Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 224 Deer Glue
Chu Xiangqian took out 200 yuan from his pocket and said to Qin Huairu, "This 200 yuan is exchanged for four paintings by the same artist yesterday."

Qin Huairu was taken aback, and asked in surprise, "The painting is so valuable?"

Chu Xiangqian knows that Li Keran's paintings will indeed be very valuable in the future, but the ones that can really command a high price are the treasures of Li Keran's later years.

It's really hard to say the current market price of the painting last night.

"Mr. Li studied under Mr. Baishi. The current paintings may not be worth much, but they will definitely increase in the future. Now that I have encountered them, there is no reason to let them go. Besides, I don't need the 200 yuan."

Qin Huairu immediately thought of the fact that Chu Xiangqian got a wild boar at every turn, he would definitely not be short of money.

And that's just what I heard.

Secretly, I don't know how many wild boars this enemy has sold.

After receiving the money, he swallowed, and said with some reluctance, "How about I say 100 yuan to buy four paintings?"

Chu Xiangqian laughed as soon as he heard it, and squeezed Qin Huairu's pretty face, "I only need four paintings, and how to buy them is up to you. I will give you all the extra money."

Qin Huairu was overjoyed, but also realized that Chu Xiangqian had a sense that he was bound to win those paintings.

Otherwise, why pay 200 yuan for a shot?

This is worth 7 or 8 months' wages for many people.

However, Qin Huairu still has a little kind heart after all. In her eyes, Chu Xiangqian said that paintings are not necessarily worth money.

It's better to keep more money in your hands.

If you don't know when, an extra 100 yuan can save your life.

"Then if I buy all the paintings in Chen's hand for you, what reward will I get?"

Chu Xiangqian immediately guessed that the man should have a lot of Mr. Li's paintings in his hand.

But it could also be someone else's painting, or even someone who is, or will be, unknown.

After thinking about it, Chu Xiangqian suddenly felt that as long as he received another painting by Mr. Li, he would already have made a lot of money.

He smiled and said to Qin Huairu, "How about rewarding you for staying out of bed every day?"

Qin Huairu's face turned red, and she gave Chu a flirtatious look, "Can't you be serious, don't think about that all day long?"

Chu shrugged forward, "I don't lack money, I don't lack the ability to make money, and I don't plan to go to officialdom. If I don't want to think about women, I might as well become a monk.

Besides, I don't know who it was. Yesterday, when I was exercising, I couldn't let go. "

Qin Huairu blushed even more now, and her heart began to itch. She grabbed Chu Qianqian's arm and twisted it a few times.

"You are going to die, you can say such things."

Chu Xiangqian pressed Qin Huairu's hand, and then pulled him into his arms.

Had a hearty morning workout.

At 8:[-] in the morning, Chu Xiangqian ate and drank millet porridge and ate sliced ​​meat sandwiched with steamed buns.

Qin Huairu's face was rosy and tired after the morning exercise, and he sipped porridge while looking at Chu Xiangqian from time to time with anger or resentment.

Chu Xiangqian was a little embarrassed to be looked at. He had indeed overexercised just now, so he hurriedly picked up a piece of meat on the table with his chopsticks and put it in Qin Huairu's bowl.

"I'm so tired and sweaty this morning, eat more meat."

It's okay not to say this, but Qin Huairu became angry when he said that.

But before he reached his mouth, Chu Xiangqian quickly picked up a half-fat and half-thin piece of meat, and put it directly next to her mouth.

Qin Huairu could only bite the piece of meat bitterly, and then, as if biting Chu forward, chewed the piece of meat in his mouth fiercely.

Chu Xiangqian has always been able to bend and stretch, and said with a smile, "Okay, okay, I will pay more attention next time. If you can't get in the car, then go back to your mother's house tomorrow."

Qin Huairu wanted to take a day off, but thinking about it, she couldn't delay it. She could only think about getting on the bus later and standing all the way back to the commune.

When Chu Xiangqian heard that she wanted to stand all the way back in the car, he smiled awkwardly again, thought for a while and said, "I'll make you a bowl of donkey-hide gelatin. It nourishes blood, nourishes qi, and retains beauty. It's the most suitable for you women."

Of course Qin Huairu has heard of donkey-hide gelatin, but let alone eat it, she has never seen it.

As soon as he heard that Chu Xiangqian was making donkey-hide gelatin for himself, the dissatisfaction in his heart disappeared immediately.

The two chattered for a while, and Qin Huairu saw with his own eyes that Chu Xiangqian took out a box of donkey-hide gelatin, put a piece of it in a casserole, put it on the stove, and the young man simmered slowly, and then he left the yard satisfied.

As for donkey-hide gelatin, it is natural to drink it when you come back in the afternoon.

First go to the neighborhood committee to report, and then find someone to help with today's work, and then go to the commune by car.

Chu Xiangqian went out and rode his bicycle back to the courtyard.

Jiang Erleng, the Zhao family boy and Xu Damao, who were told not to go to school, just waited at home, and rode two bicycles to go fishing.

After arriving in Houhai, Xu Damao asked with a puzzled face, "Go forward, didn't you mean to go fishing in a farther place, why did you come here?"

Chu Xiangqian gave the boy a blank look. It was already half-morning, and it would take three or four hours to go back and forth for a long distance, and it would be dark after fishing.

"Try it first. If you can catch it here, why do you have to go fishing tens of kilometers away? Besides, Shazhu has to go to work today. If we go so far, isn't that cheap?"

Jiang Erleng and the Zhao family boy hurriedly echoed. In their hearts, what Chu Xiangqian said was the truth.

When Xu Damao heard that he couldn't take advantage of the silly pillar, he agreed with it a hundred times.

While packing up things like fishing rods, he asked again, "By the way, what prey did you hunt in the mountains yesterday?"

"Unlucky, plus Da Zhuang and Hong Niu didn't bring them back, and wandered around, but didn't even come across a pheasant or a hare."

Xu Damao didn't laugh at him after listening, but nodded and said, "The last time I went to the countryside to show a movie, I heard that after spring, all the villages not far from the mountains, basically all the old and young went to the mountains to find food.

With so many people entering the mountains, the wild game in the mountains would either be caught and eaten, or they would have to run deep into the mountains.You've only been in the mountain for a day, so it's normal if you don't come across prey. "

Chu Xiangqian thought about it and felt that what Xu Damao said was right. He heard that during the three-year difficult period, the roots of many hilltop trees were dug up, so that the ecology of many places had to be cultivated for many years before slowly recovering.

Chu Xiangqian didn't cheat at all this time, but he also asked the Jiang family boy and the Zhao family boy to dig a lot of earthworms, chop them up and make nests.

Relying on advanced fishing skills, I actually caught 6 fish weighing one or two catties for two hours in one morning.

Xu Damao on the side looked enviously.

Just as he was about to ask Chu Xiangqian for advice, he saw an old man quietly walking over, squatting beside Chu Xiangqian to look at the fish in the tin bucket.

"Young man, do you want to change?"

Chu Xiangqian nodded indifferently, "Master, look at this."

The old man looked at the bucket carefully for a while, and then said, "You should have about 10 catties in this bucket. How about I exchange 6 catties of food stamps with you?"

Chu looked forward and knew that the old man definitely had a background, otherwise, who would be willing to exchange food stamps for fish at the end of this year?

Immediately, I was secretly surprised, have the food stamps increased so much?

Looking back, I thought of Xu Damao, "I'm going away for two months, is the price right?"

Xu Damao nodded hurriedly, "A few days ago I heard that in the pigeon market, food stamps have risen to 8 or 9 cents a catty, and white noodles have even risen to more than one yuan.

Of course, the price of fish has also increased, but if we change it this way, we will not suffer. "

Seeing what Xu Damao said, Chu Xiangqian yelled at Jiang Erlen, who was sitting not far away and was in charge of the lookout.

The two came over in a hurry, one went up the tree and picked a lot of willow branches, the other used willow branches to skewer the fish in the bucket and handed them to the old man.

After receiving the 5 catties of food stamps, the two boys were so excited.

He presented it to Chu Xiangqian as if asking for credit, and flattered him, "Brother, you are really good. If this happens every day, your family will never be short of food."

5 catties of white noodles in the morning, replaced by stick noodles or millet, used to be 15 catties, now it is about 13 catties.

Even with the addition of love for aid, patriotism, and love for the people, there is indeed no shortage of food.

Half an hour later, after 12:8 noon, Chu Xiangqian ate two steamed buns with meat slices and two bowls of millet porridge because it was after [-]:[-], and he didn't feel hungry at all.

But the two and a half boys and Xu Damao couldn't do it.

Hearing Jiang Erleng's stomach growling, Chu Xiangqian put down his fishing rod, pointed to the two fish that weighed more than one catty that he had just caught, and said, "Take these two fish and go to the nearby public-private joint venture. Ask the restaurant if you can bring back some steamed buns or something."

The two boys were overjoyed, and hurriedly used willow branches to skewer the fish and ran away.

Xu Damao didn't say much when he saw this, but this man had a good eye after all, and took out the red peony package, "Go forward, this is my brother's meal money."

In the past, Chu Xiangqian would definitely accept it, but now, think about the 500 million Hong Kong dollars in cash in his pocket.

There's really no need to worry about it like before.

Of course, the most important thing is that Chu Xiangqian has already established a foothold on Hong Kong Island, so there is no need to worry about not having a way out.

The mentality is naturally different.

"Okay, after all, it's just two fish, I don't need to be so fussy with you."

Xu Damao chuckled, and simply opened the big front door, gave it to Chu Xiangqian, and got one himself.

"By the way, besides tiger penis and deer treasure, do you have any tonic for women?"

When Chu Xiangqian heard it, he thought Xu Damao wanted to buy it for Lou Xiao'e.

But after thinking about it, how could this kid be so kind, most likely he was making up for some little daughter-in-law or widow.

But what Chu Xiangqian didn't expect was that Xu Damao had no money himself, so he set his sights on Lou Xiaoe's parents.

The Lou family is indeed not short of money, and even has a lot of money. The dividends from the rolling mill alone are tens of thousands every year.

But Lou's family is a capitalist after all, judging from the current situation, Lou's father and Lou's mother don't dare to eat and drink brazenly.

After a year and a half, the supplements and other things hidden in the past should be almost consumed.

Chu Xiangqian wanted to refuse, after all, he now has three women, and the supplements brought from Hong Kong Island can't be sold for much, so there's no need to cheapen Xu Damao's women outside.

But after thinking about it, donkey-hide gelatin is not only donkey gelatin.

The deerskin glue made from sika deer is actually better than donkey glue and more expensive.

There are now 156 sika deer in my warehouse, and I can continue to brush 3 deer every day.

First use the deerskin of a deer, and try to boil it into deer glue in the restaurant in Xinshou Village. If you sell it on Hong Kong Island, it will also be a stable income.

Even if it's troublesome in the future, I can save some of it, and slowly use it to make up for my wife.

"Do you want Ejiao?"

Xu Damao was overjoyed, "Yes, how much is a catty?"

"Are you eating donkey-hide gelatin?" Chu Xiangqian rolled his eyes at Xu Damao, "Besides, donkey skins are not expensive, but do you know that boiling donkey-hide gelatin takes 49 barrels of water equal to the size of a pot? Can you make a pot of donkey-hide gelatin?
Just this, I don't know how much effort it takes.

Moreover, the processing of donkey skin also takes a lot of energy. If you calculate the labor required, you will know how expensive that thing is.

If you want to sell it by the catty, you'd better wash it up and go to sleep. "

When Xu Damao heard it, he became more and more convinced that donkey-hide gelatin was a good thing.

"Then buy according to two, it's okay."

Chu Xiangqian nodded, silently counting on the side of Hong Kong Island, a box of good donkey-hide gelatin costs 120 Hong Kong dollars for a half catty.

In the mainland, the price should be much cheaper.

But after thinking about it, what is exported at this time is often the cost price.

That is to say, the selling price on Hong Kong Island, even if you add the shipping fee and the price difference earned by second-tier traders, the final price may be just about the same as the selling price in the Mainland.

Adding the price difference between Hong Kong dollars and Tianchao, Chu Xiangqian thought for a while and said, "One tael of donkey-hide gelatin costs 25 yuan."

"So expensive?" Xu Damao was immediately frightened. With his monthly salary, he could only buy a little more than one yuan.

"Otherwise, why do you think donkey-hide gelatin was only used for the royal family in ancient times? Moreover, the real good donkey-hide gelatin is only used from the donkeys in Acheng Town, Lu Province."

When Xu Damao heard this, he was immediately fooled.

While nodding secretly, he thought silently in his heart how he would cheat his mother-in-law's money after he bought a portion of donkey-hide gelatin.

"Go ahead, give brother a box first, I'll ask my father-in-law if he wants it, is that okay?"

It was only then that Chu Xiangqian knew that Xu Damao was playing with Lou's family.

But after thinking about it, the Lou family is not short of money anyway, even if Xu Damao raises the price, it is impossible to exceed too much.

After all, Lou's mother also understands the market. If it is too expensive, she will not be Xu Damao who is cheap for nothing.

And you can't eat too much donkey-hide gelatin, and you can't make a lot of money by staring at one person for wool.

On the contrary, it is a good thing for Lou's mother to be able to replenish her body frequently at this time.

"Okay, I'll give you a box and a half catty later. If you think it's okay, you can give me the money. If it doesn't work, give it back to me."

Xu Damao expressed his thanks without hesitation, and he trusted Chu Xiangqian more and more in his heart.

Not long after, Jiang Erlen and the Zhao family boy came back with 8 wowotou in their arms with smiles on their faces.

Chu looked forward and knew that there were at most two and a half of this nest.

8 is 2 catties, it seems that there is no loss.

He ate one at random, and was about to divide the rest into two and hand over to two boys, but unexpectedly, they both ate only one and stopped eating.

The afternoon passed quickly, and Chu Xiangqian looked at the fifteen or six fish in the tin bucket, and couldn't help but secretly feel proud.

He said to Xu Damao, who only caught 2 fish a day, "It's getting dark, so I caught this today."

Xu Damao actually wanted to leave a long time ago, but Chu Xiangqian caught one from time to time, and if he left at this time, he would have to be scolded by the whole courtyard when he went back.

Back in the courtyard, Chu Xiangqian didn't go in directly.

It was Renjiang Erleng and the Zhao family boy, waiting in the corner outside the courtyard with a tin bucket.

He himself went into the courtyard and called Yan Fugui and Liu Haizhong out.

As for Xu Damao, he was naturally cool and stayed there.

(End of this chapter)