Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The carriage first came to the Old Horse House. Li Long drove the carriage into the yard, pointed to one of the houses and said:

"Second brother, brother-in-law, Junshan Junfeng, you live in here."

"Let's squeeze in together?" Li Anguo was a little surprised and turned to ask Li Jianguo, "Don't you live at home?"

"How can we accommodate you at home? It's so cold, I can't let you sleep on the floor, can I?" Li Long said before Li Jianguo could speak, "There's a stove in here, and the beds are made of planks. You brought your blankets, and if you think they're not soft enough, we can put a layer of straw on them."

"Then let's eat..." Chen Xingbang had just had a good meal, and now he was a little worried. If he didn't eat at Li's house, then Li's family would eat good food, and he would eat bad food here... How could that work?
"I'll eat with you guys here. Don't worry, brother-in-law, our food is not bad, and we can eat meat every meal." Li Long said with a smile, "Uncle Luo cooks, and of course everyone can cook together when we are free.

There will be work in two days. You can earn money if you want to work, and you will be paid on the same day. It’s okay if you can’t do it at first. It’s very simple and you will learn it just by watching.

A few days ago, some fellow villagers from the county came over. In ten days or so, the whole family earned more than 200 yuan, which is not a small amount! "

"You make money this way?" The four people's eyes widened immediately, "Is it true?"

"See those reeds outside? Just pick the reeds and tie them into bundles. The work is a bit tiring, but you can earn real money."

"If I can really earn so much money, it would be worth it even if I worked myself to death!" Li Junshan said excitedly with shining eyes.

"Don't worry, Xiaolong won't lie." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Okay, put your things down now, pack up, and take a rest. Xiaolong will take you home in the afternoon."

Li Jianguo led the carriage away, and Li Anguo and his men made their beds on the big wooden bed and took a rest. Chen Xingbang came to find Li Long and asked quietly:

"Xiaolong, I see the doors of those rooms are all closed, what's in there?"

Li Long glanced at him and said with a smile:
"Brother-in-law, I live in that room. That room is where Uncle Luo lives, and there's also a kitchen. The two rooms over there are where the fellow villagers who came to work a few days ago live. There are three families of about ten people, including women, and they live in those two rooms."

"Oh oh..." Chen Xingbang nodded, indicating that he understood, and then said that he wanted to sit in Li Long's room and talk.

Li Long did not refuse and took him into his room.

Seeing that Li Long's house was full of new furniture, Chen Xingbang was quite envious. He sat down and asked him about making money in a roundabout way.

In his previous life, Li Long would have been able to tell everything he knew, but now, Li Long just smiled and said:
"Dad must have told you that there are two ways to make money: catch fish and sell them. Winter is coming soon, and catching fish is a tough job. You have to break holes in the ice and run dozens of kilometers to sell the fish. It's very cold in winter. The other way is that I find connections to get the job, and then we all do the work and get paid accordingly."

Chen Xingbang then asked how to get the job.

"I have connections in the supply and marketing cooperative, and I get jobs from them." Li Long said this very naturally, and Chen Xingbang couldn't ask any more questions. What else could he ask? How did he get connections with the supply and marketing cooperative?
"Uncle Xiaolong, you are really amazing. I heard from the old man that all the wild boars, roe deer and deer you raise are yours." Li Junfeng shouted outside, "Where did you get all these?"

"I got it from the mountains." Li Long stood up, walked to the door and said with a smile, "I went hunting in the mountains when I had some free time. I got it back if I didn't kill it."

"Oh, you can still go hunting in the mountains? What good things did you catch?" Li Junfeng liked the excitement, so he asked, "Third Grandpa mentioned some, like wild boars, deer, wolves, etc. Do wolves bite people?"

"If you are alone, the wolves will definitely bite you. If you go into the mountains, most people carry guns and things." Li Long said, "There are not as many wolves now as before. When my eldest brother and his friends first came, there were more wolves. There were wolves around here. Now there are more people, so there are fewer wolves."

Several people gathered around involuntarily, listening to what they heard was very strange. After feeding the pigs, Uncle Luo came over and talked about the past here. It was eye-opening for several people who had never been out of the Central Plains. It was really different.

"Uncle Luo, don't prepare dinner for us tonight." Li Long said, "We can eat together tomorrow. I will take them to my eldest brother's place later."

"Okay, okay." Uncle Luo said with a smile, "Then I'll make some dough later and steam the buns tomorrow morning."

"well."

After leaving the old horse house, Li Anguo asked Li Long:
"Xiaolong, what's your relationship with this old man?"

"The old man used to take care of the stables in the team, raising horses and donkeys. Later, the stables became mine, and I raised wild boars and other animals and let the old man take care of them."

"Then they have to be paid, right?" Chen Xingbang interjected.

"Twenty a month." Li Long nodded.

"Twenty, that's not a small amount. Even apprentices in my hometown don't earn that much." Li Junfeng was a little surprised.

"That's different."

Li didn't say anything different and took them to Li Jianguo's yard.

Hearing the footsteps, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei rushed out, followed by Li Juan and Li Qiang.

"Come in," Liang Yuemei greeted enthusiastically, "You must be exhausted after all this trip. I just made the soup and rice, come in and eat."

The eight-person table couldn't accommodate so many people, so Liang Yuemei took Li Juan and Li Qiang to eat in the spare room. There was a lot of wood at home, so the spare room had a table, so it wasn't too cold at the moment. Li Juan and Li Qiang were also very curious. Their impression of their hometown was originally only grandparents, but now there are some uncles and brothers.

The sour and slightly spicy soup is really good in this cold weather. The tomatoes from northern Xinjiang are made into sauce and put into this soup to enhance the flavor. There are some green coriander foam floating on it, which makes people's appetite increase. Although the coriander in the vegetable garden is not growing at this time, it has not been frozen to death. You can still pick some to embellish the meal. In a few days, you may not be able to eat it.

There was diced meat in the rice, and Li Anguo, Chen Xingbang and others felt different.

But we all have the same idea: it seems that the eldest brother (uncle) is really living well here, so it would be okay to come here and make money.

After the meal, they chatted for a while. When it got dark, Li Long took them back to the Mahao.

The next morning, when Uncle Luo was making breakfast and Li Long was helping him, he unexpectedly saw Li Junshan also got up to help, so he started chatting with him with a smile.

Li Long really has no impression of his hometown. Li Junfeng is the child of his second brother, and Li Junshan is the child of his third brother. The second and third brothers are the rankings of Li Jianguo and his brothers.

The fathers of Li Junfeng and Li Junshan are brothers. They are the children of Uncle Li Longer. Li Qingxia is the third child in the family, so the two of them call Li Qingxia Third Uncle.

That's the level of our relationship, pretty close.

"In my hometown, each person was allocated three mu of land," Li Junshan said, explaining why he came here. "We planted wheat, and we could grow some vegetables in the yard. Even with less land, it wasn't enough to feed the family. At the end of the year, after paying the grain, the remaining land was not enough for the family to eat. We had no choice but to exchange the wheat for corn and add sweet potatoes to make up for a year's food supply. It was a problem to even eat, let alone make money."

"So you and Junfeng are both capable of construction?" Li Long asked again.

"In the first two years, I went to work with others when I had free time. Later, they brought their relatives to work and didn't want me anymore."

Well, this is still a society based on personal relationships after all.

"It's okay. As long as you can endure hardships, you can definitely make money." Li Long still thinks highly of Li Junshan. In this day and age, if you want to make money, you can endure hardships if you don't have any connections. People who are down-to-earth are always easier to accept than those who are full of greed.

Breakfast consists of steamed buns, cornmeal porridge, fried cabbage, and pickles.

It is fried with meat oil, tastes delicious and I eat a lot of it.

"Let's go to Xiaohaizi today to cast nets and catch fish." Li Long said to them after dinner, "We can sell dozens of fish a day if we take them to the county or city. We'll start when there's work later. You're all familiar with fishing, and there's a big river behind your house. You're better than many people in our team."

They naturally had no objection. They came here to make money, not to have fun. Since Li Long said so, they naturally followed him.

But Chen Xingbang felt a little uncomfortable. After all, he was his brother-in-law, so why should he just follow his brother-in-law to work?
But he just came here, there is nothing much to say, just learn it first. If it doesn't work, just learn to do it yourself, catch fish and sell them, what's so difficult about it?

Li Long thought so, but in fact he couldn't do it because before he took people to Li Jianguo's place to get the internet, Li Xiangqian called him. It was Xu Chengjun who called through a loud speaker, asking him to go to the village director as soon as possible to answer the phone.

Li Long guessed that a new batch of reed handle missions was coming.

He smiled and said to Li Anguo and the other three:

"Okay, I guess we don't need to catch fish anymore. Now, I'm here to work. Just wait and make some money."

After Li Long rode away on his bicycle, Li Junfeng said admiringly:
"Uncle Xiaolong is really awesome! The team called specifically for him and even shouted through a loud speaker - awesome!"

"I raise wild boars and deer, ride a bicycle, have a gun, and can take on jobs," Li Anguo said with a smile. "Isn't that really amazing? It's worth it to have achieved this."

The content of the phone call was just as Li Long had expected. It was Li Xiangqian who called and told him that there was currently a job to produce 30,000 reed sticks and asked him if he could take it.

Li Long turned his head and whispered to Xu Chengjun:

"Captain, can we make 30,000 reed bundles from the reeds in our team?"

"Yes, of course!" Xu Chengjun said immediately, "Not to mention 30,000, even 50,000 can be used..."

"Chief, you can fight."

"How long will it take to complete?"

"It should be within a month." Li Long said, "Now the whole team is idle, it should be quick."

"One month is not enough. I'll only give you 20 days." Li Xiangqian said, "Are you sure? This is a tough task. Think about it carefully..."

Li Long thought about it, bet on it, and said:

"Okay, twenty days is twenty days! You can come over every two days to pick up the goods, and you have to pay me in cash."

"No problem. Technician Chen will come to inspect it when the time comes. The quality must be guaranteed."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Li Long turned and looked at Xu Chengjun.

"Thirty thousand?"

"Thirty thousand."

"Twenty days?"

"Ah."

"Then can I deliver it directly to you today?" Xu Chengjun said something that surprised Li Long.

"Why? Captain, do you have it at home now?"

"Yes." Xu Chengjun said with a smile, "We have been beating the reeds here. Hu Laoer has harvested all the reeds, and the remaining reeds at home were just there, so we beat them yesterday. And since you just happened to be harvesting them here, let's harvest them together."

"Okay. But I have to make it clear in advance," Li Long said half-jokingly, "Captain, the price is 1.5 cents, but if it doesn't meet the standards, I won't accept it, even if you are the captain. Otherwise, I will have to pay for it, and it's not worth it."

"Don't worry, if it's not up to standard, just return it to me, and I won't say a word!"

"Captain, please inform them now, otherwise the rest of the team won't know..."

"Okay." Xu Chengjun turned on the power switch and pushed the microphone to Li Long:

"You tell me."

Li Long did not refuse. He took the microphone and started talking.

"Notice, notice, I have an important notice for you all, everyone listen carefully, important notice..." (End of this chapter)