When Li Long got up the next day, it was already broad daylight. In fact, the biological clock played a role in the middle, but Li Long opened it and looked at it, then fell asleep again. Since he didn't need to get up, he slept peacefully, and he didn't even know that Gu Xiaoxia had gotten up to cook.
In fact, yesterday’s ride and the thrills in the middle made him a little tired both physically and mentally, so he simply took a good rest.
When he got up, the temperature in the room was not low. He knew that Gu Xiaoxia had added coal to the stove.
Just such a dull day is actually quite good. It’s just that I still have to run around to save money. At this moment, he was still a little envious of those people in the village who could now live a warm life with wives and children. Although they were not as rich as himself, at least they were happy for now.
Not necessarily, just like what a famous female writer in Northern Xinjiang said many years later, the general idea is that people always have to worry about some things. If they don’t worry about this thing, they will worry about another one. Worry about something.
Not many people can truly be content with what they have.
In other words, very few.
I got up, rubbed my face, got dressed, went outside to use the toilet, came to the kitchen, and saw the breakfast prepared by Gu Xiaoxia.
Rice porridge, dough pancakes, fried pickles, oily spicy seeds.
Li Long washed and ate, then tidied up the kitchen and continued his run.
Arm yourself fully and ride your bike back.
In Li Long's opinion, he had only been gone for two days. When he returned to the team, he should be able to collect thirty or forty rabbits until they died.
But he really underestimated everyone’s enthusiasm for making money.
Back at Li's house, seeing seven or eight people smoking and chatting in the yard without entering the house, Li Long knew that this matter might not be as simple as he thought.
These people most likely have other reasons than just making money.
"Hey, Xiaolong is back." Li Long didn't expect that captain Xu Chengjun was also there. After seeing Li Long, he smiled and greeted, "Is this coming back from the county?"
"Well, go. Let’s go to Shicheng.” Li Long said, “Why don’t you go inside? It’s so cold outside.” Besides, there’s no room for standing inside.”
< br>"We all come here to give away rabbits. Each one costs 3 yuan, and chasing seven or eight rabbits a day is equivalent to a month's salary of an apprentice." Xu Chengjun took a puff of Mohe Cannon and said: "It's a good deal! You kid It’s a good thing this time!”
Some other people were embarrassed to say this. Xu Chengjun was fine. He was the first to know about it and the first to ask Li Long if he would accept it. Rabbit's. The people standing in the yard now have good relations with him, and he informed them, so he said this without any embarrassment.
Both he and Li Long understood that this matter itself was a win-win situation. The villagers made money and Li Long could complete the task.
"Then you guys chat first, I'll go in and take a look." Li Long heard the noise from the other side of the house, propped up his bicycle, said something and then entered the house.
"You are busy with your business and leave us alone. We will leave if we wait any longer. We have to get condoms in the afternoon." Xu Chengjun said with a smile.
Li Long pushed the door open, and a burst of hot air rushed out. The room was very hot. Over at the vacant house, Li Jianguo was talking:
"...three of them weighing more than three kilograms will cost you three yuan. The total is nine yuan. This one is big, almost six kilograms. Here it is. Counting four yuan, it’s not a loss, right? That’s thirteen yuan, and this little one weighs two kilograms. If you can’t harvest this rabbit, you can take it back and cook it.”
"What are you going to eat? Put it here and take it inside." The man with his back to Li Long took the money from Li Jianguo and said loudly: "Old Li, you gave me the money happily. I can't be stingy here, right? Okay?" Now, I’m leaving. I’ll see if I can get a few more in the afternoon!”
The man turned around and Li Long said with a smile:
"Brother Hao, are you trapping a rabbit too?"
"Is that possible?" Hao Xinzhong said with a smile, "You have given us a way to make money, so why don't we do some exercise? Xiaolong , you are this!"
He gave Li Long a thumbs up, then patted him on the shoulder and went out.
Hao Jianzhong is older than Li Jianguo and came here during the time when the village was founded. He came here first, followed by his wife and children. He was good at work, but his brain was not very flexible. In the next few years, the family would only have enough food and clothing. He only knew how to work in the fields, and the scope of planting was very narrow, which was basically necessary for life, such as wheat and rapeseed. , can pay public food.
Li Jianguo is different from him, or Li Jianguo is different from most people in the village. In addition to raising pigs, Li Jianguo almost spent the 20 to 30 acres of land at home and the 20 acres of land he contracted later. He planted beets, carrots, melons, sunflowers, lettuce, etc. In short, he spent a lot of time. I bought a tractor in 2008.
What a pity...
Li Long stopped thinking about it and walked towards the vacant house.
There is no fire wall or stove here. The temperature is low. Once the door is closed, the hot air cannot come in. It is more suitable for storing things.
What surprised Li Long was that there was a pile of frozen rabbits piled high beside the wall. At first glance, there were fifty or sixty of them!
"Brother, so many!"
"Haha, that's not true!" Li Jianguo said with a smile, "I didn't expect that I had collected so much in just two days! I don't think it will be better in the future. Two days, this rabbit is almost enough, can we keep it later? "
"Take it." Li Long said, "That's enough for the sugar factory. We can go to Shicheng to sell the rest."
"That's right," Li Jianguo said." Let’s just be second-rate dealers.”
"That's different. We call it an intermediary, or an economy." Li Long said with a smile, "Let's find a way for everyone to make money, and earn some hard-earned money and travel expenses."
" Haha, you know how to learn." Li Jianguo knew that this was a job that was sure to make money, and he was actually very happy, and then asked:
"How is it in the mountains? Did you agree?”
“It’s agreed that they don’t want money, so let me bring more food and other supplies.”
“It’s useless for them to take the money. It's better to replace it with supplies." Li Jianguo nodded, "Let's go out. I'll close this door and don't let the heat get in."
After leaving the spare house, Li Long heard that there was no sound in the yard, so he smiled and said:
"I didn't expect the captain to lead people to catch rabbits."
"Haha, he did too. Look for the feeling you had before, working in the team. , it was just a shout from the loudspeaker, and everyone went out together. The land was divided last year, and it was said that the remaining land would be contracted out. In the future, there will be fewer people who want to work like this, at most, they will dig ditches in the spring. He can go out together when planting trees. He is not a captain. It’s so fun!”
“Also, I’m worried that the team will have some free time to do something. The ration fields will be divided this year, and you have found some jobs for everyone to make money. Some people become restless when they have some money in their pockets. Some people play cards to make money. There are also some petty thieves.
The captain gathered these people together to hunt rabbits. After running around outside for a while, it can be considered an entertainment activity. Once you are tired, you won’t have to think about it so much when you get back. Other things.”
Li Long didn't expect that there were so many ways in it. It seems that management is really a science. Whether you are managing a company or a production team, it requires thinking, ability and methods.
He asked himself that he couldn't do this, he didn't have the ability.
Liang Yuemei is cooking, and Li Qiang and Li Juan have gone out to play. Li Jianguo and Li Long were chatting in the West Room.
“I plan to send a telegram to my family when the New Year is coming,” Li Jianguo said. “I will tell my parents then and ask them to come over after the New Year. Last year I saw that they had a strange habit of staying around. , then go ahead and come here. It’s not a bad life.”
“That’s right, the house here is warm and can support people in the winter. The winter in my hometown is still boring.” A few memories of life in my hometown remain.
When the meal was almost ready, someone knocked on the door and pushed in.
Li Long got up first and listened to Liang Yuemei say:
"Weiguo? Are you selling rabbits? Come in, come in!"
Then Liang Yuemei shouted inside :
"Juan's father, Xiaolong, and Weiguo came over to sell rabbits."
Wei Guo's surname is Jia, from a family that later joined the team. Li Long vaguely remembered that when he first came here, he was wearing rags and rags. There were not many people in the team at that time, so he joined the team. After staying for two years, he took his wife over, and then he A daughter was born in the team.
Both husband and wife are not in good health, especially his wife, who has a chronic disease and cannot work very well, and her family is not living a good life.
Li Jianguo and Li Long went over together and looked at Jia Weiguo holding two rabbits, standing by the door awkwardly.
Jia Weiguo's clothes are a bit big, and the cotton-padded clothes inside are a bit thin. They feel like clothes worn outside an empty bucket. The clothes are still shaking and cannot be held up.
Seeing Li Jianguo and Li Long coming over, he smiled, maybe a little embarrassed and uncomfortable, and lowered his head.
"Weiguo is here, have you caught a rabbit? Not bad! Come on, come inside!"
Li Jianguo opened the door of the spare house and motioned for Jia Weiguo to follow him. "This big rabbit costs three yuan." Li Jianguo looked at the rabbit handed over by Jia Weiguo and said, "The little one, I'll give you two and a half yuan..."
Li Long could tell that the little rabbit was worth three yuan. The rabbit was less than three kilograms, and he had previously declared that he would not accept it, but now he did not say anything. They are all on the same team, and the eldest brother doesn't want Jia Weiguo to be in trouble, so he naturally has no problem with it.
"Then...thank you, Brother Li." Jia Weiguo moved his lips and said something, his face a little red, "I know...this rabbit is a bit small..."
"It's okay, there's a big price for a big one, and a small price for a small one." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Here, keep the money, come on, give me the rabbit."
Jia Weiguo took the money and pinched it. In my hands, I feel a little overwhelmed.
"You haven't eaten yet? Have you eaten before leaving?" Liang Yuemei asked in the middle room.
"If you don't want to eat, I have to go back... Guixiang made the food at home." Jia Weiguo said hurriedly, feeling like he was about to sweat.
"Then bring some steamed buns back." Liang Yuemei said as she quickly wrapped a few steamed buns in a cage cloth and tied them, "For the children to eat, your Xiaocui looks really thin, you have to eat It's ready." He put the bun into Jia Weiguo's hand.
Jia Weiguo wanted to refuse, but Li Jianguo said with a smile:
"Take it, sir, it's fine. Don't dare to delay the baby's growth."
Jia Weiguo's lips moved, not knowing what to say. What.
Li Long opened the door and sent the person out.
When he came back, Li Jianguo sighed:
"This is a miserable man. If nothing happened in those few years, he might be a good teacher, and he might also have a job in the city."
This Li Long didn't know, and asked curiously : "Has he been to school?"
"Graduated from high school. It would have been very beneficial to go to high school at that time." Li Jianguo said, "While working, I vaguely heard He said that he is a good person, but he is not good at talking."
"Guixiang is also a poor person," Liang Yuemei, who came in with a plate of dishes, continued, "Jia Weiguo happened to be pregnant with her first baby. Something happened, and the result...was gone. She only got pregnant with Xiaocui when she was in the team. Her health was not good, and the child was born with deficiencies..."
What a pitiful person.
Li Long shook his head and sighed a little. Character and ability come first, and family situation does not play a major role. It is much better than what I heard from novels and the elders in my hometown.
"Eat, eat, you eat first, I'll go call Juan and Qiangqiang."
"I'll go, I'll go." Li Long said with a smile, "I'll go out and shout. "Almost."
As he was talking, the voices of children came from outside. Li Long said with a smile:
"Look, we are back. Children have a sense of time. ”
"What? I'm probably hungry." Liang Yuemei said.
The door opened, and Li Qiang shouted loudly:
"I'm starving to death, Mom! What kind of rice are you cooking...cooking...Uncle is back? When did uncle arrive? "Why didn't I see you?"
"It's been less than an hour since I came back," Li Long said with a smile.
Li Qiang is better than himself. He said silently in his heart. When I was as old as Li Qiang, I wouldn't even say hello when relatives came to my house. Li Qiang was the same before, but now he is obviously more proactive and confident.
Is this considered a change brought about by myself?
After dinner, Li Jianguo took Li Long to look at the fish placed in the east room. The fish brought in by Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang in the past two days weighed 70 to 80 kilograms, and the Liang family and two other families brought about 100 kilograms of fish. Generally speaking, according to this progress, one ton can be produced in five or six days.
Li Long means, keep doing it. Save more, go to Shicheng a few more times to sell, and the money will come.
Li Jianguo has no objection. In the past, there was really no progress in winter. Now that we have such a good thing, why not do it? He himself was thinking that he should have kept a pig until the end of the year, slaughtered it, and sold it to Shicheng. It would have sold quickly and at a good price.
Li Long did not go to Xiaohaizi. After dinner, he went to Ma Hao.
Old Uncle Luo was picking up those grass poles from the pen. When he saw Li Long coming, he complained:
"The deer and the roe deer are just picking! This grass is so good, but it is not delicious. Every day Just thinking about sugar residue and corn noodles! That cow is so good, it can be eaten clean..."
"Old Uncle Luo, you have to think about it, this deer has grown up. Why? It’s only five or six hundred yuan. A cow costs three hundred yuan. It’s different!” It’s really valuable.”
In the evening, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang came over, and Li Long could see that they were very excited.
"Hey, did you catch a big fish?" Li Long asked with a smile.
“No, but there have been quite a lot of fish in the past two days. As it gets colder, the ice becomes thicker, and the fish below lack oxygen, so they can eat a lot in a day!”
"That's a good thing." Li Long said with a smile, "Get a ton as soon as possible, and then I can send it to Shicheng."
"Is that too much?" Yang Yongqiang asked.
“Let’s keep the extra ones. When the sugar factory is finished, we can continue to sell them to the old street.” Li Long said, “The money is too much for us!”
"That's right, I don't mind it too much!"
"I don't mind it either!" Tao Daqiang said, "The more, the better!"
"Hahahaha!"
The three of them laughed together.
After breakfast the next day, Li Long went to his elder brother's place to hitch the carriage and hurried to the county.
He wanted to prepare all the supplies as soon as possible and then send them to the mountains. Based on Li Long's guess, Harimu and the others would definitely prepare the sheep within a day or two. If it was just Harimu and Yushanjiang, it might take a few days. But it will be very fast to gather people nearby.
Li Long went to the market first. Seeing that there was not much food in the market, he went to the food store. Unfortunately, there are no special grains on sale right now. Li Long took out all the food stamps in stock and bought eight bags of rice and eight bags of noodles, each weighing 200 kilograms.
The carriage is equipped with shelves, which are not too much to hold. He went to the supply and marketing cooperative again and bought four bags of 50 kilograms of coarse salt. These coarse salts are used by herdsmen to feed their livestock in winter. Of course, the sheepskin also needs to be rubbed with salt to preserve it and prevent insects.
They are not used to using refined salt, and coarse salt is just right for them. If there is no coarse salt, they will also buy rock salt, but there are many impurities in rock salt, so Li Long thinks it is better to let them use coarse salt.
After everything was installed, Li Long went to the department store again and bought fifty yuan of brick tea, twenty yuan of sugar cubes, and twenty bags of refined salt. Finally, he went to the market and found two vegetable stalls. There were two bags of potatoes and two large bags of cabbage. These two vegetables can also be eaten frozen. The main reason is that the herdsmen don’t have much vegetables in winter, so it’s not good to rely on tea alone to solve the vitamin problem.
Before finally leaving, I went to a medicine company and bought some commonly used medicines.
The director still remembered Li Long, so there was no problem with him buying medicine.
Driving a carriage with a load of things, Li Long stuffed his gun holster into the front of the carriage and hurried toward the mountains.
No. 76 was quite easy all the way to Qingshui River, but after passing the last village and heading into the mountains, it slowed down.
It would be better if it was just an empty carriage, but with seven to eight hundred kilograms of stuff on it, No. 76 was still pulling up with all his strength, no matter how strong he was.
Li Long would take a break every half hour, after all, the snow was too thick - and then go to the place where he shot the night before.
Li Long just wanted to see if the thing with green eyes had been hit by him.
As a result, when he went over to see it, Li Long was surprised and happy:
That was not a wolf, but a yellow sheep!
He was shot in the neck and died on the spot. Blood flowed all over the floor!
Freeze solid.
Li Longji carried the thing and threw it onto the carriage. Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected gain! (End of this chapter)