Gather up all the bones and the venison bones that are cooking in the pot are almost done. This guy is probably less than a month old, and the meat is so tender that you only need to sprinkle a handful of salt when cooking it.
Li Long thinks about it now. In fact, he has lived a lifetime and a half, and he is not really proficient in cooking. Ordinary meals are okay, but if he really comes across relatively rare ingredients, he can still cook them. But it will most likely be wasted.
He put the bones in a basket, put them on the table to dry in the sun, and then went to prepare the meal. After all, he couldn't just eat venison. Traditionally, you still have to eat staple food for lunch.
Rice is the staple food. As soon as these words came out, Li Long thought of the announcer's words when the dining car on the train was selling rice. Of course it can't just be rice, because Sun Jiaqiang doesn't eat rice very much.
He felt that these blind people in the mountains should all be northerners who like to eat pasta. It is unlikely that southerners would come here. It’s not that there is no chance, but the chance is too small.
The steamed buns are easy to make, just bake them under the stove, and the rice needs to be simmered, but there is no need to simmer them too much. It is enough for two or three people to eat in one meal, so you can fry them at night.
After the venison is cooked, take it out into a basin and let it cool. Put the broth in the pot. Turn off the fire under the stove and cover the pot. Another stove is also burning, ready for cooking. Since this lynx is also a cat, the meat should have some effect, right? Li Long planned to braise the removed meat.
Looking at the time, it was almost noon. Li Long had prepared the food and was waiting for Sun Jiaqiang to come over.
He was quite grateful to Sun Jiaqiang. If he hadn't provided such a hunting spot, he wouldn't have been able to get this lynx. Li Long estimated that this lynx skin alone could bring him a small one. Thousands of dollars in profit.
With this thing in the wooden house, Li Long didn't dare to go out in the next few days. If someone pries it and takes this thing away, the loss will be huge.
After waiting for a while and feeling that the food was almost cold, Li Long saw Sun Jiaqiang carrying a bag and a young man riding a horse following him.
It was the one who traded things with him for meat the day before. There is a high probability that he is also the one who took away Wu Benzhong's Fritillaria.
The man was riding a horse with a gun on his back, and looked like he was driving Sun Jiaqiang forward.
"Old Sun, what's going on?" Li Long stood up and came over, "How did you meet each other?"
Sun Jiaqiang said angrily:
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"I met him when I was walking towards you. I told him that I was a friend of Bolati, and his activities in the mountains were allowed by Bolati. In addition, I also said that I had an agreement with you, and the fritillaries collected should be I sold it to you, but he didn’t believe it and wanted to take my fritillary. I told you to come here and prove it to me.”
Li Long looked up at the young man on the horse.
When the young man heard Li Long and Sun Jiaqiang greeting each other just now, he knew that the Han man carrying the bag was right. He hurriedly smiled and said to Li Long:
"I know, and you also know that we have been very strict recently. We have to check the surrounding area. If we encounter someone, we must ask."
“I haven’t seen Polati recently. Is there anything wrong with him?” Li Long asked, “This is indeed my friend. Friend. Let me tell you, I am also in the forestry team, and I can control this area. This is indeed a friend of mine. We both know each other. He digs fritillaries, so we allow him to dig them. , don’t worry about it if you encounter it in the future. By the way, I cooked venison today, do you want to eat some?”
"Okay, okay." The young man was also very happy, so Li Long fished him two meaty bones and sent him away.
“It’s such a waste to feed him!” Sun Jiaqiang put down the bag and waited until the young man walked away before complaining, “It’s hard to say that such a person can patrol the forest.”
"Then tell Polati and spend some money to get you into the forestry industry. The team is patrolling the forest." Li Long joked, "When you patrol this forest, the blind people here will definitely be happy."
"I won't do it." Sun Jiaqiang waved his hand quickly. Now like this, I can dig caladiums every day and occasionally get some game to eat. It’s not under anyone’s control. If I really want to join the forestry team, it will be boring when the caladium season is over. If I can save some money, I’ll tell you, I’ll do a small business. Everyone has discovered that doing business in northern Xinjiang is actually the most profitable when this caladium season is over. , I set up a stall in the market to sell things. I thought that I would make enough money to buy a house in the winter. "
" OK, I wish you a lot of money every day." Li Long. Smile, "Come on, come on, eat first, then choose the bones after eating."
"What else can we eat? Let's choose the bones first!" Sun Jiaqiang had already taken a fancy to those bones. He put the bag on the clasp of the tractor body, walked to the side of the case and looked at the bones carefully, touching this and that, he couldn't put it down. meaning.
Finally, he chose a vertebrae, and Li Long gave him a leg bone, which made him extremely happy.
Sun Jiaqiang does not eat rice, but he is very interested in crispy rice. Li Long can tell. He likes to eat burnt food. He doesn't know if it is because it is burnt and produces oil, so it is more fragrant.
After finishing the meal, Sun Jiaqiang asked Li Long to weigh a caladium for him, and he wanted to exchange it for money.
For a little more than eight kilograms of Fritillaria, Li Long gave him twenty-five yuan.
Sun Jiaqiang took the two big unity sheets and the steelworker sheet handed over by Li Long, looked at them again and again with a smile, then folded them in half, opened the corners of his clothes, and stuffed them into the inner pocket of his pants.
“In the place you went to in the morning, were there any traces of wild boars?” Li Long asked again. This is a habitual question of his. Whether he goes or not is another matter, but the news must be known.
"Yes, but it wasn't yesterday." Sun Jiaqiang said, "It seems that wild boars don't go there every day recently. There are a lot of shrubs and grass roots in that area, but now in this season, wild boars are not short of food. It seems that every other day I’ll go back every two days, not necessarily when.”
Li Long nodded, indicating that he understood. He thought about waiting for dusk to get some wire snares, and then go see if he could snare some small wild boars.
After Sun Jiaqiang left, Li Long tidied up the place and began to dry the fritillaries.
The collected caladiums can no longer be dried in the small room and must be dried outside.
While drying the fritillaries, Li Long took out the lynx's claws again. This guy's entire claws were a little bigger than his fist, and the nails were four to five centimeters long. No wonder it was So with a light stroke, he made such a long wound on his arm.
Li Long thought about saving these claws. There will definitely be fewer and fewer of these claws in the future. After the animal protection method is adopted, ordinary people will basically not be able to see them.
So staying is just a thought. In a few decades, there will be evidence for bragging.
Then there were the lynx's teeth. He carefully removed them. Drying the paws in the shade is fine, as long as they don't allow insects to grow. Teeth are also easy to handle. Li Long already has experience with this thing. After all, he has practiced with so many wolf fangs. Although the lynx is smaller than an adult wolf, its teeth are similar to those of a wolf. He specially kept these teeth and kept them alone.
In the afternoon, two groups of people came to exchange things with him. One group was an acquaintance. They met him in Xiaobaiyanggou last year. At that time, the team leader led someone to exchange Fritillaria with him for money. This time they came to exchange things, wine, etc. Rice noodles.
This man brought a lot of Fritillaria, more than ten kilograms. I guess he bought them from a lot of people. Li Long gave him five liters of wine, a bag of rice and a bag of noodles, which made the man very happy.
The other one is Blind Liu, whom Li Long doesn’t recognize. From his description, he heard others say that things can be exchanged here. This time he came here as a test. He took more than two kilograms of Fritillaria and wanted to exchange for some food. used. Li Long gave him ten kilograms of corn flour, a bag of salt, two boxes of matches, a pair of rubber shoes, and two steamed buns.
These caladiums made Li Long a little worried. They were all fresh and unwashed. He had to go to the spring first, wash the caladiums in a big basin, then collect the caladiums on the table and the wooden floor, and hang them to dry.
I originally planned to go to the back mountain at night to lay a few traps on the wild boar that Sun Jiaqiang mentioned, but it couldn't be done. Because there were too many things in the wooden house, he did not dare to go far.
The main reason is that there are more forestry team members and blind streamers in the mountains now, and more people know about the situation here. Seeing that the tractor is not there, it is estimated that many people will definitely have ideas here.
In the next two days, Li Long collected some more caladiums one after another. The weather in the mountains this year was warmer than before. The real caladium season has arrived. Li Long found that the caladiums he received were larger than the previous ones. It started to get a little bigger and there were more impurities.
It should be that there are too many fritillaries in the ditch, and these people don’t have time to pick up the leaves and remove the mud after digging. Some of the supplies in the cabin have been exhausted, especially the rubber shoes, and the loose wine has been replaced. There are still three bottles of wine, six bottles of small champagne, and some other bits and pieces left, but not much. . The rice and noodles were completely gone, and he only had a little left to eat.
That afternoon, after collecting the fritillaries from Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengting brothers, he said to them:
"If there is more, come the day after tomorrow. I will go down the mountain tomorrow. As you can see, there are not many things in here, and my money is at the bottom."
"Okay, just in time, we I also found a caladium ditch. It’s not long, but there are so many caladiums growing in it. Let's dig around and come over later and exchange money with you." With Li Long here able to exchange things, the two cousins of the Li family are no longer as embarrassed as before. Although their hair and beards are still long, they still look a bit slovenly. My face glowed brightly, and my voice became more confident and confident. In the past few days, in addition to materials, they also exchanged more than 30 yuan from Li Long.
Although there is not much money here in Li Long, this is the beginning of the caladium season. They can still dig for at least another month. They are confident that by the end of the caladium season, one person can get it. A few hundred dollars to go home with!
After Li Long sent the two brothers away, he washed the more than ten kilograms of fritillaries they brought this time, without drying them, and put them directly into bags and put them in the bucket of the cart.
Next, he moved bag after bag from the cabin into the trunk of the truck. Naturally, the most abundant ones are the caladiums. After calculation, more than 80 kilograms of caladiums have been collected in the past few days, some of which are already half-dried. Li Long estimated that more than 20 kilograms of dried caladiums can be produced.
Then there are lynx skins and bones, deer skins, which are the most valuable, and meat. In the past few days, some meat has been exchanged. The living conditions of the forestry team and the blind people were slightly better, and then they took a fancy to the meat here in Li Long. They wanted to get some to eat and improve their lives.
Putting everything on the car, Li Long put the gun on his back, locked the door, cranked the tractor, and drove out of the mountain.
Some people in the mountains heard the sound of tractors and knew that Li Long was taking action. These people had different thoughts. Some of them thought that Li Long would bring a lot of good things when he came down the mountain this time. , some people were wondering if it would be possible if there was no one in the wooden house...
When Li Long drove his tractor to the county seat, it was not completely dark yet. This trip lasted nearly a week in the mountains, and it was April 20th. He planned to not only sell things tomorrow, but also go to the team to confirm the personnel. Now that the strips at Xiaobaiyanggou are growing well, it’s time to organize people to go up the mountain to weave and carry out the strips.
When she arrived at the compound, Gu Xiaoxia had already gotten off work. When she heard the sound of the tractor outside, she was pleasantly surprised and quickly ran to the door of the compound to open the door.
The door opened. Li Long, who had just gotten off the tractor, saw Gu Xiaoxia and smiled, then got on the tractor and drove into the yard.
Two young deer and a roe deer were running in the yard, but they were a little far away from the tractor. It was not until Li Long turned off the engine that he dared to approach slowly.
Gu Xiaoxia stepped forward and helped Li Long pat the dust on his body, and asked with concern:
"Why are you back at this time? Have you eaten? I'll heat up some food for you."
“No, no, no, I ate when I came back and got some meat, so I’m not hungry.”
People who are reunited in this era, even couples, are not used to relatively intimate actions for a while, but Li Long is not completely from this era. He smelled the cream and other fragrances on Gu Xiaoxia's body and couldn't help but Hold her in your arms Inside, while greedily smelling the scent of Gu Xiaoxia, he asked softly:
"Miss me? I miss you so much..."
I couldn't laugh at this time, and I didn't I want to laugh, he really misses his wife.
Frightened by Li Long's slightly wild and unruly movements, Gu Xiaoxia was stunned for a moment and then whispered:
"I thought about it."
"How much do you think?" Li Long asked subconsciously, and then realized that this is not a novel!
"I miss her so much." Gu Xiaoxia could feel Li Long missing her, both physically and mentally. She hugged Li Long and whispered softly.
Li Long originally wanted to enjoy the happiness of this moment, but the three little guys came over and hugged him and Gu Xiaoxia, which made him a little annoyed. After hugging him for a while, he let go and said:
"I'm going to wash up. I brought a lot of good things in the car today. I'll show you later."
Gu Xiaoxia smiled, this little guy really knows how to cause trouble.
She drove the three little guys into the glass room, gave them water, and closed the door despite their protests. Normally, Gu Xiaoxia would let the three little guys stay outside for a while, but today they ended the play early.
Li Long finished washing briefly, shaved his long beard with a razor, and then unloaded things from the car.
The caladiums should be placed in the side room to dry. The ones that were dried last time are all dry and can weigh several kilograms when put away. This time there were more, and neither house was exposed to the sun. Fortunately, there were not many other houses in the big yard, and most of them were cleaned and could be dried on the ground. There was enough space.
After finishing these, Li Long took out the lynx skin and showed it to Gu Xiaoxia like a treasure:
“This is a lynx skin. Last year, one piece sold for 800 yuan. , the price is expected to increase this year, I will see if I can sell a thousand of them tomorrow! , look, I heard from people in the mountains that soaking these bones in wine can cure rheumatism and waist and leg pain in the elderly. Then everyone will share some. I asked my elder brother to bring some wine back. Old Uncle Liang knows Chinese medicine. Let him see if he can get a recipe to match the wine, and everyone will make it.”
Li Qingxia and Liang Donglou are both old people. Although their health is still good, they will probably need this thing soon. Although Gu Boyuan and Li Jianguo are still middle-aged, these things will become increasingly rare in the future and ordinary people will not even be able to get them, so they should prepare them if they can get them.
"It's this kind of thing. It made a big gash on your arm last year, right?" Gu Xiaoxia looked at the big lynx claws that Li Long took out and asked with some palpitations, "It's so sharp, you must be careful. ! ”
“Don’t worry, I have a gun!” Li Long said boldly. Thinking about it now, he was stupid and bold. For the sake of his skin, he didn’t shoot directly and went around for a long time.
It's good luck, otherwise, if he made a hole, he would never be able to hide it from his wife.
Putting away the things, the two of them got to the bed while talking. Li Long had eaten venison and lynx meat in the past few days, and he felt very energetic. After struggling for a long time, Gu Xiaoxia finally ended the battle with unsatisfied intentions.
Well, that feels good.
Continue later.
Early the next morning, Li Long got up to make breakfast. After Gu Xiaoxia got up and washed up, Li Long felt that his wife had a plump and plump figure. He vaguely remembered that there was a line in a folk song somewhere, "Gamei is a tender white tree." Food, you can get water with just one finger." This is how Gu Xiaoxia feels now.
"Xiaoxia, you are getting more and more beautiful." Li Long praised her sincerely.
Gu Xiaoxia smiled shyly. In fact, she could feel it when she looked in the mirror. She had changed a lot this night.
After dinner, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. After Li Long finished cleaning up and fed and watered the three little ones, he rode his bicycle to the purchasing station with the fritillaries and lynx skins.
He calculated exactly the time that Chen Hongjun would be on duty today. When I arrived at the yard of the purchasing station, I saw that the door was open. Chen Hongjun was talking to a person inside:
"It's not that the price I gave is low, the quality of your Fritillaria is not high and has many impurities." , different sizes, and some of them have bad ideas. Logically speaking, we won’t accept them. It’s enough for me to accept them..."
"But these are all dug out with hard work... "The other party was obviously not interested in the price or the reasons given by Chen Hongjun. He just thought the price was low.
Li Long propped up his bicycle, walked in with a mother-of-pearl bag in one hand and a leather bag in the other, standing aside and listening.
"...It's like this when digging caladiums in the mountains. It's impossible not to have impurities, and it's impossible for every piece to be good. It's so humid there, and it's normal for there to be mold occasionally." The seller of caladiums gave this explanation .
Chen Hongjun looked at Li Long, and then at the pocket in his hand.
Li Long felt something was wrong. (End of this chapter)