Chapter 1065

Li Long collected over two hundred kilograms of Fritillaria from Mo Linsheng, with dry ones accounting for the majority and fresh ones for one-third.

Li Long paid Mo Linsheng nearly eight thousand yuan, and Mo Linsheng calculated for himself that he had earned one thousand five hundred yuan.

It was much faster than earning money by robbing Fritillaria!

Mainly, two people came to sell him nearly one hundred kilograms of eighty-percent-dry Fritillaria yesterday afternoon, which was the bulk. Those two people didn't return to the mountains after selling the Fritillaria and went straight north.

"Actually, at the time, I was guarding against them robbing me. After all, the money I gave out wasn't small. But these two people didn't have any intention of robbing me at all. They seemed to treat me as your agent, took the money, and left. I don't know what happened in the mountains."

Mo Linsheng slowed down his eating speed at this time. While eating, he said to Li Long: "I think, there might still be something going on in the mountains."

Li Long unloaded the things from the car into the small wooden cabin, and then put the Fritillaria exchanged by Mo Linsheng onto the car, only then saying to him:

"Then are you interested in doing it this way? Anyway, I have the materials here, and I can't go into the mountains every day. You just help me exchange things, or just do as you did these two days. You exchange them, and then I'll collect them from you."

Mo Linsheng was a bit tempted. This actually had no risk, but it was quite profitable.

But in the end, he shook his head and said:

"No, no, no, I think I still have to be in the mountains. I am relatively free and at ease in the mountains. Here, I can't stretch myself. I don't like being trapped in one place."

Alright, everyone has their own aspirations, and Li Long couldn't force him.

Mo Linsheng didn't rush to leave; he needed to relax properly, so he ate lunch here at Li Long's place.

After eating the steamed buns, Mo Linsheng could help Li Long with some work. At this time, someone had already discovered the jeep at the wooden cabin and knew Li Long had come, so they immediately came over to exchange money and goods.

They were also a bit surprised to see Mo Linsheng helping Li Long on the side.

No one asked, and no one explained, but some people had already concluded that Mo Linsheng must be Li Long's agent.

They thought, later when Li Long really wasn't here, should they be able to sell things to this person?

Of course, they didn't know Li Long was leaving, and Mo Linsheng didn't plan to stay here either.

Perhaps because he hadn't come for two days, from morning to afternoon, the exchange of Fritillaria here at Li Long's place hadn't stopped.

Adding the nearly two hundred kilograms of Fritillaria from Mo Linsheng earlier, Li Long had gotten nearly five hundred kilograms of Fritillaria in this half day!

Fortunately, most of them were dry goods, and adding that Mingming and Haohao weren't here, so by squeezing hard, these Fritillaria were loaded.

It was the first time Li Long felt that the jeep wasn't enough.

He thought about whether to go straight to Wucheng after the Fritillaria season ended to see if he could bring a Dafa minibus over.

Actually, it was possible to get a truck by pulling strings, but Li Long didn't look down on it.

After helping Li Long load the Fritillaria, Mo Linsheng returned to the forest with more than half a bag of cooked food.

Looking at this dashing back, Li Long felt it was also quite good. This person really wasn't lacking money, and it was also quite good to be able to look for the "freedom" he wanted while not lacking money.

Of course, this freedom seemed to have a bit of a crooked meaning. Li Long guessed whether this person still felt that fishing was more interesting.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have given up the job of collecting Fritillaria for him at this wooden cabin, right?

Driving the jeep, walking back cautiously, Li Long didn't dare to drive fast at this time. Otherwise, he was worried about shaking into a ditch.

The speed was discounted, and when he returned to the county, the sun was already about to set.

The amount of Fritillaria harvested today still gave Gu Bo Yuan and the others a shock. Quite a lot of Fritillaria had been collected in the county during this period, and there was actually more in the mountains than in the county.

Was this a Fritillaria explosion season?

When eating dinner at night, Gu Bo Yuan was actually a bit worried.

"With so much Fritillaria this year, I'm worried that next year might be a lean year. Maybe Fritillaria will be in the off-season and it won't be easy to collect."

"There's no way around that either," Li Long didn't think that much. "If we don't collect Fritillaria, we'll collect other things. I see that quite a lot of people are selling deer antlers today too."

"Yes, over one hundred kilograms were collected today, with more old ones. It might be that some people entered the inner mountains, found ditches that no one had entered before, and discovered old things," Gu Bo Yuan guessed.

Because most of them were sold by second-hand dealers, they didn't know where the deer antlers were picked up. Gu Bo Yuan didn't ask, but he didn't care much either.

"Well, in our Nanshan, there are many varieties of medicinal herbs, not just Fritillaria. Now we collect more Fritillaria because it's more valuable. Actually, others, such as Astragalus, Codonopsis, and Arctium, are also fine, and Old Jia also collects them, but the profit isn't as much as Fritillaria."

Li Long entered the mountains for two consecutive days. When he entered the mountains on the third day, the Fritillaria collected was a bit less, with over three hundred kilograms collected in one day, most of which were sixty or seventy percent dry goods, needing secondary drying.

In the middle, he stopped for a day; Li Xiangqian called him.

This time there was a matter asking him for help.

Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative, and Li Xiangqian told him the specific matter in the office.

"The manager of the county medicinal herb company is my former classmate. They still have over two hundred kilograms of Fritillaria collection tasks unfinished this year, and they want to borrow some from you." Li Xiangqian didn't need to be polite when talking to Li Long.

"Then what price can he offer?" Li Long asked.

Although Li Xiangqian came to ask about this matter, he didn't plan to do a loss-making business, and he believed that for the medicinal herb company to complete the task, it was unlikely to let him do a loss-making business.

"For premium grade one, they can offer up to one hundred and ten yuan per kilogram," Li Xiangqian obviously had already asked clearly about the matter and said to Li Long, "This should be higher than your cost price, right? He said, if this price is acceptable, then please help.

In addition, they have collected quite a lot of licorice this year. If you want it, they can transfer some to you at the acquisition price, maybe a few tons."

"A few tons? So much? What is the price of licorice?" Li Long was a bit surprised.

His purchasing station also collected licorice, but collected relatively little. Actually, Li Long knew that Maxian was a big licorice county, but why it collected so little, he didn't know either.

"Two mao per kilogram for general goods," Li Xiangqian reported the price given by the medicinal herb company.

"In that case, it can make up for a little bit." The licorice quotation given to Li Long by Jia Tianlong was three mao five per kilogram, and the price wasn't low. This price difference was one mao five, but if it was really calculated by the ton, one ton would only earn one hundred and fifty yuan. Calculated by the price of Fritillaria, it was the price difference of seven or eight kilograms.

It would take dozens of tons of licorice to make up for it.

Forget it, just treat it as a favor to Director Li.

"Fine, it's acceptable. Let him prepare three tons of licorice for me, and I'll prepare two hundred kilograms of Fritillaria for him, just according to his price.

However, Director, I have to tell you the truth. You have accepted this favor, and you must be clear about its value. For these two hundred kilograms of Fritillaria, I don't lose money, but I lose four thousand yuan in profit.

For three tons of licorice, I can only earn less than five hundred yuan here, which can't make up for it. He has to return a big favor to you later; otherwise, this matter can't be done."

"So much?" Li Xiangqian was a bit surprised. "In that case..."

He indeed had something to ask his classmate to do. To talk about this favor, it was about right.

"Then fine, I have noted this favor of yours, and I'll return it to you later," Li Xiangqian felt that this matter still had to be done. "It's not forced, right?"

"It's not forced. Director, the favor I owe you is big, where do you need to return it? Every year for this big broom, you have withstood all pressure to hand it over to me, and I haven't been very grateful here," Li Long said the truth. "So don't say this, I can't afford it.

My meaning is that you just need to know the value of this favor."

"Well, I know. Then I'll call him now."

"Good, we'll just hand over."

Two hundred kilograms of Fritillaria for Li Long now was really a piece of cake. He received these from the mountains every day converted into pure dry goods, so he didn't care.

After handling this matter of the medicinal herb company, Li Long basically didn't have much contact with the other party. This manager was a newcomer, not the same person as when he sold Cynomorium before, so he didn't have much contact.

The other party wanted to communicate well with Li Long, but Li Long had big things here, so he declined.