Chapter 3: Satisfy your greed first
Eat meat?
Li Long was a little surprised. He glanced at Li Juan and asked:
"Didn't the family kill a pig this year?"
He remembered that his brother and sister-in-law raised a pig at home. of.
At present, household production quotas are not yet guaranteed, but every household is still allowed to raise pigs, but they are not allowed to raise too many pigs.
Both brother and sister-in-law are hard-working people. After two years of household quota, brother Li Jianguo became a professional pig farmer on the team, and the team even allocated a pig feed field to the family.
Every family kills pigs before heavy snowfall in winter, and then freezes the meat in the snow, so that they can be eaten until spring.
Although my brother and sister-in-law’s family is not rich, they can still eat pork occasionally, right?
Li Juan said nothing, just looked at the glutinous rice paper that was almost melting and said nothing.
Li Qiang rushed to say:
"Uncle, the pig at home... is a superstitious pig. You can't eat it and bury it."
Superstitious pig? Li Long suddenly realized, yes, he remembered.
In my previous life, my family raised a pig. When I slaughtered it in early winter, I found that the meat was full of insect eggs that looked like millet grains.
Of course this thing was inedible, so it had to be buried.
Then this winter, I basically didn’t eat much meat.
When he looked up at Li Juan, he happened to see a hint of guilt on Li Juan's face.
Li Long reacted quickly. When Li Juan was out of school, she would go to the fields to cut pig grass, then carry it back, chop it up, mix it with some bran and bran, and cook it for the pigs to eat.
She may think that it was herself who caused her pig to become a superstitious pig, right?
"Juan, don't think too much. There are many reasons for pig superstition. Drinking water and eating are certainly one of them, but it may also be that a bird pooped into the pig pen, and the pig arched It’s infected.”
"Uncle, is this true?" Li Juan spoke to Li Long for the first time, and Li Long could clearly see the sparkling light in her eyes.
My niece is so thoughtful, how much pressure she is under!
"Of course it's true. Your uncle and I came back from Wucheng and worked in a food factory. The experts in the factory all know this knowledge."
"Then... ..." Li Juan felt a lot more relaxed, "Isn't it all because of eating?"
< br>"Of course. Flies may carry eggs and bacteria, it's hard to say." Li Long understood Li Juan's thoughts and explained to her, "Besides, if there is no meat to eat, there will be no fish? Tomorrow there will be no fish." I’m going to break holes in the ice to catch fish and make sure we eat a lot of fish during the Chinese New Year!”
"I just want to eat today..." Li Qiang said softly.
Li Juan’s perception of Li Long has changed a lot. She reprimanded her brother:
“What do you think? You won’t die if you don’t eat meat! It’s getting dark soon. Go back and get ready for bed!”
The room was indeed dark. There was no electricity in the team these days, so kerosene lamps were used for lighting at night. The Li family has a relatively high-end kerosene lamp with a thin glass cover. When Li Long came back, Li Jianguo brought another lantern from home for him to use.
Li Long looked outside, smiled and said to Li Juan and Li Long:
"You guys wait a moment, I'll catch some old birds for you guys to roast and eat."
"Really?" Li Qiang sniffed and wiped it with his sleeve, "Uncle, it can really be done Catch him?"
"Yes." Li Long looked at Li Qiang's green clothes and sleeves. His chest had been smeared until it was shiny like starch, and he said helplessly:
"Qiang, blow your nose, you see, your sleeves are like that..."
" It’s okay, uncle, when are you going to catch me?”
"Catch him now, you wait."
"I'll go with you." Li Qiang said excitedly. "No, it's too cold outside."
"I'm not afraid. I spent the whole day beating an old cow outside."
To beat an old cow, that is, to beat a cow Top. The toys made by the children in the village are a bit standard. For the big ones, a steel ball the size of a pigeon egg is smashed into the nut on the truck tire. For the smaller ones, a spark plug is used to knock out the porcelain, and the ignition head inside is flushed down and then smashed into the toy. A small steel ball.
The whip used to beat old cows, the better ones are made from three strands of silk thread pulled out of the tractor's rubber belt, and the worse ones are made from nylon ropes or strips of cloth.
The only thing the children on the team can do in winter, apart from skating and fighting cocks, is this.
"Then go wear a hat." Li Long thought for a while and said.
Children in rural areas are all grown up with cold, so they are really not that scared.
"Uncle, I want to go too." Li Juan whispered.
"Okay, you'll follow. Go put on thick clothes first."
Li Long took out his only household appliance, a flashlight, from his satchel, then put on his leather hat and walked out.
The leather hat is a military style and cost him more than half a month's salary. It looks much more elegant than the ones worn by people in the village.
So when Li Juan and Li Qiang got dressed and came out, their eyes immediately lit up when they saw him.
The cotton and rubber shoes on his feet are much better than the cloth and cotton shoes on Li Juan and Li Qiang's feet. His salary is basically spent on this.
"Juan, where is our net?"
"It's in the shed." Li Juan pointed to the straw shed built on the east side of the east room. Here are some tools that you don't need to take into the house.
Li Long went over and used a flashlight to search the net and found it - it was already dark, and now was the time to catch Lao Que. Lao Que is a sparrow, and people here are called Lao Que, because Li Long doesn't know what he is.
At this time there were no animal protection laws. In winter, the old bird only eats grain and grass seeds, which are edible in the eyes of rural people. When summer comes, the old sparrow will eat bugs, but they can’t eat them at that time.
"Uncle, how are you going to catch him? You can't even see it?" Li Qiang was wearing a cotton hat one size too big, almost blindfolding him. He asked, holding his hat up and wiping snot on his sleeve.
Li Juan also looked at Li Long curiously. Li Long's explanation just now successfully relieved the pressure in her heart, so she felt much better about this uncle.
"Follow me." Li Long pointed to the haystacks on the shed and said:
"In winter, the old birds don't build nests, they hide here. Just shine it with a flashlight, You can catch it with just a swoop of the net. You guys have to help get it later.”
As he said that, he started looking for it on the haystack.
The haystacks on the shed are neatly arranged, which are used to set up the stove and start the fire in winter. And if the livestock of the production team are borrowed, they will also need to be fed with these fodder.
"Uncle, have you seen..." Li Qiang saw Li Long taking care of him and asked anxiously.
“Stop talking!” Li Juan patted him, “Didn’t you see that uncle is looking for you!”
Li Long hadn’t done this work for a long time. He was extremely lucky that after his rebirth What nice eyes!
Soon, he found a pair of shining eyes, found it!
“Come on, Juan, just shine where I am.” Li Long turned to Li Juan and said, “I’ll cover it with a net.”
"Okay." Li Juan took the flashlight, shook it, then aimed at the haystack and asked:
"Uncle, is this place?"
"Yeah. No. Move, stop talking." Li Long picked up the net, took two steps forward, carefully raised it, and slowly approached the spot illuminated by the flashlight from below. When he was about to get close, he suddenly raised it!
“Pulling!”
An old bird flew up in panic and got into the net.
"Caught it!" Li Qiang said excitedly, clapping his hands.
(End of this chapter)