[{"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-165":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},1934046,2572,"Chapter 165","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-165",165,"\u003Cp>Li Long was woken up by Liang Yuemei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little Long, why did you fall asleep leaning here?\" Liang Yuemei said. \"Go sleep in the room. Haven't you eaten yet? I'll go heat up some food for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long rubbed his eyes, climbed up, and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm exhausted. By the way, I brought back some meat, including some for the Tao family. I have to send a leg to Da's dad in a bit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eat first, then go.\" Liang Yuemei hurried to the kitchen. Seeing the meat in the pot on the stove, she took it out, cleaned the pot, and heated up the food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had soup noodles for lunch, which heated up quickly. Liang Yuemei served a bowl to Li Long and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll get you a steamed bun, eat it with the bun, it'll keep you full.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright.\" Li Long took the bowl into the room. Seeing some chopped salted chives on the kitchen cutting board, he added some into his bowl of soup noodles—the soup noodles here referred to soup with dough flakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The buns are cold,\" Liang Yuemei said, bringing over two buns on a plate. \"There's no time to steam them, just soak them and eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eating them like this is fine.\" Li Long took the bun and ate it in large bites. \"I'm starving.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why didn't you know to eat lunch before working?\" Liang Yuemei said, half-complaining and half-pitying. \"If your eldest brother knew, he'd definitely scold you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is my eldest brother coming?\" Li Long asked while eating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The sideline vegetable plot of the team was divided into five mu for our family, wasn't it? This afternoon I'm going to weed our ration field, and your eldest brother went to the feed field over there to check on the sowing. They planted sugar beets, and they'll be sprouting soon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm.\" Li Long nodded; this had been discussed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time it got dark, Li Long had eaten two large bowls of soup noodles and two buns before he felt full. While cleaning up the bowls, he said to Liang Yuemei:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On this trip back, I brought half a wolf and half a roe deer. Earlier at noon, I sent a roe deer leg and a wolf leg to Wenyu's place, and I saw Uncle Liang was in good health. Because I was in a hurry, I didn't see Auntie, but they should all be fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You went over there?\" Liang Yuemei looked surprised. \"No wonder... you ran back from the mountains and then detoured over there... no wonder you're so tired. You say... what do you want me to say...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't say anything,\" Li Long said with a smile. \"Alright, I'll go send the meat to Da's dad first, and by the way, check on the situation at other families' homes. Oh, I'll cut another piece of meat for Uncle Luo, he's short of meat too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uncle Luo was used to living a hard life and certainly wouldn't be willing to buy meat himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long carried the roe deer leg and a piece of meat and went to the horse stable first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uncle Luo was feeding the wild piglets. Seeing Li Long come over, he said with a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little Long, look at these wild piglets, they are much more energetic than domestic pigs, running non-stop all day. It's lucky this horse stable pen is large, otherwise, it wouldn't be enough for them to romp around.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle Luo, is the feed enough?\" Li Long asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, tomorrow I'll bring some more fish meal. You can mix it into the wheat bran and feed it to them. This is some roe deer meat and wolf meat I hunted in the mountains today. Eat it when you have time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's wolf meat too! Good, good! Little Long, you're the only one willing to give me meat to eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just that everyone's life isn't good yet. When life gets better, you'll see there will be plenty of people sending you meat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the pigpen, the five wild piglets had all grown a size larger. The one with the injured leg could still slightly show a bit of inconvenience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing there was still grass in the pen, it must have been cut by Uncle Luo; he was very attentive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle Luo, I have two fawns at my friend's place in the mountains, can you raise them?\" Li Long suddenly thought of the deer issue and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can raise them, why couldn't I? Deer just eat grass, just get them more grass to eat. This large courtyard is big enough for them to run around in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In a while, I'll find someone to build a wall in the middle of the courtyard, so the deer can run around on one side, and you can plant vegetables on the other. When I bring the deer back, I'll bring some manure back too. It's a bit of a waste not to plant some vegetables in this big courtyard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don't need to bring manure, you can sweep up a pile of manure from any corner of this horse stable.\" Uncle Luo replied with a smile when he heard Li Long say this. \"It's just that I didn't know how you planned to do it, so I didn't plant anything. Since you say we can plant, we'll plant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Uncle Luo had been waiting for Li Long to give the word. This surprised Li Long; Uncle Luo had very strict rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two chatted for a while, and Li Long left and went to the Tao family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Jianshe was feeding the donkey in the yard and was a bit surprised to see Li Long enter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle Tao, today Da and I hunted a roe deer, and I'm bringing you a leg. He's doing fine in the mountains, and he's very fast at weaving the carrying frames.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long explained his purpose, and Tao Jianshe said with a face full of smiles:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How would he have the ability to hunt a roe deer? It must have been you who hunted it and then took care of him. Look, we're not short of food at home...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Da found it while cutting strips, he pointed out the place to me, and then I hunted it.\" Li Long explained. \"By the way, the roe deer had velvet antlers, we each got one. I told Da that the money your family owes me would be cleared by the antlers...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not like I haven't seen a roe deer before, how big could those antlers be?\" Tao Jianshe said hurriedly. \"It can't be cleared, it can't be cleared. Little Long, I know you're righteous and can earn money, but that's not how things are done. What's owed is owed... don't worry, I'll definitely pay back the money by the end of the year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long was a bit surprised. Was this still the same Tao Jianshe who wasn't satisfied even when he was given a frozen leg of mutton and wanted more?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did he turn around so much?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Jianshe saw Li Long's expression and knew what he had done before. He laughed sheepishly and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little Long, don't blame your Uncle Tao for being confused before. In those poor days without meat, no one wanted to live like that!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past few months, I've finally figured it out. Crooked paths never last long. How long has Da been following you? Our family has a donkey and a cart now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was an old fool before, but I won't be anymore. It's your great magnanimity that you don't hold the past against us, and your Uncle Tao won't hold you back anymore. But I still have my old face, and I don't want to take advantage of you anymore...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Jianshe's change surprised Li Long, but he was also quite happy. He didn't want to be followed by a jerk of a father while taking Tao Da to earn money. Now that Tao Jianshe's thinking had turned around, he was naturally very happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, he went to visit each family. By now, the sun had set, and everyone who had been working had returned. Li Long found everyone at home, and they were all very concerned about their family members in the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When these families learned that their relatives were doing quite well in the mountains and had meat to eat, they were all very relieved. Basically, there was nothing to instruct, just asking Li Long to tell the people in the mountains to work hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Li Long went to the home of the village director, Xu Chengjun. Xu Chengjun also told Li Long to manage strictly, to strictly control the quality of the carrying frames, and not to lose face in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little Long,\" after Xu Chengjun finished talking about the sideline team, he hesitated and then said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's just leave the matter of Gu Ermao as it is. Although he falsely accused you, he lost his apprenticeship, and after he came back, your eldest brother beat his whole family up. Now Ermao feels ashamed and doesn't know where he ran off to. Let's just end it here. After all, you didn't suffer any losses, and his family is almost falling apart now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Li Long realize that after Gu Ermao ran back, his family had been beaten up by his eldest brother!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He really didn't expect his eldest brother to have such a hot-headed side!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he had originally planned to come back and finish other things, then go find trouble with Gu Ermao. He didn't expect Gu Ermao to have run away! It let him off easy! Otherwise, Li Long really had the heart to break one of his legs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, since you, the director, have said so, then let's leave it at that.\" On the surface, Li Long naturally agreed very readily; after all, a winner should be more magnanimous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, if he ran into Gu Ermao privately, what would happen then was hard to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Long returned to the courtyard, Li Jianguo was unloading the horse cart. The cart was loaded with quite a bit of pig grass, and Li Juan and Qiangqiang were helping to carry the pig grass to the stove.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little Long is back.\" Li Jianguo greeted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Juan and Qiangqiang both ran over to greet him enthusiastically. Li Long smiled and patted the two children's heads; he noticed that both Li Juan and Li Qiang had grown a bit taller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle, did you hunt a wolf again? I saw the wolf head! And such long teeth!\" Li Qiang scrambled to say. \"Is it hard to hunt a wolf?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's not easy. Last night, it almost ate me!\" Li Long scared him. \"So don't go into the mountains alone, there are many dangers!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm!\" Li Qiang now admired Li Long the most, so he had to listen to what he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo watched the interaction between the uncle and his nephew with a smile, while Li Juan went to chop the pig grass, her ears pricked up high, listening to Li Long talk about things in the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The team has already started stringing wires, and in a few days, the electricity will be connected.\" Li Jianguo suddenly said. \"When Qiangqiang goes to school, he'll be able to use electric lights, and he won't have to do his homework under an oil lamp.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Li Juan and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Juan's schooling is quite hard, but it will get better later on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Juan smiled, lowered her head, and continued chopping pig grass, and Li Qiang ran over to help. Liang Yuemei came out of the room, holding two pairs of shoes, and handed them to Li Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister-in-law, did you make shoes for me again?\" Li Long took the shoes and looked at them in surprise. \"These aren't the same style you used before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These weren't made by me, they were made by Xiaoxia. One pair is for you, and one pair is for her dad.\" Liang Yuemei said with a smile. \"Two days ago, Xiaoxia specifically ran to the house and said she hadn't seen you for several days and didn't know if you were in the mountains, so she left the shoes here for you to wear and take with you when you came back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Made by Xiaoxia?\" Li Long was a bit surprised. Gu Xiaoxia hadn't mentioned it today; was this a surprise for him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You didn't see it, but the day before Xiaoxia came, Sister-in-law Lu said that Xiaoxia would be eating from the public pot in the future, that she wouldn't be a good match for you anymore, and might not even look at you. As it turned out, just after she finished saying that, Xiaoxia came over, put the two pairs of shoes there, and that Sister-in-law Lu...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Yuemei smiled, turned her head to look at the Lu family, and continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Her face was so embarrassed—Xiaoxia is still a good person, she doesn't forget her roots, she's a good girl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long took the shoes into the east room, then came out to start processing the wolf skin and roe deer skin. He didn't know how to tan skins either; he had already rubbed them with salt earlier, and the next step was to stretch the skins out as much as possible to make them easier to sell later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the work, Liang Yuemei had also prepared the evening extra meal. She cooked cornmeal porridge, so Li Long went to the idle room to get the dried small fish he had sun-dried earlier and placed them by the stove fire to slowly warm them up. In a while, the fish were hot, golden-yellow, and Li Long handed the dried fish to Li Qiang:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qiangqiang, go share them with your parents and sister.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Qiang happily took the dried fish and shared them with everyone one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are two left.\" Li Qiang came over with one in each hand and said to Li Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Both are yours, eat slowly.\" Li Long had kept one for himself, which was also warmed up. He broke off the fish head, blew off the ash, and put it in his mouth, chewing it with a crunch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dried fish was a bit salty and dried quite well, and since it was warmed up well, the bones and thorns inside were charred, so it was very crispy, and he could chew the thorns up and swallow them together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole family ate the dried salted fish slowly, occasionally taking a sip of porridge, and it felt really good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After dinner, Li Jianguo, Liang Yuemei, and Li Long cut the meat into smaller pieces. Liang Yuemei told Li Long to go back and rest, and she and Li Jianguo would braise the meat. Li Long returned to the east room and tried on the shoes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Bo wasn't as tall as him and didn't have feet as big as his, so the shoes were naturally a smaller size. Li Long tried on the larger pair of shoes and was surprised to find that they actually fit quite well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoxia, this girl, is quite attentive. When did she find out his shoe size?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wearing the shoes, Li Long walked out of the room. He saw Li Jianguo sitting by the stove in the courtyard smoking, which surprised him a bit, but he sat down next to him immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eldest brother, did you beat up the Gu family?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm, Gu Ermao messed with you twice, that's no joke, he was trying to put you in jail. Could I tolerate him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo spoke lightly, but his words were filled with murderous intent:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was only because he ran fast, otherwise...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo didn't continue, and Li Long guessed that the following words must have been full of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, I also thought about coming back to teach him a lesson, I just didn't expect him to run away... besides, our family has Juan and Qiangqiang...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's there to be afraid of?\" Li Jianguo didn't mention his worries at the time and took a puff of Mohe tobacco. \"The day after I beat them, I was originally going to take Juan to school, but he ran away, the coward!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long smiled. Actually, his eldest brother was also afraid. Beating the Gu family must have been an impulsive act after hearing the news that he had been accused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His protective nature had never changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eldest brother, our family's life is better now, do you think we should bring Mom and Dad over to stay for a while?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo turned to look at Li Long, looking a bit surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Li Long grew up by his parents' side until he was ten or so, he had never been very close to the people back home, including his parents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he suddenly proposed bringing his parents over, this change was quite big.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I remember that in the last two years, there were still people back home who didn't have enough to eat, unlike here where we can eat meat every day.\" Li Long said with emotion. \"Although Dad said he wouldn't care about me anymore and handed me over to you, they are still parents. The environment back home is like that, and they have it hard too. Now that our lives are more relaxed, letting them come here to live a good life, isn't that what we should do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, in two days when the work in the fields is finished, I'll send a telegram home to see what they think.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo was actually quite happy that his younger brother had such thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2969,"2026-06-14T06:06:39.549Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","bfaac84b8c151eb4ecba82ddf25dbd48ed143cd3bf8f537d4aa36852ae299812","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-166","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-164",180,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]