Chapter 104

The taste of snow chicken is really excellent.

Liang Yumei has already mastered the technique of cooking wild game, which is to add more seasonings to suppress the fishy and wild taste.

Before, she definitely wouldn't have been willing to, but now Li Long brings back large bags of seasonings every time he returns. She doesn't listen to him, so she lets him be.

The result of this is that whether it's wild boar meat, roe deer meat, or wild rabbit meat, the taste is very good.

Now Liang Yumei also listens to Li Long's suggestion, mainly eating fine grains in her daily life. After all, the two children are growing, so they can't be short-changed—she still remembers the way Li Juan ate greedily when her family cooked hand-grabbed meat for the first time after Li Long brought back frozen mutton.

A mother's heartache.

Heaven and earth are great, children are the greatest. Since there is some at home, since her husband agreed, and her brother-in-law also suggested it, then let's mainly eat fine grains and let the children grow up healthily.

But every day when steaming buns, Liang Yumei still steams a few mixed with corn flour and white flour for her and Li Jianguo to eat.

Li Long couldn't persuade her, so he didn't persuade her anymore. Having lived two lives, he knows the general psychology of people now. The land hasn't been divided yet, and there isn't much grain, so save a little where you can.

"Juan, Qiangqiang, these are chicken legs, you eat these, this meat is fragrant!" At the dinner table, Li Long gave the two chicken legs to the two children, one each, and then clamped a wing for himself, gnawing on it happily.

Li Jianguo and Liang Yumei looked at each other and both smiled.

This meal was fragrant. After finishing a bowl of snow chicken stewed soup, Li Long said at the dinner table:

"I have to go into the mountains again tomorrow to send some things over there."

"Alright, pay attention to safety on the road." Li Jianguo said, "Don't force yourself if you run into anything."

"Hey." Li Long responded and went to the east room. He couldn't sleep right after eating, so he lit the kerosene lamp and read "The Great Tang Ranger" by the dim light.

Living this life again, entertainment life is seriously lacking, but there is no constant electricity now, so forget about the TV. Should I get a radio?

It has to be battery-powered—by the way, should I bring two radios into the mountains?

Li Long thought while reading, and when he was sleepy, he got on the heated brick bed, pulled open the quilt, blew out the lamp, and went to sleep.

The next day he still got up relatively early, went out to the toilet to solve his internal urgency, and ran back. He felt that the temperature had risen quite a bit now, not as cold as before the New Year.

It seems that it won't be long before the snow melts, and the days of breaking ice holes to catch fish will soon be over.

Going to the west room, Liang Yumei was burning corn flour paste. Li Long saw a few pieces of things inside and asked while washing his face:

"Sister-in-law, what did you put in the paste?"

"Sugar beet, I cut a few pieces and put them in, the paste can be sweeter."

"Good." Li Long responded, "It's nutritious." Inside the room, Li Jianguo was sprinkling water and sweeping the floor, Li Juan was organizing her schoolbag on the heated brick bed, and Li Qiang was playing with a tin frog, never tiring of it.

Li Long thought, time really flies, Li Juan is about to start school.

The notification about the school's expansion should be coming down soon, right?

Gu Xiaoxia is also worried about this. She graduated for several years, and some content has almost been forgotten. Now, even if Gu Gu Bo Yuan is asked to tutor, it's not certain that she can understand it.

The fact that she was studying during this period was revealed to her mother Wang Yuzhen by Wu Shufen inadvertently, and it soon spread throughout the village.

Now, as long as Gu Xiaoxia goes out, someone asks her if she is preparing for college, which makes her very embarrassed. She complains about Wu Shufen in her heart and simply doesn't go out. After Wu Shufen found out, she specifically came to apologize, and her words were also saying that Gu Xiaoxia shouldn't be so persistent. What's the use of learning those textbooks? It's not useful at all when it's time for the team to work.

Gu Xiaoxia was also struggling, and Gu Gu Bo Yuan's words firmed her belief:

"If this is an opportunity, and you give it up now without grabbing it, will you regret it for the rest of your life? Not everyone is like Li Long, hoping you'll be well."

Gu Xiaoxia suddenly saw the light.

After eating breakfast, Li Long dressed up, rode his bicycle, and went out.

Now the temperature has risen, he doesn't need to wear those uncomfortable leather boots, cotton rubber shoes are fine outside. After entering the mountains, change into felt boots.

Before leaving the production team, he ran into Gu Xiaoxia who was pouring out stove ash. Li Long squeezed the brake to stop, his feet supporting the ground, and asked with a smile:

"Have you eaten? Is Uncle Gu okay?"

"My dad is fine, I've eaten." Gu Xiaoxia poured out the stove ash, carried the dustpan, hesitated for a moment, and asked in a low voice:

"Li Long, you said... is your news definitely true?"

Li Long didn't know about the things spread in the team about Gu Xiaoxia, only thinking she was anxious, so he said:

"Don't worry, within half a month—Li Juan and the others are about to start school, there should be definite news before school starts. Study hard, if you can take the exam for a junior high school teacher, take it. There's a dormitory, it's close to the township, and the salary is high—you high school students have a salary one level higher than junior high school students."

With Li Long's words, Gu Xiaoxia's mood was obviously much better—at most half a month, with a specific date, she wasn't so anxious anymore.

!.

Gu Xiaoxia returned home, still humming the "Liu Dage" selection from "Hua Mulan". Gu Gu Bo Yuan, who was reading at the table, asked with a smile:

"Why is your mood so good?"

"Ran into Li Long, he said there will be news in half a month at most, and also said that us high school students have a salary one level higher than junior high school students..."

"That's only if you pass the exam. Since there's news, why don't you hurry up and review?" Gu Gu Bo Yuan urged with a smile.

"Hey, I'm going now."

Li Long rode his bicycle to the big courtyard, loaded the shoes, and then wrapped the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle with cloth and tied it to the bike frame, riding toward the mountains.

He thought while riding, he should ask his sister-in-law to make a gun holster when he has time, otherwise it's inconvenient to always wrap it with cloth like this. If it were later generations, just buy a canvas fishing rod bag, but there isn't one now.

Arriving at the winter camp, the dogs were still barking, but it was a welcoming sound. Halimu came out, looked at Li Long carrying another large package of things, stepped forward to take it and said:

"Li Long, every time you come over to bring things, we feel embarrassed."

"What's there to be embarrassed about? The things you bring me every time are much more valuable than these."

"Can't fit them anymore." Halimu said with a smile, "Too many."

"If you know people, give them to them, or take them to exchange with other herdsmen for sheep, sheepskins, etc." Li Long said casually, "Are there herdsmen in the deeper mountains? It's inconvenient for them to use these things, right?"

Li Long's words gave Halimu a new train of thought.

Like this, it seems—it's also possible?

Entering the winter camp, Halimu showed his family the rubber shoes Li Long brought. Sure enough, they were greatly welcomed!

These are good things!

Everyone, including the old grandmother, began to change shoes, wanting to try if they fit or not.

Really too happy!

(End of chapter)