Chapter 74: Trying to be worthy of friends

Coming out of the supply and marketing cooperative store, Li Long was ultimately a bit unwilling to give up. He led the horse reins and turned around nearby, and then saw the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Li Long immediately reacted, it was useless for him to go to the store just now, procurement was not the business of these sales clerks, they were only responsible for selling things, not responsible for buying things, naturally they would use some principled words to deal with him.

But if he met real procurement personnel, maybe people would be very flexible?

Li Long led the carriage reins to the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative courtyard.

Black smoke was coming out of the chimney of the gatehouse, and he could feel that the coal inside was burning quite a lot.

Li Long walked over, tapped lightly on the window covered with plastic paper, the gate opened, an old grandpa looked at Li Long, and asked expressionlessly:

"Who are you looking for?"

"Old man, have a cigarette," Li Long smiled and reached into his pocket to touch the crushed Daqian Sect cigarette box, pulled one out from inside and handed it over.

Seeing Li Long handing over a cigarette, the grandpa's face softened a bit, took the cigarette and said:

"Young man, if you have anything to say, say it, it's too cold outside, I don't want the warm air in the room to be released."

Li Long saw the grandpa clip the cigarette on his ear, so he simply stuffed the half pack of Daqian Sect into the other party's hand and said:

"Old man, I want to ask, who is the one in charge of procurement in our supply and marketing cooperative, and is he here now?"

"In charge of procurement? Young man, are you wanting to sell things?" The old man scanned Li Long's carriage and smiled. He took that Daqian Sect from his ear, put it into the cigarette box, and put the cigarette box into his pocket and said:

"If you ask someone else, people might not really tell you. Our supply and marketing cooperative, the one in charge of procurement in the county is Section Chief Li Xiangqian. He just happened to bring a truck of raisins back from the East Xinjiang today. I received the notice here that it arrives at noon today. If you are in a hurry, then wait."

Li Long thought, then wait.

"Young man, you come into the room." The old man saw Li Long planned to wait outside, and reached out to greet him, "Park your carriage by the gatehouse, you can see it through the window, that thing won't be lost."

"Then thank you, old man." Li Long wasn't polite either, tied the horse to the electric pole by the gatehouse, and he quickly entered the gatehouse.

Sure enough, it was really warm in this room, the cast-iron stove was burning red, and the coal inside was piled full. Sure enough, it was a supply and marketing cooperative, a unit with money.

Li Long took off his coat, and there was a numbness and itching on his face, which was a normal reaction after mild frostbite and then encountering heat. Li Long didn't care.

"Young man, where are you from?" The old man finally encountered someone idle here, so he started chatting, "Why did you think of finding the supply and marketing cooperative? Have things to sell?"

"Yeah, my friend is in the mountains, the sheep there are quite good, so I thought about helping to sell them. For those who can buy sheep in large quantities, I think it's the supply and marketing cooperative."

Li Long learned later that the supply and marketing cooperative in this day and age didn't just sell things, but was also responsible for collecting local specialties from all over the place, playing a role in balancing supply and demand. So he wanted to help Yushanjiang and Halimu sell sheep, the first thing he thought of was the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Sheep? That's not bad." The old man smiled, "Don't say, the supply and marketing cooperative really collects sheep, especially this winter, which unit with money doesn't want to distribute some good things—is what you have in the carriage sheep? Sell? How much per kilogram?"

"Retail is one yuan per kilogram." Li Long said, "Anyway, no meat coupons needed. If it's wholesale, then the price will be calculated differently."

"Yo, young man is an expert." The old man smiled, "Then sell me some mutton, it's almost New Year, how can the family not have a couple of meat dishes. The meat sold in the meat shop needs coupons, that thing no one has much."

"Alright, but I don't have a scale on hand..."

"That's simple, you help me watch the gate, I'll go find a scale for you, and I can help you shout." The old man put on his coat and put on his cotton hat and walked out.

Li Long hurriedly followed. The old man saw him follow, and asked strangely:

"Why are you coming out? It's so warm in the room, why stay outside?"

"Old man, if you leave, can I stay in the room alone? This is inconvenient, I'll just wait outside, besides, roasting fire just now was also warm..."

"Young man is particular!" The old man smiled, "Just for your honest spirit, I have to help you, come come come, let me see your mutton." Li Long lifted the sheep on the carriage. This sheep was slaughtered only two days ago, and it was frozen after slaughter. Seeing the meat was bright red, and because it was a sheep specially picked for Li Long by Halimu and Yushanjiang, it was fat and strong, looking very beautiful.

"Good mutton, just for this sheep, I have to weigh a leg of lamb!" The old man saw at a glance that this mutton was good, and he said with a smile:

"Young man, wait a moment."

Saying this, the old man put on his coat and walked toward the store next door. Don't look at the old man being over sixty, but his pace was fast, and in less than three minutes, he came back with a scale.

This kind of platform scale had a scale pan on one side to put things, and a scale rod with scales on the other side, and a small hanging platform below that could put round scale weights.

The old man put the scale on the ground, and then said to Li Long:

"Come come come, cut a hind leg for me first."

Li Long took the knife, and quickly cut a hind leg for the old man—from the beginning of getting frozen sheep to now, Li Long had also slaughtered a few sheep, knowing where it was appropriate to cut.

"Four kilograms one," Li Long put the leg of lamb on the scale pan, the old man squatted down and added scale weights one by one, and finally said, "Fair, right?"

"Old man, just count it as four kilograms." Li Long said with a smile, "Wipe off the zero."

"Alright, then you collect the money, I'll go call people in a while." The old man handed two two-yuan bills to Li Long, carried the leg of lamb and entered the room.

Putting away the leg of lamb, the old man came out of the gatehouse again, entered the large courtyard, and came back in less than five minutes.

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At this time, Li Long had already put the two two-yuan bills with relatively good appearance into his bosom. He planned to keep these two tickets, not planning to spend them.

"Young man, wait a moment, people are coming over immediately." The old man said with a smile.

Sure enough, in less than five minutes, people came out from inside one after another and started asking for the price.

You three kilograms, I two kilograms, very quickly, the two sheep (incomplete) of Li Long only had one or two sheep necks left.

"What is that? Not skinned yet?"

"Yeah, doesn't look like a sheep either." Someone saw the roe deer on the carriage and asked.

"That's a roe deer, given by a friend in the mountains," Li Long explained, "Because there was no time, it hasn't thawed yet."

"Roe deer? Don't know how it tastes?" The person who asked was still curious, "Sell or not?"

"This can't be sold." Li Long waved his hand, "The skin isn't peeled, and it's frozen, so it's not easy to handle..."

He was just saying this, when he heard a car horn, turned his head, and saw a truck driving into it.

"Young man, aren't you looking for Section Chief Li of the procurement section? Look, the person is here!" The old man said with a smile.

Li Long was a bit nervous.

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