Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 154: Neither Wants to Let the Other Side Suffer
When Li Long walked over, the man was sitting on the concrete railing against the side wall of the Cultural Palace, and he was also observing Li Long.

There were not many people who could watch the movie at that time, and not many people came in and out. These were not this person’s target potential users.

When Li Long walked over, the other party was obviously alert. This person's hair was slightly long, not parted, and slightly curled on both sides of his face. At that time, there were no film and television programs to lead the trend, so most people were more individual.

But basically they all still have some hair left, and not many of them have a buzz cut like Li Long. After all, in everyone's subconscious mind, only prisoners in prison reform would shave their hair so short.

"Brother, do you have tickets?" Li Long walked over, took out a handful of melon seeds from the bag and handed it over, asking in a familiar manner.

"Which tickets do you want? Regional or national?"

"Regional ones. Are there national ones, too?"

"Yes." The man cracked melon seeds, obviously relaxed his guard, and said, "The price is cheap now."

"What's the price?" Li Long asked curiously.

"The regional food coupons were 8 cents per pound, and the national coupons were 9 cents."

"So cheap?" Li Long really didn't expect it to be so cheap.

"Haha, I can't do this for long. After I throw away these tickets, I won't do this anymore." The man cracked melon seeds and complained to Li Long, "Now when the morning market stalls are set up, many things can be bought without tickets. Who needs tickets? The higher-ups don't care about these stalls. I think these tickets will be useless sooner or later."

Li Long didn't expect this person to have such advanced vision!

In the future, the coupons will definitely not be used, but not at this time. The coupons will still be used for a long time. Li Long remembered that in his previous life, when someone in the village went to college, his family prepared a stack of national food coupons for him.

That was all in the early 1990s - in fact, the tickets were rarely used at that time, but in some places, they were still used.

"Are there any other tickets?" Li Long asked.

"Yes. What kind of tickets do you want?" The man spat the melon seed shells in his mouth onto the ground, then took out a stack of tickets:

"Let's not talk about sugar tickets, sugar tickets, wine tickets, meat tickets, industrial tickets..."

"So many?" Li Long looked at the coupons in the other person's hand and felt a little jealous. "Give me two hundred catties of food coupons—"

"What a big deal." When the man heard that Li Long wanted so much, he immediately became excited, "Are you going to resell it?"

"No, no, no, I bought it for my friend." Li Long waved his hand, "Give me the wine ticket for 20 kilograms."

Twenty kilograms of wine tickets, including small champagne, is about thirty bottles, which should be enough.

Li Long asked for some sugar coupons and industrial coupons, which alone cost him more than 40 yuan.

If he didn't need to save money for purchasing things tomorrow, Li Long would have wanted to buy more tickets.

"I need to buy some more tickets in a couple of days." Li Long said to the man, "Are you still here?"

"Yes." The man was also very happy. He counted the money and said with a smile, "My name is Cao Liu, everyone calls me Xiao Liu. You will definitely be able to find me in this area. What's your name, brother?"

"I am Mr. Lee……"

"Then I'll call you Brother Li." Cao Xiaoliu is actually quite young, and Li Long didn't expect that the other party would call him brother so directly.

"Okay, see you later. I have to go to the department store to buy some things." Li Long waved at the man, turned around and left the Cultural Palace.

Looking at Li Long's back, Cao Xiaoliu was very happy today. Just this time with Li Long, he could make several dollars!

Much more than a worker earns!

I can have a snack tonight!

Cao Xiaoliu looked around happily and then left. He was very content, and that was enough for today.

Li Long rode his bike to the department store and started buying bottles of champagne and red wine.

Xiao Liu was selling electronic products. She saw Li Long as soon as he came in. But she didn't expect that Li Long didn't come over, which made her feel disappointed and anxious.

After Li Long bought some small bottles of champagne, red wine and fruit candies, he finally came to Xiao Liu.

"Hello, comrade. Do you still have the radio like the one I saw last time?"

"No more." Although Xiao Liu really wanted to help Li Long solve the problem, she couldn't do anything without the goods.

Li Long was also disappointed.

"This kind of radio is quite popular, but our county is small and we don't have many of them." Xiao Liu thought for a moment and said, "Shicheng has more of them. If you have time..."

"I understand, thank you." Li Long slapped his head. Yes, just because there is none here doesn't mean there is none in Shicheng.

"Then give me two boxes of No. 1 batteries and two flashlights." Li Long said.

Xiao Liu quickly brought the things to Li Long, and neatly wrapped and tied a knot with the hemp rope at hand for easy carrying.

After paying the money, Li Long thanked Xiao Liu, turned around and left with his bags.

"It seems like this guy is quite rich, Xiao Liu." The older sister next to him joked, "He must have bought several radios, and now he wants to buy another one..."

Xiao Liu didn't say anything, and no one knew what he was thinking.

After Li Long unloaded the things in the big yard, he went to the grain store before it got dark. This time he had grain coupons, so he bought 50 kilograms of flour directly.

He already knew that Halimu and his family's staple food in the summer pasture was naan, so they used more flour. The main function of rice was to make pilaf, and it was not eaten much on weekdays, so Li Long mainly bought noodles this time.

After bringing the flour back to the compound, Li Long redistributed the supplies so that they could be taken to the mountains tomorrow.

After finishing all this, Li Long felt a little hungry. He didn't want to cook anymore, so he went to the big meat canteen and ordered a bowl of fried noodles.

This fried noodles is not fried flour, but the prepared noodles are fried with vegetables. It is more common in later generations, but now you need to make it clear to the waiter.

After all, there is still a kind of fried noodles that exists today - fried flour.

After the fried noodles were served, Li Long asked the waiter for a little vinegar as usual, then started eating it in big mouthfuls.

After dinner, he returned to the compound. It was already dark. Li Long went into the bedroom and turned on the light. Unable to fall asleep for a while, he took the small-caliber rifle and began to clean it.

It is necessary to clean the gun after each shooting. After shooting, there will be gunpowder residue in the barrel, which needs to be cleaned with a cleaning rod and a gun cloth, otherwise it will affect the accuracy of the next shooting.

The process of disassembling a gun is also a process of getting familiar with it, which Li Long has experienced deeply in this life. After cleaning the gun, Li Long loaded the bullet into the gun, turned off the safety, and then went to sleep peacefully. I don't know how the thief was dealt with in the end.

The next morning, Li Long went to the big meat canteen to have a simple breakfast. When he came back, he tied his things on his bicycle and headed into the mountains.

There were more pedestrians on the road. When crossing the Wuyi Highway, Li Long found that there were more cars passing by. As soon as one car passed by, there was another one in the distance.

Pedaling hard and thinking about his friends waiting for him in the mountains, Li Long felt full of energy.

When he entered the mountain and came to the winter camp of Harimu and his friends, Li Long found that Harimu was outside the winter camp, as if waiting for him.

"Li Long, you're finally here!" Halimu ran over here shouting after seeing Li Long, "Those guys are waiting for you!"

"Unload the stuff first, then we can go over there." Li Long pointed at the stuff on the back of the bicycle and said, "I brought some alcoholic drinks, let's drink together after the house is built."

"Okay, okay, let's put those things aside for now. The guys have already built a house for you and are now making a wooden bed, but that's not what they're anxious about. Come on, let's move the things over... Forget it, let's just push them over there together on our bicycles."

There is a narrow path from here to Li Long's winter home. If you are a good bicycle rider, you can ride there.

Li Long could sense Halimu's urgency, so he said:

"Okay, let's push it over."

Li Long pushed the bicycle and Halimu followed behind. After following for a while, Li Long felt that this road was rideable, so he rode on it and went along the winding road to the other side of the mountain.

When going uphill or the road was difficult to walk on, he would get off the bike and push it. Most of the time he could still ride it. When Li Long arrived at his winter home, he found that there was indeed a complete house there.

However, the roof of the house was covered with mud, and the four walls were also smeared with mud. It looked like a mud house, and the original appearance of the wood could not be seen.

Several people from Yushanjiang were sawing wood outside, some were mixing mud, and there were also people working inside the house. The sound of knocking wood echoed in the valley.

Seeing Li Long, Yushanjiang shouted, and the young men all came out of the house and shouted loudly at Li Long.

Li Long smiled and waved at them, then pushed his bicycle to the wooden house.

"Li Long, you didn't come yesterday, and the guys were so worried that Tusken almost cried." Yushanjiang joked, "He brought two fawns here, but in the end he had no choice but to take them back."

"Two fawns?" Li Long was shocked. "Did he really catch a fawn?"

"Yeah. Both!" Yushanjiang raised a finger and said with a smile, "He said he wanted to change the radio."

"Of course I can exchange them!" Li Long was really surprised, "I can exchange two of them..."

"One is enough, and you can bring some extra batteries. I have used up all four batteries in this one, and it keeps ringing all day long." Yushanjiang said, "Batteries are too expensive!"

Li Long thought about it and it made sense. Fortunately, batteries did not require tickets, so he could still get more.

After he parked the car, he went into the house and found that a wooden kang had been built in the big house, but it was not yet completed. The young men were installing the wooden supports under the kang.

In the past, I only saw the wooden kang in Halimu and Yushanjiang’s home from the outside, but now I know that the inside is a wooden frame made into a grid, and a layer of wooden boards nailed on top.

"Put your stuff in the back of the car here. We can install the door and lay the wooden bed today. If you have bedding, you can sleep in it tonight."

Li Long thought about it and it made sense. He simply moved the food, wine, drinks and snacks one by one and put them into the small house, which was originally used as a warehouse.

But I didn’t expect that after moving in, I would find that there were already quite a lot of things in there.

Deer antlers were the most common, followed by various types of leather. The ones Li Long could recognize were deer skin, roe deer skin, and wolf skin.
Jade, mainly Mahe jade, and there are a few pieces of very good quality.

These things filled up half the room. Li Long estimated that it would take several trips to transport them all back - at least a horse-drawn carriage would be needed.

If they all wanted to replace the radio, then he would have to go to Shicheng, and maybe even Wucheng, otherwise it wouldn't be enough.

When the young men saw Li Long coming, they came over to greet him with a smile, but they did not stop. Instead, they continued to work until the boards on the wooden kang were laid out. Then Yu Shanjiang shouted, and everyone gathered together and took a rest beside the wooden boards outside.

Halimu took the mare's milk placed in a cool place and poured a large bowl of it into it and handed it to the young man next to him. The young man took it and handed it to Yushanjiang.

Yushanjiang handed it to Li Long again, and Li Long waved his hand hastily:

"Drink some, you guys have worked so hard for so long."

Yushanjiang did not refuse. After drinking it in one gulp, he passed the bowl to Halimu, who poured it out and passed it to the next person.

After everyone drank, a young man couldn't wait to say a bunch of words. Halimu looked at him and smiled and translated for Li Long:
"Bielik said he wanted to trade four antlers for a radio, a box of batteries, and a flashlight, and he asked if he could get them."

Four antlers!
Li Long remembered that there were only six or seven deer antlers in the wooden house. This Belik was very powerful.

"Yes, we can." Li Long said, "Maybe there will be more."

"That's enough." After Halimu finished speaking to Berik, Berik had a smile on his face. Halimu translated what he said.

"Then I'll take the things downstairs today and bring them up after I'm done changing them."

"Tang Boli brought two wolf skins, a roe deer skin, and a piece of jade, saying he wanted to exchange them for a radio." Halimu translated the words of the next person.

After Tang Boli finished speaking, he ran into the house and took out his piece of jade.

The jade was as big as a football. Li Long saw that it was gray on the surface. He found some water and rubbed it on the surface of the jade. He found that there was a layer of stone skin on it. He had no choice but to use a flashlight to shine some light on it.

There are faint black spots in the jasper, but it is relatively large. Li Long nodded and said:
"Yes, I can exchange it. I don't know the price of the leather, but I can exchange this jade for a radio."

Even if it was sold at the lowest price of fifteen yuan per kilogram last time, this piece of jade weighs at least eight kilograms, so it can at least be exchanged for a radio.

"Tusken said he wanted to exchange his two fawns for a radio." Halim finally talked about Tusken, a shy young man who spoke with a slight stutter.

"It can be exchanged, of course it can be exchanged. A deer can be exchanged for a radio."

"No, no, no, if it's an adult deer, we can exchange it." Halimu said to Li Long very seriously, "This deer is very difficult to raise. The fawn is not more valuable than a sheep at this time. Li Long, you can't take the risk just because you have a good relationship with us..."

After hearing what Halim said, Tasken added another sentence, which Halim translated, saying that he still had a piece of jade, but he didn't know whether it was valuable.

Li Long said seriously:

"That's enough. One little deer is enough..."

(End of this chapter)