Gu Boyuan had breakfast at the Big Courtyard the next morning. Afterward, he drove his Volga behind Li Long's GAZ vehicle to the guesthouse where Liu Gaolou was staying.
Liu Gaolou and his people had finished eating and checked out too. They went to the Sugar Factory with Li Long and the others. Once fifty tons of white sugar had been loaded, they waved to Li Long and left.
As they left, Gu Boyuan looked distinctly full of vigor. He was off to open up a new market.
Li Long could only marvel that his father-in-law still had so much drive.
He returned to the Purchasing Station and saw people already coming into the courtyard to sell fritillaria, so he parked and went inside to help Dad.
Li Qingxia knew hide buying inside out, but they had only just started buying fritillaria, and Li Long worried that Dad might not have a good handle on it.
Sure enough, Li Qingxia's pricing for fritillaria that was not particularly clean was a little erratic. It was not wildly inconsistent, but it felt somewhat arbitrary.
Li Long waited until each purchase was finished before reminding him from the side that any unwashed fritillaria with impurities still in it should receive the low price.
Li Qingxia also lacked experience in judging how dry the fritillaria was, so Li Long simply took over as the main buyer and handled everyone who came to sell it himself.
Once a purchase was finished and nobody else was there, he explained to Dad how to judge the moisture level of that batch and set its price.
In short, clean, dry fritillaria received the highest price here. Naturally, large, special-grade bulbs that had been sorted fetched even more.
Clean fritillaria that was not quite dry received a slightly lower