Most rural elderly people are afraid of being idle. If they are idle, they will not be able to eat, and they will easily get sick.
In fact, many city people are the same. The old saying makes much trouble out of nothing is what it means.
If you don’t do anything and are free, your mind will be filled with random thoughts. If you think randomly, it will be easy to mess around.
Why does the concept of later generations suggest that it is best for both men and women in the family to go out and do things, so that they will not think about the messy things when they have something to do.
In some originally harmonious families, one of the husband and wife has no job and does housework at home. When they are free, they start thinking randomly, then put it into practice, and then break up.
So Uncle Luo had to find a job for himself.
Of course, this job must be something he likes to do, such as raising deer and wild boars.
He really has to work in the fields. He knows how tired it is in the summer, and he can do it, but it’s not as good as this. After all, I have worked in the team for so many years raising livestock, so I am used to it.
Pushing snow is nothing to Old Uncle Luo. He likes to have something to do, but he is not in a hurry. So during the day, I just push the way out to the door of the livestock pen.
The most important thing was to check whether the animals were frozen, because some roe deer and red deer were about to give birth, so he had to keep an eye on them.
After entering the circle, the red deer and roe deer all surrounded us.
Originally there were those who were more interested and wanted to challenge others, but after being dealt with by Li Long twice, they became honest.
These guys also know that if they really disobey again, they will really be slaughtered.
Uncle Luo looked at the two female roe deer and red deer who were about to give birth, and realized that there were still a few days left, so he was not in a hurry.
Clean up the circle and remove the grass residue. These things are good things to ignite in summer. As for the manure, wait until spring comes out and let it sit for a period of time until it becomes mature manure, which can be used to fertilize the fields.
After clearing out the circle, Old Uncle Luo didn't feed them immediately. He started to move around, returned to the kitchen, cooked some corn batter, baked two slices of steamed buns, and heated up yesterday's leftover dishes for breakfast. .
Old Uncle Luo has good teeth and likes to eat burnt things, so he often bakes steamed bun slices. However, this stuff is easy to get angry, so he occasionally makes egg tea.
This egg was brought by Li Long. Sometimes people on the team would also send eggs.
This habit of Team Four continued for decades, and it continued until Li Long was reborn.
If someone has a lot of things in their vegetable garden, they will ask their neighbors to pick them, or they will directly deliver them to other people’s homes.
While the working group was staying, they wanted to go into the yard and buy some food. Basically, it wasn't much, and the villagers wouldn't ask for money. The food wasn't worth it.
Some people will ride electric tricycles to the county to sell the uneaten vegetables, but the food is for sale and if someone from the village comes to ask for it, they will not take money.
This kind of thing comes and goes.
For a lonely family like Old Uncle Luo, a household with five guarantees, the neighbors must take more care of them. I will bring you a bowl if there is something delicious to cook, or if you have extra dishes, I will also bring them to you.
Eggs are not particularly precious in Team Four. After all, the land is so big that it is more convenient to feed chickens.
So from time to time someone would bring a bowl of eggs. When the children come to see red deer, roe deer and wild boar, they sometimes come with two eggs in their pockets.
Uncle Luo always keeps candies here. When children come over, he will share the candies and educate those naughty children.
Old man, I like fun.
After breakfast slowly, the animals had already begun to bray, so Uncle Luo started to feed them.
Don’t feed too frequently in winter. This is not the time for future generations. In later generations, cattle and sheep will be fed concentrated feed in winter in order to prepare them for fattening and then slaughter them before the end of the year to sell them for money.
To put it bluntly, Uncle Luo raised these animals for Li Long. How Li Long dealt with these animals was his business.
There is no shortage of meat in Uncle Luo's place, and there is no shortage of meat in the Li family, so it is a matter of debate whether these animals will be slaughtered or not.
These animals are fed with grass twice a day, grass three times, and water once. Don’t drink too much, otherwise the warm pen will be full of slimy feces. These animals urinate and poop in the warm pen when they are cold, which is not particular at all.
When Li Long drove over in his jeep, Old Uncle Luo was slowly pushing Xue.
There is no shortage of snowboards here, but the place is big and there is only one person at the moment.
Li Long got off the jeep, carrying a yellow lamb leg in his hand.
"Hey, I thought some big leader was here." Uncle Luo saw Li Long, grinned and said, "Are you coming from the county? I heard that you guys came two days ago We shot a lot of things in the west."
"Well, we shot almost twenty yellow sheep." Li Long took the yellow sheep legs and hung them in the room next to the kitchen. It was now unoccupied, so it became a storage room. Then he came out with the snowboard.
“You came here specifically to push snow?” Old Uncle Luo complained, “This snow clearing is not an urgent matter. I can do it slowly by myself.”
“ "Hey, that's different. If you finish pushing earlier, it will be easier for you to walk." Li Long said with a smile, "This time the snow is so big that you have to sweep it alone, so why don't you sweep it for a week?"
"It will take a week." Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, "It doesn't matter how long it takes, just sweep slowly. By the way, this morning, I saw someone chasing the rabbit away. The snow is heavy. The rabbit had nothing to eat and ran away in the snow Don't move, several young men on the team have gone to chase it away..."
Li Long became interested as soon as he heard this. Thinking that he should still be able to catch it now, he accelerated the speed of pushing the snow while pushing. Bian said:
“ Uncle Luo, I'll go check it out later after pushing the snow."
"Wherever you want to finish pushing the snow, go there now." Old Uncle Luo said with a smile. Yuan, you can't run for a long time? It won't get dark after pushing in the snow? "
"That can't be done." Li Long was so strong that he was just like a personal snow pusher. The snow was cleared with a splash, and his board was flying across half of the yard. It cleared up.
"Xiaolong, I see you've gained strength again." Old Uncle Luo exclaimed, "I've gotten married, but I'm not as strong as before, but you're still growing."
Li Long chuckled. Smile but don’t speak. He can indeed feel that his strength continues to grow. It is not growing as fast as before, but it is still growing.
I don’t know when it will end.
It took Uncle Luo a week to clear the snow, but Li Long cleared it in more than an hour. Uncle Luo made several big piles of snow in the big yard and pulled them out when he had time.
Or wait for the snow to solidify, then use a wooden shovel to cut it into square pieces of snow and carry them out.
But Li Long didn't need it at all. He pushed the snow board all by himself from beginning to end, pushing all the snow outside the yard.
"Uncle Luo, you are busy with your business. I will get some clean bags and see if I can catch some rabbits."
I haven't trapped any rabbits this year, anyway. There are still three or four hours until dark, let's see if we can make a few more and have a tooth festival.
"There are clean bags." Old Uncle Luo hurriedly entered the house and brought three or four bags. "I shook out the bags containing the sugar residue and put them away."
Li Long took the bag and put it into the jeep. Before getting in the car, his heart moved and he asked Old Uncle Luo:
"Uncle Luo, do you want to take a car to go around?"
"Me? I won't go around anymore." Old Uncle Luo waved his hand hurriedly, "Don't leave in a hurry, we have done so much Live, don’t you drink some water and take a rest?”
Li Long shook his head. Said:
"Stay a while, and if there are rabbits, go chase them. If not, I will come back early."
Li Long still knows where there are many rabbits, and he drives The jeep followed the road that used to lead to the crop fields. The snow was very thick, and the Jeep's power was pretty good. Although it didn't drive very fast, it had no problem keeping the snow down.
Li Long stopped when he drove all the way to about five or six hundred meters away from Hongliu Beach to the east. The snow will be too thick next, so there is no need to fiddle with the car. He got out of the car with a bag and walked towards Hongliutan.
There are some footprints on the red willow beach. It can be seen that someone has chased rabbits here.
This used to be the world of rabbits. After all, there are many weeds growing in the red willow beach, so rabbits can easily find food.
It was just that the snow was so heavy last night that it buried all the roots of the tamarisk. If the rabbit wanted to eat, he had to push the snow away.
Before he reached the edge of Hongliu Beach, Li Long saw many rabbit marks.
The snow powder that just fell in northern Xinjiang is very light and thin and will not condense immediately. Therefore, although the snow is thick, it has little carrying capacity, and rabbits will sink if they run over it.
But in order not to starve to death, the rabbit also has to make such a trip. In the past, rabbit prints were made of four paw prints, with at most a line on the snow, where the front and rear paw prints could be seen.
Now we have to dig a ditch directly, which takes a lot of effort.
Li Long first looked at whether the marks on the rabbit were fresh or not, and skipped the ones that were not fresh.
Entering Red Willow Beach, there are more ditches where rabbits have waded through, and they are all scattered. Obviously the rabbits didn't store any food, so they could only run out to find food at this time.
There were really many hares at this time. Li Long didn't look for it for two minutes when he saw a rabbit wading in the snow in front of him. It had heard the sound of Li Long walking, turned its head and glanced, and then rushed forward in fear. .
Unfortunately, the snow was too deep and it couldn't run fast at all. The distance it could sprint with all its strength was not even half a step as long as Li Long.
Li Long strode over. The rabbit knew that rushing forward would not clear the way, so he turned around and jumped to the side. However, there was also snow on the side, and it plunged into the snow again.
When Li Long arrived, the rabbit squeaked, then assumed a desperate fighting posture and rushed towards Li Long. Li Long was wearing imitation big-toe shoes bought from a supply and marketing cooperative. He kicked the rabbit that was coming towards him!
This time, although the hard big toe of the shoe did not kick the rabbit's head into the waterfall, it did kick the rabbit five or six meters away. After falling into the snow, it twitched, struggled and shook its body.
Li Long went over, picked up the rabbit and stuffed it into the bag, and continued to look for the next one.
In just ten minutes, Li Long got two rabbits, and he also met a golden fox. This guy was much more agile than a rabbit. When he saw Li Long, he turned around and ran away, quickly disappearing behind the red willow bushes.
Li Long didn't chase this guy. He was too stinky and he would beg for mercy. He was different from a rabbit, so he let it go.
The main reason is that the fur color is not very good and a bit mixed. If it was a pure red fox, Li Long would have to catch it no matter what.
Li Long came out of Hongliutan while chasing the third rabbit. This gray rabbit was big, weighing five or six kilograms. It was also smart and knew how to run along the old road. It didn't move much slower than before, and rushed out of the Red Willow Beach with snow powder in the air.
Li Long will naturally not let this big guy go. If you peel this thing, you can make a meal that can feed the whole family.
The rabbit rushed out of Hongliu Beach and ran more than 20 meters, and Li Long stepped on it.
Then he saw someone running over from a distance, and Li Long was amused, Liang Dacheng.
"Why did you come here alone?" Li Long stepped on the rabbit to death, threw it into the bag, and then asked.
"Two people came together to see the ice hole in Xiaohaizi," Liang Dacheng also rushed over after looking at the rabbit running out, but he didn't expect it to be owned.
"Then let's separate. Which way are you going?" Li Long said with a smile, "There are many rabbits here, so it's easy to catch them."
"Then I'll go north." Liang Dacheng saw that Li Long came from the south, so he chose the north.
The two separated, Li Long walked south and entered Hongliutan again.
Soon, he found a rabbit under a pile of tamarisk roots, which had already dug up the snow and was gnawing on the grass.
When Li Long came over, the rabbit was smart and did not run away. Instead, he huddled up and tried to avoid Li Long's sight.
But Li Long had already seen it when it was shrinking. Li Long smiled and walked up to it. When he was about to reach out to catch it, he found that it was a female rabbit with a big belly.
It also saw Li Long and bared its teeth.
Li Long shook his head, let's let go of this thing, there is no shortage of this one.
He left here, leaving the female rabbit who couldn’t figure it out.
Continuing south, there is not only the clever rabbit, but also one that plunges into the snow and pretends to be dead.
It's a pity that Li Long's eyesight is very good and he can see its slight movement - after all, there still has to be a heartbeat, and the body is moving slightly.
Wearing gloves, Li Long grabbed the skin of the rabbit's neck and stuffed it into his pocket.
In less than two hours, Li Long changed a bag and put thirteen rabbits back.
Actually, there is, but Li Long doesn’t want to catch him.
He carried the bag to the jeep and turned to look at the red willow forest to the north. Liang Dacheng's figure was still appearing and disappearing in the red willow forest. Apparently there were many rabbits there.
Li Long drove the jeep around a corner and drove back. When they arrived at the residential area, the sun was still high. Li Long entered his eldest brother's yard. Li Juan and Li Qiang had already finished school and ran out when they heard the noise. .
"Uncle, uncle, why are you here at this time?"
"Uncle, your car is so beautiful!"
Hearing the noise, Li Jianguo came out of the house When he came out, Li Long happened to take out the bag containing the rabbit.
"Going to catch rabbits?" Li Jianguo took the bag and asked with a smile.
"Well, it's quite a lot. I put one bag here, and I took another bag back."
"Come in and warm up before leaving." Li Jianguo looked at his pocket and saw from inside He picked out two dead ones, tied up the rest and stuffed them into the jeep.
“You have many friends and use a lot. We don’t lack meat at home. Just get two and try them.”
Li Long didn’t refuse. He closed the door of the jeep. The door entered the house.
Li Juan and Li Qiang were teasing the two dead rabbits.
For them, wild boars can be seen a lot, roe deer and red deer can also be seen, but rabbits are a bit rare.
And compared to big guys like roe deer and red deer, rabbits are actually more popular with children.
Small and cute. Of course, this is true for little rabbits. The attack power of this kind of adult hare is not weak at all. A scratch with its claws and a kick with its legs can be enough for an adult.
Li Long chatted with his family, drank a bowl of hot tea, and then went out and drove away in the jeep.
Du Chunfang was very dissatisfied. Her youngest son always came and went in a hurry, without asking him a few words to see if he had lost weight.
But there is nothing you can do about it, you have your own life and your own days to live.
She actually wanted to spend time with Li Long in the big courtyard in the city, but considering that even if she went there, Li Long would be away from home from time to time, so she might as well forget it.
It’s more comfortable to stay here.
Looking at how well his eldest son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren are doing, Du Chunfang actually knows that her life is already very good. Compared with those old moms in the original village, it is much better.
Who can still eat meat every day? You don’t have to work in the fields, and you can still drink wine every day. It’s still good wine!
Yes, Du Chunfang has started drinking now, drinking a small glass every night.
Li Qingxia didn’t talk about her either. If there is wine at home, just drink it, but you don’t drink too much, and you won’t make a fuss, so what’s the point.
Li Long’s jeep drove to Laoma No., left a wild rabbit for Uncle Luo, and then drove back.
When we arrived at the big yard, it was already dark. Sister Yang had already prepared the meal, but Gu Xiaoxia hadn't gotten off work yet.
Li Long took down the rabbit and began to clean it up.
Most of the rabbit skin needs to be peeled off. Firstly, it can be sold for a few dollars, and secondly, some rabbits are meant to be given to others. If those people can't take care of the rabbits, they might as well take them out themselves.
He planned to give Director Qian two rabbits that were ready and two that were not skinned. Maybe Director Qian likes hunting and handling rabbits by himself?
Leave two for home, give two to Li Xiangqian, and give two to Director Wei, just right.
Rabbit skins are easy to peel. When Gu Xiaoxia came back, Li Long had already packed them up and put them one by one in the bucket of the tractor to freeze.
No mice can crawl in, so it's easy to put things in here.
After dinner, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia his plan.
"Going to the state tomorrow?" Gu Xiaoxia asked.
"Well, go there tomorrow. Go in the morning and come back in the afternoon." Li Long said, "With the jeep, it will be much faster to go back and forth."
This distance is the same as the distance to Kuitun in the west. Almost the same, but a jeep is much faster than a tractor, and it's easier to get back and forth.
Gu Xiaoxia knew that Li Long was going to do business, so she didn't say anything and changed the subject.
At this time, Gu Xiaoxia was already a little pregnant, but her pregnancy reaction was very mild. She occasionally felt like vomiting, but she didn't feel uncomfortable, which was quite strange.
"That means our child doesn't want you to work too hard." Li Long joked, "Don't think too much. Can you sleep well if you can eat? I heard that there are people who want to eat all sorts of things during pregnancy. It’s a weird thing, you don’t have any weird reactions now, that’s good.”
Gu Xiaoxia actually just wanted to talk to Li Longduo about her feelings. After hearing Li Long’s words, she also laughed. .
Touching my belly and feeling life gestating in my body is full of happiness.
After breakfast the next day, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. Li Long loaded the things into the jeep, filled up the oil and water, and drove to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Giving the rabbit to Director Wei and Li Xiangqian, Li Long walked out of the door.
He didn't dare to drive the jeep into the yard, it would be too high-profile.
He left the jeep outside and saw not many people.
Next, set off to Beiting! (End of chapter)