Chapter 643: Why haven't the medicine diggers come yet?

Xu Haijun led five people to station in the big white poplar ditch next to the small white poplar ditch.

The two ditches were separated by only one mountain, and the distance was relatively close, just climb over the mountain.

At that time, the reason Liang Wenyu didn't choose here was because there was almost no flat terrain here, and it wasn't easy to dig dugouts.

The water in the ditch was quite large, not very convenient.

Xu Haijun chose the point here, some people were puzzled, and also felt that living here, weaving stretchers definitely wasn't easy.

"What's that? Find a place that is convenient to work, as for the dugout, I'll tell you how to dig."

Xu Haijun found a slope with relatively good soil and relatively few stones on the ditch slope and dug it.

"You are... digging a cave?" When Li Long came over, Xu Haijun had already dug more than a meter deep, but the distance to his goal was still a bit far.

"Yeah, anyway, it's all living in the soil, the dugout is down, I'm in, and I don't have to worry about rain flooding in, how good." Xu Haijun said while digging.

Other people were obviously persuaded by him long ago, and were also digging along.

Li Long felt that Xu Haijun was right, a waterproof cave was a better place than a dugout. If there was heavy rain, at most some water would blow into the cave. If the cave entrance was blocked well with sacks, then it wouldn't be afraid of anything.

There were many northwest winds in summer, they dug holes on the ditch slope in the west, and they really didn't worry about rainwater.

This area had complex geology, the holes dug by the five people were distributed in thirty or forty meters, and it wasn't easy to take care of each other.

"Then you have to be careful at night, there are wolves, lynxes, bears, etc. in this mountain, and there are snakes, you must do a good job of protection at night, don't be attacked."

"Don't worry, if they dare to come, I dare to let Old Huang add a meal." Xu Haijun answered with a smile.

He had already heard that Li Long often brought back wild boars, wolves, and other prey from the mountains in the last two years. Speaking of which, he was really a bit unconvinced.

He had been a scout for two years, and he hadn't shot less guns. Although his body was injured, his marksmanship was there.

He also brought a gun this time, thinking that if he really encountered wild animals, he would definitely shoot them down.

When he came, he saw Li Jianguo shoot down a wild boar, Xu Haijun naturally was full of confidence, thinking about how to bring some meat back when he returned.

Although the household contract responsibility system was implemented now, and rural families were much richer, families that could eat meat every day like the Li family were still a minority.

Being able to hit a wild boar and bring it back, the meat for more than half a year at home wouldn't be a worry.

Li Long came just to give two instructions, seeing Xu Haijun was quite confident, so he didn't say much anymore, and returned to the small white poplar ditch.

He was also a bit puzzled, Xu Haijun didn't bring Huang Siping this time, the five people he brought were all young people who were relatively honest in the team.

Did the relationship between the two change?

Li Long naturally didn't know that Xu Haijun made the decision after careful consideration.

Taking Huang Siping, if he became another Xu Jianjun who stirred up trouble, then he wouldn't know if he could come next year.

Xu Haijun thought about a long-term plan. If Li Long could get this stretcher weaving job every year, it would be best if he could bring people over every year.

Not to mention earning money, he could also unite a group of people to listen to him.

It would be good to do anything later.

Xu Chengjun told him some, he also analyzed a lot himself, and also inquired about what his cousin Xu Jianjun did that made Li Long stop paying attention to him.

So Xu Haijun was very cautious, he didn't think about being Li Long's little brother, at most the two were in a cooperative relationship. He was equivalent to taking Li Long's job and being a secondary distributor.

Young people, who didn't have the idea of being a big brother?

So this first time out, the choice of people was important, at least they wouldn't confront him, and would be relatively obedient.

Huang Siping, although he walked close to Xu Haijun, the words he said after returning, and his attitude toward Xu Haijun, made him feel that he might not necessarily be able to suppress this guy.

He still remembered that on the second day after he returned, Huang Siping came to find him, and when he spoke, he complained that Tao Daqiang didn't lend him money, making him have no face when he got married.

After Xu Haijun heard the course of events, he said a word to him, there was a way to earn money, why not work hard to earn money yourself? Wouldn't that money be spent more happily?

As a result, Huang Siping directly retorted to Xu Haijun: "Haijun, I came to find you because I treat you as a friend and tell you my heart words, what do you mean? Are you on his side? If you treat me as a friend, stay away from him!"

Just these few words, Xu Haijun knew that if he really brought him into the mountains, and there was a dispute in the middle, he wouldn't listen to him like other young people, and would definitely argue with him.

Then why bring him?

So he didn't choose Huang Siping, and then was complained about by Huang Siping for a while.

Fortunately, Huang Siping had just been married for a short time, and didn't want to be separated from his wife for too long, this matter was just talked about and passed.

Xu Haijun and the others dug dugouts here, Li Long returned to the small white poplar ditch, wiped the three legs of the wild boar with salt, put them in clean bags, and put them in the jeep.

Li Jianguo's meaning was to take these three legs back, Li Long put one here, put one on the Fourth Team side, and put one at the Liang family side.

Liang Wenyu went into the mountains, the old couple there had many things, always had to supplement.

The remaining leg and the wild boar body, as well as the offal, were enough for them to eat for a while.

When eating lunch, Li Jianguo brought Liang Wenyu and the others with bowls over. Xu Haijun and the others were still digging, Tao Daqiang climbed up the mountain and shouted, and then the six people over there came over.

Twenty-plus people eating, it was quite lively.

Old Huang prepared one big and one small pot at noon, stir-fried dishes with a small iron shovel, and corn cakes pasted on the side.

The dishes were Chinese cabbage and vermicelli stewed with wild boar meat—Chinese cabbage and vermicelli were brought over. At this time, every family wasn't that poor, not only brought grain, but also brought some things from home.

So the food reserve not only had grain, but also Chinese cabbage, potatoes, radishes, these were all left over from last year and not finished, and some salted vegetables.

Old Huang stewed a big pot, everyone had a porcelain basin, and there was still quite a bit left in the pot.

They were all people who worked, let go and made it, three or five in a group or squatted or sat there slurping and eating.

"Whose dugout is that, why didn't it move?" A young man who came with Xu Haijun asked.

"Little Sun's." Lu Yingming glanced, eating and saying.

"Little? Sun is who?" The young man looked left and right, as if he didn't see anyone surnamed Sun.

"Came over to dig medicine last year." Lu Yingming explained, "Don't know if he will come this year. The young man is not bad, seemed to have pointed out to Without Xiao Long where wild boars or deer came out."

Li Long thought of Sun Jia Qiang again.

"Then... he doesn't come, I come to this place?" The young man asked this because he was moved, thinking that he didn't need to dig a dugout, he found a place with some stones, it wasn't easy to dig, and he hadn't dug half of it yet.

"You'd better be on that side." Xie Yun Dong shook his head, "Maybe one day Little Sun will come." He didn't want more people on his side, and then have some conflict with Xu Haijun.

The young man closed his mouth.

Everything that should be said was said, after eating, Li Long went out of the mountains, he had to hurry to send the meat to each family.

The jeep drove back to the county, he first went to the Liang family. Liang Donglou and Chen Xiuzhu were tidying up the tractor in the courtyard. Both of them were very careful, the tractor went into the mountains once, and had to be maintained well when it came back, the grass entangled in the chassis and wheel gaps was quite a bit.

Li Long didn't seem to manage it, he felt that the tractor, sturdy and durable, didn't need to be so fine at all.

Li Long took the wild boar leg down, Chen Xiuzhu hurriedly wiped her hands and took it, curiously asking:

"Just entered the mountains and hit it? When did you hit it, Without Xiao Long?"

"Not me, it was my eldest brother, my eldest brother went into the mountains yesterday, heard wild boars rumbling past the dugout in the middle of the night, and when those wild boars ran back, he hit one."

"Heh, I saw that wild boar when I was sitting on the tractor." Liang Donglou slapped his thigh, "I didn't think about what that was for, Juan's dad didn't say, it turned out he hit it."

Thinking that Li Jianguo hit a wild boar after arriving, Liang Donglou was still a bit yearning, listening to the meaning in the words, he felt that he should stay for a night, see if he could be lucky enough to bump into a wild boar group again.

Then he was scolded by Chen Xiuzhu.

Li Long left the Liang family, drove to the Fourth Team, his father and Tao Jian She were picking up nets in the courtyard, which made him a bit surprised.

His sister-in-law and mother were working in the vegetable plot.

Everyone looked at the jeep entering the courtyard, then watched Li Long get off, and took out the wild boar leg.

"Hit a wild boar just like that?" Li Qing Xia and Liang Donglou were equally surprised.

"My eldest brother hit it early this morning." Li Long repeated Li Jianguo's "heroic deeds" again, "Powerful."

Tao Jian She was full of envy. Although their family life was better, no matter what, it was still several grades worse than the Li family.

"Uncle Tao, cut some meat back, this wild boar isn't big, the taste is quite good." Li Long made the decision, since Tao Jian She was there, he couldn't let people go back empty-handed.

Looking at this, the two old men were preparing to set nets together.

When returning, Li Long cut two or three kilograms of meat from the remaining wild boar leg and placed it at Old Luo's place, politely declined Old Luo's invitation to eat together, and hurried back to the county.

Sister Yang had one more job, which was to process this meat.

But for Sister Yang, this was a good thing. Having meat to eat, who could not be happy?

The next day, Li Long went to the small white poplar ditch to see, weaving stretchers was going on there, so he didn't stay long, and went to Halimu's place.

Halimu's winter dugout was permeated with a smell of claphos. This thing was an insecticide for washing sheep, not good to smell.

Those sheep eating grass on the grass slope were all brown, obviously they had all undergone medicinal bath, and there were definitely no insects.

Li Long moved the rubber shoes and rubber boots he brought and placed them in front of the winter dugout. Halimu rode a horse and hurried over, the black dog beside the horse looked at Li Long and wagged its tail.

While looking at...

This dog was already familiar with Li Long's smell, but it wasn't very close. Li Long still wanted to touch the dog's head, but the dog had already run far away.

"We will transfer in three more days." Halimu said, "Bieker and his family in the mountains have already arrived at the summer pasture."

Li Long nodded and said:

"Then I will come to help in three days."

"No, no." Halimu shook his head, "We will leave early in the morning, your family's sheep gang is pregnant with a baby, so don't come over so urgently. If you have time, go to the animal husbandry team side, see Nasen and Sasken and the others."

Halimu was still worried about his mother and child, but he believed that Li Long would help take care of his family.

Li Long nodded, and then drove to the wooden cabin.

What made Li Long a bit surprised was that just after the jeep passed the mountain ridge to the flat turf, he saw a horse outside the wooden cabin from afar, and there was no one on the horse's back.

Li Long accelerated, thinking if it would be the people patrolling the forest in the forestry team, looking at the horse's coat color, it looked a bit like Hearing Bolati's, didn't know if it was.

The sound of the jeep startled the owner of the horse, a person stood up from in front of the house, looking at the direction of the jeep.

Closer, Li Long saw it, it was indeed Hearing Bolati.

Hearing Bolati was also a bit surprised looking at the jeep, and he was also a bit nervous. Although he hadn't sat in a jeep, he knew this thing, ordinary leaders couldn't sit in it—let alone the forestry team, it was said that even the forestry team's superiors couldn't sit in it!

It was just that when looking at the person driving, many things rolled in Hearing Bolati's heart.

How could it be Li Long?

When Li Long got off and greeted Hearing Bolati, he was still dumbfounded.

However, later he accepted Li Long's explanation, the state's car, this was reasonable.

He definitely didn't believe that this car was Li Long's own.

"I saw that the soil in front of your wooden house was swept clean, I knew it must be you who came." Hearing Bolati waited for Li Long to open the house door, took out a stool for him, and then said, "I thought you should come too."

Li Long poured a porcelain basin of water from the thermos and handed it to Hearing Bolati.

Hearing Bolati took it and drank a sip, feeling it was warm, so he drank it all in one gulp, wiped his mouth, put the porcelain basin down, and said to Li Long:

"Fritillaria has already grown out, the day before yesterday, another person patrolling the forest caught one digging fritillaria, and handed in more than two kilograms of fritillaria. Are you still collecting this year?"

"Collect." Li Long said with a smile, "As long as there are, I will collect, the more the better."

"That's good, if I bump into it later, I will send it to you." Hearing Bolati naturally knew that Li Long must earn quite a bit from it, but he didn't care. The reward he could get for the fritillaria handed in wasn't much.

Sending it to Li Long here, whether it was wine or supplies, he could get quite a bit.

Li Long didn't plan to go back at noon, he thought about making some food here.

In a bit, go see the fish, and pick some mushrooms, two dishes were enough. There was some flour in the big room, in a bit, mix some flour, steam a cage of steamed bread, enough to eat for a few days.

Li Long set up the stove, and then dried the bedding outside. Hearing Bolati chatted for a while, planning to leave.

Li Long heard the meaning in his words, took out a bottle of wine from the small room and handed it over:

"Don't drink too much, otherwise you will fall down after sleeping."

"Good, good, good." Hearing Bolati looked at the wine, his eyes glowing, took it and said with a smile, "Don't worry, just drink a small sip, not even a cup. I'm just tasting the taste... haven't drunk it for a long time."

Li Long didn't believe it, Hearing Bolati earned quite a bit of money from him last year, how could he not have money to drink?

Hearing Bolati rode the horse, bit open the wine bottle mouth and drank a sip of wine, raised the horse whip and said goodbye to Li Long, and left swaying.

From afar, Li Long saw him put the wine bottle into the pocket on the side of the saddle, and then raised the horse whip to beat the horse and galloped away, only then did he feel relieved.

Mixing flour, fermenting, taking nets, cleaning fish, picking mushrooms, processing, stir-frying dishes.

Two stoves were set up outside the wooden cabin again, one for boiling water to steam steamed bread, one for stir-frying dishes.

Marmots had begun to appear on the turf, seeing Li from afar would shrink back into the hole, and after Li Long walked past, they would secretly crawl out again.

Li Long thought about waiting until the small-bore gun was brought over, seeing one and aiming at one.

It ate grass roots underground, could eat all those grass roots, and also gnawed the turf into one hole after another, and also spread plague, really not that cute.

This meal was a bit late, mainly because fermenting needed time, steaming steamed bread wasn't difficult for Li Long.

After he finished eating, he spread out some of the remaining steamed bread in the big room, and broke some and dried them outside.

After that, he sat outside leaning against the wall and basked in the sun.

Li Long also thought about whether any medicine diggers would come to exchange things today, but waited until the sun slanted west, and there wasn't a single person.

He was a bit disappointed, stood up and collected the bedding and spread it on the wooden kang. After a few days of drying, the bedding was already very fluffy, and the dampness in the wooden cabin was also baked almost completely.

Tidied up the pot outside and the half-dried steamed bread into the house, Li Long locked the door and drove the car back to the county.

Before coming into the mountains the next day, he bought some naan. At this time, naan was relatively cheap, a few cents could buy one.

Li Long bought fifty, some of these were to be sent to the stretcher weaving place, some planned to be put in the wooden cabin, and used as his staple food together with steamed bread.

Fifty naan, almost bought out all the naan hit out in the morning in the only three naan shops in the county.

Those who came to buy naan later heard that they had to wait for half a day to buy it, so they had a lot of resentment.

But there was no way, someone came to buy, the shop owner hitting naan naturally wouldn't not sell.

Li Long drove the jeep past Qingshuihe Village, still smelled the strong smell of burning strips, he suppressed the idea of wanting to stop and see how many stretchers were woven here, and drove directly into the mountains.

The small white poplar ditch was also the smell of burning strips. Li Long didn't worry about his eldest brother Li Jianguo's side, he watched for a few minutes, greeted a few people, put down part of the naan, and then went to see Liang Wenyu's side.

Liang Wenyu and the others were all weaving and cutting strips, the fire for burning strips had already been lit, Li Long looked at the stretchers they wove yesterday, and frowned.

Thinking for a while, Li Long called Liang Wenyu over alone, and then pointed to a few stretchers and said:

"These four are unqualified. Can you manage the people you brought?"

"Yes."

"Yes is fine. Tell them, these few stretchers are reworked, woven too loosely, it won't be long before they fall apart. This quality is not good. If you can't suppress it, then when I come to collect stretchers in two days, I will suppress it."

"No, no, I can do it myself." Liang Wenyu hurriedly explained, "It was a bit late when I finished weaving yesterday, I just went to sleep directly, didn't check. From today on, I will check every night after eating."

"Good."

With Liang Wenyu's words, Li Long was relieved.

Going to check Xu Haijun's side again. What made Li Long a bit surprised was that the quality of the stretchers woven on Xu Haijun's side could all pass.

Not bad.

It was just a bit depressed, in the next few days, he didn't bump into any medicine diggers who came to exchange things. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 644 =====