Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"Hey, there are so many fish today!" Li Qingxia watched Li Long retrieve the ten nets in two attempts, and the wrinkles on his face were so big that they could kill a mosquito. "It must be sixty or seventy kilograms!"

"Isn't that a lot?" Li Long dragged the tire out of the lake, then carried two bags on his shoulders, holding the tire and another bag, and said as he walked:

"Isn't that how much you need to have ten nets? How much did you and Daqiang catch before?"

"How can there be so many? Occasionally we can catch 40 to 50 kilograms, but basically it's 20 to 30 kilograms. There are fewer fish in this lake, so we won't get as many fish as last year."

Li Qingxia always felt that this fish was destined to be with Li Long. Whenever Li Long cast the net, there would be more fish.

However, Li Long felt that because his tires slipped too deep, Tao Daqiang might not dare to go into some places.

There are more fish in deep water - in those places near the lake, there are many people casting nets, and the fish are either scared away or caught.

They dragged the bag of nets back to Li Jianguo's yard, and a hint of red appeared in the east. Everyone in the family had already woken up, and when they saw them coming back, they immediately helped out. They had already laid out the plastic sheet, selected the fish, found the bags, sorted them, and even made breakfast.

Knowing that Li Long and his friends were going to Shicheng today, Li Juan, Li Qiang and their friends prepared their schoolbags early and planned to take a tractor to school.

The two children were very excited to finally get a ride on the tractor.

Mrs. Lu from the opposite door came over with a bowl in her hand and asked:

"Why, you're driving a tractor to sell fish today... Hey? Are these pumpkin seeds dried? Are you going to sell them?"

"Well," Liang Yuemei responded while serving the dishes, "I went to Shicheng to sell melon seeds today."

There is no need to hide things like this, just tell them if they ask.

"Hey, there are a lot of people watching in this team. If you sell your melon seeds at a high price, you will definitely have a lot more melons next year. Can you give me the seeds for ten acres of land? I will pay you whatever you sell them for."

"Okay." Liang Yuemei naturally agreed, "There are still some at home drying, you can weigh them after they are dried."

"Okay." Mrs. Lu was quite envious of the strong army and horses here. Lu Yingming's parents also came here, but they left after a short stay. They were not used to the life here, and they had many demands.

Just as Chen Lirong felt, the status of housewives here is higher than in her hometown. Women are able to work. In the past, they could earn work points and extra food. Now they can work and earn money. Their abilities are extraordinary.

If the parents-in-law want to set rules for their daughter-in-law like they do in their hometown, it depends on whether the daughter-in-law is willing to bear them.

So in the end, for the sake of family harmony, Lu Yingming sent his parents back to their hometown. All he had to do was to send some money and two quilts by the end of the year.

At this time, the Corps had already started growing cotton, but it was upland cotton. The area was not particularly large and the yield was not high. After another two years, it was promoted to local areas.

Some of the fish were kept, and they were going to share them with each family. After such a long time of busy work, the melon picking finally came to an end, and the family could have some free time. Liang Yuemei planned to go back to her parents' home to see Liang Donglou and the others.

It would be appropriate to bring some fish with her, and she also wanted to persuade Liang Donglou to plant some melons. After all, there was little land there, and if they wanted to develop the economy, they had to plant cash crops.

The Li family also planned to stew fish for lunch, and Chen Lirong already knew how to stew it. Although Tao Daqiang didn't have time to go fishing with Li Qingxia during this period, their old friendship was still there, and Li Qingxia meant that after they left, Chen Lirong should send some fish over there.

I also have to show some appreciation to Uncle Luo.

"No need to ask my second sister-in-law to go, just put them on the tractor. I'll drive the tractor and it will only take a few minutes."

Li Long spoke as he ate the steamed buns with some vegetables.

Think about it too.

After everyone finished breakfast, the sun came out. Li Long started the tractor, Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo both got on the tractor, and then pulled Li Juan and Li Qiang on.

In the front of the truck bed were pumpkin seeds, separated by a plastic sheet in the middle, and in the back were two large bags and two small bags of fish to sell. Fish for gifts were placed in the corner. The large basin and scale used to sell fish were also in the corner.

The tractor started, Du Chunfang waved to Li Long, and then watched the tractor rumble out of the yard and head north with black smoke coming out.

They still have work to do.

I went to the Lao Ma Hao first and put the fish down for Uncle Luo.

Uncle Luo was feeding the wild boars. Hearing the sound of the tractor, he looked over here with a smile. Li Long put the fish down and left without saying a word.

"This kid is getting busier and busier!" Uncle Luo looked at the fish and was very satisfied. They were not big, but they were all alive, jumping from time to time, and looked good.

Tao Daqiang was not in the yard, but Tao Jianshe was there. Li Long got off the tractor, took the fish over and asked a few questions.

"The hospital said it will be in the next two days." Tao Jianshe was happy but also worried. "Daqiang is thinking of sending the patient to the hospital tomorrow, as he is worried about any accidents at home."

"Yes." Li Long expressed his opinion, "You can't keep it at home. It's not as clean as the health center."

This alone is enough.

The tractor drove out of the team and met many students along the way. Li Long did not stop, but drove to the elementary school. After dropping off Li Qiang, he drove to the middle school.

Li Juan is already in the first grade of junior high school and is still in the adaptation stage. At that time, rural schools did not have school uniforms, and everyone wore a variety of clothes. Li Juan had to walk more than one kilometer every day, which was quite hard.

Li Long wondered if he should buy her a bicycle?

It's normal for an uncle to buy a bicycle for his niece, right? After buying it, she rode it to school and brought Li Qiang along, which was convenient.

With his mind wandering, the tractor had already passed through the village and was heading towards the county.

The tractor drove all the way to Shicheng Old Street without stopping in the county. Li Long parked the tractor in the parking lot. After getting the sign, the three of them carried the fish and other things over together and found an empty stall to put them. Then it was Li Qingxia's job to sell the fish.

It was not the first time for the old man to sell fish here, so he was not afraid at all. Just as Li Long and Li Jianguo turned and walked towards the tractor, he had already started shouting loudly.

Hey, the old man has a really loud voice!
When Li Long drove the tractor out of the parking lot and turned into the city, he saw a lot of people gathered around the old man's stall.

"I just saw Zhang Qiang selling big brooms." Li Jianguo said loudly while sitting on the board, "It seems that there are still people buying those big brooms."

"As long as he doesn't sell it too expensively, there will definitely be people who will buy it." Li Long said, "These days, construction is going on everywhere. Not only in rural areas, but also in cities, there is a shortage of everything. There will definitely be people who want daily necessities."

That being said, we still have to find the right track. However, right now, all kinds of products are actually looking for ways. In this era of wild growth, some people are extremely lucky and get things that are particularly needed in neighboring countries but are everywhere here, and they become rich all of a sudden.

This is another story.

The tractor rumbled to the roasted seeds factory, and Li Long was thinking about a way out. If the price offered by the roasted seeds factory was too low, he would not sell it to him, and then he would ask the seed company.

He told Li Jianguo about this idea. Li Jianguo was silent for a moment and then said, "As long as the price he offers is higher than 1.5 yuan, I think it can be sold."

Well, brother is really obsessed with this one dollar and fifty cents.

Li Long’s idea was that anything less than two dollars and fifty cents would be out of the question.

Of course, this is just a thought for now. The big brother has been the one who planted and managed the melons from beginning to end, and Li Long actually has little say. But from beginning to end, this matter was initiated by Li Long, so Li Jianguo felt that he had to respect Li Long's opinion.

The air is filled with the aroma of roasted nuts, and we have arrived at the roasted nuts factory.

At present, sunflower seeds have not yet matured on a large scale, and the snack factories are actually quite short of raw materials.

During the autumn harvest season in rural areas every year, snack factories will purchase large quantities of crops such as sunflower, white sunflower, and soybeans and store them as raw materials.

Although the Grain Bureau purchased a lot of these things, part of them were stored in warehouses as national reserves, and part of the sunflower oil was pressed into oil and sold.

The Grain Bureau usually does not collect sunflowers, and has basically nothing to do with the snack factory. The occasional intersection is soybeans, but Shicheng and Ma County are not the main producing areas of soybeans (also known as soy beans), and some of them are occasionally grown.

What they harvest more is broad beans, which the locals call soybeans.

There are also peanuts, which are less grown, and melon seeds.

In fact, the Corps also has a small number of melon seeds planted, but the area is not fixed. This thing is very selective about the land it is planted on, and not all land can produce high yields.

Li Long estimated that there would be some people who would be disappointed if there were racial discrimination in the team next year.

Because some farmers will follow the trend, and some farmers are very stubborn. They think they can grow anything, so it is difficult to ask others for technical advice.

Of course, this is only a minority. Most farmers are still a bit in awe of newly planted things.

Without Xinkui coming down, the raw material department of the roasted nuts factory has been a bit busy, as they also have production tasks every month.

The tractor was stopped when it arrived at the gate. Li Long was not in a hurry. He directly asked for the factory director. The last time he came, he found the factory director to ask about something.

The guard was also very polite. He said that anyone who could drive a tractor must be an extraordinary person. Moreover, this extraordinary person gave him a pack of Hongshan cigarettes! The guard called the factory director's office. The factory director asked the guard to ask the visitor what he was doing. Li Long said loudly:

"Selling pumpkin seeds."

The security guard conveyed the message truthfully, and the factory manager told him to go directly to the raw materials department.

It is a relatively new thing that someone can come and sell the agricultural products grown in the fields directly. At present, the roasted nuts factory is a state-owned enterprise, and basically has unified purchase and sales, but there are also certain relaxations in policies.

After all, there are acquisition policies from above, and the factory also needs some flexible funds, otherwise how can it provide benefits to employees during the New Year and other holidays?

Although the welfare items these days are quite cheap, just towels, soap, toilet paper and so on, they are the symbol of the factory's prosperity.

The toilet paper at that time was different from the cylindrical shape of later generations. It was rectangular and packed in plastic bags, layer by layer. The quality of the paper was certainly not comparable to that of later generations, but it was genuine crepe paper and quite soft.

The head of the raw materials department is quite arrogant, but when he heard that someone sent some melon seeds to him, he naturally wanted to meet him.

Although they don't sell much fried black melon seeds, the superior units have always had tasks. In the past, they directly collected them from the Corps system. Shicheng has a command structure that combines the division and the city, so they can directly transfer them. But if they can purchase some of them independently, it will always be a good thing.

If you have enough food at home, you won’t be worried.

The tractor drove into the yard. Li Long was familiar with the place and knew where the office was.

Although it is called the raw materials department, in fact, the area of ​​this roasted nuts factory is not as big as that of the Ma County Supply and Marketing Cooperative. But there is no way, Shicheng is at a higher level than Ma County, and the Ma County Supply and Marketing Cooperative can only be regarded as a share, while Shicheng's roasted nuts factory can be regarded as a department.

After getting off the car, Li Jianguo asked Li Long to go in and talk by himself, while he wanted to sit on the tractor and watch the melon seeds being threshed.

Li Long did not insist. In this era, some strange things might still happen. It might not happen in a snack factory, but no one could be prepared.

Li Long entered the office area, found the raw materials department, knocked on the door and went in.

There was a newspaper in front of Yuan Guomin, the chief of the Raw Materials Department. This was a bit pretentious. He had just finished a phone call, so naturally he didn't have time to read an article.

Li Long walked in and said in a loud voice:

"Hello, section chief!"

"Okay, little comrade, please take a seat. Are you here to sell melon seeds? Where are you from? Ma County or Shawan?"

"Ma County, I'm an employee of the Ma County Supply and Marketing Cooperative." Li Long took out his work permit and handed it over. These days, people working in government agencies are always treated differently than farmers.

At any time, farmers are always at the bottom in the eyes of some people.

But workers are different, and cadres are different. The work permit that Li Long received was relatively simple, and it only stated that he was an employee of the purchasing department of the supply and marketing cooperative. The specific position was not written, and it was not marked as a temporary worker.

So it’s okay to scare people.

When Section Chief Yuan saw the work permit, his attitude changed significantly. He smiled and returned the permit to Li Long:
"Comrade Li Long, right? Young and promising, not bad, not bad... Li Long?"

He suddenly remembered that some time ago, among the advanced individuals for ethnic unity organized by the prefecture-level city, there seemed to be one from the Ma County Supply and Marketing Cooperative. His name seemed to be Li Long?
"Are you the...model of national unity?" Section Chief Yuan asked tentatively.

"The term 'model' is a bit exaggerated. I just did some work within my responsibility in ethnic unity work." Li Long said modestly, "The organization has exaggerated the role of my work. I feel a little ashamed."

"No, no, no, you are completely qualified!" Yuan Guomin immediately became a little excited. "Come, come, sit down, I'll pour you some water. Are you here to sell melon seeds from your supply and marketing cooperative?"

"No, no, my eldest brother is in the countryside. He planted ten acres of melons and harvested more than two tons of melon seeds..."

"That's a lot. Let's go and take a look." Yuan Guomin immediately stood up and said, "If the quality is good, we'll take them all. Comrade Li Long, I won't hide it from you. We need these raw materials."

After leaving the office area and approaching the tractor outside, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, this is Section Chief Yuan from the Raw Materials Department."

"Hello, Section Chief Yuan!" Li Jianguo greeted him in the car.

"Chief Yuan, which bag of melon seeds do you want to see? We'll open it for you."

"Bring that bag here." Yuan Guomin was very satisfied with Li Long's attitude. He did not open the bag on his own, but let him choose, which showed that he was very satisfied with the quality of the melon seeds.

Li Jianguo lifted the bag that Yuan Guomin pointed to onto the side of the truck bed, and Li Long took it from below and lifted it down.

This bag of melon seeds weighs about forty or fifty kilograms, but it seems very light to Li Long, which makes Yuan Guomin frown.

If it is very light, it means the seeds are not full, so you don’t want it.

Li Long opened the bag and held it open for Yuan Guomin to look inside.

"Huh? Pretty good." Yuan Guomin reached in, poked hard, grabbed a handful and looked at the seeds. They were clean, no gravel, no white seeds. Every black seed was ripe.

He grabbed one and cracked it in his mouth, cracking the shell open, then peeling it open with his hands.

The melon seeds are plump and of high quality.

I cracked another one open and found the melon seeds were also good.

Yuan Guomin didn't think anything at this time, and pointed to another bag and said:
"Take that bag down so I can see it."

Li Jianguo did as he was told and Li Long took it.

Yuan Guomin left, and when he came back, he had a prong in his hand, the same hollow spike used by the Grain Bureau to inspect grain.

There was a time when someone stole this thing and used it in fights. If they poked someone with it, the person would be disabled immediately.

There's space in the middle, so bleeding and releasing air can be done very quickly!

Yuan Guomin didn't quite believe that the melon seeds that Li Long brought were of this quality, so he needed a poker to see what the melon seeds were like in places that his hands couldn't reach.

After all, it is impossible to empty all the bags and check them.

Li Long and Li Jianguo looked calm and composed; the melon seeds they packed with their own hands could stand up to inspection.

After the melon seeds are dried, they are winnowed to remove the shrunken seeds and the white, unripe seeds. It’s my first time selling goods, so I have to make a good impression.

In fact, according to Li Long's calculation, even if he didn't want these shriveled melon seeds, the price he expected would be enough.

Liang Yuemei meant that she could keep these shriveled melon seeds and cook them into spiced melon seeds for herself.

Anyway, it's just a snack in the winter, and I don't expect to eat much. I'm just watching TV and eating melon seeds. What else do I want?
Yuan Guomin poked it several times and found that the melon seeds inside were all clean, without any damage, shriveled seeds or impurities.

This is very rare.

At this time, he finally discovered a new world. He held a handful of melon seeds in his hand and asked:
"Comrade Xiao Li, how did you do it? None of these melon seeds are curled up! If you press them after drying them, they will be crushed!"

"Hehe, Section Chief Yuan is very observant. In fact, we just use a board to flatten the warped melon seeds right after we take them out." Li Long said with a smile.

"That took a lot of work." Yuan Guomin actually understood this. He sighed, "You guys are really amazing to have thought of this!"

"We can put ourselves in their shoes. If the melon seeds are curled up, it will be difficult to crack them. It would be better to flatten them." Li Long smiled.

"Hey, put yourself in my shoes. OK, OK! I'll take your melon seeds. I'll tell you the price. Take a look."

After he said this, both Li Long and Li Jianguo became nervous.

"Two dollars and eighty cents per kilogram, how about that?" Yuan Guomin quoted a price.

He could actually have offered a higher salary, but as the head of the raw materials department, it was his nature to fight for the benefits of the factory.

He thought that if Li Long wanted to bargain, he would raise the price.

Li Long looked at Li Jianguo, actually he wanted to bargain.

But the eldest brother is here, so he should be the master.

"Okay!" Li Jianguo agreed immediately.

He has already calculated it. One acre of land costs 200 kilograms. At 2.8 yuan per kilogram, that would be 560 yuan. Ten acres of land would cost 5,600 yuan, which would cost a tractor!
Hey! This kind of melon is really the right one to plant! (End of this chapter)