Chapter 519: The debt of human favor that cannot be repaid: who owes whom is already unimportant

At the dinner table, Halimu said while eating noodles:

"The grass in the summer pasture is quite good this year. The grass grows well, our cattle and sheep eat well, and there are actually many wild guys, deer, roe deer are not few, and you can also see herds of wild goats. These things attracted wolves, foxes... anyway, at night, the movement is quite big."

Li Long listened and felt quite yearning. He had always had things to do, otherwise, he should really follow to see the summer pasture.

"Everyone has a radio this year. When there is nothing to do, riding a horse following the sheep flock, carrying a radio is also quite comfortable. I want to bring some batteries back this time. Actually, everyone has batteries, it's just afraid that it won't be enough after using them."

Li Long remembered the portable radio rewarded by the county, so he said:

"I also want to tell you one thing."

He told Halimu about repairing the house and appearing in the Autonomous Region Daily, and then being commended and rewarded because of this.

"This radio, I will buy another one. When you go back later, put one in your home, let your mother listen to it, and put the other one in Yushanjiang's home."

Halimu nodded. Just now when he arrived at Li Long's home, he saw the TV antenna, and Li Long also told him that he had a TV and radio at home. Since Li Long didn't lack them, it was also okay to put them in his courtyard.

"Because of you, I was commended, and also went to the Autonomous Region to attend the meeting," Li Long said with a smile, "So, the honor belongs to me, the reward belongs to you, let's just split it half and half."

Halimu laughed after hearing it.

Li Long asked about the terrain and climate of the summer pasture again. Halimu told Li Long that the summer pasture was at a high altitude, but such a large piece of land was actually quite flat, similar to mountain grassland, where there were rivers, pine trees, and hot springs, and further away there were glaciers that hadn't melted all year round.

Li Long listened and sighed secretly. This place could be considered the place dreamed of by those hiking travelers in later generations, right?

After eating, Li Long drove the tractor and took Halimu to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative again.

He remembered that Section Chief Li Xiangqian also had rifle bullets, so he let Halimu wait on the tractor and went to the office himself.

"Your herdsman friend wants bullets to hit wolves? That's no problem." Li Xiangqian took a piece of draft paper, tore it, wrote a note, signed his name, and handed it to Li Long:

"Take it to the Security Section and draw two hundred bullets. Two hundred bullets are enough, right?"

"Enough, enough." Li Long was overjoyed, "Section chief, if I knew it was so convenient to get bullets, I should have looked for you long ago."

"Isn't it because you don't understand our Supply and Marketing Cooperative?" Li Xiangqian scolded with a smile, "It's a pity you are still a person in the cooperative. Don't you know that our predecessor was the grain requisition team? That was taking guns out to requisition grain..."

"Isn't that robbing grain?" Li Long deliberately argued with him.

"Bullshit! What robbing grain? There were bandits at that time! Requisitioning grain was naturally buying grain. When buying grain and pulling it back, if you don't carry guns, someone will rob it, understand? You stinky brat!"

Li Long joked happily, took the note, and went to the Security Section.

Security Section Chief Hou was a middle-aged man who didn't smile. He looked at the note and then at Li Long, saying slowly:

"Little Li, right? Two hundred bullets exceeded the limit that your Section Chief Li can control. You take the note and find Wei Zhuren to sign it—it's not that I'm making things difficult for you, your Section Chief Li doesn't know the new regulations, our section can only sign and approve one hundred bullets now..."

"Okay." Li Long took back the note and went to find Wei Zhuren to sign.

Wei Zhuren was in a good mood. Knowing that it was to get bullets for the herdsman brothers in the mountain, he signed it happily and asked Li Long if it was enough.

Li Long naturally said it was enough, and then took the note to find Section Chief Hou.

Section Chief Hou had already prepared the bullets for Li Long and also took a half-new, half-old crossbody bag to pack them:

"The crossbody bag is for you. Go back and tell your Section Chief Li, don't just blow cowhide and talk about gossip there, have time to learn the new documents issued above."

Li Long nodded and agreed, carrying a crossbody bag of bullets to the Procurement Section, and brought the words to Li Xiangqian.

"There is still this regulation?" Li Xiangqian was also very surprised, "Then I really have to look at it. Old Hou also gave you a crossbody bag? Not bad, quite meaningful. Alright, you go do your things, I'll flip through the documents, so as not to let him laugh at me when I meet him..."

Li Long blindly guessed that this Section Chief Hou and Li Xiangqian should have a good relationship, it's just that Section Chief Hou was not good at joking, spoke little, and had a different personality from Section Chief Li.

He carried a crossbody bag of bullets out, went to the tractor, and gave the crossbody bag to Halimu.

"So many?" Halimu carried the bullets and was a bit surprised, "Did you get it from here or buy it? How much money?"

"No money. The one I told you just now, I got a reward, and our unit also has a reward. Now the leaders are quite supportive of the things between me and you. These bullets can be considered supporting the brothers in the pastoral area." Li Long started the tractor, sat on it, and said:

"This is also what you deserve, don't think so much."

Halimu smiled. He didn't think this was what he deserved. Anyway, Li Long brother helped him find so many bullets, at least for those dozen or so felt tents in the summer pasture, everyone's bullets were enough for this summer.

After all, they were not hunters, they only needed to kill or drive away wild wolves and other wild beasts that had bad intentions.

More than enough.

Li Long drove the tractor to the department store again. He asked Halimu if he needed to buy anything. Halimu shook his head. Li Long then turned off the engine and got off the car, first went to buy a portable radio, five big boxes of batteries, and also bought some salt, rock sugar, and brick tea. It didn't matter if there were more necessities, it would be quite troublesome if there were fewer.

After buying these things, Li Long drove the tractor to the medicinal materials company again and bought some common medicines.

Li Long had bought these things before when Halimu and the others left, but almost two months had passed, Li Long estimated that most of them should have been used up and needed some replenishment.

After putting the medicinal materials in the car, Halimu felt that Li Long should return to the big courtyard this time, but he guessed wrong again.

Li Long drove the tractor to the county food company meat shop. The meat shops in the county were divided into two groups, one selling big meat, and one selling beef and mutton. The big meat shop sold meat relatively fast, while beef and mutton sold slightly slower, and there were fewer things.

"Three sheep." Li Long got off the tractor, went in, and said directly to the clerk.

The clerk was a Uyghur. After seeing Li Long, he didn't speak, but after hearing Li Long's words, he was stunned for a moment and asked:

"How many do you want?"

"Three." Li Long repeated, "Kelangzi sheep, three, are there any?"

"Yes, but is your money enough? Are the tickets enough?"

Li Long took out a stack of big unity and put it on the counter, and also took out a stack of meat tickets. He had many meat tickets and hadn't used them much. The meat eaten at home was basically brought from the mountain, which didn't need tickets or money.

Today is different.

The clerk looked at the money and tickets, estimated that it was enough, and immediately turned around to take the sheep from the iron hook. He had a platform scale and a platform scale here. At this time, he needed to use the platform scale. Three Kelangzi sheep were weighed on the platform scale. Li Long watched the clerk slowly add the scale code, and finally calculated, sixty-eight kilograms.

The small blackboard wrote that mutton was one yuan one mao five per kilogram, which was cheaper than the market, but needed tickets. Li Long counted money and tickets on this side, and the clerk put the mutton on the counter on that side. He saw that Li Long didn't take anything, so he gave a bag to pack it.

Being able to buy three sheep, giving a bag didn't count for anything.

Seventy-eight yuan two mao money, Li Long counted eighty and handed it over, the clerk gave back one yuan eight mao, which was still stained with mutton smell.

Li Long didn't dislike it either, put this together with other money and packed it in his pocket. The clerk also asked:

"Do you want to pick it?"

"No need." Li Long waved his hand, "I'll take it away directly."

Three sheep were packed in two bags. At this time, the bags were usually relatively large, one bag packed two sheep and one bag packed one sheep.

Seeing Li Long carrying the sheep out directly, Halimu was not sure if the sheep were bought for him, so he didn't stop him earlier.

"These two sheep will be taken back by you later, put one in your mother's place, the elderly and children need to supplement their bodies more. Put one in Yushanjiang's home, the same reason."

"No, no, no, Li Long, the family doesn't lack meat..." Halimu felt that the matter was a bit big this time. "Listen to me." Li Long was relatively persistent this time, "Other things are brought to the mountain by you. You can eat meat there, but the family is different. If there is less meat, the elderly are reluctant to eat, which is not good for their health."

Halimu didn't speak. He knew that what Li Long said was the truth. The family indeed had meat, and that meat was still brought over by Li Long last time. The old lady made it into air-dried meat, eating a little every few days. When he went back yesterday, his mother said that when Li Long came over to repair the courtyard, he slaughtered a sheep, and they ate hand-grabbed meat that day, and Nasen and Sasken ate it very happily.

Although the old lady just expressed that the children were particularly happy that day, Halimu actually knew that part of the reason why the elderly and children were happy was indeed that they had eaten meat.

Big pieces of meat.

He didn't speak again.

"That sheep is mine, look, it's very fair, the three of us families, one sheep per family." Li Long pointed to that separate bag and said with a smile.

"Good." Halimu answered with one word briefly.

The tractor drove back to the big courtyard. Li Long and Halimu put the things on the horse's back together.

"If you can't put it down, I will drive the tractor to send the things to you." Li Long looked at Halimu putting things on the horse's back, a bit worried that it couldn't be put down.

"No need. Can put it down." In this regard, Halimu was an expert. He first put the bag containing two sheep behind the saddle and tied it, and other things were put in the clip bags on both sides of the saddle. The radio was considered a relatively valuable thing, and he finally held the box and prepared to put it in front of the saddle after mounting the horse.

Watching Halimu put things together one by one, Li Long was also quite impressed. This thing was not something anyone could handle. But thinking about their two transfers every year, having to take so many things away one by one on the horse, without this skill, it really wouldn't work.

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After Halimu put the things away, he said goodbye to Li Long and left the big courtyard riding a horse.

Returning to the livestock team's guard point was more than an hour later. Halimu first went to Yushanjiang's home to put down the sheep, saying clearly that it was brought by Li Long. Yushanjiang's wife couldn't refuse and accepted it silently.

The woman took a knife and started to pack the mutton—in this hot summer, if you want to keep the mutton, you can only air-dry it.

As for the radio, she had used it before Yushanjiang transferred the field, knew how to use it, so she was actually quite happy when seeing the radio. When unloading the sheep, she turned on the radio and listened to the programs inside, feeling very good.

Halimu returned to his own courtyard, unloaded the things on the horse's back, led the horse to tie it aside, got some forage for it to eat, and then started to deal with the mutton.

The radio was handed over to the old lady to let her fiddle with it.

After the old lady knew that the sheep and radio were both given by Li Long, she said that Halimu should remember to give Li Long a few more sheep after the sheep transferred back. Kazakh people have no beggars and will help each other. They received Li Long's help and should return it when they have the ability.

As for the skins and deer antlers Halimu brought to Li Long, in their view, it didn't count for anything, and the use was far less than sheep and radio.

This is the difference in values.

Halimu unloaded the sheep silently. He picked off some bones and set up a pot in the courtyard to boil them, and then made the rest into air-dried meat.

Nasen and Sasken ran back from school. Halimu said yesterday that he wouldn't leave today, and they were very happy. Running back today was because they were worried that their father had left.

Smelling the meat smell in the pot, both children shouted in surprise. Halimu looked at the happy appearance of the two children, and he also smiled.

Early the next morning, after Halimu sent Nasen and Sasken to school, he rode a horse and brought things to the mountain.

Three days later, he arrived at his family's felt tent in the summer pasture. His wife was not there, riding a horse to herd sheep. After he put some things into the felt tent, he rode a horse to find Yushanjiang.

Yushanjiang's felt tent was not far from Halimu's. At this time, Yushanjiang was also not in the felt tent, herding sheep on the grassland.

Halimu told Yushanjiang about the matter, especially the courtyard and water situation of the two families, as well as the children's school bags and sheep.

Yushanjiang pulled a blade of grass, thought for a while, and said:

"Li Long, true Dosen. Actually, this matter is also easy to handle. He takes care of our family and sent so many things, we can also send things to him."

"Isn't there a group of wolves that are very annoying these days? They often come over at night wanting to steal sheep. You brought the bullets back, we can hit that group of wolves in these two days."

"Later, when we encounter those leopards and the like, we can hit them down. When we transfer back, all those skins will be sent to him."

Halimu nodded, this is indeed a good way. Now there are so many bullets in hand, everyone divides them, and everyone can get dozens of them. With these bullets, you can hit many things.

After Halimu left, Li Long started to unload that sheep in the courtyard. Actually, if you really want to say it, the taste of domestic sheep meat is definitely better than wild mountain sheep meat.

Li Long eats wild game, one is to have an extra way to eat meat, meat that doesn't need money, who doesn't want to eat? Second, of course, it is to taste the taste of wild beasts.

This sheep is actually not enough. He plans to buy another sheep tomorrow. The sheep at the moment is definitely not enough. He plans to keep half a sheep on his side, and the remaining half will be taken back to share with his father-in-law Gu Bo Yuan and Old Luo Shu.

And a whole sheep will be placed with the eldest brother. After all, his father and mother, eldest brother and sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, and four dolls need to eat. It's not enough if it's less.

When Gu Xiaoxia came back and saw Li Long was untying the sheep, she asked about the situation.

Knowing that Li Long took sheep to Halimu and Yushanjiang's homes, Gu Xiaoxia nodded and said:

"Should be. They are all elderly and children, need to strengthen nutrition more."

"I will buy another sheep tomorrow and send it to the team." Li Long said his plan, "Your dad, Old Luo Shu, and the father and mother on that side all need to share some."

Gu Xiaoxia didn't care much about this. Her husband could earn money, how to spend it was naturally up to him. Moreover, Li Long spent money in these aspects, feeling very fair and reasonable, so she was naturally willing.

Gu Xiaoxia went to cook, and Li Long continued to pack up these meats. The weather was hot, some meat needed to be air-dried, some meat needed to be braised, and some meat could be soaked first.

After dinner, when the two of them were watching TV, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia intermittently about hunting with Halimu and Yushanjiang in the mountain when he first entered the mountain, including the skins, deer antlers, and deer antlers Halimu brought this time.

"If those things are sold, they are worth more than one thousand yuan, and he gave them to us as a gift." Li Long sighed and said:

"Taking care of their family itself is what I should do. Buying things for them, even if the money is deducted from this, when will it be deducted?"

"Do you believe it? When they transfer back in winter, they will definitely send a pile of skins again, and they don't want money. If this goes on, whether it's owed or not, it's unclear."

Gu Xiaoxia laughed after hearing it. She knew Li Long didn't lack money, her family didn't lack money, and she also knew that if Li Long wanted to give money to Halimu and the others, they wouldn't want it. She thought for a while and said:

"Actually, this is also quite good. For them, family members are taken care of, and they are also at ease."

"As for skins and deer antlers, I think in their view, their value is not necessarily more precious than the pressure well in the home."

"You don't think too much, don't have too much pressure. Things are placed here, let's send things to them slowly, anyway, I feel the relationship between you should be the kind that lasts a lifetime, take your time, don't be in a hurry."

Li Long nodded, and it could only be like this.

Early the next morning, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Li Long drove the tractor and went to the food company meat shop, bought another sheep, and ran to the team.

Arrived at the team, he first sent the meat to Gu Bo Yuan and Old Luo Shu, and then arrived at the eldest brother's courtyard.

Mother Du Chunfang was there, eldest brother, sister-in-law, and second sister-in-law were not there.

"Your eldest brother and the others went to the field to work." Du Chunfang said with a smile, "Said the grass in the watermelon field grew again, went to weed. Are you okay?"

Li Long took the sheep down and said:

"Bought a sheep and brought it back for you to eat. They are not here, then I will pick the sheep first, and mother, you look at the pot and braise the meat later."

"Okay." Du Chunfang nodded first, and then complained, "There is meat at home, why buy sheep, wasting money."

"The money earned is for spending." Li Long smiled.

He planned to wait for the eldest brother to come back and talk about the precautions for planting watermelon properly. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 520 =====