Chapter 22 Gu Ermao blocked the door
Li Long got up at dawn the next day.
After packing up his things, pressing the coal for the stove, he went to the east room.
The lights over there were lit early. When Li Long went to wash up, his sister-in-law Liang Yuemei was cooking, and Li Jianguo was already making cakes for him.
"Brother, don't pretend that you can't eat so much." Li Long said and went to wash his face.
There is a double happiness sign in the enamel washbasin. It was bought by my eldest brother when he got married. It has been more than ten years in the blink of an eye.
Think about it, if it weren’t for myself, with my eldest brother’s hard work and my sister-in-law’s frugality, my eldest brother’s family would have been better off.
"It's okay to have more, but you can't bring it back if you can't eat it." Li Jianguo lowered his head and pretended, "Then if you get hungry while working, you will feel uncomfortable. If you are poor and rich, you can talk about anything at home, and you can't care about the back of the village outside. No trouble with the store.”
"That's right, bring more. By the way, I also brought some mutton cooked last night." Sister-in-law Liang Yuemei said while cooking, "Eat meat and work hard."
Li Qiang was on the kang in the back room. He shouted:
"Mom, I want to eat meat too!"
"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat!" Liang Yuemei immediately shouted back after hearing her son's words, "Didn't you eat enough last night? Is your uncle going to eat meat?" Let’s go to work!”
Li Qiang stopped talking immediately. Both children in the family are afraid of Liang Yuemei. As the old saying goes, a father is strict and a mother is loving, but in the Li family it's the other way around.
After Li Long washed his face, Li Jianguo handed him the satchel and said:
"The kettle is also filled with warm water, but you can only drink it in the first half of the day, and it will freeze in the second half of the day. Eat some snow if you are thirsty.”
There was no thermos cup at this time. If you were thirsty when you went out and met someone who was nowhere to be found, a handful of snow would solve the problem.
Breakfast is sweet potato porridge, steamed cakes, and fried pickles.
Liang Yuemei filled up the leftover haggis soup from yesterday, gave a bowl to Li Long, and gave the remaining bit to Li Juan and Li Qiang. The few pieces of haggis were basically put into Li Long's bowl.
Li Long looked at Liang Yuemei's habitual movements and felt a little sore in his nose. He divided his bowl of haggis into Li Juan and Li Qiang's bowls and said with a smile:
"I can just drink soup - my sister-in-law still treats me as a child."
"Then you are just a child in front of us." Li Jianguo said while eating pickles, "How old are you? Those who are not married are all children."
"Okay." Li Long lowered his head to drink the soup. , "This mutton soup tastes so good!"
Liang Yuemei smiled and said:
"Then wait until you guys come back Come and make soup. Yesterday I cut some sheep hearts and livers, and today your brother took out the sheep stomachs and cooked them tonight."
"Maybe I can bring in another sheep. "Li Long finished the soup, wiped his mouth and said, "It's coming soon. I'll send half to Uncle Liang then."
Liang Yuemei and Li Jianguo looked at each other, and she said:
"Wen Yu came here yesterday, and I asked him to bring some fish, but I won't give away the meat..."
"That's not the case. Same thing." Li Long remembered clearly that from the first few years to the next few years, the Li family continued to receive financial support from the Liang family. The biggest reason was himself. First it’s work, then it’s time to buy things separately.
He thought it was great to be able to live again, and it felt good to pay off the debt!
“The way to eat them is different. Mutton tastes like mutton, and fish tastes like fish. I can make two more trips before the year, maybe I can bring back a few more sheep, and then our family will celebrate What a fat year!”
"Have a good year... Uncle, what do you mean by a good year?" Li Qiang looked up and asked while chewing a piece of sheep heart.
"That's it..." Li Long thought for a while and said, "During the Chinese New Year, I will let you eat large chunks of mutton, and eat as much as you want!"
"Really?" Li Qiang When I heard this, stars appeared in my eyes.
Li Juan also looked yearning.
"Really, it must be true." Li Long patted his chest. Just say this to Li Qiang, he must do a good job!
After dinner, he went to the east room and got dressed. Li Long put his bag on his back and walked out.
As soon as he arrived outside the door, he saw Gu Ermao outside, and Li Long was a little surprised. Didn’t this guy break up with himself?
"Xiaolong, I heard that you are going to the mountains, can you take me with you?" Gu Ermao still had that playful smile on his face.
“We can’t carry it.” Li Long flatly refused, “I made an agreement with Da Qiang that the carriage cannot carry many people. If you carry too many, you won’t be able to pull anything.”
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"Xiaolong," Gu Ermao saw Li Long's direct refusal and hurriedly explained: "Listen to me, I didn't mean to tell Wu Shufen about your expulsion. She is like that. You believe me, actually..."
Li Long had already shaken him off and walked towards the horse number.
Gu Ermao wanted to follow, but Li Long walked quickly, and he froze outside for a while. He couldn't keep up and was left behind.
"What the hell, you won't take me with you, right? If you can go, I can go too!" Gu Ermao was furious, "Isn't it the mountains? Just pretend that no one can go!"
< br>Li Long was still wondering why Tao Daqiang didn't show up. When he arrived at the horse hall, he discovered that Tao Daqiang was squatting in the corner outside the horse hall.
"Daqiang, why don't you go to my house?" Li Long asked strangely, "Why are you hiding here?"
"I saw Ermao passing your house." Tao Daqiang whispered, "I I guess he must also ask you to go to the mountains. If he wants to go, I may not be able to go..."
Tao Daqiang is not stupid.
Li Long smiled and said:
"Didn't I tell you, we will go without him. From now on it will be just the two of us, you know?"
"Okay!" Tao Daqiang immediately became happy when he heard what Li Long said, "It's just the two of us!"
When he got up and walked out in the morning, his father Tao Daqiang said something to him: Tao Daqiang didn't recover for a long time.
"Daqiang, you and Li Long went to the mountains. You have these leather gloves and the legs of lamb. If Li Long wants to go again, ask your brother to go for you. Huh? He has a family to support and is smarter than you. He can bring more things back." "Li Long said he wouldn't bring anyone else, but me!" Tao Daqiang lied.
"Then remember the way. When you come back from this trip, don't follow Li Qiang. You and your brother can borrow the team's carriage to go there. If you can pull back a sheep, our family can live a prosperous life. Years.”
Tao Daqiang knew that even if he memorized the route, he would not be able to exchange for the sheep.
People believe in Li Long but not themselves.
My own brother Dayong can’t do it either.
Li Long asked Lao Luo to hitch a carriage, and went to the county with Daqiang. He first bought brick tea and salt, then after thinking about it, he bought two bags of sugar cubes and weighed half a kilogram of loose sugar. Fruit candies, and then drove the carriage to the mountains.
Because I was familiar with the road, I arrived at Harimu’s winter home earlier than yesterday.
This time, the dog barked when he saw the carriage approaching.
However, the two dogs did not run over when they barked, and their tails were wagging. Li Long guessed that they recognized him.
Unloaded the carriage and led the horse to the winter nest. Halimu had already come out of the winter nest.
Seeing Li Long and Tao Daqiang, Harimu reached out his hand:
"Li Long, are you okay?"
"Okay, okay." Li Long shook his hand hard and said, "I'm here to trouble you again."
The Kazakhs attach great importance to etiquette. They weren't familiar with each other yesterday, but they are familiar with them today, as they should be. Etiquette is still required.
Halimu took the horse's reins and tied them to the wooden stake. After putting away the fodder, he let Li Long and Tao Daqiang into the winter nest.
Entering the winter nest, after his eyes adjusted, Li Long saw something next to the stove, his eyes lit up:
“There is something good!”
(End of this chapter)