"...So recently, the main focus is on preventing and controlling diseases and insect pests. Whether the fertility is sufficient depends on the leaves. When it rains, water cannot accumulate..."
At noon, Li Jianguo came back with his carriage. Li Long and his wife had already put the When the rice is ready and the meat is cooked, the workers eat directly.
While eating, Li Long told his elder brother the specific things that needed to be paid attention to when planting melons.
The cultivation of melons is something that the two brothers are very concerned about. Although they are not ambitious, they at least want to avoid losing money in this area this year.
Skilled professors have taught me the methods. Isn’t it possible that I can’t do it just by following them?
Unless you don’t want to make this money.
Li Jianguo is an activist. He asked Li Long to keep the piece of paper. Li Long said:
"I'm here to deliver the sheep today. I'll go back in the afternoon and go to the county agricultural supplies company tomorrow." Buy all the fertilizers and pesticides you need and prepare them so you can use them when needed."
Li Jianguo said nothing more.
After having dinner, Li Long drove the tractor to Gu Boyuan's house again.
"Why are you here again?" Gu Boyuan had just finished eating. Although it is easier to cook for one person, it is also troublesome to clean up.
He has always been too lazy to do such complicated things. Today, Li Long brought the meat so that he could not work in the fields. In fact, he was very happy in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face—— Although he has been a farmer for many years, he would still be happier if he could not work in the fields.
After all, he is still an intellectual at heart.
"Uncle Gu, I want to think of something. I think you can do it." Li Long said straight to the point.
"What's the matter? What do you think I can do?" Gu Boyuan was led astray by Li Long, and his original complaints were forgotten.
"The county has slowly relaxed some restrictions on the sale of supplies, and now people can slowly open stores." Li Long sat at the table under the grape trellis and poured himself a bowl of herbal tea - literally herbal tea, that is. He drank the brick tea that had gone cold. He said:
“Our county is an agricultural county, and I think the agricultural supplies business will definitely be a big business in the future.
Uncle Gu, you are so smart, it’s really a bit of a waste to stay on the team and farm. Well, why not open one in the county or township? For an agricultural supply store, apply for a license. I can do the purchasing at the supply and marketing cooperative. You can just look after the store.
If you have nothing to do, you can just sell the goods if there are people buying them. You don’t have to do anything to eat. Xiaoxia and I both ate at Sister Yang's place, you go over there Same thing. If I can see Xiaoxia every day, it will be more convenient to do anything while living in the county than in the team. "You put it this way, it's really doable." Gu Boyuan listens to the radio every day. We know that private enterprises have emerged in the mainland a long time ago. The first private license was issued in the 1980s, and now from the coast to the northwest, private shops are nothing new.
However, private stores selling agricultural supplies are indeed rare. Basically, private businesses mainly sell daily necessities. They were the sales departments of supply and marketing cooperatives, and a considerable part of them have now been converted into private stores.
But in the long run, in the future, land will be owned by individual families. If you want to grow more grain, oilseeds and cash crops, agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides will definitely be indispensable. Not to mention Gu Boyuan, even ordinary farmers can imagine this.
But few people dare to do it. Firstly, there is no such capital, and secondly, for ordinary farmers today, they would be very happy to become workers, but not everyone can make this determination to open a shop and sell goods.
Besides, now that household production is guaranteed, land is contracted, and people can eat warmly, they can see that after working hard for a few years, they will be able to eat well and have a career. If they are asked to do business, they really are not in the mood.
Mostly so.
But Gu Boyuan didn't have such worries. He was attracted by the two things Li Long said.
Firstly, you don’t have to cook by yourself, and secondly, you can read in your spare time without going to the fields.
"Then why don't you let your dad do it?" Gu Boyuan was a little confused.
"Don't you know my dad's character? He would rather go to Xiaohaizi to catch fish every day than guard the store." Li Long said.
“That’s right.” Gu Boyuan nodded. He just has a lazy temper, and it would be nice if he could just stay in the store without moving. But Li Qingxia has the opposite personality. If he is asked to guard the store, he will die in a hurry.
"I can't let go of my yard and my land." Gu Boyuan also had concerns.
"That's easy." Li Long smiled and said, "Just come back and check the yard occasionally. If it doesn't work, just let my elder brother take care of it. Just let my elder brother and the others help plant the land. If it doesn't work, just let him help me plant it." Subcontracting, there are many people in the team who want to grow more land."
Gu Boyuan nodded, this is indeed a way.
“This matter cannot be completed in a short time.” Li Long said, “I have been looking around for places in the county recently. I have found a suitable yard to buy and build a store in front. We'll live in the back. If it's hard to find one, just find a place in front of us. Then you can live in our courtyard..."
"I won't go." Gu Boyuan shook his head directly, "I want to live on my own. You are mixed together.”
Gu Boyuan wanted to save face. He felt that he was not old and did not want others to say that he was living off his daughter and son-in-law.
People at this time, especially middle-aged people, are too concerned about face.
"That's okay, I'll look for the yard slowly and buy the right one when I find it." Li Long said.
“Okay, just think of it as if I’m borrowing it from you first,” Gu Boyuan said, “Don’t look for a yard that’s too big. It’s too big for me to handle by myself, but it’s best if you can grow some vegetables or something.”
Li Long nodded. This place is different from Kuitun Construction and Installation Company. The small courtyard cannot grow anything and the area is small. It is easy to find Gu Boyuan and his yard in Ma County.
After the matter was settled, Li Long drove the tractor back to the county. When Gu Xiaoxia came back, he told her about the matter.
"Is it easy to get a license?" Gu Xiaoxia didn't mind her father coming to the county to open a store. This was actually a good thing. My father is alone in the team, so it's hard to say whether he can take care of himself. Now that I have the opportunity to come to the county, Sister Yang is also good at cooking, which is good for everyone.
"It should be easy to handle." Li Long said, "We are not the first one. Someone has done it before. Just prepare the necessary procedures. I will also go to inquire about it in the past two days."< br>
It was Li Long's idea to let Gu Boyuan open an agricultural supplies store on a whim, but as soon as the idea came up, he thought it was a good idea.
If you want to expand in the future, you must have a foundation now. It will not be easy to enter the agricultural input field later, but it is very convenient to enter now.
Of course, even if Gu Boyuan doesn't want to develop in this area later, it's very simple. He just needs to guard this store and he can guarantee that he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.
After all, twenty or thirty years later, the farmers in the team complained most about the increase in crops and the increase in agricultural inputs, while the prices of agricultural inputs have dropped and the prices of agricultural inputs are still rising.
Anyway, I didn’t see anyone losing money.
Of course it may just be the surface. But as long as you don't take risks and behave yourself, you can definitely make money. When the time comes, get a few relatively good agricultural input agents, and then all that's left is to wait for the money.
Such a yard is usually located in the south of Wuyi Road, where Sister Yang and others are located. The yards in the north are not very large, or they are all units. There are few large yards like Li Long's, making it difficult to buy.
The next day, Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative and told Li Xiangqian that he wanted to buy a yard, and asked him to help keep an eye on it.
"Why do you have so many yards?" Li Xiangqian was a little confused, "Isn't it troublesome to clean it up?"
Li Long explained it, saying that he planned to let his father-in-law come over Open an agricultural supplies store and my father-in-law will live there.
Li Xiangqian understood this explanation. He said that there was currently no news in this regard, but he would help keep an eye on it.
Li Long came out of the supply and marketing cooperative and went to Chen Hongjun with the leather and antlers that Harimu had brought back this time. He also told these things by the way.
"Okay, I'll tell you some news." Chen Hongjun inspected the skins one by one. Especially when he saw the lynx skin, he praised it emphatically. This skin was relatively complete and could be worth a lot of money.
In the end, including the two deer antlers, the total was sold for more than 1,500 yuan.
Li Long signed to take the money, thinking that Harimu would be surprised to know that these things were sold for so much.
But after thinking about it, I shook my head. For them in Xia Ranch, money does not mean much, only materials do.
But this money can be exchanged for sixty or seventy sheep. Harimu's flock is so big, only a little over two hundred.
Forget it, let’s wait until we get back from Summer Ranch. The sheep flocks in Harimu and Yushanjiang are mixed, including coarse-wool sheep, fine-wool sheep, and goats. Some sheep can give birth three times every two or three years. Maybe when the winter season changes, the number of sheep will increase again.
Count the money to him then and see if he can be shocked.
Next, Li Long went to tell Zhong Guoqiang about buying a yard. Zhong Guoqiang actually had a friend who had a yard for sale.
But Li Long shook his head after hearing the description. First of all, the place is a bit remote, in the northwest of the county, and transportation is inconvenient. Li Long's ideal location should be at the market, or north of the city and out of the city. These two places have a large flow of people, mainly from rural areas.
Of course, it would be good if it was near a bus station, but the house prices or land prices there have risen, and the yard itself is not big, so it is difficult to find a suitable place.
I could only find it slowly.
In the next month, Li Long went to Captain Tang of the construction team of the county construction company, and then under his assignment, he moved around various construction sites pulling bricks and sand. Basically, he could do it every day. Income of more than thirty or forty yuan.
Very good.
Because of Captain Tang's assignment, Li Longla basically didn't face any difficulties in building materials, but he also saw some signs from it.
Those battlefields and brickyards still have invisible leaders. Some owners of animal-drawn carts haul sand and bricks and have to "pay tribute" to others. Otherwise, if they end up in the queue, they may not be able to pull more than a few carts a day, and one cart will not be able to load enough things, so they will not make much money.
Li Long, a few hidden ground tigers who are not very clever, can see it. They know that Li Long has a background, so they will not embarrass him. But the look he looked at Li Long was not very kind. Of course, if they want Li Long to stay humble, Li Long doesn't mind letting them feel the warmth of the Five or Six Styles.
As for those who were forced to "send confessions", Li Long didn't care. These days, if he can't hold his own head up, no matter how much others can help, they won't be able to help.
As for the difficulties and the reasons, Li Long didn't want to know, and he didn't care to think about it.
This is 1983! Just like the years when the crackdown on gangs and evil was the strictest in later generations, at that time if someone's child was bullied at school and the parents had no choice but to blame the child for their misfortune.
After all, the path has been given to you. If you don’t act, no one will be able to save you.
In more than a month, Li Long also visited the animal husbandry team once and sent some sprouts, potatoes and other vegetables there. He planned to send some more when the tomatoes came down. The Kazakhs don’t eat many varieties of vegetables, and some things won’t be eaten there, so it’s better to send more of what they usually eat.
At noon in June, Li Anguo and Yang Yongqiang came back from Kuitun for leave. They had received their official worker quotas, and they were official workers from now on.
The next day Yang Hua entertained guests at home and invited Li Long over. Yang Hua was very drunk that day. This was a great event for the family, and word spread in the village. Most young people envied Yang Yongqiang's good luck.
Many people have turned their attention to Li Long - after all, Yang Yongqiang's ability to work as a worker can be said to be entirely handled by Li Long.
Everyone already knows that Li Long himself is not a worker. After all, he makes more money than a worker. If he really wanted to be a worker, he would not be as rich as he is now.
But he didn't want to, because there were many people who wanted to be, so in the past few days, people would run to Li's house from time to time, wanting to get some news and see if there was any news about recruiting workers anywhere.
Li Long can't help it. He is not a god, so naturally he doesn't know where there is news about recruiting workers. Whenever there is news about recruitment in Ma County, people with connections inside have already informed it. By the time they know about it, the recruitment will be full by then.
There will be more recruitment news in Shicheng and Wucheng, but they are far away and have few connections, so how can they possibly know about it.
Li Long can only be vague. If he really has it, he will tell everyone. There is nothing he can do if he doesn’t have it for the time being.
Li Anguo had just become a regular worker and applied for a branch. Ma Aihong, Section Chief Ma, also said that he would pay attention to him, but for the time being, he didn't.
Therefore, the second sister-in-law Chen Lirong and her two children have to live in the team for the time being. But fortunately there are more places to live here, so this is not a big deal. Besides, there is already hope, so the rush is not at this moment.
Before leaving, Yang Yongqiang made a special trip to see Li Long, bringing wine, cans and other things, as well as money, and asked Li Long to take it back while scolding him.
However, Li Long took away the wine and cans, changed hands and gave them to his father and mother. This is Yongqiang’s gift of thanks, so you must accept it.
Li Junshan didn't come back with him. He had already become a regular employee. The reason why he didn't come back was because he had a date there.
The girl's parents, like Li Jianguo, came from the mainland to support the border areas. The girl came with them when she was young. Now she is working as a temporary worker in a state-owned factory in KT City and has not yet become a regular worker.
The girl's uncle worked in a construction and installation company and saw that Li Junshan was practical and capable. He made some inquiries and found out that Li Junshan was not married or married, so he introduced him to her.
According to Li Anguo, the girl is quite satisfied with Li Junshan and is currently in the process of dating.
This succession of good news filled the Li family with a festive atmosphere. Li Long simply asked Uncle Luo to kill a half-large wild boar to entertain his second brother and the others.
The wild boars in Lao Ma Hao have been semi-domesticated, and they gave birth to two litters this year, totaling fifteen.
The roe deer deer has a new generation, and the largest male roe deer deer and the half-size male red deer caught last year have all been antlered this year. In addition to the two young deer sold last year, this year’s roe deer deer have their antler harvested. The first payment of the number.
Two pairs of deer antlers were sold for more than 300 yuan, which directly covered all the expenses of Lao Ma's account, including Lao Uncle Luo's salary.
Although Old Uncle Luo complained that he was almost too busy, when Li Long jokingly asked him to find help, he immediately refused.
“You’re kidding, there’s no way you’ll be too busy. Feed and everything else are readily available. Now you can just cut the grass outside, and you can do half a day’s work just to take care of these animals. The roe deer in your big yard If the deer is not easy to deal with, get it back, we old horse Not to mention anything else, it’s just that the place is big and you can raise a lot of them!”
Actually, Li Long has really considered getting back the roe deer and fawns in the big yard. They have grown quite large in the past two months! It's not so cute anymore, and the big roe deer has a tendency to kick people.
Hmph! If it weren’t for Gu Xiaoxia’s protection, Li Long would have killed it directly in the big yard!
Li Anguo and Yang Yongqiang both had three days off. At noon on the third day, they took Li Long's tractor to Shicheng, bought tickets to Kuitun and returned to their work.
Ma County Bus Station does not have a direct bus to Kuitun, so you have to reverse the bus to get to Kuitun.
Li Long had been pulling materials for a while. By July, he had settled all the freight charges and was ready to start another more important job.
Harvest wheat.
The wheat in the team has been yellowing for several days. The Shaomai had already been eaten, and the team members had long known about the harvester at Li Long's house.
But for now, except for his own family and the familiar Tao Daqiang, Yang Hua, Lu Yingming, Xie Yundong and Jia Weidong, who have clearly stated that they want Li Long to use a harvester to cut their own wheat, everyone else is waiting and watching.
Li Long has already let the news out, and it costs two yuan to harvest an acre of wheat.
The reason why he gave this price was because Wang Caimi also released a piece of news a month ago. After this year's autumn harvest, the price of plowed land per acre has increased to four yuan.
The price increase is because everything nearby is rising. Oil prices have not changed, but labor costs have increased, and the machinery is not cheap.
Li Long's two yuan really didn't matter in front of the four yuan plowing fee.
After all, everyone knows that although wheat harvesting can be done manually, it is different from plowing. There is nothing the person can do.
But wheat is usually harvested under the bright sun, and each family in the team has a lot of grain fields, and the wheat they grow is at least ten acres, and as many as thirty or forty acres. This cutting is really uncomfortable.
Those who have never harvested wheat before really don’t know how painful it is to harvest wheat under the northwest sun.
Namax is really trying to make money with his life.
Besides, the sun in the Shaanxi-Gansu region is really incomparable with that in northern Xinjiang.
Harvester, maybe it’s really good? (End of this chapter)