The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong, Jia Weidong, Liang Dacheng and others came to Li's country with their things in agreement.
Li Long was already there before they came. Not only Li Long was there, but Gu Xiaoxia was with her two children. Today is Sunday, Gu Xiaoxia has a holiday. According to the custom here, on August 15th, the children will go to grandma’s house to spend together, so Li Long brought his wife and children to his elder brother’s place one day in advance.
Although I have dinner with Gu Boyuan every day, I have to eat together during the holidays.
Dad Li Qingxia hasn't come back yet, but my mother and brother are here, that's all.
Du Chunfang is also rare to see two young grandsons at once, and it is so rare. The two children were still young at this time, so she spread a reed mattress under the grape trellis and then put a mattress on it, allowing the two children to lie down and play.
Li Juan and Li Qiang are also extremely rare for these two little brothers. One is responsible for tying dogs and the other is responsible for chasing chickens. From time to time, Gu Xiaoxia and her two children can eat. Depending on the situation, as long as Gu Xiaoxia nods and the yard. If there is one, they will get it right away.
Liang Yuemei is also taking care of her here. The two children are three months old and have started to eat some complementary foods. She is telling Gu Xiaoxia about her own experience in raising children.
Although Gu Xiaoxia is a state cadre, many women in the team are a little awe-inspiring when they talk to her, Liang Yuemei does not. She is Gu Xiaoxia's elder, a role between "mother" and "aunt". , she still needs to teach some common sense of life.
At the beginning, Li Long and Li Jianguo were chatting at the door, and Li Long planned to go to Xiaohaizi to get some fish in a while. It is not easy to get a few big dishes in rural areas now. Just have chickens and fish. The chickens are slaughtered now, so the fish need to be caught in the net.
Li Qingxia is not here, and Tao Jianshe will only go when he catches fish from time to time. Moreover, the fish needs to be eaten fresh. Li Long thinks that it will be enough to take it on the net and sprinkle it a few times later.
While chatting, Tao Daqiang and the others came over with their things one after another.
At this time in the countryside, visiting relatives or giving gifts during the holidays, the things are quite simple. The common thing in the fourth team is two bottles of wine, two bottles of canned food and two packs of sugar cubes. If you are richer, you will add a bag of pastries. What's the matter.
Usually, relatives also need gifts to be returned. Some people take gifts to others, while others leave half of the things they bring back.
Tao Daqiang, Jia Weidong, Liang Dacheng and others were carrying wine, canned food, and sugar cubes. Xie Yundong took a different approach and brought a lamb leg and two bottles of wine. Several people came over on bicycles, and Li Long felt that they were doing them. It was an appointment.
The yard suddenly became lively. Several adults looked at Mingming Haohao and praised him, while Liang Dacheng took out a handful of candy and gave Juanjuan and Qiangqiang.
Everyone has achieved good harvest this time, and each family has become the envy of other people in the team. The reason is the two brothers of the Li family, so these people come over with something, mainly to express their gratitude.
After chatting, Li Long talked about the fact that the price of melon seeds will definitely be reduced next year.
"When I came to buy seeds, I told them to every household." Li Jianguo said, "But they probably didn't listen, and they all thought about buying more."
< "The same is true for me." Tao Daqiang nodded immediately and said, "I just said not to plant too much. I picked melons and picked land and got sandy land. The yield of ordinary land is not high, so they don't listen." "Don't worry," Li Long said, "These people are just thinking about making money. At this time, they don't have to say that they are picking up less or picking, and they may not even think about how to plant them. Something happened next year when they planted, so they should remember to come and ask. "
The others were silent, and they knew that if people from other villages asked, they wouldn't say anything. If the people in our team came to ask, they would have to say it.
"I won't plant next year." Li Jianguo shook his head, "According to this momentum, won't plant a few thousand acres next year? By then, those people really won't even find the place to sell."
Although the market is now active, to be honest, the market for the roasted goods is really limited, and ordinary people are more accustomed to tearing sunflower seeds. After all, there have been a few who have been tearing melon seeds.
Just now, a few people touched the data and almost all of the melon seeds that had produced more than 10,000 kilograms of melon seeds were bought by rural people. This is thousands of acres of land.
How to plant melons? I believe that those who buy seeds basically have no order, and the trouble is still to come.
"It's hard to get a good plant that can make money, but now it's over." Xie Yundong sighed, "It's not enough to make money by growing grain now, and I don't know what to plant next year."
He When I was talking, I looked at Li Jianguo, Li Long and the others, obviously wanting to find their guidance.
"It's hard to find." Li Long also shook his head, "My elder brother and I have been thinking about this matter, but to be honest, it's really not easy to find something valuable and easy to grow now. .”
Everyone actually has their own ideas and their own channels. However, after Li Jianguo and Li Long planted melons, they were proved that they could really make money and not very troublesome, so everyone followed the trend.
I didn't expect that after following me for a year, I couldn't do it.
Li Long actually had some thoughts in his mind, but he hadn't planned to say it out yet, so he had to take a good test.
There is one thing that bad for cash crops is that they have to find a sales outlet by themselves, unlike when they grow grain and send it directly to the Grain Bureau.
The uncertainty in this made many people discouraged and dared not try it easily. After all, not everyone is like Li Jian’s country. He has money to protect him. Even if he fails, he will not have much impact on his family’s life.
"Let's go, Daqiang, let's go to Xiaohaizi to scatter some nets and get some fish stewed at noon fish soup."
"Okay." Tao Daqiang replied with a smile, "It's been a long time since I hadn't been there." Go fishing with Brother Long.”
Li Jianguo and Xie Yundong did not go, Jia Weidong had something to do at home, so he left first, Liang Dacheng followed Li Long and the others to Xiao Haizi with his things.
Li Long hasn't been here for a long time. To be precise, I don't seem to have been here much this year.
The reeds of Xiaohaizi are even more lush, and the reeds and cherry blossoms have begun to turn yellow. Some water birds are hovering on the little seazi, and from time to time they suddenly plunge into the water, and then when they fly up, they are in their mouths. Will hold a small fish in his mouth.
At this time, there was no one by the water. Occasionally, you could see a water mouse pushing a trace of water into the water and disappearing. "It seems that there are more water rats." Li Long said with a smile, "No one in the team has done this yet."
"There are still some things." Liang Dacheng said from the side, "But the pits dug by this water mouse are all in the water plants, so it's really hard to find. This little seazi is deeper, just like the one just now, so I can only watch it.
There is a water mouse in the reed ditch in Kaichun. My brother saw it. We surrounded it together. There was water there, not much depth. We were blocked in several directions, and each person held a shovel. As soon as the thing appears, he will knock it with a shovel and finally knock it to death. "
"Is the skin sold?" Tao Daqiang asked. "Sold it, I got it and sold it for twenty-one yuan at the acquisition station." Tao Daqiang smiled and looked at Li Long without saying anything.
When they caught water mice, they dug them one by one.
The people in the team behind didn't seem to have dug this before, and they caught it after seeing it.
Although Tao Daqiang doesn't want to be so troublesome now, it seems that this "technology" is controlled by him and Li Long, and he feels a little superiority in his heart.
"Just cast a net here." Li Long pointed to the open water surface and said, "The water below is deep, so some fish should be able to harbor."
As he said that, he went from urea He took out the net from the bag, and after sorting out the net, he looked at the water surface, turned around and twisted his waist and coordinated his hands and spread the net out.
"Brush!"
The net was cast into the water and slowly sank.
Although I haven't cast a net for a while, as soon as I start this net, the familiar feeling comes again.
You could feel the slight shaking of the net in your hand, and Li Long knew there was a fish under him.
He didn't plan to catch any big fish, just have crucian carp. It will definitely be delicious if you catch a 35 kilogram and stew a large pot.
Slowly pulling the net up, the shaking of the net became bigger and bigger. When Li Long lifted the net up at the end, he could see that the bottom of the net was bound by a lead cushion and there were many crucian carp of all sizes. "Not many, it must be two or three kilograms." Tao Daqiang said with a smile.
"You don't want it." Li Long squatted down and picked up the small crucian carp and threw them into the water. While surrounding the small pit with mud on the shore, he said to Tao Daqiang, " You come and cast a net."
Tao Daqiang smiled and took over cast a net and started to sort it out.
Li Long surrounded the puddle and put the lively fish in it, watching them stir up splashes and swim happily.
There are more than two kilograms of large crucian carp, and two five black carp that have not grown, and two relatively large pikes.
The puppy fish's body slipped and crawled out of the net. If it was bigger, it couldn't get out, so it was in the net - this was also a surprise.
Then Li Long saw a lot of sunflower seed skins in the mud by the water.
He guessed that it was the people who caught fish in the early morning who went down the net or closed the net before and after.
Looking at this melon seed skin, Li Long felt aroused his heart. It seemed that his own should be good. Even the team is cracking melon seeds, which means that this thing is really popular.
Think about the Chinese New Year before the people in the team, if you have some money, you will buy some white melon seeds or flower melon seeds, cook or stir-fry them, and if you don’t have much money, you will use your own oil sunflower to eat.
There are some people who don’t need to buy it. They order a few sunflower trees in their own fields. They can be fried in winter when they are harvested in autumn.
This is indeed good.
Of course, there is also peanuts.
Students in the 1980s should have that memory. No matter what other things are on the table, melon seeds, peanuts, fruit candy is basically a must.
These things must not be missing if you buy them for class.
Sometimes there are also sand dates - local sand dates are not good, they are the bigger ones sold in stores. As for red dates, the red dates in southern Xinjiang have not yet reached a scale and are locally digested or transported out.
As for raisins, they are relatively high-end snacks at this time and usually do not appear in such occasions.
That's it. In fact, it depends not only on what you can plant, or what is valuable, but also on what the market needs.
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Li Long felt a sudden enlightenment.
"Hey, my net is OK, this five black paths are not small!" Although Tao Daqiang's net was half circled, he was very happy with five black paths of more than one kilogram of one kilogram on the net.
The five blacks are pretty, this fish is not small. Li Long took the fish down and put it in the fish pit and said: "You can bring this fish later. Go back and stew it for your family."
Tao Daqiang did not object, anyway, he could still cast a few nets, not this one.
Liang Dacheng also cast a net. His skills in casting the net were stronger than Tao. He caught a carp of more than two kilograms, and then they changed places.
They went back in less than an hour, and they brought back five or six kilograms of crucian carp. The big fish had two five black strips, one red carp, one grass carp and one silver carp, all of which were one kilogram. More upwards.
Here, Xie Yundong helped Li Jianguo slaughter the chicken, plucked the hair, and then stewed it.
The two-eye stove, and the other stove had already steamed rice.
"Just wait for your fish." Liang Yuemei said with a smile.
The main dishes for lunch were chicken and fish, and Liang Yuemei also mixed two cold dishes. Li Jianguo took out two bottles of wine to drink some.
Although the oil sunflower and corn have not been harvested yet, this harvest autumn is a foregone conclusion.
What to plant next year is not yet determined, so let’s celebrate this year’s harvest first.
I didn't drink much, and Li Long only drank two drinks. After all, he had to drive back, and there were children, so safety was important. The others had no objection to this, and they all toasted each other, but they didn't drink too much.
After Xie Yundong and the others left, when Liang Yuemei and Gu Xiaoxia were cleaning up the mess, Li Long said to Li Jianguo: "Brother, let's plant flower sunflower or peanuts next year." "How come you think about it Have you planted this?" Li Jianguo was a little puzzled, "Peanuts... have never been planted."
"Like the melon field, it can be planted in the sand field." Li Long said, "Brother, you should know how to do it." Plant it? "
"Grow it can be planted." Li Jianguo thought for a while and said, "I have planted it in my hometown, but it is not difficult. But is this... easy to sell?" >
"Brother, think about the stores in our team, the stores in the brigade, and the township, including the county's stores. Do you have sunflower seeds and fried peanuts?"
"Then ...It's true." Li Jianguo said.
"Isn't that right?" Li Long said, "What does this mean? It means that there are many people buying this food. If we grow it, we will sell it to roasted goods factories or private melon seeds. Nowadays, oil sunflower is a hotpot. A few cents per kilogram, I think Hua Kui can be sold for one or two yuan. "
"But Hua Kui's production is less oily," Li Jianguo shook his head, "Even if it costs two yuan per kilogram, That won't keep up with the harvest of melon seeds..."
"Brother, let's not think about the situation of melon seeds for a while." Li Long shook his head and said, "We're a sweet treat, and it's harder to come later." This is the case.
Think about how much it costs to grow acre of wheat? It is a bit abnormal to be able to beat melon seeds. Next year, a kilogram of seeds may cost a few cents or even be sold.
Fortunately, even if it costs a few cents, it is better than wheat..."
The current price of wheat is less than two cents, which is really not high.
If you plant flowers, you can Kui, even if acre of land costs 150 kilograms, it would be worth the price of one dollar per kilogram.
He vaguely remembers that in a few years, the prices of Hua Kui and Bai Kui will reach the price of Ten yuan, but the price of oil sunflower was less than two yuan at that time.
The reason I know this is because after I had a home to farm, I began to learn from my elder brother, planting everything, and there were Hua Kui and Bai Kui in my idle house - it was not Mayaya melon seeds, but a little bigger than that.
Li Jianguo listened to Li Long's words and stopped talking.
Although he was still a little unwilling to give up, he knew that Li Long was telling the truth.
The benefits of making melon seeds are too high. One acre of land is enough to reach seven or eight acres of grain. Think about it, if it really lasts for a long time, who will still grow grain?
When Li Long drove Gu Xiaoxia back to the big yard in the afternoon, Gu Xiaoxia looked at the two children from behind, and asked Li Long while looking:
"What are you and your elder brother saying? What are you thinking when I saw it?"
"It means what you planted in the New Year." Li Long did not lower the car window glass. He drank wine and was worried. After the wind blows, I get drunk, "I am not good at planting melons this year, but I will definitely not be able to do next year." "Why?" Gu Xiaoxia also heard Liang Yuemei say that this year's earnings of melons this year are nearly 10,000. Such a high, how many years her salary is worth.
I don't envy you, but I think this is pretty good.
"Think about it, the melon seeds planted by my elder brother's family have been bought by other farmers. The area planted next year will definitely be very large at once. Then the price will be one-third and four cents of the current price Less than one."
"What can I plant?" Gu Xiaoxia was also a little confused. She also came from the countryside, so she naturally knew that only growing food in the fourth team would not be rich.
"I am considering whether to plant flower sunflower or peanuts, it is possible to plant cotton. Flower sunflower and peanuts are because they eat a lot of people and have a large market; cotton is because they have planted it in the Corps, making it easy to find experience."< "It's true that a colleague in our office likes to knead melon seeds. She doesn't buy too much every day, so she buys a cup. She says that if she knocks too much, she will get angry, and if she doesn't knead, she will be very anxious. The floor on her office is There are always melon seed skins, but fortunately she knows to clean them up. "
"So this Hua Kui is definitely still popular, the key point is to find a buyer." Li Long said, "There is still time, let's go slowly." Think about it again."
Is this matter urgent? But if you want to say it is not urgent, it will be winter in two months, and it may be too late to prepare for it in winter.
So you still have to prepare in advance.
When I returned to the big yard, Sister Yang and Han Fang were waiting at the gate of the yard early. When they heard the sound of the jeep, they immediately came to open the door. When the jeep stopped, Sister Yang helped Gu Xiaoxia to pull it off. The child will not be able to kiss him next.
Obviously, it brings out feelings. "Sister Yang, did my dad come here at noon?" Gu Xiaoxia asked in her arms. "No. I asked Xiaofang to shout, "Grandpa Gu is not in the store, and the door is locked, and the next door says that Grandpa Gu is out."
Gu Xiaoxia didn't care either. Anyway, Gu Boyuan would come to have a meal tomorrow, so just ask.
So big person must have his own freedom.
The next day on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Long and his friends and sister Yang had a good meal in the yard.
Originally, Gu Boyuan meant that he should go to his small yard, but there was really no room for business there, and there were few things in the kitchen, so he simply lived in the large yard.
Li Jianguo's side, because Du Chunfang was there, she refused to go to the Liang family. Li Jianguo drove a tractor to send Li Juan and Li Qiang there, and then came back to run a house at home.
Anyway, the Mid-Autumn Festival was a mess, which made Li Jianguo speechless.
Fortunately, no matter what, the holiday life is getting better and better, and this is all good. (This chapter ends)