Chapter 750: Can raise more next year!

Lu Lu Dasao happily carried a basket of things, waved goodbye to Liang Wenyu at the gate, and then walked towards her own courtyard.

Although it was already dark, she was exceptionally happy today.

Entering the room, a wave of warmth came over her. Her son Tie Tou and daughter Ni'er came over from the inner room together. Tie Tou took the basket from Lu Lu Dasao's hand, and Ni'er also leaned in to look.

"What did you eat today?" Lu Lu Dasao asked while untying her headscarf, "What good food did your dad make for you?"

"Dad made *boyuzi* for us." Lu Tie Tou was seventeen, his voice had already changed, and it sounded a bit muffled, "There's still some in the pot, Mom, have you eaten?"

"Eating *boyuzi*? Did you eat it in the afternoon or evening?" Lu Lu Dasao paused after untying her headscarf, "No vegetables? Ate this for both meals?"

"There's also roasted *naan*." Lu Ni'er had sharp eyes and had already seen the sheep head and sheep hooves in the basket, she asked excitedly: "Mom, are these sheep head and sheep hooves ours? Can we eat them tomorrow?"

The people who helped, Li Long gave each of them two sheep heads and eight sheep hooves, these could be taken back and handled properly, enough for the whole family to gnaw on for a good meal.

"Not tomorrow." Lu Lu Dasao waved her hand, "This is too troublesome to handle, need to burn the hair, scrape the skin, and boil for a long time after cleaning."

A look of disappointment immediately appeared on Lu Ni'er's face. Children were at the age of growing meat, especially craving meat.

"But, I brought back a basin of meat." Lu Lu Dasao said with a smile, she touched Ni'er's head, "You go into the inner room first, I'll heat the meat, and you'll be able to eat in a while."

She spoke very gently, but felt a bit angry inside. Was her husband fooling the children like this? Both children were growing, could they be full eating this *boyuzi*? The family wasn't poor, why couldn't they properly prepare some decent food?

Lu Lu Dasao went over and lifted the pot lid, looking at the half pot of thick *boyuzi* inside, feeling she had misunderstood Old Lu a bit.

The *boyuzi* Lu Yingming made was indeed lazy man's food, but it had meat and dried vegetables in it, and it smelled okay. There were also freshly steamed buns and roasted bun slices in the bun basket beside—

Roasted buns were made by slicing the remaining buns from last time and roasting them on the stove grate, they were roasted golden brown and smelled fragrant.

There were also stir-fried pickles on the cutting board, which also had meat chunks in them, although they were cut a bit large, there shouldn't be any problem eating them.

Not bad.

Lu Lu Dasao's anger dissipated, she washed her hands, sat the pot on, poured water in, and took out the enamel basin that was covered and tied with a cloth from the basket. Inside were a few pieces of mutton, and a layer of solidified mutton soup on top.

Each piece of meat had a thick layer of fat, this was specially served by Liang Wenyu for Lu Lu Dasao, just wanting the family to have a good meal.

Lu Lu Dasao counted, there were four pieces of meat in total, and the family could have one piece each. However, she didn't intend to eat, she would keep her piece for tomorrow morning to add some water, tear the meat into pieces, and boil a mutton soup for breakfast.

Lu Yingming came in from outside, holding a pig feed bucket, looking at Lu Lu Dasao busy in the kitchen, and asked with a smile:

"Back? How was it?"

"Hey, those sheep are really fat!" Lu Lu Dasao pointed to the meat in the pot and said to her husband, "Look, a thick layer of fat! What have you been doing this late at night?"

"The water in the pig feed trough was frozen, the pigs couldn't drink water and were squealing anxiously, I went to knock off the ice, got half a bucket of warm water, watched them drink it, and then cleared the water."

Lu Yingming wiped his nose, put down the pig feed bucket, and went to look at the meat in the pot.

After having electricity, at first, the light bulbs used by each family were fifteen watts, which saved electricity and could see things clearly.

It was later that Li Long told Li Jianguo to change the light bulbs at home to twenty-five watts, and even fifty-watt light bulbs were used in the courtyard outside, and the brightness was immediately different.

Lu Yingming followed Li Jianguo and the others to do work a few times, had money in his hands, and also changed the light bulbs. According to Li Long, light that was too dark was bad for the eyes.

Those who didn't change light bulbs at home sneered at this statement, what was wrong with using kerosene lamps before? The lamps were darker then, fifteen-watt light bulbs couldn't compare.

But Lu Yingming believed it, and then followed suit and changed the light bulbs. Looking at the water in the pot steaming, the white fat on those pieces of meat was really tempting.

"Hey, really fat, caught up to the pork with three-finger fat." Lu Yingming also counted as someone who had eaten mutton, but looking at this meat, he couldn't help but lick his lips, "How many were slaughtered today? This sheep is so fat, one must be twenty kilograms, right?"

"More than that, Without Xiao Long said one carcass, plus offal, must be thirty kilograms." Lu Lu Dasao was actually a bit moved, and she discussed with Lu Yingming, "Let's raise a few sheep after autumn next year? Learn from Li Long, just feed sugar dregs, sunflower heads, and wheat bran, this meat grows meat, two or three months, grow ten kilograms of meat, that's ten-plus yuan!"

"Where do we get sugar dregs?" Lu Yingming went to wash his hands at the washbasin stand by the door of the inner room, seeing Tie Tou and Ni'er looking at the mutton in the pot with eager eyes, his heart felt a bit sour, and he changed his words:

"Fine, let's use the tractor to pull sugar dregs, don't raise many, pull a truck and it can feed for many days."

This year they planted melon seeds, sold them for money, and Lu Yingming also bought a tractor. Thinking that if he could find Li Long to get a harvester next year, then go to a farther place to harvest wheat, don't ask for much, earn a thousand yuan, and by October he could buy dozens of sheep to raise—can't buy that many, not enough forage, just raise ten-plus.

But how to sell the sheep? The team definitely couldn't eat that much meat, right?

Then buy a few, at worst go to the market to set up a stall... sigh, it's also troublesome.

In a while, the room was filled with fragrance, and there was also a smell of mutton, but not strong. Sheep that ate grass in alkaline land didn't have a strong mutton smell. Lu Lu Dasao saw the water boiling, so she greeted Tie Tou and Ni'er to prepare to eat meat.

Days of gnawing bones and eating large pieces of meat like this, even for the Lu family, who were considered wealthy in the village, couldn't be eaten a few times a year. The two children couldn't wait to start eating.

Lu Yingming originally thought about not eating, but after being scolded by Lu Lu Dasao, he also picked up a bone and started gnawing, and when gnawing, he pulled a large piece of meat off it and stuffed it into his wife's mouth.

Eat together.

The next day, the whole village knew the news that Li Long's fat sheep had three-finger fat.

So when Li Long drove Yushanjiang and the others to the horse stable to start slaughtering sheep, it wasn't long before people from the team came to watch.

Although there were more families raising pigs in the team this year, those who didn't raise them were already discussing whose house to cut meat from when slaughtering pigs, but the taste of pork and mutton was still different.

As the farmers' lives got better and better, these people in the Fourth Team, when preparing New Year supplies, were no longer thinking about how many kilograms of meat they could prepare, but how many kinds of meat they could prepare.

They had chickens themselves, and if they didn't raise pigs, they would weigh some from those who did. For mutton, the generous ones would directly slaughter one, and those with tight money would pool together to buy one—in previous years, they bought from Ma Jinbao's house, but this year there was one more option.

If the mutton on Li Long's side was really good, then they definitely wouldn't choose Ma Jinbao's.

In this era, who is willing to eat lean meat if there is fat meat? That stuff just gets stuck in the teeth, how is it as good as fat meat? It's fragrant to eat, and after stewing, it's like eating noodles, slurping into the stomach, and it satisfies the craving!

The three people who followed Li Long down the mountain today were changed. Yushanjiang and Ha Ha Li Mu didn't change, Talihaer and the others didn't come, and those who came were Alema, Ye Ersen, and Tukebai. These three people were even shyer than Talihaer and the others.

At least Talihaer and the others, although they didn't talk much with outsiders, could still say quite a bit with Li Long.

Alema and the others talked a lot when chatting with Yushanjiang and the others, but when they met Li Long, they just greeted and smiled at most. Although they had contact often before, their Chinese wasn't very good, and they seemed a bit afraid to speak.

They didn't talk much with Li Long, so when they arrived at the horse stable, they just lowered their heads and worked. Their professional level was about the same as Talihaer and the others, and their knives had been sharpened before coming. Slaughtering sheep was very nimble.

Li Long still asked Ha Ha Li Mu to slaughter a sheep to boil first. According to Ha Ha Li Mu, just eat the mutton soup left over from yesterday with *naan*, even if it was in the mountains, if there was something to ask for help, it was impossible to boil mutton every day.

Li Long waved his hand and said:

"This is the first time I've called you down the mountain to help me work, we are friends, I won't give you money, but I must treat you well. Ethnic customs, I understand. The food we make, you definitely won't find it delicious, but this meat, I definitely have enough—if there isn't, then I won't say anything, but if there is, then don't be polite!"

Li Long spoke like this, not to mention Ha Ha Li Mu, even Alema and the others who didn't talk much were thinking in their hearts, this Li Long, is really a good friend!

The enthusiasm for work rose quite a bit.

"Without Xiao Long, how do you sell these sheep?" Xu Haijun, who came to watch the sheep, finally couldn't help but ask.

He also noticed when he watched earlier that the ethnic people's method of slaughtering sheep was really nimble, and skinning was really fast. The people in the team who slaughtered pigs and sheep, even if Wang Cai Mi was considered the most professional, were far behind them.

Actually, slaughtering pigs in the team required special people, but slaughtering sheep definitely didn't, men in every family did it themselves, and if skinning wasn't skilled, just skin slowly.

"Depends on whether you want live or slaughtered." Li Long pointed to the sheep that had been skinned halfway on the snow: "If it's slaughtered, weigh the carcass, that's one yuan eight."

Xu Haijun nodded, one yuan eight was the market price, now the mutton price in the state-run meat shop was one yuan eight—more expensive than in summer, but it was definitely not as fat as this.

Hearing the news that Li Long's fat sheep were very fat, these people came to watch, and really saw the fat mutton, many people had ideas, and Xu Haijun was the first to speak.

One yuan eight wasn't expensive, this was at the doorstep, sheep raised by people in their own team, eating it was also reassuring. And so fat, how much oil could be rendered later?

"Then what if I buy live ones?" Another person asked, "Weigh live?" "Live weight is nine mao." Li Long had already thought about the price, these sheep were basically forty-plus kilograms, and the meat plus offal was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight kilograms. Weighing live was cost-effective for those buying sheep, but the labor of slaughtering and processing had to be calculated.

Depends on how you think about it.

The person who asked thought about it, and felt that weighing live was still more cost-effective—they would subconsciously ignore the labor, anyway, they were doing it themselves, putting in some effort was nothing, and there was a sheepskin left over.

"How do you sell those sheep heads and sheep hooves?" Someone else asked.

"Three yuan a pair." Li Long said, "Cheap, right?"

Of course cheap, it was really very cheap.

Mainly because Li Long had a large quantity of sheep heads and sheep hooves, and this stuff was troublesome to handle. Otherwise, setting up a large pot outside the market and selling boiled sheep heads could also earn a lot of money.

And selling mutton, he not only earned back the cost, but also earned a lot, these sheep heads and sheep hooves were considered welfare for the people in the team, just the money for a large broom, who couldn't afford it?

If the sheep head was handled well, not only was it delicious, but there was also quite a lot of meat on it.

These people were immediately tempted—I can't afford a sheep, can't I afford a sheep head and sheep hooves?

Anyway, it was freezing cold and they were idle, burning a sheep head and sheep hooves would be done in half a day, isn't that very simple?

Soon someone came to buy, and basically they bought two or three sets at a time, after all, at such a cheap price, this village wouldn't have this shop.

The sheep head and sheep hooves at Ma Jinbao's place, the asking price was five yuan!

!

That guy knew the people in the team had money, the asking price was really ruthless!

Xu Haijun thought about it and said:

"Without Xiao Long, weigh one of these slaughtered ones for me, the offal is inside, right?"

"Yes. Do you want the one slaughtered yesterday or the one slaughtered today?" Xu Haijun's decision was within Li Long's expectation. This one wasn't a person in a pool either, he would definitely be able to get rich later, not stingy, and had vision, and he also earned some money this year.

"Let's see..."

"If you want to eat at home, it's best to slaughter today." Li Long whispered, "Take it home and eat it, the sheep slaughtered today is the best to eat, just like eating slaughtered pork... but if you want to store it, then it's the one from yesterday, it's already frozen hard, easy to carry."

"Fine, come, weigh one for me—I see this one." Xu Haijun pointed to a sheep that Yushanjiang had just finished skinning.

"Then you have to wait," Li Long smiled, "Opening the belly and washing the stomach and such, it will take a while."

"I'll help too, this is the sheep I want, I can't do other things, but cleaning the intestines is no problem."

Xu Haijun wasn't polite, and Li Long wasn't polite to him either, he would just round down the price later.

This sheep finally weighed twenty-seven and a half kilograms, Li Long rounded down the half kilogram, forty-eight yuan and six mao, rounded down the six mao, which was forty-eight yuan.

Xu Haijun paid the money and said with a smile: "Lend me a bag, I'll send it back in the afternoon."

"Take it, what's a bag?" Li Long waved his hand, he didn't have much else, but he had many bags.

Many people bought sheep heads and sheep hooves, bundled them with reeds and took them away. Seeing Xu Haijun buy a sheep so decisively, they were envious of his courage to spend money, and also felt that it was better to buy meat early.

So there were a few people who pooled together to buy a sheep, after all, the sheep Li Long slaughtered here were all put together in one carcass, so no one thought about buying zero.

Until a few people behind couldn't pool together, they thought about asking Li Long if he sold zero.

"Sell, look at what parts you want." Li Long held a knife and asked.

"Give me a leg!"

"I want a rack of ribs!"

The enthusiasm was very high.

Li Long was selling mutton here in full swing, and Ma Jinbao's face was black.

Originally, people in the team basically looked for him to eat mutton. Especially in winter, he could just handle a batch of culled sheep in his sheep flock.

Although there were a few families raising sheep in the team, most of them were kept for themselves to eat and wouldn't be sold.

When Li Long first raised fat sheep, he specifically inquired, and the news he got was that Li Long intended to raise them fat and open a shop in the market to sell.

Ma Jinbao didn't care much at that time, anyway, he had raised sheep for many years, could he, Li Long, a layman, compare with him?

Didn't expect it, overnight, through the mouths of Lu Lu Dasao and Deng Guilan, everyone knew the sheep in Li Long's horse stable were fat.

And the sheep heads and sheep hooves were very cheap!

More than half of the village people went to buy sheep heads and sheep hooves, and quite a few bought meat.

After all, the sheep heads and sheep hooves looked quite fat, with a layer of oil under the skin, think about how much oil mutton could have?

Isn't this cutting off his own financial path?

Ma Jinbao wanted to go to the horse stable and scold Li Long, but he knew this matter couldn't be justified.

Why, only you are allowed to raise sheep?

But if he didn't scold, the anger in his stomach couldn't come out, it was uncomfortable!

It was obvious, in deep winter, people in the team bought Li Long's sheep, then who would buy his sheep later?

He relied on two incomes all year round, once was selling sheep wool in summer, although not much, it could maintain for a period of time.

The big head was selling mutton before the Spring Festival in winter, if lucky, he would encounter a few families pooling together to buy a whole sheep, then he would earn more.

It wasn't that he didn't know the sheep he raised weren't fat, but others had no choice.

Now it's good, there's competition, people definitely won't buy his.

Ma Jinbao couldn't think of a way at this time—he was a lazy person himself, what way could he have when things came to a head? Knowing to turn back when hitting the south wall?

It was definitely late.

It wasn't that no one provoked him to go find Li Long, he was lazy, but not stupid. Could Li Long be someone he could provoke? Besides, he didn't have much reason!

Later, the news he got was even more uncomfortable—heard that people in the Third Team knew the sheep in Li Long's horse stable were fat, and organized a team to come and buy sheep.

Although the Third Team wasn't as rich as the Fourth Team, how to say it was better than a few years ago, it was a bit difficult for a family to buy a sheep, but pooling together to buy one was possible, and some even came to weigh two kilograms of mutton, or buy a sheep heart and sheep lungs to supplement the elderly, and Li Long sold them too.

Doing business, who dislikes people buying less?

This day, Yushanjiang and the others slaughtered forty-seven sheep, Li Long sold eighteen, and two hadn't been weighed yet.

The purchasing power of the Fourth Team was still very strong!

Li Long's original plan was to slaughter sheep for two days, and slaughter red deer and roe deer on the third day, but now he had to change the plan, slaughter sheep for two and a half days, and then handle the red deer and roe deer.

Otherwise, these sheep might not be enough—even if the sugar factory only wanted fifty sheep, the rest couldn't be too many, after all, just Old Man Luo and the others, slaughtering fifteen or sixteen a day should be the limit.

Since Ha Ha Li Mu and the others were here, then those who are capable work more, just handle most of the sheep, although there was still more than a month later, but for the first year, Li Long originally thought about breaking even and summarizing experience, now seeing that there was money to be made, then be content.

He was already planning how to handle the red deer meat later. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 751 =====