In Xiaobaiyanggou, after a year of growth, the willows, shrubs and other long trees that had been almost cut bare by the villagers have become lush again, even more prosperous than before.
So when the jeep stopped and Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming got out of the car, they looked at the nearby note with smiles on their faces.
They unloaded the things and placed them next to the original den, and then began to clean the den.
The two of them still live in the same underground house. The branches covering the nest have collapsed, and the layer of soil originally covering the branches has leaked into the nest together with the branches. They must be cleared out first.
It's not a very heavy job. Both of them are experienced hands. They first pull out the branches, then go down and shovel the soil with a shovel and throw it up.
Li Long didn't help. He found some dry branches and brought them over. He put them down when Old Huang was setting up the stove, and then put up the stone stove that had been scattered by someone who didn't know who.
It was a sunny day, so he found some hay, broke the dry branches he picked up, and lit a fire in the stone stove.
When the fire started, Li Long found some short and thick wood and pressed it on the branches, and the fire suddenly became smaller. The flames licked the wood and soon ignited it.
Li Long went to fetch a pot from the trunk of the jeep and sat on the stone stove. Then he took a bucket and fetched water from a nearby stream and poured it into the pot.
Boil the water, and Li Long doesn't need to do the rest of the work.
"Xiaolong, go and do your work." Li Jianguo has already shoveled the soil out of the nest. He is going to pick up some branches to lay the "roof" of the nest. Last year, he used fresh branches, which were only a month old. During the period, leaves will fall off from time to time.
It's still early now, so he plans to pick up some more dry branches, directly cover them with dense branches, and then cover them with grass and soil, so that there won't be so much trouble.
After hearing this, Li Long said:
"Okay, you guys are busy, I'm going to do my work first. Come back when I'm done."
Li Long handed his double-barreled shotgun to Li Jianguo. Right now, they were just the two of them, so they still had to have something handy to defend themselves. After all, if something really came over at night, a shot would be enough to scare them away.
Li Long drove away in the jeep. Lu Yingming also finished shoveling the soil. He looked at the leaving jeep and said with envy:
"Hey, it's so convenient to have a car. Back then, it took us a day to get from the team to the mountains. Now it only takes an hour, and we can make several trips in one day!"
Li Jianguo smiled:
"He just caught up with the good times and had good luck."
"That's not all true. Xiaolong used to look at... how should I say, average. In the next few years, the stakes are really high. The opportunity is right in front of you, and not everyone can seize it." Lu Yingming really felt that Li Long is awesome.
At the moment, he and Li Jianguo are just two people, and they are not afraid of saying this to make others think that they are fawning over the Li family.
Tell the truth.
"It's been different in the past two years." Li Jianguo agreed, and then he changed the topic:
"Lao Lu, we have to work harder and finish the nest before noon. Then we can clear the pit and cut strips in the afternoon, and try to make one in the evening."
They both brought dry food, red tofu, and pickles, and planned to make do with it at noon and evening.
I’m here to make money, not to enjoy myself.
"Okay." Lu Yingming thought the same, and the two of them sped up their movements.
When Li Long drove his jeep to Harimudong's nest, he found that his cows and horses were grazing scattered in the distance, and the sheep were not let out and were in the pen.
The couple were busy shearing sheep next to the sheepfold.
Kazakhs have a tradition of weaving blankets and carpets. Most of the blankets in their yurt were woven by themselves.
Wool is used to weave blankets. After the wool is sheared, it is washed, twisted into thread, dyed, and then woven into various fabrics.
Li Long vaguely remembered that his sister-in-law Liang Yuemei could also knit sweaters, hats, socks and woolen vests.
Li Long drove the jeep to the entrance of Dongwozi, got off and started moving things down.
Harimu put down the scissors, waved to him, and continued working.
The sheep has been pinned down and half sheared, and it is impossible to put it down just like that.
Li Long moved the things prepared for them and placed them at the door of the winter nest, and then went to the sheepfold.
"Is it time to move on after shearing the sheep?" Li Long stood on the side, looking at himself and seeing that he couldn't help, and he couldn't shear either.
"No, we have to wash the sheep first." Harimu said, "The people from the animal husbandry team will come over to collect the wool, and then we will drive the sheep there to wash the sheep, and then prepare to move to the farm. ”
Li Long nodded and asked again:
"I have brought some things. When you wash the sheep, I will ask you what is missing."
"Okay, you must buy more batteries." Harimu said while cutting.
"I brought two hundred knots this time. Each family will share it first. I will bring some next time." Li Long originally thought that one hundred knots would be almost there, but now that he thinks about it, there are nearly twenty families, and each family will share ten knots. Well, , actually not much.
Batteries are not suitable for ordinary home radios, but this is different in Summer Ranch, where the radio may be ringing all day long.
"The animal husbandry team will also send us some supplies." Harimu said with a smile, "What we are short of right now..."
"Shoes, rubber shoes should be required, right?"
"That's a lot." Harimu immediately changed his words. He was joking. The animal husbandry team could only give out some grain, tea, etc. How could they give out rubber shoes? This thing is so practical in Xia Ranch.
Of course, Li Long still remembered the medicine. He brought some this time and planned to bring some more tomorrow.
There were a lot of miscellaneous things, and Li Long couldn't think of them all at once. Fortunately, he still had time, so he just bought some as he thought of them.
Both Harimu and his wife were busy, so Li Long stopped disturbing them, said hello and went to the wooden house.
I dried the house yesterday and will continue to do so today.
These days, it is sunny inside and outside the mountains. Only deep in the Tianshan Mountains in the south, you can see clouds floating on the top of the mountains, some gray and some white. It should be raining in some places.
After Li Long got off the car, he just took a look and hurriedly went about his business.
First the stove was set up and the fire was burning, then Li Long went to dry the bedding again.
There was no stove in the small room, so Li Long opened the door and lifted the window paper to let in the full sunlight.
After all this was done, Li Long moved some of the remaining things in the jeep into the cabin.
He didn't plan to put food in the cabin until the dampness had dissipated. They mainly include tea, sugar, salt and other commonly used items, noodles and biscuits that can be stored for a period of time in packages, as well as rubber shoes, gloves, matches, thin wire, bags and other items.
Don't underestimate things like thin wire and matches. For herb collectors who often go to the mountains, these are the things that should be equipped most, but they are also the easiest to consume.
After unloading these things, Li Long went to see the net he had set yesterday.
As he walked over, he saw mushrooms growing on the turf again - mushrooms were the fastest-growing creatures he had ever seen. They were not there yesterday, but today they can grow to be as big as a fist or even as big as a head.
It's amazing.
As for the bamboos that he had seen and heard about in videos and novels in his previous life, which could grow several meters in a night, he had never seen them before.
He has seen the growth process of reed, a relative of bamboo. It doesn't grow as fast as bamboo, so let's leave it that way.
When he arrived at the small stream, Li Long stepped on the stones to lift the tail of the net.
Many fish jumped in fright, trying to escape from the net.
In addition to pike, there are also several small fish that Li Long is not very familiar with, and they look quite beautiful.
Several small fish were dead, so Li Long fished them out.
After weighing it, it was about two or three kilograms.
Yes, you can stew it for lunch.
He took some out and started peeling them by the stream. After peeling, I found a few rhubarb leaves nearby, held the peeled fish and walked back.
Halfway through, I saw some long, fresh straw mushrooms and picked a few.
If you eat it by yourself at noon, you don’t need to make too much.
Back at the wooden house, Li Long was not hungry yet. The water in the pot was boiling. He washed the thermos that was originally placed here, then poured the water in, and then closed the lid of the pot.
If you’re not cooking for the time being, let’s clean up the area first.
After one winter, there was already a lot of dirt on the wooden floor in front of the wooden house, as well as a lot of soil and feces.
Li Long took a big broom from the shed and swept it slowly to avoid raising ashes. Li Long let out a sigh of relief after cleaning up the surrounding area and clearing out the toilet that was already covered with grass at the back.
I put down the broom, went to the spring to wash my hands, and then prepared to cook.
Since some people don’t want to see cooking scenes, this clip is omitted.
After dinner, Li Long sat outside against the house to bask in the sun for a while, and then continued to clean up the wooden house.
You can live in the wooden house tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but Li Long doesn't plan to live in it at night. He plans to stay during the day and drive back at night, so he doesn't leave too many things in it.
After all, a lock cannot stop those who want to destroy it.
After what happened last year, Li Long did not have high expectations for the moral bottom line of the herb collectors in the mountains.
After all, not all herbal collectors will be like Sun Jiaqiang.
I don’t know if Sun Jiaqiang will come again to collect herbs this year.
The thought just flashed for a moment and then disappeared. There will be many passers-by in life, some of whom we can still see each other, and some of whom may be gone forever after being separated.
After all, the world is so big.
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After Li Long sighed, he put away the hot bedding and put it into the wooden house, then locked the door and went to the place where the net was placed.
He skinned all the small fish, then carried them back in a bucket picked up from the jeep, put them in the trunk, and then prepared to go back.
After returning, he planned to buy some medicine as soon as possible so that he could send it to Harimu and the others tomorrow.
The days are getting longer, and with the agricultural slack, the county is slowly becoming more lively.
Gu Boyuan's agricultural supplies store has been quite busy these days, and he has already made several purchases.
In fact, his agricultural supply store has been busy since the spring snow melted. Fortunately, Lao Gu still values life very much, so he is basically never late for dinner every time.
Li Long bought medicine and packed it, and bought some batteries and put them in the trunk. When he returned to the yard, Sister Yang had already returned.
He handed the dog fish to Sister Yang and went to play with the dog again.
The two days of training made the little black dog a little afraid of Li Long, and he hesitated when he saw him coming.
Li Long has delicious food in his hand, which he likes to eat very much, but if he wants to eat something, he has to do some actions that are a bit difficult for him, which is quite sad.
When Gu Xiaoxia came back, she saw Li Long grabbing the dog and teaching it a lesson. The little black dog lowered its head and occasionally barked, not knowing whether it was aggrieved or in resistance.
"Stop torturing it." Gu Xiaoxia looked at the puppy with some distress. Li Longsan smiled and let go of the dog.
The little black dog looked at Gu Xiaoxia and immediately ran over with its little fat legs. It seemed to know who saved it.
During dinner in the evening, Li Long talked about the situation in the mountains.
"Does your eldest brother have to stay in the mountains for a month?" Gu Boyuan asked while eating, "That won't be comfortable."
"You're making money." Li Long said, "Then you have to be a little tired."
"I don't think you are tired." Gu Xiaoxia said.
"Then I'm different." Li Long smiled.
"It's different." Gu Boyuan nodded, "You are the only one who can make money like this."
Gu Boyuan actually makes a lot of money every day. The beginning of reform and opening up was the most profitable in some aspects. As long as you can obtain relevant qualifications, you can make a lot of money in almost any profession.
There are few competitors. In the early stage of the industry, it is completely a seller's market. No matter how good the service is, there will be no shortage of customers at all.
The next day, Li Long first sent Gu Xiaoxia to the unit and then went to the mountains.
He went to Harimu's winter nest first. Harimu is driving the sheep out of the pen. These sheep have been completely sheared, and each of them has lost a lot of weight. They are used to seeing balls of hair, but now they look a little weird.
Li Long moved the medicine and batteries in front of the winter nest, and Harimu's wife put them into the house.
After Li Long and Harimu said goodbye, they went to Xiaobaiyanggou.
Today Xie Yundong and Xu Haijun are coming here to prepare for the task, and Liang Wenyu is also bringing people here, so he has to take a look.
But what surprised Li Long was that when he came over, he only saw Lu Yingming and not his eldest brother Li Jianguo.
He also saw a wild boar sitting next to the stove he was looking at yesterday.
The wild boar had obviously been shot and was dead. It had been disemboweled and its entrails were taken out and placed in a basin, but no further processing had been carried out.
Fortunately, it was still cool in the mountains at this time, and it didn't stink.
Li Long was a little surprised, and he immediately asked Lu Yingming:
"Brother Lu, what's going on with this wild boar?"
"Last night...not counting, it should be this morning." Lu Yingming was cleaning the wild boar's internal organs. "At about three or four o'clock, a large group of wild boars made us noisy. They ran out of the mountains and ran north. Past.
Your elder brother said that you said that these wild hunters should go out to look for food. When they come back in an hour or two, he will be waiting with a sand gun. I didn't believe it at the time, so I fell asleep. After waiting for more than an hour, the roaring wild boars came over again. Your elder brother fired two shots and knocked down one. This must have weighed sixty or seventy kilograms, enough for us to eat for a few days! ”
Li Long really admired his elder brother's judgment and luck.
Can you encounter wild boars going down the mountain? Why haven't I had such luck in the past two years?
"What about my eldest brother?" Li Long asked again.
"Your brother asked Juan and her uncle to leave. He said he wanted your eldest brother to give them guidance on which ditch they should go to and how to build a den."
Li Long didn't expect Liang Wenyu to come over so soon. At this time, Xie Yundong and Xu Haijun had not arrived yet.
He then asked Liang Wenyu which ditch he was in, and Lu Yingming said it was in Yushugou.
Li Long knew this ditch, where a tractor could drive in, and a jeep would be fine, so he drove his car there.
Liang Wenyu was digging a nest under the guidance of Li Jianguo.
The ditch on this side of the Elm Valley is smaller than the Xiaobaiyang Valley. Both sides are covered with strange elms of various shapes. There are many strips on these elm trees that can be used, but because the branches are not straight, they should be lifted. The pole of the handle will not work.
The pole needs to be chopped elsewhere.
Diwozi mainly involves digging underground. The place Liang Wenyu and the others chose was relatively far away from the stream, about one kilometer from Xiaobaiyanggou, which was not very far.
This is one of the few flat areas in the ditch, and it has sandy soil. Even after digging down nearly one meter, it didn’t reach the Gobi layer, which is pretty good.
"You need to dig a slope here for the entrance and exit door, otherwise it will be difficult to get out." Li Jianguo pointed from time to time with a shovel, and he and Liang Wenyu dug a nest together, "Then when digging down, the bottom should not be too narrow, otherwise It’s troublesome to turn over.”
When the jeep came over, Li Jianguo stopped explaining.
"Brother, this is awesome, I got a wild boar this night." Li Long got out of the car and said with a smile.
"Hey, we touched it!" Li Jianguo also had a trace of pride on his face.
After greeting Liang Wenyu, the young people all looked at Li Long, and Liang Wenyu introduced him, and then asked them to dig a hole in the ground quickly and try to pack it up today to see if they could start working directly.
"Uncle Liang?" Li Long remembered Liang Wenyu saying that he was the one who drove the tractor and asked his father to drive it back.
"I've left," Li Jianguo said, "I still have some chores at home, so I have to go back and do some work."
Seeing that they brought a lot of things here, including everything for food, Li Long didn't say anything else, but told Liang Wenyu that he could go over there for lunch today.
Li Jianguo also gave them some pointers on how to set up a stove - although they ate in Xiaobaiyanggou, these people brought some dry food and had to cook their own water.
Then Li Jianguo and Li Long returned to Xiaobaiyanggou, and he still had to deal with the wild boar.
When they arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, Li Long also joined the ranks of dealing with wild boars. After all, he has the most experience, and he is very good at skinning and other things.
So when Xie Yundong and the others came over, everyone was stunned.
What's the matter, Li Long and the others had already prepared the meat before they even arrived? This is a big meal!
A wild boar weighing 60 to 70 kilograms can produce 50 to 60 kilograms of meat after processing.
Lao Huang smiled so toothily that he couldn't close his mouth.
It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Now that she has some good stuff, it will be much easier for her to cook. (End of chapter)