Chapter 300: It's not safe in the mountains in autumn either

When he returned home, Li Long didn't mention this matter. He went to set nets as usual with Tao Daqiang, and by the way, brought a cast net, catching over a dozen fish.

After returning, Tao Daqiang took two fish back, while Li Long washed the fish carefully by the pressure well, then stewed more than half of them in the pot, leaving one five-striped black and one large crucian carp. He gutted the fish, scored the backs, sprinkled on seasonings, and after waiting for the fish in the pot to be stewed, he wrapped these two fish in paper, wetted them, and buried them in the red ash under the stove.

Roasted fish.

At night, the sky darkened, and the family sat around the table under the shed eating fish and chatting.

Li Long took out the fish roasted under the stove, tore off the paper, put it on a plate, and then said to Li Jianguo:

"Older brother, let's have two drinks."

"Okay." Although he didn't know why Li Long took the initiative to ask for a drink, Li Jianguo still stood up to get a bottle of wine, opened the bottle, and put down two wine glasses.

Liang Yuemei didn't drink. After eating fish with the children, she tidied up and let them go to sleep.

Without eating anything, first clinking a glass with Li Jianguo, after drinking, Li Long said:

"Older brother, today I sent Gu Ermao to the bureau."

"What?" Li Jianguo was a bit surprised, "You sent Gu Ermao... didn't he run to the corps side?"

"This guy didn't learn well, followed others to resell fake electronic watches, the kind in piles. I saw it, I found the police to end their den, the police said, he has to squat inside for at least three years..."

"That's really not a loss." Li Jianguo poured wine, "Deserved it! That turtle grandson is not a good thing! It's good to go in and toss him well!"

"Yeah," Li Long ate a piece of roasted fish, suppressing the spiciness of the wine, and then picked up the glass to clink with Li Jianguo again, saying:

"When I chased him, I broke his arm and leg. A bit ruthless, but I've actually been holding my breath for this period of time, and now it's considered released."

"I thought you had forgotten about this matter long ago." Li Jianguo was also a bit surprised, not expecting Li Long to keep this matter in mind, "That's also good, now it's considered resolved."

"Later his family will definitely say in the team that it was me who reported him and got him caught, and also hit him." Li Long tore off a piece of fish meat and chewed slowly, saying, "But I don't care anymore. It was me who caught him, me who hit him."

"Why care about them?" Li Jianguo smiled contemptuously, "That family is all bullies who fear the strong! Such cowardly people, should be hit if they should be hit! Cheating people with fake things, aren't they afraid of having no descendants in the future! You don't care, do your own things, if anyone says anything, I'll solve it!"

Li Long smiled. In this aspect, his older brother was domineering.

The next day, Li Long went to sell fish. When he returned to the courtyard, before he even entered the door, he was called by Officer Guo.

Li Long didn't expect Officer Guo to call him so quickly. He propped up his bike and went to the police station entrance.

"I thought you might come over today." Officer Guo said with a smile, "I asked about that matter yesterday. The main things will definitely be destroyed, but I can ask for a few pieces, and you can take them to play with later."

"Then thank you, Officer Guo." Li Long smiled, "I'll pay for them."

"Giving money would be wrong. This itself isn't for sale, anyway it's to be destroyed, as long as you don't sell them out." Officer Guo waved his hand, "But it will take some time. Now they are busy fixing evidence and interrogating personnel. Do you know? That Gu Ermao said during the interrogation that you would hide those things privately. The quantity he said was much more than what we confiscated. Then the person interrogating him asked me, and I told them, this person is lying. I was there at the time, you didn't touch those things at all, and he also said I knew you and was shielding you... this person is really bad to the bone."

"He is just such a person." Li Long wasn't surprised at all, "Otherwise he wouldn't have harmed me twice..."

"Fortunately, I was there at the time, and after searching and interrogating, the numbers of those things and money all matched, and he added another charge of false accusation, estimated to squat inside for a few more years."

"That is deserved." Li Long felt happy in his heart. This Gu Ermao didn't forget to want to pull people into the water at the end, but unfortunately, cleverness was mistaken for cleverness. This time he was going to take a big tumble. He asked Officer Guo, "With such a big case, you should be very busy now, right?"

"Not busy, we mainly assist. This is considered an economic case, and the things we should do have been completed."

After chatting for a few more sentences, Li Long returned to the courtyard.

Gu Xiaoxia hadn't returned yet. Li Long started to burn fire and cook. After the two ate lunch, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia about him catching Gu Ermao, mainly to let her have some psychological preparation.

"Should be caught!" Gu Xiaoxia knew about Gu Ermao reporting Li Long at the time, which was to cut off Li Long's future, and he had ruined Li Long's things more than once, which made her and Li Long have a feeling of sharing the same hatred.

After eating, Li Long rode his bicycle, took the tools bought from Shicheng, carried the gun bag, and went into the mountains.

Late autumn, the grass was yellow, and the mountains were full of a desolate feeling.

Li Long didn't think so much. This time he brought some steamed buns, flour, chili, potatoes, and late-season tomatoes that could be stored for a period of time, planning to stay for at least half a month.

To say the price and harvest of codonopsis that might be dug in this half month, Li Long felt it wouldn't exceed the money from selling fish.

But this thing, codonopsis, has medicinal value. Selling a part and keeping a part, stewing a chicken or something in winter to nourish the family, is still quite good.

Moreover, it's quite good for Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang to handle the fish catching. His older brother cares about face and doesn't really want to "grab" his fish-selling position, but in fact, Li Long feels that Li Jianguo holding some money will be better for the family.

Now the pigs aren't ready to be slaughtered, the land has been cleaned up, and there is basically no farm work. It's quite good for Li Jianguo to catch fish and sell fish to earn some money during this gap.

Occasionally, marmots will poke their heads out in the grassland, taking advantage of this last effort to save a wave of fat, and then plan to burrow underground to hibernate.

The grass mushrooms that were visible everywhere in the grass are now gone. In the mountain forest, the only thing that can be found now is probably the poplar mushroom in the poplar forest. This thing can grow even in early winter. Li Long found it in the poplar forest after the first snow in his previous life. It was very big, growing the same as oyster mushrooms, just enlarged a bit. Locally called poplar mushroom, Li Long actually feels it is oyster mushroom.

There are sheep herders walking slowly in the distance. Li Long guesses it should be the sheep flock of the animal husbandry team that didn't go to the summer pasture. Not all sheep flocks go to the summer pasture. There are also herdsmen of other ethnic groups in the local animal husbandry team. Some will graze directly by the mountains. After the wheat is cut, they graze in the wheat fields, and after the corn is harvested, they go to the corn fields to graze. Such sheep flocks are usually not large in scale, so they don't need very large pastures.

Because he hadn't come to the wooden house for a while, there was some grass on the wooden floor laid in front, and some soil had been blown by the wind.

After Li Long put his bicycle in the small house, he took a big broom and started to clean. After sweeping clean, he got some firewood and put it by the stove.

One of the stoves built with two stones felt a bit damaged, not like it was man-made; it might be some kind of animal that came to find food, and after not finding it, vented its anger and damaged it.

Li Long repaired that stove, then set up the pot and boiled water. There was plenty of firewood under the stove, so he let it burn, took his things, and went to the nearby mountain gully.

When he was getting wild vegetables before, he saw quite a lot of codonopsis growing in this shady place. The distance was relatively close, so he would dig and see first.

The soil quality here is loose and soft, all humus black soil. One shovel down, a large piece of soil around the codonopsis can be dug out, and then you can see the reed head and the root system, followed by the thumb-thick codonopsis head—the deeper it goes, the thicker it gets.

The sense of achievement is very strong. This codonopsis dug out is heavy in the hand, whether it is used as medicine or eaten at home, it is quite good.

"Must be at least twenty years old." Li Long looked at this codonopsis and said to himself.

Good stuff.

!.

The codonopsis at this time is already very plump, not the kind when the water content is relatively sufficient in July or August. Whether it is the composition or the plumpness, it is quite good, and basically won't swell open anymore.

With one in hand, Li Long filled the soil back and continued to dig.

Be a qualified medicine digger.

Carrying this codonopsis, he didn't walk a few steps before running into two more, very close, less than half a meter, so Li Long simply started digging from the side, digging out both codonopsis at once.

These two, one is thick and short, the other is thin and long, not as heavy as the previous one, but looking at them, they must be decades old.

Digging three codonopsis directly with an iron shovel, Li Long was quite happy. If all the soil quality was like this, it would really be quite good. The weight of these three codonopsis combined must be over a kilogram, and the time spent combined was less than an hour. If it went on like this, digging several dozen kilograms a day wouldn't be a problem.

Of course, it's just a theoretical value. After all, there aren't many growth zones with such pure soil quality.

Just now he dug three codonopsis, and the main obstacle to digging down was grass roots. But Li Long was clear that like the few places he dug last time, the difficulty of digging codonopsis wasn't just grass roots, but also tree roots, and some codonopsis would grow in rock crevices, which was even more troublesome.

It definitely wasn't that easy.

After digging four more, Li Long stopped and returned with these seven codonopsis.

For one thing, the thicker and larger ones in this area had been dug out, and for another, the water over at the wooden house should have boiled. Li Long felt that digging codonopsis didn't need to be rushed, so he walked back to the front of the wooden house.

The water had indeed boiled. Li Long withdrew the fire, took a basin from the house, scooped out the water, and then went over to the spring to wash the codonopsis carefully.

Taking the codonopsis back to the wooden house and putting them on the shelf in the small room to dry, Li Long came out and started to fix something for himself to eat.

The sun hadn't set yet, but it was quite cool in the mountains at this time, and he needed to wear a jacket. Li Long estimated that if he stayed here at night, he would need to cover himself with a thick quilt.

Now there was no stove in the wooden house. When he came over next time, he needed to buy a stove. After all, this was a wooden house, and it needed some protective things.

He thought randomly while fixing food. There was still some air-dried meat in the small wooden house, so he threw those meats into the pot, planning to boil them.

He didn't plan to steam steamed buns today, so he just roasted the steamed buns under the pot. After roasting them until charred, eating them with air-dried meat was also quite good.

As for vegetables, he would mix a skin-spicy-red with chili, tomatoes, and onions, which was quite refreshing. Just put a little salt and pepper, don't even put vinegar, wash your hands clean, grab and mix the three cut things, and start eating.

Young people have a good appetite. Two steamed buns went into his stomach, he also ate two pieces of air-dried meat, ate all the skin-spicy-red, and even drank the juice inside, only then putting down the plate with lingering interest.

Yeah, ate quite well.

Throwing the remaining bones far away, Li Long went to wash the plates and bowls, and poured out the water in the pot—the meat soup from boiling air-dried meat didn't taste good.

After brushing the pot, putting away the things, Li Long returned to the house.

The sun had set, and the wind blowing made him feel cold, so it was more comfortable to stay in the house.

In the middle of the night, Li Long was awakened by a burst of wolf howling.

He heard the movement was very close, immediately put on his clothes, carried his gun, lifted the window paper, and looked out.

Where he threw the bones, there were black shadows flashing by. Li Long's action of lifting the window paper startled those guys, and they bolted toward the mountains.

Li Long aimed and aimed, then put the gun down again. Too fast, too dark, couldn't hit them.

This night, it really wasn't safe! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 301 =====