Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 270 Both Return Home

As expected, Li Qiang scored 100 on both questions given by the teacher.

He raised his head proudly.

The Dean of Academic Affairs took a photo on the spot and the school accepted the student.

Assigned to Class A.

The current teaching staff is still insufficient, so the brigade primary school only has two classes in the first grade, with more than 50 students in each class.

The matter was resolved and Li Qiang smiled.

Li Long didn't know that what he and Gu Boyuan had guessed would come true so quickly.

He returned to the mountains and went to the hot springs twice more, but both times he didn't catch any prey.

I don’t know if it was beaten or scared away by nearby animals, or if there was some other reason, but it’s gone.

The remaining wild boar meat was dried, and Li Long hurried to Halimu in the evening, told him, and prepared to go down the mountain the next day.

"We don't need anything for the time being." Halimu didn't bother to be polite with Li Long. In two months, the cattle and sheep on the mountain would come down, and then they would be able to see each other often.

The next morning, Li Long got up, packed the dried meat and put it on the back seat of his bicycle, locked the door of the wooden house, and rode down the mountain.

Arriving at the large courtyard, Li Long was somewhat surprised to see the door was open.

Gu Xiaoxia is not at work?

Li Long entered the yard and saw Gu Xiaoxia washing clothes in the yard.

"Huh? You're not at work?"

"Today is Sunday." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "I have been running around outside for a week, so I am taking a rest today."

"Where did you go? Did you ride a bicycle or take a car?"

"I rode a bicycle to help Qiangqiang go to school." Gu Xiaoxia said proudly, "I happened to meet Qiangqiang when I went to the brigade primary school that day..."

She told Li Long about Qiangqiang's schooling. Li Long was a little surprised and then praised her:
"It's all thanks to you, otherwise I don't know how sad Qiangqiang would be!"

"Well, he kept calling me auntie..." Gu Xiaoxia was a little shy, "I told the dean of the primary school that this was my nephew, and he should be taken care of."

"Of course. But Qiangqiang is strong-willed and eager to learn, so he should study hard." Li Long said with a smile, "A few days ago, I told Uncle Gu that if the teachers at school knew about your relationship with Qiangqiang, they might take care of Qiangqiang. I didn't expect it to come true."

"Hehe." Gu Xiaoxia was rarely so proud, "Are you going back to the team now?"

"Let's go eat two buns before we go back." Li Long said, "I didn't eat anything this morning, so I'm a little hungry. Is there much meat here?"

"Too much! The dried meat hasn't been touched at all. The thing you put in the back is also dried meat, right? Leave it alone, just take it back."

"Well, we distributed some of them last time." Li Long said, "We will distribute some of them this time when we go back."

"Then... I'll go back with you." Gu Xiaoxia said, "Originally I was not planning to go back, but now that you are going back, I'll go back with you."

"You have to go to work tomorrow morning..."

"Ride home for an hour now and come back when it's almost dark. What are you going to do in the afternoon?"

"If you have nothing to do in the afternoon, go fishing." Li Long said, "Then you may not do anything."

"That's it. If you want to set the nets and sell the fish tomorrow morning, I'll come back with you then."

"That's fine. But it's tiring for you."

"What's so tiring about that? Riding a bicycle is much better than walking."

Since Gu Xiaoxia had already made her decision, Li Long didn't say anything else. He talked about another matter:
"By the way, Halimu and Yushanjiang, my herdsman friends, gave you a snow leopard skin."

"What? Snow leopard skin?" Gu Xiaoxia was stunned for a moment, "Snow leopard is a leopard?"

"Yes, it's a leopard from the mountains." Li Long parked the car, went to the side room, took out the snow leopard skin, and unfolded it for Gu Xiaoxia to see. "Look, it's beautiful!"

"It's so beautiful... This is the first time I've seen leather like this..."

"More than 1,000 yuan a piece." Li Long said with a smile, "I sold them one before, and this one is bigger, maybe it can go for 2,000 yuan."

"What? Two thousand? You can't accept that!" Gu Xiaoxia was shocked. She had never seen so much money in her life!

"Keep it. They say it's a gift to celebrate our marriage." Li Long said with a smile, "Even if I return it, they won't want it. I'll just bring more things to the mountain later."

"Then..." Gu Xiaoxia didn't know what to say, and after a while she said, "Then he has a really good relationship with you guys... Such an expensive thing, he gave it to you just like that."

"It doesn't matter so much when they give me gifts. As long as I feel they are good friends, I'll give it to them. I made a lot of money from them in the past. Of course, the things I gave them also helped them a lot. I even saved the life of one of their children!" Li Long said this to make it easier for Gu Xiaoxia to accept it.

After all, giving something worth two thousand dollars at once is not something you would do at all, let alone giving it to friends.

Asking someone to help send my son home would cost a hundred bucks.

"Then you should put this leather away quickly." Gu Xiaoxia was still a little panicked. "When... you need money, sell it. We can't really owe them such a big favor. You really have to buy more supplies for them later."

"Ok, I know."

The matter was just covered up. Gu Xiaoxia thought the leather was really nice, but she still felt safe leaving it to Li Long. She knew that he said it was for her because of Li Long's face. If it wasn't Li Long, who would those herders know her as? Gu Xiaoxia packed her clothes, and Li Long went to buy buns. After they came back and ate, they went out together.

The sky turned overcast.

After leaving the county town, I felt the wind blowing and it started to get cooler.

"It's going to rain this afternoon," Li Long said. "If that happens, it might be hard for you to go back. It's not easy to ride a bike on that bad road."

"It's okay." Gu Xiaoxia felt that it was not that bad. "As for the section where we left the team, the section from the township to the county is still pretty good."

Li Long then talked about other things, mainly the hot spring.

"Are there really so many animals bathing in hot springs?" Gu Xiaoxia was curious. "Are they just like humans?"

"There should be something they need in the hot springs." Li Long thought about the videos and articles promoting the benefits of hot springs in his previous life and felt that this should be the case.

When the two of us rode to the township middle school, it started to rain. But it wasn't heavy. The road from the township to the village was a dirt road, so the rain wasn't heavy and it wasn't all mud, so it was fine to ride on.

Li Long was worried that if the rain was too heavy, the road would be covered with mud and it would be difficult to ride fast. He had experienced this many times in his previous life. When riding to the countryside or county after a heavy rain, he had to stop and use a stick to scrape the mud under the tiles on the front and rear wheels of the bicycle.

Too much trouble.

Although the rain was not heavy, the wind was very strong and they felt a little cold in their shirts. Even when they turned back from the village, there was still a tailwind - the wind was blowing from the west.

"Are you tired?" Li Long kept asking Gu Xiaoxia during the ride.

"It's okay." Gu Xiaoxia felt a little regretful. If she had known this would happen, she would not have come back with him. Tomorrow might be quite troublesome.

The rain was intermittent and the ground was wet, but not yet muddy. When they crossed the reed ditch and reached the settlement, the rain actually stopped.

Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia arrived at Gu's house together. Gu Boyuan had just returned from the fields and was a little surprised to see the two of them.

"Uncle Gu, I'll give you some dried meat..."

"If not, what else should I put in? The fish I put in last time is still there and we haven't eaten it yet!" Gu Boyuan waved his hand, "yesterday your elder brother sent some more fish, and we can't finish it. Go back quickly, you haven't been home for a few days."

If it were someone else, it would definitely be impolite to chase people away like this, but Gu Boyuan was not an outsider, and Li Long knew what he meant, so he smiled and said:
"Then I'll go back first."

"Go back." Gu Boyuan waved his hand.

Li Long rode away on his bicycle. When he was quite far away, he heard Gu Boyuan complaining about Gu Xiaoxia. It was obvious that he did not welcome him back.

Of course, it’s not that I really don’t welcome her, I just feel that her coming back in such a hurry will affect her work.

The older generation attaches great importance to working.

Li Long passed by the Lao Ma Hao and went in to find Lao Shu Luo, encountering the same problem as the Gu family. Lao Shu Luo did not let him dry the meat, saying that there was still a lot of it here.

Li Long was persuaded to put some in. After all, he still had to live here, and who knows when he might want to eat it in the evening.
Uncle Luo pointed to the house that served as a warehouse and said:
"I just took down all the Cynomoriums drying on the roof, and the dry ones are all lying there - only you can get so many sacks, otherwise they wouldn't be able to hold them all!"

Li Long went over to take a look and found that there were at least seven or eight sacks of Cynomorium songaricum in it - a lot!

This is normal. After all, Cynomorium songaricum can be seen everywhere on the nearby alkaline beaches, and the resources are really extremely abundant.

When Li Long pushed the bike back to Li's house, Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang were picking up the nets, and Li Jianguo was packing his bicycle.

The bicycle was turned over in the middle of the yard with the rear wheel removed. Li Long took a look and knew that the tire must be broken.

"Brother, does this car need a tire repair?"

"It's not easy to fix. The valve core is rotten." Li Jianguo was testing the tire with a basin of water. Looking at the place where bubbles were coming out of the water, he frowned and said:

"How do I fix this? It can't be fixed. I need to change the tire."

"Well... Hi!" Li Qingxia said, "Daqiang took me to sell fish, and when we came back, I felt something was wrong and couldn't ride anymore. I got off the bike and found that it was flat. I thought I'd push it back to pump air into it, but who knew... I'll have to pay for the new tire."

"It must be you!" Du Chunfang complained, "You didn't even bother to pump up the tires when you left, you just rode - at your age, you're not as good as Xiaolong..."

Li Long smiled bitterly. In his mother's eyes, he was good in every way.

"It's okay. I'll just go back to the county and buy an inner tube." Li Long said, "It just so happens that this broken tire is left here. I can use it to repair other ones later."

"It can only be the."

"Then Xiaolong, can you go this afternoon?" Li Qingxia asked, "If not, I can ride your bike there this afternoon so that I won't be late for selling fish tomorrow..."

"Selling fish, all you know is selling fish!" Du Chunfang continued to complain.

"Of course, twenty or thirty yuan a day!" Li Qingxia said confidently.

"That has to wait until Xiaolong has had lunch!" Du Chunfang glared at Li Qingxia, "Can't you let Xiaolong rest for a while? He just came back from so far away... Can't you let the fish sit for a day?"

"It's okay, it's okay. I'm going to the county this afternoon. It's nothing big. Mom, what are you going to cook for lunch?"

"Stewed fish and rice." As soon as Li Long opened his mouth, Du Chunfang's tone changed.

"Okay, I've been wanting to eat it for a long time." Li Long smiled. He really wanted to eat it.

(End of this chapter)