Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After Qiao Xing left, Li Long was busy settling bills and distributing money to each household.

Early in the morning on October 14, Li Long went to the home of Captain Xu Chengjun.

"What? You said you wanted to show a movie?"

"Well, I made some money from collecting sunflower seeds from the team this time, so I thought about showing a few movies for the team."

"How many shows?" Xu Chengjun was stunned for a moment. "One show is enough. How many shows do you need?"

"Well, let's play three shows. Anyway, everyone is almost free now, with nothing to do and nothing to do in the evening, so let's watch a movie." Li Long said with a smile, "It can be considered an entertainment activity."

Xu Chengjun looked at Li Long seriously and then smiled.

The four teams come to show movies every summer and autumn. They are not invited by some people, but a task assigned by the Cultural Palace, which is equivalent to the later cultural outreach to the countryside, bringing movies to the countryside to show and bring cultural enjoyment to the farmers.

"Tunnel Warfare" was released, "Painted Skin" was released, and "Shaolin Temple" was also released.

Some people like to watch it, some don’t. But usually, no matter if you like it or not, people will still go to such a joyful occasion. Even if they don’t care about the content of the movie, it’s still lively to be around.

It was a little chilly at night in mid-October, but one good thing about it was that there were no mosquitoes.

It is very annoying to have mosquitoes when watching a movie at night. It is not so bad while watching the movie because the plot is quite attractive and you can't feel it when the mosquitoes are sucking your blood. But when you go back, you will find that your face, wrists and ankles are covered with mosquito bites.

Of course, there is also a large amount of melon seed shells left on the ground after watching the movie. There are not so many snacks at that time, so the garbage is not that much, the melon seed shells are the most, and the peanut shells are less.

After confirming this matter with Xu Chengjun, Li Long drove to the Cultural Palace.

The history of the four teams watching open-air movies continued until the beginning of the 21st century. At that time, the Cultural Palace no longer showed movies, after all, there were already many movies to watch in the cinema. However, a fertilizer seller wanted to promote sales, so he invited two movies to advertise their fertilizer.

As far as Li Long could remember, there had never been anyone in the team who had privately invited someone to show a movie. This was probably the first time for him, and although it wasn't unprecedented, it was almost unprecedented.

After the transition to a market economy, the Cultural Palace also had such business. When Li Long arrived there, he was received by a director who was very happy to hear that the director wanted to invite people from the production team to see a movie.

After all, someone paid for it. These days, this business has been developed, but few people have invited people to watch movies. This kind of thing seems to be not so popular in Ma County for the time being.

After all, everyone's money comes from the wind - except Li Long.

"Let's play three movies first." Li Long didn't bargain for the price. Actually, the price was not expensive. Fifty yuan per show was really not expensive for him.

Li Long readily paid the money. The director was also very cooperative and readily took out a handwritten paper with a form and the names of the movies on it, allowing Li Long to choose by himself.

Most of them are movies released before last year, and some can be traced back to ten years ago, which is too old.

Li Long looked straight back, all the way to the 1984 movie, and his eyes slowly moved.

Huh? There is actually such a movie. I haven't heard of it before?

"Shoerbulak", you can tell at first glance that it is about the Yili region in northern Xinjiang, starring Zhou Liqing.

This is a movie that, although young children and boys may not like to watch, older people will probably like it.

And... this!

"The Garland under the Mountain" is said to be one of the best Chinese war films. It cannot be compared with "The Decisive Battle" and the like, but it is shot very realistically. It is impossible to make such a film again in the next forty years.

The battle between the two mountains has not yet ended, so watching this film is quite appropriate.

Moreover, this film contains many "golden sentences" and some of them are hard to let go, which can really make people remember them for a lifetime.

"Come, see you at the Martyrs' Cemetery", "Two billion raised a wolf cub", "It is unjust that Jin Kailai is not recognized for his merits", "I saw it, even if there is only one, I will be satisfied"...

Next, Li Long became a little hesitant.

Should I choose "Shaolin Kid" or "Heroes Emerge Young"?
The former stars the Kung Fu Emperor. Regardless of his character, at least in terms of the enjoyment of the fighting scenes, in Li Long's opinion, there is no other film that can surpass him. Besides, with the blessing of "Shaolin Temple", everyone will definitely be willing to watch it.

The latter is a group play, including a real man and his wife, a bunch of children from the Tiandihui, Jianghai, Little Leopard, Big Leopard, Tie Biao, the bad guy Gao Ming, Chameleon, etc. The fighting scenes are also very beautiful.

After all, most of them have real skills.

Well, in the end Li Long chose the latter, which is better.

One show a day keeps people on edge, and he mainly considers the students. It is not a weekend off, so even if the show starts on Friday, only Saturday can let the children play late among the three nights, so it will be shown as soon as it gets dark, so as not to affect the students' watching and their rest.

pretty good.

The director registered the invoice, confirmed the date and location, and said to Li Long:
"Don't worry. Our projectionists have been to your village before and know how to do it. Just let us know when you get back. If you want to show it again, feel free to come. We can still have two more shows before winter."

Li Long took the ticket and returned to Team 4. He told Xu Chengjun the news and asked him to notify everyone in the team to come and see.

When a movie is being shown, people will usually announce it in advance, and there will be a notification on the day of the show, and another notification when it is about to start. The main purpose is to get everyone to come and see it, otherwise they will complain if they can't see it.

In the past two years, the life of the fourth team has been better. Those with more money can buy a color TV, and those with less money can buy a black and white TV. More and more people have TVs at home, but it is not as lively as watching movies.

So after the announcement was made through the loudspeaker, many people in the team were very happy.

Some children even started counting the time after hearing this, while some teenage girls and boys were preparing to fry melon seeds or soybeans.

As mentioned above, there are fewer snacks at this time, and usually people just bring some homemade fried soybeans and sunflower seeds.

Although Team 4 grows so many melons, almost no one likes to eat roasted melon seeds. Those with flower sunflowers roast them, while those without flower sunflowers roast oil sunflowers. In fact, oil sunflowers are more fragrant than flower sunflowers, but they are black and small in size. It is troublesome to peel them with your hands, and if you crack them with your mouth, you will get a black mouthful, which looks ugly.

Of course, those who can fry soybeans are even better. After all, although soybeans are hard, they are fragrant. When Li Long drinks coffee, he feels that the taste of that thing is the taste of fried soybeans.

If someone brings a bag of popcorn at this time, he will definitely be the most handsome guy in the audience. Popcorn needs to be popped after someone comes over.

The living standard of the villagers in Team 4 was higher, so people who made popcorn would come often. It cost five cents to make a bowl of corn, which was about half a kilogram, plus seven or eight grains of saccharin.

In the previous life, it was good to have ten people come here every day. Now, when we come to the fourth team, we can queue up and pop thirty or forty popcorns a day. Some people can pop several jars, after all, adults and children can have it as a snack.

After Li Long informed Xu Chengjun, he was about to leave, but Xu Chengjun stopped him.

"Xiaolong, we've made some money from harvesting melon seeds and sunflowers this year. Do you have any ideas about what to plant next year?"

"What can I think?" Li Long smiled. "You know I haven't been farming in the past few years. If it weren't for Professor Luo and his team, I wouldn't have been able to harvest more than a few tons of beets from the wasteland reclaimed by Mahao. I won't get involved in this kind of land affairs."

He really didn't intend to get involved. At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, my elder brother and I predicted that this kind of melon-growing would definitely lose money, so we planted sunflowers. The sunflowers did not lose money, but in fact, planting melons did not lose money either.

There is always a chance of something happening. If we plant the melons this year, there will be a chance of something happening. There is a high probability that Bai Xiuming and his friends will come again next year. As for how to harvest the melons then, he is not sure. So he did not give this suggestion.

"Some people told me that if you still guarantee the harvest next year, they will still grow melons. Of course, you can also grow sunflowers, it depends on you." Xu Chengjun revealed his real purpose.

"It's hard for me to say. If people from Kouli come to collect them, then I'll collect them for them." Li Long did not hide it from Xu Chengjun, "If they don't come, then I'll have nowhere to sell the things I collect. Let me put it this way, I can't guarantee a high price. I can collect some melons - if I can, no matter if they are sunflowers or melons, I can give priority to those from our team, but it's hard to say the price." From the moment Qiao Xing came over from behind, Li Long knew that there should still be a market for flat-mouthed melon seeds. However, if people from Kouli developed a flat-mouthed machine and stopped collecting them, then he would have no choice.

He guessed that the other party would most likely come to buy it. If they had developed the machine, they would have to lower the price. So he didn't guarantee the price, but only guaranteed that if they bought it, the team would have priority.

Xu Chengjun did not get any concrete guarantee from Li Long. Although he was dissatisfied with such vague words, he had no choice.

The initiative is in Li Long's hands, he has no channels.

After leaving Xu Chengjun's house, Li Long drove the jeep to the Lao Ma Hao. During the period of harvesting melon seeds, both the team and the purchasing station were very busy, much busier than when harvesting Fritillaria.

So Li Long planned to slaughter a few sheep and distribute them to several families as a reward.

"How many should we kill?" Old Uncle Luo naturally had no objection to Li Long's words. He said, "The sheep will be back soon. The grass in the fields is very good during this period, and the sheep are getting fatter."

In October, the sheep from the mountains came down one after another. Li Long planned to go to the trading market in Mahe in a few days to get a batch of cattle and sheep, fatten them and sell them before the New Year.

Although the profit is not much, it is a way to make money in winter and cannot be abandoned. It can be developed more widely in the future. There is still a lot of room for Lao Mahao. Although Lao Luo and his friends are over 60 years old, they are full of energy.

Working here with Li Long, they have enough meat to eat and the nutrition is sufficient, so their movements really don't look like those of an old man. This is a tradition in the Fourth Team. After all, after 30 or 40 years, the people who slaughter sheep and pigs and turn over intestines are still in their 60s and 70s. Even if they are over 80, they can still help deal with the offal.

I can do it!
"Let me do the math." Li Long thought about it. He decided to slaughter a whole sheep in his own county, one for his eldest brother, one for Li Xiangqian, one for Director Qian, and half each for Xie, Jia, Lu, Tao, and Liang who worked for him, plus Liang Wenyu. In total, he would have to slaughter seven sheep.

Uncle Luo and his friends also want to release a sheep here.

"Then let's kill eight of them. Take your time. There's no rush." ​​Li Long said, "I'll call someone over to help."

There is not much work in the team right now, as the winter wheat has already been sown. This year, Li Jianguo did half of the work, while Wang Caimi did the other half. Wang Caimi already had a serious sense of crisis, but there was nothing he could do.

His old tractor is now seriously out of date, just like a retired worker. It broke down several times during the sowing process, causing constant complaints. It is because he has always been the one plowing the land and sowing in the team, many people are used to it, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to take on any work.

Li Jianguo is now an experienced tractor driver, and he can fix minor problems by himself. Li Long bought him two sets of labor protection clothes for supply and marketing cooperative employees as tractor work clothes.

At first, Li Jianguo was reluctant to wear it, saying that if he drove a tractor in such good clothes, the oil would get stuck and it would not be good. Li Long persuaded him to wear it. Although there was indeed more oil on the clothes now, it looked like it was real.

After all, how many people are driving a tractor cleanly at this time?
While Uncle Luo was cleaning up the place, Li Long drove his jeep to call for help. Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong, Jia Weidong and the three Liang brothers all came. Lu Yingming was old, so Li Long would definitely not call him. Once the work was done, he could just pass the sheep over.

"Look at you," Xie Yundong said after they arrived, "We made money from you, and you're giving us some sheep. How can that work? That doesn't make sense. We're the ones who bought the sheep..."

"That's right." Jia Weidong bought the tractor and was in high spirits. "We took advantage of you. How can we feel good about it?"

Tao Daqiang didn't say anything, just looked at Li Long. He was used to it, and just listened to whatever Li Long said.

"That's not just for you to take advantage of." Li Long said with a smile, "Let me tell you, you know I mainly live in the county. My parents are still in the team. Not to mention my elder brother and sister-in-law, my own yard is also there. When it snows in winter, if I don't get back in time, you can help to sweep the snow when you are free. If there is anything at home, it's okay to lend a hand, right?"

"Need I say more? There will be no problem." Tao Daqiang said, "Don't worry, Brother Long. We will definitely come here often in the winter."

The others also said so. In fact, they were doing more or less the same thing originally, but since Li Long said it solemnly now, they naturally agreed solemnly.

After Yang Laoliu drove the sheep back, Li Long picked out the lambs of that year and started slaughtering them.

He knew that his mother and sister-in-law liked to eat colts and pigs, so he slaughtered two goats and the rest were sheep.

Uncle Luo and the others have already started boiling water in the yard. Li Long is capable of skinning sheep, and so are the others, but not as skillful as Li Long.

"Xiaolong, you are really good at skinning a sheep." Before Xie Yundong had skinned half a sheep, Li Long had already skinned two.

"Hey, I learned this in the mountains." Li Long said with a smile, "I peeled it in a mess at the beginning, but I got better later."

We slaughtered six sheep in the morning, and it was already past three in the afternoon when we finished everything.

These people eat their meals here at the stable, and then divide the sheep after eating.

The sheepskins were directly smeared with salt and dried in the old horse house. Before Li Long went to deliver the sheep to his eldest brother's house, Xie Yundong stopped him and asked in a low voice:
"Xiaolong, do you know when ordinary people like us can buy cars? How much does that thing cost?"

"What kind of car do you want to buy?" Li Long asked. "Nowadays, there are private car buyers. The vans you see on TV cost about 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, and sedans cost more than 100,000 yuan. If it's a large truck, it will cost nearly 100,000 yuan, right?"

"Is it so expensive?" Xie Yundong was immediately disappointed. He had saved some money and originally wanted to buy a car, but now it seems far from enough.

"There are still few factories producing cars in our country now, but they will be cheaper in a few years."

The Tianjin Daihatsu and the Dongbei Songhuajiang vans should have been available by now, but they were not produced in sufficient quantities at the beginning, so they would definitely be expensive. As for the Santana, the price of this thing was not below 100,000 yuan at the beginning, so some people waited.

However, Li Long felt that Xie Yundong himself had no intention of buying such an expensive car, and he would definitely choose a van, which could carry both people and goods and was convenient.

He went to deliver the sheep to his eldest brother, and then took one and a half sheep back to the county. He went to Liang Wenyu's place, dropped off the half sheep, and then returned to the big yard.

Sister Yang had to look after the children and cook, so Li Long freed the sheep himself. He planned to give the lamb leg to Sun Jiaqiang.

During this period, the relationship between Tielanhua and Sun Jiaqiang has been improving. Sometimes after get off work at the purchasing station, Tielanhua would stay at the purchasing station to help Sun Jiaqiang cook. Although the Tie family would soon ask her to go back, this was already a step forward.

Li Long felt that Tielanhua was a contradictory character. She grew up in such a conservative family, but she was very active in expressing her feelings. It was rare for a girl to chase a boy these days. Northern Xinjiang was generally more open-minded in terms of marriage and love. In the 1980s, many men and women fell in love on their own.

But it is still rare for a girl to chase a boy. Li Long can see that Tielanhua really likes Sun Jiaqiang and really wants to live with him. Of these two people, Sun Jiaqiang is always in a passive position.

I won’t say whether it’s good or not, but I just don’t know how Sun Jiaqiang will deal with Tie Lanhua’s family when facing the final step.

After all, even if Li Long had never met them, he knew that this family was definitely very difficult to deal with.

He would definitely not advise against such things.

Of course, it’s okay to give some help when necessary.

Just watch it first.

What Li Long didn't know was that Tielanhua was even bolder and more proactive than Li Long had imagined!

After work at the purchasing station, Gu Boyuan came over to eat. After the meal, Li Long carried the lamb leg and went out with Gu Boyuan. He was going to deliver the meat.

When they arrived at the purchasing station, Gu Boyuan left first and Li Long unlocked the door and entered. He deliberately made his footsteps heavier, and when he pushed the door, he found it was locked from the inside.

He knocked on the door and called out:
"Xiao Sun!"

"Hey, it's coming, it's coming..."

Sun Jiaqiang, who opened the door, was disheveled.

Li Long was a little confused - after a while, Tie Lanhua appeared behind Sun Jiaqiang with a red face, lowered her head and said nothing.

Hey, that's awesome! (End of this chapter)