Chapter 819: What should Li Long do if he encounters this matter?

In the old horse corral, Xu Hongjun was also quite worried.

As the youngest of the brothers in the Xu family, he had just reached adulthood and was originally working at home with his parents. Now he was sent by Xu Chengjun to the old horse corral to get vegetables and fish for the professors and college students.

Alfalfa, elm money, shepherd's purse, dandelion, etc., were all easy to get. He could even get some sour berries. This thing tasted sour, and it was one of the "snacks" that children in families without money to buy snacks could find in the wild to eat raw.

As for other wild mint, thorn buds, etc., which could be eaten raw or wrapped in buns or steamed, he could get them all—after all, his age was there, he had just reached adulthood, and he had just passed the age of being a child king. These things grew up with his childhood, so how could he not find them?

Even catching some crucian carp to eat every few days was very easy. Not long after sowing, it was time to water. The water in the small sea passed through the main canal, branch canals, and hair canals to the fields, passing through many sluice gates, turns, and uneven places in the middle.

After the watering stopped, there would more or less be some crucian carp in the residual water in the canal, so anyone who had been a child king knew that if you just wanted to eat fish at home, you didn't need to go to the small sea to set a net. In the few days after watering, you could get quite a lot just by combing through the canal.

Originally, he thought he would just play around, and he could get two work points a day. Although it wasn't as profitable as going out to weave carrying poles, this money was on the right path, and it could be used to offset the public work that the family didn't pay at the end of the year.

It was a good thing.

It was just unexpected that he had only been working for two days. This morning, he excitedly carried a bag of pinched crucian carp over, preparing to let Old Old Old Luo Shu stew them for the professors and college students to eat. Unexpectedly, the female college student named He Lijuan blamed him for catching crucian carp at this time, saying that the crucian carp at this time all had roe and shouldn't be caught at all.

"Don't catch March crucian carp, haven't you heard of it?"

That female college student spoke fast and urgently, and Xu Hongjun didn't have a chance to refute and explain at all, so he was wronged like this.

It was a waste of his good intentions, running to the main canal early in the morning and getting mud all over his body to catch these fish!

Unexpectedly, after catching the fish, he didn't receive praise, but was criticized first. How could he be reconciled in his heart?

It just so happened that Old Old Old Luo Shu came out to feed the wild boars, so Xu Hongjun told this matter. He asked Old Old Old Luo Shu:

"Old Old Old Luo Shu, you say if Li Long encounters such a thing, what will he do?"

Li Long didn't know it himself, but in fact, he had already become an idol in the hearts of these seventeen or eighteen-year-old young men in the team. Li Long's age wasn't big, but the things he did, let alone his peers, even people of older ages couldn't do.

He could make money, had brains, could lead the team to get rich together, and his skills were also powerful—mainly he had beaten quite a few people and actually won.

And he wasn't stingy, unlike some people in the team who only knew how to make a fortune by themselves and wouldn't lead others at all, and wouldn't even care about relatives.

Li Long's behavior, in the eyes of some people, really occupied the two words "chivalry".

In this era when martial arts film and television novels were popular, a person like Li Long would really be worshipped.

So after Xu Hongjun told Old Old Old Luo Shu about the matter, he asked directly what Li Long would do.

In his view, if Li Long encountered such a thing, he would definitely have a solution at that time, and wouldn't be like himself, who didn't know how to deal with it because he was clumsy in speech and was talked to by the female college student.

"If Little Long were here, wouldn't it be simple? Take a few college students to the canal to see and they would understand. These college students are mostly from the city, especially the girl who talked about you, who hasn't lived in the countryside and has no rural life experience.

But she is also a college student, has learned a lot of knowledge, and understands a lot. Compared to you, who hasn't even graduated from junior high school, she naturally has an advantage. She won't believe what you say, so it's better to let her see it on the spot...

If you don't catch these crucian carp, won't they die? It's a death to be eaten by us, it's just a death, how is it different?"

These words came out, making Xu Hongjun feel like he had been enlightened, and he immediately understood.

At this time, He Lijuan and Zhu Yuechan were coming out of the dormitory, preparing to help Professor Luo, so Xu Hongjun immediately went over to He Lijuan and said:

"Sister He, let me tell you, what you said before is wrong! That March crucian carp might not be able to be caught in other places, but it can be caught here."

"How can it be caught? Do you mean that the crucian carp here don't produce roe in spring?"

"They do, most of the crucian carp I caught today have roe." Xu Hongjun said honestly, "And there is a lot of roe, and the fish neck roe is very fragrant."

"Then that's right, this fish roe will soon become thousands of small crucian carp fry. You caught them and killed them, these crucian carp fry can't grow out, isn't it cruel? Shouldn't I say you shouldn't?"

"Of course you shouldn't say it, these are two different things." After Xu Hongjun thought it through, his train of thought became clear, "Do you have time, follow me out and you'll know..."

"Follow you out? Who knows if you have any bad intentions?" He Lijuan became smart at this time, "Don't think about tricking us out!"

"I didn't think about tricking you out at all!" Xu Hongjun was said like this, his voice suddenly became louder, and his face and neck turned red, "If you don't go to see, how do you know if what I said is right or wrong? You can let Old Old Old Luo Shu and the others follow..."

Professor Luo heard the quarrel and came out. Seeing him come out, Xu Hongjun immediately stopped talking.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Professor Luo asked.

He Lijuan spoke fast and explained the matter—of course, from her standpoint.

When Professor Luo heard it, he shook his head slightly and asked Xu Hongjun:

"Are you trying to take them to see the place where you catch fish, right? To let them stop misunderstanding you, right?"

"Hmm." Xu Hongjun nodded hard.

"Yes, Little He, Little Zhu, you call the others together to go and see. Let me tell you, this knowledge needs to be increased from various aspects. It's not that because you are college students, you necessarily have more knowledge than Little Xu who grew up in the countryside.

We have studied dialectical materialism for so many years, and you should know even more that all things cannot be dogmatically based on experience and those previous conclusions before being demonstrated. Things are changing at any time and anywhere, and you cannot think so absolutely that these handed-down proverbs are completely correct."

He Lijuan was told by Professor Luo, and she also knew that she might be wrong, but she didn't know where she was wrong.

Zhu Yuechan asked:

"Professor, then today's experiment..."

"It's fine, today is mainly for chemical analysis, Little Zheng and the others have already dug the soil, I can handle it alone here, you guys just go out to relax."

So Xu Hongjun took He Lijuan and the others out.

"Professor Luo, Little Long also said that driving cars, taking buses, taking planes, etc., in big cities is knowledge, and knowing how to catch fish and hunt in our countryside is also knowledge. What you said is about the same, the truth is the same."

"Hmm, although Comrade Li Long is from the countryside, his knowledge is still very broad," Professor Luo said seriously, "His mind is also flexible, and his insights and cognition of many things are not worse than the college students I lead, and even in some aspects, I am not as good as him."

This evaluation was very high, but Old Old Old Luo Shu liked to hear it.

He treated Li Long as a nephew, and others appreciated Li Long and said good things about Li Long, so he was naturally happy.

Xu Hongjun took He Lijuan and the others to the main canal, and then walked down along the main canal, found a branch canal, and at the sluice gate of the branch canal and the main canal, Xu Hongjun pointed to the water pit washed out under the sluice gate and said:

"You see, there are at least several kilograms of crucian carp in this water pit. If I don't catch these crucian carp, what will happen to them?"

Anyone with eyes knows that the water here will only get less and less, and finally dry up.

When the water dries up, the fish will only die.

Zheng Zhiguo and Hu Dongfeng both held iron shovels, originally thinking that if Xu Hongjun was tricking them over, it would be fine to fight.

It was just unexpected that Xu Hongjun brought them here to show them knowledge.

Hu Dongfeng went down to the edge of the water pit, used an iron shovel to splash the water in the pit into the branch canal, and after splashing two or three times, he saw crucian carp jumping in the water. Zheng Zhiguo immediately went down too, opposite Hu Dongfeng, splashing water out of the pit left and right. After splashing a few times like this, he splashed out a palm-sized crucian carp.

"Look, this crucian carp must be a mother fish, the stomach is quite big, and there must be roe inside." Xu Hongjun said, "Let me tell you, the water in this water pit will dry up in three or five days. By then, these fish will either be caught away or eaten by flies. Every time we water the fields a few times a year, there will be many fish gathered in these pits, and most of these fish will die in the end. If you come to see in a week, if the fish haven't been caught, there will be a pit of maggots here!"

He Lijuan felt very disgusting after hearing it, and then she said subconsciously:

"Then why don't you catch these fish and put them in the reservoir?"

Xu Hongjun looked at her like a monster after hearing this.

If Li Long were here, he would think of a word: Virgin Bitch.

"Impossible." Zhu Yuechan actually knew that He Lijuan just hadn't seen this, and was kind by nature, so she explained softly, "How could it be possible to get them over? There must be many such water pits in this team, and everyone is busy working, how could they manage this?"

He Lijuan also knew she had spoken wrongly, her face blushed, and at this moment she also knew that she had wronged Xu Hongjun before, so she said to Xu Hongjun:

"Little Xu, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you, I didn't know there were so many fish here, and these fish would die like this..."

"Hmm, it's fine now that you know." Xu Hongjun was very happy after hearing it. Old Old Old Luo Shu was right, Professor Luo was also right, college students don't necessarily have more knowledge than us.

Li Qingyuan, who hadn't spoken above, jumped into the canal at this time, not caring about the muddy water here, and went to pick up the fish that had been splashed out.

Later, He Lijuan and Zhu Yuechan also joined in. How could they not be tempted by this visible harvest? Instead, Xu Hongjun became a technical instructor, pointing out one by one above the sluice gate.

It has to be said that this feeling of instructing college students is really good.

This morning for more than an hour, these college students had enough fun catching fish—although the fish caught in the end were only five kilograms, for He Lijuan, Li Qingyuan, and others, it was really a rare experience!

The next day, when Li Long came to the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Xiangqian asked him to settle the account first.

More than a thousand carrying poles, that's more than nine thousand yuan.

Li Long originally planned to withdraw some money, otherwise, he wouldn't have anything to pay when he went to the forestry team station.

Now that the account was settled, the money was there.

He didn't plan to pay for the carrying poles woven on the side of Qingshuihe Village and White Poplar Gully first, but planned to haul the things from the forestry team station back first.

The money for settling the account would be discussed later.

After putting the money in his backpack, Li Long drove the jeep to the department store to buy things.

The forestry team station is thirty or forty kilometers away from the county, and they don't have cars or tractors, but have quite a few horses.

It's not easy to come to the county once, so Li Long brought some daily necessities, which was also convenient for exchange.

Hou Zhengyi followed Li Long all the way without saying much—these past few days he had been taking the meat hunted by Li Long every day, and his family was very happy, even his children praised him for being capable.

So Li Long circled a few more times in the county, and Hou Zhengyi had no opinion.

After Li Long finished buying things with him, he drove to Qingshuihe Village, picked up Meng Hai and the others, and went into the mountains.

It wasn't until they arrived at Yushanjiang's winter camp that it was noon. After getting off the car, Li Long and Hou Zhengyi gnawed on dry naan and ate pickles here to deal with a meal.

This was the most simple lunch they had eaten in the recent period of time.

Neither of them felt hard, running back and forth was a bit tired, and the dry naan was quite fragrant.

After eating, Li Long carried his backpack and gun and walked into the mountains. Others had high hopes for him, so he had to work hard, at least to see if there was a chance to hunt something.

To be honest, Meng Hai and the others worked very solidly, and the winter camp was repaired with very good quality. Li Long felt it was necessary to let them get more benefits other than wages.

It wasn't until it was almost dark that Li Long climbed over a dozen mountains and finally hunted a lone half-grown wild boar in a nearby mountain gully. The wild boar wasn't very big, about sixty or seventy kilograms, but it was enough for everyone to share.

There was no time to boil meat. In the evening, they still ate dry naan, pickles, and red tofu. Although the food was simple, Meng Hai and the others were very happy, mainly because they could take meat back again today.

After returning to the compound, Li Long ate dinner and began to wash the fritillaria. Gu Xiaoxia and Gu Bo Yuan both came to help, and Sister Yang let Han Fang watch Mingming and Hao Hao, and she also came to help.

Li Long was used to this work, and it didn't have much technical content itself. Four adults worked together, and by dark, they had washed more than ten bags.

These washed and separated clean fritillaria had to be spread out in the room to dry.

When Li Long got up early the next morning, he continued to wash fritillaria while the meal wasn't ready.

If you want to make money, you have to work more. There is no other way.

Fortunately, there was nothing to do in the morning and evening later. Li Long went into the mountains during the day, took Meng Hai and the others to repair the winter camp, hunted by himself, and also went to Sun Jia Qiang's place to replenish supplies for the wooden house, and then hauled the fritillaria collected by Sun Jia Qiang back.

He washed the fritillaria when he came back at night, and spread the washed fritillaria to dry. The days slowly grew longer, the working time became longer, and the days passed quite fulfilling.

Six days later, Meng Hai and the others finished renovating all the winter camps on the mountain. Li Long took the vehicles again to collect the woven carrying poles from White Poplar Gully and Qingshuihe Village once more. This time, he collected more than 1,700 carrying poles.

The fritillaria collected from the forestry team side had finally been washed clean and dried.

The dried fritillaria was packed in bags and stacked in the side room. Fritillaria and skins were placed in two rooms, otherwise, they would smell.

The purchasing station also received a large amount of fritillaria and other sundries.

On the day the winter camp was repaired, Li Long went to the forestry team with Hou Zhengyi again, bringing them two boxes of wine, a box of small champagne, and some canned food.