Chapter 591 VIP Treatment

Early in the morning of the next day, Han Li's first thing after getting up was not to exercise, but to climb a tree and catch birds. Fortunately, he had the power to detect and his skills were quite good, so these things were not a big deal for him.

Han Li stopped when he caught more than ten birds in one breath. After controlling them, he let them fall to the side first. When it was light enough to see the road, he let them go out to monitor the abnormal situation in the town and the surrounding areas.

The next step was to practice boxing, martial arts, wash, and eat. However, after Han Li finished breakfast today, he let the birds go and lay down. He had no intention of going out to continue shopping.

One reason was that it was too early now and there would be no one in the town. Another reason was that Diana said yesterday that the farmer's market would be open today, but it would be after nine o'clock, so Han Li could lie down and read a book before going out.

While Han Li was lying on the bed reading, Diana and a few friends had completed the allocation and packaging of finished materials last night, and packed all these finished materials and sent them to Diana's farm.

All the chickens, pigs, cows and sheep that were picked out to be sold and waiting to be slaughtered were driven to the livestock slaughterhouse. After the slaughter, the best part of the meat, as well as the bones and internal organs that Han Li specifically mentioned, would be simply processed and frozen in ice for trading. As for the fur, it was not within the scope of their trading this time. Diana and her friends would find someone to tan it for their own use or for selling.

The slightly inferior meat would be sent to the sausage processing factory by the farm people. After coming out of here, it would be sausages as thick and long as a child's arm. Finally, it would be sent to Diana's farm because this place was closest to the trading location set by Han Li.

Speaking of this, we have to talk about these factories. When World War II just ended, the old Russians encouraged the rural economy to become active first because of the need for economic development, and organized and developed various cooperative organizations in remote rural areas.

For example: cooperative stores, cooperative restaurants, cooperative receiving and purchasing stations, cooperative bakeries, cooperative sausage processing factories, cooperative candy factories, cooperative livestock slaughterhouses, cooperative flour processing factories, etc.

This kind of consumer cooperative reduces many intermediate links in the sales process, so all products are relatively cheap and of good quality, which brings a lot of convenience to consumers. In the initial period, it really made the rural economy active.

But later, the Russians saw that although such cooperatives stimulated the rural economy, relying only on the processing fees was not very helpful for long-term taxation, and they also had to bear the various free support of educational resources and facilities such as kindergartens, primary schools, and middle schools in some remote areas.

So various policies began to be promoted, and various state-owned enterprises blossomed everywhere. In the end, although these cooperatives were not ordered to be abolished, they were basically dead in name only.

However, in remote areas like Zakalski, the road to the state-owned processing plant is too far, and there are mud and puddles everywhere in summer, and low temperatures and heavy snow that can freeze people to death in winter. Every time you go out, you are fighting for your life.

So in these places, those processing plants that are useful to everyone are used by the nearby farms, and they usually process some flour, sausages, etc. for themselves.

The higher-ups couldn't do anything about it. You couldn't just watch the local people starve to death, so they all turned a blind eye to it.

Later, the farmers' market emerged. No one complained that their lives were too good, which made the people nearby even more reluctant to give up these processing plants. They not only maintained and maintained them together, but also kept the secrets that only the locals knew.

So the livestock slaughterhouses and sausage processing plants that Diana and her supplies sent to were all from their farms. The most important thing was that the extra income they earned had to be shared with the people on the farms. Under the common interests, there was no need to worry about the news leaking out.

Especially after the kissing "Lao Bo" put forward the slogan "The stability of the cadre team overrides everything", many upper-level managers changed, and some even privately controlled many farmers' markets.

Most of the time, these people's eyes were on the "Little Birch Store". They were more concerned about what new goods from abroad were added there today, whether their shares could be bought, etc.

(The Little Birch Store is similar to the Friendship Store in my country, but the Russians were very powerful in both economy and military at that time. The supplies here were more abundant, and the Russian officials in the Little Birch Store had greater privileges.

Until 1988, the various conditions in the Russians had become very bad. The then President Gorbachev ordered the closure of the last Little Birch Store in Moscow. Later, some people even said that the Little Birch Store was the root cause of the collapse of the Russians.)

After Diana and her friends finished all this, they went to the "Black Bathhouse" in the town to take a bath, and finally all slept in Diana's house.

Black Bathhouse: It is actually a kind of bathhouse. This kind of bathhouse provides steam baths to guests in this era. It may be related to living in cold areas. Most people here prefer to take steam baths, so the black bathhouse is very popular locally.

If an outsider cannot confirm whether the bathhouse in front of you is a black bathhouse, then you only need to see if there is a chimney in the house. If there is no chimney, it is a black bathhouse. And after you go in, if you see some walls in the house are blackened by smoke, then this must be a black bathhouse that provides steam baths.

Han Li was fed up with the smell of horse urine in the room after returning yesterday, so he rode a horse to the town today.

The most important thing is that Han Li studied the map for a long time last night. Now he is very familiar with the surrounding farms, roads, railways, and borders.

Even if the horse is stolen when he goes to the town this time, or he has to abandon it in special circumstances, Han Li can rely on the marks on the map to buy or borrow a horse from a farm to go home.

Han Li's first stop when he enters the town today is the state-owned store. After entering, he bought all the golden yogurt here and told the waiter that he needs more of this yogurt tomorrow.

Although it is a state-owned store, they get more bonuses if they sell more things. They may even be rated as excellent employees at the end of the year, so the waiter quickly said that he would call the manufacturer immediately and ask them to send more yogurt when delivering goods today.

Han Li came out of the state-owned store and rode his horse to the farmer's market that Diana mentioned.

There are sisters-in-law selling vegetables, aunties buying vegetables, uncles selling meat, young couples who are dressed brightly and bargaining, aunties selling bread, and girls selling wild fruits. The sounds of selling goods and bargaining make the atmosphere in the market very lively.

However, it may be due to the season. There are few varieties of goods in the market. Han Li took the horse around and wanted to leave in disappointment.

When he just walked out of the farmer's market, he suddenly saw Diana waving at him in front.

"Friend, I knew you would come here today, so I came here to wait for you. I didn't expect to be a step late. It seems that you have already walked around the market."

"Good morning, Miss Diana. I took a look and was a little disappointed."

"You are right to be disappointed. Yesterday, I ran to the middle of the night to help you contact the heads of other farms. Most of their supplies have gathered at my place. It is normal that there are not many things in the market today."

"So that's the case. Miss Diana is really hard-working."

"What's so hard about making money? We talked for a long time yesterday and you didn't tell me your name. I can't always call you my friend, right?"

"Name? Sorry, you can call me Pressure Mountain."

"Alexander? What a good name. Several friends came to my house today. Do you want to go over and introduce them to you?"

"This?"

"They were helping to allocate supplies yesterday. They are considered partners in our transaction this time."

In this way, Han Li followed Diana to her house again. What he didn't expect was that there were actually five people in the house.

It's just that their enthusiasm seemed a bit too much. After seeing Han Li, they surrounded him one after another.

Finally, under Diana's urging, several people began to prepare lunch.

When it was time to eat, Han Li didn't expect that he would also enjoy the treatment of a VIP. When the table was already filled with spicy onion herring, horseradish coleslaw, bacon pea soup, barbecue and grilled sea bass.

At this moment, Diana had changed into national costumes, holding a plate with a beautiful embroidered towel in both hands, with a large round bread in the middle, and a salt jar filled with salt on the bread in front of Han Li.

Han Li had seen this etiquette on the Internet in his previous life. They believed that offering bread and salt to guests was the highest etiquette and treatment, and a symbol of friendship, respect and hospitality.

Because in their cognition, "bread is the staff of life", and no bread means that the family has nothing to eat, or the attitude of not welcoming the other party to visit the home.

And salt is also considered the most precious thing by them for many historical reasons. Even though salt is very common now, this habit is still preserved.

However, they changed this statement to salt represents cleanliness and evil spirits. It can bring wealth and drive away all dirty things. If the evil spirit dares not eat salt, it indicates that the other party has ill intentions towards him.

In the past, the act of sprinkling salt on the ground was an offense to the owner of the house. This practice expressed contempt and provocation.

Even though salt is not valuable now, it is still considered an insult in the eyes of the Russians. This behavior is likely to cause a fight.

When our countries have good relations, we say "iron" buddies, but the Russians describe iron buddies as "we ate a pound of salt together."

Han Li thought about these rules in his mind. What he had to do now was to kiss the bread, break off a small piece, sprinkle some salt on it, taste it, express his sincere gratitude, and then invite everyone to enjoy it together.

However, when everyone started to eat, Han Li saw the heartiness of the Russians. There was no juice on the table, only wine.

Moreover, they not only drank from their own glasses, but also kept persuading Han Li to drink. While they were complaining about the inaction of the upper management, they also talked about the transaction.

The fireplace in the room was burning brightly and warmly, and Han Li seemed to have become a "pressure" mountain.