Chapter 43

Seeing Halimu laugh, Li Long was a bit confused.

"This jade, we knew it when we were very young," Halimu got up from the wooden platform bed, turned around by the stove for a while, and turned out a stone strip ten centimeters long and palm wide. He wiped the dust on it and handed it to Li Long:

"Look, Nasen picked it up from the river the summer before last."

Li Long heard Halimu's words, his heart was sweating, it was also true, made a fool of himself!

This was the place where they grazed for generations, how could they not know there was jade in this mountain? It was his own lack of knowledge.

He took the jade and looked at it carefully.

The winter nest window was small, the daylight wasn't bright, and there was no light during the day, so it wasn't very clear.

But even so, Li Long could see at a glance that this piece was clearly seed material, not the angular appearance of mountain material.

More importantly, looking from now, except for a little black stone skin, the other places were very beautiful green, not the green of later generations' jade glass, it was a bit deeper than that kind of green, and not ink green, like the feeling of deep dark lake water.

Li Long also saw the popular version of Ma River jade in the previous life, which usually had black spots like fly feces.

But this piece of jade was transparent, had no cracks, and no black spots, absolutely top quality.

He simply got off the kang, walked out of the house, and looked through the daylight outside. Sure enough, there were no black spots.

Although the value of this jade couldn't compare to Hetian jade, it was also top quality among jade.

Good stuff.

Halimu followed Li Long out, saw him looking carefully, and said with a smile:

"Like it? Give it to you."

"No no no, too precious," Li Long hurriedly handed the jade back to Halimu. "The value of this jade is relatively high."

"Friends, don't talk about this," Halimu stuffed this jade to Li Long again, and said solemnly, "Placed here with us, it has no use at all. I also once took it down the mountain to exchange for things, no one exchanged with me.

This jade, we can often pick it up in the mountains, in our eyes, it can't compare to the tea leaves, flour and salt you brought. If you are a friend, don't say any more!"

Li Long was very sure that if this jade was placed in later generations, it would be no problem to sell for tens of thousands. Although he was a layman, he still knew this point. Even now, if he ran into someone who knew the goods, it should be no problem to sell for tens or hundreds of yuan.

"Then I won't be polite," Li Long didn't say anything more, some words were not as good as doing practical things.

"That's right," Halimu said with a smile. "Wait a while, let's go to Yushanjiang's place to borrow a gun, and tomorrow morning we will have two guns, see how many wild boars we can fight down."

"Alright, by the way, I brought some bullets again," Li Long took out the bullets to show Halimu. "Wait until the next time I come over, I will bring some more."

"That's great," Halimu gave a thumbs up. "This can have more. The wolf injured last time, I'm worried it will come back to take revenge. The snow in the mountains is big, recently there are more and more wild beasts nearby. Red deer and roe deer have also appeared."

Roe deer, that is roe deer, because the appearance is similar to the mother deer, so people here call this roe deer.

These herbivorous animals increased, naturally attracting carnivorous animals. Wolves, snow leopards, and even brown bears would appear.

For herdsmen, this is a huge threat—because once these carnivorous wild beasts have food shortages, they will naturally attack the herdsmen's cattle and sheep.

Even in later generations, there were often cases of brown bears and black bears running into herdsmen's sheep pens to catch sheep.

Because Li Long came, lunch was flatbread, air-dried meat, and milk tea. Li Long also didn't be polite, after eating and drinking enough, he and Halimu rode horses to find another herdsman, Yushanjiang.

The horse Li Long pulled didn't have a saddle. In order to make it convenient for Li Long to ride, Halimu let his horse to Li Long, he rode the horse of the production team without a saddle, led the way and rode along the mountain ditch toward the other side.

That was, this horse was nailed with horseshoes, otherwise Li Long really wouldn't dare to walk like this.

The two rode and walked for more than an hour, crossed two mountains, and only then saw a winter nest on another mountain grassland.

The dog barking spread very far, Li Long saw on the horse that the sheep were not driven out.

Should be the snow was too thick, the sheep couldn't eat grass even if they went out, simply fed in the pen, wait until the snow melted.

When the two were about to arrive at the winter nest, a man about forty years old bent over and walked out of the winter nest.

Halimu got off the horse, went over to greet the other party, and then introduced Li Long. "How are you?" Li Long stretched out his hand to the other party.

Yushanjiang shook hands with Li Long, the corners of his mouth moved.

Li Long felt a bit strange, not that the other party was cold, but felt that the other party might have something on his mind.

"The tea leaves and salt I sent over last time were brought by Li Long."

He also said to Li Long:

"One of the deer antlers you took away the second time was from Yushanjiang brother here."

Li Long hurriedly thanked him.

"No need, no need, friends. You helped me a big favor, otherwise my family wouldn't be able to drink milk tea," Yushanjiang heard Halimu say Li Long brought tea leaves, and immediately opened his mouth.

"Enter the winter nest first," Yushanjiang led the two to tie the horses, and entered the winter nest first.

Yushanjiang's winter camp was bigger than Halimu's, but the furnishings inside were much the same. A girl and a boy in the house. The girl was sixteen or seventeen, round face; the boy was fourteen or fifteen, looked relatively like Yushanjiang, also round face.

!.

The two children looked at Li Long, all with curious eyes.

Li Long was annoyed again, how come he didn't carry candy with him.

Of course, children this big, don't know if they like to eat candy or not.

He thought for a while, took out bullets from his pocket, and gave the two children one or two each.

And then he looked at Halimu after the fact, and asked in a low voice:

"This... doesn't violate any taboos, right?"

Halimu said with a smile:

"They will be very happy."

Li Long had already seen the 56 semi-automatic rifle hanging on the wall.

This gun was older than Halimu's, the original grass-green gun strap had turned black, and the wood on the gun had also been polished shiny, all had patina.

Halimu and Yushanjiang talked for a while, Yushanjiang smiled.

He nodded, then bent over and turned around under the wooden kang, took out a jade stone the size of a volleyball, and handed it to Li Long:

"Give it to you!"

Li Long was a bit embarrassed, this was not to take, not to take.

This thing weighed more than ten kilograms, looking at it, it was clearly also seed material, thought that no one should take mountain material now.

And it was also a very beautiful feeling, absolutely good jade.

"Take it, friends, don't be polite!" Yushanjiang urged for a while.

Li Long took it over a bit embarrassedly. He even felt his intentions were impure, a bit sorry for these simple herdsmen.

He brought things into the mountains before, with a purpose.

And they, gave too much.

Even if they knew it was like this, they would still give.

Li Long felt that only by bringing more things they lacked into the mountains in the future could he repay these kind people.

Of course, the most important thing now was to look at the gun.

Looking at Yushanjiang taking the gun down, Li Long's eyes became eager.

(End of chapter)