Chapter 636: Is it time to raise a dog?

To say that Li Long and Halimu and their tribe's herdsmen have been dealing with each other for two years, and he has stayed in the mountains for at least a quarter of the year.

But it was the first time he had truly walked through this small tribe.

Li Long only learned later that old lady Sana gave him this rare jade stone, and there was another important reason, because his arrival led Talihar to a bear cave, untying the knot in his grandson's heart.

As the old lady of the family, Sana could see that Talihar went out with Li Long with a gun, and when he came back, his mood was obviously much better.

For her, her grandson's health and happiness were much more important than that stone.

After finishing work in the afternoon and eating, Li Long held the jade stone, Yushanjiang helped him hold the small roe deer, and Halimu brought the extra iron shovels and walked back together.

Walking to Yushanjiang's house, Li Long took a bag and put the small roe deer in, tied the mouth, and poked a few holes in the bag for ventilation.

The little guy couldn't resist, so he had to endure it.

Li Long took out the tools in the trunk and handed them to Yushanjiang, asking him to distribute them to everyone when he had time, and then drove the jeep and walked out with Halimu.

Halimu rode a horse to guide in front, Li Long followed behind, and the two could occasionally chat.

The trees in the mountains were green, the green grass had grown, and occasionally he could see roe deer or wild goats flashing by in the mountain valley.

When they reached Halimu's winter quarters, he asked Li Long to come down and drink some milk tea.

Li Long then came down.

Halimu's mother took Nason and Sasken to the school at the stay-behind point. At the moment, only Halimu's wife was here. Today she didn't go to graze sheep far away, there was still dry grass near the winter quarters, and the sheep flock was eating on the grass nearby, and didn't run far.

Seeing Li Long and them coming over, Halimu's wife went to boil milk tea.

The two stood outside the winter quarters and chatted. It was more comfortable outside than inside.

It was wider here, and the sun could still shine over, but because his shoes and socks were still wet, Li Long took a pair of rubber shoes from the trunk and changed them after taking off his socks. There were no spare socks, anyway he had to drive, so he didn't mind.

Halimu immediately thought of the experience of exchanging a pair of rubber shoes for a small sheep.

That was before he knew Li Long. Supplies in the mountains were relatively tight, and they didn't go down the mountain often. When people from outside came into the mountains to pick deer antlers and dig medicinal herbs, the herdsmen in the mountains would go to exchange some supplies with them.

Such an era, after Li Long came, was gone forever.

Since knowing Li Long, there were still some people in the mountains taking a small amount of supplies from outside, wanting to exchange for whole cattle and sheep, but at this time the herdsmen already knew the value of outside supplies, and because of Li Long's existence, their supplies were not lacking.

Such unequal exchange, then never happened again.

He suddenly thought of one thing, and asked Li Long:

"The black dog in Mulati's house gave birth to a litter of puppies, and they can't afford to raise so many, do you want one?"

"Want, how old are they?" Li Long became interested immediately after hearing it.

There were dogs in Halimu and Yushanjiang's houses, but they were all big dogs and old dogs. Li Long hadn't seen any puppies, so he hadn't mentioned it.

Moreover, before he was married, it wasn't convenient to raise a dog. It would have been okay to raise it at his eldest brother's house, but before buying a tractor and a car, he couldn't bring it to the mountains.

Now that he had a jeep, the big courtyard had a hostess, and Sister Yang and the others were also in the big courtyard, so Li Long had the idea of raising a dog.

Whether to let the dog help hunt was one aspect, mainly it was to raise a dog in the big courtyard, and when he was often away, at least there was a dog to embolden the women in the courtyard.

Those few hedgehogs that had just become active couldn't embolden the women.

The herdsmen in the mountains raised authentic Kazakh sheepdogs, which later generations gave a very awesome title: Tianshan Mastiff, a large dog with very strong attack power and much smarter than the Tibetan Mastiff.

What Li Long remembered very clearly was when he went to Ili for tourism in his previous life, when passing by a herdsman's felt tent on the grassland, possibly because the sound of the car startled the cattle and sheep grazing nearby, it angered the sheepdogs there.

Those two dogs chased the car for two or three hundred meters, barking while running, the sound was dull and fierce.

Obviously, the combat effectiveness was not generally strong.

It was also said that this thing could fight a wolf one-on-one, and could even fight back and forth with a snow leopard.

However, the ones Li Long had seen in this life were relatively tame, at least the dogs in Halimu and Yushanjiang's houses were quite obedient when facing Li Long.

It seemed they had already defaulted to him being a friend of the master's family, so they wouldn't move their mouths.

So as soon as Halimu said it, Li Long definitely wanted to raise one.

"How many do you want? I'll tell him in advance, let him keep them for you. Or in two days, the water pipe will be connected to their house, you can pick them yourself."

"Okay." Li Long was a bit excited. He thought about whether to get a few more, put one at his eldest brother's place, put one at Old Luo Shu's place, and then at the big courtyard... put two?

See when the time comes.

Anyway, he could afford to raise them. Looking after the house and courtyard, it was still better to have our own dogs. Although during this period, the movie "Saifu" had been shown, and children all liked this kind of black-backed dog that could stand up its ears, but Li Long knew the power of the local mastiff.

The matter was settled like this.

The milk tea was boiled, the two drank a bowl each, Li Long didn't drink anymore, and then drove the jeep back.

When he returned to the big courtyard, Gu Xiaoxia had already finished work and was walking slowly in the courtyard. Seeing Li Long come back, a smile appeared on her face.

"I brought back a little guy." Li Long smiled and opened the trunk, took down the bag, untied the mouth and released the small roe deer.

The small roe deer was probably quite scared after being stuffed in the bag, and ran around calling as soon as it came out. Gu Xiaoxia looked at this little guy and immediately liked it.

"I'll get some medicine in a while, wipe it on its body, and get rid of the parasites." Li Long said, "We'll raise it at home for a while."

"Good, good, good." Gu Xiaoxia still missed the days when those few deer and roe deer were frolicking in the courtyard last year. Later, when there were none, her mood was bad for several days.

Now that there was one again, how could she not be happy?

Girls like small, furry things relatively more.

He also carried that jade stone down from the jeep.

Gu Bo Yuan had no interest in the small roe deer, feeling it was better to slaughter it when it was big. But seeing Li Long holding this jade stone, his eyes lit up:

"Good stuff."

"Hmm, given by the herdsmen." Li Long put the jade stone on the steps of the side room, letting him look closely.

"Top-grade Mahe jade," Gu Bo Yuan looked carefully, and touched it, saying, "And with only this little stone skin, the rest of the jade meat is all exposed, and there is not a single crack, too rare."

Gu Bo Yuan was also considered knowledgeable, he had rarely seen such jade stones.

Li Long smiled, showed the jade stone to Gu Xiaoxia, Gu Xiaoxia was just surprised, and went to sit and tease the small roe deer.

She sat on the chair, holding some green vegetables Li Long helped her pick from the vegetable field, the small roe deer was hungry, and circled around Gu Xiaoxia calling for food.

It wasn't very afraid of people.

Li Long then put the jade stone away.

"You must put this away, this stone is worth a lot of money." Gu Bo Yuan couldn't help reminding, because he saw that Li Long intended to put the stone in the side room.

That side room seemed to be where Li Long put sundries?

Li Long smiled and said: "I know."

Still put it over there.

However, he locked the door, making Gu Bo Yuan feel relieved.

This Li Long, still had to be reminded when there was no one else, how could he be so careless?

Sister Yang shouted that it was time to eat at the kitchen door, and then she also saw the small roe deer, and then Han Fang, who was doing homework in the room, also saw it, and all ran over to look.

"You eat, I'll get some corn flour paste for it." Sister Yang thought about raising this thing like a lamb, "So small, can it drink? Has it been weaned yet?"

"Weaned, right?" Gu Xiaoxia wasn't sure, "Just now it was eating vegetable leaves..." Then turned her head to look at Li Long.

"I don't know either." Li Long spread his hands, "When we found it, its mother was chased away by wolves, don't know how old it is."

"Then feed it first." Sister Yang waved her hand, "Can eat vegetable leaves, can drink paste."

Li Long and they went to eat, Sister Yang was a bit emotional, now she could still use corn flour to feed this little guy, before that corn flour was the staple food eaten by the family.

When did this life become so good?

The small roe deer saw that everyone had left, and it started calling again.

Gu Xiaoxia was eating, thought of the calling sound, Li Long hurriedly pressed her down:

"Don't worry about it, it will be fine when it gets used to it. There will be food in a while, and it won't call."

It didn't call for so long in the grass, and started acting like a spoiled child as soon as it arrived in the courtyard? This adaptation is too fast, right? Can't spoil it!

But thinking that Bieke's family still had a roe deer, it would be fine to bring it back and give it a companion later.

There was a nest of hedgehogs in the courtyard, but that thing didn't match this small roe deer, and couldn't be a companion.

After dinner, Gu Bo Yuan left, Li Long locked the door, and Han Fang, who had finished her homework, helped her mother clean up the kitchen and went to tease the small roe deer.

At this time, children's homework was relatively small, and they had large chunks of time to play or help at home.

Li Long supported Gu Xiaoxia and walked slowly in the courtyard, just like a male lion accompanying a pregnant female lion to patrol his territory.

A small hedgehog was secretly doing something in the northeast corner, hearing the movement, it immediately drilled into the corner, drilled twice and then froze, then listened to the movement.

Gu Xiaoxia stopped and watched with a smile.

Any animal is good-looking and fun when it is small, this hedgehog is actually not small, as big as two hands held together, but naturally much smaller than its mother, two large ears stood up there, looking quite fun.

There were few people in the courtyard, and with more small animals, it really added a lot of popularity.

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Sister Yang actually wanted to raise some chickens, but Li Long refused. If raised in a cage, that meat is not as good as buying it outside. If not raised in a cage, these chickens eat and poop everywhere, so don't think about the courtyard being clean.

Better buy it to eat. With hedgehogs, roe deer, and then get two dogs, okay, it's almost a zoo.

Gu Xiaoxia walked for twenty minutes and then stopped walking, Li Long supported her into the bedroom, and then washed her feet.

At this time, Gu Xiaoxia's feet were already a bit swollen, soaking feet could be a bit better. After soaking feet, it was massage.

These things had been done for a while, Gu Xiaoxia didn't let him at first, Li Long insisted, she had no choice, happily and shyly enjoying these.

"Which man does these things..." Gu Xiaoxia still said.

"Why care about others?" Li Long said while gently kneading the slightly swollen lower legs, "Do you want to take leave and not go to work first?"

"How can that work?" Gu Xiaoxia refused directly, "I'm not that delicate!"

"This is not delicate, you are pregnant with two, not one." Li Long persuaded, "Different."

"That's also delicate." Gu Xiaoxia had her own persistence.

Okay, can't persuade her.

So Li Long decided to come back no matter how late he was working outside every day.

Actually, the herdsmen could do the work of digging water pipes, Li Long was just worried that they wouldn't handle it well, and the water pipes would be blocked, and it would be a big activity to re-dig.

These young and strong herdsmen themselves were the main force of grazing, concentrating so many days to dig water pipes, although they were willing, they couldn't affect the grazing of cattle and sheep.

After all, in their tradition, grazing is the most important work. In Li Long's impression, Uyghurs had people coming out to do business very early, but Kazakhs didn't, traditions were different.

After sending Gu Xiaoxia to work with the jeep the next day, Li Long continued to go to the mountains.

Gu Xiaoxia's husband using a jeep to send her to work had spread in the Education Bureau, and teachers in some schools knew about it.

After the Wang sister incident, plus Gu Xiaoxia herself was a pregnant woman, no one chewed the tongue anymore.

When Li Long drove the jeep to the Qingshui River, he unexpectedly ran into the militia company commander again.

That militia company commander Meng Hai saw the jeep and immediately avoided to one side, and then he saw Li Long in the driver's seat, was stunned for a while, and then immediately smiled and waved.

Li Long stepped on the brake and parked the car beside Meng Hai.

"Hey, Comrade Li!" Meng Hai smiled and greeted Li Long who got off the car, "Are you going into the mountains?"

"Yes." Li Long said, "What about you?"

"Clearing the canal!" Meng Hai explained, "It's about to be planting season, this winter, there is quite a lot of garbage in the canal, and some places have collapsed, so we have to clear it."

He didn't know that Li Long was also from the countryside, so he explained specifically.

Li Long naturally knew what clearing the canal was for, after all, people in the Fourth Team were also clearing the canal at the moment.

Clearing canals, planting trees, repairing roads, these were the most important public labor uses in Maxian rural areas in the 1980s.

Meng Hai enthusiastically invited Li Long to go into the village to drink some tea, Li Long refused, saying there was work in the mountains.

He knew why Meng Hai was so enthusiastic, after all, last year, people in Qingshui River village earned some money from the big broom task.

At this time, village cadres were sincerely thinking for the people in the village, and they were willing to pay out of their own pockets to let people in the village earn some money.

Of course, if they could earn some themselves, that would be even better.

Li Long himself also thought that if there was a big broom task this year, he would also distribute some to this side.

To be honest, like this, especially the work of carrying poles, it was only these few years. If there were many carrying pole tasks this year, he also planned to distribute some to this side, of course, if it was the same as last year, then forget it.

After chatting with Meng Hai for a few words, Li Long continued to drive the jeep into the mountains.

This time Halimu was waiting for Li Long at the winter quarters. After Li Long arrived, the two, one riding a horse and one driving a car, went to Yushanjiang's side.

Then went to Mulati's house together.

Just in time to bring the dog back.

By the way, there was also that small roe deer.

The young people in the small tribe were already very skilled in how to dig ditches. They knew that the work at the water pipe mouth required technology, so that section was left behind. When Li Long and the others arrived, the water ditch was already half dug.

The three of them went to clear out the water mouth, and this work was done very skillfully. It was just that Li Long was a bit surprised that he actually found sheep dung at the water source.

Not all herdsmen's winter quarters had spring eyes nearby. There was only a stream flowing down from the high mountain stone cracks near Mulati's winter quarters.

So the water source of the water pipe was to intercept a relatively flat place in the middle of the stream, dig out a water pit, and then lead out the water pipe.

There was sheep dung here, indicating that wild mountain goats or argali were active here.

But for herdsmen, this didn't count as anything. The water usually drunk also had livestock footprints upstream, what was worth caring about?

Li Long also just looked and said, and then went to dig the pit together.

Halimu let Li Long go to tie the gauze of the pipe mouth, he and Yushanjiang one dug the water pit, one dug the stones from the water pit to the water ditch.

These were heavy work.

Li Long tied the gauze quickly, and after tying it, he smashed the stone ditch with Halimu.

Actually, this section was the easiest to freeze, as long as this place was handled well, the rest basically could guarantee that there would be no problems.

After handling this section, the young men had already excitedly straightened the water pipe and pressed it down.

After the water pipe was buried, Li Long let Halimu take him to see that nest of dogs.

The mother dog was black, the male dog wasn't seen, the puppies had already opened their eyes, there were black, black and white flowers, all very cute.

"You pick." Halisun pointed to the six dogs in the nest, "Mulati said, they only keep one at home, you can pick as many as you want."

"Then I want all five." Li Long laughed after hearing it, "This dog is really beautiful!"

He was talking about the mother dog. Although that black dog looked a bit haggard, its body shape was very large, larger than the gray wolves Li Long had hunted. The coat color was also bright, and it looked like it had been wiped with hair oil under the sun.

The black dog glared at the people who gathered around to protect her children, and only after Mulati came over did she slowly relax her vigilance, licking the puppies from time to time.

The puppies were quite curious about people, running to the feet of several people with fleshy short legs, smelling the smell, or fighting with the trouser legs, biting from time to time.

Six puppies, three pure black, two black and white flowers, one white with more white.

If it was five, Li Long planned to raise two in the courtyard, give one to his eldest brother, one to Old Luo Shu, and one to Uncle Liang Donglou's place.

There were many things in the courtyard, it was better to have a dog to look after the courtyard.

Hmm, that's it. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 637 =====