It was more than an hour between when the red deer was released and when Li Long came again, so he thought there was a high probability that there was nothing in it.
However, we were already here, so we didn’t waste anything if we came up to take a look, so we turned up.
When Li Long was about ten meters away from the mine, he subconsciously slowed down his steps and turned on the safety.
Regardless, be prepared.
Just when he was thinking this, two black figures suddenly came out of the mine, and Li Long subconsciously raised his gun:
"Bang bang!"
"Bang!"
He fired two shots directly, and a black figure fell to the ground. One of the two shots was empty. The black figure who was not hit was frightened and jumped into the air. Li Long adjusted the gun slightly and fired again. Gun, when the black shadow landed on the ground, its hooves softened and it fell down.
Only then did Li Long see clearly that these two black figures were two yellow sheep.
They are not too big, weighing thirty or forty kilograms, with white buttocks and yellow hair.
Li Long went over and found that one of the two yellow sheep was shot in the abdomen and the other was shot in the head, both with vital wounds.
Hey, my shooting skills are getting better and better!
Feeling a little bit proud of myself, I went into the mine with my gun and checked, but there was nothing inside.
Li Long also couldn't figure it out. Shouldn't the yellow sheep be active in the red willow fields in the Gobi Desert outside the mountain at this time? How could they come here?
But it doesn’t matter, if you hit it, take it back.
He turned off the safety of the gun, put it on his back, grabbed a yellow sheep in each hand, and walked towards the mouth of the ditch.
This yellow sheep is difficult to catch. It has one front hoof and one hind hoof, so that it can eat hard.
Although the weather in the mountains was cooler than outside the mountains, Li Long knew that he had to deal with these two yellow sheep as soon as possible, otherwise, he would definitely face maggot-infested meat later - which he did not want to do.
But no matter how urgent it is now, we have to go to Xiaobaiyanggou to finish the meal first. I went back to the cabin and had no time to cook.
Li Long walked to the jeep with the yellow sheep. After putting down the yellow sheep, he opened the trunk, put the gun into the gun bag and put it in. Then he took a bag of salt, opened the opening, poured a small handful, and came over to wipe it on the jeep. on the muzzles of two yellow sheep.
Although the flies were still flying around the yellow sheep, they no longer dared to land.
Li Long cleared a space in the trunk, put some things on the back seat, then put two yellow sheep on it, closed the trunk door, started the car and drove towards Xiaobaiyanggou.
Lunch had already started over at Xiaobaiyanggou. Lao Huang had already packed the food for everyone and was about to serve it himself. Then he watched Li Long's jeep coming.
When Li Long got out of the car, Lao Huang had already prepared a meal for him - today's lunch was fried potato chips and steamed steamed buns with mixed noodles. Li Jing looked at the two steamed buns with mixed noodles placed in the enamel basin and thought I thought of the Mantou Mountain mentioned by Polati.
If Sheng Shicai’s treasure was real, and if he dug it out himself, wouldn’t there be no need to work hard——
Not even thinking about it. Nowadays, gold shops are all state-owned. Even if you find good stuff, there is no place to sell it, or you don't know where to sell it.
We can only guard a pile of treasures and continue to work hard.
Just take care of the present.
After greeting his eldest brother, Xie Yundong and others, Li Long took the enamel basin and went over to eat together.
The steamed buns mixed with cornmeal have a good taste and are slightly sweet. They are different from the steamed buns. They have more cornmeal and are not so filling, but they make you very hungry after eating them.
The potato slices are also very large and thick, but they are simmered in the pot for a long time and some roasted meat is added, so they taste very good.
There is a lot of vegetable soup, and many people asked for more soup, so that they could break off a piece of steamed buns and soak them in. The steamed buns are full of soup and are delicious to eat.
"Is everything okay these two days? Did you go to Qingshui River yesterday?" Li Jianguo asked while eating.
"Well, there are also more than 300 people working there," Li Long said. "Including the two people here, we have a total of more than 700 people for the supply and marketing society."
"What's the pass rate like over there?" Xu Haijun was also eating not far away. When he heard Li Long talking about Qingshui River, he interjected.
"It's better than your place. It's about the same as my brother's place. 80% qualified." Li Long said while eating. "They have less land there. It's not easy to have a profitable job. They value it very much."
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Several people around him stopped talking.
Indeed, they would have had a similar sense of urgency two years ago, but not now. There is a lot of land in the team, and there are at least three jobs that can make money every year. There is also a small sea boy in the team who can catch fish and sell them for money. As long as you work hard, let alone get rich, at least the family will not be without money.
However, there is now one more competitor.
Many people know that because of Zhang Qiang's incident last year, Li Long started to clean up the village. Although everyone did not suffer a loss, selling the broom to Zhang Qiang was still a sum of money.
But Li Long can buy enough big brooms from outside, which shows that he has many options to choose from, not just those in his own team.
This gives some people a sense of urgency.
It doesn't matter that Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong and others are following Li Long. Li Long will definitely take them anyway, and they are willing to listen to Li Long.
But others don't necessarily think so.
It’s not easy to make money while ensuring a certain degree of autonomy.
After dinner, Li Long went to the stream to wash the enamel basin, came back and put it on the wooden pillar next to the stove, said hello to his eldest brother and the others, and drove away in the jeep.
Others either took a rest after eating, or went straight to work, each with their own plans.
Li Long drove the jeep to the wooden house, and then saw the words written on the wooden house.
"I want noodles"
He smiled.
There are noodles in the trunk. If this person comes again, he can really change them.
But the most urgent task now is to deal with the yellow sheep first.
I went to the shed with a big broom and swept the wooden floor in front of the door again. Then I dried the caladiums I received in the morning and put the unwashed ones in a big basin to soak in water.
Li Long put down the two yellow sheep, and wasps and flies were flying around them.
He went to the big room and pulled out a few basins, then set up the stove in front of the wooden house, put the pot on, poured water in, and set up the fire.
Seeing that there was not much firewood beside the shed, he thought he would get some more when he had time. You can pull one of the fallen logs in the forest far away and get firewood on the spot.
After completing the preparations, they began to skin the sheep, disembowel them, and process the water and mutton.
It was a hot day, so in order to prevent the mutton from spoiling, Li Long soaked the mutton in water first. Then he rubbed salt on the sheepskin and the unloaded mutton and dried them directly.
While the salt was being applied, someone from the forest came over with a bag on his back and walked all the way to Li Long, watching him cook the meat.
"What to change?" Li Long asked.
These people don't bring many caladiums. Three to five kilograms is the most common, and seven or eight kilograms is rare.
At first, those who dug up medicinal materials didn’t want to change too many things, thinking they could survive it.
Of course, they would not bring too many supplies when they first entered the mountains. They thought they would leave the mountains after eating, go to the county to sell medicinal materials, and then buy supplies before entering the mountains.
It's just that after Li Long's wooden house was built, many people who picked herbs became dependent on it.
"Can this meat be exchanged?" The man was young, in his mid-twenties, and he was a little greedy looking at the fresh meat.
There are naturally edible animals in the deep mountains and old forests, but with their current abilities, there is a high probability that they will not be able to deal with them.
Even if there are experienced people, there are very few people who can trap a rabbit.
I usually get a bit greedy when I eat dry steamed buns and noodles, so naturally I want to change it to some meat.
"One kilogram of fritillary is exchanged for two kilograms of meat." Li Long said while working. "It's the same with the water. But they are all raw. You have to go back and cook them yourself to eat."
"Change, changed everything!" The man was furious. He knew that the salted meat could be stored, so he simply changed it all to satisfy his craving.
Isn't it just to make a good living by going to these deep mountains and old forests to dig for medicine?
Anyway, there is salt in the meat, so it can replenish the salt content.
Li Long looked at him in surprise, and then asked:
"Look, which piece do you want?"
The man finally asked for a yellow leg of lamb - Li Long weighed it and found it was just over five kilograms. Without much calculation, he gave it to him in exchange.
The man walked out more than twenty meters carrying the leg of lamb and came back awkwardly. He asked Li Long in a low voice:
"Can I give you a box of matches?"
Li Long smiled, wiped his hands, took out a box of matches from the trunk of the car and handed them to him.
It seems that this person himself must be changing matches and other daily necessities, and he can't walk after looking at the meat. When Li Long smeared the meat of the two yellow sheep with salt and hung it up, two more people came to exchange the Fritillaria for supplies.
However, these two people were older and more experienced, and had withstood the test of meat. One of them exchanged a piece of meat weighing more than one kilogram, and the other did not ask for meat at all. He exchanged noodles, matches, and rubber shoes and left in a hurry. .
Li Long saw that he was wearing cloth shoes that were already torn.
The most likely cause of wear of home-made mille-layer-soled cloth shoes is that the soles are worn out or the toes of the big toes are torn, which can stretch the uppers of the shoes. This person must have encountered something.
After Li Long finished cooking the meat and hung it up, he started washing the fritillaries again.
After finishing these tasks, the sun had already set to the height where he should usually go back.
Li Long was preparing to pack up and go back, taking away the salted meat, sheepskins and gathered fritillaries.
Not long after leaving the wooden house, he met Bolati head-on.
Bolati rode up to the jeep and dismounted. After Li Long came down, he unloaded a full bag from the horse and said:
"I just caught them. This group of people is so annoying. They dug the ditch in a mess and broke some small trees. I took my gun and collected all their fritillaries... I’ll leave it here for you first, and wait until you have the meat..."
He smelled blood.
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"We caught two yellow sheep today." Li Long said, "One kilogram of fritillary is exchanged for two kilograms of meat. Would you like to exchange it?"
"Change, but you can't change everything." Polati said hurriedly, "Change some wine. The meat is raw, right?"
"Yes, it's raw. You have to cook it when you go back. I've already put salt on it."
"Then exchange half of the meat and five...six bottles of wine." Polati waited for Li Long to open the trunk, then thought for a while and said, "Bring me some biscuits, I will take them back to the baby to eat. .”
There are not many opportunities like this, and Polati also knows that the next time he will meet such a group of people is who knows when. So just change things if you can.
Bolati kept the bag, packed the things he had exchanged in two bags and put them on the horse, and left with satisfaction.
Li Long also breathed a sigh of relief. He still had most of the yellow sheep left, so it would be easier to deal with them when he returned.
Today, we exchanged more than 40 kilograms of caladiums from the mountains in one day. The dried caladiums weighed seven or eight kilograms. At the current price, they cost three hundred yuan, right?
However, Li Long didn't ask whether the price of caladium had increased this year, so his purchase price was still based on the original price.
It's a seller's market anyway, and the main purpose is to exchange things. He calculated it as equivalent to charging more than two yuan or even less than two yuan for one kilogram of Fritillaria, a huge profit.
Of course, this thing is a consensual thing. Those who dig up medicinal materials don't need to exchange it. Li Long's main exchange target is people like Bolati. After all, the bulk of the Fritillaria confiscated there is.
The Fritillaria at Polati's place is a business without capital, so it doesn't matter how much it costs, as long as it feels right.
When the jeep passed by Qingshuihe Village, Li Long saw someone waving and saying hello to him. He didn't recognize them, so he just honked the horn and moved on.
After returning to the county and picking up Gu Xiaoxia, Li Long walked back.
"Hey, what smells so bad in this car?" Gu Xiaoxia felt a strange smell after getting in the car and hurriedly rolled down the window glass.
"I shot two yellow sheep at noon. It smells of blood, and also of caladium." Li Long explained, "Hold on, we'll be there in a minute."
He increased his speed.
Gu Xiaoxia doesn't get car sick, but the smell is a little unbearable for her now.
Li Long regretted it a little, but he also knew that if he hit something in the future, he would have to clean up the car after pulling it back.
After the jeep entered the yard, Gu Xiaoxia got out, walked a few steps away from the car, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
Obviously, she was still feeling quite uncomfortable just now.
Li Long helped Gu Xiaoxia sit on the chair, and then he went to pack the things in the jeep. When he took the meat out and put it in the kitchen, Li Long deliberately walked around his wife to prevent her from smelling it again.
"I'm not that squeamish. It's different in the yard." Gu Xiaoxia couldn't help but explain with a smile when she saw his cautious look.
"It's better to be careful." After Li Long put the meat away, he took the yellow sheepskins to the side room to hang them up. The washed caladiums also went to the side room to dry.
After dinner, Li Long washed the fritillaries that Polati brought over last in two large basins in the yard. Han Fang came over to help, and Li Long didn't refuse. After all, the children's studies are not so good at the moment. nervous.
Sister Yang was packing the yellow mutton in the kitchen.
Li Long calculated that he would have to go to Xiaobaiyanggou to inspect and accept the workman's work tomorrow. The days passed so quickly.
In fact, he also thought that if he could accumulate four to five hundred cars at once and pull them back at once, it was a pity that the transportation company did not allow it, and Captain Ma could not mobilize so many cars at one time.
The transportation company itself has only five cars, and Captain Ma also said that a few of them must be kept in reserve in the company. In case of any emergency, these cars must be of great use.
Then we can only do it piecemeal and slowly.
After washing the mother-of-pearl and drying it, Li Long shook off the water droplets on his hands. Han Fang went to the kitchen to see Sister Yang busy, while Li Long entered the bedroom.
Gu Xiaoxia was watching TV. After seeing Li Long come in, she asked with concern:
"Are you tired?"
"It's not tiring. Compared with those people in the mountains, it's really much better."
Whether it's the eldest brother, the weavers or the herb collectors, they can only live in underground nests or caves in the mountains these days. It's so much better that I can go home every day, eat on time, and have a car to drive.
What's more important is that when I am so comfortable, I can still earn several times or dozens of times the income of these people. If I still say that I am tired, it is too teasing.
"It's not about competing with them, it's about looking at you. If you're tired, don't do so much, you can just hire someone to do it." Gu Xiaoxia mainly refers to the matter of transporting the handfuls from home to the supply and marketing cooperative.
"I know." Knowing that his wife cared about him, Li Long smiled, moved a chair to be next to Gu Xiaoxia, then put a cushion behind Gu Xiaoxia, and the two of them watched TV together.
Men, it’s normal to be tired. Otherwise, how can you let your family live well?
Besides, Li Long also knew that he couldn't be idle. There were so many good things in the mountains, and you could get them by going into the mountains. How could you not go?
After breakfast the next day, Li Long sent Gu Xiaoxia to the Education Bureau as usual, and then went to the transportation company.
Captain Ma was away, so Li Long found the driver he was familiar with before.
"No problem. The captain has taken the truck to haul supplies. I'll let him know when he gets back. There are no other tasks today. There will be a truck tonight." The driver assured.
Li Long was not very relieved, but there was nothing he could do.
He replenished some supplies and drove to the mountains.
He first went to the wooden house for a walk, intending to see if there were any supplies for exchange in the morning, go to Xiaobaiyanggou for dinner at noon, and start inspecting the goods in the afternoon.
Sure enough, the plan was good. As soon as we arrived at the cabin, we saw someone coming out of the woods and heading here.
He guessed whether the man had been staying there, waiting for him to come out.
Li Long opened the wooden house, took out the big basin, and waited for the man to come.
The man carrying the pocket was about fifty years old. It was rare to see neatly dressed people in the mountains. Li Long even thought about getting some clothes, but then he thought about it.
These people are living in the mountains, and even if their clean clothes are clean, they will become dirty in a day.
When the man arrived, he took out a lump of something from his pocket and handed it to Li Long:
"Comrade, do you want to accept this?"
Li Long looked carefully. There were some copper coins wrapped in a towel, and a dagger with green rust. Is it bronze?
He shook his head and said:
"It's not valuable, or I don't understand it, so I can't give you much money."
Copper coins, or hemp coins, are easy to find at this time, so they are not valuable. As for the copper dagger, it was full of green rust. He didn't understand this, so he wouldn't bid.
The man was a little disappointed, took the towel back, thought about it and said:
"Just give me a price, it's troublesome to hold it."
"Then one dollar." Li Long said, "Do you want money or something?"
"You want something." The man nodded, "And these caladiums, let's exchange for some dried noodles. By the way, you said you have rubber shoes here? Give me another pair, as well as matches, and salt..."
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This man asked a lot, and Li Long quickly interrupted him:
"These fritillaries of yours cannot be exchanged for so many things."
"Can I get some on credit?"
"No." Li Long was almost happy. He had been here for two or three years and this was the first time he encountered something on credit.
Of course it doesn't work anymore. (End of chapter)