Li Long was holding naan in one hand and a meat bone in the other. He found a piece of wood and was munching on it.
His appetite is so good these days, he secretly sighed. Forty years later, my stomach becomes bloated and I can no longer eat even a little bit.
You still have to take good care of your teeth. The old man lived for more than eighty years and still had a full mouth of teeth. By the time he was sixty, he had lost very few teeth.
Can't compare, can't compare.
While she was thinking wildly, Sana pulled her grandson Talihar over.
Both of them were holding naan in their hands. Talihar pulled a piece of wood and sat next to Li Long. Li Long hurriedly said hello to Sana. He remembered that this old lady was the one who said that the cabinet and box belonged to her in the first place.
Li Long guessed that she came here to talk about furniture.
Sure enough, Sana said a series of words, and when she finished, Talihar translated for her:
"Li Long, my grandma said, you said that furniture will be brought later, is it true? And can we tell ourselves what we want for the furniture? And how much does this furniture cost?
My grandma said that if you make preparations in advance, you can just use things at home to exchange them. We still have some things picked up from the mountains at home, including some antlers, jade, and that...natural gold..."
Li Long was shocked for a moment, then waved his hands hurriedly:
"No, no, no, you can't use that much."
He calmed down and then answered the questions one by one:
"In the woodwork factory I went to, I have already brought all your Kazakh furniture to me. But if you need it, I can order it from them. I think they will continue to make it.
That's why I hope you can tell me what you want and write a list like this so that I can discuss it with them.
As for the price of furniture, it’s really not expensive. A piece of furniture is almost the price of a sheep, so it’s not expensive. It's better to keep the valuable things you find in the mountains, they will become more and more valuable in the future. ”
Li Long was talking here, and the people listening were not just Talihar and Sana, but other interested people also gathered around. Even Harimu's wife stood on the outside, wanting to hear how Li Long arranged the furniture.
Talihar translated Li Long's words to her grandmother Sana. Sana nodded repeatedly and then said a series of words.
Talihar's translation was also heard by others, and they were immediately thinking about what kind of furniture they needed at home.
In fact, if it was really not expensive, which of these old ladies wouldn’t want to change all the furniture in their homes? When there is new furniture, who would want to use those boxes that have peeled paint, had the corners chewed off by mice, and are infested with bugs?
It is true that it was passed down from the older generation, and it is true that it will be kept as a souvenir, but in terms of practicality, it is far inferior to these new furniture.
Soon, everyone expressed their needs.
At this time Yushanjiang spoke:
"Don't be impatient. Everyone is eating. There will be a break after the meal. Then you can slowly talk to Li Long. Now that you have said it, how will Li Long remember it?
Okay, let’s eat first, and don’t think about other things while eating. It’s really strange that you have such a big piece of meat in front of you and you still have other things to think about! ”
After Yu Shanjiang finished speaking, everyone laughed and dispersed. Li Long originally planned to put down the naan and meat to find some paper to take notes, but now that everyone had dispersed, he just smiled and continued eating.
Talihar did not leave. He went to the small table, took a piece of skin sprouts and handed it to Li Long. He also took a piece and ate it and said:
"Li Long, you know? I envy you very much. You can get all kinds of things we want, and you can also get bullets. People in our tribe, both adults and children, like you very much, and they all hope that you can I often see you..."
Li Long was ashamed, he shook his head and said:
"Actually, you are also very powerful. You killed seventeen wild goats at one time. I don't think you will have such a record before or in the future, right? You can be a very powerful herdsman and hunter in the future."
As he spoke, Li Long stuffed Pi Yazi into his mouth, put the naan in his left hand and held it together with the bones, reached into his shoulder bag with his left hand, took out a pack of bullets and handed it over:
"Hold it, there are a lot of wolves recently, it will be useful if you hold this."
Talihar took the bullet and expressed his gratitude seriously.
"Do you think we can leave this mountain and live outside in the future?" Talihar suddenly asked.
"Of course." Li Long thought about the settlement and pastoral project proposed and implemented by the officials in later generations. At that time, all the herders in the mountains moved out and were given land to grow feed and grain.
After all, the grassland in the mountains is not in patches, making it difficult to raise cattle and sheep on a large scale. Moreover, it is not easy to manage herdsmen moving in the mountains.
The pastoral team's settlement is just a pilot project, and they will all be moved out later.
"If we really want to get out of the mountain, what can we do?" Talihar was also quite conflicted. Living in the mountains, I am very curious about the outside world. After all, the existence of people like Li Long makes young people like them think that the outside world should be wonderful.
Energy constantly brings new things, indicating that the outside world should be wonderful.
They have also been to the pastoral team, but it is also a small place for them and is not equivalent to the outside world.
So they want to see the wider outside world.
But when we go outside, without the cattle and sheep, how can we survive?
Young people have begun to think about such issues.
So it's very contradictory.
"If you go outside, you can farm and work." Li Long said:
"Actually, I think what you yearn for the most is this kind of life, which is to take these special products from the mountains, such as antlers, cattle and sheep, and then exchange them for supplies from outside, and travel both ways in the mountains."
Talihar took a bite of naan and thought.
Well, that should be it. You don't have to leave the mountains, you have the tribe as your backing, but you can go to the outside world, understand the situation outside, and get what you need in exchange.
Sure enough, Li Long was really amazing. He spoke his mind right away, and even he didn't think through it.
After dinner, during the rest time, Li Long took paper and pen to record everyone's needs.
Sana has the most demands, and she can be the head of the family. So not only did I get boxes and cabinets this time, but I also got a long kang table, a box, and a small square table.
This is the main room. There is an empty room in her winter home, and there is also a large cabinet, a larger square table, a few small stools, etc.
According to her idea, all the furniture in the house should be replaced.
Li Long was a little surprised when he recorded it. This old lady is really courageous.
And Sana also gave the price that her family could offer: the fat sheep brought this time would be free of charge, and Talihar would also send a pair of deer antlers, a pair of roe deer antlers, and two pieces of jade. and a small piece of natural gold.
When talking about the piece of gold, Talihor was still a little embarrassed, saying that the piece of gold was only as big as a child's fist and had some holes.
Li Long waved his hands hurriedly after hearing this:
"No, no, no, we don't need this gold. Those sheep, plus antlers and roe deer antlers are enough, there is no need to bring anything else..."
Talihar did not agree, and Li Long asked him to tell Sana.
Talihar whispered that he did not dare to say anything because grandma would beat him.
Li Long was speechless.
He dragged Talihar to Sana and asked Talihar to translate:
"Grandma Sana, that piece of gold is very valuable and will be even more valuable in the future, so it's best for you to keep it. If Talihar gets married by then, it will be of great use.
Those furniture you mentioned, these sheep, and a pair of antlers are enough..."
Sana didn't know what Li Long was going to say. After seeing what Li Long said, Talihar didn't dare to translate, so she shouted to Yushanjiang.
Yushanjiang is coming.
Li Long told Yushanjiang what he meant, and Yushanjiang smiled. He translated for Sana.
After hearing this, Sana spoke with great energy, danced and danced along, and finally clapped her hands together.
Yushanjiang said to Li Long:
"Sana said, let's take these sheep, add the antlers, and add a small piece of gold. That's how it's decided, okay, the old lady has her own ideas, just accept it."
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Doesn't Li Long want money?
He wants it very much!
But holding the money, he felt it was hot.
Is this gold easy to pick up?
It's definitely not easy to pick up.
Sana must be in her fifties or sixties. You should have been in the mountains since you were a child. How many pieces of gold can you pick up?
There may be more antlers. If this gold nugget is so easy to pick up, then there really is a big mine in the mountains.
Over the years, alluvial gold was dug in the upper reaches of the Ma River during the Qing Dynasty, but it disappeared later.
These nuggets were most likely produced from the upstream of the gold mines at that time. It will only become less and less, and it will become more and more valuable in the future.
That's why Li Long thought about letting them stay. If they really have to move down in the future, it will be of great use at that time.
Can't resist.
If there are any changes in the future, I will be their backing.
In fact, Li Long himself knew that he and the people of this small Kazakh tribe were already tied together. Although they were not family members, the difference was not big.
The next few houses will need some furniture, but basically they only need one or two large pieces, which can be exchanged for today's grass-fat sheep.
To everyone, Li Long would like to emphasize that furniture is not expensive and there is no need to add extra money or extra items.
After counting, there were a total of seven small square tables, four long kang tables (I distributed them in the egg collecting chapter), four boxes and five cabinets, and five larger square tables.
Li Long made his own estimate and found that the total cost of all the items was less than 500 yuan.
But with so many things, it should be enough for the woodwork factory to restart operations, right?
Li Long thought of these people's furnishings, had an idea, and asked loudly:
"Do you want a blanket or tapestry?"
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He remembered that ethnic tapestries and blankets were sold in department stores in Wucheng. There is none in Ma County and none in Shicheng.
The main reason is that the minority populations in these two places are small. If it were in southern Xinjiang, in Yu Sufu's hometown or small county town, there should be tapestries for sale.
In fact, Li Long felt a little regretful when he asked. Most of the women from these herdsmen families are good at felting and weaving blankets, right?
Sure enough, they laughed after Li Long asked.
When the women of each family are free in the pasture, they will work together to weave blankets. The wool of each family's sheep is mainly used here.
After eating and resting for a while, we continued to slaughter sheep and skin wolves.
Several wolves were quickly skinned and processed by Harimu and the others. The wolf skin and wolf meat were placed on the bed of the tractor.
Some of the shavings were unloaded and piled next to the winter nest, probably for use as fire starters. The rest should be padded, and then the wolf skin and sheep skin should be spread underneath, and then the sheep will be put on top.
Fifty sheep is a lot of money. It can't be installed without ropes.
Harimu and Yushanjiang said to Li Long:
"You have to come again tomorrow and have to take these things away."
"It's hard to let go at night," Li Long thought for a while and became worried, "There are so many wolves at night..."
"You don't have to worry about this." Yushanjiang looked at the sky and said, "After finishing it later, a few young men will take the old man with a gun and send him to our winter home.
Others stay here with guns. Plate after plate of water was sealed in the snow. At night, let's take someone with a gun and lay an ambush here. Harimu and I guessed that those wolves must be coming at night, so..."
Yushanjiang didn't continue, Li Long understood.
This is preparing to ambush the wolf.
Well, these wolves are really too rampant, and they need to be severely punished for their arrogance!
"With the bullets you brought, we will definitely have no problem dealing with the wolf."
If you have a gun and bullets, you can kill a Harimu tiger. How can you still be afraid of wolves?
The last time he didn't bring a gun and was chased by a wolf already made him feel humiliated. This time he would definitely come back with revenge.
Although Li Long wanted to participate in ambushing the wolves at night, he had no choice but to pull back the sheep's gangsters.
After all, the task must be completed first.
"Then take this money and share it with everyone later." This time, he looked at the twenty fat sheep that Li Long wanted. Each of them weighed more than twenty kilograms.
The water and grass are good this year, and these fat sheep are also fat, which is different from the culled sheep.
Li Long gave everyone one and a half yuan, so a sheep cost thirty yuan. After excluding the more than one hundred yuan for furniture, Li Long gave Harimu one thousand four hundred yuan.
"You can't, you can't, you can't." Harry looked at Li Long taking out such a large bag of money and waved his hand directly, "You can't use so much. If there is furniture, you have to deduct the furniture."
Li Long thought about it and took back the four hundred yuan and left the one thousand yuan to Harimu:
"Let's divide this. The rest is for the furniture. I'll give you the furniture list, and you can do the math for them."
Harimu looked at Yushanjiang, Yushanjiang smiled and said:
"Then just accept it and distribute it to everyone. Tell everyone that this is the sheep money that Li Long calculated for everyone based on the market price."
Li Long paid one dollar and a half, which didn't mean he could make much money, but the herdsmen who went to the water didn't want it. Li Long took it and sold it at the Shicheng Old Street Market and earned this amount of money.
There is also leather, which is also a piece of money.
But what he didn't know was that the sheep collected by the herdsmen from the herdsmen were much cheaper. Live sheep were priced at 70 cents per kilogram. In other words, it costs almost 20 yuan for the animal husbandry team to collect a sheep, and Li Long calculated it as 30 yuan.
Of course, the animal husbandry team will also provide other things to the herdsmen, but the herdsmen don't think so. Li Long provides more things and is more in short supply.
Medicines, salt, sugar cubes, etc. are never required in return.
It's just that the Kazakhs don't like to take other people's things for nothing, so every time Li Long brings supplies, they will give Li Long something in the mountains in return.
This feels different.
Li Long didn't think too much, and he felt at ease after giving away the money. Right now, I just want to complete the sheep mission so that I can sell the sheep in the water together with the fish when I get back.
Of course, if someone in the team needs it, you can sell it directly in the team. It's cheaper, it's enough to earn the fuel money for a tractor.
As for the leather, I will ask Chen Hongjun if he will accept it. If not, he will sell it to a tannery.
The county tannery was still quite prosperous at this time, collecting all kinds of skins, even those from dead dogs.
Li Long still vaguely remembered that two years later, when Li Qiang in the previous life knew the importance of pocket money, he and a group of children took the folding dull knives at home to skin a dead dog in the canal south of the settlement. .
The dog most likely ate a dead rat and was poisoned to death. It still doesn't stink, but peeling the dog's skin is far beyond what children like Li Qiang are capable of.
In the end, the matter ended in failure, after all, the knife couldn't even cut the dog's skin.
The story spread, and Li Long was laughed at for a long time.
Seeing that he couldn't help, Li Long pulled a piece of horse tail hair, rubbed it, and picked out his ears.
It is rare to see ear picks at this time. If the ears are itchy, there are usually two ways to pick them out. Either draw a match and dig it out, or just pull a hair from the head of a woman or girl at home, fold it in half, then rub it, leave a hole in the folded part of the hair, and then put it into the ear and rub it.
This will rub the wax out of the ears.
Of course, I still use matches more often. After all, it still hurts to pull out my hair.
In the afternoon, when the sun was still two poles high, fifty-three sheep were slaughtered and processed, and the young men who still had some energy began to help Li Long load the truck.
It was a bit difficult to load fifty-three sheep onto the bucket of the tractor.
Fortunately, Harimu and Yushanjiang were also prepared. They pulled out seven or eight calf-thick wooden poles from the side of the winter nest and laid them flat on the cart bed. Then put the Yangkelangzi up one by one and reinforce them with ropes.
Li Longrang put the three extra sheep in the cart. These sheep would stay at his home.
As for the cost of three more sheep, Li Long didn't calculate it, and neither did anyone else.
Unable to calculate.
After tying the sheep, Harimu and the others said goodbye to Li Long. Harimu's wife also hurriedly fished out a few more pieces of mutton from the pot, put them in an enamel basin, tied them with an enamel basin, and tied them with a towel. Li Long.
Li Long couldn't ask whether it was for himself to eat on the road or for his family when he returned home.
After putting the things away, Li Long carried his gun and said goodbye to everyone one by one, then started the tractor and drove away suddenly.
After pulling more than a ton, the tractor obviously felt a little strenuous. Fortunately, the road was open, and the chimney was emitting black smoke as it headed out of the mountain.
The sound of the engine echoed in the mountains. When turning the corner, Li Long looked at the winter nest and found that they had started to light a bonfire, and then someone with a gun escorted the old man to the inner mountain.
Obviously, preparations have begun.
Li Long was a little envious, but knew that he had his own things to do.
When he was about to leave the mountain, he heard the howl of wolves again. Li Long thought, howl as much as you want, he couldn't howl more. (End of chapter)