Chapter 641: Peace of mind before entering the mountains

What Meng Hai brought for Li Long were the dogfish caught in the afternoon, which had been cleaned.

After cleaning, there were as many as three or four kilograms—didn't know how they were caught.

"Seeing that you liked it when you ate it," Meng Hai said with a smile, "went to catch it in the afternoon, thinking that you would definitely come back, and really bumped into it."

Li Long took the basin and looked at it, and said with a smile:

"Then if I stay in the mountains, wouldn't you wait in vain? Thank you, take this back, I just happen to stew it for my wife. She is pregnant, and has been able to eat recently."

"Pregnant? Then congratulations, congratulations!" Meng Hai said with a smile, "Then you must go back quickly."

Li Long put the fish basin in the trunk, waved to Meng Hai, got in the car, and drove away.

This fish was still fresh, although it wasn't particularly hot now, it definitely couldn't be kept for too long.

When driving the jeep back to the big courtyard, the sun hadn't completely set, and Li Long was quite proud.

This car was fast!

Sister Yang was cooking, Li Long hurriedly carried the basin down and entered the kitchen.

"Yo, so many small dogfish—heh, they aren't small!"

"Can stewing fish be in time?" Li Long asked.

"Can, but can't stew it all, right?" Sister Yang wiped her hands on her apron, took the basin and looked at it, and said:

"Stew some first, and then deep-fry the rest."

"Good." Li Long nodded with satisfaction and walked out of the kitchen.

The puppies kept circling him. Li Long originally thought about taking a fish to show it to see if it would eat it, but later thought about it and forgot it, don't get pricked.

He turned back to the kitchen, took a piece of steamed bread, came out and sat on the steps of the side room, and started teasing the dogs.

Good dogs need to be trained, all animals should be easier to train the younger they are.

Seeing Li Long holding the steamed bread, the puppies immediately gathered around.

Li Long learned the movements of those dog trainers in later generations and started "training".

The little black dog was still ignorant, didn't know anything, Li Long gestured while using his hands to fiddle, anyway, just treat it as playing.

When Gu Bo Yuan entered the courtyard and saw Li Long feeding the puppies with steamed bread, and the two little roe deer joining in the fun on the side, he was a bit dissatisfied:

"Why can you feed dogs with steamed bread? Isn't that too wasteful?"

"Heh, Uncle Gu, don't look down on these dogs. Maybe after a while when they grow up, they can chase a wild boar back into the mountains."

"Forget it." Gu Bo Yuan shook his head. "Using dogs to hunt? This thing needs practice, right? How can it be so easy?"

Li Long just laughed and didn't answer. Anyway, just playing, things later, talk about it later.

Dinner was originally simple porridge, steamed bread, and stir-fried dishes. Li Long brought back the cleaned dogfish, so this meal was eaten quite fragrantly. Gu Xiaoxia really liked eating the stewed small dogfish—better than eating stewed small crucian carp.

After all, this small dogfish meat was tender, and it had a single thorn, no fine thorns, so no special attention was needed.

Sister Yang stewed it very rotten, put the whole fish into the mouth, and then gently pulled the fish tail thorn without too much effort. When it was pulled out, there was no meat on the whole thorn body.

Really fragrant!

Ate until the belly was round, didn't want to move at all.

After eating and tidying up, Sister Yang started frying fish again, and the whole courtyard was full of fragrance.

At this time, Li Long felt that there seemed to be space in his stomach again, and ate a few more fried fish.

Dogfish was fried wrapped in flour, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Although the thorns were still there, it didn't affect the taste. Gu Xiaoxia and Li Long didn't like to eat the kind that was fried too crispy. Although the thorns didn't need to be cared about, they were chewed and eaten directly, but the fish taste was light.

This kind was quite good to eat.

Used as snacks.

Early the next morning, Li Long ate and returned to the team first, and told Li Jianguo about weaving stretchers.

Li Jianguo didn't expect the news to arrive so quickly. He definitely planned to follow this year. Actually, Xie Yun Dong had already looked for him.

In the past few days, Xie Yun Dong had looked for all those ten people, including the chef Old Huang.

Almost all of these people were willing to follow again into the mountains to weave carrying baskets—the Tao family was different; this time Tao Jian She wasn't going, but Tao Daqiang was.

His family's child was also almost half a year old, and nearly half of the time was spent living at the maternal grandmother's house. At this time, a row of houses was built on the east side of the Tao family's courtyard, which was built in early spring. When Li Long was helping Halimu and the others bury water pipes in the mountains, it had already started to be built.

At that time, Tao Daqiang didn't look for outsiders to make mud bricks and get wood, he did it with his brother-in-law Yang Yong. It was only when building the wall and putting on the beam that he called people in the team, and at that time, he went to buy half a sheep.

Once upon a time, the Tao family couldn't even eat meat during the New Year, but now they could get half a sheep to invite everyone to eat meat when building a small house.

Tao Jian She called people to help, all of whom had good relationships, like Yang Hua, Xie Yun Dong, the three Liang brothers, plus his brother Tao Dayong. Li Jianguo definitely had to be called, not mainly to work, but to be considered guidance.

After the house was built, plastering the wall and plastering the ash inside was just a day or two of work.

Furniture had already been prepared in winter, so after the wall was dry, the stove was set up to bake, and then they moved in.

This was not separating the family with Tao Jian She, but when Tao Daqiang wasn't there, the wife and children were in the east room, which was also good to avoid suspicion.

So this time going to weave stretchers was Tao Daqiang.

Besides Tao Daqiang, Li Jianguo, Lu Yingming, Jia Weidong, and others from last year also went.

As for who Xu Haijun recruited, Li Long didn't think about managing it.

After Li Long finished telling Li Jianguo, he drove the jeep to find Xie Yun Dong.

On Li Jianguo's side, Liang Yuemei had long known that Li Jianguo was preparing to go into the mountains to weave stretchers. Earning nearly a thousand yuan from weaving stretchers last year, what a good thing, she definitely wouldn't stop him.

So when Li Jianguo was preparing things, she was helping.

Li Qing Xia looked envious on the side, and then asked Li Jianguo:

"Boss, do you think it's okay for me to follow? Although I don't know how to weave, I can learn, right?"

"Forget it!" Before Li Jianguo could speak, Du Chunfang opened her mouth, "Boss goes for a month, can you stay? Besides, who are you going to learn from? Learn from the boss, that doesn't delay the boss from earning money? Learn from Xiao Long? Xiao Long has to manage other things, does he have time to manage you?"

Du Chunfang rarely said so many words, which made Li Qing Xia a bit surprised.

But his wife made sense, so he smiled and said: "I was just saying."

"If you have time, you might as well go catch fish, you can let the family eat some fish, and you can earn some money." Du Chunfang's voice became smaller.

In the next period of time, there wasn't much work in the fields, and the pigs raised were left with two, and even the old sow was sold. This professional pig raiser Li Jianguo wasn't doing it anymore.

So Liang Yuemei could manage it alone.

As for the vegetable plot, the old couple Du Chunfang and Li Qing Xia could help, so they were busy enough.

When Li Jianguo was preparing things, he also told Lu Yingming opposite.

Lu Yingming was actually almost prepared, and what he had to do now was to get the bedding ready.

Lu Dasao would take care of the bedding, so he came over to ask Li Jianguo:

"Old Li, do you think Xiao Long will let us be picked up first this year?"

Being picked up first meant weaving a few more stretchers, and Lu Yingming already knew that Xu Haijun was also going to take a few young people there this year.

He didn't know if those young people would occupy their dugout, so to avoid disputes, it was better to go early.

"Wait for Xiao Long to come over, I'll ask him, see if he goes into the mountains these two days."

Li Jianguo naturally understood Lu Yingming's thoughts, and he agreed with this idea.

After Li Long told Xie Yun Dong about this, he went to notify Xu Haijun.

After Li Long left the house, Xie Yun Dong immediately rode his bicycle to notify others one by one. He had to prepare himself, and he had to give others time to prepare. He even thought about it, just two days, and they would set off in two days.

Xu Haijun was tidying up wood in the courtyard. He planned to build a house after the stretchers were woven.

He could do the stretcher-weaving job, but it wasn't outstanding. But Li Long promised to give him extra money for management work, which made Xu Haijun find a place to realize his own value.

So he was quite attentive to this matter. As soon as Li Long said it, he immediately put down his work and went to notify others.

Because there were more tractors in the team, the pick-up and drop-off work was handed over to the Tao family and the Liang family. This was agreed upon by Xie Yun Dong. At that time, Tao Jian She and Liang Shuang Cheng would drive the tractors to send people, and they would come back after sending them. Xie Yun Dong took the initiative to tell Xu Haijun about this, meaning that the people Xu Haijun found would also go together, anyway, two tractors could sit.

As for the freight, Xie Yun Dong meant he would pay ten yuan from his "management fee", five yuan for each side.

Although five yuan was just the price of one stretcher, it was actually not small, equivalent to more than two days of wages for a worker.

He didn't have as much money as Li Long, so he couldn't be that generous.

After Li Long notified the team, he returned to the Li family.

He thought the same as Li Jianguo and the others, thinking that if they wanted to go early, he would send them there by jeep.

After all, the jeep was fast.

Seeing the jeep coming, Li Jianguo put the bedding he was sewing aside.

When he was a quartermaster in the army, he also needed to pack his backpack for training, and he still remembered the three horizontal and two vertical.

Li Long got off the jeep, and before he could ask, Li Jianguo asked:

"Xiao Long, do you have time tomorrow? If you have time, send us into the mountains."

"I came here just to ask you." Li Long smiled, "Then I'll come over early tomorrow morning?"

While looking at...

"Good." Li Jianguo nodded, "Do you still have to notify Juan's uncle?"

"Hmm, have to notify him as soon as possible. I don't know how the people he recruited are. I was thinking if it doesn't work, put their people in the ditch near you, and eat with you at that time."

"That's fine, this matter has to be told to Old Huang... I'll go tell him. Anyway, he can cook for the big pot, fifteen and twenty, about the same."

The price Li Long opened to the people in the team was also four yuan each. He told Liang Wenyu five yuan, so he had to go over and tell him, see how much he told others.

Li Long drove the jeep to the Liang family. Liang Wenyu was also very happy after seeing him, he was a bit impatient.

"The task is down, you can go. By the way, did you tell those people how much for one stretcher?" Li Long asked.

"Didn't say, just said there is this job, said the price you gave last year was four yuan." Liang Wenyu said.

"That's good, that is four yuan." Li Long smiled, "The remaining one yuan is yours, don't let it slip."

"Okay." Liang Wenyu said, "Then I'll go into the mountains tomorrow?"

"Can you tidy up in time?" Li Long was a bit surprised, "You notify them, don't they have to tell their families, and tidy up things? By the way, I forgot to tell you, it's not worth it for five or six of you to cook, I told my brother, let you eat with them. In that case, the place you go to won't be far from them."

There were quite a few ditches near the small white poplar ditch, big white poplar ditch, elm ditch, strange stone ditch, etc.

There were quite a few shrubs and willow trees that could produce strips, so there were quite a few places to choose from.

"Can be in time! It's best to have a place to eat." Liang Wenyu smiled, "We were still thinking about a few people taking turns cooking, and then bringing more dry food. Having a place to eat means bringing food."

"Not only bring food, but also give money to the master cook." Li Long added, "Weaving one stretcher has to give the master cook two cents."

"That's no problem!" Weaving one stretcher for four yuan, giving the master cook two cents, very cheap.

Li Long didn't need to say anything on Xu Haijun's side, he could go to Xie Yun Dong to inquire about things to pay attention to. Liang Wenyu's side was different, so Li Long told them one by one.

The last time he talked about it was mainly an intention. Liang Wenyu also made full preparations under his father's prompt, but this was different.

Li Long talked about digging dugouts, moisture-proof, insect-proof, bringing essential balm, red bean curd, and other precautions.

Liang Wenyu had already prepared some, and some he didn't think of, so he hurriedly wrote them down and had to tell others.

"In that case, tomorrow might not be able to go, it has to be the day after tomorrow." Liang Wenyu thought and said. If he wanted to take people away, he had to drive his own tractor, and Liang Donglou would drive it back at that time.

As for the place to go, Li Long had already arranged it. But he had to go early, after all, he had to dig the dugout on the same day, otherwise it would be troublesome if there was no place to live at night.

Li Jianguo and the others were the most convenient, having old dugouts, just needed to be repaired.

After telling Liang Wenyu everything that should be said, including reiterating the quality problem of the stretchers, letting him grasp this tightly, and then saying goodbye to Liang Donglou and Chen Xiuzhu, he returned.

After lunch, Li Long went to the department store and the five-hand-in-hand shopping mall, as well as the supply and marketing cooperative, and bought quite a few things.

Tomorrow he had to send Li Jianguo and the others into the mountains, and he also had to go see Halimu, they were also about to transfer.

The grain needed for the transfer would be provided by the animal husbandry team, Li Long mainly brought them some other things.

Like batteries, like sugar, salt, tea, like bullets, etc.

In addition, he also had to gradually replenish some things in the wooden cabin. When he went to set the net yesterday, he saw that fritillaria had grown out near the stream, indicating that fritillaria could already be dug, and he figured those who dug medicine should also be going into the mountains soon.

Didn't know how many of the people he met last year he could meet this year?

The replenishment in the wooden cabin was mainly based on grain, salt, shoes, and other things. Some of these overlapped with the things given to Halimu and the others—the animal husbandry team wouldn't give Halimu and the others shoes, this was quite important.

As for whether he could exchange fritillaria from the medicine diggers, Li Long wasn't sure this year. This was different from weaving stretchers, after all, that was stable, this could only depend on luck.

The next day, Li Long chewed fried small dogfish and came to the courtyard of his eldest brother Li Jianguo in the Fourth Team, and found that his father and eldest brother were picking up nets, and his sister-in-law and mother were tidying up fish in the vegetable plot.

He figured his father should have gone to the small haizi to set nets yesterday, and the harvest today was quite good.

Looking at it, there should be three nets, and there were at least twenty kilograms of fish in the basin.

There weren't many big fish, looking at it, there were six in total, one carp, one grass carp, one five-black, two silver carp, and one bighead carp.

The biggest was the bighead carp, looking at it, it must be three or four kilograms, and the others were one or two kilograms.

The rest were all crucian carp.

Seeing Li Long arrive, Li Jianguo finished picking up the last net, went to wash his hands, and began to move his things to the car.

Looking at the things his eldest brother put, Li Long suddenly thought of the big backpack issued to soldiers in the army in later generations.

If he could get that thing out, one person could easily carry these things away.

But that thing looked simple, actually it was relatively difficult to get it out. After all, that backpack wasn't just cloth, but also a lightweight metal tube. That thing had to be sturdy and light.

If it was just sewing a big backpack with cloth, it wasn't comfortable to carry.

So he just thought about it. It was okay to get a backpack half that size, bedding and the like could be stuffed in, and the rest could be carried with a handbag.

Talk about this later.

Li Jianguo put the things into the trunk of the jeep, and nothing else could be put in here. Originally, quite a few things were put inside—Li Long wanted to take them into the mountains.

So the things Lu Yingming brought were placed in the passenger seat.

Of course, the iron shovel wouldn't work, that thing could only be put in the back.

"Take some fish back when you leave." Liang Yuemei said, "Take the cleaned ones, take them back and cook them for Xiaoxia to supplement."

"Good. I'll take some for Uncle Liang and the others." Li Long said, "The jeep is fast, this is just a matter of passing by."

"Good." Liang Yuemei smiled.

Li Qing Xia originally thought about following the jeep to the county, selling the uncleaned fish that were still fresh, but later thought about it and forgot it.

The market in the county was only so big, couldn't sell much, and it was troublesome for him to come back.

He wouldn't admit that he just wanted to sit in the jeep.

Li Long took the fish, started the jeep and drove to the county, put some cleaned ones in the kitchen of the big courtyard, and then went to the Liang family again, put the fish down, Li Jianguo and the others greeted Liang Donglou and the others, and then Li Long drove the jeep into the mountains.

Knowing that his brother-in-law would also weave stretchers in the mountains, Liang Wenyu's originally somewhat uneasy heart suddenly let go a lot.

Anyway, if it didn't work, he could still ask his brother-in-law for advice. Li Long also said that he would arrange them in the nearby ditch, not far from those few steps.

Liang Donglou and Chen Xiuzhu were also relieved.

Li Long was negligent before and didn't tell them that Li Jianguo was also going.

Although Li Long was managing it, now knowing that Li Jianguo was also there, their feelings were obviously different.

Passing Qingshuihe, Li Long smelled a quite strong smell of burning strips.

Obviously, Qingshuihe Village had already started weaving stretchers.

He Yuqing and Meng Hai's actions were quite fast.

Li Long even felt that even if he gave all the four thousand stretcher jobs to this side, they might be able to take it down.

After all, it was relatively close to the mountains, and the people who could be recruited would be much more. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 642 =====