Chapter 126

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

The next day, village director Xu Chengjun called the member representatives, or now they should be called village representatives, together to discuss the matter of dividing the land, and at the same time, slaughter the sheep and boil mutton.

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

Fortunately, these village 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 the sheep and processing the sheep offal, they basically selected the land plots to be divided and evaluated the yield—for example, two mu of ration land per person, which was based on a yield of 200 jin of wheat per mu.

Then, after the land plots with a yield of 200 jin of wheat per mu were divided, the remaining people had to be divided into land plots evaluated with a yield of 100 jin of wheat per mu. One person had to be divided into four mu of land, otherwise, it would be unfair.

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. Sporadic matters were supervising the two sides of adjacent land plots to build field ridges, etc.

The village committee and village representatives were very efficient. The next day, they held a general meeting of villagers, explained the regulations for dividing the land, answered many questions from villagers, and started drawing lots.

Li Jianguo, as the head of the Li family, went up to draw lots and drew No. 1 of a piece of land, which made Li Long's heart move. He felt that his big brother's luck was quite good.

A piece of land was land with a yield of 200 jin per mu. This strip of land had less than 300 mu, which couldn't meet the demand for dividing the land.

In his previous life, the land plot drawn by the Li family was in the middle of a piece of land, and there was not much room for operation. Now it was No. 1 on the edge of a piece of land. He remembered that there was an alkaline beach next to the piece of land, which could be used for some small actions.

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

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

After the drawing of lots ended, some sighed, some were happy, and some couldn't wait to see what their family's land looked like.

The next two days were all about 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-drawn carriage and went into the mountains.

Halimu didn't feel surprised by Li Long's arrival. When Li Long came last time, he told him that the snow in the mountains was also melting now, and there was not much snow left beside the winter nest, and the manure pile that was easy to accumulate 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 these are not enough, I will 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 carriage of manure—although the carriage had half-meter-high baffles on both sides and the back, Li Long used the plastic sheet left over from pulling fish to pad the carriage to prevent the manure from leaking.

Even so, a carriage could hold at most one ton or more of manure, and it couldn't hold any more.

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

The tractor's bucket 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 good to come every day," Halimu joked. "When the time comes, I'll get you a winter nest, and you can run between the two sides."

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

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

Where did this Li family kid get such a big carriage of manure?

Although chemical fertilizer has begun to be used in farming now, chemical fertilizer costs money. Traditional habits make everyone feel that farm manure is relatively safe and reliable, at least it doesn't cost money.

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

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

Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei both knew that Li Long pulled the manure from the mountains, so they didn't say anything. Originally, Li Long wanted to unload the manure into the land now, but Li Jianguo didn't allow it. He said it was better to wait until the snow completely melted and the team's Dongfanghong tractor started plowing the land, then sprinkle the manure in, and then plow it, and the manure would be turned into the land.

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

Of course, he was just guessing. The next day, Li Long continued to rent the horse-drawn carriage to pull manure in the mountains, and pulled for five days. On the sixth day, he had to stop because the team was going to divide the team property today.

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

Dividing the team property was naturally not directly divided, but still drawing lots. After drawing, it was not directly taken away, but had to be paid to the team and bought according to the assessed price. If there was no 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, assessed price 150 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 100 yuan at all.

Li Jianguo stepped forward calmly to register, paid the money, and went to take No. 76 into his hands.

Although they already knew 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-drawn carriage? Not to mention a horse-drawn carriage, even a donkey cart is fine!

With ration land, pulling wheat, threshing, etc., all have to be used, right? Without a carriage, you can only borrow, or carry it by manpower, which is so tiring! And it wastes time.

It was just that what surprised everyone even more was that Tao Daqiang's father, Tao Jianshe, spent 60 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 60 yuan to buy a donkey?

Many villagers felt that they were becoming more and more unable to understand!

When Tao Jianshe walked home happily leading the donkey, 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)