Chapter 64 The wild boar is really not stupid
The wolf meat was buried in the snow and frozen, and Li Long took one of the two wolf skins. There was one piece of wood here before, and now there is another one, and the wooden bed is almost full.
"After hunting the wild boar tomorrow, I will go back directly." Li Long said, "I originally planned to go out for two days, but it has been extended by one day. The family should be worried."
Xiao Haizi , Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang estimated that Li Long would be back tonight while digging out fish.
"If you go to sell fish tomorrow, then I will go to the captain's house tonight to renew the carriage for another day." Li Jianguo picked up the fish and said to Tao Daqiang, "I probably won't sell it again. It's time to prepare. It’s time to celebrate the New Year. Daqiang, have you prepared any New Year’s goods?”
"Not yet." Tao Daqiang is now less reserved when talking to Li Jianguo, "I have money to buy charcoal."
Li Jianguo nodded. He knew very well that the "salary" Li Long gave Tao Daqiang should be based on income. It's not much, but based on the current average salary and per capita income, it's already a lot.
The difficulty for Tao Jianjian's family is that Tao Dayong was arrested last time. This was a blow and it took some time to recover.
But what’s the point? The team was much poorer than his family, but Tao Daqiang could still bring fish back every day.
Some people in the team are envious and say mean things, but there are only a few people who can actually carry the temperature of minus 20 to 30 degrees and go to Xiaohaizi to catch fish.
Some people don’t eat fish, some don’t want to eat fish because it consumes too much oil and has thorns, and some people think fish is not as delicious as pork or mutton.
Of course, most of them have the same reason: they want to stay at home and don’t want to go out to work.
Faults caused during mass production.
Of course, things will be different after this year. After the land is allocated to each family, people's diligence will come out at that time, and each one will be more capable than the other.
Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang are willing to do it because they see the benefits. Li Long went out to sell fish once. Li Jianguo received fifty yuan and Tao Daqiang received five yuan.
But what the people in the team saw was that a total of three families went out. Gu Ermao was arrested, Tao Dayong was arrested, and Li Long was fine.
They would say that Li Long was lucky and capable, but he did not dare to try it himself.
So so far, not only Li Jianguo and Tao Dayong are catching fish in Xiaohaizi, but the only ones selling fish are the Li family. Even if others know that there are benefits here, they will not come. In their view, the risk was too great.
But Li Jianguo and Tao Dayong also discovered that there were not as many fish today as last time.
When he went back after dark, Li Jianguo estimated that the fish on the sledge weighed about fifty or sixty kilograms.
It’s a lot, but somewhat unsatisfactory. It's like making money by setting up a stall. You earn five yuan on the first day, thirty yuan on the second day, and one hundred yuan on the third day. You thought you could make one hundred and fifty yuan on the fourth day, but suddenly it became fifty yuan again. Naturally, he is dissatisfied.
On the contrary, Tao Daqiang said:
"Uncle Jianguo, there are already a lot of fish. If we want to eat them, we won't be able to finish them in ten days."
"That's true. "Li Jianguo thought about it. Before Li Long came back, who in the family would have thought of breaking holes in the ice to catch fish? It’s not that I didn’t think about it at the time, but my thinking at the time was that it was a matter of doubt whether I could be caught after smashing it. Even if I could be caught, it would only be a few kilograms at most, but it would take at least one or two hours to smash the ice. The effort is not proportional to the reward, so Not coming.
It’s still Li Long.
Back home, Tao Daqiang refused Liang Yuemei's invitation to have dinner and went back with a few fish.
"Xiaolong hasn't come back yet." Li Jianguo sighed, "Drink some fish soup, I have to go to the captain to renew the carriage money."
"If you haven't come back, you haven't come back. "Liang Yuemei is not very Worried, "Xiaolong is doing his job well. He must have something to do in the mountains if he doesn't come back." Of course Li Long has something to do. During the day, Harimu had to feed the cattle and sheep, so Li Long took an ax to split the wood they dragged back into pieces to prepare for tomorrow. Load the truck and drive away.
Pine is always a good wood in the minds of people here, but it cannot be compared with poplar, so it is also more expensive. Although it was a fallen tree, it probably fell not long ago, so it was difficult to cut it down.
Li Long felt that he needed to exercise. For more than an hour, he reluctantly cut off the thick piece of wood, and then began to cut it into shorter pieces.
It is really a waste to burn this wood, but there are many such things in the mountains. Even if it is not burned, it will decay after a few years. The Harimu and Yushanjiang families used pine wood and cow dung pancakes to light the fire. These things were easy to burn, otherwise it would not have been possible to call the torch a pine tree in ancient times - it probably contained rosin.
By the time he cut the wood into sections of about two meters, and one section of four or five, it was almost dark.
Halimu came over to help transport the wood to the frame so that it can be loaded onto the car tomorrow.
The horse was tied next to the hay pile at Harimu's house, eating hay comfortably.
When Li Long came over, the big red horse No. 76 glanced at him sideways. Li Longxin said, if you are comfortable now, you will be tired tomorrow.
He entered the winter nest - now accustomed to the smell inside, drank milk tea, rested early, and then prepared to hunt wild boars in the middle of the night.
At around five o'clock, Li Long was called by Harimu, dressed neatly, carrying a 56 semi-automatic rifle, wrapped his sheepskin coat tightly, and walked out.
Halimu led the way, and Li Long followed slowly behind, one step deep and one shallow, and he had to protect the muzzle of his gun, so he walked very nervously.
Crossed a mountain ridge, crossed a valley, and then stopped at Harimu on the mountain ridge.
"Look there." Harimu pointed to the valley below the mountain. "It is a grassland in summer, and many medicinal herbs grow there. The pine cones of the pine trees on the mountain ridges have also rolled down and piled up there. Now that the wild boars have nothing to eat, they have arrived. Here we dig through the snow to find food.”
Li Long looked down through the pine branches. There were about dozens of acres of open space, which belonged to the mountain grassland and extended to the bottom of the valley. Now he could only vaguely see it. Traces of being dug.
"Is it too far here? Do we need to get closer?"
"We need to get closer." Harimu continued walking down, "The wind blows from west to east, we Just find a place to lie down on the edge of the pine forest and wait.”
The two people came to a place about forty or fifty meters away from the arched snow, and each found a place to wait.
The snow is too deep. If you lie down, you won't be able to see the front. You have to pile the place where you lie down high, or you can fight while squatting. Li Long felt that holding the gun while squatting was not as accurate as lying on his stomach, so he simply used a snow base to build a gun platform, which was more convenient when lying on his stomach.
Halimu didn't need to. He leaned behind the pine tree and began to rest with his eyes closed, very relaxed. Li Long was a little envious, but he didn't dare to do this for fear of falling asleep and missing the time for the wild boar to come.
After waiting for almost an hour, Li Long felt the ground shaking. The movement came from the ridge on the right. He hurriedly whispered to Harimu:
"Harimu, here we come!"
Halimu immediately opened his eyes, turned around and squatted with the gun ready to aim.
Seven or eight wild boars began to run into the valley with a loud noise. This group of wild boars was not as big as the previous group. The largest wild boar only weighed more than 100 kilograms, and the smallest one only weighed 40 to 50 kilograms. They seemed to have no sense of precaution.
Before Li Long became happy, Harimu suddenly said:
"The wind direction has changed, prepare to fight, the wild boar may have discovered us!"
Sure enough, we just rushed down. The wild boars suddenly rushed up the opposite hillside together!
(End of this chapter)