Gu Xiaoxia watched the two children inside the house, Sister Yang washed diapers beside the sink, and Han Fang fed the two now-grown roe deer.
Li Long, meanwhile, stood in the side room, staring blankly at the enormous pile of things.
There was too much.
And it was worth far too much.
Pelts made up the largest portion. What Li Long considered ordinary pelts included wolf pelts, deer pelts, roe deer pelts, and wild mountain goat pelts.
There were four wolf pelts, seven deer pelts, five roe deer pelts, and a dozen or so wild mountain goat pelts-those animals were the most numerous in the mountains.
There were four pairs of deer antlers, three relatively large and one smaller. There were more roe deer antlers, a dozen or so pairs. They were all small, making them easy to pack.
There were two velvet antlers, a matching pair, weighing a little under two kilograms together.
There were seven or eight pieces of jade. Fortunately, none were very large, or they would have been difficult to carry. Their quality was evenly split: half were excellent jade without black spots, while the other half were ordinary jade with fly-dropping-like flecks of various sizes.
They were all river jade, and even the largest weighed only five or six kilograms.
Those things alone added up to three or four thousand yuan-mainly because the jade without black spots was quite valuable.
But the most valuable things had been in Harimu's and Jade Mountain River's bags.
Harimu had brought Li Long a bear skin and a dried bear gallbladder.
Jade Mountain River had brought Li Long a snow leopard pelt, along with some bones.
Li Long guessed that Jade Mountain River did not know whether the bones were useful either. But Li Long had asked for tiger