Chapter 266: Encountered an unrecognized relative

Qian Zhongxin went to the county to sell Cistanche, carried a sack there, and carried a sack back.

It didn't sell.

People saw him when he went and when he came back, and then he became a joke in the mouths of the idle gossips in the team.

"The matter of Tao Dayong and Gu Ermao hasn't made him see clearly yet. Some money is money we can earn, and some money we shouldn't think about earning. Li family's Little Long is not ordinary; he's a public servant now, can that be the same?"

"That's true, Li family's Little Long has killed several wolves in the mountains, can an ordinary person do that? Anyway, I wouldn't dare."

"Just for the fact that he could get the job of tying big brooms for the team, I admire him!"

"Then why don't you mention weaving carrying poles? That money isn't small either!"

"That's because I wasn't included—I'm just waiting for him to get some job for the team in the autumn, and then the money for the New Year will come out."

"Then why haven't you been digging Cistanche these two days? You could also get a few yuan to spend in a day."

"That's because I knew too late. By the time I knew, the nearby alkaline beaches were all occupied, and they were almost dug out."

"You just wait and see, Qian Zhongxin will still have to sell the Cistanche to Li Long in the end—it's just that I don't know if Li Long will take those dried goods."

"Probably not, I went to Li Long's to sell Cistanche this morning, and those that were rotten in the beach were all picked out by him, and he said he didn't want them. People have standards for receiving goods..."

Li Long didn't care about these things the team members were talking about regarding him; at this moment, he was tidying up the Cistanche, planning to pull the horse cart to sell all the ones in the warehouse.

These dried goods were over two hundred kilograms, and could sell for over a hundred yuan, worth mobilizing the horse cart once. Accustomed to the speed of a bicycle, Li Long really felt a bit unaccustomed sitting in a horse cart to the county.

The weather was a bit overcast, and there was wind. Li Long wore a straw hat and really missed the SUV he had in his previous life. Thinking that in this life, if he wanted to drive an SUV, it would take another twenty or thirty years, and by then, he would be old.

After selling the Cistanche at the medicinal herb company, when he was almost back to the team, a truck drove over from behind. Li Long pulled the horse to the side, and at the same time hid on the other side of the horse cart to avoid being hit by stones kicked up by the truck.

As a result, the truck stopped at the side.

The person in the passenger seat leaned over from the driver's side to ask Li Long:

"Young man, can I ask you something?"

"Sure." Li Long said with a smile, "Uncle, what are you asking?"

The other party was over fifty, not as old as Li Qing Xia, but calling him uncle at this age was no problem.

"You're from that team, right?" He pointed to the team in front, which was the team Li Long was in.

"Yeah."

"Then do you know Li Jianguo's house?"

Li Long was a bit puzzled. Who was this person? Why did he ask about his big brother directly?

He looked at this person earnestly; he didn't recognize him, had no impression.

"I know, why are you asking about him?"

"Haha, knowing is enough. I'm his relative, young man, can you point the way? I'll give you a melon to eat."

Li Long turned his head and took a look, only then discovering that the truck was loaded with watermelons, the kind that were a bit pointed.

"No need, I'll take you there." Li Long said, "The road ahead is not easy to walk, you truck, pass the reed ditch slowly, otherwise it will bump the watermelons rotten."

"Good, good, good, you go in front." That person smiled and retracted into his seat, "I'll definitely give you a few melons later—these are melons from the lower wild land, guaranteed sweet!"

When he said this, Li Long was even more puzzled. Did his family have relatives in the lower wild land?

Pulling the horse cart, he flicked the whip and walked in front, leading the truck across the reed ditch, and then all the way to the Li family.

Seeing Li Long pull the horse cart directly into the courtyard, that person was also a bit strange, let the driver park the truck on the side of the road, and followed into the courtyard.

Li Jianguo and Liang Wenyu hadn't returned yet; it wasn't mealtime yet. Li Qing Xia and Tao Daqiang were picking up nets in the courtyard, and Du Chunfang was picking vegetables in the vegetable garden.

"Is this Li Jianguo's house?" That person asked.

"Yeah." Li Long said with a smile, "Look, this is Li Jianguo's dad, that inside is Li Jianguo's mom, I am Li Jianguo's younger brother, and you are..."

"Who is he?" Li Qing Xia was also confused listening.

"This old uncle said he is my big brother's relative, I don't know who it is either."

Li Qing Xia looked at that person with some puzzlement.

"Oh! It really is the Dragon King Temple being flooded by the water!" That person slapped his thigh, "Young man, you should have said earlier that you are Jianguo's brother! My name is Liang Dongting, I am Liang Donglou's cousin, I am..."

"Got it, got it!" Li Long immediately reacted. This relative was actually his sister-in-law's, but in this day and age, everyone was one family, so Liang Dongting would say he was a relative of Li Jianguo's family.

After all, at this time, men were in charge of the outside and women were in charge of the inside. If you asked people on the side of the road, many people would certainly know Li Jianguo, but if you said Liang Wenyu, the younger generation might not necessarily know.

"Uncle Dongting, sit down quickly." Li Long hurriedly let him sit, "I'll go pour you some water—"

"Pour what water? You go to the truck and hug a melon down, shouldn't we eat watermelon at this time!" Liang Dongting smiled, "Old brother, old sister-in-law, when did you come from the old home, where is Jianguo?"

"My dad and mom came over a few months ago. My big brother and sister-in-law are still on the threshing ground; there are still some finishing jobs that haven't been finished."

"Come, come, come, eat melon!" Liang Dongting cut a large watermelon weighing over ten kilograms and said with a smile:

"This is grown by ourselves. I was allocated land this year, I planted half corn and half watermelon, the watermelon is especially sweet this year, come, come, come, everyone stop working for now, taste it!"

Several people put down the work in their hands and started eating watermelon.

After Li Long ate two pieces, he went to pick up nets with Tao Daqiang. Today he didn't go to Shicheng to sell fish, there were only six nets, and they were picked up quickly. After Tao Daqiang left, Li Long went into the house to knead dough.

With two more people, he had to prepare some solid food.

Then there was only pulled noodles.

Du Chunfang also joined the chat, because this Uncle Dongting belonged to the extroverted type, quite able to talk, from following his brother Donglou over to work hard to settling down in the lower wild land, to the various difficulties of planting melons, etc., all were said.

Then they also chatted about the situation in the old home. He was different from Li Long; he was already over thirty when he came from the old home, the kind who had already started a family. He came over by himself first, and then after settling down, he brought his family over.

Li Long was stir-frying vegetables and preparing food on his side. Stir-frying was two dishes, one was mutton with spicy skin, the tomatoes in the vegetable garden were quite ripe, using one tomato, five big spicy skins, plus two full large spoons of braised mutton cubes, when the vegetables were in the pot, the fragrance filled the courtyard.

This made Liang Dongting, who was chatting enthusiastically, couldn't help but turn his head to take a look, and then said:

"Yo, Little Long's craftsmanship is not bad! What dish is this, why is the flavor so pungent?"

This meant the flavor was very stimulating and very good.

"Rolled spicy skin, we'll eat pulled noodles later." Li Long said with a smile, "This flavor is delicious mixed with noodles."

"Mm, it smells fragrant!" Liang Dongting nodded, and he was really a bit hungry. He served a small basin of mutton rolled spicy skin, looking at the red chili, the thick soup, this was definitely a delicacy.

He put this in the kitchen—mainly because there were some flies under the shed, and if no one drove them away, it would be very annoying.

Then Li Long stir-fried the second dish, and the other stove also lit firewood, a steamer was placed on top, and Li Long steamed the air-dried meat and salted dried fish.

"Your family's Little Long is quite capable." Liang Dongting watched Li Long busy at both stoves and whispered, "I saw him pull the horse cart back from outside today, he went to work, right? Now he's cooking again—he's a master of everything inside and out!"

"Hehe, that's right." Li Qing Xia was most proud that his youngest son had prospects. For someone his age, having children with prospects was more face-saving than living happily himself.

Mm, especially face-saving.

"Does he have a partner?" Liang Dongting was very gossipy and asked with a smile.

"Yes, she's a teacher." Du Chunfang was also very proud.

"She's in the Education Bureau." Li Qing Xia added.

At this time, Li Long didn't know that the content of their chat had already involved him. The second dish, tomato and chili stir-fried eggplant, was out of the pot, also a large basin, and then he washed the pot and poured water, preparing to cook noodles.

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Li Juan returned from outside carrying a basket of pig grass, and seeing so many people, with fire under the stove, she hurriedly put down the pig grass and came over to burn the fire.

"This is Jianguo's child, right? Little girl, come over and eat melon!" Liang Dongting said with a smile.

"You have to call him Uncle, this is Little Uncle." Li Long introduced to Li Juan with a smile, "His home is in the lower wild land of Shicheng."

"Hello, Little Uncle." Li Juan said with a smile.

"Good, good, come, come, girl, eat melon!"

Liang Dongting stood up and gave Li Juan a piece of watermelon. Li Juan took it and ate it slowly while burning the fire.

Li Long went into the house and started kneading dough.

Outside, Li Qiang's voice came again soon.

Today he kneaded a lot of dough, Li Long couldn't quite grasp it, the dough was a bit soft, but fortunately, it could be pulled. It just might not be as thin as usual.

Li Long liked to pull noodles very thin, feeling that eating them this way was relatively friendly to the stomach. Of course, some people liked to eat thick ones, as they had more stomach power, and eating a plate of noodles thicker than chopsticks would keep them from being hungry all day—it was filling, as they put it, filling.

While cooking noodles here, Li Jianguo and Liang Wenyu entered the courtyard. Actually, they had already seen the truck on the threshing ground, but thinking that there were people at home, and guessing it should be someone selling watermelons, Li Long was generous and bought watermelons by the sack, so they weren't surprised.

So when Liang Wenyu recognized Liang Dongting, she was really a bit pleasantly surprised; she hadn't seen this little cousin for some years.

The process of reminiscing and chatting didn't take twenty minutes, and the food had already started to be served on the table.

When Li Long used a basin to put the air-dried meat and salted dried fish on the table outside, and brought up the two dishes for mixing noodles, and placed two plates of noodles in front of Liang Dongting and the driver, Liang Dongting was surprised:

"Too much, too much! Having a plate of noodles is enough to be content, you guys are too much... are you not planning to live anymore?"

"How could that be?" Liang Wenyu said with a smile, "This meat, this fish, are all made by Little Long, the food is just ordinary, Uncle, just eat."

"Exactly, home-cooked food, Uncle, don't be polite!" Li Jianguo also had face, Li Long's meal was really not bad!

Li Long placed two more plates of noodles in front of Li Qing Xia and Du Chunfang. Liang Dongting gave him a thumbs up:

"Little Long, you are really amazing! This food is beautiful, and the flavor is also good!"

"Then you guys eat more, coming from so far away, you must be hungry." Li Long said with a smile, "Since you're home, don't be polite!"

"Right, right, right, this is home, you can't be polite." Li Qing Xia also said.

Liang Wenyu went to get a few heads of new garlic and put them on the table, whoever wanted to eat would peel them.

Next was Li Juan and Li Qiang eating, and then Li Jianguo and Liang Wenyu.

When Li Long wiped the sweat from his forehead and carried the plate to the table, Liang Dongting had already eaten two plates of noodles and was gnawing on bones. Under the persuasion of the family members, he really wasn't polite.

After eating, Liang Dongting drank a bowl of noodle soup, rested for a while, pointed to the truck and said:

"Little Long, go up and move the watermelons, these are home-grown watermelons, take as many as you want!"

"Then I'll take some." Li Qing Xia knew that if he didn't take them, Liang Dongting certainly wouldn't be happy. Being so casual during the meal really meant he wasn't treating them as outsiders. Now that he was moving watermelons down and you didn't take them, that was hurting people.

Li Long said with a smile:

"Then Uncle, I won't be polite, these big watermelons are really good to eat, sweet, sandy pulp, I have to move a sack."

"A sack is not enough?" Liang Dongting said, "You have to take three sacks..."

"We can't finish them." Li Jianguo chimed in, "The watermelons Little Long bought earlier haven't been finished yet."

Li Long pulled a sack of watermelons down from the truck, and he wasn't polite either; at this time, if he were polite, Liang Dongting would really be angry.

He and Li Jianguo stuffed the watermelons under the bed, and Li Long said to Liang Dongting:

"Uncle, I'll go to the village director and use the big loudspeaker to shout for you, let people come over to buy watermelons. It's just after lunch, everyone is at home."

"That's good. I'm selling these melons here for three cents a kilogram."

"Delivered to the doorstep, three cents is not expensive, and these melons are still so good." Li Long said casually, "You just wait."

He rode his bicycle, with two watermelons on the back seat, and rode out.

"Your family's Little Long has a lively brain." Liang Dongting said to Li Qing Xia, "But will it work? Can the village director let him use the big loudspeaker?"

"He will definitely let him use it." Li Qing Xia was really extremely confident about this, "Don't worry, prepare to weigh the melons."

Li Long first put one melon at Old Uncle Luo's place, and then took another melon to Xu Chengjun's house.

"Director, I'm giving you a melon." Seeing Xu Chengjun smoking under the grape trellis in the courtyard, Li Long knew he had already eaten, so he said with a smile:

"Authentic lower wild land watermelon, guaranteed sweet!"

"Just say what you have to say, why bring a melon." Xu Chengjun was now also polite and affectionate toward Li Long; Li Long's two jobs had made the team earn thousands of yuan, and such a person really had to be catered to.

"A relative of mine is from the lower wild land, and brought a truck of melons to sell here, I want to use the big loudspeaker to shout."

"Fine, go shout, do you know how to turn it on?"

"I know, I know. Can I go in now?"

"Go in, go in, go in, what's there that you can't go in for."

Li Long went into the house, turned it on himself, and started shouting into the big loudspeaker.

Without the usual "pu-pu" sound, it made the villagers curious instead. When they heard that the watermelon truck was in the team, three cents a kilogram, and it was watermelon from the lower wild land, many people were immediately tempted, grabbed their sacks, and came to the Li family. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 267 =====