Chapter 1020: The sheep are yours, we can't just eat them!

After lunch, Li Long drove the jeep, taking Halimu to find Yushanjiang and the others to discuss the matter of slaughtering sheep down the mountain tomorrow.

Halimu originally wanted to ride a horse, but Li Long said the snow on the road had been cleared and the road had been repaired, so the jeep was faster than a horse and it wasn't cold, so it was better to drive.

Halimu thought about it and agreed. In the dead of winter, sitting in a comfortable car, no one wanted to run around on a horse; both people and horses were miserable.

When the jeep drove to Yushanjiang's winter quarters, he was leading the children to clear the grass residue in the sheep pen.

Seeing the jeep, Yushanjiang was very happy. He stood the wooden fork by the side of the sheep pen, walked to the jeep, embraced Li Long who had gotten out of the car, and greeted him.

The snow on the east playground of Yushanjiang's house had also been cleared for the most part, and Li Long could still see quite a bit of sheep, cattle, and horse dung on the snow.

The water pipe and the water pool built the year before last—the water didn't freeze, and where the water flowed down, it became a small stream. There was no ice within two or three meters of the water pipe mouth, and it froze further down, but at this time the ice was broken, about twenty or thirty meters long. This section should be for the cattle and sheep to drink water.

There was also half a bag of coarse salt by the side of the sheep pen, which was mixed into the fodder for the cattle and sheep to eat.

Yushanjiang invited the two into the house to drink milk tea. His wife was tidying up things in the house, and seeing Li Long enter, she smiled and hurriedly made milk tea.

Li Long explained his intention, and Yushanjiang smiled and said: "Definitely no problem. We were just waiting for you to come and talk about this. I thought it was about time; if you hadn't come, we would have gone down the mountain."

"It's mainly because I've been busy purchasing beef and mutton recently." Li Long explained, "The road to my wooden house was also cleared by you, right? Just in time, after I finish my work in two days, I'll go up the mountain to stay for a while and do some hunting."

"Good, good, good. There are too many wolves on the mountain now; we need to hunt them well." Yushanjiang said, "How many sheep are you planning to slaughter this year?"

"Four or five hundred, I guess." Li Long gave a rough number, "Not just sheep, but also cattle and deer. You are experts at this; I must invite you to come down the mountain."

"The young men love coming down the mountain. In the dead of winter, there's nothing to do, and this year the snow is so heavy that horse racing and sheep snatching can't be done. Although the roads between the winter quarters are open, there are too few things to do in the dead of winter. As long as you say we're going down the mountain, they'll be very happy one by one."

"That's good, that's good. I'll notify them one by one later, and then I'll come to pick you up tomorrow morning."

"No need for you to notify them one by one. We two will ride a horse and notify them separately." Yushanjiang said, "You just go back and do the preparations. You need to consume a lot of hot water, and the offal after slaughtering the cattle and sheep needs to be processed, and you have to prepare meals for so many people... there are so many things to do!"

While he was talking, the two children came in from outside and told Yushanjiang that the grass residue in the sheep pen had been picked clean.

"Good, then you pick a few bundles of grass to spread for the cattle and sheep, mix some salt into the feed trough, don't mix too much, just a little bit. See if those few ewes have lambed yet."

After the two children finished the arrangements and went out, Yushanjiang said to Li Long: "Last year, when the children were halfway through their classes, the textbooks were taken away, saying they needed to be reviewed or something. Later, there were no textbooks in class, and when the teacher taught, it was very casual. There wasn't much homework assigned during the holidays."

"Nasen and Sasken's textbooks were also taken away," Halimu heard this and added, "The two of them were very happy. There was little holiday homework, and most of the time they were playing."

Li Long was a bit surprised. Was the feedback from the leaders so fast? Did they start intervening directly?

Of course, this was a good thing.

He didn't comment too much on this matter, after all, some things had far-reaching effects, but it couldn't be seen yet, and saying more was useless.

Yushanjiang's children were older and already in junior high school, while Halimu's children were still young and in elementary school. At this time, the impact on elementary school textbooks wasn't great, but the impact on junior high school textbooks was greater.

In a few years, textbooks from elementary school would all be affected.

Now that the butterfly's wings had flapped, maybe it would be different.

After drinking milk tea, Yushanjiang told Li Long to hurry back and prepare. Li Long said that people were already preparing over there, but he still insisted on driving, taking Yushanjiang and Halimu together to notify them house by house.

Because the jeep had limited seating, according to Yushanjiang's directions, a total of four families were notified, and there would inevitably be people sitting in the back.

This had to be agreed upon in advance, but even sitting in the back, the young men were very happy. Having come down the mountain once, the colorful world outside was much more fun than the big snowy mountains.

After notifying everyone, Yushanjiang told these people to hurry up and sharpen their knives and get ready, and then Li Long drove the two of them back to the winter quarters before leaving in the jeep.

However, Li Long didn't go directly down the mountain; he drove the jeep to his small wooden house.

This road led directly to the door of the wooden house, and even the snow on the wooden floor at the door of the wooden house had been cleared. A small path had also been cleared to the spring.

The key to the small wooden house had always been in the jeep. Li Long took the key and opened the door. There was no change inside, just a chill that was pressing.

He took firewood and coal from the shed next to it and set up the stove. Because the stove hadn't been lit for a long time, when the fire started, it smoked back for a while, and the whole room was full of smoke. Li Long opened the door and let the smoke out for a long time.

After the smoke in the room faded, the fire in the stove burned smoothly, and the coal burned with a huffing sound. The chill in the room, mixed with the residual smell of smoke, slowly dissipated. Li Long piled the bedding by the bed, near the stove, and roasted it slowly with the fire.

The side of the stove slowly warmed up, and there was no smell of smoke in the room. Li Long walked out of the room, closed the door, took a long pole from the shed, and began to clear the snow on top of the wooden house.

The snow on top of the wooden house was a bit thick, and he was worried that the stove in the room would melt the bottom layer of the snow, which would be bad if it seeped into the mud on the roof.

Just using a pole to poke wasn't enough. After poking the snow on the side near the door, he moved the wooden frame out from the side of the small house, climbed onto the wooden house like a ladder, cleared the snow on top to both sides, and finally came down and swept the snow that had fallen in front.

While sweeping the snow, he heard the sound of wolves howling in the forest to the south.

These wolves were a bit arrogant.

Li Long put down the large broom, took out the 56-type semi-automatic rifle from the jeep, leaned against the hood of the car, and looked to the south.

After observing carefully, the wolf pack was in the forest and didn't dare to show their heads. But they howled from time to time, clearly not intending to leave.

I don't know if their target was Li Long or other prey nearby.

Recently, quite a few Mongolian gazelles had crossed the no-man's-land from the sand dunes in the north to the mountains in the south.

A considerable portion had been hunted by those part-time hunters, but a large part had successfully crossed into the mountains. After all, there were many shrubs and forests in the mountains, which couldn't be completely covered by snow, and there was more food to be found than in the sand dunes.

It stands to reason that in such an environment, these wolves should be able to find their own prey. Why they were staring at the winter quarters was hard to say. Maybe they were craving small lambs? Or maybe the smell of ewes lambing during this period was too strong, attracting them? ===== CHAPTER 1021 =====