[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw":3,"chapter-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-59":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 1981: Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1933940,2572,"Chapter 59","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-59",59,"\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, what was the reason for all this? Wasn't it because when Brother Long needed him, he chose his family?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even if it was this way now, five yuan each time was enough; even if he only worked five times a month, twenty-five yuan was more comfortable than most workers in the city!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Daqiang nodded immediately:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm willing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He naturally knew that it was actually Li Long taking care of him; otherwise, if the word about five yuan for this time got out, the people in the team who wanted to do it would break the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, let's go, you take a few fish, and I'll borrow a horse cart from the team leader by the way. Tomorrow morning, either you come over, or I'll harness the horse cart and find you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long followed Tao Daqiang out of the room, told Li Jianguo in the west room, and then went out of the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Daqiang carried five fish back home, where there was still no warmth. After Tao Dayong was arrested, both families had emptied their family foundations, which made the already not-so-well-off life even worse. Tao Jianshe's back, which was already a bit hunched, became even more bent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Tao Daqiang come back, Tao Jianshe's eyes were a bit complicated. He turned his head to smoke his tobacco pot, but unfortunately, there was no tobacco inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Daqiang's lips moved, and in the end, he didn't speak again. He entered the kitchen and started processing those fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, the sound of adding coal came from the kitchen, and then the stove fire became intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Jianshe felt it was much warmer on the heated brick bed, and he shouted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm boiling some fish soup for you to nourish yourself.\" Tao Daqiang's voice came over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wasting firewood... what am I nourishing myself for?\" Tao Jianshe said angrily, \"There's not enough coal to burn...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll earn money to buy it,\" Tao Daqiang's voice became louder, \"I'll buy it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Jianshe didn't speak. He still didn't know that the twenty yuan borrowed by Tao Jianshe had already been paid back. Now, facing his youngest son, he had no confidence when speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was he who blocked the way his youngest son could have earned money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Jianshe wasn't a fool. After his eldest son was arrested, he had thought about the whole process of the matter. Tao Jianshe had lived for so many years, and he wouldn't be blind enough to blame Li Long. It was he who hadn't thought clearly, and it was his eldest son who didn't have the ability of others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that his youngest son was looking for Li Long again, he tacitly agreed. How much worse could it get?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long arrived at Xu Chengjun's house and saw Xu Chengjun listening to the radio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Team leader, I'm here to borrow the horse cart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Borrowing again? Won't there be any trouble?\" Xu Chengjun was also worried now, \"Do you know about Ermao and Dayong's matter?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\" Li Long smiled, \"I'm different from them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, as long as you know. I'm telling you, if you really get arrested and the horse cart is confiscated, you'll have to pay for it.\" Xu Chengjun wasn't like the old party secretary in the past; he was also used to respecting other people's fate, \"Borrowing for how many days?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Three days, I guess.\" Li Long thought that after selling fish this time, he still had to go into the mountains, so he added two more days, \"This is the money. If the horse cart is really confiscated, I'll accept whatever fine they impose.\" He had this confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four yuan and eight mao were placed on the table. Xu Chengjun wrote the note and handed it to Li Long: \"It seems you've earned quite a bit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not at all, just can't stay idle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Hongmei waited for Li Long to leave before saying to her husband:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Li family's second son really has good luck!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What luck, that's 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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If only we knew that way.\" Ma Hongmei said enviously, \"I heard he brought back a large bag of things today. I don't know how much money he's earned these days...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't just look at others earning money; look at how hard they work. Getting up at five or six in the morning, walking dozens of kilometers in this cold weather every day—can you insist, or can your brother insist?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ma Chunmei didn't speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Chengjun stopped talking to his wife; this woman just has long hair and short knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the Xu house, Li Long went to the horse stable and handed the note to Old Luo, and gave him a cigarette.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yo, Xiao Long is smoking?\" Old Luo took it and saw the cigarette in Li Long's hand was Da Qianmen, and said with a smile: \"This cigarette is much better than Mohe tobacco.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Old 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.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay. I'll harness that number seventy-six big red horse for you.\" Old Luo smiled. Others came with the team leader's note to harness the horse, and no one would give him a cigarette. Number seventy-six big red horse was the best horse in the horse stable, and it was also the horse Li Jianguo drew when dividing the team's property in the spring. Unfortunately, the Li family had no money in his previous life and gave it up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this life, Li Long felt he had to take it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long dragged the urea bag out of the idle room and said with a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I bought some things when I went to Wucheng this time, everyone try them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shoes, school bags, and toys for the two children; a cotton-padded coat and hat for his eldest brother; a scarf and shoes for his sister-in-law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When one thing after another was taken out, the expressions of the four Li family members went from surprise to later shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiao Long, how much money did you spend!\" Liang Yuemei's voice was filled with surprise and reproach, \"Are you not living anymore?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is just the beginning?\" Li Long smiled, \"There are also firecrackers for the New Year, food, by the way, there's also face oil...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The table was already full. Li Juan and Li Qiang were wearing new shoes and holding toys. Li Qiang even asked Li Long to adjust the toy frog for him, and he watched it jumping on the heated brick bed, with exclamations and laughter from time to time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Juan held the doll 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 carried bought school bags, and she had always been envious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wasting money!\" Li Jianguo was also criticizing Li Long, but the smile on his face couldn't be held back in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried on the military green coat and imitation military hat, and sighed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... is just warm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the room, of course it's warm.\" Liang Yuemei smiled and exposed his words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiao Long, that jade... is it that valuable?\" Li Jianguo asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm, more valuable than imagined, but such jade is rare, and it might not be encountered later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood, you have to compensate your friends in the mountains more later.\" Li Jianguo nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After half an hour, everyone finally quieted 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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, they didn't dare to let them eat too much, fearing the children would be restless at night. After playing for a while, the two children were forced to put away the things they bought and go to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the two children were fast asleep, Li Long took out a stack of money from his inner pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother, I have something to tell you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at that stack of big unity, Li Jianguo's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is three hundred yuan, you take it.\" Li Long pushed the money to Li Jianguo, \"The land will definitely be divided after spring. I can't farm the land, so it depends on the family. I heard that team property will also be divided. If our family can draw a horse or a mule, then buy it. It won't work if there's nothing to pull the cart for ten mu of land.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A horse costs at most less than two hundred, why give me so much?\" Li Jianguo pushed the money back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't you still have to build a horse cart? I'm counting on the horse to pull the cart, and go to the mountains to pull a few carts of manure before farming. I won't do the team's public work, so you have to pay the money to make up for it when the time comes. It's all here. By the way, there's also this fish selling; the fish were caught by you, and the money I gave Daqiang was wages. You have a share of the money from selling fish too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo scolded with a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stinky boy, dividing so clearly with me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He put the money away and didn't say anything more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiao Long, you also have to keep some money.\" Liang Yuemei said embarrassedly, \"You bought so many things for us...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I still have some left. Besides, sell the fish tomorrow, and the money will come again, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo remembered one thing and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If there's 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, so we have to paste couplets at our door.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you book friend Aolong Shenzhixin for the reward, thank you for everyone's monthly tickets, recommendation tickets, and various suggestions. If there are beneficial ones, I will adopt them, and some doubts are also normal; we can explore them together. For some things mentioned in the book, if everyone is not familiar with them, you can bring them up, and I will try my best to find pictures and send them to the Easter Egg chapter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hope everyone will continue to support me a lot. I will write carefully and try my best to satisfy everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1854,"2026-06-14T06:06:39.549Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","30013707c3884619097345d1e90116886cdecf3f9fef809624879afe3e07c440","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-60","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-58",180,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]