Chapter 180 Li Long, are you going to propose marriage?
"Your dad came home today, did you know that?" Li Long asked while sitting on the bed in Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory, watching her busy.
"I know. When my dad and his friends came back by car at noon, they stopped here at the school. I had just eaten and met my dad."
"Sit down Car?" Li Long was a little surprised, "They came back by car?"
"Ang! "Gu Xiaoxia nodded, and then asked Li Long a little strangely, "Didn't you arrange the car? My dad and the others came back together in the car with their bedding. My dad said it was you who arranged the car... No. You? Who else could you be? They don’t know anyone from the supply and marketing cooperative..."
Li Long understood immediately, smiled and said:
"It should be the section chief Li from the supply and marketing cooperative. He arranged the job this time... I have a good relationship with him. We don’t know each other even if we don’t fight.”
“That person is quite strange.” Gu Xiaoxia nodded, “It’s also because I’m related to you. Just tie up the car you just arranged."
Li Long nodded, and then said:
"After finishing the chores this time, I don't plan to go into the mountains in the short term. Well, we’ll talk about it later. Let’s rest in the team for a while. If you want to go into the mountains, we’ll go there then.”
"What about the wooden house in the mountain? No one will live in it, right?"
"No. There are few people in the mountain itself." Li Long said, "Usually people don't destroy things in the mountain unless In the past, there were still very few people who were blindly digging herbs..."
He brought the egg basket in and took out the chickens. Dan said:
"I bought some eggs this time. I will put ten here for you. I will take the rest back for Juan and Qiangqiang to eat."
"No, no, I will I've been paid, so I can buy it." Gu Xiaoxia hurriedly came over to stop her, "You bring something with you every time, if you do this, I won't let you in next time..."
"It's always inconvenient to buy things in the countryside." Li Long said with a smile, "Why don't you make shoes for me? There are also chicken cakes. This one is big and can hold oil. When you are busy and you don't have time to cook, this one can be used as a cushion. A few mouthfuls.”
Seeing Li Long put these things away naturally, Gu Xiao Xia suddenly felt an impulse, and she whispered to Li Long:
"Li Long, find someone...to propose marriage to my dad."
Li Long listened to these words. Stimulated, he subconsciously asked:
“What did you say?”
The words just now exhausted all Gu Xiaoxia's courage. She stopped talking, turned around and packed her things in a panic, without answering.
But Li Long really heard it.
He stood up all of a sudden and murmured:
"Is it a little too fast...Will it affect your work? No, no, no..."
His words made Gu Xiaoxia turn around sharply.
Li Long saw Gu Xiaoxia's pale face and immediately understood that his words had misunderstood her. He hurried over and said:
"I will definitely marry you - but not now, as it will delay your future!"< br>
With one sentence, the tears that Gu Xiaoxia had been holding back burst out, and she wiped her face , with an expression of relief: "I thought...I thought..."
"I just want to say that it is not good for you to get married within a few days of work after you have just arrived at school. And you can The heights reached are far beyond the rural middle school, and it is not impossible in the county..."
Don't Li Long want to get married?
Naturally, he was thinking that he was obviously a hot-blooded young man.
But he has long thought that with the current situation and Gu Xiaoxia's ability, as long as she works hard, she can go all the way up. If she just wants to stay in the rural middle school, that's fine.
But she definitely wants to work towards a broader space.
Then it is not wise to get married now.
And Li Long feels that his current "foundation" is still a bit weak and he has to work harder.
Gu Xiaoxia had not fully understood what Li Long said at this time, and she did not feel that she could go further.
"You first go to TVU, the correspondence course, and academic qualifications are very important later." Li Long imparted the experience from his previous life, "It will be useful in the future when evaluating professional titles and taking exams."
Gu Xiaoxia is only twenty-one or twelve years old, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
"Hmm...Okay." Gu Xiaoxia was still confused at this time.
When Li Long came out of the dormitory, Gu Xiaoxia followed him with her head lowered and touched him while he was pushing his bicycle:
"Here, this is the key to my dormitory. Next time you come, if I don't come back, you should come in first..."
Li Long was so happy that he took the key. He was in such a beautiful mood.
While passing by the primary school, Li Long saw that the students had gone out, so he went to look for Li Juan. However, a fellow villager said that Li Juan had returned, so he chased her out on his bicycle, and he was not far from the school. Li Juan was found two hundred meters away.
"Juan, get in the car." Li Long hung the basket of eggs in front of him and asked Li Juan to sit in the back seat of the car. Li Juan sat up happily, and Li Long took her back home humming a song.
Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei haven't come back yet. What surprised Li Long was that Li Qiang was holding a bottle with pockmarks inside, and he was feeding the chickens.
Seeing Li Long and Li Juan coming back, Li Qiang said excitedly:
"Uncle, uncle! Chicken, look at our chicken, he is very good at eating and dancing!"
"Yeah Well, the more you eat, the faster it will grow. You can eat it in the fall," Li Long said with a smile. "Are you hungry?"
"You are hungry," Li Qiang said honestly.
"Then you and your sister wash your hands and go into the house to eat chicken cake." Li Long took out the chicken cake from his bag and shook it. "Wash your hands clean, otherwise the smell of pockmarks will be too strong."
"I know!" Li Qiang immediately went to Zijing's place to wash his hands.
There is a horse ladle on the well killing platform with half a ladle of water in it. When using well pressure to press water, the water will be pressed back into the well, so that it is sealed and the water can be "lifted" under the action of atmospheric pressure.
To catch jumping pockmarks here, in order to prevent them from escaping, they usually pinch their heads after catching them and flatten them to keep them in a semi-dead state. In this way, your hands will be stained with pockmarked body fluids and smell bad.
"Uncle, I have to cut the pigweed." Li Juan said.
“After you eat, let Qiangqiang go with you.” Li Long said, “I will go too.”
When he said this, Li Juan became happy.
"Uncle, we have to hurry up," Li Qiang said while eating chicken cake. "The trumpet is about to broadcast. Let's get back from mowing the grass quickly, and we still have to listen to the trumpet."
Li Long remembered that at this time, there was a small speaker on the radio every afternoon. Unexpectedly, Li Qiang was already obsessed with it.
"Okay, let's go quickly." Li Long smiled, "Where there is a lot of pigweed, do you want to take you there by bike?"
"Over the big fields to the east "Li Juan said immediately, "The grass on this side of the ration field has been cleared away, but there are more wild bamboo shoots, bitter ququ, sweet ququ, and pull seedlings, as well as gray strips..."< br>
"Okay, I'll take you there on a bicycle!"
Li Long put away his small-caliber rifle and took Li Juan and Li Qiang with him to the big fields to the east. At this time, the wheat in the field has not yet headed, the corn is only half a person tall, and the loess is still exposed in some places.
Li Long placed his bicycle next to a small tree, and he and Li Juan took the bag and went to the field to look for pigweed.
Pigweed is rarely found in the wild. It is basically found in fields or watered canals. Li Long originally came here with a game mentality. He walked around and put whatever he saw into his bag. "Uncle, look, there are a bunch of dead fish in this ditch, they all stink!"
Li Qiang shouted from the side of the ditch. Li Long walked over and smelled a strong fishy smell when he was still five or six meters away.
The location Li Qiang pointed to was a canal mouth. Due to the sudden release of water, a pit would be flushed out. After watering, the pit would contain water, and naturally there would also be fish. Now there are half a pit of small crucian carp three to five centimeters long, dead, and flies and maggots are crawling all over the pit.
“Come here quickly.” Li Long greeted Li Qiang, “This happens every year, stay away, it’s very dirty.”
These small crucian carp are the small fish from last year, and they will grow longer this winter. It is ready to lay eggs. It is regarded as the basic fish in Xiaohaizi. This will happen as long as the ground is watered and the gate is opened. They are still small fish now, but in autumn, the ones left in these puddles will be big fish.
As for whether someone will find out and take it home?
Most of them will not be discovered, but a small part will be discovered - Li Long remembers that in the previous life, after Li Qiang grew up to ten years old, his habit was to go to the canal a day or two after watering, and he usually came back with a full load.
Because Li Qiang was good at playing and later became the king of children, he once accidentally revealed this situation to another child under his "hands", and this child in turn leaked it to another child who was younger than Li Qiang but A little older than that kid.
The result was that one time, before Li Long had time to slip out of the canal, the older child took the net and slipped all the way down the canal. When he came back, he brought more than ten kilograms of palm-sized crucian carp. He also showed off to Li Qiang specially.
Li Qiang was so angry that time.
This is the first time Li Qiang has been severely beaten by society and "betrayed".
However, Li Long did not tell Li Qiang about this kind of thing. Some experiences are inevitable in life. Even if they are lessons, others may not remember them if they are told by others. They must be experienced by themselves before they will be deeply impressed.
The three of them pulled the pigweed very quickly. Li Long’s bag was almost full, and Li Juan’s bag was almost half full. Looking at the time, Li Long said:
“Let’s go. , go back. You can listen to the trumpet when you go back."
Li Qiang shouted and ran to the bicycle. At this time, the people working in the fields have not returned yet.
Li Long spread the two bags of pigweed evenly, tied them up and put them on both sides of the back seat of the bicycle. Then Li Juan sat behind and Li Qiang sat on the big bar. He pedaled the bicycle and went back.
On the road, he met Tao Daqiang's father, Tao Jianshe, who was driving a donkey cart to the fields. Li Long stopped the car and asked:
"Uncle Tao, what are you doing?"
"Give me the land. Put some manure in it," Tao Jianshe said with a smile, "Daqiang is back, Xiaolong. Thanks for your help."
"That's nothing." Li Long waved his hand and was about to kick off. Tao Jianshe hurriedly asked:
"Da Qiang is still thinking of asking you. , asked if he had caught any fish yet, my family still owes you money.”
"I don't owe it anymore, the roe deer antler is worth it." Li Long waved his hand, "I really don't owe it anymore, okay, I'm going back."
Li Long drove away from Chen, while Tao Jianshe Unexpectedly, Li Long really smoothed the score.
Back home, Li Juan chopped pigweed, and Li Qiang helped put the chopped pigweed into a basket. Li Long opened the window, turned on the radio, and tuned up the Central People's Broadcasting Station so that both children could hear it.
He went to the free house to get a piece of bacon, went to the kitchen and soaked it in water, then grabbed a handful of spicy skin and soaked it.
While waiting for the Baogu batter to boil, he made the Baogu batter, boiled water, and let Li Qiang watch. By the time the Baogu batter was boiling, Li Long had already gone to the vegetable garden and pulled out one or two green onions. I pulled a handful of wild amaranth and prepared to fry some bacon.
At this time, the classic sound of "dah-dah, dah-dah...the small speaker started broadcasting" came from the radio.
Li Qiang immediately patted Li Juan:
"Sister, sister! It's started, it's started!"
Li Long smiled and went out to cook. Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei worked hard, and Li Long planned to fry bacon and eggs. In this day and age, this is considered a big deal in ordinary people's homes.
When Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei came back, the food was already placed on the dining table - Li Long was a dead-faced pancake posted on the edge of the pot, one side was browned, and Li Qiang and Li Juan were sharing a pancake in small bites.
After working hard, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei will feel more comfortable if they can have hot meals and the children will be happy.
You’re welcome from my family. After dinner, Li Long said something to Li Jianguo and went to the home of village director Xu Chengjun.
"Xiaolong is here. Have you eaten? Didn't you sit down and eat something?" Xu Chengjun was eating - or rather, he was drinking. He was the only one left at the dinner table. Mingwa was not there, and Ma Hongmei was cleaning up in the kitchen. When she saw Li Long coming, she smiled and poured him a glass of water.
"Have eaten." Li Long smiled, sat opposite Xu Chengjun, and said: "Captain, the work is done. The supply and marketing cooperative received it smoothly. I also brought the money back. You Look..."
"Then wait." Xu Chengjun didn't drink much and was still very conscious. He turned to Ma Hongmei and said, "Mingwa, go and ask Mingwa to call the accountant."
"Mingwa doesn't even know where she is. Let me go. It's not far." Ma Hongmei wiped her hands with her apron and hurried out.
In less than five minutes, village accountant Chen Qiang rushed to the yard carrying a broken briefcase.
"Old Chen, Xiaolong said that the editor's account has been settled. You can check it out."
"Okay." Chen Qiang sat next to Li Long.
Li Long took out a wad of money from his inner pocket and put it on the table and said:
"A total of 307 bags have been compiled, and the supply and marketing cooperative has passed the inspection. One bag costs five yuan, which is one thousand five hundred and thirty-five. Brother Chen Qiang, please count."
"Okay." Chen Qiang took the wad of money, spit on his fingers and counted quickly.
Ma Hongmei came back, looked at the pile of money, her eyes lit up, and then she went to the kitchen again.
Chen Qiang counted it twice and then nodded:
“That’s right.”
"Then write me a note and receive it." Li Long said, "This way my life is over."
"That's no problem." Chen Qiang was already prepared and took it out of his bag Paper and pen, padded with the bag, I started writing stroke by stroke.
Anyone who can be an accountant these days is good at writing.
After Chen Qiang finished writing, he looked at Xu Chengjun. Xu Chengjun turned around and felt in the desk drawer, took out the seal and ink pad, stamped the receipt, and handed it to Li Long.
Li Long took the receipt, read it carefully, and said with a smile:
"Then my business is over."
Just as he was about to stand up and leave, Xu Chengjun hurriedly stopped him:
"Xiaolong, I heard... is there still life in Qiu Shang? ? "
"We can't wait until Qiu Shang?" Li Long smiled, "But then we can't just order people, otherwise this job... won't be easy. "
Xu Chengjun immediately promised:
"Xiaolong, tell me who you want at that time! I will definitely not mess with people!"
(End of Chapter)