Chapter 992: Li Long, why are you still like this when things can't be sold?

When Li Long received Gu Bo Yuan's call saying that someone named Qiao Xing was looking for him, he was in the courtyard drying small crucian carp.

When he brought them back from the team in the morning, he brought back quite a few small crucian carp—the night before, the old man Li Qing Xia went to cast nets again. This morning, after taking the net, when Li Long went from the front yard to eat breakfast, the old father Li Qing Xia and the old mother Du Chunfang, plus his elder brother Li Jianguo, had already cleaned the fish.

When Li Long came back, he brought back several kilograms of crucian carp, and there were also two black-finned fish. There were also carp and grass carp, but he didn't want them.

Besides the crucian carp he planned to stew at noon, he planned to rub salt on the others and dry them. Eating dried salted fish around the stove in winter was also quite good.

As a snack.

He was drying the dried fish here, and the phone rang there. After Li Long answered and knew Qiao Xing had come, he was a bit surprised.

He also thought for a while before remembering who this Qiao Xing was.

Since people had come, they certainly had to be seen.

Li Long handed the remaining fish to Sister Yang, let her take Mingming and Haohao to do this together, and he walked to the acquisition station.

Qiao Xing wasn't sitting in the reception room; he was watching Gu Bo Yuan and Sun Jia Qiang collecting various materials with interest.

The season for watermelon seeds had passed, and now it was the off-season for the acquisition station. But even in the off-season, there were seven or eight people in the courtyard queuing. Now the main things collected were codonopsis, skins, and miscellaneous things.

Li Long knew some time ago that people had already started picking up jade and selling it to the acquisition station here.

Gu Bo Yuan asked Li Long at the time whether to collect it or not. Li Long thought about it and let them collect it, but the price given wasn't high.

Mainly, the jade picked up by these people was mainly the most ordinary Mahe jade, which was the kind with black fly-shit spots. This kind of jasper, not to mention at this time, even twenty or thirty years later, the price wasn't high.

So in terms of kilograms, it was a few yuan per kilogram. What made Li Long a bit surprised was that after collecting for a period of time, besides collecting hundreds of kilograms of large and small jasper seeds, they actually collected a few pieces of relatively high-quality material.

After all, the Mahe River was so big, there were always some high-quality materials washed down, then mixed in the pebbles, and then picked up by people.

"Hello, Boss Qiao." After Li Long arrived at the acquisition station, he saw Qiao Xing, who was relatively short in the crowd, and stepped forward to greet him, "Let's go, chat in the back?"

"Good, good." Qiao Xing knew that business was important, so he followed Li Long to the reception room in the back.

Tie Lanhua was no longer working in the backyard; her pregnancy was quite advanced, and plus the current work, Sun Jia Qiang could do it, so she didn't need to be here.

After Li Long poured water for Qiao Xing, he asked:

"Boss Qiao came here this trip, to take a look, or to buy things?"

"Definitely to buy things." Qiao Xing said with a smile, "I heard you still have watermelon seeds here, so I wanted to come over and take a look."

Li Long didn't believe Qiao Xing's excuse at all. He guessed that Qiao Xing should know that his watermelon seeds here hadn't been collected by anyone, or he might know the situation on Dong Zhi Chao and Bai Xiu Ming's side.

However, Li Long didn't expose it and asked:

"The watermelon seeds are certainly the same quality level as last year. How much do you want?"

"If it's the quality level of last year, then it depends on how much you have." Qiao Xing was aiming for Li Long's watermelon seeds, so he said with a smile: "Am I collecting the tail end this year too?"

"I have fifty tons here. Do you want them all?"

Li Long interrupted his words and said: "They are all flattened."

"So many left?" Qiao Xing asked with feigned surprise: "There wouldn't be any problems with the quality, right?"

Li Long looked at him and said seriously:

"The quality is certainly no problem. Boss Qiao, you don't need to say that either. You and I both know what's going on. Of course, I can also clearly tell you that although these watermelon seeds are placed here now, it's because I haven't contacted anyone yet.

Although some people might not have come for some reason, it doesn't mean my watermelon seeds can't be sold. With such a big market in the interior, I believe there will be many roasted food factories or food companies willing to acquire my watermelon seeds."

Qiao Xing didn't expect Li Long to speak so straightforwardly. He smiled awkwardly.

"Actually, I won't hide it from Boss Qiao. If you don't come, after the National Day, I actually plan to take a trip to the interior. As far as I know, well-known roasted food factories in the country all have demand for this kind of watermelon seeds, such as Fool's Sunflower Seeds."

Fool's Sunflower Seeds were too famous. This year, they even specifically engaged in prize-winning sales, which raised their reputation to a higher level all at once. It was just that the country subsequently called a halt to prize-winning sales, and next year, which was 1987, the investigation into Nian Guangjiu was launched. But for now, pulling this tiger skin was still okay.

Qiao Xing didn't expect Li Long to have such a plan. His face changed, and then he said with a smile:

"Right, right, right, these seeds are very popular. Then let's take a look at the goods first?"

Li Long stood up and pointed outside. After a trip to Yanjing, plus the experience of his previous life, to be honest, Li Long really wasn't worried about the sales of these seeds. He was just too lazy to run before, plus the fragmented things. If he really waited until after the National Day and no one came to collect them, he really planned to take a trip to the interior.

The two came to the warehouse. Li Long turned on the light and pointed to the bags in this warehouse.

The densely packed bags placed in the big warehouse were still quite spectacular. Qiao Xing was stunned first, then smiled.

"You can check any bag yourself." Li Long pointed to these bags and said, "They are all the same."

Qiao Xing stepped forward, casually untied a bag of watermelon seeds on the outside, grabbed a handful and spread it out to look. Sure enough, they were all flattened, and the grains were full, without impurities, without shriveled seeds or white seeds.

He put down this handful of seeds, reached out and probed hard into the bag, grabbed a handful from the bottom, and looked at these seeds; the quality was the same.

He went to untie other bags, and Li Long stepped forward to tie the bag mouth of this bag.

Qiao Xing looked at a few more bags of watermelon seeds, and they all looked very good. Then he and Li Long tied the bag mouths together. Li Long saw that he didn't tie them tightly, so he retied them again. Qiao Xing was embarrassed again.

"If you don't tie them tightly, they will spill when moving them out." Li Long explained seriously, "This thing is heavier than sunflower, and the bag mouth is easy to come off when moving."

It would have been better if Li Long hadn't explained. A smile of embarrassment would have passed, but with this explanation, Qiao Xing was even more embarrassed.

The two returned to the reception room. Qiao Xing drank a mouthful of water and asked:

"How to calculate the price?"

"That depends on how much you want." Although Li Long hadn't sold a bag of watermelon seeds this year, he wasn't cowardly at all. He certainly wouldn't sell at a low price or even a loss.

"What if I want them all?" Qiao Xing asked tentatively.

"The market this year is like this. If you want them all, I can give you a cheaper price..." Li Long thought for a while and said, "Then three yuan."

He didn't mention 3.5 yuan either. Actually, if he ran to the interior himself, 3.5 yuan would certainly be sellable, and the price might even be higher, but the problem was that it would be troublesome for him to run.

Although Li Long was young, his mentality wasn't that young. If he could not run, or run next year, wouldn't he be able to be lazy?

"Then what if I want ten tons?"

"As long as you don't want them all, then it's 3.5 yuan, no bargaining." Li Long had become accustomed to big business this year and didn't have the patience to talk about small money.

Of course, it was selling things, not buying things. The acquisition station collected things in a fragmented way, but that wasn't handled by him either.

Qiao Xing wanted to bargain, but Li Long waved his hand: "No bargaining."

He really didn't expect Li Long to be so stubborn.

"You don't need to persuade me either. I said it before, I have anticipated this situation. Isn't it just opening up the market in the interior? It's nothing. Anyway, if I want to run, it will take three or five days. If I go to find a few factories to inquire, I don't believe these people still don't want this kind of watermelon seeds?"

As soon as he said this, Qiao Xing didn't speak.

He was calculating the profit.

Actually, Qiao Xing's factory didn't need so many watermelon seeds. The annual sales volume wasn't that big.

But Qiao Xing wanted this quantity—even if he couldn't use them all, he could turn around and sell them to other factories at a markup!

Getting them at 3 yuan, and turning around and selling them to other factories at 3.5 yuan or even 3.8 yuan, pure profit!

It was just that he didn't have that much money on hand.

And the surplus was hard to store.

He thought about it and asked Li Long tentatively:

"How about this? I'll pay a part of the payment first, and then wait for the factory to remit the balance, and then haul the rest away?"

"No, either buy them all together—I don't act as a warehouse here—or pay according to the quantity you actually want to buy." ===== CHAPTER 993 =====