Chapter 23 This is a friend
Beside the stove, there are three antlers, all bigger than what I got yesterday.
Li Long just took a look, and then handed the purchased items to Harimu.
"This is tea, this is salt, and this is sugar cubes." After taking them out one by one, he finally took out the fruit candy and handed it to the old man. Harimu's mother said:
" For you! ”
The old man couldn't speak Chinese, so he took the things, smiled and asked Li Long and others to sit down, and then asked Harimu's wife to make milk tea, while she grabbed a handful of fruit candies and gave them to her grandson.
After Li Long and the others took off their shoes and got on the wooden kang, Harimu also sat over and said:
"After you left yesterday, I went to find other sheep herders. There was indeed someone there. There were frozen sheep at home. They didn’t want money, they wanted tea. I gave them tea and brought back two sheep.”
He pointed to the antlers.
Li Long took the milk tea that the woman shaved, put down the tea bowl, took out a paper bag from his pocket and handed it to Harimu:
"This is twenty rounds of bullets."
Halimu opened the paper bag and looked at it, and he was very happy:
"It's great! The wolf came last night. I I didn’t even get a good night’s sleep! With bullets, I can kill the wolf! Brother Li Long, You really helped me a lot!"
Li Long took a sip of milk tea and said with a smile:
"We are mutually beneficial. You helped me find the frozen sheep and the antlers. , I help you find these things, it’s all what you should do.”
"Yes, yes, help each other!" Harimu's Chinese is a bit stiff, but he can express himself very well, "When winter is over and spring comes, if I can hunt wild boars or something, you can come and pull me!" ”
At noon, Harimu showed Li Long how a Kazakh man slaughtered a sheep in a few minutes.
Li Long has been refusing to stop Harimu from slaughtering the sheep, but the Harimu family all believe that the sheep must be slaughtered, otherwise they will not be able to thank Li Long, a close guest.
Halimu also said: "We don't have much fodder prepared. The snow is very heavy this year, and the cattle and sheep can't eat the grass under the snow. Some sheep can't survive the snow melting in spring, and some are still there after being slaughtered. Otherwise, they will starve to death when spring comes."
Li Long is clear about the dangers of snow disasters. He remembered that a few years after his last life, the village called on students to donate fodder to help the herdsmen in the pastoral areas. At that time, there was a snowstorm and insect infestation, resulting in the herdsmen not having enough fodder.
Maybe what Harimu said was true, but of course it was more likely to cover up the fact that they were slaughtering sheep specifically for Li Long.
The mutton is stewed directly at noon, with only a little salt added to melt the water. Li Long could see the two children also staring at the meat in the pot.
Obviously, they haven’t eaten meat like this for a long time.
Looking at the temple stones they piled in the corner, Li Long's heart moved and he said to Nathan:
"Can you give me a few of your temple stones?"
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Nathan didn't understand, but Harimu said a few words to Nathan.
Nathan looked at Bi Shi and then at Li Long. Harimu said a few more words, and Nathan looked at the fruit candies in his hand, and then pushed all the biceps over.
Li Long smiled and said:
"Not that many. I have nephews and nieces who like this but don't have it, so I want a few for them."
Li Long took ten temple stones. There were about thirty or forty stones in the pile, so ten was not too much.
After the meat was cooked, everyone sat at the table and began to eat the meat and gnaw the bones.
Tao Daqiang can't let go, but Li Long is not polite. Now that he's here and since it's cooked, let's eat more. When you come here in the future, just bring more things here.
Halimu had bullets, and after killing a few wolves, everything came back.
After eating mutton, Li Long and the others drank mutton soup, and then they went out with satisfaction. They put two frozen sheep into the carriage, and then he planned to get some pine wood to load on the carriage. "I went to get some coal yesterday." Harimu pointed to the back of the winter nest, "but because I rode there on horseback, I didn't bring much."
"Then you stay and burn." Li Long knew that Harimu and the others also burned coal, so he had no intention of taking the coal back.
"You guys pull up. We are close to the coal mine, and we can bring some back in a few days. When you come next time, I can bring back more coal." Harimu is also very stubborn. .
Li Long did not refuse anymore, and he and Tao Daqiang put the coal on the carriage, some pine wood, and finally the three antlers.
Li Long weighed it and found that these three antlers weighed almost ten kilograms. According to the person at the purchasing station, they could be sold for thirty or forty yuan.
Money in your pocket again!
"Li Long, if you need anything else, tell me. I'll find other people when I have time. I can exchange them for you if I meet them."
With bullets, Harimu became much more courageous and could go Ran further away. He felt that he owed Li Long a lot of favors, and naturally hoped to help Li Long.
"If you can catch a wild boar, it would be best if you keep the belly of the wild boar." Li Long thought and said, "There are still few things in winter. In summer, there will be more medicinal materials and they can be sold for money. There are also Mushrooms..."
There are many good things in the mountains, but there are only so many in winter. There are bears in this mountain, also known as brown bears. They are bigger than black bears. One weighs more than two to three hundred kilograms. If an ordinary person encounters one and wants to mess with it, they are looking for death.
So Li Long will not talk about these things, but he is a wild boar. With a rifle in his hand, Harimu also knows the importance. Even if he cannot kill him, he can at least ensure his own safety.
But considering that the wild boars came down in groups at this time, he thought about bringing more bullets up next time.
After bidding farewell to the Harimu family, Li Long and Tao Daqiang drove the carriage down the mountain.
Arrived in the county town again, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to wait outside, and he entered the purchasing station carrying three antlers.
This time the person inside was not Chen Hongjun, but a middle-aged woman.
The woman looked at Li Long holding the antlers and felt happy, but her face remained calm and asked:
"Are you here to sell antlers?"
Seeing that it was not Chen Hongjun, Li Long did not reply directly, but asked:
"Let's take a look at the price first."
"This antlers..." The woman picked up the antlers Li Long put on the counter and looked at it carefully and said:
"It looks pretty good, but it has been frozen and has cracks. I'll give you two yuan per kilogram." , this is already a high price, how about it?”
"Forget it." Li Long put away his antlers and prepared to leave. He remembered that Chen Hongjun said that he would be there at 135, and he would wait until Chen Hongjun came. It costs two yuan per kilogram, so it costs more than ten yuan less!
One lamb is gone!
The woman did not expect Li Long to be so straightforward, and she immediately said:
"How about I give you a little increase, two and a half yuan?"
Li Long didn't stop. .
Women also have tasks, and helplessly saw that Li Long had already walked to the door with the antlers, and then said:
"Then three yuan, no more!"
"Okay." Li The dragon turned and lowered his antlers.
This woman hates Li Long a little, she really doesn’t let the eagle in sight. Not many people who come here to sell things know how to bargain. This allowed her to collect many good things at low prices.
She hit a snag with Li Long, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
(End of this chapter)