Chapter 1027: Sending New Year gifts, receiving New Year gifts

Before the New Year, besides preparing things for the New Year, Li Long still had a few things to do.

Mainly paying New Year calls and collecting money.

Factory Director Du had called several times, asking Li Long to go to the factory when he had time, and by the way, pick up his welfare—by the way, at Factory Director Du's, Li Long was also considered a member of the factory.

The beef and mutton Li Long gave to the agricultural machinery factory were taken away by the truck sent by Factory Director Du to deliver snow blowers to Wucheng. Every once in a while, Factory Director Du would call Li Long to report the accounts, saying the shipment volume and order quantity during this period.

Although it was close to the Spring Festival, and it would be February soon, there were still a full month of snowy days, but abnormally, it had been snowing lightly for several days, and some units found it troublesome to sweep the snow, so they finally ordered snow blowers.

So the orders for the agricultural machinery factory kept rising. According to Factory Director Du's optimistic estimate, just this one winter, their agricultural machinery factory had almost over-fulfilled the production tasks for the whole year—tax and profit targets, almost all were achieved.

This snow blower was much more profitable than the harvester.

It should be said that although this snow disaster brought huge losses to the vast number of herdsmen, for Li Long and the agricultural machinery factory, it was a huge opportunity.

These actions of Factory Director Du made Li Long feel that he had found a very good partner, at least in terms of finance, people didn't think about fooling him.

He also planned to go to Beiting to pay a New Year call to Director Qian and send a festival gift. Of course, he didn't plan to send anything particularly expensive, just normal deer meat, deer antler, etc. This year, Li Long didn't hunt anything special in the mountains. After having close contact with the Tiger King, Li Long felt that people only have one life, so it was better to be careful.

Hunting is a good thing, but in the end, when he wants to hunt in the future, he still has to make full preparations.

He also reflected on why he was almost torn by the Tiger King, mainly because he wasn't so careful in the mountains. He had hunted many times, and every time he had the upper hand, even the worst time he shot the bear, and he wasn't seriously injured.

So he floated, was proud, and didn't care.

Didn't expect to meet someone more powerful, this was the lesson.

Li Long specifically took Sunday to go to Beiting. He called Director Qian in advance and made an appointment to go in the morning. Director Qian and Sister Guan, as well as the children who returned, were all at home. Li Long sent the gifts he brought. Director Qian and Sister Guan both said they wanted Li Long to stay for dinner.

Among the gifts, there was a bottle of tiger bone wine, which was the key point.

Li Long declined and said:

"Running this trip before the New Year, I still have to go to Wucheng, and there are professors at the August 1st Agricultural College to visit... I won't eat, I'll pay you a New Year call in advance."

"So busy even before the New Year, can't come twice a year." Sister Guan complained a bit, "You have a car, you have to come often in the future." Saying that, she took out a box of apples from the storage room, "Since you have something to do, I won't keep you. Take this box of apples back to eat. Authentic Yili apples, packaged well, don't freeze them in the car."

Li Long thanked Sister Guan, chatted a few more words, and went out with the apples.

He went to Wei Zhuren's house again. The things sent to Wei Zhuren's house were relatively normal, all local specialties—a deer whip, two packaged Codonopsis, and two bottles of Bai Yang Special Qu.

Seeing the deer whip, Wei Zhuren's mouth twitched. After all, he had worked in Ma County and knew that this thing was a good thing, so he accepted it with a very serious smile.

The return gift to Li Long was two bottles of Wuliangye. According to Wei Zhuren, he had quite a lot of wine here, all sent by subordinates. He couldn't drink that much, and many were placed in the basement. Li Long was his own person, so take them back to drink.

At this time, Wuliangye wasn't particularly famous, but it was bigger than many wine brands in the territory. Li Long felt that Old Wei really needed the deer whip.

Old Wei also kept Li Long for dinner, Li Long gave the same explanation, and then left.

Wucheng had new changes. Some places had buildings built, some courtyards were renovated, and some roads were widened.

In the prosperous areas, there were more shopping malls, shops, and clothing stores. Although it was midwinter and the daytime temperature was nearly minus thirty degrees, in places like Tianbai, the flow of people was quite large.

Li Long first went to Professor Wu's house and put the things brought for Professor Luo together here.

"Are you planning to plant watermelon seeds this year?" Professor Wu asked with a smile.

"I'm not planting." Li Long said truthfully, "The land is all with my brother. I've been busy with the purchasing station all year..."

Li Long reported his work situation for the year to Professor Wu like a student.

Professor Wu listened with a smile. After Li Long finished speaking, she asked in surprise:

"You mean that snow blower was invented by you? Very good! Many units in Wucheng are using it, and the efficiency is very high. I've been thinking about how this was produced—Li Long, you are really amazing!"

"Where, where." Li Long said, "I just like to tinker when I'm free." He didn't dare to say more, afraid of revealing the truth, after all, it was considered to have produced someone else's idea, which was not easy to explain.

Professor Wu didn't tangle too much on this topic, mainly asking about the development of rural agriculture this year, the needs and thoughts of farmers, and Li Long's thoughts.

The key was to listen to Li Long's thoughts.

And Li Long's thought was mechanization.

"North Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, large-scale mechanization is a must." Professor Wu also agreed with Li Long's thought, "But this process may be quite long."

"I don't think it will be too long." Li Long subconsciously retorted, "After the market economy, the development of many things is not controlled by the plan. To put it bluntly, as long as there is money to be made, within the legal framework, people's enthusiasm and creativity will be greatly improved. I think many people will see the prospects of mechanization, private capital will also join in, and the process will be faster and faster in the future..."

In Professor Wu's place, the chat didn't last long, because she had something to go out, so Li Long came out with a bag of snacks returned by the professor and some local specialties from her hometown.

Returning to the train station square again, Li Long parked the car and went to eat some mixed noodles. After eating, he went to look for Yusufu.

Yusufu wasn't there, his son was watching the stall. This young Balangzi obviously didn't recognize Li Long, so Li Long simply bought some red dates, raisins, and other dried fruits, and then left.

These things, thirty or forty years later, every family in North Xinjiang should have some, but they eat less.

But now, these are good things. If children have a handful of raisins in their hands, they can immediately become the most beautiful boy in the group of children. They eat raisins and distribute raisins very carefully, and they are counted by the grain.

Li Long bought these things intending to take some back to his second brother and sister's family.

He suddenly felt that he didn't look like a younger brother at all, but rather like an older brother taking care of every brother and sister.

Well, who made him earn more money, and who made him live a second life?

Putting the bought things into the car, when Li Long was about to leave, he looked over there again and saw Yusufu rushing over, holding an aluminum lunch box in his hand and rushing to his stall.

Obviously, he went home to get food. Although there were restaurants on the square, the price wasn't cheap, so it was cheaper to eat the food made at home.

Li Long sighed, sighed, but was also quite gratified, because just now he saw new jade placed on Yusufu's stall. Although there weren't many and the size wasn't big, at least it started.

I believe his business will get better and better.

Li Long drove the car to the jade carving factory again. Today was the weekend, he didn't know if Liu Gong would open the door, just thinking that since he came to Wucheng, he would come over.

What surprised Li Long was that the shop at the side door was open. It was just that there was no one now.

Li Long parked the jeep, took a bottle of wine from the car, carried it, and walked over.

Liu Gong was arguing with his wife in the room.

"I said it, opening the door on Sunday, how could there be anyone? Others must think you are closed for rest here."

"I'm not thinking of adjusting the time, so I can stay at home for one more day during the New Year?" Liu Gong's explanation had grievances, "Who could know that no one would come? But don't worry, it's only noon, maybe someone will come in the afternoon..."

Li Long walked over with a smile and said:

"Liu Gong, Auntie, wish you a Happy New Year in advance!"

"Look, look, isn't Xiao Li here!" Seeing Li Long walking over, a happy smile appeared on Liu Gong's face, "I said I was right, right? If I didn't open the door today, wouldn't Xiao Li have made a wasted trip?"

Liu Gong's wife also had a good impression of Li Long. She said with a smile:

"You really guessed it right... Xiao Li, come in, come in. Come in and sit, I'll pour you tea."

Li Long carried the wine into the inside, handed the wine to Liu Gong and said: "Liu Gong, this is the tiger bone wine sent to you, it's quite good for older people, you drink it slowly." ===== CHAPTER 1028 =====