Chapter 655: Chen Hongjun has been promoted

There is nothing much to say about the early summer in the county town in the eighties. At this time, there is no large amount of fruit on the market, the weather has become hot, but there is no watermelon to quench thirst and cool down. Annoying guys like mosquitoes and flies will not treat him specially just because Li Long is a reborn person.

So it is very troublesome to cool off outside in the evening.

Li Long knows the common sense of using mugwort to repel mosquitoes, but to be honest, the effect here is not very good. The main thing is that Gu Xiaoxia cannot stand the smell of too much smoke, so it cannot be lit. Placed there, relying only on the smell of the mugwort itself, it does not play much of a role.

So after staying outside for a while, Gu Bo Yuan returns to the small courtyard, and Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia go into the house.

Just now when eating, Gu Bo Yuan also talked about the situation of his agricultural materials store. From late March to early May, in more than a month, Gu Bo Yuan earned the money for several bicycles.

It's really exorbitant profits!

Gu Bo Yuan is sighing, and Li Long actually knows clearly that this is not only because it is currently a seller's market, plus the household contract responsibility system, after the land is divided to each family, everyone's enthusiasm for farming has increased, and a large amount of agricultural materials are needed for farming.

Another very important reason is that Gu Bo Yuan can provide targeted promotion according to the needs of farmers, rather than letting farmers choose by themselves.

As a university graduate, although not majoring in agriculture, wanting to be slightly more professional, his ability to learn is much stronger than ordinary people.

According to Gu Bo Yuan, the new agricultural materials stores in the county are not just his, but two other stores are aimed at the east and south respectively. These two directions also have a large amount of farmland, especially the east, where the townships are wealthier.

After all, since ancient times, there have been post stations, and there is a lot of mature land reclaimed.

Unlike the north, almost all the land is newly reclaimed, and before it was saline-alkali beach or Gobi beach.

But Gu Bo Yuan feels that the potential in the north is greater, because he came out of the Fourth Team, and as a veteran, he knows very well how much wasteland in the Fourth Team can continue to be reclaimed.

Li Long can feel from Gu Bo Yuan's slightly reserved and proud expression that he feels he has done a good job.

Actually, it is really good. Gu Bo Yuan even thought about making more of the kind of seeders Li Long "invented" and selling them in his agricultural materials store, because he felt that the current large machinery like seeders could not meet the sowing needs of small plots of land at all.

And between manual sowing and large seeders, there is currently no small seeder as a balance, and Li Long's seeder is very good.

It must be said that people like Gu Bo Yuan who could get into university in that era, after entering a certain line of work, after having an in-depth understanding of this line, can soon use their keen observation to find a way to win.

Even if Li Long is reborn, he has to admire it.

When chatting with Gu Xiaoxia at night, when talking about this emotion, Gu Xiaoxia smiled, with pride on her face, but then said again:

"Actually, my dad is not as capable as you say—when you are not here, we chat, and he also said that he can have the current development, most of it is still looking at you. Saying you laid a good foundation for him, and it is much easier for him to work on it.

Actually, many times he doesn't say it to your face, but he praises you hard to us, I say where you are not good, he is not willing."

Li Long absolutely believes Gu Xiaoxia's words.

Parents of this era are mostly training their children in front of others and praising their children behind their backs. Their own children must be praised in front of outsiders, but in front of the children, they rarely express their appreciation and love for their children.

This generation of parents is still subtle and traditional.

The next day, after sending Gu Xiaoxia to the Education Bureau, Li Long, who returned, didn't rush into the mountains. He went to the side room, collected all the dried Fritillaria, put them in a bag, carried them on the back seat of his bicycle, and pushed them to the acquisition station.

The acquisition station has been quite lively since the beginning of the year. As an official acquisition department, although the price of acquiring things is not high, and sometimes even much lower than the market price, at least selling things here, farmers and herdsmen don't have to worry about being pitted.

And unlike the supply and marketing cooperative, this acquisition station doesn't limit the quantity of things acquired, it acquires as much as there is. Someone brings a rabbit skin over to sell, and they will also acquire it.

Supply and marketing cooperatives usually acquire bulk commodities and materials, they can't acquire small things, mainly because it's not easy to store and manage.

But the acquisition station is different. Although there is no particularly large warehouse here, there are almost no restrictions on the acquisition of items. Medicinal materials, animal skins, and other miscellaneous items are all within their acquisition scope, and even include some recyclable copper coins, scrap iron, etc.

According to what Chen Hongjun told Li Long before, every few days, a transport fleet will pull the materials acquired in these acquisition stations along the way to the state acquisition station for classification and processing.

Today, there is a queue in the courtyard of the acquisition station, at least seven or eight people, holding various storage tools, baskets, buckets, and the most are urea bags.

The things they came to sell are also quite a lot, licorice roots, animal skins, goat cashmere, etc.

Li Long also found that there was another person who came to sell Fritillaria, but the quantity didn't look like much.

That person also used a urea bag, and Li Long smelled the smell.

Everyone is queuing, and everyone is preparing to sell things, so they chat while waiting.

In front of Li Long is a woman, carrying a large basket woven from willow branches, filled with licorice roots. These licorice roots should be seven or eight kilograms.

Licorice roots are used to make licorice tablets, which are common medicinal materials in this area of the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains. Of course, it is said that there are more in the Kazakh side in the west, and no one uses this there.

Someone once collected these things from there and transported them back, but they only had to pay a full amount of tax when passing customs. If they wanted to buy low and sell high to make a big profit, it was not easy.

Li Long pushed his bicycle and stood at the very back, but soon a man hurried over behind him.

More than thirty years old, about one meter seven tall, which is not short in this era, red-faced, looking like he is often exposed to the sun.

He stood behind Li Long, looked at Li Long's bicycle with envy, and said:

"Comrade, your bicycle... looks like it was bought quite early."

Li Long didn't maintain this bicycle well after buying it. Although Sister Yang would wipe it when she had time during this period, it was ultimately not as good as a new car.

"It's been two years." Li Long said casually, he tilted his body and glanced, and asked:

"Are you here to sell goat cashmere?"

Sheep can also make money when they are alive. Goats are cashmere, and sheep are wool. Wool is cheap and large in quantity, cashmere is expensive but small in quantity.

This goat cashmere is the kind of fine and soft hair that goats grow in winter to keep warm.

The famous movie "Kekexili" in later generations is about the struggle between volunteers of the wild yak team protecting Tibetan antelope and poachers. The reason why poachers want to kill Tibetan antelope is that their cashmere is very expensive in the international market.

Goat cashmere is scraped off to make cashmere fabrics. Cashmere clothing at this time is still very expensive, not comparable to those things that claim to be cashmere in later generations.

It is quite troublesome to take goat cashmere. After all, it is live taking, goats will be quite painful, and it is different from shearing wool.

In April, the cashmere on the goats begins to fall off and separate from the skin layer, but it will not fall off completely. If it falls off, it will be lost. It needs to be grabbed down with a kind of iron wire rake like curved fingers when it has just fallen off and the cashmere is still in the middle of the hair layer.

This kind of live grabbing of cashmere on goats requires tying up the goats, after all, it is very painful. And the cashmere grabbed from a goat usually does not exceed one hundred grams.

Of course, Li Long doesn't know if there is any technology in later generations that can promote goat cashmere production.

The goat cashmere in this red-faced man's bag is two or three kilograms, which is quite a lot.

Now the price of a kilogram of cashmere is also in the tens of yuan, and this bag can sell for less than one hundred yuan.

In this era, it counts as quite a lot of income. So this red-faced man has a smile on his face.

If farmers have no sideline income, they can only get money after autumn, and there is no income in spring and summer, but family expenses cannot be avoided.

Grain, vegetables, etc., are available in their own homes, but oil, salt, seasonings, children's school miscellaneous fees, etc., still need to be spent.

Li Long heard before that the mainland mainly maintains the miscellaneous expenses of a family by raising chickens and selling eggs. Farmers in the northern Xinjiang are more miscellaneous in making money, like picking licorice, weaving baskets, selling vegetables, including the one who scrapes cashmere behind, can all make money.

Although not much, it is still okay to maintain family expenses.

"What are you selling?" The red-faced man talks a lot and asked again, but he didn't wait for Li Long to answer and opened his bag to show Li Long: "I'm here to sell goat cashmere, I heard that the price of goat cashmere this year is not low, thirty-some yuan a kilogram."

"Thirty-five." Someone in the queue in front heard his words and said it actively, "I sold it the day before yesterday."

"Thirty-five—I weighed this cashmere at home, two kilograms eight, can sell for a hundred or eighty."

"Not little." Li Long smiled and said, "It's two or three months' salary for a state cadre."

"Hehe, it's not little, but those goats are really too troublesome to raise. My family tied a fence more than one meter high, some sheep jumped over directly, I don't know how many times I have to drive them back a day..."

Li Long smiled, this is a happy trouble, right? When it was Li Long's turn, it was already more than half an hour later. He put a bag of Fritillaria on the counter, and the acquisition personnel behind the counter asked:

"Fritillaria?"

"Hmm."

"It must be dry, we don't want it if it's not dry here." Maybe seeing too many herb pickers bringing fresh Fritillaria to sell, the acquisition personnel reminded him.

"Guaranteed dry." Li Long smiled.

Chen Hongjun was not there, and he didn't have much interest in talking.

That acquisition member poured the Fritillaria into the flat basket next to him, then bent down and grabbed a handful of Fritillaria to look at, and then smelled it, and smiled:

"Your Fritillaria is not bad, since we started acquiring Fritillaria, this counts as the best. First-grade is no problem, let's weigh it..."

Just as they were talking, Chen Hongjun walked out from inside.

That person immediately greeted:

"Station Master..."

!. Read

"Hmm, you go ahead." Chen Hongjun nodded and looked at Li Long with a smile:

"I thought you should have come. Not bad, this year's Fritillaria is still so good... How about it, can you collect more than last year this year?"

"Don't know, maybe." Li Long didn't expect that Chen Hongjun went to the state for a meeting, and after coming back, he became the station master of the acquisition station, "Old Chen, don't you treat guests after being promoted?"

"What promotion, it's all serving the people." Chen Hongjun smiled reservedly, mainly because there were quite a few people here, and it was not good to joke wantonly.

Seeing that Chen Hongjun and Li Long knew each other, that acquisition member smiled and weighed these Fritillaria for Li Long.

"The current price of first-grade Fritillaria is 48 yuan per kilogram," the acquisition member reported the price skillfully, "These Fritillaria total 28 kilograms 400 grams, total price 1363.2 yuan, do you want to issue a ticket and calculate the money now?"

"Okay, issue the ticket now." Li Long said.

The first payment for Fritillaria was credited, Li Long really didn't guess wrong, the price rose again.

Currently, prices are almost rising, and they will rise even more fiercely in a few years. Fortunately, after the light industry develops and products are abundant, it will be much better. The deposit interest rate in this era is frighteningly high. Li Long plans to deposit his spare money after the carrying pole and Fritillaria work is done.

Of course, the money for development must be kept.

Money that flows is money, money that doesn't flow is paper. However, Li Long couldn't put all the money into operation for a while, so the surplus had to be placed in the bank. Having interest is better than having no interest in his own bag.

Li Long issued the ticket and took the money, greeted Chen Hongjun, and left the acquisition station, and harvested a crowd of envious gazes.

After all, getting more than a thousand at once, how much does an ordinary person have to earn?

That acquisition member asked Chen Hongjun:

"Station Master, are you old acquaintances?"

"Hmm, he comes to sell things every year. You have also seen the Fritillaria, they are all of the best quality, he also sells deer antlers, deer velvet, dried wild mushrooms, etc."

"Do you also acquire wild mushrooms here?" That red-faced man selling goat cashmere asked immediately, "Do you acquire all kinds of mushrooms?"

"No, no, we only acquire those relatively precious mushrooms here." Chen Hongjun saw that more people were interested in this, and immediately explained, "We acquire morels, black tiger palm mushrooms, etc. in the mountains, we don't acquire ordinary wild mushrooms."

"Then what is a morel? And that black tiger... mushroom?"

Chen Hongjun went into the house and took out two dried mushrooms to show these people.

At present, wild mushrooms can also be found in the Gobi beach and red willow beach, and these people thought about trying their luck.

However, they were clearly going to be disappointed. At present, the morels here mainly grow in the mountains, and the black tiger palm mushrooms are the same. However, Li Long doesn't know in which year of later generations, mushrooms were rampant, morels could be picked in the poplar forests on the side of the street, and black tiger palm mushrooms also appeared in the red willow beach on the side of the fields.

A very strange feeling.

Li Long returned to the large courtyard, put the money away, saw that Sister Yang hadn't returned from selling rice, started the jeep, added oil to the oil depot, and went into the mountains.

In Qingshuihe Village, you can smell the smell of roasted willow branches on the side of the road, which is not very good, and Li Long didn't see any acquaintances, so he drove away from this village, passed the red willow beach, and entered the mountains.

He came to the wooden cabin, parked the jeep on the side, and after getting out of the car, saw Sun Jia Qiang washing Fritillaria.

However, it could be seen that the quantity was not much, maybe three or four kilograms.

It was almost noon, there wasn't much Fritillaria traded today.

Seeing Li Long come over, Sun Jia Qiang stood up from the side of the spring and greeted Li Long from afar.

When Li Long walked over, before he asked, Sun Jia Qiang explained the reason.

"Those people still don't trust me, they feel I have no relationship with you, they would rather wait for you to come back and trade with you than trade with me." Sun Jia Qiang was a bit embarrassed, "You saw it, I only traded this much in the morning. I feel that in one day, I can only trade ten-some kilograms of Fritillaria."

Ten-some kilograms, according to the wages Li Long gave Sun Jia Qiang, was less than ten yuan.

Originally, he thought about giving this person a chance, but it seemed that the herb pickers in the mountains didn't buy it.

"However, I can also understand," Sun Jia Qiang said while washing Fritillaria, "Think about it, you have been here for the past two years, and everyone is used to it. When you are here, even if the rangers from the Forestry Team come over, they won't arrest us. Now that someone else has changed, I don't have that much deterrent power. Bolati came over once this morning, and shouted as soon as he saw someone..."

Li Long smiled bitterly, thinking it was normal.

This trust cannot be established in a while. Bolati can treat himself as a friend, but he doesn't necessarily treat Sun Jia Qiang as a friend. Not arresting him is giving him face, but not giving him convenience is also very normal.

"Then... do you want to go back and dig Fritillaria?" Li Long thought for a while and said, "At present, the money earned from this job is not as much as you digging Fritillaria yourself, right?"

"Then I won't go back." Sun Jia Qiang shook his head immediately, "Although I earn money by digging Fritillaria myself, it's tiring. And the food and accommodation are not as good as here, it's fine if the money is less, it's comfortable staying here."

Okay, since Sun Jia Qiang had no opinion, Li Long didn't manage it too much.

Before it was time for lunch, Li Long stayed here with Sun Jia Qiang.

Sun Jia Qiang didn't have much money in his hand, Li Long's task for him was to trade Fritillaria with materials every day. How much Fritillaria Sun Jia Qiang traded every day, Li Long would settle the wages with him on that day.

Sure enough, during the time Li Long stayed here, most of the people who came to trade things with Fritillaria were looking for him, even if they were strangers, they could find him from his figure.

Mainly still trading materials with him.

Sun Jia Qiang was very envious, but he also knew he couldn't envy it.

Fortunately, when every two or three people were looking for Li Long, there would be one looking for him, which made him have some harvest.

It's just that the blow from Bolati who came over every day was relatively large.

Li Long was a bit surprised, the four bags Bolati brought today were all different in quantity.

"I have four colleagues, these were collected by them." Bolati found Li Long directly, "They traded for different things, this one wants wine and meat, this one wants steamed buns, and some biscuits, this one wants money..."

Unexpectedly, Bolati also started acting as an intermediary.

Li Long naturally satisfied his request—these four bags of fresh Fritillaria were more than thirty kilograms, which was the amount of a normal day.

Sun Jia Qiang could only watch with envy, Bolati would never take Fritillaria to find him. Even if Li Long wasn't there, Bolati would rather take the Fritillaria back than trade things with him.

Very depressed.

Dark clouds floated in the sky, it was about to rain. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 656 =====