Two or three kilograms of raw beef can produce one kilogram of cooked beef. When Li Long drove his tractor to the county, there were twenty or thirty kilograms of cooked beef and offal in the tractor. He had to eat it alone, and he couldn't eat it even if it was spoiled. over.
Obviously, the extra is for Gu Xiaoxia.
Although my family doesn’t say it, this is what happened. After all, it was Li Long who brought back the meat. Although Li Long said that the county had left a cow leg, now that Li Long has separated, it is appropriate to keep half a cow, not to mention a cow leg.
That's the thing. We are still a family, but we will not do anything wrong in terms of friendship.
When the tractor left, it also carried two barrels of diesel oil. The large barrels of oil were placed in Li Jianguo's yard. Li Long would pump two small barrels every time he came back. He planned to meet Da Qiang and the others next time he came back. , go to the agricultural machinery station and buy a large barrel of oil to put in the big yard. It is also convenient to use. It is difficult for one person to load or unload a 180-liter bucket.
When eating meat in the evening, Li Jianguo also said that the melon seedlings have come out and are growing well. In a few days, when they have three to five leaves, they can be thinned out as Li Long said. Many people in the village were waiting to see the joke. Li Jianguo was very excited and wanted to make a good use of this economic crop.
As for winter wheat, corn, sunflower and other crops, Li Long is not worried at all. The eldest brother and sister-in-law are really good at farming, and now that the land is their own, they are even more attentive. I came back three or four times and this was the only time I saw them in the yard, otherwise they were always in the fields. Very busy and very happy.
When the tractor chugs back to the big yard, it is already dark, and it is very vivid to say that the moon and stars are shining.
As if Gu Xiaoxia knew that he was coming back, the tractor arrived at the gate of the courtyard. The gate of the courtyard was already open. She looked at Li Long who was driving the tractor with a smile, her eyes full of affection.
Li Long smiled, drove the tractor into the yard and turned off the engine.
Gu Xiaoxia closed the door, locked it, and walked to the tractor and said:
"I knew you would definitely come back tonight."
"No, it's only ten kilometers away. If there is a tractor, we must come back. It's just a matter of pressing the accelerator." Li Long took it out of the truck. A big basin:
"This is braised meat cooked at home. Knowing that you and I don't have time to do it, we cooked the meat and ate it. You put some here, and I'll take some to the mountains to eat."< br>
"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia saw Li Long bringing the heavy basin into the kitchen, so she also brought the light basin in.
Two pots of meat were placed on the chopping board, and Li Long asked:
"Have you eaten it?"
"I have eaten it, but the meat is still warm and I want to eat more. "
"Would you like a drink?"
"Let's not drink anymore, let's..." Li Long understood what Gu Xiaoxia meant instantly. Since you are preparing for pregnancy, don't do too many dangerous things.
Very good, Li Long smiled.
I simply cut some meat and made a dipping bowl, which is actually just oily chili peppers and vinegar, and then I chopped up some chives and coriander seedlings from the vegetable field outside and put them in. .
After eating, the two of them simply washed up and went to the bedroom to chat.
"Have you, Mr. Wang, collected the meat?"
"Yes, and she asked me who I gave it to. I said I gave it to her. I think Mr. Wang was very happy, and she also Tell me that you should be united in the office, but not be a good person, just like you said before." When she mentioned this, Gu Xiaoxia became very excited. She turned her back and changed her pajamas while continuing to talk to Li Long: < br>
"She also told me that I am now the backbone of the office. I am the main person in writing materials and working at the grassroots level. Those elder sisters have been here for a long time, but their work ability has declined sharply. I will definitely be the main one in the future. But he is an old comrade, so he should be respected, but he should not be sloppy at work, and those who should be held responsible should be held accountable. I can tell that Director Wang is doing this. You're reminding me..."
"Well, that's what I meant." Li Long also changed his clothes and sat on the bedside to watch Gu Xiaoxia tidy up, already feeling a little uncontrollable. , he took Gu Xiaoxia's arm and asked her to sit on the edge of the bed. Gu Xiaoxia sat down with a blushing face. After a while, she got used to Li Long's dishonest hands and feet, and then rolled onto the bed.
Younger is better.
After several twists and turns.
No words for a night.
The next morning, Gu Xiaoxia made breakfast. It was very simple. Cut a plate of yesterday's offal, scramble an egg, make porridge and steamed buns.
Do you eat meat every now and then? A few companies can do this, but even eggs are not something everyone eats every day in the city. The two of them talked about their next plans while eating. Now in mid-April, the mid-term exam will be held in half a month, and Gu Xiaoxia will go to various schools. Li Long is waiting to receive the job from the supply and marketing cooperative at the end of the month, and then starts organizing people to do the work.
“Can’t you make it up now?” Gu Xiaoxia put forward her own idea.
"I think you have only been away from the team for a year, so you are out of touch with common sense in life? The team can weave wicker sticks, but how many are there? It is warm and late in the mountains, and those wicker sticks need to grow well. It will take a few more days.”
“Oh, oh,” Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, “It’s really not very clear about things in the mountains.”
After dinner, Gu Xiaoxia was anxious to go to work and left in a hurry. When she left, she was hugged and kissed by Li Long. She blushed, shy and a little embarrassed, but Li Long felt that it would take several days to enter the mountain, which was unacceptable. Express it.
After tidying up the kitchen, leaving a small portion of the meat, Li Long put the rest into a large basin and carried it to the tractor. After covering it, Li Long spread the Fritillaria he brought back yesterday to the side room. After drying in the sun, I went to feed the deer and roe deer with sugar residue. After giving them water, I started the tractor and drove out.
After locking the door, I saw Officer Guo talking to his colleagues at the door of the police station. Li Long greeted him on the tractor and drove towards the department store.
Since rubber shoes are so popular, Li Long should prepare some.
Buying rubber shoes, replenishing supplies such as brick tea and sugar cubes, he went to the market to buy a few bags of rice noodles. This time he brought two bags of corn noodles.
There were several people from the team selling fish in the market, and Li Long said hello, then left and drove towards the mountains.
There is more green on both sides of the road. I may not have noticed it usually, but now it feels as if overnight, the seedlings in the ground have become denser, and the leaves in the forest are no longer tender yellow leaves, but have become large tracts. The leaves are thick, and there are more insects flying in the air. Summer is coming soon.
When the tractor drove into the ditch and saw the wooden house, Li Long saw a horse in the wooden house. Is there anyone there?
It wasn't Bolati's horse. Li Long immediately became more vigilant. Who could it be?
Halimu and the others have already gone to Xia Ranch, and there is a high probability that they will not recognize them if they come here at this time.
When the tractor arrived at the wooden house, the horse owner had already mounted the horse and looked a little embarrassed when looking at Li Long.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" Li Long had a 56 semi-automatic rifle at hand. The other party did not have a gun on his back, only a horse whip, and he felt like a caught thief.
"I, from the forestry team, heard that you can buy wine here, so I wanted to come and buy some..."
"Do you have money?" Li Long glanced at it, He found that the door had not been pried open, and his tone softened, "How much do you want to buy?"
"There is no money, but I have caladiums here. How much wine do these caladiums cost?"
Li Long took a look and saw that the young man took a bag of caladiums from the saddle. The bag of caladiums weighed five or six kilograms. I don't know who had harvested it in a day or two, but this young man collected it.
"I can exchange it for fifteen kilograms of loose wine, do you want to exchange it? If so, I will give it to you now." Li Long said, "But you don't need to exchange so much, right? You can exchange it for something else. "
"What else do you have here?" The young man got off his horse and spoke more smoothly.
Li Long also dismounted. He took out the key and unlocked the door. Then he found that the nose of the door button had been pried. He guessed that the young man had not found anyone and wanted to see if he could open the door. .
This matter was not brought to light, so he did not say anything about it. After opening the door, he said:
"I have drinks here. Have you heard of small champagne? It tastes better than wine. There are also brick tea and sugar cubes that can be brought home. Do you want sugar? There are fruit candies and sorghum jelly. There are also some for the elderly. The chicken cake..."
"I'll change it for some! Do you have any meat in the car for the sugar and champagne? Is it cooked?" the young man asked, looking at Li Long's tractor.
"Well, do you want to eat the braised beef offal? If you do, I'll get some for you."
"Eat it, why not?" the young man said immediately, "Yes. Can I exchange these things?”
“Can I exchange them?”
Li Long found a bag and packed him some of various kinds. He didn't take too much wine, just three kilograms of loose wine, and the rest was other things, including a bag of noodles.
The young man left with satisfaction, while Li Long put away the caladiums, swept the wooden floor at the door clean, poured the caladiums out into a basin, washed them, and then dried them on the wooden floor. .
He planned to dry these caladiums, and after putting them away, he would go to the ditch that Sun Jiaqiang mentioned. He had been talking about this for several days, but he had never been there once.
Of course, when Polati came over, he also planned to tell him that this young man might have dirty hands and feet, so he had to inquire or ask Polati to remind him. These are all small things. It is always a good thing to receive five or six kilograms of caladium upon returning. Li Long was also happy just waiting for the wealth to rain down from the sky. After all, the money comes easily. Of course, people who lose Fritillaria will definitely be sad and angry, but there is nothing we can do about it. The forestry team has the rules of the forestry team, and Li Long can't control it. What he has now is actually gray income, and no one will care about it. In a few years, Not so easy.
Take the cooked meat in the big pot in the tractor to a small room. It's cooler in the mountains. The meat can be stored for a while, but not much. Li Long planned to switch out if he could in the past few days, since he was not short of meat anyway. There is also some cooked meat that he plans to dry in the strong sunshine at noon. Although the dried meat is not as delicious as freshly cooked meat, it is at least durable.
When doing these things one by one, it actually takes a lot of time. When the meat is dried, it is time to have lunch.
As usual, I boiled water on the stove, ate porridge in the morning, and wanted to eat some pasta at noon. He made some noodles, went to the spring to pick some wild vegetables, and came over to stir-fry the meat, planning to eat some noodles.
Although the soup and rice are not filling, there are plenty of ready-made food in the wooden house, so I don’t care about it.
After adding the noodle soup, pour a bottle of persimmon sauce into it, which will make it taste sour. There is no green chili seed, so you can only use spicy skin, which tastes inferior. The dough is thin and flavourful, so delicious.
While Li Long was eating, a figure walked over from a distance. Li Long saw that it was Wu Benzhong.
He was holding antlers in his hand and looking weak. Li Long thought that he might have encountered something.
"I'll sell this to you." Wu Benzhong saw Li Long looking at him while eating, licked his lips and said, "In exchange for money, you can give it to me."
That one The secondary antlers were quite big and looked like they were newly dropped this year. Li Long made an estimate and said:
“Fifteen yuan.”
"Okay." Wu Benzhong placed the antlers on the steps of the wooden house next to Li Long and waited for Li Long to pay.
"No rush, let's eat first. There's a pot over there and an enamel basin in the house. Get it yourself."
"This..."
"You're welcome. Anyway, I made your money."
As soon as Li Long said this, Wu Benzhong did not hesitate. He was really hungry anyway.
After scooping up a bowl full of soup and rice, Wu Benzhong squatted not far from Li Long and started eating while snoring.
"My fritillaries were taken away by people from the forestry team." Wu Benzhong said suddenly, "I have been digging for more than a day. I originally thought of coming to your place today to exchange for money, but..."
Li Long's heart moved, thinking that the young man was collecting Wu Benzhong's Fritillaria, right?
What a coincidence!
“Those forestry teams are so bad, they just keep an eye on the ditches with many caladiums, and they don’t collect them as soon as they come up. They wait until we have almost dug the caladiums to come and collect them...”
Wu Benzhong became angrier as he talked.
"Okay, I collected the fritillaries for you, that's good if I didn't capture your people." Li Long comforted, "As long as people are around, can't the fritillaries still be dug out?"< br>
Wu Benzhong thought about this and felt better.
Li Long stood up with the bowl in hand, put the bowl on the case, and then went into the room. When he came out, he had a plate of chopped braised offal in his hand.
“Come on, eat some meat. Don’t be angry. From now on, you will dig out the fritillaries and look for ditches that are difficult for horses to enter. Anyway, you usually have nothing to do, so just wander around in the mountains. There are many ditches like this. There should be a lot of fritillaries in the ditch. Horses can't go in, and the ditch is small, so it will be difficult for the forestry team to find you. Try to come as early as possible to change things, so that you won't run into people."
Who should I change it for? Anyway, the prices were almost the same, so Li Long still hoped to exchange them with Blind Liu. At least they were really short of things and had really put in the work.
Of course, after collecting the young man's things, even if he identified Wu Benzhong, Li Long would not be able to make up for Wu Benzhong's money or things. He had already paid the bill.
Wu Benzhong and the others were actually mentally prepared to pay the price when they did this in the mountains.
Wu Benzhong nodded as he listened, and then his mind was attracted by those odds and ends. He glanced at Li Long and then started eating. He didn't know that this was Li Long's secret compensation. He just thought that the antlers could be sold for at least twenty yuan at the purchasing station. Now that Li Long paid more than ten yuan, he could eat the meat with peace of mind.
After eating, Wu Benzhong washed the enamel basin, put away the chopsticks, and said specifically to Li Long:
"The day after tomorrow, I will come over in the morning the day after tomorrow. I will definitely get more than ten pieces of fritillary. I want to exchange money."
Li Long counted out fifteen yuan and handed it to him:
"Okay, I believe you.”
Wu Benzhong preciously put the fifteen yuan into his inner pocket and strode eastward.
Li Long could see that after eating a meal, he had confidence again.
The meal was well worth it.
When it was still dark the next day, Li Long got up, prepared his gun and bullets, and drank hot water.
With a thermos bottle, you can drink hot water when you get up, which is a very good thing in this era. After eating one of last night's cold steamed buns, with chopped offal and braised pork that had solidified oil, Li Long went out with his gun and headed for the place Sun Jiaqiang mentioned.
Hunting deer is always more cost-effective than hunting wild boars. At least if you hunt a deer, you will have more valuable things on it, which can be exchanged for some funds. If you hunt a wild boar, you can only eat it. Unless you get a group of them, you can sell them in the Shicheng market.
Li Long had all kinds of thoughts running through his mind, and he strode toward the ditch to the east without stopping.
The location given by Sun Jiaqiang was a little vague. He had to go to Xiaobaiyanggou first, which would take several kilometers. Fortunately, he got up early to eat and was not hungry. In addition, he was tall and had long steps, so it took less than an hour. , rushed to Xiaobaiyanggou.
Not seeing Sun Jiaqiang, not knowing whether he changed places or got up early to dig fritillaries, Li Long turned south and walked towards the location he pointed to.
He came here not only to see if he could catch a deer, but also to see how the strips were growing and whether they were suitable for braiding. After all, the task of editing a piece of paper requires a large amount of strips. If the wrong place is chosen, it may not be compiled well, which will affect efficiency.
Li Long saw that the willow trees on both sides of the valley were growing pretty well, even better than last year. If there were no other problems, he would choose this place.
Continuing to walk in, when the eastern horizon turned red, Li Long found the ditch that Sun Jiaqiang had mentioned.
In the morning, when the sun had not risen, there was still dew on the grass and the chill was quite heavy. However, after walking all this way, Li Long felt hot and a little sweaty.
He found a shallow location, crossed the stream, and came to the mouth of the valley.
There are not many trees growing on both sides of this forked valley. It must have been visited by cattle and sheep, so the grass at the edge of the valley has been gnawed to the point where it has not grown. There are many cattle and sheep hoof prints, as well as dung and eggs.
Li Long was a little disappointed when he saw it. If this was the case, there might not necessarily be deer inside. It’s different from what Sun Jiaqiang said. Did cattle and sheep pass by this only in the past few days? Did you pass by here during the transition?
He walked into the ditch, and within ten meters, he realized that his previous judgment was wrong.
The cattle and sheep passed through only the entrance of the valley, which was still overgrown with weeds, there was no road, and there were quite a few shrubs.
Li Long only walked a third of the way when he heard the whine of a deer - the sound was messy and short.
Is this something big hunting a red deer?
Li Long got a taste of the advantage of the wolf attacking the roe deer last time. If he encounters a similar situation now, he will definitely take advantage of it again.
So when Li Long heard the sound, he immediately ran. The gun's safety was turned on and the bullet was loaded, ensuring that he could shoot at any time.
However, when he chased until the entrance of the valley, he vaguely saw a large red deer running past, followed by a slightly smaller doe, and the direction of their pursuit was still ahead.
I bet they are chasing other beasts?
What's going on? (End of this chapter)