Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 66 The Bicycle Ticket is Found
"Comrade Li, you brought a lot of good things this time!" Chen Hongjun was a little surprised when he saw Li Long putting deer antlers and velvet antlers on the counter, and said with a smile.

Deer antlers are common, but velvet antlers are different. He just glanced at the antlers, set the price at 2.8 yuan per kilogram, and then picked up the velvet antler.

"This velvet antler is well preserved." Chen Hongjun looked at the outer hair and the cut lines of the velvet antler like an expert, smelled it, pinched it and said, "The quality is good, but the person who cut it must be an amateur. I'll give you a first-class grade, 14.5 yuan per 100 grams."

Li Long naturally had no objection.

Deer antlers weighed 3.6 kilograms and sold for 10.8 yuan, and velvet antlers weighed 1.3 kilograms and sold for 188.5 yuan, which added up to nearly 200 yuan.

Chen Hongjun wrote the bill, paid the money, put the things away, and said to Li Long with a smile:

"Xiao Li, you've sold a lot of stuff these days, and with those two pieces of jade, you can be considered a 1,000-yuan household, right?"

Li Long laughed:

"I just make a profit from the difference. Not all the items are mine, I sell some for others, and I earn hard-earned money."

There were still things in the carriage outside, so Li Long did not dare to delay. He quickly took the money, went out and drove the carriage to the department store.

After looking around and feeling that there seemed to be nothing good to buy, Li Long saw that there were also river noodles here, so he bought a kilogram.

When he was about to go out, he saw some people standing by the carriage, watching the fun and pointing. He hurriedly untied the reins and led the carriage back.

When Li Long returned to the village, he was surprised not to see Li Qiang among the group of children at the entrance of the village.

"Erwa, where is our Qiangqiang?" Li Long asked.

"Li Qiang and his father went to the small lake to catch fish." The boy named Erwa wiped his nose and said, "He said he is grown up and needs to do serious work. He doesn't want to play with us anymore."

"He was joking." Li Long didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This Li Qiang was really something.

"What's on your cart?" Erwa asked bravely.

"Wolf skin, are you scared?" Li Long pointed at the tied wolf skin and said, "Wolves know, right?"

"I know," another child raised his hand and said, "I told you the wolf is coming, it eats the sheep!"

"It's that wolf." Li Long did not hide it, because the wolf skin was covering the bodies of the wild boar and the wolf. It could not be hidden, and there was no need to hide it.

The land will be divided after the Chinese New Year and in the spring. There is no need to hide anything now. Even if the jealous people are jealous, once the land is in their hands, their minds will be entirely on the land and they will have no time to care about others.

When the children heard that it was a wolf skin, they were both scared and excited. Some wanted to touch it but did not dare to reach out. Li Long smiled and let them touch it, then drove the carriage back home.

Liang Yuemei hurried out when she heard the noise, followed by Lu's eldest sister-in-law.

"Hey, Xiaolong is back?" Although the eldest sister-in-law of the Lu family was behind, her voice was the first to be heard. "What did you bring back from the mountains this time?"

The eldest sister-in-law of the Lu family basically did not consider herself an outsider here. Although she failed to introduce her niece from her mother's side to Li Long, she planned to introduce another relative. Today she came to talk about this with Liang Yuemei.

Seeing what was loaded on the carriage, the eldest sister-in-law of the Lu family was sharp-eyed and shouted out:
"Oh, is this another wild boar? Xiaolong, you are so capable! If anyone marries you, they will never lack meat to eat!"

"Good luck, good luck." Li Long laughed and turned to look at his sister-in-law:
"Sister-in-law, where is my brother?"

This was a question he asked knowingly. He didn't want to say anything more to Lu's eldest sister-in-law.

"Your brother has gone to the small lake to catch fish... Then you can unload the horse first, and I will go and call your brother back..."

"What are you going to do?" The eldest sister-in-law of the Lu family interrupted, "Just let my Tietou run a trip. Okay, I'll go back and call Tietou. Xiaolong has worked hard to come back, so you should quickly get him something to eat."

The eldest sister-in-law of the Lu family took the responsibility of calling people and then walked home.

"Okay, sister-in-law, thank you for your help."

"Why are you talking about that foreign language?"

Liang Yuemei decided to send a few kilograms of meat to the Lu family after the things on the carriage were dealt with. Human relationships can only continue if they are reciprocated. A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor, unless the neighbor is a bad neighbor, this is the truth. Li Long unloaded the carriage, tied the horse and went into the house. He put away the jade, changed his clothes and went to the west room.

"Have some hot water." Liang Yuemei had already poured the hot water and went to the kitchen to prepare food.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry about it. I'll take a break and then unload the things. I bought some buns in the county on the way, so I'm not that hungry now."

"Okay, I'll prepare lunch now."

Since her family started catching and selling fish, Liang Yuemei has become busy. She changed from two meals a day to three meals a day, and the food she eats is not only better but also more abundant.

Fortunately, Li Long brought back food and meat from time to time, and the family had enough fish stored. The two children's complexions became visibly rosy, and they had grown a little taller.

Upon hearing the news, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang hurried back with their two children.

Li Long had already taken down the two wolves and hung them in an empty house. If they were alive, they would be scary, but dead and skinned, they would be no different from sheep or pigs. After all, the heads were gone.

Because the two wild boars had not been completely processed, they were left directly in the yard, waiting for Li Jianguo to come back.

Li Jianguo saw that there were two wild boars again. This time he was really overwhelmed. What a happy trouble.

"Let's ask for help?" Liang Yuemei said, "Our family can't handle it at all."

"Okay, let's call a few people. But we can't do it like last time. Let's take it slow," said Li Jianguo.

While Li Jianguo was still thinking about who to call, Lu Tietou's father Lu Yingming from across the street had already strode into the yard. Seeing the two wild boars, he said enviously:

"Is this what Xiaolong fought back again? Your Xiaolong is really capable!"

"It's very troublesome." Li Jianguo would not praise Li Long in person, but complained, "You always cause trouble for the family."

"If we can do this, I will be so happy that my mouth will be crooked every day." Lu Yingming said with a smile, "Okay, call Lao Chen in the backyard and Wang Caimi in front of us, plus you and Xiaolong, oh, and Daqiang, and we can finish these two pigs today."

Lu Yingming's words hit the spot in Li Jianguo's mind. He went to ask someone to borrow tools, while Li Long went to return the carriage.

Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang caught more than 30 kilograms of fish this morning. Li Long strung the fish together in two strings using thin wire. He gave one string of small crucian carp to Lao Luo from Mahao, and another string of two carp to the home of team leader Xu Chengjun.

After handing the fish to Xu Chengjun's wife Ma Hongmei, Li Long put down three yuan and twenty cents and said to Xu Chengjun:

"Captain, I need to borrow the carriage tomorrow. Is it empty now?"

"It's empty, feel free to use it." During this period, Xu Chengjun collected more than ten yuan from Li Long just for borrowing the car, which was equivalent to the total work points of a family in the team at the end of the year. He wished he could get more money.

"Okay, I'll go back first." Li Long was about to leave.

"I heard you brought back a wolf?" Xu Chengjun asked, "Is wolf meat delicious?"

“I haven’t eaten it either, so I want to try it.”

"By the way, I've received news about the bicycle and sewing tickets you asked about earlier. A relative of mine works at the county supply and marketing cooperative. If you want them, you'll have to pay extra."

"What?"

"Meat." Xu Chengjun said clearly, "Ten kilograms of pork..."

"How about wild boar meat?" Li Long's eyes lit up. "It's still fresh."

"You got wild boar meat again this time? Of course."

"Okay, I'll bring it over later!"

(End of this chapter)