In the afternoon, Li Long cleaned the gun in Ma Hao's room.
This time when I go hunting, the bullets are guaranteed, but the gun still needs to be well maintained.
The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is quite easy to maintain. Li Long also focused on cleaning and oiling the barrel and bolt. Winter gun oil is different from summer gun oil. Scientifically speaking, it should be the viscosity, solidification temperature, etc. Li Long doesn't know much about it, but he only knows that winter gun oil is naturally used in winter.
Halfway through the gun, there was a knock on the door. Li Long shouted to come in. Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang opened the door and came in.
Li Long was happy.
Now these two are as inseparable as General Hengha.
"Brother Long." Tao Daqiang came in and said hello, squatting opposite Li Long.
"Go over to the side." Li Long stretched out his hand to pull him away, "Forgot again? How can we face each other when cleaning the gun?"
Tao Daqiang chuckled, walked to the side, squatted down, and helped Li Long handed the gun cloth.
The space for wiping the gun was small. Yang Yongqiang didn’t move together when he saw it. He sat on the bed and asked:
"Brother Long came back in the morning?"
"Yes." Li Long asked while wiping, "Are you two free?"
"Yes, you are free." Tao Daqiang nodded. , "The fish are all sold out, Brother Long, do you think it's profitable to sell fish through holes in the ice now?"
"Definitely It's quite profitable. Are there many people in the team who break holes in the ice?"
"There were not many people there today," Yang Yongqiang said, "They are all young people, the two Zhao brothers. There are three brothers from the Liang family, and three father and son from the Bai family... The fish in Xiaohaizi are very busy.”
Li Long calculated that it had been more than a month and almost two months since the beginning of winter, and he said:
"If you two want to do it, you can do it. How about we go and have a look in the afternoon?" ?”
“Okay.” This is what Yang Yongqiang was waiting for, “Actually, we were still hesitating yesterday. I’ve heard people say that some people have caught fish by breaking holes in the ice, and some have not. I don’t know if this job can be done. I didn’t hear that you came back, so I thought I’d come over and ask.”
"Okay, let's wipe the gun over and take a look later." Since the two little brothers believed in him, Li Long also hoped to help them.
There are not many resources in rural areas in winter, so it is not easy to make some money. But it can be heard from Yang Yongqiang's words that many young people in the village want to make money, and they don't want to stay at home.
It might be because the Li family is making money, or it might be because they want to live a good life. In short, this is a good thing.
After cleaning the gun, Li Long went to find a net bag, an axe, and a steel drill, and told Li Junfeng and the others.
Chen Xingbang and Li Anguo had no intention of going. They were discussing the return trip. Li Junfeng and Li Junshan found something and followed them out.
They first went to Li's house. Li's house also had a net bag, so they had to bring it with them. Li Jianguo knew that they were going to Xiaohaizi to catch fish, so he found them an ax and a crowbar.
The group of people walked to Xiaohaizi chatting and laughing, attracting the attention of many people along the way.
There were many people walking on the road to Xiaohaizi, and they had already stepped on a path. Moreover, this path was not the kind of intestines. It was quite spacious and could even pass a trolley. Li Long asked:
"Yes." Isn’t it Meng Zhiqiang and the others who are fishing every day?”
“No? ? They smashed the ice when it got cold, but they didn’t catch it, and they were never seen again.” Yang Yongqiang remembered clearly, “When we went to the county to sell fish, we didn’t see them again.”
That means it was stepped out in the past two days. It seems that there are many people in the village.
When we arrived at the North Embankment of Xiaohaizi, we saw the footprints suddenly spread out, like outstretched fingers, stretching into Xiaohaizi.
Here you can see that there are still some people guarding the ice holes, either continuing to pry the ice there, or fishing in the ice holes with nets.
Occasionally I can hear some people cheering and some regretting. It seems that some fish are caught and some are not.
“Let’s go and have a look.” Li Long said with a smile, “Let’s see what their harvest is like.”
With that said, he got off the embankment and walked directly to the nearest direction.
The three Liang brothers were in front of the ice cave. They only had one net bag, and the three of them took turns.
The hole in the ice was not big enough to be fished out with the net bag, so I simply squeezed the round net bag into an oval shape and scooped it out.
A pile of crushed ice was picked up next to it, and there were a few very small crucian carp mixed in it, which had frozen hard.
"How's it going? Did you catch it?" Li Long asked.
“Well, there are fish, but not many.” The boss of the Liang family shook his head. Li Long's status in the village has quietly risen. The eldest son of the Liang family is in his thirties, but he doesn't regard Li Long as a young man without full hair.
"Let me see what fish there are?" Li Long asked, and Liang Laoer next to him immediately opened the bag and showed it to Li Long.
"Hey, this five-striped black one is pretty good. It's so big. I'll take it to the market tomorrow and sell it for two yuan." Li Long looked at the bag and saw that there wasn't much fish in it, at most three or four kilograms, but there was one five-striped black one. He's a good black guy, weighing over a kilogram, he said with a smile.
"Hey." The three brothers sounded very happy.
"Then you continue, we will also break holes in the ice." Li Long said again and walked inside. Tao Daqiang followed, Yang Yongqiang and Liang Laosan said hello and followed.
There were five people in the group, and the momentum was a bit loud. Everyone in the other ice caves was watching.
Li Long did not go anywhere else, but went straight to the southernmost point of Xiaohaizi.
He remembered that there were several deep pits here, one of the few pits where fish fry could still be stored after the silt was filled with water and quickly dried after Xiaohaizi was turned into an above-ground reservoir.
It should be fruitful to dig holes in the ice here, right?
"Brother, Li Long just saw us." The third son of the Liang family said after Li Long and the others had gone away.
“Don’t worry about so many. Come on, let’s fish a few more nets to see if we can fish out another big one. If we fish it out, then we will sell fish tomorrow.”
One is more than two yuan. If there is another one as big as this, it will not be a waste to go to the county tomorrow.
It costs four yuan a day, and it takes two or three days for a worker!
Li Long and the others arrived at the south, and after choosing a location, they began to break holes in the ice.
"Two, one on each side, the same as the one we smashed last year, thirty meters apart." Li Long assigned the task, "Daqiang, you and Yongqiang are here. Junfeng Junshan, you guys Over here. I'll get some reeds to light a fire."
Li Long is just a bystander this time, so he's here to take a look. If you can get fish, it would be best if you go hunting in the mountains later. Daqiang and Yongqiang will also have a way to make money.
He just couldn't figure it out. It was just that Yang Yongqiang was not married. Tao Daqiang is married. Doesn't his wife have any objection to being outside every day?
It’s still in the honeymoon period right now, right?
Of course it's just a personal guess, and Li Long didn't think much about it. I will get married next year, and I will feel it then.
Li Long gathered a large pile of reeds, then separated them into two places where holes were made in the ice, and lit a fire in each.
The snow on the ice was very thick. Four people on both sides were smashing the ice, and Li Long was pushing the snow to clear a path between the two ice holes.
Mao Weizi's fever was very strong, and he soon felt his back getting warm and his hair was burning.
The two of them worked together, and soon a shallow pit was made on the ice. Li Long looked at it from the side, and then walked east. Near here, he and Tao Daqiang once dug out water rats. Now the pit has long been buried by snow, but looking eastward, there are many red willows growing on the east beach, and there are many rabbit prints on the red willow beach.
I don’t know if anyone will take it if I put it on a rabbit and sell it in the market.
He just thought so. After turning around again, I saw an eagle circling in the sky in the distance. Then it swooped down into the snow a few hundred meters away. Then it flew up again with something in its talons and flew away to the southeast. .
These birds of prey are more powerful and can be caught when you see them. Li Long was a little envious.
Then he turned back to the ice and saw that Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang were still breaking holes in the ice, Li Junfeng was resting, and Li Junshan was still prying, so he went over and took the ax from Li Junshan and started chopping on the ice.
Soon, the holes in the ice became deeper and deeper. One layer was cleared in a while, and half an hour later, two holes in the ice were smashed out one after another.
At this time, the ice surface was not as thick as last year, about thirty to forty centimeters. After breaking open, some water came up, and there were some broken ice.
Li Junfeng took out the broken ice in a net bag, and then copied it down excitedly.
Li Long didn't have much hope. This ice hole had just been formed, and it was unlikely that the fish would gather here for a while. The possibility of catching a big fish was almost non-existent, unless there happened to be a fish here.
Sure enough, when the first net came out, there were only a few very small crucian carp in the net pocket, and they were thrown into the snow by Li Junfeng.
The same is true for the next two networks.
“It will take a while. At first, the fish won’t be able to feel that there is an ice hole here. When air comes in, it will take half an hour and an hour before the fish can feel it.”
Then Bian Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang had also opened the ice cave and started digging around there.
"Wait a while." Li Long said, "The ice has just opened now, and the fish haven't felt it yet. There haven't been so many fish for a while - this winter and summer since last year, in this sea A lot of fish were killed, and it is impossible to catch so many fish at once like last year.”
"That's right." Tao Daqiang was the first to fish with Li Long and he had the most say. He said, "This year, the fish in this small sea have produced seven or eight tons. The fish can only give birth to more babies." , I can’t make up for it all at once.”
“Then wait now?” Li Junfeng asked, “It’s a bit cold. "
"If you feel cold, let's go to the east beach and see if we can pry a rabbit." Li Long joked, "I see there are a lot of rabbit marks there, maybe we can touch it." Come to the rabbit!”
He was joking, but the others took it seriously, and they walked outside together.
To the east is a flat beach. Usually there is water seeping out of the reservoir in some places. At this time, it has already frozen into ice. Trichoderma striata (Cyperus rotundus) grows quite tall, and it has dried up now. There are also some grasses called cyperus japonicus, and then there are patches of tamarisk growing quite tall.
The snow was very thick, and there were rabbit paths running between tamarisk bushes and tamarisk bushes, some old and new.
"Uncle Xiaolong, what do you think about getting some thin wire to put a noose here?"
"Okay. When you go through the ice hole to catch fish tomorrow, you can come over and put the noose. "Li Long said, "We'll see what happens after one night. Look at the marks, there are quite a few hares!"
< br>A group of five people walked for a while in the snow and circled several times. In fact, Li Long thought it was unlikely to encounter a rabbit. Others thought the same way, just walking to waste time. However, while passing by When there was a tamarisk bush, a rabbit suddenly jumped out of it and rushed forward following the rabbit prints!
A few people were stunned for a moment, but Yang Yongqiang reacted the fastest. He shouted and chased after him, and the four people behind him immediately dispersed and surrounded him.
Their shouts immediately startled those who were still fishing in Xiaohaizi. They didn't know what they were doing, but they just felt it was a bit strange.
The terrain in Li's area is generally relatively flat, but the rabbit did not run in a straight line. It started to turn after running for more than ten meters. In fact, Li Long felt that if the rabbit had the ability to run long-distance, it would be easier to run away if it kept running in a straight line. .
But it keeps turning, which wastes the advantage of short-track acceleration. After all, there are people on both sides, and you can encounter enemies wherever you turn.
Of course, rabbits have long hind legs and short front legs, and are not suitable for long-term running on flat ground. After turning back and forth several times, when he jumped up and was about to turn back again, he was kicked over by Li Junshan, and then was Li Junfeng pressed himself into the snow.
“Be careful,” Li Long reminded, “this thing is very vicious, its claws are hard, fall to death now, otherwise it will be uncomfortable to scratch you!”
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" Li Junfeng had never caught a live wild rabbit before. He looked a little like it. When he pressed it and saw that the rabbit didn't respond, he pulled the rabbit's long ears and lifted it up.
"Alas..." Li Long sighed, he was once again deceived by a picture book (comic book). This wild rabbit looks to be four or five kilograms, which is quite big. How can it be so easy to subdue with ears?
As soon as Li Long finished sighing, Li Junfeng screamed, and the rabbit directly arched his body and kicked Li Junfeng's palms and arms hard with his claws - Li Long saw it. The rabbit's horny claws are two to three centimeters long!
Li Junfeng was scratched with three bloody marks all at once. As soon as his hand was loosened, he threw the rabbit to the ground. After the rabbit landed, it turned over and was about to run away. Li Long stepped on it and then dragged it. A pair of ears lifted up.
"Uncle Xiaolong, be careful..." Li Junshan saw that Li Long was still raising his ears and reminded him hurriedly. However, Li Long ignored the rabbit's struggling movements, picked up the rabbit, rounded it up and threw it to the ground!
Li Long was a little too energetic, so he fell down and the rabbit started twitching on the frozen soil on the spot!
Li Long was still afraid that this guy would pretend to be dead, so he picked it up by the ears and dropped it again. The rabbit was still twitching, but there was obviously blood coming from the corners of the mouth and nose, and he didn’t know how many bones were broken. .
“Okay, it’s okay.” Li Long turned to look at Li Junfeng, “You have learned a lesson now.”
“Hiss—” The bloody cut on Li Junfeng’s hand was coming down Bleeding, he gasped in pain, "Yeah, who would have thought this guy could be so powerful..."
Li Junshan picked up the rabbit, shook it, and said:
"Almost dead."
"Okay, we'll cook it later." Li Long said, "Go back now and see if you can get some fish, and we'll cook and eat it together then."< br>
“Let’s go for a walk again? Maybe we can even get a rabbit!” Tao Neither Daqiang nor Yang Yongqiang were close to rabbits, and they were a little reluctant, "There should be a lot of rabbits in this red willow beach, right?"
"Okay, let's have another look." Li Long felt that only a dozen years had passed. Minutes, the fish probably won’t come at this moment, so why not just walk away again.
They walked southeast for a while, but they didn't find that if they went further east, they would reach the cultivated land, so they had to go north. After two hundred meters, they didn't find anything. Yang Yongqiang was still a little unwilling, so he folded a red willow stick and struck a few sticks when he came across a red willow pile, hoping to scare the snake away. Unexpectedly, when he was approaching Xiaohaizi, a rabbit was knocked out of a small red willow tree!
Several people yelled and chased after him. The rabbit ran towards Xiaohaizi. He was stopped by Li Long when he was halfway up the embankment. When he turned back, he fell and was stepped on by Yang Yongqiang.
In order not to follow Li Junfeng's footsteps, Yang Yongqiang imitated Li Long and grabbed the rabbit's ears. Before the guy could react, he threw the gray rabbit to death.
This rabbit is a little smaller than the previous one, weighing more than three kilograms, which is no longer light.
"Okay, let's go and see if there are any fish!" This time everyone was in high spirits and felt that even if there were no fish, it would still be worth it.
Young people have no place to use their energy, so don’t let it out.
Carrying the two rabbits back to the ice cave, there was already a thin layer of ice on the water.
When Li Long broke through the ice, he could even see fish swimming below.
"Fishing, there must be fish!" Li Long smiled and started fishing with the net. Tao Daqiang reacted quickly at this time and hurriedly ran to the other ice cave and found that it was also frozen. He didn't even break the ice, he just used the fishing net to break the ice, then drew a semicircle downwards and fished it out.
“There’s a fish!” Yang Yongqiang, who was following, was still carrying the rabbit. At this time, he saw a fish flapping in the net and shouted, “It’s so big... This is a silver carp, not bad. Ah!”
The fish was thrown on the ice and it froze hard in a short time. Tao Daqiang also fished it out with the second net. What came on this net were several palm-sized crucian carp and a chopstick-long ditch fish. Tao Daqiang threw him on the ice and fluttered tenaciously for a few times, then stopped moving.
Li Long's first net also caught a few fish, all of which were palm-sized crucian carp, which looked very beautiful. The second net caught two small crucian carp. I don’t know if the other fish were scattered or if Li Long caught it in the wrong place. The third net also only had two or three small crucian carp. It was only on the fourth net that there was a turn for the better, and a five-dao black fish weighing about half a kilogram came up.
Then Li Junfeng snatched the net away:
"Uncle Xiaolong, let me give it a try - you take a rest first."
"You have good hands. "Really?" Li Long asked with a smile.
"Okay, okay, no more bleeding." Li Junfeng replied, grabbed the net and stabbed it under the ice.
Li Long came up and saw Li Junshan picking up fish, and then looked elsewhere.
Others were also collecting fish in those ice holes - it seemed that everyone had gained a lot. (End of this chapter)