Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Jianguo came back the next morning.

"There was a train passing by our hometown at midnight yesterday. I bought the tickets and sent my parents and the girl on the train." Li Jianguo said to Li Long while eating breakfast in the courtyard. "When we arrived in Wucheng yesterday, she tried to run away. I chased her back and even alerted the police. Fortunately, they didn't bother us after they found out the truth."

Li Long didn't expect that there would be such a thing. It was a bit surprising that the police didn't intervene. Normally, this kind of "forced" sending of people home should be handled. Of course, no matter how good it is, after all, if they do intervene, it will be quite troublesome later.

"Have you told Dad? Will you send a telegram back when you get home?"

"I did." Li Jianguo said, "Dad said to send the girl home and explain everything to her. Dad said that if there is nothing wrong in his hometown, he will come over. I said that if he wants to come, it would be best to bring mom with him. The winter in my hometown is too cold, and there is no stove, and the house is drafty..."

Li Long nodded hurriedly and did not agree anymore.

Anyway, he didn't want to go back in winter.

After breakfast, Li Jianguo harnessed the carriage and was about to go back. Li Long thought about it and decided to go back too. There was nothing to do here, so he might as well go back and sell those Cynomorium songaricum and catch some fish for a few more days. Autumn is a quiet period, and there is not much to do.

The two brothers returned to the team. Li Long was a little uncomfortable seeing the empty yard. Li Juan and Li Qiang went to school. Usually there were two elderly people at home, but now it was empty.

"Xiaolong, take care of your own business. Your sister-in-law should have gone to the fields. I'll go check on her."

"Brother, will you bring the carriage?"

"Take it with you. I'll go get some pig grass for the pigs this afternoon."

"Okay." Li Long said, "Then I'll go to the Lao Mahao."

Normally he didn't ask about the farm work, and it wasn't time to pick corn and pick sunflowers yet. Of course, Li Long had to participate in the harvest - his parents weren't around, and he couldn't just let his eldest brother and his wife do the work.

Li Long rode his bicycle to Laomahao, loaded two sacks of Cynomorium songaricum and went to the county medicinal materials company. After selling them with ease, he returned to the team and pulled two more sacks to sell.

When I came back after dark, there were still five sacks of Cynomorium songaricum left in the warehouse.

Sell ​​the rest tomorrow.

Old Uncle Luo smiled and asked Li Long:
"I heard that a girl came here from her hometown to look for you?"

"You heard about it?" Li Long said unhappily, "Uncle Luo, this news spreads very quickly, you already know about it."

"That is true?"

"It's half true and half false." Li Long didn't want to say more, "My parents took people back to their hometown. My mother was just joking, but they took it seriously."

Seeing that Li Long didn't want to talk more, Uncle Luo stopped talking about this topic. Li Long saw that the wild boar grew very fast. Although it was not as big as the domestic pigs in the Li family's yard, each one weighed about 40 kilograms, which was considered an adult wild boar.

But the constant noise made the brick walls push down the skin, and the constant crowing could not save any weight.

It seems that wild boars are not raised now. Meat without fat cannot be sold.

But since you are raising it, you have to at least keep it until winter before you can sell it.

The roe deer's leg had not fully recovered, leaving it with a lifelong disability. But now it had grown a little taller and was eating grass.

Li Long thought that if he had a chance to catch another one alive, he would bring it back and give it a companion. He thought that the two deer had sold for a lot of money, which was much more valuable than wild boars.

I'll have to go around the mountains more in the early spring of next year to see if I can see the fawn again.

While he was thinking about this, Tao Daqiang came over.

"Brother Long, aren't you going to log off the internet today?"

"No fishing today." Li Long waved his hand. "I'm not in the mood. I'll go clean up the Cynomorium in this warehouse tomorrow. There shouldn't be many people digging Cynomorium now. I'll sell the rest and go fishing again tomorrow afternoon."

"Okay." Just a specific time will do.

"Daqiang, you can also go fishing and sell fish yourself, right?" Li Long asked Tao Daqiang, "You went to sell fish with my grandfather a few days ago, so you have some experience, right?"

"No, I'm not as good as Uncle Li." Tao Daqiang waved his hand, "Uncle Li can handle those people who come to sell fish, but I can't."

Li Long couldn't figure out what "can't handle it" meant, but since Tao Daqiang didn't want to, he didn't force it. He changed the subject:

"Daqiang, are the crops in your fields about to be harvested?"

"It's almost done. The sunflowers have turned yellow. We can harvest them after working for a while." Tao Daqiang is very clear about the housework. "We'll have to wait a little longer for the remaining corn."

There are only two people in the Tao family, and four acres of land is not much, so both sunflower and corn can be harvested in one day.

Li Long originally thought of taking a horse-drawn carriage to sell the remaining Cynomorium songaricum the next day, but later he decided to ride a bicycle. He was used to riding a bicycle, and the speed of the horse-drawn carriage was a bit unbearable for him.

Because he had to carry things, he couldn't take two children with him, so Li Long deliberately delayed the time and set off only when the two children were about to arrive at school.

I sold all the remaining Cynomorium songaricum that day, earning nearly 1,000 yuan in two days. After deducting the cost, I made about 400 yuan.

A small fortune.

Li Long hadn't thought about what to do at first, but when those people came to his house to watch the fun that day, Li Long realized that most of them had pink eye, so he decided to buy a TV.

He went to the department store but found that the TV was out of stock. He asked around and found that it would cost a lot of industrial tickets to buy a TV.

Li Long didn't want to ask Li Xiangqian for tickets again as he had asked for them too many times, so he went to the Cultural Palace Club to look for ticket scalpers, but he couldn't find any.

Let's stop for a moment.

Li Long rode his bike back to the team somewhat disappointed.

Let’s catch fish and make money first.

When he came back, the students were just leaving school, and Li Long found Li Juan and Li Qiang who were on the way. He asked Li Juan to sit in the back, and Li Qiang to sit on the big bar, and they pedaled home in the envious eyes of the students.

When he came back, Li Long was surprised to find that a road was being built at the place where the reed ditch was gathered, and the people who were building the road were a group of soldiers.

Li Long guessed that it was an engineer - he vaguely remembered an event from that era.

It seemed that there was an engineering corps repairing something to the east of the production team, and a small corps stayed in the team for a while. He didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and later, as time went by, he no longer remembered it.

As for whether the road was built or not, I have no impression.

Judging from the current situation, not only the road needs to be repaired, but also the bridge needs to be built - this is a good thing. With respect for these people, Li Long crossed the reed ditch and returned home.

After dropping Li Juan and Li Qiang off, Li Long went to cast the net with Tao Daqiang who had been waiting for him. Without one person following him, he felt a little lonely.

"Isn't it time for Uncle Li to get home soon?" Tao Daqiang suddenly asked.

"It should not have arrived yet, at least three or four days." Li Long said, "It would be good if it can arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." He thought of the planes and express trains he took to travel to Kouli in his later life. The speed was so fast... Just wait patiently, it will arrive one day.

There is less water in the small lake. The wheat has been harvested, and the sunflowers and corn do not need watering, so there is less water here. We have to wait for a while until the winter wheat is sown, when the water will be full, and then we can water again.

Thinking of this, Li Long thought of another thing. Something big might happen in Dahaizi in early winter, so we must pay attention to it.

He secretly reminded himself to pay attention to this matter, and then prepared to cast the net.

Tao Daqiang also took off his shirt. Li Long was a little confused and asked:
"Daqiang, what are you doing?"

"I swam over and lowered the basin. There's plenty of fish in this basin."

That’s right, loaches are still quite popular in the market now.

In the distance, Meng Zhiqiang and his friends heard that the old man of the Li family had returned to his hometown, and they were all very happy. The market in the county is so small, and the Li family went to sell dozens of kilograms of fish early, so there were not many customers for the rest who wanted to buy fish. Their fish sold slowly.

Now that the old man of the Li family is not around, and Li Long doesn't think highly of the county market, it will be easier to sell the fish.

On Saturday afternoon, Gu Xiaoxia rode her bicycle as usual, returning with the things she bought for her father.

When she was passing by the village and about to turn east, she unexpectedly saw a person, Wu Shufen.

What surprised Gu Xiaoxia a little was that Wu Shufen seemed to have a bigger belly.

She was wearing a flowered dress, standing under the shade of a tree, watching people passing by. When she saw Gu Xiaoxia, she was obviously a little excited.

"Xiaoxia?"

Gu Xiaoxia got out of the car and pushed it to Wu Shufen.

"Shufen, why are you standing here? It's windy. Why aren't you at home?"

"I have nothing to do, so I just walk around outside." Wu Shufen touched her belly and said with a smile:
"You come back once a week now, right? Do you know that something big happened in the team?"

"What's the matter?" Gu Xiaoxia understood what Wu Shufen was talking about after hearing her slightly gloating tone. "Did you say that someone came from his hometown to look for Li Long?"

"You know?" Wu Shufen was shocked. "How did you know?"

"Of course Li Long told me." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "He didn't hide it from me."

"He still dares to say that? Isn't he afraid that you will be angry?"

"Why are you angry? It's not his fault." Gu Xiaoxia pushed the car forward to avoid the sun shining on her. "The person has been sent back. It was just a misunderstanding."

"Then you are so generous." Wu Shufen didn't expect Gu Xiaoxia to be so nonchalant about the matter. She said in a somewhat sarcastic tone, "It's just a pity for that girl."

"What's so pitiful about that?" Gu Xiaoxia now understood. "She has never met Li Long, but she dared to run here based on a word. She was so decisive. What's so pitiful about that? This is not ancient times. Can a person's life be decided based on a word? Now it's a new society. People are free to fall in love. Parents' words don't count. You have to choose the right person yourself."

Wu Shufen was choked. She originally wanted to see a joke, but almost ended up being fed a mouthful of dog food.

"So how is your relationship now?" Wu Shufen was still a little unwilling to give up, "Didn't you meet someone better in the city? After all, Li Long doesn't have a job."

"He has a job." Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "He has always had a position in the supply and marketing cooperative, but he didn't want to be bound by restrictions, so he didn't tell anyone. We have a good relationship, and I have to thank you very much! If you hadn't let go, I really wouldn't have seen his good side--!"

These words almost choked Wu Shufen to death.

Gu Xiaoxia had already heard that Wu Shufen was trying to deceive her, so how could she possibly let her succeed?
"How is your life after you got married?" Gu Xiaoxia asked Wu Shufen.

"My husband and mother-in-law are so nice to me." Wu Shufen said with a smile, "They don't let me do any work. I'm bored all day long..."

"Shufen, Shufen!"

A woman's voice came from the yard over there:

"Shufen, Shufen! Where have you been? You didn't even wash the dishes or the clothes. You just keep being lazy..."

Gu Xiaoxia almost couldn't hold back her laughter when she heard the shout. She said hurriedly:

"Someone is looking for you at home. I'm leaving now."

Along the way, thinking about how Li Long would cook for her from time to time, and then thinking about Wu Shufen's current situation, Gu Xiaoxia was really glad that Wu Shufen let go, and that she did not retreat.

On the fifth day after Li Qingxia returned, he sent back a telegram. The content of the telegram was very simple, only about ten words, saying that he had arrived home safely and the matter had been resolved.

Looking at the telegram, Li Jianguo sighed and said:
"We had originally planned to wait until after the Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate the reunion festival. Now, we are divided into two sides again."

"Then we have to be prepared. After the autumn harvest and winter wheat planting in our hometown, who knows which relative will come to attack us." Li Long interjected, "When my parents go back, they will definitely do something big. The Du family girl might spread the news about our family's situation. If the relatives know about it, and some of them are having a hard time in their hometown, how can they not come?"

"There is nothing we can do if they want to come." Li Jianguo sighed, "When I came for the second time, my eldest brother (cousin) from the town commune paid for half of the ticket. There were people stopping us along the way. If my eldest brother told me to get out, I couldn't get out either, and you couldn't come later. If a relative really comes, we should help him."

"Well, that's true." Li Long occasionally heard Li Jianguo say that at that time, each province had very strict control over people leaving the province, and usually people were not allowed to leave without a letter of introduction.

But with that little land in my hometown, it was still difficult to have enough food in those days. It was also thanks to my eldest brother who came here and put down roots that I had a place to stay.

Later, this place became like a transit station, helping and supporting one relative after another.

At the beginning, Li Long thought that he should not cause this trouble, but now think about it, come on, it's just a matter of having two more chopsticks and two more mouths.

With Lao Mahao, there is no problem with where to live. With money in hand and food in the warehouse, there is definitely enough food to live.

Li Long found that his mentality had changed unconsciously. Maybe it was because he had money, resources, and confidence.

Knowing that my parents have returned home safely, I feel relieved. Li Long caught and sold fish every day for a while, and ate with Gu Xiaoxia in the yard at noon. Gu Xiaoxia talked about what she said when she met Wu Shufen, and Li Long smiled and said nothing.

If you are not envied, you are a mediocre person - maybe now, in the eyes of others, I am not an ordinary person, right? (End of this chapter)