Of course, not sending fish today is also related to Li Long not wanting to work today.
The original plan was to leave the car tomorrow. Although everything was ready today, it was a tiring job. Li Long thought it was better to go as planned.
Li Long and Li Jianguo put a ton of fish into the bag together, and there was not much left. According to visual inspection, it was only about a hundred kilograms. Li Long didn't mean to pack it.
One hundred rabbits are also put into one pile, and the rest are in one pile.
“I will install one hundred and six this time, and give the remaining six to them.” Li Long said, “It is considered a favor to others.”
"Okay." Li Jianguo knew very well in this regard that he could do small business, but he was definitely not as good as Li Long in this kind of business.
Just raise pigs and breed good land yourself.
Pile the rabbits one by one on the carriage board, and put the fish bag on top. As usual, the carriage's shaft was placed on a stool. This stool was one of the pieces of furniture that Li Jianguo bought when he got married. Some of the light yellow wood grain paint on it had peeled off, revealing the original pine grain below, but the stool was still very strong and there was no trace of it. It means shaking.
Li Long looked at this stool and thought that when spring comes, he will have to bring some wood back to prepare furniture for his new home.
No, we cannot wait for the beginning of spring. When the snow melts in the beginning of spring, the road from the team to the mountains is muddy. At this time, the section from the team to the countryside is still a dirt road, not even paved with gravel. The snow turns to water and the road becomes a mud road. The same goes for going from Qingshui River Township to the mountains. At that time, neither people nor carriages were allowed to pass, because people would step on thick mud, and even if it was shoveled away, it would soon come back. The carriage was even more uncomfortable. The mud on the wheels was difficult to remove. At that time, No. 76 had to go to the mountains to pull wood. It would probably be exhausted.
If we don't want to walk on a dirt road, it will take another five or six years for the authorities to allocate funds to turn this dirt road into a gravel road. Then it will be fine.
After covering these things with plastic sheets and tying them with ropes, Li Long and Li Jianguo walked back into the house and closed the door.
Li Jianguo sat on the bedside and started rolling cigarettes, while Li Long began to silently calculate the profit this time.
I made about 200 yuan from selling sheep, mainly buying food, which cost almost 300 yuan. Li Long would make up for it one after another to his friends in the mountains.
The fish can earn about 500 yuan, and the rabbit can earn a little more than 100 yuan. He plans to give Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang 150 yuan each, and the eldest brother’s more than 30 argali sheep. The money from the sale was left to the eldest brother's family.
There are still two sheep and other things that are considered extra. I also have some skins, sheep intestines, etc. that can be sold for about 100 yuan. I have made almost 500 or 600 yuan from this trip, part of which will be spent in the New Year. I bought something to return to my friends in the mountains.
Not bad. Although they didn't make as much money hunting with Qi Jingyue, the nature of this business was different. If such a relationship is maintained well, this kind of thing will happen every year, but it may not happen like Qi Jingyue's.
The probability is that it will be a one-shot deal.
After Li Long finished his calculations, Li Jianguo's Mohe smoke cannon had been rolled up. He pinched off the little knot on his head, stuffed the cigarette into his mouth, took out the lighter, pressed it to light himself up, and took a deep breath. Take a sip, then exhale the smoke.
Li Long bought him the lighter, otherwise Li Jianguo would not have bought it based on his current personality. He would have thought that matches were a better deal.
"Brother, you keep all the money from selling the sheep." Li Long said, "I won't share the other money with you. When I come back tomorrow, I will give you some more money to collect the fish and rabbits." .”
"What are you talking about?" Li Jianguo waved his hand, "I want to tell you, I plan to give Juan her grandfather a set and half a sheep."
"Then. Isn’t that what it should be?” Li Long laughed. He said, "We still need to get some fish. I remember that Uncle Liang likes to eat crucian carp, and he also likes to eat small crucian carp. I will bring more fish over there."
"Okay." Li Jianguo nodded, " No matter what, I have to discuss it with you. Measure it."
"There is no need to discuss this matter. In the past few years, our family has received a lot of help from Uncle Liang, which made Juan and her second uncle not happy. "
"Hahahaha, then he has no ability. They are on the same team. If he can take on the trouble, her grandpa will be saved a lot of trouble."
Li Jianguo suddenly remembered Liang Liang last autumn. Li Long's reaction when there was a dispute between home and next door, he really looked down on his younger brother before.
There were footsteps outside, which sounded quite heavy. Li Long and Li Jianguo looked at each other, and Li Long said:
"Could it be the rabbit seller?"
< br>Li Jianguo stood up and said:
"Let me take a look."
The door was pushed open, and it was Zhao Laoshi who came in - which surprised both Li Long and Li Jianguo.
"Old Li, Xiaolong, you are all here." Zhao Laoshi had empty hands, obviously not selling rabbits, and Li Jianguo let the people in.
"Here, why are you here when you have time?" Li Jianguo asked directly. Zhao Laoshi smashed holes in the ice to catch fish and went to Shicheng to sell them, but was robbed. Li Jianguo later found out about this. What made him a little angry was that on the third day, Li Long went to Shicheng to sell fish. Zhao Laoshi even kept the matter a secret for a whole day. Even ghosts wouldn't believe it if I said it wasn't intentional.
So he was not polite to Zhao Laoshi.
"Hey, I heard that Xiaolong is going to Shicheng. I came here to ask." Zhao Laoshi was actually not honest at all. He was quite smart, or rather cunning, with a peasant-like cunning. He smiled and said:
< br>"We plan to go to Shicheng to sell fish tomorrow. We want to go with Xiaolong. I see that your car is packed outside. Do you want to leave tomorrow morning?"
"Leave tomorrow morning." Li Long didn't When Li Jianguo spoke, he took over the conversation. He knew that his eldest brother might refuse directly if it was for his own sake.
But he didn’t want his eldest brother Li Jianguo’s image in the village to suffer due to this incident, so he said, “Are you afraid of being robbed? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a few more people!”
"That's not a human matter. No matter how many of us there are, we can only defeat others with our bare hands. How can we defeat others?" Zhao Laoshi smiled bitterly, "I thought you had a gun..."
"But I went and unloaded the things and came back. I don't know if you can sell them out in a while. I can't wait for you there, right?" Li Long said again, "Besides, you will definitely go to Shicheng often in the future. Run, I’ll protect you this time, what about next time? I can’t protect you every time, right?”
Li Jianguo didn’t say anything. He looked at the two people who were talking. Honestly, if he wanted to force Li Long to express his stance, he would definitely fight back!
Although Zhao Laoshi is older, he has the seniority of Li Jianguo and is not timid at all!
Zhao Laoshi knew this was true, but he didn’t know how to break the situation.
Li Long knew that he had been circumvented, or that the limitations were too great, so he couldn't help but click:
"You are afraid that they have guns, so you can't borrow them! There are guns in the team, in the brigade, and in the countryside. You can fight others with one shot. What are you afraid of? At worst, you can't even give someone a few fish. You don’t even want to think about this, right?”
Li Long’s words revealed his thoughts. As soon as Li Long reminded him, he really wanted to borrow a gun, and he thought of several people.
But he really just "borrowed" it, and he really didn't intend to give anything to anyone.
"I understand, okay, Xiaolong, Lao Li, you guys are busy first, I'm leaving." Zhao Laoshi got the idea and left in a hurry.
“I don’t believe he didn’t think of this idea before.” Li Long returned to the fire wall and sat down and said:
"Still stingy."
"That's what this person is." Li Jianguo threw the cannon with only the handle left on the ground and crushed it with his shoe, saying: "Maybe the cannon in my hometown is small. I suffered a disaster when I was young and my family was poor, so I couldn’t bear to give anything away.”
Li Long also sighed. People in later generations cannot imagine what people of Li Jianguo's age went through. They were born in the old society, witnessed the liberation of the country, witnessed social transformation, and participated in the people's communes, mutual aid groups, youth support groups, educated youth going to the countryside, movements, and now the household responsibility system.
The complexity of this is much greater than what those in later generations experienced.
So in fact, even in later generations, even if the country is wide open and many war-torn places abroad are much better than at home, some young people begin to reflect, but in fact, the people who are most grateful to the party are still people of this age.
Because they have really experienced and witnessed people starving to death, fighting to death, being too poor to go to school, and then later eating full meals, eating meat every meal, and even losing weight to promote green health.
So although Li Jianguo meant to look down on Zhao Laoshi, after all, things are different now from that era, he could somewhat understand this person - his experiences were different, so it was difficult to comment.
"You are right. Although he likes to take advantage, it is not an option to continue like this. Some people just won't give up until they reach the Yellow River, and will not think of a solution until the last minute."
Procrastination.
Li Long remembered that in his previous life, people like this were represented by this word. Work reports would not be completed until the last moment of the time node, and Internet articles would not be uploaded until twenty-three-fifty. Upload, the loan on the credit card will not be considered until it is due... and so on.
Actually, there are quite a few such people.
"Is your gun okay? Do you want to bring two more people with you tomorrow?"
"No need." Li Long waved his hand, "I'll just bring the gun. It's troublesome to have more than one person. Besides, the main thing is the section of poplar forest. I will Change the place when you return. Those people have specific goals for grabbing things. I won’t go to the market tomorrow, so they won’t be able to stop there.”
Li Long said. It made sense, so Li Jianguo said nothing more.
At noon, Liang Yuemei baked pancakes and made offal soup. The offal is washed very clean, and there is a layer of oily flowers and green garlic sprouts floating on the soup, which makes it very appetizing.
"Uncle, these garlic seedlings were grown by my sister and I!" At the dinner table, Li Qiang showed off his achievements, while Li Juan smiled and said nothing.
"Well, you two did a good job."
Li Long turned his head and glanced at the half-cut garlic sprouts on the plate on the fire wall and said with a smile:
"This is the only reason why we can eat green leafy vegetables in the winter."
"I'll make some mung bean sprouts tomorrow," Liang Yuemei finally brought her bowl over and listened to Li Long's words and said, "Eat it cold, or the crunchy one."
"I heard that someone was discarding it. Leeks are grown in the sheepfold to celebrate the New Year in the winter You can eat chives beforehand." Li Jianguo soaked the pancakes in the offal soup and said, "They said they were sold secretly during the Chinese New Year last year. It's not cheap for one kilogram more. It's more expensive than meat!" br>
Li Long has heard of this method. Change the soil inside the sheepfold, mix it with manure, and plant leek roots. After the leeks grow, the roof of the sheepfold is removed in the summer. When winter comes, the roof is put up, and then the leeks are covered with old cotton batting. , the leeks grown in this way will become leek yellow without sunlight.
It will be much easier in later generations. It is more convenient to directly cover the clumps of leeks with a black triangular cone bucket.
It’s just not suitable for a cold place like Northern Xinjiang. The method Li Jianguo mentioned is actually similar to the greenhouse vegetables that became popular in later generations. In short, it is to keep warm and not exposed to light.
"It doesn't taste good. You can eat seasonal dishes all year round." Li Long remembered that in the two years before his death in his last life, this saying had begun to become popular. There are actually things in vegetables that are out of season that are bad for your health. In the four seasons of life, it is naturally best to eat things that are in season.
“For example, in this winter, pickled cabbage, vermicelli and meat are the most delicious.” Li Long ordered the table, “so is fried meat with pickles. Then in spring, there are all kinds of wild vegetables, cabbage, leeks, and in summer. It’s best...”
Li Qiang suddenly interrupted:
"Uncle, are you saying that because you can't eat? Who wouldn't want to eat green vegetables in the winter?"
Li Qiang made Li Long jealous with just one sentence The sermon failed, Li Jianguo laughed, and Li Long couldn't help but laugh.
Yes, it is still too early to talk about health preservation and fitness. Nowadays, the average diet of Chinese people is still far from being well-off. Let’s talk about what is suitable. Once we are rich and have more choices, let’s talk about health, fitness, and longevity.
After eating two bowls of offal soup and a pancake, Li Long felt warm all over and his stomach was full. He wanted to sleep at this moment.
Have you not made up for your sleep these days?
Li Long said to Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei and walked back to the horse.
Uncle Luo was listening to Mr. Shan Tianfang's storytelling in the horse stall. Li Long read for a while and then fell asleep again in the warm room.
He didn't sleep for much longer. When he got up, he looked out through the window covered with plastic paper. It was still bright outside. Li Long got up. This time he felt completely rested. He went out to take a look. The sun was setting in the west, and the sun was bright. I could only shine the light on the opposite wall, not the yard, which was cold and cold.
It was still a bit late, otherwise Li Long thought it would not be impossible to rush to the county now.
It just felt a bit like running away - he was not sure whether Zhao Laoshi would come and go with him tomorrow. He remembered hearing from the villagers that Zhao Laoshi went to Shicheng with a sledge. He was robbed of his money, but the sledge was not taken away. Maybe others didn't like the sledge he made. If we leave now, there is no guarantee that Zhao Laoshi will not tell the team that Li Long ran away first in order to prevent him from following.
I can’t afford to lose that person.
Li Long followed Old Uncle Luo to feed wild boar, deer and roe deer. There were no big changes in the two deer. The female roe deer seemed to be a little bigger. Li Long asked Uncle Luo, who smiled and said:
"It's either before or after the New Year. I will lay some grass in the heating circle and make the curtain of the heating circle thicker. It should be able to survive."
Looking at the lame one Male roe deer, Li Long didn't expect this guy to be quite powerful!
The wild boar continued to make noisy noises and snorted loudly, but it was much better than in the mountains. They don't look as violent as the wild boars in the mountains, so they are most likely used to the life in captivity.
There are still many people separated from the horse number pen. Li Long was thinking that since these wild herbivores give birth in the beginning of spring or early spring or late winter, should they enter in the beginning of spring? Mountain search wave? If you get more deer cubs, yellow sheep cubs or roe deer cubs, your life will be better later.
After all, the current management is relatively broad. When future generations want to breed, they will need to apply for some kind of certificate.
Now that it is an established fact, it will be much easier to get permission later.
The old horse number has been saved by myself, and the next thing is the contents.
In the afternoon, I and Uncle Luo ate the Wudaohei that Yang Yongqiang and the others sent yesterday. Li Long was so addicted to it. This kind of carnivorous fish with garlic clove meat is really delicious, piece by piece. , the burrs are also easy to remove.
Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang did not come over in the evening. Li Long fell asleep early and thought about leaving early the next morning. If he hasn't left when Zhao Laoshi comes over, then go with him. If he leaves, then don't wait.
It was still dark when Li Long woke up the next day. By the faint light of the fire, it was already past seven o'clock. Li Long was already awake, got up and simply washed and made breakfast. Uncle Luo got up when he heard the noise. After the two had breakfast, Li Long went to his elder brother's place.
Li Jianguo was also making breakfast. When Li Long went to the circle, he took No. 76 out and fed him. After eating, he rested for a while, then with Li Jianguo's help, he hitched the carriage and dressed himself. , the gun bag was jammed in the car, and he hurried out the door.
Zhao Laoshi’s home was in Lao Zhuangzi. Li Long waited for a few minutes at Lao Zhuangzi, but saw no one. At this time, the white fish belly was already exposed on the horizon, so he drove the carriage across Weigou and headed west. .
An hour later, Zhao Laoshi carried a gun and pulled the sledge with his son out of Zhuangzi.
"Li Long must have passed by." Zhao Laoshi's son said, "Should we follow him quickly?"
"Follow what?" Zhao Laoshi patted his gun. Said: "We have a gun, what are we afraid of? I am not afraid anymore! If I had known, I would have borrowed the gun earlier..."
He felt sorry for the money that was robbed.
Li Long drove the carriage to the county, bought a few big meat buns as usual, drank a bowl of hot tea at the big meat canteen, ate the buns and continued on his way.
It was already dawn at this time, there was a touch of red in the east, and the sun was about to rise.
When Li Long arrived at the Shicheng Sugar Factory, the sun was rising very high. The factory here was already at work, the machines were running, and the rumbling sounds continued.
When the doorman saw Li Long, he smiled and waved his hand to let him in, and he called the logistics department.
Knowing that Li Long was here to send Chinese New Year benefits, how could he not let him go as soon as possible?
Although the carriage was covered with plastic sheeting, the guard was well-informed and knew that there were fish and rabbits inside. Thinking about the many good things he can eat during the New Year, the doorman is also very happy, and his attitude towards Li Long is naturally much better.
Chief Hu came out and looked at Li Long, he was very satisfied.
It took half a month, but Li Long finished it in less than ten days, which was very efficient!
I sent the sheep to the factory director’s house yesterday, and today I got a compliment from the factory director, saying that the mutton tastes good.
This made Section Chief Hu very satisfied, and Li Long was also very happy! (End of this chapter)