Chapter 152: For a better life, work hard

"Have you eaten?" Li Jianguo asked Li Long this way.

"Just ate at a friend's place, what about you?"

"Ate the dry food we brought." Li Jianguo said, "It's not easy to find here. If it weren't for Yun Dong, it wouldn't be easy to find."

"Yun Dong is here?" Li Long looked left and right, but didn't find Xie Yun Dong.

"He went to see the strips, saying he remembered there were dozens of big willow trees in front, so he would cut the strips there, carry them here to burn, and then weave."

"Okay." Li Long thought for a moment. Xiaobaiyang Gully is to the east of Halimu's winter camp, close to Hongshanzui, about three kilometers away from his upcoming winter camp. Anything can be taken care of.

"Okay, we plan to set off tomorrow. I will gather everyone this afternoon, and the captain will speak then. You should also talk to everyone." Xie Yun Dong said, "My eldest brother will also go tomorrow. Your horse cart will follow to pull things into the mountains, and you will also earn some work points."

"Okay, come and call me then." Li Long originally planned to carry grain into the mountains after lunch, but now it seems he has to stay for another half day, but things in the mountains are not urgent for a while, and these 300 carrying poles are currently an important task.

Xie Yun Dong got Li Long's promise and left in a hurry. As the leader of the team, there were too many things for him to be busy with. Some people were entering the mountains to do side jobs for the first time and didn't know anything, so he had to remind them one by one, otherwise, if they lacked this or that, they would still look for his trouble in the end.

He hadn't put the piglets in the pen for long when Li Jianguo, Liang Yuemei, and Li Juan came back from the fields. Seeing Li Long by the pig pen, Li Jianguo asked:

"Little Long, did you catch piglets again?"

"Caught four." Li Long said, "Three boars and one sow."

"Let me see." Li Jianguo put down the hoe and came to the pig pen.

Li Juan carried the basket, which was filled with pig grass. She also came to the pig pen to take a look, then smiled and went to the stove, put down the basket, took a broken kitchen knife and a knife board leaning against the wall, and started chopping pig grass.

"I bought some wheat bran and rice bran back, and it's better to cook them with pig grass." Li Long said, "These piglets are growing now, they can eat."

"These piglets are bigger." Li Jianguo looked and laughed, and then suddenly thought of something, "No, the boars must be castrated, otherwise the meat won't taste good later."

Li Jianguo is a man of action, saying do it, he took a razor blade and a small bag of medicine powder from the room, and a bag of cotton thread, put them one by one by the pig pen, took another basin of water, and said to Li Long:

"Catch a boar out."

Boar is a male pig. Li Long went in and caught a black and white boar out. The pig screamed miserably, as if it were going to be punished, and the sound was particularly harsh.

He put the boar down flat, Li Jianguo touched the position with his hand, let Li Long hold it well, washed the position, then used a razor to cut an opening, and the little pig's screaming was even more miserable.

Li Jianguo squeezed things out from that opening, wrapped a few circles, tied them with cotton thread, then took a razor to cut off the eggs, and then poured medicine powder on it—Li Long had already smelled it, it was sulfonamide, a commonly used anti-inflammatory drug in rural areas. The other egg was also cut off, and the next step was to sprinkle medicine powder.

The knife cut was not big, no need to sew. The weather was not very hot at this time, and it wouldn't get maggots, so the pig was simply put into the pig pen, next one.

In less than an hour, all four boars underwent "surgery." Li Jianguo washed his hands with the water in the basin, and then put the things away one by one.

Liang Yuejuan had already finished cooking at this time. Li Qiang also consciously came back. Seeing Li Juan, he shouted loudly:

"Sister, sister! I have copper coins here, and chicken feathers, can you make me a shuttlecock?"

"Where did the copper coins come from?" This was Li Jianguo's question.

"Where did the chicken feathers come from?" This was Li Long's question.

"The copper coins were given by little uncle." Li Qiang looked at his father, answered his question first, and then looked at Li Long and said:

"The chicken feathers were plucked from the chicken at Mingwa's house. He said that after making the shuttlecock, let him play with it too."

Plucking feathers from a live chicken!

Children nowadays are also amazing!

"Did you not kill the chicken?" Li Jianguo asked angrily.

"No, they have five chickens, just pluck a few from one." Li Qiang said, "And we are not stupid!"

Stupid here means silly.

"Okay, you are not stupid, just wait to see Mingwa being beaten by his mother tomorrow."

"Eat, eat." Liang Yuemei shouted, "There is still something to do in the afternoon."

At the dinner table, Li Jianguo asked Li Long:

"Go together tomorrow?"

"No, I have to go to the county this afternoon, and I have to buy some grain tomorrow morning to transport it in. The horse cart is needed in our production team, so I will transport grain by bicycle these two days."

"Dad, I want to go too!" Li Qiang suddenly said.

"You have to go to preschool tomorrow, and you have to go to the first grade in a few months, so you can't go." Li Jianguo immediately denied Li Qiang's idea—preschool now actually teaches first-grade content. Li Qiang will be six and a half in September and can go to school.

Li Juan actually wanted to go too, but she knew she couldn't pay for it, and going to school was the most important thing. Last time little uncle helped her weave carrying poles and reinforced the big broom, which made their group show off in the wind—

"Little uncle, the big brooms of others in our class have all fallen, but ours hasn't." Li Juan couldn't help but say, "Our teacher praised our group well!"

"Why?" Li Jianguo didn't know that Li Long helped Li Juan and them weave carrying poles, and asked.

"When I came back that afternoon, I saw them weaving carrying poles on the playground, so I thought about bringing Li Juan back, and helped weave it by the way." Li Long explained lightly.

Liang Yuemei smiled while eating.

She felt it was quite good—Li Long was quite independent before, and it was impossible to think about helping Li Juan. In these few months, the changes have been too great.

After the meal, Li Jianguo stuffed a stack of money to Li Long and said:

"This is the money for the piglets. By the way, you go to the street and send 20 yuan to the old father and mother. Now the old home is between the old and the new, and it is not easy to pass." "I accepted the money for the piglets, I will pay the money for sending it." Li Long took out 20 and returned it, "I collected some deer antlers in the mountains these two days and earned some money."

"Okay." Li Jianguo didn't argue, it was not good to tear it apart.

In the afternoon, Li Jianguo and the others went to the fields to weed. Li Long waited for Xie Yun Dong to come over, and then went to the captain's house.

The people had already arrived, and Li Long saw Gu Bo Yuan, Tao Daqiang, and saw Xu Jianjun, and others. He greeted them one by one.

"Little Long is here too, then we won't delay time." Xu Chengjun saw Li Long arrive, threw the remaining cigarette butt of the Mohe smoke on the ground, stepped on it with his foot, and said:

"This time going to the mountains to do side jobs was fought for by Li Long for us. You are the experts in weaving carrying poles in the team. I won't say much, the standard of carrying poles has been emphasized to you. When you are in the mountains, you must listen to Xie Yun Dong. He is the captain. Whoever doesn't listen, not only will not be paid after returning, but also will be fined work points!"

Speaking of this, he looked at Li Long:

"Little Long, you come and say a few words to everyone."

More than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at Li Long. Li Long looked back at them one by one. He could see Gu Bo Yuan's encouragement, Tao Daqiang's respect, and others' gratitude.

Of course, not all, he could also see someone wanting to see his joke—not everyone can speak completely in front of everyone.

"Since the captain asked me to speak, then I will say a few words." Li Long walked to Xu Chengjun and said, "These 300 carrying poles are the task given to us by the supply and marketing cooperative. As the coordinator in the middle, I only care about one thing, the quality of the carrying poles.

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Let's be the villain first and then the gentleman. The ugly words are placed here. If the quality is not up to standard, don't talk about handing it over to the supply and marketing cooperative, even I can't pass it here. Either send it back to redo, or destroy it. Anyway, unqualified ones cannot be taken out to lose face.

Of course, if you encounter any trouble in the mountains, I will also coordinate to solve it—the premise is that you don't actively cause trouble. Now the mountains are not like before. After the forestry team was established, the mountains were divided into areas, and there are people from the forestry team specifically responsible for managing the areas. Some things that could be done before cannot be done now.

So when you get to the mountains, it is best for everyone to concentrate on cutting strips and weaving carrying poles. After all, weaving one carrying pole is one yuan. Those of you with good technology can weave one or two or three a day, and the money comes faster than workers.

After the public affairs are finished, let's talk about private affairs. When you get to the mountains, if you have any difficulties, you can also look for me. I will try my best to coordinate and solve them. Okay, that's all."

After Li Long finished speaking, Xu Chengjun nodded approvingly and said:

"Did you all hear it? Behave yourself when you get to the mountains, don't lose face for our team! Now the mountains are not like before, the introduction letter of the team is not so useful, you must remember to find Little Long if you have trouble—but, if you actively cause trouble, then it is hard to say whether Little Long can stand up for you. Weigh it when doing things, don't learn from Tao Dayong and Gu Ermao!"

Xu Chengjun's words were very heavy, and these people were thinking.

After the people dispersed, Xu Chengjun kept Li Long and said:

"Little Long, heard from Yun Dong that you want to enter the mountains in advance?"

"Well, I have other things in the mountains this time besides the work of carrying poles."

"Okay, but our team members have entered the mountains, you still have to take care of them more. You have a note from the supply and marketing cooperative, and many things are easy to solve. I'm afraid these guys will throw the words just now behind their heads after entering the mountains, digging Fritillaria or something, then it will be troublesome if they are caught."

"Well, I will try my best." Li Long nodded, "I haven't seen the people from the forestry team, I will see the situation then. I think even if they are caught, it will be at most a fine and confiscation of things."

Li Long said it lightly, but Xu Chengjun smiled bitterly. Who has a few extra money in this era? It seems that he has to knock Xu Jianjun well later! Among these people, he is the most difficult to manage.

But who let him be his cousin, it is impossible for his own family not to take care of it.

Li Long returned to the courtyard, looked at it, and there was nothing to do, so he rode his bike out of the village and rushed to the county seat. There was still time in the afternoon, and he planned to go to the old street of Shicheng to see if there was any grain for sale. If there was, buy some and send it to the mountains together tomorrow.

Li Long thought while riding. Yushanjiang and others were building a winter camp for him, but he hadn't shown his face once. Would they be angry?

No, I must go over and see tomorrow no matter what.

In a daze, he arrived at the old street of Shicheng. Li Long found that there were not many stalls here, but there were many people.

There were not only grain sellers, but also more than one. Li Long went over to take a look and found that the grain here was cheaper than the morning market in the county seat.

Rice 65 cents, flour 42 cents—it should be darker, corn flour 18 cents, this is the asking price.

However, the grain on several stalls was packed in half bags. Li Long guessed that this should be worried. If someone didn't collect it, at least the loss would not be too great.

Thinking about the amount he could carry tomorrow, Li Long found a stall with a relatively good quantity, bought all the rice and flour on it, paid and tied it up, and Li Long rode his bike back.

Arriving at the gate of the big courtyard, he found two uniformed staff members at the gate of the police station diagonally opposite watching this area, feeling a bit at ease.

Entering the courtyard, closing the door, Li Long rested for a while, and started tossing the grain bags.

He packed the grain purchased twice into three bags, tied the pockets, and planned to put them away early tomorrow morning and enter the mountains.

At this moment, the work here in the winter camp where Li Long is located has been finished. The mountain body as the back waist wall has been cut out by the Kantu Man, the foundation here has also been smashed, and some wood has begun to be put up.

They use wood to build winter camps, not directly piled up. Holes will be punched at both ends and in the middle, and wooden squares will be inserted to ensure stability, similar to the simple mortise and tenon structure of the Central Plains.

Yesterday Halimu distributed the things Li Long brought to them one by one, which made these young men and middle-aged men very happy. Most of them can't speak Han, and it is very difficult to communicate and exchange things with people outside. Now that they have these things, their family life can be improved a bit, which is good anyway.

Some young men are already thinking about how to trade for more things, to catch up before moving to the summer pasture, and to catch up before other boys who compete for girls.

This is a rare opportunity. After all, Yushanjiang introduced that Li Long is a real Adashi. It is right to find him to trade things!

Li Long didn't know that he had been promoted to a person who could entrust trust in the hearts of the young men.

Early the next morning, Li Long didn't cook, went to the big meat canteen to have a beautiful meal, returned to the big courtyard, set up the grain on the back seat of the bicycle, and rode to the mountains.

More than 150 kilograms of things, although the bicycle can bear it, the road to the mountains is not easy to walk. Li Long knows that this is a difficult journey.

Thanks to book friend Changyang Shaonian for the tip, thanks to book friend Langbian Xianren for the tip, thanks to book friend 20240523124618067 for the tip. This book friend, your tip has integers and zeros. Is this emptying all the coins? Thanks, thanks!

Also thanks to everyone for your subscriptions, monthly tickets, and recommendation votes. Here I also want to say that because it hasn't been so smooth recently, and there are more comments, I can't reply one by one. In some controversial places, I feel it is necessary to explain, and some comments have been brushed past and not seen, so I may not have replied. Regarding the issue of prices, some people say it is a unified national price. After all, it is a planned economy, but I want to say that those with experience should know what is called negotiated price grain, what is called policies from above and countermeasures from below, and what is called regional differences. In such a large country, it is impossible to be completely unified.

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Li Long naturally knew that it was easy to kill a wild boar. Ambush here early tomorrow morning and fire when the wild boar comes.

But it's a bit troublesome to want to capture a wild boar alive.

But it's not impossible.

Li Long carefully looked around and looked at the terrain, and he felt it was necessary to experiment!

If he really caught a wild piglet, wouldn't that be an interesting thing?

Anyway, there isn't much to do now, so Li Long planned to do this.

He didn't wander in the mountains anymore, turned around to lift the bicycle, swung his leg over, and pedaled along the sheep path to the mountain pass, then rode back to the large courtyard along the way.

He took tools like a gun, wire, and pliers from the large courtyard, went out of the courtyard again, locked the door, and went to the grain store. He bought a few kilograms of corn in the grain store, packed it in a bag, and went toward the mountains.

When he returned to the place where the wild boars appeared, the sun was about to set.

Li Long began to set up.

When he left earlier, he had already seen the environment clearly. At this time, he began to sprinkle corn kernels, sprinkling them all the way from the place where the wild boars had rooted earlier to the bushes, and then sprinkled a large area, covering the bushes.

Next, he began to find relatively sturdy bushes and started to set traps.

The wire used was No. 12 wire, which is twice as thick as thin wire. The circle setting is somewhat similar to a rabbit trap. Fearing that it wouldn't catch, he set up more. Such a trap certainly wouldn't catch a large wild boar, but a small wild boar could root under the bushes to eat corn kernels and would easily be caught.

Li Long set up more than 20 traps, including flat traps and vertical traps, and only stopped after using up all the wire he brought.

He was mainly doing this alone for the first time and had no experience, so he would make it more comprehensive.

Now that all the traps were set, he rode his bicycle back.

Li Long's plan was to return to the large courtyard to sleep first and come to see the situation when it was almost dawn tomorrow. At this time, he didn't want to go to Halimu's winter camp—after all, it's no longer winter, and it's not very convenient to squeeze in.

After returning to the large courtyard, the sky had completely darkened. Although he was still a bit excited, he knew he had to rest early, so he found something to eat in the kitchen, ate it in a hurry, and went to sleep.

Originally, Li Long was worried that he wouldn't wake up early the next day, but fortunately, his biological clock reminded him to open his eyes in time.

Looking at the dim light outside, Li Long knew he had to rush to the mountains as soon as possible.

(End of chapter)