Chapter 167 Taking Xiaoxia into the Mountain
After pulling the dung back to the team, Li Long went to the horse's stable first, unloaded half of the dung, and put the fawn in the horse's stable. After that, Li Long gave Lao Luo instructions After talking for a while and leaving some rapeseed behind, we returned home.
When he passed by Weigou, he found that the water was a little less. He didn't know whether Xiaohaizi upstream was blocked or the flood was less.
Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei were not at home. Li Long unloaded the manure into the yard and sprinkled it evenly on the vegetable field. The rest was not his responsibility.
When he came back this time, he also brought back some wild onions, wild garlic, wild leeks, and some peppercorns from the mountains, which are very good ingredients for making fish.
For this fresh peppercorns, Li Long thought he had to go to Xiaohaizi to get some fish and stew it.
He didn't eat enough fish in his last life. After eating it for two days, I no longer think about eating it, and I think I might not want to eat it for a month.
But as long as we stop for three days, I think it’s good to have another meal. If stewed fish doesn’t work, just fry the small crucian carp. Wrap it in batter and put it in a hot oil pan. Take it out to control the oil and let it dry. Eat it as a snack when it's cold, the taste is——
I can't do it anymore, I can't do it anymore, take the cast net and go to Xiaohaizi!
When Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei came back from the fields, they saw Li Juan and Li Qiang surrounding Li Long, who was stewing fish on the stove.
The unique aroma of crucian carp and the smell of peppermint and wormwood spread all over the yard. Li Jianguo sniffed and asked in surprise:
"Xiaolong, is this peppermint and wormwood?"
" "Yes." Li Long said with a smile, "The wild ones in the mountains are so big, half a man and one tall. Pengzi is the same as wild mugwort."
"So big?" Li Jianguo still didn't believe it. "It's Jiaohao?"
"Can you admit it?" Li Long pointed at the wall. The one above said, "Smell it, it smells different. I remember it."
Li Jianguo put down his shovel, went over to grab a handful, smelled it, and smiled, "It's really...I'll dig up one or two of them when I come back next time and plant them in the yard to see if they can survive."
Pepperwort is common in my hometown, but There is no human race here yet, and Li Long knows that his eldest brother misses his hometown.
“Today I went to Shicheng Old Street and I saw people selling rapeseed and some selling nepeta. I bought some and will plant them then.”
“That’s great! Li Jianguo was even happier this time, "It's grown. I need some eggs and garlic. I'll put some schizonepeta in it and grab some hot buns. It's amazing!"
Looking at the people coming back, Li Jianguo! Long also took out the fish and put it on the table.
"Juan and Qiangqiang came back early. I saw that they were hungry, so I let them eat some, and made steamed buns with fish soup. I guess they are not hungry now."
Li Long explained, Li Jianguo Then he said:
"Then Don’t go to the table, go and do your homework. After you finish your homework, let’s go play.”
In the evening, Li Long prepared his gun and bullets. He planned to ask Gu Xiaoxia tomorrow if she wanted to go to the mountains this weekend. If so. , then he still has to prepare.
"I'll go." Gu Xiaoxia heard Li Long's question and immediately answered, "I've been preparing. We finished class on Saturday, and I prepared things for my dad in the afternoon. , how about we set off early on Sunday morning?”
"Okay, I'll come to pick you up then." Li Long said after he had the definite news, "I'm going to the mountains today to tell your dad that we won't have any surprises, okay?"
< br>"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia nodded vigorously.
Li Long rode his bicycle to Xiaobaiyanggou, where the smoke of burning strips was still filled.
Some people are burning slivers to weave slivers, and some people are cutting slivers.
Seeing Li Long coming, the people present greeted him one after another. Li Long responded one by one, and then stood the car in front of the stove.
Gu Boyuan was preparing lunch. Li Long looked at it and saw that the lunch was corn noodle cake and the dish was fried liver.
Li Long saw that the hearts, liver, and lungs that he had brought back on the stove had been smoked and were a bit black, but he knew that they would be easier to preserve after being smoked.
“Let’s have something for lunch?” Gu Boyuan said with a smile, “Don’t look ugly, but it tastes good and has a lot of oil and water!”
“Yeah, okay.” Li Long said , "Uncle Gu, Xiaoxia is coming to see you this Sunday. I will bring her here."
"What's she doing here?" Gu Boyuan was stunned for a moment when he heard this. His hand shook, and the cooking shovel directly pulled a piece of liver out of the pot. He hurriedly squatted down to pick it up and put it in the basin next to it. Rinse it and throw it into the pot, "Isn't she here to cause trouble?"
"Why are you causing trouble? My daughter misses her father!" Li Long said with a smile, "She has nothing to do on Sunday anyway, and the road is not long, so I brought her here on my bike."
< br>Gu Boyuan stir-fried the vegetables and quickly took them out. Then he looked at Li Long and said:
"Just one day?"
"That can only be done One day." Li Long said with pure eyes, "I will pick her up from school in the morning, and then we will come together. She will stay here for half a day, and we will go back in the afternoon. She will definitely have to prepare lessons in the evening, and she will have classes on Monday. "
"Okay..." Gu Boyuan wiped his beard and said in a panic:
"Then do I have to shave and trim my hair?"
"It's only been a few days? Besides, everyone is the same. If you want to shave and trim your hair, doesn't it look like the cook is a bit unprofessional? Ah." Li Long smiled, "It's okay, I think so. After a few days in the mountains, Uncle Gu, you have become a little fatter and energetic.”
“That’s right! You have meat every day and don’t put in much effort.” , the environment in this mountain is also good..." Gu Boyuan counted the benefits of this mountain.
At noon, everyone stopped, and Li Long also finished checking what he had compiled in the past two days.
The quality is very good, even the one compiled by Xu Jianjun can pass the test. Although the quantity is still the last, at least there are no defective products.
While eating, Li Long also took a piece of cake with him. He hadn't eaten fat cakes in nearly a month. Every meal at home was made from fine grains. Now that he was eating it, he thought it would be good to eat fat cakes occasionally.
"Xiaolong, I saw a trace of arching at the bottom of the east hillside. I wonder if it is a wild boar. Do you have time to take a look?" Tian Siping said while eating, "It's such a big piece. The grass is all messed up, and it looks like it has grown in the past two days."
"Okay, don't go over there yet. I'll go over and take a look in two days. The wild boars came out relatively early. They will be dispatched at dawn, and they will return to the mountain at dawn." Li Long explained, "The wild boar will be hunted by then."
"Okay." Tian Siping said with a smile, "When the hunting time comes, I will also get a leg for my family."
Obviously, Tao Daqiang's discovery of the roe deer son greatly stimulated him.
"Eh? Uncle Gu, is this liver undercooked? Why is there still blood?" asked another person.
"It's a bit popular today, and the hype is a bit urgent." Gu Boyuan explained a little awkwardly.
Li Long knew what was going on. He smiled and said:
"Eat it. Foreigners eat steaks that are half-ripe and half-ripe, and they eat them when they are bloody and mushy. They also say they are nutritious. Rich. "
When Li Long said this, the others stopped talking.
After lunch, Li Long went to the edge of the mountain to dig up a few small peppergrass trees, took the soil with him, wrapped them in tree leaves, and then put them in sacks and brought them back to the team.
There are still floods, but they are much smaller. This snowmelt flood also comes intermittently. Li Long planted the peppergrass in the vegetable garden, and the rest was left to God's will.
On Sunday morning, Li Long rode his bicycle to school without eating breakfast.
The sun has not risen yet, and the temperature is slightly cooler. He is wearing long sleeves, but he does not feel cold at all, and he is very excited.
Arriving at the door of the teacher's dormitory, Li Long got out of the car. Before he could knock on the door, Gu Xiaoxia's door opened.
She was ready, carrying a cloth bag, a small bag on her shoulder, and looking at Li Long with two pigtails.
"Then let's leave now?" Li Long asked.
"Okay."
Li Long turned the front of the car and asked, "I'm pedaling, can you come up?"
"You're looking down on me, right?" Gu Xiaoxia was in a good mood and asked, "Although I can't ride, it's no problem to get in the car."
Li Long slowed down, and then felt the car shake and become heavier. After a while, he smiled and kicked steadily out of the school.
“Have you not had breakfast yet?” Li Long asked, “It’s ready so early.”
“I can’t eat, I’m very excited, I haven’t been into the mountains yet... ...I have read "Tianshan Scenery", I remember everything there clearly, but I haven’t seen it in person.”
“Then I’ll let you see it today,” Li Long said with a smile, “But climbing is very tiring, so let’s go first. Have breakfast.”
Although Li Long was traveling alone, he didn't feel tired at all. When he arrived at the county, he went directly to the Big Meat Canteen. After Gu Xiaoxia came down, Li Long locked the car and took her inside with a gun on his back.
"Hey, Comrade Li, are you... bringing someone here for breakfast? What do you want?"
Zhong Guoqiang happened to be there. When he saw Li Long and then Gu Xiaoxia, he immediately understood Yes, he smiled and said hello:
"Signature meat buns, we have new porridge and pickles for breakfast here, both are on this brand."
The dishes that can be ordered today are written on the small blackboard. After asking Gu Xiaoxia, Li Long ordered porridge, Steamed buns, pickles, and fried green pepper eggs.
"Don't order so much, it won't be enough for two people..." Gu Xiaoxia whispered.
"Don't worry, there won't be any left. Let's take some meat buns to the mountains later. Although your dad and his friends have meat to eat every day, they are too thick. Bring some refined grains to help them improve. "
"This is also..." Gu Xiaoxia was a little worried, mainly because the buns were not cheap, only three cents each. Did she think this was a bit too much?
"The tasks I took on and the middleman I worked as, they made up the handle, and I will benefit from it later, understand?" Li Long whispered, "So this is nothing."
Gu Xiaoxia nodded as if she understood. She felt that compared with Li Long, she was like a fool. She was like a blank sheet of paper and didn't understand anything.
But then I felt reassured, at least he didn't lie to me and was very kind to me.
After breakfast, Li Long ordered twenty-five more steamed buns to wrap and take with him, and then rode his bike with Gu Xiaoxia towards the mountains.
When the road was bad, Gu Xiaoxia asked from the back seat:
"Shall I get down? It's not easy to ride."
"Just sit back and relax. We will be slower if you come down." Li Long thought this was good. The two of them walked and chatted together, which increased their understanding and shortened the distance.
When we arrived in the mountains, it was not past ten o'clock, and the people in the sideline team had just had breakfast. They actually got up quite early, and hard-working people like Tao Daqiang and Xie Yundong had been working for an hour or two before breakfast.
It is inevitable to work harder to make money.
Gu Boyuan has been looking at the mouth of the ditch for a long time. He was a little absent-minded when cleaning the stove. Not to mention that the pot was not cleaned and the bowl was dropped several times.
When he saw Mizoguchi's bicycle, he finally felt relieved, but then felt a little distressed. He had been here at ten o'clock, so how early he had to get up!
"Dad!" Gu Xiaoxia got out of the car and ran towards Gu Boyuan. It was the first time that father and daughter had been separated for such a long time. Although Gu Xiaoxia's mood had always been relatively stable before, she was a little uncontrollable now, with a cry in her voice.
Most of the others looked at it, and Li Long came over with a smile and said:
"Come on, come on, Xiaoxia came over and brought some meat buns for everyone. There are two for each person in the big meat restaurant."
< br>Everyone else came over to get the buns with a smile. Although we just had a meal not long ago, how could we refuse such delicious meat buns?
After dividing the buns, Li Long placed the remaining five on the stove, signaled to Gu Boyuan, and went to find Tao Daqiang.
Tao Daqiang has cut enough strips and is burning them to make a handful. There are already ten people in front of his pit, and he is the fastest one.
"Daqiang, you can do it," Li Long said with a smile, "Even if you don't work in the future, you can support yourself by just knitting."
"That's not possible." Tao Daqiang shook his head. , "Everyone can make this thing. Except for those units that want it, who will buy it as an individual?"
"Can you do a big broomstick?" It is true that you can't support an individual by making a lot of it, because after that, In a few years, no one would use it.
But the job of broomstick was still a very profitable craft until Li Long died in his last life.
"Then who doesn't know it?" Tao Daqiang asked Li Long while puzzling, "Brother Long, can you make money with this?"
"Yes." Li Long whispered, "When I get to Qiuli, I will see if I can take over the job of tying brooms. If so, I will come to you then."
Li Long guessed, But don’t be afraid if you guess wrong. When clearing snow in winter, which unit doesn’t need a big broom?
At this time, the supply and marketing cooperative was still selling bamboo brooms from other places, but some people felt that they were not as useful as splendens.
Of course, this is just a personal perception. Until later generations, most workplaces used bamboo brooms, while most individuals still used splendens brooms.
After lunch here, Gu Boyuan took the initiative to say to his daughter:
"Okay, I and you have seen it, and I am living a good life. Follow Xiaolong around the mountains, and then go back and work peacefully."
Gu Xiaoxia nodded reluctantly, and Li Long said with a smile :
“When you miss Uncle Gu, I will take him with you then. Just come here, it only lasts a few hours."
The two people turned out of Baiyanggou on their bicycles. Li Long stopped the car and turned to ask Gu Xiaoxia:
" Can I take you on a tour of the Northern Tianshan Mountains now?”
Gu Xiaoxia met Li Long's gaze and said slightly shyly:
"Okay!"
(End of this chapter)