Sister-in-law Lu heard the sound of a tractor and came out to see Li Jianguo pulling a car of people back. She also saw her husband sitting on the board and hurriedly called Tietou to help her father get his luggage.
When Tietou came over, he was listening to Li Long handing out money to his father. When the number of three hundred and seventy-two yuan was read out, Tietou was shocked.
He is already a teenager and has a concept of money figures.
One hundred and eighty for one bicycle, three hundred and seventy two, you can buy two bicycles.
My father made so much money in less than a month after going out. This... is really an exaggeration!
After all, workers’ wages these days are only thirty or forty yuan a month. This more than three hundred is equivalent to a year's salary!
He looked at his father with admiration in his eyes.
My father is really powerful!
"...Xu Feihu, eighty-three bucks, three hundred and thirty-two yuan." Li Long read the second name, and Xu Feihu came over.
"Come on, let's calculate whether you have so many." Li Long could see what he was thinking. He felt that his number was not as large as Lu Yingming's, and he was a little unconvinced.
In fact, everyone has their own account of their respective numbers, but if Xu Feihu doesn't believe it, there's nothing he can do about it. Li Long didn't think about any psychological troubles, just let him do the math by himself. Anyway, the amount for each acceptance was signed by himself. He added the total twice so as not to make a mistake.
After Xu Feihu calculated it again, he recognized the number, then took the three hundred and thirty-two yuan handed over by Li Long, with a smile on his face, and began to count the money.
So thick!
Li Long started to write his number and name, and then the next one.
After Xu Feihu was Tao Jianshe, then Jia Weidong, and then Xu Dejun...
Everyone has actually counted the money they can earn in their heads many times, so they basically just sign the number reported by Li Long.
Li Long will not miscalculate this, they only need to count the money and sign.
Some people have heard the sound of tractors. Knowing this, people have already come over. Tao Daqiang and Li Qingxia went to get off the net today. When they came back, they saw Li Long's tractor in the yard. With so many people there, he naturally knew what was going on. He pushed his bicycle and waited at the yard gate.
After Tao Jianshe got the money, Tao Daqiang and Li Long waved to each other, put their father's bedding on their bicycles, and went back together.
Tao Jianshe received three hundred and sixty-four yuan, which was quite a lot.
It's nothing to Tao Daqiang. He has made almost this much money selling fish in the past twenty days or so - it's not every day that he can catch and sell fish for money, and there is still life in the fields.
Father and son have a double share of money, which is also considered a single share - oh no, the one from the Li family does not count.
Knowing that his father was strong, Tao Daqiang praised his father even though he was stupid.
Tao Jianshe's face was a little red, but he was also a little proud of it.
His thoughts are somewhat similar to those of Li Jianguo. My younger brother (son) can make more money than me. In addition to being proud, I also have a faint sense of crisis and dissatisfaction.
Now that I can make money, my anger will naturally subside.
One by one took the money and left, or carried their own bedding, or was picked up by their family members, until in the end only Li Jianguo was left.
Li Jianguo is the one who makes the most mistakes among all the people. Firstly, he and Lu Yingming went there for a day, and secondly, he was quick to move. Being a veteran of the team requires more than just qualifications, it also requires ability.
Li Jianguo compiled one hundred and one tricks. Li Long didn't let him sign. There were no people watching the excitement at the entrance of the courtyard. The sister-in-law came over to take a look before and left after seeing that she was not finished. Li Jianguo originally wanted to go back, since they were all members of his own family, but he thought he had to stand up for his younger brother, so he kept waiting.
"Brother, this is yours." Li Long gave an integer to Li Jianguo.
"So much?" Li Jianguo was startled, "What are you..."
"Eight dollars a piece is a lot." Li Long whispered, "I definitely can't smoke you. I won't give it. Just tell me outside."
"Hey!" Li Jianguo looked at the money and was still a little hesitant. Li Long stuffed it into his hand and said with a smile:
"Brother, we really earned this money ourselves. We have worked hard for so many days, so we have to rest for two days."
Li Jianguo actually thought that Li Long would give him more money, but he didn’t expect so much!
Among the others, Lu Yingming had the most, less than four hundred yuan.
Double it here!
Looking at Li Long’s expression, Li Jianguo knew that the matter was settled, so he stopped being polite, took the money and stuffed it into his pocket, and asked:
“Where is the supply and marketing cooperative? …”
"I gave a thousand to the section chief." Li Long whispered, "I hope he will find work for me again later. This job will last for at most two or three years, and then it will be gone. We can earn a It’s a year.”
"Two or three years..." Thinking about his brother earning more than two thousand at a time, it's not a lot. But think about it, no one else can take over this job.
"I still can't say it, just say six yuan." Li Long said as he walked to the eldest brother's yard at the back, "Don't reveal your wealth."
He had heard a story, a counterexample. .
This is what Xu Haijun, who returned from demobilization, said.
A certain logistics unit has an oil support point in the desert of southern Xinjiang, and only one person is watching. When I first arrived, the unit inspected me every week. This person managed the place well. Later, the higher-level unit inspected me once a month, every two months, or once a quarter. But the nutrients were delivered in a timely manner and the leaders were very caring.
This person felt that the leader was very good to him, so when the leader came to present him as a gift one day in the second year, he stuffed a piece of Chinese into the leader's hand.
At that time, it was already very luxurious for the leader to smoke the Snow Lotus King. It was the first time I saw a piece of Chinese in my hand.
Then I became suspicious.
The superiors came over quickly to check and found that tens of millions worth of oil was missing from the warehouse. Hundreds of Chinese coins and millions of cash were found from this person.
It turned out that he asked the passing driver to refuel here. At first, I only dared to ask for a little extra, such as snow lotus and so on. Later, I became more and more courageous and started to accept cash.
At first, he was frightened when he saw people refueling, but later he let the drivers do it themselves, as long as the money was enough.
If God makes it perish, it will first make it go crazy.
Indirect losses amounted to tens of millions, and this man was eventually sentenced to death.
His superior is jointly and severally liable.
Loss or not?
What a loss.
Back in Li Jianguo’s courtyard, the meal has been prepared. Li Qingxia, Du Chunfang, and Li Qingxia were all looking over at the entrance of the courtyard, with Li Juan and Li Qiang beside them. Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong were setting the table, while Li Xueping and Li Xueqin stood behind Li Juan. The two of them were now very close to Li Juan.
“Hey, I’ve become darker and thinner.” Li Qingxia said with a smile, “Can you bask in the sun in the mountains?”
“I can bask in the sun, but my elder brother is exposed to fireworks every day. Yes, the editor has to burn strips every day." Li Long explained.
“Let’s eat.” Liang Yuemei shouted from the table. There were many people, and the dining tables were set up outside, one big table and one small table. Because they didn't know that Li Jianguo and the others were back, the meal was rice porridge, steamed buns, fish stew left over from lunch, scrambled eggs, and leek meat.
The food is large, and everyone eats at separate tables. You say something to me, you hand me a steamed bun and I bring a bowl of porridge. It's quite lively for a while.
The children had been looking at the adults. Li Jianguo and Li Long had not seen each other for a long time, and they wanted to say a few words. They were also quite disappointed because the adults did not bring anything delicious back this time.
But I soon forgot that there was something delicious on the table tonight, and the children were so lively that they soon had their own topics of conversation.
Li Long took a look and found that the four children were quite well-behaved with Li Juan taking the lead. Li Juan is a very good sister, and the others are also obedient, which is good.
While eating, the family kept asking about things in the mountains. Sometimes it was Li Jianguo who answered, and sometimes it was Li Long who answered. They felt relieved knowing that they could eat meat every day in the mountains. In fact, just looking at the faces of Li Long and Li Jianguo, you can tell that they didn't suffer much in the mountains. Liang Yuemei knows best that when Li Jianguo went to work in the sideline team in the mountains, he would lose several kilograms when he came back, and it would take several days to recover.
But the work you do once in the mountains can equal half a year's worth of work, so you have to go.
Now I’m fine, I’ve made a lot of money, my health isn’t in bad shape, and the time isn’t too long, so what else do I need?
Dinner was not finished until dark. Li Long didn't plan to go back to the county today. He kept his yard there, so he had to stay there for one night.
"Your mother opens the door to let the air out every day, but there is no smell inside." Li Qingxia said, "You must be exhausted in the mountains. You can sleep in tomorrow morning. I won't wait for you then." He Daqiang took the net and went to Shicheng to sell fish.”
"Dad, you are so beautiful when you catch and sell fish." Li Long said with a smile, "Having money every day is more comfortable than being a worker."
Being a cadre at this time is not an ordinary farmer. Dare to think. Being a worker is already the end of the world.
"Hey, that's right. I can earn more than half of a worker's salary in one day. Even if I am asked to be a worker now, I won't do it." Li Qingxia had money in his pocket and was confident, "I can earn more for a while. With the money, I can buy a color TV myself.”
“No, I will buy it for you in two days.”
“I don’t want you to buy it.” Li Qingxia was very excited, “Just live your life well. It’s time to have children. Now, you are not young anymore.”
Li Long smiled bitterly, he is only twenty-two, is he not young?
Li Qingxia said, Du Chunfang also said. In the past, Li Long would come back and leave in a hurry. Today, he could stay at home all night, and they chatted in Li Jianguo's yard. Several children also joined in the fun and asked about the situation in the mountains. Li Long's occasional words were enough to make Li Qiang and the others envious and yearning for a long time.
Later, Li Juan took Li Qiang to rest, and Chen Lirong took her two children back to Laomahao. Li Long thought for a while and said to Li Qingxia: "Dad, let my second sister-in-law live in the west room of my courtyard later. There is nothing in the house anyway, and it is not convenient for my second sister-in-law to live in Ma Hao every day. ”
"Hey, I've thought about this too, but I just don't have time to talk to you." Li Qingxia smiled, "Okay, since you said it, I will ask your second sister-in-law to move here tomorrow, and she will also help you clean up the yard. .”
Li Long thought that the second brother had been in Kuitun for more than a month, and he might officially join the job soon, and he would most likely take the second sister-in-law and the child over.
Of course, the premise is that the formal workers will allocate houses soon.
He will ignore this matter and let his parents and second sister-in-law talk about it then. He will return to the county and go to the mountains tomorrow morning.
The Fritillaria season is coming to an end, and Li Long also wants to end it well.
According to the words of some people in later generations, if you earn money for one season, you can rest for the remaining half a year. He definitely won't be able to rest, but he will be much more relaxed.
After all, if you do the math, if you add up the money you spent making up the work and pouring the fritillaries, your earnings would be almost over 10,000.
After doing this calculation, Li Long was a little shocked.
He is not very clear about how much money he has now. Li Long plans to go home and take stock after the last fritillary season is over. It also prevents me from getting confused.
It was very late when he returned to his house. The room is constantly ventilated, so there is no damp or musty smell. After he came back last time, he left the key with my mother. She must have come here often to open the door for ventilation and dry the quilt.
Although I am confident, Li Long enjoys it quite contentedly.
The quilt smelled like sunshine, which made him feel quite comfortable. Sleeping at home is completely different from sleeping in a cabin. Although the door still needs to be locked, the gun does not need to be placed beside the bed. Occasionally, you can hear dogs barking outside, and then someone yells. This is pastoral life.
I haven’t slept so soundly in a long time. When I opened my eyes in the morning, I saw that the sun was shining diagonally through the window onto the west wall.
Very nice.
Li Long got up, got dressed, went to the yard to wash himself with water, and then went to the back yard to eat.
Li Jianguo had just gotten up like him. There was no bicycle in the yard, a pile of nets were placed on a plastic sheet, and there was a small half-pot of pike in a small pot next to it.
Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong had already gone to work in the fields. Li Qingxia had already told Chen Lirong about moving. Chen Lirong was also very happy and said that she would work in the morning and come back to move at noon.
The main work is hoeing in the fields. Da Gua has already started climbing seedlings, and Liang Yuemei attaches great importance to this. Winter wheat, corn, etc. are all grown conventionally, and there will be no problems after many years of planting. The first year of planting melons carries the family's hope of getting rich through cash crops, and Liang Yuemei will not be careless at all.
We usually grow crops in large fields, and weeding is a rough job. After weeding once, the weeds grow quickly. Once the crops grow, we only need to hoe them away.
After all, there is a lot of land, so we can’t do it so finely.
But for these ten acres of melon farming, Liang Yuemei had to hoe the grass every few days without Li Jianguo, basically ensuring that there were only melon seedlings in the field.
Li Long and others also told Liang Yuemei before they went to the mountains that the melon seedlings can be thinned out when they have two to three leaves. This thing is just to leave one strong seedling in each hole. Thinning seedlings is a tiring job, squatting there and moving one step at a time, and often at the end of the day, people can hardly move.
But the work was forced to be done by Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong, who joined later.
Because of this, the relationship between the two sisters suddenly became better, just like sisters.
“I had a comfortable sleep this time.” Li Jianguo wiped his face with a towel and said, “The nest in the mountains is still damp and dark, making it uncomfortable to live there.”
“That’s it. , I really can’t live there all the time.” Li Long said with a smile, “If they hadn’t built a wooden house for me in Harimu Yushanjiang, I wouldn’t have been living in the mountains often, whether it was in their winter den or in the ground. It’s all uncomfortable.”
"Your wooden house is really nice." Li Jianguo remembered that he lived in a wooden house last year when he was chopping broomsticks. Even sleeping on the floor was better than living in a den in the ground.
"Yes, I think so too." Li Long nodded, "I have to go back today."
"Why do we have to go back? The Fritillaries haven't been collected yet?" Li Jianguo asked.
"There is still a tail left." Li Long went to the table. The food was locked here, and he opened it to see steamed buns, glutinous rice batter, and stir-fried vegetables.
"It should be soon." Li Jianguo came over and sat down to eat together.
"In three to five days, the fritillaries will bloom and it will be over."
Li Jianguo nodded and stopped talking.
Du Chunfang came out of the vegetable garden and watched the two brothers eating. She smiled and sat at the door of the vegetable garden picking leeks. She plans to make dumplings at noon. She is very proactive in her work now. Her children are harmonious among their brothers, close to their sisters-in-law, and their children are sensible. What else can be said? As an elder, there is nothing wrong with working more.
In the past, she preferred Li Long because her family's conditions were not good, so she had to choose the smaller one. Now that her family's conditions are better, she doesn't need to worry about the big ones or the small ones, so she can do it according to her own wishes. Do it, if you don't want to do it, don't do it.
After all, it makes sense. The eldest son is in charge of the family. He has been in the mountains for nearly a month and has been so dark that he must make some delicious supplements. Li Long's face was red, and he saw that there was no shortage of delicious food. He was busy making money every day, and he couldn't care about it. He would talk about it later when he came back.
After breakfast, Li Long chatted with his mother for a while, telling some short stories about the mountains and listening to her talk about his father's fishing, his children, and things in the village. It didn't matter how big or small it was, just the mother and son chatting, and Du Chunfang was very happy.
"...Hey, you don't know how happy your dad was that day! He went down the net and caught a big carp weighing four or five kilograms with a red tail. It was so beautiful! Your dad said, Xiaolong is going to That's fine. The family cooked the fish and had a meal. It wouldn't be worth selling it, but in the end. I still sold it and couldn’t eat it. The thing was too big. Just one scale was as big as a five-cent shell..."
The five-cent shell I mentioned means that it is still there today. The commonly used five-point steel jumper is larger than an adult's fingernail, which is really not small.
“...I bring back some pike every day, and I say, what do you do with this thing? It’s too slippery to peel, and it tastes fishy. He said that’s different, and this can make up for it. Yeah, eating it regularly is good for your health... ..."
"It's good." Li Jianguo was peeling the small fish, and when he heard what his mother said, he said, "Make a soup and drink it fresh. I caught Xiaolong twice in the mountains. It's so delicious to drink. .”
"Then let's make soup at noon today." Du Chunfang smiled.
After Li Long chatted with his mother for a few words, he went to his yard and drove away on the tractor. When passing by his elder brother's yard, he waved to his mother at the door and stepped on the accelerator.
It was already morning when the tractor arrived at the county. Li Long went to the canteen and bought a bag of steamed buns, then went to the oil depot to refuel, took some more oil, and went to the mountains.
Besides the wooden house in the mountains, someone is waiting. (End of this chapter)