On weekdays, Chen Xiuyu would come to buy what she needed at home when she went to the market. Sometimes, she would just ask acquaintances in the village to bring the shopping.
Lu Lu didn't have the same preference as Jiang Zewei to go to the market when he had nothing to do.
He prefers to amuse his children at home when he has nothing to do, or go to the homes of Zhao Tuanqing, Jiang Zewei, and Wang Demin to visit and chat, or have a drink with a few sworn brothers.
When I arrived at the market this time, I thought that this was a good time for the buying station to collect medicinal materials, furs and other things. Winter furs are good, so the prices are naturally much higher than those in spring and summer. Lu Lu was ready to sell the furs he had hoarded.
We are about to prepare to go into the mountains and start the new year's hunting. It is also time to empty out the warehouse to store new furs. The key is that after this winter, the price will drop again after spring, so it is not worth it at that time.
I have to make some preparations for my trip to Beijing next year.
So, after walking around the district and going to a state-owned store to buy some pastries and cans that Chen Xiuyu and Aunt Duan liked to eat, he followed them to the nearby purchasing station.
Watching others selling fur products outside for a while, after hearing an approximate price, he bypassed the desk blocking the door and walked straight into the buying station.
The old master in charge of the buying station had already greeted the two buying men. When he saw Lu Lu coming in, he smiled and said hello without any obstruction.
Lu Lu went to the old master's office by familiar routes and knocked on the door.
The words "Manager's Office" on the sign on the door are enough to describe the master's position.
He opened the door and saw Lu Lu, who welcomed him in warmly.
"Man, what do you have to sell when you come here this time?" The old master politely made tea for Lu Lu and invited him to sit down by the brazier and warm himself up.
"All the furs stored in the warehouse are ready to be sold."
Lu Lu held the teacup and covered his frozen hands: 'What's the price?'
"The price is a little higher than last year. The demand is getting bigger and bigger, and the furs that can be received are getting less and less. The price has been raised twice since the beginning of winter. Unfortunately, I still haven't received much." The old master sighed.
Take a breath.
"Isn't it just snowing not long ago? The next step will be a good time for hunting, and there will be more." Lu Lu said with a smile.
"By the way, what do you have there?" the old master then asked.
"Last winter, I took a few brothers to the mountains several times and got a lot of things, including big skins, yellow skins, raccoon skins, fox skins, wolf skins, and a lot of water dog skins..."
Lu Lu took stock one by one.
"Oh, they are all valuable, there are a lot of good things!" Hearing what Lu Lu said, the old master sat upright.
"There are a lot of things. Didn't you say last time that you can come to buy them? I want you to find someone to go there tomorrow and I will take care of the things. I need to prepare about 50,000 yuan!" Lu Lu said casually.
"So many?" The old master was startled, but then he became happy again. It seemed that the acquisition task could be completed earlier.
Lu Lu frowned slightly: "Is it difficult?"
The old master shook his head: "No... Come early tomorrow morning, I will personally bring people to your door."
"I still have a question, can the fur of the green-rooted marten be harvested?"
I led Chen Xiuyu to Bird's Nest Island and picked up the skins peeled off by muskrats. The buying station had no quota for buying them before, so I still kept them.
"Collect it, I started harvesting it this year, it's also good fur!"
"Okay, then I'll wait at home tomorrow morning. You should know where Xiushan Tun is, right?"
"Know!"
After the matter was settled, Lu Lu drank the tea that had quickly cooled down in his hand, put the tea cup on the table, and stood up to leave.
After leaving the purchasing station, he deliberately walked around and looked around, but still didn't see Wu Biao.
I also wanted to inquire with him to see if he could get anything like a scope, and buy it so that my sworn brothers could equip it... I haven't seen him for a long time.
Lu Lu suspected that something had happened to Wu Biao.
He couldn't help but go back, pulled a buyer and asked: "Brother, may I ask, do you know what the old man who sold guns here did before?"
"He...a group of police officers came one day and confiscated all the things and took the people away. I'm afraid they won't come back again..."
He often hangs around the buying station, and the buying staff is also very familiar with Wu Biao.
Hearing this, Lu Lu couldn't help but frown.
That’s so!
However, Lu Lu also understood this situation. It is normal to ban guns to a certain extent and eliminate some channels for selling guns. It can only be said that Wu Biao is unlucky.
The main reason is that this guy sells guns so openly that almost everyone he catches is questioned.
It's too conspicuous, it would be strange if it wasn't targeted.
Lu Lu was not afraid of what would happen if he bought a gun from him. With Zhang Shaofeng standing in the way, things could be settled easily. Moreover, so far, the biggest consumable bullets were still in stock at home, even if they were not enough.
, you can also ask Zhang Shaofeng directly.
However, it becomes more troublesome to get some good stuff.
When Lu Lu went to carry Zhui Feng with his things, he saw Zhang Shaofeng waiting there.
They came driving the sledge.
"Is the matter done?" Lu Lu asked with a smile.
"Once the situation was explained, I called the forest farm and asked, and I was told that it was indeed true. We were not deliberately killing people. We were also doing harm to the people. We also gave them a reward of 300 yuan!"
Zhang Shaofeng said and raised the bag in his hand.
Lu Lu took a closer look and saw that there were several tiger bones inside.
"You still have more face!"
Being able to get back so many tiger bones would have been impossible for anyone else.
"Brothers, you are not allowed to brew a jar and leave it alone!" Zhang Shaofeng said, casually handing a bag to Lu Lu: "The tiger bones and tiger gall inside are all yours."
Lu Lu accepted it unceremoniously: "There is no such thing as too much of a good thing... I have to go get some good wine and make a jar of it. I will take it back and put it aside. Then I will use the mallet and deer antlers!"
Future generations will want to buy good things that they have no place to buy, so they have to be rare.
"Let's go...go back!" Lu Lu urged.
"Wait a minute, Qingzi and my second brother will follow. They went to the department store to buy things. Let's go together when they arrive!"
Lu Lu nodded and sat down on the sledge. He stuffed Zhang Shaofeng with two pieces of hibiscus cake. He also took two pieces and ate while waiting.
And deep in a forest on the road from Xiangshui River Forest Farm to Yichun Road, on the sledge, the head was looking at his brother Shunfu.
He received an ax blow on his thigh, which caused him to bleed. After spending a lot of time on the mountain, Shunfu had already passed out due to excessive bleeding.
Such serious injuries are not like the claw wounds scratched by big claws on the middle-aged back. They can be treated with medicine and bandage at the forest farm's medical office. Therefore, after seeing Shunfu being sent in, the doctor took a look and said,
He didn't dare to take over the job at all, so he used a gauze bandage to stop the bleeding and asked the head to be sent to the district or directly to the hospital in Yichun.
He immediately found the sledge, asked someone to lift Shunfu onto the sledge, and covered him with a quilt. He drove the sledge and rushed towards the main road in the direction of Yichun in a panic.
After driving out for more than ten miles, he shouted at the horses to slow down. After checking that there was no one around, he drove directly into the depths of the woods.
Shunfu woke up from the pain and saw his own brother sitting on the sledge, smoking a pipe in his mouth: "Brother..."
He turned his head and glanced at him, knocked his pipe on the sledge, put another pot of dry smoke and lit it, and then said softly: "You are lucky, you can still wake up!"
After a pause, he continued: "Do you really think I don't know anything about you and your sister-in-law? Someone bumped into me at the forest farm last year. I didn't know it at first. I overheard someone talking about it secretly, and then I told him
I didn't expect it to be true.
What I didn't expect was that after the logging at the forest farm was over, you would still be sneaking around behind my back when I got home.
This time, I deliberately didn't ask your sister-in-law to come with me. It's only been a few days, and you already want to leave your family behind and go back. Are you still thinking about it?
I'm your brother!
Why do you have to force me to this point?"
Upon hearing these words, Shunfu, who looked weak, suddenly widened his eyes and his expression became frightened.
"Brother, we are brothers, what do you want to do?" Fushun tried to stand up in horror, but found that his thigh, which was injured by the axe, would not obey the command at all, so he struggled to get down from the sledge, but his hands and feet were already dead.
I was numb from the cold and couldn't move at all, and I didn't have the strength to move.
"Brothers... Humph, do you know that what you did in the villages and fields was also seen by others, and you even dared to come to my bed! How do you want me to behave? What else do you want me to do?
Are you a man with a face? Today's ax was either meant to chop off the big claws, or it was aimed at you. Unfortunately, it was not directly chopped off on the head.
I don't know what you were thinking when you pushed me in front of the big paw, but probably from that moment on, I no longer have a so-called brother like you in my heart.
Today, whenever you close your eyes, I will send you home. Aren't you thinking about your sister-in-law? I will send her to accompany you when I get back!"
After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and pulled off the large piece of blood-soaked quilt covering Shun Fu: "You are not worthy to die outside and not enter the ancestral grave...you are not worthy!"
Lu Lu and Zhang Shaofeng waited until Chen Xiuqing and Liang Kangbo came back from shopping, then returned to Xiushan Tun together, and then went home respectively.
Lu Lu returned to Caodianzi and saw Zhao Yongke feeding the two tiger cubs in the wooden cage with the meat from the jumping cat.
Perhaps it was because they were too hungry, so the two tiger cubs ate very ferociously.
He led Zhui Feng to the stable to feed him fodder, and handed Zhao Yongke's portion of tiger bones over: "The fourth brother fought for this, take it back to make wine, and all our brothers will have a share, and the district will give it back to you."
Three hundred yuan, I asked my fourth brother to give it to the militia brothers who came to the mountain to help today!"
"OK!"
Zhao Yongke nodded, took the tiger bone handed over by Lu Lu, looked at it, and asked casually: "When will you pick up these two tiger cubs?"
"We should be there tomorrow morning. Come on, go inside and rest!"
Lu Lu called Zhao Yongke into the house and saw Chen Xiuyu already busy cooking. He couldn't help but ask: "Where are Wang Yan and his godmother?"
"They have all gone back!" Chen Xiuyu poked her head out of the kitchen and took a look.
Lu Lu looked at the pastries in his hand: "I also bought some pastries for my godmother. When she comes over tomorrow, remember to give them to her!"
Zhao Yongke was left to eat at home. After Zhao Yongke returned, Lu Lu hung the tiger gallbladder and tiger bones in the warehouse to dry, took care of the chickens and horses, checked the situation in the deer farm, and gave Yuan Bao
After feeding them corn porridge, they went home to play with their children for a while, and the whole family fell asleep early.
At dawn the next day, Lu Lu was awakened by a cry from Caodianzi, followed closely by Chen Xiuyu.
"I heard the cry of the crane..."
"It's the cry of the crane...the crane is back?"
After the couple looked at each other, they got dressed one after another, got off the kang, and ran outside to take a look. In the snow on the meadow, walking gracefully under the morning light, there were not four cranes, but six.
Why did you hook up with two people after you went out?