Chapter 806: The Team

When Hearing Bolati and the others left, except for Hearing Bolati, the other three were riding on horses, one hand pulling the reins, one hand holding a wine bottle, drinking while walking back.

One of them was drinking wine while singing, clearly extremely happy.

After watching Hearing Bolati and the others leave, Li Long started moving these things onto the jeep.

There were too many things, especially those deer antlers, the jeep couldn't fit them in one trip. Li Long simply loaded the gastrodia, fritillaria, snow lotus, and these medicinal materials first, and also loaded two pairs of deer antlers.

Then he fished out the remaining half wild boar meat from the large basin by the spring, put it into a bag, and placed it in the passenger seat.

"Xiao Sun, you stay here, I'll go back first," Li Long said to Sun Jia Qiang, "I'll come over to send a batch of things in the afternoon to replenish the supplies here. You be careful yourself, lock the door at night. When exchanging things with people, don't be too easy to talk to, otherwise others will bully you."

"Boss, don't worry, I'll remember it," Sun Jia Qiang stopped the action of moving things into the wooden house and guaranteed to Li Long.

Hmm, this attitude was very good.

Li Long drove the jeep back to the large courtyard, just in time for lunch.

Late April, the temperature had started to rise, Mingming and Haohao were still playing in the bed-car, and the bed-car was now placed under the tree.

The trees in the courtyard didn't have many leaves growing currently, the sunlight sprinkled through the leaves, forming mottled light and shadow on the ground, this kind of light was just right for the two children to sunbathe.

Seeing Li Long return, the two children were both excited and chirped at him. A group of small animals also surrounded the jeep, as if welcoming him.

Gu Bo Yuan joked with Li Long:

"Hehe, after all, you are the head of the family, look at the commotion of these things in your house. How is it? Did you hunt anything yesterday?"

"Hunted two half-grown wild boars, and also caught a small wild boar," Li Long said while taking the meat off the car, "Put some at my older brother and the others' side weaving carrying baskets, put some at the place where I exchange things, these are brought back for us to eat. To tell the truth, it's not as delicious as domestic pork."

"Even if it's not as delicious as domestic pork, it's still meat," Gu Bo Yuan took the bag containing meat from Li Long's hand and said with a smile, "No matter what, it's still better than vegetables. You are still capable, as long as you enter the mountains, there is a harvest."

"I'm still a bit short," Li Long thought of Hearing Bolati and the others, sighed while unloading things from the car, and said, "You don't know, how many good things those forest rangers in the mountains can get in a year."

"What do they have?"

"Not to mention deer velvet, deer antlers, roe deer antlers, there are also fritillaria, gastrodia, jade, they can also get natural dog-head gold, and gemstone raw stones, I gave them three thousand five hundred today."

"Hey, don't tell me, they are all good things!" Gu Bo Yuan looked at these things Li Long spread out, and also sighed, "That's different, they are the ones living in the big mountains, what they come into contact with all day long are these, no wonder they are easy to find. We find one piece is luck, they run into one piece is normal."

This was indeed the truth.

Li Long and Gu Bo Yuan sorted them out by category, put them into the side room, and then washed their hands to eat.

"Are you going or not in the afternoon?" Gu Xiaoxia asked while eating.

"Going, today the forest rangers brought many things, and exchanged all the things I put in the wooden house the first day. Today I'm going to replenish some supplies, and by the way, bring back the remaining things, I won't go tomorrow. Tomorrow I have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to discuss taking people into the mountains to renovate houses for Yushanjiang and the others."

"You are so busy every day, I feel the county magistrate doesn't have as many things as you," Gu Bo Yuan joked while eating, "I saw news about you in the State Daily."

"Uncle Gu, what news?" Han Fang asked curiously.

This generation was very messy. Han Fang called Li Long Uncle, and called Gu Xiaoxia Aunt. According to reason, she should call Gu Bo Yuan Grandfather.

But Gu Bo Yuan felt he wasn't old, so he let Han Fang call him Uncle, anyway, really calculating, he was only ten or so years older than Han Fang's father.

"The newspaper wrote that your Uncle Li Long invited experts and professors from the August First Agricultural College to conduct soil improvement experiments. This is the first time in our state, and it praised your uncle quite a bit."

"My uncle is just capable," Han Fang looked at Li Long with full admiration and pride.

"The person who wrote this article is the propaganda committee member of our township," Li Long explained, "So it must be that we have to praise ourselves well. This is not just praising me, it is also praising the policies of our township."

"Hmm, flower sedan chairs are carried by everyone," Gu Bo Yuan understood this principle.

"Are you also going to be in the newspaper when you go to renovate houses for Yushanjiang and the others?" Gu Xiaoxia remembered a matter and asked.

"Yes, I will call the propaganda officer of the county seat over then, this time it's mainly not just me, but also our supply and marketing cooperative. Count this as a good deed of national unity done by our supply and marketing cooperative this year to publicize."

"Then are you going to be commended again this year?" Gu Bo Yuan asked, "Don't be afraid of the tree being big and attracting wind at this time, if there is a reward, take it. You have a thick family foundation now, you must have honor to protect yourself."

"Hmm, I know," Li Long nodded seriously.

After eating, Li Long rested a bit, then drove the car to the motorcade first.

The jeep hadn't stopped for this period of time, he planned to do a simple maintenance.

The people in the motorcade were also familiar with Li Long, Li Long went to put a cigarette for the captain there, and distributed a few packs of cigarettes to several familiar drivers, and the jeep drove into the maintenance station.

More than an hour later, Li Long drove the car out with a full tank of oil, returned to the large courtyard, took the double-barreled hunting gun, and went straight to the market.

Rice, flour, oil, brick tea

Cube sugar

, salt, vinegar, rubber shoes, gloves, raincoats, matches, wine, canned food, etc.

From the market and department store, he bought twenty or thirty kinds of things, filling the jeep.

When leaving, he also turned to the naan shop, packed the twenty or thirty naans baked today and bought them all, and then drove toward the South Mountains.

After a while, a few ethnic minority people came to the naan shop and were dumbfounded, how could there be no naan?

"A boss bought them all," the lad who made naan spread his hands to indicate, "Now I have to re-knead the dough and ferment it, if you want to eat, come over when the sun sets."

Li Long drove all the way into the South Mountains, and went straight to the wooden house.

When he arrived in front of the wooden house, he saw a person carrying a bag, just leaving the wooden house and walking into the mountains. When he saw the jeep, that person's pace suddenly accelerated, and then he started to run wildly, and soon disappeared into the forest.

Li Long was somewhat dumbfounded. Was this afraid that he would catch them?

Sun Jia Qiang was pouring the fritillaria just exchanged into the basin, seeing Li Long's jeep come over, straightened his waist and said with a smile:

"Boss, you scared the customer."

"Looks like a greenhorn. Familiar people should turn over to find me when they see the jeep," Li Long also joked half-jokingly, "Last year I was more popular than you, people were smiling when they saw my jeep."

"This year is different," Sun Jia Qiang said while unloading things with Li Long, "With these things, I don't worry anymore. The one who came just now also told me that the things here were too few, I said you would have more in two days."

"Then he still exchanged with you?" Li Long carried a box of wine into the wooden house.

"Exchange, he exchanged for two pieces of meat and left. Our meat and innards are still very popular. Just in the few hours you left, it has been exchanged twice."

"Miscalculation, miscalculation," Li Long shook his head and said, "If I knew it would be like this, I should have hunted the biggest wild boar this morning. Although the taste is not good, there is a lot of meat."

"Exactly, it's a pity. That group of wild boars today definitely won't come again."

"It's okay, there are many wild animals in this mountain, we will find other places, there will always be opportunities." Li Long just said it, not really regretting it. That big wild boar had a lot of meat, but the taste was really not good, others didn't know, he definitely couldn't eat it.

After unloading the things, he loaded the deer antlers and roe deer antlers that hadn't been loaded in the morning, and then Sun Jia Qiang washed the fritillaria collected today and put them into the bag and put them in the car, and then it was finished.

"I'll leave most of these naans with you, remember to spread them out to dry, don't cover them in the bag, it's easy to get moldy and grow hair."

Li Long divided the bag of naans into two parts, reminding Sun Jia Qiang, "If it's dry, you can also eat it, I see you don't know how to steam buns very well, just make do with this first."

"Good, good, good, I think this is better than steamed buns." Sun Jia Qiang took the naan, put it in the wooden house, and spread it out on the shelf.

Li Long planned to take the remaining naans to the winter shelter side, to reduce some burden for Old Huang.

Xiaobaiyang Valley was all in order. Hearing Bolati and the others knew that the people weaving carrying baskets here were Li Long's relationship, so they wouldn't come over easily.

Now there were more than twenty people stationed within five hundred meters here, all young and strong laborers. Those who ran rampant in the mountains didn't dare to come over to cause trouble either.

So what Li Long saw when he came over was a peaceful scene. Old Huang was preparing dinner, and others were cutting willow branches, burning willow branches, and weaving carrying baskets.

Many people meant lively, laughing and joking.

After Li Long's jeep came over, quite a few people looked toward this side.

He carried the sand-shot gun and the naan bag down, and heard a piece of greeting.

Li Long responded one by one, went to put the naan bag at Old Huang's place first, then carried the sand-shot gun and a bag of bullets, and found Li Jianguo weaving carrying baskets.

"Older brother, give this gun to you. If there is movement at night, just blast it."

"Good, good. I heard movement in the trench next door in the middle of the night these two days, I'll squat and watch tonight to see if there is anything that can be hunted." Li Jianguo said excitedly after taking the sand-shot gun.

Others nearby showed envious eyes.

Last time that group of robbers threatened their ten or so people with a hunting gun, now they had this guy on their side, so it was much safer.

These two days cutting willow branches, they also ran into large and small animals in various trenches, if they had a gun in their hands at that time, could they have hunted them?

Because of Li Long's influence, now everyone in the team knew that a piece of wild animal skin wasn't cheap, at least worth dozens of yuan, hunting a wild animal, not only had meat to eat but also money to earn, how good.

Li Long also went to Xu Haijun and Liang Wenyu's positions to walk around, the commotion on these two sides was a bit smaller, but everyone was also meticulous and serious about weaving carrying baskets. After all, compared to those old hands, their technique wasn't particularly good, and they were all young people, very concerned about face, if the carrying baskets they wove were eliminated because the quality wasn't up to standard, it wouldn't look good on their faces.

"Without Xiao Long, these are some wild mushrooms I picked these two days, help me send them to Professor Luo and the others at the Old Horse Station." Xu Haijun saw Li Long, turned around, took a bag of things from the winter shelter and sent it over.

"Good, let me see, okay, they are all grass mushrooms, not bad," Li Long flipped through and looked at it once, "I'll send them to them when I go down the mountain, don't worry, I will specifically tell He Lijuan that this was sent by you."

"Hey, what are you saying this for." Someone next to him listened, Xu Haijun's face turned slightly red and said.

Li Long originally wanted to tease him, but seeing his expression, forget it, let him go.

After Li Long left, Xu Haijun thought, this Without Xiao Long is still okay, knowing his own thoughts.

Coming out of the mountains, Li Long returned to the county seat all the way, this time he also brought the small wild boar, and seeing that it wasn't off work time yet, he went to the department store to buy some canned food, honey, chicken cakes, and other things, and drove to the Old Horse Station.

There were still some people surrounding the outside of the Old Horse Station, and after seeing the jeep come over, these people slowly dispersed.

Li Long didn't pay attention at first, in his view, it was very normal for professors and college students to come to the team and have people watching.

Professor Luo and the others were doing experiments in the courtyard, testing the composition of saline-alkali soil, adding things to it, to see if it could be neutralized.

After Li Long's jeep arrived, they stopped their work one after another.

What made Li Long a bit surprised was that Jiang Zhiyu was also there.

Seeing Li Long get off the car, Jiang Zhiyu greeted him first:

"Yo, the busy person is back."

"I'm blindly busy. Cadre Jiang, I heard your news report was finished, and it was even in the newspaper, how come you still have time to stay here?" Li Long asked while lifting things down.

"I am now the liaison between the township and our research point, of course I have to run here every day," Jiang Zhiyu said as a matter of course, "You bought quite a lot of things."

"Of course, Professor Luo is helping us, I can't help with the experiment, so I'll help with the supply guarantee?"

"Not bad, not bad, the attitude is quite good, very upright."

Li Long didn't pay attention to her anymore, carried that bag of mushrooms over, and said to Professor Luo or several students:

"Professor, everyone, these are wild mushrooms picked by Xu Haijun in the mountains—they are all grass mushrooms and not poisonous, he asked me to say hello to you."

After saying that, he specifically handed the bag of mushrooms to He Lijuan's hands.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, everyone understood the meaning.

He Lijuan's face turned red instantly, she really didn't know how to handle it.

"Go hand it to Old Luo and the others in the kitchen." Professor Luo helped his student out of the siege, and then started to introduce the experimental situation of these two days to Li Long.

In a word, there was progress, but the progress wasn't fast.

"It's okay, you all study slowly, I'm not in a hurry here," Li Long said with a smile.

Li Long's attitude was what Professor Luo was most satisfied with, engaging in scientific research originally tabooed being eager for quick success.

Actually, Professor Luo and the others could completely ignore Li Long's thoughts and study their own, after all, research personnel were still very popular in this era, counted as state cadres, and had a high status.

But Li Long's guarantee here was really too good, too in place. Whether it was the township or the village, they actively supported it, which made Professor Luo feel a bit embarrassed instead.

"If there are any difficulties or troubles, you can tell me, when I'm not here, you can also tell Old Luo, or tell me," Li Long exhorted again and again, "After all, we are in the village now. I'm not afraid to tell you straight, the quality of our villagers is uneven, if some loafers in the village come to harass you, tell the team directly or tell Old Luo, or tell me, I'll go clean them up."

Li Long was telling the truth, and was also taking precautions. After all, Professor Luo and the others were all scholars, and if they ran into these people, they definitely wouldn't be able to reason.

And such people, to tell the truth, were just lacking in cleaning up.

Li Long was also worried that if there were really some people with ulterior motives who went to harass the two female college students, causing a bad influence, the trouble would also be quite large. 【806-111

In no era should one think too highly of human nature.

Li Long not only told Professor Luo, but he also told Hu Dongfeng and the other university students:

"If anyone dares to harass you, your first priority is to protect yourselves, and your first reaction should be to run toward the horse corral while shouting loudly to call for help. As long as you shout, someone will immediately come to help you!"

Then he went over to remind Uncle Lao Luo and the others as well.

Thinking about it now, the people who were gathered at the entrance of the old horse corral just now were precisely a few young men from the production team who didn't have partners.

These few were not like Xu Haijun and the others who had clear goals for development and struggle. These people just drifted along; as long as they had a harvest from farming each year, that was enough.

Now that their income was slowly rising and their food and clothing were better, they had a bit of a lazy and gluttonous feeling.

With parents at home to support them and no burden of children below, and with the girls in the team not looking favorably upon them, each of them had reached that age—to say they didn't have the "toad wanting to eat swan meat" mentality would be impossible.

After all, the label of "female university student" held great attraction for them.

"Don't you worry, Without Xiao Long, I will definitely handle this aspect. If those few dare to come over and look for trouble, I'll dare to take the handcuffs to them!" Uncle Lao Luo knew how precious these university students were, and he gave Li Long his word.

Only then did Li Long feel at ease driving the jeep to his eldest brother's house. Liang Yuemei and the others had just returned from the fields, and after Li Long asked, he learned they had gone to spread chemical fertilizer. He told his father, mother, and sister-in-law about the situation with his eldest brother and the others, and then headed back to the county.

Every family had their own affairs, and since it was currently a busy season, there were very few idle people.

What Uncle Lao Luo didn't expect was that the issue of safety, which Li Long had only reminded him about that afternoon, would result in a situation before dinner.

Hu Dongfeng, Zheng Zhiguo, and Li Qingyuan were taking samples in the saline-alkali land, while He Lijuan and Zhu Yuechan were helping Professor Luo with experiments. Zhu Yuechan carried the wastewater from the completed experiment outside the old horse corral to dump it; just as she turned back after dumping it, a young man blocked her path.

"You're a university student, right? You look really pretty. We don't have anyone this pretty in our village. Let's be friends, shall we? My name is Ma Ming, what's yours?"

Ma Ming was Ma Chunhong's younger brother and Tao Dayong's brother-in-law, belonging to that group in the team who were lazy and gluttonous.

"Move aside, I'm busy." Zhu Yuechan's sense of self-protection was still quite strong; she said to Ma Ming with a straight face, "If you don't move, I'm going to call for help."

"What are you calling for? I haven't done anything bad, have I?" Ma Ming still said with a cheeky grin, "I just want to make a friend, that's all. I'm not making you do anything." As he spoke, he reached out to grab Zhu Yuechan's hand:

"You university students have such delicate skin and tender flesh, how can we let you do this kind of work? Come, come, I'll help you!"

Zhu Yuechan was so scared she took a step back; she hadn't expected this hooligan to dare to make a move! (End of chapter)