Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Three days later, Li Xiangqian sent a large truck to take away the 5,000 reed bundles that had been tied here - it took three trips.

People sent by the supply and marketing cooperative counted the goods, issued invoices and made payments on site.

Li Xiangqian didn't come, and Li Long guessed that there might be other things. Now is different from the future. There are actually not so many things to avoid when doing these things.

Li Long was paid one thousand yuan for five thousand reeds. The inspector was very satisfied and said with a smile:
"Comrade Xiao Li, it seems that you are really experienced in this area, and you are also very responsible. As for these reeds, I have collected them from the entire northern border, and your quality is at least among the top three! Not bad, not bad. There will be more work in the future, and I will definitely recommend you to do it!"

Li Long was also very happy. He could tell from what she said that this person was not only active in the county, but most likely he was running all over northern Xinjiang. If he could get his recognition, then there would be a high probability that he would get the work in the future.

After the reed bundles in the yard were pulled away, there were still a lot of bundles of hairy reeds left. Fortunately, Han Benzhong and his team acted quickly and cleaned up the pulled out reed leaves outside the stable quickly. They also paid great attention to the stacking to avoid fire.

The weather was getting colder. Li Long heard that when they went to the Reed Lake to collect reeds, there was a thin layer of ice on the surface of the lake in the morning. So he asked the young men to pick two people to help him set up the stoves in the two rooms.

It turned out that there was no chimney in the house, so Li Long directed the young men to dig and make it on the spot. They built a fire wall, installed a stove, and built a chimney. At least every day after coming back from cutting reeds, they could bake their shoes by the stove to ensure that their shoes were dry when they got up to work the next day.

Li Long's idea was really welcomed by these people. After all, no one wanted to have wet shoes the day before and still wear them wet and cold the next day. At night, a charcoal stove was set up, so at least they could soak their feet in hot water before going to bed, and feel comfortable all night.

Li Long's side was progressing smoothly, but Hu Laoer over there was having a hard time.

"The quality of your 5,000 reeds is poor!" The same inspector was friendly in front of Li Long, but changed his face when he met Hu Laoer.

He actually wanted to give the other party a way out. After all, this was the home of the deputy director's relative, so he had to give him some face.

Unfortunately, the quality of these reed handles is really average. At least three out of ten will be below standard, and you may even find two that are unqualified.

If I submit this for assignment, won't I be scolded to death by my superior?
"Comrade Chen, don't be angry. Tell us what's wrong and we'll fix it, okay? If it's not up to standard, you can take it out... Come on, have a cigarette..."

"You still dare to smoke here? Aren't you afraid of burning the reeds?" Inspector Chen Zhenming's face darkened. "I must remove the unqualified ones. Otherwise, if we hand them in, not only me, but also our county supply and marketing cooperative will fail! You have to remove at least one thousand of these five thousand reeds... Alas, random inspection is not enough, we must check them one by one!"

Hu Laoer's face immediately turned green. He had to check each one of them. He actually knew that some of the reeds were made by his relatives, so the quality was really not that good.

I originally wanted to fool around, but now...

The more Chen Zhenming looked, the more frightened he became. The reeds that were placed on the outside were fine, but when he checked inside, some were not long enough, some had not been chopped cleanly, some had not enough reeds, and some had only two wires tied around them...

It was simply bizarre! He encountered problems that he had never encountered before. He even pulled out a dozen bundles of reeds made from old reeds, and the reeds had holes in them that were pierced by insects!

Finally, Chen Zhenming left with more than 3,000 qualified reeds and a gloomy face. Before leaving, he suppressed his anger and said to Hu Laoer:
"If you still want to do this job well, you'd better go to Li Long to see the quality of the reeds he collects. If you keep doing this, I'm worried that you won't be able to complete the task by the time limit."

"Thank you, Leader Chen, for your concern!" Hu Laoer smiled.

"I care? I'm worried that if the mission is not completed, we will deduct money from you!" Chen Zhenming felt that there was no way to communicate. He drove to the village, found Wang Tiancheng, told him the whole story, and finally reminded Wang Tiancheng:

"If you still want to finish this job safely and get the money safely, then you'd better go to the village to keep an eye on it. Otherwise, everyone will be in trouble in the end, and you will be the one to be punished!"

Wang Tiancheng didn't expect that Hu Laoer could make such a simple job go wrong. He quickly assured Chen Zhenming:

"I will go to the village today to keep an eye on it. Don't worry, Technician Chen. I promise to complete the task before the deadline!"

He is different from Hu Laoer. Although he has a brother-in-law who is the deputy director, he is not that high-profile. He also knows that Chen Zhenming represents more than just the county supply and marketing cooperative, so he keeps a low profile.

"That's good. Li Long's 5,000 reeds were taken away the day before yesterday. I estimate that he will be able to finish the next batch of 5,000 in less than ten days. I will come to see yours after I finish his 5,000. I hope that the quality here can be improved by then."

"How's the quality there?" Wang Tiancheng asked curiously.

Chen Zhenming looked at Wang Tiancheng deeply and said:

"They have 5,000 reeds, and not a single one is unqualified... You have more than 1,000 unqualified ones. That's a huge gap!"

Wang Tiancheng's face turned red at that moment, he was so angry.

Does this Hu Laoer not want to do this anymore?
After Chen Zhenming left, Wang Tiancheng saw that it was getting late, so he planned to go to the village the next day and keep an eye on the reeds himself.

He had not thought that Li Long had anything to do with it, but what Chen Zhenming said made him feel a little embarrassed. How could he put his face down when a young man did better than him?
He didn't expect that that night, there would be a conflict between Hu Laoer's men and Li Long's men.

After Chen Zhenming left, Hu Laoer called his younger brother Hu Laosan and scolded him:
"What do you do for a living? Look, most of these reeds are made and collected by you! These more than a thousand are worth more than a hundred yuan! How can you make a new one? And you are using old reeds to make up the number. I think you are really blinded by greed!"

Hu Laosan was naturally dissatisfied, and he shouted:

"What's so difficult about that? Just return it to whoever handed it in."

"The reeds are all mixed together, how can we return them?" Hu Lao Er slapped him on the head, "Do you think those people are easy to bully? I asked you to take over for a while, and this is what you brought back for me? Go and pick the reeds quickly, and make up for the ones that don't meet the standards!"

When Hu Laoer said the last sentence, he almost shouted.

Of course, he knew that it was impossible for Hu Laoer to pick all the more than a thousand reeds, and he had to put the blame on those who picked the reeds.

Relying on his memory, Hu Laosan found Tao Dayong and some others and wanted to return the reed stems to them:
"The technicians from the county said that the reeds you handed in were not up to standard and need to be remade. Let me tell you something. Look, there are not enough reeds. There are eight or nine reeds. The reed stems are not thick enough. They are too thin, which is different from hairy reeds..."

"You didn't tell me when we collected it, so how could we know it was handed over by us?" Tao Dayong was the first to object. "If you had told me directly at that time, I would have taken it back, no problem. Now bring me the reed handle, so I can know if it was made by me?"

Tao Dayong was very confident. He said that the number had already been written down, so it was impossible for him to redo the work!

"Tao Dayong, stop making trouble here! Don't think I don't know. You hand over the qualified reed stems to Li Long, and the remaining unqualified ones to me... Believe it or not, if you don't redo them, I won't pay you!" Hu Laosan was already a little annoyed by what Chen Zhenming said, and now he was being confronted by Tao Dayong. He was very angry.

The work he did here would be settled at the end, and now he only recorded the numbers and gave a receipt, so he felt fearless and wanted to threaten Tao Dayong by not settling the bill.

Tao Dayong was not afraid of him, and said with a gloomy face:

"You won't pay? You try not to pay? If you don't pay, I'll smash your pot! I'm telling you, I'm just giving some to Li Long, so what? They give 15 cents for a reed, and you only give 10 cents, and you want a good reed. Do you think you're stupid? It's ok to talk nicely, but you're like this. I'm telling you, I won't pay you later, and don't say you won't pay. If you don't pay, see if you can stay in the team!"

After saying that, Tao Dayong ignored Hu Laoer and turned away.

Several other people also watched the fun and dispersed while chatting and laughing.

Hu Laoer was shaking with anger, but he didn't know what he could do.

How come these people have become so arrogant? Tao Dayong, who used to become timid as soon as he was threatened, has become so tough?

That being said, he still needed to think of a solution. However, before he could come up with a solution, Hu Laosan got him into trouble again.

"You said, you beat their people?" Hu Laoer was in the yard, listening to his younger brother Hu Laosan proudly saying that he and his men beat up the soldiers who came from the army to cut reeds for Li Long and his men. His brain was about to explode!

"Yeah!" Hu Laosan still felt that he had done something very impressive, and said proudly, "Who told them to go there early and occupy that piece of dry land in the reed lake! The reeds there are tall, and we don't have to go into the water to cut them. The reed lake belongs to our team, so I went over to tell them, but they wouldn't let me. I happened to be with the others, so I went up and slapped that guy..."

"There were quite a few of them, right? Didn't they beat you?" Hu Laoer asked, not knowing that his younger brother had such a reckless side.

"That young man wanted to fight me with a sickle, but his father stopped him. We occupied the land, and they ran into the mud. Didn't you see the scene at that time? It's a pity that you are not here, second brother... Today we cut forty or fifty reed bundles, and it is no problem to tie more than a hundred reed bundles. Didn't you ask me to make up for it? I will do it right away! Haha, it's so refreshing!"

Hu Laosan didn't explain it clearly, but he not only occupied the area that was more suitable for harvesting reeds, but also occupied the dozen or so bundles of reeds that Han Benzhong and his team had harvested but had not yet tied.

At this time, Li Long was in the Lao Mahao, listening to Han Benzhong talking about this matter with a gloomy face.

Everyone else looked unhappy, and Han Dachun was the one who was beaten.

"Xiaolong, let's just forget about this. We are here to make money and don't want to cause any trouble. You have been paying the bills on time these days, and we think those people may be jealous. It's nothing, after all, what that person said is not wrong, this is someone on your team..."

In fact, Han Benzhong and the others did not tell anyone about this when they came back. It was Li Long who saw that during dinner, everyone who were originally lively became dull, so he asked about it. He was asking about Han Dachun. Unexpectedly, when Han Dachun looked up, Li Long saw the slap mark on his face.

Hu Laosan slapped the boy so hard that the mark took a long time to disappear.

After Li Long asked further questions, he found out what had happened.

"Forget it? How can we forget it?" Li Long put down the bowl and said, "Dachun, let's go to the Hu family to ask for an explanation. He can't do anything else... We don't bully others, and we can't let others bully us!" (End of this chapter)