Chapter 481: Every day is an abnormal day

After eating, Li Long carried the roe deer to the spring eye, preparing to skin it. In this short while, it had already attracted many insects; he was worried that if he didn't do it now, it would get maggots.

Liu Shanmin sat not far away, watching Li Long skin the roe deer with ease. He suddenly asked:

"This roe deer doesn't feel as good as sheep."

"Game... hehe." Li Long shook his head. "Eat too much and it's just like that. They run a lot, so the muscle fibers are coarse. Outside, they have one meal and miss the next, often living in fear, eating all sorts of messy things, so the taste in the blood is heavy. This roe deer is still better; if you taste that smelly wild boar meat, you'll know; it's normal that it's hard to eat."

People at this time generally lacked meat; having something to eat was good enough, so there weren't that many requirements. In later generations, the scale of various poultry and livestock farming expanded, and wild animals were hunted more due to the shrinking living environment, their numbers constantly decreasing, and then they became good things in the eyes of some rich people.

Actually, if you don't use heavy spices, game doesn't taste good. Don't look at that old saying "a toad wants to eat swan meat"; in reality, swan meat fibers are too coarse, and the feeling in the mouth isn't good.

It's just because it's too rare, so there's a filter.

After saying this, Li Long reacted; it turned out Liu Shanmin had also eaten roe deer meat. It wasn't eaten here with him, so where would he have eaten it?

He didn't think much, skinned it, separated the meat, and followed the previous method: some meat was picked out to be braised, and some was made into air-dried meat. The offal was braised, preparing to send some to Little Bai Yang Gully in the afternoon.

Since he was counting on making big money there, he couldn't let them go hungry; anyway, he couldn't finish it all here.

After doing all this, Li Long sat and rested for a while, starting to organize those carrying poles.

There were two or three hundred carrying poles, piled into a large heap. Li Long was thinking whether he should tell Li Xiangqian when he went down the mountain to the supply and marketing cooperative next time, to get a truck to pull a load back. Otherwise, he would have to make several more trips.

But then he put this aside, waiting for more, and waiting for the next time he went down the mountain to talk about it.

Liu Shanmin was beside Li Long, occasionally coming up to help, but was stopped by Li Long. This wounded person wasn't someone to do work; it was better to stay honestly.

He suddenly spoke: "I think it's better for you to separate these carrying poles."

"Why?" Li Long stopped his hand and asked.

"This stuff is too easy to ignite. If you put them together, in case of a fire, it will all be burned away at once. After all, you leave occasionally."

Liu Shanmin didn't finish his words, but Li Long understood immediately.

There were many people in the mountains, a mix of good and bad, and people with malice toward him certainly existed. Not only those two people, but other people who took the initiative to find him to exchange things might not necessarily thank him, and might even curse him as a bloodsucker when exchanging things.

It was fine when he was there, but when he wasn't? If these carrying poles were really piled together and set on fire, it would be hard to save them.

Liu Shanmin's words counted as a reminder. If he left for a long time and someone really wanted to burn them, separating the carrying poles into stacks could also be ignited and burned. His words were just a reminder to himself.

In that case, he had to go down the mountain as soon as possible and find someone to pull this stuff away. It seemed that he didn't need to pull the carrying poles here later; after checking them at Little Bai Yang Gully, he could just pile them nearby. There were many people there, so at least he wouldn't worry about them being burned by outsiders. And with many people, supervising each other, everyone wanted face, so there wouldn't be any problems.

Pulling the carrying poles over at that time was really a bad move!

Li Long smiled and said to Liu Shanmin:

"You're right, I'll deal with these carrying poles in these two days."

Liu Shanmin smiled, didn't speak again, and then found a suitable place to sunbathe.

This life was really comfortable; he was a bit reluctant to leave.

Li Long divided the carrying poles into three piles and turned to look at the fritillaria drying.

When the sun was about to set, someone came over to deliver fritillaria again. This time it was to exchange for money, eleven kilograms of fritillaria, a bit dirty. Li Long gave thirty-two yuan, clearly stating that one yuan was deducted because of impurities, and the other party had no opinion.

As usual, he washed it, hung it out to dry, then gathered the previous fritillaria, put it into the small room, and cooked.

Li Long didn't waste the undercooked rice left at noon. The scorched rice was indeed black and couldn't be eaten. Liu Shanmin was a bit embarrassed, intending to soak the black scorched rice in water to eat himself.

"Forget it, don't eat that stuff, it's not worth it." Li Long waved his hand and directly threw the black scorched rice to the roe deer that was still tied up.

The roe deer wasn't picky, licking it there and slowly gnawing on it. Li Long beat a few eggs, cut some wild onions, and stir-fried the undercooked rice; this counted as the two people's dinner.

Because he didn't intend to pull the carrying poles back, Li Long thought about going directly to Little Bai Yang Gully to check the carrying poles after dinner and then coming back. Unexpectedly, while they were still eating, six or seven people suddenly poured out from the mountains in the distance.

Li Long didn't stop for a moment, turned and entered the house. When he came out, he was already carrying a gun in his hand.

These drifters gathered together; it went without saying that it was premeditated and planned. Li Long didn't believe they would form a group to send him warmth.

Liu Shanmin knew he couldn't help, but he didn't intend to stand by, standing up to put the bowl in the inner room to avoid knocking it over.

After putting the bowl away, Liu Shanmin went to pick up a stick and stood beside Li Long.

Li Long glanced at him, thinking that even if this person couldn't exert force at that time, at least this posture was made.

Fine, knows how to behave.

That group of people each carried a bag in their hands. Li Long glanced at them and could see that the most had twenty-five or twenty-six kilograms, and the least had ten or so kilograms.

Calculating it, the fritillaria these people brought alone was over a hundred kilograms.

What was this intended for? Forcing the palace?

When they arrived at a place less than ten meters from the wooden cabin, these people who were originally aggressive suddenly slowed down, pushing and shoving each other, not wanting to come forward at all.

Cowards!

Li Long really didn't look up to these people.

If you have the ability to gather a crowd, don't be a coward in front of the muzzle!

Subsequently, someone came out from the crowd and stopped at a place seven or eight meters from Li Long. As he walked, the others behind also slowly squeezed up, thinking they should intend to be this person's backing.

"Boss Li, we should have met. A few days ago, I sold fritillaria here, twelve kilograms, you gave me thirty-six yuan, you remember, right?" That person was thirty-two or thirty-three years old, his hair a bit long, his beard seemed to have been shaved with some tool, not very neat.

The accent sounded like a southern province, but it wasn't certain. The face looked quite kind, speaking with a smile, and being able to maintain a round face in these mountains was quite rare.

The eyes weren't big, but they flashed with brilliance at all times, obviously not easy to deal with, the kind that could play people to death.

"Don't remember." Li Long didn't give face. For one, he really didn't remember much, and for another, since this person gathered a crowd to come and negotiate with him, there was really no need to be polite.

"Also, Boss Li is a noble person who forgets things, very normal." The person didn't expect Li Long's words to be a bit choking, but then he found a step for himself, his smile a bit faint, and said:

"The situation is like this. Some of us went down the mountain and also inquired; the fritillaria purchase price down the mountain has increased a bit, I think Boss Li is also clear about this point. This fritillaria season has also arrived, we are all sensible people, this season's fritillaria is seven kilograms for one kilogram of dried.

So we feel that the price Boss Li gives is a bit low, so we thought about whether to raise the price, we have more income here, and we will also promote Boss Li more in the mountains. And Boss Li, you can also collect more fritillaria, and when you go out of the mountain, you can also sell it for a good price. What do you think?"

"I gave it. If you clean the fritillaria better, I will naturally raise the price." Li Long did not directly retort, but stated his principles, "The fritillaria you bring is full of mud and leaves, and some are even mixed with stones. If you want me to raise the price, you have to make it worth this high price, right?"

He pointed to the fritillaria that had just been washed clean and dried and said:

"You wouldn't think that you send the fritillaria over, and I can sell it for double the price immediately, right? I have to pick out the garbage, dry it, and then gather it together to sell. You earn the money you should earn, and I earn the money I should earn, no problem, right?"

"No problem, no problem." This person obviously didn't want to hard-stiff with Li Long, he hurriedly said:

"Our original intention was just to earn some hard-earned money. Actually, if it wasn't because it's just the fritillaria season now, we could also carry these fritillaria down the mountain to sell once."

"Then you go." Li Long wouldn't care if this was a soft nail or a hard nail. With the lesson of the Li Zhengting brothers, Li Long wasn't worried at all that they would do this and make him lose anything.

Actually, it wasn't just the Li Zhengting brothers who went down the mountain to sell fritillaria; others did too. But for Li Long, this was very normal. He couldn't monopolize the fritillaria in the mountains at all; earning more or less was normal. It was just that he didn't want to bow his head here; he felt that since he had already set the rules, the rules couldn't be easily overturned.

Saving people is kindness, and medicine and things can be given to people directly. But business is different; "Human feelings give a horse, business doesn't spare a needle" is this truth.

That person originally wanted to secretly threaten Li Long, but didn't expect Li Long to retort directly, leaving him stuck in the middle.

"Go out of the mountain, go out of the mountain, do you think we can't go out of the mountain?" Someone behind couldn't listen to Li Long's words and lost his temper, "Boss Deng, we won't sell here, the time is still early, we will carry the fritillaria out of the mountain directly, I don't believe the purchase station won't accept our fritillaria? Even if we sell it as second or third grade, it's better than being bloodsucked here."

Li Long smiled and didn't speak.

As a result, that person surnamed Deng was a bit panicked, a bit square. He really didn't intend to go out. Not to mention that going out of the mountain required running at least thirty kilometers to reach the county, wouldn't it be tiring to run thirty kilometers carrying so many things? One round trip is more than a day, how much more fritillaria could be dug?

The loss wasn't small.

"Fine, you go." Li Long didn't give him a chance and said: "Sell it wherever it's easy to sell."

Boss Deng hesitated, finally retreated into the crowd with his bag, and began to discuss.

Not long after, they started arguing there. Two people came out from the crowd, the bags they carried were about twenty kilograms, walked to Li Long, and one of them said:

"Boss Li, I still intend to sell it to you, calculated according to your price."

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"Me too." The other hurriedly said.

"Fine, wait for me to get the scale." Li Long carried his gun and turned to go into the house.

The small group collapsed. Boss Deng's face was very bad, but there was no way. He had this idea quite early; there were many drifters in the mountains. If he could gather these people to listen to him, it would be much easier for him to operate anything later.

According to his idea, negotiate well with Li Long, soft with hard, and with so many people, even if he raised it by five cents, he would succeed. Prestige would be established.

Didn't expect Li Long not to take this move at all, hard-stiffly scattering the drifters he had spent half a day gathering.

Li Long weighed for the two people, one twenty-four kilograms, one twenty-two kilograms. Both of these people wanted money for the most part and materials for a small part. Li Long also gave them each a piece of braised meat.

These two people were extremely happy, holding the meat and gnawing while quickly leaving here.

The remaining few people were stuck here, arguing for a while. When the sun was about to set, that Boss Deng took three people and detoured around the wooden cabin toward the back mountain. It looked like they intended to go down the mountain to sell, while two others walked toward Li Long.

They finally decided to sell the fritillaria to Li Long. Looking at the expression, there was a certain reason for those two pieces of braised meat. After all, when the pot lid was lifted, the meat smell was still very thick and tempting.

Li Long didn't treat one better than the other, giving each person a piece of meat, not big, but for drifters who ate dry food and swallowed wild vegetables every day, it was already supreme deliciousness.

The fritillaria of these two people was twenty-one kilograms and seventeen kilograms respectively, also half materials and half money. After getting it, they hurriedly returned to the forest. Once it got dark, the wolves' activity range would be large, so it was better to get to their own earth nests quickly.

"Took on a big job for myself again." Li Long looked at these four bags of nearly ninety kilograms of fritillaria and sighed, tired but happy.

These fritillaria could bring him a net income of about three hundred yuan, but they needed to be washed, impurities picked clean, and this had to be done until dark.

"That's also a happy job." Liu Shanmin put the stick aside and smiled to get the basin.

Although he couldn't do heavy work, he could still do things like passing things or getting a basin on the side.

"You continue to eat yours first, the meal is cold." Li Long waved his hand, "That's what I said, but it's very fast to do."

There was too much fritillaria, and it couldn't be dried on the wooden floor and table. Li Long simply took several carrying poles, dried the washed fritillaria on them, and poured them into the basin when it got dark.

After the work was done, the sunset glow had completely dissipated, and it would be dark soon, so Li Long intended to rest and not go to Little Bai Yang Gully today.

Liu Shanmin went to light the firewood himself, cleaned up the shed side, and led that roe deer to the shed.

The shed was quite large. Originally, Yushanjiang and the others built the shed in preparation for keeping more horses here. Later, when their young people held any activities here, the horses could have a place to stay.

So there was no problem at all keeping a roe deer in the shed besides people. It was very spacious, and the roe deer was also very normal. After being tied up, it went to the corner and lay down. It had recognized the facts and didn't make noise here, especially after hearing the wolf howling in the distance.

Li Long saw that Liu Shanmin handled that side quite well, so he gathered the fritillaria, locked the small door, and returned to the wooden cabin to sleep.

Early the next morning, Li Long was woken up by Bolati.

It wasn't completely bright yet, Bolati was very excited, the sound of knocking on the door was very loud, almost making Li Long think something big had happened.

Hearing it was Bolati's voice, Li Long had no temper, put on his clothes, opened the locked door, and saw Bolati at the door, with three bags at his feet, his horse snorting on the side, looking like it had opinions about coming out so early.

"Li Long, look, all fritillaria! Exchange for money!" Bolati's face was full of smiles, very excited.

Three bags, Li Long reacted all at once, it wouldn't be such a coincidence, right?

"Where did you collect the fritillaria?" Li Long asked, "The place where you go out of the mountain?"

"Right! I went to a friend's house to drink, and when I came out, I met three people. They should have intended to go down the mountain to sell fritillaria, and I just happened to meet them. How could I refuse such a thing? I directly collected the fritillaria!"

"Where are the people?" Li Long asked.

"The fritillaria was collected, so I let the people go." Bolati was very happy, "Can't be too absolute. We have a meeting in the morning, so I ran over first. You hurry up and weigh it. After weighing, we calculate the money, I still have to go back to the meeting. Hehehe!"

Li Long also smiled, a sarcastic smile. These people, sigh, how to say it? It could be considered bad luck, right?

Three bags totaling less than sixty kilograms of fritillaria, Li Long gave Bolati one hundred and eighty yuan. Eighteen big unity notes were a quite thick stack. Bolati spat on his fingers, counted carefully, put it into the inner pocket carefully, buttoned it, patted it, and said:

"Li Long, I'm leaving. If there's such a good thing later, I'll come to find you again!"

The sound of horse hooves went away, and Liu Shanmin woke up on that side.

"Those few people's, right?" He looked at the few fritillaria bags at the door and asked.

"Should be."

"Why bother?" Liu Shanmin sighed, "Now it's good, bamboo basket drawing water—all for nothing."

Li Long shook his head, could this be considered bad luck to the extreme?

He didn't know what mood those three people were in now, but no matter what, it had nothing to do with him.

He now first made breakfast, and after that, he had to clean up these fritillaria.

Boss Deng and the three of them spent the night in a rock crevice in the outer mountains. Early this morning, the three of them got up and walked toward the inner mountains. Without the bags, digging fritillaria later was still a troublesome matter.

"Damn it, it's all that guy surnamed Li's fault!" Suddenly someone said, "If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have run outside the mountain at all, and if we didn't run outside the mountain, we wouldn't have met that guy, and this kind of thing wouldn't have happened!"

"Saying anything is late." Another person shook his head, "First think about how to get things to dig fritillaria. I have to find someone to borrow a bag, damn it, caught twice in less than half a month."

Boss Deng didn't speak, but he was sure, this matter wasn't over!

I can't handle that Forestry Team, can't I handle you, Boss Li?

Hmph! The matter was all caused by you, then you taste how to retaliate! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 482 =====