Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In the end, the two deer were sold to Huang Xuejun for three hundred yuan each.

Huang Xuejun gave Li Long a deposit of 100 yuan, wrote a simple contract, and hurried to the county.

We need to find a car to pull the deer.

Uncle Luo watched Li Long take the money, and after Huang Xuejun left, he said:
"Xiaolong, from what you said, isn't this three hundred bucks a deer a bargain?"

"If you raise them professionally, then they are naturally cheaper. Think about it, the antlers of an adult male deer can be sold for more than 100 yuan a year. Although female deer don't have antlers, they can give birth to fawns. Moreover, the whole body of a deer is a treasure. Even if it is slaughtered, the blood, penis, heart and so on are all good things." Li Long said with a smile:
“But we may not be able to earn this money.

We can keep it now and see if it's okay, but to be honest, this deer is much more delicate than donkeys and horses. If we don't take good care of it and it gets sick, it will die. It's still a fawn now, and we may not be able to keep it well as it grows up, especially in winter."

Three hundred yuan is indeed cheap, but Li Long really has his own ideas.

Even if you have a lot of money, you don't have to vent your anger. It's unlikely that this deer will stay alive forever. In his previous life, he went to Yili for a trip. There were people in the Corps raising deer. According to the locals, there were once people raising more than 20 deer, and then an epidemic killed them all.

It is better to lock in the profits.

After hearing what Li Long said, Lao Luo understood.

"Then let's just take care of it. I think this wild boar is pretty good. It eats a lot, poops a lot, and is very active. I don't see it getting sick at all."

"Well, we can raise pigs and donkeys here. If we come across any other special breeding, we can raise them. If we don't come across any, it's okay."

This is just an experiment. Now we have earned 300 yuan, which is very good.

Li Long rode his bike back to the Li family's house and Tao Daqiang was already there.

"Let's put down more nets today," Li Long said, "ten to twelve. Bring the old nets as well, and see if we can catch any fish." Since the old man was interested, Li Long would naturally accompany him.

"Uncle, can I go with you?" Li Qiang said from the side.

Li Juan also looked at them.

"Let's go, go if you want." Li Long said with a smile, "Mom, do you want to go?"

"Why should I go? I won't go. I have to cook pig food at home... You guys go."

"Then I'll keep it too. I'll go cut grass for the pigs later." Li Juan hesitated.

It’s a bit sensible that makes people feel distressed.

"What pig grass are you cutting?" Li Long waved his hand. "Go for a walk. When I lower the net, your grandfather and Daqiang will cast the net, and you can follow and pick up the fish! When we come back from lowering the net, I'll ride my bike to our beet field to get some leaves. Of course, there are a lot of mosquitoes there. If you're afraid of mosquitoes, then don't go."

"Go, I'll go! What's there to be afraid of mosquitoes!" Li Juan laughed immediately after hearing this.

"Let's go!" Li Long waved his arm heroically, and Tao Daqiang had already taken the tire and left the yard.

Li Long picked up the bag and followed behind. Li Qiang insisted on holding the basin for catching ditch fish. Li Qingxia said he was too young to lift it, but Li Qiang insisted on holding it to show his grandfather. They walked out of the door while talking and making a fuss all the way.

When they arrived at Xiaohaizi, there were still people casting nets on the east bank, but Li Long and his friends ignored them and went straight to the west bank.

There was a hole here because of a flood. Inside the hole was a wide open area of ​​water with little grass. The grass must have been washed away by the flood.

"You guys cast the net here, I'll paddle the tire in there and cast the net. I remember there was a large area of ​​water without reeds, so I'll circle around that area and cast the net."

Li Long expressed his thoughts, then took out the knife he carried with him, cut some Achnatherum splendens from the nearby Achnatherum splendens and gave them to Li Juan and Li Qiang:
"Daqiang will cast the net later, and you guys will follow to pick up the fish. Then you can string the fish together with this. Do you know how to string them together?"

"I know!" Li Qiang said quickly, "Put it in through the mouth and out through the cheeks."

"Yes." Li Long patted Li Qiang's head, lowered the tire into the water, and sat on it with the net bag.

After rowing about ten meters in, he began to set up nets along the reeds. This time there were more than ten nets, covering a total of nearly one kilometer. Even if he was very skilled in setting up the nets, it would still take an hour.

I was paddling and lowering the net at the same time. I didn't think much of it at first, but after half an hour, my hands started to feel tired. After all, I had been paddling and couldn't row fast. I saw that the net was half lowered and there was still a large circle. This area of ​​water was surrounded by reeds and there was no wind. Although it was afternoon, the water was still very hot. I was soaked with sweat and my pants were stained with water, which felt hot.

From time to time, a water chicken or wild duck would emerge from the reeds, and when it saw Li Long, it would scream and dive into the water, sometimes scaring Li Long.

Li Long also had to be careful not to let these nasty little guys get into the net, otherwise at least half of the fish would not be caught with this net.

So, it’s not easy to make money. At least the process of going online is quite tiring.

The net was lowered over most of the water surface. Li Long looked around and saw that there were still three fish. He planned to take a rest on the water surface.

Putting the water-skiing board on his legs, Li Long shook his arms and felt a little sore and numb. After all, even a strong man would get tired if he maintained a mechanical posture for a long time.

I could vaguely hear Li Qiang shouting on the shore. He must be casting the net to catch fish.

With my dad's ability in casting the net, he is sure to catch fish, it's just a matter of how many.

Li Long had no cigarettes in his pocket and he wasn't addicted to smoking. At first he wanted to quit smoking completely, but he would still take a puff occasionally. So when it comes to quitting smoking, you can't say you're dead set on it from the beginning.

In a situation like now, if I have a pack of cigarettes in my pocket, I can take a puff to slow down the process.

Just as he was thinking, Li Long felt something swimming towards him out of the corner of his eye. At first he thought it was a fish roe - this thing likes to swim on the water surface, creating a big wave, making people think there is a big fish underwater. But when he picked up the scoop net to scoop it up, he found that it was only as long as a chopstick at most.

However, Li Long soon discovered that the splashes made by this thing were a bit long, and Mian Yuzi didn't have the ability to deal with it. His hair stood on end and he picked up the paddle and smashed it towards the waves.

A snake was knocked out of the water by Li Long, and then fell back into the water!
Li Long didn't dare to stop. He kept hitting the water snake with the water paddle. He had a lot of strength and was frightened. After three or five hits, the water snake turned over and floated up.

Li Long hit the snake a few more times, leaving blood marks all over its body and blood oozing out nearby. Only then did he stop.

Li Long carefully picked up the snake with a water paddle. He saw that the snake had no strength in its body and was limp, so it must be dead.

Still holding the snake carefully in his hand, he pulled out the knife he carried with him, cut off the snake's head and threw it far into the water, only then did he feel relieved.

I remember reading a picture book in which a snake called Pheasant Neck could bite a person and kill him if his head was cut off, so he didn't dare to be careless. After all, he didn't know what kind of snake it was, and he didn't know whether it was poisonous or not, so it was better to be careful.

Li Long looked around again, but no more snakes were coming. He had just slapped the water so hard that some wild ducks and water chickens were scared away into the reeds.

There were snails on the water plants not far away, but they were inedible. Li Long retracted his gaze, threw the snake into the net bag, and then quickly lowered the net.

There is no time to delay. Even if you need to take a break, you should do it online.

After more than ten minutes, the rest of the nets were cast and Li Long was almost at the shore. He dragged his tired body back to where Li Qingxia and the others cast the nets, and was then pulled ashore by Tao Daqiang.

"I just heard you splashing water over there, what happened?" Li Qingxia asked while adjusting the net. "I hit a water snake and I knocked it to death." Li Long is very calm now. After all, the snake is dead, so it's not a big deal.

"What? Water snake?" Li Qiang had seen Li Long catch a water snake, but for the boy, this thing was both scary and curious.

But it was different for the girl. When she heard that Li Long had killed the water snake, she kept away from him.

"Well, take a look." Li Long turned the net bag upside down and poured out the headless water snake.

Even though she was a few steps away, Li Juan still screamed in fright when she saw the snake.

"Hey, it's quite long." Li Qingxia took a look and said, "There are many snakes this long in my hometown. There was a period of time when students would encounter them every day on their way to school..."

"Grandpa, is it true?"

"Of course it's true." Li Qingxia said, "Just avoid it. No one can run faster than it anyway."

Li Qiang squatted down and carefully reached out to touch the snake.

He could already see that the snake had no head and was dead.

"Let's go back." Li Long said, "How many fish have you caught with your net?"

"Not many." Li Qingxia said, "About ten, of all sizes."

"Uncle, can we roast this snake and eat it when we get home?"

This burning means burning directly under the stove, which feels a bit like roasting. Li Long roasted for Li Qiang before.

"Okay, we'll cook it like fish. On the way back, get some green sunflower leaves."

This is a difficult problem. Now the sunflowers have begun to turn yellow, and most of the ones with green leaves are those whose seeds germinate late or develop slowly.

"Okay!" Li Qiang agreed immediately after hearing that it was edible.

The five of them walked back, with Tao Daqiang still carrying the tire, Li Long carrying two strings of fish and a net bag, and Li Qingxia and the two children at the back.

"Brother Long, my brother asked me to ask you if there is any other job that can earn money..." Tao Daqiang suddenly spoke up, "School is about to start, and my brother's child has to go to school, and the miscellaneous fees need to be paid..."

Li Long could understand Tao Daqiang's thoughts. After all, they were brothers. It was also possible that Tao Jianshe asked Tao Daqiang to ask this question.

"Wait two days, I'll take a look at the market." Li Long said after thinking for a while.

In fact, he also has an idea that some things cannot be done by one person alone, and they still need to be scaled up. Just like weaving handles or tying big brooms, the best way to make money is to be the middleman, with someone doing the work and someone receiving the goods.

However, he didn't know if anyone would buy the thing he was targeting at the moment, so he would put it aside for two days.

Tao Daqiang nodded and said nothing more.

When he got home, the sun was still high in the sky. Li Long quickly pulled off the snake skin and chopped it into several pieces. He also peeled a few palm-sized crucian carps, rubbed them with salt and chili powder, wrapped them with sunflower leaves picked by Li Qiang, soaked them in water, and then stuffed them into the stove.

Du Chunfang had been making a fire before, and there was hot ashes under the stove, enough to cook these things.

"You watch it yourself. I'm going to get the beet leaves now." Li Long said.

"Uncle, I'll go with you." Li Juan said hurriedly.

"Okay." Li Long didn't refuse. With one more person, it would be faster.

Li Long took two urea bags and placed them on the back seat, asked Li Juan to sit down, then he got on the bike and headed east.

Half an hour later, he rode back. The sun had not yet completely set, but the pigs in the pigsty had already started to squeal.

Two and a half bags of beet leaves were quickly chopped and put into a large pot and boiled. Bran and the residue left over from squeezing sunflower oil were poured into the pot and stirred a few times, and the pig feed was ready.

After pouring out the pig food, add some sugar residue and mix it. Let it cool down and then feed it to the pigs.

While feeding the pigs, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei came back from work. The family had a simple midnight snack and Li Long returned to the stable.

Lao Luo gave Li Long 500 yuan and said:
"That factory manager Huang came with his car this afternoon and took the deer away. This is the money he left behind."

Li Long took the money in his hand, took out fifty and handed it to Uncle Luo, saying with a smile:

"Uncle Luo, this is a red envelope. You have been feeding this deer all along. Without you, I wouldn't be able to sell it for this much money."

"No, no, we've already agreed on it, 20 yuan salary, that's enough for one worker." Old Uncle Luo waved his hands hastily, "Xiaolong, I know you're kind, but I really can't accept this money.

I don't have much to spend money on. You see, there are vegetables in the yard. You brought so much meat, and you also gave me honey and codonopsis. I dare not accept it. I can't accept this money. Xiaolong, I don't have red eyes. I still know what money can be accepted and what cannot be accepted. You should keep the money. You are about to get married, and you have many places to spend money. You need this more than me."

Having said that, Li Long no longer insisted.

The next day, Li Long got up early and went to Li's house. Tao Daqiang was already standing outside the yard. Li Long admired Daqiang very much. How could he get up without an alarm clock?

Li Qingxia heard the noise outside and also left the house with his clothes on. It was still a bit cold outside, so he didn't wear a shirt like Li Long, but a coat.

"Let's go." Li Long knew that the old man was actually in good health, so he said, "We have a lot of nets today, so it will take a while to collect them. It will also take a long time to select the fish later."

"No matter how many there are, we are not afraid as long as there are a lot of fish," said Li Qingxia with a smile.

"Da Qiang, do you want to go with me to sell fish today? If you want to go, I will take you to the county, and you can sell fish with my father in the market?" Li Long asked as they walked.

"Okay." Tao Daqiang thought about it and nodded, but then asked, "What about the network..."

"Come back and help me pick them up. There are twelve nets, and you can't pick them all up by yourself."

Li Long was mainly thinking that if the old man went there alone to sell fish, he would run into some second-rate people and it would be hard to tell what was going on.

The small lake was very quiet in the early morning, except for a few people who were collecting their nets. Yes, not only Li Long was collecting the nets, but also those who had cast the nets.

Li Long came back and ran three times - the net was not only covered with water chickens, but also with water plants, but the fish were still considerable.

More than 100 kilograms! (End of this chapter)