Chapter 116: The joy of changing history

"Uncle, how are you now? Did you take medicine?" Li Long stood at the head of the kang and asked Tao Jian She.

"I took it, Daqiang insisted on having Old Tian give me an injection, why waste that money? Just take some Aspirin." Tao Jian She struggled to climb up, Li Long hurriedly pressed him down, "Uncle, don't get up, I just came to see, has Daqiang been cooking for you these past two days?"

"Yes, Daqiang is worried about me, he didn't go anywhere, just cooked for me and fed me medicine." Tao Jian She sighed, "Dayong came over once, he has to take care of his own family too, it's difficult."

Li Long was speechless.

This heart was quite biased.

But this was someone else's family affair, and he had nothing to say. After chatting a few words of nonsense, he went out. Tao Daqiang sent him out, Li Long took out ten yuan and shoved it into his hand:

"Find Old Tian, give your dad an injection, first reduce the inflammation. Injections are fast, who knows how long it will drag on if you take medicine, this winter-spring transition is the easiest time to get sick, you can't wait."

"... Good." Tao Daqiang didn't have much money in his hand either, he didn't refuse. His father's medical treatment did require a lot of money, but the money spent during the New Year was too happy, and he even gave his nephew lucky money, as a result, now that his father was sick, he wanted to take out money but couldn't take out much.

"If you have any difficulties, come find me." Li Long was a bit surprised to find that the height difference between him and Tao Daqiang seemed to have narrowed, he didn't know if it was Tao Daqiang hunching his back, or if he had grown taller again, he patted Daqiang's shoulder:

"I won't go into the mountains these past few days, I'll be at home."

"Then... Brother Long, are you still catching fish to sell?" Tao Daqiang asked with bright eyes. Only when he had no money did he know how smooth it was to earn money following Li Long.

"Wait until your dad is better, come find me. Before the snow melts, we can catch it two more times." Li Long said.

Tao Daqiang thought, two times is fine. If it's two times, he could pay back these ten yuan.

He gripped the ten yuan in his hand tightly, after the snow melts, he couldn't catch fish, then he would have to live a tight life.

"After the snow melts, we two will set nets to catch fish. I've already bought the sticky nets, but the water is cold in early spring, look..."

"I'm not afraid of the cold!" Tao Daqiang interrupted Li Long's words impatiently when he heard he could continue to catch fish to sell: "I'm not afraid! When it just started snowing, I went to the reed lake to hit reeds, the ice water was waist-deep, I wasn't afraid!"

"That's fine," Li Long nodded, "Wait until your dad is better, then we'll discuss it."

Watching Li Long leave, Tao Daqiang turned and hurriedly ran toward Old Tian's house, he wanted to have Old Tian give his father an injection, to make his father better quickly.

When Old Tian heard that Tao Daqiang wanted to give his father an injection, he said:

"I said it, your dad's illness can only get better with injections, those few cents of medicine tablets, they don't do much good. He's been coughing for so many years, doesn't he know his own situation? Wait for me to boil the needle to disinfect it."

In the aluminum needle box lay a glass syringe, Doctor Old Tian poured boiling water from the thermos into the needle box, then took out a box of medicine, after a while, he took out the syringe with tweezers, poured out the water, put the needle in, and put it into the medicine bag together with the medicine, carrying it on his back, following Tao Daqiang to his house.

Li Long was quite happy. In his previous life, Tao Jian She finally survived this winter relying on a few painkillers and Aspirin, but when early spring arrived, a cold snap made his condition worse, and he survived for another half a year, closing his eyes just before winter.

In fact, Old Tian later said many times that if Tao Jian She had received injections to reduce inflammation in time when he got sick in winter, his illness would not have worsened to that extent later.

Although he lived again, Li Long was not a memory repeater, many things were only remembered when he experienced them, including the matter of Tao Jian She's illness.

Now, Li Long had a feeling that he was about to change history, so he was very happy.

Nothing to do in the afternoon, after wiping the small-caliber rifle, he took the gun and bullets and a circle of fine wire snares he had made, intending to go to the Red Willow Beach.

The rabbit snares there hadn't been checked for a long time, this time going over just to see if there would be any harvest, if not, then set a few more snares, and come over to see early tomorrow morning.

If he could run into animals, it would be just right to practice with the small-caliber rifle.

Maintaining a small-caliber rifle was a meticulous job. He could tell that Li Xiangqian hadn't used this gun for a long time, and the gun oil used during the last maintenance was a bit too much, and the oil at the bolt had solidified a bit.

Without gun oil, he used the oil cloth that came with the gun case to wipe it well, including the bullets. The bullets, like fine pencil leads, were wiped shiny by Li Long. This thing was 5.6 mm caliber, called small-caliber, but actually, the difference from the automatic rifle caliber of later generations was not big.

"Uncle, are you going hunting? Can you take me?" Li Qiang followed and asked when Li Long went out.

"I'm going to walk very far, can you keep up?" Li Long asked with a smile.

"I can!" Li Qiang immediately agreed, and then looked at Li Long expectantly.

"Then go tell your mom and dad, and put on thicker clothes."

Now the snow outside had hardened, with a thick layer of shell on top, and ice particles like sand underneath, every step was very difficult. Although Li Qiang played outside every day, which was considered exercise, walking on this kind of road would definitely be very tiring.

It was good to exercise a bit.

Li Juan also wanted to go, but unfortunately, school was about to start in a few days, and her homework wasn't finished yet, so she could only stay at home obediently to do homework.

Li Long hadn't gone far with Li Qiang when he saw Wang Cai Mi walking on the side of the road carrying a red willow twig basket, bending down to pick up something as he walked.

"Did you eat, Brother Wang?"

!.

"Ate, what are you... going to hunt? What gun are you holding? It looks really beautiful!" As soon as Wang Cai Mi saw the gun on Li Long's back, his eyes lit up, still the same sentence, what man doesn't like guns.

"Small-caliber, I'm going to see if there are any rabbits, just roaming around for fun. Are you picking manure?"

"Mm, it's almost early spring, my vegetable garden's fertility isn't enough, have to use manure to urge it."

Wang Cai Mi watched Li Qiang leave and sighed to himself, this Li family kid was becoming more and more unusual.

This small-caliber rifle wasn't something ordinary people could afford to use. Although every household in the team had a few standard bullets, that thing called a gun wasn't something everyone had.

Li Long also saw several people on the road. Some were picking manure like Wang Cai Mi, others were like the Li family before, with insufficient firewood, so they had to go to the Red Willow Beach every day to chop red willows and bring them back—this thing's branches were far less durable than the roots, chopping red willows at minus twenty degrees was also a hard job.

When Li Long took Li Qiang along the tracks he had walked before to the Red Willow Beach, he knew that some snares had already been checked by others.

At the edge of the Red Willow Beach, Li Long found a total of three empty snares, and two had been picked up by others, there were traces of things struggling at the location, it should have been a rabbit snared.

Li Long felt it was a pity, but there was no way. Not coming to check for so long, naturally, it was cheap for others.

He took Li Qiang and continued to walk inside—when he went into the mountains a while ago, there should have been a light snow, the rabbit tracks in the Red Willow Beach had changed, Li Long intended to go deep inside to take a look, if he ran into them, he would hit them, if he couldn't run into them, he would set snares.

"Uncle, was the rabbit taken away by someone?" Li Qiang was very patient this time, he hadn't complained of being tired until here, but he saw a clue from Li Long's pausing movements.

"Mm, it's possible." Li Long said, "Let's go inside and take a look, you also observe the surroundings, see if there's anything alive."

Li Qiang nodded heavily, and then began to look around.

Not walking ten steps, he suddenly saw something brown moving by the red willow tree, he immediately shouted lightly:

"Uncle, there's something there!"

With his shout, the thing that was originally by the red willow tree immediately dashed up.

Li Long immediately saw that it was a fox!

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