Li Long had never expected that four thousand tricks would directly expose huge loopholes in his originally good plan.
Transportation is a big problem.
In fact, he could do nothing for a day and just drive a tractor to transport things out of the mountains. If we make three trips a day, almost everything can be shipped out.
If we mobilize all the tractors in the team, we can make one trip every two or three days.
But tractors are also used in the team. Although it is slack time for farming, there are still many chores to prepare for during the busy farming period. Even if the strong laborers go out at this time, the family still has to work.
Besides, Li Long didn't want to spend time on the road every day.
Fortunately, Captain Ma, who took over as Captain Hong, was also familiar with Li Xiang, the unit chief, and was willing to go out on this private mission to earn some pocket money. Otherwise, Li Long really wouldn't know what to do.
This time he wanted three cars. Although the three cars were almost 70 to 80% full and not full, Li Long was very satisfied.
After all, it can be taken away in one trip, which costs more in freight but saves time.
Earning money is not just about spending it, but you can also earn more money. Li Long thought clearly about this.
We had lunch at the home of He Yuqing, the captain of Qingshuihezi Village, and then He Yuqing went to change for Meng Hai.
This is no small matter. Li Long would pay attention even if he didn't say anything. After all, there will be many more bags in the future. Li Long also said that these bags will be piled directly in the warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative, and then people from the supply and marketing cooperative will check them again.
If there is a problem with these handlers, it goes without saying that Li Long will not accept the handlers here again in the future.
He Yuqing and Meng Hai can still tell the difference between a meal of meat and a meal of meat. Last year's big broom and this year's broomstick, these two things can change Qingshuihe Village.
How could they ignore it?
In the afternoon, Li Long drove a jeep and took three cars to Qingshui River, while He Yuqing and the others were still making arrangements there.
Seeing Li Long coming, Meng Hai and He Yuqing rushed out immediately. After saying hello to Li Long, they loudly called for the other people to come over and load the handles onto the car.
Those people moved very quickly, working together from top to bottom, and in less than half an hour, they were all installed.
Also use poles to pin the outer edges of the trunk panels so that more can be installed.
Li Long could see that the handles that failed his inspection in the morning had been removed. Some strips can be recycled, including poles, and some are simply thrown away.
Obviously, Meng Hai and He Yuqing implemented this requirement very strictly.
Li Long pulled the two people aside and said to He Yuqing:
"Captain He, we checked this morning. There are 374 qualified bearers in total. They cost 4 yuan each, which is 1,496 yuan. This is 1,500 yuan. Please order a little."
Li Long took out a thick stack and a thin stack of large lump sums from his satchel and handed them to He Yuqing.
He Yuqing handed the thin wad to Meng Hai and asked him to order it. He spit some saliva on his finger and quickly started ordering it.
Meng Hai's movements were obviously a little slower than his, and the two of them finished clicking almost at the same time.
"That's right, Comrade Li Long, wait a minute, I'll give you change now," He Yuqing said.
"No, I'll leave it to you first." Li Long waved his hand, "I have to find a few young men to help me unload the truck. I can't unload the truck back to the supply and marketing cooperative. I can't unload it by myself. I will send them back then."
"No problem." He Yuqing was able to handle this little thing.
At this time, it was almost done, so He Yuqing called six young men, and Meng Hai took the initiative to lead the team. Three people took the co-pilot of the truck, and four people took Li Long's jeep to go to the county.
Meng Hai sat in the passenger seat of the jeep, touching here and there curiously. Not only was he curious, he was also nervous, and his body was straight.
Li Long smiled, said nothing, and continued driving in front of him.
He wanted to unload these three cars into the backyard of the supply and marketing cooperative before dark. His own big yard couldn't accommodate so many.
Moreover, he also plans to take all the family members to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow. Although the total is less than one thousand, it is still seven or eight hundred.
It’s enough for the supply and marketing cooperative to conduct a good inspection and acceptance.
When the car entered the courtyard of the supply and marketing cooperative, there was no one in the courtyard. They were all off work.
If Li Long hadn't taken the lead, the guard wouldn't have let him in.
"Come on, let's unload them here." Li Long said to several young people, "After unloading them, put them in order, twenty of them."
Li Long also figured it out now. He could only send batches of bags here, and the supply and marketing side would also send batches of bags to the state.
Although the backyard of the supply and marketing cooperative is large, if all 4,000 handlers are to be pulled in, they probably won’t be able to accommodate them. Even if they were accommodated, there would be no need to do other things.
I think I'll bring the truck from the yard tomorrow, and the supply and marketing cooperative will have to organize a truck to transport it to the state.
Meng Hai organized the young men to unload quickly. Li Long went over and stuffed a pack of cigarettes into each of the three drivers and chatted about the next thing.
"I may ask you to help me every two or three days in the future. Is that okay?"
"It's definitely no problem." The driver who had followed Li Long several times said with a smile, "As long as there are free cars, everyone will definitely want to come after get off work."
After all, it is to make extra money, and one trip will cover a week's salary, so everyone must want to come.
After unloading all the handles, the afterglow of the sun has completely disappeared, but it is not dark yet, and stars can be vaguely seen twinkling in the sky.
Three cars drove out of the yard, and Li Long asked the boys to squeeze in the back seat and trunk. He was going to send them back.
One passenger sits in the front, four people squeeze in behind, and two more sit in the trunk, which can accommodate all the people.
When Li Long sent the people to Qingshui River, it was already dark. A waning moon hung in the sky, very dark, and the stars looked very bright.
After saying goodbye to Meng Hai and the others, Li Long drove his jeep and ran back with the headlights on. A dozen or so families in Qingshui River were busy here.
Meng Hai returned to the team headquarters and got the money that belonged to him.
The least one person got more than 100 yuan, which is a week's income.
Think about it, if you work for a month, wouldn't you be able to get three or four hundred yuan?
This is equivalent to a year’s net income!
Can you be unhappy?
The village could not hide the incident, and soon the incident spread throughout the village.
Many people who were not chosen by He Yuqing and Meng Hai to make up the story had sarcastic remarks.
But there is no way, there are only so many people in the whole village, and it is impossible for people to be like the big pot meal, where everyone works together when the work comes, and everyone shares when the money is made.
Naturally, whose family is close to the team cadres, whoever has the best skills will be assigned the job.
This time, the people selected by He Yuqing and Meng Hai were not just the people close to them, but at least three of them were "technical personnel" who were relatively good at editing. So everyone understood that there was a reason for the team cadres to select people. .
That night, some people came to the homes of He Yuqing or Meng Hai carrying something, either a string of fish, a jar of honey, or a chicken, and inquired about the situation of the braid.
They also wanted to join in, but they were all rejected, and the things they proposed were also rejected.
He Yuqing and Meng Hai had made it clear at the beginning of the selection that no more people would be added this time. If there was another mission, people would be selected from the whole village.
Although the people who brought the things were a little dissatisfied, they also promised that they would try their best to get Qiuli's job of cleaning the big brooms.
You should be able to earn a little more money by then.
The happiest people were naturally He Yuqing and Meng Hai. If we can secure Li Long's relationship, the people in Qingshuihe Village will be one step richer than others in the future. They will be the first to buy bicycles, the first to buy tractors, the first...
Buy a car?
This idea flashed across Meng Hai.
When Li Long returned, there were several kilograms of peeled alpine loach and two plastic cages of honey in the jeep.
This honey is from last year and has not come out this year. The honey has crystallized, so it's not easy to get it out and eat it. After all, the mouth of the plastic cage is small, so pouring oil is okay, but pouring honey is almost impossible.
Li Long planned to wait until the weather got hotter before eating it. When the weather got hot, the crystals would melt.
By the time we returned to the big courtyard, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.
Gu Xiaoxia, Sister Yang and Han Fang didn't sleep. When the jeep entered the house, Han Fang worked hard to close the door and plug it in.
When Li Long took out the fish from the car, Sister Yang smiled:
"Hey, it's about to explode again. Fortunately, the fire in the pot hasn't gone out yet."
She wasn't angry because she had an extra night to do. On the contrary, she was quite happy.
Gu Xiaoxia's eyes narrowed into crescent moons, not because of the delicious food, but more because Li Long was back safely.
After this torment, it wasn't until after twelve o'clock that the lights in the yard were turned off.
The next day, Li Long drove Gu Xiaoxia to the Education Bureau in a jeep. He drove a tractor and delivered all the handles piled in his yard to the supply and marketing cooperative, and then asked the supply and marketing cooperative to send people to check and sign.
Li Long is one of his own, so the supply and marketing cooperative naturally cooperates with him. Li Xiangqian led others to carefully inspect and accept the items, then signed and filled in the form. By the time Li Long left the supply and marketing cooperative, he had already received a sum of more than 5,000 yuan in his hand.
Pay now, settle now, this efficiency is good. He didn't go to the mountains that day. In the afternoon, he went to buy some things to prepare and take a rest.
After sending Gu Xiaoxia to the Education Bureau the next day, Li Long drove the jeep west and then south.
When passing by Qingshuihe Village, he put the basin at the team headquarters.
The trunk was once again filled with supplies. Li Long went to Xiaobaiyanggou to say hello, and then arrived at the wooden house.
Not long after opening the door to dry the quilt, Polati came over.
"Li Long, didn't you come yesterday?" Bolati got off his horse and took down two small and half bags of Fritillaria as usual, "There are a lot more people on the Mantou Mountain in the east this year, new people. Well, it’s so fierce. If I hadn’t been carrying a gun, I would have beaten me up!”
"Sandou Mountain?"
Li Long felt as if he had heard such a word. While he was searching his memory, Bolati showed a lewd smile:
"It's Mantou Mountain! The young man over there is also called Nipple Mountain, because of its round shape..." He winked at Li Long, meaning "you know."
But Li Long didn't respond to Polati's smile, which made Polati feel that Li Long didn't understand this and shook his head.
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Li Long suddenly remembered where he heard the word Mantou Mountain.
Polati did not let him continue to recall, took down the two small bags of fritillaries, asked Li Long to weigh them, and said:
"This time, let's change money. I said Li Long, you don't have those good things you had last year!"
"What good stuff?" Li Long asked while weighing it.
"Meat! Those air-dried meats are so good. You can get some more this year, and I'll get some more caladiums to trade with you! That air-dried meat is very delicious. It goes well with wine. It's a piece of meat. , I can drink a bottle of wine!”
Li Long thought about it too. Last year, we harvested a lot of things that were difficult to take back, so they were dried on the spot. Both the rangers of the forestry team and those who dig up medicinal materials would exchange some.
This year I was only thinking about the promotion and forgot about it.
"Okay, just wait. I'll be hunting in the next two days. When I'm done, I'll come over and dry the meat."
Hunting is not just about exchanging things here, it can also improve the food at home. Now that her father and mother are here, and Gu Xiaoxia is pregnant with a child again, it is a time when she needs nutrition, so it is always right to get more meat.
The two small bags of caladiums totaled seven kilograms. Li Long gave Bolati twenty-one dollars. After he happily counted the money, he rode away.
At this time, Li Long was washing the Fritillaria while slowly reading the relevant information about Mantou Mountain.
This mountain is related to a treasure.
People in Ma County do not have the habit of naming the mountains in the south, because the mountains here are overlapping and cannot be seen from both sides, and there seems to be no end to the layers inside.
So they just named it after the ditch.
For example, Queergou, Meiyaogou, Dabaiyanggou, Xiaobaiyanggou and so on.
At most, we can name places after their features such as "Hongshanzuizi" and "Qingshi Terrace".
Li Long heard the name Mantou Mountain from Lao Luo when he was drinking with several five-guarantee households in the team. He didn't know whether it was last winter or the winter before last. It should be the year before last, right?
At that time, several five-guarantee households were once soldiers here in Northern Xinjiang. After the peaceful liberation, a large number of old soldiers, including the People's Liberation Army who later entered Xinjiang, either changed jobs on the spot and became employees of the Corps, or retired and joined the construction of Northern Xinjiang. builder.
They are also one of them.
It was said at that time that during the Kuomintang period, Sheng Shicai was in power and accumulated a large amount of property here. When leaving, some valuables were not taken away, especially gold, so they were buried in Nanshan Mountain in Ma County. It is said that the burial place was Mantou Mountain, and iron stakes were erected as markers.
At that time, officials from the northwest fled south one after another. The two horses from Gansu and Shaanxi and one from Qinghai took away a large amount of gold when they fled.
Of course, what they took away was not much compared to what they had amassed over the years.
More were still buried.
It's just that place names like Mantou Mountain felt strange to Li Long. He thought hard and found that there was no mountain with such a shape in the Nanshan area where he set foot.
As for the treasures, Li Long didn't have too persistent ideas. For forty years later, he had never heard of the discovery of treasures in Nanshan. He was lucky enough to be able to get those things last year.
So he was not persistent. After hearing it at that time, he just regarded it as a legend, and writing it down was just for gossip.
Now that he heard Polati say this, he was really thinking, could this be a coincidence?
But it’s really time to look to the east. I wonder if there will be anything to gain in the salt mine.
Doing what he thought of, Li Long put the washed Fritillaria in a bag and put it in the car, preparing to drive the jeep east.
At this time, a man carrying a caladium came out of the forest, and Li Long had no choice but to get out of the car again.
This man was very silent and spoke only one or two words the whole time. His hair was messy and his beard was quite long. It looked like he had been in the mountains for a long time.
He carried nearly ten kilograms of caladium, half of which required money and the other half needed supplies.
Li Long still calculated the price at three yuan per kilogram, and the other party didn't bargain.
When he was finally leaving, this person asked:
"Is there any meat?"
"If I go hunting now, I might have meat tomorrow." Li Long said.
It seems that meat is quite popular.
The man nodded and left.
Li Long thought that it looked like he was really serious about hunting.
He loaded the collected fritillaries into the car and drove east in the jeep.
Li Long's idea was to go to the Salt Mine Cave to have a look. If not, then continue east. If you can drive there, drive there. If you can't drive there, go back to Xiaobaiyanggou for lunch, and then continue to the east in the afternoon. East, let’s see what Mantou Mountain looks like.
Ten minutes after the jeep drove out, another person emerged from the woods. However, after seeing that there was no jeep in front of the wooden house, he retreated in frustration.
Someone came out later and walked to the wooden house. Seeing that the door was locked, they walked back. After thinking about it, they picked up a stone and scratched a few words on the mud wall before leaving.
Li Long drove the jeep to the mouth of the ravine in the mine, stopped the car, locked the door with a gun, turned on the safety and loaded the gun, and then walked forward with the gun in hand.
Past experiences taught him that there were too many dangerous things in the mountains and he had to be on guard against them.
When Li Long arrived at the mine, he found that there were very clear hoof prints at the entrance of the mine. It seemed that animals came in and out only early in the morning.
He stopped and listened quietly, then beamed.
There was breathing in the cave, and there was more than one sound.
He walked slowly inside with his gun in hand, intending to shoot anyone he encountered.
Li Long paused as soon as he entered the cave, trying to get used to the light, otherwise he wouldn't be able to see clearly when he went in again.
The breathing sounds of the two people became obviously rapid, and they must have discovered Li Long.
Didn't you run out?
Li Long walked further in, his hand already on the trigger.
No matter what, the two of them couldn't catch him alive. If it was carnivorous, they would have no choice but to shoot.
As soon as he saw the two black figures, the smaller one suddenly jumped up and rushed out!
Just as Li Long was about to pull the trigger, his hand relaxed again.
This was a red deer calf about the same size as the bouncing roe deer at home. It was obviously trying to escape.
The female elk deer that was still hiding jumped up when she saw the child running away, and rushed towards Li Long.
Li Long guessed that she should buy time for her child-otherwise she would not crash directly into Li Long.
Li Long dodged away, and then watched two red deer, one large and one small, rushing down the mountain. They raised a small cloud of smoke and quickly disappeared into the bushes.
I had a chance to fight, but I relented.
Li Long took the gun and turned off the safety, and looked inside again. Naturally, there was nothing there except feces.
If not, then there won’t be. There are many animals in the mountains, not least one or two.
With no regrets, Li Long came out of the mine with a gun, looked at the mouth of the ravine, then looked to the east, and then headed east with the gun.
He wanted to know how far it was from the Mantou Mountain that Polati mentioned.
I just walked all the way, two or three kilometers away, walked out of this ditch and crossed another ditch. I still saw layers of mountains in front of me, and I didn't see any of them that looked like a steamed bun.
It looks like it will go further.
Seeing that it was time for lunch, Li Long walked back.
He was a little frustrated because he didn't catch anything. When he walked to the mine where he could see it, he thought, should he go in and take a look again? (End of chapter)