Chapter 236: Good people are always rewarded. No, the information is coming!
Li Jianguo returned home and told Li Long about the matter.
"What are the six-color rituals?" Although Li Long lived an extra life, he really didn't know much about this.
He looked at Li Qingxia, who waved his hand:
"This is in Northern Xinjiang, ask your brother."
"It varies from place to place. Generally speaking, it means six different kinds of gifts, such as tobacco, alcohol, sweets and tea." Li Jianguo often works as a general manager for weddings. He has seen a lot of these things. He explained:
“To be more precise, there must be meat, and ribs are the best. There is also talk about three ribs. It means there will be more every year, which is a blessing. Then there are tobacco, wine, sweets, tea, pastries and so on. "
"The meat. ...Fish..." Li Long calculated, "There are still three days left. I will go to the mountains now and see tomorrow morning. Can you catch a wild boar? If not, then go to the butcher's shop and buy some. Fish is easy to catch. If you cast a few nets on the first day of the week, you should be able to catch red carp... I'll have tobacco, wine, sugar and tea as soon as I come back from the mountains. I bought it directly.”
“Hey, it’s the father and mother who get engaged. It's better for you to take care of it yourself." Du Chunfang sat at the door and whispered, "Dad, what do you want to do?"
"What can I do?" "Li Qingxia? He smiled and said, "My son is so capable, so I just smiled."
Li Jianguo and Li Long both laughed.
"Then you are so lucky!" Du Chunfang still refused, "Why don't you go on the engagement day, it's embarrassing."
"That won't work, I definitely have to go, Xiaolong is getting married soon, I have to watch, I’m still waiting to have a grandson! I didn't hug Juanjuan Qiangqiang. This little dragon can't be hugged..."
"You're so weird! That's why Juanjuan Qiangqiang got so fucking big. How dare you be a grandpa? You have money, why don’t you express your gratitude?”
Li Long looked at his mother in surprise.
The relationship between Du Chunfang and his sister-in-law Liang Yuemei in the previous life was not very good. Unexpectedly, I am now thinking about my sister-in-law.
"That's for sure." Li Qingxia said with a smile, "I know this well."
Du Chunfang also wanted to say something more, Liang Yuemei said with a smile:
"My mother , I have money. Xiaolong earned money earlier and gave it to me. This time he also made a lot of money chopping poles. When Qiuli kills the pig, the money will be more..."
"That's for everyone. "Du Chunfang's tone softened. After spending this time together, she can see that the eldest daughter-in-law is a good person. She takes care of the family and has taken care of Li Long since he was a child. This is what she should do as a mother, and she doesn't feel guilty about it.
The matter was settled. After Li Long had lunch at home, he got on his bicycle with his gun on his back and went to the mountains with his satchel.
While riding along, Li Long was also thinking in his mind. When I go to the mountains in the future, although the bicycle is very fast, it can pull less things. The horse-drawn carriage could pull a lot of stuff, but not the speed.
If I have the chance in the future, I will still buy a three-wheeled motorcycle or tractor.
Of course it would be better if we could get 212 - it’s just impossible. After all, that thing is now a vehicle only available at the county regiment level. The head of the township also rides a bicycle.
Arrived in the county, Li Long went to the compound to pack some daily necessities. He planned to stay in the mountains until the morning after tomorrow. If there is nothing in the morning the day after tomorrow, just go back directly and go to the state-owned butcher shop to buy——
Originally, this effort could be saved, but Li Long's main reason was that his hands were itchy and he wanted to hunt.
By the way, I also want to see if I can touch that pointed-eared thing again.
By the time Li Long rode his bicycle to the wooden house, the sun was already setting in the west.
The two locks in the wooden house are very good. It seems that there are no bad people around, or maybe even no one at all.
He put the bicycle into the small bedroom, locked the door, and walked towards the mountains with the bag.
He planned to pick up some mushrooms at night. One was to cook some mushroom soup for drinking later, and the other was to dry some in the sun.
It’s the early 1980s, and the vegetables that can be eaten in winter, besides pickled vegetables, are cabbage, radishes, potatoes and the like from the vegetable cellar.
There are only a few dried vegetables, that is, vermicelli, which are the same as those dried in my own vegetable garden.
So Li Long plans to pick up more mushrooms, slice them and dry them in the sun, so that he will have an extra delicious dish in winter.
Especially now that the black tiger palm fungus has come down. This thing is a piece of it when it is there, and it is so big that it can be exposed in large quantities.
Entering another ditch, Li Long saw the black striped brown black tiger palm fungus on the edge of the moss on the shady side.
He picked one out from the edge of the moss. This one was as big as a vegetable plate. There were several others nearby, large and small.
Li Long opened the bag and put it inside. In his last life, he saw a blogger pick it up in a short video. His head was small and his palm was as big as his.
Could it be that what I picked was Siberian tiger palm fungus, while those people picked South China tiger palm fungus?
After making up a cold joke in his mind, Li Long picked up the dozen or so black tiger palm fungi and walked forward.
After picking up two piles, it felt like there were more than ten kilograms of mushrooms in the bag. Li Long also had some experience. This thing grows in relatively humid places, basically on shady slopes, in grass or moss. Because of its size, it is easy to find.
After climbing over a ravine, we reached a flat valley. Li Long saw that the terrain did not seem like a place where black tiger palm fungus could grow. When he turned around and wanted to leave, he thought that since he was here, he would pick up some Straw mushrooms are also good, and then they go down the ditch.
As soon as I went down, I saw that the gentle slope on the opposite side of the valley was covered with Tianshan red flowers, which are also called wild poppies or poppies.
This thing grows into a large area. Some herdsmen also have this thing on their pastures. It grows naturally and is perennial. It is cut every year and continues to grow the next year.
Li Long remembered that in his previous life, one year the team organized a trip to Nalati. When he was resting on the edge of National Highway 218, in a place called Musi, there was a large area of this kind of flower on the roadside, which was in full bloom. Gorgeous.
At that time, the herdsmen used barbed wire to block the red flower. If you wanted to go in and take photos, the price was five yuan per person.
According to the herdsman, the money collected from this pasture every year is more expensive than the grass harvested later.
More on, ten yuan per person, fifteen yuan, and further on, there is a severe drought, and the red flowers are gone.
At that time, Li Long also saw a beekeeper there. Li Long knew that wild poppy was considered a herbal medicine, so he wanted to buy some honey. As a result, the beekeeper said that he would not harvest honey for the next two days and would have to wait for a few days.
This kind of honey was relatively cheap at that time, 20 per kilogram... It's a pity that I didn't buy it.
Li Long walked down while thinking about the past life, and then stood there.
He clearly saw a tent there!
There are more than twenty wooden boxes squarely placed above the edge of the tent. Aren't those beehives?
The beekeeper is here?
Li Long was happy and walked over quickly holding the mushroom bag. Honey is quite a rarity these days, so it’s good to buy some and eat it back.
When he was about fifty or sixty meters away from the tent, he felt that there were more bees around him, buzzing, and some were even curiously wandering around Li Long.
Li Long is not very afraid. He does not wear perfume, has no peculiar smell on his body, and does not sweat. These honeys should not be of any interest to him.
However, no one heard any movement until I walked to the tent.
Li Long couldn't help shouting:
"Is anyone there?"
His shout did not elicit a reply, but instead caused many bees to gather around him again. The tent is very old, and there are many patches on it. The color is no longer the green it was in the early days. It has faded a lot. I don’t know how many years it has been used.
There is a large bucket outside with half a bucket of water in it. From the tent curtain lifted by the wind, you can see several bags of sugar inside.
It is normal to have sugar. The climate in the mountains is cool in the morning and evening. If it rains or hails continuously when you first come here, the temperature has not risen, or the flowering period has not yet come, and you can’t eat honey, you will have to eat sugar.
But at this time, the price of sugar and honey has not increased yet, so as long as there are flowers blooming, sugar will not be fed.
There were a few wild mushrooms and a small bundle of wild onions piled next to the candy bag. The leaves of the onions were a bit wilted, and it seemed they had been dug two or three days ago.
Li Long shouted again: "Is there anyone?"
Then he heard a faint voice in the tent:
"Is there... help me?" ..."
Li Long dropped the bag and hurried forward, opened the curtain, and then saw a middle-aged short man lying on the bed in the tent, with a flushed face and chapped lips - this was a fever Already?
Li Long walked up to the man, bent down and asked:
"Do you have a cold? Do you have a fever?"
The man tried his best to open his eyes, nodded slightly, and whispered Li Long didn't hear anything clearly.
He reached out and touched it. The man's forehead was hot, and he guessed he had a fever.
Li Long hurriedly found a rotten towel, poured water from the bucket outside, wet it and put it on the man's forehead, and then said:
"Wait a minute, I'll go back to get the medicine..."
There was still some medicine on hand at the wooden house. Li Long quickly ran back and got it again.
The man took the medicine with Li Long's help, and half an hour later, the temperature slowly dropped.
Li Long was glad that this man only had a cold and fever. If he had eaten poisonous mushrooms or been bitten by a snake, there would really be nothing he could do.
Li Long poured water for this man again. At this time, it was too late to boil the water. Fortunately, this man had prepared a thermos. The water in it was warm. He didn't know whether it was from yesterday or the day before.
After almost an hour, the sun had set on the edge of the mountain. The man was obviously in better spirits, and he explained the situation clearly.
His name is Lu Dafeng, a professional beekeeper. He was originally a beekeeper on the farm. Later, when the household contract was implemented, he borrowed money to buy the beehives on the farm and started planting bees everywhere.
He just moved here from the plains this year. The mountain flowers here are better, the honey produced is good, and the price is high. He wants to stay here for a month or two, and then move after the mountain flowers disappear. Go somewhere else.
I didn’t expect that less than a week after I came here, it rained heavily two days ago. In order to protect the bees, I worked all night. I didn’t take care of myself after being exposed to the rain, so I caught a cold.
Actually, I also took medicine, but I didn’t expect it to be so serious. Later, after the rain cleared up, I opened the beehive. I didn’t pay much attention to it. I had a fever and passed out directly.
"Thanks to you, brother!" Lu Dafeng was very excited, "If it weren't for you, I would have died here!"
"No, no, no..." Li Long said hurriedly, and then he asked He said, "Don't I think beekeepers usually come together as a family? You..."
"My hometown is from the south, and so is my wife." Lu Dafeng sighed, "Something happened in my hometown. , My wife is taking care of the baby at home. It will take two days to come back. "That's it. Now that you're fine, I'll leave. I still have to take care of you when I'm alone outside." Be good to yourself." Li Long said as he walked out of the tent, "Logically you should know this better than me..."
"Hey brother!" Lu Dafeng struggled to get up and shouted:
"Don't leave yet! Don't leave!"
Li Long stopped.
"I don't have anything to thank you here. You can bring two bottles of honey." Lu Dafeng looked for a jar from the corner, "This is the honey from my last bee hunting site, oil sunflower honey. Wait. Come here after a while, the mountain nectar will be ready, and it will taste even better!”
"Then I don't want it. I'll come and get it when your mountain nectar is ready." Li Long said with a smile, "I live in a wooden house two ditches away."
"You This is..." Lu Dafeng asked doubtfully, "A medicine hunter?"
"No, no, no, I'm a ranger in the forestry team. I look at the woods, hunt wild boars and so on." Li Long explained.
"Hunt a wild boar? Can you hunt a wild boar?" Lu Dafeng's eyes lit up as he listened.
“It can shoot.” Li Long patted the gun bag on his back and said, “This is a gun.”
“That’s great!” Lu Dafeng pointed. The man diagonally across the ditch said:
“In the ditch over a mountain over there, there is a group of wild boars active every day and in the middle of the night, which scares me. There were more than a dozen in the group, and I didn’t dare to chase them alone. It was daytime when I hired a car to bring the beehives over. I just saw the flowers and didn’t know there were wild boars nearby. I was very worried these days. I’m afraid that if they go crazy and rush over, my tent and the bees will be completely destroyed..."
"Really?" Li Long also became happy after hearing this, "Okay, I'll come over and beat them at midnight today. If I can beat them, I'll give you some meat. If I can't, I'll scare them away!"
When Li Long arrived, he was still thinking about where to find wild boars, but now he was better.
In the end, Lu Dafeng asked him to take a bottle of honey and drink it anyway. In order to prove to Li Long that the honey was good, he took a spoon and took a big bite himself.
Li Long couldn't resist, so he walked back with a can of honey and the bag of mushrooms.
Watching Li Long's back disappear, Lu Dafeng took two more mouthfuls of honey before insisting on standing up and looking for something to eat.
Although he doesn't want to eat very much now, he often goes out and knows that he can resist when he eats at this time.
Li Long returned to the wooden house with the bag. After putting the bag down, he found firewood and lit both stoves, boiling water and mushroom soup at the same time.
Fresh straw mushrooms and black tiger palm mushroom slices are thrown into the water. After cooking for a while, the strong mushroom smell will come out.
In his previous life, Li Long also liked to dig wild mushrooms. There are reed mushrooms in the big ditch to the east of the village, and they can grow very big. The largest ones can grow to about one kilogram. It can be dug in spring, early summer and autumn. It can be fried and eaten fresh on the same day. When you are tired of eating it, you can slice it and dry it in the sun.
When there are no mushrooms, the dried mushrooms can be soaked in water and fried in various ways. When Li Long was lazy, he would put some in when cooking instant noodles, and they tasted good.
Letting it boil in the water, he took out the gun cloth from the small room, spread it out, and began to slowly wipe half of it.
After cleaning the gun, I put it away, turned off the fire under the stove, and started to add seasonings to the mushroom soup. While waiting, I went to the small bedroom and took out a basket.
In the basket are dried steamed buns that were dried earlier.
There is no refrigerator at this time. In order to save time, local people usually steam two to three layers of steamed buns at a time, with more than ten or twenty large steamed buns. These steamed buns are prone to mold if left alone. What should I do? The locals began to dry steamed buns. Break the steamed buns into several pieces and put them in a basket to dry in the hot sun for two days.
Easy to put.
(End of this chapter)