Lu Lu and Liang Kangbo chatted in the yard for a while. Seeing that it was still quite some time before dinner, they simply said hello to Wang Dalong and others, and prepared to go to the village to do something.
Now that we've arrived at Huilongtun, we'll do whatever we can do incidentally.
After asking Liang Kangbo about the location of Meng Zhaohua's house, he learned that it was the third house just down the road from the big persimmon tree in Tunxi. He immediately left Wang Dalong's house and walked all the way towards the big persimmon tree in Tunxi, Huilong.
Those persimmon trees sprouted from the roots of a persimmon tree entwined on the ground.
The smallest persimmon tree is big enough for one person to hug, and the largest one is big enough for at least three people to hug. I don’t know how many years it has been growing. At a height of more than two meters above the ground, some of the branches that once blocked the way have been sawed off, revealing black
The wooden heart has been rotting towards the inside.
I don’t know if it was the child who filled a large can with water, planted a water plant in it, and put two small fish in it.
The little fish has a strong vitality. It has been in this can for a long time. The scales were originally silver, but now they have turned black. It will not grow up even if it does not die. It is just alive, but the water plants are growing.
It's very good. It has been frosted several times, but it has not withered under the protection of the tree hole.
Every time Chen Xiuyu passes by, she often goes over to take a look, and even Lu Lu notices it.
Following the dirt road next to it, he went down to the third house. Lu Lu saw a woman drying corn in the yard. He asked, "Auntie, may I ask, is this Meng Zhaohua's house?"
The woman was concentrating on her work when she suddenly heard a sound outside the courtyard. She was startled. She turned back to look at Lu Lu, patted her chest and said, "I'm shocked. You can walk without making any sound!"
Lu Lu smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
"Meng Zhaohua is my son, what do you want from him?" the woman asked after looking at Lu Lu for a few times.
"I'm here to ask him to help pull coal in the truck!" Lu Lu directly explained his purpose.
"He is sleeping at home, wait a minute..." the woman said, quickly entering the house.
After a while, Meng Zhaohua walked outside while putting on his coat, and when he saw it was Lu Lu, he immediately shouted in surprise: "It's Brother Lu, come on, come in quickly... Mom, this is Xiushan Tunna"
Man, the man who treated you with lynx hair, and cured my sister's child's epilepsy with tiger courage, he is a benefactor, why don't you open the courtyard door and welcome him into the house?"
With that said, he ran over, opened the courtyard door, and welcomed Lu Lu in.
Lu Lu was slightly stunned when he heard this. He had forgotten that Meng Zhaohua asked lynx hair to cure his mother's headache when he was helping Lu Lu pull out the stones to build the foundation.
"It's him... I've never seen him before, I don't recognize him, and his accent is not like ours. I thought he was someone from outside. Come on, come on, please come in!" the woman said happily!
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"Auntie, are you feeling better?" Lu Lu asked quickly.
"You gave the lynx its tail, cut the hair into fine pieces several times and ate it, my headache was cured and I haven't had it until now," the woman said with a smile.
Lu Lu also didn't expect that this rumored method would actually be effective: "As long as it works... Hua Zi, how are your sister's children? Are they feeling better?"
"It's better now. They still want to come and thank you near the end of the year!" Meng Zhaohua said gratefully: "This matter has been bothering them for a long time. Now it is finally solved and their lives are stable."
"There's no need to thank me. It's just a little effort. It's a good thing that the child is well!"
Lu Lu did not follow them into the house, but said directly: "I won't go in. Today Qingzi went to Wang Dalong's house to propose marriage. We just came here to get together at Wang Dalong's house. We are going to have dinner soon. Hua Zi, I'm looking for you.
You want to ask for a favor."
"What are you busy with? Tell me!" Meng Zhaohua asked seriously.
"Isn't it going to be winter soon? The weather is cold and the firewood in the kang stove cannot be burned. I would like to ask you to help me bring two carts of coal back. Charcoal is also used for the brazier. I also want to ask you to help me.
Please help me pull something. Can I borrow the forest farm’s car?”
Although the stove chimney pipe in the kitchen at home is connected to several kangs in the house, it is more suitable for burning firewood and used for cooking and boiling water. The kangs in Lu Lu's rooms also have special kang stoves outside the house, so they can be used.
To burn coal for heating.
Compared with firewood, coal is more resistant to burning. You don't have to run out to add firewood from time to time, which saves you more trouble. The key is that the house is made of wood and logs. If you keep burning it in the kitchen, it is easy to cause problems.
But now the logging work in the forest farm has begun, and the vehicles have reached the time when they are used most frequently...
"If you can lend it out, you must be able to lend it out. Brother Lu, please wait for me for two days. I have a task tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I have to deliver wood to the train station for two days. I will go and pull it for you when I'm done!" Meng Zhaohua agreed wholeheartedly.
These days, the price of raw coal in the Northeast is about fifteen yuan a ton, and coking coal is much more expensive. However, if you burn it in an outdoor kang stove, using coking coal is a bit wasteful. The biggest advantage is that the smoke will be smaller.
Some. But raw coal is also very good. Mix it with water and paste it in the kang stove. It is also very durable and can be left alone for several hours.
Pulling two cars back, it is more than enough to last the whole winter.
Coal in the Northeast has always been valuable. In recent years, in order to support national construction, a large amount of coal has been mined and transported from the north to the south. After 20 or 30 years, coal in many places has almost been exhausted, and the price has remained high.
Fifteen yuan a ton, not many people can afford to burn it these days, so they mainly rely on making plows. After all, they are surrounded by forests. Lu Lu mainly does it to save trouble, especially when he is not at home.
It can save Chen Xiuyu trouble.
As for charcoal, some people built earthen kilns on the mountains to cut wood and burn it. It is also easy to get. It is just for baking a brazier, but it doesn't use much.
"Then I'll have to trouble you about this!"
Lu Lu took out two hundred yuan from his inner pocket and handed it to Meng Zhaohua: "This is the money to buy coal and charcoal. You take it first. When the time comes, we will refund more and make up less!!"
"Okay, Brother Lu!" Meng Zhaohua took the money and carefully put it in his pocket without writing.
"Then I'll go back. Let's meet up and talk again some other time!"
After Lu Lu finished speaking, he turned around and left the yard.
It wasn't until Lu Lu's figure disappeared around the corner that Meng Zhaohua ran to the edge of the yard and held on to the fence to look at him: "This man is really willing to give up. There is so much firewood on the mountain, and he doesn't go to collect plows and spend so much money to buy coal...
…”
"Brother Lu is very capable. If I had his ability, I would also burn coal!" Meng Zhaohua said with a smile.
Lu Lu got onto the road, walked back for a while, and soon turned back to the old blacksmith Jin Jiabao's house.
When I arrived outside the courtyard, I saw Jin Jiabao basking in the sun and fiddling with something in his hands.
"Uncle Jin!" Lu Lu shouted.
Jin Jiabao looked up and saw that it was Lu Lu. When he came to open the courtyard door, he asked by the way: "What's the matter with you?"
"When I come to your door, I will definitely ask you to get something."
After the courtyard door opened, Lu Lu followed and walked in.
"What to hit? A sickle, a kitchen knife, an ax or something?"
Lu Lu hadn't seen Jin Jiabao for quite some time since he had the wind-chasing horse's hoof repair at his place, and he felt that his old, dark and red face had a lot more wrinkles.
"I want to put some iron collars on my dogs. The collars should have outward-facing rivets to prevent their necks from being bitten by wild animals. They should be light and strong..."
Lu Lu was afraid that he wouldn't understand, so he took out a piece of paper from his pocket. On it was the sketch of the collar he had drawn.
Jin Jiabao took it and looked at it: "It's not that it can't be punched, it's just that it's a little troublesome to rivet these iron spikes. Use steel to forge a three-finger-wide sheet, quench it, leave a riveting hole, and rivet a quarter-long steel nail.
That’s it…how many shots?”
Hearing what Jin Jiabao said, Lu Lu knew there was something going on, and immediately said: "Six of them! All sizes are on top."
"Three yuan each, get it in four days!"
"no problem!"
Lu Lu immediately took out eighteen yuan and handed it to Jin Jiabao.
Jin Jiabao took it, glanced at it, put the money into his pocket, and sat down on the wooden pier again.
He took out a corn and a big needle from his pocket, carefully dug it out little by little, and hollowed out the corn. Dozens of them were already placed on the wooden pier next to it.
"Uncle, are you making medicinal beans?" Lu Lu thought for a while and asked with a smile.
"You also know?" Jin Jiabao was a little surprised.
Lu Lu smiled: "I've heard people say it, but I've never seen it before. The medicine is not easy to use!"
Medicinal beans are hunting methods such as nooses, splints, and clamps that are favored by ordinary villagers.
It can be used to treat pheasants, wild geese, jumping cats, roe deer, and deer.
Especially after it snows in winter, it is more common and is not a high-tech thing.
Many villagers, when autumn comes, get some soybean grains or corn grains, carefully hollow them out, fill them with medicine, then plug them with steamed bun residue, and finally seal them with wax, and the medicine beans become
Done.
On heavy snowy days, medicine beans were scattered on the fields where crops had been harvested near the mountains. After being eaten by wild animals, some died there and some died in the grassland beside the mountains.
If there is no heavy snow, they will die in the grass or among the trees, which is difficult to find.
Therefore, medicinal beans are usually administered after a heavy snowfall, and it is easy to leave clear traces.
Of course, there is another reason. After heavy snowfall, pheasants, jumping cats, roe deer, deer and the like are more delicious than withered grass and leaves. Food is a good thing that can provide energy to the body. It is indispensable in the fields.
There are scattered grains, and wild animals often come to look for food. Some of them, when they find traces of animals such as roe deer and deer, spread medicinal beans on their activity areas.
Medicinal beans are mixed with good grain and sprinkled together. Once it is done, sprinkle it in the morning and you can pick up the prey in the afternoon.
It is common to see pheasants loaded in sacks and roe deer pulled on sledges.
In Lu Lu's opinion, medicinal beans are not actually desirable.
Because the drug used is potassium aluminum cyanate, also called flat hair cream, which is a kind of white crystal and highly toxic substance. It can usually be obtained in blacksmith shops. It is used during quenching. Because it is highly toxic, you are afraid of causing trouble.
, so the control is very strict, and it is not easy to find a way.
Soak corn noodles or steamed bun dregs with potassium aluminum cyanate and put them inside corn grains or soybean grains. If eaten by wild animals, they will soon die.
However, it is also very troublesome to handle the wild animals obtained. At the very least, they are not allowed to enter the water. Moreover, the meat must be soaked in water for a period of time and washed before it can be eaten.
Of course, this is only undesirable in Lu Lu's opinion, but for many people, it is a good way to get meat.
There are also people who use this thing to cure deer, hoping to make a lot of money.
Having mastered prey tracking skills and having Yuan Bao, Wind Chasing and Semi-Auto, Lu Lu didn't even bother to use this method.
Seeing that the old man was playing with the medicine beans seriously again, Lu Lu didn't want to disturb him anymore, so he turned around and was about to leave, but after taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped again.
Jin Jiabao is a blacksmith. Since he makes medicinal beans, there must be potassium aluminum cyanate here.
Lu Lu felt that although he disdained medicine beans as a method to deal with wild animals, it was still necessary to prepare some potassium aluminum cyanate, which might be needed at some point.
So, he walked back again: "Uncle, do you still have medicine here? Get me some."
Jin Jiabao raised his eyes and glanced at Lu Lu: "You have dogs, guns, horses, and can hunt tigers, how can you like this thing?"
"It's hard to go into the mountains on a snowy day. You can't just wander around in the mountains all the time. Occasionally you see valuable wild animals. Wouldn't it be easier to take some medicine or something?" Lu Lu certainly wouldn't tell him that he just got it for preparation.
Keep it in case of emergency.
Potassium aluminum cyanate, soluble in water, is colorless and odorless!
Jin Jiabao hesitated for a while before saying: "This thing is not easy to get, and I don't have much here... I can give you a little bit, but please explain in advance that you can't use it indiscriminately, or you will hurt me later!"
"No, no, this thing is so powerful, who dares to use it indiscriminately!" Lu Lu quickly assured.
Jin Jiabao looked at Lu Lu, took a deep breath, got up and went to the house. After a while, he came out and handed Lu Lu a small bottle of potion filled with white powder: "Keep it safe, don't let anyone else except you
Touched by people other than yourself, especially children."
"I know." Lu Lu nodded.
"Five dollars!" Jin Jiabao stretched out his big black hand full of calluses towards Lu Lu.
Lu Lu knew very well that being able to share some of the medicine with him was a sign of Jin Jiabao's trust in him. How could he bargain with him? He immediately took out five yuan from his pocket and handed it to Jin Jiabao, and then carefully packed the medicine.
leave.
Hmm...dinner should be ready at Wang Dalong's house soon.