Chapter 26: Without a carriage, make a sled? When Li Long returned to the Li family, Tao Daqiang had already returned to his home and there was no one in the yard. Li Jianguo is unloading sheep. "Will you go tomorrow?" Li Jianguo asked while peeling the sheepskin. Li Long stepped forward to help and said: "I can't go. All the carriages in the team have been borrowed." "Excuse me?" Liang Yuemei was cutting sheep tripe and other offal, planning to make another pot of sheep offal soup. "Yeah. The captain told me that when I went to look for him." Li Long sighed, "It seems someone is jealous." "This is normal." Li Jianguo sharpened the knife on the grindstone beside him and slowly peeled the sheepskin. The lamb has not completely thawed yet, but its body is a little soft, so it is easy to peel it at this time. The main reason was that one of Tao Daqiang's legs was removed before it thawed, and now that blood had already been seen, he might as well just peel it. "Then tomorrow is a good time to rest." Liang Yuemei said, "Xiaolong must be exhausted these past two days."
"I'm not that tired actually," Li Long said with a smile, "I even had a meal of hand-pulled meat at someone's house at noon today." "That's great." Liang Yuemei looked at her brother-in-law with some surprise. She didn't expect that her brother-in-law could communicate with others to this extent. Think about what those sisters-in-law and aunts who came to visit at noon said. Each of them spoke very badly of Li Long. Who could have thought that Li Long would change so drastically? "So what are you going to do tomorrow?" "If I have nothing else to do, I plan to make a sled tonight." Li Long said, "Brother, do you know anyone who has a saw?" "We have one at home." Li Jianguo said, "For a sled? How big is it?" "It doesn't have to be too big." Li Long gestured. "It's for people to pull, so it can be as big as a table. Just put it on a wooden pole. I plan to break the ice hole and catch some fish tomorrow, and sell them in the county the day after tomorrow morning." If you want to earn money to buy a bicycle, you can't just go to the mountains. I'm afraid you can't borrow a horse-drawn carriage these days, so you might as well do it yourself. A sled is not a very complicated thing. It only needs a few wooden strips and a chisel. There are ready-made pieces of wood. It doesn't have to be beautiful, as long as it is useful! "That's easy. The two of us can make it tonight." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "If you want to talk about a carriage or something, we can't make that. We don't have a small sled yet." These days, every household basically does what they can. When it comes to craftsmanship, few people these days are bad. Li Long still remembers the rifle that his elder brother Li Jianguo carved out of wood for Li Qiang. After it was painted, it looked exactly like a real five-six-and-a-half. By the time Li Long and Li Jianguo had skinned the two sheep, it was already dark. "Brother, let's make the sled tomorrow. It's tiring enough just to deal with these two sheep today." Li Long was really tired. These two sheep were really difficult to deal with. "Okay." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Tomorrow morning I'll go with you to prepare the fish, and in the afternoon we'll go sledding." Li Long naturally had no objection. The mutton offal soup was almost ready. The two of them sat on the kang. Li Jianguo rolled a cigarette. Li Long saw Li Juan and Li Qiang playing on the kang. He suddenly thought of the thigh stone he had brought back, so he went to the east room to take it out and put it on the head of the kang. "Juan, here, play with your brother." When Li Long sprinkled the thigh stones on the kang, Li Juan was stunned for a moment, and then let out a scream of surprise! "Ah-Uncle, is this for me?" "Yes." Li Long said with a smile, "My friend in the mountains has a lot of them at home, so I took some." "Uncle, you are so nice!" Li Juan shouted loudly.
This scream attracted Liang Yuemei, who was holding a spatula in her hand, staring at Li Juan and shouting: "What are you yelling about? It's so loud, it's going to blow the ceiling off!" Normally, Li Juan would have been quieted down by this roar, but today she didn't. She held the thigh stones and said excitedly to Liang Yuemei: "Mom, look! My uncle asked for this for us! So many... so many thigh stones! There are only five of them, but she treats them like treasures and won't even let us touch them! Now I'll show her what a lot is!" Liang Yuemei looked at the thigh stones, then looked at her daughter's expression, and her expression softened, but she still frowned again: "We'll talk about that later! Come here, take your bowl and eat!" She looked at Li Long again and said in a blaming tone: "Xiaolong, just spoil them!" "They are my nephews and nieces, who else should I spoil if not them?" Li Jianguo laughed and smoked a cigarette happily. Today was such a comfortable day! While drinking mutton offal soup, I heard footsteps outside. As soon as Li Long heard the heavy footsteps, he knew that Tao Daqiang had arrived. He stood up and opened the door without waiting for Tao Daqiang to knock. "Daqiang is here, come in quickly." "Brother Long, I won't go in." Tao Daqiang's face was a little nervous and angry. "I heard that several families have borrowed the team's carriages and are going into the mountains tomorrow..." "I understand." Li Long pulled him in, "Sit down first." Liang Yuemei stood up and asked Tao Daqiang to sit at the table. Li Juan obediently gave him a seat and squeezed in with her brother. Seeing Liang Yuemei wanted to serve him mutton soup, Tao Daqiang hurriedly refused: "Aunt, don't serve me any more. I've already eaten." "It's okay to have another bowl after you've eaten." Liang Yuemei didn't listen to him. Tao Daqiang and the Li brothers were friends with each other. He called Li Jianguo his uncle and Li Long his brother. The main reason was that Li Jianguo was one of the first people to come to the production team. Although he was not very old at the time, he treated those old people as brothers. "Then let's..." Tao Daqiang looked at Li Long, hoping that he could come up with an idea. He had just reaped the rewards, but others snatched them away. He felt really uncomfortable. "Let's go break an ice hole and catch fish tomorrow. Are you free?" "Yes." Tao Daqiang's eyes lit up, "He was caught..." "Catch them and sell them," Li Long said, "but don't tell anyone else." "Okay, okay, I won't tell anyone, and neither will my dad or my brother!" Tao Daqiang took the mutton soup that Liang Yuemei brought over, feeling mixed emotions. The lamb leg I brought back yesterday was gone, and my father didn’t say he would cook the lamb leg I brought back just now. The cornmeal porridge I drank in the evening was still cold. If he hadn't eaten a few pieces of mutton at noon, he felt that he might not be able to get up tomorrow. It consumes a lot! "Have another bowl." Seeing Tao Daqiang quickly finish a bowl of mutton soup, Liang Yuemei wanted to serve him another bowl. Tao Daqiang hurriedly stood up to refuse, but the bowl had already been taken away. When he took the bowl again and looked at the bowl full of mutton offal, Tao Daqiang's eyes turned red and tears almost fell into them. This is an outsider! Our family is not even as good as an outsider!
Li Long could see that Tao Daqiang was worried, but every family has its own problems, so he couldn't say anything about it. After Tao Daqiang left, he simply washed up and went to the east room. There was a lot of money left, and in his heart, Tao Daqiang also had a share of the money, but he couldn't give it to him right now. Let’s talk about it later. The most important thing right now is how to earn enough money to buy the bicycle. The next day after breakfast, when Tao Daqiang arrived, Li Jianguo, Li Long and Tao Daqiang took Li Juan and Li Qiang to Xiaohaizi together. When they were almost at Xiaohai, they saw a horse-drawn carriage leaving the village from afar. Li Long thought, going out at this time and wanting to pull wood from the mountains, is this just a daydream? Thanks to book friends 161008195704931 and 20230112071150496 for their monthly tickets, thank you book friend Tianjie Xiaofeng for your reward, thank you all for your recommendation votes and suggestions, I will work hard on the code. I also hope that everyone will support, vote, and read, that is, you must read to the last chapter and turn to the end! This is really important! (End of this chapter)
