Chapter 222 Li Qingxia: Xiaolong is quite awesome!
The next day, Li Qingxia and Li Long rode bicycles, and Li Jianguo drove a carriage to the mountains.
On the carriage were rice noodles, oil, some burnt oil, and other daily necessities.
Of course, the necessary machete, Li Long's two guns are there, as well as ropes, quilts and other items.
It is not yet the wheat harvesting season. Although Li Xiangqian said the time is one month, Li Long and his team's goal is to complete the task within half a month to twenty days.
That means cutting at least fifty or sixty poles a day.
It might not be possible for someone else to do it. After all, the mountain is so big, and those three thousand poles will definitely not be able to be cut if they can't find a place. But Li Long followed Halimu and Yushanjiang and turned around all the ditches near Nanshan. He still knew which ditch had more poles.
Theoretically speaking, it only takes two or three minutes at most to chop down a pole. As long as there are enough resources, one can chop down more than ten or twenty poles in an hour. If one person is good enough, he can chop down a hundred poles in a day.
Of course, this is just a theory. Excluding the time spent walking, resting, and dragging back, one person can ideally cut fifty poles a day, which is already very powerful.
After all, cutting is still required after cutting.
Therefore, if Li Long and the four of them can cut fifty poles each day, they can complete the task in half a month.
The work at home was left to Liang Yuemei, and Du Chunfang also made it clear that she would help with any work she could do. There is not much work in the fields now, and the main work at home is to feed the pigs. Fortunately, Li Long brought back so much sugar residue, and he also had enough bran and other feed at home, as well as the beet leaves and other things in the field, so he could still persist for ten days and a half. This is also the main factor why the men of the Li family join the battle.
"You mean you still have a house in the mountains?" Li Qingxia and Li Long were not very fast on bicycles. Li Long slowly explained the situation to his father, and Li Qingxia was a little surprised. This little son is so secretive, and he doesn’t know how many secrets he hides from his father.
“Yes, it’s a wooden house with two rooms, one large and one small. I live in it when I go into the mountains. It was built for me by my ethnic friends.”
“They are so nice. Build a house for you?" Li Qingxia found it hard to believe.
"I'm also kind to others." Li Long said, "I bring them salt, brick tea, radios, rice, noodles from the county..."
"That radio is really good." At home these days , Li Qingxia likes listening to the radio. The radio will play some opera programs from time to time, so in addition to Li Juan and Li Qiang listening to the small speakers, the rest of the radio mainly listens to Li Qingxia's folk art programs. Li Jianguo mainly listens to the news and has no big demands.
"That is, when the electricity comes, we will buy a TV at home."
"Don't burn the buns and return the TV..." Li Qingxia knew about TV, but he I don’t think Li Long can buy it, that thing is so expensive!
Someone in my hometown has a TV, and it’s really magical to see people moving there.
But Li Qingxia would never have thought that he could buy a TV at his home (son's home).
But think about how you can earn thirty or fifty a day selling fish or reed leaves. A TV only costs one or two thousand yuan. Maybe you can really afford it?
He was moved.
A total of more than 100 yuan was obtained from selling reed leaves. After Li Qingxia took it back, he wanted to share the money with Li Long and Li Jianguo. Li Long didn't want it, and Li Jianguo didn't want it either. However, Li Qingxia himself didn't have the nerve to take it all, so he insisted Give Li Jianguo fifty.
This is all very satisfying.
There were not enough machetes at home, so Li Long and Li Qingxia rode bicycles to the county first, and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy two more axes. There was no machete here, and it was too late to make one temporarily, so I used an ax and sickle first.
Tao Daqiang also holds his own axe. For a good farmer, this axe and shovel can basically do everything.
Li Long went to the Big Meat Canteen and bought twenty steamed buns to wrap and take with him. It was lunch and he had to clean up the house when he went to the mountains. He didn't have time to cook for a while.
Riding a bicycle into the mountains, Li Qingxia looked curiously at the scenery on both sides.
My hometown is a plain with no mountains - I have never seen high mountains. When Li Qingxia was young, he went out to do business, but that was all in the plains. Like the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, a mountain covered first with earth, then with stone, and then with shrubs and then forest, feels very novel.
"Turn over there and ride on the small road." Li Long took the lead and pointed the way. "My brother and the others will have to pass under the ditch when they come here. Be careful when riding."
"Rabbit!" Li Qingxia suddenly shouted A sound.
“There are many wild things in this mountain.” Li Long smiled, “Dad, you can see rabbits, pheasants, gazelles, wild boars and so on in the back.”
“That’s great. Okay, shoot him with a gun." Li Qingxia suddenly smiled like a child, "It's a job. If you can come across it, you can't let it go."
"Well, there must be no shortage of food anyway," Li Long said, "I'll pack up today and get up early tomorrow. I'll go for a walk to see if there are any wild boars. , if there is one, we will have meat to eat in the mountains.”
"Okay, okay, I'll go over and have a look tomorrow morning." Li Qingxia is now like a child who has entered a new world and wants to see everything.
Soon arriving at the wooden house, Li Long stopped the car and looked at the lock of the wooden house...it had been picked.
There is nothing we can do about it. If a wooden house is unoccupied for a long time, it will naturally be targeted.
When I opened the room, I found that the bedding and other items had been taken away, and some of the dried meat that had been there was gone. Fortunately, the wooden kang and wooden frame are still there and not damaged much.
Li Long wasn't angry at all. Why didn't he come here often?
If you encounter someone in the future, then give it a beating. If you don't encounter someone, consider yourself unlucky.
Fortunately, the house was not burned down, otherwise, I would have really gone crazy.
He and Li Qingxia tidied up the place, and then Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang drove the carriage over.
The ditch in front of the wooden house cannot be passed by trucks, but carriages can.
After they arrived, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, my house was broken into and the contents inside were taken away. Now I'm riding back to the county to pick up some more and buy some more. You guys will pack up first. I bought some steamed buns for lunch. I'll wait for you tonight You can just buy the pot and make it.”
“Okay.” Li Jianguo looked at the wooden house and thought it was very good.
At least we don’t have to live in a den anymore. Even in July in the mountains, it is still very cold at night, and living outside is not an option.
Besides, there are wolves.
Li Long took two buns and walked out while eating.
It seems that things can no longer be stored in this wooden house, at least not in the summer. It should be fine in the winter.
Walking back along the original road, Li Long found that there were many red wild strawberries on the roadside. They were not big, but they tasted good and were much better than the cultivated strawberries of later generations. Pick some when empty.
Riding all the way to the county seat, Li Long's back was already soaked.
He went directly to the sales department of the supply and marketing cooperative and bought two pots, enamel basins, plates and other daily necessities, packed them in sacks and put them away. He also went to the department store to buy some seasonings, and went to the state-owned vegetable store to buy peppers. After waiting for some vegetables, I rode towards the mountains.
Although there are many wild vegetables in the mountains, cooking without chili is always bad.
When they arrived at the wooden house, Li Jianguo and the others had already tidied up the inside of the wooden house. Li Qingxia was cleaning up the outside. Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang were not there.
Li Long asked and found out that both of them had gone to chop poles and planned to start working today.
Li Long put the pot on the stone stove, went to the spring to fetch water, poured it into the pot, brushed it a few times, and started to boil the water.
Since living here in XJ, a day’s life begins with boiling water, which has been engraved in my mind.
After boiling the water, Li Long used an enamel basin to fill a few basins of water and let them dry. He also found some mugwort and threw it under the stove to burn it. The smoke was like suffocating mosquitoes.
"Xiaolong, when are you going to hunt?" Li Qingxia asked, "What are you going to eat for dinner?" "Let's eat something for dinner. Make some porridge and stir-fry two vegetables." Li Long said, "These wild vegetables and wild mushrooms It’s delicious even when fried.”
Because he had to live for at least ten days, Li Long didn’t even get much wild vegetables. He only had a mugwort salad and a mushroom stir-fried with chili. Li Long was also surprised by the moss in the ditch. Found some morels.
This is a good thing - it is wasted by frying. Li Long planned that if he could catch pheasants, it would be better to make soup directly.
Because he remembered the original way to eat morels, which was a dozen mutton leg mushrooms stewed with a pheasant, and the price was four hundred.
It seems to be what I ate when I was traveling a few years ago in my previous life.
I don’t know if the buying station will accept this thing... Forget it, I’d better keep this for myself.
When Li Long got the things back, fried two plates and placed them on the wooden table, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang had already returned with a bundle of poles each.
Li Long took a quick look and found that there must be at least twenty poles in the bundle.
“Hey, the food is ready, and you can smell the fragrance from afar.” Li Jianguo said with a smile, “This is much better than the treatment they make up, and it’s not much different from home.”
"I'll go see if there are any wild boars tomorrow morning. If there are any, I'll hunt one back. Then I'll pickle it with salt and roast it, and I'll have meat to eat every day."
"It's not easy to hunt. "Let's go." Li Jianguo said, "This mountain is so big."
"Let's take a look." Li Long said, "If you can't hit it, it's best." >
I didn’t bring a radio with me at night, so I went to bed after dark. Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo slept on the wooden kang, while Li Long and Tao Daqiang made bunks on the floor in the small room.
Li Long had already wiped the gun before dark. When he was getting ready to sleep, Tao Daqiang said:
"Brother Long, can I go too tomorrow morning?"
"Okay."
The next day, Li Long, Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang set out before dawn. Li Jianguo also got up. He had to get up to feed the horses and boil water to prepare breakfast.
Li Long carried five or six half on his back and ran towards the place where the wild boar was familiar to him.
I climbed one mountain after another, and finally went to two places, but couldn't find the wild boar.
The fish belly was already white on the horizon. Li Long shook his head and said:
"It looks like we won't be able to hunt today. By this time, the wild boar has returned to the mountains after eating. Let's go back."
Tao Daqiang didn't feel anything. What, Li Qingxia is a little disappointed.
I came to hunt on the first day after leaving the army and got nothing. It was impossible not to be disappointed.
"Should we go back the way we came? Why didn't we see even a rabbit or pheasant along the way?" Li Qingxia muttered.
Li Long pointed to the outside of the mountain and said:
"Then let's go outside and go around. There have been yellow sheep there, and I don't know if there are any more."
"Huang Sheep has stayed there." What kind of sheep is it?" Li Qingxia became curious again.
He knows about wild boars, they are found in his hometown, and he is familiar with rabbits, pheasants, etc., but what kind of sheep is a yellow sheep?
"A kind of antelope." Li Long said as he walked, "The hair on the body is yellow."
After walking two ditches, we arrived at the outer mountain and saw acres of shrubs and desert.
The road is not easy to walk, and there are camel thorns, which prick people from time to time, which is quite annoying.
If the soles of the shoes worn by the three of them had not been hard, their feet might have been pricked by now.
Although Li Qingxia was over sixty, his physical strength was still good. Li Long did not speed up the pace, so he could keep up.
Tao Daqiang was at the back, saying nothing, looking left and right from time to time.
Li Long tried his best to lead the easier route, and from time to time he reminded his father and Tao Daqiang behind him.
After passing the area where the yellow sheep pointed by Yushan River, Li Long stopped to take a look, but found no trace of the yellow sheep. Li Long was completely disappointed.
It’s impossible, let’s talk about it tomorrow.
He turned diagonally toward the top of the mountain, planning to walk to the top, climb over, and take a shortcut back to the wooden house to chop wood poles.
Just when he reached the top of the mountain and turned to take a look at the Gobi to the north, he suddenly stopped.
There are yellow sheep!
Li Qingxia was a little surprised when Li Long stopped and asked:
"Xiaolong, why don't you leave?"
Tao Daqiang is the most familiar with Li Long. He immediately took off the small-caliber rifle from his shoulder and aimed it in the direction Li Long was looking.
Li Long has also taken down the five and six halves, half-kneeling and aiming at the Gobi Desert in the distance.
"What?"
"Yellow sheep." Li Long said softly, "I only saw one, I don't know if there are more... Daqiang, did you see it?"
"No..." Tao Daqiang hasn't found the target yet.
“Have you seen the patch of red willows in front? The one with three trees in a row... there is a piece of Gobi stone and loess on the side, and there is a half-sized one lying on it..."< br>
Tao Daqiang looked at it for a long time, but still didn’t see it.
Li Long didn't wait for him. This yellow sheep was only seventy or eighty meters away from him. If the yellow sheep didn't move, he was sure that he could kill it.
Huangyang seemed to feel the danger, turned his head and looked here, and then tried hard to struggle.
Li Long pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
The crisp sound of gunfire rang out, and the Yellow Sheep, who had just climbed up, swayed halfway and fell to the ground.
"I saw it!" Tao Da stood up forcefully.
Li Long did not move. He squatted there, still aiming, but more than ten seconds passed and there was no movement.
Is this a lone sheep?
Although he was a little puzzled, but knowing that there was no other prey, Li Longguan put away his gun and said:
"Let's go and have a look. This sheep should be injured. ”
The three people walked over and found that the sheep was indeed injured.
A large area of my hind leg was injured, which looked quite disgusting.
Li Long himself is fine, but his father also saw the situation. Should he eat it or not?
(End of this chapter)