These people were peeling the bones of the sheep, cleaning the entrails, and cooking in a large pot here in Harimu. Li Long was driving the tractor, followed by Talihar and another young man.
The grass slope to be harvested today is the pasture of Talihar and the young man’s home. Both pastures had been inspected and the piles and stones had been cleared.
The two people came here to lead Li Long, and secondly, they walked through it again as a review.
Li Long thinks it’s okay. After all, although this harvester is not expensive, it is a silly, big and dark thing, but it is so refined. In fact, before Wei Tianxing went to Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory, Li Long also thought that Director Du might have said casually that he would not build it anymore. How could he not build it if there was really a business?
I didn’t expect that Wei Tianxing really didn’t buy it!
So this thing has to be used carefully, and it really can't hit the stone. If the blade breaks, it will be troublesome.
Looking at the two young men riding horses in front of them, Li Long was driving a tractor to cut grass.
It would still take some time before the grass was done, so they were not in a hurry. Li Long estimated that after the last piece of pasture was plowed, the grass in the first meadow that Harimu and the others plowed would be completely dry.
Anyway, it has saved a lot of time. Just wait and wait.
I harvested two hillsides in the morning and returned. There is no rush to work, unlike harvesting wheat and rushing to make money. I'm not in a hurry right now, so I'll finish my work leisurely and return when the weather gets hotter. When I came here, I was in a hurry and didn't bring any watermelon. Li Long regretted it a little.
In the afternoon, I will definitely take a watermelon to hunt the grass. When I am tired, I will stop and pound the watermelon, and each of us will break off a piece and gnaw it. It is so exciting!
No? If you don’t cut it, you won’t feel it if you cut it. Watermelon is rarely cut at this time, unless there are guests. At home, we eat in half, with one person holding half and eating it with a spoon.
At that time, there was no fat or water in the stomach, so the appetite was large, and a child could eat half a big watermelon.
Don’t talk about half of it now, it feels almost enough to eat two teeth.
I used to pick the bigger melons, but now I pick the smaller ones. It's the other way around.
Tractors are not as fast as horses in the mountains. When Li Long drove the tractor to Dongwozi, Talihar and the others had already arrived for a while. The horses were put away and they were pulling bones out of the cauldron.
The odor of wild goats is stronger than that of domestic sheep, but there is nothing to choose at this time. It’s good to have meat.
Li Long looked at the offal cooking in a large pot. The color was a bit dark and it was stewed.
This big pot of braised food will not be finished. I will take it out later and add more. It will take at least three or four pots to finish it.
No matter how much, he just cut the grass. This time he didn’t have to work on these fishy things, which was good. He just had to eat ready-made.
I still eat meat at noon. Harimu and the others had yogurt pimples. What surprised Li Long was that a few grown men actually had naan for lunch, which was a good thing.
Soak the naan in broth and then chew on the bones, it’s quite good.
We continued to clear grass in the afternoon and finished the work on the two hillsides. When Li Long came back, the wild goats here, including the previous red deer and other roe deer, had all been cleared away.
"Take these twenty skins back." Yushanjiang said, "You can also take away these braised offal, and some of these dried meats. We will stay here. Just food is enough.”
Looking at it like this, Yushanjiang plans to let Li Long take away most of what he has captured in the past two days, and they will only keep the guarantee for the rest of the work. .
"Please keep more meat." Li Long said, "I won't come here tomorrow morning. The tractor has not enough oil. I will go down the mountain to refuel and come back in the afternoon. Then I will send some meat to the animal husbandry team."< br>
“No, no, no. Since you are going down the mountain tomorrow, then Harimu and I will go down the mountain together tomorrow," Yushanjiang said, "We will go directly to the animal husbandry team and come back in the afternoon."
Li Long thought about it and laughed, yes, we are already at the edge of the mountain. Now, it's impossible to tell Harimu and Yushanjiang not to go home.
"They can do whatever they want in the mountains and start mowing the grass the day after tomorrow." Yushanjiang said, "Is it enough for you to go back and stay for half a day?"
"That's enough. Come back early and cut the grass here." After the grass is laid, I won't stay in the mountains anymore." Li Long said with a smile, "Okay, I'm going to move things."
He collected all the wild goat skins, deer skins, and roe deer skins. The two large pots were filled with meat and offal. The rest was not finished yet, and Li Long needed to make another trip.
Li Long has fought such a rich battle before, but this is the first time in this form.
The first car was pulled back, and the dried meat and offal were put into the small room. The air-dried meat is dried and the offal is placed in a basin. Anyway, it will not spoil after a night or two.
Pull another cart back. By this time, the sun has gone down for most of the face. It is difficult to put away these offal. There are not enough basins. Li Long simply wiped the wooden shelf clean, covered it with clean fertilizer bags, and then placed these uncut offal pieces on top.
Tomorrow you can just put it in a bag and take it down the mountain.
As for the salted sheepskins, I am not afraid of them getting damaged at the moment. I just stack them up one layer at a time and put them on the floor. I will load them into the car tomorrow and pull them back for easy cleaning.
Also brought back were two large pots of roasted meat, already soaked in oil. The two large pots weighed fifty or sixty kilograms.
Enough to feed a whole family for a year.
Talihar has become everyone’s hero. Not only did Li Long bring back so much, Harimu and Yushanjiang would also take away a lot of dried meat tomorrow. They would also bring some roasted meat, but not much because they were not used to eating it.
Li Long put things away and put them away. It was already dark. He took a piece of braised belly and ate it while entering the big room. He added coal to the stove and pressed it again before cooking. bed.
When I slept until midnight, I heard the howling of wolves outside. Apparently, the smell of meat here attracted the wolves.
He got up and opened the window with his gun, but he couldn't see where the wolf was. The grass at this moment is quite deep and has not been cut. It is difficult to find the wolf hiding in the grass.
Li Long fired two shots outside, and the howling of wolves stopped immediately. He turned off the safety, put the window paper back, and continued to sleep.
The next morning, I poked at the still-burning stove, sliced and baked two steamed buns, sandwiched the braised offal from next door, ate it simply with the warm water in the thermos, and then started to move it to the tractor. thing.
There are a lot of things, so you have to place them carefully. Don’t make the food dirty. Sheepskins and the like are fine. Just roll them up and stuff them in the corner. He plans to send the whips that have not yet dried to the supply and marketing cooperative directly.
Anyway, now that I am extremely talented, I still don’t like this thing. Whenever I get another big red deer, I'll keep it.
After loading the things, locking the door, the tractor drove down the mountain.
When the tractor arrived at the county, Yushanjiang and Harimu had already reached the holding point of the animal husbandry team on horseback. People come down the mountain here from time to time, which is not surprising to everyone. Only Nathan, Susken and others who were already on vacation happily ran towards their father.
This is the season for grass hunting. It is normal for them to go down the mountain. But when Halimu and Yushanjiang told Li Long about using a tractor to cut grass, the family was surprised.
For thousands of years, sickles have been used to cut grass for cattle and sheep. This is the first time I heard that tractors are used to cut grass, and it is very fast. This is more interesting.
Nathan and Susken learned a lot of new things in school, and they are relatively accepting of this, but the women at home cannot imagine it.
This is no less surprising than telling those who have never been to school that a big iron bird can fly in the sky without falling down.
Then he attracted Adili, the vice-captain.
He himself came here to see two people from the mountains. Harimu and Yushanjiang are considered employees of the animal husbandry team. They need to greet him when they come down from the mountain this time. But no one cared. Adili was more concerned about using a tractor to cut grass.
If this thing is really popularized, how much labor can be saved in cutting grass in the future.
Hearing that it was Li Long again, Adili secretly envied these two people. After making such a Han friend, someone takes care of the house, repairs the yard, delivers meat and vegetables, and now someone is taking care of the lawn work!
Can this grass cutting thing be popularized? After all, there are so many herdsmen in the animal husbandry team, and the amount of grass that needs to be stored in winter is not a small amount!
Li Long didn’t know that Adili was planning on him now. At this moment, he had already driven to the county seat and ran directly to the big yard. .
Before noon, Li Long unloaded all the meat, oil and skins from the tractor, put the edible things in the kitchen and storage room, and spread the skins out one by one in the side room to dry. As for those whips, Li Long found a newspaper to wrap them up, and rode his bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative.
The supply and marketing cooperative had not finished get off work yet, and Li Xiangqian was on the phone when Li Long arrived.
After saying a few words and hanging up the phone, Li Xiangqian said to Li Long:
"The big broom job is here. Forty days, five thousand big brooms, can you take it?"
"No problem." Last year it was 3,000 pieces, which cost three yuan each. The thing that makes this thing troublesome is the wooden handle. Splendens splendens is relatively easy to find. Although the number is 2,000 more this year, to be honest, with the momentum of those in the team who want to make money, it will definitely be no problem to finish it within forty days.
As for the pole, Li Long still plans to do it in the woods. He put the bag with the whip on the table. Li glanced forward, sniffed, and asked:
"Whip?"
"Yes." Li Long said, "A piece of deer and a piece of roe deer are both effective."
"I have it here, you can get it later." When I went to the director, he was also somewhat interested in this." Li Xiangqian said, "No. Wait a while, don't worry. The people from the county publicity department are talking in his office. In fact, you came back just in time, and it's about you. "
"What's the matter?" Li Long said something strange. It's over. It's been such a long gap. It should be okay, right?
"It is said that the county wants to use you as a role model to see if there is anything else that can be discovered. The story of you driving a harvester to cut wheat was published in the state newspaper. The county publicity people knew about it and thought it was okay. As a material, it can help everyone get rich.”
Li Xiangqian was not interested in these things. He knew that Li Long was the same. The main thing was to make money and live a good life.
Li Long is indispensable. He has already registered with the autonomous region anyway, so it doesn't matter if he gets a little limelight.
But he was also a little helpless. You guys are all alone with me. Are you addicted?
After a while, a voice came from the corridor, Director Wei's voice, and a young girl's voice, which sounded familiar to Li Long.
When the others passed by the entrance of the Purchasing Department, Director Wei saw Li Long and smiled:
"Hey, Xiao Li, you're back. Just in time, two publicity officers came to find you. I thought you were still in the village, so you can take them to the conference room. It happened to be noon after the interview. You take them out for a work meal, and the company will reimburse it."
Director Wei was very thoughtful, and Li Long couldn't refuse, so he took the two girls to the conference room.
Director Wei entered Li Xiangqian’s office and asked with a smile:
“It’s a coincidence that Xiao Li came here.”
“I just came back from the mountains. Look, this The two are deer whips, originally intended to be sent to you, but I said it would be difficult for someone there.”
"Oh, it's not bad. Let me take a look...it's quite fresh. I'm very thoughtful. Okay, I'll take it away." Director Wei wrapped the newspaper again, took it and returned to his office.
Li Long took Ma Xiaoyan and Yelaya to the conference room. Someone came to pour water and then went out.
“Comrade Li Long, we saw in the newspaper that you drove a harvester and helped the villagers harvest wheat. It seems that you are not only a model of national unity, but also a model of scientific prosperity. ”
Ma Xiaoyan first praised Li Long, then took out her notebook and started interviewing Li Long.
The reason I came to the supply and marketing cooperative was to get some airing here first, and then go find Li Long. After all, they also knew that Li Long was a temporary worker and was usually away from the unit.
It was certainly a good thing to meet him now, so he immediately threw out the prepared questions.
Of course, the main thing is how to use a harvester to harvest wheat, how many acres were harvested recently, how wide the scope was, how much money was made, etc.
Li Long also gave some false and truthful answers. For example, if the scope was too large, if the number of acres was small, he could not tell the truth about the amount of money.
"Comrade Li Long, what have you been busy with recently?" Yelaya asked a question carefully.
Ma Xiaoyan did not expect that Ye Laya would take the initiative to ask Li Long questions. In fact, she naturally took the lead this time, and Yelaya's following was considered as her cultivation. Now she's crossing the line by asking questions while she's recording.
Gotta remember something.
Yelaya didn't know that she had fallen into Ma Xiaoyan's little book. She asked the question mainly because she didn't want to be left in the dark. This question didn't have much value.
"The herdsmen of your animal husbandry team have gone to the pasture to cut grass. My harvester happened to be idle, so I helped them harvest the grass." Li Long said, "Nearly a thousand acres have been harvested. Today is The tractor was out of gas, so I went down the mountain to refuel.”
"What? Are you helping the herdsmen harvest grass?" Ma Xiaoyan did not expect that Yelaya's casual question would directly lead to a big event. She asked excitedly:
"How many days to harvest grass?" How long will you continue to work?”
"There is no charge. Harimu and I are good friends. They help me and I help them. There is no charge." Li Long said, "I have been fighting for three to five days because there are more than a dozen people in the pasture. It's a bit big, so it will take a few days to finish."
"Not accepted. Money, isn't that the same as building a well for them? I understand, I understand." Ma Xiaoyan said excitedly, "Then...when will you go to the mountains again?"
"I'll go in the afternoon." Li Long didn't understand why she was excited.
"Then... don't worry, how can I find you?" Ma Xiaoyan suddenly stood up, "Can you come here before you leave? Wait for us here?"
"Waiting for you?" Li Long was a little surprised, "What are you waiting for? Are you going into the mountain too?"
"Yes, such good material - no, deeds!" Ma Xiaoyan was also a bit ambitious. Zhang Xinhua was able to write about Li Long's work of repairing the yard and digging wells in the Autonomous Region Daily. Now that Li Long is volunteering to cut grass for the herdsmen, does he also have the potential to be published in the Autonomous Region Daily?
Being able to write an article means that this year I can hold my chest high and raise my head while walking in the publicity field.
Of course, it must be supported by the leadership. After all, if you want to go into the mountains, you must at least have a car. You can't go in on a tractor, right? Even if you take a tractor in, how will you get back? People want to cut grass.
As for riding a bicycle, it is even more impossible. Just because Li Long could ride a bicycle into the mountains during difficult times does not mean that these two girls can do it. That's not something ordinary people can do.
So what Ma Xiaoyan wants to do now is to go back quickly and ask the leader to send a car.
This matter is not a trivial matter. National unity is always a big deal here in the autonomous region.
"Lunch time is almost here," Li Long looked at his watch and said, "Go back after eating. After all, even if you go back now, the leader should have gone to eat, right?"
< br>Ma Xiaoyan thinks about it too.
Yelaya was also very excited. If Ma Xiaoyan applied, there was a high probability that she would follow him, first as an assistant and secondly as a translator.
Li Long took Yelaya with him on his bicycle - Yelaya didn't have a bicycle, so Ma Xiaoyan took her with her on a women's bicycle, but it was a bit inconvenient to carry people on a women's bicycle. Li Long then offered to take Yelaya with her.
Yelaya agreed. Ethnic girls don’t have so many ideas. It is naturally more comfortable to sit on the 28-meter bar than on the back of a women’s bicycle.
Going to the halal canteen, Li Long asked the two girls for their opinions and ordered one portion of noodles and two portions of fried noodles.
At this time, the girl was not reserved. In addition, she had something on her mind and was anxious to go back to the leader, and she might have to ask for instructions in writing, so Ma Xiaoyan ate very quickly, and the three of them almost finished eating at the same time. .
Li Long sent the people to the county compound, and then returned to his own compound.
I couldn't take a break at noon, so I drove the tractor to Sister Yang's place first, said hello to Gu Xiaoxia, talked about the matter, and then went to the oil depot to refuel.
Gu Boyuan also ate at Sister Yang's place. Looking at Li Long, he asked a few more questions, mainly about the situation in the mountains.
This time I bought two more oil barrels. After the tractor was filled with oil, it carried four more oil barrels. It should probably be able to be used until the grass cutting is over, right?
After oiling, Li Long bought some daily necessities, mainly marinades and the like, including some vegetables.
In August, there are more fresh vegetables in the market. Bring more spicy eggplants and beans to avoid getting angry from eating meat every day.
Everything was ready and we returned to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Before Ma Xiaoyan arrived, Li Long used the phone number in Li Xiangqian's office to call Xu Chengjun in the team.
"Captain, it's time to set up a big broom. Can you inform everyone that we will start cutting the splendens now to prepare."
"Really? That's okay, how much?"
"More than last year." Li Long did not directly report the number.
"Okay, okay, great! I'll notify you now!" Xu Chengjun was actually waiting for this job. (End of chapter)