Chapter 20: Still want to borrow the horse cart?

"You ran out for a day and only brought back a few pieces of wood and this one kilogram of sesame cakes? That Li family kid picked up a sheep, why didn't you get a share?"

Tao Daqiang, who had originally entered the house happily, did not expect to be scolded by Tao Jianshe when he handed the sesame cakes to his father.

He was scolded dizzy by his father, and it took him a long time to react, defending himself:

"That sheep was obtained by Brother Long, so naturally it belongs to him. I went to help, and Brother Long even bought me a pair of gloves!" He showed the new rabbit fur gloves to his father.

"A pair of gloves bought you off!" Tao Jianshe had originally been quite happy too, but later someone told him that Li Long had hauled back a sheep, and he thought his son had followed him, so how could he not get some meat?

"I even ate at their house, and I didn't even have a meal when I got home! I couldn't even eat the fish I brought back myself. Even if I brought back meat, what's the use?" In the past, Tao Daqiang wouldn't have dared to talk back, but today he came back and there was no meal, and the fish was gone too. He couldn't help but roar at Tao Jianshe:

"At least they gave me something!"

His son actually roared at him. Tao Jianshe was stunned for a moment, his eyes flashed with panic, and then he picked up his tobacco pipe and smashed it down on Tao Daqiang's head:

"You've been out for two days and your wings are stiff, right? You dare to talk back to your father, right? If you have the ability, go with someone else! If you have the ability, don't have the surname Tao! Since you have the surname Tao, and since you are in this house, then I have the final say in this house! Want to eat? Go make it yourself!"

Tao Daqiang breathed like an ox in grievance, and Tao Jianshe was also coughing repeatedly from anger. At this moment, a knock on the door sounded.

"Who?" Tao Jianshe asked unhappily.

"Uncle Jianshe, it's me, Li Long." Li Long's voice came from outside.

Tao Jianshe was immediately a bit panicked. He had just been speaking ill of them, and now the person was right outside.

He couldn't speak, so he gave Tao Daqiang a look.

Tao Daqiang didn't see his father's look, but he had already walked over to open the door.

"Uncle Jianshe, Daqiang. We have already thawed the frozen sheep, and this leg of lamb should be Daqiang's." Li Long handed a leg of lamb to Daqiang and then said to Tao Jianshe:

"Uncle Jianshe, don't worry, this mutton is good meat and can be eaten. Our family is already cooking sheep offal soup."

"Little Long, you even went to the trouble of sending the leg of lamb over, look at you, look at you..." Tao Jianshe's face was burning with shame. He hurriedly sat up and said, "Just let Daqiang take it... come in and sit!"

"Not sitting, I still have to go to the captain's house. I need to use the horse cart tomorrow, so I have to tell him."

"Going again tomorrow?" Tao Jianshe heard this and immediately asked, "Are you taking Daqiang?"

Li Long looked at Tao Daqiang and asked:

"Then Daqiang, you..."

"I'll go to your house tomorrow morning." Tao Daqiang said.

"Okay, then I'll wait for you tomorrow."

Li Long left, pulled a leg of lamb from the snow outside, and carried it to Xu Chengjun's house.

"You said you still want to borrow the horse cart?" Looking at the leg of lamb Li Long brought, Xu Chengjun hesitated. "That work point money..."

"I'll pay it as usual." Li Long pointed to the leg of lamb and said, "This leg of lamb is clean. It's a sheep that froze to death in the mountains, from a herdsman's family. I specifically asked. My family is cooking sheep offal soup, and it can be eaten."

"Fine. Put down the work point money, and I'll write a note, but you have to change horses tomorrow."

"Whatever the captain says, I'll do." Li Long said with a smile, taking out the money.

At the Li family, Li Juan and Li Qiang were holding sesame cakes, eating while watching the sheep offal soup in the pot.

"You say Little Long's change is really big." Liang Yuemei sighed. "For the horse cart borrowing tomorrow, he knew to take a leg of lamb to the captain's house. I don't know if the captain's family dares to eat it."

"What's there not to dare to eat." Li Jianguo was still there decomposing the mutton. The sheepskin had already been hung outside to freeze, and the offal was the first to be processed. The room was filled with a faint fishy smell and the fragrance of cooking sheep offal.

"According to what Li Long said, we might be able to get more sheep tomorrow, so our family will be able to get through this winter comfortably. It’s just that these sheep aren't very fat..." "As long as there's meat to eat, it's fine. I was originally worried about how our family would get through this winter." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "With fish, sheep, and grouse, I wouldn't trade this life even for a god's!"

"That's true! This winter, we can have a good New Year!" Liang Yuemei said with a smile, "Firewood is not lacking either, Little Long is really capable!"

"Hey, I didn't expect Little Long's change to be so big either."

"My uncle also said he would go catch fish to sell in the county." Li Qiang suddenly interjected, "Said a fish can sell for more than a yuan!"

Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei looked at each other and didn't speak.

Is Li Long the kind of person who can sell goods?

Thinking about the past, he definitely wouldn't have.

But the events of these two days, it's really hard to say!

Not long after, Li Long pushed the door and entered from outside.

"Everything done?" Li Jianguo stopped cutting meat and looked up to ask.

"Done." Li Long said, "Have to go drive the cart early tomorrow morning."

As he spoke, he took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it to Liang Yuemei:

"Sister-in-law, this is the ten yuan earned today, you take it."

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"I can't take this money." Liang Yuemei hurriedly waved her hand. "You gave ten yuan earlier, and the family doesn't lack this money, you take it."

"Sister-in-law, you take it first, listen to me." Li Long pushed the money over. "I still have something to ask my brother."

Liang Yuemei looked at Li Jianguo, and Li Jianguo nodded and said:

"You take it first. Little Long, what is it, you say."

"I went to the herdsman's house today, he has a gun but no bullets, said there are wolves. I was thinking, brother, do you still have Type 56 semi-automatic bullets here, can you give me some?"

"Have a few dozen rounds, take them all." Li Jianguo stood up, took a bunch of keys from his waist, found one to open the five-drawer cabinet in the corner of the bedroom, took out a paper package from inside, and handed it to Li Long.

This five-drawer cabinet was made by someone using wood bought when Li Jianguo got married. It has started to lose paint now, but it's still good to use. The valuable things in the Li family are all inside.

"They gave this frozen sheep, so we must thank them." Liang Yuemei already knew this frozen sheep was Halimu's, and said, "When you go again, buy some more tea and such for them."

A sheep is worth dozens of yuan, and a pack of tea is only one or two yuan; you can't just take advantage of others. This was Liang Yuemei's simple thought.

"I know." Li Long nodded and said, "There are many valuable things in the mountains. If we get more things in the future, our family can also become rich."

"Dad, when eating the leg of lamb, give me and my brother one knucklebone each." Li Juan saw Li Jianguo continue to decompose the meat and immediately said.

Li Long remembered the knucklebones that Nasen and the others were playing with at Halimu's house, and his heart moved.

There were dozens of knucklebones on that wooden kang; it should be fine to ask for a few, right?

In this day and age, there are really too few toys for girls. Being able to have a few knucklebones to grab and play with makes them like emperors among children, as powerful as boys having two iron spinning tops.

This night, many families in the team were discussing the Li family's affairs.

Many people even suffered from insomnia because of this.

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