Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 172 Some people are born evil
Before Li Long opened the bag, he thought that the Fritillaria in the bag should be similar to the day before.

However, when he opened it, he found that the mother-of-pearls were of different sizes, mixed with some grass leaves. He felt a little dissatisfied - not towards the two people opposite him, but towards the person who dug the mother-of-pearls.

He couldn't help but complain in his heart: There are so many Fritillaria in the Fritillaria Grove, don't you know how to pick the big ones? The small ones can still grow for two years!
And you don't remove the grass leaves when digging. Don't you know that the purchasing station will deduct the grade of your Fritillaria for this?
Of course, he was just complaining in his heart. After all, the two people in front of him were the ones who confiscated the Fritillaria, not the ones who dug it out.

He picked up the bag and weighed it, and his heart skipped a beat - something was wrong!

He looked up at the translator and asked:

"Is this what the Fritillaria you got from others looks like?"

“No, no, no, we dug it ourselves.” The translator waved his hand, “We didn’t take it from anyone else.”

Li Long laughed, and then he said seriously:
"This is not the first time we have done business. Do you know how to dig Fritillaria? Impossible. These Fritillaria must have been collected from others. Don't worry, I am just a buyer, I don't care about that."

"Okay, okay, you Han people are too smart - we confiscated these Fritillaria from several people. They went to the ditch to dig Fritillaria without our permission. These were dug by three people..."

"Did you gather the three of you together?" Li Long asked, "This Fritillaria...is not good."

"What's wrong with it?" The translator suddenly became unwilling and asked back.

The team leader next to them heard that there was something wrong in the conversation between the two people, so he asked a question, the translator replied, and then he said a series of words.

The translator translated it for Li Long:
"We make some extra money from this. This Fritillaria is not as good as yesterday's. If you can lower the price a bit, we're willing to do that."

The translator translated it reluctantly, but he could tell that Li Long was really unhappy.

Li Long sneered and said:

"I mean, the amount of this Fritillaria is wrong! Did you mix something in it?"

He reached into the bag of mother-of-pearl.

The translator suddenly became anxious, pushed Li Long away, and said loudly:
"If you don't want to buy it, then don't move! Don't talk nonsense, you don't trust us, you have a bad heart! We don't want to do business with Han people like you!"

As he said this, he pulled the bag and prepared to leave.

Li Long thought about not doing it, but when he looked up, he found that it was the translator who was angry. The team leader looked a little confused, and then asked the translator a series of questions. The translator pointed at Li Long anxiously with an aggressive tone, and Li Long came to his senses!

There is something wrong with this translation!
He stepped forward and grabbed the bag. When the translator was about to grab it, Li Long slid the small-caliber gun off his shoulder and picked it up.

The translator took a step back, his face pale. Facing the muzzle of a gun, few people are not afraid!
Anger appeared on the team leader's face. He pulled out a knife from his waist, glared at Li Long, and said a lot of words.

At this time, Xie Yundong, Tao Daqiang and others saw Li Long firing his gun, and they immediately ran over, shouting to cheer for Li Long.

After Xie Yundong came over, he asked, "Xiaolong, what's going on?"

"There's something wrong with this translation. He mixed something into the Fritillaria..."

"Fuck, profiteers!" Xie Yundong's face changed when he heard this. "I hate these people who cheat me the most! What do you think we should do? Do we need to beat them up first?"

While he was saying this, Tao Daqiang had already rolled up his sleeves and was ready to go.

"No, no, no, this translation was probably done by myself. The team leader probably doesn't know about it. The problem now is that we don't understand their language and can't communicate... You guys watch him, I'll dump the bag so that the team leader can see it clearly..."

"No, no, I'll translate for you! I still understand a few words." Xie Yundong smiled when he heard it, "Although not too many, but they can barely understand it."

Li Long looked at Xie Yundong in surprise. He never expected that he could speak the minority language!

I think Xu Chengjun chose him to be the team leader for this reason.

The two men looked at the group of people surrounding them. The translator was already leading the horse and preparing to escape, but the team leader was very stubborn and kept swearing loudly while holding a knife.

Xie Yundong spoke a few words, and the translator's face immediately became flustered.

The team leader stopped scolding, but it was obvious that he didn't understand.

Xie Yundong was a little embarrassed. He then slowly repeated a word several times, gesturing, pointing at Fritillaria, the translator, and Li Long. The team leader finally understood something.

He turned to look at the translator, who was explaining something in a panic.

The team leader looked at Li Long, and Xie Yundong pointed at Fritillaria and whispered to Li Long:
"Xiaolong, there really is something wrong with this Fritillaria, right? We need to check it now, so we don't make any mistakes..."

"Don't worry, there must be something wrong! Yesterday, a bag like this weighed at most ten kilograms, and now this bag weighs almost fifteen kilograms. There's nothing else in it. I can eat these Fritillaria raw!"

Li Long was very sure that the portion size was quite different!

After getting Li Long's assurance, Xie Yundong immediately became confident and spoke a few more words to the team leader in a loud voice. Although his words were a little intermittent and he had to think before he spoke, his meaning was very clear.

Li Long put away his gun at this time, and the team leader also put away his knife. They stepped forward and grabbed the bag of mother-of-pearl, then turned the bag upwards and poured the mother-of-pearl directly onto the grass!
A large pile of mother-of-pearl was scattered all over the ground, revealing the large and small stones mixed in it!

The team leader's face turned red. He never thought that the one who made the mistake this time would be his own men!
The team leader picked up a horsewhip and hit the translator without any hesitation, cursing at the same time.

"He said that the translator lost their people, brought shame to their nation, and made him ashamed to face people..." Xie Yundong translated to Li Long in a low voice, "There are some other words that I don't quite understand."

Okay, just know the general idea.

After being whipped several times, the translator couldn't bear it anymore and ran away on his horse. The team leader turned around, panting, and said a few words to Xie Yundong.

Xie Yundong translated it:
"He said he felt sorry for you and he didn't want these Fritillaria anymore..."

"No, no, no, tell him that I'll keep the remaining Fritillaria." Li Long quickly took out twenty yuan and handed it over:

"Mother-of-pearl money is mother-of-pearl money. Since it was not their intention but the behavior of some individuals, the business will continue."

The team leader refused once, but Li Long insisted on giving him the money. In the end, he took the money, blushed and said something vaguely, and rode away. "Come on, help pack these Fritillaria." Xie Yundong said, "Everyone is doing well today. It's worth it that Xiaolong often brings us meat."

"That's right. We are all in the same team. How can we not stick together at this time?" Feeling that he had helped Li Long, Tian Siping said with a bright face, "We can talk about anything in the team, so we have to be of one mind when we come out!"

"That's right, bullying Xiaolong is bullying us, so how can we let them succeed?"

……

Everyone felt like they had won a battle, and put the Fritillaria into their pockets while talking.

"Xiaolong, is this mother-of-pearl selling well?" someone suddenly asked.

"It's OK." Li Long said, "The purchasing station still accepts it. But as you can see, the mountains are divided into different areas for forestry teams. If you want to dig Fritillaria, it will be... more troublesome."

"Alright, alright, just work on weaving the handles!" Xie Yundong said, seeing that everyone had finished picking up the Fritillaria. "You can earn money like this. Many people in the team envy you. Don't be so greedy! If it weren't for Xiaolong, we wouldn't even be able to do this job of weaving handles!"

After Xie Yundong said this, everyone calmed down and went to work on their own.

Li Long tied the bag of Fritillaria to the back seat of the car. In fact, he had hesitated for a while just now. Should he wait until the weaving was finished and then take the people in this sideline team to dig in the Fritillaria ditch near his winter nest for a day to earn some extra money for everyone?
But after thinking about it, I decided to forget it. This place was assigned to the forestry team, and the same thing should be done over there. It's not worth taking risks just for a day's extra money. If I go to dig it myself, I have the procedures and certificates, so it makes sense, but it's hard to say if I bring people with me.

After packing the Fritillaria, Li Long went to take a look at the wild boar area that Wei Zhonghua mentioned.

Before he arrived, he heard the wild boar calling. Li Long suddenly became happy. This time he caught the wild boar, which was great!
However, Li Long did not take it lightly. He took off the gun, opened the safety, loaded the bullet, and walked down the hillside with it.

The place was in a mess, with branches and leaves scattered everywhere where the pit had originally been. Wild boars had made a mess of the area, and many gaps had been dug up on the edge of the pit.

Now there are more than one kind of chirping and grunting sounds in the pit, and from time to time you can see wild boars popping their heads out and trying to climb up.

There were no wild boars around. Apparently the other members of the herd had fled into the mountains for some reason.

When Li Long arrived at the edge of the pit, he saw a half-grown wild boar trying to rush out. The pit of more than one meter was not too deep for it, but there was a wound on the pig's leg. It was not known whether it was an old wound or the injury caused by the fall this time. The momentum of the charge was not strong, and it was almost the same every time, but it just couldn't rush out.

There were three little wild boars in the pit. One had been crushed to death, and one of the other two was injured by being stabbed by branches.

When the half-grown wild boar saw Li Long coming, it turned around and snorted at Li Long as a show of protest - or perhaps a deterrent. Of course, in Li Long's opinion, it seemed a bit timid.

He raised the gun and fired two shots at the half-grown wild boar's head.

The wild boar fell to the ground before it understood what was happening.

Li Long put away his gun, walked to the edge of the pit, stretched one leg down, reached out to grab the wild boar's front leg, and pulled it up with all his strength.

The two remaining wild boars panicked when they saw the half-grown wild boar being dragged up, and they screamed even louder.

Li Long didn't have time to take care of them. He went over and pushed the bicycle down, took off the mother-of-pearl bag and hung it on the front handlebar, then put the half-grown wild boar on the back seat and tied it up with a rope. Then he got down into the pit and put the three little wild boars, whether dead or alive, into a sack and carried them up.

In just a short while, the green-headed flies had already smelled the scent and were crawling onto the half-grown wild boar.

Li Long hung the sack on the front handle of the cart and pushed the cart towards Xiaobaiyanggou.

When they reached the entrance of Xiaobaiyanggou, Li Long shouted loudly:

"Brother Zhonghua, Wei Zhonghua!"

Wei Zhonghua, who was cutting the strips, had actually been paying attention to the movements here. When Li Long's voice came over, he immediately rushed over here with a sickle in hand, responding loudly while running:

"Xiaolong, Xiaolong, here I come!"

When Wei Zhonghua saw Li Long carrying a half-grown wild boar and a sack moving on the front handle of the bike, he couldn't stop smiling. When he passed by the dugout, he threw the sickle there, then ran to Li Long and helped push the bicycle over.

"A half-grown wild boar, two live piglets, and a dead piglet." Li Long said as he pushed the items. "Do you want a live wild boar baby or a wild boar leg?"

"Give it to me?" Wei Zhonghua laughed even more happily after hearing this. He thought for a moment and asked Li Long, "Xiaolong, do you think this wild boar can be raised?"

"I don't know. I have a few wild boars in the old horse shed and asked Uncle Luo to help raise them. I don't know if I can keep them alive."

"Then... I want a wild boar." Wei Zhonghua gritted his teeth and said, "I've been to the morning market and have seen that a piglet costs ten yuan! It would be fine to raise a small wild boar. Even if I can raise it to 100 kilograms, at least 70 or 80 kilograms will be enough for me to eat for the whole winter."

"Okay, I'll send the little wild boar to your house when I go back today." Li Long said, "Anything else you want to say?"

"If it's gone, just let your sister-in-law take care of it. This thing came for free, so we don't need to treat it so delicately."

Having said that, Wei Zhonghua's eyes were actually fixed on the sack hanging on the handlebars of the bicycle.

"Take it down and open it for a look." Li Long said with a smile, "I just need your help to clean up this half-grown wild boar."

"Okay." Wei Zhonghua immediately took down the sack, untied the hemp rope at the mouth of the sack and looked inside. The two living little wild boars inside were about to run out.

"Why is one of them injured?" Wei Zhonghua frowned.

"The injured one belongs to me, and the healthy one is yours." Li Long said, "We'll cook the dead one here later."

The little wild boar was crushed to death and it didn't happen long ago, so there's nothing wrong with eating it.

Tao Daqiang also ran over and helped Li Long get the half-grown wild boar down. He was used to helping out, so he quickly started to gut and skin the wild boar.

Some other people came to help, while others were cutting strips from a distance and didn't see it.

A half-grown wild boar weighed only about 50 kilograms, and it only took 40 minutes to gut, skin, and viscera. There was not much fat in the stomach of the half-grown wild boar, so Li Long packed up the viscera and took them away, leaving behind a leg and the dead little wild boar.

Just for this, the people in the sideline team were already very happy.

There's meat to eat again!
(End of this chapter)