Chapter 696: A discordant interlude in the middle of grass-cutting

Song Ming ate until his belly was round. When he left, he patted his chest and told Li Long that he should find him for pulling sugar dregs in the future. He could pull a load over every once in a while, and the price was negotiable.

Li Long knew that Song Ming definitely had a way to earn extra money. After all, having a big car, what couldn't be pulled?

It was just that at present, the lively activities had just started. He couldn't pull things related to construction projects, he could only pull ordinary agricultural goods. The money he got each time was probably not as much as what he gave this time.

But no matter what, this was considered a win-win. He got a big car of sugar dregs, and Song Ming got a week or ten days' wages, just two or three hours of time, and both felt it was quite good.

If it wasn't because the breeding industry wasn't developed at present and the market prospect of sugar dreg feed was unclear, Li Long would really want to engage in this feed specifically.

Later generations had advanced machinery, cow dung and chicken manure could be dried and compressed into organic fertilizer, and this sugar dreg could be dried and compressed into organic feed. But at present, he didn't know if it could be made, and he didn't know if anyone would buy it.

Sugar dregs were definitely popular, just look at how many people went to grab them at the big pit where the sugar factory discharged sugar dregs every day.

But if it really became feed to sell, whether anyone would buy it was hard to say.

Wait first, things had to be done step by step. According to the current situation, at least in terms of raw materials, there should be no problem.

When Li Long returned to the big courtyard, it was already dark. It was Sister Yang and Han Fang who opened the door. When Li Long got out of the jeep, Sister Yang asked if she should prepare dinner for him. Li Long waved his hand and said he had eaten at the Fourth Team.

This day was quite busy. Li Long washed up and went into the room to see that Gu Xiaoxia had already coaxed the two children to sleep—now although Mingming and Haohao didn't sleep as much as the month they were born, they didn't sleep little either.

"Do you still have to go see your eldest brother and the others cut grass tomorrow morning?" Gu Xiaoxia asked.

"Have to go see," Li Long set up the board to block the light for the children, then went to lower the volume and turned on the TV, "Basically have to go see every day. The grass fields of those herdsmen over there are basically two or three hundred mu, can't be finished in a day, and it wastes time on the road back and forth," Li Long said.

"Too good," Gu Xiaoxia smiled, "It's several times our monthly salary! Even if it's a bit tiring, it's worth it."

"Yes, so actually there are jobs that earn money, it just depends on whether you can discover them. It seems that those in our family who bought harvesters are considered to have discovered this business opportunity. We are the ones selling jeans and digging tools."

Li Long had told Gu Xiaoxia this allusion before, and she smiled when she heard it.

The children moved over there. Both of them looked over. Because there was a board blocking it, both of them stood up, but seeing that the children just moved slightly and didn't wake up, they both felt relieved.

Making this board was mainly because the children slept for a long time in the bedroom, and the two adults couldn't sleep for a while, and they couldn't be far away, and they inevitably had to turn on the lights at night, so they blocked it.

This was still proposed and made by Li Long. Gu Xiaoxia didn't know at this time that light would affect the development of children's eyes when they slept at night, but Li Long said it, so she naturally attached importance to it.

"You still say, someone came to buy a harvester during the day today. I said there were none left, and they didn't believe it. If it wasn't for the police station opposite, I suspect those two people would have broken in," Gu Xiaoxia remembered something and said:

"At that time, Sister Yang said there were no harvesters on our side, and that person started shouting. The police station over there came over, asked about the situation, criticized and educated that person, and then let him go."

"Fortunately, our family is near the police station, otherwise it would really be quite troublesome." Li Long knew that this kind of thing couldn't be stopped. He was thinking about whether to stop the agency of the harvester later, or change to a place to do this specifically, so as not to affect the normal life of the family.

He thought for a while and said:

"How about this, when I have time, I will open a few doors from the wall on the side of the road in the south, and use them as storefronts. Use one as a dedicated store for harvester agency, put up a sign, open the door when I am here, and close the door when I am not here. Explain the situation there. When I am not here, it will be easy to talk when someone comes to ask."

Li Long wasn't afraid of those people coming to harass, after all, the police station was diagonally opposite, and those people naturally had to be afraid of a few points when they came. It was just that it wasn't very good to trouble this side all the time.

But it wasn't worth it to hire someone specifically to do this. After all, the harvest season had passed, and not many could be sold in a month.

Gu Xiaoxia asked while watching TV:

"What are the remaining rooms for? I see that some people on the street nearby have rented out the storefronts for shops and barbershops. Are we renting too?"

"No," Li Long hurriedly waved his hand, "We don't lack that money, don't rent, renting out will bring endless trouble."

He had to go out from time to time, and there was no man in the family. If the person who rented the house had good character, it would be fine, but if the character was not good, there would definitely be endless trouble.

So forget it. Buying this big courtyard at the beginning was mainly because he felt it would be more convenient to live in the county, not because he wanted to rent out the house to earn rent.

Hearing Li Long say this, Gu Xiaoxia actually had the same attitude, so she turned the topic to her work.

Gu Xiaoxia's maternity leave was coming in ten days or so. At present, she was bringing the children, and when she went to work, there would be no time to bring them.

Sister Yang said that she would bring the children next. Both children were quite obedient, and she could bring them. Li Long originally thought that when Gu Xiaoxia went to work, he would bring the children to the Fourth Team and give them to his mother to watch. Gu Xiaoxia was not very willing, so Li Long followed her.

He didn't know how she and Sister Yang discussed it, anyway, Gu Xiaoxia and Sister Yang both said to put them here to watch, so Li Long had no opinion.

When Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Li Long didn't have many jobs on hand. Whether it was weaving big brooms or reed brooms, they were all skilled jobs, and he didn't need to coordinate, just go to collect goods every day.

In this way, he could take care of it when the time came, so the matter of watching the babies was settled for the time being.

The two of them didn't take long to watch TV. After the TV series finished, they went to sleep.

The children's schedule was also slowly adjusting. At present, they slept quite soundly at night. It wasn't that they slept until dawn, but it was about the same. Li Long watched short videos more in his previous life and knew that it was quite important for infants to slowly adjust their schedule at this time.

Adjusting the schedule at this time, when they were older, the mother wouldn't be tired, and the children could sleep well.

But for the two little guys, no matter what, it was definitely not easy to take care of them.

After breakfast the next day, Li Long went to the Taxi River mountain pass again. When he arrived, Li Jianguo and the others were still cutting grass in the second piece of land.

Li Long waited at the edge of the field for a while. The herdsman came over and said to Li Long:

"Yesterday, the people cutting grass broke a blade. They said we didn't clean the rocks... we cleaned them all, it must be carelessness when cutting grass..."

As soon as Li Long heard this person's tone, he got angry. This was obviously shirking responsibility! He took a step forward and said to that person with a sense of oppression:

"Make it clear, we agreed beforehand that you clean up the rocks and wood in the field, otherwise it will affect the grass-cutting, and the responsibility lies with you! I tell you, with this attitude of yours, I will call people away now. Can you cut the remaining dozens of mu yourself? Both sides speak well, I didn't pursue your responsibility, don't come over and accuse the victim!"

Seeing Li Long walk over, that person was so scared that he retreated repeatedly. Hearing Li Long say this, his face turned red, and his speech became stuttering:

"I didn't mean that, I meant... this blade, it's not strong..."

"Blade! Steel, it's not strong? Do you want me to take a blade and try it on you?" Li Long's voice increased, and that guy didn't dare to speak directly.

Actually, although the herdsman on the first day didn't understand Han language, Li Long could feel that people were sincere and did what they should do.

Now this herdsman was a bit slippery, and he didn't like it very much.

Because Li Jianguo and the others hadn't driven over yet, Li Long didn't make a big deal out of it. He would ask later. If his eldest brother and the others were wronged, Li Long would definitely not let it go.

Seeing Li Long come over, and seeing the herdsman in the grass field come over, Li Jianguo and the others also guessed that something had happened. After the tractor with the harvester cut over, they stopped at the edge of the grass field, and then the three of them turned off the engine, got out of the car, and walked over.

Some herdsmen's relatives and friends who were originally in the grass field also came over.

A lot of people were surrounded here immediately, and the other side had more people, feeling aggressive.

Li Long wasn't afraid at all. To tell the truth, these few people, if they really fought, they really weren't their opponents.

He felt he could fight three!

Ignoring those people, Li Long asked Li Jianguo:

"Eldest brother, what was the situation just now? Didn't suffer any grievances, right?"

"No, it's just that when Dacheng was cutting grass, he hit a rock that wasn't marked. That rock was in the dense grass and couldn't be seen at all, and as a result, two blades were broken.

It's okay, we brought spare parts, just replace them. When this grass field owner came over to look, Yun complained two sentences, and this grass field owner was unhappy, saying it had nothing to do with them, probably afraid that we would extort them... really stingy."

So it was such a matter. Li Long breathed a sigh of relief, it was fine as long as it was fine.

He was about to speak to the grass field owner, but some people over there had already started speaking, probably thinking that they had many people, so the tone was relatively aggressive.

There were also two young men who felt a bit stupid, reaching out to push Li Jianguo, probably feeling that among these few people, Li Jianguo was the leader. "Slap!" Li Long slapped the hand that person stretched out, then took a step forward, grabbed the young man's collar, and pushed him hard forward. The two women behind that young man hurriedly dodged. The young man didn't stand firm and fell directly to the ground. Although he climbed up immediately, he was covered with dust and grass knots, very embarrassed.

This young man was ashamed and angry, and cursed loudly. When Xie Yun heard it, he also followed and cursed back.

Li Long had already taken action, others naturally didn't want to be weak, and didn't want to be weaklings. Coming out to earn money was not to be bullied.

"What are you doing?" Someone shouted from the outside, and then shouted two sentences in Uyghur.

Those people who surrounded them actually stopped when they heard it, and then retreated.

Li Long could hear it, it was Tuerxun's voice.

He didn't expect Tuerxun to have such high prestige in the hearts of these people.

Tuerxun squeezed into the crowd, looked at Li Long, then looked at the slightly guilty herdsman, and asked Li Long first:

"Comrade Li Long, what's going on? Why did you fight? Fighting is wrong!"

"You also saw it, it was your people who surrounded us!" Li Long wouldn't let him frame and buckle the hat directly, "I just fought back—he was the one who started it!"

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

Li Long pointed to the young man who was pushed down by him.

Tuerxun's face was a bit blue. These people were really shameful, starting the fight and still getting knocked down.

"Speak, what's going on?" Tuerxun asked the herdsman.

The herdsman was a bit awkward. To tell the truth, he didn't want to make trouble. Li Long had finished speaking beforehand, this matter was actually very small, and it would pass if it passed, but he didn't expect his own people to be a bit impulsive, but he definitely wouldn't admit his mistake. Bullying Li Long's side for most people not understanding Uyghur, he added oil and vinegar and told it again.

Xie Yun knew Li Long's temper and immediately translated the person's words. He spoke Han language, and while translating, he told the real situation.

Tuerxun could understand it, and he was so angry that he really wanted to slap that herdsman. People had someone who understood Uyghur, and they were working well yesterday. He didn't believe that these people were arrogant, picky about food, and didn't work well as the herdsman said.

He wasn't blind either. The grass that was cut was there in the grass field. Not to say it was neat, at least what should be cut was cut. The grass that was left uncut, looking from afar, also had rocks or tree roots or something.

When he just came over, he also saw from afar that the herdsmen surrounded people, and also saw the young man clamoring and starting the fight. As a team captain, although he had the heart to favor his own people, he couldn't openly close his eyes and talk nonsense.

Tuerxun turned his head to look at Li Long.

"You also heard it," Li Long said with a cold face, "We won't cut his grass. Cooperating with such a person, I worry that we will be extorted after we finish cutting! The regulations were all agreed beforehand, he broke the contract first, we don't want him to compensate for the loss of the harvester, but this grass, let him find someone else to cut it."

Tuerxun said with some difficulty:

"Comrade Li Long, look, there are only dozens of mu left, let's finish cutting. Like this, you rest assured, I will stare here, I guarantee they won't make trouble. Besides, I heard him say that you also collected the things, look, if you don't cut the last bit, this is also relatively troublesome, isn't it?"

Tuerxun was quite good at being a person. If his tone was a bit severe, or he favored his tribesmen, Li Long would have left on the spot.

Afraid of having many people? He had a gun in his car.

But a captain was discussing here with good words, so Li Long felt bad to leave so strongly. He turned his head and asked Li Jianguo:

"Eldest brother, look..."

"Finish cutting, there isn't much left," Li Jianguo nodded, "Actually, it's not a big deal, this young man is just a bit impulsive."

Hearing Li Jianguo say this, Tuerxun breathed a sigh of relief. He could feel that Li Jianguo had a very heavy weight in Li Long's heart.

"Alright, alright, all disperse, go do what you should do? Is there nothing to do? If there's nothing, go stack the grass!" Tuerxun roared at those people.

"That's fine, let's finish cutting the rest, and then move the field after finishing," Li Long said to Li Jianguo and Xie Yun, the three people, "By the way, stop for a moment, I brought fuel, let's add fuel first. I brought a lot, prepare one barrel for each person."

This barrel was a twenty-five-liter barrel, not that kind of big iron barrel.

It was definitely enough, but Li Long had to pull it over every day.

After the tractors finished adding fuel, they continued to drive to cut grass. Tuerxun took that grass field owner to the side and lectured him, then came over and said to Li Long with a smile:

"Kadeer will be here in a while, his grass field is a bit bigger, the grass isn't very good, but the slope is very gentle, easy to cut."

Li Long nodded and asked:

"Where is the next grass field?"

"In another gully. After Kadeer's grass is finished tomorrow, I will let someone wait on the grass field side, and then he will lead you over. You rest assured, I will tell them in advance, and such things won't happen again."

Since he said so, Li Long believed it. Tuerxun handled it quite well just now, and didn't directly favor Helili and the others.

Li Long waited here. Before long, that herdsman named Kadeer came over. Kadeer was over forty or fifty years old, carrying two big sacks on his horse's back. Li Long guessed he should be here to trade for the grass-cutting fee.

Seeing Kadeer come over, Tuerxun first greeted him, stopped him, said a lot to him, and then brought people over to meet Li Long.

Helili still understood some Han language, Kadeer didn't understand at all. This was a herdsman who looked relatively simple and honest, and he was also a bit nervous facing Li Long.

Tuerxun probably wanted to ease the awkward situation caused by Helili just now, pointed to the sacks on the horse's back, let Kadeer take them down, and hand them to Li Long now.

He knew the family background of these people relatively well, so Tuerxun didn't look down on the things they brought.

It was just that after Kadeer opened the sack, he was startled.

The first thing he saw was a brown bear skin.

Li Long also smelled the bloody smell. Although this hide wasn't big and had bullet holes on it, it could clearly be seen that it should have been hunted just now.

Kadeer said a few words. Although Tuerxun regretted it a bit, he still translated it truthfully.

"This is the skin of a small brown bear he hunted in the mountains yesterday. They have four hundred and fifty mu of grass field, and they have more cattle and sheep, so they need to cut more grass. He estimated this bear skin could be worth five hundred yuan—it's a small brown bear, after all. Besides, there are other hides, added together, they can be worth the grass-cutting fee."

Tuerxun was relatively familiar with the other few hides, he had seen them. There were two wolf hides and one ibex hide.

There were no deer antlers, only two pairs of deer horns, and that was all.

The bear gall wasn't there. Li Long estimated that this Kadeer should also know that bear gall was relatively expensive, so he kept it.

However, with such a bear skin, although it had bullet holes, it was enough when converted.

He nodded.

Kadeer smiled, very satisfied, and said a few more words.

Tuerxun also calmed his mentality and said:

"Kadeer was still worried it wasn't enough. Since it's enough, then let's go cut grass in a while."

"Then Captain, you make things clear to him, especially the rocks and such in the grass, don't break the blades again. After all, the spare parts they brought aren't many." Li Long said.

"Good, good, I'll say it now." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 697 =====