Chapter 634: It

After finishing this lunch, it was already afternoon. The young people didn't drink alcohol; they planned to go to Yushanjiang's house and finish laying the water pipes there before dark.

According to Li Long's own thoughts, he also wanted to follow and take a look. He didn't trust others to do the work of pressing the water pipe head.

But Wei Zhuren and Ma Xiao Yan were obviously a bit tired, and Li Xiangqian had already told him to leave in a while.

Li Long went to talk to Yushanjiang, repeatedly instructing him to tie the water pipe head with gauze, and to make the water pit for the water inlet deeper and clear the mud and sand.

Yushanjiang told him not to worry; he knew how to handle the water used by his own family.

So Li Long drove the jeep to pick up Wei Zhuren, Ma Xiao Yan, and Ye Laya, and Li Xiangqian still led the truck, leaving the mountain valley and returning to the county under the farewell of Halimu, Yushanjiang, and the others.

The women at Halimu's winter quarters were cleaning up the leftovers. After cleaning up here, they would also go to Yushanjiang's side together.

After doing heavy work, the evening meal still had to be taken care of.

Li Long drove the jeep to the county, first sent Ma Xiao Yan and the others to the county committee courtyard, and then sent Wei Zhuren back to the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Little Li, you've worked hard, have a good rest this afternoon, are you going to the mountains tomorrow?"

"Yes."

"Then arrange your time yourself, communicate with the cooperative in time if you need anything, tell your section chief, if you can't handle it, tell me."

Wei Zhuren's words made Li Long feel quite good.

"By the way, the mountains we entered today are not very deep, and we didn't run into any wild beasts. Are you going deeper into the mountains tomorrow?"

"Yes. The families behind basically live in the deep mountains."

"Then isn't it very dangerous?" Wei Zhuren took the initiative to care, "I know they have guns. Let's go, I'll go tell Old Hou, you take two hundred rounds of ammunition, so you have a guarantee when entering the mountains."

Li Long was overjoyed and hurriedly followed Wei Zhuren to the Security Section.

"The ammunition here is mainly consumed by you in a year." Section Chief Hou said half-jokingly.

"That's also used in the right place." Wei Zhuren also smiled, "Our militia training has basically stopped, and those bullets are about to reach their service life. It's better to give them to those herdsmen than to keep them. There are many wild beasts in the mountains, and they live much more dangerously than we do."

Seeing the situation with his own eyes was quite shocking; there was only one winter quarter within a few kilometers. If someone said there was no danger, who would believe it?

Unable to empathize, but helping as much as he could was all he could do.

Carrying a bag of bullets, Li Long didn't return to the big courtyard immediately after driving the jeep. He first went to the Five-Handicraft Store and bought some iron shovels and pickaxes there.

During this labor, he found that the tools in the hands of some herdsmen were quite old. Although they didn't use them much usually, having a good tool was very beneficial for daily life.

When preparing to transfer in late April or early May, and setting up felt tents again in the summer pasture, various tools would also be needed.

Li Long equipped the tools he bought into the jeep's trunk, planning to pull them over tomorrow to give to those herdsmen.

He had eaten a meal of hand-grabbed meat at noon and ate quite a bit of roasted mutton, but at this time he felt a bit hungry again.

This young body was really good, unlike in his previous life when he was fifty or sixty, feeling full after eating just a little bit.

When he drove the jeep back to the big courtyard, Sister Yang had already returned. Han Fang had started school and hadn't finished school yet. Li Long got off the jeep, turned around to close the big courtyard gate, and asked casually:

"Sister Yang, what are we eating tonight?"

"Steamed buns tonight, cooking dough drop soup, stir-frying eggs. Her aunt likes to eat stir-fried eggs these past few days, so I stir-fry them every day." Sister Yang responded in the kitchen.

"Good." Having freshly steamed buns to eat, Li Long was quite happy. He ate a lot of meat and little naan at noon, and although he ate quite a bit, he always felt something was missing.

When Gu Xiaoxia rode her bicycle back, the courtyard gate was open.

She felt quite happy when she saw the jeep.

Gu Bo Yuan walked over slowly with his hands behind his back. In the courtyard, Li Long was moving a chair for Gu Xiaoxia.

Her belly was too big, and she would be tired after standing for a while, so Li Long would try his best to make Gu Xiaoxia more comfortable at home.

Thinking of himself in the past, he didn't seem to care much about these things when his wife was pregnant.

Gu Bo Yuan shook his head slightly and walked into the courtyard.

Freshly steamed buns always easily whetted one's appetite. Li Long ate two by himself, and also drank a large bowl of dough drop soup.

Sister Yang knew how to make hot and sour soup, and dough drop soup was taught by Li Long. Now that spring had arrived, the small green vegetables in the vegetable garden had grown, and there was tomato sauce, then beat in egg flowers, and add some dough drops, and it was made.

After Li Long demonstrated it once, Sister Yang learned it later and made it from time to time, which was quite appetizing.

At home, including Han Fang, everyone liked to drink this.

During the meal, Gu Bo Yuan asked:

"Are you going to the mountains every day from now on?"

"Yes, going every day. But it's like going to work, going in the morning and coming back in the afternoon." Li Long explained, "The work is just digging ditches and burying pipes, easy to do, but those herdsmen haven't done it before, and I still have to watch some details, otherwise, if the good thing isn't done well, it will be troublesome."

"That's the logic." Gu Bo Yuan nodded, turned his head to look at the jeep outside, and suddenly sighed, "Having a car is convenient, going to the mountains in the morning and evening and arriving. Used to think tractors were convenient, faster than horse carts, now looking at this car, it's even more powerful!"

Li Long thought to himself, that's for sure, otherwise could he have exchanged a tiger skin for this?

Spring had not long arrived, and old people with chronic diseases like rheumatism should be uncomfortable in their waists and legs. The tiger bone wine Li Long had soaked was almost ready to drink. His father and mother drank a small cup every day, saying the effect was very good.

Gu Bo Yuan hadn't reached the time to drink this yet, and Li Long also saved a bottle for him.

Anyway, there was quite a lot stored in the side room, all stored in advance.

Don't know if Uncle Liang Donglou had drunk it yet.

The next day after breakfast, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, and Li Long continued to drive the jeep to pull things to the mountains.

Li Long really felt that it was much better when it was hot than when it was cold.

At least the jeep was easier to start, no need to add water repeatedly, and the tractor was the same.

Of course, it would be even better when it became electric start in later generations.

When the jeep crossed the Qingshui River, Li Long also saw the militia company commander carrying an iron shovel, not knowing if he was going to work, because he was talking about something with others on the side of the road, so Li Long didn't say hello.

However, he slowed down when passing them, so as not to let the dust brought up cover them.

This road was not a gravel road, the dirt road was dusty, although not as bad as a mud road, but when the car ran fast, the dust and broken leaves brought up behind could also make people on the side of the road covered in dust.

Driving the jeep to Halimu's winter quarters, Halimu had already left, his wife was there, gestured a few times, Li Long could guess that Halimu had gone to Talihar's winter quarters.

Okay, Li Long put down a few new tools, and then drove the jeep slowly forward in the mountain valley.

This car could be driven to Yushanjiang's side, but couldn't reach Talihar's place.

The jeep stopped at Yushanjiang's winter quarters, there was no one here, Li Long got off the car and locked the car door, preparing to walk to Talihar's side, thought about it and opened the car door again, took out the 56-semi-automatic rifle from the back and carried it on his back.

In these deep mountains, who knew what he would run into? Better be careful.

Sure enough, not long after leaving Yushanjiang's winter quarters, Li Long ran into two gray wolves, tearing at something at the mouth of a mountain valley.

When Li Long approached with the gun, the two gray wolves bared their teeth at Li Long, and then ran away.

Because they saw Li Long raise the gun.

Li Long guessed that these two gray wolves should have seen guns, or witnessed the power of guns, and were souls under the gun, so they would flee so hastily when they saw him raise the gun.

Li Long smelled a stench before he got close, and then saw that the two wolves were tearing at the remains of half a red deer, which was already a bit rotten by this time.

He covered his nose and walked around it, it was too smelly.

When he rushed to Talihar's winter quarters, Li Long heard old lady Sana talking loudly from afar.

A sheep had also been slaughtered here, the women were processing the mutton, and the men were digging water pipe ditches with effort.

In Li Long's view, it was a matter of improving the herdsmen's drinking water, but in the herdsmen's view, it was a big event. They had lived like that for generations, and never thought that a simple water pipe could make life very convenient.

After experiencing it at Halimu's winter quarters yesterday, old lady Sana was very looking forward to having her own water pipes buried as soon as possible.

Too convenient!

Other women in the winter quarters usually listened to the men. Although they were also anxious, they could only wait.

Sana was different, she was the master of the house, and this matter had to be handled properly.

This was a big event!

In Sana's eyes, women in the tribe were more tired than men, and also needed better working conditions.

Such a thing as connecting water pipes was one of them.

So Sana felt that Li Long was more pleasing to the eye the more she looked at him. If it weren't for Li Long already being married, and if it weren't for the fact that her family only had grandsons and no granddaughters, she would have wanted to marry her imaginary granddaughter to Li Long.

Good young man!

So when Li Long appeared in front of everyone, Sana immediately let her grandson Talihar go to greet Li Long, and specifically emphasized, let Li Long not work anymore, the work of digging water ditches was already allocated, let him go and check the quality of those water ditches.

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When Li Long saw Talihar, he found that although he hadn't recovered to his best, he was obviously more cheerful than last time, at least not so silent.

"My grandmother said, let you check the work of digging water pipes, and the water pit at the water source, see if it's okay." Talihar repeated Sana's words.

"Good, let's go." Li Long carried the gun and walked up, asking as he walked, "How are you now? Not having nightmares anymore?"

"Occasionally still have one." Talihar didn't hide it, "I can't control it myself, but I'm not as afraid as before."

Li Long nodded. He actually wanted to ask where that bear appeared, but was worried about Talihar's mental state, so he didn't ask.

When the two walked to the water source, Li Long found that Yushanjiang was clearing the pit here.

And it wasn't just one person, there was also a young man helping him.

Yushanjiang smiled after seeing Li Long, and continued to dig out the gravel in the pit.

His shoes and trouser legs were already wet, but Yushanjiang didn't care about that much, digging for a while and then using an iron shovel to compare to see if the depth was enough.

Li Long saw the water pipe and gauze on the side, so he went over, picked up the gauze, folded it into several layers, wrapped the water pipe head, and tied it tightly with thin iron wire.

He had done this work yesterday, and was skilled.

Over there, Yushanjiang had already dug the pit, and the trough leading to the water ditch had also been chiseled out by that young man, so Li Long pulled the pipe and pressed it down. The water pipe was immersed in the water, not touching the bottom, so Li Long stepped down, and his shoes were immediately wet.

The water was ice-cold, Li Long didn't feel anything, and let Talihar straighten the pipe behind, and let the young man press the soil into the water pipe behind him.

Yushanjiang wanted to come over to replace Li Long, Li Long said:

"No need, now we need to press gravel at the water pipe mouth, then press large stones, to press the pipe mouth."

He said while pulling stones from both sides to press down.

Yushanjiang reacted after watching:

"We didn't handle it well over there, we have to redo it when we go back today. I just used large stones to press it, no gravel, will something happen?"

"Nothing will happen, it's just that it's easy for a pile of sand to leak in later and block the pipe mouth. If that's the case, the water behind will be small. It's okay, if the water is small, come over and take a look, just push the stones away. Anyway, there is gauze, sand can't get in. It's just that this gauze might need to be changed once every three or five years."

There was no iron gauze net at this time, otherwise it would be better to use that.

But it would also rust, anyway, one had to be diligent.

After the water pipe was buried, Li Long and Yushanjiang's shoes and pants were both wet, they didn't care about that much, watching the young men who had already dug the water ditch straighten the water pipe and press it in and start to bury the soil, and then stopped interfering.

The third family had already been done, and the young men were already skilled.

"That place, that's where I ran into the bear." Talihar suddenly said to Li Long, pointing to a mountain top in the distance.

The Tianshan Mountains are different from the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains in the Northeast. Although the Western Tianshan Forest Region is a general term, the mountains in the Western Tianshan are not all forests.

In the deep mountains of the Western Tianshan, most of the shady slopes are forests, and the sunny slopes (south side) are grass slopes or shrubs, with crisscrossing mountain tops, and the terrain is relatively complex.

The forest region in the Northeast is a genuine forest region, and you can't see the end of the forest for dozens or even hundreds of kilometers. The forest region here in Tianshan is actually piece by piece, and it is very difficult to see that kind of continuous dozens of kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers.

After all, this is a mountain range, layer upon layer of mountains, that is a ridge, the composition is different.

The mountain top near Talihar's winter quarters is not very high. Li Long looked in the direction he pointed, and there were several mountain ridges crisscrossing, one of which could see crisscrossing rocks on the hillside.

He was referring to the area where the rocks were.

"At that time, I saw roe deer running in those rocks," Talihar said, "so I thought about going over to hunt one, or if I could catch a small one, that would be fine. I just didn't expect that when I ran over, I didn't find the roe deer, but instead saw a bear, saw a wolf."

Talihar took the initiative to tell the details at that time, which made Li Long quite gratified, indicating that this big young man had been able to face the situation at that time and was walking out.

"Do you want to go over and take a look?" Yushanjiang looked at the gun Li Long was carrying, then looked over there, and said with a smile, "See what's there now."

Li Long turned his head to look at Talihar, Talihar lowered his head, then raised it again, and said:

"Go, I'll take you over to take a look."

"Go, anyway, the mutton isn't ready yet." Yushanjiang smiled, "I didn't bring a gun, Talihar, bring your gun."

There was no roasted meat today, it was boiled mutton here, and there were people making naan in the naan pit.

People down at the winter quarters were cheering, the water had already flowed over, and some people were digging pits, and the matter of burying pipes was proceeding together.

Li Long carried the gun and walked towards that mountain with Yushanjiang, Talihar ran back to get the gun.

Li Long vaguely heard old lady Sana's voice, and then Talihar ran over with the gun.

"My grandmother said, there is a piece of jade at home, my grandmother picked it up when grazing sheep after the snow melted some time ago, said you take it when you leave later." Talihar said to Li Long, "Bieke's mother said, they caught a small red deer at home, let you take it away too, they are afraid they can't raise it."

Li Long smiled and agreed one by one.

He wouldn't refuse such things anymore, just remember them, and make up for them with supplies later.

Talihar spoke as if it were an ordinary matter, and after speaking, he led the way in front.

The three of them walked forward all the way, the road at the beginning was easy to walk, climbed over a grass slope—Li Long guessed that this area should be Talihar's winter pasture, there were not many shrubs, all were turf, and occasionally he could see a few mushrooms emerging.

"Damn it, wolf!" After crossing the grass slope, Yushanjiang suddenly shouted, pulling Li Long's attention from the mushrooms, and looked in the direction he pointed.

Just on the rocky hillside Talihar pointed to earlier, several gray wolves were shuttling between the rocks. It was more than three hundred meters away from here. If it weren't for the sharp contrast between the gray wolves and the green hillside, it wouldn't necessarily be clear.

When Li Long looked over, he had already raised the gun, but seeing the distance was too far, he was not a sharpshooter, so he put down the raised gun again.

"Those wolves should have discovered us," Yushanjiang said, "don't know what they are doing there."

"Go over and take a look and you'll know." Li Long carried the gun and walked towards that side with big strides.

Talihar, who was originally leading the way, slowly walked to the back.

This feeling, a bit similar!

Could it be that he would run into that giant bear again?

Anyway, that was the first time he saw such a big bear.

Li Long and Yushanjiang walked forward with big strides. While walking, Li Long also loaded the bullets, closed the safety after loading, but his finger pressed on the safety, and it could be opened at will.

If there is a situation, he can shoot immediately—a certain general said—whether you can hit it is one thing, first shoot, even if you don't hit it, scaring it will give you a chance to shoot the next shot.

When Li Long walked, he looked back, the place with wolves was no more than five hundred meters in a straight line from the winter quarters.

It's really not safe here. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 635 =====