Chapter 12 Li Long is coming up
“This guy is a water rat, his official name is muskrat,” Li Long explained, “It is also called green-rooted mink, and its skin is very valuable. This one can be sold for at least five "RMB!"
"Five yuan?" Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang's eyes lit up when they heard that a piece of water rat skin could be sold for five yuan.
At this stage, in the production team, the pay is calculated at the end of the year for every worker, eight cents! Better yet, a production team with a side job can earn only a dime or two, which is incredible.
How many jobs do you have to do to earn five yuan?
These days, because Northern Xinjiang has a large land area and grows a lot of food, it is possible to make ends meet, but it is not easy to make money.
Eating meat mainly depends on domestic pigs. As for money, basically there is none.
Li Long remembered that when the production team settled accounts at the end of the year last year, Li Jianguo's family ended up with a balance of twelve and eighty yuan. This was considered a relatively wealthy family in the team.
Nearly half of the farmers owe money to the production team!
Work points are worthless, and it is more difficult to make money. In the summer, the production team has a sideline team that goes to the mountains to dig Fritillaria and Codonopsis pilosula, but those things require skills - ordinary people can't dig much in a day. Although the work points are more than ordinary work, it is still tiring.
"Daqiang, grab it quickly and see if there's anything left!" Li Jianguo said immediately.
Tao Daqiang also reacted and immediately bent down to dig into the ice hole.
In order to expand the area as much as possible, Tao Daqiang stretched out his arm, used the net to draw a semicircle on the bottom of the ice, and then lifted it up.
The net was very heavy, and when he lifted it up, the ice water dripped down and wet his clothes.
There are seven or eight fish in this net, which adds up to nearly 20 kilograms.
But no more water rats.
If he had seen this fish before, he would have been happy, but now the fish is not so fragrant. Tao Daqiang was a little unwilling. After dumping the fish, he netted again. There were only two small fish in this net.
"Daqiang, come up, I'll try the ice cave over there!" Li Jianguo said impatiently, "Come up and warm yourself by the fire, your clothes are all wet!"
Water Rat Successfully mobilized the enthusiasm of Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang to a higher level.
These days, it’s difficult to do anything without money.
But Li Long was not optimistic - he would be lucky to catch a water rat in the ice cave. This thing is not like a fish. It digs holes underwater and has multiple exits. There may be a hole in the reeds on the shore.
Most likely, it was attracted by the swimming fish and ended up in the net.
Sure enough, Li Jianguo fished out seven or eight fish from two nets in another ice cave, but there was no trace of the water rat.
"Brother, Daqiang, don't be in a hurry now. As soon as the ice melts in spring, these water rats will come out in nests, and they will be easy to catch then."
Although Li Jianguo Somewhat unwilling, but knowing that this is the only way.
The three of them took turns digging holes in the ice with nets, and they didn't decide to go back until the sun was about to set. Before going back, Li Long covered the ice cave with snow.
“Won’t you use it again in two days?” Tao Daqiang was a little puzzled by his actions.
"If you don't cover it, the water will slowly overflow in two days, and it will be troublesome to smash it. Now cover it with snow, and then shovel the snow away, and the ice underneath will not be so thick."
Tao Daqiang thinks what Li Long said makes sense.
The two urea bags were mostly full, and it was tiring to carry them, so I simply put the fish in the bags, placed the bags on the shovel heads, and used the shovels as sleds to pull them along, which saved a lot of effort.
There is indeed fire in the fish. I didn't feel it when I was fishing, but now when I walk back, I feel that my whole body is ice-cold, there is no warmth anywhere on my body, and the bird is almost shrinking back. The three people hurriedly arrived at Li's house before the sun set. Here, Liang Yuemei had already made fish soup with a silver carp. After the three of them entered the room, they each drank a bowl and felt their bodies suddenly warmed up.
"Brother Jianguo, Brother Long, I'm going back first." Tao Daqiang said after drinking a bowl of fish soup.
“Dry the clothes first, otherwise my dad will definitely complain when we go back.”
“You can’t blame me.” Tao Daqiang said seriously, “I’ll take some fish back, he I must be happy!”
"Bake it dry then. I'll leave early tomorrow morning. If you want to come with me, you have to wear thicker clothes."
Li Long persuaded Tao Daqiang to drink another bowl of fish soup before mentioning Went back with the fish.
Originally Li Long meant that the water rat came from his network and Tao Daqiang should take it away, but Tao Daqiang refused, saying that he used the Li family's network to get it. He was already very grateful to the Li family for getting the fish.
Originally, Li Long planned to divide the fish into three equal portions, each portion weighing more than ten kilograms, but Tao Daqiang only pierced five fish with reeds and carried them back.
"Daqiang...is not stupid." Li Jianguo said as he watched Tao Daqiang leave.
Li Long naturally knew that Tao Daqiang was not stupid, but others thought he was stupid and stupid, and his family also thought so.
The fish is put aside first, and the family happily drinks the fish soup. Liang Yuemei used a three kilogram big silver carp. It took a long time to cook and almost all the fish meat melted into the soup. Each person in the family has a bowl, and the corn noodle cake is soaked directly in the fish soup. It tastes very fresh when eaten.
Li Long thought it would be perfect if there were some fresh chopped green onion or coriander!
Li Juan drank in small sips, her eyes turned into crescent moons, and she was in a very good mood.
Before yesterday morning, I couldn’t even eat meat. In just one day, first I had the old bird, then the croak chicken, and now I have enough fish tubes. There are still dozens of fish in the kitchen - these days, What a blessing!
Li Qiang was also holding a big bowl, using chopsticks to pick up the fish meat in it and eating it, wiping his nose from time to time. He would occasionally look at Li Long, wondering how he could tell his uncle later to let him catch fish too.
"Brother, I'll take two fish to Captain Xu's house and tell me about borrowing the carriage." After Li Long drank the fish soup, he felt warm all over and stood up and said.
“Two, isn’t it a bit too little?” Li Jianguo hesitated and said.
"That's quite a lot. Two two-kilogram carp, which is very good." Li Long said, "It's impossible for him to borrow the carriage because of the fish. There's no need for us to take more things."
If you take more than one fish, what will you do if you don’t get any more fish next time?
Besides, if you borrowed the carriage to get a lot of fish, what would you say when others borrowed it?
Li Long never considered these things before. But his eldest brother passed away in his previous life, and his sister-in-law's family hated him. He was completely helpless, and ended up living with a widow. After suffering a lot of losses, he managed to live a clear life.
In those days, he often thought about how great it would be if he hadn't been such a jerk before and his elder brother was still here.
Now, he cherishes this day even more.
Selecting two relatively well-proportioned fish from those, Li Long threaded a reed through them and carried them out of the door.
Wild carp these days are very beautiful, with red heads and tails, two long whiskers, and shiny scales, which makes people happy just to look at them.
Not long after he went out, Li Long met Gu Ermao.
When Gu Ermao saw Li Long, he came up to him with a smile on his face:
"Xiaolong, did you catch a fish? Share one with me!"
Li Long I was so angry at this bitch.
(End of this chapter)