Chapter 29 Forgot something important!
Li Qiang came over to call the two of them to eat, and then Li Long and Tao Daqiang got dressed and went to the West Room.
Li Long was happy when he saw the plate of grass carp on the table. Sure enough, Li Qiang took revenge sooner or later, so he came back with grass carp and stewed it in the evening.
In addition to grass carp, there is also fish soup made with small crucian carp, plus cornmeal pancakes. It is steaming hot and has a very fragrant taste.
Li Juan was picking up the stones on the kang. She must have just finished playing.
Everyone sat at the table, Li Jianguo moved his chopsticks, and started eating together.
Tao Daqiang still lowered his head and ate slowly. If Li Long hadn't reminded him from time to time, he wouldn't have even picked up the fish, but just soaked the corn tortillas in fish soup.
"Eat more fish." Li Long smiled and said to him, "This is a powerful enemy. Let's destroy it together."
"Yes." Tao Daqiang responded. There was a sound.
Li Qiang said he wanted revenge, but in fact he only ate one chopstick of grass carp and turned to the crucian carp next to him. Grass carp has thick meat, and even though Liang Yuemei used a knife on the back when stewing, most of the fish meat is still a bit bland.
And lack of oil.
Li Long was thinking that after selling the fish tomorrow, he would go to the black market to see if there is anyone selling clear oil. These days you need to vote for everything. I have some food stamps at home, but not many other stamps.
"Brother, get me some food stamps tomorrow. I will sell the fish and buy some food." Li Long said as he watched Li Juan and Li Qiang struggling with the cornmeal pancakes.
“There are quite a lot of corn noodles at home.” Liang Yuemei said.
“Buy some fine grains,” Li Long said. “If you only eat coarse grains, you will see that neither Juan nor Qiang Qiang will grow well.”
Liang Yuemei stopped talking. Why doesn't she want her children to eat more refined food? But the rations allocated to the team were not much, and Li Long was allowed to eat more of the fine grains.
Fortunately, my brother-in-law has changed his mind now and is now able to do it.
"Okay." Li Jianguo chewed the cornmeal pancake, which felt particularly sweet.
In fact, Li Long knew that it would be fine if he survived more than half a year. When the land is divided next year, even if each person only has two acres of grain fields, if they are really planted, the harvested grains will be enough for everyone, excluding the grains paid to the public.
Good times are coming!
After dinner, Li Long told Tao Daqiang to come early tomorrow morning. Tao Daqiang agreed and left.
"Daqiang is quite an honest kid." Liang Yuemei said while clearing the dishes, "We can't lose him."
"Yeah." Li Jianguo rolled up Mohe cigarette and said He curled up and started telling stories to the two children.
Under the kerosene lamp, the two children listened attentively.
“…our place used to be known as the ‘golden version of jade’ more than a hundred years ago. Why did we say that? Because at that time, there were gold mines at the bottom of the river and jade mines at the source of the river. . At that time, many wealthy families lived in the broken city now..."
Li Long, who had already planned to go to bed, heard this, slapped his thigh, and said angrily:
"Why am I so stupid that I forgot about this?"
"What?" His slap was so loud that Liang Yuemei from the kitchen heard it, and hurriedly came over and asked, "What do you remember?"
"Jade!" Li Long filmed again I slapped myself on the head, "We have jade mines in the Nanshan Mountains! There are seeds in the upper reaches of the Nama River! The herdsmen also asked me what I should pay attention to, but I forgot about this!"
Mahe jasper is a national treasure, and jade mines were opened here in the Qing Dynasty. Although the jade quality is not as good as Hotan jasper, and most of it has black spots like fly droppings, top-grade seed jasper is also very rare. of.
Li Long remembered that when his eldest brother was still alive in his previous life, Li Juan recounted an incident when he came back from school. Her classmate’s father once received a piece of meat weighing more than ten kilograms from a herdsman for more than ten yuan in the 1970s. Jasper seed material sold for more than 2,000 yuan in 1985.
Two thousand yuan was a huge sum of money in those days!
Halimu and the others have lived in the mountains for generations, so they must know where to find jasper. In the previous life, when Li Long was in his thirties, Mahe Jasper was just famous, so he went into the mountains to collect jade. At that time, many herdsmen no longer had seed material in their hands, but secretly used explosives to blast the material from the Jade Mountain.
As a layman, Li Long received a piece of mountain material. It looked like stone on the surface, but it turned out to be jade after being ground. Unfortunately, the mountain material was cracked inside and was useless. .
In the last life, from 1985 until Li Long passed away, as long as the river was dry after the flood, many people would pick up jade in the river every day with mineral water bottles.
When you see a stone that looks like jade, take a mineral water bottle with holes drilled in the cap and pour some water on the stone to see if it is jade.
At the beginning of the century, very heavy chunks of jasper were found in the upper reaches of the river every year, weighing from tens of kilograms to several tons.
"Just go and ask when you have time." Li Jianguo smiled, "That thing can't run away. Nowadays, jade is not necessarily more expensive than food."
What he said The main meaning is noble, which means important.
Li Long thought about it too.
"Uncle, you are not stupid!" Li Qiang said loudly, "Uncle is the smartest! He can catch croaking chickens, and he can even get back stones - no one else has this ability!"
"Haha, Qiangqiang is the best." Li Long smiled.
Back in the east room, Li Long thought about the croaking chicken that Li Qiang mentioned just now.
Since fish will be sold tomorrow, why not go and see if there are any croaking chickens? It's okay to catch a few croaking chickens and sell them.
As soon as he thought of it, he set up the stove, picked up the flashlight, put on his gloves and hat, went out, picked up the net and the urea bag, and headed east.
After walking a few hundred meters, Li Long knew that this trip might be empty.
There were footprints following where he walked. Obviously, he was not the only one who wanted to catch the croaking chicken or knew its location.
Fortunately, Li Long knew more than one place where croaking chickens could easily hide. He carried a flashlight all the way to the location where he caught the croaking chickens last time, and sure enough, there was not a single one.
Then change places.
Turning south and wading forward in the snow, Li Long panted heavily. He regretted it because it was too difficult to leave.
But now that we are here and we have walked so far, we still have the remaining few hundred meters to go.
Suddenly, a black thing rushed out from the side. Li Long was startled. He turned on his flashlight and looked at it, and saw a gray shadow with half a white buttocks.
Wild rabbit!
There are so many good things in the wild!
Li Long watched the wild rabbit disappear in the snow before turning off the flashlight.
To be honest, the rabbit can't run very fast, but because it hasn't just snowed, the snow has been solid for a while, so the rabbit can run.
He planned to wait for the next snowy time, come here to chase rabbits, and then lay some rabbit traps.
This thing has more meat than a croak chicken.
Soon, Li Long approached the hiding place of the second croaking chicken.
He slowed down and moved forward cautiously.
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