Chapter 163 Watching Gu Xiaoxia: Feeling more and more like home
Tao Daqiang was carrying the roe deer in front, and Li Long was holding two roe deer antlers in the back. It took only half an hour, but it was really hard. A little bit more magical.
Looking at the big guy and the gadget in Li Long's hand, many people's eyes became eager.
Some of them have been to the sideline team and know how valuable this thing is.
If you really can get one, even if it’s antlers instead of antlers, it’ll still cost dozens of dollars!
It takes me a month’s work!
"Daqiang, where did it happen?" someone asked immediately.
"It must have been Xiaolong." Another person said, "Isn't it Daqiang? Xiaolong, your shooting skills are good! Is it a small-caliber gun? It's amazing!"
"Just in the ditch ahead..." Tao Daqiang Still being honest, he pointed to the back and said, "I saw it when I was cutting strips. I just told Brother Long about it. I didn't expect that Brother Long went there and hit it... Hehe..."
Daqiang's silly smile made others feel that he was really lucky. If it were me, I would definitely be able to do it, maybe even better!
"Xiaolong, that's deer antlers in your hand? It looks bloody..."
"This is a roe deer, right? Roe deer also have antlers? This is the first time I've seen it!"
Gu Boyuan was washing freely. The dishes were ready to be cooked. When he saw Li Long holding a pair of deer antlers, he immediately asked:
"Xiaolong, you just cut this? Do you know how to deal with it?"
"Let's dry it in the shade. ?" Li Long was a little unsure.
"At this temperature, it will rot before it dries in the shade." Gu Boyuan had an expression on his face that said, "I knew you would say that." Then he pointed to the salt shaker next to him and said:
"Clean the surface Clean it, take salt and some mud, then paste it on the outside of the velvet antler, wrap it tightly, and put it in a cool and dry place Just wait until it is completely dry. In fact, it can also be dried, but I don’t know how high the heat is.”
Li Long immediately understood that this should be an old way to deal with deer antler, and he was honest. He thanked Gu Boyuan, took the salt from the jar next to the stove, and went to mix it with the mud by the stream.
After wrapping the two roe deer antlers and putting them aside, Li Long pulled out his knife and started skinning the roe deer.
“Xiaolong can do it, the skin can be peeled off very easily!”
"That's right, Xiaolong has hunted a lot of good things in the past six months, right? He must have perfected his skinning skills."
Some people burned the strips and started to weave them, while others came to Li Long and looked at him Skin the roe deer.
Li Long didn't answer them much. After disemboweling the body, he pulled out the internal organs and gave them to Tao Daqiang. Tao Daqiang asked Gu Boyuan for a large basin and took the waste water to wash.
"Xiaolong, what do you do with your internal organs? Do you take them away?" someone asked.
"No, I want the belly, and you can eat the rest." Li Long said, "Daqiang discovered the thing. Those internal organs are his, and he has to take a leg back to his father." .”
Li Long had left wild boar meat for the sideline team, and today he sent wolf meat, so he left the roe deer offal to Tao Daqiang.
This thing can't be kept for too long, and everyone works together, so Li Long doesn't mind sharing some.
After all, Li Long wants to take money from their work.
Everyone must have guessed about this, but no one would say that Li Long was wrong. Without Li Long, they wouldn't even be qualified to earn this money.
Li Long peeled off the skin of the roe deer. At this time, Xu Jianjun came over and asked:
"Do you want the roe deer's gun and eggs? If not, give them to me."
"Yes." Li Long replied with just one word, without even looking at him, and continued skinning.
Xu Jianjun blushed. The others had very expressive expressions and didn't say much.
After peeling the skin, Li Long wrapped the whole roe deer in the skin again. Gu Boyuan came over to greet him and said:
"Xiaolong, you can eat before you leave. The food will be ready soon." ”
"No, Uncle Gu," Li Long used to call him Brother Gu Boyuan after Li Jianguo, but now he changed his name unknowingly, "I have to bring the meat and velvet back quickly, otherwise the loss will be huge if it gets spoiled."
“Okay.” Gu Boyuan stopped trying to persuade him. This precious thing was even more important. More importantly, he held a bag of mushrooms and said:
"These are the wild mushrooms I picked up this morning. You keep some and bring the rest to Xiaoxia."
" Okay." Li Long didn't say any polite words. He was one of his own people, and it would be embarrassing to say too much.
Tao Daqiang had already cleaned the stomach and brought it to Li Long. Li Long took the stomach and stuffed it into the chest of the roe deer. Then he picked it up on the back seat of the bicycle. After being tied up with the help of Tao Daqiang, he and Xie Yundong Say hello:
"Brother Yundong, I'm leaving now. I'll come back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Is there anything you need to bring?"
"Nothing, nothing." I brought it with me."
"Okay, I'll check with each other when I get back, and I'll bring it to you if I need anything."
Li Long got on his bicycle and carried the gun on his back. Go outside the ditch.
Seeing that he was riding far away, Xu Jianjun shook his head and said:
"There's no point in asking for that gun at such a young age."
"It's useless to you? Then you're not going to be able to do it?" Someone said half-jokingly because he couldn't stand him.
Tao Daqiang did not participate in the gossip of these people and took the water to Gu Boyuan to help.
Xu Jianjun didn't want to let him go, and asked loudly:
"Daqiang, you found this roe deer antler. Xiaolong said he would leave a leg for you to give to the family. That antler is the most valuable. Yes, he took them all?”
"The roe deer was beaten by the little dragon. Without the little dragon, Daqiang would just stare at it, right? Besides, the little dragon said, he left the sewage here, and let one go to his home..."
Xie Yundong was dissatisfied with Xu Jianjun's provocation and said loudly:
"Xiaolong This is kind enough. Think about it, if someone tells you where there is something and asks you to fight it, what will you give to others?"
"Yes, yes!" Others! Put yourself in someone else's shoes, if you hit your prey, would you let the other person into the water and give him a leg back?
“No, one leg is enough.”
Tao Daqiang turned around and said:
"Brother Long gave me a piece of antler and said that the money my family owed him was wiped out... I can't afford it. He gave me too much."
"You heard it!" Xie Yundong turned to look at Xu Jianjun, then looked at the others, "Xiaolong He is a kind and righteous person. Let’s stop talking behind people’s backs. When you find something, you can actually ask Xiaolong to hunt it. You may not be able to catch it yourself. At least you can get a lot of things from Xiaolong.”
He thought that if he found something, he would definitely ask Li Long to fight it.
He has been working on the sideline team for several years, and he has seen many people who talk a lot, but when things really happen, each one becomes more timid than the last.
He also believed that at least half of these people would take it upon themselves to find something, and it would be in line with most people's character to keep it to themselves.
“Is deer antler so expensive?” someone exclaimed, “Does it cost dozens of yuan per antler?”
“It depends on the size.” Gu Boyuan said while washing vegetables, “The weight of deer antler is It's sold in terms of ten grams or one hundred grams. In terms of kilograms, one kilogram costs one hundred and ten yuan, of course. "It's not cheap!" The person asking the question didn't know the price of velvet antler. It was his first time to come to the sideline team, and he started the matter by saying, "A pair of roe deer antlers." You can’t make enough money from selling it in a year!”
This is what everyone wants.
Gu Boyuan smiled, Xie Yundong also smiled, and Tao Daqiang simply lowered his head and worked without saying a word.
Who is stupider than whom?
Li Long pedaled his bicycle and headed towards the county in the wind. When he came to the courtyard, he put the pair of deer antlers into the side room. In the courtyard, he cut a wolf leg and a roe deer leg and tied them up. Then he locked the door and went east, arriving at Liang Yuemei's natal home.
It is noon now, and every household has had lunch and is taking a break.
Li Long's bicycle entered the yard, and Liang Wenyu got up. Liang Donglou was concentrating with his eyes closed when he heard sounds outside.
"Wenyu, I just came back from the mountains. This one is a wolf leg, and this one is a roe deer leg. I just got them today. You can keep them to eat. I will take the rest back."
"You just came back?" Liang Wenyu then asked Seeing that Li Long was busy with work, he said, "Come in and drink some water."
Liang Wenyu really felt the changes in Li Long. He was sure that Li Long came to deliver meat, and it was definitely not what his sister had told him to do. It was Li Long's own idea.
In the past, Liang Wenyu was still a little confused about his father's active assistance to the Li family, but now he understands a little bit.
First of all, the Li family is a relative, my brother-in-law’s family, and secondly, the Li family knows how to be grateful.
"No, I have to go back and process the meat. Although it's not a hot day, the meat can't be kept for long."
The Li family has no shortage of meat, but they don't waste it either.
"Xiaolong, thank you for your hard work." Liang Donglou walked out of the room and said, "Come and sit down when it's free. You go about your business first."
"Okay, Liang Uncle, I'm leaving first." Li Long said hello, pedaled his bicycle out of the yard, and walked away in a hurry.
Although he could return to the team directly from here, Li Long still took a detour and went in a circle to Hongqi Township Middle School.
At this time, students had already started class in the afternoon. When Li Long came to the female teacher's dormitory, he found that Gu Xiaoxia was not there.
Did she go to class?
Just when Li Long was about to go to the class to look for her, he found Gu Xiaoxia coming from the office.
"You're here? From the mountains? Haven't you gone home yet?" Seeing Li Long's appearance, Gu Xiaoxia understood, "Come, come to my dormitory to wash up."
"No, I brought something for you." Li Long pushed his bicycle to the door of the dormitory, stood it up, took out the knife and asked:
"Do you want to eat wolf meat?"
"No." Gu Xiaoxia waved her hand hurriedly.
"Then I'll leave some roe deer meat for you." Li Long cut off a large piece of roe deer, weighing three to five kilograms, and put it on the chopping board of Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory. "You can use this meat tonight." Or stir-fry it for lunch. If you can’t finish it, give some to your colleagues. You can also make it into bacon. "
Then he took the cloth bag given by Gu Boyuan from the bicycle and said:
" These are the mushrooms that Uncle Gu picked on the mountain and asked me to bring them down to you. That’s great, so you don’t have to worry.”
"Okay. Come here, the water is ready for you. You wash up." Gu Xiaoxia had already filled the washbasin with water, and brought towels and soap. "Look at how gray you are all over."
As she said this, she naturally took her towel and patted Li Long's body with dust - this made Li Long stunned for a moment.
It seems that there are some movie clips in my mind, where the wife helps her husband do this after he comes back from work. This scene is so familiar.
He was stunned for a moment, and then he simply started washing in the washbasin - to be honest, he didn't feel it in the mountains. Only when he started washing his face did he realize that the ash on his face could be rubbed into pills. .
After just a simple wash, the water in the basin had turned gray. Gu Xiaoxia smiled, picked up the basin and changed another basin of water, and asked while handing him soap:
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"It's hard in the mountains, isn't it?"
"It's okay." Li Long didn't show any pretense at all. After washing carefully, he wiped it with a towel, then picked up the water from the washbasin and walked a few steps outside to splash it on the ground. , then put the washbasin on the shelf and said to Gu Xiaoxia:
"My friends in the mountains built me a winter nest, just like a wooden villa. I will take you over to see it when you have time. Now wild mushrooms are coming out in the mountains. Yes, there are a lot of wild vegetables and such, and the scenery is It's good for a trip."
"Shall I go and see it when I have time?" Gu Xiaoxia showed a longing expression, "I haven't been out of the county yet."
" It doesn’t count as leaving the county, no. The scenery is different from ours." Li Long originally said this casually, but he didn't expect that Gu Xiaoxia was really interested. br>
"Okay!" Gu Xiaoxia nodded repeatedly, "Then I will prepare well in the past few days! How about next week? I have nothing to do next Sunday..."
"Okay." Li Long smiled Said, "Anyway, my time here is flexible, it's up to you."
"Then it's settled!" Gu Xiaoxia looked at Li Long seriously.
"Okay." Li Long walked to the bicycle and said, "You can handle the meat. I have to take the rest back and clean it up. I will come to find you when the time comes."
"Okay."
Gu Xiaoxia watched Li Long leave. No one could be seen anymore, and then she entered the dormitory and started to pack the meat and mushrooms.
The wild mushrooms have been processed one by one, and the soil on the umbrella handle has been shaved off. They look very clean, even and beautiful.
The meat is cut in a fattening area. It has bones and meat. It is a big piece. If it is not bad, this piece alone is enough for me to eat for a week or two.
While cutting the meat, Gu Xiaoxia began to think about what to bring to her father.
She thought about whether Li Long would feel ugly when he saw the pair of shoes she made when he returned home.
Li Long rode very fast and arrived in the village in ten minutes. He arrived at Tao's house first and saw that Tao Jianshe was not there, so he rode back to Li's house.
There were not many students on the road. They went to preschool and elementary school. Li Juan and the others were not out of school yet. The adults were all working in the fields. Li Long returned to the yard and found that the door was locked. He found the key in the window, opened the door, and then started processing the meat.
This is the hottest time of the day. Although Li Long ate two pieces of mutton in the morning, he still felt hungry after such a long time.
But when flies came over, he knew he had to dispose of the meat as soon as possible, otherwise the flies would lay maggots on it. Although the meat could still be eaten, it would be so unpalatable.
While swatting away flies, I peeled off the last remaining bit of skin from the roe deer, then removed the remaining three legs and divided the meat. After processing the roe deer seeds and wolf meat, the sun was already setting.
He had marinated more than half of the meat, and the rest had been cleaned and ready to be marinated. There was also one leg that was going to be sent to Tao's house later.
Finally he could rest. At this time, Li Long felt that he was really exhausted.
The kind that makes you fall asleep if you squint your eyes.
Never be in such a hurry again.
It’s too frustrating.
(End of this chapter)