Chapter 52

Xu Haijun immediately took out twenty bullets. Li Long didn't decline either, directly going out and taking him to the kitchen, pointing at the pork that had already been cut into pieces and asking:

"Which part do you want?"

"Fatty meat, of course," Xu Haijun said as a matter of course.

There was still a borrowed scale tray in the kitchen. Li Long weighed more than four kilograms of fatty meat for him, cut a piece of thin wire to thread through it, tied it to make a handle, and handed it to him.

"Not going back yet, let's go, let's go to your room to chat."

Chatting means talking, and Li Long naturally had no objections.

"Li Long, tell us about your hunting, will you?" Another girl, Qin Hongyan, asked curiously.

Wu Shufen sat on the heated brick bed with her head down, looking at her shoes. She originally didn't want to come, but when Qin Hongyan called, she actually agreed.

But once she came, it was awkward, so she, who was originally the most lively in this group, had now become a mute.

Li Long just pretended not to see her. Hearing Qin Hongyan's question, he continued making the boar tusk "dagger" while saying:

"Actually, it's very simple, no different from the target practice we participate in as militia. Hide near where the wild boars are active in advance, and just wait for the wild boars to come out. That group of wild boars had more than a dozen, and when they arrived and started rooting for grass roots to eat, aim and shoot."

"So simple?" Xu Haijun asked in surprise, "Don't you need to find dogs to chase them like in the stories, and prepare for the wild boars to ambush you?"

"I didn't encounter that. But this wild boar was quite fierce." Li Long raised the tusks in his hand, "But no matter how fierce, can it be fiercer than a gun? It charged at us after being shot once by my friend, and then I shot it once, and the wild boar fell."

It was said very simply, and everyone felt it wasn't satisfying enough, so they asked Li Long to tell it in more detail.

As Li Long's former girlfriend, Wu Shufen keenly discovered that Li Long had truly changed. In the past, if anything happened, Li Long could turn a three-point story into a seven-point one. But this time, it was clearly a very showy event, yet he finished it in a few understated sentences.

This isn't like Li Long!

Just at this moment, there were footsteps in the courtyard, and a knock on the door sounded.

"Come in." Li Long was a bit surprised; who was so polite and courteous?

The one pushing the door was Gu Xiaoxia. She was also startled to see a room full of people, stunned for a moment before reacting, and said to Li Long in a low voice:

"I heard your family is exchanging bullets for meat, I want to exchange some..."

"Okay." Li Long nodded and said, "Come with me."

Wu Shufen watched the two leave and close the door, stunned for a moment.

For a time, no one spoke.

Xu Haijun coughed lightly, wanting to break the silence, and another man said with a smile:

"If it's really as simple as Li Long said, it makes me tempted too. Anyway, guns are easy to find. If not, Haijun, shall we go into the mountains in two days?"

The one speaking was Huang Siping, nineteen years old, at an age where he feared nothing.

"It's not that simple." Xu Haijun had heard his cousin talk about things in the mountains. Although he hadn't been in, he also knew there were many unknown dangers in the mountains, so he shook his head and said:

"Li Long might not want to be showy, or maybe he doesn't want to..."

"Doesn't want us to be as showy as him?" Huang Siping sneered, "The mountains aren't his family's. If he can hunt wild boars, we certainly can too."

"Then you have to know where the wild boars are, right? We aren't hunters, how do we find the wild boars' location? Where to ambush? When do the wild boars appear? Who knows this?" Xu Haijun was, after all, a bit more steady. After a series of questions were thrown out, Huang Siping stopped talking. "Think about Gu Ermao and Tao Dayong," Xu Haijun said, "Li Long is different from before. Whoever treats him as a fool is a fool themselves. I think it's right to have a good relationship with him."

Li Long took Gu Xiaoxia to the kitchen and weighed four kilograms of pork belly for her. Gu Xiaoxia could read the scale and hurriedly said:

"I don't have that many bullets, just two kilograms."

"The extra is for your dad. Your dad took such good care of my brother back then, what's a little meat." Li Long hung the meat with wire and handed it to her, "By the way, how is your dad now?"

"Much better." Gu Xiaoxia couldn't refuse, took the meat, and then handed a paper-wrapped package of bullets to Li Long:

"These are the bullets, you take them, I'm leaving."

It wasn't dark yet. Li Long only sent her to the gate, and after watching her leave, he returned to his east room.

"Xiao Long, what do you plan to do next?" Xu Haijun asked with a smile when he saw Li Long come in.

"Plan to go to Wucheng in two days. Also want to go to Shicheng to take a look." Li Long was telling the truth; anyway, he had to borrow a horse cart, and this couldn't be hidden. Tao Dayong being arrested for selling fish gave him a reminder; anyway, the consumption capacity of this county is there, so it's better to go to other places to expand the market.

It's almost New Year, and soon after New Year it will be early spring. It is estimated that the land distribution will be decided soon, and it will be too late to prepare then.

Must earn enough money before the land is distributed. This way, he can only run a few more trips; work hard before the New Year, and it will be easier later.

"You're still running?" Huang Siping was a bit surprised, "Gu Ermao and Tao Dayong were both arrested, aren't you afraid?"

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"What's there to be afraid of?" Li Long smiled, "They were arrested because they couldn't see the situation clearly. Why wasn't Daqiang arrested? I told Daqiang before I went into the mountains that if you find something wrong while selling fish, run away; it's better to lose the fish than the person. Look, Daqiang ran away, his brother was just stupidly guarding the fish..."

The details of Tao Dayong's arrest had already spread in the team. Li Long could only say this stupid guy brought it on himself.

Fifty yuan, how much fish do you have to sell?

Looking at Li Long's confident expression, the others stopped talking.

Li Long didn't talk much; basically, he said one sentence for every one others asked. In between, he went to the east room to get a teapot and bowls to pour water for several people. At this time, there were no disposable cups, and even glass cups were rare, so they used bowls to drink water.

Li Long was very attentive to his guests, but everyone felt it was still quite dull, and finally, they got up and left before ten o'clock.

Li Long really wished they would leave early, because he still wanted to get up early tomorrow to check the rabbit snares.

After these people left, Li Long went to the west room.

The oil rendering wasn't finished yet. Li Jianguo was happy today, tired for most of the day, and had drunk alcohol, so he had already fallen asleep. Li Long originally wanted to discuss some things with his brother and sister-in-law, but seeing this, it wouldn't work, so he simply turned and went back to the east room.

That night, the Li family became the center of discussion for the whole team.

That night, Tao Daqiang slept on the heated brick bed, feeling extremely annoyed in his heart. If he hadn't agreed to his father, hadn't split up with Li Long, and hadn't gone to sell fish with his brother, would all these unlucky things have happened?

That night, Gu Xiaoxia hesitated about whether to make that decision.

That night, Wu Shufen was also hesitating about whether to go to Li Long to reconcile—she discovered that the few people she dated later, although they were all workers, none of them were like Li Long today, calm, but with a lot of—temperament, yes, that word is temperament.

(End of chapter)