Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In the large courtyard, after the Fritillaria was installed and the money was paid, Jia Tianlong prepared to leave.

Li Long would definitely not let him go. The aroma of stewed fish was wafting through the yard, and the steam from the rice pot was rising. Sister Yang had already started to turn off the fire, and the sound of frying oil continued. Li Long asked Jia Tianlong to sit down and rest for a while. He had to finish his meal before leaving.

"Brother Li Long, I don't really eat fish." Jia Tianlong exposed his weakness. At this time, he and Li Long had become close friends. He smiled bitterly and said, "Let me tell you, there is a lack of water in our area, so there are no fish. I never ate fish when I was a child. When I grew up and went out to work in the world, I ate fish, but not often. Almost every time I ate fish, I would get pricked by the bones, which was uncomfortable, so I stopped eating it."

"It's okay. If you don't want fish, we have other options." Li Long said with a smile, "We're already in our yard. It's time for dinner. If you're in such a hurry to leave, aren't you slapping me in the face? Our eldest sister Yang is a good cook. She can open a restaurant. She will definitely make more than just a fish stew today. You can try it later."

Li Long was so enthusiastic that Jia Tianlong no longer insisted. The deal was done, and all that was left was small talk. Li Long pulled Mingming Haohao's bed cart over to him, and while he was playing with the child, he chatted with Jia Tianlong.

To be honest, although Jia Tianlong's wife is pregnant, when he sees Mingming Haohao's liveliness, he can't hide his envy in his eyes.

The two children were not afraid of people. They looked at Li Long and Jia Tianlong and giggled from time to time, which made Jia Tianlong feel so distressed that he wished he could just pick one of them up and take him away.

"Hey, Lao Jia, you look at it curiously now. Let me tell you, when your baby is born, you will have a precious one and you will want to hold it in your arms every day."

"I'm just thinking about waiting for my wife to give birth. I won't do anything for at least half a year and will just take care of my wife and child every day." Jia Tianlong said this sincerely, and Li Long also believed that what he said was his true thoughts.

But it is likely that they will not be able to do it by then. In their place, Jia Tianlong himself said that the tradition is to favor boys over girls, and it is women who take care of children, cook and clean the house.

Not to mention that he can earn money, even some men who cannot earn money would not do these jobs.

Of course, there are people who favor boys over girls everywhere, and there are people who love their wives and children everywhere. This cannot be generalized.

After chatting for a while, Gu Boyuan came over on a bicycle.

When he pushed open the door and saw a large truck in the yard, Gu Boyuan immediately realized that someone was coming to collect medicinal materials.

Li Long also introduced Gu Boyuan in time:
"Uncle, this is Boss Jia who is here to buy our Fritillaria. Old Jia, this is my father-in-law, you can just call him Uncle Gu."

"Hello, Uncle Gu. I'm Jia Tianlong. You can just call me Xiao Jia." Facing his elders, Jia Tianlong said politely, "I have a good relationship with Xiao Li. If it weren't for him, my wife wouldn't be able to get pregnant."

Gu Boyuan was stunned when he heard this. What was going on?

Li Long also became anxious when he heard this:

"Old Jia, Old Jia, you can't say that. It's easy to be misunderstood!"

"Hahahaha!" Jia Tianlong laughed loudly. He did it on purpose. He didn't explain after Li Long said that.

"Hey!" Gu Boyan listened carefully and could tell that Jia Tianlong was joking. He remembered what Li Long had said about this man before, saying that he and his wife got pregnant after worshiping that piece of jade.

After realizing what was happening, Gu Boyuan propped up his bicycle, smiled and shook hands with Jia Tianlong:

"Hello, Xiao Jia. Have you finished installing the Fritillaria today? How is it? Is the quality of the Fritillaria here good?"

"Very good, very good! I have been collecting Fritillaria for several years. This year, I have collected a large number of Fritillaria with the best quality." Gu Boyuan asked formally, and Jia Tianlong also answered formally, "If all medicinal materials are like this, then those of us who collect medicinal materials will have less worries."

"Well, I'm not bragging about my own people. Li Long is first-rate in quality control. The leaders of the autonomous region have praised him." Gu Boyuan said proudly, "I'm sure you'll come back later, right? Don't worry, the quality of the medicinal materials you get later will definitely meet this standard."

"Then I will definitely come, not only this year, but every year in the future." Jia Tianlong said with a smile.

The door was pushed open again, and this time Gu Xiaoxia and Han Fang came in together.

Li Long asked in surprise:

"How did you two meet?"

Gu Xiaoxia said while supporting the car:
"When I turned from Tuanjie Road, I saw Xiaofang also turning back from the east. I simply rode over, picked her up and we came over,"

Han Fang also has a bicycle, but she rides it sometimes and not sometimes.

After explaining, Gu Xiaoxia said to Jia Tianlong:

"Hello, Manager Jia, are you here to collect the medicinal materials?"

"Yes, yes." Jia Tianlong had seen Gu Xiaoxia before, and he said hurriedly, "Is it time to get off work? It must be very hard."

"Not bad." Gu Xiaoxia smiled and went over to hug Mingming and Wu Hao.

When the two children saw their mother, they crawled over, leaned against the railing of the stretcher and stretched out their hands, asking their mother to hold them.

Gu Xiaoxia was used to it, so she reached out and picked up the two children, one on each side.

"Hey, now we have two kids, and they've developed some strength." Jia Tianlong whispered, "It's not easy."

It is indeed not easy, Li Long also said.

He knew that compared with ordinary families, his family was much better off. With Sister Yang helping to take care of the children, he and Gu Xiaoxia had no more worries.

Although the chat was short, the relationship between Li Long and Jia Tianlong became closer. The original business relationship was closer than that between Zhao Hui and Li Long because of the jade and Jia Tianlong's wife's pregnancy.

After chatting for a while at home and interacting with the people from the Li family, Jia Tianlong felt that it was no problem to do business with someone like Li Long - his family members were all reasonable, so this person must be the right one. He was good for himself and his family, which meant that he was really good at coordinating and handling relationships and maintaining family harmony. Judging from the small, this person was very powerful.

Sister Yang poked her head out of the kitchen to invite everyone to eat. Han Fang was already in the dining hall helping to serve the dishes and set the bowls. For lunch, we had steamed rice, stewed fish, fried dried meat, and fried chives and eggs.

The portions were huge and Jia Tianlong praised the food highly. Although the driver didn't say anything, it was obvious from the way he was eating that the food was very much to his taste.

After eating, they rested in the yard for a while, and then Jia Tianlong and his friends drove away. After they left, Li Long explained everything to Gu Boyuan and Gu Xiaoxia.

"After cleaning, our Fritillaria is priced at 65 yuan per kilogram, according to the premium grade."

"The price is so high?" Gu Boyuan was surprised.

"Well, now the pharmaceutical factories in the mainland are expanding their production. Although the Fritillaria in our northern Xinjiang is not as famous as the Fritillaria in Sichuan, the medicinal effect is quite good, so there is a great demand, and the price is rising every year. We wash it very clean and remove all the impurities, so the price we offer is high."

"Okay, okay, then we have caught the Fritillaria season this year." Gu Boyan said happily.

Gu Boyuan was not sure how many Fritillaria cirrhosae Li Long had collected from the mountains and the forestry team. But the Fritillaria cirrhosae he had collected from the purchasing station in the past few days, if added up, would be at least 200 to 300 kilograms in dry goods.

According to the price given by Jia Tianlong, these two or three hundred kilograms of Fritillaria can be sold for about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. The profit on the purchasing station side is slightly lower, of course, compared with the other two sides.

Even with this slightly lower profit, it is still more than 50%. In other words, just the Fritillaria purchased from the purchasing station can make a net profit of more than 7,000 or 8,000 yuan in these days.

The speed of making money is really exaggerated.

Gu Boyuan was surprised and even a little scared.

Five years ago, he, Gu Xiaoxia and his family worked in the production team all year round. At the end of the year, in addition to the grain they received, it was considered good if they had ten yuan left.

Later, I followed Li Long to carry bamboo sticks and cook for others, earning dozens or hundreds of yuan, which made me very happy. Later, I got jobs making big brooms and reed sticks, earning hundreds of yuan a year, which was enough to buy a bicycle after daily expenses, and my living standard went from poverty to middle class above the township average.

It has improved visibly.

Later, he became a relative of the Li family, and Li Long changed his address to uncle from brother. He opened a farm supply store for himself. Although the annual income was not as much as Li Long's tens of thousands of yuan, he could still earn a few thousand yuan by running this store for half a year.

And it’s much easier than farming.

Although he was determined to settle down in Ma County, Gu Boyuan was still a scholar at heart. He could do farm work and harvest crops in the countryside, and he was quite skilled at it, but to be honest, Gu Boyuan preferred to read a book in the agricultural supply store and chat with the old man next door about the international situation.

Later he said that the business at the purchasing station was more challenging, but in fact he also felt that the job at the agricultural supplies store was too idle. Although Gu Boyuan also wanted to be comfortable, he understood that people cannot be too comfortable. If they are too comfortable, they will easily become decadent.

Although he has money now, owns houses in the village and the county, his daughter is married and has grandchildren, and his life is getting better and better, Gu Boyuan feels that he is still young and can continue to work hard for decades.

But his struggle was down-to-earth. He never thought that he could earn half of a million yuan in just half a month at this speed!

It's impossible not to have panic in your heart.

He is different from Li Long. Before Li Long was reborn, he witnessed how this country went from a reality of backward infrastructure and low living standards to a country that was about to be revived to the height it deserves, thanks to the solid industrialization and farmland water conservancy foundation laid by Chairman Mao and the vast number of workers and peasants, the reform and opening-up policy implemented by the chief architect, the pragmatic attitude, and the efforts of the country's leaders and the entire people. In just a few decades, the country has developed into a huge economy and is about to be revived to the height it deserves.

The people have unprecedented confidence.

So Li Long is not afraid.

Gu Boyuan is different. He can be said to have reached the peak right after his debut. The quality of college students in that era was really high.

From then on, he went downhill all the way, his wife and children were separated, his family was almost broken up, and he finally went from being a favored child to an ordinary farmer. He knew that if it weren't for Li Long, he would definitely still be digging for food in the fields of the fourth team.

Can he have the same insight as Li Long? Of course he can. Can he find opportunities to rise again? Of course he can.

But can we grasp it? It's difficult.

Because Gu Boyuan was hesitant and even pessimistic about the future. Even if he encountered an opportunity, he might not dare to seize it.

Even up to now, it was almost all Li Long who pushed him forward. Of course, the purchasing station took the initiative to seize the opportunity.

Having experienced great social unrest, Gu Boyuan was worried about policy changes. He was definitely worried about Li Long making so much money all of a sudden. What if he got cut off?
"It's okay." Li Long said with a smile, "Uncle, I should actually subscribe you to a newspaper. I think it should be the People's Daily. The pace of development over there is much faster than ours, and there will be a lot of such things in the newspaper. We are still just a small-scale operation, and it may seem quite impressive here, but compared with those people in the country, we are really children's play. Whether it is ideas or the pace of development, we are lagging behind."

"How do you know that? Did you read it in the newspaper?" Gu Boyuan asked.

"Some of it is from newspapers, and some is from chatting with directors of supply and marketing cooperatives, like Lao Jia just now." Li Long said half-truthfully, "The country now encourages everyone to use legal opportunities to get rich, and the rich first drive the poor, this is the basic national policy.

Haven't you heard the news often say that the focus is on economic development? If we put economic development in the context of ordinary people, isn't it about getting rich? "

Gu Boyuan nodded thoughtfully.

"No need to subscribe to newspapers," Gu Xiaoxia said while teasing Mingming Haohao, "Our company subscribes to many copies. After reading, the newspapers are put away. Some colleagues take them home to start fires or use as toilet paper. I will collect one copy of each and bring it back. Dad, you can flip through it when you have nothing to do. Although it is a little out of date, there is no problem in understanding the major policies and guidelines in it."

"Okay." Gu Boyuan agreed with this. If you can save some money, save some money. Anyway, even if you don't take the newspaper, someone else will take it in the end. It's not a big deal to take advantage of such a company.

The chat ended here. Gu Boyuan and Gu Xiaoxia both went to work, Han Fang went to school, and Li Long just watched Mingming and Haohao. When they fell asleep, he pulled the stretcher under the shade of a tree and surrounded it with curtains on all sides so that it would not be blown by the wind.

After cleaning the kitchen, Sister Yang came over to look after the children, and Li Long rode his bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Li Xiangqian, who was sitting behind his desk, was looking at two newspapers and an official letter in front of him, his eyes narrowed into slits with joy.

The two newspapers were the Autonomous Region Daily and the State Daily. Ma Xiaoyan was smart this time. She wrote the news release from two perspectives and submitted them to the two newspapers respectively.

The autonomous region is mainly based on the supply and marketing cooperatives. What is written mainly is that under the leadership of the current director, the supply and marketing cooperatives have formed a supporting pair with the herdsmen in the mountains to help them renovate their winter dens and improve their living conditions. It also mentioned the water pipe construction that Director Wei and his team carried out last year, and that Li Long, a former advanced individual for ethnic unity in the autonomous region, has continued to help the herdsmen in the mountains for several years without interruption.

This article was published on the front page of the Autonomous Region Daily. Although it was not the headline, it was accompanied by a striking photo. In the photo, Li Xiangqian and Li Long were working. The photo showed Li Xiangqian's front face and Li Long's side face. The background was the winter hut, and Meng Hai and others were on top of the winter hut. Although the clarity of the newspaper print was not high, Li Xiangqian's face was still easy to recognize.

The article in the newspaper of the autonomous prefecture is in the special edition of ethnic unity, and it is from the perspective of Li Long. Li Long started out by simply exchanging materials with Halim and others. Now that Li Long has become wealthy, he has not forgotten his friends in the mountains. With the help of the leaders of the supply and marketing cooperative, he has renovated the winter nests for his friends in the mountains and improved their living environment. The accompanying photo is a comparison of the old and new winter nests, which is also clear at a glance. Although the main topic is Li Long, Li Xiangqian, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, is also mentioned several times, and he has also appeared in the state newspaper.

This morning, several people called Li Xiangqian to congratulate him, including Ma Aihong from Kuitun. Some people congratulated him sincerely, while others spoke with a hint of envy and jealousy. Anyway, these words made Li Xiangqian feel happy.

Even Director Qian called me and sounded very pleased, saying that he had found a new way to do it from the perspective of national unity, which did not require much investment but had a very good effect. This alone would allow us to gain a firm foothold in our current position and convince everyone.

Li Xiangqian did not take credit for it and directly said that this was Li Long's idea and that he had a hand in it and got a great deal.

Director Qian was also very emotional and said that Li Long was truly their lucky star. Just for this reason, Li Xiangqian had to take good care of Li Long.

Li Xiangqian naturally agreed readily, this was necessary.

There was also an official letter, which was a letter of thanks for the cooperation in the investigation sent by the Public Security Bureau of a prefecture-level city in a certain province.

It turned out that the forestry team received the group of people sent by Li Long and his team. After interrogation, they found that two of them were fugitives and one was convicted of robbery and murder. They immediately contacted the relevant units.

The forestry team did not eat the whole thing alone, they also involved the supply and marketing cooperative, saying that they had caught the two criminals together.

Not long after the 1983 event, this vicious case occurred in the province of Kouli, which had a huge negative impact, so the higher authorities requested a strict investigation and punishment. However, they did not expect that the perpetrator ran away quickly. At that time, there was no Sky Eye system, and even ID card information was not popularized. The introduction letter was relatively easy to forge, so the criminal escaped early.

Just when the public security bureau here was at a loss, news came from Northern Xinjiang saying that the person had been caught. That was a surprise.

After confirming that it was the criminal suspect they were looking for, they immediately sent someone to pick him up by plane. Before he even got back, a thank-you letter had already been sent.

One copy was sent to the forestry department and the other copy was sent to the supply and marketing cooperative.

The work there was very transparent. The official letter was sent to the county supply and marketing cooperative, but they also gave the notice to the state supply and marketing federation, which is the superior unit of Li Xiangqian and his colleagues.

Li Xiangqian was very happy. If you have done good things, you should let everyone know about it. You should also be able to talk about your achievements. Otherwise, how would the leader know?

Now he didn't have to say it himself as others had said it for him. Li Xiangqian felt secretly happy while being humble.

These units in the mainland are very thoughtful in their work, and I need to learn from them in the future.

When Li Long came over, he saw his colleagues at the supply and marketing cooperative. They were all looking at him as if he were a rare thing. He didn't know what was going on.

Everyone, including old comrades, took the initiative to greet him, which made Li Long a little surprised. What happened?

"Xiaolong is here, come and sit down!" Li Xiangqian saw Li Long coming in and stood up to invite him to sit down. Zhou Yuan, who followed over, took the initiative to pour water for Li Long, and Li Long hurriedly took it:
"Hey, Chief Zhou, I'm flattered by you. I'd better do it myself. Director, what happened? Why do I feel like the people in our company are looking at me in a wrong way?"

"That's because everyone thinks you are a lucky star. Communicating with you more often can bring you some luck." Li Xiangqian smiled and handed the two newspapers and the official letter to Li Long:

"Take a look for yourself. Hey, this Secretary Ma is very efficient. Lao Zhou, I'll buy some things in a couple of days and you can go and have a look... Forget it, let Xiaolong go. They are familiar with it."

After reading the newspaper and official letter, Li Long understood that everyone thought that he had brought good things to the company and the director, and that this had happened more than once in the past two years, so they looked at him this way. (End of this chapter)