Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Chapter 605: A Thriving Little World

At this time, the market began to prosper. After that meeting, the pigeon market was no longer affected. Small vendors began to emerge gradually and some fixed night markets were formed. The first batch of bold people had begun to devote themselves to the private economy. Unable to find stable jobs, they started various small businesses in these spontaneously formed night markets.

When Lin Geng had nothing to do, he still liked to wander around and collect antiques or calligraphy and paintings in some pigeon markets or night markets. Over the years, he liked to tinker with these things whenever he had nothing to do. Even a pig could figure out some tricks from them. What's more, during those years when the wind was rising, he really collected a lot of good things and got to know several old players who knew the business. He established relationships with them by purchasing some things from them.

Lin Geng was a generous person, and whenever he had nothing to do, he would treat them to a few drinks, some wine, and some snacks. Occasionally, he would bring them some braised meat or game, and so he gradually became close friends with some old players.

Those old players saw that Lin Geng was an honest man and treated them very well, so they did not hide anything from him and gave him pointers from time to time. As a result, Lin Geng learned a lot of tricks in the antique industry from them. After so many years, he rarely made mistakes when collecting things. He could not say that he could tell the real ones from the fake ones at a glance, but he could tell most of them.

So now when Lin Geng shows up at the night market or the old pigeon market, he no longer hides his goods. Many dealers who deal in these things also know Lin Geng. Generally speaking, they dare not use fake goods to cheat Lin Geng, for fear that if Lin Geng finds out, they will stop doing business with them. Moreover, if they get any good things, they are willing to keep them for Lin Geng, letting him take a look and make the selection first.

As a result, Lin Geng became a minor celebrity in this industry and often received a lot of good things.

As for the cooperation between Lin Geng and Qian San, it is still continuing. Even if the wind stops and the country is determined to reform and open up, there are still many people waiting and watching in the short term. Moreover, the country is also crossing the river by feeling the stones. It is only conducting small-scale experiments in some areas. For example, the distribution of land to households has not been fully implemented, and the first individual business has not appeared. All these take time.

Moreover, although local governments relaxed control over the private economy after the meeting, the inherent mindset still holds that speculation is a criminal act. Even if they relax control over the pigeon market and night market, they can still conduct surprise inspections or arrest people for speculation if they want.

Therefore, after the wind stopped, the cooperation between Qian San and Lin Geng continued. Over the years, Qian San made a lot of money by cooperating with Lin Geng and supported many younger brothers who helped him distribute various meats produced in Lin Geng's smaller world in various pigeon cities. While they made money, they also made up for part of the supply shortage and met the needs of the citizens.

Nowadays, the government's control over this kind of private transactions is not very strict, and it can be said that it turns a blind eye. The cooperative relationship between Lin Geng and Qian San has become more stable. For this reason, Lin Geng specially asked Liu Guangtian and Li Guangfu to rent a yard, and go there to replenish goods every two or three days. Qian San directly gets the goods from here and then distributes them.

After working together for such a long time, they have built up a considerable amount of trust between them. Lin Geng is not afraid that Qian San will default on his debts or check his source of goods. Even if he wants to check, he can't find it anyway. Even if he sends people to watch the small courtyard 24 hours a day, they can't find the vehicles or people transporting the goods.

Moreover, as the output increases, the area of ​​Lin Geng's small world is getting bigger and bigger. The species in the farms of the small world are now very rich. Wild boars are no longer raised. Only a small number of seed sources are retained. The rest have basically been replaced with local native pigs. Now there are hundreds of native pigs raised in the farm, and each of them is growing well.

In addition to the pig farm, the small world also has a large pasture where a large number of cattle and sheep are raised freely. There is also a rabbit farm in one corner, which houses both wild rabbits and domestic rabbits in considerable numbers. What's even funnier is that there are also quite a few silly roe deer here.

Nowadays, due to constant hunting, the wild goats have disappeared outside the Sijiu City, and even the wild sheep and wild boars are almost extinct. Lin Geng had caught a few silly roe deer in the wild before, so he raised them in the small world and expanded them into a population of considerable size.

In addition to roe deer and wild sheep, he also raised some wild animals such as badgers and foxes, which were all caught when he was hunting in the wild. He threw them into the small world to let them reproduce, which can be regarded as protecting some wild species. When there is a chance in the future, he will release a batch of them at the right time and place, which can be regarded as doing his part to protect wild animals and giving back to the wild animals he hunted in the mountains and forests before.

Of course, there is no shortage of space for raising poultry in the small world. There are chickens, ducks, geese, pheasants, and even the small lake has been expanded significantly, with an area dedicated to raising ducks and geese. The aquatic plants and small fish and shrimps in the small lake provide them with ample food, and their feces also nourish the aquatic plants and fish and shrimps, forming a self-circulating ecosystem.

As for the medicinal fields in the small world, a large number of various medicinal herbs are planted there now. Because of the unique environment of the small world, these medicinal herbs grow very well and very quickly. Their quality is much better than those grown with chemical fertilizers and pesticides in later generations, and even better than wild medicinal herbs.

These medicinal materials were sold continuously to some well-known pharmacies or well-known Chinese medicine practitioners in the city. Lin Geng not only made money but also met the needs of doctors and patients. It was also a kind of giving back to the society.

Of course, there are also some medicinal fields that Lin Geng uses to grow rice and wheat, but the rice and wheat are mostly kept for his own consumption or given to relatives and friends. The rice and flour produced by these rice and wheat are of excellent quality. Not only are they high in nutrients, but they also taste great. After eating them, eating other rice and flour is like chewing wax.

But Lin would not sell these rice and flour, otherwise, the prices would be driven up to sky-high levels, which might affect his business, so he only grows a small amount now, and only feeds his own family, his father-in-law and his mother-in-law, and Old Liu's family.

The rest were grown into corn and soybeans, which were used as feed for livestock. Therefore, the meat produced in his small world was of very good quality, much better than the meat sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives. It was extremely popular on the black market. Even if the price was higher than that of the meat in the supply and marketing cooperatives, ordinary people were still willing to pay a high price to buy this meat as long as they could find it.