[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw":3,"chapter-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-141":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 1981: Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1934022,2572,"Chapter 141: Li Long Saved Nasen's Life","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-141",141,"\u003Cp>When Li Long returned home, Tao Daqiang was already in the yard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been gathering nets since breakfast; after finishing, it was nearly noon, so he went home to cook, ate with his father, then hurried back to the Li family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Long, are we setting nets this afternoon?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" Li Long told Tao Daqiang. \"We'll set six nets today. You did a good job gathering them this morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehe.\" Tao Daqiang grinned sheepishly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's something I need to tell you in advance,\" Li Long said while organizing the nets. \"In a few days, our team will send ten people into the mountains to weave carrying frames for the sideline work team. I spoke to the director and added you. Prepare these next two days. Get your bedding, dried rations, and tools ready. Your father should know what's needed; ask him what to bring.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay—but Brother Long, what about catching fish...\" Tao Daqiang was torn. Joining the sideline team was arranged by Li Long, so he was naturally willing, but if he went, no one would gather the nets here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm going into the mountains too. When we hunt and such,\" Li Long checked the tires again, \"I found this work, so I must inspect the quality of the woven frames.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's good, that's good.\" Tao Daqiang smiled again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two took the tires and nets to Little Haizi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As before, Li Long used a water-paddling board to sit on a tire and enter the water to set nets, while Tao Daqiang watched from the shore without blinking, hoping to learn Brother Long's skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Li Long had told him he could cast a net if he got bored, Tao Daqiang didn't even look at the cast net.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long clearly felt the water level had risen somewhat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could the flood already be rushing down from the mountains? Shouldn't some preparations be made in advance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long thought that after finishing the nets, he must go tell Xu Chengjun that the water in Little Haizi was already rising; if it kept rising like this, sooner or later it would overflow the dam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sluice gates must be opened to release water and relieve the flood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the six nets were set in a different location. After Li Long finished setting them, he paddled the tire back to the shore. After Tao Daqiang pulled him and the tire up, he asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Long, shall we cast the net?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" Li Long said. \"Let's treat it as practice. Later, we might encounter places unsuitable for setting nets, where we can only use the cast net.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two practiced for over an hour, casting in about ten kilograms of fish, then went home together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in the village, Tao Daqiang eagerly rushed home to prepare his things, while Li Long began cleaning the fish. Except for the crucian carp, which could last until tomorrow morning, the rest would likely die overnight. So Li Long had to clean and process these fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The neighbors had already eaten plenty of fish; it wasn't possible to send them every day, so Li Long decided to pickle the fish. On summer nights, the pickled dried fish could be slowly baked near the stove until crisp and golden, very delicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Yuemei returned from the fields, saw Li Long handling the fish, then went to prepare feed for the pigs and chickens, before putting the fish Li Long had prepared into a pot to make fish soup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Li Long finished cleaning the fish and hung them up to pickle with salt, Li Jianguo and the others returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Li Juan returned, she told Li Jianguo:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dad, our school is weaving carrying frames tomorrow. We each need to bring fifty strips or two poles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have to weave too?\" Li Jianguo thought for a moment and said, \"Alright, I'll go chop some strips for you later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Big brother, I'll go later,\" Li Long waved his hand. \"You've worked all day; just stay home and rest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aren't you tired?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How tiring is setting nets?\" Li Long smiled. \"I'm just playing.\" \"That's true. Today we dug through the dry gully and the dry canal. Tomorrow the team will start irrigating the winter wheat. Public labor shifts will rotate; I might be the day after tomorrow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some unallocated land in the village was planted with winter wheat, while other plots, like the spring and grain fields, were planted with corn, oil sunflowers, and various miscellaneous grains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long was quite pleased; since the wheat fields were to be irrigated, the sluice gate at Little Haizi would naturally be raised to release water, so he didn't need to remind anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the fish soup, Li Long took a machete and went to the eastern gully to the east. Li Juan quickly followed. Many large willow trees grew along the eastern gully; these willows were old and not suitable for timber, so no one tended them. Basically, every year villagers would cut strips here to weave baskets and carrying frames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The village's simple road only reached the field edges; from there to the eastern gully, one had to cross a salt marsh. Li Long saw that the white thorns on the salt marsh had sprouted tiny green leaves, and beneath them, the purple-red cistanche had already poked its head out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far away, large clumps of saltbush were also turning green. In the eyes of the old locals, this was a good thing, the raw material for making alkali ash. The ash burned out as beautiful as glazed glass, an essential ingredient old locals always added to their dough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was said that naan also required this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arriving at the eastern gully, Li Long saw signs of previous cutting on the willow trees, so he walked a bit south until he reached a spot where four or five willows stood side by side, then began chopping willow strips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long chopped down the finger-thick willow strips one by one. Li Juan gathered them on the ground, straightened them, and piled about ten together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they felt they had enough, Li Juan said to Li Long:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little uncle, could you chop two more poles? I'm the group leader, so I need to lead by example...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice grew a bit lower toward the end. Li Long smiled and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure, chopping extra strips is fine. Tomorrow morning I'll still ride my bicycle to take you. We'll bring both the strips and the poles together, so you'll have it easier.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah!\" Li Juan was delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After cutting the strips, Li Long chopped two red willow poles about wrist-thick, then tied the strips together, hoisted them onto his shoulder, and took Li Juan home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harimu looked at Nasen on the wooden kang, feeling both heartache and reproach:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did you run into the water when you were fine? That melted snow water is so cold! You fell in! You didn't even hurry back to change your clothes; you just played there... Now you've caught a cold, haven't you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nasen pressed his lips tightly together. He didn't tell Harimu that he had actually found a very beautiful stone in the stream and wanted to bring it back, but the stone was too large; he couldn't lift it out, used too much force, and fell into the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, Nasen's body burned with fever, his mouth raving nonsense, while his hands and feet were ice cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harimu's wife touched him, terrified, and urgently woke Harimu. She was anxious and at a loss, repeatedly calling Nasen's name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fever?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Kazakh people had their own medical traditions; the family kept herbal medicines. Harimu immediately brewed herbal water with his wife for Nasen to drink, but the herbs showed no effect in the short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly remembered the medicine bottles Li Long had given him earlier. At this point, he could only choose to trust Li Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harimu quickly took out those small bottles. Looking at the marks he had made on them, he now deeply appreciated Li Long's wisdom at the time; if he hadn't made those marks, they wouldn't know which medicine to take now!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He unscrewed the bottle marked for fever, roughly tore out the paper and cotton stuffed inside, took out two pills, and quickly administered them to Nasen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nasen could no longer swallow medicine on his own, so Harimu pried his mouth open and forced the pills in. After giving the medicine, Harimu was still uneasy. He went out to saddle a horse, planning that if the fever didn't subside later, he would ride Nasen out of the mountains to find a doctor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later, Nasen's fever had subsided somewhat, he stopped talking nonsense, and his hands and feet grew warm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harimu's family finally breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1480,"2026-06-14T06:06:39.549Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","84644f075d7c1031d973b1900095bb13c1e6959cbb74941ae8182b0e2dd00629","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-142","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-140",180,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]