Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The Bayi Agricultural College has already started school. At this time, the start time of universities is almost the same as that of primary and secondary schools, and the changes will not be as great as in later generations.

Li Long came to the school gate carrying a backpack, showed his work ID, and said he wanted to see Professor Wu.

The guard carefully checked Li Long's work ID and asked Li Long to explain his relationship with Professor Wu and the reason for his visit to her.

After asking all these questions clearly, he made an internal call and told Li Long that Professor Wu had gone to class and asked him to wait here for twenty minutes.

Just wait, it’s the only thing that matters today, so Li Long is not in a hurry. He waits outside the gate with his backpack on his back.

Perhaps feeling too conspicuous, he stepped back to the side of the road, found a clean stone, took off his backpack and placed it on the stone, then stood aside and observed the university.

In Li Long's eyes, the Bayi Agricultural College, which would later become the Agricultural University, was still very impressive - of course, it might not rank well in the future, but it was actually solving agricultural and farmers' problems.

Of course, he never went to college, he was just guessing.

Occasionally, students or teachers would walk or ride bicycles in and out, and most people coming in and out would glance at Li Long.

During the class, some noises could be heard faintly, but they were not loud. After all, this was not a primary or secondary school, so there was no need for group recitation or anything like that.

Having lived two lives, Li Long's ultimate educational level is junior high school, so he is still quite curious about university.

It's just that I'm no longer of school age, so now I'm just expressing my feelings.

Twenty minutes passed quickly, and the guard dutifully opened the door and called Li Long in.

"Don't run around after you go in. There are many students in class inside. Don't disturb them. Professor Wu's office knows about this, right?"

"I know, I know," Li Long described the location of the office. The guard nodded and let him in.

The management is quite strict.

Li Long entered the school gate. Although he was still curious about the school, he just looked around as he passed by and mainly went to Professor Wu's office.

When he was almost at the office, Li Long saw that the door was open. Professor Wu was not sitting at her desk. She was organizing documents in the filing cabinet.

Li Long walked over to the door and knocked on the door frame. Professor Wu turned his head and saw Li Long was stunned for a moment, then he remembered, turned around with a document and said with a smile:

"You're the one who grows melons... Xiao Li, right?"

"Yes Yes."

"Come, come, please sit down." Professor Wu smiled and took out some materials from the two-seater wooden sofa, motioning Li Long to sit down.

When Li Long took off his backpack and sat down, Professor Wu had already poured him a jar of water:
"Come on, Xiao Li, drink some water."

"Okay," Li Long took the water and asked, "Professor, have you just finished your class?"

"Yeah, I just finished the class." Professor Wu sat at his desk and asked with a smile, "Have you planted melons this year? How is the situation now?"

"Some time ago, there were insects. We used the medicine you taught us to kill the insects. The melons are growing well this year and there are quite a few of them. But most of us in the countryside haven't received any formal training, so we are reluctant to pick the melons that have been harvested. We think the more the better..."

"It's okay, take your time." Professor Wu listened to what Li Long said and nodded, "Some scientific planting methods and techniques need to be practiced before they can be recognized. This is a long process."

Li Long is clear about this. As time goes by, people will know more about the benefits of scientific farming, such as soil testing, film laying, and large-scale farming. Farmers are also making progress through exploration and learning.

Professor Wu is still very concerned about the current rural development and has been asking Li Long questions. Fortunately, although Li Long has been in the team for a short time this year, he still understands the agricultural production of the team and can generally answer them.

The questions were almost the same. Professor Wu said with emotion:

"In the summer, when we went to meet and exchange ideas with other agricultural colleges in Kouli, we found that our area and those in the Northeast had made relatively good progress in mechanization. We had the foundation for large-scale planting, and farmers were more receptive to planting diversity and cash crop planting..."

Li Long listened to Professor Wu's words and nodded continuously. He combined the situation of the farmers in his team and felt that what Professor Wu said was right.

"... Large-scale planting and mechanized planting will definitely have some negative effects, but from the current perspective, the advantages are still very obvious..."

"The development of high-horsepower machinery is still a bit slow." Li Long couldn't help but complain when he thought that high-horsepower tractors would only be available in ten years.

"It's already very good." Professor Wu is not an expert in this area, but he also knows some information. "Our country's heavy industry development has a foundation, but it takes some time to make progress. After all..."

There is no need to explain some things too clearly. In short, both people know that the prospects are good, but it takes time.

Li Long took a sip of the water in the jar, put the white porcelain jar down, turned around and took something out of his backpack:

"Professor, these are peaches I bought from the roadside when I came here. They taste good and they can be kept for a few days."

Li Long took out quite a few peaches.

I bought two baskets from the peach seller yesterday. I gave one basket to Director Qian and Xiao Si. It was quite a lot.

In addition, this basket was not moved yesterday, and there was not much change after leaving it overnight. In the morning, Li Long took out five or six kilograms, put them in a bag and put them in his backpack. He felt that it would be difficult for Professor Wu to carry more.

Looking at the big and beautiful peach, Professor Wu said with a smile:
"Not bad, not bad. We also grow peaches in the experimental fields of our Agricultural College. We ate some in August, but they were not this big and beautiful."

She could still accept some fruits from Li Long.

But then Li Long took out the peaches and put them on the desk, then took out a bag from his backpack and said:

"Some time ago, I was helping my friends collect grass in the mountains. They gave me some things and I took them here."

Five dried snow lotuses and a complete roe deer skin. I gave a jade carving last year, so I didn't give it again this year.

These are all local specialties.

Leather is still a very valuable thing these days, so Li Long explained that it was the skin of a roe deer from the mountains, so that Professor Wu would not mistake it for goat skin.

"This is too expensive..." Professor Wu was about to refuse, but Li Long explained the reason:

"Professor, do you know that the melon seeds I bought from you two years ago were planted by my brother last year and the total income was several thousand.

This year, the seeds saved were distributed to seven or eight farmers for planting, and the planting area has expanded tenfold. Even if the price drops a little this year, it will still allow seven or eight farmers to reach the threshold of a 10,000 yuan household.

Just for this reason, the things I gave you are relatively light..."

Professor Wu only studies agricultural seeds, fertilizers and related professional knowledge, and has not done much research on the prices of agricultural products. When he heard what Li Long said, he smiled with a little surprise on his face:

"Is that really the case? That's great. We study agriculture to serve the farmers. If we can help farmers get rich, then we can really make a difference! Okay, okay, I'll take these things."

Compared with specific information on getting rich, Professor Wu is most concerned about relevant data on agricultural planting, which is generally the planting structure of a place, such as the proportion of planting area of ​​grain crops, oil crops and cash crops.

The second is the yield and major pests and diseases, the yield of various crops, pests and diseases in different time periods, harvest period, etc.

Li Long has been in the Fourth Team for ten years. Although he has been mainly making money in the past two years, he still has some relevant data in his memory. He also participated in some planting and harvesting in the fields two years ago, so he basically knows something.

The conversation continued until it was almost time for lunch, when Professor Wu stopped talking as if he was still not satisfied, and then invited Li Long to his home for dinner.

Li Long refused, saying that he had other things to do, and left the Bayi Agricultural College.

Before leaving, Professor Wu told Li Long to bring some seeds back when he harvested the melons. The school would use them as samples, and there might be experimental fields for research next year.

Li Long naturally agreed - when he came out, he was still wondering whether Professor Wu might have students doing research in this area, so they could share knowledge.

Professor Wu watched Li Long leave, thinking to himself, it's a pity that this kid didn't go to college. He knows a lot, has a clear respect for agricultural science and technology, and has a clear idea of ​​using science and technology to promote agriculture.

It’s a pity that the first degree is too low.

After leaving the college and checking out of the hotel, Li Long drove the jeep west. He planned to go to the Beiting market as soon as possible to see if the peaches were still being sold.

Although there are some peaches in the car, I decided to buy some more, thinking I could share them with several other families when I get back.

Team 4 also grows peaches, but they are all hairy peaches. The peach seedlings that Li Long bought last year have not yet borne fruit. There are also peaches grown in Ma County, and in two years they will cultivate May Fairy peaches.

Twenty or thirty years later, the peach industry in Liangzhouhu, south of the Wuyi Highway, had grown to a certain scale. At that time, Li Long often drove there to buy peaches.

From June until October, peaches of all varieties are available continuously.

But right now, there is really no peach of this variety, this delicious, and this big here. When they were about to leave Wucheng, Li Long's jeep stopped.

There are two melon stalls on the roadside, one selling watermelons and the other selling melons.

The locals call Hami melon "melon" - or rather, they basically call all melons except watermelon "melon", including but not limited to Hami melon, cantaloupe, flower melon, honeydew melon, etc.

There are also people selling melons in Ma County, but most of them are mobile stalls. There are also some in the market, but not many, and if you go too late, they will have been picked by others.

So Li Long planned to buy some melons and share them with others.

When I got off the car, I saw that the melon was quite big. There was a half-cut melon lying on the side with a small knife stuck in it.

Adasi, who was selling melons, saw Li Long coming over and quickly stood up and said:
"Would you like to buy some melon? It's delicious! Come on, try it..." As he said that, he cut a piece of melon and handed it to Li Long.

Li Long tasted it and it was indeed sweet. At that time, there were not so many tricks as in later generations. Later, when Li Long went to a group farm to buy yellow peaches, he encountered it. He also cut a piece to eat. It tasted really sweet at the time, so he bought 20 kilograms. When he took it back, he found that it was not sweet at all.

Later I found out that the knife used to cut the peaches was smeared with sugar water.

“How much per kilogram?”

"Nine cents," said Adasi. "It's cheaper if you buy more."

"How much cheaper can I get for buying a sack?"

"A sack is only seven cents a kilogram!" Adasi said generously, "Buy more and it's cheaper!"

"Okay, fill a sack." Li Long actually wanted to buy more, but unfortunately the jeep was only this big. This was when the limitations of the car became apparent.

Each of these melons weighs five or six kilograms and is large in size. When Adasi was picking them, he only picked the ripe ones.

Li Long thinks that in this regard, some of Adasi’s ways of selling things are better.

In his previous life, he met ethnic people selling apricots in Yili. They bought two boxes of apricots from the wholesale market in the east of the city, then dumped them on a cart covered with felt and hawked their products along the streets.

People who come to buy can pick whatever they want. Most people pick the yellow, soft and ripe ones. Adasi also helps pick the ripe ones.

Because after picking apricots, even if they are half green and half yellow, they will ripen quickly, but the green ones are hard and can be kept. So the yellow ones are picked and the remaining green ones will turn half yellow in a day.

In this way, two baskets of wholesale apricots can be sold out in two days, with basically no waste and the customers are also satisfied.

Some Han merchants do the opposite, as if they are afraid that customers will pick the cooked ones and the raw ones will be hard to sell. One type of merchants does not allow customers to pick at all, and just puts the food directly into the bag, and it depends on luck whether they get the raw or cooked ones.

Another way is to have the merchants install it. The merchants may also install more green ones specifically, leaving the mature ones as they think they will sell better later.

What can I say? It’s hard to describe Li Long.

Of course not absolutely, after all, he only encountered a very small number of people.

The Adasi in front of us is like this. The melons that are not particularly ripe are hard, so they can be kept for two more days. The ripe ones will become soft, so we can sell them first. The ripe ones are sweet, and people will like to eat them when we take them back.

Li Long bought a sack and took a few more to make a total of 80 kilograms, which was less than six yuan.

Oh so cheap!
More than a decade later, he still sold similar large melons at WLMQ South Railway Station. They weighed five or six kilograms each and were very ripe. They were sold for one yuan each, which was also extremely cheap. He was sold by an old Uyghur man at a stall.

After that, Li Long seemed to never eat particularly ripe melons again - the melons he saw in the supermarket or at the stalls all had handles.

The melons are ripe and fall off the stem. The melons with handles are picked before they are ripe, and the taste is different.

This is just like how people here eat durian. Many outsiders have never eaten ripe melons.

After buying the melons and loading them into the truck, I asked about watermelons. The watermelon stall was about 7 or 8 meters away, and the owner was a middle-aged Han man wearing a straw hat.

"Fellow countryman, how much is the watermelon?"

"Eight cents." The fellow said with a smile.

Li Long turned around and left. Did he really want to watch himself driving a jeep and then be ripped off?
When the fellow villagers saw that Li Long was so determined to leave, they immediately shouted:

"Seven cents... six cents is also fine!"

Li Long ignored him, got in the car and drove away.

Although watermelons are slowly entering the off-season, the mainstream price of watermelons is still five cents. This is not realistic.

Li Long ignored the melon seller's shouting and drove the jeep all the way to the market in Beiting.

Not long after getting off the bus, I found the man selling peaches, and he was still there.

Still two baskets of peaches, less than a quarter of the thirty kilograms of peaches were sold.

There are still people around, but more people bargain than buy, and everyone still feels it is expensive.

I don’t know if it’s because Li Long bought up both baskets of peaches yesterday, but the seller still refused to lower the price this time.

Li Long didn't have time to wait. He pushed aside the people who were bargaining and watching the fun in front of him and said directly to the peach seller:
"How much is left? I want them all—yesterday's price, how's that?"

"Good, good, good!" The peach seller looked up and saw that it was Li Long. He immediately stood up with a smile, hung the pole hook on the basket, and said:

"Where is the car?"

"There is one more condition. Give me the two baskets. I can't fit any more."

"This... is fine too." The peach seller thought to himself how much this basket was worth. Two old baskets together were worth no more than two yuan, but this and a half baskets of peaches could be sold for thirty or forty yuan. It was totally worth it.

Some people were not convinced and wanted to explain, but some people recognized that Li Long bought peaches yesterday and gave an explanation.

They are wealthy and wealthy, so don't be unhappy if you don't buy from them.

Li Long paid thirty-five yuan for a basket and a half of peaches, which actually included the basket. But he didn't count this amount.

There was a watermelon seller at the head of the market, so Li Long went over to ask. Watermelons were five cents, the market price. Some were cut open, and Li Long looked at them and tasted them. They were very sweet, so he bought a sack.

Now the jeep was full. Li Long took out the oil barrel, filled it with oil, and then headed west.

On the way, he had lunch in Dafeng Town, but it was already afternoon. When he was about to reach the county town, he drove south and directly to the animal husbandry team's stay point.

It has been a while since I last visited Halimu and Yushanjiang's home, so Li Long came to see how they were doing.

When the car drove into the village, Li Long met Adili before reaching Halimu's house.

Adili was also a little surprised to see Li Long, but he immediately realized that Li Long was here to visit Halimu and Yushanjiang's family. He greeted Li Long with a smile, and then went about his own business.

When Li Long drove to the gate of Halimu's yard, he saw that there were still people pumping water from the well in the yard.

The well-pressing platform has been reinforced with cement and bricks, so it is quite sturdy. People who fetch water are also quite disciplined, queuing up without fighting or scrambling for water.

Halimu's mother sat at the door, spinning wool using a potato skewered by a chopstick as a spindle.

After seeing Li Long, the old lady stood up and smiled, saying something that Li Long still couldn't understand.

Li Long was a little speechless. In fact, he had always wanted to learn Kazakh and Uyghur, but every time he met Halimu Yusanjiang and the others, he forgot about it. When he remembered it, there was no one around who could teach him, so he let the matter go.

Fortunately, there were people who understood Chinese among the people who came to fetch water. After exchanging a few words, Li Long put down some melons, watermelons and peaches, and then went to Yushanjiang's house.

Someone from Yushanjiang's family also draws water here. These two pressure wells have now become the main source of water for the entire village. Li Long thinks it's actually quite good.

The time spent here was even shorter as the children were not at home. Li Long found out that Yushanjiang and his family had returned from cutting grass and that there was nothing missing at home, so he said goodbye and left.

He had to go home quickly - he also had to go to Team 4. The watermelons and melons were easy to deal with, but the peaches and other things he brought back had to be divided up.

It's not easy to put it. (End of this chapter)