Chapter 785: Disgusting People Have a Set, Who

The two young men left, and Li Long continued with his business.

He hadn't finished unloading the Mongolian gazelle when a group of people came to sell things.

"Hey, I said the collection station must still be open. My old woman said she heard from others that the collection station was closed... I thought if it was closed, wouldn't my skins be hit in vain? I was planning to sell the skins to exchange for some fertilizer."

"Exactly, exactly, these licorice roots of mine have been at home for a long time, exchange them for some money, and buy some seeds and fertilizer. Spring is coming and the snow is melting, so I have to prepare to plant land."

Li Long listened to the voices outside and suddenly thought that he hadn't checked whether Gu Bo Yuan's shop was open for these two days. Right now, it was the season for preparing for farming. If his shop was open, it would just happen to catch the opportunity to make money.

However, Li Long could see that Gu Bo Yuan's opening of the agricultural supplies shop felt a bit Buddhist. If he wanted to open, he opened; if he didn't want to open, he didn't. At the beginning, the motivation to make money was quite sufficient, but now that he had money in his hands, plus his daughter and son-in-law bringing his grandchildren, all living very well, he lost the motivation to make money.

No, he had to appropriately increase some motivation for his father-in-law. At his age, he was only forty-plus, and there were still long days ahead.

This group had six people, selling rabbit skins, licorice, cashmere, and copper coins.

Although Maxian was vast and sparsely populated, it was still an ancient city, with *shouzuo* (a type of garrison) in the Tang Dynasty, and Suilai County in the Qing Dynasty, so some old households still existed in places not very far from the county seat. If there were treasure-hunting methods from thirty or forty years later, they could probably get quite a few things—after all, some old people were still around at this time, knowing some secrets.

After a few more decades, those secrets would disappear with the old people, and future generations wouldn't really know some things.

Li Long didn't refuse any of these things and gave money according to his own marked price.

These people didn't bargain either—or in their minds, this collection station was still public, and whatever price people said was the price.

And for them, these things were just lying at home, and being able to exchange them for money to buy agricultural supplies was naturally better.

Before one o'clock, Li Long collected goods from seventeen people, filled a car full, locked the door, and drove toward the big courtyard.

Returning to the courtyard, Li Long didn't rush to unload the car. After washing his hands, he went into the room, changed Aunt Yang to cook, and he watched the children.

The children slept at noon, and Li Long went to unload the things in the car and put them away by category. It was because this courtyard was big and had many empty rooms, otherwise, it would really be hard to store those things.

Even so, he wanted Jia Tianlong and Zhao Hui to come as soon as possible and take these things away.

Although Li Long still had quite a lot of cash in his hands, to be honest, he really knew that opening a collection station really wasn't something ordinary people could open, it was too capital-intensive.

After putting the things away, Li Long continued to go to the collection station, and someone was already waiting there.

The next day, Li Long drove the tractor into the mountains and pulled the seven small deer from Halimu's place back. Two of the seven small deer were relatively small, and Li Long put them in the big courtyard. He pulled the remaining five to the old horse corral for Uncle Luo and the others to raise.

Red deer sold for a high price last year, so Uncle Luo and the others were also motivated to raise them. These five small deer were raised here. The female deer could give birth to small deer babies in two-plus years, and the male deer could saw velvet in two-plus years, so there would be economic benefits.

Uncle Luo was very satisfied, his team had grown stronger!

Li Long returned to the county. When passing by the collection station with the tractor, he was surprised to find that there were some people surrounding it, and at the entrance of the collection station, there was a pile of garbage!

He understood what was going on in an instant—someone was making trouble!

Eight out of ten, those two young men couldn't escape the blame!

Li Long didn't pass by here in the morning, so he wasn't clear whether this garbage was thrown last night or during the day today.

But no matter when it was thrown, those two people couldn't escape the blame.

Li Long endured his anger and drove the tractor back to the big courtyard, greeted Aunt Yang, put some tools into the jeep, and drove to the collection station.

There were two or three people left waiting. When the jeep arrived, they immediately surrounded it and took the initiative to speak.

"This pile of garbage was here in the morning, we came in the morning, someone must have deliberately sabotaged it!"

"Exactly, should we tell the people at the police station? These people are too bad..."

Li Long recognized these two people. They were also second-hand dealers. After this collection station of his opened, they had already come two or three times. Li Long guessed they should be going to the countryside to collect things and then sell them here to earn a price difference.

"Sigh, bad bastards, don't know when they threw it." Li Long knew that reporting to the police wouldn't be of much use. After all, there was no sky-eye monitoring at this time. These people threw it in the middle of the night, and there was no way to investigate.

He opened the big gate, took out tools, and cleared the road. This garbage had coal ash, rotten leaves, dirty ice, and even feces dug out from some dry toilet.

The temperature wasn't high at the moment, so it hadn't melted much, but it was a bit smelly.

Li Long threw all this garbage outside the big gate and gathered it into a pile, first collecting the goods of those two people.

Both of them came by bicycle. One was carrying a bronze Buddha in a bag. Li Long was a bit dumbfounded and said:

"Old brother, this thing... how do you sell it? Go by copper? If you go by copper, you'll suffer a bit of a loss. If you go by copper, I won't collect these antiques..."

"Just go by the copper price; that's what I bought it for." That older brother was forty years old, wearing a somewhat tattered green plush hat—the kind that looked like the one Chen Xiaoer wore when performing sketches. His face was slightly long, a bit like the long-faced man who committed suicide in the Inspectorate in *Joy of Life*.

"Then fine, I'll weigh it for you first." This bronze statue was a standing statue, with one hand broken. Don't know which Buddha or Bodhisattva it was, Li Long didn't understand much either. He weighed it, it was nine-plus kilograms, Li Long counted it as ten kilograms, one point five yuan per kilogram, and gave the person fifteen yuan.

The older brother smiled and left after receiving the money. Li Long guessed that he had made at least five yuan on this Buddha statue.

Another thing brought was a sack of dried *suoyang* (Cynomorium songaricum). Li Long looked and saw there were new goods from last year, and also old goods. He picked out the broken, snapped, and poor-quality ones, and the remaining twenty-one kilograms of good quality were weighed out.

That person didn't care, feeling that Li Long's behavior was very normal—after all, *suoyang* was quite easy to dig in this era, and it was normal for people to want good ones.

The price Li Long gave was also okay. The year before last, he went to the medicinal company, and the wholesale collection there was five mao per kilogram. Last year, the price rose to six mao, and this year it might rise.

Li Long gave this person four mao, he didn't earn much, and this person was quite happy, took eight point four yuan, and helped Li Long load the *suoyang* into the bag and put it in the car.

After the two left, Li Long set up the stove, and then went to clear away the garbage outside the gate.

Nearby there was a garbage dump, which was a collapsed courtyard. Everyone defaulted to using this place as a garbage station, and everyone's garbage was piled here, and then the official would clear this place every one or two weeks.

After Li Long cleared all the garbage over there, he looked around.

He believed that the person who brought this garbage over must have been watching here at some time today.

There were residents nearby observing here. The expressions of these people included sympathy, indifference, watching the fun, and some were indignant.

Li Long saw all of this in his eyes and carried the tools back.

This matter, not over.

In the afternoon, Li Long collected some more goods at the collection station. When it was almost time for dinner, he locked the door and drove the jeep back.

Returning to the courtyard, Li Long unloaded the things in the car, washed his hands after entering the room, and then went to see the children.

In the evening, after Li Long told Gu Xiao Xia about this matter, he also said his plan:

"You watch the children when sleeping, I'll stay over there, just these two days, I'll definitely be able to catch the person who did this..."

"Then what will you do if you catch them?" Gu Xiao Xia was a bit worried, "Why not report to the police station?"

"Useless, throwing garbage is this kind of thing, unless you catch the person, otherwise the police station can't possibly manage it." Li Long whispered, "Rest assured, I'll take the gun, scare them, they definitely won't dare to move. When the time comes, hand them over to the police station, the police station will definitely be able to investigate this matter well. I know Officer Guo, he will definitely be able to investigate it."

Although Gu Xiao Xia was still a bit worried, she also knew that Li Long was very concerned about this collection station matter, so she repeatedly told Li Long to be careful:

"If it's just one person, you can catch them if you can. If there are many people, don't go over, just scare them, if it really doesn't work, just shoot—but don't let yourself get hurt!"

Li Long told her to rest assured, he knew what to do.

The sky turned dark, Li Long went to the east room to take the gun, loaded it with bullets, and went out.

Ming and Hao had already fallen asleep. Aunt Yang was very experienced in bringing children, and Li Long also told her to cultivate good work and rest for the two children, preferably coordinating with the adults, so that the adults could also rest well.

At the moment, the two children were almost ten months old. Although they were lively and active, it wasn't that troublesome to bring them, and Gu Xiao Xia was also quite worry-free.

Li Long carried the gun to the collection station. At night, there were no street lights, and it was pitch black. Although he brought a flashlight, he didn't turn it on. Relying on his good eyesight, he walked directly to the collection station, didn't open the big gate, climbed over the wall and entered. After entering the room, the stove hadn't gone out, so he added some coal inside, pressed it, and sat on the chair behind the counter to rest.

At night, it was still minus ten-plus degrees outside. Li Long was wearing a big coat in the room, but he didn't feel very cold. Although he looked like he was dozing off, he was very alert. As long as there was any movement outside, he could wake up immediately.

Li Long actually made plans to guard here for three or five nights in a row. One day doesn't work, then two days; two days doesn't work, then four days.

Those people throwing garbage here was nothing more than wanting to disgust him. It was highly likely that they discovered they couldn't start from behind the scenes to get this collection station back, so they were just venting their private anger.

And Li Long guessed that they couldn't get this collection station through official channels, the biggest possibility was that Li Xiangqian's relationship was strong enough, or Director Qian had revealed his relationship with him to some people before.

The biggest possibility was the advanced individual in ethnic unity at the autonomous region level he was carrying on his back.

Don't look at this just as an honorary title. In these two years when ethnic unity activities were being carried out vigorously, if someone really wanted to move him, they had to weigh whether they could suppress the consequences brought about by him flipping the table.

At five o'clock in the morning, there was movement outside, and Li Long opened his eyes.

He lightly moved his slightly stiff body, carried the gun, and approached the door, hearing two people whispering outside.

"This job of ours is quite easy, throwing garbage once is five yuan, it's just a bit troublesome to get up in the middle of the night..."

"If there's money to earn, just be happy, others want to earn but can't. Come, come, come, throw these garbage into the courtyard with an iron shovel. I specially went to the canteen to get some swill, this smell isn't good, it'll stink for half a month when the snow melts in two days!"

Li Long slowly pulled the door open, bent down and touched outside.

Through the iron gate, he could see two people carrying two bags of garbage and pouring them toward the courtyard gate. After one poured it, he even used an iron shovel to remove the garbage and throw it inside the wall.

He touched the corner of the wall, and while the two were still laboriously pouring garbage at the big gate, he exerted force and climbed onto the wall. Before the two reacted, he had already rushed down, kicked both of them to the ground with one kick each!

It wasn't those two young men.

Thinking about it, it was normal. Those two people probably believed in "a son of a thousand gold doesn't sit under a dangerous hall," how could they possibly come over in person? Spending some money to hire people to disgust him was their limit.

People in small places, their hearts couldn't be dirty to any extent, and it was impossible to get to the point of hurting or killing people for such a small matter.

The two people lying on the ground screaming hadn't reacted yet. Li Long kicked the two iron shovels to the side, stepped forward and kicked a few times to vent his anger.

These two bags of garbage were, as those two people just said, much smellier than yesterday's.

The screams of the two people spread far away in the quiet night. Li Long didn't care whether it would attract others, kicked a few times, then pointed the gun at the two people:

"Give me back the garbage as it was! If you dare to run, I'll break your legs!"

These two people looked at Li Long holding the gun. No matter how painful it was, they could only endure it. After climbing up, they wanted to pick up the iron shovel to pack the garbage, but Li Long said fiercely:

"Use your hands! Take off your gloves, don't look, believe it or not, I'll break your legs!"

The two didn't dare to test whether Li Long would really shoot. They still knew the power of this thing.

The garbage was very smelly, and some hadn't solidified yet. Li Long let them use their hands, and they didn't dare not to follow, squatting there and starting to pack it into the garbage bags with their hands.

One of them packed and packed and moved to a place five or six meters away from Li Long, and then, taking advantage of Li Long not paying attention, climbed up and ran!

This person usually ran very fast, he bet Li Long couldn't run past him!

Li Long sneered, kicked the one who didn't run to the ground with one foot, bent down and picked up the iron

"Ah—"

The iron shovel spun and smashed fiercely onto the man's lower leg. The man screamed and collapsed to the ground, clutching his lower leg and howling in misery.

The one on this side had still been cursing Li Long under his breath, wondering what the other man's escape had to do with him. But after seeing the miserable state of that man, he stopped complaining, obediently put the trash back, and then stood there holding the trash bag, looking at Li Long.

"Throw it at the landfill!" Li Long pointed his gun at him. "Move!"

After the trash was cleared away, someone came out to see what was happening, but they didn't ask about the situation and retreated back inside.

The man was howling on the road while clutching his leg. Li Long walked over and kicked him, telling him to get up.

The iron shovel had hit his left leg. Li Long pulled the man up, and the man still wanted to play dumb. Li Long picked up the iron shovel and said:

"If you don't want to walk, then how about I give your right leg a hit, how's that?"

He was immediately able to walk—hopping along, which counted as walking.

Li Long escorted the two men to the police station.

The police officer on duty at the station had just heard the screams, but because there was some distance, he was still standing at the station's main gate, peering out to see what was going on.

When he saw Li Long escorting the two men over, he asked in surprise:

"Eh? Xiao Li? What's going on?"

Li Long had delivered meat to the police station and had shoveled snow with everyone, so the police officers at the station were quite familiar with him.

"These two jerks threw trash into the courtyard of my purchasing station, and they've done it twice now," Li Long said indignantly. "They even threw feces. The people who went to the purchasing station to sell things yesterday were affected... it's too disgusting!"

This police officer's surname was Qin, and his name was Qin Hongjie. He immediately understood what was going on, but he didn't say it out loud and followed Li Long to bring the two men into the police station.

After taking Li Long's statement, he let Li Long go back. As for the two men, they were directly handcuffed to the radiator in the "Qin Qiong carrying a sword" style, and left to wait.

The two men began to wail, but soon there was no sound.

Li Long carried his gun on his back and returned to the large courtyard.

Xiao Hei heard his footsteps and ran over happily, sniffing him incessantly.

Li Long thought to himself that it must have smelled the stench on him—even though the trash had been cleared away, he must have gotten some of that smell on himself.

Gu Xiaoxia was latching the door. Li Long knocked twice, and her voice came from inside:

"Who is it?"

"It's me," Li Long replied.

Gu Xiaoxia hurried over to open the door and pulled Li Long into the room.

"You must be frozen, right?" she asked with concern, helping Li Long take off his gun and stand it to the side, then going to pour him some water.

"No, there's a stove set up in the purchasing station," Li Long said while taking off his coat. "Two hoodlums, I sent them to the police station. Officer Guo might come over tomorrow to tell me the situation. It's fine now, I'll wash up, and we can still sleep for a while... you didn't sleep, did you?"

"I couldn't sleep," Gu Xiaoxia said truthfully; she was truly worried about Li Long.

"Sigh..." Li Long sighed. "Then hurry up and sleep; you have to go to work at dawn."

"It's fine, there's less to do in the office these two days. It's okay if I sleep a little less; as long as you're fine, that's all that matters."

The room was very warm, and the fire in the stove was still burning brightly; it seemed Gu Xiaoxia had been adding fuel to it the whole time.

The two quickly got into the quilt. Li Long didn't say anything more, held Gu Xiaoxia, and closed his eyes.

He actually didn't sleep much, mainly worried that Gu Xiaoxia would oversleep after finally falling asleep. He was young, so staying up for a night or two was nothing. When it was past eight o'clock, Li Long quietly climbed up to prepare to set up the stove, only to find that Gu Xiaoxia was no longer on the bed.

When he turned his head to look, Gu Xiaoxia was changing diapers for Mingming and Haohao.

"Why did you get up? You stayed up all night, why didn't you sleep a little longer?" Gu Xiaoxia heard the movement and looked at him while changing the diaper.

The two children were also sitting there looking at him.

Li Long felt warm inside.

Happiness. (End of chapter)