Li Long didn't go back to the mountains that day. He went to the free market and went to Xinhua Bookstore to buy a box of small-caliber rifle bullets for preparation.
The next day I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy fish nets, and stopped by to see Li Xiangqian, who then left him behind.
"I'll come over in the afternoon to go through the formalities. People have moved out of this yard. The leader actually wanted to talk about the price. I heard that you gave it so happily that he kept some large pieces of furniture. . Then we can go through the formalities this afternoon.”
“That’s great.” Li Long said with a smile, “I’m not in a hurry here. Of course it’s good to go through the formalities now.”< br>
At this time, there is no real estate certificate, just a piece of paper to prove it. Li Xiangqian took Li Long to the reception yard on his bicycle and completed the procedures on the street.
The other party did not retain anyone, and Li Xiangqian entrusted the processing. The people on the other side of the street also knew about this, and they happily changed the name of the owner of the yard.
"Go and see the yard by yourself. I still have things to do at my unit. By the way, you can come over again in two days. There are some sporadic tasks during this period. See if you can do it."
"Okay." Li Long agreed with a smile.
Watching Li Xiangqian leave, Li Long pushed his bicycle and took the bunch of keys given by Li Xiangqian to the front of the yard.
The yard is to the south of Wuyi Road, and the back wall is more than ten meters away from the road. Li Long remembered that when he cared about these things in his last life, these courtyards all faced north and faced the road, and most of them were front houses.
I don’t know whether it was a built-up facade or a door to a room in the yard facing the road.
He remembered that the "deed" given by the street just now marked that it was directly adjacent to the road, so it was basically impossible for anyone to build another room between his yard and the road.
The courtyard gate faces west and is considered a side door. This courtyard is the last one in this alley. Although it looks like the same style, it is obvious that the courtyard of this family is better. In this era when adobe walls were common, this courtyard wall was made of brick and plastered with cement. It was two meters high and had patterns on it.
The three walls of the house are whitewashed and plastered with cement half a meter away from the ground. Is this to prevent alkali?
The gate of the courtyard is smaller than the gate of Li Long's big courtyard, two meters wide, wooden door, and big lock.
Li Long opened the door, pushed the bicycle in, and looked at the situation inside.
The first thing you see is the paved ground, and three meters inside is the vegetable garden. This vegetable garden is not large, measuring dozens of square meters, half a meter lower than the ground, and has a small step to go down.
There are ordinary vegetables planted in the vegetable garden, including spicy peppers, eggplants and tomatoes, one row of coriander, two rows of shallots, and there are traces of digging. Li Long blindly guessed that this should be the location of the garlic. There is also a bright red (Red Mushroom Lady) near the east courtyard wall.
Between the main house and the vegetable garden in the north is an iron grape trellis. At this moment, grape vines are climbing on it. Li Long can see that there are seedless white and horse milk, and there is also a round grape trellis that should be local. Grapes, with seeds, are particularly sweet after autumn frosts.
To the right of the courtyard door is the kitchen. There is a small pile of coal foam at the door. Li Long can tell at a glance that it is a blower type for cooking.
There is a road about one meter wide between the vegetable plot and the side room of the kitchen, so the toilet should be to the south of the kitchen.
Li Long walked over and took a look. There was a room between the toilet and the kitchen. He found the key and opened it. It was a utility room with shelves on three sides and an old Eight Immortals table. There are old newspapers and magazines on the shelves, neatly arranged. There are also some odds and ends that the original owner did not take away.
Li Long locked the door of the utility room and went to check the toilet. It was quite clean. Although there is only one pit for men and women, there are no flies at this time and there is a strange smell, so it should be sprayed frequently.
Back in front of the main house, Li Long saw that there were two doors with hidden locks.
The door is a wooden door covered with iron. Li Long opened the one in front of him. This is a room with one light and two darks.
The bright room is the living room, which is not too big. It has a row of sofas, old-fashioned horizontal rows that are not old but new, and made of brown fabric. Diagonally across the corner is a cabinet. It looks like there should be a TV on it. Of course it has been moved now.
Directly opposite the TV cabinet is a stove, which is of course idle at the moment. The wall where the stove was pushed was taken out and made into a fire wall, which just warmed the inside.
The room on the left is the bedroom, with a big wooden bed, a wardrobe, and a desk on the window sill. They all look new and not old, so they must be fine for use.
The room on the right is the dining room, with an Eight Immortals table, several chairs placed against the table, a sofa against the north wall, and a writing desk by the south window. There is also a large mirror on the east wall.
There were several pots of flowers on the window sill that were not taken away. Li Long recognized that there were clivias, big-leaf seasands, upside-down golden bells and the like, which were not considered expensive.
The room to the east is also a bedroom, with a single bed, a wardrobe, and a writing desk. Li Long blindly guessed that this should be the room where the children lived, and there were some old textbooks left on the desk.
There were old beddings on the single bed, and Li Long stepped out without cleaning them up.
He locked the small door, went to pick a few ripe tomatoes, and left the yard.
The yard is not used for the time being, just eat vegetables. There's nothing valuable in the yard anyway, and it was originally a neighbor's home, so thieves wouldn't come here, right?
Li Long rode directly back to the big yard and would not go up the mountain today.
When Gu Xiaoxia came back in the evening, Li Long had already cooked the soup and told her about the small yard.
"You bought another small yard? What are you doing with that one?" Gu Xiaoxia obviously didn't understand either, "It's enough for us to live in this big yard."
"That small yard It's close to your unit, and the decoration is pretty good," Li Long explained, "I thought if you. If you feel like you have to live far away every day, you can live there. Of course, it depends on where you want to live. You can live on either side - and I think if my family comes over later, I can live there too.”
As for investment, it’s too early to say, and no one would believe it even if it were said.
In fact, in this era, according to some things that Li Long knows, it is the least valuable, or the slowest in appreciation. After all, in the previous life, even in the 1900s, when housing prices were at their highest, the housing prices in the county were only 5,000.
So if you really want to stock up on housing, it would be better in Shicheng or Wucheng than here.
Li Long’s purchase of a yard was just a habit of a farmer who was close to the land.
"I'd better live here." Gu Xiaoxia thought for a while and said, "I'm used to living here, and I don't want to move again. Besides, it's pretty good here. Although the yard is older, it looks grand. I quite like it. I like it!”
“If you like it, live here.” Li Long said with a smile, “If it doesn’t work, rent it out.”
Let’s leave this topic behind. .
After dinner, Gu Xiaoxia and Li Long cleaned up together and went to study. Li Long has been here these days, and he also knows that Gu Xiaoxia basically doesn't bring back her usual work, and she mainly studies at the TV University in the evening.
She was very interested in Li Long's proposal. After joining the Education Bureau, she also found that there were many people with high school education, but very few with undergraduate or junior college degrees. If you want to stand out among these people, you must not only have strong abilities, but also have a high degree of education.
After working for several months, Gu Xiaoxia is no longer a newcomer. She already knows the importance of academic qualifications. To use the simplest analogy, when teaching in a middle school, for two teachers with similar teaching experience, the salary of the one with a college degree is higher than that of the one with a high school degree.
Even if the junior college is a correspondence course or a TV university! At this time, TVU and Night University were still recognized.
Li Long didn't disturb Gu Xiaoxia's study. He poured a glass of water for Gu Xiaoxia, cut some watermelons and placed them in front of Gu Xiaoxia's desk, then went to his room to read.
After returning to the house, Li Long realized that this was not right. Why did he and Gu Xiaoxia feel like an old married couple? Shouldn't it be about the passion of young people?
Think about it and forget it. I guess Gu Xiaoxia is relatively shy at this time. After all, she is just engaged but not married yet. The measures are not perfect these days. If something happens, she will be easily criticized.
So I ate watermelon and read a book.
Breakfast the next day was made by Gu Xiaoxia. After eating, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. Li Long rode his bicycle to the shop selling naan on the edge of the county town and bought two naan. He rolled them up and put them in his bag. Ride into the mountains.
After it rained, the weather became hotter, and it was better to ride until we entered the mountains.
Arrived at the wooden house, Li Long took out the few remaining mushrooms spread out in the house to dry them, then took the sack and went to look for them in a nearby ditch.
Sure enough, after the rain, mushrooms grew again, and there were quite a lot of them.
At noon, he picked up most of the sacks. After Li Long came back and dried them in the sun, he took out the naan, cut another half of the watermelon, ate it simply, and went to bed. It's too hot at noon and it's uncomfortable to go out now.
In the middle of the afternoon, Li Long got up and once again carried a sack and a gun and searched in the nearby ditch.
Now is considered the last season of black tiger palm fungus. It can still grow for ten days and a half. After the grass turns yellow and the ground is dry, it will basically disappear by then.
And Li Long clearly remembers that there was a time when the mountains were relatively humid, or the climate was quite good, and this mushroom could be picked up in August.
It seems that in the two years since he left the previous life, the black tiger palm fungus could only be picked up in July, and then it would be the next season.
Is the weather getting hotter and hotter?
Li Long doesn’t know.
The harvest in the afternoon is more than that in the morning. This may be due to local conditions or because it is still growing in the morning. Before the sun had set, Li Long picked up another sack and returned to the wooden house.
It’s cool at night in the mountains. One advantage is that there are no mosquitoes at this time and you can see the stars very clearly. The Milky Way stretched across the sky, and Li Long easily found Altair, Vega, Beidou, and the North Pole.
Thinking about the Chinese Valentine's Day story that was relatively reasonable at the beginning but was later changed into a mess and no longer conformed to modern values, Li Long shook his head. The children are still happy now. They can learn and memorize easily. There is work as soon as you step out.
On the second day, Li Long continued to pick and dry mushrooms. On the third day, he had to go down the mountain - the dried mushrooms could fill a sack again.
He filled the sacks with dry ones, and then rode down the mountain with some fresh ones. There were some sunburns on the wooden floor in front of the wooden house, but the amount was not much, so Li Long didn't care much.
After going to the purchasing station to sell the mushrooms, Li Long divided the fresh mushrooms into parts and put them in the big yard, and then carried a few kilograms to Li Xiangqian.
"I was just looking for you. See if you can take on the small tasks I mentioned last time." Li Xiangqian didn't even mention the mushrooms that Li Long brought. He just put them away. Even so, it doesn’t count as taking a bribe.
"What good job is there?" Li Long didn't show any interest, and said with a smile, "If you can do it, I will definitely do it."
"Collect wool. Don't you have friends who are herdsmen? This year's wool It must have been sheared, can you collect a few tons of wool?”
"It can't be harvested." Li Long thought for a while and said, "They have already gone to the summer pasture. It is in the mountains and it is too inconvenient to transport the wool. If they harvest it again next year, they can shear it before moving to the farm. This year it will definitely That’s not possible...”
The main reason was that it was a long way into the mountains, and Li Long didn't know the specific location yet, so he couldn't look for it blindly. He might get lost, which would lead to a dead end.
"Well, let's get over that. Another thing is to harvest safflower. I remember you said that you have safflower growers there, and it's time to pick them now. I have a small list here, three hundred Kilogram, can you receive it?”
“I can’t receive it.” Li Long waved his hand hurriedly, “Our villagers group planted it directly in the wasteland. The ground can harvest dozens of kilograms. It seems that no other nearby village can grow it. "Forget it. There is nothing else you can do for the time being." Li waved his hand forward, "We will talk about it later." "
"Well, I'm not in a hurry. I've made some money selling mushrooms these days," said Li Long. "It'll be enough for a while."
"Have you cleaned up the yard?" Li Xiangqian asked casually, "How does it look?"
"It's very good. It hasn't been cleaned up yet, and there isn't much to clean up inside. Just clean it briefly." Li Long said, "My partner said that he would still like to live in the big yard. I will tidy it up when the time comes. If there are people living in it, we will live in it. If there is no one, we will rent it out."
"You... Hey!" Li Xiangqian really didn't know how to say good things to Li Long, "You're a prodigal!"
"That's not true." Li Long smiled playfully, "Multiple courtyards, multiple homes. It’s a place. I can put it in it for future purchases.”
“Isn’t that a waste?”
The two chatted for a while, and Li Long got up and left. He had been in the mountains for a few days and he wanted to go back and wash up.
I walked to the carport in the yard and just unlocked the car when I heard Li Qianqian shouting from the office window:
"Xiaolong, Xiaolong! Come here and answer the phone, looking for you!"
"Looking for me?" Li Long was a little surprised, where is the phone number to call him? In the team? Something happened?
He hurriedly put the car away without even having time to lock it, and ran in to answer the phone.
"Hello, Li Long? I'm Yu Sufu!"
Yu Sufu?
Li Long was stunned for a moment, and then thought of the ethnic man who sold jade.
He?
"Adasi, Aximuses..." Li Long also said to him, "Where are you now?"
This person is looking for me, isn't he trying to sell jade again? (End of this chapter)