Chapter 546: Surprise big price explosion

"Hey, there are really many fish today!" Li Qing Xia watched Li Long collect the ten nets in two trips, and the wrinkles on his face could pinch mosquitoes to death. "There must be sixty or seventy kilograms!"

"This isn't considered much, right?" Li Long dragged the tire out of the lake, then carried two bags, clamped the tire, and had to carry another bag, saying while walking:

"Don't ten nets have to have this much? How much fish did you and Dayong catch when setting nets before?"

"How could there be so much? Occasionally catching forty or fifty kilograms, basically it was twenty or thirty kilograms. There are far fewer fish in this lake, and it won't be like last year when it could produce so many fish."

Li Qing Xia always felt that the fish had a fate with Li Long. Once Li Long set nets, there would be more fish.

Li Long felt that it was because he slid the tire deeper, and some places Tao Dayong might not dare to enter.

Fish are only numerous in deep water—in those places on the edge of the lake, there are many people setting nets, and the fish are either scared away or caught.

Dragging the bag containing the nets back to Li Jianguo's courtyard, the east side just revealed a touch of red. Everyone in the family had already gotten up. Seeing them return, they immediately helped out, spreading the plastic paper, picking fish, finding bags, sorting, and cooking breakfast.

Knowing that Li Long and the others were going to Shicheng today, Li Juan and Li Qiang prepared their school bags early, planning to ride the tractor to school.

Finally able to hitch a ride on the tractor, both children were quite excited.

Lu Lu Dasao from across the street carried a bowl over and asked:

"What, are you driving the tractor to sell fish today... eh? Are these Da-melon seeds dried? Are you preparing to sell them?"

"Hmm," Liang Yumei responded while serving dishes, "Going to Shicheng to sell Da-melon seeds today."

There was no need to hide this kind of thing. If people asked, just say it.

"Hey, many people in the team are watching. If your Da-melon seeds sell for a good price, there will definitely be many more people growing Da-melons next year. Can you leave ten mu of seeds for my family? Whatever price you sell them for, I'll pay the same price."

"Alright," Liang Yumei naturally didn't disagree. "There are still some drying at home. Come and weigh them when they are dried."

"Good." Lu Lu Dasao looked at the strong and sturdy people here and was quite envious. Lu Yingming's parents had also come, but didn't stay long before leaving. They weren't used to living here and had quite a few demands.

Just like what Chen Li Rong felt, the status of housewives here was higher than in their hometown. Women could work, could earn work points and extra grain before, and could work and earn money now, so their ability was not ordinary.

If the father-in-law and mother-in-law wanted to set any rules for the daughter-in-law like in their hometown, they had to see if the daughter-in-law was willing to bear it.

So in the end, for the sake of family harmony, Lu Yingming sent his old dad and old mom back to their hometown, and all he had to do was send some money and two quilts at the end of the year.

At this time, the Corps had already started growing cotton, but it was upland cotton, the area was not particularly large, and the yield was not particularly high. In another two years, it would be promoted to the local area here.

The picked fish were kept, intended to be distributed to each family. After being busy with Da-melons for so long, the family could finally have some leisure. Liang Yumei planned to return to her maiden home to see Liang Donglou and the others.

It was quite appropriate to bring some fish over, and she also wanted to persuade Liang Donglou's side to grow some Da-melons. After all, there was little land there, and if they wanted to develop the economy, they had to grow economic crops.

The Li family also planned to stew fish for lunch, and Chen Li Rong already knew how to stew it. Although Tao Dayong hadn't had time to fish with Li Qing Xia during this period, the friendship from before was still there. Li Qing Xia's intention was to let Chen Li Rong send some fish over there after they left.

And Old Luo Shu, he also had to show some meaning.

"No need to let Second Sister-in-law go, put them separately on the tractor, I'll drive the tractor, it's a matter of minutes."

Li Long said while eating steamed buns with dishes.

Thinking about it, that was true.

After everyone finished breakfast, the sun just revealed a head. Li Long started the tractor, Li Qing Xia and Li Jianguo both got on the cargo bed, and then pulled Li Juan and Li Qiang up.

In the cargo bed, Da-melon seeds were placed in the front, separated by plastic cloth in the middle, and two large bags and two small bags of fish to be sold were placed in the back. The large basin and scale used for selling fish were also in the corner.

The tractor started, Du Chunfang waved to Li Long, and then watched the tractor "putt-putt-putt," emitting black smoke, drive out of the courtyard and head north.

They still had work to do.

First went to the Old Horse Corral, and put the fish down for Old Luo Shu.

Old Luo Shu was feeding the wild boars. Hearing the tractor sound, he looked this way with a smile. Li Long put the fish down, didn't have time to say two words, and left.

"This kid, getting busier and busier!" Old Luo Shu looked at the fish, very satisfied. They weren't big, but they were all alive, jumping from time to time, looking quite good.

Tao Dayong was not in the courtyard, but Tao Jian She was. Li Long got off the tractor, took the fish over, and asked two questions.

"The health center said it's within these two days," Tao Jian She was both happy and worried. "Dayong is thinking about sending her to the health center tomorrow, worried about any accidents at home."

"That's right," Li Long expressed his opinion. "Can't keep her at home, home is not as clean as the health center."

That alone was enough.

The tractor drove out of the team. Along the way, he encountered many students, but Li Long didn't stop, "putt-putt-putt" drove to the primary school, dropped Li Juan off, and then "putt-putt-putt" drove to the middle school.

Li Juan was already in the first year of junior high and was currently in the adaptation stage. At this time, there were no school uniforms in rural schools, and everyone wore all kinds of things. Li Juan had to walk more than a kilometer more every day than before, which was still quite hard.

Li Long thought, should he buy her a bicycle?

It's normal for an uncle to buy a bicycle for his niece, right? After buying it, she could ride it to school and bring Li Qiang along, which would be convenient for both.

With his thoughts wandering, the tractor "putt-putt-putt" had already driven past the township and was heading toward the county.

He didn't stop in the county, the tractor drove all the way to Shicheng Old Street. Li Long parked the tractor in the parking lot, took the card, and the three of them carried the fish and other things over together, found an empty stall, and put them down. Next, selling fish was Li Qing Xia's business.

The old man wasn't selling fish here for the first time, so he wasn't nervous at all. Li Long and Li Jianguo turned their heads and walked toward the tractor, and he had already started shouting loudly.

Hey, the old man's voice was really loud!

Li Long drove the tractor out of the parking lot. When turning toward the city, he had already seen quite a few people surrounding the old man's stall.

"I just saw Zhang Qiang, selling large brooms," Li Jianguo sat on the page board and said loudly. "That large broom seems to be bought by someone."

"As long as he doesn't sell them very expensively, there will definitely be buyers," Li Long said. "In this day and age, every place is engaged in construction. Not only in rural areas, but in cities, everything is lacking, and daily necessities are definitely needed."

That's what he said, but you have to find the right track. However, in fact, it was also an era of wild growth where various commodities were finding their way. Some people were lucky enough to get things that the neighboring country desperately needed but were rotten on the street here, and they made a fortune all of a sudden.

That was another story.

The tractor "putt-putt-putt" drove toward the roasted snack factory, and Li Long was thinking about the way. If the roasted snack factory gave too low a price, then he wouldn't sell it to them, and then he would go ask the seed company.

He told Li Jianguo about this idea. Li Jianguo was silent for a while and said: "As long as he gives a price higher than one point five, I think we can sell."

Well, his brother really had an obsession with this one point five.

Li Long's idea was that anything less than two point five was out of the question.

Of course, this was just thinking about it for now. The Da-melons were grown and managed by his brother from beginning to end, and Li Long actually didn't have much say. It was just that this matter was facilitated by Li Long from beginning to end, so Li Jianguo felt he had to respect Li Long's opinion.

The fragrance of roasted snacks filled the air, and the roasted snack factory arrived.

At present, oil sunflowers hadn't matured on a large scale, and the roasted snack factory was actually quite short of raw materials.

Every autumn harvest season in rural areas, the roasted snack factory would collect large amounts of flower sunflowers, white sunflowers, soybeans, and other crops as raw material reserves.

Although the Grain Bureau collected quite a few of these things, part of them were stored in the warehouse as national reserves, and part of the oil sunflowers had to be pressed into oil for sale.

The Grain Bureau usually didn't collect flower sunflowers, and basically didn't intersect with the roasted snack factory. Occasionally, there was some intersection with soybeans, but Shicheng and Maxian here were not the main producing areas for soybeans (also called soybeans in the mouth), and occasionally there were some grown.

They collected more broad beans, which locals called soybeans.

And there were peanuts that were grown relatively little, and Da-melon seeds.

In fact, the Corps also grew a small amount of Da-melon seeds, but the area was not fixed. This thing was still picky about land, and not every land could produce it.

Li Long estimated that if people in the team grew it next year, there would definitely be a batch of people who would be disappointed.

Because some farmers would follow the trend, and some farmers would also be very stubborn. They felt that their own farming was no problem, and they could grow anything. So saying that they should go to others to ask for technology, that was a bit difficult.

Of course, this was a small part, and most farmers still had some awe for new things to grow.

New sunflowers hadn't come down, and the raw material section of the roasted snack factory was a bit busy. They also had production tasks every month.

The tractor was stopped at the gate, but Li Long wasn't in a hurry. He directly said he was looking for the factory manager. Last time he came, he found the factory manager to ask about things.

The gatekeeper was also very polite. Someone who could drive a tractor was definitely not an ordinary person. Moreover, this extraordinary person also stuffed him with a pack of Red Mountain cigarettes! The gatekeeper dialed the factory manager's office. The factory manager asked the gatekeeper what the visitor was doing, and Li Long said loudly:

"Selling Da-melon seeds."

The gatekeeper conveyed it truthfully, and the factory manager asked him to go directly to the raw material section.

Someone being able to come over to sell agricultural products grown in the field was considered relatively fresh. At this time, the roasted snack factory was considered a state-owned enterprise, basically unified purchase and unified sales, but there was also a certain relaxation in policy.

After all, there was a purchase policy from above, and the factory also needed some flexible funds. Otherwise, how could they issue benefits to employees during the New Year and holidays?

In this day and age, don't look at the benefits issued as quite cheap, they were things like towels, soap, and toilet paper, but that was a symbol of the factory's prosperity.

The toilet paper at this time was different from the cylindrical shape of later generations. It was rectangular, packed in plastic bags, layer by layer. The quality of the paper, of course, couldn't be compared with later generations, but it was genuine wrinkle paper, which was also quite soft.

The raw material section chief didn't have a small shelf, but hearing that someone sent Da-melon seeds, he naturally had to see them.

Although they didn't sell many roasted black melon seeds, the superior unit had always had tasks. In the past, they collected them directly from the Corps system. Shicheng here was a division-city combined command structure and could be directly allocated, but if they could independently collect a part, it was always a good thing.

A family with surplus grain has no fear, right?

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The tractor drove into the courtyard. Li Long was considered familiar with the road and knew where the office was.

It was called the raw material section, but if you really talked about it, the area of this roasted snack factory was not as large as the Maxian Supply and Marketing Cooperative, but there was no way. The level of Shicheng was higher than Maxian. The Maxian Supply and Marketing Cooperative could only be counted as a stock, while the Shicheng roasted snack factory could be a section.

After getting off the car, Li Jianguo let Li Long go in to talk, while he wanted to sit on the tractor and watch the Da-melon seeds.

Li Long didn't insist either. Some bizarre things might happen in this era. It might not happen in the roasted snack factory, but who could be prepared?

Li Long entered the office area, found the raw material section, knocked on the door, and entered.

Yuan Guomin, the chief of the raw material section, had a newspaper in front of him, which was considered a bit pretentious. He had just finished a phone call, so naturally, he didn't have time to read an article.

Li Long walked in and said in a loud voice:

"Hello, Chief!"

"Hello, hello, Comrade, please sit down. Are you here to sell Da-melon seeds? Where are you from? Maxian or Shawan?"

"Maxian, I am an employee of the Maxian Supply and Marketing Cooperative." Li Long took out his work permit and handed it over. In this day and age, people in public units would always be treated differently from farmers.

At any time, the status of farmers in the eyes of some people was always at the very end.

But workers were different, and cadres were different. The work permit Li Long got was relatively simple, just saying that he was an employee of the procurement section of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. The specific position was not written, and it was not indicated that he was a temporary worker.

So it was no problem to bluff people.

Once Chief Yuan saw the work permit, his attitude was obviously different. He smiled and returned the certificate to Li Long:

"Comrade Li Long, right? Young and promising, not bad, not bad... Li Long?"

He suddenly remembered that some time ago, the ethnic unity advanced individual organized by the division and city seemed to have a Li Long from the Maxian Supply and Marketing Cooperative, right?

"Are you that... ethnic unity model?" Chief Yuan asked tentatively.

"Model is a bit exaggerated, I just did some work within my duties in ethnic unity work," Li Long said with a humble face. "The organization has raised the role of the work I did, and I am a bit ashamed."

"No, no, no, you are completely qualified!" Yuan Guomin was a bit excited immediately. "Come, come, come, sit, sit, sit, I'll pour you water. Are you here to sell the melon seeds of your cooperative?"

"No, no, my brother grows them in the countryside, he grew ten mu of Da-melons, harvested more than two tons of Da-melon seeds..."

"That's not a small amount, let's go, let's go see," Yuan Guomin stood up immediately and said, "If the quality is good, then we want them all. Comrade Li Long, I won't hide it from you, we really need these raw materials."

After leaving the office area and arriving at the tractor outside, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:

"Brother, this is Chief Yuan of the raw material section."

"Hello, Chief Yuan!" Li Jianguo greeted from the car.

"Chief Yuan, which bag of melon seeds do you want to see? We'll open it for you."

"You bring that bag over," Yuan Guomin was very satisfied with Li Long's attitude. He didn't open the bag himself, but let him pick, which showed that he was very satisfied with the quality of the melon seeds.

Li Jianguo carried the bag Yuan Guomin pointed to the side of the cargo bed, and Li Long took it from below.

This bag of melon seeds was forty or fifty kilograms, but Li Long carried it as if it were very light, which made Yuan Guomin frown.

If it was very light, it meant the melon seeds were not plump, so he wouldn't dare to want them.

Li Long opened the bag mouth and held it open for Yuan Guomin to look inside himself.

"Eh? It's quite good." Yuan Guomin reached in, poked hard, grabbed a handful from inside, looked at the melon seeds, they were quite clean, no broken stones, no white seeds. Every black melon seed was mature.

He grabbed one, put it in his mouth, and cracked it, cracked the melon seed skin, and then peeled it open with his hands.

The melon seed kernel was very plump, and the quality was superior.

Cracked another one, the melon seed kernel was also not bad.

Yuan Guomin didn't feel anything at this time, and pointed to another bag and said:

"Bring that bag down for me to see."

Li Jianguo did as he was told, and Li Long took it down.

Yuan Guomin left, and when he came back, he had an extra prod in his hand, which was the hollow sharp thorn used by the Grain Bureau to inspect grain.

This thing was stolen by someone for a period of time to fight. If you poke someone with it, the person will be abolished immediately, finished.

It's hollow in the middle, so it's fast to bleed and deflate!

Yuan Guomin didn't quite believe that the melon seeds Li Long brought were all of this quality, so he needed a prod, wanting to see how the melon seeds were where his hands couldn't reach.

After all, it was impossible to pour all the bags out for inspection.

Li Long and Li Jianguo were calm. They packed the melon seeds themselves, and they could withstand the inspection.

After the melon seeds were dried, they were also winnowed to clear out the shriveled melon seeds and the white immature ones. Selling goods for the first time, they had to give people a good impression.

In fact, according to Li Long's calculation, even if these shriveled melon seeds were not wanted, the price he expected was enough.

Liang Yumei meant to keep these shriveled melon seeds to boil five-spice melon seeds to eat.

Anyway, as a snack in winter, she didn't think about eating much, watching TV and eating melon seeds, what else did she want?

Yuan Guomin poked several times and found that the melon seeds inside were clean, no defects, no shriveled seeds, no impurities.

This was very strange.

At this time, he finally discovered a new continent, grabbed a handful of melon seeds in his hand and asked:

"Comrade Xiao Li, how did you do it? These melon seeds don't have a single warped one! If you press them after drying, they will break!"

"Hey, Chief Yuan, you observe very carefully. We actually pressed the warped melon seeds flat with boards directly after the melon seeds were just scooped out," Li Long laughed and said.

"That's a lot of work." Yuan Guomin actually understood this, he sighed, "Being able to think of this point, you are still very powerful!"

"We can also be considered to be thinking about it from the perspective of the user. If this melon seed is warped, it's not easy to crack, so it's better to press it flat," Li Long laughed.

"Hey, perspective of the user, good, good! I'll collect these melon seeds of yours, let me tell you the price, you see,"

As soon as he said this, both Li Long and Li Jianguo became nervous.

"Two point eight per kilogram, how about that?" Yuan Guomin reported a price.

He could actually report higher, but as the raw material section chief, striving for benefits for the factory was his nature.

He thought that if Li Long bargained, he would mention it.

Li Long looked at Li Jianguo. In fact, he wanted to bargain.

But his brother was here, so he had to be the main one.

"Good!" Li Jianguo agreed directly.

He had already calculated it. Two hundred kilograms per mu, two point eight per kilogram, that was five hundred sixty, ten mu of land was five thousand six hundred, a tractor!

Hey! This kind of Da-melon, really grew it right! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 547 =====