Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 237: The Gun Wins
After dinner, Li Long cleaned the stove and cut the mushrooms into slices on the wooden table. When he finished, it was already dark. He took a broom to sweep the wooden floor in front of the cabin and hung the dried mushrooms on it to dry.

After everything was done, I went into the big room and went to sleep.

When he woke up, it was still dark. Li Long rubbed his face, got dressed and went out. He looked at the sky and thought it was about time, so he picked up his gun and walked into the mountains.

The mountains are not quiet at night. There are the sounds of toads in the stream, the chirping of insects in the grass, and occasional crows in the distance.

When walking into the woods, occasionally one or two birds would be startled, and then the birds would fly away cursing.

Li Long climbed over the ravine and came to the ravine where Lu Dafeng was. He did not alarm the other party. He went around the tent about fifty or sixty meters away, and then moved towards the ravine that Lu Dafeng pointed to.

Li Long climbed over a ditch, slowed down, took the gun on his shoulder in his hand, bent down and slowly moved forward.

It was very dark and he could hardly see anything within 20 or 30 meters in front of him. Li Long felt that he must have arrived too early.

There was wind on the slope. Li Long felt the wind direction and came to the leeward side. He knew that wild boars had very sensitive noses, and he didn't want to be discovered by these guys when he was in ambush.

As he walked down, Li Long saw that the deep grass in the ditch had indeed been bulldozed. It was too dark to see what the grass was, but a large area had been bulldozed, so the herd of wild boars must be quite large.

Li Long walked to the other side of the ditch and felt that this side was the downwind side. He looked around and found a half-meter square stone to lie down on.

Li Long was a little worried because he was almost attacked by a wild boar last time, so it would be better to find a place to hide as soon as possible.

Lying beside the stone, Li Long could feel the dampness of the ground, so he adjusted his posture and sat beside the stone first, intending to lie down and shoot when he heard any movement.

After waiting for a long time, there was no movement. Before he knew it, he felt sleepy and began to doze off little by little.

The vibration of the ground suddenly woke Li Long up. He picked up his gun and looked in the direction of the vibration.

The sky was already slightly brighter and he could see clearly what was happening several dozen meters away. Then he saw several wild boars rushing down from the woods on the higher hillside farther away, heading towards the ravine in his direction!

Damn, these wild boars are coming from this direction!
Li Long felt that the place he had chosen was really perfect, a path that wild boars would have to pass by...

Well, after all, there was not much demand for hunting wild boars this time, so he immediately changed his position, turned around and lay on the other side of the stone, holding the gun and starting to aim.

The wild boars rushed down the mountain with great momentum, and soon covered half of the distance of nearly 100 meters. Li Long knew that if he didn't fight, he might be rushed into the herd of wild boars!
The first to lead were three half-grown wild boars weighing fifty to sixty kilograms, followed by a few large sows, followed by a group of small wild boars weighing twenty to thirty kilograms, and further behind, there were a few even larger wild boars.

This wild boar family is not small!
"boom!"

Li Long aimed at the wild boar in front and fired!

Because it was facing Li Long, the area of ​​its body exposed in front of Li Long was relatively small, and it was constantly moving. Li Long's shot missed and hit the wild boar's ear, which then flew out, brushing against the right side of its belly!

The sound of a gunshot startled the herd of wild boars, and the wild boars that were originally coming down in a line immediately scattered!

Li Long missed the first shot, but he did not regret it. He had been aiming his gun and waiting for the wild boars to scatter. He immediately seized the opportunity and fired continuously, "Bang bang bang bang", knocking down a wild boar weighing about 60 kilograms on the spot!

When he aimed at the other wild boars again, he found that they had already run far away. There was only a sow with seven or eight little wild boars following her. They were running slowly and running around in the grass. Li Long aimed at the little wild boars behind and fired continuously until he used up all the bullets in the gun before stopping.

He took out a magazine, loaded ten bullets into the magazine, pulled the bolt to load the gun, and then walked forward with the gun in hand.

Two of the little wild boars fell to the ground, and one was not dead yet. It kept screaming there, and the sound was very miserable.

The other one was completely motionless, just like the half-grown one, so it must be dead.

Li Long thought, after what happened, these wild boars shouldn’t come again, right?
Then Lu Dafeng’s problem should be solved.

It is a bit difficult to take away something that is bigger at one end and smaller at both ends.

Li Long thought about it and looked around. He found that all the wild boars were gone and he didn't know where they had gone.

He thought about it, took out the rope he brought, tied the two little wild boars together, then picked up the half-grown wild boar, and then pulled the rope tied to the two little wild boars and pulled them towards the other side of the mountain.

After going down to the bottom of the ditch, climbing over the hillside, and going down to the bottom of the ditch again, Li Long saw Lu Dafeng's tent.

Li Long stopped pulling the wild boar halfway - he didn't go to the tent. After all, bees would go crazy when they smelled something, and Li Long didn't want to be besieged by a swarm of bees.

He started working on the big wild boar here.

It was not convenient to skin it here, so he simply cut open the belly and took out all the internal organs.

The sun had not yet risen, but the sky was already bright. Li Long cleaned out the boar's internal organs and threw them on the grass, then shouted loudly:

"Lü Dafeng, Lü Dafeng!"

In fact, Lu Dafeng had already woken up. He had barely eaten something last night and slept for a while. Li Long had left him some medicine, and he woke up in the middle of the night and took the medicine, and he felt much better.

Li Long said that he would go hunt wild boars in the middle of the night, so he kept listening to the noise. He had heard the gunshot just now, but he didn't expect that Li Long had already finished and pulled the wild boar over.

Lu Dafeng came out and saw Li Long recruiting people there, so he walked over.

"I have killed this wild boar. I'll give you the internal organs. You can deal with them when you have time. They can't be kept for long in this hot weather. Either put them in cold water and remove them, or just kill them." Li Long saw that he was walking steadily, so he said:
"I'll leave you a leg of meat too. You can peel it when you eat it. I need to hurry down the mountain to process it now."

"Okay, okay, thank you so much!"

"It's okay. You deserve it. I'll leave the wild boar stomach to you as well. It can cure stomach problems." Li Long said, "Just keep it safe. I killed three of those wild boars. They won't come back anytime soon."

"Then I don't want this stomach anymore, but I'll keep the heart, liver, lungs and other things." Lu Dafeng was very grateful. He just provided a little information, and Li Long not only helped him drive away the wild boar, but also gave him meat. This made him feel that Li Long was a good person.

"You told me about the wild boar, so you deserve this meat." Li Long said, "Okay, take your time packing, I have to hurry on my way."

Li Long picked up the gutted wild boar and continued to drag the two little wild boars towards the wooden house.

Lu Dafeng carried the wild boar leg back to the tent, then came out with a large basin, put the internal organs into it, dragged it to the nearby stream, and began to wash it.

He felt better and had more strength. After cleaning, he started to light a fire and boil water to continue processing.

Li Long returned to the wooden house, his clothes were already stained with blood. He didn't care about so much at this time. He pushed out the bicycle, packed the two little wild boars in sacks and hung them on both sides of the bicycle. He then put the big wild boar on the back seat and tied them up. Then he collected the mushroom slices drying on the wooden board and put them on the shelf in the wooden house to continue drying.

After locking the door, Li Long got on his bike and rode down the mountain quickly.

Riding all the way to the county town, Li Long arrived at the courtyard when the sun had just risen. He changed his clothes and put the bloodstained clothes together, as he had no time to wash them in the short term.

At this time, Li Long felt hungry, and it was too late to cook, so he went out to the big meat canteen first. After having breakfast, Li Long felt a little better.

Back in the yard, he began to deal with the three wild boars.

The big wild boar was skinned and the meat was cut into pieces, with the ribs specially reserved. The small wild boar was easier to deal with, with the skin removed and the internal organs removed. Although the offal was small, the meat was tender and could not be discarded.

After finishing all these, Li Long first soaked the meat in cold water and pulled it, then washed his hands, straightened his back and stretched it, rode his bicycle to the department store.

Li Long bought the best sugar, tobacco, alcohol, snacks, tea, etc. At that time, people didn't have much of a filter for Moutai, and they didn't like to drink Maotai-flavor liquor. Instead, they were quite interested in the strong-flavor Baiyang Laojiao and Gucheng Daqu.

But since Li Long wanted to buy something, he would definitely buy famous liquor. He bought four bottles of Wuliangye, planning to give two bottles as gifts and keep two bottles for the old man and others to drink.

After buying all the things and packing them up, Xiao Liu walked out of the department store, looking at Li Long's back with a sense of loss.

"Okay, stop looking. The young man bought these things, so he must be engaged." The older sister next to him comforted him, "You are so beautiful and have a good job. Isn't it easy to find a partner?"

Li Long hung these things on the front handlebars and rode back to the yard.

Although it was almost time for lunch, he still planned to ride back home quickly. The pork couldn't be kept for long in this weather.

He didn't expect to kill the wild boar so quickly.

I should have postponed it for one day.

But this kind of thing cannot be delayed. If we wait another day and the wild boars don't come, wouldn't we be in a blind position?
At least there is something to gain from the fight.

I rode all the way home and just made it in time for dinner.

Li Jianguo was washing his hands beside the well in the yard. He was surprised to see Li Long riding his bike into the yard. He looked at the things in the big sack and asked:
"Is this a hit?"

"We caught one. One half-grown and two smaller ones," Li Long said. "We peeled off the skin. We were afraid the meat would go bad, so we quickly brought it back."

"You hunted them quickly... There are things in the mountains that look like yours, and you brought them back after you went there..." Du Chunfang was also surprised, "Are there that many wild boars?"

"That's not the case. I met a beekeeper there, and he told me there were traces of wild boars digging there. So I got up early today and went to wait, and I caught some."

Li Long explained as he took down the sack. Li Jianguo had already brought over the large basin. Li Long put the meat in piece by piece, piling it up high.

Li Jianguo pressed water in and said as he poured:
"This meat... Hey! The wild boar meat is so tender. Let's cook it tonight!"

Li Qiang had already finished school and ran over to squat beside the basin to watch.

Li Long took down the things hanging on both sides of the bicycle handlebars and put them in the vacant house.

"I bought wine, cakes, sugar and tea," Li Long said. "I bought four bottles of wine, two to send over and two to drink at home."

"Okay." Li Jianguo said casually, "The rest is fish."

Liang Yuemei wiped her hands with her apron and said:
"The meal is ready, let's eat, and we can clean up after dinner."

"Okay." Li Jianguo greeted Li Long:
"Xiaolong, come here, let's carry the meat into the house, or a dog will come and take the meat away while we're eating."

"No, no!" Du Chunfang said, "I'll just sit at the door and watch while you guys eat."

"Why do we have to separate them when we can eat together?" Li Jianguo shook his head.

"I'm short, so it's hard for me to get on the table..." Du Chunfang glared at him, "The table at home is a small square table, and you're so tall..."

Li Jianguo smiled embarrassedly. Li Long then said:

"Then I'll take out the small square table from the kitchen and put it here. It just so happens that we have more wood this time, so I can make a few more small square tables. This way, it will be convenient for Juan and Qiangqiang to do their homework later."

"That's right." Li Jianguo now had money in his hands, so naturally he wanted to make his family's life better.

Isn't this the purpose of making money?

"Brother, should we send the meat over first? Or we can rub some salt on it and put it in an empty room, otherwise it will go bad easily." Li Long said, "Or we can keep the meat we are going to use first, rub some salt on it and put it aside, and deal with the rest this afternoon."

"Okay." Li Jianguo meant the same thing. In the hot summer, without a refrigerator, there was really no way to keep the meat.

"We'll cook the rest this afternoon, braise it, and then stew it." Du Chunfang actively suggested, "Should we send some to Qiangqiang's grandfather?"

"No, no, no." Liang Yuemei hurriedly shook her head, "I can't always send you back..."

"Send some. We can't finish it at home, so we'll just leave it there anyway." Li Jianguo said, "Xiaolong will be going to the mountains in a few days, maybe he can get some. Juan's grandfather isn't in good health either, so he needs some nourishment. Xiaolong, look..."

"Send it to you." Li Long said without hesitation, "It's just a few steps away."

That's how it was settled.

After dinner, Li Long went to call Tao Daqiang, and the two of them went to set the nets together. Li Long also took a wild boar leg and a piece of small wild boar ribs and put them in the bag. After setting the nets, he asked Tao Daqiang to go back, and he took a shortcut from Xiaohaizi to Liang's house.

The Liang family members were not there, but fortunately Li Long still vaguely remembered the location of the Liang family's land, so he went directly to the Liang family's land and gave the meat to Liang Wenyu.

"Xiaolong, this made you run a long way." Liang Donglou was also a little surprised, "Did you go into the mountains?"

"Yes." Li Long said, "In two days, I will get engaged. I will go into the mountains to hunt a wild boar as a gift."

"You're getting engaged? That's great!" The Liang family members were happy for Li Long. "You're old enough now, it's time to start a family..."

After Liang Donglou expressed his feelings, he looked at his son again.

When will Liang Wenyu be able to find a reliable partner?

(End of this chapter)