Hunting 81: Gathering Goods in the Mountains, I Spoil My Ex-Wife to the Extreme

"Hey, Sister Yunmei, are you coming to the county town with us too?"

The next morning, when Gao Hongmei arrived at Li Yunshan's house, she was surprised to see Li Yunmei there as well.

She subconsciously wanted to call out "Second Sister," but then she remembered that she and Li Yunshan had long been divorced, so she didn't say it.

However, since they grew up in the same village and saw each other all the time, Gao Hongmei quickly realized what was going on and called out to Li Yunmei.

"Hongmei, you're going to the county town too!"

Li Yunmei was also surprised to see Gao Hongmei.

After all, Gao Hongmei was her former sister-in-law. It's just that later, her third brother, Li Yunshan, and Gao Hongmei had a messy divorce.

In the past, when Li Yunmei went back to her parents' home for a short stay, she often heard the neighbors gossiping that Gao Hongmei's father, Gao Zhankui, would get angry whenever he saw his third son, Li Yunshan, and would then pick up a stick and chase him away.

Moreover, on two separate occasions when she and Li Yunshan encountered Gao Hongmei in the village, Gao Hongmei also gave Li Yunshan a cold shoulder.

Now, Gao Hongmei actually rode in the tractor that her third brother, Li Yunshan, borrowed from the village office to go to the county town, and she didn't give Li Yunshan any bad looks, which was beyond Li Yunmei's expectations.

"Yes, I'll go too. I hunted this deer myself, and I won't feel at ease until it's all sold."

Gao Hongmei nodded and smiled.

"Great, then we'll have company on the way and have something to talk about."

Li Yunmei smiled too.

"Ready to go!"

At this point, Li Yunshan had already put both deer into the tractor's trailer, along with the cutting board, boning knife, and other items.

He took the tractor crank handle, walked to the front of the tractor, inserted the crank handle, held the front of the tractor with one hand and the crank handle with the other, and slowly started cranking it, gradually increasing the speed.

Soon, the tractor started chugging along.

Li Yunshan put the crank handle down, jumped onto the tractor, and drove it towards the village entrance.

Soon, the tractor drove out of the village and headed towards Xiangyang Commune along a country dirt road.

After arriving at Xiangyang Commune, Li Yunshan turned the tractor around a few times and drove it towards the county town.

"It's quite cold!"

On the tractor, Gao Hongmei talked to Li Yunmei while rubbing her hands together.

The tractor at the village office doesn't have a cab; it just has an engine at the front, a seat in the middle, and a trailer at the back.

If it were summer or autumn, riding in a tractor like this into the city, with the wind whistling through your face as the tractor starts moving, would definitely be very refreshing.

But now it's the dead of winter and the temperature is low, so taking the village's tractor into the city is a bit of a hardship.

Although the roads were muddy and the tractors were moving slowly due to the melting snow, the wind felt like a knife cutting your face, and it hurt after a while.

Not to mention Gao Hongmei rubbing her hands and stamping her feet, even Li Yunshan couldn't help but breathe hot air into his hands and then rub them vigorously.

"I wish there was a tractor with a driver's cab."

Li Yunshan couldn't help but say.

"You want a tractor with a cab? Those things are really expensive, I heard they cost three or four thousand yuan each, and those metal lumps even burn gas."

Gao Hongmei couldn't help but say.

"Three or four thousand yuan? That's not expensive."

Li Yunshan only remembered the price of the tractor a few years later.

By the late 1980s, when he started to make his fortune in his previous life, due to the rise of the market economy and the relaxation of various economic policies, tractors became in short supply, and a single tractor cost nearly 10,000 yuan.

Now, when Gao Hongmei talks about the price of tractors, Li Yunshan doesn't think they're that expensive.

The main reason is that he has money in his pocket now, and when he went hunting in the mountains before, he caught valuable prey.

He made a lot of money selling wolf skins, bear skins, bear cubs, bear meat, tiger skins, tiger meat, and venison.

Even though he has already donated 4,000 yuan to rebuild the village primary school, his net worth is still over 10,000 yuan.

Although he didn't know the exact number, Li Yunshan estimated that there should be around 13,000 or 14,000.

With such a large sum of money in hand, buying a tractor wouldn't be a big problem.

But when the topic of tractors came up, Li Yunshan quickly thought of a problem.

According to his memories from his previous life, Qinghe County will implement the household responsibility system by the end of this year or the beginning of next year. When the villagers are allocated land, how to cultivate the land and turn the soil will become a big problem.

If I had a tractor, I could use it to plow and till the fields for the villagers during the busy farming season, and also drive it for transportation during the off-season.

In the early days of reform and opening up, running a transportation business was a very lucrative business.

Because information transmission was inconvenient in this era, many information gaps arose.

Moreover, there were few people running transportation businesses in those days, so as long as you were hardworking and down-to-earth, it was easy to get jobs.

Unlike decades later, when society entered the information age, everyone had a mobile phone and there were professional freight platforms.

At that time, the freight industry was overcrowded. In order to grab orders and make money, everyone was competing without any bottom line, lowering freight rates, which ultimately made it difficult to make money in the transportation industry.

"Isn't something that costs three or four thousand yuan expensive?"

Gao Hongmei stared wide-eyed at Li Yunshan.

"Not expensive."

Li Yunshan replied.

"Third brother, do you really want to buy a tractor, or is it just a whim? You need to think this through before making a decision!"

Li Yunmei said from the side.

"Second sister, don't worry, I was just saying it casually, I don't actually intend to spend money to buy it."

Li Yunshan smiled.

Actually, he said that because he hadn't figured out which path he wanted to take.

Doing business and running a transportation business can actually make money, and as long as you are hardworking and diligent, you can earn just as much as someone with a stable government job in this day and age.

But his energy is limited, and he can't do both things well.

Therefore, he could only choose one, since he couldn't have both fish and bear's paw.

Hearing Li Yunshan's answer, Li Yunmei also breathed a sigh of relief.

She was also afraid that Li Yunshan was just acting on a whim, wasting the money he had worked so hard to earn on things he shouldn't have.

After all, if you were to actually buy a tractor, it would cost three or four thousand yuan.

This isn't just three or four yuan, or even thirty or forty yuan, but three or four thousand yuan, equivalent to ten years' wages for a factory worker in the county.

Seeing his second sister, Li Yunmei, breathe a sigh of relief, Li Yunshan stopped mentioning the tractor and focused on driving it towards the county's farmers' market.

After about half an hour, they finally arrived at the county town's farmers' market.

At this time, the farmers' market in the county town was already filled with various stalls on both sides of the road.

There were vendors selling pork, fish, shrimp, and even dried wild mushrooms picked from the mountains... all sorts of things were available, and the sounds of hawking and bargaining filled the air.

However, when Li Yunshan appeared at the farmers' market driving a tractor, it still attracted the attention of many vendors.