Chapter 826

Lunch was eaten at the Old Horse Station. There was no stewed fish at noon today; they made 'latiaozi' (pulled noodles), stir-fried mutton with spicy skin, plus the tomato sauce left over from last year, and then fried leeks and baby cabbage. It was red and green, which made people's appetite increase greatly.

Leeks and baby cabbage were produced in the fields of the Horse Station courtyard. The Old Horse Station was built by the team. Although Old Luo Shu was in charge of it originally, when it belonged to the production team, the land in the Horse Station could not be moved.

After Li Long bought the Old Horse Station, he let Old Luo Shu watch and handle it himself. Old Luo Shu had long wanted to plant a vegetable plot, so he opened one of the vacant lots into a vegetable plot. The land was turned over, surrounded by waist walls, raked into small pieces, and fertilized with the well-rotted mature fertilizer from the Horse Station. The vegetables grown were very good—the leaves of the baby cabbage were dark green.

Plus Li Long and the others drilled a pressure well here, and the water was very convenient. The vegetable plot had endless vegetables from spring to autumn, which could be made into sauce, dried vegetables, and pickled pickles.

When several old men moved in, this vegetable plot was utilized more fully. These people, even Yang Laoliu who started halfway, were good hands at planting vegetables. Plus there was a lot of fertilizer, the planting of this vegetable plot could also be ranked in the whole team.

The spicy skin was dried last year, put for a year, and this year it was hot in early spring. It was dried in the big sun to prevent dampness, and at the same time, it was also to prevent insects. Tomato sauce was made in glass bottles used for drips, plugged with soft rubber stoppers, and could be stored for more than a year.

Mutton was mutton dried in the wind after slaughtering earlier. At this time, it was cut into cubes, and then a little onion was added. The taste was really nothing to say.

'Latiaozi' is a meal often eaten in the whole Northern Tianshan, whether in cities or rural areas. It's just that it depends on the region, and the mixed vegetables are different. For example, in Yili, the old-fashioned 'guoyourou' (oil-fried meat) and minced meat, cabbage, and 'piyazi' (onion) are usually must-haves; the particular ones will also make a vinegar sauce.

In Beiting, green leafy vegetables such as leeks and celery will be blanched with boiling water, chopped, and mixed in 'latiaozi'—the rolled spicy skin is somewhat similar to Yili's vinegar sauce, but the seasoning is mainly tomato sauce, which is to stir-fry mutton, put tomato sauce, put soaked and chopped spicy skin, and stir-fry until cooked and then mix with rice.

So eating 'latiaozi' here will put three or four kinds of 'vegetable codes', leeks, hair celery, hair cabbage, etc. When summer comes, it is possible to blanch the chili with boiling water and cut it into the leeks. And when summer comes, eggplant, chili, and tomato will also be stir-fried together as the main dish for mixing 'latiaozi', which is also very delicious.

'Latiaozi' is pulled very thin. Winter wheat is planted here, sown in October of the first year, and wheat is harvested in July of the next year. The growth period is as long as nine months. Plus the long sunshine time, the 'latiaozi' made from the ground flour is very chewy, so that forty years later, it began to be popular all over the country.

Eating 'latiaozi' is different from other meals. After a pot is scooped out, it is the turn of one person to eat, no need to wait—if you wait for the noodles to become lumpy, it won't be delicious.

At this time, whether it was Professor Luo or several university students, they were no longer particular. Everyone held an enamel basin, sat or squatted, mixed the vegetables, and ate them in big mouthfuls—except for Zhu Yuechan who was not yet accustomed to this way of eating, even He Lijuan's eating style was very heroic.

Hmm, 'latiaozi' must be eaten like this!

For fear that the vegetables were not enough, each side dish was packed in an enamel basin. It seems that Old Luo Shu and the others already knew the students' appetite, and the preparation work was done well.

After eating the noodles, Li Long went to scoop half a bowl of soup, blew and shook it, drank it in small sips, and felt refreshed.

After eating, Professor Luo called Li Long to the side of the sugar beet field outside, pointed to the sugar beet seedlings in the field and said:

"You have already watered this sugar beet twice. Before watering the second time, I took the students to put some mixed fertilizer into it. Of course, it was only a small piece, as an experimental comparison. These fertilizers are mixed with compound fertilizers on the market now. From the current situation, there are some effects."

Li Long looked at the small piece of sugar beet field that Professor Luo pointed to. The seedlings here were indeed thicker and stronger than other plots. It was not just a problem of seedlings, but the saline-alkali crystallized on the surface of the land was also less.

It seems that Professor Luo's experiment has really made considerable progress.

"It's really not bad!" He exclaimed, "It's only been less than half a month, and it has already begun to show results, really good."

"But there is still a gap with what we expected. These two days I have been further adjusting the ratio of fertilizer, planning to fertilize before the third watering, and look at the specific situation. If the situation is better, then this stage of the experiment will end."

"Then is this topic equivalent to being completed?" Li Long asked.

"How can it be so simple? This is not a chemical balancing formula, just simply neutralizing the elements in the soil. This depends on which soil the planted crops are suitable for. To put it broadly, we also have to go to other places for experimental testing, to see the distribution of saline-alkali land in all major regions of the whole Xinjiang, the soil characteristics of each region, etc. This is a very long-term experimental research process. Maybe for the second half of my life, my time will be spent on this."

Sure enough, it's not that simple.

Li Long admires the persistence and professionalism of these scientific researchers very much.

"Then what do I need to do? I'll go to the agricultural materials store and pull some chemical fertilizer—what types are needed?"

Professor Luo originally thought about experimenting with a small piece of land, but since it has already begun to show results, he thinks that it can indeed be tried on the whole piece of land, so since Li Long asked, he said:

"Then take urea, diammonium phosphate..." He said the names of some fertilizers and asked Li Long to pull a few bags of each.

This point also can't stump Li Long. Li Long drove the jeep to the county. Gu Bo Yuan had already gone to work at the acquisition station. Li Long drove the jeep here to pull some chemical fertilizers from the warehouse transferred over.

Gu Bo Yuan here has all the fertilizers Professor Luo mentioned.

The atmosphere at the acquisition station here is obviously better than that at the market, with chatting and laughing, without any tense and nervous confrontation. Obviously, the people who come here to sell things trust Old Gu very much.

There are second-hand dealers who often come and know Li Long. When queuing behind, they will chat with Li Long and help him move the fertilizer together.

Pulling seven or eight bags of fertilizer back to the Old Horse Station, the university students all came to help unload the fertilizer. After these things were done, Professor Luo let Li Long go back—according to his words, Li Long staying here is useless, and if there is any work, these students can do it, which just happens to exercise the students' life skills.

Li Long drove the jeep to Li Jianguo's house.

At the moment, it is not the busy farming season. Except for weeding, fertilizing, and watering in the fields, there is basically no big work.

There are quite a few people in Li Jianguo's courtyard.

Li Long came, and these people also took the initiative to greet him. Li Long chatted with his father and grandfather about family affairs in a low voice, listening to what those people said in his ears, and then understood—these people came to ask about the planting problem of 'dagua' (large melon).

Quite a few people in the team really didn't listen to persuasion and bought seeds to plant 'dagua'. The planting of 'dagua' is still quite technical, and the management at each stage is different.

These people couldn't be persuaded, so they planted it. There was no grievance itself, they were all people in the team, and they came to ask for technology. Li Jianguo naturally had no reason to drive people out. He would say what should be said, after all, it had already been planted.

Naturally, some people will come to ask Li Long—after all, the matter of planting 'dagua', the people in the team actually all know, it was initially facilitated by Li Long, and he went to the August 1st Agricultural College to ask a special professor to plant 'dagua', otherwise it would be impossible to harvest so much.

There are also information channels among farmers. How much 'dagua' can be planted, after planting in the Li family, someone inquired about it—after all, the Corps had planted it before.

The harvest of the Li family is relatively high, so there must be unique technology. Now that the people in the village plant a lot, naturally someone will come to ask.

The herd mentality of rural people is very serious. Someone planted something to make money in the first year, and there will definitely be a large number of people planting it later. It is like this now, and it will still be like this twenty or thirty years later; at that time, cotton will occasionally rise in price for a year, and those who planted cotton that year made money, and the land contracting fee for the second year will definitely rise—but the price of cotton will definitely fall that year.

Such things have happened several times, but everyone just doesn't have a memory, and the gambling nature is very heavy.

There is no way, planting other things obviously loses money, so they just plant this. The state has subsidies, looking at it, they can earn some subsidies. If it is their own land, they don't need to pay the contracting fee, and in the end, one mu of land can earn the contracting fee.

Li Long will also say what he knows at this time, the focus is on what medicine to use to fight after insects are born, and what fertilizer needs to be supplemented at what stage of 'dagua' growth.

At this time, saying things like planting 'dagua' is not worth money, no one likes to listen, it is better to tell them how to increase production.

After chatting for a while, Li Long drove the jeep back. Although there is nothing big in the county, there are many chores.

Gu Bo Yuan takes care of the acquisition station, Li Long doesn't need to worry too much. It is Gu Bo Yuan, who will tell Li Long how much things were collected today every night at dinner, and let him take time to pull some of them over, mainly fritillaria and medicinal materials. After cleaning in the large courtyard, it is good to sell these things when Jia Tianlong comes next time.

Whether it is Li Long or Gu Bo Yuan, they know that it is best not to press the goods collected by the acquisition station, and timely return of funds is normal. If there are too many goods pressed, one is that things will be old after a long time, not all things are better the older they are like wine.

Jia Tianlong is also waiting for the funds to return after the goods are transported, and there are other things.

So after returning to the large courtyard, Li Long washed the fritillaria transported from the acquisition station as usual, looked at the fritillaria being dried, and collected them if they were dry.

He was working here, Mingming and Haohao were not in a hurry on the side, Sister Yang had time to prepare dinner.

The knocking on the door sounded, Li Long responded and let them in. The small door by the gate was pushed open. Li Long turned his head to look, it was Zhou Yuan.

"Section Chief Zhou, why are you here? Anything?" Li Long stood up, shook the water on his hands, "Sit down first, I'll pour you water."

Zhou Yuan came pushing a bicycle. He propped up the car and said with a smile, "I'm here for something, a great thing. This water of yours, I really have to drink a sip."

Li Long hadn't gone over to pour water yet, Sister Yang had already brought out a bowl of tea, smiled and handed it to Zhou Yuan, said a hard work, and then went in.

Zhou Yuan took the tea and took a sip, looked at Mingming and Haohao and asked:

"Are these your two sons? These tiger-headed and tiger-brained, really spirited! Hey, not afraid of people..."

Although the two children didn't go out of the courtyard much, people and cars often came to this courtyard, and they were not afraid, just looking at Zhou Yuan with round eyes.

"These can stand, how old?"

"Less than a year... almost a year old." Li Long said, "It's okay, quite obedient."

After Zhou Yuan praised Li Long's son, he began to talk about business.

"The county has notified that our Director Li has won the commendation of advanced individual in ethnic unity in the county, and our supply and marketing cooperative is an advanced unit of ethnic unity in the county, and also an advanced unit of ethnic unity in the state. As for you personally, you are an advanced individual of ethnic unity in our state. The director asked me to notify you to go to the state to attend the meeting with him in two days, and asked you to go over tomorrow morning to discuss this matter."

Having already won the advanced individual of ethnic unity at the autonomous region level, Li Long is not particularly cold about the state level.

But he opened an acquisition station, and at the current standard of living, saying "daily income of gold" is not an exaggeration. At this time, it is good to have a few more hats to block the wind and rain.

So after listening to Zhou Yuan's words, Li Long said with a smile:

"Thank you, Section Chief Zhou, this is really a great thing... Stay and drink two cups?"

"No, no, no, drinking is forget it, wait until you have time. After receiving the award, our director will definitely celebrate it, and then drink with you."

Zhou Yuan didn't stay at Li's house either, and left after saying the matter. After he left, Sister Yang came to collect the bowl and said to Li Long with a smile:

"Uncle, this is great, commended by the state again, this is a great thing!"

"Hmm, it's a good thing." Li Long smiled.

Being famous is not necessarily a great thing, but from the last incident, he really needs some fame and hats to protect himself.

In the afternoon, Gu Xiaoxia and Gu Bo Yuan who got off work returned one after another. As soon as Gu Xiaoxia returned, she said to Li Long with a smile:

"You are going to be commended by the state this time, the document has been sent to our bureau. Director Wang also specifically came to tell me, let me congratulate you on his behalf."

"Commended by the state?" Gu Bo Yuan knew that Li Long had been commended by the autonomous region, and now he was commended by the state again. He thought about it and understood, "Ethnic unity? Good thing! With this, those with ulterior motives who want to hit the idea of our acquisition station will have to consider it carefully. Now the State Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee still has some effect."

"Hmm." Li Long nodded, "It's a good thing, tomorrow I will go to the cooperative, Director Li said to discuss with me how to attend the commendation conference."

"Then you are quite busy this month," Gu Bo Yuan thought about it and said, "That Boss Jia is also coming soon, right? And there is the mountains... now it is the peak season for fritillaria, do you have to go there too?"

"Hmm, I will arrange these things before I leave. Besides, it takes at most one day to go, it shouldn't be a big problem."

He doesn't need to attend the commendation conference in the county, just attend the state-level conference, more than 100 kilometers between the two places, one day can be done.

The next morning after breakfast, Li Long rode a bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Li Xiangqian had just finished the meeting for everyone and was looking at the newspaper sent today in the office.

When Li Long arrived at the door of his office, the phone rang.

Li Xiangqian saw Li Long, he picked up the phone with one hand, and pointed to the sofa with one hand, signaling Li Long to sit down himself.

"Hello, I am Li Xiangqian."

"Old Li, you are really capable... Just on the newspaper, now you are going to be commended by the state again. This new official takes office without burning fire, directly red," the voice on the other side was very loud, Li Long could hear the sourness in the other party's tone.

"Hey, Little Ye," hearing it wasn't a leader, Li Xiangqian relaxed and said with a smile, "How about it? Envious? Let me tell you, this is just a small show of mine, it doesn't count, it doesn't count, the leader values us..."

"If you say you are fat, you are still panting! Who doesn't know you have a good subordinate, Old Wei told me, if you show off again, Old Wei said he wants to dig people over."

"Old Wei doesn't do this, that Little Li here won't go over," Li Xiangqian smiled at Li Long, pointed to the kettle to let him pour water himself, and continued, "How about you? No one to be commended?"

"I am just an advanced unit in the county, not as good as your state-level one. Hey, just happen to gather together, I will also learn from you. Let me tell you, I have been in office for three years, and there is no commendation from the state, let alone the state, even our State Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives doesn't have it. You are advanced every year, how can you tell me..."

"No problem." Li Xiangqian's tone was very proud, "Treat me to dinner when the time comes, at least at the Fenjiu level, I will tell you what's going on."

"That's no problem, I can get you at least six of the eight famous wines, as long as you want to drink..."

After chatting for a few sentences and putting down the phone, Li Xiangqian just said to Li Long, "Hold the commendation conference next Monday, if your jeep is okay, drive it over, I will also sit..."

Before finishing speaking, the phone rang again.

Li Long smiled and didn't speak again.

Li Xiangqian didn't mention it, he would also drive the jeep over. He couldn't let Li Xiangqian take a large truck or buy a long-distance bus ticket over, right?

This time the person who called was Wei Zhuren who had been transferred to Beiting. He also congratulated Li Xiangqian for representing the unit to be commended this time, and also made an appointment for a meal.

Wei Zhuren's meaning, since he is going to Beiting, then he, the landlord, must definitely do his best. He specifically mentioned a sentence on the phone, bringing Li Long along when the time comes.

Li Long thought to himself that he didn't need to join in the fun, right?

But since Wei Zhuren said so, he definitely still has to go.

"Just now it was Ye Jialiang, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative in Fukan. We worked together before, and then separated," Li Xiangqian explained, "Did you hear Wei Zhuren's words just now? We will go together when the time comes, and the old director's banquet must definitely be attended."

Li Long knows that this face must definitely be given. Wei Zhuren was good to him when he was in office, and when he left, he also asked him if he wanted to go to Beiting. Li Long refused.

The incense friendship is still there.

Li Long also thought that since he was going to Beiting, he must definitely see Director Qian, and he had to prepare some local specialties.

What to prepare?

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