The next morning, three people went to patrol rabbits, and this time they got twenty-one!
Yang Yongqiang praised Li Long for adjusting the condom, which was really useful!
In the next few days, Li Long and the others even caught fish and rabbits. After packing a cart, they took them to Shicheng to sell them.
The three of them worked together and separated stalls when selling in Shicheng. As the New Year approached, the popularity of fish and rabbits was second only to the stalls selling meat. Li Long originally thought about getting a pig to kill and sell it, but then he thought about it. The stall is too big to take care of, and it’s easy to get distracted.
After all, if you want to kill, just kill the wild boar in the horse pen. The pigs on the elder brother's side are two sows, and the ones that give birth in spring will be kept. It’s troublesome to model.
Li Long also specially left some fish and a few rabbits. The two rabbits were given to Song Ming in exchange for a cart of sugar residue - it can't be said that they were exchanged. Song Ming gave the money this time, otherwise he would not take anything.
Li Long asked him to inquire about the recruitment situation of the sugar factory. The results given by Song Ming made Li Long a little frustrated. Even if the sugar factory wanted to recruit workers, they would most likely recruit young people around the age of twenty. Second Brother Li Anguo is already thirty, so it is probably difficult to recruit him.
But Yang Yongqiang was a little moved after hearing this.
Li Long gave half of the remaining fish and rabbits to Sister Yang, and sent the rest to Li Xiangqian. He also asked Li Xiangqian to pay attention to where there was recruitment information.
Li Xiangqian was a little surprised when he heard Li Long’s words:
"Why, you don't want to be an employee of our supply and marketing cooperative, but you want to be another worker?"
"No, no, no, I'm not going. I'm looking for a way for my second brother. My second brother I plan to come here from my hometown. It’s difficult for our team to settle down, and my second brother doesn’t really want to farm. I just wanted to see if I could find a place to put him in."
"There are some jobs available, but I guess your second brother is not willing to do it."
"Where?" After hearing this, Li Long was a little surprised. Is there really a way?
“A classmate of mine works in a mine. Their coal mine is short of people and they need to recruit people. How old is your second brother?”
"Thirty." Li Long thought about the coal mine. Is it like Sun Shaoping? That's not safe.
"Thirty is a bit big." Li moved forward and touched his chin, thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, wait for me to ask again. Why don't we wait until after the New Year? "
"Yes, yes, thank you first! I'll ask my second brother what he thinks. Let's take our time."
< br>"Yes, take your time, and don't thank me. I can't keep eating your sheep, rabbits and fish for nothing." Li Xiangqian said happily, "As for the things you did in the summer, my face There is light. Whatever work I have in the future, just do it well if you can."
Li Long is actually quite happy when it comes to this matter.
Although the coal mine is hard and dangerous, at least the workers are treated well, and Li Long thought that when it was confirmed, he would ask Li Xiangqian to find his classmates, and he would send a favor and let his second brother do some less dangerous work.
Lives have to be found slowly. Li Long and the others sold fish and rabbits twice a year ago. He gave Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang a hundred each, and his elder brother also divided a hundred—— According to Li Long, the money for the carriage.
He got more than three hundred yuan, which was not a small sum. He planned to use half of it to buy new year's goods.
Money is earned and spent. With the money from selling the bear, Li Long has basically saved enough money to buy a tractor, a color TV and build a house. If you spend it all, you can still earn more.
I told Yang Yongqiang and Tao Daqiang that in the past few days before the year before, they had been working at home and they had not sold fish or rabbits. Cheng, I didn’t meet Yu Sufu this time.
Before Li Long went to the department store to buy things, he went to the jade factory.
The last time I met Liu Gong, the master who had to take a back seat due to injury, I bought those high-quality small jade carvings from him. Li Long was still very happy. This time I went over and wanted to take a look. There are still more Is there any more.
What made Li Long a little happy was that the small window at the side door of the jade factory was still open, and hot air came out from there from time to time.
Why open the window on a cold day? Li Long was a little confused, but he walked over quickly.
Going to the window, Li Long looked in and saw two old people arguing quietly there.
"Open the windows. Open the windows every day. Don't you know how expensive coal is? The factories give you rations. It's enough if you don't open the windows. Once you open the windows, all the heat escapes, and there's not enough coal. You have to buy it yourself. Is your salary enough?”
"It has to be opened. How would others know that we still sell jade here?"
"How can anyone buy it? I've been delivering food to you at noon every day. It's been a month, and a total of five of them have been sold. Is there any file? Let me see, just close it. You can go back to the hospital and do it. It's better to do other small business than to stay here every day."
"What business? I am a jade worker, what do you do?" The man's voice suddenly rose." I'm a formal worker! I don't want to be a petty worker! It's business..."
"You are also doing business now! Are you selling jade?" the woman retorted, not giving any face, "The factory asked you to guard here out of good intentions. Nor can..."
Li Long finally understood.
He was a little sad.
This man sounds like Liu Gong, who bought jade for himself, and the woman should be her wife.
Liu Gong insists on his identity as a worker and does not want to retire due to illness. The old man's life at home may not be very good, and his wife also wants Liu Gong to retire with dignity.
But the old man should have been working on jade for his whole life, and he couldn’t give it up.
"Is Liu Gong here?" Li Long felt that the two of them should not continue arguing. He took a few steps back, then stepped up his steps and shouted loudly as he walked.
Sure enough, as soon as he spoke, the two people stopped arguing immediately.
“That young man is here!” Liu Gong got excited and said all these words. He wiped his hands, got to the window first, smiled unnaturally and said:
"I'm here, I'm here, young man, you...Comrade Li, right? I'm here!"< br>
"Hello, Mr. Liu, I'm here to buy jade. The kind you carve yourself is the best." Li Long said with a smile, "I brought it back last time and my family liked it very much. This is just the New Year." Well, so I’m thinking of buying some more, but I don’t know if they are available..."
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" Liu Gong smiled and took out a square plate from the cabinet, which was filled with small carved pieces. There are white jade, black jade, blue and white jade, jasper, and emerald.
“Look, my hands don’t work very well, so I carved these during this period of time...”
There are not many styles of things, the main ones are Ping An buckle and Ping An Mingshi brand. , handle pieces for hands, a few bracelets, and two bracelets.
“As I get older, my hands are not as strong as they used to be, and they have been injured, so that’s all.” Liu Gong explained, “But you can rest assured about the quality, the materials chosen are all good. Although it's a little small..."
"Liu Gong, I'm definitely satisfied with what you carved." Li Long said with a smile, "Calculate how much it costs, I'll take it all."
The second brother is bringing his family over, and my sister may come over later, so these things will all come in handy.
"You want them all? Then..." Liu Gong was a little surprised. He thought Li Long was picking a few like last time. "Although these things are made of small materials, they add up to a lot of money. You see... "
"It's okay, just forget it. By the way, I will also take some of the carvings that your apprentices put on display.”
Li Long thinks they will be useful for giving gifts later. Even if they are apprentices, they can be sold here, at least. The quality is not too bad, not to mention the materials at this time. Everything will be a good thing in future generations.
“Okay, okay.” Liu Gong nodded hurriedly. Most of the things Li Long wanted were carved by him, and he had a price in mind - of course the price was not high. He felt that if someone appreciated and recognized the things that he, a semi-cripple, had made, it was already worth it. There was nothing he could do about the apprenticeship materials. The factory had marked the price, so he couldn't lower the price.
Li Long asked for three pairs of bracelets from the apprentice materials, because even if they were apprentices, they were not very different from master craftsmen - at least in Li Long's eyes. Under Liu Gong's guidance, he chose the best suet-fat jade material, the kind with skin, which was of course not cheap, costing more than thirty yuan at this time.
There were eleven pieces in total, and Li Long paid one hundred and eighty yuan.
Satisfied.
Wrap the jade pieces one by one in newspapers and put them into the satchel. Li Long left. Behind him, he heard the woman who had been silent the whole time ask in a low voice:
"This is the one I found last time. The young man you bought the jade from is so rich, he bought more than a dozen pieces at a time..."
"Well, the young man is rich and knows the goods."
"Then you opened the window correctly. Otherwise, if people come to see the window closed, they will think you don't sell anything, and the loss will be huge. Yes. You sold two bracelets, and now the factory can tell you..." The corners of Li Long's mouth turned up slightly, this is the so-called win-win, right?
Take the bus to the department store, and Li Long started sweeping the goods.
Dried and fresh fruits are a must-buy, as well as more firecrackers, snacks and some dry goods and seafood, as well as some gifts for the family.
This time I bought Gu Xiaoxia a headscarf - women in small counties at this time were quite accustomed to wearing headscarves. I bought a pair of leather gloves for my eldest brother. Although the family made him a pair of rabbit skin, the tanning of the rabbit skin was not good enough and was a bit hard. Li Juan was given a pair of small leather boots, and Li Qiang was given a set of imitation children's military uniforms.
Li Long didn't buy anything for himself here. He planned to go to Xinhua Bookstore later to buy a few books to read.
After experiencing all kinds of information reception in the last life, after being able to solve the problem of eating well in this life, the biggest problem is that there are too few entertainment activities.
Only reading books.
After all, I didn’t read much at this age in my previous life, and now that I have a mobile phone, I can read even less. In the era of short videos, fewer people can read full-length novels (traditional), but now Li Long is given such an opportunity.
After all, there are still many classics at this time.
The Xinhua Bookstore in Wucheng has many books that are not available in Shicheng, Ma County. Li Long bought several books and put them in his bag. There are also shotguns and small-caliber rifles sold here, but Li Long is currently not short of guns or bullets, and the double-barreled shotgun he got from the robbery is not used yet.
I bought a big bag and a handbag of bits and pieces. Canvas bags were still very popular at this time, and Li Long also carried one and brought his things to the bus stop. After waiting in the cold wind for a long time for the bus to come, he squeezed into the bus and sat to the train station.
Habitually looked at the stall again. Yu Sufu was not there yet. Li Long guessed whether he had collected enough money to sell raisins in the south.
After all, the Han people don’t celebrate the New Year. At this time, if you take raisins to the south, you can sell them at a good price. Li Long also bought some raisins this time and planned to put them on the table together with melon seeds, sugar and peanuts during the Chinese New Year.
In an era when supplies were relatively scarce, raisins were a good thing, and usually those who could display them were from well-off families. In the next few decades, although red dates, walnuts and raisins would be placed on the fruit plate of ordinary people, as the people from northern and southern Xinjiang say, unless there is nothing else to eat in the fruit plate, the locals would eat it. These three things.
People are indeed fickle.
Getting in the car and returning to Ma County, Li Long still didn't encounter anything on this trip. He was wondering if some movement had already started?
Otherwise, I feel that the order in Wucheng is much better, and the same is true at the train station.
Back in the county, Li Long carried his things to the big yard. After putting the things down, he began to sort them.
Some things have to be put here, and some things have to be taken back to the team. The one for Gu Xiaoxia should be put aside alone.
Gu Xiaoxia had not yet gotten off work at this time. After Li Long divided the things, he started cooking.
Gu Xiaoxia returned to the compound in the evening and had dinner happily with Li Long. After the meal, Gu Xiaoxia washed the dishes. Li Long took out the headscarf and said to her:
"This is a New Year's gift for you. I don't know if you like it or not..."
"I like it!" Gu Xiaoxia smiled happily, "In a moment, I will finish washing the dishes and put it on." Look!”
"Okay." Li Long stood on the side and watched.
After Gu Xiaoxia finished her work, Li Long handed her the scarf. Gu Xiaoxia put the scarf on her head, tied it with a knot around her neck, twisted it left and right, and said with a smile:
“Does it look good?”
“It looks good, it really looks good.”
Although it seems a bit vulgar from the perspective of future generations, it is just like the people in "My Father and Mother" The same as wearing clothes that match the era, that is beautiful.
After breakfast the next day, Li Long went to the bus station again. This time he was going to Shicheng.
The tractor factory in Shicheng is the largest agricultural machinery factory in the area where Li Long lives. It was formerly an automobile repair factory. Li Long is not sure how it will develop in the future, but it is very famous at this time and will be used in the next ten years. During this period, at least 60% to 70% of the tractors in nearby rural areas were produced here.
The small agricultural tractors here are twelve-horsepower, with small four wheels and a hand-operated round steering wheel. They are not the kind with grasshopper legs. They drag a bucket at the back. When you buy them, they will come with supporting equipment. You can Hang some other equipment behind the small four-wheel strap.
But to be honest, in the decade of the 1980s, most people in the village bought tractors just to pull things, and never used them for other things. By the 1990s, most of them were used for pulling things. There are two things, one is that there is a harvester installed in front of the truck to cut down the wheat, and the other is the front of the truck that uses the diesel engine of the truck to drive a thresher that can pull the corn kernels off the corn cobs.
The former has a wide range of uses and has been popular for about five or six years. The latter is relatively rare and has existed for a short time. It was soon replaced by the combine harvester.
Li Long is now thinking that if this cooperation can be successful, then the next step can be to contribute the idea of the small four-wheeled harvester in advance. In the next step, when cotton is planted on a large scale, pesticides can also be used Machine to get it out - that technology is somewhere in between, simpler than the harvester and slightly more difficult than the handheld and drum seeders.
In fact, as long as you understand some mechanical principles and you are considered a professional in this area, you can figure it out by listening to Li Longyi's description.
So Li Long thinks that he can develop this as a stable source of income in the future. We can’t make cotton pickers, and we don’t have the ability, but we can use leftover sprayers and harvesters. , cultivator, pole driver, etc., it is still easy to make.
There is no need to really engage in patents. For China, patents are something that will not be thought of for at least thirty years, as long as they can get the first wave of dividends.
What a beautiful thought.
Li Long took the short-distance bus to Shicheng and thought about it all the way to the old street.
He saw that many people on the shuttle bus were carrying large and small bags of things. Sometimes he also thought that if they caught fish and rabbits, they could take the shuttle bus to Shicheng to sell them. Anyway, the fare is cheap, only fifty cents.
But think about it and forget it, how much can one person carry on the shuttle bus? The fish smells so fishy that the driver may not allow it to be taken into the car.
We can’t let fish and people compete for position.
Think about it, it is more reliable to get a tractor later, and you don’t have to be controlled by others.
The Sanbengzi that became popular throughout the country in later generations is actually the best, but it is a pity that it cannot be obtained now.
Arrived at the old street, Li Long got off the car and strode towards the tractor factory.
The names of the tractor factories at this time were quite loud, such as Dongfanghong, October, Red October, Hongqi, etc. They were all red and professional.
The tractor factory is in the suburbs of Shicheng. Li Long walked a long way and it took almost an hour to arrive.
There was a guard at the door. When Li Long arrived, the factory door was closed, and he could see that the factory area was quite large.
When Li Long arrived at the gate, he was a little surprised. There were two men on guard, and they were all young people. They were wearing green military uniforms, Lei Feng hats, armed belts around their waists, and semi-automatic rifles. He guessed that The probability should be the corps militia.
"Comrade, what can I do for you?" a guard asked.
"Hello, I'm looking for the technical R&D personnel in the factory. I have a R&D idea here and would like to discuss cooperation with the factory."
"Do you have a technical department? Do you have any specific requirements? Are you looking for someone?" the guard asked again.
“No.”
"Then... okay, I'll call the technical department and see if there's anyone there... Do you have a letter of introduction?"
"No, but I have a work certificate." Li Long immediately put himself in the supply and marketing department I took out the company’s certificate. These days, some places are in line with the national standards and require letters of introduction and certificates wherever they go. For example, now, sometimes they are more open-minded and can get things done without letters of introduction and certificates. For example, when you go to Wucheng to stay at the Bayi Guest House, or in Shicheng and Ma County Set up a stall.
It can only be said to be a local characteristic.
The guard looked at Li Long's certificate, nodded, picked up the phone inside, shook it a few times, connected to the switchboard, and then transferred to the technical department.
Li Long was a little nervous waiting for the result of the call. (End of chapter)