The tractor was running fast, and Hongqin was still a little unhappy when Li Long took Chen Xingbang's family to Shicheng.
I just met and played with my sisters and brothers yesterday afternoon. She really couldn't bear to leave.
Although she had friends in her hometown, she didn't have older brothers and sisters, so she would occasionally be bullied.
Family love is really mysterious. Even if it was the first time she met Li Juan and Li Qiang, Hongqin could feel the kindness her eldest sister and brother treat her.
So she didn’t want to leave. Especially when I heard Li Qiang say that he would water the vegetable field for the last time in two days and catch fish in the ditch next to the yard. If she stayed, he would take her to grill the fish.
In winter, I can also let my uncle take me to touch the old bird, roast it, grill chicken, fry it, tether rabbits, fry it...
Li Qiang only said to eat, and already gave the red piano to him. I don't want to leave.
Had it not been for Li Xia’s slap in the face at the end, Hong Qin would have wanted to stay.
So even if the tractor left Ma County, Hongqin’s mouth was still pouty.
Chen Xingbang has nothing to do. There were not many children in the courtyard where he lived. His original plan was that after Li Xia brought Hongqin over, she would send Hongqin to a preschool on the street for two years and then go to school.
The nature of some preschools now is different from the kindergartens of later generations. Generally speaking, they only attend one year before entering elementary school. During this year, some basic knowledge for the first grade of elementary school will be taught.
At that time, there was an institution similar to a kindergarten, called a nursery, which was for younger children. Parents could not take care of them. Children could play together and be looked after.
Of course, there are some in cities, but not in rural areas. There are only preschools in rural areas, and younger children are generally not accepted. Of course, if you want to send them, they will be accommodating, but you still have to pay.
Like Li Qiang, he went to a preschool with Li Juan, and Li Juan went to school. He was not of grade enough and went to a preschool. If he hadn't worked hard and Gu Xiaoxia talked, he might have gone to another preschool.
The tractor crossed the Mahe Bridge and entered the boundary of Shicheng. There were more people and vehicles.
The scenery was obviously different from that of her hometown. As Hong Qin looked at it, she forgot about her unhappiness. She stood up and held on to the railing and looked around.
"The wind is strong, don't open your mouth." Li Xia reminded, fearing that she would get a stomachache after drinking the cool breeze.
The tractor drove to Shicheng Old Street, turned a corner and came to the yard where Chen Xingbang lived.
Although it is not as big as the yard of the eldest brother and the younger brother, it is larger than the yard at home, and it is open and bright. Li Xia likes it just looking at it.
Chen Xingbang got out of the car to open the door. After the door opened, Li Long drove the tractor into the yard, turned off the engine and got out of the car.
Li Xia herself had jumped down, and Chen Xingbang took Hongqin down, then carried the bag into the house.
“Come on, come on, let’s see this is our new home!” Chen Xingbang said excitedly, “The house is big and the yard is big. There are not many things inside, but it is enough. The weather here in the northwest is good, and I can dry the quilt every day. , She fell asleep at night and screamed. "
Hongqin saw that there was such a big yard and ran around happily. It's just that she doesn't like the smell of blood in the yard.
Children naturally like cooked meat.
Li Long sat for a while and then prepared to leave. Before leaving, he took out three hundred yuan from his backpack and stuffed it into Li Xia's hand:
"Sister, you still need to clean up your house, so I won't stay any longer and have to go back. Take these three hundred yuan and ask my brother-in-law to accompany you to buy a women's bicycle when you have time. From now on, I will take Hong Qin with me when I go out. It will be more convenient..."
"I can't ride yet, so I can't accept the money..." Li Xia knew that her brother Li Long rented this yard for three years, and she felt that she was already owed Enough brothers.
"Sister, just take it, or I will just buy a bicycle and bring it here. By the way, there are also bicycle tickets," Li Long gave Li Xia a national industrial ticket:< br>
"My brother-in-law is busy later, and you have to take care of Hongqin. There are many things. It is more convenient to have a bicycle, and I can learn that thing very quickly."
A bicycle costs more than 100 Li Long gave the remaining money to his sister as pocket money. Regardless of men or women, if they have money in their hands without a job, they will not panic.
There was also a bag of rice and a bag of noodles pulled from Li Jianguo on the tractor. The rice is old rice, the new rice has not yet arrived, but the noodles are new this year.
According to Li Jianguo, he paid for all the food rations at home for his younger siblings.
Li Long drove the tractor out of the compound and staggered as he passed the old street, but he did not get off the tractor and drove back.
There is no shortage of food and supplies at home. At this time, we cannot be like later generations. After opening a certain Baoduoduo and looking at all the various things, I clicked and bought them, only to find out after buying them that they were useless.
Although I have more than 20,000 yuan now, I have to spend it wisely. The lessons from the previous life taught Li Long that there is no need to buy some things that can be bought or not. Otherwise, when cleaning up the house, it will be useless to throw them away or keep them, and it will only take up space.
Zhang Qiang still sells large brooms on the old street. In the past two days, it has become increasingly difficult to sell large brooms. The splendens splendens in various places is getting old, and there are quite a few people who come to sell it with big brooms. They all have five or six handfuls. He makes a lot of them, others get cheaper, and he doesn't want to lower the price.
So it is difficult to sell.
Zhang Qiang didn’t want to give up, he thought, just wait until it snows. Once it snows, more people will need brooms, and it should be easier to sell by then.
Of course, he didn’t know that each unit would send a batch of brooms by then.
Li Long drove the tractor back to Ma County. Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, he went to Sister Yang's house.
Neither Gu Xiaoxia nor Gu Boyuan arrived. Sister Yang was cooking, and the noodles had already been cooked and soaked in the basin.
"Sister Yang, you are getting better and better at making love." Li Long glanced at the face in the basin and said with a smile, "By the way, have you received a letter from home?"
Sister Yang’s husband is somewhere in northern Xinjiang. When she brought Han Fang to look for it, she lost her husband’s address. Then she found Ma County based on the place in her memory. Naturally, she found the wrong address.
After Sister Yang settled in with the help of Li Long, she sent a telegram and wrote a letter to her hometown, asking for her husband's address.
However, although the family there responded to the letter, they rambled on and did not give her the address.
This has always puzzled Sister Yang.
But it’s not easy to rush back to my hometown, so I’ll stay here for now.
But in the end, she was left hanging in the air and her husband was not found. The purpose of Sister Yang’s trip was not over.
“The letter came, but it didn’t include an address. I couldn’t figure it out. I can’t throw away my home address? Even if I throw it away, Han Fang’s father has to write home these days. Why didn’t he write to me? "What?" Sister Yang was also very worried.
Li Long is a monster who has lived for forty more years. He is not afraid to speculate on the people in Yang's hometown with the greatest malice.
Not writing the address only meant two things. One was hiding it from Sister Yang, and the other was hiding it from Han Fang's father.
Like Sister Yang said, unless something happened to Han Fang's father, he would definitely write letters and telegrams to his hometown after so long.
Even if you don’t have an address saved at home, is it not difficult to get one?
Both sides, thinking worst, either hiding it from Sister Yang, or most likely trying to steal the money Han Fang's father sent to the family.
Such things are not uncommon. Ten years later, Li Long also heard about such things in the team. Someone in the team went back to his hometown and found out that his father and mother had passed away five years ago. The family was stunned and refused to tell them, and they would not let them go back. They only asked them to send money.
As a result, all the money sent back was divided among relatives at home.
People in Sister Yang’s hometown may not have such a situation.
Secondly, I thought in a worse direction, that is to hide Han Fang's father's affairs. Either something happened to her dad or something happened.
If something happens, the person may be gone. If something happens, the person may be there, but Sister Yang and the others cannot be recognized.
This is what Li Long thought about with a shadow, but he couldn't tell Sister Yang.
"Then just be more steady. When Han Fang here takes a vacation, you can actually go back to your hometown - do you have the money for the train ticket?"
"Yes, yes, there is the money for the ticket. His uncle You don’t charge us rent, so I’ve saved a lot of money.” Sister Yang was very happy when she said this.
Having money around you and doing business will make you more transparent and you will no longer be so easily deceived.
As for why her family didn’t tell her the truth, Sister Yang might have guessed, or she might be a fan of the authorities.
Gu Xiaoxia hurried back on her bicycle. When she got off the car and saw Li Long, she smiled and said:
"You're in the newspaper again, this time it's the Autonomous Region Daily! That clerk Jiang from the township wrote about you and your eldest brother's two tractors, saying that you harvest wheat and your eldest brother grows cash crops..."
Li Long took the newspaper from Gu Xiaoxia and saw an article with a pen drawn in the middle of the second page.
Sure enough, Jiang Zhiyu's name was listed as a correspondent. Li Long guessed that after two more times, this correspondent could become a special reporter.
The articles at this time were mainly realistic, without too much exaggeration. Jiang Zhiyu has a good pen. You can imagine how grand two tractors are in the two brothers' homes by reading the words, and this brother is one Farming is a "flexible employment", and everyone has his own way of getting rich. Among them, the characteristics of melon, a cash crop, are highlighted.
Good seeds, big harvests, high prices.
Li Long sighed after reading:
“I guess my eldest brother’s family is in trouble these days?”
“Why is your eldest brother’s house not in peace?” Gu Boyuan Pushing the bicycle into the yard, he asked, "Exit What’s going on?”
“Steward Jiang from the village wrote about my elder brother and me in the Autonomous Region Daily. I guess everyone in the region who wants to grow melons will want to go there. My elder brother is looking for melon seeds.”
"That's true. If all the farmers in the region knew that growing melons was valuable, then they would search all over the world for melon seeds. But it's not easy to find melon seeds."
Gu Boyuan opened an agricultural supplies store I haven't been in the store for a long time, but at least I can be considered an insider. After dealing with relevant personnel, I know a lot.
Li Long felt that it was necessary to tell his eldest brother that no matter how much trouble was diverted, people could not come to the house to cause trouble every day.
The scale of Shicheng Roasted Seeds Factory is not large, and it can harvest not many melon seeds.
Judging from the number of people who came to Li’s house to buy melon seeds this year, melon planting next year will be about 100 acres, and the output cannot be 200 kilograms. If it is less, the maximum in the end will be More than ten tons.
If the roasted seeds and nuts factory can't eat them, you can go to the seed company to sell a batch.
However, if the cultivation continues like this, I don’t know how long the price of two yuan and eighty can be maintained.
After lunch and chatting in the yard for a while, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia that his sister Li Xia had returned to Shicheng. Gu Xiaoxia meant that she could go and see them when she had time.
Li Long naturally had no objection.
Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Gu Boyuan went to open a shop, and Li Long drove the tractor directly to the team.
Sister Yang cleaned up the kitchen, but when she came out, she did not prepare the meals for sale on the cart in the afternoon as usual.
She squatted down slowly, leaning on the cart she usually pushed to sell food.
In my pocket was a letter just sent from my hometown. The letter did not contain the address of my husband, Han Xincheng. Instead, it said that my father-in-law was old, had been ill twice, and the family had no money. She sent some money back.
Looking at the handwriting, it was written by my brother-in-law Han Xinren.
Sister Yang clearly remembers that her father-in-law was fifty-eight years old when she left. He was in good health and worked better in the fields than some young people in the village.
And my husband would send money back every quarter, maybe twenty yuan, or fifteen yuan.
This is a lot of money in my hometown in the countryside. The money was sent to my father-in-law Han Dazhuang - his parents were farmers, but his father-in-law himself had gone to school for several years, so the names he gave his children were quite cultural.
Every time he received money, Han Dazhuang would take out a few yuan and give it to Sister Yang to pay for his daughter Han Fang's schooling.
Sister Yang clearly remembers that her husband Han Xincheng came back during the Chinese New Year and said that his daughter must go to school. But before he came here to look for her husband, my father-in-law listened to someone's advice and stopped giving money to Sister Yang.
Her father-in-law told her that there was no future for girls going to school. Han Fang was old enough to work. If she worked at home for a few years, she would be able to get married at about the same age.
She guessed that her brother-in-law Han Xinren said this, but there was no evidence, but it didn't matter. The important thing is that she didn't want Han Fang to drop out of school, so after careful consideration, she decided to take Han Fang to Northern Xinjiang to find a husband.
This decision requires great courage for a rural woman who has never even been to the county town.
Having no experience and having never traveled far, she had to take care of Han Fang and find out her whereabouts at the same time. Only then did she get noticed and her wallet and that important letter were stolen.
She never dared to think deeply about why her parents-in-law and brother-in-law didn't tell her husband's address. Did something happen to the husband, or did they not want to see their husbands?
In the past, Sister Yang wanted to pretend to be confused. This letter was sent, and Li Long accidentally asked about it this time, which made her feel that she needed to think carefully about how to solve this matter.
What is the husband’s specific address? What kind of teacher is he? Which division? Or something? Sister Yang didn't know how to read, and Han Fang did, but she couldn't see clearly the handwriting written by her husband Han Xincheng.
Sister Yang decided to think about it carefully with Han Fang, and she also had to think about it seriously. Even if she wanted to go back, she had to have a solid plan.
Otherwise, not only may I not be able to find my husband’s address when I go back, but I may not be able to get out.
When Li Long drove the tractor towards the team, he saw people walking and people riding bicycles hurriedly going there.
Is he thinking so quickly? This newspaper has just come out, and some people have already seen the opportunity and want to get some seeds?
The tractor was going very fast. Someone shouted, but Li Long ignored it. He wanted to rush to his eldest brother's yard as soon as possible to see if it was what he imagined.
Sure enough, when they arrived at Li Jianguo's yard, they found four bicycles and a strange tractor parked at the door, not the one Wei Tianxing had last time. Someone was talking in the yard.
"Brother Li, I said that you are also an old farmer. You have made money and become rich. According to the country's saying, you must get rich first and then lead to wealth! We just want to find a way to get rich. It’s not that we want it directly, we buy it, and we pay whatever price others offer. Ah!"
"That's right," someone immediately echoed, "We also want to get rich, we came here with money!"
"Sell us a little, even if it's just a little. Three acres and five acres is fine!”
...
Li Long hurriedly turned off the engine and quickly entered the yard.
Seven or eight people surrounded Li Jianguo. Li Qingxia, Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong wanted to help Li Jianguo, but they couldn't squeeze in. Du Chunfang was ready to hit someone with a stick.
Li Jianguo usually has a kind face, but he was tired of being criticized at this time, but he knew that he had to reason with these people. He really wanted to drive them away. After these people went out, they told the newspaper, If not, the Li family's reputation will be ruined.
Although he has a good reputation in the team, he has never dealt with such a thing. He is not afraid of it. He is mainly afraid of affecting Li Long.
"Shut up!" Li Long climbed onto his elder brother Li Jianguo's tractor and roared, attracting everyone's attention.
Seeing Li Long arrive and silencing the others with one sentence, the Li family suddenly felt that it was up to Li Long to resolve the matter.
Li Jianguo’s method of explanation doesn’t seem to work.
"My name is Li Long!" While everyone was still confused, Li Long said loudly, "You are in the wrong place!"
"Your name is Li Long, and his name is Li Jianguo. Two tractors, how could we be in the wrong place?" A short man in his thirties said loudly, holding the Autonomous Region Daily in his hand.
"That's right, how could it be wrong?" Another person echoed.
Seeing that others were about to catch up, Li Long said loudly:
"We do get money for growing melons, but think about it, one kilogram of melons costs 2.8 yuan, which is 2 yuan more than wheat. Ten times, will you sell it?”
“I will definitely sell it, not the spoon!”
“Of course, let alone two and eight dollars, I will sell it for one and eight dollars! ”
"So, our family planted ten acres of land and harvested more than 1,800 and 900 kilograms. We also sold it. All of it was sold to the roasting seeds and nuts factory." Li Long stood on the tractor, naturally taller than the others. The momentum can calm many people:
"Who doesn't do anything to make money, right? This tractor was obtained by beating melons. If it were you, would you still have one or two hundred kilograms left?"
These people looked at me and I looked at you, but they stopped talking.
“If you want to get seeds, you have to go to a seed company or a seed roasting factory. They may not be able to roast so much for a while, but if it’s too late, there will be none!”
When Li Long said this, three or five people immediately left the yard and hurried away.
The rest of the people still didn't believe it:
"I went to the seed company, and they said there wasn't any..."
"Yes, I went too. Your family must have saved seeds, and they all belong to me." Three to five kilograms is fine..."
These people want to cheat.
Li Jianguo is a little worried. If it doesn’t work, he should fight out. (End of chapter)