Chapter 476: Encountered a ruthless person, is it true or false?

Although the run back was very tiring, after wiping with hot water, Li Long was still eager to move, but Gu Xiaoxia didn't give him this chance, hurriedly went to the kitchen to cook for him.

After Li Long changed his clothes and came out, in a short while, Gu Xiaoxia brought a bowl of noodles over.

"I didn't eat much at night either, there are some hanging noodles, I beat an egg, and the vegetables in our courtyard, you make do with it."

"Good." Li Long smiled and took the bowl, eating with a slurping sound.

"There's more in the pot after eating." Gu Xiaoxia saw Li Long eating in a hurry, so she said, "Slow down."

Li Long smiled and continued to lower his head and eat in big mouthfuls.

To tell the truth, the taste was average, but on such a rainy day, the body hadn't completely warmed up yet, having such a bowl of hot soup noodles, it was really comfortable to the extreme.

After two bowls of noodles, Li Long felt full. Gu Xiaoxia went to clean up the bowls and chopsticks, while Li Long went out to take down the fritillaria pulled on the tractor, poured them into the side room on the east, and spread them out to dry.

The quantity of fritillaria was very large. Li Long also spread them in three rooms before drying them. Originally, there were a lot of junk stored in Old Ma's side room. Li Long arranged some into one room, and some were simply thrown away. If those things were the original owner, they might be kept because there was some commemorative significance in them, but for Li Long, those were old objects, and keeping them just took up space.

Better to empty them out.

After drying the fritillaria, Li Long went to take down the sponge on the tractor seat and took it into the house. It would be dry after wiping, so he wouldn't have to sit on a butt full of water when driving later. And the four metal pieces and the copper mirror exchanged from that person's hands, he put them into the dark box under the bed in the guest room. Put them there first.

Not long after entering the house, Gu Xiaoxia also came in, so Li Long asked:

"Do you have work at night?"

"No." Gu Xiaoxia shook her head and said, "If you hadn't returned, I would have prepared to sleep."

"Then sleep." Li Long went to the bedroom anxiously and began to take off his clothes.

Gu Xiaoxia pursed her lips and entered the bedroom. On the bed, Li Long hadn't acted yet, so Gu Xiaoxia began to ask him about the situation in the mountains.

Li Long patiently told everything about weaving carrying poles, collecting fritillaria, and going to see Halimu's family, including being stolen yesterday and many people coming to sell fritillaria in the heavy rain today.

Gu Xiaoxia listened and asked, leading Li Long's attention to one side, talking and talking, both of them were sleepy. After all, they hadn't had such communication for a period of time, and they wanted to know something about each other's lives. They talked for a long time, and then fell asleep.

Sleeping together, Li Long was slightly uncomfortable at first. After all, most of the time he was sleeping alone, and that wooden kang was very big, much more spacious than here.

Just holding Gu Xiaoxia, he felt much more at ease in his heart, so he slowly closed his eyes.

When the sky was about to dawn, Gu Xiaoxia woke up first. She was woken up by Li Long. When she moved, Li Long also woke up. Later, when Gu Xiaoxia wanted to get up, she was pulled back to the bed by Li Long, and then he succeeded.

Because Gu Xiaoxia had to go to work, and Li Long had to return to the mountains, the two simply got up after the event. Gu Xiaoxia went to cook, while Li Long went to feed the little guys.

The two little deer and one little roe deer ate a lot every day now, and felt that their body shapes were changing day by day. Seeing Li Long, they weren't afraid either, but it was still drizzling outside, so Li Long didn't let them out, just cleaned the glass shed, and then locked the door and came out.

The rain slowly stopped, the ground was still very wet, the humidity in the air was also very large, and there was a thick chill.

Gu Xiaoxia was starting a fire in the kitchen, and smoke could be seen rising over there, which was quite good-looking.

Before the meal was ready, Li Long simply found a fire hook and began to clean the mud on the tractor.

There was too much mud on the tractor, he could only clean up around the wheels, and then planned to return to the wooden cabin, use the spring water to wash it, wash it clean and then it would be good. Anyway, his time was plenty.

After breakfast, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, and Li Long went to the department store. He needed to buy some supplies again to supplement the wooden cabin. The "enthusiasm" of that wave of people yesterday really scared him.

There are still more than twenty days left in the fritillaria season. Before the fritillaria blooms, with so many drifters, fritillaria will be dug out continuously. Li Long must put enough things in the wooden cabin and hold enough money, otherwise, if people send fritillaria to the door and you have no money to collect and no things to exchange, wouldn't that be blind?

In the cloudy and rainy days, there were few customers in the department store. Li Long didn't need to queue and quickly bought the things he wanted.

What surprised him a bit was that many things didn't need tickets now, just give money.

He often bought things and could feel that some things began to rise in price.

Prices were slowly rising, but the shelves in the department store were also becoming richer. The most obvious manifestation was that there were more colors of candies, more patterns of fabrics, more varieties of children's toys, and more snacks.

However, these were mostly not Li Long's choices. He mainly wanted to buy salt, sugar, matches, and other daily necessities, as well as rubber shoes, labor protection gloves, work clothes, and other things.

After buying, he packed them in bags, put them into the tractor's carriage, and covered them with bags. Li Long went to the market again.

There was still some food in the wooden cabin, but he believed that in the next few days, the drifters would increase the intensity of digging fritillaria. If they exert more effort, the consumption will naturally be more. To compensate, a large amount of food is needed.

There were also fewer people in the market. The weather was wet and cold, the stall owners couldn't stand it, and there were few people buying things. Sister Yang was still there, seeing that the pot of breakfast porridge hadn't been sold out yet.

After greeting her, Li Long bought food and loaded it into the car, then hurried away.

He first went to the oil depot to buy two barrels of oil. That kind of twenty-five-liter oil barrel could be used for a while. After the carrying poles were woven, he planned to buy a large barrel of diesel oil in the county courtyard and put it there.

After adding oil, Li Long went to the medicine company, bought some finished medicines, and drove the tractor chugging towards the mountains.

When arriving at Qingshuihe, the weather became cloudy again. Before entering the mountains, rain started to drift in the air. The dry clothes changed today were soaked again. Li Long wiped his face, feeling that there were many things on his hands, looked, a hand full of mud spots. Don't know when his face was already covered with mud when the tractor was speeding.

Doesn't matter, after arriving at the wooden cabin, he could wash well.

The sound of the engine broke the tranquility in the mountains. The drifters in the nearby dugouts heard the sound and knew that Li Long had brought things again. They would become more at ease—with such a "sales department" existing, at least they didn't worry about starving.

When Li Long drove the tractor back near the wooden cabin, the tractor became a mud truck again. From the mountain pass to the wooden cabin here, the thin grass was pressed with deep marks.

However, Li Long didn't care. Anyway, these places would soon grow grass. After this rain, the grassland in the mountains would become vibrant again, and the grass would grow very fast, covering everything.

Li Long stopped the tractor beside the wooden cabin, turned off the engine and got off, preparing to move things, when he suddenly saw a person standing in the shed beside the wooden cabin, looking at him.

Li Long was startled, reached out with his right hand, took the rifle on his back into his hand and aimed at the other party:

"What are you doing? Don't move!"

"No, no... don't move, don't move!" The person who came was also startled, didn't expect Li Long to draw a gun without saying a word.

This person was wearing a blue cloth Zhongshan suit, hair and beard were slightly messy, but didn't look like someone who had been in the mountains for a long time, only less than thirty years old, with a bookish air—somewhat similar to Gu Bo Yuan.

"What are you doing?" Li Long asked again, "Why run here?"

This person wasn't a drifter, there was no bag by his hand, shoes, although worn-out, but the mud on the shoes at this time was pried clean.

Although the Zhongshan suit was worn out and broken in several places, the wind-proof button was buttoned very tightly.

Li Long narrowed his eyes slightly. He sized him up, determined that this person wasn't carrying weapons or such things, his vigilance relaxed slightly, waiting for the other party's answer.

"I... got lost, originally wanted to get some herbs in the mountains." This person smiled bitterly, "As a result, I ran here. Seeing your wooden cabin, I thought about asking for a sip of hot water, didn't expect your door wasn't open, so I thought about waiting. Your shed is actually quite good, can block wind and rain, thanks!"

The person was quite polite, but knowing people and knowing faces doesn't mean knowing hearts. Li Long wasn't very relieved either, he carried the rifle and said:

"Wait."

Li Long first opened the big room, put fire on the stove, boiled water, and then came out to open the small room, put the things on the tractor in, and placed them on the shelf one by one.

Thinking about it, Li Long took a bag of sesame cakes out and threw them to the other party at the shed:

"Eat, hot food will take a while, pad your stomach first."

People are actually so strange. For the person who pried his door lock earlier, Li Long was so angry that he beat him into a pig's head, but for this person who would rather wait for him to return than pry the door, he showed kindness again.

"Thanks, thank you very much." That person took the sesame cake, thanked Li Long first, then untied the bag, took out a piece, and ate it slowly. After observing for a few seconds, Li Long felt that this definitely wasn't an ordinary person.

Usually, when people are extremely hungry, they wouldn't care about so much when they get food, and would directly wolf it down. This person, even though he was starving, still ate carefully, on one hand, not wasting food for fear of dropping crumbs, and on the other hand, possibly because the sesame cake was too dry, eating too fast would choke.

Even in a state of extreme hunger, he maintained a certain "demeanor". This person's family upbringing should be quite strict or quite good.

As for whether he is a good person, it's hard to say. After all, it's not easy to judge at the moment.

Li Long returned to the wooden cabin. The water was already hot but hadn't boiled yet. There was still some cold boiled water in the thermos. Li Long thought about it, but decided to wait until the water boiled before giving the other party water.

As for inviting the other party in here to warm up, he didn't intend to do so. Knowing people and knowing faces doesn't mean knowing hearts, who knows if the other party would be that wanted criminal?

The water boiled, the cold and dampness in the room dissipated. Li Long found an enamel bowl, poured half a bowl of boiling water, and added half a bowl of cold boiled water, carried it out to the shed next door.

"Here, drink, just boiled, added cold boiled water."

"Thanks, thank you very much!" That person was sitting and eating sesame cake slowly. Seeing Li Long carrying water over, he hurriedly stood up, arched his hands, clamped the sesame cake bag under his elbow, and took the enamel bowl with both hands.

Li Long didn't speak again, turned and returned to the wooden cabin. Although he was curious about this person's encounter, he still hoped he would leave as soon as possible. Li Long vaguely felt that dealing with this person would trigger uncontrollable consequences.

The mist slowly dissipated, the clouds in the sky were no longer pitch black, they began to thin out, began to have gaps, and began to have blue showing through.

!.

The rainy day was passing.

After that person finished drinking water, he carried the bag, put the enamel bowl at the door of the wooden cabin, then bowed slightly to Li Long, and said with a smile:

"This comrade, thank you very much, you let me eat my fill, and gave me hot water. I don't have any money on me, these few ancient coins were picked up in the mountains, still quite rare, if the situation gets better in two years, it should be able to exchange for some money, please accept it. I'm leaving."

Saying that, he put the copper coins on the threshold, raised the sesame cake bag that still had more than half left, carried it, turned and walked into the mountains.

Li Long walked to the door, watching this person walk west.

Li Long guessed he should want to cross the Mahe River here, to the west Shicheng, or further away.

"If you want to cross the river, it's best to wait another day or two, it's best to walk further upstream. It rained for two days, there is a flood in the river, the water is big in this section, can't cross."

Li Long shouted at that person's figure.

That person had already walked out forty or fifty meters, his figure paused, turned and bowed deeply to Li Long, and walked southwest again.

Watching the figure disappear, Li Long bent down to pick up the enamel bowl, including those four ancient coins.

Not the common Qianlong Kangxi, two were round with square holes, two were solid round, one of which had "Da Qing Tong Bi" in traditional characters in the middle, below was "Dang Zhi Qian Er Shi Wen", above was Manchu, and there were the two characters Jia Chen. The other one was about the same, just Jia Chen changed to Yi You.

The other two open-hole copper coins were Xianfeng Yuanbao Dang Qian and Shunzhi Tongbao.

Li Long didn't understand copper coins. Even in his previous life, he didn't have much contact with this stuff, including the large amount of one-cent, two-cent, five-cent coins in the sales department now, he didn't understand which were valuable, and didn't think about collecting them. After all, there were too many on the market.

However, since people said these few were valuable, then collect them.

The things exchanged from that person's hands earlier had already been put back in the county, and these few copper coins were first placed in the wooden house; anyway, they didn't attract attention. In this day and age, it's still very easy to find a few old coins, so even if someone saw them, they probably wouldn't covet them.

Seeing the time was almost noon, Li Long began to cook for himself. When he went to the market, he saw chives for sale, so he bought a bunch, just right to stir-fry a chive egg, and then steam some rice. It's okay for one person to make do occasionally, but can't make do every meal.

By the time Li Long finished the meal, the clouds in the sky had dissipated a lot, and the sunlight shone down from the gaps in the clouds, forming a Dali Garden or Tyndall effect, which was quite good-looking.

Li Long sat on the threshold, holding an enamel basin and eating rice in big mouthfuls, and the chive stir-fried eggs covered on it.

Young man, work hard, cook a good meal for you at noon, rice dry rice stir-fried eggs, plus a bowl of...

Heh.

The fragrance of rice at this time, the dishes are also fragrant, Li Long always feels that people's appetite at this time is far beyond later generations. Of course, some people say that later generations have rich nutrition and oil, so they can't eat that much.

Li Long feels not necessarily, the rice now feels better than the later ones, including other ingredients.

Of course, the decline in people's appetite after the mask is another matter.

After eating and drinking, no one disturbed, Li Long prepared to have a good sleep, and go somewhere to turn around before the sun rises tomorrow morning.

In the middle of the night, Li Long was woken up by a knock on the door.

"Who?" He grabbed the rifle and asked.

"Comrade, trouble... save a life."

Outside the door was a weak voice. Li Long distinguished it, remembered it was the man in the Zhongshan suit during the day.

"What's wrong with you?" Li Long climbed up, put on clothes, lit the oil lamp, and asked across the door.

"Bitten by a wolf..." That person's voice sounded okay, "Injured, trouble helping... help..."

Li Long wasn't very relieved, opened the safety of the rifle, loaded the bullet, and used a bayonet to pick open the door buckle.

The door opened a crack, the other party didn't push the door, Li Long used the bayonet to push the door open, and saw the situation outside.

Under the threshold, that person was sitting on the wooden floor, seeing Li Long, smiled bitterly, there were many wounds on his face and body, and his clothes were also broken in several places.

What surprised Li Long even more was that there was a wolf beside him, that wolf was already dead, Li Long guessed it should have been dragged over by this person, and there were also a lot of blood stains on the wolf.

Seeing Li Long, that person smiled reluctantly:

"This wolf... just treat it as medical expenses, trouble helping me bandage, I might faint."

After finishing, his head tilted, and he fell down.

Li Long cursed: Really damn able to cause trouble, and really able to predict!

Won't there be fraud?

However, this person is really ruthless! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 477 =====

Below the threshold, that person sat on the wooden floor, saw Li Long, and gave a bitter smile; there were many wounds on his face and body, and his clothes were also torn in several places.

What surprised Li Long even more was that there was actually a wolf beside him; the wolf was already dead, and Li Long guessed it must have been dragged over by this person, as there were also quite a few bloodstains on the wolf's body.

Seeing Li Long, that person managed a weak smile:

"This wolf... just take it as medical expenses. Please help me bandage up; I might pass out."

After speaking, his head tilted, and he collapsed.

Li Long cursed: What a damn troublemaker, and what a prophet too!

There wouldn't be a trap, would there?

But this guy is truly ruthless! (End of chapter)