Chapter 311

Wang Tiancheng came every day to urge Hu Lao Er to collect reed bundles properly. His requirements were much higher than Hu Lao Er's. Those unqualified ones must not be collected, and it was useless to pull relationships. This made people like Tao Dayong who wanted to drill holes a bit helpless. People didn't collect, didn't record the number, so he had no way to do the kind of work he did before, putting good quality to Li Long's side and stuffing bad quality to Hu Lao Er's side.

However, the qualified reed bundles Li Long received every day did not decrease, but increased. Some people who worked overtime finished the task on Hu Lao Er's side and immediately started supplying reed bundles to Li Long's side.

And the enthusiasm of these people brought by Han Benzhong was still very high, and the number of reed bundles pressed every day was increasing, which made Li Long feel a bit surprised.

But thinking about it, it was normal. Han Benzhong's three families earned ten or so yuan per family per day, how could they not work hard?

Sometimes the reclamation area is poorer than the local area at this time. They plant things uniformly arranged by the above, because agricultural materials and seeds are issued by the above, so the things planted in the autumn also need to be collected uniformly by the above, and the expenses are removed, and what should be handed over is removed, and the rest is issued to the employees.

This led to not much money that each employee family could get at the end of the year. Some even owed debts like local farmers before, and life was not good.

The reclamation area was quite strict in managing employees during the busy farming season, but it was not so troublesome during the slack season, so Han Benzhong and the others could come out.

Now that they could earn some cash here, life in winter could be more relaxed, so they especially cherished such an opportunity.

A week later, Li Xiangqian sent a truck again to pull reed bundles. This time he came in person, and Chen Zhenming also came with him. Two trucks came together, trying to pull all the reed bundles at once—of course, one trip was obviously not enough.

"Ten thousand reed bundles, you finished it many days ahead of schedule, this is really okay." Li Xiangqian said approvingly, "Okay, you won face for us."

"Let's check first." Li Long said, "To prevent possible unqualified ones, we prepared more than five hundred here. Let's pull them all away then."

His meaning was to give them away, not counting money.

Chen Zhenming waved his hand:

"No, no, no, how much it should be is how much it is. I will also collect the extra reed bundles. Wang Tiancheng's side still has a large shortfall. You have extra here, just to make up for his vacancy, so the total task can also be completed ahead of schedule."

The reed bundle pile piled high, Chen Zhenming first looked from the thin end to see if there were impurities on the thin rod side of the reed bundle. He also extracted a few, let Li Long open the reed bundle, and see if there were old broken reeds inside, which would affect the quality of the reed bundle.

After a rough inspection, when loading the truck, someone specifically counted, and Chen Zhenming randomly extracted reed bundles on the truck to check. Because he had already checked when stacking, whether it was looking at the length from the side, looking at the thickness of the reed rod at both ends, or the overall appearance, it was all good.

Right now is spot check, to see if there are defective products.

More than five thousand five hundred reed bundles, busy for more than three hours, from inspection to loading, after finishing, Chen Zhenming clapped the dust on his hands and said seriously:

"Okay, the quality of these reed bundles is qualified, I sign, pull them away."

Li Xiangqian smiled and said proudly:

"I just said, this little brother works, you can rest assured, the quality pass is first through his hand, the rest don't need to consider much, it must be no problem."

"Then I have to check too." Chen Zhenming said while signing, "I can't just look at the friendship, I still have to be responsible to the above. Okay, come, Xiao Li, sign, take the money."

More than one thousand one hundred yuan in hand, Li Long was also very happy. Li Xiangqian said to him before leaving:

"There should be more later, but rest for a while first, and see the situation later."

"Okay." Li Long expressed understanding.

Han Benzhong and the others rested today, tired for so long, several people knew that they would rest today yesterday, so they didn't get up in the morning, and slept in a daze.

The women were better, pulling reeds and pressing reed bundles didn't require such great physical strength, so the three women all got up early to cook breakfast, and then helped tidy up the courtyard.

Because the reed bundles were counted, checked, and paid for every night, they and Li Long were considered clear now. It was also agreed that after lunch, they would go home.

After all, having been out for so many days, they must go back to see the situation at home.

At noon, Li Long took out a lot of air-dried meat, cooked in two big pots at the same time, made two big pots of pilaf, and invited these fellow villagers to have a beautiful meal.

"Without Xiao Long, you said when we go back, how can we still eat?" Han Da Chun joked, after getting familiar with people, he didn't stutter so much, "This food is so good, I won't be used to it when I go back."

"That's not simple, find more work to earn money, earn more money, buy rice and white flour, then you can eat whatever you want?"

"Hi, where is it so easy to find a way to earn money?" Han Benzhong shook his head and said, "If it weren't for following you this time, how could we earn this money? This is once a year, right?"

"Alright, alright," Zheng Xiumei said with a smile, "This time hundreds of yuan, once a year, are you still not satisfied?"

Three families, each family basically earned two or three hundred yuan, which was quite a lot.

"When you are free in the summer, dig the Cynomorium and send it to me, I will also collect it here." Li Long said, "There will be more and more opportunities to earn money, when there is an opportunity, I will let my big brother find you."

"That's good." Han Da Chun was very happy, "This is settled, if there is good work, you must think of us fellow villagers!" After lunch, Han Benzhong and others refused Li Long's kindness to rest here, and left the old horse station satisfied with their bedding, walking to the northeast.

Li Jianguo was holding the horse cart on the way, preparing to send them a ride, after all, it was inconvenient to carry so many bedding.

"Old Li, don't send us, if you send us again, I will be embarrassed. We came here and earned so much money, now you want to send us back, that's not okay. Alright, it's just ten or so miles, we walk fast, don't worry about it."

Han Benzhong said so, Li Jianguo didn't send them.

In two days, the second younger brother will bring that group of people over. Although he agreed to let Li Long manage it, in fact, he definitely still has to ask.

After Li Long's reed bundles were handed in, there were still a lot of reeds piled up in the courtyard, which were harvested by Han Benzhong and the others. At that time, Li Long said that these would also be counted as money, which made Han Benzhong scold him.

The original words were like this:

"The food we ate these days is more valuable than these reeds. Without Xiao Long, you are slapping us in the face by saying this. Alright, leave these reeds here, if you have work later, we will come again, if not, keep these reeds for firewood, okay?"

Li Long didn't pretend anymore.

The half day before Han Benzhong and the others had lunch was to move adobe bricks into the room, and piece together the boards processed by Li Long from the timber factory, ensuring that the top was flat, which was used as a bed.

Li Long's meaning was that whether there was another batch of reed bundles later, he needed to make the house here more formal.

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If there are reed bundles, Old Han and the others still have to come, if there is no reed bundle work, second brother Li Anguo and the others have to come, anyway, they have to live.

Not only did he build board beds for the two houses, but Li Long also cleaned up the warehouse, sold the Cynomorium to the county, and also built wooden boards here, putting some things first, if they couldn't live later, they could also live here.

Although Li Long's task was handed in, there were still people in the team continuing to harvest reeds and continuing to press reed bundles. Hu Lao Er's task was not completed yet, and it would take three or five days to reach ten thousand reed bundles.

Li Long didn't earn much money this time, but he didn't care. Taking some work was not entirely for earning money—earning money was one of them, more importantly, to bring along the people in the team who were willing to follow him to earn money.

At least later when the Li family rises, others won't be jealous—the rich bring the poor, this is what the country said.

For the next two days, Li Long didn't go out to catch fish, he also wanted to rest for two days.

Now getting up in the morning, there will be a thin layer of ice in some shallow water outside. Although people like Yang Yongqiang and Meng Zhiqiang in the team are still setting nets to catch fish, there are only two of them left.

After all, this year, every family in the team earned some money through various ways. When they are not so short of money, everyone will not be too harsh on themselves to work hard—getting up early in the morning, breaking the ice to take the net and choose fish, is not a good job.

This is also why there will be the question of "why don't locals in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet go out to work" on a certain platform in later generations. Of course, it is impossible that there are no people going out to work, it is just because there are many people and little land here, and resources are relatively rich, it may be difficult to get rich quickly, but it is not difficult to fill the stomach.

Coupled with the fact that it is located in the border area, the knowledge and vision are not broad, some have never left the county in their lives, and naturally they have never seen or heard of some ways to earn money.

So people from the mainland will find many business opportunities—the so-called discovery of business opportunities, in fact, most of them are industries that the mainland has but not here, so develop this blue ocean market.

Locals just look at it strangely.

Li Long didn't think about joining the fun. He calculated that the thing he had been guessing should be coming soon, and he didn't know if it would coincide with the next batch of reed bundle work. If it coincides, it would be quite troublesome.

But he couldn't care about that much, now second brother and brother-in-law are coming, which has already gathered the trouble together, so Li Long felt that if there are many things, there are many things. Don't care about this one.

Tao Daqiang also came to ask Li Long if he wanted to set nets again, Li Long refused, he told Tao Daqiang that if Tao Daqiang wanted to set them himself, he would take the nets from him, if not, then rest for two days.

"That's fine, I just happened to tidy up the house." Tao Daqiang said with a smile, "My dad said to pick a good day at the end of the year to do things for me. It's not easy to tidy up the house in winter, just free now."

"Okay, do you need help?"

"No need, no need!" Tao Daqiang said with a smile, "No need. There is no work in the fields now, my dad and I will do it."

He asked Li Long to get a bicycle ticket, bought a 28-inch bicycle, cherished it very much, and wiped it clean every day. This is in the top five in the team.

People in the team look at Tao Daqiang with complicated eyes. Before, they thought this young man was stupid, and didn't know how to live later. Didn't expect that after following Li Long, this life is getting better day by day, and now he actually bought a bicycle, and heard that he was going to buy a radio.

Those young people who once mocked Tao Daqiang behind his back have even more complicated feelings. Tao Daqiang is getting married!

Their objects don't even have a stroke yet!

Li Long couldn't manage so much, his second brother is here. (End of chapter)