[{"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-6":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},1927262,2572,"Chapter 6: Don't Want Me, But Want My Chicken?","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-6",6,"\u003Cp>Early the next morning, when Li Long got up, he felt the temperature in the room had already dropped significantly. He rubbed his hands and feet, quickly put on his clothes, walked to the stove, poked it with a fire hook, and found the fire inside had long gone out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been exhausted from returning late last night, so he hadn't added coal from the coal shed; now he had to build a new fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pushing the door open, Li Long rubbed his hands, jogged over to the coal shed, tore off a few reeds for kindling, grabbed a handful of corn cobs, and hurried back into the room carrying two pieces of split firewood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just that short while, his ears had already turned red from the cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened the stove door, used the fire hook to clear out the ash inside, placed the reeds down, spread the corn cobs, added the split firewood, covered it with the stove lid, took out his kerosene lighter, bent down to ignite the reserved tuft of reeds through the stove door, and closed the door once the fire caught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he was cleaning up the ash, the door was pushed open and Li Qiang walked in, rubbing his hands:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uncle, Mom called you over to wash your face and get ready for breakfast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What meal?\" Li Long asked while sweeping the ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cornmeal porridge, pickles, cornmeal cakes, and oh, there are also steamed buns!\" Li Qiang's eyes sparkled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's pretty good,\" Li Long said with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not good, I still want to eat meat,\" Li Qiang said quietly. \"My sister told me not to say it, but actually I know she wants to too...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then we'll eat meat at noon,\" Li Long said as he carried the ash out in the dustpan, walking and speaking at the same time: \"How about that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Great! Uncle, what meat are we eating?\" Li Qiang looked up, his eyes shining as he asked, \"Is it old sparrow meat again? That's delicious, but there's so little of it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gua-gua chicken,\" Li Long said, patting Li Qiang's head. \"No rush, let's have breakfast first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's a gua-gua chicken? Mom won't let us kill the chickens at home; she says they'll lay eggs next year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not the ones at home,\" Li Long said. He went out to dump the ash, placed the dustpan by the door, and led Li Qiang into the west room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steam from cooking and boiling water made the outer kitchen damp. Liang Yuemei was stir-frying pickles; seeing Li Long enter, she kept stirring while saying:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiao Long, wash your face quickly and get ready for breakfast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay,\" Li Long replied, heading to the washstand in the corner. Seeing fresh water had been changed in the basin, he quickly washed his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Qiang had already run into the room he shared with Li Juan and loudly told his sister:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister, Uncle said we're eating gua-gua chicken at noon!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\" Li Juan, who was tidying up her and Li Qiang's pillows and quilts, hadn't heard clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Jianguo outside heard it and shouted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What gua-gua chicken? Where would we catch gua-gua chicken now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Qiang felt wronged, walked over to Li Jianguo, and stubbornly said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was my uncle who said it. My uncle said we're eating gua-gua chicken at noon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei looked at Li Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I caught a few last night,\" Li Long pointed outside. \"I put them in the snow. After breakfast, I plan to pluck and clean them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many?\" Li Jianguo looked surprised. He knew his younger brother's capabilities well. Let alone catching gua-gua chicken, he wouldn't even help when the family slaughtered a chicken. What had possessed him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Five,\" Li Long said somewhat proudly, holding up his hand and showing five fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on, let's go see!\" Li Jianguo, somewhat skeptical, said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want to see too!\" Li Qiang shouted loudly, then followed behind Li Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Juan said nothing but followed behind as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liang Yuemei wanted to follow too, but there were vegetables in the pot, so she could only listen for sounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long walked to the snow pile by the courtyard wall, used a wooden snow shovel to lift the snow crust, poked around a couple of times, and revealed the gua-gua chickens lying together inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One, two, three... five! Sister, there really are five!\" Li Qiang happily counted as he watched Li Long lay out the gua-gua chickens one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's enough, that's enough, stop talking,\" Li Jianguo glared at him and said quietly to Li Long:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiao Long, where did you catch them?\" \"At the field edge,\" Li Long pointed east. Just as he was about to explain the exact location, footsteps and dog barking came from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time Li Long wanted to quickly put the gua-gua chickens away, it was too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A girl appeared at the main gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long glanced at her and said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo smiled and took the initiative to greet her:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shufen, you're here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Shufen hadn't expected to find both Li Jianguo and Li Long, plus the two children, outside the house, and she paused in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she saw the few gua-gua chickens at Li Long's feet, she couldn't help swallowing hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words she had rehearsed for a while on the way suddenly wouldn't come out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Li Jianguo's greeting, Wu Shufen looked slightly panicked; she didn't know what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the gua-gua chicken, Wu Shufen thought that bringing up breaking up could wait another day or two without any problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, Wu Shufen was quite pretty. Although she was wearing a floral padded jacket, her padded trousers were clearly altered to be slim-fitting, her feet were in fashionable rubber-soled padded shoes, and the floral headscarf on her head was very stylish—Li Long had originally been attracted to her pretty face and her knack for dressing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, at the time he hadn't seen the fickle, money-loving mindset behind that pretty face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Wu Shufen staring intently at the gua-gua chicken, Li Jianguo, thinking she was his younger brother's girlfriend, smiled and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Um... Shufen, look, these gua-gua chickens were caught by Xiao Long yesterday. How about...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Big brother,\" Li Long, understanding Li Jianguo's intention immediately, cut him off and said, glancing at Wu Shufen before continuing:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Big brother, wait, let me ask a few questions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo knew that between Li Long and Wu Shufen, his younger brother was in the weaker position. After all, Wu Shufen was good-looking and had many suitors. Now that his brother was suddenly taking the initiative, he thought it was a good thing, so he said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go ahead and ask.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he turned to Li Juan and Li Qiang and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You two, go inside quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he himself turned and walked back into the house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's best to listen less when two people are talking about their relationship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Long didn't care if others were around; he asked Wu Shufen directly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you hear from Gu Ermao that I was fired, so you came to break up with me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What? Break up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jianguo suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at Li Long with some surprise, then looked at Wu Shufen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Shufen didn't expect Li Long to bring up the topic first; she immediately found herself at a disadvantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But breaking up was definitely necessary. Worried Li Long might say something unpleasant, she quickly spoke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, let's break up. You've been fired; you must have done something wrong! We were dating because you pursued me; I thought you were sincere and had a future. I never expected your character to be so bad. Being fired affects your whole life; I don't want to be implicated in the future...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Wu Shufen stopped speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew Li Long's temper: vain and concerned about saving face. Breaking up was fine; it was just a pity about the plump chicken—if they hadn't broken up, Li Long would surely have given her two or even three chickens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe, to win her back, he would give her a chicken directly? Should she take it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long saw her expression and knew what the girl was thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanting to break up with me is fine, but wanting my chicken?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No way!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1405,"2026-06-14T03:07:11.886Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","d80554eecb6cfe8f0edac09087bd80586656ae6c55c39360baeabacbfa98502a","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-7","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-5",180,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]