Chapter 282: Bear Gallbladders Have Also Risen in Price

Wang An heard the laughter and couldn't help but look back.

Then Wang An glared at this receiver hard before turning and leaving.

Mainly, this person was too much; he didn't know how to restrain himself at all. Even waiting for Wang An to walk far away would have been fine!

Besides, if you want to laugh, laugh properly; why are you slapping the table and slapping your thighs? Aren't you afraid of laughing until you have a spasm?

Wang An didn't pay attention to the receiver and walked straight to the medicinal herb counter.

Actually, the distance between the counters wasn't far.

So the conversation between Wang An and the fur receiver was also heard by other sales clerks.

Seeing Wang An arrive, this female receiver at the medicinal herb counter, who was relatively public-spirited, immediately forcibly held back her laughter.

This receiver wasn't very old, looking to be about twenty-five or twenty-six.

Perhaps she felt that such schadenfreude didn't seem very good, so she forcibly held back her laughter.

However, laughter is something that, when it's in progress, is seriously not easy to hold back.

Because this is just like having diarrhea or needing to pee urgently; when it's in progress, trying to forcibly hold it back is the same.

You can recall—no, you can think back, is it easy to hold back?

So these three situations are actually exactly the same.

At this moment, this receiver was holding back her laughter while looking at Wang An, but she just couldn't speak.

Because as long as this receiver opened her mouth, the diarrhea and urine—no, the laughter—would definitely not be able to be held back.

Wang An placed the 4 bear gallbladders on the counter and, without speaking, looked at the receiver with drooping eyes.

After a while, this receiver was still covering her mouth with one hand, and her other hand seemed to be pinching her own thigh.

Wang An was helpless, so Wang An said:

"Why don't you just laugh for a while? Otherwise, I don't think you can do this job."

The receiver heard this and no longer held it back, laughing "Hahahaha..." endlessly.

Then, a very strange scene appeared at the medicinal herb counter of the supply and marketing cooperative.

A man stood expressionlessly outside the counter, watching a woman inside the counter laughing loudly.

This made Wang An angry; this woman was like she had never laughed in her life.

The key is, was it that funny? F*ck!

After another while, this woman finally finished laughing.

They heard the receiver say while laughing:

"I'm sorry, don't mind me. It's mainly because the price of bear gallbladders has also risen."

Wang An was stunned upon hearing this and subconsciously looked outside the counter.

Because Wang An had been watching this woman laugh foolishly, he really hadn't noticed the newly posted purchasing price list.

They saw that on the new price list, the price for individual gallbladders had been canceled; now it wasn't about size, only about weight in grams.

Black bear gold gallbladder: 14 yuan per gram.

Black bear iron gallbladder: 9 yuan per gram.

Black bear grass gallbladder: 6 yuan per gram.

Brown bear gold gallbladder: 6 yuan per gram.

Brown bear iron gallbladder: 5 yuan per gram.

Brown bear grass gallbladder: 4 yuan per gram.

Wang An finished reading the price list and sucked his teeth hard again.

This f*cking, even without counting the furs, just counting the bear gallbladders, in just these few days, Wang An and Mu Xueli would each have to lose 400-something yuan!

400-something yuan, what kind of concept is that? Almost a formal employee's annual salary!

Thousands of "holy craps" wanted to come out of Wang An's mouth.

After the receiver finished speaking, she picked up the scale and began to weigh the bear gallbladders.

Two black bear gold gallbladders: one was 59.8 grams, the other was 65.3 grams.

Two black bear grass gallbladders: one was 64.2 grams, the other was 54.7 grams.

One has to say, China's scales were still very impressive, being able to weigh even zero-point-something grams.

After the receiver finished weighing, she began to carefully test the quality of these four bear gallbladders and even used an awl to pierce all these bear gallbladders.

And after the receiver pierced the bear gallbladders, she even poured out some gallbladder powder and tasted it.

Wang An saw this and knew why it had changed.

Before, when the supply and marketing cooperative purchased bear gallbladders, it wasn't this much trouble; after determining what kind of gallbladder it was, they would weigh it directly and calculate the money.

However, doing it that way before obviously left many loopholes to exploit.

Just as Wang An knew in his past life in the south, bear gallbladder is something that can be faked. Because whether in the south or the north, there are bears.

And no matter where the bear gallbladder is from, it is a very valuable thing; the key is that this thing is calculated by weight.

So in order to increase the weight of the bear gallbladder to sell for more money, people figured out many methods.

There is one method that people use most often: when the bear gallbladder is just taken out, they grind peeled mung beans into powder and then stuff it in from the gallbladder opening.

When the bear gallbladder dries, the mung bean powder will be mixed into the gallbladder powder to achieve the purpose of passing off the fake as genuine.

One has to say, the brains of the people who figured out these methods were definitely good enough.

Although this bear gallbladder thing has an approximate weight based on its size.

But even if there was one mung bean's worth of powder more, the price of a bear gallbladder would be quite different.

Besides, if you draw out a portion of the real gallbladder bile and stuff in a lot of mung bean powder, the price difference could be even more outrageous.

However, most people in this era still value reputation.

Although there must be a few people who would do this, it's all normal; with hundreds of people, there are all kinds of people, no problem.

The receiver's series of operations, Wang An just watched without speaking.

Because this receiver definitely didn't want to do this herself, but was required by her superiors.

So things that can't be changed must be accepted, because there's no way even if you don't accept it.

After testing, the receiver began to click the abacus.

One has to say, although this woman laughed foolishly endlessly and was still laughing now,

whether it was testing the bear gallbladders or clicking the abacus, she was seriously quite professional.

After the receiver finished clicking the abacus, she began to write on a receipt and then tore it off and handed it to Wang An.

The two gold gallbladders totaled 1751.4 yuan, the two grass gallbladders totaled 713.4 yuan, and the four bear gallbladders totaled 2464.8 yuan.

Wang An took the three receipts and walked toward the finance office of the supply and marketing cooperative.

And after Wang An left, this medicinal herb receiver laughed "zhi-zhi-zhi" again.

When Wang An walked to the door of the finance office, he heard the people inside laughing, and they were discussing Wang An selling for less money while laughing.

One has to say, the speed of spreading such gossip is seriously not just ordinary fast.

When Wang An walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative with 3985.8 yuan, his ears were instantly much cleaner.

One can imagine, how idle must these sales clerks at the supply and marketing cooperative be when there are no customers?

Before Wang An walked out of the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, he discovered that the old brother at the gun sales counter was no longer at the counter.

So Wang An carried the sack containing the guns and walked toward the corner to the west of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Wang An had already seen all kinds of rotten people, and of course, he had also killed quite a few rotten people.

So Wang An kept an eye out and, before going, loaded the large 54 in his pocket.

When Wang An walked to this corner with one hand in his pocket touching the large 54 and the other hand carrying the sack,

he discovered that not only was that old brother there, but a middle-aged man was also standing there.

Seeing Wang An come over, the old brother hurriedly walked over with a smile.

Then the old brother took the sack from Wang An's hand and checked the four double-barrel shotguns one by one again.

After checking one, the old brother handed the gun to the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man checked it very carefully as well.

Soon, after checking all the guns, the middle-aged man handed a large stack of "Great Unity" (10-yuan notes) to the old brother.

The old brother was even more straightforward, counting out 20 notes and putting them into his own pocket before handing the rest of the money to Wang An.

The whole set of actions was done openly and honestly, without hiding or concealing anything.

It was almost as if he were saying clearly: I earned 200 yuan, and I earned it right in front of you.

Actually, Wang An quite liked the old brother's way of doing things; earn what you should earn, all out in the open, no problem at all.

Wang An took the money and counted it; it was exactly 1600, so he casually put the money into his pocket and took out a cigarette, handing one to each of the two people.

After each took a puff, they waved at each other and left.

Throughout the whole process, the three people didn't say a single word.

Begging for follow-reads, begging for tickets, thank you, thank you.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 283 =====