Chapter 151: Work hard for a better life
“Have you eaten yet?” Li Jianguo’s first sentence was to ask Li Long.
"I just ate at a friend's place. How about you?"
"I ate the dry food I brought." Li Jianguo said, "It's not easy to find here. It wouldn't be good if it wasn't Yundong. Come in."
"Brother Yundong is here?" Li Long looked around and didn't find Xie Yundong.
"He went to see the strips and said that he remembered that there were dozens of big willow trees in the front area. Then he would cut the strips there, carry them here, burn them, and then braid them."
Tao Daqiang saw Li Long, He walked over quickly and said:
"Brother Long."
"Have you dug your nest yet?" Li Long asked him.
"It's done. Let's go chop down the branches later." Tao Daqiang nodded vigorously. He knew that coming here this time was Li Long's suggestion to the team, so he was very grateful to Li Long.
Although I was already grateful enough to Li Long before.
“Let’s go and help Lao Gu dig the nest first. Not only does he have to dig his own nest, but he also has to build a stove, which is really troublesome.”
Gu Boyuan is in charge of doing it. He will naturally be responsible for the food and the stove. At this time, Gu Boyuan was digging a nest hard in the ground. His movements were not as fast as the others, and when he came down, the better spots had already been taken away by others. He could only choose a cave that had collapsed. Even though it collapsed, there was no need to dig it up from scratch.
After Li Jianguo and three others arrived, Gu Boyuan smiled. Before he could say any kind words, Li Jianguo said angrily:
"I just want to go back early. Stop talking nonsense. You'd better go." Let’s set up a stove. At least we should have something hot to eat at night, right?”
"Okay, okay, whatever you say is what you say." Gu Boyuan really didn't need to be polite to Li Jianguo. He smiled and nodded at Li Long and Tao Daqiang, and went to dig the stove.
"Uncle Gu knows how to dig a stove?" Li Long asked with some confusion.
After all, this is a farmer disguised as a scholar. There is still some doubt whether he can work.
“He is a college student!” Even though Li Jianguo didn’t speak well to Gu Boyuan, behind his back he admired him very much, “His knowledge is not even top-notch in our village, let alone anyone in the whole township! Then dig him up. Isn’t the stove very simple?”
Li Long turned around and saw that Gu Boyuan had found a slope nearby. He also looked at the sky, licked his fingers and raised them up, as if to measure the wind direction, and then He started digging diagonally.
It looks quite like that.
It is very easy for three people to dig a semi-finished nest. After digging, Li Long and Tao Daqiang went to the nearby forest to cut branches, while Li Jianguo went over to watch Gu Boyuan dig out the stove.
“There are quite a lot of strips here.” Tao Daqiang is also good at weaving strips. He has made all the strips at home. “It should be pretty good——”
“ Use larger branches to build the nest. By the way, you are going to encounter animals. Wait. Tell me when I come over, I will catch it then, let's share it." Li Long said:
"There are roe deer seeds here. It's time for them to grow new antlers. You have to pick up the antlers. Remember to keep the horns of the roe deer too, they are quite valuable.”
"Well, I understand. By the way, Brother Long, Xu Jianjun said in the car that he would take time to dig for caladiums. He asked me if I would go, and I said no."
"Don't go. The caladiums here are It's all under someone's control. If you don't have the formalities to prove it, you'll be caught. There is nothing to say after confiscating the fritillary, maybe there will be a fine!"
When he heard that there was a fine, Tao Daqiang immediately shook his head:
"I won't go." He has nothing to do now. Money, and he still owes Li Long a lot of money.
The two men cut down a lot of branches and dragged some sticks that had been dried in the woods together.
The two of them first concentrated on covering the roof of the nest for Tao Daqiang. The branches were covered densely and in several layers, and then they began to be covered with soil. After covering it with soil, they went to build Gu Boyuan's nest.
In the end, these two underground nests were completed the fastest.
Xie Yundong had come back at this time. He saw Li Long and greeted with a smile:
"Xiaolong, you are here - do you live here too?"
" No, no, no, I have a place to live." Li Long shook his head, "I come here every day to see, my friend's winter nest is not far from here."
Hearing what Li Long said, many people looked envious. No matter how good the Diwozi is, it can't be compared to the Dongwozi. In the underground nest, not only the waist cannot be straightened, but because it has just been dug, the soil is relatively moist, making it easy to suffer from rheumatism or joint pain.
Although Dongwozi is just one word different from Diwozi, it is actually a house. It is warm and has windows to let in light. It is not as dark as Diwozi, and it has a large space.
But envy is envy. They know that they cannot live in a winter nest. It’s good enough to make money here.
Here Gu Boyuan has already dug the stove. Li Long went over to take a look curiously, and was surprised to find that it was a double stove, a hole for putting firewood, but there were two stove eyes on it, which could boil water and cook vegetables at the same time. ,, the smoke exhaust hole is very long, it looks quite scientific.
As expected, he is someone who has studied in college.
"Get some wood and try it." Li Jianguo patted the ashes on his hands and said, "Maybe it looks beautiful but is actually useless."
"Then try it." Gu Boyuan said with a smile, "There are a lot of dry wood. I just picked some up. I'll get the pot and boil some hot water for everyone."
As he said that, he went to move the pot. Li Jianguo went over to help move things for cooking, while Li Long and Tao Daqiang went to collect firewood. There are a lot of dead branches here, and with just a few pulls, an armful of firewood comes over.
Tao Daqiang put down the firewood and went to fetch water with a bucket. At this time, the other people who had finished the bunker began to lay bedding inside, but no one came to help.
Gu Boyuan placed the pot on the stove eye. Seeing that the stove was a little small, he repaired it with a shovel and put the pot seat on it. When Tao Daqiang came back, he poured water into the pot and started to light it.
"Where did you get the water?" Li Long asked.
"There is a spring in the ditch in front." Tao Daqiang pointed to the edge of the ditch and said, "It's quite pleasant to see water pouring out of the spring, so I scooped out the water there."
At this time. The groundwater level is relatively high. Not to mention in the mountains, there are many springs near Xiaohaizi in the village. There is an artesian well that was drilled more than 20 meters next to Xiaohaizi. The water flowed until the late 1980s, when it was filled in to open up land.
When the water was boiled in the pot, Gu Boyuan opened the chopping board he brought and looked around, but there was nothing suitable to put on it.
"Uncle Gu, wait a minute, Daqiang and I will move a stone." Li Long patted Tao Daqiang, and the two of them found a few stones in the ditch, brought them up, and placed them next to the stove. superior.
Gu Boyuan placed the chopping board, adjusted it again, and placed a stone chip under one of the stones, so that the chopping board was flat.
"Okay, you stay here, I'm going back." Li Jianguo saw that everything was done here, and said, "Xiaolong, are you staying here, or going to the winter nest over there? ”
“Brother, You have to wait a while. Daqiang and I are going to get some fallen trees and you can pull them back. I’ll be useful.” Follow Li Long and others, carrying an ax to look for the wind to knock down trees.
Watching Li Long and the others leave, Xu Jianjun curled his lips and said:
"This Li Long uses Tao Daqiang like a dog. Tao Daqiang keeps following him. He is really spineless." I have five dollars, and I can do this to you."
Xu Jianjun rolled his eyes at these words. Originally, he wanted to use this topic to arouse everyone's jealousy towards Li Long, but he didn't expect that others were not stupid either.
This job was introduced to me by Li Long. Isn't it just asking for trouble to offend Li Long at this time?
Seeing that no one responded to him, Xu Jianjun rolled his eyes and said to Xie Yundong:
"Old Xie, I'm going to go for a walk in the woods and come back after a while."
After saying that, without waiting for Xie Yundong's consent, he quickly rushed into the forest.
Xie Yundong looked at his back and shook his head, then looked at the others and said:
"You can go if you want. You are all adults and you don't need me to care too much. But poisonous snakes have come out in the mountains now. You know that when you come here, people from the forestry team will be patrolling. If you are going to be caught at this time, you will be caught later. It’s hard to say how good the editor is.
If you have the time, why not tidy up the ground and make your house more comfortable? If you really have nothing to do, why not cut some strips or dig holes for weaving? Wouldn’t it be better to do more and get more money?” br>
As soon as he said this, the others immediately went to work. Most of the people who came here were honest people and knew that what Xie Yundong said was right.
Li Long, Tao Daqiang and Li Jianguo soon found a fallen tree, which should have fallen last year. Li Long used an ax to chop off the branches on it and found that the branches were still very strong. Knowing that the wood could be used, he Said:
"Let it be."
Three people, three axes, chopping branches, cutting off branches, in less than an hour, a thick pine tree was cut into three sections. Li Jianguo hitched a carriage over, pulled up the wood, and walked down the mountain.
When passing by the stove, Gu Boyuan shouted:
"Stop, drink some hot water."
"Okay." Li Jianguo went over and picked up Gu Boyuan's hand. I drank the bowl of cold boiled water in one go and left.
Gu Boyuan looked at his back and started preparing dinner without saying much.
Everyone brought corn noodles, and it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and he couldn't make anything delicious. So after he steamed corn flour and made cakes, he found some wild vegetables by the ditch, poured boiling water in another pot, and prepared to eat them cold.
Everyone brought red tofu, so we don’t expect so much outside.
"Uncle Gu, there are still some dried mushrooms from last year in the woods. This year's mushrooms should be coming soon, and they are all edible." Li Long reminded, "If they have any objections, fry them for a euro." No problem with frying.”
"I know." Gu Boyuan said with a smile, "You go about your business."
Li Long did not follow Li Jianguo back to the county seat. He rode his bicycle along the narrow path to the ditch mouth on the other side of Halimu. In fact, they wanted to find the place where they hunted yellow sheep.
Li Long wanted to see if there were any yellow sheep in that area.
Unfortunately not.
There were no people around here, so Li Long simply leaned his bicycle against the mountainside, locked it and climbed up the mountain.
He thought about how Harimu and the others found so many antlers at once after the snow melted. Would he be so lucky?
After climbing two mountains and passing through several pine forests and shrubs, Li Long returned to his bicycle dejectedly.
It seems that antlers are really not that easy to find.
He rode his bicycle, getting higher and higher along the trail, and finally came to the top of the mountain ridge. Only then did Li Long realize that he seemed to have changed his path.
Climbing high and looking into the distance, he found that there was only a mountain between this place and the original road, so he did not change the route and went down along this road.
The sheep intestine trail leads diagonally to the bottom of the ravine. The terrain here is flat, and there is a large amount of wild garlic growing there, but it has just sprouted now.
There is a small wetland, which should have been a spring before. Later, the water level may have dropped and the spring water no longer seeped out, but the ground is still relatively moist, with many plants growing and some short shrubs.
Then Li Long saw a large area of humid soil that was arched up.
There are wild boars out there!
Li Long was a little excited. He put down the car and ran over. Then he saw that the land that had been plowed was about the size of a basketball court. It was very messy, and some grass roots were turned over. With tender white buds.
Because the ground is relatively moist, the large and small footprints can be seen clearly - big wild boars, small wild boars, some of them should be very small, just like the piglets Li Long caught two days ago.
And quite a few!
Li Long's heart was pounding! Wouldn’t it be fun if we could catch a few little wild boars and raise them together with domestic pigs?
But this thing is definitely not easy to catch.
Li Long naturally knew that it was easy to kill a wild boar. Ambush here tomorrow morning and wait for the wild boar to come and shoot.
But it would be a bit troublesome to catch the wild boar alive.
But there is no way.
Li Long looked around carefully and looked at the terrain. He felt that it was necessary to test it!
If you really catch the wild boar, that would be an interesting thing, wouldn’t it?
Anyway, there are not many things to do now, so Li Long plans to do this.
He stopped wandering around the mountains, turned around, picked up the bicycle, and rode on it. He pedaled along the narrow path to the mountain pass, and then rode back to the compound along the way.
He took the gun, wire, pliers and other tools from the compound, went out of the compound again, locked the door and went to the grain store. I bought a few kilograms of corn in the grain store, packed it in bags and headed for the mountains.
When we returned to the place where the wild boars were, the sun was almost setting.
Li Long began to arrange it.
He had already seen the environment clearly when he left. At this time, he began to sprinkle corn particles, from the place where the wild boar had previously spread to the bushes, and then spread over a larger area. It was so large that it covered the bushes.
Next, I started looking for stronger bushes and started laying traps.
The wire used is No. 12 wire, which is twice as thick as the thin wire. The circle setting is somewhat similar to the rabbit trap. I was afraid that the trap would not hit the target, so I set more. Such a trap will definitely not be able to trap a large wild boar, but a small wild boar can get under the bushes and eat corn grains, so it is easy to be trapped.
Li Long set up more than twenty sets, including not only flat sets but also vertical sets. He did not give up until all the wire he had brought was used up.
This is mainly because it is the first time for him to do this alone and he has no experience, so he will do it more comprehensively.
Now that I have finished taking off the condom, I got on my bicycle and went back.
Li Long's plan is to go back to the compound and sleep first, and wait until dawn tomorrow to come over to see the situation. At this time, he didn't want to go to Harimu's winter nest - after all, it was no longer winter, and it would be inconvenient to squeeze in anymore.
After returning to the compound, it was completely dark. Although he was still a little excited, he knew that he had to rest early, so he found some food in the kitchen, ate it in a hurry and fell asleep. .
Originally, Li Long was worried that he would not wake up the next morning, but fortunately, the biological clock reminded him in time to open his eyes.
Looking at the dim skylight outside, Li Long knew that he had to rush to the mountains as soon as possible.
(End of this chapter)