It was still a bit cold in Xiaohaizi in the early morning. Li Long watched Tao Daqiang dragging the eight nets back. He stood by the water and bent down to lift up the two bags.
“There are not many fish today.”
“It’s not bad.” Tao Daqiang said with a smile, “Since April, the fishing has been like this. Eight nets can catch four Fifty kilograms is already pretty good. Just like last year, we could get more than ten kilograms from one net, but this year we basically can’t see it.” Got out tons of fish. Many people in the village have been fishing for fish all winter. No matter how many fish there are, they still have a growth process, and it is impossible to catch them endlessly.
“Not bad, the fish looks pretty small.” Li Long opened the bag to look at it and said with a smile, “It can be sold for dozens of yuan.”
"Yeah." Tao Daqiang smiled naively.
“Let’s go, we still have to choose fish when we go home.” Li Qingxia urged. He has never been idle. When Tao Daqiang was fetching the net, he also fetched his own "net", several kilograms of pike caught in a basin. This fish has always been popular in the market, and Li Qingxia will use it to open up the market every time.
The three people carried bags and tires back to the yard. The whole family was there and started choosing fish.
Li Juan and Li Qiang have already eaten and are now reading aloud. This is the learning method Gu Xiaoxia mentioned when she came back last time. It will be beneficial for them to get up early in the morning and read the text several times. Liang Yuemei attaches great importance to this. After the two children get up every day, if the meal is not ready, they will be asked to read the text first.
Because Li Long drives a tractor to school today, the two children are also waiting and will ride the tractor to school later.
There were many people, and the fish were selected quickly. The eight nets selected more than 40 kilograms of fish, some of which were small and injured. After putting the fish in three urea bags, Li Long took out three more small plastic bags and each picked two fish weighing more than one kilogram and put them in. This was intended to be given to others.
Li Juan and Li Qiang sat in the car early with their schoolbags on their backs. Ni'er from Lu Yingming's family also sat up. She tightly grasped the railing of the tractor truck and whispered something to Li Juan.
After putting the fish on the tractor, Li Long greeted his elder brother and shook it with the handle. After Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang were seated, they put the gear into gear and drove out of the yard.
Li Long drove very fast. Some children on the road heard the sound of the tractor and ran to both sides, then looked at the tractor. There were many children in the village, so Li Long would not stop, otherwise it would be bad for anyone to pull and who not to pull.
After the tractor drove to the elementary school and put the three children down, Li Long increased the accelerator and drove toward the county.
When they arrived at the county, Li Long wanted to stop, but Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang said not to stop. Anyway, the tractor is fast, so we might as well drive directly to Shicheng. Go early, sell out early, and get down to business.
Li Long turned a corner and headed west. When we arrived at Shicheng Old Street, it only took an hour. The old street was busy at this time, and some retired old people were looking for something interesting at various stalls.
Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang lifted the fish down and started looking for a stall.
"Xiaolong, go and do your own business. Just come and pick us up when you're done." Li Qingxia quickly found the stall. The stalls were still relatively loose at this time. Some stall owners had to have breakfast before coming, and then planned to stay for the whole day, while some who came early had already sold out the vegetables and other things they had brought with them and were about to leave.
"Okay." Li Long said, "Then I'll leave."
It's just time to go to work now, I think Song Ming should be there at the sugar factory.
When Li Long drove the tractor to the sugar factory, the machines in the sugar factory were already running rumblingly. There is a sweet scent of sugar in the air, and the steamy scent of boiled beets.
Li Long drove the tractor to the back door and was ready to wait for Song Ming to come out.
There is also a guard at the back door. Seeing Li Long waiting here, he guessed that he was waiting for the sugar residue, so he came out and said to Li Long:
"You want to pull the sugar residue? Go to the big hole by the river behind, there is no use waiting here.”
Li Long smiled, took out a pack of Yaochi cigarettes, took out one and handed it to the guard and said:
"Comrade, I'm waiting for Song Ming here."
"You know Xiao Song. "The guard took the cigarette and put it to his ear, and said with a smile, "Then It will take a while. It will take a while for the machine to start working. Since you know Song Ming, why don't you drive in? "
"Yes," Li Long said. He took out the work permit issued by the supply and marketing cooperative and handed it over.
"Okay, I'll mark it down for you. You can go in. If you don't have a work permit, you won't be able to get in." The guard was very talkative, so he went over to register and let Li Long in.
Li Long thanked the guard and drove the tractor to the slag outlet, where he saw Song Ming and his apprentice smoking and chatting.
“Hey, Comrade Li.” Song Ming heard the sound of the tractor and saw it was Li Long. He smiled and took two steps towards this side. After Li Long stopped the tractor, he got on He shook hands with him in front of him:
"Why do you, a busy man, have time to come to us?"
"What a busy man, you are so busy. This We don’t have enough sugar crumbs at home. Come and get some." Li Long smiled and shook hands with the two people, and then asked: "Is this okay?"
"No problem, no problem, definitely no problem." Song Ming smiled and said, "Even if others have problems, you will definitely have no problems. Chief Hu mentioned you last time."
"That's not good. I brought a few fish over this time. Come on, this is yours, Master Song. This is yours. I have two more fish, please give them to Chief Hu, Master Song."
"Comrade Xiao Li, Section Chief Hu happens to be here right now. You can go on your own. The Section Chief has said that if a celebrity like you comes, he must let you go up." Song Ming said with a smile, "This candy Damn it, I pretended it for you. You go to the section chief."
Li Long guessed and asked:
"This is...have you read the newspaper?"
"Have a look. "Song Ming said with a smile, "It's a good thing. You can't tell it at ordinary times, but now you are directly in the newspaper of the autonomous region. It's amazing! The section chief said, let us learn from you."
Li Long's face felt a little hot. He really didn't expect what would happen next. The original task of repairing the house for Harimu Yushanjiang's family was done as soon as it was done. What I owe others, and what others owe me, I have long been unable to explain clearly. What he said to Zhang Xinhua was basically from his heart.
Just like brothers, what they do is what they should do, and they don’t think there is anything great or meaningful at all. As for reporters' interviews and so on, Li Long felt that it was over, but it was just the last newspaper.
I didn’t expect there would be a follow-up and an expanded impact.
He felt a little ashamed.
"Go quickly, the section chief will be very happy to know that you are here." Song Ming said with a smile.
Well, since everyone said it, Li Long took the bag with the two fish and walked to the office building.
Section Chief Hu was reading the newspaper in the office. When Li Long reached the door, he heard footsteps. He looked up and saw that it was Li Long. He was stunned for a moment, then stood up with a smile:
" Comrade Xiao Li is here. There are few visitors. Guest! You are a famous person now, come on, come in!"
Li Long raised the bag of fish and said:
"Section chief, this is the morning. The fish caught is still alive.”
"Hi! Come here, what kind of fish are you bringing!" Section Chief Hu smiled and took the fish and put it in the chair. He asked Li Long to sit down, poured it for him, and said as he poured it:
< br>"I saw your story in the newspaper. It's really not Come to think of it, Comrade Li, what you said is so good, brothers of all ethnic groups hug each other as tightly as pomegranate seeds, so good!”
The more he said this, the more ashamed Li Long felt. , this is plagiarism. But there's nothing I can do about it. If this sentence hasn't come out from those big mouths yet, then I really have become the original author.
Embarrassing enough.
"Some people said it wasn't you. When I saw the deeds written in it, it was definitely you. After all, we also ate the sheep you pulled from the mountains." Section Chief Hu gave the water cup to In Li Long's hands, "Come, drink water."
Walking back to his seat, Section Chief Hu sat down with a smile and asked:
"Come here to pick up sugar residue?"
"Well, I want to come here to pick up a cart."< br>
"No problem, I said before, as long as you come, you can do whatever you want."
In fact, Li Long also thought about taking over the sugar residue from the sugar factory. This stuff can be used as very good feed after drying. It can be eaten by large livestock such as horses and donkeys, as well as pigs and chickens raised at home. If you really want to set up a small factory that specializes in drying feed, it would actually be a good idea.
It's just that the breeding industry has not yet taken off. If you rush into feed processing, you will most likely have to sell goods and lose money in the early stage. But after the breeding industry started, the sugar factory itself has realized the value of sugar residues, and then it will not be their turn to do this business.
In fact, many businesses have not been started yet, so it is the time to enter the market. Such as seeds, agricultural supplies, small agricultural machinery and other industries.
Even mechanization in the village is a big industry. Starting the layout now, as long as you are not too greedy and ensure the quality, you can basically achieve a monopoly in the future. When the real cotton industry comes up, it will not be a problem to earn seven or eight figures a year.
But now Li Long is suffering from no suitable candidate, and he himself has a lot of troubles. The eldest brother has his own plans, the second brother has almost become a worker, and the brother-in-law has started another business. If you can't do it with your own brothers and relatives, then you should think carefully about looking for outsiders.
But now is not the time to think about this, he smiled and said:
"Then thank you so much, Chief."
"Thank you for what." Chief Hu said with a smile, "I heard that the autonomous region may commend you for being an advanced individual in national unity. How about giving it to us? The factory wants to give a report?”
“No, no, no,” Li Long waved his hand hurriedly. , he put down the water and said with a wry smile: "Section Chief, don't you know that others don't know? I am just an ordinary farmer. Even if I work in a supply and marketing cooperative now, I am still a temporary worker. The things I do, I think are all the things I should do. I just didn’t expect it to be in the newspaper. I just wanted to be in the newspaper. Well, that’s it. I didn’t expect there would be a follow-up.”
“Tsk, tsk!” Section Chief Hu gave a thumbs up, “This is what an advanced model should look like, not frivolous, no. I admire people like you who are impetuous and do whatever they have to do. Okay, if you don't do it, you won't do it. We all know the basics. As an old friend, I am very happy to come here if you want to buy sugar residue. Again, the door of the sugar factory will be open for you at any time."
Li Long. I really thanked Section Chief Hu. After saying a few more words, he left the office building.
By the time it reaches the dregs outlet, the sugar dregs have already been loaded. Not only was the cart loaded, but there were many sacks on it, filled with sugar residue, and a few empty sacks.
"It's too troublesome for you." Li Long said thanks to Song Ming and his apprentice, "Thank you, thank you."
"Why are you so polite?" Song Ming said with a smile, "Okay. Come on, hurry up, this sugar residue is leaking, please drive away so we can flush it out."
Li Long didn't want to stay any longer, so he drove the tractor, waved to the two people, and drove away. Sugar factory.
He knew very well that Section Chief Hu did not necessarily want to get anything from him. It was purely because he had a certain friendship with him. Talking to him now was largely to congratulate himself on becoming famous.
When Li Long took Tang Zhi back to the old street, he saw that the fish at his father Li Qingxia's place had not yet been sold out, and the same was true at Tao Daqiang's place not far away.
He parked the tractor in the parking lot, took the sign and went to the milk tea shop in Keyumu to order three bowls of milk tea, three naan bread, and honey.
"Boss, my old man will come over to eat later. When the milk tea is ready, put it here first." Li Long said to Keyumu.
"Okay, okay, you go ahead, I'll watch." Keyoumu spoke with an accent from eastern Henan, "I know your old man too, you don't need to remind me."
Li Long smiled and went to his father's stall after paying.
"Dad, I'm here to see the stall. You go and drink some milk tea to warm yourself up first."
The old man hasn't had any rice or water since he got up early in the morning. Young people can handle it, but daddy is old and needs to be careful.
"What are you going to eat? There isn't much left, I'll eat it after it's sold out." Li Qingxia still wanted to bear it.
"I've already ordered it." Li Long pointed over there and said, "The milk tea won't taste good after it gets cold. Come over quickly."
Li Qingxia then No longer insisting, to be honest, he was indeed a little hungry.
Li Long changed Li Qingxia's position and shouted loudly.
This feeling has been gone for a long time, and Li Long still misses it a little.
An old man heard Li Long’s shouting and walked over, looked at him carefully and said:
“Hey, young man, you haven’t been here to sell fish for a while! What's going on? "
"Going into the mountains." Li Long said with a smile, "What's wrong with you, uncle? Customer, I’ll give you a big thumbs up today!”
"Okay, give me one kilogram of pike and two kilograms of crucian carp."
"Okay!" Li Long weighed the customer's fish with a weighing plate. It was okay and his movements were skillful.
The price of fish is higher than last year. Although there are less fish, the money gained in the end is not much.
Li Long and Tao Daqiang finished selling the fish and closed the stall to drink milk tea. Two people were washing their hands with a small kettle outside the milk tea shop. Li Long asked while washing:
"Daqiang, if I get a big tractor and a plow behind me, will you come and help me?" ”
"Okay." Tao Daqiang agreed without thinking, "You can make money by plowing the land."
Yes, you can make money by plowing the land. Of course, Wang Caimi hasn't made any money yet. After all, the big tractor owes the team a lot of money.
But plowing is really profitable.
In the past, the land belonged to the team, and there was no cost to plow the land. Nowadays, the output is guaranteed to each household and the land is contracted. The land is yours, so you have to pay for plowing the land. Although one acre of land is not much, only two yuan, the entire team now has at least 2,000 acres of land.
And farming involves not only plowing, but also raking, leveling, cutting and sowing. After this series, the number is quite large.
The land in the team increased year by year, until it reached its peak of almost 7,000 acres. At that time, the land in the team could support three large tractor drivers.
So engaging in agricultural machinery is also a way to make a fortune. Of course, Li Long's real plan was not to grab business from Wang Caimi first, but to take the path of harvesting. Now we are harvesting wheat, and later we can use combine harvesters to harvest corn, oil sunflower, and finally machine-picked cotton. This is a major trend.
It’s just that Li Long is a bit lazy. He always thinks that when he buys the machine, he will let others drive it and he will just collect the money.
Let’s all make money together, isn’t it better to just sit back and share the dividends?
So Li Long did not continue. He despises crawler tractors and likes to use high-horsepower wheeled tractors. Currently, there are Dongfanghong 28 wheeled tractors on the market, which are less powerful than the Dongfanghong 75 crawler tractors and are not enough to complete the tasks Li Long wants, at least in the future. Not good at plowing.
Let’s start with the harvester that harvests wheat. The money earned by a small tractor is no worse than that of a large tractor.
The milk tea was delicious as always. Li Long asked Keyumu:
"You have been operating this business for two years and have made a lot of money. Have you built a house in the city?"< br>
“Where should we build it?” Now that there are few customers, Keyumu shook his head, “We don’t have a city registered residence, so it’s good to be able to sell milk tea here.”
“ It will get better and better." Li Long smiled. Later, this place was gradually expanded into the city, and those who had houses here gradually became urban residents. Brother-in-law Chen Xingbang is almost the same.
He looked towards his brother-in-law through the window. Chen Xingbang was still selling meat and had no time to come over.
After drinking milk tea and eating naan, Li Long went over to say hello to Chen Xingbang and talked about Li Anguo. Chen Xingbang was also very happy. He does not regret his choice. Now the money he earns in three days is equivalent to a month's salary for workers, so he can't work in a construction company.
Seeing that Chen Xingbang was still busy, Li Long strolled around the market, bought some things, and then drove the tractor back. Tomorrow he plans to go to Kuitun to see his second brother and take a look at the design and production of the harvester. He has to go back early today.
After sending Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang back to the team, Li Long drove the tractor back to the county.
When I returned home, there were Gu Xiaoxia, her colleagues, and several children in the yard looking at the naughty deer. There was also a child chasing after the hedgehog and shouting. It was very lively.
Seeing Li Long coming back with the tractor, the children were a little scared. They all ran back to their mothers and looked at Li Long secretly.
Li Long greeted them with a smile and asked the children to play by themselves without being afraid.
Li Long thinks it's good that Gu Xiaoxia can build a good relationship with her colleagues.
In the evening, I told Gu Xiaoxia about going to Kuitun tomorrow. Gu Xiaoxia told him to pay attention to safety and not to rush. If he couldn't come back tomorrow, he could come back the day after tomorrow. (End of this chapter)