Chapter 324: The aftermath of fish, Gu Xiaoxia appears

The courtyard was piled with dozens of bags of fish. Fortunately, Li Long often went out to sell fish this year, and he was an "employee" of the supply and marketing cooperative, so there were so many bags at home, otherwise there would be no way to load the fish!

These fish were all contained in bags and covered with snow. And the work that followed was not easy.

To make selling the fish easier later, these fish need to be pried apart one by one before they are completely frozen, then packed into bags with a little snow added.

Otherwise, when transporting to the market to sell fish later, all the fish in a bag would be frozen into a lump, at that time, I'm afraid even an axe would not be easy to separate, and separating them might be dismembering the corpses.

Fortunately, this work was not very difficult. Now the fish were not very frozen. The next day, Li Long and Li Anguo and the other five people started to get busy in the courtyard.

Drag a bag of fish to the snow outside, pour it out, and start breaking the fish, after breaking it, when loading into the bag again, add some snow, so that with snow as an intermediate agent, even if frozen, it wouldn't be frozen so tightly.

Five people all wore gloves, at first it wasn't skilled, later the movements became fast. A bag of fish was processed in a few minutes.

The sun rose, Li Long shouted to Chen Xingbang and the others:

"Brother-in-law, Second Brother, don't look far away, it's easy to get snow-blind."

"Sigh, I know." For this point, several people had heard Li Jianguo say it, so they were all very careful.

While busy, someone shouted Li Long from afar.

Li Long took a look, surprised to find that it was the son of the neighbor opposite the Li family, Lu Tie Tou.

"Lu Tie Tou, you are... chasing rabbits?"

Lu Tie Tou held two rabbits in his hand, one was dead and frozen, and the other was still kicking its legs, obviously alive.

"Chasing yesterday." Lu Tie Tou was a bit proud while walking over, "Brother Long, this rabbit was asked by my dad to bring over for you to eat."

"Really?" Li Long smiled, "How many rabbits did you chase yesterday?"

"Nine!" Lu Tie Tou said very proudly, "Chased four more this morning... ran away one yesterday, otherwise there would be ten!"

"Powerful, really powerful!" Li Long gave a thumbs up.

"Hmm, you guys take it to eat, our family can't eat it all." Lu Tie Tou brought the rabbit over and handed it to Li Long, "Brother Long, you take it, I'll go to the east to see in the afternoon."

These were two big rabbits weighing more than three kilograms each, looking quite fat.

"Then I'll give you..." Li Long hesitated for a moment.

"My dad said, this is for you to eat. We also took two at Uncle Jianguo's side. Often ate meat from your house before, this rabbit is nothing..."

Lu Tie Tou seemed to know what Li Long wanted to say, gave the rabbit to Li Long, and turned to leave quickly.

Li Long smiled.

Li Junfeng leaned over and asked curiously:

"Uncle Without Xiao Long, whose child is this? Quite good, still sending rabbits to us."

"Opposite our house." Li Long lifted the rabbit to look and said, "Our two families have a good relationship."

He turned his head and rushed to Li Junshan who was carrying a bag of fish over:

"Junshan, go take the rabbit to Uncle Lao Luo, let's stir-fry rabbit meat at noon today."

"Fine." Li Junshan smiled, put down the fish, took the rabbit, and turned to return to the horse station.

"Hey, this is different, still sending rabbits, sending two at once. In the hometown, no matter how good the relationship is, it's just serving a bowl of cooked rabbit meat." Li Anguo sighed.

Human heart exchanges for human heart.

Li Long said so in his heart.

With this episode, although Li Junshan was missing, the words between everyone became more. Most were Li Junfeng asking Li Long, besides rabbits, what else was in this wild land, especially things that could be eaten, and valuable things.

They were all adults, actually they could react very quickly. This was not the mouth, there were not so many people, so the vast no-man's land outside would naturally grow or live things that were not human.

"There isn't much on this dry beach, but if you can get something valuable, there's the fox—the fur is worth some money. Badger, that fur is also not bad. Besides that..." Li Long thinks for a moment and says, "There's nothing else. There's plenty to eat; I won't even mention rabbits. When it's warm, there are hedgehogs, and in winter, there are 'quack-quack' chickens. When I have time, I'll take you to hunt for them; they're not bad stir-fried if you catch them."

"That's not many either." Li Junfeng felt dissatisfied.

"There are not many on the dry beach, there are many in the mountains." Li Long pointed to the horse station and said, "I have some herdsman friends in the mountains, they often graze, know where there are wild things, such as wild boars. If you bump into a wild boar group, ambush well, hit two in one night, one or two hundred kilograms of meat, even if it's five mao per kilogram, that's not a small amount of money, right?"

That's the truth.

"And deer. If you can't run into a deer, you can sell the antlers if you find them." Li Long says again, "Roe deer antlers are the same; they're worth several yuan per kilogram. A pair of large antlers can weigh over ten kilograms, which is several dozen yuan. Come winter, if you run into a deer and bag one, the deer skin is worth dozens of yuan, you keep the venison to eat, and things like the deer penis are also valuable."

"There are also wolves. But you have to use a gun to hit them, wolves in the mountains are mostly in groups of three or five, you can sneak attack, you can't let them surround you."

Thinking it snowed, Halimu and the others should be back too, right?

"There are really many good things..." Li Junfeng exclaimed. "These are living things. There are also many medicinal materials. Fritillaria, Codonopsis are quite valuable. If you came a few days earlier, digging Codonopsis in the mountains, you could also earn some money."

"Then no one manages it?" Li Anguo asked.

"How could no one manage it?" Li Long smiled, "There are forestry teams in the mountains, people patrol the mountains every day—but I have an identity. I am a part-time forest ranger of the forestry team, considered one of our own, so they don't manage it."

Chen Xingbang finally knew why his old father-in-law returned to his hometown and blew about how happy he was in the mountains every day. With Li Long's identity, wouldn't he walk sideways in the mountains?

By noon, the four people processed about one-fifth of the fish, it seemed this was a very long process.

But it had to be done. Everyone was very clear, since they took the money before, now don't be slow, just listen.

Li Long's series of operations had made them completely understand that this twenty-one-year-old young man's actual brain was not generally flexible, and he could completely be the head of these people, leading them to earn money was no problem.

And he wouldn't treat them badly.

That was fine.

Lunch was rice with braised rabbit meat. Uncle Lao Luo wouldn't cook spicy rabbit meat, it was just braised, which was learned by watching Li Long cook braised wild boar meat here several times.

The taste was not bad.

"This rabbit meat is really chewy." Li Junfeng evaluated while gnawing, "There is a lot of meat, just not as delicious as pork."

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At this time, people eating meat pay attention to eating fat, to be greasy in the mouth, completely opposite to later generations. Because at this time, it was felt that fat was fragrant.

After all, everyone is short of oil, need to supplement.

"If you have something to eat, don't be so troublesome." Chen Xingbang scolded with a smile, "In the hometown, drinking thin at this time, didn't see you say anything."

"That's because the conditions are better after coming here." Li Junfeng was also grinning, "Uncle Jianguo and Uncle Without Xiao Long still have face, people directly sent the rabbits over, hey, really good."

"In a few days, the family will slaughter pigs, make pig slaughtering dishes, definitely also have to invite others." Li Anguo knew about this when chatting with Li Jianguo, he said while eating, "Then there will be many people coming, right?"

"That's definitely not few." Uncle Lao Luo said with a smile, "Last year Without Xiao Long brought two wild boars back, Jianguo and them called people to help make pig slaughtering meat, that lively..."

"Then this year will definitely be lively too..." Li Junfeng said with a smile, "When slaughtering pigs in the hometown, it's also lively..."

"There are few people here, if there is any activity, it's definitely not as lively as the hometown." Li Long said while eating, "But no matter what, many people have many people's liveliness, few people have few people's benefits."

"That's true, many people are good for work, few people are good for eating steamed buns." Li Anguo added, everyone laughed loudly.

Continue to get fish in the afternoon. These bags of fish were pulled out, separated one by one in the snow, and then loaded in again. Li Long was sighing in his heart, the snow at this time was really clean, unlike later generations, after a snow, pinching a snow ball in the hand, that ball was all gray.

Now there are no big factories, whether winter or summer, the weather is good. Thirty or forty years later, there are various factories nearby, the big chimneys in winter are all smoking, the development zone of Shicheng is even more smoky, the whole Northern Tianshan stretches for hundreds of kilometers, all gray.

At that time, the economy developed, but it was hard to see a sunny day in winter.

The second day was still separating fish, at this time the fish that hadn't been untied was less than one-third. Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang also joined in. Originally they came to call Li Long to see if they should set a few rabbit traps. But seeing everyone working here, they followed and worked together.

"The small Haizi is frozen, not very thick." Yang Yongqiang said while working, "Meng Zhiqiang and the others are still smashing ice holes, wanting to smash ice holes to get fish, but there are not many fish under the ice holes, getting less than five kilograms a day..."

"Now the fish below are not short of oxygen, definitely won't come up." Li Long said, and asked again:

"Did they not go to the big Haizi to catch fish?"

"Meng Zhiqiang knew late." Yang Yongqiang explained, "When he knew, he went over and got less than ten kilograms of fish, he said this fish taken to the street, can't sell for a good price."

The fish in the big Haizi is indeed not as popular as the fish in the small Haizi. But in another month, when the ice seals the earth, those who want to eat fish will not have many choices. So Li Long is not worried.

"Wait for a period of time, let's go sell fish together." Li Long pointed to the fish in these bags and said, "Then if you have time, follow along, still that sentence, look at this winter, can we earn the money for the next year!"

Nearly ten tons of fish, even if sold for five or six mao per kilogram, minus the cost, that's several thousand yuan.

Calculating it's still less than a year's money, at most half a year.

However, distributing money to everyone, it can distribute nearly a year's worth, so that others can also have a good New Year.

Actually, this time collecting fish, there were not few people in the village who sold fish to Li Long, it's just that they went late, plus this year, especially after autumn, they got reed bundles twice, earned some money, unlike the few villages below the big Haizi, there was no such work, so the money earned was less.

So most of the fish caught were not many, so they took them home to eat themselves. Anyway, winter is still very long, this fish can be stored now, eating for a winter is no problem.

But the attitude of people in the village towards Li Long has changed significantly. Except for a very few with brain problems, everyone is clear, this year everyone has some money in their hands, the family has some foundation, the biggest credit is naturally the land divided above, followed by just Li Long.

It was he who set an example for everyone, knowing how to earn money, he also pulled work for the village, letting everyone earn money in reality.

For such eyes, Li Long is calmly accepting, things brought by others, he also happily accepts. These few days, there are not few people who brought rabbits to the horse station, not just Lu Tie Tou.

So the people at the horse station ate rabbit meat for several meals solidly.

Until Gu Xiaoxia appeared.

Li Anguo and the other four people, for the first time saw Li Long's partner, this girl who had faded the temperament of the original yellow-haired girl, once appeared, it amazed the whole audience. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 325 =====