During the festival, we spent the night admiring the moon, which actually didn’t take long. The moon is really bright, making other stars basically lose their light. Li Juan and Li Qiang just ate two pieces of watermelon and didn't think much about apples and mooncakes.
"You all clamored that you wanted to eat when there was none. Now I let you eat, and you don't eat. It's really difficult to serve!" Liang Yuemei complained.
I’m not really complaining, I just don’t want to waste the food. In fact, she was very happy when she went to her parents' house today. My parents are still in good health, and the second child has stopped making noises - my family is doing well, and I take a lot of things from home. My brother-in-law can only say a few sarcastic words, and he has lost his original temper when talking to Li Jianguo.
My family has a strong foundation and I have the confidence to return to my parents’ home with dignity.
Both men and women these days really take face very seriously.
"Just eat one mooncake, but you'll get tired of it if you eat two." Li Qiang said loudly, "Can I bring mooncakes to school tomorrow?"
"Bring it, bring it." Liang Yuemei waved her hand, "Don't bring too much, just use it. Wrap the paper, don't mess with the textbooks and homework books."
"Got it, Mom."
Li Long returned to Lao Ma, and Lao Luo was not alone either. The three five-guaranteed households in the team sat together outside the courtyard of Laomahao. There were two bottles of wine, apple moon cakes and other items on the table. There were also two plates of hot dishes. The brothers talked about the past and drank happily.
"Hey, Xiaolong is here?" Facing Li Long who came over, another five-guaranteed household sitting at the table, Yang Jukui, an old revolutionary, raised his cup:
"Have a drink?"
"No more, Uncle Yang, you guys have a drink. Is the food enough? Do you want me to get two more?"
"No, no, you got it. This dried bone is really good." Yang Jukui waved his hand, "Dried fish. Not bad, Lao Luo is living a good life.”
“Take some of this dried meat with you when you leave. Take two to taste.”
"Do you have mine?" Another person turned his head and asked with a smile.
"Yes, they are all."
This one's name is Ma Fengshan, and he is different from the other two. This one is from a local household. He was married before and worked as a long-term laborer for the original landlord. The landlord ran away and his wife After death, he finally became a five-guarantee household.
Li Long was not so polite to Yang Jukui in his previous life. In his opinion, he is just a lonely old man with no children, a bit weird temper, and a maverick kind of person.
I vaguely heard Li Jianguo say that this man had already worked on the hidden front during the liberation of northern and southern Xinjiang. In the words of the time, he was a "secret agent" of the Communist Party hidden here. His salary is not low. It is said that his salary is higher than that of some leaders in the township. The superiors also hope that he can live in a nursing home, but he said that he is in good health now and will not go.
In the last life, Li Long was jealous of this person, but slowly, looking at the things posted on the short video platform, in this life, Li Long has taken these old revolutionaries with him. Respected.
What’s the point of eating two pieces of meat? Without them, let alone eating meat, I would have to look at other people’s eyes if I wanted to eat chaff!
It’s just that old man Yang Jukui passed away early. It is said that there was a hidden injury in his body - it was not visible at ordinary times, and he could not be saved when it happened.
"Xiaolong is a good young man." Lao Luo said with a smile, "I have everything he eats at home, and his salary - Lao Yang, if you say your salary is high, I don't envy you. You paid for it with your life, so it’s no wonder that I have a salary.”
“Well, Xiaolong Renyi. ." After Li Long left, Yang Jukui nodded, "You've gained a lot of weight, so you're doing better than before."
"Of course you have no time to spare. "When he said this, Lao Luo seemed to be complaining, but in fact the other two could see that he was trying to get away with it.
The next day, Li Long and Tao Daqiang continued to set nets to catch fish.
"Brother Long, can I carry two more nets?" Tao Daqiang asked while taking the net, "I think the water near the trough in Dahaizi is not deep. I will go into the water and try to see if I can catch him. Fish."
"Okay." Li Long naturally had nothing to disagree with. You can't always let Tao Daqiang strike from behind. You still have to let go when it's time to let go.
You can walk to get off the net, no carriage required, troublesome. Li Long still rowed the tire to get down into the trough. Tao Daqiang took off his pants, held the net and slowly waded through the water. When it was waist deep, he started to release the net.
There are no aquatic plants in the water, so there are no insects such as ducks and turtles, and Tao Daqiang is not afraid.
The water was not very light, and because the water surface was large, there would be ripples. He found a suitable place and lowered two nets.
As soon as I lowered the net, I saw that there were small white strips stuck to the net - Tao Daqiang was very happy, there should be a lot of fish tomorrow, right?
Early the next morning, two people hitched a carriage and headed towards Dahaizi, pulling tires and bags. Li Long went to fetch the ten nets he had laid in the trough, and Tao Daqiang went directly to fetch his two nets.
When Li Long took back four nets and two bags of fish, he saw Tao Daqiang standing on the shore with his head lowered, and asked:
"How are you doing, Daqiang?"
"Brother Long, they are all white stripes. They are all dead. Some of them have no head or half a body..."
Li Long watched Tao Daqiang spread the net. It was not all white stripes. , there are also some crucian carp hanging below, struggling hard.
There are a lot of white strips, and most of them are hanging in the upper holes of the net. About one-third of them are missing body parts.
“There are so many white strips here—those should be picked up by the osprey. Think about it, the white strips will die as soon as they come online. If they float on top, the ospreys will definitely pick them up when they see them.”
At this time, it is the osprey. After thirty or forty years, it will be the crabs that directly climb onto the web and eat the fish stuck on the web - most of them directly eat the fish heads or fish eyes. Those crabs are serious foodies, and many of them got themselves entangled in the web while eating other fish.
“Take it back and feed it to the chickens.” Li Long said, “You can’t eat these white bars.”
In fact, you can eat them, but you just don’t like them.
Tao Daqiang also knew that this was the only way to go. He took the bag handed over by Li Long and began to select fish.
After catching ten nets, Li Long was basically sure that big fish like to be in the trough, but the density of fish in this big sea should not be as good as that in small seas. He just found the fish's habitat by himself.
Go back to Li's house, quickly select the fish, and then go to sell the fish. Tao Daqiang began to deal with the nets.
A few days later, after the team’s oil sunflowers and corns were completely processed, they began to divide the land.
"Xiaolong, are you going?" Li Jianguo asked.
“I won’t go.” Li Long waved his hand, “Brother, you decide this matter.”
“Yes.”
Everyone knows that if each person is divided into three acres of grain land, the Li family will suddenly become 25 acres of land. Including the five acres of beverage land, it suddenly becomes thirty acres of land, a proper landlord.
These days, apart from sowing and plowing, everything else is done manually, and farming thirty acres of land is quite tiring.
“I’ve thought about it, Xiaolong, we won’t pay for digging beets then.” Li Jianguo said, “Go and see if you can catch anything in the mountains, bring it back and call some young people. They must be happy when people cook meat and gnaw bones."
"That's okay." Li Long thought about it. Nowadays, people are short of oil and water, and they are reluctant to spend money, and it is easy to make relationships difficult. If you call everyone over to eat meat and let them help with the work, you will definitely be very happy.
The land was divided again by drawing lots, this time it was allocated to the land behind the village and adjacent to Dahaizi. Li Jianguo was very lucky and directly captured the westernmost part. Further to the west was the wasteland. To the west of the wasteland was Weigou, which extended all the way from Xiaohaizi.
This land can be expanded further.
On the second day after the distribution of the land, Li Long went to sell fish but did not return to the team. He packed up his bicycle and bought some supplies, mainly food, and then carried a gun on his back. Up the mountain.
Going to Harry Mudong's nest, Li Long found that Harry Mu was not there, so he put down his things and rode his bicycle to the wooden house.
The door is fine, but the plastic paper on the window has been torn and there are signs of being re-spread. Li Long thought to himself, is there a thief?
He opened the door and went in, and found several bottles of honey on the wooden floor in the small room.
Li Long understood immediately. It should be Lu Dafeng who released it - he should have left the mountains this season and gone to another place, right?
Before leaving, he also knew to leave some honey for himself. This is a grateful person.
Li Long put away the honey, put away the bicycle, went out with the gun, and went to the hot spring.
The grass in the mountains has turned yellow. The leaves of the Codonopsis pilosula that were easy to identify are now almost falling off, and there is only a bare stem left on the plant above.
Li Long felt that it was time to dig for Codonopsis pilosula, otherwise it would be difficult to find it in another month.
Most of the leaves of the broad-leaved leaves are also falling, and they are either golden or purple in color, and they look very beautiful. The amount of hot spring water is slightly smaller than the last time I came here, but I think I can still take a dip in those pools.
Li Long walked up the stream and when he reached the hot spring pool, he found that there were no animals here. The water in the pool was very clear and still smelled of sulfur.
There is no excrement visible on the edge of the pool, and I don’t know if these animals haven’t been here for a while.
Since there were no animals, Li Long took off his clothes and folded them, put the gun next to his clothes, and soaked in it himself.
So comfortable!
Just where to hunt wild boars?
Most wild boars may not come back to the places where they have been hunted before, but Li Long also knows not to cover his head when searching. He plans to come back tomorrow morning to have a look. If not, then go to where there were wild boars before. Places to wander.
After all, there are foods that wild boars like to eat in those places, so you should be able to encounter them, right?
After soaking for half an hour, Li Long got up, got dressed, and walked back with a gun on his back.
On the road, I occasionally see wild rabbits scurrying into the woods, but Li Long has no interest in hunting them. The main reason is that it is difficult to chase. It is a bit exaggerated to shoot this with a half-dozen guns.
Back at the wooden house, it was getting dark. Li Long was too lazy to cook properly, so he steamed some of the dried meat he had saved and ate it slowly.
He planned to go to bed early, but before he could rest, the sound of horse hooves was heard outside.
Li Long guessed that it was Harimu who came. (End of this chapter)