[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw":3,"chapter-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-1":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 1981: Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":18,"prevChapterSlug":19,"totalChapters":20,"novelImage":21},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":12,"translator":16,"content_hash":17},1925930,2572,"Chapter 1: Reborn, Not a Saint","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-1",1,"\u003Cp>Northern Frontier, the twelfth lunar month of 1981.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snow nearly half a meter deep covered the fields, thick and solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the kitchen, the heat from inside had melted the snow on the roof, and icicles nearly a meter long hung from the eaves, looking quite dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long, having come out to relieve himself, looked up, searched around, picked up a shovel from the wall, and knocked all the icicles down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vaguely remembered that in this year, his niece Li Juan’s head had been injured by an icicle, and it took a long time to heal. Even after it healed, a scar remained on her face. She had been mocked because of this scar, which caused Li Juan to develop a severe inferiority complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having been reborn, he would not let this tragedy happen again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How he was reborn, Li Long didn't know. He only remembered dying, and then, in a daze, he arrived at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his previous life, Li Long lived to be sixty-seven without any major illness or disaster. While swatting a fly in his own house, he jumped, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and died on the spot, without much suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in that life, his older brother Li Jianguo, who loved him dearly, had died in a fall early on, and his sister-in-law, nephew, and niece had treated him like an enemy because of it. Although they lived in the same village, Li Long lived like a loner. Even when he later lived with others, the lack of family made him feel like he was redundant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven had given him a chance to live again, and he would never let those things happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the immediate problems to solve were firewood and food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Northern Frontier was too cold. Before winter, the production team issued two hundred kilograms of coal to each household for heating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bit of coal was definitely not enough. Li Long remembered that in later generations, every family would store seven or eight tons of coal, as it had to be burned for half a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since there wasn't enough coal now, before winter, every household would go to the sand dunes in the north to dig for red willow roots and saxaul wood—actions that were considered extremely destructive to the environment in later generations, but were currently a matter of survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, the Li family’s coal plus the firewood they dug would have been enough to burn through the winter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Long had returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before winter, Li Jianguo had spent money to send Li Long to the Wucheng August First Food Factory to be a worker. In this day and age, being a worker was a very glorious thing—of course, what made people even more envious was that workers had wages. Having dozens of yuan in cash in hand every month to spend however one wanted was so satisfying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, working in the team, before the household contract responsibility system, one worked all year round, and only at the final settlement could one get grain and a little money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, many farming families even had to pay money back, because the work points calculated were solid; if one didn't work well, or if the team's harvest was poor, there would be nothing to distribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Li Long was once the object of envy for the young people in the team, and in the second month after he left, the prettiest girl in the team, Wu Shufen, had taken the initiative to be with Li Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now Li Long had been fired by the food factory, and he knew that in two days, after the team’s big-mouth Gu Ermao spread the news of his firing, Wu Shufen would come to break up with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his previous life, this incident had been a huge blow to Li Long, even affecting some of his behavioral styles, and was also an indirect reason for Li Jianguo’s fatal fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was just a small matter now. Li Long was back, and for a vain woman like Wu Shufen, he felt breaking up was for the best. Even if Wu Shufen didn't bring it up, he would take the initiative to break up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn't squeeze onto the same kang as his older brother Li Jianguo’s family. So he returned at noon, and in the afternoon, Li Jianguo cleared out the east room where he used to live, set up a stove, lit the kang, and arranged for him to stay there. But this way, the Li family’s coal and firewood would definitely not be enough; let alone burning until spring in March, even lasting until the New Year would be difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Long was twelve, his father Li Qingxia sent him from his hometown and handed him over to his older brother Li Jianguo. Li Long remembered very clearly that his father, who had brought him there, said to his older brother and sister-in-law:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The hometown can no longer afford to feed us. As long as you take good care of Little Long, I will be at peace for the rest of my life. You don't need to worry about my old age or funeral arrangements; just taking good care of Little Long is enough to fulfill your filial duty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his hometown, Li Jianguo still had a younger brother and a younger sister. Li Long was the youngest and the most pampered by his parents, but the hometown had little land and life was not as good as it was here, which was why Li Long was sent over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Li Jianguo had indeed taken care of Li Long as Li Qingxia requested. The grain distributed to the family was eighty percent coarse grain and twenty percent fine grain. Li Jianguo and his wife Liang Yuemei only ate coarse grain, and all the fine grain was given to Li Long, his niece Li Juan, and his nephew Li Qiang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A growing boy eats his father out of house and home; Li Long was at the age of growing, and his appetite was even bigger than Li Jianguo’s. Li Jianguo could only think of ways to trade for good things for him, even wronging his own children because of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this reason, Liang Yuemei had quarreled with him many times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Jianguo remembered the saying \"the eldest brother is like a father\" too firmly, even losing his life for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this life, Li Long would absolutely never let such a thing happen again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, it wasn't very far from the Tianshan Mountains. Besides the endless wind-felled trees in the mountains, there were red deer and brown bears, which were treasures from head to toe, as well as wild boars, Mongolian gazelles, and the silly marmots—also known as groundhogs—that became internet celebrities in later generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking advantage of the fact that the Wildlife Protection Law hadn't been enacted yet, as long as one was diligent and quick-witted, one could become a \"ten-thousand-yuan household\" within two or three years!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, let's solve the urination problem first!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly following the small path trodden in the snow to the toilet made of reeds outside the courtyard, Li Long unzipped his pants and let out a stream toward the snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The snow was immediately stained with a yellow mark, forming a strange shape, like an 's', or an '8'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing, he shivered, quickly fastened his cotton pants, and turned to run back. At over thirty degrees below zero, one could be frozen through very quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reaching the door, before he even entered the room, he heard the voices of his older brother Li Jianguo and sister-in-law Liang Yuemei in the west room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn't you say Little Long wouldn't come back? Now that he's back, what are we going to do if our coal isn't enough? In the middle of winter, we can't even dig up red willow roots, can we?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't worry about this, I have a way.\" Li Jianguo’s voice was a bit low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have a fart of a way! Are you going to borrow from the team? Borrowing this much means at least five hundred kilograms of coal! How will we pay it back? The money earned in a year won't be enough to pay it back!\" \"I told you not to worry about it, I'll think of a way. We can't let Little Long freeze!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then, since he was doing so well, why did he come back? And fired... what kind of good person gets fired by a factory? You didn't even ask why he was fired? We spent fifty yuan at the time, can that money be gotten back?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The money is already spent, how can we get it back?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then ask Little Long, how much is his salary for these few months? If there's any left, we can use it to buy some...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why ask that? If he had money, wouldn't he have taken it out? He was the only one in Wucheng, unfamiliar with the place, how could he not spend money? Don't ask. I told you, I'll think of a way!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine, fine, fine, you just go ahead and act like a hero! Anyway, I don't care, we can't let Xiao Juan and Qiangqiang freeze...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, I want to eat meat...\" His nephew Li Qiang’s voice rang out, and the voices of his older brother and sister-in-law stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long sighed and pushed the door open to enter his east room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The west room was the main room; entering the door was a corridor that served as a kitchen, and three or two dark rooms were the bedroom, kitchen, and a spare room for miscellaneous items. The bedroom also functioned as a living room. The east room was originally a storage room, only one room, but it had a stove, a fire wall, and a kang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the temperature in the room, Li Long knew he had to plan well how to proceed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his previous life, he had enjoyed his older brother and sister-in-law’s contributions with peace of mind, never once thinking about how his brother had scrimped and saved for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Li Long’s personality was somewhat vain and warm-hearted; in today’s terms, he was a bit of a \"saint,\" often taking things from his brother and sister-in-law’s house to help others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, he was a sucker many times over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this life, Li Long would never do that again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that was what he thought, but others wouldn't think so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Li Long was getting some ideas, hurried footsteps came from the courtyard, and then someone knocked on the door next door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo opened the door, saw it was the team’s youth Gu Ermao, and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ermao, what is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Jianguo, I heard Li Long is back, where is he?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Over there. What's the matter?\" Li Jianguo didn't trust Gu Ermao; this person was a hoodlum in the village, and he wanted to ask about the specific matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Li Jianguo’s eyes, Li Long was still a child, unreliable in doing things, and he had to keep an eye on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long heard the voice and opened the door, and the cold wind blew in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ermao, what is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You really came back?\" Gu Ermao, wrapped in a tattered cotton jacket, saw Li Long, his eyes lit up, he sniffed his nose hard, and pushed him into the east room with one hand:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go, let's go inside and talk!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo originally wanted to follow him in, but Gu Ermao pulled the door shut after entering the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Yuemei behind him complained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why don't you close the door? All the heat is gone!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo closed the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the east room, Gu Ermao said to Li Long:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Li Long, brother, I'm in trouble now, I need your help.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's the matter? Tell me first and let me hear it, but I might not be able to help.\" Li Long said with a smile, his heart already alert. Although Gu Ermao was like a hoodlum, he had a sweet mouth and often coaxed Li Long into feeling great, thinking the other party truly admired him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only later did he understand that this Ermao just wanted to sponge off his money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How much money do you have on you now? I'm going to see a girl in the third team tomorrow, and I don't have money to buy things now, lend me some money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words were spoken very naturally, as if it were only right and proper for Li Long to lend him money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his previous life, to act generous, Li Long lent all the ten-plus yuan he had on him to Gu Ermao. As a result, the family had no money to buy coal, and Li Jianguo had to borrow coal from the team, a debt that took three years to pay off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the money Gu Ermao borrowed was never paid back until Li Long died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this life, would he still lend it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put away the urge to help others and respect the fate of others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2198,"2026-06-13T20:42:53.056Z","Qwen3.5 122B","7eb4aff3f030b303790548900d038c1be888f66b3d050bb0720b16b20a2a7149","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-2",null,180,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]