Chapter 126

Li Long pulled the sheep back to the village, handed it over to Xu Chengjun, returned the horse cart, and then went home.

The next day, village director Xu Chengjun called the villager representatives, or what should now be called villager representatives, together to discuss the land division and boil mutton at the same time.

Land division first requires determining the land plots, and then measuring them. After all, with hundreds of people in the whole village, if you want to divide it fairly, you can't just measure it simply.

Fortunately, these villager representatives, including Li Jianguo and others, were the founders of the production team and were very familiar with the land currently being cultivated, and roughly knew the yield of each piece of land.

Therefore, when slaughtering sheep and processing sheep offal, they basically selected the land plots to be divided and evaluated the yield—for example, each person's ration land was divided into two mu, which was based on a wheat yield of two hundred jin per mu.

Then, after the land plots with a wheat yield of two hundred jin per mu were divided, the remaining people had to be divided into land plots evaluated with a wheat yield of one hundred jin per mu, so one person had to be divided into four mu of land, otherwise it wouldn't be fair.

After determining the land plots to be divided and the evaluated yield, the rest was to determine the drawing of lots, and the personnel for measuring the land and setting boundaries. Many wooden stakes also had to be whittled as boundary stakes, and the sporadic matters were for the two sides adjacent to the land plots to build field ridges, and so on.

The efficiency of the village committee and villager representatives was very high. The next day, they held a general meeting of all villagers, explained the regulations for land division, answered many questions from villagers, and then began to draw lots.

Li Jianguo, as the head of the Li family, went up to draw lots and drew number 1 of a share of land, which made Li Long's heart move. He felt that his eldest brother's luck was quite good.

A share of land was land with a yield of two hundred jin per mu. This strip of land had less than three hundred mu and could not meet the demand for land division.

In his previous life, the land plot of the Li family was in the middle of a share of land, and there was not much room for operation. Now it was number 1 on the edge of a share of land. He remembered that there was an alkaline beach on the edge of a share of land, which could be used for some small actions.

This was something everyone often did in the following years. After the ration land was determined, it basically didn't move much. Next, when plowing the land, the south end of the land was a water channel, which couldn't be moved, and the north side was another water channel, which also couldn't be moved. Only the landlords on both sides could expand to both sides.

And in the later rounds of land contracting, as long as both ends were not water channels, everyone unintentionally expanded outward, until all the wasteland in the village was reclaimed, and until the ten years of the next century, because it had to be completely improved into drip-irrigated water-saving fields, all the land was re-measured, and the chaotic land mu numbers were clarified.

The drawing of lots ended. Some sighed, some were happy, and some couldn't wait to see what their own land looked like.

The next two days were all spent dividing the land. All the old and young in the village were busy and watching the fun, but Li Long was not among them. He rented the production team's horse cart and went into the mountains.

Halimu was not surprised by Li Long's arrival. When Li Long came over last time, he told him that the snow in the mountains was also thawing now, there was not much snow left by the winter nest, and the manure pile that easily accumulated heat had already revealed its full appearance.

"I want to pull a few carts to properly fertilize our family's land."

"You pull it. If it's not enough, I'll take you to other old nest sites." Halimu said with a smile, "For us, these things are useless."

He helped Li Long load a full horse cart of manure—although the horse cart had half-a-meter-high baffles added on both sides and the back, Li Long used the plastic sheet left over from pulling fish to pad the horse cart to prevent the manure from leaking.

Even so, a horse cart could hold at most a ton or more of manure, and no more could be loaded.

At this time, Li Long missed the small four-wheeled tractor he had before he invested his land into the cooperative in his previous life.

The tractor's cart was modified to load cotton. If it were used to load manure, seven or eight tons would be no problem.

"Okay, I'll go back first, and I'll come again tomorrow." Li Long said, "I might have to pull for several days." "It's better to come every day." Halimu joked, "Then I'll get you a winter nest, and you can run on both sides."

Li Long took it as a joke. After drinking milk tea, he led the horse cart back to the village.

When Li Long pulled a cart of manure and dumped it into his family's courtyard, the villagers who learned of this news were all shocked.

Where did this Li family kid get such a large cart of manure?

Although farming has begun to use chemical fertilizers now, chemical fertilizers cost money. Traditional habits made everyone feel that farm manure was relatively safe and reliable, at least without spending money.

The horse manure in the horse stable is very popular. Old Luo produces horse manure once a month, and some people snatch it—even if there was no ration land before, planting vegetables in your own courtyard also needs manure.

The manure Li Long pulled back in one cart is the amount of manure produced by the horse stable in two years. Who is not surprised?

Li Jianguo and Liang Wenyu both knew that Li Long pulled the manure from the mountains, so they didn't say anything. Originally, Li Long thought about unloading the manure into the land now, but Li Jianguo didn't allow it. He said it was better to wait until the snow was completely thawed and the team's Dongfanghong tractor started plowing the land before sprinkling the manure into the land, and then with one plow, the manure would be turned into the land.

Li Long faintly felt that his eldest brother was worried that the manure would be taken away by others if it entered the land now.

Of course, he was just guessing. The next day, Li Long continued to rent a horse cart to pull manure into the mountains, pulling for five days, and had to stop on the sixth day, because the team was going to divide the team property today.

The team property was relatively fragmented, from the horses and horse carts in the team to the account books in the warehouse, etc., all were numbered.

Dividing the team property was naturally not dividing it directly, but still drawing lots. After drawing, you didn't take the things away directly, but had to pay the team according to the evaluated price. If you didn't have money, it was equivalent to giving up, and others could compete.

Li Jianguo showed his skills again and drew the No. 76 big red horse.

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"No. 76 horse, evaluated price one hundred and fifty yuan." Accountant Chen Qiang shouted.

Among the few people who drew the horse in front, two gave up—they couldn't take out more than one hundred yuan at all.

Li Jianguo went up calmly to register, pay the money, and then went to get the No. 76 horse in his hand.

Although they already knew that the Li family had money, seeing Li Jianguo take out a stack of big unity to pay the money so easily, and without any expression of heartache, still made many people envious and jealous.

Which family doesn't want a horse cart? Let alone a horse cart, even a donkey cart would be fine!

After having ration land, pulling wheat, threshing, etc., don't you have to use it? If you don't have a cart, you have to borrow it, or hold it with manpower. How tired is that? And it wastes time.

It was just that what surprised everyone even more was that Tao Daqiang's father, Tao Jian She, spent sixty yuan to buy a three-year-old donkey that villager Tian Yulong gave up!

When could the Tao family, who had always been at the bottom of the team, take out sixty yuan to buy a donkey?

Many villagers felt that they couldn't understand it more and more!

When Tao Jian She led the donkey home in high spirits, Tao Daqiang cast a grateful look at Li Long.

With a donkey, he could follow Brother Long to work and engage in sideline businesses with peace of mind, without worrying about his father being tired.

(End of chapter)