Batu glanced at the two children playing on the carpet nearby, thought for a moment and said, "Business is only a small part of the reason. The main reason is that we had a conflict a few years ago, so every time he sees me now, his eyes turn red..."

"Actually, we've known each other since we were little. Our production brigade isn't far from theirs, so we bump into each other every year when we go to the summer pasture, so we have a pretty good relationship."

Chu Tian blinked, curious. "Then why did they become enemies? Could it be because of a woman?"

Batu looked at Chu Tian in surprise and slowly gave him a thumbs up. "Brother Chu, you are amazing. You can even guess this!"

Chu Tian thought to himself, brothers who used to play well together suddenly turned against each other one day, either because of money or because of women, but it was obviously not because of money, so...

Batu took a sip of the milk tea and said, "Sukhbaru has a younger sister. We used to herd cattle together and had a good relationship. He always thought I would be with his sister, but who can say for sure about fate?"

"I fell in love with Yinyin the first time I saw her. In order to match her, I practiced Chinese hard in secret, just so that she could understand me when I talked to her..."

“·······”

Chu Tianxin thought, okay, he had misunderstood, he thought it was a bloody plot of two men fighting for one woman.

"Just because you refused to be with his sister doesn't mean he hates you?"

Batu was silent for a moment, then shook his head gently, "No, our relationship is still good after the rejection, because..."

Having said this, Batu stopped talking, picked up the bowl, drank the milk tea at the bottom of the bowl in one gulp, and then looked at Chu Tiandao with a smile.

"Brother Chu, you didn't come here just to eat meat, right?"

Chu Tian answered the question irrelevantly, "What about you? What do you usually sell?"

Batu didn't say anything, so when Chu Tian asked, he answered, "There's no shortage of meat on the grassland, so anything else that's lacking on the grassland, vegetables, food, flashlights, and even salt."

"As long as I have it, I will transport it to the grassland to exchange for dried meat, meat, etc., and then transport the dried meat and meat to the city to sell them and earn some hard work fees..."

Chu Tian raised his eyebrows and thought to himself that this was a good idea. He had a lot of salt in his space, which he had basically never sold. He also had a lot of vegetables, which he had harvested in Sichuan Province. As for grain, although he couldn't sell thousands of kilograms, he could still sell a few hundred kilograms.

"Batu, do you usually collect wool?"

Batu was stunned for a moment. "Take it. Some mainland traders come to our alliance specifically to get the wool. Why, do you want it?"

Chu Tian smiled and said, "Well, it is said that the wool from Inner Mongolia is of good quality, so I would like to exchange it for something, is that okay?"

"What do you want in exchange?"

“Fruits, vegetables, and salt, okay?”

Batu jumped up from his seat and asked, "What? You can get fruit?"

Chu Tian smiled and nodded, "Well, do you want to change?"

"Change, change, do you only want wool? Do you want anything else?"

"I want all the slaughtered mutton and beef, beef jerky, and milk lumps..."

"Okay, when do you want it? How do you plan to exchange it?"

When talking about how to exchange, Chu Tian remembered the prices he had told himself before. The two discussed it and finally agreed that one could exchange five kilograms of wool, five kilograms of milk lumps, two kilograms of fresh meat or one kilogram of dried meat for one kilogram of fruit.

One pound of vegetables can be exchanged for two pounds of wool, two pounds of milk curds, half a pound of fresh meat or two ounces of dried meat.

A pound of salt can be exchanged for...

There is a severe shortage of fruit on the prairie, all kinds of fruit. The city's supply and marketing cooperatives only receive fruit twice a year, and even if they do, the fruit is very wilted. In the past, you would occasionally find fruit on the black market, and the price was very high. Even though there is no so-called black market now, it is still very expensive on the market.

But even so, every time it’s available, everyone still rushes to grab it!

Why did Batu and that guy called Sukhbaru quarrel with him again today? Actually, it was all because of a few apples. Chu Tian saw that the apples were of poor quality, but the price was not cheap either, 3.5 yuan per pound, much more expensive than those in Xinjiang...

Vegetables were also in short supply, so the price Chu Tian reported would be very uneconomical in Xinjiang, but in this place, it made Batu very excited.

Although he was excited, Batu did not get carried away. Instead, he looked at Chu Tian seriously and said, "Brother Chu, let's be frank. Although we have agreed on the price, I want to see the product first."

Chu Tian nodded, "Of course, why don't you go with me now?"

Finally, Batu sent the two children to a familiar neighbor next door, and followed Chu Tian back to the guesthouse through the back door. Chu Tian welcomed him in when he was not paying attention.

He took out a pomelo, an orange, an Aksu apple from Xinjiang, a Korla pear, a small bundle of oily cabbage, juicy radishes and other vegetables, as well as a small bag of salt and placed them in a large bag on the side.

"Look, I just put the samples in this morning."

Chu Tian handed him the bag and sat on a chair beside him. Every time he took out something, his eyes widened a little. In the end, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Brother Chu, these goods of yours..."

Chu Tian chuckled, "How is it? Is it okay?"

Batu put down his bag and slammed it on the table, "That's great."

After a pause, he asked again, "Well, I want to ask, how much are these goods of yours if I buy them with money, without exchanging them for anything?"

Chu Tian thought for a moment and said, "If I were to buy it with money, then a pound of fruit would cost two yuan, vegetables would cost one yuan, and salt would cost eighty cents."

“I want it, I want it…”

As soon as he finished speaking, Batu decided to buy the fruit. He wanted to take the fruit to the market to resell it. He had in mind the fruit that cost two yuan per pound, and even if he asked for three yuan, people would still be snapping it up! As long as he resold it, it would be a huge income...

Knowing that Chu Tian would have the fruits delivered to the room in the guesthouse soon, Batu said that he would go back to get the money. After he got the money, he carried fruits with a cost of about 300 yuan each time, and earned double the money in less than half an hour. After running back and forth several times, he earned about 3,000 to 4,000 yuan, and he was satisfied.

In fact, he was not satisfied, but his wife was about to get out of school and he had to go pick her up. But before leaving, he also agreed with Chu Tian that he would take her out early tomorrow to the surrounding grasslands to exchange goods.

In the following few days, Chu Tian and Batu ran around early in the morning before dawn every day. They basically didn't buy anything with money. They exchanged meat, dried meat, dairy products or a small amount of wool. There was no way around it. The wool had almost been exchanged by traders from the mainland.

In the end, the space for fruits and vegetables gradually became empty, while the space for fresh meat, dairy products, and dried meat became more and more crowded. When there were only about a thousand kilograms of fruit left, Chu Tiancai stopped.

In fact, the main reason was that the time agreed with Chu Min had arrived, and he could no longer stay in Inner Mongolia.