Chapter 1 Rebirth is not a saint Northern Xinjiang, December 1981. The fields were covered tightly with nearly half a meter deep snow. Due to the alternating cold and hot weather, the snow on the roof outside the kitchen melted and the icicles hanging down were nearly one meter long, which looked quite dangerous. Li Long, who came out to pee, looked up, searched around, picked up a shovel from the wall, and knocked all the icicles off. He vaguely remembered that his niece Li Juan's head was hit by an icicle this year, and it took a long time to heal. But even after it healed, a scar was left on her face. Because of this scar, she was laughed at, which made Li Juan have a serious inferiority complex. After being reborn, I can't let tragedy happen again. Li Long didn't know how he was reborn. He just remembered that he died, and then he got confused and came to this moment. In his previous life, Li Long lived to be 67 years old without any illness or disaster. However, he jumped while swatting a fly in his own house and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He died on the spot without suffering any pain. But his brother Li Jianguo, who loved him in his previous life, fell to his death early because of him, and his sister-in-law, nephews and nieces became his enemies. Although they lived in the same village, Li Long lived like a lonely man. Even though he lived with others later, he felt redundant because he had no relatives.
If God gives him another chance to live his life, he will never let these things happen again. However, the problem that needs to be solved right now is the problem of firewood and food. The weather in northern Xinjiang is too cold, so the production team distributed 200 kilograms of coal to each household before winter for heating. This amount of coal is definitely not enough. Li Long remembers that every family in later generations would store seven or eight tons of coal, after all, it would take half a year to burn. There is not enough coal now, so before winter, every household will go to the sand pits in the north to dig up red willow roots and saxaul firewood. These actions will be seen as great damage to the environment in the eyes of future generations, but at the moment they are solving the problem of human survival. Originally, the Li family's coal plus the firewood they dug were enough to burn for the whole winter. But Li Long is back. Before winter, Li Jianguo paid to send Li Long to the Wucheng Bayi Food Factory to work as a worker. Being a worker in those days was a very honorable thing - of course, what made people even more jealous was that workers had a salary, a few dozen yuan a month in cash in hand, and they could spend it however they wanted, how exciting! After all, when working in the team before the household contract responsibility system was implemented, you would have to work for a year and then settle accounts before you could get food and a little money. Of course, many farmers even have to pay out of their own pocket. After all, the work points counted are real. If they don’t do their job well, or the team’s harvest is not good, then they won’t get any points. So Li Long was once the object of envy of the young people in the team. In the second month after he arrived, Wu Shufen, the most beautiful girl in the team, took the initiative to get together with Li Long. But now Li Long was fired from the food factory, and he knew that in two days, when the team's big mouth Gu Ermao spread the news that he had been fired from the factory, Wu Shufen would come and break up with him. This incident in his previous life dealt a heavy blow to Li Long, and even affected some of his behavior styles. It was also an indirect cause of Li Jianguo's death. But this matter is just a small matter now. Li Long is back. For a vain woman like Wu Shufen, he thinks it is best to break up. Even if Wu Shufen doesn't mention it, he will take the initiative to break up. But he couldn't share a kang with his elder brother Li Jianguo's family. So when he came back at noon, Li Jianguo cleaned up the east room where he used to live in the afternoon, set up a stove and heated the kang for him to live in. But this way, the Li family would definitely not have enough coal and firewood. Not to mention burning until March, it would be difficult to even last until the Chinese New Year. When Li Long was twelve years old, his father Li Qingxia sent him from his hometown to his eldest brother Li Jianguo. Li Long remembers very clearly that his father said to his eldest brother and sister-in-law: "We can't afford to eat in my hometown. As long as you take good care of Xiaolong, I will have peace of mind in this life. You don't need to take care of my old age and my funeral. Just take good care of Xiaolong and that will be considered filial piety." Li Jianguo has a younger brother and a younger sister in his hometown. Li Long is the youngest and the most favored by his parents, but there is less land in his hometown and life is not as good as here, so Li Long was sent here. Li Jianguo did exactly what Li Qingxia asked him to do, and took good care of Li Long. The food distributed at home was 80% coarse grains and 2% fine grains. Li Jianguo and his wife Liang Yuemei only ate coarse grains, and the 2% fine grains were given to Li Long, his niece Li Juan, and his nephew Li Qiang. The little boy ate his father out of money. Li Long was still growing up and his appetite was even bigger than Li Jianguo's. Li Jianguo could only think of ways to buy good things for him, and even wronged his own children for this. Because of this, Liang Yuemei quarreled with him many times.
But Li Jianguo remembered the saying "eldest brother is like a father" too clearly, and even lost his life for it. In this life, Li Long will never let such a thing happen again! Fortunately, this place is not far from the Tianshan Mountains. In addition to the endless wind-fallen trees in the mountains, there are also red deer, brown bears, wild boars, yellow sheep, and the silly marmot, which has become an Internet celebrity in later generations. While the wildlife protection law has not yet been enacted, as long as you are diligent and have a quick mind, you can definitely become a millionaire within two or three years! Oh, let’s solve the urine problem first! Li Long quickly walked along the path trampled out of the snow to the toilet made of reeds outside the yard. He unbuttoned his pants and started talking nonsense into the snow. A yellow mark was immediately left on the snow, forming a strange shape that looked like an S or an 8. After urinating, Li Long shivered, quickly tied his cotton pants, turned around and ran back. In the temperature of minus thirty degrees, it would quickly freeze a person. When he reached the door, before he entered the house, he heard the voices of his eldest brother Li Jianguo and his sister-in-law Liang Yuemei from the west room. "Didn't you say Xiaolong wouldn't come back? If he comes back, what will we do if we don't have enough charcoal? In the middle of winter, we can't even dig up red willow roots." "Don't worry about it. I have a way." Li Jianguo's voice was a little low. "What the hell do you have to do? You want to borrow from the team? It will take at least 500 kilograms of charcoal! How are you going to pay it back? The money you earn in a year is not enough to pay it back!" "I'll tell you, don't worry about it. I'll find a way. We can't let Xiaolong freeze!" "You were doing well, why did you come back? And you were fired... What good person would be fired from the factory? You didn't even ask why he was fired? I spent 50 yuan at the time, can I get that money back?" "The money has been spent, how can I get it back?" "Then ask Xiaolong how much he has earned in the past few months. If there is any left, you can use the money to buy it..." "Why are you asking that? If he had money, he wouldn't have taken it out? He's the only one in Wucheng, and he's unfamiliar with the place, how can he not spend money? Don't ask. I'll tell you, I'll find a way!" "Okay, okay, you can just act big as you want! Anyway, I don't care. I can't let Xiaojuan and Qiangqiang be left in the cold anymore..." "Mom, I want to eat meat..." The voice of nephew Li Qiang rang out, and the voices of eldest brother and sister-in-law also stopped. Li Long sighed, pushed the door and walked into the east room where he was. The west room is the main house. The entrance is the corridor and kitchen. The three or two dark rooms are bedrooms and kitchens, and there is a spare room for sundries. The bedroom also functions as a living room. The east room was originally a storehouse, with only one room, but it has a stove, a fire wall and a kang. Feeling the temperature in the room, Li Long knew that he had to plan carefully what to do next. In my previous life, I enjoyed the efforts of my elder brother and sister-in-law with peace of mind, and never thought about how my elder brother lived frugally for me. Li Long is a bit vain and kind-hearted. In today's words, he is a bit saintly. He often uses things from his elder brother and sister-in-law's homes to help others. As a result, I was cheated many times. In this life, Li Long will never do this again. But that's what he thinks, but others don't think so. Just as Li Long was about to come up with an idea, hurried footsteps were heard in the yard, and then someone knocked on the door next door. Li Jianguo opened the door and saw that it was Gu Ermao, a young man from the team, and asked: "Ermao, what's the matter?" "Brother Jianguo, I heard that Li Long is back. Where is he?" "Over there. What's the matter?" Li Jianguo was worried about Gu Ermao. This guy was a gangster in the village, and he wanted to find out the details.
In Li Jianguo's eyes, Li Long is still a child and is unreliable, so he has to keep an eye on him. Li Long heard the sound and opened the door, and the cold wind blew in. "Ermao, what's the matter?" "You're really back?" Gu Ermao, wrapped in a tattered cotton jacket, saw Li Long, his eyes lit up, he sniffed hard, and pushed him into the east room with one hand: "Let's go in and talk!" Li Jianguo originally wanted to follow him in, but Gu Ermao closed the door after he entered the room. Liang Yuemei behind him complained: "Why don't you close the door? The heat is all gone!" Li Jianguo closed the door. In the east room, Gu Ermao said to Li Long: "Li Long, brother, I'm in trouble now and I need your help." "What's the matter? Tell me first, but I may not be able to help you." Li Long said with a smile, his heart already alert. Although Gu Ermao was a scoundrel, he was sweet-talking and often made Li Long happy, thinking that he really admired him. Later I realized that this guy just wanted to make some money from me. "How much money do you have on you now? I'm going to Team Three to look for a date tomorrow. I don't have any money to buy anything right now. Can you lend me some money?" He spoke in a matter-of-fact manner, as if it was natural for Li Long to lend him money. In his previous life, Li Long lent all his ten yuan to Gu Ermao in order to be generous. As a result, his family had no money to buy charcoal, so Li Jianguo went to the team to borrow charcoal, and the debt was not paid off until three years later. However, Gu Ermao never repaid the money he borrowed until Li Long's death. Will he borrow again in this life? impossible. Put away your desire to help others and respect their fate. (End of this chapter)
