Chapter 75 Is this risk worth taking? At the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative, 36-year-old Li Xiangqian got out of the passenger seat of the car, stamped his feet vigorously, and asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Why are you all gathered here? To welcome me? I can't stand it!" "Who greeted you?" the gatekeeper scolded with a smile: "It's because you didn't provide adequate New Year's benefits, so everyone has to buy meat from outside. Look how good this young man's meat is. It's one yuan per kilogram, and he doesn't even need a meat ticket." "So good?" Li Xiangqian walked to the carriage, took off his gloves, and touched the remaining sheep's neck and said: "Not bad, it's fresh lamb fat, one dollar a kilogram? Worth it." "What a pity, there are only two and they are sold out already." Someone who wanted to have the lamb leg but didn't get it in the end said this. "This young man can get a lot of sheep, so I'm here to find you, Section Chief Li, to see if you are willing to take them." The old man told Li Long his purpose without waiting for him to speak. Li Long was also a little surprised. This old man was a little too enthusiastic. But at this time he knew he had to step in, so he smiled and said: "Hello, Chief Li. I am from the Fourth Squadron of Xinhu Brigade of Hongqi Commune. I have a few friends in the mountains. They brought these sheep to me. I can indeed get a lot of sheep from them. The sheep there are indeed grass-fed sheep." These days, not many people can raise sheep in a pen and use feed. "How much can you take?" Li Xiangqian took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. Li Long looked at the brand, it was Golden Leaf.
Li Xiangqian took out a cigarette and handed it to the old man who was guarding the door. The old man waved his hand: "I have a big front door here that the young man gave me." "I was wondering why you always say good things about others." Li Xiangqian smiled, lit a cigarette for himself, blew out a smoke ring, and asked Li Long: "I won't take less than ten." "Well... no problem." Li Long thought about it. Both the sheep flocks of Halimu and Yushanjiang were quite large, with hundreds of sheep. It would be no problem to slaughter ten of them. "If all the sheep are of this quality, I'll take them." Li Xiangqian pointed at the sheep's neck on the carriage and said, "Of course, the wholesale purchase price won't be one dollar, so I'll have to pay for it." "I know this." "Okay, come back to me when you get the sheep." Li Xiangqian took another long puff of his cigarette and said to the gatekeeper with a smile: "Uncle, you've given me a difficult problem!" "Then why don't you say that I helped you solve the problem? You're just being stubborn!" The gatekeeper scolded with a smile, "Go to work!" Then he waved to the others and said, "Go away, there's no meat left. You can't unbutton this roe deer either, so wait for the approval later." The crowd gradually dispersed, and the old man said to Li Long: "Young man, this is the situation now. You see, we will definitely collect it. It depends on how many sheep you can get." "Thank you, old man!" Li Long said sincerely. If it weren't for the old man's words, he might not have been able to finalize the matter to this point. "Okay, okay, I'll go return the scale. You should hurry back too. Xinhu Brigade is not close to here." The old man waved his hand, bent down, picked up the scale and walked towards the store. Li Long untied the horse's reins and led the horse back. Now that his passion has subsided, Li Long has calmed down and found that he was actually a little impulsive. The purchasing manager of the supply and marketing cooperative said he would buy the sheep, but when it came to really bringing the sheep over, Li Long was not sure whether he would buy them. And he hadn't discussed it with Halimu and Yushanjiang, so he didn't know whether they would slaughter the sheep, and he had to pay for the sheep himself. A sheep weighed 15 kilograms, so how would Li Long calculate the price when he bought it from Halimu? Li Long hadn't asked what the price of their sheep was before. Li Xiangqian, the section chief, said he would collect them, so he certainly wouldn't charge one dollar. Would it be 90 cents or 80 cents? If it was 70 cents, then Li Long wouldn't sell them. He might as well take them to Shicheng and sell them together with the fish. Thinking of this, he drove the carriage to the north of the city, where he saw an old man taking out the trash. "Hey? Young man, are you the one who sold fish last time?" The old man's shout woke Li Long up from his thoughts. He looked and found that it was the old man from the big yard who came to sell fish for the first time and bought all his fish.
"Hello, old man. It's so cold, why don't you ask your family to take out the trash?" "Family members? Haha, my family members are not here. I am the only one in this big yard." The old man pointed to his old house that belonged to a wealthy family. "Alone? That's not very convenient." Li Long said, "Then old man, you should go inside quickly. It's too cold outside." "It won't matter for a while." The old man looked in good spirits. He pointed at Li Long's carriage and asked, "Did you change the equipment? Are you driving the carriage to sell fish?" "I didn't sell any fish today. I came back from the mountains and brought back a roe deer and two sheep, but the sheep were all sold out." "Smacking his lips," the old man laughed. "You have a good business these days. Isn't that a lamb neck? Sell it to me? I like it." "Then take it and eat it, old man." Li Long felt that the old man was quite pitiful. His family was not around and he lived alone in such a big house, which was quite miserable. "It's worth it, two dollars." The old man took out a bill from his pocket, "I can't eat it many times." "What do you mean?" Li Long was a little surprised. "Grandpa, your health..." "You're thinking in the wrong direction." The old man smiled and went to take the lamb neck. "My eldest son is in Shanghai. He's been rehabilitated and is now the deputy editor-in-chief of a newspaper. He was given a house and asked me to move in. I just can't bear to leave this house, but when I think about staying here alone, I'd rather move over there." "What about your house?" Li Long pointed at the big house and said, "Is this house sold?" "I want to sell it, but I haven't found a buyer yet." The smile on the old man's face disappeared. "Not many people can spend hundreds of dollars to buy a house these days. If I can't sell it in a few days, I'll sell it to the street." "A few hundred dollars?" Li Long was stunned. So cheap? "What? You have money?" Seeing Li Long's expression, the old man smiled, "If you can pay 500 yuan, I will sell it to you. It's better than selling it to the street for 300 yuan." "If you're talking about five hundred dollars, I do have it." Li Long said, "But are you kidding, old man?" "Are you kidding? I'm so old, how can I joke with you?" The old man glared at her. "Come on, bring the carriage in. I'll show you my house." Li Long himself said this, he had never really thought about buying a house in the county. But as the conversation progressed, he became curious. The first time he entered the yard, he just took a quick look. Now, with the old man leading the way, Li Long planned to take a good look at this imposing old house. Maybe I really like it? (End of this chapter)