Chapter 220 Pulling a cart of sugar residue and becoming a public enemy
Li Long and Tao Daqiang drove the carriage to the sugar factory. The guard called Chief Hu and let them in.
"Xiao Li, you brought this thing on time." Hu Changke was very happy, "I will call someone to come over now to settle the bill."
Chief Hu called someone to come over. Count supplies, check quality, and calculate the bill.
When Li Long took the order to withdraw the money, Section Chief Hu said with a smile:
"Xiao Li, we don't interact much, but you helped me both times. There are several bottles of sugar syrup here. I know that eating rice dumplings here is special about dipping them in white sugar and sugar syrup. You can take them back to eat. By the way. , If you have any other ideas, you can tell me directly.”
Li Long actually had some ideas. He said:
"Chief Hu, I really want to ask you for help with something small."
"You can tell me, as long as I can I'll do my best." The smile on Section Chief Hu's face faded.
"That's right." Li Long saw Chief Hu's expression, but did not change his mind. He said, "I raise a few pigs at home - my family can be considered a professional pig farmer. I heard He said that you just threw away the sugar residue after pressing the sugar in the sugar factory. This time I drove the carriage over and wanted to take a cart of sugar residue back..."
"What the hell is this?" Section Chief Hu smiled again, "Well, let me make a call... Your carriage can't hold much. I'll approve a few sacks for you. You can load a carriage and a few more sacks. This one is going to fall anyway. If you want to take it away, then Just treat it as waste. If you want to call me in the future, just come and call me..."
As he said, Chief Hu picked up the phone on his desk and dialed a number. When the call came through, Hu Ke Changla said in a long tone:
< br>"Xiao Song, how many trucks of sugar residue have been dumped today? They are still being installed... OK, after the installation is completed, you can let the car stop at the gate of the factory. Come over and I have something to say."
Putting down the phone, Section Chief Hu said with a smile: "Xiao Li, you could have told me this earlier. If I had told you earlier, you could come over every day."
Li Longxin said, if it weren't for the mutton matter and Wei Yezi's matter this time, I really wouldn't have done anything. Come to think of it, making money is important.
After waiting for a while, a young man came to the office in a hurry. Section Chief Hu said to him:
"Xiao Song, this is Xiao Li, from the Ma County Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He wants some sugar dregs. You take him there. He will load it in a carriage. How much can you prepare?" "Let him fill up the sacks before unloading the truck."
After that, he said to Li. Long said:
"Xiao Li, if you want sugar residue in the future, you can just ask Xiao Song. He is in the loading and unloading team, and he is responsible for unloading the sugar residue."
"Song Team Hello, Comrade Chang." Li Long reached out and said, "Sorry to trouble you."
"No trouble, no trouble." Xiao Song, who is also a young man, said with a smile, "This is nothing, let's go pretend now?"
"Okay."
Li Long He said goodbye to Section Chief Hu, took Tao Daqiang downstairs, led the carriage and followed Xiao Song out of the sugar factory.
"The dump truck is at the back door. Because there is still water in the sugar residue, it is difficult to get through the front door, but it is easier to go there." Xiao Song explained.
Li Long took out a box of cigarettes and stuffed it:
"Team Leader Song, I'm sorry to bother you."
"Haha, Xiao Li, you're welcome." Xiao Song was also polite, took the cigarette, looked at it, and stuffed it into his pocket with a smile, "I Let me get you sacks first. You lead the carriage over there, to the back door. "As long as you can see the big truck, just wait there."
When Li Long led the carriage to the big truck, he found that there was a younger person waiting in the passenger seat. After seeing Li Long, he got out of the car nervously.
"Team Leader Song went to get the sacks and asked us to wait here." Li Long explained, and the young man nodded nervously and said nothing.
Xiao Song came over with a roll of sacks. Li Long and Tao Daqiang hurried over and put them on the carriage. Xiao Song said:
"Now follow our car. We are going to unload the sugar residue into the big pit at the back. Before unloading, you can load it into as many sacks as you can."
Li Long and Tao Daqiang They looked at each other and smiled.
You can have this!
The carriage followed the big truck for a few hundred meters, and then saw a large ditch with water at the bottom. Many people were waiting on both sides of the ditch.
These people were waiting with their pants wet and holding various tools in their hands. They were all ready when they saw the big truck coming.
There are also many people in the ditch. They are loading the sugar residue that has been dumped at the bottom of the ditch into baskets and bags.
There was water under the ditch, and the sugar residue itself contained water when it was poured, so each basket was quite heavy. Those people didn't care about getting their clothes wet from the water, so they just pretended to be like that when they saw the truck coming. , these people speeded up, and some people backed away, fearing that they would be buried by the falling sugar residue.
On both sides of the ditch, there are various tools parked, including donkey carts, horse-drawn carriages, hand-pushed pull carts, and a bicycle.
Sugar residue is the residue left after the beets are cooked and the sugar juice is squeezed out. These dregs are no longer valuable to sugar mills, but their nutritional value is still generally there. Pigs love to eat it and it is a very good pig feed.
After the truck stopped, it was not unloaded as before. Xiao Song got out of the truck. After Li Long and the others arrived, he said to Li Long:
"Are you pretending now?"
"Then please wait." Li Long said immediately:
"We pretended very quickly."
As he said He pulled the carriage to the side of the truck, lined up side by side, and tied the horse's reins to the side of the truck. Then he and Tao Daqiang got into the truck with sacks and shovels, and quickly loaded up the sugar residue.
Tao Daqiang whispered:
"Brother Long, now I know that's why you brought the shovel... You are so smart!"
"Hurry up and pretend! Everyone else is watching!"
Tangzhi Gang It was still a little hot after coming out of the sugar factory, but Li Long and Tao Daqiang no longer cared about it. They packed ten sacks, then shoveled a lot from the truck and piled them into the carriage, and then put the sacks into the carriage. Carriage tops.
Ten sacks may sound like a lot, but when they are actually packed, one on each side, one on each side, stacked up against each other, it can be packed in one layer.
Li Long and Tao Daqiang got out of the car. Xiao Song came up smoking a cigarette and asked:
"How about it, do you want to get some more sacks to pack?"
"No, no, no, that's enough." Li Long said, "It delays your unloading time and causes you trouble."
"It's okay." Xiao Song smiled, "Anyway, it's a dump. If you take it away, you can use it as waste. That's okay, we'll unload the cart."
Li Long untied the reins, took the carriage aside, and waved to Xiao Song Then he led the carriage and left.
“Brother Long, the team leader surnamed Song said you can still pretend, why don’t we pretend more?”
"That's annoying." Li Long looked back at the people who were already actively preparing to grab the sugar residue in the car as soon as it was unloaded, and said:
"We were digging in the car just now. You saw it when we were here, the way those people looked at us was like looking at enemies. Don't look at what Section Chief Hu told Xiao Song. The bag is the limit, we have to be satisfied.”
“Then we can’t pack it in the future?”
“Of course we can pack it, but we can’t pack it empty-handed.” Li Long. He smiled and said, "We'll talk about it later."
It's not possible to feed pigs just by doing this. You also need bran and other feeds, so it's better to eat them in combination.
When the carriage left Shicheng, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to sit on it, and he sat on the shaft frame and walked forward. When he was crossing the Ma River, Li Long stopped and led the carriage to the side of the road. He went down to the river and took a good wash.
Look at the stones in the river, there is no jade - it is normal when you think about it. If you could see jade at a glance, it would have been picked up long ago.
"Da Qiang, here you go, five yuan for this trip." Li Long said, "Take it." "Brother Long, I don't want money, can you give me a bag of sugar dregs?"
"You can take it home and feed it to the donkey? Okay." Li Long handed over the money, "Take the money and give you a bag of sugar residue."
"That won't work." Tao Daqiang waved his hand hurriedly, "Such a big sack of sugar residue weighs seventy or eighty kilograms. If I ask for money again, my father will scold me when I get back."
How did Li Long give Tao Daqiang If you don’t want it, forget it.
Back in the county town, Li Long treated Tao Daqiang to lunch at the Big Meat Canteen, brought glutinous rice, red dates and raisins to the compound, and then drove back to the team.
First he went to Lao Ma's place to unload five sacks of sugar dregs. Uncle Luo was very happy, and then went to Tao Daqiang's house to unload one sack of sugar dregs. Tao Daqiang wanted to follow Li Long to Li's house. Li Long said :
"Come back in two hours, and we will get off the Internet then."
Li Long led the carriage home, and Li Jianguo and the others were there, busy pulling grass in the garden.
"What's that pulling?" Li Qingxia was tall and asked at a glance when he saw Li Long coming back pulling a cart full of things.
"Sugar dregs, I went to the sugar factory to sell things and brought back a cart of dregs." Li Long said, "Unload some at the old horse and unload the rest at home to feed the pigs."
“This is great!” When Li Jianguo heard that it was sugar residue, he said with a smile, “The pigs are so cute to eat this.”
The family came out of the vegetable field and began to unload the sugar residue.
"Is this the one that squeezes sugar? It's not sweet, either?" Li Qingxia picked up one, smelled it, and tasted it, "Can it squeeze out sugar?"
"It's finished." Du Chunfang laughed and scolded, "If you can still squeeze out sugar, can they take it away for you?"
Li Qingxia smiled: "That's right."
Unload the sugar residue and give it to you immediately The pigs are fed.
After unloading, Li Jianguo went to pack the carriage. Li Long changed his clothes and came out. Seeing that the boiled reed leaves were still soaking in the big pot, he asked:
"Is it all cooked?"
"Okay, let's see what you bring tomorrow."
"Then what should you bring? Put it in a sack and pull it over." Li Long said, "Today we will bring it with you." Catch the fish in the net, and sell the reed leaves and fish together tomorrow."
Li Long divided the glutinous rice, raisins and red dates into several portions, intending to give them to people he knew.
Liang Yuemei knew how to make rice dumplings, so Li Long gave the remaining ones to her.
"Then pack more." Liang Yuemei said with a smile, "In previous years, it was good to pack a few. This year, there are so many glutinous rice, red dates and raisins, so we can't pack less."
At this time, everyone was worried about these extra bags. I still like eating. Zongzi, moon cakes and even steamed dead-faced lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
But as I grow up, I don’t eat these things very much. I guess it’s because there are not enough supplies in this era, especially food, so I am greedy for these things. Later, when supplies became abundant, I gradually started to dislike it.
To make rice dumplings, glutinous rice, red dates and raisins need to be soaked. Liang Yuemei started to get busy, while Li Long took out the net.
"I will go with you tomorrow." Li Qingxia said, "Let's ride two cars, bring more things, and go early."
"Okay." Li Long said with a smile, "Selling fish and reed leaves, I can't do it alone. Dad, it's just right for you to go."
Du Chunfang didn't stop him this time. Obviously, if he only sells fish, Li Long can handle it alone, but if he wants to sell reed leaves, he will definitely not be able to take care of it. She loved her youngest son, but she didn't want Li Long to be tired alone.
Besides, there is no work in the fields now, so there is no need for Li Qingxia to go to the fields.
Before Li Long went to lower the net, Tao Daqiang came over, and Qin Jiajie came over too.
Li Long gave Qin Jiajie a package of glutinous rice, red dates and raisins:
"Brother Qin," Li Long said, "take it home to make rice dumplings. It's been hard these days."
"It's so hard." Qin Jiajie said with a smile, "It's just reed leaves, so what's the hard work?" , Just let the mosquito bites, nothing.”
He took the glutinous rice bun and felt like it. He hesitated and asked:
"Then Xiaolong, with the remaining money...what else can I do for a living? The kind that can be used to offset the money? My family is not afraid of hard work..."
"Really? ? That's it." Li Long thought for a while and said, "You know the shovel?"
"Then how can you not know?"
"Two cents for one cent." Li Long said, "I want as much as you cut."
"Okay!" Qin Jiajie laughed. "I'll go back and chop it off now!"
After Qin Jiajie left, Tao Daqiang asked with some confusion:
"Brother Long, what do you need so many shovels for? To build a big broom?" ”
"Yes. In a few days, I will go into the mountains to cut off a shovel handle. Are you going?"
"Go." Tao Daqiang said with a smile, "I'm good at cutting that."
Two people carried the tires to lower the net, and Li Long took the basin with him. Although the sales of loach are not as popular as before, there is a group of people who are considered regular customers and will come to buy some every two or three days. This money must be earned.
Meng Zhiqiang is also lowering the net. Now he is the only one in Xiaohaizi. The others may have lowered the net and left, or may have given up.
Li Long’s net was set deep in the depths and was no match for them, so he didn’t pay much attention to it. After setting it, he walked around Xiaohaizi and didn’t see any water rats, so he returned. Home.
When picking up the net the next day, Li Long was a little surprised to find that not only fish were hanging on the net, but also a wild duck and a water chicken.
It’s just a wild duck, but the water chicken is very potent. When Li Long passed by, the guy kept sticking out his beak and pecking at Li Long, which made Li Long so angry that he just pinched his mouth and stuffed it. In the bag, I am not afraid of covering it up.
The basin was placed relatively low, so most of it was ditch fish, which made Li Long very happy.
The two people walked back carrying the harvest and tires, and then they met Meng Zhiqiang who came to get the net.
I just said hello and hurried home to get the fish. Today I am going to Shicheng to sell fish, so I have to move quickly.
Li Qingxia had been waiting for a long time, spread out the plastic sheet and started to select fish, while Li Long quickly picked out the wild ducks and water chickens, found ropes and tied them up.
Let's play with Li Qiang.
(End of this chapter)