For about ten years, people in the Northeast loved mink coats, and they affectionately called them mink.
When mink coats were expensive, they cost hundreds of thousands, or tens of thousands a piece. If anyone wore one while walking down the street, he would turn heads.
And when they became cheaper, costing several thousand yuan each, all the bus conductors wore them.
Logically speaking, fur is difficult to clean.
But the Northeastern people have their own unique way, which is to catch the heavy snow and put their mink clothes on the snow to roll.
When the windlass is over, I grab the snow with my hands and rub it on the collar and sleeves, which are the most dirty places.
In this way, the mink coat will be clean.
When short videos became popular, you could still see videos of people throwing their cats in the snow to collect snow and remove ashes.
At this moment, Zhao Jun looked up and saw an old lady with pimples squatting in the courtyard of Lao Sun's house. She was rubbing a large piece of leather in the snow in the separate garden.
Look at the gorgeous leather, the gold base, and the big black money spots on it.
Zhao Jun recognized at a glance that it was the skin of a Siberian leopard. In other words, what the old lady was holding was exactly the target of Zhao Jun's trip.
When Zhao Jun looked at it, Zhao Laohan also looked at it, and he hurriedly shouted: "Aunt Sun!"
The squatting old lady heard someone calling her, so she stood up holding the leopard skin quilt in both hands.
It is said to be a small quilt, and its "smallness" is compared to a normal quilt.
In fact, this small quilt is more than 80 centimeters long and wide, and is made from the skins of two male Amur leopards sewn inward.
A leopard skin is quite heavy. The old lady couldn't hold the two quilts sewn together with one hand, so she hugged them in her arms.
"Old man!" Seeing Mr. Zhao walking quickly into his yard, the old lady went up to meet him and asked, "Have you eaten?"
"It's done, Aunt Sun." Zhao Laohan actually didn't eat. His daughter-in-law had cooked for lunch, but when she came back, she immediately turned over the table.
A fierce battle ensued. Where would Mr. Zhao go to eat?
But when the old lady asked, he was too embarrassed to say that he hadn't eaten, so he just pretended.
Hearing him say that he had eaten, the old lady took a step forward and whispered to Zhao Laohan: "Old man, you go into the house and wait for a while. I will go to your house and chat with Chunsheng's mother. That's it."
Just go back quickly."
The old lady wanted to help him make peace. Zhao Laohan was very touched when he heard that, but with two thousand yuan in his pocket, Zhao Laohan felt that it would not be difficult to go home.
At this time, Zhao Jun and the others walked behind Zhao Laohan. When they saw someone coming in, the old lady raised her head slightly and looked at the three of them. She asked Zhao Laohan: "Old Han'er, this... did you bring it?"
Hearing this, Zhao Laohan raised his hand sideways, pointed at Zhao Jun, and introduced the old lady: "Aunt Sun, this is Zhao Jun, and those are his uncle and one of his brothers."
After briefly introducing the three of Zhao Jun, Zhao Laohan turned around and pointed at the leopard skin quilt in the old lady's arms and said: "Aunt Sun, Zhao Jun wants to buy this quilt from yours."
"Ah?" When the old lady heard this, she looked at Zhao Jun in surprise, and then greeted: "My child, hurry! Hurry! Come into the house quickly!"
Seeing the old lady's attitude, Zhao Jun felt that the deal was half done.
As soon as she entered the house, the old lady shouted to the east room: "Old man, the old fool is here to welcome the guests (qiě)!"
As soon as the old lady finished speaking, Sun Liangchen walked out of the east room. When the old man came out, he saw Zhao Jun coming in. He was startled and said, "Isn't this that young man?"
Zhao Jun smiled and nodded to Sun Liangchen, and the old lady said to him: "Old man, this kid wants to buy our quilt."
As she spoke, the old lady slightly lifted the quilt in her arms.
When Sun Liangchen heard this, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly called Zhao Jun and others: "Let's go into the house first."
Everyone entered the house and sat down on the kang. At this time, a man with a stick came out from the west room.
This man looked to be about forty years old. He was using a Kabbalah stick as a crutch. His right leg seemed to be injured. The right cotton trouser leg had been cut off from the knee down and re-sewn. The exposed right calf was wrapped with a
bandage.
He came in and said hello to Zhao Laohan first. At this time, Zhao Laohan took off his hat and neckband and returned them to Sun Liangchen, revealing his scratched-up face.
"Ouch!" The man who came in laughed and said, "What's wrong, Han'er brother, are you going up the mountain to be scratched by a black blind man?"
"Go away!" Zhao Laohan laughed and scolded: "Do you think I am you?"
Hearing them talking about the trouble, the Sun family members were all happy. Sun Liangchen pointed at the man and said to Zhao Jun and the others: "This is my son Sun Youhai."
Zhao Jun and the other three nodded to him one after another. When Sun Youhai responded, Zhao Laohan laughed and said, "My brother's leg is not from the fetal belt. He went up the mountain to get rid of it by the black blind man."
The old lady protected her son and slapped Mr. Zhao with a smile.
At this time, neither Zhao Jun nor the three of them smiled. Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang both looked at Zhang Yuanmin. Zhang Yuanmin looked at Sun Youhai with a bit of sympathy in his eyes.
Sun Youhai was also an outfield player. He smiled at Zhao Jun and others: "If I hadn't been lucky that day, I would have kicked him."
The two parties were not familiar with each other, so Zhao Jun did not inquire in detail about the murder.
At this time, Sun Liangchen held a small basket containing tobacco leaves and asked everyone to roll cigarettes and smoke.
Zhao Jun didn't draw, so he didn't take the roll. Instead, he chatted with Sun Liangchen and said, "Old man, I heard people say that there are few black and blind people here."
"Yeah." Sun Liangchen said: "It has become less and less in recent years. Our forest farm is small and the big trees are almost cut down."
There are many black blinds squatting in Tiancangzi, but there are few big trees that can accommodate them, so there are also fewer black blinds.
Zhao Jun and others nodded, and Sun Liangchen instructed the old lady to pour water for several people.
"Uncle, stop working." Wang Qiang said, "We'll sit down for a while and then leave."
"Then why are you so anxious?" The old lady brought the teapot in front of Wang Qiang, and then winked at Sun Liangchen.
The old lady said she was not in a hurry, but actually she was.
When Sun Liangchen saw this, his face remained calm, he reached out and pulled the leopard skin quilt aside, and said to Zhao Jun: "Young man, do you want this?"
"Yeah, old man." Zhao Jun said, "Then I was chatting with Master Zhao. He said that you have a leopard skin quilt at home, so I thought about it and came over to take a look."
"Take it and take a look." Sun Liangchen said, and Zhao Jun stretched out his hand to pull the quilt.
Before he started doing business, Zhao Jun had a lot of skins in his hands. Recently, when he started to trade in furs, Zhao Jun had a lot of skins in his hands.
At this time, as soon as Zhao Jun got his hands on the leopard skin quilt, he felt it out. The fur on the leather was very soft, but it felt sluggish to the touch.
This sluggish feeling is not due to the texture, but because the leather has aged, and the hair tubes and oiliness in the leather have disappeared.
Wang Qiang, who was next to him, was holding a cigarette with his left hand and stretched out from the edge of the kang, avoiding the leopard skin quilt, and then stretched out his right hand to touch it.
"Ouch!" Wang Qiang touched it and said, "This is quite old."
"It's been a long time." Sun Liangchen said with a smile: "Fifty-three or four years old, not much younger than me."
"Hmm..." Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun clicked his eyes and turned to look at Wang Qiang. The uncle and nephew looked at each other and continued to open the leopard skin quilt.
This scene fell in the eyes of the Sun family, and the old couple and Sun Youhai couldn't help but murmur in their hearts.
It seems that the former landlord's family is indeed in dire straits now.
During the careful inspection, the uncle and nephew found any flaws and pointed them out to each other.
The quilt was relatively clean, but there were scorch marks on the fur. They didn't look big, so cigarette ash probably fell on it.
After the uncle and nephew finished the inspection, Zhao Jun looked at Sun Liangchen and asked: "Old man, how much do you want to sell this for?"
"This..." Sun Liangchen hesitated for a moment, and when the old lady nodded at him, Sun Liangchen said: "Young man, if I sell it, I will have to ask for a thousand yuan."
"Tsk!" Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun smacked his mouth and looked at Wang Qiang.
But Wang Qiang shook his head under the gaze of the three members of the Sun family.
In fact, Wang Qiang didn't know whether he should buy it or not, but when he saw Zhao Jun asking for his opinion, Wang Qiang instantly understood what Zhao Jun meant.
His eldest nephew always has ideas, so why ask him when buying something worth a thousand yuan?
It's just for people to see. You can't make an offer. Zhao Jun will agree immediately, right?
That would make Sun Liangchen feel that the sale was cheap, and it would be troublesome if he added extraneous matters.
Seeing Wang Qiang shaking his head, the Sun family and his wife were a little anxious, but Zhao Jun and the others didn't say anything, and the Sun family couldn't lower the price immediately.
At this time, Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Laohan.
Zhao Laohan was slightly startled. He threw the cigarette butt on the ground and said to Zhao Jun: "Zhao Jun, look, if you can accept it, just accept it. My old uncle Sun's family is in a very difficult situation."
Yes, both grandsons are in technical secondary schools, and now they are all studying outside."
"Ouch." Hearing what Zhao Laohan said, Zhao Jun looked at Sun Youhai in surprise and said, "Where are the two technical secondary school students?"
"Haha..." Sun Youhai smiled bitterly and said, "The child is doing well in his studies, so I will support him."
"Isn't that right?" Zhao Laohan took up the conversation again and pointed at Sun Youhai's injured leg and said to Zhao Jun: "My brother, just for that day of rest, he didn't even rest at home, he had to go up and down the mountain.
Go with the trap. This time, the black blind man even chased me away."
Hearing what Zhao Laohan said, Sun Youhai knew that he was helping him, but he still lowered his head in embarrassment.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Jun felt that he was almost stretched out, and immediately said to the three members of the Sun family: "Then I will accept the price according to the old man's price."
As soon as Zhao Jun said this, the Sun family was extremely surprised. They took the leopard skin quilt down the mountain and asked about it at the supply and marketing cooperative, but the price they were given was far from ideal.
From then on, the family placed their hopes on Liu Changshan, but that was nothing more than hope.
Now that someone is willing to spend a thousand dollars to buy this little leopard skin quilt, the family is extremely happy.
When Zhao Jun took out a wad of unity from Cotton Monkey's pocket and put the money on the table, the Sun family became even happier.
"Old man, check it out." Zhao Jun pushed the money in front of Sun Liangchen, but Sun Liangchen was not polite and opened the money and counted it familiarly.
As expected of a descendant of a landlord, just like Wang Meilan, he doesn't even need to practice, he can just count money and get away.
After Sun Liangchen counted the money, he took out a big ball and held it in his hand. Then he gave the rest to Sun Youhai and said, "Go and take the house."
After saying that, Sun Liangchen smiled at Zhao Jun and said: "We, the old couple, are getting older, and now my son is in charge."
There was nothing wrong with this, but when Zhao Jun looked at it, he knew it was not what the old man said.
If Sun Youhai was in charge, it would be impossible for Sun Liangchen to take out ten yuan without authorization.
And the old man said that because Zhao Jun and the others are sitting here. Old man, the old lady cannot hide money directly in this room.
He gave the money to Sun Youhai and asked him to take it to the house and put it there, but he had to have an explanation, so he said that his son was in charge.
Zhao Jun and the others laughed when they heard this, and then they saw Sun Liangchen saying to the old lady: "You prepare two dishes at home. When you are done, I will go out to collect a barrel of wine and buy two bottles of cans."
After Sun Liangchen said this to the old lady, he looked at Zhao Jun and the others and said, "We are here, so we can't leave like this. My old man is going to have a meal."
How could this be said by someone who is not a member of the family?
"Old man." Zhao Jun quickly declined and said, "We won't eat any food. The other end of the forest farm will arrange food and hold a celebration banquet for us in the evening. We will leave now."
After saying that, Zhao Jun picked up the leopard skin quilt and stood up to leave.
The old man and the old lady hurriedly invited the guests, but Zhao Jun declined again, so the two elders sent Zhao Jun and the others out of the hospital.
Zhao Jun hugged the leopard skin quilt and hurried out of the village with Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin.
As soon as I turned a corner, I saw a woman walking out of the fenced yard ahead. When the woman saw Zhao Jun and the others, she turned around and said, "Third son-in-law, look, come over here... is that little file!"
"I'm pretty!" Zhang Yuanmin cursed, which made him uncomfortable.
Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang were stunned, but the two women probably didn't hear them.
At this time, a woman walked out of the courtyard, glanced at Zhang Yuanmin and said nothing.
Zhao Jun and the other three passed by the two women. After walking seven or eight meters, Wang Qiang turned around and took a look before saying to Zhang Yuanmin, "Yuanmin, how do they know you?"
"I've seen you at the supply and marketing cooperative," Zhang Yuanmin responded, and then muttered: "Just Lai Ruhai, this kid doesn't do any good things."
"Let's leave quickly, brother." Zhao Jun greeted Zhang Yuanmin and said, "Don't let anyone come out and beat us again soon."
Zhang Yuanmin was right when he heard it. Dragging his body, which had just recovered from a serious illness, he followed Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang back.
When they returned to the forest farm supply and marketing cooperative, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen, and Li Ruhai were all awake. Seeing Zhao Jun and others coming back, the three of them hurriedly gathered around to look at the leopard skin quilt.
"Brother." Li Baoyu touched it and asked Zhao Jun, "Can this skin still be sold for money?"
"It can be sold!" Zhao Jun said: "What we sell is not quality, what we sell is that, that..."
Zhao Jun's culture was limited, and he didn't know how to describe it halfway through his words.
"It's a good sign." Li Ruhai answered from the side. Although it didn't feel smooth, someone picked him up. Zhao Jun nodded and smiled: "Yes, yes, that's all."
After saying that, Zhao Jun took out a stack of large amounts of dough from his pocket and threw it on the kang. Then he said to Li Ruhai, "Ruhai, put these in your bag."
"Hey!" Li Ruhai agreed, turned around and grabbed the empty briefcase.
"Grand nephew." Wang Qiang asked Zhao Jun, "Why do you have so much money?"
Zhao Jun stretched out his hand and tugged on the leopard skin quilt and said, "I wonder if he can do anything like this? Then I asked Master Zhao to withdraw some money, and I took it out and put it in my pocket."
Speaking of this, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered something and immediately smiled and said: "Tomorrow we will go back to Yong'an Brigade to buy some pigs to make my mother happy."