Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Xu Haijun wanted to borrow money and pay interest. There were witnesses here, so Li Long had no objection. He went to the jeep, took out his backpack, took out the shoulder bag containing money, counted out two thousand yuan and gave it to Xu Haijun.

"You carry so much money with you? I was thinking of riding my bike with you to the county to get it." Xu Haijun was a little surprised, "Aren't you afraid of losing so much money if you put it in the car?"

"What are you afraid of? There's a gun in the car." After Li Long handed the money to Xu Haijun, he fastened the shoulder bag and put it into his backpack, and then put it back in the car.

He really had a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in his jeep. Although the public security situation has improved a lot after the crackdown, it does not rule out the possibility that someone will take risks - after all, he is now a celebrity and rich, and even people in Beiting have begun to plot against him. Who can be sure that no one in Ma County will cause trouble for him?

It's better to be careful.

As for bringing money - after going through so many things, Li Long felt that it was better to bring more money when going out. For example, the last time he went to Beiting, he intercepted someone else's Fritillaria, and this time he went to Chen Hongjun to leave money.

There are so many opportunities. What if you come across one but have no money? How could that be a loss?
Compared with these opportunities, he is naturally not afraid of safety. He has five or six guns in his hands. When seven or eight people come, he will flash his gun and no one will dare to move.

Xu Haijun carefully counted the money, then took out a pen and paper and wrote a promissory note to Li Long.

Xu Haijun's handwriting is good, with a sense of flying dragons and dancing phoenixes. Li Long took the IOU, looked at it, and said with a smile:
"Navy, with your handwriting, it's a pity that you didn't stay in the army as a clerk."

"You know that the army has clerks?" Xu Haijun was also a little surprised. At that time, people outside the army didn't know much about the situation. Or it could be said that the information was so blocked that people who had seen the Internet in the future could not imagine it.

One system is not subordinate to another, and a lot of information circulates within its own small system. People in this system find a lot of information commonplace and don't think anything of it; people outside the system don't know what's going on in this system and find it mysterious.

Those who are interested can use this information gap to make money and easily become trendsetters of the times.

"We have retired veterans in our unit, and I heard about it when we were chatting." Li Long said vaguely, "When you were in the army, your handwriting was never seen by the leaders?"

"I have seen it. They also wanted me to be a clerk. But I was too stupid at that time. I only wanted to be a soldier. I thought that being a soldier was the right way..." Xu Haijun sighed.

Li Long understood it very well. He vaguely remembered that a few years ago in his previous life, when Li Qiang was taking the college entrance examination after high school, he applied for a military academy. At that time, someone suggested that he apply for a technical college. With a skill, he would not have to worry about not having a career in the army or in the local area.

But Li Qiang insisted on taking the entrance exam for a command academy. When it comes to the military, he wants to be a commander, which is so impressive.

Well, I don't know if it's impressive or not, but what is the biggest feature of command academies? It's exhausting.

At this time, ideals are paramount and other people's suggestions are useless.

It is no wonder that some people say that the biggest experience people learn from other people's lessons is that they can learn no lessons at all - they will not turn back unless they hit themselves in trouble.

Everyone thinks that he or she is the luckiest one, and that the path that others cannot walk may also be impossible for him or her.

Xu Haijun borrowed the money, but he was not in a hurry to leave. He might have felt that if he was in a hurry to leave, he would be too utilitarian, as if he came here specifically to borrow money.

So after putting the money away, just chat along here.

"There is still more than a month before the wheat harvest. What can we do to make money in our free time?" Xu Haijun asked while others were talking.

Now Xu Haijun's mind is full of making money. Li Long wonders if it was He Lijuan, the college student, who stimulated him.

Li Long didn't know that after Xu Haijun came back from the mountains, he actually looked for He Lijuan. And because his cousin was still providing logistical support for Professor Luo and others, Xu Haijun asked He Lijuan out and said a few true words to her.

Xu Haijun had previously provided supplies to Professor Luo and his team, so He Lijuan thought that this young man was not a bad guy and had served in the army, so she just listened to what Xu Haijun said by the stable.

In fact, she naturally knew what this person wanted to say, and she just wanted to refuse him in person, which would be better, so as to avoid the message being spread out and causing bad influence.

Xu Haijun was bold and told He Lijuan directly that he liked her. Although He Lijuan was a little surprised and blushed, she refused firmly and explained that she had not thought about finding a boyfriend yet. Even if she did, she would look for someone who was ambitious and had a clear future.

This made Xu Haijun feel that something was not right. Was he talking about Li Long?
Having a clear future and being ambitious, isn’t that Li Long?

After Professor Luo and his friends left, Xu Haijun "learned from his mistakes" and decided to make a good career. If he could drive a jeep and have lots of money to spend, it should be easy to find a girl, right?

By 1985, the idea of ​​focusing on economic development had been accepted by everyone. Although the pun “look at the money” had not yet come out, the general trend was like this.

Without Li Long saying anything, Tao Daqiang said with a smile:
"Navy, if you want to make money, you can do it now. Think about it, our team will definitely need to make big brooms in August. We have plenty of Achnatherum splendens here, and we can buy thick iron wire, but we don't have many poles. You can go into the mountains to cut poles now, and when you pull them back, the team will definitely buy them."

Tao Daqiang dared to say this because he knew that this year, neither Li Long nor Li Jianguo would go into the mountains to cut poles like they did in the past two years. With more profitable jobs, they naturally would not go into the mountains to cut poles again.

If he doesn't want to do it, no one else will want to do it either. Instead, Xu Haijun can make some money from it.

It is also because Xu Haijun is not a bad person. Although he likes to make money, he makes it in an honest and fair way and always does it within the rules. He is also honest in his dealings with others. He will help when necessary and will refuse when necessary.

Even if such a person cannot be a close friend, at least he is not annoying.

"Really?" Xu Haijun turned his head and looked at Li Long. Tao Daqiang's words didn't count. This matter had to be decided by Li Long.

"Well, the poles should be at least fifty cents each, but you have to go into the mountains. It's hard to get them outside." Li Long said, "You also have to live in the mountains. I'm afraid you can't do it alone..."

"Then I'll find a few more people." Xu Haijun saw that Li Long was also sure and knew that this could be done, so he immediately said, "How many should be cut? Xiaolong, give me some advice."

What a great attitude!

He is indeed a well-trained person.

Li Long smiled and said:
"Some people from Qingshuihe Village have already gone into the mountains to cut poles. If you cut them, more than 5,000 should be usable, and there may be some left over if there are more."

Xu Haijun did the math, one pole was 50 cents, and with more than 5,000 poles, that would be more than 2,000 yuan, pretty good!

With a new way to make money, Xu Haijun could no longer stay there. He said goodbye to the Li family and hurriedly rode back on his bike.

Buying a tractor is a big deal, and making money is also a big deal, and neither can wait!
After Xu Haijun left, Tao Daqiang also left. He had to tell his brother-in-law about this matter.

The Tao family has made a lot of money in the past two years. Yang Pingping's family does not have enough money to buy a tractor, so the Tao family can help a little.

Unlike Tao Dayong's father-in-law's family, the Yang family helped the Tao family a lot after they got married, so Tao Daqiang had no psychological barriers to helping his brother-in-law. Yang Yong was a sensible young man. If Tao Dayong hadn't changed his mind, Tao Daqiang would have felt that his brother-in-law was more like a family member than his elder brother.

Although the team members have changed their views on Tao Daqiang, the former "fool", even though the Tao family's financial situation has changed, there are still people who look down on him and there are still many who talk about him behind his back.

But Yang Yong is different. When he met Tao Daqiang, he felt that Tao Daqiang was capable. When Tao Daqiang became his brother-in-law, he felt that this brother-in-law was even more amazing. He was good at making money, had a tractor, and worked diligently. He was simply an idol.

Tao Daqiang is also vain. He is naturally happy when someone admires him, so he also cares about his father-in-law's family.

After the outsiders left, Li Long thought about it and said to Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo:
"We don't have anything to do recently, do you want to go out and have some fun?"

"Play? Where to play?" Li Jianguo asked.

"I want to go to the mountains to have some fun. I think I told you, brother, there is a hot spring in the mountains. When the time comes, the whole family can go there and soak in the hot spring. I will kill a sheep and have a barbecue to relax." Thirty or forty years later, most people went to Nanshan to have fun. At that time, the S101 National Defense Highway became a popular highway, the Kenswat Reservoir and the Shimenzi Reservoir became tourist attractions, and there were many homestays and manors in Nanshan.

Even people from this county would go into the mountains to escape the heat in the summer. A family would drive into the mountains, pull a sheep, cook and roast it, and spend most of the day comfortably in the mountains.

The main reason is that I have more free time and I’m tired of staying near my home, so I go around near other people’s homes.

Isn’t that what traveling is all about?

"What's fun in the mountains?" Li Qingxia curled his lips. "If you want to have fun, you have to go to Wucheng. At the very least, you should go to Beiting."

Li Long was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and laughed.

Yes, in the eyes of ordinary people, there is really nothing fun in the wild mountain villages at this time. Only those who have money and time will go there to play. For ordinary people, especially those who have hardly left their hometowns and counties, going to those big cities is considered fun.

"Okay, then let's go to Wucheng." Li Long said with a smile, "Wucheng has a department store, a water park, and many fun places."

I have decades of experience and I think natural landscapes are more interesting. But ordinary people at that time still think that big cities are more fun and they can see more good things and see a bigger world.

"How do we go? Your car can't accommodate everyone, right?" Li Jianguo asked hesitantly, "Xiaoxia and Mingming and Haohao have to go too, right? Lao Gu has to go too, right?"

"Some people will go there by bus." Li Long smiled, "Just meet up at the bus station. It's also convenient to take the bus in Wucheng. Let's go to the department store and then to the water park. There are a lot of fun things there."

At this time, Li Long had not been to the water park much, but in his previous life he vaguely remembered that in the past two years, the brigade’s central primary school organized fifth-grade students to go to Wucheng for fun, and they mainly went to the water park and the zoo.

This should be fun.

"Okay." Li Qingxia actually wanted to go to Wucheng to take a look. These days, big cities are developing very fast and are very different from rural areas. It's really enviable.

That was the deal. The women were still standing there, looking at the washing machine, just as they had looked at the Li family's sewing machine a few years ago.

After Li Long from the Li family became successful, he was always able to lead the trend in the village, and the Li family was always the first to use new things that came out on TV.

From sewing machines, color TVs, tractors to today’s washing machines.

Who knows what new things will appear in this yard in the future.

After agreeing to go to Wucheng next Sunday, Li Long planned to drive his jeep back to the county town, but Du Chunfang was unwilling and insisted that Li Long stay for dinner.

Li Long thought about it and decided to stay.

As the sun rose higher, the women dispersed, and Liang Yuemei went to cook. Li Long discussed with his elder brother and father, and finally decided that Li Long would drive the jeep with Du Chunfang, Liang Yuemei, Gu Xiaoxia and the two children to Wucheng, while the others would take the bus. They would go in the morning and return in the afternoon, and have lunch in Wucheng. The plan was to visit the zoo and water park in the morning, go shopping in the department store in the afternoon, and then go home.

At noon, Liang Yuemei cooked rice, stewed crucian carp, and fried green pepper and eggs. There were few types of dishes, but the portions were large. The rice was freshly ground this year from the rice fields, and it was very fragrant.

Li Long ate two large bowls of rice. After the meal, he gave the two pairs of Warrior shoes to Liang Yuemei and gave them to Li Juan and Li Qiang.

"Hey, they must be happy." Liang Yuemei took the shoes and smiled. Li Long always cared about his two nephews and nieces, which was good.

After dinner, Li Long took the vegetables that Liang Yuemei and his mother Du Chunfang picked from the vegetable garden and rushed to the county.

When passing by the primary school, Li Long originally wanted to give Li Qiang some pocket money. After all, they didn't go home at noon and could only take a steamed bun as lunch, which was quite hard. He wanted to give Li Qiang some pocket money to buy some good food. The school has a cafeteria, which is used to cook for the teachers and sell food to the students.

But when Li Long passed by the school, he found that the class had already started, so he didn't wait and said he would talk about it later.

The same thing happened in the middle school. Li Long turned directly back to the county.

After returning to the county, Li Long first went to the purchasing station and saw seven or eight people queuing in the yard of the purchasing station. The line was relatively sparse, and they tried to stay in a cool place. He remembered some practices of later generations and wondered if he could try them out when he returned.

In later generations, people had to queue up to see a doctor or do business at a bank. Li Long thought of getting a number plate to give to people who came to sell things, so that others could stay in a cool place and wait for their number to be called.

Of course, if you do this, there is a high probability that Gu Boyuan will say that you are "making a fool of yourself", but there is no harm in giving it a try.

There were two or three familiar faces in the queue, probably middlemen. They were familiar with Li Long and greeted him. Li Long also responded to them with a smile and entered the purchasing station.

Gu Boyuan and Sun Jiaqiang were inspecting things one by one and weighing and moving them the other.

Seeing Li Long coming, Gu Boyuan nodded, finished the work at hand, stood up and let Sun Jiaqiang take over, and he led Li Long to the inner room.

"Xiaolong, the warehouse is almost full of some sundries. Can you see if you can find a way to sell them?" Gu Boyuan took Li Long to the warehouse and pointed at the things and said:

“Look, there are wild mushrooms, red copper, copper coins, some antiques… there are a lot of sundries, these things take up too much space, and of course there are also a lot of leather taking up space.

Leather is fine, even if Zhao Hui doesn't come, we can still sell it to the leather factory. But have you ever thought about where to sell it elsewhere?"

Li Long thought for a moment and said:
"I'll go to Beiting tomorrow and find out where to sell these things."

Going to Wucheng for fun is serious business, and selling these sundries is also serious business. Li Long feels that he has to take both into account.

As for going to Beiting, on the one hand, it is the capital of the state, so there will be more sales. On the other hand, it is mainly to find Lao Chen - Lao Chen was originally a purchasing station, he is knowledgeable and should know where these things are sold.

Seeing that Li Long had an idea, Gu Boyuan didn't say anything more and went out to do his own thing.

Li Long couldn't help much here, so he went to the stove to boil some water and added it to the big bucket outside. Then he said hello to Gu Boyuan and went back to the yard.

Sister Yang took Mingming and Haohao out to play. Li Long got out of the jeep, put the dishes into the kitchen, and then took over Mingming and Haohao.

Although the two children have been with Sister Yang for a long time, as soon as Li Long appeared, the two children became closer to him.

Li Long took over the two children, holding one in each hand, and then told Sister Yang about going to Wucheng and asked if Sister Yang and the others wanted to go together.

"We won't go." Sister Yang refused immediately, "If you all want to go, we can go to the south yard to clean up."

"That's fine." Li Long said.

Maybe they thought that their family was going out to play, so Sister Yang and the others did not join.

When Gu Xiaoxia came back in the evening, Li Long told them about his trip while they were having dinner. Gu Boyuan had no idea, but Gu Xiaoxia really wanted to go over and take a look.

The matter was settled like that.

The next day after breakfast, Li Long drove his jeep to Beiting to look for Chen Hongjun. (End of this chapter)