Gao Dacheng squeezed through the crowd and said warmly to Li Xiangdong, "Brother, I really put in a lot of effort for these deer!"
"A few of us spent day and night in the forest to get so many deer! We saved you a lot of money on the purchase!"
Li Xiangdong had learned about the situation beforehand and knew that what Gao Dacheng said was true, so he smiled broadly and praised, "You really are amazing, Brother Dacheng! I could tell the difference the first time we met."
Li Xiangdong's words sounded like heavenly music to Gao Dacheng, instantly making him feel elated.
Gao Jialin couldn't stand his grand-nephew's spineless attitude, so he slapped him on the back of the head and said, "Be more composed!"
Gao Dacheng is now determined to take over his fourth uncle's job, and he has long boasted to his parents and wife that the second director of the deer farm will definitely still be surnamed Gao.
So now he is very willing to listen to his fourth uncle. He was not angry when he was hit on the back of the head in public. Instead, he grinned and smiled.
After watching the deer, the group went directly to two small wooden huts built at the deer farm to warm up.
We'll have lunch here—venison hotpot.
Mai Zi looked a bit fatter than before, with a thicker waist, and her movements when adding coal to the stove weren't as nimble as they used to be.
Zhou Hongsong quietly asked Scarface, "Is there wheat yet?"
Scarface was overjoyed and nodded, "Yes, it's been five months!"
"your?"
"mine!"
Li Xiangdong brought over the hot water and asked in a low voice, "Does Zhang Guihe know?"
When Mai Zi's husband was mentioned, Scarface's face darkened. "I know. He's been going crazy lately because of this."
"Scarface, has Zhang Guihe finished his back surgery? Can he get up now?"
"The surgery is over, and now I can walk a few steps with crutches."
Scarface exhaled a breath of stale air. Now that Zhang Guihe could walk, he kept a closer eye on Mai Zi. As soon as Scarface approached, he stared at him with a pair of gloomy eyes.
Don't you even remember how you managed to get your back fixed?
Li Xiangdong frowned and asked, "Scarface, now that he's recovered, why don't you let Sister Mai divorce him? That way, you can be officially together and give the baby in her belly a stable and normal home."
Scarface sighed, "It's not that easy! Mai's father is still alive, and her sister-in-law has given birth to another son. Now Mai's family treats Zhang Guihe's sister like a goddess. Mai mentioned divorce once, and her father almost killed her with a shovel."
He can use a sickle to cut scars, and now he's using a shovel to cut wheat. I have to say, Wheat's father is a ruthless man.
"Well, there's nothing we can do but make do for now! Things will be better once her father dies."
Zhou Hongsong patted his brother on the shoulder reassuringly, unsure of what to say.
Li Xiangdong brought with him thirty adult male deer and five catties of deer antlers on this trip.
People in Yanjing like to eat venison hot pot in winter, and I had already made a reservation with Li Xiangdong. The venison was 1.5 yuan per pound.
As for the five treasures of the deer: deer penis, deer antler, deer kidney, deer tail, and deer tendon, those are priced separately.
Because the five treasures of deer correspond to the kidneys, liver, spleen, reproductive system, and tendons and bones in the human body, they have excellent nourishing and health-preserving effects, so they are sold at a much higher price than venison.
In addition, deer have another valuable commodity that can be sold – deer blood.
Besides being mixed into liquor when slaughtered on the spot, deer blood can also be made into deer blood wine, which can be stored for several years if properly preserved.
There is a simple way to make deer blood wine: for every pound of baijiu (Chinese white liquor), add two ounces of deer blood. First, put the deer blood into a wine jar, add the baijiu, stir well with chopsticks, and let it sit in a cool place for a day and a night. The next day, take the clear liquid from the top, bottle it, and when you want to drink it, heat it in hot water to about 50 degrees Celsius.
Some people dehydrate fresh deer blood to make dried deer blood, grind it into powder when drinking alcohol, and mix it with liquor. Deer blood wine made this way can be drunk after only twenty days.
In short, every part of a deer is valuable.
In the days before large-scale deer farming, the venison people ate was almost entirely wild and very expensive.
Therefore, they have no trouble selling their deer.
As soon as these thirty male deer arrived in Yanjing, they were snapped up by all the major restaurants. It was only by Li Xiangdong's insistence that thirty catties of venison were left for Li Zhen and Liu Junbo.
Afterwards, the accounts were tallied. The thirty male deer yielded a total of about 6,000 catties of lean meat, which was sold for 1.5 yuan per catty. The meat alone made a profit of 9,012 yuan!
The other five items sold for a total of 1058 yuan.
All the odds and ends add up to about ten thousand yuan.
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