Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"Xiaolong, how is it? Am I fast?" Xu Jianjun pointed at the reeds on the donkey cart and said with a smile, "According to your standard, twenty reeds, two and a half meters, and three iron wires, no problem."

Li Long could tell at a glance that a considerable portion of the reeds tied to the donkey cart looked very strange.

He walked up to the donkey cart and took a closer look. Xu Jianjun beside him hurriedly untied the rope that bound the reeds and asked:
"How? Where to unload?"

"Don't be anxious. You need to check this reed handle carefully." Li Long didn't want him to take it all off. It would not be easy to put it back on after taking it off.

"Then you check it." Xu Jianjun looked like he was not afraid of the inspection.

"Pull it to my front yard first." Li Long said, "It's not convenient to pile these in my brother's yard."

The sun has not yet set, and Li Jianguo and his colleagues are still pulling out reeds and making reed bundles.

Xu Jianjun followed Li Long in the donkey cart, saying as he walked:
"Xiaolong, let me tell you, you still need the support of everyone in our team to do this job. Otherwise, you may not be able to complete this job."

"There are more places with reeds than just ours." Li Long understood what Xu Jianjun wanted to say. "My job really depends on everyone, but our team is not the only place that produces reeds. If I don't want to do it and someone else takes over the job, it's hard to say whether it will fall to our team."

Xu Jianjun also understood what Li Long meant and laughed dryly.

He didn't dare to refute, because he didn't want to lose this job. Every winter, he could earn an apprentice's annual salary just by doing this job, so he wouldn't do it!
The donkey cart was pulled into Li Long's yard. The snow in the yard had been cleared. Li Long waited for Xu Jianjun to park the donkey cart and said directly:

"Jianjun, your reed handles are not up to standard. Do you want to take them all off so I can check them one by one, or do you take them from the car and I can check them from below?"

"Take it all off." Xu Jianjun was planning to have a good argument with Li Long. So he thought he should be able to win by then, so even if there were some who were unqualified, there shouldn't be many.

The donkey's bridle was untied, the shaft of the donkey cart was lifted up, and all the reed handles rolled down.

Li Long stepped forward and began to rummage through the items.

He could tell at a glance that Xu Jianjun was using large reeds to wrap up the ten reeds he had originally tied.

This is also a method, which shows that Xu Jianjun is still quite smart.

However, the ten reeds were not thin. Thick reeds could be wrapped, but thin reeds could not. Li Long only picked out those that were well wrapped, of the same length, and with the thin wire tied in similar positions.

There were seventy or eighty reed handles on the donkey cart that Xu Jianjun brought. Li Long took more than ten minutes to pick out the qualified ones, which were less than one-third, about twenty or so.

"These are qualified, take the rest back. I tell you, just take apart the small reed handles and thin wires inside and tie them again—"

"Xiaolong, you are wrong. I am doing this exactly as you requested. There are three wires, right? Two and a half meters, right? Twenty reeds, right? Which one do you think is wrong?"

Li Long was so angry that he laughed.

This guy is actually talking about standards with me here.

Isn't it easy to come up with such a cunning guy these days?

He waved his hand and said:

"Jianjun, I am speaking to you calmly. I also know that you tied the reeds in advance, but the standards have changed, and it is difficult for you to deal with it.

But I can't do anything about this, this is the standard given above. It doesn't make sense to take shortcuts or say who is responsible at the moment, you can only minimize the loss as soon as possible.

The method I gave you is the best I can think of. Of course, you can also think about whether there are other methods. Don't waste time here, take these things away. I will accept the qualified ones. "

"No, either you collect them all, or I take them all away!" Xu Jianjun felt insulted by Li Long and started quarreling.

"Then take them all away." Li Long was also angry and threatened me? He really didn't know the difference between the big and small kings?!
Xu Jianjun was just speaking in anger, but he didn't expect that Li Long's words would hit him hard, leaving him with no way out.

In fact, he could have just said something soft at this time, but Xu Jianjun always felt that Li Long was just unlucky to be in this situation, so he could not stand it.

Now that Li Long had said this, he really got angry. He lowered his head, picked up all the reeds and piled them on the donkey cart. As he was pulling the donkey cart away, he said to Li Long:

"Li Long, let me tell you, with your attitude, it's doubtful you'll be able to harvest enough reeds this year!"

As he said this, he pulled the donkey cart away.

He was very confident, but unfortunately the reed bundles were not properly placed on the donkey cart, and Xu Jianjun forgot to tie the ropes, causing the reed bundles to fall from time to time, making him very embarrassed, not knowing whether to pick them up or not.

Li Long shook his head. He really didn't take the threat from this kind of guy seriously.

Anyone who listens to him is a fool.

It’s only been a few days since Zhang Qiang’s incident. Do you really think others are stupid?
Sure enough, not long after Xu Jianjun left, someone else came to deliver reed bundles.

Li Long used the same method as Xu Jianjun and gave the same persuasion.

This time he was more receptive and took the unqualified ones back.

What's the point of holding gas? The important thing is to change the reed handle into money as soon as possible!
The day before, Li Long received more than 500 qualified reed bundles. He loaded them on the tractor, tied them with ropes and returned to the county compound.

It was not yet completely dark when they arrived at the yard. Gu Xiaoxia had just finished get off work and was setting up the stove. In winter, the stove would go out quickly, so Li Long parked the tractor and went to help.

They were used to having dinner, but it wasn't a big dinner.

"Are there any responses today?" Li Long asked as he set up the stove. "It's almost the end of the year. Will it be too busy?"

"It's OK, not too busy. Right now, no one at work knows I'm pregnant, so I'm working as usual.

But there is nothing too busy right now. There is more paperwork to do. After all, it is winter now and we have few cars, so it is not easy to travel far away. "

Gu Xiaoxia said softly while watching Li Long busying himself. She always felt that she was happy. Usually when she heard her colleagues complaining about their husbands not talking to them, not making enough money, not doing housework, etc., Gu Xiaoxia would laugh when she thought of Li Long.

Over time, colleagues all knew that Gu Xiaoxia's husband could earn money and help with housework. Although he did not have a formal position, he was also a celebrity in the autonomous region.

With a husband like this, what more could you ask for?
Not anymore.

Li Long put up the stove and started to boil water. The advantage of having two stoves is that you can cook porridge and stir-fry vegetables at the same time. As for the stove in the house, that one can be used to steam buns.

"I have an idea," Li Long said while cooking, "We can remove a piece of the fire wall in the stove when we don't have the stove in the spring next year and put an oven in it. That way we can bake food in it in the winter."

"Sure." Gu Xiaoxia really enjoys discussing these little things that can change life with Li Long, which shows that both of them are working hard to improve the quality of life at home.

After dinner, they watched TV and talked about each other's day.

Gu Xiaoxia was very satisfied, this was much better than in summer. Li Long spent half of his summer in the mountains, when he was alone and couldn't find anyone to talk to at night.

In the next few days, Li Long went to the team to pull reed bundles during the day and came back at night as usual.

Within a few days, more than two thousand reed bundles were piled up in the yard, but Li Long clearly felt that the number of reed bundles delivered was less than last year.

In other words, the daily average should be less.

Does Xu Jianjun really have the ability to persuade some people not to send him reeds?

Unlikely?
When he was about to inquire, Li Jianguo told him.

"There have been several fires in the team in the past two days. The reeds of two families were burned, and the reeds of two other families were seen on fire and put out the fire."

"What? Four reed trees caught fire? Isn't this too much of a coincidence?" Li Long thought of Xu Jianjun first.

"That's right. It's obvious that some people are up to no good." Li Jianguo said, "Some people have been watching the reeds at night these days, so they don't have the energy to work during the day.

Besides, the weather is getting colder now, so the reed tying is later than last year, and we have to work outside, so the speed is naturally slower. "

Li Long nodded. This was the only way it could be.

Fortunately, Li Xiangqian gave a deadline of thirty days. He just hoped that everyone could move faster later.

Of course, it would be best if the arsonist was caught, otherwise there would always be hidden dangers.

"What do you think of the reeds in our house?" Li Long asked.

"Your sister-in-law and I," Li Jianguo said, "we got some things outside the reeds, and then got up from time to time at night to check. It would be unbearable to watch all night."

It's really unbearable. One or two days is okay, but it takes at least ten days to tie the reeds from my eldest brother's house into reed bundles. I definitely can't last ten days.

Li Long felt that if it was Xu Jianjun, he would probably still want some reeds from his elder brother's house. After all, if you want revenge, you can only take revenge on the main target.

Li Long had to pull the reed bundles to the county every day. There was no other way, so he could only target Li Jianguo.

He told Li Jianguo his analysis, and Li Jianguo thought for a moment and said:

"If it's really him, then it's easy to deal with. You don't have to worry about it, I'll find a way to deal with it!" This is when the role of the veteran in the team is revealed.

Li Long thought about it and realized that he was still far away.

The reason why I have been able to make money and achieve my current success in the past two years is mostly due to my own "foresight" and a small part due to my own efforts.

And the eldest brother was able to achieve this point, all thanks to his own efforts.

Different.

Li Long collected reeds as usual every day, and he was not in a hurry even if there were a few. After all, he couldn't grow eight hands to help others tie reeds.

The work of making reed handles is the same as that of making brooms, and requires special tools.

The tools for making large brooms are relatively common, but the tools for making reed handles are relatively rare.

After all, Sphagnum Aesculapius grows in a very wide range, and it is common in the countryside for families to use Sphagnum Aesculapius as brooms.

But there are relatively few places where reeds grow in large areas.

This is the difference.

He could go to Qingshuihezi Village to find someone to make big brooms, but he might not be able to find anywhere else to make reed brooms.

It’s not that there isn’t, but Li Long still wants to leave the work to the team for the time being.

After all, everyone in the team is really working hard, and there is no one like Zhang Qiang to interfere.

Zhang Qiang now goes to Shicheng to sell brooms every day, almost rain or shine.

Li Long suspected that this guy must have made money, so he was so persistent. Did he cheat him and then lead him onto the right path?

Three days later, when Li Long drove his tractor to his elder brother's house in the morning, Li Jianguo smiled and said to him:
"He's caught! It's Xu Jianjun!"

"Caught him? He didn't light other people's reeds again, right?" Li Long didn't expect it was really this guy.

"No, he just wanted to light our reeds, so my father and I held him down. We searched his body and found a lighter and a gasoline bottle. He tried to make excuses, but I beat him up and sent him to the team headquarters last night."

"Hey, now the people who burned the reeds won't ask him for compensation?"

"Of course!" Li Jianguo said, "Someone went to his house early this morning. His wife said that he was in charge of the money. Xu Jianjun ran away from the team headquarters in the middle of the night. Team leader Xu Chengjun said that he would be responsible for collecting the losses of those families from Xu Jianjun."

Now, Xu Jianjun is afraid that all the money he earned this year will be lost.

It's really your own fault.

Li Long didn't care too much about this matter. Xu Jianjun didn't work hard from the very beginning when he followed him to edit the team and took on the responsibility for the first time. He was always thinking about making money.

Even if such a person doesn't fail here this time, he will fail somewhere else in the future.

There were a few similar people in the team in the previous life. They were clever but narrow-minded, always thinking that others were lucky to have good things, and they were just unlucky to have nothing.

Because Team Four had a lot of land, after the country carried out land irrigation project transformation, most families took advantage of the high prices of crops in those one or two years to make money, and then they became arrogant, and finally several families went bankrupt.

This is human nature. Unless you realize it and intend to change it, it will inevitably be like this.

In the next few days, everyone worked faster to tie the reed bundles. Firstly, it was to avoid the worry of fire, and secondly, Li Long had made it clear that there were only a limited number of tasks to be completed, and it would not be enough if they collected all.

Originally, no one was in a hurry, thinking that the number was quite large this year. But now that this was said, some people naturally became anxious, after all, if they tied more, they could make more money.

Or to put it the other way around, if others make more money by investing more, you will make less money.

In fifteen days, Li Long collected more than 7,000 reed bundles, which was a bit small.

He felt that if he continued at this pace, he might not be able to harvest enough reeds in a month.

Then someone came who he didn't expect.

He doesn't know him either.

"Li Long, right? My name is Wang Delong, from Xiahai Village." The man was not very tall, even slightly shorter than Li Jianguo, and his accent sounded like someone from Hunan or Hubei. "I heard you were collecting reeds, so I sent some over. Can you take a look?"

Xiahai Village is the village to the north of Dahaizi.

Reeds are also produced there, but the output is not as much as that of Team 4.

Li Long looked at the pile of reeds on the carriage that the man was pulling and asked curiously:

"How do you know that I am collecting reeds here?"

"Someone from our team married into your team. It sounds easy to find out about this." Wang Delong did not hide anything and said with a smile, "How about marrying her? The reeds I harvest are too cheap to sell to the paper mill, so I want to make some extra money."

"How many do you have?"

"Three thousand!" Wang Delong said, "We spent quite some time tying them."

"My standards are not low." Li Long said, "I can accept them, but I won't accept those who are not qualified."

"No problem." Wang Delong was really happy when he heard that Li Long wanted to accept it.

After the reed stems were unloaded, Li Long checked them one by one. The quality of these reed stems was not very high. Among more than 3,000, more than 2,300 were qualified, and the rest were unqualified.

Li Long did not hide anything and told Wang Delong the reasons for his failure, so that he could make some changes when he returned.

Wang Delong took the money, tied the remaining reeds onto the cart and drove away with a big smile on his face.

I made more than a thousand yuan from these reed bundles, which was much better than selling them to paper mills.

When Li Long took the reed handle from Wang Delong, some people in the village became restless.

Some people were seriously tying reed bundles, while others felt cold and would hide in the house to take a rest after tying some reed bundles.

After all, in their opinion, it should be Li Long who is anxious, not them.

They are just like the cuckoo, saying they will wait until the weather gets warmer before they come back to Earth. But it is only early winter now, and it will only get colder and colder. How can it possibly get warmer?

Team Four is richer than the other teams and will live a more comfortable life.

But those who don't seek to make progress think that this is good enough.

Without too much pursuit and lack of motivation, you naturally won’t be too eager to make money.

In their opinion, the reeds in everyone's yard were already dead, that's all they had. If others were quick to tie the reeds, and they had finished tying them, the remaining tasks would still fall on their shoulders.

Two piles of reeds were burned this year, so Li Long’s task of collecting 20,000 reed bundles became a bit tight.

In this case, either Li Long will raise the price, or those who want to make money after tying the reeds will have to buy them.

Lazy, but very calculating.

However, the appearance of Wang Delong immediately stunned them.

The outside teams also have reeds!
And he delivered three thousand blows at once, who knows how many will be delivered next time?

As they got anxious, they tied the reed bundles faster.

Otherwise, if that man surnamed Wang really had to deliver the reeds twice, those of them who were slow at tying the reeds would have had to be wasted.

Some people were so anxious that they quickly tied reeds, while others ran to Li Long, hoping that he would stop accepting reeds from outsiders.

"Xiaolong, you are from Team 4, so you should work for Team 4 first. But you collected reeds from outsiders, and the money went to outsiders. People in our team will be dissatisfied and say that you are a traitor!"

Li Long laughed when he heard this.

"My mission will be completed in less than ten days. The number of reeds delivered by our team every day is getting less and less. If I fail to complete my mission, will the team pay the fine for me?"

The man shut up then.

Damn it, you only want others to think about you, but have you ever thought about others? (End of this chapter)