Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After coming out of the purchasing station, Li Long hurried to the grassland on the other side of Yushan River.

The grassland area of ​​Yushanjiang is larger than that of Halimu. We didn’t finish harvesting it yesterday, so we will continue today.

Of course, the main thing was to teach Talihar how to drive the tractor from time to time while cutting grass.

Everyone else went to the grassland to pick up stones, and no one had any objections - after all, the meat they had eaten in the past two days was all hunted by Talihar and Zat.

When Li Long's jeep arrived at Halimu's winter home, he found that there was no one there. Not only was there no one, but the tractor's bucket had also gone there. Halimu should have gone to Yushan River, so he drove the jeep further into the mountains, towards the grassland of Yushan River.

The grassland of Yushan River was still some distance away from the winter nest. When Li Long drove the jeep to the winter nest, he found a stove outside, cooking meat soup. There were also some bones nearby, which were obviously eaten.

The tractor's bed was also parked here. Li Long got off the jeep and went to take a look, and found that the oil had been added again.

Through the woods you can hear the roar of a tractor, along with the rumbling sound of the tractor and people shouting. It sounds quite cheerful.

Li Long strode over and passed through the woods, then he saw Halimu driving a tractor to cut grass. There were four or five other people checking things at the other end of the pasture. Some people were not here. Li Long guessed that they must have gone to other pastures to check if there were any fallen rocks.

Although we checked them last year, the pastures are all on the hillside. There may be fallen rocks from the top of the mountain, or thick shrubs may grow and hinder grass cutting, etc.

So I have to check it again.

This is considered a relatively easy job and everyone is happy to go and take a look.

Seeing Li Long coming, Yu Shanjiang who was standing nearby greeted him.

When the tractor drove back to the bottom, Li Long called out to Halimu to drive the tractor over. When Halimu drove the tractor over and was about to turn off the engine, Li Long stopped him.

"The tractor has been running for a long time, so you can't turn it off immediately when you stop." Li Long explained, "You have to wait before removing the accelerator."

"Okay, I understand." Halimu responded.

After waiting for a few minutes, Li Long turned off the tractor and began to check it. While checking, he told Halimu and Yushanjiang these things:
"Look, if this harvester mows for a little longer, the grass will get tangled. The grass in the gap between the blades needs to be removed, otherwise it will affect the rotation of the blades."

"This blade looks OK, with only slight wear. Look, there are blades in the toolbox of this tractor. Here's how to change them..." Li Long took out a blade from the toolbox and demonstrated how to install it.

After explaining some common matters about tractors and harvesters, Halimu asked Yushanjiang to remember most of them, and also removed the grass wrapped around the harvester.

Li Long had only taught driving before, but now they are all proficient in driving, and he can teach them some details so that they can be remembered.

After saying that, Li Long didn't stay. He said hello to the two people and then went back.

The next day he went to the oil depot first, pumped a few barrels of oil, and drove to the mouth of the Tashi River. He went into the mountains and arrived at the pasture where Li Jianguo and his team had plowed yesterday, only to find that the tractor was no longer there.

Li Long went to Dongwozi to ask and found out the location of the second pasture, then drove his jeep there.

When we got there, Li Jianguo and his men started beating the herders, who were organizing their family members to walk around the pasture. They had already inspected the pasture yesterday, but today they walked around again out of concern.

Seeing Li Long driving a jeep towards him, the herdsman immediately walked out of the grassland to greet him.

Li Long drove the jeep to the edge of the grassland, got out and asked:
"How big is your pasture?"

"Three hundred and thirty acres," the herdsman said proudly. "It's a little bigger than Jilili's, and the grass is growing well this year."

"What's your name, Adasi?" Li Long could tell that the herdsman was a Uyghur, so he asked.

"My name is Heilili, and I know your name is Li Long." After saying this, the man went to the side of the horse that was eating grass and walked over with a prepared sack.

"Do you like red stones? I have two big ones here!"

"Let me take a look." Li Long was a little curious. He had never heard of bloodstone being distributed here in his previous life.

There was a deer skin and two roe deer skins in the sack. One of the roe deer skins was a remnant with two bullet holes on it.

Li Long could see that these leathers were not new, they were dry and hard, and they must have been there for some time.

There were two small pieces of skin, fox skin, golden in color, looking very beautiful. Li Long guessed that they must have been obtained in winter.

There is no velvet antler, only four antlers, none of which are very big, but the total weight is not light.

All that's left are two pieces of bloodstone.

These two pieces of bloodstone are indeed larger than the one that Jilili had yesterday. Each piece weighs about four or five kilograms.

But the color is not as bright as yesterday, and the color stripes are not distributed all over the stone. One piece of red occupies two-thirds, and another piece occupies one-third.

"These are not enough." Li Long said directly, "You have 330 acres of land, and you have to pay me 495 yuan. These things add up to only 300 yuan, which is not enough."

Heilili wanted to explain himself, but Li Long pointed at the leather and said:

"Do you want me to settle the bills with you one by one? I told you to pay the money or something of equivalent value right here and then, or I'll call the tractor away."

Black Lili said angrily:
"I know, I know. Just wait a moment. Don't be anxious, Adasi."

After saying that, he went to the horse again, took a bag from the other side of the horse, from a direction that Li Long couldn't see, and brought it over.

"There are five kilograms of dried Fritillaria in here. That should be enough, right?" Hei Lili handed the bag to Li Long.

Li Long didn't expect that this person had been prepared and was trying to fool him.

It’s really not a good thing!

Li Long opened the bag, reached in and grabbed a handful of Fritillaria and took it out to look at it.

It was indeed dried Fritillaria, the grains were of different sizes and not very clean, but weighing it, it was about five kilograms.

The price of five kilograms of Fritillaria is indeed enough to be two hundred yuan. Even if the Fritillaria is not very clean, it is enough to remove the impurities.

Li Long put the two bags of things in the car and said to Heilili:
"We will continue to cooperate in the future. You want to continue using the harvester to cut grass next year, right? So you should be honest and not do those nonsense things."

"Haha, I get it, I get it." Heilili smiled, "It's very fast to cut grass with a tractor. We like to use it."

Li Long didn't say anything else. After Li Jianguo and the others came back, he asked about the situation.

Yesterday, the three of them didn't go back home, and stayed in the herdsman's winter home for one night. As for today, they should squeeze into Heilili's winter home.

Although there are 330 acres, each tractor is responsible for 110 acres, but since they are all in the same area, there is no need to move around like harvesting wheat, so the harvest can be completed in one day.

I am a little tired, but when I think about earning more than a hundred yuan a day, I feel energized.

It is equivalent to two or three months’ salary of a worker!
Knowing that his elder brother and the others would have no trouble here, Li Long put the oil barrel aside and said that he would come back tomorrow, then he drove away in the jeep.

This time we first went out of the mountain and ran along the National Defense Highway directly to Hongshanzui, and from there we went into the mountains to the winter nest of Yushan River.

What surprised Li Long was that the tractor was no longer here, but the stove was still here.

And the meat cooked in this stove has been changed.

Spread out on the grass were three fresh skins, one wolfskin and two red deer skins.

It seems that there are experts among the herdsmen!

Li Long got off the jeep and greeted Talihar who was cutting up the meat:

"Talihar, did you kill these wolves and deer?"

"No." Talihar shook his head. "Halimu killed the wolf. Last night, a group of wolves ran to his winter den looking for bones to eat, and he killed two of them. Zat killed the deer. When he got up this morning, several red deer were grazing on the pasture in front of their winter den..."

Talihar envied this luck.

There is such a good thing, Li Long smiled.

"Zat said you take one deer with you. We can't eat that much."

Li Long took a look at the elk left for him. Its body was bigger than a big goat, and it must have forty or fifty kilograms of meat.

He didn't hesitate to accept Zat's kindness. "Today Zat was driving a tractor with Yushanjiang," Talihar said as he cut up the meat, "He should have learned it by now."

"Have you learned it?" Li Long asked.

"I've learned it. I thought it would be difficult to drive a tractor before I learned it, but after I learned it, I found it's quite simple." Talihar said with a simple smile, "Cutting grass is also quite simple. This thing is really powerful, it's amazing."

"This one still has low horsepower. There will be ones with higher horsepower in the future." Li Long took out a knife and disassembled the sika deer given to him. He planned to give part of it away.

After eating meat here at noon, Li Long put the cut venison into the car and drove out of the mountain.

Instead of going home, he drove towards Shicheng and went to the sugar factory.

Summer is the peak season for sugar production at Shicheng Sugar Factory. Li Long drove the jeep to the back door and parked it on the side of the road, waiting for the truck carrying the sugar residue to come out.

After waiting for less than twenty minutes, Song Ming drove out and parked the car on the side of the road after seeing Li Long's jeep.

Li Long got off the car, waited for Song Ming to get off the car, shook hands with him, and asked:

"Team Leader Song, are you still busy now?"

"It's OK. We're doing this every day anyway. That's how it is." Song Ming was very happy to see Li Long. "I'm not driving a tractor. So I'm not doing this this time?"

"Yes, but let's do it in a different way." Li Long took out a bag from the jeep and handed it to Song Ming. "There's a piece of deer ribs in it. Take it back and eat it. I have something I want to ask you."

"You're here, and you brought some meat with you. You're so polite." After saying that, Song Ming took the meat and put it on the passenger seat of the car, saying, "You can tell me, but to make a long story short, this sugar residue has water in it, and it's very troublesome if it flows on the ground. I can't stay here for long."

"I want to get a car to bring a load of sugar residue back. Do you think it's possible? I want to go and see Chief Hu to see if this can be done?"

"That's definitely no problem." Song Ming said, "The sugar residue has to be thrown away anyway. It doesn't really make much difference whether you use a big truck or a small truck to carry it. It will save us trouble. But where can you find a car?"

"I plan to hire a truck from our county transport company and have it go after get off work. Trucks run fast anyway, and it won't take more than an hour to load the sugar residue from here to our team and unload it."

"How much does it cost to hire a car?" Song Ming asked with his eyes lighting up.

"It should be at least fifteen dollars." Li Long said.

"Then why hire someone else's car? I can do it for ten dollars." Song Ming patted the car he was driving, "When I get off work, I sometimes drive it back to wash it, and no one cares..."

"Okay." Li Long was naturally happy. "Then I'll go talk to Section Chief Hu first. Can you unload this car first?"

"Okay, okay." Song Ming nodded, turned around and got into the car.

Li Long drove a jeep to the main gate, carrying a bag, and registered to enter the sugar factory.

Section Chief Hu was in the office. When he saw Li Long coming in, he stood up and said with a smile:
"Comrade Xiao Li, you are such a rare guest. It's been a long time since you came to our place."

"I've been a bit busy lately." Li Long put the bag against the wall of his office and said, "Chief Hu, this is a red deer leg. I just caught it today. Take it back and try it."

"Hey, you're really polite. You always bring something when you come back." Section Chief Hu poured water for Li Long. "What have you been busy with recently?"

"My wife gave birth, so I stayed with her," Li Long said with a smile. "Then I got a harvester to help my herder friends in the mountains cut grass."

"Sure. Is it a boy or a girl? When was it born?" Section Chief Hu handed the water jar to Li Long. "You didn't even tell me. You're being too polite."

"They were born in June, two sons, twins." Li Long said with a smile, "It's not far away, so I didn't come to tell you."

"Congratulations!" Twins were rare at that time. Section Chief Hu said with a smile, "You've made a profit this time. The family planning policy can't find fault with you. And you have two sons. That's great."

After chatting for a few sentences, Li Long told the purpose of his visit.

"No problem. You can go find Song Ming about the sugar slag. You two know each other. Just tell him what I said. I will definitely support you. Not to mention a whole truckload, even if you come every day to pick it up, it won't be a problem."

Li Long was relieved after hearing this. He said goodbye to Section Chief Hu and went downstairs to the place where the sugar residue was processed.

Song Ming had already unloaded that truck and was still waiting to load the slag.

Seeing Li Long coming over, he pointed to the office building and asked:

"What did Section Chief Hu say?"

"The section chief said I can pull it every day." Li Long said with a smile, "Where is your apprentice?"

"Something happened at home, so I'm taking a leave for the next two days." Song Ming smiled, "It's just that he has something to do, otherwise it would be difficult for me. So let's go today?"

"Okay." Li Long smiled. "I'll wait outside. Can you bring the last truck to our place after work?"

"No problem. I'll add a few more sacks for you. Oh, is there anyone who can unload the truck?"

"Yes, yes, yes. Don't worry about this."

After the matter was settled, Li Long took out fifteen yuan and handed it to Song Ming.

"Didn't I tell you? Ten dollars." Song Ming accepted the big unity and returned the money that belonged to the steel worker to Li Long.

"Take it. It's not okay for one of us to earn less than others." Li Long stuffed the money into his hand. "You're thinking about me. If I save money again, what does it matter?"

After he said that, Song Ming took the money.

It wasn’t long before the end of get off work. After filling up the last truck of sugar residue, I put six more sacks in the car and then it was time to get off work.

The roar of the machine slowly stopped, and Li Long and Song Ming drove eastward one after the other.

When they arrived at the big yard, Li Long and Song Ming unloaded four sacks of sugar residue together, and then drove to the fourth team.

Although the days in late August are not as long as those in June, it is at least a time when the days are long and the nights are short. At this time, the sun is about to set, but the sky is still bright.

This was Song Ming’s first time coming here. He felt quite curious while driving along the road. Before entering the village, he thought this road was pretty good.

But when they turned east from the village, they felt that the road was difficult to drive on. It was a bit bumpy all the way, Li Long was used to it, but Song Ming was still a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't drive too fast because he had stuff in the car.

Li Long in front also slowed down and led Song Ming to Laomahao first.

"This is where I raise wild boars and deer." After getting off the car, Li Long gave Song Ming a brief introduction. "This is Uncle Luo, who helps me raise these animals. Uncle Luo, this is Team Leader Song from the sugar factory. This time he's here to bring us sugar residue. You two can chat first. I'll go get someone to unload the sugar residue."

Li Long quickly called over seven or eight young men and started unloading the sugar residue. Song Ming was also curious and could clearly feel that Li Long had a high prestige among these people and they respected him very much.

Uncle Luo was very happy this time. In the past, he used a tractor to pull sugar residue, and he could eat it for a long time. Now the deer and wild boars are big, and the sugar residue and feed are consumed very quickly.

If we only need half of the food from this truck, combined with bran and other feed, it will be enough to last until the end of the year.

Li Long also had to unload some of the food to his elder brother Li Jianguo's yard. Although there were only two pigs and twenty or thirty chickens there, there was still a lot of food.

The key point is still here.

After unloading the sugar residue on both sides, Song Ming watched the people who helped sweep the car clean, then said goodbye to Li Long and left, sighing:

"The people in your team are really simple and honest. They don't slack off at all while working, and they leave as soon as they finish their work..."

Li Long smiled and didn't respond to the topic.

Du Chunfang had already prepared dinner. Because there were guests, she fried steamed buns. She also stir-fried a large plate of venison that Li Long brought back, and added a scrambled egg and a plate of cold tomatoes, which was considered a rich meal.

Song Ming was very happy while eating, and Li Long was also very happy.

It seems that this model can be used to pull sugar residue in the future. This time, it can last for several months. He even thought about whether he should take some time to go to Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory, or give them a call to see if they can develop and produce a machine to dry and granulate sugar residue.

The feed made in this way should be very popular, right?

At least we should start breeding or something. This kind of thing with almost zero raw material cost is definitely very competitive in the market.

Although Li Long is not currently doing business, at least he still has this vision.

Well, I will put this on the agenda in the near future and ask first. (End of this chapter)