Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengting reluctantly handed over the money and started setting up a stall.
"Selling Fritillaria? Newly dug?" Someone saw them setting up a stall and came over to ask.
"Yes, newly dug." Li Zhengting saw someone coming to ask and said hurriedly, "Authentic Fritillaria in the mountains, just dug out, the effect is very good!"
"How to sell it? ?” The man opened the bag, took a handful and looked at it, “I don’t want this fritillary.”
"Well, it's just dug. It's fresh, so it's authentic." Li Zhengting had an idea and said, "If it's dried, it might be counterfeit. It's four...five yuan per kilogram. It's better than the drug store." It’s much cheaper! You can just dry it and use it. It’s very effective in treating coughs!”
"Five yuan? Are you crazy about money?" The man threw the fritillary in his hand into the bag, turned around and left.
"Hey, hey, don't leave! You can negotiate the price, four yuan, five... four yuan!" Li Zhengting finally met someone who asked for a price. How could he let him go? He shouted hurriedly, but that person He turned a deaf ear and walked faster and faster, not daring to chase further. Finally, he had to return to the stall in frustration.
Li Zhengtang was watching this scene, and when Li Zhengting came back dejected, he comforted him:
"It's okay, there are a lot of people in this market, there will definitely be others after a while. Come."
Li Zhengting sat in front of the stall, sulking and saying nothing. He regrets it now.
Ten minutes later, an old lady came over. After asking around, she negotiated the price for a long time and bought a piece of Fritillaria for one dollar at four yuan per kilogram.
The problem arises again, neither brother has a scale!
How can you sell something without a scale? At this time, the two talents realized that they only thought that they would have something to sell, but they did not expect that setting up a stall to sell things still requires weighing.
After all, I borrowed a scale from the egg stall next door and weighed it for the old lady. When I returned it, I had to give the stall owner a handful of caladiums.
Although it has opened, Li Zhengting is not happy at all. After squatting for an hour, he has earned back the stall fee. The problem is that there are two people and two big bags of Fritillaria. If they continue to sell like this, this Fritillary Stop digging Ji, it's useless.
But now that the stall has been set up and the stall fee has been paid, no matter how hard it is, I still have to go on with this day.
The sun slowly rose to noon. Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengtang were hungry. They drank a bowl of porridge in the morning. They ran so far last night and this morning. The energy consumption was too great. They were not hungry. possible.
Sister Yang has closed her cart and sold food for breakfast. Now she is going back to make lunch and will come over to sell food in the afternoon. However, she is not the only one taking advantage of this business opportunity. There are also people selling steamed buns here, which is a cage of mixed-noodle buns on a cart, with several cold dishes in a few enamel basins beside it. A steamed bun with a few cold dishes costs 15 cents.
The two of them bought a steamed bun and ate it. They felt they were not full, so they bought another one and ate it.
Li Zhengting still wanted to eat, so he asked Li Zhengtang, but Li Zhengtang refused to eat. If there are such conditions in the mountains, he will definitely eat it. But today we can only go in and out, and we haven’t dug fritillaries, so we might as well save our money.
Li Zhengtang refused to eat, and Li Zhengting was too embarrassed to eat. He ate too hard just now and choked. The bun seller had cold water, so he had to take a horse spoon and drank half a spoonful before he recovered.
When I sat down again, although my stomach was full, my heart felt cold. This business was too difficult!
Li Long returned to the wooden house, threw the wild boar on the ground, threw the sack with the three little wild boars on the bucket of the tractor, and sat down on the wooden floor to rest.
After struggling for so long, the sun finally rose. He rested for less than ten minutes, then got up and started skinning and disemboweling the wild boar. He planned to send half of the wild boar meat to Xiaobaiyanggou to improve the food for the weavers, and the other half to stay here to dry the meat.
I brought back a cow last time, and there is no shortage of meat at home, so I can keep some more here. If someone comes to exchange for it, at least I will have something.
Skinning, disemboweling, gutting, and removing the wild boar meat into pots are all done. More than an hour passed after Li Long finished all this.
It’s quite a sense of accomplishment. It took five or six people to kill the pig at home all morning. Although the wild boar is not big, weighing 50 or 60 kilograms, it can be finished so quickly. It's really good.
After washing the knife with water, wiping it on his clothes and stuffing it back into the sheath, Li Long felt a little hungry, so he went back to the cabin and cut up the dried cooked meat that he had left uneaten. Put some in your mouth and chew slowly.
The fires were lit on both stoves. After Li Long finished eating, he continued to work. Part of the pork was broken down into small pieces, smeared with salt and hung to dry in the cabin. Some of the pork was smeared with salt and put directly into a large basin and placed on the tractor. The three little pigs kept squealing, and Li Long didn't care about them. There was no place to put them out at this time.
Locked the door and drove the tractor towards Xiaobaiyanggou, and met Bolati halfway.
"Where are you going?" Polati stopped his horse and asked:
"I just got about ten kilograms of fritillaries and I want to exchange them with you."
"Exchange money. Or exchange something?" Li Long stopped the tractor and asked loudly, "I am going to Xiaobaiyanggou, where my brother and his friends are living and preparing to make a cart. I will send them some meat."< br>
"Let's change the money. Have you brought any money?" Pola asked, "Next time I come over to exchange, your wine is pretty good!"
"Okay, I'll give it to you next time. Change the wine, but you drank too fast?" Li Long got off the tractor and came to the horse. Bolati got off the horse. Li Long could directly smell the smell of wine. Are you drinking this early in the morning?
After weighing it, he found that the bag of fritillaries weighed twelve or thirteen kilograms. Li Long simply took out the money, counted out forty yuan and handed it to Polati:
"Here's this for you."
“You don’t need so much... When Bolati saw that there were four big unity cards, he was a little embarrassed, "How can there be so many?"
"Yes, yes." Li Long smiled, "Come to my place often to exchange. That's it. Okay, I have to hurry. Go to Baiyanggou. My brother and the others are busy there. I have to see if they can be bullied by others.”
“Although that area is not under my control, I told my friends. "Isn't that Sun here? I told the people there not to be embarrassed." Polati said immediately after hearing about Xiaobaiyanggou, "I will go over and tell my friends later that your people have passed." Well, just treat it as a friend, don’t worry!”
"Okay, okay, thank you, I'm leaving!" Li Long got on the tractor, waved his hand to Polati, put the gear in gear, released the clutch, refueled and left.
Watching Li Long drive away suddenly, Polati shook his head, this thing doesn't have its own horse to ride.
When Li Long arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, he found Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming baking strips in front of the fire. There was a large bundle of strips in front of each of them, and they didn't know whether they were cut yesterday afternoon or this morning.
Li Long visually estimated that these strips could be made into four or five pieces.
"Xiaolong is here." Lu Yingming greeted him first, "Are you here to take a look? What's in the car? Does it sound like a pig?"
"Well, I lassoed a few small wild boars this morning and got a half-sized one. I brought some meat over. When Lao Huang comes over, the meat will be used to improve your food."
"Hey , This is so sentimental! "Lu Yingming's family is not as good as Li Jianguo. Although they made some money last year, they contracted the land this year. The cost of farming is high, and the children are in school. It is good to have one meal of meat a month. .
Now that Li Long had beaten the wild boar so easily and brought the meat, he was naturally very happy.
Li Jianguo is relatively calm. He can eat meat at home almost every day. There is no shortage of meat, only money, otherwise he would not come here. Neither he nor the two children at home have a particularly big demand for meat, so he just went over to look at the little wild boar, and then asked:
"Are you going to take it back to the herding stable and keep it?"< br>
"Well, let's see if we can get some more little ones from Ma Hao this year to raise, sell, and eat." Li Long said.
"Then you might as well bring Lao Tao and the others over when you go back." Lu Yingming said, "There are few editors and they are not motivated."
"Hey," upon hearing this , Li Jianguo smiled, "Aren't you an amateur? Now you can easily get a lot of notes nearby and make them up at will. Wait for him If you want to get some money, you have to run into the mountains. It will take a lot of time to go back and forth.” It's easy to get a piece of paper, but the job Li Long received was for a thousand jobs. How many pieces of paper are needed? When everyone comes here, the nearby bars may be gone in three days, and then they will have to go further afield.
Li Long smiled and took off the meat. The meat was smeared with salt, so even though wasps and flies flew over, they didn't dare to land on it, couldn't eat it, and then they dispersed. I don't know if it was Li Jianguo or Lu Yingming who dragged a fallen log here. Li Long put the bag on the wood, and then placed the meat basin on the bag.
"Brother, Brother Lu, you go ahead, I'm driving the tractor back. Put down the little wild boar and see who we can pull over."
"Okay, go ahead and get busy. ”
“Here I will give you If you say hello to everyone, no one will come to cause trouble. If someone comes, just say that the supply and marketing cooperative and the forestry team allow it." Li Long thought that he would have to ask Li Xiangqian for a certificate when he went back, otherwise he would be really embarrassed. Come here, at least one said.
The tractor drove away, and Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming continued to work. Now they can get four yuan for each one they compile, which is real money. They are very motivated.
It only takes more than an hour for the tractor to drive to the county seat, Li Long sighed again. He first went to the supply and marketing cooperative and told Li Xiangqian about the certificate.
“This is simple.” After Li Long heard what Li Long said in the office, Li Xiangqian said:
“I’ll write a note and you just go over and stamp it.”
He took the pen and paper, scribbled a note and handed it to Li Long, and then talked about other things:
"Xiaolong, is that lynx whip still there?"
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"Yes." Li Long smiled, "Commander, do you want it? I'll bring it to you in the afternoon." , the leader said he wanted to take a look. "
"I'll send it to you in the afternoon." Li Long looks like he's about to get off work and doesn't have time, so he should go back to the team first.
Li waved his hand forward:
"No rush, just these few days will do. If the mountains have already started, you can look over there first. I am not free these two days, I have to go through two Geniuses have time to go to the state to do business.”
Li Long took the note to someone to get it stamped, and then drove the tractor to Sister Yang's place for dinner.
During the meal, Sister Yang told her about her encounter with Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengting.
"Those two people look like blind people in the mountains at first glance. They are dirty, their hair and beards are not cut, they look very slovenly. They don't even have a scale to sell their goods, and they don't know how they sell them."
Li Long's heart moved after hearing this, and he said to Sister Yang:
"Sister Yang, are you going to the market to sell rice this afternoon?"
"Yes."
"Then go over and take a look. If the two people's fritillaries are not sold, you can collect them. Three yuan per kilogram...three and a half yuan. You say Take it all, that’s the price. I think the total of the Fritillaries from those two people is thirty or forty kilograms. Calculated at forty kilograms, I’ll give you one hundred and fifty yuan. You can collect those Fritillaries. After getting it back, you Dry them in the yard. The remaining money is your wages, how about it?”
“Well, what are you doing? Can I still ask for this?” Problem! I have money here..."
"The money you have is yours. Han Fang still has to go to school, and you have a lot of money to spend. You have to take it." Li Long said seriously. said.
When he said this, Gu Xiaoxia also persuaded her, and Sister Yang accepted the money, but she had made a decision in her heart. If you give it back to Li Long, how can you get paid for it?
After dinner, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia came out together. Gu Xiaoxia rode her car to work, while Li Long drove the tractor to the big yard first and dried the Fritillaria brought back from this trip. He looked at the Fritillaria that had been dried earlier. After turning it over, he wrapped the lynx whip in cloth and went out.
Go to the supply and marketing cooperative and give the whip to Li Xiangqian, and then drive the tractor back to the team.
Looking from a distance, Laomahao is still relatively dilapidated, but this large building is still the only one in the team. Now, someone has demolished the house at the old team headquarters, many walls have collapsed, and it is slowly turning into ruins. Originally, Lao Mahao faced the same fate, but now that he was "saved" by Li Long, he still felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.
Uncle Luo heard the sound and walked out of the yard, looked at Li Long's tractor, and grinned.
Li Long parked the tractor, turned off the engine, and took out the bag from the bucket at the back. The little wild boar inside had no energy to call, and occasionally grunted twice to indicate that they were still alive.
"Did you get the little wild boar again?" Old Uncle Luo asked as he watched the things in the sack move.
"Well, I got three sets this morning. Let's take them back and keep them." Li Long carried the bag and walked inside, "Uncle Luo, do you still have the sugar residue?"
"Yes, yes, that's enough." Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, "I make grass every day for big animals and small roe deer, and this little guy eats it." There are still some ingredients.”
“That’s good. I’ll go to the grain bureau in a few days to get some bran and bran to mix with it.”
“Hey, this is it. It’s really good. People used to eat these things.” As Uncle Luo gets older, he will think of the past when he sees and hears things.
People of this age are the most grateful to this society and to the Party. They have experienced the darkest period in China and have caught up with a new life. Now they have enough food and clothing, and in the future they can still eat meat and feel disgusted. The days when my teeth were blocked were the most profound.
After putting the little wild boar in the pen to get used to it, Li Long went to find Xie Yundong.
Xie Yundong breathed a sigh of relief as soon as he saw Li Long. Before Li Long could speak, he started to speak:
"I originally planned to leave today, but it turns out there are still people who haven't packed up today. , we can only wait until tomorrow.”
"Then you go and ask who is willing to come with me today. I will take them away first, and the rest will go by carriage tomorrow." Li Long said, "Anyway, I will come back, and the carriage will be empty. , why not drag some people over first?”
"Pull Lao Huang up, the two Xu brothers, Daqiang's father is leaving, and Jia Weiguo is also leaving. In fact, I want to leave too, but since I am responsible for organizing people, I can only wait for them to come together in the end. ."Xie Yundong was very worried.
Li Long thought and said:
"Brother Yundong, how troublesome you are. After this job is over, I will give you a bonus of fifty yuan. You organized the job in the team last year The team can give you work points, but I can’t give you work points, but I can’t let you work for nothing.”
Xie Yundong felt embarrassed when Li Long said this, and he said: "That's not what I meant. It's just this person. His thoughts will be different when he gets more people."
"It's okay, Brother Yundong, you have to do more work, so you should get more money. You can't let it happen." Your brain and effort are all in vain. Organizing people is a laborious task. How about this fifty yuan being used as your salary for the organization?”
"Xiaolong, since you said so, don't worry, I will take good care of you for this month."
"Well, feel free to take care of him boldly. If he doesn't obey, let him go back."< br>
The two people finalized the matter in a few words. Xie Yundong became motivated and Li Long was also happy. He himself has a lazy temperament and doesn't like to take care of people and things. Now he has someone to take care of him, but he only needs to pay a little more, how great!
"Brother Yundong, I'll wait at my house until 5:30 in the afternoon. Those who can come will come over, and I won't wait for those who can't. It's almost 7 o'clock when we arrive in the mountains, and they still have to clean up the ground. Wozi, time can only be so stuck."
"Okay, I will go and notify everyone now," Xie Yundong said, "You go back and rest first, you must be tired from running all the way back."
Li Long drove his tractor back to Li Jian's country and saw his wife, Du Chunfang, chopping pig food in the yard. No one else was there.
"Your two sisters-in-law went to weed the fields." Du Chunfang said, "Your father is working on your vegetable patch in the front yard. He also wants to work in the fields, but your sisters-in-law won't let him go. , said it was not necessary. I had to go down the net later, so I didn’t go." As he said that, Li Qingxia returned to the yard with the shovel and looked at Li Long with a smile on his face.
Although there are no old friends to chat and play cards with now, life is better than in my hometown. My sons are living well here, my grandsons are studying well, and I can still make a lot of money every day. What else? What did you say? (End of this chapter)