Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"That's what happened." Li Xiangqian said to Li Long in the office, "That Liu guy didn't dare to say anything after that. He's so arrogant... Humph! The director said that when you come, go find him, he wants to see you. This time you have brought honor to our commune, and the county has also issued a notice, and we have been named an advanced unit and an advanced individual for ethnic unity. I have awarded you 20 yuan. The director means that if you go to repair houses and dig wells for others, the commune will reimburse you for the money you spend!"

"No invoice was issued at that time." Li Long waved his hand, "I will not trouble the company for what I did myself..."

"This is not a problem at all!" Li Xiangqian whispered, "The company reimbursed the money, so the company is involved in this matter, do you understand? It's a good thing, but it can't all be your fault, right?

Now you are a celebrity, and when the big reporters write about you, they will remember you and put our company on the list. This is like giving honor to the agency. If the agency does nothing, wouldn't it be a waste of this reputation? It won't sound good if it is spread out!

So you reimburse the money, and then when the director talks about this matter, he can be firm, at least our company paid for it and sincerely supports it, understand? Okay, go to the director first, be humble. "

"Okay, I understand."

Li Long actually came over to chat with Li Xiangqian when he was bored, but he didn't expect to encounter this incident.

He also didn't expect that the new deputy director would use him as an example and kick the first three balls.

No one would have thought that it would be such a coincidence that a temporary worker with no background would suddenly appear in the autonomous region's newspaper and become an advanced model of national unity!

This May is the National Unity Education Month.

Does it mean that this guy is smart and caught the opportunity at the right time, or does it mean that he just got lucky and caught it?

If we put aside the issue of national unity, it is not a big deal. After all, building a house or digging a well for a good friend is not a big deal. It just costs a little more, about a hundred yuan.

But it happened at this critical juncture. Who would believe that he had no luck or that the young man had no background?

Liu Shengli didn't believe it either.

The meeting was interrupted that day, and he went to get a newspaper to read. Then his face became so gloomy - the first fire that he had carefully planned was extinguished.

Later in the afternoon, he received two or three calls, all from the state. A leader from the state commune told Liu Shengli to go see Li Long when he was free, saying that he had hunted with Li Long before. Another leader from the state asked him to tell Li Long that his children still remembered the specimens he had obtained.

These phone calls made Liu Shengli's scalp numb. It turned out that he thought Li Long had no background, but he was just not bright! The people on the other end of these calls were people he couldn't afford to offend. Even if one of them was his father, he had to be polite when talking to him.

Where did this monster come from? With such great power, why did he insist on being a temporary worker? With such great power, wouldn't it be easy for you to get a regular job? Are you trying to fool this fool or are you fishing?
Liu Shengli was very upset, but he had no idea how to relieve it. These days, he felt that everyone looked at him as if they were laughing at him, so he simply asked for leave.

Too embarrassed to see anyone.

Li Long himself would never have thought that reporter Zhang Xinhua was so efficient that he would directly publish the manuscript on the second page headline of the Autonomous Region Daily.

He didn't know before he joined the organization that this daily newspaper was equivalent to the autonomous region's official newspaper. If it could make the headlines, the content must be very solid. Therefore, he immediately came into the sight of many leaders.

Some people who had had interactions with him in the past remembered this young man and called Liu Shengli.

Combining all this, Li Long felt that his luck seemed to have exploded again!

Director Wei was reading a newspaper. That day's newspaper. He had someone cut the newspaper that Li Long had received and put it under the glass plate of his desk. Not only that, he also took another complete newspaper and put it on the right side of his desk so that people from outside could read it when they came.

I am reading today's newspaper. I used to read newspapers when I had free time, but now it is an important matter. Because it is still the National Unity Education Month, there are many advanced deeds in this regard in the newspapers of the autonomous region and prefecture recently, but Director Wei feels that none of them are as good as Li Long's article.

"Xiao Li, come and sit down." Director Wei was very enthusiastic. After letting Li Long sit down, he went to make water for him. "You just came from Lao Li's place, right? I know you are Lao Li's man, but every time you come to the commune, you can also come to my place when you have time. Young people have active ideas, so they should communicate more with us old people."

After the article was published, some people in the state not only called Liu Shengli, but also called Director Wei.

Some came to report the good news, some asked about Li Long's situation, and some told him that the state's commendation this year would most likely be given to them.

Director Wei knew that it was a good thing that everyone was carrying the fancy sedan.

Li Long is not a simple person. It can be said that the company benefited from his help this time. However, Director Wei also knew that Li Long was not in the cadre list, so he was allowed to do what he wanted. Judging from the work over the past year, Li Long is not the kind of person who doesn't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. He knows his limits, can work, is capable, and knows the overall situation. He doesn't cause trouble, which is good.

"Director Wei is not old at all. He is in his prime." Li Long took the water and said with a smile, "I usually don't come here because I think the director is busy. I will come here often to ask for your advice in the future."

Look how good this guy is at talking!
In his heart, Director Wei secretly compared himself with Liu Shengli, and the smile on his face became even wider:
"Xiao Li, I heard you bought a tractor?"

"Yes. Since last year, I have taken on several big tasks in our supply and marketing cooperative and made some money. Since I often go into the mountains and haul things, I saved up some money and bought a tractor. It is more convenient than a horse-drawn carriage, can haul more, and runs faster."

"Good, good." Director Wei nodded. "Young people should be brave and daring. If anything goes wrong, we old people will back you up. You did a very good job this time. I also told Lao Li that we can't ask you to do both the work and the money. The commune will grant you 100 yuan. Is that enough?"

"Enough, enough, enough." Li Long said hurriedly.

It was really enough. Thirty yuan for two wells, less than forty yuan for the pipes, and sixty-five yuan for a sheep. Even if you count the wages of the workers and the noodles, it would not cost more than a hundred yuan.

"That's enough. If there are similar things in the future, tell Lao Li in advance. As long as it's reasonable, our commune will approve it. What you are doing is a good thing and a major event related to national unity. The commune will definitely support it strongly."

“Thanks for the support from the club!”

"I heard you're married? Where is your wife from?"

"The director of the Education Bureau."

"Not bad, not bad. Both of you are young and promising. Is it time to have a child?"

"Let's plan for next year." Li Long said with a smile.

"Well, do your job well. Okay, there's nothing else to do, just go and file the bill. I've already talked to the finance department, just sign and get the money. By the way, you have a tractor, right? I've told your Section Chief Li that there's a job for you. If you're free, you can go and do it to earn some pocket money."

"Okay, okay, thank you, Director."

"We are one family, why should we be polite?"

After leaving Director Wei, Li Long went to the finance department to sign and received 100 yuan, and then returned to Li Xiangqian's office.

"Did you get the money?" Li Xiangqian asked.

"I got it. This money..."

"Spend it yourself. You have brought honor to the commune, and this is the reward you deserve. There will certainly be people who are envious, but everyone knows that this has been published in the major newspapers of the autonomous region, and our commune was directly marked. Such things may not happen once a year. Director Wei has been smiling all the time in the past two days, which is a good thing!" Li Xiangqian said with a smile, "I can see that you are a lucky star of our commune. The director said that the Civil Affairs Department is building a welfare home and needs to bring sand from the Ma River. If your tractor is free, you can do this job. I think it's five yuan for one trip? If you pull seven or eight trips a day, it's equivalent to a month's salary."

Li Xiangqian told Li Long the specific location and asked him to go and take a look and do what he could.

Li Long would naturally not let it go if there was such a thing. He came out of the supply and marketing cooperative and drove his tractor to the new site of the welfare home in the south of the city.

The person in charge of the construction site was named Tang. He looked at the tractor coming over and assigned a job to Li Long with a smile.

"The place where we haul sand is on the south bank of the Ma River. There is a sand field of a county construction company. When you go there, just say you are working for the welfare home. Someone will load sand for you. You will be paid by the truckload. Five dollars per truckload. Is that okay?" "No, no." Li Long naturally didn't have any idea. For this round trip, the gas fee is at most one dollar, and you can earn four dollars. Only a fool would not do it.

Seeing that there was not much time left in the morning, Li Long talked to Captain Tang and decided to make one trip in the morning and a few more trips in the afternoon.

The tractor drove to the bank of the Ma River, turned off the small road and headed south. After one kilometer, we saw a huge sand field.

After the reform and opening up, although the development speed here is far less than that of the coastal areas, it is also developing. Various infrastructure constructions are in progress, so a large amount of building materials are needed.

Li Long went to find the person in charge and said that he was transporting sand for the welfare home. Someone pointed him to a place where there was a winch loading sand. Someone was loading it, and the only old forklift was also loading it. However, most of the sand was transported by animal-powered vehicles, including horse and donkey carts, and two tractors, one new and one old. There were no large trucks, and it seemed that the situation was quite tense.

Li Long went to a place where a winch was loading sand. He parked the tractor in place, started the winch, and someone on the other side loaded sand, and the sand on this side was lifted up and poured into the tractor. It takes less effort on the other side, and this side is automated, so it will be more convenient.

Ten minutes later, a truck was filled with sand, and Li Long drove the tractor out of the sand field and headed towards the county.

When he arrived at the welfare home construction site, Li Long stopped, opened the rear deck, walked to the front, pulled out the fixing pin of the truck bed, and lifted the truck bed with force. Sand poured out, and the entire truck bed was soon emptied of sand.

"Young man, you are quite strong!" Captain Tang watched Li Long unload a truckload of sand by himself, and came over to admire him and said, "If everyone is as efficient as you, my job will be much easier. You are only unloading this truck this morning, right? The finance department is over there, go and settle the bill. Will you come back in the afternoon?"

"Come on." Li Long thought, this money can be earned so easily, how can I not come?

When I went back to eat at noon, I told Gu Xiaoxia about this matter, and Gu Xiaoxia was also very happy. Li Long was just going to work normally.

The report about Li Long in the Autonomous Region Daily also caused quite a stir in the Education Bureau. After all, as the unit where Li Long's wife worked, some people in the Education Bureau also felt quite good about him. In particular, two colleagues who had been to Li Long's home praised Li Long highly, saying that Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia were like a perfect match.

This made Gu Xiaoxia feel a little embarrassed. Someone in the bureau even suggested that Li Long make a report on ethnic unity to the education system, but Gu Xiaoxia rejected it.

Just kidding, the first rafter to stick out will rot first. Gu Xiaoxia knew that Li Long would definitely not agree.

Fortunately, the bureau did not really have any plans in this regard, so Gu Xiaoxia felt relieved.

She believed that the aftermath of this incident would slowly fade away, and she could also see that Li Long didn't have much thought about this matter and felt like he was staying out of it.

In the afternoon, Li Long went to the construction site to continue hauling sand. He hauled five trucks in the whole afternoon and finally hauled enough sand for the entire project.

However, what surprised Li Long was that Captain Tang introduced him to another construction site in the east of the city, where an experimental middle school was going to be built.

This project is much bigger than the welfare home. Li Long thanked Captain Tang. Captain Tang said that he was an old friend of Director Wei and told Li Long not to be polite.

The next day, Li Long went to the construction site of the school. He also paid five yuan for a truckload of sand, which seemed to be the market price. Li Long pulled four truckloads in the morning and five in the afternoon, earning forty-five yuan a day. This time, he was paid on a daily basis, and there was no overdue payment, which was good.

After working for a week, the school project was completed. Li Long paid the bill and took out more than 300 yuan. He was very satisfied.

There was no work that afternoon, so he went back to the team to check on the situation, and then planned to go to Shicheng to transport some sugar residue.

The reason I came back was that if my dad went offline, I would not ride my bike but would take his tractor tomorrow morning.

When the tractor returned to the team, Li Long saw Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang coming back from Xiaohaizi.

Sure enough, he went to fish online.

Li Jianguo was also at home. When he saw Li Long come back, he took out a piece of paper and handed it to him.

telegraph.

Li Long thought it was something about his hometown, but when he looked at the address of the message, it was from Kuitun.

"Your second brother sent it to me, saying that he will be back in the next two days. Also, the construction company will send a letter of political review in the next two days, asking us and our hometown to fill it out."

"Second brother is going to officially join the company?" Li Long asked in surprise. After asking, he hurriedly looked at the telegram.

"It should be, otherwise he wouldn't have been given a political review, right?" Li Jianguo also had a smile on his face. The second son also had a bright future, so he, as the eldest brother, was naturally happy.

The telegram was very brief, just saying that one thing he wanted to come back, and two things he wanted to pay attention to.

Li Long simply said:
"Then I won't wait for them to come this way. Tomorrow I plan to go to the sugar factory to collect sugar residues. The day after tomorrow I will go to Kuitun to check on the wheat harvester I made earlier and to see how my second brother is doing."

"Okay." Li Jianguo thought about it and agreed. This is indeed a good idea.

The Li family was not aware of Li Long's appearance in the newspaper. Li Long himself did not say anything. There was nothing to brag about. Maybe one day when Xu Chengjun was free, he would find it in the newspaper and tell it. But he did not have the energy to do so at the moment. Although the team had implemented the household contract responsibility system and the land had been contracted out, he had a lot of things to do as the village director. He had to plant his own land. In the past, he had to organize everyone to work. Now he had to take care of the team's affairs and his own land. He felt even busier.

Listening to the rumbling sound of the tractor, Xu Chengjun, who was weeding in the field, envied Li Long, that boy. He ran around here and there all day long, and managed to build up a considerable family business.

In fact, he also wanted to buy a tractor, but the money he had saved was not enough at the moment, and he was not planning to buy a second one. After all, as the village director, he did save some money, but taking out so much money at once would be a bit too conspicuous.

Wait until someone in the team buys a tractor, and then I can buy one for myself. It shouldn’t be so conspicuous.

He even suspected that the second person to buy a tractor should be Tao Daqiang who followed Li Long. This guy never stopped fishing since the beginning of spring. His father also followed Li Long to form a fishing group and made a fortune, reportedly several hundred yuan.

The money saved over this year is definitely enough to buy a tractor.

Many of the curious people in the team would place bets at the sales department when they had free time, to see who would buy the second tractor.

To be precise, it was the third one, but the Dongfanghong No. 75 tractor that Wang Caimi bought on credit from the team broke down frequently and had problems from time to time when plowing the fields and sowing seeds, so it had been ruled out by everyone.

Everyone knew that Wang Caimi must have made a lot of money throughout the year. But firstly, the bulk of the money had to be returned to the team as payment for the purchase of tractors, and part of this money had to be handed over to the township. Secondly, it would also cost a lot to repair the tractor and buy parts, so everyone assumed that the second tractor was a new one.

Li Long didn't know about this, nor did he care about it. He had dinner in his eldest brother's yard and rested in his own room.

Mosquitoes started to appear at night, so he lit mosquito coils in the room, simply didn't turn on the lights, and went to bed early.

The next morning, Li Long went with his father to retrieve the nets. He hadn't been to Xiaohaizi for a long time, and he found some changes here. When he retrieved the nets, he could see some water rats popping up in the water and then going back in.

The water was a bit muddy, indicating that it was still affected by the flood. The water level was also quite high, and there were water birds calling in the reeds, and occasionally wild ducks could be seen swimming.

There were several other families who had cast their nets, and they were also taking them out from different locations. Some people also used tires to go down to deep water.

Tao Daqiang sat on the tire to get the nets. Li Long was sharp-eyed and could tell from the first net he pulled up that there were obviously not as many fish this year as there were last year.

Are there more people fishing, or are there fewer fish in the lake? (End of this chapter)