Chapter 526: The chain reaction caused by the harvester

"The autumn is high and the air is crisp, the sky is cloudless, and the summer harvest work is going on busily and orderly. This year, a big strange-looking guy has broken into the wheat harvesting work in Hongqi Township, Ma County..."

Jiang Zhiyu was lying on the table writing the news manuscript, with a serious expression.

Because Li Long was on the Autonomous Region Daily for the ethnic unity matter and was commended by the autonomous region, Ye Laya, who originally wrote the broadcast manuscript related to him, was seconded to the county broadcast station.

It was impossible not to be envious. Jiang Zhiyu also wanted to work in the county. After all, the stage for work in the township wasn't big, and there was a feeling of having strength but not being able to use it fully.

Originally, her parents were both in the county. Now, because of the job transfer, her father went to the prefecture, and her mother was still in the county hospital. The family of three was a three-level pattern of prefecture, county, and township.

If she could transfer to the county, that would be great.

"Officer Jiang, writing a manuscript? You are really diligent, I will learn from you." A young man knocked on the open door, walked in, and said: "Come, treat you to a cream popsicle. I wanted to buy a doll head, but it sold fast today, and there is none."

He handed over a cream popsicle wrapped in paper.

"Thank you, my stomach has been uncomfortable recently, I can't eat cold things." Jiang Zhiyu politely refused.

"Can't eat? Alright then." The young man took the popsicle with some regret and chatted for two sentences. Seeing Jiang Zhiyu continue to bury her head in writing the manuscript, he walked away.

Not long after, another young man came over. Seeing Jiang Zhiyu writing the manuscript, he sat down on the side and chatted one sentence after another. Jiang Zhiyu ignored him, and he wasn't embarrassed, until someone outside the door called him and he left.

Jiang Zhiyu watched his back disappear and sighed.

She stood up and walked over to close the door, with a loud sound, to express her determination.

When could she write the manuscript quietly?

These two young men, one was the armed officer of the township armed forces department, and the other was a teacher at the Agricultural Technology Promotion School. Both had good feelings for Jiang Zhiyu and were pursuing her.

Both of them were dressed quite fashionably, and their hair was usually combed very smoothly, looking very energetic. They were considered excellent young people among the township cadres.

Unfortunately, Jiang Zhiyu wouldn't consider it. Sometimes she would flash a thought and compare these two with Li Long.

In terms of appearance, Li Long was completely defeated. Jiang Zhiyu had seen Li Long several times and felt his hair was always messy, his eyes were red, there was a diesel smell that couldn't be dissipated on his body, and there were diesel stains on his clothes.

His hands were also.

When interviewed, Li Long only answered questions and wouldn't expand at all, unlike these two, who knew a lot about the international and domestic situation. When they talked, they could talk eloquently, as if they were masters of international situation analysis.

However, Jiang Zhiyu felt that Li Long's temperament was real, while these two were too superficial.

It was like writing an essay. When she was young, she quite liked those fancy, large-scale parallelisms, and piles of gorgeous words, thinking that was powerful.

However, after she got older, she understood that writing a pile of things there was actually four words: "empty of content."

And those written by true masters might be very detailed, or very plain, but there was something in every sentence.

At this time, Jiang Zhiyu felt that Li Long had something, and these two also had it, but not much.

Better continue writing. She didn't believe that Ye Laya could write to the county based on a broadcast manuscript, but she couldn't?

Humph!

Li Long naturally didn't know he was compared again. At this moment, he was chugging along harvesting wheat in the field.

Harvesting today, the team's was almost finished, and tomorrow he would go to the Third Team to harvest.

To Li Long's surprise, someone in the First Team also made an appointment to let Li Long harvest wheat. This person was a large planter, planting sixty mu of wheat including his own ration fields and contracted land, which was considered a large grain planter.

People also said it well, paying cash after harvesting. Because it would take most of the day to harvest, the other party also provided lunch.

This attitude was quite good. People were in a hurry, so Li Long planned to harvest for that person the day after tomorrow.

It was a coincidence that this person was in the same team as Wei Tianxing.

Li Long hadn't encountered any problems harvesting wheat so far. In this era, basically there wouldn't be any problems. The common people were relatively simple, and even if they were bad, they were limited.

Unlike later generations, the internet was popularized, and bad things were connected. All kinds of bad things made people angry.

For example, seen on short video platforms, some people would insert steel bars into other people's corn fields ready for harvest. When the harvester entered the field and hit the steel bars, the blades and gears would be broken directly.

Li Long had seen more than one such news. And because the area of the corn field was too large, it was impossible to investigate.

The owner of the harvester could only admit bad luck.

Li Long actually thought about such problems at the very beginning, but then smiled.

At this time, people hadn't reached that level of badness.

If a family had a grudge against another family, the adults wouldn't say it to their faces, and then they wouldn't interact in the future. Children at most would spit at the other party's door when passing by, or when they were older, they would do bad things like digging holes in the other party's wheat field stubble that was about to ripen, pouring water in, and blocking the harvest.

Compared with some bad things in later generations, it was like a prank.

Steel bars were good things in every family, used for farm tools or other things, and wouldn't be used for this.

Even if a wooden stake was set up in the wheat field, the power wouldn't be great, and it wouldn't play a big role. The most important thing was that people now couldn't think of this point.

Two days later, when Li Long went to the First Team to harvest wheat, he met Wei Tianxing.

To Li Long's surprise, Wei Tianxing was sitting on a horse cart going to the field. If it wasn't because this person was too shameless, Li Long really wouldn't have recognized him.

The tractor chugged past that horse cart. Wei Tianxing looked at Li Long and turned his head to other directions.

Li Long also just took a look, guessed it should be Wei Tianxing, and then drove to the third family in the First Team's residential area.

The person who called Li Long was named Ye Jiaping, in his forties. Hearing the sound of the tractor, he had already walked out of the courtyard.

Li Long parked the tractor outside and asked:

"Old Brother Ye, have you eaten? Can you go to the field now?"

"Yes, everything is ready. Don't you want to come down and drink some tea and rest?"

"No need, finish harvesting early and save trouble." Li Long said, "It's comfortable to harvest in the morning, it's too sunny at noon."

"Alright, then wait a moment, I'll get things."

The Ye family had a donkey cart and a bicycle. Ye Jiaping's wife led the donkey cart and walked behind, while he rode the bicycle in front to lead the way for Li Long, leading Li Long to the edge of his own wheat field.

When he went to find Li Long two days ago, Ye Jiaping already knew he needed to flatten the stubble in the field. The stubble of sixty mu of land was not small.

"Old Brother Ye, is this whole area yours?"

"Yes, our team's land blocks are relatively concentrated. When the land was divided, I asked for them together. Later, when the land was contracted, I exchanged with others and changed the land blocks together. It's easy to plant when planting, and easy to harvest when harvesting."

This was a good way. Li Long thought that it seemed no one in the Fourth Team did this.

"Then I'll start." Li Long sat on the tractor, looking at the strip field of the First Team, over three hundred meters, not long, and could have a round trip very quickly.

Harvesting like this was still quite promising. A round trip in a few minutes felt not bad.

In over an hour, twenty mu of land was harvested. Li Long drove the tractor out of the edge of the field and stopped. The water in the water tank was already boiling, the tractor needed to rest, and Li Long also needed to rest.

Ye Jiaping cut a watermelon at the edge of the field and greeted Li Long to eat. Li Long didn't stand on ceremony, took a piece of melon, and asked while eating:

"Old Brother Ye, is the wheat in your field your own seed or bought from the seed company?"

"Bought. Naturally, other people's seeds are better than our own." Ye Jiaping said, "Not only seeds, I also use a lot of chemical fertilizer. This land can harvest over a hundred kilograms more per mu than during the communal pot days!"

Li Long still understood very well. During the communal pot days, there were many people who worked slowly, and it was difficult to increase the yield. But the land was divided to the common people themselves, the enthusiasm for planting came up, plus using good seeds and using more chemical fertilizer, the yield naturally came up.

"Then if the seeds and chemical fertilizer in private stores are cheaper than the state-run stores, would you buy them?"

"Cheaper? Regular or not?"

"Definitely regular, the same purchase channel as the state-run company, all goods from Wucheng and Oil City."

"Then buy. As long as it's a regular channel, I will definitely buy it. Even if a bag of chemical fertilizer is one cent cheaper, I use several bags per mu. For my sixty mu, that can save quite a bit of money." Ye Jiaping said without hesitation. Li Long asked this naturally not without a target. Since he planned to open an agricultural materials company for his father-in-law, he had to see if the target group accepted it or not. Although agricultural materials companies were basically profitable in later generations, it was 1983 now, and whether it could be accepted by farmers was still a question.

Private enterprises and stores were still inferior to state-run enterprises in terms of credibility, at least in this era.

However, from the current look, it was still relatively optimistic. As long as the source was normal, everyone could accept it.

In fact, Li Long's plan was that when opening the store, he would tell his father-in-law well, don't worry about income and profit for now, opening a store was mainly to explore the way and occupy the first opportunity. As the first person to open an agricultural materials store in the county, it was easy to be remembered.

Of course, Li Long also planned to do some local method advertisements, such as brushing a wall advertisement in a conspicuous place, and distributing a flyer, but it was hard to say whether enough flyers could be printed at this time.

Far away, ate two teeth of melon, and continued to harvest.

Ye Jiaping watched at the edge of the field. When Li Long drove the tractor and circled again, someone walked over from other land blocks.

Ye Jiaping saw it was Wei Tianxing. Although the relationship with this person was average, since the person walked over, he greeted him politely:

"Old Wei is here, come, eat a piece of melon."

Wei Tianxing naturally didn't stand on ceremony, took the melon and ate it, pointing at Li Long in the field while eating:

"How is this kid from the Fourth Team harvesting for you?"

"Not bad." Ye Jiaping couldn't figure out what Wei Tianxing wanted to do, so he said vaguely.

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"I heard two yuan per mu? Still a bit expensive. If I had a harvester, one yuan and five cents per mu, not a cent more! What's difficult about harvesting? Just drive the tractor chugging and pass by, not laborious at all!"

Ye Jiaping glanced at him and didn't say anything. This guy had a tractor at home, but he didn't drive it to the field usually. Ye Jiaping was skeptical about whether someone like this could have a harvester and charge cheaply!

But it was a team after all, so it wasn't easy to top it back directly, so Ye Jiaping didn't speak.

Wei Tianxing ate a piece of melon, threw the melon skin at the edge of the field, and then bent down to take another piece, saying while eating:

"Old Ye, your family has a lot of land, and this harvesting fee is not low. You have to beat this kid. Young people don't work firmly. If you don't beat him, he won't work well for you..."

Ye Jiaping still didn't speak. He could see that Li Long worked very proficiently, harvesting row by row without running empty trips, harvesting very cleanly, and didn't rest much.

People were working well, and you Wei Tianxing came to put eye drops on him. Was it because you were afraid others didn't know you wanted to plot against someone else's harvester?

Wei Tianxing ate the third piece of melon and saw Li Long had turned back, so he took the melon and left.

Ye Jiaping looked at the remaining half piece of melon and shook his head. It wasn't that he felt sorry for the melon. Watermelons were cheap now, mainly because of this person. Alas, he was in his own team, so it was really hard to say.

The remaining forty mu of land, Li Long rested once in the middle, and it was already past lunch time when he finished harvesting. Ye Jiaping's wife sent the food to the edge of the field. Freshly steamed buns, stir-fried cabbage—for those who picked cotton in later generations, I am afraid this was the dish they hated most, eating this thing every day could make people annoyed.

At this time, Li Long didn't care so much. It was good to have something to eat, so there was no such fastidiousness.

When Li Long was eating, people had successively eaten lunch at home and came to the field to work in the afternoon.

Then seeing that the sixty mu of land of the Ye family had all been harvested, and Ye Jiaping's wife was bundling wheat in the field, some people stopped and came over to ask about things.

"Harvested by a harvester? Harvested sixty mu in one morning?"

Some people's expressions were greatly shocked.

After all, the harvester was still a rare thing in this era. The Fourth Team saw a lot, but other teams hadn't seen much.

Harvesting wheat by hand was the mainstream. Combine harvesters were extremely rare. The large land of the Corps could be used, but ordinary families couldn't afford it for the time being.

"How much did you pay for harvesting?"

"Two yuan per mu." Ye Jiaping said, "I think the price is appropriate, mainly because it's fast. My family's sixty mu, if we two harvested it, I don't know when it would be harvested. If there was no harvester, I would plan to hire people. Hiring people is also not cheap..."

Truth. Hiring people in this era is also not cheap. Mainly because it's the busy farming season, it's not easy to hire people, after all, every family has to harvest wheat.

In this era, there are few families who don't plant wheat.

"Two yuan." Some villagers shook their heads when they heard it and left.

Some people hesitated.

The First Team didn't have as many jobs as the Fourth Team that Li Long could take. Especially last year's big brooms and reed bundles, all the people in the village could do that work, and if they did it well, they could earn a year's money in one season.

So every family still had some spare money.

The First Team itself didn't have as much land as the Fourth Team, and there weren't many big jobs to engage in sideline businesses. A little advantage was that it was close to the county town, over a kilometer away. In summer, some vegetables and fruits could be carried to the county to sell, which could earn some money for vegetable oil.

So two yuan per mu, most people still had to consider it.

Then three families decided to find Li Long, one wanted to bargain, and the other wanted to see if Li Long could harvest in the afternoon.

"Can harvest, but this price can't be changed." Li Long had already eaten two big buns, and the vegetables in the enamel basin were also eaten up. He took tea to rinse the vegetable juice in the enamel basin, then took half a basin of tea, drank it up in gulps, put down the basin, wiped his hands and said.

One family thought that since it couldn't be reduced, they wouldn't harvest, and greeted Ye Jiaping and left.

The other two families discussed it, and finally decided they still wanted to use the harvester to harvest.

Seeing that the sixty mu of land of the Ye family was harvested so neatly, they were really tempted.

"If you want to harvest, it's fine, you can harvest now." Li Long didn't plan to rest, "You have to flatten the stubble in the field first, otherwise the tractor will easily press your wheat when it passes. In addition, pay after harvesting. My tractor is from the Fourth Team, and we are not familiar with each other, so it's not good to owe accounts, it's not easy to collect later."

Ugly words have to be put in front. It will be fine to owe accounts or use wheat to offset accounts later when familiar, but don't do such things for now. Li Long was quite annoyed by the kind of asking for accounts one by one.

He planned to collect Tie Laobang's wheat on this trip back. If he didn't pay, he would go directly to the threshing ground to pull it.

When making this decision, one of the two families turned back to get an iron shovel, and the other was a bit smarter, directly borrowed the iron shovel from Ye Jiaping here, and also borrowed money by the way.

Ye Jiaping handed the one hundred and twenty yuan he had prepared to Li Long.

Twelve new large unity notes, don't know if they were specifically exchanged at the credit union, or if they had been in the family for a long time.

Li Long took the notes, counted them, put them in his pocket, indicating that this business was over.

Greeted Ye Jiaping, drove the tractor chugging along the direction pointed by that person.

Ye Jiaping watched the dust raised by the tractor driving over, his eyes full of envy.

One hundred and twenty yuan, this had to be eight hundred kilograms of wheat to sell, the income of four mu of good land, earned in one morning.

He could roughly calculate the money Li Long earned in this wheat season, and could also think about why Wei Tianxing would come to put eye drops on Li Long.

It was all caused by money.

He had to get a tractor next year anyway. This thing was much easier to use than a donkey cart.

It was fuel-consuming, so be it, it had great strength and pulled a lot of things. Seeing others earn money, and the notes entering the pocket with a rustle, how could he not be envious?

Wei Tianxing watched Li Long driving the tractor roaring past at the edge of the field, and then entered the land two families away. The owner of the field was flattening the stubble in the field. Their family's land had already been harvested for over three mu, and it looked like they planned to use a tractor to harvest the rest.

If that harvester were his own, this money would all be his own!

Wei Tianxing thought in his heart.

Should he go to Kuitun and buy a harvester back?

Seeing Li Long earning so much money, Wei Tianxing was really tempted.

Even if it was five hundred yuan, if he harvested like this, he would earn it back in a few days!

Then he watched Li Long driving the tractor, chugging into the wheat field, and harvesting again.

He had already calculated the account. Li Long's harvesting speed could earn over two hundred a day.

If the harvester was really five hundred yuan, it would be back in two days!

Wei Tianxing stood up suddenly.

Li Long could earn this money, and he could also earn it!

Buy a ticket to Kuitun tomorrow! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 527 =====