Chapter 949: Li Long is going to do a big thing this time!

After the Lu couple left, Li Long said solemnly to Li Jianguo:

"Big Brother, I want to tell you something."

"You say." Seeing Li Long so solemn and serious, Li Jianguo guessed that the matter he wanted to say should be relatively large, extinguished the cigarette in his hand and said: "What is it?"

"I'm thinking, after the New Year this year, let's do a big thing. I want to compete to see if I can be selected to go to the national level to be an advanced individual for ethnic unity."

"What? What are you doing that for?" Li Jianguo was a bit confused. Li Long told him about the things in the first few years. Whether it was the autonomous region or the state's advanced individual, it was all because Li Long did things and was reported by the news, and people took the initiative to award it to Li Long.

In other words, these two honors weren't actively sought by Li Long himself.

Now that he suddenly said this, there must be some ideas.

"Didn't we buy a courtyard in Yanjing? Since we already have a courtyard, we have to go over and look at it often, right? Going over there, if there is really something, we can't rely on Gu Xiao Yu, right? If I don't have any name, if something happens over there, I really can't carry it."

Yanjing is the capital, and people from all over the country are crowded and want to go there. If there is no name over there, it's really hard to say if something happens.

So Li Long felt that if he really wanted to have a point over there, he had to have a bright and upright name, at least go once or twice a year, so that he could keep the courtyard.

Li Jianguo nodded slowly after hearing him say this.

Yes. Thousands of kilometers away, if that courtyard was really occupied, although he had that piece of paper in his hand, would people recognize it?

"Then how do you plan to do it? This is not easy to do." Li Jianguo didn't have any good ideas for a while.

"I plan to wait until spring, when the work in the fields hasn't started, our tractor will go into the mountains to build a road for those friends of mine," Li Long said his plan. "First push out the road from the winter nest to the outside, and if there is time later, build the road from the winter nest to the summer pasture.

Don't build it wide, even if it's just pushing out a road that a tractor can walk on, it's fine."

"It's not simple." Li Jianguo shook his head and said, "That road, no matter what, has to be dozens of kilometers, right?"

"Just do it first. Anyway, it's not urgent. Do it while looking, if it can't be done in one year, then two years. I've thought about the difficulty of this project," Li Long said. "This national name is not so easy to get. If the road can be built in one year, people will feel it's simple and easy, and it's not very likely to give me this, right?"

"Also right." Li Jianguo felt his younger brother's train of thought was correct.

As for the money to build the road, neither of them mentioned it. Anyway, they had the tractor themselves, and the Dongfanghong 70 tractor with a bulldozer blade in front was a bulldozer, which could be very useful.

As for building a road into the mountains, the biggest difficulty was pushing some slopes flat and widening some original narrow roads.

Of course, they also had to cut down some trees and clear some shrubs.

Li Long had no way to build a bridge in the mountains for the time being, but he could engage in some simple water-crossing surfaces.

"Sigh, there is a lot of work in the fields this year, and we have opened some more land, so we can only use the slack farming season to build the road," Li Jianguo sighed.

Li Long thought for a while and said:

"Not necessarily, wait and see. Maybe I have to buy another tractor, and then specially build the road in the mountains. Big Brother, your tractor is in the team, we still have to open land to make money."

Li Jianguo didn't expect Li Long to plan to manage multiple things at once. The work in the mountains wouldn't be left behind, and the land reclamation in the team would also be carried out.

"Now opening so much land, can't plant it all," Li Jianguo said. "That reclaimed wasteland, although there is a formula given by Professor Luo, it's okay to plant general crops, but it can't be planted much. Cash crops can't be planted either, sunflowers and melon seeds can't be planted."

"Then plant cotton." Li Long felt there was no need to wait for the history of planting cotton seven or eight years later. "Open the land first, try planting cotton... forget it, wait a bit, land reclamation is not urgent."

Li Long originally thought about opening wasteland to plant cotton this year, but thinking that there were only his elder brother and sister-in-law at home, plus the old father and old mother who could help occasionally, they were already planting the land of three families. Now opening more land, when mechanization hadn't reached enough, farming was also very tiring.

This time Li Jianguo rarely didn't take the work. He knew how much ability he had. Now planting so much land, and still having to drive a tractor to plow and sow, it was about enough. Unless he hired a long-term worker, otherwise the work in the fields definitely couldn't be done well.

The two brothers finished talking about this matter and set a general direction. The rest was to see the details when implementing it.

Because this year it was basically determined not to compile the lifting handle, the period before and after sowing was considered slack farming season, and at that time Li Jianguo could drive a tractor to work in the mountains.

Li Long thought that one tractor might be relatively slow. Although it was just widening the original pastoral path, dozens of kilometers of road also needed a considerable amount of time.

Of course, first open the roads from each winter nest to the outside of the mountains—currently only the winter nests of Halimu, Yushanjiang, and Talihar could directly reach the outside, and the others were relatively difficult to walk.

The project was relatively huge, but Li Long had confidence in finishing it in two or three years.

For public and private reasons, he hoped to do this thing well.

After eating at his elder brother's home, Li Long drove the jeep back to the county.

The next thing he had to do was go to the photo studio to develop the photos taken on this trip to Yanjing.

Two days later, the photos came out, and it was almost the Little New Year here.

Li Long took the photos and went directly to the purchasing station, intending to let Gu Bo Yuan see them.

Approaching the New Year, the work at the purchasing station finally had less, and when Li Long came over, there were only two or three people waiting to sell things here.

And very quickly, the things brought by these few people were sold. After Gu Bo Yuan washed his hands, Li Long took the photos to show him, explaining while looking.

At this time, the photos taken by the camera Li Long carried were only black and white, but even so, seeing the photos of them taken at Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Great Wall, Gu Bo Yuan was also envious.

"I'll keep these few photos of Xiaoxia and Gu Xiao Yu. I see you developed many, are you going to mail them to Gu Xiao Yu?"

"Mm, I'm going to mail them," Li Long said. "Gu Uncle, you have Gu Xiao Yu's address, right? Write to her when you have time. I see that when we came back, she wasn't very happy."

"Do I need you to tell me?" Gu Bo Yuan glared at him. "Alright, alright, busy with your own things."

Li Long smiled and returned to the large courtyard. It was almost the New Year, and Aunt Yang was busy preparing things to eat for the New Year.

Li Long then started cleaning up each room. There were many rooms in the large courtyard, some sundries in the wing rooms also needed to be sorted out, the vegetables planted in the greenhouse behind also needed to be picked in a batch, and the family had to prepare to paste couplets, etc. In the afternoon, Li Long went to the Fourth Team again, first went to the old horse number, Old Luo and the others were playing cards in the room. After hearing the car sound, they went out of the door and were quite happy after seeing Li Long.

Li Long carried the specialty box into the room. The old people didn't play cards anymore, and they talked about selling sheep one after another.

Li Long could hear that the slaughter and sale of cattle, sheep, and deer were quite good, including the heads and hooves of cattle and sheep, which were mostly bought by people in the village, including the Second and Third Teams. The skins were waiting in the warehouse for Li Long to handle.

"People in the team have money, and they are picky about eating meat," Yang Laoliu said indignantly: "Some people even dislike that there is little meat on the hooves... don't think about it, a few years ago, everyone snatched this to eat..."

Also, the changes in the team in these few years were relatively large, at least the average living standard was much higher than other villages.

"This is a good thing," Old Luo must have argued with Yang Laoliu, "Having money to eat meat, isn't that a good thing? Those who don't want to eat heads, hooves, and offal are just too lazy to clean them. Look at us, clean them up, marinate them, and drink two cups of wine, how good it is!"

This topic was not easy to proceed, so Li Long talked about his observations in Yanjing.

Knowing that Li Long went to see the old man's memorial hall, Tiananmen, and took photos, these old people asked Li Long to develop the photos as soon as possible, saying they wanted to see them.

"If there is a chance in the future, I will take you to Yanjing to see," Li Long smiled. "You have to be prepared."

"If we can really go, then we have to save money properly..." "Money is nothing, the most important thing is that you have to keep your body healthy," Li Long smiled. "You have to have a good body to climb the Great Wall."

"Don't worry about this, Little Long! Although we old brothers are old, our bodies are very good!"

Coming out of the old horse number, Li Long first went to Tao Daqiang's home. Tao Daqiang wasn't there; he and Yang Pingping went to his father-in-law's home. Li Long then handed the box of pastries to Tao Jian She, chatted with him for a few sentences, and then went to Xie Yun Dong's home.

Two days ago, when Li Long returned, Xie Yun Dong wasn't there; he went to help his father-in-law. After he went to Li's house to find Li Long, Li Long had already left.

Li Long parked the car outside the courtyard, carried a box of pastries into the courtyard, and saw Xie Yun Dong clearing snow. He also saw Li Long and said with a smile:

"Little Long is here? Just right, the money for selling cattle and sheep is still kept here. Since you are here, just let you see it."

Li Long smiled and said: "No rush, no rush. This is the pastries I brought back from Yanjing, the time-honored shop over there, a shop that has been making pastries for hundreds of years, just right for you to taste."

"Alright, alright, alright, things from Yanjing, not easy," Xie Yun Dong stood the wooden shovel in his hand against the wall, pushed the door, and let Li Long in.

Deng Guilan was tidying up the kitchen and greeted Li Long with a smile.

"You pour water for Little Long, I will show Little Long the accounts and money for selling cattle and sheep," Xie Yun Dong said, and then took Li Long into the inner room.

Li Long saw Xie Yun Dong take a rolled-up package from the top of the fire wall. After opening it, inside were stacks of money and a notebook.

"Cattle and sheep were sent to the sugar factory according to the price and quantity you said. Then, that Section Chief Hu also wanted three deer, male deer. You weren't there, I thought since people wanted them, then let's slaughter them. This matter couldn't be told to you at that time..." Xie Yun Dong said.

"No problem, no problem, it was me who didn't explain clearly," Li Long thought to himself how he forgot this matter.

"Later, there were people in the team and people from other villages who came to buy cattle and sheep heads, hooves, and offal. The accounts are all here, you take a look."

Li Long flipped through the notebook, on which every income was recorded.

Regardless of the three large accounts of over 20,000 sold to the sugar factory, or a cow head for 15 yuan, four sheep hooves plus one sheep head for 5 yuan—the price rose this year, and Xie Yun Dong didn't give the welfare of 3 yuan last year.

"Our team people don't lack this little money," Xie Yun Dong explained. "Ma Jinbao's side is 6 yuan for a pair of sheep heads and sheep hooves. We wanted less, some people didn't feel grateful and said strange things, so I set the price at 5 yuan."

Li Long smiled and said: "Mm, it should be like this."

The total account was on the last page. All the things sold were 26,188.4 yuan.

Li Long counted the money seriously, and then took out 100 yuan from it and handed it to Xie Yun Dong:

"This is for you, this matter is thanks to you."

Xie Yun Dong didn't push it away and said with a smile: "Then I will accept it."

This matter was revealed. Xie Yun Dong asked about some things in Yanjing city, and Li Long picked what could be said and said some.

Then he went to Liang Dacheng and Jia Weidong's homes to send pastries, chatted for a while, and finally returned to his elder brother's home.

Li Juan and Li Qiang ran out immediately after hearing the jeep sound.

"Come, come, just right, move these specialties into the room, you have been waiting anxiously, right?" Li Long smiled. "Didn't eat properly over in Yanjing, this time brought them back, can eat properly."

Li Juan was a bit shy, and Li Long just smiled.

"Don't just look, come, move together! After moving in, let's have a good meal today, I didn't eat properly either."

Li Long separated the specialties brought back and let the two children hold a few boxes each and go to the room. Li Qing Xia and Du Chunfang came out of the east room after hearing the commotion. Li Long took a few boxes and went over to put them in their room.

"Old mother, you put these pastries by the bedside, and eat a piece when you think of it," Li Long exhorted Du Chunfang. "Pastries are a bit sweet, don't eat too much at once."

Life was good, but Du Chunfang didn't change the habit of liking to eat snacks. Li Long would buy some and put them in her room from time to time. Sometimes when the snacks were finished and Li Long forgot, Du Chunfang would ask Li Qing Xia for money to buy them herself.

Li Long knew she would still be embarrassed, and when she went to the door shop to buy snacks, she would tell people it was for her own grandchildren.

The little old lady was quite cute sometimes.

"Alright, alright, alright, can't eat those," Du Chunfang looked full of joy. "One box is enough, you take the rest home to eat."

"There are some at home," Li Long smiled. "Mingming's aunt is in Yanjing, if you want to eat, just mail them over. Don't worry, eat."

Saying this, he said to his old father again:

"Old father, you eat too. This is famous, Yanjing famous shop, time-honored shop, opened for hundreds of years."

"Alright, alright, alright, I will taste it." Li Qing Xia didn't eat snacks much, but this was bought specially by his youngest son from Yanjing, so no matter what, he had to taste it.