Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 234 Half a Millionaire
Qin Huaimin really started to check it out.

From each pile, he would randomly pick out five or six large brooms, weigh them in his hands, then sweep them across the ground, and then reach out to pull out the sedges.

There was a hint of teasing in Li Long's expression.

"Xiaolong, your expression... I think there's nothing wrong with Lao Qin's inspection. It's all very detailed. Why are you looking at him like an amateur?" Li Xiangqian has sharp eyes and seeing that Li Long's expression is not right, he pulled him aside and asked in a low voice.

"Section Chief, we are one family. Since you asked, I will tell you the truth. Section Chief Qin's inspection method is indeed no problem for ordinary brooms, and it looks like it is the case, but if you inspect the Jiji broom in this way, there will be no problem 100%.

We found 50 or 60 defective brooms by ourselves, but if we let Section Chief Qin check them, all of them are qualified. But we will not release such brooms."

“How should I check it?”

"You see, he mainly looks at the sedge. When he inspects, he not only checks the sedge, but also the stem. If there is something wrong with the sedge, it's not just whether it's firm, but also whether it's brittle and easy to break.

Whether the pole is inserted straight, whether the wire ring is twisted tightly, and whether the burned and chopped part of the top of the Stipa capillaris is long enough.

The purpose of this inspection is mainly to prevent problems such as the sedge may not fall off but will break after using the large broom for a period of time, the broom handle may fall off, and the wire ring may become detached.

Some people would pass off inferior products as good ones, using Achnatherum splendens that are not long enough to make a broom. In order to make the broom look good, only the top part of the cherry seeds would be burned, so the Achnatherum splendens on the sweeping part of the broom would not be tough enough and would break easily..."

Li Long explained in a low voice and Li Xiangqian understood.

"Then your brooms..."

"Don't worry, Chief. We are all experts. We will directly dismiss those who are unqualified. We will not hand in that kind of broom."

"That's good...Xiaolong, I feel relieved when you do this!"

After checking around, Qin Huaimin came back and said with a smile on his face:

"Not bad, not bad. The quality of these big brooms is very good. Lao Li, the people who make the brooms and the people who are responsible for checking the brooms in the village you chose have a strong sense of responsibility. That's great!"

Li Xiangqian thought about the details that Li Long had whispered just now, and said with a smile:

"Of course. Now that they have passed the random inspection, let's load them into the truck. It's not easy for villagers to make brooms, so let's count and take them away as soon as possible so that we can settle the bill."

When they heard about the bill, the village representatives' eyes lit up.

We can get the money, and almost every family has money this time, who can not be happy?
The money arrived before the end of the year, and it was not a small amount. Any difficulties the family had could be solved in time.

"Xiaolong, come with us to the village." Li Xiangqian said, "Let's settle the bill for what was taken away this time first. Oh, and the rest..."

“I’ll definitely finish the rest tomorrow!”

"Okay, okay, let's bring back 2,000 this time." Li Xiangqian said, "It will be easier to settle the bill this way."

The village representatives worked together to pile the brooms on the car, while Li Long went back to take both bicycles and put the Wuliuban in a holster and carried it on his back.

The money for these two thousand brooms is a huge sum of money, and Li Long cannot guarantee that there will be no accidents.

Two thousand brooms were taken to the supply and marketing cooperative, and Li Long followed Qin Huaimin to issue invoices and then collect the money.

He put several thick stacks of banknotes in his bag and took them to the bank.

Two thousand, of which one thousand was his commission, and there was one thousand left from the last sale of snow leopards, plus the four thousand yuan he made from selling fish, fritillaria, deer antlers and other things these days. He deposited two certificates of deposit: one for the snow leopard skin and one for the rest of his money.

Li Long still had a few hundred yuan in change on him in case of emergency.

There are 6,000 yuan in the bag, but Li Long is no longer as excited as he was when he first received the money.

There is still some distance to reach my goal.

His five thousand dollars was enough to buy a walk-behind tractor or a small four-wheel tractor, but he didn't need it for the moment; a horse-drawn carriage was enough.

If you want to buy a tractor, you have to wait until the second round of land distribution and the first round of land contracting in the team. By then, each family will have more land, and it will be a bit inappropriate to use a horse-drawn carriage. Then you can buy a tractor.

He rode back to the team with his gun on his back and nothing happened, so he went straight to Xu Chengjun's house.

What surprised Li Long was that all the village representatives and even the accountant were there.

When these people saw Li Long coming back on his bicycle, their eyes widened!

Li Long put away his bicycle, took off his bag while carrying his gun, and said to Xu Chengjun:

"Captain, I got the money back. The accountant is here now. Can we count the money and put it into the account?"

"well."

The three of them went into the house together, and the meeting began by counting the money.

The six stacks of Great Unity bills were neatly arranged, and the notes were not opened, but the accountant still counted them one by one very responsibly.

After writing the receipt and Li Long collected it, Xu Chengjun said:
"Xiaolong, I'll pay you for your poles now."

"Okay, I'll just take it and share it." Li Long said with a smile, "Do you want to sign?"

"We have to sign it," Xu Chengjun said with a smile, "How can we not sign it?"

After Li Long signed, he put a wad of money in his bag and went out.

Xu Chengjun followed out and began to call the village representatives one by one to distribute the money.

Li Long first went to find Tao Daqiang and told him about his money-sharing plan.

Tao Daqiang still felt that he had taken too much, but Li Long waved his hand and said:
"We're working together, so since we're not counting according to the numbers, we trust you. We won't do so much, so we'll just divide it equally. If you agree with this distribution plan, then take the money."

Tao Daqiang felt like he was dreaming when he got two hundred and fifty yuan in one go!
Tao Jianshe was also very excited, but Li Long didn't care about that because he still had to go back to give his father a share of the money.

"Then I'll take the money?" Li Qingxia said with a smile, "It's really easy to make money in Northern Xinjiang..."

"If Xiaolong hadn't been with you, would you have been able to earn so much? Look how much money other people earn after working so hard all day making brooms?" Du Chunfang knew Li Qingxia was getting cocky when he heard this, and retorted, "Don't be so arrogant..."

Li Qingxia chuckled.

Li Long handed the remaining 500 yuan to Liang Yuemei:

"Sister-in-law, this is my brother's share and the carriage's share. Please keep it for now."

"So many?" Although Liang Yuemei already knew this, she was still shocked when she received the thick stack of Great Unity Banknotes in her hands.

This is the first time in my life that I have so much money in my hands—and it’s my own money!

"Not much, not much. There will be more and more in the future!" Li Long said with a smile.

Yes, life will get better and better in the future. By noon the next day, the remaining brooms had been tied up, and each family still had some left. Xu Chengjun directly notified the family that the extra brooms could be used at home or sold at the market.

Li Long knew that the price of this big broom, which cost 3.5 yuan a piece, would not be able to go up any more within seven or eight years.

Because starting next year, the market will be more active, and more people will be able to make big brooms, and the market will directly push down the price of big brooms. Although it is impossible for each village to make so many brooms at once in a short period of time - after all, the poles are limited, but a small number of dozens or even hundreds of brooms can still be made.

This is a question of market capacity.

It was not until the 1990s that the price of a broom was pushed up to ten yuan. In the new century, it slowly rose to twenty yuan and then remained at that level.

The main reason is that ten years after the new century, people no longer needed to make brooms manually. There were special machines that just stuffed the Sedge Grass into the machine, and with a little push, the wire was wrapped around it and the broom was ready.

Convenient and fast, manual operations are only required.

This industry supports a lot of people and can be considered a longevity industry.

Unlike the handlebar, it began the countdown to its exit from history when donkey carts, horse carts and tractors became popular.

Of course, that’s all in the past.

Li Long put his bicycle on the car again and went to the supply and marketing cooperative with the car, then got the invoice and paid the bill.

Li Xiangqian was not there this time. According to the people in the purchasing department, he was on a business trip.

Li Long settled the bill, took out five hundred yuan and put it away for himself, then returned to the team with the remaining money and gave it to the accountant, and then got back his own five hundred yuan.

Another thousand dollars.

This thousand will not be kept for the time being and will be put aside.

The task of making brooms was completed, and every household in the team received money - even Lao Luo took the time to make a few brooms and earned some pocket money.

Every household was in a festive mood. Some people even ran to Li Jianguo's house to ask whether the pigs were going to be slaughtered. If so, he wanted to buy some meat.

Li Jianguo simply laughed and scolded the man away. The pig weighed less than 40 kilograms, how could it be killed?

But this also shows that now that everyone has some money, they want to live a better life.

Those who have nets at home will go to the small lake to catch some fish to improve their food. Tao Daqiang came over and asked Li Long, and Li Long directly handed the casting net to him and said that he would not sell the fish for the next two days. Tao Daqiang happily picked up the casting net and went to practice.

It would take several days to shade the wheat field, and the team would coordinate to release water from the small lake to irrigate the wheat field. Near the wheat field owned by the Li family, Li Jianguo had a horse carriage, and two other families had donkey carts, which were enough to control the field.

However, the millstones that originally belonged to the team were divided up when the team production was divided. So Li Long took it upon himself to pull a horse-drawn carriage to the village early in the morning when he was watering the wheat field. He planned to make an iron millstone.

The reason he pulled the carriage was to pull the two pieces of wood over. He first unloaded the wood to the carpenter, who then made a small table and a tall and low cabinet.

Carpenter Qu agreed, and Li Long went to the agricultural machinery repair shop to make an iron roller.

The iron roller is relatively simple. Eight thick iron plates one meter and two meters long are welded into an octahedron, which is then filled with stones and iron blocks. The two ends are sealed and iron rods are welded on. Bearings are added, and traction wire ropes or steel bar hooks are installed. Then it is done.

Because except for the filling inside, the rest is iron material, so it is relatively expensive.

Li Long paid twenty-five yuan to make this iron roller and came to pull it in the afternoon.

After finishing this, he drove the carriage directly to the mountains. He ate some noodles in the county town, then went into the mountains, pulled two fallen trees with ease, sawed them into sections in the mountains, and carried them on the carriage one by one.

Li Long admires himself - now loading 70-80 kg of things onto the car doesn't feel like much effort. It's unlike his previous life when he was in his 40s or 50s and his waist ached from carrying a bag of corn weighing 30-40 kg.

Li Long led the cart back with a load of wood. He felt that he had adapted to the climate in the mountains. Although the sun was strong in the mountains, it was not scorching. When it was noon in the wheat field, the heat wave was so strong that it could make people dizzy.

When he arrived at the village with a cartload of wood, the iron roller was already made. Li Long hung it on the back of the carriage and rumbled all the way back home.

The roller made a very loud noise, attracting students who were going home from school to follow behind and shouting loudly. Li Long was afraid that the roller would crush the students or that the flying stones would hit them, so he waved the whip to scare them away.

When they were almost at the reed ditch, they saw Li Juan and several classmates walking back together, so Li Long called her.

"Juan, would you like to take a carriage?"

"Uncle, I won't sit down anymore." Li Juan looked at her classmates and said, "I'm going back with them."

"Okay then, you guys step aside, I'll rush over first."

There was no water in the ditch inside the reed ditch, and the carriage could not go on the cement slabs because of its rollers, so Li Long drove across through the shallows on the side.

After crossing the reed ditch, he thought whether he should talk to the team and ask them to repair the road and build a bridge during the autumn farming season. Otherwise, the road would always be interrupted by floods.

Of course, this is what he thinks, but what he will do next depends on what happens next. Li Long also knows that he is now a bit like a prominent figure and cannot be in the limelight anymore.

When he pulled the iron roller to the doorstep, the rumbling sound attracted family members and neighbors.

Li Jianguo came out and saw Li Long pulling another cart of wood back. He was surprised at first, then he laughed:

"You're good. The wood still has some left. You pulled two logs when you left, and you came back with six. You got a good deal!"

He looked at the iron roller again, nodded and said:

"This is good. It looks more durable than the stone roller."

Li Long knew that this iron roller could be used until the tractor was used. The iron thing was strong, unlike the old-fashioned stone roller, which had to be equipped with a wooden frame and was easy to break.

After unloading the wood, Li Long led the carriage to the stable. Li Jianguo, Lu Yingming and Li Qingxia pulled the steel wire rope of the iron roller and shouted as they pulled it into the yard and put it away.

"This thing is great," Lu Yingming said. "It can be used for many years."

"I heard that someone in the village has bought a walk-behind tractor, a grasshopper tractor. It's really powerful with this iron roller!"

"More than 3,000 per carriage, it's not cheap!" Li Jianguo had obviously inquired about it beforehand, "Let's talk about it later, I have a carriage for now."

"That's true." Lu Yingming was just thinking about it, "I wonder who in our team will be the first to buy a walking tractor."

"Wang is a money-grubber." Li Jianguo stepped on the iron roller and said, "He makes a lot of money by plowing the land. I think the Dongfanghong No. 75 will be his in a year or two."

"Your little dragon is not bad either." Lu Yingming said with a smile, "You can make a lot of money by selling fish every day."

"Not bad." Li Jianguo was a little proud, "He can fool himself."

"When are you getting engaged? I heard that the Wu family is getting married soon." Lu Yingming whispered, "This month."

"Really?"

"real."

(End of this chapter)