Chapter 17: The Captain's Question

Li Ya looked at the ditch on the side of the road and said: "The soft-shelled turtle that I brought back from buying fish fry last time was raised in this ditch, let's look for it, how many have survived?"

Several people stood by the ditch and searched through the grass, and soon found a few. Li Ya clapped his hands and climbed onto the road, and said with peace of mind: "There are a lot of survivors, and they can barely eat after four or five years, and it is better to raise them for ten or twenty years." ”

Li Yuanfang said disapprovingly: "It's still ten or twenty years, and I can't wait for four or five years, I said that if there is a few months, it will grow hundreds of thousand catties." ”

The eldest brother answered: "You are daydreaming in the distance, fat pig race elephant." If you want me to say that we don't need to feed anyway, we can eat it for as many years as we want, even if we can't eat it, don't we still have sons and grandchildren? ”

Li Yuanjing smiled: "Why do you think about your son and grandson everything, big brother?"

The eldest brother said: "When you have a child, you will know, don't you look forward to the younger generations, what is your hard work." ”

Li Ya also sighed: "Adults are like this, there are good things in the house that are tightly attached to children, clothes, quilts, meat and even rice buns, these are still small." Others, such as the cedar trees, tea forests, and rice paddies that are everywhere in the village, are not left behind by our predecessors? After all, everyone will be like this, thinking about whether to leave a house for the child, or try to provide for him to study and go to college?"

Li Yuanjing said: "You are the only one in your family, the conditions are good, and it is even more difficult for us sisters and brothers." By the way, the mushrooms that my three younger siblings picked up were sold for more than forty, it seems that you have been picking up for a long time, how much have you picked up?"

Li Ya stretched out three fingers and said, "More than three hundred." ”

Li Yuanjing was taken aback, "More than three hundred, good guy, more than the salary that a family earns in a year!" This is only sold by Li's father and Li's mother, if Li Yuanjing knows that Li Ya himself has also sold more than three hundred, then he has to shout to fight the local tyrants.

Li Ya said with a smile: "In the past, you had to be busy with your own land, but now that you are busy with your own land, you can also pick it up when you are free." There are a lot of things in the forest, how can you make a lot of money. ”

The eldest brother smiled: "I still use you to say, we ate some of the things that your two nephews picked up, and your sister-in-law took them and sold them for eighteen yuan." I'm going to pick it up tomorrow. ”

Li Ya said with a smile: "There are just a lot of people, everyone brings bows and arrows, you can go farther away, and you can even beat the tiger back to make medicine." ”

Li Yuanfang listened to it and said: "It's very good, just fight a tiger, how can a tiger skin be sold for two or three hundred, right? ”

The eldest brother raised his hand and knocked on Li Yuanfang, and said, "That's a tiger, it eats people, you think it's a rabbit." Besides, tigers are very smart and generally don't let people find out. We carried bows and arrows, mainly to protect against wild boars and wolves. ”

Li Yuanfang said: "What's so terrible about a wild boar? Didn't the third brother hit a big wild boar?"

Li Ya said: "You said it easily, when the wild boar rushed towards me, I was stunned, if it weren't for the steep slope in front, I can't say that now you can only watch me do a wheelchair." At that time, the boar was much slower when it was going up a steep slope, and it was shooting arrows from top to bottom with its head up. ”

The eldest brother said: "Do you hear it? Don't act alone when the time comes, Lin Zilin is very dangerous." ”

Li Ya said: "Leave him alone, when the time comes, he will be in a wheelchair, and he won't have to work anymore, not to mention that there are people to serve, what a good thing." ”

Li Yuanjing said: "Waiting? Who has this idle effort, if you don't carry it to the mountain and lose it, God will bless you." ”

The cedar trees on both sides of the road are straight, the branches cover the sky on the road, and at a glance it seems to be walking in the corridor, Li Ya praised: "This road is the most beautiful road we have here, and I feel very quiet when I walk on the road." If it's in the city, it must be the place with the most people. ”

Li Ya looked at the fir trees all over the village, thinking that if this was in the previous life, with these fir trees, the village would have made a fortune.

When the night covered the earth, they all went back and went to study together.

The next day, everyone gathered a team to pick mushrooms, walked all the way to call people, and the large army walked on the mountain road lively. Li Ya said: "There are so many people, even if there are tigers in the forest, they have to escape." ”

After entering the old forest, as Li Ya said, everyone relaxed their vigilance a little and began to pick up mushrooms.

After eleven o'clock, the back and a sack brought by Li Ya were full, and the others were the same. Li Ya placed a row of wooden sticks about the height of the sack on top of the back basket, so that the mushrooms below would not be crushed. After returning home for dinner, I once again embarked on a mushroom picking trip. As long as it doesn't rain, pick it up twice a day, and gradually everyone gets deeper and deeper.

On the 28th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar and the 25th day of the sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, Li Ya and the others met a wolf. Although the wolves here are small, no matter how small the wolf is, it is a wolf after all. Fortunately, everyone was armed with bows and arrows, and more importantly, there were a few experienced people in the team, who played a big role at the critical moment and blocked the first wave of the wolf pack's charge. Only then did the young man come to his senses and join the archery team. Although the arrows they shot were not lethal, they also interfered with the wolves, making them much more lethal, and soon the two sides faced off, after all, the wolves had already killed and injured several of them. At this time, most people put their minds at ease, remembering their performance just now, they were really ashamed, and they were embarrassed to turn their faces to look at others, for fear that the other party would see their poor performance.

Li Ya found that Li Yuanfang's face was red from the corner of his eyes, and he looked at the wolves in a daze, the hand holding the bow and arrow trembled slightly, knowing what was going on, and said: "Be careful, especially the one in the back, it is possible that the wolves are going to attack from behind, this is the time to die, but you can't be sloppy." ”

Only then did the young man remember that it was not the time to think about face, and he had to save his life. Remembering what was going on, the crowd became more and more calm. Li Ya used the space to observe a very distant place, just now it was Li Ya who reminded him to find the wolves early, and at this time Li Ya found that the wolves really had a sneak attack, and it came from the side.

Li Ya planned to disrupt the deployment of the wolves, so he shot the arrow at the wolves in front of him. Now, although Li Ya's arrows can't reach the arrows, there is a chance that he will be hit, and three arrows in a row will injure two wolves, and then turn sideways to pay attention to the direction of the wolves' sneak attack.

Soon there was movement on this side, a wolf had just leaned out, Li Ya's arrow had already arrived, and the battle began again. This time the crowd was no longer in a hurry, the lethality increased greatly, and the casualties of the wolves rose rapidly, and soon a wolf howl was heard from the depths of the forest, and the wolves quickly retreated, leaving only eight or nine corpses.

The third uncle rejoiced: "Fortunately, it was discovered early, or someone would have been injured." I haven't seen a wolf in so many years, and who knew there was such a big group now. ”

Li Ya also said: "Yes, I haven't heard the wolf howl, how can there be such a large group, more than thirty, it seems that there is not enough for them to survive in the forest." ”

The third uncle said: "It's okay, there are nine dead here, and at least six or seven will die when they are injured, and almost half of the wolves are gone, and the forest is enough for them to toss." ”

Pack up, no longer need to pick up mushrooms, everyone put on their backs sacks, and go home with the carcasses of nine wolves. The production team has not killed a wolf for more than ten years, and this time it sounds scary, but seeing that the young people have changed a lot, some old people feel that it is worth it, and facing danger is the fastest way to make people grow.

Killing wolves and eating meat, one wolf can produce more than 20 catties of meat and bones, nine wolf bones and intestines are cooked separately, and the production team can eat a big meal. Li Ya watched the three uncles take out their hearts and lungs and let them take them and bury them, and they didn't even eat the dogs, and suddenly remembered the word wolf heart and dog lungs. However, can't you eat dog lungs? Li Yazhen didn't pay attention to it.

In the afternoon, the uncle came back from a meeting, and he was very happy, and everyone quickly understood what was going on, "Eat wolf meat today? After this, I will go to the brigade, who do you say will be the captain of this production team?"

Li Ya smiled: "Of course it's the second oldest person in your generation, is it Uncle Mingcheng or Uncle Minghua?"

The uncle listened and said: "Of course it's your Uncle Mingcheng, then Brother Mingcheng will be the captain of this production team." ”