Chapter 751: Want to return to the past: How many years has it been?

When slaughtering sheep the next day, Tao Daqiang came to help, and in the afternoon, Xie Yun, Liang Dacheng, Liang Shuang Cheng, and Jia Weidong also came over.

They mainly helped wash the stomachs and intestines, after all, Ha Ha Li Mu and the others slaughtered sheep too fast, and the speed of washing stomachs and intestines couldn't keep up.

The sheep from the first day was actually only half eaten, and a part was left at the old horse stable for Old Man Luo and the others as breakfast for the second day, and a part was distributed to others.

The trimmed meat was also taken away by Li Jianguo.

The second day, less meat was left, because after Tao Daqiang, Xie Yun, and the others came to help, they ate at noon and evening, although there was some left, there wasn't much.

This time, the rest were simply distributed—Old Man Luo and the others hadn't finished eating what was left from the first day.

With Tao Daqiang and the others helping, the speed of the second day was much faster, and by the time Li Long left with Ha Ha Li Mu and the others, the stomachs, intestines, and such were almost washed.

The final finishing work was organized by Li Jianguo, everyone took two sheep heads and four hooves back, no need to be polite. Slaughtering sheep for two days, sheep heads and sheep hooves had already piled up a lot.

Even so, half of them had been bought by people, otherwise there would be more.

On the morning of the third day when slaughtering sheep, Song Ming drove a car and pulled a truck of sugar dregs over.

In the past, when he pulled sugar dregs over, others would look, with envy, but not so intense, after all, everyone knew Li Long paid money.

But now it was different. Everyone knew clearly, why Li Long's sheep were so fat, the main feed was sugar dregs!

The key was that this sugar dreg didn't cost money—most of those with tractors in the family, like Lu Yingming, were already thinking about driving tractors to pull sugar dregs next year.

Without that relationship to pull them directly out of the factory, couldn't they take people and drive tractors to the large pit behind the sugar factory to dig them out themselves?

Anyway, no money needed!

Old Man Luo and the others, as soon as they saw Song Ming pull sugar dregs over, stopped the work at hand and specifically went to handle the sugar dregs.

In summer, sugar dregs could be placed outside to dry and then packed in bags, or piled in feed pools built with bricks.

In winter, when these sugar dregs were pulled to the old horse stable, the top layer was frozen, and there was still heat inside, but this stuff would become ice cubes after being placed outside for one night.

This wasn't easy to handle, Old Man Luo and the others thought of a way after autumn. Clear out one of the rooms where people lived, and build a large *kang*. The sugar dregs pulled back in winter were placed directly on the *kang*. There was plastic cloth on the *kang*, the sugar dregs were piled on the *kang*, there was a stove connected to the *kang* hole, this temperature, one week was enough to dry the sugar dregs.

And the moisture originally contained in the sugar dregs slowly flowed out during the journey when Song Ming drove the car to pull the sugar dregs over, so it was relatively convenient to dry.

Song Ming parked the car in the courtyard of the old horse stable, turned off the engine, got out of the car, and walked towards Li Long.

Li Long was selling sheep heads and sheep hooves to others, and when he saw Song Ming coming over, he said to him:

"Take a few sheep heads and sheep hooves when you leave, they are a bit troublesome to burn, but they are quite delicious when cleaned and braised or cooked with chili."

"Fine, I won't be polite with you." Song Ming now understood Li Long's character, he was generous, and he just needed to do his part well.

"Comrade Xiao Li, I came here this time with instructions from Section Chief Hu, he said he wanted a hundred sheep, the kind that are skinned and handled, especially the stomachs that are cleaned; two red deer, this also needs to be handled..."

Speaking of this, Song Ming lowered his voice and said:

"Section Chief Hu said, want male deer, deer penis and such must be specially put aside, and deer kidneys shouldn't be thrown away..."

"Fine." Li Long agreed readily.

"Also want a ton of fish, each one over one kilogram, carp and grass carp are fine, silver carp is also fine, but it's best to be bighead carp..."

Li Long thought about how he hadn't caught fish for a long time, and said with some difficulty:

"The price of this fish is more expensive than before..."

"It's fine, expensive is expensive, Section Chief Hu said that our sugar factory's efficiency is good this year, and we want to distribute more welfare to everyone." Song Ming didn't hear Li Long's meaning, and said with a smile, "Section Chief said, just calculate according to the market price."

"Then Brother Long, after we finish the matter here, let's go break the ice and catch fish, okay?" Tao Daqiang suddenly said from the side.

Li Long turned his head and looked at Tao Daqiang with some surprise.

How long had it been since the two of them fished together?

Li Long was still a bit dazed.

He looked at Tao Daqiang's expectant eyes, suddenly smiled, and said: "Fine! After slaughtering these sheep, we'll go."

Then he turned his head and said to Song Ming:

"Xiao Song, look, we can pull a batch of sheep to your sugar factory at noon today, I can't put them here anymore, anyway, a hundred sheep plus deer and fish and such, you can't pull them in one truck, let's just pull a batch over first, okay?"

"Fine." Song Ming naturally had no objections, and was quite happy. After all, pulling a batch over first meant he could get meat earlier.

He saw these mutton with fat, and was also greedy.

At noon, Song Ming ate with Li Long and the others. At first, he was a bit reserved, wanting to fish out a small piece when gnawing meat, but Liang Wenyu added a large piece for him, adding while saying:

"Big young man, how can the appetite be so small? Eat more, don't be polite!"

Although Song Ming was a worker, his salary was better than ordinary people, but it was rare to eat meat in large pieces like this all year round.

He sat on a piece of wood on the side with an enamel basin, and when he picked up a bone to gnaw, he was a bit confused.

Turning his head to look around, looking at these people gnawing meat, including those herdsmen, none of them were wolfing down, they were all eating slowly, occasionally taking a piece of *naan* to dip in the soup and eat.

Do they eat often? Otherwise, as ordinary people, the days they can eat meat all year round can be counted on one's fingers, seeing such large pieces of meat, wouldn't they gnaw desperately?

How come it feels like the poor ones aren't them, but himself?

Are the lives of these farmers and herdsmen so good now?

Looking at the bones with a lot of meat, Song Ming's brain was a bit messy, but his physiological reaction didn't stop, he had already swallowed twice, this time he didn't want to think, eat first.

Really fragrant!

Fat and lean, especially the fat, too fragrant!

After eating, Li Long drove the jeep in front, Song Ming pulled a truck of sheep behind, and they went to the sugar factory together.

Section Chief Hu was answering the phone in the office, it was the end of the year, and the logistics departments of various factories in Shicheng were also communicating with each other.

Section Chief Hu was more cautious this year, he only roughly said his thoughts, and didn't say the actual things, thinking about waiting until those welfare items were pulled to the warehouse, then it would be easy to say.

Otherwise, if they weren't distributed, wouldn't it be a slap in the face?

These factory logistics were also secretly comparing in these aspects. After all, Shicheng wasn't particularly big at this time, several large factories had good efficiency, then what else could they compare? The standard of workers' wages was there, even if bonuses were distributed, they had to be stuck to the standard, then what they compared was the welfare distributed to workers at the end of the year, and the degree of freedom for each factory in this point was greater.

Those workers also had relationships with each other, acquaintances met, or when visiting during the New Year, they would definitely ask, asking what welfare your factory distributed, how much was the year-end bonus, who was given the advanced status, etc.

Section Chief Hu thought that when the time came, if people in his factory showed off the mutton distributed here, they could scare others.

That sheep was really fat, but I didn't know what it looked like after slaughtering. Just answering the phone, he heard the car horn, leaned out of the window to look, and saw the jeep and the car entering together.

He recognized Li Long's jeep at a glance, and immediately said to the microphone:

"Old Hong, let's not chat first, I have urgent matters, let's talk when we have time later."

Hanging up the phone, he hurriedly grabbed his coat and rushed out.

Song Ming's car pulled so many sheep, Section Chief Hu naturally saw it too.

The car drove to the entrance of the logistics warehouse, and when it stopped, Section Chief Hu had already arrived.

Li Long got out of the car, the two shook hands, and Section Chief Hu said with a smile:

"Comrade Xiao Li, your movements are very fast, and the efficiency is very high!"

"It's fine, these sheep are a part, there are red deer to be slaughtered tomorrow, by the way, the fish will take some time." Li Long explained one by one.

"No problem, no problem, no need to rush, I am still very at ease with you."

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Section Chief Hu had already seen the sheep inside through the gap in the car's protective plate—they were really fat!

Hey, looking at the workers in the factory, they should be very satisfied, right?

Song Ming had already called the logistics people to drag the scale over, and then worked with others to unload the sheep.

The logistics people also pulled a flatbed cart over, these sheep had to be pulled to the warehouse to be stored after being weighed, as for how to distribute, it depended on the leader's instructions.

Although it was impossible for one person to distribute a sheep, distributing a leg should be no problem, right?

Look at how fat this sheep is, in logistics for so many years, I've never seen such a fat sheep.

Some pigs aren't as fat as this!

One sheep after another was moved down and placed on the scale, three at a time.

"Eighty-eight kilograms seven hundred grams..."

A recorder on the side held a notebook and recorded, reporting the number while recording, and also used an abacus to calculate, adding the numbers together at the end.

Section Chief Hu basically understood when he heard the report, these sheep were fat and large, each sheep's net weight was about thirty kilograms. The three weighed sheep were placed on the flatbed cart, and the logistics people had to check.

Section Chief Hu had long said that these sheep had to have offal, they forcefully pried open the sheep cavity that had already frozen, wanting to see if the heart, liver, lungs, and stomach were all there.

"Comrade Xiao Li, this inspection is also a routine matter..." Section Chief Hu explained to Li Long.

"Should be, should be." Li Long smiled, "Verifying the goods is inevitable, so it's easy for both of us to talk."

Fifty sheep weighed, the total weight was one thousand four hundred thirty-three kilograms eight hundred grams, calculated at the market price of one yuan eight per kilogram, totaling two thousand five hundred eighty yuan eight mao four fen.

Bookkeeping and issuing invoices were all done by people in finance, Section Chief Hu also had to sign, and then Li Long could go to the finance office to collect the money.

After Li Long got the money, he put it into the backpack he carried with him, he silently calculated, calculated according to the price he collected the sheep, minus the cost—that is, the wages of Old Man Luo and the others, Song Ming pulling sugar dregs for two months, and the two sheep eaten during slaughtering these two days, his net profit for these fifty sheep was over eight hundred.

There were also fifty skins, those skins could be sold for ten yuan a piece, right?

Sheep heads and sheep hooves and such weren't counted.

Calculated like this, a hundred sheep could earn two thousand-plus, there were two hundred-plus sheep in the pen, minus the ewes with lambs, and the small sheep that hadn't reached slaughter age, there were still one hundred seventy or eighty sheep, these sheep could bring him an income of about four thousand—not bad, really not bad!

Of course, this was just himself, having a large amount of zero-cost sugar dregs, and relationships like Section Chief Hu, otherwise changing to someone else, although they would also make money, it definitely wouldn't be this much.

And raising too many also required a market to digest, just going to the market to sell, definitely couldn't be sold out in a short time, and there would be many troubles.

In general, being able to make so much money, a large part of the reason was the path, connections, and integrity he had paved before.

"Section Chief Hu, the next batch will be sent over tomorrow or the day after, and the red deer and such will be brought together then. I still have things to do when I go back, so I won't say much here." Li Long said.

Section Chief Hu was also anxious to invite factory leaders to see these sheep, so he said goodbye to Li Long.

Song Ming was also anxious to take the sheep heads and sheep hooves back to prepare to handle—he took two sheep heads and eight sheep hooves this time. The stove at home wasn't big, and it would be quite troublesome to handle.

But he was still happy—free meat.

After Li Long returned, Ha Ha Li Mu and the others had already started preparing to take out the red deer to slaughter.

The two male red deer were as tall as adult donkeys, looking like they must be over a hundred kilograms, and they must have known they were going to die, these two deer were very fierce, butting whoever entered.

But this didn't stump Ha Ha Li Mu, he took a rope loop, turned a few circles outside the pen, and when he threw it out, he looped the neck of a red deer.

Others opened the door, two people took sticks to drive the other red deer in, two people stepped forward to press and flip the red deer, tied the hooves, and carried it out.

Not only slaughter red deer, but also slaughter cattle. However, it was probably because they felt slaughtering red deer was fresher, so they handled the red deer first.

Li Long also joined the ranks of handling red deer. Ha Ha Li Mu was the one holding the knife, and when he was preparing, Li Long clearly said he would come over tomorrow, after all, the cattle hadn't been slaughtered yet, looking at the time, after the two red deer were slaughtered and handled, they had to go back.

Ha Ha Li Mu and the others naturally had no objections, Li Long meant for them to bring some boiled meat back when they returned, anyway, there was quite a bit left.

Ha Ha Li Mu and the others refused, didn't bring any, just said they still wanted to go to the county seat to shop.

Li Long naturally had no objections, this time he was prepared to bring some meat back.

Although there was meat at home, this boiled one was different.

Tao Daqiang asked Li Long in a low voice while helping:

"Brother Long, can we break the ice tomorrow?"

"Hmm, break tomorrow, and we can get fish the day after." Li Long thought and said, "Break tomorrow, and we can get fish the day after."

Tao Daqiang smiled.

In the past year, the family was rich, but there were more things, he still missed the days when he followed Li Long to break the ice to catch fish and pull a horse cart to sell fish.

Although bitter, it was simple. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 752 =====