Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The first group that came were Yang Pingping, Deng Guilan, Liang Dacheng's mother, etc. Tao Daqiang was driving a tractor, and because he was visiting women who were in confinement, all the people who came were women who had given birth.

They all heard that Gu Xiaoxia had given birth to two children, and they were all extremely envious.

Although Tao Daqiang is not sure about the probability of having a boy or a girl, in his opinion, as long as the child is his own, it's fine.

But Yang Pingping's obsession was stronger than his. It was not known whether it was because of the nagging from her mother's family or because someone in Team 4 gossiped about her, but she was determined to have a baby in two years.

So this time, she wanted to secretly learn from Gu Xiaoxia and see if there was any secret. Otherwise, how could she give birth to two children at once?
You should know that according to the family planning policy of the state, officials can only have one child.

That’s good now. The Li family has two, so there’s no need to think so much.

Although it is not as good as having one son and one daughter, two are always better than one.

This is everyone’s perception nowadays.

Sister Yang saw the tractor pulling a lot of people over, and she prepared to boil red eggs while greeting them.

Yang Pingping and her friends not only brought eggs and hens, but also small clothes, diapers, swaddles and other things, all of which are very practical.

For a moment, the living room in the middle of the main house was filled with things.

Yang Pingping and the others went into the inner room to talk to Gu Xiaoxia and look after the children, while Li Long was outside talking to Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong and Liang Dacheng.

The four of them only talked a few words about the child, but they did mention the rumor about a girl who looked like Gu Xiaoxia.

Li Long felt terrible when he heard this. All the men knew about this, and the women might also know about it. What should they do when they go into the house and tell Gu Xiaoxia?

But it was too late to remember it now. Li Long looked into the house a little nervously.

"Don't worry, everyone has taken a shower before coming here, so your child won't be infected with the disease." Xie Yundong thought that Li Long was worried that too many people coming would affect the child, so he said with a smile.

These men were not interested in gossip, and the topic soon turned to what to do next.

"It will be time to harvest the wheat in half a month," said Liang Dacheng.

"Are you ready?" Li Long asked, "Tractors, oil, harvesters, and everyone who can help needs to be ready."

"I have no problem." Liang Dacheng said with a smile, "I brought back a barrel of oil two days ago. My Shuangcheng can follow me when the time comes. Shuangcheng is good at math, so he can help with the accounting."

"I asked my brother to follow me." Tao Daqiang's words surprised everyone.

Everyone present here knows Tao Dayong's character. Is it okay to let him follow?
Xie Yundong even advised:
"Da Qiang, why not let your dad come with you? After all, your dad lives with you..."

Liang Dacheng also nodded in agreement: "That's right, I think Uncle Tao is very confident now, why don't you let Uncle Tao follow..."

"It's okay. My brother has changed a lot." Tao Daqiang smiled and lowered his head and said, "Since the end of last year, I have seen changes in my brother. The changes are quite big. I thought - since I have to bring someone with me, I might as well bring my brother. After all, he is my brother."

Well, no one can interfere in other people’s family affairs.

Li Long looked at Xie Yundong, who smiled and said:

"I plan to do it myself. If I'm too busy, I'll bring my brother-in-law with me. He doesn't have much to do at home, so if he's really busy, he can come along and earn some money."

Since everyone already had a plan, Li Long talked about the next thing:
"I have sold dozens of harvesters recently, most of which are in the surrounding area, with more in the production group and a few in our county. So when you go out to work in other townships, you should have a good attitude, don't be too calculating, and don't be too calculative.

We earn two yuan per wheat harvest, and we can earn tens or hundreds of yuan a day. If we earn less, we won't lose much. We can be more polite and harvest more cleanly for others, which will make them happy, and we can also promote our business..."

"Of course, I know." Tao Daqiang has been selling fish with Li Long for two years and knows the most about this aspect. "It doesn't cost much to give a smile, Brother Long, don't worry. We are here to make money, so we must maintain a good relationship with our customers."

"Yes, that's the truth." Li Long nodded and said, "This is the first time we do something like this. We make money by providing services. It's not shameful to have a good attitude. We can make money with a smile and make others satisfied. That's great. We don't do this for a one-time deal. We will do it again this year and next year. Only when we have a good reputation will people trust us in the future."

Neither Xie Yundong nor Liang Dacheng had thought about this, so after listening to what Li Long and Tao Daqiang said, they both lowered their heads and thought.

In the past, all they wanted to do was go out and find people, talk to them, let those who were willing to harvest do the harvesting, collect the money and leave.

What Li Long is saying now is that wheat harvesting is a long-term business. If you harvest well this year and people think you are good, they will most likely come to you again next year.

Li Long implemented this concept to them. His original intention was that in the next ten years, as long as they planted wheat and rice, given the current economic situation here, they would not need to ask Kangmaiyin to harvest them all at once.

This type of small four-wheeled harvester has a golden period of about ten years.

He hopes that the people he leads will be able to accumulate a amount of capital in the next ten years, so that when the harvesters are about to be eliminated, they will have enough funds to quickly purchase new machines and continue to develop.

One generation ahead, as long as you step on the right ideas, you can be ahead step by step. He has a plug-in, so it depends on whether these people can cooperate and keep up.

There is another point. There will definitely be more and more harvesters in the future. Although the market is also expanding, there are only so many households. Only if you improve your service attitude will people come to you for harvesting wheat a second or third time, and you can earn this money.

Li Long needs Xie Yundong and Liang Dacheng to have a psychological transformation. Tao Daqiang has been selling fish with him and has already realized this, but Xie Yundong and Liang Dacheng still need a transformation process.

Having said that, Li Long didn't plan to say anything more.

They chatted for a while and several women came out of the house. By this time Sister Yang had already cooked the red eggs and each of them took one.

This is a return gift from Yuewazi, so there is no need to refuse.

Li Long wanted to let them eat before leaving, but these people refused to stay. He knew that they had a lot of things to do during the confinement period, and if they stayed to eat, it would be troublesome for them.

After they left, Sister Yang helped Gu Xiaoxia sort out the small clothes and shoes she had brought over, and commented with a smile:

"These things are so carefully made. Look at how dense the stitches are! The fabric is also good, thick and easy to use. This diaper... Hey, it's really enough this time..."

Tao Daqiang and his friends came in the morning. After lunch, Sister Yang helped Gu Xiaoxia feed the two children. When they were preparing to wash diapers in the afternoon, another group of people came.

This time it was Mrs. Lu and others who came driving a horse-drawn carriage.

Unlike the morning when the main force was young daughters-in-law, the afternoon was dominated by old aunts.

Most of these old ladies have a good relationship with Li Jianguo and his family. Even if they are not from the same group, they have all been in the village for quite some time and have watched Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia grow up.

Although he is the elder, every household in the fourth team has benefited from Li Long in the past two years. Even if some of these people are jealous, they still remember the kindness he has shown them.

Originally, these people wanted to wait for Gu Xiaoxia to return to the team to recuperate after giving birth before visiting her. However, after Yang Pingping, Deng Guilan and others went to the county to see her in the morning, the news spread in the team - Gu Xiaoxia had no plans to return to the team to recuperate after giving birth, and Li's mother-in-law and sister-in-law did not need to go either, as there were special people taking care of her there.

Those in the team who had already prepared gifts discussed it and found two horse-drawn carriages to pull them over.

Anyway, it only takes an hour or two to get to the county by horse carriage, so you can just go to the street and do some shopping.

These people did not stay in Li Long's yard for long. The old ladies mainly went into the house to visit Gu Xiaoxia and Yuewazi, and also shared their own experiences in confinement after childbirth.

Regardless of whether these experiences are outdated, Gu Xiaoxia can hear their good intentions.

After all, confinement is a very big thing for women. If you are not careful, you may suffer from lifelong illness.

It’s not like some people say that it doesn’t matter whether you sit or not.

These old ladies didn't stay long. After finally coming out, they had to go to the street to buy some household items.

So the afternoon is relatively better.

Following Li Long's instructions, Sister Yang sprayed some alcohol on the steps outside the house for disinfection.

I thought that was all, but unexpectedly two more groups of people came the next morning and afternoon.

They were also from Team 4. On the third day, Liang Yuemei's mother Chen Xiuzhu and sister Liang Xingmei also came.

Sister Yang was cooking eggs while secretly sighing that there were so many people coming to see the moon baby.

Fortunately, many people brought eggs, and they were all cooked eggs, so they just needed to be rubbed red and boiled.

Gu Xiaoxia has gained a lot of knowledge in the past two days. She has heard various different experiences of confinement from different people, some of which are quite opposite.

But some things are the same, you can't take a bath or wash your hair, you can't eat anything with salt, etc. Li Long also added that you can't eat foods that are easy to be allergic to. Of course, things like shrimp are not easy to eat even if you want to eat them.

Li Long communicates with his children every day. Although the two children don’t understand what their father is saying at all, and Li Long knows that they can’t understand, he just wants to speak.

This was Li Long’s first time being a father, and he was feeling very curious and a little panicked.

Having watched too many short videos in his previous life, he knew the important role a father plays in a child’s growth. To be honest, he was still a little unsure.

I don’t know if I can do it.

As for other things, Li Long never lost confidence. It was nothing more than making money, living, and making sure his family lived well.

But when it comes to being a father, you really can't just follow the old routine. After all, you are facing two new lives that are as clean as a sheet of paper.

Therefore, apart from watching TV, Gu Xiaoxia’s greatest pleasure during the confinement period was watching Li Long communicate with the two children in various ways, eating and sleeping alternately.

It just feels quite fun.

From time to time, people would come to buy harvesters. The twenty harvesters that were originally left over from before giving birth were sold out before Gu Xiaoxia left the confinement period.

Li Long had no plans to go again for a while. The wheat season had arrived, and he hadn't even planned to harvest the wheat until Gu Xiaoxia was out of confinement - he and the others in the village had agreed to harvest the wheat themselves, and now he was going to hand it over to his eldest brother.

This year, he has earned nearly 10,000 yuan just from selling harvesters. He plans to leave such tiring work to others and just do the work himself to earn the agency fee.

After all, it's backbreaking work. Driving a tractor to harvest wheat this season can only earn you four or five thousand yuan at most.

This money can be earned back by selling twenty harvesters.

But there was one thing he had to accomplish: in August, Halimu and his friends would come back to the winter pasture to harvest grass, and Li Long would drive a tractor into the mountains to help harvest.

Li Long planned to teach Halimu and the others how to use the harvester, and then he would hand over the tractor and harvester to them.

After all, his child was still young, only two months old at that time. Although Gu Xiaoxia had not yet started working, Li Long also wanted to take care of her at home.

At this time, the maternity leave for a woman is ninety days, which is three months. Generally, it is fifteen days before the birth and seventy-five days after the birth. Gu Xiaoxia took leave ten days before the birth, and after the birth, she had almost eighty days of leave, which is more than two months.

In the following period, people would come to visit Gu Xiaoxia from time to time, and the clothes and shoes made for the children filled up the bed on the east side of the main house. Sister Yang said with emotion that these clothes and shoes were enough for the two children to wear for several years.

The situation did not stop until Gu Xiaoxia finished her confinement.

Li Long wrote down the names of the people one by one, and these were the gifts he needed to return.

He didn't plan to hold a full-month banquet for the child. At that time, there was no such custom in the Fourth Squad, and Li Long didn't plan to break this custom. It was enough to love your own child. There was no need to go through all those formalities. People who cared had already come to send gifts, so just remember them.

After the confinement period, Gu Xiaoxia was finally able to take a bath. She asked Li Long and Sister Yang to look after the child while she took a good bath in the room.

After all, it’s really uncomfortable not being able to take a shower in the hot summer.

This was the first time Han Fang saw two children, and she was extremely curious.

Looking at the two small, cute, identical children, she couldn't help but say to Sister Yang:

"Mom, these two little brothers are so good!"

The two children no longer just eat and sleep all day. Although their eyes are not fully developed and they may not see things clearly, they have begun to observe the world.

Han Fang was curious about them, and they were also curious about Han Fang.

"They've pooped." Li Long reminded her, "Xiaofang, stay away. I have to change their diapers."

Li Long's sense of smell, hearing and vision were much better, and he soon smelled the odor of shit.

Han Fang didn't mind the two children pooping, because who doesn't poop?

Sister Yang was in the kitchen. When Li Long was changing Mingming's diaper, Haohao couldn't wait and started crying.

"Uncle, do you want me to hold him?" Han Fang looked a little anxious as she watched from the side. She seemed unable to bear to hear a child crying.

"No, it's okay for him to cry for a while." Li Long had watched many similar videos in his previous life and knew that he shouldn't hug a child as soon as he cries. He said as he changed the baby, "If you hug him as soon as he cries, you'll get used to it and then you won't be able to let him go."

Can't let go, in the local dialect we call it "sharp hook", which is not good for adults or children.

Crying can also help exercise your lung capacity.

"What's the matter?" Gu Xiaoxia, who was taking a shower, asked.

"I pulled it, it's okay."

"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia responded.

Sister Yang outside heard it, as well as the conversation, and asked:
"Did you poop? I'm now..."

"No need to come over, I've changed." While Li Long was speaking, he had already changed Mingming's clothes and started to change Haohao.

He stopped crying because his butt felt comfortable.

Now the two children are a little more naughty than when they were in the confinement period. They can play by themselves or with each other. Unless they have poop or pee too much, they basically don’t cry or make a fuss.

In Du Chunfang's words, it is much better than when Li Long was a child. When Li Long was a child, he often cried whenever he was unhappy.

Li Long thought, was she crying out of hunger at that time? How bad were the conditions in my hometown when I was born? Not to mention then, even now, some families in my hometown cannot even get enough food and clothing.

The month was over, Gu Xiaoxia could go out, and Li Long also wanted to move around. The next morning, he took a bag of red eggs to the supply and marketing cooperative and gave some to Director Wei, Li Xiangqian, and all the departments. Giving birth is a big deal, and not having a full-month banquet is because we don't want everyone to give gifts, but it is necessary to tell everyone.

After delivering the eggs to the people in the community, they went to the big meat canteen and the purchasing station and gave red eggs to Zhong Guoqiang and Chen Hongjun.

At the purchasing station, Li Long asked Chen Hongjun about the purchase price of mushrooms.

"The dried morel mushrooms are between thirty and thirty-five." Chen Hongjun is very clear about this, "The black tiger palm mushroom is around twenty-five. Of course, the quality must be good, otherwise the value will have to be reduced."

Li Long thought that if Sun Jiaqiang could get more, he would definitely make more money from these mushrooms than from the Fritillaria.

Li Long has not been into the mountains during this period, and no one knows how he is doing in the mountains.

Li Long didn't have time to care about so many things. The most important thing right now was his child.

Maybe he was just lazy, or maybe he really had no intention of working during this period. Plus, he made a lot of money from Beimu and the braiding team some time ago, so Li Long didn't go out to work during this wheat harvesting season.

Even the harvester he left for himself was sold by him.

Usually I take care of the children and occasionally visit Team 4. Gu Boyuan started to eat here after Gu Xiaoxia finished her confinement. Before that, he ate in his own small yard in order not to trouble the people here.

Li Long could also see that Gu Xiaoxia didn't seem to know, or her mood wasn't affected by the coming of the girl who might be her sister. She happily breastfed her baby every day and was in a good mood.

Li Long felt relieved.

If he really gets depressed or something, he really doesn't know what to do.

Although women at this age may not know so much and basically just endure the psychological problems, Li Long still does not want his wife to suffer psychologically after suffering physically.

For now, it seems good.

Before Gu Xiaoxia finished her vacation, Li Long was driven into the mountains by her.

In Gu Xiaoxia's words, grown men should not stay at home all day, they should have their own careers.

Well, let's do it. (End of this chapter)