I glanced briefly at the child, then at the stool in the corner.
"Xinxin, why don't you sit here and watch the basket? I'll go over there and talk to Sister Linhe."
Inside the room, Jian Dan wasn't worried about her safety.
After walking a few meters away, Jian Dan spoke in a low voice.
"Sister Lin He, do you...do you collect wild boar?"
He changed his mind before he could finish speaking; Lin He hadn't really heard the first part of his sentence clearly.
Do you have a wild boar?
Just because she could produce such rare oranges, Lin He believed she had some connections. Grabbing Jian Dan's arm,
"To tell you the truth, girl, the end of the year is just around the corner, and the higher-ups have approved three more pigs, which they plan to start selling tomorrow morning."
However, as you can see, with so many people in this county, there should be at least a dozen or twenty pigs every year. But this year, there are only three pigs. What can you do with them? Not even an ounce or two can be distributed among the people.
Many factories still offer meat coupons as part of their New Year's benefits, and everyone wants to buy more meat to satisfy their cravings during the holiday.
Let me tell you this: everything was fine at first, they said the pork would be delivered after the Lunar New Year, but it's been delayed again and again.
Our director went to check it out himself and found out that something had happened at the farm. No one knew what had happened, but everyone had been poisoned.
These three pigs were specially obtained from other places with the approval of the leaders, and they only arrived last night.
Our director is worried; with just these three pigs, they're bound to start fighting tomorrow.
"Girl, if you really have it, I'll go talk to our director right now. I definitely can't let him lower the price for you."
Simple's eyes lit up. What a coincidence!
That's true. As the year draws to a close, everyone, whether rich or poor, will cut back on their own spending. After a year of hard work, everyone is looking forward to this time when the whole family can reunite.
She was calculating in her mind that every time she went in before, she would take the wild boars she encountered into the enclosure. Only in the last few months, since Xin Xin came, had she stopped going up the mountain, otherwise the wild boars in the base would have become rampant.
Shaking Lin He's hand in return, Jian Dan also looked excited.
"Really, Sister Lin He? But won't you think the wild boar meat is too lean and has no fat?"
Lin He sneered.
"What are you complaining about? Let me tell you, in previous years, we started selling pork after the Lunar New Year. This year, look, it's already the 28th, and many of the people outside are here to see the meat news, afraid of missing out."
This isn't a secret; anyone with connections in the family knows. If there's no meat or wild boar, why even bother choosing?
Besides, wild boar heads are cheaper than pork. For the same amount of money, you can get several more bites of meat. Do you think they're stupid? Only you can't do the math.
"Wait here, I'll go find our director right now."
He walked a few steps away, then came back and asked again.
"Girl, are you sure you have it? Approximately, how much?"
One head? Two heads? Three heads?
"Sis, you can think even bolder."
Lin He immediately clutched her chest.
"Wait here, wait here, don't go, I'm coming right now."
They ran and stumbled, and ended up turning out the back door.
Within fifteen minutes, the sound of two footsteps came from the back door. Soon, Lin He led a tall man in quickly. Upon seeing her, he paused for a moment, but quickly regained his composure.
"Comrade, is what Lin He said true?"
After a quick glance at the man, he appeared upright with a hint of businessman's shrewdness, and his eyes held a subtle shrewdness.
"Yes, it's because Sister Lin He is so kind and takes good care of me. Since she's in this job, I thought I'd ask her first."
The man thought the other party was in a hurry, but it turned out that the other party seemed indifferent to whether they sold or not.
However, they also grasped one key word.
"First? You want to ask someone else?"
A simple, light laugh.
"To be honest, there are many people in my friend's village. Originally, I didn't intend to sell it. But, well, the old people in the village are craving this kind of oily food. The children are all filial and want the old people to have this to eat. So, I thought I'd exchange it for some lard?"
Replace it with some fat? How much could that be?
The man's excitement was instantly chilled, as if doused with a bucket of cold water.
Sure enough, such a good thing was not for him.
He wanted to turn around and leave, but after thinking about it, he still asked, unwilling to give up.
How many kilograms of wild boar meat do you want to sell?
If there's one weighing around 100 pounds, it can add some strength.
"I honestly don't know how many kilograms they weigh, I've never weighed them, but they were all unprocessed, probably around thirty..."
The man's heart raced with each simple word, and by the end, he was completely stunned.
"You're not mistaken? Thirty-something, head? Not jin?"
Simplicity is like a nouveau riche.
"Hey, thirty jin is nothing! That's just a little bit. It's not even enough for everyone in the village to have a jin."
Lin He watched as the director began to tremble.
"Director, Director, brother-in-law!"
The man only snapped out of his daze when he called out "brother-in-law" so loudly at the last moment, and his gaze towards Jian Dan softened with eagerness.
"No problem, no problem, we can accept them all. The fat you mentioned is also not a problem."
"If there really are thirty wild boars, I'll return these three to you; I can make that decision."
"real?"
Was this considered taking advantage of the situation? But the man was really excited right now, and answered without thinking.
"Of course, I keep my word, every word is as good as a nail."
If you can help me solve this meat problem, I can definitely do that.
He was furious. The farm supplied supplies not only to his supply and marketing cooperative, but, but, his cooperative depended entirely on this one farm. Every year it was fine, but who knew that this year it would rip him off.
These days, he's so worried that his hair is falling out in clumps. He's afraid that when he opens his shop tomorrow, the meat sellers will tear him apart.
Of course, this is impossible. The common people are still somewhat afraid of these people, but if things really get chaotic, it will be a troublesome matter.
Afraid of regretting their decision, they quickly discussed the price.
Even Jian Dan was afraid of missing out on the opportunity, and judging from Lin He's expression out of the corner of her eye, she knew that the price was reasonable and had no objections.
"Okay, then I'll go and get someone to bring it over. Are there any quiet places around here?"
They wouldn't make a big fuss about it even if she didn't say anything, but they still wanted to make things clear at the beginning.
"Although we're all from the village, I didn't bring any letters of introduction."
They spoke openly and honestly, and the man understood that the letter of introduction was important, but that was all in the open. In reality, who would dare to take a letter of introduction for those underhanded dealings? Even if they did, it wouldn't be genuine. Wouldn't that be handing over evidence and leverage?
They immediately said no problem.
"The back door, there's just a dead end in an alley, no outsiders come in. Turn the corner and you'll find the supply and marketing cooperative. It's quiet there. How about that?"
I went to take a quick look, and indeed, calling it an alley was a bit of an exaggeration; it was just a slightly deeper gap, but it could fit thirty wild boars.
"Okay, then we'll go back and get someone to bring it over. Is an hour a convenient time for you?"
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