Chapter 200 Dad is an old naughty boy
"I will pay dad and mom for the trip here." Li Long said at the table in the evening, "I happened to send a telegram to ask about the situation when I was on the street these two days."
"Okay, you can make money, and I won't argue with you." Li Jianguo said a little guiltily, "I should have done many of these things..."
"That's right." Liang Yuemei gave Li Qiang Patch the holes in clothes Said, "Xiaolong, there are many things that your elder brother and I should do..."
"What are you talking about?" Li Long waved his hand and said, "Then I should be raised by my father and mother, you guys. Didn’t you raise me like this? Besides, where do you live? If you don't plant it for me, won't it be wasteful? My family doesn't say this anymore. Now everyone can use their own strengths. I just can't plant the land, so I just like hunting and fishing. It happened to happen. Good times..."
The topic passed.
Li Long will never think that his eldest brother has taken advantage of him. If it weren't for Li Jianguo, he would still be hungry and full in his hometown right now. Let alone eating meat every day, it's hard to say how many meals of white noodles he can eat in a month!
In the last life, Li Long returned to his hometown in the early 1990s. At that time, some families in his hometown village could not eat white flour steamed buns every day because there was too little land. Many girls were not allowed to go to school before they graduated from elementary school. .
"Then I will send a telegram to ask my parents to come over as soon as possible. The land was allocated to my hometown early, but it is less than an acre of grain land. I can give it to any relative in the village to take care of it for a while." Li Jianguo said, "I didn't know my father and mother were coming. , How long can we stay?”
“It’s definitely better to stay for a while.” Although Li Long is not close to his parents, he is his own parents after all, so he still hopes to stay here. If you enjoy more blessings, at least you will have no problem eating well.
"Actually..." Li Jianguo suddenly sighed, "If it goes by Dad's temper and he knows you do these things, then he will be very happy. At home, Dad likes this. When we were young, he took us to catch fish and touch shrimps. He didn't really like working in the fields at that time... but he liked playing."
Li Long was speechless, recalling what happened in his previous life, it was really like this.
My father and mother have lived here several times. At that time, they were older and really liked fishing and so on. As the saying goes in my hometown, I don’t have any leisure time, but I don’t do real work.
He is not used to working in the large fields in Northern Xinjiang, and his elder brother and sister-in-law do not expect him to come to work, so they often catch small fish and other things by the rivers and ditches, which is very enjoyable every day. , but I didn’t live long, after all, I still like the lively environment in my hometown.
As for me, I don’t have a high sense of presence and doesn’t talk much. She basically sits at the door, either sitting in the sun or dozing off. She talks little, but she really dotes on Li Long...
He is such an adult and can be described as doting, so think about it.
The next day, Li Long rode his bicycle to the county and found out at the bus station that the train ticket from his hometown to Wucheng cost fifty or sixty yuan per person, which lasted three days and four nights. It was not practical to buy a sleeper berth at that time, and it was not available to ordinary people.
So Li Long wired two hundred yuan to his family, and then sent a telegram to tell his family that when they bought the tickets, they would send a telegram to let him know that they could pick him up here.
After finishing the matter, Li Long did not go home immediately. Instead, he went to the big yard first to see how the caladiums and skins he had put down in the first two days were drying.
After all, there is such a property, so you still need to check it frequently, so as not to know when a thief has broken in.
The velvet antlers covered with salt and mud have not yet dried completely, and the caladiums will still take some time, but the skins have dried. However, Li Long is too lazy to go back and forth. He plans to catch fish for two more days. When the fish are sold out, the shells here will My mother also did it, and then we went to sell it together.
However, the two roe deer whips he had collected were already dry. Li Long hesitated for a moment, but in the end he did not send them to Li Xiangqian. He would wait for a while.
After sweeping away the fallen leaves in the large yard and sprinkling some water to prevent it from drying out, he wondered whether to dig a pressure well in the yard so that water would be more convenient.
After locking the door of the big yard, Li Long got on his bicycle and went to the grain processing factory again.
The bran and oil residue he bought last time are almost used up. He plans to buy two more sacks today.
With the certificate from the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Long easily bought two large bags and put them high on the back seat of his bicycle.
Part of the feed will be given to Uncle Luo, and half will be kept at home.
It was already noon and it was too late to go home for dinner. Li Long parked his bicycle at the big meat canteen and ate a bowl of noodles. This time he only ordered an extra noodles and drank half a bowl of noodle soup after finishing the meal. , as the old saying goes, hook it up, and then ride away.
When passing by the middle school, Li Long hesitated for a moment and did not go in, mainly because he was too embarrassed to see Gu Xiaoxia carrying two sacks of feed.
Back at Laomahao, he unloaded half of the feed, and then returned home. Li Long saw Tao Daqiang sorting out the net.
"Brother Long, would you like to get off the net this afternoon?"
Looking at Tao Daqiang's look of expectation, Li Long couldn't say no.
"Then we still need to catch the water rat?"
"Catch it." Li Long thought that he still had a set of water rat skins that he hadn't sold yet, and he had to give this guy some money, so It’s better to catch fish and mice in water and work hard towards your goal of 10,000-yuan household.
Two people went to Xiaohaizi in the afternoon carrying shovels, nets and tires. This time they found a water rat nest on the west bank. The two worked together to dig out the hole. The nest was very big. , but there were only three water rats in it.
"I guess there are more than two, but they swam outside and didn't come back." Li Long said, "It's impossible to catch them."
This is the number of water rat nests seen in Xiaohaizi so far. , As for the north embankment, Li Long didn't want to find it. If he didn't find it, he would be in big trouble if he dug and dug through the embankment.
This time Li Long brought six nets. He planned not to bring too many nets during this period. Although the fish was not difficult to sell, he had to get up early every day to fetch the nets, fish and ride. Selling fish from far away is quite tiring.
After the net was removed, they returned to the yard. Li Long and Tao Daqiang skinned the water rats. One of the males had a sachet, and Li Long thought it was okay.
Tao Daqiang carried the meat of three water rats back, while Li Long pressed water to water the vegetable patch in the yard.
It's almost May, and the leeks, celery, and celery in the vegetable field are all ready to eat. The seedlings of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants have also grown up. The sword beans and cowpeas need to be put on a shelf, and the Lianggou sweet potatoes planted on the edge are almost in pieces. .
Li Long remembered that in his last life, he kept saying on the Internet that sweet potato leaves were a good thing, and Li Jianguo also said that when they were young, they also ate sweet potato leaves when they were young. In those years, they ate sweet potatoes all the time, steamed, boiled, dried, etc. I ate it all over, so Li Jianguo still doesn’t like sweet potatoes because he was injured after eating them.
But putting some sweet potatoes in the cornstarch batter every morning still tastes quite good. Li Long felt this way. He felt that it should still be the environment where he grew up, and the concept of hunger no longer existed.
After watering the entire vegetable field, Li Long felt a little tired - he was really not a worker.
In fact, the production team will regularly water the vegetable fields in every yard. This water is also put down from Xiaohaizi. There are canals at the door of every house, so when watering, water is often poured. There will be crucian carp left directly in the vegetable field.
It's just that the vegetable seedlings have just grown up at this time and require a relatively large amount of water. The Li family happens to have a well, so they water as much as they can.
He finally pressed two buckets of water and put them next to the stove for preparation, and Li Juan came back over there.
Li Long looked at Li Juan who looked a little unhappy and asked:
"Juan, what's wrong? Who messed with you?"
"No one messed with you. "Me." Li Juan lowered her head, "Uncle, I'm fine."
"Tell me what you have to say." Li Long said with a smile, "Maybe my uncle can help you solve it."
"Nothing, it's just that Chen Huahua has a rubber band. I want to play with them. They He said that we are not of the same age, and that I am not allowed to play because I am young..."
"Rubber band, right?" Li Long smiled, "How about making one for you now?" "How can we have rubber bands at home?" Li Juan thought Li Long was joking, "How can we do that? Besides, uncle, your bicycle tires are all new..."
"But I still have old tires?" Li Long went to the spare house, took out a broken tire from the supply and marketing cooperative, and showed it to Li Juan:
"Is it okay to use this?"
"Is it okay? Don't you want to use this tire, uncle?"
Li Juan is already eleven years old and knows that Li Long makes money by catching fish every day. , tires are required.
“Look, this one is broken, with big and small holes. It is used to patch other tires. It is easy to cut a rubber band for you, and you can also cut a slingshot for Qiangqiang! "
"Really? That's great! I...I'm going to Pigweed now..."
"Go ahead, your rubber band will be healed when you come back - is there anyone to play with?"
"Yes, yes, there is Fengxiang, Gaya...Uncle, I am a pig in the same grade as me. The grass is gone!"
As she said that, Li Juan picked up the basket and ran quickly outside the courtyard.
Li Long smiled and shook his head, went to find scissors, first unfolded the tire as a whole, and then planned how to cut it. When cutting the rubber band, you need to avoid big and small holes, and make sure you use a good knife when cutting, otherwise it will be tight and easy to break when you jump, and it is easy to hit someone. It doesn't matter if it hits the body, but if it hits the face, the rubber band is very strong, and a slap is enough for the children.
Because he had planned it well, after Li Long cut off the rubber band, he only tied a knot at the end, which was considered brand new.
The rubber band is more than three meters long when folded. It will stretch a little longer when playing. Li Long thinks it should be enough.
The next step is to make a slingshot for Li Qiang.
Usually making a slingshot requires a total of three parts, a wooden fork, a rubber band, and a foreskin covering the stone. Usually the foreskin is cut from the leather of old leather shoes. Now that there is no such thing, Li Long simply cuts the rubber band and the foreskin out of the tire and integrates them into one piece.
This is simple, mainly because with Li Qiang's current hand strength, he can still fight even without using leather - it doesn't take much trouble.
After cutting it, Li Long found a suitable wooden fork. After cutting it, he tied a rubber band on it and tied it tightly with cotton thread to try his hand.
An adult can pull it apart easily, but Li Qiang probably needs some effort.
That’s okay, it’s not easy to hurt people.
Li Long remembered that there were two types of slingshots for children, and now he made an enhanced version for Li Qiang. There is also a simple version, which is made of iron wire twisted into a "Y" shape - this is actually not very impressive. The top is a frame and the bottom is a handle. The valve core is used as a rubber band, some use small stones, and some use aluminum. Fold silk into a hook shape and use it as bullets, or fold paper into a V shape to use as bullets when fighting someone.
Now that we have this slingshot, it should make Li Qiang happy for a while.
While thinking about Li Qiang, Li Qiang ran in grabbing a handful of dry reed poles and said to Li Long as he ran:
"Uncle, uncle, I'll give you something good to eat!"
As he said this, he stuffed one of the reed poles into his mouth, and Li Long turned pale with fright!
This guy is running with a reed pole in his mouth!
But I didn’t dare to shout now, so I had to wave my hand to ask him to stop.
After Li Long stopped, Li Long stood up and walked over, and said to him seriously:
"Take out what's in your mouth!"
Li Qiang didn't know why, so he took out the reed pole.
"Pah!" Li Long slapped Li Qiang's butt, "Remember from now on, don't put this in your mouth when walking or running! Remember!"
Half scared , half feeling aggrieved by being beaten, Li Qiang cried "Wow" all of a sudden.
It happened that the Lu family's sister-in-law came over with a bucket to fetch water. Seeing Li Long beating Li Qiang, she was a little unhappy. She guessed that Li Long might be bullying Li Qiang while Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei were away, but she didn't think about it. Yes, he put the bucket next to the well and asked:
"Qiangqiang, what's wrong with Xiaolong, you hit him?"
When she asked, Li Qiang stopped crying.
Li Long knew from Sister Lu's expression that she might have misunderstood, and said angrily:
"Let him speak for himself."
"Qiangqiang, you What did you do?" Sister-in-law of the Lu family bent down and asked Li Qiang. The two families had a good relationship, and she was half gossiping and half genuinely curious.
"I...I'm taking this...I want to give it to my uncle to try..." Li Qiang was also confused, "You didn't do anything?"
Sister-in-law Lu was not happy, how good this Li Qiang is , and you also know how to give Li Long something to eat, no matter what he eats, is that a kindness, right?
She looked at Li Long with some dissatisfaction, waiting for Li Long to explain.
"You asked him to tell you, what did he do before I hit him just now?" Li Long continued to ask without explaining.
"I...I...I just put this in my mouth..." Li Qiang thought for a while, remembered, and gestured with the reed pole, "Then ran towards my uncle..."
Sister-in-law Lu's expression changed immediately: "That's right! You put this in your mouth and you ran away... Are you going to knock yourself down? Why don't you stab your throat and breathe out? Why don't you stab yourself to death... Remember this from now on! You can’t stuff this into your mouth. Even if you eat something, you should eat it standing up... This kid!"
After Mrs. Lu understood what was going on, she breathed a sigh of relief and touched Li Qiang's head: "It's okay, I know how to feed your uncle something delicious... What is this?"
"There... there is honey in it..." Li Qiang whispered.
Li Long understood it as soon as he heard it.
This reed pole should have been taken from the reed handle on the eaves of someone's old house. There is a small local bee that likes to make a nest in this reed tube and collect honey as food for the larvae.
Later, Li Long learned that this was a type of leafcutter bee, but no one knows yet.
The children didn’t have much snacks to eat, and they didn’t know how they found this. Seeing Li Qiang find such a handful, it was a fruitful harvest. It is really good for myself to think of it and feed it to myself.
Li Qiang held up the slingshot in his hand and said with a smile:
“Look what this is?”
“Ah - slingshot! Uncle, is it for me? ?" Li Qiang burst into tears and laughed, "Uncle, you are the best!"
Sister-in-law Lu watched the two people interacting while pressing the water, and smiled.
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The average order of the original book has not increased very much. Now it is a bestseller and has increased a bit. It is not bad so far. Friends who have read the book should know that this book focuses on daily life, with a lot of fishing and hunting, mixed with some fragmentary family stories, and mainly shows the daily life of that era. Therefore, this book is destined to not have particularly big plot twists and turns, so live your life well.
(End of this chapter)