Chapter 589: Discovered another big business opportunity!

With a month of time, Li Long wasn't in a hurry. He came out of the supply and marketing cooperative and rode his bicycle to the free market.

When he had nothing to do, Li Long liked to stroll around the market.

It would be even better if he could stroll around the old street market of Shicheng often.

Because the things sold in the market right now were all natural, without technology and harsh words, without additives, things that were purely natural.

Eggs were produced by farmers; at this time, chicken farms hadn't appeared yet, and chickens ate grain, so the eggs were naturally safe.

Other things were the same.

Strolling around the market from time to time, one could feel that the county town was developing.

One could see more people selling grain, more people selling eggs and chickens, more people selling various handmade products, and people selling things no longer silently waited for people to come to the door to look at the goods; not only did they start to shout, but they also developed various shouting styles.

One could feel that many people selling goods were peddlers, collecting things from the countryside and reselling them here.

Some of these people were part-time at first, then slowly became full-time, and later became the first batch of people to get rich.

It was said that the richest man in Northern Xinjiang once started by selling raisins, and he naturally wasn't a grape grower, just a middleman.

Li Long bought some more eggs and went back.

Gu Xiaoxia quite liked eating the steamed eggs Li Long made, and Yang Da Jie also felt this egg custard was good and learned it.

Li Long felt it was better for him to make it occasionally.

Yang Da Jie was selling meals. In this cold winter, she changed the pattern, no longer porridge, but spicy noodle soup.

Not to mention how it tasted, just smelling this smell, people's appetite would be aroused.

And it was hot noodles; eating a bowl in such cold weather would definitely keep one warm for a long time.

So business was good. She didn't see Li Long, so Li Long didn't disturb her, pushed his bicycle from beginning to end, and then returned to the large courtyard.

Went to the backyard to see the vegetables planted, added a shovel of charcoal to the stove, and Li Long came out.

The vegetable seedlings were growing okay, just a bit slow. Thinking about it, it was normal; after all, it wasn't summer, and it wasn't in a vegetable garden, so it was already good that they could grow normally.

Returning to the large courtyard, Li Long saw the sky was a bit overcast, thinking it would snow again soon.

He entered the kitchen, turned the stove fire up, set up a steamer, and prepared to steam a large bowl of egg custard; not only did Gu Xiaoxia like to eat this, but Gu Bo Yuan and Han Fang also liked to eat it.

Eggs were the protein source that poor people could most easily obtain. He didn't know where he got this news from in his previous life, but anyway, it was said to be a good thing.

After steaming the egg custard, Li Long kept the cooked one in the steamer without taking it out, just keeping it warm.

Yang Da Jie was coming back soon. Li Long left the kitchen to take a look at the snow-shoveling tools.

At this time, snow-shoveling tools were basically nailed by themselves, a wooden board with a wooden handle nailed behind it.

Generally, they were relatively bulky. Some had a handle nailed on, and some used a large wooden board, nailing out a "Xi" character shape with three wooden sticks, which could be used by one person or by two people together.

Some would also tie two ropes on it, pulling in front and pushing behind, which was more efficient.

At this time, saying that many people have great strength wasn't just talk; snow shoveling like this was really a matter of many people having great strength in the 1980s.

After all, many snow-shoveling tools hadn't appeared yet. In fact, the rolling brush tools driven by diesel or electricity in later times weren't necessarily practical at this time.

After all, basically, they weren't cement floors right now. After the snow fell, the bottom layer might melt somewhat under the effect of the ground temperature, and those rapidly rotating brushes could even brush away a layer of ground skin.

Of course, if there were such small tools, Li Long would definitely use them. It would snow tomorrow, so he would be the only one shoveling snow in the large courtyard. After he finished shoveling, he still had to go to the old horse pen to help Uncle Luo shovel snow.

After all, Uncle Luo was the only one in the old horse pen right now. Although that courtyard wasn't as large as Li Long's, it still had quite a few places to shovel.

Snow falling at this time was really heavy snow, unlike later times when a small piece drifted down and melted before it fell.

When Yang Da Jie came back, seeing Li Long repairing the snow-shoveling tools, she mentioned it casually:

"Uncle Li, see if you can make a snow pusher for Han Fang. Look at the snow tomorrow or the day after, their school will definitely have to shovel snow too."

"Alright." Li Long nodded, there was still plenty of wood at home.

At this time, bringing tools for snow shoveling was relatively casual. Every student in the village school had to bring a broom every semester. They could bring other tools when shoveling snow.

Children were usually relatively competitive and would bring snow pushers to school. If there were no extra snow pushers at home, they would bring an iron shovel, which could also clear snow.

Basically, few brought brooms. Although snow pushers had to be used with brooms after sweeping snow, bringing a broom would be laughed at.

The contempt chain for bringing tools was snow pusher > iron shovel > broom.

Of course, if someone could bring a wooden shovel, that was absolutely a king-like existence—this thing was very awesome for some people in rural families.

After all, there weren't many families who could afford a wooden shovel at this time. At this time, the light industry in Northern Xinjiang was very underdeveloped, and making a wooden shovel required very thin plywood, which was most likely transported from the interior.

And buying this was also used for winnowing, and it could also be used to clear snow in winter, but it was usually used by adults. If children used it and broke the thin plywood, they would be beaten by adults.

And children being able to bring a wooden shovel to school was most likely brought secretly.

Li Long found a thin board and specifically made a small and exquisite snow pusher for Han Fang. This thing was good-looking and easy to use, but he had to be careful. Children at this time didn't mind "taking by mistake" an easy-to-use snow pusher.

So Li Long found Gu Xiaoxia's ink brush and wrote the two characters "Han Fang" on the board, then picked it up and simulated the operation, feeling that the wooden pole handle was quite good, so he put it aside.

When Yang Da Jie came out to pour water and saw the small and exquisite snow pusher with the characters "Han Fang" written on it leaning against the side, she said with a smile:

"Uncle, this board of yours is well made."

"Hahaha, let's see if Little Fang is used to using it."

"Definitely used to it."

Li Long continued to repair the snow pushers at home. He didn't plan to transport the snow in the courtyard out. A portion was piled into the flower beds and vegetable plots in the front courtyard, and a portion was pushed to the backyard, waiting for spring to melt, and then it would be used as rainwater when it was moved into the glass room.

After fixing a few boards, Li Long looked at the large brooms left behind. The snow on the main road in front of his own large courtyard had to be shoveled by his own family. Although there were sanitation workers, the number wasn't large.

At this time, "each family sweeps the snow from their own door" wasn't just a saying; each family really had to shovel the snow from their own door.

After getting all these ready, Yang Da Jie's meal was already made. Gu Xiaoxia was the first to come back, then Han Fang, and finally Gu Bo Yuan.

As soon as Han Fang came in, she saw the snow pusher with her name written on it, immediately ran over and picked it up, first said "thank you" to Li Long, and then happily pushed it on the ground.

"Hurry up and wash your hands to help!" Yang Da Jie heard her daughter's voice, poked her head out, saw Han Fang playing with the snow pusher, and immediately pulled a long face and shouted:

"Still playing! That was just made for you by Uncle Li, and you're just playing! What if you break it?"

Li Long was amused: "Yang Da Jie, how could it be so easy to break?"

"Exactly, just let her play, I'll go serve the bowls." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, and then she said to Li Long:

"It's going to snow tomorrow, I also need to prepare a snow pusher."

"There are plenty at home, take whatever you want."

"I'll take one over too." Gu Bo Yuan said as a matter of course, "There are no tools at all in that courtyard."

"What are you sending? I'll just take it over myself." Gu Bo Yuan wouldn't let Li Long send it; he was only in his forties, in his prime.

Li Long secretly admired his own foresight.

After the previous two snowfalls, these few should have just made do, but now that there were boards, they naturally weren't willing to make do.

He had just thought about not being able to use an automatic snow-clearing machine, but now he was thinking about whether he could cooperate with the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory to make a small gasoline-engine-driven snow pusher.

In the whole county, or even the whole Northern Xinjiang, every time it snowed, this snow-clearing work was the top priority.

In his previous life, he saw the beautiful girl from the Northeast praising the timeliness of snow clearing in Northern Xinjiang, not knowing that "snow falling is an alarm, snow stopping is an order" was already engraved in the bones.

For a considerable period of time, as long as it snowed, whether it was for work or school, people would bring tools to their unit (school) and do nothing else, first clearing snow. If there were troops stationed, part of the troops would clear the snow in the camp, and part would go to the main street to clear the snow on the main street.

It was only a few years later, when various snow-clearing tools were complete, that the snow clearing of units and roads was outsourced, and there were special people to clear it, that this kind of action slowly subsided, but it didn't disappear, after all, there were still many places that needed manual clearing.

A diesel engine couldn't be done; at this time, diesel engines weren't made small, but gasoline engines already had small-sized ones. Use a gasoline engine to drive a steel brush, adjust the direction of the steel brush, and let it roll the snow to the side front, and that would be fine.

In fact, it could also be designed to rotate like a harvester, driven by a tractor in front. In later times, there were snow-clearing machines carried in front of pickups, so he thought it should be possible to make one.

He believed that the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory should be interested in this.

After all, this was a rigid demand market. If the time for snow clearing could be freed up, many units shouldn't be reluctant to spend a few hundred yuan to buy such a machine.

However, Li Long wasn't in a hurry. Right now, the agricultural machinery factory over there should be busy producing harvesters. The production capacity there wasn't large to begin with. If they were given this thing to make, he thought they might not necessarily be able to handle it.

Li Long once again had a strong idea: if he could really own an agricultural machinery factory and specifically make these agricultural supporting machines, it would really be very profitable.

After all, in his brain, from now until the 2010s, the endless variety of small machines was enough for his own small agricultural machinery factory to eat for a lifetime.

After eating, Li Long nailed two more snow pushers, and then drove the jeep, carrying the snow pushers and antelope horns, to the squad.

Li Jianguo's family was already used to Li Long being so elusive.

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People in the squad also slowly got used to it. Appearing every three days, what could they not be used to?

"There are snow pushers at home, just use them on the street." Li Jianguo saw Li Long take the snow pushers off the jeep and was a bit dumbfounded.

"Juan and Qiangqiang have to take them to school, right? I see it's going to snow heavily tomorrow, so let's prepare them first."

"Heh, that's true. The two of them aren't in the same school now, so they have to take two, and there really aren't enough at home." Li Jianguo smiled.

Busy with all kinds of things during this period, he had forgotten about the children pushing snow. Did the two children take the snow pushers from home last time it snowed? Was the snow at home borrowed from the Lu family?

At that time, he seemed to have thought about getting a snow pusher, and then later hunting or something, and forgot about it.

Entering the room, Li Long took out the antelope horns and handed them to his older brother:

"Older brother, this is an antelope horn, you keep it. If Juan and Qiangqiang have a fever, scrape a little bit, put it in a bowl and rinse it, and they'll be fine after drinking it."

"This is an antelope horn?" Li Jianguo looked at it curiously.

Li Qing Xia was the same; he took it over after Li Jianguo finished looking at it.

"The saiga one we hunted the other day is an antelope horn." Li Long said, "Saiga antelope, the medicinal part is this horn, this is very rare, don't tell anyone else."

"Then it must be kept well." Li Jianguo put it away hurriedly after the family finished looking at it.

"By the way, Old Dad, have you gone to break the ice hole these two days?" Li Long asked Li Qing Xia again.

"Wood." Li Qing Xia smiled, "Your older brother said the ice isn't frozen solid yet. Those fish can still breathe under the reeds, so it will take a few days."

"Hmm, after it snows in a few days and the ice is frozen solid, I'll come back to break the ice hole. The supply and marketing cooperative has a task, collecting fish. I'll call more people to get some then."

"Really collecting?" Li Qing Xia was happy. Being able to catch fish to play and earn money, how could he not do it?

Cold is cold, fish have fire, and if you catch fish, you won't be afraid.

Li Long went to tell Liang Dacheng and others who had broken ice holes to catch fish last year about this matter.

The price of his fish collection this year had become one yuan, and everyone was happy to sell the large fish to him.

Finally, he went to Tao Daqiang's place.

Tao Daqiang and Yang Pingping were teasing the child together. Hearing the sound of the jeep, Tao Daqiang came out.

Seeing Li Long, he hurriedly let Li Long enter the room.

"Not going in, I'm cold, you have a child in the room, don't get cold air on them." Li Long said,

"Just to tell you one thing. The one you hit yesterday was an antelope, keep the sheep horn, it's for the child's high fever. Don't tell anyone else, keep it yourself, if relatives or others get a sudden fever, scrape some and mix it in water for them to drink."

Tao Daqiang nodded vigorously after hearing this, and he remembered this matter.

"Alright, after it snows, in a few days when the ice is frozen solid, I'll come back to break the ice hole to catch fish, if you are idle then, come together. The supply and marketing cooperative collects fish, although not much, it counts as an income in winter."

After finishing the matter, Li Long drove the jeep back.

When he was almost at the county town, snowflakes drifted down one after another.

The sky had become gray and dark, and Li Long knew that this snowfall wouldn't be small.

It snowed all night, and before going to bed, the snow was already above the ankles. Li Long pushed the snow in the courtyard once before going to sleep.

When he got up in the morning and pushed the door to look, the heavy snow had already stopped. Li Long went to the courtyard to take a look, and the snow was knee-deep.

What a heavy snowfall.

Yang Da Jie had almost finished making the meal. Li Long first went to shovel the snow, pushing out the road to go out.

The police on duty at the police station outside were already clearing the snow in front. Li Long also cleared the snow at the gate.

Gu Xiaoxia came out to help, but Li Long sent her back.

After clearing the snow at the gate, Li Long went back to the courtyard, followed the snow path he had pushed, and pushed the snow to both sides, one side to the flower bed and one side to the vegetable plot.

However, ten minutes later, the meal was ready, and several people finished the meal in a hurry. Han Fang carried her schoolbag and her small and exquisite snow pusher and ran to school excitedly.

Gu Xiaoxia wanted to ride a bicycle, but Li Long persuaded her not to. He added hot water to the jeep, started the jeep, and sent Gu Xiaoxia and her snow pusher to the Education Bureau.

Gu Xiaoxia didn't want to be too ostentatious, so she let Li Long send her to a place thirty or forty meters away from the Education Bureau before getting off.

Li Long told her he would pick her up at noon, and Gu Xiaoxia responded and walked toward the unit.

People were already clearing snow on the road. At this time, the sky wasn't bright yet. After Li Long drove the jeep back to the large courtyard with the headlights on, he continued to clear the snow.

Yang Da Jie also wanted to help, but Li Long let her get busy with her own things.

"People setting up stalls today might be late, you make something hot, this heavy snow has stopped, the temperature will drop, everyone will definitely love to eat something hot." Li Long gave a suggestion, and then he cleared the snow himself.

He had great strength, the snow pusher flew, and the snow in the courtyard was cleared before lunch.

At noon, Li Long rode his bicycle to pick up Gu Xiaoxia. She paid attention to influence, so Li Long followed her.

Gu Xiaoxia was very satisfied with Li Long's approach, sitting sideways on the bicycle and talking about the situation at work.

"I spent the whole morning clearing snow. Our bureau's courtyard is large, and Director Wang complained while sweeping snow, saying which leader built the courtyard, making it so large, this snow clearing alone took the whole morning, and no work could be done."

"Are other units the same?" Li Long asked while pedaling the bicycle.

"Definitely all the same, the courtyards are all large, and there aren't many people." Gu Xiaoxia said.

"Then if there was a snow-clearing machine, a few hundred yuan, one person could clear it in one morning, would your unit buy it?" Li Long asked.

"If it was really like that, they would definitely buy it." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "How could it be? I've seen tractors with double snow pushers behind them, and the efficiency isn't high either."

Saying this, Li Long felt that making a snow-clearing machine would really have a market!

Of course, how to do it still needed to be carefully considered.

The harvester was a gift to the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory. The snow-clearing machine couldn't be done like that; it needed to plan a method beneficial to himself.

However, he wasn't in a hurry right now. The most important thing right now was to wait for tomorrow to drive the jeep to Beiting to send that pair of antelope horns to Director Qian.

As for this afternoon, naturally, he had to go to the old horse pen to help Uncle Luo push snow.

He believed Uncle Luo definitely hadn't finished pushing the snow; after all, the area in the old horse pen was quite large.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and Li Long was increasingly feeling the convenience of driving a jeep.

At least it wasn't that cold, there was heating in the jeep, although it wasn't that convenient, it was much better than a tractor.

Using tiger skin to exchange for this was really too cost-effective. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 590 =====

Trading a tiger skin for this is such a great deal. (End of chapter)