Chapter 104 This is the best gift for the mountains The snow chicken tastes really good. Liang Yuemei has mastered the technique of cooking game, which is to add more seasonings to suppress the fishy and pungent taste of game. She would definitely be reluctant to let it go in the past, but now Li Long would come back every once in a while and bring big bags of seasonings. She wouldn't listen no matter what she said, so she just let him do it. The result is that no matter whether it is wild boar meat, roe deer meat or rabbit meat, the taste is very good. Now Liang Yuemei has also listened to Li Long's advice and mainly eats fine grains in her daily life. After all, the two children need to grow up and cannot go hungry. She still remembers the first time Li Long brought back the frozen mutton and her family made hand-pulled meat, and how Li Juan wolfed it down. Being a mother is so sad. The world is big, but children are the most important. Since we have them at home, since my husband agrees and my brother-in-law suggests it, I will feed them mainly fine grains so that they can grow up healthily. But when steaming buns every day, Liang Yuejuan would also steam a few mixed with corn flour and white flour for her and Li Jianguo to eat. Li Long couldn't persuade them, so he gave up. He had experienced two lives and knew the general psychology of people nowadays. The land hadn't been distributed yet, and there wasn't much food, so they saved as much as they could. "Juan, Qiangqiang, these are chicken legs. Eat these. The meat is delicious!" At the dinner table, Li Long gave two chicken legs to each of the two children, then picked up a wing for himself and started to chew them happily.
Li Jianguo and Liang Yuejuan looked at each other and smiled. This meal was delicious. After drinking a bowl of snow chicken soup, Li Long said at the table: "I have to go to the mountains tomorrow to deliver some things there." "Okay, be careful on the road," Li Jianguo said, "Don't try to be brave no matter what happens." "Hey." Li Long responded and went to the east room. He had just finished eating and couldn't sleep, so he lit the kerosene lamp and read the book "The Legend of Tang Dynasty Rangers" in the dim light. In this new life, my entertainment life is seriously lacking. But now there is no constant electricity, so forget about TV. Should I get a radio? It also needs to be equipped with batteries - by the way, do I need to bring two radios to the mountains? Li Long watched and thought, and felt sleepy, so he got on the kang, pulled back the quilt, blew out the light, and went to sleep. He got up early again the next day, went to the bathroom to relieve himself, and came back jogging. He felt that the temperature had risen a lot and was not as cold as before the New Year. It seems that the snow will soon melt, and the days of breaking holes in the ice to catch fish will soon be over. Going to the west room, Liang Yuemei was making cornmeal porridge. Li Long saw a few pieces of stuff in it and asked while washing his face: "Sister-in-law, what's in that porridge?" "I cut a few pieces of beets and put them in. It will make the paste sweeter." "Okay." Li Long responded, "It's nutritious." In the inner room, Li Jianguo was watering and sweeping the floor, Li Juan was sorting her schoolbag on the kang, and Li Qiang was playing with the tin frog, enjoying it very much. Li Long thought that time passed so quickly and Li Juan was about to start school. So it’s time to announce the school’s expansion soon, right? Gu Xiaoxia was also worried. It had been several years since she graduated, and she had almost forgotten some of the content. Even if she asked Gu Boyuan to tutor her now, she might not be able to figure it out. Wu Shufen found out about her studies during this period and accidentally revealed it to her mother Wang Yuzhen, and soon the news spread throughout the village. Now whenever Gu Xiaoxia went out, someone would ask her if she was going to take the college entrance exam or something, which made her feel very embarrassed. She blamed Wu Shufen in her heart and simply stopped going out. When Wu Shufen found out, she came over to apologize, and implicitly told Gu Xiaoxia not to be so persistent. What was the point of studying those textbooks? They were of no use at all when she was supposed to work in the team. Gu Xiaoxia was also struggling, but Gu Boyuan's words strengthened her belief:
"If this is an opportunity, and you give up now and don't grab it, will you regret it for the rest of your life? Not everyone is like Li Long. I hope you're fine." Gu Xiaoxia suddenly understood. After Li Long had breakfast and got dressed, he rode his bicycle out. Now that the temperature has risen, he no longer needs to wear the uncomfortable leather shoes, and can wear cotton-rubber shoes outside. After entering the mountains, he changed into felt shoes. Before leaving the production team, he ran into Gu Xiaoxia who was out dumping ash. Li Long stopped, put his feet on the ground, and asked with a smile: "Have you eaten? Is Uncle Gu okay?" "My father is fine. He has eaten." Gu Xiaoxia dumped the ashes, picked up the dustpan, hesitated for a moment, and asked in a low voice: "Li Long, are you sure that your news is true?" Li Long didn't know what was going on in the team about Gu Xiaoxia. He just thought she was anxious, so he said: "Don't worry. In less than half a month, Li Juan and her classmates will start school soon. We should have confirmed news before school starts. Study hard and take the junior high school entrance exam. There are dormitories, it's close to home, and the salary is high. You high school students get a higher salary than junior high school students." With Li Long's words, Gu Xiaoxia's mood was obviously much better - at most half a month, with a specific date, she was not so anxious. Gu Xiaoxia returned home, still humming Liu Dage's excerpt from Mulan. Gu Boyuan, who was reading at the table, smiled and asked: "What's up with you feeling so good?" "I met Li Long, and he said that we'll have news in half a month at most. He also said that high school students like us get a higher salary than junior high school students..." "That's only possible after you pass the exam. Now that you have the news, why don't you start reviewing?" Gu Boyuan urged with a smile. "Hey, I'll go now." Li Long rode his bicycle to the large yard, put on his shoes, wrapped his Type 56 semi-automatic rifle with cloth and tied it to the frame, then rode off into the mountains. As he rode, he thought, I should ask my sister-in-law to make a gun holster for me when I have time, otherwise it would be inconvenient to wrap it with cloth all the time. If it were in the future, I could just buy a canvas fishing rod bag, but there is none now. When we arrived at the winter den, the dogs were still barking, but the sound was welcoming. Halimu came out and saw Li Long carrying another large bag. He took it and said: "Li Long, every time you come over to get something, we feel embarrassed." "What's there to be embarrassed about? The things you bring me every time are much more valuable than these." "I can't put it down." Halimu said with a smile, "It's too much." "If you know someone, give it to them, or take it to other herders and exchange it for sheep or sheepskins." Li Long said, "There are herders deeper in the mountains, right? It won't be convenient for them to use these things, right?" Li Long's words gave Halimu a new idea. This seems to be possible? After entering the winter nest, Halimu showed his family the rubber shoes that Li Long brought. As expected, they were very popular! This is good stuff! Everyone, including the old ladies, started changing their shoes to try out the fit. What a joy! (End of this chapter)
