Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

When Li Long returned home in the evening, Sister Yang told him something.

Someone came to him in the afternoon and said he wanted to buy a harvester.

Buying a harvester?
Li Long was quite happy to hear that someone wanted to buy the harvester. After all, there was only one harvester left, and if it could be sold out, it would be considered a clearance sale.

He will wait until spring to pull another harvester. This harvester is a long-term source of income and a stable source of income.

Before the rise of cooperatives and large tracts of land were cultivated, harvesters would have a usage cycle of more than ten or twenty years.

Twenty years later, cooperatives emerged and land began to be cultivated on a large scale in a unified manner. By then, the efficiency of harvesters could not keep up, so combine harvesters, also known as Comine, were used.

The Kangmaiyin at that time was different from the current one. The current one can only harvest wheat, but at that time it could harvest wheat, corn, and sunflower, and the comprehensive use was very efficient.

At that time, high-horsepower tractors also came out, and crawler tractors gradually withdrew from the farming stage.

Li Long, who participated in the whole process in his previous life, is very clear about this process. He only needs to grasp the development context and advance or push it forward at the right time.

He is not greedy. He just wants to participate in every change a little bit in advance and get the first and most delicious bite.

Take the fish from Xiaohaizi for example. He was the first to commercialize the fish. There had been sporadic fish in the past, but some were caught and some could not make money.

He was the first person to make his first pot of gold by using fish and mountain products.

In my previous life, I really did go hunting with a gun, but I never did it. People were honest back then, and I kept the gun when I was asked to keep it, so I kept it honestly.

In fact, at that time, I kept the gun myself and it was easy to find bullets.

If you really take a gun and run into the mountains, get prepared, and shoot a wild boar or two, you'll get the idea.

But no one did.

People are educated in a very disciplined way, and therefore lose the path and opportunity to break through and develop rapidly.

In this life, he can be said to have taken an unconventional path.

"Did that person say where he came from?" Li Long asked, "When will he come back?"

"From my accent, he sounds like a nationality. He said he would come back tomorrow morning."

"Okay, I got it." Li Long drained the water in the jeep and brought back several kilograms of skinned fish this time.

Sister-in-law Liang Yuemei told mother Du Chunfang that he and Gu Xiaoxia were both too busy to clean up. Sister Yang also had her own things to do, so they had nothing to do at home, so they peeled the fish and asked Li Long to bring it back.

They said to divide the fish into several piles and freeze them, then thaw them when you want to eat them, and then use warm water to soften them completely before cooking, and the taste will just as good.

Li Long did not refuse, it was a thoughtful gesture.

Wrap the fish, put it in a basket and hang it in the air, so you don't have to worry about rats causing trouble.

If you want to freeze in the snow, you can't touch the ground. You have to compact the snow all around, otherwise mice will find it and cause trouble.

In his previous life, he slaughtered a pig and put the pig bones in a bag to freeze in the snow in the yard. The bag was leaning against the wall and covered with snow. He thought it would be fine.

When I went to take it out before the Lunar New Year, I found that rats had already made several holes in it. Not much meat was eaten, but the bones were covered with rat feces and urine, which was a mess.

So Li Long handled this matter very carefully.

The fish was cooked and Sister Yang’s dinner was also ready.

When Gu Xiaoxia came back, she was carrying two small bags, saying they were millet given by the Education Bureau.

It’s not easy to get millet these days. Sister Yang put the millet in the storage room and said she would make millet porridge tomorrow.

Gu Boyuan came over, Han Fang came back, and everyone had dinner together.

The lights in the courtyard were replaced with high-wattage bulbs, and the house was bright. Li Long didn't care about the electricity bill. Since he had money, he wanted to make the quality of life as good as possible under this environment.

After dinner, Han Fang went to do homework, while Gu Boyuan walked back with his hands behind his back. It was already dark, and Li Long gave him a flashlight, but Gu Boyuan didn't turn it on, but put it in his pocket and walked back as if he was taking a walk.

Gu Xiaoxia returned to the bedroom, and Li Long first went to the glass house at the back, looked at the seedlings there, and added another shovel of coal into the stove.

His idea was to try to maintain the temperature inside, but it was basically impossible. He was not a greenhouse farmer. Although the coal in the stove was pressed down by coal foam at night, it would slowly go out in the second half of the night. When he got up in the morning and refilled it, there would be a gap.

He was too lazy to get up in the middle of the night, so the seedlings didn't grow very well.

Li Long was just doing an experiment, so he didn't expect it to go so smoothly. At least for now, the seedlings were growing well, and the temperature and humidity in the glass shed were also good, so that was all.

The next day, after getting up and having breakfast, when everyone else left, Li Long went to the glass shed again, removed the remaining ash from the stove, set up a new stove, and then returned to the yard.

Since someone is coming today, he will leave later.

I put boiling water in the radiator of the jeep, started it, warmed up the car, and moved it out of the way. After turning off the engine, I cleaned the tractor head.

If the other party does not drive a tractor over, you have to start your own tractor when demonstrating.

Then he went to remove the plastic sheet on the last harvester, cleared the remaining snow and made room.

Try to sell whatever you can, keeping it is also a problem.

At half past ten in the morning, there was a knock on the door and Li Long went over to open it.

Sister Yang had reminded him of this, and Li Long had also thought about it, and it turned out that the two people who came were indeed comrades from the same ethnic group.

"Hello, are you Comrade Li Long?" The first person to ask the question was a middle-aged man wearing a Zhongshan suit, who looked about the same age as Yushanjiang. Following behind him was a man in his thirties who looked quite like his younger brother.

Both of them were wearing fur hats with the ears turned up and tied on top. They were not wearing coats at this time, and it could be seen that both of them were shivering in this weather.

I don’t know if the coat was left at the hotel.

"It's me, hello, hello, come on, Adasi, please come in." Li Long roughly guessed that the two were Uyghur comrades, and he immediately invited them in.

"I read in the newspaper that you are a model of ethnic unity," the comrade in his forties said with a smile after he came in. "We are very happy to meet you. My name is Abulati, and this is my younger brother Abdusaimaiti."

"Hello, where are you from? Are you here just to see the harvester?"

"We came from Yili," Abulati said, "just to see the wonderful harvester mentioned in the newspaper."

"You must have had a hard time digging through Guozigou, right?" Li Long led the two people into the house, poured them some tea, and then pointed at the cups and said, "A new cup."

"Comrade Li Long knows Yili very well?" Abulati didn't expect that Li Long also knew Guozigou and knew that it was difficult to travel here.

This time was not like the later times. With mobile phones and the Internet, people did not need to go out to get all kinds of information. They could just search and get the information.

Forty years later, many people across the country knew about Yili and Liuxing Street because of the song "The Scent of Apple". But at this time, what people in northern Xinjiang knew most about Yili was its apples.

At that time, there was no Guozigou Bridge. It took people from Yili three days to walk out of the valley to WLMQ. It took one day to walk from Yili to Guozigou, and another whole day to cross Guozigou. In winter, it was easy for the car to overturn.

It takes another day to drive from Guozigou to WLMQ via Wuyi Highway.

It was unlike forty years later when it was only possible to get there in one day.

"I know a little. The apples in your area are very good." Li Long said with a smile:

"Turpan's grapes, Hami's melons, Yecheng's pomegranates are praised by everyone, Korla's fragrant pears are the best in the world, Ili's apples are the best, Atushi's figs are famous, Xiayedi watermelons are sweet and juicy, Kashgar's cherries are like pearls, Jiashi's melons are so sweet that they make your teeth fall out, Hotan's thin-skinned walnuts don't need to be cracked, and Kuche's white apricots are the best. There are fruits and melons all year round, and you won't miss home when you come to XJ."

At that time, the apples from Yili were more famous in southern and northern Xinjiang, and the apples from Aksu were not as famous as those from Yili. But later, the apples from Yili were almost completely destroyed due to a disaster, and then they gradually faded out of people's sight. Forty years later, a large number of tourists flocked to Yili, and they learned that the local old apples here, such as Xialimu, Gala, Qiulimu, and Xiaqiuzi, did not look good, but tasted fragrant and sweet with a little sourness. Only then did some people recall again that forty years ago, the apples here were really good.

Abulati laughed. Abudusaimaiti, who was standing behind him, took out two apples from his black leather bag and placed them on the table. He said to Li Long:

"These are the apples we brought with us, Comrade Li Long, please have a taste."

At that time, the Ili apples were really big, as big as a bowl. Li Long actually ate Ili's Red Five-Star apples at that time, which were a kind of flour apple. The one that Abdu Saimaiti brought was Guoguang, which had a different flavor.

"Thank you." Li Long said with a smile, "You came here to see the harvester. I mean, if you like it, how will you transport it back?"

"We have already found a truck for transportation. If we have reached an agreement, the truck will have gone to WLMQ to deliver the goods. When it comes back, it will come and pull the harvester back," Abulati explained.

"Okay, warm up, then we'll look at the harvester. I'll start my tractor and show you how to do it. Do you grow more wheat there?"

"No, we not only grow wheat, but also corn, sunflower, rapeseed and rice. We think that except corn, the others should be able to be harvested by harvesters, right?" Abu asked.

"Well, it's OK." Li Long thought for a moment and said, "It's almost the same. As long as we remove the stalks in the field, we can harvest it with a tractor and a harvester."

The water conservancy project in the Ili River Valley was built by Lin Zexu when he came here, and the famous one is the Imperial Canal. It is said that rice planting in the river valley also started during the time of Lin Zexu and Zuo Zongchang.

The two guests drank the water, and Li Long broke the apple in half and ate half of it. The apple was really sweet and delicious.

Then they came out and Li Long pointed at the harvester and introduced it to them part by part. After the introduction, he let them watch it for themselves while Li Long went to boil water.

Abdusaimaiti saw that there was only one harvester in the yard and he started to murmur:
“This is the only harvester. Could it be broken?”

"Let's take a look later." Abulati was also a little unsure. If he bought a broken one, it would be difficult to repair it after traveling so far.

Seeing that Li Long was so enthusiastic, he didn't want to ask now.

Besides, seeing that there was a jeep in Li Long's yard, it was even harder to ask. There were really not many people who could drive a jeep in the Yili River Valley, so Li Long must have a great background.

The water had been in the pot and had already boiled, but then it cooled down a bit after the coal was removed. Now Li Long added more water and it soon began to boil again.

Li Long scooped water into a bucket, lifted it out and poured it into the tractor, then tried the crank. It felt heavy, so he put two pieces of red charcoal underneath and burned them.

Seeing the two brothers looking at the harvester, Li Long came over and said:
"I brought five harvesters from the factory, and this is the last one. You can take a look at it and try it out later. It's up to you whether you want to buy it or not.

This is the initial model, so it will be cheaper now. If you come next spring, there will be an improved model, but it will be more expensive then.”

"How much more can it be?" Abrala asked.

Both brothers speak Mandarin quite well, even better than Halimu. Li Long guessed that it was because they had worked and lived with Han comrades for a long time, so they spoke it fluently.

"It's probably fifty to eighty dollars more expensive."

"How much does this one cost?" Abdusaimai asked.

"Five hundred and fifty yuan." Li Long said, "The same price."

Abdusaimaiti looked at his brother.

"Comrade Li Long, how many acres of land can this harvester harvest in a day?" Abulai asked.

"I harvested wheat in the summer, and the most I harvested in one day was about 100 acres." Li Long thought for a while and said, "In fact, I could have harvested more. But the round trip is quite long.

This year was the first time I used a harvester to harvest crops for others. Some people didn’t believe it, so they traveled quite far to harvest crops. ”

Both brothers could understand that, after all, it takes time for everyone to accept new things.

"One hundred acres a day, how much do you want to harvest one acre?" Abdusaimaiti asked again.

"Two pieces."

"So expensive?" Abulati was a little surprised.

"The price of plowing land here is four or five yuan per mu." Li Long said with a smile, "The harvest price is two yuan per mu, which is still acceptable to everyone. We have a lot of land here, and some families have more than ten or twenty mu.

If we harvest wheat manually, it will take several days to harvest it. With a harvester, it will be done in a short time, and the time saved can be used for other things.

Besides, you should also know that harvesting wheat is still very hard. Your Ili River Valley is not bad, the climate is good, and the summer is not that hot.

During the wheat season in summer here, the temperature can reach 37 or 38 degrees Celsius during the day, and some people faint from the heat when harvesting wheat manually."

The two brothers realized that the climates on both sides were different, and the acceptance of harvesters should also be different.

"You can actually get a lower price there, but of course the price is up to you. If you buy the harvester back, I think it will be the first one in the Yili River Valley, so the price will be yours.

In addition, this harvester can also mow grass. After harvesting wheat this year, I mowed thousands of acres of grassland for my herdsmen in the mountains, and it went smoothly. "

The two brothers looked at each other and said nothing.

Li Long didn't say anything else, he turned around and started the tractor.

Whether it can be sold or not is another matter. Since people have come all the way here, you should introduce the product properly and demonstrate it properly.

The charcoal fire was almost burned out, and Li Long shook the crank handle again. He found that it was much lighter, so he did not press down to reduce the pressure. He shook it a few times first, and then pressed down again to reduce the pressure.

Abulati came over to help, but Li Long had already started the tractor and it was spinning fast. He released the decompression and heard the muffled sound of the engine. Abdusaimaiti shook his head and looked at the light black smoke rings coming out of the chimney. He felt that it would not start this time.

Have to do it again.

However, what he didn't expect was that after removing the pressure relief, Li Long actually shook it three or four more times, and faster and faster. The sound coming from the engine of the small four-wheel tractor changed from the grunt of an old cow to a cheerful sound, and it actually started with a "bang bang bang"!
"Hehe, I almost embarrassed myself." Li Long pulled out the crank and smiled, "It's OK, it's started. Come on, let's get the harvester on, and then I'll show you how to do it."

"Has your tractor been adjusted?" Abdusaimaiti asked while helping to move the harvester.

"It has never been adjusted." Li Long drove the tractor head into place and guided the two brothers to adjust the harvester while saying, "It is what it was originally.

By the way, let me tell you, although this is a first-generation harvester, it is very durable. This year, I harvested nearly 3,000 acres of land, and the money I earned was almost enough to buy a tractor, and this harvester has never broken down. "

"Really?" When the two brothers heard that Li Long earned a tractor in one wheat season, they became determined at once.

"Of course it's true. This year I plan to organize a cooperative and get a few harvesters so that we can all work together. We have a large plot of land here, and with the demonstration this year, there should be more people who want to use harvesters to harvest wheat next year."

Li Long instructed two people to put the harvester onto the tractor, then turned off the tractor, removed one of the engine belts, and put on the harvester belt.

Abdusaimaiti didn't believe Li Long's words. When Li Long was about to drive the tractor, he rushed to say:

"I'll come and try."

Li Long smiled and let him try.

Abdusaimaiti should have a tractor at home. He skillfully put his hand on the pressure reducer, poked the handle, and started to crank.

Fortunately, with the decompression, it was not particularly difficult to shake the tractor. When smoke started to come out of the chimney, Abdusaimaiti felt that it was about time. As soon as he released the decompression, a huge recoil force made his body lower. He couldn't even shake it half a turn. The tractor made two grunts and then went in.

"Comrade Li Long, you are very strong!"

Abulaiti knew his brother was quite strong, but it was obvious that he couldn't shake it at the moment. He exclaimed in amazement: "I really didn't realize it!"

"Haha, I'm young." Li Long smiled, took the crank from the red-faced Abdusaimaiti, and shook the tractor with ease, then began to demonstrate the various operations of the harvester. (End of this chapter)