Chapter 520: The harvester is finally going to see the light of day

"... So it mainly relies on preventing diseases and insect pests recently. Whether the fertility is enough depends on the leaves. If it rains, you can't accumulate water..."

At noon, Li Jianguo drove the horse carriage back. Li Long and his mother had already prepared the meal, and the meat had been picked and braised. The people who worked ate directly.

When eating, Li Long told his eldest brother the specific precautions for planting watermelon next.

Watermelon planting was a matter that the two brothers were very concerned about. Although they didn't say they had great ambitions, at least they thought they couldn't lose money in this regard this year.

The capable professor taught the method, is it possible that you can't do it by following it?

Unless you don't want to earn this money.

Li Jianguo was a man of action. He asked Li Long to keep that piece of paper. Li Long said:

"Today I came to send sheep, I will go back in the afternoon, and tomorrow I will go to the county agricultural materials company to buy all the fertilizers and pesticides needed and prepare them, so they can be used directly when needed."

Li Jianguo didn't say anything else.

Li Long ate the meal, drove the tractor, and went to Gu Bo Yuan's home again.

"Why are you here again?" Gu Bo Yuan had just finished eating. Although it was easier to make a meal for one person, it was troublesome to clean up.

He was always too lazy to do such complicated things. Today Li Long brought the meat over, making him unable to go to the field to work. In fact, he was quite happy in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face—although he had been a farmer for many years, if he could not go to the field to work, he was still relatively happy.

After all, in his bones, he was still that intellectual.

"Gu Shu, I have a matter, I think you can do it." Li Long said straight to the point.

"What matter, what do you mean I can do it?" Gu Bo Yuan was led astray by Li Long, and the original complaint was forgotten.

"The county is slowly opening up restrictions on the sale of some materials, and now common people can also slowly open shops." Li Long sat at the table under the grape trellis, poured himself a bowl of cold tea—literal cold tea, which was brick tea that had already cooled, he took a sip and said:

"Our county is an agricultural county, I think the agricultural materials business will definitely be a big business in the future."

"Gu Shu, your brain is active, staying in the team to farm is really a bit buried. Why not open an agricultural materials store in the county or township and apply for a license. I can handle the goods in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, you just watch the store.

Nothing to do, read books, sell goods if someone buys things, don't need to cook, Xiaoxia and I eat at Sister Yang's place, you can also go there. This way, you can see Xiaoxia every day, and living in the county is more convenient than in the team."

"You say so, this matter is really doable." Gu Bo Yuan listened to the radio every day and knew that private enterprises had long since risen in the interior. The first private license was issued in 1980. Now from the coast to the northwest, private shops and the like were no longer rare things.

However, private shops selling agricultural materials were indeed rare. Basically, private enterprises were mainly selling daily department stores, which was the sales department of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative in the past, and a considerable part of them had now turned into private shops.

But from a long-term perspective, later the land would belong to individual families. If you want to grow more grain, oil, and economic crops, agricultural materials such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides would definitely be indispensable. Not only Gu Bo Yuan but also ordinary old farmers could imagine this point.

But not many people dared to do it. First, there was no such capital, and second, for ordinary farmers now, they would be very happy to be a worker, but it was not that everyone could make up their mind to open a shop to sell goods.

Moreover, now the household contract responsibility system, land contracting, can eat warm, seeing that working hard for a few years can also eat well, there is a goal, really let them do business, they really don't have this mood.

Most are like this.

But Gu Bo Yuan didn't have this concern. He was attracted by the two points Li Long said.

One is not having to cook by himself, and the other is being able to read books when idle, without having to go to the field.

"Then why don't you let your old dad do it?" Gu Bo Yuan was a bit puzzled.

"You know my old dad's personality, right? He would rather go to the small Haizi every day to catch fish than guard the store." Li Long said.

"Also right." Gu Bo Yuan nodded. He was a lazy person, and it would be good to stay in the store without taking a step. But Li Qing Xia's personality was the opposite. If he was let to guard the store, he could be anxious to death.

"This courtyard of mine, my land can't be gone." Gu Bo Yuan also had concerns.

"That's simple." Li Long smiled and said, "The courtyard can be looked at occasionally when coming back. If not, let my eldest brother take care of it. The land is directly planted by my eldest brother and the others. If it really doesn't work, transfer it out. Anyway, there are many people in the team who want to plant more land."

Gu Bo Yuan nodded, this is indeed a way.

"This matter can't be finished in a while." Li Long said, "I have been looking at places in the county recently, find a suitable courtyard to buy, the front is for the storefront, and the back is for living. If it's not easy to find, just find a storefront, and you will live in our courtyard when the time comes..."

"I don't go." Gu Bo Yuan shook his head directly, "I want to live by myself, don't stir with you."

Gu Bo Yuan wanted face. He felt he was not old and didn't want others to say he lived by relying on his daughter and son-in-law.

People at this time, especially middle-aged people, wanted face too much.

"That's also okay, I'll find the courtyard slowly, and buy it when I find a suitable one." Li Long said.

"Okay, just treat it as me borrowing from you first," Gu Bo Yuan said, "Don't find the courtyard too big, I can't clean it up if it's too big, but it's best to be able to plant some vegetables."

Li Long nodded. It was easy to find the courtyard Gu Bo Yuan wanted here, unlike the Kuitun Construction Installation Company, where nothing could be planted and the area was small. It was quite difficult to find a suitable one if he wanted to find a big one in Maxian County.

After this matter was settled, Li Long drove the tractor back to the county. After Gu Xiaoxia came back, he told her about this matter.

"Is the license easy to handle?" Gu Xiaoxia didn't mind her father coming to the county to open a store, this was actually a good thing. Her father was alone in the team, and it was really hard to say whether he could take care of himself. Now that there was a chance to come to the county, Sister Yang's cooking skills were also good, so this was good for everyone.

"Should be easy to handle." Li Long said, "We are not the first one, someone has handled it before, just prepare the procedures that should be prepared. I will also go to inquire in these two days."

Letting Gu Bo Yuan open an agricultural materials store was an idea Li Long thought of on a whim, but once the idea was born, he felt it was not bad.

If he wanted to expand in the future, he must have a foundation now. It was not easy to enter the agricultural materials field later, but it was very convenient to enter now.

Of course, even if Gu Bo Yuan didn't want to have any development in this regard later, it was very simple, just guard this store, and it was guaranteed to have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime.

After all, two or three decades later, the most complained thing by farmers in the team was that agricultural materials rose when crop prices rose, and agricultural materials prices were still rising when crop prices fell.

Anyway, didn't see anyone losing money.

Of course, it might just be on the surface. But as long as you don't take risks and follow the rules, you can naturally earn money. When the time is ripe, get a few relatively good agricultural materials agencies, and the rest is waiting for money to come in.

Such courtyards were usually in the south of Wuyi Road, which was the location of Sister Yang and the others. The courtyards in the north were not big, or they were unit houses. Large courtyards like Li Long's were also rare and not easy to buy.

The next day Li Long went to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative and told Li Xiangqian about wanting to buy a courtyard.

"Why do you want so many courtyards?" Li Xiangqian was a bit puzzled, "Isn't it troublesome to clean up?"

Li Long explained, saying that he planned to let his father-in-law come over to open an agricultural materials store, and his father-in-law would live there when the time came.

Such an explanation made Li Xiangqian understand, and he said there was no news in this regard at present, but he would help to pay attention.

Li Long came out of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, took the skins and deer antlers Halimu brought back this time to Chen Hongjun, and by the way, told him about these things.

"Okay, I'll tell you if there is news." Chen Hongjun checked the skins one by one, especially when he saw that lynx skin, he focused on praising it. This skin was relatively complete and could be worth a lot of money.

Finally, after calculating, plus two deer antlers, it sold for more than 1,500 yuan in total.

Li Long signed and took the money, thinking that if Halimu knew these things sold for so much money, he would probably be very surprised.

But thinking about it, he shook his head again. For them in the summer pasture, money didn't have much meaning, materials had meaning.

But this money could be exchanged for sixty or seventy sheep. Halimu's sheep flock was so big, but it was only more than two hundred.

Forget it, talk about it after returning from the summer pasture. Halimu and Yushanjiang's sheep flocks were mixed, coarse-wool sheep, fine-wool sheep, and goats. Some sheep could give birth three times in two years. Maybe when transferring in winter, the number of sheep flocks would increase again.

When the time comes, tell him the amount of money and see if he can be startled.

Next, Li Long went to tell Zhong Guo Qiang about wanting to buy a courtyard. Zhong Guo Qiang actually had a friend who wanted to sell a courtyard.

But Li Long shook his head after hearing the description. First, the place was a bit remote, in the northwest of the county town, and traffic was inconvenient. Li Long's ideal location should be in the market, or at the north exit of the city. These two places had large traffic, and mainly mobile population from the countryside.

Of course, it would also be good if it was near the bus station, but the housing price or land price there had already risen, and the courtyards themselves were not big, so it was quite difficult to find a suitable one.

Only slowly looking for it.

For the next month, Li Long went to find Captain Tang of the County Construction Company Construction Team, and then under his assignment, transferred to pull bricks and sand at various construction sites, basically earning more than thirty or forty yuan a day.

Not bad.

Because of Captain Tang's assignment, Li Long basically didn't receive any difficulties when pulling construction materials, but he also saw some clues from it.

!.

Those sand yards and brick yards still had hidden bosses. Some animal-drawn vehicle owners pulling sand and bricks also had to "offer" to people. Otherwise, they might be ranked last, might not be able to pull a few cars a day, and couldn't fill the car, so they couldn't earn much money.

Li Long could see a few hidden bosses who were not very high-minded. They knew Li Long had a background, so they wouldn't make things difficult for him. But the eyes looking at Li Long were not very kind. Of course, if they wanted to make Li Long also bow down, Li Long didn't mind letting them feel what is called the warmth of the 56-style.

As for those who were forced to "offer," Li Long didn't care. In this era, if you can't lift your head, no matter how others help, it won't work.

As for what difficulties, what reasons, Li Long didn't want to know, and didn't want to care.

This is 1983! Just like the few years when hitting black and evil was the strictest in later generations, at that time, if the parents of some people were bullied on campus and had no way, they could only blame their children for being unlucky.

After all, the path was given above, if you don't act, then really no one can save you.

During this month, Li Long also went to the livestock team once, sent some onions, potatoes, and other vegetables to that side, and he planned to send some more when the tomatoes came down. The varieties of vegetables eaten by Kazakhs were not many, and some things sent over couldn't be eaten, so it was better to send more of what they often ate.

In mid-June, Li Anguo and Yang Yongqiang came back from Kuitun on leave. Their formal worker indicators were taken down, and from now on they were formal workers.

The next day Yang Hua invited guests at home and invited Li Long over. Yang Hua was drunk that day. This could be considered a great happy event in the family, and it also spread in the village. Most young people envied Yang Yongqiang's good luck.

Many people cast their eyes on Li Long—after all, Yang Yongqiang could be a worker, which could be said to be completely handled by Li Long.

Everyone already knew that Li Long himself didn't want to be a worker. After all, he earned more than workers, and if he really went to be a worker, he wouldn't be as rich as he was now.

But he didn't want to, there were many people who wanted to, so these few days, people ran to Li's house from time to time, wanting to inquire about news, to see if there was any possibility of recruitment news somewhere.

Li Long had no way, he was not a god, naturally he didn't know where there was recruitment news. If there was any recruitment news in Maxian County, it would have been notified to those with internal connections long ago. When they knew, the people would have been recruited.

There would be more recruitment news in Shicheng and Wucheng, but the distance was far, and there were no connections, so how could they know.

Li Long could only be vague, if there was any, he would tell everyone, and if there was none for the time being, he had no way.

Li Anguo just became a formal worker and applied for a courtyard. Ma Aihong, Section Chief Ma, also said she would pay attention for him, but there was none for the time being.

So Second Sister-in-law Chen Li Rong and the two children still had to live in the team for the time being. But fortunately, there were many places to live here, so this didn't count for anything. Moreover, there was already hope, so there was no need to be in a hurry.

Yang Yongqiang specially came to find Li Long before leaving, bringing wine, canned food, and other things, and also holding money, which was scolded back by Li Long.

But Li Long accepted the wine and canned food, and turned around and gave them to his father and mother. This was a thank-you gift from Yongqiang, so he had to accept it.

Li Junshan didn't come back. He had already turned formal. The reason he didn't come back was that he talked about an object over there.

The girl's parents were also like Li Jianguo, supporting the border from the interior. The girl followed over when she was young, and now she was a temporary worker in a state-owned factory in KT city, and hadn't turned formal yet.

The girl's uncle was in the Construction Installation Company. Seeing Li Junshan was steady and capable, he inquired from the side and knew Li Junshan didn't have a family or an object, so he introduced them.

According to Li Anguo, the girl was quite satisfied with Li Junshan, and they were currently in the process of dating.

These successive good news made the Li family full of festive atmosphere. Li Long simply asked Old Luo Shu to slaughter a half-big wild boar to entertain his second brother and the others.

The wild boar in the old horse number was already half-domesticated, and it gave birth to two litters this year, with fifteen.

The roe deer had a new generation, and the biggest male roe deer, as well as the half-big male red deer caught last year, all had their antlers cut this year, which could be considered the first income of the horse number this year besides the two small deer sold last year.

Two pairs of deer antlers sold for more than three hundred yuan, which directly covered all expenses of the old horse number, including Old Luo Shu's salary.

Although Old Luo Shu shouted that he was almost too busy to handle it, when Li Long joked that he wanted to find him a helper, he refused immediately.

"Joking, how could it be too busy. Forage and the like are all ready-made, now the grass in the field outside can be cut at will, and one day of work for half a day will take care of these livestock. If the roe deer in your big courtyard are not easy to clean up, bring them back, our old horse number has nothing else, just a big place, can raise many!"

Actually, Li Long really considered bringing back those roe deer and small deer in the big courtyard. They had grown a bit big in these two months and were not so cute. That big roe deer even had a trend of kicking people.

Humph! If it weren't for Gu Xiaoxia protecting it, Li Long could have slaughtered it directly in the big courtyard!

Li Anguo and Yang Yongqiang both had three days off. On the third day at noon, they took Li Long's tractor to Shicheng, bought tickets to Kuitun, and returned to the unit.

There was no direct bus from Maxian County to Kuitun, so they had to transfer buses to go to Kuitun.

Li Long pulled materials for a while, and by July, he settled all the freight and prepared to start another relatively important work.

Harvesting wheat.

The wheat in the team had been yellow for many days. Burnt wheat had also been eaten long ago, and the people in the team had long known that Li Long had a harvester.

But as far as the present was concerned, besides his own family and Tao Daqiang, Yang Hua, Lu Yingming, Xie Yun Dong, and Jia Weidong who were relatively familiar and clearly said they wanted Li Long to use the harvester to harvest their own wheat, others were watching.

Li Long had already released the news, two yuan for harvesting one mu of wheat.

The reason he gave this price was because Wang Cai Mi also released a piece of news a month ago that after the autumn harvest this year, the price of plowing one mu of land rose to four yuan.

The price rose because nearby were all rising, the oil price didn't change, but the labor cost rose, and the machinery was not cheap.

Li Long's two yuan was really nothing in front of the four-yuan plowing fee.

After all, everyone knew that although harvesting wheat could be done by manpower, unlike plowing, that person couldn't do it.

But harvesting wheat was usually under the big sun, and the ration fields of each family in the team were not few, and the wheat planted was at least ten mu, and many had thirty or forty mu. This harvesting was really very painful.

People who haven't harvested really don't know how painful it is to harvest wheat under the big sun in the northwest.

That wheat guest is really using his life to earn money.

And the sun in the Shaan-Gan region really can't compare with the Northern Xinjiang side.

Harvester, maybe it's really good? (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 521 =====