Chapter Forty-Eight: A Trip to the County Seat
At dawn the next day, when Zhu Linglong got up, Liu Yujin and his wife had already left with their guests and children. The fragrance of the grass www.biquge.info the pen and the joy of the pavilion were placed in the hall of her house along with the shaking nest, and she was still asleep, so she didn't wake her up. When I went to clean up the yard, I heard the second daughter-in-law start to do the same thing every day -- scolding people all over the world! I shook my head helplessly, and continued with what I was doing, pretending that I was deaf and couldn't hear.
At this time, Liu Yujin and his team had just arrived in the county seat, and Liu Yujin often sold livestock and eggs in the market. Many people who set up stalls in the market and bought vegetables knew Liu Yujin, and when they saw him, they all took the initiative to greet him: "Brother Liu! Why did you come here so early today? Why don't you put the salted goods out there! My old man said that the pickled goods in your house are delicious, not so salty, and fragrant." Let me buy a few more and put them at home, waiting for the Chinese New Year, to entertain the guests at home!"
Liu Yujin hurriedly took out the salted goose in the pick, and asked the aunt who spoke to pick the big one by herself.
Another eldest sister who bought Liu Yujin's salty goods and thought it was delicious also shouted in the back: "Brother Liu! Do you still have those duck gizzards and goose gizzards?
Liu Yujin replied with a smile: "Old sister! But I brought a lot of wild things from the mountains today, and the best wine is the best, your eldest brother must like it!"
"What kind of wild goods are they, wait until I go in and see!" the eldest sister asked as she squeezed in, and when she saw the hares and pheasants that were not very energetic but were all alive, she happily immediately squatted down to catch a few.
"Roar! Roar! Brother Xiao Liu has the ability, and this live hare and pheasant can get it. My family must be overjoyed to see this! How can these hares and pheasants be sold?"
Liu Yujin sold livestock during this time, but he developed a pair of fiery eyes, and he could see at a glance that this eldest sister was really a person who could buy wild things. When I heard her ask for money, I replied without a pause: "Old sister, you also know that the wild things in this mountain are delicious but difficult to get, and they are different from those raised at home." Therefore, the price should not be too cheap! The smallest of our hare should be five or six pounds, and the pheasant should weigh three pounds at worst, and I will not shout the price. A hare is worth eight dollars to pick up, and a pheasant is five dollars to pick up. What do you think?"
Although there is no cost to wild things, they are not easy to get, and even if anyone says how cheap they are, the key is that they can't be bought at all. Therefore, Liu Yujin's price is ridiculously high in the eyes of the Xie family, and they are afraid that they will turn their faces and leave. Who knows! It's not just the eldest sister who has no bargaining at all, but she has to pick three hares and two pheasants. The other people who were originally watching the excitement also squatted down and followed, because the price was really cheap for these city people who rarely saw wild things all year round.
There weren't many living wild things, and the eldest sister in front bought five of them at once, and picked the rest behind, Liu Yujin originally thought that he would sell it to people for a cheap dollar, but there was no chance to reduce the price at all. By the time a few cadres in the factory heard that there were people selling wild things in the market and ran out to take a look, the hares and pheasants were only a few hairs that had fallen on the ground.
"Hey, Xiao Liu! I heard that you brought wild goods to sell today, where are you?"
The families of these cadres also often buy or book live animals or salted goods or eggs and salted duck eggs from Liu Yujin's house, and they are basically familiar with Liu Yujin; as long as people say that it is Xiao Liu, who sells geese and ducks every day, they will immediately know who it is and where they are setting up their stalls.
These people are the objects of Liu Yujin's sale of wild things, and Liu Yujin, who was busy measuring chestnuts, was excited when he heard this question.
"Oh! Director Zhao, Secretary Lu, and Secretary Ge, why did you come here so early? You worked overtime again yesterday? Those wild things were sent by my relatives, and there were few of them, and they were sold out in a while. If you really want it, I will ask my relatives to go to the mountains to get some and send them over, and try to deliver them before the year, so as not to delay your New Year's reception!"
Secretary Ge was transferred from the army, his hometown is Sichuan, and spicy rabbit meat is his favorite. He has a salary of two or three hundred a month, and he is willing to spend some money to buy a few rabbits during the Chinese New Year. As soon as Liu Yujin said that he could still send it, he couldn't wait to say: "I have a hundred yuan here, and you ask your relatives to help me get ten live hares." If there is any leftover of this 100 yuan, I will get some other mountain goods. It would be better if you could get deer or roe deer and robes, you can send as many as you want, and I have a few old comrades-in-arms, all good for this!"
Director Zhao, Secretary Lu, and a few people who Liu Yujin didn't know also chimed in: "Xiao Liu, I'll also have a hundred yuan, you can just watch it and make it up." However, it must be wild goods, and domestic ones can't be added to it!"
"If we can get wild boars, we can kill them all!"
Liu Yujin's eyes are a little too busy, the people he knows are better, and the people he doesn't know are afraid that he will miss the memory and offend people when the time comes. But he couldn't read, and it was impossible for him to take notes, so he was sweating profusely after a while.
He scratched his head and said to the most familiar Director Zhao: "Director Zhao, I can't remember so many of you clearly. Can you write down your names, and you'll have to get the wild stuff ready anyway. My relatives still have a lot of chestnuts and walnuts, do you want a little at home, and it's also very good to make chestnut roast chicken to entertain people! Walnuts are also good for children to make snacks, and they are much cheaper than the fresh ones sold in the snack bar. ”
Secretary Ge often ate mountain goods when he was a child, and he remembered the game that had not been stained for a long time, so he rushed to say without waiting for Director Zhao to speak: "As long as it is something in the mountains, you can bring it, they don't want it, and a few of my old comrades-in-arms and I can help you eliminate it!"
Director Zhao nodded closely: "Yes, yes, we all want! Hey, I said Lao Ge! Don't rob us of this, your comrades-in-arms are not sure if they want it! You are here to help them get a package ticket, if they don't want it, I will see how you will clean it up then!"
Eight people, each with different accents, but they all speak Mandarin, Liu Yujin can understand it, and the men of the Xie family who are watching Liu Yujin sell things on the side can also understand it, but they are a little dumbfounded.
This is not seen yet! It has already been sold for eight or nine hundred yuan! This trip down the mountain is really crazy, thinking that the tea leaves are busy all year round, carefully served, picked, and made, and a pound of first-class tea is only a dozen yuan. And these white hares and pheasants, each of which can be sold for several yuan, instantly subverted their long-standing labor values.
However, they are still very excited in their hearts, the deer in the mountains are very scarce, but there are many rabbits and pheasants, and wild boars, robes, and roe deer can often be encountered. As long as you dig a few more traps and traps around the waterhole where they often drink water, you will always get one or two ends during this time of year. The nearly 1,000 yuan booked is basically able to eat into your mouth, and you can't fly!
Although they were still standing here, listening to and watching Liu Yujin talking happily with others, their hearts had already flown to their homes, thinking about how they could get more wild things and not get killed.
Before the cadres in the factory left, Liu Yujin filled three jars of walnuts and four jars of chestnuts in a shallow porcelain jar and brought them back. These cadres did not shirk and happily took away the waste newspapers. After walking a long way, he turned around and shouted: "Xiao Liu! You ask your relatives to come as early as possible! Don't rush to the root of the year." ”
"Okay! I'm sure I'll send them over as soon as possible!"
Today's harvest is so big, and there are still walnuts and chestnuts left, Liu Yujin doesn't plan to sell them, so he took the Xie family man to the department store with the remaining walnuts and chestnuts. He wanted to give these points to the salesman and the director he knew in the mall, and the director helped him get a big tin can of malt milk essence for him to drink, which was also a personal favor.