Chapter 83: Northeast Local Specialties Hit the Shelves

After finishing with his mother and grandmother, he spoke to his great-aunt about the timber.

"Great-aunt, I bought a batch of timber in the Northeast and shipped it back by train. I've already entrusted someone to transport it to the western courtyard. You can go take a look tomorrow. There are 7 types of wood, 300 cubic meters."

His great-aunt nodded and said, "I was wondering why I heard thumping outside. Good. The inverted house has been cleared out. I threw away everything nobody wanted. Since the timber is back, we'll start making roof beams, window frames, and furniture tomorrow."

Li Xuewu said to his great-aunt, "There have been some changes. I have some use for the western courtyard. I'll tell you the details tomorrow. I need to harness the horse cart and go out for a trip now to help Shen Guodong's family haul some things."

Liu Yin saw that Li Xuewu was about to leave just after returning, so she asked, "What are you hauling in the middle of the night?"

Li Xuewu didn't let his great-aunt come out, indicating he could harness the cart himself, and replied to Liu Yin, "I don't know what I'm hauling yet. I won't have time tomorrow during the day, I have other things to do, so I'll help him get it done tonight."

Liu Yin knew the situation at Shen Guodong's house, so she didn't ask further.

Li Xuewu stroked the baby girl's little hand, led the horse out the main gate, harnessed the cart, and drove toward Wen San'er's house.

It was pitch black this time, and there was no one on the road. When he was close to the black market, Li Xuewu stopped the cart. In the darkness, he placed two barrels of white liquor at the front of the cart, five sacks of radishes and five sacks of potatoes on both sides, stacked a pile of cabbage in the middle, and placed a roll of soybean oil at the tail of the cart.

Three sacks of wild mushrooms, black fungus, and daylily buds were stacked behind the liquor.

Four sacks of red dates, walnuts, hazelnuts, and pine nuts were stacked on top of the cabbage in the middle.

Seeing the big blue horse shifting its hooves, which meant it was reaching its limit, Li Xuewu didn't take out any more. He led the horse slowly into the alley.

Stalls hadn't started setting up on the street outside yet; that wouldn't happen until the second half of the night.

Li Xuewu drove the horse cart into the alley and stopped in front of Wen San'er's house.

This guy definitely locked his door at night; no need to guess, those few books were almost worn out from being flipped through.

Li Xuewu tried pushing the door; sure enough, it was locked. He shouldn't have doubted his third uncle's character.

It was late at night, so it wasn't good to shout at the door. He could only climb over the wall. This was child's play for Li Xuewu.

He jumped into the courtyard, opened the main gate, parked the cart in front of Wen San'er's door, and turned back to close the gate.

When he walked back to the door, he saw Wen San'er, Lao Biaozi, Shen Guodong, and Yang Erhai'er were all there.

Li Xuewu was startled: "Holy crap, what are you guys doing!"

The four of them laughed "Hahaha" when they saw Li Xuewu startled.

Because Li Xuewu was afraid of the cold on his face, he was wearing a cotton mask and had pulled the earflaps of his cotton hat down, so they couldn't see he was injured.

Lao Biaozi said with a cheeky grin, "We knew Brother Wu would be back these few days, and it would definitely be at night. Since we have to rush to the pigeon market every night, we all stayed here."

Li Xuewu said while lifting the felt cover, "Then you guys are affecting Third Uncle's reading of *Jin Ping Mei*."

"Get lost!" Familiar with Li Xuewu, Wen San'er dared to crack a few jokes.

Seeing Li Xuewu lift the felt cover, the few of them opened their mouths wide. Good heavens, a small mountain of local specialties!

Yang Erhai'er exclaimed in surprise, "How much money must this be worth!"

Li Xuewu gently stroked Yang Erhai'er's head and said, "Take your time looking later. Go keep watch."

After saying this, he said to the other three, "Clear out Third Uncle's western room. Throw the junk into the courtyard. Hurry up and unload the cart."

Yang Erhai'er went out to keep watch very familiarly.

The other three responded and all walked toward the western room. They were all young men, and the western room only had some old furniture piled up, so they cleared it out in no time, placing the millet and a few baskets of eggs in the middle room.

Only then did they start unloading the goods from the horse cart.

White liquor, radishes, potatoes, cabbage, soybean oil, wild mushrooms, black fungus, daylily buds, red dates, walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts.

The western room was piled full. Seeing these things, Wen San'er was a bit dumbfounded. Could he still sleep well?

Li Xuewu was in a hurry to go back and said concisely, "This is just a part of it. There's a lot more. I'll bring more here after this batch is sold. Same thing as before: collect the customer list early, and we'll get out of here early. The wind is blowing tight; once this batch of supplies is sold, we'll have the ability to change locations and establish a legitimate business."

Wen San'er and Lao Biaozi wanted to ask for details, but Li Xuewu waved his hand to interrupt: "It's too late today. I'm going home to sleep. You guys sell it the same way as before. I'll come find you tomorrow."

After saying this, Li Xuewu drove the horse cart away, and incidentally, called Yang Erhai'er back.

Wen San'er and the others took the registration they had just made when putting the goods in storage and began to list the catalog of what to sell tonight and set the prices.

After working for a while, it was almost time to set up the stalls. They took a little bit of everything, wrapped it in paper, and prepared to put it on the stalls in a while.

It had to be said that Wen San'er now had some fame in this area, and many greedy people asked him if he had meat.

Now that so many supplies had arrived, they were even more prepared to make a good profit.

Among these, potatoes, cabbage, and radishes weren't profitable. Why did Li Xuewu transport them back from thousands of miles away?

Because everyone could use these things. They were cheap but limited. These things weren't for making money; they were for exchanging for coupons, exchanging for other supplies, and used as basic circulation resources.

As for white liquor, soybean oil, wild mushrooms, black fungus, daylily buds, red dates, walnuts, hazelnuts, and pine nuts, these were the profitable catalog.

*Initial Evolution*

Especially the dried goods and dried fruits; as long as they reached the supply and marketing cooperative, they were directly held back for their own people to buy, and they couldn't be bought outside at all.

Now the pigeon market was about to face a wave of supply impact. Li Xuewu grasped the rhythm and didn't dare to let it all out.

A little bit at a time. As long as they could hold out until before the New Year and arrange the western courtyard, it didn't matter if things that could be stored were sold a few months later.

Tonight was destined to be busy.

Wen San'er carried a canvas bag, wandering around the market, leading one person into the alley for a while, then leading another.

Yang Erhai'er guarded the stall, also leading people in during the gaps in Wen San'er's work.

In the alley, Lao Biaozi guarded with a machete. Wen San'er and Yang Erhai'er would say what the people wanted, carry the supplies handed over by the people back to the courtyard, and then carry back what they wanted. The whole process was under their control.

Because carrying supplies was tiring, only the physically strong Shen Guodong and Lao Biaozi could take turns. By the second half of the night, both of them were as tired as donkeys.

Watching the sacks in the western room become empty and the bags go flat, the two barrels of white liquor were also sold out, with more than one barrel gone.

It was really because supplies were scarce now, transport capacity was tight, and the exchange of supplies from all over the country wasn't smooth, so supplies seemed very scarce now.

The people who came to the black market tonight had finally had a taste of meat. These dried goods and dried fruits were only available in the Northeast. Wen San'er was also ruthless, adding 30 cents to the price of everything, and even then, they had to stop because dawn was approaching. ===== CHAPTER 84 =====