Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

The next day, Lin Heng started to prepare things for hunting.

This hunting trip is expected to take about a month, whether it is equipment or food and drink, you have to be fully prepared.

After Lin Heng had breakfast, he started to pack up. Xiulan looked at him and said, "Aren't you bringing rice and flour this time?"

"No need to bring it. Just make me some steamed buns to eat on the way. When I get to the place, I will buy some from the villagers. There is no need to bring a lot of food from a long distance." Lin Heng looked at his wife and explained.

"That's fine." Xiulan nodded and went to make steamed buns.

Lin Heng packed up his things and went to Hongfeng Mountain to see that the concrete road had been paved from the top of the mountain to the second platform, and now the concrete was being paved on the second platform.

Lin's father strictly followed what he said before, and the concrete was paved very well.

It was late autumn now, and a thick layer of leaves fell on the mountain. He liked to walk in the forest in late autumn.

Lin Heng looked at the painted cabin, walked around and went down the mountain again.

He went to the Musk Deer pen to take a look. Musk deer are not in heat yet, so it will take some time to get musk.

"Lin Heng, your Red Maple Mountain is getting more and more beautiful."

Lin Heng had just finished looking at the Musk Deer pen when he heard someone shouting from behind.

Turning his head, he saw that it was his uncle Li Baiquan, who was also with a dog, and was being bullied by Lai Fu Fengshou, who was kept here.

Lin Heng smiled and replied: "It's okay, uncle, how are your Astragalus ginseng this year?"

"I did it as you said, and the germination rate is okay, but it has been harmed by wild boars recently."

Li Baiquan said, and then came over and said with a smile, "I heard that you are going to Changping to hunt, right? Take me with you. I am not good at hunting, but I can help you look at things."

"Okay, but I said it's good. Hunting is to distribute the prey according to the merits, not equally."

Lin Heng looked at his uncle and said, since everyone was here, he couldn't just drive them away.

"I know, don't worry." Li Baiquan said with a smile.

Lin Heng nodded and took his uncle into the house to drink tea.

At noon, his third uncle and eldest uncle also came down with hunting rifles.

They stayed in the old house of Lin Heng's family today and set off for Changping County early tomorrow morning.

Because they had discussed it before, they didn't take any food, but took various hunting tools.

Lin's mother cooked a meal at Hongfeng Mountain and everyone drank wine.

In the afternoon, Lin Heng didn't go anywhere, just stayed at home with Xiulan Xiaoxia.

"Try it and see how it is."

Xiulan came over with the finished steamed bun and handed it to Lin Heng.

There are two kinds of steamed buns. One is a steamed bun like a pot cake, which tastes lightly salty and very dry. It can be kept for a week.

Another kind is a round cake with a diameter of ten centimeters, which is added with ground sesame seeds and tastes very fragrant.

After tasting it, Lin Heng nodded and said, "It's delicious. It's delicious with some potato shreds or something. It's just too much."

"There are many of you. You can't eat alone while others watch." Xiulan said, and took a plastic bag to Lin Heng to pack it.

"Thank you, wife." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Xiulan shook her head and said, "Just remember to be safe when hunting. I heard that there are wolves in Changping. They are all in groups and very dangerous."

"Direction, I will definitely put my life first." Lin Heng nodded.

Then he reminded Xiulan to be safe again. They went hunting openly this time and asked her to be careful of bad people.

Then Lin Heng coaxed his daughter again. In the evening, a group of them had dinner at the eldest brother's house.

After returning, Lin Heng talked to Xiulan again in bed.

After breakfast the next morning, the five people took their things and squeezed into the car. This time they brought two dogs, Xiongba and Fengshou.

It's not that they don't want to bring them again, but the car can't fit.

Fortunately, Grandpa Gao didn't want to go this time, so a sidecar could barely pull it all.

"Uncle, please show me the way. I don't know exactly how to get there."

While driving, Lin Heng said that his uncle had hunted there before, and there was a relative who led the way this time.

Lin Heng himself had not been to Changping County many times, and he didn't know which area had more prey.

"Go with confidence. I'll tell you if you encounter a fork in the road." Lu Honghai nodded.

Li Baiquan smiled and said, "I know that too. I've been to Changping once, a few years ago on foot. There are indeed a lot of prey there, and there are many people selling prey."

"That's fine, I'm just afraid there's no prey." Lin Heng said with a smile.

While chatting, they hurried on the road. They didn't want to go into the mountains today. They would go to Changping County first. It's quite far there, and they have to walk 60 or 70 kilometers.

At noon, they arrived in Changping County, but it was still far from their destination.

After finding a river, everyone stopped to eat something to fill their stomachs. This time, everyone brought steamed buns, and they couldn't stop eating.

Women like to gossip when they get together, while men like to brag when they get together. They talk about everything from ancient history to national affairs.

Lin Yue patted Lin Heng on the shoulder and said, "Brother, I see you have a lot of yellow rubber shoes in your truck. Are you going to sell them?"

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Yes, these things in the mountains are quite valuable. I also brought soap, cooling oil, and cracked oil to exchange for some things."

The further you go to the northwest, the poorer and more desolate it becomes. Many places and towns have no roads, not to mention some villages.

People in those places have never been to the county town, let alone the city, so you can exchange these things for a lot of good goods in the mountains.

Just like their Hongfeng Village, the village party secretary was enlightened and mobilized the whole village to build a mountain road that could be opened to traffic.

Next to him, Lu Honghai gave a thumbs up: "As expected of you, you can become a household worth ten thousand yuan. You have a very flexible mind."

"That's right, now you've made a fortune before we even caught the hunt." Li Baiquan also admired it.

Lin Yue also sighed: "You are really smart, you can see ways to make money everywhere."

Before he came here, he had been thinking about hunting to make money, and completely forgot that there was such a way to make money.

"Everyone, please stop praising me. I've seen people do this before, so I followed suit." Lin Heng said with a smile and waved his hand.

In fact, if he hadn't been reluctant to be separated from his family now, he could have made a lot of money by going to the coast to bring goods to the mainland.

After saying a few words, everyone finished eating and set off again.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, they drove nearly 70 kilometers and arrived at Xiaozhuo Township in the far west of Changping County.

Although it is said to be a township, it looks similar to a village. It is extremely backward and the road to get here is also very bad.

"You have to take a small road to get to Liba Village. Your car can only be stored at the post office." Lu Honghai pointed to a small road and said.

The dirt roads leading to the countryside here are very dilapidated, and all the roads leading to the villages are small roads.

"Well, I can only find a post office to store it for a while." Lin Heng nodded. The post office is a trustworthy place.

Lin Heng found the post office in the countryside and stored the car.

Then I exchanged food stamps and went to the food station to buy some rice and noodles to eat in the mountains.

After everything was done, they followed the path into the mountains. Although they were less than a hundred kilometers apart, the mountains here were already different from those in Huangtan Town.

There are mostly mountain shrubs here, with fewer tall trees, and the temperature is much colder. Fortunately, they wore thicker clothes and were prepared in advance.

"Going further west, we'll reach Gansu, right?" Lin Yue asked while walking.

Lu Honghai nodded: "Yes, Liba Village is on the edge of Gansu. After Liba Village, you will be in Gansu."

Li Baiquan said: "I guess I can only bring back leather or something from this hunting. The mountain road is too far."

"It's okay, I have the strength, I'll carry it." Lin Heng's third uncle, Lu Honggang, who had been silent, said.

"Let's think about whether we can hit it first." Lin Heng said with a smile.

While talking, we walked about seven or eight kilometers and arrived at a small mountain village. Although the village is located beside a creek, there are steep mountains on both sides, with a slope of sixty or seventy degrees.

The hillside is filled with terraces cultivated by villagers, and there are some houses in the mountains.

"This is really more remote than Hongfeng Mountain." Lin Yue said.

"Definitely, otherwise there wouldn't be many prey." Lu Honghai nodded.

When they entered the village, many people looked at them strangely and seemed a little wary. It was obvious that they were all outsiders.

After a while, under the leadership of Lu Honghai, they arrived in front of an earthen house, and immediately the sound of dogs barking could be heard in the house.

"Is my cousin in the house?"

Lu Honghai shouted, the old man in this family was his cousin, and they were related by blood.

The first person to come out was a man and a woman. The man looked at Lu Honghai and was stunned for a moment before recognizing him: "It's Hong Hai and Hong Gang's cousins. Come in quickly, everyone."

Although he didn't know why his two cousins ​​brought so many people, the man still invited people into the house.

"We came here to hunt, and we wanted to see you and my cousin by the way."

Lu Honghai took out a bag of sugar, three pounds of twists and three pounds of biscuits and put them on the table.

After being polite, the owner naturally accepted the things, and his attitude became much more enthusiastic, especially when he learned that Lin Heng and his group were not staying at his house.

"Hunting, you came at the right time. We have a lot of prey here. A few days ago, some people herded cattle and saw a black bear. You can hear the barking of muntjac every night." The middle-aged man said with a smile.

The woman next to the man also smiled and said: "You stay here for one night, and let Guan Cheng lead you tomorrow morning. If you want to hunt, it's best to go further in. There are still more than ten kilometers to go, and we have to pass through another village. Today Can’t make it.”

Lu Guancheng nodded: "That's right, I'll stay here for one night while my dad goes to herd cattle and will be back soon."

After some understanding, everyone understood that they could only rest here today.

After putting the things down, Lin Heng asked his eldest brother to go to the village to sell the things he had brought.

Before entering the mountain, he had inquired about the prices of these things in Xiaozhuo Township. They were more than twice as expensive as in the city. A pair of yellow rubber shoes cost ten yuan, and a box of cooling oil cost four yuan.

In this era, transportation is inconvenient. People living in the mountains have no idea of ​​the actual prices of industrial products. They are already poor and become even poorer after this.

Moreover, the attitude of sellers is whether you want to buy or not, because the seller knows that you have no other choice and is just going to rip you off.

Lin Heng set up a stall in the center of the village and offered lower prices than those in the countryside. Soon, people gathered around to check.

But most people are just waiting around and there are very few people who can afford it.

In this era, most of the people in the mountains wore self-made mille-feuille soles or straw sandals. Yellow rubber shoes were rare items and could only be afforded by rich families in the village.

"If you don't want shoes, you can try cracking oil. This stuff can prevent cracks on your hands. It doesn't cost any money. You can also replace them with herbs or something else."

Lin Heng added, and opened a bottle to apply to some people with cracks on their hands to let them feel the effect.

Workers’ hands are most likely to crack in winter, and the cracks hurt terribly when they touch water. At this time, crack oil is very necessary. Applying it can be used for treatment and prevention.

“I have one or two taels of Ganoderma lucidum here. Can I exchange it for a bottle?” Someone asked with two taels of dried Ganoderma lucidum.

“Of course, you can exchange it for two bottles.” Lin Heng said with a smile. The purchase price of Ganoderma lucidum in Xiaozhuo Township is 30 yuan per catty, and one or two taels is three yuan.

Crack oil in Xiaozhuo Township costs two yuan per bottle, and he sells it for one and a half yuan per bottle.

“Thank you.” Lin Heng was so honest that the woman who bought the crack oil was in a good mood, and the villagers next to him also liked him more.

“I have half a catty of silver thread lotus, and I also want to exchange it for a crack oil.” Soon another woman came with something.

“Sure, you can find three sugar cubes.” Lin Heng said with a smile.

This time he brought fifty bottles of cooling oil, one hundred bottles of crack oil, and some candy.

"Can one ounce of Cordyceps be exchanged for two bottles of cracked oil?" Soon, an old man brought Cordyceps and asked.

"Let me see."

Lin Heng was surprised to find a good thing so quickly. He took it and looked at it. It was indeed a genuine Cordyceps sinensis. This thing costs 70 yuan per catty in the city, and 35 yuan per catty in the village.

But this thing is also a kind of Chinese medicinal material with skyrocketing prices. Since 1987, the price has been getting more and more expensive every year.

In the 1990s, some people specialized in buying Cordyceps in southern Gansu and then selling it in the coastal areas. They could make tens of thousands of yuan in a round trip and became small bosses in a few years.

"They are all picked up in the mountains. If they don't work, forget it." The old man saw that Lin Heng didn't speak, and said.

"Yes, one ounce of Cordyceps can be exchanged for three bottles." Hai'an nodded.

According to the price in Xiaozhuo Township, one ounce of Cordyceps at 3.5 yuan cannot be exchanged for three bottles of cracked oil, but Lin Heng is willing to take this loss.

A can of Cordyceps at 3.5 yuan can be exchanged for three bottles of cracked seed oil, and some other people who have Cordyceps at home turned back.

They all knew that Cordyceps must have been underpriced by the buyers in the village, but there was no way. It was too far to go to the county town and they didn't have the time.

Now that Lin Heng could get a bargain here, they were willing to exchange.

"I have two taels, I'll exchange it for two bottles of cracked seed oil."

"I have it too!"

"I have both, and I still have cracked seed oil here." You said with a smile.

In a short while, he actually collected a full pound and eight taels of Cordyceps, and he paid only some cracked seed oil, which is only 40 cents a piece in Cheng.

This is mainly because the season for digging Cordyceps has passed, otherwise it can be exchanged for more.

Whether you take these Cordyceps back to sell or keep them for yourself, it is absolutely not a loss.

But for the villagers, they are not at a loss either. Normally, they can't buy so many things if they sell them in the village.

"Can I exchange two silver dollars for a pair of shoes?" Lin Heng was happy when an old man came over and took out two silver dollars.