Chapter 186 Tao Daqiang also has times when he is petty
“Daqiang, I know you didn’t do it.” Li Long said with a smile, “If you did it, these water rats wouldn’t be able to escape—look, There are only traces of digging in this area, and there are no signs of catching water rats at all. The person who dug the hole does not know about water rats. There were several holes, but nothing was caught in the end."
Li Long did not doubt him, which made Tao Daqiang relieved, and then he became angry again:
"That could be it. Who is it? It was obviously me who discovered the hole first..."
Li Long comforted him:
"Da Qiang, until this water rat is caught, it doesn't belong to anyone. Whoever catches it belongs to whom. If you see it, you mark it, and then hurt it, run away from your hands and let others If you catch it, then you can say that it was your reluctance. Now, of course, whoever catches it will be the one who catches it."
He thought of the time when Li Qiang caught the fish later. Li Qiang also felt that someone was betraying him at the time. He killed himself and led others to catch the fish he was supposed to catch. But in reality, fish were considered wild resources at that time. If you didn’t catch them, then whoever caught them would get them.
"It's a pity to have this nest of water rats. Looking at these nests, there must be at least five or six."
"It's okay, this Xiaohaizi is so large, there should be more." Li Although Long understood, he had no intention of going back empty-handed today, so he pointed forward and said:
"Let's look forward and see if there is a hole in front."
Tao Daqiang was still a little unwilling. He asked as he walked:
"How can others know that we are catching water mice? And we dug out the holes I saw..."
"It must have been heard or seen by someone else. That person had only a partial understanding of what he heard and saw. He didn't know what the water rat hole looked like. He probably didn't even know whether the water rat hole was valuable..."
Li As Long was talking, he thought of someone.
"It should be Ma Jinbao..."
"Ma Jinbao? You said he dug it?" Tao Daqiang didn't believe it, "Can he do this? A man who doesn't pick up grass in the field and can't move a broom at home, can he dig this hole?"
"I mean, Ma Jinbao should be the one who told us about digging rat holes for water, so that Someone who was interested heard this and came over to dig. I guess he thought we had made money in the past six months and wanted to follow him for some soup, but he was too embarrassed to come over and ask. He heard Ma Jinbao bragging, and then..."
There is no need for Li Long to explain the rest, Tao Daqiang can figure it out in his head.
Hey, what a pity for that nest of water rats!
"No matter what happens, if I know who it is, I still want to beat him up!" Tao Daqiang looked quite clear about love and hate at this time.
"You can't beat him openly," Li Long joked as he walked. "Find a sack and put it on him from behind when he is alone at night and beat him. He doesn't know who hit him... No, Sacks don’t work!”
“Why don’t sacks work?” Tao Daqiang thought this was a good idea!
Li Long was actually joking. He substituted some scenes he saw in the novel in his previous life into the present. When he saw that Tao Daqiang was so "easy to learn", he explained:
"We Sacks from each team To prevent confusion, they all have names written on them. After the beating, you can’t take the sack away. Wouldn’t it be discovered if you take it away? Use a urea bag, which usually has no name, but is too small..."
< br>There are not many bags in the team. Sacks are usually distributed by the team or purchased by each family. Because they contain a lot, most of them are marked with the last name or first name of each family.
Urea bags are purchased by the team when sowing and fertilizing. When the fertilizer is used up, whoever works nearby can take the bags away. Sometimes we negotiate and each family has a few.
So the urea bags are usually not marked because the team fertilizes a lot of land every year and there are a lot of them.
Li Long was just talking. He looked at Tao Daqiang thoughtfully and said hurriedly:
"Daqiang, don't take it seriously. I'm just saying that this matter is not serious." You know who did it. Besides, he didn't take advantage of it. "Yi, let's just focus on finding it first."
"Yes, I understand." Tao Daqiang began to look toward the water, and occasionally used the shovel to pull the reeds near the water to see if there were any. There are no traces.
They had searched once before and had some experience, so this time when they walked to the corner of the east bank and the south bank, Tao Daqiang took the lead and found a quite large hole under a clump of reeds.
"Brother Long, do you think this is right?" Tao Daqiang used a shovel to chop off the reeds, revealing the hole covered by the grass below.
Half of the cave entrance is in the water, and because it is blocked by reeds, the owners of these caves don't care. There are a lot of yellow and green feces scattered at the roots of the reeds, which look quite fresh.
"That's it. But there are more reed roots, so it should be more difficult to dig."
"That's nothing!" Tao Daqiang immediately became energetic when he heard that this was a water rat's hole. , he was holding back his breath just now. At this time, he immediately dug according to the entrance of the hole, and then said to Li Long while digging:
"Brother Long, look around, don't let the water rat escape from other places."
Li Long was already looking for other holes at this time.
He was not in a hurry. Water rats are usually active from afternoon to dusk, and are most likely sleeping in their holes at this time. There is usually not just one hole like this. As long as you run out, there will be movement, and it will not be more than five or six meters away, so you can find it no matter what.
He looked at the water surface with a shovel in hand. The water here is a slope, gradually getting deeper from the shore. It is not the kind of straight up and down newly built dams, so the entrance to the cave is easy to find. It takes less than a minute. , Li Long determined two goals. These two small holes are among the underwater reeds and are difficult to spot without looking carefully.
While Tao Daqiang was digging, water was pouring out of the two seemingly small holes. Li Long guessed that the two holes were the entrances of the water rat?
Li Long took two steps toward the water, and then picked up the shovel. This thing only costs five or six yuan, so it would be bad if it ran away.
Tao Daqiang has dug out the first grass nest of a water rat. He shouted while digging:
"Brother Long, I saw a water rat burrowing into it... ”
Before he finished speaking, Li Long saw a water rat coming out of the hole on the right side of the water. As soon as it poked its head out, Li Long went down with a shovel and shoveled this thing away. out.
Although the water rat's skin is thick and it is underwater, the shovel may not be able to break the skin, but Li Long still doesn't want to take the risk. If the shovel is broken, it will be worthless.
The water rat was shoveled out by Li Long along with the soil, turned over in the air and landed on the ground, and then crawled clumsily into the water. On the shore, the water rat moved extremely slowly. Li Long patted it down with a flat shovel, knocking it out of action.
He immediately continued to look, and then saw a larger water rat coming out of another hole. Only its triangular paddle-like tail was still in the hole, and its entire body had been submerged in the water. Start swimming toward the deep water close to the bottom.
Li Long didn't care about his shoes getting wet. He took a shovel into the water and shoveled the big water rat. The shovel stirred its back half and tail. The huge force of the water flow made the water rat follow him out. When it reached the surface of the water, it struggled hard to get back into the water. Li Long once again used a shovel to pull it and the water to the shore.
Then Li Long saw a water rat emerge from the last hole and swim into the deep water.
If I can’t catch up, I can only take care of this first.
Tao Daqiang also screamed:
"Hey, hey, hey, there's a water rat coming out..." He took a shovel and patted the hole he dug hard, and then put a water rat into the hole. Fat water rats were picked out.
Li Long also knocked the big water rat unconscious on the spot.
The two people continued to work together, and finally dug the hole completely, and then caught a little water rat, and the hole was cleared.
"One or two escaped." Li Long said, "This guy has two underwater holes. He is too busy. It would be nice to have one more person."
"Okay, four water rats "How can I sell this leather for ten or twenty yuan?" Tao Daqiang was very satisfied. Isn't this better than farming?
"Well, pack the bags and let's go down the net." Li Long nodded, packed up and filled back the soil, and the two of them went to the place where the net was set down.
Although Xiaohaizi is smaller than Dahaizi, it is relative. The water surface must be at least several hundred acres. One-third of it is covered by reeds and aquatic plants, and the rest is a place where nets can be set.
With the tires, Li Long could choose the place to set the net at will. He chose a trough which was far away from the shore. Originally, I wanted to be closer so that it would be easier to get the net tomorrow. But the incident of being dug into a water rat hole made him understand that don't think too highly of the people on your team. There are good people everywhere and bad people everywhere.
The net is far away and the water is deep. Those who want to cause damage or take advantage must at least consider whether they can afford the possible losses before entering the water.
Li Long rowed the tire to lower the net. Tao Daqiang looked at it with envy, and then began to practice throwing the net by the water.
After casting the net for three or five times, Li Long arrived at the reeds thirty or forty meters away from the shore and began to show his unique skills in lowering the net.
He sighed. He couldn't even cast a semicircular net when he cast it, let alone lowering the net with his mouth. He could even draw the net with a tire and the big fish would knock it into the water.
If I hadn’t followed Brother Long, wouldn’t I be a loser?
He suddenly thought of the guy who dug a water rat hole and harmed others without benefiting himself.
If he really wants to find out who it is, he will definitely use Brother Long’s method to beat him up in the middle of the night!
Li Long netted all eight nets, and it took forty minutes to draw them When I came back, I saw that Tao Daqiang was still practicing hard at casting his net. There were several fish jumping on the ground, most of them fish. Crucian carp, he said:
"Daqiang, you can take this fish back later. My family won't eat fish for the past two days, so we have to stop for two days."
" My family won’t eat it either.” Tao Daqiang waved his hand, “That big carp hasn’t been eaten yet.”
"Then... you take some and decide who to give it to. Give it to your brother's house. I'll send some to Old Uncle Luo." Li Long thought for a while and said, "Let's go back and skin the water rat."
The two people returned to Li's house, put down the net and tires, and started skinning the water rat.
Of the four water rats, the largest one has the best skin and has a sachet - only this one has it, and the other three don't.
This sachet is larger than the two sachets that Li Long cut off earlier. It feels granular when you hold it, as if it contains a lot of small stones.
"Spread it with salt first, and then sell it after it is completely dry." Li Long said, "It only takes three to five days."
"Okay, Brother Long, I'm going back. I'll come back tomorrow morning."
After Tao Daqiang left, Li Long put salt on the skin and hung it up, then took the remaining fish to Lao Ma No.
Uncle Luo was feeding the deer grass, and Li Long heard the cry of the little wild boar in the distance.
It’s a good thing that Lao Ma is located in the middle of three residential areas and can’t rely on any of them. Otherwise, someone would probably make trouble for Li Long. After all, the barking of this little wild boar is so unpleasant and so powerful that it can last for most of the day.
"Little Dragon is here - why are you mentioning fish again? I feel a little sorry." Old Uncle Luo looked at the large and small fish in Li Long's hand that were impaled with splendens, and said with a smile.
"You can eat it with confidence. There is not much else in the sea, but there are many fish."
"Okay, I won't be polite. By the way, Xiaolong, this little deer has been a little wilted these past two days. , I don’t know the reason.”
Li Long went over to take a look, and the size of the two fawns seemed to have not changed. In the small lattice of Guanlu's trough, there are alfalfa, reeds, gray strips and other wild grasses, as well as some feed mixed with bran, but they don't move much.
The small cubicle was very clean. Not even excrement was seen, and there was no peculiar smell. Li Long looked at the deer, thought for a while and said:
"Old man Uncle Luo, this deer probably isn’t used to our environment yet. Let’s let them out more and let them run around.”
"Okay, I'll let it out more every day and run around outside." Old Uncle Luo nodded cheerfully, "The yard is big. I planted vegetables in a small area and they all grew. In large areas, I used waste soil from outside to build walls. , let them run away in that area."
"When I have two days to spare, I will bring people over to put up the wall," Li Long said, "By the way, I still have to clean up here. Come out to a house. My father and mother will come over in a while, and my eldest brother can’t live there, so I’ll live here.” I have company. There are many houses. Although no one lives in them, I take care of them. Which one do you want to live in? I will clear it out for you first."
Li Long looked at that row. Bungalow, five rooms in total. Lao Luo lived in the room near the door and was also the doorkeeper. He pointed to the middle room and said, "I'll live there."
"Okay, that room is the biggest, what can I put there?" It’s also spacious. Xiaolong, what do you do with your furniture?”
"I made a new set. I pulled a lot of wood from the mountains. It was a pity to burn it as firewood, so I made furniture."
"New furniture, Xiaolong, tell the truth, are you getting married soon?" "Old Uncle Luo joked, "Who is it?"
"Gu Xiaoxia." Li Long didn't hide it, "It will take a year or two to get married. We are not in a hurry. She has just gone to work. We have to pay attention. The impact."< br>
"Okay, okay, that girl from the Gu family is a person who lives her life, not like...ahem, just you know." Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, "I just feel that after this winter, you are What a big change, work hard!”
While Li Long was watching the little wild boars in the old horse house, Tao Daqiang returned home. Tao Jianshe was feeding the donkeys at home. When he saw him coming back, he hesitated and said:
"Daqiang, I just went to the sales department to buy vinegar. I heard Ma Jinbao talking in plain words there, saying that you were digging for water rats? And then he said that Xu Jianjun also followed?"
"Who? Xu Jianjun?" Tao Daqiang originally said I was squatting on the ground to get the fish. After hearing this, I stood up suddenly!
(End of this chapter)