Chapter 766: For Li Long, This Is Nothing

"Section Chief, are you going to be promoted to director?" Li Long asked suddenly.

"Don't, don't, don't speak so loudly!" Li Xiangqian hurriedly lowered his voice and said, "Only one stroke of the eight characters... the notice of appointment hasn't been issued yet..."

"So it's confirmed then?" Li Long also felt a sense of surprise. Although he didn't particularly care about Wei Zhuren leaving, it was hard to say whether the new person would support him just as much as Wei Zhuren had.

If Li Xiangqian became the director, that would be very good. It didn't matter who the section chief of the procurement section was; at least with Li Xiangqian there, the jobs he took every year were definitely guaranteed.

"Almost." Li Xiangqian's smile carried a trace of pride, "Not to mention Director Qian's relationship, I have been in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative for more than ten years. I started from the grain procurement team. It can be said that I have merit in the development of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative from nothing to now."

Li Long heard a lot about this. In any case, Li Xiangqian was capable and was an old man in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. If he was promoted to director, the cooperative shouldn't have any objections.

"Then the young cadre mentioned before..." Li Long asked again.

"Put it in the State Cooperative. People definitely feel that the state is better than the county. The conditions are there, which is normal." Li Xiangqian didn't think about running to the state. His home was here, running to that side was quite troublesome, as for later, let's talk about it.

"Then I will congratulate you in advance." Li Long smiled and said, "Shall I get you a whip in a while?"

"No need, no need." Li Xiangqian waved his hand, "That thing is just an auxiliary, my body is fine. By the way, what's the matter with you coming here?"

"There really is something." Li Long brought up the main business, "The acquisition station is gone, Old Chen and the others left. I saw quite a few people waiting at the acquisition station today to sell things, so I thought about renting that courtyard, acquiring things myself, reselling them, and earning a price difference."

"Speculation and profiteering?" Li Xiangqian joked, "You aren't afraid of being caught."

Li Long was once reported to the anti-speculation office by Gu Ermao, and it was Li Xiangqian who called to ask for him. Joking like this at this time was also revealing Li Long's wound, of course, it was harmless.

"That's definitely not it." Li Long said righteously, "I am solving difficulties for the masses! The old brother I met today, from Beiwucha Shahuodao, if I hadn't helped him acquire the water rat skins, he wouldn't have been able to go back today, and wouldn't even have the money to stay in a hotel.

Now the spare money in the hands of many masses is not much, and they sell these by-products when they need money urgently at home. This acquisition station is gone, and they don't know where to sell things. What if they need money urgently? I am solving this problem..."

"Hey, it's quite noble." Li Xiangqian smiled, "License, right? This is a bit troublesome. You acquire quite a lot of categories of things, you can't just get you a waste acquisition station license, right?"

In fact, it was very difficult to have a waste acquisition station license in later generations, but Li Long didn't care about this, and he didn't want to be the waste king.

He didn't know much about this, just wanted Li Xiangqian to give an idea.

"Then let's have an agricultural and sideline product business license." Li Xiangqian thought for a while and said, "Anyway, most of the things you acquire count as agricultural and sideline products. Skins, medicinal materials, etc., can also be pulled into this."

Li Long thought it was indeed the case, anyway, it was just a name. When handling the license, just expand the business scope.

"You can actually hang this under our Supply and Marketing Cooperative," Li Xiangqian said, "Our Supply and Marketing Cooperative can hang an agricultural and sideline product acquisition station, but forget it... Hanging in our cooperative, it's fine when I'm here, but if the director is changed, it's hard to say whether your acquisition station belongs to the public or yourself."

Li Long nodded. He had thought about this problem. The iron-clad camp and the flowing soldiers, neither Director Qian nor Li Xiangqian could stay here forever. Changing a leader might mean new policies, so it was better for this acquisition station to be in his own hands.

"In this way, look, I will make a phone call to the industrial and commercial side in a while, you go and handle it tomorrow." Li Xiangqian said, "This is not a big deal either. The country is currently encouraging private shops and enterprises, and yours is within the scope of encouragement."

With such a sentence from Li Xiangqian, Li Long was relieved.

The next day he went to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to handle the business license. When he came back, he tore down the original announcement at the gate of the large courtyard.

There were still two people looking at the notice at the gate. Seeing Li Long come over and tear down the notice, they were puzzled, but didn't expect Li Long to post a new piece of paper.

"Little comrade, what do you mean?" One person asked.

"This acquisition station is going to reopen in early spring, this announcement is invalid." Li Long replied, and after posting the announcement, he opened the iron gate of the courtyard, preparing to clear the snow inside.

After the original acquisition station moved away, the courtyard iron gate was locked, and the snow inside was not cleared. Now that Li Long had rented the courtyard, naturally, he had to clean it up first.

To be honest, he didn't expect this matter to be so fast—he was thinking about whether to open an acquisition station the day before, and the next day he handled the business license.

This efficiency... was really a bit high.

Of course, it definitely wouldn't work for someone else.

First of all, without his work permit from the state and the jeep, let alone a business license, it was not certain who the courtyard belonged to.

Secondly, even if it was checked, people wouldn't rent it to you.

Then there was the matter of the business license. For ordinary people, they didn't know how many certificates to open, and materials, etc.

But now with the endorsement of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, it was easy to handle this business license.

Watching Li Long clearing snow, and looking at the notice, the person who asked just now asked with surprise on his face:

"Are you saying that this acquisition station is going to open again? Will it still acquire things? Then does this acquire?"

What he took out of his bag was a pair of red deer antlers.

Li Long was a bit dumbfounded.

He started by selling red deer antlers, and now he opened an acquisition station. Before it opened, someone came to sell red deer antlers. Is this fate?

"Acquire, do you want to sell?" Li Long put down the wooden shovel for clearing snow and asked, "Just this pair?"

"Well, need money urgently." That person was in his thirties, and his speech was quite simple.

"How much per kilogram?" That person asked.

"Six yuan." Li Long looked at the deer antlers in his hand and said, "It's not new from last year, it's been two years, the price can't be high."

He vaguely remembered that the red deer antlers Chen Hongjun acquired last autumn, the new ones with good quality, were already eight yuan.

He naturally wanted to suppress the price when acquiring, and these red deer antlers were of average quality, so this price was fine.

"Okay, I weighed it when I came, this pair of antlers is three and a half kilograms."

"Let me see." Li Long took the red deer antlers and weighed them; they were about three kilograms.

"Twenty yuan." Li Long said, "Sell or not?"

"Okay." That person was also straightforward, handing the red deer antlers with three branches to Li Long.

Li Long first took out money from his pocket, counted two large groups, handed them to the other party, and then took the deer antlers and looked at them seriously. It was fine.

This person took the money, looked at it carefully, nodded at Li Long, turned around, and left in a hurry.

Seeing Li Long acquire the deer antlers, the other person asked:

"Do you acquire an antique I have here?"

"What antique?" Li Long asked with some surprise. He didn't expect anyone to sell this thing.

"Plum vase." That person took out a vase that looked like blue and white color from his black briefcase and said, "Know the Qing Dynasty? Know Emperor Kangxi? It's from that time, an old thing, worth quite a lot of money. I need money urgently now, so I want to sell it."

"How much do you want to sell for?" Li Long saw that the vase was quite exquisite, so he asked.

"One thousand." That person held up a finger, "If this vase is taken to the mouth, it will sell for five or seven thousand. However, I need it urgently now..."

"Sorry, not acquiring." Li Long waved his hand, "Go ask someone else."

"Look at it, it's real, guaranteed!" That person handed the vase over, "There are words on the bottom, there is a mark!"

"Sorry, really not acquiring." Li Long didn't take the vase, stepped back two steps, "Change a place."

Even if this thing was real, he wouldn't acquire it. For one thing, he didn't understand it, and for another, one thousand yuan could acquire quite a lot of things now. Putting such a thing here, the money was pressed here, and it would take at least twenty or thirty years to cash out.

Then acquiring a pile of Hetian jade seed materials would only cost a few hundred yuan, and the final cash-out income would definitely be much more than this.

Seeing Li Long's firm attitude, that person couldn't pester him anymore, put the vase in the bag, and left.

He could also see that Li Long really didn't understand.

In the process of Li Long clearing the whole courtyard, others came to sell things, including fritillaria, licorice, copper coins, and skins.

Fritillaria, licorice, etc., Li Long acquired them. Those copper coins were really rusty, Li Long told him to pick out the useful ones, and he took them away directly.

Skins, Li Long only acquired the rare ones. For ordinary sheepskins, Li Long told him to go to the leather factory to sell them.

Because Li Long didn't know the acquisition price either. He acquired things based on what he had sold, and he had to suppress the price by twenty percent, otherwise, he didn't know whether he could recover the cost when he sold them.

Fortunately, not many people came to sell things in the middle of winter. When the snow in the courtyard was cleared, Li Long acquired less than a sack of things.

Quite a harvest.

The warehouses and offices of the acquisition station were empty at the moment, and they also needed to be cleaned. However, it was not urgent now. Li Long locked the large iron gate and carried the bag back to the large courtyard.

Hearing that Li Long acquired quite a lot of things today, Gu Xiaoxia was also a bit surprised. What was more surprising was that things went so smoothly.

"It seems you really should engage in this acquisition station. It's so smooth, and things are acquired now. Maybe when Jia Tianlong comes next time, you can produce a large batch of goods."

"It's really possible." Li Long smiled, "However, I don't want to sit in the office. If I'm idle, I'll go take a look. If I'm busy, I'll lock it up. Let's not make it so complicated—otherwise, I won't be able to handle it."

"That depends on yourself." Gu Xiaoxia smiled, "Being a boss yourself, when to open and when not to open is all up to your own pleasure."

She now admired Li Long very much. On one hand, the money earned throughout the year was a hundred times more than her salary, and on the other hand, he was relatively free, wanting to do it if he wanted to, and not doing it if he didn't want to.

However, this couldn't be copied. There were so many people in the country, and few could be like Li Long.

Li Long brought the vest back from the Dazhong Clothing Store. It had to be said that the work was indeed fine. The gloves were also good. When Li Long gave them to Gu Xiaoxia, Gu Xiaoxia was quite surprised.

The outside of the leather gloves was velvet, and the fur inside was trimmed short. Li Long's hands were big and couldn't fit in, but Gu Xiaoxia fit in just right, very comfortable.

"I just felt that the pair of gloves I had before was a bit inconvenient, now this pair is really good." Gu Xiaoxia was even a bit surprised, "Really good!"

Li Long was happy, not bad, not bad, the effect was good.

This weekend was the day Li Jianguo slaughtered the pig. Li Long told Sister Yang in advance and let her and Han Fang go together.

Han Fang definitely wanted to go; she still wanted to play with Li Juan. Sister Yang thought about not adding trouble to Li's family, but Gu Xiaoxia didn't agree, saying let her go over to be lively.

"Sister Yang, I won't let you cook today, we'll just go to eat." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "Mingming's dad drives, we'll go comfortably and come back comfortably. When the time comes, bring back some pig slaughtering dishes, and heat them up in the evening and tomorrow morning."

Sister Yang couldn't refuse, so she agreed.

Early in the morning, after eating, Li Long's car started. He drove, Han Fang sat in the passenger seat, Gu Xiaoxia was on the left in the back row, Sister Yang was on the right, and Mingming and Haohao were in the middle.

The jeep drove out of the large courtyard. Han Fang got out of the car to lock the door, then got into the car, and the car flew all the way to the fourth team.

Li Jianguo had already greeted people a few days ago. For the pig slaughtering, Wang Cai Mi had a share, and Xie Yun Dong also came to slaughter the pig this year.

As for the young men who pressed the pig, there were many, Tao Dayong, Tao Daqiang, the three Liang brothers, Xu Haijun, Jia Weidong, etc.

Niu Dajun also came early. Those who came first were either smoking together in the courtyard or preparing with Li Jianguo—the boards for framing the pig, the grass piles for scraping hair, and the stove in the courtyard for boiling water, all needed to be prepared.

Tao Daqiang was busy, and his brother was the same, working as if it were his own family. Since planting the watermelon, Tao Dayong had changed like a different person.

Of course, having earned money, his wife Ma Chunhong didn't have so much to say, and Tao Dayong's status in the family had also changed.

Li Qing Xia and Du Chunfang were in the front yard today. Every day before, the stove in the front yard was added with coal once or twice to warm the house, but today the fire was set up early, and it had been added with charcoal twice before Li Long came.

Li Long drove the jeep to the front yard, needing to settle the children in the house first, and then do other things.

Han Fang ran to play with Li Juan after getting out of the car, and Sister Yang and Gu Xiaoxia held Mingming and Haohao to the west room of the front yard to adapt to the environment before holding them out.

Niu Dajun found Li Long at this time, and Jia Weidong was with him—Jia Weidong also trapped quite a few rabbits, and there were more than a dozen rabbit skins at home.

"I'll go to the leather factory to ask in a few days." Li Long said, "I contracted that acquisition station, and I will open it later. When the time comes, if you have water rat skins, you can send them over again."

"What? You opened an acquisition station?" Niu Dajun felt it was too surprising to hear this news.

Li Long opened an acquisition station, then... for the difficulties in the village, for him, were they all small problems? (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 767 =====

With Li Long opening the purchasing station, does that mean... all those difficulties in the village are just small problems for him now? (End of chapter)