Chapter 82 Collecting mountain goods
After riding in the car for a day, Xiang Wan was indeed a little tired, let alone Yin Zhengjiang who was driving.
The parking place for the two of them was not far from the hotel. They first went to find a room and put their luggage away, and then they went out to prepare for dinner.
When Xiang Wan saw Yin Zhengjiang walking along a familiar road, he couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Yin, have you been here before?"
"No, I just asked the boss, and he said there is a restaurant not far ahead with good food."
"That's it. I wonder if there is a road map in the town. Otherwise, it would be really hard to find the way in such a blind spot."
Yin Zhengjiang frowned, thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "There is a map in the car."
Xiang Wan was overjoyed: "Really, after dinner we will study where to go next."
"Okay, I'll pick it up after dinner. You said you were going to the countryside to collect mountain goods, wherever?"
Xiang Wan nodded: "You should be able to receive a lot of mountain products from places with deep mountains. It can be anywhere. We will go back to Bei City after we have collected one cart."
"I'll ask the hotel owner later, he should know the route," Yin Zhengjiang said, looking at Xiang Wan lovingly, and continued: "Boss Peng and others often go to the countryside to collect things, you can tell him then
, so you don’t have to go there in person.”
"I'll tell him when I get back. The main reason I want to go out this time is to walk around. It's a rare opportunity to relax."
Yin Zhengjiang curled his lips.
The restaurant in the town is very small, with only one storefront. It is dinner time now, and there are only two or three people in the restaurant.
Xiang Wan and Yin Zhengjiang ordered one vegetarian dish and one meat dish. The portions were large and tasty, but compared to Xiang Xiong's cooking skills, they were still far behind.
After dinner, the two went back to the hotel directly. During this period, Yin Zhengjiang returned to the truck to get a map and asked the hotel owner about the surrounding villages.
Knowing that Yin Zhengjiang was looking for a village to support him, the store owner actually gave him two villages.
Xiang Wan opened the door and sat in the room waiting for Yin Zhengjiang to come back.
After a while, Yin Zhengjiang walked in with a map, and while putting the map in Xiang Wan's hand, he said: "There are two villages about an hour's walk north, both of which are close to mountains. We can go and take a look tomorrow morning."
Xiang Wan nodded. The map at this time was still a bit scrawled, unlike the satellite maps in his previous life.
So the two simply decided on tomorrow's destination. Yin Zhengjiang noticed that Xiang Wan's face was a little tired, so he stood up and said, "Go to bed early. We will set off at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Okay, Uncle Yin, you should go to bed early," Xiang Wan stood up and sent Yin Zhengjiang out, then closed the door and prepared to take things out to wash up.
At that time, the hotel did not have a separate bathroom. You could only go to the washroom at the end of the corridor to wash your hands. Hot water was also made with a hot water bottle. All in all, it was extremely inconvenient.
When Xiang Wan returned to bed, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. After sitting in the car all day, his whole body seemed to be scattered. Lying in bed, he suddenly no longer had the problem of recognizing the bed, and he fell into a deep sleep every minute.
Soundly asleep.
Xiang Wan woke up at seven o'clock the next morning. After packing his things and going out, he met Yin Zhengjiang who had returned from buying breakfast. The two met at the stairs.
"Just in time, I bought you two buns."
Xiang Wan smiled sweetly at Yin Zhengjiang: "Thank you, Uncle Yin, I was just thinking about going out to buy breakfast."
After breakfast, the two set off in the car and drove in the direction mentioned by the hotel owner.
After about an hour, I saw the endless mountains ahead, with smoke curling up from the mountains.
Xiang Wan raised his eyebrows with joy, pointed to the mountain ahead and said: "Such a big mountain, maybe it can fill a car here."
"Definitely."
After arriving at the place, Yin Zhengjiang parked the car in the open space in front of the village committee, and the two got out of the car at the same time and looked around.
At this time, there was no one at the entrance of the village. They were probably all working in the fields. Xiang Wan looked around for a while and suggested: "Uncle Yin, why don't we go directly to the village chief? It will be more convenient for him to step in."
Yin Zhengjiang had this intention and nodded with a smile: "Okay."
Just when the two turned around and were about to walk back to the village, they met an old man with silver hair on his head and a hoe on his head. Both sides looked at each other.
Xiang Wan glanced at Yin Zhengjiang, who had a cold aura, and stepped forward helplessly, greeting the old man with a sweet smile: "Grandpa, do you know how to get to the village chief's house?"
The old man's wrinkled eyes first glanced at the middle-aged man behind Xiang Wan, and then his eyes fell on Xiang Wan, frowning and asking: "What's the matter with you?"
It’s no wonder that the old man was confused, because the dress and appearance of Xiang and Wan looked too much like city dwellers, and there was a large truck parked behind them.
Xiang Wan and Yin Zhengjiang looked at each other, and Xiang Wan still smiled and replied: "We want to discuss something with the village chief."
Although the old man's eyes were still puzzled, he didn't ask any more questions. He pointed in a direction behind him and said, "The village chief should be at home right now. You keep walking forward. There are two osmanthus trees in front of his house."
"Thank you, grandpa."
After the two people found out the location, they walked towards the village chief's house without stopping.
"Xiao Wan, I will tell you when I see the village chief later."
Xiang Wan nodded: "I listen to you."
Along the way, the two of them also met two or three groups of people. Everyone looked at the two of them with surprised eyes. After walking towards the two of them, they gathered together and pointed at their backs and chattered.
After walking for about three to five minutes, we arrived at the door of the village chief's house. Yin Zhengjiang walked in first.
"Who are you looking for? What's the matter?"
Xiang Wan and the others paused as they looked at the old man walking out of the main room.
Yin Zhengjiang nodded towards the old man: "You are the village chief, right? We came here to discuss something with you."
Perhaps because he saw that the elder and the younger did not look like bad people, the old man nodded and let the two of them enter the room and sit down, and then asked in a deep voice: "What do you want from me?"
"It's like this. We came from Beishi. We heard that there are a lot of local products in the mountains, so we wanted to come and buy some."
Yin Zhengjiang didn't like to beat around the bush, so he simply stated his purpose directly.
After hearing this, the old man paused for a moment, looked at Yin Zhengjiang and said: "You rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. Every household has plenty of mountain products you mentioned. Those things are not worth much, and you came all the way from a big city."
"There aren't many in Bei City. If you want to buy more, you have to travel a long way. I wonder if the village chief has any other ideas about this deal?"
The village chief had no idea, and he even wished that someone would buy those worthless things.
After thinking for a moment, he said: "How much do you want to buy? How do you calculate the price?"
This is the issue that the village chief is most concerned about.
Yin Zhengjiang followed the good advice: "It depends on what kind of mountain products are available in the village. Black fungus and the like are only a dime a pound."
The price of mountain products is basically the same everywhere, except for some rare mountain products, such as bamboo fungus, which are more valuable.
"There are mostly wild mushrooms in the mountains, such as black fungus, hazelnuts and pine nuts. Every household in the village has a lot of them, and they usually hold tooth festivals."
Regarding the question Qidian readers asked, "Why do you still need to borrow money when you have a platform?", I don't know how he asked this question. The platform has one and only the heroine knows it. Can the money earned by using the platform be used openly?
She can't, and there are neighbors and father who know everything about her. I'm afraid that she will expose the platform in the morning and be taken away for research at noon (^O^)
Chapter completed!