Chapter 129 Started not doing business again
The next morning Li Juan went to school and Li Qiang went to preschool. The loudspeaker in the team shouted to send workers to clear the canal. Li Jianguo went, Liang Yuemei went to pull weeds in the fields, and Li Long began to sort out the nets he bought.
The snow has melted, the ice in Xiaohaizi has almost disappeared, and green has appeared in the fields. Then, it is time to do your own business - what others think of as "not doing business".
In later generations, there were many non-professional "fishermen" in the village. They would set out nets to catch fish during slack periods, collect fish early in the morning, and then go to the market to sell the fish. They would hang up the nets when farming was busy. , and become a real farmer.
However, it would take at least three to five years before such a situation would occur in the previous life, and now Li Long made it happen in advance.
While he was cleaning the net, Tao Daqiang came to the yard.
"Brother Long, are you going to log off the Internet this afternoon?"
"Yes." Li Long responded and said, "Have you never been to an Internet cafe before?"
"No. "Tao Daqiang stepped forward to touch the net, he was a little curious and a little cautious. This network is not cheap!
To buy a donkey and make a donkey cart, Tao Daqiang borrowed eighty yuan from Li Long. According to Li Long, it will be deducted from his future salary. Tao Daqiang can calculate that this requires at least sixteen days' wages for hard work.
So although he didn't know how to get off the net, he very much hoped that Li Long would take him to start work - the feeling of carrying debt was very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.
"Then I will teach you how to clean the net first. Let's lower the net and take out the fish early tomorrow morning. Then I will take the fish to sell. You have to clean the net at home. We will go there tomorrow afternoon. Get off the net."
"Okay." Tao Daqiang didn't say much, but his attitude was very serious, and Li Long was very satisfied.
Li Long taught Tao Daqiang to clean up the net and told him how to tie the rope after picking it up.
In order to make it easier to find the location of the sticky net in the water, Li Long specially found a few colorful cloth strips and tied them to both ends of the net. This way, when the net is lowered, it will be fixed in the water and easier to find. .
After Tao Daqiang learned how to manage the net, Li Long took the cast net and practiced spreading it in the yard. From the half net at the beginning, it could barely be cast in a circle.
This is indeed a technical and physical exercise. Tao Daqiang looked hot and wanted to try it, but it looked like that. But as soon as the net came out, when it landed, it was basically either a line or a crescent moon. Li Long didn't want to laugh, for fear of hurting Tao Daqiang's self-esteem, but he couldn't hold it in anymore. Uncomfortable.
"Brother Long, just laugh if you want. Anyway, I know I'm stupid." Tao Daqiang is not annoyed, "I will practice more when I have nothing to do."
Tao Daqiang now likes to follow Li Long went to catch fish. He knew that this could bring him cash, which was more valuable than farm work.
Although I am stupid, maybe I can succeed if I practice more?
When work was about to end in the morning, Li Long and Tao Daqiang put away the net, and he started cooking.
The eldest brother and sister-in-law both had to do manual labor, so Li Long planned to do some hard work.
In his last life, he didn't know how to cook at first, and even if he did, it would be a fool's errand. But later I learned that if you want to eat well, you have to know how to cook it yourself, otherwise others will not accommodate you.
So the food Li Long cooked gradually became more delicious, at least home-cooked meals were no problem.
Make the noodles first, then cover them with a wet cloth and soak them in dried chili peppers from a spare house, peel the onions and garlic, and then scoop out a large spoonful of the roasted mutton with oil. Be prepared.
After the spicy skin is softened, cut into small cubes and ready, he plans to roll the spicy skin into meat and mix it into strips.
Because mutton fat is easy to condense, commonly known as "soaking", so he did not cook the vegetables first, but boiled water and prepared to cook them first.
Making money is also a technical job. In the previous life, Li Long didn't basically learn it until he was almost fifty years old - what he learned was that he could mix the noodles carefully and continuously. Just like this type of technical work, some people can do it at the age of seven or eight. Li Long remembers that a friend of Li Qiang's age came over with a bowl of ramen when he was more than eight years old to show off to Li Qiang that he could ramen, and Li Long I just won’t pull it until I’m almost fifty.
The technique is very simple and can be broken with just one poke. But some people may not be able to understand that piece of paper in their lifetime.
The weather is getting hot, and the stove in the house is no longer burning frequently. It will be dismantled in two days. So Li Long boiled water on the firewood stove in the yard.
Wood stoves were more common at this time. Although they were not as convenient as gas stoves in later generations, the food cooked was delicious.
Pour water into the pot, put a bundle of corn stalks and sunflower poles on the edge of the stove, then pulled some reeds as kindling, pulled out a few corn stalks and stuffed them into the stove, and put the reeds underneath. After it was lit, white smoke came out of the chimney, and the fire burned quickly.
"Uncle, where are you cooking?" Li Qiang came back first. Seeing Li Long busy on the stove, he immediately ran over to help, "I'll light the fire!"
"Okay, be careful, don't make the fire too big." Although Li Qiang is only six years old, rural children are already able to work at this time. Based on Li Qiang's current situation, he will be able to enter first grade in the fall.
Thinking that Li Qiang's teacher might be Wu Shufen, Li Long felt a little weird.
"Uncle, the water is boiling!" Li Qiang shouted outside, and Li Long opened the noodles inside. He picked up the noodles with chopsticks, took the sieve to the stove, and saw that the water was boiling. , put the noodles in, stirred them slowly and gently, then went into the house and brought a basin of water out and put it on the stove, which was used to cool the noodles.
When Liang Yuemei and Li Jianguo came back, the noodles had been served and the noodle soup was poured into the basin. When Li Long saw people entering the yard, he began to pour oil into the pot, fry the meat, and boil the spicy skin.
When a large plate of red and spicy skinned meat was served on the table, the aroma mixed with the spiciness hit his nostrils. Li Jianguo couldn't help but said:
"Xiaolong, what are you doing? It’s time to learn how to do this? It smells weird!”
"I saw it in the big meat cafeteria. I thought you were tired, so I gave it a try." Li Long was very satisfied with the reaction of his elder brother, sister-in-law and Li Qiang.
"It smells good when you look at it!" Liang Yuemei originally planned to come back to cook. In her memory, Li Long didn't know how to cook, and he was the type who could overflow even when he made porridge. Although I seem to be more sensible in the past two months, I can't cook all the meals silently.
I really know how to do it, and it looks great! This surprised her.
"Eat quickly, the food is getting cold, and it won't taste good when it gets cold." Li Qiang urged. The family still maintains the old rules. Li Jianguo eats first, the adults first, and then the children.
You need to use a plate to eat noodles. The family ate happily. Li Long poured some vinegar on the plate as a habit. Li Qiang followed suit, and soon his nose was filled with tears and runny nose stimulated by the spicy taste. He wiped it with his sleeve and continued to cook. He stuttered and looked at the plate of spicy meat and vegetables on the table as he ate, obviously not intending to finish with just one plate.
For a moment, the only sound left at the table was the slurping of noodles, and Li Long laughed while eating.
In the afternoon, Li Jianguo continued to work, Liang Yuemei went to the fields after cleaning up, and Li Qiang reluctantly went to preschool - at the dinner table, he heard that Li Long was going to Xiaohaizi to go to the net, and he was particularly thinking about it. He followed and was scolded by Li Jianguo.
It’s not like winter now. The water in Xiaohaizi is two to three meters deep. If a child falls in, it will be the end.
Tao Daqiang came to Li's house early, and after obtaining Li Long's consent, he practiced casting a net in the yard.
After the sun set, Li Long and Tao Daqiang put the net into the urea bag and walked towards Xiaohaizi.
A new round of neglect has begun.
(End of this chapter)