"Old Gu, are beef and mutton still the same price today?"
Outside the Purchasing Station, the reseller Liu Yongli greeted Gu Boyuan.
"The average purchase prices for beef and mutton both went up ten fen today." Gu Boyuan answered without looking up as he inspected the sheep carcass on the counter. "It depends on the quality. If that bag of yours has old ram meat in it, I can give you one yuan fifty at most."
Old ram meat had a strong, rank smell, and most people would not eat it.
"How could it be?" Liu Yongli said with a grin. "It's not a winter lamb from last year, but judging by its teeth, it's two at most, not quite three. Still young."
"All right, I'll have a look in a moment. If it's good, I'll give you a high price."
The Purchasing Station had raised its purchase prices for beef and mutton and relaxed its inspection standards somewhat. Resellers were especially sensitive to such changes. On the second day, the amount purchased rose by fifty percent over the first day, and on the third day, it doubled.
In just three days, the Purchasing Station had bought enough to fill the remaining quota. In fact, it had exceeded it.
Li Long had no time to go over. He called Li Xiangqian and asked him to come and collect the goods himself. Mostly, people kept turning up at his house, and he could hardly lock the door. He could only explain to them one by one that the meat at his Purchasing Station had already been sold out.
Li Long even found it a little baffling. Why could these people find their way straight to his house instead of asking at the Purchasing Station?
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