Chapter 866

There had been quite a lot of people coming to sell mushrooms these days. Li Long guessed that it might be because the fritillaria was gone, and what could be produced in the mountains was only mushrooms—antlers were not so easy to pick, and it depended on luck.

And it wasn't time to dig for Codonopsis yet. It was okay to dig and sell it now, but it was very empty and couldn't be dried to weight. People who often picked herbs in the mountains all knew this point, so there were people digging for Codonopsis now, but relatively few.

Some people encountered Codonopsis washed out by mountain water when they went into the mountains to pick other materials, and those with relatively large sizes were brought back.

The most were still mushrooms, dry, semi-dry, and fresh. Li Long had told Sun Jia Qiang that fresh and semi-dry straw mushrooms were not collected—this thing carried insects, and as long as they were picked late, the mushrooms dried would be full of insect holes.

So only dried goods were collected, and it was best to be top-quality.

Now, in the red brick ground of the purchasing station's backyard, it was swept clean, and quite a few mushrooms were being dried.

Fortunately, most of those who came to sell morels and black tiger palm mushrooms were dried goods. Gu Bo Yuan needed to grade them, and Sun Jia Qiang needed to sort them.

Now, the number of people coming to the purchasing station to sell things every day basically remained at about thirty or forty. Of course, occasionally there would be a sudden large-scale seller, and there would also be days when most were scattered sellers.

Whether it was Li Long or Gu Bo Yuan, they both knew that this was already considered to have entered the stage of a virtuous cycle. Putting these thirty or forty people in a whole day was not much. Precisely because of this, Sun Jia Qiang would have time to sort those goods.

After Li Long gave him a bonus of fifty yuan, Sun Jia Qiang's enthusiasm for work suddenly rose—the salary this month was fifty, the bonus was fifty, totaling one hundred yuan.

One hundred yuan! Before coming to the mountains of Northern Tianshan to make a living, his family couldn't save one hundred yuan in three years!

That night, Sun Jia Qiang cried in the dormitory under the quilt for half an hour. In one month, he earned the money his family once earned in three years.

The next day, Sun Jia Qiang got up and worked even harder. Although Li Long said that he might not be able to get such a high bonus every month later, this was also a good start.

It showed that his choice was correct. In the first month, people gave such a high salary, could he not work hard?

Sun Jia Qiang's abnormal performance actually gave Gu Bo Yuan a fright. After asking clearly about the situation, he was also quite emotional, and then told Sun Jia Qiang that now the country had said that more work meant more pay. Sun Jia Qiang did a lot of work, things were mixed, and the efficiency was good, so naturally, he could get more money.

The monthly net income of the purchasing station was tens of thousands, and Gu Bo Yuan himself could get ten thousand every month. Could this be imagined?

He was just like dreaming.

In the next few days, Li Long would go to the purchasing station every day to see. There were no particularly large-scale things to collect at the purchasing station, mainly daily ones.

Occasionally encountering a seller of copper coins or antiques was his pleasure.

At this time, although there were already people "inside the pass" slowly starting to collect those old objects through various channels, most of them were based on relatively high-grade similar official kilns or those with inheritance. Ordinary folk old objects, unless they were precious items like gold, silver, and jade, were not worth money.

Li Long had collected quite a few silver dollars here, ordinary Yuan Datou, and those minted by local provinces.

Since opening the purchasing station half a year ago, he had collected over a hundred silver dollars—the cost was from two or three yuan per piece at the beginning to five yuan per piece now—the price had risen.

There was no way, follow the market. The purchasing station on the market side was also this price, probably knowing the profit in it.

However, Li Long didn't plan to sell. After collecting them, he took them directly back to the big courtyard, put them into the cellar, and cleaned them regularly.

Liu Xinjun had been running to purchasing stations in nearby counties and cities these two days. What surprised him was that these purchasing stations were all deserted, and the business was bleak.

But the attitude of the purchasing staff inside was very bad, which made him very dislike it.

Liu Xinjun also specifically came out to look, and inquired again, knowing that this was private. Were private ones so arrogant now?

If the attitude was a little better, the business wouldn't be so bad, right?

Although Liu Xinjun was sometimes quite arrogant, it also depended on who it was for. For those who could bring him profit and money, he never stinted on his smile.

There were many people "inside the pass," and business competition was fierce. Liu Xinjun had long known this point, otherwise, he couldn't make money.

After running around, Liu Xinjun ran to other counties and cities for two days, and then thought of Li Long again.

The purchasing station business of this young man could be done so well, the service attitude was very critical. Of course, there must be other factors, but he didn't know much about it yet.

In these two days, Liu Xinjun collected less than twenty kilograms of dried mushrooms, and none of them were top-quality, which made him have to think about going back to Li Long's place to try.

At worst, he would let go of the profit, earn a little less, and at least be able to send the things back.

After experiencing the events of these two or three days, Liu Xinjun also understood that at this time, holding onto a person who could continuously provide the materials he needed was much more important than earning a few hundred or thousands of yuan!

Liu Xinjun bought a bus ticket to Maxian in the morning. He planned it out, and it would be about twelve o'clock when he arrived in Maxian. At that time, he could chat with Li Long, and then invite Li Long to a meal. Even if he didn't have many dried mushrooms there, one was to collect them, and two was to build a good relationship, so that he could guarantee that the dried mushrooms collected later would be sold to him.

Such a prosperous purchasing station would definitely be able to collect a lot of dried mushrooms in the upcoming mushroom season. Black tiger palm mushrooms were treasures in the mountains, earning much more than ordinary mushrooms.

When Liu Xinjun got off the bus, he was still looking forward to it. After arriving at the purchasing station, he must talk to Li Long well, not be impatient, and must take down this boss today.

When he walked from the bus station to the purchasing station, the dacron shirt on his body was already soaked with sweat. Not only was his body hot, but his heart was also burning—mainly because looking at the long queue in the purchasing station courtyard, he even smelled the fragrance of wild mushrooms.

Look at this, this is a good partner. Unlike those purchasing stations seen in the previous two days, one by one listless and dying.

People compare with people and die, goods compare with goods and should be thrown away!

Liu Xinjun had already regarded this purchasing station as his partner, and seeing the prosperous business here, his heart was so beautiful.

Carrying his bag, he walked into the courtyard, shouting "Let me find the boss" while squeezing inside, and said to Sun Jia Qiang:

"This Comrade Sun, trouble you to go and call your boss again, okay?"

"Looking for the boss?" Sun Jia Qiang looked at this person, his expression a bit strange. He recognized that this was the second person who came to collect dried mushrooms. He didn't know why Li Long didn't sell the remaining wild mushrooms to him.

"The boss is in the backyard, you can see it if you go around from the east." Sun Jia Qiang said, "Go ahead."

That would be too good. Liu Xinjun thanked him with a smile, turned around, and wanted to go around to the backyard.

Sun Jia Qiang immediately stood up, rushed from the inside to the back, and before Liu Xinjun arrived at the back, he had already told Li Long about this person coming.

"He came too?" Li Long's expression was a bit surprised, and then he smiled, "Then let him come over."

Sun Jia Qiang continued to return to the front yard and started to get busy. Liu Xinjun arrived at the back half a minute later.

He felt that this purchasing station was really good. The front yard and backyard were paved with red bricks, swept clean, and there was tea in the courtyard—just now it was because he drank half a bowl of tea that he came late.

Arriving at the backyard, Liu Xinjun was thinking about how to greet Li Long more appropriately. What entered his eyes was a ground of wild mushrooms being dried, most of which were morels, which made him look rare.

These would be his things soon—just these goods were much better than those seen in other purchasing stations in the previous two days.

Then he raised his head and was dumbfounded—why was Huang Lei here?

Yes, Huang Lei also came over.

Yesterday afternoon, he received the telegram and the money remitted by his partner. After taking it, he rushed over early this morning.

Although Huang Lei didn't know that Liu Xinjun came to find Li Long, he was also afraid of long nights and many dreams, and it would be troublesome if something else went wrong.

Arriving at the purchasing station, he just happened to meet Li Long, and then they chatted. In Huang Lei's view, building this cooperative relationship with Li Long was simply too beautiful. Looking at the mushrooms dried in the courtyard, he knew.

He came over this time to take away those mushrooms he had checked before—the partner not only remitted the money but also gave an evaluation, saying that the quality of the dried mushrooms pulled over this time was very good. If they were all this kind of mushrooms, he wanted as many as there were, and the price could be raised later.

Huang Lei was very happy.

When Liu Xinjun came over, Li Long was settling accounts with Huang Lei—Huang Lei came early and had routinely checked the mushrooms he checked last time again. This check was not so detailed.

After checking and weighing, he was paying. This time Huang Lei strongly requested to pay Li Long for the bags, and Li Long didn't refuse.

Although the black tiger palm mushrooms this time were not as many as the morels last time, nor as expensive as the morels, in just these two or three days, Li Long had received over fifty kilograms of dried morels, seventy or eighty kilograms of old black tiger palm mushrooms, and over ten kilograms of fresh black tiger palm mushrooms this year.

In June, there were already relatively hot places, and black tiger palm mushrooms had already started to grow.

Over fifty kilograms of morels sounded like a lot, but these were goods picked out from the southern mountains of several nearby counties and cities. When spread out, it was not much.

Li Long's purchasing price was slightly higher than that of several other purchasing stations. Even if the ticket money was deducted, he could still earn a few more yuan. These people all understood that they were small businesses, so even if it was a few yuan, they hoped to earn it.

So, calculating it, this time it was more money sold than last time. The money Li Long received from Huang Lei was 12,926.8 yuan.

Huang Lei directly gave 12,930 yuan. He calculated the extra three yuan and some as bag money.

The bags for loading goods were all bought by Li Long uniformly. For these people who came to sell things, they wanted to take the bags back—in this era, a fertilizer bag was also an important living resource for ordinary families, and they wouldn't give it to people casually.

When Liu Xinjun saw Huang Lei, the expression on his face was much more wonderful.

He looked at Li Long again, and his gaze was much more complicated, and there was a bit of resentment in his heart: clearly I have regarded you as a partner, why can you still hook up with this person?

You really have no professional ethics!

Li Long didn't know that Liu Xinjun had imagined a big drama, and said with a smile:

"Boss Liu is here? Hello, hello. This is Boss Huang, also here to collect mushrooms."

"Didn't you say you didn't have mushrooms? This courtyard of mushrooms, are these bags all mushrooms?" Liu Xinjun still wanted to maintain his demeanor, but looking at the mushrooms in so many bags, he completely exploded: "Why didn't you say you had mushrooms when I came last time? How can you lie to people? Too dishonest!"

So many dried mushrooms, if he bought them and sent them to his hometown "inside the pass," he could earn at least two or three thousand!

This Li Long, really is not a thing!

"These mushrooms were all reserved by Boss Huang." Li Long was not angry. He could understand this Boss Liu's mood and said seriously: "Boss Huang reserved the dried mushrooms here the day before I came, because the transport capacity was limited, he only pulled away a part, and these are the remaining ones."

He didn't have any conflict with Liu Xinjun, so he wouldn't completely offend Liu Xinjun because of Huang Lei.

But it would have been better if he didn't explain. With this explanation, Liu Xinjun was even more angry. Was it still my fault?

Huang Lei heard this, first stunned, then angry.

Not to mention Liu Xinjun tricked him into Southern Tianshan, he even came to pry his partner! If it weren't for Li Long doing business with integrity, promising that what was his was his, now I'm afraid he wouldn't have goods to collect even if he came!

While rejoicing that he found an excellent business partner, he was also angry at Liu Xinjun's shamelessness. For the first time, he put away his smile and looked at Liu Xinjun:

"Liu Lao, are you a bit too much? It's fine that you tricked me into Southern Tianshan. I didn't know people well, so I'm unlucky. You actually came to pry my corner. This is not something a decent businessman should do!"

"What's wrong? Is your name written on the mushrooms here?" Liu Xinjun had calmed down and started to act like a rascal. "Even if these mushrooms are reserved by you, what about these on the ground? Dried mushrooms are good things, do you understand that the highest bidder gets them? Can you buy them, and I can't?"

"I'll tell you the truth, I'm not going against you. Your going to Southern Tianshan was my suggestion. I just wanted to separate from you, so it's not easy to have conflicts. As for you not collecting things in Southern Tianshan, that's because your ability is not good!"

Liu Xinjun knew that he couldn't take advantage today anyway, but it could be seen that Li Long was quite reasonable here. After regaining his sanity, he also knew clearly that he didn't talk well with Li Long, so there was nothing to say.

He planned to wait for Huang Lei to leave and see if he could sign an exclusive contract with Li Long. In that way, the dried mushrooms could continuously enter his pocket later.

Even a high price would be fine. As long as Huang Lei was squeezed out, he could adjust the price later.

Huang Lei was so angry, but he also knew that he couldn't talk over this sharp-tongued fellow townsman, so he ignored him, turned his head, restored his smile, settled the money with Li Long, called the day laborers he found at the bus station when he came today from the outside, and left with the dried mushrooms on his back.

Only what's in the pocket is one's own. Huang Lei said to himself, send the things away first.

Anyway, he had recognized Li Long. After sending the things away, he would come back immediately!

Let's see what tricks Liu Xinjun can play!

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