Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Cutting Sphagnum splendens is not a tiring job, but if you want to make a qualified broom, you have to choose long Sphagnum splendens with poles of uniform thickness, and you have to equip it with a certain number of red willow twigs to prevent the Sphagnum splendens from breaking because it is too brittle.

The price of Sphagnum splendens brooms has increased this year, and the quantity is also large. Every family wants to earn some pocket money in between harvesting corn and sunflowers. Not to mention anything else, if you work hard for half a month, it is no problem to earn a set of clothes for the whole family.

So not only adults are working, but children over seven or eight years old are also busy.

After school and finishing their homework, the children would go to the red willow beach to pick red willow branches. If they brought home a bunch of red willow branches before dark, they would definitely hear their parents’ praise.

Some older children would set their sights on the thick poles in the red willow beach, and would even quarrel and push each other over a pole.

Usually they can't fight because children are not able to break the pole and take it home, so they need to go back and tell the adults.

This is the third year of making brooms, and there are definitely not enough poles, so everyone starts by cutting Sedge grass, drying it, and using planting stakes and wire to make the big brooms, and then wait for the poles.

So every morning early you can hear the sound of "bang bang bang" of nailing planting stakes in the yards of every household.

Some people feel that their yard is not spacious enough, so they go to the front door or the wheat field to make a broom and then bring it back.

Usually a couple works together, with the wife brushing off the excess leaves on the stems of the Stipa sphenanthera and helping out while the husband does the main work.

Some young people are not very good at tying, so they learn from their parents. Now everyone knows that this is a long-term job, and the gossip about the quality that Li Long said has spread throughout the village by Xu Haijun.

Now everyone will be more proud when making big brooms, and will also be more careful. After all, if the quality is not up to standard, it will be a slap in the face of the fourth team.

When Li Long was talking about this matter in Qingshui River, Li Jianguo had already driven a tractor to take the people to the wooden house in the mountains.

In addition to Lu Yingming, there were five other people who followed Li Jianguo: Tao Jianshe, Jia Weidong, He Jianxin, Wei Dahai, etc.

Among these five people, except Jia Weidong who is a little younger, the others are all in their thirties or forties and are in the same group as Li Jianguo and his group.

At that time, Lu Yingming wanted to cut poles with Li Jianguo, and Li Jianguo asked him to call a few more people, so Lu Yingming called these people. Jia Weidong was talking to Tao Daqiang at the time, and by chance, he came along.

He had been to the mountains and knew that there were many poles in some of the ditches in the mountains. As long as he used Li Long's name, he would definitely not be caught by the forest rangers.

One pole costs 70 or 80 cents, and it is no problem to cut more than a hundred poles a day. It is much faster to make money than tying a big broom.

The main reason was that the competition among the Stipa sphenanthera near the team was too fierce. He didn't want to participate in the competition, so he simply changed the track.

What Li Jianguo didn't expect was that there was someone living in the wooden house - someone he didn't know.

Li Jianguo knew that Li Long once let the little grandson who dug Fritillaria stay for a period of time, but now these two people were obviously not the ones.

The two men looked at Li Jianguo and the others and were a little confused, but they still managed to remain calm and asked Li Jianguo who got off the car with the stick:
"What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? Why are we asking you what you are doing?" Lu Yingming and his friends all knew Sun Jiaqiang. They saw that the two were obviously not his men, and the lock on the door had been pried off. So they jumped off the tractor with a machete in hand and asked loudly:

"Do you know who owns this house? Why do you live here? How dare you pick the lock? I think you are tired of living!"

Li Jianguo and his men had a large number of people and were in the right, so they were very confident.

"That... that doesn't prove it's yours!" Although the two men felt a little guilty, they were unwilling to give up such a good place. The first one to speak said, "There's no one in here..."

"You can pick someone's lock without anyone around?" Li Jianguo came over with a crank in his hand, looking angry. "Put down the stick. I want to see what you have done to the place. If the wooden kang is damaged or something is ruined, you can expect to pay for it!"

He pushed the two people aside and went into the big house. When he saw the used bedding, pots and stoves, the messy jars of pickles and the enamel basins of oily meat, his eyes became unhappy.

"You two are very brave." Li Jianguo looked at the small room again and found that some things inside had been used up. There were also two sacks in the room. He bent down and turned them over and found that there were things like dried mushrooms inside, but not many.

I guess the forest rangers come here from time to time, so these two people haven't lived here for long.

"Let me make it clear to you that this wooden house belongs to me. You used the things inside, which wasted a lot of money and made it dirty. It won't be usable anymore. Now go and wash the things inside. Wash them clean, or I'll beat you to death!"

Lu Yingming said several things but they denied it. Li Jianguo didn't care whether they admitted it or not and just put the blame on them. Then the two of them behaved themselves.

After all, there were several people watching them with machetes. If they didn't do anything, in this wilderness, if Li Jianguo really brought people to hack them to death, they would have no place to report to the police.

Although the two men looked reluctant, they had no choice but to throw away the stick. One cleaned the house and the other went to wash the bedding. At first, they were arguing about it and neither of them wanted to wash it. But when Li Jianguo picked up the stick and raised it up, they immediately stopped arguing.

The others were not idle either. They took the bedding off the tractor and divided the six people into two groups, with four people living in the big room and two people in the small room. After all, they were out working to earn money, so it wouldn't matter if they squeezed together.

Li Jianguo and his men did not make things difficult for the two people. They asked them to wash the bedding, clean up the mess in the room, and then let them leave.

Before leaving, Li Jianguo scared them a little, telling them that he had made note of them and would tell other forest rangers that if they came here to cause trouble again, they would be arrested.

The two men immediately took their belongings and ran into the woods. They actually wanted to take revenge, but after hearing what Li Jianguo said, they no longer dared to have any other ideas. Among these people, he saw Li Jianguo carrying a hunting rifle, and they also knew that the forest rangers all carried guns, so if they were really caught, they would not be able to escape.

Li Jianguo and his team brought their own dry food and naan, so there was no one to cook this time. They thought that if one person worked hard to cut more than 100 poles a day, six people could get 700 to 800 poles a day, and in three to five days, they would get almost all the poles needed by the whole team, and then they would go back.

So we just had to make do with the food. Fortunately, there were mushrooms growing on the grass nearby, and we could pick some wild vegetables. We simply boiled them in water, added vinegar and oil, and sprinkled them with chili peppers, and it was delicious when eaten with steamed buns.

Of course, red tofu is indispensable.

Li Long told Li Jianguo that his original intention was for the four teams to make 4,000 and Qingshuihe to make 4,000. Of course, if one side made higher quality and faster, it would be fine to end it early.

So Li Jianguo thought that these six people would be able to cut most of the poles in three to five days - after all, there were places near the team where poles could be cut, so cutting nearly a thousand poles should not be a problem.

The key is to get in and out quickly, so that you can make the big brooms when you return. After all, the main thing in the first few days is to cut and dry the sedge grass. Now the sedge grass that everyone uses to make the big brooms is the spare one from before.

Li Long's next task was to collect the brooms every day, which was a rather troublesome task.

But this was something he had to do. He had also thought about it, going to Qingshui River in the first half of the day and to the Fourth Team in the second half, and they didn't have to get up too early, just like going to work, go early and come back early, and collect as much as you can.

Li Long was a little worried when he thought about having to drive a tractor. He had thought that he would have an easier time after getting a car, but now it seemed that a jeep alone was not enough. Given his current situation, it would be best to get a truck.

Currently, trucks are not sold to individuals. They must be affiliated with an organization, or a transportation company, a fleet, or any major organization with transportation business.

Li Long was thinking that he should wait until this job was finished and then ask Li Xiangqian or Director Qian to see if there were any second-hand trucks available elsewhere.

After all, I have a lot of work to do every year, such as pulling handles, pulling Fritillaria, pulling brooms and collecting sugar residues.

It's quite troublesome to find someone else's car after get off work.

Because of that rumor, Li Long attached great importance to this big broom. He didn't want to stop doing this job in the future because of the quality problems of one or two big brooms - in fact, in his previous life, this job really disappeared after only a few years.

So Li Long believed in this and took it more seriously. He planned to check the brooms every day and put them in his yard. After all, the yard was big and could hold a pile of brooms. When there was no room, he would send them to the supply and marketing cooperative.

After breakfast early in the morning, Gu Xiaoxia played with her two children for a while and then went to work. Li Long parked the jeep aside and drove the tractor to Qingshui River to collect the brooms.

I have to say that the efficiency on the Qingshui River side is indeed higher, and they cherish this year's opportunity more, handing in more than 300 brooms on the first day.

After checking, Li Long found that there were 301 qualified ones, which was a lot.

There was a wooden frame tied to the tractor, otherwise the three hundred brooms would not have been able to be pulled away.

"If I do this every day, I can complete the task in ten days or so." Li Long said with a smile to He Yuqing and Meng Hai who were helping with the inspection.

"It's not that easy." Meng Hai shook his head: "The reason we can make so many big brooms is that the team members prepared some Sphagnum Rehmanniae in advance. These Sphagnum Rehmanniae can be used up in two days, and then we have to prepare the materials. The Sphagnum Rehmanniae have to be cut, dried, and peeled, so the process will definitely be slow." Li Long thought about it and it made sense. There was no rush, but the pass rate of these big brooms was quite high, and he was quite satisfied with it.

The money was distributed on the spot, so the team members were naturally very satisfied.

Li Long did not go back until after lunch, otherwise He Yuqing would not let him go. When he left, he also gave him some peeled mountain loaches and two roosters and two hens.

"We don't have any special products in our village, so we don't know what to give you. You can take these things to nourish your family, and it will be a token of our team's appreciation."

Li Long took it with him without refusing. He told He Yuqing that he would definitely not have lunch tomorrow as he had to go to other teams to collect brooms in the afternoon and would not have enough time.

After he said this, He Yuqing and Meng Hai looked at each other and both understood that their team had strong competitors.

Don't take it lightly!
Li Longmao pulled the big broom back to the big yard without stopping. After unloading the clothes, he gave the chicken and fish to Sister Yang and ate two melons himself. After unloading the big broom, he had no time to rest and went to Team 4 again.

He went to the captain's house and saw Xu Chengjun making brooms in the yard. He saw two brooms were already in the yard. Ma Hongmei, wearing a headscarf, was spreading out the freshly cut Achnatherum splendens in the yard to dry.

Seeing Li Long driving the tractor over, Xu Chengjun didn't get up and asked, "Why, what are you doing?"

"What else can I do? Collect the brooms." Li Long said with a smile, "After a day or two, there should be a lot of stuff in the team, right? I have to collect the brooms, otherwise there will be too many to collect."

"That's right. It just so happens that I made two today. See if they work." Xu Chengjun pointed to the two brooms next to him. "There shouldn't be many in the team. The main reason is that there are too few poles."

"We'll take whatever we can get." Li Long pointed to the inner room and said, "I'll finish shouting first, then I'll see what you have."

"it is good."

Li Long entered the house, turned on the loud speaker, tested the sound and then started shouting.

He said it three times in a row, the main point being that every afternoon he would wait in the Li family's yard to collect the brooms. In two hours, the brooms would be sent for inspection and acceptance, and those that passed the inspection would be paid on the spot.

After saying that, Li Long turned off the loud speaker, walked out to Xu Chengjun, and said half-jokingly:
"Captain, even though we have a good relationship, I won't accept you if you don't meet the standards."

"Don't worry, I was trained in the army after all, I won't do that kind of thing, check it carefully, the reputation of our team 4 is important."

Li Long picked up a big broom and pulled hard at the Stipa sphenanthera in the middle, but failed to pull it off.

He is very strong, so his own strength level is used as the standard. If he can pull it down, he will fail, and if he cannot pull it down, he will pass.

Of course, ordinary people cannot pull out the Sphagnum splendens in the middle of a big broom, after all, the Sphagnum splendens was planted in with planting stakes.

Even if it is unqualified, it is not something that an ordinary person can pull out. It's just that the strength used when sweeping the floor is different. If it is not tied firmly, it may start to fall off in three to five days and then become useless.

Li Long didn't pull it down. He looked at the big broom, which was tied neatly, and said with a smile:

"This one is acceptable, three dollars and fifty cents."

The same went for the other broom. Li Long put the two brooms in the tractor bucket, took out the money, counted out seven dollars and handed it to Xu Chengjun.

"Hey, not bad." Xu Chengjun took the money and put it in his left jacket pocket, buttoned it up and said, "Then go ahead and do your work. I'll see if I can do a few more before dark."

Li Long drove the tractor back to his front yard, turned off the engine, got out and went to the backyard to see his mother.

My sister-in-law is not here. My mother Du Chunfang said she went to the melon field.

"Your sister-in-law said there's some Achnatherum splendens on our field. She cut some and brought it back. Can you make some big brooms out of it when you see it?"

Li Long naturally knew that in his sister-in-law's eyes, making brooms was a piece of odd jobs. Although it made money, it was not as important as weeding the melon field.

The income from harvesting melons from ten acres of land last year gave her great confidence. It turned out that after the household contract responsibility system was implemented and the land was distributed to each household, she could actually earn so much money by farming!
After Li Long and Du Chunfang chatted for a few words, they went to the front yard.

Less than twenty minutes after Li Long stayed in the front yard, someone came over with a horse-drawn carriage loaded with large brooms.

Li Long was a little surprised after seeing it. This guy was Zhang Qiang.

How did he have the nerve to come here?

Last year, in order to make money, Zhang Qiang wanted to cut off Li Long's business, and ended up with 1,500 brooms in his hands. In the end, he had no choice but to be forced by his father-in-law to go to Shicheng every day to sell brooms.

Later, Li Long heard that he could still make some money by selling brooms, but this also has peak and off-seasons. It is not easy to sell things in Shicheng Old Street in winter, as you have to stay there all day.

Those who have money can go to a milk tea shop to drink milk tea, otherwise the temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius is not pleasant - it can drop to minus 30 degrees Celsius at night, and it can drop to minus 30 degrees Celsius early in the morning. If you stand on the street for a while, even if you wear a hat, your eyebrows and beard will turn white.

It's almost like water turning into ice.

Li Long originally thought that Zhang Qiang had already mastered the skill, but he didn't expect that he would actually bring a big broom over today - has he changed his character, or is he here to make peace?
But Li Long took a quick glance and found that these brooms were really old, not new.

The Achnatherum splendens has turned gray, and some of them have gray spots on them.

Moreover, the broom has become deformed because it has been stacked for a long time instead of placed upright against the wall.

There were probably 20 to 30 large brooms on this cart. Li Long said to Zhang Qiang before he even got to the door:
"Zhang Qiang, I won't take your broom. Take it away."

"Not accepting? Why not?" Zhang Qiang's smiling face froze. "This broom has never been used. It's considered new. Look how straight the pole is. The broom has been reinforced with red willow, so it's very solid..."

"The sedge is old and brittle." Li Long shook his head and said, "It was picked last year, so it won't work this year. You can go sell it at the market, I won't buy it here!"

This guy had a good idea. He bought it for 2.5 yuan last year, and this year he wanted to sell it to Li Long for 3.5 yuan, making a net profit of one yuan.

If the brooms were all from this year, that would be fine, but if I sold them to myself last year, wouldn’t that be fooling a fool?
"Your broom also completed the task. Isn't it you who has the final say?" Zhang Qiang was not as arrogant as last year. He even said in a humble tone, "Xiaolong, please be merciful. I still have hundreds of brooms here. Please give them to me. At most, I can get a discount..."

He really didn't want to go to Shicheng to set up a stall. Although he could make money, it was too hard to be there all year round. As a farmer, at least he could stay at home and rest in the winter, but he couldn't sell things here.

Besides, he really didn't sell much, so he really didn't want to do it now.

Li Long shook his head, ignored him, and walked into the yard.

"Li Long, are you really so heartless?" Zhang Qiang was a little angry. "We are on the same team after all, and you still want me to kneel down for you?"

Several people have come over to deliver brooms, and Li Long guessed Zhang Qiang's intention.

"I won't take your job even if you kneel down. I want everyone to work on this big broom-making job for a few more years so that they can earn more money. If I take your job, it will destroy the reputation of the fourth team in big broom-making and there will be no work next year. Even if I agree, will the people in the team agree?"

Who doesn't know how to use moral blackmail?
First: There are two groups of gazelles one kilometer west of the Gaoquan exit of the Lianhuo Expressway.

Second: I said last time that I brought my family to Wucheng for medical treatment, cardiovascular disease. People in WLMQ should know how crowded the major hospitals are right now and how difficult it is to live nearby. I temporarily coded these chapters with a notebook. It is good enough to guarantee one chapter a day. I will code more if I can, after all, more code means more money.

But when I can't take care of both, I can only take care of one.

Please forgive me, normal updates should be resumed around the 20th.

Feel sorry. (End of chapter)