Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

This is his own home. Unlike the big yard in the county, it was already an old house when he bought it, so Li Long did not spend too much energy on decorating the yard.

But this yard is different. From the foundation to the back, Li Long participated in every step of the yard's construction. Seeing that what was originally a flat land has now become his own yard and is about to become his truly independent home since his rebirth, Li Long is excited and thrilled, so he has invested a lot of effort and energy.

The outer wall of the house is the same as other people's houses now, with mud plastered on it, very smooth. Li Long did not go the extra mile to build something like the kind of buildings that will be built 20 or 30 years later, or simply build a two-story building. His funds basically allow it, but there is no need.

Even after thirty or forty years, there is still no two-story building in the village. When there were no restrictions on cotton farming, the richest family once contracted tens of thousands of acres of land in nearby villages and farms, with an annual net income of over 10 million yuan, but they still lived in a bungalow in the countryside and drove an ordinary pickup truck.

Then, because of food policy and groundwater issues, half of the land was restricted from cultivation. Everyone in the township was restricted from cultivating half of the land, and finally they had to rotate the crops.

The days of making a fortune from cotton are gone.

Naturally, it was impossible for Li Long to go against those policies. After all, the village still had a lot of land. Even when there were restrictions on farming, he joined the cooperative and could get 70,000 to 80,000 yuan in dividends every year. When the price of cotton went up, it would be no problem for him to make 100,000 yuan.

The land contracting has not started yet, but preliminary work is already underway, with representatives of villagers from each group measuring the land. According to Li Jianguo, the village currently has a total of 2,600 mu of land, with more than 280 villagers, and the food-grain land that has been divided is about 1,500 mu. The remaining 1,100 mu of land, 20 mu per contracted land, is about 50 shares. There are more than 50 households in the village (some new households joined last year and some split up), so basically each household can contract one share of land.

Of course, there are definitely some who do not want to contract, and there are definitely some who want to contract more land.

Moreover, according to the information Li Long has obtained so far, the land contract has a flexible term for the time being. The longest term is five years, but one, two, three or even five years are all fine. If it is too long, the contract fee will definitely change later, and no one can tell whether it will change more or less, so there is simply no long-term limit.

As for the price, it is mainly based on bidding. At present, the village representatives, under the organization of the village director, are numbering the land to be contracted. After the numbering is determined, they will take the villagers to see the land one by one. After the inspection, they will bid for the land at the village meeting. All this work must be completed before the planting in April.

There is still half a month left.

The village or township has other land policies. For example, if you want to reclaim wasteland, you can be exempted from agricultural tax for the first three years, that is, exempted from paying public grain. Then the wasteland you reclaim can be contracted for a long time, that is, the maximum period is 15 years. The price is also very low, almost a symbolic price, after all, reclamation is encouraged now.

Li Long vaguely remembered that before the price of cotton increased, there seemed to be only two or three families in the village who were really clear about reclaiming wasteland and cultivating crops. The others just plowed some scraps at the ends of their own fields. For family like Li Jianguo, whose land was located on the edge of a large field, they could let the tractor expand outward when plowing, so that they could basically get an extra one or two acres of land.

Of course, this kind of behavior is also relatively low-key so as not to arouse envy.

After confirming the contract for the land, a deposit is required. After the deposit is paid, the contract fee does not need to be paid in full, but a part of it must be paid, so as to avoid the land being contracted but not planted during the farming season, which will delay the team for a year and cause losses. Subsequent fees can be settled in the second year, or part of it can be settled each year, and the whole amount can be settled before the expiration of the land contract period. Li Long thought that since the payment will be made by the expiration date, he should try to contract as much land as possible, even if all wheat is planted, it can still break even under the current situation. Of course, it is also possible not to contract so much land now, but to try the melon planting situation first. If the planting is good, the output can be expanded next year, and then more land can be contracted next year.

The key point is that in the late 1990s, when the time came to contract land for a long period of time, more land would need to be contracted.

When the villagers' representatives were measuring the land this year, Xu Chengjun came to ask Li Long if he could get a sheep in the next two days. Otherwise, he would just catch one from the team's flocks of sheep and give it to the villagers' representatives to eat.

Li Long thought that he was busy here and it was not worth it to run all the way to the mountain for a sheep, so he asked Xu Chengjun to catch the sheep directly from the team, while he was still busy in his own yard.

Now in the yard, the doors and windows have been installed, the garbage inside has been cleaned up, the weather is not very hot, and it is a bit chilly to stay inside. Li Long simply set up a few stoves and connected them to the chimney to burn a high fire to warm the house and raise the temperature at the same time.

He, Tao Daqiang, Yang Yongqiang, Li Junshan and several others were wearing boat-shaped hats made of newspapers and were cleaning mud spots on the wall. When the wall was being built, mud was thrown everywhere. The mud on the ground had been cleaned and bricks had been laid, but there was still some on the wall. After cleaning these, they would use newspapers to paste the ceiling. This was considered a semi-skilled job, and Li Junshan was not very good at it, but Tao Daqiang, Li Long and Yang Yongqiang knew how to do it.

After they cleaned up the mud spots, Tao Daqiang took out the broken soil and dumped it in the yard, and several people began to build the frame of the roof.

At this time, standing in the house, looking up, you can see reeds and wood. Although they are new, they are still uncomfortable to look at. So usually, wooden strips and reeds are used to make a skeleton grid and nailed to the roof half a meter away from the wood, and then newspapers are pasted on these grids to form a ceiling.

At least it looks more comfortable this way.

It would take Li Long several years to buy a TV in his previous life. He had no idea how much time he had spent lying in bed, and from time to time he would see the headlines in newspapers. The content of these headlines was varied, covering current political affairs, major news events, personnel appointments and dismissals, policy promotion and interpretation, etc. Although they were all out of date, when he was lying in bed without his phone, he might still enjoy reading them. Sometimes he would find the headlines interesting and might even stand up and look up to read the detailed content.

The ceiling needed paste, Liang Yuemei had already cooked it, and asked Li Juan to bring the basin over, and then divided it into small basins. The paste was not afraid of getting cold, and Li Long and his team would be very tired to look up and tie the frame, so they would take a break every half an hour.

"Brother Long, can you let me drive the tractor for a while?" During the break, Li Long was drinking water. Yang Yongqiang felt itchy, so he came over and asked Li Long with a smile.

In the past few days, Li Anguo, Chen Xingbang, Li Junshan, Tao Daqiang, Yang Yongqiang, and Li Jianguo have all driven tractors in the open field outside. At the beginning, Li Long would sit by the side to give instructions. Of course, before driving, Li Long had explained all the operating procedures when the engine was turned off. They all listened and tried to practice several times with the engine turned off. So although they were a little rusty when driving, there was no problem in the general direction.

It is understandable that Yang Yongqiang is itching to do something. Tao Daqiang does not have many ideas in this regard. He is the kind of person who is content with the status quo, or is content with a small fortune. The current conditions of his family are already among the best in the team. Before the end of last year, Li Long led the villagers to earn some money, and many families had hundreds of yuan, so the team added a few more bicycles. But for people like Tao Daqiang who have been following Li Long from last year to this year, and have been earning money including winter, the total value of his family's assets has long exceeded one thousand yuan, at least ranking in the top five in the team.

So he didn't care whether he had a tractor or a color TV. What was enough was that he could eat meat from time to time, have money in his pocket, and ensure that his unborn child could eat fine grains every day and not suffer any injustice.

Yang Yongqiang is different. Although he has not bought a bicycle yet, he feels that he must live a better life in the future. A tractor is a must. He must keep up with Li Long's footsteps.

So he would think about practicing whenever he had free time - and of course it was not in vain, he was not the kind of person who had no boundaries, so he rushed to work in Li Long's yard every day these days. After working for a while, he felt that he had "accumulated enough contributions", and then he would look for Li Long to drive a tractor.

"Go ahead and try it." Li Long said, "Try it somewhere bigger outside. The yard is still a little small and we can't really show it."

Although these people can basically operate it, the most stable one is the eldest brother Li Jianguo, followed by his brother-in-law Chen Xingbang. Yang Yongqiang is a bit reckless, Li Junshan is a bit nervous, Li Anguo and Tao Daqiang are both average, slow in action and reaction, but not too nervous and can drive.

So it’s definitely not possible to do it on the road, just practice in an open space.

Seeing that Li Long agreed so readily, Yang Yongqiang jumped up and ran out with a smile, saying as he ran:
"Brother Long, don't worry. I will definitely not delay the erection of the roof frame!"

Li Long smiled. Yang Yongqiang had worked so hard these days that he had not spared any energy. He only had lunch here at noon and insisted on going back to eat in the evening. He was very sensible.

"I'll go out and take a look." Tao Daqiang stood up, "Yongqiang is still a little reckless."

The weather was getting warmer. At noon, Yang Yongqiang was able to start the engine by himself, but it was a bit difficult. Sometimes he needed two or three attempts to start the engine.

Sure enough, Li Long heard the sound of the first failed start - just like an old cow panting, and halfway through the breath it swallowed back.

"Daqiang, help me." Yang Yongqiang was not polite to Tao Daqiang at all.

With Tao Daqiang joining in, the two of them started the tractor easily. Yang Yongqiang sat on the tractor and turned down the hand throttle next to the steering wheel. A skilled driver would usually just turn the hand throttle to the off state at this time and rely entirely on controlling the throttle with his feet.

Yang Yongqiang doesn't have that ability yet.

"Daqiang and Yongqiang are really good." Li Junshan and Li Long sat side by side. He said with a smile, "Uncle Xiaolong, they really help you with your work." "That's right, I really help them make money." Li Long smiled, "How about it, what do you think next?"

"I was thinking, if I could work in the mine, I would also like to try it." Li Junshan's words surprised Li Long.

"It's dangerous there." Li Long advised, "I will find someone and arrange for him to go in, but for someone like my second brother, I can spend more money to arrange for him to go outside and do something without going into the mine. But not too many times. If you want to go in, you will most likely have to go into the mine. What if..."

He didn't want to continue. The Northern Frontier was an evil place, and everyone believed that prophecies would come true. Good things didn't work, but bad things did.

"Hey, there are many people working in the mine, it can't be me who gets into trouble. But if I can enter the mine, I'm a worker." Li Junshan looked thoughtful, "I've thought about it, if I can be a worker, I'll eat commercial grain, there will definitely be dangers, but isn't that what should be done? If it weren't dangerous, then everyone could be a worker, so why would they let me do it?"

Li Long didn't expect Li Junshan to think this way. But he still didn't dare to nod his head. After all, this matter involved human life and death, so he had to think about it carefully. He also wanted to find out more about it. To be honest, although the reform and opening up has been going on for several years, it has just started in the northern Xinjiang area. There are plenty of opportunities now, and it is not necessary to go to that dangerous mine.

Now "Ordinary World" has not been published, but Li Long had read it in his previous life, and he knew the dangers of coal mines from it. So when Li Xiangqian told him about the coal mine, he thought that if he could find a job outside for his second brother, he could go, but if not, forget it if he wanted to work in the mines.

If something really happens, he can't afford it.

The tractor made a rumbling sound. Li Long knew that it was Yang Yongqiang who was driving out of the yard. From the sound, it was not going very fast, so he should be driving out slowly in first gear.

Ok, pretty cautious.

Tao Daqiang didn't come back, and Li Long guessed that he was watching Yang Yongqiang, worried that he might make trouble.

Tao Daqiang has been trained now. Li Long is thinking about what kind of work he can do to earn money in the spring. For example, melons are harvested in autumn, so in addition to normal work in spring and summer, he still needs to find some work that can earn money.

The job of making the handles is one of them, and you can also collect Fritillaria, which is also a big job. If it doesn't work, you can find a ditch for Tao Daqiang and others to dig Fritillaria, and you can go there with a gun to hunt. With your own identity as a forest ranger, it should be no problem for Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang to dig Fritillaria.

If Li Junshan and his colleagues still have no idea about their work by then, let them join in the digging.

Li Long felt that this was the only way to go. After all, his network of contacts had only expanded to this point, and it was not easy to do more profitable work. Northern Xinjiang was very large, but the scope of Li Long's current involvement was limited. If he wanted to find more ways to make money, he not only had to think of ways to connect with people, but also had to use his brain on ways to make money.

Actually, small-scale agricultural machinery is a good way to go, but Li Long knows that this requires professional talents, and from the people he knows so far, there are basically no such people. The master who repairs the agricultural machinery in the village obviously doesn't want to do it, and he is not familiar with it, so there is no way to become a partner.

We have to keep looking for opportunities. In fact, if we can develop a harvester that comes with a tractor this year, we will make money very quickly, because last year the land was contracted to each household, and farmers in the county had food-producing land, with five mu of food-producing land per person, and most of them were planted with wheat before winter came.

Who doesn't want to eat fine grains every day? After the wheat planting area has expanded, harvesting is a big problem. Last year, not only did farmers plant more corn on their grain fields, but they also planted a lot of winter wheat on uncontracted land in rural areas. So this July, the wheat harvest was particularly busy.

So if there is a tractor that can harvest wheat quickly, it will definitely be very popular.

Even if it only costs one dollar to harvest one acre of land, no, sixty or seventy cents, you can still earn dozens of dollars a day. After all, it only takes a small four-wheel tractor to go through the field and consume some diesel.

Li Long remembered that in his previous life, the highest land area in the village reached 1504 to mu. At that time, the team had three large tractors - wheeled tractors, the kind with more than horsepower, tractors that sold for more than yuan. The state gave % agricultural subsidies, and young men in the village rushed to plow the land after autumn - after all, they could earn money for plowing one acre of land. At that time, they almost did not sleep, and they plowed all day and night, and could plow mu a day.

Of course, those days were extremely tiring. After all, even though the tractor had air conditioning and comfortable seats, it was still running all the time, and the vibrations could make people tired.

Today's tractors certainly can't handle that much, but mowing a hundred acres a day shouldn't be a problem.

The key issue now is that this kind of harvester has not yet been launched. If you want to make one, you have to research it yourself, which requires professionals.

What should I do if the people at Shicheng Tractor Factory don't think highly of me? Unfortunately, there is no customized service now.

While Li Long was having a lot of thoughts in his mind, a rumbling sound was heard over there. It was Yang Yongqiang driving the tractor back.

After resting for a while, Li Long stood up, stretched out his arms and then continued to build the roof.

He heard Tao Daqiang say in the yard:
"Okay, step on the brakes and turn off the engine. Driving too much wastes fuel."

Well, Tao Daqiang is still a good man who can make a living.

"Okay." Yang Yongqiang's voice sounded along with the sound of the tractor engine, and then suddenly a rumbling sound was heard, and then the wall was felt to vibrate, and the sound of the engine suddenly increased to the maximum, and then - suffocated.

Li Long rushed out suddenly. When he came out, he was seeing Tao Daqiang looking at the tractor. At this time, the small four-wheel tractor was hitting the wall next to the window of the east room of his house.

The front of the small four-wheel tractor is designed with a guide rail for installing additional things. This guide rail is made of steel plates. At this time, the protruding steel guide rail is pressing against the wall, creating a bowl-sized hole.

Yang Yongqiang sat on the tractor with his face pale with fear, not knowing what to do.

Tao Daqiang reacted, turned his head to look at Li Long, waiting for him to speak.

Yang Yongqiang also turned his head, his face full of guilt. He knew he had caused trouble. This was a new house!
Li Junshan also ran out of the house. Looking at the situation, a trace of anger flashed across his face, but he didn't say anything.

This is what Li Long said.

"Fortunately, this wall is made of two adobe bricks," Li Long was not angry. "It is also built solidly. If it was a thin wall made of a single brick, it might have collapsed... Yongqiang, you have to fix this hole. Did you step on the accelerator instead of the brake?"

Li Long was not angry, and everyone else present breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Yongqiang lowered his head and said in shame:

"It should be..." His mind was blank at the time and he had no idea what he had done.

Not everyone can drive this tractor.

Wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! (End of this chapter)