Chapter 101

Li Long still dragged the roe deer and two snow chickens with the plastic sheet to the black market.

This time, he wasn't lucky enough to pick a good spot in the middle, so he simply dragged the roe deer meat to the very edge of the morning market, spread out the plastic sheet, and exposed the roe deer meat and the two snow chickens. Also displayed together was the roe deer's head.

This location was relatively remote, and most people shopping at the morning market found what they wanted in the middle of the stalls and then left.

Li Long saw that this wouldn't work, so he stood up and shouted loudly:

"Selling wild game, fresh roe deer meat, and snow chickens that can boost virility, come and take a look!"

His shouting startled the stall owners of the two stalls next to him, but immediately they saw people hearing the shouting and walking over, and the stall owners also became happy—at least people were coming.

Another one was a bit worried, constantly looking around, fearing that Li Long's shouting would attract joint defense team members.

"Roe deer meat? Really or fake? We have roe deer in Northern Xinjiang too? Not very likely, right?"

"Who says not? Bragging, right?" People shopping at the stalls said while walking over to look.

"Not bragging, not bragging, we have roe deer in Northern Xinjiang too, called roe deer. Take a look at this head, this was hunted in the mountains yesterday, and these snow chickens are rare wild game, selling cheaply!"

Now, many people setting up stalls were selling their own local specialties, and not many people dared to shout, so Li Long's shout really attracted quite a few people. With his explanation, plus the roe deer head, some people really had the idea of buying.

"How are you selling this meat?"

"Two yuan per kilogram." Li Long held up two fingers, "Don't think it's expensive. The reason this roe deer has the word 'deer' is because it is a deer family, and it's the same as a deer. Eating the meat nourishes yin and boosts virility, and has great tonic effects. This thing is rare!"

"You're bragging here, a roe deer is just a roe deer, and you're dragging it in with a deer!" Someone obviously disagreed with Li Long's statement.

"I'm not bragging. A few days ago I hunted a male one, and when I took the horns to the purchasing station, Comrade Chen at the purchasing station told me that. The horns are purchased as deer antlers. Do you think what the people at the purchasing station say would be fake?" Li Long brought out Chen Hongjun from the purchasing station, and the other party immediately didn't say anything.

"Come, weigh me two jin!" Someone squeezed over, "Here's your money!"

"Alright!" Seeing someone wanting meat, Li Long smiled. Once business started, there was naturally no worry about the rest.

Watching people weighing three jin, five jin of meat, the middle-aged man who started arguing with Li Long couldn't help it either, "Come, come, come, weigh me five jin, I want ribs—"

When Li Long took the money, he heard him mutter in a low voice: "Pity it's a female..."

"Don't worry, everyone. I often go into the mountains, maybe one day I'll hunt a male roe deer. Feel free to come over and wander around often."

Once he said this, some people's eyes lit up. The person who had just weighed the meat immediately said in a low voice:

"Little comrade, if you hunt a male roe deer, leave the penis for me, how about it?"

Looking at this middle-aged man whose hair was already gray, Li Long understood and nodded, saying: "Okay, but you'll have to come early then. Otherwise, if others snatch it, it's impossible for me not to sell it, right?"

"Good, good, good." The middle-aged man paid the money and left satisfied.

Roe deer meat had the deer bonus, so it sold very quickly. However, those two snow chickens with big holes in their bodies, no matter what Li Long said, no one bought them—people in China knew a little about deer, but snow chickens were another matter.

"Looking at them, they aren't even as big as domestic chickens, and you dare to sell them for five yuan; are you afraid you've gone crazy for money?" Someone picked up a snow chicken, looked at it, and said with disdain, "And you shot such a big hole in it with a gun; it's not easy to clean..." In the end, the roe deer meat was sold out after dawn, but no one wanted the snow chickens.

"No one wants them, then I'll stew them for soup myself!" Li Long hardened his heart, rolled up the plastic sheet, took the scale, and returned to the big courtyard.

Seeing that it was almost time for work, Li Long tied the deer antlers and roe deer skin to the back seat of the bike and rode to the meat canteen. Currently, this was the only canteen in the county that could be brought out; he had to wait for the policy to be relaxed before those small restaurants would dare to open.

After drinking porridge and eating steamed buns with pickles for breakfast, Li Long was about to walk out when he saw Zhong Guo Qiang walk out from inside and say with a smile:

"Little Comrade Li, I heard you went to sell roe deer meat this morning?"

"Yes." Li Long didn't expect Zhong Guo Qiang's news to be so well-informed, "How did Manager Zhong know?"

"A regular customer who came here told me, and also criticized that we have too little wild game here. Little Comrade Li, if you have any wild game in the future, send some here too; the price is negotiable!"

"Alright!" Li Long said with a smile, "I'll send things here first when I hunt them later. But to be honest, it's just wild boar meat, roe deer meat, and the like, at most adding a snow chicken or something."

"That's fine too. But snow chickens must be whole, otherwise it's not easy to cook." Zhong Guo Qiang added a sentence, directly blocking Li Long's path to sell those two wild chickens here.

"That's fine, I'll come find you when I have goods." Li Long greeted him, walked out the door, rode his bicycle, and went to the purchasing station.

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Locking the bike, carrying the deer antlers and the roe deer skin into the purchasing station, Li Long saw Chen Hongjun talking about the price with a customer.

Li Long poked his head in and took a look. What the other party had placed on the counter were thick branches of—Codonopsis.

Seeing Li Long enter, Chen Hongjun nodded to him and then continued to talk about the price:

"... Old comrade, I won't hide it from you. After the New Year this year, the price of the things we purchase has indeed risen. For Codonopsis of your quality, it was only eight yuan per kilogram before the New Year; now I'll give you eleven—mainly because this Codonopsis of yours has been stored for two years. If it were picked last year, I could give you twelve yuan per kilogram."

Have the prices of things risen?

Li Long couldn't help but be happy. Once the price of this thing rises, the money he sells it for later will naturally be more. He was one step closer to being a ten-thousand-yuan household.

The old man selling Codonopsis hesitated for a moment and finally decided to sell the Codonopsis.

Chen Hongjun issued a ticket, weighed it, and paid twenty-seven yuan. After the old man left, he said to Li Long with a smile:

"Little Comrade Li, what good things have you brought this time?"

"Two large deer antlers, one roe deer skin."

Li Long placed the things on the counter and asked:

"Comrade Chen, has the purchase price risen?"

"It has risen, risen quite a bit." Chen Hongjun said with a smile, "This is good news for you."

"Then take a look at these deer antlers..." Li Long let him look at the deer antlers first, mainly because the roe deer skin had been skinned badly by himself, so he felt a bit guilty.

"These deer antlers are not bad." Chen Hongjun picked them up and looked at them, "The quality is very good; they look like they were shed new last year. Hmm, I'll give you a price of six yuan, how about it?"

"Doubled?" Li Long was somewhat surprised, "That's great."

"Haha, it's mainly because deer antlers of such good quality are rarely seen." Chen Hongjun put the two deer antlers on the platform scale and weighed them, "Eleven point one kilograms—this is a big red deer. Sixty-six yuan and six jiao, what a good omen!"

(End of chapter)