Yang Xiulan was serving food to people. Han Fang saw Li Long at first sight, with a happy expression on her face, and then she tugged at her mother.
After serving the meal, Yang Xiulan raised her head, saw Li Long, and smiled. She wiped her hands on her apron, and after Li Long came over, she asked:
"Her uncle, have you eaten? The rice and soup I just made is clean. Can I give you a bowl?" "
"Sister Yang, no need, I just finished eating." Li Long led the carriage to the side of her cart and said,
"Let me tell you something. ”
"Her uncle, tell me." Yang Xiulan saw Li Long's serious expression and was a little nervous.
"That's right. My partner has been busy recently, and she may not have time to cook at noon or afternoon. I think you have to do it every day anyway, so I just want her to come to your place to eat, and then How about the food expense covers your rent?”
“That’s okay... No, no, no, no. I will definitely have to pay the rent, so how much can one more person eat?” Yang Xiulan nodded after hearing this. , and then shook his head desperately, " We are very grateful that you can take us in. We don’t know how we can repay you if we waive the rent..."
"We will talk about the rent later. She may go to your place in the next two days. Eat, you Just watch and cook. There is no need to be too particular about home-cooked meals. She can eat whatever you want. I don’t have to choose a partner.”
After finishing the matter, Li Long asked Han Fang about her study. Say goodbye and go buy food. We have to go into the mountains today. The road is covered with snow and it will definitely be difficult to walk. We have to start early.
There are places to buy grain in the market, and there are more than one.
Li Long went to ask about the price. For 85 fans, no tickets are required. It costs 40 cents per kilogram, which is not expensive. Rice is more expensive, 70 cents, after all, there is still less rice produced here.
Li Long bought four bags of noodles weighing 100 kilograms and two bags of rice weighing 50 kilograms, and walked towards the mountains with them.
At the beginning, it was easier to walk to Qingshui River. After all, there was a commune over there, and there were still people coming and going to the county these days.
But after crossing the Qingshui River, the road becomes difficult to walk. No one walks on the road into the mountains. There are occasional rabbit marks. The snow is thicker than in the plains, nearly half a meter. It was very difficult for No. 76 to pull, and Li Long was pulling in front. Fortunately, the grain he was pulling was not too much, the carriage was basically empty, and the snow was relatively weak. It took more than an hour from Qingshui River, and finally we finally got there. Entered the mountain.
After passing the mountain pass, it is actually easier to walk when you start to turn in the mountain. Some places are sheltered from the wind, so the snow is thinner, and some places are wind vents, so the snow is simply blown away by the wind.
When he reached the opposite side of Harry Mudong's nest, Li Long was already sweating.
He saw sheep in the sheepfold next to the winter nest, smoke in the chimney, horses and cows, and the familiar barking of dogs. He knew that Harimu and the others were back.
When the dog barked, the door of the house opened. The boy Nathan came out. He first called Gouzi, looked around, and when he saw Li Long, he screamed, turned around and shouted towards the winter nest.
Then the Harimu family quickly walked out of their winter nest and came over here.
Li Long smiled and waved to them. There was a ditch in the middle. Although it was repaired in the summer, there was heavy snow at this time. You still have to be careful when going downhill, otherwise it would be quite troublesome for the horse to slip and fall. After all, If the leg is broken, the horse will be useless.
When he led the carriage to the opposite side of the ditch, Harimu and the others also arrived. He smiled and touched his chest with his left hand, and shook hands with Li Long with his right hand.
Harimu let go of his hand and was about to speak when Nathan squeezed over, followed by Sasken. Nathan said to Li Long in a measured and not fluent Mandarin:
"Hello, uncle!"
He also extended his hand to Li Long, very solemnly.
Li Long suppressed his laughter, and then shook hands with him seriously, followed by Sasken, who made the same move as Nathan.
After shaking hands with the two children, Li Long said hello to Harimu's mother and wife, and led the horse to the winter nest while listening to Harimu's words, but he was thinking about something else. thing.
Kazakh children are trained towards adulthood from an early age. How old is Nathan now? Just a little stronger than Li. But looking at his serious look, he is trying hard to imitate adults, and his family also thinks it is normal.
Since I was a child, I have been riding horses and herding sheep, doing things that adults do. After circumcision (coming of age ceremony), you are truly treated as an adult.
So when I traveled to Yili in my last life, I saw the children there. Good friends hadn’t seen each other for a while. They were a few years old, just like Nathan. Whenever they met, they shook hands and it was very formal. That kind of thing.
Quite interesting.
"...We have been back for half a month. If you don't come, I will have to find you." Harimu said with a smile, "Actually, I still have rice and this battery. Well, it really doesn’t exist anymore. Listening to the radio has become a part of our lives now. It’s not okay if you don’t listen. Can you listen to Nathan’s Chinese?”
“Okay? , Very good!" Li Long was pulled back from his thoughts and gave a thumbs up. Pointing, "I will send the battery over this afternoon or tomorrow. Are they all back in Yushanjiang?"
"Back. They have all taken the salt away from here." Harimu said, " Salt is a good thing, we all I'm very happy."
"If it's not enough, I'll bring some more next time." Li Long led the horse to Dongwozi, tied it up, and said while unloading the noodles, "This is better. Get it.”
It was indeed easier to get, and it was also cheaper. After all, the supply and marketing cooperative was responsible for the sales of the salt industry at this time, and Li Long was one of his own, so the price he got was almost the same as the wholesale price.
"Then get some more. Animals still need salt in winter." Harimu hugged a bag of noodles and carried it directly into the house, regardless of whether the flour on it would stick to his clothes. " Don't leave today, I'll kill a sheep later, and let's eat finger meat for lunch." "No, no, no," Li Long walked in holding another bag of noodles, "I'll unload it, have a bowl of milk tea, and go back. I have something else to do over there. .”
"What is so important?" Harimu was unhappy. "It's not easy to come here. You must talk about it carefully. There are many things for you."
"I'll tell you later. I will come again, because I have something really busy today." Li Long said as he went to pick up another bag of noodles, "My partner is the future Yang Gangzi who works. He is too busy these days and has no time to cook. , I have to go back and get her food.”
Hearing this, Nathan turned around and taught Harimu's wife what to do. Harimu's wife was preparing milk tea. After hearing what Nathan said, she spoke Hajime to Harimu.
Halimu laughed loudly after hearing this, and then said to Li Long:
"My Yanggangzi, I praise you, saying that you can work, make money, and you are a good person. He also cooked for his Yanggangzi and asked me to learn from you. Haha, Li Long, you are awesome!"
Li Long couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to continue carrying flour. Harimu's mother sat on the wooden kang and smiled as she watched them talking and making trouble.
The winter nest is not big, so flour and rice can only be placed beside the kang table. I think Harimu will call someone to move these things away soon.
"Since you have something to do, I won't keep you here. Here are some things you can take back and exchange for the things we need. Salt, brick tea, sugar, and the most important thing are batteries. By the way, maybe then I still need to buy a few radios, let’s talk about it then.”
After moving the rice and noodles, Harimu brought some grass to No. 76, pulled Li Long into the house and said, “Duo Sen, don’t say too much. Come over when you are free , when we can stay for a few days, how about we go to your house, kill a sheep, and have a good meal and drink together?"
"Okay," Li Long said matter-of-factly. , "When the time comes, you prepare the sheep, and I prepare...drinks. As for wine, it's better to drink less in the winter."
He combined the experience of two lives, because drinking in winter is really good. Dead man's. When I first traveled to Yili, I heard that every winter there were people who got drunk and froze to death on their way home. Not to mention Yili, even near my village, there was a body in the east field when the snow melted one year. I don’t know if he was drunk and did not return home.
I once saw a video where someone was so drunk that he could hardly stand. The horse bit the owner's shoulder and pushed him back - but after all, such horses are very few and rare. one.
"Yeah, I know." Harimu nodded, "As for the wine, you can bring some over and take it back to them. It's okay to drink it in your yurt at home, as long as you don't run out."
Milk Tea Mixing When it was good, Harimu's mother also took out a pack of naan from the cabinet, and took out several small bowls with jam, honey, cream and other things in them. This reminded Li Long of the ethnic breakfast he had in Yili in his previous life, a meal for two or four people, which included milk tea, naan, jam, ghee, dried fruits, Bolsack...
< br>It’s almost the same as the current one.
While eating and chatting, Halimu talked about their situation in the summer pasture.
“In that place, even in the hottest time, quilts are required to be covered in the yurt at night. In that place, we met a very strange guy, a white bear...”
"White bear?" Li Long thought to himself. The white bear usually refers to the polar bear, right? There's no way a polar bear could come here. What could that be? Did they get it wrong?
"How high?"
"Stand up, he's about the same height as me. He's very fierce. He wanted to catch a sheep. He asked me to shoot him away. I don't know if I hit him or not. "Halimu took a sip of milk tea and said, "One of our sheep was bitten."
He was afraid that Li Long wouldn't believe it, so he added:
"Not only did I see it. Buick also saw...a white bear!"
Li Long understood a little bit. It might be a brown bear suffering from albinism or alienation disease. After all, humans all have albinism, tigers also have it, and there is no reason why bears don’t have it.
The leather of this thing should be very expensive, right?
Don’t blame Li Long’s money fans, the first thing that comes to mind is the bear’s skin. After all, the Chinese people were like this. In the dictionaries and dictionaries at that time, any plant or animal would have an entry on whether it was edible and whether it had economic and medicinal value.
There is no way. For a long period of time, the Chinese people have suffered from hunger and illness, and have tried everything they can, so they have this gene.
Li Long lived into what could be called a prosperous period in his last life, but at that time, it was only twenty or thirty years before the people of the country were able to provide enough food and clothing.
The younger ones don’t understand, but most people over the age of forty or fifty still know a little bit about what it’s like to be hungry.
“We originally thought about getting you another snow leopard skin.” Harimu pointed to the gun hanging on the yurt and said, “Unfortunately, that thing was too cunning and ran away when it heard the noise. , usually appears at night and is difficult to find. ”
"Okay, okay." Li Long took a piece of naan core with jam and took a bite. He waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, no, no."
He didn't want to do it because of himself. , bringing these mountain elves one step closer to extinction.
"Then let me bring you some more jam." Harimu's mind was also thinking about a hammer and a stick here and there. He saw Li Long eating jam and said, "Because you brought us a lot of candies." , we make a lot of jams in summer and they are very delicious.”
"No, no, no," Li Long waved his hand hurriedly, "You have to rely on them all winter. I don't want them. If you come over, just give them a try." (End of Chapter)