Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Qi Zhiguo left the state-owned canteen, carrying the morels given by Li Long, and walked quickly forward twenty or thirty meters, then turned into an alley next to a yard. He looked around to see if there was anyone, put down the bag of mushrooms, and took out the envelope from his pocket.

My palms are already sweaty, I don’t know if it’s because of nervousness or from eating just now.

His hands were shaking a little. Seeing that the envelope was folded, he tried twice to pry it open but failed. Anxious, Qi Zhiguo simply tore the envelope open and poured out the money inside.

What a thick stack!
The envelope had already fallen to the ground, but he didn't care. He took the money with his left hand, spat some saliva on the fingers of his right hand, and began to count it excitedly.

One, two, three... fifty-one?
Isn't that right? It's impossible and shouldn't be? It should be an integer, right?
I counted them again. There were fifty of them.

Five hundred dollars!
That’s a big number!
Qi Zhiguo’s current salary is more than 70 yuan, which is more than his salary for half a year!

Isn't it too easy to make this money?

Although 500 yuan can't buy a yard, it is much closer to my goal. It is no problem to buy a bungalow with an inner and outer room outside the city center.

I have some money saved up, if I add...

He suddenly remembered that Comrade Huang who called him seemed to have said that he would give him a commission if the deal was done.

Although it is likely that Comrade Huang's referral fee will be less than Li Long's, but if the sum is added together, can he buy a yard like Lao Chen? If he buys a yard, he can bring his wife over!
When he thought of this, Qi Zhiguo's heart was burning with excitement!

This money must be kept safe.

I can't let my colleagues know yet... Qi Zhiguo held the money in his hand, and suddenly thought of a colleague in the office who had been borrowing money these days - a colleague was getting married, and hadn't bought all the three major items yet, but his partner suddenly changed his mind and wanted to raise the price, and now his colleague was worried about borrowing money from everywhere.

He put the money in his pocket, patted it with his hands, picked up the bag and was about to go out, but suddenly he came back and picked up the envelope from the ground. Looking at the torn hole, he felt a little annoyed. Why was he so anxious just now? The money couldn't run away.

This kraft paper envelope is quite thick and only costs five cents each!

He smoothed out the envelope, took the money out of his pocket, put it carefully in, and then put it into the inside pocket of his shirt - he had sewed this inner pocket for safety.

Chen Hongjun and Li Long separated and returned home. Seeing his mother sewing clothes under the grape trellis, he handed her a handful of dried mushrooms.

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

"The wild mushrooms were given to me by a friend. They can be used in soup or stir-fried. They are good stuff." Chen Hongjun explained and then went into the house.

My wife and children are not at home. After dinner, some went to work or school.

He sat at the desk and opened the envelope. Seeing the five hundred yuan inside, he smiled and shook his head. Li Long, is this a huge sum of money for a horse's bones?

In fact, Li Long did have this idea. He and Chen Hongjun were long-term friends. The two had a good relationship and would often visit each other in the future, so he didn't care much about the money.

Considering the relationship with Huang Lei introduced by Qi Zhiguo, three hundred would be fine, five hundred would be just to make it an even number. And it was also through Qi Zhiguo that he introduced people in this circle. Li Long was generous in giving money, and as long as the person introduced was right, there would be no problem with the money.

Because the news of the introducer giving money will definitely spread, and this is exactly the effect Li Long wants.

If it were just one person, it could be said that Li Long and Chen Hongjun have a good relationship, but now with Qi Zhiguo added, the effect is different.

His purchasing station can get all kinds of things, and as long as he opens up the sales channels, money will naturally flow in.

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

Li Long had nothing to do in the afternoon, so he continued to look after the baby.

The next morning, Li Long drove his jeep to the fourth team. He also wanted to see how his elder brother drove the tractor. After all, such a big tractor was not like a small four-wheeler, and he could never be sure what would happen.

When Li Long arrived, Li Jianguo was doing routine "maintenance" on the Dongfanghong 75 tractor in the front yard. He had plowed the land for the past few days and was very skilled at driving it. He had used all the auxiliary machinery and now just cleaned up the garbage and checked which parts needed some grease.

Small four-wheel tractors are cranked with a handle, but the Dongfanghong No. 75 tractor is not like that. It requires a rope with a knot on the end, which is wrapped around a rotating wheel on the tractor body. The knot is stuck in the notch of the rotating wheel, and the rope is wrapped around about one and a half circles. Then the rope is pulled out with force. When it is pulled out, it drives the rotating wheel to rotate and start the tractor.

When Li Long arrived at the front yard, he happened to see his elder brother starting the tractor. The new tractor was easy to start and pulled in two attempts. What surprised Li Long was that Wang Caimi was also there. He saw Li Jianguo pulling the tractor in two attempts and said enviously:
"Hey! It's a new engine after all! My old engine always takes five or six pulls before it can start."

It seems that Wang Caimi has accepted the fact that the Li family bought a tractor, and he took the initiative to come to the Li family. I don’t know whether he came to see the new machine or to study plowing technology with Li Jianguo.

"Xiaolong is here?" Wang Caimi looked at Li Long who got off the jeep with a complicated expression, and then took the initiative to greet him, "Are you not busy anymore?"

"Well, I'm not busy recently." Li Long said with a smile, "Come over and give my brother some pointers? You're an old tractor driver with good skills, you should come more often."

Wang Caimi looked at Li Long's expression seriously, and after seeing that he was sincere and not sarcastic, he nodded and said:

"I've driven a lot, so I've learned a lot, not to mention experience. Your tractor is new, so some problems can't be seen now, but we have to take precautions. This tractor is very durable, and it won't have any major problems after driving it for ten years, but it's hard to say after that..."

Li Long thought, "Ten years or so? Ten years or so would have paid back the investment and made many times the profit. By then, the machine should be upgraded."

After all, ten years ago, the Dongfanghong 75 tractor could only carry a three-furrow plow, and there was no five-furrow plow at that time. Now, bulldozers are used, and the five-furrow plow no longer requires two people to operate as before. Now only one person can do it. And in a few years, the reversible plow will be available, and no one will need to operate the plowshare.

As time goes by, if you can't keep up with the times, you will be eliminated. In the previous life, Wang Caimi was the first one in the team to use a tractor. At the beginning, he was the only one, and Xu Lingshan's 802 posed no threat to him.

If he can keep up with the development of the situation and quickly upgrade his tractors after making money, he may be able to maintain his leading position in the team.

Unfortunately, Wang Caimi did not have such vision. He had been using the old tractor and repairing it. Although he bought another one later, it was still an old Dongfanghong tractor that was discarded by others.

When the country had more and more high-horsepower wheeled tractors and some people in the team took out loans to buy them, Wang Caimi had the financial resources to buy one out of pocket.

But he didn't buy it, and was left behind by others.

When the team suddenly had four or five high-horsepower wheeled tractors, it was too late for Wang Caimi to find out something was wrong. His tractor simply had no work to do - with new tractors that could plow deeply, quickly and cheaply, who would still use the old Dongfanghong 75? Not to mention that it was slow, and the quality of the plowing was not as good as the new ones. Since then, Wang Caimi has been a secluded person in the team. He was still a little unwilling, so he bought a wheeled tractor for his son, but at that time, the land in the team was being snatched up, and some tractors were used to plow the land in neighboring villages or other places. He had no advantage as a latecomer, and in the end, he didn't make any money from the tractor and sold it.

Later on, he was no longer on the stage of the Four Team's Celebrities. Of course, he was still in great demand every year when the New Year pig was slaughtered. After all, young people couldn't do this job, so the older generation had to do it.

But everyone likes to eat pork raised at home and it is indispensable.

Only at this time can one show his presence - small things are fine, but as for bigger things, he also laughed at himself at that time and said that he didn't have that vision.

After reviewing Wang Caimi's later experiences, Li Long did not reveal any secrets. He smiled and watched his elder brother and Wang Caimi "maintaining" the tractor.

It can be seen that Li Jianguo's movements are still a bit awkward, whether it is beating butter or cleaning oil stains, he is very conventional, and from time to time he discusses with Wang Caimi. Mainly, Li Jianguo studied the manual, while Wang Caimi is a wild one - when he joined the team to drive a tractor, the manual of the old tractor had been thrown away long ago, so he just followed the master's hand in hand.

It is different from Li Jianguo who studies the instructions carefully.

Do whatever is easiest, there are of course some tricks.

Li Jianguo learned these little tricks, while Wang Caimi was very interested in the instructions.

His old tractor often broke down and was often repaired. Some problems were caused by his own tinkering. He was not very good at reading the manual, but the process that Li Jianguo worked out after reading it inspired him.

Li Long was watching from the side, just watching. He didn't drive a tractor, he just barely knew how to drive, how to move forward, backward, and turn, but as for plowing, he left it to his elder brother.

I am here mainly to understand the situation that my elder brother has mastered. From the current point of view, my elder brother Li Jianguo is now really a basically qualified tractor driver.

As I was watching, I heard the sound of a bicycle bell.

When Li Long turned his head, he saw Xu Haijun getting off his bicycle and pushing it into the yard.

"Hey, the navy is coming?" Wang Caimi took the initiative to greet them. He now attaches great importance to each of these young people in the village.

In the past, people thought that those who were not good at talking were not reliable, but now, looking at them one by one, not to mention Li Long, but also Xu Haijun, Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong, Liang Dacheng and others, each of them has a tractor and drives a harvester, making several thousand yuan in a wheat season, not bad!
"Well, come over and talk to Xiaolong." Xu Haijun propped up his bicycle, came over to give cigarettes to Li Jianguo and Wang Caimi, then took out a lighter and lit them one by one, then said to Li Long:

"Chat?"

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

Xu Haijun knew that Li Long didn't smoke, so he didn't give him any cigarettes, and he didn't light one himself. As he walked out, he said:
"I took people into the mountains for five days and cut back more than 3,000 poles. I came back yesterday, but I didn't plan to go today because I wanted to repair those poles, otherwise they can't be used."

"Not bad, not bad," Li Long smiled, "Don't worry, it will definitely sell."

"Well, someone has already made a reservation with me." Xu Haijun smiled. He planned to go into the mountains for a few more days and bring back more poles.

Three thousand poles would cost a conservative $1,500, and each partner would get a few hundred yuan. He felt that was not enough and wanted to get more.

I came to find Li Long, firstly to find out about the big broom task Li Long was doing and see how many poles were needed, and secondly I had something to say.

"After entering the mountain, we visited several valleys," Xu Haijun said. "We cut down a lot of poles, but we also encountered some problems. There were people living in the winter nest closest to the outside of the mountain. We had to go back every day, and we were worried that we would drive the people away and they would come and destroy things, so we ignored them."

Li Long nodded, that's right. Unless they are not stationed in the mountains, they should either not make enemies or just capture people like Li Long and his team did last time. Otherwise, the other party will have plenty of time to destroy this winter nest.

"Also, someone broke into your wooden house." Xu Haijun said another piece of news that surprised Li Long. "We went to that place and saw that the door of the wooden house was open, but the lock was broken. There was no one inside when we went there, but there were bloodstains and wolf claw marks at the door. We don't know what happened."

Is there blood? Is there claw marks?
Li Long felt that he needed to go to the mountains.

He could imagine that the wooden house was entered. After all, living in a cave or a dugout in the mountains was definitely not as good as living in this wooden house.

But the presence of bloodstains meant something had happened, either an attack or a fight - of course it could also have been hunting.

He had to go and see.

After Xu Haijun finished talking about this matter, he went back after getting confirmation from Li Long that there would be a big broom mission.

The cut poles need to be dried, peeled, and ensured not to crack - which is not such an easy task.

Xu Haijun learned a very important thing from Li Long, which is that you must have high standards when selling things. Only with high standards will people continue to buy things from you.

So he hopes that the rods he sells will not receive bad reviews.

Xu Haijun studied Li Long's history of making a fortune, and found that he won orders from the supply and marketing cooperatives by producing high-quality products.

He already knew in the mountains that there were people in Qingshuihezi doing the same thing as him, but they cut the poles earlier and in larger quantities.

But Xu Haijun is confident that he can win in this area - he found that there are few people doing the job of cutting poles, and the market is not small. If you do it well, you can make more money than making big brooms.

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

Even if you can't do what Li Long did, you can still make money by following Li Long and cooperating with him.

Xu Haijun wanted to cut enough stalks before the wheat was harvested so as not to delay anything.

Li Long was a little anxious, but he still had lunch at his eldest brother's house before returning to the county.

Then he started to prepare things for going up the mountain - he had calmed down and knew he had to go up the mountain, but he couldn't be impatient and had to wait until he was fully prepared.

This is what Gu Boyuan said, not that he wants to show off his knowledge. (End of this chapter)