After sending away the two people with pockets on their backs, Li Long's eyes showed a bit of solemnity. He felt that these two people were not simple.
It’s not that these two people are directly judged as bad people. The main reason is that these two people feel a bit too harmonious.
There is a man with shrewd eyes who seems to be able to see through people's hearts. When Li Long's expression changes, he seems to be able to guess what Li Long wants to do.
Such a person will definitely be able to help the boss get things done properly as a secretary or assistant in future generations.
Although the other one is not as tall as Li Long, he looks strong and coordinated in his steps. He looks like a practitioner. Even if he is not, he is someone who often fights or exercises.
It is equivalent to a combination of one civil and one military. There must be some special reasons for such people to go to the mountains and forests to beg for food. Otherwise, you can do well just staying in Wucheng and Shicheng.
Li Long was holding the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle at hand, with the gun's safety on and the bullets loaded.
The powerful man just now glanced at the gun several times, with a look of envy or jealousy in his eyes.
This man wants this gun.
Li Long originally suspected that the two men injured Hamiti, but when he saw the way the man looked at the gun, he felt it was not the case. Hamiti has a gun. If this person is the one who injured him, there is a high probability that Hamiti will take his gun away, right?
But no matter what, you have to be careful when staying here. Otherwise, he might be the next Hamiti.
Li Long washed the collected caladiums, washed them, hung them up to dry, and then waited quietly.
It was already afternoon. In an hour or two, when the caladiums and dried meats outside were ready to be collected, he could go to Xiaobaiyanggou to collect them.
The two men left with their things on their backs. After walking into the woods, the man with a strong figure suddenly spoke:
"Boss, I want that gun."< br>
"Why didn't you take that gun when you wounded him the day before yesterday?" Lin Xiaohu, known as the boss, frowned and asked, "This man... is still useful to keep."
" The forestry team won't give up once the gun is wrapped around the head. They might search the mountain, and we'll be in trouble."
"If you want a gun... you have to wait. This person is useful. We can exchange some of the supplies he has there from time to time. Otherwise, we will be savages in the mountains in less than half a month. We are not sure whether we can find those things. I think we are ready. It's not too late to take action before leaving."
"Is it okay to touch this person?" He Yiku, the man from Kong Wu, asked.
"This person should have some connections, otherwise it would be impossible to set up such an exchange point in the mountains. But it is not necessarily how big the connection is. If the connection is big, he can obviously communicate with other forestry teams It’s the same, but if you don’t do it like this, the background won’t be very strong. It may have some impact, but it won’t be big.”
"Then let's do it to him, take away the things along the way, and drive away the tractor to hide him, so that no one can find him for a while and won't find anything. Anyway, in the mountains, it's hard for anyone to say where he is going. Oh..." A ruthless look flashed in He Yiku's eyes.
"Don't be impulsive." Lin Xiaohu waved his hand, "Let's find the target first. If I make a mistake and he disappears and is noticed, we won't be able to stay in this mountainous area. Find it. Got something, we If we do other things, we can leave after one vote. Even if we are traced, we will be far away by then."
"Although He Yiku wanted to get the gun as soon as possible, he still wanted to get it. Knowing what Lin Xiaohu said is the most important thing. Of course, holding a gun is not just a hobby for him, because there are really some ferocious beasts in the forest, and he can't fight them. It's safer to have a gun with you.
Li Long didn't know that these two people had already made up his mind, but he just felt that he should be more careful outside. After basking in the sun for a while, I felt my energy was restored, and then I started cleaning my gun. Although this 56 semi-automatic rifle is second-hand, it is honest, reliable, strong and durable, and feels much more reliable than small-caliber and double-barreled sand guns.
In the afternoon, someone came over to sell fritillaries in exchange for money. This time it was a man, relatively older, in his fifties, and he didn't look very strong. Even so, Li Long still carefully inspected the fritillary and paid. This bag of caladiums was dug in the past two days. It is quite fresh and weighs 11 or 2 kilograms. It can be seen that Fritillaria have begun to appear on a large scale. The amount of caladium harvested today is enough to produce ten kilograms of dried caladium, which is quite a harvest.
He didn't know what was going on over there with the handle. Li Long looked at the sky and saw that the sun had already set a lot to the west, so he started to collect his things. The bedding was very hot in the sun, and there was a smell on it. I didn't know whether it was the scorched corpses of mites or the smell of sunlight.
After laying the bedding, Li Long collected the half-dried caladiums that were dried on the wooden floor and put them into the basket in the small room. After two more days of drying, they were almost completely dry. The dried caladium is not very big, but this is the authentic wild caladium.
The caladiums on the table outside were also put into the basin and will continue to dry tomorrow. The air-dried meat on the rope is almost dry now, exuding a fragrance mixed with an inexplicable smell.
Li Long tore off a small strip and put it into his mouth and chewed it slowly. Well, it was not marinated.
Put the meat into the small room, lock the door, and Li Long drives the tractor toward Xiaobaiyanggou with a gun on his back.
In Xiaobaiyanggou, several people from Xie Yun, Dong Wei and Zhonghua, who had just arrived, were digging a nest in the ground. Lao Huang is already preparing to make dinner. In fact, we still basically eat two meals at home, but when we go out to work, we still need to ensure that we are full. Even if the third meal is a little thinner, at least there must be enough to stutter, otherwise we will be hungry at night.
"If I had known, I would have followed Xiao Longqi here the same day." Wei Zhonghua looked at the handfuls piled up next to the Xu brothers with envy on his face.
He felt that he had been here last year and was familiar with this place. In addition, he had some things to clean up at home, so he came a day late. Unexpectedly, he fell behind this night.
They all already know that this year’s price is four yuan a piece. In this case, the four money in front of Xu Feihu is sixteen yuan!
That’s less than half a month’s salary for those workers!
Although I only earn a few days of money in a year, how easy it is to get the money!
Thinking this in my mind, I dug out the hole in the ground faster.
Xie Yundong arranged things, and he also began to clean up the nest where he lived. Because Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming dug their own nests, although the Sun family occupied a nest, the nest was generally sufficient. It's just that the doorway has collapsed a bit over the past year, and there's a lot of dirt and debris inside that needs to be cleaned up.
After spending a lot of effort to finish this, Lao Huang over there has already pasted the pancakes and is ready to boil the corn batter.
He took advantage of the time between the two meals today to chop some poles and cut some strips, and planned to make a few of his own. However, I had never compiled much before, and the first one was a bit of a failure. Lao Huang was not discouraged. Anyway, there was enough material in the mountain, so he continued to get the materials and picked some straw mushrooms.
Because he is responsible for the food for these people, Lao Huang is also very cautious about the mushrooms he picks. Except for straw mushrooms, he does not pick other mushrooms for fear of poisoning.
I fried a lot of mushroom meat at noon, so I reheated the leftovers from lunch and ate them at night.
When Li Long came over, Lao Huang here was already planning to entertain people for dinner.
Each of these people who came here brought their own rice bowls, and Lao Huang was responsible for filling them. Like Li Jianguo, who brought two rice bowls, he could have one bowl of vegetables and one bowl of porridge; someone like Wei Zhonghua, who brought one bowl, could only eat first and then drink porridge after eating.
"Hey, the meal is ready, Brother Huang, can I have a share?" Li Long got off the tractor and asked with a smile.
"How can we not?" Lao Huang grinned. Li Long had all the meat he brought over yesterday burned. Although there wasn't much oil, there were diced meat, which was good stuff. With just this meat, he can make everyone eat comfortably this month. There is meat in every meal, who dares to say that the food is not good?
Vegetable oil was also provided by Li Long. Everyone brought a lot of rice and noodles. Besides, even if there is not enough later, can Li Long watch everyone go hungry?
Lao Huang still knows whose food to eat.
Li Long came here with a rice bowl, he just wanted to have a dinner together. Lao Huang took special care of him, brought him more food, and put two pancakes for him. Li Long took the rice bowl and greeted Xie Yundong, then came to Li Jianguo and asked with a smile:
"Brother, how many have you made up today?"
"Six." Li Jianguo had saved enough materials before, and he was compiling them all day long. Six of them cost twenty-four yuan. He was very satisfied and proud.
"Brother Lu, what about you?"
"A little more than five, I can't compare to your brother." Lu Yingming took a bite of the pancake and said with a smile, "He has better hands. Hurry up."
Sun Jiaqiang was also sitting here eating. Hearing Li Long ask, he said:
"Boss Li, are you using this for the public?"
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"Yeah. What, you also want to make it up? I think you'd better dig out your motherfuckers." Li Long smiled, "This is a technical job." "It's true, I watched the two elder brothers make up Yes, it really can’t be done just by looking at it." Sun Jiaqiang bit into the pancake and said with a smile:
"This thing. What are they used for?”
“In public institutions, they carry coal and garbage, and in winter they carry snow.”
< br>"This... won't be used for a few years, right? It's impossible to use this all the time in the future, right?"
"Of course, three years at most," Li Long said. "After three years, this job will be gone. By then, agencies and units will probably all have their own trolleys."
He was thinking that it would be five years soon. It's already been a month, and I don't know if Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory has got the harvester out? Can we also jointly build a pushcart? But think about it and let it go. The technical content of that thing is too low. Unless it is made on a large scale, the price will not come down and it will soon be beaten to death by big manufacturers.
Sun Jiaqiang is familiar with Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming who arrived first. Although he is a little younger, he is familiar with himself and can talk about everything together, so the two of them don't dislike him.
After Li Long finished eating, he went to the creek to rinse the rice bowl. Xie Yundong came over with a lunch box and said to Li Long:
"Xiaolong, after eating later, you can give me some Let’s talk about it.”
"Okay." Li Long nodded, and everyone happened to be there to explain the rules clearly, so as to avoid trouble like Xu Jianjun last year.
Xie Yundong went to inform one by one that some people had not finished eating yet, so they were not focused for a while. After putting away the lunch box, Sun Jiaqiang came over with a small half bag of caladiums he dug today, and a broken antler in his hand.
“Is there an unexpected harvest today?” Li Long said with a smile, “This stag antlers are quite new.”
“I just picked them up because they looked like new ones. Come back, can you get two bucks for this?”
“Well, it looks like this year’s new horn, it’s a bit more expensive than the Fritillaria”
"One piece is for you. There are not as many caladiums today as there were yesterday, about three or four kilograms."
By digging every day, Sun Jiaqiang also knows the approximate amount of caladiums in his hand.
With more than one kilogram of antlers and four kilograms of fritillary, Li Long gave Sun Jiaqiang seventeen yuan.
Sun Jiaqiang poured the fritillaries into Li Long's bag, folded his own bag and took it back. Everything in these blind streams dug deep in the mountains is quite expensive, including this urea bag.
Xie Yundong had already gathered the people. Li Long passed by and said:
"Everyone, please find a place to sit. Everyone is here today, so I will explain the rules. Those who came here last year know some of them, and there are also those who didn't come last year. Let's listen together."
He first found a stone and sat down, and the others also sat down in a scattered manner, and some took out Mohe cigarettes and smoked big cigarettes.
“This forest is under the management of the forestry team. They often ride over to patrol. On the surface, they have reasons to investigate whatever we do. But I have already opened a note with the supply and marketing cooperative in advance. This is the forestry team I agree. So let’s make some mistakes here. As long as we don’t cause wildfires and don’t do other things, it’s usually fine.”
This is to set the tone and everyone will be fine. All relax.
"What I want to say is that I am worried about you doing other things. Xu Jianjun came here last year and felt that it was too tiring to do the work, so he went to dig fritillaries secretly, but he was caught by the forestry team and beaten He didn't even say anything, and he didn't give him food for a whole day. In the end, I used my status as a supply and marketing cooperative to get him back, which was very embarrassing.
What I want to tell you is, don’t look at the man over there digging fritillaries to make money, but he has connections and knows people from the forestry team. Even if someone from the forestry team sees him, he will not be arrested, so don’t After thinking about it, if anyone is caught secretly digging for fritillaries this year, don't expect me to pick them up. I can't afford to lose that person. "
As soon as these words were said, those who originally had some ideas basically gave up.
"Also, there are many mushrooms in the mountains, some edible and some poisonous. Let's bring them with us. If you bring something, try to eat what you brought. Even if you pick mushrooms, just like Brother Huang did today, just pick straw mushrooms and leave the rest alone. Some poisonous mushrooms are very similar to edible mushrooms. They really want to knock everyone down. No one can bear the responsibility. "
Everyone still believes in this. Life is the first priority. How can you make money without your life?
"And the most important thing is that we are here to make up the story. of. Everyone who came here last year knows that I am a very demanding person. If the quality of this job is not up to standard, I will fight back. From now on, I will come over every afternoon to collect the work. After editing, I will check it. If it is qualified, I will take it back and take it away. If it is not qualified, it will either be reworked or re-edited. I just told others that I want to do this high-end job for a few more years, and I don’t want to mess it up because of quality issues. One month can earn workers several months' wages, and I think you will definitely want to work for a few more years. If you want to make money, you have to come up with good stuff, right? ”
After saying this, everyone laughed.
"Okay," Li Long stood up, "I'm going to take over now. Brother Yundong, come over and help me. Others also came over to take a look, mainly to see where they are unqualified. , be careful when you start editing later, otherwise you will have to rework it later, which will be a waste of effort and time, and it will be troublesome."
As soon as he said this, Xie Yundong followed Li Long, and others gathered around.
The outermost one belongs to Xu Feihu. He made three pieces today. Li Long looked at it and found that one was a little loose, so he knocked it back.
"Rearrange this paragraph and make it stronger. The handle is used to carry the charcoal to the machine. This one is looser. The charcoal cannot be pressed and leaks, which will bring a bad reputation."
After checking, Li Long asked Xu Feihu to put the two handles on the car. He took out a notebook to write down the notes and asked Xu Feihu to sign his name.
Xu Feihu felt a little embarrassed when he was pointed out that he had a problem with the situation, but when Li Long gave up his signature, he became happy again.
Although I was a little frustrated on the first day, I was still very happy when I got the eight yuan.
The second one is Xu Dejun. He also made three. Like Xu Feihu, one of them has a problem.
"German, the middle part of this handle needs to be one meter long. Your distance is not enough. Tomorrow, take apart the sides and mend some more." Li Long said, "And cut off the handles on the sides. Keep it clean and don’t let people scratch your hands while carrying it.”
Two are also registered for Xu Dejun, and Xu Feihu is more balanced.
Next is Tao Jianshe. He has compiled three and a half pieces today and plans to finish the remaining half later.
To Li Long's surprise, all three of Tao Jianshe's positions were qualified. It's long enough, tight in the middle, and the handle is smooth.
Registration, signature, and then Jia Weidong, he only made two today, but both were qualified.
It seems that everyone listened to most of what Li Long said.
Li Jianguo added the total of nine from yesterday, and Lu Yingming had eight. The two of them suddenly had more than thirty yuan in their account, which was equivalent to a month's salary of an apprentice worker, and made others envious.
Actually, Li Long planned to give his eldest brother the full amount, so it would be a bit unkind to deduct his money.
Putting all the handles on the car, Li Long said:
"Don't work too late at night, pay attention to rest. It is best to go out to cut strips tomorrow in a group of two or three people. . There are wolves and bears in this forest, which is quite dangerous. Don’t let the wild beasts catch you. That would be bad.” past.
The sun has set and the setting sun is slowly fading away. Although Li Long wants to return to the cabin immediately, he does not dare to run all the way. After all, there is a handle in the bucket of the cart. It will be troublesome if it gets loose.
By the time we drove to the cabin, it was already dark. He doesn't plan to unload today, let's talk about it tomorrow. (End of this chapter)