"The autumn air is crisp and cloudless, and the summer harvest is going on in a lively and orderly manner. This year, during the wheat harvest in Hongqi Township, Ma County, a strange-looking big guy broke in..."
Jiang Zhiyu was lying on the table and writing Press release, serious expression.
Li Long appeared in the Autonomous Region Daily and was commended by the Autonomous Region for his work on national unity, and related to him, Yelaya, who originally wrote the broadcast script, was seconded to the county radio station.
It is impossible not to be envious. Jiang Zhiyu also wants to work in the county. After all, there is not a big stage for work in the countryside, and there is a feeling that power can make things incomplete.
Originally, her parents were both in the county, but now due to job transfer, her father has gone to the state, and her mother is still in the county hospital. The family of three is divided into three levels: state, county and township.
It would be great if she could be transferred to the county.
"Director Jiang, where are you writing the manuscript? You are so diligent, I can learn from you." A young man knocked on the open door, walked in, and said, "Here, treat you to a cream popsicle. I I wanted to buy the doll head, but it was sold out quickly today."
He handed over a cream popsicle wrapped in paper.
"Thank you, I've been feeling sick lately and can't eat anything cold." Jiang Zhiyu politely refused.
"Can't eat it? That's okay." The young man held the popsicle and chatted for a while with some regret. Seeing that Jiang Zhiyu continued to immerse himself in writing, he walked away.
After a while, another young man came over. Seeing Jiang Zhiyu writing, he sat down on the side and chatted. Jiang Zhiyu ignored him and he was not embarrassed. He didn't feel embarrassed until someone called him outside the door. Just left.
Jiang Zhiyu sighed after watching his back disappear.
She stood up and closed the door loudly to express her determination.
When can I write in peace?
One of these two young men is an armed officer of the Township Armed Forces Department, and the other is a teacher at the Agricultural Broadcasting School (Agricultural Technology Extension School). They both have a crush on Jiang Zhiyu and came to pursue her.
Both of them are dressed very fashionably, their hair is combed smoothly, and they look energetic. They are considered outstanding young people among township cadres.
It's a pity that Jiang Zhiyu won't think about it. Sometimes she will have a flash of thought and compare the two with Li Long.
In terms of appearance, Li Long was completely defeated. When Jiang Zhiyu met Li Long several times, he felt that his hair was messy, his eyes were red, he had a persistent smell of diesel, and there were patches of diesel stains on his clothes.
The same goes for your hands.
During the interview, Li Long would only answer questions and would not expand on them at all. Unlike these two, he knew a lot about the international and domestic situations and was very eloquent when talking about the international situation. Like a master of analysis.
However, Jiang Zhiyu felt that Li Long's temperament was real and these two were too vain.
It’s just like writing essays. When I was young, I really liked the kind of fancy blockbusters and lots of gorgeous words. I thought that was the most powerful thing.
However, when I got older, I realized that there was a lot written there, but in fact it can be summed up in four words: nothing to say.
And those written by real masters may be very detailed or very plain, but there is something in every sentence.
At this time Jiang Zhiyu felt that Li Long had something, and these two also had something, but not much.
She should continue writing. She didn't believe that Yelaya could reach the county with a radio script, but she couldn't?
Hmph!
Li Long naturally didn't know that he was being compared with others again. He was currently cutting wheat in the field.
After cutting today, the team has almost enough. Tomorrow we will go to the third team to harvest.
What surprised Li Long was that someone from a small team came over and asked Li Long to cut wheat. This person is a big farmer. He has grown a total of 60 acres of wheat on his own grain fields and contracted land. He is considered a big farmer.
They also agreed to give cash in cash after harvesting. Because it takes a long time to cut, the other party also provides lunch.
This attitude is quite good. The person was in a hurry, so Li Long planned to cut the person's penis the day after tomorrow.
What a coincidence, this man is in the same team as Wei Tianxing.
Li Long has not encountered any problems with the wheat he has harvested so far. Basically, you won't encounter any problems these days. The people are relatively simple, and even if they are bad, they are limited.
Unlike later generations, when the Internet is widespread, it is easy to get bad. There are all kinds of bad things that make people angry.
For example, as seen on a small video platform, someone would insert steel bars into someone else's cornfield that was ready to be harvested. When the harvester entered the ground and hit the steel bars, the blade gear was directly damaged.
Li Long has seen news like this more than once. And because the cornfield area is so large, it is impossible to investigate such a thing.
The owner of the harvester can only admit that he is unlucky.
Li Long actually thought about this problem at first, but then he laughed.
At this time, people are not that bad yet.
If someone has a feud with someone, if the adults can't tell it to their face, then they won't have any dealings with each other in the future. At most, the child will spit when passing by the other party's door, or if it is bigger, it will make the bad guy dig the ditch at the head of the other party's wheat field, fill it with water, and block the wheat harvesting.
Compared with some mischief in later generations, it is almost like a prank.
Reinforced steel bars are a good thing even in every home. They are used to make farm tools or other uses, but not for this purpose.
Even if you build a wooden stake or something in the wheat field, it won't be very powerful and won't have much effect. The most important thing is that people today can't remember this.
Two days later, when Li Long went to a small team to harvest wheat, he met Wei Tianxing.
What surprised Li Long was that Wei Tianxing went to the fields in a carriage. If it weren't for this man being too shameless, Li Long really didn't recognize him.
The tractor suddenly passed the carriage. Wei Tianxing glanced at Li Long and turned his head in the other direction.
Li Long only glanced at it, guessed it was Wei Tianxing, and then drove to the third house in a small group of residential areas.
The man who called Li Long over was named Ye Jiaping, who was in his forties. He had already walked outside the hospital when he heard the sound of the tractor.
Li Long parked the tractor outside and asked:
"Brother Ye, have you eaten? Can you go to the fields now?"
"Yes, everything is ready. Why don't you come down and have a cup of tea and rest?"
"No need. "It will save trouble if you finish cutting early." Li Long said, "It's comfortable to cut in the morning, but it's too hot at noon." >The Ye family has a donkey cart and a bicycle. Ye Jiaping's wife led the donkey cart behind, and he led Li Long on his bicycle in front, leading Li Long to his wheat field.
When he went to find Li Long in the first two days, Ye Jiaping already knew that the stalks in the land needed to be leveled. The stalks in the sixty acres of land were not small.
"Brother Ye, does this whole area belong to your family?"
"Well, the plots of land in our team are relatively concentrated. When the land was divided, I wanted to get them together. Later, the land When I was contracting, I changed the plots with others and put them together. This way, it’s easier to plant and harvest.”
This is a good idea, Li. Long thought that no one in Team 4 did this.
"Then I'll start." Li Long sat on the tractor and looked at a small group of fields more than 300 meters long. They were not long and could go back and forth quickly.
Harvesting like this is quite exciting, and it feels good to go back and forth every few minutes.
After more than an hour, twenty acres of land were harvested. Li Long drove the tractor out of the field and stopped. The water in the water tank was boiling. The tractor needed to rest, and Li Long also needed to take a rest.
Ye Jiaping cut a watermelon on the edge of the field and called Li Long over to eat. Li Long was not polite. He took a piece of melon and asked as he ate it:
"Brother Ye, did you plant your own wheat or did you buy it from a seed company?"
>"If you buy it, the seeds from others are naturally better than the ones we keep ourselves." Ye Jiaping said, "Not only the seeds, but also a lot of chemical fertilizers. I can harvest more than 100 kilograms more from one acre of this land than when we used a big pot to cook rice." ! ”
Li Long still understands it very well. When there was a big pot of rice, there were many foreign workers, so it was difficult to increase the output. But when the land is distributed to the people themselves, they will be more motivated to plant. Coupled with using good seeds and using more chemical fertilizers, the yield will naturally increase.
“If the seed fertilizers in private stores were cheaper than those in state-owned stores, would you buy them?”
“Cheaper? Is it formal?”
“Definitely formal, and the same purchasing channel as state-owned companies. They are all imported from Wucheng and Youcheng.”
“Then buy it. As long as it is from regular channels, I will definitely buy it. Even if a bag of fertilizer is cheaper, it will cost several dollars per acre. Bag, my sixty acres can be a lot cheaper." Ye Jiaping said without hesitation. Of course, Li Long's question was not without purpose. Since you are planning to open an agricultural supplies company for your father-in-law, you have to see whether the target group will accept it. Although agricultural supply companies in later generations basically make money, it is still 1983 and whether they can be accepted by farmers is still a question.
Private enterprises and shops are still inferior to state-owned enterprises in terms of credibility, at least at this time.
However, at present, we are still relatively optimistic. As long as the source is normal, everyone can still accept it.
In fact, Li Long’s plan was to make an agreement with his father-in-law when he opened the store. He should not worry about the income and profits for the time being. The main thing to open a store was to explore the way and seize the opportunity. As the first person to open an agricultural supply store in the county, he is easily remembered.
Of course, Li Long also plans to do some local advertising, such as painting a wall advertisement in a conspicuous place, and sending out flyers, but can he print out enough flyers at this time? It’s hard to say.
I digressed, ate two melons, and continued harvesting.
Ye Jiaping watched from the end of the field. As Li Long continued to drive the tractor in circles, someone came over from another field.
Ye Jiaping saw that it was Wei Tianxing. Although he had a normal relationship with this person, he was polite when he came over:
"Old Wei is here, come and have a piece of melon. "
Wei Tianxing was naturally not polite. He took the melon and ate it. While eating, he pointed at Li Long in the field and said:
"How did the boys from these four teams cut it for you? ”
"It's okay." Ye Jiaping couldn't figure out what Wei Tianxing wanted to do and said vaguely.
“I heard that one acre of land costs two yuan? It’s still a bit expensive. If I had a harvester, it would be one and a half yuan per acre of land, not even a penny more! What’s so difficult about harvesting? It’s open The tractor went by without any trouble at all."
Ye Jiaping glanced at him and said nothing. This guy has a tractor at home, but he doesn’t usually drive it on the fields. Does this person expect him to get a harvester so he can charge cheaply? Ye Jiaping was skeptical.
But we were in the same team after all, so it was hard to push back directly, so Ye Jiaping didn't say anything.
Wei Tianxing finished a piece of melon, threw the rind to the ground, then bent down to get another piece, and said while eating:
"Old Ye, your family has a lot of land, and the harvesting costs are not low. You have to beat this guy. Young people are not reliable at work. If you don't beat him, he won't work hard for you..."
Ye Jiaping still said nothing. He could see that Li Long was very skilled at his work. He cut all the way without missing a beat, and the cut was very clean, and he didn't take much rest.
Well done, Wei Tianxing, came here to apply eye drops, was it because you were afraid that others would not know that you were planning to use their harvester?
When Wei Tianxing was eating the third piece of melon, he saw that Li Long had turned back, so he took the melon and left.
Ye Jiaping looked at the remaining half of the melon and shook his head, not that he felt sorry for the melon. Watermelons are cheap now, mainly because of this person. Alas, he is in his own team. It’s hard to say.
Li Long took a break for the remaining 40 acres of land, and it was already past lunch time after he had finished cutting all the land. Ye Jiaping's wife delivered the rice to the field. Freshly steamed steamed buns and fried potato shreds, although it is just one dish, the portion is sufficient.
Li Long was not polite either. He had cut sixty acres of land this morning and was really tired. He picked up some vegetables in an enamel basin, sat in the shadow of the tractor with a steamed bun, and ate it.
While Li Long was eating, one after another people had already eaten at home and came to work in the fields in the afternoon.
Then I saw that all sixty acres of the Ye family’s land had been cut, and that Ye Jiaping’s daughter-in-law was tying wheat in the field. Someone stopped and came over to ask something.
“A harvester cut sixty acres in one morning?”
Some people's expressions were greatly shocked.
After all, harvesters are still a rare thing these days. The fourth team has seen them a lot, but the other teams have not seen them very often.
Manual cutting of wheat is the mainstream, and Conmain is extremely rare. The Corps can use large areas of land, but ordinary people cannot afford it for the time being.
"How much did it cost to cut the land?"
"Two yuan per acre." Ye Jiaping said, "I think the price is right, and the main thing is that it's fast. Our family has 60 acres, and it's up to us. If I don’t have the harvester, I don’t know how long it will last. It’s not cheap to hire people.”
truth. Hiring people is not cheap these days. Mainly during the busy farming season, it is not easy to hire people. After all, everyone has to cut wheat.
After all, there are only a few who don’t grow wheat these days.
“Two yuan.” Some villagers shook their heads and left.
Some people hesitated.
The first team does not have as much work as the fourth team with Li Long. Especially the big brooms and reed handles last year, everyone in the village can do it, and if you do it well, you can earn a year's money.
Therefore, every household still has some spare money.
The first team does not have as much land as the fourth team, and there are not many big jobs that can be done as a side job. One advantage is that it is relatively close to the county seat, more than one kilometer away. In the summer, you can pick up some vegetables and fruits and sell them in the county to earn money from vegetable oil.
So for two yuan per acre, most people still have to consider it.
Then three families came to see Li Long. First, they wanted to bargain, and second, they planned to see if Li Long could cut them in the afternoon.
"It can be cut, but the price cannot be changed." Li Long had already eaten two big steamed buns and all the vegetables in the enamel basin. He used tea to wash away the vegetable juice in the enamel basin. Then he took half a basin of tea, drank it all, put the basin down, wiped his hands and said.
One household thought that since it couldn't be reduced, they would not cut off the crop, so they said hello to Ye Jiaping and left.
The other two families discussed it and finally decided to use a harvester to cut it.
Seeing Ye Jiaping's sixty acres of land cut so neatly, they were really moved.
“It’s okay to cut it, you can cut it now.” Li Long didn’t think about taking a break, “You have to level the stalks in the field first, otherwise it will be easy for my tractor to cut your wheat. Pressed. In addition, we will pay you after harvesting. My tractor team is four. Yes, we are not familiar with each other. It is not easy to owe money, and it will not be easy to recover later. "
You should put the ugly words first. When you get to know each other later, it is okay to owe money or use wheat to pay off the debt, but don't do it now. For things like this, Li Long is more annoyed by the kind of people who have to pay again and again.
He planned to get the wheat from the Tie Lao Gang when he went back this time. If he didn't give it back, he would go directly to the wheat field to pull it.
When making this decision, one of the two families went back to get the shovel, while the other was more clever and borrowed the shovel directly from Ye Jiaping, and also borrowed money at the same time.
Ye Jiaping handed the one hundred and twenty yuan he had prepared long ago to Li Long.
Twelve big unity notes, very new, I don’t know if I went to the credit union to change them, or if I already have them at home.
Li Long took the note, counted it, and put it in his pocket, indicating that the business was over.
Say hello to Ye Jiaping and drive the tractor in the direction pointed by the man just now.
Ye Jiaping looked at the dust brought up by the tractor passing by, his eyes full of envy.
One hundred and twenty yuan, which requires 800 kilograms of wheat to be sold, and the income from four acres of good land was earned in this morning.
He could roughly calculate the money Li Long earned in this wheat season, and he could also think of why Wei Tianxing came over to give Li Long eye drops.
It’s all the fault of money.
I need to get a tractor next year. This thing is much easier to use than a donkey cart.
Just waste gas, there are many things to pull with great strength. How could you not be envious when you see people making money, and the money slipping into their pockets?
Wei Tianxing watched Li Long drive his tractor whizzing past the field, and then entered the field two houses away. The owner of the field there was flattening the ground. More than three acres of their land have been mowed, and it looks like they plan to use tractors to harvest the rest.
If the harvester belongs to you, the money also belongs to you.
Wei Tianxing thought to himself.
Do you want to go to Kuitun and buy a harvester?
Seeing Li Long making money like this, Wei Tianxing was really moved.
Even if it is only five hundred yuan, if you harvest it like this, you can earn it back in a few days!
Then I watched Li Long drive his tractor into the wheat field and start harvesting again.
He has already settled the accounts. With Li Long's harvesting speed, he can earn more than two hundred a day.
If the harvester really costs 500 yuan, it will pay for itself in two days!
Wei Tianxing stood up suddenly.
If Li Long can earn this money, he can earn it too!
Buy a ticket to go to Kuitun tomorrow! (End of this chapter)