Mutton is quite fat, so Li Long tried his best to choose meat without oil, while others did the opposite.
It feels really good to eat mutton with naan.
The old lady and Yushanjiang's wife came over with a plate of skin sprouts. Li Long picked up a piece and ate it, and the others followed suit.
Vice Captain Adili was also helping just now, so he did not leave during the meal. He walked to Li Long while eating with a piece of ribs in his hand, found a clean place to squat down, and said :
“The work here should be finished today.”
"Well, we are here today and will go to the yard in Yushanjiang tomorrow." Li Long said, "The yard is better and we can live more comfortably."
Nowadays, the houses are all made of earth, so the animal husbandry team The difference between the house on the other side and that of Team 4 is that it is shorter, uses more wood on the roof, and then lays a thick layer of splendens, and finally the house mud.
Because it has been in disrepair for a long time, and because it is close to the mountain, there are heavy winds and rains, so the roof is covered with a layer of grass.
When putting mud on the house, you have to pull out these grasses. The young men in the team felt strange looking at the grass growing on the roof at first, but then looking around, they found that everyone was the same. The wind is strong here, and some grass seeds are blown to the roof. If there is another rain, they will sprout. Not only grass grows on some roofs, but also small trees grow on them.
Pull out the grass on the roof, sweep up the garbage, and then use a trowel (trowel) to smooth out the mud that was lifted up. Especially the holes drilled by mice should be filled in so that it rains. It won't leak.
That's it for the morning's work. The plaster on the roof has been put on, and some holes on the wall of the house have been smoothed out. Li Long's plan is to plaster the front wall directly in the afternoon to avoid looking bad - after all, if it is filled directly, those traces of patching will It will be obvious.
The courtyard wall also needs to be repaired. The courtyard wall here is made of rammed earth. Over time, the soil at the base of the wall is eroded away, and the wall is very dangerous and may collapse at any time. All that needs to be done is to reinforce the wall roots with soil.
There is still much time in the afternoon. Li Long plans to finish plastering the front wall of the house and reinforce the fence. In the remaining time, he will shovel the weeds in the yard, smooth and fill the ground in front of the house, and use the tractor. After a while, at least the open space in front of the house will be better.
If the old lady and Yushanjiang’s wife hadn’t been good at growing vegetables, Li Long would have even planned to clear the yard for them - in the eyes of the Han people, it would be a pity not to grow vegetables in such a big yard. .
Several children were in front of the pot, vying to let Yushanjiang’s wife fish out the hind leg bones. They all want the bone with the stone on it. But there were only two bones. In the end, Li Long came forward and asked them to decide the outcome with rock, paper, scissors. The winner would take the bone, and the loser would also lose. After eating the bone later, the bone marrow smashed out would disappear. people.
Li Long and the others ate, and the old lady and Yushanjiang's wife also took a few bites, and then Yushanjiang's wife went out carrying a bucket.
After waiting for a while, she came back with a bucket of water - it turned out that she had gone to get water for food.
Tao Daqiang hurriedly picked up the bucket and poured it into the vat.
Li Long turned around and asked Adili:
"Captain Adili, where is the well for your team to draw water?"
"Where is the well? We get water from the river in the west. As for the water, it will be fine if it is boiled."
Li Long looked at this place thoughtfully.
After dinner, Li Long announced a half-hour break. The workers were looking for places to lean or lie down, and Tao Daqiang and Xu Dejun quarreled over who got on the tractor. Xu Dejun acted quickly and got on the seat first. Tao Daqiang had no choice but to get into the car Douzi. There are still some unused wheat tails on it, so it’s good to lie on it. Just be careful not to let the wheat tails get into your clothes, otherwise the feeling will be very irritating.
Li Long lay half-ly against the wall and closed his eyes for a while. Today's work was physical work, and he was quite tired, but quite fulfilled. Seeing that the plaster on the roof and sides of the house is slowly drying, and that all the missing corners and pieces have been tidied up, I feel a sense of accomplishment.
Because the mud was mixed in the morning, the work became much easier in the afternoon. Four people went to repair the fence, two people mopped the house wall, and the remaining one shoveled the grass in the yard and wiped out the uneven areas. The place is filled.
After eating the mutton, everyone was full of energy, talking and laughing. Yushanjiang's wife went back to her home. The old lady boiled tea and put the teapot in the yard. Anyone who was thirsty could drink from the enamel basin given by Li Long.
The pot for cooking mutton is also in the yard. The fire below has not been completely extinguished. The mutton soup is also hot and there is mutton in it. If you want to drink mutton soup, you can serve it yourself.
When the sun is still a stalk high in the west, the work in the yard is finished. Li Long checked and accepted the work one by one. The yard was filled in very smoothly. When it was flattened with a tractor, several young men rushed to drive the tractor. Li Long could only allow each person to come back twice. They didn't know how to reverse gear, so they had to move forward and pass by, while Li Long drove back.
Although it is troublesome, the boys enjoy it. Not only the yard was leveled, but the section from the door leading to the road outside was also well trimmed. Li Long looked at each item, and several young men took the leftover naan from lunch. Each of them picked up a small piece of mutton, or filled a bowl of mutton soup and continued eating.
This is dinner.
"Not bad, not bad. I did a good job today." Li Long looked at the quality of the work and thought it was pretty good. The boys are not lazy, they are as solid as working in the team. At least the yard looks completely different now than when we came here in the morning.
"Go back and have a good rest. Let's come back tomorrow." Seeing that everyone had finished eating, Li Long greeted everyone to get in the car. The old lady came over and took Li Long’s hand and said something. Adili was not there and Li Long couldn’t understand. Xie Yundong came over and translated a few sentences:
“She said thank you, thank you us. I didn’t expect that my son was not here. , her son’s friend can repair her house. She said that when Harim comes back, she must thank us properly and invite me. Let's have a good meal."
"Haha," Li Long laughed and said to Xie Yundong: "Brother Yundong, tell the old lady, just say that we and Harimu are like brothers. , This is the right thing to do.”
Driving the tractor, as if winning a battle, heading towards the county against the wind. When he arrived at the county, Li Long stopped and asked them if there was anything they needed to buy. Everyone shook their heads, so he continued driving to the countryside.
When he arrived in the countryside, Li Long stopped for a moment. He went to the blacksmith shop to find a master, spent thirty yuan to make two well-killing heads, and told them that he would pick them up tomorrow morning as soon as possible. When the old master got the money, he answered neatly:
“I’ll make it for you tonight!”
If you have money to make, what more can you say?
Yes, Li Long plans to drill two kill wells in the courtyards of Harimu and Yushanjiang’s families. Even if the shallow water you pump out has a slightly alkaline smell, it's better than traveling so far to drink water from the river, right?
After making arrangements for the well-pressure operation, Li Long drove the tractor to send the people back to the team, and then went to his eldest brother's yard.
Hearing the sound of the tractor, Li Qingxia arrived at the entrance of the courtyard first. Li Long drove the tractor to the side and stopped, and his family knew that he would go back to the county later.
"Dad, where is my eldest brother?"
"We are feeding the pigs." Li Qingxia said, "This little piggy is so edible, we have to make a lot of pig food a day. I see You'll have to bring back a cart of sugar residue in a few days."
"That's no problem." Li Long nodded and went to the pig pen.
Li Jianguo is pouring pig food into the pig trough. Because there are piglets, a pig pen is now built and divided into two pens. The sow and the piglets are in one circle, and the other pigs are in another circle.
The little pig has grown to seven or eight kilograms and is very lively. It barks, eats, and grabs.
"Come back after finishing?" Li Jianguo asked, "How is it?"
"Two families, one has finished. I saw that they were having trouble with water, so I thought about giving them water. I'm going to find a blacksmith in the village today. The shop will make a well-killing head. I will go to Wujiaohua to buy pipes tomorrow. Brother, please tell me in detail how to kill the well. It will be easy for a few of us to do it tomorrow. "
" Drilling this well to kill the well is actually simple. Very." Li Jianguo put down the pig food bucket and squatted down to indicate to Li Long, "You have to find a place where it is easy to get water and put the pressure well. Generally, there must be water underneath. We need to build a pressure well in the yard. Generally speaking, when you choose a place, it can't be in the way, right? It can't affect your walking. It's best to be close to the waist wall, just like our yard..."
Li Long nodded, already reviewing Halimu's yard in his mind. Where should I hit it?
"You've seen pressure wells before. It's very easy. Dig a hole first, one or two meters wide, and check the soil quality. If the soil below is soft and wet, and there are signs of water coming out, then dig a smaller hole, and then go further. Then use steel bars to insert them down. In our county, water can come out of the shallow water layer only two or three meters away. The water that comes out is alkaline. If you want to drink good water, you have to go deeper. The advantage of living on the edge of a mountain is that the deep water layer is usually not too deep, just three to five meters.”
< br>Originally, Li Long thought of hitting the shallow water directly, as long as there was water to drink. After all, it is troublesome for the elderly and children to go to the river to fetch water every day. Now, I heard what the eldest brother said, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to go to the deep water layer and let the two families drink good water.
"I have a lot of work here, otherwise I would have followed you." Li Jianguo sighed.
"Brother, you are busy with your business. There are many people watching the melon fields. We will take good care of them this year and collect more, and let those people see how cash crops make money."< br>
Li Jianguo also meant this. The piglets will have to wait until the end of the year to be put out for sale. This will definitely make some money, but his eyes are still on beating melons. Raising pigs is troublesome. If you can make money by harvesting melons, you can expand your business next year and then the scale of pig raising can be reduced. Farmers still have to focus on farming.
Li Long asked some more details. Here, Li Jianguo said that after the pigs were fed, they would find the tools used to dig the well, and Li Long could pull them away when he came tomorrow.
After settling this matter, Li Long was ready to leave. Li Qingxia followed Li Long and asked:
"Xiaolong, how many more days will it take for you to work?"
"It will be finished tomorrow."
"Okay, okay." Li Qingxia laughed.
"Hey, Dad, can Xiao Haizi get off the Internet?"
"Hey, I saw it today and the flood stopped. If Daqiang hadn't been around, I would have gotten off the Internet today." Li Qingxia is addicted to getting off the Internet. Now, the point is that I can earn money every day after I go offline. If I don’t go online these days, I feel like I have lost a lot of money.
"Tomorrow, finish the work tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow Daqiang should be free to go down the net." Li Long smiled, "You can talk to him about this when he comes back tomorrow."
Du Chunfang came out of the vegetable garden and asked:
"The dinner is almost ready tonight. Why don't you leave without taking a bite?"
"I ate it while working, mother." Li Long said with a smile, "What I ate is not bad, mutton soup."
"That's okay." Du Chunfang smiled, "Okay, okay. Come on, go back.”
Li Long drove the tractor to Lao Ma. What surprised him was that Uncle Luo actually bought a donkey cart.
Looking at Li Long coming, Old Uncle Luo, who was holding grass from the donkey cart, smiled and said:
"Little Long is here? Come, come, take a look at the donkey I bought. . Three-year-old female donkey, of good age, with good teeth. She has little work now, and if she doesn’t work, she can breed a donkey for less than 100 yuan, and there is still a lot left over. To you.”
"Uncle Luo, please take the money first. I won't pay you wages for a while. I will deduct it from the money first." Li Long said with a smile, "Why didn't you buy a horse?"< br>
“The horses are fed too delicately, and the donkeys are not easy to handle.” Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, “Let’s just cut and pull the grass. There is no need to go to that trouble. The donkeys are enough.”
Uncle Luo is an expert, Li Long nodded.
"Uncle Luo, then you are busy first, I will go back to the county first."
"Okay, okay." Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, "You go back. This way I’m watching, it’s okay to keep it.”
When Li Long drove his tractor toward the county, the sun had already set more than half way down, and the sky in the west was bright red, which felt very beautiful. There were no clouds in the sky, just red light. The students had finished school, and there were not many pedestrians on the road. Li Long drove very fast, and the tractor came on the road with black smoke. When he turned into the countryside, he needed to turn on the lights.
As soon as the lights were turned on, not far away, there was a jerboa running in front. It couldn't outrun the tractor and was crushed underneath.
Li Long simply turned off the lights. Fortunately, his eyesight was good. Although it was slightly dark, he could still see the road clearly, and he could see if there was anyone dozens of meters ahead.
When he was approaching the county, he had to turn on the lights. Fortunately, there were no more of these little animals. He increased the accelerator and drove all the way back to the big yard, and found that the lights were already on.
Gu Xiaoxia is at home.
The next day, as usual, after breakfast, one went to work and the other went to the village to recruit people. Li Long went to the countryside to pull up the well pressure head. When he arrived in the village, he found that Tao Daqiang and the others had gathered at Lao Mahao.
"Get in the car first. I'll go to my elder brother's place and get the tools for pumping the well." Li Long said, and the boys got on the car one after another. This time Tao Daqiang was the first to grab the page board. location.
Going to Li Jianguo's yard to pull up the steel bars and ropes for the pressure well, and then pulling up half a truck of wheat tails, Li Long drove the tractor and turned to the outside of the village.
After what happened yesterday, Li Long thought it would be no problem to slaughter another sheep today. He also bought naan, and then rushed all the way to the animal husbandry team.
First we went to the yard of Yushanjiang’s family. When we arrived, Li Long was a little surprised. Yushanjiang’s wife had already set up a stove in the yard and was boiling water. There were small cases beside it, with carrots, Rice, mutton, etc.
It looks like he's going to make a meal.
Okay, it looks like this sheep doesn’t need to be slaughtered.
Seeing Li Long and the others coming over, Yushanjiang's wife smiled and continued working.
Those who were used to doing the work yesterday don’t need any instructions today. Everyone knows what to do. After Li Long unloaded the wheat tail from the tractor, he went to pull water first. After bringing back more water, he and Tao Daqiang drove the tractor to Harimu's house.
I met an old lady on the way. The old lady was carrying a bag of naan, and she was obviously planning to come to the Yushan River to help. After seeing Li Long, he was a little confused. Li Long couldn't help but pointed to her home, and then gestured to continue working.
The old lady walked back.
Tao Daqiang has never done this before, but he has seen it. He is usually self-aware of technical projects, so he is only responsible for the work. Li Long already had a location in his mind where he wanted to dig a well. When he arrived, he unloaded the things and then asked Tao Daqiang to dig a hole in the southeastern part of the yard.
Of course, he digs too.
A pit one meter long, one meter wide and one meter deep was dug, and water was already seeping out from underneath. The water layer here is very shallow. Li Long dipped his finger into some water and tasted it. It tasted a little salty, and it was indeed saline water.
If we compare it to this era in the previous life, the water is actually quite good, much better than river water and floodwater.
But Li Long felt that since he had to do something, he should do it well. Pick out the area where the water is flowing quickly and continue to dig down. When you dig down half a meter, the water has begun to seep upward at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The old lady looked a little surprised and said something. Li Long feels a little regretful now. He has been dealing with Harimu and the others for more than a year. Why didn't he think about learning Kazakh language well?
The next step is to insert steel bars downward to create a passage for the water pipe. The distance of less than one meter was easy to get at because it was all mud. Then when it went further down, it hit a hard object, probably a Gobi stone.
Li Long and Tao Daqiang took the steel bars and poked them down hard. Although they only inserted a little bit each time, progress showed that it could be driven down.
The only uncertainty now is that we don’t know how thick the Gobi layer is.
While digging the well, Li Long caught a glimpse of the girl who was writing with a pen yesterday coming over again. She stood outside the yard and looked around, then tentatively walked in.
Looking at Li Long and Tao Daqiang working, the girl whispered a few words to the old lady, and then walked towards Li Long and Tao Daqiang.
She watched for a minute or two, and then suddenly asked:
"Excuse me, are you digging a well?"
Li Long looked up She is a very beautiful ethnic girl, eighteen or nineteen years old, with two braids and very thick eyebrows.
"Yes, we are digging a well."
"This is... to kill the well." At this time, the girl saw the well killing head lying next to it, and then exclaimed:
< br>"I thought you were going to dig a cellar well at first, but this pressure well is so good!"
Li Long smiled. It seemed that this girl should have gone to school and seen these things. Is this an interview with yourself? (End of this chapter)