Chapter 920: Jia Tianlong brought his daughter over

Another snow fell, and even after the snow stopped, the world was still gray.

Li Long didn't like such weather; he liked sunny days.

Gu Bo Yuan didn't like such weather either, especially seeing such a long queue in the courtyard, and these people all holding gray things in their hands, he felt a bit irritable in his heart.

In previous years, when winter arrived, there would be very few guests in the agricultural materials store he operated. He would hold a book, sit by the stove, and read while roasting by the fire.

The stove lid was swept clean, a grate was placed on top, and then a few slices of steamed buns were cut. Sometimes when there were no steamed buns, he would simply cut a few potatoes and roast them.

It wouldn't take a few minutes, flip it over, and the steamed bun slices or potato slices would be cooked. There was no need for any seasoning at all. Eating and reading like this was very fragrant.

Right now, three snowfalls had already fallen, and the time had reached December, but looking at the lively people outside, and mixed with a few familiar faces—not the familiar kind of middlemen, but because these few people were from his own township, and even from the Fourth Team, he felt a bit annoyed.

Shouldn't one be cat-wintering in winter? How come everyone is so restless?

He would definitely not admit that he was a bit irritable because Li Long and the others didn't call him when they went hunting together several times, just feeling that it was so lively right now, it really didn't look like winter at all.

This has been busy for a year, can't people be allowed to rest well?

After that day, although Li Long thought about going up the mountain, he ultimately didn't go. After resting for two days, Tao Daqiang and the others came over and invited him to go hunting in the north again—this time it wasn't random, but someone brought news from the north that a large group of gazelles had come.

The person who brought the news was also known to Li Long: Wang Mingjun.

He invited Li Jianguo and the others to go hunting, of course not just to hunt, but also wanted to call Li Long over to collect the skins on his side. This was the biggest idea.

Wang Mingjun learned that Li Jianguo and the others went to the north to hunt from Luo Erwa. When he heard this news, Wang Mingjun was still a bit angry.

Fortunately, Zheng Xiang Yang persuaded him, and he also guessed that Li Jianguo didn't want to trouble them. It was just that they were located on the edge of the North Sand Nest and had a very geographical advantage. The large group of gazelles would pass through the position north of them.

So Wang Mingjun and Zheng Xiang Yang discussed and called Li Jianguo and the others, of course focusing on Li Long, saying that they had a lot of skins on their side.

Last year, Li Long "bought at a high price" the skins of Wang Mingjun and the others, allowing the team to earn a sum of money. This year, he gave the team the job of tying large brooms. No matter what, the team earned a lot of money from Li Long, and the living standards of the staff had improved a lot this year, and many families had added large items.

Wang Mingjun and Zheng Xiang Yang discussed and felt that they should strengthen the connection with Li Long. The best way was to invite Li Jianguo and Li Long and the others over.

So there was another hunting trip.

The news was naturally true. North of the team, there was a group of about two hundred gazelles living briefly on a large beach where red willows and saxaul grew together.

Usually, gazelles would gnaw all the tender branches of this patch of shrubs before going to other places to continue to harm.

This time, Wang Mingjun and the others gave sufficient information, and Li Long and the others prepared very well. In the evening, they directly touched to a position thirty or forty meters away from the gazelle group. Li Long and the others could see that the red willows and saxaul in this area were basically left with bare poles, and the branches were all gnawed away.

Several people, plus Wang Mingjun, Old Chen, and the others, hunted down more than twenty gazelles.

Li Long's biggest harvest was collecting more than ninety skins from Wang Mingjun here. It was precisely because Wang Mingjun told the situation on the phone that Li Long and the others drove two tractors; otherwise, they really wouldn't be able to fit so many things!

After that trip, Li Long didn't hunt much again during this period, but there were quite a few people hunting in various townships and villages.

So Gu Bo Yuan was a bit annoyed—money was not lacking, food and drink were all quite good, it felt like something was missing in pursuit.

And like Li Long a few days ago.

However, thinking of Mingming and Haohao who were still calling him "Grandpa" in the main courtyard yesterday noon, that irritability in Gu Bo Yuan slowly dissipated.

Yes, there were still these two stinky boys.

He continued to greet people:

"Next... say it again, standard full skin, fifty yuan, damaged skin thirty. If your skinning technique is not good, skin slowly. That hole peeled out, even if it is pasted with oil, it can still be seen!"

The next one was Xie Yun Dong. He and Tao Daqiang held a large pile of skins and came over, smiling and saying:

"Old Gu, let me tell you, we were very careful when skinning these skins. Apart from the bullet holes, there wasn't a single broken mouth. You can check carefully."

The people behind heard that these two people and Gu Bo Yuan knew each other, and they were all very curious.

Sun Jia Qiang was a bit absent-minded today. Seeing Xie Yun Dong and the others, he just smiled reluctantly, then opened the skins and assisted Gu Bo Yuan in checking them one by one.

Li Long was playing with snow in the courtyard with Mingming and Haohao. This time, he wasn't just helping Mingming and Haohao squeeze snowballs. Mainly, the two little guys were getting bolder. They took the snowballs Li Long squeezed out first. I don't know what they were thinking, but they actually started throwing them at Li Long together, laughing while throwing.

"Hey, you two have rebelled, right?" Li Long squatted there, pinched a snowball into two halves, thought about it, pinched it smaller, and then threw one in each hand at Mingming and Haohao.

He was half left-handed, throwing things with his left hand and writing with his right hand, so his left hand was quite accurate. The snowball the size of a sparrow egg entered Mingming's neck. And the one thrown at Haohao wasn't that accurate, directly hitting Haohao's forehead—it was originally intended to hit Haohao's chest.

Haohao didn't pay attention to this, and with the hit and fright, he sat on the ground, reached out and wiped his forehead, wanting to cry, turned his head to look at his older brother Mingming who was tilting his head and digging snow from his neck, and ultimately didn't cry.

Neither child cried. Especially Mingming, who was an older brother, was very steady. After laughing and digging snow from his neck, after digging out the snow, he squatted down and found another snowball, stood up, looked at Haohao, stuffed the snowball into Haohao's hand, and then went to grab another snowball, saying to Haohao:

"Hit Dad!"

The voice was very loud, and then Haohao responded with an "Ang", climbed up, followed his older brother, and rushed toward Li Long.

Li Long laughed loudly. Although they were not even two years old, the two little guys were clearly much smarter and braver. The older brother took care of the younger brother, and the younger brother listened to the older brother. This was very good!

Two snowballs hit Li Long one after another, splashing up small snowflakes. The two children clapped their hands and laughed there. Haohao laughed and swayed, directly sitting on the ground again. He hurriedly climbed up, patted his butt, grabbed Mingming's arm, indicating that he still wanted to fight.

Sister Yang heard the movement, poked her head out from the kitchen and asked: "Uncle, are the two children cold? They have been playing for half an hour, do you want to go into the room to warm up?"

"No, they are dressed thickly, play for a while more." Li Long replied, "Children, they should be playing outside in winter. Now they are still small and can't hit the old cow, but playing with snow is no problem."

The snow in the courtyard was cleared. If it weren't for Li Long fearing that others would slip, he even planned to find a place to splash some water and freeze it into ice, and then build a sliding horse for the children.

Sigh, city life is not good. Without the Internet, it's much worse than the countryside. At this time, Li Juan and Li Qiang and the others can hit old cows, slide horses, play with sleds, chase rabbits, cover old sparrows...

A flash of memory flashed through his mind, and the feeling of emotion hadn't risen yet, when it was interrupted by a burst of cold. Mingming was very good to Haohao, but very cunning to his old father, the imaginary enemy. Directly taking advantage of Li Long's daze, he ran over, took a piece of snow, and covered it into the neck of the squatting Li Long, probably wanting his old father to also taste the feeling of snow in the neck?

The two children saw that they had succeeded, laughed, and ran in the courtyard to hide. Li Long just wanted to pretend to chase, when he heard the sound of the courtyard gate. Someone had come.

Sister Yang also heard the movement, hurriedly wiped her hands on her apron, came out from the kitchen, took Mingming in one hand and Haohao in the other, and prepared to take the two children into the room.

Mingming and Haohao naturally weren't happy, struggling there. Li Long didn't care so much. Hearing someone knocking on the door outside, he responded, and then went to open the door.

What surprised Li Long a bit was that outside the door was Jia Tianlong, his wife Qiao Fengzhi, and Qiao Fengzhi was holding a child—the child was tightly wrapped in a small quilt.

"Come in, come in, why bring the child over?" Li Long was a bit blaming, "How old is this? Just a hundred days, right? Go, go, go, come into the room to warm up."

"Hey, it's over a hundred days. This isn't coming over, have to let the child see that piece of jade," Jia Tianlong really believed this, "The child was very stable sitting on the train all the way..."

Jia Tianlong had a child. Li Long had received the good news by phone, congratulated him, and thought about giving him a gift when he came over. But he definitely didn't think the child could come over. After all, it was too small, and running around in winter, no matter how you say it, it shouldn't be.

But since they had come, naturally he had to invite them into the room first.

Jia Tianlong didn't stand on ceremony either, followed Li Long into the room with his wife. Sister Yang poured water for the two, while Mingming and Haohao curiously watched Qiao Fengzhi open the quilt in the room, revealing the child inside.

"This is... younger sister?" Mingming didn't speak, Haohao asked silly and carefully.

"Hey, good eyes!" Jia Tianlong replied with a smile, and then said to Li Long, "Little Long, I really envy you. Look at your two sons, tiger-headed and tiger-brained, really sturdy!" With good nutrition at home, Mingming and Haohao were much taller and stronger than children of the same age, and clearly much smarter. Jia Tianlong just liked looking at them.

"Yours is not bad either." Li Long signaled Jia Tianlong to drink water, "How heavy is it now?"

"Over six kilograms." Qiao Fengzhi replied, "Uncle, I want to feed the child..."

"Go into the inner room!" Li Long hurriedly pointed and said, "There's no one inside, don't worry, Old Jia and I will watch for you here."

Qiao Fengzhi gave birth to a daughter. When Jia Tianlong reported the good news to Li Long, he was a bit unwilling, thinking about having another one.

For Jia, that little fine naturally didn't matter. If his wife could give birth, then give birth...

Of course, what Jia Tianlong feared was that his wife couldn't give birth, so he simply brought her over to worship the jade after the child's hundred-day banquet was held.

He believed that after worshipping this jade, his wife would definitely be pregnant later. Of course, not now.

It was winter, and he had nothing to do. By the time spring started, he wouldn't have time to bring his wife and child over together.

"Hey, this mind of yours." Li Long thought about it and smiled.

"Not just this. Since the child was born, naturally I have to come back to fulfill the vow." Jia was very solemn, "Looking at that piece of jade before, I felt it was destined, so I worshipped it, and then it was born. Now that it's born, I have to come back to fulfill the vow, right?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Li Long again and asked cautiously: "Little Long, you say, can this jade..."

"No." Li Long waved his hand, "If it were something else, that would be fine. This is something a village represented and gave to me. They didn't want money. You say, how can I give it to you? I still have to rely on this village to complete my mission in the next few years..."

Since Li Long said so, Jia Tianlong didn't mention this matter again.

Li Long let Jia Tianlong drink water first, and he went into the east room.

Last year, after Mingming and Haohao were born, Jia Tianlong came over and sent a gift of great value. Compared to the gift from Zhao Hui that was more form than content, what Jia Tianlong sent was a true heavy gift.

The attitude afterwards could also be seen. Jia Tianlong truly wanted to make friends with Li Long, while Zhao Hui was purely a business partner.

So Li Long had already been preparing gifts a few months ago when he knew Jia Tianlong's wife gave birth to a daughter. Today, Jia Tianlong brought the child to the door, and Li Long went to get the gift.

Mingming and Haohao couldn't see the "younger sister", so they could only curiously look at Jia Tianlong. Jia Tianlong persistently let Mingming and Haohao call him "Big Uncle". Mingming and Haohao just shook their heads, and then called Jia Tianlong "Uncle Jia" as Li Long taught.

"Why not call Big Uncle?" Jia Tianlong asked, teasing the two children.

"There are Big Uncle, Second Uncle." Mingming spoke much more than many children at this time.

Li Long came out of the east room, and Jia Tianlong was a bit shocked. He said to Li Long:

"Your two are only a year old, right? Speaking so clearly?"

Li Long smiled and said: "Early maturity. Their mother is a teacher, taught early."

Actually, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia were also very surprised and amazed by this point, including Gu Bo Yuan and Li Jianguo.

After all, usually, children who are a year old can say simple words, which is already very good. Being able to say sentences, in this era, is almost non-existent, but Mingming and Haohao can say short sentences, and very clearly.

Li Long could only secretly attribute it to his own reasons. Anyway, he now has great strength and five senses far beyond ordinary people, maybe there is some special factor in his genes?

"Hey, I also know some teachers, their children don't necessarily see how much smarter they are than ordinary children." Jia Tianlong naturally didn't think what Li Long said was true. He felt more and more that this should be the talent of the Li family, or is it heredity?

If it's like this, then he really has to make a good friend with Li Long. It can be clearly seen that not only is he unusual, but his wife and children are also unusual.

Qiao Fengzhi came out of the inner room with the child, a bit shy. Li Long took out the thing he had just taken and said: "The child is already a hundred days old, seeing for the first time, this is a meeting gift from our family to the child, must accept it."

What Li Long stuffed into the child's hand was a pair of small gold bracelets made of gold, and the weight was not light. He originally wanted to send a piece of jade seed material, but jade wasn't expensive at this time, and sending it felt like it wasn't so sincere, so he simply sent gold. This thing at least looked unusual at a glance.

Qiao Fengzhi hurriedly opened her mouth to refuse. Li Long stuffed the bracelets into the child's quilt and said: "Must accept it. My relationship with Old Jia, we are our own people, don't be polite."

Qiao Fengzhi looked at Jia Tianlong, and Jia Tianlong nodded and said: "Since Little Long said so, then accept it." Li Long said they were their own people, and he was quite happy.

Qiao Fengzhi put away the gold bracelets.

She could feel that the weight was not light.

Jia Tianlong put down the teacup and said: "Since the milk has been fed, now let's go worship that jade."

He said to Li Long: "We came over last night and stayed in the guest house, and took a bath."

"Came here without saying in advance?" Li Long was a bit blaming, "Not an outsider."

"That's different. No matter how you joke with you, for that jade, I have to respect it. In my view, my family's Yumei was born by worshipping it."

The girl is called Yumei, a nice name.

What surprised Li Long a bit was that Jia Tianlong also prepared things for worship. The bag he brought contained not only local specialties brought from his hometown for Li Long, but also side dishes, fruits, and so on for the jade in the lunch box.

Local specialties include medicinal materials and ingredients such as lily and *Codonopsis*; side dishes are fried fish, elbow, and braised chicken.

Looking quite rich—there was even wine.

The snow on the jade platform was cleared. Usually, Blackie would occasionally run here to pee, and after being scolded by Li Long several times, he didn't dare anymore. That copper incense burner was still there, with traces of burnt incense inside. Sister Yang would occasionally come over to light a stick of incense, sometimes remembering, sometimes not.

After Li Long led Mingming and Haohao out with them, he went to find a sack and spread it on the jade platform. He felt that Jia Tianlong probably wanted to worship greatly, so he couldn't worship directly on the brick floor.

Sure enough, Jia Tianlong set up the things, lit the incense, offered the wine, and then knelt on the sack with his wife and child.

Mingming and Haohao saw it was fun and wanted to move closer. Li Long hurriedly pulled the children over. The two children were still struggling, so Li Long picked the children up one in each hand.

Li Long slowly didn't hold the children much. Mingming and Haohao were also quite heavy. Sister Yang and Gu Xiaoxia usually could only hold one, so they simply didn't hold them.

Now suddenly being held by their father, the two children immediately forgot their unhappiness and laughed happily.

The joy of children is often just that simple.

After the Jia Tianlong family solemnly bowed again and again to the child-like jade stone that looked like it was sleeping, they got up. Li Long hurriedly let them into the room. The child was still young, unlike his own two boys, and he was afraid of him catching a cold.

Sister-in-law Yang was already prepared to make a meal for many people. In ancient times, this would be considered a close family friendship, so naturally, they had to entertain them at home.

After entering the room, Jia Tianlong talked to Li Long about the market changes after Dong Zhi Chao and Bai Xiu Ming took the flat-mouth melon seeds back from here.

"I really didn't expect that your melon seeds here would be so popular over there," Jia Tianlong was also very surprised, and of course, happy for Li Long.

Although he didn't know how much Li Long had earned, since there was competition, Li Long definitely wouldn't have earned little.

That was enough. (End of chapter)