Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After Li Long left, Director Du began to wonder whether the factory should produce tricycles or carts.

It was useless to think about it, so he planned to wait until the spring to conduct some market research.

The situation in other parts of northern China is not very clear, but as far as northern Xinjiang is concerned, once winter comes, most units and enterprises enter a dormant period.

Because most units and enterprises have certain outdoor work content, outdoor work in winter is really arduous. The most important thing is snow clearing, which will consume one-seventh of most people's time throughout the winter.

Then it was cold. It was too cold to work outdoors. Things like wool spinning mills were better, but agricultural machinery factories, tractor factories, construction companies, etc. couldn't work in winter.

So usually, winter is spent on study, training, etc., doing more theoretical work, and most work is planned after the spring.

Director Du also plans to wait until the spring to do some research to see whether to produce a tricycle or a cart. With the current production technology level of the agricultural machinery factory, it is not a problem to make a tricycle or a cart. We just need to buy some key materials.

Li Long and Song Ming drove to Li Anguo's home first, gave them the thigh stones promised to Xue Ping and Xue Qin, and then returned to Ma County.

Director Du originally wanted to invite Li Long and others to have lunch, but it was a little early and it was not yet time for lunch. Li Long was in a hurry to go back, so he did not agree.

It was the same at Li Ang's house. In fact, the meal was already ready, but it was definitely not enough for them, so Li Long left in a hurry and asked Song Ming to drive back.

His original intention was to have some mixed noodles on the way, either in Shawan or Anjihai.

Song Ming had no objection. He had not mentioned the freight until Li Long brought it up when they left Kuitun.

"Ma County is far from Kuitun, so I'll give you fifty for a one-way trip." Li Long said, "How about a hundred round trip?"

This price is very high. Although there is some gas cost for the round trip, gas is cheap at this time.

The main reason is that there are relatively few cars, so the freight will be higher. Song Ming naturally has no objection. He drives a big truck and can occasionally drive it out, which is not without cost. The transportation department must also be taken care of.

But anyway, the money was easy to make and he was very happy.

In Anjihai, a roadside restaurant was open, and Li Long and Song Ming had fried pork noodles. They paid first, Song Ming insisted on paying, and Li Long wanted to pay, so they finally compromised.

It is calculated that since last year, Song Ming has been able to earn about 100 yuan in shipping fees from Li Long every month. If he saves enough money, he will be able to buy a yard in Shicheng in a while.

Treating guests is nothing.

After eating noodles, the car continued to move forward, and Li Long closed his eyes to rest. After lunch, blood went to the stomach to help digestion, and his head felt a little dizzy.

It was the first time that Li Long had felt so comfortable riding in a car. He didn't have to concentrate fully or think about when and where he would get there.

Suddenly, Song Ming shouted:
"red deer!"

Li Long suddenly opened his eyes and looked outside, then he saw a group of a dozen sika deer running wildly from north to south about 20 to 30 meters in front of the car.

The car was going very fast, and one could feel that Song Ming was trying to see if he could knock down a sika deer. Finally, the sika deer slipped as it ran across the road, and fell under the roadbed on the south side of the road. It staggered to its feet, then quickly ran south again, and disappeared into the red willow bushes in a moment.

What the hell!
Li Long really wanted to curse!
How come I never encountered this kind of thing when I drove a car several times? Especially last time, when I came back, I looked around and didn't see any red deer so close.

"What a pity... Comrade Xiao Li, if your jeep was this close, it would definitely kill one or two of them." Song Ming shook his head regretfully, "My speed is still a little slow."

Li Long felt even more regretful. He always carried a gun with him every time he went back and forth before, but this time he didn't bring a gun because he was riding in Song Ming's car.

And this happened to happen!
If he had a gun, he wouldn't have to get out of the car as long as Song Ming braked. He could have rolled down the window and aimed at the sika deer, and he would have shot one or two!

Well, maybe I shouldn't have thought of hunting at the beginning of this year.

Still a bit regretful.

The car continued to move forward. Li Long did not sleep this time, and looked around from time to time. Song Ming watched his movements and said with a smile while driving:

"Comrade Xiao Li, do you want to see if there are any red deer and yellow sheep? Actually, it depends on luck. Sometimes, like when we came here this morning, we run all the way and find none. Sometimes, we may encounter several in one trip."

"It's a pity I didn't bring a gun."

"Bring a gun... That's right. If we had brought a gun, we would have stopped earlier and maybe we could have shot one down."

Song Ming is also a basic militiaman, but his shooting skills are good at hitting dead targets, but he has no experience in hitting living things, so he can't guarantee it.

Li Long has practiced his shooting skills in practice over the past two or three years, so he is really confident.

But it doesn’t matter, I didn’t bring a gun anyway.

After passing SW County, they encountered a group of gazelles, about thirty or forty of them, lying in the snow forty or fifty meters north of the road. They just stared at the car, neither running nor moving.

Probably waiting for the cars to pass, they then went to the south side of the road.

Even if Li Long wanted to curse at this time, he had nothing to curse. He could only say that this sheep was not destined to belong to him.

It was about 4:30 in the afternoon when the car arrived at the large yard. Li Long got out of the car and opened the gate. After Song Ming drove the car in, the two of them unloaded the car together.

This time, Li Long brought back ten harvesters. He had cleared a space on the north side of the east wing, next to the wall, and laid out boards to place the harvesters.

Although this harvester is almost entirely made of metal, its structure is not particularly complicated and each unit weighs only about 100 kilograms.

Li Long could move one by himself. He asked Song Ming to just move the harvester to the rear compartment.

"Hey, Comrade Li, you are really strong." Song Ming exclaimed in admiration as he watched Li Long move a harvester to the wall without much effort and put it down.

Li Long himself could feel that his strength had been increasing continuously since his rebirth. It was not difficult for him to move something weighing 100 to 200 kilograms at the moment - he was much stronger than an ordinary person.

What is enhanced is not only strength, but also sense, hearing, vision, and coordination ability.

Is this the benefit of rebirth?
"Hey, I used to do farm work," Li Long said without blushing, "I learned it by carrying 80-90 kg sacks."

Okay, Song Ming believed him.

In fact, considering Li Jianguo's "doting" on Li Long, how could he be willing to let him move such heavy things?

Ten harvesters were quickly moved down.

Sister Yang only took a look when the car first came in, and went back in after seeing that it was Li Long. With the two children there, she couldn't spare a hand to come out.

After putting the harvester away, Song Ming drove away in a hurry without even drinking water. He had to go back and pack up the car, and then have a good rest, because he had to go to work tomorrow.

Li Long placed the ten harvesters in place, found a large plastic sheet to cover them, and used bricks to press the corners. Then he went into the house to wash his hands.

Now the only thing left to do before the New Year is to deliver some meat to the relatives and friends in Wucheng and Beiting, and then we can relax before the New Year.

In the first experiment, fattening sheep was feasible, and by October 1985, based on the Xinmahao's capacity to raise 300 sheep, it was no problem.

Almost all the first batch of fattened sheep were consumed by the factories and basically did not enter the market. At present, there are only a few cows left in the pen that can be slaughtered, and they will definitely be processed before the New Year.

In the second wave of fattening, if we increase the number of sheep and reduce the number of cattle, and slaughter them before the Spring Festival, the profit should be more than 8,000.

After all, if the sheepskin is included, the first profit is close to five thousand yuan.

Of course, if you want to fatten them this way, you need to continue to stockpile sugar residue.

Anyway, this thing can be stored for a long time after being dried in the sun or in an oven, and it is unlikely to go bad.

If you want to fatten cattle and sheep with little investment and quick results, this is the way to go.

It will take several years for the sugar factory to pay attention to this thing, and then recycle and process it into feed. So Li Long still has a few years of bonus period. Not only this, but also carrying a handle can be done for a few years, and the same is true for the harvester.

Once these become sunset industries, Li Long feels that new opportunities can begin.

At that time, it was not as small-scale as it is now. A new wheeled tractor could plow nearly 400 acres of land in a day and a night. The cost of plowing one acre of land was eight yuan around 2000.

In 2010, it was 20 yuan.

Two people taking turns can earn more than 3,000 yuan a day - of course, minus the labor, fuel, and depreciation, it would be at least more than 2,000 yuan a day.

In the era of large-scale cotton pickers, the yield of drip-irrigated cotton was about 400 kilograms per acre. The cost of machine picking per kilogram started from 10 cents to about 40 cents, and later it became per mu, about 160 yuan per mu.

A cotton picker can pick thousands of acres of cotton in a cotton picking season, with a gross income of nearly one million.

Of course, the actual amount may not be achieved. After all, if you go out of the local area to pick cotton in other places, you need to contact the land, and there will be travel time in between.

But even so, there is still a minimum of 2,000 acres.

Thirty or forty years later, the largest farmer in the township contracted tens of thousands of acres of cotton fields and three cotton pickers. Just imagine the income.

These thoughts and information only flashed through Li Long's mind. They were all for the future. Now, he should just do his current tasks well.

He played with Mingming and Haohao in the house for a while, while Sister Yang went to take care of her own things and then prepared lunch.

After Mingming and Haohao fell asleep, Li Long went outside and started taking out the meat from the side room and packing it up, as well as the yellow sheepskin.

He didn't know anyone who could tan leather well in Ma County, so he had to go to Beiting or Wucheng. Since it was for my mother to make a fur coat, he should prepare it well.

At night, after Mingming Haohao fell asleep, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia about his plan to go to Beiting and Wucheng.

"Do you want to rest for a few days before going?" Gu Xiaoxia said with some concern, "You have basically not stopped these days. You went to Kuitun twice, slaughtered sheep and cattle in the team, and went to Shicheng twice. Can your body bear it?"

The northern Xinjiang in the 1980s was different from what it was 30 or 40 years later. In the minds of ordinary people, the more than 100 kilometers from Ma County to Kuitun was a very long journey.

After all, it would take many days to walk there, and you might not be able to catch a bus once a day.

Although Gu Xiaoxia worked in the Education Bureau and became a state cadre, she usually traveled far to a few distant towns in the county. Kuitun was very far away for her, and of course Wucheng was also very far away.

"It's okay. I only make a round trip in a day. It's not far." Li Long has lived two lives. In his previous life, it took less than an hour to drive from Ma County to Kuitun on the highway. It also took more than an hour to drive to Wucheng. It was really nothing.

Although the road conditions are not as good as before, there are fewer cars on the Wuyi Highway, and jeeps still run very fast.

"Then wait a minute and check the car before driving again. The car won't be able to handle so many consecutive trips." Gu Xiaoxia still hoped that Li Long would not be so anxious.

Li Long agreed. It had been a while since the last time the jeep was serviced, and he himself didn't know how to repair the car. It would be quite troublesome if the car broke down on the road.

Gu Xiaoxia was very happy to see that Li Long listened to her advice.

She was a little afraid that Li Long would be unhappy, so she explained:

"I'm mainly thinking that there aren't many stops between Wucheng and Beiting except Huxian County. If you run into any problems on the way, it's better to solve them before you leave. I'm not saying that something will definitely happen to you or the car, but it's better to be prepared."

"You're right," Li Long smiled, "I know, it's my fault for neglecting it. This car is second-hand after all, so it needs to be maintained from time to time."

Both men laughed.

After breakfast the next morning, Li Long unloaded the meat from the jeep, leaving only a leg of lamb, and drove to the transportation company.

I found the captain, gave him a leg of lamb, and asked him to find someone to help me maintain the car.

The captain was very happy and asked Li Long to drive the car to the workstation. He called two experienced drivers and then asked Li Long to leave, saying that he would come back to pick up the car in the afternoon. He wanted to take good care of the car.

When Li Long was about to get off work in the afternoon and went to drive his car, he found that his jeep had been scratched and looked brand new.

"I changed the oil and filled up your gas tank," the captain said proudly. "Everything that needed maintenance was done for you. The leader's car was just finished a few days ago, and the remaining materials are for you to use."

Li Long said a few words of thanks and drove away.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological reason or because the car is well maintained, but I feel that the car is much easier to control when I drive it now.

After driving the car back to the yard, Li Long carried the meat up again. He smiled as he did so.

The meat has been moved back and forth to work many times, and he hopes that he won't have to deal with it again this time. After all, he always thought that it would be fine after this trip. Now he has to move the meat back and forth like this, although the meat will be fine in winter, but he is annoyed.

Fortunately, there were no problems until the next morning. Gu Xiaoxia got off work late that night and didn't notice it. She was a little surprised when she saw the jeep the next morning. She praised the car for being well maintained and it looked like a new one after being wiped, even newer than the county leader's car.

Li Long suddenly felt a little emotional. With this car in his hands, he felt as if it was a bit wasted. After all, under the current circumstances, only county-level leaders could afford such a car.

The driver of such a car must be very careful in taking care of the car. He would definitely not be like me, who would load all kinds of wild animals, saddles, food, medicines, etc. into the car after use.

It's like being a coolie, doing everything.

Of course, it was just a sigh, Li Long had no intention of changing it. For people, a car is just a means of transportation.

In the short videos of later generations, some bloggers said that novice drivers should not do this or that when driving, as if they were treating a car like a big boss.

The purpose of buying a car is to drive it, so it's fine if it's just about right. If you really want to make it so difficult, you might as well walk or take a taxi.

Li Long drove to Wucheng first, intending to deliver the meat directly to Professor Wu and Professor Luo, and then deliver the meat to Director Qian on his way back.

However, when he arrived at the Agricultural College, he found that it was already holiday!
The security guard replied to him that the teachers had all left, and Professor Wu and Professor Luo were not there. They did not live in the college's staff quarters, although it was in the city, but the security guard did not know their exact location.

Li Long was at a loss this time.

He felt a little regretful. If he had known this would happen, he should have come earlier, at least he could have found it before the holiday.

He vaguely remembered that Professor Wu seemed to have told him where his home was, but there was no specific address, so it was difficult to find.

As for Professor Luo, he had only met him once, so there was no way for him to ask anything - he also wanted to go into the staff quarters and ask a teacher, but the guard wouldn't let him in.

Li Long drove away from the Agricultural College in a depressed mood and went to the jade carving factory.

Since the two professors are not here, let’s look at Mr. Liu.

The jade carving factory was also much quieter. Wucheng didn't have as many high-rise buildings as in later times, and many prosperous places in later times were still Gobi deserts or small mountains. Li Long went to the shop at the side door of the jade carving factory and found that it was different from the last time he came. There were no customers here.

He parked the car not far away, got out, picked up a leg of lamb from the trunk, walked to the window, and through the window saw Engineer Liu wearing glasses and carving under the light.

In the winter, people in northern Xinjiang usually put plastic sheets on the outside of the windows to prevent the cold from coming in. Because we are selling things here, the window glass is not covered, so you can see inside, but it will definitely be colder inside.

Li Long saw that the young man who was there last time was watching carefully beside Engineer Liu. He should be observing and learning, so he waited.

The main fear is that I might disturb Mr. Liu's carving. What if he messes up the cut and the material is wasted?
After a while, when Engineer Liu finished carving a small piece and turned to explain to the young man, Li Long knocked on the window.

It was bright inside and dark outside, and Engineer Liu and his apprentice could not see the people outside. The young man hurried over to open the window and ask what was going on.

As soon as the window opened, Engineer Liu saw Li Long and stood up quickly:

"Hey, Xiao Li is here, come in quickly!" (End of this chapter)