Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 222 Li Qingxia: Xiaolong is quite powerful!
The next day, Li Qingxia and Li Long rode bicycles while Li Jianguo drove a horse-drawn carriage into the mountains.

The carriage was filled with rice, flour, oil, some burnt oil, and other daily necessities.

Of course, the necessary machete, Li Long's two guns were all there, as well as ropes, bedding and other items.

It is not yet the wheat harvest season. Although Li Xiangqian said it would take one month, Li Long and his team's goal is to complete the task within half a month to twenty days.

That means at least fifty or sixty poles are cut down every day.

It might be difficult for someone else to do it, after all, the mountain is so big, and if you don't find a place to cut the three thousand poles, you will definitely not be able to do it. But Li Long followed Halimu and Yushanjiang to visit all the gullies near Nanshan, and he knew which gully had the most poles.

Theoretically, it only takes two or three minutes to chop down a pole. As long as there are enough resources, one can chop down a dozen or twenty poles in an hour. If one is very good, one can chop down a hundred poles in a day.

Of course, this is just theory. Excluding the time for walking, resting, and dragging the poles back, if one can ideally cut down fifty poles a day, that's already very impressive.

After all, it still needs cutting after chopping.

Therefore, as long as Li Long and the other three can ensure that each of them cuts fifty poles every day, they can complete the task in half a month.

The housework was left to Liang Yuemei, and Du Chunfang also made it clear that she would help with any work she could do. There was no big work in the fields now, and the main work at home was feeding the pigs. Fortunately, Li Long brought back so much sugar residue, and the family had enough bran and other feeds, and the beet leaves in the fields could also be used, so they could still hold on for ten days or half a month. This was also the main reason why all the men in the Li family joined the battle.

"Are you saying that you still have a house in the mountains?" Li Qingxia and Li Long were not riding their bicycles very fast, so Li Long slowly explained the situation to his father. Li Qingxia was a little surprised. This youngest son was very secretive, and there was no telling how many secrets he had hidden from his father.

"Yes, it's a wooden house with two rooms, one large and one small. I live in it when I go into the mountains. It was built for me by my ethnic minority friends."

"Is they so nice that they even build a house for you?" Li Qingxia found it hard to believe.

"I'm nice to them," Li Long said. "I bring them salt, brick tea, radios, rice, noodles from the county..."

"That radio is really good." These days, Li Qingxia likes to listen to the radio at home. The radio plays some opera programs from time to time, so apart from Li Juan and Li Qiang who listen to the trumpet, Li Qingxia mainly listens to opera programs. Li Jianguo mainly listens to the news and so on, and has no big requirements.

"That's right. When electricity comes, we'll buy a TV for our family."

"Don't show off. TV..." Li Qingxia knew about TV, but he didn't think Li Long could buy it. It was so expensive!

There are people in my hometown who have TVs, and it’s magical to see people moving on them.

But Li Qingxia never thought that her family (her son's family) would be able to buy a TV.

But think about it, if you sell fish and reed leaves for 30 to 50 yuan a day, and a TV costs only one or two thousand yuan, maybe you can really afford it?
He was moved.

The total profit from selling reed leaves was over 100 yuan. After Li Qingxia took it back, he wanted to divide the money between Li Long and Li Jianguo. Li Long didn't want it, and Li Jianguo didn't want it either. However, Li Qingxia didn't feel comfortable taking it all, so he forced 50 yuan on Li Jianguo.

That's all I feel good about.

There were not enough machetes at home, so Li Long and Li Qingxia rode their bicycles to the county and bought two axes from the supply and marketing cooperative. There were no machetes here, and it was too late to make one temporarily, so they used axes and sickles first.

Tao Daqiang also had his own axe. As a good farmer, he could do basically everything with the axe and shovel.

Li Long went to the big meat canteen and bought twenty buns to take with him. This was his lunch. He had to clean up the house in the mountains and would not have time to cook for the time being.

Riding a bicycle into the mountains, Li Qingxia looked at the scenery on both sides curiously.

My hometown is a plain, with no mountains - I have never seen a high mountain. When Li Qingxia was young, he went out to do business, but that was all in the plains. Mountains like the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, which were first earth mountains, then stone mountains, and then covered with shrubs and forests, are very novel.

"Turn that way and ride on the small road." Li Long took the lead and pointed the way. "My eldest brother and his friends have to go under the ditch when they come here. Be careful when you ride."

"Rabbit!" Li Qingxia suddenly shouted.

"There are a lot of wild animals in this mountain." Li Long smiled, "Dad, we can see rabbits, pheasants, gazelles, wild boars and so on in the back."

"That's fine, let's shoot him with a gun." Li Qingxia immediately laughed like a child, "If we run into him while working, we can't let him go."

"Well, we will definitely have enough food anyway." Li Long said, "Let's pack up today and get up early tomorrow. I'll go for a walk to see if there are any wild boars. If there are, I'll kill one and we'll have meat to eat in the mountains."

"Okay, okay, I'll go over and take a look tomorrow morning." Li Qingxia is now like a child who has entered a new world and wants to see everything.

Soon they arrived at the wooden house. Li Long stopped the car and looked at the lock of the wooden house...it had been pried open.

There is no way around it. A wooden house that has been uninhabited for a long time will naturally be targeted.

When I opened the room, I found that the bedding and other things inside had been taken away, and the dried meat that was originally placed there was also gone. Fortunately, the wooden kang and wooden shelves were still there and were not damaged.

Li Long was not angry, because it was his own fault for not coming here often.

If I meet him in the future, I will beat him up to vent my anger. If I don’t meet him in the future, I will just consider myself unlucky.

Fortunately, the house was not burned down, otherwise I would have gone crazy.

He and Li Qingxia cleaned up the place, and then Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang drove over in a carriage.

The ditch in front of the cabin was too narrow for trucks to pass, but horse-drawn carriages could.

When they arrived, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:

"Brother, my house was broken into and the things inside were taken. I am riding my bike back to the county to get some more things and buy some more. You guys can clean up first. I bought some buns for lunch. We can cook in the evening when I buy a pot and other things."

"Okay." Li Jianguo looked at the wooden house and thought it was very good.

At least we don't have to live in a cave anymore. Even in July, it's still very cold in the mountains at night, so living outside is not an option.

Besides, there are wolves.

Li Long took two buns and walked out while eating.

It seems that this wooden house can no longer be used to store things, at least not in the summer. It should be fine in the winter.

Walking back along the original road, Li Long found that there were still many wild strawberries turning red on the roadside. They were not big, but they tasted good, much better than the cultivated strawberries in later generations. He would pick some when he had time.

After riding all the way to the county town, Li Long's back was already soaked.

He went directly to the supply and marketing cooperative store and bought two pots, enamel basins, plates and other daily necessities, put them in a sack, then went to the department store to buy some seasonings, and went to the state-owned vegetable store to buy peppers and other vegetables, and then rode into the mountains.

Although there are many wild vegetables in the mountains, I always feel that cooking without chili peppers is not good.

When they arrived at the wooden house, Li Jianguo and his friends had already cleaned up the house, and Li Qingxia was cleaning up the outside. Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang were not there.

When Li Long asked, he found out that both of them had gone to cut poles and planned to start working today.

Li Long placed the pot on the stone stove, fetched some water from the spring, poured it into the pot, rubbed it a few times, and started to boil the water.

Since living in XJ, the idea of ​​starting a day with boiling water has been engraved in my mind.

After boiling the water, Li Long filled several enamel basins with water and set them aside to cool. He then went to find some mugwort and threw it under the stove to burn it, using the smoke to repel mosquitoes.

"Xiao Long, when are you going to go hunting?" Li Qingxia asked, "What are you going to eat tonight?" "Just eat something casually tonight, make some porridge, and stir-fry two dishes." Li Long said, "There are a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms here, they are delicious when stir-fried."

Because they had to live for at least ten days, Li Long didn't collect much wild vegetables. He just made a cold dish of Artemisia and stir-fried mushrooms with chili peppers. Li Long was also surprised to find some morels in the moss in the ditch.

This is good stuff - it would be a waste to fry it. Li Long plans to make soup directly if he can hunt a pheasant.

Because he remembered the original way of eating morels, which was to stew a dozen morels with a pheasant, and the price was four hundred.

It seems like I ate it when I went traveling a few years ago in my previous life.

I don’t know if the purchasing station will accept this stuff... Forget it, I’ll just keep it for myself.

By the time Li Long got the things back, fried two dishes and put them on the wooden table, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang had already returned, each holding a bundle of poles.

Li Long took a quick look and saw that there were at least twenty poles in the bundle.

"Oh, the meal is ready. I can smell the fragrance from far away." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "This is much better than the treatment they get as porters. It's not much different from home."

"I'll go see if there are any wild boars tomorrow morning. If there are, I'll kill one and bring it back. I'll salt it and braise it, and then I'll have meat to eat every day."

"That's not going to be easy," Li Jianguo said. "This mountain is so big."

"Let's go and have a look." Li Long said, "If we can't hit it, then we can't hit it. If we can hit it, that's the best."

At night, they didn't bring a radio and went to bed when it got dark. Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo slept on the wooden kang, while Li Long and Tao Daqiang slept on the floor in the small room.

Li Long had cleaned his gun before dark, and when he was about to go to bed, Tao Daqiang said:
"Brother Long, shall I go there tomorrow morning?"

"Row."

The next day, Li Long, Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang set out before dawn. Li Jianguo also got up to feed the horses and boil water for breakfast.

Li Long carried Wuliuban on his back and ran towards the place where wild boars were feeding, which he was familiar with.

We climbed over one mountain after another and went to two places, but we still didn't find any wild boars.

The sky was already turning pale, Li Long shook his head and said:
"It looks like we won't be able to catch any today. The wild boars have already returned to the mountains after eating. Let's go back."

Tao Daqiang didn't feel anything, but Li Qingxia was a little disappointed.

I came here to hunt on the first day and got nothing. It was impossible not to be disappointed.

"Should we go back the same way? Why haven't we seen even a rabbit or a pheasant along the way?" Li Qingxia muttered.

Li Long pointed outside the mountain and said:

"Then let's go outside and take a detour. There were yellow sheep there before, and we don't know if there are still some there."

"What kind of sheep is the yellow sheep?" Li Qingxia became curious again.

He knew wild boars, as they were found in his hometown. He was also familiar with rabbits and pheasants, but what kind of sheep was the gazelle?
"It's a kind of antelope." Li Long said as he walked, "Its fur is yellow."

After walking through two ditches and reaching the outer mountains, we saw vast expanses of shrubs and Gobi desert.

The road is difficult to walk on, and there are camel thorns that prick people from time to time, which is quite annoying.

If the soles of the shoes the three people were wearing had not been hard, their feet might have been pricked by now.

Although Li Qingxia is over 60 years old, he still has good physical strength. Li Long did not speed up, so he was able to keep up.

Tao Daqiang was at the back, saying nothing and looking around from time to time.

Li Long tried his best to take the easier route, and reminded his father and Tao Daqiang behind him from time to time.

After passing the area where the yellow sheep were pointed out by Yushanjiang, Li Long stopped to look, but did not find any trace of the yellow sheep. Li Long was completely disappointed.

It’s impossible. Let’s talk about it tomorrow.

He turned diagonally towards the top of the mountain, intending to reach the top, climb over, take a shortcut back to the cabin, and focus on cutting wooden poles.

Just as he reached the top of the mountain and turned his head to look at the Gobi Desert in the north, he suddenly stopped.

There are gazelles!
Li Long paused, and Li Qingxia was a little surprised, so he asked:
"Xiaolong, why don't you leave?"

Tao Daqiang was most familiar with Li Long. He immediately took off the small-caliber rifle from his shoulder and aimed in the direction Li Long was looking.

Li Long had also taken down five or six and a half, and was half-kneeling, looking at the Gobi Desert in the distance.

"What?"

"Yellow sheep." Li Long said softly, "I only saw one, and I don't know if there are any more... Daqiang, did you see any?"

"No..." Tao Daqiang hasn't found the target yet.

"Do you see the red willows in front? The ones with three trees in a row... There is a piece of Gobi rock and yellow earth on the edge, and there is a half-grown..."

Tao Daqiang looked for a long time but still didn't see it.

Li Long didn't wait for him. The gazelle was only 70 to 80 meters away from him. If the gazelle didn't move, he was sure he could shoot it down.

The gazelle seemed to sense the danger, turned its head to look over here, and then tried hard to struggle.

Li Long pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

After the crisp sound of gunfire, the yellow goat, which had just climbed up halfway, staggered and fell to the ground.

"I see!" Tao Daqiang stood up suddenly.

Li Long did not move. He half-knelt there, still aiming. However, more than ten seconds passed and there was no movement.

Is this a lone sheep?
Although he was a little puzzled, he knew there was no other prey, so Li Longguan put away his gun for safety and said:
"Let's go and take a look. This sheep must be injured."

The three men walked up and found that the sheep was indeed injured.

There was a large wound on the hind leg, which looked disgusting.

Li Long himself was fine, but his father also saw the situation. Should he eat it or not?

(End of this chapter)