Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

It was morning when Bai Xiuming came over, and Li Long happened to be free.

A lot of melon seeds are harvested during this period, and Liang Dacheng has to make two or three trips back and forth every day. Otherwise, there will be too many seeds piled up in the warehouse.

The more you pull, the more you earn. Not only him, but Tao Daqiang and others are also very happy.

I originally thought that I wanted to help out, but who would have thought that I could make as much money as harvesting wheat by using that machine to crush melon seeds at home!
Bai Xiuming came directly with trucks, three trucks!

Li Long was a little surprised. He thought that if Bai Xiuming didn't come again in the next two days, it would be bad if he ran into him after Dong Zhichao and the others had transported all the sunflowers and melon seeds away and then came over.

If he didn't meet any, and Dong Zhichao and the others came twice to pull them out, then the melon seeds he left for Bai Xiuming wouldn't be enough.

Of course, such a thing would not happen. Li Long would definitely leave enough melon seeds for Bai Xiuming, and he would just waste some time arguing with Dong Zhichao and others.

"Driving here directly?" Li Long smiled. "How much are you buying this time?"

"How much is in your warehouse?" Bai Xiuming also asked with a wealthy look.

"Your three trucks should have no problem carrying 30 tons." Li Long smiled, "You can lift the sacks higher."

"Do you have 30 tons of stock?" Bai Xiuming was a little surprised. "If you do, I would be willing to take away 30 tons."

"I have more than 30 tons in my warehouse now. If you don't come, I'll find a place to call you." It happened that no one came to sell melon seeds, and Sun Jiaqiang was also in front. Li Long did not call him, but took Bai Xiuming into the warehouse to show him the goods.

"Hey, that's a lot!" Bai Xiuming looked at the hundreds of sacks neatly stacked in the warehouse and sighed, "Are they all flat-topped?"

"Of course, it's very clean. Check each bag!" Li Long was very confident.

"Of course we have to check it. So shall we start now? Thirty tons is a lot. It will take us a long time."

"It's okay. I saw that you brought a lot of people with you, so I came over to help. The two of us just need to watch the scale and beat the melon seeds." Bai Xiuming not only came by himself, but also assigned two temporary workers to each car to help load the watermelon onto the car, which was more convenient.

"it is good."

The truck was blocking the warehouse entrance directly. The scale was placed inside the door. Someone inside pulled a bag over and poured it onto the sieve on the scale. Bai Xiuming and Li Long directly looked at the quality of the melon seeds while looking at the numbers on the scale and recording them.

Li Long asked someone to go to the front and tell Sun Jiaqiang that if anyone came to sell melon seeds, he should tell them that they would not be receiving them this morning.

After all, I'm too busy.

Sun Jiaqiang responded and went out to tell the people queuing outside, then he saw Tielanhua pushing a bicycle over.

This time there was only a sack of melon seeds on the bicycle, and he was a little surprised that there was no Iron and Gold Soldier following behind.

"Not accepting it today?" Tielanhua was a little surprised. "Why?"

"Because Boss Li has something to do today. A customer is coming over. He is shipping goods and has no time."

Tielanhua was a little disappointed after hearing this.

Gu Boyuan saw this from inside, and he also wanted to help Sun Jiaqiang, so he said, "Xiao Sun, tell her that if she really wants to sell it, then she can queue up in the back. It's just a sack, and we can collect it here."

"Okay." Sun Jiaqiang responded quickly.

In fact, Tielanhua also heard this. She immediately became happy, then put her bicycle aside and lined up at the end of the line.

The price that Li Long charges for melon seeds is relatively open and transparent, but these people don't know how much he sells them for.

Some people, like Fan Mingcheng, really want to find out, but can't. Li Long will definitely not tell, and Gu Boyuan and Sun Jiaqiang will naturally not tell. Those merchants who come from the mouth will not deal with them at all - they know very well that what they want is only available in Li Long, so there is no need to make things difficult for Li Long.

The whole morning was spent threshing thirty tons of melon seeds, inspecting and loading them. We took turns to eat lunch in the state-owned canteen.

This time, Li Long earned 105,000 yuan in one go - although it was gross income, it was almost the highest income he had earned this year.

It seems that Fritillaria had something similar at that time?
Anyway, it was very shocking. Bai Xiuming gave cash, so Li Long had to drive the jeep to the bank with the money after Bai Xiuming and his friends left.

There was a gun in the jeep - although the possibility of robbery was very rare in the county, it was necessary to be on guard.

The people in the bank had seen Li Long come to deposit a large amount of money many times, and they were almost used to it. So when Li Long came, several people came together to handle the matter.

Li Long is considered a big customer in the county, and his service attitude is obviously different.

After depositing the money and getting the receipt, Li Long felt relieved.

In the afternoon, he was harvesting melon seeds as normal. It was because he had plenty of energy, much better than ordinary people, otherwise he would not be able to bear it.

In the evening, in the sales office of Team 4, Bai Qiuka and several others sat around a table, drinking beer and talking about Chuanzi.

The wheat has been harvested, the melons have been picked and sold, and only the corn has not been harvested yet.

As I gradually became more free and had some spare money, we came over to have a beer together.

"White ball card? Who did you sell the melon seeds to?"

"Who else can I sell it to? The Li family." Baiqiuka drank from the bottle, put it down and said, "Can anyone else buy it?"

"I remember you boasted that you would sell it for a high price. Why did you sell it to the Li family?"

"The Li family is offering a high price, right?" Bai Qiuka said, not blushing at all for the inconsistency of what he did before and after. "The price offered by the middleman is even lower than that of the Li family, so why don't I sell it to them?"

"Will you plant it next year?" someone else asked.

"Grow some shit, plant sunflowers next year. After all, many people buy sunflowers, and the price is not low." Baiqiuka took another sip of beer, waited for a while, burped, and then said, "Growing is easy, how can it be as troublesome as picking melons?"

Yes, the price of melon seeds has dropped, and harvesting is troublesome, not as convenient as sunflowers.

"I heard that the Zhao family sells melon seeds for 1.5 yuan?" someone asked.

"People flatten the melon seeds and sell them, so naturally the price is higher. You don't want to work and find it troublesome, yet you want to sell them at a high price. How is that possible?" said someone who knew the inside story.

Yes. The Li family has long said that the high prices of melon seeds sold last year and the year before were because the seeds were flattened and cleaned.

Because the price is low this year, no one is willing to put in the effort. Now that they see others making money, they are jealous.

But what can we do? Doing the same thing, there are always some people who make money and others who are jealous.

Li Jianguo is taking stock of today's harvest.

He collected more than five tons of melon seeds in one day, of which more than one ton was flattened, and the rest were normal and clean. He also had to return more than three tons because they were not cleaned properly, so he didn't want them.

Li Long made it very clear at the time that his family collected this money to provide a safety net for these people, not to help alleviate poverty. If you want to make money, don't complain about the hard work. If you complain about the hard work, don't blame him for not collecting the money.

After counting the accounts and seeing that everything matched, Li Jianguo closed the notebook and sighed.

It's only been a few years, only a few years of having enough food to eat? And you're already complaining about being tired?

Thinking back to when Li Long first came here, in order to make money, he walked to Shicheng and secretly did small business.

I wasn't the only one doing this at that time.

How come he was so capable back then? Why does he feel he can't handle it now? If he knew that the flattened ones were 50 cents more expensive than the normal ones, he would have done the job and earned the money even if he had to stay up all night.
Li Jianguo had just paid for the harvested melon seeds when the sound of a tractor rumbling began outside the courtyard gate.

Tao Daqiang and Xie Yundong drove over on a tractor.

There was not enough space to park so many tractors in the Li family's yard, so the two men parked the tractor outside the gate and turned off the engine. They got out of the tractor and walked inside while still talking.

Tao Daqiang said to Xie Yundong, "Brother Yundong, if it's not enough for a tractor this time, you can give it to me." "No, no matter how much, we will each take half." Xie Yundong smiled and said, "We should earn this money together."

With the existence of the melon seed flattening machine, the most troublesome part of flattening the melon seeds is now just soaking the melon seeds. After they are softened, just someone needs to watch over the machine. Pour the seeds in, the machine will automatically flatten them, and then you can pour them out to dry.

Of course, you also need to pick out the shriveled seeds when soaking in water, and after drying, you also need to shake it to remove the stones inside.

For people who often do farm work, it's nothing. One kilogram costs ten cents, and getting one or two tons a day is like a piece of cake. If it were just the melon seeds that Li Jianguo collected from here, it wouldn't be enough for these families to share.

That meant that Liang Dacheng had to bring back large melon seeds from the county every day to have enough.

"You two are here?" Li Jianguo said with a smile, "It just so happens that I have some fish soup at home, let's have some together."

"No more, no more." Xie Yundong waved his hands hastily, "Take the melon seeds we harvested today and soak them at night. You can press them tomorrow morning. Brother Li, how many did you harvest today?"

"We collected quite a lot today, more than five tons, enough for both of your families."

"There's still my home!" Jia Weidong hurried over and stopped the carriage at the door, shouting, "Brother Li, don't forget there's still my home."

"Okay, okay, I have everything."

"Weidong, after you finish this job of beating melon seeds, you can buy this tractor, right?" Xie Yundong asked, "You must have made a lot of money this time."

"I can't catch up with you guys. You've been driving this tractor for a year or two." Jia Weidong shook his head and said modestly, "When the time comes, I'll go buy a tractor. You two have to follow me and give me advice."

"No problem, definitely no problem." Tao Daqiang said with a smile, "How about buying a big one? I see it has 28-inch tires and a driver's seat. It will be very impressive to drive and can carry more."

"What's the point of pulling so much? You can't plow the land." Jia Weidong said, "I think this one you bought is pretty good."

"Now there are small four-wheelers with high horsepower." Li Jianguo interjected, "The one my family bought has 12 horsepower, and now there are 15 horsepower ones. They are slightly larger and more expensive by more than 1,000 yuan, but they are more powerful, and the rear suspension is more convenient.

Xiaolong said that there is a cultivator that can be attached to a small four-wheel tractor. When we weed the land next year, we can save a lot of trouble by using the cultivator. "

"That's good," Xie Yundong said. "Weeding in the sunflower and corn fields is really annoying. It would be much easier if there was a machine that could weed."

While chatting and laughing, the three families had already started to weigh the sunflower seeds with a scale and then put them on their own cars. When they weighed them, they automatically wrote down the weight. This recorded quantity would be kept by Li Jianguo and they would have a copy so that they could reconcile the accounts later.

The tractor could carry more than the horse-drawn carriage. Jia Weidong took away more than one ton, and the rest was divided between Xie Yundong and Tao Daqiang.

Li Long brought back five machines, plus the original one, a total of six.

There is one at the Li family's place. In addition to these three people, there is one at Liang Wenyu's place and one at Lu Yingming's house.

Liang Wenyu would bring melon seeds from the purchasing station every day, flatten them, dry them, and then bring them back. He had his own tractor, so it was no problem for him to do this job. Lu Yingming lived opposite the Li family, so it was more convenient for him to bring melon seeds. In fact, the other three families did not bring as much as he did.

Li Long now has sufficient capital, and when he collects melon seeds, he no longer needs to invest in stages like he did when he collected Fritillaria. So after collecting a certain amount, it is basically the profit left after deducting the cost. If you calculate, he can make a net profit of more than 2,000 yuan for every ton collected.

By the end of September, fewer and fewer people came to the purchasing station to sell melon seeds. Originally, we could collect three to five tons, seven to eight tons a day, but now it is only several hundred kilograms a day, and occasionally over a ton.

In the meantime, Dong Zhichao and Bai Xiumin came once each. There was a five-day interval between their visits. Li Long guessed that they might have agreed not to meet each other, but in fact they knew each other's existence and came to Li Long to buy melon seeds at different times to avoid embarrassment.

By around September 25th, the harvest from Team 4 was almost over, so Li Jianguo settled the accounts and sent the account book to Li Long.

This time, Bai Xiuming took away another 30 tons of melon seeds, and Dong Zhichao also had a lot, taking away 20 tons.

When the Mid-Autumn Festival came, Dong Zhichao came for the last time and took away ten tons.

The rest were scattered here and there, and around the National Day, Li Long harvested another five tons of melon seeds.

This time, Dong Zhichao and Bai Xiuming have both made it clear that they will not come this year. The next delivery will be next year, which means that they have enough raw materials in stock.

Li Long thought that the remaining five tons of melon seeds would have to be stored in the warehouse until the next year.

This is normal. After all, he is not Zhuge Liang. Even Zhuge Liang cannot make every possible plan.

What surprised Li Long was that on October 10, a strange customer came to the purchasing station and directly asked to buy flat-mouthed melon seeds. At this time, the purchasing station had been idle and returned to its original rhythm. Gu Boyuan and Sun Jiaqiang were fully able to handle it, so Li Long stayed in the yard and counted the harvest during this period.

Li Long was really surprised to hear that someone else came to buy melon seeds. He followed Sun Jiaqiang to the purchasing station and saw this stranger.

He was a typical southerner, about 1.623 meters tall, handsome and fair-skinned, in his twenties or more than thirty years old. He dressed like an intellectual, always with a smile on his face and a shrewd look in his eyes.

"Boss Li, right? Hello, hello. I heard that you have large flat melon seeds, so I came here to buy some." The man was very enthusiastic and directly stated his purpose. He also introduced himself, "I'm from Sichuan Province, my name is Qiao Xing, you can call me Xiao Qiao."

Li Long thought that Xiao Qiao was much prettier than you. He smiled and shook hands with her:
"Hello, Boss Qiao. We don't have many melon seeds left. I think there are about five tons. Would you like to go in and take a look?"

"Okay okay."

Li Long took Qiao Xing to the warehouse at the back, pulled over a sack of melon seeds and opened the sack to show him.

"They are really all flat-mouthed, washed clean, very good, and of very good quality." Qiao Xing was full of praise. He looked at two more bags and then stopped.

"There are only these left. If you want them all, I can give you a lower price." It is common to sell leftover goods at a lower price. Li Long does not want to keep these until next year because they will be stale goods by then.

"The price is negotiable. I have something to ask Boss Li. How do you flatten the melon seeds? Is there any trick to this?"

Li Longxin said that someone finally paid attention to this matter.

This is also a matter of time, after all, naturally grown melon seeds cannot all be flat. It's just that it's more troublesome to flatten them manually, and many people are unwilling to do it.

Some people may not have thought of the trick to flattening with a machine.

Of course, Li Long couldn't tell this to Qiao directly, so he laughed and said:
"What else can I do? Just press it with the board like that."

"But aren't melon seeds hard? Will they break if you press them hard?" Qiao Xing is very studious and is determined to get to the bottom of things.

"I pressed it when I just took it out of the melon." Li Long said with a smile, "If you ask any more, it will become a trade secret. Are you here to buy melon seeds or to ask about the technology?"

“Hehehehe, I’m just curious.” Qiao Xing smiled awkwardly, “Then what’s the price of this melon seeds…”

"Three dollars and a half a kilogram." Li Long's smile faded a little. "If you buy all of them, I can give you a discount of five hundred dollars, which will be regarded as the shipping fee."

Qiao Xing finally took away the melon seeds and paid Li Long 16,000 yuan.

For Li Long, this was a pleasant surprise. He originally thought that these melon seeds were kept in the warehouse, but he didn't expect that they were sold out in the end. Whether Qiao Xing really wanted to buy it or really wanted to inquire about the flattening machine, it had nothing to do with him.

Next comes the real inventory.

Li Long collected a total of 105 tons of melons with this melon-beating machine. When he added up all the numbers, Li Long himself was shocked. It was a huge number.

The cost of collecting melon seeds is basically between RMB 1.1 and RMB 3.0, which means the total cost is less than RMB 130,000, the income is around RMB 360,000, and the net profit is RMB 230,000.

Of the costs paid, in addition to the processing and shipping fees of less than 20,000 yuan shared by Xie Yundong and several others, Li Long also left 10,000 yuan for his eldest brother.

Li Jianguo refused to accept it at first, but Li Long forced him to accept it. During this period, the eldest brother was very busy. After harvesting the melon seeds, he immediately harvested his own corn, paid the public tax for corn and sunflowers, and then drove a tractor to plow the land and sow winter wheat. He looked to have lost at least three kilograms.

Gu Boyuan originally agreed with Li Long that the split would be 20:80, but now he was frightened by the speed at which Li Long was earning, and after much desperation, he only accepted 5,000 yuan.

Li Long gave Sun Jiaqiang a bonus of 500 yuan. This money could actually fill his gaps and allow him to buy a yard and add some things to it. His relationship with Tielanhua was getting better and better. Li Long thought that he might be able to eat their wedding candy by the end of the year.

All in all, everything seems to be moving in a good direction.

Who knows what changes will happen later? (End of this chapter)