Chapter 230: Lynx skin is also expensive?
Listening to Li Qingxia’s question, Li Long smiled bitterly and said:
“I saw a fox when I was cutting the pole, and I wanted to take it out and skin it, but I didn’t think that this guy was someone else. When I hit the fox, I frightened the guy and gave me a paw when he came up..."
"What the hell is this guy like? How serious is it?" Li Qingxia looked at Li Long's scratched clothes and injured arm and said a little distressed, "This is a big wound, how much blood is it bleeding... If it doesn't work, why don't you go down the mountain and see a doctor?"
"No, no, no." Li Long waved his hand, "The bleeding has stopped. There is medicine here. Apply it and there will be nothing tomorrow."
"No bones were injured, right?"
"No, no. The skin injury is just a cut. It looks scary, but it's actually not that serious."
"Then just rest. ," Li Qingxia waved his hand, "This porridge I'll do it."
"I can't cook two dishes?" Li Long said with a smile, "Dad, you are not as good as me when it comes to cooking."
"Now. No matter how much you eat, it’s okay.”
"That's okay... I'll go get some wild vegetables." Li Long said, "It's not okay to just drink porridge or steamed buns."
"Isn't there red tofu? It's enough for two people."
“If you have this condition, just stir-fry two dishes Well, we are doing hard work, so we can’t make ourselves miserable.”
Li Long has his own reasons, and Li Qingxia can’t convince his younger son - mainly because of Li Long’s growth from teenagers to adulthood. He was not involved. Although he has a certain authority as a father, he lacks confidence.
And he could clearly see that although the younger son was excellent in all aspects, he was not as insistent on tradition as the older son, and he was not as respectful of his father.
Li Long carried a basin in his right hand and went to the valley. He first got some wild mushrooms - to be honest, there are really advantages to having fewer people. There are many resources in the mountains. Li Long picked and picked them, specifically looking for those that were just on the top of the mountain. Unearthed young mushrooms.
Tear some fresh and tender wild onions, and the same goes for wild celery. If they are old, even if they are fried meat, they will feel like ropes in your mouth, and no one likes to eat them.
Not everyone can get used to eating cold pepper and wormwood, so Li Long didn't pinch it. He looked at the enamel pot dish and turned back.
Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang haven't come back yet, and the sun is almost setting. Li Long washed vegetables in the spring water, broke the wild mushrooms into small pieces, and blanched them in boiling water when they came back. .
After blanching the mushrooms in boiling water, pull them out with cold water, squeeze out the water, pour in salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, then sprinkle some chili powder, cut some wild onions and put them on top, and finally wash the pot and heat oil. Pour it on top, this is Li Long's mastery of the universal cold dish method.
"Ah, is this a lot of oil?" Li Qingxia watched Li Long operating there - and finally couldn't help but ask.
My nose twitched, feeling pretty good.
"Dad, does it smell good?"
"That smells really good!"
"That's good." Li Long said with a smile, "Let's If you do strenuous work and consume a lot of energy, you should eat more and nutritiously.”
Fortunately, the injury was to his left arm, and his main right hand was not restricted, so after Li Long washed the wild celery, he came over to chop the vegetables. Li Qingxia wanted to help, but Li Long refused.
"Dad, just watch the porridge and stir it from time to time. I can do it myself."
There is no need to wash the hot oil pot, just put it on the stone stove , continue to heat the pan, from He scooped a spoonful of meat from the burnt meat oil basin and put it into the pot. There was a loud explosion. Li Long flipped the shovel while looking at the fire. When it felt almost done, he poured in the wild celery, stir-fried a few more times and added salt. Then prepare to cook.
Watching Li Long cooking, Li Qingxia smiled and said:
"Xiaolong, you are so good at this craft! Whoever you marry later will be blessed."
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"Haha, that's what happens later." Li Long took the pot ears with a rag and lifted the pot down. He broke off half a piece of steamed bun and wiped the remaining vegetable residue in the pot, and then started eating.
It tastes good.
Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang were tied back with poles on their backs. They were shocked when they saw the injury on Li Long's arm.
“It’s still so dangerous in this mountain!” Li Jianguo was also a little surprised, “Xiaolong, did you see clearly what that was?”
“If you didn’t see clearly, you grabbed me and then It went into the grass, and I noticed that the ears were a little pointy. I suspected it might be a lynx or something..."
"Can that thing exist in this mountain?" Li Qingxia knew about lynx and was a little skeptical, "Isn't it on a high mountain?"
"It's hard to say." Li Jianguo also knew about this thing, he shook his head He shook his head and said, "In the mountains these days, what can you say accurately?"
" Eat first, be careful later. "Li Long said, "The problem is not big, the main thing is that I touched the fox, otherwise, it might not catch me - it is its food. "
This joke did not cause everyone to laugh. A few people sat silently at the wooden table and began to eat.
"Brother Long, what is a lynx?" Tao Daqiang really didn't know about this thing, so he asked in a low voice.
"It's the same as a cat, but bigger than a cat and smaller than a wolf." Li Long described, "It's very fierce, and it's great at catching things, but don't be too afraid, it usually won't hurt people..."
He gestured about the size and said:
“Look, even at such a big size, it can’t prey on people. It must have been anxious at the time...”
"Anyway, be careful." Li Jianguo looked a little solemn.
"Tomorrow we will chop poles, two people together," Li Long thought for a while and said, "Each group will carry a gun, a machete and a gun, so that safety can be guaranteed."
"Yes." Li Jianguo nodded in agreement, "One day we have to go down the mountain to deliver poles again. In this case, the rest of us will be together. We cut poles to make money, but we can't put ourselves on the line...Xiaolong, do you want to go down the mountain? Let’s take a look at the hospital?”
“No, no,” Li Long stretched out his arm and said, “Look, the scar will be better tomorrow.”
That’s it.
The next day, Li Long and Tao Daqiang, Li Jianguo and Li Qingxia went to the mountains to cut poles separately. Li Long could use his right hand, but cutting was more troublesome, so Tao Daqiang took over these tasks.
The two of them were not slow in cooperating. They cut more than a hundred poles in one morning. At this rate, they will have enough poles in three to five days.
When the two people returned to the wooden house carrying the pole at noon, Li Jianguo and the others were already back. Li Qingxia was working on the horses and Li Jianguo was cooking.
Li Long remembered that Xie Yundong had said that Li Jianguo had worked in the cooking class, so there was no problem in cooking.
It’s good to eat ready-made meals!
On the third day, Li Long's arm injury basically no longer affected his actions. This time they accumulated nearly a thousand poles, and Li Long and Tao Daqiang sent them back together.
"Dad, you and my eldest brother should take a rest. There are not many poles left. When we come back, we will finish them in two or three days," Li Long said to Li Qingxia, "Don't worry." "Okay." Li Qingxia said with a smile, "I happened to pick up some wild mushrooms and dry them in the sun. These wild mushrooms are good to eat in the winter."
The older generation is the most thrifty. I basically collect whatever is useful. To use an inappropriate metaphor, when Li Qingxia came to the mountains, if chopping poles was not his main task, he could pull things back once a day.
Everything is useful, there are so many wild mushrooms, so many wild fruits, so many fallen trees, and so many edible wild vegetables...
What the mouse dropped in the rice vat Feel.
So he is not bothered at all by being left in the mountains. There are so many good things that can be picked up for free, how can he be bothered?
It’s not too late to be happy!
Tao Daqiang led the carriage in front, and Li Long sat on the carriage. When they arrived at the county seat, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to stop at the purchasing station. He planned to ask Chen Hongjun for advice.
"You mean those pointed ears? Not big? Yellow fur? Isn't that a lynx?" Chen Hongjun was sure after hearing this, "You are really lucky!"
"What's so good?" Li Long lifted up his clothes to show Chen Hongjun his arm, "Caught it." One claw, look at such a long opening..."
"The lynx usually doesn't catch people?" Chen Hongjun was also a little surprised, "Usually they run away when they see people, or when they find people from a distance. So I hid. After all, I am small..."
"Maybe it's because of this." Li Long took out the fox skin and showed it to Chen Hongjun. "It should be catching this, and I cut off the fox skin."
"That's possible." Chen Hongjun looked at it. Looking at the fox leather, he shook his head and said:
"It's a bit small and torn. Spring leather... If you want to sell it, it'll be sixteen yuan."
"Okay. "Li Long naturally has no objection to the windfall.
"If you can get that lynx skin over, I can pay you at least eight hundred!" Chen Hongjun gestured with his fingers, "How about it, is it possible?"
"No!" Although Li Long was very excited, he still shook his head, "That thing was so fast that I didn't even see what it looked like. He just looked at the two pointed ears and grabbed me. I was holding a machete in my hand. I hurt it, and then it ran away... Even if I look at it from a distance, I can't hit it with a gun."
"It depends on your luck. You might be lucky. It's always good." Chen Hongjun smiled. He said, "After being here for so many years, I never expected to receive a snow leopard skin. If I hadn't met you, I would have received it..."
"It wasn't me." Li Long waved his hand, "Okay, I'm going back, I still have something to do."
"Okay, walk slowly."
Li Long and Tao Daqiang pulled the carriage directly back to the team and went to Xu Chengjun's house Removed the pole.
He didn't stop at the middle school. There was an injury on his arm. Gu Xiaoxia was careful and she might have discovered it. It's better not to worry her.
Tao Daqiang hurried home after leaving Xu Chengjun's house. He didn't bring much with him this time, but he was still a little worried about his old father.
Li Long led the carriage back to Li's house, rested for a while, had something to eat, and then hurried back to the mountains with Tao Daqiang.
Du Chunfang and Liang Yuemei were not told that they were injured, so as not to worry everyone.
When he was approaching the mountains, Tao Daqiang suddenly pointed to the distance and said with some curiosity:
"Brother Long, look, the wheat is still green!"
In this season, the wheat has begun to turn yellow, but the patch of wheat pointed by Tao Daqiang is still mostly green, with a little yellow in the green.
"Close to the mountain, the temperature here is lower." Li Long explained, "It grows slowly... Let's go, cut some back, and let's go into the mountain to eat roasted wheat."
I really want to say it. Shaomai is particularly delicious, but that's not the case. The main thing is to eat with emotion. During this season, basically every household comes back from work, either at home or in someone's field on the roadside, to cut a handful of wheat, take it home, burn it under the stove, and then rub the wheat kernels to eat.
No one will say anything. Even if the landowner encounters it, he will not blame you. Instead, he will let you make more.
Tao Daqiang jumped off the carriage, held the machete and said with a smile:
"Brother Xiaolong, don't worry about it. I'll cut some...I'll be here soon!"
He ran into the ground, He picked up the greener wheat, cut three or four handfuls, and then ran back to the carriage with it.
Tao Daqiang is fast and does a good job. The wheat is tied roughly to his arm and directly wrapped with a green wheat pole.
Li Long picked up a handful and looked at it, pulled off an ear of wheat, rubbed it, and said:
"It's quite full. It will be hard in a few days."
Back at the wooden house, Li Long saw a lot of wild mushrooms drying on the table in front of the wooden house. They all smelled like wild mushrooms. .
"Come, put on the stove and light the fire, let's cook the wheat." Li Long was full of pride. He hadn't done such a childish thing for a long time, and he wanted to have a "boyish madness" once again.
Burning wheat is very simple. Put handfuls of green wheat on the fire, first burn off the wheat awns, and then rotate the wheat heads on the fire, but do not burn the wheat straw, otherwise If the heads of wheat fall into the fire and cannot be taken out, they will be wasted.
Tao Daqiang also had this interest. He lit the fire under the stove, added a few pieces of firewood, and then together with Li Long, each had a handful of green wheat, and started the fire.
When Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo came back, they saw Li Long and Tao Daqiang rubbing wheat kernels with black hands and mouths.
"Why do you think of eating this?" Li Jianguo said with a smile, "There are still green wheat in this season?"
"From the ground on the edge of the mountain." Li Long explained, " The temperature is low, so it turns yellow late."
"Let me tell you, at this time of year, the wheat on our team should be turning yellow, and it will start to bloom in about ten days."
< br>Cut the wheat!
Li Long suddenly felt that the fragrant green wheat kernels in his mouth were not delicious - in fact, they were very delicious, with some green sweetness and toughness in the burnt aroma. Of course, his teeth were tired from chewing too much.
Of course we can’t just eat Shaomai for dinner. Li Jianguo steamed rice at noon and ate leftover rice for stir-fry at night.
“The food we eat in the mountains is the same as at home,” Li Qingxia said with a smile while eating. “Who would believe this? In the past, every household in my hometown said that you should not marry your daughter in the mountains. If you want to live in the mountains, If you eat this meal every day, everyone will be willing to marry into it.”
< br>"That's it for us. No one else can eat like this." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "If you ask me, we are all taking advantage of Xiaolong. If it weren't for Xiaolong, who would think of eating steamed buns every day? Rice?”
“That’s right.” Tao Daqiang said the same.
Li Long waved his hands hurriedly:
“Let’s work together, don’t just talk about me...Dad, you got a lot of wild mushrooms today.”
“There are so many in the grass, and there are so many wild mushrooms in the grass. There are quite a few of them, but they look different, so I don’t dare to pick them up. I’m afraid of being poisoned, so I’ll pick them up for you. These are what I picked up." Li Qingxia explained, "I'll cut enough poles tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Let's go around the mountains. Tell me which mushrooms are edible. Let's get some good ones!"
"Okay."
(End of this chapter)