Back in the big yard, Gu Xiaoxia has already gotten off work.
As the expected delivery date is getting closer, her lower abdomen is getting higher and higher. In response to Li Long's strong request, she would take leave before the end of May and stop working.
However, Gu Xiaoxia still thought about finishing the remaining days in May.
In fact, Director Wang from the unit also had a private talk with her. The unit is not very much work at the moment, and her current situation is quite special. If you can take leave, please take leave.
At this time, women's work is quite easy to do. On the one hand, lesbians strongly demand to work the same as gay men, and on the other hand, they also take good care of female cadres.
So it would be impossible for Gu Xiaoxia to take leave now. The current work is not as cumbersome as later generations, and it pays more attention to practicality.
When Li Long came back, Gu Xiaoxia had already walked around the yard for a few laps before she sat down.
Han Fang opened the door and let the jeep come in, and Gu Xiaoxia slowly stood up.
Seeing Li Long parked his jeep near the east wing and turned off the engine and got out, she asked with a smile:
"Is it going well today?"
"It went very smoothly." Li Long responded, walked over and looked carefully, and felt that Gu Xiaoxia was normal, so he said:
"Tomorrow, my brother and his friends will dig Fritillaria in the mountains for a day, and they will come back the morning after tomorrow. The matter of making up and carrying the handkerchief will be completely over.
How many days can I collect Fritillaria? When you take a vacation, my work in the mountains will be almost completed, and I will be able to stay at home every day. ”
Complete all his work by the end of May, and Gu Xiaoxia gave birth in June, so Li Long naturally had to be by his side.
These days, women’s childbirth is not as high as that of later generations. People usually only see the success rate of births. In rural areas, even a few years ago, most children were born on their own kangs.
After chatting for a few words, Li Long took out the morels in his backpack, soaked them in part, prepared to wash them and stew them in soup.
The other part is prepared to be kept on the drying and eaten slowly. Li Long plans to get some back every day in the next few days, so that he doesn’t need to spend some time to do it, but he can also get these nutritious and delicious foods back.
Gu Xiaoxia is no stranger to morels. When she saw it, she just sighed when she could go into the mountain to pick mushrooms.
"There is always a chance. When you have a child, the child will be a little older next year. I will drive you into the mountains, soak in hot springs, pick mushrooms, and pick up the ground scoops." Li Long said while cleaning up.
"Uncle Li, can I go then?" Han Fang was helping around and asked with some desire as he listened to what Li Long said.
"What are you joining in the fun?" Sister Yang couldn't help but poke her head out and scold her when she heard Han Fang's words in the kitchen.
Han Fang stuck out her tongue, but she was not angry.
"Yes, you can go next year or the year after. This July... Let's see it." Li Longyuan thought that July would be OK, and Han Fang would have a holiday. But think about Gu Xiaoxia's confinement period is just in July. Although there are people taking care of her, she may have to go to harvest wheat at that time and she has no time.
Without further discussion, Li Long began to carry the mothers in the back of the jeep out and put them into the wing room.
These fritillaria are already semi-dried and can be sold in three or four days. Moreover, these people originally planned to take Fritillaria to the county to sell, so they cleaned up and didn't need Li Long to wash it again.
In fact, Li Long is also guessing whether he has to clean the fritillaria in the spring after collecting it. This procedure affects those who dig fritillaria, so when they are finally ready to come out, they will also free up. Wash the fritillaria clean at least this will have a higher rating.
Li Long speculated that this time the Fritillaria season ended, and he might eventually get 700 to 800 kilograms of dried Fritillaria.
Even if the total price is less than 40,000, it is almost the same.
After deducting the cost, his ultimate profit was more than 20,000 yuan.
More than last year.
Of course, the profit of carrying handles is much higher, after all, the number of carrying handles is much larger this year. Li Long thought that he would have to thank Director Qian for having the opportunity. He wouldn't have been able to get so much share of the stewards.
Of course, it's okay. This year's handheld can be completed on time and on quality, which has not disappointed Director Qian's trust.
After dinner, Gu Xiaoxia was in the yard to eat, so Li Long went to the wing to collect the Fritillaria that he was preparing to sell tomorrow.
Nowadays, we can basically collect some of the Fritillaria every day and sell them. The fritillaria collected last year can be dried in a wooden house. Now that Li Long has to come back every day, it is not safe to place the fritillaria there.
It’s not that I don’t trust Sun Jiaqiang, but mainly if I put a large amount of Fritillaria there, if someone takes the risk and gathers three or five people to steal the wooden house, Sun Jiaqiang will be in danger.
No one can guarantee this thing.
He gathered a piece of Fritillaria that was dried at the same time together, and Li Long picked up a finger and tried hard. The Fritillaria was pinched into several pieces by him.
I looked carefully and it was pretty darn good.
Li Long nodded with satisfaction.
I picked up one of them casually, and after crushing them, I found that the dryness was about the same, so I took all the fritillaries into a bag.
This bag is more than 40 kilograms. If all calculated based on first-level quality, it can be sold for 2,000 yuan.
This way of making money is impossible even after forty years, many people cannot do it, let alone now.
Every time Li Long goes to sell Fritillaria, he can feel the complex emotions in the eyes of those around him who sell things at the acquisition station, and all of them are envious, jealous and hatred.
Of course, Li Long didn't care either. Making money has gradually become a very glorious thing these days. Economic construction is the center. If wealth first leads to wealth, then wealth can be said by those with insight.
It is no longer a business that is discriminated against or arrested for making things. Many people get rich because of it, and businessmen gradually become legitimate jobs, and they will be envied by people because they become rich.
The lights were on in the yard, and the lights were a little flickering. Sister Yang said the street had notified me that the transformer would be replaced in the urban area, and the lights would become brighter and brighter in the future, and the circuit would become more and more stable.
This reminded Li Long of the power usage process of the Fourth Team.
Although I turned on the power last year, I used a light TV after powering on. But in fact, the electricity will be shut down frequently, and the kerosene lamp at home has not been completely eliminated.
He vaguely remembered that the power outage seemed to have been eliminated until the 1990s when the power plant in Ma County was completely built.
Although it is said that the main electricity is sent to Shicheng and Wucheng after the thermal power plant in Ma County was built, at least the electricity consumption in the county and rural areas was normal.
The thermal power plant in Ma County is considered to be the largest influential state-owned enterprise in the county. It was quite lively at that time. Many people were proud of their family members working in thermal power. It is said that the factory resident yard there uses thermal power all year round. Water doesn't cost money.
This water is the water from the thermal power cooling tower.
As for the treatment, it is said to be very good.
"Anyway, life will get better and better." Li Long sat on the steps, looked up at the stars in the sky and said.
The stars will become more and more difficult to see in the future. Although Ma County has no industry and it will be an agricultural county until forty years later, it is not easy to see such clear stars at night in winter forty years later.
I don't know where so much pollution comes from.
He looked westward.
After sending Gu Xiaoxia to the unit the next day, Li Long came back and packed the whole bag of Fritillaria and put it on the bicycle to the acquisition station.
Li Long came early and was ranked third. When he saw Chen Hongjun in the yard, he nodded and greeted him.
Chen Hongjun and him met almost every day, so they smiled and nodded.
When Li Long put the forty-two kilograms of Fritillaria on the counter, the buyer inside took the Fritillaria and poured it into a big basket. After looking through it, he set a level, and then said:
"Add to the notice, the purchase price of Fritillaria begins to rise yesterday afternoon. First-class products are 52, and you have a total of 2,084 yuan."
Li Long was really surprised that the price has increased in this Fritillary Belly season!
After signing the invoice and signing, he walked out of the envious eyes of the people behind him. Li Long looked at Chen Hongjun and looked at him and walked over.
Chen Hongjun said with a smile:
"You have made a lot of money in this Fritillary Season."
Li Long smiled, but didn't answer this question and asked:
"Why is the price still rising?"
"The mainland has collected a lot, and our fritillaria is of good quality, so the price has increased." Chen Hongjun's smile faded. He turned his head and looked at the people rushing in at the door, and whispered to Li Long: br>
"You try to do more this year, and it will be easy to talk about next year."
"What's wrong?" Li Long was shocked when he heard this, "Is there any change next year?"
In his previous life, he was still a slut and had never done these things at all, so he had no impression of any changes in his memory.
"The acquisition station will be withdrawn next year - to be precise, it will be withdrawn by the end of this year." Chen Hongjun whispered, "The acquisition stations in each county will be slowly withdrawn-"
"What?" Li Long was shocked and his face changed. "Where will you sell the things you receive in the future?" The acquisition station was withdrawn. He would not only affect him in the future. How many people in the county took advantage of the slack farming work? I ordered these side businesses to sell them to the acquisition station to subsidize my household income.
"The market is relaxed, and there will be special businessmen to collect this in the future." Chen Hongjun sighed and said, "The country will not be able to provide a special guarantee for this person in the future.
The medicinal materials are not bad, but our county’s medicinal materials company will collect them. If you have such a large amount, they will definitely give discounts. The county leather factory will also collect leather, but as for the rest, we can only see the situation at that time. ”
"Then you?" Li Long felt a little relieved as he heard that the medicinal materials company would accept it and the leather factory would accept it. Although it was a little troublesome, at least there was a place for sale. He remembered Chen Hongjun again, the acquisition station was gone. Where do they go?
"In the future, we will carry out reforms. It is not clear what to do in the end, but we will not be unemployed." Chen Hongjun smiled, but no matter how he looked, his smile was a little bitter.
Li Long nodded, it was indeed the case.
Nowadays, employees are not as easy to be laid off as they will be in more than ten years. Even if they are reorganized, they will be given a place to go.
After all, it is in a period of great development and people are needed everywhere. Therefore, it is so popular to graduate from a technical secondary school, because you can work at the age of 18, even if you have a seniority.
It is the country that needs so many talents to quickly enter the increased positions to drive an industry.
Later, talents in various industries gradually became saturated, and secondary school students gradually became less popular, and college students became common.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
"After a while, I'll introduce you to a few people." Chen Hongjun said, "They will purchase some materials here. After you get to know them, those things will accumulate and you will have a place to go.
Although they must make some money as middlemen, at least what you get will be sold. ”
Li Long thanked Chen Hongjun, chatted for a few more words before returning to the big yard.
Sister Yang had already gone out to sell food. After Li Long put the money, he drove a jeep to the free market to scan some goods, then went around the department store, and then went to the mountains.
The people in Xiaobai Yanggu got up very early today, like Li Jianguo. After getting up, he went to the nearby ditch with Lu Yingming.
Because there are many people here, even if there are Fritillaria in the nearby ditch, few people usually come to it.
People who specialize in digging medicinal materials are very alert in the mountains and will stay away from strangers.
So there are actually quite a lot of fritillaria in these ditches. Last year, Sun Jiaqiang dug up the Fritillaria here. This year, Sun Jiaqiang went to help Li Long, and the Fritillaria in these ditches remained.
When Lao Huang shouted that the meal was about to start, Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming had already brought back a lot of Fritillaria.
These fritillaria are not washed, and they are covered with fresh soil and some leaves.
But it looks quite a lot.
"I dug a lot!" Xu Haijun leaned over and took a look, "Uncle Li, you are so awesome."
Everyone has their own calculations. If Xu Chengjun can call Li Jianguo Lao Ge, Xu Haijun must call him uncle. There is no way. His father worked in the village when Li Jianguo was founded.
"It's okay." Li Jianguo smiled slightly reservedly, "There are many Fritillaria in this ditch, so I can dig some."
These are less than one kilogram, but they are not much different. The only regret is that the ditch is not long enough for them to dig in a day.
The branches nearby are of different sizes. Some can stretch for several kilometers, while others may be hundreds of meters long.
After breakfast, everyone took their tools and spread out in groups of three or five to dig Fritillaria into the ditch.
Yesterday, after these people came back from the ditch where Harim was, they began to explore the nearby terrain.
In fact, I have seen some places when I was cutting the slits. But at that time, except for those who had come to the mountains like Li Jianguo and Xie Yundong who had been to the mountains before, they would not pay attention to Fritillaria, others, especially those young people, would not pay attention to it at all.
So yesterday afternoon they had a temporary overtime work and found the ditch they were going to today.
Some really want to dig some Fritillaria, while others just think they are playing. After all, I have been working hard for the past month. Now I have finally relaxed and have to get the money. The remaining Fritillaria is icing on the cake, and it is okay to make or not.
So some people really want to earn more, while others come here to make soy sauce.
When Li Long arrived in the mountain, he went to the cabin first.
Sun Jiaqiang had nothing to gain today. He received the first Fritillary Bacteria when Li Long arrived, which was more than three kilograms.
Sun Jiaqiang was a little disliked, mainly because the other party asked too much, and the things he wanted to change were fragmented and took a lot of time.
The man left when Li Long came. Sun Jiaqiang waited for Li Long to arrive, and while washing the Fritillaria, he complained.
Li Long smiled and asked him about his situation last night.
"It's okay, I locked the door early and went to bed alone in the room." Sun Jiaqiang said, "It's very comfortable."
Li Long left the oil lamp and books to Sun Jiaqiang. Those novels are no less than TV in the county for a person in the wild.
Very interesting.
"How do you eat breakfast?" Li Long asked again with concern.
"Didn't you get some morels yesterday?" Sun Jiaqiang poured out the first wash water and then scooped the water. He said while scooping: "I made a soup with morels this morning, and then baked buns. buns. ”
"Not bad."
Li Long stayed here for a while, chatted, then took off some things, locked the jeep and headed into the mountains to the south.
He planned to get some morels back, but he was idle anyway.
When he walked out for more than 200 meters and reached the edge of a forest, Li Long stopped.
"What are you doing?" He yelled at the forest.
The rifle on his back slid into his hand skillfully. If the other party didn't answer, Li Long would prepare to load the bullet.
Li Long knew what Bolati said last time that there was no shortage of desperate people in this mountain.
Li Long's hearing and vision were far beyond ordinary people. He just heard two people in the forest and his breathing was a little rapid.
Seeing that the two people refused, he opened the gun's safety and loaded the gun, and aimed it inside:
"Come out! Don't come out and shoot!"
The two people panicked and then made completely opposite actions.
A man stood up with his hands raised and shouted:
"Don't shoot, don't shoot!"
The other man got up and ran into the woods!
Li Long originally wanted to scare the two people, but he actually didn't think there was anything wrong with the two people. He even thought that these two people were waiting here to see the situation and then prepared to change to Fritillaria.
The man ran away and Li Long felt something was wrong, and he shot it out with a bang.
He was aiming at the man and hitting him, and he wanted to scare him, so when he hit him, he shouted:
"Stop! If you don't stop, you will fight people this time!"
The forest is very sparse, Li Long has good eyesight, and it can be seen that the person is not running very fast.
The surrendered man fell to the ground when he heard the gunshot, and then lay down, not daring to move at all.
There he kept begging for mercy.
The person who ran away ran faster when he heard the gunshots. Li Long was also angry and aimed at the man's calf and shot him with a "bang".
"Ah——"
With a scream, the man fell to the ground, rolled twice, and howled there with his calf holding him.
Li Long picked up the gun and kicked the kneeling person:
"Go over and bandage him."
He was also worried that a shot would break the man's blood vessels. What should he do if he died? Although he was a forest ranger, he didn't want to kill anyone on the spot.
Even if this person obviously looks a little guilty.
"Okay, okay." The kneeling man saw that Li Long dared to shoot, and he had no other ideas.
The two of them went over and after they bandaged the injured, Li Long began to ask the uninjured person.
This question was really shocked! (This chapter ends)