Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 153 Find something for the old man to do
Passing by a middle school, Li Long saw that the school was in class and there was no student on campus, so he gave up the idea of ​​looking for Gu Xiaoxia. Passing by an elementary school, he saw that the students had not finished school yet, so he did not look for Li Juan and rode all the way back to the village.

Before entering the village, Li Long found that the water in the reed lake had risen, and he guessed that the flood was coming. He didn't know whether the preparations he paid for this year would work.
It was almost noon when I returned to the Li family. Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei had already returned, and Li Qiang was feeding the chickens in the yard. What surprised Li Long was that he was holding some crickets. Li Long couldn't help asking:

"Qiangqiang, are you going to catch jumping pockmarks?"

In the local dialect, crickets are called "tiaomazi". Usually, when the soil dug out after cleaning the canal dries up, crickets will hide in it. You can find a lot of them when you lift up a piece of soil. Of course, it is also possible that after lifting the soil, what comes out is not a cricket, but a scary mole cricket, a scorpion, or a small centipede.

"Yes! My mother said that if we feed chickens more insects, they will lay more eggs!" Li Qiang said seriously, and then asked:

"Uncle, what's that moving thing in the sack you brought back this time?"

"Little wild boar." Li Long stood up the car and said as he untied it.

Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei came to help and together they unloaded the sacks containing the wild boar cubs, and also the large part of the wild boar.

"Did you get this yesterday?" Li Jianguo asked in surprise as he carried the wild boars. "You got so many in just a short while?"

"After you went back yesterday, I rode my bike westwards, intending to go say hello to my friend. Halfway along the way, I saw some wild boar tracks and some hoof prints of a wild boar cub, so I wondered if I could put them on..."

"This little wild boar is so cute!" Li Qiang opened the sack and took a look inside, saying in surprise.

At this time, one of the little wild boars probably saw the daylight, so it pushed out suddenly, which scared Li Qiang. His hand loosened and the sack fell to the ground. The two little wild boars reacted quickly and pushed out directly, and then started to run away in the yard!
Li Long was quick to act. He lifted the mouth of the sack to prevent the other three little wild boars from running out. He simply tied the mouth of the sack and immediately went to chase the little wild boars.

This little wild boar was probably very hungry. After running out, it went straight to the chicken feeding bowl, humming as it ate.

Li Long stepped forward, squatted down, grabbed the little wild boar's hind legs and lifted it up.

Another little wild boar ran straight out of the gate. Li Jianguo strode over and stood in front of it. The little wild boar tried to slip out from under his legs, but Li Jianguo reached out and grabbed it.

"This little wild boar is quite lively." Li Jianguo laughed happily, "It's quite strong, more ferocious than a domestic pig!"

"Five, but they can't be raised together." Li Long realized that these little wild boars cannot be kept together with domestic pigs. They are more aggressive than domestic pigs.

"what is it now?"

"Put it with Uncle Luo first. Put some of the feed I brought back last time there. It will last for a while." Li Long thought for a while and said, "When I asked for that yard, I told the captain that we had to raise some food. Now we can put this little wild boar there."

"That's fine." Li Jianguo was a little reluctant, but he also knew that this was the only way. There was only one pigpen at home, so it was fine to put domestic pigs in it, but wild boars and wild boars could not be put together.

Li Long put the little wild boar into a sack, tied it up, and filled it with some feed. Then he said to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, you guys clean up the pork first. I'll go take this to Uncle Luo."

"You can cut a piece of meat over there," Liang Yuemei said, "it's pitiful that Lao Luo can't eat meat."

Li Long cut a piece of pork belly and carried it up, then rode his bike to the stable.

Lao Luo was collecting hay in the stable. When he saw Li Long coming over, he smiled happily and said:
"Xiaolong, you're finally here. If this continues, I don't know what to do."

"Uncle Luo, I knew you were bored, so I found something to do for you. I caught a few wild boars in the mountains, see if you can keep them."

"Little wild boar!" Hearing the little wild boar calling from time to time, Lao Luo was also a little surprised, "I have never raised this thing before, and I don't know if I can keep it alive."

"If we can feed it, we will. If we can't, there's nothing we can do." Li Long was very open-minded. "By the way, take this pork belly and stew it yourself. It's wild boar meat and doesn't have much oil."

"That's better than having no meat at all. Thank you, Xiaolong." Lao Luo was very happy. "Put the food here. Put the piglets in the pen quickly. This big pen will do. Let them run around happily first. Otherwise, the screams will attract the whole team."

In fact, the little piglet was screaming all the way, which really attracted a lot of people to watch. Li Long thought that this little guy was really energetic. He screamed all the way back from the mountain, and his voice was still very good.

He brought the sack to the big circle, and seeing that Lao Luo had closed the door tightly, he dumped the little piglets out one by one.

"Is a piglet injured?" Old Luo, who had sharp eyes, asked as he leaned inside to take a look while holding the meat.

"Well, I put it in a condom, but the wire condom was too tight and it hurt my leg."

"That shouldn't be a big deal. They'll be fine in a few days." Lao Luo said, "Then I'll feed them the same stewed pig food as for domestic pigs."

"Okay." Li Long said, "They don't have to eat too much fine food. They eat everything in the mountains anyway, even grass roots."

"That's fine." Lao Luo was happy. "With these little guys, I have something to do."

"Uncle Luo, you go ahead and do your work. I'll go back to the mountains after I've had dinner."

"Go, go." Lao Luo's eyes were all on the little wild boar, and he felt that its movements were more flexible than before.

Old people are afraid of having nothing to do. When they have something to do, they are very energetic.

Li Long was riding his bike back. When he met someone from the team who asked him about it on the way, he did not hide anything and just said that he had caught a few wild boar babies and asked Uncle Luo to help raise them.

Many people in the team went to watch the fun, and the news soon reached Xu Chengjun's ears.

"This little dragon from the Li family really caught something to raise." Xu Chengjun's restriction on Li Long to raise something in the horse shed was actually just an excuse. He himself knew that if Li Long had not bought the horse shed, the horse shed would probably have been demolished and turned into construction waste, and in a few years there would be nothing left.

At least the things are still there, the team's income has increased, and Lao Luo has something to do. It's the best of all worlds, a good thing.

He just didn't expect that Li Long still remembered this. He thought Li Long was really good.

I don’t know how my cousin is doing in the mountains, and whether he has caused any trouble.

The braised pork that the Li family cooked at noon was made with wild boar meat. Although it was a little lean, it was fresh meat after all and tasted really good. Li Qiang ate two bowls of rice with the braised pork and also ate several pieces of it, which made Liang Yuemei complain for a while, mainly because she was worried that he would have a slippery intestine.

After Li Long finished his meal and rested for a while, Li Jianguo and his men were about to harness the horse-drawn carriage to go to work in the fields, so Li Long said to him:
"Brother, I will bring back some wood in a few days to make some tables, chairs and other furniture. I will build a winter home in the mountains. I need to do some work." "What?" Li Jianguo didn't quite understand. "You built a winter home in the mountains?"

"Well, my herdsman friends helped me build a winter nest with wood. It has two rooms. I plan to put some furniture in it." Li Long was a little embarrassed. "They only know how to make a wooden kang. I think it would be better to put some cabinets, tables, etc."

"You..." Li Jianguo didn't know what to say. He looked at Li Long seriously and felt that he needed to get to know his younger brother again.

What on earth had he done in these few months? He actually asked those herdsmen to build a house for him!
Li Jianguo has also dealt with those herdsmen, and found that communicating with them is not as easy as ordinary people think.

"I helped them carry some things and sold some of the things they didn't need. I made some money in the process, so they thought I was honest..."

Li Long felt a little embarrassed when he said this. He was really not very honest.

But Halimu and Yushanjiang just believed this.

When Li Long feels guilty, he will have a compensatory mentality and will try to get them more good things. Halimu and the others think that Li Long has suffered a loss, so they will find some resources in the mountains for him - thus, a cycle is formed.

Benign.

"Okay, there's a carpenter in the village who makes pretty good stuff. I'll bring the wood to you in a few days. In fact, Carpenter Zhang in our team is also pretty good at his job, but he went to work in Wucheng a few days ago. He said it was a construction job recommended by someone else, and it's pretty profitable."

Li Long knew that Carpenter Zhang was a man with a big heart. He was not willing to live in the village and often went to Wucheng and Shicheng. He also looked down on Li Long's petty tricks. Later, he found a big job in Wucheng and moved there with his family after making money.

Compared with people like this, Li Long felt that he was really content with just a small fortune.

"Just make a table, five or six stools, a cabinet and a chest of drawers." Li Long thought for a moment and said, "There are only two rooms, which are smaller than ours. Brother, should we make some furniture for our family as well?"

"When I have some free time in a couple of days, I will dismantle the kang and install the bed." Li Jianguo said confidently, "We will also dismantle the fire wall. Don't worry about these things, just do your own thing in the mountains."

Since Li Long gave Li Jianguo 300 yuan last time, Li Jianguo no longer regarded what Li Long did as idleness. It was good for two brothers, one to work hard outside and the other to farm and raise pigs in the village.

Everyone is aware of the changes that Li Long has brought to the family in the past few months. Li Jianguo also knows that Li Long is impatient to be busy with trivial matters, so he will not bother Li Long with these things.

While Li Jianguo and his friends went to the fields, Li Long took Li Qiang to the preschool class on his bicycle. After dropping Li Qiang off and watching him enter the classroom, he turned and rode towards the county.

When passing by the middle school, Li Long took a look and saw that the school was still open, so he continued to pedal towards the county.

After school, Gu Xiaoxia came out of the classroom and habitually looked at the road beside the school, then looked at the door of her dormitory. There was no one there, and she felt a little disappointed.

Li Long rode to the big yard, parked his bike, closed the door, and breathed a sigh of relief, finally able to take a break.

Weeds have already sprouted in the cracks between the blue bricks in the yard. The jujube tree in the front yard is very thick and has sprouted, but Li Long knows that the tree will not bear dates unless it is pressed.

The other one is an apple tree, which has already bloomed white flowers. Li Long doesn’t know what variety of apples it is or whether they are delicious.

With nothing to do, I simply took a broom and swept the fallen leaves in the yard, while thinking about something.

Halimu, Yushanjiang and others were building their winter nests, so when they were finished, according to the local custom, they would invite everyone to "dry the house" together. In fact, they also wanted to thank these enthusiastic Adasi.

According to this schedule, we have to prepare today and start tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Since Halimu said that drinking white wine will cause some Adasi to behave badly, then prepare some other drinks, such as beer, small champagne, red and white wine.

Li Long didn't have many wine tickets. He had bought wine at the morning market and exchanged them for black market wine tickets. It seemed that he had to go to the morning market before entering the mountains tomorrow. If there was still food there, he would buy some more and exchange them for tickets.

There weren’t many things to buy in the department store. Wusu beer hadn’t appeared yet, so Li Long wasn’t sure what kind of beer was available, but there were small champagnes.

As for food, there are sesame cakes, sugar, melon seeds, peanuts, etc., but considering their living habits, perhaps only drinks, wine, sugar and the like will they accept.

It's quite a headache.

Forget it, so be it.

After sweeping up the fallen leaves, Li Long put down the broom, rode his bike out.

In his previous life, he had a very bad habit of doing many things at the last minute. For example, in his previous life, he would have exchanged the ticket tomorrow morning before going to the department store.

This made him easily passive, but he never changed it in his life.

After this rebirth, Li Long became more active. He planned to go to the market, the department store, and the Cultural Palace. Because the Cultural Palace shows movies, they usually sell melon seeds and peanuts.

If that doesn't work, then look for Li Xiangqian. For such a mutually beneficial matter, Li Long thought it would be okay to look for Li Xiangqian.

Only when there is give and take can we be called friends.

Riding his bicycle to the market, Li Long discovered that there were still people setting up stalls here at this time, but the items they sold were relatively simple, such as iron farm tools, wicker tools, bacon, and dried fish.

He looked around and didn't find the ticket seller from last time. Feeling a little disappointed, he turned towards the Cultural Palace.

Here Li Long met a girl selling melon seeds and peanuts, five cents a paper cup - the paper cup was folded by herself, the triangular type with a pointed bottom. Li Long bought one cup and tasted it. It was fried well, so he bought all the remaining several kilograms of fried melon seeds from the girl.

It's a pity that there are no peanuts, and the melon seeds are sunflower seeds, which will make your mouth black if you eat too much. The advantage is that it is fragrant.

Carrying a bag of melon seeds, Li Long looked around for a while, and then found a suspected ticket seller.

It's him.

(End of this chapter)