"I'm planning to buy two more tractors. Daqiang wants to buy one too, and then I'll buy a few harvesters from Kuytun. Just going around the townships cutting wheat in summer, we could earn back the cost of the tractors in a single wheat season!"
"That many tractors? Who's going to drive them?" Li Jianguo was startled. "You can't expect Dad to drive one, can you? We could hitch a harvester to my tractor, though."
Li Jianguo knew there was money in harvesting wheat, so naturally, now that Li Long had brought it up, he wanted in.
He mentioned something else too. Someone from the Han Family of the Corps had come over a couple of days earlier. Han Dachun had visited partly to catch up with Li Jianguo during the farming slack season, and partly to ask whether there was any money-making work.
They had earned some money cutting reeds the previous year. This year, Li Jianguo hadn't called him. Although he wanted to earn money, he hadn't felt comfortable saying anything.
Now that winter had arrived, he wanted to come and ask. During their conversation, Li Jianguo had mentioned growing watermelons for seed, buying a tractor, and Li Long harvesting wheat with a harvester.
Han Dachun's eyes had immediately lit up. Plenty of people in the Corps grew wheat on large acreages too. They could have Li Long and the others come over to harvest it.
It wasn't far anyway, only a few dozen kilometers.
There were also Corps companies over there growing watermelons for seed. Their yields weren't as high as Li Jianguo's, and they handed their harvests over.
That had surprised Li Jianguo. He hadn't expected Corps companies to grow watermelons for seed too.
They were two separate systems, after all. Sometimes, they really didn't know