Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The next morning, the four of them got up, washed up, and went to have breakfast.

Only Li Long ate a little more for breakfast. Li Anguo and the other two didn't eat much because they were too excited.

After breakfast, they walked back. Li Long vaguely heard people nearby talking about the word "Green Shade". Was it this place, or a place nearby?

Li? This name is quite special, it has never appeared in Ma County or Shicheng. The most common names in those two places are XX Road XX Street, and what he knows most about Kuitun is that in a certain episode of the "Liyuanchun" program, there was a Uyghur brother in Kuitun who sang Henan Opera, and he sang quite well.

There are not many other impressions.

Of course, there will be more in the future, because he needs to work here for a period of time. If his second brother and others can settle down here, Li Long will probably come here often in the future.

He drove a tractor and took Li Anguo and the others to the construction installation company again. There should be a primary school near the company. Li Long saw many students carrying schoolbags walking towards the path next to the installation company, and there was a playground vaguely visible over there.

Li Long drove the tractor into the gate, and then saw the old man who was sweeping the floor yesterday, and Ma Aihong was standing next to the old man.

"You're here. Come on, follow me." Ma Aihong was pushing her bicycle. Seeing Li Long and the others arriving, she greeted them and rode her bicycle forward.

Ma Aihong rode very fast, but Li Long didn't dare to drive fast because he was worried about hitting others.

The yard of the construction and installation company is very large. Some machinery can be seen but not many. Most of them are simple equipment such as carts. The office area is a bungalow with several rows of bungalows. Li Long followed Ma Aihong to a bungalow where some workers were packing up their equipment, waiting to set off.

"You three will live here." Ma Aihong pointed to the bungalow and said, "Put your luggage inside and each of you choose a seat. This room is quite empty, with only two people living here. Spread out your bedding first, and someone will come over to register you and assign you tasks later."

Li Anguo and the others listened to Ma Aihong's words, looked at each other, then got off the car with their luggage and walked into the house one by one.

"Xiao Li," Ma Aihong said to Li Long who was sitting on the tractor, "Have you had your meal? Then you can wait here too. Look, over there is the guesthouse. Although it looks shabby on the outside, it is quite clean and tidy inside, and there are beddings and everything. You can go there to rest after work at noon. I have already booked a room for you.

By the way, you can eat there too, the food there is good, and I will also provide you with the oil for your tractor, you just need to wait for the tractor to be dispatched, and as I said, you don’t need to load or unload the tractor.”

"Thank you, Chief Ma." Li Long said hurriedly.

"Why thank me? We are all family. Your coming here is helping me."

After Ma Aihong finished speaking, she asked Li Long to wait here while she went to the office for a meeting.

Li Long looked around and saw several horse-drawn carriages and donkey-drawn carts coming here, probably waiting for work.

These horse-drawn and donkey-drawn carriages have protective plates around them, so they can carry more things, but in reality, they can carry much less than Li Long's carriage.

He now understood why Ma Aihong insisted on keeping him here. The transportation capacity of this construction and installation company was a bit short.

After a while, a small four-wheel tractor drove over. This tractor was similar to Li Long's, but it was much older. The driver had a proud look on his face, but when he saw Li Long's hand, his expression changed immediately.

He didn't expect that the construction and installation company would get another tractor, and it was obvious that the tractor was very new!
Was it newly purchased or brought by the newly hired person?
Is this your competitor?

Li Long just glanced at the man and his eyes fell on the others.

He found that the people living here were wearing all kinds of clothes, both old and new. Not far away, there were some other people wearing blue labor protection overalls and carrying the same tool bags.

Those should be regular workers, right? And these are probably temporary workers.

Temporary workers like Li Anguo were not recruited at the same time. Some came in early and some came in late. Some had already started working, while some came in just now - like Li Anguo and others.

Soon, Li Anguo and the others came out of the dormitory. All three of them were smiling and seemed quite satisfied with the environment.

Li Long glanced at the man driving the old tractor. He was wearing a fairly new work suit. He didn't know if he was a formal worker or if the suit was specially issued to him.

There were only two tractors for the temporary workers, but there was a truck for the regular workers. These were all the "transportation machinery" that Li Long could see.

Some workers climbed onto the carriage over there, and the truck drove out, probably to go to work.

Someone came over with a folder and started assigning work.

Because Li Junshan had done heavy work before, he was sent out first, and the salary standard was made clear on the spot: 1.3 yuan a day, which was already higher than some formal salaries in other places.

But think about it, after all, he is not an apprentice, but a temporary worker who needs to do heavy physical labor, and it will not work if he is not paid enough.

As for Li Anguo and Yang Yongqiang, they are treated as laborers, currently earning one yuan a day.

The tractor cost ten yuan each, which was just as Ma Aihong said. The three workers climbed onto the tractor, pointed the way to Li Long, drove out of the installation company and headed for the material yard.

Li Long really felt that it became much easier to make money with a tractor.

The material yard is not far away, and a tractor can make a round trip in about ten minutes, but loading is slow. At that time, the construction and installation company did not have excavators and forklifts, so it could only load the materials manually, which was slow.

But because of this, each truck is loaded with more, full to the brim, which is the requirement of the company.

The construction site is in the west of the city. The workers who were unloading the trucks said that this seemed to be the office of a certain government agency. Li Long did not ask much. Unloading the truck was faster than loading. Although the tractor had not been converted to automatic hydraulic unloading, as long as the pins of the truck bed were pulled out and the rear compartment board was lowered, two people could lift up the sides of the compartment to unload a truckload of gravel. The tractor drove forward a few meters and all the materials in the compartment were shaken out.

Ten dollars is still easy to earn. In fact, it doesn’t cost much gas and the labor cost is basically nothing, you just drive.

Compared to the past when we had to break holes in the ice, endure the cold, work hard and get up early, it is really easy to make money now with a tractor.

In the morning, Li Long pulled five carts and received fifty yuan. The materials he pulled in five carts were equivalent to the materials pulled by the horse-drawn carriages next to him, and the speed was slower. He asked and found that the horse-drawn carriage could pull about two carts in the morning. If he went there earlier, he could pull three carts.

For lunch, the temporary workers had stir-fried cabbage, cornmeal cakes, and vegetable soup. Li Long's food in the guesthouse was much better, with steamed buns and noodles as the two main dishes, and two kinds of vegetables, stir-fried cabbage with some meat and stir-fried shredded potatoes, which tasted average, but there was plenty of steamed buns.

The guesthouse was furnished with two round tables and several wooden tables. Li Long, who had just arrived, sat down at the table.

The people eating at the guesthouse should be the leaders of the construction company, and a few drivers. This made Li Long feel pretty good - he saw the truck driver and the other old tractor driver.

The truck driver was a middle-aged man in his forties. When he saw Li Long, he smiled at him, then got his own food and ate at the table - Ma Aihong was also at that table. He came over and chatted with Li Long for a few words before leaving. Li Long sat alone to eat. Seeing that the old tractor driver was also sitting on the side, Li Long originally wanted to chat with him, but seeing that the other person looked at him unkindly, he didn't want to talk to him.

There was an hour's break at noon. Li Long was not very tired, but he had nothing else to do, so the waiter led him to a double room.

"Am I the only one living here?" Li Long asked, seeing that neither bed had been moved.

The waitress explained:

"The other bed was originally assigned to Master An, but he lived nearby and had to go home at noon, so he didn't use it."

Li Long understood that this Master An was most likely the other tractor driver.

This is perfect, as I don't have to go through the trouble of dealing with strangers who are hostile to me.

He lay on the bed for a while, still not feeling tired, so he got up and went out. Anyway, Li Long didn't bring anything with him, so he wasn't afraid of someone coming into the house.

After walking into the yard, Li Long identified the direction and then walked towards the dormitory where Li Anguo and others lived.

Li Anguo and his friends had already eaten. They were exhausted from the morning work, so the three of them were now lying on the bed to rest. However, since the time was short, they did not think about falling asleep, and they chatted casually.

"Brother, Junshan, Yongqiang, how are you doing?" Li Long walked into the dormitory and saw Li Anguo and the others lying on the bed and talking, so he asked. "Not bad, a little tired, but I can still do it." Li Anguo nodded.

There were two other people in the dormitory. They were not asleep either. They must know each other. They were chatting on the other end.

Li Long went over and sat on the edge of the bed, then asked:

"It should be better in Junshan, right?"

The work of a skilled worker requires more technical skills and is better than that of a laborer.

"Well, it's OK." Li Junshan said, "We are also short of skilled workers here. I remember Uncle An Guo did this job before. I think we should apply to work here. It would be laying brick walls or something, which is not that difficult."

Li Anguo was a little hesitant, but Li Long said:
"Brother, if you are capable, then go ahead and give it a try. This is using real materials, and there are safety guards watching over the construction site. They value quality more than you do, don't you think?"

The treatment for skilled workers and unskilled workers is different. More importantly, Li Long feels that if Li Anguo can become a skilled worker, he will be more likely to stay.

Yang Yongqiang pursed his lips and said nothing. He had never built a wall before, so he had no right to speak at this time. Today's work was very tiring, much more tiring than farm work. But while working, he also heard the workers next to him say that there is a lot of work to be done in KT City now, and a lot of workers are needed, so there is a high chance that they will stay after working for a while.

As long as you can stay, you will become a formal worker and can eat commercial grain.

The treatment of eating commercial grain is really very tempting to Yang Yongqiang, or to those who come to work.

Yang Yongqiang thought that Tao Daqiang didn't come because of his personality, which was to go with the flow. Secondly, Tao Daqiang made a lot of money with Li Long, which was more than what he made as a worker. So he felt that he had a better future if he stayed in the village.

But Yang Yongqiang felt that although working with Li Long did pay well, it was not stable. When a worker always gets paid and gets a pension when he is too old to work, this is a real iron rice bowl.

So even though it's tiring, more tiring than doing farm work at home, Yang Yongqiang feels that he can persevere.

"Yongqiang, how do you feel?" Li Long asked Yang Yongqiang again.

"It's OK." Yang Yongqiang smiled. "I was a little uncomfortable at first, but it's just work. It's about the same as digging a big canal in the team. It will be fine after a while."

He believes that as long as he can become a formal worker, everything will get better, whether it is the current food or accommodation conditions.

He also heard that many formal workers had small courtyards allocated near Chief Ma and his colleagues. If that really happened, he would be a city dweller himself, and if he found a city wife, that would feel - hehe!
Since the three of them all felt good, Li Long didn't have much to say. He chatted for a few more words and then left. Li Anguo and the others were more tired than him and needed more rest.

Before returning to the guesthouse, Li Long came to his tractor and filled the tractor with water using a bucket. The diesel he brought yesterday had not been used up yet, so he filled the tank with more oil.

While I was working on the car, I heard someone talking behind me:

"Xiao Li, how was your day?"

"Not bad." Li Long turned his head and looked at Ma Aihong who was holding a lunch box in her hand, and said, "I'm not very tired, I feel fine."

Li Anguo doesn't need to ask Ma Aihong for the big job. He can just report it himself when the job is assigned tomorrow. People can tell at a glance whether you can do the job well.

"That's good. I heard from the engineering team that with your tractor today, the progress of our project has been greatly improved. By the way, let me tell you that the money for your tractor is paid in cash. You can go to the finance department to settle the bill after you come back from the tractor in the afternoon. So don't delay too late in the afternoon, otherwise you will have to wait until tomorrow."

"Okay." Li Long nodded quickly.

Earn a hundred dollars a day!

Can you earn enough to buy a tractor in a month?

It is impossible to be so good. The workload is not large, and it is good enough if it can be completed in ten days. The key point is that sand and gravel are used at the beginning, and bricks are used later. It may take three to five days to pull the materials, and the rest is the work of the workers.

Of course, this is also very good. He truly understands what he has heard before: it is difficult for people to make money, but it is easy to make money.

Can't others see that there is money to be made with tractors?

Of course, but the problem is that I can't afford to buy a tractor.

For example, Li Long now has an easier time getting a bank loan than others because he bought the tractor in full because he has the right collateral. This is why many people in later generations cannot understand why it is so difficult for ordinary people to get a loan, but it is so easy for those who owe a lot of money to the bank to get a loan.

The same thing happened a few years later when the small lake in the team was contracted out to someone else. At that time, there was an "entrepreneur" in the village who owed money for his sand pit. In order to get him to pay off the debt, the village let him contract out the small lake.

Many people thought that since this man had worked in business, he should be able to revitalize the small lake. As a result, he just let people fish there, charging 100 yuan for everyone who came to fish...

Well, farther away.

In the afternoon, Li Long also pulled five truckloads of sand and gravel, and then went back to settle the bill. When settling the bill, he was notified that he would start pulling bricks the next day.

Li Long found that he had expected a little more. This time, it took less than three or five days. He prepared enough sand and gravel in one day, and the bricks would probably take less than three days.

Of course it was a joke. After all, the horse and donkey carts had been pulling for several days. It was impossible for them to just point at their two tractors.

Li Long was quite excited when he received the 100 yuan. Although he had earned tens of thousands of yuan in the past year, this 100 yuan was easy to earn, and it was not tiring or dangerous, which was really good.

Dinner was light, rice porridge, pickles, red tofu, and steamed buns left over from lunch. Still enough to fill me up.

After Li Long finished eating, he thought about going out for a walk. At the gate, he ran into the old man who was sweeping the floor. At this time, the old man was picking up fallen branches on the roadside.

Li Long greeted him, and the old man reminded Li Long:
"Young man, come back as soon as it gets dark. It's not safe outside."

Li Long thought about this special year and nodded immediately.

He actually just wanted to see the surroundings, and planned to leave after completing this project, but before leaving, he had to do a few things, such as the fruit tree seedlings at the Agricultural Science Institute and the agricultural machinery factory here.

Not far from the construction company, there is a curved road. Not many people take a walk after get off work here. Everyone is in a hurry, walking or riding a bicycle to go home. The air is filled with the faint smell of food, and the sounds of children laughing and parents quarreling.

Li Long could tell that although there were not many families with televisions, there were at least two or three families out of ten, and even more with radios. It was no wonder that Yang Yongqiang wanted to stay here as a worker, at least in terms of the overall average level, it was much better than in the countryside.

Of course, it will be like this in the future as well.

He walked around but didn't find the agricultural machinery factory nearby. As the night was getting darker, he turned around and walked back.

The company's iron gate was closed but not locked. Li Long pushed the door open and went inside, then turned around, closed the door again, and went to the guesthouse.

The lights were on in the guesthouse. When the lady at the front desk saw Li Long, she took the initiative to say to him:
"Young man, there's a martial arts movie on TV in the TV room. If you have nothing to do, you can go watch it. It's pretty good."

There is also a TV room, Li Long thanked them hurriedly, and then followed the sound to find the room.

The TV room is not big, with two single sofas and a few stools. There are several people watching TV now, and although they are watching local news, they are still watching intently and with great interest.

Li Long also found a place to sit. He was tall and naturally couldn't sit forward, so he moved a stool and sat in the back corner, which would neither affect people from outside from coming in nor block other people.

It was still The Legend of the Condor Heroes. After a while, they repeated Guo Da Xia's Eighteen Palms. Li Long watched and shook his head, then went back after a while.

I should have brought two books to read. (End of this chapter)