The two were full of wine and food, and when they went downstairs to settle the bill, Ji Fulong was very hospitable and rushed to pay, but Yao Weimin still insisted on giving the money, and specially bought ten catties of loose wine from the restaurant, filled a large jar, and let Ji Fulong carry it in his hand.

"Weimin, you see how embarrassed it is, I came to our northeast and let you spend money to entertain you, haha......" Ji Fulong was satisfied, carrying a large jar of wine, with a grateful smile on his face.

"We're good buddies because of our relatives, isn't this all a trivial matter!" Yao Weimin responded, and took Ji Fulong out of the restaurant, "Brother Da Long, I checked, the bus from the city to your town seems to have only one shift a day, I see, you will stay in our guest house at night, anyway, it is convenient to have two beds, let's talk well at night, and take the bus back to the village tomorrow morning, what do you think?" ”

"There's only one bus a day? I'm still thinking that we can get in the car today, so ......" Ji Fulong looked a little hesitant when he heard this, and he couldn't go on halfway through his words.

"Brother Da Long, you came to the city to look for me last afternoon, it can't be that you didn't take the bus, right?" Yao Weimin glanced at him in surprise, "Why don't you know the bus timetable for me yet, haha......"

"Weimin, I won't tell you, in the words of your Sijiu City, I came to find you, and I came with my legs." Ji Fulong scratched his head embarrassedly with his other hand, "Isn't this to save money, besides, people like us who often go into the mountains to dig ginseng, we don't feel tired at all when we walk, and we have long been used to it." ”

"......" Yao Weimin felt even more strange, I heard Lu Dongqing say that every time Ji Fulong went into the city to sell ginseng, he should make some money, so that he wouldn't even be reluctant to sit in a few cents of a bus, right?

"Brother Da Long, let's go, go back to the guest house first." He didn't ask much, and led Ji Fulong into the guest house.

After waiting for the room to sit down, Ji Fulong took out a dry cigarette and asked with a smile: "Weimin, come to two mouthfuls of this?" It's a lot harder, and it's much more energetic than your cigarette! ”

"I really can't enjoy this blessing, you can smoke it, it's not in the way." Yao Weimin waved his hand and made tea for Ji Fulong, and the two chatted again.

Yao Weimin figured out the reason why Ji Fulong was reluctant to spend money on the bus, his mother was sick in bed all the year round, and the reason why he followed him into the mountains to dig ginseng was also to raise money for his mother's treatment.

At the same time, Yao Weimin also knew the approximate selling price of local wild ginseng, from Sanhuazi to Dengtaizi, the prices of the four years of ginseng ranged from five, eight, 20 and 30 yuan, respectively, in addition to the year, it also depends on the freshness and completeness.

When it comes to four-grade leaves, you can sell fifty of them, five-grade leaves are at least eighty yuan, and six-grade leaves can't be bought at all without one hundred and five.

This is still the local selling price, and if it is carried to a big city, the price will have to be doubled.

But the people in the village go to sell it themselves, on the one hand, they don't even have a place to settle down in the big city, and they have to spend their own money to find a place to live, and then one more important, they can't find a way, although the fresh wild ginseng can be made into ginseng buns can also be put for a month or two, but from the mountains, and then travel a long way to the big city, the time has at least half a month has passed, if it can't be sold for a long time, it will affect the quality, even if you bring it back, and then want to sell it to the relevant departments, the price will not go up.

Listening to Ji Fulong's description, Yao Weimin thought of his own space, which can be kept fresh, even if it does not need to be processed technically, it can always maintain the freshness of ginseng, which will bring him great convenience.

"Weimin, what I told you is the price on our side, if outsiders secretly come to buy it, the price will definitely have to rise by fifty or sixty percent on this basis, but if you know that person can take all the things in my house, for the sake of your face, I will ask him a little less, do you think it's okay?"

Ji Fulong smoked the cigarette pouch pot and said seriously.

"No, Brother Dalong, you can sell it however you want, the price is according to your own, and I think it's convenient, if it's convenient for you, I can tell that person and let him give you a money-making errand."

Yao Weimin waved his hand, and at the end, he smiled at Ji Fulong.

"Really? That's great! Ji Fulong's expression was excited, and he hurriedly asked, "What errand?" In addition to daring to go into the mountains to dig ginseng, that is, a crop handle, I can't write and calculate! ”

"You don't need to write and calculate, just spend money to buy ginseng!" Yao Weimin himself lit a cigarette, "That's the case, aren't you a local, you come forward to quietly buy it locally, and then let that person pay you every month according to the same level as the master in the city, so that the two of you will not suffer a loss, he gets the local selling price, and you have an extra income every month!" ”

Yao Weimin said with serious analysis.

Ji Fulong's eyes lit up, this was like pie in the sky for him, and he also had a fixed income every month, although it was a certain risk to buy Yeshan to participate in the conference in private, but in order to make money, even the old forest dared to drill into the people, that little risk was nothing.

In this era, the management of the northeast is a little backward, especially like Ji Fulong, who is close to the village at the foot of the mountain, the people in the village go into the mountain to dig ginseng, and then sell it for money, people have long been accustomed to it, as long as it is not because of digging ginseng and vicious fights and brawls, they are generally safe.

"Wei Min, then my brother will ask you for this!" Ji Fulong knocked the tobacco bag pot on the soles of his feet, and after pouring out the ashes, he was excited to fill it with dry tobacco leaves, "You can rest assured about this, if you want to distinguish the quality of wild ginseng, don't brag about it, I can guess the soil inside the ginseng bun when I smell it!" ”

"Haha...... What you want is your ability! Yao Weimin laughed, and then added: "You are such a big brother, I will go to your house tomorrow, this matter will be kept secret for the time being, after all, I just went to see what the fresh ginseng looks like in person, how to cooperate, or wait for that person to come and talk to you, I just help you pull the thread, our relatives are here, I heard that my aunt has been bedridden for many years, I actually want to help you!" ”

"Weimin, I don't know how to thank you!" Ji Fulong's face was full of emotion, and he said after groaning slightly: "In this way, no matter whether I can do this errand or not, you will go back with me tomorrow, and I will give you a horseshoe, take it back to make wine and drink, but it will be energetic!" ”

"Then where is it, it's not grown in your field, it's all valuable things dug in the old forest, I have to give money, don't worry, Brother Long, I still have dozens of dollars!"

Yao Weimin waved his hand and refused, after learning about Ji Fulong's family situation, he couldn't bear to ask for nothing for nothing.

This is different from buying bananas and pineapples in the south, which all grow in the ground, and ginseng diggers like Ji Fulong are all drilled into the old forest in exchange for their lives, and the money that should be given must be given.

Of course, like the kind of situation of fooling outsiders and deliberately raising the price, Yao Weimin didn't want to be wronged, so he decided to buy it locally in the name of Ji Fulong, and then arrange for Hua Li to receive it, and finally transfer it to himself.

In this way, not only does it avoid a lot of troubles, but it also ensures the quality and freshness of wild ginseng.

In the evening, Yao Weimin went outside to buy some cooked food and steamed buns, and the two drank some wine in the guest house, and chatted until more than eleven o'clock, and then went to bed.

The next day, Yao Weimin took Ji Fulong to the bus station next to him to buy a ticket, took a morning car, and walked from the town for more than two hours, and finally arrived at Ji Fulong's village.

As soon as he entered the house, a little boy about seven or eight years old ran out, his face full of excitement.

"Wei Min, this is my child, called Da Meng, eight years old this year, just in the first grade, hehe...... My mother is bedridden all the year round, and she got married a little late. After Ji Fulong finished explaining, he glared at the child again, "Da Meng, how do you usually teach you?" Hurry up and call uncle, this is our family's relative in the city, it's your Uncle Yao! ”

"Hello Uncle Yao!" Da Meng wiped the snot that was frozen out, hid behind Ji Fulong with timid eyes, and shouted at Yao Weimin.

"Come, Dameng, uncle bought you something delicious!" Yao Weimin took out a bag of rubber candy from his satchel and handed it to Da Meng with a smile.

Da Meng was not timid for a moment, and after taking it in surprise, he rushed out of the house with it.

"Come back! What are you doing with all that? Grab a handful for your grandma before you go out and show off! Ji Fulong shouted.

Da Meng shrank his neck, obediently turned around and entered the courtyard, and ran towards the house.

"Bear child, you know how to eat!" When Ji Fulong passed by him, Ji Fulong raised his foot and wanted to kick, but in the end he put it down and was not willing to kick it.

After entering the house, Ji Fulong introduced the family to Yao Weimin again, his father broke his leg when he entered the mountain, and greeted Yao Weimin with a self-made cane, and his mother was lying on the bed, her eyes were straight, and she barely reacted to talking to her.

Ji Fulong's daughter-in-law is an authentic northern woman, with a flower cloth hand towel like a pillow towel wrapped around her head, and she was nervous when she saw Yao Weimin, so she quickly said hello and bowed her head and went out.

"Wei Min, this situation in my family makes you laugh, the old man is sick, the daughter-in-law is stupid, the son is naughty, the suffering in this world, buddy can be regarded as all!" Ji Fulong shook his head with self-deprecation and smiled.

"You can't say that, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, at least your family is still filial piety to father and son, and the family is harmonious, which is already stronger than most families!" Yao Weimin remembered the mess in his house and comforted him seriously.

"Okay, don't stand, let's sit in another room, tonight let you taste our pork stewed vermicelli in the Northeast, and then a red stewed roe deer meat, stewed carp, as the saying goes, stick to beat roe deer scoop fish, there are not many others in the Northeast, this game is enough! Hahaha......" Ji Fulong's mood quickly recovered, and he took Yao Weimin to another room.

After the tea was brewed, he motioned for Yao Weimin to sit and wait for a while, then turned around and opened the curtain and went out.

Yao Weimin took out all the gifts he bought in his bag in a timely manner, ate and drank a lot, walked out of the house and handed them to Ji Fulong's father, making the old man's face full of grateful smiles and keep saying kind words.

Not long after, Ji Fulong came back with a bundle of things wrapped in animal skins, and motioned for Yao Weimin to follow him into the inner room.

Crash!

Ji Fulong spread out the animal skin, inside were ginseng buns tied with red thread, and some of the birch bark on the outside was dry, faintly falling out of some yellow moss and other plant debris.

"Weimin, come on, show you the treasure that really grows in our Changbai Mountain!" With a touch of piety in his eyes at the moment, Ji Fulong picked a ginseng bun that looked quite fresh, slowly untied the red line, and after taking it off in a circle, he carefully spread it out and pushed it to Yao Weimin.

"This is a four-grade leaf that I dug up in the mountains recently, and lo and behold, the leaves are only a little curled, and the soil has not yet dried out!"

Ji Fulong had a proud look on his face, and said with emotion: "The life gestation time of this ginseng is exactly the same as that of us humans, and it is also 270 days, otherwise how would it be called ginseng, hey, it's a pity that people's lives are not as expensive as their lives!" ”

Yao Weimin smiled, at this moment, his mind was on the four-grade leaf, and he carefully compared them one by one according to the identification method that Ji Fulong said yesterday, and found that sure enough, almost all the characteristics could be dealt with.

"Brother Da Long, have you been exposed to a lot of ginseng from the six-pinye leaves?" Yao Weimin asked curiously.

"Less, that kind of wild ginseng is already considered the best wild ginseng, but as long as you can afford the price, you can also receive it." Ji Fulong said with a smile.

After thinking about it, he added: "But Weimin, I'll tell you, if you want to buy ginseng in the future, you will come to my brother, I will go to see the so-called century-old ginseng sold in your Sijiu City, according to our standard rating here, at most it will be the grade of Sipinye, which is similar to me to show you this!" ”

"Oh?" Yao Weimin's heart moved, and he couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

"Don't believe it, I can lie to you, it's just that people package it well, and put it in a high-end glass cabinet, then the price will go up, and the price will dare to be marked to 500 yuan, it can be seen that people in your city are really not short of money!" Ji Fulong shook his head slightly with disdain.

Yao Weimin pondered in his heart, according to Ji Fulong's statement, buying for fifty yuan and selling for five hundred, the profit in the middle is simply too big, as long as it is operated properly, this way of making money can still be done.

The dinner was very rich, Ji Fulong's daughter-in-law didn't look at people a little wooden, but the stir-fry skills were okay, and the taste was good.

The cold wind was howling in the yard, Yao Weimin followed the customs, sat cross-legged on the kang, drank wine and ate vegetables, and the wood was burning under the kang, and he was a little sweaty from the heat.

At night he was placed to sleep in a separate room, listening to the wind outside and the faint roar of the beast, and gradually fell asleep.

The next day, Yao Weimin didn't stay any longer, and after saying goodbye to Ji Fulong's family, he followed Ji Fulong who came out to see him alone: "I still have work to do in the city, and I may not have time to come to you recently, you go and talk to other people who have ginseng in your hands in the next few days, don't let them sell to others, and when the person I contacted arrives, you will start to buy, no problem, right?" ”

"Don't worry, Weimin, this matter is on me, you are like this, the transportation from our village to the city is very inconvenient, when the person you said arrives, you can call the number in the town, his family is from our village, basically he will come back every day, when the time comes, let him bring a message, I will go to the city to see you!"

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Ji Fulong wrote a phone number in his son's pencil, tore it out of his homework book, and handed it to Yao Weimin.

"Cheng, then let's contact like this from now on, remember, try not to tell others about this matter, so as not to make people talk too much and affect the matter of receiving ginseng." Yao Weimin admonished again.

"Well, I have a spectrum in my heart, and no one will tell me!" Ji Fulong nodded seriously, and immediately watched Yao Weimin gradually walk away.

After leaving Ji Fulong's village, Yao Weimin didn't take out his bicycle, there were almost no bicycles in the village here, he didn't want to be too ostentatious, and tried to keep a low profile.

I drove all the way to the town, got into the bus, and returned to the city in the evening.

Yao Weimin looked at the time and found that the inconvenience of transportation really affected the efficiency, and the post office had already left work, so he could only wait for tomorrow morning to send a telegram to Huali.

Recently, Hua Li's injury has recovered well, which may have something to do with drinking Lingquan water, and at present, except for his arm, he is almost normal in other aspects.

Yao Weimin decided to let him set off with San'er and Lao Hei immediately, and rushed here to meet him.

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, after Yao Weimin sent a telegram, he went to the local brother unit, and made regular negotiations on the special products and materials produced in Changbai Mountain.

In the next few days, Yao Weimin felt the hospitality of the Northeast people, and almost every night, people from the local purchasing station came to him for a drink, and in the chat with these people, he had an intuitive understanding of the distribution of materials in the Northeast.

In addition to a variety of mountain goods, the Northeast forest also has rich resources, the timber produced is shipped to all parts of the country, in terms of price, if the conditions are ripe, there will be a lot of room for operation.

Yao Weimin decided to wait until he returned to Sijiu City, first open up the links there, and then consider getting involved in the timber market.

In the evening of that day, Hua Li and the three arrived on time and met Yao Weimin in the guest house.

"Second brother!" Hua Li was excited with a touch of anticipation, one hand was fixed with a wooden board, hung around his neck, and the other hand was used to take a cigarette for Yao Weimin from the cigarette case that San'er was pinching.

"Let's stop smoking, let's go, and I'll take you to dinner." Yao Weimin waved his hand, motioned for a few people to put down their luggage, and left the guest house.

Yao Weimin and the three of them did not go to the restaurant they had eaten last time, but walked a little further and found a new restaurant.

"I'm looking for you because I need your cooperation with me." Yao Weimin looked at the three of them with a smile and took the lead in holding the wine glass.

Seeing this, Hua Li hurriedly picked up the wine glass and said seriously: "Second brother, but please command, never give up!" After speaking, he put the wine glass to his mouth with one hand, and drank it with a tilt of his neck, and a resolute look appeared on his face at this time.

San'er and Lao Hei next to him didn't dare to slack off, and they all imitated Hua Li, and after drinking, their faces were flat, as if they were about to go to the battlefield to fight bayonets.

Yao Weimin couldn't help but shake his head and laugh when he saw this, he could feel Hua Li's mood, he had been holding back in the countryside for so many days, and he was eager to find something to do to prove his worth.

"Okay, let me relax, not let you go to the stubble!" Yao Weimin also drank the wine in the cup and restrained his smile, "Hua Li, your future work is to take San'er and Lao Hei and stay here for a long time, is there a problem?" ”

"No problem!" Hua Li responded without hesitation, "Second brother, you just let me go to Lao Maozi's side for a long time now, as long as I can get by, I have no problem!" ”

"There's no need now, I'll arrange for you to go later." Yao Weimin said seriously.

Hua Li was stunned, he was just making an analogy, but he didn't expect the second brother to really have this plan......

"Second brother, what exactly are you doing?"

"I know a ginseng digger here, and I'm currently preparing to buy wild ginseng from him and ship it back to Sijiu City!"

Yao Weimin said and looked at the faces of the three people, and saw that they were all a little stunned, so he continued: "This matter is just the opposite of the previous cooperation method of selling bananas, you will buy it here according to my telegram demand, and then send San'er or Lao Hei to send me to Sijiu City by train without a moment's delay, and I will be responsible for how to sell it next." ”

"Second brother, is the person you approached accurate? Do you want our brothers to go to the bottom again? Hua Li asked cautiously in a low voice.

It can be seen that after suffering that loss last time, his alertness is full again, and he has returned to the time when he was fighting for turf with the chain of the car.

"Don't worry, there's no problem in this regard, what you have to do is to cooperate with me, don't make a mess!" Yao Weimin's tone was aggravated, and he carefully explained how to connect with Ji Fulong, and what aspects to pay attention to in the middle.

Hua Li listened carefully and kept nodding his head, looking solemn, for fear of missing some important information.

"Second brother, leave this matter to me, don't worry, I promise that there will be no more things like last time!" After he heard it, he wrote it all down, but as soon as he finished speaking, he remembered the events of that night again, and his expression quickly darkened.

"Hey, it's a pity that the monkey is such a good brother, but in order to save me, he lost his life! I Hua Li will never forget this incident in my life, and it was me that the Zheng family brothers had to deal with at that time! Even if he thinks about it now, he can't let go, and feels that it was his own carelessness that caused the monkey.

"Remember this feeling, you must always be cautious and rational in doing things in the future, even if you have lost the scenery you used to have in Sijiu City, you still have two good brothers by your side, don't let them become the next monkey!" Yao Weimin reminded solemnly.

Hua Li nodded heavily and fell silent.

"Do a good job, and ...... later Maybe you'll see monkeys too. Yao Weimin didn't plan to tell Hua Li about the monkey, because the involvement was too big, and if there was a leak, it would be difficult for him to choose himself.

At this moment, in order to let Hua Li get out of that incident as soon as possible, he decided to tell him frankly.

"......" Hua Li raised his head when he heard this, and gradually his body trembled a little, with a thick shock and surprise on his face, as if he had just escaped death, and looked at Yao Weimin speechless for a long time.

"Brother Chain, did you hear it, the second brother said, Brother Monkey still has a chance to meet!" San'er blinked vigorously a few times and looked up at the sky, blinking not to convey information, but not to let the tears in his eyes flow out.

"Second brother! Is this true? Will you really see monkeys again? Lao Hei was especially excited, let tears flow from his eyes, clenched his fists and asked in disbelief.

At the beginning, he and San'er guarded Hua Li in a coma, and watched the monkey alone, causing Zheng Yuanchao to rush into the woods with a group of people, and he couldn't forget that scene until he died.

Yao Weimin looked at the three excited guys and didn't respond, just nodded slowly.

Poof!

Lao Hei took the lead in kneeling down at Yao Weimin, covering his face with his hands, his body twitching and crying silently.

Hua Li and San'er couldn't help it, and when they were extremely excited, they had to get up and kneel.

The monkey thing has made them difficult to let go, and they thought that they would have no chance to repay it in this life, but now Yao Weimin actually told them that the monkey can still be seen!

These three people are not fools, only the man in front of him can rescue the monkey, although he doesn't know how much effort he has taken and how much risk he has taken, but the second brother, he has done it!

"Old Black, what are you doing here? Hurry up! Yao Weimin scolded in a deep voice with a straight face, "There are two of you, sit down!" ”

"I warn you, this thing should not exist, if something goes wrong with you here, no one can save you, and if you want to see the monkey again, you can only wait for the monkey to die and go down there to find you!"

Yao Weimin said half-sarcastically and half-sternly.

"Understood! Second brother, look at our performance! Hua Li wiped her tears, "I'll meet with Ji Fulong tomorrow, and try to let the second brother bring more wild ginseng back before you return!" ”