Chapter 14 Yuefeng’s Development Plan

“80 cents a pound, no ticket required!”

“Are there any fatter ones?” Yue Feng asked, looking at the sled beside the other party.

“That’s all we have left. The pork loin and pork belly are all sold out! This is over 200 pounds of sow meat. It’s very fragrant!”

“You are all thin. How about giving me two kilograms and charging one dollar and five cents?” Yue Feng asked.

The other party also knew that lean meat was not easy to sell. When he heard Yue Feng buy two kilograms at a time, he gritted his teeth and said, “Okay, I’ll sell it to you!”

The transaction was completed after one hand handed over the money and the other hand handed over the meat. Yue Feng turned around and left with the meat strips.

After cutting the meat, Yue Feng strolled to another stall selling grain.

There are two small bags in front of this guy, one bag is cornmeal and the other bag is flour. He came here from Yuefeng to set up a stall, but it seems that it has not opened yet.

“Hey, man! How much is a pound of white flour?”

“No ticket required, 2.10 yuan per pound!”

Yue Feng was shocked when he heard the price.

No wonder it can’t be sold. At the current market price, if you buy it with a coupon, it’s only about 1.7 cents in a state-owned grain and oil store. A difference of 4 cents per pound is not a small amount of money in the eyes of ordinary people.

“Two cents a pound. Give me ten pounds. Is that okay?” Yue Feng didn’t waste any time and directly stated that he was a big customer.

“Okay! Since you want a lot, I’ll give you two cents!”

After paying the bill, Yue Feng even got a small bag for the noodles.

After buying the noodles and meat, Yue Feng had no more regrets. He put on his backpack, turned around and strode back home.

Having not had breakfast in the morning, Yue Feng’s stomach had been growling with hunger. However, when Yue Feng passed by the State-owned Hotel, he did not feel like going in to buy a steamed bun. A meat bun cost only 30 cents, so he could afford it, but with the few dollars in his pocket, Yue Feng did not have the nerve to do so.

Carrying the bag of flour, he walked back home step by step. When he arrived at the village entrance, it was just dawn, around six o’clock.

Last night, Yue Feng had already informed his family. When Yue Feng returned home carrying the meat and noodles, his father was sitting on a stool in the middle of the yard, helping Yue Feng to set up the hawk.

Even if a hawk caught in the wild has been trained, it still needs to be raised every day, especially in the morning. If the hawk handler is lazy and gets up late, the hawk will easily become rebellious, and as soon as you let go of it when you take it out to work, it may soar into the sky and you won’t have time to shake hands with it when you see it again.

“Dad! I’m back!” Yue Feng greeted him as he pushed open the gate.

“Sold?”

“Well! A Shaban chicken is 70 cents, and a Feilong is 1.1 yuan, and they were bought by two people! I used the money from the sales to buy some meat and ten kilograms of flour! The injury on your leg hasn’t healed yet, but if you get enough nutrition, you will get better soon!” Yue Feng said proudly.

“Okay! My second son has grown up and knows how to feel sorry for your father!” Father Yue Lei said with emotion as he looked at the meat and flour his son brought back.

“Then I’ll go in first!” Yue Feng entered the house carrying a bag of noodles. His mother was cooking corn porridge on the stove. She was also very happy when she saw the pork and flour her son brought back. After learning that the game she caught yesterday was sold for 5.90 yuan, she immediately became more enthusiastic.

“I’ll simmer the meat later and save it for cooking! Mix white flour with cornmeal and steam the buns. Your little sister will love them!” Mother Meng Yulan took the supplies her son brought back and had already figured out what to do.

Yue Feng said, “Mom, since we can use the method of flying hawks out of the enclosure, we don’t have to be so frugal with food in the future! I can earn several dollars for each trip with a hawk, and if I catch a flying dragon, I may earn even more! We can make money every day, and our family can eat fine food every day!”

Hearing her son’s talk of squandering money, Meng Yulan curled her lips in dissatisfaction: “How can that be possible? I heard you get up at three in the east room. These few dollars are not easy to come by. There are many other places to spend money at home! How can you be so wasteful with the money you earn!”

Yue Feng said: “This is not a disaster. Only if he eats well can my dad’s legs recover sooner! When I save enough money to buy a No. 16 hanging tube, I will go hunting in the mountains with my dad. I can just bring back a pig and eat for a few months! When we save some money, we will raise a few hunting dogs for running in the mountains. When we meet a blind bear, we can use them to knock it down! ”

Listening to her son’s lofty ideals, mother Meng Yulan wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve, and after a long time she said leisurely: “I don’t ask for our family to be rich, I just hope that everyone in the family can live in peace!”

“Listen to my mother. With the meat we bring back today, keep half for cooking, and use the other half to make dumplings tonight! After I’m full, I’ll go up the mountain to release hawks. If the harvest is good, I’ll go to the ghost market tomorrow morning!”

“Okay! You earned the money, so I’ll listen to you! After lunch, I’ll chop the dumpling stuffing, and we’ll have dumplings for dinner!”

……

After finishing breakfast, it was almost seven o’clock. Yue Feng put on his bag again and left the village again.

He got up at around three in the middle of the night and walked more than forty miles of mountain roads back and forth. He would be lying if he said he was not tired, but at this moment, Yue Feng had a belief in completely changing his family’s current situation in his head that supported him to move forward.

Other people in the village wanted to work hard to earn money but had no chance to do so. By taking the eagle out into the wild, one could earn six yuan a day, which was much more profitable than earning five cents per centimeter in the production team.

Yue Feng successfully released the hawk yesterday, so he has more options when he goes out again today.

The big blue kite was picked up by his father at dawn. Now it is very well behaved in Yue Feng’s hands. After leaving the village, its eyes became lively. Even if there were two sparrows chirping in the bushes by the roadside, it would rush towards them with all its might, and was very angry.

The hawk was now secure, and Yue Feng would definitely not let the kite catch sparrows. He simply climbed up the mountain directly from the foot of the mountain, following the ridge he had descended the mountain from yesterday.

It was difficult to catch the sand chickens in the grove by the river, so Yue Feng focused today’s hunting target on the flying dragon.

The period from dawn to sunrise is the time when flying dragon birds come in groups to release food. Yue Feng had just walked less than 500 meters into the mountain when he heard the familiar zizizi chicken calls again.

With the cover of the tree trunks, Yue Feng slowly closed the distance with the eagle. When he was within 20 meters, Yue Feng decisively let go, and the murderous big blue kite flew towards the flock of chickens along the grass.

The attack hit the target, and the flying dragon bird screamed, and the other lucky ones scattered.

Yue Feng hurriedly followed, took out the half-Lasa and half-chicken that he had not finished eating yesterday from his backpack and placed it at the feet of the Great Green Kites, easily replacing this adult male flying dragon bird.

He wrapped the prey in socks and stuffed it into the backpack, and put a dollar and a dime in his pocket.

Letting the Great Green Kitten peck at a few bites of the chicken, Yue Feng lifted the hawk up again, took out the kettle and gave the hawk a sip of water, and the battle continued!
In the pine forest in the morning, there were quite a few flying dragons of all sizes in groups of three or five.

For the next hour or so, Yue Feng climbed up the mountain along the foot of the mountain on the east side, and walked all the way to the rock jumping on the west side, catching five flying dragon birds.

(End of this chapter)