After only two days of driving the jeep into the mountains, Li Long had to switch to a tractor.
There is no way, there are more than 30 people in the mountain, and they can make more than 100 poles in a day. Excluding the less than half of the novices who are unqualified, the number of qualified poles every day is at least 120 or more.
This stuff is piling up more and more. If you want to transport it back by yourself, you can only get on the tractor.
And there’s more than one trip a day—the tractor can’t pull more than a hundred lifts.
Thinking about the Qingshui River area, it only cost two to three hundred to carry a load a week. Li Long felt that he had to find another method of transportation. Otherwise, he would have to weld on the tractor every day and would have no time to do other things.
However, judging from last year's situation, collecting fritillaries was his biggest income.
No, this situation must be changed.
The supply and marketing cooperative has its own cars, but now the cars are all out pulling supplies. Li Long wanted to see if he could use these cars between tasks. It didn't matter if he paid for them himself, as long as he could pull supplies.
"Forget about cars, and don't ask Lao Qin." After hearing Li Long's plan, Li Xiangqian shook his head and said, "Our supply and marketing cooperative only has these three cars. Now two of them are delivering supplies to the state, and one is We are in Wucheng on a business trip, and it is difficult for us to do anything else now.”
Lao Qin's name is Qin Haodong, and he is the transportation section chief of the supply and marketing cooperative. He is in charge of transportation, vehicle repairs, and fuel security. The three drivers are also his subordinates.
The transportation unit not only had three cars, but also some trucks and horse-drawn carriages - transportation at this time was not that mechanized.
Li Long naturally looked down upon those carriages, which were not as good as his own tractors.
"You can ask Lao Hong from the county transportation company." Li Xiangqian gave him an idea, "I'll call Lao Hong and you can find him and see if there is anyone there who is willing to do private work after get off work. But you have to pay.”
"That's no problem." Li Long pointed to the phone hurriedly, which means you should call quickly.
Li glared at him forward, and the little bastard started to boss me around.
But he still picked up the phone and asked for the county transportation company's fleet.
The captain over there, Lao Ma, was not there, saying he was taking the truck to pull supplies.
Li Xiangqian put down the phone and said to Li Long:
"You go find him in the afternoon, and I'll call him later. The car should be able to do it, but only after get off work."
After get off work, just after get off work. The car is fast and it takes less than an hour to get to the mountains. It takes another half an hour to load the car. It should be just dark when we get back.
It just depends on the shipping cost. It shouldn’t be too high, right?
I thought it would be fine as long as I didn't have to drive the tractor myself.
Li Long came out of the supply and marketing cooperative and went to the mountains again in the morning.
He has to first check out the qualified ones, count them, and pile them together so that they can be easily moved after get off work.
When the jeep arrived in the mountains, Xiaobaiyang Valley was filled with a strong smell of burning slivers. Li Long could even see puffs of green smoke floating about ten meters above the ground.
Like a fairyland.
But there are no crane decorations.
The jeep drove to the edge of the pit and stopped. Lao Huang was making lunch. He greeted Li Long loudly:
"Xiaolong is here? I'm making a stew for lunch today. I steamed the steamed buns in the morning just for you to try."
"I won't taste it for now. I'll eat it later." Li Long responded, and then went to see how the food was being prepared.
There are already a lot of people piled up in front of each "work station" where the weaving work is carried out. At a glance, there are eight or nine as few as ten or more.
The eldest brothers Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming have the most.
Xie Yundong came over and asked Li Long:
"What are you..."
"I checked the lifting handles today and will see if they can all be pulled back tonight. It would be too troublesome to pile them up here."
Li Long said this, and Xie Yundong naturally cooperated. He took out a small notebook and prepared to record.
Li Jianguo's was the first. Although he is the eldest brother, Li Long still checks things carefully.
Li Jianguo also knew that he was a benchmark in the eyes of these people. If Li Long checks himself loosely and checks others strictly, then others will naturally have opinions.
In the past two and a half days, Li Jianguo compiled thirteen tricks, one less than Lu Yingming.
But the quality is top notch.
When Li Long checked, except for Tao Daqiang and a few others, everyone else glanced at him from time to time.
"The pole is two meters long, which is enough." Li Long looked at each item, "The handle is wide and has no burrs..."
Talk about each item you check. In fact, you also say it to others.
The standard for holding a position of authority has been told to everyone, but not everyone can remember it, so Li Long was emphasizing it at this time.
In other words, you are telling others in disguise that if you have a minor problem, I will check it out later. If you find out, please don't argue with me.
Li Jianguo's dozen or so assistants inspected them one by one, and none of them failed.
Li Longxin immediately let go. Big brother is really awesome!
Li Jianguo pointed to the open space northeast of Diwozi and said:
"Where is the handle?"
"Yeah." Li Long responded. The place for weaving the handles and lighting the fire is in the southeast of the diwozi, and the placement is in the northeast, across the diwozi, so that they do not affect each other and will not cause chaos.
Li Jianguo lifted the handle with one hand and carried it over. Lu Yingming wanted to help, but Li Jianguo stopped him:
"I'll check yours next, don't touch this."
Tao Daqiang hurriedly came over to help, and someone else came behind him. Jia Weidong took two each, and they were done.
We must take care of each other in this matter. After all, I will make it up later, and others will also need help.
Li Long checked Lu Yingming's and found that two of the fourteen handles were defective. One of the braided strips had a sharp point that was not pressed into the handle and was exposed, making it easy for things to get caught. The root of the sliver is very sharp and can easily hurt your hands.
Small problems can be solved in three to five minutes, and Lu Yingming said that they would be corrected immediately.
The other one is that the overall shape is a bit odd and not flat. Li Long knew that this was the reason why the strips were not burned properly, and this required rework.
Lu Yingming could tell it himself, so he put the accusation aside after Li Long finished speaking. I don’t plan to dismantle it, but I want to take this home with me when I get back so that it can be used at home.
After checking the two people, everyone else understood. In fact, these are all veterans. Even if Tao Daqiang didn't come last year, he had been with Li Long for two or three years, and he knew what was required of him.
But just because he is an old man, Li Long will not relax, otherwise those young people can jump up and down.
After all the eleven people here were inspected, Li Long roughly took a note and found that there were a dozen unqualified ones, and the remaining qualified ones totaled more than a hundred.
Seeing that there was still time, he climbed over the mountain to Xu Haijun's side.
Here, Xu Haijun was making up his own tricks while telling the young people about his experiences in the army.
"...When we were new recruits, we practiced marching at night. The squad leader didn't tell us in advance, and he wasn't afraid of losing us, so he just scattered us around the camp.
The location of our camp was on the outskirts of the city. I looked for it according to the direction. As I searched, I suddenly felt something was wrong. Why did I end up in a graveyard? ... Graves one after another, but the thing I was looking for was still nearby. At that time, my scalp was numb..."
"Why don't you run away?" A young man couldn't help but said.
"You're just running away. Can you run away before the mission is completed?" Xu Haijun glared at him and continued while making up his mind, "At that time, no matter how scared I was, I had to look for it. From time to time, I could see something floating in the air. Phosphorus fire, blue-green, so scary..."
"I've seen it, I've seen it!" A young man shouted loudly, "I went to water the water with my dad at night, and I saw it on the edge of the field. It scared me. My dad patted it with a shovel and took a photo with a flashlight. It’s a bone.”
"That's right. In fact, it doesn't matter if you say it." Xu Haijun glanced at him approvingly, "The phosphorus fire is just burning the phosphorus in the bones. It's really nothing."
"Then did you finally find it?"
"Of course I found it."
"What is it?" someone asked curiously.
"Can I tell you? After I found it, I went back to the camp. It turned out that another kid in our class, a city soldier from the mainland, was washing clothes in the water room. I asked him what was wrong, and he said he had entered the cemetery. , I was so scared that I peed, hahahaha..."
Xu Haijun was very proud.
Li Long looked at this scene and thought that if he hadn't been too strong, he might have stayed in the army. He was really a very good soldier, right?
"Navy, I'm here to check. How many have you compiled?"
In fact, Li Long also saw it. There were almost ten people who made up the most, but it was obvious that the quality of the editors here was not as good as the ones over there.
"Almost everyone has ten." Xu Haijun was quite proud.
The number is no less than the veterans over there.
After Li Long looked around, he frowned and said:
"Let me put it bluntly, at least one-third of you provocateurs are unqualified."
"What?" Several young people were immediately thrown cold water on them. "Don't think I'm strict. You can take the qualified ones over there and put them away later, and then take a look at what they compiled."
The smile on Xu Haijun's face disappeared, and he felt a little frustrated and unconvinced.
How could there be so many unqualified people?
"Come one by one... Let's look at the navy first..."
Li Long asked Xu Haijun to take out his notebook and said:
"It's normal for you to be editing for the first time. When I brought people here the year before last, it was the same situation. At first, everyone thought that they were good at editing, and they were very good. But this standard was not established by me, nor It’s not about me.
Even if I pass the test for you, I will take it to the supply and marketing cooperative and have it refunded and my money will be deducted. In the end, I will still have to find you. So why don't I be stricter now, it's better for you and me. ”
Li Long said the ugly things first, and the boys felt a little more balanced.
However, some people are still unconvinced. They feel that when they eat every day, they look at other people’s masterpieces, but the quality is about the same as their own?
"You... are so stupid. Did you see that? You may have made it right when you edited it. The strips were not burned in place, and they went back as soon as they cooled down. In this way, the sticks fell off."
Li Long said to Xu Haijun.
Xu Haijun blushed.
Please...you...collect_6_9_书_吧 (六//九//书//吧)
"There are too many burrs on this handle, so it needs to be shaved off again. The big one is fine, just rework it. The Joe handle needs to be readjusted, either by baking it on the original fixing, or dismantling it and redoing it. .”
Of the ten candidates compiled by Xu Haijun, seven were qualified, which is pretty good.
The quality of the other boys who followed were appalling, with an average pass rate of 50% to 60%.
"This one is Qiao, this one is Qiao...if you look at it flatly, it is not on the same plane."
"This one is shallow. There is a curvature in the middle of the handle. If you make it flat, you can save the strip, but people will have to lift less things!"
"This pole is not good. One end is thick and the other is thin. The difference is too big - of course both ends are thick and the other is thin, but the difference cannot be so big. If you lift a heavy object, the thin end will break..."
Li Long asked questions one by one, and those people wanted to make a few excuses, but were immediately stopped by Xu Haijun's glare.
If there are problems, they should be solved, and if there are flaws, they should be corrected. Although Xu Haijun was a little frustrated, Li Long said there was nothing wrong, and he accepted it.
"Okay, there are only so many in total. Calculating that one person has passed five qualifications on average, this is twenty yuan." Li Long said, "I will know what is wrong later, and I can earn twenty yuan in one day and twenty days." I got four hundred yuan, which is pretty good.”
Li Long's last few words brought smiles back to everyone's faces.
That's the truth. Even if you catch fish in Xiaohaizi, you can't make twenty yuan a day.
There is only such a big market in the county. We have to go to Shicheng and there are no bicycles. The fish will stink by the time we wait.
Therefore, being a good editor is actually the fastest money they can make in the short term.
"Okay, has the navy taken note of it?"
"Write it down." Xu Haijun showed the notebook to Li Long.
Li Long read it, signed it, and then asked him to write another one for himself, and then said to others:
"Now, take the qualified ones to the other side of the mountain, and take a look at what they made up."
As soon as he said this, these young men couldn't wait to go over with the handles.
Four or five men carried the handle, and the young men were not too tired or dirty. They put it together and gave it a head and passed.
"No animals have come by in the past two days, right?" Li Long asked Xu Haijun, "Have you encountered any snakes?"
"No." Xu Haijun shook his head, "On the opposite side of the mountain, I saw wild rabbits and pheasants. They were very clever. By the way, that other end," he pointed to the leader of the ravine, "I saw a few pheasants there yesterday. We originally wanted to catch the roe deer, but before we could take a few steps, the guy ran away.”
"Don't worry, there are still a few days left, so we may encounter some. Just be careful of snakes, most of the snakes here are poisonous."
"Don't worry, I'm here." Xu Haijun took his own carry handle, and Li Long also helped to take two and went to the other side of the mountain.
Next we have to look at Liang Wenyu’s side.
Lao Huang had almost finished cooking and started to calm down. Li Long hurriedly drove the jeep to Liang Wenyu. He was worried that the young men there would be hungry and come back early, so they would not be able to check.
Fortunately, when he ran over there, Liang Wenyu was calling these people to get ready to leave.
Seeing the jeep arriving, Liang Wenyu waited for Li Long to get off and asked:
"Why are you here now?"
"Today we will inspect and accept the bags. Those who pass the test will be taken first."
"Okay." Liang Wenyu naturally had no objection.
The other lads were excited too. Liang Wenyu told them more than once that it doesn't count to make a lot of money now, only those who are registered in the book and qualified can count.
They also want to know how much their money is worth.
"Okay, let's check now." Liang Wenyu said, "Mine first?"
"Let's take the others first. Check one and take the qualified one over. We're ready to eat over there," Li Long said.
"Okay." Liang Wenyu had no objection.
Checking them one by one, the biggest problem is still being able to meet Qiao.
Li Long could understand that young people don't have enough xinxing and feel that they can be used after burning the strips until they become soft. It's no problem to keep this thing at home, but if you take it over like this, it will be subject to the supply and marketing society's card.
But to Li Long's surprise, the pass rate here was higher than Xu Haijun's, about 70%.
Finally, Liang Wenyu's pass rate reached 80%. Ten students were admitted and only two were unqualified.
It's really awesome.
Li Long asked him to take a few forward and put the remaining ones on the jeep. Liang Wenyu refused, saying that there was dust on the handle and damaged the tarpaulin on the roof of the jeep.
"No, this is a car, not a toy car." Li Long smiled, "Okay, you go, I got there before you."
In fact, Li Long walked slowly, mainly because he bumped the handle from the roof of the car.
By the time we arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, there were already people eating there.
Li Long did the math and found that there were almost one hundred and eighty masters here.
A car may not be able to be completely loaded, but he plans to drive a tractor to follow the car here in the afternoon. If he can finish loading, he will use the tractor to pull it back.
Just unloading the car may be a little more troublesome.
These quantities are not worth taking to the supply and marketing cooperative. Li Long plans to unload the load to his own yard first, and then accumulate some of it before taking it to the supply and marketing cooperative.
You have to have a thousand of them anyway, otherwise it won't be worth it.
After having lunch here, Li Long drove his jeep back.
When passing by Qingshuihe Village, Li Long originally wanted to stop, but then he thought about it and forgot about it.
Stopping won't change anything. Let's clean up the mountain first.
When the jeep returned to the county, he went to the transportation company first.
The transportation company was also restructured. It was formerly the county's transportation team. At the beginning, it only had horse-drawn carriages and donkey-carts. There was only one truck at first, and then there were more and more, and then the horse-drawn donkey-carts were eliminated.
When Li Long drove his jeep into the transportation company, many drivers were shocked.
County leaders basically don't come here for inspections. When a car suddenly came over, they jumped up and down. The horse captain who had just returned put on his coat and buttoned it up and ran out in a hurry.
But I was so happy when I saw the jeep, what the hell is this kid!
Li Long still got his driver's license from him, and his driving skills were also passed through his hands. He knew this very well.
"Everyone has dispersed, not the leader." Ma Chunlei greeted the others, "Everyone is going to do his or her own thing."
Then he complained to Li Long who came down:
"Xiao Li, you have to tell us in advance when you come. You see, our driver is scared."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Li Long apologized hastily, "I was in a hurry for something."
"Towing something, right? Your unit chief said, how many vehicles do you want?"
"One car, maybe two more later, one hundred, seventy or eighty, one car is enough, right?"
"Forget it, you'd better want two." Ma Chunlei advised, "Don't be so busy with work after get off work. Let's go to the office and let's discuss the price." (End of Chapter)