Chapter 1 Rebirth of the Notre Dame
Northern Xinjiang, 1981, the twelfth lunar month.
Nearly half a meter of snow covered the fields tightly.
Due to the cold and hot weather on the eaves outside the kitchen, the snow on the roof melted, and the ice skates hanging down were nearly one meter long, which looked quite dangerous.
Li Long, who came out to pee, looked up, looked around, picked up a shovel from the wall, and knocked off the ice skates.
He vaguely remembered that his niece Li Juan's head was hit by an ice skate this year, and it took a long time to heal. But even though he was healed, there was still a scar on his face. Because of this scar, she was ridiculed by others, which gave Li Juan a serious inferiority complex.
Once you are reborn, you cannot allow tragedy to happen again.
How he was reborn, Li Long didn't know. He just remembered that he was dead, and then he became confused and reached this moment.
In his previous life, Li Long lived to the age of sixty-seven without any illness or disaster. He jumped while swatting flies in his house and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He died on the spot without suffering any consequences.
But his brother Li Jianguo, who loved him in his previous life, fell to his death early for him. Therefore, his sister-in-law, nieces and nephews became his enemies. Although they were in the same village, Li Long lived like a loner. Even though he later lived with others, having no relatives made him feel like he was redundant.
If God gives him a new life, he will never let these things happen again.
However, what needs to be solved now is the problem of firewood and rations.
It is too cold in northern Xinjiang, so the production team distributes 200 kilograms of coal to each household before winter for heating.
This little coal is definitely not enough. Li Long can remember which family in later generations did not save seven or eight tons of coal. After all, it would take half a year to burn.
There is not enough coal now, so before winter, every household will go to the sand nest in the north to dig tamarisk roots and Haloxylon ammodendron firewood - these behaviors will greatly damage the environment in the future. But now we are solving the problem of human survival.
Originally, the Li family's coal and the dug firewood were enough to burn for a whole winter.
But Li Long is back.
Before winter, Li Jianguo paid to send Li Long to Wucheng Bayi Food Factory to work as a worker. It is a very honorable thing to be a worker these days - of course, what is even more eye-catching is that workers are paid, and they have dozens of dollars a month in cash in their hands, which they can spend as they wish, that's a lot of energy!
After all, when working in a team, there is no guaranteed output to each household. Only at the end of the year and at the end of the year can we get food and a little money.
Of course, many farmers even have to repay their families. After all, the work points calculated for work are real. If the work is not done well, or the harvest of the team is not good, then there will be no points.
Therefore, Li Long was once the envy of the young people in the team, but in the second month after he went there, Wu Shufen, the most beautiful girl in the team, took the initiative to have sex with Li Long.
But now Li Long was fired from the food factory, and he knew that just two days later, when the big mouth Gu Ermao in the team released the news that he was fired from the factory, Wu Shufen would come over and break up with him.
This incident in the previous life had a great impact on Li Long, and even affected some of his behavior. It was also the indirect cause of Li Jianguo's death.
But this matter is just a trivial matter now. Li Long is back. For a vain woman like Wu Shufen, he thinks it is best to break up. Even if Wu Shufen didn't mention it, he would take the initiative to break up.
But it is impossible for him to share a kang with his eldest brother Li Jianguo and his family. So he came back at noon, and in the afternoon Li Jianguo packed up the east room where he used to live, set up a stove and burned a kang, and arranged for him to live there. But this way, the Li family's coal and firewood will definitely not be enough. Let alone the beginning of spring in March, it will be difficult to hold on until the Chinese New Year.
When Li Long was twelve years old, his father Li Qingxia sent him from his hometown and handed him over to his eldest brother Li Jianguo. Li Long remembers very clearly that his father who sent him here said to his eldest brother and sister-in-law:
"My hometown can't afford food. As long as you take good care of Xiaolong, I will feel at ease in this life. Provide for me in my old age and leave behind me." You don’t need to take care of things. Just take care of Xiaolong and you will be considered filial.”
Li Jianguo also has a younger brother and a younger sister in his hometown. Li Long is the youngest and the most favored by his parents, but his hometown has little land and life is not as good as here, so Li Long was sent here.
And Li Jianguo did take good care of Li Long as Li Qingxia requested. The food distributed at home is eight parts coarse grain and two parts fine grain. Li Jianguo and his wife Liang Yuemei only ate coarse grains, and the two portions of fine grains were given to Li Long, niece Li Juan, and nephew Li Qiang.
I am a half-grown man living in poverty. When Li Long was growing up, he had a bigger appetite than Li Jianguo. Li Jianguo could only think of ways to find good things in exchange for him, and even wronged his children because of it.
For this reason, Liang Yuemei quarreled with him many times.
But Li Jianguo remembered the words "the eldest brother is the father" so firmly that he even lost his life for it.
In this life, Li Long will never let something like this happen again!
Fortunately, it is not far from Tianshan Mountain. In addition to endless wind-fallen trees, there are also treasure-filled red deer, bears, wild boars, and yellow sheep in the mountains, as well as the silly marmots, also known as woodchucks, who have become internet celebrities in later generations.
While the Wildlife Protection Law has not yet been enacted, as long as we are diligent and flexible, we can create a household worth ten thousand yuan in two or three years!
Oh, let’s solve the urine problem first!
Quickly following the path in the snow to the toilet made of reeds outside the courtyard, Li Long unbuttoned his pants and started to drink in the snow.
A yellow mark was immediately left on the snow, forming a strange shape, like an S and an 8.
Shivering after urinating, Li Long quickly tied on his cotton pants, turned around and ran back. At more than 30 degrees below zero, people can freeze to death very quickly.
Arrived at the door, before he entered the room, he heard the voices of Westinghouse elder brother Li Jianguo and sister-in-law Liang Yuemei.
"Didn't you say that Xiaolong won't come back? This man is back. What should we do if we don't have enough charcoal to burn? It's such a cold winter and we can't even dig out the tamarisk roots?"
"Don't worry about this. I have a way." Li Jianguo's voice was a little low.
"You have an idea! Are you going to borrow it from the team? This loan will cost at least 500 kilograms of charcoal! How will you pay it back then? The money you earn in a year is not enough to pay it back!" "Let me tell you what you are doing. No matter, I’ll find a way to keep Xiaolong from freezing!”
"Why did you come back after doing a good job? And you were fired... Which good person can be fired from the factory? You didn't even ask why you were fired? It cost fifty yuan at that time. , can I get the money back?”
"The money has been spent, how can I get it back?"
"Then ask Xiaolong, how much is his salary in these few months? If you can have some left, you can buy it with money..."
"Why are you asking that? If he had money, why wouldn't he give it out? He is the only one in Wucheng who is not familiar with the place. Can you Spend money? Don't ask. I'll figure it out for you!"
"Okay, just pay the bills! ..."
"Mom, I want to eat meat..." the voice of nephew Li Qiang rang, and the voices of the eldest brother and sister-in-law also stopped.
Li Long sighed, opened the door and walked into the east room where he was.
The west house is the main house. The entrance is a corridor and kitchen. The three or two darkrooms are bedrooms and kitchens, as well as a spare room for storing sundries. The bedroom doubles as a living room. The east room was originally a warehouse, with only one room, but it did have a stove, a fire wall and a kang.
Feeling the temperature in the room, Li Long knew that he had to plan carefully what to do next.
In my last life, I enjoyed the efforts of my elder brother and sister-in-law with peace of mind, without thinking at all about how my elder brother saved money for me.
And Li Long's character is somewhat vain and warm-hearted. In today's terms, he is like a kind of holy mother. He often takes things from his eldest brother and sister-in-law's house to help others.
As a result, I was taken advantage of many times.
In this life, Li Long will never do this again.
But that’s what he thinks, but others don’t think so.
As soon as Li Long figured it out, there were hurried footsteps in the yard, and then someone tapped on the door next door.
Li Jianguo opened the door and saw Gu Ermao, a young man in the team, and asked:
"Er Mao, what's the matter?"
"Brother Jianguo, I heard that Li Long is back, where is he?"
"Over there. What's the matter?" Li Jianguo said to Gu Ermao Don't worry, this man is a gangster in the village, and he wants to ask specific things.
In Li Jianguo's eyes, Li Long is still a child and his work is unreliable, so he has to check it.
Li Long opened the door after hearing the sound, and the cold wind suddenly blew in.
"Er Mao, what's the matter?"
"Are you really back?" Gu Ermao, who was wrapped in a rotten cotton jacket, saw Li Long, his eyes lit up, he sniffed hard, and pushed him into the east room with one hand. :
“Let’s go in and talk!”
Li Jianguo originally wanted to follow him in, but Gu Ermao closed the door after entering the house.
Liang Yuemei behind her complained:
"Why don't you close the door? The heat has run away!"
Li Jianguo closed the door.
In the east room, Gu Ermao said to Li Long:
"Li Long, brother, I am in trouble now, and I have to ask you for help."
"What's the matter? You tell me first and I'll listen, but I may not be able to help." Li Long said with a smile, his heart already on guard. Although Gu Ermao looks like a bastard, he is sweet-tongued and often makes Li Long happy, thinking that the other person really admires him.
Later I realized that this Ermao just wanted to use his own money.
"How much money do you still have on you now? I will go to the third team tomorrow to see my partner. I have no money to buy anything now. Please lend me some money."
His words are true. It was a matter of course, as if it was natural for Li Long to lend him money.
In his last life, Li Long lent more than ten yuan of his money to Gu Ermao in order to be generous. As a result, the family had no money to buy charcoal, so Li Jianguo went to the team to borrow charcoal. It took three years to pay off the debt.
But the money borrowed by Gu Ermao was not repaid until Li Long died.
Will he still borrow it in this life?
Impossible.
Put away the plot of helping others and respect the fate of others.
(End of this chapter)