Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 285: There is no stock in the hot spring, where can I find it?

It was a festival, and we admired the moon that night, which didn't last long. The moon was really bright, and the other stars were almost invisible. We ate whatever was on the table. Li Juan and Li Qiang only ate two pieces of watermelon, and didn't think much about the apples and mooncakes.

"When we don't have it, you all keep clamoring for food. Now that we let you eat it, you don't want to eat it anymore. You're really hard to please!" Liang Yuemei complained.

She wasn't really complaining, she just didn't want to waste the food. In fact, she was still very happy when she went to her mother's house today. Her parents were in good health, and the one from the second son's family no longer complained - her family lived well, and took more things from home. Her brother-in-law would only say a few sour words, and he lost his original energy when he spoke to Li Jianguo.

I have a strong family background and I feel confident, so I can also have face when I return to my parents' home.

Nowadays, both men and women attach great importance to face.

"Then just one mooncake is enough. Two will make you sick." Li Qiang said loudly, "Can I bring mooncakes to school tomorrow?"

"Go ahead and take it." Liang Yuemei waved her hand, "Don't take too much. Wrap it up with paper and don't get your textbooks and homework books greasy."

"I got it, Mom."

Li Long returned to Lao Mahao, and Lao Luo was not alone either. Three five-guarantee households in the team sat together outside the yard of Lao Mahao. There were two bottles of wine, apple mooncakes and other things on the table, and two plates of hot dishes. The brothers talked about the past and drank happily.

"Hey, Xiaolong is here?" Facing Li Long who was walking over, another five-guarantee householder sitting at the table, also an old revolutionary, Yang Jukui, raised his glass:
"have a drink?"

"No more, Uncle Yang, you guys drink. Are the dishes enough? Do you want me to get two more?"

"No, no, the dried meat you brought back is really good." Yang Jukui waved his hand, "The dried fish is also good, Lao Luo is living a good life."

"Then take some of this dried meat with you when you leave. There isn't much, so take two pieces to try."

"Is there any for me?" the other one turned his head and asked with a smile.

"Yes, all of them."

This man is called Ma Fengshan. Unlike the other two, he is a local household. He was married before and worked as a long-term laborer for the former landlord. The landlord ran away and his wife died, so he finally became a five-guarantee household.

In his previous life, Li Long was not so polite to Yang Jukui. In his eyes, he was just an old man without children, with a strange temper and a unique personality.

I vaguely heard Li Jianguo say that this person had worked on the covert front after the liberation of southern and northern Xinjiang. In the words of the time, he was a "spy" hidden by the Communist Party here. His salary was not low, and it was said that his salary was higher than that of some leaders in the village. The higher-ups also hoped that he could live in a nursing home, but he said that he was in good health and would not go.

In his previous life, Li Long was jealous of this person, but later, after watching the things posted on the short video platform, in this life, Li Long has full respect for these old revolutionaries.

What's the big deal about eating two pieces of meat? Without them, let alone eating meat, even if you want to eat bran, you probably have to look at other people's eyes!

It’s just that old man Yang Jukui passed away early. It was said that he had hidden injuries in his body - they were not visible at ordinary times, and once they broke out, there was no way to save him.

"Xiaolong is a good young man." Lao Luo said with a smile, "I have everything his family eats, and I also have a salary - Lao Yang, you said your salary is high, I don't envy you, you paid for it with your life, and it's good for me to have a salary."

"Well, Xiaolong is kind and righteous." After Li Long left, Yang Jukui nodded, "You have gained a lot of weight, so you are living a better life than before."

"Of course. But I can't rest. I'm destined to be a hard worker." When saying this, Lao Luo seemed to be complaining, but in fact the other two could see that he was showing off.

The next day, Li Long, Tao Daqiang and others continued to cast nets to catch fish.

"Brother Long, can we bring two more nets?" Tao Daqiang asked as he took the net. "I see the water isn't deep near the trough in Dahaizi. I'll go in and try to see if I can catch any fish."

"Okay." Li Long naturally had no objection. He couldn't always let Tao Daqiang help him, so he had to let go when it was time.

You can walk to lower the net, no need for a carriage, it's troublesome. Li Long still paddled the tire to the trough to lower the net, Tao Daqiang took off his pants, held the net and slowly waded through the water, and when the water was waist-deep, he began to lower the net.

There are no aquatic plants in the water, so there are no insects like duck turtles, so Tao Daqiang is not afraid.

The water was not very light, and because of the large surface area, there were ripples. He found a suitable place and cast two nets.

As soon as he lowered the net, he saw some small whitebait stuck to it - Tao Daqiang was very happy, there should be a lot of fish tomorrow, right?

The next morning, two people hitched a horse-drawn cart, pulling tires and bags to the sea. Li Long went to get the ten nets he had put in the trough, and Tao Daqiang went directly to get his two nets.

When Li Long brought back the four nets and two bags of fish, he saw Tao Daqiang standing on the shore with his head lowered, so he asked:
"Daqiang, how's it going?"

"Brother Long, they are all white stripes, all dead, some are headless, half of their bodies are missing..."

Li Long watched Tao Daqiang spread the net. It was not entirely filled with whitebait. There were also some crucian carps hanging underneath, struggling hard.

There are a lot of white stripes, most of which are hanging on the upper holes of the net, and about one-third of them are missing body components.

"There are so many whitebait here - those must have been taken away by ospreys. Just think about it, whitebait will die once they are caught in the net, and they will float on the surface, so ospreys will definitely take them away when they see them."

At this time, it is the ospreys. After 30 or 40 years, it will be the crabs that will directly climb onto the web to eat the fish caught on it - most of them will directly eat the fish heads or fish eyes. Those crabs are real foodies, and many of them get themselves entangled in the web while eating other fish and cannot get out.

"Take it back and feed it to the chickens." Li Long said, "We can't eat these white stripes anymore."

Actually, it’s edible, but I just don’t like it.

Tao Daqiang knew that this was the only way, so he took the bag from Li Long and started to select the fish.

After catching all ten nets, Li Long was basically certain that big fish like to stay in the troughs, but the fish density in this large lake should not be as good as that in the small lake. He just found the fish habitat.

Back at Li's house, he quickly selected the fish and went to sell them while Tao Daqiang started to process the nets.

A few days later, the team processed the sunflowers and corn and began to divide the land.

"Xiaolong, are you going?" Li Jianguo asked.

"No." Li Long waved his hand, "Brother, you decide on this matter."

"Ah."

Everyone knows that if each person gets three mu of food-producing land, the Li family will suddenly have 25 mu of land. Add five mu of fodder land, and it will suddenly be 30 mu of land, making them a real landlord.

These days, apart from sowing and plowing, everything else is done manually, and farming 30 acres of land is quite tiring.

"I've thought about it, Xiaolong. We don't have to pay for digging beets then," Li Jianguo said. "Go see if you can find anything in the mountains. If you do, bring it back and ask the young people to cook the meat and eat the bones. They will definitely be happy."

"That's fine." Li Long thought about it and realized that people were short of money now. They were reluctant to spend money, and it would easily make the relationship awkward. If he invited everyone to eat meat and asked them to help with the work, they would definitely be very happy.

The land was divided by drawing lots again. This time, the land was the one behind the village, adjacent to the big lake. Li Jianguo was very lucky and got the land at the far west. Further west was wasteland, and west of the wasteland was the reed ditch, which extended all the way from the small lake.

This land can be expanded outward again.

The next day after the land was divided, Li Long went to sell fish and did not return to the team. He packed up his bicycle, bought some supplies, mainly food, and then went up the mountain with his gun on his back.

When Li Long arrived at Halimu's winter home, he found that Halimu was not there, so he put down his things and rode his bike to the wooden house.

The door was fine, but the plastic on the window had been torn off and had been re-rolled. Li Long thought, could it be that a thief had broken in?
He opened the door and went in, finding several bottles of honey on the wooden floor of the small room.

Li Long understood immediately. It must have been Lu Dafeng who released it - he should have left the mountains and moved to another place at this time of year, right?

Before leaving, he remembered to leave some honey for himself. He is a grateful person.

Li Long put the honey and bicycle away, took his gun and went out to the hot spring.

The grass in the mountains has turned yellow. The leaves of the easily recognizable Codonopsis pilosula have almost all fallen off, leaving only a bare stalk on the plant.

Li Long felt that it was time to dig Codonopsis pilosula, otherwise it would be difficult to find it in a month.

The leaves of the broadleaf trees are mostly falling, and the colors are either golden or purple, which looks very beautiful. The amount of hot spring water is slightly smaller than the last time I came, but I think I can still soak in those pools.

Li Long walked upstream along the stream and came to the hot spring pool. He found that there were no animals here. The water in the pool was very clear and still emitted a faint smell of sulfur.

There was no feces to be seen near the pond, and I didn't know if these animals hadn't been here for a while.

Since there were no animals, Li Long took off his clothes, folded them, put the gun next to his clothes, and soaked himself in the water.

so comfortable!
But where can I hunt wild boars?

Wild boars probably wouldn't come back to places where they had been hunted before, but Li Long knew he couldn't just look for them blindly. He planned to come back tomorrow morning to check. If he didn't find any, he would go to places where wild boars had been before.

After all, there are foods that wild boars like to eat in those places, so we should be able to find them, right?

After soaking for about half an hour, Li Long got up, put on his clothes, and walked back with his gun on his back.

Occasionally, he would see wild rabbits running into the woods, but Li Long had no interest in hunting them. It was difficult to chase them, and using a 500mm or 600mm rifle to shoot them was a bit exaggerated.

When he returned to the cabin, it was already dark. Li Long was too lazy to cook properly, so he steamed some of the dried meat he had saved and ate it slowly.

He planned to go to bed early, but before he could rest, the sound of horse hooves was heard outside.

Li Long guessed that it should be Halimu who came.

(End of this chapter)