Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After lunch, Li Long drove his tractor to the wheat field in Donggou again. Before the tractor was unloaded, Xu Chengjun had already caught up with him on a bicycle.

"Xiaolong, I heard from Daqiang that you finished harvesting over there this morning, and you also harvested theirs? Is everything alright here? Will it take a while to finish tying the wheat bundles? Come on, let's go to my field and harvest. I was thinking that it would be great if we could harvest today, so I called everyone together and we'll go to my field and harvest now. After harvesting, I can bundle the wheat today."

"Okay." Li Long agreed readily.

"My family has 35 mu of land in total, two plots per mu, right? I'll pay you after you harvest it." Xu Chengjun said again, and then rode his bike westward. His family's land is not in Donggou, but in another large strip of fields, which is longer, but the yield is not as good as here.

Li Long unloaded the truck bed. Li Jianguo and his team continued to bundle wheat, while he drove the tractor with the harvester and followed Xu Chengjun to their field.

It is almost time for winter wheat planting. The wheat in the fields has matured and some families have already started harvesting it manually. The field next to Xu Chengjun's belongs to Ma Jinbao. He is grazing sheep while his wife and children are harvesting wheat.

Xu Chengjun called over the Xu family, including his wife Ma Hongmei, who were waiting at the edge of the field. There were bundles of reeds, sickles, and pitchforks, but no one touched them except for someone who went over to shovel the stalks.

The people in Ma Jinbao's family didn't know that Xu Chengjun had asked Li Long to use a harvester to harvest the wheat. Seeing the Xu family sitting there idly, they whispered and said that the Xu family was lazy.

"It's OK to be lazy when the big pot is full, but if you're lazy now, aren't you asking for trouble with God? If the wheat is harvested a few days late and it rains, it will be troublesome if the wheat falls down, and the year's work will be in vain!"

Not to mention now, even in 30 or 40 years, wheat resistance to lodging will be a big problem. If a heavy rain comes with a strong wind, the wheat will easily fall over before it turns yellow. If it rains for two consecutive days when it turns yellow, the wheat may sprout directly on the stalks.

Although such incidents are rare, it does not mean that they have never happened.

Ma Jinbao's family is considered a relatively marginalized group in the village. Because of Ma Jinbao's personality, the family has a bad reputation in the village, so not many people deal with them.

This is one of the few places where their family can laugh at others.

Then they saw Xu Chengjun coming, and the original discussion stopped immediately. They knew Xu Chengjun's strengths and weaknesses. To put it bluntly, sometimes Xu Chengjun was seen as a bit of a fool by most people in the team.

If you offend him, you might really be beaten to death.

Then they saw Li Long driving a tractor and the strange-looking machine in front of the tractor.

Without giving them a chance to guess, Li Long greeted the others and started the operation.

A row of wheat was cut neatly as the tractor rumbled past. When they came to their senses, Li Long's tractor had already driven to the center of the field and was rumbling towards the end of the field.

The Xu family here has already started bundling wheat.

Ma Jinbao's family looked a little stunned, it was so fast!
No wonder... people were resting there before, there must be a reason for that.

They looked at the wheat they had harvested. In more than half an hour, they had only harvested less than fifty meters. However, the tractor over there had already started to turn. They had already harvested one ridge of the more than 500-meter-long field and were continuing to harvest all the way to the other end.

The speed is really fast!
"Do you want us to ask Li Long to cut it?" Ma Jinbao's son-in-law whispered to his son, "It's been so hot in the sun, and I was stung by a wasp just now. Look, my eyes are swollen..."

Hornets in the wild often build nests on wheat stalks. Although their nests are not big, if you are not careful when harvesting wheat, you will be stung by them, which is very painful.

"I'll go ask." Ma Jinbao's son Ma Chenyang was also very envious and moved. He walked to the edge of the field with a sickle in hand, and when Li Long drove over, he shouted loudly:

"Li Long, how much do you get for harvesting one acre of wheat?"

"Two dollars." Li Long didn't even stop. He just said these two words and drove away.

He didn't want to do business with this family. Ma Jinbao didn't seem like someone who would pay. If he really agreed, it would be troublesome if he couldn't get the money back after the wheat was harvested. Of course, if Li Long really used some tricks, he could get the money back, but he didn't live in the team city and his elder brother was still in the team, so he didn't want to make things too embarrassing.

Of course, if he really cut it off and Ma Jinbao refused to pay, he would have his own way.

When Ma Chenyang heard the price of two yuan per acre of land, he immediately stopped talking.

His father managed all the money in his family. One acre of land was worth two yuan, so the thirty acres of wheat in his family was worth sixty yuan. Not to mention that his father couldn't pay, even if he did, he probably wouldn't pay.

He returned to the field dejectedly and told his wife the price. She then stopped talking and continued to harvest the wheat.

It took a little longer to mow the 35 acres of land, but Li Long was now much more skilled than in the morning and finished mowing in nearly three hours. After that, Xu Chengjun paid Li Long 70 yuan directly.

Li Long saw that the time was almost up, so he drove the tractor to his own field. Ma Chenyang watched the Xu family tying wheat quickly and leisurely, and looked at his own wheat field that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see, and wanted Li Long to harvest wheat.

Li Long drove the tractor to his own field and saw that quite a few bundles of wheat had been tied up. His father had picked up many of the bundles of wheat and put them in a pile of three or five. Now the piles of wheat in the field looked like a good harvest.

He lifted the truck bed, hung it behind the tractor, and drove it to the sheaves of wheat.

"Xiaolong, don't worry. I'll finish tying the things here and then put them on the cart. You carry them at the bottom." Li Jianguo shouted loudly from a distance.

"Brother, don't worry, I know how to arrange it." Li Long smiled, then asked his father to carry the wheat bundles up.

It’s not that he’s trying to show off, he really knows how to do it.

Of course, he didn’t know how to arrange wheat bundles before, but after all, he has lived two lives as a human being. If he had mastered this skill in his previous life, then he must have learned it now.

And he is definitely better than his eldest brother in this area. After all, his eldest brother is good at placing wheat bundles on the horse-drawn carriage, but no one in the team can place this tractor with a wooden frame better than Li Long.

Li Qingxia came over and picked up the wheat bundles on the cart. The old man knew his own limitations and knew that if the thing was not placed properly, it would tilt or fall over, which would cause big trouble.

Four bundles of wheat were put directly into the cart bed. Li Long stood on the side of the cart, took the bundles one by one, and then placed them in the appropriate positions.

By the time Li Jianguo hurried over, Li Long had already filled the upper layer of the wooden shelf.

Li Jianguo watched from below, then climbed onto the fender of the tractor to take a look. Seeing that Li Long was doing it in an orderly manner, he felt relieved.

I was just a little relieved, after all, putting the wheat bundles up next was a technical job. Previously, there was a wooden frame to restrain it, so as long as the wheat bundles were placed in the right position and did not deviate, it would be fine. But the higher it went, without the restriction of the wooden frame, the greater the test of eyesight and hand strength.

Just like a horse-drawn carriage, often at this time, the person who arranges it has laid a good foundation, and then when he adds layers on top, it usually won't go off the track.

But if the foundation is not laid well, the bottom will be a little bit off, and the top will be more and more off, one side is light and the other side is heavy, or one side is more and the other side is less. When the top layer is enough, tie the rope to the twisting stick, tighten the rope, and then move forward.

Nowadays, field roads are mainly dirt roads, so it is inevitable that there will be potholes. When a horse-drawn or donkey-drawn cart hits a few potholes, the cart will tilt, and a wheat rack that is not positioned properly may fall over.

Li Jianguo's worries were not unnecessary. After all, donkey carts and horse carts carrying wheat bundles fell on the roadside several times a year.

Donkey carts and horse carts can pull relatively little, but a tractor can pull much more. If it falls over, a lot of wheat will be lost, and the people on the cart may be in danger.

He was a little worried, but Li Long was already there, so he couldn't just call Li Long down. So he and Li Qingxia carried the wheat bundles together, jumping onto the board from time to time to look up.

Li Jianguo's expression gradually changed from solemn to relaxed.

It's okay. Watching Li Long arrange the wheat bundles in an orderly manner, one on top of the other, without any deviation on any side. He just puts them on according to the size of the shelf. Looking from the front, from the back, or from the page board, they are all square and there is a sense of beauty in them.

Li Jianguo felt relieved.

With Li Jianguo around, Li Long didn't need to get off the tractor and drive forward from time to time. When a pile of wheat bundles was loaded and moved to the next pile, Li Jianguo drove directly over.

There was a lot of wheat on the top, and Li Jianguo drove steadily at a slow speed, almost like walking. After all, there was no rope, and there were many layers of wheat on the top, so it would easily shake.

Seeing the wheat bundles on the frame getting higher and higher, and the wheat bundles in the field getting fewer and fewer, when it was almost one-third of the field, Li Long shouted from the top: "Brother, that's enough, let's load this much today. The sun is about to set, let's do it tomorrow?"

"Okay." Li Jianguo made the final decision, "After we finish loading this pile, we'll go back."

Li Long knew that a pile consisted of about three or five bundles of wheat. He was at the top and began to reduce the area for placing the bundles.

Li Jianguo did not let Li Qingxia load the last few bundles. The height of the wheat bundles plus the height of the tractor bucket was more than four meters. Li Jianguo was afraid that Li Qingxia would hurt his waist when throwing the wheat bundles up, so he stopped the tractor, picked up the wheat bundles with a wooden fork, turned his back to the tractor, and shouted:
"Hey!"

He exerted force with both arms, picked up the bundle of wheat and swung it upwards. Li Long was holding a fork above and was ready. When the bundle of wheat flew to be almost parallel to his waist, he quickly stretched out his fork and caught it.

"One more bundle!" Li Jianguo shouted from below, and then threw it up. The two brothers cooperated, and finally five bundles were brought up.

After Li Long had arranged everything, Li Jianguo took a roll of rope from the front seat of the tractor, sorted it out and threw it on.

Li Long took the rope from above and threw it to the back. Li Jianguo tied the rope tightly at the front of the truck bed, then went to the back and used two sticks to twist the rope tightly.

Li Long stepped hard on it. The tighter the rope was, the less likely the wheat bundle would fall off when pulling it back.

I understand everything I understand.

At this time, Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong had already arrived in front of the tractor.

Looking up at the tall "wheat stack", Liang Yuemei said, "We have to bring a carriage here tomorrow, and we can take it back directly. It's so troublesome to go up here——"

It was indeed troublesome. You had to stand behind the car, step on the rope-twisting handle, and pull the brake rope to climb onto the haystack.

Two people can sit in the front of the tractor, but it is impossible for both to sit down.

"Okay, let's harness the carriage here tomorrow morning." Li Jianguo thought that was indeed the case. The tractor could carry a lot, but it was also troublesome to get on.

Li Jianguo didn't let Li Long come down. He drove the tractor, Liang Yuemei sat on the side, and Chen Lirong and Li Qingxia pulled the rope to the top of the haystack.

The tractor rumbled westward, emitting black smoke.

By the time the tractor arrived at the wheat field, only the sun's red face was left on the horizon.

The threshing floor had been cleaned up long ago. The place occupied by the Li family last year had not changed this year. A large area of ​​grass there had been cleared. Li Jianguo parked the tractor on the side and prepared to unload the wheat bales.

Untie the knot, loosen it one circle at a time, and when the force is released, pull out the wand and throw the rope up. At this time, Li Qingxia and Chen Lirong had already come down. Li Long threw the rope down from the front of the car and said to the people below:
"I took it off!"

Li Jianguo responded from below, and Li Long began to carry the wheat bundles down.

If it was a horse-drawn carriage, all you had to do was untie the horse, remove the rope, and then tip the carriage back, and all the sheaves would fall down. A tractor wouldn't work, and the sheaves were several times heavier than a horse-drawn carriage, so it was more appropriate to pick up the top ones first.

By the time the wheat bales were unloaded and the tractor drove back home, it was almost dark.

Dinner was already on the table, and Li Long was a little surprised that Tao Daqiang was also there.

"I'll give you the money for harvesting the wheat. I didn't install it this morning." Tao Daqiang said.

Li Long took the 40 yuan and put it in his bag. Tao Daqiang rode back on his bicycle. They had pulled two donkey carts of wheat bundles in the afternoon and were very tired.

"We can finish the work tomorrow. Xiaolong, you can continue to harvest the wheat with the tractor, and I can thresh the field with the horse-drawn cart." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Our cart is the fastest this year. How great! How fast!"

"Hey, this iron ox is different!" Li Qingxia also sighed, "He can mow more than a hundred acres of land a day, and earn two yuan per acre. He can make a lot of money in this wheat season!"

"That also requires an iron ox and a harvester." Du Chunfang was also full of pride. She was also proud that her youngest son was doing well.

Chen Lirong didn't say anything, but she had actually already made the comparison in her heart. There was more land in the northern Xinjiang, and more food was produced, so the money earned from farming was more than in her hometown. In fact, even if she didn't become a worker, being a farmer in the village was better than being in her hometown.

The family chatted and laughed as they finished their meal, and then Li Long returned to the front yard. Although the tractor was not very affected when harvesting wheat, he was still pricked by wheat awns when bundling wheat, and he was also very tired, so he planned to rest early.

The next day after breakfast, Li Jianguo and his men drove the horse-drawn carriage to the fields, while Li Long went to harvest wheat for Lu Yingming, Xie Yundong and others. He also brought a small notebook and a fountain pen to take notes. Some families would pay on the spot, while others might ask for credit, so he wrote it down first.

Lu Yingming and Xie Yundong's families together had 60 mu of wheat, and they finished the work in one morning. Both families paid in cash.

After harvesting, Li Long pulled the cart to his own field to load wheat. He brought back a cart and went to Jia Weidong's house to harvest wheat in the afternoon. After harvesting, he went to harvest the wheat at his father-in-law Gu Boyuan's house.

Gu Boyuan didn't plant much, only ten acres of wheat, mainly to pay the public tax and keep for his family. Li Long finished harvesting in less than an hour, and then asked Gu Boyuan to bundle the wheat slowly, and Li Jianguo and others would come to help tomorrow.

"What help do you need? I can't even tie up ten acres of land by myself? Just come and help me pull it back when you are free." Gu Boyuan didn't bother to be polite with Li Long. There was no need to tie it up, but he still had to pull it.

That night, many people in the village came to Li's house and began to make reservations to use Li Long's harvester to help harvest wheat.

We had inquired about it in advance, two plots for one acre of land. It might be a bit expensive, but it really saves time and effort. The Tao family and the Xu family harvested the wheat the day before, and today they have all brought it back. The Xu family has already started threshing. How fast!

That night, eight families came to Li's house to make reservations, and the total land area was more than 100 acres.

Li Longming explained the order of harvesting. The people who came calculated and found out that it would be tomorrow, so it didn't matter if it was earlier or later, so they had no objections.

After these people left, Li Jianguo said to Li Long:

"Don't bother pulling the remaining wheat in the field. I'll take it back with my horse-drawn cart. Just harvest your wheat. This harvester is not cheap. Now that we can make money, we should hurry up and make money."

"That's right." Liang Yuemei also said, "There are horse-drawn carriages for threshing. Tietou's wheat has been brought back. Tomorrow, the remaining horse-drawn carriages will be brought back. You don't have to worry about threshing. Just make money."

Li Long nodded. In fact, someone wanted Li Long's tractor to help pull wheat bundles today, and asked him to bid. Li Long said he would consider it. In fact, he couldn't set a price. If he set a price too high, people would not pay. If he set a price too low, it would not be worth it. After all, loading wheat bundles is time-consuming and laborious. Wouldn't it be better to harvest a few more acres of land with this time?

He planned to charge 15 yuan per truck if someone asked for it tomorrow. After all, it takes at least an hour to load and haul the truck. He could harvest more than 10 mu of land in an hour and earn more than 20 yuan.

At present, my plan to make money with the harvester has basically been implemented. In just the past two days, I have almost recovered the cost of the harvester, and from now on it will basically be pure profit.

So far, there is nothing wrong with the harvester, and I hope it will continue to be so.

If it can be connected later, it should not be a problem to earn enough money to buy a tractor in one harvest season.

He didn't expect that someone would try to take advantage of him the next day.

Of course, it’s not that easy.

The next morning, Li Long followed the instructions in his notebook and drove his tractor with a harvester to find people to harvest the land - he didn't know the plot of land, so he could only follow what they did.

The first one is the Tie Lao Gang in the team, Ma Jinbao’s in-laws.

After harvesting the wheat, Tie Laobang told Li Longming directly:
"My family has no money."

PS: I have some things to do at home, and I am exhausted. Please rest assured that I have not yet planned to change it to one chapter. I still hope to maintain two chapters and 10,000 words a day. After all, everyone likes to read it, and I can make some money, killing two birds with one stone. I just had something to do later today, but I finally got this chapter out. Okay, I won’t complain anymore, and everyone doesn’t like to hear it. I just want to say that I will try my best to update. (End of this chapter)