Chapter 309: Imperial Wine, Chives, and Eight Wolfskin Tubes
When Yue Feng heard Ye Jianjun’s offer, his heart skipped a beat.

He knew that the skin of the Far Eastern leopard was valuable, but he didn’t expect it to be so valuable.

In Yue Feng’s opinion, tiger and leopard skins are indeed precious.

If someone told him that tiger skin was worth tens of thousands of yuan, Yue Feng would agree. After all, this thing has many meanings and a large target audience, so it is normal for it to be a bit more expensive.

But Yue Feng personally feels that leopard skin is half a level weaker than tiger skin and should not be worth so much money.

This is a blind spot in cognition. Scarcity always makes things valuable. The number of leopards is even smaller than that of tigers. The impact may be smaller in the domestic market, but in the international market, or in the eyes of specific people in certain countries, it is something rarer than tiger skin.

Yue Feng had no experience in international transactions, so naturally he didn’t understand what was going on.

Just at this moment, Wang Hu interrupted.

“Fuck! Two skins for 20,000 yuan! Damn it, as the introducer, Jianjun, you have to find a way for us to piece them together!!”

Wang Hu is actually a person with high emotional intelligence. He interrupted with a purpose. He was afraid that Yue Feng was unwilling to sell and it would be difficult for him to refute his face. So he said something on behalf of his friend to express his position and attitude.

“If the deal is done, I’ll give you 10% of your effort! We’re all straightforward people, just say whether you want to sell it or not!” Ye Jianjun said with a smile.

“Okay! If not for anything else, just the face of my two brothers is worth this money!” Yue Feng agreed without hesitation.

Dealing with smart people is simple. With just a few words, your thoughts, the other party’s thoughts, and the middleman’s attitude will all be clear to the three of them, and they can strike the right balance.

“It’s a deal, let’s eat first, don’t drink too much at noon, and after we’re done I’ll drive you two to Xiaofeng’s house to see the eagle and the fur! I don’t have that much money on me, so Tiger, give it to me, and I’ll pay you back later!”

“Okay!” Wang Hu agreed without even raising his eyelids.

Hearing these two insignificant sentences, Yue Feng’s heart began to beat fast again.

Seeing Wang Hu doing nothing but fiddling with bills all day long and not going to work, but his family can always take out 20,000 yuan in cash at any time, who can I complain to!
This was 1980 yuan in , when an ordinary farmer’s family was considered well-off if they had a few hundred yuan in assets!

“Honey, please clean up the table. The meal is almost ready. Should we serve it now or wait a little longer?” At this time, Li Xiaomin’s voice came from the kitchen.

“Hey! Here we come! Let’s go, let’s eat first, and then we can study after we are full!

Let me make it clear first. I can’t drink with you today. I can’t eat spicy food. I’m preparing to have a baby. Xiaofeng helped me get some Chinese medicinal wine. It’s a critical time!” Wang Hu responded and immediately started to clean up the table.

“If you don’t want to drink, then forget it! I’m just saying something to Xiaofeng. Wait, the wine is still in the car!” Ye Jianfeng didn’t pick on his childhood friend. He got up and went out of the house to get the wine.

Soon, he was seen pushing the door and walking in, carrying a box of plain wine with the word Moutai printed on it.

“We still have a lot of wine at home that was given to us by others. Let’s try some today!” Ye Jianjun said very modestly.

When Yue Feng saw the outer packaging, he was already a little excited, it was Moutai.

This is hard currency. Moutai is not extremely expensive at this point in time. It is also available in the supply and marketing cooperatives. The 540ml Red Star Moutai is priced at 8 yuan a bottle.

However, this thing needs to be purchased with tickets, which are relatively scarce on the market, and hard to buy even if you have money.

After opening the box and seeing the Moutai packaging inside, Yue Feng was a little confused.

This bottle is not the common Moutai bottle packaging style, but a purple glazed porcelain bottle. The wine label also has the iconic Feitian pattern, but there is no Feitian Moutai’s iconic ribbon.

“What version of Moutai is this? Why hasn’t the supply and marketing cooperative seen it before?” Yue Feng asked while looking down and scratching his head.

Ye Jianjun said casually: “The state banquet wine doesn’t seem to be available on the market!”

“Shit! Imperial wine!!”

When Yue Feng heard the words “state banquet wine”, he instantly felt a tingling sensation on the top of his head.

The wine collection of this era was not as exaggerated as it is in later generations. To put it simply, the wine at this time was still meant to be drunk.

It’s just that good wine is more expensive, and the level of the people who drink it is correspondingly higher.

Ye Jianjun took out the Feitian Purple Maotai used in the state banquet. Besides the fact that this stuff was not very rare in his eyes and he had a lot of it at home, he also wanted to show his strength to Yue Feng. After all, Yue Feng did not refuse his face just now.

Ye Jianjun smiled and said, “What’s the matter? Do you want this stuff? I have more at home. I have to drive later today. Let’s drink a bottle to show our appreciation. You can take the rest! When I come back, I’ll bring you a few more boxes!”

“That’s great! I’ll give this wine to my father-in-law, and he’ll be so happy that he’ll pee on the bed!”

Yue Feng was not one to act arrogantly about this matter. Since the other party gave it to him so readily, Yue Feng accepted it calmly.

Soon, while they were chatting, the table was cleared and Wang Hu’s wife started serving the dishes.

Thanks to the great ingredients Yue Feng borrowed from the second canteen and Li Xiaomin’s excellent cooking skills, the dishes on the table are quite delicious.

Ye Jianjun is almost always based in the Northeast, and has been to many places in the three northeastern provinces, so he can be considered a man who has seen and eaten a lot.

Before coming here, I thought it would be great to just have some home-cooked meals at home.

But when the table was filled with dishes, there were rabbit, pheasant, Feilongsha half chicken, venison, wild boar meat, river fish, and fresh leeks that were obtained from unknown channels.

This amount of food is enough to entertain Ye Jianjun, let alone entertain the old man at home.

“Sure, Tiger. You didn’t prepare it before you called me, did you? You prepared all these vegetables! It’s freezing outside, where did you get the chives?”

Ye Jianjun picked up a piece of fried eggs with leeks and asked in surprise.

Wang Hu smiled and shook his head: “I am also curious about this thing! I didn’t make it. Xiaofeng heard that you were coming and went out to get it! Ask him!”

In this era, meat is not rare in the Northeast in winter, and game can be obtained as long as you are willing to pay the price. The only thing is vegetables, which are something that ordinary people cannot get even if they have the money.

It’s acceptable to make some winter vegetables, but there’s nowhere to put these leeks.

The logistics and transportation in that era were extremely backward, and it was basically impossible to transport fresh vegetables over long distances. In addition, the temperature in Northeast China was low in winter, and the greenhouse cultivation technology was extremely backward, so these things became even more precious.

Yue Feng smiled and scratched his head: “This is the first time I’ve seen it too. I went to the No. 2 Canteen of Hongqi Coal Mine to borrow it! I heard from my friend that someone delivers goods to him regularly, but the quantity is very small, only about two or three pounds a day. Hearing that I would be very useful, he gave me a pound to show off!”

“Great! You’ve done a great job in presenting this scene, it really opened my eyes! Come on, Tiger, let your wife sit down and eat too. Let’s finish our meal early and go to Xiaofeng’s house to watch the eagles!” Ye Jianjun nodded and asked his childhood friend to have dinner with his wife.

Soon, the wine was opened and poured into the glasses. Wang Hu didn’t drink, but his wife Li Xiaomin was as brave as any man and drank a little with Yue Feng and Ye Jianjun.

This is the drinking culture in Northeast China. Smoking and drinking are common to both men and women. When there are guests at home and it is inconvenient for the men to do so, the hostess will take over.

Leaving aside the eating, drinking and chatting, the four of them were very satisfied with the sumptuous family dinner. As they had to drive to Yue Feng’s house in the afternoon, they didn’t drink much, and the three of them finished a bottle of wine without opening another one.

After eating and drinking, Wang Hu cleared the food and wine and tidied the table. He went into the inner room and stayed there for a few minutes, then took out a white cloth bag containing grain.

“Here’s the money. Consider it a loan from me. Remember to return it to me later!”

Ye Jianjun opened his pocket and took a look, then he picked up the bag and left the house. Yue Feng and Wang Hu followed behind him, and Yue Feng was carrying the remaining wine boxes and put them in the car.

“Get in the car, Xiaofeng will sit in the passenger seat and show the way!”

“Can this bicycle fit into the car? Otherwise I’ll have to walk into the city again!”

Before leaving, Yue Feng still remembered his bicycle.

“Yes, just squeeze it in! Let the tiger bear with it for a while, we will be there soon!”

Several people struggled to stuff Yue Feng’s bicycle into the car, and under Yue Feng’s guidance, they headed towards Xing’an Village.

It was only about twenty miles. In that era, there were basically no other vehicles on the road except for a few ox- and horse-drawn carts. The small jeep drove away and soon arrived at the entrance of Xing’an Village.

“Follow the production road in front into the village, then turn left at the first intersection and walk all the way to the third-to-last alley heading south, and you will find my home!” Yue Feng said to Ye Jianjun who was driving while sitting in the passenger seat.

“Okay, you watch it and tell me when you get there. Don’t drive too far!” Ye Jianjun stepped on the foot brake and his speed slowed down significantly after entering the village.

It was not common for jeeps to enter the village these days. Upon hearing the noise, Li Yinhua from the village intelligence department immediately poked her head out of the house.

Through the windshield, Li Yinhua saw Yue Feng sitting in the passenger seat and immediately greeted him.

“Second kid! Where are you going? You’re not riding a bicycle anymore, you’re taking a car instead!”

Yue Feng rolled down the car window and said, “Aunt, I would like to, but I don’t have the ability! I came to my house with the help of my friend for something, and my car is stuck in the back! Please go ahead!”

“Slow down, if you need anything, come and get it from your aunt!”

“okay!”

Li Yinhua watched the jeep drive away before entering the house.

“Oh, you didn’t see it just now. The second kid of the Yue family is very powerful now. He just came back in a small jeep, and a young man in a military coat was driving him!”

……

On the other side, the car stopped in front of Yue Feng’s house. Yue Feng immediately got out of the passenger seat and opened the door of his house.

“Mom and Dad! My friend is coming to our house, boil some hot water and make some tea!”

After hearing the call, Meng Yulan came out to greet him. Seeing her son coming back in a car, she knew that it must be due to some outside connections, so she immediately got busy.

The three brothers took down the bicycles, and Ye Jianjun took down the box of Moutai liquor, and the three of them walked into the yard.

The yard is very big. The four tied dogs just howled a few times when the car entered the alley. After their owner Yue Feng opened the door, they lay on the ground obediently and didn’t say a word. Heihu even drooped his eyelids and pretended to be nonchalant, but occasionally glanced at the people who came home.

As soon as they entered the door, Ye Jianjun and Wang Hu looked around the small courtyard of Yue Feng’s house.

In terms of luxury, it is definitely not that far off. It is just an ordinary rural adobe house with three and a half rooms that is kept very clean.

What caught their attention slightly were the four very obedient dogs in the yard that were currently injured and recovering, and also a scaffolding erected in the greenhouse under the eaves.

However, the main eagles in the family were taken to the mountains to work, and there was only a spare kite tied there, and it was not afraid of people!

Soon Yue Lei came out of the house with a crutch.

“This is my dad! These are my friends I met in the city, Wang Hu and Ye Jianjun!”

“uncle!”

“uncle!”

“Come inside, it’s cold outside!”

After some greetings, Yue Feng entered the house and took Wang Hu and Ye Jianjun to the room on the east side where his father lived.

There were elders at home, so the east room was where guests were entertained. Meng Yulan quickly boiled water, made tea, and brought it up.

“The conditions in the countryside are limited, drink some water to warm yourself up first!”

“Okay, okay! Auntie, you don’t have to be so polite. Xiaofeng is my good friend! The medicinal wine you made before was for me. The three of us brothers just finished dinner at my house!” Wang Hu said very familiarly.

The four people in the room drank tea and exchanged a few simple pleasantries. Wang Hu asked on behalf of Ye Jianjun: “We have finished our tea. Let’s take a look at the leather you mentioned first, shall we?”

Yue Feng nodded: “Wait a moment, it’s in the warehouse, I’ll get it!”

“There are still minks in the warehouse, so don’t go and take them. We’ll just take a look at them with you!”

“Alright, let’s go!”

Yue Feng took brothers Wang Hu and Ye Jianjun out of the north room and went straight to the warehouse in the yard.

The warehouse door opened and the three of them filed into the house. However, at first glance, before they even saw the leopard skin, they were stunned by the brothers Wang Hu and Ye Jianjun.

Eight wolfskin tubes were lined up in a row. The wolfskins that were brought back a few days ago had been tanned, and then crushed with straw hammers. They were not completely dry yet and were hanging on the beams.

“Fuck, is this Langpi Xuan’s bullet? Just made? So many!!!”

Ye Jianjun is an expert in this field. Wolf skin is not valuable compared to other precious furs, but the meaning of eight wolf skins hanging together is extraordinary.

Eight wolves constitute a medium-sized wolf pack, and it is not something that an ordinary hunter can do to wipe them all out.

Even if an ordinary hunter has a gun, it may be possible to kill one or two wolves by ambushing and sneak attacking, but wolves are alive and are cunning and suspicious by nature. They will run away if they suffer a loss.

To destroy a pack of wolves at once shows that the hunter has excellent marksmanship and the guns he uses must also be very strong.

Anyway, among all the ruthless hunters Ye Jianjun heard from his friends, none of them could hang eight fresh wolfskin tubes at home at one time.

Yue Feng pushed the wolfskin tube aside with his hands, and then took out the leopard skin that had been rolled up and dried in the cabinet near the wall.

“I was lucky enough to come across this when I went up the mountain a few days ago. My uncle has a cellar on the mountain. I gave him the wolf meat and he gave me the skin! Here, this is the leopard skin I was talking about, take a look!”

Two extremely intact leopard skins were handed to Wang Jianjun.

Before the rolled skin was opened, Wang Hu next to him poked Ye Jianjun with his finger, and when the other party gave him a puzzled look, he pointed at the beam.

Ye Jianjun glanced along the direction of his pinky finger and his heart sank.

(End of this chapter)