Chapter 910

After Qiao Xing left, Li Long was busy settling accounts and distributing money to each family.

Early on the morning of October 14th, Li Long went to the home of team leader Xu Chengjun.

"What? You said you want to show a movie?"

"Yeah, I earned some money collecting melon seeds from the team this time, so I thought about showing a few movies for the team."

"A few?" Xu Chengjun was stunned for a moment, "Showing one is enough, why a few?"

"Yeah, show three. Anyway, everyone is basically idle now, there's no work, nothing to do at night, let's watch a movie." Li Long said with a smile, "It can also be considered an entertainment activity."

Xu Chengjun looked at Li Long earnestly, and then smiled.

The Fourth Team had people coming to show movies every summer and autumn. This wasn't something invited by some people, but a task from the Cultural Palace, equivalent to the cultural countryside movement of later generations, bringing movies to the countryside to provide cultural enjoyment to the vast number of farmers.

"Tunnel Warfare" had been shown, "Painted Skin" had been shown, and "Shaolin Temple" had been shown.

There were those who liked to watch and those who didn't. But usually, regardless of whether they liked the content of the movie, in such a joyful occasion, everyone would usually go, even if they didn't care about the content of the movie, just being surrounded by people was lively.

It was a bit cool on the night of mid-October, but it also had a benefit, which was that there were no mosquitoes.

It was a very annoying thing to have mosquitoes when watching a movie at night. It was better when watching, as the plot was more attractive and you couldn't feel it when mosquitoes sucked blood, but after going back, you would find mosquito bites on your face, wrists, and ankles.

Of course, there was also the fact that a large area of melon seed shells would be left on the ground after watching the movie. There weren't that many snacks at this time, so the trash wasn't much; melon seed shells were the most, and peanut shells were few.

After confirming this matter with Xu Chengjun, Li Long drove the car to the Cultural Palace.

The history of the Fourth Team watching open-air movies continued until the beginning of the 21st century. At that time, the Cultural Palace no longer showed them, as there were already many movies that could be seen on TV. However, there were those who came to sell fertilizer and wanted to promote it, so they invited two movies and advertised their fertilizer by the way.

In Li Long's memory, there really hadn't been any private invitations to show movies in the team; he was considered the first, and if not unprecedented, it was close.

Turning to a market economy, the Cultural Palace also had such business. After Li Long went over, a director received him, and hearing that he wanted to invite people in the production team to watch a movie, he was very happy.

After all, someone was paying—in this day and age, this business had been developed, but currently, no one was inviting people to watch movies. This kind of thing didn't seem to be that popular in Maxian for the time being.

After all, everyone's money didn't come from the wind—except for Li Long.

"Show three parts first." Li Long didn't bargain; actually, the price wasn't expensive, 50 yuan for one show, which really wasn't expensive for him.

Li Long paid readily, and the director was also very cooperative, readily taking out a handwritten paper with a table and movie titles, letting Li Long choose for himself.

Most of them were movies from before last year, some could be traced back ten years, too long ago.

Li Long looked directly to the back, all the way to the movies of 1984, his eyes moving slowly.

Eh? There's even this film, never heard of it?

"Shoerbulake," one look and you know it's about things in the Yili area of Northern Xinjiang, starring Zhou Lijing.

This counts as one. Although those children and young men don't like to watch it, older people should like it.

And... this one!

"Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain," said to be the best war film in China—one of them, can't compare with "The Great Decisive Battle" and the like, but it was filmed very realistically. This kind of film, in the next forty years, couldn't be filmed again.

At the moment, the two-mountain wheel war hadn't ended, so watching this film was quite appropriate.

And in this film, there were many "golden sentences," and some regrets, which were truly things people could remember for a lifetime.

"Come, see you at the martyrs' cemetery," "20 billion raised a wolf cub," "Jin Kailai not being credited is against heaven's reason," "I saw it, even if there was only one, I was satisfied"...

Next, Li Long was a bit hesitant.

Should he choose "Shaolin Kids" or "Heroes Born in Ancient Times"?

The former's lead actor is the Kung Fu Emperor. Regardless of character, at least in terms of the watchability of the fight scenes, in Li Long's view, there is no one better. Besides, with the blessing of "Shaolin Temple," everyone is definitely willing to watch it.

The latter is a group play, the husband and his wife, that gang of Heaven and Earth Society children Jiang Hai, Little Leopard, Big Leopard, Tie Biao, the bad guys Gao Ming, Chameleon, etc., the fight scenes are also very good to watch.

After all, most of them have real Kung Fu.

Hmm, in the end, Li Long chose the latter; this one is still better.

One movie a day, whetting people's appetite. He mainly considered that there were students. At the moment, it wasn't a double weekend, even if it started on Friday, only Saturday night could the children play late, so he showed it as soon as it got dark, which didn't affect the students watching, nor did it affect their rest.

Quite good.

The director registered and issued the ticket, and after confirming the date and location, said to Li Long:

"Don't worry, our projectionist has been to your village and knows how to handle it. After you go back, notify them. If you want to show more in the future, just come; you can show two more before winter."

Li Long took the ticket and returned to the Fourth Team, still having to tell Xu Chengjun this news, letting him notify people in the team to come and watch.

Showing a movie is usually notified in advance, notified on the day, and notified when it's about to start, mainly to try to get everyone to come and watch, otherwise, they will complain if they don't see it.

The Fourth Team's life has been better in the last two years. Those with more money buy a color TV, and those with less money buy a black and white TV to watch. There are more families with TVs, but no matter what, it's not as lively as watching a movie.

So after the loudspeaker notification, many people in the team were very happy.

Some children even started counting the time after hearing it, while some half-grown girls and boys were preparing roasted melon seeds or soybeans.

As mentioned above, snacks are relatively few at this time, usually bringing some homemade roasted soybeans or oil sunflowers.

Don't look at the Fourth Team growing so many melon seeds, but almost no one likes to eat roasted melon seeds. If there are sunflowers, roast sunflowers; if there are no sunflowers, roast oil sunflowers—actually, oil sunflowers are more fragrant than sunflowers, but oil sunflowers are black and small, so it's troublesome to peel them by hand, and if you crack them with your mouth, your mouth will be black, which doesn't look good.

Of course, it's even more powerful if someone can roast soybeans. After all, although soybeans are hard, they are fragrant—Li Long drinks coffee, and he feels that the taste is the taste of roasted burnt soybeans.

If someone brings a bag of popcorn at this time, then he must be the most handsome guy in the whole audience. Popcorn needs to wait for someone to come over and specifically pop it.

The living standard of the Fourth Team villagers is higher, so popcorn makers will come often. Popping a cylinder of corn is 0.05 yuan, a cylinder is about half a kilogram, plus seven or eight grains of saccharin.

In the previous life, popcorn makers came, and it was good to have ten or so people a day. Now coming to the Fourth Team, they can queue up, popping 30 or 40 families a day is no problem, and some people can pop several cylinders, after all, adults and children can all use it as a snack.

After Li Long notified Xu Chengjun, he was about to leave, but Xu Chengjun called him back.

"Little Long, this year's melon seeds and sunflowers have earned money. Do you have any ideas about what to grow next year?"

"What ideas can I have?" Li Long smiled, "You also know that I haven't been farming for a few years. If it weren't for Professor Luo and the others at the Ma Corral, I wouldn't have been able to collect a few tons of sugar beets. I'm not getting involved in this farming business."

He really didn't intend to get involved. At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, he predicted with his eldest brother that this kind of melon seed would definitely lose money, so they grew sunflowers. These sunflowers indeed didn't lose money, but in fact, those who grew melon seeds didn't lose money either.

This thing has a "what if," and this year growing melon seeds had a "what if." Next year, Bai Xiu Ming and the others will probably come again. As for how melon seeds will be collected by then, he can't say either. So he didn't give this suggestion.

"Some people told me that if you still provide a floor price next year, they will still grow melon seeds. Of course, growing sunflowers is also fine, it depends on you." Xu Chengjun threw out his real purpose.

"Then I really can't say. If interior people come to collect, then I'll collect on their behalf." Li Long didn't hide it from Xu Chengjun, "If they don't come, then the things I collect have nowhere to sell, right? Let's put it this way, I can't guarantee a high price, but melon seeds can be collected—if they can be collected, whether it's sunflowers or melon seeds, I can collect our team's first, but the price is hard to say." From the later Qiao Xing coming over, Li Long knew that flat-mouth melon seeds should still have a market, but if interior people research flat-mouth machines later and don't come to collect, then he would have no way.

He guessed that the other party would probably come to collect. If the interior also develops machines, then it can only be a price reduction. So he didn't guarantee the price, only guaranteed that if he collected, the team would be prioritized.

Xu Chengjun didn't get a solid guarantee from Li Long, and such a vague sentence, although he was dissatisfied, he had no way.

The initiative was in Li Long's hands, and he himself had no channels.

Leaving Xu Chengjun's house, Li Long drove the jeep to the Old Ma Corral. During this period of collecting melon seeds, whether it was the team or the acquisition station, it was busy enough, much busier than when collecting fritillaria.

So Li Long planned to slaughter a few sheep and distribute them to a few families to properly reward them.

"Slaughter how many?" Old Old Old Luo Shu naturally didn't oppose Li Long's words, and he said: "The sheep will be driven back in a while. The grass in the fields is very good during this period, and the sheep have gained weight."

In October, the sheep in the mountains came down one after another. Li Long planned to go to the Mahe trading market in a few days to get a batch of cattle and sheep, fatten them up, and then sell them before the New Year.

Although he didn't earn much, this was a way to earn money in winter and couldn't be thrown away. In the future, it could be developed more broadly. The Old Ma Corral still had a lot of space. Although Old Old Old Luo Shu and the others were over 60, each of them was full of energy.

Following Li Long to work here, they didn't lack meat to eat, nutrition could keep up, and their movements really didn't look like old people. The Fourth Team had a tradition in this regard. After all, 30 or 40 years later, those who slaughtered sheep and pigs and turned intestines were all people in their 60s or 70s, and even if they were over 80, they could still help handle the offal.

They can do it!

"Let me calculate." Li Long thought for a while. One whole sheep for his own county, one for his eldest brother, one for Li Xiangqian, one for Director Qian, and half a sheep each for the Xie, Jia, Lu, Tao, and Liang families who worked for him, plus Liang Wenyu, which meant slaughtering seven sheep.

Old Old Old Luo Shu and the others also had to have one sheep.

"Then slaughter eight sheep, slaughter them slowly, no rush." Li Long said, "I'll call people over to help together."

At the moment, there was no work in the team, winter wheat had been sown, and this year's winter wheat sowing work, Li Jianguo did half, and Wang Cai Mi did half. Wang Cai Mi already had a very serious sense of crisis, but there was no way.

His broken tractor was now seriously out of step with the times, just like retirement re-employment. It broke down several times during the sowing process, making people complain endlessly. It was only because he had been plowing and sowing in the team all along that many people were used to it; otherwise, he really wouldn't have been able to get any work.

Now Li Jianguo was also considered an old tractor driver, and he could fix small problems himself. Li Long got two sets of labor insurance clothes for supply and marketing cooperative employees for him to wear as tractor professional clothes.

At first, Li Jianguo wasn't very willing, saying that wearing such good clothes to drive a tractor, getting them all greasy and dirty, wasn't good. Li Long persuaded him to wear them after much talking. Although there was indeed quite a lot of grease on those clothes now, they looked like the real thing.

After all, when driving a tractor at this time, how many are clean?

Old Old Old Luo Shu arranged the venue, and Li Long drove the jeep to call people. Tao Daqiang, Xie Yun Dong, Jia Weidong, and the three Liang brothers all came. Lu Yingming was old, so Li Long definitely didn't call him. The work was done, and the sheep would be distributed to him later.

"Look at you," after people arrived, Xie Yun Dong said, "You earned money from here, and you still distribute sheep, can this work? There's no such reason, right? This sheep should be considered bought by us..."

"Exactly, exactly." Jia Weidong's tractor was bought back, and his spirit was high, "We took advantage of you, how could we feel good?"

Tao Daqiang didn't speak, just looked at Li Long. He was used to it; Li Long said whatever he said, just listen.

"That's not just letting you take advantage." Li Long smiled, "I'll tell you, you also know that I mainly live in the county. My father and mother are still in the team. My eldest brother and sister-in-law won't be mentioned, and my own courtyard is also there. When it snows in winter, if I haven't come back, you have time to help sweep the snow, no problem, right? If there's anything at home, give a hand, no problem, right?"

"That goes without saying, definitely no problem." Tao Daqiang said, "Brother Long, don't worry about this; we will definitely come over often in winter."

Others also said the same. In fact, they were basically doing this anyway, but now that Li Long said it solemnly, they naturally responded solemnly.

Yang Laoliu drove the sheep back, and Li Long picked the lambs of the year to slaughter.

He knew his mother and sister-in-law liked to eat goat, so he slaughtered two goats, and the rest were sheep.

Old Old Old Luo Shu and the others had already started a fire in the courtyard. Li Long could skin the sheep, and others could too, but not as nimbly as Li Long.

"Little Long, your ability to skin is really amazing." Xie Yun Dong hadn't finished skinning half a sheep, and Li Long had already skinned two.

"Heh, practiced in the mountains." Li Long smiled, "At first, it was also skinned in a mess, and then it slowly became okay."

Slaughtering six sheep in the morning, it was already past three in the afternoon when everything was finished.

These people ate at the Ma Corral, and after eating, they split the sheep.

The sheepskin was directly rubbed with salt and dried at the Old Ma Corral, then collected. Before Li Long went to send the sheep to his eldest brother's house, Xie Yun Dong stopped him and asked in a low voice:

"Little Long, do you know when ordinary people can buy cars? How much does that thing cost?"

"What kind of car do you want to buy?" Li Long asked, "Now there are private car buyers in the interior. The van you can see on TV should be 40,000 or 50,000, the small sedan should be over 100,000, and if it's a large truck, it should also be nearly 100,000, right?"

"So expensive?" Xie Yun Dong was immediately disappointed. He had saved some money and originally wanted to get a car to drive, but now it seemed he was far from it.

"There are few factories producing cars in our country now, it will be cheaper in a few years."

Tianjin Dafa, Northeast Songhuajiang, these two kinds of vans should have been available at this time, but at the beginning, the output couldn't keep up, so they would definitely be expensive. As for Santana, that thing didn't cost less than 100,000 at the beginning, so there's a long wait.

However, Li Long felt that Xie Yun Dong himself didn't want to buy such an expensive car, definitely mainly vans, which could haul people and goods, which was convenient.

Went to his eldest brother's place to send the sheep, and hauled one and a half sheep back to the county, turned to Liang Wenyu's place, put down half a sheep, and only then returned to the large courtyard.

Sister Yang had to watch the children and cook, so Li Long solved this sheep himself. He planned to put a sheep leg at Sun Jia Qiang's place.

During this period, the relationship between Tie Lanhua and Sun Jia Qiang had been improving. Sometimes after the acquisition station closed, Tie Lanhua would stay at the acquisition station to help Sun Jia Qiang cook. Although the Tie family would soon call her back, this was already a step forward.

Li Long felt that Tie Lanhua could also be considered a contradictory character. Growing up in such a conservative family, but expressing her feelings very actively. Things like a girl chasing a boy really aren't many in this day and age. Northern Xinjiang is generally more open in terms of marriage and love, and there are many young men and women who talk about love themselves in the 80s.

But a girl chasing a boy is rare. Li Long could see that Tie Lanhua truly liked Sun Jia Qiang and truly wanted to live with him. Between these two people, Sun Jia Qiang was always in a passive position.

Not to mention whether it's good or not, it's just that I don't know how Sun Jia Qiang will deal with Tie Lanhua's family when facing the final step.

After all, even if Li Long hadn't seen it, he knew how difficult this family would be.

He definitely wouldn't advise on this kind of thing.

Of course, it's no problem to give some help when necessary.

Let's watch first.

What Li Long didn't know was that Tie Lanhua was even bolder and more active than Li Long imagined!

After the acquisition station closed, Gu Bo Yuan went to eat. After eating, Li Long carried the sheep leg and went out with Gu Bo Yuan; he went to deliver the meat.

When he reached the acquisition station, Gu Bo Yuan left first. Li Long unlocked the door and went in. He deliberately made his footsteps heavier. When he reached the room door and pushed it open, he found the door was locked from the inside.

He knocked on the door and shouted:

"Little Sun!"

"Hey, coming, coming..."

Sun Jia Qiang, who opened the door, was disheveled.

Li Long was a bit dumbfounded—after a while, Tie Lanhua appeared behind Sun Jia Qiang with a red face, lowering her head and not speaking.

Hey, amazing! (End of chapter)