Chapter 568: Why are there so many peaceful years?
Chapter 568: Why are there so many peaceful years?
Author: Zhijianling
Chapter 568: Why are there so many peaceful years?
Few people understand Bang Chui better than Lu Lu.
Naturally, Lu Lu is indispensable when it comes to selling sticks.
After some discussion, Chen Xiuqing and Liang Kangbo were left guarding the tent, and Yuan Bao and others were also left behind. Lu Lu led Zhao Yongke and Zhang Shaofeng with six fourth-grade leaf mallets and two fifth-grade leaf mallets.
, went to Wuchang City.
There were too many things, so I was worried that people wouldn't be able to get so much money out of them if I took them out at once, and it would also attract other people's attention too easily. Lu Lu's semi-automatic couldn't be brought blatantly into the city, so naturally it had to stay.
Guns and ammunition are very abundant, and a large number of people have guns at hand. At this time, the authorities have actually realized the dangers, and control has begun to become strict, and in some places, confiscation has been carried out to a certain extent.
The chaotic situation of civilian gun ownership has led to frequent gun crime cases.
The most typical one is the robbery and murder case of the "Two Kings" in Northeast China.
As the saying goes, follow me with the gun in hand.
After the "Second Kings" stole the army's pistols, from February to September this year (1983), they traveled to several provinces and committed crimes continuously, killing and injuring dozens of people.
This incident was so famous that the gang of two was finally killed after being surrounded and suppressed by 20,000 police officers in Guangchang.
As someone who had played with guns in the Northeast in his previous life, Lu Lu naturally knew about this matter. He was on the cusp of the storm at this time, and he would naturally not raise his eyebrows like this and ask for trouble.
There are many similar cases, and some criminals even use their firearms to rob people along the streets and become notorious road bullies.
In addition to armed robberies, even armed fights in rural areas have become bloody and brutal due to the proliferation of guns.
After the reform and opening up, there have been more and more interest disputes under the market economy. Conflicts often broke out among rural villages to compete for minerals, cultivated land, barren hills and other resources, leading to large-scale armed fights.
Many people take out the shotguns they usually use for hunting to participate in armed fights. Some villagers are even equipped with more dangerous weapons such as cannons and explosives. In order to obtain more powerful weapons, the situation in the militia weapons depot in the Hard Gun Village is also constantly changing.
has happened.
It is precisely for this reason that special gun management measures were promulgated in 1981 and began to restrict the proliferation of guns.
In addition, in 1981, guns across the country were cleaned up and registered, and a large number of illegal guns were seized.
The ban on guns has already begun, but it is not a total ban on guns.
This is also the reason why guns sold openly in stores were removed from the shelves in the past, and control efforts are constantly being tightened.
In a few places, where there are many nomadic people, the situation is relatively loose.
There is no such thing as quiet time, especially in the wilderness.
Lu Lu, Chen Xiuqing and Liang Kangbo's guns were unregistered, unrecorded, and did not have gun licenses. They brought them into the city rashly, which is simply asking for trouble.
However, Zhao Yongke can. As an Oroqen native, he can legally hold a gun. The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in hand is originally issued by the government.
Zhang Shaofeng can also do it. He has a gun license and as the security director, he manages the militia and weapons depot in the village. He has a background, so there will be no problem.
This is also the reason why Lu Lu brought the two of them with him.
Lu Lu himself only brought his own three Oroqen hunting knives.
The three of them rode horses all the way into Wuchang City. As expected, they were interrogated by the police when they entered. After registering, they were quickly released. They only reminded Zhao Yongke and Zhang Shaofeng to take care of their guns.
Lu Lu breathed a sigh of relief and led the people straight to the state-owned store purchase station. He arrived too early. Most of the shops he passed along the way in the city were not open yet. The three of them had no choice but to wait.
At the food stall opposite the store, someone ordered a bowl of noodles and ate it slowly.
After eating, seeing that the time was almost up, I arrived at the door of the purchasing station early and waited.
This place is located on the edge of a mountain, and there are many people carrying sticks, hunting, and collecting herbs. Many people are watching this time, and within a short time, more than 20 people have gathered.
When the door of the purchasing station opened, a crowd of people rushed in, cheering.
This left the three of them speechless. They were the first to arrive, but they were squeezed to the back. They didn't even bother queuing to say who could get to the front would come first. Lu Lu simply let Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng squeeze in, and he went around to the front.
On one side, I stood on tiptoe to watch people selling mountain goods to find out the price.
There were many people selling mallets, but most of them were small seedlings that were not worth a few dollars. After watching for a while, Lu Lu only saw one person bringing two fourth-grade leaf mallets for sale.
The people responsible for purchasing at this buying station are two veterans. They judged the quality, shape, and even the age of the mallets very accurately, and the prices they offered were quite realistic. Therefore, after it was the turn of Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing, six pieces of fourth-grade leaves were purchased.
Bangchui was sold directly at his instruction.
Six four-grade leaf sticks were in good condition and were of a high age. The price given was also very good, and they cost almost 3,000 yuan.
This is the reason why two of the two fourth-grade leaves are already of a very high vintage and are very heavy.
Otherwise, each one only costs three to four hundred yuan, and the smaller ones cost around two hundred yuan.
Afterwards, the three of them left without stopping and asked someone on the street where the time-honored drug store in the city was. They immediately followed the street to find it.
Not far away, Zhang Shaofeng suddenly bumped into Lu Lu gently: "Look!"
Lu Lu, who was looking at the shops on both sides of the street, glanced in the direction indicated by Zhang Shaofeng and saw a young man and a few people of about the same age going into a restaurant next to them with their arms around each other.
It was the old man's youngest son.
However, this kid didn't have any injuries on his body. He was talking and laughing with others, as if he didn't know that his father had died on the mountain.
"His father was obviously beaten to death while on the mountain. It stands to reason that the three of them, father and son, should have entered and left the mountain together. If it was an outsider who did it, there is no way he would have been fine."
Zhang Shaofeng looked around: "I didn't see his eldest brother either... Could it be..."
"You want to say that they carried a large amount of goods, and then this kid got interested in the money, and his father and his brother... were killed by him?" Even Zhao Yongke couldn't believe what he said: "
Isn’t that the case?”
"It's hard to say. When we met that day, this kid said those two sentences. He was not a peaceful person. Lao Wu took Lao Zhao, who we were looking for, and the people around him were all big sellers. Logically speaking, he was
The two of them who are leading the way should also have big products... For money, some people can really do anything."
However, Zhang Shaofeng did not rule out this possibility: "I have heard older people say this kind of thing before, and it is not uncommon for gold diggers to attack their closest relatives in order to monopolize the gold nugget or gold sand they obtained."
But Lu Lu shook his head: "Don't worry about it. Whether they are dead or alive has nothing to do with us. What is important is that this kid has seen us in the mountains... avoid him and don't let him see us."
He was more worried about being seen by this kid and causing trouble for himself.
A group of people carry a lot of valuable sticks with them. When they go into the mountains to carry sticks, most of their whereabouts are secretive. Therefore, they avoid trying to grab the top of the mountain with others. Even if they meet, they rarely talk to each other, and they will not easily exchange names or find out each other's identities.
It is precisely because of this that Lu Lu and others did not know the name of Yesan and where he was from. When they came out of the mountain, they did not choose to go to Weihe Town, but to Wuchang. In addition to facilitating the sale of sticks, they also wanted to hide it.
whereabouts.
Being remembered is not a good thing.
But I didn't expect to bump into that kid here.
Lu Lu didn't want to make any publicity, so he led Zhang Shaofeng and Zhao Yongke directly into the alley, bypassing the restaurant, then returned to the street and continued to the Rongxiang Chinese Medicine Shop pointed out by passers-by. It didn't take long.
And found it.
It was early in the morning, and there were only two patients in the shop.
An old Chinese doctor with gray hair was taking the patient's pulse. Watching him talk to the patient during consultation gave people a very amiable feeling.
The three of them didn't rush, they just sat down on the long chairs nearby and waited patiently.
After a while, he finally treated the two patients and took medicine. Then he walked up to Lu Lu and the others and asked with a smile: "Are you three seeing a doctor or taking medicine?"
Lu Lu also smiled at him: "I carried two mallets on the mountain, and I wanted to come here to ask if I would take them!"
"wooden club?"
The old Chinese medicine doctor turned his head and looked outside the room, looked at the three of them for a while, then turned back to them and said, "Come inside and talk."
Lu Lu knew there was something going on as soon as he heard it.
In the Bangchui trading area, control has always been very strict. Private individuals can trade small items such as erjiazi and lampstands. If they reach the fourth-grade leaf or above, they must either go to a medicinal material purchasing company or a state-owned purchasing station. The control is strict.
, mainly to earn foreign exchange.
Besides, good things will never be allowed to wander among the people, and there will be many people watching.
In the city, the state-run pharmacies only accept medicinal materials, while the purchasing stations of supply and marketing cooperatives accept everything, including all kinds of fur products.
But there are always other channels that break out of these restrictions and do things in secret.
Some people will ask knowledgeable people to go directly to well-known old masters to make private purchases, and some people will ask well-known old Chinese medicine practitioners in such traditional Chinese medicine shops to make purchases. After all, they have extensive connections.
Of course, whether it is the purchasing station of a supply and marketing cooperative or a medicinal material purchasing company, they can also handle this matter. Their purchasing agents also have their own connections, and of course, private entrustments are also indispensable.
Lu Lu chose this place mainly to explore the prices of private and purchasing stations.
The old Chinese medicine doctor called an apprentice to greet him in the front door, and he led a few people to the living room in the backyard. He politely poured tea for the three of them, asked them to sit down, and said directly: "This stick, indeed, it has
Several people from out of town have asked me to help collect them. If they have high-quality mallets, I can give you a high price here.
But if I don’t accept small items like Sanhua, Erjiazi, or lampstands here, even if I do, the price I’ll give you won’t be higher than what I get from the purchasing station.”
Take the big one and leave the small one with a stick. Even though Sanhua is a small twister, there are still people who dig it up and sell it, making two or three yuan. As for the five-leaf slap, it has a bad meaning, so there are very few people digging it.
The old Chinese medicine practitioners also know their stuff and won’t mention it directly.
But those erjiazi and lampstands are not big products. Most of them only weigh about seven to eight grams or ten grams, and each one can be sold for twenty or thirty yuan.
The meaning of the old Chinese medicine doctor is actually very clear, only the leaves of the fourth grade and above are accepted.
It's true what he said.
"Two taels or so of sticks, I can get them up to 750 here. Two taels of sticks is the dividing line. If you go up, one more tael can make the price a lot higher. If you have one more tael, it means doubling the price.
If you are in good shape, you can go even higher..." the old Chinese doctor added.
Two taels, that’s one hundred grams, five grams per qian.
This is indeed higher than the price given by the purchasing station, but in fact the price is limited, and it is not much higher than last year!
The old Chinese medicine doctor looked at the three of them with no sense of expectation on his face.
There are so many people carrying mallets, but very few sell big products. What kind of luck does it take to dig up a few seedlings? Only a few of those who come to him to sell mallets can produce something decent.
Without any trace of ink, Lu Lu took off the hunting bag he was carrying and took out the two sealed buns inside.
The old Chinese medicine doctor was sitting opposite, blowing the tea leaves in the cup and looking at the steamed buns that Lu Lu opened on the table.
The bark was unfolded and the moss wrapped inside was removed. When he saw the mallet, the old Chinese medicine doctor was stunned for a moment, and then he came next to Lu Lu: "Oh my god, it's really a big deal, it's amazing!"
Lu Lu just smiled slightly: "You always give Zhang Zhang an eye to see what price you can give me?"
"What a good thing..." The old Chinese doctor stood in front of two fifth-grade leaf sticks and said in surprise: "These two sticks are very old. I'm afraid they will be sixth-grade leaves in a few years."
Then, he ran outside and brought in the container for weighing the medicinal materials.