Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The supply and marketing cooperative had not issued any tasks for the reed stalks, and Li Long did not ask any more questions. Anyway, one more job would not be too much for him. Now many people in the village were about to fight over the issue of cutting reeds in Weihu, so he thought it would be good to finish the reed stalks job later.

Let those people cutting the reeds hurry up and put out the fire first.

Otherwise, they could clear the entire Wei Lake and a fight might really break out.

After all, if there really is a task to collect reeds, whoever cuts more reeds will earn more money.

Every time Li Long returned to the team, he would be asked whether Wei Bazi survived. He was so annoyed that he simply told his eldest brother and father and decided not to return to the village for a while.

When the second brother Li Anguo took Chen Lirong, Xue Ping and Xue Qin away, Li Long gave four hundred yuan to the second sister-in-law Chen Lirong in front of his second brother.

Chen Lirong refused, because she knew that her family had received a lot of kindness from her brother-in-law.

"Sister-in-law, these are all available. I bought a bicycle for Li Juan and Li Qiang. After my sister and her family moved to Shicheng, I also gave her money to buy a bicycle.

You have your own yard now. My brother works during the day and you have to take care of the two children. You can use the money to buy a bicycle so that it is convenient to take the children with you. "

My second sister-in-law has two children, so I gave her an extra hundred yuan. This was Li Long’s own calculation.

Li Anguo did not persuade him. Since he already had it, he should take it. He also knew that his younger brother was very capable and talented. He would take the money first and return it later when he had the chance.

After seeing off his second brother and his wife, Li Long became a semi-homebody in the county compound, occasionally showing up at the supply and marketing cooperative and chatting with Li Xiangqian.

Li Xiangqian is not always in the supply and marketing cooperative. As the head of the purchasing department, he has some buyers under him, and some ordinary purchasing tasks are distributed to them.

For example, Li Long, most of the purchasing tasks in rural areas were assigned to him.

In fact, Li Xiangqian had intentionally given Li Long more tasks. No matter how much money Li Long made, at least he completed the task very well, and no one came to the supply and marketing cooperative to sue him.

More importantly, Li Long can also bring an increase in reputation to the supply and marketing cooperative that no one else can bring.

In this respect alone, no one can compare to us.

But for some important purchasing tasks, he still needs to be in charge in person, such as going to Turpan to purchase raisins and going to Hotan to purchase dates. He has connections in these places that other buyers do not have. If someone else goes there, he may not be able to buy good things.

Li Long was happy to have some free time and planned to stay at home and prepare for pregnancy.

Tao Daqiang has already given birth to a child, but there is still no movement from his side. How can that be possible?

"I plan to go back to the team this weekend and visit Yang Pingping and the child." At night, on the bed, after the two of them finished their activities, Gu Xiaoxia lay on Li Long and whispered.

There is a stove in the room, and it is as warm as spring.

This is the disadvantage of a big house. Even if the windows are open, it is impossible for the whole house to be illuminated, so in late autumn it is much cooler than outside.

Li Long took advantage of the space to pull back several carts of coal with a tractor. The coal room was full, so he filled the coal room and put a lot of coal outside.

Small pieces of coal and coal foam are in the middle, and a wall is built around it with coal blocks, which is then covered with mud and branches to prevent it from weathering.

Coal is most afraid of weathering. Once weathered, it becomes weak and has no fire when burned.

The house is warm and people are wearing thin clothes, so they are easily restless.

If there is nothing else to do, let’s do it again.

Yang Pingping was in confinement after giving birth. It is said that when she came back from the health center, she rode a donkey cart, covered with a quilt and wearing a headscarf.

No matter how people in later generations debated whether it was necessary to observe the confinement period, people at that time still attached great importance to it.

Naturally, a man cannot go to see his child before the full moon. Liang Yuemei went there, and Li Long asked Liang Yuemei to help bring brown sugar and millet.

These are all welfare benefits issued by the supply and marketing cooperatives. He is just offering them as a token of his gratitude.

After all, Gu Xiaoxia is from the team, and she is Li Long's wife. It is normal for her to go home on the weekend and visit Yang Pingping who is in confinement after giving birth.

Then on Friday, Gu Xiaoxia gave Li Long a surprise:
"I... seem to be pregnant."

"What?" Li Long was surprised. He didn't have his own children in his previous life, and he had been looking forward to having one in this life. But when he heard Gu Xiaoxia say this, he simply couldn't believe his ears.

"I think I might be pregnant." Gu Xiaoxia was also a little nervous and unsure, "My period hasn't come this month... It's already been several days late."

“Has this ever happened before?”

"I had it once when I was in the team, but it never happened again after I started working." Gu Xiaoxia thought for a moment and said, "It was only this time... It was a few days late, otherwise..."

Gu Xiaoxia didn't say anything else, but Li Long knew that his two points were a bit ridiculous - of course, compared with the present world, compared with those people in future generations, there is a huge gap.

Although I haven't experienced it, I have heard of it.

"Then you won't go back this weekend." Li Long made a decision immediately. "If there is something wrong, it will be inconvenient to go back and see it!"

It is an unwritten rule in the local area that pregnant women and little girls cannot stay in confinement.

"Then I won't go back." Although Gu Xiaoxia wanted to go back, she thought the possible baby in her belly was more important.

Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia did not return to the team, which made some people in the team very anxious.

The reeds at home are piled so high. In the beginning of November, people would come to collect the reed stems and hairy reeds in previous years. This year, people came to collect hairy reeds.

At that time, very few people would beat the hairy reeds, as they were used to make paper, so the quality requirements for the reeds were not high. The fiber of the reeds was still good and was quite good for making paper.

However, the raw materials needed by the paper mill were limited. At that time, there was no large-scale cattle and sheep farming here, and the wheat harvested in the summer and the wheat straw were all sent to the paper mill as raw materials.

So the demand for reeds is much less.

Everyone still hopes to make money by making reed handles.

But Li Long hasn't come back yet and won't give them a life. So are they just going to wait?

Those who were in a hurry would visit Li's house from time to time, and some who were even more anxious would even tie up reed bundles at home.

In their opinion, there is always such work to do, otherwise it would be a waste to pile up these reeds at home, so they might as well tie them into reed bundles.

Whether it is Li Long or Hu Laoer and Hu Laosan like last year, he will give it to whoever accepts it.

So now some people have started to make reed bundles when they have free time.

In the past two years, the fourth team has formed a winter "culture" that is completely different from that of other teams.

When winter comes, the other teams really stay at home for the winter. There is nothing to do, so the boys get together to play cards or tell stories.

Those who are energetic can go out and chase rabbits or something. There are also people who trap rabbits, but they are not many.

Team 4 also has work to do in the winter. The ice is not thick yet, so it is not the right time to break holes in the ice to catch fish, but some people are keeping an eye on the Dahaizi Lake, and they don't know if the Dahaizi Lake will drain out the water like last year, revealing a reservoir full of fish.

If someone thinks that because the fish in the sea were cleared last year there will be no fish this year, they are wrong.

Dahaizi is different from Xiaohaizi. There are two lakes upstream of Xiaohaizi, one is flood and the other is a small stream of canal water separated from the Ma River.

Neither of these two sub-waters is likely to bring in big fish, at most some small fish.

Therefore, Li Long has been trying his best to prevent the dam of Xiaohaizi from bursting, because he knows that once the dam of Xiaohaizi bursts, the big fish will escape, and it will be impossible to have so many fish again.

Dahaizi is different. Its upstream is the Mohe Canal which is like a river, and there are several large and small reservoirs downstream.

These reservoirs are all public and interconnected. Even if there are no fish here, there are fish in the downstream reservoirs. When the water is released, the big fish will swim upstream and settle in the sea.

Therefore, there will always be fish in the sea, unless the upstream and downstream are completely cut off.

Last year's scene left such a deep impression on the participants that many people were waiting.

Of course, more people were still harvesting reeds. Even Li Jianguo cut a lot of reeds at home. There was a tractor in his yard, so most of the reeds were piled in Li Long's yard.

Liang Yuemei and Li Jianguo would pull out reeds when they had nothing to do, but unlike the others, they did not tie the reeds together. They had to pull out the reeds first.

In Li Jianguo's words, isn't tying the reeds a simple job? Pulling the reeds is the troublesome thing. As long as the reeds are pulled well, the rest of tying the reeds is not a problem at all.

The Lu Yingming family next door followed suit. Many families did the same, but the more radical ones had already started tying reed bundles according to last year's standards.

Li Long didn't know all this. He was relieved when he was seriously making sure that Gu Xiaoxia just missed her period and didn't feel any other discomfort. It was difficult to test at the moment, so he could only wait and see if her period came next month. If it didn't come, then she was most likely pregnant.

He originally wanted to stay at home and take care of Gu Xiaoxia, but was laughed at by Gu Xiaoxia.

"When do I need care? Aren't you too cautious? There are women in our company who are eight months pregnant and still working, and there are women who are seven or eight months pregnant and teaching students in school. That guy in our team is about to give birth but is still working in the fields..."

Well, women these days really hold up half the sky, but of course it’s a bit too much.

Similar situations also occurred in later generations.

Then Li Long was sent out by Li Xiangqian.

Li Xiangqian saw that he was too idle, so he sent him to the mountains to collect honey.

The supply and marketing cooperatives need to store a variety of materials, and there are too many types. Most of the specialties on the market, or in other words, the supply and marketing cooperatives need to have a copy of them in their warehouses.

Some materials that are not available locally are usually available in tons in the supply and marketing cooperatives.

There is not much honey produced locally. The Corps has a beekeeping team, and there are scattered beekeepers in each township. Beekeepers from the mainland will come here when cars become more popular, but at this time, most of the beekeepers in the mountains are public.

Li Xiangqian certainly didn't want Li Long to go looking for it like a fly with its head covered. He pointed out the location of a beekeeping team of a certain agricultural division of the Corps and asked him to go and buy a batch of honey.

The price has been set, and the supply and marketing cooperative is charging one yuan and three cents per kilogram.

Honey was still a rarity for ordinary people at that time. Although Li Long's family had been eating honey and had been doing so for years, most families did not have the ability to do so.

After all, at this time, some doctors still use honey as medicine when prescribing medicine.

The production is low and the price is high, so ordinary people can eat less.

The reason why Li Long was asked to go was, of course, because Li Long had a tractor.

The supply and marketing cooperative does not have many cars. Before winter, it has a large number of procurement tasks, and all the cars have been sent out to purchase more important materials. Some of them are even running long distances. For those that are not too far away, they can only wait, or let people like Li Long who have a tractor go.

The purchasing task was for Li Long to purchase 2,000 kilograms of honey. At this time, a large amount of honey was packed in bags, just like the plastic bags used to pack 40 kilograms of fertilizer. There was a layer of plastic lining inside to prevent the honey from leaking.

Li Long went to the Corps' beekeeping team to collect honey according to Li Xiangqian's instructions. This kind of thing was already quite common at that time.

The honey of the beekeeping team was stored in a unified manner. At that time, the Corps was a large collective, and it was also a large collective in later generations, but when Li Long had an accident, the Corps had already been reformed.

Before the reform, all the inputs of the various companies of the Corps here, except for labor, were paid for by the Corps as a whole. The harvest was also harvested uniformly, handed over to the Corps, and sold uniformly.

After the sale, after deducting expenses and fees that should be retained by each level, the remainder will be distributed to the Corps employees.

The same is true for the beekeeping team at this time. The beekeepers hand over the harvested honey to the team, and the team sells it together. The money from the sale of the honey is deducted from the team's expenses and costs, and then returned to the beekeepers according to the proportion of the honey handed over.

There were certainly some drawbacks, so reforms were carried out in later generations.

This time, Li Long went straight to the team headquarters, which had a large courtyard and a huge printed slogan on the wall: "Long Live Chairman Mao!" It was awe-inspiring.

As soon as the tractor drove into the yard, someone came out to see.

"I'm from the Ma County Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and I'm here to buy honey." Li Long talked directly to the other party after getting off the car.

"Looking for our captain," the man pointed to a room.

Li Long looked over there and saw a team headquarters sign hanging on the door.

Li Long came down and walked towards the team headquarters.

A man was smoking and listening to the radio at the table in the team headquarters. The radio was playing Shan Tianfang's storytelling. When Li Long came in, he looked up, then stood up and asked with a smile:

"Are you from the supply and marketing cooperative? Buying honey? Okay, how much do you want?"

"Two or three tons." Li Long said, "Do you have any?"

"Yes, yes, yes. Two or three tons, not much." The captain pointed to the warehouse next to him and said, "What's your price?"

"One piece, I want this much." Li Long would not be fooled by him and directly made an offer, "Two or three tons is not a small amount. Ordinary people or shops only have a few hundred kilograms at most. What I want is not a small amount."

These days, a business worth two to three thousand yuan is really big. Beekeepers in the mountains can occasionally sell a few kilograms of honey, and the money can be put into their own pockets.

But when I return to the beekeeping team and hand over the honey, it is hard to say how much money I will get.

"One dollar? Isn't that too cheap?" The captain listened to Li Long's offer and shook his head, saying, "A little higher. Yesterday, the department store in Shawan came to buy honey and offered one dollar and fifteen cents."

"How can they buy as much as I do?" The department store can only buy 500 kilograms of honey at a time. Li Long will not give in easily.

"Little comrade, how old are you?" the captain suddenly asked.

"Twenty-two." Li Long said a random number. "What's wrong?"

"Is this your first time collecting honey?"

"Yes."

"I can tell you're inexperienced." The captain looked outside, then pulled Li Long to sit on the bench and whispered:

"Look, we're all working for the government, so why bother? How about this. You buy honey from the supply and marketing cooperative, and when you write 1.2 yuan on the invoice, I'll sell it to you for 1 yuan. As for the extra money, we'll split it in half, how about that?"

Hey! How can this captain still think like this?

Li Long was a little confused, but after calculating it this way, it was equivalent to that he actually bought the honey at the price of RMB 1.1, and the supply and marketing cooperative had already given a price of RMB 1.3. Since they could negotiate the price, it was natural that the price would be Li Long's.

One dollar is also fine.

Li Long said:
"Okay, that's it. Your honey comes from the mountains, right?"

"Some of it comes from the mountains. Why, do you like mountain honey?" In fact, at this time, most people don’t care where the honey comes from, it’s good to have it.

"Of course, I like mountain honey." Li Long naturally wants good honey. Thirty or forty years later, the price of mountain flower honey will be ten or twenty yuan more expensive per kilogram than ordinary honey.

"Okay, then I'll pack you all the honey from the mountains." Seeing that Li Long was so understanding, the captain naturally found it easy to satisfy him.

First inspect the goods, load them, and finally issue an invoice and pay.

One bag of honey is 50 kilograms, and two tons means 40 bags. This tractor's bed certainly cannot carry all the honey. So Li Long made an agreement with the team leader to carry 20 bags at a time and pay by batch.

The captain was naturally satisfied, as the money was safely in his pocket.

He earned two hundred yuan from selling honey once, so he was naturally very happy.

Li Long pulled 21 bags the first time, and he planned to keep the extra bag for himself and share it with each family. This thing is a good thing. At present, all of his elders, including his eldest brother, smoke. Honey moisturizes the throat and relieves the throat. It is good to drink it often.

He had to pay the money first, and the accountant of the beekeeping team, under the guidance of the team leader, issued him a receipt with RMB 1.2 written on it.

Of course, the ticket was torn up by Li Long after it left the store. It's better not to keep it.

After a trip to the supply and marketing cooperative's warehouse to store the honey, the warehouse manager inspected the goods and issued an invoice. Li Long went to the finance department to get the money, and then went to the beekeeping team to pick up another truckload of twenty bags of honey.

The captain and Li Long had a very pleasant cooperation. He felt that this young man was very capable and told Li Long that he hoped he would come back to buy honey next year and that he could give him a preferential price then.

Li Long just smiled and thought that maybe he would come again to buy honey next year.

The supply and marketing cooperative had a lot of purchasing tasks, but most of them were assigned to the regular employees of the purchasing department. Li Long was a special case. Firstly, he was a favorite of Li Xiangqian and even Director Wei, so he was able to get several big jobs.

Secondly, the work he completed was basically problem-free and of very high quality, which satisfied his superiors, so the leaders were willing to give him the work.

But he was not willing to be involved in too many purchasing tasks.

Firstly, it would affect the stability of the purchasing department. After all, everyone knows that you can get kickbacks when you go out to purchase. If Li Long gets all the kickbacks, then others will definitely have opinions.

Secondly, Li Long was unfamiliar with some areas and was easily deceived, so he thought it would be better for him to be cautious.

After all, it is better to hide your shortcomings than to show your skills.

Xiang Shaolong said so. (End of this chapter)