Dozens of bags of fish were piled in the yard. Fortunately, Li Long has often gone out to sell fish this year, and he is an "employee" of the supply and marketing cooperative, so he has so many bags at home, otherwise he would not be able to pack the fish!
The fish were put in bags and covered with snow. And the life that follows is not easy.
In order to make it easier to sell fish later, these fish need to be broken open one by one while they are not completely frozen, and then add some snow before putting them into bags.
Otherwise, when the fish are transported to the market and sold later, all the fish in the bag will be frozen into a lump. At that time, I am afraid that it will be difficult to separate them even with an axe, and they may be divided into pieces.
Fortunately, this life is not difficult. The fish is not very frozen now. The next day, Li Long and Li Anguo started working in the yard.
Drag a bag of fish outside into the snow, pour it down, and then start to break the fish. After breaking it, when you put it into the bag, you will add some snow. In this way, there is snow as an intermediate, and even if it is frozen, it will not freeze. It will be so frozen.
The five of them were all wearing gloves. They were not very skilled at the beginning, but their movements became faster later on. A bag of fish is ready in minutes.
As the sun rose, Li Long shouted to Chen Xingbang and the others:
"Brother-in-law, second brother, don't look far away, it's easy to become blind from the snow."
" Oh, I get it." Several people had heard Li Jianguo say this, so they were very concerned about it.
While he was busy, someone called Li Long from a distance.
Li Long took a look and was surprised to find that it was Tietou, the son of Lu Yingming, the neighbor across the door from the Li family.
"Tietou, are you... chasing rabbits?"
Tietou is holding two rabbits in his hand, one is dead and frozen, and the other is still alive He was kicking his legs, obviously alive.
"I chased you yesterday." Lu Tietou said as he walked over with a bit of pride, "Brother Xiaolong, my father asked me to bring this rabbit for you to eat."
"Really?" Li Long smiled, "How many rabbits did you chase yesterday?"
"Nine!" Tietou said proudly, "Four more were chased this morning...and they ran away yesterday. One, otherwise there would be ten in total!”
“It’s awesome!” Li Long gave a thumbs up.
"Well, you can take it and eat it. My family can't finish it." Lu Tietou took the rabbit and handed it to Li Long, "Brother Xiaolong, take it. I will go to the east to see it in the afternoon. Look.”
These are two big rabbits, both weighing more than three kilograms, and they look quite fat.
"Then I'll give it to you..." Li Long hesitated.
"My dad said, these are just for you to eat. We also got two from Uncle Jianguo. I used to eat your meat a lot, and this rabbit is nothing..."
Lu Tietou seemed to know what Li Long wanted to say. After giving the rabbit to Li Long, he turned around and left quickly.
Li Long smiled.
Li Junfeng came over and asked curiously:
"Uncle Xiaolong, whose baby is this? It's so strange that he gave us a rabbit."
"We belong to the opposite family." Li Long mentioned the rabbit, looked at it and said, "Our two families have a good relationship. ."
He turned around and carried a bag. Li Junshan, who came over from the fish, said:
"Junshan, go and bring the rabbit to Uncle Luo. Let's fry the rabbit for lunch today."
"Okay." Li Junshan smiled and put down the fish. He took the rabbit and turned back to the horse.
"Hey, this is different. We also give rabbits, two at a time. In my hometown, no matter how good our relationship is, we just serve a bowl of cooked rabbit meat." Li Anguo sighed.
People's hearts change people's hearts.
That’s what Li Long said in his heart.
With this episode, although Li Junshan is missing, everyone talks more while working. It was probably Li Junfeng who was asking Li Long, besides rabbits, what other things were there in the wild, especially edible and valuable things.
They are all adults, and they can actually react very quickly. This is not the mouth, and there are not so many people, so inhuman things will naturally grow or live in the large no-man's land outside.
"There aren't many things on this dry beach. If you can get something valuable, a fox is a fox, and its skin is worth a few bucks. Badger, this skin is not bad. What else..." Li Long thought for a while and said, "It's nothing more. There's a lot to eat." , Not to mention rabbits, there are hedgehogs when it’s hot, and croaking chickens in winter. I’ll take you to touch them when you have time. It’s good to fry them and eat them.”
“That’s not much.” Li Junfeng felt dissatisfied.
“There are not many on the dry beach, but there are many in the mountains.” Li Long pointed to the horse horn and said, “I have herdsmen friends in the mountains. They often graze and know where there are wild things, such as wild boars. When they encounter wild boars Group, ambush, kill two in one night, one or two hundred kilograms of meat, even fifty cents per kilogram, that’s a lot of money, right?”
That’s the truth.
"There are also deer. If you can't touch a deer, you can sell the antlers for money." Li Long added, "The same goes for roe deer antlers, which cost several pieces per kilogram. A pair of antlers is as big as A dozen kilograms is worth tens of dollars. If you encounter a deer in the winter, the deer skin will cost dozens of dollars, and the deer meat will be saved for eating. The deer whip and other things are also valuable. "
"Then there are wolves. But you have to use a gun to kill them. Most wolves in the mountains live in groups of three or five. You can attack them secretly, but you can't let them surround you."
Thinking that it's snowing, Harimu and the others should do the same. Are you back?
"There are so many good things..." Li Junfeng looked amazed. "This is a living thing. There are a lot of medicinal materials. Fritillaria and Codonopsis pilosula are all very valuable. You should come a few days early to dig Codonopsis pilosula in the mountains. You can also make some money."
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"Then no one will care?" Li Anguo asked.
"How is it possible that no one cares about it?" Li Long smiled, "There is a forestry team in the mountains, and people patrol the mountains every day - but I have an identity. I am a part-time ranger of the forestry team, and I am one of my own, so I don't care."
Chen Xingbang finally knew why his old father-in-law boasted about how happy he was in the mountains every day when he returned to his hometown. With Li Long's identity, why don't you walk sideways in the mountains?
At almost noon, the four people had processed almost one-fifth of the fish. It seemed that this was a very long process.
But it must be done. Everyone knows very well that since you took the money before, don't be picky now and just be obedient.
Li Long's series of operations made them fully understand that this young man who is only 21 years old has an unusually flexible mind. He can be the leader of these people and lead them to make money. No problem.
And he won't treat them badly.
That’s it.
Lunch is rice with braised rabbit. Uncle Luo doesn't know how to make spicy rabbit meat. Even this braised pork was learned from Li Long's braised wild boar meat here several times before.
The taste is pretty good.
“This rabbit meat is really chewy.” Li Junfeng commented while chewing, “There is a lot of meat, but it is not as delicious as pork.”
At this time, when people eat meat, they pay attention to eating fat, which is completely opposite to that of later generations. Because at this time, I feel that fat only smells good.
After all, most people are short of oil and water and need to replenish it.
"If you eat something, don't worry about it." Chen Xingbang laughed and scolded, "In my hometown, I drink water every day at this time, and I don't see you saying anything."
"Then Aren't you here with good conditions?" Li Junfeng also smiled playfully, "Uncle Jianguo and Uncle Xiaolong are still very respectable. I brought some rabbits over, hey, that’s great.”
“I’m going to kill pigs and make pig-killing dishes at home in the next few days, so I’ll definitely invite someone else to do it.” Li Anguo found out when he was chatting with Li Jianguo. He said this while eating, "There will be a lot of people coming then, right?"
"There must be people of all ages." Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, "Last year Xiaolong brought two wild boars back, and Jianguo and the others asked people to help make butchered pork. It was so lively..."
"Then it will definitely be lively this year too... ..." Li Junfeng said with a smile, "When pigs are killed in my hometown, it is also lively..."
"There are few people here. If there is any activity, it will definitely not be as lively as in my hometown." Li Long said while eating, "But what can I say, there are more people and more people are lively, and there are fewer people and less people."
< br>"That's right, it's easier to work when there are more people, but it's easier to eat steamed buns when there are fewer people." Li Anguo added, and everyone laughed.
Continue fishing in the afternoon. The bags of fish were pulled out, separated one by one in the snow, and then put back inside. Li Long sighed in his heart, the snow at this time was so clean, unlike in later generations, when it snowed, he would hold a snow dumpling in his hand, and the dumpling would be filled with ash.
There are no big factories now, and the weather is good no matter winter or summer. Thirty or forty years later, there are various factories nearby. In winter, the big chimneys are smoking. The development zone in Shicheng is even more smoky. The entire North Tianshan Mountains stretch for hundreds of kilometers and are all gray.
The economy developed at that time, but it was hard to see a sunny day in winter.
The fish was still being divided the next day, and by this time there were less than a third of the fish left to be untied. Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang also joined in. Originally, they came here to ask Li Long to see if he had trapped a few rabbits, but seeing everyone working here, they followed suit.
“The ice over Xiaohaizi is not very thick.” Yang Yongqiang said while working, “Meng Zhiqiang and the others are still breaking holes in the ice, trying to catch fish, but there are not many fish under the holes. It's less than five kilograms a day..."
"The fish is not lacking in oxygen now, so it will definitely not come up," Li Long said, and asked again:
“Didn’t they go to Dahaizi to catch fish?”
“Meng Zhiqiang found out too late.” Yang Yongqiang explained, “When he found out, he went over and got less than ten kilograms of fish. If you go to the street, you can’t sell it at a high price.”
The fish from Dahaizi are indeed not as popular as the fish from Xiaohaizi. But in a month, when the land is frozen, people who want to eat fish will not have many choices. So Li Long was not worried.
"We will go sell fish together in a while." Li Long pointed to the fish in these bags and said, "You should also come when you are free. Again, let's see what happens this winter. , can you make money in the next year!”
Even if a kilogram of almost ten tons of fish is only sold for 50 or 60 cents, after excluding the cost, it is still several thousand dollars.
Calculating, it’s still less than a year’s money, maybe half a year at most.
But if we distribute money to everyone, it will be enough for nearly a year, so that others can have a good New Year.
Actually, there were many people in the village selling fish to Li Long this time. It was just that they arrived late, and in this year, especially after autumn, they got reeds twice. I earned some money, unlike the villages below Dahaizi, where there was no such work, so the money I earned was less.
So most of those who didn’t catch a lot of fish still took them home and ate them themselves. After all, winter is still very long. If we can release this fish now, it will be no problem to eat it all winter long.
But the attitude of the people in the village towards Li Long has changed significantly. Except for a few people with brain problems, everyone knows that in the past year, everyone has a little money and a little wealth at home. The biggest contribution is naturally the land allocated by the superiors, and the second is Li Long.
It was he who showed everyone how to make money, and he also brought work to the village so that everyone could actually earn money.
Li Long accepted such looks calmly, and he also happily accepted things brought by others. In the past few days, Lu Tietou was not the only one who brought rabbits to Ma Hao.
So the people on the horse side ate several rabbits.
Until Gu Xiaoxia appeared.
Li Anguo and four other people met Li Long's partner for the first time. This girl, who had lost her original aura of a yellow-haired girl, stunned the whole audience when she appeared. (End of chapter)