Chapter 680 Chapter 683: Heavy Trust
Li Qiuyue was more satisfied with the cleanliness of the house and said gratefully, "Thank you, the house is so clean!"
After they put their things away, they saw Secretary Yao carrying a box of scales and leading Zhou Huaishan. As they walked, he said, "Old Xu and I are comrades-in-arms. We even lived in the same dormitory. He came to us the other day and said he wanted to rent a house here to collect truffles. I was so happy.
I thought my boss just moved to a new house, so I told him I would give it to you guys to live in for free, but he was very reserved, saying that it was rented by a big boss, and insisted on paying rent. "
Zhou Huaishan put down the bamboo basket and said, "We are helping the big boss in the provincial capital to collect the goods. The rent and other things are all paid by them."
Secretary Yao put down the scale box and said, "As long as you can come here to collect truffles for a long time, we would rather let you live in the house for free."
"Don't worry, the boss said that as long as the goods are good, we will come every year." Zhou Huaishan said, "Have you finished weaving the bamboo baskets that Uncle Xu told you about last time?"
"It's ready. I'll ask someone to move it over right away." Secretary Yao strode outside.
With strength in numbers, it didn't take long to move all the things off the truck bed. Everyone then went to help move the bamboo baskets.
Li Qiuyue put Xiaolong in the cradle and asked Zhou Xiaolin to watch over him. She moved the box that Zhou Huaishan had placed on the bed to the long bench at the end of the bed and began to clean up the room.
After Zhou Huaishan and Zhou Yiding stacked the bamboo baskets, they gave the money for the bamboo baskets to Secretary Yao, "Uncle Yao, we will open the market tomorrow. Please tell everyone on the loudspeaker. Also, the villagers who help with odd jobs have to come to work tomorrow."
He and Li Qiuyue were busy selecting, weighing, and keeping accounts, and they also needed someone to load the baskets and move the goods.
"Yes, yes!" Secretary Yao agreed with a smile, "I'll bring the person over later. Also, there's a well behind the house, and we've prepared some firewood for you, feel free to use it. Tell me if you have any questions!"
Zhou Huaishan said gratefully: "Thank you, Uncle Yao, you guys have prepared so well."
"You're welcome!" Secretary Yao walked out with a few men who were moving things.
Zhou Yiding looked at the time and said to Zhou Huaishan, "Third brother, I will go to Uncle Xu and Uncle Datian to collect the goods tomorrow, and then come to you to collect them!"
"Come as you like. Sit for a while and wait for your sister-in-law to clean up and cook you a bowl of noodles before you leave."
"It's only half past ten now. You're not hungry yet. When you get hungry, you can go to town to eat something." Zhou Yiding greeted Li Qiuyue in the house and walked out.
"Yiding, have lunch here before leaving!" Li Qiuyue chased out and said.
Zhou Yiding turned around and smiled, "No need, I can just eat something on the way."
Seeing that he was determined to leave, Zhou Huaishan and the others had no choice but to send him outside and said, "Go slowly on the way."
"Got it!" Zhou Yiding smiled and waved his hand, started the tractor and turned around at the brigade's drying dam and drove back.
Zhou Huaishan closed the courtyard door and said to Li Qiuyue, "Secretary Yao's family is pretty nice. They have tidied up the courtyard so that we can live here without any tidying."
Li Qiuyue looked around and said, "It's pretty good. I thought I would have to share a yard with others!"
"We'll be staying here until March next year. It's so inconvenient to share a home with someone else." Zhou Huaishan was very happy to see that she was satisfied. "Find the padlock you brought with you and replace theirs. Put it back when you leave."
Li Qiuyue nodded and walked to the main room to see Zhou Xiaolin sitting there, using a rattle to coax the humming Zhou Xiaolong. She quickly picked him up and said, "Why didn't you call me when my brother woke up?"
Zhou Xiaolin put down the rattle and said in a baby voice, "Grandma said that it's okay for my brother to lie down for a while, and asked you to do your job well and not hold him all the time."
"You little spy, are you here to help your grandma spy on me?" Li Qiuyue sat down with Zhou Xiaolong in her arms and began to feed him. "Tell me! What else did your grandma say about me?"
Zhou Xiaolin thought for a moment, "My grandma said that every time you do something wrong, you admit your mistakes faster than I do. The things you promised are like farts, which only stink for a short while. You are not obedient at all!"
Li Qiuyue looked at her with a smile on her face, "Did your grandma really say that?"
Zhou Xiaolin nodded seriously, "Yes! My grandma also said that you are a debt collector. She must have owed you in her past life, so you married me."
"Why?" Li Qiuyue looked at her little daughter who had unknowingly become like a little adult, and suddenly realized that she hadn't hugged her legs for a hug for a long time.
"My grandma didn't say!"
Zhou Xiaolin took out a candy from her pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper, bit off half of it, and stuffed the remaining half into her mouth. "My father bought it for me. It's a big bag. My aunt said I should eat one piece a day. After we finish eating, we'll go home."
"How come mom didn't know your dad bought you candy?"
"You didn't ask!" Zhou Xiaolin walked into the room, took out her flowered schoolbag, and took out a bag of White Rabbit cookies, a pair of small gloves, and a bright red scarf.
"The schoolbag made by my aunt, the candies given by my father, the small gloves knitted by my aunt, the scarf knitted by my second mother, and my elder sister and sister all have them. The chicken shoes made by my grandmother are in the big bag."
Li Qiuyue looked at the things on the table, then looked at the children who were carefully packing the things into their schoolbags one by one. For some reason, the originally sweet toffee tasted a bit bitter.
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Zhou Huaian had already arrived at Baicaoping. He greeted Secretary Lin and told them that after the market opened tomorrow, he would drive Zhou Huairong and his wife to Bailing Mountain.
After coming out of Baicaoping, the weather became colder the further they walked. Zhao Huifang and Zhou Huairong put on their wind and snow hats and cotton coats and sat on the tractor, but they still felt cold.
Zhao Huifang looked at the cliff and the woods below and felt a little dizzy. "I used to think that it was inconvenient to go out to Baicaoping, but this place is even more inconvenient than our place."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Bai Ling Mountain is even more inconvenient. The agency store often runs out of stock of cigarettes, except for a few necessary items. Last time, I paid for the car and helped them pull a tractor full of goods in."
"There is still frost and ice on the tree below you. If you accidentally fall off the cliff, I'm afraid you won't even be able to find your bones." Zhao Huifang felt that Fu Niu was more than ten times better than the one here.
Zhou Huaian has been driving on this road for a month or two and is very familiar with the road conditions. It took him more than three to four hours to drive there the first few times, but now it only takes three hours at most.
When they arrived outside Secretary Yang's house, they were already waiting there. Everyone knew each other, and after a few greetings, they started moving things inside.
Secretary Yang pulled Zhou Huaian and said, "Youngest, Lao Yin and his team sent two good things yesterday. Go and take a look."
"That's great!" Zhou Huaian followed him towards his home, "Uncle Yang, what good stuff is there?"
Secretary Yang whispered, "One bear gall, two pairs of deer antlers, a piece of musk, more than ten kilograms of gastrodia elata, and two legs of venison and two legs of musk deer meat. They said they wanted to thank you and asked me to give them to you."
Zhou Huaian was a little excited after hearing this, "These are all good things!"
"I heard that the bear gall was obtained in the early spring. The price offered was too low, so they were reluctant to sell it. After hearing what Old Yin said about you, they brought the stuff here."
"Uncle Yang, these things are too valuable. I have to show them to people before I can give them a price."
"They knew the rules, left their food there and went back to digging for truffles."
Zhou Huaian looked at him in surprise, "They're all gone?"
Secretary Yang smiled and said, "They said they trusted you, so they left the things there and left!"
Zhou Huaian thought that Old Yin and the others were reluctant to even buy a pack of cigarettes, yet they dared to hand over hundreds or thousands of things to him without him seeing a penny spent. Their trust in him felt a little heavy.
As they were talking, the two of them arrived at Secretary Yang's house, only to see a brazier already burning in the main room. Zhou Huaian sat on the long bench placed around the brazier, waiting for him to take out the things.
Secretary Yang took out the key and opened the door. He brought out a rattan basket, took out two legs of venison and two legs of musk deer meat, and then took out the things placed underneath.
"They said the bear gall had already been dipped and scalded, and that it was a copper gall of the best quality, and that it was very large. The price they offered was too low, so we were reluctant to sell it."
"Uncle Yang, to be honest, I don't know much about this thing. I always send it to them for them to see before I make an offer. Did they tell me what their target price was?"
"They said that gold gallbladders like this one would cost at least 600 yuan, deer antlers would cost 20 yuan a penny, and musk would cost no less than 1,200 yuan."
Zhou Huaian thought of the old bear that he and Yiding had killed before. The quality seemed not so good. It was sold for six hundred without even being processed. This gallbladder looked better than the previous one, so it should be worth more than six hundred.
The last piece of musk was sold for more than 1,300 yuan. This piece doesn't look smaller than that one. And those two legs of venison weigh at least 20 to 30 kilograms, and the musk deer meat also weighs more than 20 kilograms.
They were all good stuff. He felt embarrassed to eat the food from these mountain folks who were reluctant to even cut a piece of meat.
"I'll take it to them first and if it reaches their desired price, I'll sell it to them. If not, I'll take it back."
Secretary Yang: "I told them, and they said it was the same as last time. If the price is higher than their psychological price, you can sell it and bring back the money. If it is too low, they will help bring the goods back."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian agreed readily, "There's one more thing. The red deer and musk deer I hunted last time were sold for two or three yuan per pound. The price of venison should be even higher. I'll help them sell them and bring the money back to them."
Secretary Yang didn't expect the price of wild animals in the county town to be so good. "Youngest, they said that the last time they sent them to the county town, they only sold them for a little over one yuan per pound. The price here is still better!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Although retail sales in our county are more expensive, we can't sell much. The buyers I find are all big restaurant owners and chefs who can eat dozens of kilograms of good food at a time."
After hearing this, Secretary Yang said with a look of regret, "It's a pity that this place is too far from the county town. We can still send it there to sell when the weather is cold, but when the weather gets hot, I'm afraid the wild animals will spoil and stink before they reach the county town."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yes, it's colder where we are than in the county town. For example, we have been wearing jackets at home these days, while those people in the county town are only wearing coats!"
(End of this chapter)
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