Ma Xiaoyan ate three pieces of roe deer roe meat before washing her hands with unsatisfied feelings. Then she imitated Li Long and took a ladle of soup from an enamel basin to drink.
Li Long’s tractor always has an enamel basin in the mountains, so it can be used for rinsing. At this time, there is no need to pay so much attention.
Li Long was shocked when Ma Xiaoyan ate meat just now. This is too delicious. Aren't you afraid of spoiling your stomach if you continue like this?
Apparently it’s not bad to eat. These days, regardless of men or women, there is less fat and water in the stomach, so it is normal to eat more when you encounter delicious food.
Liu Jun ate four pieces of meat without looking at him, and he still had some energy left.
Li Long ate two pieces, one leg bone with an ankle bone. He gnawed clean the tendons on the ankle stone and kept them for Li Juan, Li Qiang and others to play with. Then he ate another piece of neck meat.
Originally I wanted to eat the ribs. This one was more delicious, but I didn’t think it was cooked very badly. So let’s eat the live meat from the neck.
After drinking the soup, the sky had darkened, and then we went to the wooden house and agreed with Harimu and the others to continue tomorrow.
Tomorrow I will mainly go to the pasture. One is to take photos of the grass cutting scene, and the other is to continue the interview.
Ma Xiaoyan felt that there was still a lot of material worth exploring, and she had to think about it when she went to bed at night.
With the tractor in front and 212 behind, we finally arrived at the cabin before dark.
Looking at the wooden house, Ma Xiaoyan's eyes lit up.
Halimu's winter nest is too shabby, but it fits the image of a winter nest in her impression.
Although Li Long's wooden house is covered with a layer of mud to moisturize it, anyone with a discerning eye can immediately tell that it is newly built.
Coupled with the shed, the meat pole outside, and the cases that have not been confiscated outside, this is like the secluded residence of an expert in a martial arts novel.
It fits so well!
Ma Xiaoyan was very excited. After getting off the bus at 212, she ran over and looked around in circles, including the toilet at the back.
Li Long parked the tractor and opened the doors to the two rooms. The big room could only be given to Ma Xiaoyan and Yelaya, and the small room was forced to be occupied by myself and Liu Jun.
The big room is easier to say. There are bedding on the wooden kang, so you just need to tidy it up. Some things in the small room needed to be packed. Two people had to make a bed on the floor, so they had to bring bedding from the big room.
Fortunately, it is said to be a small room, but it actually covers an area of more than ten square meters. Excluding the shelves around it, it is enough for two people to sleep. And they can not interfere with each other.
After laying out the bedding in the small room, he set up the stove and boiled water.
I couldn't sleep for a while. I waited until the fire was blazing and the water was boiling. Then I put on the coal foam to remind the two of them to be careful not to get gas poisoning. Then I went to the small room with Liu Jun.
The two grown men had nothing to talk about, and they were both tired, so they fell asleep quickly.
Here Ma Xiaoyan couldn’t sleep. Firstly, I ate more, and secondly, I was still thinking about the interview tomorrow, and discussed it with Yelaya from time to time.
Yelaya is very conscious and knows that she is only on secondment. Whether she can stay and work in the county depends on whether Director Ma can say good things. If he can say good things, she may stay.
Ma Xiaoyan discussed with her the topics and questions to be interviewed tomorrow, and she also took the initiative to help think about it. The cooperation was very good, and Ma Xiaoyan thought it was pretty good.
Because of the stove, the temperature outside has dropped, but it is still very warm inside. Ma Xiaoyan knew that Li Long and the others did not have a stove. Now I know that staying in the mountains for one night actually caused a lot of trouble for others.
For example, according to Li Long's idea, he could actually use a harvester to mow dozens of acres of land on a hillside this afternoon, but he gave up because of the interview.
Li Long volunteered to go up the mountain to cut the grass. He must have thought that the sooner he could go back, the better. If he was delayed for half a day now, he would be late to go back for half a day, which he would definitely not be happy with.
Ma Xiaoyan also wanted to finish the interview as soon as possible tomorrow, so as not to delay their drafting work.
Although she worked in a propaganda agency, she did not have any bureaucratic habits or official standards at that time. When others give them convenience, they will try their best to consider it for others.
In the middle of the night, a wolf howled outside. Ma Xiaoyan was frightened and woke up. She wrapped the quilt tightly and leaned in as much as possible. Yelaya also woke up. Seeing Ma Xiaoyan like this, she comforted her:
"Mr. Ma, it's okay. The door is locked and the wolf can't get in. And I saw Li Long with a gun. If the wolf dares Come here, he will shoot."
As he said this, he heard a few shots fired in the direction of the wolf howling from the next door, and the howl of the wolf's demonstration immediately became. A scream to escape, then silence.
It turns out that the mountains are not safe either.
Several people got up very early the next day. Ma Xiaoyan had something on her mind, and the wolf howled in the middle of the night. Because there were guests, Li Long thought about how to prepare breakfast well.
I got up early to pick a bunch of mushrooms and came back. When Ma Xiaoyan and the others opened the door, Li Long had already set up a fire on the stove outside and was boiling water.
Ma Xiaoyan blushed, women got up later than men, and men had to cook. In this era, women themselves would feel embarrassed.
"I picked up some mushrooms in the morning. There are not many straw mushrooms at this time, and I can still find some black tiger palm fungi, but they are not big. Later, I will fry a mushroom with the meat from the fire, and then eat it cold. A handful of mugwort - I managed to find one, It’s almost enough to make a plate.”
Li Long didn’t make Ma Xiaoyan embarrassed, he said directly: “You have the steamed buns I steamed the day before yesterday. Do you like them fried or sliced and baked?” br>
Yelaya doesn't care, she just listens to Ma Xiaoyan. Anyway, she also knew that Li Long respected Harimu and the others, and there was currently no wild boar meat here.
As for whether it happened before or in the future, she didn't think about it.
"I will do the cooking. I like to eat grilled food, charred and charred." Ma Xiaoyan directly made the decision, "Xiaoye, help me watch the fire."
As for Liu Jun, he was not assigned any work. Today's drivers are still a relatively good profession, the type that listens to orders but not announcements, so when work needs to be done, they basically ignore him. Anyway, even if they are assigned to him, they basically don't do it.
Ma Xiaoyan is not entirely devoted to her work. She is quite good at stir-fried mushrooms. She went to fry the mushrooms, and Li Long went to eat the cold mugwort. This thing is regarded as the king of wild vegetables by some people. If it is delicious, it must be better than cold pepper and wormwood.
When served cold, it tastes as good as zhe'ergen. It's okay for those who like it, but makes them vomit if they don't.
Hao Ben’s salad was relatively simple. After finishing it, he went to bake the steamed buns.
Liu Jun looked at Li Long getting a bunch of mushrooms, a little curious and a little surprised. He didn't expect that the mountains were so rich in resources.
Most people in the plains don’t know much about the Tianshan Mountains, even if they are only a few dozen kilometers away.
So Liu Jun was surprised and unexpected, so he went directly to the far back to put water, and then searched in the grass and woods, and he actually found some mushrooms.
After getting it back, he asked Li Long to take a look. Li Long picked out a part and said:
"Brother Liu, you can't eat these. The rest can be eaten - I'm not sure what can't be eaten." , if you want to keep it, leave it alone and go back to find someone you know to show it to."
Liu Jun followed suit and threw away the inedible ones.
He didn’t want his family to be poisoned after eating mushrooms.
The three of them cooked together very quickly. The sun hadn't risen yet, and they were already eating on the table outside.
The temperature hasn't risen yet, and it's actually quite cool outside, but since we are all young people, no one cares. Besides, the location in the house is not suitable for four people to eat together. It would be better to have more fun outside.
Ma Xiaoyan already experienced eating meat in large quantities yesterday. When she was cooking today, she discovered that Li Long’s wooden house had quite a lot of meat reserves. Just now she put less meat in the mushrooms, but Li Long actually asked her to put more meat in, saying that it wouldn't taste good if it was too little!
Please! What you put there is a lot, and ordinary people can only put half of this amount in their homes!
The amount Li Long requested was four to five times that of ordinary people!
What a luxury!
The meal was eaten very quickly. After finishing the meal, Ma Xiaoyan and Yelaya took the initiative to clean it up, while Li Long took his enamel basin to the spring to rinse it.
Seeing the spring, Ma Xiaoyan sighed:
"Comrade Li Long, the location of your wooden house is so great! If there was electricity here, it would be like a small villa in the mountains. .”
Li Long smiled and said nothing.
This is what people with a bit of petty bourgeoisie would think like this. There are too many inconveniences when living in the mountains. Unless you have a car that can keep going down the mountain whenever you want, most people may not be able to bear staying here for two nights.
Like the wolf howling last night, even though they knew the door was locked and the wolf couldn't get in, most women would still be afraid if they lived here.
After cleaning up, Li Long put three packages of air-dried meat in new bags from the small room, each package was about two or three kilograms, and then took it out.
“It’s not easy for you to come here, and I don’t have much good stuff here. You can take it home and eat it, air-dried wild goat meat and roe deer roe meat. This meat is Kazakh flavor, Xiaoye should know it, I feel the taste Not bad." Ma Xiaoyan declined symbolically and put it away.
Liu Jun was not polite. Yelaya did not expect that she would still have it. Seeing that the other two people had taken it away, she took it away too.
The three bags were put into car 212. Li Long added water and oil to the tractor, and then drove to Halimu's winter home.
Everyone over there has already arrived and eaten. What surprised Li Long was that Harimu and the others had made new naan this morning. Although they had eaten, Li Long still couldn't bear it. I broke off a piece and ate it.
Ma Xiaoyan also tasted it under Li Long’s introduction and felt great.
Then they went to the grassy slope to be grassed.
212 It was not easy to get over it at this time, so Liu Jun simply stayed here. Ma Xiaoyan and Yelaya went over on the tractor.
Originally, Harimu and the others thought of taking Ma Xiaoyan and the others on horseback, but Ma Xiaoyan was a little worried and thought it would be more reliable to ride on a tractor.
The tractor stopped at the grassy slope to be plowed. Ma Xiaoyan looked at the steep hillside and asked Li Long:
"Can this tractor go up?"
"Okay." Li Long said, "You interview them first, and I'll start the fight here."
As he said that, he adjusted the position of the tractor, and then cut it along the edge of the grass slope.
The chug sound echoed on the hillside. Ma Xiaoyan took a picture first, then thought about it and put away the camera. She planned to wait for Li Long to cut twice before taking a few more pictures. It was more emotional at that time.
Li Long was cutting grass over there, and the other herdsmen had nothing to do. Normally, everyone would go to other grassy slopes to look for wooden stakes and stones at this time. Today, because there are cadres from the county, they all gathered here to listen to what the cadres had to say.
Ma Xiaoyan did not refuse. On the one hand, she continued the interview, and on the other hand, she asked Harimu and the others to pick grass with wooden forks.
Although the grass is green now, it is not suitable for picking into piles and bundling. But the photo taken was in black and white, so you can’t tell.
Sometimes expediency is necessary.
After taking suitable photos, Ma Xiaoyan asked some more questions, and then let them go as they should, leaving only Harimu and Yushanjiang.
These two people have been dating Li Long for the longest time and can provide the most material, so Ma Xiaoyan feels that she can dig deeper from them.
At noon, Ma Xiaoyan took a suitable photo and went back to the winter nest in Harimu with Li Long and others to have a meal of meat. Finally, she said goodbye to Li Long and others and went back to the county. .
I have accumulated enough materials to write manuscripts, and I have almost mined what I can. Although she didn't want to leave, Ma Xiaoyan knew she had to go.
First of all, the car approval is due today, and secondly, Li Long and the others still have to work, so they can no longer be affected.
After 212 left, Talihar looked at the shadow of the car and sighed:
"This car looks so beautiful! When will we have such a car!"
"In this life Just ride a horse." Another young man laughed at him.
Li Long chewed the bones and smiled and said:
"As long as you can get a dozen wild goats like that day every year, or a dozen deer, the things on the deer will be sold. , after five years of saving, I can buy a second-hand car.”
Private Santana starts out at two hundred thousand. But for ordinary people at this time, second-hand cars are not unacceptable. Cars like the 212 that were eliminated from the army are actually very popular and are not available to ordinary people.
What Li Long said was not bragging. In three to five years, when the door is opened, Santana will not be able to afford it, so it is still possible to buy a second-hand minivan.
And cheap.
In 1983, the country decided to introduce a mini-car production line. The assembly and production of Tianjin's yellow Daihatsu van will begin next year, priced at 28,000.
Of course, it is said that because it is so popular, car dealers have almost doubled the price of the car.
Li Long couldn't afford it for the time being, but it was only temporary. There was still hope if he worked hard.
What he told Talihar is also true. There are more than a dozen deer every year, and the deer skin, deer whip, and velvet or antlers of a deer can cost hundreds of dollars. A dozen heads cost thousands of dollars.
If you can’t afford a new car in three to five years, a second-hand car should be fine.
Everyone else present took this as a joke, but Talihar took it seriously.
He said to Li Long:
"Is it really possible?"
"Okay, you hunted a deer, take off the antlers, deer skin, and deer whip and keep them. I will help you sell them when the time comes. When you sell them, save the money. Get up, a few years will be enough." Li Long also answered seriously.
"Okay!" Talihar was very confident in hunting at this time because he had hunted the group of wild goats. He felt that he had this ability.
Continue to cut grass in the afternoon.
Two days later, all the wood piles and stones in the grass slopes were cleared away. A dozen herdsmen worked together to clear out the two grasslands where there were more shrubs and could not be harvested with a harvester. After that, they took some time off. Harimu meant that before the grass dried up, they went hunting to get more skins for Li Long.
During lunch, Li Long thought of his big broom task and said to Harimu:
"You are idle, so why not do me a favor and chop the pole. I want to go back and tie it up." Big broom, I need a broom handle. I don’t have time to get one right now. You can help me get it for 50 cents a piece..."< br>
"Li Long, don't talk to us about money." Yushanjiang interrupted him, "How many do you want? We'll just do it. Tell us the standards and we'll definitely handle it. Money matters Don't say it, or we will be angry!"
Okay, Li Long said the standard of the pole.
Listening to Li Long's standards, these herdsmen rode horses and rushed to different valleys.
They are familiar with the places in this mountain and know where to get such poles. They are also very skilled at it. Cutting poles is actually much easier than hunting.
When Li Long finished haying in the afternoon and returned to Harimudong's nest, the herdsmen who were returning one after another already had more or less bundles of poles on their horses.
One end has been sharpened, the skin has been peeled off, and the twigs have been trimmed clean. They all look good.
After thanking them, Li Long put the poles in bundles into the bucket of the tractor and pulled them towards the wooden house.
In the next few days, Li Long was cutting grass, and these herdsmen cut poles. It is very easy for a person to make dozens of cigarettes a day. By the time Li Long finished laying all the grassy slopes, there were more than three thousand poles piled up at the wooden house.
The herdsmen wanted to cut down the poles, but Li Long stopped them. He felt that the grass that was beaten at the beginning should be dry after such a long time, so he asked Harimu and the others to bale the grass. With so much grass, it will take some time to just bale it.
The current harvester is only used for harvesting, unlike the lawn mowers of later generations that can be tied directly after harvesting.
Harimu and the others couldn't defeat Li Long, so they stopped cutting poles and went to bundle grass.
Because we have been used to working together before, and the grass in Harimu’s pasture is dry now, and it will take a while for the others, all the herdsmen are bundling grass in Harimu’s pasture.
Li Long drove the tractor to the wooden house, loaded a load of bucket poles, and pulled it down the mountain.
Although there are not enough poles to count, there is still time. He planned to go down the mountain and distribute the poles to each family, and then take his eldest brother and father up the mountain to cut the poles.
If you want to make money, it’s better to make money with your family first.
This time, the total time spent on the mountain did not exceed ten days, but Li Long experienced a lot.
What he didn't know was that after Ma Xiaoyan returned, he wrote a big article about Li Long's incident within two days. After being read by the deputy director of the propaganda department and the Standing Committee, he bravely submitted it to The daily newspaper of the autonomous region.
Although Ma Xiaoyan is a little uneasy, she is more confident: she believes that this manuscript will definitely be published! (End of chapter)