Back to 78: My Leisurely Country Life

In fact, if He Qiang had not intervened in the duel between the two bulls, the losing bull would have really left the group and started a wandering life.

So what He Qiang said was not completely made up!

""Captain He, you are so lucky to meet a bison. The meat must be at least 200 to 300 kilograms!"

Zhao Lianshun was full of envy.

There were people in the village who learned hunting from He Qiang, but one of them was not good at shooting, and the other was that prey was not most active during the day, so it was more difficult to find them.

"Lianshun, I'm going to trouble you today. Go to the team and call my brother and the others first!"

He Qiang asked Zhao Lianshun.

""Okay, Captain, you wait here first, I'll go back and call people!"

Zhao Lianshun knew that this time, the village would be lively again!

So, when Zhao Lianshun came down the mountain, the news that He Qiang had killed a wild buffalo shocked the entire production team.

Not to mention the men of the He family, even other free people in the team came to watch the fun.

"Captain He, you are a cow's innards���? Why does it look like it's all meat?"

A villager asked curiously.

He Qiang explained:"The cow is too heavy, it can't be put in, so the internal organs have to be thrown away."

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately attracted a lot of regrets.

Many people said it was a pity.

If they could bring the cow's offal back, maybe they could get a share!

But since it was thrown away, there would only be the beasts in the mountains.

He Yong on the side slapped his thigh and said:"If you had caught the hunting dog earlier, it would have been great to feed the dog with those internal organs!"

He Qiang looked at the villagers' embarrassed faces when he heard this, and said to the third brother hurriedly:"People can't even afford to eat it, how can they be so extravagant to feed the dog!"

He Yong looked at He Qiang and winked at him frantically, and then he woke up from his dream and realized that there were so many villagers around him!

You said that feeding the internal organs to the dogs would make the villagers who had such thoughts in their hearts so embarrassed!

He Yong smiled awkwardly and said nothing.

The villagers followed him to the yard of the He family's old house with a lot of noise, and none of them had any intention of leaving.

Old Mrs. He greeted the villagers, and He Yongjun simply came to her son and whispered:

"We can't finish eating so much beef anyway. Recently, the army came to build roads, and they also collected grain from us farmers for cooking. Why don't we just sell some to the army? If the villagers want to buy, they can sell some."

He Yongjun solved the problem for his son.

After all, there are so many beefs. If he eats them all by himself, the villagers will inevitably be jealous. But if every household gives one or two taels of meat, regardless of whether they are willing to give it or not, they are afraid of enmity.

It just so happens that the recent road construction has given the villagers an additional source of income, so just sell them. The price is relatively cheap, and it depends on your ability!

"I think that's fine!"

He Qiang felt that this was the best solution.

In the rural social environment, many things are like this. In order to prevent the villagers from gossiping, it is also an option to process the beef at the market price. In this way, their He family will give enough face to the villagers, and the villagers can no longer talk nonsense.

Thinking of this, He Qiang simply raised his voice and shouted to the villagers:"Old men, you can see that there is so much meat. We will divide the meat in the afternoon. When the time comes, we will take out the extra meat for you to choose. If you like it, take it for one dollar per pound!"

Hearing this, the villagers immediately became agitated.

Mainly because they were happy!

In this day and age, pork requires meat tickets, and rural people don't have quotas. They can only choose whether to keep the extra meat after handing in the task pigs, which is equivalent to eating the annual pig only once a year.

The price of bargain meat that does not require meat tickets fluctuates around 1.52 yuan, and this part of meat is quite small, and ordinary people can't get it.

In the 1970s, there was no such thing as fresh logistics. Fresh products were basically produced and sold locally. If there were no related livestock in the area, this type of meat would not be provided.

And their county is lucky. It is located in the west, close to the plateau area, so there are also many cattle and sheep farms.

Beef is mainly yellow beef and buffalo meat. The price of these two kinds of meat is different from that of later generations. Now During this period, the price of beef was even lower than that of pork.

This involved official decisions at the time, which He Qiang did not understand, but he knew that although beef was cheaper than pork, the supply was less.

So he sold it at 1 yuan per pound, and the villagers were still happy to accept this price.

Recently, more and more villagers have money in their pockets, and they are more confident about buying meat.

Many people are planning to go home to get money.

At this time, He Qiang also asked his family to divide the meat.

Naturally, the good meat will be kept, such as beef brisket, which is the top part of this era. He Yongjun will definitely keep it.

Anyway, the parts with high fat content should be eaten first!

The villagers have no objection to this.

Buying meat is like this. It is good enough to buy it at a cheap price. If you want fat meat, it is wishful thinking.

"The folks have a lot of money in their pockets recently!"

He Qiang was a little surprised to see that he had sold nearly 40 kilograms of beef in one afternoon.

He Ming said cheerfully at this time:"This is all thanks to your ability. Now when the villagers talk about you, who doesn't give a thumbs up and praise you for being promising and able to make money for the villagers?"

He Qiang probably guessed the reason and asked curiously:"Is the melon stone really that profitable? Everyone comes to buy meat."

He Ming smacked his lips, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and after spreading them around, he lit it and took a sip before saying:"It's not that profitable. The problem is that in the past, there was no other way to make money except for the key points. The income in the village was so much every year. Now you can make a dime by making a kilogram of melon stone every day. Who wouldn't be happy?"

This Guami stone, that is, the bluestone mined from the mountain and broken into small stones the size of finger joints, is scientifically called limestone.

This thing is a common raw material for construction, mostly used as aggregate for concrete or asphalt roads.

This material is very popular in road construction.

The hilltop where Liu Quanfu was assigned at that time had a large amount of limestone.

As for why Liu Quanfu was so lucky to be assigned to that hilltop.

It was because the products of that hilltop were the worst. Although it had the largest area, no one was willing to take it. So Liu Quanfu, as the son of the team leader, gave full play to the noble spirit of"self-sacrifice" of the children of village cadres, and chose this piece of land at a"big loss" himself.

At that time, the team members all applauded Liu Quanfu's noble character!

As a result, the army and the county government later organized the villages to purchase building materials nearby when they needed to build roads. It can only be said that everyone has his own luck!

After all, when No one wants that large piece of mountain.

All of this was actually in He Qiang's plan. After all, he always wanted to make sure that Captain Liu's family would not suffer any loss.

As for the profit of those bluestones?

For He Qiang, it was a drop in the bucket.

After all, mining limestone and organizing people to make melon stones are troublesome things. The money earned is actually not much, only a few thousand yuan a year at most. But it takes a lot of effort to coordinate relationships and prevent others from being jealous.

He Qiang deliberately pushed Captain Liu's family out to attract firepower for him!

Of course, the Liu family is very willing to do this anyway.

It can be said to be a multi-birds-with-one-arrow operation!

The Liu family not only attracted the attention of the villagers, but also tied to the He family's chariot because of He Qiang's generosity. When they start to contract the mountain in the future, even if He Qiang doesn't deal with it, the Liu family will do their best!

At the same time, the Liu family is completely on He Qiang's side in the village.