In the end, Li Long put away the four pieces of metal.
This thing is quite heavy and has a strong pressing feel. Li Long feels that it should be the same set, but he can't understand the words on it and can't tell the difference.
The man took thirty yuan and happily threw the bag to Li Long. He smiled and said:
"Okay, okay, we have the travel expenses. I've had enough time in the mountains! I'll go down the mountain today and go to Shicheng tomorrow!"
"I think you are. It's best to stay in the mountain and go down the mountain during the day tomorrow," Li Long kindly advised, "The sun is almost setting now, and it will be dark when you get out of the mountain. There is still a long way to go from the mountain to Qingshui River. There really are wolves. I have encountered wolves while walking at night. You are not strong enough to pounce on a wolf.”
When Li Long said this, the man really became worried. He looked at Li Long's wooden house and suddenly asked:
"Boss, can I stay with you for one night? I'll give it to you." How about two yuan for your rent? It’s only two yuan to live in Datongpu in the county!”
“No,” Li Long refused decisively, “I suggest you go back to your original place. place, it's not safe here either, and both you and I I don’t know you, but I’m worried about letting you live here. By the way, since I gave you all the money, you also took advantage of it. Can you tell me the specific location where you picked up these pieces of iron? ?”
The man smiled and said:
“You still want to pick it up? I tell you there is no room there, and you can only pick up some hemp money, which is rusty and damaged. No one takes the copper for sale.”
"Then don't worry about it. Tell me the location first." Li Long asked for the location of the item he picked up based on the idea of collecting information.
He planned to go over and take a look at it leisurely. According to what this person said, it didn't look like a cemetery, but more like things were rushed out from somewhere.
After the man left, Li Long turned the metal pieces over and looked at them for a long time without seeing the reason. There are only two things that can be determined. First, this thing is very heavy and has wear and tear on it, but the writing is still clear, so it should not have been directly exposed in the mountains before, but it should have been buried somewhere.
Secondly, this thing should not be a copper piece. If it is a copper piece, it must be as rusty as the bronze mirror. How can it still be so bright?
Could it be that both myself and that person were mistaken? This should be gold?
When Li Long had this idea, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
This metal piece is less than twenty centimeters long, only five or six centimeters wide, and less than half a centimeter thick. It feels like one weighs nearly one kilogram. Four people don’t know how this person can get it from the waistband of his pants. Brought out.
Unable to figure it out, Li Long didn't think too much. He collected the four metal plaques and the bronze mirror and hid them. Then, seeing that the sun was setting, he started collecting caladiums from the house. Dried meat. While he was putting it away, another shout came from outside. Li Long came out of the small room and found that he was still the same person just now.
He must have been running over a few steps. When he saw Li Long, he asked:
"Boss, can I have a piece of meat? I haven't eaten much this day. I brought these with me. I always feel that it’s not as delicious as meat, but I see you have a lot of meat..."
"Then the money I just calculated for you is already a lot!" Li Long originally planned to give away the meat, but he was afraid that this person would be suspicious, so he deliberately made it difficult and said, "This meat is not cheap."
"Hey, just give me a piece, you have so many!" the man said with a playful smile.
"Okay, okay, I'll give you a piece." Li Long said impatiently, "It's agreed, this is it. Eat it at night and rest quickly. If you can't do this job, leave here as soon as possible tomorrow. "Mountain, there are many caladiums in this mountain, but it seems that you are not qualified for this industry, so you might as well change your career as soon as possible."
Li Long said, taking a piece of dried meat from the rope and passing it over.
"Yes, yes, yes, I know it." The man took the meat and echoed Li Long's words, then put the meat to his nose and smelled it, showing an intoxicated look. Look at that expression, what happens next? Just about to take a bite.
"Okay, let's go quickly. This meat is only half-cooked. Go back and cook or roast it until it's cooked and eat it. Don't go and get upset again. There's no hospital in this mountain!"
"Okay, okay, I know. Thank you for your kindness, boss!" With the meat and money, the man happily turned around and walked towards the mountains.
Li Long looked at him for more than ten seconds, then continued to put all the things outside, covered all the bedding, locked the door, carried half a cage of wine, and opened the door with two pieces of air-dried meat. He drove the tractor towards Xiaobaiyanggou.
He didn’t dare to take more. Ten people over there get two liters of wine, and the average per person is less than 200 milliliters, which is nothing. At this time, people also drink a lot, and it is normal for a person to say that he will be fine after just one bottle. In fact, he just wanted to relieve everyone's fatigue.
No matter what science or medicine will say in the future, in this era, when you are tired from work, you can drink one or two glasses at night, which will really relieve your fatigue and make you sleep soundly.
But in later generations, Li Long read on short videos and the like that it seemed that sleeping after drinking wine did not relieve fatigue. Anyway, some things are not popular yet, so we should follow the habits of this era.
When the tractor drove suddenly to Xiaobaiyanggou, dinner had not yet been served here.
Everyone was weaving a hand in the shallow pit they dug. Li Long has been here every day for the past two days, so they are not so polite. They nod and smile, or just ignore it. The most important thing now is to make up a few tricks. If they can make up one more trick before going to bed, then Earn four more dollars!
At this time, the tuition and miscellaneous fees for children to go to school are only two yuan!
Four yuan can buy 30 to 40 kilograms of corn noodles, which can feed the family for a month. Four yuan can buy ten kilograms of white flour. Steamed buns can be steamed for the baby every two days, and the baby can be happy. moon.
Li Long turned off the engine and got off the tractor. Seeing that Lao Huang was cooking soup and rice, he took the dried meat over and asked him to pack it away.
Lao Huang held the cannon of Mohe cigarettes in his mouth, looked at the cage held by Li Long and asked:
"What is that?"
"Loose wine, Everyone takes a few sips to relieve fatigue during dinner in the evening. They don’t dare to bring too much for fear of drinking. I won’t be able to get up tomorrow.”
“Hey, this thing is great! If I had known about this treatment, I should have argued with your father-in-law and come here last year!” He's happy, he's actually not a drinker, but who doesn't want to drink free wine? So I smiled with a big smile.
"Brother Huang, I smell something wrong with the smell of your cigarette." Li Long did not give him the wine cage, but prepared to give it to his eldest brother Li Jianguo later. In any case, among these people, the eldest brother has the strongest prestige. Give him the wine, he knows the right amount.
"Hey, didn't you forget to bring cigarettes? If you want to smoke, just roll some dry tree leaves and smoke, and coax you."
"Then I'll give them to you tomorrow. You bring some Mohe cigarettes. "There are actually cigarettes in Li Long's small room, but he will not take the initiative to change them for those who are blindly displaced, mainly for forestry team members like Bolati.
Blind Liu's understanding of mountain fires is not comprehensive. They don't care whether they cause mountain fires. As long as they don't burn themselves, they don't care even if they burn the mountains.
On the other hand, Polati and the others will be very concerned about it, and they will consciously stamp out cigarette butts when they smoke.
"That's great!" Old Huang smiled so hard that he almost couldn't see.
Li Long went over and handed the wine cage to Li Jianguo, and Li Jianguo asked him to put it aside. Li Long put down the wine cage, and then looked at the quality of the wine one by one.
It’s not bad, basically they are quite qualified, and everyone’s efficiency is quite high. At a glance, basically everyone has three or four picks in front of them, and there is one person fixed in the shallow pit. Completed.
Li Long nodded and went to Xie Yundong's place. Xie Yundong also compiled four handles today, and there is another one in the pit in front of him. He has compiled less than a quarter of it, and he may not be able to finish it today.
“Brother Yundong, are you okay today?”
"No, someone from the forestry team came over and said that there are wanted criminals running around in the mountains. Let us pay attention." Xie Yundong stopped what he was doing, straightened up and said:
"It's easier for us to talk here, Ten Someone is coming. No matter what, that person doesn’t dare to come over, but you are alone..."
"Then don’t worry, Bo Lati also told me that I have a pistol." Li Long smiled and patted Wuliuban on the back. "I will shoot when I find something wrong. Am I still afraid of them?"
"That's true." Xie Yundong looked at the gun on Li Long's back with envy. With such a gun in the mountains, hunting should be easy, and safety can be taken care of.
Li Long looked at it again and found that there was still a hole at the very edge. Only one person had finished the weaving, and another one had less than half of it. He guessed that it was Lao Huang who did it. The quality of the braided handle is pretty good. I guess it was because Li Long was strict with it yesterday and didn't dare to fool it.
Ten minutes later, Lao Huang called for dinner. These people got up one after another, went to the stream to wash their hands, and then went to get their own rice bowls.
“Today Xiaolong brought over two pieces of air-dried meat. I cooked it and cut it. Each person divided the two pieces of meat and ate it slowly. The more you chew, the more fragrant this thing will be. Don’t just chew it randomly. Swallow it, it's a waste!" Old Huang said loudly.
Most of these people laughed when they heard that there was dried meat to eat. Lao Huang really put meat in his cooking, but the meat was cut into cubes and the feeling in the mouth was not so strong. The air-dried meat was cut into pieces, so it definitely tasted different when eaten.
The soup and rice were quite thick, so Li Long filled a large bowl with an enamel basin, asked Lao Huang to add two pieces of meat to it, and then took it to Li Jianguo and the others. Just when he was about to eat, Li Long realized that Sun Jiaqiang had not returned.
"The fritillary digger came back at noon and said he found a fritillary trench. He might be late to dig it out today. He said the trench was relatively far away." Li Jianguo saw what Li Long was thinking and said, "By the way, that trench Do you know about the wanted criminal?"
"Yes, Bo. Lati went over and told me, you didn’t notice that I was carrying a gun back and forth, and if something went wrong, I would just shoot.”
“That’s right, you just need to know.” He is relatively rich, with a bit of killing and decisiveness in his character, and he is very supportive of Li Long's idea.
In this mountain, it’s hard to distinguish between good and bad people. If you don’t mess with me, everyone will go their own way. But if you have any bad thoughts, don’t blame me for being rude.
While eating, people slowly gathered around, and some people stared at the wine cage next to Li Jianguo.
"Eat first. If you don't have any food in your stomach, you'll get drunk after drinking that wine for a while!" Li Jianguo said, "If you can drink it, I have to see how you guys are doing? Let's drink it when we don't do it at night." . After dinner, I can continue to knit up the unfinished work and finish it. Now that I’m dizzy after drinking, how can I knit it again?”
Li Jianguo’s words? It makes sense, so we won’t force it. But knowing that I can drink it at night makes me happy.
While eating, Sun Jiaqiang ran back excitedly with his bag, shouting from afar:
"Brother Huang, have you left any food for me?"
< br>"Keep it, stay here." Lao Huang quite liked this blind streamer. He had a good personality, took the initiative to say hello back and forth, and helped him with his work. He could also help him when he was making up his own chores in the morning and evening.
When he heard that the meal was left, he was no longer so anxious. Instead, he raised the bag in front of Li Long and said proudly:
"Boss Li, look at what I have gained today!"
< br>"Hey, this bag must be eight kilograms!" Li Long was also a little surprised, "You made so many today?"
"Hey!" Sun Jiacheng suppressed his excitement and whispered, "You don't even know that I came across a good place today. The fritillaries are next to each other in the ditch. They can get half a kilogram without moving much! Tomorrow I will Go there!”
“Okay, you can eat first, and I’ll settle the score with you later.”
After eating, collecting the fritillaries, and collecting the handfuls, Li Long declined the others' offer to drink together and drove the tractor to the wooden house.
He was very careful along the way, but fortunately no one blocked the way. Back at the wooden house, it was not completely dark yet, so Li Long took off the handle. He originally wanted to wash Sun Jiaqiang's Fritillaria this time, but it was getting dark after taking off the handle, and he didn't want to If you move, just lock the door and go back to the house to sleep.
I haven’t climbed much in the past two days. Li Long was not that tired. He got up early in the morning. Seeing that he couldn’t sleep, he ate two bites of cold steamed buns. After drinking water, he took the gun with him. The bag went outside.
He wanted to see if he could get another harvest early in the morning.
It was still dark, but Li Long could see the surrounding situation clearly and was familiar with it, so he ran directly to the hot spring.
The biological clock of animals seems to start earlier than that of humans. At this time, many animals have already begun to move. On the contrary, after the sun comes out, many animals hide, possibly to avoid natural enemies.
Li Long walked lightly through the mountains with a gun on his back. The road was very familiar. He hadn't walked for several days, so he felt a little excited.
I didn’t see any animals along the way. I could occasionally hear the cries of pheasants and there were a lot of bird calls, but I couldn’t see them.
When Li Long entered the hot spring ditch, he smelled a faint smell of sulfur. At this time, the sky was brightening. Although the ditch was narrow and dark, he could basically see clearly.
There are some hoof prints on the edge of the stream. It can be seen that there are wild boars and wild goats.
Li Long went up the stream and arrived near the pond twenty minutes later.
Then I met a wild goat's eyes.
The wild goat was extremely alert. It only glanced at Li Long before turning around and running into the forest. It jumped very high and moved very quickly. When Li Long took aim and fired, the wild goat had already entered. The edge of the woods.
"Bang bang" two shots, one shot hit the branch next to the goat, exploding into a ball of green stuff with bark mixed with sawdust, and the other shot grazed the goat's neck. , brought out a piece of flesh, but it didn't seem to be seriously injured, nor did it affect its movements. Instead, it made the goat move more agile, and it rushed into the forest in a few seconds.
Li Long immediately picked up his gun and chased after him. Since he was shot, he couldn't let it go.
In the past, he liked to lay ambushes and fight well-prepared battles. In this way, he was very confident in hunting. As long as he found a spot to ambush, he would usually gain something.
In the past two years, the beasts have also become smarter, and their positions are erratic. It is difficult for Li Long to ambush, so he can only find and hunt them.
Hunting is a test of physical strength, but fortunately Li Long is not lacking in this.
The wild goat ran desperately up the mountain, feeling a little panicked. It was very noisy, and the terrain was complicated and covered with woods. Li Long was able to keep an eye on it.
The wild goat's neck soon turned red, and the blood kept flowing down. It dyed the neck red and was still dripping down. In addition, the goat itself was moving very violently, so the wound would be very difficult. Coagulation.
When he ran out of the forest and came to the open area, Li Long aimed at the goat above and fired again. The sound of the gunshot was heard far away, but it was not hit. The goat ran into the grass, and its figure was looming. Difficult to aim.
Li Long could only continue to chase. He is now glad that he ate something when he got up in the morning, otherwise he may not be able to keep up with his physical strength now.
Although this was only one shot, it spread wider in the mountains than the two shots just now. Many people in the mountains had different reactions when they heard the gunfire.
Over at Xiaobaiyanggou, everyone was having breakfast. When they heard gunshots, Sun Jiaqiang held a basin and asked:
"Who is hunting here? Could it be Boss Li?"
"It's possible." Li Jianguo didn't say anything, and Lu Yingming said, "Xiaolong used to use a gun to hunt wild boar, roe deer and other things in the mountains."
"Hey, it's great to have a gun! "
Lin Xiaohu and He Yiku just got up. When they heard the gunfire, they looked at each other without saying a word. But Lin Xiaohu could see He Yiku's envious expression.
Lin Xiaohu can understand He Yiku’s thoughts. It’s good to have a gun! They have to hide as soon as it gets dark, for fear of being targeted by wolves. If you have a gun, you are afraid of a ball!
Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengting heard the gunfire and were trying to decide whether it was from the forestry team or Li Long. After all, the gunfire was not close to them, so don't be accidentally hit behind!
Thinking of this, Li Zhengtang said to Li Zhengting, who had just recovered:
"Zhengting, let's dig fritillaries and go west today. Don't go to the side where the gunshots were heard. The guns are not long-sighted. Let's not get into trouble with ourselves." "
"Okay." Li Zhengting became more obedient after this incident.
......
Li Long chased him to the top of the mountain and saw that the wild goat had rushed down, still forty or fifty meters away from him.
However, the goat's speed slowed down when going down the mountain. He held the gun steadily, half-crouched on the top of the mountain, and took aim at the wild goat, which weighed thirty or forty kilograms.
After taking the advance amount, when the goat was almost at the bottom of the ditch and started running horizontally, he pulled the trigger! (End of this chapter)