Zhong Guoqiang if Li Xiangqian didn't want it. If Zhong Guoqiang doesn't want it, then he can skin the bear and sell it for bile, and take the meat and paws home to eat.
However, he guessed that if he told Zhong Guoqiang that there were bear paws here, he would most likely want them. As for whether the chef of the big meat restaurant could make bear paws, Li Long didn't know.
Back in the compound, seeing that it was almost time, Li Long prepared the carriage and led it out of the door to the supply and marketing cooperative.
The bears and wild boars were covered with plastic sheets. Li Long wanted to keep a low profile and did not intend to let others know that he had killed a bear.
This thing can easily cause trouble.
Arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long and the guard nodded. Just as they were about to walk in, the guard called out and said:
"Looking for Chief Li, right? Chief Li is behind you. The warehouse is ordering goods."
Li Long said with a smile:
"I know, thank you."
After entering the compound, Li Long led the carriage to the warehouse and saw Li Xiangqian talking to the warehouse manager at the door of the warehouse.
Hearing the noise, Li turned forward and saw Li Long. He was a little surprised. He was stunned for a moment and then said:
"You came back so soon? Did you hit something?"< br>
“Well, it’s on, unit chief, let’s go to the front yard to see?”
"What are you doing in the front yard? You can see it right here." Li Xiangqian didn't think much about it, "What else is not good to see people for?"
"It's just, Xiao Li, what's the rare thing you're carrying?" "The warehouse manager Lao Jin also knows Li Long, and Li Long has bought things here.
"It's not a rare thing." Li Long reluctantly opened the plastic sheet, "A bear."
"What? What did you hit?" Li Long was stunned for a moment, Said: "Bear? Are you kidding? Are you hunting a bear at this time?"
"Well, I was lucky, I met a hibernating brown bear." Li Long completely peeled off the plastic sheet, revealing the bear and wild boar on it and roe deer.
"It's really a bear!" Lao Jin thought Li Long was joking at first. After seeing the bear, he exclaimed, "This bear... looks quite fierce!"
Li Qianqian stepped forward. Touching the bear's fur, he sighed:
"What the hell, it's the first time I've touched the bear's fur when I've grown so big..." He turned to look at Li Long and said: "Are you... planning to sell it?"
"If your friend wants to take it, then of course I will sell it."
"Okay, then I'll call him." Li Qianqian turned to the warehouse manager and said, "Lao Jin, you work first, let's leave this matter behind. This guy... this guy is really extraordinary!"
"Okay, I'll be here all the time." The warehouse manager Lao Jin said, "Chief, you can come over whenever you have time."
As he said that, he said to Li Long:
< br>"Xiao Li, you are awesome! You can hit a bear. Shouldn't the next step be to get a tiger?"
Tiger?
Li Long shook his head hurriedly. He did know that there used to be tigers in the Tianshan Mountains, tigers. Just because they were not as big as Siberian tigers and had good skin, most of them were hunted down, and later it was said that they were extinct.
In his previous life, he saw something in the video saying that in the mid-to-late 1980s, it was said that farmers in Tacheng had seen it, but he didn't know if it was true or not.
After all, by the 1920s, it was said that many animals that experts claimed were extinct had reappeared because the environment had improved.
Covered with plastic sheet, pulled the carriage and followed Li Xiangqian to the front office. Li Long tied the carriage and whispered to Li Xiangqian:
"Commander, there are two wild boars and a roe deer."
“Aren’t they three wild boars?” Li looked forward and looked at Li Long and said.
"One end is promised to go out to Manager Zhong of the Big Meat Canteen. He said he wants game as a treat."
"That's okay." Li Xiangqian said, "Keep the big one."
"The big ones don't taste good." Li Long said.
"Don't worry about this, the big ones are beautiful. I think the big wild boar is almost as big as a bear, and its teeth have grown out. It looks different." Li Xiangqian said with a smile.
When he arrived at the office, Li Qianqian dialed the phone and signaled Li Long to wait.
The call was connected, and there was a hello, and Li Xiangqian immediately said with a smile:
"Director Wu, it's me, Xiao Li from Ma County!"
Xiao Li, Li Longxin said this You're not talking about me.
"Hello, Xiao Li, how are things going?"
"It's a big deal this time!" Li Xiangqian said with a smile, "Director, you may want to Unexpected! ”
"Big? What's big? Deer or wolf?"
"No, no, it's a bear!"
"What? Bear? What bear? Ha bear?"
>"Yes, it's a bear. It's hibernating. Let our young man meet him, kill him and bring him back. How about it? The director is not interested?"
"The whole thing? Is the bear bile here? ?" Li Long heard the voice over there.
Li Xiangqian hurriedly turned to look at Li Long.
"Yes, I took out the bear's bile." Li Long nodded hurriedly, "Everything on the bear is there, except the feces."
"Fuck you!" Li Xiangqian laughed and cursed. , and then said into the microphone:
"Director Wu, you are brave."
"Has it been handled?" Director Wu asked again, "Will he handle it?"
Li Qianqian looked at Li Long again.
"Yes, I dipped it in boiling water and hung it up to keep it in the dark. It's only been a day and it's not dry yet." Li Long said hurriedly.
"Director Wu, it has been processed. It was dipped in boiling water and hung in the shade before drying..."
"Okay, he is an expert. I want this bear. How much does it weigh?"
< br>"One hundred and fifty kilograms and up, it's not a big bear." Li Long said hurriedly. Li Long repeated the sentence again. Li Long thought it was better to say it himself, but Li Long would definitely not give him a microphone.
"It is indeed not a big bear, but it is not bad. Since I am an expert, I will also offer a real price, including the courage of the bear, one thousand and fifty, and ask him if he will sell it?"
Li Qianqian turned to Li Long and asked:
"The director asked you if you can sell it for one thousand and fifty? Even the bear has the guts."
Li Long just thought for a moment and said:
"Sell."
This was not a bold move. Li Long felt that it would only cost six or seven hundred yuan if he died. The only valuable thing left on the bear would be its palms. It's impossible for each of the four palms to be a hundred.
Then there is the leather. The leather had been punched with many holes and was damaged, so in Li Long's opinion it was not worth a thousand and a half.
But this is just my own estimate. Since someone else has offered a thousand and a half, there is a reason. It is really useless to keep this thing for myself, so just sell it!
"Refreshing!" Li Xiangqian said, "Director, you heard it, sold it. By the way, we also got roe deer and wild boar on this trip. The wild boar was quite big, with its teeth exposed. , Director, do you still want it?”
"Yes, at the original price, you unload the things and I'll send a car to pick them up today. You pay me first and I'll ask the driver to take them there for you."
"Okay." "Li Qianqian responded with a smile, and when the person on the other end stopped talking, he hung up the phone.
One thousand and five bears, one big and one small wild boar, Li Xiangqian gave him two hundred for the big one, one hundred and fifty for the small one, and two hundred for the roe deer, so it was two thousand and fifty.
Li Xiangqian asked someone to help Li Long unload the bears and wild boars into a warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative.
The few people who helped saw a real bear for the first time. They all exclaimed and touched them curiously.
Li Long left a wild boar in the car. To be honest, if this wild boar is sold to Zhong Guoqiang, it may not be as much money as Li Xiangqian's, but Li Long doesn't care very much.
The relationship with Zhong Guoqiang still needs to be maintained, and there is not much money left.
Ten minutes later, Li came forward. He took Li Long to his office, then took out two thick stacks of dough from the drawer and handed them over:
"Here are two thousand, Wait." He took out a small stack of coins from the drawer, counted out five and handed them over: "This is fifty, clear."
"I won't take this fifty." Li Long waved his hand hurriedly, "Chief, I can't get this money without you..."
"Go to hell!" Li Long pushed the money to Li Long In his hand, "I'm chilling, right? If you can hunt something and let me show my face in front of the leader, you are helping me. Although I don't hunt much, I also know that this hunting is not easy!" The claws of that bear are almost longer than my fingers, and they can kill people with just one scratch! How can I be greedy for the money you exchanged for your life? Put it away quickly and don’t let others see it.”
< br>Li Long put the money into his satchel, and he couldn't help but be a little excited. He bought two thousand at once, which is considered to be one of the largest sums of money purchased at one time this year...
Li Long did some math in his mind and got an 18-inch color TV.
It seems that if you want to make money quickly, you still need a big guy. Such as snow leopard skin, such as bear, such as... lynx skin?
Of course, such opportunities are rare.
Just think about it.
After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long did not go back immediately. The money was not safe in his hands, but he had to get rid of the remaining wild boar first.
In the big meat canteen, Zhong Guoqiang was still there. Li Long tied the carriage outside and shouted at the door. Zhong Guoqiang hurriedly called someone over and looked at the wild boar first. He was also half a knowledgeable person. , said with a smile:
“This wild boar is not bad, not big, and the meat quality should be okay. Come on, let’s weigh it first.”
There was a scale in the backyard of the canteen. Li Long went over and weighed it. The wild boar weighed sixty-five kilograms.
“Let’s calculate it based on pork.” Zhong Guoqiang said with a smile, “The current market price of a kilogram of pork is RMB 18, with a ticket...”
“Let’s not count the ticket, and then remove the skin. Right." Li Long said.
"No, no, no," Zhong Guoqiang waved his hand, "I'm very grateful that you can give me the head of the wild boar. Don't worry, I won't lose. I'll calculate it at one yuan and eight without removing the skin. Where are the tickets? I won’t give it to you.”
This wild boar Li Long sold for one hundred and seventeen yuan.
Zhong Guoqiang originally wanted to keep Li Long for dinner, but Li Long refused. He also had to save money - it was really inconvenient to keep so much money with him.
Two thousand yuan was deposited in a single card, but it was just a current deposit. The current deposit interest rate is still 2.88, and if it is fixed for five years, it can reach eight points... very high.
Of course, after six years, the interest rate for a three-month fixed deposit will be over seven points, and after five years, it will reach an interest rate of more than ten points.
That's too far.
Li Long put the deposit receipts away, led the carriage, and walked to the market relaxedly. He wanted to see what he needed to buy.
It was already afternoon, and there were not many stalls in the market. Li Long didn't see Yang Xiulan, so he must have gone back.
Li Long saw an old lady selling eggs. The eggs were placed in a basket and wrapped in a small quilt. There was a broken frozen egg outside. He went over and asked:
"Aunt, how do you sell these eggs?"
< br>"One-fifth." Old lady I was a little stiff from the cold, and finally met someone who was willing to buy eggs. He hurriedly said, "I don't make any money..."
"Okay, give it all to me." Li Long asked, "What's your point in this box?" How many more?”
"Twenty-four."
"I want them all." Li Long took out the money from his pocket, counted out one dollar and two cents and handed it to the old lady.
The old lady had a smile on her face. She came to sell eggs today, and only a few or five people came to buy them. It’s rare to buy more than 20 items at once.
Li Long put the eggs into his satchel, carefully placed them on the carriage to avoid breaking them, and led the carriage forward.
There was already someone selling wild rabbits at the stall. Li Long didn't ask the price, but when someone asked, the stall owner replied "four yuan", which seemed to be about the same as the price he gave.
The rabbit was obviously a trap. There were four or five of them on the stall, and it looked like they couldn't be sold.
There are also stalls selling fish. It has reached this point. There are not many people visiting the stalls. There are still two fish sellers. Li Long also heard the price - one yuan and twenty one kilogram.
Compared with Shicheng Old Street, there are much fewer stalls here, scattered here and there, and less people. Li Long estimated that there are no more than twenty people shopping in the entire market now.
Li Long walked around and found that there was nothing good to buy, so he got on the carriage and headed to the compound.
When he returned to the compound, he found that the door was unlocked but locked from the inside, so he banged the door hard and shouted twice.
Gu Xiaoxia was wearing an apron to cook dinner. When she heard the sound, she came over quickly and opened the door with a smile. After seeing Li Long holding the carriage, he opened the door wide.
Li Long led the carriage in, and Gu Xiaoxia asked:
"Is everything done?"
"It's done. You came back very early today."< br>
"There hasn't been much happening lately. In the afternoon, everyone left early, so I left too." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "You put the horse away first, and I'll cook."
"I bought some eggs. Let's scramble them later."
"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia took Li Long's satchel and went to take the eggs and put them in the kitchen.
Li Long unloaded the carriage, led No. 76 into the backyard, put it away and returned to the front yard.
The stove was set up in the room and it was quite warm. He changed his clothes and let out a sigh of relief. He was finally done.
It’s really hard to stay in the mountains.
But the money comes quickly.
It feels so good to sit in the room with a fire and read a book, waiting for Gu Xiaoxia to cook the rice and then come over to ask me to eat.
Li Long was lying on the bed half relaxed, reading a book with the light on.
He could hear the sound of Gu Xiaoxia cooking oil exploding in the kitchen.
This is the breath of ordinary happy life.
Just as he was thinking about it, Gu Xiaoxia's voice came over:
"Li Long, it's time to eat, come and eat!"
Li Long put down his book with a smile, walked out of the room and walked to the kitchen.
Porridge, steamed buns, two dishes - scrambled eggs and fried meat with pickles.
In winter these days, cabbage, potatoes, and pickles are the main dishes, which is normal.
Smelling the fragrance, Li Long smiled and said:
“Not bad, you can even open a restaurant with this skill!”
“No way... I’d better learn from Sister Yang. How many days have it been?" Gu Xiaoxia was a little embarrassed by Li Long's praise and said with her chopsticks. Said:
“Try it, it’s up to you whether it tastes good or not.”
Li Long sat down and when he picked up his chopsticks, he was thinking about whether he should return to the team a few days later. Go, stay here and enjoy the world between the two of you. It would be nice to take some time to watch a movie, right? (End of chapter)