Chapter 378: These young people are different from what was imagined

When Li Long got up the next day, the sky was already bright. Yesterday he actually drank quite a lot, plus his spirit was relaxed, looked at the watch, this sleep was nearly ten hours.

A faint smell of wine remained in the room. After the gathering on the wine table ended last night, although everyone cleaned up here quite cleanly, and no one vomited here, after all, drank wine for so long, it was impossible to clean it up all at once.

Felt his head was still slightly dizzy, Li Long climbed up, rubbed his temples, put on clothes, swayed to the stove, and stood.

The room was cleaned quite cleanly and neatly, difficult for a pile of people who drank too much last night to be able to handle it so comprehensively in the end.

The fire in the stove had gone out, the temperature in the room was a bit low, Li Long took the fire hook, uncovered the stove lid, cleared the charcoal ash inside, cleaned up the charcoal cores that didn't burn thoroughly and put them aside, and then started to set up the stove.

There were things by the stove, put a ball of paper, a handful of reeds and a few corn cobs into the stove chamber, then put small pieces of coal on top, sealed the stove lid, opened the stove door, lit it with a lighter, watched the fire burn smoothly, then closed the stove door, walked to the door, pulled the door and walked out.

A chill came rushing, Li Long immediately became clear, he wiped his face, walked to the dry toilet there, happily released a bubble of water, then turned back.

Li Junshan walked out of the room, saw Li Long and asked with a smile:

"Uncle Xiao Long, how is it? Is your head still dizzy?"

"Not dizzy anymore." Li Long smiled and said, "How about you all?"

"We are also okay. Daqiang and Yongqiang came over in the morning, they got up early and went to get fish—it's them, drank so much wine yesterday, still able to go get fish, and got quite a lot, then the two of them pulled a sled together to sell fish, now should have arrived at the county."

Li Long didn't expect that the two of them could still go to get fish and sell fish, could only say the spirit was really good!

Thinking Li Long said:

"Then I'm going to the county today, don't know when you are leaving, I'll go prepare the wine and honey for you first."

"Alright." Li Junshan said, "Eat breakfast first, breakfast is already made."

Breakfast was corn flour porridge, steamed buns and stewed fish that wasn't shoveled out of the pot yesterday. Uncle Lao Luo and Li Junshan also stir-fried a pickled vegetable, quite refreshing.

Li Long and they finished eating together, said a word to Li Anguo and Chen Xingbang, then put on cotton clothes, rode a bicycle to the county.

The snow on the road was pressed quite porcelain-solid, passing the primary school and middle school, didn't hear the sound of children reading, Li Long guessed it should be almost the end of the term, at this time should all be nervously reviewing.

When turning to the county, it was almost twelve o'clock, Li Long first went around the free market, and really saw Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang.

The frozen fish displayed on the two people's stall was not much, Tao Daqiang was weighing fish for a woman, Yang Yongqiang was still shouting on that side.

Li Long didn't disturb them, looked around from afar, what surprised him was that not only Tao Daqiang and they were selling fish in the market, there were four or five other stalls in the team selling fish, those stalls had more or less fish, some people were shouting like Yang Yongqiang, some just sat there waiting for guests to come to the door. Some were holding a scale to weigh, some directly sold by the strip.

Not all the same.

With so many people, estimate the fish price shouldn't be high.

Li Long guessed, rode the bicycle and turned towards the supply and marketing cooperative.

"I seem to have seen Brother Long." Yang Yongqiang turned his head to Tao Daqiang and said, "Saw a person riding a bicycle from afar."

"Could be." Tao Daqiang was not surprised, "Brother Long should have something to do, came over to take a look, if nothing to do should have left. Also might not be him—let's sell fish first."

Yang Yongqiang was quite admiring of Tao Daqiang's attitude, immediately he shouted loudly again.

Li Long rode directly to the supply and marketing cooperative.

The staff of the supply and marketing cooperative door department already knew he was one of their own, and calculated the things he wanted to buy at the wholesale price.

Li Long wanted six cans of honey—at this time the honey had already completely solidified, the kind that couldn't flow at all. One can was three kilograms. He planned to give one can to each person, the remaining two cans were to be brought back for father and mother.

Six cans of honey was a large box, then it was four cages of loose wine. This thing was mainly a rarity, after all, it was brought back from Northern Xinjiang. As for other things, the hometown side really didn't lack them.

Now it wasn't time for large-scale cotton planting, after waiting for two days for the cotton planting area to expand, every year people coming over would bring cotton quilts to the hometown—but with the weather in the hometown, bringing them over would also become damp in winter.

The bicycle had two protective plates and supports on both sides, these two boxes of things were fixed with a rope and Li Long carried them and hurried back.

Originally thought it was more convenient to put things in the large courtyard. But thinking that second brother and they drove the cart to the county, Gu Xiao might have already gone to work. It was better to pack things at home, this way when arriving at the county to catch the bus, there was no need to re-tie anything.

Li Long rode the bicycle and walked back, didn't run into Tao Daqiang and them on the road, but ran into two others in the village, the two Zhao brothers.

Li Long stopped the bike and asked:

"Are your fish sold out?"

"Sold out." Zhao family eldest Zhao Anping said with a smile, "We went early."

"How is it? Is the price okay?"

"It's okay. We sold large carp for one yuan five per strip, three strips were bought directly. Small crucian carp sold slowly."

Li Long nodded, chatted two more words, stepped on the bicycle and went back.

"Brother, you say if we sell fish for a winter, can we get a bicycle?" Zhao Ansheng looked at Li Long's back riding the bicycle, envious and asked.

"Don't know." Zhao Anping shook his head, obviously hadn't thought about comforting his brother, just told the truth, "Sold seven yuan four mao today, we bought some cloth. If every day is like this, it will take a month and a half to buy a bicycle, money can be saved if enough, but no ticket... that black market ticket is not cheap..."

Hearing that money was enough, Zhao Ansheng was quite happy, looks like not following Li Long and them to catch fish and sell fish last year was really a loss.

On this day, many people in the village had such thoughts.

He Li Long can do it, then we can do it too!

We didn't keep up last year, we will catch up this year!

Young people are all spirited, one doesn't serve another. Really want to say let Li Long be their spiritual leader, still a cut short.

Even twenty or thirty years later, someone in the village took the lead because of farming, engaged in cotton planting and earned money in those few outstanding price years, contracted thousands of mu of land, in the years when the price was good, annual income of millions, also couldn't become the spiritual leader of those young people—money, cannot measure everything.

It's just that Li Long wouldn't think so much at this time, he knew the situation of the young people in the team, he never thought about being their spiritual leader, just thought about living his own life well.

Of course, at the appropriate time, if he could take everyone along when he earned money, he didn't mind being a good person once.

Returning to the horse corral, when Li Long propped up the bicycle, he shouted for Li Junshan and Li Junfeng to come out and help.

Li Junfeng, Li Junshan and Li Anguo were playing cards, hearing Li Long's voice, hurriedly put down the cards and ran out.

"This side is honey, this side is wine." Li Long let the two of them carry the two large cardboard boxes tied up to the room.

"Honey is one can per person, mountain flower honey, collected by the supply and marketing cooperative from those people raising bees in the mountains. Remaining two cans, second brother you bring for father and mother. Wine, you take one cage per person, one cage is ten yuan. Remaining one cage is for father."

Li Jianguo handled the matter of giving money to father and mother, Li Long didn't care, things fell to these people.

"I will bring a can for father here, Junshan, I see you have few things, you bring a can. Xingbang, you bring father's wine."

Chen Xingbang originally planned to come over after the New Year, so he brought few things, some things simply put here. But Li Anguo also couldn't let him bring all the things.

He assigned it this way, no one had any opinion.

Things were given, Li Long's matter was finished. Next two days he followed Tao Daqiang and them to look at the fish in Xiaohaizi, get some fresh fish back to roast and eat. As for selling fish, he didn't care.

The first day Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang didn't come back until the afternoon, the two sold twenty-something yuan, although not much, but all were happy. This income was already not bad.

So after coming back that day, ate something and then went to get fish.

Not one of the owners of those few ice holes was left behind, all were getting fish in Xiaohaizi, looks quite lively.

On the fourth day Li Long rode the bicycle carrying the gun to the county. Before leaving, he specifically told Li Anguo and the four of them, he couldn't send them off when they left.

After drinking wine that day, basically the feelings were in place, no one thought sending off was a big deal, Li Long handled what should be handled.

Arriving at the county, Li Long went directly to the supply and marketing cooperative. Li Xiangqian was in the office, after seeing Li Long, he said the prefecture side hadn't called yet, but estimated it would be these two days, let Li Long come over to his place every morning to wait.

Didn't wait for the second day Li Long went, Li Xiangqian rushed to the large courtyard in the afternoon of the same day and found Li Long.

"Called at noon, they are coming over early tomorrow morning. A jeep, one driver plus three hunters. They brought your bullets, I also told them, bring good guns, they said they all brought Type 56 semi-automatics, and all have shot guns, not greenhorns, don't you worry about this."

"Mm." Li Long naturally wasn't worried, he said his worry, "I'm just afraid they don't understand and pretend to understand, messing around in the mountains would be quite troublesome."

"Don't you worry about this. Their elders told me very clearly at that time," Li Xiangqian had followed into the mountains, knew the danger, said, "Once in the mountains, everything listens to you, he also told these few dolls, don't feel that you are from above and look down on everything.

If you don't listen to you, you can say whatever, if they mess around, you just let the driver bring people back. Although hunting is the main purpose, safety is the first priority. That person said, everything is carried out under the premise of ensuring safety. If anything happens, as long as you are not wrong, then they definitely won't blame you."

Hearing this, Li Long regretted a bit, is this asking him to be a kindergarten teacher?

But already agreed, too late to regret. The next morning after breakfast, he walked to the supply and marketing cooperative.

In Li Xiangqian's office, Li Long waited for less than twenty minutes, the jeep drove over.

At this time the sun just rose—explaining these people set off from the prefecture very early.

Determination is quite big!

Li Long and Li Xiangqian welcomed in the courtyard, looking at the three young people in military coats getting off the jeep, Li Long was really envious.

A whole set of standard military uniforms, just no military rank—seems the military rank system hadn't been restored at this time. One man and one woman carried Type 56 semi-automatics, the other young man wearing glasses carried a Type 56 assault rifle.

!.

This thing for hunting?

Li Long just hesitated in his heart, and heard Li Xiangqian's introduction.

"Three, Yang Chen, Qi Jingyue, Xie Ruifeng, right?"

"Yes, yes."

"Hello Uncle Li!" This is the girl's voice.

"Hello Uncle Li, I am Xie Ruifeng!" This is the one wearing glasses.

"Come, let me introduce you. This is the hunting teacher and guide found for you, Li Long."

"Hello Li Long!"

"So young!"

"Hello!"

The three people had the same expression, seeing Li Long too young.

Li Long himself also knew, his age was easy to cause suspicion, he looked at Li Xiangqian.

He didn't explain, if the other party was dissatisfied, then don't do it.

"You all don't look down on Li Long. Two days ago, Li Long went into the mountains, in one week's time, wiped out a wolf pack with six wolves, hit a lynx, and also hit a male red deer, and brought back two live deer along the way... Heroes come from youth, you all don't make dogmatic mistakes on this!"

Li Xiangqian said this, the three young people immediately changed their attitude, the girl Qi Jingyue even apologized to Li Long, calling Li Long "Teacher Li"!

"Teacher dare not be, just hunted for a longer time." Seeing these three young people's attitude was good, completely different from those background children imagined, Li Long was no longer passive, said:

"Hunting in the cold winter, sometimes pays attention to luck. After all, most of the things we want to hit won't wait in one place. But there are traces to follow after all. Let's learn from each other."

Flower sedan chairs are carried by everyone, people are polite, he can't not give face, right?

Time was quite tight, three people were also quite excited, so they just rested at the supply and marketing cooperative, the driver released water, drank water, supplemented some food, and hurried into the mountains.

Li Long sat in the passenger seat pointing the way, three young people behind asked him some hunting techniques from time to time.

Fortunately, Li Long had experienced quite a lot personally, so he took himself as an example to talk. Because he was a half-baked hunter, Li Long also said clearly when talking, this matter varies from person to person, what he encountered was like this, others really might not be.

"Master Li, you say are there bears in these mountains?" Qi Jingyue suddenly asked.

Qi Jingyue's age was about the same as Li Long, combed two braids to the chest, wore a velvet military cap, and even had a red star on it, don't know how many people envied this outfit.

She was also quite beautiful, at this moment sitting behind the passenger seat, leaning on the back of the passenger seat and asking seriously.

Li Long could roughly feel, Yang Chen and Xie Ruifeng should both be pursuing Qi Jingyue, but this had nothing to do with him, heard the question and said:

"Yes, I have seen a brown bear, my friend also saw an albino bear in the depths of the Tianshan Mountains, don't know what breed it is."

"Then can we run into a bear on this trip?" Xie Ruifeng, who wore glasses and had a bit of scholarly air, but spoke quite aggressively, with a feeling of "none but me", asked.

"Your question is a bit stupid, right?" Yang Chen laughed at him, "Aren't bears hibernating at this time? How could we run into one? Wolves are possible."

"Actually I want to see if we can hit a Mongolian gazelle." Qi Jingyue's idea was different from the other two, "I heard Mongolian gazelle is a kind of antelope, feel it should be very beautiful..."

Li Long really had a feeling of bringing children, although he was actually about the same as these three in hunting a year ago, thought and asked:

"Have you three hunted before? Hit anything? How is your marksmanship?"

"I hit a fox!" Yang Chen said proudly.

"I hit a few rabbits, but to tell the truth, hitting rabbits still needs to use small-caliber, Type 56 hits, that rabbit will rot."

"I hit wild chicken." Qi Jingyue's words made Li Long a bit surprised, "I also hit a wolf, but didn't hit, wounded it, let it run."

"Where did you hit?" Li Long asked again.

"North Gobi, there are also wolves in the red willow beach."

Alright, this is really a wolf. Looks like this girl cannot be judged by appearance.

The jeep soon passed Qingshuihe, bypassed and was about to reach the mountain pass, Li Long pointed to the red willow on the side and said:

"There are Mongolian gazelles appearing on both sides, but whether we can see them depends on luck. If you brought supplies, then we can stay in the mountains for a longer period of time, if you feel staying in the mountains is dangerous, then we will come back after hunting until evening, anyway the car is relatively convenient."

The driver was a middle-aged man, a bit fat, different from the retired soldier Li Xiangqian brought last time, this person looked like a pure driver.

"Are there places to stay in the mountains?" Qi Jingyue asked curiously.

"I have a wooden house, two rooms." Li Long said, "There are some basic living supplies inside. I am considered a part-time forest ranger in the mountains, so I have a place to stay there. I am considering if you want to hit things, then you must stay in the mountains for a longer period of time."

Li Long thought since they came, then aim to earn money. Otherwise, bringing them for nothing, he also came for nothing.

No need.

"Then... can we decide after arriving at the wooden house? By the way, can the car drive over there."

"Yes." Li Long indicated the direction, also told the driver the road conditions, that driver was an old driver, slowed down and entered the mountains, driving towards the wooden house.

In front of the wooden house, Li Long got off the car first, looked here, he found there were quite a few horse hoof prints.

Should be Halimu and the others came over.

Looking at this beautiful wooden house, Qi Jingyue said with some envy:

"Having such a house here is really good!"

Li Long smiled and didn't speak, stepped forward and opened the door with the key, started to set up the fire.

Whether staying or not, definitely had to set up the fire first, this way even if there was a logistics support base, at least could drink hot water. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 379 =====