Chapter 49 People are different, you have to admit it! When Li Long led the carriage back to the production team, the people who were still outside looked at him in surprise. A group of children were beating an old cow on the road that was as smooth as ice. When they saw Li Long coming, they surrounded him. Li Long looked around and asked one of the familiar children: "Gawawa, where is Qiangqiang?" "Someone said you were arrested. Qiangqiang took the old cow and went back crying. Were you arrested?" Li Long immediately understood why those people looked at him strangely. He smiled and shook his head and said: "No, I went to the mountains." Li Long explained. "You're talking nonsense! You didn't even pull any wood back!" A child thought Li Long was lying. "But I pulled back the wild boar." Li Long smiled and lifted the grass to reveal two wild boars. This matter could not be concealed no matter what, so he might as well use the child's mouth to dispel the rumors and gossip. When they saw the big wild boar, even with only its head showing, the two dagger-like fangs scared the children! After making sure that the wild boar was dead, the brave child dared to step forward, carefully touched the tooth, then quickly retreated, saying: “What big teeth!”
Li Long smiled and walked back with the carriage. The children who were curious had already run to Li's house to report the news. The other children stopped beating the old cow and followed the carriage to Li's house. After receiving the news, all the Li family members ran out of the yard. When they saw Li Long, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei finally felt relieved. Li Qiang still had tears on his face. When he saw Li Long, he burst into tears again and rushed over to him, shouting: "Uncle! Uncle! They said you were captured and will not come back..." "They are talking nonsense. You know I went into the mountains." Li Long smiled and touched Li Qiang's head. Although Li Juan didn't cry, it was obvious that she was suppressing her joy. She just watched with a smile on her face. "Why did you take so long to come back?" Li Jianguo complained, "The whole family was worried." There was actually nothing wrong, but Gu Ermao and Tao Dayong were arrested one after another, and rumors spread again. It would be a lie for Li Jianguo to say that he was not worried. "It's good that you're back. Let's go into the yard first!" Liang Yuemei said with a smile, "Xiaolong, you haven't eaten yet, right? Go inside and change your clothes. Ask your brother to return the carriage. I'll heat up some food for you!" No matter what the family members are doing outside, there is a bowl of hot rice when you get home, and you can think about other things after you are full. This is the simplest emotion among family members. Li Long recalled what the Arab scholar he saw in his previous life said: "Have you eaten?" The first sentence of greeting between Chinese people when they meet is the simplest one, which cannot be felt at all in normal times, but it contains the most simple emotion. Now I truly experience it. Others care about how much money you earn, whether you live a glamorous or miserable life, whether you have a car, money and a house, but your family will first welcome you home with a hot meal. After driving the carriage back to the yard, the two brothers took down the wood and grass. Li Jianguo looked at the two wild boars in surprise: "You did all this?" "No, the small one was caught by me, and the big one was caught by my friend. They didn't want to eat it, so I pulled them all back." "This one is huge!" Although Li Jianguo had seen wild boars before, this was the first time he had seen one this big. "It must be over 250 to 60 kilograms!"
"But the meat is not as delicious as domestic pigs," Li Long said, "and the blood is not added." "That's meat too!" Li Jianguo stressed, "It's good to have meat to eat! Come, unload the pig, you go change your clothes first, I'll return the carriage, and then boil water to remove the hair!" Two pigs are enough to provide a year's worth of meat. Are you afraid of hard work? You must be kidding! Li Jianguo made Li Long truly feel the appeal of the founders of the old production team. He carried the jade into the house. The stove in the east room was still hot. When he put the jade away, changed his clothes and prepared to eat, the yard was already bustling. The eldest brother of the Lu family, Uncle Chen from the backyard, the village butcher Qin Laosan, and even Lao Luo from the stable all came. "Xiao Long is good." Lao Luo, carrying a pot, entered the east room, looked at Li Long and said with a smile: "People said you and Tao Dayong were arrested together, but I didn't expect that not only did you not catch any, you also brought back two wild boars. Well done, you're a real man!" "Tao Dayong was arrested? What about Daqiang?" Li Long, who had just changed his clothes, was also shocked when he heard this. Tao Dayong must have been arrested for selling fish, so was Daqiang also arrested? "Daqiang ran away. He said you had warned him before." Lao Luo smiled, "It seems that not everyone can do this business." While helping Lao Luo put the pot on the stove, Li Jianguo had already poured in half a bucket of water. The next step was to scoop snow from outside in a large basket and add it to the pot. The stove door opened, the wind blew in, the fire suddenly became hot, the snow melted quickly, and the water in the pot became hot. The yard was even more lively. Everyone was commenting on the wild boar. Although it didn't need to be killed, it was still troublesome to deal with. When Li Long was having dinner in the west room at this time, he heard Liang Yuemei talk about Gu Ermao and Tao Dayong being arrested, including the fact that Li Jianguo had lent Tao Daqiang twenty yuan. "Then give him the money." Li Long took out twenty yuan from his pocket and handed it to Liang Yuemei: "The last few times Daqiang went out with me, he had a share of the sales. I have his money here, so I'll take it back this time." Liang Yuemei took the money and wanted to say something, but didn't say it. Li Long said while eating: "If Daqiang comes again later, he will just be doing the work." Tao Daqiang worked without complaint and was obedient - the fact that he was not arrested this time was a proof of this. He had a reason for not asking his brother to work with him. Li Long could see that his sister-in-law had some thoughts. Of course, she was not questioning Li Long, but she was a little confused. Seeing that everyone was outside, Li Long whispered: "Sister-in-law, I have news. The land will be divided in the spring. Our family will be allocated a lot of land, and my brother will have to do the work in the fields. I will do some side jobs. Farming is a big deal. I don't want the work points, but my brother can't be left out." Liang Yuemei was shocked by the word "divide the land". She looked outside and asked: "Do you really want to split?" "It has to be divided. Many provinces have already done so, so we are late." Li Long said, "But the first time we divided it, it wasn't much, but it was our own land. I was thinking about bringing back some manure from the mountains. By the way, we may have to share the team’s stuff. We need to earn more money now. If we want to win a horse or something, we need to buy it with money, right?” Li Long clearly remembered that the last time the team divided the "village property", each household drew lots, from number one to number forty-seven - there were forty-seven households in the team. Li Jianguo picked number 2. Number 1 was the Dongfanghong tractor in the team, which cost more than 1,000 yuan to buy, and number 2 was the big red horse, which cost more than 100 yuan. Li Jianguo gave up the number. But farming still requires a means of transportation. Li Jianguo later spent 15 yuan to buy a small donkey, and then found wood and paid someone to make a frame for it. After a year, he finally had a donkey cart. If you prepare the money now, and when you win the horse, you can buy it directly and use it, right? The area around Halim's winter camp is full of cow and sheep dung! Now Li Long goes out to sell things without Li Jianguo, because Li Jianguo's prestige is there. If the two of them have a dispute, who should they listen to? And there are two men in the family. If something really happens, they can't all be arrested, right? Keep one to be safe. When Li Long finished eating and appeared in the yard, the men in the yard looked at him differently. Look, they are all young people of similar age, and they all want to go out and do business. Some of them were caught when they went out, while some not only made money, but also brought back two wild boars!
These two pigs must weigh at least 300 kilograms, right? Even if wild boar meat is cheap, one kilogram is half the price of domestic pigs, which is still 80 cents. These 300 kilograms are more than 200 yuan! People are just different! (End of this chapter)
