After the Li family finished dinner, Chen Xianglan followed Li Shiqiang down the mountain with some excitement.
Before going out, Li Shiqiang specially reminded him: "Mom, why don't you put on the gauze scarf the old man bought for you? After all, it's rare to go out once."
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Xianglan still shook her head and refused: "We are going to sell meat, not to have fun. Why are we wearing that?"
Hearing this, Li Nongchang was a little unhappy.
"You can't bring it with you. It's cold at night. You can keep warm by wearing that thing."
"Okay, okay, I'll just wear it."
Chen Xianglan nodded helplessly and went out happily wearing the gauze scarf she just bought.
As soon as they went out and before they came down the mountain, Chen Xianglan asked Li Shiqiang excitedly: "Er baby, can those meats really be sold for thousands of dollars?"
Hearing this, Xu Sheng on the side turned his head expectantly.
If the meat can really be sold for a thousand yuan, then he can get a lot of it.
"uncertain."
Unexpectedly, Li Shiqiang himself was a little unsure at first.
Although he remembered that antelope beef could indeed be sold for two yuan a pound in the 1980s, the price was one thing, as was whether anyone would buy it.
At this time, pork is about one yuan a pound, and beef and mutton are about one yuan and eighty.
Many people can't afford pork for just one yuan, let alone antelope beef for two yuan.
So if you want to sell it for more than a thousand yuan, you have to see if anyone in the county can afford it.
And more than seven hundred kilograms is not a small amount.
"Whatever, the worst thing is that we can just sell them cheaper. They are all taken from the mountains anyway."
Chen Xianglan thought about it and decided that if it didn't work, she might as well sell it cheaper.
After all, every household is quite short of meat these days.
"Yes, even if it is sold as pork, it can be sold for 700 yuan, which is quite a lot."
After Xu Sheng heard what he said, he also lowered his expectations a lot.
"Okay, let's set off first. Shengwa, you drive the car first, I'll sleep in the car for a while, and I'll take your place when it's night."
"I want it."
Xu Sheng nodded, then waved his whip and drove the ox cart to the county seat.
Nothing happened along the way, except Chen Xianglan who kept sitting on the bullock cart looking around excitedly.
She hadn't traveled far for several years, and everything she saw seemed new.
Li Shiqiang fell asleep in the car for a while before he was jolted so hard that he couldn't sleep.
Today's roads are basically dirt roads and sand roads with potholes along the way. Usually only asphalt roads and asphalt roads are found in cities.
Li Shiqiang simply sat up and talked with his mother about this and that.
When it got late and the moon came out, he replaced Xu Sheng and sat in front to drive the car.
After just driving for a while, Chen Xianglan looked at the dark woods beside the road with some worry.
"Er baby, we won't meet some awesome dicks, right?"
"It's okay, Mom."
Li Shiqiang looked back at her and said quickly: "Mom, touch the side of the car and see what it is."
Chen Xianglan reached out and touched it, and immediately felt a little cold half.
"Ah! Erba, why are you still carrying this thing?"
Li Shiqiang smiled nonchalantly and said: "It's rare for me to take my wife out for the first time. I don't feel at ease if I don't bring you with me. If I throw you into the road, I won't beat me to death when I get back!"
"You little melon, you just talk nonsense."
Chen Xianglan was amused and smiled, and quickly reached out and patted it.
"Mom, hurry up and get some rest, you have to help me wrangling tomorrow!"
"OK."
Chen Xianglan nodded and squatted on the bullock cart to sleep.
After changing with Xu Sheng twice more at night, the county seat in the distance finally appeared in the white light of the early morning.
After Li Shiqiang woke up Xu Sheng and Chen Xianglan, he said to them: "Let's buy something to eat first, and then take the meat to sell on the black market."
"What are you buying? Don't we bring it with us?"
Chen Xianglan shook her head and took out steamed buns and steamed buns from the bag she brought.
"Mom, it's a rare time for me to go to the city. Don't you want to eat a fried dough stick or drink a bowl of soy milk?"
"You are the only one who knows how to spend money!"
Although she said so, Chen Xianglan hesitated and finally agreed.
However, when the three of them arrived at the state-owned hotel in an ox cart, they found that the hotel was not open yet.
"Wait a minute, it should be soon."
Li Shiqiang jumped off the bullock cart and moved his body.
Not long after he had been active, he suddenly noticed an old man in his sixties approaching his cart.
Business came so quickly?
Li Shiqiang felt excited and immediately approached him and said, "Old man, do you want to buy meat?"
Although the old man looks quite old, he appears to be very agile in both speech and movement.
He stretched out his hand and pinched the meat on the car board, and asked: "How do you sell your antelope meat and bear meat?"
Before Li Shiqiang could speak, Chen Xianglan on the car board asked with a surprised look on her face: "Hey, how did you see that, uncle?"
The old man smiled proudly and said, "What kind of meat have I never seen before? Not only did I see that what you were pulling was antelope beef and bear meat, I also saw that this meat must have been stored for two or three days." "
Li Shiqiang was a little scared when he was told this.
You can even tell how many days the meat has been stored, so where does this old man come from?
At this time, Xu Sheng on the side suddenly poked his arm and pointed to the restaurant next to him.
Li Shiqiang immediately woke up and said excitedly: "Master, this meat has indeed been aged for almost three days. If you want it, I can make it cheaper for you."
If a chef in a state-owned restaurant takes a fancy to his meat, he may be able to sell a lot of it directly.
After hearing what the old man said, he immediately asked directly: "How do you plan to sell this meat? How much does it cost per pound? You just said it yourself, this meat has been stored for three days and is no longer fresh. "
Not fresh anymore...
Li Shiqiang was stunned for a moment. Just when he was a little embarrassed to speak, Chen Xianglan, who was sitting on the cart, spoke hastily: "What's wrong with it being stale? Uncle, you just said it yourself, this is antelope beef and bear Meat. I’m afraid you can’t see it in normal places, right?”
"What a coincidence! My son hunted takin and blind bears in the mountains. But it took a day just to drag the meat back from the mountains, and another day to drag it from the village to the county. To put it bluntly, You’re lucky if you can see the meat.”
After hearing what Chen Xianglan said, the old man also smiled, turned to look at Li Shiqiang and said, "Okay, boy, you even brought me along as a helper."
"hey-hey...."
Li Shiqiang just laughed stupidly, and the old man looked at him again and said, "Since you hit everything, why didn't I see the bear's paw?"
"Yes, yes, they are covered with something."
Li Shiqiang immediately came to the cart and pulled open a piece of oilcloth, revealing several bear paws underneath.
"OK."
Seeing this, the old man nodded and said: "Bring me two bear paws, twenty kilograms of bear meat, and twenty kilograms of antelope beef. Please give me a price."
