Chapter 150 The Half-finished Winter Nest
On the mountain road, Li Long pedaled his bicycle with difficulty. This section was the most difficult to walk. The road was overgrown with weeds, the slope was high, and there were many stones.
After pedaling up this nearly one kilometer long slope, the gentle slope ahead became much more comfortable. Li Long held on to the handlebars with one hand and wiped his sweat while riding forward.
Cyclists are the same as those who drove in later generations. Once they get on the car, they don’t want to get off. Even though they know that it might be easier to get off and push during this period, they just want to get on.
The car entered the mountain pass, and the next road was full of twists and turns. Fortunately, this road was trampled by herdsmen with their cattle and sheep. It was quite a good ride. Li Long avoided it all the way. The scorpion grass that attacks people has arrived near Harimudong's nest.
Harimu was outside the winter nest. When he saw Li Long coming, he ran over with a smile, followed by Nathan and their family dog.
"Li Long, you didn't come yesterday," Harimu said. "Originally, I wanted to take you to see your winter nest."
"It's OK now. "Li Long said, "I had something to do at home yesterday, so I didn't come over - let's put this food in Xian's winter nest first."
"Well, put it here first, let's put it here first. After unloading the grain, go to your winter nest and tell them that you brought back grain - what they need most when they get to the summer pasture is these rice noodles. "
< br>In his previous life, Li Long heard that the herdsmen in the mountains usually ate Fu tea and naan. If there was any non-staple food, it might be ghee or butter or jam, which was very simple. It is impossible to eat meat every day - eating meat is also very luxurious for them, and they usually kill sheep only during festivals or when guests come over.
He only heard about it and didn't know whether it was true or false, but he didn't ask.
Move the food to the winter nest with Harimu, and then walk west.
"They have now started to build wooden walls. According to Yushanjiang, your house will be built in less than two days. You can live in it by then - you need to own the things inside Come and prepare. After all, our accommodation habits are different from yours."
"I understand." Li Long was still a little excited. Not to mention the house in the team, it belonged to his eldest brother. When you start a family, you will definitely have a homestead to build a house on.
Not to mention the house on the street, it was bought directly, and it was a house decades ago, so it is impossible to have any feeling of empathy.
But what we are about to see is a building that cannot even be called a house. It was built just a few days after I came to this life. It is a small and insignificant way for these lovely and enthusiastic Kazakh herdsmen to thank themselves. Built with dedication.
This made Li Long really excited.
Before he saw the house, Li Long heard someone singing and the sound of a radio. It should be the announcer playing the news. Although he was not speaking Chinese, the tone could still be heard.
There were also sounds of knocking on wood and laughter.
"They are very happy." Li Long said with a smile, "Your mentality is really good."
"The words passed down by our ancestors from generation to generation say that people should look forward. Although we are in the mountains and don't have as many things as you at the bottom of the mountains, we are very content." Harimu's words made Li Long feel dazed for a moment.
In his last life, his life could be said to be extremely rich in material terms, but he did not seem to be as happy as he had been in the past few months.
The arrival of Harimu and Li Long made the men even happier.
Yu Shanjiang shouted to let the men who were still working take a rest, and everyone gathered around, talking to each other. Li Long shook hands with them one by one, and he did not understand what they were saying. What, but looking at those faces that were sunburnt but full of enthusiasm and innocence, he really felt that he was very lucky in this life.
Yu Shanjiang brought Li Long to the house that had built wooden walls on both sides and said:
"Look, after these two sides are built, the back will be close. This house has two rooms. One room is for people to live in, and the other room is for storing things. By the way, it will be covered with wooden boards inside, and the walls will be We need to put a layer of mud on it so that we can light the fire later There won’t be any burning problems.”
The structure of the house is very simple, just two rooms, one large and one small. The larger one is about thirty square meters, and the smaller one is about twenty square meters. Now it is built. It looks very rough and primitive, but it also has a kind of beauty.
"Thank you, thank you!" Li Long said to Yushan Jiang sincerely, "I really don't know how to thank you..."
"Friends, don't say this!" Yushan Jiang said seriously, "You, He has helped us so much, and we really want to do this. As people on horseback, we don’t say so many nice things, but we treat our friends sincerely.”
Li Long stopped talking.
After Harimu spoke to other people over there, those people suddenly cheered.
"You brought them rice and noodles?" Yushanjiang suddenly asked.
"Well, I asked Harimu what you were lacking when you arrived at Xia Ranch. He said that besides brick tea and salt, the most lacking thing was food. I bought some in the past two days, and I will I will buy some more.”
“Look, you said thank you. This is what we should thank you for.” Yu Shanjiang patted Li Long on the shoulder. Said, "We use our strength. After using our strength, we will still have it.
But when we get to the summer pasture, the food will be gone after eating it. If you prepare food for us, it must be the same. Are you sincere? You don’t want anything in return from us, right? Friends, that’s what Adasi is like!”
Li Long actually wanted to say that the money I paid for buying food came from the antlers you gave me. But he couldn't speak. In fact, when he bought food before, he really hoped to help these sincere friends.
Halimu said something more, and then the men all looked at Li Long.
"Halimu said, you can help them exchange for what they want to exchange for. Things like deer antlers, roe deer antlers, or leather will do."
"Okay!" Li Long said firmly, "I am very willing to help my friends!"
You guys, you look at me and I look at you, but you don't want to be the first to speak.
Li Long and Yu Shanjiang walked over from the house, went to the wood where the young men were sitting, and found a piece of wood to sit down on.
A young man mustered up the courage to stand up and said a series of words.
Halimu glanced at him in surprise, then turned to ask Li Long:
"He said he saw a red deer with a fawn, and asked how many deer could be exchanged for such a fawn. A radio like this?"
How many?
Red deer cub?
Change the radio?
Li Long felt that his head was a little down.
I reacted immediately, thinking about it, it’s normal. In the eyes of these herdsmen, an ungrown red deer calf is no more valuable than a sheep. After all, it is difficult to raise it. Even if it has antlers, it will only be a few years later - and it is not necessarily a male deer.
Then it is inevitable that this deer is worthless.
But it’s different here with Li Long! A deer’s whole body is full of treasures, even a fawn! "One, change it to another." Li Long raised a finger and said, "Of course, there are no radios in the county now. I have to go to Shicheng to have a look."
Harry Mu turned his head and explained to the young man. An expression of ecstasy appeared on the young man's face. He sat down. Someone next to him asked him, and he nodded without saying much.
I guess you have already started to figure out how to catch that little deer, right?
With the first person, the second person soon said a series of words.
"Antlers, how many antlers can be exchanged for a radio?" Harimu translated.
"Antlers..." Li Long thought for a while and thought about it. The average price of antlers now is five yuan, so about ten kilograms can be replaced by a radio. With a box of batteries, the maximum price is twelve or thirteen kilograms.
"Two or three antlers are enough." Li Long said.
After he finished speaking, Harimu and Yushanjiang looked at him blankly, their expressions clearly showing disbelief.
“Really.” Li Long said: “However, I’m not sure I can receive the signal in the mountains. After all, this is the winter pasture. It’s too high in the summer pasture. I don’t know if I can receive it. , it is not necessary to add wire as an antenna.”
"We can't let you suffer." Yushanjiang suddenly interrupted, "Li Long, we are friends, friends, we can't suffer. We work voluntarily and for our friends. You brought us news from the outside... …”
Halimu agreed with his face.
Li Long smiled bitterly.
Am I a selfless saint in their eyes?
He thought for a while and said to Harimu and Yushanjiang:
"The two pieces of jade you gave me the first time can be exchanged for five or six radios. As for antlers, there were not enough at that time. Now the price of antlers has increased, so you can exchange them for them. Our country can produce radios on its own, and many factories can do it. It’s made, so it’s not very expensive.”
Halimu and Yushanjiang looked at each other, and then Halimu started to translate for the boys.
After listening to this, some of the young men had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
Most of them wanted to exchange for radios, some wanted to exchange for food, and some wanted to exchange for cutting tools, medicines and tools. Li Long gave them all answers one by one.
Through this conversation, Li Long finally understood that the herdsmen in Dongwozi were really short of supplies.
Although the lack of materials in this era is a common phenomenon in the entire society, due to language communication problems and national habits, the herdsmen in this area have relatively few materials.
On the other hand, due to the location of their pasture, they actually have a large number of precious resources, including various leathers, jade, deer antlers, roe deer antlers, and a small amount of deer antlers, etc.
There are even real Tianshan snowdrops.
Although the efficacy of Tianshan Snow Lotus is not as magical as the legend says, it is still a precious gynecological medicinal material.
And in the eyes of local people, the snow lotus that later appeared in film and television programs and in frontier specialty counters was actually called stone lotus. The ones that really grow above the snow line are called snow lotus.
Just because it is too rare, some greedy guys will uproot such snow lotus in order to maximize their profits. As a result, people in later generations can hardly see the real Tianshan snow lotus.
It is said that a pharmaceutical factory in the border area produced a snow lotus and red flower tonic wine, and asked a singer who later collapsed to endorse it. After flying along the northern slope of Tianshan Mountain in a helicopter for a week, he could not find a single flower that was actually on the snow line. Snow lotus above.
But Li Long is still unclear about the purchase price of Xuelian, but he knows that it will definitely not be high.
So Li Long said he would ask, but he warned that it might take a lot.
The young man who asked Xuelian was a little disappointed.
"Okay, okay, let's work!" Yushanjiang clapped his hands and said, "Work for a while longer, your sisters-in-law will come to deliver food. We can't let the women see us being lazy and come to work!"< br>
Li Long and Halimu also joined the working team. He doesn't know how to do it, but he can still move wood and break wooden wedges. Although there is a language barrier, gestures are the best means of communication at this time. Through gestures, you can understand what kind of cooperation the other party wants.
At noon, Harimu's wife brought a large pot of mutton, and Yushanjiang's wife brought large pieces of freshly made naan and horse milk. Li Long ate meat, naan, and drank mare's milk with them.
After lunch, during the break, Harimu called Li Long up and said:
"Li Long, you don't have to work here anymore. Leave the work here to us. You can go Go about your business. In two or three days, the winter nest will be built and decorated. The things inside are your own. You will have a lot of things to do at that time. I think if you have time, you can pull some wood down and make some furniture for you, but for other things. , we can’t do it, you can only do it yourself”
Li Long nodded, that's indeed the case.
If possible, he also hopes to have wooden tables, chairs, iron stoves, cabinets, etc. in his own wooden house.
People like Yushanjiang cannot do these things, and they don’t have the right tools.
"Then I will come over tomorrow. People in our village have to work in the ditch on the Hongshanzui side in the east. It may take a month. I will go there often, so this month I I will travel back and forth between the mountains and the county town. If you need anything to change, I will change it for you."
"Don't worry, you will be busy tomorrow. Maybe you will bring a lot when you go back today. Come here and ask you to help them get it back.”
"It's definitely no problem."
After Li Long left here, he returned to Harimudong's nest, got on his bicycle and went to Xiaobaiyanggou.
To go to Xiaobaiyanggou from here, you have to turn outside the mountain, then ride along the outermost mountain trail to Hongshanzui, and then ride from Hongshanzui into the mountain. Xiaobaiyang Valley is one of the ditches here, and its mouth does not lead directly to the outside of the mountain.
When Li Long arrived at Xiaobaiyang Gorge, he saw his own carriage and the carriage of another family in the team had stopped here. Most of the things on the carriage had been unloaded, and some people were in Xiaobaiyang. A nest is dug on a flat slope dozens of meters away from the ditch mouth.
Dongwozi is the house where herdsmen spend the winter. It is basically built on the mountain, and it is even a built adobe or wooden house.
Diwozi are different. They are more common in the northwest and northeast and are semi-underground temporary living places. A hole is dug in the ground, usually square or rectangular, covered with a layer of branches or wood, and then covered with a layer of soil. People live in it, which is called a pit.
Entering Diwozi is to dig a trench directly from the outside to the inside, which can be steps or slopes. It is usually just covered with some grass and a roll of bedding. Those who are more particular will dig it wider to facilitate the placement of other things.
I stayed here as a sideline team. Although the diwozi I lived in at that time is no longer usable, the pit is still there. It can be used with simple repairs.
Now Tao Daqiang and others are cleaning the pit.
Seeing Li Long, Li Jianguo beside the carriage smiled.
(End of this chapter)