Chapter 940: Go to the Memorial Hall first, this is a must!

When going to Tiananmen, Li Long carried a backpack and held the babies, and Li Jianguo asked:

"Put down some things in the backpack, you're holding and carrying so much, it's tiring, let me hold Ming Ming..."

"The things inside have to be brought." Li Long smiled, "Camera, we're at Tiananmen, we have to take a photo, right? Ming Ming and Hao Hao's snacks, have to eat if hungry in the middle, and those things that aren't safe to put in the hotel..."

The things that weren't safe were naturally money. This backpack of Li Long's was captured, very sturdy, with a large capacity, and looked quite fashionable.

Valuable things, including money, were packed inside, so Li Long naturally had to carry them with him.

Knowing that Li Long brought a camera, Li Juan and Li Qiang were particularly excited. Although there was no saying of checking in at this time, since they were visiting Tiananmen, it was really unreasonable not to take photos.

When arriving at Tiananmen Square, Li Long was a bit surprised.

There really weren't many people in the square. Whether it was the flag-raising platform, the open square, or the entrance to the Memorial Hall and the Forbidden City, there weren't many people.

"Tiananmen, Tiananmen!" Li Qiang pointed at Tiananmen and said excitedly.

Although Li Juan didn't speak, looking at Tiananmen, she was equally excited.

The Tiananmen in textbooks, on coins, on banknotes, and appearing in other places finally overlapped with the tall and magnificent building in front of her.

"Long live the People's Republic of China," "Long live the great unity of the people of the world," two lines of words clearly entered the eyes, and the huge portrait of the Chairman in the middle was solemn and solemn, making people involuntarily put away their playful thoughts.

Coming for the first time, seeing Tiananmen so close and so clearly for the first time, Li Long was still okay, whether it was Li Jianguo or Gu Gu Xiaoxia, their moods were very excited.

People in later generations couldn't understand the mood of people far away in the border seeing Tiananmen and seeing that huge portrait in these years.

Why could *Riding a Donkey to Yanjing* be made into a movie? The simple feelings of ordinary people in this era could resonate, but in later generations, because transportation was developed and information was smooth, they couldn't feel it instead.

"Come, come, come, I'll take photos for you." Li Long reacted first, "Qiang Qiang, turn sideways, salute the Young Pioneers. Juan, you're already a League member, right? Then no need to salute... come, come, come."

There were still people taking photos in the square, and one could also see foreigners, so there was no worry about being driven away by those who fixed themselves here to take photos.

After taking photos with Tiananmen, the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Chairman Memorial Hall, etc., as backgrounds, Li Qiang excitedly shouted that he wanted to go inside Tiananmen (the Forbidden City) to take a look.

"No, no, go to the Memorial Hall first!" Li Jianguo spoke, "Go to the Memorial Hall today!"

This was indisputable, Li Qiang was a bit puzzled, why was his father so determined to go to the Chairman Memorial Hall, but he nodded habitually.

"Inside there, is Chairman Mao." Li Long said to Li Qiang, "We're in Yanjing, shouldn't we worship the Chairman first—it's him who let us live a good life..." Li Long explained to Li Qiang.

"Hmm!" Knowing that Chairman Mao was worshipped there, Li Qiang immediately nodded seriously, "We're going!"

There were more people at the Chairman Memorial Hall, when arriving at the entrance, everyone had a solemn and solemn expression, one by one really with a feeling of reverence, going up the steps, entering...

When coming out from inside, Li Juan and Li Qiang didn't speak. Li Jianguo and the others were also silent for a long time.

"Let's go, go to the Forbidden City to take a look." Li Long saw a group of people go in and immediately said: "Go in and see what kind of place the emperor lived in before."

"That must be better than the place we live." Li Qiang said loudly, "Emperor..."

Li Qiang had already started secretly reading martial arts novels, although the description of the emperor in them was not much, he could imagine it.

"Good is good, but the place isn't necessarily big." Li Long smiled, "Go in and see and you'll know."

He really didn't have a good impression of the Forbidden City, feeling it was gloomy, there were many small rooms, and to be honest, he couldn't see good things now... and there were many negative legends.

Fortunately, one could take photos inside, at several important and famous halls, Li Long took photos for everyone, and he also took photos with Gu Gu Xiaoxia, Ming Ming, and Hao Hao—the one who took photos for them was Li Juan, who learned this particularly quickly, looking quite decent, and quite good.

They also sponged off other people's tour guide explanations inside, people didn't care when they followed behind, Li Long was a bit embarrassed, thinking about whether to give them a service fee when going out, but the tour guide said no need, they were working, no need.

Fine, the times were different, and the concepts were different.

When coming out, they were starving, found a noodle shop at random, and ate *zhajiangmian*.

Not bad, the meat sauce tasted good, and there was a lot of meat, and there was no discrimination because of their accent. After the boss knew they were from Northern Xinjiang, he specially added more sauce, Li Long thought to himself, did the boss misunderstand, they were not refugees coming to beg for food.

Walking back after eating was equivalent to a stroll, Li Long said while walking:

"We have to find a post office to make a phone call to the acquisition station, and also call the team, telling them we arrived."

"Can it get through?" Li Jianguo didn't make phone calls often and didn't know if the phone could be transferred.

"Try it." Li Long said, "Try it and you'll know if it can get through."

Walking back to the hotel without seeing a post office, Li Long asked the hotel staff, the staff pointed out the location, so Li Long let Li Jianguo and Gu Gu Xiaoxia and the others rest, while he went to find the post office to make a phone call.

Of course, it wasn't just making a phone call, in some places in Northern Xinjiang, the post office would gather some people, some would exchange stamps here, some would exchange other things, such as grain coupons, or even US dollars, etc.

So Li Long thought about coming here to take a look, to bump into this kind of "black market," of course, he also knew that those who could exchange things here were mostly not good people, so he was mentally prepared to turn from literary to martial.

What made Li Long a bit disappointed was that this was a small post office, besides a few stamp collectors squatting here waiting to exchange stamps, there was no one else.

So he entered the post and telecommunications bureau and told the staff he wanted to pay to make a phone call.

At this time, post and telecommunications were not separated, post and telecommunications were one, making phone calls and sending telegrams were all here.

Unfortunately, it didn't get through, don't know if it was because the transfer level was too high, or the line was not smooth, finally no way, so Li Long sent two telegrams, one to the acquisition station and one to the team, just saying they arrived safely in Yanjing.

After the telegram was sent, Li Long left the post office and walked towards the hotel.

Just when Li Long and the others were visiting the Forbidden City, Halimu and the others at the old horse station had slaughtered twenty cattle and one hundred sheep in advance.

Because the number Li Long wanted was even more, Halimu and the others continued to slaughter sheep, here Song Ming brought sugar dregs and saw that the cattle and sheep were enough, so he brought a vehicle, wanting to take the sugar factory's away first.

Xie Yun Dong and Tao Daqiang naturally had no objections, it wasn't convenient to pile so many cattle and sheep together.

Xie Yun Dong and Tao Daqiang sat in the car, hauled the cattle and sheep, and went to the sugar factory.

Section Chief Hu knew Li Long was not there, so at this time it was official business.

Because some of the slaughtered cattle were brown cattle, big in size, so after weighing, the beef was over five thousand kilograms, the mutton wasn't much different, one hundred sheep weighed over three thousand kilograms, adding up to less than twenty thousand yuan.

Just this money, Xie Yun Dong and Tao Daqiang felt hot to the touch when holding it.

After the ticket was signed, Section Chief Hu said to Xie Yun Dong:

"Did Little Li explain to you? We also wanted venison last year, do you still have deer there now?"

"Yes." Xie Yun Dong said.

"Then fine, slaughter three more deer, I'll have Little Song come over to haul them tomorrow, weigh them on your side, I'll have Little Song bring the money directly, by the way," Section Chief Hu finally whispered, "must leave the whip for us."

After saying this, Section Chief Hu didn't wait for Xie Yun Dong and the others to say anything and returned to the office.

Entering the warehouse for beef and mutton, he didn't need to look at it now.

Xie Yun Dong and Tao Daqiang looked at each other, Li Long hadn't said anything about slaughtering deer. "Go back and ask Uncle Lao Luo, see what the situation is." Xie Yun Dong didn't dare to make decisions randomly at this time, saying.

Song Ming sent the two back to the old horse station after unloading the car.

Returning to the old horse station, Halimu and the others were resting, drinking meat soup and chatting.

Seeing Xie Yun Dong and Tao Daqiang return, Uncle Lao Luo hurriedly greeted them to drink soup to warm their bodies.

Xie Yun Dong took the enamel basin, took a sip while blowing, and told about Section Chief Hu wanting deer, then asked: "Uncle Lao Luo, did Little Long say anything about slaughtering deer when he left?"

"Didn't say this." Uncle Lao Luo shook his head, "Just said you handle this matter. Now that we can't contact him, you two discuss it?"

Xie Yun Dong looked at Tao Daqiang. Tao Daqiang shook his head, he had no ideas. Following Li Long before, he listened to Li Long for everything. Now that he had a family, he mostly discussed things at home with his wife, and no matter how big he was, he wouldn't have a firm idea unless forced to a certain point.

Xie Yun Dong scratched his head, a bit troubled.

This matter, slaughter or not?

Thinking of what Li Long said when he went home, Xie Yun Dong gritted his teeth and said:

"Then slaughter! Anyway, raising these deer is also slaughtering to eat meat, since people are now naming to buy, there's no reason not to take the money delivered to the door, slaughter!"

As soon as he said this, Uncle Lao Luo and Tao Daqiang had no objections, then slaughter.

There were more than twenty deer and more than ten roe deer at the old horse station, some were bred in these years, and some were small ones caught in the mountains and sent over to raise.

Since Section Chief Hu wanted the whip, then he had to slaughter the male deer. Uncle Lao Luo was still a bit regretful, after all, a grown male deer could cut velvet twice a year, which could also sell for a lot of money.

But he also knew that the sugar factory was a big customer, not to mention the matter of buying beef and mutton at the end of the year, just these sugar dregs, how much could be sent in a year? Although the sugar factory didn't want money for throwing away sugar dregs, being able to agree to haul them over was a favor.

Three male deer slaughtered over four hundred kilograms, and two big basins of deer blood were collected!

Deer whip, deer waist, etc., were all placed in the deer's *kelangzi*, and the rest were left behind.

Xie Yun Dong started to worry again, how to calculate the deer price?

"A deer was calculated at eight hundred last year, this year it might rise a bit." Uncle Lao Luo still remembered last year's price, "How to say it also has to be one thousand, right? This beef and mutton have all risen."

Xie Yun Dong thought that would be the price, thinking that Section Chief Hu also had a count in his heart.

Sure enough, when Song Ming came to haul the deer the next day, he checked the size of the deer, whether the whip and waist were there, and happily took out three thousand yuan, then let Xie Yun Dong sign the receipt.

After Song Ming left, Xie Yun Dong breathed a sigh of relief, the big head here was considered settled.

Halimu and the others were still slaughtering cattle and sheep, at this time someone in the village had come to buy offal and heads and hooves.

Li Long was not there, people in the village wanted to buy at last year's price, Xie Yun Dong didn't agree, he explained one by one, last year was last year's price, this year everything rose, even beef and mutton rose, these heads and hooves, including offal, definitely had to rise.

Of course, for people in the village, it didn't rise that much, it rose less than the market price, which was considered a benefit Li Long gave to the people in the village.

Just like this, after some people bought things, they scolded Xie Yun Dong behind his back.

The matter quickly reached Xie Yun Dong's ears, and he didn't care.

His wife complained a bit, but Xie Yun Dong thought very openly, and said to his wife:

"Think about how our life at home is now. This life now, our hard work is one part, if it weren't for the opportunities Little Long gave, could we live so well? People entrusted this matter to us, so we have to do it well.

Think about it, what kind of person is Little Long? He can entrust this matter to me, that is, he trusts me. He is not here now, so I have to make the decision? You don't have to think too much about this, with Little Long's temper, he won't let us suffer a loss."

Deng Guilan thought it was true. Before, she was a bit unconvinced about her husband following Li Long, but life had been getting better and better in the past two years, and together with Xie Daqiang, they became one of the best-living families in the team, so she had nothing more to say.

What is more convincing than living a better life?

"Then if I hear those people's bullshit again tomorrow, I'll scold them! This price is lower than the market price, and those people are still not satisfied, really a horse doesn't know its face is long!"

Once the mentality changed, Deng Guilan's thinking was immediately different, she was not the kind of woman who swallowed her anger, life at home was better, her confidence was sufficient, some people, she dared to scold if she should.

Halimu and the others slaughtered the cattle and sheep in less than a week, then drove the tractor back to the mountains. When leaving, Uncle Lao Luo asked them to take sheep, they didn't take them, finally, it was Xie Yun Dong and Tao Daqiang and others who threw the sheep into the car.

A large amount of skins, offal, and cattle heads, sheep heads, and hooves were left at the old horse station. What surprised Xie Yun Dong was that the first to sell out were actually cattle heads, and they were basically bought by people in the village. He specifically left a few pieces of offal and sent them to the Li family, and also sent some cattle heads, cattle hooves, sheep heads, and sheep hooves over, and the rest were left at the old horse station for sale.

Anyway, it was idle in winter, after Halimu and the others left, Xie Yun Dong came to the old horse station every day to process these remaining things, just like going to work.

According to what Li Long said when he left, each of these families took a sheep away, and each family also bought offal and heads and hooves, all paid extra money, and Xie Yun Dong kept accounts here.

After Gu Xiao Yu left the hotel, she returned to the school. In the school, she shared a dormitory with others, but now her roommates had gone home.

The old man watching the door saw Gu Xiao Yu and greeted her with a smile:

"Teacher Gu, you're back? Someone from your family came to look for you, asking you to go back when you return."

"Good, thank you, Uncle Hu." Gu Xiao Yu took out a bag of raisins from her handbag and handed it over, "Uncle Hu, this is a Northern Xinjiang specialty I brought back, you take it and eat."

"Yo, raisins! This is good stuff." Uncle Hu was a bit surprised, although there weren't many raisins, about a kilogram, but this stuff wasn't cheap in Yanjing, he said with a smile: "Then I'll accept it?"

"Accept it, accept it, nothing, just a snack." Gu Xiao Yu said with a smile, "Then I'll go in."

"Good."

Gu Xiao Yu entered the dormitory building, passed through various things placed in the corridor, and arrived at the door of her dormitory.

Opened the door, entered the dormitory, Gu Xiao Yu didn't have the relaxed feeling she had before.

Before, when returning from home to the dormitory, she had a feeling of relaxation, even if she lived with others, her roommates were from out of town, their tempers were not bad, and they were always easy to talk to.

But at home, with the growth of age, it became more and more inconvenient, and she felt more and more like a guest.

Instead, this dormitory gave her a feeling of belonging.

But now it was different, when she was with her sister and the others, even if it was a hotel, it was a very relaxed feeling.

Although Gu Xiao Yu knew this mentality was wrong. No matter what, her stepfather and mother raised her and also provided for her to go to university, they had kindness to her.

But Gu Xiao Yu was really greedy for the feeling of being with her sister's family, no pressure, no calculation, no feeling of superficial harmony but inner estrangement, saying whatever she wanted to say.

She originally thought all families were like her own, but after contacting her sister's family, she found that some families really had no family conflicts, really all in harmony.

Even when she was with Li Juan and Li Qiang, and Ming Ming and Hao Hao, she was happy.

She hadn't lived there for a few days, and there was a bit of unpleasant smell in the dormitory. Gu Xiao Yu opened the door to ventilate, but the unpleasant smell in the corridor drifted in again, she had to close the door, and then pack things.

No matter how much she delayed, she finally had to go home. Her mother knew she went to Northern Xinjiang and didn't oppose her returning to Northern Xinjiang. Since she went and now returned, she had to go home and explain things.

Counting the time, she would finish packing and go home, just in time for her mother and the others to get off work, and she could talk to her mother then.

Besides the jade bracelet, there was also a jade Guanyin for her stepfather and her stepbrother each.

These two jade Guanyins were later supplemented by Li Long to Gu Xiao Yu. He felt that it was inappropriate for Gu Gu Xiaoxia to give her mother a bracelet but not bring things for others in the family, so he took out some jade carvings and let Gu Xiao Yu choose. Gu Xiao Yu chose two jade Guanyins, one big and one small, the bigger one for her stepfather, and the smaller one for her stepbrother.

After packing things, Gu Xiao Yu sighed, locked the door after leaving the dormitory, and walked home.

Was it really time to buy a house?

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