Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 195 Making Little Boots for the Little Girls

"Brother Erniu, it's not even nine o'clock yet. Why don't you wait any longer? The two remaining puppies are not bad and can be sold later." Chen Weidong declined.

"No, I came down the mountain this time to sell fur and buy some food, oil and salt. Selling the dogs is just a by-product. You take these two puppies, otherwise I will look down on your brother Erniu." Hu Erniu insisted.

"Okay, in that case, I won't be polite!" Chen Weidong took out fifteen yuan and handed it to Hu Erniu!
"Ten dollars is enough, what are you doing?" Hu Erniu stood up from the ground and said with his eyes wide open.

"Brother Erniu, I want all six puppies, but you have to give me this basket."

Chen Weidong smiled, put his hand on Hu Erniu's shoulder and stuffed the money into his pocket.

Then he signaled to Shitou, who picked up the puppy and the three of them left quickly.

"Brother Erniu, stop chasing me. I'll come to your place later and give you a good meal!"

Chen Weidong waved and smiled at Hu Erniu who was about to catch up.

"Alas! This kid has the same temper as Uncle Guangtian!" Hu Erniu stamped his feet and stopped chasing him.
He just shouted to Chen Weidong's back: "Weidong, next time you go into the mountains, be sure to come to my shack. I will treat you well."

"Hehe, this puppy is really cute." Shitou said with a silly smile while holding the basket.

"Brother Weidong, how do we divide these six puppies? And we'll give you the money to buy the puppies!"

Stone spoke.

"It's just money for a few dogs! What else do you want to give? Let's stop being polite with each other, brothers!"

Chen Weidong waved his hand. He didn't care about the dozen dollars.

"As for these dogs, if you can raise them all, then the two of you can each have three. If you can't, then the three of us can each have two."

Chen Weidong continued.

Although Chen Weidong has six dogs at home, he still needs more dogs. You know, Chen Weidong now has a breeding farm, especially raising five musk deer.
It would be better to leave a few dogs to watch over the farm so that Chen Weidong can feel at ease!
Chen Weidong originally planned to raise two more dogs, but the main reason was that Chen Weidong didn't like any of these six puppies. The six puppies that were put up for sale were obviously the ones left over by Hu Erniu.

Pick out the best ones yourself, keep them for seeds, and then take the rest to the market to sell.

This is the most common method used by old hunters in the mountains.

The old brings in the new, and the new takes over the old.

"Brother Weidong, we can raise them. We can still raise a few dogs now." Shitou said quickly.

Shitou was very envious of the group of dogs at Chen Weidong's house. He also thought that when he went into the mountains, he would be surrounded by five or six dogs.

"Okay, then you just take good care of it. When it grows up, I'll help you pull the dog." Chen Weidong said casually.

After saying that, he suddenly remembered something and turned around and walked back.

"Brother Weidong, where are you going?" Bing asked puzzledly.

"I have something to ask!" Chen Weidong replied and came to Hu Erniu's stall again.

Hu Erniu was packing up and preparing to go to the supply and marketing cooperative.

He had arrived earlier, but Old Yang, who collected skins and sold mountain products, had not arrived yet, so he came to set up a stall to sell puppies. Now that he has sold the dogs and has some money, he plans to buy oil, salt and food first.

"Weidong! What happened?"

Hu Erniu asked puzzledly when he saw Chen Weidong running over again.

"Brother Erniu, I just heard you say that you are here to sell leather?"

"Well, I've saved up a lot of leather recently, so I brought it to Lao Yang to sell! To exchange for some food or something, but I haven't had time to sell it yet!"

Hu Erniu said.

Chen Weidong naturally didn't know that Old Yang, but he could guess that he was probably a collector in the mountains. This was considered speculation a few years ago, so if you were not in this business, you would definitely not know him. Nowadays, hunters in the mountains generally sell to these people.

"Brother Erniu, do you have any good leather?" Chen Weidong asked.

"Yes, I recently got a pretty good fox skin!" Hu Erniu rummaged through the sack he brought with him and took out a piece of skin.

This piece of skin is really beautiful, brown-red skin, like flames. This is the skin of a red fox, similar to the six little foxes raised by Chen Weidong, a relatively pure red fox.

As mentioned before, although the red fox is called a red fox, the fur of more than 90% of red foxes is mixed with some colors. This kind of fur is not that valuable, only about one or two hundred yuan per piece.

The most valuable one is naturally the pure fiery red one, but this kind of leather is very rare.

For example, among the six little foxes that Chen Weidong picked up, only one was pure fiery red, and the others were slightly less colorful. If Chen Weidong hadn't taken them home, the two old foxes would probably have only been able to raise two or three of them.

In addition, their colors are too bright, making them difficult to hunt. It would be good if one or two could survive in the end, which is much lower than the survival rate of ordinary foxes. Add to that the hunting by humans, and the number is even lower.

In addition to the pure fiery red fox, the next best color is brown-red. The brighter the brown-red color, the more valuable it is.

"What's the matter, Weidong, what do you want?" Hu Erniu immediately understood what Chen Weidong meant.

"Well, I just happened to meet Brother Erniu. How much is this leather?"

Chen Weidong asked.

He was very interested. There was another kind of fur in the mountains that was no worse than fox fur, and that was sable.

Many hunters who specialize in catching sables only track one sable a year.
If you can finally catch a sable after half a year of tracking, then this year's work will not be in vain.

As for foxes, it is relatively easier, but for a brown-red red fox like the one in front of you, it depends entirely on luck.

Because there are many foxes in the Greater Khingan Range, but this kind of brown-red fox is very rare.

It is no less rare than sable.

It was pure luck that Chen Weidong was able to pick up six little foxes, but he could make a lot of money by selling the fox skin in front of him in Hajiang City.

"If Old Yang wants this fox skin, it will be two hundred yuan each. If you want it, I can give it to you at a lower price!" Hu Erniu said hesitantly.

"Brother Erniu, two hundred is fine! No need to bargain. If you have good stuff in the future, you can sell it to me in Jiuqutun!"

Chen Weidong said with a smile.

"Row!"

Hu Erniu said simply.

Then Chen Weidong looked at Hu Erniu's sack again. Hu Erniu brought a lot of furs, a whole sack.

In addition to fox skin, wolf skin, yellow leaf skin, round skin, badger skin, rabbit skin, etc., wild rabbit skin accounts for more than half!

Chen Weidong firstly looked down upon these skins, and secondly, he did not need to cut off other people's sources of income and make things difficult for Hu Erniu. One had to know that hunters and those who collected mountain products had a good relationship with each other, and the relationship might be much deeper than his own.

Chen Weidong worked in this business in his previous life, so he is quite familiar with the ins and outs of it.

"Brother Erniu, wait a minute, I don't have enough money! Do you have any stone soldiers?"

Chen Weidong and two other people pooled two hundred yuan and handed over the money to Hu Erniu in exchange for the goods!
The money and goods are both cleared.

Soon, Chen Weidong brought Shitou and Bingzi to a leatherwork shop on the street.

This shoemaker's shop is very famous in the surrounding area. It is said that the old shoemaker used to work in the city, but later his shop was closed because of his poor quality.

He had no choice but to run here to seek refuge with his relatives. His relatives had some connections and found him a public-private partnership leatherwork shop.

The last time Chen Weidong came to the village to attend the market, he noticed this leatherwork shop. Suddenly, a scene he had seen on TV appeared in Chen Weidong's mind.

She was a very beautiful woman, wearing a tight cotton jacket inside, a leather waistcoat outside, a belt, a fitted face jacket on the lower body, and a pair of high deerskin boots on her feet.

He looked very heroic, although Chen Weidong had forgotten what TV series it was and the actor's name.

But Chen Weidong was deeply impressed by that scene.

Although we don’t have deerskin at home now, we have dried roe deer skin!

Therefore, Chen Weidong also brought half a roe deer skin to the market this time, intending to make a pair of high boots for Liu Xueting, and also make small boots for a few little girls!

(End of this chapter)