Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

When Li Long returned to Team 4 again, Li Juan said that Yang Yuhong's mother didn't allow her to play with her anymore.

Li Juan felt really aggrieved. At that time, she just didn't break the tooth or take the skull. She knew very well that if she had taken it, she would be scolded - Liang Yuemei was definitely clear about this.

It’s not my fault that Yang Yuhong has a fever. Why doesn’t she let me play with her?

Well, if you don’t want to play, then don’t play. The study workload is quite tight in junior high school right now. Li Juan was just complaining.

In her previous life, Li Juan had poor academic performance. After family changes, life at home became difficult, and she ultimately failed to get into high school.

Nowadays, those who can be admitted to high school or technical secondary school have very good academic performance. In this life, Li Juan's grades are very good. When Liang Yuemei attended the parent-teacher meeting, the teacher said that she has a very good chance of being admitted to a technical secondary school, a normal school or high school.

Before the country unified its education system in 1996 and 1997, university graduates were guaranteed jobs. Before that, going to university was not an option for everyone. The most popular choice was to take a technical secondary school entrance exam, followed by a normal school entrance exam.

Because if you graduate from a technical secondary school, you can start working at the age of 18 and start as a state cadre. If you graduate from a normal school, you can become a teacher. With both of these, you can get a salary at the age of 18.

Relatively speaking, it takes four more years to get into high school and go to college, so the value of technical secondary schools and normal colleges is high at this time, and the passing score is also high.

So far, one person in the team has been admitted to a normal school, but no one has been admitted to a technical secondary school or a high school. The first college student in this village will appear in the 1990s.

At present, because Li Long's life has changed, the direction of everyone in the Li family has also changed. It is possible that Li Juan will become the first college student in the village.

In fact, if Li Long didn't say it, most people would still want Li Juan to take the technical secondary school entrance exam, but Li Long thought it would be better for her to take the high school entrance exam and go to college.

After all, those who went to secondary vocational schools to work as teachers in this era will have to upgrade their academic qualifications later. If Li Juan can get into university, she can go out of the county, out of the prefecture, and even out of the autonomous region to see the outside world.

Li Long has successfully gained an important position in everyone's mind in more than two years, so his words are still very useful for reference.

Although there is the counterexample of Gu Bowan, in fact, the weight of college students at that time is really high. After listening to Li Long's ideas, Li Juan also became determined to take the high school entrance examination and go to college.

Children at this age have relatively simple minds. They just need to set a goal and move forward. It is not like thirty or forty years later, when all kinds of information are mixed, making children begin to mature precociously. There are too many external influences and too many choices. Coupled with the influence of social trends, children are more likely to accept money than ideals - such as Internet celebrities.

Road construction was ongoing, with trucks bringing gravel from the settlement to Weigou every day. The coffin boards there were also gathered and burned, and the bones that had been dug out were gone, probably because some people couldn't bear to see them and buried them back in the ground.

The road construction process is done section by section. First, a section of gravel is pulled, then the bulldozer flattens the gravel, and then the roller presses it several times, and the gravel road is ready.

Basically, a highway could be built in a week, and in about a month, the gravel road from the fourth team to the township was completed.

At the beginning, this gravel road caused dissatisfaction among everyone because there were large and small stones on it, and walking on it was not as smooth as the previous dirt road.

However, as time went by, the large stones were slowly pressed into the road, and then the benefits of the gravel road became apparent. At least after the rain, the gravel road was no longer full of mud, and the rainwater would quickly seep in, eliminating the mud on the road and making it easier to walk.

This road will continue to be used for more than ten years, and will only be replaced by asphalt roads in sections at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.

The most satisfied ones are Li Long and those people who have tractors. They can drive much faster on gravel roads, there is no loose soil, and no too much dust is raised, especially on rainy days, they will not be splashed with mud.

The child is getting older, but he is not as naughty as imagined. He is very obedient, rarely cries, and is easy to take care of. Li Long also has plenty of time to go to the fourth team.

After the autumn harvest, the team had basically no farm work to do except planting winter wheat. Each family only had some finishing work left.

Li Long drove a jeep to the fourth team and this time went directly to Xu Chengjun's home.

Xu Chengjun was repairing the tools for pressing reed handles in the yard. Seeing Li Long coming over, he asked with some joy:

"Xiaolong, you're here? Did Zhaweibazi survive?"

Now the reeds in the reed ditch have basically turned yellow, and the reeds in the small lake and another reed lake are similar.

Everyone has gotten used to Li Long issuing the task of tying reed bundles around November, so when Xu Chengjun saw Li Long coming, he thought that this year's reed bundle tying work had been brought forward.

"I haven't been notified yet. I don't know if there will be any this year." Li Long knows the answer best. The task of making reed stalks is mainly to build houses, but in a few years, rural areas in northern Xinjiang will still use reed stalks and wheat straw to build houses, while houses in cities or military units have gradually begun to use prefabricated panels.

Once prefabricated houses become popular, the supply and marketing cooperatives will no longer collect reed bundles, and this job will gradually disappear.

There are relatively few people in northern Xinjiang, but the development of various basic industries is still quite fast. Once the cement industry develops, work such as prefabricated panels will be carried out on a large scale.

This is a development trend and is inevitable.

"Then you this time..." Xu Chengjun smiled and was not disappointed. After all, he earned a little more from making brooms this time than last year, and he also planted melons. Although the harvest this year was not as good as Li Jianguo's, the gross income was still seven or eight yuan, so he was content.

He has already bought a tractor for his family, and he is even thinking of buying a harvester from Li Long in the spring of next year, so that he can also do some work harvesting wheat and make money at home.

"Captain, I plan to contract some land next to the old horse stable and expand the stable."

"What do you mean, the old horse pit is not enough?" Xu Chengjun put down the tools at hand and asked, "You don't keep many things in it."

Xu Chengjun also took some time to visit Laomahao and learned that there were more than a dozen wild boars there - although they were considered domesticated, their bodies were long and thin, and they didn't look like domestic pigs at all, and it seemed like they could never get fat.

There were also some roe deer and red deer, about ten in total.

Although these things seem to be many, they are not enough to be placed in Lao Ma Hao. To be honest, Lao Ma Hao can even have twice as many things.

"I plan to wait for the herders in the mountains to return home, and then get some cattle and sheep to feed, and then slaughter and sell them around the Spring Festival. If I do that, there won't be enough space at the Lao Ma Hao."

"So where do you plan to expand? West of the Old Horse?"

"Yes, to the west, I plan to expand the saline-alkali land, raise the foundation, connect it to the Old Horse, and then build an open circle and a warm circle."

"So how much do you plan to contract?" Xu Chengjun asked.

He still remembered the matter of Lao Ma Hao. Two copies of the contract were still in the team headquarters. He also explained it to the township, and the township approved it.

After all, two years ago, the team really made a profit in the eyes of the villagers by spending a few hundred dollars to buy the old horse number.

But it’s hard to say who will gain or lose at the moment.

So Xu Chengjun also became suspicious and asked Li Long how much land he had contracted.

"Fifty acres of land is the limit for the team, right? Then I'll contract forty-five acres - I still want to buy it. For a professional breeder like me, doesn't the team have any rewards?"

"Yes, there is a reward. If the township approves, then you will be rewarded with five acres of land." Xu Chengjun naturally understood the township's policies. "What other reward do you want?"

If there were five acres of fodder land, Li Long would naturally be willing to do so. Even if he planted alfalfa directly and didn't take care of it, two crops a year would be enough fodder for a lot of cattle and sheep.

"I was hoping that the team could allocate a piece of land for me to use as a pen for the cattle and sheep. It's saline-alkali land anyway, and no one is reclaiming it, so why not give it to me?" Li Long said half-jokingly, "How about I give each household in the team 10 kilograms of meat during the New Year?"

"Really?" Xu Chengjun's eyes lit up. "If you can really give each household 10 kilograms of meat during the Spring Festival, then I can really approve this land - if I can't approve 50 acres, then I can approve 20 to 30 acres of saline-alkali beach."

The county and township governments encourage planting and breeding, and have also issued policies allowing each production team to give appropriate compensation to farmers and breeders.

The production team actually has a lot of autonomy in this regard, and Xu Chengjun can make the decision himself.

"Then let's do 30 mu." Li Long thought that 30 mu was not a small amount, and it would be no problem to build a large enclosure. He didn't actually want to raise too many cattle and sheep. Now that Uncle Luo wanted to start a business, he would support him.

Rural people are different from city people. In rural areas, as long as they are alive, unless they are paralyzed, they basically keep working. Some people even work within the first few minutes of their death.

It really means working until you die.

got used to.

Uncle Luo is not even 60 yet, he can still work for many years. The same is true for the other five-guarantee households in the team, that is, Uncle Luo’s friends.

The new production team has this characteristic: there are no particularly old people, and these years are also the time when labor is most abundant.

"Okay, then I'll grant you 30 mu of land to the west of the old horse farm," Xu Chengjun said straightforwardly. "I'll write you a note now, but I have to say this in advance. Now that I've granted you the land, you don't have time this year, but you have to see some results next year."

"No problem. That piece of land is lower than Lao Ma Hao. I will find Wang Caimi today and use his tractor to push away the saline-alkali soil layer on that piece of land, and then bring sand and gravel to lay the foundation. There is no time to build the wall this year, so I will build the wall in the spring of next year. As for cattle and sheep, we will see then. Maybe we can get a flock of sheep to raise in the spring."

Xu Chengjun knew Li Long's ability and also knew that he would not say such words easily, so he put down the work at hand and went to write a note to Li Long.

This note is stamped with the village seal, and Li Long will keep it carefully. In a few years, when land certificates are issued, this certificate will be directly exchanged for the land certificate, and then the land will really become his.

As for his promise to distribute 10 kilograms of meat to each household, there were less than 50 households in the village, so that meant 500 kilograms of meat.

Currently, there are only about ten wild boars raised in Lao Mahao.

He was even thinking about calling his eldest brother someday, driving a tractor, going to the wooden house, finding out the situation nearby, finding a group of wild boars, and getting enough meat in one kill.

Li Long thought that the wild boar in Lao Ma’s cellar belonged to him. If he wanted to distribute meat to the team, it would be best to get it from outside.

We'll talk about this later. After Li Long had settled the land issue, he was about to leave to find Wang Caimi to confirm the bulldozer and foundation laying, but Xu Chengjun stopped him:
"Xiaolong, you mentioned earlier that you would contract the small lake. We agreed on it and signed the contract. I have already filed this with the township. The township said that the water surface belongs to our fourth team and we can make our own decisions. Now let's sign a formal contract, and the small lake will be handed over to you. You can do whatever you want with it later."

Li Long found this a bit strange. Xu Chengjun never talked about this before, so why did he suddenly talk about it now? He thought about it and asked:
"Captain, is there anyone who likes our team's little Haizi?"

"Hey, it's you." Xu Chengjun said with a smile, "Deputy Township Chief Chen told me that someone wants to take over our small lake, but he doesn't plan to pay. He said he wants to help us maintain it. I directly told him that this small lake has been contracted out -

I guess, there are a lot of fish in the small lake in the past two years, and some people are jealous. In fact, everyone in our team knows that if you hadn't paid for everyone to repair that section of the canal two years ago, our small lake would have been washed away by the flood. How could there be any big fish in the flood?
So I think it’s better to decide the name of this small lake as soon as possible, so that if someone wants to do something else in the future, I will have something to say. By the way, do you want to contract this Weigou? If you want to, it’s given to you.”

"No." Li Long waved his hand. In two years, the reeds would be worthless. Moreover, this reed ditch was often washed down by floods from upstream, and was gradually silted up. Its economic value was not high.

Reeds are still relatively valuable at the moment, and the contract price will not be too low. On the contrary, it is not as cost-effective as saline-alkali marshes.

Xu Chengjun took out two contracts that had been written long ago. Li Long looked at the handwriting, which was obviously from Accountant Chen. He knew that it must have been discussed by the cadres in the team.

The contracting rights are also given leniently, directly extending to thirty years.

As for the contract fee, Xu Chengjun said:
"Xiaolong, it's written here that the first ten years will be one thousand per year, and starting from the eleventh year, it will increase by one hundred per year, how do you think that works?"

"No problem." Li Long knew that as long as he caught fish seriously, he could earn several thousand yuan from the small lake every year, so one thousand was not a lot.

But what Xu Chengjun said was not wrong. If he had not paid the money to the team to clear the channel, there would probably only be small crucian carp in the small lake now, and no big fish.

It doesn't matter how much money it sells.

So I feel at ease taking the contract rights.

"In addition, the team will not collect the money for the first ten years. You are leading everyone to get rich, and our team is not blind. The team will not get rich with this thousand yuan, but it will not be poor without this thousand yuan. But you are leading the team to make handles and big brooms, and you may need to make reed handles later. People in our team have earned a lot of money from this, and the team recognizes this, so the team will not collect your contract fee for the next ten years.

In addition, if you can still get a big broom ten years later, the team behind you won’t charge you for it.”

Li Long understood that this was the team's way of repaying a favor to him.

Li Long also felt at ease with this.

Well, Li Long felt that it was a win-win situation to assign the work to the team, and he did not expect any other rewards. However, the team recognized this and handed Xiao Haizi to him, so he accepted it with peace of mind.

Taking the contract, Li Long looked at the bright seal of the village party committee on it and thought that was enough.

After finishing the main business, Xu Chengjun asked about other things.

"Xiaolong, I heard from Lao Xie that you guys are not planning to grow melons next year?"

"Well, most of the melon seeds this year have been bought by farmers. I guess the market for melons is limited. It will be difficult to sell them next year, so I don't plan to plant them."

Li Long also spoke the truth. This matter definitely could not be kept secret, and he had no intention of keeping it secret. He just wanted it to spread, so that at least their attitude would be clear.

If everyone follows suit, you will avoid losses. If you cannot keep up but still plant, you will not make any money or even lose money, and you cannot blame yourself.

"So what do you plan to plant?" Xu Chengjun's thoughts were also obvious, he wanted to keep up with the main force.

After all, they tasted the sweetness in the first year. The money they earned in one year was equivalent to a worker's salary for more than ten years. Why would they still need to eat commercial grain?

"It's still uncertain, because we haven't thought of another way to make money like this. We've thought about sunflowers, peanuts, and cotton, but none of them are as profitable as picking melons this year.

But next year, I guess, the melons will either not sell for even a dollar, or they won’t sell at all. So we haven’t decided yet, and we’re still looking.”

Li Long was telling the truth, so he was very calm.

Xu Chengjun also knew that he couldn't rely entirely on the Li brothers, and he was also thinking about it. In this kind of thing, although everyone admired the Li family, as farmers, to be honest, who is strong and who is weak, everyone is not necessarily completely convinced of a certain person.

"Okay, then you go ahead and do your thing. I won't keep you here." Xu Chengjun nodded, and Li Long left.

He also had a lot to do. He had occupied thirty acres of salt marshland west of the Old Horse, which was a lot.

The land of Lao Ma Hao is only about five or six acres. This time, there are suddenly thirty acres of land next to it. Just building a fence will be a huge project.

Li Long plans to use part of the land to build a fence, and see if he can improve the remaining land and plant crops on it.

As for the five acres of feed land allocated to the team, he plans to plant alfalfa directly in the spring of next year and not have to worry about it anymore.

After Li Long left, Xu Chengjun finished the work in the yard and then went to find Xu Haijun.

Among the younger generation, he was most optimistic about Xu Haijun. If Xu Haijun was not in poor health, he would have hoped that his cousin could stay in the army for a few more years and be promoted to an officer.

Even if you can't be promoted, it would be nice to become a volunteer soldier, join the party, and take over your shift when you come back.

I just didn’t expect that Xu Haijun was in poor health and didn’t stick with it. I can only say that life is unpredictable and it is impossible for everything to go as I wish.

"Captain, what's wrong?" Xu Haijun was fiddling with his bicycle in the yard. When he saw Xu Chengjun come in, he asked.

He was used to calling him captain instead of brother, and Xu Chengjun was used to it.

"Go and tell each of them not to plant melons next year. Process the melon seeds you got from me and sell them if you can."

This year, among the Xu families in the team, only Xu Chengjun's family planted melons. After harvesting the melons, he left some seeds for his relatives, in addition to those for himself. Now it seems that they can't be planted anymore.

"Why?" Xu Haijun was a little surprised. He was planning to plant melons next year. This was very profitable.

But it's much faster than Biza lifting the handle!

"Because next year the melon seeds won't be worth much," Xu Chengjun said. "If Li Long said so, then there will definitely be no problem."

Xu Haijun was a little unconvinced.

PS: Thank you all for your concern. Let me tell you first that my family member has been discharged from the hospital. The operation was very successful. It was a serious illness for us, but it was a minor operation for the doctors - cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. He had the operation the day before and was discharged from the hospital the next day. He is doing well now.

I'm back now, and I'll try to update twice a day in the future, and I'll try to ensure the quality. I've been busy with this, and my kids are going back to school, so I still have some odds and ends to do.

On the way back, we found two groups of gazelles in the reserve, beside the highway. Their fur looked shiny, they were fat, and their horns were very long. They must have been there for a while, and they were not afraid of cars.

Sailimu Lake is almost completely frozen - except for a small area with swans, which seems to be running water. We didn't go in. We could see swans on the highway, and they were not afraid of people. The above two points show the harmonious coexistence of humans and animals.

Another discordant thing is that there are more and more wild boars. There are even groups of wild boars in the wetlands near Xiaohaizi. I don’t know whether they were introduced that year or came down from the mountains. People no longer dare to plant corn nearby because it will be destroyed in the fall.

Far away.

Thank you all (End of this chapter)