Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The tractor was moving fast. When Li Long was pulling Chen Xingbang and his family to Shicheng, Hongqin was still a little unhappy.
She just met up with her sisters and brothers yesterday afternoon and had a great time. She had to leave again this morning and she really didn’t want to leave.
Although I had friends in my hometown, I had no brothers or sisters and was occasionally bullied.

Family love is really a mysterious thing. Even when meeting Li Juan and Li Qiang for the first time, Hong Qin could feel the kindness of her elder sister and brother towards her.

So she didn't want to leave. Especially after she heard Li Qiang say that he would water the vegetable garden for the last time in two days, and that he would catch fish in the canal beside the yard, and that if she stayed, he would take her to grill fish.

In winter, I can ask my uncle to take me to catch old sparrows and roast them, fry chickens and trap rabbits...

Just by talking about eating, Li Qiang had already made Hong Qin not want to leave.

If Li Xia hadn't raised her hand at the end, Hong Qin would have really wanted to stay.

So even after the tractor drove out of Ma County, Hongqin's lips were still pouting.

Chen Xingbang had no choice. There weren't many children in the yard where he lived, and his original plan was to send Hongqin to the neighborhood preschool for two years after Li Xia brought her here, and then send her to school.

The nature of some of the current preschool classes is different from that of kindergartens in later generations. Generally speaking, they only last for one year before entering elementary school, and during this year they will teach some basic knowledge for the first grade of elementary school.

At that time, there was also an institution similar to a kindergarten, called a nursery, which was for younger children whose parents could not take care of them. Children could go there to play together and be looked after.

Of course, there are schools in the city, but not in the countryside. In the countryside, there are only preschools, and younger children are generally not accepted. Of course, if you want to send them, they will make some arrangements, but you still have to pay for it.

Like Li Qiang, he went to a preschool class with Li Juan. After Li Juan went to school, he was not old enough to go to another preschool class. If it weren't for his own hard work and Gu Xiaoxia's talking, he might have to go to another preschool class.

The tractor crossed the Ma River Bridge and entered Shicheng, where more people and vehicles appeared.

The scenery was obviously different from that of her hometown. As Hongqin looked at it, she forgot her unhappiness. She stood up, held the railing and looked around.

"The wind is strong, don't open your mouth." Li Xia reminded her, fearing that she would have a stomachache again after drinking the cold wind.

The tractor drove to Shicheng Old Street, turned a corner and came to the yard where Chen Xingbang lived.

Although it is not as big as the yard of the elder brother and the younger brother, it is much larger than the yard in the hometown and it is spacious. Li Xia likes it when she sees it.

Chen Xingbang got out of the car to open the door. After the gate was opened, Li Long drove the tractor into the yard, turned off the engine and got out of the car.

Li Xia had already jumped down. Chen Xingbang carried Hong Qin down and then went into the house carrying the bag.

"Come, come, look, this is our new home!" Chen Xingbang said excitedly, "The house is big and the yard is big. There aren't many things in it, but it's enough. The weather is good in the northwest, so we can dry our quilts every day and sleep warm at night."

Hongqin saw that there was such a big yard and ran around happily. But she didn't like the bloody smell in the yard.

Children naturally like cooked meat.

Li Long sat for a while and prepared to leave. Before leaving, he took out three hundred yuan from his backpack and stuffed it into Li Xia's hand:

"Sister, you still have to clean up your house, so I won't stay here any longer. I have to go back. Take this three hundred yuan, and when you have time, ask my brother-in-law to go with you to buy a women's bicycle. It will be more convenient to take Hongqin with me when I go out in the future..."

"I don't know how to ride yet, so I can't accept the money..." Li Xia knew that this yard was rented by her younger brother Li Long for three years, and she felt that she owed her brother enough.

"Sister, just take it, or I'll just buy a bicycle and bring it here. Oh, and there's also a bicycle ticket," Li Long handed it to Li Xia along with a nationally recognized industrial ticket:
"My brother-in-law will be busy later, and you have to take care of Hongqin. There are so many things to do. It's more convenient to have a bicycle. You can learn it very quickly."

A bicycle costs more than 100 yuan, and the rest of the money is given to his sister by Li Long as pocket money. No matter whether it is a man or a woman, if they don't have a job, they will not be worried if they have money in their hands.

On the tractor, there was a bag of rice and a bag of noodles brought from Li Jianguo. The rice was old rice, as the new rice had not yet come down, but the noodles were this year's new noodles.

According to Li Jianguo, he takes care of all the food rations for his younger brothers and sisters' families.

Li Long drove a tractor out of the compound and swayed when passing the old street, but did not get off the car. Instead, he drove back.

There is no shortage of food and daily necessities at home. We cannot be like people in later generations, who open Taobao or Baidu, see all kinds of things, click to buy them, and then find out that the products are useless when they get back.

Although he now has more than 20,000 yuan, he has to spend it wisely. The lessons of his previous life taught Li Long that there is no need to buy some things that are optional, otherwise when he cleans up the house, he can't throw them away, nor can he keep them, and they just take up space.

Zhang Qiang is still selling big brooms in the old street. These days, it is getting harder and harder to sell big brooms. The sedge grasses from all over the country have all grown old. Many people come here to sell big brooms. Most people only have five or six brooms, but he has a lot of them. Others sell them cheaply, but he doesn't want to lower the price.

So it’s hard to sell.

However, Zhang Qiang did not want to give up. He thought he should just wait for it to snow. Once it snowed, more people would need brooms, and they would probably sell well then.

Of course, he didn't know that each unit would be issued a batch of brooms.

Li Long drove the tractor back to Ma County. Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, he went to Sister Yang's house.

Gu Xiaoxia and Gu Boyuan had not arrived yet. Sister Yang was cooking and the noodles were already cooked and soaking in a basin of water.

"Sister Yang, you're getting better and better at pulling noodles now." Li Long looked at the noodles in the bowl and said with a smile, "By the way, have you received any letters from home?"

Sister Yang's husband was somewhere in northern Xinjiang. When she brought Han Fang to look for him, she lost his address. Then she found Ma County based on her memory, but of course she was in the wrong place.

After Sister Yang settled down with the help of Li Long, she sent a telegram and wrote a letter to her hometown, asking for her husband's address.

However, although her family replied to the letter, they were rambling and did not give her an address.

This has always puzzled Sister Yang.

But it’s not a good idea to rush back home, so I’ll just stay here for now.

But in the end, the purpose of Sister Yang's trip was not fulfilled as she did not find her husband.

"The letter came, but there was no address. I can't understand it. The home address can't be lost, right? Even if it is lost, Han Fang's father has to write home these days. Why doesn't he write to me?" Sister Yang was also very worried.

Li Long is a monster who has lived for forty years longer. He does not hesitate to speculate about the people in Yang's hometown with the greatest malice.

There are two reasons for not writing the address. One is to hide it from Sister Yang, and the other is to hide it from Han Fang's father.

Just like Sister Yang said, unless something happened to Han Fang's father, he would definitely write letters or send telegrams to his hometown after such a long time.

Even if there is no address saved at home, it shouldn't be difficult to get one, right?
On the other hand, to think of the worst, either he hid it from Sister Yang, or he most likely wanted to embezzle the money that Han Fang's father sent home.

Ten years later, Li Long heard about this in the team. Someone in the team went back to his hometown and found out that his parents had passed away five years ago. His family refused to tell him and did not allow him to go back, only asking him to send money.

As a result, the money I sent back was divided up by my relatives.

People in Sister Yang's hometown have also encountered similar situations.

Secondly, thinking in a worse direction, that is, to hide the truth about Han Fang's father. Her father must have been in trouble.

If something happens, people may be gone. If something goes wrong, people may be there, but they cannot recognize Sister Yang and the others.

This is what Li Long thought with a shadow of a shadow, but he couldn't tell Sister Yang.

"Then wait for Han Fang to take a vacation. You can go back to your hometown. Do you have the money for the train ticket?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I have the ticket money. Uncle, you don't charge us much rent, so I have saved a lot of money." Sister Yang was very happy when she said this.

With money at hand and business under his belt, one will be more clear-headed and won't be easily cheated.

As for why her relatives didn't tell her the truth, Sister Yang may have guessed it, or it may be that they were just too confused.

Gu Xiaoxia hurried back on her bicycle. When she got off the bicycle and saw Li Long, she smiled and said:

"You're in the newspaper again. This time it's the Autonomous Region Daily! It was written by the township official Jiang. It's about you and my elder brother with two tractors. It says that you harvest wheat, and my elder brother grows cash crops..."

Li Long took the newspaper from Gu Xiaoxia and saw an article with a mark on it in pen in the middle of the second page.

Sure enough, Jiang Zhiyu's name was listed as a correspondent. Li Long guessed that if this happened two more times, this correspondent could become a special correspondent.

At this time, the article is mainly realistic, without too much exaggeration. Jiang Zhiyu is a good writer. Just by looking at the text, you can imagine how impressive the two tractors are in the two brothers' homes. The brothers, one farming and the other "flexible employment", each have their own way to get rich. The characteristics of the cash crop of melon are emphasized.

Easy to grow, big harvest and high price.

Li Long sighed after reading it:

"I guess my eldest brother's family is in turmoil these days?"

"Why is your eldest brother's family so restless?" Gu Boyuan pushed his bicycle into the yard and asked, "What happened?"

"The village official Jiang wrote about my brother and me in the Autonomous Region Daily. I guess now everyone in the region who wants to grow melons will go to my brother to get melon seeds."

"That's right. If all the farmers in the district knew that growing melons is worth money, they would really go around the world looking for melons. But melon seeds are not easy to find."

Gu Boyuan has not run the agricultural supplies store for long, but at least he is an insider in the industry. After dealing with the relevant personnel, he knows a lot more.

Li Long felt it necessary to talk to his eldest brother. Even if it was better to divert the trouble away, he couldn't have people coming to the house to cause trouble every day.

The Shicheng roasted nuts factory is not very large, and the amount of melon seeds that can be harvested is not much.

Judging from the number of families that the Li family has bought melon seeds from this year, the melon planting area next year will be about one hundred acres. The output cannot be 200 kilograms, it will be a little less, and in the end at most only a dozen tons.

If the nuts factory cannot consume all the nuts, they can sell a batch to the seed company.

However, if things continue like this, I don’t know how long the price of 2.8 yuan can be maintained.

After lunch, they chatted for a while in the yard. Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia that his sister Li Xia had returned to Shicheng. Gu Xiaoxia meant that she could visit them when she had time.

Li Long naturally had no objection.

Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Gu Boyuan went to open the shop, and Li Long drove the tractor directly to the team.

Sister Yang cleaned up the kitchen and came out but did not prepare the food to sell on the cart in the afternoon as usual.

She leaned against the cart she usually pushed to sell food and slowly squatted down.

There was a letter in her pocket that had just been sent from her hometown. The letter did not have the address of her husband Han Xincheng written on it. Instead, it said that her father-in-law was old and had been sick twice, and the family had no money, so she was asked to send some money back.

Judging from the handwriting, it was written by my brother-in-law Han Xinren.

Sister Yang clearly remembered that her father-in-law was 58 years old when he passed away. He was in very good health and was better at working in the fields than some young people in the village.

And the husband would send money back every quarter, either twenty dollars or fifteen dollars.

This amount of money was considered a lot in my hometown. The money was sent to my father-in-law Han Dazhuang. Han Dazhuang's parents were farmers, but he himself had been to school for a few years, so the names he gave his children were quite cultural.

Every time he received money, Han Dazhuang would take out a few dollars and give it to Sister Yang as school fees for his daughter Han Fang.

Sister Yang clearly remembered that her husband Han Xincheng came back during the Chinese New Year and said that they must send their daughter to school. But before she came here to look for her husband, she didn't know who her father-in-law listened to and stopped giving Sister Yang money.

Her father-in-law told her that there was no future for girls going to school, and that Han Fang was not young anymore and could work. After working at home for a few years, she would be old enough to get married.

She guessed that this was said by her brother-in-law Han Xinren, but there was no evidence, but it didn't matter. What mattered was that she didn't want Han Fang to drop out of school, so after much deliberation, she decided to bring Han Fang to the northern border to find her husband.

This decision required great courage for a rural woman who had rarely even been to the county town.

She had no experience and had never traveled far. She had to take care of Han Fang while asking for directions, which was why she was targeted and her wallet and the important letter were stolen.

She never dared to think deeply about why her parents-in-law and brother-in-law in her hometown did not tell her husband's address. Did her husband have an accident, or did they not want her to meet him?

In the past, Sister Yang wanted to pretend to be ignorant, but after this letter was sent to her, and Li Long asked about it unintentionally, she felt that she needed to think carefully about how to solve this matter.

What was her husband's specific address? What division? What division? Or what division? Sister Yang couldn't read. Han Fang could read, but she couldn't read the handwriting of her husband Han Xincheng very clearly.

Sister Yang decided to think about it carefully with Han Fang, and she also had to think about it seriously. Even if she had to go back, she had to have a solid plan.

Otherwise, not only might you not be able to find your husband’s address when you return, you might also not be able to get out.

When Li Long drove the tractor towards the team, he saw some people walking and some riding bicycles hurrying over there.

He thought, so soon? The newspaper just came out, and someone has already seen the opportunity and is thinking of getting some seeds?
Someone shouted, "The tractor is moving very fast," but Li Long ignored them. He wanted to get to his brother's yard as soon as possible to see if it was what he imagined.

Sure enough, when we arrived at Li Jianguo's yard, we found four bicycles parked at the door and a strange tractor, which was not the one Wei Tianxing had last time. Someone was talking in the yard.

"Brother Li, you are also an old farmer. You have made money and become rich. According to the country, the rich should help the poor to get rich! We just want to find a way to get rich. It's not that we want it directly. We buy it. We will offer whatever price others offer!"

"That's right," someone immediately echoed, "We want to get rich, too. We came here with money!"

"Sell us some, even if it's just three or five acres!"

……

Li Long quickly turned off the engine and walked quickly into the yard.

Seven or eight people surrounded Li Jianguo. Li Qingxia, Liang Yuemei, and Chen Lirong wanted to help Li Jianguo, but they couldn't get in. Du Chunfang was holding a stick and was about to hit someone.

Li Jianguo usually had a kind face, and he was annoyed by what people said at this time. However, he knew that he had to reason with these people. If he really drove them away, these people would go out and tell the newspapers, and the Li family's reputation might be ruined.

Although he has a great reputation in the team, he has never dealt with such a thing. He is not afraid of it, but he is mainly afraid of affecting Li Long.

"Shut up, everyone!" Li Long climbed onto his elder brother Li Jianguo's tractor and roared, attracting everyone's attention.

Seeing Li Long arrive, he said one sentence to silence everyone else. The Li family suddenly felt that the solution to this matter depended on Li Long.

Li Jianguo's way of explanation doesn't seem to work.

"My name is Li Long!" While everyone was still confused, Li Long shouted, "You've come to the wrong place!"

"Your name is Li Long, his name is Li Jianguo, and you have two tractors. How could we have come to the wrong place?" A short man in his thirties, who was holding the Autonomous Region Daily in his hand, shouted.

"That's right, how can it be wrong?" another person echoed.

Seeing that others were about to catch up, Li Long said loudly:
"We do earn money by growing melons, but think about it, a kilogram of melons costs 2.8 yuan, which is 20 times more expensive than wheat. Will you sell them?"

"Of course I'm selling it, but I'm not selling spoons!"

"Of course, don't just say 2.80, I'll sell it for 1.80 too!"

"So, our family planted ten acres of land and harvested more than 1,800 to 1,900 kilograms. We sold it, all to the snack factory." Li Long stood on the tractor, naturally taller than the others, and his aura could intimidate many people:

"Who wouldn't want to make money? I got this tractor by picking melons. If it were you, would you keep 100 or 200 kilograms?"

These people looked at each other and no one spoke.

"If you want seeds, you can either go to a seed company or a seed mill. They may not be able to produce that many seeds in a short period of time, and if you are late, they will be gone!"

After Li Long said this, three or five people immediately left the yard and hurried away.

The rest of the people still don't believe it:
"I went to the seed company and they said they didn't have any..."

"Yes, I went there too. I'm sure your family has saved some seeds. Three to five kilograms each will be fine for me..."

These people want to cheat.

Li Jianguo was a little worried. If it really didn't work, he would just fight back. (End of this chapter)