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Chapter 376: Earning money too quickly makes you feel uneasy. If you don't know how to do it, learn it.
Under the eaves, Liu Daming was holding a scale in his hand, Lao Jiang was holding a small notebook and telling which family ordered how much meat, and Da Laba was holding a boning knife and cutting the bear meat into small pieces and putting them on the scale to weigh them.

The weighed bear meat was put into the basket that Zhang Guifang found. The basket was woven with willow branches. Bamboo baskets were rarely used in Heilongjiang Province because bamboo was not produced.

However, there is an Arctic Village in Heilongjiang Province, where a kind of Arctic bamboo grows. It takes root in an environment of minus five degrees Celsius all year round and has extremely tenacious vitality.

In addition, Qi City has already experimented with bamboo planting in gardens. In the future, Heilongjiang Province will have more than 300 million mu of bamboo forests, mainly planting some cold-resistant bamboos, such as Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys nigra, and Phyllostachys lutescens, etc.

If Xu Ning was present, he would definitely not let them divide the bear meat into piles. They would just put them on the sled and pull them over. Whoever wanted the meat would then cut it on the spot. This way, they could sell more.

But Lao Jiang and the other two were inexperienced, and this was their first time doing something of this kind. So while they were nervous, they also sought meticulousness and perfection.

"Guifang, go find another basket and put the remaining meat in it."

"Eh!"

They placed the two baskets on the sled, covered them with sacks, and then put the weighing rod on the sacks. Then the three of them walked out the door and went to Lao Deng's house first.

A few days ago, Xu Ning brought the two deer penises that Lao Deng wanted. He paid for them according to the price in the pharmacy. Xu Ning did not argue with him. He just took the money, chatted with him for a while, and then went home.

Old Deng was chopping firewood in the yard. When he saw the three people pulling the sled in, he greeted them with a smile. He told them the reason for their visit through a loud speaker. Old Deng squatted down and took a look at the fresh bear meat. Pointing at the unweighed bear meat, he said, "Why don't you sell this piece of fat?"

"Sell it. You all want half fat and half lean. Cut off the fat."

Old Deng said, "You are so stubborn. The fat is the good stuff. If you cut the meat into pieces, will others be happy? When you pull the sled over to sell the meat, cut it into big pieces and take as many as you want."

"Ah, we thought we'd have to go for half fat and half lean. No one wants fat."

"What nonsense! How could no one want this good fat? Didn't you go to the street market? The butchers cut the meat into large pieces. The prices of ribs are different. Why is it like this? There are good meat and bad meat. You give the same price. Who doesn't want good meat? Then who would be willing to take the leftover bad meat?"

The three of them nodded when they heard this, and Lao Jiang said, "Uncle Deng, you mean different parts have different prices."

"Yes, but don't set the price too high. People in our village can't afford expensive food. Do you think any family is as rich as Lao Hu, Lao Du, and Xiao Xu? The poor are still the majority, don't you understand?"

"understand!"

Lao Deng asked, "Give me the meat I ordered, and cut off some fat for me. Don't sell good meat like this in the future. It's not fair."

"Hey, that's good."

Da Laba squatted down, took out the bear meat and placed it on the scale. Liu Daming weighed it again on the spot and raised the scale bar high.

"Twenty pounds, tall."

Old Deng looked at the bear meat on the scale and nodded, "The meat is pretty good, half fat and half lean... Let's cut off the fat and oil, half, how much do you sell it for?"

Liu Daming and Da Laba looked at Lao Jiang. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Uncle Deng, you want a lot. The fat and oil are 1 yuan, and the half-fat and half-lean are 8 yuan."

Old Deng smiled and nodded: "Okay, let's cut it."

After weighing, it weighed 16 jin, which is 28 yuan, and half fat and half lean, which is 8 yuan.

"The total is 58 yuan, Uncle Deng, just make it an even number, 8. Guoxing, put the piece of meat on the side for Uncle Deng."

"Okay." Da Laba picked up a piece of meat weighing more than a pound, put it on the fat, and said with a grin, "Thank you, uncle. It's a good thing I came to you first, otherwise the three of us wouldn't know what to do."

Old Deng said with a smile, "You three have never done this before. Practice makes perfect. You will gradually figure out how to do it. Didn't you ask Er Ning before you left?"

"I didn't have time. He ran to the mountains."

"You guys are too dull-witted. If you have any questions, ask Erning. He's quick-witted."

"OK."

After moving the bear meat into the outer room, Lao Deng took out 58 yuan from the room and gave it to Lao Jiang, saying with a smile: "Next time you have venison, give me some. You can just come over then. If you have deer penis, I'll pay you at the pharmacy price."

"Okay, then the three of us are leaving."

After pulling the sled out of the door, they headed towards the next house. The three of them quietly discussed the suggestions that Lao Deng had given them. They felt that they were quite feasible, so Lao Jiang wrote down the prices in his notebook: 1 yuan for fat, 8 yuan for lean, and 1 yuan for half fat and half lean…

The price is cheaper than pork from farms, so there is no doubt that it will be a good seller. However, Liu Daming still overestimated the purchasing power of the villagers. After walking around for a whole afternoon, he did not sell out and still had more than 30 kilograms left.

Some people also asked about the price of bear bone sticks. Pharmacies also buy bear bones, but the price is not high, less than one dollar. People who asked about bear bone sticks wanted to chew the bones and eat them, and the bone sticks had to have meat on them, so it was difficult to determine the price.

Lao Jiang made an excuse and said that the bones had been sent to the pharmacy, and if he wanted to eat them, he would save some for him next time.

At noon, the three of them had lunch at Dalaba's house. After the meal, they sat on the edge of the kang and counted money.

"We sold 126 kilograms in total, 75 kilograms of meat was pre-ordered, and the remaining 51 kilograms were sold today, for a total of 215 yuan... Should we divide it now, or wait until we sell all the meat?"

Dababa said, "We can divide the money after we sell them all. It will be easier to settle the accounts then. Anyway, I didn't pay for it. It was all paid for by my uncle."

Lao Jiang said, "It also gave me a lot of cushion."

"Hey, don't talk about that. Let's go back after a break and try to sell all the remaining meat."

"Row!"

In the afternoon, they dragged the remaining thirty kilograms back to Qing'an, put the remaining meat into a basket at Liu Daming's house, and then ran from house to house until three o'clock in the afternoon, when only two pieces of meat were left in the basket.

Lao Jiang said, "There are two pieces left. Give one to big brother and the other one will be shared among the three of us. Let's stir-fry some meat in the evening. How about that?"

"No, I'm going to my sister's house to eat tonight. You two can share the meat and take it home."

"Okay, I won't be polite with you, let's split the money."

"Okay! Just waiting to share the money, haha..."

"I really sold a lot today. Let's count how much I made."

"OK."

The three of them counted a stack of money each and added them together. The total was 352 yuan. Why was there no cents? The reason was that when selling the meat, Lao Jiang rounded off the zero. The buyer was very happy because he felt that he had gotten a good deal and it was economical.

"Daming, this is your capital. Guoxing and I owe you a total of 81 yuan. The remaining 4 yuan is earned by us!"

"Oh my god, I really made a lot of money! I made as much as my brother-in-law made in two months by selling meat in one day."

The loud speaker said excitedly, "That's right! I never thought that selling meat could make so much money. I can make more than a hundred yuan per transaction!"

Lao Jiang laughed and said, "If this happened a few years ago, our behavior would be considered speculation."

"There's nothing to worry about right now. My nephew said that the provincial capital is full of people setting up stalls and doing small business. There are also many in the city. If we need to arrest someone, we should arrest them first."

"Well, we've already done it, what are we afraid of?" The capital of Lao Jiang and Dalaba was 68 yuan each, and Liu Daming's capital was 7 yuan. Although there was a difference of one cent, the three of them had no objection, after all, Liu Daming had helped the two to pay a lot of money.

The total earnings were 146 yuan, which was divided equally among the three of them, with each getting 4 yuan.

The three people holding the money in their hands were a little excited. The money came too quickly and they always felt a little uneasy, but they fell in love with this way of making money.

"I'll ask Er Ning in the evening if it's feasible to let Li Feng go to various villages to collect meat. If it's feasible, shall we continue to do it?"

"Shit!" Lao Jiang said briefly.

He has tasted the sweetness. Isn't it faster to make money than to sell yellow skin? Even if he sells a black bear every month, he can still make 50 yuan.

"Uncle, I'll go back first. My wife is waiting for the letter at home."

Liu Daming smiled and said, "Go back. Come here early tomorrow."

"Well, I'll wait at the fork in the road."

"Row."

After Lao Jiang and Da Laba each left with a piece of meat, Liu Daming spread the money on the kang, counted it again with a grin, and then divided the money into two parts, one was the capital, and the other was the 48 yuan earned, which he put into his hip pocket.

He stood up and walked under the eaves, turned around and closed the door, locked it with a three-finger-wide wooden board, and then strode to Old Xu's house.

When he entered the house, he saw Xu Ning and Wang Hu tying up the dog, and a gutted yellow pig was placed at the door of the lower house.

"You're back pretty early."

Seeing Liu Daming's smiling face, Xu Ning said with a smile: "Well, we came back after killing two pigs. Have you sold all the bear meat?"

"There are two pieces of meat left. We'll fry this one tonight and share the other one between them. We'll sell it all together..."

As Liu Daming spoke, he threw the meat on the stove, winked at Wu Qiuxia, and told her how much money he had sold and earned that day.

After Xu Ning and Wang Hu tied up the dog and went into the house, they laughed and said, "We earned 146 yuan in total? That's quite a lot!"

"It's not good..."

In the outer room, Liu Lizhen, Han Fengjiao, Yang Shuhua, Wang Shujuan and Wu Qiuxia were chopping the filling for the prickly ash dumplings, as well as kneading and fermenting the dough. They were a little surprised to hear what Liu Daming said.

"How do you earn so much?"

"I bought meat for 1 yuan, and sold it for an average of 1 yuan, which means I can make more than 7 cents per pound! Sister, this business is really profitable, but I feel a little uneasy. I want to ask Erning if I can still do this in the future."

Xu Ning had just washed his face and wiped his hands and said, "Uncle, you can do what you want. There is nothing to do now. But there are two things you need to pay attention to. One is that you buy meat from several villages near us and sell it. If the people in the village know that you have made so much money from it, then no one will sell you livestock at a low price in the future. Can't they sell it themselves?"

Liu Daming nodded when he heard this. "Yes, I have discussed this with Guoxing and Brother Jiang, so I want Li Feng to go to Nanbeitun and Qingli to buy the meat. The meat he buys will then be sold out by the three of us..."

"You want Li Feng to go to other villages to collect meat? Oh, uncle, your thinking has improved rapidly."

"Haha, stop laughing at me. I just thought of this on the spur of the moment. I originally wanted to collect bear gallbladders, but the cost was too high...

Didn’t you say that the price of bear bile will definitely increase in the future? I thought I could buy a few bear biles for ten or twenty yuan more than the pharmacy and keep them at home, and then sell them after a year or two. Wouldn’t I be able to make some money this way? "

Xu Ning smiled and said, "It is true that you can make money, but the cycle is too long and I can't make any money. Uncle, your idea is good, but I don't have enough capital...

Didn’t I just say there were two reasons? Another reason is that the weather is getting hot. A black bear weighs 200 kilograms, and all the meat must be sold within three days, otherwise it will go bad if left on hand.

As for people who buy meat, they can’t buy too much at one time. Unless someone needs it for an event, buying five kilograms at a time is considered too much…”

Liu Daming felt that this made sense and asked, "Then what should we do?"

"There are two ways. One is to buy a freezer or dig a deep cellar and make ice at home for easy storage. The second is to expand sales. Not only sell to our two villages, but also to the villages in Yongfeng and Tai'an. Then go to the street and ask the restaurants if they want it..."

Some people may ask, is there no one to supervise the random slaughter and retail of livestock? Probably no one...

Because it is the early stage of reform and opening up, the General Institute of Animal and Plant Quarantine was not established until 82, and the Health Quarantine Institute has not been established yet. We joined the WTO in 2001, and then the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine was established. At the same time, the certification and accreditation management and standardization management functions were integrated, and two management committees were established accordingly. This marked that our country has established a unified quality inspection system.

So now after slaughtering livestock, they can be sold directly without inspection or stamping. But this will not be possible in the future. Livestock must be sent to the slaughterhouse for inspection, and then processed by the slaughterhouse after passing the inspection. Only after paying the money and getting the stamp can you take the livestock back to eat. But you cannot sell them privately because you are not qualified to sell them.

Liu Daming lowered his head and lit a cigarette. "This is a bit complicated."

"It's not that complicated. At most, it's just running around. Let my brother go with us. He can chat with us with his good mouth."

"Okay, let's do some research tomorrow...will you go up the mountain tomorrow?"

"Well, if we go for two more days, Hu Zi and I will have to go to Dongshan."

"What are you doing?"

"I'll learn beekeeping from my uncle Ma. After the house over there is built, I'm thinking of raising some bees in the back hills. It's a way to make a living after all."

"You really are not idle at all, so why don't you take care of the meat business?"

"Come on, just do it, the three of you."

Liu Lizhen turned around and said, "Daming, your nephew has found a job for you, so just take care of it."

"Sister, I'm afraid I won't understand it. I've never done this before. If Old Deng hadn't reminded me today, the three of us would have been confused..."

"You were born knowing how to walk? If not, then learn."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Uncle, I don't know how to keep bees either, so I have to learn. You have to learn now too. When our beekeeping farm opens in the next six months, you have to be the head of the farm."

Liu Daming was stunned. "What? I'm the boss? Then what are you going to do?"

"I'd rather go hiking in the mountains, specifically looking for black bear shells. I can earn 1,800 yuan for each shell, which is not much different from running a gambling house."

"No, I'm not good enough to be a boss. There are so many people in the place, how can I manage them? I can't even do the math."

Liu Lizhen gritted her teeth and said, "Didn't I tell you? If you don't know how, just learn! I've found a way for you to make money, but you don't take advantage of it. Why are you backing off? You are a hopeless case. Qiuxia has lived with you for so many years, and you've only had a few days of good life? Tianen is so old now, why don't you hurry up and make money?"

After being scolded by his sister, Liu Daming was silent for a moment and nodded: "I will learn... Where should I start?"

Xu Ning said, "You have a good relationship with the boss of the 28th floor, why don't you talk to him often? When we open a floor, I will let Shitou work with you, and you two can discuss things."

"Row……"

(End of this chapter)