Chapter 590: Can't be idle on a snowy day

Most rural elderly people are afraid of being idle; if they are idle, they can't eat, and they are prone to getting sick.

In fact, many city people are the same; the old saying goes that idleness leads to trouble, which is what this is about.

Not doing things, being idle, the brain will think wildly, and if it thinks wildly, it is easy to toss and turn.

Why is the concept in later times that it is best for both men and women in a family to go out to work? Only by having things to do will they not think about those messy things.

Some originally harmonious families, one side of the couple has no job, does housework at home, thinks wildly after being idle, then puts it into practice, and then they break up.

So Uncle Luo has to find something for himself to do.

Of course, this work must also be something he likes to do, such as raising deer and wild boars.

Really going to the field to work, he knows the tiredness of that kind in summer, he can do it, but it is not as good as this after all. After all, he has been raising livestock in the squad for so many years, and he is used to it.

Snow pushing is not a big deal for Uncle Luo. He likes to have things to do, but he is not in a hurry. So during the day, he only pushes out the road to the door and the door of the livestock pen.

The most urgent thing is to see if those livestock are frozen, because roe deer and red deer are about to give birth, so he has to watch them.

After entering the pen, those red deer and roe deer surrounded him.

Originally, there were some relatively fierce ones that wanted to butt people, but after being disciplined by Li Long twice, they became honest.

These guys also know that if they don't listen again, they will really be slaughtered.

Uncle Luo looked at the two female roe deer and red deer that were about to give birth, and found that there were still a few days left, so he was not in a hurry.

Cleaned up the pen, cleared out the grass residue; these things are good things for starting a fire in summer. As for the manure, wait until spring to clear it out, pile it together to ferment for a period of time, and it will become mature manure, which can be used to fertilize the fields.

After clearing the pen, Uncle Luo didn't feed them immediately. His body warmed up, he returned to the kitchen, burned some cornmeal paste, roasted two pieces of steamed buns, and heated up the vegetables left over from yesterday, which was breakfast.

Uncle Luo's teeth are still good, he likes to eat burnt things, so he often roasts steamed bun slices, but this thing is easy to get angry, so he occasionally makes egg tea.

These eggs were brought by Li Long, and sometimes some families in the squad would also send eggs over.

This habit of the Fourth Squad has continued for decades and is still continuing until Li Long's rebirth.

Whoever has too many things in their vegetable garden will greet neighbors to come and pick them, or send them directly to other people's homes.

When the working group was staying, they wanted to enter the courtyard to buy some vegetables, basically not much, and the villagers wouldn't want money, those things weren't worth it.

There are also people who will ride electric tricycles to the county to sell the vegetables that can't be finished, but selling is selling, if someone in the village comes to ask for them, they won't charge money.

These things are all reciprocal.

Like Uncle Luo, a lonely family, a Five Guarantees household, the neighbors must take more care of him. If there is something delicious, they will send a bowl over, or if there are extra vegetables, they will send them.

Eggs are not particularly precious things in the Fourth Squad, after all, the land is large, and it is relatively convenient to feed chickens.

So from time to time, someone will send a bowl of eggs over. When those children come to see red deer, roe deer, and wild boars, sometimes they will also stuff two eggs in their pockets and come over.

Uncle Luo will also keep candies here, and when children come, he will distribute candies and educate those bear children.

Old people, like to be lively.

Slowly finished breakfast, those livestock began to call, and Uncle Luo began to feed them.

Can't feed too diligently in winter. This is not later times; in later times, cattle and sheep are fed with concentrated feed in winter, which is to prepare for fattening and slaughtering for money before the New Year.

Uncle Luo raising these livestock is basically raising them for Li Long, and how Li Long handles these livestock is his own business.

Uncle Luo is not short of meat here, the Li family is not short of meat, so whether these livestock are slaughtered before the New Year is another matter.

The feed for these livestock is twice a day, grass is fed three times, water is drunk once, can't drink too much, otherwise the warm pen will be full of thin paste manure. These livestock pee and poop in the warm pen when they are cold, and they are not particular at all.

When Li Long drove the jeep over, Uncle Luo was slowly pushing snow.

There is no shortage of snow pushers here, it's just that the place is large, and there is only one person right now.

Li Long got off the jeep, carrying a gazelle leg in his hand.

"Heh, I thought some big leader had come." Uncle Luo saw Li Long and grinned, "Are you coming from the county? I heard you hunted quite a few things in the west two days ago."

"Hmm, hunted almost twenty gazelles." Li Long took the gazelle leg and hung it in the room next to the kitchen. No one lived here right now, so this place became a storage room, and then he took a snow pusher and came out.

"Are you specifically running over to push snow?" Uncle Luo complained, "This snow sweeping is not an urgent matter, I can do it slowly by myself."

"Heh, that's different, if you finish pushing early, won't it be convenient for you to walk?" Li Long said with a smile, "This snow is heavy, if you shovel it by yourself, won't it take a week?"

"That would take a week." Uncle Luo said with a smile, "No need to worry about how long it takes, just sweep slowly. By the way, this morning, I saw someone chasing rabbits, this snow is heavy, the rabbit has nothing to eat, and can't run in the snow, quite a few young men in the squad went to chase..."

Li Long became interested as soon as he heard it, thinking about it, he should still be able to chase them now, so he accelerated the speed of pushing snow, saying while pushing:

"Uncle Luo, I'll go take a look after I finish pushing the snow."

"Why wait until you finish pushing the snow to see, go now!" Uncle Luo said with a smile, "That place is far, don't you have to run for a long time? Won't it be dark by the time you finish pushing the snow?"

"That can't be." Li Long has great strength, he is like a human snow pusher by himself, 'whoosh' a line of snow is cleared, only to see his board flying, and in a while, a small half of the courtyard is cleared.

"Little Long, I see your strength has grown again." Uncle Luo exclaimed, "People are married, and they are not as strong as before, you are still growing."

Li Long chuckled and didn't speak. His strength is indeed continuing to grow, it is not growing as fast as before, but it is still growing.

Don't know when it will end.

The snow that Uncle Luo needed a week to push was cleared by Li Long in more than an hour. Uncle Luo piled the snow in the large courtyard into several large piles, and then pulled it out when he had time.

Or wait for the snow to condense, then cut it into pieces of snow squares with a wooden shovel, and carry it out.

But Li Long didn't need it at all, he pushed the large snow pusher from beginning to end by himself, and pushed all the snow out of the courtyard.

"Uncle Luo, you get busy, I'll take a few clean bags and see if I can chase a few rabbits."

Haven't set snares for rabbits this year, anyway, there are still three or four hours until dark, see if I can get a few to improve the food.

"There are clean bags." Uncle Luo hurriedly entered the house, and after a while, he brought three or four bags, "I shook these bags that held sugar residue clean and kept them."

Li Long took the bags and put them in the jeep. Before getting in the car, his heart moved, and he asked Uncle Luo:

"Uncle Luo, do you want to take the car for a spin?"

"Me? I won't spin." Uncle Luo hurriedly waved his hand, "And don't rush to leave, you've done so much work, don't you drink some water and rest?"

Li Long shook his head and said:

"In a while, see if there are rabbits, then go chase them, if not, I'll come back early."

Li Long knew where there were many rabbits, so he drove the jeep along the road to the farmland before. The snow was very thick, the jeep's power was quite good, although it didn't drive fast, it was no problem to press the snow down.

Drove all the way to five or six hundred meters away from the red willow beach in the east, Li Long stopped. The snow was too thick next, no need to toss the car again. He carried a bag and got off the car, then walked toward the red willow beach.

There were quite a few footprints on the red willow beach, it could be seen that someone had chased rabbits here.

This place used to be the world of rabbits, after all, there were quite a few wild grasses accompanying the red willow beach, and rabbits could easily find food.

It was just that this heavy snow last night directly buried the red willow roots, and if the rabbits wanted to eat, they could only dig the snow open.

Before reaching the edge of the red willow beach, Li Long saw quite a few traces of rabbits passing by.

The snow powder that just fell in Northern Xinjiang was very light and thin, and would not condense immediately, so although the snow was thick, it had no bearing capacity, so rabbits would sink when they ran over it.

But in order not to starve to death, rabbits also had to run this trip. The rabbit prints in the past were four claw prints passing by, at most bringing a line on the snow, and the front and rear claw prints could be seen.

But right now, they directly dug out a ditch, and the effort spent was great.

Li Long first looked at whether the traces dug by the rabbit were fresh or not, and skipped the ones that weren't fresh.

After entering the red willow beach, there were more ditches dug by rabbits inside, crisscrossing. Obviously, the rabbits had no food reserves, so they could only run out to find food at this time.

There were really many wild rabbits at this time, Li Long didn't look for two minutes, and he saw a rabbit digging in the snow, it heard the sound of Li Long walking, turned its head and looked, and then ran forward in horror.

Helplessly, the snow was too deep, it couldn't run fast at all, the distance it rushed with all its strength was not as long as Li Long's half step.

Li Long walked to the front, the rabbit knew that rushing forward couldn't open the road, so it turned and jumped to the side, but there was snow on the side, and it plunged into the snow again.

When Li Long arrived, the rabbit squeaked, and then put on a posture of fighting to the death, rushing toward Li Long fiercely. Li Long was wearing imitation big-headed shoes bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, and he kicked the rabbit that rushed over!

This kick, although the hard big-headed shoe head didn't kick the rabbit's head to pieces, it kicked the rabbit five or six meters away, and after falling into the snow, it twitched and struggled there, shaking its body.

Li Long went over, picked up the rabbit and stuffed it into the bag, and continued to look for the next one.

In less than ten minutes, Li Long got two rabbits, and he also encountered a golden fox. This guy was much more sensitive than a rabbit, and ran away as soon as he saw Li Long, disappearing behind the red willow bushes soon.

Li Long didn't chase this guy, it was too smelly, and it would beg for mercy, unlike a rabbit, so forget it.

It was mainly because the fur color wasn't very good, and it was a bit mixed. If it was a pure red fox, Li Long would definitely chase it to hand.

Li Long left the red willow beach when chasing the third rabbit. This gray rabbit was large, five or six kilograms, and it was also smart, knowing to run along the old road, its movements weren't much slower than the original, directly rushing out of the red willow beach with snow powder.

Li Long naturally wouldn't let go of this big guy, this thing could be enough for the whole family to eat after skinning.

The rabbit rushed out of the red willow beach and ran for more than twenty meters, and Li Long stepped it under his feet.

Then he saw someone running over from afar, Li Long was amused when he saw it, Liang Dacheng.

"Why did you come alone?" Li Long stepped the rabbit to death, threw it into the bag, and asked.

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"Shuangcheng and Zhongcheng went to see the ice hole on Little Haizi," Liang Dacheng also saw the rabbit running out and rushed over, not expecting it to have an owner.

"Then let's separate, which side are you going?" Li Long said with a smile, "There are many rabbits in here, quite easy to chase."

"Then I'll go north." Liang Dacheng saw Li Long came out from the south, so he chose the north.

The two separated, Li Long walked south, and entered the red willow beach again.

Soon, he found a rabbit under a red willow root, which had already dug open the snow and was gnawing on grass.

When Li Long came over, this rabbit was smart and didn't run away, but curled its body into a ball, wanting to avoid Li Long's sight.

But Li Long had already seen it when it curled its body, Li Long walked to the front with a smile, and just as he was about to reach out to catch it, he found that this was a big-bellied female rabbit.

It also saw Li Long, and then showed its teeth.

Li Long shook his head, it was better to let this thing go, and it wasn't missing this one.

He left here, leaving behind the puzzled female rabbit.

Continued south, there was more than one rabbit with small cleverness like the one just now, and there was one that plunged into the snow and pretended to be dead.

Unfortunately, Li Long's eyesight was excellent, and he could see its slight movement—after all, it still had a heartbeat, and its body was moving slightly.

Li Long wore gloves, grabbed the back neck skin of this rabbit and stuffed it into his pocket.

In less than two hours, Li Long changed a bag and carried thirteen rabbits back.

Actually there were more, but Li Long didn't want to catch them anymore.

He carried the bag to the jeep, turned his head and looked at the red willow forest in the north, Liang Dacheng's figure was still appearing and disappearing in the red willow forest, obviously there were quite a few rabbits on that side too.

Li Long drove the jeep and made a turn to drive back, arrived at the residential point, the sun was still a pole high, Li Long entered his older brother's courtyard, Li Juan and Li Qiang had already finished school, and both ran out when they heard the movement.

"Uncle, Uncle, why did you come here at this time?"

"Uncle, your car is so beautiful!"

Li Jianguo, who heard the movement, came out of the room, and Li Long happened to take out the bag containing the rabbits.

"Went to chase rabbits?" Li Jianguo took the bag and asked with a smile.

"Hmm, quite a few. Put one bag here, and I'll take another bag back."

"You have many friends, use many, our family is not short of meat, get two to eat and taste the freshness."

Li Long didn't push back, he closed the jeep door and entered the room.

Li Juan and Li Qiang were teasing the two dead rabbits.

For them, they saw wild boars often, and roe deer and red deer could also be seen, but rabbits were a bit rare.

And compared to big guys like roe deer and red deer, rabbits were actually more popular with children.

Small, cute. Of course, small rabbits were like this, the attack power of this kind of adult wild rabbit was not weak at all, that claw scratch, leg kick, adults were enough to suffer.

Li Long chatted with his family, drank a bowl of hot tea, and then went out and drove the jeep away.

Du Chunfang was very dissatisfied, the youngest son always came and went in a hurry, didn't ask a few questions, and didn't see if he had become thin.

But there was no help for it, he had his own life, he had his own days to live.

She actually wanted to go to the large courtyard in the city to live with Li Long, but thinking that even if she went there, Li Long wouldn't be at home from time to time, so forget it.

Staying here was more comfortable.

Looking at the older son, older daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, Du Chunfang actually knew that her life was already very good. Compared with those old mothers in the village, it was much better.

Which family's old mother could eat meat every day? And didn't have to work in the field, and could drink wine every day, and it was good wine!

Yes, Du Chunfang had already started drinking, drinking a small cup every night.

Li Qing Xia didn't say anything about her. There is wine at home, drink it, and don't drink too much, and won't make trouble, what is there?

Li Long drove the jeep to the old horse pen, left a wild rabbit for Uncle Luo, and then drove back.

Arrived at the large courtyard, the sky was already dark, Yang Da Jie had already made dinner, Gu Xiaoxia hadn't gotten off work yet.

Li Long took the rabbits down and started to process them.

Most of the rabbit skins had to be skinned. One was that they could be sold for a few yuan, and the other was that some rabbits were to be given to others, and those people couldn't handle this rabbit, so he simply processed them himself.

He planned to send two processed rabbits to Director Qian, and two unskinned ones. Maybe Director Qian liked hunting and liked to process rabbits himself?

Keep two at home to eat, send two to Section Chief Li, send two to Wei Zhuren, just right.

Rabbit skins were easy to peel, and when Gu Xiaoxia came back, Li Long had already processed them, and put them in the tractor bucket to freeze.

Mice couldn't climb in, it was good to put things here.

After eating dinner, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia about his plan.

"Going to the prefecture tomorrow?" Gu Xiaoxia asked.

"Hmm, go tomorrow, go in the morning, and come back in the afternoon." Li Long said, "With a jeep, it's much faster."

This distance was about the same as going west to Kuitun, but the jeep was much faster than the tractor, and coming back was also convenient.

Gu Xiaoxia knew Li Long was going to handle official business, so she didn't say anything, and changed the subject.

At this time, Gu Xiaoxia was already a bit pregnant, but the pregnancy reaction was very light, occasionally wanting to vomit, but not uncomfortable, which was strange.

"That means our child doesn't want you to be too tired." Li Long joked, "Don't think too much, isn't it good to be able to eat and sleep? I heard that there are people who want to eat messy and strange things during pregnancy, you don't have any strange reactions right now, this is very good."

Gu Xiaoxia actually just wanted to talk to Li Long more about her feelings, hearing Li Long's words, she smiled.

Touching her belly, feeling the life gestating in her body, that kind of happiness was full.

The next day after breakfast, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Li Long put the things into the jeep, added oil and water, and then drove to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Sent the rabbits to Wei Zhuren and Section Chief Li, Li Long came out of the gate.

He didn't dare to drive the jeep into the courtyard, that would be too high-profile.

He left the jeep outside, and not many people saw it.

Next, set off for Beiting! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 591 =====

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