Chapter 749: Actually, we can also do this

Arriving at the market, after getting out of the car, Yushanjiang and Ha Ha Li Mu were a bit better, but Bieke's first sentence was:

"There are so many people!"

Yes, in the mountains, even during gatherings, the most people seen were twenty or thirty.

And occasionally going to the pastoral team, seeing forty or fifty people was already the limit.

But here? Although it was deep winter, there were people buying things in the market, people selling things around the market, and bosses soliciting customers at the door. Looking at it, there must be at least several hundred, right?

"Our family doesn't have that many sheep!" Talihaer thought for a while and said, "Looking at these heads, I'm a bit dizzy."

Li Long thought, if you're dizzy seeing this many people, then in forty years, if you go to the Six Star Street in the summer at night, you'd probably call an ambulance on the spot—there are so many people then, you can't even see the scenery, you can only see people's heads.

As for other tourist attractions known as a sea of people, he hadn't been there, so it was hard to comment.

"Let's go, I'll take you around." Li Long parked the jeep, locked the door, and said to Yushanjiang and the others.

So they followed Li Long and walked around inside.

This combination was also quite surprising. Many people were watching them from afar—mainly because there were quite few ethnic minorities in the county seat, and Li Long was taking them to shop and introduce them to each store while they were dressed quite formally, so it felt a bit like a tour group or a visiting group?

This was liveliness.

"This is a horse gear shop, part of the saddle I bought came from here." Li Long brought them to the horse gear shop and introduced, "Look, in the past, they only sold saddles here, later I told them, and now they've added cushions, whips, halters, etc., it's already very complete."

Yushanjiang and the others liked these things quite a bit, and they all squeezed in at once.

Although the boss was a Uyghur, they were both ethnic minorities, and they were big demanders, so the boss was very enthusiastic and even spoke to Yushanjiang and the others in the ethnic language.

Some could be understood, some couldn't, and in the end, they all spoke Han Chinese.

When a few people came out, they all bought some things, like whips, although Li Long brought some, they hadn't brought enough yet, and besides, horse whips were beautiful, no one minded having one more.

Then there was the knife shop. Seeing those knives, Yushanjiang and the others were also very excited.

These people were also very expert at picking knives. After each person bought one, Yushanjiang even bought one for Li Long.

What surprised Li Long was that they all brought money. Originally, he thought that when Yushanjiang and the others bought things, he would pay. Or if someone didn't bring enough money, he would make up for it.

But he didn't expect them to all bring money, and it didn't look like a small amount.

Thinking about it, it was normal; usually, there was no opportunity to spend money, and the money saved wasn't small.

Daily necessities were almost contracted by Li Long, and the money from selling cattle and sheep to the pastoral team was all saved.

Coming out of the market, Li Long looked at the time and took them to the department store.

Although Yushanjiang and the others had exercised their nerves in the market, they were still shocked in the department store.

Afterwards, they all smiled and started purchasing.

What surprised Li Long was that what they bought the most here was various foods.

Like the chicken cakes, sesame cakes, rock sugar, etc., that Li Long had brought them, as well as fruit candies, pastries, etc.

There was also white liquor, small champagne, beer, and some other things.

For example, canned food.

At this time, buying things in the department store didn't require coupons, although it was more expensive without coupons, these people didn't care much.

Li Long could see that they didn't know how to bargain in the market, as long as the things were good.

And buying things was quite restrained, not buying everything they liked.

Calculating and buying, giving gifts to this person and that person at home, they brought back quite a few gifts.

Hmm, not bad.

People in the department store rarely saw people coming to buy things like this, and the salesclerks behind the counter were also quite curious.

Li Long saw that little Liu again, but at this time she had her hair in a bun and looked a bit fatter. Li Long guessed that she should have a child.

Little Liu also discovered Li Long, she just looked at Li Long with complicated eyes, and then went to load batteries for Yushanjiang.

Many people were buying batteries today. Amantai even bought a radio, saying that the one at their house seemed to have a problem with reception, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

Coming out of the department store, everyone had quite a few things in their hands, all packed in the trunk. Anyway, people were squeezed in the seats, and there was still room for some things in the trunk.

What surprised Li Long was that Yushanjiang also wanted to go to the bookstore to take a look.

Li Long vaguely remembered that there were books in ethnic minority languages for sale in the Zhang Xin Hua Bookstore, so he drove the jeep to the bookstore.

There weren't many people in the bookstore at this time, after all, it was almost closing time. Yushanjiang went in, and the others also walked in. Although they didn't buy, they could take a look.

Yushanjiang looked at the Kazakh language works for a while and bought a book of ethnic folk literature and brought it out.

Li Long was also quite moved to see Yushanjiang pay. A book for two or three yuan, only this era would have it.

This time it was really time to go back—if they didn't leave, it would be dark when they reached the mountains, and Li Long still had to come back, he couldn't be driven back in the middle of the night.

On the way to the mountains in the jeep, Yushanjiang and the others weren't tired at all, chatting and laughing, talking about the things they bought today, the meat they ate today, and their proficiency when slaughtering sheep today.

For them, this was a very novel experience, and they liked such experiences very much.

Ha Ha Li Mu, sitting in the passenger seat, suddenly asked Li Long:

"Li Long, how did you raise these sheep so fat?"

As soon as this question was asked, Yushanjiang and the others behind stopped chatting immediately.

To be honest, they were also very curious, just that they had been busy before and had no chance to ask, and later they were too excited buying things and forgot about this matter.

The reason they were very curious was mainly that the sheep were too fat.

Look at that meat, there was a thick layer of fat on it.

Although the cattle and sheep they raised in the winter camp also had fat, there was only a thin layer, and it didn't taste as fragrant as today's meat!

How fragrant is fat mutton with thick fat, one bite and a mouthful of oil!

Li Long smiled and said:

"Actually, it's quite simple, you've also seen it, the sheep I feed are mainly in the pen, basically not going out. They eat grass, and eat quite a lot of feed, I mix sugar dregs, wheat bran, and corn flour. Eating a lot of feed and moving little, naturally they get fat."

Yushanjiang, Ha Ha Li Mu, and the others were silent. They naturally understood this principle, but to say they could feed cattle and sheep like this, they couldn't afford it yet.

This feed was too expensive.

Was it worth it?

"The sugar dregs I pull are free, the sugar factory side can pull them for free, no money needed." Li Long continued, his words answering the doubts of these people, "So the cost is relatively cheap."

"No money?" Ha Ha Li Mu was a bit puzzled, "Not even a cent? Is it given away for free?"

"The sugar dregs from the sugar factory are the things left after the sugar beets are squeezed for sugar. The sugar factory directly pulls those sugar dregs out and pours them into a large pit, and everyone can transport them back. I found someone from the sugar factory, twenty yuan a truck to pull them back for me. My two hundred sheep can eat a truck of sugar dregs for many days."

He thought if Ha Ha Li Mu and the others changed their nomadic habits and prepared to pen-raise cattle and sheep, he could pull some sugar dregs for them.

After all, the sugar dregs pulled back now really couldn't be used up.

"Do you want some? If you want, I'll pull some for you later."

"Better not." Yushanjiang shook his head, "Not easy to pull back."

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"Actually, you can also raise sheep like me, you've also seen it, I've only raised these sheep for two months, and they are so fat. But they don't taste as good as the sheep in your mountains..."

"Who said that? They are delicious, I feel they are more delicious than the sheep at our house!" Talihaer hurriedly retorted, "Really, very fragrant!"

Li Long was a bit surprised, really?

Or was it because the sheep raised in the Fourth Team ate grass in the alkaline soil, so the taste was different?

Regardless, as long as it was delicious. Li Long had always been worried that the mutton of these pen-raised sheep wasn't as delicious as the free-range ones and wouldn't be welcomed by everyone. His sense of taste was also better than in his previous life, and he truly felt that this meat wasn't as fragrant as the mutton in the mountains.

But Talihaer and the others said it was delicious, which made him feel a bit relieved.

"Actually, you can also raise some red deer, this stuff is also quite expensive." Li Long said, "Someone buys this, one head is nearly a thousand yuan."

Of course, there shouldn't be many buyers now, and not many people could afford it.

But the money earned from one red deer was more than the money earned from dozens of sheep, even if there were few buyers, could one be sold in a year?

"No, these guys are too fierce." Yushanjiang shook his head, "I raised a half-grown one, and it butted two of the sheep in my pen to death, and also butted me."

Is it that fierce?

Li Long thought for a while, Old Man Luo didn't seem to have mentioned this.

Could it be that the red deer raised in the Fourth Team had changed their temper, or Old Man Luo didn't mention this?

However, he thought that even if the red deer in the pen really got fierce, they wouldn't be Old Man Luo, Yang Laoliu? Those few were either soldiers or special occupations, these red deer were all in the pen, even if they were powerful, could they be the match of these few?

So thinking that Old Man Luo didn't say it was normal, maybe the unlucky ones were those few red deer.

Although Ha Ha Li Mu and Yushanjiang denied Li Long's two suggestions, others were actually thinking about this problem.

After all, after spending money outside, they experienced the joy of buying things, so they would think about having more money to buy more things they wanted.

"Will there still be red deer giving birth to deer babies in the mountains next spring?" Li Long suddenly asked, "If you have time, help me find more red deer babies, I'll collect one for two hundred yuan. Roe deer babies, fifty yuan."

Although roe deer could also be sold for money, they weren't as expensive as red deer, and their popularity wasn't high, so they definitely couldn't be sold for a high price.

But Li Long didn't dislike it, he knew this had to be looked at in the long run, not just at the present.

After the scale was formed, reputation could be built, or advertisements could be made.

There were many such things in later generations, no need to rush now.

With the old horse stable and the new horse stable together, raising three to five hundred cattle and sheep, and raising dozens of red deer and roe deer was definitely no problem.

"What money? Just catch them and send them to you, if you want money, is that still *Duo Sen*?" Yushanjiang glared at Li Long with dissatisfaction.

"Different, different." Li Long said while driving, "Let me tell you, the person who bought my sheep this time intends to buy two red deer. One red deer, gives me eight hundred yuan—think about it, this little red deer is caught and raised, if it doesn't get sick and die in the middle, by the end of the year, it could sell for several hundred yuan—of course, male red deer are more expensive, female ones will be cheaper."

When Li Long said this, Yushanjiang didn't speak.

After all, he also felt that what Li Long said made sense.

Previously, Li Long sold the two little red deer because he heard in his previous life that red deer were very easy to get sick. At the end of the nineties and the beginning of the twenty-first century, some people raising red deer had whole patches of deer get sick and die, and that loss was really huge.

But Old Man Luo had raised red deer and roe deer for two years, and hadn't seen any problems.

So Li Long felt, since someone wanted them, and since little red deer could be obtained, then raise them!

This matter was settled like this.

After the people behind all agreed with Li Long's statement, they suddenly felt that this was a good way to get rich.

Two hundred yuan! The money spent by all of them today added up to less than two hundred yuan!

Talihaer was even more confident—because of this, the disappointment of not being able to continue slaughtering sheep tomorrow had already been washed away.

What does not being able to slaughter sheep count for? With his habit of hunting and running all over the mountains, when spring comes and the snow just melts, and the red deer start to produce babies, isn't that his home field?

Don't need many, get two red deer babies, that's equivalent to his family's income for a year!

Ha Ha Li Mu and Yushanjiang also found red deer babies, but in their view, what was more important wasn't whether they could catch red deer, but whether they should take money from Li Long after catching red deer.

After all, the relationship with Li Long was so good, and Li Long brought them things every time he went into the mountains, if they wanted money, would it be distant?

And the two of them were also worried that if they took money this time, would the relationship with Li Long change?

Li Long didn't think that much, even brothers settle accounts clearly, his eldest brother Li Jianguo wove *taibazi*, and he still had to pay.

Friendship and business are two different things, it's better to settle accounts clearly.

It's impossible for everyone to have as good a relationship with him as Ha Ha Li Mu and Yushanjiang. They didn't accept money, and others wouldn't be easy to accept money, but if the relationship wasn't there, people might feel at a loss, right?

So it's better to speak clearly, and do things beautifully, if money should be given, then don't be stingy.

When the car drove into the mountains, the sun had already set, and the afterglow disappeared quickly.

Li Long sent Ha Ha Li Mu and the others to the winter camp, and after the things were unloaded, he returned immediately.

The others didn't stop either, just greeted Ha Ha Li Mu's wife, loaded the things they bought onto the horses, and then hurried home.

The farthest one was estimated to take forty or fifty minutes to nearly an hour.

It wasn't something that could be reached in a short time.

Li Long returned to the courtyard, the moon had already risen, although not fully round, it was quite bright.

Continue tomorrow, and Li Long could see that two days might not be enough.

After all, he planned to slaughter a hundred sheep, two cattle, three red deer, and one roe deer.

Since Ha Ha Li Mu and the others were down the mountain, then don't bother others for one thing, just slaughter them! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 750 =====