Harimu and the others had been back for two days, and there was already thick snow in the summer pasture. In fact, there were also two heavy snowfalls in the winter nest. There were also many thrills during their transition.
But after so many years, I got used to it. Some herdsmen lost their cattle and sheep, some herdsmen were injured when their horses fell, and some herdsmen themselves suffered from frostbite.
But they all came back safely.
Halimu and Yushanjiang were discussing things in the winter nest. His wife was making milk tea, and a faint fragrance of milk filled the house.
Soon, two bowls of milk tea were brought to the Kang table. Yu Shanjiang touched his chest with his left hand, took the milk tea with his right hand and expressed his gratitude, then said with emotion:
"I sent my family down the mountain. They live a good life, but my life is miserable. Now I even have the fragrant milk tea to drink from you."
"Hahahaha," Harimu took a sip. Milk tea, smiled and said: "Yushan River, Are you kidding? Your milk tea is very good."
This is the truth. Yushanjiang is very good at making milk tea and making Naren, but he also knows that Yushanjiang means right now. Living alone in a winter home is still a bit inconvenient.
After all, this place is different from Summer Ranch. There are many things to do in the summer pasture, where you have to graze every day, be careful of wolves. Now every day I just give grass to the cattle and sheep, clean the sheep pens, and spend most of the time in the house.
"If it weren't for the radio that Li Long got, I would be really sad." Yushanjiang said while drinking milk tea. He quickly finished a bowl and then handed the bowl to Harimu by the Kang. wife.
"When do you plan to start the winter slaughter this year?" Yushanjiang asked.
"Li Long, come here. When he comes, I will kill it again. I plan to kill a cow this year," Harimu has already thought about it, "call everyone over and have a nice meal. The remaining meat Well, dry it and freeze it, and give it to Li Long."
"I thought so too," Yu Shanjiang said with a smile, "I guess he will be here soon. The rice and noodles are almost gone, I thought He should bring us ramen noodles when he comes."
"Well, I still have some here. Take some with you when you leave. I'm going to pack them up and let him have them when he comes. Pull it up."
"Yes, I will send all the leather over here tomorrow." Yushanjiang continued to drink milk tea, "He should be very happy to see these leathers."
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"He is married and I don't know when he will have a child. I plan to wait until he has a child and give his child a pony," Harimu said.
"That's what I planned too. Since you gave the pony as a gift, then I will..." Yushanjiang looked a little embarrassed, "What should I give?"
Harimu smiled but Talking, this matter should be said early. You see, if Yushanjiang said it later, he would have to think about other things.
Nomads like horses, and among Kazakhs, even three- and four-year-old children can ride horses. When they are five or six years old, their parents will prepare a horse for them. From now on, the horse will belong to the child.
So when I used to go to pastoral areas, I would often see little children who had not yet gone to school, riding horses with only a blanket on them, but nothing happened.
Of course, it's possible that he fell, but no one saw it.
Winter slaughter is an activity carried out by herdsmen after winter arrives and cattle and sheep change from grazing to confinement.
The bigger ones slaughter cattle, the smaller ones slaughter sheep, and the ones that slaughter horses. Smoked horse meat and horse intestines are a traditional delicacy of the Kazakh people. Of course, the slaughtered horses were meat horses, and there were some in almost every herdsman circle.
In early winter, horse meat naren is the most common and popular delicacy here.
Twenty years after his last life, Li Long went to the Ili pastoral area with his friends in the winter. He visited five houses and ate four meals of horse meat naren, which made his nose blister.
Horse meat is hot in nature and can only be eaten in winter. Usually herdsmen here cut a plate of horse intestines, milk tea, naan, butter, honey, and add a plate of horse intestines on winter mornings, perfect.
Smoked horse meat and horse intestines cannot be made by one family now. Usually several families work together to slaughter a horse, and the smoked horse meat and horse intestines are eaten separately.
After Yushanjiang and Harimu discussed the matter, they declined the invitation to eat here, put on their hats and went out, riding back to their winter homes.
On the way, he was still thinking about what gift he would give Li Long when his child was really born.
A puppy or a deer?
...
Li Long pulled the last batch of reeds to the yard of the supply and marketing cooperative for inspection by the warehouse manager.
The inspection here is more strict. After the number of 20,000 is enough, Li Long is asked to take the extra warehouse away. He doesn't want it here.
Li Long smiled and took the invoice issued by the warehouse manager, loaded the remaining dozens of reeds into the truck, and then went to the finance department to sign and get the money.
This matter is finally over.
The money I received was not much, and more has been saved.
At present, Li Long has roughly calculated that this time he will earn less than 4,000 yuan for the money of making reeds. Mainly due to the loss of some oil, plus the fact that I charged nearly a hundred more reeds, and the price I gave to my elder brother Li Jianguo was fifty cents.
Li Jianguo's family tied nearly a thousand reeds, which was an extra payment of nearly two hundred yuan.
With the change on his body, Li Long saved 3,000 yuan, and his deposit is now one step closer to 30,000 yuan.
It has been almost two years since I was reborn, and I have saved less than 30,000 yuan. It is really embarrassing for a reborn person.
However, I feel that the past two years have been really fulfilling, and I have hardly been idle at all.
Of course, the harvest is also huge. We have a home, a wife, a tractor, and soon we will have children.
Except for tractors, nothing else existed in the previous life. In other words, it doesn't match.
Satisfied.
After staying at home for two days, Li Long spent two beautiful days sleeping until he woke up naturally and doing nothing.
Gu Xiaoxia couldn't stand it anymore and urged him to send some food to the mountains.
This must be done as soon as possible. In Gu Xiaoxia’s words:
“The snow is so deep, it’s not easy for those friends in the mountains to go down the mountain. You have to send them some food as soon as possible. , otherwise they will be in trouble if they run out of food.”
Li Long listened to his wife’s words and went to the market to buy food after dinner that morning. He also went to the animal husbandry team with two sacks of potatoes. Stay behind.
We have to send some food to the young and old here first.
Since the household responsibility system was implemented, the sale and purchase of grain in the free market has become much more free.
When Li Long drove to the stay point, he happened to see Nathan and Susken carrying a bucket of water home. The iron bucket was quite big. Two people were carrying it with a stick. The water was in the bucket. It was swaying inside, with a lot of water droplets sprinkled along the way.
Li Long was a little strange. Is the well-pressure in Harimu's house broken? Otherwise, how could we carry water from outside?
Nathan and Susken had already seen Li Long driving a tractor, shouting excitedly.
Li Long hurriedly drove over, parked the tractor at the edge of the yard, got off the tractor, stepped forward to help Nathan and the others carry the buckets, and asked as he walked into the yard:
"Is the kill well broken? How do you lift the water?"
"The kill well is frozen and no water comes out." Nathan explained, "We don't know how to repair it. I remember you said before, But I forgot." He lowered his head, a little ashamed.
The old lady walked to the entrance of the courtyard and grinned when she saw Li Long.
"My dad came back a few days ago. They have returned from the summer pasture. They said they would pick us up after the holidays." Nathan was more talkative and said before Li Long could ask. out.
Li Long nodded. He first poured water into the water tank in the house, and then went to see how to kill the well.
The well was indeed frozen. The water-pressurizing pole could barely move, which made Li Long not sure whether it could still be repaired.
In fact, it is not repair. In winter, if the water cannot be released from the well, the only possibility is that the water in the water pipe is frozen. If only the head of the well is frozen, just boil some hot water and pour it down to melt the ice.
But if the freeze is deep, it will not be easy to thaw in a short while.
Li Long first unloaded the food and supplies from the tractor and put them into the house, and then asked Nathan to tell the old lady to boil water and boil more.
The water in the water tank was less than half, so Li Long took the bucket to Yushanjiang's house to press water. The pressure well there was not broken.
The children in Yushanjiang were older and remembered more clearly what Li Long had said before, so the wells were not frozen.
Li Long drove the tractor to Yushanjiang’s yard and unloaded the things. His family members said the same thing as Nathan.
Li Long loaded two buckets of water onto the tractor and drove slowly back to Harimu's yard.
There was already a pot on the stove to boil water.
The left-behind point of the animal husbandry team distributed one ton of coal to each family. Li Long thought this was not enough, so he hauled another ton of coal to Halimu and Yushanjiang each.
Because students will move to their winter homes in winter when they are on vacation, two tons of coal should be enough for a family.
The water in the bucket on the tractor bucket was sprinkled a little, but not much. Li Long poured two buckets of water into the water tank, and the water tank was almost full.
While waiting for the water to boil on the stove, Li Long asked about Nathan and Susken's academic performance. Both children scratched their heads.
Well, I just started school, so I can’t expect too much.
When the water boiled, Li Long scraped the water into the kettle, poured water into the pot and continued to boil. He carried the boiling kettle to the pressure well.
Nathan and Susken hurriedly followed. Li Long asked them to stay away. Boiling water would be troublesome. The old lady also followed out, closed the door, and stood at the door to watch.
The heat in the room cannot escape.
Li Long first poured some boiling water into the well to melt the connecting rod and rubber mat of the well. Next he removed the well handle and plug, and then looked inside.
The boiling water that has just been poured is already a little cold. There is a layer of ice at the bottom of the main body of the well, about two to three centimeters thick. It must be that after they pressed the well in winter, they did not drain the water and left it in the main body, where it froze.
I poured some more boiling water inside to make the ice inside melt faster. Li Long turned and asked Nathan to bring an old towel.
Nathan quickly took a towel from the house and handed it to Li Long.
Li Long reached out and touched the well. The water temperature was quite high, so he found a short stick and stirred it constantly to let the hot water above melt the ice below.
After a while, the ice below melted almost completely, and then a palm-sized ice cube floated up.
Li Long reached out to pick out the ice cube, and then dipped a towel into the cold water inside.
The water inside was almost full. Li Long reached out to take out the pin blocking the mouth of the pipe, but he couldn't lift it.
This pin is used to hold the air, just like the mechanism of the cylinder door lock. When the kill rod is pressed down, the rubber plug is sealed because the air pressure inside is different, so the pin is lifted up and water is sucked up.
The kill rod is raised, the rubber plug (piston) is lowered, and the pin falls down, and the pressed water is stored in the kill body.
Now that the pin is frozen, the water below will naturally not be sucked up.
Seeing that Li Long could not pull out the pin, he continued to pour boiling water inside.
Next, water not much at a time to see how much it can seep down. Once the water is cold, use a towel to suck it out and twist it off. This will at least ensure that the boiling water poured in will not be quickly neutralized by the cold water, and the ice under the pin can be removed to the maximum extent.
The pot of water was quickly used up. Li Long went to the house to scoop out another pot of water and continued to pour it.
Unexpectedly, Nathan and Susken were very patient and kept watching from the side.
Some neighbors also came to watch. Because when killing wells can pressurize water, everyone is using it. Later it stopped working. Although I could go to Yushanjiang’s house to get water, it was quite far and it was troublesome because of the large number of people coming and going.
Now that the people who dug the well have arrived and are still repairing it, they naturally want to see if it can be repaired.
Another pot of boiling water was poured in. Li Long waited for the water to cool down, cleaned the water, and then moved the pin and found that it could move.
But the scope of activities is not large.
This is good news, it means that the frozen ice below and the pin are together, the pin can move, and a lot of the frozen ice on the pole under the pin has melted.
A pot of boiling water was slowly poured in, and the pin was finally pulled out.
Li Long was not sure if there was any ice underneath, so he simply poured the remaining boiling water down.
"Uncle Li Long, has it been repaired?" Seeing Li Long's expression become relaxed, Nathan asked.
“Not sure, let’s try it first.” Li Long said.
He put the pin in, then took the well-killing rod next to him, inserted the piston in, and after fixing it, he took a ladle of warm water and poured it into the well-killing rod, and started to press it.
The water came out of the water outlet quickly, and the people nearby cheered.
Li Long shook his head. The pressure is very difficult, which means there is something blocked underneath. It should be ice cubes underneath.
He removed the rod and piston, including the pin, and then scooped up a pot of boiling water and poured it down.
The water went down very slowly, but soon the water surface disappeared from the main body of the well.
Li Long looked at it and felt that there was hope. He turned back to the house, scooped out a pot of boiling water and poured it in again.
This time he went underwater relatively quickly. Li Long guessed that the ice was slowly melting and then being pushed downward by the water. In fact, two or three meters below the surface, the temperature is already above zero.
If the ice inside rises, it will be melted by the boiling water. If it is pressed down, if it continues down, it will only melt slowly. There are solutions left and right.
Li Long didn't stop until the boiling water in the pot was gone.
Feeling that it was almost done, he put the pin in again. After the kill piston and rod were fixed, Nathan cleverly scooped up half a ladle of water as a guide and poured it in.
Li Long pressed the pole, and it didn’t feel so strenuous this time.
Water is constantly being squeezed out.
This time everyone did not cheer, they just watched Li Long's movements.
Li Long asked Nathan to get the bucket and put it at the water outlet.
A bucket of water was pressed out, and Li Long carried it and poured it into the water tank.
Another bucket of water came out and Li Long smiled.
This time, it is definitely fixed.
"Okay, you can use it in the future." Li Long said to the others.
"Okay, okay!"
"It's great, it can be used again!"
Li Long then taught Nathan:
"Press the water every time , listen to the sounds inside, you listen..."
At this time, the water was no longer pressed, and someone hurried back to carry the bucket. Li Long asked Nathan and Sasken to listen quickly:
"Hiss..."
The sound of pumping air out of water rang out, Li Long said:
"Listen, just this sound, the water pumped up is no longer pressurized, so It will flow back into the ground. You don’t need to worry about it now.”
“You don’t need to worry about it all the time?” Nathan was confused.
“No, no, no, because I’m not sure if anyone will come to pressurize the water at night. Those people don’t care. If you don’t need water at night, just unload the well pressure head and take it back to the house. Put that pin..."
Li Long told Nathan while demonstrating the operation:
"Take off this pin and put it in the house. Just stuff a towel or something inside this to prevent dirty things from getting in."
Nathan and Susken nodded seriously. They never wanted to carry water again. The family uses at least four or five buckets of water a day. Carrying water from Yushanjiang’s home is really tiring.
How convenient it is to kill wells and water!
Li Long repaired the pressure well and felt quite proud of himself. Another practical thing was done for Harimu's family - to be honest, if he hadn't come over, the family of three might have been carrying water until the children were on holiday in January.
When we arrived at Dongwozi, Harimu and his wife carried water together, so there was no need for the young and old to work.
Thinking of carrying water, Li Long suddenly had an idea.
Halimu and Yushanjiang have done so many things for themselves, can I help them solve the water problem?
They drew water from a stream forty to fifty meters away from Dongwozi, which was actually not that far away.
But wouldn’t it be better if it was easier for them to drink water?
With this idea, Li Long's mind immediately started spinning.
Thick hard plastic pipes are still quite valuable at this time. After all, Dushanzi Petrochemical has not been built yet, and Karamay Petrochemical Company’s current production capacity is not strong enough.
It’s a little more expensive, but you can buy it.
And for Li Long's idea, only pipes are needed, and the rest is labor.
For Harimu and the others, the most indispensable thing is labor. When spring comes and the flowers bloom, there will really be nothing else to do except grazing.
Even cattle and sheep spread out on the pasture, and you don't need to look at them for hours. There is a sheep leading them, so they basically won't run around.
Well, this thing is feasible. Li Long smiled, thinking that Harimu and the others would be very happy when they arrived.
If you want this to work both in winter and summer, then you have to discuss it with Harimu and the others to choose the right place. (End of this chapter)