Chapter 75: Is this risk worth taking?

At the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, 36-year-old Li Xiangqian got off the passenger seat of the truck, stomped his feet hard, and asked with a smile:

"What's wrong? Why are you all gathered here? Welcoming me? I can't afford it!"

"Who's welcoming you?" The grandpa at the gate scolded with a smile:

"It's not that the New Year benefits you provided are not in place, so everyone is buying meat outside. Look at how good the meat of this young man is, one yuan per kilogram, and no meat coupons needed."

"So good?" Li Xiangqian walked to the carriage, took off his gloves, and pulled at the remaining sheep neck and said:

"Not bad, it's fresh sheep fat sheep, one yuan per kilogram? Worth it."

"It's a pity there are only two, and they are sold out." Someone who wanted a leg of lamb but didn't get it in the end interrupted.

"This young man can get quite a lot of sheep, this isn't it, he came to you, Section Chief Li, to see if you collect them or not." The old man didn't wait for Li Long to speak, and told his intention.

Li Long was also a bit surprised, this old man was a bit too enthusiastic, but at this time he knew he had to come forward, so he said with a smile:

"Hello Section Chief Li, I am from the Fourth Team of Xinhu Brigade, Hongqi Commune. I have a few friends in the mountains, this sheep was brought to me by them, I can indeed get quite a lot of sheep from them. The sheep there are indeed grass-fed sheep."

In this day and age, there weren't many people who could raise sheep with feed.

"How many can you get?" Li Xiangqian took out a cigarette box from his pocket. Li Long looked at the brand, Golden Leaf.

Li Xiangqian pulled out a cigarette and handed it to the gate grandpa. The old man waved his hand:

"I have the Daqian Sect given by the young man here."

"I see, how come you are helping people say good things." Li Xiangqian smiled, lit a cigarette for himself, exhaled a smoke ring, and asked Li Long:

"I don't collect less than ten."

"Then... no problem." Li Long thought, whether it was Halimu's or Yushanjiang's sheep flock, they were quite large, over a hundred sheep, so slaughtering ten was definitely no problem.

"If the quality of the sheep is all like this, then I want them." Li Xiangqian pointed to the sheep neck on the carriage and said, "Of course, the wholesale collection price won't be one yuan per kilogram, I would lose money that way."

"I know this."

"Alright then, wait until you bring the sheep and then find me." Li Xiangqian took another hard puff of the cigarette, smiled at the gate grandpa and said:

"Second uncle, you gave me a difficult problem!"

"Then why don't you say I solved the problem for you? Just stubborn!" The gate grandpa scolded with a smile, "Go work quickly!"

As he spoke, he waved to others: "Everyone disperse, no meat, you can't handle this roe deer either, wait for the next batch."

People slowly dispersed, the old man said to Li Long:

"Young man, the matter is now like this, see it, collection is definitely collected, it just depends on how many sheep you can get."

"Old man, thank you!" Li Long said sincerely. If it weren't for those few words from the old man, he really wouldn't necessarily have been able to knock this matter down to this point.

"Alright alright, I'm going to return the scale, you also hurry back, Xinhu Brigade is not close to here." The old man waved his hand, bent down to pick up the scale and walked toward the store.

Li Long untied the horse reins and led it back.

Now that the hot blood had receded, Li Long calmed down and found that he was actually a bit impulsive.

This procurement section chief of the supply and marketing cooperative said he would collect sheep, but if he really brought the sheep, Li Long wasn't sure if he would collect them.

And he hadn't discussed it with Halimu and Yushanjiang, he didn't know if they would slaughter the sheep over there, and the money for collecting the sheep had to be paid by himself first. If a sheep was calculated at fifteen kilograms, how to calculate the price when Li Long collected it from Halimu and them? Li Long hadn't asked what the price was when their sheep were sold before.

Thinking about it, he led the carriage to the north of the city, just in time to see an old man dumping garbage.

"Yo? Young man, are you the one who sold fish last time?" That old man shouted, which woke Li Long from his thoughts. He looked, it was actually the one in the large courtyard, the old man who bought all his fish for the first time.

"Hello old man, on such a cold day, why didn't you let your family come out to dump garbage?"

"Family? Hehe, family is not here, I'm the only one in this large courtyard." The old man pointed to his high-gate large-house old residence.

"Alone? That's not very convenient." Li Long said, "Then old man, you'd better go into the room quickly, it's too cold outside."

"Not bad for this moment," the old man looked quite spirited, pointed to Li Long's carriage and asked: "Changed equipment? Driving a carriage to sell fish?"

"Didn't sell fish today, came back from the mountains, pulled a roe deer, and two sheep, but the sheep were bought out."

"Tsk tsk tsk," the old man smiled, "Your business is not bad in this day and age, then... isn't that a sheep neck? Sell it to me? I just like this bite."

"Then old man, you take it and eat it." Li Long felt the old man was quite pitiful, family not by his side, living alone in such a large house, quite desolate.

"Not losing you, two yuan." The old man touched a ticket from his pocket, "Can't eat a few times."

"What do you mean?" Li Long was a bit surprised, "Old man, your health..."

"Thought wrong." The old man smiled and went to take the sheep neck, "My eldest son is in Shanghai, rehabilitated, now working as a deputy editor in a newspaper office, assigned a house, let me go over, I just can't bear to part with this house, but thinking about being alone here, it's not as good as going over there."

"Then this house of yours?" Li Long pointed to the large house and said, "Selling this house?"

"Want to sell, haven't found the owner yet." The old man's smile disappeared, "In this day and age, there aren't many people who can take out hundreds of yuan to buy a house at once. If it's not sold in a few days, then I'll sell it to the street."

"Hundreds of yuan?" Li Long was stunned for a moment, so cheap?

"What? You have money?" Seeing Li Long's expression, the old man smiled, "You can take out five hundred yuan, and I'll sell it to you, it's better than selling it to the street for three hundred yuan."

"To say five hundred yuan, I really have it." Li Long said, "But old man, you aren't joking, right?"

"What joke? I'm so old, can I joke with you?" The old man stared, "Come come come, pull the carriage in, I'll show you my house."

Li Long himself just said it like that, he really hadn't thought about buying a house in the county.

But the talk led to here, he was really a bit curious. He just looked roughly when he entered the courtyard last time, now led by the old man, Li Long planned to look at this imposing old house carefully.

Maybe he really liked it?

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Could it be that you've actually fallen for her?

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