Chapter 406: This bear can sell for a lot of money!

After Yushanjiang helped Li Long harness the carriage and move the male wild boar and the bear, he rode his horse away.

This person was just this straightforward. Li Long smiled, turned to extinguish the fire in the stove, cleaned the two rooms, took down the bear gall that had already dried a bit, put it into his satchel, locked the room door, and led the carriage toward the outside of the mountains.

Although No. 76 was pulling more than three hundred kilograms of things, its pace was very light and fast. It seemed to know that this mission was about to end, that it was about to get out of the cold mountains, and that it was about to return to that warm pen at home.

Being a horse is tiring; it's not peaceful even in the middle of winter.

Leaving the mountain pass, the sun had already risen, and he could feel a slight bit of warmth, but it wasn't enough to disperse the cold air that filled the sky. Li Long tightened his overcoat, and finally just jumped off the carriage and walked for a while following the carriage.

The smoke from the households in Qingshuihe Township rose slowly. Some people were picking up dung by the side of the road, and some were clearing garbage into the ditch by the side of the road—mainly charcoal ash from the stove.

Li Long walked for a while following the carriage. After passing Qingshuihe Township, he sat on the carriage again, leisurely driving toward the county seat.

By the time he reached the county seat, it was already noon. Li Long drove the carriage to the large courtyard.

The door was locked. Gu Xiaoxia should be eating lunch at Sister Yang's place. Li Long didn't intend to go over. Sister Yang was a meticulous person, and she usually didn't cook much, to avoid waste. If he went over to eat rashly, then Sister Yang and her daughter would probably go hungry.

He set up the carriage, hid the gun in the room, and went to the large meat canteen to order a bowl of oil-splashed meat noodles. After paying the money and grain coupons, the waiter soon served the noodles. Li Long was really hungry, poured the dish into the noodles, and couldn't wait to eat.

Just as Li Long was eating, Zhong Guo Qiang walked over, sat opposite him, and said with a smile:

"Comrade Li, I haven't seen you eating noodles at noon for some days. What have you been busy with recently?"

"Went into the mountains for a trip, to deliver some grain to friends in the mountains." Li Long said after swallowing the noodles in his mouth, "Thinking about whether I could hunt some game in the mountains."

"Did you hunt anything?" Zhong Guo Qiang asked with great interest, "If you hunted something, can you get me some game? Recently, we have to host guests here, and those things we usually eat don't have any special features."

"This..." Li Long was a bit troubled, thought about it, and said, "I can at most spare you a wild boar, the kind that hasn't been peeled. Manager Zhong, I hunted some things, but they were reserved by others, so I can't make the decision. I hunted two more wild boars, so I can spare you one."

"Wild boar... that's fine too." Zhong Guo Qiang thought about it and said, "It's better than nothing. How about this, when can you send it to me? I'll collect it at the price of a domestic pig, how about that?"

"Okay." Li Long smiled, "Definitely okay."

Wild boar meat isn't delicious if there are no seasonings or if one doesn't know how to cook it. If Li Long went to the market to set up a stall, the price he sold it for would definitely be lower than domestic pork.

After all, there aren't many people who know how to cook wild boar meat in this era, and people nowadays aren't as keen on game as they would be ten or twenty years later. In the absence of animal protection laws, wild animals aren't considered very rare things for people in Northern Xinjiang—at least wild rabbits are easy to get.

"I'll send it to you after I finish eating in a while." Li Long said, "Hunted this morning, opened the belly after hunting, and the belly and intestines were cleaned simply, but it hasn't been peeled yet."

"Not peeled is good, not peeled is good." Manager Zhong smiled, "At least it can prove that this is a wild boar, otherwise it wouldn't be easy to explain clearly."

After Zhong Guo Qiang left, Li Long finished eating in three or two bites, drank a few sips of soup, wiped his mouth, put on his hat, and left.

He didn't mention the bear. He planned that if Li Xiangqian's people didn't want it, he would come back and ask Zhong Guo Qiang. If Zhong Guo Qiang didn't want it either, then he would peel the skin, sell the bear gall, and take the meat and paws home to eat.

However, he guessed that if he told Zhong Guo Qiang that there were bear paws here, he would probably want them. As for whether the head chef of the large meat canteen would know how to cook bear paws, Li Long didn't know.

Returning to the large courtyard, seeing that the time was about right, Li Long prepared the carriage, led it out the door, and went toward the supply and marketing cooperative.

The bear and wild boars were all covered with plastic sheets. Li Long also wanted to be low-key and didn't intend to let others know that he had killed a bear.

This thing is easy to attract trouble.

Arriving at the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long nodded to the gatekeeper, and just as he was preparing to walk inside, the gatekeeper shouted and said:

"Looking for Section Chief Li, right? Section Chief Li is checking goods in the warehouse in the back."

Li Long said with a smile:

"Got it, thanks."

Entering the large courtyard, Li Long led the carriage to the warehouse, and saw Li Xiangqian talking to the warehouse keeper at the door of the warehouse.

Hearing the movement, Li Xiangqian turned his head and saw Li Long, and was a bit surprised. He froze for a moment before saying:

"You came back so fast? Did you hunt something?"

"Hmm, hunted something, Section Chief, shall we go to the front courtyard to see?"

"Go to the front courtyard for what? Just look here." Li Xiangqian didn't think that much, "Is there anything that can't be seen?"

"That is, Little Li, did you hunt any rare things?" Warehouse keeper Old Jin also knew Li Long; Li Long had bought things here.

"It's not considered a rare thing." Li Long helplessly uncovered the plastic sheet, "A bear."

"What? What did you hunt?" Li Xiangqian froze for a moment and said: "A bear? Just kidding, right? Hunting a bear at this time?"

"Hmm, lucky, encountered a hibernating brown bear." Li Long completely uncovered the plastic sheet, revealing the bear, wild boars, and roe deer on top.

"It really is a bear!" Old Jin also thought Li Long was joking at first, but after seeing that bear, he exclaimed, "This bear... it looks quite fierce!"

Li Xiangqian went up and touched the bear's fur, sighing:

"Damn, lived this long, first time touching bear fur..." He turned his head to look at Li Long and said: "Are you... planning to sell it?"

"If that friend of yours wants to collect it, then naturally I want to sell it."

"Okay, then I'll call him." Li Xiangqian turned his head to the warehouse keeper and said, "Old Jin, you go ahead and get busy, let's put this matter aside for now, this fellow... this fellow is really not ordinary!"

"Okay, I'm here anytime." Warehouse keeper Old Jin said, "Section Chief, just come over whenever you have time."

Saying this, he said to Li Long again:

"Little Li, amazing! You can even hunt a bear, next step is to hunt a tiger, right?"

A tiger?

Li Long hurriedly shook his head. He did know that there were tigers in the Tianshan Mountains in the past, Xinjiang tigers. It was just because their size wasn't as big as Northeast tigers, and their skin was good, so most of them were hunted, and later it was said they were extinct.

He had seen in a video in his previous life that it was said that in the late eighties, it was said that there were farmers in Tacheng who had seen them, and he didn't know if it was true or false.

After all, by the twenties of the twenty-first century, it was said that because the environment had become better, many animals that experts claimed were extinct had appeared again.

Covering the plastic sheet, Li Long followed Li Xiangqian to the office in the front, tied the carriage, and whispered to Li Xiangqian:

"Section Chief, there are two wild boars and one roe deer."

"Isn't it three wild boars?" Li Xiangqian looked at Li Long and said.

"One was promised to Manager Zhong of the large meat canteen, he said he wanted game to host guests."

"That's fine too." Li Xiangqian said, "Keep the big one."

"The big one isn't delicious." Li Long said.

"Don't worry about this, the big one looks good. I see that big wild boar, it's almost as big as the bear, and the teeth have grown out, it looks different." Li Xiangqian said with a smile.

Arriving at the office, Li Xiangqian dialed the phone and signaled Li Long to wait.

The phone was connected, and someone said hello on the other side. Li Xiangqian immediately said with a smile:

"Director Wu, it's me, Little Li from Ma County!"

Little Li, Li Long thought to himself, isn't this talking about me?

"Little Li, hello, hello, how is the matter going?"

"This time we did a big one!" Li Xiangqian said with a smile, "Director, you probably can't even imagine!"

"Big one? What big one? Deer or wolf?"

"No, no, it's a bear!"

"What? Bear? What bear? Brown bear?"

"Yes, it's a brown bear, hibernating, and our young fellow happened to encounter it, hunted it and pulled it back. How about it, Director, are you interested?"

"Is it whole? Is the bear gall there?" Li Long heard the voice on the other side.

Li Xiangqian hurriedly turned his head to look at Li Long.

"Yes, I took out the bear gall." Li Long hurriedly nodded, "Everything on the bear is there, except for the feces."

"Go to hell!" Li Xiangqian scolded with a smile, and then said to the receiver:

"Director Wu, the gall is there."

"Has it been dealt with?" Director Wu asked again, "Ask him if he knows how to deal with it?"

Li Xiangqian looked at Li Long again.

"Yes, dipped in boiling water, hung up to air-dry, but it's only been one day, it hasn't dried yet." Li Long hurriedly said.

"Director Wu, it's been dealt with, dipped in boiling water, hung up and hasn't air-dried yet..."

"Okay, he's an expert. I want this bear, how heavy is it?"

"Over one hundred and fifty kilograms, not a big bear." Li Long hurriedly said. Li Xiangqian repeated it again. Li Long felt it would be better for him to say it himself, but Li Xiangqian definitely wouldn't give him the receiver.

"It's indeed not a big bear, but it's not bad either. Since he's an expert, I'll also give a real price, bear plus gall, fifteen hundred, ask him if he sells?"

Li Xiangqian turned his head and asked Li Long:

"Director asks you if you sell for fifteen hundred? Bear plus gall."

Li Long just thought about it for a moment and said:

"Sell."

This gall isn't big, Li Long felt it was at most.

Then there's that skin. The skin was hit with several holes, ruined, so in Li Long's view, it wasn't worth fifteen hundred.

But this was just his own estimation. Since others offered fifteen hundred, there was a reason for it. He really had no use for this thing, so if he sold it, he sold it!

"Straightforward!" Li Xiangqian said, "Director, you heard it, sold. By the way, this trip also got roe deer and wild boars, and that wild boar is also quite big, the teeth are exposed, Director, do you still want it?"

"Yes, at the original price, you unload the things, I'll send a car to pull it today, you pay for it first, and when it's done, I'll have the driver bring it to you."

"Okay." Li Xiangqian responded with a smile, and after waiting for the opposite side to stop talking, he hung up the phone.

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Bear fifteen hundred, wild boars one big one small, Li Xiangqian calculated two hundred for the big one, one hundred and fifty for the small one, and two hundred for the roe deer, so that was two thousand and fifty.

Li Xiangqian called people to help Li Long unload the bear and wild boars into a warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Those people who helped were also seeing a real bear for the first time, exclaiming, each of them curiously touching it.

Li Long left a wild boar on the cart. If one really wanted to talk about it, selling this wild boar to Manager Zhong might not necessarily get more money than at Li Xiangqian's place, but Li Long didn't care much.

The relationship with Zhong Guo Qiang still needed to be maintained, and it wasn't much money anyway.

Ten minutes later, Li Xiangqian came over. He pulled Li Long to his office, and then took out two thick stacks of large unity notes from the drawer and handed them over:

"This is two thousand, wait a minute." He took out a small stack of large unity notes from the drawer, counted out five and handed them over:

"This is fifty, cleared."

"I won't take this fifty." Li Long hurriedly waved his hand, "Section Chief, without you, I wouldn't be able to get this money..."

"Go to hell!" Li Xiangqian stuffed the money into Li Long's hand, "Are you shivering me? You can hunt things, letting me show my face in front of the leaders is helping me. Although I don't hunt much, I also know that this hunt is not easy to hunt! That bear claw nail is faster than my finger, grabbing one can grab a person to death! This is money exchanged with your life, can I covet it? Hurry up and put it away, don't let others see it."

Li Long put the money into his satchel. He couldn't help but be a bit excited. This time he got two thousand, which was the largest amount of funds he had obtained at one time this year... one of them.

Li Long converted it in his mind, an eighteen-inch color TV.

It seems that if you want to make money fast, you still need big guys. For example, snow leopard skin, for example, bear, for example... lynx skin?

Of course, such opportunities are also rare.

Just think about it.

Leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long didn't go back immediately. This money wasn't safe in his hands, but he had to deal with the remaining wild boar first.

In the large meat canteen, Zhong Guo Qiang was still there. Li Long tied the carriage outside, shouted at the door, and Zhong Guo Qiang hurriedly called someone over, first looked at the wild boar, he was also half an expert, and said with a smile:

"This wild boar is not bad, not big, the meat quality should be okay. Let's go, let's weigh it first."

There was a scale in the backyard of the canteen. Li Long followed and weighed it. The wild boar weighed sixty-five kilograms.

"Let's calculate it as pork." Zhong Guo Qiang said with a smile, "The current market price is one point eight yuan per kilogram, with tickets..."

"This doesn't count as tickets, let's remove the skin." Li Long said.

"No, no," Zhong Guo Qiang waved his hand, "I'm already very grateful that you can spare me a wild boar, rest assured, I won't lose money, just calculate it as one point eight, don't remove the skin, as for the tickets, I won't give them to you."

Li Long sold this wild boar for one hundred and seventeen yuan.

Zhong Guo Qiang originally wanted to keep Li Long for dinner, but Li Long refused. He still had to deposit money—it was really inconvenient to keep so much money on him.

Two thousand yuan was deposited as a whole, but it was a current account. The deposit interest rate at this time was still 2.88, and if it was a five-year fixed term, it could reach eight points... very high.

Of course, six years later, a three-month fixed deposit could reach an interest rate of more than seven points, and five years reached an interest rate of more than ten points.

Gone too far.

Li Long put the deposit slip away, led the carriage, and walked toward the market with a relaxed body. He wanted to see what he needed to buy.

It was already afternoon, and there weren't many stalls in the market. Li Long didn't see Yang Xiulan either; she should have gone back.

Li Long saw an old lady selling eggs. The eggs were placed in a basket, wrapped with a small quilt, and an already broken frozen egg was placed outside, so he went over and asked:

"Auntie, how do you sell these eggs?"

"Five cents each." The old lady was a bit stiff from the cold, and it was hard to encounter someone willing to buy eggs, so she hurriedly said, "Not earning much money..."

"Okay, give them all to me." Li Long asked, "How many are left in your basket?"

"Twenty-four."

"I want them all." Li Long took money out of his pocket, counted out one yuan and two cents and handed it to the old lady.

The old lady's face bloomed with a smile. Today she came to sell eggs, and the people who came to buy them bought three or five. It was really rare to buy twenty-something at once.

Li Long put the eggs into his satchel, carefully placed them on the carriage to avoid breaking them, and led the carriage to continue walking forward.

There were already people selling wild rabbits at the stalls. Li Long didn't ask the price, but heard someone ask, and the stall owner replied "four yuan." It seemed it was about the same price as what he gave.

That rabbit was clearly caught with a snare, and there were four or five on the stall, looking like they couldn't be sold.

There were also fish stalls. It was already this point, and there weren't many people shopping at the stalls. There were still two selling fish, and Li Long also heard the price—one point two yuan per kilogram.

Compared with the old street in Shicheng, there were far fewer stalls here, scattered, and the flow of people was also small. Li Long estimated that the total number of people shopping in the market now didn't exceed twenty.

Li Long walked around and found nothing else worth buying, so he sat on the carriage and went toward the large courtyard.

When he returned to the large courtyard, he found that the door wasn't locked, but it was buckled from the inside, so he patted the door hard and shouted twice.

Gu Xiaoxia was wearing an apron and cooking dinner. After hearing the sound, she walked quickly over and opened the door with a smile. Seeing Li Long leading the carriage, she opened the door wide.

Li Long led the carriage in, and Gu Xiaoxia asked:

"Are all the things done?"

"Done. You came back quite early today."

"There's nothing big recently, everyone left early in the afternoon, so I followed and left." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "You put the horse away first, I'll go cook."

"I bought some eggs, let's stir-fry some eggs in a while."

"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia took Li Long's satchel, went to take the eggs and put them in the kitchen.

Li Long set up the carriage, led No. 76 into the backyard, put it away, and returned to the front courtyard.

The stove in the room was set up, quite warm. He changed his clothes, let out a long breath, and finally finished it.

The mountains, really not easy to stay in.

But money comes fast.

Sitting in the room roasting by the fire and reading a book, waiting for Gu Xiaoxia to cook the meal and then come over to call himself to eat, this feeling is quite cool.

Li Long lay half-relaxed on the bed, turning on the light and reading a book.

He could hear the sound of oil exploding when Gu Xiaoxia was stir-frying in the kitchen.

This is the breath of an ordinary happy life.

Just thinking about it, Gu Xiaoxia's voice came over:

"Li Long, dinner is ready, come over to eat!"

Li Long smiled, put down the book, left the room, and walked toward the kitchen.

Porridge, steamed buns, two dishes—stir-fried eggs, stir-fried pickles with meat.

In the winter of this era, Chinese cabbage, potatoes, and pickles are the main dishes, which is considered normal.

Smelling this fragrance, Li Long said with a smile:

"Not bad, this skill can be used to open a restaurant!"

"How can that be... I still learned for a few days following Sister Yang." Gu Xiaoxia was a bit embarrassed by Li Long's praise, setting the chopsticks and saying:

"Taste it, whether it's delicious or not, it's just like this."

Li Long sat down, and when he took the chopsticks, he thought, should he go back to the team a few days later, stay here enjoying the world of two, and find time to watch a movie, which should also be quite good? (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 407 =====