Chapter 868

Qi Zhiguo walked out of the state-run canteen, carrying the morels Li Long gave him, walked quickly for twenty or thirty meters, turned into an alley next to a courtyard, looked left and right, saw no one, put down the bag containing mushrooms, and took out the envelope from his pocket.

His palms were already sweaty, not knowing if it was nervous or because of just eating.

His hands were a bit shaky. Seeing the envelope mouth was folded, he couldn't pick it open after picking it twice. The anxious Qi Zhiguo simply tore the envelope mouth open directly, and then poured the money inside out.

Such a thick stack!

The envelope had fallen to the ground, and he didn't care. He held the money in his left hand, spat some saliva on his right hand fingers, and counted excitedly.

One, two, three... fifty-one sheets?

Not right? Impossible and shouldn't be? Should it be an integer?

Counted again, fifty sheets.

Five hundred yuan!

This was a big number!

Now Qi Zhiguo's salary was over seventy yuan, and this money was more than his salary for half a year!

This money came too happily, right?

Although five hundred yuan couldn't buy a courtyard, it was much closer to his goal. Buying a bungalow with an inner and outer room not in the city center was no problem.

He had some money saved, if added...

He suddenly remembered again, it seemed that the Comrade Huang who called him said that if the business was done, he would also give him an introduction fee.

Although the probability was that the introduction fee given by that Comrade Huang would be less than Li Long's, if added together, could he buy a courtyard like Old Chen? After buying the courtyard, he could pick up his wife!

Thinking of this, Qi Zhiguo's heart was burning!

This money must be put away well.

And couldn't let colleagues know... Qi Zhiguo clutched the money, suddenly thought of the colleague who was borrowing money in the office these two days—a colleague was getting married, the three big items hadn't been set up, the partner suddenly changed her mind and wanted to increase the price, and now the colleague was worried about borrowing money everywhere.

He put the money in his pocket, patted it with his hand, lifted the bag and was walking out, suddenly came back, picked up the envelope from the ground, looked at the torn mouth, a bit annoyed, why was he so anxious just now? The money wouldn't run away.

This kraft paper envelope was quite thick, five cents each!

He smoothed the envelope, took the money out of his pocket, carefully put it in, and then put it into the inner pocket of his jacket—this inner pocket was added by him, safer.

Chen Hongjun separated from Li Long, returned home, saw his mother sewing clothes under the grape trellis, and handed the dried mushrooms over.

"What's in this?" Chen Hongjun's mother asked curiously.

"Wild mushrooms, a gift from a friend. They can be used for soup, soaked, or stir-fried. They are good things." Chen Hongjun explained, and then entered the house.

His wife and children were not there. After eating, those who went to work went to work, those who went to school went to school, all gone.

He sat at the desk, opened the envelope, saw the five hundred yuan inside, and shook his head with a smile. Was Li Long buying a horse bone with a thousand gold?

Actually, Li Long indeed had this intention. That was a long-term friendship with Chen Hongjun. The two had a good relationship, so they would often interact in the future, so he didn't care much about money.

Regarding the relationship with Huang Lei introduced by Qi Zhiguo, giving three hundred was fine, giving five hundred was just to make it an integer, and it was also introducing to people in this circle through Qi Zhiguo. He Li Long gave money happily. As long as the person introduced was on the right path, the money was definitely no problem.

Because the matter of giving money to the introducer would definitely spread, Li Long wanted this effect.

One person could say that Li Long and Chen Hongjun had a good relationship. Now adding Qi Zhiguo, the effect was different.

His purchasing station could get all kinds of things. As long as the sales channel was opened, money would naturally come continuously.

After separating from Chen Hongjun, Li Long drove the jeep around Beiting City again, and then hurried back.

Nothing to do in the afternoon, Li Long continued to watch the baby.

The next morning, Li Long drove the jeep to the Fourth Team. He also wanted to see the situation of his eldest brother driving the tractor. After all, such a big guy was not comparable to a small four-wheeled one, and there might be some conditions.

When Li Long arrived, Li Jianguo was performing routine "maintenance" on the East Is Red 75 tractor in the front yard. He had been plowing the land for these few days and was skilled in driving it. He had used all the auxiliary machinery once, and now it was just cleaning up the garbage and seeing where butter needed to be added.

The small four-wheeled tractor was shaken by a rocker, but the East Is Red 75 tractor was not. This required a rope with a knot on the head, wrapped around a rotating wheel on the tractor body. The knot stuck in the notch of the rotating wheel, wrapped around for a circle and a half, and then pulled the rope out hard. When pulled out, it drove the rotating wheel to rotate, starting the tractor.

When Li Long arrived at the front yard, he just happened to see his eldest brother starting the tractor. The new tractor was easy to start, and it started in two pulls—what surprised Li Long was that Wang Cai Mi was also on the side. He saw Li Jianguo start the tractor in two pulls and said enviously:

"Hey! It's really a new machine! My old machine, which time doesn't take five or six pulls to start."

It seemed that Wang Cai Mi had already accepted the fact that the Li family bought a tractor and took the initiative to come to the Li family. I don't know if it was to see the situation of the new machine or to study plowing technology with Li Jianguo.

"Little Long is here?" Wang Cai Mi looked at Li Long who got off the jeep, his expression a bit complicated, and then took the initiative to greet, "Are you not busy?"

"Hmm, not busy recently." Li Long said with a smile, "Come to give my eldest brother some pointers? You are an old tractor driver, with good technology, you must come often."

Wang Cai Mi looked at Li Long's expression seriously, saw that he was sincere and not mocking, nodded and said:

"I drive a lot. I won't talk about experience, but there are quite a few lessons. Your family has a new machine. Some problems can't be seen now, but they must be prevented. This tractor is tough. If you drive it for ten or eight years, there will basically be no major problems, but it's hard to say after that..."

Li Long said to himself, drive for ten or eight years? If you drive for ten or eight years, you would have earned back many times the profit long ago. At that time, this machine should also be updated.

After all, ten years ago, the East Is Red 75 tractor could only pull a three-share plow. At that time, there was not even a five-share plow. Now it's good, even the bulldozer is on it, and the five-share plow doesn't need two people to operate like the three-share plow before. One person can do it. And in a few years, the reversible plow will come out, and no one will need to operate the plowshare.

Times develop. If you can't keep up with the times, you can only be eliminated. From the previous life, Wang Cai Mi was the first to use a tractor in the team. At first, it was only his one. Xu Lingshan's 802 behind didn't pose a threat to him.

If he could keep up with the development of the situation, after making money, quickly update the tractor, it might not be impossible to always maintain the leader position in the team.

Unfortunately, Wang Cai Mi didn't have this vision, always using the old tractor, repairing and patching. Later, although he bought another one, it was still an old East Is Red tractor eliminated by others.

By the time the country had more and more large-horsepower wheeled tractors, and people in the team took out loans to buy them, Wang Cai Mi's financial strength at this time was completely enough to buy one in full.

But he didn't buy it and was directly thrown behind by others.

By the time four or five large-horsepower wheeled tractors suddenly appeared in the team, and Wang Cai Mi found that something was wrong, it was already too late. His tractor had no work to do—with a new tractor that could plow deeply, quickly, and cheaply, who would still use the old East Is Red 75? Not to mention it was slow, and the plowing quality was not as good as the new one.

Since then, Wang Cai Mi was considered to have retired behind the scenes in the team. He was still not reconciled and bought a wheeled tractor for his son, but at this time, the land in the team was being snatched. Some tractors went to neighboring villages or other places to plow the land. He was late and had no advantage. In the end, the tractor didn't earn money and was sold.

Later, on the stage of the Fourth Team's influential figures, he was no longer there. Of course, he was still quite popular when slaughtering the year-end pig every year. After all, young people couldn't do this work, so they had to rely on the older generation.

But everyone liked to eat the pork raised by themselves, which was indispensable.

Only then could he show a sense of presence—small troubles were okay, but when it came to big things, he also mocked himself at that time, without that vision.

After combing through Wang Cai Mi's later life experience, Li Long didn't expose it, just watched his eldest brother and Wang Cai Mi "maintaining" the tractor.

It could be seen that Li Jianguo's movements were still a bit raw. Whether it was adding butter or cleaning oil stains, they were all standard, and he would discuss with Wang Cai Mi from time to time. Mainly Li Jianguo studied the manual, while Wang Cai Mi was considered a wild path—when he entered the team to drive the tractor, the manual for that old tractor had long been thrown away, and he just followed the old master hand-in-hand.

It was not quite the same as Li Jianguo who seriously studied the manual.

How to save trouble, how to come, of course, there were also some small tips.

Li Jianguo learned these small tips, while Wang Cai Mi was very interested in the manual.

His old tractor often broke down and was often repaired. Some problems were problems he had figured out blindly. With the manual, he wouldn't read it much, but the process Li Jianguo made after reading it made him feel very inspired.

Li Long watched from the side, just watching. He didn't drive the tractor, barely knew how to drive, knew how to move forward, backward, and turn. As for plowing the land, leave it to his eldest brother.

Watching here was mainly to understand the situation his eldest brother had mastered. From the current point of view, his eldest brother Li Jianguo was now really considered a basically qualified tractor driver.

Just watching, he heard the bell of a bicycle.

When Li Long turned his head, he saw Xu Haijun had gotten off the bicycle and pushed it into the courtyard.

"Yo, Haijun is here?" Wang Cai Mi took the initiative to greet. He now attached great importance to these young people in the village, one by one.

Before, he felt that there was no hair on the mouth, and things were not firm. Now, looking at them one by one, not to mention Li Long, just these Xu Haijun, Tao Daqiang, Xie Yun Dong, Liang Dacheng, etc., one by one had tractors, drove harvesters, earned several thousand in a wheat season, not bad!

"Hmm, come to tell Little Long some things." Xu Haijun propped up the bicycle, came over to distribute cigarettes to Li Jianguo and Wang Cai Mi, and then took out a lighter to light them one by one, and then said to Li Long:

"Chat?"

"Okay." Li Long greeted his eldest brother with a smile, and then walked out.

Xu Haijun knew that Li Long didn't smoke, so he didn't distribute it to him, and didn't light it himself. When walking out, he said while walking:

"I took people into the mountains for five days and cut back over three thousand poles. I came back yesterday, didn't plan to go today, thinking about repairing those poles, otherwise they can't be used."

"Not bad, not bad," Li Long smiled, "Rest assured, they will definitely be sold."

"Hmm, someone has already reserved them from me." Xu Haijun smiled. He planned to go into the mountains for a few more days in a few days to get more poles back.

Three thousand poles were conservatively worth fifteen hundred yuan. If a person in the group got a few hundred, he felt it was not enough, thinking about getting more.

Coming to find Li Long, one was to probe the bottom of Li Long's big broom task here to see how many poles were needed, and the other was to have something to say.

"After entering the mountains, we turned around in several gullies," Xu Haijun said, "cut quite a few poles, but also encountered some things. The winter nest closest to the outside of the mountains has people living in it. Because we had to return every day, and were also worried about driving people away, and then he would come over to destroy it, so we didn't care."

Li Long nodded, this was the truth. Unless stationed in the mountains, otherwise, don't form an enmity, or like the last time Li Long and the others directly caught people away. Otherwise, the other party had plenty of time to destroy this winter nest.

"And there is your wooden house... people also entered." Xu Haijun said another news that surprised Li Long somewhat, "We went to that place, saw the wooden house door was open, the lock was destroyed. When we went, there was no one inside, but there were bloodstains at the door, and wolf claw prints. We don't know exactly what happened."

Bloodstains? Claw prints?

Li Long felt that he needed to make a trip into the mountains.

People entering the wooden house was something he could imagine. After all, living in earth nests and mountain caves in the mountains now definitely couldn't compare to living in this wooden house.

But there were bloodstains, which meant something happened. It was not being attacked, it was fighting—of course, it could also be hunting.

He had to go and see.

After Xu Haijun finished saying this, and got the confirmed news of the big broom task at Li Long's place, he went back.

The poles cut back had to be dried, peeled, and guaranteed not to crack—it was not such a simple thing either.

Xu Haijun learned a very important thing at Li Long's place, which was that selling things must have high standards. Only with high standards would people continue to buy things from him.

So he hoped that the poles sold would not have bad reviews.

Xu Haijun studied Li Long's history of getting rich, which was winning the supply and marketing cooperative's order business through high-quality things.

He already knew in the mountains that there were people doing the same thing as himself on the Qingshuihe side. People cut poles earlier and in larger quantities.

But Xu Haijun had the confidence to win in this aspect—he found that cutting poles was a job done by few people now, and the market was not small. Doing it well was more profitable than tying big brooms.

And because of this, several young people gathered around him, just like Tao Daqiang around Li Long before.

Not being able to do what Li Long did, following Li Long to divide labor and cooperate, was also profitable.

Xu Haijun thought about cutting enough poles before the wheat was harvested, so as not to delay things.

Li Long was a bit anxious in his heart, but he still returned to the county after eating lunch at his eldest brother's house.

And then he started preparing things to go into the mountains—he had already calmed down. Going into the mountains was definitely going, but he couldn't be anxious. Prepare completely before talking.

This was thinking three times before acting, and thinking again—Gu Bo Yuan said it, not that he wanted to hang a book bag. (End of chapter)