Li Long asked Sun Jiaqiang again where the two-headed deer appeared, and he had a rough idea.
The two deers appeared twice in a ravine with a radius of four to five kilometers. Their range of activities was relatively fixed. Li Long felt that he was very likely to encounter them again.
Once you encounter it, you can’t let it go.
After dinner, I continued to check the handles and returned five or six that failed. It was not a big problem, it was just not very tight and just needed to be processed again.
Pull a truck with a handle, Li Long shook the tractor and drove away suddenly.
The sun had just set and it was still dark. After resting for a while, Li Jianguo and the others continued to work. They could still work for about an hour, and they were able to knit in half a handful of moves quickly.
When Li Long drove the tractor to the wooden house, he was surprised to find that Liu Shanmin in Mao Zedong was chatting with two blind people there.
Seeing the tractor coming, Liu Shanmin stood up, pointed at Li Long and said something to the two men.
Li Long had sharp eyes and could see that the expressions of the two people were a little unnatural. He got off the tractor with a smile.
At this moment, a man came running over on horseback in the distance. The two blind people took a look and were frightened!
Isn't this a member of the forestry team patrolling the forest?
Are you here to arrest someone?
They saw with their own eyes some people being taken away with their mother-in-law in the woods. The better ones collected the fritillaries and released them, but the worst ones just took the fritillaries and arrested them and sent them to the labor camp.
Then it’s not over?
Bolati also carried a bag of caladiums on his horse. He saw two blind people and a man standing in front of Li Long's wooden house. He originally wanted to take a look, but after thinking about it, he rode there. Li Long came forward.
"Adasi, are you okay?" Li Long turned off the car and got out of the car, and asked with a smile, "Why are you here so late?"
The two blind people over there saw Bolati and Li Long saying hello. I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to run away, and I didn’t want the Fritillaria or anything else.
"You'd better not move." Liu Shanmin said quietly, "Can you outrun a horse or a gun? Didn't you see that this boss knows that ethnic group? Don't worry, since I dare to let you Stay here for Fritillaria, this boss will protect you."
"Will he really protect us?" Blind Liu obviously didn't believe it.
"Think about it, he is doing business here. If you are arrested in front of his store, who else will dare to come here? He must be related to these people. Be honest. Stay here to avoid getting shot. The ethnic people seem to have a good relationship with this boss, but they may not treat you like this. If you run away, the boss will have nothing to do with you.”
Liu Shanmin analyzed it purely by himself. Li Long's ability to change Fritillaria here and gain a foothold must be something he relies on. Giving the tall and lanky man a gift in the afternoon was one. No matter his identity, the other was that even members of the forestry team patrolling the mountain asked him to exchange fritillaries for things. This was the third.
"Those two people..." Polati pointed at the two blind people with a riding crop.
"You are asking me to exchange for Fritillaria, just pretend you didn't see it." Li Long has a good relationship with Bolati and said half-jokingly, "It's in my territory, so you can I’ll lose face if someone takes her away.”
“Okay, okay,” Bolati said with a smile, “It depends on your face.” He brought Fritillaria to Li Long:
< br>“Come on, weigh me.”
"There are quite a few today!" Li Long looked at the almost full bag of Fritillaria and said with a smile, "You've made a fortune."
"It's not mine alone." Polati smiled, In fact, most of them belong to him. "I want money this time. I have everything, so I won't take it."
"Okay, I'll weigh it for you." Li Long went to open the door of the wooden house to get it. scales.
"You two, I won't care about it for his sake. From now on, you can change here, but if you are encountered by me in the mountains and forests, your fritillary will be gone. Polati pointed his riding crop at the two blind people and said, "Do you know?"
Awed by the gun on his back, the two blind people nodded.
Li Long weighed Polati with a scale and scored twice.
"Thirty-two kilograms, ninety-six... I'll give you one hundred yuan." Li Long said with a smile, "Not bad, not bad!"
"Hehehehe, now in the mountains There are quite a lot of fritillaries." When Polati heard about the one hundred yuan, he touched his face and couldn't hide his excitement.
It’s almost as much as his four months’ salary in the forestry team!
Li Long took out the money from his inner pocket, counted out ten large unity cards and handed them to Bolati, saying:
"Count."
"No more counting, Adasi, I can trust you. Okay, just look at them, I'm leaving."
After getting on the horse, Polati also said to the two Blind Liu said:
"Be more honest here, otherwise the gun will be missing."
After speaking, he turned the horse's head, raised his whip at Li Long, and galloped away.
"Hey, if nothing else, your riding skills are really good." Li Long praised, turned to the two blind people and said:
"Are you here to exchange money or things?"
"I want to change money."
"I want some money and some things." The two people said it differently.
"Okay, the general price is three yuan. If the quality is good, I will add a little more. If there are too many impurities, I will deduct a little. Are you okay with this?"
"No, no." The two blind people nodded hurriedly, and then opened the bags they brought.
Their bags are quite full of caladiums, weighing more than 20 kilograms. This must be the first time these two came back. They originally planned to negotiate the price, but after coming here just now, they couldn't talk about the price.
Besides, I didn’t bring many bags with me. It was the Fritillaria season and it was inconvenient to carry them out to sell, so I might as well dispose of them here.
It’s safe to leave the bag behind.
"It looks okay." Li Long reached into the bag and took a look. There were impurities, but not much. After all, it’s impossible to dig caladiums without taking away any dirt or leaves. As long as there aren’t too many, it’s acceptable.
The first one was twenty-four and a half kilograms, and Li Long counted it as twenty-five kilograms, without removing the skin. The price he gave was not high, so he didn't care about it.
The second one is slightly less, a little over twenty-two kilograms, and Li Long counts it at twenty-two and a half kilograms.
The attitude of weighing the scale made both blind people smile. The boss is generous and they are happy too.
The one with 25 kilograms received 75 yuan first, counted it twice and put it in the inner pocket of his clothes.
The one who weighed 22 and a half kilograms received sixty yuan, and for the remaining seven and a half, he asked for some rice noodles and two boxes of matches. When he saw that there was dried meat in Li Long's wooden house, he asked for another piece.
The man with seventy-five yuan felt a little regretful. After his companion finished changing, he took out five yuan and asked Li Long:
"Boss, can I exchange for some meat? Will the meat be kept cooked?" "
"It's familiar." Li Long said with a smile, "Did you see this? Don't look at the wolf. He killed the wolf. I skinned it here. It's cooked, here it's raw "It depends on what kind of dried meat you want."
"Then I want... three yuan of meat. I think you also have sesame pancakes. How about you give me two yuan?" And shoes?”
After the two people entered the house, they found that there were so many things that could be changed. The more they looked at it, the more they wanted to change. As a result, when the person with the seventy-five yuan left, he had Sixty-two dollars remain.
The one who paid 60 yuan also took out another five yuan and exchanged shoes and other daily necessities, including an enamel basin and a bag of salt.
When the two blind streams left, the sunset in the west was almost setting. Liu Shanmin went to the rope and put away his washed tunic suit.
"Come on, Lao Liu, these ten yuan are yours. The two people just now, five yuan each, agency fee."
"Hey, do you still know the word agency?" Liu Shanmin was not polite at all. He took the money and asked, "It's not that simple."
In these days, ordinary people would call some intermediaries "pimps." Simple.
"Hey, you're underestimating me."
"A bit." Liu Shanmin nodded and admitted, "Ten dollars is more than ten yuan."
"Not much, I just discovered it , If you hadn't persuaded the two of them, they might have run away when Polati came over. It would have been troublesome if they had run away." Li Long explained, and then took the big basin to wash the fritillary. Today we harvested a lot of caladiums, nearly 100 kilograms. He planned to wash the fritillaries and dry them in the small room before going to bed, so that they could be dried out during the day tomorrow.
As for the lifting handle on the tractor, let’s remove it tomorrow.
"When you left, there were still people in the mountains and forests to the south observing here. You may have to be more careful these days." "Okay, I get it." Lin Xiaohu and He flashed through Li Long's mind Yiku's two faces. He guessed that 80% of them would be these two.
Liu Shanmin took the Chinese tunic jacket to the shed and went to find firewood to light the fire. He could really understand that Li Long wouldn't let him sleep in the house. The ten yuan was not much to him, but it was enough to show his value. If nothing happens, it would actually be good to stay here to recuperate.
Li Long’s evaluation of Liu Shanmin himself is high enough. Being able to keep two blind people here today and observing someone snooping around here shows that this person is not a simple person. It's actually quite good to have such help in the mountains and forests.
Unfortunately, this person may not be able to stay. There is a high probability that he will leave after recovering from his injuries.
After washing the Fritillaria, it was completely dark. Li Long put these fritillaries into three basins and carried them into the small room.
Seeing that Liu Shanmin was already sitting at the door of the shed and planning to rest, he thought for a moment and went to the big room to pour a glass of water for Liu Shanmin:
"Drink some. It's warm. It'll be troublesome if you're thirsty at night."< br>
"Okay, thank you." Liu Shanmin was not polite, took the water and drank it. Then he said to Li Long:
"You don't have to worry about me, go in and sleep. Leave the bowl here for me to wash it in the morning."
Li Long waved his hand and thought for a while. He also took out a large broomstick from last year and handed it to Liu Shanmin:
"This is for your self-defense. Under normal circumstances, there should be no problem, but there is an emergency."
Liu Shanmin smiled and accepted the answer. This time Li Long returned to the room, locked the door, and pressed Turn on the stove and go to sleep.
I will definitely not be able to sleep for a while, he is thinking about this Liu Shanmin.
From the beginning, it seemed that this person had no ill intentions towards him, and he was busy, so he would not stay here for long.
Li Long's attitude towards him was also very simple. He was not a stranger, he was a talent after all, but he also had certain precautions.
As for what happens next, he is a thoughtful person, and he cannot listen to his own arrangements like Tao Daqiang.
As for Liu Shanmin, he thinks Li Long is also quite interesting. Under normal circumstances, such local snakes are ruthless. When it comes to squeezing ordinary blind people, they are basically not too merciful. Relying on the relationship with the forestry team, it usually only gets worse, but this one is kind enough to show mercy.
The person is not bad, he has brains and principles, and he can talk about "mediation". He should not be uneducated.
It must be a pity to stay in this small place.
But I am considered a clay bodhisattva, so why do I care so much about others?
There was still a wolf howling in the middle of the night, but unfortunately the wolf did not dare to come near. I can only howl towards this side in the distant mountains.
I don’t know how many wolves have been killed here. They can smell the smell of their own kind, the smell of death. This place has almost become a restricted area for them.
Wolves are also spiritual. Since it is dangerous here, don’t come here.
Liu Shanmin was a little worried at first. After hearing the howl of the wolf, he sat up in the quilt and held the stick tightly in his hand.
The firewood pile was not extinguished, but the flames were not big anymore. Liu Shanmin thought for a moment and threw in two pieces of firewood.
The fire dimmed, then slowly rose again. Liu Shanmin turned his head, wanting to hear what was going on in the wooden house, but found that there was no movement at all.
I don’t know if Li Long is being arrogant and thinks the wolf is fine, or he is sleeping too hard to hear.
Then Liu Shanmin heard that the wolf was howling in the distance but could not come over, so he slowly felt relieved, put the stick beside the quilt, and lay down.
When he woke up again, he felt a slight chill on his face. When he opened his eyes, the sky was already bright.
There was a sound from the edge of the wooden house. Li Long had gotten up and was making breakfast.
Liu Shanmin smiled, stretched his body and climbed up. He simply packed the bedding and prepared to go over and help.
Li Long is making porridge, and there are newly obtained wild celery on the table outside. He had gained a lot yesterday and was in a good mood. He planned to cook a hot dish to eat in the morning.
It turns out that it is customary in my eldest brother’s house that no meal is considered a meal without hot dishes. It’s not a meal without staple food. In other words, it’s not a meal if you don’t start the pot. No matter how troublesome, busy or difficult life is, you still have to prepare a hot dish in the morning. This is different from the customs in many places, including many places in northern Xinjiang. Some people are used to a bowl of hot tea, steamed buns or pancakes, and a bowl of pickles.
But it won’t be like this in Big Brother’s house. There must be hot dishes.
After being away from home for more than a year, Li Long sometimes gave in, but when his mood improved, he still wanted to be more formal.
Liu Shanmin didn't know how to fry wild celery, so he went over to help cook the porridge. Li Long poured oil into the pot, poured the vegetables, stir-fried, and added seasonings all very quickly.
It was a bit cold outside, but the two of them didn't really care, so they ate breakfast outside. The sun had just risen, and a ray of golden sunlight shone on my body, which felt pretty good.
"Boss Li, you are living a pretty good life, leisurely and rich." Liu Shanmin said suddenly while eating.
"Haha, this is your opinion." Li Long waved his hand, "In my opinion, this damn life can only last a few months a year. I just got married this year, and I haven't even been married yet. Yue, speaking of which, I went into the mountains even before my honeymoon was over. I wanted to be with my wife I have to take the time to go back after making out. If it weren’t for making more money and preparing for a peaceful life in the future, I wouldn’t stay here.”
Liu Shanmin didn’t expect that life would be like a paradise in his eyes. , but it was so unbearable here in Li Long.
But think about it, if I really went to the mountains during my honeymoon, I would have to complain.
But this guy is quite honest.
After eating and cleaning up, Li Long took out the Fritillaria and dried the incompletely dried meat as usual, and took out the bedding to dry. Liu Shanmin was still a little weak, so Li Long said to him:
"I'm going out for a walk. If you don't run far, if there are blind people coming to exchange for Fritillaria, you can stay. If the forestry team comes, you can stay." Say you are my friend, they will not make things difficult for you."
After speaking, Li Long took the gun and loaded the bullet into it.
"Then you have to be careful. I always feel that someone is watching you."
"Don't worry, I cherish my life very much." Li Long loaded the bullet into the gun, loaded it, and turned off the safety , put on the satchel and walked south.
He wasn't exactly going hunting. Firstly, he wanted to see if he could encounter the two deers. Secondly, he also wanted to see the point where the tall and thin Tang Hongsheng said something came out. The third is to relax. Just waiting in front of the cabin feels too idle.
Liu Shanmin also didn’t expect that Li Long really left just as he said. The door of the small wooden house was locked but the door of the big wooden house was unlocked. Why did he believe him so much?
Li Long thinks that when he goes back, he can go to the department store to see if there is that kind of backpack. The current backpack can hold too little.
His main direction of action was the hot springs, but because the place mentioned by the lanky man was not far from the Hot Spring Valley, Li Long planned to go there first, regardless of whether he found anything or not, and then go to the Hot Spring Valley to have a look.
It would be best if you can encounter prey. If not, go to the place where you saw the two-headed deer before.
When Li Long entered the jungle, he turned around and glanced at the wooden house, and found that Liu Shanmin had walked out of the shed, and took out the bedding he had covered with to dry it out.
It’s okay, knowing how to improve the quality of life shows that you are not a person who accepts death.
When Li Long entered the forest, Lin Xiaohu and He Yiku had already reached the last point on the map.
The previous three points were all exposed, either washed out by the flood, or dug out by others.
Although some good things were found near the treasure spot, there was still a big gap between them and their expectations.
Whether you can truly achieve your goal depends on this last point.
In fact, the last point was basically determined when they met Tang Hongsheng after the rain passed. However, in order to get more money, the two of them searched carefully at the two locations where Tang Hongsheng happened.
Tang Hongsheng ran to Li Long and saved him. Lin Xiaohu did not want to conflict with Li Long now.
It's not time.
In his words to He Yiku, it is necessary to distinguish between primary and secondary conflicts. The main conflict now is to find all the things and don't cause trouble. There is too much movement and they have no time to look for those things even if they want to.
He Yiku was not entangled, but silently made a note to Li Long in his heart. He felt that the tall and lanky man must have sold something to Li Long, otherwise he would not have hid with Li Long.
Hmph, I’ll get them all back in double amounts then! (End of this chapter)