Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long looked at the remaining three or five people and laughed angrily.

Do you really think the Li family is a philanthropic family?

We have to get rid of these three or five people as soon as possible, otherwise more and more people will come and it will become more and more troublesome.

"My family did leave some seeds." He stood on the tractor, looked around, and regretted not having a few shovel handles in the truck bed. That thing was so convenient to use.

No wonder the Monkey King uses a stick and looks down on other weapons.

It is no wonder that men, big or small, usually cannot walk when they see a straight stick.

"Then give us three to five kilograms. A little less is fine. We don't ask for much."

"That's right." The other person smiled when he saw that there was a chance. "We don't want much. Anyone who can plant two or three acres of land will do."

"Bullshit!" Li Long suddenly cursed, "How many seed companies have you visited?"

"One." Someone said honestly.

"Me too... one." The other person met Li Long's depressing gaze and told the truth unconsciously.

"You guys want to get rich just like this?" Li Long's voice got louder. "In order to find melon seeds, I went to seven or eight seed companies in Shicheng, Ma County, Beiting and Wucheng, and finally found just a little bit!

You went to a seed company and couldn't find any, so you wanted to come here to find ready-made ones? Let me tell you, no way! If you want to find seeds, you can either do what those people did and go to the seed factory to see if there is any chance of getting some.

Either you go to the seed company more often and work harder, or go home and starve! You don't even want to put in any effort, but you want to pick other people's fruits. What the hell do you want?
The seeds we left behind are what we want to plant. If we give them to you, what will we plant? Go! If you don’t leave, I’ll chase you away!”

Li Long said it so directly that one person left out of anger, and the remaining few wanted to complain a little longer, and then a few more people came and joined in.

At this time, footsteps were heard again at the gate of the courtyard.

"What are you doing?" Lu Yingming was in the lead, followed by Xie Yundong, Tao Dayong, and even the thin Jia Weidong. One of them was holding a stick:
"What do you want to do? Huh? Are you here to run wild with Team 4? Do you think Team 4 is empty?"

When they saw a large group of people coming, they immediately became timid. One of them waved his hand and said with a smile:
"No, no, we just want to come here to buy some melon seeds. We don't really plan to do anything else."

"No? The whole village heard you questioning Old Brother Li! If Old Brother Li wasn't so good-tempered, you would have to crawl out now!"

The sound of a bicycle rang out, and then Xu Chengjun appeared at the gate of the courtyard.

"I am the captain of Team 4. Let me tell you, Team 4 is a collective. I said on behalf of Brother Li that there are no more melon seeds. If you want to find them, go somewhere else!

You can always find it by visiting more seed companies! Don’t waste your time and energy here. If you really think the people in Team 4 are easy to bully, we can try to be them! "

Tao Dayong in the team was suddenly excited.

It’s been a few years since we formed a team and joined others in a group fight!
After Xu Chengjun said this, most of the people left. They had no choice but to leave, because everyone in the team came to support them.

To be honest, after the household contract responsibility system was implemented, many people actually felt that the production team seemed to have fallen apart all of a sudden and no longer had the same spirit as before in the big collective.

Everyone does their own thing, and the only time we feel like a group is when we clean the canal in early spring.

I was quite envious when someone left. If I were in the village and got into trouble with people from other villages, and my own village could come out to settle the matter, then it would be worth it no matter how hard it was.

But some people still refused to accept it and said in a loud voice:

"We just wanted to come here to buy some melon seeds. What? Do you want to beat us up?"

"We have no objection if you want to discuss it normally." Xu Chengjun was also reasonable. He walked up to the man and first of all, he pressed him down with his height. Then, he stretched out his hand and Tao Daqiang directly handed him the stick:

"If you want to force a sale, or play dirty, and think that the Li family is easy to bully because they are reasonable with you, then you are wrong! Let me tell you one more thing, our four teams are a collective, and we are not afraid of trouble!

If you are not convinced, I can let you feel the power of the collective again!"

Xu Chengjun can be the village director not only because he can suppress the people in the village, but also because he has never been timid towards outsiders.

Just now, he really thought that if this guy continued to be so stubborn, he would not mind letting him taste the power of the collective!
The little guy was still a bit perceptive after all. Seeing that other people were gathering around him, he knew that as long as the village director opened his mouth, the sticks would all be "collectively" hit on his head.

In the end, he left without saying a word.

Li Long got off the tractor and was about to speak, but Xu Chengjun spoke first:

"This bunch of bastards only know how to bully honest people!"

Li Long thought about it and thought, well, judging from his reaction just now, the elder brother is indeed an honest man. After all, we are all farmers and we all want to get rich. The original intention is good, but it's a pity that some people use it in the wrong place.

Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong came over with a teapot and an enamel bowl respectively to pour water for everyone.

It’s early October now, and the melon is a bit cold, so tea is better.

Du Chunfang smiled, this is really the power of the collective. In fact, Li Long was really worried that those guys would hit me.

"Brother Li, you can't do this, but we can." Xu Chengjun took the tea bowl and said, "You and Xiaolong have become famous, so you have to pay attention to the impact.

We are not afraid. Our four teams are still a collective. If there is any problem, I, the village director, will still step in. You don’t have to worry about the rest.”

In fact, these people also bought seeds from the Li family. How could such a thing not happen?

Li Long didn't expect Tao Dayong to show up. He came over and asked:
"Brother Dayong, I heard that Daqiang's wife gave birth?"

"It was born, a girl." Tao Dayong sighed, "not a son."

"It's better not to have a son!" Li Long said with a smile.

"How can it be good?" Tao Dayong was puzzled.

"If it's not a son, then according to the family planning regulations, I can have another baby in four years. If it's a son, then I'll have both a son and a daughter, right? It'll be like my eldest brother, how great! If this baby is a son, then I can't have any more children, right?"

Tao Dayong reacted and slapped his thigh:
"Yes!"

"Yes, yes, yes, two is great!" Others came over with their bowls and said, "Look at Brother Li and Brother Lu, they both have two, how great!"

Tao Dayong suddenly thought of himself and said with a sad face:
"Then I... ah!"

Li Long smiled and said:
"You can do it, too."

"How can I do that? I'm just a kid."

"Grow melons well next year, don't spend the money you earn, prepare for the fine, and have another child quickly. Right now the management in my hometown is strict, and the most we can get in the countryside here is a fine. If you want to have another child, just be prepared for the fine."

Tao Dayong thought, this is true! I didn't dare to have children before, wasn't it because I was afraid of paying the fine! Next year, let alone making more than 5,000 yuan from ten acres of land like Li Jianguo, even if I make more than 3,000 yuan, I can pay the fine.

His heart suddenly became hot.

Since it was not a busy farming season, everyone started chatting in the Li family yard. Li Jianguo simply talked about some techniques for growing melons, such as soaking seeds, using a seed drill, ridge formation, weeding, and insect control.

"Brother Li, I'll come to see you next year when there are worms." Xu Chengjun remembered with a puzzled look in his head, "I don't know how to separate so many medicines. How did you know?"

"Xiao Long went to the Bayi Agricultural College to ask a university professor for advice." Li Jianguo said this with great pride. Although there is no college student in his family yet, and he himself is only halfway through school, Li Long was able to ask a university professor for advice, and the professor was willing to give advice, which was amazing.

Of course, Gu Boyuan is also a university graduate, but his experience is different.

Li Jianguo once joked to Gu Boyuan, saying that "it would take ten years for a scholar to rebel but failed." Gu Boyuan did not get angry or retort, but thought about it seriously and nodded.

He is really just a bookworm with all the knowledge but no means.

Otherwise, the family wouldn't be broken up.

People like Professor Wu are different. Even though he worked at a seed company a few years ago, once he got the opportunity, he immediately entered the Bayi Agricultural College and resumed his status as a professor.

No one came to see Gu Boyuan. That's the difference.

After the discussion on planting and playing melons was over, Li Long brought over a few decks of playing cards and Liang Yuemei brought over some roasted melon seeds, which were more to the liking of Xu Chengjun and his friends, so they simply sat on the ground and started playing poker in the yard.

People came one after another, and Li Jianguo didn't need to say anything. Xu Chengjun just stopped them directly.

Basically, these few sentences:
"There are no more seeds. If you want to find some, either go to the roasting factory or other seed companies. Don't try to cause trouble here, lest you be targeted by the collective force."

Seeing so many people sitting there, these people also knew what to do. They either left directly or asked Li Jianguo for some knowledge about growing melons and then left.

Li Long drove a tractor to the village and asked a blacksmith to order twenty more on-demand devices.

There was no spring in the blacksmith shop, and Li Long said it was not needed, and just leaving space for the spring.

He had a position in the supply and marketing cooperative, so it wasn't difficult for him to find some springs.

After all, these days, if there are people selling bicycles, there are also people selling bicycle parts.

Otherwise, how to repair it if it breaks?
Others find it hard to buy, or don’t buy much, but he is different. This thing is a key component of the on-demand device, so it’s okay to buy more.

He had no intention of selling it. Xu Chengjun and the others came here to repay the favor of buying the seeds, but next he planned to see if he could make this small group closer.

Li Jianguo told him that during those chaotic years ago, the team actually had cooperatives and mutual aid groups, where they grew crops together, harvested together, and shared profits.

Li Jianguo never thought at that time that this cooperative would become popular here again thirty years later.

If we unite these people now, plant more profitable cash crops together, and make money for a few years in a row, this small group will directly become the richest group among the entire four teams.

It will be more convenient to do anything next time.

Everything else is imaginary, but the benefits are long-term. As long as what we grow together can continue to make money, then everyone will definitely be willing to continue.

Li Long judged that making money from picking melons could only last for three to five years at most, and then he would have to change to other things.

After all, the scale will inevitably continue to expand, but the market demand is stable. When the market can't absorb so many melon seeds, the price will inevitably drop and will continue to drop to a reasonable number.

Li Long and his people just made quick money in the first few years, just like those capitalists made money from "Suan Ni Hen" and the like.

The difference is that Li Long and his team don’t need to hype, they just need to find crops with larger market gaps.

To be honest, Li Long can still find a lot of them. He just needs to find a suitable outlet like picking melons.

It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that there is a lot of work to be done these days, but there is really a severe shortage of seeds for many crops, and those who grow seeds will definitely be very popular.

In the next two days, Xu Chengjun brought people to Li's house. It didn't matter if someone was not there occasionally. With a few people gathered here, those who came to buy seeds would be a little timid and couldn't make any trouble even if they wanted to.

On the third day, Li Long drove a tractor to pull in a lot of on-demand devices, and each family was given two.

"Here, let me show you. This is the thing that you use to sow and sow melons. Pay attention when you plant them. Come to the vegetable garden and I'll show you how to do it."

These people originally came to Li Long to help prevent trouble, but then they gathered together to play cards and had a lot of fun.

Now it was time to really do something. Next year, he was going to make money from picking melons. Even if he couldn't make a tractor, he could at least make a nice carriage or something, or, as Tao Dayong wanted, make enough money from the fines.

So when Li Long said this, they became very serious.

The seeding device looks simple, but it is actually quite cleverly designed. The number of seeds dropped each time can be controlled, which requires practice. People are naturally reluctant to practice with melon seeds, but it is no problem to practice with sunflower seeds and corn seeds in Li Long's vegetable garden.

Li Long could imagine that there would definitely be more sunflowers and corns growing in this field next year.

These people are good at playing cards and doing serious work.

In the next few days, more people came to Li's house to buy seeds, but they were not so aggressive. If they couldn't buy them, they would go to the seed mill or other seed companies to look for them. It would not be impossible to find them.

The Li family also has to grow winter wheat, send live pigs to the township purchasing station, and harvest half-ripe cabbage from the summer wheat fields.

Winter came early at this time, unlike later times when sometimes there was no snow until the end of November. This year, the snow was already very thick in November. It can only be said that the winter in later times is becoming less and less like winter.

When Li Long returned to the county, he met Jiang Zhiyu and told him about this matter half-truthfully, asking Jiang Zhiyu not to write too much about them in the future to avoid further trouble.

Jiang Zhiyu is worthy of being a propaganda officer. When he heard about this, he subconsciously wanted to write a manuscript about it. However, when he saw Li Long's slightly reproachful look, he had to give up the idea.

This matter was neither big nor small, so Jiang Zhiyu had to promise to be more careful when writing articles in the future.

After the two separated, Jiang Zhiyu finally realized that he was the village's news officer and a state cadre after all. How could he admit his mistakes to Li Long and change his style?
But she also knew that the most likely person to make big news in the whole township was the Li brothers. In order to continue to publish articles in the Autonomous Region Daily in the future, she really couldn't offend him.

Li Long ran back and forth, and what surprised him was that although the reed lake was not dry and not frozen yet, some people had already started to harvest reeds in advance.

He was a little confused at first, but then Li Long understood.

Is this a sure sign that he will get the big job?

If you want to make money, you have to work hard. Beating the reeds is only the first step in tying the reed bundles.

But it had been arranged early, and as long as Li Long brought in work, they could directly exchange it for money.

Who says rural people are conservative? Isn't this a very clear-headed idea?

The reed lake in the team was not contracted out, and the reeds in the small lake could also be harvested. Whoever harvested more reeds now would have more reed bundles to tie later.

This is the same principle as before Li Long took over the job of brooming, Li Jianguo cut a lot of reeds first.

However, Li Xiangqian from the supply and marketing cooperative did not tell Li Long about the reed handling job at the moment.

However, Gu Xiaoxia’s unit distributed autumn and winter benefits.

At this time, if the unit is good, the benefits will naturally be good. If the unit is not so good, the benefits will be average.

What surprised Li Long was that the welfare benefits distributed by Gu Xiaoxia and her colleagues in the Education Bureau included not only laundry detergent, toilet paper, and soap, but also bulk rice, corn grits, etc. There were not many, but they smelled good.

When Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Xiangqian also asked him to collect his benefits.

The welfare of the supply and marketing cooperatives is much richer. In addition to ordinary daily necessities such as toilet paper, washing powder, gloves, soap, etc., there are also brown sugar, honey, rice, cooking oil, etc.

He originally came here on a bicycle, but he failed to carry it!
"Chief, have our benefits always been so good?" Li Long was a little surprised. It seemed that they didn't give out so much last year.

"It will get better and better in the future." Li Xiangqian suddenly remembered that Li Long only received basic benefits last year, and some formal employees did not receive any benefits. He said:

"I'll write a note later and you can get an extra copy. Last year you didn't get any salary from regular workers, you only got salary from temporary workers. This won't do. The director has said that you are a hero in our company..."

"No, no, no." Li Long didn't want to be special. He said, "These are all. I don't even need so much at home."

"Okay, you're aware of it." Li Xiangqian said with a smile, "It's almost the end of the year, and we're going to be evaluated for excellence. If you have nothing to do, come to the club and stay for a while so that everyone can see you. Otherwise, others will say something. Do you understand?"

"I understand, I understand." Li Long naturally understood.

Li Xiangqian still didn't mention the matter of the reed handle.

Something happened at home.

My second brother took leave and came here to pick up my second sister-in-law and the child.

Li Anguo finally made up his mind and rented a yard near the Kuitun First Construction Company. The location was a bit remote, to the north of the company, and it was considered a rural-urban junction, but it was better than living in two separate places.

On the one hand, Chen Lirong felt that they finally didn't have to live apart, but on the other hand, she was reluctant to do so.

After living in the production team for so long, she has really gotten used to it. (End of this chapter)