Chapter 961: Jade prices have risen, Yusufu's son has arrived

According to the Li family's words, Li Long's trip to Yanjing again shouldn't be told to the villagers, meaning it shouldn't be publicized.

To tell the truth, in this day and age, the main energy of ordinary people is spent on farming. The county's TV station hasn't been built yet, and the content broadcast by the radio station every day is also limited. Newspapers like the Xinjiang Daily are not subscribed to by ordinary people. Even for the Beiting Daily, by the time the villagers can see it, it's probably "old news" from half a year ago.

So as long as the Li family doesn't take the initiative to say it, others most likely won't know that Li Long has received this honor.

Not to mention this, even for the selection of advanced individuals like "May 1st Labor Model" and "March 8th Red Banner Holder" which are more relevant to ordinary people, very few people pay attention.

Ordinary people are more concerned about whether this year's grain prices will rise, whether this year's commodity prices will rise, etc.

So the Li family was very tacit this time: don't say it.

After all, the Li family's development now, at least in the Fourth Team, can be considered as "flowers on brocade, fire cooking oil" (flourishing). Many people in the village don't care on the surface, but there are quite a few who are envious, jealous, and hateful.

If they knew about this, the vast majority might not have anything, but it's not excluded that a very few individuals would speak ill and do bad things behind their backs.

It's not that they are afraid, it's mainly troublesome.

It's better to be low-key.

Li Long asked his family again if there was anything they needed to bring back. Li Jianguo only told him to go and see his courtyard, thinking that there should be a lot of dust accumulated inside, so it needed to be cleaned up.

"I'll give you money, you hire someone to clean up the courtyard, and it also happens to let others know that this courtyard has an owner." Li Jianguo said, "Hire people from our country, don't use American money, right?"

Li Jianguo gave Li Long one thousand yuan. Li Long didn't refuse this time either. He knew that his eldest brother was gradually paying back the money for his courtyard. Li Long wasn't polite either. He gave money to his eldest brother to buy a courtyard, and as an eldest brother who often took care of him in the past, he must feel uncomfortable in his heart at this time.

Plus, his eldest brother should have earned some money by plowing, leveling, and sowing for others this spring, so let him pay back what he can.

Coming out of the house, Li Long's jeep had some more wild vegetables, including alfalfa, elm money, bell thorn flowers, etc., all of which were obtained by his eldest sister-in-law in the gaps of working in the fields.

These were all things he often ate in spring when he was a child, but now that Li Long lives in the county, it's really not that easy.

Even the market won't sell such wild vegetables. Only thirty or forty years later, when the market is extremely rich, will such wild vegetables appear.

Li Long went to the Old Horse Number again.

Yang Laoliu went to herd sheep. Li Long paid this month's wages to Old Uncle Luo in advance, asked him to distribute them to everyone, and then took out one hundred yuan to give to Song Ming, which was considered the money for pulling sugar dregs this month.

Old Uncle Luo guessed that Li Long had something to do, but he didn't ask. He just told Li Long that the Jiang cadre from the township brought people over a few days ago to see the red deer and roe deer raised here, saying that this was advanced breeding experience and hoped to promote it.

Because Li Long wasn't there, Old Uncle Luo didn't agree. After all, in his view, this thing wasn't advanced either; just bring it back from the mountains and raise it. It's no different from raising cattle and sheep, except that these guys are too easy to butt people, which is annoying.

There is also the fact that the velvet antlers of the stags in the pen have grown, and they can be cut in a month or two.

Li Long let Old Uncle Luo and the others handle this themselves. In fact, the money earned from selling the dried velvet antlers cut every year is enough for the wages of several old people. However, every time after cutting the velvet antlers, Old Uncle Luo hands the velvet antlers to Li Long for him to handle, which means that Old Uncle Luo doesn't touch this kind of income.

Very disciplined.

Li Long told Old Uncle Luo that if Jiang cadre brings people again later, let them look; there is nothing here that can't be seen. As for asking how to raise them, just say it normally. Raising red deer is still a niche behavior now. At least within ten years, the price of velvet antlers and deer antlers won't fall because of the breeding situation. Only a few years later, after large-scale deer farming in the Yili River Valley in Northern Xinjiang, will this price fall.

Li Long doesn't rely on this to get rich, so he won't care whether others raise them or not.

Although a bit puzzled by Li Long's behavior, Old Uncle Luo still agreed.

"Even if there are another hundred deer farms, the prices of velvet antlers, deer antlers, deer penises, and venison won't fall." Li Long told Old Uncle Luo, "Besides, if they want to raise deer, they must have deer calves. Maybe they will buy them from us. This is a good thing."

After returning to the county, Li Long began to imagine various situations of going to Yanjing, as well as coping plans.

He also called Gu Xiao Yu, told her that he was going to Yanjing recently, and asked her if she needed anything, and he would bring it over.

"If only sister and Mingming and Haohao could come over, and dad..." Gu Xiao Yu was quite happy when she heard that Li Long was going over, and then sighed, "Brother-in-law, is my sister coming or not?"

"Your sister is relatively busy recently, she can't go."

"Alright, then are you going over for official business this time?"

"Yes, to participate in the commendation of the national ethnic unity advanced individual." Li Long spoke quite calmly, actually still a bit proud, "Of course, after the official business is done, I also have to go and see the courtyard. You tidied it up so well, I have to take a camera to take pictures, bring them back to show Gu Uncle and your sister."

Gu Xiao Yu has always been puzzled by Li Long calling her father "Uncle". Gu Bo Yuan explained to her privately that this was learned from Li Jianguo, and he didn't care—after all, he used to be called "Brother Gu".

"Don't worry, you will definitely be satisfied." Gu Xiao Yu had this confidence, "You are participating in the national commendation? Brother-in-law, you are amazing!"

She could be considered a late bloomer, only then did she react that her brother-in-law was going to be commended nationally.

"Haha, it's the honor given to us by the higher-ups. I feel that what I have done is still not enough... haha, just kidding, actually it's quite good. With this title, my two courtyards will be relatively safe."

Gu Xiao Yu knew what Li Long meant. In fact, she had been quite annoyed during this period, because she had the key and often came over to add things to the courtyard, so she was targeted by people with ulterior motives.

Once, on the way back from the courtyard, she was stopped by someone who insisted on buying this courtyard from her. Gu Xiao Yu said she wouldn't sell, and that person kept pestering her until the aunts from the neighborhood committee surrounded them, and that person left.

She could hear that this was an outsider, probably with the same idea as Li Long, wanting to buy a courtyard in Yanjing to live in permanently.

She didn't want her unit to know about this, so she had been worried. Now that Li Long was coming over, and with the title of a national advanced individual, he should be able to block some people back, right?

Li Long had thought about this problem in detail. Anyway, use this title first. If it doesn't work, then ask the Ethnic Affairs Committee or the Supply and Marketing Cooperative for an official title, like some kind of resident office in Beijing, and stick it on the door, which should also be useful.

After hanging up the phone, Gu Xiao Yu was a bit absent-minded. She had boasted in front of her brother-in-law Li Long, and at this time she became a bit unconfident. She waited until after work, hurriedly bought two buns in the cafeteria, and walked towards the Sihe Academy while eating, wanting to see if there was anything that needed to be perfected.

On May 7th, Ma Xiao Yan called Li Long and said that the material had been written, asking him to come and get it. Li Long drove the jeep and turned to the market first, bought two chickens, asked the boss to slaughter and remove the hair, put them in a bag, and went to the County Committee compound.

Registering at the guard, calling Ma Xiao Yan out, Li Long took the material and handed the bag with the chickens to her.

"Didn't you already give..."

"Take it." Li Long smiled and raised the material in his hand, "You have done me a big favor."

Whether it can be used or not is one thing, but the words have to be said.

Returning to his home, Li Long read the material once and sighed, this professional person is really different. This material is written in his own tone, not only writing about all the things he has done and slightly exaggerating, but also very humbly expressing that what he has done is still far from enough and he will continue to work hard.

It makes people feel very comfortable, not exaggerated, but very inspiring.

Li Long looked at the delicate handwriting, took the material into the bedroom, took out letter paper and a fountain pen at the desk, and copied the material again.

He felt that this time going to the award ceremony, most likely he would only be asked to say a few words of feelings, or even no feelings, just awarding the prize, and if there are reporters interviewing, he will say a few words.

So if this material is useful, it should be used when making a report after coming back.

When copying, he changed some content that didn't fit his tone of speaking. I don't know where he heard the comment, saying that third-rate copyists copy things word for word, even copying mistakes. Second-rate copyists will correct typos and incoherent sentences in time. First-rate copyists will read it once, and if it doesn't fit their own values, they would rather not copy.

I don't know if it's a joke or a fact. When he saw this passage in a book, there was an additional sentence behind it, saying that the Chairman was a first-rate copyist, and those who were with him at that time were second-rate, later becoming a writer, and third-rate, who spent their whole lives doing copying work.

Li Long thought, is he currently doing second-rate work? This is like the New Year greeting text messages on smartphones later. Third-rate ones will copy and group-send other people's greeting text messages, with a high probability of even copying other people's names; second-rate ones will change to their own names and change to words they feel are smooth; first-rate ones will compile their own greeting text messages. ===== CHAPTER 962 =====