I really have a fever, Li Long really has medicine here.
Aspirin, in the eyes of many people at this time, is almost a panacea.
"Is anyone coming?" Li Long asked at the door, "If someone is coming, I will give you medicine now and you can give it to him. If he is not coming, then you can take the medicine back. ”
People still need to be saved.
"Thank you, thank you! My brother couldn't get up. He was in his den and didn't come over. I ran over by myself...Thank you!"
Li Long lit the oil lamp, found the medicine bottle, poured out seven or eight tablets, found a piece of paper to wrap them up, and came to the door and said:
"This is aspirin. Give him one tablet. If it doesn't bring down the fever, If so, give me another piece, don’t eat too much.”
He opened the locked door and saw the people outside.
The man also saw Li Long and the gun in his hand.
“Here, medicine.” Li Long handed over the paper bag with his left hand, “It’s paper, it’s raining outside, pack it up.”
The man took the paper bag, bowed to Li Long, then turned around and ran quickly into the rain.
Li Long looked at his background, which was toward the southwest.
Close the door and lock it.
He noticed that the other party had glanced at his gun before, and he didn't know if the other party was sure that there were bullets in his gun, or that the gun was loaded and the safety was on.
Li Long does not have paranoia, he just doesn’t want to use his own life to test the good and evil of human nature.
I added some coal to the stove, pressed it down, blew out the oil lamp, and continued to sleep.
When I woke up again, it was no longer raining outside and the sky was already a little bright.
The fire in the room was still red. Li Long got up and put on his clothes, rubbed his face, added coal to the stove, set a pot to boil water, and opened the door.
A moist and cold breath hit his face, and Li Long suddenly woke up.
There is a little bit of water on the ground, but it doesn’t look like much. However, it doesn’t matter where it rains in the mountains. There may be more or less rain, and it may be a few steps away. It’s normal for it to rain here but not there. After all, when a cloud comes over, it is like sprinkling water. Wherever it is sprinkled, it will be treated as such.
He didn't go out, so he boiled water, made tea, and started baking steamed buns. This is the only way to eat early in the morning. There is also white rice porridge, or rice porridge, cooking in the pot.
Two pieces of red tofu and some wild vegetables that I didn’t finish yesterday, that’s it.
After the steamed bun is baked, it will be a burnt shell. The outer shell does not need anything else and it tastes delicious. The steamed buns inside are also hot and not as soft as when they are freshly steamed, but they are good when dipped in red tofu or eaten with salads.
Li Longduo baked two steamed buns, which were prepared for Yushanjiang. As for the man selling Fritillaria, Li Long guessed that he wouldn't eat it.
I just didn’t expect that the two baked buns I prepared were not enough.
We arrived at Yushan River after seven o'clock, and the sky was already bright, but the east was not yet red, and it would still be a while before the sun would rise.
Li Long heard the sound of horse hooves, put down his chopsticks and walked out. When he saw Yushan Jiang, he greeted him and asked him to come into the house to drink some hot tea and eat something.
Yu Shanjiang was not polite, tied up the horse, and followed Li Long into the house. He pulled up a bench and sat by the stove to warm himself by the fire. He looked around while warming himself, and then said with a smile:
< br>"Your place is more comfortable."
"You built it too." Li Long poured a bowl of tea for Yushanjiang, and then gave him a baked charred steamed bun.
Yushanjiang took the tea and took a sip, then put down the bowl and took the steamed buns. After thanking him, he broke it open and started eating.
“Here, dip some of this.” Li Long took a clean plate, picked up a piece of red tofu and handed it to Yushanjiang. Yushanjiang took it with a smile and said:
“This tastes good. . ”
He can get used to it, but some people can’t.
Halfway through eating the steamed buns, he heard the sound of horse hooves outside. Yushanjiang put down the steamed buns and stood up. He walked to the door and saw that Li Long was doing the same.
That Bolati came over on horseback, looked at the Yushan River and smiled:
"I brought it." He raised his hand.
“Come on, come on, come down and warm yourself by the fire, and have something to eat.” Li Long didn’t show up and greeted him directly, “Toast the steamed buns, do you want to eat?”
Bolati looked at it With a glance at Yushanjiang, Yushanjiang turned around, took his half of the steamed bun, raised it and said:
“I’m eating it too.”
"Then eat some."
Li Long looked at his bag and estimated that it should be able to hold six or seven kilograms of caladium.
Not too much, not too little. It’s not too little to be able to get these caladiums at the beginning.
Bolati took the steamed bun, and it was so hot that his teeth chattered. He turned his left hand to his right hand and kept blowing air. While blowing, he patted the steamed bun vigorously, cracking the brown shell on the outside, and then He took off a piece and ate it.
It tastes good.
Now the herdsmen in the mountains, including the employees of the forestry team and the animal husbandry team, are distributed grain at a rate of 28%, with 20% fine grain and 80% coarse grain. This may change in the next two years because wheat will be grown after the land is contracted. With more food, production has also increased, and the circulation of fine grains in the market has increased.
But at least for now, the naan made by Bolati and his family is still hybrid naan, mainly made from corn noodles. But pure corn flour cannot be kneaded, so it needs to be mixed with some white flour.
Not as delicious as this steamed bun, this damn wheat flavor!
“Dip some of this and try it.” Yushanjiang handed over the plate of red tofu.
Bolati dipped it in, tasted it, smiled and nodded, it was indeed much better.
Li Long saw that one steamed bun was obviously not enough for this person, so he hurriedly took two more steamed buns and put them under the stove to bake.
The two of us finished eating the steamed buns and were not in a hurry, so we just waited there.
The fire was not very strong, but the temperature underneath was quite high. In less than five minutes, Li Long turned the buns over, and Polati said directly:
“No need to turn them over, just like this. Eat. ”
Okay, let’s eat.
He ate three steamed buns by himself, and Yushanjiang ate two.
These steamed buns are not small, as big as two fists. Li Long could probably eat three if he was very hungry. Looking at Bolati, who was a bit thinner than him, he was worried that this guy would not stretch himself to death.
However, on the surface, there was nothing wrong with Polati, he just burped a few times.
“Come on, Fritillaria.” Polati felt comfortable eating and put the Fritillary bag in front of Li Long:
“Fifteen yuan. Or wine.”
"I don't have any wine here for now, so let me give you money first." Li Long said, "I will go down the mountain to buy some wine in the next two days. Come over sooner or later and I will get it for you."
波It's a little difficult for Lati and the others to drink, mainly because they still need drink tickets.
In a year or two, tickets may gradually be marginalized, but they are still needed in some places. The neighbors of the forestry team may also be afraid that their drinking will cause trouble, so they won't give them alcohol tickets, making it difficult for them to drink.
"Okay." Polati made another condition:
"Give me two more steamed buns, and I will take them back to my family."
This guy can, remember his family.
Li Long wrapped the remaining three steamed buns for him. It was already morning anyway, so he might as well make the dough and steam some himself.
Carrying the steamed buns and the money given by Li Long, Bolati and Yushanjiang waved their hands, then went out and left on horseback.
"I'm leaving too." Yushanjiang said, "I still have to clean up when I get back."
"The steamed buns are gone. You can carry the bag noodles." Li Long pointed to the corner flour in it.
"No, no, no." Yushanjiang waved his hand, "There are quite a few at home. The two children have gone to school, and the food at home is endless, all of which are fine grains. I, Yanggangzi, said that if I continue like this, I will spoil my stomach. There are those who eat fine grain every day."
Yu Shanjiang waved his hand and went out to lead the horse. After riding on it, he waved his hand to Li Long, turned around in a circle, and left.
Li Long smiled, quite pleased.
From Yushanjiang's words, he could tell that the other party was really satisfied with his current life. That'll do.
He turned around and entered the house, opened his pocket and looked at the caladium inside.
It’s okay, quite clean, with a bit of mud and leaves, but not much.
He carried the caladium bag to the small room next door and spread it out on the floor to dry in the sun.
In the distant forest, two people looked this way.
"Do you think those two men on horseback are the bad cowards from the forestry team who collect our fritillaries?" said the young voice, a little weak.
"Maybe... right?" the older one said, "The one leaving in front looks a bit similar, but the one behind doesn't seem to be."
If Li Long was here, he should be able to recognize him. He is so old. The one who ordered it was the one who came to him in the middle of the night to ask for medicine.
"Then do you think they are in the same group?"
"You can't be prepared." The older one said, "Let's not go there. You are weak and you have It’s not easy for us to run away no matter what the situation is, right? Go ahead and rest in the den for two days.”
“How about resting? We don’t have much to eat now, only these fritillaries are left. All of them have to leave the mountains..." the young man complained.
"Then you rest. I'll take the caladiums down the mountain and sell them in the county in exchange for some food. I can sell these caladiums for half a bag of corn noodles."
"Forget it. After traveling nearly a hundred miles, when will you come back? Tomorrow, you haven’t had anything to eat... Okay, let’s go find him and get some food. He could give us medicine at midnight last night. He shouldn't be considered a bad guy. At worst, these babies We have to take a risk. Otherwise, we will all die in the mountains."
"Okay, you go find a sunny place to bask in the sun for a while. Let’s go, I’ll go change.”
He is said to be in his thirties, but he is not tall and thin. He only weighs about 50 kilograms and has unkempt hair and beard. , I don’t know how long I stayed in the mountains.
Li Long was talking to each other when he heard the movement outside.
"Who?"
"It's me. I asked you for medicine yesterday. Thank you!" Li Zhengtang stood more than ten meters away. He knew that Li Long had a gun in his hand, and he was afraid of causing misunderstanding. Go further.
Li Long rubbed the face on his hands and walked to the door, looked at Li Zhengtang and said:
"You're welcome, anyone who encounters such a situation will give medication. By the way, Is the fever gone?”
“It’s gone.” Li Zhengtang nodded repeatedly, looked at the flour in Li Long’s hand, swallowed, and then raised the bag in his hand and said:
"This is the caladium we dug, thank you for the medicine..."
"Are you the caladium diggers?" Li Long smiled, waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, you can leave quickly. Talents from the forestry team came just now. They Do you believe that they will arrest you if they encounter you? Even if they don’t arrest you, you will be taken away by them.”
Li Zhengtang listened to Li Long’s reminder, and he was worried about it. After putting down most of it, he hurriedly laughed with me He said:
"One more thing, brother, my brother has a fever and is a little weak, and we don't have anything to eat. See if you have anything here..."
"You should have said it was okay earlier, I just ate the steamed buns here, and the forestry team member just took away the rest. If you can wait, come over at noon. By the way, there is some porridge. Do you have anything to serve? ”
How can there be anything here?
"Can I exchange the Fritillaria for your porridge and some corn noodles? My bag of Fritillaria weighs two or three kilograms. I can exchange for some. I don't ask for more. Just a dozen or so kilograms will be fine. "
"That's it." Li Long thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll get you some rice, some noodles, and some porridge."
He. It can be seen that the other party is very anxious, maybe the patient is really serious.
I found an empty bag and poured seven or eight kilograms of rice into it. I found another bag and poured almost the same amount of noodles into it. I took an enamel basin and scraped in all the remaining porridge in the pot. They were mentioned to Li Zhengtang together.
"Thank you, thank you so much!" Li Zhengtang almost cried, this is a lot!
"No thanks, no thanks." Li Long waved his hand, "I also collect fritillaries. If you dig them up in the future, you can send them over, sell them for money or exchange them for supplies. But you still have to be careful in the mountains. The forestry team often patrols and takes away the fritillaries when they find them."
Li Zhengtang was grateful and left with the rice and flour bag on his back.
He was also hungry, so he resisted not drinking porridge all the way, and brought it to his cousin Li Zhengting.
Li Zhengting actually kept watching. When he saw Li Zhengtang carrying a bag of rice and flour and a basin of porridge, he was very happy:
"Brother, he gave so much?"
"Well, that guy is really nice!"
"Why did you get two bags? Don't you put them together?" Li Zhengting thought there were two The bag is full of corn noodles.
"A bag of rice and a bag of noodles, that person gave me a lot! They are all fine grains!" Li Zhengtang put down the bag excitedly and handed the enamel basin to Li Zhengting:
"Here , you drink first!”
"Rice porridge! This is good stuff!" Li Zhengting took a look and was surprised, "It can't be anything, right?"
"What can it be?"
"He doesn't Are you still here with the forestry team members?”
“He also reminded us not to be fooled by the forestry team members. Caught." Li Zhengtang said seriously, "The price he gave is not low, and he is a good person. You took other people's medicine to get better. "
"Well, Zhengting. ." Li Zhengting also felt that he was a bit of a villain, so he blushed and drank from the enamel basin.
The porridge is so delicious! He drank more than half of it in one go. If he hadn't felt his cousin watching him all the time, he could have finished the porridge in one go.
"Brother, you drink too."
"Oh, that's fine. You're better now, and you can't eat too much." Li Zhengtang smiled and took the enamel basin, wiping it with his hands He picked up the edge of the basin and drank heavily.
Although the porridge is slightly cold, to them, it is no less delicious than human beings. They have not tasted such thick porridge for a long time.
After finishing the porridge, Li Zhengtang didn't even miss the last grain of rice in the porridge. If it weren't for the fact that there was no water here, he would have planned to rinse the basin with water and drink again.
The main reason is that for more than half a month here, the main food available is corn noodles, and rice is basically never eaten.
Now I suddenly drank rice porridge, and I was really moved. I also thought it tasted really good.
With so much grain in his hand, Li Zhengtang suddenly became more courageous. He said:
"Let's go back to the nest. You rest, and I'll get the fritillaries." . This person said that he also collects Fritillaria here. I looked at his attitude, and the price he offered was not low. This is what I have in my hand. After calculating some things, one kilogram of fritillary is equivalent to five or six kilograms of rice noodles. It’s not cheap. If it’s not convenient to go down the mountain, let’s exchange money and supplies with him!”
Li Zhengting also had ideas about this and turned around. I looked at the tractor at the door of Li Long’s cabin again, still a little reluctant:
"They really deserve to be rich. If you want to sell it to the county, one kilogram can cost five yuan, right?"
"What about the round trip fare?" Li Zhengtang waved his hand, "We will earn what we can. Zhengting, we can’t be greedy. When people are greedy, they will definitely do bad things.”
This is all a result of lessons learned.
Li Zhengting also knew these truths. He nodded, and together with his cousin, they carried the bag and slowly returned to the nest.
The nest they used was abandoned by others before, and it did not completely collapse. They covered it with some branches, pressed it down, and found some grass to spread it over to make some disguise.
Li Long mixed the noodles and put them in a basin, covered them with pot chops, and placed them on the table to let them rise. Then he took the Fritillaria to the small room next door to dry them, and along the way, he put the mud, grass leaves, etc. of picked out. After the caladium is dried, it will be sold to Chen Hongjun. The quality must be acceptable.
These trivial things are time-consuming, but it’s impossible not to do them. Some of the mud inside has to be picked out, but the grass leaves are easier to get. There were also some caladiums that were stuck with mud and couldn't be removed. Li Long picked them aside, preparing to take them out to wash them and then bring them back to dry.
After finishing the fritillaries, the sun rose and the sun shone on the body, which was quite warm. Li Long went to see if his face and hair were almost done, and then he started kneading the steamed buns. Since Bolati had eaten a lot this time, Li Long planned to steam more, at least not to let it disappear while eating.
He felt that the man just now might come over later, and he might also want steamed buns. If he couldn't catch the prey, he would also want to eat it.
So just steam it and it will have three layers. I think you can eat it for a week, right?
The steamed buns are steamed, and the next step is to wait. Li Long didn't want to wait in vain, so he went to look for mushrooms in the nearby grass to see if he could find them.
Unfortunately, although it rained last night, the grass has not fully grown yet. I can find a few mushrooms, but not many.
It’s okay to make one meal, but it’s just one meal.
You have to think for yourself at night.
Trouble.
Li Long planned to take a break after lunch and then go to the salt cave over there. There should be some harvest there, right?
If there is nothing to gain there, then we can only hope to go to the location indicated by Yushan River tomorrow morning.
This time I went out to hunt and the harvest was a bit poor. This made Li Long a little unwilling. He had to get something out! (End of this chapter)