Chapter 57 Selling Goats
After working for a few more days, there was not much work left in the fields, so the team leader began to gather people to dig a canal. This work was both hard and the pay was low.
Lu Yunxiao didn't go because his leg had not healed yet. Deng Minghao and other educated youth didn't have to go if they didn't want to, as they wouldn't get any work points anyway.
This was the off-season for earning work points. If the educated youth had not come, the members of the Victory Brigade would have been able to earn more work points.
Therefore, the team leader and scorers never forced the educated youth to do such dirty and tiring work.
Deng Minghao and Shen Yiji did not go with the Red Army. However, Zhou Shengnan, Zheng Fanghua and Liu Kunming went with the old educated youth.
Then they didn't go the next day because they were really tired. Anyway, they didn't count on these few work points, so they didn't go.
They simply made an appointment to go to the mountain together to pick mushrooms, fungus and other things. If they picked a lot of these things, they could sell them to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Although the price offered is not high, it is money after all, and it is a formal channel, so there is no need to worry about being falsely accused of stealing and profiteering.
Not only these things can be sold at the supply and marketing cooperatives, but chicken eggs and duck eggs are also accepted by the supply and marketing cooperatives, but the price is not high.
Li Yingying followed the old educated youth to dig a canal. Li Ruoju naturally could not do such heavy work, so when she saw Zhou Shengnan and the others were going up the mountain with Li Ruolan, Qin Wan and others, she wanted to follow them too.
If they didn't take her with them, they were afraid that Li Ruoju would tell the villagers about it. Anyway, the mountain was so big, so she could follow them if she wanted.
Li Ruolan and her friends really came up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Li Ruoju thought they had other things to do, so she came with them and picked mushrooms for two days, then she didn't come anymore.
As soon as she left, Qin Wan took Li Ruolan and the others to look for good things, dig up wild yam, and pick some herbs. They could also sell these at the pharmacy.
The four of them, including Lu Yunxiao and Deng Minghao, disappeared as soon as they arrived in the mountains, and no one knew where they were going.
When she returned home in the evening, Li Ruolan asked Deng Minghao, and Deng Minghao took out a bow from the space, along with a hundred or so sharply sharpened bamboo arrows.
"We have been working on this these days and everything is ready. The four of us are going to the hill that Lu Yunxiao mentioned tomorrow night to hunt goats." Deng Minghao said excitedly.
Li Ruolan knew what they were doing, so she didn't ask any more questions. After dinner, Deng Minghao was still very excited.
After he blew out the lights, he held Li Ruolan tightly and did not let go until late at night. The next day, he got up full of energy and made a few meat patties. He ate most of them for himself and left a few for Li Ruolan for breakfast.
When Li Ruolan woke up, Deng Minghao had already disappeared.
Li Ruolan met Qin Wan as soon as she went out. Both of them looked tired, as if they had not woken up yet. They had been waiting for each other for a long time and smiled at each other.
Deng Minghao and his three companions did not return until the next night. Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun had not returned for one night. Fearing that they would attract the attention of the old educated youth, they went straight back to the educated youth site.
Li Ruolan got dressed and saw a big goat in the kitchen. It looked bigger than a wild boar and probably weighed about 100 to 200 kilograms.
However, apart from a sheep in the kitchen, Li Ruolan did not see Deng Minghao. When she went out, she found Deng Minghao pushing his bicycle out. "Where are you going?"
Deng Minghao said in a low voice: "The four of us hunted eight sheep this time, two for each of us, Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun didn't keep any, they all sold them for money.
Lu Yunxiao and I will sell one and keep one. Now the sheep are all at the foot of the mountain. I want to move these goats to another place.
Lu Yunxiao has already gone to town to have someone come and take all six goats away. You lock the door at home, I will be back soon."
After saying that, Deng Minghao rode out on his bicycle and came back in the late night with a lot of money.
"What we hunt are all adult wild goats, which weigh about 200 kilograms each. The person who collects the goats will charge us based on the 200 kilograms.
The market price of mutton is 69 cents per pound, and he charges 80 cents per pound. We made 160 yuan from one sheep.
Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun will each get 320 yuan. I will give them the money tomorrow. "Deng Minghao reported the battle situation to Li Ruolan.
After hearing this, Li Ruolan couldn't help but give Deng Minghao and the others a thumbs up. They earned so much just by going into the mountains.
"If we go into the mountains more often, will we still have to work in the fields? We can live well just by selling game."
Deng Minghao fetched a basin of water and washed his head and face: "Don't think it's so safe. We went into the mountains and encountered several poisonous snakes and wild boars. We even encountered two wolves when we brought the sheep back just now.
If we didn't have so many people and everyone had good aim, we would have definitely been stuck in the mountains and couldn't come back. It is very dangerous to go into the mountains at this time.
Goats and wild boars can be sold for money, and we are not the only ones who know this, so why do you think the villagers dare not go to the mountains?"
Li Ruolan just saw that Deng Minghao was fine, so she thought that everything would be the same as the previous times she went up the mountain, without any danger. She didn't expect that Deng Minghao and his friends would encounter so many things.
"Then don't go there next time. We don't lack the money anyway. If you want to eat mutton, just go buy it." Li Ruolan said quickly.
The next day, Deng Minghao went to give the money to Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun. After receiving the money, the two thanked him sincerely.
After that, Deng Minghao and his friends never went into the mountains again. They usually stayed on the outskirts, picking mushrooms and digging wild vegetables with Li Ruolan and his friends, or hunting pheasants and rabbits.
As the corn and wheat in the fields grew, the grass also became more and more. Everyone started to weed again, and worked together with Aunt Guihua and the others. Li Ruolan was able to hear a lot of gossip again.
The focus of gossip during this period was Zhao Youjun, the soldier who came back to visit his family.
The person arrived yesterday. Li Ruolan took a look in the crowd and saw a tall man with dark skin, who looked to be around 25 or 26 years old.
Li Ruolan also asked Lu Yunxiao if he knew him.
"We are from the same village, so of course we know each other. It's just that we never met when we were in the army. Our two military regions are in the south and the north, respectively, so they are very far away from each other." Lu Yunxiao said.
Aunt Wang Er said, "Mrs. Zhao has been very busy these past few days, looking for a suitable girl for her son.
I heard that someone introduced a few old educated youths from the educated youths’ site to Mrs. Zhao, Zheng Hongmei, and Li Juhong.”
Zheng Hongmei and Li Juhong are both very good people. They are cheerful, hardworking and efficient. They are indeed a good match for Zhao Youjun.
Li Ruolan asked, "Which one did Aunt Zhao like? These two female educated youths in our educated youth center are both very nice people."
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