Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

When Li Long was making the harvester, he had already taken precautions against the Tie Lao Gang.
We are all from the same village. If someone is really being disloyal and doesn't want to give, to be honest, it would be difficult to deal with if he is soft-hearted.

But Li Long was not like that. He knew that if Tie Laobang refused to accept the money, or if the problem was not solved, he would encounter many similar situations in the future, and he would have to give up his business of making money by harvesting wheat with a harvester.

"No money? It's okay if you don't have money." Li Long smiled, "If you don't have money, you can give it to me after you sell the wheat."

"But my family has already planned to pay back the money to the team." Tie Laobang said bitterly, "How about you wait a little longer and give it to me when I have money? Don't worry, I'll write you a note and pay you back when the time comes!"

Li Long listened and laughed.

He recalled an incident that happened in later life.

In fact, the villagers in the fourth team are generally quite law-abiding. Of course, the cadres in the team also basically abide by the rules in their work. From Xu Chengjun now until his replacement in 20 years, generally speaking, whether it is applying for subsistence allowances or various subsidies, they basically will not take away the farmers' money.

Farmers basically just look for fish and shrimps, and if they are not of the same kind, they usually don't interact much.

This Tie Lao Bangjia is the kind of person who seems to be a decent person, but he has the cunningness of a farmer but not the simplicity of a farmer.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to marry someone like Ma Jinbao.

There is one thing Li Long always remembers.

Thirty years later, the village took on a project from the autonomous region to carry out drip irrigation transformation. The villagers did not have to pay for it, and all the basic costs were included in the project funds. The entire 8,000 mu of land in the village was converted into water-saving irrigation fields.

As soon as this project came out, the village director at that time immediately spotted the business opportunity and asked his relative, a young man, to open a drip irrigation tape factory. There was a rigid demand for this thing, and the capital was recovered in the first year and a lot of profit was made. After all, they were not familiar with it. In the second year, the production was expanded, and the net profit was over one million in one year. In the third year, the output value was over ten million.

The young man was a little overwhelmed by the money he earned, but he was grateful and thanked the villagers who had been kind to him.
He would give money to anyone in the village who asked him to borrow money, and the amounts were always tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

In the last two years, more people opened drip irrigation tape factories, and competition became fierce, making money difficult. The young man needed to replace new equipment, and capital turnover was difficult. He needed to recover the money he had lent. Some people paid it back, but some people just dragged their feet and refused to pay it back.

Tie Jinhu, the son of Tie Laobang, is one of those who did not pay back. He borrowed quite a bit, about 300,000 or 400,000 yuan.

He refused to pay back, and the young man couldn't do anything about it, so he had to find a way out on his own, such as taking out a loan. Then he became unwell after drinking one day, and never recovered in the hotel, and was gone.

Normally in this situation, the debt cannot be repaid even after the person dies, but the young man's family is still alive, so the money owed should be repaid to their family.

Tie Jinhu never mentioned this matter in the following years. At that time, the young man was too soft-hearted to lend money to others, and he did not take the initiative to ask for an IOU, so there was no evidence for this matter.

But everyone in the village knew that sometimes when Tie Laobang was drunk he would talk about it himself, and he was not ashamed of it but proud of it.

Can such a person be trusted?

So after listening to his words, Li Long smiled and said:

"Don't bother. Your family is broke, so I don't need you to pay me. I'll go to your field to harvest the wheat. Either you pay me two yuan per mu, or you give me fifteen kilograms of wheat. I'll take three hundred kilograms of wheat from your twenty mu of land, and we'll be even. Of course, if you don't think it's possible, I can just take the sunflowers or corn when they're harvested."

"Xiao Long, this is not the way to do things. I didn't say I wouldn't pay you. I just asked you to wait a while..." Tie Laobang's face changed when he heard what Li Long said. "Are you forcing me to buy and sell?"

"Hey, Lao Tie, are you planning to turn the tables?" Tie Lao Bang is older than Li Jianguo and younger than Li Qingxia. Normally, Li Long would have to call him brother or uncle, but this guy was disrespectful to the elderly, so Li Long didn't give him face and sneered and said:

"Yesterday you came to me and asked me to help you harvest the wheat. I asked for two dollars and you accepted it. Now that the wheat has been harvested you say you don't have money and you want to use something else to pay for it, but you're unwilling to do so. Do you think I, Li Long, am easy to talk to?
I'm really telling you the truth. There are only two choices, either take the money or give me the wheat. Don't say more, it's useless. Okay, put away your thoughts. I'm young but that doesn't mean I'm stupid. If you really want to cheat, I'll drive a tractor around your field. I don't want the wheat or the money. Do you dare to let me do it?"

After Li Long said this, Tie Laobang was silent. Now that the wheat had been harvested, if Li Long really drove the tractor around the field and pressed over the wheat ears, at least several hundred kilograms of wheat grains would fall to the ground and could not be picked up!

He wouldn't dare!

Seeing that Tie Laobang was scared, Li Long sneered and drove away on the tractor. Making money was the important thing, and it was just a waste of words to say so much here.

Tie Lao Gang was very angry. This Li family kid didn't follow the routine!

Of course, he looked at Li Long with the old perspective. If it were Li Long two years ago, he might have been fooled by him, but now Li Long is no longer the warm-hearted man he used to be.

Fortunately, there is only one person like Tie Laobang. Those who want Li Long to use the harvester to harvest wheat on the following day have to prepare the money and pay it after the harvest.

The team had only been harvesting wheat for two days when Li Long received a job from outside the team. This time it was an acquaintance, Tao Daqiang, who came to Li Long and wanted him to help harvest the wheat at Yang Pingping's mother's home in the third team.

"This year, their family planted a lot of wheat. They planted wheat on the 40 mu of land they contracted and their own 10 mu of food-grain land. They also planted a little sunflower and corn. With just a few people in the family, they couldn't harvest all the crops." Tao Daqiang said:

"I'm busy with my fight and don't have time to help. Brother Long, if you have time, go over and cut the pieces. I'll give you the money directly."

"Okay." Li Long would not refuse business. He could harvest 50 mu of crops in half a day and earn 100 yuan. It was quite fun to make money this way.

Now the wheat in the team is queued for three days later. Li Long did not allow anyone to jump the queue. He wrote it down in his notebook and said to Tao Daqiang:
"Tomorrow afternoon, I was planning to thresh the field for my family after I finished mowing it tomorrow afternoon. In that case, I'll go over to your father-in-law's house and mow it.

I still say that, let's level the stalks in the field in advance, otherwise my harvester will not be able to harvest halfway through the field, which will waste time."

This kind of thing happened in the past two days. Someone in the team asked Li Long to help them harvest wheat, so Li Long asked the other party to level the stalks in the field in advance, otherwise the harvester would not be able to harvest the wheat when passing through the stalks and would crush the wheat.

As a result, some people turned a deaf ear to this and didn't pay any attention. When Li Long was harvesting, he encountered two stalks, which made him so angry that he lost his temper. Others could only smile and quickly smooth out the stalks.

Some people are bad, some are lazy, and some are the kind often mentioned on the Internet in the previous life, with low IQ, but thanks to socialism they were born well and grew up safely.

No one could survive in the old society.

You don't understand what people say.

Tao Daqiang naturally knew what to do and what not to do, so he quickly agreed and rode his bicycle to tell his father-in-law.

Li Long followed the routine and drove the tractor to harvest wheat every day. Many families in the team simply did not harvest the wheat, but waited for Li Long to harvest and bundle it.

Everyone knows that harvesting wheat is hard work. Because of the big jobs that Li Long did last year and this year, and because they have a larger area of ​​land, the people in the team are relatively richer than people in other villages.

Therefore, the harvesting fee of two yuan per acre is not expensive to them. It can save a lot of time and not be so hard. Why not do it?

Only some old people scolded the children and relatives who used the harvesters as prodigals, saying that they started to think about being lazy after just a few days of eating full meals. Just think about how hard they worked in the past.

When Li Jianguo heard this, he started to curse in the wheat field:
"It's been a blast! We built this team, we dug the land, we dug the well. We dug the first dugout, and we even dug the field ridges and farm canals.

Although these old guys are old, most of them came late. Why do they work so hard? Do they have so much land in their hometown? Do they need to work hard on that one acre of land? It's not like they are embroidering on it! They are all taking advantage of their age. Do you dare to say these things in front of me? "Of course they don't dare. After all, Li Jianguo is a real veteran of the team. Those who built the village have a good relationship with him. Knowing that Li Long is making a harvester, these people are also willing to help.

They are the real pioneers in village construction, so they are very clear about how much land the team has and how much land can be reclaimed. They also understand very well that mechanized farming will be the general trend in the future. Otherwise, with more than 300 people in the team, they have to cultivate thousands of acres of land purely by hand. Wouldn't that be exhausting?
Those who cannot see through this point are old-fashioned. They will gradually fail to keep up with the times and can only follow behind to pick up what others have left. Anyway, they will never be able to make a lot of money because they don't have the sensitivity.

The next afternoon, when Li Long went to harvest wheat for Yang Pingping's parents, Jiang Zhiyu, the township propaganda officer, rode a bicycle to catch up with him. She went to the fourth team first, found Li's family, and learned that Li Long went to the third team's Yang's family to harvest wheat, so she rushed to Yang's family, and then was taken to the field by Yang Pingping's mother.

Yang Pingping's father Yang Yong and elder brother Yang Xinping were preparing to bundle wheat in the field. Here, Li Long had already harvested seven or eight acres, and the tractor was constantly going back and forth in the field to harvest.

When other families in the nearby three teams were harvesting wheat by hand in the wheat fields, they would occasionally straighten up and watch in curiosity.

After all, this thing is really new and has never been seen before. Kang Maiying and his team have seen more advanced combine harvesters, but have rarely used them. This harvester is smaller than that one and feels more user-friendly.

Jiang Zhiyu took the initiative to apply for an interview with the village. She regretted it very much when Li Long's story of ethnic unity was published in the newspaper. He was obviously from her village, so why didn't she grasp this point and dig deeper?
After all, when she had been interviewing Li Long about his special breeding, Li Long had actually mentioned his relationship with his herdsmen brothers in the mountains.

However, Jiang Zhiyu did not pay much attention to it at that time - the National Unity Education Month was launched in the first year last year, and she did not pay enough attention to it and ignored the matter. It was not until Li Long was reported in the newspaper and commended by the county and autonomous region that Jiang Zhiyu felt a little regretful.

So when the wheat harvest started, she learned that Li Long had a harvester to harvest wheat, so she immediately applied to the township and came down to interview him.

The Yang family's fifty acres of wheat fields were not in one place, one side was thirty-five acres, the other side was fifteen acres. Team Three did not have as much land as Team Four, but it was still a lot in the whole township, now more than a thousand acres, and there was still a lot to be reclaimed.

Li Long is now harvesting 15 acres of land. Jiang Zhiyu came and waited for less than half an hour, and Li Long finished harvesting the land and was ready to move to another field.

Jiang Zhiyu stopped him.

Li Long had only met Jiang Zhiyu once, so he didn't want to lose face for the township propaganda officer. He stopped to refill the tractor with water and oil and take a break.

At this time, someone from the nearby wheat field came over to ask about the harvesting price of the harvester.

"Two yuan per mu, you can pay me, or you can use wheat to replace the wheat when it's harvested." Li Long now knows how to adapt. "Either two yuan per mu, or 15 kilograms of wheat, whatever you choose."

"Not expensive." Jiang Zhiyu nodded and made a note in his notebook.

"Can you give me a discount?" The man glanced at Jiang Zhiyu, then looked at Li Long, "I am a comrade-in-arms with your village captain Xu Chengjun. We were a group of soldiers there. I'll give you a discount for your sake."

"Sorry, it's already very cheap." Li Long waved his hand, "This uncle Yang's son-in-law is my best friend, I didn't give him any discount, everyone has the same price, no negotiation."

The man thought about it and said, "Okay, I have thirty acres of land here. When can I harvest it?"

"The day after tomorrow." Li Long took out a small notebook and said, "People in our village are also queuing up now. If you can accept circumcision the day after tomorrow, I will write it down. If not, you can circumcise yourself."

"The day after tomorrow..." The man looked at his own land, cut off a piece of land, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, the day after tomorrow is the day after tomorrow, you can definitely come the day after tomorrow, right?"

"Sure." Li Long smiled and started to register. "Brother, what's your name? Do you want me to write it for you? This is the land right here, right? Since we're going to harvest it, we need to level the stalks in the land in advance, otherwise the tractor won't be able to pass through and crush the wheat, which is yours to waste."

"Okay, I got it. My name is Chai Jinbao." The man wrote down his name and went to ask people to level the stalks. His family had a lot of land, but there were only two laborers. If they cut the land manually, they wouldn't be able to finish it the day after tomorrow, so it would be better to wait.

Jiang Zhiyu continued the interview only after the man left.

"Why did you come up with this harvester?" Jiang Zhiyu wanted to start from the beginning. "Where is this harvester made? I've never seen one here."

"I designed it." Li Long did not hide it and said directly, "I told the Shicheng Tractor Factory about the design of the harvester, but they were not interested. So I found another agricultural machinery factory to produce it. The director of that factory was knowledgeable about technology. After listening to my design ideas, he thought it was feasible and produced it."

"You can actually design farm tools?" Jiang Zhiyu felt like he had unearthed a new piece of news treasure. "Apart from this, what else have you designed?"

"There is a seeding device, which has been produced. This one is small and has a limited application range. It is only suitable for home use, but it cannot be popularized in the field." Li Long described it, and Jiang Zhiyu immediately understood. After all, she had also lived in the countryside and understood it.

Jiang Zhiyu immediately threw out questions one after another, mainly hoping to portray Li Long as a young man who takes the lead in getting rich, has a quick mind, accepts new ideas quickly, and has ideas about mechanized agricultural planting.

During the conversation, after learning that the Li family also planted economic crops such as melons, Jiang Zhiyu felt that he had come to the right place.

Li Long still needed to harvest, so she rode her bicycle to the fourth team. She planned not to report the planting of melons until the harvest. Planting cash crops was still a rare thing at that time.

After all, after the land was distributed and production quotas were assigned to each household, the first thing everyone had to do after the land was to grow crops. Because people used to eat more coarse grains, who wouldn't want everyone in the family to eat fine grains now?
Planting cash crops is risky as there is no guarantee that anyone will harvest them. Also, not many people dare to plant them as they have no experience.

The Li family is the first in the entire village.

Jiang Zhiyu has already determined that when this news is released, it should have no problem being published in the autonomous region’s daily newspaper, and it will definitely be published in the state newspaper.

After all, the government is calling on everyone to focus on economic development and work hard to get rich. It is not easy for rural areas to get rich just by growing food. On the contrary, if you grow cash crops correctly and have a suitable market, it is relatively easy to get rich.

Jiang Zhiyu originally wanted to interview Li Long and write a short report on the mechanization of summer harvest. Now it seems that he needs to think about it carefully, collect more materials, and write on the theme of helping farmers get rich.

Li Long didn't care about that. He collected the records of two more people here, and then went to divide another piece of land for the Yang family.

After harvesting 50 mu of land, Yang Xinping gave Li Long 100 yuan, which surprised Li Long. Yang Xinping said to Li Long:
"Did Daqiang say that he should pay for it? Tell him that Pingping is married into his family and is now a member of his family. We all know that he takes care of us, but he doesn't have to pay for the wheat harvest. They just need to live their own lives."

This hundred yuan bill is not ten big unity bills. There are only three big unity bills, the rest are five yuan, two yuan, and one yuan bills, and finally there is a stack of dimes.

I don’t know how long he had been saving it, but Li Long hesitated for a moment and finally accepted it.

This is a matter of men's dignity, and it would be inappropriate not to accept it. As for how Tao Daqiang subsidizes his father-in-law's family, that is another matter.

The sun had actually set when Li Long finished mowing the field. When he was driving back to the team, he ran into Jiang Zhiyu who was riding back on a bicycle.

"Secretary Jiang, are you going back to your hometown now? Is it safe?"

Jiang Zhiyu was actually a little worried, but he got carried away during the interview and ignored the issue of time.

Seeing that Jiang Zhiyu didn't say anything, Li Long sighed and said:

"Come on, I'll drive you a little way on the tractor, you don't have to ride too fast."

She came here specifically to interview me, and I couldn't just let a little girl walk alone at night when it got dark.

Even if there are no bad guys, you may still encounter wolves. It's hard to say. (End of this chapter)