Chapter 227 Li Long’s golden sign cannot be brought down
After unloading the wooden pole, Li Long led the carriage home, took a rest with Li Qingxia, and chopped meat with Du Chunfang.
The wild boar meat has a lot of fat at this time, which is better than that during the Spring Festival. There is also more oil when roasted, and it looks very beautiful.
Li Long and Li Qingxia rushed back to the mountains in a hurry. They unloaded the horse, and Li Qingxia went to cut the pole, while Li Long took the horse and went to the same ditch as yesterday.
There are trees on both sides of the ditch, pine and cypress trees on the south side, and shrubs and wild fruit trees on the north side.
Li Long led the horse to a tree at the bottom of the ditch and tied it up. He first struck the area with a branch to see if there were no "spicy sticks", and then went to chop the pole with confidence.
When Liang Yuemei returned home, she smelled the smell of meat in the yard, which was a little strange.
Li Juan and Li Qiang are both back. One of them is holding a bowl and eating meat that has been burnt in oil, and his mouth is greasy.
When Li Juan saw her mother coming back, she immediately held a piece of meat with chopsticks and put it to Liang Yuemei's mouth:
"Mom, you eat! The wild boar meat my father and the others brought back today, my grandma It smells delicious after burning!”
"Okay, okay," Liang Yuemei couldn't resist and ate a piece. It was very delicious.
"Mom, you eat!" Li Qiang watched his sister feed the mother and ate it. He immediately picked up a bigger piece of meat and stuffed it into Liang Yuemei's mouth: "It's so delicious!"
"Hey! "
Liang Yuemei ate two pieces of meat, and while chewing, she unloaded the bundle of grass on her back and asked Du Chunfang:
"Mom, are my dad and the others back?"
"I'm back. I brought back half a wild boar meat, and some heart, liver, and so on. The meat is roasted, how do you get the internal organs?"
"Are they many?"
" Two pigs." Du Chunfang was happy and sad at the same time. She was so worried that she couldn't finish eating the meat and didn't know what to do with it. This was really a happy worry.
I never thought that such a day would come when I live to be sixty years old.
"Then braise some and cook some. Once cooked, it will be easier to store. Don't we have two stoves at home? Let's use one stove to cook meat and cook it every half day. That way we can save more time. "The other thing is to give it away." Liang Yuemei thought for a while and said, "Xiaoxia is the one Xiaolong wants to have with his father. I have to give it to Daqiang..."
"The Daqiang family has some meat. Your dad and Xiaolong will send it over." Du Chunfang said hurriedly.
"Then give some to the neighbors. It won't stink at home." Liang Yuemei said.
"Then tomorrow morning, don't go to work first, and send some to Juan and Qiangqiang's grandfather." Du Chunfang said, "We can't eat meat, there is nothing over there... ...Xiaolong has told me several times that over the years, his grandfather has often sent things over. Now that we have it, we can’t be obsessed with money..."
"Yes!" Liang Yuemei was very relieved and happy. . Her mother-in-law can think of her natal family, which makes her feel that her mother-in-law really regards her as a family member.
Early the next morning, Li Juan and Li Qiang went to school. Du Chunfang was busy with the vegetable garden at home, and Liang Yuemei hurried to her parents' home with a pork leg and some pork belly.
Liang Wenyu was working in the fields, and Liang Donglou was sharpening his sickle in the yard. When he saw Liang Yuemei hurried back, he asked:
"Why are you back? Something happened at home?"
"No, Juan's father, Xiaolong, and my father-in-law went up the mountain to chop off shovels. No, they shot two wild boars yesterday and brought them down. I'll bring some meat..."
"What kind of meat? I have it at home!" Liang Donglou said dissatisfied, "You brought it here yourself?"
"No. , my mother-in-law asked me to deliver it, saying that there is a lot of meat at home, and she has been taking care of the family a lot over the years, so she asked me to deliver some..."
"My daughter brought me the meat. Look, your nose is neither a nose nor an eye!" Chen Xiuzhu walked out of the door and glared at Liang Donglou, "Why are you acting like a prisoner?"
"I'm not I'm worried that she brought the meat here by herself, and the whole family is here. Isn't this right? There is a conflict. She has married into the Li family, so she has to think more about the Li family. You and I are not old here, and Wen Yu is an adult, so it’s not like she doesn’t care about herself..."
"That's true..." Chen Xiuzhu nodded, turned to Liang Yuemei and said, "Your father and I Everything is fine, just keep your little family together. How are Juan and Qiangqiang doing?"
"They are very good. They are half a head taller than their peers, and they are also very strong," Liang Yuemei smiled. He said, "Eating meat every day can't be a bad thing."
"That's fine. Okay." Liang Donglou's expression softened, "Then Jianguo and the others are in the mountains, so we'll have to rely on you to do the work in the fields. I won't leave you alone and ask your mother to pick some foreign persimmons for you to take back to our yard. They were planted early, and now they are ripe, just in time to take them home for cooking.”
"Okay." Liang Yuemei didn't refuse and followed Chen Xiuzhu to pick vegetables.
In the vegetable garden, Liang Yuemei quietly stuffed ten dollars into Chen Xiuzhu and said:
"Mom, take it, what are you using it for."
"Then No, you are the boss at home, this You can't give me money..."
"Mom, don't worry, my family has a lot of money now. Xiaolong gives money to Jianguo from time to time. He buys everything at home, and there is nothing to spend money on at home. Place..."
"That won't work. Xiaolong is old enough to start a family. You have to save some money for him. His parents are in his hometown all year round. Jianguo and you have to deal with the matter of starting a family..."
"Mom, this is yours. Don't worry, I know it well. Over the years, dad and you have given us dozens of dollars. Now that the family has money, we have to pay you back some... This is also what Jianguo means. Mom, don’t worry, the family is really rich. Jianguo is now a professional pig farmer, and the commune will give him a bicycle as a reward.”
“…Okay, I’ll take the money.” Chen Xiuzhu nodded. , "We are relieved that you are doing well."
Liang Yuemei returned to Li's house with a dozen tomatoes, and Chen Xiuzhu handed the ten yuan to Liang Donglou.
“What do you want his money for?” Liang Donglou had a bad temper and got angry again, “Her family has just started to improve, and you just take her money? Her parents-in-law are still here...”
"Then she said, now Xiaolong often gives money to Jianguo, and he earns money every day for fishing, and Yuemei has no place to spend money. She said that this can be regarded as repaying the compensation we have given to his family over the years..."
"Then there are no parents who want their money?" Liang Donglou still felt something was wrong.
"Wen Yu is also looking for a partner, so we have to make some preparations." Chen Xiuzhu said in a low voice, "Wen Yu is also old, and everyone as old as him in the team already has a partner, so we can get married. There are quite a few of them..."
"Well..." Liang Donglou also knew this was true. In order to ensure that the life of his married daughter would not be too bad, he often subsidized his two daughters. His two daughters' families are now living well, which he is very pleased about, but his own family's life is not so glorious.
At noon, Li Long cut a bundle of poles and returned to the wooden house. After placing the poles, he started cooking.
In fact, the meal is relatively simple now. The braised yellow sheep offal has not been finished yet. Before leaving in the morning, Li Long made some noodles and planned to steam some steamed buns.
The dough was ready. Li Long took the wooden table to the spring and rinsed it. After getting it back, the hot sun dried the table in a short time. Then he sprinkled flour on it and started kneading the dough.
As a man of two generations, Li Long is good at steaming steamed buns. He knows that there is only one trick to steaming steamed buns well, and that is kneading!
Knead the dough well and knead it a few more times, the steamed buns will be better.
Of course, it is not the kind of "expanded steamed buns" with enough baking powder - in the 1990s, when the machine steamed steamed buns first came out, this was what the students in the work-study program ate. It was convenient and simple. ,Cheap.
The students call them steamed buns - they look beautiful, but when you pinch them, they become just a small ball, which is unrealistic. Li Long's steamed buns are very authentic.
Because I didn’t bring a steamer, I could only steam one layer in a pot, which was relatively simple.
Here the steamed buns were steaming on the stove, and over there Li Long started to stir-fry the dumplings.
The roasted meat is very dry, oily, but tasteless. Li Long would add spicy noodles, salt and other seasonings to the meat and stir-fry it. After the steamed buns are steamed, he would eat the meat between steamed buns. It would be extremely fragrant!
Li Long fried the meat into an enamel basin full of two or three kilograms of meat. If Li Jianguo saw it, he would definitely say that it was a waste.
It doesn’t matter to Li Long. What he does now is physical work. He leaves early and comes back late every day. How can he do it without replenishing his energy?
And he has calculated that for these three thousand poles, he will get 1,500 yuan, which is more than 300 yuan for each of four people. How much meat can he buy?
So no matter what you eat now, it’s not too much!
He counted the time and found that the steamed buns were almost done, so he turned off the heat and planned to wait a few more minutes to remove the steamer.
This kind of steamed buns are steamed directly in a pot without a steamer. Part of the outer skin of the buns close to the edge of the pot will be browned by the iron pot, and it tastes very good.
Li Long thought he could treat himself to a steamed bun like this later.
No, two!
While he was thinking about good things there, a man on horseback ran over quickly in the distance.
Li Long was a little surprised when he looked at the familiar figure.
Harry carrying a gun!
Why is he here?
Halimu ran over on horseback and stopped in front of Li Long's wooden house.
He jumped off the horse and reached out to Li Long with some excitement:
"Duosen, okay!"
"Okay, okay!" Li Long shook his hand, pulled him into a hug, and asked excitedly:
"Why are you here? Is something going on in the mountains?"< br>
Halimu looked at Fengchen and felt that something must have happened, so he rushed all the way here.
Li Long remembered that he said that Xia Ranch was several days away from here, and he must have suffered a lot.
Everyone who looked at him was sweating immediately.
"I do have an emergency." Harimu had a smile on his face. He didn't expect to run into Li Long when he ran over. What a coincidence, so amazing!
Halimu was very tanned, his skin looked rougher than before, and he felt like there were spots on his face, but for a man, this was nothing.
"Tell me, if you need anything, I will definitely handle it here for you." Li Long said in a tolerant voice.
"Battery, I need to buy a lot of batteries!"
"What? Buy batteries?" Li Long did not expect that Harimu said something that surprised him.
"Yes." Harimu smiled, his smile a little shy. He probably felt a little embarrassed because he had used up so many batteries so quickly. "Not in my house, all...all the radios have no batteries. "
Li Long remembered to bring them a lot of batteries. How could it be so fast?
"It's relatively humid there, and the battery will soon...break down." Harimu tried his best to explain.
“When buying batteries later, find a box or something to wrap them in, and try not to let them get wet.” Li Long said, “Then I’ll buy batteries for you.”
“Well, the more the merrier, the better. Okay." Harimu took off a big bag from his horse, squatted down and untied it and said:
"These things can be exchanged for money to buy batteries."
"Don't worry, I have money here. Come on, have a drink of water." Li Long said, "How about something to eat?"
" I have some naan with me." Harimu waved his hand, "I just ate it on the road."
Well, I forgot that this is a nation on horseback, eating on the roadside. Very normal thing.
But when Harimu opened the bag and took out something, Li Long was still shocked!
A piece of leather with black and white patterns.
Snow leopard skin!
“This snow leopard came to the pen to steal sheep at night. When we chased it, it didn’t run away and was beaten to death.” Harimu explained, “The skin should be worth some money. ”
Not only is it worth some money, although Li Long didn’t ask, he knew that this thing was very valuable!
“There are also some jade.” Harimu said, “There is a jade mine in Xia Ranch, which was left behind a long time ago. These jade stones look very beautiful, but they are from the mountains, not the river. Yeah, I don’t know if it’s worth anything...”
Li Long looked at the seven or eight bowl-sized pieces of jade and found that there were at least four black spots of jasper that were invisible to the naked eye.
Although it is mountain material, the delicate jade meat is no worse than the few pieces of seed material sold before!
It’s also a good thing!
"By the way, there are also snowdrops. I saw them when I was grazing, so I picked some back." Harimu took out six snowdrops.
Li Long took it and felt cool in his hands, and a faint fragrance hit his nose. This snowdrop was cut from the stem and did not come out from the root. Li Long knew that Hari Mu was an expert.
"That's all, and the rest is some naan." Harimu said with a smile, "How many batteries can you...replace with these things?"
"You can get as many batteries as you want. "Li Long thought to himself, this is a joke! This snow leopard skin costs hundreds of dollars! That box of ten batteries costs only five or six yuan, a hundred boxes?
“No, no, no, Li Long, I don’t want so many, just twenty boxes will be enough.” Harimu said with a smile, “We will definitely keep it well this time.”
"Then are you going to rest here, or are you going back to your winter nest? Someone had moved there, so I simply cleaned it up, and then fixed the door with a stick. I don’t know if anyone else came in..."
"I have been there, and the door is still stuck with a stick. Pin it, I guess you did it!" Harimu said with a smile.
At this time, Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo walked back together carrying poles, and soon Tao Daqiang also came back.
They were all a little surprised to see Harimu. After Li Long introduced him, Li Jianguo and Li Qingxia were very enthusiastic.
“If you don’t eat meat, you can eat steamed buns!” Li Qingxia heard Li Long say that the first money he earned was the antlers he got from Harimu, so he was very friendly to this Kazakh.
Halimu is a little uncomfortable with it.
Fortunately, Li Long helped him out quickly and let him eat and go to Dongwozi to rest.
Li Long rode his bicycle and returned to the county to buy batteries.
(End of this chapter)