Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

When the tractor drove to the gate of the construction and installation company, the security guard recognized Li Long and came out to greet him.

Li Long asked his second brother Li Anguo about the location of the rented house.

"Where else could it be? At the back." The guard was very familiar with this. He pointed to the north and said, "Over there, at the edge of the land, someone has built two or three rows of bungalows. The house your brother rented is the bungalow in the middle of the last row."

“Are they working now?”

"Why work now? No work. There is nothing to do in this winter. Let's go home and start working in the spring."

"What about the salary?" Li Long was a little worried.

"Salaries are still paid, but there is no bonus." The guard said with a grin, "For people like me, I still have to work this winter, so I get a bonus."

Li Long handed the guard a pack of cigarettes, which he bought on the way, and asked for some hot water. Then he drove the tractor around the back under the guard's instructions.

To be honest, the road here is full of twists and turns, and it may not be possible to drive to the back without someone to guide you.

When they arrived at the bungalow, they saw some children playing, who were too old to go to school. Li Long saw Xueqin and Xueping.

The two children were somewhat familiar with Li Long's tractor. They stood in the snow for a while. When they saw Li Long take off his robber's hat, they immediately cheered and ran over here.

The children playing with them were a little confused and a little envious. Not many people can afford a tractor these days.

"Xue Ping Xue Qin, your parents are at home, right?"

"Yes, Brother Junshan is here too, and Brother Yongqiang is here too."

Okay, the seniority is a bit confusing.

Li Long couldn't understand why Yang Yongqiang didn't go home since Jianan Company had stopped working?

Why doesn’t Li Junshan go home?

Well, we'll know when we see them. Li Long carried the two children onto the tractor's bed and drove the tractor forward.

The tractor could only drive to the side of the road. The distance between the front and back of the bungalow was actually quite wide, but it was turned into a vegetable field, leaving very little space for people to walk, and only two or three bicycles could be parked side by side.

The land here is utilized to the maximum extent.

After turning off the engine, Li Long carried the two children down from the car. They immediately ran to the door of their home, shouting as they ran:
"Dad, Mom! My uncle is here! My uncle is here!"

Many people opened their doors and looked outside.

It was a rare occasion for guests to come to my house in the middle of winter. After all, this was still an era when correspondence was the main form of communication, and when ox-drawn carts and horse-drawn carriages were the main means of transportation.

When distant relatives come to visit in the middle of winter, they are regarded as distinguished guests.

Li Anguo and Chen Lirong both came out, as well as Li Junshan and Yang Yongqiang.

Li Long discovered that Yang Yongqiang had gained weight!
And it’s whiter than in summer!
It must be because they don't work in the winter, and they become white and fat as time goes by.

The same goes for Li Junshan, but it is obvious that Li Junshan pays more attention to his appearance than before. His hair is combed smoothly, parted in a 3:7 ratio, and his sideburns are neatly cut.

Influenced by Li Long, Yang Yongqiang and Tao Daqiang both have short flat heads, which are slightly longer than a crew cut, otherwise they would be mistaken for prisoners.

When they saw Li Long, they all smiled and came over to help Li Long move things.

"Xiaolong, why are you here at this time?" This is Li Anguo.

"Xiaolong, is everything okay on the road? Are you cold?" This is Chen Lirong.

"Uncle, you drove all this way here? That's awesome!" This is Li Junshan.

"Brother Long, I feel like you're getting stronger and stronger." This is Yang Yongqiang. "Did you kill the yellow sheep on the way?"

Li Long responded one by one, and finally said to Yang Yongqiang:

"There were quite a few gazelles along the way, but they were very alert, so I only shot one. If you have time and patience, you can shoot several in a day."

"Is it far from Kuitun?" Li Anguo suddenly asked.

"The one I shot was far away," Li Long said. "But I saw yellow sheep on the Gobi Desert to the east, more than ten kilometers away from Kuitun Military Station. When there were no cars, they would eat the wheat straw dropped by the passing trucks."

Li Anguo nodded thoughtfully.

There were rice, flour, yellow sheep and sheep offal on the tractor. Everyone was carrying something, even Xueqin was holding the handle.

Since Xue Ping didn't get the chance, Li Long brought down the bag of food he had bought on the way and asked her to take it. There were the sesame cakes he bought at the beginning, the fruit candies he bought later, and the Jiang noodles, etc. He said that these were for them to eat.

Xue Ping immediately became happy.

When they were in the team, the two children could actually eat snacks often. But after they came to live with their father, Li Jianguo had a salary and bonus at the beginning, which was okay at that time. But later when there was no work and they only had basic salary, they had fewer snacks to eat.

Now that Li Long bought so many snacks, the two of them were naturally very happy.

Although they knew they couldn't eat their fill all at once, they knew their parents wouldn't compete with them for this little food, so the two children had smiles on their faces, and even had smug expressions on their faces when they saw other children playing with them.

After entering the house, Li Long found that the house... was really not big.

There are two rooms, one inside and one outside, and the area of ​​the two rooms is not as big as the spare room in Li Long's yard in the team. Chen Lirong should feel the most deeply.

The outer room of this house is a kitchen with a utility room, and there is a door on the left leading inside. There are two beds, one large and one small. There is an old cloth sofa against the west wall, and in front of the sofa is a coffee table, which can also be considered a table.

A large group of people rushed into the room, and the room suddenly felt crowded. The two children, on the contrary, liked this kind of crowding. They moved back and forth in the gaps between the people, laughing.

Li Long has discovered that the two children occasionally mix Mandarin into their speech.

There are many people from the Central Plains in Kuitun, but children are still required to speak Mandarin when they go to school. I think it was the children that Xueping and Xueqin played with who said so, so they started learning it.

After all, childhood is the fastest period for learning a language.

Li Junshan and Yang Yongqiang consciously went inside and sat beside the bed, Li Long sat on the sofa, and Chen Lirong put her things down and began to prepare to pour tea.

There weren't enough cups at home, so we used bowls.

The two children asked Chen Lirong to give each of them some candy and sesame cakes, and then sent them out to play. Children these days wear thick clothes, so they are not afraid of being cold. Although they have runny noses from time to time outside, they will not catch a cold.

This makes the room quieter.

Chen Lirong poured tea for everyone and stayed in the kitchen, listening to the noise in the house.

In front of me were four bags of rice and flour, and a big yellow sheep weighing at least forty or fifty kilograms.

Even if Li Long took away some of the meat, it would be enough for his family to eat for a long time.

And these rice and flour are enough for them to eat until the New Year at least.

In fact, many families who rent houses here still eat a mixture of coarse and fine grains, but they don't. The last time Li Anguo brought his family back, he brought some rice and flour, and now he has so much again.

When they were in Team 4, they never lacked meat to eat, but Chen Lirong preferred to live in this small courtyard with Li Anguo.

Of course, if she could eat more meat, she would be willing to do so. It's okay for adults to suffer a little, it's mainly the children. Xue Ping and Xue Qin's complexion was obviously not as good as it was in the village.

Li Anguo first asked about his parents' health, and was relieved to know that they were both in good health. But then he said with guilt:

"My place is too small, otherwise I would bring my parents over to live with me for a while."

The three brothers are all filial and have no intention of pushing their parents away, which is a good thing.

"Is my third uncle still catching fish?" Li Junshan asked.

"Catch them. Now we can only break holes in the ice to catch fish." Li Long said with a smile, "We won't sell them. It's too cold right now. Your third grandfather said that if he really wanted to catch fish to sell, the fishmongers in the market would scold him behind his back."

In fact, Li Qingxia was not afraid, but Tao Daqiang had to take care of his wife and children. No one was fishing with Li Qingxia, so Li Jianguo was naturally worried about him being alone.

There were so many pigs to take care of at home, and Li Jianguo couldn't do it alone, so he let it go. So although Li Qingxia occasionally went to break the ice hole to catch some fish, he only ate it himself.

It is great to get fresh fish to make fish soup in winter.

Li Long told Yang Yongqiang about the situation at home. Yang Yongqiang felt relieved when he knew that his parents were fine and his sister was studying hard.

"Why don't you go back? Don't you have no work to do now?" Li Long couldn't help asking.

"You are not allowed to go back." Yang Yongqiang was helpless. "You have to stay until the end of the year. The company will also have a militia training in December, and people like us will have to train. For now, we have to stay in place at all times. Single people have to go to the cafeteria to eat..."

Well, there's nothing we can do about it.

Yang Yongqiang also said that after December, things would be easier after the Chinese New Year. He would have a period of vacation and could go back. They asked Li Long why he came here.

"I made some money this year by harvesting wheat. I ordered the harvester I use from the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory. I plan to order a few more next year. My eldest brother has one, and Daqiang is also going to buy a tractor next year..."

Li Long did not mention the matter between Xie Yundong and Liang Dacheng, mainly because Yang Yongqiang was here and it would be bad to provoke him.

Yang Yongqiang suddenly felt a little regretful.

I became a worker and ate the commercial grain that everyone dreamed of.

But the total annual salary will not exceed five hundred. It will take ten years to save enough money to buy a tractor for my dad!
The kind that doesn’t eat or drink!
After following Li Long for two years, Tao Daqiang was able to buy a tractor.

This gap - did I make the wrong choice?
But I am a worker!

Even Li Long is a temporary worker!

In this day and age, apart from the reborn Li Long, how many people can imagine what the Fourth Squad will become in the future? No one can imagine it.

In later generations, almost every household in the Fourth Team owned a house in Ma County, Shicheng or Beiting Prefecture, and some even had more than one.

Almost all children go to rural schools. The worst ones go to county schools, or to key schools in Shicheng, or even key schools in the state.

In the summer, they stayed in the yard of Team 4. In the winter, after slaughtering the pigs and chickens, they moved to the city.

Whether Yang Yongqiang regrets it or not, we will only know after thirty years.

Of course, it is possible that you don't regret it. After all, many resources in the city are really incomparable to those in the countryside.

Except for Li Long, this big cheat.

Knowing that Li Long had something important to do, Li Anguo asked:

"So when are you going?"

"Tomorrow morning," Li Long said. "I have to get rid of this yellow sheep and then take a leg to see Chief Ma."

"It's what I should do." Li Anguo nodded, and Chen Lirong in the kitchen outside also breathed a sigh of relief. Most of the yellow sheep meat could be kept at home. Although it was a bit smelly, what was there to dislike at this time?

The meat in the butcher shop is almost two yuan per kilogram!
And the internal organs are edible, and they contain oil.

For a moment, Chen Lirong seemed to be returning to her life in Team 4. At least for the next two or three months, she would not have to worry about having no meat in her dishes.

"Do you really need to skin them?" Li Anguo shook his head and said, "Just do your job, we'll do the skinning. By the way, have you eaten?"

"We ate on the way." Li Long actually intended to eat at his second brother's house, but he gave up the idea. The kitchen was too small and there were too few things.

I’d better let my second brother and his family enjoy the things I brought.

"It's good to eat it." Li Anguo believed it and said, "It doesn't matter whether the food in the restaurants on both sides of the road is delicious or not, at least it can fill your stomach."

"Uncle Anguo, do you think we can get a gun and find some time to hunt yellow sheep?" Li Junshan suddenly asked Li Anguo.

"Well... I'll go ask them when the time comes. I've spoken to someone from the security department twice, but I don't know if they'll lend me a gun."

Li Long did not answer. He definitely could not leave the gun here. It was to save his life on the way back.

After chatting for a while, Li Long stood up, took out the knife he carried with him, went to the kitchen, and started skinning the sheep.

The sheep was not completely thawed, but it was easier to skin. The fat between the skin and the muscle was slightly hard, which allowed Li Long to avoid cutting the skin when separating them.

"Brother, this yellow sheep is a kind of antelope. You should keep the yellow sheep horn. If your child has a high fever, you can scrape some powder off and mix it with water for him to drink, and he will get better."

When Li Anguo heard this, he immediately went over and cut off the yellow goat's horn with a knife and hid it carefully.

It is very annoying for children to have a cold and fever at this time. Generally, it is fine if the child takes medicine to recover, but if the fever continues, it may make the child stupid, so Li Anguo takes it so seriously.

Li Junshan and Yang Yongqiang were both very envious, and at the same time they strengthened their determination to borrow a gun to shoot the yellow sheep.

Although they are not married yet, who doesn't want to prepare for the future?
Li Long peeled the yellow sheep's skin, while Chen Lirong boiled water and began to process the internal organs.

Li Long took off one of his legs, held it up and said to Li Anguo:

"Brother, you guys chat first. I'll go find Chief Ma."

"Section Chief Ma should be at home too. Do you remember the way?" Li Anguo said, "Do you want me to take you there?"

"No need. I can go there myself."

There are three of them here. Li Long wants to take Li Anguo with him but not the other two. Although Li Anguo is his biological brother, it is not good to favor one over the other.

It’s better not to bring any.

Li Long picked up the yellow sheep's leg, started the tractor, and drove towards the family area of ​​​​Jian'an Company.

Section Chief Ma was indeed at home. He opened the door after Li Long knocked. Ma Aihong was stunned for a moment after seeing Li Long, then smiled and said:

"Hey, Comrade Xiao Li is here, come in, come in, why are you still carrying things?"

"I shot a yellow sheep on the way. Look, I cut off a leg and came to see you." Li Long said casually.

"Not bad, not bad. It's good that you think of me. Is Lao Li okay?"

"Section Chief Li is very good. He is quite busy recently and cannot be compared with you guys." Li Long said with a smile.

Ma Aihong's wife came over and took the lamb leg from Li Long with a smile.

This lamb leg must weigh five or six kilograms, enough to eat for several days.

Ma Aihong knew about Li Long's appearance in the newspaper and talked to him a lot. Li Long asked him indirectly about when his second brother would be assigned to the family housing estate.

Ma Aihong also explained that Li Anguo had just been converted to a regular employee and there were three or four families waiting in line ahead of him, but he also guaranteed that Li Anguo would definitely be able to live in the family compound next year.

Because the company has already planned to build it.

After leaving Section Chief Ma’s house, Li Long drove his tractor to the state-owned canteen to eat, and then found a state-owned hotel to stay in.

Jianan Company's guesthouse is closed in winter, so Ma Aihong has no way to arrange Li Long to the execution office.

The next morning, Li Long brought some breakfast bought from the breakfast stall to Li Anguo's home. Despite Li Anguo's complaints, he ate breakfast with everyone with a smile, and then drove the tractor to the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory.

As soon as he arrived at the agricultural machinery factory, Li Long saw several harvesters placed outside the workshop.

Obviously, Director Du did not strictly abide by the agreement with Li Long and was already making a harvester.

Li Long could imagine it, especially after his story was reported in the Autonomous Region Daily. Director Du should have expected that the harvester market would be opened up.

The sound of the tractor attracted the attention of the security guard, and soon someone came over to check, register, and then let Li Long in.

As Li Long wished, he saw Director Du with greasy hands in the workshop. He was producing parts for the harvester with the workers.

Seeing Li Long, Director Du came over with a smile, spread his hands to indicate that he couldn't shake hands with Li Long, and said:

"Comrade Li Long, you're finally here. If you hadn't come, I would have really called you."

Li Long pointed to the harvesters and said:

"Even if I don't come, you guys are still doing the same thing, isn't that good?"

"That's different." Director Du shook his head and said, "We still hope to keep improving. We want to get first-hand data from you. Is that harvester really very easy to use? Is there any problem at all?"

After all, Li Long used that harvester to harvest thousands of acres of wheat fields. He was the first practitioner, and the data he obtained here was the most authentic.

"You know what, there are some minor problems." Li Long came prepared and said with a smile, "Then let's find a place to talk slowly?"

"Okay." Director Du knew that Li Long would not just come here to talk about the harvester data, and he was mentally prepared that the two of them would definitely have a good talk.

There is a homemade heater in Director Du's room, and the temperature is quite good, better than outside the workshop.

Li Long took off his coat and hung it on the back of the chair. After waiting for a while, Director Du washed his hands and entered the office. Someone came over to pour water and then left.

Director Du took out a notebook and a pen and looked at Li Long.

Obviously, he intends to take note of it. (End of this chapter)