Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

When the tractor rumbled back to the village, many people who were paying attention to the situation heard it.

If you don't have a good relationship with him, you'd feel embarrassed to visit him now. After all, he just came back from selling melon seeds in Shicheng. If you go to his house and ask him about it, wouldn't that be too eager and utilitarian?
Anyway, there are always people who are more urgent and those who are closely related, so just listen to these and spread them.

For example, Mrs. Lu.

Liang Yuemei, Du Chunfang and Chen Lirong were all in the yard pressing the last few specially picked melon seeds, the ones that were sticking up.

The others were drying in the front yard, and Chen Lirong would go over from time to time to check, not to prevent thieves, but mainly to chase away chickens and birds. No one dared to steal things in other people's yards in broad daylight. If they were caught, they would be beaten, and no one would pursue the matter even if they were beaten to death.

This is different from later generations.

All I can say is that slowly, the world is changing.

So in later life, when Li Long watched a video about someone stealing things from someone else's house and getting injured or killed, he asked the owner of the house for compensation and then took the case to court.

How can the court accept such a case? It's really ridiculous.

The most disgusting thing is that even though the owner is clearly not responsible, they still demand a certain amount of compensation as humanitarian compensation.

Isn't this just encouraging those immoral people to do evil?
The tractor drove back to the yard, Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo got off, and Li Long turned off the engine and got out.

He planned to take a rest and then drive the tractor back to the county. It would take a day or two to dry the remaining melon seeds, so there was no rush to go to Shicheng.

Mrs. Lu rushed over from the opposite door.

"Uncle, have you sold all the melon seeds? What's up?" Mrs. Lu was planning to plant melons, but she still had to ask about the price. Once she knew the price, she would have a good idea for next year.

"Two dollars and eighty cents!" Li Jianguo's voice was loud and clear. He had discussed this with Li Long on the way, and he had to say what he needed to say. Anyway, this matter could stand the test. Yuan Guomin also said that their roasted seeds factory collected a lot of melon seeds, several tons or even dozens of tons.

Therefore, if there are people of different races in the team, there will be no problem with sales.

But Li Long also reminded Li Jianguo that he didn't rush to sell this thing to others for planting. Why? It's not a good deal if you rush to sell it.

This thing is a niche agricultural product. If it is planted on a large scale, the price will really be pushed down. So Li Long meant to keep about 100 to 200 kilograms as seeds, keep some for Liang Donglou, share some with those who have good relationships with him, and keep some for himself.

As for other people, if they arrive early, they can sell some, but if they arrive late, I can only say sorry.

"So high? If your family can harvest more than 100-200 kilograms of melon seeds per acre, then you must be earning more than 500 yuan per acre. That's equivalent to planting wheat on ten acres!"

There was naturally a reason why Mrs. Lu was so surprised.

Not to mention this era, even in the next thirty or forty years, if the government does not provide subsidies for growing grain on one acre of land, the net income will really not be much.

But the bowl must be in our own hands. The country's plan is very clear. Even if the price of grain is very low, farmers must be encouraged to grow it and given subsidies.

After all, we have been cheated by the four major international grain traders, and the soybean incident taught us a profound lesson.

But farmers still hope to get more profit from farming. That's why Mrs. Lu was so surprised. The income from this one acre of land is more than what many families can earn in a year!
Li Jianguo chuckled.

Liang Yuemei was also surprised. The tractor had just arrived in the yard, and before he had time to ask about the melon seeds, Mrs. Lu asked him first.

Chen Lirong was also surprised. Although the farming situation in her hometown was different from that in northern Xinjiang, it was the same that growing crops would not bring much profit.

One mu of land earns more than 500 yuan! These days, Chen Lirong has learned from Liang Yuemei that growing melons requires a certain amount of investment. The seeds are expensive, and you have to buy the seed drill yourself. If the melons get sick or have insects, you have to spray pesticides. You also have to hire people to press the melon seeds, etc.

With such a huge investment, she was also worried about whether the melon seeds could be sold. After all, she had lived here for so long and had developed feelings for the place. It would be a lie to say that she wasn't worried.

Now, when she heard that the melon seeds were so expensive, she was happy but also a little surprised.

If my family is in this team and we have some land, it would be nice to grow some melons in addition to growing crops.

The income from one acre of land is equivalent to my husband’s salary for half a year!

Du Chunfang was not particularly surprised, she blindly believed in Li Long. Planting melons was Li Long's idea. The seeds and the seeding device were obtained by Li Long. Li Long also went to Wucheng to ask the professor for advice on how to manage and treat the disease.

Now that the melon production has increased and the selling price is so high, what does this mean? It means that my youngest son is really amazing!

Du Chunfang looked at Li Long, then at the melon seed beater who was pressed under the board and grinning.

"Then weigh out seeds for ten acres of land for my family. I'll ask Tietou's father to send the money over later!" Mrs. Lu made the decision immediately.

Liang Yuemei smiled and asked:

"There are so many of that kind, why don't you discuss this with Tietou's father?"

"What are you discussing? Are you going to plant the land or not? We won't do that! If yours is doing well, we'll follow suit! Unlike some people, who doubt this and that, they can't even eat shit when it's hot!"

"Hahahaha!" Mrs. Lu's words were vulgar and everyone laughed. Liang Yuemei went to get the scales and Li Jianguo went to weigh the dried melon seeds.

Mrs. Lu asked again:
"Then how do you sell your melon seeds by seed?"

"Three pieces." Li Jianguo said.

I went to Shicheng and sold it for 2.8 yuan, but that was my own initiative, and I had to take the tractor fuel into account. I sold it at home for 3 yuan, which was the unified price I agreed with Li Long.

"Okay." Mrs. Lu didn't bargain for the price. This thing is not easy to bargain for.

She was not quite sure, but Li Long and Li Jianguo knew that this seed was the only one of its kind.

The kind of love that you don't want or need.

Mrs. Lu was a big mouth. She took the seeds back and Lu Yingming quickly sent the money over. Every household has some extra money now, and this money cannot be owed.

Next, Tao Jianshe came over and weighed the seeds for ten acres of land and gave cash.

He also chatted with Li Jianguo for a few words:

"I originally planned to plant only five acres, but Daqiang didn't want to, so he said at least ten acres should be planted. I thought it would be easier to plant, and I would come and ask you if I didn't understand.

It’s hard to remove the seeds when harvesting melons. Daqiang said he would learn from your family. He wanted to come by himself, but his wife was about to give birth in the next few days, so he didn’t dare to come.

Liang Dacheng also came over and weighed the seeds for ten acres of land.

Maybe Li Jianguo planted ten acres of land this year, so everyone defaulted to focusing on these ten acres of land.

Anyway, each family has a lot of land, in addition to the food grain fields, there are also some contracted land. The task of paying public grain and the requirement of having enough fine grains to eat can be completed with the food grain fields, so what is the contracted land used for?
Isn’t it just to make money?

These few companies alone eliminated more than half of the number of seeds that Li Long suggested Li Jianguo to reserve.

Next, they picked the melon seeds and dried them. Li Long drove a tractor and took Li Qingxia, Li Jianguo, and forty or fifty kilograms of fish to Shicheng again.

Sure enough, there were not so many fish when we cast the net again.

Yuan Guomin, the raw material section chief of the roasted nuts factory, kept his word and conducted a very detailed inspection. However, seeing that there was no problem with the quality of the melon seeds, he still gave a "high price" of 28 yuan.

When they came back from Shicheng, Jia Weidong came over and bought five acres of melon seeds. Next came Xu Chengjun and Xie Yundong, who each bought five acres of seeds.

The Li family only had about ten kilograms of seeds left.

Ma Jinbao actually came over as well.

Li Long is not here, but Li Jianguo is at home.

"Old Li, I heard that your melon seeds are sold for 2.8 yuan per kilogram?" Ma Jinbao looked unconvinced.

"Yes," Li Jianguo was picking up the shriveled melon seeds. There weren't many of them, and the ones that weren't worth shoveling were not worth it. There was no suitable wind, so he used a dustpan to swipe the seeds and winnow out the completely shriveled ones.

"Hey, such a high price... must it be fake?" When Ma Jinbao heard the news, his first feeling was that the Li family lied just to sell their melon seeds.

"How could it be false?" Li Jianguo was not angry at all when he heard Ma Jinbao's words. This was the kind of person he was. If he really quarreled with him, then what Li Long said would come true.

If I lower my IQ to the same level as his, wouldn't that make me a spoon?
"I heard that your melon seeds are sold for three yuan? Not many people buy them now, right? How about selling me ten kilograms for one yuan?" Ma Jinbao is a thick-skinned man, so it is not surprising for him to say such things.

"Not for sale." Li Jianguo said in a calm tone. At this moment, he felt that what his younger brother Li Long usually said was very reasonable.

People like this should be treated as nothing and left alone. Otherwise, you will stink yourself up.

Ma Jinbao couldn't say whether he meant to anger Li Jianguo by saying these words, but at least it seemed that he had miscalculated. Li Jianguo refused to listen to his words, and he had no other choice.

"Well, I think we can find melon seeds in other places, right?" Ma Jinbao said as he walked out. "I don't know what price they sell it for."

Li Jianguo laughed when he heard this.

He could tell that what Ma Jinbao meant was, if your family doesn't sell it, there are plenty of others who do. I don't believe that I can't find a cheaper one.

In fact, there were many people in the team who had similar thoughts. Zhang Qiang and Xu Jianjun had said similar things in the sales department, which basically meant that the Li family's claim that the melon seeds were sold for 2.8 yuan must be false, and the reason they said the price was so high was to sell seeds.

Maybe the melon seeds are only sold for 50 cents or 1 yuan, and they say this in order to sell their melon seeds at a high price. This statement is quite popular.

It's not that I don't trust the Li family, it's mainly because the prices of agricultural products are generally low these days. The price of oil sunflowers is less than 50 cents, and the price of white sunflowers is less than one dollar. How can a dozen melon seeds cost 2.8 yuan? This is a joke!

This is where people’s limitations lie.

"Let's see what will happen to the melon seeds next year when so many people grow them." Some people are waiting to see the joke, although it may take a long time to wait for the joke.

"If they really charge more than two dollars, these people will make a lot of money."

Of course, those who are wavering are also waiting and watching. They are worried that the value spread by the Li family is false, and they are also worried that if it is true, their family will miss this opportunity to make money.

"How can it be true? The Li family themselves didn't say how much they planted next year. They just said how much other families planted." Someone thought he saw it more clearly, "Isn't it obvious that they are trying to fool others?"

In fact, Li Jianguo had reserved 20 mu of land for seeds, but there was no more suitable land. After all, melons need sandy land, and there are only a dozen mu of land suitable at home, so 20 mu is the maximum he can add up.

Secondly, spot sowing and the final seed pressing are both labor-intensive. If too much is planted, it will be easy to compete with other grain crops for labor, especially in the early stages of sowing.

That would be more troublesome.

There is a high probability that Chen Lirong will go to Kuitun next year, and then the couple will be the only ones doing the housework. Even if there is a tractor as planned, they will still be too busy to handle it.

Only those who have a good relationship with you know this, others are not aware of it.

It was under such circumstances that Wang Caimi came to Li Jianguo's yard.

Li Jianguo had already collected all the melon seeds. He thought that if someone came to buy the remaining ten kilograms of seeds, he would buy them, and if no one wanted to buy them, he would just leave them there.

The Liang family has already sent it over, and they have also told them what kind of land to plant and how to plant it. Liang Donglou is very happy, but of course Liang Wenyu is the most excited.

He had actually been thinking about making money from this kind of land. There was little land in the village, and he had been thinking about how to grow it most cost-effectively. He didn't expect that his brother-in-law and his family had figured it out first.

This is quite unexpected.

"Brother Li, do you still have those melon seeds?" Wang Caimi asked this as soon as he arrived.

"There's still some left, but not much." Li Jianguo was cleaning things in the yard.

He had already planned to buy a tractor. The things in the yard needed to be tidied up, otherwise he would need to consider whether to drive the tractor in and leave it there.

The carriage was sent to the father-in-law's house along with the horses as Li Long said. Liang Yuemei was very excited when she told her about this.

After knowing that it was Li Long who proposed this, Liang Yuemei felt that all the hard work she had put in during those years was not in vain!
"Brother Li, tell me the truth, can the melon seeds really be sold so expensively?" Wang Caimi asked softly.

"Of course." Li Jianguo was not annoyed, and said calmly, "The Shicheng Roasted Nuts Factory is right there. If you don't believe it, you can go and ask directly."

This is the limitation of some rural people at this time. They would rather believe their own guesses and judgments than go to some public places to ask.

The fear of dealing with government offices has been accumulated over thousands of years and cannot be changed in a short period of time.

That is why in later generations there were many things that drove honest people crazy.

Honest people usually don't want to confront the government face to face, but if they are really forced into a corner, they really won't care about anything.

Wang Caimi listened and smiled awkwardly:
"I'm just asking. Do you buy your seeds from a seed company?"

"Yes." Li Jianguo nodded. This is not a secret. When I was growing melons, someone asked me about it in a casual chat. At that time, no one thought that this thing could be sold at such a high price, so no one cared. Who knew it would be like this now?

"Shicheng Seed Company or Ma County?"

"Neither, they're from Wucheng." Li Jianguo understood that this wealthy Wang must have believed that his own melon seeds could be sold at such a high price, but he did not believe in the quality of the melon seeds he sold.

This is to get to the bottom of things. Are you planning to buy them from a seed company?
Actually, this is nothing, it's normal.

Sure enough, after Wang Caimi asked, he started talking about all sorts of things and left.

No one mentioned buying melon seeds again.

But melon seeds really had no trouble finding sellers. That afternoon, a man who surprised everyone came to Li Jianguo's house and bought all the remaining melon seeds.

Ma Yinbao.

Ma Yinbao's son Ma Long stole Li's melons. Ma Yinbao beat him so hard that he cried for several days. Then he obediently followed his father to work in the fields.

It can be regarded as forcing a gangster to mend his ways in advance.

Although Ma Yinbao is a little dull, he is different from Ma Jinbao. He is very serious about farming and wants to get rich from the land.

After he bought the seeds, he was scolded by his brother Ma Jinbao, but Ma Yinbao would not tolerate his brother and directly retorted.

Anyway, the two families had separated long ago, and Ma Yinbao looked down on his brother.

When someone went to the Li family to inquire about the melon seeds, Li Jianguo simply announced that the seeds were sold out.

Then two days later, the Li family drove back another tractor.

Most people didn't pay attention and thought it was Li Long's tractor coming back.

But Mrs. Lu next door soon discovered the difference.

This is a new tractor!

New new!
Li Long bought his tractor a long time ago and he didn't take good care of it, so there are quite a few spots of mud on it.

This one is different, it’s brand new from the inside out!

She hurriedly called her husband Lu Yingming out and pointed it out to him.

The couple looked at it curiously, so they walked to Li's house and looked at the tractor carefully.

Li Jianguo had a proud look on his face, and put the crank handle away with dignity.

"What? Bought a new one?" Lu Yingming was still shocked.

"Well, I made some money from picking melon seeds," Li Jianguo was waiting for him to ask, "so I was thinking of buying a tractor."

"Doesn't Xiaolong have one?" Lu Yingming was envious and puzzled.

"His bike is used everywhere, sometimes to the mountains, sometimes to Stone City. It's not certain. It would be troublesome if we can't find it when we need it. It's better to buy one ourselves."

It's so easy to say, just like buying a bicycle.

Hey, it’s not easy for some people to buy a bicycle.

To put it another way, it’s as easy as buying a basket of eggs!
"What about your carriage?" Mrs. Lu couldn't help asking, while she was touching the handle of the tractor. This tractor looked so beautiful!
"Take the carriage to Juan's grandfather's house." Li Jianguo said, "He doesn't have a carriage, so we can use it."

Lu Yingming and his wife were really envious of the tractor. In the eyes of rural people at that time, a car was not as practical as a tractor. This thing was really good.

The news that the Li family had bought another tractor spread immediately throughout the team through Mrs. Lu's mouth.

She also specifically stated that the tractor was bought by the Li family after they sold the melon seeds they picked.

These days, when she chatted with the women in the village, she was often told that she had been cheated when buying seeds.

Now is finally the time to fight back.

There is no need to wait until next year. Right now, people sell their melon seeds and use the money to buy a tractor. The real machine is right there. Would anyone say it is fake?

Some people would say that Li Long paid for the tractor for Li Jianguo, but this was refuted.

There are two reasons. First, the people who spread such gossip do not believe that a younger brother would buy such a big thing for his older brother. Second, most people in the village know Li Jianguo's character. If Li Long buys Li Jianguo a bicycle, he might accept it, but if it is a big item, he cannot accept it.

This is how he is. No matter whether the people in the team are good or bad, everyone knows what kind of person Li Jianguo is.

Otherwise, the 18-inch color TV should be placed in Li Jianguo's room instead of Li Qingxia's room.

So, for a while, many people came to Li's house to ask about the matter of beating melon seeds.

"Gone. Except for some shriveled ones that my family plans to use to cook spiced melon seeds for the New Year, the rest are all sold out." Liang Yuemei was very proud this time.

"I want the deflated ones too!"

"What?" This time it was the Li family's turn to be surprised. (End of this chapter)