Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In the interval of wheat harvesting, Li Long went to see the yard. He felt it was pretty good, especially because the storefront was well tidied. It should be used for selling goods, so it only needed simple decoration before it could be used.

The total price of the yard was 450 yuan. Although it was smaller than Sister Yang's yard, the location was good, and the price of yards in the county was indeed rising, so it was not bad after calculation, so Li Long bought it.

The owner of the house had two courtyards in the county. Something happened at home, so he sold one of them and moved some things out. Li Long thought it would be a good idea to move them all out. When he went to the brigade to harvest wheat, he passed by the woodworking factory in the township and asked them to make a set of furniture.

Small courtyards are often inhabited, so they basically don't need to be renovated. But people may take away furniture and other things, which is normal, so they need to be supplemented.

The courtyard of the Gu family in the team must be preserved. Li Long did not think of asking Gu Boyuan to move the furniture there. Firstly, it was not suitable, and secondly, it was unnecessary.

The furniture in the yard was also collected bit by bit by Gu Boyuan. There were all kinds of furniture, similar to those in Li Jianguo's yard. The octagonal table and stools were not matched.

Not only did they have to make furniture, they also had to make some cabinets for display in the store. Li Long had seen this before, so he could easily design it.

We don't have time to go to the mountains to fetch wood right now, but there is wood in the carpenter's shop anyway. We can let them do the work, including the materials and labor. They are quite happy.

After it's done, we'll pull it to the yard over there and set it up, and then the next step is to apply for a license and stuff like that.

This kind of work is actually quite easy to do right now. Gu Xiaoxia is not that busy, so she can take care of things. With a public identity, some things are easier to handle. Li Long also contacted Li Xiangqian, and then asked his friends in the industrial and commercial department for help, so the license was easily obtained.

The next step is to purchase goods.

Since you want to get a lower price than the county agricultural supplies company, you cannot purchase goods from the county. It is best to purchase directly from Wucheng or Youcheng, so that you can get a lower price.

This cannot be rushed.

Li Long originally planned to resolve this matter when the wheat harvest was finished, but after Gu Boyuan knew that the storefront had been selected, he simply came to the county and took charge of the matter himself.

"Since I'm the one who'll be in charge of the store later, I'll be in charge of the purchasing. You guys can do everything, and I'll just be a door god, right?" Gu Boyuan didn't know whether he was motivated by Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia, or if he really wanted to make some moves, so he went to Wucheng with some money.

He returned from Wucheng two days later with a batch of seeds and pesticides, as well as authorization from a seed company under the Wucheng Agriculture Department.

Next, Gu Boyuan went to Wucheng again. At that time, the Beijiang Fertilizer Factory had been established for more than ten years. It produced synthetic ammonia, urea, ammonium nitrate and other fertilizers, which were generally sold to state-owned departments.

I don't know what method Gu Boyuan used, but after he went there, he actually brought back more than ten tons of fertilizer.

Although the freight is not low, the overall price is much lower than that in the county.

After getting all these things, we found a good day and opened the business right away.

The villagers were not informed, and the opening was uneventful. According to Li Long, it should be well publicized, but Gu Boyuan still had concerns, worried that the policy would change, so it was better not to publicize it.

The big sign of the agricultural supply store is simply a large wooden board, painted white, with the four big words "Agricultural Supply Store" written in blue paint. It is very simple.

Then on the first day a customer came to buy pesticide. Although it was just a bottle of pesticide, Gu Boyuan was quite excited.

This is considered the opening.

Li Long continued to harvest wheat and basically finished the season.

The last crop to be harvested was the wheat from the westernmost brigade, which not only grows wheat but also rice. After harvesting the wheat, the landowner asked Li Long if he could come over to harvest the rice after it was ripe.

Li Long looked at the rice fields and shook his head.

"It's possible to mow, but it's too much work. If the stalks are not dug up, it's hard for my tractor to get in and out of a field of two or three mu."

It's okay as an alternative, but if it really comes to cutting, Li Long may refuse unless the stems are dug out.

But this is another larger project.

Li Long was impatient to take on such a small job, so he didn't say anything final and drove the tractor back.

Back to the compound.

Since Gu Xiaoxia was not around, Li Long simply tidied up everything and then took inventory.

Because the wheat harvest season is over, some people in the county are already driving donkey carts, horse carts or tractors to the Grain Bureau to pay their public grain.

The notebook doesn't have a plastic cover. I carry it with me every day and have to take it out from time to time, so the leather has become worn and the edges have curled.

Starting from the first day of accounting, there was a summary of Tao Daqiang’s land every day, either one hundred acres or ninety acres.

The busiest day was the day before yesterday. We mowed 140 acres from morning to night. When we returned to the yard, we could even see the stars.

The worst harvest in a single day was when I was in the team, when we harvested less than 80 acres.

The results were summarized every ten days, and a total of twenty-seven days of harvesting were completed, totaling 2,945 acres.

Among them, 320 acres were harvested grain, which was paid for with wheat. Li Long took the wheat back and gave it to his eldest brother.

The remaining 2,625 acres were used to generate money, totaling 5,250 yuan.

A tractor was obtained.

In terms of expenditure, the main expense was the 80 yuan for furniture. The money for the yard was paid by Gu Xiaoxia from his own money, including the money that Gu Boyuan used to pick up the goods, which was also paid by Gu Xiaoxia from her savings.

Although he had made money and the wheat season was over, Li Long was not very happy, mainly because he was tired.

It is much more tiring than collecting Fritillaria in the mountains.

But in fact, in everyone's eyes, this job really makes money.

Li Long plans to order another harvester next year. At the end of this year, people from other villages also came to visit, mainly because Jiang Zhiyu's article was published in the state newspaper. With the newspaper's publicity, many large grain growers wanted to come and see the harvester harvesting.

It was just a little late, so I didn't make it in time.

I think next year someone will buy a harvester, and people from other villages will come to Li Long to harvest wheat.

After all, not everyone can afford a tractor.

Li Long will have a few days' rest next. During this period he will be cutting wheat morning and night. Although he is wearing a straw hat and a face scarf, it is really tiring.

Gu Xiaoxia also felt sorry for him, so she got up early every day to make breakfast for him and came back early in the evening. Li Long rested well at home for a few days.

Young people recover quickly. After three or five days, Li Long couldn't sit still again.

Gu Xiaoxia went to work at the Education Bureau during the day. He drove a tractor to the fields and brought back a cart of watermelons.

Some of the watermelons were placed in the courtyard, some at Gu Boyuan's agricultural supply store, and some at Sister Yang's place. Then they were taken to the pastoral team and some were placed at Halimu and Yushanjiang's homes.

The rest were taken back to the home of the eldest brother in the team.

When he drove the tractor back to the compound and Gu Xiaoxia came back in the afternoon, Li Long started discussing with her.

"I plan to go into the mountains tomorrow."

"Hunting, or something else?" Gu Xiaoxia had some doubts.

"No, Halimu Yushanjiang and his friends came back from the summer pasture and were cutting grass in the mountains. I've been to the place where they were cutting grass. The tractor can go up there, so I brought the harvester and helped them cut the grass directly."

"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia did not object. She knew that her husband had a very good relationship with the herdsmen in the mountains.

Li Long has recovered in the past few days, so she is not worried.

Li Long was thinking of just eating and waiting for death at home, and becoming fat just like the protagonist in the movie "Stewardess" written by Wang Shuo who was supported by the stewardess.

But can't.

There were many things he needed to do, one after another. But this winter, he didn't plan to do as much as he did last year. He needed to have a good rest.

Spring brings life, summer brings growth, autumn brings harvest, winter brings storage, and in winter we have to hide. In the past, we had no choice, but now we have the conditions, so why do we still work so hard?
Of course, I dare not say death.

After Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia finished talking about this matter, they began to prepare.

Guns, bullets. Shoulder bags, matches. Fertilizer bags, harvesters. Dry food, and oil drums. And so on.

The next day, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, and Li Long went to Gu Boyuan's agricultural supply store. After saying goodbye to Gu Boyuan, he drove his tractor into the mountains.

Gu Boyuan ate breakfast and dinner in the courtyard. He rode his bicycle to Sister Yang's house for lunch. He was a little uncomfortable at first, but got used to it after a few days.

Li Long was driving a tractor and passed by a watermelon stall pulled by a cart. He bought two sacks of watermelons and then drove off into the mountains.

When he was making the harvester, he thought about the purpose of the harvester - in fact, it could be used to cut grass in the mountains.

Li Long knew where Halimu and his men were cutting grass. After all, he had made the sickles for them.

Although there are slopes in the grass cutting areas, they are not steep and it is easy for tractors to go up there. As long as there are no dead wood piles or other things in the grass cutting area, tractors can cut grass much faster than people using sickles.

Due to the terrain, even if we can't harvest 100 acres a day, if we can harvest 50 or 60 acres, it is still much faster than manual labor.

It takes Halimu and his men half a month to cut grass, but I can finish it in two or three days.

After driving the tractor across the Qingshui River and entering the mountains, Li Long did not go to his own wooden house, but went to Halimu's winter nest first.

There were indeed signs of people living here in the winter den, and there was fresh horse manure in the pen next to it, but there was no one there.

Li Long unloaded the bucket of the tractor and left it here, then drove the tractor and the harvester to Halimu's grassland.

The sound of "thump thump" echoed in the mountains. Many small animals in the mountains immediately ran into the forest after hearing the sound.

The behemoth is back!

Before Li Long's tractor reached the pasture, Halimu, who was cutting grass with a sickle, heard it.

Can the tractor come over too? Is Li Long planning to come over to help cut the grass?
It was just a flash of thought, and then he raised the sickle in his hand and looked in the direction where Li Long was coming.

The tractor bumped along the roadless ravine and drove to the bottom of the grassland. Li Long looked at Halimu and then drove up.

Halimu saw Li Long and laughed.

Li Long waved at him and stopped at the edge of the hay field.

Halimu walked down with a sickle in his hand and came to the side of the tractor.

"Dosen, are you okay?" Halimu asked.

"Okay, okay. What about you?" Li Long shook hands with him and said with a smile, "I knew you were going to cut grass, so I came over."

"Your..." Halimu pointed at the tractor.

"The harvester can cut grass." Li Long knew they were being straightforward, so he didn't beat around the bush. "As long as there are no wooden stakes or stones, this harvester can cut grass directly. It's very fast!"

"Then I'll watch from the front." After Halimu figured out how to operate this thing, he quickly accepted Li Long's kindness and walked forward with the sickle, "You fight from behind."

After Li Long got on the tractor, he drove forward.

Halimu walked very fast, looking around. In fact, he was very familiar with this grassland, because he had been cutting grass for many years, and some of the original wooden stakes in it had been cleared away by him.

Wherever there are stones, he will mark them out for Li Long.

Turning his head from time to time, Halimu also saw the advantages and disadvantages of the harvester.

As the tractor moved forward, the harvester cut down a strip of grass about one and a half meters wide directly from the roots, and then dumped it to one side in a uniform manner. It was much neater than cutting it with a sickle.

And he had to speed up, the tractor was moving much faster than his men could walk.

The fight continued until they were almost at the top of the hill. Li Long circled in another direction and Halimu also stopped.

"This is so fast!" he couldn't help but admire, "It saves a lot of trouble!"

Li Long smiled proudly: "It's mechanized, that's it. The only thing to worry about is if there's something blocking it. If not, it'll be very fast!"

Halimu was very curious, so he immediately walked down again. Wherever he walked, Li Long followed and attacked him.

In fact, this speed was still too slow in Li Long's opinion, but there was no other way. If he didn't clear the obstacles and saw a problem after looking over, the harvester would break down.

It's better to be careful.

After working for more than an hour, Li Long stopped. The grass on this side of the hillside was almost gone.

"If I fight alone, it will take five days to fight this area." Halimu sighed.

"Let's go back and eat." Li Long said, "Did you bring naan?"

"Yes."

"I pulled some watermelons from the winter den and went back to eat them. I'll come back after I'm done. Anyway, we have a tractor, so it's quick to mow the grass."

Halim agreed.

There was nothing good to eat at noon. Halimu and his friends came to cut grass, and their staple food was naan and some dried meat. It was quite hard work, but maybe the cutters could get together and make something delicious, or if they hunted sheep or wolves, they would barbecue and cook them.

But usually, it’s just dry naan brick tea.

Li Long brought watermelons. The two of them went to the winter nest, cut the watermelon in half each, and then ate the watermelon with dry naan.

The dry naan is a bit hard, so I broke it into pieces and soaked it in watermelon, which has a unique flavor.

Li Long didn't mind, but he was thinking at this time that after cutting the grass in the afternoon, he would ask Halim, or get up early tomorrow morning and go to the mine to see if he could get a fawn, roe deer or wild goat to improve the food.

Otherwise, if you only eat this, it will not be nutritious at all.

He was used to a life of luxury and was not used to his current life. Halimu and his friends, on the other hand, thought that this kind of life was normal.

After all, we have to cut grass throughout the winter and we can't be careless.

However, now with Li Long's tractor, it seems that this work can be shortened a lot of time.

Two people each broke off a piece of naan and ate it. If there was not enough, they would continue to break off more naan. Watermelon can quench thirst, but it is not easy to fill yourself up, after all, it will be gone in a pee.

While eating, Li Long asked:

"How many of you are coming down this time?"

"Twelve." Halimu said, "Yushanjiang has also come down, all of whom you have seen."

"Are there many grassy slopes like yours? Is it easy to get on with a tractor?"

"Two of the houses are difficult to climb because the slope is quite steep." Halimu thought for a moment and said, "There are more bushes. The others are similar to my house."

"That's good. I'll kill the good ones, and you can just cut off the others." Li Long thought this was a better arrangement. They all came here together, from the same tribe, so it would be a simple matter.

Besides, I watched them catching sheep and racing horses last winter, and my wooden house was built by them, so I have to repay this favor.

After eating the watermelon, Li Long and Halimu chatted for a while, then drove the tractor and followed Halimu who was riding a horse, and continued to go into the mountains.

Just like the raid, Li Long has a bit of a villain vibe.

Drive the harvester and sweep the forest.

The grassland where Halimu was located was quite large and close to his winter home. After arriving at the location, Halimu tied up the horse and walked in front with a sickle to explore the way, while Li Long drove the tractor behind him to sweep the grassland.

The grass was cut and laid out neatly. From the top of the mountain, it looked like someone had made a grid on the hillside.

Occasionally a rabbit would be startled and run out from the grass, or a pheasant would flap its wings and fly into the air, struggling and flapping its wings before flying into the distant woods.

Li Long didn't have time to pay attention to them. Cutting grass was the most important thing at the moment.

In less than an hour, all the grass on the hillside was cut. Halimu gave Li Long a thumbs up on the hillside, and Li Long laughed while sitting on the tractor.

Then continue.

When it got dark, in fact the sun had just set and it would still be some time before it was dark, but the two of them stopped working.

The temperature in the mountains dropped immediately as the sun disappeared. Li Long drove the tractor back to Halimu's winter home, loaded the truck bed, and then went to his own wooden house.

By the time they reached the cabin, it was already completely dark. Li Long felt that he was a little late this time and had to come back early tomorrow.

He opened the door of the cabin and lit the oil lamp in the dark. Then he cleaned the stove and went outside to find hay and firewood. Then he came back to set up the stove and boil water.

Li Long breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the red flames rising in the stove.

Okay, I'm going to live here for the next few days.

After all, cutting grass won’t take as long as collecting Fritillaria, and you can occasionally go hunting, which is a way to relax after the wheat harvest.

Of course, it is also a reward to Halimu and the others. After all, they owe each other a lot, so we will help each other if we can.

Who made me their Dosen? (End of this chapter)