Chapter 995: The happy life in the Li family courtyard

After dinner, Gu Bo Yuan looked at the things in the box Li Long took out, flipped through them carefully, and said:

"This... should be the legendary gold pages, right?"

"Gold leaves?" Li Long was stunned for a moment. He had read quite a few martial arts novels, where the heroes and heroines paid with silver ingots and gold leaves. He thought gold leaves should be things made of gold that were like tree leaves, convenient to carry, and not low in value.

Who could have thought that gold leaves were this thing?

Was it the imagination of the novel, or did Gu Bo Yuan guess wrong?

"Yes, it's gold pages. Look, doesn't this look like book pages, one page after another?" Gu Bo Yuan pointed to the gold pieces and said, "This thing is rarely seen. I also heard the teacher mention it occasionally when I was in school. There are too few existing in the country, mainly because this thing isn't easy to preserve."

So it turned out that the novel said gold leaves, and Gu Bo Yuan said "gold pages."

Li Long suddenly realized. Looking at these "gold pages" that were like book pages but were clearly much thicker than gold foil and had more weight, and then thinking about what was said in later generations, any antique with words was many times more valuable than one without words, because words represented inheritance and records.

Those without words could only be called antiques, while those with words could be called cultural relics.

Gu Bo Yuan solemnly put this thing into the wooden box, covered the lid, and said to Li Long: "Keep it well. This thing can be passed down in the family."

Being able to let Old Gu say that this thing could be passed down in the family showed that this thing was truly extraordinary.

Li Long thought to himself, were the few gold plates he got also things that could be passed down in the family?

As for the others, was the primitive worship sculpture he brought back from the ruins of the Shi tribe deep in the Tianshan Mountains also one?

Oh, forget that one.

There had been ancient tribes in the Tianshan Mountains, plus several wars and bandit suppressions on the northern slope, as well as the operation and escape of several generations of Northern Xinjiang kings, so it was normal to have good things.

Li Long took the box back to the room; this thing had to be put away well.

As for the few hundred silver dollars, they were secondary. He didn't understand silver dollars and didn't know if there were any very valuable ones, so let them be. Anyway, in the two years of opening the acquisition station, he had already collected several hundred silver dollars, so he didn't care about having a few more.

As for these things that needed to be treasured, Li Long must put them away well.

The main house of this courtyard had two doors. Sister Yang and Han Fang were in the east room, which only had one room. Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia lived in the room with the west door, which had three rooms, one bright and two dark. Opening the door was the living room, the left hand was the master bedroom, and the right hand was also a bedroom. However, in the bedroom on the right hand, there was a secret compartment under the bed, in which were things Li Long felt were very precious.

There were also some particularly good jade seeds and good things carved by Master Liu.

On National Day, Chen Xingbang brought his family over. Li Long first sent them back to the Fourth Team, and Gu Bo Yuan also went back with them.

The acquisition station was closed on National Day and didn't collect things. This point had been posted early. Although Li Long saw people watching at the big iron gate of the acquisition station when he sent people away, he didn't care.

The acquisition station was busy all year round; they couldn't really not let people rest, right?

Tie Lanhua was about to give birth, so Li Long naturally had to give Sun Jia Qiang a holiday here.

Gu Bo Yuan also planned to go back to the village to have a good rest for a day. Although the acquisition station was in the county and all kinds of life were convenient, this wasn't his home.

Fortunately, the big items in the acquisition station had all been sold, and it wasn't far from the police station, so he didn't worry about any problems. Sun Jia Qiang lived next door and could discover the situation in time.

After sending Chen Xingbang and his family back to the Fourth Team, Li Long returned to the county, sent Gu Xiaoxia and Mingming and Haohao back, and when he returned to the county, Li Anguo's family had also arrived.

Li Long ran three round trips and was considered to have brought all his family members. Li Jianguo's courtyard suddenly became lively.

Li Juan and Li Qiang were the happiest. They were the oldest, leading a group of younger brothers and sisters playing happily in the courtyard. Mingming and Haohao also joined in, very happy.

Occasionally there would be bumps, but parents basically wouldn't care. The children would solve it themselves. Li Juan and Li Qiang had already learned to patiently explain the truth to their younger brothers and sisters.

Liang Yumei was cooking with Li Xia and Chen Li Rong. Gu Xiaoxia wanted to help, but was "driven" out by Liang Yumei, who said with a smile: "It's crowded enough for the three of us here, you go out and watch the children."

Gu Xiaoxia had to go out, and Li Xia said to Liang Yumei:

"Sister-in-law, you and Mingming's mother have a really good relationship."

"That's because she's like Little Long, I watched her grow up," Liang Yumei said while preparing ingredients, "Watching her grow from that small into a big girl, and then marrying into our family, that's different."

Chen Li Rong didn't speak, but actually she was quite envious. If her husband wasn't working in Kuitun, she felt that living in the village was actually quite good—she had lived there for a period of time before, and felt it was very good. The sister-in-law was a good person, there wasn't so much right and wrong in the village, there weren't so many rules, and the father-in-law and mother-in-law weren't people with many things. How good.

It was just a pity that living in the city, their own family had changed to a big courtyard, but the relationship with the people nearby was like being separated by a layer. Although they greeted each other when they met and occasionally helped each other, it wouldn't be as close as the relationship in the countryside.

Seeing the liveliness here, Sister-in-law Lu also came to the courtyard to chat for a while. Her and Lu Yingming's relatives were basically all in their hometown, and it was good enough to go back once a year.

So she was very envious of the Li family like this, with the whole family having moved over, and being able to gather together from time to time.

People in the countryside still liked liveliness very much, especially when there was a courtyard full of children. Li Qing Xia's mouth hadn't closed since. Although Du Chunfang muttered that she disliked the noise, in fact, her gaze almost never left this group of children.

She also always wanted to hold Mingming or Haohao, but Mingming and Haohao were in a hurry to play with their elder brothers and sisters, and always broke free. Du Chunfang wasn't annoyed either, just watched with a smile, occasionally saying the children had great strength.

Li Long and his elder brother Li Jianguo talked about the tractor and repairing the road.

"After National Day, there is still some winter wheat to be sown, plus some unplowed land to be plowed, and a few families want to open up land, and have already applied to the team. When the time comes, open up the wasteland. This year, calculating the total, filling in the capital of last year's tractor, it should still be able to earn some."

Li Jianguo's expression was quite excited when he spoke, but Li Long could see that his elder brother was very hard-working. The work of driving a tractor was painstaking, brain-consuming, and ear-consuming. He estimated that his elder brother's ears were probably already ringing at this time.

"Elder brother, how much is this tractor?" Chen Xingbang asked.

Li Anguo was also listening, quite interested.

"A set plus farm tools costs fifty thousand." Li Jianguo said, "The tractor alone is nearly forty thousand yuan."

"It's earned back in two years?" Chen Xingbang was greatly surprised, "Is plowing land so profitable?"

"Mainly because our team has a lot of land." Li Long explained, "Now plowing land plus harrowing land, leveling land, cutting land, and sowing, a set adds up to eight yuan. The whole team has nearly three thousand mu of land..."

"There are three thousand mu." Li Jianguo added, "Quite a lot of land was opened this year. Some land with bitter beans and flower firewood was all opened."

"Calculate how much there is, come once in spring, and come once in autumn."

"Then doesn't the team have other tractors?" Li Anguo asked.

"Yes, but that tractor is twenty or thirty years old. Plowing a few mu of land requires a major repair, which is very annoying. It's not as easy to use as our new tractor. Most people in the team use ours." Li Jianguo said with pride.

Chen Xingbang and Li Anguo looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Running from the interior to this legendary bitter cold place from thousands of miles away, and painstakingly spending effort to finally become people who eat commodity grain, how come they felt it wasn't as good as the elder brother who stayed in the countryside?

They had to work all year round, while the elder brother only worked for more than half a year. Although tired, there were more than five months of winter to rest well, and everything was made up for.

Besides, the money the elder brother earned in this year was top of what they worked for many years.

Can't compare!

Of course, that was what they said, but if they were really asked to leave their jobs and return to the countryside, they still wouldn't be willing. Eating commodity grain was an identifier. With this identity on their bodies, in the eyes of ordinary people, it was just stronger than farming in the countryside.

The few big men started chatting, talking about the meat price on the old street for a while, talking about some interesting anecdotes in Kuitun and the 7th Agricultural Division for a while, and then it was the work of Li Long's acquisition station.

Before the meal started, Li Jianguo asked Li Long to call Gu Bo Yuan over.

"Eating alone in his own courtyard is too cold? This isn't the Mid-Autumn Festival, it's National Day, right? Eating together is much better?"

"Right, right," Li Qing Xia also said, "Your father-in-law doesn't find another one... call him over, call him over. I also want to drink a few cups with him." ===== CHAPTER 996 =====