Chapter 1041: The Li Family Did Good Deeds Again, So Who Can Say

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the snow on both sides of the road has melted visibly to the naked eye. At this time, most of the roads are still gravel or even mud, so once the snow melts, there is mud everywhere. Walking on it feels very difficult. After all, you have to clear the mud on the soles of your shoes after walking a few steps, otherwise, it will be like the official boots in ancient times, the soles of the shoes getting higher and higher, and it is getting harder and harder to walk.

Li Juan and Li Qiang are also very uncomfortable. They have to go to school and come back. When riding a bicycle, although there are mudguards on the front and rear wheels, the mud spots will still be thrown on the back and school bag.

Sometimes you have to put a stick on the back seat of the car, specifically used to pry off the mud that follows the wheel rotation and gets stuck under the mudguard.

Fortunately, Li Long, this little butterfly, flapped its wings and changed some reality. The road from the Fourth Team to the Central Primary School and the Township Middle School was paved with gravel. Although there was a lot of snowmelt water, at least the road surface was not full of mud like in previous years—

In previous years, this road was a dirt road. Once the snow melted or it rained heavily, the road surface could not be walked. If you stepped down, the mud could submerge your ankles, and the bicycle couldn't even walk fifty meters. The space between the wheel and the mudguard would be filled with mud, and you couldn't even push it.

Whenever this happened, Li Long would sigh that it is true that to get rich, you must first build roads. It would be really good when the asphalt road is paved to the door here.

Of course, this process will take a long time, because in the previous life, it was twenty years later that the asphalt road was truly paved to the door.

It was paved twice in the middle, once from the township to the Central Primary School, and then there was no more. Due to lack of maintenance, this section of the road soon became bumpy and not much different from the gravel road.

Another time, it started, and the gravel had already been pulled to the road, and it was leveled quickly. The preliminary preparation work was done, but in the end, it was left unfinished. It is said that the money for road construction was used somewhere else.

Finally, this section of the road was included in the ring road, and then it was truly paved. Because it has been maintained, it is really convenient to use—however, at that time, the three residential areas were combined into one, almost all the wasteland was reclaimed, and it no longer looked like the 1980s.

Li Long sighed and arrived at the Fourth Team, first going to the Old Horse Corral.

After the snow melted, there was basically no snow on the wasteland, and the original grass was exposed. Now Yang Laoliu and his companions started herding sheep.

There are already many sheep in the Old Horse Corral, more than three hundred large sheep, of which more than two hundred ewes have lambs, more than one hundred winter lambs grew up last year, and there are more than two hundred small lambs. Once released, a large group of black sheep.

This is the time when there is a lot of wasteland; otherwise, this large group of more than five hundred sheep, if placed forty years later, would not be able to fit in any wasteland.

Such a large group of sheep needs two or three people to herd together. Because there are more than one hundred goats in the flock, these goats are very naughty and mischievous. As long as you don't pay attention, they will run into the wheat field to steal wheat seedlings.

Thanks to the nourishment of the heavy snow in winter, the wheat seedlings in the wheat field now look very beautiful—although they haven't grown up completely, the soil moisture is so good that even Li Long, a semi-layman, can feel that the grain yield this year will inevitably increase—of course, fertilizer cannot be less.

The sheep hoof prints from the new and old corrals of the Old Horse Corral stretched all the way to the south of the road, and they couldn't be seen further away. Li Long's jeep drove to the door of the corral, and Uncle Uncle Lao Luo, who was in the courtyard, heard the movement and walked out.

"Xiao Long, look at your jeep, how many mud spots are on it!" Uncle Uncle Lao Luo joked, "Those who don't know would think you drove it to fight!"

Now the war between the two mountains hasn't ended yet, and Uncle Uncle Lao Luo's words are not wrong—it is said that an artillery unit in Maxian followed, and no one knows how long it will be before they come back.

"This rotten road..." Li Long complained, "It's like this here, and it's like this around the county. It's too hard to walk."

Not all roads in the county were paved with asphalt. At this time, it was really poor, and materials were not rich enough. The county had expanded a bit around the periphery in the past two years, and development was gradually developing, but road construction didn't keep up, so unless the snow completely melted, this dirty look would last for a period of time.

"It's much better." Uncle Uncle Lao Luo had a good mentality, "In the previous years, when the snow melted, we wanted to go to the county, and we had to pick the canal to walk. We couldn't walk on the road at all. By the way, Xiao Song came to deliver sugar dregs yesterday and said that the jerky you brought to Section Chief Hu was delicious."

"He came over yesterday to pull sugar dregs and brought us dozens of new sacks, saying let us use them first."

Li Long's jerky, except for sending it to Zhao Hui and Huang Lei for wholesale, the rest were sent out whenever he thought of it, just to see the market here first.

Not only Section Chief Hu, but even Factory Director Du in Kuitun, he let the truck selling harvesters bring some over, saying it was for everyone to taste—of course, most of it was for Factory Director Du.

Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory now produces fewer snowplows, but there are still quite a few orders. Mainly because some units knew about it late, but felt it was better to order first. After all, clearing snow every winter is a big event.

According to Factory Director Du's original idea, after the snow melted in spring, the snowplow would not be produced, and it would turn to produce harvesters. But he didn't expect that there were still quite a few orders for snowplows, so he would just continue to produce them. After all, why not earn the money that people send to the door?

Probably because the jerky was sent out, the feedback was generally quite good, and everyone said it was good.

As for whether it was really good, Li Long doesn't know now. After all, he doesn't eat it much himself now. This stuff feels okay to taste, but you can't eat it every day, otherwise, your jaw won't be able to take it.

However, the market inside the pass really needs it, and Huang Lei and Zhao Hui called again, saying they needed more.

That is to say, every twenty days or a month, a batch of goods must be sent inside the pass. Li Long's situation here is not very good to go into the mountains. After all, the road to the village is gravel, and the pure dirt road to the mountains is dangerous, and the flood is gradually forming, so Li Long thought about slaughtering a batch of his own cattle and sheep to deal with the emergency.

Whether it can be done, he came here this time to discuss it with Uncle Uncle Lao Luo.

To be honest, Li Long making jerky was just a temporary idea. After all, this stuff doesn't make much money and is quite annoying. He thought that now that it was on the right track, he would simply throw it to Sister Yang and let her gradually take over and do it, like a partner.

In this way, he would only be responsible for getting mutton, and it wouldn't be his own work. Either in the mountains or the livestock wholesale market west of the Mahe.

There are plenty of people willing to take over.

But now it's a special period, the water volume of the Mahe has increased, and it's muddy everywhere. The wild livestock wholesale market is temporarily closed, and he can't get into the mountains, so he can only hit the idea of his own cattle and sheep.

Entering the courtyard of the Old Horse Corral, Li Long saw other people who had nothing to do were separating the sugar dregs pulled over yesterday and spreading them out to dry.

He greeted these old people and went to see the roe deer, deer, and the semi-domesticated wild boars in the corral.

To be honest, Li Long only knew how to bring live ones to the Old Horse Corral before, and he would directly peel the skin and open the belly to stew and eat the dead ones.

Later, it was not easy to get live ones. Otherwise, he would have raised some yellow sheep or northern mountain sheep—yellow sheep were not easy to get, and northern mountain sheep probably couldn't be raised, so the special breeding matter stopped like this.

Now the inner corral of the Old Horse Corral, such a large place, was all given to these three things.

There are more than twenty deer. Li Long looked at them, and they were quite uniform. Almost half were stags and half were hinds. Only the large stags had velvet heads, all of which were cut, and the fawns were still following the hinds to find milk.

The number of roe deer was much larger. It looked like there were at least forty. I don't know if it's because they reproduce relatively quickly, or the mortality rate is relatively low, or they haven't been slaughtered much in the past two years, so they suddenly increased.

There are not many small wild boars, there are a few sows, and there are more than twenty half-grown wild boars. This stuff is slightly cleaner than domestic pigs, mainly because they can run, and the corral is cleaned well.

It feels like this team is really huge!

Li Long "inspected" his "team" happily, and then discussed the slaughtering of sheep with Uncle Uncle Lao Luo these days.

"Can slaughter, if people can't come from the mountains, then let the people in the team come," Uncle Uncle Lao Luo was very sure, "The winter lambs from last year can now slaughter twenty kilograms of meat, just right. The team just cleared the canal a few days ago, and people have nothing to do now, they are idle."

Because they had to support Yanjing last year, all the culled sheep in the Old Horse Corral were slaughtered. Now the ones left are breeding rams, ewes with lambs, and winter lambs from last year. ===== CHAPTER 1042 =====