[{"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-178":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},1934059,2572,"Chapter 178","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-178",178,"\u003Cp>The well head was put aside first. Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming were happy when they saw the welded steel bars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come, come, it's been a long time since we dug a well. Let's see if our skills have rusted today.\" Lu Yingming untied the steel bars from the bicycle, stood them up, and walked to the edge of the dug pit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long parked his bicycle and followed. He saw a small groove dug in one corner of the pit. This groove was very deep, and water had already come out, looking quite turbid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming gripped the steel bars and thrust them straight into the small pit. The tip of the steel bar had been sharpened, and it went down more than half a meter in one go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It went down very quickly at first, but when it went down another five or six meters, they could hear the sound of colliding stones further down. This was hitting the sand and gravel layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The big work is just starting now.\" Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming stopped their work, leaned against the edge of the dirt pit, and each rolled a cigarette. While smoking, they recalled their well-digging experiences in the past:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The water line in our place is considered high. I remember digging a well at the bank that year, the drill went down more than ten meters before hitting the sand and gravel layer, and that sand and gravel layer was seven or eight meters thick. The drill was worn dull...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The city is different. It's much easier to dig wells in our countryside.\" Li Jianguo took a puff of his cigarette and said, \"If you find a good place, you don't even need to pass through much of the sand and gravel layer to dig through. Like that public well, the water output point is so good...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We don't have that ability, and even if we did, it's not in the yard. Let's just dig here with peace of mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long jumped down into the dirt pit, grabbed the steel bar with some curiosity, pulled it up with force, and thrust it down again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was very hard underneath, and thrusting it down felt like hitting a stone directly, making it very difficult to go deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not easy to drill, right?\" Lu Yingming said with a smile, \"The big drill we used back then was troublesome. Digging a well took a long time. Our pressure well is easy, we can install it and get water today!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the confident smiles of Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming, Li Long believed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Yuemei and Sister-in-law Lu were cooking. Stir-fried dishes were being cooked on the stove outside, and rice was being steamed on the stove inside. Li Long could smell that a stir-fried egg with chives had already been taken out of the pot, and another meat dish should be braised pork—the wild boar meat brought back two days ago came in handy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After lunch, Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming continued to dig the well, while Li Long rode his bicycle to find materials—he remembered that to dig a pressure well well, he also needed bricks for support, cement, sand, and gravel to make it more sturdy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered that in his previous life, Li Jianguo's family dug a pressure well in the yard more than ten years later. At that time, they used bricks to pad it after digging, without applying cement. Those bricks were movable, and it would collapse before long, so it had to be reinforced frequently, which was quite troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long rode his bicycle to the county to buy two bags of cement, and then shoveled a bag of coarse sand by the commune's small river. The easiest thing to find was bricks. At the old horse station, because of the previous team production, there were quite a few half-bricks. After Li Long unloaded the cement and other things, he went to pick up some.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he gathered the bricks, Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming had already started to lower the water pipes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dug well? In place?\" Li Long was a bit puzzled, \"So fast? Water came out underneath?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm, hit the water layer below the sand and gravel.\" Li Jianguo said with a smile, \"You didn't see it, when the steel bar was pulled out, the water sprayed out directly. The water volume underneath is really large!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How's the taste?\" Li Long asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Clear and sweet! The water is very good!\" Lu Yingming said with a smile, \"This water is even better than the water from the public well over there, and better than the water from the artesian well by the small sea!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's really great.\" Li Long was sincerely happy, \"Then I'll mix the cement and sand now, and I'll build the well seat in a while.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, Liang Yuemei and Sister-in-law Lu mixed the cement and sand, while Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming filled in the dug pit, leaving only the pipe that had been driven down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the pit was filled, they started to build the well platform here. Li Long dug a water ditch from the pressure well to the inside of the yard to facilitate the flow of excess water into the vegetable garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The well seat was built, the pressure well head was installed, and the next step was waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It can be used tomorrow morning.\" Li Jianguo said, \"Tomorrow we still need to splash some water on it, so the cement doesn't crack.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about the remaining cement and sand?\" Liang Yuemei looked at the pile of mixed cement and sand and asked, \"It can't be wasted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It won't be wasted!\" Lu Yingming said with a smile, \"Doesn't your family raise pigs? Then just build two pig feeding troughs!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Build pig feeding troughs?\" Li Long had a faint impression in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, when building things with cement and sand, because of financial reasons, little cement was used and a lot of sand and gravel were used, so it was hard to say whether things were sturdy or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later on, when production conditions improved, cement troughs were applied directly, but at this time, it was necessary to mix a large amount of sand and gravel with cement, dig a pit on the spot, apply the trough in the pit, and then fill it with soil. It didn't need to be filled tightly. After a period of time, when the cement and sand were air-dried, dig it open and see the overall situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because little cement was used and there was no steel bar reinforcement, the pig feeding troughs were easy to rot, and usually one out of three would rot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When applying, use a few reeds as tendons, it shouldn't be easy to rot.\" Li Long suddenly thought of the tofu-dreg projects he heard about in his previous life, which used bamboo poles instead of steel bars. Building a building naturally wouldn't work, but if reeds were used as tendons to apply pig feeding troughs now, there would be no problem at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Will it work?\" Lu Yingming was a bit puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why wouldn't it?\" Li Long smiled, \"Just like digging soil blocks needs wheat tails to mix with mud, the role of those wheat tails is the same as these reeds in the cement.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then let's try it!\" Li Jianguo felt Li Long's words made sense, \"Anyway, it doesn't cost much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It just so happened that there was nothing to do now, and it would be a while before dark, so several people divided the work. Li Long went to find suitable reeds, and Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming carried the coarse concrete to find a suitable place outside the residential area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dry reeds were easy to find, anyone could pull out two bundles—because during the winter slack season, pulling reeds was a very important source of sideline income (the specific method will be discussed later).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long found suitable reeds, carried the iron shovel, and went to the south. At this time, Li Jianguo and the others had already dug out a suitable pit and started to level the pit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To apply a suitable pig feeding trough, at least the inside of the soil had to be very flat, so Li Jianguo and the others used iron shovels to pat the soil surface flat and neat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long measured the pit and started to use the iron shovel to chop the reeds into sections of corresponding length. While Li Jianguo and the others were applying the cement and sand, he placed the reeds on top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the two pig feeding troughs were applied, the sun had already set. After drying for a while, feeling that the cement had started to solidify, they slowly added soil inside, trying to keep the soil from causing a major impact on the cement surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all this was done, it was already dark. On the Li family's side, Liang Yuemei cooked soup, and the two families chatted and laughed while having a midnight snack, not dispersing until very late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early the next morning, Li Long went to see the well seat of the pressure well. The cement felt hard, but it wasn't dry yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The family didn't dare to use it. Li Long went to see the situation of the pig feeding trough south of the residential area. No one had come to move it, but it definitely shouldn't be good yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until noon, Li Long saw that the cement on the surface was dry, so he tried to put some priming water into the pressure well head, and then pressed it. Soon, pressure came, and after pressing hard a few times, a stream of water flowed out from the pressure well mouth. At first, the water was a bit turbid, but it quickly became clear. The water volume was indeed very large, and a large stream of water came out after pressing twice. Li Long caught a handful from the pressure well mouth and took a sip. It was really clear, sweet, and cool!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alright, this major project was considered completed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking that it wouldn't be two days before everyone in the residential area would know that the Li family had dug a pressure well, and nearby families would also come here to fetch water, after all, this water was so clean!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After lunch, Li Long wrapped the small-caliber rifle in a sack and tied it to the main beam, got on his bicycle, and rode out of the village. He had to go into the mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Riding all the way to the county town, Li Long first went to the compound. Some of the Fritillaria in the side room had already dried, and Li Long collected these Fritillaria. He came over mainly because he was worried that these Fritillaria drying there would go bad. After all, there were many Fritillaria, and he was quite rough when drying them. If they really went bad, there would be no way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the quality of the Fritillaria was good, the temperature and humidity in the room were also okay, and the weather over the past few days had been cooperative, so nothing went wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When leaving the compound, Li Long brought more bullets, just in case he could hit some prey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long went to Xiaobaiyang Gully first. Seeing Li Long arrive, Xie Yundong and the others were quite happy. After chatting for a while, Li Long checked the carrying poles newly woven over the past two days, and seeing that the quality was good, he was very satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those people didn't come again.\" Xie Yundong said, \"We've woven more than two hundred carrying poles now, and at most ten days, we can finish the work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then let everyone work harder. I see that everyone's hair and beards have grown long during this time, and their clothes are dirty beyond recognition. It's time to go back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's true, although working and making money is good, it's still strange to miss home after not going back for a while.\" Xie Yundong said with a smile, \"Then I'll tell everyone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the sun had already set on the mountaintop, Li Long pedaled his bicycle towards his wooden cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't see any prey along the way, but he heard a few wolf howls in the distant mountains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning to the wooden cabin, Li Long saw that it wasn't dark yet, lit a simple stove outside, made something to eat, extinguished the fire after eating, and went back to the room to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waking up the next morning, the sun had already risen. This time Li Long went out slowly to wash up, and then made porridge and cooked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eating, he originally intended to tidy up and then go to Xiaobaiyang Gully. Just as he was tidying up, he saw someone carrying a bag walking towards this side from the gully entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long became vigilant instantly, turned around, and went into the room to get the small-caliber rifle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Li Long take the gun, that person also became nervous. He immediately shouted loudly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was introduced from the forestry team, saying you are collecting Fritillaria here... I am just digging Fritillaria... Don't be nervous, don't shoot!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that the other party was digging Fritillaria, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief and shouted loudly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then come over, how much Fritillaria do you have?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"More than eight kilograms, dug in these two days.\" That person walked towards this side slowly, saying as he walked, \"I'm not alone, others are waiting for me to take the money back...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why not go down the mountain to the county to sell it to the acquisition station?\" Li Long asked a question. The price he collected was much lower than the acquisition station.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We... are from the inland, have no household registration, and are afraid of being caught and sent to the production and construction corps to work if we go. I heard that if caught, we either go to the desert to work or be sent back. We don't want to go back, we want to earn some money first, and then find a job...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alright, Li Long felt this kind of rumor was a bit outdated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After waiting for that person to come over, he said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no such thing as repatriation now. Every place is short of people. The production and construction corps are actually considered employees after entering, and there is a pension when they get old. But now it's a small-scale peasant economy, and they don't catch people doing small business anymore. You... the news you heard is from more than ten years ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I'm afraid.\" After that person got closer, Li Long found that he couldn't tell his specific age. He could be twenty, thirty, or forty. He had a big beard, messy hair, many patches on his clothes, his cloth shoes were also broken, and even his pocket was a cloth pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pour the Fritillaria on the ground and let me see, have you weighed it, how heavy is it?\" Li Long asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the other party said it very clearly, Li Long still had basic vigilance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Weighed it, a high eight kilograms.\" That person said, \"Actually we have more, but those few people said... it's better to sell once first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying that, he poured the Fritillaria onto the wooden floor in front of Li Long's wooden cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fritillaria was very clean, with all sizes, but no dirty leaves, no mud, it should have been picked and selected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This Fritillaria is not bad, you should have inquired about my collection price, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Inquired. Actually, we were confiscated once by the forestry team. They withdrew, and we changed places to dig again.\" That person was also honest, saying, \"Three yuan per kilogram...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This Fritillaria, I'll collect it for three yuan.\" Li Long could see that it had been a while since this Fritillaria was dug out. It should be dried every day, so it was semi-dried, and there was no rotten or moldy one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Preserved well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give you twenty-five yuan.\" Li Long took out the money, counted out two ten-yuan notes, and handed over a five-yuan note, \"If you have more later, come find me sooner or later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, alright, alright.\" That person took the money, although there were only three notes, he still counted them carefully, then bowed to Li Long excitedly, turned around, and left quickly carrying the bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long looked at this person's back and felt a bit emotional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the eyes of many inland people in this era, they could eat their fill here and have job opportunities, but after coming over, they found that unless there were opportunities, the most basic thing was still digging for food in the fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people didn't want to be farmers, so they would think of various ways. Most of them were still doing small business, and there were also those working as laborers. Later, many would go around collecting scrap, collecting wine bottles, or taking a bag of tools to work on construction sites. Later on, there would be picking cotton, working as long-term laborers, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although there were many who really wanted to immigrate to the production and construction corps, there were also many who regretted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long sighed while packing up these Fritillaria into a sack, put them into the small room, and planned to take them away when he left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the people from the forestry team had left, these scattered soldiers and defeated generals actually gave Li Long a very good opportunity to make money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With money, who wouldn't want to earn it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2965,"2026-06-14T06:06:39.549Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","c218bedd62ff81ccabfd3be0f46823f746b52b5d7afef9e0dd1e7719ba8d9cae","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-179","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-177",180,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]