Chapter 59

Tao Daqiang had also learned arithmetic, and as soon as he calculated, he knew that according to Brother Long's statement now, his income was definitely less than before.

But what was the reason for all this? Wasn't it because when Brother Long needed him, he chose his family side?

And even if this way of giving him five yuan each time is enough, even if he only works five times a month, twenty-five yuan, it's more comfortable than most workers in the city!

Tao Daqiang nodded immediately:

"I'm willing!"

He naturally knew that it was actually Li Long taking care of him; otherwise, if the five yuan for this time were put out, the people in the team who wanted to do it could break the door.

"Alright, let's go, you take a few fish, and I'll borrow a horse cart from the team leader's house by the way. Tomorrow morning, either you come over, or I'll harness the horse cart and find you."

Li Long followed Tao Daqiang out of the room, told Li Jianguo in the west room, and then went out of the courtyard.

Tao Daqiang carried five fish and returned home. There was still no warmth in the house. After Tao Dayong was arrested, both families had emptied their family foundations, which made the life that wasn't very well-off even worse. Tao Jian She's back, which was already a bit hunched, became even more bent.

Seeing Tao Daqiang return, Tao Jian She's gaze was a bit complicated. He turned his head to smoke his tobacco pipe, but unfortunately, there was no tobacco inside.

Tao Daqiang's lips moved, and in the end, he didn't speak again. He entered the kitchen and started processing those fish.

After a while, the sound of adding coal came from the kitchen, and then the stove fire became vigorous.

Tao Jian She felt it was much hotter on the heated brick bed, and he shouted:

"What are you doing?"

"I'm cooking some fish soup for you to supplement." Tao Daqiang's voice came over.

"Waste of firewood... what am I supplementing for?" Tao Jian She said angrily, "Coal isn't enough to burn..."

"I'll earn money to buy it," Tao Daqiang's voice got louder, "I'll buy it!"

Tao Jian She stopped talking. He didn't know that the twenty yuan Tao Jian She borrowed had already been paid back. Now facing his youngest son, he had no confidence when speaking.

It was he who blocked the path that his youngest son originally could earn money.

Tao Jian She is not a fool. After his eldest son was arrested, he thought about the whole process of the matter. Tao Jian She had lived for so many years, not to the point of being blind to blame Li Long; it was his own failure to think clearly, and his eldest son didn't have that ability.

Now his youngest son is looking for Li Long again, and he tacitly agreed. How much worse can it get?

Li Long arrived at Xu Chengjun's house and saw Xu Chengjun listening to the radio.

"Team leader, I'm here to borrow a horse cart."

"Borrowing again? Won't there be any trouble?" Xu Chengjun is also trembling with fear now, "Do you know about Ermao and Dayong?"

"Know." Li Long smiled, "I'm different from them."

"Alright, as long as you know. I'll tell you, if you really get arrested and the horse cart is confiscated, you'll have to compensate then." Xu Chengjun is not like the old party secretary in the past, he is also used to respecting others' fate, "Borrow for how many days?"

"Three days." Li Long thought that after this trip to sell fish, he had to go into the mountains, so he said two more days, "This is the money. If the horse cart is really confiscated, I'll admit how much they fine." He had this confidence.

Four yuan and eighty cents were placed on the table. Xu Chengjun wrote a note and handed it to Li Long: "Looks like you earned quite a bit."

"Where, just can't stay idle."

Ma Hongmei waited for Li Long to leave before saying to her husband:

"The second Li son's luck is really good!"

"What luck, that's because he has ability." Xu Chengjun waved his hand, "Just because Gu Ermao and Tao Dayong were both arrested, he dares to continue going out to sell fish, which shows he has a way."

"If only we knew that way." Ma Hongmei said enviously, "I heard he brought back a big bag of things today, don't know how much money he earned these days..."

"Don't just look at others earning money, also look at how hard others work. Getting up at five or six in the morning, walking dozens of kilometers in this freezing weather, can you persist or can your brother persist?"

Ma Chunmei stopped talking.

Xu Chengjun stopped talking about his wife; this woman has long hair and short knowledge.

After leaving the Xu family, Li Long arrived at the horse yard and handed the note to Uncle Uncle Lao Luo, and gave him a cigarette.

"Yo, Without Xiao Long is smoking?" Uncle Uncle Lao Luo took it, saw the cigarette in Li Long's hand was Daqian Sect by the stove fire, and said with a smile: "This cigarette is much better than Mohe tobacco."

"Uncle Uncle Lao Luo, then can I come over early tomorrow morning?" Li Long didn't pick up the topic of smoking; he didn't plan to smoke in this life, "Come over before dawn."

"Alright. I'll harness that No. 76 big red horse for you." Uncle Uncle Lao Luo said with a smile. Others came with the team leader's note to harness horses, and no one gave him cigarettes. The No. 76 big red horse is the best horse in the horse yard, and it is also the horse that Li Jianguo drew when the team property was distributed in early spring next year. It's a pity that the Li family had no money in the previous life and gave it up.

In this life, Li Long felt he must take it down.

Returning home, the kerosene lamp was lit on the table in the west room, Li Juan and Li Qiang were playing, Li Jianguo was reading, and Liang Yuemei was sewing shoe soles.

Li Long dragged the urea bag out of the spare room and said with a smile:

"Bought some things in Wucheng this time, everyone try them."

Shoes and school bags for the two children, padded coat and hat for Li Jianguo, scarf and shoes for his sister-in-law, and toys for the two children.

When piece after piece was taken out, the expressions of the four Li family members went from surprise to shock later.

"Little Long, how much money did you spend!" Liang Yuemei's voice was filled with surprise and reproach, "Not living anymore?"

"This is just the beginning?" Li Long said with a smile, "There are also New Year firecrackers, food, by the way, there is also face oil..."

The table was already piled up. Li Juan and Li Qiang were wearing new shoes and holding toys. Li Qiang even asked Li Long to help him adjust the toy frog, and then watched it jumping on the heated brick bed, with exclamations and laughter from time to time.

Li Juan held the school bag and wouldn't let go—her school bag was a cloth bag sewn by Liang Yuemei. Although it was sturdy, it really didn't look good. Some classmates had bought school bags, and she had always envied them.

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"Wasting money!" Li Jianguo was also criticizing Li Long, but the smile on his face couldn't be held back in the end.

He tried on the military green padded coat and imitation military hat, and said with emotion:

"This... is just warm."

"In the room, of course it's warm." Liang Yuemei said with a smile, exposing his words.

"Without Xiao Long, that jade... is it that valuable?" Li Jianguo asked.

"Hmm, more valuable than imagined, but that kind of jade is too rare, might not be able to encounter it later."

"Got it, you have to compensate your friends in the mountains more later." Li Jianguo nodded.

Half an hour later, everyone calmed down, and the snacks on the table were also tasted. Everyone tasted the fruit brought back—in the past, let alone winter, even in summer, it was rare to eat fruit in the interior.

Of course, they didn't dare to let them eat too much, fearing the children would make a fuss at night. After playing for a while, the two children were forced to put away the newly bought things and sleep.

After the two children were fast asleep, Li Long took out a stack of money from his inner pocket.

"Brother, I have something to tell you."

Looking at that stack of big unity, Li Jianguo's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up a bit.

"This is three hundred yuan, you take it." Li Long pushed the money to Li Jianguo, "Land will definitely be distributed after early spring. I can't farm the land, so it depends on the family. I heard that team property will also be distributed then. If our family can draw a horse or mule, then buy it. It won't work if ten mu of land has nothing to pull."

"A horse costs at most less than two hundred, why give me so much?" Li Jianguo pushed the money back.

"Don't you still have to build a horse cart? I'm counting on the horse pulling the cart to pull a few carts of dung from the mountains before farming. I won't do the team's public work, so you'll have to pay to make up for it then. It's all here. By the way, there's also this selling fish, the fish were caught by you, I gave Daqiang wages, so you have a share of the money from selling fish too."

Li Jianguo scolded with a smile:

"Stinky boy, divide so clearly with me!"

He put the money away and didn't say anything more.

"Little Long, then you have to keep some money too." Liang Yuemei said a bit embarrassed, "Bought things for all of us..."

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I still have some left. Besides, sell the fish tomorrow, won't the money come again?"

Li Jianguo remembered one thing and said:

"If there is time after selling fish tomorrow, buy a piece of red paper for writing couplets, as well as a brush and ink. It's New Year, we have to stick couplets at our door."

"Alright."

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(End of chapter)