Throughout late February to early to mid-March, Li Long was busy selling harvesters.
The pavement of the rural roads has been dried, and the children can happily walk on clean roads when they go to school.
The reeds on the roadside have already sprouted reed buds, but these children basically pulled them out as soon as they appeared. When going to or from school, walking from home to school or from school to home, every boy basically has a large pinch of reed buds in his hand.
As for what fun it would be to get this thing off - there really isn't. After all, this thing looks like a pointed arrow. At most, it can only be thrown as a thrown arrow, and it is easy to roll because of its imbalance.
But boys, when they are seven or eight years old and even dogs are disgusted, they will do it themselves when they see others doing it.
Fortunately, Li Qiang set an example for the other children. When he came back, he brought the pinch of Wei Ya back to Lao Ma Hao and fed it to the roe deer in the pen.
There are already a lot of roe deer and red deer in the circle, and Li Qiang and Li Juan especially like the small ones that only lay in winter.
When they are free, they will take reed shoots one by one to feed the greedy young roe deer and red deer. You can squat on the edge of the circle and watch for half an hour.
The other children didn't dare to enter the old horse house at first. The main reason was that when Uncle Luo first started raising wild boars, he was worried that the animals would become wild after being raised. Those children were too naughty and would climb high and low. It is no small matter to get gored when entering a wild boar pen, or being gored when climbing into a red deer pen.
So the children who sneaked over were taught a lesson twice, and once word spread, they no longer dared to come.
Li Juan and Li Qiang are not included. From the beginning when Li Long lived here, then Li Anguo and the others lived here, and then Xue Ping and Xue Qin lived here, Li Juan and Li Qiang did not regard this place as a strange place.
And Uncle Luo was like a relative to them. He would often come over to say hello, and would also come over to help feed the deer - it was hard to say whether he was helping or not.
Only with Li Juan and Li Qiang following them did the other children dare to come and see the deer and roe deer here. When a group of children came over, Old Uncle Luo still received them patiently.
So these days, roe deer, red deer and wild boar all have some extra reed sprouts as snacks. Although the number of these reed sprouts is not large, they are much more delicious than those hay.
When the children saw that they could come over to watch the deer with the reeds, they immediately started to pick the weeds with great interest. This activity continued until the reeds grew longer.
It's not easy to pick them up at this time, the reeds have become tougher, and the children are not as interested in wild boars and red deer as before.
The main reason is that these guys grow up too fast and are not as cute as they were when they were little.
These days, Li Long can sell an average of two harvesters every three days, which results in him having to go to Kuitun every other week.
Director Du said that the sales speed of the agricultural machinery factory is not as fast as that of the agent Li Long.
Of course, Factory Director Du is also very happy. At this rate, he will soon have to build a new workshop.
When Tao Daqiang found Li Long, Li Long was teaching a buyer from Wujiaqu of the Sixth Agricultural Division how to use a harvester.
Tao Daqiang waited quietly. Not only him, but also his father Tao Jianshe.
Li Long greeted Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang, wiped his hands after finishing the customer's affairs and asked:
"Uncle Tao, Daqiang, why are you here?"
"The land is about to dry up," Tao Jianshe said with a smile. "We are thinking about buying the tractor back quickly. We are familiar with it, and it is time to farm."
Li Long smiled and said:
"Yes, yes, I almost forgot about this." He looked at the sky, it was only after eleven o'clock, and said: "If you are ready, let's leave now. Now go to Shicheng Tractor Factory. If you buy it, you can come back and have lunch in the county.”
"Okay." That's what Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang were waiting for.
Of course they can buy it themselves, but Li Long has bought it before. It is always right to follow experienced people - besides, Li Long also mentioned this to them.
The two came on bicycles, Tao Daqiang and his father. Now that they were going to Shicheng, they couldn't ride bicycles. Li Long asked them to put the bike in the yard. Li Long went to the back room to get the money, put it in a black leather bag, and the three of them went out together.
After Li Long locked the courtyard door, the three of them went to the bus station together.
You can see many people carrying large and small bags in the waiting hall. If they are alone, they remain silent; if they are in a group, they discuss loudly together.
It can be heard that it is a laborer coming from the mouth, or it is also called blind flow at this time.
Or gangster. To paraphrase an old saying, it means a person without a house or land.
floating population.
The origin is relatively complex, including Shaanxi and Gansu, Henan and Anhui, and Sichuan and Chongqing.
There are outbounds and inbounds. Li Long bought three tickets and they took a minibus to Shicheng.
We walked from Shicheng to the tractor factory. When we waited, it was already past twelve o'clock.
There are not many people coming to buy tractors, but it is not none. The venue was large, and several people were testing cars. There were loud noises one after another, and one was scolded by the car seller.
After Li Long heard a few words, it turned out that he stepped on the accelerator and almost crushed someone.
In Li Long's opinion, there is nothing to choose from. Assembly line operation, only leaves the factory with qualified quality. Of course, there are also cases where you are unlucky and encounter a tractor that is only one in a hundred or a thousand that is prone to problems, so go to the manufacturer.
At least based on the experience of Li Long II, if there is a problem with the tractor here, the manufacturer is relatively cooperative, replacing what needs to be replaced, and repairing what needs to be repaired.
A high-horsepower wheeled tractor costing more than RMB 300,000 had an engine problem after less than half a month of driving. The manufacturer directly shipped a new engine to replace it.
Very neat.
That's what they said, but Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang still picked and picked again. They spotted a tractor and decided on it.
Li Long also chose one. He planned to buy this tractor and drive it to Liang's house.
This was promised. I will buy a few more next time, some for Xie Yundong and some for Liang Dacheng.
As for the harvester for the elder brother, Li Long has already taken it back.
He thought about letting Tao Daqiang use a tractor to transport the harvester back today.
Calculating this, I have to go to Kuitun the day after tomorrow and bring back a truck of harvesters.
Not enough to sell!
Pay the money, invoice, pick up the tools, and drive away.
Li Long is in the front and Tao Daqiang is in the back.
Tao Jianshe sat in the rickshaw - Tao Daqiang wanted his father to sit on the board, but Tao Jianshe refused, saying it felt good sitting in the rickshaw, and asked Tao Daqiang not to drive too fast.
So, Li Long was originally running in fifth gear in front of him, but when he turned around, he saw that Tao Daqiang was running slowly there, so he had to stop and wait.
When Tao Daqiang drove the tractor over, Li Long heard that it was okay, he was using third gear.
The tractors they drive now have four actual gears, but there is an afterburner gear handle on the side.
In other words, if you use the gear under your crotch and depress the clutch device, you can only shift to third, fifth, sixth and reverse gears.
But if you want other gears, don't release the clutch after shifting the gear, and then turn over the afterburner gear on the side. The third gear becomes first gear, the fifth gear becomes second gear, and the sixth gear becomes fourth gear.
Of course the reverse gear remains unchanged, but the power is increased.
When going up a 30-degree slope, if you are not pulling something, you can climb it in third gear. If you are pulling something, then shift to first gear or fifth gear to second gear, otherwise you will suffocate halfway.
Speaking from experience.
"Daqiang, why are you driving so slowly? If you drive for two more minutes, you will have to burn all the oil before you reach the oil depot." Li Long shouted, "Hurry up, shift to fifth gear, drive faster and go to the oil depot to drain the oil." Plus! ”
"Then how can you run slowly and waste gas?" Tao Jianshe didn't understand.
"This tractor is different from a human-pulled truck. It has a fuel-saving speed. If you run to fifth gear, listen to the majestic sound, and see that the chimney does not emit black smoke, it means that it does not waste fuel."
Li Long explained and said: "You have to run faster, and it's not the fastest. You follow me."
The last words were for Tao Daqiang.
Tao Jianshe stopped talking, and the two tractors rushed to the oil depot. After refueling, they drove east to Ma County.
When we arrived at Li Long's large courtyard, it was almost time for dinner. Li Long asked Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang to stay for dinner. Gu Boyuan and Gu Xiaoxia both arrived and said the same thing.
However, Tao Jianshe and Tao Daqiang refused, so they installed the harvester and ran away.
Li Long could probably guess that he was worried that he didn't cook enough. After all, two grown men knew how much they could eat in this meal. Once they eat, what else will the Li family eat?
The main thing is to make rice. What they are worried about is this - they can't let the people in this yard have no food to eat.
Everyone in this era has encountered a similar situation. There are guests at home, and the meal is cooked just right. However, the guests are full, but the women and children at home are not.
Why aren’t men not full? Because men have to accompany guests. There is no way, at this time, this is really the case. After lunch, Li Long and Gu Boyuan lifted a harvester onto the bed of the tractor, and he drove eastward.
The snow has melted and the road is easier to walk. Gu Xiaoxia can ride a bicycle to work. It's okay to be careful, and she won't let Li Long pick her up.
Calculating the time, it was still an important period of time, and the belly was very obvious. Li Long insisted on giving it away, and Gu Xiaoxia lost her temper.
Okay, Li Long gave in.
The tractor drove to Liang's house. Liang Donglou and Liang Wenyu, his father and son, were packing farm tools in the yard.
It’s almost time to plant the fields, and all kinds of farm tools need to be packed away.
The brand-new tractor still attracted the attention of many people.
Li Long drove the tractor into the Liang family's yard, which made many people murmur.
Li Long drove a tractor here before, and Li Jianguo also drove a tractor here.
The tractors at that time were not like this. How could they be so new?
What does it mean? It's only been a year and you need to replace it with a new one?
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After seeing the new tractor, the Liang family understood what it meant.
This was agreed upon before, but when Li Longzhen drove the tractor over, Liang Donglou was okay, and Liang Wenyu was really excited.
Li Long got off the tractor without turning off the engine and said with a smile:
"Wenyu, do you want to open it now? If you have nothing to do later, just practice more in the open space. You will be farming soon, so you will be able to use this immediately."
A neighbor had already entered the Liang family's yard. After greeting Liang Donglou and Li Long, he looked at the tractor with intense eyes.
The village here has little land, and so far, the village does not have a small four-wheel tractor like this. There are indeed big tractors in the team, but like Team Four, they are all remnants of history, old ones, and often repaired.
Although it is larger than this one, this tractor is more attractive to ordinary families.
"Twelve horsepower, small four-wheel, with a set of accessories." Li Long introduced, "You can carry a small plow behind this, but those farm tools are not very useful, so I didn't buy them. Right now, I mainly focus on hauling goods and working with wheat. After it’s ripe, take the harvester to cut the wheat.”
When neighbors came over, Li Long deliberately publicized the harvester harvesting wheat.
Sure enough, the neighbor was very interested, and Li Long introduced the harvester pulled on the side of the tractor.
Liang Wenyu also knew that this harvester was related to whether he could actually get the tractor down this year. After listening to Li Long's words, his attention turned to the harvester.
Li Long asked him to lift the harvester together, turned off the tractor, and started teaching on the spot.
His eldest brother's brother-in-law, Uncle Liang, used to take care of the family affairs and asked Li Long to teach him with all his heart.
The neighbor knew that it was useless to learn it, but he remembered that it cost two yuan to cut wheat per acre, and ten acres of wheat could be cut in less than an hour.
How fast!
Two dollars... Thinking about the eighteen acres of winter wheat that my family has planted this year, I thought that it would take a few days to harvest it.
If the harvester of the Liang family were to cut it, wouldn't it be finished in half a day?
Just for this money...it's quite a deal after all.
Liang Wenyu studied very seriously. After installing the harvester's belt on the small four-wheel engine, he personally tried to shake it with the handle.
The running-in of the new car was not enough, and it was more laborious to crank it. However, Liang Wenyu was very strong. Even when he cranked his tractor for the first time, he used too much force, causing black smoke to spew out from the chimney.
At least there is no shame in shaking it.
When Liang Wenyu sat on the tractor seat, she was so excited that she didn't even know how to move her hands and feet.
I obviously drove it at my eldest brother-in-law's house and was very skilled at it. Why did he become stupid now?
At any rate, under Li Long's prompting, he stepped on the clutch, shifted into gear, drove forward a short distance, and then started the harvester.
He didn't continue driving, but he hit the wall when he continued forward. His reversing skills were not very good.
Li Long asked Liang Wenyu to stop, he got on the tractor, slowly backed the tractor up to the gate, and asked:
"Do you want to drive out and practice outside? Do you want to practice more when entering?"
"Okay." Liang Wenyu nodded hurriedly. This tractor will be used frequently in the future. What if the door cannot be opened properly and the door is knocked into the wall of your house?
While Li Long was here, Liang Wenyu thought it would be a good time to practice more, so as not to be embarrassed when Li Long left and drive alone.
So I started practicing.
Anyway, there was nothing specific to do, so Li Long pointed out Liang Wenyu at the door how to turn in a relatively narrow place and how to reverse the car.
In his opinion, as long as the speed is slow enough, there is enough time to adjust.
Liang Wenyu quickly adjusted her mentality and started practicing according to Li Long's rhythm. In less than an hour, she was able to reverse the car in a decent manner and was able to drive in and out normally.
Li Long saw that it was almost done and was about to go back. When he was about to go back, he suddenly thought of something and asked:
"Uncle Liang, if we have this tractor, I will pull it back on the 76th."
"Pull him back?" Liang Donglou was a little surprised.
"Well, if you don't need it, I will pull it back and let our old horse go. This old horse has been working hard with me. Now that our three families have tractors, it's time for this old horse to retire."
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"That's right. We also put in a lot of effort in my family." Liang Donglou nodded, "Then take him away. It's time to have a good rest. Xiaolong, you are also considerate."
When Liang Donglou went to apply for No. 76, Li Long told Liang Wenyu how to go through the procedures and get the certificate. At this time, the agricultural machinery driver's license was very easy to pass, and Li Long also told him that if he could be upgraded to a B driver's license later, he must upgrade it.
But that was several years later.
This opportunity cannot be missed. At that time, it cost 800 yuan to get a license, and you could pass it with some training. But there will never be such an opportunity again.
Many people know how difficult it was to get a B license for driving.
Liang Wenyu also knew that this was more important, and he also said that he should complete the procedures before planting the land.
Li Long left the tractor's invoice and other information to him and asked him to go through the procedures himself, which was not difficult.
Liang Donglou led No. 76 out with the carriage. When Lao Ma saw Li Long, he snorted. He didn't know whether he was complaining or saying hello.
Chen Xiuzhu asked Li Long to stay and have porridge in the evening. Li Long refused, saying that the sun was still high and he had to drive the carriage back to the fourth team first.
From here, Team Four has to take a detour to the county. Li Long still had to go to the county to put his bicycle on the carriage, so that it would be more convenient for him to return to Team Four and then transfer back to the county.
It takes more than two hours for the carriage to get to Team Four from here, so we have to leave quickly.
Even so, when Li Long arrived at the fourth team, the sun had already set.
When he picked up his bicycle, he told Sister Yang that he would not go back to the county at night and would live in the Fourth Squadron.
When Tao Daqiang drove the tractor back to the team, it caused a commotion.
After all, everyone knows what happened to the Tao family two years ago. It has only been two years since they became the latest people in the team besides the Li family to start buying a tractor.
Some people have figured it out, and some people haven't gotten used to it yet.
Some of the people watching the excitement at Tao's house were envious, some were jealous, and there were quite a few people who made sarcastic remarks. Some people laughed when Tao Daqiang almost fell into a ditch when he drove the tractor into the yard.
But no matter how much you smile, you can't hide the envy, jealousy and hatred in it.
A tractor costs more than 5,000 yuan, which is equivalent to ten years' salary of an ordinary worker. How many people in the team can afford it?
People bought it, this is strength!
When Li Long took No. 76 to Lao Ma, Uncle Luo was chatting with his old friends about Tao Daqiang driving a tractor.
Seeing Li Long pulling No. 76 in, Old Uncle Luo immediately became excited. He stood up and quickly came over to take the reins from Li Long's hand and asked:
"Is this...no need?"
"Well, Uncle Luo, I'll leave it to you after the 76th." Li Long said with a smile, "It's equivalent to retirement."
"Hey, it's good to retire!" Old Uncle Luo sighed with emotion.
The horses and donkeys that have passed through his hands have become affectionate after being raised for a long time. Those assigned to other families are still contributing, and No. 76 is the first to retire.
He guessed that this one could be "retired", and the others would basically have to work until they die of old age. (End of chapter)