After coming back from the buying station, Li Long took money to buy things. This time he didn't buy too much. He was basically sure that those who dig Fritillaria would mainly do it in exchange for money, so he had to bring more money. . Of course, they still need the scissors, clippers, combs and grates at Xiaobaiyanggou, because they are worried about insects on their heads, that is, lice, and their children, grubs.
This thing is relatively common in this era. It can often be seen on both humans and animals, and it is not easy to become extinct.
By the 1920s, many of these things had disappeared, but this thing could still be seen occasionally on the heads of children.
It’s rough to deal with this thing these days. If you care about it, just apply dichlorvos directly to the child’s hair and wrap it in a plastic bag. It doesn’t take ten minutes to treat lice or ticks. All dead.
If you don’t care so much, then use a comb. The very dense teeth can comb out the lice. As for the ones on my body, I could only take off my vest and look for them bit by bit. This has even become a kind of fun for some rural children after school.
Of course, not only people get lice at this time, but pigs also get lice, especially in the nests behind pigs' ears. There are usually a bunch of them. Maybe it's because it's easy to hide and has abundant blood vessels.
Of course, these things basically disappeared in the end, thanks to the patriotic health movement that lasted until the 1920s. The disappearing little cuties were not only lice, but also parasites on chickens and ducks. Insects, disgusting bedbugs that have extremely strong vitality and can live for more than ten years without eating or drinking, etc.
So Li Long not only bought these things, but also bought medicine. Not only snake medicine, but also medicine to control these bugs. Children of later generations may only hear about medicines to prevent and control cockroaches, mosquitoes, flies and other insects among the four pests. In fact, what was really more common at this time was medicines to prevent lice, grubs and bedbugs.
By the way, Li Long also bought some moth balls, which are what people in this era call sanitary balls.
Because when he was packing the fritillaries today, he saw the snow leopard skin.
This was a wedding gift from Harry Mu Yushanjiang to him and Gu Xiaoxia. He gave it to Gu Xiaoxia at the time, but Gu Xiaoxia confiscated it and asked him to keep it.
As soon as the snow leopard skin was put away, Li Long forgot about it. I only remembered it when I dug it out when I was packing the fritillaries. Although the leather was still well preserved, it was still leather and might still be eaten by insects, so he planned to buy some sanitary balls and put them in to prevent insects.
Snake medicine is just tablets. Li Long also wanted to buy insect-proof sulfur powder, but the medicinal company said there was no such thing. The manager must be familiar with Li Long, and the people there often meet him. I would like to give Li Long a suggestion. Just wear rubber shoes or boots, tie your trouser legs, and be careful.
Okay, that’s all. There is still a shortage of supplies these days. It is impossible to be like forty years later. If you can't buy what you want in a physical store, just search it online and you will find a lot of various products that are still cheap, even in northern Xinjiang. Seven days are up.
I miss that era.
After sighing for a while, Li Long drove the tractor back to the big yard, took the hygiene ball to protect the snow leopard skin, packed it and hid it.
The three young roe deer and the half-grown one in the backyard barked twice from time to time. Li Long simply went over and let them go and let them have fun in the yard. The three little roe deer got used to it and rushed out as soon as the door opened. Before Li Long felt anything, the three had already gone to the small vegetable garden and started eating small green vegetables.
Li Long hurriedly came over and drove away the roe deer’s fawn. In fact, it was not small, weighing ten kilograms. The big one slowly swayed out. He looked left and right curiously, but also a little worried.
The three little guys are used to coming here to steal a few bites of food every time. They don't mind if they are kicked out. They yell at Li Long a few times and go to other places. There are weeds in some places in the cracks of the fence, and they will eat them too. It’s actually quite pitiful to not be able to eat fresh grass here every day.
Li Long thought about waiting for Gu Xiaoxia to come back and discuss whether to put these four guys on the team, otherwise they might become malnourished.
After all, just eating sugar residue, bran and bran may not keep up with nutrition.
I don’t understand.
I tidied up the yard, and also tidied up the things in the empty side rooms on both sides and the room with the seats upside down. There were some things that Li Long originally wanted to throw out. After all, in his eyes , these things that have not been used for many years should be considered garbage. But since there is a mistress in the house, let’s clean it up first and wait for Gu Xiaoxia to come back to discuss it with her.
When Gu Xiaoxia came back, the sun had not got off work yet, she looked at The door was open, so I rode my bike right in. Li Long, who was still packing his things in the sitting room, listened to Gu Xiaoxia humming "Young Friends Come to Meet" and knew that she must be in a good mood today.
"...Ah, dear friends, who does this wonderful spring belong to? It belongs to you, to me, to our new generation in the 1980s!"
"You sang well." Li Long patted the dust on his hands and praised, "Have you practiced singing recently?"
"No." Gu Xiaoxia supported the car, picked up the bag from the handle and said:
“When I was passing by the market, I saw The seller of fried melon seeds bought some. Do you want to eat sunflower seeds? "Gu Xiaoxia took out a large newspaper bag, opened it, grabbed a handful and gave it to Li Long. Not many people can fry sunflowers at this time, and the land was only divided last year. Everyone basically grows oil sunflowers, because this has a high oil yield and is better for oil extraction. Sunflower seeds are usually only fried and eaten. In rural areas, at most, a few trees are planted in vegetable fields or private plots. Few people grow this on a large scale - Li Long vaguely remembers that the first large-scale sunflower planter in the team turned out to be his eldest brother. He planted two acres of land and sold it after more than a year.
"What do you want to eat tonight? I'll cook." Seeing Li Long packing things, Gu Xiaoxia cracked a few melon seeds, rolled up her sleeves and said:
"How are they doing, big brother in the mountains? You put them out two days ago The roe deer were in the pen, and I was shocked when I went to let them go.”
“Brother, they are okay, they are having a good day, and they are making money anyway. It might be true that it's harder to work outside." Li Long answered one question after another, "Do you want to go to the cafeteria to eat? I rescued a small group of roe deer at that time. I killed one and ran away. He ran into the swamp and was rescued by me.”
“No wonder it’s called Silly Roe Deerzi!” Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile.
"Are they annoying you here? Do you want to get them back to the team?" Li Long asked the question.
"No, no, no. This yard is so big and you are often away. I come back from get off work every day and let them out. At least there is still a living thing." Gu Xiaoxia said.
"Oh, wait a little longer. When this hard work is finished, the Fritillaria season is almost over. Then I will stay at home for a longer time. Let me tell you," Li Long She walked closer to Gu Xiaoxia and lowered her voice:
"I can earn almost 6,000 to 8,000 yuan this season just by knitting and harvesting fritillaries. Then we will buy two more TVs." , put one here and one at your dad’s place. How about our team going to the one in the yard for my parents to see?”
“So many?” Gu Xiaoxia was shocked, “It’s not illegal. Right? "
"What kind of crime is it?" Li Long said with a smile, "How can you break the law if you earn money openly?"
He hasn't said anything about the value of the few nuggets of gold and the two packages of things. These things are going to be kept there anyway, and they won't be exchanged for money, so he won't say anything.
When the money comes down, he plans to put part of it in Gu Xiaoxia's hand. The husband and wife will become one, and the money will be the same in her hand.
Gu Xiaoxia was really frightened. She knew that Li Long could make money, but she never expected that he could make so much money!
My salary is about 40 yuan a month, which is only 500 yuan a year at most. How does this compare to the fact that my husband earns more than ten years of salary in one month?
No wonder Li Long doesn't go to work and has to engage in these "side jobs". If I really have to go to work, how many years will it take to get the money?
She suddenly started to worry about gains and losses. She wanted so much money, how to spend it? What should I do if I am targeted by others? Is all this money really clean?
She looked at Li Long and felt that at this moment, her husband suddenly became a stranger.
Li Long read Gu Xiaoxia’s thoughts from her eyes and said with a smile:
“Don’t worry, the money is all clean. Besides, what does this mean to us? There are too many of us rich, don’t look at my profit. If you spend a lot of money, you have to think twice before buying something. Those who are really rich can spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars without blinking an eye."
Li Long said. Exaggerated, Gu Xiaoxia slowly calmed down, maybe it was true. When she listened to the older ladies in the office chatting about who had money and what to do, she took it as a story at the beginning, but now it seemed to have become concrete.
It was as if he suddenly touched a level that he had never been exposed to before.
"Okay, let's go, let's go out to eat, don't do anything tonight." Li Long patted the dust on his body, went to the well to wash up, and then changed his clothes.
Although Gu Xiaoxia wanted to object, she thought about what Li Long said about making so much money, so she stopped speaking.
The boss has said it, so go ahead.
The sun has set in the west, and the sky is full of sunset. Neither of them is riding a bicycle, and they are walking side by side to the west. There were a lot of people on the street, people rushing home from get off work. Most of them were walking, a few were riding bicycles, and occasionally a truck or tractor would drive by. There are also slower horse-drawn carriages or donkey-carts, which will poop strings after walking for a while.
"Since the past few days, tractors have occasionally appeared on the road," Gu Xiaoxia said. "The two eldest sisters in our office also said that as soon as the land contract was liberalized, bold farmers immediately became rich."
She suddenly smiled when she said this, turned to look at Li Long and continued:
"I really didn't expect that the people she said were getting rich were us, our family."
Li Long also smiled.
“It’s good to be rich. If you are rich, you can live a good life.”
The two went to the canteen. Zhong Guoqiang was not there, so he must have finished get off work. Li Long ordered two dishes, braised pork and vinegared cabbage, and ordered two bottles of beer.
Gu Xiaoxia didn't want to drink at first, but Li Long said it was okay, so he drank a little.
Two bottles of beer were really nothing to two young people, but the braised pork was pretty good and there was basically nothing left.
After eating and drinking, they returned home in a tipsy state, and the two of them rolled onto the sheets without shame.
They are all young people with relatively strong firepower, so they understand. The next morning, Gu Xiaoxia made breakfast, and after Li Long fed the roe deer, the two of them ate together.
"Go into the mountains later?"
"Well, now we have compiled five hundred pieces. After a while, we will finish the compilation and find the supply and marketing cooperative to pick up the truck. This work is over when we come back," Li Long said while eating, "There are many good things in the mountains. You can go to the mountains occasionally in the future. There are hot springs. I’ve told you several times that I’ll take you there for a dip on the weekend.”
“Let’s wait until summer vacation,” Gu Xiaoxia said, “Maybe I can go there when things are less busy. ”
Nowadays, we all have solo days off, so I would be a little nervous to go to the mountains if I take a day off. Gu Xiaoxia had been in the mountains before, and she still yearned for them, whether it was soaking in hot springs, hunting, or picking mushrooms.
After dinner, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. Li Long cleaned up the yard briefly, then drove the tractor, locked the door and left. He went to the city to buy some eggs and fresh vegetables, and then went to the mountains. This time he bought a net bag. He planned to find a stream and jam the net bag when he fell into the water, and use the drop in the water to wait for the fish. Once the fish entered the net bag, it would not be able to get out. It was also a waiting method to catch the fish.
I haven’t eaten fish for a long time, so I plan to have something fresh this time.
The tractor suddenly crossed the Qingshui River and drove into the mountains.
Xiaobaiyanggou, by this time Li Jianguo and the others had already had breakfast and started knitting.
We are all adults. Except for a few who occasionally get a little lazy, everyone knows it. You come out to make money. If you are lazy, you might as well not come. So I basically got up at dawn. While Lao Huang was preparing breakfast, someone had already waded through the dew to cut back a large bundle of strips, or cut back a few poles, and the preparations were ready.
This reminded Li Long of the manual picking season of cotton in another twenty years. At that time, they would get up to cook before dawn. Cotton pickers also liked to pick up at this time, because there was dew at this time, and the picked cotton would be weighed and the cracked dry cotton bolls would not hurt their hands, and even the dried cotton leaves would be sticky. It can also be easily removed, unlike the one at noon that will break into pieces if touched, and will bring out a handful of cotton with broken leaves.
How can making money not be hard?
Some people took the initiative to say hello, while others bowed their heads and did nothing. Li Long handed two boxes of snake medicine to Xie Yundong and two more boxes to Li Jianguo.
“Everyone, be careful.” Li Jianguo said as he took the snake medicine.
“Be prepared for any trouble.” Li Long said, “It’s best to go back safely.”
Li Jianguo nodded. Li Long saw that there were already five people in front of him, so he thought about checking again and collected everyone's people.
Li Jianguo's was of course no problem. Seeing Li Long finish the inspection and take out the book for signature, Li Jianguo's mouth showed a little bit of pride.
You have to save face for your younger brother.
After checking all the handles, to my surprise, one of Xie Yundong’s handles was knitted a little loosely at the very edge. Li Long tapped it in a low voice. Xie Yundong blushed a little and said:< br>
“I made it up last night when it was almost dark. I was a little anxious at the time...I’ll work on it again later, and you can check and accept this tomorrow.”
"Okay." Li Long smiled, this was actually quite normal. Xie Yundong has to help manage these people, and he has to do two things at once. It is normal to say that he should be slower in editing and there will be some quality problems.
He took off the clippers, scissors and comb from the car and gave them to Xie Yundong, asking him to take some time to do them for everyone, while he drove the tractor towards the wooden house.
There is really someone guarding the wooden house. Hearing the sound of a tractor, someone ran out from the side with a bag and waited.
The two seemed to be quite familiar with each other. After Li Long turned off the tractor, he came up and said hello.
“Boss Li, you’ve been here for a long time and we’ve all been waiting impatiently.”
"That's right, what good things have you brought back this time?"
"They are all bits and pieces. Take a look. Do you want to weigh them first?" Li Long took out the key and opened the door of the small room and asked, " Do you want money or something in exchange?”
“Can you exchange these eggs for me? You can still get pheasants in the mountains? Eggs, only small pheasants, it’s not easy to catch, and I haven’t tasted eggs for a while.”
“Let’s change.” Although I knew that Li Long had doubled the price, I still had to change, and I wouldn’t eat too much anyway.
Li Long took out a scale and weighed the two people. One was nine kilograms and the other was seven kilograms, which was not too much.
Both of them asked for most of the money, and then exchanged some supplies. The one who exchanged ten eggs, Blind Liu, smiled and walked towards the mountain. It seemed that he was going to make a meal at noon.
Li Long first set up the stove in the wooden house and boiled the water, and then went to wash the fritillaries. He was startled when he arrived at the edge of the spring. On the grass not far away, a snake was biting a mouse and swallowing it from time to time. He saw Li Long coming over and slowly swimming away.
Are there so many snakes now?
Li Long ignored the snake. He took a stick and beat it in the grass around it, and then started to wash it.
My main worry is that if a snake suddenly bites me while I'm working, I won't be able to bear it.
People came one after another to sell caladiums. Li Long collected seventy or eighty kilograms this day, which was not too much. The sun had not yet set, so he felt that he could collect some more before dark.
At noon, I went to find a stream nearby and blocked the net, planning to wait until tomorrow morning to see the harvest. There are not many fish in the small streams in the mountains. It takes time to get enough fish for a meal.
Li Long is planning to make dinner. I had rice for lunch, and I planned to beat two eggs and fry the remaining rice tonight.
While he was beating eggs, three figures appeared in the forest in the distance. Li Long smiled, and sure enough, someone came.
What surprised him was that these three people didn't carry bags - wait, why are there two people supporting one person?
"Boss Li, help!" Someone started shouting when they were relatively close to here, "Help! My brother was bitten by a snake..."
What the hell, so Coincidence?
Li Long hurriedly took down the pot, turned around and ran into the house to take out the snake medicine.
I don’t know if this snake medicine will work.
When the people arrived, Li Long didn't wait for them to shout again, raised his hand and said:
"Do you want to take the snake medicine you got back from the county today?"
"Yes. "Someone hurriedly took it and fed it to the man.
Li Long saw the injury, and the leg was swollen and shiny. He hurriedly said:
"Didn't the bite area be treated? What kind of snake bite?"
"It's just that little gray and white snake." Someone next to him said, "Can you save it?"
"Let's see." Judging from the situation, the bite took a long time, and I didn't know if the snake medicine would work.
"Then...Boss Li, can you help us send it down the mountain?" Another person couldn't help but said, "I'm worried..."
"Yes, yes, yes , we won’t let you run away in vain, give us the money!”
“Okay.” Li Long went to start the tractor, “Let’s get people into the car.” We can’t really watch people die here.
"How much do you want?" one person asked.
"Five kilograms of Fritillaria." Li Long said this subconsciously.
It's... really cheap. The other two people thought so. (End of this chapter)