The supply and marketing cooperative did not issue Wei Bazi's tasks, and Li Long didn't ask any questions. Anyway, this job is more, no more, and no less for me. Now many people in the village are about to get into a fight over the reed cutting in Weihu, so he thinks it would be good to finish the reed work later.
Let these reed-cutters hurry up and put out the fire.
Otherwise, if they can mow the entire Wei Lake clean, there is a real possibility of a fight.
After all, if there is a reed task, whoever cuts more reeds will make more money.
Every time Li Long returned to the team, he would be asked if Wei Bangzi survived. He was so annoyed that he simply told his elder brother and father and stopped returning to the village for a short time.
When his second brother Li Anguo picked up Chen Lirong and Xueping Xueqin, Li Long gave his second sister-in-law Chen Lirong four hundred yuan in front of his second brother.
Chen Lirong didn't want it. She knew that her family had received a lot of kindness from her brother-in-law.
“Second sister-in-law, we have everything. I bought a bicycle for Li Juan and Li Qiang. After my sister moved to Shicheng, I also gave her money to buy a bicycle.
< br>You have your own yard now. My brother works during the day and you have to take care of two children. It is convenient to buy a bicycle with this money. "
Second sister-in-law takes care of two children. , so the extra one hundred yuan was calculated by Li Long himself.
Li Anguo didn't dissuade him. Since he already had them, he just kept them. He also knows that his young brother is very capable, so he should take the money first and repay it later when he has the opportunity.
After sending away his second brother and sister-in-law, Li Long became a semi-otaku in the county compound. Occasionally he would go to the supply and marketing cooperative to have a meal and chat with Li Xiangqian.
Li Xiangqian is not always in the supply and marketing cooperative. As the head of the purchasing section, he has some purchasers under him, and some ordinary purchasing tasks are distributed.
For example, Li Long, most of the purchasing tasks in rural areas were left to him.
In fact, Li Xiangqian intentionally added tasks to Li Long. No matter how much money Li Long made from it, at least he completed the task very well, and no one came to the supply and marketing cooperative to sue him.
Importantly, Li Long can also bring an improvement in prestige to the supply and marketing cooperative that others cannot.
Only for this point, no one can compare.
However, he still needs to personally handle some important purchasing tasks, such as going to Turpan to purchase raisins and Hotan to purchase jujubes. He has connections in these places that other buyers don't have. If anyone else goes there, he may not be able to buy good things.
Li Long is happy to have some leisure time and plans to prepare for pregnancy at home.
Tao Daqiang has already given birth to his child, but there is no movement from his side. How can that be done?
"I plan to go back to the team this weekend and see Yang Pingping and the children." At night, on the bed, after the two of them finished their activities, Gu Xiaoxia lay on Li Long and whispered softly.
The stove has been set up in the house, and it is as warm as spring.
The disadvantage of a big house is that even if the windows are open, it is impossible to illuminate the entire house, so it is much cooler than outside in late autumn.
Li Long took advantage of the free space and used a tractor to pull back several carts of coal. The coal room could not be piled, so he filled the coal room and put a lot of it outside.
Small pieces of coal and coal foam are placed in the middle, and a wall is built around it with lumps of coal. Then it is wiped with mud and covered with branches to prevent it from weathering.
Coal is most afraid of weathering. Once weathered, it loses its energy and has no firepower when burning.
The room is warm and people are wearing thin clothes, so they are easily tempted to move.
If nothing happens, let’s do it again.
Yang Pingping was about to undergo confinement. It was said that when she came out of the health center, she came back in a donkey cart, covered with quilts, and with a headscarf on her head.
No matter how later generations debate whether confinement is necessary, people still attach great importance to confinement at this time.
Naturally, men cannot visit their children before the full moon. Liang Yuemei went there, and Li Long asked Liang Yuemei to bring brown sugar and millet.
This is all welfare provided by the supply and marketing cooperative. He is borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha.
No matter how you say it, Gu Xiaoxia is from the team, and she is Li Long's wife. It is normal for her to go home on weekends and visit Yang Pingping, who is in confinement.
Then on Friday, Gu Xiaoxia gave Li Long a surprise:
"I... seem to be pregnant."
"What?" Li Long was surprised. He didn't have a child of his own in his last life, and he had been looking forward to it in this life. But when he heard Gu Xiaoxia say this, he couldn't believe his ears.
"I said, I might have it." Gu Xiaoxia was also a little uneasy, not particularly sure, "My period hasn't come yet this month...it's already several days late."
"Has this happened before?"
"It happened in the team before, and then When I come to work, there will be no more." Gu Xiaoxia thought for a while and said, "Only this time...it will be a few days late, otherwise..."
Gu Xiaoxia did not continue, but Li Long also knew that he was doing this. Two points are a bit ridiculous - of course they are far different compared to the current world and those in later generations.
Although I have never experienced it, I have heard of it.
"You won't go back that weekend." Li Long made a decision immediately, "If you really want to go back, it won't be convenient to watch it!"
Pregnant women and little girls cannot watch the menstruation. Son, this is an unwritten local rule.
"Then I won't go back." Although Gu Xiaoxia wanted to go back, she thought her first priority was to have a baby.
Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia did not return to the team, but some people in the team were anxious.
The reeds at home are piled so high. It’s early November. In previous years, people have come here to collect reeds and hairy reeds. This year, someone came to collect hairy reeds.
There were very few people beating reeds at this time. They were used to make paper, so the quality of the reeds was not high. The fiber of the reeds was pretty good, and the papermaking was quite good.
However, the raw materials needed by the paper mill are also limited. At this time, there are no large-scale cattle and sheep raising here. The wheat and wheat straw harvested in the summer are sent to the paper mill as raw materials.
So the demand for reeds is much less.
Everyone still hopes to make money by making reeds.
But Li Long hasn't come back yet and won't give him a living, so they can only wait?
Those who are in a hurry will go to Li's house from time to time, and those who are more anxious have even put up reeds at home.
In their opinion, there is such a job anyway, otherwise it would be a problem to pile up these reeds at home, so they might as well just tie them into handles.
Whether it is Li Long or Hu Lao Er and Hu Lao San last year, whoever takes it will give it to him.
So now some people have started to tie reeds when they have free time.
In the past two years, the fourth team has formed a completely different winter "culture" from other teams.
As soon as winter comes for the other teams, it’s really hard. There’s not much work to do. The boys get together to either play cards or pass on stories.
If you are energetic, you can go out and catch a rabbit or something. There are also rabbit trappers, but not many.
Team Four also has work to do in winter. The ice is not thick yet, so there is not enough time to break holes in the ice to catch fish, but some people are always paying attention to Dahaizi, and they don’t know if Dahaizi will directly drain the water like last year and reveal the fish in the reservoir.
If anyone thinks that there will be no fish in Dahaizi last year but there will be no fish this year, they are wrong.
Dahaizi is different from Xiaohaizi. There are two in the upper reaches of Xiaohaizi, one is a flood and the other is a small channel water branched from the Ma River.
These two streams of water are unlikely to bring big fish, at most there will be some small fish.
So Li Long has been trying his best to prevent Xiaohaizi from breaking the dam, because he knows that once the dam breaks in Xiaohaizi and the big fish run away, there will no longer be so many fish.
Dahaizi is different. The upstream is the Mohe Canal, which is the same as the river, and there are several large and small reservoirs downstream.
These reservoirs are all public and connected to each other. There are no fish here, but there are in the downstream reservoirs. Those big fish will swim up the river when the water is released, and swim to settle in Dahaizi.
Therefore, there will be no shortage of fish in the sea unless the upstream and downstream are completely cut off.
The scene last year left such a deep impression on those who participated, so many people were waiting.
Of course, more people are still doing Weizi. Even Li Jianguo cut a lot of reeds. There is a tractor in his yard, so most of the reeds are piled in Li Long's yard.
Liang Yuemei and Li Jianguo smoked reeds when they had nothing to do, but unlike others, they did not tie the reeds. We need to pull out the reed first.
In Li Jianguo’s words, isn’t the work of tying reeds very simple? Drawing reeds is troublesome. As long as the reeds are drawn well, the remaining matter of tying the reeds is not troublesome at all.
The Lu Yingming family next door also followed the same example. Many people are like this, but the more radical ones have already begun to tie up the reed according to last year's standards.
Li Long didn't know all this. He felt relieved after he made sure that Gu Xiaoxia just missed her period and didn't feel any other discomfort. It's not easy to test right now, so you can only wait and see if your period comes next month. If not, there's a high probability that you're pregnant.
He originally thought of staying at home and taking care of Gu Xiaoxia, but Gu Xiaoxia laughed at him.
"When do I need care now? Are you too careful? There is a woman who is eight months pregnant at work in our unit, and there is also a woman who is seven or eight months pregnant teaching students in the school. Well, that person on our team is almost pregnant and still working in the fields..."
Well, women these days really hold up half the sky, but of course it’s a bit too much.
A similar situation occurred in later generations.
Then Li Long was sent away by Li Xiangqian.
Li Xiangqian also saw that he was too idle, so he sent him to collect honey in the mountains.
Supply and marketing cooperatives need to store various supplies, and there are too many types. Most of the specialties on the market, or in the entire northern Xinjiang region, need to be kept in the warehouses of the supply and marketing cooperatives.
Some materials that are not available locally are usually available in tons in supply and marketing cooperatives.
Not much honey is produced locally. The Corps has a beekeeping team, and there are scattered beekeepers in various towns and villages. Beekeeping in the mainland will come later when cars are more common, but at this time, most of the beekeepers in the mountains are public. of.
Of course Li Xiangqian didn’t ask Li Long to look for him like a fly with his head covered. He pointed out the location of the beekeeping team of an agricultural division of the Corps to Li Long and asked him to buy a batch of honey.
The price has been set, and the price charged by the supply and marketing cooperative is one yuan and three kilograms.
Honey was still a rarity for ordinary people at this time. Although Li Long's family had been eating honey for many years, most people did not have this ability.
After all, at this time, some doctors still treat honey as medicine when prescribing medicine.
The output is small and the price is high, so ordinary people can eat less.
The reason why Li Long was allowed to go was of course because Li Long had a tractor.
The number of cars in the supply and marketing cooperatives is not large. The supply and marketing cooperatives have a large number of purchasing tasks before winter. The cars are sent out to purchase more important materials, and some of them have to travel long distances. This kind of distance is not enough. Those who are far away can only wait, or let people with tractors like Li Long go.
The purchasing task is for Li Long to purchase two thousand kilograms of honey. At this time, a large amount of honey is packed in bags, just like the plastic bags that hold forty kilograms of fertilizer. There is a plastic inner film inside. It can prevent honey from leaking out.
Li Long followed Li Xiang's instructions and went to the beekeeping team of the Corps to collect honey. This kind of thing was relatively common at this time.
The honey of the beekeeping team is stored uniformly. At this time, the Corps was a large collective, and later generations were also a large collective. However, the Corps had already been reformed when Li Long had his accident.
Before the reform, all the inputs of each company of the corps here, except for labor, were uniformly spent by the corps. When harvesting, they were also harvested uniformly, handed over to the corps, and sold uniformly.
After the sale is completed, after deducting expenses and fees that should be retained at all levels, the remainder will be distributed to the employees of the Corps.
The same is true for the beekeeping team at this time. The beekeepers hand over the harvested honey to the team, and the team sells it uniformly. The money from selling the honey is deducted from the team’s expenses and costs, and then the team’s expenses and costs are deducted. A proportion of the honey turned over is returned to the beekeepers.
There must have been some shortcomings, so later generations carried out reforms.
Li Long found the team headquarters directly this time. This team headquarters has a large courtyard, and there is a huge printed slogan "Long Live Chairman Mao" printed on the wall, which makes people awe-inspiring.
The tractor drove into the yard, and people immediately came out to take a look.
"I'm from the Ma County Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and I'm here to buy honey." Li Long talked directly to the other party after getting off the car.
"Look for our captain," the man pointed to a room.
Li Long looked over there and saw a team headquarters sign hanging on the door.
Li Long came down and walked towards the team headquarters.
A man was smoking cigarettes and listening to the radio beside the table in the team headquarters. Shan Tianfang's storytelling was playing on the radio. When Li Long entered, he looked up, then stood up and asked with a smile. :
"Are you from the supply and marketing cooperative? Are you purchasing honey? OK, OK, how much do you want?"
"Two or three tons." Li Long said, "Do you have any?"
"Yes, yes, two or three tons, not much." The captain pointed to the warehouse next to him and said, "What price can you offer?"
"One piece, I want this much." Li Long didn't He would coax him and ask for a price directly, "Two or three tons is a lot. Ordinary homes or stores only have a few hundred kilograms at most. What I want is a lot."
These days, two to three thousand yuan is a lot. The business is really big. Those beekeepers who occasionally sell honey in the mountains usually sell a few kilograms of honey, and the money can be kept in their pockets.
But when I return to the beekeeping team and hand over the honey, it’s hard to say how much I will get.
"One piece? Is it too cheap?" The captain listened to Li Long's quotation and shook his head and said, "Higher, higher. Yesterday, the department store in Shawan came to collect honey and gave me one yuan and ten cents." Five.”
"How can they charge as much as me?" The department store can charge 500 kilograms of honey at a time. Li Long will not let go easily.
"Little comrade, how old are you?" the captain suddenly asked.
"Twenty-two." Li Long reported a number casually, "What's wrong?"
"Is this your first time here to collect honey?"
"Yes. .”
"You look inexperienced at first glance." The captain looked outside, then pulled Li Long to sit down on the bench and whispered:
"Look, they are all working for the government, why do you need to be so... What about being more serious? Let's do it this way. You collect the honey from the supply and marketing cooperative. When the time comes, you write down the invoice for one yuan and two, and I will sell it to you for one yuan. How about we share half of the extra money? "
Hey! Can this captain still think so?
Li Long was a little confused, but after calculation, it was equivalent to that he actually received the honey at a price of one yuan. The supply and marketing cooperative had already set a price of one yuan three, so it would be natural if he could negotiate the price. Count it as Li Long’s own.
One piece per dollar is also acceptable.
Li Long said:
"Okay, that's it. Your honey comes from the mountains, right?"
"Part of it comes from the mountains. Why, do you like honey from the mountains?" In fact, At this time, most people don’t care that much about where the honey comes from. It’s good to have it.
"Of course, I like honey from the mountains." Li Long naturally wanted good honey. Thirty or forty years later, the price of mountain flower honey will be ten or twenty yuan per kilogram more than ordinary honey.
"Okay, I'll give you the honey from the mountains." Seeing that Li Long was so smart, the captain naturally satisfied him easily.
First inspect the goods, load the vehicle, and finally issue the invoice and pay.
A bag of honey weighs fifty kilograms, and two tons equals forty bags. The bucket of this tractor must be endless, so Li Long made an appointment with the team leader to pull twenty bags at a time, in batches. Pay once.
Of course the captain was also satisfied. The money was safe in his pocket.
One time he sold honey and he got two hundred yuan, so he was naturally very happy.
Li Long took out twenty-one bags for the first time. He planned to keep the extra bag and give each family a share. This stuff is good stuff. Nowadays, my elders, including my eldest brother, all smoke. Honey soothes the throat and soothes the throat. There is no harm in drinking it regularly.
He had to advance the money first, and the beekeeping team's accountant issued a ticket to him under the guidance of the captain. The ticket said one dollar and two.
Of course, this ticket was torn up by Li Long after he left the house. It's better not to keep this thing.
After a trip to the warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative, the warehouse manager inspected the goods and issued invoices. Li Long went to the finance department to get the money, and then went to the beekeeping team to pull another cart of 20 bags of honey.
The captain worked very happily with Li Long. He felt that this young man was very promising and told Li Long that he hoped he would come to buy honey next year and that he would be given a preferential price.
Li Long just smiled, maybe he would be the one coming to buy honey next year.
Supply and marketing cooperatives have many purchasing tasks, but most of them are assigned to regular employees in the purchasing unit. Li Long is in a special situation. First of all, Li Long is a popular person, and even Director Wei, so he can win several big jobs.
Secondly, the work he completed basically had no problems, the quality was very high, and his superiors were very satisfied, so the leader was willing to leave the work to him.
But he is not willing to involve too many purchasing tasks.
Firstly, it will affect the stability of purchasing stocks. After all, everyone knows that you can get rebates when you go out to purchase. If Li Long was allowed to eat it all by himself, other people must have opinions.
Secondly, Li Long was not familiar with some areas and was easily fooled. He felt that it was better to be cautious.
After all, it is better to hide one's clumsiness than to show one's skill.
What Xiang Shaolong said. (End of this chapter)