Chapter 642: Li Jianguo's debut: Awesome!

In the small white poplar ditch, after a year of growth, the willows, shrubs, and other long-strip trees that had been almost cut bald by the villagers became lush again, even more vigorous than before.

So when the jeep stopped, and Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming got off the car, looking at the strips nearby, smiles appeared on their faces.

They unloaded the things and put them on the side of the original dugout, and then began to clean up the dugout.

The two of them still lived in the original dugout. The branches covered on the top of this dugout had collapsed, and the soil originally covered on the branches had all leaked into the dugout together with the branches, so they had to clean them out first.

It wasn't a very heavy job, the two of them were old hands, first pulled out the branches, then went down and took iron shovels to shovel the soil and throw it up.

Li Long didn't help, he went to find some dry branches and hugged them over, put them in the place where Old Huang set up the stove, and then rebuilt the stone stove that didn't know who had scattered it.

It was a sunny day, he found some dry grass, broke the dry branches he picked up, and lit the fire between the stone stoves.

When the fire burned, Li Long went to find some short thick wood and pressed it on the branches, and the fire suddenly became smaller. The flames licked the wood, and soon the wood was ignited.

Li Long went to the trunk of the jeep to take a pot and sat it on the stone stove, then went to the nearby stream to fetch water and poured it into the pot.

After the water was boiled, the remaining work didn't need Li Long to do.

"Xiao Long, go do your work." Li Jianguo had already shoveled the soil out of the dugout, he was preparing to pick up some branches to pave the "roof" of the dugout. Last year, fresh branches were used, and for a month, leaves would fall from time to time.

It was still early, so he planned to pick up more dry branches, pave them directly with dense branches, and then cover them with grass and soil, so there wouldn't be so many things.

Li Long listened, and said:

"That's fine, you guys are busy, I'll go do my work first. I'll come over after I finish my side."

Li Long handed his double-barreled shotgun to Li Jianguo. There were only two of them now, so they still had to have handy things for self-defense. After all, if something really came over at night, firing a shot could also scare it away.

Li Long drove the jeep away, Lu Yingming also finished shoveling the soil, looking at the departing jeep and enviously said:

"Heh, having a car is really convenient. At that time, it took a day from the team to the mountains. Now it takes an hour, this day can run several trips!"

Li Jianguo smiled:

"He just caught up with good times, and his luck is also good."

"That's not all, Xiao Long looked... how to say, average before. In the last two years, it's really powerful. The opportunity is right in front of him, and it's not that everyone can grasp it." Lu Yingming really felt Li Long was powerful.

Now that there were only him and Li Jianguo, he wasn't afraid of saying this and making others feel that he was flattering the Li family.

It was the truth.

"It's different in the last two years." Li Jianguo agreed with this point, and then he changed the topic:

"Old Lu, we have to speed up, finish this dugout before noon, and then we can clear the pit and cut strips in the afternoon, striving to weave one tonight."

They both brought dry food, red bean curd, and salted vegetables, and planned to make do for lunch and dinner.

They came to earn money, not to enjoy.

"Good." Lu Yingming thought so too, so the two of them accelerated their movements.

Li Long drove the jeep to Halimu's winter dugout, and found that his cattle and horses were eating grass in the distance, and the sheep weren't let out, they were in the pen.

The couple was busy on the side of the sheep pen, shearing wool.

Kazakhs had a tradition of weaving wool blankets and carpets. Various blankets in their yurts were mostly woven by themselves in the past.

Wool was used to weave blankets. After the wool was sheared, it was washed clean, twisted into threads, dyed, and then woven into various fabrics.

Li Long vaguely remembered that his sister-in-law Liang Yuemei could also do it. She wove sweaters, hats, socks, and wool vests.

Li Long drove the jeep to the door of the winter dugout, got off, and began to move things down.

Halimu put down the scissors and waved to him, then continued to be busy.

The sheep had been pressed down, and half of it had been sheared, so it was impossible to put it down just like that.

Li Long moved the things prepared for them to the door of the winter dugout, and then went to the sheep pen.

"Are you going to transfer after shearing the wool?" Li Long stood on the side, looking at himself and couldn't start to help, he couldn't shear.

"No, still have to wash the sheep first." Halimu said, "The animal husbandry team will come to collect the wool, and then we will drive the sheep to that side to wash the sheep, and then prepare to transfer."

Li Long nodded and asked again:

"I brought some things, wait until you wash the sheep, then ask everyone what else is missing."

"Good, batteries must be bought more." Halimu said while shearing.

"This time I brought two hundred, each family will divide them first, and I will bring some next time." Li Long originally thought that one hundred was about enough, now thinking about it, nearly twenty families, each family divided ten, hmm, actually not much.

Batteries were quite durable in general family radios, but the summer pasture was different. There, the radio might be ringing all day long.

"The animal husbandry team will also issue us some supplies." Halimu smiled, "Now the things we lack..."

"Shoes, rubber shoes should be needed, right?"

"That is needed, need a lot." Halimu's words changed immediately. Just kidding, the animal husbandry team would issue some grain and tea at most, how could they issue rubber shoes? This thing was too practical in the summer pasture.

Of course, Li Long also remembered medicine. He brought some this time, and planned to bring some tomorrow.

There were quite a few miscellaneous things, Li Long couldn't think of them all at once, fortunately there was still time, so he bought some when he thought of them.

Halimu and his wife were both busy, Li Long didn't disturb them anymore, said hello and went to the wooden cabin.

The dampness in the wooden cabin hadn't dissipated yet, Li Long planned to continue.

These days, both inside and outside the mountains were sunny, only in the deep Tianshan Mountains to the south, could see clouds floating on the mountain peaks, some gray and some white, and it should be raining in some places.

Li Long just took a look after getting off the car, and then hurriedly went to be busy.

First set up the stove, after the fire burned, Li Long went to dry the bedding again.

There was no stove in the small room, Li Long opened the door and lifted the window paper, letting the sun shine fully into it.

After all these were done, Li Long moved some of the remaining things in the jeep into the small wooden cabin.

Before the dampness in the small wooden cabin was dissipated, he didn't plan to put grain in it. Mainly tea, sugar, salt, and other daily necessities, dried noodles and biscuits that could be put for a period of time with packaging, as well as rubber shoes, gloves, matches, fine iron wire, bags, and other things.

Don't underestimate fine iron wire, matches, and other things. For medicine diggers who were often in the mountains, these things were what should be equipped, but they were the easiest to consume.

After unloading these things, Li Long went to see the net set yesterday.

When walking over, he saw mushrooms growing on the turf again—mushrooms were the fastest-growing organisms he had ever seen, they weren't there yesterday, and today they could grow to the size of a fist or even the size of a head.

Too magical.

As for those bamboos that could grow several meters in one night that he had seen and heard in videos and novels in his previous life, he hadn't seen them.

He had seen the growth process of bamboo's relative reed, it didn't grow as fast as bamboo, just like that.

Arriving at the small stream, Li Long stepped on the stones to lift the tail of the net.

Many fish were frightened and jumped, wanting to escape the net.

Besides dogfish, there were several other small fish that Li Long wasn't very familiar with, looking quite beautiful.

A few small dogfish were already dead, Li Long fished them out.

Weighed them, about two or three kilograms.

Not bad, he could stew them for lunch.

He took some out, cleaned the fish by the stream. After cleaning, he found a few large yellow leaves nearby, held the cleaned fish and walked back.

Walking halfway, he saw some fresher straw mushrooms and picked a few.

If he ate by himself at noon, he didn't need to get too many.

Returned to the wooden cabin, Li Long wasn't hungry for the time being, the water in the pot was boiled, he washed the thermos originally placed here, then poured the water in, and covered the pot lid tightly.

Not cooking for the time being, then clean up the nearby area first.

After a winter, there was quite a bit of dirty stuff on the wooden floor in front of the wooden cabin, quite a bit of soil, and feces.

Li Long took a big broom from the shed and slowly swept it, avoiding raising the dust. Cleaned the surroundings, and then cleaned out the toilet that was already full of grass behind, Li Long let out a long breath.

Put down the big broom, washed his hands at the spring, and then prepared to cook.

Given that some people don't want to see the scene of cooking, this segment, omitted.

After eating, Li Long sat outside leaning against the house and basked in the sun for a while, then continued to tidy up the wooden cabin.

The wooden house could be lived in tomorrow or the day after, but Li Long didn't plan to live at night, he planned to stay during the day and drive back at night, so he didn't leave too many things inside.

After all, a lock couldn't stop those who wanted to destroy.

After the things last year, Li Long didn't hold too high expectations for the moral bottom line of those medicine diggers in the mountains.

After all, not all medicine diggers would be like Sun Jia Qiang.

Didn't know if Sun Jia Qiang would come over to dig medicine this year.

This thought just flashed, and then disappeared. There would be many passersby in life, some could still meet, some might never see each other again after parting.

After all, the world was so big.

While looking at...

After Li Long sighed, he collected the bedding that was baked hot and put it into the wooden cabin, then locked the door and went to the place where the net was set.

He cleaned all those small dogfish, put them in a bucket picked up on the jeep, carried them back, put them in the trunk, and then prepared to go back.

After going back, he also planned to buy some medicine as soon as possible, so he could send it to Halimu and the others tomorrow.

The days became longer, plus it was the slack farming season, and the county was slowly becoming lively.

In the past few days, Gu Bo Yuan's agricultural materials store had been quite busy, and he had already stocked up several times.

In fact, since the snow melted in early spring, his agricultural materials store had never been idle. Fortunately, Old Gu himself attached great importance to life, so he basically wouldn't be late for every meal time.

Li Long bought medicine and packed it, and also bought some batteries and put them in the trunk. When he returned to the courtyard, Sister Yang had already returned.

He handed the dogfish to Sister Yang and went to tease the dogs again.

The training of the past two days made the little black dog a bit afraid of Li Long. Seeing him come over, it hesitated a bit.

Li Long had delicious food in his hand, it liked to eat very much, but to get food, it had to do some movements that were a bit difficult for it, which was quite sad.

When Gu Xiaoxia returned, she watched Li Long grabbing the dog and teaching it a lesson. The little black dog lowered its head, occasionally barking, not knowing if it was aggrieved or resisting.

"Don't toss it around." Gu Xiaoxia felt a bit distressed and went over to look at the puppy. Li Long smiled and let go of the dog.

The little black dog looked at Gu Xiaoxia and immediately ran over with its little fat legs, it seemed to know who saved it.

When eating dinner, Li Long talked about the situation in the mountains.

"Your eldest brother has to stay in the mountains for a month, right?" Gu Bo Yuan asked while eating, "That's not easy."

"Earning money," Li Long said, "Have to suffer some fatigue."

"I see you aren't tired." Gu Xiaoxia said.

"That's different for me." Li Long smiled.

"It is different." Gu Bo Yuan nodded, "Only you can earn money like this."

Gu Bo Yuan actually earned quite a bit of money every day too. At the beginning of this reform and opening up, it was the most profitable in some aspects. As long as you could get the relevant qualifications, almost every industry earned quite a bit.

There were few competitors, and it was the initial stage of the industry, completely a seller's market. If the service was a bit better, there was no shortage of customers.

The next day, Li Long sent Gu Xiaoxia to the unit first and then went into the mountains.

He went to Halimu's winter dugout first. Halimu was driving the sheep out of the pen. These sheep had completely sheared their wool, and each of them was a circle thinner. Used to the feeling of wool balls, they looked a bit strange now.

Li Long moved the medicine and batteries he brought and placed them in front of the winter dugout, and Halimu's wife put them into the house.

After saying goodbye to Halimu, Li Long went to the small white poplar ditch.

Today Xie Yun Dong and Xu Haijun and the others were coming here to prepare to weave stretchers, and Liang Wenyu was also bringing people here, so he had to take a look.

But what made Li Long a bit surprised was that when he came over, he only saw Lu Yingming, and didn't see his eldest brother Li Jianguo.

He also saw a wild boar placed at the stove he saw yesterday.

The wild boar was obviously shot by a gun, was already dead, and had been gutted, the internal organs were placed in a basin, but the next step of processing hadn't been carried out yet.

Fortunately, it was still cool in the mountains at this time, not to the point of stinking.

Li Long was a bit surprised, he immediately asked Lu Yingming:

"Brother Lu, what's going on with this wild boar?"

"Last night... no, it should be early this morning." Lu Yingming was cleaning the internal organs of the wild boar there, "Three or four o'clock, a large group of wild boars woke us up. They ran out of the mountains and ran north.

Your brother said you had said that these wild animals should be going out to find things to eat, and would come back in an hour or two, so he waited with a sand gun. I didn't believe it at the time, so I slept. After an hour or two, rumbling, those wild boars ran over again, your brother fired two shots, knocked one down, this must be sixty or seventy kilograms, enough for us to eat for a few days!"

Li Long was really a bit impressed by his brother's judgment and luck.

This could also bump into wild boars coming down the mountain? Why didn't he have such luck in the last two years?

"Then where is my brother?" Li Long asked again.

"Your brother was called away by Juan's uncle, saying he wanted your brother to give some guidance on which ditch to go to and how to make a dugout."

Li Long didn't expect Liang Wenyu to come so quickly. At this time, Xie Yun Dong and Xu Haijun and the others hadn't arrived yet.

He asked where Liang Wenyu was, and Lu Yingming said it was in the elm ditch.

Li Long knew this ditch, the tractor could drive in, and the jeep was naturally no problem, so he drove the car toward that side.

Liang Wenyu was digging a dugout under Li Jianguo's guidance.

The ditch on the elm ditch side was smaller than the small white poplar ditch, and both sides were full of strange elms of various shapes. There were quite a few strips on these elms that could be used, just because the branches weren't straight, so they couldn't be used as poles for stretchers.

Poles needed to be cut in other places.

The dugout was mainly dug underground. The place they chose was relatively far from the stream, about a kilometer away from the small white poplar ditch, not very far.

This was one of the few flat lands in the ditch, and it was sandy soil, digging down nearly a meter didn't reach the Gobi layer, which was quite good.

"The door here needs to dig a slope, otherwise it's not easy to go out." Li Jianguo pointed out from time to time with an iron shovel, digging a dugout with Liang Wenyu, "And when digging down, it can't be too narrow below, otherwise it's troublesome to turn over."

The jeep came, and Li Jianguo stopped explaining.

"Brother, awesome, got a wild boar in one night." Li Long got off the car and said with a smile.

"Heh, bumped into it!" A hint of pride also appeared on Li Jianguo's face.

Greeted Liang Wenyu, those young people all looked at Li Long, Liang Wenyu introduced, and then let them hurry up to dig the dugout, striving to tidy up today, and see if they could start working directly.

"Where is Uncle Liang?" Li Long remembered Liang Wenyu said that he drove the tractor over and let his father drive it back.

"Already left," Li Jianguo said, "There are still some fragmented work at home, have to go back and be busy."

Seeing that they brought quite a few things, both food and daily necessities, Li Long didn't say anything else, just told Liang Wenyu that they could go over to eat lunch at noon.

Li Jianguo pointed out some things about setting up the stove—although eating was in the small white poplar ditch, these people brought some dry food, and they still had to burn water themselves.

Then Li Jianguo returned to the small white poplar ditch with Li Long, that wild boar still had to be processed by him.

After arriving at the small white poplar ditch, Li Long also joined the ranks of processing the wild boar. After all, his experience was considered the most abundant, and he was very good at skinning and the like.

So when Xie Yun Dong and the others came over, they were all dumbfounded.

How come, they hadn't arrived yet, and Li Long and the others had already prepared the meat? This was a big meal!

A wild boar of sixty or seventy kilograms, processing it could also get fifty or sixty kilograms of meat.

Old Huang laughed so hard that his teeth couldn't close.

A clever woman couldn't cook without rice, this had good things, and it was much easier for him to cook. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 643 =====