At noon, there were steamed rice, fried pickled meat, stewed fish, spicy lamb head meat, and a scrambled egg.
There are only four dishes, but the portions are very large. They are served in enamel basins and are steaming hot. It is satisfying to watch.
Gu Xiaoxia is used to eating the rice cooked by Sister Yang every day. After accidentally eating a meal cooked by her sister-in-law, Gu Xiaoxia really developed an appetite. She usually ate a bowl and a half of rice today.
If her stomach couldn't bear it, she thought she could still eat it.
"Sister-in-law, the food you cooked is so delicious." Gu Xiaoxia praised her sincerely, "I haven't had such a delicious meal in a long time."
Gu Xiaoxia ate happily, and Liang Yuemei's face also glowed. She smiled and said:
"Hey, it's a home-cooked meal, the fish is still fresh, and the lamb head meat prepared by Xiaolong is also clean. If you like to eat it, then what's next As soon as Sunday comes Let Xiaolong pull you back and I’ll do it for you!”
I never thought of Gu Xiaoxia as an outsider before, but now we are a family. Liang Yuemei looked at the pregnant Gu Xiaoxia and felt that the next generation had grown up. Adult feeling.
Very pleased.
"Have you cleaned up the yard over there?" Li Jianguo asked Li Long while eating.
"It has been cleaned and the stove has been set up. The house has not had a stove for a long time and it is very damp. I plan to add another stove of charcoal in the afternoon, and then I will tell Daqiang and ask him to help set up the stove every day. Let the house dry."
"Why trouble Daqiang?" Li Jianguo waved his hand, "His baby is so small, and he has to catch fish every day, so he is busy. I will just go over and set up the stove at noon every day."
" Then we can't run far from here to there. Well." Li Long said, "Trouble."
"What's the trouble? It's only a few minutes away by riding a bicycle." Li Jianguo settled the matter, "Don't bother others with your own affairs. Just don't trouble others . ”
“That’s okay, but if it snows heavily, you have to ask someone to help sweep it. I’ll tell Daqiang and the others that if it snows heavily, they’ll have to finish their work. Let’s go together.”
The matter was settled just like that. The in-law relationship between the Li family and the Gu family is different from ordinary families.
Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan had a good relationship, and Liang Yuemei almost watched Gu Xiaoxia grow up. There was even a period of time when Gu Xiaoxia often ran to Li's house. A lot of female knowledge comes from Liang Yuemei.
Liang Yuemei also felt pity for Gu Xiaoxia at that time and regarded her as her daughter. In fact, for a long time after Li Long came here, Liang Yuemei felt that Li Long was not worthy of Gu Xiaoxia.
Because of this relatively close relationship, the sense of propriety that should come from being close does not exist here. Gu Boyuan is alone and is now in the county seat. Li Jianguo takes it upon himself to take over the work of cleaning up the yard there. , he didn’t feel inappropriate at all.
Gu Boyuan would laugh and say that the pancake was really not for free.
After eating and resting for a while, Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo took the plow to Xiaohaizi again. Gu Xiaoxia wanted to help Liang Yuemei, but Liang Yuemei refused and asked her to go to her house in the front yard to rest.
Gu Xiaoxia heard from Li Long that although she and her husband lived there every day, the stove was still set up in the front yard every day to avoid moisture.
She was curious and went to have a look. Li Long was going to Xiaohaizi, so Gu Xiaoxia took Li Juan there.
As expected, there was a stove in the room, and there was no smell of moisture at all.
When Li Long went to Xiaohaizi with his father and elder brother, he said:
"Brother, when we take the fish to Shicheng to sell, we have to pull up the sledge. Then the tractor will have to be parked in the parking lot, and our fish and sheep will have to be pulled over with the sledge."
"Yes. , OK." Li Jianguo nodded, "Then the sheep are not sold in the team. ? This year, most of Ma Jinbao’s sheep were sold to the township purchasing station. If the sheep were sold in the team, they should be sold, right? To be honest, his feelings for Team Four are much deeper than his feelings for his hometown village.
So with the sheep in the water, he first thought about whether to sell it to the team first.
The people in the team are richer than the people in other teams. Spending a few dollars to buy a plate of sheep to go into the water is nothing.
If Li Long hadn't come back with the sheep, it would have been difficult for the team members to buy the sheep. At the butcher shop in the food factory, sheep offal is cheaper than meat, so others have already bought up all of it.
The people in the sheep water team that Li Long brought back last winter bought a lot of them. Many people in the team that year also said that the sheep was delicious and full of oil and water.
Li Long didn’t listen much, but Li Jianguo listened a lot. For half of that year, someone said it in front of Li Jianguo.
So as soon as Li Long said about the sheep going into the water, Li Jianguo immediately thought of selling it to the team to feed the people in the team, and still get a good deal.
Li Long's household registration is still in the team. Li Jianguo knows that his younger brother does not plan to leave the countryside, so he has to plan for his younger brother's future.
Although Li Long didn't care much about his impression on the team, Li Jianguo did.
When you live your whole life, you live more than just yourself. If your reputation is ruined, no matter how rich you are, you will still be scolded.
The reputation should be better and more generous. As for why Li Long left the food factory, someone would make up a good reason and say it was not his fault.
That’s how things go.
"Okay, then I will bring the sheep back from the water tomorrow. By the way, we can't finish the sheep heads and hooves, brother. You can keep some and sell the rest. They are all in the team. Yes, sell it for money.”
"Okay." Li Jianguo nodded. He also likes to eat sheep's heads and sheep's hooves, but it takes a lot of effort. Besides, how many can he eat even if he can eat them at home? Most of the piles Li Long brought back were better sold.
When they arrived at Xiaohaizi, the three brothers from the Liang family and the three Tao family members had already arrived.
At present, the big fish they buy are sold to the Li family, and the smaller ones are kept at home, either eaten or frozen. It will be difficult to catch fish on the ice after the new year, so they don't plan to do it anymore.
Nowadays, I can catch more than ten or twenty kilograms of big fish a day, and I only get about ten or twenty yuan.
This money is really nothing when the Li Long faction is working hard.
But it's winter right now, and most of the team members are staying at home. They can only go out and spend money without making any money.
Not everyone can trap rabbits in the wild.
So there are a lot of jealous people who can make so much money on this day.
However, not everyone can do this job. Although it sounds very interesting to smash holes in the ice to fish out fish, some people in the team followed suit and wanted to do it, but they stopped doing it after only one day.
To put it bluntly, the first holes in the ice that were smashed out did not necessarily produce fish.
The Li family, the Tao family, the Liang family brothers, and the Meng family have all been on Xiaohaizi in the past few years. They have been catching fish in winter and summer, so they naturally know where the water is deep and the fish gather.
You can just dig a hole in the ice and the water is less than one meter shallow. Can fish come there?
And this thing requires patience and a little bit of skill.
Some people make a hole in the ice and give up without catching any fish on the first day. Who knew that fish was also a little patient. There was so much movement on the first day that nature would not come forward. On the second day, there was much more oxygen in the ice cave, and the fish naturally gathered here.
The truth is very simple, but if you don’t explain it, some people may not be able to figure it out in their lifetime.
Seeing these people making money, it is impossible for other people in the team not to be envious. But what's the use of envy? Or just be humble and learn from others, bring some things to these people's homes, and ask for advice on some common topics.
Or you can learn from Xie Dafa and set rabbit traps. If you catch three or five rabbits a day, you can make about ten yuan.
Or just watch.
When he met someone who asked for advice humbly, Li Long was naturally not stingy with a few words of advice. There were endless fish to catch and endless money to be made. He was already in the lead, leaving his team members far behind. to the back.
So I am not worried about being surpassed by others.
In the residential area of Xinzhuangzi, a woman watched Li Long and the others go to Xiaohaizi, so she called her husband and asked him to go fish out of Xiaohaizi.
The whole village knew about Li Long's fish collection. Tao Dayong followed him for a few days and already had dozens of dollars in his hands.
It’s hard not to go to the sales department to get a taste of his character.
So everyone knows that as long as you catch the big fish, Li Long will catch it.
This really solves the worries of many people. They have taken care of it, so why are you hesitating?
But some men don't want to go.
"Why are you going? How comfortable is it to stay on the kang in the cold weather? Is your family short of eighty cents?" This is what some men say.
Some simply avoid women and go out to play. I visited every door for a day, but I couldn't say anything.
As for why such a thing happened and why I didn’t go fishing, I have mixed thoughts and can’t explain.
Li Long and the other two arrived at the ice cave, broke open the thin layer of ice, and began to fish after a while.
Three-nine days is the peak period for fishing. After this period, the weather is not so cold, there are fewer fish, and fewer people come to this ice cave. "Brother, the fish harvested during this period is almost a ton, right?" Li Long asked his brother loudly as he took out the fish.
"That's almost there." Li Jianguo stopped what he was doing, thought for a moment and said, "If you add in the fish that dad and I paid, it's pretty much it. ”
He has almost used up the money on hand.
Even if Li Long didn't say it, he had to say it. The old man's money was used to collect fish these two days.
"Brother, let's spend another two days and sell the fish before the New Year. I will bring the sheep to the water tomorrow. If anyone in the team wants to buy them, then let the team take them all away."
< br>Li Long thinks about it and what his elder brother said is right. It's relatively simple to sell fish. It's not troublesome enough to drag twenty or thirty argali into the water. After all, the quantity is small, so it is better to sell fish directly.
Li Jianguo said nothing, and Li Qingxia responded directly. After collecting so many fish, he had long thought of going to Shicheng and converting the fish into money. Looking at such a large amount of fish, just collecting but not selling, the money in my pocket keeps going out, I feel unhappy.
Li Qingxia, Li Jianguo and Li Long took turns digging in the two ice holes. When Li Long was resting, he looked on the ice and thought, Huh? What surprised him was that there were a few more people on the ice.
These people chose a place far away from others and started digging holes in the ice, making quite a loud noise.
Looking from afar, he is really a member of the team.
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Is this also planning to fish out?
Li Long is happy, which is good. He knows how to work hard to make money, which is good.
He simply went over to take a look and found that he was really someone from the team. Of the three new families, two of whom were unfamiliar, Li Long went over to say hello. The other one who surprised him was Jia Weidong.
Jia Weidong came here with his wife, and the two of them were breaking holes in the ice together with steel drills and shovels.
Seeing Li Long coming over, Jia Weidong twitched his lips and just smiled.
His wife took the initiative to speak:
"Xiaolong is here, and I also want to take out some fish. Can you take it from your place?"
"Take it, pay it back. It can take a week.”
After hearing that Li Long said it would take another week, Jia Weidong nodded and continued to smash the ice with the steel drill.
Li Long looked at their location and couldn't help but said:
"Weidong, your location is not very good. It seems far away from the west bank. In fact, it is below this area. The water is not deep and the fish cannot gather."
"Huh?" Jia Weidong stopped in confusion. His wife also stopped when she saw that nearly half of the hole in the ice was dug.
“Look,” Li Long pointed to several other large open spaces:
"Someone has dug there, and if no fish comes out, they leave. Look at us, the Daqiang side and the Dacheng side are all looking for deep water areas. There are no reeds nearby. There are more fish in deeper water, and there are no reeds nearby. If the outside air cannot get in, the fish will hold it in..."
Jia Weidong understood, looked around, and felt worried.
He knew there were people near the deep water area, where to go?
"Close to the mouth of the dam." Li Long pointed and said, "The water is the deepest there. At the beginning, because there was a dam there, it could take in air, so no one smashed it. If you want to dig out, go and dig it out. It's the best there.
Also, if you feel that way. If you don't want to go there, there is a deep pit at the water inlet, but it's not big. Fortunately, I will only collect fish for another week. If you want to collect fish from that big hole, one week will be enough. Just use our ice cave.”
Li Long made it clear enough. Jia Weidong raised the steel drill and said to his wife:
"Let's go to the mouth of the dam."
"Half of this place has been smashed..." The wife was a little reluctant to part with it. .
"Even if it is smashed through, if there is no fish, then it is not in vain?" Jia Weidong saw it clearly.
"By the way, we just smashed it out, so there may not be any fish for a while." Seeing that Jia Weidong listened to the advice, Li Long said again, "You may not be able to get anything out of your pocket this afternoon, but Tomorrow morning, if you dig out the ice hole again, there will definitely be a lot of fish.”
Li Long is a familiar person in the team. As long as he has the idea of working hard to make money and puts it into action, Li Long is willing to help.
Something convenient can change the life of a family, why not do it?
Jia Weidong went to the Bakou to smash the ice. The water there is indeed deep, and there must be a lot of fish down there, but the ice is also thick.
The two of them worked for nearly an hour before digging out the hole in the ice. They were too tired to talk.
After resting for a while, Jia Weidong went to take a look at Liang Dacheng, who was closest to them.
Last summer, the two of them went to work together to compile a piece of cake. Because of that friendship, Liang Dacheng also said a few words, which was similar to what Li Long said. We will see the fish tomorrow morning.
Jia Weidong felt confident.
Sure enough, after he recovered, he took the fishing net to fish. Until the sun was about to go down, he only caught two or three kilograms of crucian carp and some small fish.
The largest carp is less than one kilogram. Such a big carp is not delicious.
Jia Weidong's daughter-in-law was a little unhappy and felt that this place was not very good. Jia Weidong felt that she fully agreed with Li Long's words.
He used a net to explore the bottom of the ice cave. The two-and-a-half-meter net could not reach the bottom. The water here was indeed deep.
For safety reasons, he also piled the ice holes he took out around him to serve as a warning.
Don’t let anyone fall in.
The three members of the Li family bought a total of about ten kilograms of fish in the afternoon. The large fish weighing more than one kilogram was about ten kilograms, which was not too much.
He was anxious to go back. Li Jianguo saw that the harvest in the afternoon was not as much as in the morning, so he did not stay here longer.
As soon as they returned, the others also started to pack their things and prepare to go back. When they got back, they had to quickly take the big fish to Li's house to sell it.
On the way back, Li Long took out five hundred yuan and gave it to his elder brother as money for collecting the fish.
Li Jianguo only took three hundred and said enough was enough. There's only one week left and it really doesn't cost much.
After returning, Li Long drove the jeep to Gu's house and added more coal to the stove, then pressed it with coal foam and returned to the big yard.
Gu Xiaoxia has returned from the front yard and is preparing to have dinner here.
That is to say, after Li Long was reborn, the Li family gradually got used to eating three meals. In fact, when Li Long was away in the summer, most of them only had two meals, and the meal in the evening was considered a midnight snack at best.
After the family had a lively dinner, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia drove back.
Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang were the happiest during the meal. People are afraid of loneliness when they get old. The more people and lively the family is, the happier they will be.
So Du Chunfang was a little unhappy when he saw Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia leaving.
"Why are you unhappy when Xiaolong comes back tomorrow?" Li Qingxia asked her, "How about you take a car and follow them to the county?"
"I'm not going, I don't like to move." Du Chunfang thought about it and shook her head. She felt that staying here was the most comfortable. I lean against the fire wall every day, do whatever I have to do, and just relax for a while if I don’t want to do anything. How comfortable!
"That's fine." Li Qingxia smiled and filled a pot of cigarettes for himself, "If you still want to do this and that in such a good day, I think you are free."
Du Chunfang wanted to refute, but didn't know where to start.
Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei didn't try to dissuade them, and it was quite fun to listen to the old couple bickering.
Li Qiang asked Li Juan to force him to do his homework in the back room. He was very good at this time. He was mainly anxious to finish his homework and then go to his grandfather's room to watch TV.
After reading it, I can still play it when I play Lao Niu with my friends tomorrow. That's a big color TV!
When Li Long and the others returned to the county, it was already dark. While they were away, Sister Yang and the others simply made dinner, and Gu Boyuan didn't come over either.
Li Long asked Gu Xiaoxia to go into the house first, and he moved the sheep to the tractor.
Thirty argali sheep cannot fit into the jeep, so we will have to drive back on the tractor tomorrow. The elder brother is right, this food is pretty good, so I’d rather leave it to the team members.
Even if half of them think good of the Li family, they are still good to the eldest brother, father and mother who stay in the village.
After moving the sheep into the water, Li Long drained the water from the jeep, went to the glass room at the back, added charcoal to the nearly extinguished stove, pressed it with foam, and then came out and returned to the house.
After running around all day, now is the most comfortable time.
After simply washing up and changing clothes, I sat and watched TV with my wife in my arms. Basically, there is nothing happier than this.
Isn’t this the kind of life you are busy with? (End of this chapter)