Chapter 596: Only Sincerity Wins Hearts

Because the tractor was carrying the harvester, the "tu-tu-tu" sound was more muffled than usual.

Abulaiti and Abudusaimaiti took turns getting on the vehicle to try operating it. One was on the vehicle, and the other was watching in front of the harvester, while Li Long guided from the side, trying hard to let them familiarize themselves with each operation process.

It was obvious that both of them had driven tractors, and they became proficient after operating it twice.

"What is being adjusted now is that the harvested crops are pushed to the left side of the tractor to fall down, which is convenient for bundling," Li Long explained. "These two poles are extended to indicate the width of the harvest.

If you want to fall to the left, remove the left pole; if you want to fall to the right, remove the right pole; the adjustment switch is here.

I harvested for a whole summer with this harvester this year, and the easiest thing to have problems with is that the gap between the blades easily gets jammed with crops, and then it stops turning and stops harvesting, which is easy to discover.

When you discover it, stop the machine, turn off the engine, and take out the crops jammed in the middle, and it will be fine."

Li Long not only taught them how to operate it but also explained the small problems of the harvester one by one.

This made both Abulaiti and Abudusaimaiti very satisfied.

At least Li Long's service attitude was very sincere.

"The situation of this harvester is currently like this." Li Long saw that neither of them intended to try anymore, so he turned off the tractor, placed a cushion, and unloaded the harvester by himself.

Abulaiti hurriedly came over to help.

After putting the harvester away, Li Long said:

"You can consider it; if you really need it, then buy it, and if you feel you need to discuss it further, that's no problem."

It wasn't easy for farmers, and five hundred and fifty yuan wasn't a small amount for most farmers at this time.

So Li Long didn't think they had to buy it.

Since they came from so far away, they must have sincerity, and he naturally had to express his own sincerity.

As for whether the deal would be made or not, that would depend on later.

Even if it didn't work out, benevolence and righteousness had to be there.

The two brothers discussed it, and Abulaiti said:

"Comrade Li Long, let's go back to the hotel first. The transport truck we are waiting for won't come until tomorrow morning, so we haven't determined whether we can buy it yet..."

"No problem. You go about your business," Li Long said. "I also have to go out to handle some things. I'll wait for you tomorrow morning; if you want to buy, come over. Twelve o'clock should be enough time, right?"

"Enough, a little after eleven is about right," Abulaiti said hurriedly.

"That's good, I'll wait until twelve o'clock then. If you don't come, I'll go handle my business. My household registration is in the countryside, and there are things to do there, so I have to go handle them."

"You still have things to do in the middle of winter?" Abudusaimaiti was a bit suspicious; could this be Li Long playing hard to get?

"I took a job from the supply and marketing cooperative to collect a ton of frozen fish. There is a Little Haizi in our village, which is a reservoir. There are fish there, and people are breaking ice holes to catch fish, so I have to go collect fish."

"So that's how it is. On our side, there are also fish in the Yili River, very big, more than a meter long..." Abulaiti said with a smile. "But there's no one collecting them."

Li Long nodded; the big fish in the Yili River were also famous for decades, but after ten years into the 21st century, big ones were rarely seen, as they were almost all caught.

After the Abulaiti and Abudusaimaiti brothers left, Li Long also started the jeep and drove out, locked the door, and drove toward the team.

The two brothers hadn't gone far, and watching Li Long drive the jeep away, Abulaiti looked at the gradually disappearing jeep and turned to his younger brother:

"I think this Li Long is still quite solid. He can drive a jeep and live in such a big courtyard; he definitely isn't an ordinary person. This person can enthusiastically teach us how to use the harvester without forcing a sale, and I feel very good."

"It's not bad," Abudusaimaiti nodded, but then said, "But there's only that one harvester left, and I'm worried that if we pull the harvester back and there's really something wrong, it won't be easy for us to come here once."

Abulaiti didn't speak, thinking about something.

The two brothers walked back to the hotel like this.

After entering the room, Abudusaimaiti breathed a sigh of relief and covered his ears, saying: "It's much colder here than on our side."

Yili would also have heavy snow, but the climate of the river valley was different from the Northern Tianshan wind belt climate here. This was dry cold, the kind that freezes people through.

Li Long drove the jeep to the team, and when he walked to Little Haizi, it was already almost one o'clock.

Seeing Li Long appear, many people breathed a sigh of relief.

Liang Dacheng joked with Li Long:

"You didn't come this morning, and some people were worried that you wouldn't come and wouldn't collect fish anymore."

"How could that be? I was just delayed by something," Li Long said with a smile. "The fish will definitely be collected. Even if I don't catch them, my big brother and my father have to collect them for me."

"Haha, we thought so too," Liang Dacheng smiled and continued scooping fish.

There were already five or six big fish in front of him, and a pile of small fish.

Li Long looked and said with a smile:

"Not bad, not bad, the harvest is still okay today, and there's a big one."

"Sigh, just scoop like this." Liang Dacheng wasn't very satisfied, feeling it was less than yesterday, but he couldn't help it; he could only rely on luck.

It was impossible to imagine catching fish like last winter or summer.

There weren't that many fish.

Li Long circled around and looked at the fish everyone caught, and what surprised him a bit was that Tao Dayong and Tao Daqiang caught the most big fish.

Tao Dayong even got a northern pike weighing nearly three kilograms; it was rare to see this thing grow so big.

Was this a benefit for beginners?

When Li Long arrived at Li Qing Xia's side, he found his big brother and father were each at an ice hole, scooping fish.

"When did you break the ice hole?" Li Long asked curiously. "I wasn't here all morning, and you made another hole?"

"Just broke it," Li Qing Xia said. "Daqiang's brothers helped. Why did you come so late?"

"Someone came to buy a harvester, so I showed them how to use it," Li Long explained.

"Did you sell it?" Li Qing Xia flipped his hand and scooped a net of small crucian carp onto the ice surface, asking.

"No, they haven't decided yet. Five hundred and more yuan, so they have to consider it carefully," Li Long didn't care at all. "Father, shall I scoop two nets?"

"Go replace your brother. He's been scooping for a long time. This is a new hole, and I've only scooped a few nets."

"Okay."

Li Long went over to replace Li Jianguo, and he started scooping.

These two days, his luck slot was used up, and Li Long scooped until noon when it was time to eat, and the biggest one was just a big crucian carp weighing less than half a kilogram.

On the contrary, his father scooped a grass carp weighing more than three kilograms from that new hole, which was the biggest grass carp caught in these days.

Carrying the fish back, the others also started packing up their things.

Li Long felt that everyone didn't catch many big fish today, and he didn't know why. When they arrived at the big courtyard, Li Qing Xia and Li Jianguo went to the backyard to wash their hands, and Li Long started collecting fish here.

Liang Dacheng only had seven kilograms of big fish, counting as seven yuan. The Meng father and son had more than nine kilograms, and Li Long gave them nine yuan and five mao.

There were two other families that didn't exceed ten kilograms, but Tao Daqiang and Tao Dayong brothers caught eleven big fish today, weighing more than fifteen kilograms, and Li Long gave them sixteen yuan.

He gave them small change so the brothers could split it easily.

"Brother Long, I'll bring Pingping's younger brother tomorrow, is that okay?" Tao Daqiang asked Li Long after splitting the money with his brother.

Tao Dayong moved his mouth but didn't speak.

"Okay, that young man Yang Yong is not bad," Li Long said. "He works honestly and won't cause trouble, so how will you three split the money?" "We'll break another ice hole tomorrow, I'll get a scoop net for Xiao Yong, and my brother and I will split up, whoever scoops counts as theirs."

"No need, no need." Tao Dayong hurriedly waved his hand. "Three people split it equally, why split up? We're all family..."

The two brothers didn't say anything more, and Li Long smiled and let them go.

After collecting the fish, Li Long put these fish into the house and covered them, then went to the backyard to eat.

He planned to store fish for another two days and pull them back at the beginning of January. It wasn't good to leave them here for a long time. Although there were no rats in the house, no one could guarantee that in this winter, the rats wouldn't smell the fishy smell and dig a hole to get in.

To be safe, deliver them directly to the supply and marketing cooperative first. The warehouse there had a concrete floor, so rats couldn't dig in, which was safe.

After lunch, he rested for half an hour and continued to Little Haizi.

The afternoon was better than the morning; it should be that after the quiet at noon, those fish started to gather toward the ice hole, so the first net Li Long cast scooped a big carp weighing more than two kilograms.

The carp was very unruly, and after being scooped out of the water, it kept swinging its tail.

The sunlight shone on the golden scales, flashing with light; this was a very fat local big carp, with golden head and tail, and two long whiskers by its mouth, which were already frozen and stuck to its body at this moment.

This carp's mouth opened and closed, and although it still wanted to move, the cold temperature outside quickly made it lose the ability to move.

!.

Li Long scooped a few more nets, scooping out a grass carp and a bighead carp.

He really wanted to get a northern pike; that fish tasted good. But until his father came to replace him, he didn't scoop one out.

The harvest in the afternoon was obviously more than in the morning. When the sun was about to set, the temperature dropped immediately. Li Long came up from the ice hole and said to his father and big brother:

"Let's go back, it's too cold."

Li Jianguo and Li Qing Xia both agreed. The three of them packed up their things and walked back.

Watching the Li family return, some people packed up their things and followed, while some still intended to scoop a bit more. As long as there was one net with fish in two or three nets, the interest wouldn't decrease, and as long as there was physical strength, they could keep scooping.

And when scooping, they could forget the cold and hunger, and wouldn't think that much at all.

It wasn't until they had to return that they would find they were hungry and frozen, almost dying.

Li Long returned to the big courtyard, first drank two bowls of warm fish soup, and after warming up his body, went to the front yard to start collecting fish.

The sun had already set, the temperature in the courtyard dropped sharply, and everyone didn't care about a few hundred grams more or less, all in a hurry to weigh and take the money and leave.

Li Long estimated that more than thirty kilograms of big fish were collected this afternoon, and adding the ones caught by his own family, it could be about fifty kilograms.

If it went on like this, the collection task would be completed before the Little New Year.

Li Long put the fish into the idle room, locked the door, and saw that there were no gaps under the door, so the rats couldn't get in, and only then did he return to the side where people lived, pressed the fire in the stove, and locked the door and left.

When he returned to the county big courtyard, it was already dark. Gu Xiaoxia and Sister Yang came to open the door and asked if Li Long had eaten.

"I've eaten," Li Long said, carrying a few kilograms of cleaned crucian carp. "These days, fish will be collected every day, so don't wait for me for dinner in the evening, and don't save food for me."

Sister Yang replied with a smile and took the fish from Li Long's hand to process.

"Did the person buying the harvester come this morning?" After entering the bedroom, Li Long was washing his hands and changing clothes, and Gu Xiaoxia asked while helping on the side.

"Hmm, two minority friends from the Yili River Valley came. I showed them the working process of the harvester this morning, and they are still discussing whether to buy it," Li Long said. "If they can buy it, they can buy it, and if they can't, it's no force. After all, five hundred and more yuan is not a small amount."

"That's true, five hundred and more yuan is more than a year's salary for me," Gu Xiaoxia also saw it this way. "I saw the apples on the table, they are so big. We split and ate them at lunch."

"Brought from Yili," Li Long went over to turn on the TV, the news was over, and the TV series had already started playing at this time, so the two sat down to watch TV and chat about family matters.

The next day after breakfast, Li Long wanted to take Gu Xiaoxia to work, but Gu Xiaoxia still wouldn't let him, so Li Long decided that if it snowed again, he would take her no matter what.

Sister Yang went out to sell food, so Li Long went to set up the stove in the glass room, looked at the vegetable seedling situation, and after watering, returned to wait in the room.

There was water in the jeep, and Li Long decided to wait until twelve o'clock; if the two brothers didn't come, he would drive directly to the team.

Abulaiti and Abudusaimaiti were also quite anxious at this time. Both of them had determined to buy the harvester, but the transport truck they agreed would come back didn't move last night, and didn't come back this morning either.

Both of them were very anxious, worrying that something might have happened to the truck, and also worrying that Li Long might leave first, which would delay another day.

Finally, the two brothers decided that Abudusaimaiti would wait for the truck at the hotel, and Abulaiti would go to Li Long's big courtyard, so as not to miss both ends.

When Abulaiti arrived at the big courtyard, Li Long was in the courtyard taking a plastic sheet, preparing to cover the harvester. He thought the two brothers didn't intend to come, so he thought about covering it first.

"You're here? Hey, where's your younger brother?" Li Long invited Abulaiti in, looked back and saw no one else, and asked.

"He's waiting at the hotel," Abulaiti explained. "The transport truck we were waiting for didn't come, and we were afraid you couldn't wait, so he waited there, and I came over to say something."

Since the other party wanted the harvester, Li Long lifted the half-covered plastic sheet and said:

"I told you everything I should have told you yesterday. How about this, I'll leave the phone number of our supply and marketing cooperative, and you also leave a place where you can make a phone call, like your village or something. That way, if there are any problems, you can call me."

"Good, good, good!" Abulaiti was overjoyed. "Too good. I... our village..."

He took out paper and pen from the black artificial leather bag he was carrying, shook it, and wanted to write the address, but was too anxious to write it out. Instead, Li Long went to find a ballpoint pen from the room and wrote down the specific address of the supply and marketing cooperative here.

At this time, most phone calls were transferred, and if one wanted to find someone, one needed to transfer several times.

And it wasn't certain that it could be connected.

Li Long invited the person into the room, and the two started chatting about each other's experiences.

Abulaiti's ancestors were also herdsmen, and it was only a few decades ago that they started following Han people to farm, growing wheat and rice, and also corn.

The agricultural mechanization there was even worse than here, and there was more manual labor.

There were quite a few plots of land that could be farmed in the Yili River Valley, and the water conservancy facilities were relatively sound, so the land per capita wasn't small, but mechanization wasn't popular enough, so manual labor was relatively hard.

That's why the two brothers thought about using machinery. After seeing the news in the newspaper that Li Long used a harvester to get rich and used a harvester to help herdsmen cut grass, they had actually thought about coming over a long time ago.

But the farm work there was also quite busy, and they also had to help farmers collect the remaining surplus grain during the slack season to earn some intermediary fees.

In late autumn, they also used tractors to collect some apples to sell in the city, also earning a price difference. If they didn't do such work, they couldn't afford a tractor.

Various jobs were busy, so it was delayed until winter.

"We have decided to buy this harvester. After going back, we'll familiarize ourselves with it first, and then wait until the wheat season, we can harvest wheat, and later we can also harvest rice."

Abulaiti had already envisioned it. Work hard next year, and if it's really as good as Li Long said, the money earned next year can buy another tractor.

Li Long was also inquiring about the situation there, verifying the memories he had in his previous life.

Comparing them, he found that the development of mechanization there was indeed slower than here.

But it wasn't that they were one or two generations slower, it was just that the popularity wasn't as high as here.

After all, a Guozigou limited the import and export of many materials.

Like now, to transport a harvester back, one still needs to wait for the transport truck to come. If something goes wrong with the transport truck, then wait.

Abulaiti took out several stacks of money from his black handbag and placed them on the table stack by stack.

Li Long counted them stack by stack, confirmed it was five hundred and fifty yuan, and then took paper and pen to write a receipt for Abulaiti.

After waiting for another half an hour, at twelve-thirty, a knock on the door sounded, and Li Long and Abulaiti came out to open the door, only to find that Abudusaimaiti had come over in a truck.

The truck was a semi-old Dongfeng, and the driver was also a minority person; Li Long could even smell the alcohol drifting from the other party.

He now understood why this person was late.

"Okay, let's load it up first, and after loading, let's leave as soon as possible, and try to arrive in Kuitun for lunch at noon." The driver drove the truck into the courtyard and immediately commanded, "Don't waste time, hurry up!" (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 597 =====