Chapter 1067

After the preschool class was dismissed, Li Long picked up Mingming and Haohao, let his mother also sit in the car, and took them to his eldest brother's home first.

At this time, both middle school and primary school had already been dismissed—the team stipulated that the preschool class should be dismissed later. Qin Hongyan had a salary, and it wasn't low, but she had to teach for a longer period of time.

This way, those with dolls at home could stay in the preschool class for a while longer, and come to pick them up after their parents returned from working in the fields.

Qin Hongyan chatted with Li Long for a few words when she was dismissed, and only breathed a sigh of relief after watching Li Long pick up the dolls and leave.

She was a bit afraid to face Li Long, which had nothing to do with past events; it was mainly because when Li Long sent Mingming and Haohao in, he donated some toys to the preschool class.

Some of these toys were still in the class, but some were taken home by her for her son to play with. Being afraid to face Li Long was also worrying that Li Long would pursue the question.

Li Long didn't care that much. Water is clear and there are no fish; he only cared about whether his children were playing happily in the preschool class.

Actually, waiting until September, Mingming and Haohao would go to the county preschool class—now called kindergarten. The education system had its own preschool class, but recently Gu Xiaoxia said that all such preschool institutions in the county were unified and changed to kindergartens, on the side of Wenhua Road in the county.

Li Long calculated that the distance wasn't far, which was quite good. Gu Xiaoxia said that the kindergarten taught literacy and addition and subtraction of numbers, and was also equipped with some musical instruments and toys, which were quite suitable for children of this age group, so he thought about sending them over when the two children were over three years old in September.

Liang Yuemei had already burned fish soup, heated steamed buns, and stir-fried leeks with eggs. The steamed buns were heated directly on the edge of the pot, so the steamed buns coming out around the pot had a yellow burnt edge. Children at this time liked to eat this.

Li Long put down his mother and the two children, and Liang Yuemei let the two children wash their hands. Li Juan and Li Qiang were very happy to see Mingming and Haohao, holding steamed buns and teasing them, which made Liang Yuemei scold them.

Mingming and Haohao were actually not angry at all. At this time, they were just at the age when they liked to play with older children, and they wouldn't think that their brother and sister were teasing them, thinking they were playing.

"My brother hasn't returned from the fields yet?" Li Long saw the tractor was there, but his eldest brother wasn't, so he asked.

"The Fang family in the team planted tobacco leaves, and called your eldest brother over to help. Before, the team had planted tobacco. Xiaoxia's father and your eldest brother had learned from technicians.

After that, no one in the team planted it. Now it is said that the Kuitun Cigarette Factory collects tobacco leaves. The Fang family planted two mu of land, thinking that the tobacco leaves could be sold to the cigarette factory after being baked, and the tobacco stalks could be made into Mohe tobacco, so they planted it."

"My eldest brother had also done this?" Li Long was a bit surprised. "Why didn't I know?"

"When your eldest brother planted this, you hadn't come over yet," Liang Yuemei smiled. "Eat first, I estimate he will be back soon. Today, Old Father went to cast nets in the small Haizi, and the crucian carp he got made fish soup that is very fresh."

Li Long was waiting for Li Jianguo while drinking fish soup, and he was quite curious.

After more than ten minutes, Li Jianguo returned on his bicycle.

There was no smell of smoke on his body. Thinking about it, it was also normal. At the moment, the tobacco leaves should have just grown, and they hadn't been baked yet, so how could there be a smell of smoke?

Li Jianguo greeted Li Long, went to wash his hands, and then ate slowly with Li Long at the small table outside, with a steamed bun in one hand and fish soup in the other.

"Eldest brother, have you planted tobacco?" Li Long asked curiously.

"Planted it," Li Jianguo said with a smile. "Before, when I was a small group leader in the production team, at that time there was a bit of autonomy, thinking about planting whatever made money, and planted it for two years. By the way, you know the land of the vegetable deputy group, right?"

"Know it."

"At the north end of that land, there was a tobacco baking house. That place was for planting flue-cured tobacco. Later, it wasn't planted with tobacco, but with vegetables, and that house started baking spicy skins."

"Then I remember it. For the two years I just came, the house was still there, and later it slowly collapsed," Li Long really recalled it.

"No one managed it, so it had to collapse."

"Is planting tobacco leaves profitable?" Li Long asked again.

"Profitable. At that time, let me calculate, around seventy, planting one mu of tobacco, selling tobacco leaves with Mohe tobacco made from tobacco stalks, could earn more than thirty yuan, which was quite a lot," Li Jianguo said this with still a bit of pride.

"That really isn't a small amount!" That was the seventies! "Then why didn't you plant it later?"

"Sigh," Li Jianguo said with a bit of 'hating iron for not becoming steel'. "In my small group, only Old Gu and I learned the technology. Others were lazy and didn't work well. The tobacco leaves planted, when baking, didn't look well, didn't bake well, and the cigarette factory didn't collect them, losing money, so it wasn't planted."

Li Long nodded, knowing that this was really a technical job.

"Not only this, but after the tobacco leaves were chopped down and baked, the tobacco stalks were left to make Mohe tobacco at the end. This also counted as a technical job, and it was also laborious. The group members didn't learn well either, and only the two of us were doing it all along. They shared the money together, how could that work?"

Li Jianguo said it simply, but Li Long understood what was going on.

Eldest brother and father-in-law counted as intellectuals, learned things fast, grasped some rules and scales well, and could learn.

Others might rely more on the two of them. The two of them naturally felt unbalanced, and in the end, it was left unsettled.

It was only in the morning that he gave Jia the villagers who were not like them, and now he was slapped in the face.

However, he didn't tangle with this, just quite curious about how Mohe tobacco was made.

"That thing is, after the tobacco stalks are chopped down, there are two methods. One is relatively rough, which is putting them in a wooden barrel, chopping with an iron shovel, chopping them into pieces, and then sifting. After sifting the pieces, continue chopping the coarse ones."

Is this manufacturing method so rough?

Li Long felt it didn't look like it. After all, the particles of Mohe tobacco he saw felt like small squares, and they didn't look like they were chopped randomly at all.

"There is another method, which tests people relatively more. Find a few stalks to make a frame, tightly control the rolled tobacco stalks in the middle of the frame, and after filling them tightly, use a plane to plane the part of the tobacco stalks exposed at the head."

This is a technical job. Every time, plane a thin layer, and the planed ones are then cut and processed, which becomes the raw tobacco of Mohe tobacco.

This is right. Although Li Long didn't understand it very well, he basically knew the principle.

"Raw tobacco? Can't smoke?" Li Long didn't smoke Mohe tobacco, thinking that what was sold was raw tobacco.

"How can raw tobacco be smoked? It has to be stir-fried." Li Jianguo felt that his brother, who was quite capable, also lacked common sense. He put down the bowl of fish soup and explained patiently:

"Raw tobacco has too much strength, can't be smoked at all, and isn't fragrant either. It has to be stir-fried, and it has to be stir-fried with soft fire, which is the wheat straw left after threshing, burned with small fire."

Stir-fried in a large iron pot, can't use corn stalks and sunflower stalks, that fire is too hard. After stir-frying, it has fragrance, but it's not enough; it still has to be colored."

"How to color?" Li Long didn't expect to be able to learn the full set of Mohe tobacco production technology from his eldest brother.

"Soaked thick tea water, use a spray bottle or just use your mouth, spray it onto the stir-fried Mohe tobacco, spray while turning, and after spraying, look at the tobacco that is golden and golden, and it can be taken to sell after drying."

"How to sell?" Li Long asked the last step.

"Set up a stall to sell! How else to sell?" Li Jianguo felt his brother was stupid. "Eight mao to one yuan per kilogram, of course no one can afford to buy so much."

"Those Uyghur 'Barangzi' (young men) can't afford to buy so much, so they can only buy a little bit, one mao or so."

"That one mao is not easy to sell, right?"

"What's not easy to sell? He holds the pocket open, grab a handful for him for one mao, and then give him a stack of torn newspapers. Smoking Mohe tobacco, you have to use newspapers."

Li Jianguo was a bit nostalgic. Now he smoked boxed rolled cigarettes, which didn't have as much strength as Mohe tobacco, and were also more fragrant than Mohe tobacco.

But he was just nostalgic about when he was a group leader, leading group members to work together to earn money. At that time, the smoking addiction was really big.

"Can planting tobacco leaves earn money now?" Li Long asked again.

"Can. However, the seeds the Fang family got are not right. The orchid tobacco they planted is not very suitable for planting here. I estimate it is the seeds sent from the interior.

We are suitable for planting eggplant tobacco here. There are those who plant eggplant tobacco on the south side of the palace, and he doesn't know to go there to ask for seeds. In addition, baking tobacco leaves is also a science, collecting tobacco leaves... sigh, this is a technical job. Looking at their family's appearance, it can't be done."

Li Long wanted to ask why his eldest brother didn't plant it anymore, but thinking about it, he also understood. It wasn't that he didn't plant it, but he didn't have so much time.

After all, now his eldest brother had to plant his own family's land and his father-in-law's land, and also opened some wasteland. In addition, he had to drive a tractor to plow the land, so how could he take care of it?

Planting flue-cured tobacco was a fine job, needing to invest a lot of energy, and at present, his eldest brother's family was only suitable for planting those large field crops that were easy to manage on a large scale.

So this question was simply not mentioned.