When Li Long was working on the harvester, he had already prevented a situation like the Tie Lao Gang from happening.
Folks in the countryside, if you really want someone to cheat, you don't want to give. To be honest, if you meet someone with a soft temper. , it’s really not easy to handle.
But Li Long is not. He knows that if the Tie Lao Gang does not accept the money, or the matter is not resolved, then he will encounter many similar situations in the future. Then he can earn money by cutting wheat. Just stop doing it.
“No money? It’s okay if you don’t have money.” Li Long smiled, “If you don’t have money, you can wait until the wheat is sold and you can give it to me.”
“But my family has already given me the money. It’s planned, I’ll pay it back when the time comes It's the team's account." Tie Laobang said with a bitter look on his face, "How about you wait a little longer and wait until my family has money before I give it to you? Don't worry, I'll send you a note then. Definitely return it!”
Li Long listened and smiled.
He remembered something from later generations.
In fact, the villagers in the fourth team are generally quite disciplined. Of course, the cadres in the team are also basically disciplined in their work. From Xu Chengjun now to the replacement twenty years later, generally speaking He said that whether he applies for subsistence allowances or various subsidies, farmers will basically not be occupied.
As for farmers, they are basically looking for fish and shrimps, and they usually don’t interact much if they are not from the same place.
This Tie Laobang family belongs to the kind of person who usually looks pretty cool, but has the cunningness of a peasant but not the simplicity of a peasant.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to marry someone like Ma Jinbao.
There is one thing that Li Long always remembers.
Thirty years later, the village took over a project in the autonomous region to carry out drip irrigation renovation. The villagers did not have to pay any money, and all basic expenses were included in the project funds. All 8,000 acres of land in the village have been converted into water-saving irrigation fields.
As soon as this project came out, the village director at the time immediately discovered the business opportunities and asked a young relative of his to open a drip irrigation tape factory. There is a real need for this thing. In the first year, I recovered the capital and made a lot of money. After all, I was not familiar with it. In the second year, I expanded production and made a net profit of millions in one year. In the third year, the output value was thousands. All in all.
As for the young man, it was a bit overwhelming to make so much money all at once, but he always repaid his kindness. The village was so kind to him, and he thanked him one by one. The kind that can’t be wiped off in terms of face,
He would lend money to anyone in the village who came to him, and it was always tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
In the next two years, there were more people opening drip irrigation tape factories, competition was fierce, and it was not easy to make money. The young man needed to buy new equipment and had difficulty with capital turnover. He needed to recover the money he lent. Some people paid it back, while others delayed it.
Tie Jinhu, the son of Tie Lao Gang, was one of those who refused to repay. He borrowed a lot, including three to four hundred thousand.
He didn't repay it, and the young man couldn't do anything to him, so he had to find a way on his own, such as a loan. Then he became ill while drinking, and he didn't recover in the hotel.
Normally in this situation, the debt will not be paid off after death, but the young man’s family is still there, so the money owed must be paid back to his family.
Tie Jinhu did not mention this matter at all in the next few years. At that time, the young man was too shy to lend money to others and did not take the initiative to ask for an IOU. There was no evidence for this matter.
But everyone in the village knows that sometimes after drinking too much, Tie Laobang will talk about it himself, and he is not ashamed but proud of it.
Can such a person be believed?
So after listening to his words, Li Long smiled and said:
"Don't bother me. Your family has no money, and I don't need you to give me any money. I'll knock down the wheat." You can collect one acre of land or two. If you give me fifteen kilograms of wheat for your twenty acres of land, then I will haul three hundred kilograms of wheat and we will pay for it. Of course, if you feel that it is not possible, I will haul it directly when the sunflower or corn comes down. Okay.”
"Xiaolong, you can't do this. I didn't say I won't give you money, I'm just letting you take a break..." Tie Laobang's face changed after hearing what Li Long said, "Are you trying to force someone to buy someone?" Sold? "
"Hey, Lao Tie, are you going to rake it up?" The old gang was older than Li Jianguo and younger than Li Qingxia. Normally, Li Long would still have to call him brother or uncle, but this old man was disrespectful, so Li Long didn't give him any face, and said with a sneer:
"Yesterday you came to me and asked me to cut wheat. I offered you two yuan and you accepted it. Yes, now that the wheat has been harvested, you say you have no money, and you don’t want to pay for it. Do you think I, Li Long, is easy to talk to?
I will tell you the truth, there are only two choices, Either take the money or give the wheat. Don’t say anything more. It’s useless. That’s all. , put away your thoughts, just because I'm young doesn't mean I'm stupid. If you really want to cheat, fine, I'll drive a tractor around your field now. I don't want the wheat or the money. Do you dare to let me transfer?"
After Li Long said this, Tie Lao Gang stopped talking. Now that the wheat has been cut down, if Li Long really drives the tractor around the field and crushes the wheat ears, at least hundreds of kilograms of wheat grains will fall to the ground and cannot be picked up!
He wouldn't dare!
Seeing that the Tie Lao Gang was cowed, Li Long sneered and drove away on the tractor. Making money was important, and talking so much here is really a waste of saliva.
Tie Laobang was very angry. This boy from the Li family doesn't follow the routine!
Of course, he looked at Li Long from the old perspective. Li Long two years ago might have been tricked if he was bothered like this, but now Li Long is no longer the warm-hearted person he used to be.
Fortunately, there is only one person like Tie Laobang. Those who want Li Long to use the harvester to cut wheat on the next day will prepare money and give them money after cutting.
The wheat in the team had only been harvested for two days, and Li Long already received work from outside the team. This time it was an acquaintance. Tao Daqiang came to find Li Long and wanted him to help go to the third team to cut the wheat of Yang Pingping's family.
“Their family planted a lot of wheat this year. The 40 acres of contracted land and the ten acres of their own grain fields were all planted with wheat, and they only planted a little oil sunflower and corn. The family only has a few crops. No one can cut it off." Tao Daqiang. Said:
"I have to fight here and I don't have time to go over and help. Brother Long, you can go over and cut it when you have time, and I will give you the money directly."
"Okay. "Li Long will naturally not refuse if business comes to him. I cut fifty acres in half a day and got one hundred yuan. It was quite fun to make money this way.
Now that the wheat queue in the team has been three days old, Li Long did not allow anyone to jump in the queue. He wrote it down in his small notebook and said to Tao Daqiang:
"Let's do it tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow afternoon I originally planned to finish cutting and have a look at it for my family. In this case, I will go over and cut it for your husband's house.
As I said before, let's smooth out the stalks in the ground in advance. Otherwise, my harvester would go into the field and cut half of it and it wouldn’t be able to cut it. It’s not good if you waste time.”
Such a thing happened in the past two days. Someone in the team asked Li Long to cut wheat, and Li Long made an agreement in advance to let the other party smooth out the stalks in the field. The harvester cannot cut when it passes over the stalks, and the wheat will be crushed.
As a result, some people turned a deaf ear to this and didn't care. When Li Long was harvesting, he encountered two stalks in a row, which made him angry and lost his temper. They could only laugh and hurriedly smoothed the stalks.
Some people are bad, some people are lazy, and some people are the kind that was often said on the Internet in the previous life, with insufficient IQ, but thanks to socialism, they were born well and grew up safely.
No one can survive in the old society.
I can’t understand human language.
Tao Daqiang naturally knew what to do and what not to do, so he hurriedly agreed, and then rode his bicycle to tell his father-in-law.
Li Long drives the tractor to harvest wheat step by step every day. Many people in the team simply stopped cutting them and waited for Li Long to go over and cut them and then tie them up.
Everyone knows that harvesting wheat is hard work. Because of the big jobs Li Long did last year and this year, as well as the large land area, the team members are relatively richer than other people in the village. .
Therefore, the harvesting fee of two yuan per mu of land is not expensive in their opinion. It can save a lot of time and avoid so much hard work. Why not?
Only some old people scolded their children and relatives who used the harvester as prodigals. After only a few days of full meals, they began to think about being lazy and how hard they had worked back then.
After such words reached Li Jianguo’s ears, Li Jianguo scolded him on the wheat field:
“Thank you for your hard work! We were the ones who built this team, and we opened the ground. The wells were dug out by us, and we also dug out the original nests, including the fields and farmhouses. The ditch was dug out by our organization.
Despite their age, most of these old guys came late. Why do they have so much hard work in their hometown? ? It’s not like you’re doing embroidery on it! Are you trying to show off your old age? “Of course you don’t dare to say this in front of me. After all, Li Jianguo is a real veteran of the team. Those who built the village have a good relationship with him. They know that Li Long is working on the harvester, and these people are willing to help.
They are the real pioneers in building villages, so they know very well how much land the team has and how much land can be reclaimed. They also understand very well that mechanized farming will be a major trend in the future. Otherwise, just with the more than 300 people in the team, If you have to cultivate thousands of acres of land purely by hand, will you die from exhaustion?
Those who can’t see through this are old antiques. In the future, they will slowly be unable to keep up with the times, so they can only follow behind and pick up what others left to eat. Anyway, if you want to make big money, you will definitely not be able to make it. After all, you are not that sensitive. sex.
The next afternoon, when Li Long went to cut wheat for Yang Pingping's natal family, Jiang Zhiyu, the township propaganda officer, chased him into the field on his bicycle. She was the fourth team that went first and found the Li family. She learned that Li Long had gone to the Yang family of the third team to cut wheat, so she rushed to the Yang family and was taken to the fields by Yang Pingping's mother.
Yang Pingping's father Yang Yong and her eldest brother Yang Xinping are preparing to bundle wheat in the field. Here, Li Long has cut seven or eight acres, and the tractor keeps harvesting back and forth in the field.
When other members of the nearby three teams were cutting wheat by hand in the wheat field, they would occasionally straighten up to look at the novelty.
After all, this thing is really a new thing, I have never seen it before. They have seen the more advanced combine harvester Kang Maiying, but they have basically never used it. This harvester is smaller than that one and feels more user-friendly.
Jiang Zhiyu took the initiative to apply to the village for an interview. After Li Long's deeds of national unity were published in the newspaper last time, she regretted it extremely. Although he is from his own hometown, why can't he grasp this and dig deeper?
After all, when she wrote about Li Long's special breeding, Li Long had already mentioned his relationship with the herder brothers in the mountains.
It's just that Jiang Zhiyu didn't pay special attention at that time - last year was the first year that the National Unity Education Month was launched, so she didn't pay enough attention to it and ignored it until Li Long saw the newspaper and was informed by the county Jiang Zhiyu felt a little regretful after being commended by the autonomous region.
So when the wheat harvest here started, she learned that Li Long had built a harvester to cut wheat, so she immediately applied to the village and came down for an interview.
The Yang family's fifty acres of wheat land are not in the same area, with thirty-five acres on one side and fifteen acres on the other. Team 3 does not have as much land as Team 4, but it is quite a lot in the entire township. It currently has more than 1,000 acres, and there is still a lot that can be cultivated later.
Li Long is currently harvesting fifteen acres of land. Jiang Zhiyu came over and waited for less than half an hour before Li Long finished harvesting the land and prepared to move to another farm.
Jiang Zhiyu stopped him.
Having met Jiang Zhiyu once, Li Long had no choice but to give face to the township propaganda officer. He happened to fill the tractor with water and refuel and take a rest, so he stopped first.
At this time, someone from the nearby wheat field came over to inquire about the price of the harvester.
"Two yuan per acre, you can give me money, or you can use wheat to top the wheat when it comes down." Li Long now knows how to work around, "Either you pay two yuan per acre, or you can give me 15 kilograms of wheat, you choose."
"Not expensive." Jiang Zhiyu nodded and wrote it down in a small notebook.
“Can it be cheaper?” The man glanced at Jiang Zhiyu, and then looked at Li Long, “Your village captain Xu Chengjun and I are comrades in arms, and a group of soldiers went there, so I’ll give you a cheaper price just to save face.”
“Sorry, it’s already very convenient. That's good." Li Long waved his hand, "Uncle Yang's son-in-law is my best friend, and I won't give him any discount. Everyone has the same price, so I won't negotiate." There are thirty acres of land here, when can it be harvested?”
"The day after tomorrow." Li Long took out a small book and said, "People in our village are also queuing up now. If you can accept the day after tomorrow, I will make a note of it. If not, you can do it yourself. "
"The day after tomorrow..." The man looked at his land, cut off a piece of land, and said through gritted teeth: "Okay, the day after tomorrow is the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow can definitely come, right?"
< br>"Yes." Li Long He smiled and registered, "Brother, what's your name? Do you write it yourself or should I write it for you? The land is here, right? Since it's going to be cut, you have to tell me that the stalks in the land should be leveled in advance, otherwise The tractor can't get through, and the wheat will be crushed. It's yours. What a joke. His family has a lot of land, and they only need two laborers. If they cut it manually, they won't be able to finish it the day after tomorrow, so they might as well wait.
After this person left, Jiang Zhiyu continued the interview.
"Why do you want to get this harvester?" Jiang Zhiyu planned to ask from the beginning, "Where is this harvester made? I haven't seen it here."
"I designed it." Li Long did not hide it and said directly, "I told the Shicheng Tractor Factory about the design ideas of the harvester, but they were not interested. Then I found another agricultural machinery factory to produce it. The director of that factory knew the technology. After listening to my design ideas, I thought it was feasible, so I produced it.”
“You can actually design farm tools?” Jiang Zhiyu felt that he had unearthed a new news treasure, “Have you designed anything else besides this?”
"The jukebox has already been produced. It is small and has limited application range. It is suitable for home use and cannot be popularized in the field." Li Long described it, and Jiang Zhiyu understood it immediately. After all, she has also lived in the countryside, so she understands.
Jiang Zhiyu immediately asked questions one after another, mainly hoping to shape Li Long into a young man who would take the lead in getting rich, with a flexible mind, quick to accept new ideas, and ideas for mechanized agricultural planting.
After learning during the chat that the Li family also planted cash crops such as melons, Jiang Zhiyu felt that she had really come to the right place.
Li Long still wanted to harvest, so she rode her bicycle to the fourth team. She planned not to report on the melon planting until harvest time. At this time, growing cash crops was still a rarity.
After all, the land is divided into households and the output is guaranteed to each household. After the land is contracted, the first thing everyone has to do is to grow food, because in the past, we ate a lot of coarse grains, and now who doesn’t want everyone in the family to be able to eat it? What about fine grains?
Growing cash crops is risky, and there is no guarantee whether anyone will harvest them. Moreover, there are not many people who dare to grow them without experience.
The Li family is the first in the entire township.
Jiang Zhiyu has determined that when the news is released, it will be published in the autonomous region daily, and it will definitely be published in the state newspaper.
After all, the higher authorities now call on everyone to focus on economic construction and strive to get rich. It is not easy for rural people to get rich just by growing food for a while. On the contrary, it is about growing cash crops. If you grow them correctly and have a suitable market, it will be relatively easy to become rich.
Jiang Zhiyu originally wanted to interview Li Long and write a short report on the mechanization of summer harvest. Now it seems that he needs to think about it carefully, collect more materials, and write it based on the theme of farmers getting rich.
Li Long didn't care so much. He collected the records of two more people here, and then went to cut another piece of land for the Yang family.
After cutting fifty acres, Yang Xinping gave Li Long a hundred yuan. Li Long was a little surprised. Yang Xinping said to Li Long:
"Did Daqiang say that he paid for it? Tell him that if Pingping marries into his family, she will become a member of his family. We all know that he takes care of me, but he does not need to pay for the wheat harvesting money. They have passed it. Just live your life well.”
This one hundred yuan is not ten pieces of unity. There were only three of the big unity cards, and the remaining ones were five yuan, two yuan, and one, and at the end there was a wad of dimes.
I don’t know how long I had been saving, but Li Long hesitated and accepted it.
It’s a matter of man’s dignity, it’s inappropriate not to accept this. As for how Tao Daqiang gives subsidies to his father-in-law, that is another matter.
The sun had already set after Li Long finished cutting. When he was driving towards the team, he met Jiang Zhiyu who was riding back.
"Director Jiang, are you going back to your hometown now? Is it safe or not?"
Jiang Zhiyu was actually a little worried, but he got carried away during the interview and ignored the time.
Seeing that Jiang Zhiyu didn't speak, Li Long sighed secretly and said:
"Let's go, I'll drive a tractor to give you a ride, you don't have to ride too fast."
They came here specifically to interview me, so they couldn't just let a little girl walk at night when it gets dark.
It's possible to encounter a wolf without a bad guy, it's hard to say. (End of this chapter)