mchenry-crisis.org Chapter 47 Going to Liu Family Village to Collect Bellflowers
Chapter 47 Going to Liu Family Village to Collect Bellflowers
After selling the first order, Liu Jianguo gained confidence.
He became even more diligent, approaching and asking everyone, whether they were coming from or passing by the supply and marketing cooperative.
That's often how things are.
It's not that you see hope before you persevere, but rather that you persevere and then you see hope.
really,
Half an hour later, the remaining 15 jin of fish were all sold.
He took 3.5 yuan to Li Xiangyang to report back, and Li Xiangyang praised him for the first time.
this moment,
He felt an unprecedented sense of pride and satisfaction.
"Brother-in-law, where are we going now...?" Liu Jianguo handed the money to Li Xiangyang and asked.
Li Xiangyang glanced at the angle of the shadow cast by the sun on the ground and estimated that it must be a little after eight in the morning.
"The purchasing station should be opening soon. Let's go to the purchasing station."
"Mmm." Liu Jianguo nodded, then jumped onto the carriage and sat down.
Liujia Village is entirely agricultural, so he has hardly ever handled a horse and doesn't know how to drive a horse-drawn carriage. This task falls to Li Xiangyang.
Watching Li Xiangyang drive away, he suddenly felt a little envious and thought to himself that he must find time to learn how to catch a bus.
The purchasing stations are not far from the supply and marketing cooperatives, only a few hundred meters away. In many areas, the purchasing stations and supply and marketing cooperatives are even connected.
The supply and marketing cooperative is in front, and the purchasing station is in the back.
Li Xiangyang tied the carriage to the parking area in the open space to the left of the purchasing station before slowly walking in.
Perhaps because the black market has been closed recently, the number of people coming and going at the purchasing stations and supply and marketing cooperatives today is significantly higher than in the past few days.
The number of staff at the purchasing station has also increased, and they are extremely busy.
After entering the house, Li Xiangyang found a place to sit down and instructed Liu Jianguo, "There are many people buying things now, let's wait a bit and sit down first."
"Okay, brother-in-law." Liu Jianguo put the sack on the ground and sat down next to Li Xiangyang.
It was his first time visiting the purchasing station, so he was a little nervous.
After sitting down, I kept shifting my position.
Young people of this generation are generally like this; they rarely go out and are rather naive.
"Hey, are you two buying anything? You can't sit here if you're not buying anything; you're interfering with our business."
A little girl suddenly walked over and said.
Wearing a blue uniform, they are probably staff members at the acquisition station.
"We're not buying anything, we are..." Liu Jianguo was about to answer when he noticed Li Xiangyang's displeased expression and fell silent.
"We're looking for someone," Li Xiangyang replied casually, then turned away, ignoring her.
The girl's attitude disgusted him.
In those days, resources were scarce, and even if you had money, you couldn't buy anything without coupons. Oh right, in later generations, this was called a seller's market.
It's one thing for a sales clerk at a supply and marketing cooperative to be a little arrogant, but even a purchasing agent at a purchasing station dares to be this arrogant...?
It's obvious they haven't found their place yet.
The last time I came to sell sika deer meat and deer hide, the middle-aged male buyer named Liu Guofu was very enthusiastic.
He smiled throughout the entire transaction, even poured milk tea for him and Li Xiangdong, and paid the money readily.
Therefore,
Li Xiangyang plans to contact him again this time, as a way of giving him credit.
However, at this time,
The little girl also noticed the two bulging sacks next to them and realized that they might be there to sell something.
Considering that she hasn't met her acquisition target for this month yet.
He immediately changed his expression and said with a smile.
"Then who are you looking for? Everyone else is busy and doesn't have time to deal with you right now."
If you want to sell anything, I'll buy it for you now, and the price will be the same for everyone.
"No need." Li Xiangyang didn't even lift his eyelids.
He walked over to the counter and greeted Liu Guofu, "Uncle Guofu, are you done with your work?"
Liu Guofu was currently gesturing to an old farmer about an old farm tool, which he had acquired earlier and was trying to sell.
Liu Guofu turned his head and saw that it was Li Xiangyang, and was stunned for a second.
Then I remembered,
The young man dressed as a herdsman in front of him was none other than Li Xiangyang, the man who had sold him a deer a couple of days ago.
He immediately smiled. "Oh, it's Xiangyang! What can I do for you?"
"Huh?" Li Xiangyang was a little surprised. He hadn't expected Liu Guofu to have such a good memory, actually remembering him. "Uncle Guofu, I hunted a red fox and a few rabbits yesterday. What about you..."
"Yes, we've accepted them all," Liu Guofu interrupted before Li Xiangyang could finish speaking.
When business came in, Liu Guofu didn't bother with the old man buying farm tools, since buying things was the main business of the purchasing station. He said to the old man, "Sir, take a look first, and call me when you're satisfied."
Seeing this, Li Xiangyang didn't waste any more words. He called Liu Jianguo to bring over the sack and placed all the furs and frozen meat inside on the counter.
"This red fox pelt is beautiful," Liu Guofu exclaimed immediately upon seeing the red fox pelt in Li Xiangyang's hand.
Then he noticed that the cut on the red fox fur was a bit crooked, and frowned, saying, "This cut... well, never mind, it doesn't really matter."
They then checked several rabbit skins, rabbit meat, and red fox meat in turn, and found nothing wrong.
After weighing himself, Liu Guofu began to quote prices:
"A red fox pelt costs 25 yuan, and the meat weighs 8 jin (4 kg), which is 1 yuan per jin, totaling 8 yuan."
Five rabbit pelts, 15 yuan each; 15 jin of rabbit meat, 0.5 yuan per jin.
The total is 48 yuan.
After quoting the price, he looked at Li Xiangyang again and, seeing that Li Xiangyang didn't nod, said, "Xiangyang, this price is too high, what do you think?"
"Okay, sure." Li Xiangyang snapped out of his daze and nodded in agreement.
He was just mentally calculating how much money he had on him.
Before leaving home, his mother gave him 150 yuan. He earned 25 yuan from selling the fish, and then sold the fur and meat for another 48 yuan.
After deducting the 4 yuan wages paid to Liu Jianguo, there was still 219 yuan left.
秸秆现在的价格应该在每斤3-5分钱之间，200多块钱大概能收个4、5千斤那样。
But that's still not enough.
We need to think of more ways to make more money as soon as possible.
The horse-drawn carriage headed straight for Liujia Village after leaving the purchasing station to collect bellflower roots.
An hour later, the carriage appeared at the gate of Liu Xiulan's maternal home in Liujia Village.
Zhou Chunmei, who was sweeping snow in the yard, was a little surprised to see Li Xiangyang coming over. Hadn't he just been here a couple of days ago? She asked, "Xiangyang, what brings you here today...?"
"Mom, let's go inside and talk," Liu Jianguo interrupted Zhou Chunmei's question.
Li Xiangyang had told Liu Jianguo about the snow disaster that morning, and he knew that this was something that absolutely could not be heard by outsiders.
Li Xiangyang parked the carriage, grabbed a handful of dry grass from the back of the carriage and threw it on the ground for the horse to eat, and then the group hurriedly went into the house.
really,
They had barely stepped into the house when Aunt Wang from next door peeked out from behind the low courtyard wall:
"Such a secretive person, they're definitely up to no good! I knew it, a scoundrel is a scoundrel, how could he suddenly become a good guy and even kill a deer? Pah!"