There was no stove in the east room of the Li family, mainly because Li Jianguo didn't expect Li Long to come back so soon.
"Your second brother, brother-in-law and Junshan just left yesterday. I drove a carriage to take them to the county bus station. They said there would be a train back in the evening. Take the bus to Wucheng Railway Station and buy a car. Taking into account the train tickets, I should be able to get home next Wednesday.”
“They brought a lot of stuff, right?” Li Long said with a smile, “It’s just a few strong laborers, so there shouldn’t be any problem.”
“What problem can there be? No There will be.”
Liang Yuemei asked:
"Xiaolong, have you eaten? The steamed buns are almost ready to be steamed. If you're not in a hurry, just wait until the steamed buns are steamed and then I'll stir-fry you some vegetables. Can you drink something?"
"Okay. "Li Long was not polite and smiled. Said, "Then let's wait for my sister-in-law's cooking. Let's fry the pickles. I haven't eaten them in a few days."
"Okay, I'll cut some meat and fry some pickles." Liang Yuemei agreed readily and added He said with emotion, "This time last year How could I have thought that I could eat white flour buns every day? "
"That's right, the food distributed in the team is eight parts coarse grains and two parts fine grains. Not to mention us, even Juan and Qiangqiang can't eat fine grains every day. ..."
"Just let Juan and Qiangqiang and I eat fine food together!" Li Long interjected. Although he had made up for a lot this year, his face was actually quite red when he said this. I was really ignorant at that time.
"It's all over. Now how many people in our team, not to mention the team, the entire brigade and the entire township, eat like our family?" Li Jianguo was very proud, "The days will definitely get better and better, Xiaolong, you It's smart, but you have to be cautious. We have enough money now, so don't be too proactive about some dangerous things."
"Brother, I understand." Li Long nodded.
Liang Yuemei saw that the time was up and went to open the steamer lid. The chopping board has been put away, the cages are opened one by one, and the big and white steamed buns are spread out on the chopping board. Li Juan and Li Qiang have already surrounded them.
Although life has improved greatly in the past year, the fragrance of freshly steamed buns still attracts them.
"Take one each and eat it." Liang Yuemei told them. She dipped her hands in some cold water and separated the steamed buns one by one, so as not to damage the integrity if they were separated after cooling.
Li Juan and Li Qiang each held a big steamed bun, exchanging their left and right hands, and gasped from time to time.
Li Long and Li Jianguo were chatting about things this winter and next year.
"I plan to buy a tractor next year." Li Long expressed his thoughts, "With this thing, it will be faster to go into the mountains and sell things. I am still thinking about the wheat we grow. Let's see if we can get the agricultural machinery factory to make a harvester or something, so that harvesting wheat won't be so troublesome. ”
Li Long remembered that before the popularity of combine harvesters in later generations, there was a time when it was more popular to use a small four-wheel tractor to carry a wheat harvester, hung directly in front of the small four-wheel tractor. Cut the wheat down so that workers only have to tie it up and haul it away.
Although it is still necessary to thresh wheat in the wheat field, the process of cutting wheat is eliminated, which at least saves a large part of the labor - cutting wheat is really a shadow.
And he remembered that this kind of harvester was actually not complicated, just like a chain saw with a circle of cutter heads, driven by a small four-wheel belt.
If you go to an agricultural machinery factory and provide people with ideas, they should be able to make it, right?
Li Long thought so. After all, those people were experts, and agricultural machinery factories now also need sales for agricultural machinery. If a more popular agricultural machinery is developed, the profits of agricultural machinery factories will also be very high.
Not only this, Li Long also remembered many more convenient farming tools in later generations. He could actually use this opportunity to make them bit by bit - but he didn't seem to have the connections in this area.
Should you ask Li Xiangqian or others? If you buy individual stocks or something, you can provide your own ideas and you can split the money.
Oh, I thought too far.
"Buy a tractor? That's not cheap!" Li Jianguo looked solemn, "A tractor costs five or six thousand, and a larger carriage is more expensive. You will build a house and get married next year, so that money can ? I still have some here..."
"Brother, I still have a few months to earn some money." Li Long waved his hand hurriedly, "Don't worry about money. , you will need a license to drive a tractor. Brother, you should learn from this. If I don’t go into the mountains, you can drive the tractor at home. The tractor is better than the horse-drawn carriage.”
“That’s true.” Li Jianguo naturally understood this truth. If you have a tractor , it’s much easier to fight on the field. The carriage pulls the roller, which is much slower than the tractor.”
“How much does it cost?” Li Long smiled, “The price of oil is also high now. Not expensive.”
Anyone who buys a tractor these days will buy an oil drum, a large iron drum of 180 liters. Those who are rich will also prepare an oil pump, and those who are poor will buy a hose. Then prepare small oil drums, extract the oil from the large oil drums and pour it into the tractor.
There are not many tractor drivers these days who have never drank diesel. The smell - haha.
However, diesel is indeed cheap these days, less than one yuan a liter, but you need a letter of introduction when buying it, and private individuals generally cannot buy it. But it will be different next year. Once the tractors of the production team are allocated to private individuals, private purchases of diesel will gradually be liberalized.
So Li Long was not worried about not being able to buy oil, nor was he worried about not being able to buy a tractor - during the reform and opening up, both state-owned enterprises and government agencies had to slowly adapt to this process.
"Next year, the team's land may also be contracted to private individuals." Li Long continued, "I really want to buy a tractor then. If I can get a harvester, my family can contract more land. ”
The first round of land contracting for the production team here was for fifteen years, from 1983 to 1997, and the second round of land contracting was from 1998 to 2027, lasting for thirty years. In fact, it was the first round of land contracting. During the land contract period, the land will remain unchanged for the next 30 years. If people are added, the land will not be increased, and if people are reduced, the land will not be reduced.
Li Long's production team had a relatively large area of wasteland, which was later basically developed, so each person's ration land plus contracted land averaged about fifteen acres. This has laid the foundation for large-scale land transfers to cooperatives to start in 2010, and dividends will be tens of thousands or more.
At that time, if the land is contracted to other parties, it will only be one package per year. Almost no collective or individual will contract out their land for several years at a time.
After all, from 2000 to around 2000, land prices rose every year, from a few hundred yuan per acre to a maximum of 1,810 acres. If a contract was contracted for ten or twenty years, it would be a loss. dead.
“With so many contracts, can we plant them?” At this time, Liang Yuemei had already quickly fried a pickle and pork, and she planned to fry another vegetable.
Li Jianguo took out a bottle of wine, and while taking the wine glass, he shouted in the direction of the kitchen:
"Are you going to drink?"
"I won't drink." Liang Yuemei knew that she was calling her , responded, "I'll make another dish, you guys drink first!"
Li Jianguo took two cups, rinsed them with water, and then poured a cup for himself and Li Long.
“This land, it’s right to pack more when you pack it.” Li Long said, “We are farmers. What else can farmers have besides land? With land, we will be invincible. Well, at least I don’t have to worry about eating and drinking. As for whether I can eat and drink well, it depends on how it works.”
He hasn't come up with a good solution yet. He was too messy in his last life. Before his eldest brother's family was separated, he didn't pay much attention to farm work and agricultural industry, and knew very little about it. Some things in memory require key information to be triggered. But he believed that he would always think of it, and by then he might be able to make a fortune with his eldest brother and his family by doing some special planting or chasing after the trend.
People like Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan are more cautious. After all, they have more experience and are still a little speculative about household quotas. Li Long clearly knows the direction of history, so he will not worry about any changes in the future.
Changes will only get better and better, at least this is the general trend in the next few decades.
“Come, have a drink.” Li Jianguo is good at persuading outsiders to drink, but he has nothing to say to his own family.
“Drink one!” Li Long was also very happy. Is this a summary of the year? It has been a year since I was reborn. In this year, I have truly brought tremendous changes to my family, to everyone in my family, to my parents, and to the entire production team.
Very proud.
Of course, the biggest change is myself. If I had not been reborn, I would still be a passionate secretary at this age and have a strong sense of vanity, but I would only take away my own things and enthusiastically help others.
Bitch!
Now, my family has money, I have money, my parents also have spare money, they have found a beautiful and capable partner, bought a big house, and have a good "job" ", established a good network of contacts.
Growing fast!
Li Long himself was also very satisfied with the changes this year. He happily poured the 50g glass of 50% liquor down his throat.
So spicy!
Having been a man for two generations, Li Long didn't even taste this liquor and found out what was good about it. I don’t like drinking not only white wine, but also red wine and beer. However, among the three types of wine, the beer is still barely acceptable, mainly due to the low alcohol content.
As for the rice wine recommended by a certain health guru and popular in the south, Li Long has never drunk it.
Cannot comment.
But as soon as the wine entered his stomach, he felt his body heat up, and then his head became a little dizzy, and he started talking more involuntarily.
"Brother, if there is freezing rain or something behind you, don't go out." This is what Li Long is most worried about. "What? Freezing rain?" Li Jianguo poured wine for himself and Li Long. Li Long asked for a bottle, but he didn't agree.
The wine commander is in charge of the wine bottles. This power cannot be given casually.
"It's freezing rain!" Li Long was in a mixed mood and a little excited. Before Li Jianguo could raise his glass, he picked up the glass himself and drank it all in one gulp.
He's a little over the top.
Although the eldest brother was obviously sitting at the edge of the table, opposite him, when he mentioned it, he would think of his eldest brother in the previous life who went out during the freezing rain period to look for him and fell to his death.
"What caused the freezing rain?" Li Jianguo still didn't understand, but he could see that Li Long was a little strange, so he poured only half a glass of wine for him, "What do you want to say?"
"Winter, with the weather like this, if it rains, then when the rain falls on the ground, it will freeze, and it will be freezing rain." Li Long drank a little hard, and served two drinks. With his head spinning, he explained with a bit of tongue in cheek, "It's freezing rain and the road is slippery, so don't walk around. Juan and Qiangqiang are on vacation now, and it's going to freeze rain, so don't go out."
"Where has there been freezing rain here? It's impossible, right? Can it rain in the winter?" Li Jianguo didn't believe it, "You've only had two drinks, why are you talking nonsense?"
Seeing that his elder brother didn't take it to heart, Li Long was a little anxious. He pressed the table and said:
"Brother, you listen to me. You have to listen to me on this matter! Make sure to write it down... Let's live a good life. , you have to live well..."
In the last life, it was his eldest brother who died because of him, and then Li Long repented, but by then it was already too late. His sister-in-law, Li Juan, and Li Qiang would not forgive him, and he actually didn't Forgive yourself.
This life has changed, but until that day comes, Li Long is still worried.
He originally kept this matter in his heart, but today when he was drinking and talking, he couldn't help but say it.
"Xiaolong said, can you just write it down?" Liang Yuemei came over with another plate of fried pickled cabbage and a plate of steamed buns, "Hasn't everything Xiaolong said this year been proven to be right? Don't worry about so much. Just write it down. Don't just drink and eat steamed buns!"
"Okay." Li Long smiled after hearing what his sister-in-law said. He should take it seriously.
Li Long also knew that he drank a little too hard, so he didn't drink much. He took the steamed bun and ate it with a big mouthful, and the vegetables tasted delicious. This is much more delicious than the offal fried in the wooden house.
Li Jianguo stopped drinking and started eating with the steamed buns. The wine needed to be weighed down with food. The 50-gram cup is pretty big.
Li Long did not return to his old horse number in the end. Liang Yuemei put the stove in the east room on while they were drinking. After drinking, it was late at night, and Li Long was obviously a little drunk now. She didn't trust Li Long to go back to Laoma by himself.
There is a lesson here - drunk people don't walk steadily on the road. In the winter, their feet slip and fall into the snow on the roadside, and then they suffocate themselves to death.
What happened in the neighboring village is a lesson.
Li Long is actually still sober, but he is more attentive. Since he has drank, and since the east room has been tidied up and has a stove, he should not leave and have a comfortable sleep. .
Li Long got up earlier the next day, feeling refreshed, as if he had put aside the big problem in his heart, and felt relaxed.
The stove had already gone out, and the temperature in the room was not very low. He put on his clothes and stood up to open the door. The cold air outside almost knocked him back. But he became more awake. He went to the east toilet to release the water. When he came back, he found black smoke coming from the chimney of the west room. He must be cooking, right?
Of course.
After breakfast, Li Long rode his bicycle to Gu's house and delivered the cotton rubber shoes he bought for Gu Boyuan. He chatted with the old man there for a while and had lunch here.
The la tiaozi made by Gu Xiaoxia tastes pretty good in Li Long's opinion.
After dinner, Li Long didn't stay here long and went back to the old horse.
On the way, he met Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang who came to them.
"You didn't go to sell fish today?" Li Long asked.
"No, I went to the horse number to look for you this morning. I couldn't find you, so I went to your elder brother's place again. Then he said you were here, so he didn't dare to come over." Yang Yongqiang said with a smile.
"Let's go to Laoma first." Li Long said as he pushed the car.
The three of them arrived at Lao Ma. Uncle Luo was listening to the radio. When he heard the noise, he went out to see that Li Long was back. He helped set up the stove and let the young people chat.
There was storytelling on the radio, and he couldn't bear to miss it.
"Are there many people buying fish?" Li Long sat down and asked, "Is it easy to sell?"
Last year it was still a black market. If Li Long caught too many fish, he had to go to the family yard to sell them, or go to Shicheng to find them. Sold in the factory. There is a market this year, which is much more convenient.
Life is getting better day by day, Li Long sighed secretly.
"It's okay," Tao Daqiang said something that was like he didn't say anything.
“It’s harder to sell than in summer.” Yang Yongqiang said, “There are only four fish sellers in our team, and they all weigh around 70 or 80 kilos. We have more, about 20 kilos. People who buy fish don’t A lot, so I basically can’t come back until the afternoon.”
"Then it's better to save a cart of fish and take it directly to Shicheng to sell." Li Long said, "Shicheng market is big, there are many people, and there is a lot to buy, so there is no need to waste so much time."
"We are too. I think so."
Li Long thought for a while and said:
"Go to Shi. We can't just bring fish to the city. Let's get some traps and trap some rabbits today, and then we can bring them over and sell them. If we can sell them, we can sell them. If we can't, we can eat them ourselves. Let's do more tricks. "
"Okay!" Tao Daqiang was also very happy. As soon as Li Long came back, he seemed to have a backbone.
"Go and ask other people if they want to sell the fish to us." Li Long said again, "How do you sell it in the market?"
"Same as last year, eight cents for crucian carp and one piece of carp."
"Then ask them, I collect the fish here, four cents One kilogram, collectively. If you sell it to me, just weigh it. Let’s collect some more fish and sell them to Shicheng at once to make a profit.”
Everything must be done on a small scale. Make small money, seek stability, make big moves, and focus on making big money.
"Okay, I'll ask in the afternoon!" Yang Yongqiang is familiar with this. Isn't that what happened when the warehouse was cleared in Dahaizi? But the prices charged now are much higher than those then.
Li Long obviously found that his several suggestions greatly increased the mobility of Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang. When I saw them selling fish in the market yesterday, their enthusiasm was not as strong as it is now.
Is it because you are used to relying on yourself that you become like this?
Do you need to let them do things alone and develop your own ability to handle things?
Then Li Long smiled. He's not a big shot, so why make it so complicated?
Isn’t this good now? He has strong obedience, can make money, is young, obedient, and doesn’t have so many miscellaneous things.
Does it have to cause trouble?
That’s it.
Li Long started to make thin wire and rabbit traps.
Most of last year's ones were wasted by him. This year he will make more, and remember to recycle them.
After all, Half Silk and Half Wisp of Perseverance is struggling with material resources. (End of chapter)