Chapter 247 Memories of the Old Times
Gu Xiaoxia went to work. She told Li Long that she would burn the meat left in the big yard when she came back, and asked Li Long not to touch it again.
Gu Xiaoxia washed the dishes and chopsticks, and she also refused to let Li Long touch them. It's not bad for two people to work together.
At the dinner table, Gu Xiaoxia also told Li Long about Wu Shufen's situation. Li Long actually knew that the village primary school was going to be laid off this year, but when Gu Xiaoxia told him, he was still a little surprised.
There were a lot of people eating at the table yesterday, and the craftsmanship of the master chefs in the team cannot be overemphasized. For the Li family, eating meat is not a rare thing and they eat it every day. But for most people in the village, eating a banquet is a rare time to satisfy their appetite, so there are many people there and it is very lively.
The leftover dishes from the banquet will not be wasted. They will be poured into a big basin, and then the host family will keep most of it, and the women who come to help will take a small basin back.
Nowadays, these leftover dishes are considered very unhygienic, but in those days, they were rare and delicious. After all, you can still pick out meat from it. Housewives would heat up these leftovers and have another "good meal" for the whole family.
While Li Long was carrying the car all the way back, he saw the car selling melons at the intersection again, but this time the person was replaced.
Most of the wheat fields on both sides of the road have been cut away, and some of the wheat sheaves have been pulled away. What is left in the field is wheat stubble, and some of the wheat sheaves are still relatively evenly distributed in the field.
Some people are picking ears of wheat in the field, there are also carriages in the field, and some people are picking up sheaves of wheat.
Li Long suddenly remembered that he had been fucked up in his previous life. At that time, I went to help others pick wheat sheaves, but it was my elder brother and sister-in-law who took Li Juan to do the wheat sheaves in my own field. Li Juan is only ten years old, and she is already working with the adults with a wooden fork.
At that time, I was really nothing.
Looking at the field where the wheat sheaves have been harvested, there are still people carrying baskets or urea bags, picking up wheat ears. This is probably what the "Particles Return to the Warehouse" in the elementary school textbook was talking about.
There is also a clay sculpture made by the clay figurine Zhang.
Chaos thoughts surged and dispersed in his mind. When Li Long saw the students going home on the roadside, he realized that he had already passed elementary school.
He slowed down and looked all the way, and soon found Li Juan who was talking happily with her classmates.
"Juan, do you want to take you back?" Li Long asked, standing on one foot.
“Yes.” Li Juan smiled and said goodbye to her classmates.
Fortunately, Li Long had thought of this when he tied the meat in advance. The meat was divided into two bags and tied to both sides of the bicycle, with a sack on top. It's just right for Li Juan to sit on it.
The girl is older and it is no longer convenient for her to sit on the front beam.
Taking Li Juan back home, Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang were both there. Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei should have gone to cut wheat.
Although Li Jianguo made a lot of money by cutting poles in the mountains, the two of them did not give up working as public workers in the team. They participated in the whole process of cutting wheat and playing fields.
It was the same in previous years. This year, Li Qingxia is here. Although Li Long does not work, he can help, and Liang Yuemei is very satisfied.
Compared with last year, these days are much better.
Only when your days are full of progress can you be energetic when you work.
From the door of Li's house, you can see the wheat field in the south. Li Long has already seen a lot of wheat bundles piled up there.
Because it is the ration field allocated to each family in the spring, wheat cannot be grown, so the wheat is the public property of the team. After it is hunted down and cleared, the public grain will be handed over, and after that, the team will What is kept in the house and what is distributed to each family.
The things grown in public fields are generally like this. The public rations are not just grain, but sunflower, flax, corn and so on.
Of course, the team decides what to plant in some small plots of land and does not need to hand it over. It is mainly shared by the team, or each family can share some. For example, the red flowers planted in front of residential areas.
The Grain Bureau will definitely not collect this thing, but because it is medicinal and can be squeezed for oil, the purchasing station will definitely collect it. It can be sold for money, and it is grown on wasteland, so it is considered to be in the team. A source of income.
There were already people working on the wheat field. Li Long originally wanted to take a look, but he thought about the meat in the sacks and forgot about it.
It’s important to work first.
"What's in this sack?" Li Qingxia asked when he saw Li Long entering the yard. He was chopping pigweed there - two people from the Li family went to work. Li Qingxia actually wanted to show off his ability to cut wheat, but Li Jianguo wouldn't let him go.
He could only go to the ground to find pigweed, then cut it back and chop it to cook pig food.
Although there is still a lot of feed that Li Long bought at home and sugar residue that they brought back from the sugar factory, in Li Qingxia's eyes, these things that can be put away should be put away first. Feet, it's not okay to eat but not work.
"Yesterday I went to the hot springs in the mountains and saw traces of wild animals. When I went there this morning, I shot two. One roe deer and one small wild boar." Li Long said, "Well, let's bring the meat back - Street I left some over there and will send some to Xiaoxia’s father later. We have to deal with the rest.”
"Then let's put it on the stove." Du Chunfang was lighting a fire in front of the stove and preparing to cook pig food. After hearing what Li Long said, she added, "It's hard to put meat in this summer."
"That's it." Li Long unloaded the meat. Li Juan had already taken a large pot from the kitchen, then squatted beside it, curiously watching Li Long unload the meat.
Although eating meat is no longer a rare thing in the Li family and can be eaten every day, it is still very happy to look at these large pieces of meat and bones.
Li Long picked out the bones and piled the meat aside. The bones will be cooked later, and the meat must be cut into small pieces before being put into the pot. The pieces must be very small, otherwise The oil inside cannot be squeezed out.
"Juan, go get an armful of firewood." Li Long assigned work to Li Juan, "Is the homework done?"
"It's done." Li Juan stood up and ran towards the firewood pile and said , "Uncle, is an armful enough?"
"Maybe not." The corn poles and oil sunflower poles are bundled into bundles, and an armful is a bundle, maybe twenty or thirty. It's not enough to boil the bones and roast the meat.
Li Juan came over with two arms of firewood, and her hair was stained with grass leaves. Du Chunfang called her:
"Juan, there is grass on your head, take it off quickly..."
Li Juan didn't understand why her grandma was so panicked when she saw grass on her head, but she quickly smoothed her hair, took off the grass and threw it away.
Li Long explained with a smile:
“In ancient times, selling something was expressed by inserting a piece of grass on it. Isn’t there an idiom called inserting the mark to sell the first thing? In ancient times, When selling people, they also put grass on their heads, so your grandma saw that there was grass on your head and thought it was not a good sign, so she asked you to remove it quickly.”
Li Juan hasn’t learned "Fan Jin Zhongzhong" yet. , so she didn’t know this allusion.
Du Chunfang smiled after listening to Li Long's explanation.
Although Li Juan understood what grandma meant, she actually didn't care much. After all, the things taught in school have made her understand a lot.
Li Long cut the meat into small pieces. After finishing, he cleaned the pot and began to burn the meat first and then cook the meat.
At this time Li Qiang ran back shouting from outside. He grabbed two handfuls of things in his hands. When he saw Li Long, he shouted in surprise:
"Uncle, you Are you back?”
“Are you on vacation?”
"It's holiday." Li Qiang held up the thing in his hand and offered it to Li Long:
"Look, uncle, the lamb horns (ge)! They are all tender! Uncle, eat them!"
>"I don't want to eat, I'm occupying my hand." Li Long smiled, this The scientific name of this thing is velvet vine. It can be seen everywhere on the walls of various courtyards. The leaves are somewhat similar to Polygonum multiflorum and Aristolochia. The fruits are slender horns, somewhat similar to mung bean pods, with seeds inside. , you can eat it when it’s young, but it will fall apart when it’s old. "Sister, you eat!" Li Qiang directly gave a handful in his left hand to Li Juan who was lighting the fire, then peeled off one and handed it to Li Long on tiptoe:
"Uncle, You eat one!”
"Okay, okay, I'll eat it." Li Long took Li Qiang's hand and ate the horn.
Very sweet.
“Well, not bad, it’s so delicious.” Li Long praised while eating.
Li Qiang was very proud and peeled off two more, giving one to grandma and one to grandpa.
Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang were happy.
To be honest, I have never enjoyed such treatment in my hometown. Although Li Long's second brother also has a son, and his sister also has two children.
When Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei returned home, the whole yard was filled with the smell of meat.
Two pots of meat have been cooked, one pot has been filled, and the other pot is cooling.
"Xiaolong, are you hitting something again? What is it this time?" Li Jianguo asked while patting the hair on his body with a towel.
"Roe deer and wild boar." Li Long said, "They also soak in hot springs. I got them from the hot springs."
"It's strange that these animals also bathe in hot springs!"
Li Long knew that in later generations, it seems that the monkeys there also bathed in hot springs, and they were quite famous.
"Sister-in-law, take out the meat later and cook the bones. I will go to Xiaoxia's house now to deliver some meat to her father."
"Okay." Liang Yuemei readily agreed, "Bring more meat. Xiaoxia won't come back often. If you bring more meat, his life will be easier."
"Okay." Li Long said, "I'll bring two legs and some more." Spare ribs.”
Li Long took the meat to Gu's house. Gu Boyuan had just returned from the wheat field - their home was not in the same residential area as the Li family, and the location of the wheat field was also different. Gu Boyuan participated in collective labor twice this year. He earned a lot of work points by weaving handles and tying brooms. However, he did not stop participating in the team's public work because of this. On the contrary, he participated as much as possible.
Li Long guessed that Gu Boyuan wanted to make more money and did not want to affect Gu Xiaoxia - Gu Xiaoxia would definitely give him money, but with Gu Boyuan's character, he might not want it.
"Uncle Gu, this is the wild boar and roe deer roe meat I killed today. Do you think it was burned or cooked directly?"
"It must be the meat on the stove, the bones It's cooked." Gu Boyuan looked at the meat Li Long brought over and said with a smile, "You've done this. There are quite a few!”
“Wild boar and roe deer are not big, so I put some in the county yard. Xiaoxia is probably roasting the meat now. It just happened to be roasting at my place today. When I was in the hot spring, I didn’t expect those animals to take a bath too..."
"Really or not? These animals also bathe in hot springs?" Gu Boyuan heard this for the first time and asked, "Are there many?"
"A lot, groups of wild boars, several roe deer, and Other animals..." Li Long described the scene at that time.
"According to what you said, if there are three or five people, the harvest will be huge!" Gu Boyuan was also very interested, and then shook his head, "Not now, no time. When the farming is busy, whose family I don’t have time... I can do it after autumn.”
Li Long said with a smile:
“Then we can get a few more guns and let’s go into the mountains to experience it.”
"Okay, okay." Although Gu Boyuan is considered a scholar, he definitely hopes to participate in hunting and bringing something that can improve his food.
Li Long did not put down the meat and leave. It was impossible for Lao Gu to handle the boiled bones and roasted meat alone. It was already getting late, so Li Long, as his prospective son-in-law, naturally wanted to help.
So when he came out of Gu's house, it was completely dark.
Telegraph poles have been erected on the roadside, and wires have been pulled to every house. Light bulbs and other things have been pulled out, but the electricity has not been delivered yet.
Li Jianguo heard from Xu Chengjun that the bus transformer in the village has not yet been completed.
But it’s soon.
When Li Long walked out of the Gu family residential area, he saw a man squatting on the roadside.
He shouted:
"Who?"
"Brother Long, it's me." Tao Daqiang's voice rang out.
"Why are you squatting here?" Li Long was a little confused, "What happened?"
While talking, he walked forward. When he came to Tao Daqiang, Li Long finally saw Tao Daqiang's face clearly - he Shocked!
"What's wrong with you? Are you being beaten?"
Looking at Tao Daqiang with a bruised nose and swollen face, Li Long was really surprised. Tao Daqiang is also considered a strong man in the team, how could he be beaten like this?
"No, no, I was stung by a wasp when I was cutting wheat..." Tao Daqiang was a little embarrassed, "I also went to cut wheat today. When I cut more than an acre of land, I didn't pay attention. There was a big hornet's nest on the wheat stalks. I cut down the wheat stalks before I saw it, and the result..."
Li Long couldn't help but want to laugh, and felt a bit immoral, but this matter - it's really easy to laugh!
Hornets are not like bees. Bees sting people instantly, causing pain and killing the bees. There is no barb on the wasp sting, so it can be stung several times.
"Have you wiped it with vinegar and soapy water? Can it be disinfected?"
"No, I just used some saliva..." Tao Daqiang was really not sure.
Li Long knew that this was a "folk theory" that said saliva could disinfect bee venom, and there were even some disgusting people who said that nose snot could disinfect it.
In fact, it is either vinegar or soapy water, because one is vinegar and the other is alkali. As for which one it is, you will know after giving it a try.
This is not comforting, so Li Long said:
"Then go back and try vinegar and soapy water. That can really disinfect."
"... Okay. Brother Long, when will you go fishing again this time?" Tao Daqiang asked what he was thinking.
"Then...it will take a few days." Li Longxin said that I just hide from the wheat harvesters, and seeing you like this makes me even more forced to hide. "There are still some things in the mountains that have not been finished, and we have to go tomorrow. ”
"Well... that's fine, I'll find you when I get back." Tao Daqiang was a little disappointed, but he also knew that Li Long couldn't come back to catch fish just because of him.
"If you don't want to cut the wheat, just take the net from my house and cast it yourself, and then go to the county to sell it." Li Long looked at Tao Daqiang's lonely back and said, "You can cast the net anyway, You see, Meng Zhiqiang can sell fish, so can you. It’s really not possible. It’s convenient for you to buy a bicycle with the money given to you..."
Tao Daqiang was stunned for a moment, stood for a while, and then walked away. .
(End of this chapter)