It was already noon when Li Long returned to the big courtyard. Now I go to Sister Yang’s house, which is actually just in time for lunch.
But Li Long didn't go over. He drove the tractor into the yard, got out of the car and locked the door. I took down the Fritillaria and other things from the tractor and put them away one by one. Then I went into the bedroom, changed my clothes, and fell asleep.
In fact, he had a good rest during this period. He basically didn't stay up late at night, and there was no need to stay up late.
But now I just want to have a good sleep.
After finishing a big task, I felt empty in my heart and felt that a lot of burdens had been let go. It turns out that the nerves that have been tense are really in need of a good rest to relax.
Some people say they want to recover when they are tired. Men rely on eating and women rely on sleeping. In fact, men also need a good deep sleep to relieve themselves.
Li Long didn't sleep for long. When he woke up, looking at the sunlight coming through the window, it should be around five or six in the afternoon.
In the past, when I didn’t take a nap well, I would occasionally feel dizzy, but not today.
When I woke up, I just felt hungry.
Get up and get dressed. The clothes I wore back from the mountains were thrown into a ball in the basin behind the door, ready to be washed at night. He changed his clothes and went out.
There are actually ingredients in the kitchen, such as steamed buns and roasted meat. If you want to cook it, you can make a delicious meal in just half an hour.
But Li Long didn’t want to do it. He went to wash up, wiped his face, felt much more awake, and then pushed his bicycle out the door.
After locking the door, ride the Erba Dagong to the canteen.
There are a few more bicycles parked at the entrance of the canteen than before. Although it was not meal time, Li Long locked the car and found after entering that there were still several people eating at this time.
The hanging small blackboard writes today’s dishes, staple food and prices. In the past, most people needed to bring food stamps, but now it seems that nearly half of them don’t need it anymore.
Two-thirds of the tables were empty. Li Long went to the waiter and ordered a fried pork noodles and two extra noodles. Then he took the ticket and found a table. After sitting down, he started peeling garlic.
The canteen is very particular. What they are bringing out now is new garlic. New garlic tastes very good when eaten with noodles and goes well with rice.
But this thing requires moderation. Li Long had a friend in his previous life who could peel half a bowl of garlic for himself when eating noodles. Li Long is not like this. A plate of noodles and two or three cloves of garlic are enough. After peeling it off, crush the garlic into small pieces with your hands, put it in a tea bowl, and wait for the noodles to come over.
The waiter looked at Li Long and peeled off only two or three cloves of garlic, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
It’s okay, not greedy.
Soon, the noodles and vegetables were served. Li Long directly put the vegetables into the noodle bowl, took the noodles and poured them in together. He took the vinegar pot and sprinkled some on the noodles, then took out the garlic and put it into the bowl. , stir it a few times calmly, let the noodles be dipped in the vegetable juice, and then eat it.
It smells good!
Without taking two bites, Zhong Guoqiang sat over.
"Xiao Li, are you going down the mountain? I heard Section Chief Li say, are you done with your work in the mountain?"
"Done." Li Long took the noodles from his mouth After swallowing, he said.
"I also heard that you got a bear in the mountains?"
"Yes." Li Long nodded, "I was lucky."
"The bear's paw..."
“Sorry, no more.” Li Long said Waved his hand, "My family divided it and ate it."
"Oh, okay. I still found out the news too late. If we meet again later, no matter what, leave me a bear paw or two. I will There are definitely high prices here!”
"Okay." Li Long nodded, "If we get hit later, I'll look for you first."
If you really want to find someone else, at least you have to say this properly.
"Okay, okay. That bear meat..."
"I have some bear meat, some dried and some burned." Li Long asked, "Which one do you want?"
"That's it... can you send me some dried ones when you have time?"
"Okay." Li Long responded.
"Okay, you can eat." Zhong Guoqiang stood up, "Remember to leave some for me after eating!"
Li Long nodded and continued eating.
Others eating, including the waiter, were a little dumbfounded.
Hitting a bear? Are there bears in the mountains?
Don't blame these people for not knowing. More than 80% of the people in the county have never been to the mountains. The northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains covers nearly 300,000 square kilometers to the north, and Ma County has a territory of 12,000 square kilometers. The main terrain is still dominated by basins and plains.
So there are only a few people entering the mountain. They know that there are wolves and deer in the mountains, but there are animals like bears. Some people may know about them, but most people have never seen them.
Some people have only seen bears in the Tianshan Mountains on TV or short videos in their entire lives, not to mention now. As for other rare wild animals, they may have never heard of them.
So when Zhong Guoqiang said that Li Long hit a bear, these people's expressions looked like they had seen a god.
Li Long didn't care so much, enjoying the enjoyment brought by the noodles to his stomach. After finishing eating, he asked for another bowl of noodle soup, poured it into the noodle bowl, and washed the vegetable juice. Drink together.
Comfortable.
Cool!
Perfect!
Burping loudly, Li Long piled the noodle bowl forward and wiped his mouth, only to realize that there was no paper. Oh, paper is not provided at this time, toilet paper is still relatively rare.
He picked up the tea bowl, took a sip of the slightly cold tea, rinsed his mouth, walked out with the water in his mouth, and spit it out.
There are obviously more people on the street than there were more than a month ago. Although Li Long would come back every few days, he actually came and went in such a hurry that there was no chance to compare the difference between now and the past.
There are more smiles on the faces of people coming and going, and some people are still discussing things related to life, such as new things in department stores, people selling cooked meat in the market, food company stores There's a lot of beef in it, etc.
Life is slowly getting better.
Li Long got on his bicycle and pedaled back slowly. When he returned to the compound, he felt it was time to take stock of his family fortune.
Bring your satchel over, and then pile up the money you left in the house. Li Long began to make plans.
First, make up the money.
The supply and marketing cooperative paid 8,416 yuan, and I gave the eldest brother 800 yuan, leaving a balance of 7,616 yuan.
The supply and marketing cooperative collected 1,052 taibaozi, but Li Long's account book collected 1,061 taobao. Of the remaining nine, one was rated as unqualified in Xiaobaiyanggou, and the remaining eight were placed in the shed on the wooden house side.
Of the one thousand and sixty-one pieces, Li Jianguo compiled one hundred and one. Li Long gave eight hundred yuan, which by default was equivalent to one hundred pieces. Which one? Those who are unqualified will be counted with the eldest brother, so that it is easier to settle the bill.
Then the remaining nine hundred and sixty pieces are for the remaining Lu Yingming and the others. For nine hundred and sixty yuan, Li Long gave three thousand eight hundred and forty yuan.
So this time, Li Long earned 3,776 yuan for his role - but he didn't get that much. He also had to deduct a 1,000 yuan kickback for Li Xiangqian, which brought the total to 2,770 yuan. Six dollars.
If this money was put into last year, it would be a huge amount of money. Li Long remembered that the first time he came out of the mountains, he earned more than ten yuan from selling antlers.
It felt like a lot at that time.
But now for more than a month, I just watched others make mistakes and transfer more than 2,700 yuan in one hand, and I actually feel that there is not much left.
I am really inflated.
Put the two thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six dollars aside and continue calculating.
There is a lot of money in front of me. Li Long has never seen such a large amount of money in his life.
Collect the money from the sale of Fritillaria.
I have to say that I had a flash of inspiration and set up a small shop in the mountains to sell things while collecting caladiums. This idea couldn't be more correct.
Li Long actually did something similar last year, but it was just a small incident at the time and he was not famous. Those people didn't even want to believe in him.
But this year is different. It can be said that Li Long's cabin has really become a golden sign in the eyes of the mountain people and blind people who dig Fritillaria. Within the confines of Li Long's wooden house, no one patrolling the forest would disturb him. Think about the effect.
Although the price is very low, it saves time.
Of course, Li Long is not sure whether he will receive so many caladiums next year, but it doesn't matter. The best you can receive is the best. If you can’t receive it, then accept something else. There is always something to do anyway.
He keeps accounts. The amount of dried fritillaries sold to the purchasing station this year was 377 kilograms.
At a 1:7 discount, that means that in more than a month, he received at least two and a half tons of fresh fritillaries.
Li Long vaguely remembered that in later generations, in the 1900s of the 21st century, the forestry department confiscated 22 kilograms of fritillary excavators in the mountains, which was considered a major case.
Three hundred and seventy-seven kilograms of Fritillaria are sold for 16,965 yuan, but this is not net income.
After all, Li Long has to invest capital and collect it at three yuan per kilogram.
Li Long counted the remaining money. In this large pile, except for the nearly 7,000 yuan given to those who dug fritillaries and Bolati, he still had one in his hand. Ten thousand and seventy-nine yuan.
Of course, two and a half tons of Fritillaria cost three yuan per kilogram, which should actually cost at least seven thousand five thousand. Including impurities and the like, Li Long should have paid at least 8,000 yuan to those who dug the fritillaries.
But there was another thing in the middle. Not only did he collect fritillaries, he also bought daily necessities from the county and exchanged the daily necessities for fritillaries. He made a lot of money this time. Moreover, the wild animals caught in the mountains and the meat were exchanged for a lot of caladiums. These were costless - or the cost was their own strength and bullets, which could not be calculated.
So now I have made a net profit of more than 10,000 yuan by selling Fritillaria!
If you say this, won’t it shock the teeth of many people?
Don’t look at the fact that there are households worth ten thousand yuan in every village and township now. But Li Long knows very well that this ten thousand yuan household is the same as the ten thousand yuan household of Sun Shaoan's family in "The Ordinary World". All the family property is included, rather than the ten thousand yuan earned in a year. Motodo.
Therefore, Li Long made a net profit of 10,000 yuan just by collecting Fritillaria, which has surpassed more than 90% of the people in this area.
This also reminded Li Long that there are two types of people doing business in later generations.
It’s all Chinese New Year. One is heard and the other is seen.
I heard that in a certain place, when the Chinese New Year comes, someone can get a fireworks and firecracker sales license in advance and pull a cart from the production area to the city to sell it. The sales start on the first fifteen days of that season and continue until the New Year's Eve. Then the goods are cleared, and then some money is spent to sleep.
Those with a strong foundation can earn 20,000 to 300,000 yuan in fifteen days, while those with a weak foundation can earn a little less, but it is almost a year’s income.
Then you can take a year off. Of course it is impossible to really rest, but the money is enough.
Of course, if fireworks and firecrackers are strictly controlled in the future, there won’t be so many good things.
There is another one he has seen. At the entrance of the vegetable market, every Chinese New Year, someone brings a cart of fresh chili peppers for sale. Big truck, covered with a big tarpaulin, packed in big plastic bags, and not expensive.
Everyone has the habit of stocking up on vegetables during the Chinese New Year. People in northern Xinjiang always add chili pepper to their cooking. It’s expensive in the greenhouse in winter, so put less of it. There are fresh ones now and they are cheap. How many kilograms should I buy during the Chinese New Year?
Then it will be sold out quickly, and we will continue to bring another cart over the next day.
A few years ago, a few trucks of chili peppers could earn hundreds of thousands. In fact, it was just renting a train freight car, bringing a train car of chili peppers from the mainland, renting a warehouse in the city, and selling them directly.
With a truckload of dozens of tons, excluding the wasted peppers, the gross profit can be three to four hundred thousand. After all, during the two days of Chinese New Year, the price of chili peppers here can rise to twenty-five or twenty-eight. Isn’t it expensive to sell eighteen in this truck? It's much cheaper to get it from the mainland.
I only make this once a year, and I usually just make small fuss.
Later, there were more greenhouses and more pepper plants around, so things like this became difficult to handle.
Li Long felt that he could do this even before the mining of these wild Chinese medicinal materials was completely banned.
It's a pity that Codonopsis pilosula is not mined like this, otherwise you can come over and give it a try.
Put the ten thousand and seventy-nine dollars in the middle. They are piled high and look very beautiful.
The third pile is the remaining money from last year to this year.
In fact, from last year to this year, before he made his debut, Li Long earned over 10,000 yuan.
I bought a tractor, a color TV, this yard, built a house for the team, and even distributed a lot of it.
What was left in his hand were four bankbooks worth one thousand yuan, two bankbooks worth five hundred yuan, and a few wads of unused money that had been kept in the house, totaling seven thousand yuan.
I usually carry my change with me, and I just spend it when I occasionally buy something or do other things.
What is on the table is all his property.
Li Long didn't pay much attention to it before, but this time after the matter was over, Li Long felt that it couldn't be like this anymore.
In fact, in the village, many families are completely different from what they were thirty or forty years ago. At this time, men are in charge of the money and women are in charge of the house.
But Li Long didn't plan to do this. As I said before, buy a few more TVs. Otherwise, it would be bad if Gu Xiaoxia had nothing to do at home. Nowadays, watching TV is considered a good way to relax, and other people have it at home, so we can discuss TV content during work breaks. If you don’t have a TV at home, you might be easily isolated.
Li Long didn't want his wife to be wronged in this regard.
He planned to hand over the bankbook worth 5,000 yuan and the cash worth 2,000 yuan to Gu Xiaoxia and let her handle it. I put the remaining 10,000 yuan in the bank and kept the remaining 2,000 yuan in my hand for emergencies.
After allocating the money, Li Long felt a lot relieved.
The dried caladiums in the wing and the caladiums he brought back from this trip can still be sold for several thousand yuan, which is enough to buy a TV.
As for the large and small Hetian jade seeds, the fine jasper seeds, and the few pieces of natural gold, it was difficult to estimate their value, and Li Long had no intention of calculating them carefully. These things need to be stored for decades to realize their value.
Even if Li Long is asked to sell it now, he is reluctant to part with it.
Although some people in later generations said that the Hetian jade excavated now is only one-tenth of the total amount, and Hetian jade is also speculated like diamonds, but Li Long feels that the Hetian jade in his hand is The grade of these Hetian jade seeds is so high, no matter what, it will not be possible to sell it for a cabbage price thirty years later.
Leave it alone.
After sorting out his money, Li Long packed up separately and left the house.
He looked at the time and saw that it was still more than an hour before Gu Xiaoxia got off work, so he went to the kitchen to take a look.
I had mixed noodles for lunch, and also made two extra noodles. Logically speaking, I shouldn’t be hungry.
But Li Long was very strong and exhausted quickly, so he wanted to make dinner.
There was meat from the fire and green vegetables in the yard, so Li Long thought about making cold noodles with soy sauce to eat.
Refreshing and refreshing, it is also comfortable to eat.
The roasted meat itself is shredded, picked up, and stir-fried with the sauce to make a meat sauce for later use, and then noodles.
Dried noodles are enough, he is too lazy to make ramen noodles. After putting down the noodles, I prepared a bowl for myself and another bowl for Gu Xiaoxia. I was afraid that the noodles would stick together, so I mixed them with cooked oil.
Wash the green vegetables, leeks, and celery in boiling water, squeeze out the water, and cut them into cubes as vegetable codes.
After everything was prepared, Li Long covered these things, then left the kitchen and went to the glass house to release the roe deer and fawns, clean the glass house, and change water and food for them.
The four guys, big and small, rushed directly to the vegetable field. When Li Long came out and waved the note a few times, they realized they were afraid, and then went to have fun in other places in the yard.
Li Long opened the side room to disperse the smell of Fritillaria. Although it was airy when it was left to dry in the side room, the smell inside was still quite strong.
Bearskin and deerskin are in another room, also opened for ventilation. Roe Deer was still a little scared when he smelled the faint smell of blood.
After letting these familiar guys run outside for twenty minutes, Li Long drove them in again. Although they were reluctant, they still cooperated, knowing that this would be the case every day. After they went in, they smelled new food and immediately went over to grab it.
There is quite a lot of sugar residue and other feed, but it is a pity that it is difficult to get green grass in the city.
Li Long suddenly thought that although he had provided a lot of feed for Uncle Luo at Lao Mahao, Uncle Luo still went out to cut grass every day. There are more things to feed there now. Isn’t it time to equip Old Uncle Luo with a carriage or donkey cart?
My own negligence!
Li Long felt that he had to implement this matter when he went back this time. This thing itself is not expensive, and Uncle Luo is not young at all. It is really hard to carry grass back and forth every day.
Well, you must remember this.
When he walked to the front yard again, the door was pushed open, and Gu Xiaoxia came in with a look of joy on her face. (End of this chapter)