Chapter 981: Farming season again: Fritillaria season ends inventory

The goods totaling less than ten thousand yuan, including weighing and calculating, were very fast, and it was done in less than an hour.

It must be said that Huang Lei could ask Huang Ying to come and pick up the goods, which also had a certain reason. Although this Huang Ying had a somewhat arrogant temper, she was still very serious when checking the goods, and she was very familiar with various mushrooms, and the quality standards were all on her lips.

However, at this time, they were basically pure natural goods, plus Li Long handled them very well, so she didn't have much to pick. After weighing and calculating the money, she left one person here to watch the goods, and one person went to hire a car.

Li Long looked at Huang Lei's face and pointed out the location of the transportation company for them to hire a car. The girl named Yuan Yuemei who came with Huang Ying went to find a car, Huang Ying waited in the courtyard, saw Tie Lanhua washing fritillaria here, so she went over and chatted with her.

Li Long was happy to have someone accompany her. After he got the money, he locked the warehouse and went to the front to help.

People who came here to sell goods, nearly half of the outsiders came for Li Long's reputation. At this time, seeing Li Long appear, they were quite excited.

Although Li Long didn't stay here often, he was very skilled in the quality grading of various goods, and he would discuss with Gu Bo Yuan for those he wasn't sure about, which made many people look at him with admiration.

In the backyard, Huang Ying felt that Tie Lanhua was pregnant and still had to work here, so she said to her:

"Your boss is really cruel, you are like this and still let you work... it's really inhumane!"

Tie Lanhua looked at her strangely while washing fritillaria:

"Comrade, your family should be quite rich, right?"

"Hmm, not rich, just better than ordinary families," Huang Ying said reservedly, then asked back: "Why do you ask this? Does it have anything to do with your current situation? I think since you are pregnant, you should rest well..."

"Resting well can't earn money!" Tie Lanhua had almost seen Li Long's attitude toward this Huang Ying the whole time. For this woman, she had her own views. This should be a spoiled woman, but she could care about herself, so her heart wasn't bad. She patiently said: "I'm only a few months?

In the countryside, those who are pregnant and about to give birth are still working in the fields!

"Ah?" Huang Ying really didn't know. Although her family life had ups and downs, she hadn't been treated badly as a girl, and she didn't know about some sufferings in the world.

"You wouldn't think that a woman doesn't have to do anything once she is pregnant, right? I am Hui, not only our ethnic group, but many ethnic groups are like this. Pregnant women still work. Those families that value boys over girls, if they give birth to a girl, they can't even sit through the month after giving birth..."

Tie Lanhua felt that this person was quite delaying her work. However, people were kind, so she said while working:

"My man is working for Boss Li. Boss Li sees that my body is inconvenient to do other things, so he specifically gave me this job. I can do as much as I want, and I can rest. It doesn't delay paying me wages every day... Boss Li's heart is very good, where did he exploit me? If this job was put outside, my salary alone could recruit two strong laborers, do you believe it?"

Huang Ying was stunned, not expecting Li Long to let this pregnant woman work here, it was actually out of kindness!

"Be conscientious in being a person! Boss Li gave me this job out of care, if I don't work well, am I worthy of him?"

Tie Lanhua's words stung Huang Ying. Huang Ying didn't know what to say. She was also kind, but obviously didn't use it in the right place.

It was like a college student accusing those who sit on sedan chairs when climbing mountains. You accuse others of exploiting others, but those who carry the sedan chairs need this salary.

She didn't know what to say. Wanting to compensate Tie Lanhua because of her mistake, she squatted down and wanted to help.

"No, no, no, the water for washing this fritillaria is quite dirty," Tie Lanhua hurriedly stopped her, "You are the boss, you shouldn't do this."

Huang Ying was a bit embarrassed. She really couldn't watch a pregnant woman work while she was at ease on the side. After thinking about it, she still went over to help Tie Lanhua, helping to carry water and take the washed fritillaria to dry.

Li Long came back occasionally to take a look and felt that this Huang Ying was not bad.

The car drove over quickly. Li Long returned to help load the car. After loading the car, he indicated that it was almost mealtime and wanted to invite the two to eat. He was also looking at Huang Lei's face, after all, he could be considered to have friendship with Huang Lei.

Huang Ying and Yuan Yuemei were indeed hungry, so they were taken by Li Long to the state-run canteen to eat, and then they took the car to Wucheng.

During the meal, Li Long asked them how they transported the wild mushroom dry. Huang Ying indicated that Huang Lei had already arranged it for them, go to Wucheng Railway Station to find an acquaintance, and the rest just needed to pay money.

Since it was already arranged, Li Long didn't need to worry too much. However, after Huang Ying and the others left, Li Long still called Huang Lei.

It was still waiting. Ten minutes after hanging up the phone, Huang Lei called back. Li Long told him about this matter, mainly saying that the mushroom dry was transported away.

"Trouble you, Boss Li," Huang Lei said sincerely, "Keep the mushroom dry behind for me. My matter here isn't particularly big, next time maybe I will come to pull the goods myself..."

"Rest assured, I will definitely keep it for you," Li Long felt that it was relatively safe to deal with such people, and said, "Then you handle your matter well."

Li Long didn't go to prove that his mushroom dry was all good, no need. He had this confidence, and believed Huang Lei also knew this. If Huang Lei needed him to prove it, then this business was estimated to be done.

After the phone call, Li Long checked each warehouse and found some inventory in the fritillaria warehouse. After the wild mushroom dry was pulled away, the warehouse was empty, and there were scattered things in other warehouses. For example, hundreds of kilograms of copper coins were collected. He was a bit surprised that so much could be collected for waste copper—this was still after selling a part.

It seemed that although the Northern Xinjiang was remote compared to inside the pass, if calculated, there were still many inventories in each oasis and ancient city. Especially like the money cellar dug out by the eldest brother, there were quite a few.

It was no wonder that copper was always relatively scarce in the Central Plains. Landlords and rich people in the surrounding areas earned money and exchanged it for copper coins and silver ingots, and their first choice was to bury them first—then either they were robbed by war or they couldn't be found.

It didn't know how many years later it would be dug out again.

Li Long didn't have the patience to find if there were any rare varieties among these hundreds of kilograms of copper coins. He thought about finding an opportunity to sell them in Beiting, as they occupied space.

Also collected some silver ingots. These gray-black ones didn't look as good as those ingots in film and television programs, and the shapes were also varied. Most of them had no marks at the bottom, and a few were official silver. This thing could sell for a lot of money in later generations.

Private casting of old years was also worth some money, let's put it aside for now. Anyway, Li Long wasn't short of money in the short term, and these old things basically occupied a warehouse. There were many warehouses in this large area of the acquisition station, not missing this one.

After checking the warehouses one by one, the advantage of this season was that the warehouse was relatively dry. After the collected things were dried outside, they wouldn't get moldy with insects in a short time. However, Li Long was still exploring to do some protection work, putting lime in the corners to prevent moisture, putting some mugwort in the windows, and putting camphor balls on the shelves to prevent insects.

The most troublesome were those skins. In summer, this thing was particularly attractive to flies and insects. Even if the windows were nailed with gauze, there was no way to prevent all insects.

Ordinary skins were sent by Li Long in a car to the county leather factory every week. For those more expensive skins, he could only wait for Zhao Hui to come and collect them. Summer wasn't the peak season for skins, Zhao Hui usually came once a month and could empty the skins in the warehouse.

This time, after selling the fritillaria and wild mushroom dry, Li Long began to distribute dividends. Selling more than two hundred thousand yuan, the actual profit was less than one hundred thousand. According to the plan, two thousand should be given to Gu Bo Yuan, but he still only wanted one thousand.

Li Long gave Sun Jia Qiang a bonus of five hundred yuan and Tie Lanhua a bonus of one hundred yuan. Both couples were very happy.

Meng Hai and the others worked in the mountains. Li Long went once every three to five days to see the road construction situation. At the same time, he would go to issue wages to Meng Hai and the others. What made Li Long relatively gratified was that after the last incident, Li Long went to see the road construction again, that Zhang Xingwang never appeared again, and there were two more floods during road construction, which Meng Hai handled quite well, with no casualties and no lost tools.

The progress of road construction was also not bad. By the end of June, it had extended nearly ten kilometers from the winter camp into the mountains. The roadbeds of these roads were much higher than the ground, and some sand and gravel were paved on top. On rainy days, the tractor pressed over, at least it wasn't in a completely muddy state.

At the end of June and the beginning of July, Meng Hai and the others stopped the road construction, because it was the season of wheat harvest, which was a big event for the rural people in Northern Xinjiang.

Actually, many villagers building the road said that this matter could still be done, and the women at home could harvest the wheat. However, Li Long didn't agree. His road construction matter wasn't urgent, but harvesting grain was absolutely a big event and couldn't be delayed.

Li Long also promised these people that after harvesting the wheat and paying the public grain, if the work of tying big brooms hadn't come by then, they could continue to organize people to build the road.

During this period, the fritillaria season finally passed—actually, the fritillaria in the mountains bloomed in early June and couldn't be harvested. But the fritillaria dug by those medicinal farmers needed to be processed, and it was nearly a month late to sell to Li Long here.

Jia Tianlong came again and swept away the remaining fritillaria in the warehouse, and also took away some fresh snow lotus, licorice, and some velvet antlers and deer antlers. ===== CHAPTER 982 =====