chsdbacks Chapter 283 During a rural procurement trip, the old village chief wanted to introduce Wang Feng to
Chapter 283 During a rural procurement trip, the old village chief wanted to introduce Wang Feng to
After Wang Feng put all the large and small yellow croakers and cash into his spatial storage, he left the courtyard and rode his bicycle towards Nanluoguxiang.
Back at No. 95 courtyard, Wang Feng climbed over the wall into the courtyard and returned to his house. It was almost 5 a.m.
After changing back into his Zhongshan suit and putting his hood and other belongings into his spatial storage, Wang Feng decided not to sleep anymore, as dawn would break in about an hour.
After washing up, Wang Feng brewed a pot of tea and sat down in the room to drink it.
"Brother Wang Feng, you're up so early today?"
Before she had even finished her tea, Qin Jingru got up. However, she didn't ask any questions. She knew that Wang Feng usually went to the black market to sell his prey at night. Since Wang Feng didn't say anything, she pretended not to know.
"Yeah, I sold some game on the black market last night," Wang Feng explained with a smile.
"Brother Wang Feng, please sit down for a while. I'll make you breakfast after I've washed up."
"Okay, go ahead."
Qin Jingru made shredded pork noodles for breakfast. After breakfast, it was only a little past seven in the morning. Wang Feng said to Qin Jingru, "Jingru, I have to go to the countryside to buy supplies today. I probably won't be back until after five in the afternoon. After you get off work, go back to No. 95 Courtyard. We won't go to No. 28 Courtyard today."
Qin Jingru nodded gently: "Okay, I understand. Brother Wang Feng, the snow on the road hasn't completely melted yet, so please be careful while riding your bike."
"Um."
Wang Feng drank a cup of tea, then pushed his bicycle out the door.
"Wang Feng, you're out so early today?"
As he passed by the front yard, he encountered the residents who were on their way to work, and they all greeted him.
"Hehe, we're going to the countryside to buy some supplies. If we don't go early, we won't be able to get back tonight."
Wang Feng responded with a smile, then pushed his bicycle out of courtyard number 95.
Wang Feng rode towards Changping, and after three hours, he arrived at Lujia Village in Hongqi Commune.
Wang Feng's procurement area is Hongqi Commune, which is about six or seven miles away from Hongxing Commune. Qinjiazhuang belongs to Hongxing Commune, but it is not within his procurement area.
Wang Feng arrived at the entrance of Lujia Village, handed out two large Qianmen cigarettes to the militiamen, and rode his bicycle into Lujia Village, going directly to the village chief's house.
"Uncle Lu, Uncle Lu, it's me, Wang Feng. Are you home?"
Hearing the shout, the old village chief came out of the house. When he saw it was Wang Feng, he immediately grinned and laughed.
"Wang Feng, you're finally here! We got a lot of mountain produce recently, and we've been saving it for you. If you hadn't come, we would have had to give it to other buyers."
Wang Feng handed over a Daqianmen cigarette and said with a smile, "Uncle Lu, if you think the price is right, I have no objection to giving the goods to other purchasing agents."
The old village chief took the cigarette, lit it, waved his hand, and grinned, "This won't do. The price you offered is much more reasonable. We already agreed that we'd save something for you."
Wang Feng also took out a cigarette, lit it, and asked doubtfully, "Uncle Lu, many villages and families in difficulty are running out of food. How can your village still get a large amount of mountain produce?"
The old village chief exhaled a puff of smoke, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Isn't it true that many families are almost out of food? Before the New Year, two hunters from our village organized the able-bodied men in the village to go hunting in the mountains. They caught two wild boars, but two men were injured by the wild boars. One broke his leg, and the other was gored to death on the spot."
Upon hearing this, Wang Feng also let out a long sigh. This is how the times are. Many people are willing to risk their lives for a bite to eat. There is no other way; if they don't take the risk, their whole family will starve to death.
"Uncle Lu, go and tell everyone to bring over all the mountain produce. The price of mountain produce has gone up a bit recently. As always, whatever price the factory gives me, I'll give you the same price."
Wang Feng's decision not to profit from these villagers was the greatest act of kindness he could show them, since he wouldn't even consider such paltry sums.
"Okay, a while ago many families received some wild boar meat. They couldn't bear to eat it, so they made it into cured meat, just waiting to exchange it for money to buy cornmeal. I'll go and inform everyone now."
The old village chief agreed and went to inform the villagers.
Less than five minutes later, the villagers began to arrive at the village chief's house one after another.
"Wang, you've finally arrived. I have a dozen or so eggs here, could you weigh them for me?"
"Wang, we've been waiting for you for ages. I have three jin of cured meat and a dried wild rabbit here. Weigh them for me too."
When the villagers saw Wang Feng, they all greeted him with smiles. After all, the prices Wang Feng offered were higher than those of the other purchasing agents, and they would save whatever they had for Wang Feng to come and collect.
"Everyone, don't rush, let's take it one at a time."
Wang Feng took the eggs from the old man, weighed them, and said, "Sir, eggs are 70 cents a pound now, and these eggs weigh exactly two pounds. I'll give you 1.4 yuan, is that alright?"
The old man grinned and laughed: "Hahaha, Wang the purchasing agent is really honest. The purchasing agents who came to our village before only gave me 65 cents per pound. You gave me 5 cents more than them. I already told my wife that we are waiting for you to come and collect the eggs."
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Wang Feng put the eggs away, counted out 1.4 yuan for the old man, and then took the cured meat from another old woman and weighed it.
"Auntie, this cured meat of yours weighs three jin and one liang. The price of wild boar cured meat is 1.4 yuan. Here's 4.34 yuan for you."
"Okay, thank you Wang for purchasing."
The purchasing agents who came before offered them 3 yuan per jin for cured meat, but Wang Feng offered them a full 1 mao more. Luckily, they listened to the village chief and didn't sell it to other purchasing agents, otherwise they would have suffered a huge loss.
As Wang Feng weighed the goods, he counted the money for the villagers. He quickly received a lot of mountain produce. However, villagers continued to arrive one after another, and the number of people actually increased.
After an hour of busy work, Wang Feng finally finished collecting all the villagers' mountain products.
The most abundant item I received this time was cured meat, all smoked from wild boar, weighing a full two hundred jin (approximately 100 kg). I also received over a hundred eggs, as well as dried pheasants and rabbits. All in all, it cost me over three hundred yuan.
Based on his harvest in Lujia Village today, it's enough for him to complete his mission this month. However, wild boars aren't something you can hunt often. This time, Lujia Village paid the price of one life and another person broke their leg in order to hunt these two wild boars.
After sorting through all the mountain produce, Wang Feng found the old village chief, handed him a Daqianmen cigarette, and said with a smile:
"Uncle Lu, I've finished collecting the mountain goods, so I'll head back now."
The old village chief pulled Wang Feng aside and asked with a smile, "Wang Feng, I've known your father for many years. Now that he's gone, how about Uncle Lu introduces you to someone?"
Wang Feng smiled and waved his hand: "Uncle Lu, I just got married last year, thank you Uncle Lu."
Upon hearing that Wang Feng had already gotten married, the old village chief immediately wore a bitter expression.
The old village chief's eyes darted around, and as if he had just thought of something, his face instantly turned into a lewd expression.