Li Long rode his bicycle to the department store again and bought some learning supplies.
Children usually lose things when they go to school. Large items like textbooks may have a few pages torn at most, but pencils and erasers are too easy to lose.
Or being quartered.
So Li Long bought some more and planned to take them to the children going to school tomorrow.
By the time they got on their bicycles and returned to the compound, Sister Yang and Han Fang were already back. Han Fang was cleaning the tools that Sister Yang used to sell food, while Sister Yang was preparing dinner.
Seeing Li Long come back, Han Fang smiled and said hello, and Li Long handed her one of the stationery:
"Xiaofang, this is for you. Pen, ruler, eraser and notebook. I heard your mother said that you did well in the final exam, very good, very good."
Han Fang timidly wiped her hands with her apron and took the stationery with great care.
Although Sister Yang is now rich, Han Fang is still frugal, or the days when she was homeless left a deep impression on her.
"Her uncle is back." Sister Yang poked her head out of the kitchen, "I'm making noodle soup tonight. What do you want to say to her uncle?"
"Just cut it thinner." Li Long said, "Xiaoxia's father has a bad stomach and it's hard to digest thick food."
"Okay." Sister Yang responded and went over to continue preparations.
Those who came to participate in the construction in the early days had more or less suffered from stomach problems. The main reason is that I am basically hungry in my hometown, and there is not much time to eat. The work here is heavy, but the food is enough.
I felt so full after eating all of a sudden that my stomach hurt. The daily work is tiring and the time is tight, so the speed of eating must be very fast. If the digestion is not good, the stomach will be more likely to get sick.
Li Jianguo also had stomach problems, which is why Li Long still left a few wild boar bellies when hunting wild boars.
After putting things away, Li Long went to the master bedroom living room to clean the gun.
I fired a few bullets in the mountains today, shot down the wolf, and saved Harimu.
This made Li Long understand once again that the mountains now are not the future generations, and those prairie wolves are not the Internet celebrity wolves who will smile and beg in the future generations.
These wolves can eat people!
Therefore, weapons must be well maintained. In winter, you have to use winter gun oil to clean the gun. He planned to bring some winter gun oil to Harimu and the others when they went into the mountains tomorrow, lest they use it in the summer and get stuck at the critical moment, which would cause trouble.
Although the group of wolves chasing yesterday was not Li Long himself, he really felt that hunting in the mountains was not just about ambushes and sneak attacks, but sometimes it was a life-or-death fight.
Bring weapons and be prepared, even if you don't encounter anything, don't be afraid.
If we really encounter it, at least we won't suffer losses due to lack of preparation.
After cleaning the gun, Li Long looked at the time. Gu Xiaoxia should be off work, so he strolled out to pick up someone.
Since his wife doesn't want him to show off in a jeep, it's okay to pick her up on foot.
Halfway through, he saw Gu Boyuan coming with his hands behind his back and a cotton hat. When he saw Li Long, he asked:
"What are you going to do?"
"Fetch Xiaoxia."
"Don't drive? Walk?"
"Well, Xiaoxia said driving is too public."
"Okay, you go ahead, I'll hang out here." Knowing that Sister Yang and her daughter were in the yard, Gu Boyuan didn't plan to go in now.
Li Long didn't say anything and continued walking to the Education Bureau.
When he was approaching the door of the Education Bureau, Li Long saw Gu Xiaoxia coming out of the door. Two or three colleagues were riding bicycles to say goodbye to her.
When Gu Xiaoxia passed by, her colleagues turned their heads and glanced at her.
Then he saw Li Long coming quickly and helping Gu Xiaoxia across the road.
"Why are you here?" Gu Xiaoxia didn't expect Li Long to come back so soon, and was a little surprised.
"I came back early and bought some furniture for them. The children in Halimu and Yushanjiang were in school, and it was inconvenient to write on their kang tables, so I went to the woodwork factory to buy some small tables.
After I came back, I went to the department store to buy some notebooks and will deliver them together tomorrow. ”
Li Long knew that Gu Xiaoxia wanted to know his situation outside, so he told everything he could in detail.
Even the fat sheep might not be enough, so Harimu and the others told all the things they asked about when they went to other herdsmen's homes. They didn't mention the matter of hunting wolves, for fear that Gu Xiaoxia would be worried.
"Then you have to leave early tomorrow?"
"Well, go there early. They are slaughtering the sheep. I will drive the tractor and pull up all the sheep I can. I should be able to come out of the mountains in the afternoon and then take the sheep to the Shicheng Sugar Factory. If there is not enough time, I will pull them back first."< br>
Anyway, this is not the time to fight wolves, so Li Long is not in a hurry.
The two of them chatted and walked together, and soon returned to the big courtyard. At this time, Gu Boyuan walked out of nowhere and followed him in.
The yard already smells of sour soup noodles. This acid uses not vinegar, but persimmon sauce made in the summer, and it tastes very good. With a layer of green leafy vegetables floating on top, it will be really tempting in winter.
The green leafy vegetables are picked from the glass house in the back. Most of the dishes there are ready to eat. It's just that the leeks are still relatively thin and have only recently emerged, so they cannot be cut.
Others like bok choy, coriander, and celery are already ready to eat.
The green onions are also a bit thin, so I won’t be able to eat them until at least the Spring Festival.
Li Long plans to pick some and send them to the team in two days. It’s really rare to have some fresh food these days.
After eating, Gu Boyuan rejected Li Long's proposal, held the flashlight behind his back, and slowly walked back.
It was a bit cold at night, but I had just finished eating hot soup and rice, and my body was warm, so I wasn't afraid of the cold at all.
In Gu Boyuan's words, when it was more than 30 degrees below zero, they lived in underground huts with not enough coal. They were not afraid of going to dig tamarisk roots and Haloxylon ammodendron firewood in the sand huts in the middle of winter.
What's the point of being cold?
Li Long thought, "I don't care to hear about your glorious history."
Of course, I am actually a little envious. The generation that founded the village experienced hardships that will last a lifetime.
When you are eighty years old, the younger generation will have to listen obediently. From now on, the four teams have nearly 10,000 acres of fertile land, but they have all reclaimed it from the very beginning.
Sister Yang cleaned up the kitchen and took Han Fang to the wing. Then she heard her voice urging Han Fang to do his homework.
Now that there are electric lights, you can do homework at night without burning your eyes. In Sister Yang's opinion, this life is really a hundred times better than before.
Another letter came from her hometown, still asking for money and not mentioning her husband's address. Sister Yang's original desire to find her husband as soon as possible also faded away.
She even gave up her desire to go back and find out what happened, thinking that living like this was pretty good.
In the past two years, my husband would always go back. No matter how hard his husband's family tried to hide it, they couldn't hide the fact that he came to northern Xinjiang from his hometown to look for relatives. There are so many people in the whole village and so many open mouths that it’s impossible to hide anything.
Unless the husband doesn't want to inquire carefully.
Sister Yang plans to send another telegram to the village director. The village director was generally fair, and he thought that if he knew the news about her husband, he would reply to her.
Even if he doesn't reply and writes another letter, at least if the husband goes back and asks the village director, the village director will tell him about his situation in northern Xinjiang.
After experiencing many things, Sister Yang also understood. He and Han Fang were going back to their hometown, and there was probably no way they could come back. It is impossible for my mother-in-law and family in my hometown to let me come out again.
Or maybe I just want to be comfortable, and life here is really good. Besides, Xiaofang has already gone to school. Can she go to school like this in her hometown?
With the temperament of her father-in-law and mother-in-law, it was impossible for Han Fang to go to school safely.
It's also possible that her husband would find her and take her and Xiaofang to his work unit, and then there would be a stable life.
But Yang Xiulan didn't dare to gamble on this process.
The life was so beautiful right now, and she was afraid that if she went back and took a gamble, she would lose everything.
Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia were watching TV in the master bedroom and continuing to chat about home affairs.
"We have three days off during the Chinese New Year." Gu Xiaoxia said, "Should we stay here or go back to the big yard?"
"Go back to the compound." Li Long said naturally.
Gu Xiaoxia was about to speak but stopped.
"When I finish my work in the mountains, I will go back to the team a year ago to clean up your old yard, then set up the stove and dry it in the house." Li Long continued:
"I'll take your dad back to the team before the end of the year. This agricultural supply store is owned by my family anyway, and I have the final say when it closes.
Although your dad has been living in the city for this period of time, he will definitely return to the team to spend the new year. After all, he is still a member of the team, and I think he definitely wants to go back and stay in peace for a few days. ”
Gu Xiaoxia smiled.
Yes, neither she nor her father, at least now, completely regard themselves as city dwellers. The father and daughter still feel that they belong to Team 4. After all, Gu Xiaoxia and Li Long have a big yard in Team 4, and Gu Boyuan himself also has a yard in Team 4.
Gu Xiaoxia believes that Li Long can do this.
Li Long's side is very peaceful at night, and everyone in the yard can have a good sleep.
But in the mountains, wolves howled one after another near Harimudong's den. If he hadn't come out and fired a shot from time to time, Harimu doubted that the wolves would rush over directly, rush into the sheep pen and kill them.
When he got up early the next day, Li Long went to set up the stove in the glass house as usual, watered it, and then went to tinker with the tractor.
Han Fang still didn't sleep in. It was possible that Sister Yang woke her up when she got up.
This made Li Long couldn't help but mention to Sister Yang when he was adding boiling water to the tractor:
"Sister Yang, Xiaofang is on holiday now, so let her sleep in in the morning. It was hard for the child to go to school, so let's relax a bit during the holiday."
In the fourth team, Li Juan and Li Qiang are all able to sleep in. Although they don't sleep for a long time, they can at least wake up naturally.
"Why are you sleeping?" Sister Yang disagreed, "I'm living a good life now. If I'm lazy, I really don't know how to live a good life in the future."
"Uncle Li, it's okay," Han Fang didn't complain and explained to Li Long, "I went to bed early at night. I woke up when my mother came in the morning and couldn't fall asleep."
Well, Li Long won't say more about the relationship between mother and daughter.
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He went to add boiling water to the tractor, and took out a few pieces of red charcoal from the glass room at the back and put them under the engine to bake.
Fur coats and cotton hats were roasting on the fire wall in the room. While Li Long was busy with things outside, Gu Xiaoxia had already set up the stove in the house.
The stove in the house is easy to clean. I put the charcoal on it when I go to bed at night, because the whole house is warm and the charcoal burns slowly. When I get up in the morning, I poke it with the stove hook a few times to remove the ashes and add some more. Chopping firewood, pressing coals on top, the stove will soon start burning.
Broken firewood and coal are kept near the stove in the house, so it is easier to set them up.
After breakfast, Li Long sent Gu Xiaoxia to work. When he came back, he started the tractor, put on all the equipment, put the gun on his back, and loaded the bullets.
Han Fang and Sister Yang had already opened the door. Li Long greeted them and drove out.
The tractor drove out of the county town, headed west, reached the fork of Qingshui River, and then headed south.
The road is smoother, there are more people coming and going, and the snow on the road is compacted, so the tractor can drive faster.
After crossing the Qingshui River and preparing to enter the mountains, Li Long heard the howl of wolves again.
There was something he couldn't figure out. Could it be that another beast like a tiger appeared in the mountains and chased the wolf out?
Not likely.
After all, there has only been one or two news about the appearance of the Northern Tiger in more than ten or twenty years.
Now I have collected one of the ones killed by Harimu. There must be brown bears in the mountains, but bears hibernate in the winter.
What else could scare the wolf out?
And we only saw wolves, not other wild animals, such as red deer.
Logically speaking, we should see more of these things.
When the tractor drove suddenly to Harimudong's nest, Li Long found that the winter slaughter here had already begun.
The imam in well-dressed clothes was already chanting sutras, the young people were slaughtering the sheep and skinning them, and a few old people were cleaning the sheep's internal organs, squeezing out the feces and washing the intestines.
Li Long had seen a similar scene once, and he was very grateful to see it again this year.
The tractor drove suddenly in front of Dongwozi, and Li Long got out of the car.
Everyone else had work on their hands, so they occupied their hands and just nodded, smiled and said hello.
Most people had seen them before or couldn't name them, but Li Long still responded to them all with a smile and words.
Harimu was stacking the slaughtered and cleaned Kelangzi sheep together. When he saw Li Long coming over and finishing the pile of sheep, he walked over and pointed at the tractor truck Douzi and asked:
"What is this?"
"I got some small tables from the woodwork factory. There are also other furniture," Li Long said as he unwrapped the plastic paper on them. "The small tables are for Nathan and the others to do their homework. You can divide the rest by yourself."
As soon as the plastic sheet was untied, Li Long heard a burst of admiration.
Obviously, these furniture really caught the eyes of these herdsmen.
Li Long has been to several winter nests. The furniture of these herdsmen is at least seven or eight years old, and most of them are at least ten years old, or even several decades old.
As long as it works, tinkering will continue.
There are no carpenters in the mountains, so it is not easy to change.
Therefore, when seeing the furniture brought by Li Long, whether they are young or old, their attention is immediately drawn.
When Harimu was about to speak, an old lady suddenly stood up, threw the intestines in her hand, and shouted something to the young man over there.
Li Long could barely hear her calling Talihar, but he couldn't understand the rest of it.
Then Talihar, who was peeling the skin, responded in a muffled voice.
Harimu translated in a low voice:
"This is Talihar's grandma. She said that the sheep she drove here didn't need any money, but wanted the cabinet and a box. She asked Talihar to agree, and Talihar agreed.
His grandmother said that the wooden boxes at home were eaten by insects and were full of dregs. They could not be cleaned and could no longer be used. The same goes for the cabinet. It was not stable after many repairs, so it had to be replaced. This cabinet and box are very good, she likes them very much! ”
After Harimu finished translating, he asked:
"Talihar has driven over eleven sheep, is that enough?"
Li Long sweated.
He rubbed his tongue, and then said to Harimu:
"You tell them that the sheep's money must be given to them. These furniture are given to you.
I originally thought there might not be many people asking for it, but now it seems there aren’t enough. You tell them that I will continue to deliver furniture. If anyone needs anything, just tell me and I'll go to the woodwork factory to make it. ”
Harimu smiled and turned to translate for everyone.
No matter whether they were young or old, they all opened their mouths to speak immediately after hearing Harimu's words.
They talked a lot and looked very excited.
Harimu smiled and translated to Li Long:
"They said they can't ask for your furniture for free. These sheep will be replaced with furniture. As for what is needed, I will tell you one by one after the sheep are slaughtered.
They also told me that they must not let you suffer. We Kazakhs cannot let our friends suffer..."
Suffer?
Li Long smiled bitterly and said to Harimu seriously:
"Let me tell you, the total price of this cart of furniture is the price of seven or eight sheep. Don't worry, I will definitely not suffer a loss."
"If you want to buy furniture, you have to deliver it." Harimu shook his head and said:
"In this winter, the things delivered are at least twice the price, and there may not be anyone to do it. Li Long, that's not how we calculate our accounts, right?
You asked us not to just count the value of the sheep, but also that there are people who need the meat now. You also have to think about it, now that the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, will anyone send things to the mountains to sell? By the way, there are bullets..."
As soon as the bullet was mentioned, Li Long reacted and hurriedly opened his satchel and took out the bullet.
Harimu took the bags of bullets and smiled.
What happened yesterday was such a disgrace to him that it would take bullets and wolf blood to wash it away!
Li Long took out the stationery and handed it to him again, asking him to distribute it to the children.
He only knew that the children of Harimu and Yushanjiang went to school, but Li Long felt that there must be children from other families who also went to school, but he was just not familiar with them.
The current slaughtering of sheep is an assembly line, and Li Long can't help, so he untied the rope from the tractor bucket, took down the furniture and placed it next to the winter nest.
Looking at the brand new furniture, several old ladies had smiles on their faces.
Li Long was thinking about how to get the woodware factory to make another batch of furniture with national characteristics.
After all, the old master has retired and I don’t know if he can make it now.
But I think if the quantity is large, the woodwork factory will not refuse such an order, right?
If possible, go to Shicheng or other places to have a look. After all, the place is big, and I have my own car and tractor, so there are not many places to choose from.
As he thought this, Harimu over there couldn't help but call two young men, holding guns and preparing to kill the wolf.
Li Long also followed. While chatting, he realized that wolves had been active nearby last night. (End of chapter)