Chapter 13 You have to pay for borrowing a carriage
In later generations, Gu Ermao relied on this shameless energy to marry a beautiful daughter-in-law. It was a pity that he didn’t work hard and lived a good life. Every three days Cha Wu beat his wife, gambled, and finally his wife ran away.
Then he continued to mess around. Because everyone in the village was allocated a lot of land, and he was also in charge of his parents' land. When the rent on the contracted land increased, Gu Ermao rented the land for ten years, and received hundreds of thousands in rent for one night. Just lose everything.
In the two years before Li Long passed away, Gu Ermao lived a life of hunger and hunger. The village working group wanted to help him with poverty, but he was the kind of person who could not support the wall with mud.
He died of illness in his mud house a few years earlier than Li Long.
Looking at that face now, Li Long was really disgusted. He knocked his hand off and said:
"I have business and I don't have time to mess with you here. Get out of the way."
Gu Ermao retracted his hand, put his hands into his sleeves, and said with a playful smile:
"Why are you still angry? I I'm kidding you! I just got the news that Zhao Changjiang's family has bought a TV. It's a TV at home. You can watch whatever you want. Wu Shufen also wants to watch it. Go back and get ready!"
As he said this, he glanced at the fish in Li Long's hand.
This fish is so big and beautiful!
Every time he told me where Wu Shufen was going, Li Long would definitely change his mind even if he didn't want to go.
Although I heard that Wu Shufen had broken up with Li Long, Li Long must not be willing to do so, right?
I heard that Li Long caught a croaking chicken last night and caught another fish today. This man went to Wucheng to learn skills. Although Gu Ermao had made up his mind yesterday to show off to Li Long, but thinking about Li Long's ability to catch things and eat them, Gu Ermao decided that he still couldn't break off his friendship with him.
Where else can we eat meat?
"No time." Li Long waved his hand and paid no attention to Wu Shufen's matter. "I have something to do. If you want to see it, go and see it yourself."
After saying that, Li Long bypassed Gu Ermao and went to the captain Xu Chengjun's house. Go.
Gu Ermao shouted several times from behind, but Li Long pretended not to hear.
Live a new life, and you no longer need to maintain some meaningless relationships. I was really stupid in my last life.
Xu Chengjun’s home also lights kerosene lamps, the style of the lamps is the same as Li Jianguo’s.
Li Long knocked on the door, and Xu Chengjun's child Xu Mingwa opened the door. Mingwa was nine years old. She raised her head and glanced at Li Long, then turned and shouted into the house:
"Dad, Li Qiang's uncle is here! He's still carrying fish!"
Xu Chengjun is from the army. Those who were demobilized first became militia captains in the production team. Because they were young and energetic and decisive in their work, after serving as militia captains for five years, the old captain took over the position of captain after he was dismissed.
After becoming the captain, he acted decisively and used his relationships with his comrades to form a sideline team. He went to the mountains to dig fritillaries and codonopsis ginseng and sold them to the county purchase station. Every year, he was able to distribute some cash to each household in the team. , so it is very popular with everyone.
"Little Dragon is here." Xu Chengjun was listening to the radio on the kang. In these days, the radio was considered a big item. When his son said that Li Long was carrying the fish, he got off the kang and dragged his shoes. He stood up and said with a smile:
"Come here, come here. Why did you bring the fish? I heard that you are no longer working in the Wucheng factory?"
"Well, my ability is limited. We have little education and limited knowledge. We can't do some jobs, so Came back. This was caught from Xiaohaizi today. Carp, I brought two for you to try.”
“These fish are not small!” Ma Hongmei, Xu Chengjun’s daughter-in-law, looked at the two fish with a smile on her face, “It’s not okay to smash holes in the ice. It’s easy.”
“It’s okay, we You're young." Li Long handed the fish to Ma Hongmei and said to Xu Chengjun, "Captain, I have something to discuss with you."
"What do you mean?" Xu Chengjun smoked. Basically don't avoid children, and don't have second-hand "Captain, you also know the situation of my family. Now I'm back. The charcoal and firewood prepared by my brother are not enough. I want to borrow the team's carriage." Go back to the mountains to collect some firewood.”
"That's not possible, right?" Xu Chengjun shook his head slightly after hearing this, "Not to mention that the mountains are so far away, and you are not familiar with the place. Can you find firewood? The situation in the mountains is so complicated, and you are lost. , How can I tell your brother if I can’t come back?”
“Captain, I know what you mean.” Li Long smiled, “We have a good relationship with a coworker of mine. Come back with me. I will go to their house first this time, and I will not go into the mountains. I will just pick up some unfinished wood from them."
"That's it..." Xu Chengjun thought for a moment, and then said to Li Long, "In that case. If that’s the case, I won’t advise you, but it’s just business. We only have a few horses in the team, so if we go out, we have to calculate the work points.” Li Long already knew this. One item, so no surprise.
Xu Chengjun saw that Li Long was not surprised and did not refute. He looked down upon the young man a little. He thought that Li Long had brought the fish over and that he would definitely refute what he said about work points.
It’s quite a city. The young man has been training in Wucheng for several months and has matured.
"Ordinary people work one job a day in summer and two jobs in winter. The work of a horse is ten times that of a human, which is twenty workers. Now the average work is 8 cents per work, and the horse is worth 1.6 yuan a day. , the car won’t give you any money, how about it?”
“Okay.” Li Long paid for it on the spot.
Xu Chengjun was also unambiguous. When Li Long handed him the money, he wrote a note to Li Long.
"I hereby lend our team Li Long a horse and a carriage, captain Xu Chengjun, on the day of Say hello to Uncle Luo in advance."
"Okay." Xu Chengjun didn't leave anyone alone and closed the door after Li Long went out.
“This Li Long has made his mark.” Ma Hongmei sighed after Li Long left.
“I heard Li Qiang say that the chicken they had for lunch today was also caught by his uncle.” Xu Mingwa stared at the two fish, then wiped her nose with her arm, imagining the taste of the fish. .
"Well, it looks different from before. This city is all about training people." Xu Chengjun nodded, "It's just that I was fired, which is a bit pitiful."
"Whatever, this fish is good, let's do it tomorrow Make fish to eat.”
Li Long returned home, picked up another fish, and went to the horse.
The horse number is where the production team raises horses, and there are dedicated people to feed the horses. Both winter and summer horses are here. The horse breeder's surname is Luo. I don't know his real name, Li Long, so he is called Lao Luo after the villagers.
Lao Luo is a bit of a hunchback. He looks like he is in his fifties and lives in a small house next to the horse number. There is also a kang and a stove here.
Seeing the fish mentioned by Li Long and the note from Xu Chengjun, Lao Luo smiled and promised Li Long that he would prepare the best horse for him.
When Tao Daqiang rushed home excitedly, he found that there was no food left for him at home.
His heart suddenly went cold.
(End of this chapter)