Chapter 141: Li Long saved Nasen's life

When Li Long returned home, Tao Daqiang was already in the courtyard.

He had been organizing nets since eating breakfast, and after finishing, it was close to noon, so he went home to cook, ate with his father, and then hurried to the Li house.

"Brother Long, are we setting nets this afternoon?"

"Yes." Li Long said to Tao Daqiang, "We'll set six nets today, you organized the nets well in the morning."

"Hehe." Tao Daqiang smiled honestly.

"There is one thing I want to tell you in advance." Li Long said to Tao Daqiang while organizing the nets, "In a few days, our brigade will send ten people into the mountains to weave carrying poles, which is the job of the side business team. I told the director, and added you in. You should prepare a bit these two days. Bedding, dry food, tools, all need to be prepared. Your father should know some, you ask him what things you need to bring."

"Okay—but Brother Long, then this catching fish..." Tao Daqiang was in a dilemma. He was willing to go to the side business team arranged by Li Long, but after going, no one would organize the nets here.

"I'm also going into the mountains, hunting and so on," Li Long checked the tire again, "I found this job, so I have to check the quality of the carrying poles."

"That's good, that's good." Tao Daqiang smiled again.

The two took the tire and nets and went to the Little Haizi.

It was still Li Long using the water-repellent board to sit on the tire and go into the water to set the nets. Tao Daqiang watched without blinking on the shore, hoping to learn this skill of Brother Long.

Even though Li Long told him that if he was bored, he could cast the net, Tao Daqiang didn't even look at the cast net.

Li Long obviously felt that the water level had risen a bit.

Could it be that the flood had already started to rush down from the mountains? Then shouldn't some things be prepared in advance?

Li Long felt that after setting the nets, it was necessary to tell Xu Chengjun that the water in the Little Haizi had started to rise, and if it continued to rise like this, it would sooner or later submerge the dam.

It was necessary to open the gate to release water and flood.

Six nets were set in a position about two or three hundred meters away from yesterday this time.

Crucian carp are easier to sell, and there are more crucian carp on the edge of the reeds. Li Long brought two two-finger-and-a-half nets, two three-finger nets, and one three-finger-and-a-half and one four-finger net this time. Six nets were almost enough.

After setting the nets, the two didn't cast nets again and went directly back to the brigade.

They practiced for more than an hour, cast more than ten kilograms of fish, and then went home together.

Back in the village, Tao Daqiang hurried home to prepare things. Li Long began to tidy up those fish. Except for crucian carp that could last until tomorrow morning, other fish would probably die in one night. So Li Long had to tidy up these fish.

The four neighbors didn't eat less fish, and it was impossible to send them every day, so Li Long planned to pickle the fish. On summer nights, put the pickled dried fish by the stove and roast it slowly, roasting it until it was charred and crispy, which was very delicious.

Liang Wenyu returned from the fields, saw Li Long fiddling with fish, went to tidy up feeding pigs, feeding chickens, and then put the fish Li Long prepared into the pot to boil fish soup.

After Li Long finished tidying up the fish, salted them and hung them up, Li Jianguo and the others also returned.

Li Juan returned and said to Li Jianguo:

"Dad, our school is going to weave carrying poles tomorrow, let us bring fifty strips or two poles each."

"You are weaving too?" Li Jianguo thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll go cut strips for you in a while."

"Big brother, I'll go in a while." Li Long waved his hand, "You worked for a day, just stay at home and rest."

"Aren't you tired?"

"Why are you so tired from setting nets?" Li Long smiled. "I'm just playing around." "That's true. We finished digging out the dry ditches and canals today. The team starts watering the winter wheat tomorrow, and the public labor will be done in turns; I'll probably be the day after tomorrow."

Some land not divided in the village is planted with winter wheat, and some are planted with corn and oil sunflowers like ration fields, as well as some miscellaneous grain crops.

Li Long was quite happy. Since they were going to water the wheat fields, the Little Haizi gate would naturally be lifted to release water, no need for him to remind.

After drinking the fish soup, Li Long took a machete and went to the East Ditch on the east side. There were quite a few large willow trees on the edge of the East Ditch. These willow trees had grown for many years and were not useful, so no one cared. Basically, every year people in the village would cut strips here to weave baskets and carrying poles.

The simple road in the village only reached the edge of the land. From the edge of the land to the East Ditch, one had to cross a piece of alkali beach. Li Long saw that the white thorns on the alkali beach had grown small green leaves, and the purple-red cynomorium under the white thorns had also exposed its head.

In the distance, large groups of alkali grass also began to turn green. This is a good thing in the eyes of old locals, it is the raw material for burning alkali ash. The alkali ash burned out is as beautiful as glaze, and it is something that must be added to flour food by the original old locals.

It is said that making naan also needs to add this.

Arriving at the East Ditch, Li Long saw traces of being cut on the willow trees, so he walked south, walked to a place where four or five willow trees were side by side, and began to cut willow strips.

Willow strips as thick as fingers were cut down one by one by Li Long, and Li Juan picked them up on the ground, picked them up and straightened them, and put ten or so in a pile.

When it was about the same, Li Juan said to Li Long:

"Little Uncle, can you cut two more poles, I am a group leader, I have to take the lead..."

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She said with a low voice at the end, Li Long said with a smile:

"Okay, it's okay to cut more strips. I'll ride the bike to take you tomorrow morning, the strips and poles will be taken together, and you will be more relaxed."

"Yeah!" Li Juan was very happy.

After cutting the strips, Li Long went to cut two red willow poles as thick as wrists, then tied the strips together, carried them on his shoulders, and took Li Juan home.

In the mountains.

Halimu looked at Nasen on the wooden kang with heartache and complaint:

"You said you were fine, why did you run into the water? The water that just melted snow is so cold, you fell in! Fell in and didn't know how to come back quickly, come back and change clothes, you still played there... caught a cold, right?"

Nasen's mouth was tightly pursed. He didn't tell Halimu that he actually discovered a very beautiful stone in the stream and wanted to take it back, but he didn't expect the stone to be a bit big. He didn't hold the stone out, and fell into the water because of using too much force.

In the evening, Nasen's body was hot, talking nonsense, but his hands and feet were cold.

Halimu's wife touched him and was worried to death, hurriedly woke up Halimu, anxious and at a loss, shouting Nasen's name constantly.

Fever?

The Kazakhs have their own medical inheritance. The family prepared herbal medicine, and Halimu and his wife boiled herbal water for Nasen to drink immediately. However, the herbal medicine didn't work in a short time. 【141-54

He suddenly thought of the medicine bottles Li Long had given him back then, and at this moment, he had no choice but to choose to trust Li Long.

Ha Ha Li Mu quickly took out those small bottles and looked at the marks he had made on them himself. He now deeply felt how clever Li Long had been back then; if he hadn't marked them, he wouldn't be able to tell what was what when taking them now!

He unscrewed the bottle marked for fever, roughly tore off the paper and cotton stuffed inside, took out two pills, and quickly gave them to Nasen.

Nasen could no longer take medicine on his own, so Ha Ha Li Mu pried his mouth open and forced them in. After finishing the medicine, Ha Ha Li Mu was still a bit worried. He went out to harness the horse, planning that if the fever didn't break in a while, he would ride the horse and take Nasen out of the mountains to find a doctor.

Half an hour later, Nasen's fever had gone down a bit; he wasn't talking, but his hands and feet had warmed up.

Ha Ha Li Mu's family finally felt relieved.

(End of chapter)