Chapter 464: The real fritillaria season has arrived, it's time to exchange for money

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

At this moment, he couldn't laugh, and didn't want to laugh; he really missed his wife.

Startled by Li Long's slightly wild and unruly actions, Gu Xiaoxia was stunned for a moment before saying softly:

"I missed you."

"How much did you miss me?" Li Long asked subconsciously, and only then did he realize—this damn thing isn't a novel!

"Very, very much." Gu Xiaoxia could feel the longing Li Long had for her, both physically and mentally. She also hugged Li Long and said softly.

Li Long originally wanted to enjoy this moment of happiness, but the three little ones were oblivious and came over to nudge him and Gu Xiaoxia, which made him feel somewhat annoyed. After hugging for a while, he let go and said:

"I'm going to wash up. I brought back a lot of good things in the car today; I'll show you in a while."

Gu Xiaoxia smiled; this little guy really knew how to make trouble.

She chased the three little ones into the glass room, gave them water, and ignored their protests as she closed the door. Usually, Gu Xiaoxia would let the three little ones out to stay for a while longer, but today it was an early end to their outdoor time.

Li Long finished washing simply, used a razor to shave his beard, which had grown a bit long, and then started unloading things from the car.

The fritillaria needed to be put in the side room to dry. The previous batch was already dry, and after collecting it, there was a few kilograms. This batch was larger, and both rooms couldn't hold it all. Fortunately, there were plenty of rooms in the large courtyard, and most of them were cleaned up, so they could be dried on the floor; there was enough space.

After finishing these things, Li Long showed the lynx pelt to Gu Xiaoxia like he was presenting a treasure:

"This is a lynx pelt. One sold for eight hundred yuan last year, and the price will probably go up this year. I'll see if I can sell it for a thousand tomorrow! And these bones, look, I heard from people in the mountains that these bones soaked in wine can treat rheumatism and elderly people's waist and leg pain. We'll distribute some to each family later. I'll ask my eldest brother to get some loose wine back. Old Liang Uncle knows traditional Chinese medicine, so I'll ask him to see if he can get a recipe for the wine, and each family can soak some."

Li Qing Xia and Liang Donglou could be considered elderly. Although their bodies were still fine, they would probably be able to use this stuff soon. Although Gu Bo Yuan and Li Jianguo were still middle-aged, this stuff would become increasingly rare, and ordinary people wouldn't even be able to get it, so if they could get it, they should prepare it first.

"Is this the thing that scratched a big hole in your arm last year?" Gu Xiaoxia looked at the lynx's large claws that Li Long took out and asked with lingering fear, "It's so sharp, you must be careful!"

"Don't worry, I have a gun!" Li Long boasted. Now that he thought about it, he was quite a foolhardy person at the time; for the sake of the pelt's integrity, he hadn't shot it directly and had circled around for a long time.

It was also lucky; otherwise, if he had gotten another scratch, he definitely wouldn't have been able to hide it from his wife.

After putting things away, the two of them talked and talked until they were in bed. Li Long had eaten venison these past few days and tasted lynx meat, feeling full of energy. After tossing and turning for half the night, and after Gu Xiaoxia couldn't hold out several times, they ended the battle with lingering feelings.

Hmm, it felt good.

Continue in the future.

Early the next morning, Li Long got up to make breakfast. After Gu Xiaoxia got up to wash, Li Long felt that his wife had a sense of being plump and moist. He vaguely remembered a folk song that had the line, "The little sister is a tender cabbage, one pinch and water comes out." That was exactly how Gu Xiaoxia felt now.

"Xiaoxia, you're getting more and more beautiful." Li Long praised her sincerely.

Gu Xiaoxia smiled shyly. In fact, she could feel it herself when looking in the mirror; the change after this night was quite significant.

After the meal, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. After Li Long finished cleaning up and feeding the three little ones, he rode his bicycle, carrying the fritillaria and lynx pelt, to the purchasing station.

He had calculated the time; Chen Hongjun was on duty today. When he arrived at the purchasing station's courtyard, he saw the door was open, and Chen Hongjun was talking to someone inside:

"It's not that I'm offering a low price, the quality of your fritillaria itself isn't high. There are many impurities, they vary in size, and some even have mold spots. By rights, we wouldn't even accept this, and the fact that I'm accepting it is already good enough..."

"But these were all dug up with great difficulty..." The other party was obviously not interested in the price and reasons Chen Hongjun gave, just feeling the price was low.

Li Long propped up his bicycle, walked in with a bag of fritillaria in one hand and the pelt in the other, and stood to the side listening.

"... digging for fritillaria in the mountains is always like this, it's impossible for there to be no impurities, and it's impossible for every single one to be good. It's so damp there, it's normal for some to be moldy occasionally." The fritillaria seller gave this explanation.

Chen Hongjun looked at Li Long, and then at the bag he was carrying.

Li Long vaguely felt something was wrong. (End of chapter)