Chapter 323: The advantage of vast land and sparse population: it's a pity that few people understand

In the afternoon, the sky turned overcast, and before long, snowflakes drifted in the air.

Friends from the south who haven't seen much snow might be very curious about heavy snow, and also very like it.

But northerners, most of them feel nothing about snow, and sometimes they will hate snow, especially heavy snow.

Although it is said that auspicious snow promises a good year, sweeping snow is a very troublesome thing, sometimes a snow falls, it might take one or two days or even two or three days to clear.

Now it's a mud roof, so it will also need to clear the snow on the roof, otherwise the snow will melt a little, and it is possible to let the room leak, and those old houses might also be crushed by heavy snow.

In this big Haizi, maybe only Li Long will be happy because of this snow, others don't like it.

The snow falls, making the originally slippery ground even harder to walk, and this snow covers the water pools that haven't been searched yet, making it even more troublesome to find fish.

Complaints aside, everyone still continues to find fish. Now it's the slack season, there is nothing else to do, coming to catch fish is considered a harvest, and also considered a pastime.

Li Long is happy because it snowed, then these fish can be hidden in the snow and preserved well.

The reputation of Li Long and the others collecting fish is spreading, and later some people even ran over specifically to sell fish to them actively.

These people found Li Long, the fish sold were not many, a few kilograms or ten or twenty kilograms. Li Long basically didn't refuse anyone. Now as long as he can collect fish, it is a harvest, every kilogram of fish may produce three or five mao of profit in the future, this is all money.

Occasionally he can bump into people from the same village, they will also greet Li Long when they bump into him, whether intentional or unintentional, at least this news was revealed from the Li family, everyone will remember this favor.

Almost everyone's body is covered with mud and ice, the coat is wet, but no one cares, occasionally they will breathe on their hands, even if their hands and faces are frozen red, they don't care much, the only thing they care about in their hearts at this time is those fish.

When returning at night, the snow was already very heavy, originally expected to collect four tons of fish today, because of the snow in the afternoon, fewer fish were collected, but there were not few who came to sell fish actively, because Li Long's side started to collect in piles, and those who came to collect fish from the county were picking big and uniform ones, so many people liked to sell fish to Li Long and the others, and they collected nearly five tons this day.

The two rooms of the horse station were piled with fish, and some were placed outside, fortunately the snow was relatively heavy, after directly loading into bags, pressing with snow, it was frozen in one night.

Returning to the horse station, Uncle Lao Luo had already prepared the meal, cornmeal steamed bread, rice porridge, stir-fried pickles with wild boar meat, potato slices. The dishes were all served in basins, which made several people who were tired all day hurriedly wash their hands, didn't care about changing clothes, and ate wolfishly.

"I saw a family in the team come out to get fish." Yang Yongqiang said while eating, "How to eat when going back?"

"That has to be cooked now?" Tao Daqiang said with a smile, "If it weren't for Uncle Lao Luo, wouldn't our two families have to go back and cook it ourselves?"

"Hahahaha." Yang Yongqiang waved his hands, "My family has people to cook."

Tao Daqiang was a bit unconvinced:

"In a few days, my family will also have people to cook."

At this time, everyone remembered that in a period of time, Tao Daqiang was going to get married. The topic immediately shifted to Tao Daqiang, asking if he kissed his partner, slept, etc., which made Tao Daqiang's face turn red immediately.

"Don't mess around, the adults are still here." Li Long helped Tao Daqiang out of the siege with a smile, "Junfeng, do you want to talk about your marriage?"

"That's better to forget it." Li Junfeng immediately stopped, "By the way, Uncle Without Xiao Long, are we going tomorrow?"

His topic conversion was relatively good, others all looked at Li Long.

"Go, tomorrow there won't be as many fish as today, but there won't be few. There is water flowing down in that water trough, it hasn't flowed dry yet. There must be not few fish in the canal under the gate, someone catches, we collect." Li Long said, "Strive to collect a few more tons of fish, the money for our next year will be almost out."

Li Long's last sentence made everyone excited immediately.

After eating, Li Long estimated and distributed money to everyone.

This second day of distributing money was not as shocking as the first day, but it still made some people have different thoughts in their hearts.

Chen Xingbang was particularly impressed by Li Long at this time, so much money was distributed at once, and he didn't frown at all. If it were himself, he would definitely feel heartache. And he saw that Li Long was distributing it by estimation, basically everyone was given one or two, three or five yuan more.

If it were himself, how could it be? His money didn't come for nothing, Without Xiao Long was too generous, right?

Li Anguo also felt heartache for Li Long, his younger brother distributed so much money in one day, could those fish be sold? The money earned from selling reed bundles that he worked so hard to get was all thrown here.

It was Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang who didn't feel deeply, because it wasn't the first or second time Li Long did this. Every time Li Long sprinkled money like this, it meant he could earn more money later.

Why were people in the team willing to work with him, even if the conditions he gave were so strict, much stricter than Hu Lao Er's conditions before, that was not only because the price he gave was high, it was because as long as he promised, the money was distributed immediately.

A promise and a stack of banknotes that were cashed immediately after speaking, which one was more convincing, it was clear at a glance.

Li Long's integrity and signboard were established in the process of paying money time after time. It could be said that now Li Long shouted in the village, saying he wanted to collect everyone's fish, how much the price was, even if he didn't pay, everyone was willing to send the fish over, because they believed Li Long would pay, and wouldn't pit them.

Li Jianguo, Tao Daqiang's father, and Yang Hua didn't speak, but they all understood, and didn't understand. The young people of this era were different from their era. Some rely on personal charm, some rely on fulfilling promises time after time.

Li Long didn't think so much himself, sent people away, finally sent Li Jianguo, he originally wanted to take out money, Li Jianguo hurriedly waved his hands:

"Without Xiao Long, I know you can earn money, but money is not spent like this. We two brothers, don't take out money again. Keep the money for critical places. It's right to give money to Daqiang, Yongqiang and the others. It's also right to give money to your Second Brother, brother-in-law and the others, all put in effort. Let's not pull those, I'm going back, these fish still need to be buried when I go back..."

There was still a bag of fish on the horse cart, Li Jianguo didn't want more. Fish hadn't been eaten enough this year, but eating a meal occasionally was not bad, eating every day was unbearable.

The Li family, not short of oil, not short of meat.

"Fine, fine, fine, then talk about it after the New Year." Li Long waved to Big Brother with a smile, watched the horse cart press two wheel tracks in the snow, and after the cart went far, checked the fish piled outside the courtyard, pressed the exposed bag corners with snow, and stepped on the snow on the edge, only then entered the room.

There were mice outside, but after the snow was stepped on, mice generally wouldn't drill in. They were looking for food, usually they would go to the deer pen to find leftover feed. Because Li Long's economic situation here was relatively good, so whether it was wild boar or deer, and that little deer, the things they ate were relatively good.

Li Long had heard many times before about deer being hard to raise, so he held a test attitude towards raising deer himself. Just didn't expect, whether it was that injured deer or the little deer brought later, they all lived well. Although the weather was very cold, they were all very happy. They didn't enter the warm pen inside when hearing movement at night, but ran to the door of the open pen and looked outside curiously.

The pens inside the horse station were also connected one bright and one dark, the warm pen inside was paved with thick wheat straw, the door had a cotton door curtain to block wind, snow, and cold, so the deer wouldn't be frozen.

Li Long went over and patted, drove the deer in, and only then returned to the room.

The four people in the next room hadn't slept yet, he could hear Li Junfeng still imagining how to spend money after returning to his hometown, what kind of things to buy, etc.

Li Long listened and smiled. It wasn't time to sleep yet, he touched that "Gu Du Xia Nu" and read it.

Waking up the next morning and going out, Li Long saw the snow stopped, the snow in the courtyard was thirty or forty centimeters thick, it could be considered heavy snow.

He rubbed his hands, returned to the room to get a pair of gloves, put on a hat, and started shoveling snow.

Li Long moved, and the people in the next room also woke up, and in a while they all came out, each holding tools to clear snow together.

The courtyard of the Old Ma Hao was big enough, clearing snow early in the morning wasn't very standard, shoveling snow from the door of the room where people lived, all shoveled into the vegetable garden. This thing would just happen to moisten the land when the snow melted in the spring.

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Uncle Lao Luo came out once, saw everyone sweeping snow, and went into the kitchen again.

"Junshan, go help Uncle Lao Luo cook." Li Long ordered. Li Junshan responded, put down the iron shovel in his hand, and entered the kitchen.

Actually, there were wooden snow pushers at this time, find a piece of board yourself, shave it flat, process the bottom, make a slope, then chisel a groove in the back, nail the handle, pushing snow is very suitable.

It's just that the ground at this time was uneven, mostly mud, not leveled, so be careful when pushing snow, don't use too much force and don't be too "happy", keep some strength, otherwise hitting a bump, the handle in the hand gets stuck there, either it pokes into the stomach, or it pokes into the vital part, that taste, that sour and refreshing...

Now Li Junfeng was sour and refreshing. He hadn't swept snow, seeing this snow pushing made him energetic, happily pushed to the end, the first board and second board were fine, the third board directly got stuck in the middle.

People who often push snow know, although pushing like this looks cool, the effect is actually not very good. After all, you push a board over, finally push to the end, although a road is opened, but the snow leaks, finally only pushed a board of snow.

So experienced snow clearing people all advance on average, pushing a large piece of snow in front of them together.

The snow in the courtyard was soon cleared, Li Long sighed:

"If it weren't for catching fish, just this weather, now go to the east to catch rabbits, at least can chase ten or twenty."

"Really?" Li Junfeng immediately became interested, "Uncle Without Xiao Long, are there so many rabbits in the east?"

"Many, that Gobi beach, red willow beach rabbit holes are not few. Usually can't see, this heavy snow, rabbits can't find food, all ran out. This snow is thick, it can't run... people can chase the rabbit..."

Li Long didn't lie, a few years later, there were a few more heavy snows, at that time almost the whole village went out, the family that chased the most rabbits got more than forty rabbits, after skinning they were frozen, and some alive were directly put in the pigsty to raise, but most didn't survive, after all, this wild rabbit still has a big temper.

"Then... sigh, later." Li Junfeng originally thought about whether it was true to go get some rabbits, but thinking there was work today, didn't continue.

After clearing snow, washing and eating breakfast, Li Jianguo came.

Li Junfeng went to find Li Jianguo to verify.

"Uncle Jianguo, Uncle Without Xiao Long said this big snow, go to which beach in the east, can chase rabbits, is it true?"

"Yes." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "When I came over, people in our team had already gone, the rabbit has no thorns, after they chase it, this winter can be put, some can eat until the New Year..."

Li Anguo and the others listened and envied.

"This Northern Xinjiang looks like few people, the county is not very good, there are so many things in the wild!" Chen Xingbang sighed, "It seems like doing anything can eat full and eat well..."

"That's the word." Li Long nodded, "As long as you are diligent, eating full and eating well is no problem. Have some brains, then you have money to spend."

This is the truth, but people in the village didn't understand until twenty or thirty years later.

It's really because the thinking is too easy to be shackled.

Following the horse cart, continue to the big Haizi. In front, he could see footprints on the road, but not many. It seemed that not many people from the village went to the big Haizi today.

The horse cart pressed two marks on the thick snow, and when he arrived at the edge of the big Haizi, seventy-six also sweated.

The whole ground was white, and the big Haizi was no exception, except for a few water troughs that looked black, others were all white.

"Today fish are estimated not many, collect as much as possible." Li Long said, "I'll go to the gate to see, see if anyone is catching fish in the canal. If there are, collecting from that side is also fine."

From the excitement of seeing fish all over the ground at the beginning, to now it has become a mechanical work, now the small crucian carp in the water trough can no longer arouse the excitement and agitation of Chen Xingbang and the others, all they have is thinking about how much fish they can collect today, and how much money they can get in the end.

Finally, the fish collecting work ended because of the water coming from the Mohe Canal upstream in the afternoon—the gate was also lowered.

Li Long knew, from now on, the big Haizi would store water again, and the biggest acquisition activity this year ended.

And what followed was rest, waiting for the right opportunity to sell the fish, exchange for money, and complete a closed loop.

And this process was destined to be very long. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 324 =====