In the next period of time, by June, Li Long basically went to the mountains every other week and would send some supplies to Sun Jiaqiang.
What surprised him was that Sun Jiaqiang was really staying in the mountains and went to pick mushrooms every day if he had nothing to do.
He not only picked morels, but also other mushrooms. He didn't dare to eat the other mushrooms he picked. He put them on the case and was just waiting for Li Long to come and see them.
When Li Long came to see it, he found that the mushrooms collected by Sun Jiaqiang were also diverse. It was at this time that Li Long discovered that there were so many mushrooms in the mountain, and he didn't even know them.
He could only pick out the edible mushrooms he knew and gave them to Sun Jiaqiang to "popularize the science". As for the others, throw them away.
What surprised Li Long was that in early June, some places in the mountains had already started to grow black tiger palm bacteria. Although they were not big, they were actually there.
Li Long was a little happy, so he told Sun Jiaqiang that when the morels in his back were gone, he would pay more attention to this mushroom and say it was not cheap.
As for the morels collected by Sun Jiaqiang, he asked Li Long if he would collect them, and if he collected them, he would take them away.
Li Long naturally collected it and weighed it. The morels that Sun's forced collection in the past week looked like more than two kilograms of less than three kilograms. Li Long hasn't asked about the price of morels at the acquisition station. Last year, it seemed that it was more than 20 yuan per kilogram, so Li Long collected his money for fifteen yuan per kilogram, and he gave him forty yuan for less than three kilograms.
Sun Jiaqiang was very happy, which was much better than working at a relative's house.
He took 30 yuan of it and gave Li Long the rest to the rent and the money for the supplies.
Li Long just let it go.
In addition to his days in the mountains, Li Long also went to the left-behind point of the animal husbandry team. Because he hadn't hunted during this period, he went directly to the meat stall of ethnic minorities in the county to buy a sheep and cut it in half, half of it, half of it in Harim's mother, and half at Yushanjiang's home.
The children were still very happy to see Li Long. They will use already very good Mandarin to talk about their learning situation and the changes here. Li Long could still see people coming to the two wells to draw water from time to time. It can be seen that not many people in the entire village have been pressing the wells.
Or almost nothing.
Not everyone can afford to pay for the money to crush wells, or some people are used to it. There is not much work anyway. Either go to the river to fetch water or go to these two stores to press water, which is not a big deal.
Harim's mother, the old lady was also very happy to see Li Long come and arranged to cook for Li Long. Li Long asked the child to explain that his wife was pregnant with the child and could not stay for too long.
I brought not only mutton to the two families, but also daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil, salt, tea, etc., including school supplies for children. These are all cooked and I think about it every time I come here.
The children were really happy, after all, the families of other left-behind pastoral teams did not have such treatment.
After returning from the animal husbandry team's staying point, Li Long began to clean up the remaining fritillary beans and the morels he took back from the mountains this time, dry them thoroughly, and clean them up, and then took them to the acquisition station.
The price of morels has not increased much, and the first grade is 28 yuan per kilogram. Li Long also asked the price of Black Tiger Palm mushrooms casually. What surprised him was that the price of this large-yield mushroom not only did not rise, but it even dropped a little, becoming twenty yuan per kilogram.
Dry goods.
It's a bit different from expectations.
However, the pricing power is currently in the hands of others, and he has no choice.
After the last batch of Fritillaria was sold out, he returned to the courtyard. When Gu Xiaoxia took a nap, Li Long began to take stock of Fritillaria.
Originally, if there was no such robbery, Li Long expected that Fritillaria would receive nearly 800 kilograms of dry goods in the last few days, which could be sold for nearly 40,000 yuan. The cost per kilogram of dry goods is about fifteen yuan, which means that the net profit is more than 20,000 yuan, which is a little different from 30,000 yuan.
But although the seven bags of fritillaria harvested from the robber's den were not completely dry and not particularly clean, these seven bags of fritillaria gave Li Long nearly 300 kilograms of dry goods, and in the end, this fritillaria season Afterwards, Li Long sold almost a ton of dried fritillaria from the acquisition station.
The total price is about 50,000 yuan.
However, Li Long did not intend to take over the last 300 kilograms of dry goods. Although Bolati said that only 2,000, and 1,700 of them were still stored in Li Long, Li Long planned to give at least 3,000 or 5,000.
Just by urging Bolati, he didn't tell him out. Just this point, Li Long couldn't be careless.
When he first met Bolati, Li Long didn't like this person very much. There are many problems, many things, and alcohol.
But sometimes, the lower the level of people, the more righteous people, they are, and they are always more righteous.
Li Long felt that reading books will make people become rational, and they will consider more and think more, so their thoughts will not be so simple.
Of course, those scholars with firm beliefs are different. They are made of special materials, which is different from ordinary people. What they do is something ordinary people can't do, and Li Long can't do it either.
So Li Long planned to leave the money here. As for what Bolati said about wanting to buy a house in the county town, he must help, and he also needs to help with the money.
In fact, Bolati's statement of him would not have much impact on him, at most it would be a little troublesome.
But since they have protected it and take it seriously, Li Long felt that he had to let Bolati know the value of his protection.
Later, I didn't meet Bolati in the mountains. Li Longyuan was thinking about meeting him and asked where their home was, and then I could go and send some things to his home.
Anyway, there is a chance later.
By this calculation, the Fritillaria earned about 30,000 yuan, mainly because the cost is not as high as planned. Most of his fritillaria are exchanged for supplies, and he made the meat himself, and when he bought other supplies, he made money from both ends, so he made a lot of money.
He made a profit and saved every purchase. Anyway, the money now, plus the original amount of more than 20,000 yuan, and the certificate of deposit has already exceeded 60,000 yuan.
With so much money, I can’t think of where to invest in it for a while, so I can just leave it there.
Anyway, the interest rate is high now.
Although I was idle at home and watched, I had too many chores.
Li Long’s main job now is to support Gu Xiaoxia in the yard or on the street. The road conditions were not very good at this time. Gu Xiaoxia was getting older this month and didn't dare to drive a jeep around, so the scope of activity was mainly near the large yard.
At most, go to the market and take a look at the fireworks on earth.
Most of the time I am still in the yard, with dogs, roe deer, and hedgehogs moving in the yard, and I am not lonely.
The trouble is that as Maiji approaches, people come to him to buy a harvester almost every day.
They are also nearby farmers. Some people said that they would not sell them when they went to Kuitun.
Li Long was so annoyed that some people came over with tractors, and they simply wanted to pull away the harvester in his yard.
"Would you just go and pull a car and come back?" Gu Xiaoxia could see that Li Long's expression was very impatient, so she smiled and said:
"I won't have any problems for a day or two. My dad and Sister Yang are here."
"Then I'm not at ease." Although the due date is still half a month, Li Long knew that having a baby at this time was different than in the future. Medical technology was not as developed as that, so Gu Xiaoxia was pregnant with two more, so it would be better to be careful.
"Then they come here every day, and I'm annoyed, too." Gu Xiaoxia said, "Just go and pull a car back. At least you can be quiet for a few days, one by one, it will take two days."
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Li Long didn't want to leave for two days.
But there is no solution.
After lunch and Gu Xiaoxia was taking a nap, Li Long asked Sister Yang to take care of him. He drove the jeep to the transportation company.
"You said you want to go again? Tonight?" Captain Ma looked at Li Long and asked, "Where is it going to run? Is it still in the mountains?"
"No. I'll leave after get off work. I want to go to Kuitun, two cars to pick up goods. The car runs fast and I can come back tonight."
Li Long’s idea was to use a truck from a transportation company to pull it. It was too much and fast, so he could come back that night - although he came back later, it would not delay tomorrow’s work.
"If you go to Kuitun, the shipping fee..."
"The freight is as you said." Li Long naturally understood, "I'll add the oil."
"When will it be like that?"
"If it's okay, it's OK tonight." Li Long said.
Captain Ma flipped through the stack of dispatch tables on the table, and after reading it, he said:
"It won't work tonight. The car in the team went to the state to pick up goods today. The ones who came back were more than enough. The day after tomorrow, there was something to do in the morning and nothing to do in the afternoon. You can leave earlier. If you come back, you will get early. As for the shipping fee... one Car fifty."
"Okay." Li Long agreed.
When he went back to supper, Li Long told Gu Boyuan about this.
Gu Boyuan thought it was OK, so he said while eating: "You go to yours, I will stay in the yard. If there is anything, I will have to do."
Four teams, when the sun sets, the tractor rumbles back to the Li family's yard.
Li Jianguo turned off the fire, Liang Yuemei got off from the back Douzi and untied her turban.
"Are you done?" asked Du Chunfang, who had already fed the pigs.
Li Juan and Li Qiang also came out of the room and helped their mother take off the work tools from the tractor truck.
"It's done." Li Jianguo responded. They were going to weed in the melon field. The seedlings grow well, but there is a lot of grass in the field.
The watering is now flooding, and there is no plastic film pressing on it. The grass in the ground grows very quickly and you have to hoe it every once in a while.
Herbicides are not very common at present. Some of them are very stubborn, such as reeds and beef tendon grass. After the surface grass is hoed, it will grow again soon.
There is also the wild amaranth, which can grow thousands of seeds in autumn. Even if one percent of them sprout, it will cause great trouble to the farming.
Therefore, if you want to have good crops, it is inevitable to weed regularly - it is best to have a few days after watering, and the ground is not completely dry, so weeding is easier at this time.
Li Qingxia came from the front yard. Although Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia do not live often, the front yard will be cleaned up frequently and the vegetables are planted well.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
Originally, Li Qingxia meant that he followed him to work in the fields, but neither Li Jianguo nor Liang Yuemei gave in.
The old couple can help with their family, and they can do the work in the field.
After finishing the work in the field, Liang Yuemei said:
"Let's go to the county to see Xiaoxia tomorrow. I'm about to give birth, and I don't know what's going on now."
"That's a look." Li Jianguo nodded, "Tomorrow is the weekend, and we will all go together."
After saying that, he looked up at Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang.
"Everything goes," Li Qingxia nodded, "It just happened to pick up the net tomorrow morning, and the fish would not be sold, so I took it over to Xiaolong and the others."
Du Chunfang also nodded. Although she is a little "lucky and hates labor", as a mother-in-law, she still has to go and see her when she is about to give birth, and she should take care of her during confinement.
In fact, Liang Yuemei didn't think about letting her mother-in-law take care of her. She thought that the family had finished the big work, and Li Jianguo also brought her back. After Gu Xiaoxia gave birth, she would take care of her confinement.
She didn't even think about letting Du Chunfang take care of Gu Xiaoxia from the beginning. It's not that she looked down on Du Chunfang, but mainly because her mother-in-law is really not someone who can take care of others.
Moreover, Gu Xiaoxia was considered to be the one she grew up watching. Although she was nominally considered a sister-in-law, she was actually similar to her daughter-in-law. Gu Xiaoxia has no mother, so she has to come no matter how she says it.
She had already thought about this matter, but it was only at this time that she was about to bring it up.
She believed that Li Jianguo would definitely agree. After all, Li Jianguo actually raised Li Long as his son in the first few years.
But I didn't expect that this little brother suddenly grew up in the past two or three years and no longer needed the care of his elder brother.
Even for a while, he began to feed back to his elder brother and sister-in-law, which made Li Jianguo feel a little uncomfortable at the beginning.
No matter what, Gu Xiaoxia is going to have a baby, the Li family will definitely be born.
"That's it." Li Jianguo said, "Juan, Qiangqiang, you two go to bed early and go to see your uncle and aunt tomorrow."
The Lu family came back from working a little later. They can't afford to buy a tractor at the moment. When the carriage came back from the field, there was a large bale of weeds sitting in the carriage. This is for feeding horses at night, and it has become a habit.
After the settlement was made, Lu Yingming and Lu Dasao walked to the Li family yard and chatted together.
Li Qiang, who was roasting dried salted fish at the stove, took the baked rice and gave it to everyone, and Lu Yingming and Lu Dasao also had it.
"Hey, Qiangqiang is so generous." Lu Yingming took the roasted dried salted crucian carp and praised with a smile.
Li Qiang smiled proudly, then went to get a large handful of dried salted fish and baked it on the edge of the stove hole.
Mrs. Lu asked what the Li family would do tomorrow, and Liang Yuemei said she would go to see Gu Xiaoxia tomorrow.
"That's right, Xiaoxia should give birth. Should she be in the county for confinement after giving birth, or come back?" Mrs. Lu asked curiously.
She guessed that she should come back for confinement. After all, it was easier for Du Chunfang and Liang Yuemei to take care of her in the team.
No matter what, Gu Xiaoxia is a state cadre, she also went out of the team. It is convenient for these women in the team to come and see them.
"I don't know, listen to Xiaolong." Liang Yuemei shook her head, "Maybe in the county, after all, it's close to the hospital, so what's the situation easy to deal with."
She had given birth to a child and was at home at that time. She naturally knew the dangers of giving birth. The closer she was to the hospital, the easier it was to deal with emergencies.
"County, who will take care of me?" Mrs. Lu's gossip was still so strong.
"I'll go." Liang Yuemei said naturally, "Anyway, she's doing the same big job now. At most, she'll wait for the wheat harvest in July. If she has a harvester, she won't be afraid of anything."
It's this time when it's your turn to have a baby, there's nothing you can do.
Du Chun said weakly:
"Then I should go..."
"My mother, stay at home." Li Jianguo smiled, "Juan's mother can go then."
Things were settled like this.
The next morning, Li Qingxia went to pick up the net and the family picked the fish. Tao Jianshe heard that they were going to the county and didn't want the fish anymore, so he said he would take it to Li Long and the others.
Tao Jianshe didn't leave either. He helped him choose the fish and put all the fish nets in bags and took them back. He said that Li Qingxia had no time to pick them up, so he took them back and picked them up and then went down.
The Li family put the fish in the bucket. After breakfast, they fed the pigs. The whole family cleaned up neatly. They picked a lot of vegetables in the front and back yards and placed them on the tractor, loaded a basket of eggs, grabbed four chickens and tied them up. In the bag, then prepare to go to the county.
Mrs. Lu brought some eggs and handed them over to Liang Yuemei who was in the car:
"There is nothing good at home, so I took this egg to replenish Xiaoxia."
At this time, the rural areas are eggs and old hens.
There is nothing else good.
When the tractor drives west, you will meet people working in the team, and they will stop and say hello.
When they learned that the Li family was going to the county to see Gu Xiaoxia who was about to have a baby, they were all very gossipy and happy.
As the first young men in the team to be successful after the change of opening, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia are still very popular. Now these two people are going to have children, and those who are a little older have also sent their blessings.
They all slapped their thighs and blamed Li Jianguo for saying that they should bring something to them.
Even after Li Jianguo and the others left, some people planned to go and have a look at each other at noon. They were looking for the Tao family and the Xie family. After all, these two families have tractors, which is easy to attract people.
In the end, some women said that it would be better to go see it after giving birth.
This is a custom.
The reason why everyone wants to see it is because they have received more favors from Li Long in the past two years. The life of the fourth team is obviously much richer than other teams. Although some people have shallower eyes, most people still I know it's at least.
When Li Jianguo drove a tractor to the big yard, Li Long had just sent away a person who wanted to buy a harvester.
He had agreed to wait three or five days later to come and pull the harvester. The man strongly asked to put down the deposit, but Li Long confiscated it. There must be one when he said it.
After all, two cars can be brought back more than ten or twenty cars.
It's not bad for one or two.
As soon as the Li family arrived, the yard suddenly became lively. Liang Yuemei was the first to find that Gu Xiaoxia's belly was a bit abnormal. After everyone asked, she quietly asked Gu Xiaoxia:
"Is it a double?"
Gu Xiaoxia didn't expect that this "sister-in-law" had such sharp eyes and could see it all at once. (This chapter ends)