Chapter 484: Hidden dangers removed, external wealth to be collected

"Come, sit and eat together." Li Long greeted the two brothers.

"No, no," Li Zheng Tang hurriedly waved his hand, "We have eaten, just dug some more fritillaria, brought it over, and settle it with the ones from the morning."

"Eat." Li Long previously had opinions about Li Zheng Tang and Li Zhengting, but one yard is one yard, the five kilograms of fritillaria owed by people were returned, and they were honest later, so people should be allowed to progress and correct:

"I have plenty here, I also know what you eat in the mountains, I have also lived that kind of life, don't be polite, eat quickly. I earned money in your hands, it's no problem to treat you to a meal."

Since Li Long said so, the two didn't push anymore, put down the bags, went to the spring eye to wash their hands, and then grabbed big steamed buns and gnawed.

Liu Shanmin went into the house to get chopsticks for the two of them. Actually, Li Zhengting already intended to break two branches to use as chopsticks.

Watching the two people being a bit reserved but eating steamed buns in big mouthfuls, Liu Shanmin joked with Li Long:

"Boss Li, I think you can completely open a canteen here, it will definitely make money."

"Forget it." Li Long waved his hand, "This kind of thing of exchanging fritillaria, all parties benefit, those leaders turn a blind eye, that's fine. If you really open a canteen, then you are openly going against the superiors. This kind of thing can't be done. If you do it, I'm afraid this wooden cabin won't be able to exist."

"Also." Liu Shanmin reacted immediately, "It's me who thought simply."

After eating, Li Zheng Tang scrambled to wash the bowls and chopsticks. Li Long went to the small room to get the scale and weighed the fresh fritillaria they brought.

"Two bags earlier, one seventeen, one fourteen, whose are they?" Li Long asked while weighing.

"The more one is mine," Li Zheng Tang hurriedly said.

"Now this more one is also yours, right?"

"Hmm, not much difference." Li Zheng Tang still had to consider his cousin's feelings.

"Fine, your two bags together are twenty kilograms, folded into sixty yuan, do you want money, or both materials and money?"

"Fold it all into money for me." Li Zheng Tang still had some materials, so he directly wanted money.

"Yours is sixteen kilograms and a bit more, I'll count it as seventeen, what about you?" Li Long asked Li Zhengting.

"I want forty-five yuan, and some materials for the rest. Want four steamed buns, some meat, and... is there wine?"

Li Zhengting actually wanted wine, which made Li Long a bit surprised. He first looked at Li Zheng Tang. Li Zheng Tang was also a bit surprised, his mouth opened, but finally didn't speak.

"Yes, wine is there. Do you want loose wine or brand wine?" Li Long naturally wouldn't push the business that came to his door away.

"Brand wine." Li Zhengting now had quite a lot of money in his arms, and his courage was stronger, saying: "Brand wine is good."

Li Long smiled, didn't explain to him, first took out money to give to Li Zheng Tang, poured his fritillaria into the large basin to prepare for washing, and then counted out forty-five yuan to give to Li Zhengting.

Liu Shanmin packed steamed buns and air-dried meat for him on this side, while Li Long went to the small wooden cabin to get two bottles of Gucheng Daqu.

Li Zhengting patted his bag hard, patted the dust inside clean, and packed these things in.

After the two brothers left, Liu Shanmin shook his head:

"Sigh, the life in the mountains is really hard to endure."

Next, Li Long pulled two more trips, which was considered sending the carrying poles to Little White Poplar Gully, and then checked the carrying poles woven today. There were two unqualified ones this time. Li Long pointed them out, and the people who wove the carrying poles didn't have any opinions, laughing and taking them back, saying they would guarantee they would be qualified tomorrow.

Sun Jia Qiang came over to find Li Long with a large bag of fritillaria. Li Long didn't bring a scale when he came over. However, he was familiar with Sun Jia Qiang, and the two weren't people who cared about details, roughly estimating that his bag of fritillaria could be twelve kilograms.

"Bring a bottle of wine when you come over tomorrow." Sun Jia Qiang said with a smile, "Deduct the money for one kilogram of fritillaria from me, I'll exchange for wine."

"Isn't there loose wine here?" Li Long remembered he had brought a cage of loose wine over a few days ago.

"Can't just drink their wine, I'm not without money." Sun Jia Qiang rubbed his hands and said, "Drank their wine, I have to invite back, right? By the way, bring some meat, all deduct from the fritillaria, today this fritillaria I'll collect half the money?"

"Where do you need that much." Li Long waved his hand, "Give you thirty yuan, the rest counts as tomorrow's wine and meat money."

Record the number of carrying poles, confirm and sign one by one. These people all had smiles on their faces. The more numbers under their names, the more money they earned. Seeing that basically all exceeded one hundred, it was impossible not to be happy.

Old Huang made soup noodles in the evening, and also pasted flour cakes. Li Long ate with them, and after eating, brought a portion back for Liu Shanmin.

Li Long told Old Huang when he pulled the first trip, let him make more food, he wanted to bring a portion back, Old Huang naturally had no opinion. Just mix more flour, what's this?

When Li Long pulled the carrying poles, Liu Shanmin washed and dried the fritillaria in front of the wooden cabin, and didn't stop either.

When Li Long drove the tractor and brought the soup meal back to him, Liu Shanmin was also quite happy, took the enamel basin tied with cage cloth and covered, and smiled:

"Haven't eaten proper soup noodles for some days."

"There is enough in here for you to eat, enjoy it well." Li Long also smiled and went to collect things.

Next two days, life passed normally, drying fritillaria every day, collecting fritillaria, going to check the number of carrying poles.

During this period, there were still many people coming over to exchange fritillaria, but most of them took money as the main goal. They had reached the crazy harvest period. In previous years, the fritillaria dug was found a place to dry, which would lose a considerable part. Or bring it down the mountain every few days, incidentally exchanging for some materials, or find someone in Qingshuihe Township to exchange for things.

This year, with Li Long's wooden cabin, although the exchange price wasn't high, it really saved them time, everyone worked faster, earning twenty or thirty yuan a day, even if slow, they could earn ten or so yuan.

This was also something that even the stupidest could calculate. Just digging fritillaria steadily like this, exchanging for things and money, after more than a month in the fritillaria season, one could get more than five hundred yuan, and it was normal to get more than one thousand.

The fritillaria in the small room was almost full. This morning, after breakfast, Liu Shanmin told Li Long he was leaving.

"Injuries healed?" Li Long asked.

"Almost healed." Liu Shanmin pulled open his sleeve to show him the wound on his arm, "Actually, it was just losing more blood, the scab of this wound is about to fall off. Now I feel recovered, and I have to go handle my matters."

"Then don't rush, stay one more day." Li Long thought and said: "I'll pull the fritillaria to the county today, get another batch of materials up, wait for me to come back and then you leave, how about it?"

"Fine." Liu Shanmin didn't hesitate either. No matter from which aspect, Li Long had a life-saving grace to him. Delaying one day was delaying one day, it didn't count as anything.

Li Long was preparing to load fritillaria onto the tractor when Bolati came over.

He didn't bring fritillaria this time. Now those who dug fritillaria were much smarter. Hearing the sound of horse hooves, they immediately hid in the forest, and the harvest of patrolmen like Bolati became less.

"I came over to tell you a matter." Bolati saw Li Long, got off the horse, and said:

"Mustafa said, the two people pulled over at the beginning just happened to catch up with the county's public trial meeting, and then were shot together with a batch of bad elements."

"Those two people were shot?" Li Long was really a bit surprised. He actually guessed that the end of these two wouldn't be good, but didn't expect them to be shot so quickly!

"Hmm, just these two matters of attacking you and Hamiti, according to before, they would have to stay in the fence for more than ten years. This year isn't special, many people are handled strictly, they also had matters in their hometown, punished together, and were beaten down."

Li Long nodded, no matter what, this was a good thing, cutting off future troubles, so it wasn't so troublesome.

"The situation of the two pulled over later wasn't so serious, one was sentenced to eight years, one was sentenced to six years." Bolati said, "They were still shouting injustice, but later knew two were shot, so they didn't speak again. I came over just to tell you this matter, later if someone comes to find you to exchange fritillaria, you tell these people this matter too, let these people be more honest. If we don't meet, fine, if we meet, if they still do bad things, they won't have good fruit to eat!"

Bolati really came over specifically for this matter. After saying it, he glanced at Liu Shanmin, nodded, and then wanted to get on the horse and leave. Li Long went into the small wooden cabin, took out the remaining bottle of wine, and stuffed it to him:

"Take it. Drink after work, don't drink on the road."

"Rest assured, after your matter came out, we all know it. Those who dig fritillaria all hate us, we aren't spoons either."

Saying that, Bolati stuffed the wine into the empty bag by the horse saddle, got on the horse, and left. Li Long gathered all the fritillaria in the small wooden cabin, then tied up the roe deer that was already accustomed to being tied up and put it in the tractor bucket to avoid it ruining the fritillaria, and then went to get the rocker, starting it.

"I'll be back this afternoon." Li Long said, "Handle anything if there is."

"Fine." Liu Shanmin nodded, watching Li Long carry the gun, get on the tractor seat, step on the clutch, hang the gear, and then drive away with a chug-chug-chug.

He was quite envious.

Li Long drove the tractor at a constant speed to the place where Lin Xiao Hu and He Yi Ku attacked him, stopped, went into the forest to turn for a while in a piece of deep grass, carried the two bags out, went to the tractor bucket, used a urea bag to pack the two bags, and then continued to set off.

The tractor drove out of the mountains with a chug-chug-chug, Li Long still saw three people walking outside together on the mountain road, carrying bags on their backs.

Should be digging fritillaria.

Li Long vaguely felt one person was quite familiar, should be someone he knew.

Two of them quickly dived into the forest when they heard the tractor sound, the one Li Long felt a bit familiar stood by the road with a bag on his back, and a trace of pride appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Is this demonstrating to himself?

Li Long's prank mentality rose, he adjusted the steering wheel, drove straight toward that person, that person was startled, immediately dashed into the bushes beside, Li Long laughed loudly and drove the tractor away.

He naturally couldn't really press. He just felt this person's attitude was a bit problematic. You don't sell to me, it's very normal. But this expression of yours was a bit annoying.

"Not injured, right?" Li Long passed, those two people immediately came over to help the person who fell up. Fortunately, the fritillaria bag was tied at the mouth, otherwise, it would be troublesome if it spilled all over the ground.

"Still fine." That person rubbed his wrist, barely saying, "No big problem, damn it, this bad guy..."

"Why provoke him? Hiding isn't shameful." Another person persuaded, "Those who collect know him, why bother?"

This person, although still indignant, knew he couldn't do anything to Li Long, could only stare at the tractor going away.

Arriving at the county, Li Long unloaded the fritillaria into the courtyard, then drove the tractor to Yang Da Jie's place.

It was almost time for lunch, this time he intended to spend a night in the county before going back, so he wasn't in a hurry.

Can't just live without life for the sake of earning money.

Gu Xiaoxia hadn't returned yet, but Yang Da Jie heard the tractor sound and ran out with a spatula for stir-frying.

"Uncle, you're back?" Yang Da Jie's voice was very loud, "Come in quickly."

"Hey." Li Long responded, turned off the engine, got off the tractor, and walked toward the courtyard.

He could see that several courtyards nearby had people poking their heads out at the door.

Yang Da Jie's voice just now wasn't small, Li Long naturally knew what this meant.

"Big sister, what meal to make today?" Seeing Yang Da Jie enter the kitchen and continue stir-frying, although he already smelled it was the taste of leek and eggs, Li Long still asked loudly in the courtyard.

"Stir-fry a leek and eggs, stir-fry a celery and meat later, steam rice." Yang Da Jie's voice was still very loud, "Aunt will be back later and can open the meal."

Calculated, it was all home-cooked meals, Li Long still liked it quite a bit. The vegetables in the courtyard vegetable garden grew well, leeks were cut by a third, and the place that had been cut just sprouted two centimeters high. The grape trellis was coiled on the wooden frame, the leaves were as big as a child's palm, some grape spike flowers had bloomed, couldn't smell the fragrance, but it could be foreseen that there would be quite a few grapes to eat in the autumn.

The courtyard was swept very clean, smelling the scent of sanitary incense when approaching the toilet, Li Long was quite satisfied.

A dozen minutes later, Gu Xiaoxia pushed the bicycle into the courtyard. Seeing the tractor, she already knew Li Long had come over, the joy in her heart was inevitable.

"You're back?"

"Hmm, back, stay for a day, go up the mountain tomorrow." Li Long went over to help support the car, smiling and saying.

"Hmm, fine." Gu Xiaoxia's face was slightly red, she knew Li Long's meaning.

"Is work busy?"

"Can be. Not as regular as school, but quite challenging." Gu Xiaoxia used her hand to tuck a bit of broken hair on her forehead behind her ear, "Occasionally go to school to check, feeling that what I see now is different from what I saw when I was a teacher in school before."

"The pattern and standing position are different." Li Long smiled and said, "Now you are a leader."

"Where is it." Gu Xiaoxia acted coquettishly, "Just an ordinary cadre... How are the mountains?"

"Still fine, just recently there are snakes, I came back to buy some snake medicine."

"Then you have to be careful." Actually, there were snakes near the village, mainly earth bows. The earth bows and long worms mentioned here were all non-venomous snakes. Gu Xiaoxia wasn't particularly concerned. If she knew it was that kind of plateau viper, she would definitely worry.

Gu Xiaoxia suddenly remembered, whispering:

"I remember the first two years you came to the team, you were quite good at catching snakes, caught snakes and stuffed them into bottles saying it was sun-dried snake oil..."

"Hehehe, didn't understand things then." Li Long's old face blushed slightly, he was really quite middle-two then.

"Aunt is back. The meal is just right, come, let's prepare to sit at the table and eat." Yang Da Jie poked her head out of the kitchen, "Uncle, you come over quickly too."

"Where is Han Fang?" Li Long asked while walking.

"Don't care about her, she still needs a while." Yang Da Jie said, "I left it for her. Recently, study is a bit tight, coming back late every day."

Since it was like this, then don't wait, Li Long washed his hands and sat at the table, Yang Da Jie had already served the rice, the three people chatted while eating.

Because he knew Li Long was leaving tomorrow, Gu Xiaoxia didn't say much, Li Long just chatted about interesting things and experiences in the mountains. After eating, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Li Long drove the tractor back to the courtyard.

Wash face, shave, take a bath, wash and dry the fritillaria. The previously dried fritillaria could be collected, seeing there was still time, Li Long simply went to sell the fritillaria.

Another sum of money was obtained, this time the money was more than the last time, two thousand and forty-three yuan, but the fritillaria in the courtyard could be exchanged for double the money.

Chen Hongjun was already a bit numb, he didn't tease Li Long anymore, just gave him a message:

"These two days, a few more people came here to sell fritillaria, some should have sold fritillaria at your place, knowing you. Said you pressed the price too hard, you still have to be cautious, don't be tricked."

"I know." Li Long nodded: "Actually, someone did this, then was caught by me on the spot, and now the person is locked in, seems to be five years?"

"Heh, there really is." Chen Hongjun was a bit surprised, "What did they do?"

"Wanted to burn my carrying poles, was discovered by wolves." Li Long said with a smile, "Considered wolves helping me."

This could also be considered a strange story, Chen Hongjun hurriedly let Li Long tell this matter.

Li Long believed that after not long, those who came to sell fritillaria should also know.

After all, Chen Hongjun would definitely help himself. (End of chapter)

"Mm, it's not dry yet, bring it over after it's dry." Li Long said while counting the bills, "Just take advantage of this fritillaria season to earn a little."

"Hey, this isn't just earning a little; what you earn here is worth several years of our wages." The other person said with a smile.

"Hard-earned money. It's not easy in the mountains, and there's only this one season a year." Li Long explained sincerely.

Next, it was time to go purchase things. (End of chapter)