Originally, Li Long thought about forcing this guy to clean up the things in the small room, but then he thought about it. You still can't give a guy like this a chance, and if you give him a chance, it might even make things worse.
After carrying the goods and throwing them onto the grass outside, tying the feet to the tractor with a rope, Li Long began to pack up the things.
The loss of rice and noodles was not big. The bag was cut open and some was spilled, but the rest was still in the bag and could be eaten. Air-dried meat is more troublesome. Li Long picked up the dried meat in a basin and carried it outside. He planned to wash it later and tidy up the house now.
He did a rough calculation and found that the lost supplies amounted to twenty or thirty yuan. What this man stole was also worth more than ten yuan. However, there were still ten yuan in the bag that this man carried. Four or five kilograms of fresh Fritillaria can barely make up for the loss.
After rearranging the things on the shelves, the rice noodles on the floor could only be swept up because they had been stepped on. In ordinary people's homes, they would probably have to wash the rice before eating it, so Li Long simply swept it up. Got out. The window paper was torn off to disperse the smell of wine, and the torn rice and flour bags were placed on the shelf, barely able to escape.
There were not many disasters in the big room, but some enamel basins were put into bags by this guy, and cooked food such as steamed buns were packed away. The stove was also kicked and was a little loose. Li Long figured it out. After a while, it will have to be wiped with mud again to fix it.
Otherwise it will be inconvenient to use and you may smoke early.
After everything was put away, Li Long went to the spring, washed the dried meat twice, and then hung it on the rope.
Just thinking about it made me angry. After washing, I ran over and kicked the guy in the legs.
What a bad luck!
While Li Long and Ni Ba were wiping the stove, Bolati came over on horseback.
The tied man noticed that Polati was coming and immediately shouted "Help".
Bolati glanced at him and ignored him. After dismounting, he walked towards the house with the riding whip.
"You're here?" Li Long asked while smearing mud on the stove, "What's the matter?"
"Well, I got some caladiums and came over to exchange for some things. What's going on? I think the person you beat just now was pretty miserable.”
"I went to the animal husbandry team to see my friends' families, the families of Harimu and Yushanjiang." When Li Long mentioned this, he became angry again. He wiped the mud in his hand on the stove, stood up and said:
< br>"This morning, I shot a wild goat and wanted to send some to the two of them, but when I came back, this guy He broke my lock, stole the contents, and spilled wine and food all over the floor. He wasted a lot! He also stepped on the dried meat I dried, and he also destroyed some brick tea, sugar cubes and other supplies. He was gone. He was still running when I came back. I caught him and beat him. If it wasn't for murder, I would have beaten him. Forget it! It's so bad!"
"That's right, it's so bad!" When Polati heard that this man even spilled his wine, he became angry and picked up the riding whip. I whipped him several times in the past and cursed at the same time:
“You are like an animal, how can you waste food? Can you waste wine? Even if you steal some, can’t you take care of the rest? If you die like this, no one will bury you!”
At this time, there were not many ways for ethnic minorities to obtain food. They grew their own food. The harvest is also very small, and the attitude towards food is a bit more pious than ours, so we cannot listen to the waste of food.
After Li Long finished fixing the stove, Polati came over, still angry. Li Long glanced over there. He was a little worried that Polati wouldn't beat someone to death.
It’s okay. Although the man is not moving, his chest is still heaving and he is alive.
"These are the caladiums I collected in the past two days. I haven't collected them all, leaving some for others. Since I have collected the caladiums, I won't drive people away." Polati explained. , "Either let them go out with the Fritillaria, and don't come. Next time they come, they will be arrested together with the Fritillaria."
You still know how to be a good person, Li Long smiled and praised him. After a while, it was a little over thirteen kilograms.
“What do you want to change this time?”
"Wine, change some wine. My wine was taken away by others." Polati really regarded Li Long as a friend and explained specifically, "I don't drink much, just my colleagues and friends. They If you insist on asking for my wine, my face is important, so I give it to you, but I don’t have any wine to drink myself.”
“Okay, let’s change the bar and give you some other supplies.” Li Long thought to himself. If I want to exchange for wine, it won’t be enough to exchange all the wine I have here. It comes with rubber shoes, labor protection gloves and other items, as well as brick tea, sugar cubes and other items.
"Take him away. I don't want to see him. I'm worried that I'll get angry and beat him to death." Li Long pointed at the man and said, "It just so happens that you can take him back. Done."
"Okay." Polati smiled, this is still a good thing for him.
Tie the thing to the saddle. The man was beaten so hard that he would not be able to walk. If he was dragged behind the horse, he might be dragged to death. Polati was going to put it on the horse and carry it back.
When he put the man on the horse, Li Long could really see the man's face.
The hair and beard are not long. He must not have stayed in the mountains for a few days. His face is very young, he looks like he is twenty-three or four years old. His eyes are a little sinister and he stares at himself. His expression seems to tell Li Long " I will come back for revenge."
"What are you looking at? If you look again, I'll pluck out your eyeballs!" Li Long stepped forward and slapped the man on the face, "Don't learn if you don't have the skills. If someone sneaks in and picks the lock, he will be beaten and punished!”
Polati saw that Li Long’s slap caused blood to come out of the man’s mouth, and said hurriedly:
“Okay, okay, I’ll hit him a few more times and he’ll be dead. I’ll have to find a place to dig at that time.” Bury it. Okay, I’m leaving!”
After saying that, he picked up the person and put him on the horse's back like a package, then got on the horse and left.
After sending Bolati away, Li Long felt hungry.
Although his mood was affected by others and he lost supplies, Li Long felt that he still had to eat well. He went to get some wild vegetables. He didn't want to eat rice at noon, so he planned to stir-fry vegetables and make some tiaozi to eat.
Knead the dough. After mixing, apply oil and cover with a cloth to let it rest. The temperature in the mountains is lower than outside the mountains, so I need to wake up for a while and then prepare to cook. Stir-fried meat with wild mushrooms, add a scrambled egg with tomato sauce, and put some spicy skin inside. If green peppers were added to this dish, it would be a proper noodle dish. Now it can only be considered as barely enough.
Two dishes were enough, but the stove outside was not damaged. After the fire was lit, the pan was quickly put on and started to stir-fry. Both stoves are in use, one is cooking and the other is boiling water, mainly because I don't want to waste time.
After frying, put it on the counter and go to make some noodles. One person can't eat that much. Li Long made some more noodles because he was going to fry some noodles in the afternoon or tomorrow morning. He just had to eat them.
After everything is done, turn off the heat, get an enamel basin and put half a basin of noodles in it, pour most of the vegetables into it, and then Xili starts eating happily.
When young people eat noodles, they usually chew it two or three times and then it goes into their stomach in one big mouthful. The stomach and intestines digest well, but Li Long doesn't. In his new life, he also pays attention to chewing carefully and eating slowly. No one is grabbing it anyway. He sits outside in the sun and eats slowly, taking big mouthfuls and eating slowly.
After finishing a bowl of noodles, I didn’t even wash the bowl. I just scooped out the noodle soup from the pot, shook the bowl, and let the noodle soup wash down all the vegetable residues on the edge of the bowl, and mixed it with the noodles. As the soup cools down, take the last sip.
My stomach is already 100% full, and I don’t want to move at all at this time. I feel that if I move, everything I eat will come out of my mouth.
Well, very satisfied.
I sat on the chair for seven or eight minutes and felt comfortable. Then I got up and started to tidy up.
After cleaning up, I washed the fritillaries left by the thief, cleaned out the leaves and dirt inside, and then poured them on the case to dry in the sun.
Cut up the remaining noodles and vegetables and put them in the room to eat later.
After finishing all these tasks, Li Long went to the house to take out the quilt and dry it in the sun. It was still very comfortable to sleep under the hot quilt every day.
I had nothing to do in the afternoon. When the sun was about to go down, I went to Xiaobaiyanggou to do some work. Li Jianguo asked him what was going on, and he told him. He handed Mo Heyan to Lao Huang, who was very happy. These mohe cigarettes are not just for him, they are for public use and can be smoked by others. Not only are there cigarettes, but there are also newspapers for rolling cigarettes. Although some stalls selling Mohe cigarettes will provide special paper, smokers agree that newspapers are the best match for Mohe cigarettes.
Back at the cabin, Li Long took off the handle and prepared to go to bed. He woke up in the middle of the night and heard the sound of rain outside.
Things have changed.
Li Long didn't care at all. There was an occasional sound of thunder, but it was nothing. After all, it’s almost May, so it’s normal to rain.
It usually only lasts for an hour or two when it rains in the mountains, sometimes more or less. After all, rainy days in the north are rare. It usually comes and goes as soon as it rains, and the main purpose is to feel refreshed.
Unexpectedly, when Li Long got up at dawn, he felt the coldness on his body and the room was also cold. The stove went out, he opened the door, and a cold wind blew in along with the rain. It was still raining outside, although it wasn't much, but the temperature dropped a lot.
He was anxious, so he put on two pieces of clothes and ran out to solve the problem in the back toilet. Then he dug into the pile of firewood, found a few pieces of dry firewood from underneath, and carried them back to the room. .
Actually, there was chopped firewood and smashed lumps of coal in the room, but he was just afraid that there wouldn’t be enough.
Relighting the stove, Li Long didn't expect that yesterday's plan would really become a reality. He beat the eggs, cut the onions that were almost withered, and fried the noodles.
After finishing the noodles without any appetite and simply cleaning up, Li Long felt that he might have nothing to do today. There shouldn't be much to do over there in Xiaobaiyanggou. After all, the strips need to be baked until they are soft and tough. It's raining now and there's no fire, so people probably won't want to go out and work in the rain.
Go to sleep. He went to lie on the bed and was about to take a nap. After all, since he was a child, he felt that rainy days were the best match for sleeping.
Unexpectedly, someone knocked on the door outside.
"Who?" Li Long held the 56 semi-automatic rifle and asked vigilantly.
"I, Li Zhengtang." A somewhat familiar voice came from outside.
Li Zhengtang?
Li Long remembered, isn't this the eldest of the two brothers?
Li Long opened the door with a gun and saw Li Zhengtang standing outside the door in the rain, with two bags next to him, all covered with water.
"Boss Li, I brought Fritillaria here." Li Zhengtang wiped some water on his face. Li Long could tell that he tried his best not to shiver, but he couldn't control his body.
"Come in." Li Long turned around and gave way, "Come in and warm yourself up. Why are you running here on a rainy day?"
"When it rains, we won't be able to dig out the caladiums. My brother is still not in good health, so I'll let him rest. I'll carry the caladiums over. On the one hand, I owe you the five kilograms, and on the other hand, I plan to sell the rest. . ”
Li Long can understand his thinking. It’s the Fritillary season to dig on a sunny day. If you waste a little time, you will make less money. It's raining today. That's God's permission to rest. Some people may sleep in their nests in the ground, but some people take this opportunity to get rid of things they don't want to do on a sunny day as soon as possible.
After Li Zhengtang came in, he squatted by the stove and warmed himself up. After a while, his body felt warmer.
Li Long brought the scale and prepared to weigh the Fritillaria.
"There is water, please remove one...two kilograms." Li Zhengtang said proactively.
Li Long opened the bag and grabbed a handful. Seeing that the fritillaries were still clean, he said:
"Forget it, it's not easy for you either. The skin and water will not be removed. How much should be taken."
Li Zhengtang showed a grateful expression.
"One bag of fourteen, one bag of seventeen, the two bags total thirty-one kilograms. Excluding my five kilograms, the remaining twenty-six kilograms, do you want to exchange for something or money?"
"Six kilograms are exchanged for things, and the rest needs money." Li Zhengtang had already thought about it, and the money should be a round amount that can be easily distributed.
Li Long took out the money he received from selling Fritillaria yesterday, counted out six and handed them to Li Zhengtang, and then said:
"What do you want to exchange for the rest?"
"Rice, noodles, salt, If there is meat or not, please change it. By the way, Boss Li, here you are. Can you give me two pieces of firewood? There is no firewood in our den, and the firewood outside is all wet. It looks like it will rain all day, and I am afraid that my brother will freeze again."
The supplies they brought back from the county were left in the crevices of the mountains. When he went to look for Li Zhengting after he settled down, the place had already been visited by wild beasts, and he didn't know what they were. Anyway, it was a mess when he went there, and less than one-third of the things he could pack out were usable. .
I had no choice but to exchange it from Li Long.
Li Long took him to the cabin next door and packed him rice noodles and some pieces of dried meat. Watching Li Zhengtang take off his coat and want to wrap up the bag of rice and noodles. After all, the rice can be eaten if it is wet, but it will be more troublesome to eat the noodles if they are wet.
Li Long looked at him pitifully, so he took a dry urea bag, folded the bottom corner in, and signaled to Li Zhengtang:
"Put this on your head, it can prevent Rain, be a poncho.”
Li Zhengtang was stunned for a moment, then smiled gratefully:
"Hey, Boss Li, thank you so much! I'll bring it to you next time I come over!" Bags are considered hard currency in the mountains. It can hold anything, almost equivalent to the sack from Beggars Gang.
Urea bags are easier to use than ordinary bags because there is a layer of plastic paper stuck inside, which has an incomplete waterproof function.
Li Long also wanted to let Li Zhengtang warm up in the house, but he refused. He held a bag containing supplies in one hand and a few pieces of dry wood in the other, and hurriedly got in. Went into the rain, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and soon disappeared in the rain curtain.
With the appearance of Li Zhengtang, Li Long guessed that today would be very busy.
Sure enough, blind people appeared one after another, all bringing Fritillaria to exchange for things, money, and firewood. The clothes they wore were quite simple, some shoes were torn, some only had one coat, and some really looked like savages, with long hair and beards.
Fortunately, I saw Li Long holding a gun in his hand and everyone was very well behaved. This time Li Long didn't let anyone in. He just waited outside. The Li brothers knew a little bit, and he dared to let them in. Now almost all the people who came here were strangers, so he didn't dare to bet on the odds.
Besides, there is a wanted criminal in the mountains.
I was so busy that I ate lunch intermittently. Li Long also saw Wu Benzhong who came to exchange things. He was not short of things. He exchanged a few pieces of meat for a few pieces of firewood, then asked for two boxes of matches, and finally exchanged more than ten kilograms of Fritillaria for money.
By the time it was getting dark, more than 100 kilograms of caladiums had been piled in Li Long's cabin. He had lost nearly half of the money he made from selling the caladiums yesterday, and there were only a few supplies left in the cabin. Not much more.
Seeing that the rain was still going down, Li Long wondered if he should go down the mountain now. Otherwise, if someone came to change things tomorrow, there would really be nothing to change.
Even the dried meat is gone!
Good guy, this is the first time Li Long knows that there are so many blind people in the mountains. How come these guys are rarely seen?
But think about it, Tianshan Mountain is so big, it is really easy to hide a few people.
He thought about it and simply moved the fritillaries to the tractor, then put on his coat, put on a urea bag himself, and went to rock the tractor.
The temperature was low. Li Long shook his head three times before shaking his head. The churning sound did not spread far in the rain. After Li Long locked the door, he drove the tractor out of the mountain.
Because he was walking on dirt, he couldn't go fast. Mud splashed behind the wheels, and soon Li Long's back and the Fritillaria bag in the bucket were covered with mud. Fortunately, when Li Long put the fritillaries on top, he covered them with two layers of bags to prevent a little rain.
By the time the tractor came out of the mountain, it was already covered in mud and it felt like a dump truck, literally.
The road from the mountains to Qingshui River is still full of mud. The tractors drove over, leaving deep ruts on the ground. And because of the rain, the tractor skidded from time to time, making Li Long drive very hard.
All the way to Qingshuihe Township, there are gravels on the road, which makes it easier. Although he was wearing gloves, the outside of the gloves was already wet. If he hadn't had the foresight to wear winter leather gloves, he might not be able to use his hands now.
By the time the tractor arrived at the compound, it was completely dark. The rain here was a little lighter than in the mountains, turning into drizzle, and it was not so cold.
When Gu Xiaoxia opened the door and saw it was Li Long, she was also shocked. Li Long drove in with the tractor and wanted to unload the Fritillaria, but he was pulled into the kitchen by Gu Xiaoxia.
"My body is soaked all over, why do you care about Fritillaria? I'll get some water for you, so wipe it with hot water first!" (End of Chapter)