Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"What solutions do you have? Tell me about them," Chen Hongjun asked. "Are you sure? If you are, I will call them and ask Li Long to come and talk to you."

"No, no." Qi Zhiguo shook his head hurriedly, "I also want to hear your opinion, Station Master, to see if the person I mentioned can be used by Li Long."

"You say." Since Qi Zhiguo believed in him, Chen Hongjun stopped being pretentious and let him talk to him, and he would also give him some advice.

"I know a guy who buys food. He once asked me about the dried wild mushrooms that our purchasing station bought, and he wanted to buy a batch. Among the people I know, I think he is the most reliable. I remember what you said, Station Master, that Li Long also sold dried wild mushrooms, and he sold quite a lot of them."

"Yes, Li Long has sold dried wild mushrooms. He has also picked precious fungi such as morels and black tiger mushrooms."

"The one I know is not picky. He will buy any dried mushrooms, not to mention the precious ones. He will even buy ordinary dried straw mushrooms. He is mainly in the food business. These wild mushrooms from our northern border can be sold at a good price if they are eaten."

"That's fine. Li Long's purchasing station can definitely receive dried wild mushrooms. I don't know how much inventory they have, but based on our experience when we opened the purchasing station, it should be no problem to collect several hundred kilograms of dried mushrooms in half a year, so we can give it a try."

Ordinary dried mushrooms cannot be sold at a high price, but the prices of mountain treasures such as morels and black tiger paw mushrooms have been rising, and the rate of price increase is not much lower than that of medicinal materials such as Fritillaria.

After all, people's living standards are constantly improving, and there are more and more rich people. When they are rich, they naturally want to eat more good food.

In the past, those mountain delicacies were either eaten by mountain people, or were delicacies eaten by the upper class, or were good things in literary works.

Now that ordinary people are getting richer, some of them have spare money and naturally want to enjoy things that ordinary people could not enjoy before.

Wild delicacies are naturally the easiest to obtain.

Regardless of whether it is hype or not, things are valuable because they are scarce. When there are fewer things, they are naturally valuable and the selling price will naturally be high.

"If it's possible, I'll contact him first and ask him about the situation after I find him. If it's possible, I'll let you know. Stationmaster, please help me contact Li Long." Although Qi Zhiguo drank a lot, he was still sober and said, "How is it?"

"Sure." Chen Hongjun smiled. "Don't worry, as long as the introduction is successful, Li Long will definitely get the introduction fee. Maybe we can take a different path then - our salaries are really not that high."

Chen Hongjun himself was actually a little tempted. It was really difficult to improve his life relying solely on salary.

In fact, Chen Hongjun knew a lot of people, but at that time he felt that the most useful people to Li Long were Jia Tianlong and Zhao Hui.

Now that I think about it, there are actually some other people who can be introduced to Li Long.

If there really is a way, who would be willing to stay at the bottom and endure such a hard life?
After Qi Zhiguo got the confirmation, he separated from Chen Hongjun and returned to the dormitory.

Chen Hongjun walked back and bought some braised pork heads and offal on the way. He carried them back to the new yard and found that the ground had been swept and sprinkled with water. The water marks had not completely dried yet and it looked quite refreshing.

The weeds and leaves that were originally in the vegetable garden had been cleared away, and his son Chen Zhixin was using a hoe to loosen the soil for the chili peppers, doing the job in an efficient manner.

The door of the main house was open. After talking to his son for a few words, Chen Hongjun went to put the braised food in the kitchen.

Zhou Xiujuan was cleaning the stove and chopping board in the kitchen. Although the original owner, Lao Huang, and his family had done a good job of cleaning it, they were moving out after all, and there was some dust and grease on the stove, chopping board, and walls, which had been there for a long time.

Zhou Xiujuan planned to clean up the place first and then put her own dishes and chopsticks in place.

"Here are the stewed foods I bought. Cut them up and eat them." Chen Hongjun said, "Have you finished cleaning the house?"

"We've finished cleaning up." Zhou Xiujuan said with a smile, "The house is all cleaned up, and Zhixin's place is pretty good too. Old Huang and his family left some old books, which I think are pretty good, and Zhixin likes them too."

"Well, you can read it if you have nothing to do, but it shouldn't affect your studies." At that time, students were not encouraged to read extracurricular books, but they often read them secretly. Forty years later, students are addicted to television, mobile phones and computers, but schools are encouraging students to read more extracurricular books... Weird.

The yard was cleaned up and when Chen Hongjun returned to the house, he saw that although the furnishings were still the same, the room was bigger, more spacious and more comfortable to look at.

Well, it’s really nice to live in a solitary courtyard!

After leaving Chen Hongjun's house, Li Long did not return to the county immediately, but headed to Wucheng, which was less than 50 kilometers away from Beiting.

Since you have made money, you have to spend some of it. If you can only make money but not spend it, what is that? Are you a miser?

He is not.

When he went to Wucheng, he still had time to buy a gold ring for his wife Gu Xiaoxia, a Shanghai brand watch for his father-in-law Gu Boyuan, and milk powder for his two children at Tianshan Department Store - at that time, the two children didn't need anything else.

I also bought a watch for my father Li Qingxia and a gold bracelet for my mother Du Chunfang.

The thing he bought for his eldest brother's family was a washing machine, which could barely fit in the jeep - it was a single-cylinder one that could be folded down, unlike a refrigerator which could not be folded down. When Li Long wanted to buy it, he couldn't pull it back at this time.

He also bought two boxes of wine. At that time, the famous wines were Fenjiu and Wuliangye, and Maotai was not even on the list, mainly because the locals did not like to drink sauce-flavored wine, saying that it had too strong a flavor of koji and was unpalatable.

He also bought two pairs of Huili sneakers for Li Juan and Li Qiang respectively - there were no sports shoes at that time, just sneakers, which was already very impressive.

Han Fang also had a pair. As for Sister Yang, it was not easy for Li Long to buy things for her. He finally decided to buy her a sewing machine - this was considered a half-year bonus.

Go to Ma County to buy it, the jeep can’t fit it now.

It was already dark when we returned to the county. We heard a car horn and it was Han Fang who came to open the door. Sister Yang was watching in the yard.

After Li Long drove the jeep into the yard, he got out and started moving things downstairs.

"Are these shoes for me?" Han Fang asked in surprise.

"Yes." Li Long smiled, "Put it on and see if it fits you. If it doesn't, change it when you have time."

"It fits, it fits, it definitely fits!" Han Fang said directly, holding the shoes and not wanting to try them on, under the light of the headlights hanging in the yard.

"How do you know if they fit if you don't try them on?" Sister Yang didn't expect that a pair of shoes would turn her child into this, but it's not that she can't afford to buy them.

It’s just that Han Fang is too sensible. Since the time she and Sister Yang went through hard times together, Han Fang has almost never taken the initiative to ask Sister Yang to buy anything for her.

Sister Yang didn't understand this time. Han Fang knew about it when she was in school. Although she envied those who wore sneakers, she never disliked wearing cloth shoes.

"There's a number on it, which is my size." Han Fang explained, "Thank you, uncle!" Gu Xiaoxia opened the door and came out, saw Li Long coming back, greeted him with a smile, and went back into the house to see the child.

Sister Yang walked towards the kitchen and said as she walked:
"Uncle, you haven't eaten yet, right? I'll go heat up some food for you."

The evening meal was green bean porridge, steamed buns, and stir-fried vegetables. Li Long was hungry, so he washed his hands and ate heartily.

After the meal, Sister Yang asked him to go back to the house quickly and clean up the kitchen. After Li Long returned to the house, he found a cup of tea on the coffee table. Knowing that it was poured by Gu Xiaoxia, he took a sip and went into the inner room.

The two children fell asleep, but not yet fully asleep. When Li Long came in, they clearly opened their eyes for a moment, then closed them again. Li Long smiled and sat next to Gu Xiaoxia.

He took another sip of water and put down the cup. Gu Xiaoxia stood up and walked behind him, gently pinching Li Long's shoulders and asked:
"How are things going? Is Stationmaster Chen and his family all right?"

"It's not very good. A family of four squeezed into two rooms. It was very difficult to live. I left him some money, and he was planning to buy a yard."

Gu Xiaoxia nodded without saying anything. Although her family's living conditions were good, she knew that they were good because Li Long could make money. Otherwise, her family would be no better than her colleagues, calculating how much they spent on food and daily necessities all day long - in fact, this was the life of a normal person.

Gu Xiaoxia was being pinched by Li Long. Li Long took out the gold ring he had bought from his pocket and put it on Gu Xiaoxia's hand.

The ring looked quite plain in the eyes of Li Long in his two lives, but Gu Xiaoxia liked it very much.

She had lived without her mother since she was a child, so she had never had her ears pierced. Gu Boyuan had never thought of this. When she grew up and could make her own decisions, she was afraid of the pain.

The gold earrings she bought for her wedding were the kind with pincers, without ear holes, so she didn’t like them very much. But now she likes the gold ring that Li Long bought for her very much.

After the child fell asleep, the two of them turned on the TV and watched a low-voice version of "On the Road".

At that time, the relationship between the country and Nanyang was very good, and a large number of middle-level cadres were sent to Nanyang to learn advanced management experience. This had a great impetus to the subsequent reforms, but it also allowed Nanyang to successfully cultivate a group of officials who were close to the West.

Some of them later reached high positions and formulated policies that were biased towards the West - there were even spies.

Of course, for the general public, the most intuitive impression is that a number of Nanyang TV dramas appeared during this period, such as "People on the Road", "Nanyang in the Fog", etc.

This TV show had a great influence. Even 30 or 40 years later, many people of that era still remember the theme song of the TV show: Never blame fate for its mistakes, never be afraid of the bumpy journey...

At breakfast the next day, Li Long gave the watch to Gu Boyuan.

"Hey, Xiaolong, you are so thoughtful. My watch is almost broken, so it's a good opportunity to replace it."

Gu Boyuan originally had a watch. The watch had gone through many bumps and bumps during those special years and was actually almost completing its historical mission.

Li Long smiled and said nothing. Between men, some things don't need to be said.

Gu Xiaoxia and Gu Boyuan went to work. After Li Long and Sister Yang finished their work, they drove the jeep to the fourth team.

The jeep stopped next to the Lao Ma Hao because Li Long saw that his beet field was being watered, and the person watering it was his elder brother Li Jianguo.

Li Long got out of the car and saw Li Jianguo wearing rubber boots and constantly adjusting the fields - although watering is done by flooding, it is also a technical job.

Although the land of Team 4 had to go through a process of cutting, raking, and leveling before sowing, which generally kept the land flat, in reality the land could not be absolutely flat, and those potholes would definitely still exist.

This means that if no remedial measures are taken during watering, some places will not be watered and water will accumulate in some places.

Crops are usually more delicate than weeds. They will die of drought if they are not watered, and will drown in places with stagnant water.

Therefore, farmers who know how to farm often make some ridges in the fields before watering. The so-called ridges are actually digging up the soil in necessary places to form some small dams to block the water, allowing the water to stay here for a longer period of time, or to prevent water from accumulating under the ridges.

This is a job that requires both technical skills and experience. You usually know where the pits and higher places are in the ground.

It is not enough to just do the preparatory work. During the watering process, you must also keep an eye on the direction of water in the field at all times. Because crops are planted in the field, some terrain has been changed by the crops, and temporary pruning may be required.

So watering the crops was not an easy job - of course, that was at that time.

Thirty years later, watering has become a boring and easy job. One only needs to stay in the pump room at the end of the field, add fertilizer to the water, then turn the valve, calculate the time, and close the valve when the time comes.

Because at this time watering is completely done through drip irrigation tapes, those places that could not be irrigated before no longer exist. The water pipes are connected in all directions and can reach any place, and fertilizers can also be brought there, saving a lot of trouble.

People at this time would never have thought that watering would be so easy in the future.

When Li Long came down, Li Jianguo was beating stalks in the field and joking with Uncle Luo at the edge of the field:

"I dare not let your old arms and legs water the crops. If you get stuck in the water and drown, who will be responsible? You should just focus on feeding your cattle and sheep. That is what you are supposed to do."

"Hey, I'm not old!" Old Uncle Luo naturally refused to admit his age and said with a smile, "If it really comes to watering, I'm no worse than you."

"You're done, stop bragging. Xiaolong is here, ask him if he lets you water the plants..."

"That's definitely not possible, Uncle Luo, you can refuse to admit your age, but you are no better than my elder brother in this respect." Li Long joked, "Okay, okay, I brought you some good wine, just in time to move over."

"Hey, that's good. I didn't drink much. Yang Laoliu is very happy this time. Laoliu! Come over and get some wine!"

Yang Laoliu was not herding sheep today. He was busy doing something in the yard. He came over when he heard the noise.

When he knew he had to move wine, he was really happy and walked in carrying the wine box.

Li Long did not help. He saw crucian carps shaking in the water flowing toward the fields, so he quickly ran to the canal to check the situation.

The water in the underground canal was quite deep and fast, but when it flowed into the beet field, the flow slowed down and the water became shallower. Li Long only walked a short distance along the edge of the field when he saw a large crucian carp trying hard to swim upstream next to the beet roots. Perhaps it knew that if it stayed in the beet field, death would be the only thing waiting for it.

Hey, what a fish! Li Long squatted down and took the fish in his hands. This fish must be at least 200 to 300 grams, very strong! (End of this chapter)