Staying home didn't mean staying idle: singeing sheep heads (something came up today, so just one chapter)

Actually, Ma County wasn't much of a hide-producing region. The Purchasing Station only bought hides here in Xingxing amounts.

The pastoralists in Southern Mountain mainly handed their sheepskins over to the Pastoral Team to sell to the Leather Factory. That was why, when Harimu and the others slaughtered sheep, they gave Li Long the meat, heads, and Sheep Hooves, but kept the skins.

The Pastoral Team had quotas for hides, too.

Naturally, the buyer was delighted to receive such a large batch of hides, especially wolf pelts. The buyers had grown sick of buying rabbit skins over and over lately.

Demand for rabbit skins was high, but they weren't as profitable as wolf or fox pelts.

Li Long went back and brought over all the remaining wolf pelts except the Wolf King's.

He planned to tan the Wolf King's pelt himself and make a fur sleeping mat for Dad and Mom.

The two batches of hides brought him a little over a thousand yuan.

On this trip into the mountains to buy sheep, he had barely made anything on the mutton, but the wolf pelts and meat had earned him quite a bit.

Once he sold the remaining wolf meat and sheep offal, he would have a little over two thousand. Pretty good.

After selling the wolf pelts, Li Long asked about Chen Hongjun. The buyer hadn't expected him to know Old Chen and said he had gone to a meeting at the Prefecture Seat.

Li Long figured Chen Hongjun probably wouldn't be back anytime soon, so there was no need to concern himself further.

Back at the Big Courtyard, he put away the money, then cleared out an unused side room to singe sheep heads in.

He would sell some of the heads, but keep some for the family