After breakfast the next day, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. By February, the weather was no longer so cold, the snow on the road was almost cleared, and the walking habits became less slippery.
Although Li Long didn't let Gu Xiaoxia ride her bicycle, Gu Xiaoxia didn't let Li Long give it away either. She went to work by herself.
She said how could anyone be so squeamish these days - her colleagues at work and Sister Wang were all laughing at her behind her back.
Li Long didn't force her, he just told her to pay attention to her safety.
After Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Li Long first went to set up the stove in the glass room. Three days after the New Year, the vegetables in the field have almost been cleared. The leeks are slightly frozen, but not serious. The stove is set up here. After the temperature rises, they can be seen by the naked eye to grow again.
There was still a month and a half before the snow melted, and Li Long didn't plan to plant anything more. Just cabbage, turnips, and celery were slowly growing.
Just think of it as adding a twist to your meal. To be honest, my sister-in-law Liang Yuemei was the happiest when she brought vegetables back for the Chinese New Year. It was really rare to have vegetables in this winter.
Even my sister Li Xia and my second sister-in-law Chen Lirong were curious and asked where these dishes came from.
After hearing about Li Long's planting process, they were only disappointed, as it could not be replicated for the time being.
After heating up the glass room, Li Long came back and cleaned up the kitchen and prepared the ingredients for lunch.
I have to go to the carpentry factory in the morning and I will come back late. I need to prepare the things first. Whether I come back first or Gu Xiaoxia comes back first, it will be easy to cook.
Gu Boyuan felt comfortable staying in the team and planned to return to the county to open a store after fifteen.
In the simple concept of rural people, the New Year is truly celebrated after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It is still the New Year time. It is estimated that some people in the team who are similar in age, or who came to conquer the world together, are drinking with Lao Gu at the moment. Woolen cloth.
After getting ready in the kitchen, Li Long locked several doors, then started the jeep and prepared to go out.
The agreement with the carpentry factory was before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and he went there today just to check on the progress. He guessed that they had just taken the holiday, so they probably wouldn't be able to do much.
Li Long opened the door and saw Sister Yang and Han Fang leaning against the door. He was startled and hurriedly called them in:
"Sister, why don't you push the door open? The door isn't locked either." Li Long looked at Han Fang Dong's face turning pale and complained, "Look at Xiao Fang Dong."
"It's the New Year, and I don't know if I can come in..." Yang Xiulan had already recovered. She held Han Fang's hand and said, "Uncle Li, we two..."
"Come in, come in, why can't you come in?" Li Long hurried over and opened several door locks and said:
"Have you eaten breakfast this morning? Come in and warm yourself by the fire."
"Have eaten." Sister Yang said as she walked away, her expression still a little reserved, "Can we still live here?"
"I can definitely live in it." Li Long also sighed in his heart, "It's the same as before. I cook during the day and take time to sell food. Xiaofang does her homework well... Same thing, I can live in it!"
Yang Xiulan felt relieved and a smile appeared on her face.
She is already considered a widow, and Gu Xiaoxia is pregnant. According to the custom in her hometown, she will be disliked for her status.
Afraid of disturbing the master's family.
Unexpectedly, Li Long didn't dislike it at all.
"Then should we discuss it with her aunt...?" Yang Xiulan was still thinking about Gu Xiaoxia.
"We discussed it, and she agreed. Last night, we were still thinking about when you would come back." Li Long smiled, "It's just right now, it saves us the trouble. Okay, I have to go out to do errands now. , please clean up first.
Xiaofang, go and set up the stove in your house. I haven't started the fire yet, and then help your mother. ”
"Hey! Okay, Uncle Li!" Han Fang was happy.
She actually didn't want to live in the small courtyard to the south. It was so nice here.
With Yang Xiulan at home, Li Long felt more at ease. At least even if he wasted time by going to the woodwork factory, Gu Xiaoxia would have ready-made food to eat at noon.
After saying goodbye to Yang Xiulan and Han Fang, Li Long drove the jeep out and headed to the wood factory.
Yang Xiulan closed the door and went to the kitchen first. Seeing that Li Long was almost ready, he took out some spicy dumplings and soaked them, prepared some detailed work, then came out and started to pack up the food cart.
Han Fang set up the stove and came out of the house. Seeing Yang Xiulan arranging the car, she went over to help.
Life seems to be back on its original track.
When Li Long drove his jeep to the woodwork factory, it was already at work, but it was obvious that there were not many people working there, and it was a bit deserted inside. The machines were not running and there was no sound.
After Li Long got off the jeep, the factory director He Changming came out of the office. When he saw Li Long, he was obviously relieved.
"Hey, Comrade Li, I thought some leader came to inspect this holiday collection." He made a joke, "Scared me, thank you for not being absent from work today."
"Director He, thank you for your hard work. I just want to come over and see how my furniture is doing."
"I knew what you came here for. Come on, follow me." He Changming took Li Long to a warehouse, where all the finished products were placed.
"We workers are very happy to know that these furniture are yours and are working hard. They like the sheep you sent to the water. Look at these pieces of furniture, are they well made?"
The woodwork factories in Ma County do not have any particularly advanced machines. Except for tools such as saws and planers, most of the processes are chiseled or whittled by hand.
Placed in the warehouse for Li Long to see were two long Kang tables, a cabinet and a box.
The paint surface has been completed, with obvious Kazakh patterns on it.
"This is a pattern specially drawn by our retired master," He Changming said with some pride, "It's from their own nation. How about it? It looks pretty, right?"
"Beautiful, so beautiful." Li Long nodded. The background color of these pieces of furniture is not the walnut color used. It is bright yellow in color, and the pattern colors are brown and black. Li Long feels familiar.
"That's all we've made so far. You should be able to understand. After all, it's the New Year and everyone is thinking about celebrating the New Year. Don't worry, when everyone arrives tomorrow and tomorrow, we will make the rest as quickly as possible. No By fifteen, everything will definitely be ready!”
He Changming didn't make any big claims. After the New Year, it was equivalent to the official start of this year's work. Everyone is mentally prepared for this.
The job brought by Li Long can earn a lot of money, and it also allows their workers to have a good year, so the work must be more active.
Besides, if you can drive a jeep, can you be an ordinary person?
Li Long nodded, agreeing with He Changming's explanation.
Li Long and He Changming shook hands and said goodbye, drove the jeep out of the factory and headed back.
He Changming watched the jeep run away quickly, feeling envious, but he shook his head and went into the office.
The freshly brewed tea is almost cold, so I have to hurry over and try it.
Li Longyuan thought about going to the supply and marketing cooperative. After all, it was the first day of work and it would not be appropriate not to go. But if you drive a jeep, don’t be too conspicuous.
So he planned to put down the jeep and get on his bicycle to go to the supply and marketing cooperative.
When they arrived at the big courtyard, Li Long found two men at the door. One was in his thirties, and the other was in his twenties and thirties. Both of them were wearing thick clothes.
Seeing the jeep, the two men immediately moved to both sides of the gate and leaned against the wall.
Li Long parked the jeep at the gate, got down and asked:
"Who are you looking for?"
"Are you Comrade Li Long?" The man in his thirties immediately took off his leather gloves and reached out his hand:
"We are from Company
"Hello, hello." Li Long shook hands with the two people. He had already guessed their purpose.
"Go inside first and talk." Li Long stepped forward and knocked on the courtyard door, and Han Fang shouted in the courtyard: "Who is it?"
"I, I'm here." Li Long said.
Han Fang ran over and opened the door. I guess she was doing homework in the house and didn't hear the sound of the jeep.
Han Fang opened the door, and Li Long drove the jeep in. After getting off the car, he let the two people in.
"Uncle Li, the two of them knocked on the door just now. I said you weren't here, so they didn't come in." Han Fang explained.
"Okay, okay, go and do your work." Li Long smiled and greeted the two of them into the main living room.
After pouring tea for the two people, Li Long sat down and asked:
"Do you want to ask about the harvester?"
"Yes, yes," the company commander said hurriedly, "Yes, we just want to buy a harvester." "Then you have to wait. The five harvesters I have on hand were sold out just a year ago, and the next batch will be harvested. It will take some time for the machine to arrive. Fortunately, we are still far away from harvesting wheat, so there is no rush.”
"About... how long will it take?"
"A month or two." Li Long said, "It's not convenient to go to the manufacturer now, and they haven't started production there yet."
"It's been produced, but it won't be sold to us," the young man next to him whispered.
"Has production started?" Li Long didn't mind that the young man knew the manufacturer. It was already mentioned in the newspaper. "Then do you know how many units have been produced?"
"I saw three." The young man was quite honest.
"That's not enough. I'll bring at least five units back at a time, and we have to wait. And even if you have one, you can't buy it this time. You can't carry it back without a tractor, right?"
"Well, we are just here to place an order." The company commander said, "My name is Shen Fei, and he is Cheng Xingquan. Please see if you can register us first. I can pay the deposit here. The goods will arrive by then. Here Let’s reserve one, or tell us the specific arrival time, and we’ll come over to pick it up.”
Li Long thought about it and said:
"It's early February now. I'll go there in early March. If you come here in mid-March, you can almost get it."
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"Okay." Shen Fei stood up with a smile and said, "Then we won't waste your time and leave first. We are here to have a meeting in Shicheng. The meeting hasn't started yet, so we came over quickly to do business."
This made Li Long quite emotional. In their eyes, buying a harvester was a serious matter.
After sending the two people away, Li Long went over and saw that Sister Yang had already started cooking, while Han Fang was still doing her homework.
I don't know if it was because of the excitement of Han Bin's incident, but Yang Xiulan rejected Han Fang's idea of coming to help and directly asked her to study hard.
Compared with Han Fang, Li Juan and Li Qiang's learning attitudes are slightly worse.
However, Li Juan's academic performance was quite good, and Li Qiang's was gradually getting better.
Thinking about it, Han Fang's grades shouldn't be bad either.
Seeing that there was still about an hour before dinner, Li Long pushed his bicycle out, said hello to Sister Yang, and went out to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Li Xiangqian was looking through the newspapers from this period in the office when he saw Li Long come in with a smile and pointed to the chair.
"Happy New Year, Chief." Li Long said with a smile, "How was your New Year?"
"It's not bad. I've been drinking for a few days." Li Xiangqian and Li Long were not polite and told the truth, "Have you gone to the director's place?"
"Not yet."
"Then go say hello to the leader first. The leader was still asking you during the meeting this morning." Li waved his hand forward, "After saying hello, come back and talk."
"Okay." Li Long stood up and went to say hello to Director Wei for the New Year.
On the first day of the new year, several leaders were reading newspapers. It seemed that the habit of caring about national affairs had not changed much in the past forty years.
Director Wei asked Li Long kindly how he spent this year, and then asked about his family and the elderly's physical condition, and then asked him to return to the office.
Li Long went to visit the deputy director again - there were two, but now there is only one.
After returning to the office, Li Long relaxed, poured himself a glass of water, took two sips, and said smoothly:
"Chief, why don't we have a cafeteria in our company? This way we don't have to run back to eat at noon, and it's troublesome to go back and forth."
"Of course it's no trouble for singles, but what about those with families? What about those with old people and children at home? What to do?" Li glanced at him forward and shook his head, "It's not that simple to run a canteen. Some people are always dissatisfied. It’s easy to have conflicts.”
Well, it’s balance again.
Li Long chatted here for a while, and Li Xiangqian drove him away. He said that he wanted to see his old relationship and locked the door.
Li Long guessed in a low voice whether you were going to leave early.
Li Xiangqian also replied in a low voice:
"Your sister-in-law made delicious food at home. There are guests coming to the house today. I have to rush back early."
Li Long then went out with a smile, pushed his bicycle, and walked out of the courtyard with Li Xiangqian.
Apart from the leader, he is the only one who can arrive late and leave early in an upright manner.
And other people didn't have any opinions. After all, they had seen what Li Long had done, and they wouldn't be jealous.
Li Long rode his bicycle to the Education Bureau and waited outside for a while before Gu Xiaoxia and the others got off work.
Gu Xiaoxia was a little surprised when Li Long picked her up on his bicycle. He first said hello to his colleagues, then walked back side by side with Li Long, asking as he walked:
"Is the meal ready?"
"Sister Yang is back." Li Long explained, "When I was going out after you left, she and Xiaofang were outside the door without knocking. They said they didn't know if we wanted them to come back. I She said yes. She said she wanted to ask for your opinion, and I said you must have no objection.”
"Hi! She's quite careful..." Gu Xiaoxia shook her head, "Xiaofang was here with us when her father was gone, and she didn't know... It's good that she can come back, so the two of us can relax. They also hope to come back, right?”
"Yeah."
The two of them chatted and walked, and when they arrived in the big yard, they could already smell the aroma of rice.
Guo Tiebing is at the police station. He knew the situation on Li Long's side quite well, and now he was just envious. This guy is really happy. His wife is working full-time, his house has a big yard, someone specializes in cooking, and he has a tractor and a jeep.
Life is really not that good.
Gu Xiaoxia went directly to the kitchen and chatted with Sister Yang for a while, while Li Long put his bicycle away and went into the main room to take off his coat.
During the meal, Sister Yang and Han Fang were already relatively normal. Li Long felt very good. He had regained his previous feeling. It saved him and Gu Xiaoxia troubles and worries.
In the next few days, Li Long tidied the vegetable patch at home and processed tiger bones. In the meantime, he sent two of the prepared pieces to Liang Donglou's house for the elderly to see if they would work.
Liang Donglou carefully looked at the tiger bones prepared by Li Long and gave his affirmative opinion.
Li Long had also finished copying the medical notes and returned them to the Liang family.
He also talked to Liang Wenyu in detail, and planned to bring back a batch of harvesters in the spring, and at the same time, buy tractors before the ice melted and they went into the mountains to weave handles.
After the reform and opening up, the first batch of self-purchased tractor operators in rural areas basically bought the tractor and taught themselves, or learned from other tractors for two days, or they learned a few tractors at the tractor factory when they bought the tractor, and then Just drove it back.
Specific driving skills are honed in actual combat, so basically no one will ask "Can you drive a tractor?" before buying a tractor.
Moreover, Liang Donglou is a more rigorous and steady person, and Liang Wenyu also follows his father and has a more steady personality. Li Long believed that he didn't need to mention it himself. Liang Wenyu would also find a larger place to practice after the tractor arrived home.
Not to mention anything else, Beijiang is a big place. It is not difficult at all to find a place to practice tractors at this time.
At most, it takes a little effort.
Li Long vaguely remembered that he drove a tractor to the fields in his last life. At that time, there was no suitable place to turn around. He turned around on a rural road. It was really a test of skill to turn the tractor with a bucket. He had to choke to death after turning two turns. , but that’s how I developed my skills.
In two lifetimes, the entire four-team team drove small four-wheel tractors, and few had better reversing skills than him.
In the middle, several company commanders or agricultural machinery operators from the Eighth Agricultural Division came to him and wanted to buy a harvester.
Li Long then realized that the Corps was actually the one purchasing agricultural machinery!
After all, agricultural mechanization in Northern Xinjiang actually started with the Corps and later reached the local level. For a long time, the mechanization level of the Corps was stronger than that of the local areas.
Later, the land of the Corps began to be allocated to employees, which was different. The centralized agricultural machinery fleet was dismantled, and agricultural machinery was sold to individuals in bulk, just like it was in the local area N years ago.
This is something to talk about later.
Now, I really need to analyze the agricultural machinery market of the Corps - after all, the Eighth Agricultural Division of Guangshi City has many regiment fields, and there must be hundreds of companies, right? (End of chapter)