Chapter 280

For the next period of time, the people in the team were busy flying, even Meng Zhiqiang and those who insisted on catching fish no longer set nets, and went to the fields to work.

Not only to earn work points, but also to harvest the crops in their own fields.

Although Li Long said that he would go to catch fish after finishing the corn and oil sunflowers, he still continued to work for a period of time. After all, the sugar beets in the five mu of feed land still need to be harvested. Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei are busy with the team's work, so this sugar beet is handed over to him. Tao Daqiang also followed to help, and it was quite tiring to dig all day.

After all, digging sugar beets is different from breaking corn, this thing grows big, and digging is particularly physically demanding, two people can't dig one mu of land in a day.

In this regard, Tao Daqiang is stronger than Li Long, no matter what, the farm work he does is more than Li Long.

After digging for a day, Li Long looked at the blisters rubbed out at the root of his fingers, and smiled bitterly.

Why bother.

But there is no way. If it were before, he would take out ten yuan, find ten people from the team, and finish it in a day.

But now everyone is participating in the team's rush harvest, he is a bit embarrassed to dismantle the team's platform now.

Pulling a cart of sugar beets back with a horse-drawn carriage, Li Long was really too tired to move.

When Li Long returned home and unloaded the sugar beets, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei just came back. Dinner was corn flour paste cooked by Li Juan, and shredded potatoes. Although the shredded potatoes were cut relatively thick, Li Long still praised them for a meal, which made Li Juan quite happy, and a bit embarrassed.

"Big Brother, dig these sugar beets in a few days. After the team finishes harvesting, I will find some young men to dig, today I got blisters after one day, I still do less of this work."

"Hahahaha." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "That's fine. Now everyone in the team is busy, no one has time to do this."

Li Long can't do heavy work, this was already expected by the couple Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei.

Human nature can change, Li Long's change is beyond their expectations. But the body's instinct is not something that can mutate, physical labor is not something you can do all at once.

Li Long didn't find excuses for himself. People are not omnipotent, if you can't, you can't. He didn't plan to exercise, in this life of heavy work, there are too many ways to make himself live more comfortably, there is no need to die in this aspect of physical labor.

After dinner, Li Long went to the old horse pen. It was already dark, and Lao Luo was sitting in the courtyard. He didn't sit on a stool, but on a brick-concrete pier that he didn't know where he moved from, Li Long guessed it should have been gotten from the old team headquarters.

"Uncle Lao Luo, why aren't you sleeping yet?"

"How can I sleep so early?" Uncle Lao Luo said with a smile, "If you sleep early, you get up early, it's not comfortable."

"And you don't turn on the light, this electric light is so bright."

"Can't turn it on, it attracts mosquitoes when turned on." Uncle Lao Luo said, "What's the use of wasting that electricity? It's not like I can't see."

The older generation is used to it, even in the 2020s of the 21st century, when old people watch TV, they are still used to turning off the lights, just afraid of wasting electricity.

How much money can that electricity be? But old people, they are used to saving.

"Xiao Long, what are you planning to do later? Will these wild boars be sold when the time comes? What about that roe deer?"

"Wild boars will be sold, I plan to raise the roe deer. See if I can get a few females to raise in winter. The little deer was sold, I'll see if I can get some small ones to raise later." Li Long said, "It's quite good to raise these things in captivity, can't always leave it empty."

"That's good, that's good." Uncle Lao Luo smiled happily, "I was just afraid that you wouldn't raise them later, then I would have nothing to do and be idle."

"Then you can rest assured, I want this old horse pen to raise things, if I don't raise them, the team will take it back, then I won't do it."

Uncle Lao Luo was happy and started smoking.

Li Long chatted for a few sentences, washed up and went to sleep, he was exhausted today.

The next day, Li Long and Tao Daqiang started setting nets to catch fish again. However, this time he changed the location of setting nets to the big sea.

There are many villages around the big sea, and there are quite a few people setting nets to catch fish, but most of them catch them for themselves to eat, and there are not many people like Li Long who catch fish to sell properly.

Although the fish in the big sea are also wild fish, they are obviously not as delicious as the fish in the little sea, and they are not as beautiful as the fish in the little sea. The reason why Li Long came here is firstly to let the fish in the little sea rest and recuperate for a period of time, and secondly to feel out the situation of the big sea.

Entering the big sea from the southeast, the first thing is a shallow beach. Unlike the little sea which is like a lake surrounded on all sides, the big sea is like a pool of water blocked on the north side, if you walk from the south, the water starts from ten centimeters and goes deep.

From the village to the big sea, you have to walk more than a kilometer, much farther than the little sea.

After arriving at the place, Tao Daqiang looked at the situation and raised a question:

"Can there be fish in here?"

There are patches of reeds in the little sea, most of the fish growing inside like to eat grass, and there are other herbivorous fish for carnivorous fish to eat, so the fish are relatively fat.

Before the big flood washed away the bottom dam, there was a relatively complete and healthy aquatic ecosystem inside.

What about the big sea?

As far as the eye can see, there is only water. Although Li Long knows that as long as there is an oxygen-rich environment in the water, plankton can also satisfy the stomachs of herbivorous fish, but the fish inside are not as beautiful as those in the little sea, crucian carp and silver carp look gray and white, without luster.

No wonder Tao Daqiang would raise such a question. "There are fish, and quite a few." Li Long pointed to the distance and said, "Look, that water mark, at least it's a big white strip."

There are particularly many white strips here, drawing traces on the water surface.

There are also some water birds on the water surface, using the words of the people in the team, collectively called ospreys, the bigger ones are called big ospreys, and the small ones are called small ospreys. At this time, there are no larger egrets, cranes, or even swans, and after a few years, these large birds will become frequent visitors here.

"I'll still sit on the tire and go down," Li Long said, "The fish here are not as dense as the little sea, I'll set ten nets here to try."

This is the first time he has set nets in the big sea in this life, feeling that the more the better.

"Alright." Tao Daqiang felt that there were not many fish inside, if he set ten nets, even if there were as many fish as the little sea, he could carry them.

Li Long pushed the tire into the water surface, sat on it and slid inside, and then felt a burst of hot wind blowing, carrying a fishy smell.

There must be fish.

Some garbage was floating on the water surface, which should have been washed down from the Mo Hequ. The Mo Hequ was diverted from Maxian, and would pass through the north side of the county seat. Some families lived along the river, and some domestic garbage would be thrown into it.

Not only that, Li Long also remembers that when Li Juan was in junior high school in his previous life, the school's teacher even fished out a skull by the canal.

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The middle school is also by the Mo Hequ, when Li Qiang and the others were in middle school, someone from the school's construction team once used wires to electrocute fish in the canal, they were all big crucian carp bigger than a palm, it is said that the construction team boss carried back several buckets. Li Qiang and the others' language teacher also picked up some.

Carrying these memories, Li Long pushed away the garbage and slid into the depths. Unlike the little sea, sliding on the tire into the big sea, the further inside he went, the more he felt his own smallness—the water surface of the big sea is too large, with a feeling of a lake surface.

Sliding until he felt the water was deep enough, two or three meters, Li Long started to set the nets.

He brought a stick when he came over, at this time he inserted the stick into the bottom of the water—after looking for a long time, he found a shallower place, which was at least one meter five or six deep.

Setting the net here is safe, and it won't be stolen by others.

Setting nets in the little sea, usually only people in the team will pay attention, setting nets here, with so many villages around, if it is really lost, it will be troublesome, and it will definitely not be found back.

After tying the net rope, Li Long started to release the net along the groove, releasing the net while sliding in the water. This big sea is generally deep in the north and shallow in the south, but the bottom is not flat, it is composed of pits and water grooves, the water groove where Li Long is now is in the southeast, which is considered a relatively deep and long one.

Nearly an hour, after setting the nets, Li Long looked at Tao Daqiang on the shore and he also became a small black dot.

Ten nets add up to almost a kilometer long, even if Li Long set them loosely, and the groove direction is not very straight, this is also deep into the big sea, and has already deviated to the north shore.

Sliding back tomorrow will not be easy.

After this thought popped up, Li Long started to slide back with all his might.

Another twenty minutes passed before Li Long slid back to the south shore, Tao Daqiang walked into the water and pulled him up, Li Long was already covered in sweat.

Tao Daqiang carried the tire and said:

"Brother Long, let's go back. Let's walk slowly."

"Alright." Li Long said while walking, "I saw a school of fish when I set the nets, maybe we can catch a lot of fish tomorrow, we can't carry them back!"

"How is that possible." Tao Daqiang didn't believe it. How many fish can ten nets catch? He confidently felt that he had seen big scenes, Li Long caught seventy or eighty kilograms of fish with twelve nets, that was already enough.

It is true that there are many fish in the little sea, with such a large water surface in the big sea, the fish are definitely not as many as the little sea, at least with such a large water surface, setting nets to catch fish must hit a probability?

He didn't take Li Long's words to heart, feeling that ten nets, even if he caught fifty or sixty kilograms, he could carry them. The distance is just a bit farther than the little sea, not much farther.

It's just that it's not convenient to cast nets here, this is a trouble.

Thinking this way, the two of them walked back.

Walking two hundred meters south from the big sea, they arrived at the edge of the team's field, the corn in the field had been harvested, and the corn stalks had been cut and piled together, when harvesting corn, the horse-drawn carriage pressed out a road in the field, it is more convenient to walk from the field.

Although the old couple Li Qing Xia returned to their hometown, Li Long still lived in the old horse pen. Li Long didn't move the things in the east room, he told Li Jianguo that Dad and Mom might come back later, so it's better to leave them there, wait until they come back. He is used to living in the horse pen, and it is troublesome to move around.

Walking back and forth for meals every day is considered exercising the body.

Li Jianguo didn't force it, after all, Li Long is older, and it is normal to have his own ideas.

The next day, Li Long and Tao Daqiang got up half an hour earlier than the day before—the road is far, so they have to get up early.

Li Long still went to take the nets, he was afraid that Tao Daqiang wouldn't find the nets.

When collecting the first net, Li Long felt that something was wrong—this time, it might really not be able to be brought back! (End of chapter)