Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Anguo was not a fool. He could see that his brother did not take his words seriously. He said as he and Li Long walked out:
"Xiaolong, don't think I'm talking too much. You are not alone now. You have a family, a young wife, and a small child. If something happens, won't the family fall apart?"

Li Long listened to his second brother's pertinent words. Although they were not pleasant to hear, they were truly for his own good. He nodded seriously and said as he walked, "Second brother, I understand."

Li Long only took action when he knew he could knock down those people. He was strong and quick to react, so he was really confident.

But my second brother doesn’t know, and swords and guns are blind, so there might be an accident.

It's never wrong to be careful.

Seeing that Li Long listened sincerely, Li Anguo smiled, and the two brothers walked towards the jeep together.

Chen Lirong, Xue Ping, Xue Qin were waiting beside the jeep with two large bags at their feet.

The three of them were all wearing headscarves and thick clothes, and many people passing by looked at them curiously.

Seeing Li Anguo and Li Long coming, the two children immediately ran over with a smile.

"Uncle!"

"Hello, uncle!"

"Okay, okay, let's go, get in the car, it's cold outside." Li Long squatted down, picked up the two children, one in each hand, and walked towards the car with a smile.

Putting the child down and opening the car door with the key, Li Long put the bag in the trunk and Li Anguo arranged for his wife and child to get in the car. Xue Ping and Xue Qin both wanted to sit in the front, but Li Anguo denied it. Li Long told him that the front passenger seat was still quite dangerous and it was better for the child to sit in the back.

After all the people and bags were on the bus, Li Long started the car, turned a corner in front of the bus station, then drove west to the intersection, turned right and headed directly north, and drove straight down.

There were few cars and people on the road, and the car was driving fast and steadily.

"Is everything okay at home?" Li Anguo asked, "Are your parents in good health? How are your two children?"

"Everything is fine. My parents are in good health, and my two children are in good health too. They can eat and sleep well." Li Long said, "When will you start work?"

"It will be almost done after the Chinese New Year. Some indoor work can already be started. The Chinese New Year is late this year, and we have rested for several months. It is time to start working. Otherwise, some people's families will have a hard time just paying the basic salary."

We drove the jeep all the way home and met a few people who had returned from the county after buying New Year's goods. It was rare to buy New Year's goods at this time.

The jeep drove directly to Li Long's front yard, where the stove was set up and the house was tidied up, so Li Anguo and the others could move in first.

The sporadic sound of firecrackers in the village had been going on since noon and had never stopped. Although not as extravagant as in later generations, with a continuous series of sound, the "bang" and "pop" sounds could still be heard throughout the village.

The air is filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, which is also a kind of New Year atmosphere.

Li Anguo and his wife put their things away and went to the backyard together.

Xueping and Xueqin had already run to the backyard to play with Li Juan and Li Qiang.

The children's feelings are pure. They know that they are relatives and very close to each other, so even though they haven't seen each other for a while, they are closer.

At that time, due to the underdeveloped transportation, relatives rarely visited each other. Visiting relatives was a big event, and having relatives come to one's home was also a big event.

Children will even happily show off to their friends that “relatives have come to our house.”

Of course, it is hard to say whether this was because relatives brought delicious food.

After Li Anguo and Chen Lirong put their things down, they went to the backyard with Li Long to meet their parents. Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang were also very happy to see their second son back, and they pulled him into the house to chat for a while. Li Jianguo also came over, and the room was almost full, so Li Long returned to his front yard.

The child is young and Gu Xiaoxia cannot be left alone to look after him. Li Long thought that she might also want to go out for a walk.

"I'm fine staying in the house." Gu Xiaoxia didn't want to go out in the village. She became a government official, and she couldn't talk to other people in the village except her family. Besides, other people looked at her differently, so she simply didn't want to go out.

Although she really wanted to go see her father now, she knew that the current rules were not appropriate, so she decided to wait until the second day of the New Year.

Li Long guessed what Gu Xiaoxia was thinking and asked:

"Should I take you to see Uncle Gu?"

"No." Gu Xiaoxia shook her head. "It doesn't matter if I go one day. Besides, I've seen my dad every day for a while. He's fine. He might be busy preparing things now. If I go, it will only cause trouble."

"Okay, then I'll go there the day after tomorrow morning." Li Long nodded. When Gu Boyuan was working at the agricultural supplies store, they had lunch together in the courtyard every day. It was really not like Li Anguo who often didn't see each other.

At around seven o'clock, Li Juan came to the front yard to call Li Long and his family to eat. Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia went over, each holding a child. By this time, Haohao was already quite old and no longer needed to lie down and be looked after.

However, they were still a little restless during mealtimes, so Li Long wondered whether he should make a folding dining chair for the two children, as seen in later generations. This way, the adults could be free and put complementary food on the tray in front of the chair for the children, and they would actively eat it.

Well, we can do it after the New Year.

The dinner was very sumptuous, more sumptuous than most people's New Year's Eve dinners at this time. There was not enough room for many people, so they had one table in the east room and one in the west room. The east room was for men, and the west room was for women and children. Now there were TVs on both sides, so I could watch TV while eating, which was very beautiful.

The next day, Li Long was awakened by the sound of firecrackers before dawn. He hurriedly called Gu Xiaoxia to wake her up. Just as Gu Xiaoxia got dressed, Li Qiang ran over and knocked on the door, calling them to eat dumplings.

Because Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia had to take care of the children, this year Li Jianguo simply let the children out after eating dumplings, and asked Li Juan to take Li Qiang, Xue Ping and Xue Qin to pay New Year's greetings to the elders in the village.

Although he was young, he was older than the others in the village, so he simply didn't go there himself.

Li Juan acted like an older sister. She took the three little ones, who were all dressed warmly, and went to Lao Tian's house in the eastern residential area first. She was already grown up, so all she had to do to wish a happy new year was to shout. She shouted "Happy New Year", and Li Qiang, Xue Ping and Xue Qin followed suit with a series of shouts, which was very auspicious.

"Okay, okay, come, have some candy, pack some to take with you!" Old Tiantou was very happy. Li Juan and the others were the first group to come and pay New Year's greetings, and they were in a very good mood.

Li Qiang was a little disgusted by the fruit hard candies, but he didn't show it on the surface. He declined and only took one. Xue Ping and Xue Qin each took a handful, about four or five in total.

carry on.

The second house was Gu Boyuan's. Old Gu didn't expect that the first ones to come and pay New Year's greetings would be Li Juan and her siblings. He hadn't finished his meal yet, so he hurriedly put down his bowl and chopsticks, responded to the greetings from the little ones, and then took out the money he had already changed from his pocket and gave each of them a one-yuan bill.

Li Juan was confused. What was going on?

"Take it, we are all family, it's your New Year's money, you should take it today!" Gu Boyuan saw that the other children were looking at Li Juan, and said: "Next, this is the New Year's money, it's for the New Year, it's a celebration!"

"Oh, thank you Uncle Gu!" Li Juan emphasized.

"Hey! That's what your father taught you, right? Isn't it okay for me to be older than you?" Gu Boyuan laughed, "Give me some more candy. I don't think you guys are too interested in melon seeds and peanuts..."

The candies here at Gu Boyuan are quite diverse, including crispy candies, sorghum candies, and fruit candies. Li Qiang didn't hesitate to pick out a few of his favorite ones and put them in his pocket.

Later, Li Juan gradually got used to it. When the Tao family, Xie family, Jia family, Xu family and other families paid their New Year's greetings, they all gave them New Year's money.

Li Qiang is a man with many trivial matters. Before he went to Xie's house, he met a group of other children who were paying New Year's greetings. He asked them what they brought to Xie's house, and they boasted to him that they brought a handful of fruit candies.

As a result, when the four of them arrived, it was one dollar each, the new kind, and Li Qiang and Li Juan understood.

After leaving Xie's house, Li Juan told them not to tell anyone else and just keep it to themselves.

After Xie Yundong sent Li Juan and the others away, he simply put away the bag of lucky money he had prepared. His wife couldn't help but grumble:
"Then you're not afraid that the kids will tell others and that others will gossip about you."

"What's there to say?" Xie Yundong said nonchalantly, "How much money has he made for us? What's wrong with me giving my children New Year's money? We should put ourselves in other people's shoes. If they treat us well, we can't take it for granted."

"Then we have to work hard, right? Without us working hard, we won't make any money, right?"

"There is no such opportunity. Even if you work yourself to death, can you earn this tractor?" Xie Yundong always felt that his wife was a little narrow-minded in this regard. "There are so many people in the team, many who work harder than us, how many of them have made a lot of money? Okay, okay, it's New Year's Day, it's only four dollars, don't take it seriously, prepare the food, we have to have a drink at noon."

Near noon, the three gangs of kids met near the stable.

"Qiangqiang, how much candy did you get today?" a friend asked Li Qiang with a proud tone, "We went to more than ten stores and filled two bags with candy alone!"

He raised the two lower pockets of his coat, which were full.

"I have two bags too!" Li Qiang was not to be outdone, "Mine are all good candies!"

"What kind of good candy can be? Aren't they all fruit candies?" The friend was a little confused, "What did you put in there?" "Look, this is crispy candy, not hard at all, and it tastes delicious when you bite it. Sorghum candy..."

"I have sorghum candy too!" The child rummaged in his pocket for a while and pulled out two candies.

"I mean, I just don't like sorghum candy. Look, I have some watermelon candy here. Look how beautiful it is..." Li Qiang was also a little proud.

He originally wanted to show off that he received several yuan in New Year's money today, not counting the money given by his family.

In the morning, Li Qingxia, Li Jianguo, Li Anguo and Li Long gave their children New Year's money. This year, Li Long did not show off and followed the crowd, giving only one dollar - he had his own child, and if he gave five dollars to other children, how would they respond? The eldest brother could respond easily, but the second brother Li Anguo did not have the ability to do so.

Li Qingxia was the most generous. He gave five yuan to each child. He felt that so much money was of no use anyway. So he gave them New Year's money at this time and saw the children happy and cheerful. It was a festive occasion.

When the children came back from paying New Year's greetings, Li Qiang was the first to tell them about the families who had given them New Year's money.

Li Jianguo glanced at Li Long and said:

"Since it's been given to you, just take it and don't tell anyone about it."

Well, we can tell from the small things that this is helping the right people.

Normally, Li Long should have gone to visit the elderly in the village to pay New Year's greetings, but this year he had a child, so he spent the first day of the New Year at home. He had a reunion dinner last night, and today's lunch was a New Year's dinner.

Liang Yuemei and Chen Lirong started preparing early. The prepared food was divided into three portions. A small portion was placed in Li Qingxia and their room, and two similar portions were placed in Li Jianguo and Li Long's rooms respectively.

Li Anguo and his wife took their children to eat at Li Jianguo's place - according to Li Jianguo, anywhere is fine.

But it would be inappropriate for the elder brother to eat with his younger brother, so they went to the backyard - at this time, women and children basically still ate in the kitchen, because some adults in the village would pay New Year's greetings at noon and have a drink at the homes of the people they paid New Year's greetings.

It's hard to say they are just trying to get free drinks - being able to gather at someone's house to drink at this time shows that this family has strong appeal and is able to unite people.

So there is a table in the backyard, and a table is also prepared at Li Long's place in the front yard.

Before lunch, Mingwa rode his bicycle to Li Long's front yard, put down the bicycle without even standing it up, and shouted into the house:
"Uncle Li Long, there's a call for you!"

Li Long was somewhat surprised when he heard something in the room. He and Gu Xiaoxia were setting the table and preparing wine.

The wine was Kuitun Special Liquor brought by Li Anguo. This time, Li Anguo brought not only some snacks, but also a few bottles of Kuitun Special Liquor.

Foreign monks are better at chanting, and foreign wine is also welcome.

He was a little confused. Who could be calling at this time? It was unlikely to be from his hometown. The person calling from his hometown should be his father or eldest brother.

"Okay, Mingwa, I got it. I'll go right away." Li Long wiped his hands, grabbed a handful of candy, opened the door and stuffed it into Mingwa's hand, then said, "You go back first."

"Okay." Mingwa took the candy happily, turned the bike around and rode away.

After walking out and passing Li Jianguo's yard, Mingwa stopped, took out and looked at the candy that was obviously of higher quality. He couldn't help but peel one and put it in his mouth. Hmm, it was so delicious!
Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia something and started the jeep to go to Xu Chengjun's house.

You could smell the alcohol and the sounds of people drinking and playing finger-guessing games in the yard.

I can hear that Xu Chengjun, Xu Haijun, Xu Dejun, Xu Jianjun and others are all there. There are many members of the Xu family.

Li Long came in and others greeted him, which made Xu Jianjun feel a little embarrassed.

"Go and answer it. It's not easy to get a call from the mainland." Xu Chengjun pointed at the phone and said, "You can have a couple of drinks after you answer it."

Li Long went over and answered the phone.

"Hey!" Li Long shouted.

"Xiao Li, happy holidays!" A familiar voice came from the other side.

Hey, this is Jia Tianlong. Although the call has been transferred through many layers and is a bit distorted, it can still be heard.

"Happy holidays, Boss Jia, thank you for calling me." Li Long said with a smile, "Is everything okay at home?"

"Okay, okay, all good. How about you?"

"Alright."

While Li Long and Jia Tianlong were chatting, the sounds and movements of Xu Chengjun and the others drinking almost stopped, and their attention was all here.

"Xiao Li, let me tell you, today I am not only here to wish you a happy new year, but I also want to ask for your help with something."

"You're welcome," Li Long said with a smile.

"You know that Tianshan Snow Lotus, right?"

"Yes, we have it in Nanshan."

"Yes, yes, yes, that would be great, it's this... Let me tell you, a friend of mine is planning to make snow lotus tonic wine, and wants to import a batch of snow lotus. There is too little snow lotus on the market, so I would like to ask you for help..."

"How much do you want?" Li Long only remembered that although this thing sounded expensive, it was never sold at a high price. In 2000, it was sold at the square of Wucheng Railway Station for more than ten yuan, and the packaged ones were sold for twenty or thirty yuan. Ten years later, the price was still the same, or even lower.

You can get one flower for three or five yuan from the herdsmen who can pick it.

"The starting price is 500. My friend specializes in making medicinal wine. He has an old recipe and thinks there is a big market for this."

"Five hundred flowers... that's fine." Li Long knew that Halimu and the others could pick them at the summer pasture, and that this stuff was not so rare at this time. They often grew in patches, and they were real snow lotuses, not stone lotuses.

Of course, for Jia Tianlong, it doesn’t matter whether it’s snow lotus or stone lotus, as long as it’s real.

All I can say is that even forty years later when information is widely available, some people on the Internet used AI to create an incredibly fake animated picture of a land lotus growing on a snowy mountain, and some people actually believed that it was a snow lotus.

All I can say is that some people's cognition is worthy of their living standards.

"It would be great if we could get it. I told you, I called several people and they all said they could get less but not more."

"It should be fine." Li Long had talked with Halimu Yushanjiang and others before. Although it is said that only one of the seeds of this thing will germinate out of four thousand, there are few people on the snowy mountains at this time, and even fewer people are collecting them. The herders or people who go up the mountain usually just pick a few flowers when they come across them, and they will not pick them all, but just cut the flowers.

We are totally different from some unethical climbers in later generations, who would dig up the snow lotus with its roots after discovering them and then display them - they could dig up all the snow lotus in an area in one go!
"What about the price..." Li Long asked.

"Hey, I asked about the price, one flower is only five or six yuan, do you think this price is okay?"

"Okay, we are friends after all. Six is ​​six!" Li Long was happy, "What if we pick more?"

"The more the better!" Jia Tianlong was naturally happy to hear Li Long say that. He said, "Do you know that martial arts novels have been very popular here in the past two years, and even more so in coastal areas.

The Tianshan Snow Lotus is a good thing in martial arts novels! The Seven Swordsmen of Tianshan, the Yunhai Yugongyuan, many novels say that the Tianshan Snow Lotus has miraculous effects... This is an opportunity!"

Li Long thought to himself that these business people were really good at seizing business opportunities, but he really didn't have the brains or the channels to do so.

But you can control the source and make money from it.

After chatting for a few more sentences, they hung up the phone. When Li Long turned around, he saw that everyone was looking at him.

"Xiaolong, are you doing business again?" Xu Chengjun asked, "Snow lotus? Are there really any in the mountains?"

"If there really is one, can I get one?" Xu Haijun actually felt a little yearning, "The Tianshan Snow Lotus..."

"It's not as magical as the legend says. It can only cure gynecological diseases and rheumatism." Li Long quickly stopped his fantasy. "Oh, and it can also improve sexual performance."

"Hey!" This time, the other people were also excited!

It can enhance sexual performance, that’s a good thing!
I just heard from Li Long that at six dollars, this thing is still affordable!

(My body is recovering, so this chapter will be one for now. I will add more when I recover.) (End of this chapter)