Chapter 695: Giving Song Ming a chance to earn money

After coming out of the acquisition station, Li Long hurried toward the grass field over at Yushanjiang's side.

The grass field area of Yushanjiang was larger than Halimu's, and it wasn't finished yesterday, so they continued to cut today.

Of course, the main thing was still teaching Talihar how to drive the tractor from time to time while cutting grass.

The others all went to the grass field to pick up rocks, and they had no opinions—after all, the meat eaten in these two days was all hunted by Talihar and Zhate.

When Li Long's jeep drove to Halimu's winter camp, he found that there was no one here. Not only was there no one, but the tractor's trailer had also been pulled over. Halimu should have also gone to Yushanjiang's side, so he drove the jeep and continued to run into the mountains, toward Yushanjiang's grass field.

Yushanjiang's grass field was still a distance away from the winter camp. When Li Long drove the jeep to the winter camp, he found that there was a stove set up outside, and meat soup was being cooked. There were also some bones nearby, obviously, they had already eaten.

The tractor's trailer was also parked here. Li Long got out of the jeep to look and found that the fuel had been added again.

Across a forest, he could hear the tractor roaring over there. Accompanied by the *tut-tut-tut* sound of the tractor, there were also people shouting, which sounded quite happy.

Li Long walked over with big strides. Through the forest, he saw Halimu driving the tractor cutting grass, and four or five people were checking things on the other side of the grass field, and some people were not here. Li Long guessed that they should have gone to other grass fields to check if there were any fallen rocks.

Although they were checked last year, the grass fields were all on the mountainside, and there might be fallen rocks from the top of the mountain, or there might be shrubs growing relatively thick, hindering grass-cutting, etc.

So they had to check again.

This was considered a relatively light job, and everyone was willing to go over and take a look.

Seeing Li Long coming, Yushanjiang, who was standing on the side, greeted him.

When the tractor drove back to the bottom, Li Long greeted Halimu to drive the tractor over. Halimu drove the tractor over and was about to turn off the engine when he was stopped by Li Long.

"The tractor has been running for a long time, it can't be turned off immediately after stopping," Li Long explained, "You have to wait a while before pulling back the throttle."

"Good, I know." Halimu responded.

After waiting for a few minutes, Li Long turned off the tractor and started to check. While checking, he told Halimu and Yushanjiang about these things:

"Look here, this harvester is easy to get tangled with grass if it cuts grass for a slightly longer time. The grass in the gaps of these blades must be taken out, otherwise, it will affect the rotation of the blades."

"This blade looks fine, the wear is very slight. You look here, there are blades in the tractor's tool box, change it like this..." Li Long took out a blade from the tool box and demonstrated how to install it.

He said some common matters about the tractor and harvester, and Halimu wanted Yushanjiang to remember seven or eight out of ten, and at the same time, they removed the grass tangled in the harvester.

Li Long only taught driving before, now they were all proficient in driving, and saying some details was also easy to remember.

After saying that, Li Long didn't stay, greeted the two, and then went back.

The next day, he first went to the oil depot, filled a few barrels of fuel, pulled them, and went to the Taxi River estuary. Entering the mountain and arriving at the grass field where Li Jianguo and the others were cutting yesterday, he found that the tractor was already gone.

Li Long went to the winter camp to ask, asked for the location of the second grass field, and then drove the jeep over.

When he arrived there, Li Jianguo and the others had just started cutting, and that herdsman was organizing his family to walk in the grass field again. Yesterday, they had actually patrolled it once, and today they were worried and walked it again.

Seeing Li Long drive the jeep over, that herdsman immediately walked out of the grass field to greet him.

Li Long drove the jeep to the edge of the grass field, got out, and asked:

"How big is this grass field of yours?"

"Three hundred and thirty mu," the herdsman was quite proud, "A bit bigger than Jilili's, as for the grass, it grew quite well this year."

"What is your name, Adashi?" Li Long could see that this herdsman was Uyghur, and he asked.

"My name is Helili, I know your name is Li Long." After saying that, the person went to the horse that was grazing, took the prepared sack, and walked over.

"Do you like red stones? I have two here, they are very big!"

"Let me see." Li Long was a bit curious. In his previous life, he hadn't heard that there was chicken blood stone distribution here.

In the sack, there was a deer skin and two roe deer skins. Among them, one roe deer skin was a residual skin with two bullet holes on it.

Li Long could see that these few hides were not new hides; they were dry, hard, and had been there for some time.

There were two small hides, which were fox hides, golden yellow, looking quite beautiful. Li Long guessed they should have been obtained in winter.

There were no deer antlers, only four deer horns, none of which were considered big, but the weight added together wasn't light either.

The rest were two pieces of chicken blood stone.

These two pieces of chicken blood stone were indeed bigger than the one at Jilili's yesterday, each piece was about four or five kilograms.

It's just that the color wasn't as bright as yesterday's, and the color stripes weren't distributed throughout the whole stone. One piece of red could occupy two-thirds, and one could occupy one-third.

"These are not enough," Li Long said directly, "Your three hundred and thirty mu of land, you have to pay me four hundred and ninety-five yuan. These things added together are only three hundred yuan, not enough."

Helili still wanted to argue, Li Long pointed to the hides and said:

"Do you want me to calculate with you hide by hide? I said it, pay the money or equivalent things on the spot, otherwise, I will call the tractor away."

Helili said sullenly:

"I know, I know, you wait a moment, don't be in a hurry, Adashi."

After saying that, he went to the horse again. From the other side of the horse, a direction Li Long couldn't see, he took down a bag and carried it over.

"Inside here, it's five kilograms of dried fritillaria, plus it should be enough, right?" Helili handed the bag to Li Long.

Li Long didn't expect this to be prepared long ago, and he was still thinking about fooling him.

It really wasn't any good stuff!

Li Long opened the bag, reached out, grabbed a handful of fritillaria, and took it out to look.

It was indeed dried fritillaria, the particle size was uneven, not very clean, but weighing the weight, it was about five kilograms.

The price of five kilograms of fritillaria was indeed enough for two hundred yuan. Even if this fritillaria wasn't considered clean, removing impurities was enough.

Li Long put both bags of things on the car and said to Helili:

"We will still cooperate in the future. You also want to continue using the harvester to cut grass next year, right? So you still have to be honest, don't do those messy things."

"Haha, I know, I know," Helili smiled, "Using a tractor to cut grass is very fast, we like to use it."

Li Long didn't speak anymore. After Li Jianguo and the others turned back, he asked about the situation.

Yesterday, all three of them didn't go back and stayed in that herdsman's winter camp for one night. As for today, they should squeeze in Helili's winter camp.

Although it was three hundred and thirty mu, divided into each tractor, it was one hundred and ten mu per tractor, but because they were all in this area, they didn't need to move camps like cutting wheat, so it could be finished in one day.

Tired was a bit tired, thinking about earning over one hundred a day, this spirit suddenly came.

It was equivalent to two or three months' wages of a worker!

Knowing that his eldest brother and the others had no difficulties here, Li Long put down the fuel barrel, said he would come over tomorrow, and then drove the jeep away.

This time, he went out of the mountain first, ran directly to Hongshanzui along the national defense highway, entered the mountain from there, and arrived at Yushanjiang's winter camp.

What surprised Li Long a bit was that the tractor wasn't here anymore, but the stove was still here.

And the meat boiled in this stove had been changed again.

Spread on the grass were three fresh hides, one wolf hide and two red deer hides.

It seemed there were also experts among the herdsmen!

Li Long got out of the jeep and greeted Talihar who was decomposing the meat:

"Talihar, did you hunt this wolf and deer?"

"No," Talihar shook his head, "The wolf was hunted by Halimu. Last night, a pack of wolves ran to his winter camp to find bones to eat, and he shot two of them. That deer was hunted by Zhate. When he got up this morning, several red deer were grazing on the grass field in front of their winter camp..."

Talihar quite envied this kind of luck.

There was such a good thing, Li Long smiled.

"Zhate said to take one deer away, we can't eat that much."

Li Long looked at the red deer left for him. The *kelangzi* (a local term for the deer's body) was bigger than a wild goat, and there must be forty or fifty kilograms of meat.

He didn't be polite either, he accepted Zhate's kindness. "Today Zhate is driving the tractor with Yushanjiang," Talihar said while decomposing the meat, "He should have learned it by now."

"Have you learned it?" Li Long asked.

"Learned it, learned it. Before driving, I felt that driving a tractor would be very difficult. After learning it, I found it quite simple," Talihar said with a simple smile, "Cutting grass is also quite simple. This thing, the strength is really big, it's very magical."

"This is still small horsepower, there will be bigger horsepower in the future." Li Long took out a knife and decomposed the red deer given to him. He planned to send a portion of it out.

After eating meat here at noon, Li Long put the decomposed deer meat on the car and drove out of the mountain.

He didn't go home, but drove toward Shicheng, to the sugar factory.

Summer was the peak period for sugar production at Shicheng Sugar Factory. Li Long drove the jeep to the back door and parked it on the side of the road, waiting for the truck pulling sugar dregs to come out.

After waiting for less than twenty minutes, Song Ming drove the car out. After seeing Li Long's jeep, he parked the car on the side of the road.

Li Long got out of the car. After Song Ming got out of the car, he shook hands with him and asked:

"Group Leader Song, are you still busy now?"

"It's okay, anyway, pulling dregs every day, this matter is just like this." Song Ming was quite happy to see Li Long, "Not driving a tractor, not pulling dregs this time?"

(Note: The text contains a repeating filler phrase here, which is ignored in translation.)

"Pulling, but want to change a way," Li Long took out a bag from the jeep and handed it to Song Ming, "Inside here is a piece of deer ribs, you take it back to eat. I have a matter I want to ask you to see if it's okay."

"You came, and you brought meat, you are really polite." Saying so, Song Ming took the meat and put it in the passenger seat of the car, saying, "You speak, but keep it short. These sugar dregs have water, it's quite troublesome to flow on the ground, I can't stop here for long."

"It's just that I want to get a car to pull a load of sugar dregs back, do you think it's okay? I want to go find Section Chief Hu, can this matter be handled?"

"That's definitely no problem," Song Ming said, "Anyway, these sugar dregs themselves are to be poured away. Whether you use a big car or a small car, it really doesn't make much difference, and it saves us trouble. But where are you going to find a car?"

"I plan to hire one from our county transportation company, pull it after work. Anyway, the car runs fast, pulling sugar dregs from here and running to our team to unload the sugar dregs, it won't take an hour."

"How much to hire a car?" Song Ming's eyes lit up when he heard it and asked.

"How can it be less than fifteen yuan," Li Long said.

"Then why hire someone else's car? I can do it for ten yuan," Song Ming patted the car he was driving, "I sometimes drive this car back to wash it after work, and no one cares..."

"That's fine," Li Long was naturally happy, "Then I'll go talk to Section Chief Hu first, you unload this car first?"

"Fine, fine, fine." Song Ming nodded and turned to get into the car.

Li Long drove the jeep to the front door, carrying a bag, registered, and entered the sugar factory.

Section Chief Hu was in the office. Seeing Li Long come in, he stood up with a smile and said:

"Comrade Li, you are really a rare guest, it's been a long time since you came here."

"A bit busy recently," Li Long put the bag by the office wall and said, "Section Chief Hu, this is a red deer leg, hunted just today, you take it back to taste."

"Hey, you are really polite, bringing things every time you come," Section Chief Hu poured water for Li Long, "What are you busy with recently?"

"My wife gave birth to a child, I'm accompanying her," Li Long said with a smile, "Then I got a harvester to help herdsman friends in the mountains cut grass."

"That's fine, gave birth to a son or a daughter? When was it born?" Section Chief Hu handed the water jar to Li Long, "And didn't say a word, this is being distant."

"Born in June, two sons, twins," Li Long said with a smile, "It's just that it's far away, so I didn't come over to say it."

"Congratulations, congratulations!" Twins were really rare at this time, Section Chief Hu said with a smile, "You earned it this time, family planning can't find you, and there are two sons, really not bad."

After chatting for a few sentences, Li Long stated his purpose for coming.

"No problem, go find Song Ming for the matter of pulling sugar dregs. You know each other too, just say I said it. I definitely support you wanting this. Don't say one car, even pulling every day is no problem."

Saying so, Li Long was really relieved. He said goodbye to Section Chief Hu, went out, went downstairs, and went to the place where sugar dregs were processed.

Song Ming had already unloaded that load, and at this time was still waiting to load dregs.

Seeing Li Long come over, he pointed to the office building and asked:

"What did Section Chief Hu say?"

"The section chief said pulling every day is fine," Li Long said with a smile, "Where is your apprentice?"

"Something happened at home, asked for leave for two days," Song Ming smiled, "It's just that he has something, otherwise I really wouldn't be easy to pull. Then shall we do it today?"

"Fine," Li Long smiled, "I'll wait outside, you pull the last load after work to our side?"

"No problem, I'll add a few more sacks for you on top. By the way, is there anyone to unload the car?"

"Yes, yes, you can rest assured about this."

Once the matter was settled, Li Long took out fifteen yuan and handed it to Song Ming.

"Didn't I say it, ten yuan," Song Ming took the ten-yuan note and wanted to return the iron worker (a slang for the ten-yuan note) to Li Long.

"Take it, our own people earning less than others, that won't do," Li Long stuffed the money into his hand, "You thought for me, I save money, what does that count as?"

Since he said so, Song Ming accepted the money.

The time until work ended wasn't long. This last load of sugar dregs was filled, and six more sacks were placed in the car, and then work ended.

The roaring of the machine slowly stopped, and Li Long and Song Ming drove the car one after the other toward the east.

Arriving at the big courtyard, Li Long and Song Ming unloaded four sacks of sugar dregs together, and then drove toward the Fourth Team.

Although late August was not as long as June, it was at least a time when the day was long and the night was short. At this time, the sun was about to set, but the sky was still very bright.

Song Ming came here for the first time. While driving, he felt quite novel. Before entering the township, he felt the road was also not bad.

It was just that when turning east from the township, he felt the road was difficult to walk. The road was a bit bumpy. Li Long was used to it, but Song Ming wasn't used to it, and the car was carrying things, so he couldn't drive too fast.

Li Long in front also slowed down, first leading Song Ming to the old horse station.

"This is the place where I raise wild boars and deer," after getting out of the car, Li Long briefly introduced it to Song Ming, "This is Uncle Luo, who helps me raise these livestock. Uncle Luo, this is Group Leader Song from the sugar factory, this time specifically pulling sugar dregs for us. You talk first, I'll go call someone to unload the sugar dregs."

Li Long quickly called seven or eight young men and started to unload the sugar dregs here. Song Ming also felt quite curious, clearly able to feel that Li Long had high prestige among these people, and these people respected him very much.

Uncle Luo was very happy this time. Before, tractors were used to pull sugar dregs, and pulling once could be eaten for a period of time. Now the deer and wild boars were big, and the consumption of sugar dregs and feed was very fast.

This car was pulled back, even if he only wanted half, combined with bran and other feed, it could be eaten until the end of the year.

Li Long also wanted to unload some at the courtyard of his eldest brother Li Jianguo. Although there were only two pigs and twenty or thirty chickens there, the things they ate were not few.

The focus was still here.

After unloading the sugar dregs on both sides, Song Ming watched the people helping unload the car clean and tidy, then greeted Li Long and left, sighing and saying:

"The people in your team are really simple and honest, they don't slack off at all when working, and they leave after finishing..."

Li Long smiled and didn't pick up this topic.

Du Chunfang had already made dinner. Because a guest came, she steamed buns, and a large plate of deer meat brought back by Li Long was stir-fried, plus a stir-fried egg and a cold mixed tomato, which was considered rich.

Song Ming ate very happily, and Li Long also felt quite happy in his heart.

It seemed that this mode could be used for pulling sugar dregs in the future. Pulling it over this time could last for several months. He even thought about whether to take time to go to the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory, or call over there to see if they could develop and produce a machine that could dry and granulate sugar dregs.

Would the feed made this way be very popular?

At least if he wanted to engage in some breeding, this kind of raw material cost was almost close to zero, and it would definitely have strong competitiveness in the market.

Although Li Long wasn't doing business at present, at least this vision was still there.

Well, put this on the agenda in the near future, ask about it first. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 696 =====