Chapter 413: A telegram came from home

Li Long didn't quite approve of this life-saving thing. He felt it was half and half. It wasn't being pretentious, his mind was still on those words just now. If it weren't for him, the Liang family's three brothers couldn't have come here to smash ice holes and catch fish.

Living a life again, Li Long still had some awe. Now he had determined that this wasn't a dream, so since he came, since he changed, he must bear the cause and effect of the change.

This was also why he felt that if he made everyone change for the better, he would be happy, and Liang the second's matter was clearly a negative impact.

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Li Long waved his hand, "Everyone is nearby. Even if it wasn't discovered for a while, it would definitely be discovered later. If you shout, everyone will come. Just now Old Zhao came over and told me to be careful alone. People in our team won't stand by and watch."

Li Long said this, and everyone listening was satisfied—this praised the whole village, and everyone felt honored.

Liang the eldest naturally had no heart to scoop fish anymore. He wanted to pour the fish in the bag to Li Long, but Li Long waved his hand and said:

"Your family's second was frozen not lightly this time, take it back and stew fish soup to make up for it."

Liang the eldest finally didn't say anything else, held the things and went back. When he went back, he said to Li Long:

"Little Long, the three of us are leaving, you guys scoop this ice hole, it's a waste if you don't scoop it."

Li Long thought it was right, so he let Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang scoop on the south side, and he scooped here.

About until dark, Li Long scooped more than ten kilograms of fish by himself.

Really lucky!

When going back, the fish in the three people's bags were put together. Li Long lifted it and estimated it. No matter how he calculated, there were more than forty kilograms. This time it was really a bumper harvest!

"Each of you take a few back to eat." Li Long said, "This good fish shouldn't just be thought of being sold, you have to keep some for yourself to eat, otherwise we wouldn't become the poor families of the old society."

"How was the old society?" Tao Daqiang asked curiously from the side.

"Those who raise silkworms can't afford silk clothes, those who farm can't eat their fill, those who fish can't eat good fish, those who hunt can't eat good meat." Li Long said casually.

"Hey, that's really different." Yang Yongqiang said with a smile, "We eat good fish and good meat, and we can eat our fill every day."

"Thinking about eating your fill in the future is a bit low, you have to think about eating well." Li Long added, "There are many delicious things, the days will get better and better in the future."

Yang Yongqiang and Tao Daqiang both believed Li Long's words. After all, just in this year, their own family's days had already become better and better. Even if there were no more changes, they believed they could live well, and they also felt that Li Long had higher and further plans. How good would that be?

When they separated at the fork in the road, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang each took a few fish back.

Li Long returned to the Old Horse Stables. He poured the fish onto the plastic sheet in the vacant room and separated them one by one. These fish had already frozen to death, some stuck together, forming fish lumps. Now he was not letting them freeze together.

The sun had just set, and it wasn't dark yet. Li Long took some small crucian carp and dogfish, cleaned them, and stewed fish soup directly while the fish was fresh.

Fresh fish was different. Before long, the fresh and fragrant smell of fish soup drifted in the pot.

At this time, Li Long started to throw ginger and green onions into the pot while washing and cutting. He didn't put Sichuan peppercorns in the soup.

"Did you save Liang the second?" Old Uncle Luo asked Li Long after feeding the livestock and entering the kitchen, "Everyone said you pulled him out of the ice hole. If you didn't pull him out, Liang the second would be afraid of feeding the fish."

"How can it be so mysterious." Li Long hurriedly waved his hand, "I just heard his family's second shout, turned my head and didn't see anyone, so I knew he fell into the ice hole, and then I shouted to his family's third, and then ran over there, just happened to see his head still under the water, the water didn't flow and didn't wash away, so I grabbed his hair, and later Daqiang, Yongqiang and his family's third pulled him up together."

Li Long didn't say that Liang the third was actually stunned for a moment when he shouted and didn't react. A young man of sixteen or seventeen wasn't a young man who had been over-nourished by mobile phones, TV, short videos, and novels in his previous life. In this era, many things weren't understood by sixteen or seventeen-year-olds. They hadn't been out much, and the information media they contacted was too little, their knowledge was little, so it was normal to be stunned.

"That's also you, if it weren't for you, that Liang the second would really have a root of illness... said you told him to take off his clothes and wrap him with a coat..."

"Yeah, my coat hasn't been taken back yet." Li Long suddenly thought of this matter.

"It will be sent to you." Old Uncle Luo said with a smile, "People still want to thank you well."

Li Long thought that thanks were unnecessary. It would be fine if he could send the coat to him tomorrow morning.

The fish soup was ready. Li Long served a bowl to Old Uncle Luo first, and then served a bowl for himself. The stove fire wasn't strong anymore, so Li Long didn't take the pot, just let it stew like that.

After drinking the delicious fish soup, Li Long felt extremely comfortable. After drinking one bowl, just as he was about to drink the second bowl, footsteps came from outside the courtyard, and then there was a knock on the door.

Liang the eldest's voice.

"Look, sent the coat." Old Uncle Luo said with a smile.

Li Long opened the door, Liang the eldest entered the house carrying a bag of things, and behind him followed Liang the third.

"Old Uncle Luo, Little Long, have you eaten?" Liang the eldest asked habitually, "Chatting?"

"Yeah, what are you doing? Why be so polite? Buying these things is not as good as buying some malted milk for the second to make up for it." Li Long looked at Liang the eldest putting down the things and said, "Money doesn't come easily, I don't lack these here..."

"You don't lack is you don't lack, then we should express what we should express." Liang the eldest's words were also very reasonable, "Originally my father and mother wanted to come over, I said I'll just come. If you don't accept it, or should I let my father and mother come over?"

"Don't, don't, don't!" Li Long hurriedly waved his hand when he heard it, "Not to that extent, not to that extent, alright, I'll accept the things. This matter, originally it wasn't big, anyone who encounters it will pull it by hand. By the way, how is the second now? Much better, right?"

"Much better, just coughs occasionally." Liang the eldest smiled and said, "No big problem."

"Yeah, maybe choked with water in the lungs, find a doctor to see in these two days, don't get inflamed." Li Long didn't know much about this, just made a suggestion.

"Your coat has been brushed clean and sent over." Liang the eldest took the coat from the third behind him and handed it over, "Thanks to your coats, otherwise our family's second would really be frozen badly."

"Haha, don't say it, don't say it, it's best if the person is fine." Li Long took the coat and put it on the bed, "Are you guys still catching fish these two days?"

"My mother won't let me catch it, the third and I feel it's fine, just be careful. Earning a few yuan or ten yuan a day, isn't that better than staying at home?" Liang the eldest said his opinion as soon as Li Long asked this, "You guys are still collecting, right? Later we will bring you fish, don't need six cents, five cents is fine!"

"Don't, don't, don't!" Li Long immediately opposed, "Friendship is friendship, business is business, this is not the same thing. You sent canned food, biscuits, I took these things, this matter is over here. The rest is one thing at a time, don't think about anything else."

Liang the eldest didn't insist anymore, they chatted for a while, and left.

"Hey, not bad." Old Uncle Luo didn't speak throughout the whole process, but after Liang the eldest left, he smiled, "All are good dolls."

The next day Li Long, Tao Daqiang, and Yang Yongqiang went to check the snares and catch rabbits early. On the way, Yang Yongqiang said with a smile:

"When Liang the third sent me the coat yesterday, he also brought two cans of canned food."

"Me too." Tao Daqiang said from the side, "My dad said don't want it, but the third threw the canned food and ran away."

"Take it, saved someone's life, you accept the things so that people can feel at ease." Li Long said, "This matter is over, don't talk about it later."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't talk, don't talk." Yang Yongqiang followed the advice, and then changed the topic, "Brother Long, your ears are too good, I didn't hear anything at all, but you heard it? The third said that after the second returned home and recovered, he said he shouted ouch, and then fell into the water, at that time he was frozen and didn't know anything..."

"Hehehe, eat well, the eyesight and hearing must be good." Li Long said vaguely, "Remember to eat more good things when you have children in the future, meat, milk, sheep milk is also fine, eat more, eat all kinds of things, that's called growing well." Li Long remembered a family in the team, the father was 1.72 meters, the mother was 1.65 meters, the child liked to drink milk as soon as he was born, the grandparents specifically ran to a family in the team who raised local cows to hit milk. This grandfather had grace to that family, that family's local cow could only squeeze less than two kilograms of milk a day, many families wanted to buy it, but they didn't sell it, giving this grandfather more than one kilogram every time, and the rest was left for their own family to drink.

After the milk was burned and boiled, the child could drink two large bowls. He was picky about food when he was young, but he grew strong. He was more than 1.7 meters when he was thirteen or fourteen, and he was already 1.9 meters when he was seventeen or eighteen, and he always liked to drink milk. If no one persuaded him, he could drink a box of milk alone in a day—from this example, it was indeed a little good for children to drink milk when they were young.

And those mentioned in genetics, the child's height is the combination of parents, it's hard to say. There is a relationship, but it's not an absolute relationship. Li Long had seen too many examples where parents weren't very tall, but the children were relatively tall.

Of course, this also had to do with life being better in later generations, and nutrition being rich enough, so eating well naturally made children tall. The house he bought in the city, there were many children in primary and junior high school in the community who were over 1.7 meters, like hemp poles, just growing tall.

"It seems I have to raise a cow at home when I have time." Yang Yongqiang talked to himself, it seemed he valued height quite a bit.

Tao Daqiang didn't say it. Li Long felt he didn't have this trouble. He was tall, and his wife wasn't short either. When the two added together, the child wouldn't be short.

Talking and chatting, they arrived at the place where the snares were set. The three of them carried bags, each checking the position of the snares they set.

Li Long soon discovered a rabbit, and two snare positions were moved. It should be that a rabbit passed by here. It was just that the position of the snare might not be right, or the rabbit was alert and wasn't snared.

Li Long adjusted the positions of those two snares, and then took the rabbit down.

Wild rabbits were basically grayish-white, which was conducive to camouflage in such an environment. This rabbit was more than three kilograms, the body wasn't very stiff yet, it should have been snared early this morning.

!.

After rubbing the snare with snow, Li Long changed to another place to set it, and continued to check forward.

After checking the snares on his side, there were seven more wild rabbits in the bag. It seemed that it was really necessary to change locations, and the wild land was big, so wild things were naturally more.

The three of them converged and showed their results. Tao Daqiang had three, and Yang Yongqiang had two.

"Brother Long, you still set more snares." Yang Yongqiang looked at Li Long carrying the bulging bag and couldn't help saying:

"Can you help us adjust the snares?"

"Alright." Li Long knew Yang Yongqiang wanted to learn, he didn't mind teaching, this thing itself was just experience, not a stunt, no need to hide it.

Tao Daqiang took Li Long's bag and followed Li Long to adjust the snares for the two of them.

"Here... look, the snare is set too low, rabbits jump, this place is the necessary path, but the thin iron wire can be seen, it will jump over, so it should be slightly higher, the head can drill in, but the body and legs will be hung."

"Look here, where several rabbit tracks gather, you can't just put the snare here, you have to see where there are many rabbit tracks, if there are many here, then set it here..."

Li Long explained from time to time, actually most of them had no problems, this was also a probability problem, it wasn't that the rabbit passed here today, it would pass here tomorrow, it could only be said that the probability was relatively large.

After sorting out these snares, the three of them went back to the team together, and after eating breakfast, went to Little Haizi.

Liang the eldest and the third were already there, Zhao Laoshi father and son were also there, and there was another family, the distance was relatively far, Li Long didn't see clearly.

After greeting them, the three of them went to their ice hole. The weather was a bit cloudy. When Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang were digging the ice hole, Li Long said:

"Scoop it today, it might snow tomorrow." Now although there was a radio, one could hear the weather forecast, but that forecast was national, the autonomous region also had it, the state didn't have much, it wasn't very accurate, and the county didn't have it at all.

Can only look at the sky.

"Snow? As long as it's not big, we'll still come." Yang Yongqiang threw a few crucian carp on the ice surface and said, "It's good to snow, after snowing, the snow on this ice surface is thick, the fish have no air holes, as long as there is an ice hole, won't they jump up? I heard Daqiang say that when you guys dug ice holes to catch fish last winter, you could get sixty or seventy kilograms a day... thinking about it, it's really amazing!"

Li Long smiled, that scene was only the first year. After all, everyone was hiding from winter at that time, and they didn't dare to go to the market to sell, so the fish stock was large. Last year, just his own family caught more than ten tons of fish from Little Haizi, this total amount suddenly decreased so much, and now catching twenty or thirty kilograms of fish every day was not a little.

Being able to have so many fish was because the original stock was relatively large, and crucian carp originally reproduced relatively fast. In fact, it could be clearly seen that the big carp, grass carp, and five-striped black fish were significantly less than last year.

Of course, these people catching wouldn't catch them all, it would just reduce some production. After all, they kept catching until the year Li Long left in his previous life, and the water was cut off many times in the middle. When there was water, there were still fish.

When it was time to eat at noon, Tao Daqiang carried the fish bag, followed Li Long to put the fish in Li Jianguo's house, and then he and Yang Yongqiang went home to eat.

Liang Yuemei asked them to stay and eat, but they didn't stay.

At the dinner table, Li Jianguo said to Li Long:

"A telegram came from home."

"Who sent it?" Li Long picked up a pair of chopsticks of pickled vegetables and put them in the bowl, asking while eating.

"Your second brother."

"What's the matter?"

"Said that after the New Year, father and mother, your second brother's family, and your brother-in-law are all coming over."

"My second brother's family?" Li Long was stunned for a moment, "Bringing the baby?"

"Yeah." Li Jianguo's expression was a bit complicated, "Said they won't stay in their hometown anymore, they want to develop in Northern Xinjiang."

"Then..." Li Long was also a bit worried, thought about it and said, "I'll clean up the horse stables in these few days, one room for the second brother's family to live in, one room for my brother-in-law to live in. Father and mother will still live in the east room."

"Now can only be like this. Their telegram didn't say much, I reckon they should come with a letter in two days." Li Jianguo said, "When the time comes, the specific situation will be known."

"Since the second brother's family is coming over, then father and mother reckon they intend to settle down here, this is a good thing." Li Long said, "When the time comes, find the captain to settle down, cancel the household registration over there, and then allocate the land here, it's quite good. A family, it's best to be together, I feel that maybe my sister's family will come over later."

"There is this possibility. Your brother-in-law is quite smart, and he is not a person who stays still. He stayed here for a few months last year and earned money. Going back to live that kind of life, he certainly won't be willing." Li Jianguo was also analyzing, "But it won't be easy for your second brother and sister's family to settle down."

"I'll ask around during this time where I can recruit workers or settle down," Li Long said, "If it doesn't work, just live first, there will always be opportunities."

He vaguely remembered that there were recruitments for various factories and mines later, but the requirements were also quite high. After all, young people in the countryside basically wanted to run to the city, be a worker, and get a salary every month, which was much stronger than old farmers who worked all year round.

People like Li Long were unique.

"Only like this. If we really say that land contracting is carried out at the beginning of the year, then we will contract more land at that time and let your second brother and the others plant it, which can be considered as having a job."

Li Long nodded. In general, farming in Northern Xinjiang, or specifically farming in this team, was much better than in his hometown. How to say, get a fifteen mu or twenty mu of land, plant all year round, go to the public grain and contract fees that need to be handed over, the rest can ensure the whole family eats fine grain and still have some savings.

Of course, this was the bottom-line approach. Li Long felt that the second brother wouldn't like farming here either.

The eldest brother didn't want to be a worker, the second brother didn't want to farm, he himself didn't want to be a worker, hehe, our family! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 414 =====