Chapter 1028: New Year gifts received non-stop, hard to refuse the hospitality

Half a sheep, ten kilograms of beef, two hairtails, a box of apples, a box of Kuitun Special Qu, a plate of frozen shrimp, and a piece of pork belly.

All hard goods, it feels like it won't stop at one hundred yuan.

Li Long guessed that it was impossible for everyone in the factory to issue these things. Sure enough, after receiving them, the staff said:

"Because this snow blower was designed by you, our factory, relying on this, everyone's bonus received before the New Year is not small. Everyone thanks you, so there are unusually many things!"

Li Long accepted it with a smile. This human touch is heavy.

Moving the things into the car, finally it was that box of Kuitun Special Qu. Looking at this bottle with a special shape, Li Long thought about whether to take the opportunity to hoard a batch. After all, in a few years, such a bottle would be discontinued. In a few decades, wanting to get such a bottle of wine would cost thousands of yuan.

Now hoard a few dozen boxes, and it will be decent to drink in the future—the point is that the wine now is really brewed with pure grain, and later, don't know what it is blended with.

Factory Director Du asked the staff to arrange Li Long's lunch. He didn't have time to accompany Li Long to eat. According to the staff, Factory Director Du's eating time during this period wasn't fixed, and there were too many people coming here to talk about cooperation.

Factory Director Du didn't want to be the kind of person who talked about business at the dinner table. He thought about talking about normal cooperation in the office and then doing other things.

Li Long declined the staff's request to accompany him for lunch, simply went out and found a place to eat a meal casually.

Actually, he could go to his second brother's place, but he wanted to come and go quickly on this trip, so he didn't disturb their family.

Maybe because they didn't live together since childhood, so they weren't that close. If it were Li Jianguo's family living here, Li Long wouldn't have to think about anything and would go directly to eat, but in his second brother's or sister's family, he couldn't do it.

Found a state-run restaurant to eat a meal, and then went to the winery, bought two more boxes of Kuitun Special Qu, loaded the car, and drove back.

Driving all the way back, there were fewer people carrying guns to hunt Mongolian gazelles on the road, but there were still a few.

Some cars had hunting gains, obviously, groups of Mongolian gazelles had passed through here, and some hadn't hit anything, and were gnawing on dry naan there. Compared to steamed buns, naan was easier to carry and relatively better to eat, just a bit harder to grind teeth when dry.

Li Long didn't stop, drove all the way until he was almost at Shicheng, before he saw from afar that a small group of Mongolian gazelles had rushed across the highway and ran to the Gobi Desert in the south. The distance was relatively far, and he didn't have the mind to fight.

Passing Shicheng, Li Long didn't stop either, drove back to Maxian, feeling his butt was a bit uncomfortable sitting.

The purchasing station was already closed, but when passing by, he could still see someone holding a bag and looking at the iron gate. When Li Long's jeep drove over, that person left.

Li Long hesitated, didn't stop. Looking at this person's appearance, it wasn't that urgent, should not be short of money, just didn't know that the purchasing station closed earlier than last year, and ran an empty trip.

Returning to the large courtyard, Han Fang was taking Mingming and Haohao to play with Xiao Hei and the milk sheep in the courtyard. The three little lambs were very naughty, raising their front hooves from time to time to butt Mingming and Haohao. Mingming and Haohao were not to be outdone, and wanted to butt back.

The jeep drove in, the little lambs were scared away, Xiao Hei jumped non-stop, welcoming Li Long's return.

Li Long got off the car and began to move things into the room. Sister Yang also followed to help, surprised to see so many ingredients.

"Welfare issued by the agricultural machinery factory, enough for us to eat for many days." Li Long smiled. At this time, even the fattened cattle and sheep were fed with refined feed, and there would be no clenbuterol or those chemical products, so it was safe to eat.

Li Long asked Sister Yang to take out a part, and they could take it to the courtyard in the south to cook. Sister Yang agreed.

In the afternoon, when Gu Xiaoxia was about to get off work, the phone in the room rang. Li Long went in to answer the phone, it was Wang Mingjun who called.

"Hello, Company Commander Wang." Li Long was a bit surprised and greeted.

"Xiao Long, this large broom job is over, you don't come over anymore. We have several hundred Mongolian gazelle skins here. You don't come over, the snow is heavy and it's not easy for us to send them to you, what do you think?"

"Then I'll go pick them up tomorrow." People kept several hundred skins for him, Li Long couldn't not go pick them up? That wouldn't be right.

"Okay, then we'll wait for you." Wang Mingjun smiled, replied, and hung up the phone.

Li Long hurriedly flipped through the phone book, looked for it, and called the county transportation company. The other side answered the phone, knew Li Long wanted to hire a truck, asked Li Long's name and said he would report it, returned quickly and said the car was available, Li Long could go tomorrow.

Old customer, this bit of face was still there.

The next day Li Long went to the transportation company. This time he didn't drive, and went directly to the northern corps company with the truck.

The further north he went, the more he felt the feeling of "thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, ten thousand miles of snow drifting", "the earth is white and clean".

Occasionally he could see black spots and black blocks in the snow, all of which were shrubs that hadn't been completely covered.

Except for the engine sound of the car, nothing else could be heard, as if he had come to a completely static world.

From Maxian all the way north, walking more than ten kilometers, out of the township boundary, and then north, there were wheel tracks pressed by tractors on the road, and it wasn't impossible to walk.

But the further north, the worse the road conditions. At first, the whole road was pressed flat. Walking out dozens of kilometers, it was already out of the township range and reached the corps boundary. The snow in the middle of the road wasn't pressed, only the position where the wheels were was pressed flat.

The snow on the roadside was quite high. Unlike in the mountains, there was no vegetation around here, so there must be wind-blown snow—there was none here, the snow was what it was when it fell, and it was what it was now.

Li Long looked at the road conditions getting worse and worse, thinking whether there would be no road later, and he had to clear the snow?

"Boss Li, don't worry, our truck has strong horsepower." The driver master saw Li Long's worry and smiled, "Even if the snow on the road isn't cleared, we can drive over, and by the way, help them open the road."

Li Long smiled, thinking that looking at the snow on the side of the road, it must be at least eighty centimeters thick. How far can this truck press the snow?

Of course, he just thought about it and didn't say it. He thought about whether to get a snow blower for Wang Mingjun and the others? At least this thing is really useful. After all, Wang Mingjun and the others have small four-wheeled tractors, which is convenient to carry.

Just didn't expect that when he was about to reach the company, the road surface suddenly opened up, and the snow in the middle was cleared away, at least three or four meters wide, and it was very smooth to drive.

"The people here are quite capable." The driver master looked, "It wasn't cleared by a snow blower. This was pushed out by organizing manpower directly."

Looking at the smooth road ahead, Li Long was happy. This should be organized by Wang Mingjun, it was done quite well.

When the truck drove to the company headquarters, Wang Mingjun and Old Chen had already arrived at the door.

Li Long hurriedly asked the driver master to stop, he got off and shook hands with the two, and said with a smile:

"Company Commander, Old Chen brother, your combat effectiveness is strong, this snow is cleared so well, so far..."

"That really took a lot of effort and a lot of work." Wang Mingjun smiled, Old Chen explained on the side, "You know these few snowfalls, it was too heavy. Fortunately, there was nothing to do in winter. As long as it snowed, the Company Commander organized people to push the snow, just as exercise, taking the team to exercise."

Li Long thought that now Old Chen's consciousness and language level could match the Company Commander.

Entering the company headquarters, Wang Mingjun complained:

"The regiment distributed a snow blower, that thing is really neat when clearing snow! But there was only one. After clearing the snow at the company headquarters, it was borrowed by nearby companies. We companies far away couldn't get a turn at all... Don't know where to buy it. If there was such a machine, we would be saved a lot of trouble here."

"Who doesn't want to roast fire and eat melon seeds in the room in the dead of winter? That snow clearing is also something that has to come out..."

"If it's a snow blower, I can get you one." Li Long thought this was a coincidence, "After the New Year, you go to my place, I'll get you one."

"Can you get it?" Wang Mingjun's eyes lit up, and he directly grabbed Li Long's arm and asked: "Really or fake? Is it the kind that is carried on a small four-wheeled tractor? Can roll the snow up?"

"Well, it's that one, from Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory." Li Long was embarrassed to say it was designed by himself, "I have a good relationship with them, got one for our team, and got two for the herdsmen in the mountains. If you want it, I'll take you to pull it."

"Go to Kuitun to pull? That's a bit far." Old Chen had some concerns.

"Don't go to Kuitun, Shicheng Tractor has their agency point." Li Long said, "Just go there to pull it."

"That's no problem! Don't wait until after the New Year. Looking at this weather, there will be a heavy snow in the next few days of the New Year—you take this skin first, I'll follow to the county to find a place to stay this afternoon, and find you early tomorrow morning, and then pull the snow blower back, how about that?" Old Chen was more active than Wang Mingjun in this regard, and immediately asked the Company Commander, "Let's take a tractor over and drive it back directly..." ===== CHAPTER 1029 =====