There is nothing much to say about early summer in the county in the 1980s. At this time, there were not a lot of fruits on the market, and the weather was already getting hot, but there was no watermelon to quench the thirst and cool down. Annoying guys like mosquitoes and flies will not treat Li Long specially because he is a reborn person.
So it would be very troublesome to enjoy the shade outside the courtyard in the evening.
Li Long still knew the common sense that mugwort repelled mosquitoes, but to be honest, the effect here was not very good. The main reason is that Gu Xiaoxia cannot smell the strong smell of cigarette smoke and cannot light it. If it is left there, the smell of mugwort alone will not have much effect.
So after staying outside for a while, Gu Boyuan returned to the small courtyard, and Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia entered the house.
When we had dinner just now, Gu Boyuan also talked about the situation of his agricultural supplies store. From late March to early May, in just over a month, Gu Boyuan earned enough money to buy several bicycles.
It’s really a huge profit!
Gu Boyuan was sighing with emotion, but Li Long actually knew that this was not only because it was a seller's market, but also because of the household responsibility system. After the land was distributed to each household, everyone's enthusiasm for farming increased, and a large amount of agricultural inputs were needed for farming.
Another very important reason is that Gu Boyuan can provide targeted promotions based on farmers' needs, instead of just letting farmers make their own choices.
As a college graduate, although I am not majoring in agriculture, if I want to be a little more professional, I will be much better than the average person in terms of learning ability.
According to Gu Boyuan, his is not the only new agricultural supply store that has appeared in the county. There are two other stores targeting the east and south respectively. There is also a lot of farmland in both directions, especially the east side, where several towns are wealthier.
After all, it has been a place with inns since ancient times, and there is also a lot of cultivated land.
Unlike the north, almost all the land is newly reclaimed and was previously salt flats or Gobi Desert.
But Gu Boyuan felt that the potential in the north was greater, because he was from the Fourth Squad, and he, as a veteran, knew very well how much wasteland the Fourth Squad could continue to cultivate.
Li Long could feel it from Gu Boyuan's slightly reserved and proud expression. He felt that he had done a good job.
It's actually really good. Gu Boyuan even thought about making more of the kind of seeders "invented" by Li Long and selling them in his agricultural supply store, because he felt that large machinery such as seeders could not meet the sowing needs of small plots of land. .
There is currently no small seeder as a balance between manual sowing and large seeders, and Li Long's seeder is very good.
It has to be said that people like Gu Boyuan who were able to go to college in that era, after entering a certain industry, have an in-depth understanding of this industry and can quickly use their keen observations to find ways to win.
Even if Li Long is reborn, he has to admire him.
When talking about this emotion while chatting with Gu Xiaoxia during dinner in the evening, Gu Xiaoxia smiled with pride on her face, but then she said:
"Actually, my dad is not as interested as you said - we chatted when you were away, and he also said that most of his current development is still looking at you. He said that you laid a good foundation for him, and he is on top. It's much easier to work.
In fact, many times he doesn't say anything to your face, but praises you vigorously to us. He is not willing to say anything bad about you. ”
Li Long absolutely believed what Gu Xiaoxia said.
Most parents these days train their children in front of others and praise them behind their backs. One's own children will definitely be praised in front of outsiders, but in front of the children, they rarely express their appreciation and love for the children.
Parents of this generation are still reserved and traditional.
The next day, Li Long sent Gu Xiaoxia to the Education Bureau. When he came back, Li Long was not in a hurry to go to the mountains. He went to the side room to collect the dried caladiums and put them into a bag. He put them on the back seat of his bicycle and pushed them. Then we went to the purchasing station.
The buying station has been quite busy since the beginning of the year. As an official procurement department, although the price of purchasing things is not high, and sometimes is even much lower than the market price, at least farmers and herdsmen will not worry about being cheated when selling things here.
And unlike the supply and marketing cooperative, this purchasing station is not limited to the quantity of things purchased. It accepts any amount. If someone comes with a piece of rabbit skin to sell, they will also accept it.
Supply and marketing cooperatives usually purchase bulk commodities and materials. They cannot collect small items, mainly because they are difficult to store and manage.
The purchasing station is different. Although there is no particularly large warehouse here, there are almost no restrictions on the purchase of items. Medicinal materials, furs and other sundries are within the scope of their purchase, and they even include some recyclable copper coins, scrap iron, etc.
According to what Chen Hongjun told Li Long before, every few days there would be a transport convoy along the way to take the materials purchased from these purchasing stations to the state purchasing station for sorting and processing.
Today, there was a queue in the yard of the purchasing station. There were at least seven or eight people carrying various storage tools, such as baskets and buckets, and the most common ones were urea bags.
They came here to sell a lot of things, including licorice roots, animal skins, cashmere, etc.
Li Long also discovered that there was another seller selling caladiums, but the quantity seemed to be small.
That person also packed it in a urea bag, and Li Long smelled it.
Everyone was queuing up and preparing to sell things, so they were chatting while waiting.
In front of Li Long was a woman, carrying a large wicker basket filled with licorice roots. These licorice roots should weigh about seven or eight kilograms.
Licorice root is used to make licorice tablets, which is a common medicinal material in the northern slope of Tianshan Mountains. Of course, it is said that there are more in Kazakhstan in the west, and no one there uses this.
Someone once collected these things from there and brought them back, but they had to pay enough taxes to go through customs. It was not easy to buy them at low prices and sell them at high prices to make a fortune.
Li Long stood at the back pushing his bicycle, but soon another man hurried over from behind.
He is in his thirties, about 1.7 meters tall, which is not short for this era. He has a red face and looks like he is often exposed to the sun.
He stood behind Li Long, looked at Li Long's bicycle with envy, and said:
"Comrade, this bicycle of yours... looks like you bought it quite early."
Li Long's bicycle has not been well maintained since he bought it. Although Sister Yang will give it a wipe when she has time during this period, it is still no better than a new bike.
"It's been two years." Li Long said casually. He turned his head and looked at it half sideways, and asked:
"Are you here to sell cashmere?"
You can also give money when the sheep is alive. Goats are cashmere and sheep are wool. Wool is cheap and available in large quantities, cashmere is expensive but available in small quantities.
Cashmere is the thin, soft hair produced by goats to keep them warm in winter.
The later famous movie "Kekexili" tells the story of the struggle between wild yak team volunteers and poachers to protect Tibetan antelopes. The reason why poachers hunt Tibetan antelopes is because their cashmere is very expensive in the international market.
Cashmere was scraped off to make cashmere fabrics. Cashmere clothes at this time were still very expensive, and were not comparable to those in the name of cashmere in later generations.
It is more troublesome to collect cashmere. After all, it is collected alive, and the goat will be more painful, which is not the same as shearing sheep.
In April, the goat's down begins to fall off and separate from the cortex, but it will not fall completely. If it falls, it will be lost. You need to use something like bending your fingers when it has just fallen off and the down is still in the middle of the fur layer. The wire rake caught the cashmere.
This kind of thing of catching cashmere from a sheep requires tying the goat. After all, it is very painful. The amount of cashmere from a goat usually does not exceed one hundred grams.
Of course, Li Long didn't know if there would be any technology in the future that could promote goat cashmere production.
The red-faced man had two or three kilograms of cashmere in his bag, which was quite a lot.
Nowadays, the price of a kilogram of cashmere is tens of yuan, and this bag can be sold for less than 100 yuan.
In these days, it's a lot of income. So the red-faced man had a smile on his face.
If farmers do not have sideline income, they can only get money after autumn throughout the year. There will be no income in spring and summer, but family expenses cannot be without it.
You have food, vegetables, etc. at home, but you still have to pay for oil, salt, seasonings, children's tuition and miscellaneous fees, etc.
Li Long had heard before that people in mainland China mainly raised chickens and sold eggs to support their family's scattered income. Farmers in northern Xinjiang earn money in a variety of ways, such as picking licorice, weaving baskets, selling vegetables, including the cashmere shaving guy at the back.
Although it’s not much, it’s still enough to support the household.
"What are you selling?" The red-faced man spoke a lot and asked again, but before Li Long could answer, he opened his bag and showed it to Li Long: "I'm here to sell cashmere. I heard that the price of cashmere this year is Not low, more than thirty yuan per kilogram.”
"Thirty-five." A person in line in front heard his words and took the initiative to say, "I just sold it the day before yesterday."
"Thirty-five - I weighed this cashmere at home. It's two kilograms and eighty. I can sell it for a hundred or eighty yuan."
"It's quite a lot." Li Long said with a smile, "It's equivalent to two or three months' salary of a state cadre."
"Hehe, there are quite a few, but raising those goats is really troublesome. I have a one-meter-high pen at home, and some of the sheep just jump over it, and I don't know how many times I have to rush back in a day..."< br>
Li Long smiled, this is the trouble of happiness. By the time it was Li Long's turn, it was already more than half an hour later. He put a bag of Fritillaria on the counter, and the purchaser behind the counter asked:
"Fritillary?"
"Yeah."
"You have to do it. We have no choice but to do it here." The purchasing staff reminded me as I may have seen too many herb collectors bringing in fresh fritillaries to sell.
"Stay safe." Li Long smiled.
Chen Hongjun was not here, and he was not interested in talking.
The buyer poured the caladiums into the flat basket next to him, then bent down and reached out to grab a handful of caladiums, looked at them, smelled them, and smiled:
"Your caladium is pretty good. It's the best we've ever harvested. There's no problem with the first-grade product. Let's weigh it..."
While he was talking, Chen Hongjun walked out.
The man immediately said hello:
"Webmaster..."
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"Well, you are busy with your business." Chen Hongjun nodded and looked at Li Long with a smile:
"I think you should come. Not bad, this year's caladiums are still so good...how about it, can we harvest more this year than last year?"
"I don't know, it's possible." Li Long also didn't expect that Chen Hongjun would go to the state for a meeting and become the head of the acquisition station when he came back. "Old Chen, won't you treat me even if you get promoted?" < br>
"When you get promoted, it's all about serving the people." Chen Hongjun smiled reservedly. The main reason is that there are many here and it's not easy to joke around.
Seeing that Chen Hongjun and Li Long knew each other, the buyer smiled and weighed the fritillaries for Li Long.
"The current price of first-grade Fritillaria is 48 yuan per kilogram," the purchaser said skillfully. "These Fritillaries total 28 kilograms and 400 grams, with a total price of 1,363 yuan. Will the invoice count now?" ”
"Okay, let's issue the tickets now." Li Long said.
The first amount of fritillary money was received. Li Long's guess was correct, and the price went up a bit.
Prices are almost rising right now, and they will rise even more fiercely in a few years. Fortunately, once the light industry develops, it will be much better to have more products. The interest rates on deposits are extremely high these days. Li Long plans to save his remaining money after all the work of raising money and mother-of-pearls is finished.
Of course, money for development must still be retained.
What is flowing is money, what is not flowing is paper. However, it is impossible for Li Long to use all the money in a short while, so the rest has to be placed in the bank. It is better to earn interest than to keep it in his own bag without interest.
Li Long wrote the invoice and took the money, said hello to Chen Hongjun and left the purchasing station, receiving envious looks from everyone.
After all, how much does an ordinary person have to earn if he gets more than a thousand at once?
The buyer asked Chen Hongjun:
"Webmaster, are you old acquaintances?"
"Well, he comes here every year to sell things. As you can see, the caladiums are all in the best condition. He also sells antlers, antlers, dried wild mushrooms, etc."
"Do you still collect wild mushrooms here?" The red-faced man selling cashmere asked immediately, "Do you collect all kinds of mushrooms?"
"No, no, no, we only collect the more precious mushrooms here." Seeing that there were many people interested in this, Chen Hongjun immediately explained, "We collect morels and black tiger palm mushrooms from the mountains, ordinary ones." We don’t harvest wild mushrooms.”
"What are morels? And that black tiger... fungus?"
Chen Hongjun entered the room and took out two dried mushrooms to show these people.
Nowadays, wild mushrooms can also be encountered in the Gobi Desert and Red Willow Beach, and these people want to try their luck.
But they were obviously going to be disappointed. At present, the morels here mainly grow in the mountains, as does the black tiger palm fungus. However, later generations do not know which year, mushrooms became rampant, morels could be picked in the poplar trees on the street, and black tiger palm fungus also appeared in the tamarisk beach on the edge of the field.
Very weird feeling.
Li Long went back to the compound to collect the money. Seeing that Sister Yang hadn't come back from selling rice, he started the jeep, went to the oil depot to refuel, and then headed into the mountains.
You can smell the roasted slivers on the roadside in Qingshuihezi Village. It's not a very good smell. Li Long didn't see anyone he knew, so he drove directly out of the village, passed by Hongliutan, and entered the mountains.
He came to the wooden house, parked the jeep, and when he got out of the car, he saw Sun Jiaqiang washing fritillaries.
But it can be seen that the quantity is not much, maybe three or four kilograms.
It's almost noon, and there aren't many caladiums to replace today.
Seeing Li Long coming, Sun Jiaqiang stood up from the edge of the spring and greeted Li Long from a distance.
When Li Long walked over, Sun Jiaqiang told him the reason before he asked.
"Those people still don't trust me and think I have nothing to do with you. They would rather wait for you to come back and then change with you than with me." Sun Jiaqiang was a little embarrassed, "You saw, I changed into these all morning. I think I In one day, you can get more than ten kilograms of caladium.”
About ten kilograms, according to Li Long's salary to Sun Jiaqiang, it was less than ten yuan.
I originally wanted to give this person a chance, but it seemed that the herb collectors in the mountains didn't buy it.
"But I can understand it," Sun Jiaqiang said while washing the fritillaries. "Think about it, you have been here for the past two years, and everyone is used to it. When you were here, even if the rangers from the forestry team came over, He will arrest us, but now it’s someone else, and I’m not that much of a deterrent. This morning Polati came over and shouted when he saw someone..."
Li Long smiled bitterly, thinking about it, it was normal.
This trust cannot be established in a short time. Bolati can regard himself as a friend, but he may not necessarily regard Sun Jiaqiang as a friend. Not arresting him was for your own sake, but it was normal not to give him convenience.
"Then... do you want to go back to digging caladiums again?" Li Long thought for a while and said, "You can't make as much money from this job as you would by digging caladiums yourself."
"Then I won't go back." Sun Jiaqiang immediately shook his head. "Although I can earn money by digging fritillaries myself, it's tiring. And the food and accommodation are not as good as here. If you have less money, just less. It's comfortable to stay here."
Okay, since Sun Jiaqiang has no objection, Li Long doesn't care too much.
Before it was time to eat, Li Long and Sun Jiaqiang stayed here together.
Sun Jiaqiang didn't have much money, so Li Long's task for him was to exchange supplies for fritillaries every day. How much Fritillaria did Sun Jiaqiang exchange every day? Li Long would settle his wages with him that day.
Sure enough, during the time Li Long stayed here, most of the people who came to exchange Fritillaria for things were looking for him. Even people who didn't know him could find him from his body shape.
The main thing is to exchange supplies with him.
Sun Jiaqiang is envious, but he also knows that envy cannot come.
Fortunately, every time two or three people came to look for Li Long, one of them would come to him, which gave him some gains.
But Polati, who came here every day, had a bigger impact on him.
Li Long was a little surprised. The four bags Bolati brought today were all different.
"I have four colleagues, and they collected these." Polati went directly to Li Long, "The things they exchanged were different. This one wanted wine and meat, this one wanted steamed buns, and some biscuits, and this one wanted Money..."
Unexpectedly, Polati also started working as an intermediary.
Li Long naturally complied with his request - these four bags of fresh fritillaries weighed more than 30 kilograms, which was enough for a day.
Sun Jiaqiang could only look at him with envy. Bolati would never ask him for Fritillaria. Even if Li Long is not here, Bolati would rather take the fritillary back than exchange it with him.
Very depressed.
There were dark clouds in the sky and it was about to rain. (End of chapter)