At the Hu County Forestry Team office, Abulaiti faced a Han Chinese merchant and said in a very calm tone:
"There's nothing I can do about that. We never signed a contract, and you hadn't come back for so long. Naturally, I sold the fritillaria to someone else."
Hearing this, Zheng Sanyang thought the ethnic minority team leader was rather shameless.
Were the cigarettes he had brought before not good enough? Or were the digital watches he had given him not good enough to wear?
Why had he suddenly sold the fritillaria he had promised him?
Zheng Sanyang bought fritillaria from Team Leader Abulaiti and resold it to medicinal herb merchants in Inland China, earning twenty to thirty yuan per kilogram of dried fritillaria.
He could buy over a thousand kilograms of dried fritillaria here each year. That meant twenty to thirty thousand yuan in pure profit!
And what did he put into it? Just some cheap goods from Inland China that were unavailable here for the team leader, plus negligible shipping costs!
He made money and earned the gratitude of the team leader and forest rangers here. Zheng Sanyang was quite pleased with himself.
Gradually, he also came to feel that he had improved the Forestry Team's lives and was their benefactor.
It was peak fritillaria season this year. On his last visit, he had bought over five hundred kilograms. He should have been able to buy even more this time, but instead, there was none left!
The problem was that he had already made a commitment to the medicinal herb merchant he supplied, who had also agreed to raise the price. Once he shipped the goods back, he could earn an extra ten yuan per kilogram!
Zheng Sanyang almost shouted at Abulaiti:
"I've already taken a deposit! Now