Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"Come, sit down and eat together." Li Long called the two brothers.

"No, no," Li Zhengtang waved his hand hastily, "We've already eaten, and we just dug up some Fritillaria. Bring these over and eat them together with the ones we got this morning."

"Eat." Li Long had a problem with Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengting before, but let's put it one way and the other has returned the five kilograms of Fritillaria he owed, and has been behaving himself since then. He should be allowed to improve and correct his mistakes:

"I have plenty here. I know what you eat in the mountains. I've lived that kind of life, too. Don't be polite. Eat quickly. I've made money from you, so it's no problem for me to treat you to a meal."

Since Li Long said so, the two of them didn't refuse anymore. They put down the bags, went to the spring to wash their hands, and then grabbed the big steamed buns and started eating.

Liu Shanmin went into the house to get chopsticks for the two of them. In fact, Li Zhengting had already planned to break off two branches to use as chopsticks.

Seeing the two people eating steamed buns with a bit of reserve, Liu Shanmin joked to Li Long:

"Boss Li, I think you can open a canteen here, it will definitely make money."

"Forget it then." Li Long waved his hand. "Exchanging the Fritillaria is beneficial to all parties, so it's ok for those leaders to turn a blind eye. If you really want to open a cafeteria, you're clearly going against your superiors. You can't do this kind of thing. If you do it, I'm afraid my wooden house will not be able to exist."

"That's right." Liu Shanmin immediately realized, "I just thought it was simple."

After dinner, Li Zhengtang rushed to clean up and wash the dishes. Li Long went to the small room to get a scale and weighed the fresh Fritillaria they brought.

"The two bags earlier, one with seventeen and one with fourteen, whose are they?" Li Long asked while weighing them.

"The extra ones are mine," Li Zhengtang said hastily.

"Now this extra one is also yours, right?"

"Well, not much different." Li Zhengtang still had to consider his cousin's feelings.

"Okay, your two bags weigh 20 kilograms in total, which is 60 yuan. Do you want the money, or both?"

"Give me some money for everything." Li Zhengtang still had some supplies, so he asked for money directly.

"Yours is a little over sixteen kilograms, I'll calculate it to seventeen for you, how about you?" Li Long asked Li Zhengting.

"I need forty-five dollars, and the rest for some supplies. I need four steamed buns, some meat, and... do you have any wine?"

Li Zhengting actually wanted wine, which surprised Li Long. He looked at Li Zhengtang first. Li Zhengtang was also a little surprised and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"Yes, we have wine. Do you want loose wine or branded wine?" Li Long would naturally not turn away business that came to his door.

"Brand wine." Li Zhengting now had a lot of money in his pocket, and he was a little bolder, so he said, "Brand wine is good."

Li Long smiled and didn't explain to him. He first took out the money and gave it to Li Zhengtang, poured his Fritillaria into a large basin to wash it, and then counted out forty-five yuan and gave it to Li Zhengting.

Liu Shanmin packed him steamed buns and dried meat, while Li Long went to the cabin and got him two bottles of Gucheng Daqu.

Li Zhengting patted his bag hard to clear the dust inside, and put these things in.

After the two brothers left, Liu Shanmin shook his head:
"Alas, life in the mountains is really hard."

Next, Li Long pulled the cart twice more, delivering all the cart handles to Xiaobaiyanggou. Then he checked the cart handles that were made today. This time there were two that were unqualified. Li Long pointed them out, and the people who made the cart handles didn't have any objections. They took them back with a laugh, saying that they would be guaranteed to be qualified tomorrow.

Sun Jiaqiang came to Li Long with a big bag of Fritillaria. Li Long didn't bring a scale when he came, but he and Sun Jiaqiang were familiar with each other, and neither of them cared about the weight. After a rough estimate, he estimated that the bag of Fritillaria weighed about 12 kilograms.

"Bring a bottle of wine when you come tomorrow." Sun Jiaqiang said with a smile, "Give me one kilogram of Fritillaria for less money, and I'll exchange it for wine."

"Isn't there some loose liquor here?" Li Long remembered that he had brought over a basket of loose liquor a few days ago.

"But I can't just drink their wine. I'm not short of money." Sun Jiaqiang rubbed his hands and said, "If I drink their wine, I have to ask them to go back, right? Oh, and bring some meat. Put it in the Fritillaria. I'll charge half of the Fritillaria today, okay?"

"You don't need that much." Li Long waved his hand, "I'll give you thirty yuan, and the rest is for tomorrow's wine and meat."

They recorded the number of their bosses and signed one by one. All of them had smiles on their faces. The more numbers they had in their names, the more money they made. It was almost like they were breaking 100, so it was impossible for them not to be happy.

In the evening, Lao Huang made noodle soup and flatbread. Li Long ate with them and took some back for Liu Shanmin.

On the first trip, Li Long told Lao Huang to make more rice so that he could take some back. Lao Huang naturally had no objection. It was just a matter of mixing more flour. What's the big deal?

While Li Long was pulling the handle, Liu Shanmin was washing and drying the Fritillaria in front of the wooden house without stopping.

When Li Long drove the tractor to bring him the soup and rice, Liu Shanmin was also very happy. He took the enamel basin with a lid tied tightly with a cage cloth and said with a smile:

"I haven't had proper soup and rice for some days."

"There's enough food here for you, enjoy it." Li Long also went to collect the things with a smile.

For the next two days, life went on as normal. I dried the Fritillaria, collected them, and checked the number of Fritillaria thunbergii every day.

During this period, there are still many people who bring Fritillaria to exchange, but most of them want money, because they have reached the crazy harvest season. In previous years, the Fritillaria dug by themselves would lose a considerable part if they found a place to dry them. Or they would bring them down the mountain once every few days and exchange them for some supplies, or go to Qingshuihe Township to find someone to exchange some things.

This year, with Li Long's wooden house, although the replacement price is not high, it really saves them time. If everyone works fast, they can earn 20 to 30 yuan a day, and even if they work slowly, they can still earn more than ten yuan.

Even a dumb person can figure this out. Just dig Fritillaria thunbergii steadily and exchange them for things and money. After a Fritillaria thunbergii season lasting more than a month, you can at least make more than 500 yuan, and it's normal to make more than 1,000 yuan.

The Fritillaria in the small room were almost packed away. That morning, after breakfast, Liu Shanmin told Li Long that he was leaving.

"Is your injury healed?" Li Long asked.

"I'm almost healed." Liu Shanmin pulled back his sleeve to show him the wound on his arm. "Actually, I just lost a lot of blood. The scabs on the wound are almost all gone. I feel better now. I have to go do my work."

"Then don't worry, stay for another day." Li Long thought about it and said, "I'll take the Fritillaria to the county today and get a batch of supplies. How about you leave after I come back?"

"Okay." Liu Shanmin did not hesitate. No matter how you look at it, Li Long saved his life. It doesn't matter if it's delayed for a day.

When Li Long was about to load Fritillaria onto the tractor, Bolati came over.

He didn't bring any Fritillaria with him this time. Nowadays, those who dig Fritillaria are much smarter. They hide in the mountains and forests as soon as they hear the sound of horse hooves. As a result, the harvest of forest rangers like Bolati has become less.

"I came here to tell you something." After seeing Li Long, Bolati got off his horse and said:

"Mustafa said that the two people who were taken over at the beginning happened to be in time for the county's public trial, and were then shot along with a group of bad elements."

"Those two people were shot?" Li Long was quite surprised. He actually guessed that the two people would not end well, but he did not expect that they would be shot so soon!
"Well, for the two incidents of attacking you and Hamiti, in the past, they would have to spend more than ten years in prison. This year is special, and many people were strictly tried. They also had problems in their hometowns, so they were punished together and the case was aborted."

Li Long nodded. This was a good thing anyway. It would eliminate future troubles and there would be less trouble.

"The two cases you took over later were not that serious. One was sentenced to eight years and the other was sentenced to six years." Bolati said, "They still cried out that they were innocent, but later they stopped talking when they found out that two of them were executed. I came here to tell you that someone will come to you to exchange Fritillaria later. Tell them about this and make these people behave themselves. It's fine if we don't run into them, but if we do, and they still do bad things, they will suffer the consequences!"

Bolati really came here to talk about this matter. After speaking, he glanced at Liu Shanmin, nodded, and was about to get on his horse and leave. Li Long went to the small room and took out the remaining bottle of wine and stuffed it into his hand:

"Take it. Drink it after get off work, not on the way."

"Don't worry, we all knew about your incident. Those who dig for Fritillaria hate us, and we are not spoons."

With that, Bolati put the wine into the empty bag beside the saddle, mounted his horse and left. Li Long loaded all the Fritillaria in the cabin, then tied up the roe deer, which was used to being tied, and put it in the cart to prevent it from harming the Fritillaria, then went to get the crank and started the car.

"I'll be back this afternoon." Li Long said, "You can handle whatever happens."

"Okay." Liu Shanmin nodded and watched Li Long get on the tractor with a gun on his back, step on the clutch, shift gears, and then drive away.

He was quite envious.

Li Long drove the tractor at a constant speed to the place where Lin Xiaohu and He Yiku attacked him and stopped. He went to the forest and rummaged in the deep grass for a while. He came out with two bags, put them in the bed of the truck, packed the two bags in a urea bag, and then continued on his way.

The tractor rumbled out of the mountains, crossed the Qingshui River along the mountain road, and faint, almost invisible smoke wafted from the tall chimneys.

When the tractor reached the Wuyi Highway, there were more vehicles coming and going, so Li Long adjusted his speed, but he did not slow down. The road conditions were much better, except for slowing down occasionally when passing other vehicles, he drove at full speed the rest of the time.

Li Long could even feel that the tractor had been driving slowly in the mountains these days and it was very uncomfortable. Running on this kind of road, it felt a lot lighter.

It took just over an hour for the tractor to reach the county town, but the scene in front of us seemed like a different game.

In fact, for ordinary people, the difference between the mountains and outside the mountains is no less than the difference between Wucheng and Ma County.

The difference is too big.

Li Long drove the tractor to the big yard. He put the roe deer down first and led them to the glass greenhouse at the back. After putting them in, he let the three half-grown ones get familiar with the bigger one. After closing the door, he returned to the tractor and began to unload the Fritillaria.

There are more than 300 kilograms of fresh Fritillaria in the car, but a considerable part of them have been half-dried in the sun, so the total weight is actually just over 200 kilograms.

He first opened the wing room and looked at the Fritillaria inside. Some of the Fritillaria had dried completely and were put away, while others were still hanging out to dry. Li Long picked up one and squeezed it open to try, and it was actually dry too.

Gu Xiaoxia didn't know much about Chinese medicinal materials, so she could only put away the ones at the beginning and deal with the rest later.

Li Long collected all of them to make room for the ones that were about to be dried in the sun.

There are more than 40 kilograms of dried fruit now, and Li Long plans to sell it at the purchasing station later.

It seems that today is not Chen Hongjun's day on duty, so it is not clear whether he will be there.

But it doesn’t matter. Lao Chen probably doesn’t care about it this time.

Li Long moved all the Fritillaria from the tractor, hung them up to dry in the side room, locked the door, and carried the bag into the inner room.

The two packages were very heavy, and he hadn't brought them back before, so he naturally didn't know whether Lin Xiaohu and the others would report them. If they did, the police would definitely come over and seize them, and Li Long wouldn't have thought of doing that.

Now that the two men had been killed, the matter was settled, and the things became ownerless, so Li Long accepted them with a smile.

God and God cannot take it, but they are to blame.

When Li Long opened the smaller package, he first saw a map with mountains and important points drawn on it with simple lines.

Li Long immediately understood that these two people must have found the treasure with the help of this map.

I have to say that the tall and thin guy was quite lucky. He just happened to find something that others had to look for a treasure map to find.

Under the cloth bag were some heavy things. First, there were a few large gray-black ingots. I didn’t know whether they were called horseshoe silver or silver ingots. They were quite large, about the size of an adult’s palm.

Below were some odds and ends that looked dazzling, jewelry like the ruby ​​gold ring that Li Long had picked up, gold bars, silver dollars, and a few small gold cakes. A jewelry box inlaid with gems, after opening it with great effort, there were also some gold and gem jewelry inside.

The other big bag was much simpler, mostly silver dollars, most of which were rusty, mixed with some gold bars, gold coins, and a jade ruyi. The quality of the jade seemed to be just average. Li Long's taste for jade was actually quite high now.

Then there were deformed silver bowls, silver wine jugs and the like. There wasn't a single piece of porcelain. Basically, all of it was hard currency.

It's really a large quantity and a full meal. People's aesthetics of wealth are just so simple nowadays. Gold must be valuable, silver is inferior, and as for porcelain? Forget it, just stand back.

Li Long couldn't estimate the value of these things, so he simply didn't count them. He put the two packages back and put them in the secret compartment under the second bedroom bed. But this time he kept them separate from the four metal pieces, as he thought the four metal pieces were not simple.

Judging from the plum vase I picked up last time, there should be porcelain in these places. I guess these two people didn't take any because they thought they were too cumbersome.

If you have time, you can look at the picture and look for it.

After putting his things away and locking the door, Li Long went to the kitchen to drink some water, then rode his bicycle to the purchasing station with the nearly 40 kilograms of dried Fritillaria.

What surprised him was that Chen Hongjun was really there.

"Hey, Xiaolong is coming down the mountain?" Chen Hongjun was also very happy when he saw Li Long. "Did you get a lot this time?"

"Not bad." Li Long smiled. "There are only Fritillaria in the mountains now. I dried some and came here to exchange for some money."

"This is not just a small amount of money." Chen Hongjun smiled and helped Li Long take the bag down and put it on the counter.

This counter is actually equivalent to a large wooden cabinet, so there is no need to worry about it being crushed. He reached into the bag and grabbed a handful, then opened his palm and looked at it, then said with a smile:

"It's still so clean. If everyone who comes to sell Fritillaria can sell something like yours, we won't have to worry."

"Are there many people selling Fritillaria?" Li Long asked.

"It's OK. There are people here every day. We can collect about ten kilograms of dried goods every day." Seeing that Li Long and Chen Hongjun are familiar with each other, another person took over the conversation, "Now is the Fritillaria season. Although the forestry team stopped us from digging, the mountain is so big that it is impossible to stop them completely."

This is indeed the case.

Li Long was also very calm after hearing the news. It was impossible for him to collect all the Fritillaria he dug. The mountain was so big, naturally someone would have a way to dry the Fritillaria in the mountains. Of course, it was also possible that someone had already contacted the people who were going to collect the goods before the Fritillaria season came.

Everyone has their own way.

Chen Hongjun reached into the bag again and showed the Fritillaria to the other person:
"Look, Xiao Huo, is it okay to rank this Fritillaria at level one?"

"No problem, no problem. None of the mother-of-pearls I received these days are as clean as this one." The man picked up a mother-of-pearl and squeezed it hard. "The dryness is also fine." He simply put his mouth on it, bit it open and took a look. "Well, it's completely dry. There's no need to worry about it going bad."

"Let's weigh it." Chen Hongjun took the big basket, poured the Fritillaria into it, and then put it on the scale.

The man looked at the perfectly symmetrical fritillaria in the basket and nodded approvingly:
"Level one, absolutely level one."

Forty-two kilograms, first-class cargo costs forty-five yuan per kilogram, and the invoice price is one thousand eight hundred and ninety yuan. Li Long signed the invoice and then collected the money.

Chen Hongjun took back two stacks of money, one thousand yuan per stack, counted out eleven bills, and gave the rest to Li Long.

"Take a few." Chen Hongjun said with emotion, "You should still have quite a few, right?"

"Well, it's not done yet. I'll send it to you when it's done." Li Long said as he counted the bills, "Let's make some money during this Fritillaria season."

"Hey, this is not just a little profit. What you earn is equivalent to our salary for many years." The other man said with a smile.

"It's hard-earned money. Life in the mountains is not easy, and there is only one season in a year." Li Long explained sincerely.

Next, we will go shopping. (End of this chapter)