Chapter 575: Business comes to the door: Monopoly money is really easy to earn!

Li Long carried the Mongolian gazelle into the house and handed the bag of sesame pancakes and fruit candies he bought at the roadside shop to Hongqin.

Hongqin was still a bit unfamiliar with this little uncle; although she had shouted quite fiercely just now, she was a bit timid at this moment, hiding her body beside her mother, looking at Li Long and then at the snack bag.

"If your little uncle gave it to you, then take it," Li Xia said with a smile. "Didn't you just shout about your little uncle's tractor? Why don't you know how to call people now?"

Hongqin then boldly took the snack bag and called out "Little Uncle".

Li Long smiled and touched her head, carrying the Mongolian gazelle into the house.

There were quite a few empty rooms in this courtyard, and the place was large, much better than the courtyard where his second brother and the others lived.

However, in a place like the Kuitun Construction and Installation Company, even if a new family courtyard was built next year, it was impossible to have such a large courtyard. The land there was tight, and it wasn't easy to expand.

Li Xia poured tea, Li Long took the bowl and took a sip, and asked:

"Brother-in-law hasn't come back yet?"

"He'll be back soon. Since entering the food factory, he has to follow the factory's work hours, and he can only come back between 7:30 and 8:00 in the evening. Fortunately, this place is close, and it only takes a few steps to get there."

It could be seen that Li Xia was very satisfied with her current life.

"That's fine, I won't be busy. Brother-in-law is better at peeling skin than I am. This Mongolian gazelle was hit by me on the way. Knowing you guys don't lack meat, just treat it as a wild game to eat."

"We can eat some of the scraps of meat, but we eat little good meat," Li Xia said realistically. "The Mongolian gazelle you sent is just right for our family."

Hongqin was chewing on a sesame pancake in her mouth; at such a young age, she already knew that this thing was crispy and would drop crumbs, so she used her hand to catch the crumbs while eating, and waited until she finished eating to pour the crumbs into her mouth.

At this time, hearing her mother and little uncle talking about eating meat, she hurriedly raised her hand and said:

"That's right! The meat we eat is all tendon, I can't chew it..."

"It's not bad to have something to eat, and you're still complaining about this and that. Think about when we were in our hometown, did we have this meat to eat?"

"No." Hongqin's voice immediately became smaller. She was also very satisfied with her life in front of her. Of course, it would be even better if she could live the life in the Fourth Team, although she only stayed there for one night.

"You haven't eaten yet, right?" Li Xia asked Li Long. "I'm almost done cooking here, you wash up and rest, your brother-in-law will be back soon, and my food will be ready soon."

Li Long didn't want to wait, he waved his hand and said:

"I'm fine, I went to Kuitun to pull a combine harvester, to be used next year. I saw my second brother and the others, and the family and children are all good. On Maxian's side, father and mother are also good. Father might catch fish and come over to sell in a while, and you guys will be able to see him then."

"That's good, that's good." The only thing Li Xia felt bad about here was not being able to see her relatives, and there were almost no acquaintances. There were people nearby, but it was impossible to get familiar with them all at once, but Hongqin and the children nearby quickly got together and became good friends.

In this day and age, kidnappers here were really particularly rare, and she had almost never heard of them.

There should be some, but very few.

Because Li Long had never heard of such things in the surrounding tens of miles until later generations.

Could it be that he was protected too well and didn't know?

Knowing that father would come over in a while, Li Xia was already thinking about how to entertain father when the time came.

"Sister, I'm leaving now. Driving from Kuitun, I was uncomfortable from the tractor's bumping, and I just want to go back and sleep now." Li Long put down the tea bowl and stood up.

"Then sleep here," Li Xia hurriedly blocked him. "Why leave?"

"Isn't Xiaoxia pregnant? I've already told her I'd be back today. If I don't go back, won't she worry?" Li Long smiled:

"It's fine, it's only fifteen kilometers, it'll take thirty or forty minutes. I can sleep peacefully when I get there. If father has no companion when catching fish in a while, I'll accompany him over."

Since Li Long said so, Li Xia didn't try to persuade him anymore. She actually envied Gu Xiaoxia a bit. Li Long was really good to his younger brother's wife, was capable, could earn money, and took care of his family.

Thinking about it, his younger brother's wife was also not bad, a national cadre, beautiful, eating commodity grain, and good to her family.

Hmm, they were quite a good match.

Li Long had already cranked the tractor, sat on it, adjusted his leather coat, put on his hood, waved to Li Xia and Hongqin, and drove the tractor towards the main road.

Since he was prepared to go back, he wouldn't pass by the Old Street, otherwise he would have to make a turn and park the car in the parking lot.

When the tractor drove to the woods where he was robbed, the sun had completely set, and he felt that the daylight had suddenly dimmed quite a bit.

Li Long stepped on the accelerator and increased his speed. He could feel that the temperature was also dropping rapidly. At this time of year, if you didn't have a suitable place to spend the winter, you could really freeze to death.

When he drove to the Mahe Bridge, the sky was already dark. There were no streetlights at this time, and everyone was walking in the dark. Occasionally, the light that could illuminate was the light coming through the windows of people by the side of the road, or someone was holding a flashlight, or it was the headlight connected by the generator on a bicycle.

And there was the light of a tractor like Li Long's.

When Li Long's tractor drove to the courtyard, Gu Xiaoxia and Sister Yang both came over to open the door, and Han Fang also followed, like a grand welcome.

Li Long felt that the feeling of fatigue disappeared in this instant.

What surprised him a bit was that after the tractor entered the courtyard, borrowing the yellow light of the headlights, he also saw Gu Bo Yuan.

"Little Long, you're back?" Gu Bo Yuan nodded and said, "This trip was tiring enough, right? Is the combine harvester on the tractor?"

"Hmm, combine harvester, and two Mongolian gazelles," Li Long took the two Mongolian gazelle bags down and said:

"Hit on the way, I can't deal with them today, I'll deal with them tomorrow during the day."

He planned to keep one here to eat and send one back to the team, and take the opportunity to say that the matter had been discussed.

Dinner had actually been eaten, but there was still some left for Li Long. Gu Bo Yuan was just worried that something would happen, so he stayed here. Now that Li Long was back, he said two words, pushed his bicycle, and went out.

It was cold and the road was slippery, and the distance wasn't far, so he didn't ride it, just pushed it back.

Li Long was also hungry. After Sister Yang heated the food, he wolfed down two large bowls, and then went into the house, changed his clothes, lay on the bed, and didn't want to move.

But he couldn't not move; he still remembered that the tractor's radiator hadn't been drained.

Muttering in his mouth, this was much more troublesome than the cars in later generations.

"I've already drained the water from the radiator." After Gu Xiaoxia pushed the door in, seeing Li Long wanted to go out, she guessed his thought and said.

"Where's the water that was drained?"

"Caught it in a basin and poured it into the drain pool."

There was a drain pool in the kitchen, and the original owner had knitted an iron wire mesh to block it so it wouldn't get clogged. Li Long simply dismantled the wooden handle of the original old strainer and wedged it there, and it was just right when put on.

"That's fine." Li Long still trusted Gu Xiaoxia; since the water was drained, there was no need to go out again.

Lying on the bed again, twisting his body comfortably, Li Long didn't want to move at all now.

It wasn't that his physical strength was bad, mainly because the tractor's shock absorption at this time wasn't good, and he felt that he had been bumping all the way, and his body was always shaking. Even if his physical strength and energy were good, he needed to rest at this time.

Gu Xiaoxia didn't turn on the TV. She walked to the bed, lay down on the side of Li Long after getting on the bed, and felt very at ease listening to his breathing.

Actually, Li Long would go out from time to time. Many times, he wouldn't say when he would be back. At that time, although Gu Xiaoxia also worried occasionally, she didn't pay special attention.

Li Long was capable and carried a gun, so she believed Li Long would pay attention to his own safety.

But occasionally he would say when he would be back, and then Gu Xiaoxia would pay special attention. If Li Long couldn't come back in time, she would be quite panicked.

Li Long hadn't come back when it was already dark today, and she really felt her heart hanging in the air.

It wasn't until she heard the sound of the tractor that this heart was considered to have been put down.

Li Long actually did this intentionally or unintentionally. If he didn't say, for example, in the mountains, he really didn't know when he would be back.

But going to the team, going to Kuitun or Shicheng, he roughly knew what time he should be back.

A night without words.

The next day Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Li Long woke up quite late, ate breakfast slowly after waking up, and then went to get the Mongolian gazelle in the storage room.

The Mongolian gazelle that was originally frozen solid was now a bit soft, just right for peeling the skin. Sister Yang should have gone to sell food, so Li Long peeled the skin of that Mongolian gazelle leisurely by himself, and then went to deal with the internal organs.

Before the internal organs were finished, Sister Yang came back. This time her food was sold out, and seeing Li Long busy there, she came over to help.

The two of them quickly finished cleaning up the Mongolian gazelle, and Li Long let Sister Yang go to cook, while he went to deal with the other Mongolian gazelle.

When Gu Xiaoxia came back to prepare for lunch, Li Long had also finished dealing with that Mongolian gazelle.

The sheep offal was put into a bag, and the washed internal organs were put into another bag. He didn't take the Mongolian gazelle skin back after rubbing it with salt, but left it here.

As for the two Mongolian gazelle horns, he would take them back. Li Long still had some here; he thought that if he could get the horns of a real Tibetan antelope one day, he would get more, and each family would share one, so there would be no need for these Mongolian gazelle horns.

Although the Mongolian gazelle was also a type of antelope.

After lunch, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia, unloaded those combine harvesters, piled them by the wall, covered them with plastic sheeting and pressed them tight, and then put a Mongolian gazelle and internal organs on the tractor, added water and oil, cranked it, and drove away.

Sister Yang began to deal with that Mongolian gazelle in the kitchen. She was happy and a bit worried; this meat was brought back from time to time, and this meat couldn't be eaten at all!

Li Long didn't care about Sister Yang's happy troubles. He drove the tractor "putt-putt-putt" to the north, and arrived at the team in less than half an hour.

!.

Some children who didn't go to school, like Li Qiang at this time the year before last, were playing with old cows on the road. Seeing Li Long drive the tractor over, they didn't even take the old cows away, but let them stay on the road to see whose would be crushed by Li Long's tractor.

Li Long's tractor drove very steadily, and he didn't deliberately look at which old cow was the easiest to be crushed. After driving past and hearing the cheers of the children behind, he continued to drive to his eldest brother's house.

Arriving at his eldest brother's house, Li Long had just turned off the engine when the door opened, and Du Chunfang bent over and walked out first.

His mother's hunchback was a bit more serious, she was wearing a headscarf, and after seeing Li Long, a smile immediately appeared on her face.

Li Long carried the bag containing the Mongolian gazelle and sheep offal and walked to his mother, asking:

"Mother, why did you come out? Go in quickly, it's cold outside."

"What's there to be afraid of? I'm wearing thick clothes."

At this time, Li Qing Xia and Liang Yuemei also came out. Li Jianguo wasn't there; he went to the team to participate in the villagers' representative meeting on land contracting.

Li Long knew that some of the land in the team was contracted year by year; after all, mechanization hadn't been fully popularized at the moment, and the land each family could plant was still limited. Those who had the ability to plant contracted more, and those who didn't have the ability contracted less.

The contracting period for these mobile lands in the team was relatively loose; it could be one year, three or five years, or ten years.

Of course, it could also follow the highest land contracting period of fifteen years in the country.

It wasn't until the second round of land contracting in 1997 that it became thirty years.

This matter would be discussed later.

"You even hit a Mongolian gazelle when you went to Kuitun?" Li Qing Xia was very envious; catching fish and hunting, which man didn't hope to participate?

"Hmm, I bumped into it on the Gobi desert by the side of the road and hit it. I brought one to my second brother's side, there is one at my sister's place, I kept one at home, and there is one here."

Li Long didn't say this without pride; he hit four Mongolian gazelles in one trip. Not to mention the Mongolian gazelle meat, just the skin could be sold for one or two hundred yuan.

After all, when he aimed, he basically hit the Mongolian gazelle's head, and the skin was complete.

Liang Yuemei said with a smile:

"Little Long's marksmanship is good, otherwise he wouldn't have hit it. By the way, I heard that militia training is starting again soon..."

"Not participating this year. For the remaining two months, I'll occasionally come back to smash ice holes with father to catch fish, and the rest is to accompany Xiaoxia in the county."

"Good, good, good." Li Qing Xia was very happy to hear this, grinning and responding. Tao Daqiang had to take care of the children and had no time to accompany him to catch fish, so he was really itching to go.

Putting the sheep on the case, Li Long operated the knife to decompose it, and left the meat-stripping work to Liang Yuemei. Li Long still had to go to Yang Hua's house to talk about Yang Yongqiang.

Yang Hua and his wife were both at home, and Yang Yongqiang's sister was at school, so Li Long told them the news that Yang Yongqiang needed to stay and wait for militia training, and then would come back after the New Year.

"It's good, it's good, it's good." Yang Hua and his wife were both quite excited. It was inconvenient to make phone calls at this time, and Yang Yongqiang occasionally wrote letters back, but the letters couldn't hold too many things.

Even if it was from Kuitun to Maxian, the letter had to go for a week or even ten days.

Li Long brought back yesterday's news, so they were naturally very happy.

Li Long left the Yang family and went to the team department again. Xu Chengjun had finished the meeting and was discussing with the accountant how to urge the collection of land contracting fees.

Li Long came to ask for leave, and he approved it.

"You won a prize last year, and you're not participating this year, so it's not easy for our team. Daqiang also seems unable to participate—" Xu Chengjun was still a bit worried.

"What's that, there are so many young people, are you still afraid you can't find a powerful one?" Li Long said with a smile, "Just be stricter when training. If you're not strict, everyone will just run through the motions; if you're strict, everyone will train well, and they will naturally hit well."

Xu Chengjun deeply agreed.

After Li Long buried a not-too-big, not-too-small pit for the young people in the team, he went back to see his eldest brother, talked about the situation of his second brother and sister, and then drove the tractor back to the county.

Although it was a bit cold on the road, he still liked staying in the large courtyard.

His wife was here, wife and children, warm bed. Although there were no children, and no heated bed, sleeping with his wife was quite good.

What Li Long didn't expect was that he had only stayed at home for three days when someone came to the door.

The one who came to the door was Wei Tianxing. Li Long wasn't surprised; he even guessed that Wei Tianxing had already gone to Kuitun, and since they didn't sell him a combine harvester there, he only came to find Li Long.

After entering Li Long's courtyard, Wei Tianxing looked around, and seeing the things piled in the corner covered by plastic sheeting, he had a clue.

Don't hit a smiling person, Wei Tianxing came over carrying canned food and wine, so Li Long couldn't drive people out.

Sure enough, after chatting for a few words, Wei wanted to buy a combine harvester from Li Long.

"Yes, five hundred fifty for one," Li Long quoted a high price. "I took the agency for this area, and combine harvesters can only be bought from me in the future. Fifty yuan is my markup, and there is an agreement to sign."

He bet that Factory Director Du wouldn't tell Wei Tianxing the real price of the combine harvester.

"What agreement?" Wei Tianxing really didn't struggle with the price, but asked about the agreement.

"Five people have already bought combine harvesters from me, and they will be scattered in various townships to harvest, so it won't affect others. And the price for harvesting wheat is two yuan per mu, and the price cannot be lowered..."

"That's for sure. Which townships have already been decided? Can I see?"

"Good, I'll tell you." Li Long told him about several townships.

"That's fine. Look, I have a relative in Letuyi in the east, I'll go harvest there, and if it goes well, I can go harvest wheat in Dafeng in the neighboring county." Wei Tianxing really had no opinion.

"That's fine. Look at when you take the goods. I have them now, and it's fine if you take them in the spring."

"Afternoon, I'll drive the tractor over in the afternoon... I still have to ask you about the operation technology of this harvesting."

"That's no problem." Li Long naturally wouldn't just sell things; he still had to teach people the simple operation. There was no manual at the Kuitun factory, so he could only teach it by operating it himself.

This one earned more than two hundred yuan, and the speed of making money was really a bit exaggerated.

Sure enough, it was still making money by doing business!

Of course, Li Long wouldn't give up harvesting wheat himself during the wheat season; he still had to save money to buy a combine harvester.

Wei Tianxing left happily. At this moment, he felt that Li Long actually wasn't that annoying.

It was a misunderstanding before, right?

And he also felt that the method Li Long said was quite right; not competing viciously was conducive to everyone making money. Otherwise, if the price was beaten down, the money everyone earned would be less.

He was a young man with ideas. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 576 =====

Moreover, he also felt that the method Li Long mentioned was quite right; avoiding vicious competition was the only way to benefit everyone's earnings. Otherwise, if prices were driven down, everyone would end up earning less.

He is a young man with ideas. (End of chapter)