sinovels Chapter 1454 The Leopard Skin Was Obtained
Chapter 1454 The Leopard Skin Was Obtained
Chapter 1454 The Leopard Skin Was Obtained
For about ten years, people in Northeast China liked mink coats, which they affectionately called "mink coats".
When mink coats were expensive, they could cost hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan each. If someone wore one and walked on the street, they would get a lot of attention.
When they became cheaper, costing several thousand yuan each, even the bus ticket sellers started wearing them.
In theory, fur is difficult to clean.
But people in Northeast China have their own unique way, which is to roll their mink coats in the snow when it snows heavily.
When you've rolled enough, grab the snow with your hands and rub it on the collar, sleeves and other places that are prone to getting dirty.
In this way, the mink coat is clean.
When short videos became popular, you could still see videos of people throwing their cats in the snow and picking up the snow and dust.
At this moment, Zhao Jun looked up and saw an old lady with lumps on her face squatting in the yard of Old Sun's house, rubbing a large piece of leather in the snow in a separate garden.
Look at the colorful leather, the golden base with big black spots on it.
Zhao Jun recognized it at a glance. It was the skin of a Northeast Leopard. In other words, what the old lady was holding was exactly what Zhao Jun was looking for.
When Zhao Jun was watching, Zhao Laohan was also watching, and he hurriedly called out, "Aunt Sun!"
The squatting old lady heard someone calling her, and she stood up holding the leopard-skin quilt in her hands.
It is called a small quilt, and the "small" here is compared with a normal quilt.
In fact, this small quilt is more than 80 centimeters long and wide, and is made by sewing the skins of two male Siberian leopards inside out.
A leopard skin was quite heavy, and the old lady could not lift the small quilt made of two leopard skins with one hand, so she held it in her arms.
"Old Man!" Seeing Zhao Laohan quickly walk into her yard, the old lady went to him and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"
"We're done eating, Aunt Sun." Actually, Zhao Laohan didn't eat. His daughter-in-law did cook at noon, but when she came back, she overturned the table.
A fierce battle ensued. Where could Zhao Laohan go to eat?
But when the old lady asked him, he was embarrassed to say he hadn't eaten, so he pretended.
Hearing him say he had eaten, the old lady took a step forward and whispered to Zhao Laohan, "Laohan, please go inside for a while. I will go to your house and chat with Chunsheng's mother. You can go back quickly after that."
The old lady wanted to help them reconcile, and Zhao Laohan was quite touched when he heard that. But with two thousand yuan in his pocket, Zhao Laohan felt that it would not be difficult for him to go home.
At this time, Zhao Jun and the other two walked behind Zhao Laohan. Seeing someone coming in, the old lady raised her head slightly and looked at the three people. She asked Zhao Laohan: "Laohan, is this... what did you bring?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Laohan turned sideways, raised his hand, pointed at Zhao Jun, and introduced him to the old lady, "Aunt Sun, this is Zhao Jun, and that's his uncle and his brother."
After briefly introducing Zhao Jun and the other two, 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 your family."
"Ah?" The old lady looked at Zhao Jun in surprise, and then called out, "My son, come on! Come on! Come into the house!"
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 bring the guests!"
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 immediately startled and said, "Isn't this the young man?"
Zhao Jun smiled and nodded to Sun Liangchen. The old lady beside him said to him, "Old man, this kid wants to buy our quilt."
As she spoke, the old lady lifted the small quilt in her arms slightly upwards.
Sun Liangchen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly called Zhao Jun and others, "Let's go in first."
Everyone went into the house and sat down on the kang. At this time, a man with a stick came out from the west room.
The man looked to be about 40 years old. He was leaning on a kabbalah stick as a crutch. His right leg seemed to be injured. The right leg of his cotton trousers had been cut off from the knee and re-sewn, and the exposed right calf was wrapped in a bandage.
He came in and greeted Zhao Laohan first. At this time, Zhao Laohan took off his hat and collar and returned them to Sun Liangchen, revealing his scratched face.
"Ouch!" The man who came in laughed, "What's the matter, Brother Han'er? Did you go up the mountain and get scratched by a black bear?"
"Get lost!" Zhao Laohan scolded with a smile: "Do you think I am you?"
Hearing their joke, the old couple of the Sun family were amused. Sun Liangchen pointed at the man and said to Zhao Jun and the other two, "This is my son Sun Youhai."
The three members of the Zhao army nodded to him. When Sun Youhai responded, Zhao Laohan laughed and said, "My brother's leg is not a congenital injury. It was caused by a black bear chasing him when he went up the mountain."
The old lady protected her son and slapped Zhao Laohan in the face with a smile.
At this time, Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang all looked at Zhang Yuanmin. Zhang Yuanmin looked at Sun Youhai with a look of mutual respect.
Sun Youhai was also an outsider. He smiled and said to Zhao Jun and the others, "If I hadn't been lucky that day, I would have been kicked."
The two parties were not familiar with each other, so Zhao Jun did not ask in detail about the murder.
At this time, Sun Liangchen took a small basket of tobacco leaves and asked everyone to roll cigarettes and smoke.
Zhao Jun didn't smoke, so he didn't roll the roll. Instead, he chatted with Sun Liangchen and said, "Old man, I heard people say that there are few black bears here."
"Yeah." Sun Liangchen said, "In recent years, there are fewer and fewer. Our forest farm is small, and most of the big trees have been cut down."
There are many black bears hiding in the sky, but there are few big trees that can accommodate them, so there are fewer black bears.
Zhao Jun and others nodded, and Sun Liangchen instructed the old lady to pour water for them.
"Uncle, stop working." Wang Qiang said, "We'll just sit for a while and then leave."
"Why are you in such a hurry?" The old lady handed the teacup to Wang Qiang and winked at Sun Liangchen.
The old lady said she was not in a hurry, but in fact she was.
Seeing this, Sun Liangchen remained calm, stretched out his hand and pulled over a leopard-skin blanket, and said to Zhao Jun, "Young man, do you want this?"
"Yes, old man." Zhao Jun said, "I was chatting with Master Zhao the other day, and he told me that you had a leopard-skin quilt at home, so I thought of coming to take a look."
"Take it and have a look." Sun Liangchen said, and Zhao Jun reached out and grabbed the small quilt.
Before he started the fur trade, Zhao Jun had handled quite a few skins. But after he started the fur trade recently, Zhao Jun has handled a lot of skins.
As soon as Zhao Jun picked up the leopard skin quilt, he found that the fur on the skin was very soft, but it felt sticky to the touch.
This sluggish feeling is not the texture, but the leather is old and the oiliness in the hair ducts and leather is gone.
Wang Qiang, who was standing next to him, held a cigarette in his left hand and stretched it out to the edge of the kang, avoiding the leopard-skin quilt, then stretched out his right hand and touched 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 fifty-four years old, not much younger than me."
"Hmm..." Zhao Jun blinked his eyes when he heard that, then turned to look at Wang Qiang. The uncle and nephew looked at each other and continued to turn over the leopard skin quilt.
When the Sun family saw this scene, the old couple and Sun Youhai couldn't help but murmur in their hearts.
It seems that the former landlord family is now in decline.
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 some burn marks on the fur. They didn't look big, so I guess it was probably caused by cigarette ash.
After the uncle and nephew finished checking, Zhao Jun looked at Sun Liangchen and asked, "Grandpa, 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 have to ask for one thousand yuan."
"Tsk!" Zhao Jun smacked his lips when he heard that and looked at Wang Qiang.
However, 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 Zhao Jun asked for his opinion, Wang Qiang instantly understood what Zhao Jun meant.
His eldest nephew always has his own ideas. Is it necessary to ask him before buying something worth one thousand dollars?
That was just for show. It's impossible for Zhao Jun to agree immediately when someone makes an offer, right?
That would make Sun Liangchen feel that he sold it at a low price, and it would be troublesome if further complications arose.
Seeing Wang Qiang shaking his head, the old couple of the Sun family became a little anxious, but Zhao Jun and the others didn't say anything, so 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 almost-smoked cigarette butt to the ground and said to Zhao Jun, "Zhao Jun, look, if you can take it, just take it. My uncle Sun's family is in a difficult situation. Both of his grandsons are in technical secondary schools and are now studying away from home."
"Oh." Hearing what Zhao Laohan said, Zhao Jun looked at Sun Youhai in surprise and asked, "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.”
"That's right." Zhao Laohan took over the conversation again, pointing directly at Sun Youhai's injured leg, and said to Zhao Jun: "My brother, on that day of rest, he didn't stay at home to rest, but went up the mountain to catch fish. This time, he was chased away by the black bear."
After hearing what Zhao Laohan said, Sun Youhai knew that he was helping him, but he still lowered his head a little embarrassedly.
Seeing this, Zhao Jun felt that the situation was almost over, so he immediately said to the three members of the Sun family, "Then I will accept the price that the old man said."
When Zhao Jun said this, the Sun family was extremely surprised. They had gone down the mountain to the supply and marketing cooperative to ask about the leopard skin quilt, but the price offered was too unsatisfactory.
From then on, the family placed their hopes on Liu Changshan, but it was just hope.
Now that someone is willing to spend a thousand dollars to buy this leopard skin quilt, the whole family is so happy.
When Zhao Jun took out a stack of big unity banknotes from his cotton-padded pocket and put the money on the table, the Sun family was even happier.
"Old man, please check it." Zhao Jun pushed the money in front of Sun Liangchen, and Sun Liangchen was not polite. He opened the money and counted it familiarly.
As expected of a descendant of a landlord, she is just like Wang Meilan, she doesn’t even need any practice and can just count money.
After counting the money, Sun Liangchen took out a big unity and held it in his hand, then gave the rest to Sun Youhai and said, "Go, take it to the house."
After saying that, Sun Liangchen smiled at Zhao Jun and said, "We are old, and my son is the head of the family now."
There is nothing wrong with what he said, but when Zhao Jun looked at it, he knew it was not as the old man said.
If Sun Youhai was in charge, Sun Liangchen would not have been able to take out ten dollars without permission.
The old man said that because Zhao Jun and the others were sitting here, and it was impossible for the old man and the old lady to hide the money directly in this room.
He gave the money to Sun Youhai and asked him to take it to that room and put it away, but he had to give an explanation, so he said that his son was in charge.
The three Zhao Jun soldiers smiled when they heard this, and then they saw Sun Liangchen said to the old lady: "You choose two dishes at home, and then I will go out to get a barrel of wine and buy two cans of food."
After Sun Liangchen finished speaking to the old lady, he looked at Zhao Jun and the other two and said, "Now that you are here, you can't just leave like this. I'll prepare a meal for you."
How could someone who is not in charge of the family say such a thing?
"Old man." Zhao Jun declined immediately and said, "We won't eat. The forest farm will arrange a celebration banquet for us tonight. We'll leave now."
After saying that, Zhao Jun grabbed the leopard skin quilt, stood up and was about to leave.
The old man and the old lady hurriedly tried to keep them, but Zhao Jun declined again. The two elders then sent Zhao Jun and his friends out of the hospital.
Zhao Jun held the leopard-skin quilt and hurried out of the village with Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin.
As soon as they turned the corner, they saw a woman coming out of the fenced yard in front. When she saw Zhao Jun and his men, she turned around and said, "Third son's wife, look, over here...is that the little file?"
"I'm pretty!" Zhang Yuanmin cursed, and he couldn't help but feel that he was not in the right position.
Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang were stunned, but the two women probably didn't hear it.
At this time, a woman walked out of the yard, looked at Zhang Yuanmin and said nothing.
Zhao Jun and his two companions passed by the two women. After walking about seven or eight meters, Wang Qiang turned around and took a look before he said to Zhang Yuanmin, "Yuanmin, how do they know you?"
"I've seen him at the supply and marketing cooperative, right?" Zhang Yuanmin replied, then muttered, "It's Lai Ruhai. This guy doesn't do any good things."
"Let's go quickly, big brother." Zhao Jun called Zhang Yuanmin and said, "Don't let anyone come out and attack us later."
Zhang Yuanmin thought it made sense, and dragged his body, which had just recovered from a serious illness, and followed Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang back.
After returning to the forest farm supply and marketing cooperative, the three of them finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen and Li Ruhai were all awake. When they saw Zhao Jun and his men coming back, the three of them hurried over to look at the leopard-skin quilt.
"Brother." Li Baoyu touched it and asked Zhao Jun, "Can this hide still be sold for money?"
"It can be sold!" Zhao Jun said: "What we sell is not the quality, but that, that..."
Zhao Jun's cultural background is limited, and he stopped talking halfway through.
"A good sign." Li Ruhai said, although it didn't sound very fluent, but someone answered it for him, so Zhao Jun nodded and smiled, "Yes, yes, that's it."
After that, Zhao Jun took out a bunch of big unity notes from his pocket and threw them on the kang, then said to Li Ruhai: "Ruhai, put all these in your bag."
"Hey!" Li Ruhai agreed, turned around and grabbed the empty briefcase.
"Nephew." Wang Qiang asked Zhao Jun, "Why do you have so much money?"
Zhao Jun stretched out his hand and tugged at the leopard skin quilt, saying, "I thought this thing must be worth tens of thousands of dollars. So when I went to get money for Master Zhao the other day, I took it out and put it in my pocket."
At this point, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered something and said with a smile, "Let's go back tomorrow and buy a few pigs from Yong'an Brigade to make my mother happy."
(End of this chapter)