sinovels Chapter 1316: A Big Business of Tens of Thousands
Chapter 1316: A Big Business of Tens of Thousands
Chapter 1316 A Big Deal Worth Millions
When the educated youth went to the countryside, some of them came to Yong'an Forest District to make contributions.
In order to properly resettle the people, Yong'an Forest District built a group of wooden houses at the foot of Xishan Mountain, fifteen miles west of Yong'an Village.
This gathering place for educated young people is called Xishan Youth Point by the people of Yong'an.
Within a few years, the educated young people returned to the city one after another, and this piece of wood carving became vacant.
Since no employees were willing to live there, this wooden house became vacant.
As a hooligan gained the courage to move in, this place soon became a gathering place for hooliganism.
These hooligans were willing to endure hardships and worked very hard in the mountains, so in the past period of time, this village became Li Ruhai's main supplier.
Behind this village is the so-called West Mountain. At the foot of the West Mountain is a desolate area, which was a mass grave before liberation.
With the construction of Yongan, the surrounding area was cleared, but unexpectedly, a lot of foxes gathered there in the following years.
Even this desolate land and the woods on both sides have become the fox's territory.
Since fox fur cannot be exported to exchange foreign currency like squirrel fur and sable fur, it has no value if it is not exported.
It was precisely because the fox was worthless that Chu Anmin wanted to hunt the fox. Otherwise, with his status, it would be very easy for him to get a few big skins in the forest area.
But what is the price of that big leather? Even if someone gave it to him, Chu Anmin would not accept it.
Fox skins are worthless and fox meat is not tasty, so few mountain hikers go hunting foxes.
But the living conditions of hooligans are hard, and meat is still meat!
So, some people set traps in the woods, caught foxes, took them home, skinned them and stewed their meat.
But the next night, someone came back late from mining. When Hei Tian walked towards the village, he saw pairs of green eyes around the village.
He was frightened by the hooligan and ran towards the village screaming.
There is no headman in Mangliutun, but there are always people who are willing to take the lead.
Several prestigious people in the village gathered all the men in the village, and they went out of the village holding torches, knives, axes and sticks to hunt foxes.
When they set out, the group agreed that if they killed a lot of foxes, the whole village would have a good feast.
There are no guns in Mangliutun, and people with guns cannot become gangsters. There are no dogs in Mangliutun, and it is difficult to feed people, so how can they have the energy to raise dogs?
But as people moved out of the village in groups, a rustling sound could be heard in the darkness in the distance, and dots of green light retreated towards the western mountains.
The hooligans chased after him and when they reached a desolate area, they saw the woods on both sides filled with green light.
When the night wind blew, the branches and twigs rustled, and twenty or thirty big men all felt cold all over and their scalps numbed.
The people did not dare to enter the forest and could only retreat back to the village. After returning to the village, they thought that they would be fine after driving away the fox. However, in the following period of time, almost all the poultry in the village were bitten to death by foxes.
It was autumn, the time when poultry were fattening and laying eggs. We just had to wait for the snow to fall so that we could kill chickens and geese and sell them.
But unexpectedly, the foxes turned to causing trouble when they couldn't eat them. They bit the chickens, ducks and geese to death and threw them into the pen for the owner to see.
According to Li Ruhai, there was an old woman named Wang who raised twenty geese at that time.
Just wait for the snow to fall, these twenty geese can be sold for a small hundred dollars.
Unexpectedly, the next morning, when the woman got up early and went to the goose pen to release the geese and was about to take them out for breakfast, she saw the pen was full of dead geese.
After a brief moment of shock, the woman collapsed to the ground and started wailing loudly.
During that period, things like this were common.
When people deal with animals, no matter how powerful the people are, it's easy to deal with them. The most frightening thing is to be caught by the animals, which would be difficult to deal with.
The gangsters had no choice but to beg for help everywhere. But in those years, the older generation of artillerymen who fought in the big siege had a rule, that is, not to touch foxes.
In desperation, the ruffians in the village collected their produce from the mountains and came to Old Mrs. Han for help.
During those years, Mrs. Han had severed all ties with her son, so how could she dare to take on any job?
But those hooligans gave too much!
Under the temptation of ten kilograms of sorghum rice, five kilograms of wild fungus, five kilograms of dried boat nails and ten kilograms of dried mountain pears, old Han secretly went to the mangliutun.
When they arrived at Mangliutun, after some work done by old lady Han, there were no more foxes there.
But Zhao Jun had argued with Ma Ling about this matter in his previous life.
Ma Ling said that old Mrs. Han was a Taoist with profound knowledge and boundless magical powers, but Zhao Jun said that all the poultry in the village had died, so why did the foxes stay there?
No one in the world knows who is right or wrong, but since then, the people of Mangliutun have never dared to hunt foxes again.
Over time, the desolate land at the foot of the West Mountain became the location of fox dens, where the foxes dug a large number of caves that were densely packed and interconnected.
And that is the Zhao family gang’s destination today.
The jeep drove out of Yong'an and headed west. The Liberation Army car that was following it stopped outside Zhang Yuanmin's house.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Youcai asked Xie Chen, who was driving, from the passenger seat. Xie Chen saw Li Baoyu jogging into the yard, then turned back and said to Zhao Youcai, "My brother Jun said that the jeep can't hold the big stuff, so he asked us to borrow some weapons."
"What?" Tao Dabao, who was sitting in the passenger seat with Zhao Youcai, was stunned. Soon he saw Li Baoyu running out carrying a long black cloth bag.
Tao Dabao saw that the cloth bag was more than two meters long, so it should not be a Type 56 rifle or an Type 81 rifle.
So, he asked Jie Chen curiously, "Xiao Chen, what is that Baoyu holding?"
"Those are two treasures passed down from my elder brother Zhang's family." Xie Chen said with a serious face, "The Iron Cave-Exploring Needle and the Deadly Soul-Snatching Hook!"
"What the hell?" Tao Dabao exclaimed and turned around in the narrow space, trying to see clearly what Li Baoyu was holding.
But at this time, Li Baoyu had already climbed into the trunk of the car.
"Second Brother Zhao." Tao Dabao turned around and said to Zhao Youcai, "Why don't I go with them?"
Zhao Youcai was stunned, frowned and asked: "What are you going to do with them?"
"I've never seen anything like iron." Tao Dabao asked, "What are they used for?"
Xie Chen smiled when he heard this and started the car.
Zhao Youcai twitched his lips and asked Tao Dabao unhappily, "You've never picked a badger?"
"I have done that!" Tao Dabao said, "Badger, how could I not have done that?"
"The badger hole has a bend. Use a stick to poke inside." Zhao Youcai gestured with his hands and explained to Tao Dabao, "If you can't poke it in, it means it has a bend. Use a pickaxe to dig it out from the outside of the bend. Then poke around on the other side of the bend. Isn't that the way it is?"
"Ah..." After listening to this, Tao Dabao finally understood what the magic iron cave-exploring needle was.
But Tao Dabao was still curious and asked, "What is that hook? I heard it's life-threatening. What's it for? It's scary!"
Zhao Youcai twitched his lips, then raised his chin and said, "Go to the other side, that's a long-handled hook. Put it into the hole, bite the badger, hook it and pull it out."
"Hi!" Tao Dabao felt a little disappointed, he pouted and looked out the window. At this time, Zhao Youcai turned around and glared at Xie Chen who was laughing.
Xie Chen's face changed, his face became tense, and he pursed his lips, wanting to laugh but not daring to.
The jeep first arrived at the foot of the West Mountain.
With the sound of the car door closing, Zhao Jun, Chu Anmin, Zhao Ziyang and Song Zhiyuan got out of the car one after another.
"Right here?" Chu Anmin looked towards the front of the car. Zhao Jun came to his side, pointed ahead and said, "Director Chu, look!"
There is a slope of earth in front, covered with snow.
The so-called desolate land is not a barren land, but a land overgrown with weeds, just like when farmers say the land is desolate, they mean that there are many weeds in the farmland.
Countless withered and yellow grasses grew on this desolate land throughout the summer and autumn. When the heavy snow fell, the grasses were buried underneath. However, the hairs of small elm and willow trees stood out in the snow.
Since it was Zhao Jun who showed the way, the jeep was parked just on the south side of the slope.
No matter how hidden the nests of all animals are, there is one thing fixed: the entrance must face the sun.
At a glance, there were footprints and traces of fluttering everywhere on the snow, and on the distant slope, there were densely packed cave entrances.
Chu Anmin saw so many caves, then turned to look at Zhao Jun, thinking that his daughter's fox scarf had been found.
"Director!" Zhao Ziyang suddenly exclaimed and pointed to the forest to the west.
On both sides of this desolate land, there is a poplar forest on the west and a birch forest on the east.
Before Zhao Jun was reborn, he came to the birch forest in the east to pick birch mushrooms for a living.
"What the hell is that?" When Chu Anmin looked over, he saw a flash of gray.
"Oh!" Chu Anmin's eyes lit up, and he turned around and asked Zhao Jun, "Is it a fox?"
"That should be it." When Zhao Jun stretched his neck to look, he could no longer see anything at the edge of the forest.
At this time, Chu Anmin poked Zhao Jun twice and asked, "Most of the foxes here are gray, right?"
"Yeah!" Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Mostly gray, then white and yellow."
"Are there any red ones?" Chu Anmin asked again, but Zhao Jun kept shaking his head.
As for the wild beasts in the mountains, unless they are as powerful as the black tiger, black bear monster, or bear devil, it will be difficult for them to survive if they are too different.
Like the rabbit, when I was a child, we sang in nursery rhymes about black rabbits, white rabbits and so on. But in the mountains and forests, it is rare to see pure black or pure white rabbits. Most of the rabbits you can see are gray rabbits, and even yellow rabbits are rare.
The same is true for foxes. Most of them are gray and white, while yellow ones are rare and red ones are even harder to find.
Hearing Chu Anmin say that he wanted to find a red fox, Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Director Chu, let's not talk about whether there is a red fox or not. For example, if we hit it, that thing wouldn't look good as a scarf!"
"Oh my!" Chu Anmin also laughed. He shook his head and said, "My daughter read a short story in the newspaper about a red fox, a red fox, haha..."
At the end, Chu Anmin was also happy.
"Okay, Director Chu." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "If there's a red one, we'll fix it!"
"Then it's up to you!" Chu Anmin waved his hand at Zhao Jun and said, "I can't do it!"
Hearing Chu Anmin's words, Song Zhiyuan and Zhao Ziyang nodded repeatedly.
"Okay!" Zhao Jun said, "We can try to pick the one that's different from the others. After you take it back, Director Chu, find someone to ripen it. After it's ripened, find someone to make a clip and sew it into its mouth."
"What's that for?" Chu Anmin asked in confusion, and then he heard Zhao Jun gesture to his neck and said, "Wrap it around like this, pinch the mouth, and the clip will just fit on the tail, so it's wrapped around, right?"
"Hey?" Chu Anmin's eyes lit up, and he looked at Zhao Jun in surprise and said, "That's a good trick! You're really good, Zhao Jun, you're really smart!"
"Haha..." Zhao Jun laughed. This trick was not thought up by him. Ten years later, all genuine leather fox scarves would be like this, with the fox's tail in its mouth.
As the laughter died down, Zhao Jun suddenly thought of something. Although fox skins are not valuable now, once hunting is banned in ten years, it will be a big deal!
People in Northeast China especially love fur. When artificially bred mink fur had not yet entered the market on a large scale, a mink fur coat cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan.
A fox fur scarf costs thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. It is precisely because of this that the rural areas around Qinhuangdao in HB two thousand years later are all raising foxes and minks.
At this time, Zhao Jun suddenly thought that when his mother collected mountain products next year, she could mainly collect fox skins.
If we store these skins after they are ripened, and then sell them after the hunting ban in 98 when the prices skyrocket, wouldn't we make a fortune?
Thinking of this, Zhao Jun and Chu Anmin smiled at each other.
Chu Anmin smiled, thinking that Xiao Zhaopao was indeed reliable. Once the fox scarf was ready, his daughter would be so happy.
Zhao Jun laughed because Chu Anmin had inadvertently given him an idea of a way to make money.
If this business is done well, it will be a big business worth hundreds of millions!
With this deal, nothing else matters. These few families living in the forest area can eat as much as they want even after the hunting ban.
Just as Zhao Jun was thinking wildly, Song Zhiyuan pointed to the north and said, "They are coming!"
Xie Chen drove the Jiefang truck all the way here.
After parking the car, Xie Chen quickly opened the door and jumped out of the car.
Tao Dabao rolled down the window and shouted to Chu Anmin, "We're not going down!"
Chu Anmin waved to the two of them, and then set his eyes on the long cloth bag that Li Chen took from the trunk.
When Xie Chen came to deliver weapons to the Zhao army, Chu Anmin asked curiously, "Xiao Xie, what is that?"
"This is me..." Xie Chen was about to say that when he was interrupted by Zhao Jun.
"Director Chu, this is what..." Zhao Jun untied the cross that tied the cloth bag, unfolded the cloth bag, and said to Chu Anmin: "A large iron chisel and a long-handled hook, maybe it can be used to dig a hole later."
"Wang Wang..."
"Ow..."
As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, the hunting dogs that had gotten off the car and those that hadn't started shouting.
Hei Hu, who got off the car first, pulled Wang Qiang forward. Li Wubo saw this and hurriedly helped Wang Qiang hold Hei Hu.
Before, when the Zhao Family Gang went to Yongxing to hunt down the Xiong Guizi, Li Wubo had cooperated with the Zhao Family Gang and even helped the Zhao Family Gang lead the dogs.
It was not his turn to lead the black tiger at that time, but the little green dragon jumped up and Li Wubo felt it was difficult to pull it.
Not to mention the Black Tiger.
This is winter, and the black tiger has lost a few pounds, but it still weighs about 122 to 130 pounds. It is in good health, and when it exerts force, Wang Qiang can't hold it back.
Li Wubo quickly reached out to help and finally restrained the black tiger.
Zhao Jun looked up and saw the black tiger looking at the poplar forest in the west.
"Uncle!" Zhao Jun raised his hand and said, "Let Black Tiger go!"
"Okay!" Wang Qiang agreed, pulled the chain buckle, the rope on Black Tiger's neck loosened, and the big black dog jumped out!
"Aoao..." The black tiger ran and made a clanging sound.
As soon as it barked, the other hunting dogs that were unable to attack began to bark anxiously and pull at the ropes.
"Shunzi, get in the car!" Zhao Youcai called out to Lin Xiangshun loudly. The driver of the Zhao Family Gang was Jie Chen, and the driver of the Zhao Family Hunting Gang was Lin Xiangshun.
Following Zhao Youcai's order, people and dogs split into two groups, some followed Zhao Jun and some followed Zhao Youcai into the car!
(End of this chapter)