Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 226: Did we catch up to the wild boars’ den?

When Li Long and his team arrived at the place where they found new traces of wild boars, they happened to see two wild boars grunting and running towards the woods in the southwest direction.

The two wild boars were not big, weighing only about 20 to 30 kilograms. They disappeared into the woods in a short while.

"We're late!" Li Long rushed down with his gun in hand, saying, "You go back first, I'll catch up and see..."

"I am coming too!"

"Let me see……"

As a result, none of the four people stopped and they all chased into the mountains.

Li Long remembered the location and chased all the way into the woods, then slowed down his pace. He could hear humming sounds coming from the front from time to time, a large patch of footprints on the ground, and marks of mud and freshly broken branches on the trees next to him.

All this indicates that there should be a group of wild boars ahead, but they had already eaten the grass roots and returned to the mountains early.

What Li Long and his team saw were the members who had fallen behind.

After entering the woods, Li Long slowed down his pace. He tried not to make any noise, and the people behind him followed one by one.

After passing through the pine forest, they reached the top of the mountain. The two wild boars dived down. Li Long climbed to the flat slope at the top of the mountain, squatted down and slowly looked forward. Then he saw that the grass in the ditch below was quite deep, and the two wild boars were completely submerged in the grass.

Fortunately, the herd of wild boars that had waded past earlier had made a large "path" in the grass. Li Long could still see some little wild boars at the tail end of the wild boar group in front of him, appearing and disappearing in the grass, and then climbing over the small hill in front and going to the back.

It was already two or three kilometers away from the wooden house. Li Long said to Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang who were rushing over from behind:
"You guys go back. I'll come back if I can kill the little wild boar. If I can't, I'll come back if I think the time is right."

"Let me follow you," Tao Daqiang said, "I'll follow you. If I get hit, I can still carry you on my back."

Li Jianguo looked at the wild boar in the deep grass ahead, which was almost invisible and could only be seen moving in the grass, and shook his head and said:
"You can't fight here. If you want to fight, you can only run forward..."

"The sun hasn't come out yet, let's run a little longer."

Li Long still didn't want to give up.

At this time, Li Qingxia rushed over and saw that the two wild boars had already climbed over the hill and disappeared. He said with some disappointment:

"What to do? Go back?"

"Dad, you and my eldest brother go back, Daqiang and I will chase for a while. If we can catch up, we will chase, otherwise we will go back."

"Okay." Li Jianguo knew that if he didn't come back, the old man wouldn't come back either, so he handed the small-caliber rifle to Tao Daqiang. He and Li Qingxia identified the direction and went towards the wooden house.

Li Long immediately rushed down the mountain and reached the top of the opposite mountain in two or three minutes. He just happened to see the two little wild boars playing in the water in front of the small stream at the bottom of the ditch in front.

Li Long squatted down and prepared to shoot, when suddenly the grunting of a wild boar came from the opposite mountain. The two little pigs seemed to be summoned, and they ran across the stream and quickly rushed to the opposite mountain.

The little wild boars didn't run in a straight line, and they would push against each other from time to time. Li Long tried to catch them several times but failed. Finally, he had to give up and rushed down the mountain again.

By this time he was already feeling a little tired. This run alone was two kilometers long. Besides, running up the mountain was even more strenuous.

Tao Daqiang followed Li Long closely, carrying his small-caliber rifle on his back, probably out of fear of accidental discharge.

Rushing to the stream, Li Long bent down, scooped up some water with one hand and wiped his face to cool himself down, then quickly rushed up the mountain again.

This was the first time for such a hunt, and Li Long didn’t even want to run away.

tired!
He told himself silently that if he rushed up the next hillside, he would just shoot down the wild boar if he could. A wild boar weighing thirty or forty kilograms would be enough to eat for two days.

Of course, if you can’t defeat it, just pretend you didn’t say anything.

The mountain was quite steep. The little wild boar climbed halfway up the mountain, where there were bushes, and could be heard humming from time to time. Otherwise, Li Long would have felt that he could not catch up.

After climbing to the top, Li Long let out a long sigh, and then he saw that there was no ditch in front of him, or rather, only a shallow ditch. Then, further ahead, there was a gentle slope slanting upwards. In a sparse pine forest, the two wild boars he had just chased ran briskly past. From time to time, more wild boars could be seen in the forest digging for something.

Li Long looked down and saw moss, wild strawberries and wild mushrooms in this area, which should be the wild boars' favorite foods.

Tao Daqiang also climbed up at this time. He bent down, supported his knees, gasped, and then looked at Li Long.

"There is a group of wild boars over there." Li Long slowly recovered and said to him:

"Let's sneak over there and see how many we can kill. But we have to choose a good spot, so as not to confuse the wild boars and cause them to rush towards us. That would be troublesome!"

Although he had killed a lot of prey, except when he was ambushing the wolf, Li Long was relatively close to danger, but he was still relatively cautious. The wild boars were about to explode, and if they really rushed towards the pigmen, the impact would be something that ordinary people could not withstand.

Li Long walked forward slowly with his gun in hand. Here he had to dig into the shallow ditch without being discovered by the wild boars in front, so he had to move slowly.

Tao Daqiang was also bent over, about twenty steps away from Li Long, in another direction.

Li Long aimed at a black stone about 70 to 80 centimeters high in the bushes on the other side of the ditch. He leaned against the black stone and had something to block his aim, so he was not afraid of being bullied by the wild boar.

When Li Long ran behind the rock, he turned his head to look at Tao Daqiang and found that Tao Daqiang had just crossed the ditch. After crossing the ditch, he bent down and slowly walked behind a bush, then glanced at Li Long.

Seeing Li Long looking at him, Tao Daqiang smiled and began to aim his gun.

Li Long felt that although the bush was a little unreliable, there was nothing good to hide there at the moment, so he didn't think much about it. He turned his head, put the gun on the stone and began to aim.

The sparse forest is about fifty or sixty meters away from Shitou, which is very close. Li Long only needs to find a suitable target.

However, the wild boars in the forest were constantly moving, and occasionally they were fighting. In the distance, you could see wild boars rubbing their bodies against trees. The force was so great that even the pine trees with thick mouths were shaking constantly.

Li Long aimed for a while, and finally set his target on a small wild boar weighing 50 to 60 kilograms. The wild boar was digging for food in the moss at the outskirts of the woods, with its body lying sideways, making it easy to aim.

Li Long took aim slowly, and suddenly a fat guy jumped out from the side of the rock.

Marmot!
This thing just came out of the hole, and then it saw Li Long, it was startled, and chirped twice nervously, then turned its head and went back into the hole.

Li Long was also startled, because the entrance of the cave was roughly located on the reverse slope of Li Long, and he didn't notice it at all.

The two chirping sounds were the marmots alerting their own kind, but when the wild boars heard them, they immediately stopped their actions!
Li Long knew he was exposed, so he hurriedly aimed at the wild boar again!
"boom!"

With just one shot, the wild boar had already rushed forward, and Li Long's shot directly knocked off half of its ear!

broken!

Li Long hastily aimed and fired again - fortunately, the wild boar was originally running towards Li Long. When the gunshot rang out, the wild boars scattered. The wild boar knew that Li Long was in danger and turned around. In panic, it collided with another wild boar. Li Long fired again at the right time! Bang!
boom!
boom!
Snapped!
boom!
Li Long was fighting, and Tao Daqiang was also fighting. Li Long fired two more shots to kill the wild boar, then aimed at another half-grown wild boar and injured it with two shots.

However, he did not expect that the injured wild boar would become so ferocious and rush directly towards Li Long. Li Long was not worried and fired another shot at the right time!
"boom!"

The wild boar ran halfway and fell to the ground.

Tao Daqiang only fired one shot, and only injured a wild boar. Then the wild boar followed the pace of the previous wild boar and rushed towards him.

Li Long could see that the wild boars were running around randomly. The injured wild boar was probably trying to escape, but it unexpectedly frightened Tao Daqiang. Tao Daqiang was stunned for a moment when he saw the wild boar rushing towards him, and did not shoot again.

"Shoot!" Li Long roared, and Tao Daqiang raised his gun and shot again. Li Long also aimed at the wild boar and fired several shots.

The wild boar moved very quickly and ran very fast. Several of Li Long's bullets hit the air, and it was not known whether Tao Daqiang's bullets hit it or not. Finally, the wild boar brushed past Tao Daqiang and ran into the ditch behind him at a distance of two or three meters, then somersaulted twice on the grass, got up and ran away again!
What a great fate!
Here, the wild boars in the pine forest have disappeared, and most of them have run deeper into the mountains.

Li Long walked towards the wild boar with a gun, and Tao Daqiang followed him.

The two wild boars were motionless at this moment, with a large pool of blood under their bodies. Li Long stepped forward and kicked them, making sure that the two wild boars were dead.

"Let's go and carry it back." Li Long said, "We'll clean it up when we get back."

"Okay." Tao Daqiang put the gun on his shoulder, picked up the slightly larger wild boar, carried it on his back and walked down.

Li Long also carried another wild boar. Only then did he feel what it meant to be extremely heavy.

Although it only weighs 50 kilograms, it is much more troublesome than carrying a 50-kilogram sack.

When I carry a 50-kilogram sack on my shoulders, at least it doesn't move around and I can basically maintain balance.

But after he carried the wild boar on his shoulders, it kept sliding from side to side, so he had no choice but to carry the wild boar by its belly, just like he was carrying the wild boar on his back.

At this time, when walking back, especially when going down the mountain, you have to be very careful, otherwise it is easy to slip on the grass.

It was more than an hour later when they returned to the cabin. Although the sun had not yet risen, the sky was already bright and Li Long's chest and back were soaked.

Li Jianguo and Li Qingxia saw Tao Daqiang and Li Long returning early, and hurried over to help, and together they carried the wild boar to the wooden house.

"Two of them, wow, that's great!" Li Qingxia sighed at first, then regretted, "Oh, I didn't see it!"

"Dad, don't think about it. Let's get a basin. This wild boar has been killed. We have to deal with it."

Li Long took a rest and drank some water before starting to deal with the wild boar.

Open the belly, take out the internal organs and drain.

Li Jianguo was dealing with the other end. Tao Daqiang and Li Qingxia were responsible for removing the internal organs and offal, while Li Long was responsible for skinning.

After all, even Li Jianguo didn't master this skill. After Li Jianguo had gutted the pig, he cut the meat into pieces and put them in a large basin with cold water.

By the time everything was done, the sun had risen.

Li Jianguo and Li Qingxia had already installed the poles on the carriage, so they only needed to harness the horses when they left. Most of the meat was to be taken away, and a small amount was left in the wooden house to improve the food.

There was a lot of braised meat left, and quite a few braised offal as well, so I took all the offal home this time.

The meat needed to be kept fresh, so after Li Long and his team were done they simply ate it and then drove away.

When we got to the county town, we just bought a few buns and continued walking while eating.

When they arrived at the township middle school, Li Long stopped. He asked Li Qingxia to wait by the roadside with the carriage, and he quickly carried a fan of ribs and a piece of meat to Gu Xiaoxia's dormitory.

Gu Xiaoxia was cooking and was surprised to see Li Long coming.

"We were cutting poles in the mountains and brought back a batch. We happened to kill two wild boars. I'll send you some." Li Long said, "Remember to eat them."

"Then wait a minute and eat before leaving."

"We can't wait any longer. We still have meat to take back for processing." Li Long said, "My father is still there."

"Well... okay." Although Gu Xiaoxia wanted to talk to Li Long more, she couldn't force him to stay because Li Long was busy.

Walking out of the dormitory, I watched Li Long run out of the school, then hurriedly drove the carriage towards the village.

Gu Xiaoxia felt lost. Li Long had been busy recently. When would they have time to spend together again?

This time, Li Long arrived home first with the carriage. There was no one in the yard, so Li Long shouted:
"Mom?"

"Hey, hey!" Du Chunfang's voice came from the vegetable garden, "Xiaolong is back? I'm weeding."

"I came back with my father and got some meat to process." Li Long said, "Where's my sister-in-law?"

"I'm going to work in the fields." Du Chunfang walked out of the vegetable garden, put a bunch of grass by the wall and said, "They said there are insects in the corn field, some kind of heartworms, so I'm going to catch them."

Li Long knew that it was the corn borer, which burrowed into the corn core. In fact, it was the same thing as the bollworm in the cotton field, and was very hateful.

"Did you hit something?" Du Chunfang asked.

"We killed two wild boars," Li Long said as he unloaded the meat. "We'll keep most of it for ourselves, and give Daqiang's family a leg and some spare ribs."

Dividing the meat is a man's job. Du Chunfang didn't care about that. The main thing now was to get rid of the meat.

After putting most of the meat down and his father staying behind, Li Long drove the carriage away. He first went to the Tao family and handed the meat for their family to Tao Jianshe, and then went to Xu Chengjun's house.

Xu Chengjun was very happy with the thousand poles. In this way, he could cut enough poles in ten days.

Are there so many poles in the mountains?
He couldn't help but ask Li Long.

"It's not that much, it's a certificate from my forestry team." Li Long knew what Xu Chengjun was thinking. "If an ordinary person went there, they would be arrested and fined. I have the certificate here, so I am one of them, and no one will bother me."

Xu Chengjun understood.

Most people can't do this!
(End of this chapter)