After the dark clouds, it rains heavily.
It rains frequently in the mountains, and it rains more frequently the closer you get to the mountains, but these rains are usually showers, and then stop, and then the sun comes.
Only the raindrops on the grass and trees can prove that it has rained here.
Of course, there is still proof, that is, the mushrooms in the forest after the rain.
Mushrooms do not grow immediately after it rains. If it is too humid, it is not conducive to the growth of some mushrooms.
Although Li Long had a jeep, he had already had lunch at Xiaobaiyanggou when it rained. Although he could have gone back directly, Li Long looked at the clouds in the west and felt that the rain would not be very heavy, so he might as well stay here.
If you go back later, you will bring back more caladiums.
Li Long was sitting at the door of the big house, and Sun Jiaqiang was sitting at the door of the small house, and the two were chatting.
"Xiao Sun, where are you going after digging the fritillaries?" Li Long was a little curious last year, so he simply asked this year.
"I went to work at my relative's house to make money." Sun Jiaqiang looked at Yu and said, "Actually, it's not about making money. The main thing is to have a place to eat and live. In the end, I didn't have much money. I didn't have much left over to buy a ticket. More.
But there is nothing to do when I go back to my hometown. There is only a little land at home, and the grain harvest is small, which is just enough to eat. I went back, and if I had more food, it would be more difficult at home. ”
"If you don't make money by going to your relatives' houses, you might as well stay here in the mountains."
"What are you doing here?" Sun Jiaqiang shook his head there, and then thought that Li Long couldn't see it, so he continued, "The fritillaries are gone, and it's not the time to dig Codonopsis pilosula. You'll starve to death if you stay here."
"You'll starve to death," Li Long said. "There are morels and tiger palm mushrooms in the mountains. If you pick them, I will pick them. There are so many wild mushrooms, how can you starve to death?"
"You charge? How much?" Sun Jiaqiang really doesn't know. He only knows that Fritillaria Codonopsis and Codonopsis antlers can be sold for money. He really doesn't know anything else.
If it could really be sold to Li Long, wouldn’t it be...
"It's hard to pick morels, but black tiger palm mushrooms are okay. I'll pick as much as you want. Don't worry, as long as you work hard, the money you get will be better than if you work at your relative's house." Li Long said, "Of course. , if you don’t want to pick mushrooms, then help me work in the mountains, and I will pay you.”
"What kind of work do you do?"
"My herdsman friend wants to dig a sheep washing pond in front of his door. If he does it alone, it may take a month. I will tell you if you want to do it."
"Then you should tell me about mushrooms. I think mushroom picking is more suitable for me." Sun Jiaqiang immediately changed his mind.
Li Long smiled and told him what morels looked like. He also said that when he was free, he could pick some and show them to him.
Sun Jiaqiang was hesitant at first, but after hearing the price of dry morels given by Li Long, he immediately felt excited.
If this thing can be collected continuously, and if there are many, it will be better than digging caladiums. Each caladium is too small, and bending down every day is too tiring. It's different when picking mushrooms, you don't have to dig them.
"The black tiger palm fungus is actually the most cost-effective." Li Long continued, "When I found it, it was a large piece, and the thing is also big. The heavy one can weigh more than one kilogram, and the light one can weigh hundreds of grams. It is also very big when dried. It’s substantial.”
There was no time to collect black tiger palm fungi last year. If Sun Jiaqiang could stay and collect this year, Li Long thought he could cooperate with him.
He didn't say that the acquisition station would buy these things. He could tell that Sun Jiaqiang didn't know that the acquisition station would accept these things.
Whether the price difference can be earned depends on Sun Jiaqiang's cooperation.
However, at present, the people who come to the mountains to collect medicinal herbs are not clear about the value of morels and black tiger palm fungi.
What a big BUG.
It rained for less than half an hour and then started to lighten up. It started to light up in the west, and then it cleared up. The dark clouds overhead are also moving rapidly toward the southeast.
"It's raining. There shouldn't be anyone here to replace the fritillaries for a while, right?" Sun Jiaqiang asked Li Long inexperiencedly.
Li Long thought for a while, it seems that at this time last year, had he ever encountered a rainy day?
It seems that it has been replaced, right?
Just as he was talking, Li Long saw someone coming out of the woods to the southeast with a bag on his back.
Li Long could tell at a glance that this was the disguised woman who came to exchange things he met last time.
Now she was still dressed as a man, with her head lowered, the clothes on her head, and the heavy bag she was carrying. She was pulling it with two hands, heading here despite the rain that had not yet stopped falling.
Her clothes were already soaked, but she didn't care so much at the moment. She walked a little fast and occasionally slipped.
When the person approached, Sun Jiaqiang also recognized him, and he was a little nervous. At this moment, Sun Jiaqiang and Li Long are standing at the same door. Where will this person go?
As expected, the man took a look and walked directly to Li Long without hesitation.
"I heard you can change clothes here?"
Still the same deliberately hoarse voice.
"You can change." Li Long nodded, turned around to get a basket, and said, "You Fritillary, do you want to change all your clothes?"
By visual inspection, these fritillaries weigh 5 to 6 kilograms, and the total cost is at most 18 yuan. If you exchange them for second-hand clothes, you can exchange one or two pieces for them.
"Change two clothes and get me some dried noodles." The man poured the Fritillaria into the basket and said as he poured it, "The bag is waterproof, this Fritillary is not wet."
It was indeed not wet. Li Long nodded and went to the bunk to get some clothes for this man to choose from.
He smelled a faint smell of blood.
Not a good thing.
This person took a coat and a pair of trousers. Although they were not a set, the material was still quite strong.
Li Long went to Sun Jiaqiang to get a one kilogram package of dried noodles and gave her a package of matches.
"The matches are given as a gift." Li Long said, "In the pine forest, if you peel off the thick pine needles, there are dry ones underneath, and you can light a fire by breaking off some dry branches in the leeward direction."
The man looked at Li Long in surprise, wrapped the dry clothes in dry clothes and left.
Li Long looked outside and said:
"The rain will stop in a while, you might as well wait a few more minutes."
The man hesitated for a moment, turned around to look, and then went to hide under the shed to the east.
Li Long didn't talk to her anymore. He lowered his head and looked at the caladiums in the basket. They were slightly cleaner than those brought by others. Maybe this person would subconsciously pick out the leaves and mud chunks in the caladium bags.
That's all.
Seven or eight minutes later, the rain stopped completely, the sun had already peeked out from the clouds, and the man hurried into the woods with his things in his arms.
What surprised Li Long was that in just a short time, this man had changed all his clothes!
Less than a minute after this man entered the forest, someone came out of the forest to the south and hurried here.
Unexpectedly, when it rained, many people wanted to take advantage of this time to come over and exchange the Fritillaria for something.
Li Long and Sun Jiaqiang quickly became busy.
It had just rained and those people were wet, so I didn’t want to be too picky. After they saw that the things Li Long exchanged and the things Sun Jiaqiang exchanged were taken out of the small room, two of them also went to Sun Jiaqiang to get the Fritillaria in exchange for things.
The clothes Li Long brought from the cave were the first to be changed, followed by dried noodles, then steamed buns, and dried venison. There are still some leftovers such as cans and biscuits.
Li Long was a little confused. Last year, more rice and noodles were exchanged, but this year everyone likes to exchange them for products.
Is it inconvenient to cook, or do you think it saves time to eat ready-made?
It seems that I will have to pick up some more dried noodles and other finished products tomorrow.
After these people left, Li Long started making noodles and planned to steam the steamed buns now.
After it's steamed in the pot, Sun Jiaqiang can just uncover it. He has to drive the jeep back.
Today, I exchanged nearly 100 kilograms of caladiums in one day, washed them and took them home to dry. After a week, I will have at least 20 kilograms of dry goods, which is nearly a thousand yuan.
As for how much he would earn, Li Long had no idea. When the caladium season is over, let’s settle the accounts.
Of course, before leaving the wooden house, the fritillaries that the Sun family had exchanged for him had to be converted into money and given to him.
Although it wasn't much, only about ten yuan, Sun Jiaqiang was happy to hold it. This is more than ten yuan, which is more than ten days' wages for the workers.
After Li Long waited for the dough to rise, he kneaded the dough, steamed the steamed buns, and after cooking them, he finished explaining to Sun Jiaqiang, then drove the car and hurried down the mountain.
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It's raining and the road is slippery, so the mud will stick to the wheels and roll up more and more. Fortunately, the jeep can speed up and throw away the mud on the wheels.
In this way, although the back and top of the jeep are covered with mud, at least it will not get stuck in the mountains.
If he really gets stuck, I'm afraid Li Long won't be able to solve it in a while.
The jeep drove all the way to Qingshui River. Li Long found that the rain on the road was not as heavy as in the mountains. The ground was wet, but it did not rain thoroughly, so there were no mud spots.
This rain is really weird.
In Xiaobaiyanggou, it was raining and there was no way to light a fire to bake the strips, so the people had to bring sickles to chop the strips.
Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming walked southeast together.
The nearby strips were about the same, and they didn't want to argue with the young people on one point, so they thought of looking further afield.
Anyway, I can’t compile it this afternoon, so I’ll go further and cut more strips.
Li Jianguo was still carrying his gun. Lao Huang waited for the rain to stop before he came out. Seeing Li Jianguo carrying his gun, he joked:
"Old Li, you are addicted to hunting. It has just rained heavily, so it is not easy to hunt those things."
"If we can't fight, let's run inside. That place is not safe, so we can't bring a gun." Li Jianguo refused to admit that he wanted to hunt, and walked into the mountains with his sickle as he talked.
"Hey, that's you, that's you, you have a gun." Lao Huang actually wanted to play with a gun, if he could meet a wild boar or something, shoot him.
But Li Jianguo wouldn't lend it to him, and there was nothing Lao Huang could do.
In the early days of building the village, among the people in the team who were allowed to hold guns, his marksmanship was the worst. Once he accidentally fired and almost hit one of his own people.
So everyone later agreed not to let Huang touch the gun.
Li Long and his generation no longer know about this. The team's basic militia training was also attended by young people, and Lao Huang had no chance to touch a gun. Basically, the older generation would not talk about such things to the younger generation, and would only joke about it when they were together.
So if Li Jianguo doesn't give it, there's nothing Lao Huang can do.
You know your own business.
Of course, young people are also envious.
Because there are more than 20 people scattered in this area making up the strips, and there are a lot of strips needed, which have covered many ravines with a radius of two or three kilometers.
They will inevitably encounter animals in the mountains, and they will tell them during lunch.
There are many small ones such as pheasants and rabbits, and everyone has seen them. But I don’t see much of the big ones. I see one occasionally and it becomes a topic of conversation during lunch.
Of course, when talking about these things, I would also say that if there were guns at the time - in fact, it is just talking, but everyone has been a militiaman, at least they have the confidence, and with a gun in hand, they might be able to hunt down a prey and then eat it. Some, take some back home.
When Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming went to a ditch in the distance, they really didn't think about hunting. They just wanted to prevent gray wolves in the valley. At least if they encountered a pack of wolves, it would be safer to have a gun in their hands.
When he was building a defensive team in those years, he often carried an old 79 rifle on his back. Now that I'm carrying a double-barreled sand gun, I don't know if I'm progressing or regressing.
This ravine is relatively narrow, and basically only one person can walk at the bottom of the ravine. There are slopes of about 30 degrees on both sides, and the slopes are covered with large and small shrubs.
Some shrubs have strips that can be cut and made into handles, while others have thin thorns.
Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming planned to walk inside. If there was not a suitable large forest inside, they planned to find another ditch.
Anyway, there are so many ditches and ditches in this mountain that you don’t have to worry about not finding them at all.
"That's..." Lu Yingming was walking under the ditch and Li Jianguo was on the slope. He looked further and saw something on the edge of the forest in front of him. He immediately reminded him in a low voice, but before he finished speaking, he The sickle was handed to Lu Yingming, and he picked up the shotgun.
A group of wild boars were eating grass roots and other things on the edge of a forest at the entrance of a ditch in the distance, and they hummed from time to time.
Li Jianguo immediately bent over and walked forward. He wanted to get closer and fight again to be more confident.
However, the hearing and smell of wild boars are very sensitive. When he got closer to less than 50 meters, the wild boar had already been spotted. Several small wild boars looked over here, and the big wild boars were all as semen as anything. He ran straight into the woods.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Li Jianguo fired two shots, and the two wild boars, one large and one small, stared blankly and fell to the ground.
They all used single-point bullets, so they were killed directly.
When Lu Yingming followed Li Jianguo to the edge of the dense forest, he saw a wild boar weighing fifty or sixty kilograms, and a small wild boar weighing about ten kilograms.
There was blood all over his body.
"Hey, there's meat to eat again." Lu Yingming was happy, "You're so good at holding this gun!"
Li Jianguo had already put new bullets in his shotgun. He held the gun and looked at the dense forest. After thinking about it, he decided to go in and take a look. I'm going to be cutting strips in here later, so I have to see if there is any danger inside.
If a big wild boar burst out while they were chopping strips, that would be trouble.
In the evening, when Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming appeared in front of everyone carrying wild boars and strips, everyone was shocked again.
That's more than just envy.
It has only been a few days, but Li Jianguo has already beaten so many things?
Are there so many wild animals in this mountain? (End of chapter)