Because the tractor is carrying a harvester, the churning sound is duller than usual.
Abu Laiti and Abdul Saimaiti took turns getting on the car and trying to operate it. One is in the car, and the other is watching in front of the harvester. Li Long is guiding from the side, trying to make them familiar with every operation process.
Both of them obviously had experience driving tractors, and they became proficient after operating them twice.
“What is being adjusted now is that the cut crops are pushed to the left side of the tractor and fell down to facilitate binding.” Li Long explained, “These two poles stick out to mark the width of the harvest.
If it goes to the left, remove the pole on the left. If it goes to the right, remove the pole on the right. The adjustment switch is here
I harvested this harvester all summer this year. The most common problem is that the gap between the blades easily catches crops. Then it stops turning and cutting. This is easy to find.
When you find it, stop the machine, turn off the flame and take out the crops caught in the middle. ”
Li Long not only taught them how to operate the harvester, but also told them about the minor problems of the harvester one by one.
This left two people, Abu Laiti and Abdul Saimat Very satisfied.
At least Li Long’s service attitude is very sincere.
"This is the current situation of this harvester." Li Long saw that neither of them was going to try it, so he turned off the tractor, put up the skids, and unloaded the harvester alone.
Ableti hurried over to help.
After putting the harvester away, Li Long said:
"You can think about it. If you really need it, then buy it. If you think you need to discuss it again, it's okay."< br>
Being a farmer is not easy. Five hundred and fifty yuan is not a small amount for most farmers today.
So Li Long didn't think that people must buy it.
The person who came all the way here must be sincere, so naturally I have to express my sincerity.
As for whether the transaction is successful or not, that depends on the future.
Even if it fails, benevolence and righteousness must still exist.
The two brothers discussed it, and Abu Laiti said:
"Comrade Li Long, we are going back to the hotel first. Our transport truck will not arrive until early tomorrow morning, so we are not sure whether we can buy it yet..."
"It's okay. You are busy with your business," Li Long Said, "I just have to go out to do some errands. I'll wait for you tomorrow morning. If you want to buy something, just come over. It should be enough time before twelve o'clock, right?"
"That's enough. It'll be almost after eleven o'clock." Yes." Abu Laiti said hurriedly.
"Okay, I'll wait until twelve o'clock then. If you don't come, then I'll go do some work. My household registration is in a rural area, and there are still things there, so I have to go and handle it."
"It's winter, do you still have something to do?" Abdul Saimat was a little confused. Could it be that Li Long was playing hard to get?
"I took a job from a supply and marketing cooperative and purchased a ton of frozen fish. There is a small sea in our village, which is a reservoir. There are fish there, and some people break holes in the ice to catch fish. I am going to collect the fish."
< br>"So that's it. Over there, there are fish in the Ili River, especially Not big, more than one meter long..." Abu Laiti said with a smile, "But not many people take it."
Li Long nodded, the Ili River has also been famous for its big fish for decades. , but after ten years in the 21st century, big ones are rarely seen and almost all are caught.
After the brothers Abu Laiti and Abdul Saimat left, Li Long also started the jeep and drove out. After locking the door, he drove towards the team.
The two brothers hadn't gone far yet. They watched Li Long drive away in the jeep. Abu Laiti looked at the jeep disappearing and turned to look at his brother:
"I think this Li Long is quite real. He can drive a jeep and live in such a big yard, so he is definitely not an ordinary person. He can teach us how to use the harvester so enthusiastically, and he doesn't buy or sell anything by force. I It feels good.”
“ That's good." Abdusemaiti nodded, and then said, "But it's just the harvester. I'm worried that if there is any problem if the harvester is pulled back, it won't be easy for us to come. "< br>
Ablati said nothing, thinking about something.
The two brothers just walked back to the hotel.
After entering the house, Abdulsamaiti breathed a sigh of relief, covered his ears and said, "It's much colder here than ours."
There will also be heavy snowfall in Yili at this time, but the climate in the river valley is different from the climate in the wind belt of the North Tianshan Mountains here. It's dry and cold here, freezing to the core.
Li Long drove the jeep to the team, and when he walked to Xiaohaizi, it was already a little faster.
Seeing Li Long appear, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
Liang Dacheng and Li Long joked:
"You didn't come here in the morning. Some people were worried that they wouldn't collect the fish if you didn't come."
"How can that be possible? I'm just delayed by something." Li Long said with a smile, "The fish will definitely be collected. Even if I'm not old, my eldest brother and my father will have to collect it for me."
"Haha, we think so too." Liang Dacheng smiled and continued fishing.
There were already five or six big fish in front of him, as well as a bunch of small fish.
Li Long looked at it and said with a smile:
“Not bad, not bad, today’s harvest is not bad, there is still a big one.”
"Oh, let's just get it like this." Liang Dacheng was actually not very satisfied. He felt that it was less than yesterday, but he had no choice but to rely on luck for this thing.
It is no longer possible to imagine catching fish like last winter or summer.
There are not so many fish.
Li Long went around in a circle and looked at all the fish caught by everyone. To his surprise, Tao Dayong and Tao Daqiang caught the most big fish.
Tao Dayong also got a nearly three kilograms of Wudaohei here. It is rare to see such a big thing.
Is this considered a benefit for newbies?
When Li Long arrived at Li Jianguo's place, he found that his eldest brother and his father were copying fish in a hole in the ice.
“When did you smash the hole in the ice?” Li Long asked curiously, “I didn’t arrive this morning, and you made another hole?”
“Just now. "Li Qingxia said, "Brother Daqiang helped me. Why did you come here just now?"
"Someone came to buy a harvester, so I showed them how to use it. ." Li Long explained.
"Have you sold it?" Li Qingxia asked with a backhand dunk, landing a net of small crucian carp on the ice.
"No, I haven't decided yet. For more than five hundred yuan, that person has to think about it carefully." Li Longhun didn't care, "Dad, let me copy the two nets?"
"You go and change your brother. He has been fishing for a long time. This is a new hole for me, and I haven't fished many nets."
"Okay."
Li Long went over Li Jianguo came up and started to fish it out.
The luck slot has been used up in the past two days, and Li Long kept eating until noon. The largest one was a large crucian carp weighing less than half a kilogram.
On the other hand, Dad got a grass carp stick weighing more than three kilograms from the new hole. It was the largest grass carp caught these days.
After carrying the fish back, the others began to pack their things.
Li Long felt that not many big fish were caught today, and he didn’t know why. When they arrived at the big yard, Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo went to the back yard to wash their hands, and Li Long started collecting fish here.
Liang Dacheng’s big fish is only seven kilograms, which costs seven yuan. The Meng family and his son weighed more than nine kilograms, so Li Long gave him nine and a half yuan.
There were two other families that didn't weigh more than ten kilograms, but two brothers, Tao Daqiang and Tao Dayong, caught a total of eleven big fish today, weighing more than fifteen kilograms. Li Long gave them sixteen yuan.
The two brothers were given small change.
"Brother Long, I will bring brother Pingping here tomorrow. Is everything okay?" After Tao Daqiang divided the money equally with his brother, he asked Li Long about it.
Tao Dayong moved his mouth but said nothing.
"Okay, Yang Yong is a good young man," Li Long said. "He works honestly and won't cause trouble. So how do you three divide the money?" "Tomorrow we will smash a hole in the ice. I’ll get a copy net for Xiaoyong, and my brother and I will be separated, and whoever copies it will get it.”
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, she's no need.” Tao Dayong hurriedly waved her hand, “It's enough for the three of us. Why do we separate? We're all one family..."
The two brothers didn't say any more. , Li Long smiled and let them go back.
After collecting the fish, Li Long put the fish into the house and covered it, and then went to the backyard to eat.
He planned to keep the fish for two more days and bring the fish back in early January. It's not good if it's left here for a long time. Although there are no mice in the house, no one can guarantee that in this winter, the mice will smell the fishy smell and will not dig holes to get in.
To be on the safe side, hand it over directly to the supply and marketing cooperative first. The warehouses there have concrete floors, so it's hard for rats to get in. It's safe.
After lunch, we rested for half an hour and continued to Xiaohaizi.
The afternoon was better than the morning. It must have been after the quiet at noon that the fish began to gather in the ice hole, so Li Long caught a large carp weighing more than two kilograms in his first net.
The carp is very unruly. After being fished out of the water by the net, it kept wagging its tail.
The sunlight shines on the golden scales. This is a very fat local carp, with golden head and tail. There are two long beards around the mouth, which are already frozen to the body.
The carp opened and closed its mouth. Although it still wanted to move, the cold temperature outside made it quickly lose its ability to move.
Li Long took a few more nets and found a grass carp stick and a big-headed silver carp.
He really wanted to get a five-striped black fish, that fish tastes good. But until his father came over to replace him, he didn't copy it out.
The harvest in the afternoon was obviously more than in the morning. When the sun was about to go down, the temperature suddenly dropped. Li Long came up from the ice cave and said to his father and elder brother:
“Let’s go back, it’s too cold.”
Li Jianguo and Li Qingxia both agreed. The three people packed up their things and walked back.
Others watched the Li family go back. Some packed up their things and followed, while others planned to fish again. As long as one of the two or three websites has the stuff, the interest will not diminish. As long as you have the physical strength, you can keep fishing for it.
And when fishing, you can forget about the cold and hunger, and you won’t think about it so much at all.
Only when I had to go back did I realize that I was hungry, cold, and almost dead.
Li Long returned to the big yard and drank two bowls of warm fish soup to warm up his body before going to the front yard to collect the fish.
The sun has set, and the temperature in the yard has dropped sharply. No one cares about the few hundred grams more or less, they are all anxious to weigh in, take the money and leave.
Li Long estimated that he had collected more than 30 kilograms of large fish this afternoon. Including what he caught at home, it would be almost 50 kilograms.
If this continues, the acquisition task will be completed in less than a year.
Li Long put the fish into the vacant house, locked the door, and made sure that there was no gap under the door so that mice could not get in. Then he returned to the residential area, turned on the stove, locked the door, and left. people.
It was already dark when we returned to the county compound. Sister Gu Xiaoxia and Yang came to open the door and asked Li Long if he had eaten.
"I've eaten." Li Long said, carrying a few more kilograms of peeled crucian carp. "I have to collect fish every day in the future. You don't have to wait for me to eat at night, and you don't have to leave food for me."
Sister Yang responded with a smile, took the fish from Li Long's hand and handled it.
"Is the harvester here this morning?" After entering the bedroom, Li Long was washing his hands and changing clothes, and Gu Xiaoxia asked while helping.
"Well, two ethnic friends who came from the Ili Valley. I showed them the working process of the harvester in the morning, and they were still discussing whether to buy it." Li Long said, "Can I buy it?" Just buy it, don’t force it if you can’t, after all, it doesn’t cost more than five hundred yuan. It’s a small amount.”
“That’s right, more than five hundred yuan is my salary for more than a year.” Gu Xiaoxia also saw it this way, “I saw the apples on the table. Those apples are good. Big. We shared it during lunch.”
"Brought here from Yili," Li Long went over and turned on the TV. The news had ended and the TV series had started to play. The two of them sat down to watch TV and chat about home affairs.
After breakfast the next day, Li Long wanted to see Gu Xiaoxia off, but Gu Xiaoxia still refused to let her go, so Li Long decided that if it snowed again, he would see her off anyway.
Sister Yang went out to sell food, and Li Long went to set up the stove in the glass house, looked at the condition of the vegetable seedlings, watered it, and waited in the house when he came back.
Water has been added to the jeep, and Li Long decided to wait until twelve o'clock. If the two brothers didn't come, he would drive directly to the team.
Abu Laiti and Abu Dusamaiti were also very anxious at this time. The two of them have decided to buy a harvester, but the transport truck they agreed to come back did not move last night and did not come back this morning.
The two of them were very anxious. They were worried that something might happen to the truck, and they were also worried that if Li Long left first, it would delay them for another day.
Finally, the two brothers decided that Abu Dusemaiti would wait for the truck at the hotel, and Abu Laiti would go to Li Long's big yard, so as not to have both parties waiting.
When Abu Lai mentioned the big yard, Li Long was in the yard getting plastic sheets to cover the harvester. He thought that the two brothers were not going to come, so he thought of building it up first.
"You are here? Hey, where is your brother?" Li Long asked Abu Laiti after he looked back and saw that there was no one else.
“He is waiting in the hotel,” Abu Lati explained. “The transport truck we are waiting for has not come. We are afraid that you can’t wait here. He is waiting there. I will come here first. Say it.”
Since the other party wanted a harvester, Li Long lifted up the half-covered plastic sheet and said:
"I said everything I should have said yesterday. Well, let me leave the phone number of our supply and marketing cooperative. , you can also leave a place where you can call, such as your village. So if you have any questions, you can call me."
"Okay, okay!" Abu Laiti was overjoyed, "Great. My...our village..."
He took out a pen and paper from the black artificial leather bag he was carrying, and threw it away After dumping him, he wanted to write an address, but he couldn't write it out in a hurry. Instead, Li Long went to find a pen from the house and wrote down the specific address of his supply and marketing cooperative.
At this time, most calls are transferred. If you want to find someone, you need to transfer several times.
It may not be possible to connect yet.
Li Long let the person into the room, and the two began to chat about each other's experiences.
Ableti’s ancestors were also herdsmen in the past. They started farming with the Han people only a few decades ago, growing wheat, rice, and corn.
The agricultural mechanization over there is worse than here, and there is more labor.
There are many plots of land that can be planted in the Yili River Valley, and the water conservancy facilities are relatively complete, so there is not a lot of land per capita. However, mechanization is not widespread enough, and labor is quite tiring.
That's why the two brothers thought about using machinery. After seeing the news in the newspaper that Li Long used a harvester to get rich and use the harvester to help herders cut grass, I actually thought about it a long time ago.
But the farm work there is also very busy. During the slack period, they have to help collect the excess grain left by farmers and earn some agency fees.
In late autumn, they also used tractors to collect some apples and sell them in the market to make a profit. Without doing this kind of work, they can't afford a tractor.
I was busy with all kinds of work, so I put it off until winter.
“We have decided to buy this harvester. After we go back, we will get familiar with it first, and then wait until the wheat season to harvest wheat, and later we can harvest rice.”
Abu Laiti has already imagined it. If we do a big job next year, if it is as good as Li Long said, the money earned next year can buy another tractor.
Li Long was also inquiring about the situation there, confirming the memories of his previous life.
In comparison, I found that the development of mechanization over there is indeed slower than here.
But it is not one or two generations slower, but the popularity rate is not as high as here.
After all, a fruit ditch restricts the entry and exit of many materials.
Like now, if you want to transport a harvester back, you still need to wait for the transport truck to come. If something goes wrong with a transport truck, just wait.
Ableti took out a few wads of money from the black bag and placed them on the table.
Li Long counted the piles and determined that it was five hundred and fifty yuan. Then he took a pen and paper and wrote a receipt to Abu Laiti.
After waiting for almost half an hour, at 12:30, there was a knock on the door. Li Long and Abu came to open the door and found that it was Abdul Saimat coming in a truck.
The truck is a semi-old Dongfeng, and the driver of the truck is also an ethnic man. Li Long can even smell the alcohol wafting from the truck.
He now understood why the man had arrived late.
"Okay, let's load it up first. After loading, let's leave as soon as possible and try to get to Kuitun for lunch at noon." The driver drove the truck into the yard and immediately directed, "Don't waste time. Hurry up!" (End of Chapter)