Chapter 462: Such good things cannot happen all the time

Two or three kilograms of raw beef can produce one kilogram of cooked beef. When Li Long drove the tractor to the county, there were twenty or thirty kilograms of cooked beef and offal in the tractor. If he really ate it alone, he couldn't finish it even if he ate it until he got sick.

Obviously, this extra part was prepared for Gu Xiaoxia.

Although the family didn't say it, this is how things were done. After all, the meat was obtained by Li Long. Although Li Long said that a cow leg was left in the county, now that Li Long had separated, it was appropriate to leave not only a cow leg but also half a cow.

Things were just like this, still a family, but in terms of affection, nothing would be done poorly.

When the tractor left, it also pulled two barrels of diesel. The large barrel of oil was placed in Li Jianguo's courtyard. Li Long drew two small barrels every time he came back. He planned to buy a large barrel of oil at the agricultural machinery station and put it in the big courtyard next time he came back and ran into Daqiang and the others, which was convenient to use. It was not easy to load or unload a 180-liter large barrel alone.

When eating meat at night, Li Jianguo also said that the melon seedlings had come out, and the growth was good. In a few days, when they grew three or five leaves, they could thin the seedlings according to what Li Long said. Many people in the village were waiting to see the joke. Li Jianguo was in high spirits, thinking about properly planting this economic crop.

As for winter wheat, corn, oil sunflower, and other crops, Li Long wasn't worried at all. The eldest brother and sister-in-law were really not bad at planting land. Now the land was their own, so they were even more attentive. He came back three or four times, and this was the only time he saw them in the courtyard, otherwise they were all in the field. They were very busy, and also very happy.

When the tractor drove back to the big courtyard with a toot-toot-toot sound, it was already dark. Saying it was wearing stars and moon was very vivid.

Gu Xiaoxia seemed to know he was coming back. The tractor had just reached the courtyard gate, and the big courtyard gate had already opened. She looked at Li Long who was driving the tractor with a smile, her eyes full of affection.

Li Long smiled, drove the tractor into the courtyard, and turned off the engine.

Gu Xiaoxia closed the big gate, buckled the door, and when she walked to the side of the tractor, she said:

"I knew you would definitely come back tonight."

"That's for sure, just ten or so kilometers of road, with a tractor, I must come back, just one foot on the accelerator." Li Long took down a large basin from the car bucket:

"Inside is the marinated meat cooked at home. Knowing you and I don't have time to do it, I cooked the meat to eat. Put some here, and I'll take some to the mountains to eat."

"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia saw Li Long carry the heavy basin into the kitchen, and she also carried the light one in.

Two basins of meat were placed on the cutting board. Li Long asked:

"Have you eaten?"

"Eaten, but looking at this meat still hot, I still want to eat some."

"Do you want to drink some?"

"Don't drink, we..." Gu Xiaoxia's meaning Li Long understood in seconds. Since they were preparing to conceive, don't do too many dangerous things.

Quite good, Li Long smiled.

Simply cut some meat, made a dipping sauce bowl, actually just chili oil with vinegar, and then pulled some small green onions and coriander seedlings from the vegetable garden outside and cut them into pieces and put them in, and it was done.

After eating, the two simply washed and went to the bedroom to chat.

"Did your Wang Bureau accept the meat?"

"Accepted, and also asked who I sent it to. I said I just sent it to her. I saw Wang Bureau quite happy, and also told me to pay attention to unity in the office, but not to be a good person, the same as what you said before." Once mentioning this, Gu Xiaoxia was quite excited. She turned her back to change her pajamas while continuing to tell Li Long:

"She also told me that I am now a backbone in the office. I am the main one for writing materials and going to the grassroots. Those big sisters have been here for a long time, but their work ability has slipped quite badly, and it will definitely be mainly me later. But they are old comrades, so I should respect them, but I can't be sloppy in work. I should distinguish responsibilities when I should. I can hear that Wang Bureau is pointing me out..."

"Hmm, it should have this meaning." Li Long also changed his clothes and sat on the edge of the bed watching Gu Xiaoxia tidy up. He was already a bit unable to control his horse-like heart. He pulled Gu Xiaoxia's arm and let her sit on the edge of the bed too. Gu Xiaoxia sat down with a blushing face, adapted to Li Long's restless hands and feet after a while, and then rolled onto the bed.

Youth is good.

Several tosses.

No words all night.

The next morning, Gu Xiaoxia made breakfast. It was very simple. Yesterday's offal was cut into a plate, an egg was stir-fried, porridge was cooked, and the steamed buns were reheated.

In this day and age, there are not many families who can eat meat every meal, and even eggs are not eaten every day in every family in the city. The two talked about the next plan while eating. It was mid-April now, and the mid-term exam would be in half a month. Gu Xiaoxia had to go to various schools to turn around. Li Long was waiting to receive the work of the supply and marketing cooperative at the end of the month, and then began to organize people to weave the carrying pole.

"Can't you weave it out first now?" Gu Xiaoxia put forward her idea.

"I see you have only left the team for a year, and this has deviated from common sense of life? The willow branches in the team can be woven, but how many are there? It's late in the mountains, and those branches still need a few days to grow well."

"Oh oh oh," Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "I really don't know much about those in the mountains."

After eating, Gu Xiaoxia was in a hurry to go to work and left in a hurry. When she left, she was hugged and kissed by Li Long. She was blushing, shy, and a bit embarrassed, but Li Long felt that he was going to the mountains and would be gone for several days, so he had to express it.

After tidying up the kitchen, leaving a small half of the meat, Li Long put the rest into a large basin and carried it to the tractor. After covering it, Li Long spread the fritillaria brought back yesterday in the side room to dry, and went to take sugar dregs to feed the small deer and roe deer. After giving water, he started the tractor and drove out.

After locking the big gate, he saw Officer Guo talking to his colleague at the door of the police station. Li Long greeted him on the tractor, and then drove to the department store.

Since rubber shoes were popular, Li Long had to prepare more.

Bought rubber shoes, replenished supplies like brick tea and rock sugar, and went to the market to buy several bags of rice and flour. This time he brought two bags of corn flour.

There were several people from the team selling fish in the market. Li Long greeted them, then left here, and drove to the mountains.

Green began to increase on both sides of the road. Maybe he didn't feel it usually, but now it felt as if overnight, the seedlings in the field became dense, the leaves of the forest were no longer tender yellow leaves, but became large thick leaves, and the small insects flying in the air also increased. Summer was coming soon.

When the tractor drove into the wood ditch and could see the wooden cabin, Li Long saw horses at the wooden cabin. Was someone there?

It wasn't Hearing Bolati's horse. Li Long immediately became vigilant. Who would this be?

Halimu and the others had already gone to the summer pasture. Those who came over at this time were mostly people he didn't know.

When the tractor reached the wooden cabin, the horse owner had already mounted the horse, looking a bit awkward when looking at Li Long.

"Who are you? Why did you come?" Li Long had a five-six semi-automatic rifle by his hand. The other party didn't carry a gun, only a horse whip, and had the feeling of a thief being caught.

"Me, from the forestry team, heard that you can buy wine here, so I wanted to come over and buy some..."

"Do you have money?" Li Long glanced and found that the door hadn't been pried, and his tone eased, "Buy how much?"

"Money, no. But I have fritillaria here. How much wine can you exchange for these fritillaria?"

Li Long took a look. The young man took a bag of fritillaria from the saddle. This bag of fritillaria had five or six kilograms. He didn't know whose harvest it was for a day or two, but it was collected by this young man.

"Can exchange for fifteen kilograms of loose wine, do you want to exchange? If you want to exchange, I'll give it to you now," Li Long said, "But you don't need to exchange so much, right? You can also exchange for some other things."

"What other things do you have here?" The young man dismounted and spoke more fluently.

Li Long also dismounted. He took out the key to open the lock, and then found that the nose of the door buckle had traces of being pried. He guessed that this young man should have not found anyone and thought about whether he could open the door.

This matter wasn't caught on the spot, so he didn't make a sound. After opening the door, he said:

"I have drinks here, have you heard of small champagne? Better to drink than wine, and brick tea, rock sugar, these are all things that can be brought home. Do you want sugar? Fruit sugar, sorghum candy all have, and old people eat chicken cakes..."

"I want to exchange some of all! That sugar, small champagne, do you still have meat in your car? Cooked?" The young man looked at Li Long's tractor and asked.

"Hmm, marinated beef and cow offal, do you want to eat? If you want to eat, I'll get you some."

"Eat, why not eat?" The young man immediately said, "Can I exchange for these things?"

"Can exchange."

Li Long found a bag, packed some of each, didn't take much wine, three kilograms of loose wine, the rest were other things, including a bag of flour.

The young man left satisfied. Li Long collected those fritillaria, first swept the wooden floor at the door clean, poured the fritillaria out, put them into a basin, washed them clean, and then spread them on the wooden floor to dry.

He planned to collect these fritillaria after they were dried, and then go to the ditch Sun Jia Qiang mentioned to see. He had said this for several days, and hadn't been there once.

Of course, when Hearing Bolati came over, he also planned to talk to him. This young man might have unclean hands, so he had to inquire about it, or Hearing Bolati would give a reminder. These were all small things. He received five or six kilograms of fritillaria as soon as he came back, which was a good thing after all. Li Long was also happy to wait for wealth to fall from the sky. Of course, the person who lost fritillaria would definitely be more sad and angry, but there was no way. The forestry team had the rules of the forestry team. Li Long couldn't control this. He actually counted as gray income now, no one cared. In a few years, it wouldn't be so easy.

Moving the cooked meat in the large basin in the tractor to the small room, it was cool in the mountains, and this meat could be kept for a few days, but not much. Li Long planned to exchange it if he could exchange it out in these few days. Anyway, he didn't lack meat. There was also some cooked meat he planned to dry in the sun when the sun was big at noon. Dried meat, although not as delicious as just cooked, was at least durable.

When these things were handled one by one, it actually took quite a lot of time. When the meat was dried, it was time for lunch.

As usual, boil water on the stove. He had porridge in the morning, so he wanted to eat some pasta at noon. He mixed some flour, picked some wild vegetables at the spring, stir-fried them with meat, and planned to make some pulled noodles to eat.

Although noodle soup didn't fill the stomach, there was ready-made food in the wooden cabin, so he didn't care about these.

After the noodle soup was cooked, he poured a bottle of tomato sauce inside, and the taste would be more sour. There was no green chili, so he could only use spicy skin, and the taste was second-rate. The noodles were pulled thin and tasted good, so they were delicious.

Just as Li Long was eating, a figure walked over from afar. Li Long recognized it, it was Wu Benzhong.

He was carrying deer antlers in his hand, looking listless. Li Long felt that he might have run into something.

"I'll sell this to you." Wu Benzhong saw Li Long looking at him while eating, licked his lips and said, "Exchange for money, you look at it and give it."

That pair of deer antlers was quite big, looking like it was dropped this year. Li Long estimated it roughly and said:

"Fifteen yuan."

!.

"Good." Wu Benzhong placed the deer antlers on the wooden cabin steps beside Li Long, waiting for Li Long to take out the money.

"No hurry, eat first, there is some in the pot over there, there is an enamel basin in the room, take it yourself."

"This..."

"Why be polite, anyway, I earned your money."

As soon as Li Long said this, Wu Benzhong didn't hesitate. Anyway, he was really hungry.

Scooping a full basin of noodle soup, Wu Benzhong squatted not far from Li Long and ate it with a slurping sound.

"My fritillaria was collected by the forestry team people," Wu Benzhong suddenly said, "I dug for more than a day, originally thinking about coming to you to exchange for money today, but..."

Li Long's heart moved, thinking that the fritillaria that young man collected wouldn't be Wu Benzhong's, right?

That would be really coincidental!

"Those forestry team people are too bad, they specifically stare at ditches with a lot of fritillaria, and they don't collect them as soon as they come up, specifically waiting until we dig almost enough fritillaria to collect..."

Wu Benzhong became more angry as he spoke.

"Alright, they collected your fritillaria and didn't catch you, which is not bad," Li Long comforted, "As long as the person is there, can't the fritillaria still be dug out?"

Wu Benzhong thought about it and felt better.

Li Long stood up with the bowl, put the bowl on the cutting board, and then went into the room. When he came out, there was an extra plate of sliced marinated offal in his hand.

"Come, eat some meat. Don't be angry. In the future, dig fritillaria in ditches where horses aren't easy to enter. Anyway, you don't have anything to do usually, just turn around more in the mountains. There are quite a lot of such ditches, and there should be quite a lot of fritillaria in the ditches. Horses can't enter, the ditch is small, so it's very difficult for the forestry team to find you. Try to come early and late to exchange things, so you won't run into people."

Who is it not exchanging for? Anyway, the price is almost the same. Li Long still hopes to be able to exchange for vagrants, at least they are really short of things, and they really put in labor.

Of course, collecting that young man's things, even if it was confirmed to be Wu Benzhong's, Li Long couldn't pay Wu Benzhong another sum of money or things. He had already paid the bill.

And Wu Benzhong and the others doing this in the mountains actually already had the psychological preparation to pay the price.

Wu Benzhong listened and nodded, and then his mind was attracted by those offal. He looked at Li Long and ate it in big mouthfuls. He didn't know that this was Li Long's secret compensation, just felt that deer antlers could sell for more than twenty yuan at the acquisition station, and now Li Long paid more than ten yuan, so he felt at ease eating this meat.

After eating, Wu Benzhong washed the enamel basin clean, put the chopsticks away, and specifically said to Li Long:

"The day after tomorrow, I will come over the day after tomorrow morning. I will definitely be able to get more than ten fritillaria. I want to exchange for money."

Li Long counted fifteen yuan and handed it to him:

"Okay, I believe you."

Wu Benzhong preciously put the fifteen yuan into the inner pocket of his clothes, and then strode towards the east.

Li Long could see that after eating a meal, he had confidence again.

This meal was also quite worth it.

When it was still dim the next day, Li Long climbed up, prepared the gun and bullets, and drank hot water.

Having a thermos, being able to drink hot water when getting up, is a very good thing in this era. He ate one of last night's cold steamed buns, with the cut marinated offal that already had solidified oil. After having food in his stomach, Li Long carried the gun and went out, heading towards the place Sun Jia Qiang mentioned.

Hunting deer is generally more cost-effective than hunting wild boars. At least if you hit a deer, there are more valuable things on its body, which can be exchanged for some funds. If you hit a wild boar, you can only eat it. Unless you get a group, it can be sold in the Shicheng market.

Various thoughts turned in Li Long's mind, his feet didn't stop, and he strode towards the ditch in the east.

The position Sun Jia Qiang gave was slightly vague. He had to come to Xiaobaiyang Ditch first, which was several kilometers away. Fortunately, he ate something early and wasn't hungry. Plus, he was tall and big, and his steps were big. In less than an hour, he arrived at Xiaobaiyang Ditch.

He didn't see Sun Jia Qiang. He didn't know if he changed places or went to dig fritillaria early. Li Long turned south and walked towards the position he pointed.

Coming here this time was not only to see if he could hunt deer, but he also wanted to see how the branches were growing here, and whether they were suitable for weaving the carrying pole. After all, this work of weaving the carrying pole requires a large number of branches. If the chosen place is wrong, it might not be woven well, affecting efficiency.

Li Long looked at the willow branches growing on both sides of this valley, they were growing quite well, even better than last year. If there were no other problems, he would choose here then.

Continuing to walk inside, when the sky in the east turned red, Li Long found the ditch Sun Jia Qiang mentioned.

When the sun hadn't risen in the morning, there was dew on the grass, and the chill was quite heavy. However, Li Long walked all the way here and already felt hot, with a bit of sweating.

He found a shallow position, crossed the stream, and came to the valley mouth of the mountain valley.

Trees didn't grow much on both sides of this fork valley. It should have been visited by cattle and sheep, so the grass at the valley mouth hadn't grown up, and there were more cattle and sheep hoof prints and dung eggs.

Li Long looked a bit disappointed. If it was like this, there might not necessarily be deer inside. It was different from what Sun Jia Qiang said. Was this passed by cattle and sheep in these few days? Was it passing through here when transferring the field?

He walked into the ditch. After walking in for only ten or so meters, he knew he had judged wrong before.

Cattle and sheep only passed through the valley mouth. Inside, it was still overgrown with weeds, there was no road at all, and there were quite a lot of shrubs.

Li Long had only walked to one-third of the place when he heard the deer's wailing—the sound was very messy and short.

Is there something big hunting red deer?

Last time he took advantage of the wolf attacking the roe deer, Li Long tasted the sweetness. This time, if he ran into a similar situation, he would definitely take advantage of it again.

So Li Long heard the sound and immediately ran up. The gun's safety was opened, the bullet was loaded, ensuring he could fire at any time.

However, he chased all the way to the valley mouth before he vaguely saw a big red deer rushing past, followed by a slightly smaller doe, and the direction they were chasing was still in front.

Dare they were chasing other wild beasts?

What's the situation? (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 463 =====