Chapter 421: Preparation before building a house, still have to buy a big item

After the fifteenth day, the New Year's flavor slowly dissipated. It had already spread in the village that land contracting would be carried out when the spring snow melted. The specific policy hadn't come out yet, but the Li family actually knew seven or eight out of ten because of Li Long.

The land in the village actually wasn't much (relative to later generations). There were more than two hundred people in the village, and five mu of ration land per person took away more than a thousand mu of land. There was still more than a thousand mu of land left that was planted by the whole village together last year. However, the team could also obviously feel that the enthusiasm of the villagers for planting their own land and planting the team's land was different.

Now there was a policy from above. Except for the ration land obtained by each household, the remaining land was all contracted out. In this way, the village was no longer responsible for planting land, and public labor only remained for clearing canals, planting trees, repairing roads, and other infrastructure, without needing to worry so much. The cadres in the team were also very happy.

After all, managing so many people to plant land and also managing their own land, they were also quite tired. Although there were invisible benefits, who didn't want to be more relaxed?

Li Long led Tao Daqiang, Yang Yongqiang, and Li Junshan to catch fish a few more times, and then didn't catch anymore, because the ice on the edge of the small Haizi was slowly melting, and catching fish couldn't be done even if they caught ice holes. So they only went to Shicheng to sell once. This time they didn't sell much money, because there were fewer rabbits. Later, Li Long simply collected the rabbit snares, planning to use them when it snowed in winter.

Chen Li Rong, Li Xueping, and Li Xue Qin ate fish beautifully for a few meals. Li Xue Qin was even pricked by a thorn. According to Li Anguo's saying, it was pressed down by eating steamed buns. Li Long was next door, and he used the four-grid drinking water method he learned from the internet in his previous life. He didn't know if it was considered incantation or other methods, but anyway, Li Xue Qin really didn't have the thorn later.

Then Chen Li Rong, Xueping, and Li Xue Qin's eyes when looking at Li Long were a bit strange.

Awe mixed with gratitude.

Li Long didn't care about this. He really needed to get the house building matter done quickly.

At the end of February, Li Juan and Li Jun had already started school, and the snow on the side of the road showed signs of melting. Li Long harnessed No. 76, preparing to take Tao Daqiang, Yang Yongqiang, and Li Junshan, as well as the Tao family's donkey cart, and rush to the mountains.

He needed to get some wind-fallen wood from the mountains to build the house.

It wasn't suitable for digging soil blocks yet, after all, the snow hadn't melted, but wood could be prepared in advance. Li Long didn't think about building a house that was too big or too good. After all, he needed to run back and forth between the county and the village, but the house had to exist. He didn't plan to have a city household registration, so the homestead in the village had to be preserved.

After Li Qing Xia and Chunfang arrived, Li Jianguo had already gone to find Xu Chengjun, hoping to move his parents' household registration to his own.

According to the regulations at this time, parents coming to rely on their children could move their household registration, and after moving, they could also be allocated land. At this time, land wasn't so valuable, and there weren't so many people in the village. Everyone basically held the attitude that more people meant more strength, allocating more land, and the harvest would be more, and the public grain that could be handed in by the village would also be more.

Later, the fish caught and rabbits caught by Li Long also sent some to Xu Chengjun's family. Since he was asking someone to do something, he had to have the attitude of asking someone to do something. Li Jianguo was concerned about face. As a veteran in the village, he could be considered a half-elder to Xu Chengjun. This kind of thing he couldn't do, so it was very normal for Li Long to do it.

For the two elderly people, Li Qing Xia and Du Chunfang, moving their household registration to this village, Xu Chengjun was in favor with both hands. Li Long could handle things and brought money-earning jobs to the village, and Li Jianguo could settle things. As a villager representative of the new village, some neighborhood conflicts didn't need to go to the village cadres; they were settled here with him.

So the matter of moving household registration, Xu Chengjun was very active.

But moving household registration at this time was still a troublesome matter. It needed to move the household registration from the hometown, needed to open an introduction letter, and needed to open a certificate.

There were still relatives in the hometown, just needing to contact by telegram, and this matter couldn't be rushed. On the contrary, Xu Chengjun gave a guarantee. Regardless of whether the household registration was moved or not when planting land in spring, he would make the decision to allocate the land for the two elderly people. When the land contracting and measuring were done, it would be handled together, not delaying the Li family's planting.

This attitude made the Li family very satisfied. Li Jianguo felt that this was mostly the result of Li Long bringing several big jobs to the team last year, and Li Long didn't deny it. Anyway, if there were jobs this year, he would definitely still lead the villagers to do them. As for whether to find villagers directly or find people through the team, it would depend on the specific situation.

"Long Ge, the snow in the mountains hasn't melted at all, it's much colder than in the team." Yang Yongqiang looked at the still thick snow on both sides of the mountain road and couldn't help but say.

They had a short stay in the county. Yang Yongqiang and the others went to buy some steamed buns, while Li Long went to the department store to buy some daily necessities. This was prepared to be brought to Halimu and the others.

When leaving, Li Anguo insisted on following. Chen Xingbang originally wanted to stay in the horse corral, but seeing everyone going, he also wanted to follow. Li Long didn't refuse either. More people meant more strength.

Li Long looked at the mountain road, which was wider than the original one. It should be that besides him, someone else had entered the mountains during this period, otherwise, this mountain road wouldn't have become so wide.

There was a small snow during the New Year. The traces originally stepped on the mountain road were covered by snow, but there were new marks on it.

More people meant more liveliness. Chatting and laughing, they entered the mountains, not feeling tired. Whoever was tired would get on the carriage for a ride, and if they felt cold, they would get off and walk for a while. After entering the mountains, there was wind, and they felt cold.

Before the New Year, Li Long didn't spend a short time in the mountains. He knew where there were many wind-fallen trees. Actually, according to the current management system, Li Long could completely go and cut some trees to use as materials. However, the trees brought back still needed to be air-dried for a period of time, so he thought about finding trees that fell last year. Those trees had already been air-dried, and because they had only fallen for a year, they wouldn't rot, which was just right for use.

But before that, he planned to go see Halimu first and bring the things over. As for Yushanjiang, he wouldn't go there. Put the things at Halimu's place, and let Halimu bring them over when the time comes. Of course, it was mainly because the winter nest where Yushanjiang was located wasn't suitable for the horse-drawn carriage to go over.

But Li Long didn't let the donkey cart come over. He let Tao Daqiang lead the donkey cart to another mountain gully. This road was easy to distinguish. At the end of that mountain gully, on the shady slope, there was a pine forest. Just because the mountain was relatively steep, if it rained, there was a possibility of a mudslide, thereby bringing down some pine trees. These pine trees had big and small ones, which were just right for building houses and making furniture.

Li Long himself led No. 76 and went to Halimu's winter nest.

The dog barking let Nasen come out. After seeing Li Long, he shouted immediately, and then Halimu came out of the room. What surprised Li Long a bit was that Yushanjiang also came out together.

After they came over, they helped Li Long push the horse-drawn carriage to the winter nest. Li Long began to take things down, asking while taking:

"Brother Yushanjiang, why did you come over?"

"I came over to discuss the matter of the children going to school, of course, and also the matter of your wooden house." Yushanjiang said with a smile.

"Just right, these things have a share for you." Li Long had divided them into two bags when packing, just right one bag for each family.

"Good." Yushanjiang wasn't polite either, while Halimu pulled Li Long and wanted to go into the room to drink milk tea.

Li Long hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"No, this time I came over with others, entering the mountains to get some wood to prepare for building a house in spring."

"Building a house? Are you planning to get married?" Halimu reacted relatively quickly.

"Yes, I plan to build the house, and after the furniture is made, I will get married."

When Li Long said this, he had a smile on his face, and Halimu and Yushanjiang also smiled. They were also happy for Li Long.

"Do you need our help?" Yushanjiang said, "You also know that we are also very good at getting wood."

Li Long of course knew. In later generations, he had seen it on short video platforms, and had also heard about it when traveling in Yili, saying that these people were preparing to build houses, and when they went into the mountains to get wood, it was at night, because there were forest rangers who wouldn't let them cut.

After they chose a tree, they cut the tree down in half the night, cut it into three or four-meter-long segments, and then cut a hole at one end that could tie a rope, threaded the rope in, and then rode a horse to drag the wood. In the snow, the wood was easy to drag, and they dragged the wood out of the mountain valley at a very high speed and returned home. When the forest rangers discovered it, the people had already whistled past, and they couldn't catch up even if they wanted to. Of course, it was also possible that they didn't chase at all.

"No need, no need, we have many people." Li Long said with a smile, "And there is a carriage, pulling wood twice is about enough."

Building a house needed purlins and rafters, big trees and small trees were all needed. Li Long planned to use the horse-drawn carriage to pull big wood, and the donkey cart to pull small wood. Tao Daqiang followed with the donkey cart, and the wood pulled was his. Tao Daqiang also thought about getting some wood back to make furniture. He also thought about adding one or two rooms to the side of his house, so it would be convenient to live in.

After all, he was about to have a son, so no matter what, he had to make the home more spacious. Yang Yongqiang wasn't in a hurry. He followed purely to help Li Long. Anyway, staying at home was just staying.

"Have you discussed how to let the children go to school?" Li Long asked when leaving.

"We have already asked over at the animal husbandry team. There are houses allocated to us there. Of course, we can also build houses ourselves. We plan to leave the elderly and children there directly, the children go to school, and the elderly take care of the children. We and Yang Ganzi will just go to the summer pasture."

"This is also quite good." Li Long said, "It seems the animal husbandry team also takes good care of you."

"We haven't gone to see it yet. Let's go see it after the snow melts. If the house doesn't work when we see it, then we will build a house before rushing to the summer pasture."

"That's fine, I'll go see it when the time comes. My relatives have people who know how to build houses, and we can help together." Li Long said, "More people mean more strength."

"Right, there is strength in numbers." Yushanjiang echoed, appearing to have thought it through; he would let the children go to school and see the world outside, rather than staying in the mountains forever.

Li Long pulled the horse-drawn carriage back to the mountain gully where he let Tao Daqiang and the others go. Although the terrain here was relatively flat, there was no road. The horse-drawn carriage and donkey cart pressing on it was a rut. Fortunately, the snow wasn't particularly deep. Li Long walked forward along the marks stepped on by the donkey cart and people. After walking in less than a kilometer, he saw Li Anguo and the others cutting trees there.

Several trees had already been dragged to the donkey cart. Everyone had tools, saws, and axes. Li Junshan, Tao Daqiang, and Yang Yongqiang were cutting the miscellaneous branches of the trees. Li Anguo and Chen Xingbang were sawing the two ends of the trees. The division of labor was clear. At this time, there were already two pieces of wood that weren't too thick on the donkey cart. It seemed the efficiency was very high.

Seeing Li Long pulling the horse-drawn carriage over, some people greeted and some continued to work. Li Long also tied the horse-drawn carriage to the side, took the axe from the carriage, and began to work.

The place Tao Daqiang and the others chose was good. The mountain was steeper here, and there were many pine trees washed down on the slope. Most of them fell to the foot of the mountain, lying horizontally and vertically, and some were still growing tenaciously. Li Long cut a tree that wasn't too thick and suitable for being a rafter, threw it on the donkey cart, and went to the bottom of the gully to drag a piece of wood over, continuing to cut.

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In this gully of several hundred meters, there must be more than ten wind-fallen trees. The thickest one was as thick as a water bucket. Such thick pine trees could be used as big beams. However, Li Long couldn't drag them, so he could only get some smaller ones.

Before coming, the axe had been sharpened and was very sharp. Li Long's strength was also great. That section of the small tree head felt like it was cut down in three or five axe blows, and the thick end was also cut off in only ten or so axe blows. As for the side branches, they were cut off with just one light axe blow.

Looking up at Yang Yongqiang and the others who were still working hard to cut over there, comparing the efficiency, Li Long still had a sense of achievement.

I don't know if this is a benefit of rebirth. Li Long always feels that his strength is greater than that of ordinary young people of this age.

Of course, there is also hearing, which should be better in other aspects. Li Long feels that this is also quite good, and he will continue to discover it in the future.

After working for two hours, Li Long looked at the time and felt it was about right. The wood on the donkey cart had already been piled up a lot, and it couldn't be piled up anymore. The horse-drawn carriage was still missing some, so he stopped his hand, went to pile the broken branches together, and went to the sunny slope to push away the snow and pull some dry grass.

There was still quite a lot of dry grass under the shrubs. The mountain gully wasn't a grassland and hadn't been mowed, so he just pulled a few handfuls and got a large armful of dry grass, piling it under those broken branches. Li Long took out a lighter and lit it.

There were a few small broken ice on the dry grass, and the fire started slowly at first, and there was smoke. Li Long didn't care when he saw the fire start. He went to get the steamed buns he bought, found some thin branches, pierced the steamed buns one by one, and inserted them into the snow beside the fire pile.

The fire slowly burned up. Li Long went to get a thicker branch, found two stones to set up on both sides, and put the branch on the stones, so that the steamed buns could be placed on the branch to roast.

It was just because he used the branch to pierce them, so he had to turn them diligently, otherwise, the branch would be scorched and broken, and the steamed buns would fall into the fire.

In a while, the scorched scent of the roasted steamed buns permeated. Li Anguo on that side shouted loudly:

"Xiao Long, how are the roasted steamed buns?"

"Wait a moment, the outside is about right, the inside is still a bit hard. You guys come over to warm up first, roast the fire and rest for a while."

"It's not cold, just a bit hungry." Chen Xingbang replied, "Finish these two pieces of wood and come over."

When Li Long roasted the steamed buns about right, Li Anguo, Chen Xingbang, and the others all came over.

Taking off their gloves, Chen Xingbang sighed:

"There is really a lot of wood in the mountains, and no one cares. In my hometown, how could there be any left?"

"It's different." Li Anguo also took off his gloves and said, "There are many people in the hometown, and everything is counted as less. There are few people here, and the place is big, so there is a lot of stuff. Can't use it all."

"Long Ge has the status of a forest ranger, otherwise there would be people checking." Tao Daqiang knew this, "Now the forestry team has been established, and this mountain forest is managed by someone."

"Also. Such a good forest, if no one managed it, maybe it would have been cut down long ago, right?" Chen Xingbang sighed, while also thinking about what kind of business he should do.

Wood definitely wouldn't work. Even if he borrowed Li Long's hand to get some wood, this wasn't the hometown, and it shouldn't be lacking. Transporting it back to the hometown had many procedures, was troublesome, and the freight wouldn't be small. Forget this.

It was the fritillaria that Li Long said many people dug in the summer, which could be considered. But there was still risk. After all, he wasn't a member of the forestry team.

Several people ate a steamed bun each, directly holding it with a branch, otherwise, it would burn their hands. As for thirst, just gnaw on a ball of snow. Anyway, no one felt the snow was dirty at this time, and no one disliked it.

Two carriages of wood were pulled from the mountains back to the team and temporarily placed at Li Jianguo's place. According to Li Long's calculation, these two carriages definitely weren't enough, at least two more times. Building a house would be enough for one more time, and there was one more time to make furniture.

Unlike two young people in later generations building a home together, in this era, when getting married in the countryside, basically the man prepared all the things. Moreover, Gu Xiaoxia was busy now and didn't have time to prepare these. Even the dowry was prepared by Gu Bo Yuan.

The transportation of the third batch of wood was barely completed, because the snow in the plains began to melt, and the road into the mountains also became muddy. If it weren't for many people, the horse-drawn carriage and donkey cart would almost not be able to come out.

This showed the shortcomings of animal-drawn vehicles. The road wasn't good, and the power of the livestock was limited after all, which was easily limited by terrain and weather.

If there was a tractor, there would be no such trouble. Regardless of wind or rain, as long as one wanted to run, the speed and power were just right.

Of course, winter was a bit difficult. If one wanted to start it, one had to roast the fuel tank first and add hot water, otherwise, it wouldn't start.

However, this problem could be completely ignored in the face of power—now the small four-wheel tractor had 12 horsepower. What is the probability? It topped the power of twelve No. 76s!

The wood that originally needed three trips could be pulled back in one carriage.

Of course, it had to be more expensive.

Li Long had inquired. Now a small four-wheel tractor, the 12-horsepower kind, cost 4,500 yuan for a new car.

It was cheaper than imagined. He calculated the money he saved, excluding the one for building the house, and he could really afford it!

Then buy it!

Li Long told his family about this, and whether it was the couple Li Qing Xia, or the two brothers and one brother-in-law, they were all very surprised.

Is this not living anymore? Or is it broken by burning? (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 422 =====