Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Liu Xinjun was a little confused when he was rejected by Li Long.

To be honest, he also bought some dried mushrooms at a low price these days. There are also bulk goods and small batches of dozens of kilograms.

To put it bluntly, in Liu Xinjun's opinion, the people he met were really eager for money. Although the goods they got were of varying quality, they would basically sell them for money, which made him very happy.

Precious mushrooms such as morels and black tiger paw mushrooms are usually only available in specific mountainous areas. The morels in the plains are different from those in the mountains, and their prices are slightly lower.

So after "cheating" Huang Lei away, Liu Xinjun had actually purchased a batch of goods, but the total amount was only about the same as Huang Lei's batch.

He was unwilling to be surpassed by Huang Lei, so he came to Li Long - he knew that it was better to find one big investor than ten retail investors.

His bid was not high - or rather, he felt that his bid was quite high. Even the man who brought dozens of kilograms of goods the day before yesterday, his highest bid was only 28 yuan.

It was also because Li Long had a purchasing station that could receive goods continuously that they offered a high price and wanted to keep Li Long as a long-term partner.

But I didn’t expect that Li Long would not be interested in this price!
So how much did Huang Lei give?

The maximum you get for receiving goods from Koli is 40 yuan, and after deducting the shipping fee, it’s just hard-earned money.

Can Huang Lei reach thirty-five?

Impossible? After all, when Huang Lei believed him, he had revealed the news that Huang Lei had a partner and they would make money together. In other words, the profit would be split in half.

If Huang Lei were to offer thirty-five, he really wouldn't be able to make much money.

Liu Xinjun was still a little confused when he left the purchasing station.

Could it be that I heard it wrong? Huang Lei was not admitted in this county?
Liu Xinjun felt that this guess should be somewhat reliable, so he stopped hanging around here and went to the bus station, preparing to visit several nearby counties.

Since mushrooms can be received here, there may be purchasing stations in several nearby counties that can also receive mushrooms.

After Liu Xinjun left, Li Long began to speculate about Huang Lei's affairs. Huang Lei left yesterday, and today a man with a similar accent came. Li Long felt that there must be a connection between them.

But he didn't think too much about it, believing that Huang Lei would come to collect more mushrooms. Li Long planned to keep these dried mushrooms for at least half a month. But before that, he planned to go to Beiting. After all, the dried mushrooms had been sold, so he had to pay the referral fee to Qi Zhigang.

On the other side of the fourth team, Li Jianguo was practicing his skills while driving a Dongfanghong 75 tractor on the saline-alkali beach southwest of the settlement.

The tractor was equipped with a five-share plow, which turned up the soil layer of the saline-alkali land. When it encountered Achnatherum splendens and red willow bushes, the track tractor would emit black smoke, and Li Jianguo would refuel. However, if the tractor could not plow, he would not plow hard, but adjust the direction and gnaw off the hard bones bit by bit.

Father Li Qingxia sat on the five-share plow and adjusted the depth of the plow. He didn't know how to do it at first, so Li Jianguo told him to try boldly. The deeper the plow, the deeper the plow.

Anyway, this is the wasteland that he and Li Long had chosen to reclaim, so they can do whatever they want with it.

This plot of land is about 40 acres in size. To the east is the strip of land designated by the production team and under cultivation, with a branch canal in the middle, and to the south is the main canal.

The reason for reclaiming this place is that it is convenient for watering. Secondly, although there are small piles of red willow shrubs and Sedge grass in this area, it is less difficult to reclaim than other places, which is just convenient for Li Jianguo to practice.

Moreover, there are many small areas in this place where bitter beans grow. Such plots of land are clustered together. Although each one is not large, only dozens or hundreds of square meters, they add up to a lot.

The soil in places where bitter beans grow is relatively good, so this area is not entirely a saline-alkali beach, which is convenient for development and utilization.

Lu Yingming and others had nothing to do so they watched Li Jianguo plowing the fields. Some idle people in the village followed behind the plow and picked up the red willow roots and licorice roots that were plowed out.

There were even children using cans to pick up bugs dug out of the soil, including the large insect pupae known as "East, West, South, and North", and the mole crickets known as "Goujiajiazui" by the locals.

As for the crickets called "tiaomazi", they are the most popular - after all, chickens lay more eggs if they eat them.

It is said.

There are also people who pick Cynomorium songaricum. It is no longer a new thing for Li Long's purchasing station to purchase Cynomorium songaricum. There are young people in the team who specialize in digging Cynomorium songaricum on the alkaline beach, drying it, and selling it to the purchasing station.

Although a kilogram of dried goods is only a few cents, if you dig out one or two sacks of fresh goods a day and dry them in the sun, you can get more than ten or twenty kilograms of dried goods, which can be sold for nearly ten yuan, which is a lot.

The Cynomorium songaricum plowed out does not need to be dug, which is more convenient.

Li Jianguo didn't care. After plowing back and forth twice, he stopped the tractor at the north end of the field where Lu Yingming was, turned off the engine and got off the tractor.

Li Qingxia also put down the plow and went into the field to pick up licorice roots - he couldn't let others take advantage of the things he had plowed.

"Hey, the noise in the driving building is so loud that it hurts my ears." Li Jianguo walked up to Lu Yingming, took the cigarette he handed over, lit it, took a puff, then picked his ears and said.

Now Lu Yingming and Li Jianguo no longer smoke Mohe cigarettes. The main reason is that Li Long often says that smoking Mohe cigarettes is not good and is not good for health. Although smoking any cigarettes is not good, the unroasted Mohe cigarettes are more harmful.

Li Long's words were quite authoritative now, and both Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming felt it was necessary to listen. Anyway, they were not asked to quit smoking, they were just switching to a pack of cigarettes, and they could afford to smoke now, so they could just smoke.

"If you want to make money, don't you have to work harder?" Lu Yingming said with a smile, "Look, in just a short while, you have plowed ten acres of land, right? According to Wang Caimi's price, this is 80 yuan!"

"How can it be so fast? We have to get rid of the gas money." Li Jianguo retorted, but he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

That's right, it only took a short time to plough ten acres of land. A small four-wheel tractor would have to plough forty acres of land to earn eighty yuan. This tractor didn't even need to leave the team to plow the land - even if it was a little far away, the third team was nearby, no more than two or three kilometers away.

The two villages together had more than 4,000 mu of land, and 2,000 mu of land was used to grow wheat this summer. If Wang Caimi, Xu Lingshan, and the broken tractor of the third team were to share the 2,000 mu, he could get at least half of it—mainly because many people had already come to make reservations.

Li Jianguo was very popular, and he knew people all over the brigade. After all, he had attended junior high school, and was considered a talent when this place was first opened up. When counting the acres of land, he walked through every team in this area, and knew a lot of people.

So after knowing that the Li family had bought a new tractor, everyone who knew him came to him and wanted him to plow the fields for them - no one wanted to plow the fields halfway and then have the tractor break down.

This has happened to almost every family, it's not a rare thing.

But who wouldn’t want to use a new tractor?

Even Liang Wenyu came to see his brother-in-law's tractor and said that someone in their team wanted Li Jianguo to go over and plow the land. Fortunately, the distance was not far, and the carriage did not need to go around, but the tractor could go directly through the field.

According to this estimate, the total area of ​​wheat fields owned by the people who came here is nearly a thousand acres.

"The wheat is almost yellow, and it will be harvested in a month or so." Lu Yingming said, "I also have to prepare a tractor harvester. This year I plan to go to Hu County to harvest wheat and make some money first."

"Then we will leave the wheat to the woman." Li Jianguo will also go to harvest wheat. Although he will have to drive a tractor to plow the fields after harvesting wheat, he is not going to give up the several thousand yuan he can earn from harvesting wheat this season.

Li Jianguo felt very pressured by his capable younger brother, and he didn't want to be left too far behind by Li Long.

Although Li Long gave Li Jianguo many opportunities, to be honest, he could continue to live a good life even if he just lay down and didn't work hard.

But this is not Li Jianguo's style.

Several people walked into the plowed saline-alkali land and looked at the results of Li Jianguo's plowing. After watching, they came to Li Jianguo again.

"Daqiang's father, how is it?" Li Jianguo said to Tao Jianshe, "Is it qualified?"

"Pass, pass. You plowed much deeper than Wang Caimi." Tao Jianshe smoked his pipe and refused the cigarette handed over by Lu Yingming. He said with emotion: "If you plow so deep, the grass roots and insects in the ground will be exposed to the sun. If you plow wheat stubble, the stubble will be pressed deep and will not affect the growth of seeds. How great!"

Everyone knew that this was talking about Wang Caimi, but no one was mentioned by name, so even if Wang Caimi was present, he wouldn't be able to say anything.

These past two days, Wang Caimi has been working hard to overhaul his own tractor. He knew that his tractor had many problems, but he just delayed it as much as possible.

After all, a major overhaul requires replacing many parts, and the parts you buy yourself may not be usable, so some need to be replaced with new ones.

He couldn't bear it.

But if he doesn't change now, most of the team members will go to Li Jia to plow the fields. He will lose his position and make no money. How can he be willing to accept this?

If you want to win back other people's hearts, you have to make some changes to the way the tractor plows the fields. It can't break down from time to time. Otherwise, even those who have a good relationship with him will not be willing to choose him.

In terms of being a person, Li Jianguo and Li Long are much more successful than him. In the past, everyone had no choice but to choose him. Now the Li family has a new tractor, and Wang Caimi is also self-aware. In recent years, the Li family’s pork is not eaten for free - every winter, the annual pig is slaughtered, and the Li family’s slaughtered pig dishes are the most greasy.

Those in the team who came to Li Jianguo to borrow money, those who were below 30 or 50 years old, never hesitated.

As one of the founders of the village, Li Jianguo himself has extraordinary appeal in the village. If he had not wanted to do so in the beginning, it would not have been impossible for him to compete for the position of team leader.

Now that they have a tractor, although Li Jianguo did not say it explicitly, those who have a good relationship with him and those who find it troublesome naturally want to use the Li family’s new tractor to plow the fields.

Wang Caimi was not unaware of the image he held in the minds of his teammates.

It was just that there was no threat, and he knew that the team had to find him - Xu Lingshan was not a threat at all, that guy couldn't even figure out the engine?
Of course Li Jianguo didn't understand it either, but they bought a new tractor, which wouldn't break down in a short time. By the time it broke down, Li Jianguo would probably have become an old hand.

Wang Caimi had never thought that the Li family would be willing to spend money to buy a large tractor, and a complete set. It was too late to regret now - he had been showing goodwill to the team members these days, and for this he went to the old horse house in the hot summer to buy a sheep, slaughtered it and treated people with good relations to a meal of mutton soup.

This is a rare thing for Wang Caimi.

Wang Caimi also went to Li's house several times, ostensibly teaching Li Jianguo some tips on driving a tractor, including how to save fuel - plowing the land shallower would save fuel.

Of course, it was not in vain that he gave advice. He openly and secretly hoped that Li Jianguo would not be too proactive in getting those people to plow the land. He and Li Jianguo could discuss it. The land in the team was divided into several large plots, and the two families could discuss which plot belonged to whom and not interfere with each other.

Rejected by Li Jianguo - are you kidding? If someone refuses to come to Li’s house to plow the land at this time, has his brain been kicked by a donkey?
Li Jianguo just said one thing: whoever in our team comes to ask for the plow will be given the job. If no one comes, Li Jianguo will not take the initiative to ask.

This was the biggest concession. As for other production teams, Wang Caimi had no say in that.

Wang Caimi also knew that Li Jianguo had done his utmost by making this promise, but he also knew that those people in the team had no choice before, so when it came time to plow the fields, they would come to him one by one hoping to plow the fields first and then clean up after that.

But now that they have a choice, they will definitely take the initiative to find the Li family - Li Jianguo made a promise, but it seems like nothing happened.

You still have to accept other people's favors!
If you have to suffer, you have to bear it by yourself. If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?
Li Qingxia came to the edge of the field with an armful of licorice roots still covered with dirt, and said to Li Jianguo:

"Do you want to plow some more? I think the land over there is better than this one, as it can be plowed faster here."

"Well, Dad, you take a break, and we'll plow another piece." Li Jianguo was still not satisfied. This thing was just like his own big toy. Although it made a noise in the ears, it felt really good to drive!
In fact, Li Qingxia also wanted to drive, but there were a lot of people here at the moment. Li Qingxia thought that it would be lunch time soon and those people would leave, so he would change jobs and let his eldest son sit on the back plow while he drove the tractor himself!
This big iron bull must be very majestic to drive!

Anyway, my eldest son also said that nothing will happen no matter how we open the river in this large saline-alkali land, so we can just open it as we like.

When the old man was in the mood to play, it was hard to say. When the father and son asked Liang Yuemei to call them to eat, other families had already eaten.

Of course, the results were very good, nearly 30 mu of land was reclaimed, and this was the result of stopping and starting. If it had been started continuously, at least 50 mu of land could have been plowed in this morning.

In the afternoon, Liu Xinjun came to the purchasing station in Huhhot County.

Liu Xinjun was overjoyed when he learned that there was a purchasing station in Huhhot County. But when he went to the station, he found that although the place was large, there were only two or three people selling things.

After going in to ask, I found out that although this shop was buying dried mushrooms, they were very mixed.

Looking at the bag full of seven or eight kinds of mushrooms, Liu Xinjun frowned:
"Have you never picked them before? They are so diverse, aren't you afraid there might be poisonous mushrooms?"

"If you're afraid, don't buy it!" The person in charge of the purchasing station said rather harshly, "You don't even know the species of mushrooms, and you're still here to buy them?"

Liu Xinjun's nose was almost crooked with anger. The people he had accepted before were all very respectful to him. In the morning, although Li Long didn't sell anything, his attitude was at least okay. Why is this person like this?

Of course he didn't know that the other party was giving up, and the purchasing station itself didn't make money from dried mushrooms, so its attitude was naturally not good.

They sell it the same way they receive it, and they won’t take the initiative to pick out the best ones.

Service awareness is not something that everyone can have. (End of this chapter)