Chapter 26

When Li Long returned to the Li family, Tao Daqiang had already returned to his house, and there was no one in the courtyard.

Li Jianguo was unloading the sheep.

"Are you going tomorrow?" Li Jianguo asked while skinning the sheep.

Li Long stepped forward to help and said:

"Can't go, the horse cart in the team has been borrowed out."

"Borrowed out?" Liang Yuemei was cutting sheep stomach and other offal, planning to boil another pot of sheep offal soup.

"Yeah. When I went to find the team leader in the team, the team leader said so." Li Long sighed, "Looks like someone is jealous."

"This is also normal." Li Jianguo sharpened the pointed knife on the whetstone nearby and slowly skinned the sheep.

The sheep hadn't completely thawed, but the body was a bit soft, so it was convenient to skin it at this time.

Mainly because he didn't wait for it to thaw before giving Tao Daqiang a leg, since it had already seen blood, then skin it.

"Then it's just right to rest tomorrow." Liang Yuemei said, "Little Long must be exhausted these two days."

"Actually not that tired," Li Long said with a smile, "I even ate a meal of hand-grabbed meat at someone's house at noon today."

"That's really not bad." Liang Yuemei looked at her brother-in-law with some surprise, didn't expect her brother-in-law to be able to communicate to this extent now.

Thinking about what those sister-in-laws and aunties who came over to visit at noon said, each one described Li Long as so unbearable, who could have expected Li Long to change so much?

"Then what do you plan to do tomorrow?"

"If nothing, I plan to make a sled tonight." Li Long said, "Eldest brother, do you know who has a saw?"

"Our family has it." Li Jianguo said, "Make a sled? How big?"

"Doesn't need to be very big." Li Long gestured, "Pulled by people, just as big as a table. Just frame it with wooden strips, I plan to break the ice tomorrow to catch some fish, and go to the county town early the day after tomorrow to sell."

Wanting to make money to buy a bicycle, just going into the mountains won't work, these few days the horse cart is probably not borrowable, better to do it himself.

A sled isn't a complicated thing either, a few wooden strips, chisels and such used well, ready-made wood is there, doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, as long as it's easy to use!

"That's easy, the two of us can make it tonight." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "If you want to talk about horse carts and such, we can't make it, a small sled is nothing."

In this day and age, every household basically does what they can do themselves. In terms of handicraft, not many people in this day and age are bad. Li Long still remembered the rifle his eldest brother Li Jianguo whittled for Li Qiang with wood, that painted with paint was simply exactly the same as the real Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

Li Long and Li Jianguo finished skinning the two sheep, and the sky had already darkened.

"Eldest brother, make the sled tomorrow. Just dealing with these sheep today is tiring enough." Li Long was really tired, these two sheep were really not easy to handle.

"Alright." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "I'll go catch fish with you tomorrow morning, and we'll do the sled in the afternoon."

Li Long naturally had no objections.

The sheep offal soup was almost ready, the two of them sat on the kang, Li Jianguo rolled the Mohe tobacco, Li Long watched Li Juan and Li Qiang playing on the kang, he suddenly thought of the knuckle bones he brought back, so he went to the east room to take them out and brought them to the head of the kang.

"Juan, here, you and your brother play together."

When Li Long sprinkled the knuckle bones on the kang, Li Juan was stunned for a moment, then let out a surprised scream!

"Ah—uncle, is this for me?"

"Yeah." Li Long said with a smile, "My friend in the mountains, he has a lot at home, so I asked for some."

"Uncle, you are so good!" Li Juan shouted loudly.

This scream even attracted Liang Yuemei, she held a spatula in her hand, glared at Li Juan and scolded loudly:

"What are you screaming for? Such a loud sound, the ceiling is almost roared over!"

In the past, if Li Juan was roared like this, she would immediately be quiet, but today she didn't, holding those knuckle bones and excitedly said to Liang Yuemei:

"Mom, look! Uncle asked for them for us! So many... so many knuckle bones! Gahua only has five, and she treasures them like treasures every day, doesn't even let us touch them! Now I'll let her see, what is called many!"

Liang Yuemei looked at those knuckle bones, then looked at her daughter's expression, her expression softened, but she still pulled a long face again:

"That's for later! Come over, serve the bowl and eat!"

She looked at Li Long again, as if blaming him:

"Little Long, you just spoil them!" "Those are my niece and nephew, if I don't spoil them, who do I spoil?"

Li Jianguo laughed, smoking the Mohe tobacco beautifully, this life, really comfortable!

Just drinking the sheep offal soup, footsteps came from outside.

Li Long heard those heavy footsteps and knew it was Tao Daqiang.

He stood up, and before Tao Daqiang knocked on the door, he opened the door.

"Daqiang is here, come in quickly."

"Brother Long, I won't come in." Tao Daqiang's face carried some nervousness and anger, "I heard that quite a few families borrowed the horse cart in the team, and are going into the mountains tomorrow..."

"I know." Li Long pulled him in, "Sit first."

Liang Yuemei got up to greet Tao Daqiang to sit at the table, Li Juan sensibly gave him her seat, and she squeezed together with her brother.

Seeing Liang Yuemei wanting to serve him sheep offal soup, Tao Daqiang hurriedly refused:

"Auntie, don't serve, I've eaten."

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"It's fine to drink a bowl after eating." Liang Yuemei didn't listen to him.

Tao Daqiang and the Li family brothers each interacted with each other. He called Li Jianguo uncle, and called Li Long brother. Mainly because Li Jianguo was one of the first batch of people to come to this production team, although he wasn't old at the time, he was brothers with those old people.

"Then let's..." Tao Daqiang looked at Li Long, hoping he could make a decision.

Just had a harvest, and let others cut off the beard, he really felt uncomfortable in his heart.

"Let's go break the ice to catch fish tomorrow, do you have time?"

"Yes." Tao Daqiang's eyes lit up, "Caught..."

"Caught and go sell." Li Long said, "But don't tell others."

"Good, good, good, I definitely won't tell, my dad and brother won't tell either!" Tao Daqiang took the sheep offal soup handed over by Liang Yuemei, mixed feelings.

The leg of mutton taken back yesterday was already gone, the leg of mutton just carried back, his father didn't say to make mutton to eat either. Drank corn flour paste at night, and it was cold.

If it weren't for eating a few pieces of mutton beautifully at noon, he felt he might not necessarily be able to get up tomorrow.

Consumption is high!

"Drink another bowl." Watching Tao Daqiang drink a bowl of sheep offal soup quickly, Liang Yuemei wanted to serve him another bowl, Tao Daqiang hurriedly stood up to refuse, but the bowl had already been taken over.

After taking the bowl again, looking at the sheep offal filled in the bowl, Tao Daqiang's eyes turned red, and tears almost fell into it.

This is an outsider! Own family, not even as good as an outsider!

Li Long could tell Tao Daqiang had something on his mind, but every family has a scripture that is hard to recite, he couldn't say this thing either, after Tao Daqiang left, he also simply washed and went to the east room.

The remaining money is not little, in his heart this money also has a share for Tao Daqiang, but for now, he can't give it to him.

Wait until later to talk about it.

What's urgent now is how to earn enough money for the bicycle first.

The next day after breakfast, after Tao Daqiang drove over, Li Jianguo, Li Long, and Tao Daqiang took Li Juan and Li Qiang to the small sea.

When they were almost at the small sea, they saw a horse cart leaving the village from afar.

Li Long thought, leaving the house at this time, and still wanting to go into the mountains to haul wood, this is daydreaming, right?

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