Chapter 190 Don’t let others learn this method of catching water rats!
Tao Daqiang rushed over shortly after lunch. Li Long did not expect him to be so active, but thinking about the value of water rats, Li Long took the shovel and Tao Daqiang took the net and tires. Beside Xiaohaizi.
"Daqiang, we sold fish yesterday, here is five yuan." Li Long handed Tao Daqiang a five yuan note, "Take it."
Tao Daqiang still wanted to refuse, Li Long Long said:
"Let's make it clear. The last time we dealt with the water rat, we will settle your debt. You should take the money, otherwise we will not be able to divide the remaining money."< br>
Tao Daqiang then took the money, folded it in half, put it into the inner pocket of his clothes with a smile, and patted it to make sure it wouldn't leak out.
“Let’s lower the net first and then go see the water rats.” Li Long looked at the water and said, “Otherwise, I won’t be safe leaving the net here, and it will be inconvenient to carry it around.”
"Brother Long, what do you say we should do!" Tao Daqiang naturally had no objection.
Li Long put the tire in the water, sat on it, carried the bag, rowed to the place where he first lowered the net when he came back from the mountains, and then started to lower the net.
He only took six nets today, mainly because he planned to go to the buying station to sell the skins and musk of the two water rats after selling the fish tomorrow.
After the six nets were lowered, when Li Long rowed the tire to the shore, Tao Daqiang pulled him up and said:
"Brother Long, I don't think there are any more water rat holes on the east bank. We want to Don’t go to the north?”
“Don’t go to the north” Li. Long waved his hand, "That's the dam over there. Even if there is a water rat hole, we can't dig it. If we don't dig it well and the dam collapses, we will be in big trouble."
Tao Daqiang understood and continued to propose:< br>
“Then go to the south?”
"Go to the south. If there is nothing south, go to the west."
They found a nest of water rats in the reeds in the south. While they were digging, Ma Jinbao came over again.
"Hey, you guys are still digging out." Ma Jinbao saw Li Long and Tao Daqiang driving sheep to eat grass on the bank, and said, "What's so good about this water rat? You guys Do you want to eat the meat or the skin? "
"It depends on what the collection station wants them to do." Li Long looked at the water. As he dug the hole in the hole, he said, "The ones I dug last time haven't been taken to the acquisition station yet. I'll ask you after I get there."
Ma Jinbao didn't believe that Li Long didn't know. He knew that Li Long wouldn't say it, but it was troublesome to dig the water rat. He saw with his own eyes that Xu Jianjun couldn't get anything after digging for a long time.
Ma Jinbao didn't understand why Xu Jianjun didn't find it, so he wanted to see what happened.
Li Long knew what Ma Jinbao was thinking. He seemingly casually inserted a shovel into the water, which just blocked the hole leading to the water from the water rat. Then he said to Tao Daqiang:
"Daqiang, you dig first, I'll find a stick."
There are many wooden sticks washed down by the flood from the upper reaches on the shore of Xiaohaizi. Li Long easily found a suitable one. of.
Some of these sticks were already rotten. Li Long waved them and smashed them twice on the ground to make sure that the sticks were strong enough, then he carried them back. When he came back, Tao Daqiang had already dug the first nest.
"Get in!" Tao Daqiang shouted, and then quickly took it out.
Li Long was holding a stick and staring vigilantly.
The hole where the water rats entered was blocked, and they were so anxious that they finally chose to break out.
When the first water rat rushed out of Tao Daqiang's hole, Tao Daqiang hit it in the mud with a shovel. The second one rushed out immediately, and Li Long accurately hit the water rat on the head with his stick, knocking the guy unconscious.
After a while, the third water rat did not come out, so Tao Daqiang continued digging, while Li Long knocked the two water rats with two more sticks before putting them in the bag.
"You two can do it." Ma Jinbao thought it was nothing strange. He didn't notice the effect of Li Long's shovel, and thought that maybe the water rat nest that Xu Jianjun dug earlier was not there, but this nest happened to be there.
He couldn't help but envy the luck of the two people and said:
"You two are still awesome. Xu Jianjun dug a hole yesterday, but there was not a single water rat... You dug it Both, Li Long, you are lucky and have good vision!"
"You said Xu Jianjun dug the hole on the east bank?" Li Long asked and glanced at Tao Daqiang again! .
Tao Daqiang pretended that nothing happened and continued digging.
"Yeah, he won't let me talk. What's the point? It's not a shameful thing... But I heard that Xu Jianjun was beaten last night with a urea bag, and he was covered in chicken. Shit, it smells bad. I heard that his wife didn’t let him go to bed yesterday..."
"What? He was beaten with a bag?" Li Long felt a little weird, "When?"< br>
“Last night, I was in the sales department of Lao Zhang We were drinking there. When he came over, I invited him to take a sip. After drinking..." Ma Jinbao was embarrassed to say that he had vomited all over Xu Jianjun, so he blurred the matter and continued:
"After he finished drinking, he wanted to When I got home, I was beaten in front of Wang Caimi’s house. What Wang Caimi’s wife said today must be true!”
Li Long didn’t go to see Tao Daqiang, he already knew that it must be Tao Daqiang—— It can't be such a coincidence!
But thinking about beating Xu Jianjun for the water rat hole is childish.
It’s just that he couldn’t say anything about it. At this time, Tao Daqiang had dug to the end of the main road. Two water rats rushed out together. When Tao Daqiang shot one, the other one rushed into the water and was caught by Li Long Yi picked up his stick and fell into the mud, and then knocked him unconscious with two sticks.
Four water rats are obtained.
Ma Jinbao felt like watching a circus, why are these two so powerful?
Originally Li Long thought there was no more, but he didn't expect that there was still the largest water rat hidden in the last branch hole, which was half as big as the others!
This water rat was knocked unconscious by Tao Daqiang and almost flattened!
Five water rats, even without musk, plus the four from last time, it is conservatively estimated that Tao Daqiang can share forty yuan!
With Ma Jinbao by his side, Li Long didn't say anything. He carried the shovel while Tao Daqiang carried the bag and walked towards the tire.
Ma Jinbao looked at these two people, and when they were far away, he said to himself:
"It really sounds like what Xu Jianjun said. Tao Daqiang is really like Li Zai's henchman. Little follower.”
After walking far away, Li Long whispered to Tao Daqiang:
"Daqiang, for the skin and incense of the water rat yesterday and today, you can get at least forty yuan!"
"What? ? So much?" Tao Daqiang suddenly exclaimed, "How can it be so much? "
What is the concept of a worker's salary in two days?
"Eight yuan for one piece of skin. Yesterday and today there were nine pieces of skin, plus yesterday there was a musk." Li Long settled the accounts for him, "Even if there is no fragrance today, it adds up to almost ninety yuan. …”
"Then...then..." Tao Daqiang said for a long time, he was so excited that he didn't know what to say.
"It's a pity that the number of water rats is limited. If we go around Xiaohaizi, we can only get two or three nests at most." Li Long sighed, "I don't know if there are any in Dahaizi."
This is much faster than catching fish, mainly because it is not so hard.
Because Ma Jinbao was there, Li Long and the others did not continue to the west bank, but went back.
The net was not cast today. The two of them returned to Li's house. It was still early, so Li Long skinned the water rat. Tao Daqiang didn't dare to take action, fearing that his skin would be damaged, so he helped Li Long. "Daqiang, I'll finish it later. Please give me a favor. I plan to clean up a room at Ma No. to live in. I'll get the furniture back tomorrow. You can help me clean it up. By the way, let's take the Ma No. Build a wall in the middle.”
"No problem." Tao Daqiang said cheerfully, "It's nothing, anyway."
It took more than an hour to skin five water rats. To Li Long's surprise, Two of the five were musky.
Two people scraped the oil off the skin, rubbed it with salt, stretched it with wooden sticks, and left it in the house to dry.
Looking at the time, it was still early. Li Long took a few newspapers from the spare room, and then said to Tao Daqiang with a big broom:
"Daqiang, let's go and work with me."
Tao Daqiang took the big broom in his hand, and Li Long picked up a small broom. The big broom is made of splendens, and the small broom is made of sorghum poles.
The two of them had just gone out. Li Qiang came back from preschool. When he saw Li Long, he asked:
"Uncle, what are you doing?"
"Go to the horse number. Work." Li Long touched Li Qiang's head and said, "Go home. Your sister will be back soon. You can listen to the trumpet."
"I want to work with you." Li Qiang's eyes lit up and he said, "Can I go?"
"Okay, as long as you are not afraid of getting tired." Li Long said with a smile, "You can't do half the work. Just run."
"I promise not!" Li Qiang said loudly, and then followed Li Long happily. In Li Qiang's eyes, Li Long is omnipotent. He admires his uncle very much and feels very proud to be able to work with him. He took the small broom from Li Long and walked between the two people with his head held high.
Li Long took a piece of newspaper, put the rest in his armpit, and began to fold his hat.
"Uncle, what are you doing?" Li Qiang raised his head curiously and asked.
"Hat, I'll clean up later. It's very dusty. Let's all wear hats, otherwise the dust on our head will be difficult to wash."
"What does this hat look like?" Li Qiang asked.
“Have you seen the soldiers on the Soviet side in the movie? It’s that kind of boat-shaped hat.” Li Long explained. In fact, the most vivid ones are the female officer hats of the Kuomintang in war movies, but for this The young people of this generation who have a clear distinction between love and hate do not want to be associated with the reactionaries.
The boat-shaped hat is easy to fold. Li Long folded one, opened it and put it on Li Qiang's head. Li Long took it off with both hands, looked at it curiously, and then put it on his head again, very happy.
Li Long folded two more, one for himself and Tao Daqiang, and then came to the old horse.
Lao Luo was giving grass to Xiaolu. When he saw three people coming, he said with a smile:
"Xiaolong, are you here to clean the house?"
"Yes." Li Long said, "Good morning. Clean up and move the furniture over early." He said. When I arrived at the house, I saw that it had been briefly cleaned, and asked doubtfully:
"Uncle Luo, have you cleaned it?"
"I just did a simple sweep. It’s up to you to do the work,” Old Uncle Luo said with a smile.
Li Long and the others started cleaning, while Uncle Luo went to feed wild boars and deer.
Li Qiang was impatient with his work. After working for a while, he ran to see the young wild boar and then the deer. He even naughtily climbed into the deer pen to get up close and personal with the deer.
The deer screamed in fear, and then flipped over Li Qiang who was not paying attention.
Li Qiang’s ouch attracted Li Long and the others. Seeing Li Qiang being pushed over by the little deer, Li Long smiled and said:
“Qiangqiang, you’d better come out, that deer has the strength to Not small.”
He saw a small bulge on the head of the deer that pushed Li Qiang over, and guessed it might be a male red deer calf.
The house in Ma Hao was quite dusty and smelled of old manure. Li Long and Tao Daqiang spent more than an hour cleaning it. They found the spider webs on the roof, the dust in the corners, and the dust on the walls. The stains were all cleaned up, and clean water was sprinkled on the ground - there was an artesian well not far from the horse number, so water was quite convenient. This was specially shot for feeding horses at that time.
Looking at the time, it was still early. Li Long and Tao Daqiang left the house and started building the wall in the middle of the yard again.
Because it was not mixed with mud, for the time being it was said that the soil and broken bricks picked up by Uncle Luo were piled up.
"After a few days, everything will be fine in the morning. I will dig out some soil," Tao Daqiang said, "and add some mud to build up the place."
"How can you do it alone?" Li Long said with a smile, "I will catch fish for two more days. I will go into the mountains to see if I can get a wild boar. Then I will ask some young men in the team to work together."
" That's great!" Tao Daqiang's eyes lit up, "There must be many people in the team who want to work!"
Although the household quota is guaranteed, the income cannot be increased all of a sudden. Now every household wants to eat some meat as a tooth sacrifice, and the most they can do is catch some fish in the canal. It's no wonder that Tao Daqiang took back the water rat's meat for the first time.
People like Li Long’s family, who are not short of meat, are almost alone in the entire township, not to mention the whole team. It is impossible for the commune, or the head of the township, to eat like this.
Before dark, Li Long and Tao Daqiang reluctantly built a half-meter-high wall in the middle of Ma Hao's compound.
Li Long was a little discouraged. This wall was actually useless. With Xiaolu's ability, he could easily jump over it.
Then take time to hunt, and then come back to cook meat and entertain people.
"Uncle Luo, let's go." Li Long simply patted the ashes on his body and said to Uncle Luo, "In a few days, I will ask people to come over and build a wall. Let the deer first Stay in the circle for a few days, I’m going to trouble you these days.”
“What’s the trouble? There are fish to eat, and feeding pigs and deer is not a big job." Old Uncle Luo waved his hand, "If you say anything else, it will be a big deal."
"Then I will give you the salary." Li Long took it from his pocket. He took out the money and said, "I won't give you a high salary, just twenty a month. What do you think?"
"Of course!" Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, "I'm very happy to be able to get such a high salary - but you have to get me some more things to keep, otherwise I will burn my hands with the money. "
"Okay, wait until I get into the mountain and see what else I can catch. If I catch it, I'll bring it over."
Li Long. Taking Li Qiang home, Tao Daqiang also returned to his home. Because I had to get up early the next morning and was tired from cleaning the house, I went to bed early.
In the dream, Li Long moved into the building - yes, in the dream, Ma Hao's house became a small second floor, like a villa, so beautiful! And this is his and Gu Xiaoxia's new house - that feeling, hey!
(End of this chapter)