Chapter 690: Inventory

Gu Xiaoxia was watching the two children in the room, Sister Yang was washing diapers by the water pool, and Han Fang was feeding the two roe deer that had already grown up.

And Li Long was in the side room, staring at that large pile of things in a daze.

Too many things.

The value was also too high.

The most numerous were skins. In Li Long's view, the ordinary skins were wolf skins, deer skins, roe deer skins, and wild goat skins.

Among them were four wolf skins, seven deer skins, five roe deer skins, and ten or so wild goat skins—this thing was the most numerous in the mountains.

There were four pairs of deer antlers, three pairs were relatively large, and one pair was relatively small. There were quite a few roe deer antlers, ten or so pairs; because they weren't large, they were easy to pack.

There were two branches of deer velvet, which were a pair, and the two branches together weighed less than two kilograms.

There were seven or eight pieces of jasper; fortunately, they weren't large, otherwise, they wouldn't be easy to carry. The quality of these jaspers was mixed; half were very good jasper without black spots, and half were ordinary ones with large and small fly-speck spots.

They were all seed materials, and the largest was only five or six kilograms.

Just these things added up to three or four thousand yuan—mainly because those jaspers without black spots were relatively valuable.

And the most valuable things were in the bags of Halimu and Yushanjiang.

Halimu brought Li Long a bear skin and a dried bear gallbladder.

Yushanjiang brought Li Long a snow leopard skin and some bones.

Li Long guessed he didn't know if these bones were useful either. But Li Long had asked for tiger bones earlier, so maybe these snow leopard bones were also useful.

These two skins, the value of a single skin was at least one thousand to two thousand.

This was still the price before last year, and this year it was definitely rising.

Selling these things would be enough to buy a tractor.

Bear skin was easy to talk about; there were relatively many farmed ones in later generations, and it was easy to find. It was hard to say about this snow leopard skin; in the future, it would basically be very difficult to find.

There was already a snow leopard skin at home, which was a wedding gift Halimu hit and sent to Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia at the time.

If this thing was maintained well, it could be kept for a long time.

These two skins were very good, and Li Long hadn't thought about how to use them yet. There were quite a few skins, so Li Long collected these skins and moved them to another side room to put them; otherwise, the room would be full of smell.

After putting the things away, Li Long went to the main room to tell Gu Xiaoxia, then drove the jeep to the Fourth Team and picked up Li Qing Xia.

When Li Qing Xia came over, he also brought some fish.

"In the morning, I took the net with Tao Daqiang's father, and after taking it back, the extra fish were taken by him to sell, and the family kept some for lunch, and I brought the rest over to you."

Crucian carp soup helped with lactation; Li Qing Xia couldn't say this point, but the meaning was very clear.

Plus the fish meat itself was considered nutritious, so it was fine to supplement.

After arriving at the large courtyard, Li Qing Xia left the fish, looked at the two little grandsons, and then drove the tractor toward the mountains.

Li Long drove the jeep in front to lead the way, the speed wasn't fast, and he had to look at Li Qing Xia's tractor driving situation from time to time.

By the time the tractor drove to Halimu's winter nest, it was already mid-morning.

Those herdsmen were all still here, some were packing up and preparing to cook, and the rest were over at the grass field, looking to see if there was anything hindering the harvester from harvesting grass.

Halimu was at the winter nest, and Yushanjiang was over at the grass field.

Seeing the tractor and jeep coming, Halimu greeted them with a smile.

Li Long introduced his father to Halimu, Halimu enthusiastically greeted his father to sit down, and then served tea.

There were no cattle and sheep here, so there was no milk, so they couldn't drink milk tea. They had mare's milk, but Halimu also knew that most Han people weren't used to drinking this, so he simply didn't take it out, avoiding embarrassment.

Li Qing Xia knew these people were his son's good friends, so he didn't treat them as outsiders and started chatting with them, asking about the situation of the elderly and children in their families.

Li Long drove the tractor to the grass field side, and then planned to teach Yushanjiang and the others how to drive and operate.

Li Long had already said it yesterday, and the young men among the herdsmen were the most excited.

Zate said to Talihaer beside him:

"How about it? Do you want to drive?"

"Of course I want to drive. This is a tractor, and it's different from a horse! It is said that this tractor has the strength of more than ten horses!"

As someone who was relatively good at hunting among the herdsmen, Talihaer had more opportunities to chat with Li Long and knew more. Although he liked to carry a gun to hunt, he also liked this novel thing.

However, whether he could take a turn to drive the tractor was hard to say.

Everyone in the small tribe knew clearly that the ones with the best relationship with Li Long were Halimu and Yushanjiang. The supplies Li Long brought from the county also went to their hands first, and then were distributed to others.

Of course, everyone also knew that Halimu and Yushanjiang provided Li Long with many things. It was said that during the first winter, the two of them took Li Long hunting and provided Li Long with sheep, which was when they became good friends.

So Li Long wanted to teach people to drive the tractor to harvest grass, and he would definitely teach them two first.

However, Talihaer also had his own little ideas, which he didn't tell others.

The temptation of driving a tractor was great, so great that he wanted to learn through other methods.

Li Long drove the tractor to the edge of the grass field and stopped.

The grass field that was harvested clean last year had now become lush again, and excellent pastures like dogtail grass, ice grass, three-cornered grass, and purple alfalfa grew very luxuriantly. The shrubs that had grown in the middle over the past half year had been pulled out by the roots, and Li Long, who had good eyesight, could also see some pits in the middle of the grass field.

Some Codonopsis seedlings were also among them. Codonopsis, like other pastures, were perennial herbaceous plants, and after the plants above were harvested, they would grow again the second year.

Yushanjiang walked out of the grass field. Li Long braked and got off, saying to him:

"Do you want to try? I'll tell you, learn it and you can drive it to harvest yourself."

"Okay." Yushanjiang naturally wanted to learn. This thing had quite a bit of momentum, and he felt that sitting on it and driving was better than riding a horse.

Besides, learning to drive it himself, when Li Long had things to do, there was no need to wait.

Li Long felt that teaching Yushanjiang and the others to drive the tractor and operate the harvester here was better than teaching Tao Daqiang and the others, after all, if the wheat harvesting wasn't harvested well, the loss of grain wouldn't be too good.

But in this grass field, even if it was harvested crookedly or pressed, it actually didn't matter much; a little more or a little less pasture didn't have much impact.

"Look, stepping on this is the brake, even if this tractor head is high and feet are low, and it's about to slide down, stepping on it won't make it slide backward.

This is the accelerator, when stepping on it, it's like shouting 'giddy-up' to a horse, the tractor suddenly runs fast, this is the clutch, all operations must be performed after stepping on the clutch... of course, wait a moment, you sit on the fender, I'll demonstrate for you.

This is the gear, look, at the beginning, you have to hang the third gear... the first gear is also fine, this side is the power gear, pulling this power gear over is the first gear, the slowest, not pulling it over is the third gear..."

After saying a circle, Li Long felt Yushanjiang was a bit confused, so he got on the tractor and let Yushanjiang sit on the tractor, and he demonstrated it once.

Yushanjiang watched seriously. He didn't remember much of what Li Long said just now, but now that Li Long operated and talked at the same time, what was said just now slowly corresponded to the current operation.

Yushanjiang learned quite quickly. After a few minutes, Li Long operated it twice, and he roughly remembered the process of driving the tractor, but for now, he didn't plan to go up himself, mainly worrying that this thing was too big, what if the operation wasn't good and there was a mistake?

This was like someone who hadn't played with a computer for the first time, being asked to turn it on and operate the program, inevitably there would be a bit of stage fright.

The herdsmen in the grass field cleared away the things that might hinder the harvester from harvesting grass, and all gathered around, watching Li Long teach Yushanjiang how to drive the tractor. They were quite envious, but didn't come forward.

Talihaer watched everyone gather around. He thought about it, ran to his horse, untied the reins, rode it, and ran into the mountains.

Li Long had good ears, heard the sound of horse hooves, glanced at it, and then didn't care. Anyway, this morning was mainly teaching, harvesting grass wasn't considered an urgent matter, if someone left, let them leave.

Yushanjiang finally, under Li Long's persuasion, started to sit on the tractor, preparing to drive a bit.

To be honest, he was still a bit nervous. The feeling of riding a horse for the first time had already been forgotten. Children of Kazakh herdsmen would have a horse when they were about two or three years old, and would learn to ride a horse after learning to walk, so riding a horse was as ordinary as walking to him.

But driving this tractor, although sitting on it was more comfortable than sitting on a horse's back and not so shaky, Yushanjiang was a bit nervous.

"Step on the clutch, hang the gear, step on the accelerator lightly when releasing the clutch... you stepped on too much..."

The tractor's chimney emitted black smoke, and the sound of the engine suddenly became much louder. Yushanjiang was startled, his foot loosened, and then the tractor was suffocated.

The watching herdsmen roared with laughter.

"Don't laugh, don't look at it as simple, when you operate it yourself, you might not be able to distinguish and grasp it well." Li Long waved his hand at them with a smile, and then jumped off the car.

No errors in the content, take a look!

"Come, I'll shake it!" Seeing Li Long shake it, Yushanjiang thought about doing it himself from beginning to end.

Shaking the tractor in this early autumn when it was still hot wasn't a difficult task for a man like Yushanjiang. Li Long demonstrated the trick to him on the side, and he soon mastered it, starting the tractor with a bang-bang-bang sound.

Come again.

Anyway, the field was large, and he didn't worry about hitting anything. Yushanjiang suffocated it twice in a row, and then he could slowly drive it and run.

Driving two circles on the turf outside the grass field, Yushanjiang was still trembling. Li Long originally thought about teaching him to drive the tractor to operate the harvester now, but Yushanjiang made mistakes several times, so he simply didn't learn this first.

On the contrary, Halimu chatted with Li Qing Xia for a while. After Li Qing Xia went to the pine forest to pick mushrooms, Halimu also came over here, planning to learn how to drive a tractor.

After Halimu came over, Li Long saw Li Qing Xia going into the pine forest and roared:

"Father, don't run too far inside, there are wolves inside!"

"Okay, I know!" Li Qing Xia waved to Li Long after hearing this and walked into the forest with a few quick steps.

After entering the forest, Li Qing Xia looked around, first picked up a stick, both for self-defense and as a tool for raking grass.

After Halimu came over, Li Long started to repeat the process of teaching Yushanjiang to drive the tractor.

Although Halimu was good at riding horses, the situation of driving a tractor was about the same as Yushanjiang's. He suffocated it twice, and it could be seen that he was also quite nervous on it.

This time the herdsmen didn't laugh much. Everyone wasn't stupid; if it was just Yushanjiang who was relatively clumsy, it could be said that he wasn't suitable for driving a tractor.

Now that both beginners were like this, it showed that driving a tractor was really different from riding a horse, and it wasn't that after hugging the horse's back, a light tap on the horse's belly would make the horse run.

This live teaching lasted until lunch, and Halimu could barely drive the tractor and run. However, at this time, he also became excited. If it weren't for someone shouting over there, he was afraid he wouldn't want to get off the tractor yet.

After all, just learning to drive this big guy, that kind of novel feeling was completely different from riding a horse.

Lunch was meat soup with the meat left over from yesterday, and Narin. Of course, naan was indispensable. Li Long drove the jeep over, and brought over a few bags of rice and flour to put here. During this period, the food for these herdsmen was enough.

Not only rice, flour, and oil, but also brick tea. Although they didn't have milk, they still had to drink tea.

When eating, Li Long saw his father didn't come out, so he shouted a few times toward the pine forest, didn't hear a response, so he greeted Halimu and went in to find him himself.

Halimu wanted to follow, but Li Long refused. With such loud human voices nearby, basically there wouldn't be any other animals coming over. Li Qing Xia likely ran far and didn't circle back, of course, it wasn't excluded that he picked quite a few mushrooms and didn't want to come back.

There were very few mushroom varieties in the mountains at this time. There were basically no special mushrooms, and the ones that could be picked now were large white crisp mushrooms, pine mushrooms, and needle mushrooms might also be encountered, but it depended on luck.

Li Long walked into the pine forest and could vaguely see the traces left by his father.

Li Long walked forward not far and saw some pine mushrooms under the pine trees and in the moss, so he picked them up and continued walking, shouting while walking.

Walking out more than a hundred meters, Li Long heard Li Qing Xia's response when he shouted again.

After the two met, Li Qing Xia excitedly said to Li Long:

"Little Long, look, I picked quite a few mushrooms!"

Li Long looked, most of the mushrooms his father picked were large white crisp mushrooms. Li Long didn't pick this thing when he entered the mountains before. At first, he always felt this thing was a poisonous mushroom, later after confirming it wasn't poisonous, he felt this thing was old.

In fact, it wasn't old at all, it was just that the appearance didn't conform to Li Long's aesthetic of mushrooms.

"Hey, father, these mushrooms... these can't be eaten, these are all okay, go back and stir-fry them to eat."

Li Long put quite a few dried morels and black tiger-paw mushrooms he picked at his big brother's side; they basically didn't eat them now, all until winter.

Because when working, they could pick chicken-leg mushrooms at the edge of the field, pick grass mushrooms after rain in some places, and then usually pick reed mushrooms in a special place, so they didn't lack mushrooms to eat in the village—actually, everyone didn't pick mushrooms often. At present, there was little machinery, labor efficiency wasn't high, so everyone was busy working during the busy farming season.

Like Li Long, who was particular about eating from time to time, there really weren't many.

Li Qing Xia knew that his little son knew a lot after being in the mountains for a long time, so he was very humble. After throwing away those few poisonous mushrooms, he followed Li Long back.

Among the ones Li Long threw away were a few purple mushrooms. He had seen people selling them when he traveled to ZS County before, and people said they could be eaten. To be honest, he really didn't dare to eat them.

This thing... looking so beautiful, can it really be eaten?

When the two returned to Halimu's winter nest, everyone here had already started eating. Halimu took two pieces of freshly roasted naan and brought them over.

Li Long and Li Qing Xia picked up their enamel basins and started eating. Halimu and Yushanjiang took naan and gathered over, asking about some precautions for driving the tractor.

Obviously, these two people had some insights after driving just now, and also had questions.

Li Long naturally answered them one by one. He believed that these two people would basically learn it in one day today.

In this way, he didn't need to come so early tomorrow, just tell the two of them the precautions, and after eating tomorrow morning, they could take turns driving the tractor to harvest grass without waiting for him.

There was still more than half a bucket of diesel in the tractor's bucket, and this diesel was enough for harvesting grass these days.

As for others wanting to learn to drive the tractor, Li Long didn't plan to teach them throughout. He believed that when the tractor was resting, someone would find Halimu and Yushanjiang to learn.

Of course, if someone found him, Li Long wouldn't be stingy either. The more people who knew, the stronger the selectivity for driving the tractor later.

"Where is Talihaer?" Yushanjiang asked Zate.

"Don't know, just now he rode a horse and walked inside." Zate said, "I left him food."

"Alright." Yushanjiang didn't know what Talihaer went to do, of course, there was no need to find him, he would naturally return when the time came.

Lunch was eaten, everyone rested for half an hour, and Li Long took Halimu and Yushanjiang to the tractor again. He planned to teach the two to drive the tractor to harvest grass in the afternoon.

If driving a tractor was considered 1.0 version of driving technology, then driving a tractor while harvesting was 1.1 version, not reaching 2.0 level, not too difficult.

But there needed to be a coordination here, to drive stably while operating the harvester. Of course, that was just that one action, and after operating, the rest was stable driving.

For Yushanjiang and Halimu, what they needed most now was to further familiarize themselves with driving the tractor, rather than increasing other content. Both of them raised objections to Li Long's cramming training method, but Li Long didn't adopt them.

If the driving school coach of later generations knew that Li Long wanted to train a basically qualified tractor driver in one day and let this tractor driver stably complete the grass harvesting work, he was afraid he would be so angry that he would scold people. (End of chapter)