Chapter 513: This harvester looks different from what I imagined

Ma Aihong had just finished eating and was watching TV with his wife. The child who was still in school was doing homework in the inner room. The wife had to go check every once in a while to see if the door crack had been pushed open and if the child was sticking to the door peeking at the TV content outside.

Although the couple tried their best to keep the TV volume low, this still had a fatal attraction for small children.

Especially since the TV was playing the martial arts film "Wu Song."

When Li Long knocked on the door, Ma Aihong's wife was lecturing her own child because she had caught him again just now, discovering him when he was sticking to the door peeking at the TV sound.

"Go open the door; it's inevitable for children to be naughty." Ma Aihong mediated, "If you know you're wrong, let him go do his homework properly, and after finishing, go to sleep early; he still has to get up and recite books tomorrow morning."

"Fine, fine, fine, you are the good person!" Ma Aihong's wife complained, "Every day I'm the villain; you don't care about the child being naughty. This midterm exam dropped two places again. If this continues, later he can only go to the construction site..."

"What's wrong with going to the construction site?" Ma Aihong didn't like hearing this, "Workers are the leading class; being a worker is the dream of many people. They want to be, but can't!"

"If you can be a cadre, who would be a worker?" The woman walked to the courtyard door and was still complaining, "Only know how to talk big!"

She opened the courtyard door and saw Li Long carrying things, feeling a bit surprised. After so many days, she had already forgotten Li Long.

"You are... who are you looking for?"

"I'm Li Long." Li Long said with a smile, "I came over two months ago. I'm looking for Section Chief Ma. Sister-in-law, I'm from Ma County; Section Chief Li Xiangqian asked me to send his regards to you all."

"Oh, oh, oh, I remember now. You are that young man who drove a tractor!" Ma Aihong's wife remembered and said with a smile:

"Come in, come in quickly. You came, why bring things? So embarrassing..."

Li Long carried the things into the courtyard. Ma Aihong, who heard the movement, turned off the TV and walked out of the room. Seeing Li Long, he said with a smile:

"Little Li, rare guest, rare guest! Come in, come in quickly. Wife, pour tea for Little Li. I tell you, Little Li is an advanced figure who appeared in the Autonomous Region Daily; our company has all studied his advanced deeds."

"Ah? Really?" Ma Aihong's wife was truly surprised this time, "Then it's truly a rare guest, come, come, come, Little Li, come in and sit!"

Li Long knew Ma Aihong must have read the newspaper. He entered the room, put the things on the coffee table, and said with a smile:

"Section Chief Ma, let's not be so polite, right?"

"Heh, that's exactly the coincidence I wanted. If it were done deliberately, it wouldn't really count for much. It's only you who stays so low-key even after being in the autonomous region's daily newspaper. If it were the young people in our company, their tails would have been wagging in the air long ago. It's truly a blessing for Old Li to have you under his command!"

Being praised like this by Ma Aihong, Li Long truly didn't know what to say, so he had to change the topic:

"Section Chief is quite busy lately, right? I heard from my second brother that the company's construction tasks are very heavy."

"Yeah, in order to accelerate the realization of the Four Modernizations, we are now taking small steps and running fast. The entire KT City, as a transportation hub in Northern Xinjiang, still has many aspects of facilities that are not matched, so everything is being strengthened." Ma Aihong casually said a few official words, then smiled and said:

"So we are very short of people. I have been paying attention to your second brother and the others; they are steady, willing to work, don't have so many words, including that young man Yang Yongqiang, who is also not bad, his brain is flexible, willing to learn, so this batch is all on the list for regularization. You came here after hearing this, right?"

"Yeah, yeah." Li Long said sincerely: "Them working seriously is one aspect, and I also know that without the Section Chief's care, they couldn't have progressed so fast, so I thank you on behalf of our family."

"Hey, all own people, don't say it so politely." Ma Aihong felt so comfortable listening to Li Long speak, "Even if it weren't for Old Li's face, your second brother and the others work well; we definitely want to keep such people."

"Section Chief Ma, there might be trouble later that I need to trouble you with."

"You say, what trouble or not trouble; in principle, as long as it doesn't violate regulations, we can all explore and discuss."

"It's just that my second brother's household registration is in his hometown, and the situation of the political review letter of inquiry over there. Because my whole family has moved to Northern Xinjiang, I'm afraid that someone in the hometown will be jealous that my second brother is going to be a worker and will make trouble in this regard..."

"Are people over there that bad?" Ma Aihong's wife served tea to Li Long and asked: "In itself, this is a good thing..."

"I'm not sure either; mainly I'm worried. After all, the hometown is different from here. Being able to produce a worker, most of the clan would definitely still be happy, but it doesn't exclude that there will be one or two people who are jealous and will make trouble."

"Indeed, there might be such a situation; we also encountered it before." Ma Aihong nodded, signaling Li Long to drink water, "Don't worry. We have all seen the performance of your second brother and the others here. Now it's not ten years ago; it doesn't pay special attention to background and past. The focus of investigation is still the actual performance. I will pay attention to this point."

"Then thank you, Section Chief Ma." Li Long said sincerely.

Ma Aihong was mainly interested in Li Long, asking him in detail about the situation of his appearance in the newspaper, and Li Long introduced the situation of how he got to know Halimu and the others roughly.

"It seems you all have fate; it's truly a friendship like brothers. I think you will keep this friendship. To tell the truth, you said that so well; our leaders here all said, look at that level, that level of speech, it's too appropriate!"

Li Long had to smile, feeling embarrassed inside—plagiarized, big shots of the parallel world, don't mind.

After chatting for a while, Li Long said goodbye and left. When Ma Aihong's wife was tidying up the things Li Long brought, she found a stack of money inside.

She counted it, ten big unity, exactly one hundred yuan.

It's top of her husband's two months' salary!

The woman was a bit worried and told Ma Aihong about this matter, asking in a low voice:

"Should we return it? This money..."

"Keep it." Ma Aihong guessed Li Long's thoughts. If he really sent the money back, Li Long would be uneasy instead.

Moreover, these two months Li Anguo and the others were truly working steadily, which Ma Aihong saw in his eyes. If the letter of inquiry really had any problems, he would truly go speak for Li Anguo. So taking this money, he was also quite at ease.

After Li Long came out, he drove the tractor to the construction and installation company's guesthouse. Before Ma Aihong left, he told him to go to the company's guesthouse, and he would call the guesthouse, counting it as official reception.

Li Long wasn't polite either. Staying in the state-run unit's guesthouse was naturally much safer and more reassuring than staying in a hotel outside. And he still had to go chat with his second brother and the others.

Hearing Li Long say it was arranged by Section Chief Ma, the guard let him in smoothly. Li Long handed a pack of Yaochi cigarettes to the guard and then drove the tractor to the guesthouse.

The guesthouse attendant actually recognized Li Long and arranged a triple room for him, but only Li Long lived in it, which was quite convenient.

After Li Long settled down, he asked the attendant, and then went to the dormitory to find his second brother and the others.

Li Anguo and the others hadn't slept yet and were chatting in the dormitory. Seeing Li Long come over, Yang Yongqiang smiled and stood up to give him a seat.

Li Long came over mainly to ask if they wanted to go back with him.

"Not going back first, not these two days." Li Anguo said, "I'm thinking of waiting until the regularization matter is officially settled before going back."

Li Junshan naturally had no thoughts; after all, his family was in his hometown, and there was no need to go back to Manas.

"Me too." Yang Yongqiang said, "After officially becoming a worker, I'll ask for leave to go back. At that time, I'll have four days of leave a month. Now asking for leave still deducts money; it's not worth it."

Since all three decided, Li Long didn't say much, and after chatting for a while, he returned to the guesthouse. The next day, Li Long ate breakfast in the guesthouse, and Li Anguo and the others had already gone to the construction site. Li Long didn't go find them again, but drove the tractor out of the construction and installation company and went to the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory.

The tractor entered the agricultural machinery factory, and Li Long found that there were a few more tractors in the factory, and some technical personnel and workers were surrounding the tractors doing something.

After Li Long parked the tractor, he went to find Factory Director Du Tongzhou.

According to Li Long's understanding of Du Tongzhou, he shouldn't be in the office, but in the workshop. Li Long searched in the factory area and sure enough found Du Tongzhou. At this time, he was sitting on a tractor, operating the machinery in place.

Li Long looked at the machinery hanging in front of the tractor and felt a bit surprised. This should be the harvester he needed, right?

It's just that it looks different from the one in his impression?

This harvester has two more forks forward than the original one. Li Long can understand that this should be specifically used to separate wheat. It's just that with these two forks, after the wheat is cut, how does it fall?

The principle of the harvester is that the rotating blade cuts the wheat, and then through the rotation of the knife head, it turns a ridge of wheat to the left of the tractor, which is easy to bundle. Now that there are two more forks, the wheat cut down can't turn to the side and falls in place, wouldn't it be crushed by the tractor?

Li Long felt Du Tongzhou shouldn't make such a low-level mistake, so he walked over, wanting to ask what was going on.

By the time Li Long walked to the front, Du Tongzhou had already gotten off the tractor. He had also already seen Li Long. After getting down, he said with a smile:

"Comrade Little Li, come take a look. This is the second harvester we made. The first one had some problems, and this one has been tested and experimentally cut grass, feeling that the operability is quite strong, basically meeting the requirements you put forward at the time."

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"Factory Director Du, what are those two forks for?" Li Long raised his question, "If you put a fork, the cut wheat can't roll to the side of the tractor and will be crushed by the tractor."

"Sure enough, it's an expert; you saw it at a glance." Du Tongzhou smiled and said, "Comrade Little Li, your vision is not bad. You come take a look, this fork is to mark the direction for the tractor, don't miss the row, and also to separate the furrows in the land where wheat is planted relatively densely. Look, these two forks can be disassembled. When harvesting, you can remove one side and let the wheat fall to the other side. This depends on your own choice. The rotation direction of this blade can also be adjusted. Before starting to cut, here on this harvester, look, there is a switch here; to the left is wheat falling to the left, and to the right is wheat falling to the right..."

Li Long looked and listened, feeling it was truly not bad. That blade also looked very sturdy, cutting a wheat stalk was easy.

"The blade can be disassembled and replaced. So this harvester, theoretically speaking, can not only cut wheat, but also cut grass, and can also beat corn and oil sunflower stalks, of course, it will wear out the blade. Look, this is connected to the tractor's diesel engine with a belt, the power is enough..."

Du Tongzhou introduced this harvester's performance, operation, and characteristics to Li Long one by one, just like introducing his own big treasure.

Li Long nodded straightly. He felt that what he could think of, Du Tongzhou had already thought of.

Except that this harvester was not in the shape he imagined, there were basically no shortcomings.

"Then... Factory Director Du, how much is this harvester? I can't wait to drive it back." Li Long smiled and said, "Although it's still some time before harvesting wheat, but you described it so well, and looking at this function being so powerful and sturdy, I just want to drive it back directly this time."

Du Tongzhou could see from Li Long's tone and expression that Li Long was truly very satisfied with this harvester.

That was fine.

"Drive it away, no problem. As for the price, just pay the cost price." Du Tongzhou was also very generous, "The idea was yours. To tell the truth, although we did the real part, if it weren't for your idea, now we might still be racking our brains to engage in the work of imitating tractors.

You opened up a train of thought for us. Actually, we can completely engage in supporting facilities for tractors, which can also have a market and earn money.

So, this harvester, we only collect your cost money. Of course, we also have requirements. After you harvest wheat, if you find any problems, any places that need improvement, you must come back and tell us.

We plan to make a few prototypes this year. If your harvesting over there is smooth, we will produce them on a large scale by the end of this year to next year."

"Okay." Li Long naturally wouldn't refuse this kindness.

In this day and age, creativity isn't worth much, and patent law and such haven't been popularized. Everyone doesn't care much about the value of creativity. There are many creative ideas; being able to make them is the key.

So being able to get this harvester at cost price, Li Long was already very satisfied. After all, Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory is a state-owned enterprise, and wanting to buy shares is basically impossible. Right now, this side doesn't accept such forms either. Unless you start from scratch in the township to engage in an agricultural machinery repair factory.

But he didn't have that technical ability, so don't think about it for the time being. Store some good agricultural machinery from the later generations in his mind, and take them out when he has the ability and opportunity to produce them.

Because Li Long still had to drive the tractor for more than a hundred kilometers, this harvester wasn't installed on Li Long's tractor after being unloaded, but was directly lifted by workers and placed in the tractor trailer, and tied tightly with a rope, so it wouldn't be bumped or damaged.

"Two hundred yuan." The number Du Tongzhou gestured made Li Long feel it was truly picking up a big bargain. This thing, if it were really mass-produced, would definitely be five? This saved the money of two bicycles.

Paid the money, opened the ticket, Li Long recorded the factory's phone number, and promised Du Tongzhou that he would give him feedback as soon as there was a situation.

Driving out of the agricultural machinery factory, Li Long's mood was still very excited. If this harvester was as powerful as Factory Director Du said, then there would truly be no shortage of work later.

He had already envisioned it: harvesting one mu of wheat charges two yuan. If he worked seriously in a day, harvesting one hundred to one hundred and fifty mu should be no problem. Excluding costs, earning two hundred yuan a day could be achieved.

After all, the guy who bought the first high-horsepower wheeled tractor in the village, in order to earn money, basically risked his life, plowing four hundred mu of land in one day and one night—let's not compare with that madman, just work during the day, and being able to do half to one-third is fine.

After all, harvesting wheat with a harvester is much easier than plowing land.

Thinking like this in his heart, Li Long went to the winery to buy a box of Kuitun Special Qu, and went to the Red Flag Building to buy some odds and ends, food, clothes, children's toys, and old people's clothes, etc.

After saying goodbye to Li Anguo and the others at the construction site, Li Long drove the tractor to the cafeteria to have a meal. It was not yet one o'clock, and eating was a bit early, but Li Long still didn't plan to eat at those roadside restaurants along the way, so he ate in advance before rushing back.

After eating a mixed noodle with three noodles and being full, Li Long drove the tractor out of KT City, added oil at the gas station at the barracks, and then drove toward the east with a rumble.

It was fast coming, and it was fast going back.

It was already late May. The vegetation in the Gobi Desert on both sides wasn't much, and it hadn't been reclaimed into fertile land on a large scale like later generations. At this time, the air was steaming, and the sunlight shone on his body hot and spicy, which was still quite uncomfortable.

Li Long regretted not getting a straw hat to wear. He clearly remembered that there were straw hats woven from rice straw for sale in the Red Flag Building, seemingly two yuan a piece or two yuan five a piece.

At that time, he felt this hat was a bit earthy, but now he felt the power of the sunlight, feeling that he was truly pretentious. He was a farmer himself; what earthy or not earthy, and who could be closer to the land than himself?

After eating two full meals, he really didn't know the height of the sky and the depth of the earth.

Helplessly, he took off his coat, put it on his head, increased the throttle, and drove east.

The restaurants on the roadside heard the sound, and some people came out to wave to Li Long, signaling that he could stop to eat. Li Long waved his hand and drove past without stopping.

He ate noodles with three additions in Kuitun, and now his stomach was full, so there was no need to supplement.

The tractor's shock absorption system was still relatively primitive, so after driving for an hour or two, Li Long already felt his teeth were fighting.

His whole body was trembling together with the car.

Finally, he saw a large area of oasis in front; Shicheng had arrived. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 514 =====