Chapter 51 Making money is the first priority
After a long time, everyone who participated in the Li family's "wild boar feast" will be full of praise. In the past, it was normal for other people's pig-killing banquets to cut meat, but usually there was less meat and more vegetables, mostly dried vegetables, and the meat was mostly lean meat.
In the Li family's wild boar feast, there were a lot of big fat meat slices. Everyone who participated had their mouths full of oil. They ate the two steamed rice noodle buns cleanly. When they left, there were many People still bring leftovers - these days, if you take these leftovers back home, no one will object, but you will be very happy.
After all, there is a lot of oil and water in it. Take it back and stir-fry it with other vegetables. It will also be a delicacy.
I borrowed a table from the Lu family. There was a table in the east room and a table in the west room of the Li family. The woman ate on the small table in the kitchen - it’s not that women don’t serve at the table. There’s no such rule here. It’s just because women still have life behind them. , and also helped the Li family to make suet and fat meat.
Although wild boars are not as thick and fat as domestic pigs, the fat of these two pigs is not thin, and refining the oil requires a lot of effort.
Of course, when the women finally leave, everyone will bring back a bowl of refined oil and oil residue, which is equivalent to a reward.
Li Long was actually quite relaxed during the whole process. The important and technical work was done by others. At this time, no one will be lazy, work actively, and then you can eat with confidence when you eat meat later.
Even after eating, there was no need for the Li family to clean up. The women who helped in the kitchen quickly cleaned up the dishes and the like - in fact, it was easy to clean up, because there were no leftovers on the plates. No matter how much oil and water was added, the vegetable juice was eaten by people dipping the steamed buns into it.
These days, people are really short of fuel and water.
The Li family, on the other hand, gained a reputation for generosity because of the generous amount of meat and dishes they had today. The rumors that Li Long was caught disappeared completely in the middle of a meaty meal.
After eating, the sun was just setting in the west. Li Long didn’t want to be idle. He was actually not tired, so he took the dozens of wire covers he had made earlier, put on his cotton clothes, and put them on Hat, go to the southeast into the snow.
The production team is located in the easternmost part of the entire brigade, and further east there is a large wasteland. At present, the wasteland reclaimed by production teams accounts for about one-seventh or eight-eighth of the entire wasteland.
Twenty years later, those reed ponds, alkali beaches, and red willow beaches have all been reclaimed. The entire village has the largest land area in the township, and the land contracted by each family is large enough.
Now all kinds of weeds and shrubs grow in these wastelands, and in summer, all kinds of medicinal herbs grow. Like Cynomorium cynomorium, which cost tens of yuan a stick in later generations, it is everywhere under the white thorns in the alkali beach. You can dig a sack of it in a morning without looking for it.
This kind of wild medicinal materials, which will be very expensive in later generations, are not even collected by medicinal companies now. The maximum they collect is only 350 cents per kilogram, and they still need dry goods.
Two years before Li Long died in his previous life, the wasteland had been reclaimed and Cynomorium no longer had a growing environment. Only one or two trees could be found occasionally in the corners of some cultivated land.
The place he was going to was Red Willow Beach. There were a lot of hares here, but it was troublesome to walk. The top layer of snow had frozen into a shell, but it couldn’t withstand people and stepped on it, causing it to sink directly. Going in, there are thick snow particles like sand below. It sinks in every step, which is very difficult.
When Li Long panted and walked to the edge of Hongliu Beach, he suddenly heard the sound of "fluttering". He raised his head and looked at the location of the sound. He saw a large eagle flying into the air with half a rabbit in its mouth. go.
This guy has such a long wingspan, it must be at least two or three meters!
Li Longxin said that wild animals are really growing vigorously at this time - let them grow well, but they will not grow well after a few years.
He entered Red Willow Beach. The red willows here are three to four meters high and as thick as two arms. In another ten years, most of the tamarisk trees here will be chopped down, leaving nothing taller than a human being. After that, they will be turned into cultivated land.
Beside the red willow roots, rabbit paw prints were crisscrossed, and Li Long distinguished them carefully.
In the last life, when he first set the rabbit trap, he did it casually whenever he saw a rabbit mark, without any rules. Of course, the final result was nothing but an unlucky rabbit. What a gain.
There have been many failures. After communicating with others, I know that this thing also requires technology. You need to find a route that is relatively new and that rabbits often run. You need to find a place that rabbits must pass through, such as between two bushes. Before setting the rabbit trap, you must not step on rabbit marks, otherwise the rabbit will not walk this path. Li Long had experience, so he searched carefully, trying not to go to the middle of the red willow beach, nor close to the edge - even if a rabbit is caught at the edge, if it cannot be taken away in time, it will soon become an eagle, badger, Belly delicacies such as foxes.
After going around in a big circle and putting down more than 20 wire condoms, Li Long walked out with the remaining condoms. He was a little cold, so he took off the remaining condoms more casually.
If the rest of the team saw it, they would call him a prodigal. The places under these covers are relatively random, which makes it troublesome to find them. Nowadays, no one has the luxury to "play" with this kind of thin wire.
When Li Long returned home, he did not go to the West House - there were now a room full of women in the West House helping to make lard, and he could not help in the past.
When it was getting dark, Li Long was helping Li Qiang with the wild boar tusk in the house - Li Qiang wanted to use it as a toy, so Li Long planned to use thin wire and pull it out from the tire. The silk thread was wrapped around a handle for him, and then he heard the sound of continuous footsteps in the yard.
He thought the women were leaving after finishing their work, but that sounded wrong because there was no sound of the east room door opening, and then the door on his side opened.
Five or six young people poured into the house.
"Xiaolong, what are you busy with?"
As soon as he saw these people coming, Li Long understood.
In the winter, the nighttime entertainment life of the production team is very monotonous. These young men and women in their twenties basically form a group and visit together. Often the first ones to go are the famous people in the team.
Two days before Li Long was arranged to enter the factory by Li Jianguo, these people also came to his room. At that time, there were Gu Ermao and Wu Shufen, and Wu Shufen also agreed to talk to him about a partner at that time.
Now that Gu Ermao is away, Wu Shufen - Li Long was surprised to find that Wu Shufen was in the middle of the crowd, but she didn't dare to look at him, which seemed a little embarrassing.
The person speaking was Xu Haijun, cousin of captain Xu Chengjun, who was one word different from the future Olympic champion. He is considered to be the better organizer among the young people in the team, and he is also the more active.
"I'm making a toy for Qiangqiang." Li Long raised the fangs in his hand and said, "Come on, come on, sit down."
There were not enough benches in the room, and everyone was not polite. No one minded, and just sat on the fire bed - everyone's situation is similar now, and no one will look down on the other.
"Xiaolong, you are so awesome now," Xu Haijun sat down and said with a smile, "Two wild boars, ordinary people can't do this, right? I heard that you even trade meat with others, five bullets for one kilogram, and I trade for two kilograms? I’ve never eaten wild boar meat, so I want to try it.”
“No problem.” Li Long smiled, “There’s a lot of meat, so feel free to change it.”
Everyone can see that. Li Long has changed, he is less vain and more practical.
Two girls’ eyes fell on Wu Shufen.
(End of this chapter)