Chapter 955: Buy another Dongfanghong 75 tractor, who will drive it?

At this time, it was already dark in Beijing, and Gu Xiao Yu had already finished work; she went to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau to make the call.

After using the money in her hand to buy a house and adding furniture to Li Long's two courtyards, Gu Xiao Yu didn't have enough money to install a telephone.

She didn't think about installing a telephone either; after all, that was too luxurious for her at present.

"Gu Xiao Yu? It's Li Long; your sister hasn't finished work yet." Li Long answered the telephone and said when he confirmed it was Gu Xiao Yu.

"It's okay, brother-in-law, I have some things to tell you first." Gu Xiao Yu said, "I cleaned up those two courtyards of yours. I saw some sundries inside that were old and couldn't be used, so I pulled them away and treated them as trash. Then I went to the consignment store and bought some simple furniture and put it inside, so that when you and sister have time to come over, at least your own courtyard will be habitable."

"Hey, then thank you very much. This must be troublesome, right?" Li Long felt a little sorry, letting a girl clean up two not-so-small courtyards; wasn't this tossing people around?

Although it was Gu Xiao Yu who took the initiative, he definitely couldn't just accept it like this, so he said:

"Tell me your number over there, and I'll call you; this long-distance call fee is not cheap."

Gu Xiao Yu said no need, but Li Long insisted, so she hung up the telephone.

Li Long dialed according to this number. After it was connected, he said:

"You have a job now, and you're busy enough doing these chores. You can't pay for the furniture. I'll remit some money to you tomorrow; don't be in a hurry to refuse first. You've also bought your own courtyard, right? When buying daily necessities, buy ours together.

I'll reimburse your travel expenses—remember, when buying things, rent a car; you're a girl, so don't do too heavy work, otherwise, if you really get tired, your sister will definitely complain about me."

Li Long's words were very normal in his view, but hearing these words in Gu Xiao Yu's ears, she felt that kind of concern.

"Brother-in-law, I know now why sister is so happy. It's really rare to see a man as considerate as you. Rest assured, I'm not a delicate Lin Daiyu; although I haven't done farm work, I still have some strength. By the way, do you have any requirements for the two courtyards? Tell me, and I'll handle it when I have time to decorate."

"No requirements, just habitable. Anyway, I didn't plan to live in this courtyard permanently; you just look at it and handle it." Li Long really didn't plan to decorate it well. He suddenly thought of some things and said, "By the way, when buying furniture, go to those consignment stores and buy second-hand ones.

It's the same principle; we don't need new ones, and they'll get old anyway. Those second-hand wooden furniture are quite value-preserving. Maybe you'll pick up some relatively complete old-fashioned furniture, and maybe you'll exchange the expenses in the courtyard back in the future.

Let me tell you, if your courtyard doesn't have high requirements, it's the same. Go to the consignment store and buy some old wooden furniture that can be used, preferably with better wood materials, like rosewood, sandalwood, and other mahogany; even if they are old, they will definitely be valuable in the future."

Although she didn't know where her brother-in-law's confidence came from, he could earn so much money at such a young age, so he must have his reasons and abilities, so Gu Xiao Yu obediently agreed.

At this time, Li Long heard the voices of Gu Xiaoxia and Sister Yang talking outside, and the voices of Mingming and Haohao calling Mom. Li Long hurriedly said to Gu Xiao Yu: "Wait a moment, your sister is back; I'll let her talk to you."

Saying this, Li Long put the receiver on the table and went out to call Gu Xiaoxia over.

Knowing that her sister had called, Gu Xiaoxia couldn't care about washing her hands, hurriedly put down Mingming and Haohao, and walked quickly into the room.

Mingming and Haohao wanted to follow in, but Li Long hurriedly held the two children and took them to play in the courtyard.

After talking for a full ten minutes, Gu Xiaoxia came out of the room and said to Li Long with a smile:

"Gu Xiao Yu said her courtyard is also bought, and she is decorating it now, and she also decorated the courtyard for us."

"Mm, so my meaning is to remit some money to her tomorrow; after all, she is both paying and working."

"Good." Gu Xiaoxia smiled. Her husband arranged everything in an orderly manner, making her look a little stupid and useless, but she liked this feeling.

There was no need to show that she was useful and do some self-clever things.

The next day, Li Long went to the Post and Telecommunications Bureau and remitted one thousand yuan to Gu Xiao Yu—actually, he had thought about remitting more, but after all, it was remitted to Gu Xiao Yu's unit, fearing it would have a bad influence.

Li Long's meaning was to wait until Gu Xiao Yu moved into her own courtyard and had a fixed address, then remitting money would be convenient.

At least it wouldn't cause gossip.

Gu Xiao Yu was also a little surprised after receiving the money. She bought so many things, but actually spent only two or three hundred yuan, even if the travel expenses were added, it wasn't much.

So she called Li Long that day, meaning that too much was remitted.

Li Long's meaning was that anyway, his two-entry courtyard was a bit big. When Gu Xiao Yu had time to look at things in the consignment store, if she found some good old furniture, she would help buy it back and put it in; buying more was fine.

Only then did Gu Xiao Yu feel relieved and also knew the financial strength of her sister's family.

Taking out one thousand yuan to buy old furniture casually, ordinary people definitely couldn't do this.

February 24th, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, suitable for marriage.

On this day, Gu Xiao Yu's stepbrother Huang Yufei got married. His wife was a teacher at a nearby school. Gu Xiao Yu already had a job and lived in a dormitory, so when her stepbrother got married, she gave one hundred yuan—in this era, one hundred yuan was more than a month's salary, so even for family members, this gift money was not small.

Huang's family, including her mother Fan Wenli, had no objections. They actually guessed that Gu Bo should give Gu Xiao Yu extra money, but they didn't ask directly.

It was Lin Xuemei, Huang Yufei's wife, who knew about this and looked at Gu Xiao Yu with a different expression.

This sister-in-law of hers was powerful.

Huang Yufei also told Lin Xuemei the actual situation, and Lin Xuemei looked at Gu Xiao Yu with even more different eyes. One day when Gu Xiao Yu went back, Huang Yufei and Lin Xuemei were also there. When eating, Lin Xuemei quietly asked Gu Xiao Yu if there was still that kind of jade, saying she could pay for it.

"It's mainly because the Guanyin Yufei wears is not suitable for me to wear. People say men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha." Lin Xuemei explained, "If you can buy it, ask how much it is. There are also some in Beijing, but I'm afraid I can't tell the quality of the jade... as for family members, it's still more reassuring."

Gu Xiao Yu was still hesitant about this matter, but after her mother Fan Wenli knew about it, she also asked her to ask Li Long, and if there was any, send one over.

"Anyway, give them money."

Gu Xiao Yu couldn't refuse, but after this matter, she became a little estranged from her mother's side, always feeling that it seemed natural for this side to make requests to the family in Northern Xinjiang, as if people over there should naturally help this side.

Calling her sister to talk about this matter, Gu Xiaoxia didn't feel anything, and she didn't tell Li Long, sending a jade Buddha that Li Long had given her to play with in the past.

Apprentice. Even if Gu Xiaoxia was a bit silly and sweet, she could hear her sister's embarrassment and reluctance.

So the thing didn't need to be too good, just enough to fool them.

"Then sister, how much money is this jade Buddha?" Gu Xiao Yu asked Gu Xiaoxia after receiving the thing.

"Tell them it's a gift for them. If they really feel embarrassed and want to pay, then let them give fifty." Gu Xiaoxia said, "If they really give money, then take it. I'll tell you the truth, you just know it yourself. There are many such materials at home, but your brother-in-law said that it's only worth ten or twenty yuan now, but if you put it away for seventy or eighty years, such a jade Buddha might be worth thousands."

After Gu Xiao Yu heard this, she really couldn't bear to give it away.

For some reason, she trusted Li Long very much.

"If you give it, you give it; there are plenty at home." Gu Xiaoxia looked very generous at this time, "After all, you live over there, and it's not easy for the Huang family to support your schooling. No matter what, you can't cut off that side.

Whatever they want, you just tell me directly, and we can take out whatever we have here. Anyway, they have already moved out; at worst, you can go over in the evening... as for Mom, just don't meet."

Gu Xiao Yu thought it was just like this.

Stepbrother Huang Yufei didn't change much, but Gu Xiao Yu felt that this sister-in-law was not kind, so it was better to have less contact.

Li Long didn't know about these things. At the beginning of March, Zhao Hui came and took away a batch of skins. Li Long sold one bear skin with a bullet hole, one snow leopard skin, and more than three hundred yellow sheep skins and more than twenty red deer skins from the purchasing station from those given by Yushanjiang and the others.

The remaining two snow leopard skins, one bear skin, and one lynx skin were all full skins, and he kept them all. If these skins were kept for two years, the price would more than double.

In this transaction, Zhao Hui took away the skins, and what he left for Li Long was nearly thirty thousand yuan. Not counting those few special skins, the net profit of the others was about seven thousand yuan.

Li Long told Zhao Hui that he could come again before the snow completely melted in April, and what he collected should still be winter skins.

Winter skins are expensive, but the skin quality is good; everyone knows this.

Li Long also sold nearly four hundred sheep skins, nearly one thousand rabbit skins, and fifty or sixty cow skins to the county leather factory, which was also an income, but the profit was not large.

After all, for a sheep skin, the purchasing price of the leather factory now is only about fifteen yuan, and a rabbit skin has not exceeded five yuan.

After the skins were sold, the warehouse of the purchasing station was empty. Li Long left half of the money for Gu Bo Yuan as working capital and gave his father-in-law a dividend of two thousand yuan, which Gu Bo Yuan didn't refuse. After he gave Gu Xiao Yu ten thousand yuan, he didn't have much money in his hand now.

Men, after all, have money in their hands, so they have confidence.

Li Long went to the Fourth Team to pull his elder brother, and then drove to the tractor factory in Shicheng.

He planned to take advantage of the fact that the snow had just started to melt and hurriedly buy the Dongfanghong tractor and drive it into the mountains; otherwise, when the snow melted in a while, the mountains would be muddy, and it would be difficult for the tractor to drive up.

Li Jianguo happened to have nothing to do, so he followed Li Long.

The Dongfanghong 75 crawler tractor didn't increase in price, and the bulldozer and plow added together were less than fifty thousand yuan. The bulldozer was placed in front, the plow was pulled behind, and after going to the oil depot to add oil, they drove back.

After adding oil several times along the way, they finally drove into the mountains in the afternoon and stopped at Halimu's winter camp.

The snow in the county had already started to melt, but the snow in the mountains was still very thick. Seeing this big guy drive over, Halimu's family, including two black dogs, were very curious.

"Just use this?" After Halimu greeted Li Jianguo, he asked Li Long.

"Yes, just use this." Li Long pointed to the bulldozer hanging in front of the tractor and said, "It has great strength. Although the speed is slow, it's enough to push the road to the winter camp."

He planned to give the money to Meng Hai in two days and let him buy a few barrels of oil. Although this Dongfanghong 70 tractor had great strength, it also consumed oil. Actually, he could let Halimu pull the oil, but Halimu definitely wouldn't want money, so Li Long felt it was better to let Meng Hai pull the oil.

Halimu and the others didn't expect Li Long's efficiency to be so high; the snow in the mountains hadn't melted much, and the tractor had already come up.

"When the snow melts and work can start, I'll bring people up, and then open the road." Li Long said, "This tractor is placed here, it doesn't affect anything, right?"

"Doesn't affect, doesn't affect." Halimu hurriedly said, "It's okay, it doesn't affect at all."

He had already sent the two children and his mother to the animal husbandry team's retention point, and there were only two people at home, so it definitely didn't affect.

The next day, when Li Long brought Meng Hai to drive the tractor and pull four barrels of diesel up to the winter camp, he was surprised to find that there were quite a few people surrounding the Dongfanghong 75 tractor.

He knew most of these people; they were all young and strong people in the tribe who had gathered together when cutting grass, and the rest were their family members.

After Li Long left on the first day, Halimu rode a horse to Yushanjiang's winter camp to notify him of this matter.

Yushanjiang felt it was necessary to let everyone know the progress of the matter, so he rode a horse to tell others about it, and then these people came over to see the big tractor together today.

Although some people had seen the Dongfanghong 75 crawler tractor at the animal husbandry team's retention point, everyone knew that the significance of this one was different; this tractor was driven over to repair the road for them.

Therefore, looking at this tractor, these young and strong people were all quite excited and felt very close.

Although after holding that meeting, and each family collected things and sent them to Yushanjiang, everyone knew that the road repair would start after the snow melted.

But Li Long drove the tractor used for road repair into the mountains so quickly, which still surprised them.

When Li Long found Meng Hai, Meng Hai was also a little surprised.

In his view, Li Long had done enough and good enough things for those herdsmen in the winter camp, and it was really unnecessary to specially buy such a new tractor to repair the road.

Even in his heart, he couldn't help but think that getting such a tractor to push earth was really a bit wasteful, and it would be better to get a few second-hand ones.

After all, the price of a new tractor could buy several second-hand tractors, and the new tractor also carried a plow; it was really a pity not to put it in the village to plow the land.

Of course, this was just his own thinking, and he wouldn't say it. Li Long found him to let him drive the tractor to the nearby oil depot to pull four barrels of diesel into the mountains, and promised him twenty yuan for the car fee.

Meng Hai's meaning was that he didn't want the money; after all, Li Long had helped them many times.

Li Long said one yard is one yard; he would still look for him to do work in the future, but this trip to pull oil definitely had to be paid.

After seeing so many people surrounding this tractor, curiously touching it here and there, and then watching Li Long introduce and explain the plan for repairing the road to them, Meng Hai understood the significance of Li Long buying a new tractor—putting a brand-new tractor here, and a second-hand tractor, the impact on these herdsmen was different.

When going back to Qingshuihe Village, Meng Hai stopped Li Long and asked him about repairing the road.

"Repairing the road definitely needs a lot of people." Li Long knew Meng Hai's thoughts and said directly to him, "When the time comes, if people are needed, if your village is not busy, I will let you gather people to go into the mountains to work, and it will be calculated by the day."

"Alright, alright, alright, Comrade Li Long, rest assured, as long as there is work, it doesn't matter when." Knowing that Li Long gathered people to work, the wages given were not low, so Meng Hai directly agreed for the people in the village.

He already knew that Li Long planned to repair the road to the summer pasture after repairing the road to the winter camp. That was a very large project. If he took the people in the village and took even one-tenth of it, the money earned this year would be enough to have a fat year.

Although Qingshuihe Village was not far from the mountains, the wealth that everyone could get from the mountains was really not much.

Relying on Li Long for the past two years, the living standard of the villagers in Qingshuihe Village was obviously a cut better than other villages in the township, but to continue to develop, there must be continuous work.

Relying on weaving big brooms was fine, but the people in the village were not satisfied and wanted to earn more. Li Long had already told them that there was no work for weaving carrying poles this year. The land in their village was not suitable for planting economic crops like melon seeds, and there was little land, so relying on farming definitely couldn't make a fortune.

They could only think of other ways. Now that there was such a big project in front of them, Meng Hai definitely couldn't let go.

Repairing this road would take at least several years, which meant that as long as he took a part of this project, at least the people he brought in the village wouldn't have to worry about earning money for these few years.

As for saying that repairing the road was hard, this was not in Meng Hai's consideration at all. What wasn't hard now? Wanting to earn money and afraid of being hard? Some people could suffer but couldn't earn money!

So seeing Li Long agree, Meng Hai was really happy and immediately greeted his wife to kill a chicken to treat Li Long. Li Long hurriedly stopped him. He didn't plan to eat here; even if Meng Hai's family conditions were better, spring was coming and the chickens were about to lay eggs, so it was probably not good to kill chickens at this time.

Seeing that he couldn't stop Li Long, Meng Hai couldn't keep him anymore, just letting Li Long definitely stay for a meal next time he came, at least letting him express his heart.

After Li Long left, Meng Hai went to find the team leader He Yuqing and told him about this.

"This is a great thing; if it weren't for me as the team leader being unable to leave, I would definitely participate in this matter." He Yuqing said with some regret, "Old Meng, the matter of organizing people to work is left to you. The work must be done well for them. Comrade Li Long trusts us and gives us opportunities to earn money every year, so we can't hold him back!"

"Old He, rest assured about this matter. The young and strong people in our village are counting on this work to have a few fat years; whoever dares to hold back, see if I don't whip him!"

Then the two of them calculated together which people to choose to work when the time came.

Although production had been contracted to households and individuals took care of themselves, the organized power in Qingshuihe Village was still quite strong.

Meng Hai believed he could hold down those young men. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 956 =====