Because of building a house, the Li family has been very busy during this time.
The men are responsible for helping lay the foundation, and the women are responsible for cooking. Even the young ones have to help hand over tools and serve tea from time to time.
During this time, the Li family also made available the meat they had beaten before, ensuring that the relatives and friends who came to help were well fed at every meal.
In addition to providing meals, the Li family also provided wages.
A big worker earns one dollar a day, and a small worker earns five cents a day.
After all, everyone at home needs to eat, so if I help out for free for three to five days, I can barely survive by relying on my connections.
But building a house cannot be solved in three to five days.
These days, the strong workforce will be credited with ten points for every day they work, and twelve points for overtime work. If they work at full attendance, they will earn about four thousand work points per year.
In normal times, ten work points a day is equivalent to three cents and five to forty cents.
Li Jia's wages as a small laborer were already more than his wages for work, which naturally attracted help from many people in the village.
In fact, building a house in the early stage does not require many people. It mainly involves digging a slope to expand the homestead, and then digging the foundation.
But because the Li family built blue-tiled houses, there were still five rooms.
Bricks and tiles need to be bought from outside and then carried all the way down the mountain, which is quite troublesome.
The old man Li Nongchang first inquired with the Huang family, the only one in the village who had built a blue-tiled house, and then took the village's ox cart and horse carriage to the county seat.
After pulling back and forth several times, fifteen thousand green bricks were piled up at the foot of Qingxia Mountain.
Three cents each, a total of four hundred and fifty dollars.
After pulling the green bricks, we pulled two tons of cement, which costs fifty yuan a ton.
After the cement is pulled out, the last tiles are left.
The tiles cost two thousand yuan, a dime each.
After buying the things now, I got rid of 750 yuan in one go.
The more than 1,200 yuan that the Li family had managed to collect before was immediately reduced to less than half.
Fortunately, other pillars, beams, rafters and other things needed to build a house can be found directly in the mountains without spending money to buy them.
The remaining cost is the wages paid to the workers.
Four to five hundred yuan can barely pay for a few more months.
However, after Li Shiqiang finished a hard day's work, he still found that there was a place that he couldn't support anymore.
That means there is not enough meat at home.
The meat he had beaten before could have fed his family for a long time.
But as the family began to take on the responsibility of feeding the workers, the meat became somewhat insufficient.
Seeing his mother Chen Xianglan's hesitant expression, Li Shiqiang quickly stood up with a footbath in hand, and while pouring water outside, he said, "Mom, I won't be helping the house tomorrow. I will go to the mountains to collect some meat."
When Chen Xianglan heard this, she had a happy and worried look on her face. She patted Li Shiqiang's shoulder and said with some sigh: "The second baby has really grown up. He built a house for the house and meat for the house." of."
"I'm embarrassed to say anything about not letting you go into the mountains now. I just hope that you must be careful every time you go into the mountains. No matter how good your shooting skills are, the wild beasts in the mountains cannot be underestimated."
"I got it, Mom."
Li Shiqiang put his arm around his mother's shoulders and said with a slight smile: "I'm not married yet, so I won't let her in easily."
"Bah, bah, bah, what's the point of not explaining anything!"
Chen Xianglan patted her shoulder again and urged: "Go to bed quickly, you have to get up early tomorrow!"
"OK!"
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After getting up the next day, Li Shiqiang waited for Xu Sheng at home, and then went up the mountain together.
Although Xu Sheng's marksmanship was not very good and he didn't know much about the wild beasts in the mountains, in the mountains, two people were better than one person.
Moreover, Li Shiqiang also wanted to hunt bigger animals when he went into the mountains this time, such as wild boars and takin.
Each adult weighs at least two to three hundred pounds.
If we could catch one, it would at least be enough food for the Li family to build their house for a week.
As for the two to three hundred kilograms of meat, if Li Shiqiang carried it out alone, he would definitely be too tired to bear it.
This is also the reason why Li Shiqiang brings Xu Sheng with him every time.
Regardless of anything else, at least there is no need to move the meat.
When the two were walking on the road, Li Shiqiang also took out fifty yuan from his pocket and handed it to Xu Sheng: "Here, the musk and fur of two fragrant deer were sold for a total of one hundred and seventy yuan.
The first one was shared between the two of us, and the second one was shared between me, you, and my eldest brother-in-law.
After doing the math, you have almost fifty yuan, take it. "
This fifty yuan is Li Shiqiang's last private money, and there is not much left.
"this..."
Xu Sheng stared, looked at the fifty yuan and waved his hands quickly: "This is too much! Take some back quickly! Besides, I have been taking your family's wages these days, you I’m afraid it would be inappropriate to give me money again.”
"What's inappropriate!?"
Li Shiqiang turned to look at him, put the money directly into his pocket and said: "Brothers must also settle accounts clearly, and what is yours is yours. The reason why there are so many this time is not because the musk is valuable. As for your wages. Didn’t anyone else take it? It’s only natural that you get paid for your work.”
After hearing what Li Shiqiang said, Xu Sheng smiled sheepishly, covered the money in his pocket and said, "Then I'll take it. Seeing that your family wants to build such a good house, I feel a little jealous. "
Li Shiqiang smiled softly, waved his hand carelessly and said: "Save money quickly. When you save enough money, I will also help your family repair their house. Then you must give me a big job!"
"I want it! I want it!"
Xu Sheng nodded quickly with a smile and agreed.
After sharing fifty yuan, Xu Shenglian's walking became easier, and he followed Li Shiqiang to Laowu Mountain after a while.
After the two of them entered the mountain, Li Shiqiang also greeted him: "We won't shoot the little things this time, and we will take care of the big guys and go back to eat meat. Then you can shoot with me, which is also a practice." Your marksmanship."
"OK!"
After Xu Sheng agreed, Li Shiqiang began to search for traces around him.
Finding prey based on the traces left by animals is one of the essential skills for hunters.
But if you have a fragrant dog, you don’t need to bother.
The fragrant dog is a hunting dog that can distinguish the scent left by animals and lead the hunter to track it.
But unfortunately, these kind of fragrant-headed dogs need to be brought into the mountains from an early age for training.
Li Shiqiang only had Xiao Hua, who had been guarding him, and three newborn puppies around him, so he had to rely on himself to identify the traces left by the animals and then track them.
There are many ways to observe traces, including looking at footprints, looking at the feces left by animals, looking at the tooth marks left by animals after chewing leaves, and looking at the marks left by animals scratching trees.
But in short, the most convenient thing is to look at the marks left by feces and scraping trees.
As soon as Li Shiqiang walked around the foot of the mountain a few times, he was lucky enough to find a pile of wild boar excrement and a tree trunk that the wild boar had eaten.
