Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 273 How come there is another wife?
When Li Long left the big yard, he specifically told Gu Xiaoxia that it would be best not to let the mother and daughter know the location of the big yard. If you want to see it, just go to the free market. It has been settled, so there is no need to get too close.

After all, they are not relatives.

Li Long's almost defensive mentality made Gu Xiaoxia a little confused, but the image Li Long had established in the past was quite reliable, so Gu Xiaoxia didn't think much about it and agreed.

Li Long rode his bicycle back home and found Du Chunfang was the only one in the yard.

"Mom, where is my dad?" Li Long parked his bicycle and asked Du Chunfang who was chopping pig grass there.

Now every morning Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang pick up the nets. Du Chunfang sometimes helps, and sometimes goes to the vegetable garden or the field in front to get pig grass.

The production team here has large fields, and many of the weeds growing on the ridges are what pigs like to eat. You can fill a basket in a short time with a basket or urea bag.

Although the Li family had prepared a lot of feed, Du Chunfang felt that it would be better to feed the pigs with some grass or something.

The Li family's pigs grow fast, and with plenty of feed, they have grown to 70 or 80 kilograms in September. In previous years, the pigs would only grow to this size by the end of the year, but this year they might be able to grow to over 100 kilograms.

Li Long remembered that in his previous life, the people in the team raised pigs using pure corn, soybeans, bran and other grains and leftover oil residues. Although the pigs were lean, when they were slaughtered at the end of the year, after removing the pig heads, trotters and internal organs, they still weighed 140 kilograms.

Pigs, if you feed them as much as you want, will grow quite big.

Li Jianguo also said that among these pigs here, two sows will be kept to find breeding pigs for next year, and the rest will be slaughtered before the end of the year. Some will be sold directly to the township purchasing station, and some will be sold directly to villagers or to the free market.

By then, the weather was cool, so we didn’t have to worry about the meat going bad. After all, only a few of the villagers in the team raised pigs, and by the end of the year, when the weather was cold, who wouldn’t weigh some meat to eat?
As for the breeding pigs, Li Jianguo had already thought about it. There were many people raising pigs in the village. The one who raised pigs in the neighboring team specially got a Ukrainian large white pig as a breeding pig. His family did not have this, but he could spend money on breeding.

Breeding of breeding pigs is a regular source of income for professional pig farmers. Li Long still remembers that in two years, there will be people raising breeding pigs. At the turn of spring and summer, they will drive the breeding pigs from door to door in the countryside looking for breeding partners. At that time, the money was not as expensive as it is now. Five or ten yuan for one breeding - a considerable daily income.

"Old man went to the field to check on the sunflowers." Du Chunfang said with a smile, "Have you sold all the fish? Your father said the sunflowers are growing well this year - your eldest brother said you brought back a lot of manure in the spring, which will be of great use."

"Well, there is a lot of manure in the mountains. When the sunflowers and corn are harvested, we will have to go and get a few more carts. This land will not be used for several years or even decades, so the manure will provide food for our family." Li Long said casually. He put the cart in place and went to the well to fetch water.

"Don't drink the cold water. There's green bean soup drying in the house." Du Chunfang thought Li Long wanted to drink well water, so she said hurriedly, "You just came back from outside and are sweating all over. You can't drink this cold water. Don't get irritated."

"Mom, I know. I'll just wipe my face. The road is very dusty." Li Long smiled, picked up the basin, washed his face, and then returned to the kitchen.

There is a pot of thin mung bean soup hanging in the kitchen. Some people like to drink the soup, while others like to drink the soup base with sand in it.

Li Long scooped a bowl of soup and drank it, but he still felt unsatisfied, so he drank another bowl.

Looking at the mung bean soup that he had finished half of, Li Long searched in the kitchen and found some mung beans. He took them out, rinsed them with water, and started cooking them in a pot.

"Why are you still cooking? It's already here." Du Chunfang was a little puzzled.

"That's not enough." Li Long said with a smile, "My dad, my elder brother, and Juan and Qiangqiang, who wouldn't drink a little when they come back? This is different from watermelon... It's okay to have more."

He has always been curious about one question: why is the mung bean soup cooked at that time green, while the mung bean soup cooked in later generations is red?

A pot of mung bean soup was cooked. Li Long served the soup and was washing the pot when Li Qingxia walked into the yard holding a sickle.

"Dad, why don't you ride a bike?" Li Long asked with a smile.

"I dare not ride recklessly. The road is not good. If I get pricked by a camel thorn, I will have to fix it. It's troublesome." After the last time Li Qingxia had a punctured tire, he began to protect his bicycle carefully.

"How about sunflower seeds?" Li Long asked.

"It's good. It's almost dry and can be tied up." Li Qingxia said, "Some sparrows have started to eat the melon seeds. If they don't work, we can just tie them up."

At that time, there were no harvesters. Harvesting sunflowers, or harvesting anything, was basically done manually. Each person had a sack or urea bag and a sickle. Each person was responsible for a row. Those who wanted to save trouble would just cut off the heads of the sunflowers and put them in the bag and continue moving forward.

Of course, the more skillful ones usually use sickles to cut down the stalks after harvesting the sunflower heads. When all the sunflowers are harvested, the stalks are dried in the field, and then they are tied up with reeds and taken back as firewood.

For a long time, sunflower stalks and corn stalks were the main source of fuel for farmers in this team in the summer.

In winter, it is naturally tamarisk, saxaul, firewood and coal.

There are a lot of sparrows at this time, as the season for eating insects has passed. They mainly eat wheat, sunflowers and corn. According to common sayings, old sparrows at this time are more delicious because they are no longer eating insects but food, so it is not a pity to kill them.

"In that case, it won't be long before we harvest them," Li Long said, calculating that the season was almost here.

He thought of a famous oil sunflower variety called "Dwarf Big Head" in his previous life. The stem was 1.12 meters high, nearly half the height of the current one. People didn't even need to raise their heads to cut the stem, they just cut it flat. The flower disk of that thing was also very large. For example, a sunflower disk of 20 centimeters in diameter is usually considered quite large now, but the Dwarf Big Head could grow to 30 or even 40 centimeters. The seeds were also large.

There was a time when all the sunflowers planted by the team were of this variety.

But later, because cotton was an economic crop, not only had a protected price from the government, but also its price had skyrocketed, making some people in the team rich, so almost all the land was planted with cotton.

You won’t see short and big guys in the team anymore.

While Li Long was daydreaming, Li Qingxia had already entered the house and drank two bowls of mung bean soup. He wiped his mouth with satisfaction and said to Li Long:

"Xiaolong, how many nets do you plan to cast today?"

"Dad, how are your fish sales at the market today?"

"Normally. Fewer people are buying fish." Li Qingxia said, "It's not selling as fast as yesterday. There are at least seven or eight fish sellers in the market, and every one of them has people. Many of them are selling at a low price, so our sales are not so smooth."

"Then we should cast two fewer nets and go earlier." Li Long said, "There are many regular customers in Shicheng, and they recognize our fish. There are also several families in the team who cast nets here, and they all go to the county to sell, so the competition pressure is great."

"Okay." Li Qingxia was quite content. Even if he sold less a day, he would still earn 10 to 20 or 30 yuan. How could he not be content?
As they were talking, Tao Daqiang came in from outside. The three of them started to take the tire and get the net. The tire was a little underinflated, so Tao Daqiang pressed it, found a thin wire to poke open the soap on the tire valve core, and started to blow air.

This thing needs to be tied with rope every day, and it needs to be untied after returning from fishing. Just as the three of them were busy, they heard voices outside.

Li Long heard these words:
"The Li family is here."

"Yes, yes, that's the one. I saw Li Long come back just now."

"Are you really Li Long's wife? Hehe, there's something exciting to watch!"

"Li Long's mother and I are relatives, and I agreed to marry Li Long, how could it be fake..."

When he heard this, his mind buzzed.

Another old incident from the previous life was brought up.

In fact, in the previous life, Li Long's parents also came here at this time, but they didn't stay long before returning. After all, Li Long was a nobody in the previous life, Li Jianguo was also busy, and Du Chunfang favored the youngest son and had a bad relationship with Liang Yuemei.

There was no Lao Ma Hao at that time, and it was difficult to accommodate so many people in three rooms, so in the end my parents went back.

Before going back, Du Chunfang secretly told Li Long that she had introduced a girl to him. She was a relative from her mother's side, of course a distant relative, about five, six, seven or eight generations away, from the same village, and they were a family for many decades.

After being dumped by Wu Shufen, Li Long still wanted to reconcile with the girl, so he refused. But he didn't expect that after Du Chunfang and the others returned, the girl came back from her hometown to find Li Long.

But what is more dramatic is that the girl is actually quite thoughtful. Before coming to find Li Long, she first asked about Li Long's situation in the team. When she knew that Li Long was not a worker now and did not work properly, she came over and explained everything to Li Long.

She said that although the elders of both families hoped for the best for the two of them, she met a positive young man on the way here. Free love was popular in that era, so she hoped to make things clear with Li Long, not interfere with each other, and each find their own happiness.

This girl was not Li Long's type, so Li Long agreed. He also felt that she was quite opinionated.

It was not until several years later that I slowly pieced together the truth of the matter. The girl was not looking for true love, but the other person had a clear goal and was not interested in me.

But now, he has come to my door and the meaning of his words is very clear - he wants to find out my background clearly!
Li Long panicked at first, not because he was worried that the matter would be difficult to resolve, but mainly because he was afraid that Gu Xiaoxia would misunderstand!
He suddenly thought of Gu Boyuan, then turned and ran.

There were no other houses outside the east wall of Li's house at that time - according to the residential land in the settlement, usually two houses were side by side, one with the east gate and the other with the west gate. However, at that time, the place was large and everyone wanted to have their own door and house, so the east side of Li's house was empty.

Li Long ran directly out from the east and ran towards the Gu family.

This matter will definitely reach Gu Xiaoxia's ears in the end. No matter what happens in the end, if I say it myself, it will easily cause misunderstanding.

So, let's deal with the future father-in-law first, then things will be easier.

This is what Li Long thinks.

When he went around to the main road behind from the east, he looked back at the gate of his house and saw several aunts, sisters-in-law and young wives gathered at the gate, seeming to be there to watch him make a fool of himself.

Although the people in the village come from various backgrounds, they basically live their lives behind closed doors according to their own family traditions. The habits brought from various places do not need to be spread, and there are not so many old customs and habits. But to be honest, it is a common problem that people cannot stand seeing people around them living too well.

Is the Li family living a good life? Of course, it is very good. And it seems to be better than that of ordinary families.

There are less than six bicycles in the whole village, and the Li family has only two!
There were less than ten horse-drawn carriages and donkey-drawn carts in the whole village, and the Li family had one.

There were less than twenty pigs in the whole village, and the Li family owned half of them.

Not to mention anything else, these alone are enough to make some people jealous.

Of course, it was just jealousy. Everyone knew that this was the result of hard work. So even if they were jealous, such despicable things rarely happened, even in the next few decades.

For example, there is a lot of talk on the Internet that if the fish pond makes money, someone will sprinkle some pesticides or something... but that really doesn't happen.

Because in the 1990s, the small lake was washed away. After the large lake was contracted out, someone actually contracted a piece of wasteland between the small lake and the large lake behind the village, dug more than a dozen fish ponds, and raised fish.

At first everyone laughed at it and wondered if this could make money.
They have trucks and can send the fish they raise directly to Wucheng to sell, and they can actually make money.

After making money, he would occasionally ask the well-known "fishermen" in the village to help clean the pond bottom. Of course, he would pay them, and not only pay them, but also give them fish.

These fish were still being raised until the year Li Longren passed away.

Someone on the north bank of Dahaizi contracted to raise crabs in iron cages, and the team would catch some crabs that escaped from the cages at night on the south bank of Dahaizi. At most, they would catch as many as 50 or 61 kilograms and sell them at the market—and then they would be reported.

Even so, no one sprays pesticides into the water - there really is no such thing as extinction of the family line.

But watching the fun is different – ​​your Li family can make more money than others and live better, but others are not allowed to watch your family’s fun?
That's impossible.

Li Long understood these people's thoughts too well. They just wanted to create misunderstandings between the Li and Gu families. Of course, if it wasn't a misunderstanding, that would be even better. It would prove that Li Long was a scumbag. The Li family, in name only, was the head of the village, but in fact, they were doing immoral things secretly, and their reputation would be ruined.

Li Long rushed to Gu's house.

Gu Boyuan is not here.

Although Li Long vaguely remembered where the Gu family's land was, he didn't dare to go there - he had to pass the residential area ahead and might bump into it if he wasn't careful. He still had to let Gu Boyuan know the truth of the matter as soon as possible, at least to avoid making such a bad first impression.

But what should I do if Gu Boyuan is not here?
Li Long was so anxious that he was walking around in the yard. After waiting for a while, he saw that Gu Boyuan had not come back yet, so he strode out.

Can't wait.

(End of this chapter)