Chapter 229 Who would have thought that there is such a thing in Tianshan Mountain?
Beside the stream, Harry opened a pack of chicken cakes brought by Li Long, enjoying the clear water.
Li Long had brought this thing to his children before. He tasted a piece at that time and it was delicious and sweet.
But I only tasted a piece, and kept the rest for my children Nathan and Susken.
Now he plans to eat a pack of naan because he has finished eating it.
The amount of naan I brought with me wasn't that much, so I planned a little optimistically, but I didn't expect that I would eat a lot and get hungry quickly after rushing all the way.
It should be that a lot of energy was spent in the process of rushing.
Although the chicken cake was soft, it was a bit choking. Harimu had to drink a sip of water after eating one piece.
After finishing a bag of chicken cakes, Harimu turned the mouth of the plastic bag down, raised his head to his mouth and shook it, poured all the dregs inside into his mouth, and then folded the bag with unfinished content. Got up and put it in the bag.
This bag can still be used when you take it back.
At noon two days later, Harimu returned to Xia Ranch and saw his yurt.
Getting off his horse, he shouted happily and ran towards the yurt.
Nathan was piling the collected cow dung together. When he heard the horse braying, he turned his head and took a look, and then shouted excitedly.
Soon, everyone in the family ran out, including Yushanjiang from the nearby yurt house.
The pastures of the two families are next to each other. When I came here this time, they simply built the yurts closer to each other, which also meant that they took care of each other.
"Have you had a good trip?" Yushanjiang shouted loudly, "Looking at how many things you brought back, you must have met Li Long, right? Is he still in the cabin?"
"Yes, he is. At the wooden house." Harry got off his horse. , unloading things with Yu Shanjiang, "His father, brother, and Daqiang were in the wooden house together, cutting those kinds of poles, saying they were for brooms."
"These things belong to him. I bought it for you. Why is this happening? So much..."
"Because he said the leather was very valuable," Harimu explained. "After buying us things, he still had a thousand yuan to give me. I didn't ask for it. He said he would save it for us, but I said it belonged to him. Things..."
"Look, Li Long is like this." Yu Shanjiang looked like he had guessed it. "He doesn't want to take advantage of us. He is different from those cunning dealers... ”
"I told him. He said that we are friends and he should help us. He told us that we can't do this in the future. The value of the things we take is usually higher. If we do this, we will suffer a loss. Guess what I will give him. That's what he said..."
"We can just go to him in the future, he won't let us suffer!"
"Yes, I will ask him, 豼Will it make us suffer...Hahahaha..."
"Heart of gold." Harimu sighed. He took out the remaining two packages of chicken cakes and handed one package to Yushanjiang. A pack was handed over to Nathan:
“This is what Li Long bought for me to eat on the road. Eat the rest part by share. It’s not much, so I won’t leave it for others. ”
"I'll take away some batteries first." Yushanjiang said hurriedly, "If nothing else, this is very important."
"Don't worry, there are a lot of things this time, you can take three boxes without any problem "Halimu said with a smile, "Li Long prepared thirty boxes - he also told me how to find him if he is not in the cabin later."
"Tell me, tell me. indefinite I will go down the mountain next time." Yu Shanjiang joked, "Since that leather is so valuable, I will give him another one."
"He won't want it, that guy is too stubborn. !”
“Don’t worry, I have a way. I said it would be given to his future wife, hahahaha, it’s our gift – I don’t believe he won’t accept it...”
"That's right! Why didn't I remember it? Li Long isn't married yet..."
The two people were teasing Li Long half-jokingly while classifying things. There are eleven or two herdsmen in this summer pasture. Some of these things can be given away, and some can be exchanged with other herdsmen.
There is not much shortage of salt and sugar in Harry Mu’s house, but he usually uses them sparingly. This time, he can use them a little more generously.
In the afternoon, most of the herdsmen in the summer pasture knew that Harimu had brought the battery back. They all rode their horses to Harimu's yurt to prepare to replace the battery.
Yes, change the battery.
No one came empty-handed, some brought sheepskins, some brought antlers, some brought dried meat, and some brought things like jade or wolf skins.
Another family brought three lambs.
Halimu refused to accept anyone who came, and kept everything. He knew that these things were of no use in the hands of herdsmen, but if they were given to Li Long, they could be exchanged for money and supplies.
This place is temporarily regarded as a canteen, a canteen in the clouds - because when it is cloudy, clouds really "flow" from nearby.
The altitude of the summer pasture is nearly three thousand meters. It is very cool at night and the ultraviolet rays are very strong, but this is the traditional pasture of the Harimu tribe. Generations of Kazakh herdsmen come here every year. They are used to herding cattle.
It’s just that Harimu thinks that it’s enough for his own generation. Nathan and the others will be sent to school in a year or two. Looking at the outside world, he could already see that Nathan was very curious about the things Li Long brought.
He said this to Yushanjiang, who had similar thoughts. Although his children are older, he also wants to ask Li Long if there is any way for them to see and live in the world outside the mountains.
After a busy day, this grassland became calm again, but the sound of radios rang out from all the yurts in the entire alpine grassland, and even occasionally there was the sound of "small speakers".
Although there are not many herders who understand Chinese, there are still some.
Although the life of the herdsmen seems to have returned to the past, there is obviously more laughter.
Harimu wrapped the collected things. He planned to dry the leathers every once in a while to prevent them from becoming damp, moldy and infested with insects. If these things are available, they should be sent down the mountain in advance. Firstly, they take up more space and are difficult to take when transitioning. Secondly, they can be taken away in advance so that they can be given to Li Long to exchange for the things he needs.
Sending Harry Wood away, Li Long returned to the wooden house, and Li Jianguo and the others had already gone to chop the poles.
Li Long opened the door and entered the small room, and the fragrance of snow lotus came over.
The snowdrops were placed on a shelf to dry in the shade, and the whole room was filled with fragrance.
Li Long pushed the bicycle in and put it away, came out and locked the door, then walked towards the nearby ditch with the machete in hand.
The next time is to seriously chop the pole.
It is always cooler in the mountains than in the plains. As long as the sun is not directly exposed to it, it still feels quite comfortable.
Li Long came to a forest of miscellaneous trees by the ditch, aimed at the branch of a thin-leaf willow, and started to chop it.
Most miscellaneous trees do not grow neatly. In this forest, only willows, poplars, pine and cypress trees naturally grow straight, while elms, apple trees, etc., grow crookedly as they grow. . Even the side branches are rarely able to be used as shovel handles.
The machete was sharpened. After a few chops, the pole was cut down. The next step was to cut off the side branches, cut off one end, and then trim it. The handle of a large broom was just Done. About four or five minutes.
Then the next pole.
Another pole.
Although Li Long has more convenient and easier ways to make money, as a man of two generations, he knows very well that no matter how easy it is, as a person of this era, he still cannot forget his roots.
And he didn’t have any ambitious goals. Just make yourself more comfortable, happier than in the last life, and have fewer regrets.
After cutting down more than twenty poles, this section of poles was gone. Li Long cut some thin willow tree slivers and twisted them together as ropes. He bundled the two ends of the poles, placed them beside the ditch, and walked inside.
He planned to cut some more before returning.
Now it seems that it is quite easy to complete the pole task before the specified time limit. After all, based on this progress, it is not a problem for each person to cut a hundred poles every day.
There was a bush in front, and further ahead was a larger forest, but there were some stones on the edge of the forest. Li Long walked to a stone and planned to sit down and rest.
Then he saw a ball of red and yellow fur in the crevices of the rocks - what was this?
Li Long didn't dare to grab it with his hands. He picked up a branch and threw it. The thing was soft and made a chirping sound.
What a fox!
Li Long was very happy. This was great. When cutting the pole, he could still make a whole piece of fox skin. An unexpected bonus!
Li Long took the machete and stabbed in. The crack in the stone was not very deep. Li Long's machete stabbed directly into the fox's butt. The fox tried his best to dig in, chirping as he did so. .
Li Long saw that this was not a solution. If he just poked his butt, he would not die, and his skin would be easily broken. He thought for a while, then went to find a long thin willow branch and twisted it into a rope. Finally, he made a circle, intending to put the trap on the fox's leg and pull the guy out.
When Li Long just walked back to the crevice between the rocks, he heard something moving in the grass next to him. When he turned around, he suddenly saw a black figure rushing towards him. He subconsciously dodged and raised the machete in his hand. After blocking it for a moment, he felt a sharp pain on his arm. The thing screamed, kicked Li Long hard, ran out, and disappeared into the grass!
The speed was so fast that Li Long didn't even see clearly what it was!
But at this time, he was not in the mood to pay attention to what it was. The injury on his arm made him understand that he had been attacked!
Fortunately, it's not too big, half the size of a wolf, and about the same size as a half-sized pet dog, but a bit powerful.
Li Long looked at his arm again. A large gash was ripped out of his clothes. There was a gash about ten centimeters long on his upper arm, half a centimeter deep, and blood was flowing out!
Li Long took a deep breath, it hurt enough!
He couldn't care about the fox at the moment, and hurriedly looked for horse thistles in the grass, which is commonly known as horsetail grass. He took more than ten leaves, hurriedly tore off the thorns on the edges, and then rubbed them Rub it and press it on the wound.
I don’t know if there is any poison on that guy’s claws. There is no white medicine, iodine, poria, or violet solution, so it can’t be disinfected.
It’s a bit sad, this is the only way it can be in this day and age.
Thanks to good health, I don’t know whether it was because the coagulation factors were relatively abundant or the medicine really worked. Soon, the bleeding stopped, and then there was a thin layer of scar on the wound.
Li Long took a long breath and calmed down his excitement and nervousness. Only then did he look around again, but he could no longer see the shadow of the guy.
The fox was still hiding in the cracks in the rocks.
Looking back now, Li Long thought that the thing that attacked him just now was a bit like some kind of cat with very pointed ears that he saw in movies and TV shows.
But he has never heard of such a thing in the Tianshan Mountains!
This thing actually appears here... Is it because my knowledge is narrow?
Li Long thought wildly, distracting the pain in his arm. He guessed that the thing was treating the fox as food and chased it here, but he appeared. Maybe it thought he was competing with it for food, so it caught him.
He suddenly remembered that he heard the guy scream when he caught him. He hurriedly looked at the machete and found a little blood on the machete.
Were you injured when you were holding a knife?
However, it is obvious that the injury is not serious.
Li Long didn't dare to stay here any longer. If that thing went crazy and he didn't have a gun in hand, there was no guarantee that Li Long would be able to deal with its terrifying speed!
But unwilling to do so, Li Long took the machete with his uninjured right hand and stabbed the fox hard. At this time, he didn't care whether it would damage the skin.
A few minutes later, the fox made no sound. Li Long found a stick to pull the fox out, hit it on the head twice with a machete, killing it completely, and then hurried away with it.
Putting more than twenty poles under his right arm and carrying the fox, Li Long walked back to the wooden house.
When Li Long came back, the others had not come back yet. He put down the pole and threw the fox aside, then went to the small room to find white medicine and sprinkled a layer of white medicine on the scarred area, which was used as psychological comfort.
At this time, Li Long let out a sigh of relief.
But I still feel a little aggrieved.
Having been hunting for half a year, why did I encounter such a thing and even hurt myself!
The point is that I didn’t even see the other person’s whole picture clearly!
It’s so frustrating!
Although I am angry, I have to continue to do what needs to be done.
Li Long added firewood to the stove and began to heat hot water. He planned to make some porridge. He hadn't finished the steamed buns during the day. He would go get some wild vegetables later and stir-fry two vegetables.
It’s just that this arm doesn’t seem to be able to bear the force.
While making porridge and boiling water, Li Qingxia came back carrying a large bundle of poles.
Li Qingxia is very happy. In this afternoon, he cut more than sixty poles, which was a big bundle!
According to the price Li Long said, this is more than thirty yuan!
Why didn’t I know that this money was so easy to earn before?
When I was in my hometown, it was really hard for a heroic man to spend a penny! Not to mention this kind of work, even if it only costs 80 cents a day, many people are rushing to do it!
If I tell you how I make money this way, none of the old guys in my hometown will believe it.
He saw Li Long making porridge, put down the pole and said with a smile:
"Xiaolong..."
Just when he was about to say that he was still a hero, he saw the injury on Li Long's arm, and his expression suddenly changed!
(End of this chapter)