Chapter 412: Saving people, harming people, is this my fault?

Although Li Long knew he had changed the fate of many people in the village, allowing them to start earning extra money early and influencing many people, his understanding of his influence on the people in the village was still limited.

In fact, although Yang Yongqiang and Tao Daqiang's families were unwilling to follow Li Long to try planting melon seeds, some people were willing.

Look at the things Li Long had done since returning from Wu City last year, which one was a mistake? Which one went wrong?

Catching fish and selling fish to make money, others were caught, he was fine.

Going into the mountains to get wood, others got lost in the mountains, he pulled back wood and also pulled back sheep.

Not only that, he also hunted wild boars, deer, and roe deer in the mountains, each of which was more valuable than a pig!

Not to mention taking on the work of weaving carrying poles, tying brooms, and making reed bundles for the village, allowing every household to earn quite a bit of money. At the very least, for this New Year, it was no problem for every child to add a new piece of clothing. It was also no problem for the diligent and capable to get a piece of cloth for the adults in the family to make clothes.

Those who played with Li Long, Gu Xiaoxia of the Gu family became a national cadre, Tao Daqiang's dilapidated family could afford a donkey cart and even married a wife, Yang Yongqiang, although he followed late, had already declared he would buy a bicycle for his younger sister next year.

It was said that Li Long also held several identities, was an extra-budgetary employee of the county supply and marketing cooperative, and held a salary.

Some people even spread the word that Li Long could have been a formal worker, but he didn't want to do it, so he didn't.

Not many people believed this, after all, who would be a fool in this day and age and not want a job and not want to be a city dweller?

But everyone knew that Li Long had bought a large courtyard in the city.

Gu Ermao went against Li Long and was sent to the labor camp.

Originally, some people guessed that Li Long was fired by the sugar factory in Wu City, possibly because he made a principled mistake. Now some people had begun to guess whether Li Long just felt that working in the factory was uncomfortable, so he deliberately made a mistake to be fired.

Otherwise, with his ability and level, what mistake could he make to be fired?

Over the past year, Li Long's way of dealing with people was much better than many people in their thirties or forties!

This wasn't the feeling of one or two people, but the consistent feeling of many elders in the team.

On the matter of treating Old Luo Tou, many elders gave a thumbs up.

Li Long didn't know these things. If he knew, he would definitely think of that famous saying on the Internet in his previous life:

"No need to explain, as long as one's own strength is improved, there will naturally be great scholars to argue for me!"

After the Zhao family father and son went to Shi City to sell fish twice, they didn't go again. It was really too hard. Their family didn't have a horse cart, they could only pull a sled. That sled couldn't hold much. One trip could indeed sell a few more yuan, but when calculated against the time and labor consumption of coming and going, it wasn't as good as in Ma County.

However, Old Zhao had already decided that once he saved enough money this winter, he would buy a donkey, get a donkey cart, and also become a car-owning family in the team.

Those who were not very compatible with Li Long were very concerned about what Li Long was going to do.

When Zhao Laoshi was scooping fish, he was thinking, should he also try planting that thing called melon seeds in the spring?

Go to the seed company and ask if there are seeds. If there are, plant some.

That Li Long dared to plant, there must be a place to sell, this thing should be able to make money, otherwise why would Li Long plant it? For fun?

That's impossible!

After chatting with the Liang family's three brothers for a while, Li Long walked back to Tao Daqiang and the others' side.

He saw Tao Daqiang scooping a silver carp onto the ice. This silver carp was about two kilograms, full of vitality, and still jumping hard after falling on the ice.

He hurriedly stepped forward to hook the fish's gills, shook it in his hand, and threw it into the bag.

Although it wasn't a bighead carp, the fish soup made from silver carp was also very fresh.

It was said that a certain famous figure (female) during a special period liked to eat silver carp because the meat of silver carp was fine.

"Not bad, Daqiang, this net is not bad." Li Long said with a smile.

"Brother Long, look at this net of mine, it's also not bad!" Yang Yongqiang also had a harvest on his side. He scooped the net out and covered it on the ice. Under the net were three or four quite large crucian carp, and also a five-striped black fish. Although it wasn't big, it was seven or eight hundred grams. Looking at them, each one was very spirited, swinging their tails hard on the ice. If the net wasn't covering them, they would definitely be able to jump very high.

"Not bad, not bad, these few fish make a plate, very delicious!" Li Long went over and caught these fish into the net too.

The three of them took turns scooping for more than two hours, getting less than ten kilograms of fish. The biggest was still the silver carp that Tao Daqiang dug out.

"Brother Long, you take the fish back later. We'll come back to dig after eating lunch. I think there should be more fish then. At noon, the ice surface can be a bit hotter, the fish should be more active." Yang Yongqiang said.

"Alright."

Li Long carried the fish bag to his older brother's place. It was closer here.

Liang Yuemei made soup noodles, making a large pot. When Li Long arrived, Liang Yuemei was pinching long noodle pieces into the pot with her arms. Seeing Li Long enter, she said with a smile:

"Wash up and get ready to eat."

Li Long entered the house and saw Li Juan and Li Qiang doing homework, saying with a smile:

"Qiangqiang, why are you so obedient today, didn't go out to play?"

Li Qiang saw his little uncle come, and immediately complained to him:

"Little uncle, my sister won't let me go play!" He was quite aggrieved.

"You didn't finish your homework yesterday, and lied to me saying you finished it and ran out to play!" Li Juan was a bit disappointed, "If I hadn't checked today, you would have mixed it up!"

Li Qiang lowered his head.

Li Long smiled heartlessly, this was bloodline suppression!

The soup noodles made by Liang Yuemei and Yang Xiulan tasted different. The soup noodles made by Yang Xiulan were already quite close to the taste here, but she used less tomato sauce and not much oil, feeling a bit like braised noodles.

The soup noodles made by Liang Yuemei were authentically Northern Xinjiang style, with a layer of tomato sauce on the soup, plenty of oil, and a bit of spiciness, but not much. Inside were diced potatoes and carrots, cooked until soft. Li Jianguo had a bad stomach, so the noodles were pinched very thin and were very flavorful.

On the table was also a bowl of salted chives with sesame oil. When Liang Yuemei pickled the salted chives, she put a few thread peppers in them, cut them together and put them in a bowl. Now she picked some and put them into the soup noodles, mixed them, and the taste was truly beautiful.

Li Long ate two large bowls, broke into a sweat, put down the bowl, and felt he didn't want to move for a while.

"Uncle, do you want to eat more? If you want, I'll serve you!" Li Qiang looked at him from the side and said.

"No, I don't dare let you serve." Li Long smiled, "That bowl is very hot."

"I'm not afraid of heat, little uncle, are you going to Little Haizi later? Can you take me?"

"Did you finish your homework?" Li Long asked.

"That, haven't finished yet."

"Then you can't go. If you finish, you can go. Finish your homework early tomorrow, we'll catch fish every day these few days, if you finish your homework tomorrow afternoon, I'll take you."

"Alright." Li Qiang was a bit disappointed, but Li Long wouldn't change his decision. Regardless of whether he had lived two lives, he knew that learning was the first priority for children. Li Qiang had been admitted to a good school in his previous life, and he hoped he could be admitted to a better university in this life.

Li Long rested for a while, and the voices of Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang came from outside.

Li Long didn't expect the two of them to eat so fast, or maybe their family's lunch was made early, they went back and ate directly, and came over after eating.

The three of them went to Little Haizi together. When they arrived at Little Haizi, Li Long saw that only the Liang family was there, the second and third each digging in a hole, the eldest was not there.

This family was also quite hardworking.

There were already several fish on the ice next to them, and two looked quite big. Li Long just glanced at them and walked forward.

"Ouch!" Suddenly, a shout came from the Liang brothers' side. Li Long habitually glanced at it, and then discovered that Liang the second was gone!

Li Long was startled. Seeing Liang the third still scooping there, not paying attention to his second brother, he threw down his things, shouted loudly while running back:

"Liang the third, your brother fell into the ice hole! Hurry and pull him!"

He had already walked thirty or forty meters away. If it weren't for his amazing hearing, he wouldn't have heard Liang the second's voice.

Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang didn't hear it. Only when Li Long threw down his things and shouted did they react, threw down their things, and followed him over.

Liang the third was stunned for a moment when he heard Li Long's time. When he reacted, he turned his head to look for his second brother, only to find he was indeed gone, and then he screamed, threw down the landing net, and jumped onto the ice. In his nervousness, he almost slipped into the ice hole too!

At this time, Li Long had already rushed to the ice hole. What he feared most was not seeing anyone. If he couldn't see them, then it was over. In such cold weather, it was very difficult for Liang the second to find the opening of the ice hole after falling under the ice. Don't look at it as maybe just two or three meters away, but under the ice there was no air, and once held in the water, half a meter could suffocate a person!

Li Long remembered that in a famous windy area in Northern Xinjiang one year, tourists from the interior encountered a sudden wind and snow weather. A carload of people crossed the windy area, walked back, walked halfway and couldn't see the road, the car went off the roadbed and had problems, couldn't start, and was afraid of freezing to death in the car, so five people got out of the car to find the road.

In that kind of wind-blown snow weather, the visibility was less than five meters, and all five people eventually died. In fact, they weren't far from the inspection station, the nearest one was less than one hundred meters away.

When Li Long arrived at the ice hole, he saw Liang the second's hat, which was floating on the water, and there was something moving underneath, but it seemed to be sinking.

Li Long didn't think, threw himself over, stuck half his body down and grabbed into the water.

He grabbed a handful of hair from the edge of the hat, and his hanging heart suddenly relaxed. As long as the person was here, it was fine!

However, Li Long wasn't feeling well at this time. He threw himself too urgently, and most of his body was stuck into the ice hole. If he couldn't control himself, he would also fall down.

At this time, one of his hands was supporting the ice wall, just firmly grabbing Liang the second's hair, not exerting force, afraid of pulling himself down too.

And at this time, Tao Daqiang, who had already run over, grabbed Li Long's leg and pulled him back. He didn't care whether Li Long had grabbed Liang the second or not. At this time, Li Long's life was the most important!

"Slowly, slowly, Daqiang!" Li Long felt the movement and knew it was Tao Daqiang who was pulling him. This was a brother he could entrust his back to. He hurriedly said, "You'll pull Liang the second's scalp off!"

At this time, Liang the second's head had been pulled out of the water. He coughed hard, his face was frozen blue, and his whole body was shivering, clearly frozen badly.

Yang Yongqiang saw Tao Daqiang pulling Li Long alone, so he immediately went to the edge of the ice hole, grabbed Liang the second's exposed shoulder, and Liang the third also helped together. Several people exerted force together and pulled Liang the second up.

"Quick, quick, light a fire!" Li Long ordered quickly after Tao Daqiang let go:

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"The third, take off your second brother's clothes, take off the wet clothes, and wrap him with your coat!"

At this time, the wet clothes on Liang the second would take away a large amount of heat from his body. Taking them off and changing clothes was the best, but there was no way at the moment, so the three of them only contributed their own coats.

Fortunately, when catching fish, the coat was optional, only when the sun set and the wind rose on the ice, one had to wear the coat well when walking back.

When Liang the third took off his brother's coat, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang had already brought a large armful of hairy reeds, and Li Long used a lighter to light the fire.

Liang the second spat out a few mouthfuls of water. He didn't drink too much water. Li Long discovered it very timely. Now the main damage to Liang the second was the cold.

When the fire started, Liang the second's coat had already been taken off. Li Long asked to take off his cotton clothes and wrap him with the coat.

"Daqiang, Yongqiang, you and the third take turns carrying the second back, hurry back, cover him in the quilt for a day and it will be fine." Li Long saw Liang the second wrapped in the coat and relaxed a bit. The fire burned by the hairy reeds burned out after a while, so he decided decisively, "Wait for you to come back to scoop the fish, the second must go back quickly, otherwise I reckon he will have a root of illness."

"Alright!" Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang had no second words. At this time, Liang the third was almost crying. After all, he was a young man of sixteen or seventeen. Usually, the eldest and second took the lead. When he encountered such a thing, it was normal for him to have no opinion.

With Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang taking turns carrying him, Liang the second should be fine.

Li Long watched the things here.

Tao Daqiang carried Liang the second first and ran toward the village like the wind. At this time, the advantage of this big guy's physical strength was seen. He carried someone and ran in front, while Liang the third and Yang Yongqiang could barely keep up.

Tao Daqiang should know the situation was urgent, and he also used all his strength.

Li Long nodded. Even if he followed, it would be like this.

He gathered the Liang family's things together and didn't take them to his ice hole. He believed that Liang the eldest and Liang the third would come back later.

There was another reason why he didn't follow. Just now when he pulled Liang the second up, his body was also soft for a while.

He was scared afterward.

Taking the village people to catch fish was something he started. Danger was certain, but he didn't expect someone to fall into the ice hole.

The moment Liang the second fell down, he was really scared. In his previous life, Liang the second lived well, and he also remembered that once when Li Qiang was playing with water in the canal and was drowned, it was Liang the second who saved him.

He had never heard of Liang the second falling into the ice hole in winter.

Then Liang the second's bad luck this time was likely because he changed history. He was really scared afterward, and also somewhat regretful.

This kind of thing was hard to avoid, but people always had times when they attributed things to themselves.

Li Long returned to his ice hole, and his heart calmed down.

Actually, it couldn't be blamed on him, but the matter started because of him. At that time, his reaction was fast, which could be considered worthy of Liang the second.

He picked up the landing net, went down to the ice hole and started scooping fish.

With Liang the second's matter, he became careful. Actually, when catching fish last year, there was almost such a thing, so when smashing the ice hole, Li Long and the others specifically chiseled two places to step on, very stable.

Li Long thought that if other people catching fish came over later, he had to remind them, so as not to let anyone fall down again.

What made Li Long a bit surprised was that he caught a big carp in the first net, the kind over three kilograms, quite big, but it wasn't particularly active, and it didn't jump very hard.

Scooping again, a five-striped black fish, over a kilogram, plus four or five crucian carp.

For several nets in a row, every net had fish, and there was a big fish in every two or three nets.

Strange!

Li Long didn't think about that matter anymore, scooped ten or so nets here, and when the last few nets were small fish, he went up to the ice surface, picked up these fish, and went to the other ice hole to catch fish.

At this time, the Zhao family father and son had already come. Zhao Laoshi didn't go to his ice hole, but came directly to Li Long's side.

"Little Long, did Liang the second fall into the ice hole just now?" Zhao Laoshi's face didn't look good.

"Yeah, shouldn't have stepped well."

"Said it was you who saved him?"

"I just heard it, we saved him together." Li Long didn't expect Zhao Laoshi to have even found this out clearly when passing by.

"Sigh, that child was frozen not lightly, you did a great good deed." Zhao Laoshi said.

Li Long was a bit surprised. It seemed he still thought too much.

Just now he was still thinking that if Zhao Laoshi ran to the Liang family's ice hole to scoop fish, he had to shout to stop it.

Now it seemed that in matters of life and death, Zhao Laoshi, who had little cleverness, also had great right and wrong.

"You guys be careful too later." Li Long kindly reminded, "The ice surface is slippery, look, we chiseled pits on the edge of the ice hole, it's just right to step on, you guys try it too."

"Alright." Zhao Laoshi nodded, "You be careful alone on this side, if there's anything, shout to us." After finishing, he turned back.

Li Long was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Zhao Laoshi to say such words either.

It could only be said that human nature was too complex.

There was nothing non-black or non-white. People had advantages and disadvantages, good habits and bad habits.

This was the norm.

Hey, when did I become a philosopher. Li Long shook his head and continued scooping.

Half an hour later, Liang the eldest, Tao Daqiang, and Yang Yongqiang appeared on the ice surface.

"Little Long, this time it's really thanks to you!" When Liang the eldest arrived at the ice hole, Li Long had already come up. Hearing Liang the eldest say this, Li Long hurriedly waved his hand:

"Anyone who encounters it will do the same, you and I are the same."

"That's different. I heard the third say, he didn't hear the second's voice, if it weren't for you discovering it, our family's second should have been gone by now." Liang the eldest's emotions were very excited, "How to say you saved our family's second's life." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 413 =====