Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 269: Not allowing Qiangqiang to go to school?

This time, Li Long didn't cut off much meat. The meat of this female roe deer wasn't very much, so he cut off about five or six kilograms of pure meat, and the rest was left to dry directly on the bones. Otherwise, the dry bones would be uncomfortable to chew.

While cutting the meat, Li Long thought of something and couldn't help laughing. He remembered that in his previous life, when Xu Haijun came back from the army and chatted with them, he complained that the kitchen team had brought a sheep, and the company commander asked a minority border guard to help cut the meat, intending to use the cut meat bones to make pilaf for lunch.

After the meat was removed, the cook squad leader was not happy and went to the company commander to report that the bones could not be used to make pilaf. The company commander still did not believe it and went to see that the border guard was really good. The meat on the bones was removed cleanly, even the fascia was removed... There was no point in eating this, so he made bone soup.

Li Long himself couldn't pick out such bones, but he believed that Halimu and the others could definitely do it.

The meat bones were rubbed with salt and hung on the rack. If there was not enough space, the half-dried meat was squeezed together and placed on the rack. Then the meat was strung together with thin iron wire and hung up.

The rack of meat looked quite spectacular, and Li Long himself felt that he had gained a lot and had a great sense of accomplishment.

Of course, the work is not over yet. After smearing the skin with salt and stretching it out on the grass to dry, the next step is to deal with the internal organs, which is already a familiar process.

The stove was lit, and two pots were set up. One pot was used to cook the cleaned internal organs, and the other pot was used to stew the meat. There was not much meat, so it didn't take much time. The sun hadn't risen completely yet, so the temperature was not high. Li Long wanted to finish the work while he had time, and stop when the sun rose into the sky.

Too sunny.

Burning wood is better than burning corn stalks at home, at least you don't need to keep adding firewood. Li Long sat under the eaves holding a melon, eating while watching the fire. He planned to go again in the evening to see if there was any harvest.

One or two more prey will do. The meat is enough for the family to eat. The rest is to catch fish to make money.

Although I have a lot of money now, how can I have enough? I have a lot of things to buy in the future, so it doesn't hurt to have more money. It's good to buy some things now and save them for later.

Think about those stores in later generations that bought old wines at high prices. Now these wines are only one or two yuan a bottle, and Moutai is only a few yuan.

Buy a few boxes and save them, so that when you drink it in the future, at least it’s the real thing.

Of course, people here are generally not used to drinking sauce-flavored liquor, so you can store some other liquors.

It's just some random thought and it has nothing to do with making money. After all, if you want to make money, there are many other ways.

After finishing eating the watermelon, Li Long went to the pot where the internal organs were cooked, added a bucket of water, and then went to bed.

The sun was too strong outside and he didn't want to do anything. He admired Halim and the others a little. He thought they must be cutting grass on the hillside now, which was not comfortable.

When Li Long got up, the fire under the stove had gone out, and the aroma was wafting. He poked a chopstick into the heart and it was definitely cooked. Then he tasted it and it was not bad either.

Then sprinkle salt on it, fish it out, slice it, and start drying it. A large wooden table is really helpful. Rinse it with water, wipe it dry, put the fished out and sliced ​​entrails on it, cover it with a cage cloth, press the corners of the cage cloth with a stone, and wait for the rest to dry.

The salt does not need to be completely dried, it can be harvested when it is half dry, so it will not spoil easily.

After all this was done, Li Long put the cooked meat and oil into an enamel basin, covered it and put it in the small room. He poured water into the two pots, heated the water with the residual heat of the hot ash under the stove, washed it clean, and went to the spring to rinse the pots clean and dry them. Next, he went to the hot spring.

Li Long felt that he had become lazy. There were so many animals in this mountain, why did he choose the hot springs?
He walked while holding the gun and analyzing the situation, thinking that it was because he had become lazy, and also because he wanted to soak in the hot springs?

This is most likely the reason.

After figuring this out, Li Long stopped worrying about it.

When they got to the hot spring, there were indeed no animals there. He was not disappointed. He soaked in the hot spring for half an hour and then went back.

Before going to bed at night, Li Long hesitated for a moment whether to put away the meat that was hung to dry, but then he thought better of it, as he would have to hang it up again tomorrow, which would be quite troublesome.

As a result, in the middle of the night, I was awakened by the howling of wolves outside.

Li Long quickly put on his clothes, picked up his gun, lifted the glass cloth on the window and looked out.

can not see.

He listened carefully. The wolf howling was far away, and there was no movement near the wooden house. So he simply took off the safety of the gun, loaded the bullet, opened the door latch and walked out.

In the moonlight, you can see several wolves circling back and forth on the opposite hillside. One wolf wants to come down, and its target is obviously the dried meat hanging on the pole, but it goes back after only a dozen steps.

Li Long half-knelt in front of the wooden house, looking over there.

It was a bit far and he felt he could not hit the wolf, so he wanted to wait and see if the wolf would come closer.

However, the wolves seemed to have seen Li Long coming out, so they stayed at that distance and confronted Li Long.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Li Long became impatient. He didn't care whether he could hit the target or not. He aimed at that direction and fired several shots. One of the shots seemed to have grazed the skin of a wolf. The wolf screamed, and then all the wolves swarmed over the hill and ran away.

I guess you won't come here again, right?
Go back to the house and sleep.

After all this trouble, Li Long, who had originally planned to go to the hot spring early the next day, also gave up - when he got up, it was already bright.

Although Li Long knew that he might not gain anything, he was still unwilling to give up. He took a few slices of half-dried liver, ate them while holding his gun, and went to the hot spring.

Sure enough, there were traces of water on the edge of the pond, but no animals.

He had been lying in ambush in the woods for more than an hour, but still nothing happened. Apparently, these animals came here to bathe in the early morning. It was getting hot now, so it was not the right time to bathe in the hot springs.

Li Long had no choice but to return to the cabin.

After two days of hard work, Li Long finally managed to kill two half-grown wild boars one morning. It was not easy to give these to Halimu and his friends. The dried meat Li Long had originally had was already dry, so he made some dried meat out of it and stored a batch of internal organs.

After the wild boar's dried meat was hung up, Li Long took advantage of the daytime and went to the county town with the other dried meat, the internal organs, and the snow leopard skin.

He planned to go and come back quickly, and watch the wild boar meat at night to prevent the wolves from coming again.

When they arrived at the big yard, Gu Xiaoxia was not there. Li Long saw the note she left, saying that she was going to check the preparations for the brigade primary school.

Is school starting so soon?
Li Long then thought about it and saw that it was almost September. Time passed really quickly.

Since Gu Xiaoxia was not there, Li Long did not stay long. He left some meat and internal organs in the yard, and also placed the snow leopard skin there and kept it there. He then took the rest of the things back to the team.

When passing by the bridge hole, Li Long was somewhat surprised to see the little girl again. But the little girl was on the other side of the road, sifting wheat on a flat ground there - those wheat ears had somehow become a small pile of wheat mixed with wheat tails. Although this life is difficult, it is hard work.

Li Long stopped and waved at the little girl, then took two pieces of dried meat from the sack and placed them there. When the little girl ran over here, he rode away on his bike.

He guessed that the little girl would bring other things to exchange with him, so there was no need.

After returning to the team, Li Long went to Gu's house and gave Gu Boyuan some dried meat. Gu Boyuan did not refuse and told him:
"Xiaoxia came over a few days ago and said she was going to the countryside for inspection. She might come to our brigade during the first few days of school."

"That's perfect. Qiangqiang and the others are going to school too." Li Long said with a smile, "It's a good opportunity for her to talk to the teacher and get her into a better class."

Li Long thought such care was natural, just like Jiang Defu letting Lao Ou's daughter join the army in "Parents' Love".

In a society where relationships are important, if you have resources and don’t use them, you’d be like a fool - Li Long doesn’t consider himself such a noble person.

"That's what I said, Xiaoxia said she knew." Gu Boyuan nodded, "It seems you are living well in the mountains..."

"That's right, we have to work hard to make money and build a house." Li Long said with a smile, "Once the house is built, we can get married soon."

"That's more like it!" Gu Boyuan nodded, then shook his head: "Xiaoxia is in the county, and you're often not at home. The house in Mahao is good enough, so why build more?"

"It's only after we build a house that we need a residential land." Li Long said, "Residential land will be valuable in the future. Maybe in a few decades, people in the city will want to live in the countryside."

"How is that possible?" Although Gu Boyuan graduated from university, he couldn't see through the changes in the next few decades. He shook his head vigorously, "Everyone is going to the city. How can they like to come to the countryside?"

"That's impossible to say!"

Li Long left Gu's house and went to Uncle Luo's place, dropped off some dried meat, and then returned to his own home.

It was past lunchtime. It was quite hot in the yard, but the adobe house was quite comfortable, so Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei were both in the house, as was Li Qingxia. Du Chunfang couldn't sleep in bed, so she sat at the door and took a nap.

The sound of Li Long's bicycle woke Du Chunfang up. She was very happy to see Li Long. Knowing that Li Long had not eaten, she wanted to get up immediately to prepare food for Li Long, but was stopped by Li Long.

What to eat at this time? There are ready-made foods. Li Long is not picky. He eats something casually. After resting in the afternoon, he rushes back to the mountain.

After a few days, the students started school.

Li Qiang carried his schoolbag and followed his sister Li Juan to the brigade primary school. This year, many people from the brigade went to the brigade primary school. The first and second grades were directly withdrawn. Only one teacher named Dong from the brigade primary school entered the brigade primary school. Teacher Dong was not from the village. Wu Shufen did not go and gave up.

The Dadui Primary School is now in chaos. Because the first and second grades have also been included, all the classrooms have been reshuffled and reallocated. The students who arrived first have already found their classrooms and are helping the teachers get books. The students who arrived later are still running around like headless flies looking for their own classrooms.

It’s better for grades 4 and above. Grades 1, 2 and 3 are all new students (this year’s new third graders were promoted from the original second graders, who were in the village primary school). They are unfamiliar with the school and don’t have familiar teachers, so they are naturally a little panicked.

Li Juan quickly found her classroom. She put down her schoolbag and took Li Qiang to report to the new first grade.

However, when it came time to register, Li Qiang got stuck.

He is now six years and four months old, not yet seven years old - the state stipulates that children must be seven years old to enter the first grade, so he is not old enough.

The registration teacher was surrounded by a group of children. At that time, the children basically went to school by themselves, even in the first grade. At most, they would ask the older children from the neighbors they were familiar with to help lead the way, so there were no adults around.

The teacher was very worried because the children could not explain some things clearly. For those who were not old enough like Li Qiang, the teacher simply rejected them.

When Li Qiang heard that he couldn't go to school, he couldn't hold it in any longer - he had worked hard for two years to prepare!

He is considered "older" in the preschool class, mainly because he attended the class when he was very young and no one cared about him. When he was over five years old, he attended the class again and learned basically everything.

Li Qiang is really strong-willed. He doesn't want to go back to preschool - before coming here, he had already boasted to his friends that he would go to first grade. Now he can't go and will be sent back. How can this be possible?
"Don't cry!" Li Juan saw Li Qiang's expression and knew that he was about to cry, so she immediately said, "I'll go find our teacher and see if I can get him to talk to me..."

Now this is the only solution for Li Juan.

However, when Li Juan told her teacher about this, the teacher immediately shook his head:

"Don't go if you're not old enough. Wait until next year. This year's first-year students are all over the limit. Let your brother go back and come back next year. Go and tell your brother that there's going to be a class meeting here!"

Li Juan had no choice but to go back disappointed. Just now, Li Juan asked Li Qiang to wait outside the first-year admissions teacher's office. Now she could only find Li Qiang and tell him about this.

I am not worried that Li Qiang will take the wrong way back because there is only one way. But if he can't go to school, not only Li Qiang and myself, but also my family will be unhappy.

When Li Juan came back, she saw not only Li Qiang, but also Gu Xiaoxia.

When Gu Xiaoxia saw Li Qiang, she felt that Li Long's little nephew was standing there all alone, helpless and very pitiful.

Gu Xiaoxia immediately went over and asked:
"Qiangqiang, what's wrong?"

Li Qiang's face was originally tense, but when he saw Gu Xiaoxia, he finally couldn't hold it anymore. He knew that Gu Xiaoxia would soon be his aunt and a relative, so this question made him cry out of grievance:

"Aunt Xiaoxia...my aunt...they...they won't let me go to school..."

Gu Xiaoxia didn't expect Li Qiang to cry directly, so she squatted down and comforted him:
"Don't cry, don't cry, tell me what happened?"

Li Qiang was crying and couldn't explain clearly. Li Juan came over and told him what happened again.

"I can go. I have learned everything. If you don't believe me, let them test me..." Li Qiang felt much better after crying. He wiped his tears with his sleeve and said:
"I can get a perfect score on every test, absolutely!"

He didn't know that compulsory education is directly started when you reach the age, without taking exams. He is quite confident in his studies, as he scored 100 points in every subject in preschool, so he hopes to work hard.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you..." Gu Xiaoxia wanted to laugh, but looking at Li Qiang's stubborn eyes, she felt a headache. However, she thought she should still have some face.

Gu Xiaoxia did not directly ask for Li Qiang to be admitted. She just told the admissions teacher that this was her relative's child, who had very good grades in preschool and was only a few months away from success, so why not give him a test? If he did well, could he be admitted?
At this time, the Dean of Academic Affairs also came over. After hearing what Gu Xiaoxia said, he nodded without waiting for the admissions teacher's consent.

The superiors have given us a way out, so we have to step down.

(End of this chapter)