Chapter 511: The aftermath of being in the newspaper: Giving a report? No, no, no

The small Haizi in the early morning was still a bit cool. Li Long watched Tao Daqiang drag back eight nets, and he stood by the water, bent down, and lifted the two bags up.

"Not many fish today."

"It's okay." Tao Daqiang smiled and said, "Starting from April, catching fish has always been like this. Eight nets can catch forty or fifty kilograms, which is already not bad. Like last year, getting ten-plus kilograms from one net, this year basically can't be seen."

Li Long thought about it and it was true. Last year, just by himself, he had gotten out several tons of fish from the small Haizi. In one winter, quite a few people in the village had been digging for fish. No matter how many fish were in here, there was a growth process; it was impossible to fish endlessly without exhaustion.

"Not bad, the fish look quite big." Li Long opened the bag to look and said with a smile, "Can sell for a few dozen yuan."

"Yeah." Tao Daqiang smiled honestly.

"Let's go, still have to pick the fish at home." Li Qing Xia urged. He had never been idle either. When Tao Daqiang was taking the net, he also went to take his "net," the few kilograms of dogfish he had caught with a basin. This fish had always been relatively popular in the market, and Li Qing Xia always used this to open the market.

The three of them carried the bags and the tires back to the courtyard. The whole family was there, and they started picking the fish.

Li Juan and Li Qiang had already eaten and were now reading books loudly. This was the study method Gu Xiaoxia mentioned when she came back last time, letting them get up early and read the text a few times, which would be beneficial. Liang Wenyu attached great importance to this; every day after the two children got up, if the meal wasn't ready, she would let them read the text first.

Because Li Long was driving the tractor to school today, the two children were also waiting, and later they would take the tractor to school.

With many people, the fish were picked quickly. Forty-plus kilograms of fish were picked from the eight nets; some small ones and injured ones were not taken. Li Long used three urea bags to pack the fish, and he took three small plastic bags, picking two fish weighing more than a kilogram each to put in them; these were intended to be sent to others.

Li Juan and Li Qiang carried their schoolbags and sat on the car early. Lu Yingming's daughter also sat up. She grabbed the railing of the tractor trailer tightly and whispered something to Li Juan.

Putting the fish on the tractor, Li Long greeted his big brother, shook it with the rocker, and after Li Qing Xia and Tao Daqiang sat down, he shifted gears and drove out of the courtyard.

Li Long drove very fast. Some children on the road heard the sound of the tractor and ran to both sides, then looked at the tractor. There were many children in the village, so Li Long didn't stop; otherwise, who to pull and who not to pull—it was all the same.

The tractor drove to the primary school, and after letting the three children down, Li Long increased the throttle and drove toward the county.

Arriving at the county, Li Long wanted to stop, but Li Qing Xia and Tao Daqiang meant not to stop. Anyway, the tractor was fast, so just drive directly to Shicheng; go early, sell early, and handle the business early.

Li Long turned a corner and headed west. Arriving at Shicheng Old Street, it had been less than an hour. The Old Street was lively at this time, and some retired old people were looking for things they liked at various stalls.

Li Qing Xia and Tao Daqiang took the fish down and started looking for a stall.

"Little Long, go handle your own business; after you're done, come pick us up." Li Qing Xia quickly found a stall. At this time, the stalls were relatively loose; some stall owners selling goods had to eat breakfast before coming, and then planned to stay for a day, while some who came early had already sold the vegetables they brought and were about to leave.

"Alright." Li Long said, "Then I'm leaving."

It was just time for work now. He wondered if Song Ming would be at the sugar factory.

When Li Long drove the tractor to the sugar factory, the machines in the sugar factory were already running with a rumble. In the air, there was the sweet fragrance of sugar syrup, as well as the damp fragrance of boiled sugar beets.

Li Long drove the tractor to the back door, preparing to wait for Song Ming to come out here.

The back door also had a guard. Seeing Li Long waiting here, he guessed he was waiting for sugar dregs, so he came out and said to Li Long:

"If you want to haul sugar dregs, go to that big pit by the river in the back. Waiting here is useless."

Li Long smiled, took out a pack of Yaochi cigarettes, pulled one out, handed it to the guard, and said:

"Comrade, I'm waiting for Song Ming here."

"You know Little Song, huh." The guard took the cigarette, tucked it behind his ear, and said with a smile, "Then it will still be a while. The machine just started; it will be a while before the dregs come out. Since you know Song Ming, why not drive in? Can drive a tractor, have a unit, right?"

"Have." Li Long took out the work permit issued by the Supply and Marketing Cooperative and handed it over.

"Okay, I'll record it for you, you go in. If there were no work permit, you wouldn't be able to get in." The guard was quite easy to talk to; after registering, he let Li Long in.

Li Long thanked this guard, drove the tractor to the dregs outlet, and saw Song Ming and his apprentice chatting there while smoking.

"Yo, Comrade Little Li." Song Ming heard the sound of the tractor, saw it was Li Long, smiled, and walked two steps toward this side. After Li Long parked the tractor, he stepped forward and shook hands with him:

"You busy person, how do you have time to come to us?"

"What busy person, just busy blindly. Isn't it that there's not enough sugar dregs at home, so I came over to haul some." Li Long smiled and shook hands with the two separately, then asked: "This is no problem, right?"

"No problem, no problem, definitely no problem." Song Ming smiled, "Even if others have problems, you definitely have no problems. Section Chief Hu mentioned you last time."

"That's just right, I brought a few fish this time. Come, this is for you, Master Song; this is for you; and two more, trouble Master Song to give them to Section Chief Hu."

"Comrade Little Li, Section Chief Hu happens to be here now; you go yourself. The Section Chief said, if you, this famous person, come, you must go up once." Song Ming smiled, "I'll load these sugar dregs for you; you go to the Section Chief's place."

Li Long guessed and asked:

"This is... you all read the newspaper?"

"I saw it, I saw it," Song Ming said with a smile. "Impressive! You couldn't tell usually, but all of a sudden you're straight on the autonomous region's newspaper. Amazing! The section chief said we should learn from you."

Li Long's face felt a bit hot. He truly didn't expect the aftermath to be like this. The matter of repairing houses for Halimu and Yushanjiang's family—done was done. He owed them, they owed him; it had long been unclear. Basically, what he said to reporter Zhang Xin Hua was also from the heart.

Just like brothers, what he did, he felt was what he should do; he didn't feel it was great or meaningful or anything. As for the reporter interviewing or whatever, Li Long felt that once it passed, it passed; it was just appearing in the newspaper once.

He didn't expect there would be an aftermath, and there would be an expanding influence.

He felt a bit ashamed.

"Go quickly, the Section Chief would definitely be very happy to know you came." Song Ming smiled.

Alright, since people had already said so, Li Long took the bag containing the two fish and walked toward the office building.

Section Chief Hu was reading the newspaper in his office. Li Long arrived at the door, and he heard footsteps. Looking up, he saw it was Li Long, was stunned for a moment, and then revealed a smile and stood up:

"Comrade Little Li has come, rare guest, rare guest! You are a big famous person now, come, come, come, come in quickly!"

Li Long lifted the bag containing the fish and said:

"Section Chief, this is the fish caught this morning, still alive."

"Hey! Coming is coming, why bring fish!" Section Chief Hu smiled, took the fish, and placed it inside the chair. He greeted Li Long to sit down and poured water for him. While pouring, he said:

"I saw your deeds in the newspaper. Truly didn't expect it, Comrade Little Li, not bad! You said that so well, ethnic brothers must be like pomegranate seeds, tightly huddled together, too well said!"

The more he said this, the more Li Long felt ashamed; he was plagiarizing. But there was no help for it; at present, these words hadn't come out of the mouths of those few big shots, so he truly became the original author.

Quite awkward.

"Some said it wasn't you, but I looked at the deeds written inside, it was definitely you. At least we ate the sheep you hauled from the mountains." Section Chief Hu sent the water cup to Li Long's hand, "Come, drink water."

Walking back to his seat, Section Chief Hu smiled, sat down, and asked:

"Came over to haul sugar dregs this trip?"

"Yeah, wanted to come over to haul a cart."

"No problem, I said before, as long as you come, haul whatever you want."

Actually, Li Long had also thought about taking over the sugar dregs from the sugar factory. This stuff, after being dried, was very good feed; big livestock like horses and donkeys could eat it, and the pigs and chickens raised at home could also eat it. Truly starting a small factory specifically to do this dried feed business was actually not bad.

It was just that now the breeding industry hadn't risen yet; rashly doing feed processing, the initial stage would likely be pressing goods and losing money. But after the breeding industry rose, the sugar factory itself would realize the value of sugar dregs, and then it wouldn't be his turn to do this business.

Actually, many businesses right now hadn't been started by anyone; it was just the time to enter. For example, seeds, agricultural materials, small agricultural machinery, and other industries.

Even the mechanization in the village was a big industry. Entering the layout now, as long as you aren't too greedy and ensure quality, later you can basically achieve a monopoly. When the cotton industry truly rises, earning seven or eight digits a year is really no problem.

But right now, Li Long was troubled by not having suitable candidates, and he himself had a pile of things. Big brother had his own plans, second brother had almost become a worker, and brother-in-law had already branched out. He couldn't do it with his own brothers and relatives; if he found outsiders, he had to consider it carefully.

However, right now was not the time to think about this. He said with a smile:

"Then I'm very grateful to the Section Chief."

"Why thank me." Section Chief Hu smiled, "I heard the Autonomous Region might commend you as an advanced individual for ethnic unity. How about it, come to our factory to give a report?"

"No, no, no." Li Long hurriedly waved his hand. He put down the water and said with a bitter smile: "Section Chief, if others don't know, don't you know? I'm just an ordinary farmer. Even if I'm in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative now, I'm just a temporary worker. The things I did, I feel were all what I should do; it's just that I didn't expect to be in the newspaper. I thought being in the newspaper was just being in the newspaper; after it was over, it was over. I didn't expect there would be an aftermath."

"Tsk, tsk!" Section Chief Hu gave a thumbs up, "This is the way an advanced model should be—not floating, not impetuous, doing what should be done. I admire people like you. Alright, if you don't want to do it, then don't do it; we all know each other well. You became advanced, and I, this old friend, am also very happy. In the future, if you want to haul sugar dregs, just come haul them. Still the same words, the sugar factory's big door is always open for you."

Li Long was truly very grateful to Section Chief Hu. After saying a few more words, he left the office building.

By the time he reached the dregs outlet, the sugar dregs had already been loaded. Not only was a cart loaded, but there were quite a few sacks on top, which were also filled with sugar dregs, and there were also a few empty sacks.

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"Too much trouble for you all." Li Long said words of thanks to Song Ming and his apprentice, "Thank you, thank you."

"Why be polite?" Song Ming smiled, "Alright, you hurry up and go. These sugar dregs leak water; after you drive away, we'll wash it."

Li Long didn't dare to stay any longer, waved to the two people, and drove the tractor away from the sugar factory.

He knew very clearly that Section Chief Hu didn't necessarily want to get anything from him; it was purely because he had a certain intersection with him, and now finding him to talk was largely also to congratulate him on becoming famous.

When he drove the tractor back to the Old Street, Li Long saw that his old man Li Qing Xia's fish hadn't been sold out, and not far away, Tao Daqiang's was the same.

He parked the tractor in the parking lot, took the card, and went to Ke Ke Ke Youmu's milk tea shop to ask for three bowls of milk tea, three naan, and honey.

"Boss, later my old man will come to eat. If the milk tea is ready, put it here first." Li Long said to Ke Ke Ke Youmu.

"Alright, alright, you go, I'll watch it." Ke Ke Ke Youmu had a Henan accent, "I also know your old man; you don't need to remind me."

Li Long smiled, paid, and went to his old man's stall.

"Old man, I'll watch the stall; you go drink some milk tea to warm up."

From early morning until now, the old man hadn't eaten a grain of rice or drunk a drop of water. Young people could carry it, but the old man was older, so he still had to pay attention.

"Eat what? Not much left, I'll eat after selling it." Li Qing Xia still wanted to carry it hard.

"I've already ordered it." Li Long pointed to that side and said, "The milk tea will be cold later and won't taste good. You go quickly."

Li Qing Xia didn't insist anymore; to tell the truth, he was indeed a bit hungry.

Li Long took Li Qing Xia's place and shouted loudly.

This feeling hadn't been there for a long time, and Li Long was still a bit nostalgic.

Some old people heard Li Long's shouting, followed the sound, walked over, looked at him carefully, and said:

"Yo, young man, you haven't come to sell fish for some days! What's wrong? What were you doing before?"

"Went into the mountains." Li Long smiled, "Isn't it that I came again? Old uncle, what fish do you want? Just for you, this old customer, today I'll weigh it high!"

"Alright, give me a kilogram of dogfish, and another two kilograms of crucian carp."

"Alright!" Li Long took the scale pan to weigh the fish for this customer; still okay, the movements were still skillful.

The fish price was higher than last year. Although the fish were fewer, the money earned in the end was not less.

Li Long and Tao Daqiang sold the fish one after another and closed the stall to drink milk tea. Outside the milk tea shop, the two used a small water kettle to wash their hands. Li Long asked while washing:

"Daqiang, if I get a big tractor later, and get a plow, will you come help me?"

"Okay." Tao Daqiang responded without even thinking, "Plowing land makes money."

Yes, plowing land makes money. Of course, Wang Cai Mi hadn't made money yet; after all, that big tractor owed the team a lot of money.

But plowing land truly makes money.

Before, the land was the team's, and plowing didn't cost money. Now, contracting to households, land contracted, the land is your own, so plowing has to cost money. Although a mu of land isn't much, just two yuan, but the land currently held by the team is at least two thousand mu.

And planting land doesn't just mean plowing; it also means harrowing, leveling, cutting, and sowing. After this series, the quantity is not small.

The team's land increases year by year, until the highest peak value, which is about seven thousand mu. At that time, the land in one team could support three big tractor drivers.

So engaging in agricultural machinery is also a way to get rich. Of course, Li Long's real plan isn't to think about grabbing business from Wang Cai Mi first; he is taking the path of harvesting. Now harvesting wheat, later he can engage in combine harvesters, harvesting corn, oil sunflower, and even machine-picked cotton in the end; this is the big trend.

It's just that Li Long is a bit lazy; he always thinks about buying the machine and then letting others drive it, and he just collects the money.

Everyone makes money together; isn't it good to lie down and share dividends?

So Li Long didn't continue. He didn't look down on crawler tractors; he likes using high-horsepower wheeled tractors. Currently, there are Dongfanghong 28 wheeled tractors on the market, which have less horsepower than Dongfanghong 75 crawler tractors and are not enough to complete the tasks Li Long thinks of, at least in terms of plowing.

Then start with the harvester for harvesting wheat; the small tractor earns money no less than the big tractor.

The milk tea was as delicious as ever. Li Long asked Ke Ke Ke Youmu:

"You've been open for two years; you've earned quite a bit of money, right? Have you built a house in the city?"

"Where to build?" Now there were few guests, Ke Ke Ke Youmu shook his head, "We don't have a city household registration either; being able to sell milk tea here is already very good."

"It will get better and better." Li Long smiled. Later, this place slowly expanded into the city, and those who had houses here slowly all became city household registrations. Brother-in-law Chen Xingbang was also about the same.

He looked through the window toward his brother-in-law's side. Chen Xingbang was still selling meat and had no time to come over.

After drinking milk tea and eating naan, Li Long went to greet Chen Xingbang and talked about Li Anguo's matter. Chen Xingbang was also quite happy. He didn't regret his choice; now the money he earned in three days was top of a worker's monthly salary. Letting him honestly go to the construction company to work, he couldn't do it.

Seeing Chen Xingbang was still busy, Li Long strolled around the market, bought some things, and then drove the tractor back. Tomorrow he planned to go to Kuitun to see second brother, and by the way, see the design and production situation of the harvester, so he had to go back early today.

Sending Li Qing Xia and Tao Daqiang back to the team, Li Long drove the tractor back to the county.

When he returned home, Gu Xiaoxia and her colleagues were in the courtyard, and several children were watching the naughty little deer. There was also a child chasing behind a hedgehog and shouting, very lively.

Seeing Li Long drive the tractor back, the children were a bit afraid and all ran back to their mothers, secretly looking at Li Long.

Li Long smiled and greeted them, telling the children to go play by themselves and not be afraid.

Gu Xiaoxia being able to get along well with her colleagues, Li Long felt it was also quite good.

At night, he told Gu Xiaoxia about going to Kuitun tomorrow, and Gu Xiaoxia urged him to pay attention to safety and not to rush on the road; if he couldn't come back tomorrow, coming back the day after tomorrow was also fine. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 512 =====