Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 224 This matter cannot be resolved by just whipping him twice!
What surprised Li Long was that there were actually quite a few good things in the dugouts of these two guys!

There are three antlers, two of which are a pair, both with four branches, and the other one is a particularly large single one with seven branches. Li Long weighed them and found that these three antlers weighed about 20 kilograms.

He confiscated most of the bag of dried Fritillaria without any hesitation.

There was a pile of pots, pans, and other items, most of which were brought from Li Long's wooden house. They all looked like they had been used, and Li Long didn't keep any of them because he disliked them.

There were three machetes, with purple-black blood stains on the knives, which smelled very fishy. Li Long was not sure what the blood was.

A dozen or so Codonopsis pilosula dug out have been dried and are a little shriveled, but the main body is quite thick. A dozen or so pieces together weigh more than one kilogram.

A small bag of cornmeal, some dried vegetables, and some dried mushrooms. Li Long didn't want any of this either.

Li Long grabbed a sack and packed up deer antlers, Fritillaria, Codonopsis and other things. When he was packing, he suddenly turned around, slid the gun on his shoulder directly into his hand, and shot the calf of the young man who was holding a wooden stick behind him and preparing to attack him!
"boom!"

The young man threw the stick aside and lay on the ground screaming.

Li Long took a look and found that the bleeding was not too much. It was a penetrating wound and should not have hit the artery.

"I'll give you a chance to live this time. Since you've come to the mountains to beg for food, just eat mountain products and do things that animals do. The next time I shoot you, it'll be your heads!"

Li Long was carrying a 56-and-a-half rifle and a sack on his back. He left after saying a few harsh words.

The two men waited until Li Long left before they hurriedly found something to bandage the wound. The older man dug out a paper-wrapped medicine powder from his dugout, sprinkled it on his arm, hesitated for a moment, and then sprinkled it on the younger man's wound.

"Just consider yourself unlucky!" he said to the younger man, "At least the food wasn't taken away, otherwise we would have starved to death here..."

The younger man's face showed not only pain but also resentment.

But he also knew that it was useless. The other party had a gun, and it was a mercy of the other party not to shoot him.

Li Long arrived at Halimu's winter home, cleaned the feces on the wooden kang, found some water to clean the kang, and finally closed the door and fastened it with a few pieces of wood.

In fact, this thing can only guard against gentlemen but not villains, but it also serves as a warning. If someone really opens it and does such a thing inside again, Li Long will naturally not be polite anymore - this mountain is so big, there are probably only that group of people nearby, so there is no need to look for anyone else.

When he returned to the cabin carrying the sack, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang had already gone to chop wooden poles. Li Qingxia stayed in front of the cabin looking at the pot of bone sticks and the pot of brine.

"Xiaolong is back? What are you carrying?" Li Qingxia was a little surprised. "Where did you go?"

"I'm going to catch a thief." Li Long put down the sack and took out things one by one. "This is a deer antler. Three of them can be sold for sixty or seventy yuan. This is a Fritillaria ..."

"Is this a deer antler? Can it be sold for money?" Li Qingxia interrupted Li Long and asked, "Is it real?"

"Really... Dad, are you..."

"Oh!" Li Qingxia slapped his thigh, "I came across one this morning when I went to cut some poles. It looked quite rare to me, but I didn't know what it was. It looked like wood, so I ignored it. I was busy cutting poles at the time... If I go get it now, can I sell it for money?"

"Who cares? It's only three or five yuan per kilogram!"

"Then I have to get it back quickly!" Li Qingxia didn't wait for Li Long to finish speaking, and immediately ran to the place where he had cut poles in the morning.

"Dad, take the axe, watch out for wild boars!"

"Okay!" Li Qingxia turned back and picked up the axe, then saw the machete that Li Long took out. He threw down the axe, picked up a machete and hurried away.

Li Long placed the antlers, Fritillaria and Codonopsis on the shelf in the small room. Fritillaria is a dry commodity, which should weigh about five or six kilograms. Together with Codonopsis and antlers, these things should be worth two hundred yuan.

Li Long was not cruel enough, otherwise he would have taken away all the food bags. In that case, the two men would have to either go out of the mountain to ask for help or wait to die in the mountain.

Those who could endure in the mountains for so long were either tired of the world or had a case on their shoulders. After all, the Fritillaria had been dug up, and there was no big money-making job, so most of those who had left the mountains had already left.

There were blood stains on the remaining two machetes. Li Long carried them to the spring, found a flat stone and started sharpening them.

After the rust was worn off, the two machetes were half a meter long including the head and handle. They should have been made by the same blacksmith and the materials used were very good.

There were no poles to cut near the cabin, so Li Long went to cut some grass to feed the horse in the evening.

Horses not only need to eat grass at night, but also need to be fed with feed. Horses cannot grow fat without grass at night.

Now the wooden house is just missing a shed, so No. 76 was left on the hillside to graze, which was quite leisurely.

Li Long placed the cut grass next to the wooden house without spreading it out, otherwise the grass would curl up when it dried in the evening and the horses would not be able to eat it properly.

After this busy meal, he felt a little hungry, so he took another bone from the pot and started chewing it.

Before he had finished chewing the bone, Li Qingxia came running over with two deer antlers in his hands.

Li Long felt like laughing as he looked at his father excitedly holding the deer antlers.

But when I think about it, my dad’s luck is really good. He can pick up deer antlers the first time he goes into the mountains. He is no worse than me.

The two antlers are not big, and they did not fall this year. The quality is not good, and they look a bit grayish, which may be one of the reasons why they were not picked up by anyone.

Li Qingxia excitedly came to Li Long holding the deer horns, raised them and said:

"What, is it a deer antler?"

"They are deer antlers, bigger than roe deer antlers. They must weigh at least 7-8 kilograms. They can be sold for 20-30 yuan." Li Long said with a smile, "Dad, you have made a small fortune."

"Hey, hey," Li Qingxia pushed the antlers towards Li Long, "It's yours!"

"Why should I do that? I have more money than you do. Wait a couple of days, and when we have enough poles, we can take them to the purchasing station to sell them when we pull them back. You can buy something for my mother, and you can keep the rest. You can buy whatever you want."

"Well... OK. I'll save some money and buy a radio to listen to at home."

"Why do you need to save money to buy it? I'll buy it for you when you go home... It's hard to carry, forget it, I'll give you the money when I go home, and you can buy it when you go back home. This thing is cheaper in my hometown."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. It's not easy to transport things to the northern border. It costs freight."

"That's true." Li Qingxia nodded.

"Dad, are you uncomfortable living here?" Li Long asked.

"It's very comfortable, how can it be this comfortable..." "Then why do you still want to go home?"

"Well...you can't live here forever, right?" Li Qingxia didn't know how to explain.

"Why not? Your eldest son and youngest son are both here, why can't they stay here?" Li Long said, "It's not more comfortable here than at home. The food is good, the accommodation is good, and the climate is better than back home..."

"This...ah, I'm used to living in my hometown." Li Qingxia sighed and said, "We'll talk about it later."

That's the end of this topic.

Li Long also knew that persuading his father would not make him agree immediately. This thing takes a long time and will slowly take effect.

After Li Qingxia gave the antlers to Li Long, he solemnly told him another thing:
"Xiaolong, where did the thief get this machete from?"

"Yes." Li Long said.

"The blood here is not right... It doesn't look like animal blood, it looks like human blood! It smells very fishy!"

Li Long looked at the machete placed aside. There were flies hovering over it. He thought of those two people. Maybe...

"Those two thieves may have really hacked people, or they may have used machetes stolen or picked up from others to hack people." Li Long analyzed, "I shot each of them once, and although I didn't hit their vital parts, it was enough for them to suffer."

"That's right. If we don't deal some damage to these thieves, this house will be in trouble after we leave."

Li Qingxia was worried that the two guys would retaliate and burn down the house, which would be troublesome.

"They don't know that I am the owner of this house." Li Long said, "Of course, I wouldn't be afraid even if they knew..." He remembered the figure when he was stewing the meat. It was more than two hundred meters away. He wondered if the old guy could tell that it was him?

I changed my coat and we were two hundred meters away, so he probably wouldn’t recognize me, right?
Even if you recognize me, you wouldn’t dare to act wild here, right?

Li Long decided to wait until he and his men had cut enough poles before leaving, and then go again to check on the two men.

Starting from the next day, Li Qingxia stayed in the wooden house to watch while Li Long went out to cut poles.

He was very familiar with the area, and he found a ditch with many willow trees and started cutting wood. There were many miscellaneous trees here, and many of them were suitable for being used as broom handles. Two days later, there were six or seven hundred poles piled up next to the wooden house.

At dinner in the evening, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, you two will cut the poles tomorrow morning while I harness the wagon and pull the poles back to the team to hand them over and sell what I get. Dad and I will go together, so don't stray too far while you two cut poles."

"Okay." Li Jianguo had no objection. If all the poles were chopped down, the carriage wouldn't be able to carry them all. It would be better to send them back a few times. "You can also take a pot of braised meat back with you."

"Okay." Li Long said, "I saw some wild boar marks when I was cutting poles yesterday. When I get back, I'll take a morning to go and try hunting. If I can catch one, we can try something new!"

"You are quite capable." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "We can't see it, but you can see it from time to time."

"Then I can be a hunter." Li Long also joked, "We will go early and come back early tomorrow. What do you want to bring?"

"I'm not taking anything." Li Long turned his head to look at Tao Daqiang and said, "Do you think Daqiang wants to bring something home? There's not much yellow sheep meat left..."

"No, no, there's meat at home." Tao Daqiang waved his hands hastily, "Really? No need to bring any."

"Okay, let's go early and come back early."

The next morning, Li Long and his team had already loaded the poles onto the cart and tied them up with ropes. After breakfast, Li Jianguo and his team went to cut the poles, and Li Long and his team drove the carriage to the county.

There was a mattress on top of the pole, and Li Qingxia sat on it. It was a bit bumpy at first, but he got used to it later.

The items to be sold were packed in a large sack and tied to the back of the car.

After leaving the mountain, the carriage sped up. When it was almost reaching the county town, Li Long noticed someone in front.

Some people were riding horses, and some were walking. The ones walking seemed to have their hands tied.

Is this kidnapping or arrest?
Li Long was a little confused, so he drove the carriage faster. When he caught up with those people, he was surprised to find that one of the tied people was shot in the arm by his gun.

He glanced over again and saw that the man with the injured leg was riding a horse. It was inconvenient for him to walk because of his leg injury, but his treatment was good.

The man with the injured arm also saw Li Long and shouted loudly:

"It was him who stole our things and beat us up! Otherwise, our things would be enough to pay a fine! It was him!"

When he shouted, he called the riders in front and those guarding the formation behind to come over.

The two men came over and asked about the details of the person with the injured arm.

Li Long saw two people on horseback, one from an ethnic minority and the other Han, both carrying guns. After listening to what the man said, they came over to ask Li Long.

Li Long got off the carriage, and Li Qingxia also jumped down, pulling out a pole in his hand, apparently ready to fight in self-defense.

"I'm a part-time border guard for the forestry team." Li Long was not nervous at all. "I did injure these two people, and I did take some things from them..."

"They illegally dug things in the area under the jurisdiction of our forestry team. Those things will be confiscated as fines..." the Han man said, "Where are the things?"

"Listen to me." Li Long glanced at him and said, "When you found them, did you see the things they used?"

"I see. A lot of daily necessities."

"Those quilts, pots, pans, and other things were all stolen from my wooden house," Li Long said, "I took their things as compensation. Also, they shit on the wooden kang in my friend's winter home..."

"What? Shit in the winter den?" The minority forestry team member got angry when he heard it. "Really?"

"Really. I cleaned them up, but that... think about people like that... so I fired my gun at that time. I was also very angry. These people might have killed someone. I took their machete, which was stained with human blood!"

The minority team member turned his horse around and whipped the man with the injured arm, cursing as he whipped:
"Fuck you! Are you still human? That's where people live, and you're shitting..."

The Han team member asked Li Long seriously:
"Are you sure there's human blood on their machetes?"

"Basically confirmed. So I suggest you take the person to the county, preferably hand him over to the public security department, and you'll know after a trial. Fritillaria can no longer be dug these days, and they are still hiding in the mountains and refusing to come out. Do you think anything good will happen to them? They must have committed some crime and are afraid to go out!" Li Long expressed his guess.

"Okay, thank you." The Han team member said, then stopped the minority team members and pulled them one by one to continue walking towards the county.

Although the two men were still riding on their horses, they had taken off their rifles and it was obvious that they had become much more cautious.

(End of this chapter)