Chapter 169: Xu Jianjun was punished for being greedy
Li Long failed to kill the fox in the end - it was because Gu Xiaoxia refused to let him.
"It's so beautiful... Just stop fighting. It's so beautiful..." Gu Xiaoxia begged Li Long.
For the first time, Li Long saw Gu Xiaoxia’s almost coquettish expression and said with a smile:
“Originally, I planned to make you a woolen scarf after the beating, but you said no. Just don’t fight, and I may not be able to fight.”
He put away the gun. Gu Xiaoxia glanced at Huzi again with satisfaction and continued to look after the rice in the stew pot.
After a while, she felt that the rice should be cooked, and there was no smell of burnt food. Gu Xiaoxia carefully opened the lid of the pot made of broomsticks, and a stream of steam mixed with the fragrance of rice came to her face. She was used to it. I tilted my head back and waited for the steam to dissipate, revealing the white rice, and I could see a circle of browned rice on the edge of the pot.
"It's very good!" Li Long glanced at the side and praised, "Not bad, not bad, I can't control the heat. Come on, I'll serve the rice."
"I'll do it. I'll come." Gu Xiaoxia. At that time, she felt at ease, and felt that she was not embarrassed at all. She took the bowl handed over by Li Long, filled two bowls of rice with a spatula, and asked Li Long:
"Eat the crispy rice now or stay for a while?"
The amount of rice is not much, just enough for two people to have one flat bowl each, and the crispy rice can now be removed in its entirety.
"Stay a while, eat now, and use the crispy rice as a snack." Li Long said.
The two of them just ate outside, using wooden pillars and wooden boards as a simple dining table.
Looking at the blue sky, white clouds and green grass, tasting the delicious food from nature, even Li Long, a country bumpkin, felt that this moment was a bit poetic.
It’s just that the little fly comes to make trouble from time to time, which is a bit disappointing.
After eating, the two of them cleaned up the dishes together. Gu Xiaoxia broke the rice cake into several pieces, wrapped it in the cage cloth Li Long bought here and put it in her bag. Then she reluctantly watched Li Long lock the door and prepare to leave. here.
“It would be great if I could come here every week.” She sighed sincerely, “It feels like a dream.”
“That’s not easy, as long as you can be free If I have time, I can bring you here every week. Of course, even if I can’t come every week, I can bring you here every month. It shouldn't be a problem to come here twice." Li Long said nonchalantly, "It's not that far away. When we can buy a car, it will be more convenient to come here..."
Gu Xiaoxia Her face immediately turned red. What she noticed was the word "we" in Li Long's mouth.
Are you planning for the future? Is it a life together in the future?
Perhaps because they each had their own concerns, the two of them talked a lot less on the way back.
When they arrived at the county town, the two of them seemed to have returned to reality from a fairy tale. The people coming and going in gray, black and white colors, as well as the dusty streets and shabby houses, made Gu Xiaoxia Everything in the mountains felt so unreal.
Li Long sent Gu Xiaoxia to the middle school dormitory, and then rode back to the village.
When he arrived at Weigou, Li Long was a little surprised to find that the canal in Weigou where the water originally passed was paved with a large cement board, and slopes were built with soil on both sides, so that whether he was passing people or crossing The car is much more convenient.
When passing through the flood, the carriage needs to go around the edge of the reed beach. Although it is shallow, the water surface is large, but people can sit on the carriage and go there without getting wet shoes.
Now it has cement boards on it. Although it seems that it cannot withstand heavy vehicles, it is no problem for people to walk on it.
I had only thought about building the bridge in two years, but I had never thought of such a simple solution - looking at this cement board, it must have been moved from some large canal.
With the great development of water conservancy in the 1960s, many large canals were paved with cement boards. Later, due to time, these cement boards became tattered and tattered, and the canals returned to the shape of earth slopes. Because the soil is easily accumulated at the bottom of the canal when it is washed away by water, and grass grows easily, there are voluntary workers cleaning the canal twice a year in spring and autumn.
Li Long suddenly saw some filaments swinging on the edge of the turbid water, and he responded with a sigh of relief.
I often played with this thing by the water when I was a child in my previous life. At that time, the old man told the child that it was the horsehair that had been soaked in water for a long time and became alive.
Li Long believed it at the time - each strip was twenty or thirty centimeters long, and the thickness was indeed somewhat similar to horse hair.
It was only when he was about to grow old in his last life that the Internet was developed and all kinds of things could be seen in short videos. At that time, Li Long knew that these things were wireworms.
In the 1980s, there were a lot of these wireworms in the water, and they were often tangled into tangles. At that time, children were not afraid, and would even break the wireworms out of curiosity with a stick.
It wasn’t until he watched Bangzi’s movie that Li Long became averse to this stuff.
Cycling past Weihu Lake, it took a while for Li Long to put the matter aside because he saw another even more irritating thing.
Li Qiang and a group of children were on the roadside, holding long reeds and poking at the sparrows' nests in the big poplar trees. The old sparrow was chirping and cursing beside him, but he was helpless.
"Qiangqiang, what are you doing?" Li Long stopped the car and put his feet on the ground and asked.
“It’s an old man’s fault!” Li Qiang didn’t think there was anything wrong with what he was doing. He did this every year.
“You can’t dig it out!” Li Long said with a cold face, “Now the old bird is good and eats bugs, you can’t dig it out, the reed is about to be broken, remember, you can’t poke it!”< br>
"Why? Don't we eat old birds in winter?" Li Qiang was still a little confused.
"Because in winter, old birds eat wheat and grass seeds." Li Long couldn't explain the truth to him, so he could only start from the simplest explanation. He was also telling other children:
"In summer, old birds eat Worms, a belly full of worms. If the worms are eaten, the wheat and corn in the field will have fewer worms! Besides, you have killed the old bird now. The little old birds can’t grow anymore. Are there too many old birds to catch in winter?”
“Yes.” Li Qiang was very smart and realized it immediately. He held the long reed in his hand. He threw it on the ground and stepped on it a few times, "I won't stab him anymore."
"I won't stab him anymore either!" Another child followed suit.
“Not only the old sparrow cannot poke, but also the big-headed sparrow, the hoopoe (Hoopoe), and the swallow jabber, you know?”
"Got it!" the children said in unison.
"You are so good! Come to our house and I will give you candies!" Li Long waved his hand, and the children cheered and ran to Li's house.
There was a child who originally hid the reed in his hand - the reed was the thickest he chose. It was the same as Sun Wukong's golden cudgel. One end was trampled on it, wetted, and poked into the sparrow's nest. A sparrow's nest can be pulled down with just a twist.
Which one should I choose now, Tang or Weizi?
Seeing that the other children had run away, this child became cruel and threw Wei Zi into the sophora bushes on the roadside, and then ran after the children.
When Li Long returned home, he saw Li Juan chopping pig grass in the yard. He set up the car and said with a smile:
"Juan, are you tired?"
"Not tired." Li Long Juan said with a smile, "I played with Tianfeng in the ditch in front for a while when we were pulling pigweed." Zhao Tianfeng was Li Juan's classmate, similar to her current best friend, and the two children had a very good relationship.
Li Juan looked at the group of children in the yard with some surprise and confusion. Li Long entered the east room, found a handful of fruit candies, came out and handed them to Li Qiang:
"Qiangqiang, go and share it with them."
Li Qiang took the fruit candy and raised it happily:
"Everyone line up, come one by one!"
Li Long smiled, it seemed like that.
He handed two fruit candies to Li Juan:
"Juan, you eat too."
Li Juan took it with a smile, peeled off one and stuffed it into her mouth, then carefully folded the candy wrapper and put it in her pocket.
In the evening, Li Long went to see the wild boar and deer in the horse hall. The wild boar was still very happy, but the deer was a little wilted.
"Xiaolong, this deer may not be easy to raise." Old Uncle Luo said sheepishly, "I thought it was like feeding sheep. It seems that this deer is very delicate..."
"It's okay." Li Long reassured him, "We haven't raised anyone, not to mention the whole team, even the entire township. It's good luck to support us, and it's normal not to support us."
"Okay, I'll feel relieved if you say this." Lao Luo was obviously not so stressed anymore, "I'll try to use more concentrated feed, and let them come out to run around more often."
Part 1 The next day, Li Long got on his bicycle and went up the mountain again. Before going up the mountain, he went to the big yard and looked at the two roe deer velvet velvets. The salt mud on the outside had dried completely, but it felt quite heavy. The antler inside should not have dried in the shade yet, so let's leave it for a while.
Driving to Xiaobaiyanggou with a gun on his back, Li Long smelled the familiar smell of smoke again, and the people from the sideline team were still busy there.
When they saw Li Long coming, they were used to it and greeted him normally. Li Long and Gu Boyuan said hello and chatted for a few words before walking around in the nearby ravine with their guns on their backs.
Seeing how leisurely Li Long was, most of the others expressed envy. Especially for the gun on Li Long's back, they were really envious to the point of jealousy. Having a gun in the mountains is like a fish in water!
There was no longer any small animal in the ditch where Tao Daqiang and I had previously hunted roe deer. The dung had dried and grass had grown, but there was no movement.
Li Long entered a few more remote ditches. He was surprised to find that the Fritillaria and Codonopsis pilosula seedlings had grown up now. It would be better to wait until autumn and winter to dig Fritillaria pilosula, but Fritillaria pilosula can actually be dug now. Dig. Just not as full.
He remembered that Harimu said that there were caladium ditches near his winter den and their winter den, which were full of caladiums. If he couldn't catch anything, would he take the time? Make a tool and go dig there?
During lunch, the man who mentioned that he found the wild boar spoke again. His name was Wei Zhonghua.
"Okay, tomorrow morning, I will come over and call you at five or six o'clock, and you will take me over to have a look." Li Long thought that there was nothing wrong anyway, so he went over to have a look.
"Then why don't you stay here at night and just squeeze in with someone in the winter den?" Wei Zhonghua thought Li Long had returned to the team and came here early in the morning, thinking it would be too troublesome.
"No, I have a place to live." Li Long did not explain in detail.
Early the next morning, Li Long came over with a gun. He woke up Wei Zhonghua, and the two of them went to the east plane.
At this time, the gastrodia was bright and the two of them reluctantly walked forward along the intestinal path.
"Just below the slope of the ditch in front." Wei Zhonghua whispered, "Are we here too early?"
Li Long said nothing, touched the top of the slope, then stretched out his hand to feel the wind, and then led Wei Zhonghua around to the downwind.
The two men waited in ambush until dawn, but did not see the wild boars coming, and they were both a little disappointed. Li Long went down to take a look and found that the wild boar had indeed crossed a large piece of grass here. Judging from the dryness and wetness of the soil, it should have been three to five days.
He picked up his gun and said to Wei Zhonghua:
"This group of wild boars should be roaming and not fixed. Let's come over and have a look in a few days."
Two people Going back empty-handed, other people who were waiting to eat wild boar were also a little disappointed, but everyone understood that it was nothing, after all, no hunter could gain something with one shot.
In the next few days, because the trees grew quickly and more strips were cut, the progress of weaving the poles was much faster. Even the slowest Xu Jianjun had compiled thirteen or four poles.
Li Long comes over every day to check the quality of the handlebars. In the past few days, a total of three unqualified ones were found and had to be reworked. Although the two people who did the editing complained a little, they still reworked obediently. Everyone knows that this money is not easy to make, but there are many people who want to make this money.
Running from Dongwozi to Xiaobaiyanggou every day, Li Long felt that he had also exercised, and his physical strength and leg strength were much stronger than those of ordinary people. Then he also discovered that there were more and more people in the mountains, and occasionally he would meet people riding horses or walking. When these people saw Li Long carrying a gun, they basically had no interaction with him or any dialogue.
Li Long guessed that it was someone from the forestry team, or someone who went into the mountains to collect herbs and antlers.
It has been a long time since he picked up antlers.
Although I collected a lot from herdsmen, to be honest, I really didn’t pick up a few.
That morning he cooked porridge by himself in Dongwozi, mixed with wild vegetables and had breakfast. When he came slowly to Xiaobaiyanggou, Xie Yundong said to him anxiously:
" Xu Jianjun was arrested!"
"Caught by whom? ?”
“It was the forestry team. They said Xu Jianjun secretly went to dig up fritillaries in the forestry team’s area, so they arrested him! Xu Jianjun didn’t come back last night, and we couldn’t find him when we went out to look for him. , thinking that he may be lost and will come back today.
Unexpectedly, a man came over on horseback early this morning and said that he had been arrested and asked us to go to Dadonggou in the east to pay and collect him. "
" Damn it! "Li Long was so angry that he wanted to curse.
Obviously it was a very simple task, just cutting strips and weaving them in Xiaobaiyanggou, but Xu Jianjun wanted to do this!
He doesn’t want to do it anymore?
“Xiaolong, what should I do? Xie Yundong looked sad, "What should we do?" People in our team don’t even recognize the letters of introduction!”
In the past, he led people to start a side business and just did it. The mountains are so big and no one cares about them.
Now I didn’t expect that Xu Jianjun would not be able to go back if he did such a good job!
"It's okay, let others continue to make up, you and I will get the people." Li Long reassured him, after all, everyone else was watching. The expressions of those people were a little frightened, and they must be worried that they would not be allowed to do anything in the next step.
"Okay." Li Long said, Xie Yundong had a backbone and nodded vigorously.
"Everyone, feel free to work. We have the note, the certificate, and the letter of introduction. As long as we make it up here, everything will be fine." Seeing that Xie Yundong was still distracted, Li Long said loudly to the others, "We Go and bring Xu Jianjun back - but he has violated the rules and will be punished when he comes back!"
When the people who were still a little lucky heard this, they immediately lost their minds - even if they got it back and were fined, wouldn't their work all these days have been in vain?
(End of this chapter)