Finally, the two deer were sold to Huang Xuejun for 300 each.
Huang Xuejun gave Li Long a deposit of 100 yuan, then wrote a simple contract, and he hurried to the county.
Have to find a car to pull the deer.
Old Uncle Luo watched Li Long collect the money, and after Huang Xuejun left, he said:
"Xiaolong, listening to what you said, are these three hundred and one deer sold cheaply? ”
"If it is specially raised, it will naturally be cheaper. Think about it, an adult male deer can sell for more than 100 yuan a year for its antler alone. Although a female deer has no antler, she can give birth to fawns. And the deer is full of treasures. , even if it is slaughtered, deer blood, deer whip, deer heart, etc. are all good things." Li Long said with a smile:
"But we may not be able to make this money.
We think it’s fine if we keep it now, but to be honest, it’s much more delicate than a donkey or a horse. If you don’t keep it well, it will still die if you get sick. When we grow up, especially in winter, we may not be able to raise it well.”
Three hundred yuan is indeed cheap, but Li Long really has his own ideas.
If you have a lot of money in your family, it doesn’t matter if you vent your anger. It is unlikely that this deer will be kept alive and kicking like this forever. In his last life, he traveled to Yili. There were people in the army there who were raising deer. I heard from the locals that there used to be more than 20 deer, but then an infectious disease wiped them all out.
It's better to stay safe.
After hearing what Li Long said, Lao Luo understood.
"Then let's just raise it casually. I think this wild boar is pretty good. It eats a lot and poops a lot, and it's still alive. It doesn't look like it's getting sick at all."
"Yes. , in our area, we can raise pigs and donkeys. We can raise other special breedings if we encounter them. It doesn’t matter if we don’t encounter them.”
It is just an experimental one in itself, and now there are. Earning three hundred a head is already pretty good.
Li Long rode his bike back to Li's house, and Tao Daqiang was already there.
"Let's cast more nets today," Li Long said, "let's cast ten to twelve nets. Bring the old nets with you and see if we can catch fish." Since the old man is interested, Li Long Of course I have to accompany you.
"Uncle, can I go together?" Li Qiang said from the side.
Li Juan also looked at them.
“Let’s go, you can go wherever you want.” Li Long said with a smile, “Mom, are you going?”
"What am I going to do? I'm not going. I have to cook pig food at home...you go."
"Then I'll keep it too. I'll go cut the pig grass later." Li Juan hesitated.
It's a bit sensible to make people feel distressed.
"What are you cutting pigweed for?" Li Long waved his hand, "Go and take a look. When I lowered the net, your grandfather and Daqiang cast the net, and you followed to pick up fish! When I come back from lowering the net, I'll ride Just go to our beet field and get some leaves. Of course, there are a lot of mosquitoes. If you are afraid of mosquitoes, then don't go."
"Go, I'll go! There are so many mosquitoes! "Li Juan laughed immediately after hearing this.
"Let's go!" Li Long waved his arm proudly, and Tao Daqiang had already picked up the tire and left the yard.
Li Long picked up the bag and followed behind. Li Qiang insisted on holding the basin for catching ditch fish. Li Qingxia said that he could not hold it, so Li Qiang insisted on showing it to his grandfather, talking and making trouble all the way. Just went out the door.
When they arrived at Xiaohaizi, there were people setting nets on the east bank, but Li Long and the others didn't care and went directly to the west bank.
It turned out that the flood had washed over here, and there was an opening. Inside the opening was an open water surface with no grass. The grass must have been washed away by the flood.
“You guys cast the net here. I rowed my tire inside and lowered the net. I remember there was a large area of water with no reeds growing there, so I went around that area and lowered the net.”
Li Long expressed his thoughts, then took out the knife he carried with him, cut some Achnatherum splendens from the nearby Jidun Dun and gave it to Li Juan and Li Qiang:
"Later, Daqiang will cast the net. You pick up the fish and then use this to string the fish together. "How do you do it?"
"I know!" Li Qiang said, "Put it in through the mouth and out through the cheek."
"Yes." Li Qiang put his head in the water, put the tire in the water, and sat on it with the mesh bag.
After rowing for more than ten meters, he started to set up nets beside the reeds. This time there were more than ten nets, which added up to nearly one kilometer. Even if he was very good at setting up nets, it would still take an hour. time.
I put the net in while paddling. I didn’t think anything was wrong at first. After waiting for half an hour, I felt my hands were tired. After all, I kept paddling and couldn’t row fast enough. I saw that half of the net was put in and there was still a big circle. This body of water was surrounded by reeds, and there was no wind yet. Although it was afternoon, the water was still very hot. I was already soaked in sweat. There was water on my pants, and the water felt hot.
From time to time, a water chicken or wild duck will emerge from the reeds. After it emerges, it will scream and dive into the water when it sees Li Long. Sometimes it can scare Li Long.
Li Long also had to be careful not to let these nasty little guys get into the net, otherwise at least half of the fish would not be caught in the net.
So, it’s not easy to make money, at least the part of getting off the Internet is quite tiring.
Most of the water was under the net. Li Long saw that there were three more nets left, and he planned to take a rest on the water.
Putting the water board on his legs, Li Long shook his arms, feeling a little sore and numb. After all, even a strong man would be tired if he maintained a mechanical posture for a long time.
I could vaguely hear Li Qiang’s screams from the shore. He must have been casting a net to catch the fish.
With Dad’s ability to cast a net, he is sure to catch fish, it’s just a question of how many.
There is no cigarette in his pocket, and Li Long has no desire to smoke. At first, he wanted to quit smoking completely, but he would take a puff occasionally, so quitting smoking should not be discussed at the beginning.
In this situation, if you have a pack of cigarettes in your pocket, you can slow down by taking a puff.
Just as he was thinking about it, Li Long felt something swimming over him out of the corner of his eye. He thought it was noodle fish roe at first - this thing likes to swim on the surface of the water and can bring up a big wave of water, making people think there is a big fish underwater. Wait I picked it up with a fishing net and found that it was only as long as chopsticks at most.
However, Li Long soon discovered that the water splash made by this thing was a bit long, and the fish roe was not capable of this. His hair suddenly stood up, and he picked up the water paddle and smashed it towards the water wave. Go down.
A snake was knocked out of the water by Li Long, and then fell into the water again!
Li Long didn't dare to stop. He hit it continuously with the water paddle. He had a lot of strength, and now he was frightened. After three or five strokes, the water snake turned over and floated.
Li Long hit the snake hard several more times, leaving blood marks all over the snake's body, and there was blood nearby, so he stopped.
Li Long carefully picked up the snake with a water paddle. Li Long saw that the snake was not weak and was soft, so it must be dead.
Still carefully holding the snake in his hand, he pulled out the knife he carried with him, cut off the snake's head and threw it far into the water. Only then did he feel relieved.
I remember reading in some villain book that the snake called Pheasant Neck could bite a person and kill him if its head was cut off, so he didn't dare to be careless. After all, what kind of snake was it? I don’t know, and I don’t know if it’s poisonous or not, so it’s better to be careful.
Li Long looked around again, but no more snakes came. He slapped the water so hard just now that he frightened some wild ducks and water chickens into the middle of the reeds.
There were snails on the water plants not far away, and they were inedible. Li Long withdrew his gaze, threw the snake into the net bag, and quickly lowered the net.
There is no need to delay. Even if I take a break, I will rest online.
In ten minutes, he finished lowering the remaining nets, and Li Long was almost at the shore. He dragged his tired body back to the place where Li Qingxia and others cast their nets, and was then dragged by Tao Daqiang. Ashore.
“I just heard you splashing around over there, what’s going on?” Li Qingxia asked while casting the net. "I met a water snake and I knocked it to death." Li Long was very calm now. After all, the snake was already dead, so it wasn't really a big deal if you think about it.
"What? Water snake?" Li Qiang had seen Li Long catch a water snake, but this thing was both scary and curious to the boy.
But it's different for girls. As soon as she heard that Li Long had killed the water snake, she stayed away from Li Long.
"Well, take a look." Li Long turned the mesh bag mouth down and poured out the headless water snake.
Although she was a few steps away, Li Juan still screamed in fright when she saw the snake.
"Hey, it's so long." Li Qingxia took a look and said, "There are a lot of snakes this long in my hometown. There was a time when students would encounter them every day when they went to school..."
" Grandpa, really?”
"Of course it's true." Li Qingxia said, "Just avoid it. No one can run fast anyway."
Li Qiang squatted down and carefully reached out to touch the snake.
He had already seen it, the snake had no head and was dead.
"Go back." Li Long said, "How many fish did you catch by casting the net?"
"Not many." Li Qingxia said, "About ten, both large and small."
"Uncle, can you roast this snake when you get back?"
This roasting means burning it directly under the stove, it feels a bit roasted. Li Long baked it for Li Qiang.
"Okay, we will burn it and eat it like fish. On the way back, you can get some sunflower leaves, the green ones."
This is a problem, and now the sunflower has also They are starting to turn yellow, and most of the ones with green leaves have seeds that germinate late or develop slowly.
"Okay!" Li Qiang agreed immediately as soon as he heard that it was edible.
A group of five people walked back. Tao Daqiang was still carrying the tire, Li Long was carrying two strings of fish and a net bag, and Li Qingxia and the two children were at the back.
"Brother Long, my brother asked me to ask you if I can do anything to make money..." Tao Daqiang suddenly spoke, "School is about to start, and my brother's baby is going to school. , miscellaneous fees have to be paid..."
Li Long can understand Tao Daqiang's thoughts. After all, they are brothers. It is possible that Tao Jianshe asked Tao Daqiang to ask this question.
"You wait two days and I'll check the market situation." Li Long thought for a while and said.
In fact, he also has an idea. Some things may not be possible by one person, but they still need to be scaled up. Just like knitting a handle or making a big broom, the best way to make money is to be the middleman yourself, with someone doing the work and someone receiving the goods.
However, I don’t know if anyone will take the thing he is currently targeting, so I will let it go for two days.
Tao Daqiang nodded and did not continue speaking.
Back home, the sun was still a pole high, so Li Long quickly pulled off the snake skin, chopped it into several pieces, and peeled several palm-sized crucian carps, and rubbed them with salt and chili powder. After a while, he wrapped the sunflower leaves picked by Li Qiang, soaked them in water and wetted them with Malian leaves, and then stuffed them into the stove.
Du Chunfang had been lighting a fire previously, and there were hot ashes under the stove, which was enough to cook these things.
"Watch it yourself, I'm going to get the beet leaves now." Li Long said.
"Uncle, I'll go with you." Li Juan said hurriedly.
"Okay." Li Long didn't refuse. One more person would make it faster.
Li Long took two urea bags and put them on the back seat, asked Li Juan to sit down, got on the horse and headed east.
Half an hour later, he rode back again. The sun hadn't completely set yet, and the pigs in the pigsty had already begun to bray.
Two large bags of beet leaves were quickly chopped and put into a large pot. Bring to a boil. Pour in the bran and sunflower oil residue left after pressing the oil. Stir a few times. This pig Just eat.
After pouring out the pig food, pour some sugar residue, mix it, let it cool, and then feed it to the pigs.
While feeding the pigs, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei came back from work. The family had a simple supper, and Li Long returned to his horse number.
Lao Luo gave Li Long five hundred yuan and said:
"In the afternoon, factory manager Huang came with a car and took the deer away. This is the money he left behind."
Li Long took the money in his hand, took out fifty and handed it to Uncle Luo, and said with a smile:
"Uncle Luo, this is a red envelope. You have always fed this deer. Without you, I wouldn't be able to sell it for the money."
"No, no, no, it's been agreed a long time ago, twenty yuan." The salary is the same as that of a worker." Old Uncle Luo waved his hands hurriedly, "Xiaolong, I know you are kind and righteous, but I really can't accept this money.
I don't have much to spend on you. Check out the food court There is it in the bag. You gave me so much to eat meat, and you even gave me honey and dangshen, etc. I dare not accept it - I can’t even ask for this money. Xiaolong, I don’t have pink eye, so I can accept anything. I still know what money can't be collected. You should collect the money - you are about to get married, and you have more ways to use your money. You need this more than I do."
That's what Li Long said. No more persistence.
The next day, Li Long got up early and went to Li's house. Tao Daqiang was already standing outside the hospital. Li Long admired Daqiang very much, and there was no alarm clock or anything like that, so how could he get up?
When Li Qingxia heard the noise outside, he also put on his clothes and left the house. It was still a little cold outside at this time. He was not wearing a shirt like Li Long, but a coat.
"Let's go." Li Long said, knowing that the old man was actually in good health, "There are many nets today, so it will take a while to collect them, and it will take a while to choose fish later."
"Again Don’t be afraid of more, as long as there are more fish, that’s fine,” Li Qingxia said with a smile.
"Daqiang, do you want to go selling fish with us today? If you want to go, I will take you to the county, and you and my father will sell fish in the market together?" Li Long asked as he walked.
"Okay." Tao Daqiang thought for a while, nodded, but then asked, "The network..."
"Come back and pick them up together. There are twelve nets, and you can't pick them up by yourself."
Li Long mainly thought that if the old man went to sell fish alone, he would encounter a second-rate man and be confused.
Xiaohaizi is very quiet in the early morning, except for a few people who are closing the nets. Yes, it is not only Li Long who is closing the nets, but also those who lower the nets.
Li Long came back three times - there were not only water chickens but also water plants on the net, but the fish were still quite impressive.
More than one hundred kilograms! (End of chapter)