Chapter 273 How to get an extra wife?
When Li Long left the courtyard, he specifically told Gu Xiaoxia that it was best not to let mother and daughter know the location of the courtyard. If you want to see it, just go to the free market and have a look. It's already settled, so there's no need to get too close.
Not relatives after all.
Li Long's almost defensive mentality made Gu Xiaoxia a little confused, but the image Li Long had established in the past was quite reliable, so Gu Xiaoxia agreed without thinking too much.
Li Long returned home on his bicycle, and Du Chunfang was the only one in the yard.
"Mom, where is my father?" Li Long held up his bicycle and asked Du Chunfang, who was chopping pigweed there.
Now Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang collect nets every morning. Du Chunfang sometimes helps, and sometimes goes to the vegetable garden or the field in front to get pigweed.
The fields of the production team here are large, and many of the weeds growing on the field stalks are what pigs like to eat. You can get a basket or a urea bag to make a basket in a while.
Although the Li family has obtained a lot of feed, Du Chunfang feels that it is better to get some grass or something to feed the pigs.
The Li family’s pigs grow quickly and have plenty of feed. They have grown to 70 or 80 kilograms in September. In previous years, the pigs were fed to the same size until the end of the year. I think this year I might be able to feed them up to 100 kilograms.
Li Long remembered that in his last life, the people in the team raised pigs using pure corn, soybeans, bran and other grains and oil residues. Although they raised lean pigs, when the pigs were slaughtered at the end of the year, the pig heads were removed. The hoof and internal organs weighed one hundred and forty kilograms.
The pigs are really open to feeding, and they grow really big.
Li Jianguo also said that among the pigs here, two sows will be left to find breeding pigs for breeding next year. The rest will be slaughtered before the end of the year, and some will be sold directly to the purchasing station in the countryside. Sell directly to the folks, or go to the free market.
It was getting colder then, so I wasn’t afraid of the smell of meat anymore. After all, there are only a few folks in the team who raise pigs. If they can be frozen by the end of the year, who wouldn't want some meat to eat?
As for the breeding pigs, Li Jianguo has already thought about it. There are many pigs raised in the village. The pig farmer in the team next door specially got a Ukrainian large white pig as a breeding pig. He has not done this at home, but he can Spend money to breed.
The breeding of breeding pigs itself is a regular income for professional pig farmers. Li Long still remembers that in two years, there will be breeding pigs. At the turn of spring and summer, the breeding pigs will be driven from house to house in the countryside to find breeding pigs. At that time, the money was not as high as It’s so expensive now, and a match costs only five yuan or ten yuan—a lot of income in a day.
“The old man went to the field to look at sunflowers.” Du Chunfang said with a smile, “Are the fish sold out? Your father said that the sunflowers are growing well this year - your elder brother said that you brought back a lot of dung in the spring. Very useful.”
"Well, there is a lot of dung in the mountains. When the fields are harvested, we will have to pull a few more carts. In the future, this land will not be moved for a few years or more, so the dung will be for ourselves. It’s food for parents,” Li Long said casually. He backed up the car and went to draw water from the well.
"Don't drink cold water. There is dried mung bean soup in the house." Du Chunfang thought Li Long wanted to drink well water and said hurriedly, "You just came back from outside and you are covered in sweat. You can't drink this." "Cold water, don't be too excited."
"Mom, I know, I'll just wipe my face. It's so gray on the road." Li Long smiled and washed his face with the basin, then returned to the kitchen. inside.
There is a pot of sloppy mung bean soup hanging out in the kitchen. Some people like to drink this soup, while others like to drink the soup base with sand.
Li Long scooped up a bowl of soup and drank it. He felt that it was not enough, so he drank another bowl.
Looking at the half-drained mung bean soup, Li Long searched in the kitchen and found some mung beans, took them out, washed them with water, and boiled them in the pot.
"Why are you still cooking? Isn't there?" Du Chunfang was a little confused.
"That's not enough." Li Long said with a smile, "My dad, my eldest brother, and Juan, Qiangqiang, who wouldn't take a few sips when we come back? This is not the same as watermelon... It's okay to have more .”
He has always been curious about a question: Why are all the mung bean soups cooked at this time green, but why are the mung bean soups cooked in later generations red?
After a pot of mung bean soup was cooked, Li Long took out the soup. While cleaning the pot, Li Qingxia walked into the yard holding a sickle.
"Dad, why don't you ride a bicycle?" Li Long asked with a smile.
“Don’t dare to ride randomly. The road is not good. If you get a camel thorn, you have to repair it. It’s troublesome.” Li Qingxia started to protect the bicycle after the last tire puncture. Carefully.
"How about the oil sunflower?" Li Long asked.
"That's great. It's almost dry and I can hold it." Li Qingxia said, "There are sparrows that have already begun to eat the melon seeds. If they don't work, just hold them."
There is no harvester at this time. , harvesting oil sunflower, or harvesting anything, is basically manual. Each person has a sack or urea bag and a sickle. Everyone held a line, and it was easy to just cut off the head of the oil sunflower and stuff it into a bag and continue moving forward.
Of course, it is quicker. Usually after collecting the oil sunflower heads, you will use a sickle to chop down the pole. After all the sunflowers are harvested and the poles are dried thoroughly in the ground, they will be tied up with reed waists and taken back as firewood.
Sunflower poles and corn poles have been the mainstays of summer fires in farmers’ homes for a long time.
In winter, it’s natural to use Haloxylon ammodendron wood and coal.
There are especially many sparrows at this time, and the insect-eating season has passed. They mainly eat wheat, sunflowers and corn. Generally speaking, the old bird at this time is more delicious, because it is no longer a bug, but food, and it is not a pity to catch it.
"In that case, it will be harvested in a few days." Li Long said, calculating that the season is almost here.
He thought of the famous oil sunflower variety "Diao Datou" in his previous life. The pole was one meter and two meters high, which was nearly twice as short as the current one. People didn't have to raise their heads to cut the pole. It was flat. It was cut off. The flower plate of that sunflower is very big. For example, nowadays sunflower disks are usually considered quite large if they are 20 centimeters in diameter, and the short ones can grow to 30 centimeters or even 40 centimeters. The seeds are also large.
There was a time when all the oil sunflowers in the team were growing this variety.
But later, because cotton, a cash crop, had a protected price by the state, and the price suddenly shot up, some people in the team became rich, so almost all the land was planted with cotton. .
The short and big-headed man is no longer seen in the team.
While Li Long was thinking wildly, Li Qingxia had already entered the room and drank two bowls of mung bean soup. He wiped his mouth with satisfaction and said to Li Long:
"Xiaolong, what are you planning to do today?" A net?”
“Dad, you are at the market today. How are the fish sales going? "
"It's average. There are fewer people buying fish," Li Qingxia said, "It's not selling as fast as yesterday - there are seven or eight fish sellers in the market. There are people, and there are a lot of cheap ones, but our sales are not so smooth.”
"Then let's set two fewer nets and go earlier." Li Long said, "There are many regular customers in Shicheng, and they recognize our fish. There are also a few nets in the team here, and they all go to the county to sell. There's a lot of competition."
"Okay." Li Qingxia is quite satisfied. Even if he sells less, he still earns ten, twenty or thirty yuan. How could he not be satisfied?
While talking, Tao Daqiang walked over from outside. The three people started to take out tires and set up nets. The tire was a little under-inflated. After Tao Da pressed it hard, he found a thin wire and poked the soap on the tire valve core, and then started to blow out the air.
This thing needs to be tied with a rope every day, and it needs to be untied when I come back from fetching the fish. There was a voice outside where the three of them were busy.
Li Long heard these words:
"The Li family is here."
"Yes, yes, this is it. I just saw Li Long coming back."
“You Is she really Li Long’s daughter-in-law? Hehe, it’s fun to watch!”
“I am related to Li Long’s mother, and we agreed to marry Li Long. How could it be a lie... ”
After hearing this, his mind was pounding.
Another old incident from the past life was brought up.
In fact, in the last life, Li Long's father and mother also came here at this time, but they went back not long after they came. After all, Li Long had no future in his previous life, Li Jianguo was also busy here, and Du Chunfang was still the youngest son, and had some unpleasant troubles with Liang Yuemei.
There was no Lao Mahao at that time, and it was difficult to fit so many people into three rooms. In the end, my parents went back.
Before going back, Du Chunfang quietly told Li Long that she had introduced him to a person, who was a relative from her mother's side. Of course, it was a relatively distant relative. They were in the 56, 78 and 88 servers, and they lived in a village. , I don’t know if they were the same family many decades ago.
After Li Long was dumped by Wu Shufen, he still wanted to get back together with the girl, so he refused. I just didn't expect that after Du Chunfang and the others returned, the girl came from her hometown to look for Li Long.
But what is more dramatic is that the girl is actually quite thoughtful. Before coming to find Li Long, she first inquired about Li Long in the team. After knowing that Li Long is not a worker now, and he is not very upright at ordinary times, When you do it, come over and explain it clearly to Li Long.
Said that although the elders of both families wished the two of them well, she met a positive young man on the way here. Free love was popular in this era, so she hoped to make it clear to Li Long that they Don't interfere, let each of you find your own happiness.
This girl is not Li Long's cup of tea, so Li Long agreed. He also felt that the other party was quite independent.
It was not until a few years later that I slowly pieced together the truth of the matter. It was not that the girl was looking for true love, but that the girl had a clear goal and did not like her.
But now, he has come to the door, and the meaning behind his words is very clear - that is, he wants to find out his true identity!
Li Long panicked at first, not because he was worried that the matter would not be solved, but mainly because he was afraid that Gu Xiaoxia would misunderstand!
He suddenly thought of Gu Boyuan, then turned around and ran away.
There was no other house outside the east wall of the Li family at this time - according to the residential land, usually two houses were side by side, one with an east gate and one with a west gate. However, the area was large at this time, and everyone wanted to live alone, so the east side of Li's house was vacant.
Li Long ran directly out from the east and ran towards the Gu family.
This matter will definitely reach Gu Xiaoxia's ears in the end. No matter what happens in the end, if you say it yourself, it can still easily cause misunderstandings.
So, if we deal with the prospective father-in-law first, then things will be easier to handle.
This is what Li Long thinks.
When he walked around to the main road from the east, he looked back at the door of his courtyard and saw several aunts, sisters-in-law and daughters-in-law gathered around the door. They were planning to watch a joke.
Although the people in the village come from all kinds of backgrounds, everyone basically lives behind closed doors according to the traditions of their own family. The habits brought from different places do not need to be spread, and there are not so many stereotypes and bad habits, but To be honest, it is a common problem to not see the people around you living well.
How is life in the Li family? That is naturally very good. And it seems to be better than ordinary people.
There are less than six bicycles in the whole village, and the Li family only has two!
There are less than ten horse-drawn carriages and donkey-carts in the whole village, and the Li family has one.
There are less than twenty pigs in the whole village, and the Li family accounts for half of them.
Not to mention other things, these alone have already made some people jealous and panicked.
Of course, it's just jealousy. Everyone knows that this is the result of hard work. So even if you are jealous, such dirty things will rarely happen even in the next few decades.
For example, there are many posts on the Internet. When the fishing pond makes money, someone will sprinkle a handful of medicine or something... but there is really no such thing.
Because in the 1990s, Xiaohaizi was washed away. After Dahaizi was contracted, someone actually contracted a deserted beach behind the village and between Dahaizi, dug more than a dozen fishing ponds, and raised fish. fish.
At first everyone looked at the joke and thought, can this make money?
People have trucks and they send the fish they raise directly to Wucheng to sell, and they really make money.
After making money, from time to time, I would ask the well-known "fishermen" in the village to help me clean the bottom of the pond. Of course, I would pay, not only the money, but also the fish.
This fish was still raised until the year when Li Long died.
Someone in Dahaizi was contracted to raise crabs in iron cages on the north shore. The most people in the team could do was to catch some crabs that escaped from the cages at night on the south shore of Dahaizi. At most, I caught an excess of fifty-sixty-one kilograms and sold them in the market—and then I was reported.
That's it, no one sprinkled medicine into the water - there really is no such thing as annihilating descendants.
But watching the excitement is different - you are allowed to make money and live a better life than other families in the Li family, but you are not allowed to allow others to see the excitement in your family?
That's impossible.
Li Long understands the thoughts of these people too well. They just want the Li family and the Gu family to misunderstand. Of course, it would be better if there is no misunderstanding. This confirms that Li Long is a scumbag and the Li family is the Yuan elder in the village. , in fact, if you do some immoral things secretly, your reputation will be ruined.
Li Long fled to the Gu family.
Gu Bo is far away.
Although Li Long vaguely remembered where the Gu family's land was, he didn't dare to go there - he had to pass through the residential area in front of him, and he might bump into it accidentally. He still had to let Gu Boyuan understand the truth of the matter as soon as possible. , at least don’t make your first impression so bad.
But Gu Bo is far away, what should I do?
Li Long was anxious in the yard. After waiting for a while, he saw that Gu Boyuan hadn't come back yet, so he strode out.
Can't wait any longer.
(End of this chapter)