Chapter 540: There are bear children at any time

After sending away Wang Cai Mi who came to ask for debt, Zhang Qiang returned to the courtyard, looked at the large pile of brooms, and his face turned green.

Is it really going to take the large brooms to the market to sell them?

Zhang Qiang felt that he couldn't afford to lose that person!

At this time, his son who hadn't gone to school came over, hugged his leg and said:

"Dad, Dad, I want to eat watermelon, there is watermelon for sale at the head of the village, buy me watermelon to eat?"

"Eat a hammer! Knowing how to eat all day long! Go, go! Don't bother me!"

Zhang Qiang was really annoyed in his heart, he didn't have a single yuan in his pocket, where could he buy watermelon?

Besides, even if he went to sell large brooms, they had to be complete brooms, they had to have poles.

All the brooms in his courtyard didn't have poles, what to do?

The son was scared by Zhang Qiang's roar, ran into the house crying to find his mother, Zhang Qiang squatted at the courtyard gate, took out the iron box from his pocket, took out another stack of cut newspaper strips, and rolled up Mohe tobacco.

The first two days he came back, he was still smoking Yaochi and Hongshan, saying that only old farmers smoked Mohe tobacco.

As a result, not long after, he was also smoking Mohe tobacco.

There was the sound of a donkey cart, Zhang Qiang raised his head, saw the person driving the cart, and immediately stood up with a smile on his face:

"Yo, Dad, why are you here?"

"Come to see you." The one who came was Zhang Qiang's father-in-law Wang Tiansheng, his family was in the next village, and he had a good relationship with Carpenter Zhang. A few years ago, Carpenter Zhang went to find him and let him say his daughter to Zhang Qiang.

Carpenter Zhang was considered a capable person recognized by several villages nearby, who could earn money and could also toss. Wang Tiansheng agreed for the sake of Carpenter Zhang's face.

After Zhang Qiang and Wang Hongmei married, they had a child the second year, and then they ran back and forth. He was also not peaceful, wanted to earn money, but didn't have his brother's brains. At first, he followed Carpenter Zhang to work on the construction site.

After Carpenter Zhang slowly started tossing, naturally he wouldn't treat his younger brother badly, so he thought about giving a position to train Zhang Qiang. Unexpectedly, this training almost made the construction team yellow.

Wang Tiansheng knew about Zhang Qiang's return. He originally thought that even if Zhang Qiang couldn't do engineering, couldn't be a worker, at least he could work in the team, but he didn't expect this time to toss so big, directly tossing the family foundation away.

"Grandpa!" Hearing the movement, the child ran out of the house, saw Wang Tiansheng pulling the donkey cart, and threw himself over, of course, he also saw the watermelon on the donkey cart.

It's normal for children to be greedy, Wang Tiansheng hugged the child, and gave the donkey cart reins to Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang pulled the donkey cart to tie it in the courtyard, and unloaded the dozen or so watermelons.

"In a while, I'll go to Li Jianguo's house, buy a few dozen poles, pull them back, and you plant this large broom. Tomorrow morning, go with me to the market to sell large brooms."

Wang Tiansheng's words were unquestionable:

"Take advantage of this slack time, hurry up and return the money, pay back the debt to others..."

"I won't! I can't afford to lose that person!"

"Lose face? You still know how to lose face?" Wang Tiansheng pointed at Zhang Qiang's nose, hating that iron didn't become steel, "I have lost all my old face because of you! Your brother is so shrewd, how can he have such a stupid younger brother like you?

You still want to earn money from such an obvious thing, are you in the eyes of money? Are you showing off?

You listen to me, either you go to sell large brooms with me tomorrow, or I will pull Hongmei and the child back to the Third Team now, you choose yourself!"

Zhang Qiang originally wanted to hold on, but when he heard his father-in-law was going to take his wife and children back to his mother's house, he immediately softened like a deflated ball.

Zhang Qiang wasn't without self-knowledge. He knew he definitely couldn't manage the family affairs well. Wang Hongmei actually didn't want to marry him, but Wang Tiansheng thought highly of Carpenter Zhang, feeling that he would definitely bring his younger brother.

It's just that no matter what, he didn't expect that Zhang Qiang really couldn't be supported on the wall. But at this time, Wang Tiansheng knew it was too late to regret, and right now he could only save one step at a time.

Of course, what he was thinking about wasn't going to the Maxian market, how many large brooms could be sold there in a day? What he wanted to go to was the Shicheng market, where the market was big, the flow of people was big, and there were many people coming and going, so naturally there were many people buying things.

Pull a few dozen brooms over a day, and it would be fine if ten could be sold.

Otherwise, when could the borrowed money be paid back?

Seeing Zhang Qiang not speaking, Wang Tiansheng glared at him, went to cut a watermelon for his grandson first, and then pulled the donkey cart to Li Jianguo's house.

Right now, there was almost no wood nearby that could be cut down as a shovel handle or broom handle, so he had to thicken his face and go to Li Jianguo's house.

These were all inquired about before coming.

Li Jianguo wasn't there, Liang Yuemei was, and seeing Wang Tiansheng come over, she was also a little embarrassed. Zhang Qiang didn't do human things, but Wang Hongmei was considered a bitter woman. This Wang Tiansheng went to the Third Team quite early, and was considered familiar with Li Jianguo, and often came and went ten years ago.

"Hongmei's dad is here, come in and sit." Liang Yuemei greeted Wang Tiansheng into the courtyard.

Wang Tiansheng didn't have the face to come in, he just said outside the courtyard:

"Jianguo's wife, don't trouble you, I just have something, I have ten yuan here, can you get me twenty broom handles..."

Liang Yuemei understood what was going on as soon as she heard it, this Zhang Qiang did things without an asshole, Carpenter Zhang wasn't there, Wang Tiansheng felt sorry for his daughter and grandson, and came to help.

Didn't directly find Li Jianguo to plead for Li Long to collect the pile of brooms, showing that Wang Tiansheng still wanted face, Liang Yuemei hurriedly wiped her hands, went over and hugged a bundle of poles out, Wang Tiansheng hurriedly took them, and still wanted to give money, Liang Yuemei waved her hand:

"Don't need money, these poles are fine if they are left, you plan to..."

"I will take that lazy guy to Shicheng to sell brooms early tomorrow morning, sell as many as I can."

"Then okay, you guys do it first. Take these twenty poles first, talk about money after selling them." Liang Yuemei although wasn't Li Long's mother, but considered herself the master of these twenty poles, "Shicheng road is far, you have to prepare early."

"Hmm, then trouble you." Wang Tiansheng pulled the donkey cart away with some shame.

Li Qing Xia and Du Chunfang and others came over to ask after leaving, and Liang Yuemei told them.

"Hi, meeting such a son-in-law, this person is also quite unlucky." Li Qing Xia watched the excitement and said with a smile, "Just don't know if that bear guy can honestly sell brooms."

"Difficult." Du Chunfang said one word, then went to help Liang Yuemei make tomato sauce.

Gu Xiaoxia's colleague got her a few boxes of bottles, five cents each. Rubber bottle stoppers were one cent each—this thing is harder to find than bottles in this day and age. Bottles can be replaced by beer bottles, but stoppers cannot be replaced.

Doing this also requires a needle, cut the tomatoes into small pieces and put them in the bottle, fill them up, plug the stopper, and put them in the pot to steam, when steaming, you have to insert an injection needle into the stopper, and after steaming, pull out the needle, and the vacuum seal is completed.

Gu Xiaoxia felt that the bottles and stoppers could be reused, and it was quite cost-effective to buy them, that colleague also earned extra money, and was also quite happy.

Li Long pulled the bottles back two days ago, and after pulling them back, Liang Yuemei washed the bottles clean and dried them, and started making tomato sauce.

Du Chunfang followed to help plug the stoppers, Chen Li Rong went to the front courtyard to pick tomatoes. When she brought a large bucket of tomatoes over, Liang Yuemei smiled and said:

"Wait until the second one distributes the house, when you go over, take this too, don't look at it as ugly, it's delicious."

"Okay, sister-in-law." Chen Li Rong had been here for more than half a year, obviously became more cheerful, and talked a lot more.

There is really no discrimination against mothers who give birth to girls here, people laugh, no one gossips.

Most people are busy for their own happy lives, even if some people sound like bad people, they are just bad for earning money.

She likes this place very much, and even doesn't want to go to the city where Li Anguo is.

As a rural person, I don't know if I will be looked down upon when I go there.

After breakfast the next day, when Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei were preparing to go to the melon field to work, Lu's sister-in-law came over with a bowl and said mysteriously:

"Zhang Qiang ran away!"

"Ran away?" Liang Yuemei was a little surprised, "Wang Tiansheng came over yesterday, and said he was taking Zhang Qiang to Shicheng to set up a stall to sell large brooms, why did he run away?"

"Just heard that he couldn't afford to lose that person, didn't want to set up a stall, ran away in the middle of the night, Wang Tiansheng came over this morning to pull the brooms with the donkey cart, as a result, Wang Hongmei cried and said Zhang Qiang ran away, which angered Wang Tiansheng, and he directly took Wang Hongmei and the child back."

Hey!

Liang Yuemei turned to look at Du Chunfang.

Du Chunfang was like nothing happened, sitting in the doorway, laughing and watching Li Qiang feed the chickens.

Is this a coincidence, or the wisdom of the old man?

Zhang Qiang didn't run far. At night, he just didn't want to set up a stall, the more he thought about it, the angrier he got, so he ran away. However, after walking for more than ten kilometers in one breath, running to the county, in the empty street, he regretted it a little.

But since he had already run out, and had a big temper with his wife when he ran out, saying his father-in-law looked down on people, it would be a bit embarrassing to go back now.

But there was nowhere to go in the middle of the night, so he huddled outside the bus station for half the night.

When the sky was about to brighten, he touched his pocket, only to remember that he only had a few cents of change on him.

He couldn't afford a ticket to anywhere.

But he was hungry!

Went to buy two steamed buns, ate while wandering around the county for most of the day, and finally hunger overcame his face, and he swayed back home.

Thinking that no matter what, sell brooms for two days, earn the bus ticket to Wucheng, and then go find his older brother.

Thinking that no matter how much his older brother didn't like him, finding a rice bowl for him shouldn't be a problem, right?

However, returning to the courtyard, he found that it was cold and clear, without any sound.

The door was locked, there were donkey cart prints in the courtyard, Zhang Qiang immediately understood, his wife and child had gone back to her mother's house!

He sat on the ground with a thud, didn't the family break up?

He didn't even know where the key to the door lock was!

This day and age is not later generations, a phone call and you know, you have to run to ask!

He couldn't bear to smash the lock, a lock is not cheap!

Li Long didn't know that he indirectly made Zhang Qiang almost break up his family, and right now he was picking things in the department store.

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Went to the mountains once, Halimu and the others were almost at the end of bundling grass, Li Long planned to help transport the grass, and then bring them some things. It would be two or three months before they returned from the summer pasture, so some daily necessities still had to be brought.

Things were about the same as before, this time he had to buy extra, hats and headscarves.

He found that many Kazakh men, regardless of size, liked to wear hats. Later generations wear ethnic hats, children like to wear Shang hats. Women like to wear headscarves, the headscarves worn at this time are relatively single, that is, red velvet headscarves.

Li Long bought more than a dozen hats and more than a dozen headscarves, brought them over and let them divide them themselves.

Shoes also had to be brought, grazing in the mountains is also quite expensive for shoes, riding a horse is fine, some places are not suitable for riding, walking quite a bit of road a day. If you are not careful and step on a tree stump, it is easy for the shoes to be pierced with a hole.

Bought quite a few things, loaded half a cart bucket. Li Long went into the mountains by tractor this time, passed Qingshuihe, the team cadres came out to greet him, Li Long didn't want to stop, but had to stop to greet, talk about his affairs, and then "chug-chug-chug" drove into the mountains.

"Being able to make friends with herdsmen in the mountains, Comrade Li Long is not simple."

"He is a model of ethnic unity, naturally he has quite a few ethnic friends." He Yuqing knew relatively clearly, "Okay, everyone go tie brooms first, when Comrade Li Long comes back to collect brooms in the afternoon, tie two more, and five yuan will be in hand!"

This is the real business, several cadres immediately ran towards their homes.

Everyone has tools, tying brooms, no one will fall behind, this is not like farming. Farming has to wait from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, this one can get money on the day it is finished, just like many young people who run food delivery in later generations, how much money they get is visible, no wonder they will flock to it.

Li Long drove the tractor directly to Halimu's winter nest, no one was here, but quite a few grass bundles were piled on the side.

He unloaded the things into the winter nest, and then drove the tractor towards the pasture.

The road was familiar, driving not slow, found three pastures, and found the herdsmen bundling grass.

Seeing Li Long come over, those herdsmen all put down the grass bundles and ran over. Li Long took the watermelon from the cart bucket and handed it to Halimu to cut, and took out the hats for everyone to pick.

Yushanjiang was wearing a hat, to be honest, that hat was almost covered in pulp.

Talihar was too, don't know whose hat it was inherited from, there were two holes, and he still wore it after simple sewing.

Looking at the new hat now, one person's eyes shone, couldn't even care about eating melon, and started grabbing.

Actually, there was nothing to grab, the styles were relatively single, just two kinds, duck-billed cap, and ordinary cloth hat imitating military cap. At this time, the military cap was still a soft cloth cap, not like the later camouflage cap that had a shape.

But no matter which kind, it was stronger than the one Talihar and the others wore, and there were more than enough for everyone to have one, everyone changed into a new hat.

Yushanjiang wore the new hat, took it off and put it in his pocket, still wearing his old hat, don't know if he wanted to save the new one for his son.

Distributed the hats, next were the headscarves. Those with wives picked for their wives, those with mothers picked for their mothers, and after picking, the rest were handed to Halimu, who took them to the summer pasture to distribute to others.

Eat watermelon, load grass, Li Long pulled grass for each winter nest. With a tractor, pulling grass was much faster than using a horse with a rope to drag it.

Ate yellow sheep meat at noon, Halimu saw a group of yellow sheep rush into the mountains on the way back to the winter nest yesterday, he followed for more than ten kilometers on horseback, and hit two.

More than ten kilometers, really have perseverance!

Li Long felt that if it were himself, he might have given up after following for two or three kilometers.

Yellow sheep horns and skins naturally belonged to Li Long. He was also quite happy to take them.

After pulling a few trips in the afternoon, Li Long left the mountains, he still had to go to Qingshuihe to pull brooms.

After doing this for two days, in the middle, Halimu and the others got a half-grown female red deer, alive, Li Long pulled it and sent it to the old horse corral, Old Luo Shu looked quite happy, with male deer and female deer, this deer herd could develop, otherwise it wouldn't form a herd.

The deer developed quite well, and had a certain scale.

Zhang Qiang's matter was heard as a joke. Li Long didn't care anymore, who could care about a clown every day?

"There are thieves in the field." Li Jianguo was a little worried, "For several days in a row, twenty or thirty melon melons were opened with triangular mouths, the seeds inside these melons are not ripe, what a pity! After a few more days, how many kilograms of melon seeds can be produced!"

Li Long had anticipated such things, but didn't expect them to come so early.

He thought that after the melon matured, someone would go to pick it to eat.

Although the melon is not as sweet as watermelon, it has its own fragrance, some people want to be fresh, eating one or two is nothing.

But ruining it like this, that's a problem.

Opening a triangular mouth is the way to see if watermelon is ripe at this time, usually go to the melon stall to pick melon, take a knife to open a triangular mouth on the watermelon, pry off the watermelon skin, look at the pulp inside, if it is ripe, then buy this melon, if it is not ripe, the seller has to be responsible.

This is considered the conventional practice at the time, and it is also the way for people who don't know how to pick melon. Using the watermelon method on the melon, it is likely to be young people, or just teenagers.

"Older brother, should we squat at night to see who it is?" Li Long said, "Find the head, otherwise, how long will this continue?"

Ten mu of land is not big, looking at both ends, it is easy to catch people.

Li Jianguo asked him:

"You have nothing at night?"

"Nothing."

"Okay!" (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 541 =====

Cutting a triangular opening is the method used at this time to see if a watermelon is ripe; usually, when picking melons at a stall, one takes a knife to cut a triangular hole in the watermelon, pries off the rind, and looks at the pulp inside. If it is ripe, one buys that melon; if it is not ripe, the seller is responsible.

This was considered a customary practice at the time, and also the method for those who didn't know how to pick melons. Using the watermelon method on the seed melons, it was highly likely to be a young person, or perhaps a teenager.

"Big Brother, should we stake out tonight to see who it is?" Li Long said, "We have to find the culprit; otherwise, if this continues, how long will they keep wreaking havoc?"

Ten mu of land isn't considered large; watching both ends, it's very easy to catch someone.

Li Jianguo asked him:

"Are you free tonight?"

"Nothing going on."

"Done!" (End of chapter)