Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 292: Another brand in this world

Xu Chengjun originally wanted to go to work, but he obviously felt that Li Long's matter was more important, so he simply carried a shovel, found two young men, and took Li Long to the homestead site marked out for Li Long.

"Look, there's a pit in front of your brother's front yard. It's not suitable, so I won't mark it for you. Further ahead is the safflower field planted by your brother and your group. The land here is fertile, unlike some places that are all alkaline. Your homestead is marked here. Further ahead are the vegetable plots and wheat fields of each family. The little space left in the middle can't be marked out for a homestead, so I'll leave a passage for everyone to go to the vegetable field, about 20 to 30 meters, and the rest of the land is all marked out for you."

Xu Chengjun talked to himself and settled the matter.

The few people who came with him also thought it was normal and took it for granted.

The two tasks that Li Long brought to the team may bring him some benefits. At most, everyone will envy him, but definitely not be jealous.

It is normal for capable people to eat meat and incapable people to eat steamed bread. Moreover, Li Long did not eat alone. The changes brought to the team by the two big jobs were obvious to all. Not to mention the first one, which made those ten people rich, but the second one benefited every household in the village.

Moreover, Xu Chengjun has said privately more than once that as long as Li Long is in the team, there will definitely be more jobs like this in the future. He has connections, so we have to keep him in the team. If someone does something bad to Li Long and takes him away, then Xu Chengjun will be the first to disagree.

Therefore, these young people had no objection to Xu Chengjun allocating such a large piece of residential land to Li Long. Instead, they all gave suggestions, such as building a few rows of houses, building a large enclosure to raise things, and planting some corn in it when growing vegetables...

Li Long responded with a smile, and then watched the young men hammer four pegs into the four corners of the field. He also pulled the two little brothers in front of him, otherwise, these two would only leave 20 meters of road ahead to the vegetable garden.

Then how come my residential land is more than four acres?

It's bigger than two of their yards.

What they give us belongs to them, we can't just accept it like that.

Finally, Li Long calculated with his steps and found that this residential land was at least one acre larger than that of his eldest brother's.

In fact, these days, except for the old village in the west, the housing plots of the other two settlements are somewhat random. When the settlements are merged in 20 years, each family will have a fixed housing plot of 1.7 mu, including the house and yard.

And now, Li Jianguo’s yard must be more than two acres.

Li Long's is even bigger, about three acres, of course this is just the framework. If you want to build a house, you still need to go through many steps.

"Xiaolong, when are you going to build this house?"

"Next year. It will be next year anyway." Li Long said, "Let's put it aside for this year."

To build a house, you must first lay the foundation, dig out the bad soil on the surface, then find good soil and lay a thick layer. The final foundation of the house should be much higher than the ground.

This is all manual labor, and there is no replacement. It is not like later generations who can just cast the trough with cement. It was still quite troublesome at that time. Of course, this is just the first procedure. Li Long remembered that Li Jianguo once proudly said that the soil for the foundation of the Li family's current house alone took more than 200 carts - horse-drawn carts.

That’s a lot!
"Xiaolong, when you start construction next year, pick a slack season in the farm and go to the mountains to get two wild guys. I'll call out to you through the loud speaker and I guarantee a lot of people will come, and it will be done for you in a few days."

"That will be no problem!" Li Long actually thought so, "There will be plenty of meat by then!"

"That's all right." A young man said with a smile, "Li Long, your hunting skills are really amazing. Let's go to the mountains in winter to have a look..."

"Well, bring your guns and get your bullets ready. I saw a brown bear a while ago," Li Long knew that if he said something to discourage others, he would be misunderstood, "and a pack of wolves. There are a lot of things in the mountains, but with a gun and two more people, it will be easy to fight as long as we find something."

"Really? Then we'll go after the militia training is finished." The young man was tempted.

"Don't listen to what Xiaolong said." Xu Chengjun interrupted him directly, "He was able to find it because he has friends in the mountains, and someone told him where the thing is. You guys go? It would be strange if you don't get lost in the mountains!

Have you forgotten what happened last year? When we really go into the mountains, it's not as easy as you think. Bears can pounce on people, and wolves eat people. Xiaolong's ability to fight is a skill. He told you that he is easy to fight because he is being modest. You took it seriously, then you are stupid! "

Xu Chengjun's words made the young men feel a little embarrassed, and Li Long also smiled.

Xu Chengjun still sees things clearly.

"Xiaolong, that's enough. I'm going to take the people back. Don't worry about this pile. No one will dare to touch it. The director of your sister-in-law's village is a fool! Can people pull out the stakes for dividing the land and replant them? If anyone dares to do this in our team, I will squeeze the shit out of him!"

Xu Chengjun's words were very domineering, and Li Long believed that he could do it. This confidence came from his experience as a militia company commander, his understanding of the villagers, and of course everyone's support for him.

It is said that poor and bad mountains and rivers produce unruly people, but in this place it is actually the other way around.

Li Long's village, from the time it was founded until Li Long's death in his previous life, actually felt like a self-contained system. You can imagine that for decades, there was no one to file a complaint in the village, and if there was any problem, the village would solve it directly on its own.

There are definitely disputes, and some people call the police to come and resolve them. There have also been cases where people have lost everything in gambling.

But most people in this village are sensible, and the mainstream of the village is actually concerned about how to live a good life and take care of their own families.

The village where the Liang family lived was closer to the county town, and the people there had a stronger sense of superiority, but every year there were people from the village who went to the prefecture and autonomous region to petition. Some of these old troublemakers really gave the village a headache.

Of course, the village official at that time was also confused and didn't know what was going on, so there was nothing that could be done.

The village where Li Long lives is just like Xu Chengjun, including the people behind him. If there is any problem, the benefits will be exposed. As long as you do good things for the villagers, everyone will know that you have taken benefits and will not say anything.

For example, the job of tying big brooms that Li Long introduced, didn't anyone guess that Li Long got some benefits from it?

There are many people who can guess it. But no one will say it, let alone report it to the supply and marketing cooperative. That's because Li Long really provided convenience to everyone and made everyone earn money.

In the following 30 or 40 years, there were many such incidents, and everyone got used to it. So when people from other villages heard about the incidents, they would come and encourage the villagers to petition the government or call the hotline.

Then the people in the village will look at you like fools.

You can say this is peasant-style cunning, or a circle of small-peasant thinking, but for the locals, living a good life is enough. How much benefit someone gets depends on their ability. If you don't have the ability, they put all the money out in the open for you to earn, and you earn money and then sue them, then you are really like eating with a bowl in your hand and cursing after putting down your chopsticks, you are not a human being.

Xu Chengjun led his men away, and Li Long just looked at the area. The safflower trees had been cut and taken back to feed the animals or burn for firewood. The land had not been plowed yet. This piece of land was the group's own land. At present, the village's tractors were mainly used to plow the land and sow winter wheat, so they couldn't take care of it.

He simply thought about it and returned to the Li family. Let's talk about it next year.

"Xiaolong, we have brought back the beets. I need to take good care of them with your sister-in-law. You and Daqiang go catch the fish and sell them in the back. I'm not going for now." Li Jianguo told Li Long about this during lunch.

"Okay, I see there are quite a lot of beets to be dug," Li Long said with a smile, "enough to keep you busy for a while."

"Well, I plan to dig a vegetable cellar at the east end and put some beets in it," Li Jianguo said. "Anyway, we have reeds and wood ready-made, so we can just dig."

"We have to find a good spot. Don't dig two or three meters and find water. That would be troublesome."

"Yes, I know."

This was settled. In the afternoon, Li Long and Tao Daqiang continued to go fishing, and on the way they met Yang Yongqiang, who was also carrying a net and heading to the small lake.

"Yongqiang, have you ever gone online before?" The three of them became closer because of what happened before.

Yang Yongqiang was not tall, less than 1.7 meters, but he looked quite smart. When he heard Li Long's question, he said:

"No, my hometown is Gansu. I was still young when I came here with my father. There was no water in my hometown, and I had never eaten fish."

"So you learned how to surf the Internet by yourself?" Li Long asked. "Tell me how you did it?"

"Just go to the water's edge, spread out the nets, and find a place to tie them up on both sides." Yang Yongqiang knew that Li Long was an expert in this area, and there must be a reason for him asking this, so he answered.

"When you cast the net later, tie one end and leave the other end untied, so that the net is looser." Li Long said, "How many nets will you cast?"

"Originally there was one, but now there are two."

"How many fish can a net catch?"

"Two or three basins, oh, that's two or three kilograms."

"Okay, you can try what I said. The net must be loosened."

When they reached the dam, Li Long and Tao Daqiang walked up. Yang Yongqiang whispered to Li Long:
"Brother Long, I won't tell anyone else!"

Li Long smiled and said nothing. This is just a piece of window paper, someone will figure it out.

Yang Yongqiang took the net, found a trough, and walked into the water wearing his shoes.

He had already seen Meng Zhiqiang setting up the net on the other side, which was still tied at both ends.

He wondered if this was Li Long's secret to catching so many fish.

Originally everyone had the same idea, which was to stretch the network cable as much as possible so that the distance would be longer and there would be more chances to catch fish.

But Li Long said that the network cable should be loosened. Doesn't that mean that a 50-meter network can only be extended to 30 or 40 meters at most?

But since Li Long said so, let’s just do it.

Li Long was not unfamiliar with going back to Xiaohaizi to catch fish. He pushed the tire into the water and was about to take the net bag to lower the net.

Tao Daqiang hurriedly stopped him:

"Brother Long, can I try?"

"You? Sure." Li Long smiled and handed the net bag to Tao Daqiang, "Have you done it before?"

"Been there."

Tao Daqiang was still a little embarrassed, "I still can't use my mouth to release the net, but I want to practice more. It may take a little longer."

"That's fine. You put the nets out and I'll see if there are any holes made by water rats. If not, I'll cast a few more nets and go back to cook some fish. Juan and Qiangqiang love it."

"Okay." Tao Daqiang sat on the tire, pressed the tire down, and then skillfully paddled the tire towards the deep water.

Li Long took a look and found that Tao Daqiang could really use his mouth to lower the net, but his hands and mouth did not coordinate well. When he lowered the net, he could not row the tire, so the tire easily spun in circles.

He smiled and said that it was the same when he practiced before. It was normal. He should be able to do it with more practice.

He began to walk along the water's edge, and then he saw two holes that looked like those of water rats, but he didn't see any green feces, and he didn't know whether they had been cleaned or flooded by rising water.

After a walk, Li Long took out the casting net, found an open water surface and started casting the net.

It had been a while since he had cast the net, so the first net Li Long cast was not very round. After the net fell into the water, he slowly pulled it up. Li Long looked at the three or five crucian carps under the net and felt a little disappointed.

There are far fewer fish near the water.

The largest crucian carp weighs only 200 grams. Although it is quite big, it is difficult for Li Long to be satisfied.

The only good thing is that this fish is really beautiful, much more beautiful than the fish in the sea.

Li Long took the fish in his hand, feeling the fish's body sliding unyieldingly, trying to struggle to jump out. He thought, it would definitely taste good if he grilled it later.

I changed the place and cast two more nets, and finally caught five black streaks as long as a chopstick, which was considered a good harvest.

He looked up. If he had cast the nets himself, all six would have been cast by now. Judging from the distance Tao Daqiang cast the nets, he should have only cast two.

Yang Yongqiang walked over from the north along the dam and watched Li Long casting the net. After a few minutes he said to Li Long:
"Brother Long, I know you have dug water rats. I have seen badger holes in the east. Do you want to dig them?"

"Where is it? Are you sure there is a badger?" Li Long asked while collecting the net.

"Yes. I saw that fat badger going in. It didn't look like it could run very fast, but I couldn't catch up with it. It was too fast..."

"Well, where is it? If it's not far, we can go and dig after we get out of the nets."

Most people in the north know that snake oil and badger oil are good medicines for treating burns and scalds, so having some of these things at home is a treasure.

Li Long has never encountered this before in this life. Now that he has accurate information, he naturally wants to go and take a look.

"Okay. When Daqiang comes out later, put your things down and I'll take you there."

"I don't know how many there are in there." Li Long said, "These things are very fat. It would be best if there are three or five in a nest so that each of us can have one. If there is only one, then I will just need some oil."

“No, no, no, let’s split it equally.” Yang Yongqiang waved his hands hastily, “I can’t dig it out by myself, and I don’t feel comfortable asking other people to do it…”

Li Long understood his psychology.

(End of this chapter)