Chapter 270: Not letting Qiangqiang go to school?

Li Long didn't trim off much meat this time. The meat on this female roe deer wasn't particularly abundant; he trimmed off about five or six kilograms of pure meat, and the rest was left on the bones to air-dry directly. Otherwise, gnawing on dry, bony sticks wouldn't be pleasant either—

While trimming the meat, Li Long thought of something and couldn't help but laugh. He remembered that in his previous life, when Xu Haijun returned from military service and was chatting with them, he complained that the mess squad had once brought in a sheep, and the company commander had asked a minority border guard to help trim the meat, intending to use the trimmed meat and bones to make pilaf for lunch.

By the time the meat was trimmed, the mess sergeant was furious and went straight to the company commander to report that these bones couldn't be used for pilaf. The company commander didn't believe it, but when he went to look, he discovered that the border guard was too skilled; the meat on the bones had been trimmed so cleanly that even the fascia had been removed... There was nothing left to eat, so they had to boil bone soup instead.

Li Long couldn't trim bones like that himself, but he believed that Halimu and the others definitely could.

After salting the meat bones and hanging them on the rack, there wasn't enough space, so he squeezed the previously air-dried meat together and put them aside, then hung these meats up with thin iron wires.

A rack of meat looked quite spectacular, Li Long himself also felt full of harvest, full of sense of achievement.

Of course, the matter wasn't over yet. After rubbing the skins with salt and stretching them to dry on the grass, next was handling the viscera, this was already light and familiar.

The stove was lit, two pots were set up, one was boiling those cleaned viscera, one started braising those meats. There wasn't much meat, so it didn't take much time. Now the sun hadn't completely risen, so the temperature wasn't high, Li Long just wanted to take advantage of this effort to finish the work, and wait for the big sun to rise into the sky, then he wouldn't do it.

Too sunny.

The feeling of burning wood was better than burning corn stalks at home, at least he didn't need to add firewood constantly. Li Long sat under the eaves with a melon, eating while watching the fire. He planned to go again when it was evening, to see if there was any harvest.

Get one or two more prey, this time would be enough. This meat was enough for the family to eat for a while, and the rest was waiting to catch fish to earn money.

Although the money in hand wasn't small, where was enough for this stuff? There were many things to buy in the future, more money, no harm. Some things bought now, stored, and put away were all quite good.

Thinking about those old wines sold at high prices in various stores in later generations, now these wines were one or two yuan a bottle, and Moutai was only a few yuan.

Buy a few cases and store them, when drinking in later generations, at least they were genuine.

Of course, sauce-flavored wine wasn't generally liked here, so he could store some other wines.

It was just wild thoughts, and didn't involve earning money, after all, if he wanted to earn money, there were more other ways.

After finishing the watermelon, Li Long went to the pot boiling viscera to take a look, added a ladle of water, and then went to sleep.

At this time, the outdoor sunlight was too strong, he didn't want to do anything. He admired Halimu and the others, he estimated they must be mowing grass on the hillside now, that wasn't comfortable.

When Li Long climbed up, the bright fire under the stove had already gone out, and the fragrance was drifting, he took a chopstick and inserted it into the heart, it was certainly cooked. Then he tasted the flavor, not bad.

Then sprinkle salt, fish them out. Cut into slices, start drying. A large wooden table really helped a lot, washed clean with water, wiped dry, put the fished out and sliced viscera on it, covered it with a cage cloth, pressed the edges of the cage cloth with stones, and the rest was waiting to dry.

No need to dry completely, half-dry was enough to collect, this way it wouldn't go bad easily.

After finishing all this, Li Long added firewood under the stove, boiled the water with the residual heat of the stove, washed clean, and went to the spring water to rinse the pots clean, wiped them dry, next, was to go to the hot spring.

Li Long felt he had become lazy. There were so many animals in this mountain, why did he fixate on the hot spring?

He carried the gun and walked while analyzing, feeling it should be because he had become lazy, and also because he wanted to soak in the hot spring?

There was a great possibility because of this.

After figuring this out, Li Long didn't struggle anymore.

Going to the hot spring, sure enough, there were no animals, he wasn't disappointed either, soaked in the hot spring for half an hour, and then returned.

When sleeping at night, Li Long hesitated whether to put away the hanging air-dried meat, thought about it, forget it, putting it away meant hanging it again tomorrow, quite troublesome.

As a result, in the middle of the night, he was awakened by the wolf howls outside.

Li Long hurriedly put on his clothes, carried the gun, lifted the glass cloth of the window, and looked out.

Couldn't see.

He listened carefully, the wolf howls were quite far, there was no movement by the wooden house, so he simply opened the safety of the gun, loaded the bullet, opened the door and walked out—

Borrowing the moonlight, he could see on the opposite hillside, several wolves were turning around there, one wolf wanted to come down, the target was clearly the air-dried meat hanging on the pole, but after coming down for less than ten steps, it returned.

Li Long half-squatted in front of the wooden house, aiming over there.

A bit far, felt he couldn't hit, he wanted to wait and see if the wolves would walk closer.

However, those wolves seemed to see Li Long who had come out, and stayed at that distance all the time, confronting Li Long.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Li Long lost patience, regardless of whether he could hit or not, aiming over there, "Peng peng peng peng" fired several shots in a row, one shot seemed to graze the skin of a certain wolf, that wolf screamed, and then these wolves ran far away over the mountain top in a swarm.

Should they not come over again, right?

Go back to the house and sleep.

After such a toss, Li Long originally planned to go to the hot spring early the next day, but it was ruined—when he got up, the sky was already bright.

Li Long knew there might be no harvest, but still a bit unwilling, took a few pieces of half-dried stomach and liver, eating while carrying the gun and went to the hot spring.

Sure enough, there were water marks by the side of the pool, but no animals.

He still ambushed in the forest for more than an hour, still nothing, clearly these animals came here to soak only in the early morning. Now it was starting to get hot, soaking in the hot spring wasn't the time.

Li Long had to return to the wooden house.

Just like this, he tossed for two days, before Li Long hunted two half-grown wild boar cubs again on a morning. This stuff wasn't easy to send to Halimu and the others, Li Long's previous air-dried meat had already dried, Li Long made these into air-dried meat again, and stored a batch of viscera.

After the wild boar air-dried meat was hung, Li Long took advantage of the daytime, carried the other air-dried meat, and those viscera, and that snow leopard skin, and went to the county town.

He planned to go fast and return fast, and look at those wild boar meats at night, to avoid wolves coming again.

When he arrived at the large courtyard, Gu Xiaoxia wasn't there. Li Long saw the note she left, saying she went to check the enrollment preparation situation of the brigade primary school.

Is school starting so soon?

Li Long thought about it, looking at the time it was almost September, time really passed fast.

Since Gu Xiaoxia wasn't there, Li Long didn't stay long, left some meat and viscera in the large courtyard, put the snow leopard skin away, and took the remaining things back to the team.

Passing by that bridge hole, Li Long unexpectedly saw the little girl again. But the little girl was on the other side of the road, and was sifting wheat on a flat ground there—don't know how those wheat ears had turned into a small pile of wheat mixed with wheat tails. This life was difficult, but quite hardworking.

Li Long stopped, waved at the little girl, then took two pieces of air-dried meat from the sack and put them there, and when the little girl ran over, he rode the bicycle and left.

He guessed the little girl would take other things to trade with him, no need.

Returning to the team, Li Long first went to the Gu family, put some air-dried meat for Gu Bo Yuan, and Gu Bo Yuan didn't refuse either, and told him:

"Xiaoxia came over two days ago, said she was checking in the countryside, maybe during the school opening days, she would come to our brigade."

"That's just right, Qiangqiang and the others also have to go to school." Li Long said with a smile, "Just right to let her tell the teacher, and divide into a better class."

Such care in Li Long's view was reasonable, just like Jiang Defu letting Old Ou's daughter go to be a soldier in "Parents' Love".

Human relationship society, having resources and not using them, like a big fool—Li Long admitted he wasn't such a high-minded person.

"I said the same, Xiaoxia said she knew." Gu Bo Yuan nodded, "Seeing that you are living quite well in the mountains..."

"That's right, have to work hard to earn money to build a house." Li Long said with a smile, "After building a house, I can get married soon."

"That's about right!" Gu Bo Yuan nodded, and shook his head: "Xiaoxia is in the county, and you are often not at home, the house at the Horse Station is not bad, why build another one?"

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"Only after building can I ask for a homestead." Li Long said, "Homesteads will be valuable later, maybe decades later, city people will want to live in the countryside."

"How is that possible?" Although Gu Bo Yuan was a university graduate, he couldn't see through the changes decades later, he shook his head hard, "Everyone goes to the city, how could they like to come to the countryside?"

"That's not necessarily!"

Li Long left the Gu family, went to Old Uncle Luo's place, put down a few pieces of air-dried meat, and only then returned to his own home.

The lunch mealtime had already passed, the courtyard was quite hot, the mud-brick house was quite comfortable, so Li Jianguo and Liang Wenyu were all in the house, Li Qing Xia was too, Du Chunfang couldn't sleep on the bed, so she sat at the door dozing off.

Li Long's bicycle sound startled Du Chunfang, she saw Li Long, quite happy. Knowing Li Long hadn't eaten, she immediately wanted to get up to prepare food for Li Long, and was stopped by Li Long.

At this time, what food to eat, ready-made things were all there, Li Long wasn't picky either, ate casually, waited until the afternoon to rest, and then rushed toward the mountain.

A few days passed like this, and the students also started school.

Li Qiang carried his schoolbag and followed his sister Li Juan toward the brigade primary school—this year many people from the team went to the brigade primary school. The first and second grades of the primary school were directly cancelled, and only one teacher surnamed Dong from the team primary school entered the brigade primary school, this Teacher Dong himself wasn't from the village, Wu Shufen didn't make it, and gave up.

The brigade primary school was now chaotic. Because the first and second grades were also included, all the classrooms were disrupted and redistributed, the students who arrived early found their classrooms and helped the teacher collect books. The students who arrived late were still running around like headless flies looking for their classrooms.

The fourth grade and above were still a bit better, the first, second, and third grades were all newly enrolled (this year's new third grade was promoted from the original second grade, the original second grade was in the village primary school), they were strangers to this school, and without familiar teachers, naturally they were a bit panicked.

Li Juan soon found her classroom, she put down her schoolbag and took Li Qiang to report for the new first grade.

However, when registering, Li Qiang was stuck.

He was six years and four months old now, not yet seven—the country stipulated that seven-year-olds go to the first grade, his age wasn't enough.

The registration teacher was surrounded by a group of dolls, at this time dolls going to school basically went by themselves, even the first grade was about the same, at most find a familiar neighbor's big child to help lead the way, so there were no adults.

The teacher was overwhelmed, because some things, the dolls couldn't explain clearly. For Li Qiang whose age wasn't enough, the teacher directly refused.

Hearing he couldn't go to school, Li Qiang couldn't hold it back at that time—he had prepared for two years with great difficulty!

In the preschool class, he was considered "overage", mainly because he followed along when he was small, no one cared at that time, and when he was five or six, he followed along again, basically he knew everything.

Li Qiang was really strong-willed, he didn't want to go back to the preschool class—he had already boasted to his little friends before coming, he was going to the first grade, now he couldn't go and was going to be sent back, how could that work?

"Don't cry!" Li Juan saw Li Qiang's expression, knew he was about to shed tears, and immediately said, "I'll go find our teacher, see if I can let the teacher say a word..."

Now Li Juan only had this method.

However, when Li Juan went over and told her teacher, the teacher immediately shook her head:

"If the age is not enough, don't go, wait until next year. The first-grade students this year are already over the limit, let your brother go back, come again next year—you go tell your brother quickly, the class here is about to have a meeting!"

Once Li Juan heard, there was no way. She walked back disappointed. Just now Li Juan let Li Qiang wait outside the first-grade enrollment teacher's office, now she could only find Li Qiang and tell him this matter.

She wasn't worried that Li Qiang would walk the wrong way on the way back, because there was only one road, but not being able to go to school, not only Li Qiang and herself, but she estimated the family wouldn't be happy either.

When Li Juan walked back, what she saw wasn't just Li Qiang alone, but also Gu Xiaoxia.

When Gu Xiaoxia saw Li Qiang, she felt that Li Long's little nephew was standing there alone, helpless, very pitiful.

Gu Xiaoxia immediately went over and asked:

"Qiangqiang, what's wrong?"

Originally Li Qiang's face was still tight, but when he saw Gu Xiaoxia, he couldn't hold it anymore, he knew Gu Xiaoxia was about to be his little aunt, his relative, so this question directly made him cry with grievance:

"Xiaoxia Aunt... Little Aunt... they... they won't let me go to school..."

Gu Xiaoxia didn't expect Li Qiang to cry directly, she hurriedly squatted down to comfort:

"Don't cry, don't cry, tell me what's going on?"

Li Qiang cried and couldn't explain clearly, just in time Li Juan came over and told the story.

"I can go, I've learned everything, if you don't believe it, let them test me..." Li Qiang felt better after crying, wiped his tears with his sleeve and said:

"I can score one hundred, absolutely!"

He didn't know that compulsory education was to go directly when reaching the age, no test was needed. He was quite confident in his studies, scoring one hundred in every subject in the preschool class, so he hoped to work hard.

"Good, good, good, I'll say a word for you..." Gu Xiaoxia wanted to laugh a bit, but looking at Li Qiang's stubborn eyes, she had a headache, but thought her face should still be worth something.

Gu Xiaoxia didn't directly explain to let Li Qiang be recruited, just told the enrollment teacher that this was a child of a relative, his grades in the preschool class were very good, just a few months short, so why not test him, if he tested well, let him go, okay?

At this time, the dean of studies also came over, heard Gu Xiaoxia say this, and nodded without waiting for the enrollment teacher to agree.

Since a superior staff member gave a step, it had to be taken. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 271 =====

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