Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 137: Rewards for Pig Farmers - Must Be Won

At night, Liang Yuemei stewed fish soup, and I ate it with the leftover rice from lunch. Crucian carp soup doesn't need much oil, just add some ginger and pepper, and sprinkle some chopped green onion and coriander when it comes out of the pot.

Li Juan and Li Qiang were in the growing period and were eating the rice in their bowls with big mouthfuls. Li Long was not that hungry and was picking out the carp bones in the bowl slowly. Even a small piece of carp meat was very fragrant.

"Xiaolong, when you go to sell fish, if you run into someone selling piglets, catch two and bring them back." Li Jianguo finished his fish soup, wiped his mouth and said, "Since the higher-ups have ordered us to raise pigs, let's raise more. When we're not working these two days, I'll fix the pig pen."

"Why bother? Just raise them in the stable. It's not too far away." Li Long said, "I plan to buy a few more. Uncle Luo doesn't want to be idle anyway. I'll pay him to raise pigs and horses for us."

"Is that possible?" Liang Yuemei was a little worried. "Why would the government ask us to do that?"

"Why not?" Li Long said with a smile, "Uncle Luo can't sit still and doesn't want to go to a nursing home. While he's helping us take care of the pigs, he can also raise a pig himself. We can provide the grass and feed and so on. He just helps out. Don't worry, he's more willing than we are."

After that, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:

"Brother, I think you should go find the village director and ask if our team will give you any rewards for becoming a professional pig farmer. The township should encourage sideline businesses, it shouldn't be just lip service."

Li Jianguo stopped smoking a half-rolled Mohe cigarette. This was indeed a problem, but he hesitated and asked:
"If there is no reward from the team, raising more pigs will require a lot of feed. The bran and chaff we have at home are not enough. Oh, and the dried fish meal - that's not enough either."

"Why don't you ask first? Maybe you can get two more acres of land." Li Long said with a smile, "That's enough to grow sugar beets. Besides, when you have free time, you can pull a horse-drawn cart to the Shicheng Sugar Factory to collect sugar residues. Isn't that good for feeding pigs?"

"Okay, I'll go ask." Li Jianguo stood up, quickly rolled a cigarette, twisted off the tip, put the cigarette in his mouth, took out the key to open the chest of drawers, and took out twenty yuan to give to Li Long:

"Here, this is the money to buy the piglet."

"I have." Li Long waved his hand hastily, "I have quite a bit of money."

"What you have is yours. How can I let you spend all the money on household matters?"

Li Jianguo stuffed the money into Li Long's hand without saying anything, then lit up a cigarette and said:

"I'll go ask Junwazi now."

Xu Chengjun's nickname is Junwazi, and there is nothing wrong with veterans like Li Jianguo who founded the village calling him that.

Wait for Li Jianguo to come back from the village director's house and bring back two pieces of news.

"If you raise more than eight pigs, you are considered a professional pig farmer, and the team will subsidize five mu of land for feed." Li Jianguo said excitedly, "If you raise pigs well, the township will also reward you!"

"Batou, can it be raised?" Li Long asked with some concern.

"That's no problem." Li Jianguo feels full of energy now. "The land at home is mainly planted with corn and sunflowers. The main work is weeding. Ten acres of land, it's very fast! If we can divide five acres into fodder land and plant beets or something, that's also easy!"

Farmers are afraid of lack of motivation. Now think about it, the things you grow are yours, the things you raise are yours, and you will be so motivated!
"By the way, Junwazi also said that this year the county has people working on the power supply repairing the poles, so our team will be pulling electricity!"

In fact, the idea of ​​pulling electricity had been considered before, but the ownership of the production team had always been a problem. In name and in a unified way, it belonged to the commune, but because it was close to the Corps and occupied a large area of ​​land, a farm in the Corps had always wanted to assign the production team to their side.

The result was a dispute. Although there were electric poles in the village, the electricity was previously drawn from the Corps, but later the electricity there was cut off.

If the township could bring electricity here now, the village would be able to live with electricity!
Li Long is very happy!
At dawn the next day, Tao Daqiang came to Li's house and woke up Li Long. The two of them carried the tires and bags and went to the small lake.

Li Long went into the water skillfully beside the small lake, paddled to the end of the last net, and began to collect the net. Collecting the net is faster than dropping the net, you just need to pull the net forward, without even paddling.

It was Tao Daqiang who collected the nets yesterday. Li Long didn't know the situation, but when he was collecting the nets today, he felt there were a lot of fish. In some places, the fish were caught in the nets and were entangled in the reeds nearby.

This requires careful removal of the net from the reeds.

"Splash!" Before the first net was pulled in, a big carp wrapped in the net suddenly flapped in the water. Li Long hurriedly pulled the net over, loosened the net in his hand and slowly wrapped up the fish. The fish was entangled in the net, and Li Long didn't use much strength, so the fish was useless.

The largest mesh net we cast yesterday was not big enough to catch such a big fish. It must have only entangled its fins or tail. We can only say that this fish was unlucky.

Li Long sat on the tire, bent over, went into the water with both hands, picked up the fish together with the net, picked out its gills and stuffed it into the urea bag.

This carp weighs at least three kilograms, and the bag sank after it was stuffed in.

Give this fish to Manager Zhong from the Big Meat Restaurant. He will definitely like it.

After collecting the six nets, Li Long felt that the tires could no longer bear the weight.

The two urea bags were almost full. Although water had entered them, with the net, Li Long estimated that there would be at least 50 kilograms of fish!

The fish in this small lake are so naive and so easy to be caught in the net!
Not daring to speed up for fear of the tire flipping over, Li Long dragged the fish in two urea bags and slowly paddled towards the shore.

Tao Daqiang saw that most of Li Long's tire was in the water. He was anxious to get into the water. Li Long hurriedly shouted:

"Don't move, just wait there, don't go into the water!"

After finally reaching the shore, Tao Daqiang didn't care about anything else. He went into the water, grabbed the rope tied to the tire, and pulled the tire to the shore.

Li Long came down and dragged two urea bags ashore, breathing heavily:

"These six nets have been caught!"

Tao Daqiang opened the bag and looked at the fish head that opened and closed inside. He laughed and said:

"Brother Long, you carry the tire, and I'll carry these two bags back."

As he spoke, he tied the two bags together, bent down, put them on his body, one in front and one behind, and then walked back with big strides, holding them up like a sling in ancient times.

Li Long didn't fight with him. He took a breath, put on his pants, picked up the tire and chased after him.

When they returned to Li's house, Liang Yuemei had already prepared dinner and Li Juan and Li Qiang were eating.

Seeing Li Long and his friends coming back, Li Jianguo immediately spread out the plastic sheet, and then helped Tao Daqiang take off the bag and pour it on the plastic sheet. Liang Yuemei took out the washing basin to prepare to put the fish.

Four people picked fish together. The fish were picked one by one and placed in the washing tub. Soon it was full. The remaining fish were simply sorted out, and water was filled into urea bags, separating the big fish and the small fish.

Seeing that he had almost finished picking the fish, Li Long went to prepare his bicycle.

Seeing that Li Juan had finished eating, Li Long said to her:
"Juan, take my car to school later."

"Okay!" Li Juan said with a smile.

After tying up the fish and putting it away, Liang Yuemei handed a cloth bag to Li Long:
"This is for Xiaoxia. It's in a can. You have to be careful."

"I understand." Li Long responded.

He estimated that he had caught nearly 60 kilograms of fish in total, but some dead fish and fish that were too small were not packed away. There were about 50 kilograms of fish in the two plastic bags on the bicycle.

As for yesterday's fish and the fish left over from today, Li Jianguo meant that Tao Daqiang should take some away and give the rest to the neighbors, as they couldn't finish them at home anyway.

(End of this chapter)