Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The next day when the sheep were slaughtered, Tao Daqiang came to help. In the afternoon, Xie Yundong, Liang Dacheng, Liang Shuangcheng and Jia Weidong also came.

Their main job was to help with washing the stomachs and intestines. After all, Halimu and his team slaughtered the sheep too quickly and could not keep up with the speed of washing the stomachs and intestines.

In fact, only half of the sheep was eaten the day before. The rest was left in Lao Mahao for Uncle Luo and his friends as breakfast the next day, and part of it was shared with others.

The cut meat was also taken away by Li Jianguo.

There was less meat left over the next day because Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong and others came to help and ate it at noon and in the evening. Although there was some leftovers, it was not much.

This time, we simply shared out the leftovers - Uncle Luo and his friends hadn't finished eating the leftovers from the day before.

With the help of Tao Daqiang and others, the process went much faster the next day. By the time Li Long took Halimu and others away, the stomachs, intestines, and other parts had almost been cleaned.

Li Jianguo organized the final finishing work. Everyone was asked to take two sheep heads and four sheep hooves home. No one was polite. The sheep had been slaughtered for two days, and there was already a large pile of sheep heads and sheep hooves.

Even so, half of them have been bought by others, otherwise there would be more.

On the morning of the third day when the sheep were slaughtered, Song Ming drove over with a truckload of sugar residue.

In the past, when he pulled the sugar residue over, others would just look at him and feel envious, but not that strongly. After all, everyone knew that Li Long paid for it.

But now it is different. Everyone knows why Li Long's sheep are so fat. The main feed is sugar residue!
The key point is that the sugar residue is free - most of the families who have tractors, like Lu Yingming, are already thinking about driving a tractor to transport the sugar residue next year.

If you don't have the connections, you can just go to the factory and pull it out directly. Can't you take some people and drive a tractor to the big pit behind the sugar factory and dig it out yourself?
It’s free anyway!
When Uncle Luo and the others saw Song Ming coming with the sugar residue, they stopped what they were doing and went to pick up the sugar residue.

In summer, the sugar residue can be placed outside to dry and then put into bags, or piled into a brick-built feed pool.

When the sugar residue was pulled to the Lao Ma in winter, the top layer had already frozen. There was still heat inside, but this thing would turn into ice if left outside overnight.

This was not easy to do, so Uncle Luo and his team came up with a solution after the fall. They cleared out a room in the row of houses and built a large kang. The sugar residue brought back in the winter was placed directly on the kang. There was a plastic sheet on the kang, and the sugar residue was piled on the kang. There was a stove connected to the kang hole, and the temperature was enough to dry the sugar residue in a week.

Moreover, as Song Ming drove the car to pull the sugar residue over, the moisture originally contained in the sugar residue slowly flowed away, making it easier to bake.

Song Ming parked the car in the yard of Laomahao, turned off the engine, got out and walked towards Li Long.

Li Long was selling sheep heads and sheep hooves to others. When he saw Song Ming coming over, he said to him:

"When you leave, take a few sheep heads and sheep trotters. They are a little troublesome to cook, but they are delicious when they are cleaned and braised or cooked in spicy sauce."

"Okay, I won't be polite with you." Song Ming now understands Li Long's character. He is a generous person, so he just needs to do what he should do.

"Comrade Xiao Li, I came here with instructions from Section Chief Hu. He said he wanted 100 sheep, skinned and processed, with the offal, especially the stomach, cleaned out; and two red deer, which also need to be processed..."

At this point, Song Ming lowered his voice and said:
"Section Chief Hu said that if we want male deer, the penis and other things must be kept separately, and the kidneys cannot be thrown away..."

"Okay." Li Long agreed readily.

"I need another ton of fish, each weighing more than one kilogram. Carp, grass carp, silver carp are all fine, but silver carp is best..."

Li Long thought that he hadn't fished for a long time, and he said with some embarrassment:

"This fish is more expensive now than before..."

"It's okay. It's expensive, so it doesn't matter. Section Chief Hu said that our sugar factory has good performance this year, so we need to give everyone more benefits." Song Ming didn't understand what Li Long meant, and said with a smile, "The section chief said, we'll just calculate it according to the market price."

"Then Brother Long, let's finish our work here, and then go dig a hole in the ice to catch fish." Tao Daqiang beside him suddenly said.

Li Long turned his head and looked at Tao Daqiang in surprise.

How long has it been since the two of them went fishing together?

Li Long was still a little dazed.

He looked at Tao Daqiang's expectant eyes, suddenly smiled, and said, "Okay! Let's go after we kill the sheep."

Then he turned to Song Ming and said:

"Xiao Song, we can bring a batch of sheep to your sugar factory at noon today. I can't fit them here. Anyway, you can't carry a hundred sheep, deer, fish, etc. in one truck. Why don't we just bring a batch over first?"

"Okay." Song Ming naturally had no objection and was quite happy. After all, if he pulled a batch over first, he could get the meat earlier.

He was also very envious when he saw the fat mutton.

Song Ming ate lunch with Li Long and the others. At first, he was a little reserved and wanted to grab a small piece of meat. Liang Yuemei gave him another large piece and said:

"Young man, how can your appetite be so small? Eat more, you're welcome!"

Although Song Ming was a worker and had a better life than ordinary people with his salary, it was rare for him to eat such a big piece of meat throughout the year.

He sat on a piece of wood beside him with the enamel basin in his hand. When he picked up the bone to chew it, he was a little confused.

Turning my head and looking around, I saw those people gnawing on the meat, including the herdsmen. None of them were wolfing down the meat impatiently. They were all eating slowly and leisurely, occasionally dipping a piece of naan in the soup and eating it.

Do they eat meat often? Otherwise, ordinary people can only eat meat a few times a year. When they see such a big piece of meat, they will eat it desperately.

Why do I feel like I’m the one who’s poor, not them?
Are the lives of farmers and herdsmen so good?
Looking at the bones with a lot of meat on them, Song Ming's mind was a little confused, but his physiological reaction did not stop. He had swallowed his saliva twice. This time he didn't want to clean it up and just wanted to eat it first.

Really fragrant!

It's a mixture of fat and lean, especially the fat, it's so delicious!
After dinner, Li Long drove the jeep in front and Song Ming pulled a cart of sheep behind, and they went to the sugar factory together.

Section Chief Hu was answering the phone in his office. It was the end of the year and the logistics departments of various factories in Shicheng were also exchanging information with each other.

This year, Section Chief Hu was more cautious. He only spoke of his ideas in general terms and did not say anything practical. He thought he would talk about it after the benefits were pulled over to the warehouse.

Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a slap in the face if you didn’t get the share?

The logistics of these factories were also secretly competing in these aspects. After all, Shicheng was not particularly large at that time, and the performance of several large factories was good, so what else could they compare? The standard for workers' wages was there, and even bonuses had to be based on the standard. What they were competing for was the benefits given to workers at the end of the year, and each factory had more freedom in this regard.

Those workers are also related to each other. When they meet someone they know, or when they have dinner together before and after the New Year, they will definitely ask each other. The questions they ask are nothing more than what benefits the factory provides, how much is the year-end bonus, who the advanced title was given to, etc.

Section Chief Hu thought that if the people in his factory showed off the mutton they distributed here, it would surprise others.

The sheep was really fat, but I didn't know what it would look like after being slaughtered. While he was talking on the phone, he heard a car horn. He looked out the window and saw a jeep and a car coming in together.

He recognized Li Long's jeep at a glance and immediately said into the microphone:

"Let's not talk about Lao Hong for now. I have something urgent to do. We can talk later when we have time."

After hanging up the phone, he hurriedly grabbed his coat and rushed out.

There were so many sheep in Song Ming's car, so Section Chief Hu naturally saw it.

The car drove to the door of the logistics warehouse and stopped when Section Chief Hu had already arrived.

Li Long got out of the car, and the two shook hands. Section Chief Hu smiled and said:

"Comrade Xiao Li, you are very quick and efficient!"

"It's okay. These sheep are a part of it. The sika deer will be slaughtered tomorrow. By the way, it will take some time for the fish." Li Long explained one by one.

"No problem, no problem. Don't worry. I still trust you."

Chief Hu had already seen the sheep inside through the gaps in the car's fenders - they were really fat!

Hey, looking at the workers in the factory this time, they should be very satisfied, right?

Song Ming had already asked the logistics staff to drag the scale over, and then he and others started to unload the sheep.

The logistics staff also pulled a cart over. After weighing the sheep, they would be taken to the warehouse and stored. As for how to distribute them, that depended on the instructions of the leader.

Although it is impossible for each person to share a sheep, it should be no problem to share a leg, right?
Look how fat this sheep is. In all my years working in logistics, I have never seen such a fat sheep.

Some pigs are not so fat!
The sheep were taken down one by one and placed on the scale, and all three were weighed together.

"Eighty-eight kilograms and seven hundred grams..."

There was a recorder next to him who was recording with a notebook, counting as he recorded, and using an abacus to dial the numbers, and he had to add them together in the end.

When Section Chief Hu heard the number, he basically understood that these sheep were fat and big, and each sheep weighed about 30 kilograms. The three weighed sheep were placed on the cart, and the logistics staff had to check them.

Section Chief Hu had already said that these sheep must have offal, so they forcefully pried open the frozen sheep's cavity to see whether the heart, liver, lungs, and stomach were still inside.

"Comrade Xiao Li, this inspection is also a routine matter..." Section Chief Hu explained to Li Long.

"Of course." Li Long said with a smile, "Inspection is inevitable, so that we can all talk."

After weighing the fifty sheep, the total weight was 1,433.8 kilograms. At the market price of one dollar and eighty cents per kilogram, the total cost was two thousand five hundred and eighty cents.

Accounting and invoicing are all done by the financial staff, and Section Chief Hu also has to sign before Li Long can go to the finance office to collect the money.

After Li Long got the money, he put it into the backpack he carried with him. He silently calculated it. Based on the price he paid for the sheep, minus the costs - that is, the wages of Uncle Luo and others, the sugar residue that Song Ming earned from hauling for two months, and the two sheep that he slaughtered and ate in the past two days, his net profit from these fifty sheep was more than eight hundred.

There are still fifty skins left. Those skins can be sold for at least ten yuan each, right?

Sheep heads and sheep hooves don’t count.

By this calculation, one can earn more than two thousand yuan from one hundred sheep. There are more than two hundred sheep in the pen. Excluding ewes with lambs and lambs that have not yet reached slaughter age, there are still one hundred and seventy or eighty sheep. These sheep can bring him an income of about four thousand yuan - a lot, really a lot!
Of course, this is only the case for me, who has a large amount of free sugar residue and a relationship with Chief Hu. Otherwise, if it were someone else, although they would also make money, they would definitely not make as much.

Moreover, if you raise too many, there needs to be a market to absorb them. If you simply sell them in the market, you will not be able to sell them all in a short period of time, and it will also cause a lot of trouble.

In general, a big part of the reason for being able to make so much money is due to the paths that one has laid out previously, the connections, and the integrity.

"Chief Hu, the next batch will be delivered tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and we will bring the red deer with us then." Li Long said, "I have something else to do when I get back, so I won't say more here."

Section Chief Hu was also anxious to ask the factory leaders to come and take a look at the sheep, so he said goodbye to Li Long.

Song Ming was also anxious to take the sheep heads and hooves back to prepare for processing - this time he took two sheep heads and eight sheep hooves. The stove at home was not big, so it would be quite troublesome to process them.

But I was still happy - free meat.

After Li Long went back, Halimu and the others had already started preparing to get the sika deer out and kill it.

The two male elk that were the target were as tall as an adult donkey and looked to weigh more than 100 kilograms. Probably because they knew they were going to die, the two deer were very ferocious and were determined to butt anyone who came in.

But this did not pose a problem for Halimu. He took a noose, turned it around a few times outside the circle, and when he swung it out, it caught the neck of a sika deer.

The others opened the door, two of them used sticks to drive the other sika deer inside, and two others stepped forward to pin down the sika deer, tied up its hooves and carried it out.

They not only slaughtered red deer, but also cattle. But they probably thought red deer was fresher, so they slaughtered red deer first.

Li Long also joined the group in processing the red deer. The one holding the knife was Halimu. When Li Long was preparing, he said clearly that he would come again tomorrow, after all, the cows had not been slaughtered yet. Looking at the time, they would have to go back after slaughtering the two red deer.

Halimu and the others naturally had no objection. Li Long meant that they should bring some cooked meat back when they returned, as there would be a lot left over anyway.

Halimu and his friends refused and didn't take it, saying they wanted to go around the county.

Li Long naturally had no objection, and this time he planned to bring some meat back.

Although there is meat at home, the way it is cooked is still different.

While helping, Tao Daqiang whispered to Li Long:

"Brother Long, can we break the ice hole tomorrow?"

"Well, we'll send the meat to the sugar factory tomorrow morning, and we'll be able to smash it in the afternoon." Li Long thought about it and said, "If we smash it tomorrow, we'll have fish the day after tomorrow."

Tao Daqiang smiled.

Over the past year or so, the family has become richer, but there is also more work to do. He still misses the days when he followed Li Long to dig holes in the ice to catch fish and then pull a horse-drawn cart to sell fish.

Although it is hard, it is simple. (End of this chapter)