Chapter 335: Mountains' Dorsens, I'm coming

Yang Xiulan was serving food to people. Han Fang saw Li Long at the first glance, a happy expression appeared on her face, and then she pulled her mother.

Yang Xiulan raised her head after serving food to people and saw Li Long, and smiled. She wiped her hands on her apron and asked after Li Long came over:

"Uncle, have you eaten? I just made soup noodles, it's clean, shall I serve you a bowl?"

"Sister Yang, no need, I just ate." Li Long pulled the horse cart and stopped by her pushcart, and then said:

"I'll tell you something."

"Uncle, you say." Yang Xiulan saw Li Long's expression was quite solemn, and was a bit nervous.

"It's like this. My partner has been quite busy recently, and might not have time to cook at noon or in the afternoon. I think anyway you have to cook every day, so I thought about letting her come to you to eat, and then the food expenses will cover your rent, how about that?"

"That's fine... No, no, no, it won't work. I definitely have to pay the rent. How much can one more person eat," Yang Xiulan nodded first, then shook her head desperately, "We are already very grateful that you can take us in, if you waive the rent again, we won't know how to repay you..."

"Then let's talk about the rent later. She might go to your place to eat in these two days, just cook whatever you have, home-cooked meals, don't need to be too particular, just eat whatever you eat, my partner is not picky."

After finishing the matter, Li Long asked about Han Fang's studies again, and then said goodbye to go buy grain. He had to go into the mountains today, the road was full of snow, it must be difficult to walk, so he had to set off early.

There was grain for sale in the market, and more than one family.

Li Long went to ask for the price. 85-grade flour, no ticket needed, 0.4 yuan per kilogram, not expensive. Rice is a bit more expensive, 0.7 yuan, after all, there is less rice produced here.

Li Long bought four bags of flour, 100 kilograms, two bags of rice, 50 kilograms, and pulled them towards the mountains.

At first, to Qingshuihe, this section of the road was better to walk, after all, there was a commune over there, and there were still people coming and going to the county these days.

But after passing Qingshuihe, the road became difficult to walk. The road into the mountains was not walked by anyone, occasionally there were rabbit prints, and the snow was thicker than in the plains, nearly half a meter. Seventy-six was very difficult to pull, Li Long was pulling in front, fortunately, the grain pulled was not much, the horse cart was basically an empty cart, and the snow was relatively virtual, it took more than an hour from Qingshuihe to finally enter the mountains.

After passing the mountain pass, it became easier to walk when turning in the mountains. Some places were sheltered from the wind, so the snow was thinner, and some places were wind gaps, and the snow was simply blown away by the wind.

When turning around to the opposite side of the Harimu winter nest, Li Long already had sweat on his body.

He saw that there were sheep in the sheep pen by the winter nest, smoke in the chimney, horses and cattle were there, and familiar dog barking sounds, which meant that Harimu and the others had returned.

When the dog barking sounded, the door of the room opened. The one who came out was the teenager Nasen. He shouted at the dog first, looked around, and when he saw Li Long, he screamed in surprise, turned around and shouted loudly towards the winter nest.

Then Harimu's whole family walked out quickly from the winter nest and came towards this side.

Li Long smiled and waved at them. There was a ditch in the middle. Although it was repaired in summer, there was heavy snow at this time, so one still had to be careful when going downhill, otherwise, if the horse slipped and fell, it would be quite troublesome. After all, if the leg was broken, the horse would be useless.

When pulling the horse cart to the opposite side of the ditch, Harimu and the others also arrived. He smiled, stroked his chest with his left hand, and shook hands with Li Long vigorously with his right hand.

Harimu let go, just about to speak, Nasen squeezed over, followed by Sasken. Nasen said to Li Long in not very fluent Mandarin in a board-and-eye manner:

"Uncle, hello!"

He also stretched out his hand towards Li Long, looking very solemn.

Li Long endured the laughter, and then shook hands with him very seriously. Next was Sasken, with the same movements as Nasen.

After shaking hands with the two children, Li Long greeted Harimu's mother and wife again, pulled the horse and walked towards the winter nest while listening to Harimu talking, but his heart was thinking about another matter.

Kazakh children are cultivated in the direction of adults from childhood. How old is Nasen now? Only a little older than Li Qiang, right? But looking at this serious appearance, he is just trying to imitate adults, and his family also thinks it is very normal.

Riding horses, herding sheep from childhood, all are things adults do. After circumcision (coming-of-age ceremony), they are treated as adults.

So when traveling to Yili in the previous life, seeing the children over there, good friends haven't seen each other for a period of time, a few years old, just like Nasen, when they meet, they all shake hands, very formal.

Quite interesting.

"... We have been back for half a month. If you didn't come again, I would have to go find you." Harimu said with a smile, "Actually, flour, rice are still there, this battery, really is gone. Now listening to the radio, it has become the life of us people, if you don't listen, it won't work. Listen, is Nasen's Han language okay?"

"Okay, okay, very good, very good!" Li Long's thoughts were pulled back, and he gave a thumbs up, "I will send the batteries over this afternoon or tomorrow. Yushanjiang and the others are all back, right?"

"Back. They have all pulled the salt from here." Harimu said, "Salt, good thing, we are all very happy."

"If it's not enough, I'll pull some more next time." Li Long tied the horse to the winter nest, and while unloading the flour with Harimu, he said, "This is relatively easy to get."

It is indeed relatively easy to get, and also cheap. After all, the supply and marketing cooperative is responsible for the sales work of salt at this time. Li Long is one of his own, and the wholesale price he got is about the same.

"Then get some more. Livestock, winter still needs salt." Harimu hugged a bag of flour, regardless of the flour sticking to his clothes, and directly hugged it into the room, "Don't leave today, I'll slaughter a sheep later, let's eat hand-grabbed meat at noon." "No, no, no," Li Long hugged another bag of flour and walked inside, "I'll unload it, drink a bowl of milk tea and go back, there are things over there."

"What's so important?" Harimu was unhappy, "It's not easy to come once, must talk well, and there are many things to bring to you."

"I will come later, today is really something." Li Long said while hugging another bag of flour, "My partner, is the one who works at the Yangganzi, these days are too busy, there is no time to cook, I have to go back to cook for her."

Hearing this, Nasen turned around and learned it to Harimu's wife. Harimu's wife was preparing milk tea, and after hearing Nasen's words, she said a lot to Harimu in Kazakh.

Harimu laughed loudly when he heard it, and then said to Li Long:

"My Yangganzi, praised you, said you can work, can make money, are a good person, and cook for your own Yangganzi, let me learn from you, haha, Li Long, you are capable!"

Li Long couldn't laugh or cry, had to continue moving flour. Harimu's mother sat on the wooden kang, smiling and watching them talking and making trouble here.

The winter nest is not big, flour and rice can only be placed by the kang table. I think Harimu will soon call people over to move these things away.

"Since you have something to do, then I won't keep you. There are some things here for you to take back, in exchange for things we need. Salt, brick tea, sugar, the most important thing is batteries. By the way, maybe we need to buy a few radios later, let's talk about it then."

After moving the rice and flour, Harimu gave seventy-six some grass, pulled Li Long into the room and said: "Dorsen, don't say more. When you have time to come over, when you can stay for a few days, we will go to your house, then slaughter a sheep, eat and drink well together, how about it?"

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"Okay." Li Long said as a matter of course, "Then, you prepare the sheep, I prepare... drinks. Wine, drink less in the cold winter."

He synthesized the experience of two lives, because drinking in winter can really drink people to death. When he went to Yili to travel, he heard that there were people who got drunk every winter and froze to death on the way home. Not to mention Yili, even in the village where he was, one year when the snow melted, there was a corpse at the edge of the field in the east, and I don't know if he was drunk and didn't walk back home in the end.

Once saw a video of someone drunk, almost unable to stand, it was the horse that pushed the owner back with its mouth on the shoulder—but such horses are extremely rare, one in ten thousand.

"Well, know." Harimu nodded, "Wine, can bring some over, bring them back, drink in your own felt tent, it's fine, don't run out."

When the milk tea was mixed, Harimu's mother also took out a bag of naan from the cabinet, and took out a few small bowls, inside were jam, honey, butter, etc. This reminded Li Long of the ethnic breakfast he once ate in Yili in the previous life, the kind of two-person meal, four-person meal, which contained milk tea, naan, jam, butter, dried fruit, baursak...

And it's about the same as this one.

While eating and chatting, Harimu talked about their situation in the summer pasture.

"That place, even when it's hottest, you have to cover with a quilt in the felt tent at night. In that place, we met a very strange guy, a white bear..."

"White bear?" Li Long thought, white bear usually refers to polar bear, right? Polar bear is impossible to come here. What could it be? Did they see it wrong?

"How tall?"

"Standing up, about as tall as me, very fierce, wanted to catch sheep, let me shoot and drive it away, don't know if I hit it." Harimu drank a sip of milk tea, "Our family's sheep was bitten and injured."

He was afraid Li Long wouldn't believe it, and said again:

"Not only I saw it, Bieke also saw it... white bear!"

Li Long understood a bit, it might be a brown bear with albinism, or alienation disease. After all, people have albinism, tigers have it, and there is no reason for bears not to have it.

The skin of this thing should also be very expensive, right?

Don't blame Li Long for being money-minded, the first thing he thought of was the bear's skin. After all, people in the country are like this, the dictionaries and encyclopedias at that time would have an item for any plant or animal, whether it is edible, whether it has economic and medicinal value.

No way, for a long period of time, Chinese people suffered from hunger and illness, and they had tried everything they could try, so they had this gene.

Li Long lived to the era that could be called a prosperous age in the previous life, but in that era, it was only twenty or thirty years since the whole country solved the problem of food and clothing.

The young ones don't know, but most people over forty or fifty still know a little about the taste of hunger.

"We originally thought about getting a snow leopard skin for you." Harimu pointed to the gun hanging on the felt tent and said, "Unfortunately, that thing is too cunning, it runs away when it hears movement, usually appears at night, very difficult to find."

"It's enough, it's enough." Li Long took a piece of naan and dipped it in jam and ate a bite, waved his hand and said: "Don't, don't, don't shoot."

He didn't want to let these elves in the mountains get closer to extinction because of himself.

"Then bring you some more jam." Harimu's thinking is also jumping from one thing to another, seeing Li Long eating jam, he said, "Because you brought us a lot of sugar, we made a lot of jam in summer, it's delicious."

"No, no," Li Long waved his hand hurriedly, "You have to rely on them for a winter, I don't want it, if I come over, just taste it." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 336 =====