Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Wei Tianxing came here with only one purpose, which was to ask Li Jianguo to persuade Li Long, or to ask Li Jianguo to tell Li Long to sell the harvester to him.

"Old Li, you know the truth without me having to explain it to you. The rafters that stick out get rotten first. Your Li Long, or your family, has actually become very famous.

Last year, the handles, brooms, and reed handles were all made by your Li Long, right? He made a lot of money, right? Do you know how many people are talking about your family behind your back? "

Li Jianguo said with a smile:

"What? They won't let our family make money? What did they say?"

"Your family is eating all the food for itself." Wei Tianxing slapped his thigh and said loudly, "It's fine to make money, but we can't let your Li family take all the good things!"

Li Jianguo looked at Wei Tianxing as if he were a fool, then walked over, patted him on the shoulder, pointed outside and said:

"Old Wei, let's go and talk outside. There are elderly people in the yard, don't scare them."

Wei Tianxing thought that his words had shocked Li Jianguo, and he was quite proud of himself. He followed Li Jianguo's momentum and walked out of the yard, saying as he walked:
"Old Li, I'm really saying this for your own good. Do you know that if this happened a few years ago, the people would have been arrested and put under a fence, or even shot at..."

In fact, when Wei Tianxing drove over on his tractor in a domineering manner, the Li family was quite happy.

Having guests visiting is usually a happy thing in this year.

In those days, there were no mobile phones, no high-speed trains, and ordinary people could not take airplanes. When you were far away from home, the most you could do was write letters, after all, telegrams were too expensive. Even if you were only 100 or 200 kilometers away from your relatives, you might only see them once every six months or a year.

Therefore, when a guest comes in, it is usually considered a good thing and they are greeted with a smile and treated with sincerity.

But Li Jianguo didn't expect that the guest was such a bad one.

Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang were in the yard. They had finished their work in the wheat field so they came back early to prepare meals.

The man who came was a tractor driver, whose identity was usually not ordinary. The two old men actually thought he came to discuss business with Li Long, and he was also acquainted with Li Jianguo, so they greeted him with smiles.

As soon as these words were spoken, not only Li Jianguo, but even Li Qingxia realized that something was wrong.

Although Du Chunfang often nags, he is not stupid and he has already cursed at this time.

Li Jianguo sent Wei Tianxing outside and continued to listen to him talking with saliva flying:

"In fact, it doesn't matter whether you make a lot or a little money. The best way is to make a fortune quietly! Look, I bought a tractor, who knows about it? No one knows much, right?
I didn't spread the word, right? We have our own money, but if everyone knows about it, it will definitely cause trouble, right? There are many people who are jealous of others' money these days. They won't say it openly, but they will do something bad to you in private, and you won't be able to find the reason!"

Li Jianguo listened to these half-persuasion, half-threatening words and asked with a smile:
"Then you mean..."

"Look, your Li Long got a harvester. I came here just to buy it. I told your Li Long that I won't take advantage of him. He bought this harvester for 500 yuan, and he has made a lot of money in the past few days. I'm selling it for 350 yuan, so he won't suffer any loss. I can harvest wheat in our area and help him share some of his reputation and give him a break."

Li Jianguo knew that Li Long bought the harvester for 200 yuan. If he really wanted to sell it to Wei Tianxing, it would not be impossible. After all, at half the price, anyone would think they had made a profit.

But the problem is that there is only one harvester of this type at present, and the other one is still a prototype, which is not as easy to use as this one. The Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory does not plan to manufacture any more and is just waiting for the data provided by Li Long.

In fact, Li Jianguo also thought of it. They were probably not only waiting for the data, but also waiting for Li Long to put up an advertisement.

After all, someone would definitely ask Li Long where this harvester was made. If the harvesting efficiency is good, someone would definitely want to buy it.

Coming back to the point, since there is no stock left, this harvester is the only one of its kind. Li Long would not sell it even for a thousand, let alone three hundred and fifty.

Is there any business more profitable than monopoly business?
Most likely not.

Seeing that Wei Tianxing could talk about such a shameless thing so refreshingly, Li Jianguo thought for the first time that he never expected this person to be so shameless.

Of course, it doesn’t matter. We are not of the same kind. Why don’t we go hunting when we hear dogs barking?
As for what Wei Tianxing said about the protruding rafters being the first to rot, Li Jianguo was not without concerns.

Since last year, Li Long went into the mountains once to fish and make money, and then he expanded his business, making fishing rods, big brooms, and reed rods. At least in the fourth team, Li Long was the most popular and made a lot of money.

It's impossible to say that I'm not jealous.

But most people rely on Li Long to make extra money, so at least they won't keep it in mind openly. Not only that, they will also take the initiative to get close to the Li family.

After all, it is good to put it in a more popular way.

Moreover, Li Long was extremely fair in doing these big jobs. As long as the quality was good and the quantity was large, you would get more money. He was fair to everyone. Everyone got the real money, and naturally they were grateful in their hearts.

Li Jianguo also talked to Li Long about this matter.

Li Long said, "If you are not envied, you are a mediocre person. Since you have the ability to make money, why not make it? We don't steal or rob, we make money based on our ability, with integrity."

Moreover, the current national policy is to encourage everyone to make money legally, and the previous situation will not happen again.

So, just live your own life well.

Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan had talked to Xu Chengjun and had also observed the situation themselves. In fact, they were a little worried about it.

But when I learned that Li Long was reported in the autonomous region's newspaper, was commended by the autonomous region, and took photos with the leaders of the autonomous region, I felt relieved.

Now listening to Wei Tianxing talking nonsense here to cover up his little thoughts, Li Jianguo found it quite funny, just like watching a monkey show.

The monkey didn't realize that he was performing so hard just to make the audience laugh.

Li Jianguo originally wanted to interrupt Wei Tianxing, but he didn't expect Li Long to come back.

"Old Li, I've told you everything I need to say. You can figure it out for yourself whether it makes sense or not." Seeing Li Long coming over, Wei Tianxing stopped talking. He knew that young people were usually more stubborn, and he was afraid that saying too much would backfire.

"No need to say anything," Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Li Long has already rejected you, right? He doesn't want to sell the harvester, right? He is my brother, so I naturally support his decision. Okay, it's noon, you should go home too."

This is chasing customers away.

Wei Tianxing was stunned for a moment. Is he so stingy?

When he entered the yard just now, Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong were preparing to cook. The ingredients were ready, and Wei Tianxing clearly saw a whole plate of cut meat... This meal is not bad!
Wei Tianxing was certain that he had arrived at the right time and that there was a seat for him at the dinner table.

In this day and age, when ordinary people have guests, they will definitely offer the best food. People like Wei Tianxing who come at mealtime will generally not be driven away. Usually, the guests are invited to take a seat and then eat. As for the lack of food, the hostess usually can only fill the back hall with leftovers from breakfast or other things, and make sure that the guests are well fed.

So Wei Tianxing had actually prepared himself for a meal after the talk. Whether the talk was successful or not was another matter. Of course, it would be great if he could convince Li Jianguo, killing two birds with one stone. If he couldn't convince him, then he would just eat and leave, not losing anything, and even earning a good meal.

It sounds nice to say it out loud.

But what I didn’t expect was that after the meal was ready, Li Jianguo actually kicked us out.

Wei Tianxing was a tractor owner after all, and he considered himself to be of high status, so he didn't want to force me to stay for dinner. He angrily took the crank and tried to start the tractor.

However, whether it was because he didn't have enough strength or some other reason, he tried shaking the wheel three times but failed. Wei Tianxing was panting as he held the handle, and then he watched Li Long driving the tractor towards him.

Wei Tianxing was used to being strong, and the tractor was parked in the wrong place, directly blocking Li Jianguo's door. It was still quite rare to have a tractor these days, so other people had no objection and just watched the fun.

Li Long looked very angry. How could someone block the door with a car?

Seeing that Wei Tianxing was holding the crank without moving, he stopped the tractor without turning off the engine, walked up to Wei Tianxing, grabbed the crank, plugged it in, pressed the pressure relief button, started cranking, and then stuffed the crank into Wei Tianxing's hand. As he turned around and walked back, he threw a sentence:

"You didn't eat, did you? Is that all the energy you have?"

Wei Tianxing was furious!

You're just pointing out my pain points, aren't you? I didn't eat much in the morning, and my stomach growled when I smelled the delicious food. And you just had to point out this!
The tractor started, and now there was no reason to stay. Wei Tianxing got on the car angrily, and then quickly lowered the accelerator. Just now, Li Long had pushed the accelerator to the maximum when he was driving the car. Now the tractor was emitting black smoke, which made Wei Tianxing very distressed. This liter of oil cost several cents!
The tractor drove away. Li Long could tell that it was in second gear. Didn't this guy know that second gear actually consumes a lot of fuel?
You can tell at first glance that he’s a newbie… It doesn’t matter, he’s not a good person anyway.

After driving the tractor into the yard and turning off the engine, Li Long was about to wash his hands when he heard his mother Du Chunfang muttering and cursing:

"You bastard, you want to take advantage of me and you have the nerve to come to the yard and say that. If I had known, I would have hit him with a stick and broken his legs..."

After listening for a while, Li Long knew that the old lady was scolding Wei Tianxing. He smiled and went over to persuade the old lady:

"Don't worry about him, mother. You can only talk about things like this. Who knows how much money he borrowed to buy that tractor.

Such people can never become rich, and they can never achieve anything. Don't bother with them. It's not worth it to bother with them. By the way, mom, I want to eat fried eggs with cowpeas and chili in the afternoon. Can you pick some cowpeas while we work in the afternoon?"

"Yes, yes, yes," Du Chunfang's attention was immediately diverted to her youngest son. She grinned and said, "I like that, too. I don't eat much, but I just want to taste that flavor. Yes, I'll go pick cowpeas after lunch..."

Li Qingxia watched and laughed at the side, and his wife still listened to her youngest son.

Who made the youngest son strive for success?

Of course, the eldest son also worked hard, and the second son also worked hard. Hey! If this happened in my hometown, wouldn't they be able to walk sideways? Who else has this ability? The eldest son is a good farmer and has a lot of prestige in the village. The second son is a worker, and the youngest son doesn't even look down on workers. He earns money on his own and buys a tractor!

Who in my hometown village has this ability?
Everyone else in the yard was basically smiling. Li Long was the only one who could persuade the old lady, and they were happy to see it happen. In fact, it was okay for Du Chunfang to keep nagging, because now she was not talking about her family, but about outsiders, the relatives in her hometown.

After all, everyone in the family is doing well now, and even Li Juan and Li Qiang's grades are constantly improving. As their family's living conditions improve, they grow up and become more confident, and then they want to excel in their studies. With initiative, their grades naturally have room for improvement.

At noon, we had rice, stir-fried meat with chili peppers, and stir-fried meat with sword beans. The soup was the rice soup left over from the simmered rice.

Everyone was hungry, so they ate up everything in no time.

Except for the old lady, of course.

Du Chunfang's special bowl contained half a spoonful of rice, which was two mouthfuls according to Li Long's appetite. On top of it were a few pieces of meat and a little bit of vegetables.

The old lady only has such a big appetite and she doesn't like to eat vegetables. When I serve her some vegetables, she says "enough, enough", and if it's meat, she can eat two more pieces.

The main reason is that there is meat at home now. Li Long remembers that when he first came, he would pick up some meat for her, and she would put it back into her own bowl - at that time, her heart was really set on Daheyan, after all, there were two children at the table, so she would pick up some meat and put it into her own bowl.

At that time, Li Long was embarrassed...

Well, actually, you can understand my bias.

Anyway, our family conditions are good now, so we can eat whatever we want.

"I think Mr. Gu's wheat has almost been bundled. I'll go over there in the afternoon to hitch a horse-drawn cart and help him pull the wheat back," said Li Jianguo while eating.

"Do you want me to go?" Liang Yuemei asked.

"No need, you and Xue Ping's mother can just stay on our field."

The default practice in the threshing field is that each family will send two people to thresh the wheat together. If you can send more people to thresh the wheat for your own family, that is normal.

After dinner, Du Chunfang walked towards the vegetable garden. She still remembered the vegetables that Li Long had mentioned for the afternoon meal, so she had to pick and wash them and prepare to fry them in the afternoon.

Li Long went to the front yard to rest for a while, and then continued to drive the tractor and harvester to work.

In the afternoon, we went to Niu Baoguo’s home in the team.

Niu Baoguo was born in 1930 and is now in his 50s. He is rather stubborn and methodical. Li Long rarely meets such people, but he feels that dealing with them is quite interesting.

When they arrived at the field, Niu Baoguo and his wife were already there. When Li Long got off the tractor, he spoke first:

"Xiaolong, I'll let you harvest my land, but let me make something clear first. First, whatever comes out of this land belongs to me."

"That's what I should do." Li Long listened and responded with a smile.

The Niu family has average relations with other families, and they don’t have any particularly good friends in the team, and they even have few contacts with relatives.

Those who can talk about this family all say that this family is "independent". They seldom interact with others and almost never owe favors to others. Other families also rarely owe them favors - usually the favors will be taken back by the Niu family immediately or as soon as possible.

Today, for the first time, I felt it.

"Second, are you going to have dinner at my house?"

"Not here." Li Long shook his head.

"Well, if you don't want to eat, my family has prepared some toasted bread slices and some vegetables for you. If you get hungry later, you can eat them in the field. There's also water. We're hygienic, so we've prepared a bowl for you. Just pour the water from the kettle into the bowl when you drink."

"Okay." Li Long smiled.

"Third, my family plans to pay with wheat. I remember you told others that one acre of land will yield 15 kilograms of wheat. Is this price based on the selling price of wheat last year?"

"Yes. I calculated it at 1.5 yuan per kilogram, and 15 kilograms is 2.25 yuan. The extra 25 yuan is the cost of reselling the wheat." Li Long rarely explained.

After listening to Li Long's explanation, Niu Baoguo's eyes became a little strange. At that moment, Li Long felt that Niu Baoguo should regard him as the same kind of person as him.

"Okay, then in a few days, when the wheat is threshed, I'll deliver it to your house. After all, it was you who drove the tractor to my field, so it's my turn to deliver the wheat."

"Okay." Li Long didn't refuse.

He was waiting to hear what Niu Baoguo had to say next.

"Also, try to harvest as cleanly as possible. We can understand if you can't harvest the edges and corners, but the crops in the main row must be harvested cleanly. Otherwise, it will be troublesome to clean up later. The grain cannot be wasted!"

"I know that!" Li Long's expression became serious when he heard this. Food cannot be wasted. The older generation all have this awareness. After all, they have experienced more famine times than we have heard of.

So Li Long has nothing but respect for this idea.

After Niu Baoguo finished speaking, Li Long asked:
"Uncle Niu, have all the stalks in the field been leveled?"

"After leveling, we'll wait for harvesting. After you harvest, we'll deal with the edges and corners, then bundle them. We'll start pulling them tomorrow, and we'll be able to thresh them tomorrow afternoon. In three to five days, the wheat will be ready for winnowing."

Niu Baoguo explained it very clearly, and Li Long drove the tractor into the field.

Niu Baoguo was quite worried at first, after all, he saw Li Long driving very fast. But after following the tractor for a while, he saw that Li Long was mowing very steadily, with each ridge being exactly the right amount, and the tractor just mowed them all and placed them neatly on the side when he was done. He felt relieved.

Turning back to the field, he began to prepare reeds to bundle the wheat.

When Li Long was over a hundred meters around for the second time, the harvester suddenly made a strange noise, and then a wild duck jumped out from the front of the tractor, with blood on its wings and half of its wings knocked off by the harvester.

At this moment, Li Long understood why Niu Baoguo said that everything produced from the land belonged to him.

Niu Baoguo, who was bundling wheat, also heard the noise. When he saw it was a duck, he immediately ran over and pinned the duck to the ground while it was trying to escape.

Quite fat.

Okay, we have the meat for the extra meal. (End of this chapter)