Chapter 51 Making money is the first priority After a long time, everyone who participated in the Li family's "wild boar banquet" would praise it highly. In the past, when other people slaughtered pigs for banquets, it was normal to cut meat, but usually there was less meat and more vegetables, mostly dry vegetables, and the little meat was mostly lean meat. There were lots of fat slices of meat in the wild boar feast at the Li family's. Everyone who attended ate with their mouths drooling. They ate up two baskets of steamed corn buns cleanly. When they left, many people took leftovers with them - these days, no one would dislike taking leftovers back home, and would be very happy instead. After all, there is a lot of oil in it. If you take it home and stir-fry it with other vegetables, it will also be a delicious dish. They borrowed tables from the Lu family, with one table in the east room and one in the west room of the Li family. The women ate at the small table in the kitchen - it's not that women couldn't eat at the table, there was no such rule here, but the women had work to do later, and they had to help the Li family refine the lard and fat. Although wild boars are not as thick and fat as domestic pigs, these two pigs are not lean either, so it takes a lot of effort to refine the oil. Of course, when the women finally left, each of them would take back a bowl of refined oil and oil residue, which was equivalent to a reward. During the whole process, Li Long was actually quite relaxed, as other people did all the important and technical work. No one would be lazy at this time, and everyone worked very hard, so that they could eat the meat with a clear conscience later. Even after dinner, the Li family didn't need to clean up. The women helping in the kitchen quickly cleaned up the plates and bowls - in fact, it was easy to clean up because there wasn't much oil or water left on the plates, and the juices were all eaten with steamed buns. These days, people are really short of money. The Li family gained a reputation for generosity because of the all-you-can-eat meal. The rumor that Li Long had been arrested disappeared completely during the meal of meat slices.
After eating, seeing the sun was setting, Li Long didn't want to sit around. He wasn't actually tired, so he took the dozens of wire loops he had made earlier, put on his cotton coat and hat, and walked towards the snow in the southeast. The production team is located at the easternmost part of the entire brigade, and there is a large piece of wasteland to the east. The wasteland reclaimed by the production team now accounts for about one-seventh of the entire wasteland. Twenty years later, all the reed ponds, alkaline beaches and red willow beaches had been reclaimed. The village's land area ranked first in the township, and the land contracted by each family was large enough. Now these wastelands are full of weeds and shrubs, and in summer, they are full of medicinal herbs. For example, a stem of Cynomorium songaricum, which costs tens of yuan in later generations, is everywhere under the white thorn in the alkali beach. You can dig a sack of it in just one morning without having to look for it. This kind of wild medicinal material, which was very expensive in later generations, is not even purchased by medicinal material companies now. The price they collect is only about 30 to 50 cents per kilogram at most, and they want the dry stuff. In the two years before Li Long died in his previous life, the wasteland was reclaimed and there was no longer an environment for Cynomorium songaricum to grow. Only one or two trees could be found occasionally in the corners of some cultivated land. The place he wanted to go was Hongliu Beach, where there were many wild rabbits. However, it was difficult to walk there. The top layer of snow had frozen into a shell, but it could not withstand a person's foot. Once you stepped on it, you would sink directly into it. Below was coarse snow particles like sand, and you would sink with every step. It was very difficult. When Li Long walked to the edge of the red willow beach breathlessly, he suddenly heard a "fluttering" sound. He raised his head and looked towards the location of the sound. He saw a big eagle flying into the air with half a rabbit in its mouth. This guy has a very long wingspan, at least two or three meters! Li Longxin said that at this time the wild animals are really growing wildly - let them grow well, but if they continue for a few more years, they will not grow well. He entered the red willow beach, where the red willows were three or four meters tall and as thick as two arms. In another ten years, most of the red willows here would be cut down, and the remaining ones would not be taller than a person, and in the future, they would be turned into farmland. Next to the red willow roots, rabbit paw prints crisscrossed each other, and Li Long carefully distinguished them. In his previous life, when he first started setting rabbit traps, he just set them randomly whenever he saw a rabbit mark, without any rules. Of course, in the end, he got nothing except catching an unlucky rabbit by chance. After many failures and discussions with others, I know that this thing also requires skills. You have to find a relatively fresh route where rabbits often run, and a place where rabbits must pass, such as between two bushes. Before setting the rabbit trap, you must not step on the rabbit prints, otherwise the rabbit will not take this path. Li Long has experience, so he searched carefully, trying not to go to the middle of the red willow beach, and not close to the edge - at the edge, even if you catch a rabbit, if you can't take it away in time, it will soon become a delicacy for eagles, badgers, foxes and the like. After going around in a big circle and putting down more than twenty wire traps, Li Long came out with the remaining traps. It was a bit cold, so he put down the remaining traps more casually. If other members of the team saw this, they would call him a spendthrift. The places where these sets were placed were rather random, so it would be difficult to find them. Nowadays, no one is so extravagant as to use such thin wires to "play". When Li Long returned home, he did not go to the west room - the west room was full of women helping to refine lard, and he could not go there to help. When it was getting dark, Li Long was helping Li Qiang deal with the wild boar tusk in the house. Li Qiang wanted to use it as a toy, so Li Long planned to use thin iron wire and silk thread pulled from the tire to make a handle for it. Then he heard continuous footsteps in the yard. He thought the women had finished their work and were leaving, but it didn't sound right because there was no sound of the east room's door opening, and then his door opened. Five or six young men crowded into the room.
"Xiaolong, what are you busy with?" As soon as he saw these people coming, Li Long understood. In the winter, the nighttime entertainment life of the production team was very monotonous. These young men and women in their twenties basically formed groups to visit each other, and the first to go were often the big names in the team. Two days before Li Long was arranged by Li Jianguo to work in the factory, these people also came to his room. At that time, there were Gu Ermao and Wu Shufen, and Wu Shufen also agreed to date him at that time. Now that Gu Ermao is not here, Wu Shufen - Li Long was surprised to find that Wu Shufen was actually in the crowd, but she didn't dare to look at him and seemed a little embarrassed. The speaker was Xu Haijun, the cousin of the captain Xu Chengjun, who was one character different from the future Olympic champion. He was considered to be the most organized and active of the young people in the team. "I'm making a toy for Qiangqiang." Li Long raised the fangs in his hand and said, "Come, come, sit down." There were not enough benches in the room, but everyone was not polite and no one minded, so they just sat on the kang - everyone's situation was similar now, and no one looked down on anyone else. "Xiaolong, you are really good now," Xu Haijun said with a smile as he sat down. "Two wild boars, this is something that most people can't do, right? I heard that you traded meat with others, five bullets for one kilogram, and I got two kilograms in exchange? I haven't eaten wild boar meat, I want to try it." "No problem." Li Long smiled, "There's plenty of meat, feel free to exchange." Everyone can see that Li Long has changed. He is less vain and more down-to-earth. Two girls' eyes fell on Wu Shufen. (End of this chapter)
