Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long opened the door with a gun in hand, and it was indeed Halimu.

Halimu did not enter the house. He dismounted, took two pieces of leather from the horse's back and handed them to Li Long:

"Sell it and save it. When our sheep come back from the summer pasture, we'll buy big bags of salt."

Li Long didn't make a fuss and put the skin away. Herders usually need a lot of salt. They rely on it to tan leather, pickle food, and feed livestock.

These two skins, one is wolf skin and the other is roe deer skin. The leather is still fresh and should be the recent hunt of Harimu.

"I came here a while ago," Halimu said as he and Li Long sat on the wooden floor. "I saw a man tearing off the plastic on your window, so I came over to beat him up. I thought he was a thief. I didn't expect he was here to bring you honey."

Li Long looked at Halimu.

I don't know if Halim blushed or not, it was dark and I couldn't see clearly, but he felt a little embarrassed, so he continued:
"It's okay, there weren't many punches."

Li Long wanted to laugh, but when he thought of Lu Dafeng, he didn't laugh.

"It's not all my fault. I had to come here so early in the morning to deliver the honey before daybreak..." Halimu explained again.

"How's your grass beating going?" Li Long didn't want to continue this topic. He was afraid that he would not be able to hold back his laughter.

"Well, the grass is almost finished, and the dry ones are already being bundled." Halimu answered quickly, "I knew you were coming when I saw those things. Let me tell you something."

"You said."

"Give me some bullets."

"How many do you want?" Li Long stood up and looked through his bag. He always kept 50 to 100 rounds of ammunition in his bag - now he still had more than 70 rounds.

"Thirty rounds will be enough," Halim said. "A pack of wolves came to our pasture. I shot one, and the remaining four or five hid. I can see them occasionally, so I have to shoot them down. Otherwise, they will bite us when the cattle and sheep come back."

"Then I'll go with you." Li Long gave Halim two packs of fifty bullets.

"No, you don't have to go." Halim waved his hand. "I don't know when the wolf will come out. I have to wait. It may take three days or a week. You don't need to go. Just focus on your own things."

"Okay." Since Halimu said so, Li Long didn't force him anymore and asked him again, "When did you guys move here?"

"In half a month, the grass here will be harvested. After it is harvested and dried, we will pile the grass in the winter camp and then go to the summer pasture in the mountains. It will be snowing in the mountains in about half a month, and then we will come back."

Li Long calculated that it should be in early November.

"Okay, I'll bring the salt over then." There was no work on the fields at that time, and Li Long thought it would be a good opportunity to bring the salt and other daily necessities, and then bring a few carts of manure back.

Halimu took the bullets, loaded them and mounted his horse.

Just as Li Long was about to see him off, Halimu suddenly said on horseback:
"I forgot to tell you something. The beekeeper said that a group of wild boars came to the ditch where he kept his bees. If you want to kill them, you can go and kill them."

Li Long smiled. This was the information he wanted.

After Halimu left, Li Long immediately returned to the house, locked the door and went to sleep.

Tomorrow morning, we will go to the place mentioned by Lu Dafeng. If there are wild boars, we will kill them directly. If not, we will go to the hot springs.

Li Long believed that these wild animals would not give up the hot springs. It was just that for some reason, they were not sure when to come or would not go for a short time.

The next day, Li Long got up before dawn, rubbed his face, put on his coat, and went out with his gun.

You can ride a bicycle from the wooden house to where Lu Dafeng is. Li Long rode the bicycle and headed there in the dim light. When he was almost there, he got off the bicycle, put it aside, and started to cross the mountain on foot with his gun.

There was wind in the mountains, and the grass was yellow. When Li Long waded through the knee-high grass, grasshoppers would be startled and fly away, but they couldn't jump far - there was still dew at that time. There were quite a lot of grasshoppers, and Li Long thought that it would be nice to raise a group of chickens in the mountains. With grasshoppers to eat, the chicken would definitely be good.

Of course, it's unlikely. There are too many natural enemies of chickens in the mountains, such as foxes, weasels, wolves...all of which can eat chickens, unless they are put in a pen...that's too far-fetched.

When he reached the top of the mountain, he scanned the area and found the place where Lu Dafeng had set up his tent. He scanned around half a circle again and did not find any wild boars.

As the daylight got a little brighter, Li Long originally wanted to set up an ambush, but when he saw that there seemed to be traces near the tent, he simply walked down.

When we got there, we found that there were traces of digging here - the wild boar had left.

The traces of digging in this area are very large, which is equivalent to covering the original area of ​​the tent, including the area of ​​the beehive. There are both old and new traces. Li Long guessed that wild boars must have followed the smell of humans and dug up garbage here to eat.

There are also news reports of bears rummaging through garbage cans in Canada and North America. It seems that human household waste is attractive to these animals.

Li Long sighed, turned and left.

If you can't find anything in the hot spring, come back tomorrow, and come earlier. There are a lot of traces in this area, and the hoof prints are very complicated. Li Long guessed that there must be a lot of wild boars.

Li Long rode his bicycle to a ravine next to the hot spring ravine and hid the bicycle in the grass. It was already quite bright at this time, and according to usual practice, people should have been getting up and preparing to cast their nets.

He walked towards the hot spring ditch with a gun in hand, wondering if there were also "air forces" here.

Li Long didn't go home yesterday afternoon, so Li Jianguo took the net and went to Xiaohaizi with Tao Daqiang.

They planned to cast a few nets in the small lake. There was not much farm work in the team during this period, and Li Jianguo planned to sell fish when he had nothing to do. He also had an idea, to see if he could earn a few more days to buy a black-and-white TV.

In the past, when Li Long made money by selling fish, Li Jianguo didn’t think much about it. The money was not his, so he didn’t think too much about it.

Only when I sold fish myself and earned dozens of dollars a day, did the feeling become real.

It turns out that you can really make money this way - the county collects management fees for the free market, and Li Jianguo is happy to pay it.

What does this prove? It proves that the country allows this! He still keeps all the tickets!
Although it is a bit embarrassing, after all, I am the elder brother and Li Long is the younger brother. It is a bit difficult to follow my younger brother's pace to make money, but when I think about it, my father doesn't say much, so what can I say?
There are still three or five people casting nets around the small lake. Now there are more people catching fish. They couldn't take care of it during the busy farming season, but now that it's slack, some smart people can't sit still and have to find ways to make money.

The main reason was that Li Long led the team to do two jobs, which made them realize that as long as they work hard and find the right method, making money is not difficult.

Since others can make money, so can I. Previously, the competition had driven the fish prices into a mess, but now everyone has come to understand that in the future, we should not use so many shady tricks when selling fish.

So more fish were caught in the small lake. It was because the big lake was far away that only Li Long and his family fished there. In everyone's mind, the small lake belonged to the village, and if the net was lost, it could be found. The big lake was so big, surrounded by several villages, that if the net was lost, it would be hard to find it.

Li Jianguo watched Tao Daqiang sitting on the tire to lower the net and felt that the speed was rather slow.

But there's no way around it, Li Long's "mouth" method of casting the net is really not something that an ordinary person can learn in half a minute.

When Li Long arrived at Wenquangou in the morning, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang had already started to retrieve the nets in the small lake. They only had six nets, so the catch was obviously not as much as in the big lake, but the fish were beautiful and it was a pleasure to look at them.

It is darker inside the hot spring valley than outside. There are more coniferous forests than broad-leaved forests on the mountains on both sides, which block the light.

Li Long walked quickly. He was a little anxious and also worried that he wouldn't gain anything from the hot spring, which would be a bit troublesome.

In the past, I rarely came back empty-handed when hunting, at most two trips. Is today the third trip?

Thinking this in his mind, when he was almost at the pool, he didn't hear any loud splashes, and Li Long's heart sank.

But he was still not careless. He went diagonally up from the ditch into the woods and then came to the familiar ambush position.

From here you can see the locations of four or five pools below through the trees.

When Li Long squatted down to observe, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there were two deer, one big and one small.

The big deer was in the pond, and the little deer was jumping and playing with the water on the side. It was slightly larger than a goat, with thin legs and was very flexible.

Li Long aimed at the big deer, then turned to the small deer.

When the silhouette of the little deer overlapped with the big deer, Li Long suddenly had a bold idea: Could he kill both of them with one shot?
If the position is right, there should be no problem. After all, I have hunted several times before, and these five or six bullets have passed through the prey's body. Now at such a close distance, even if it passes through the body of the fawn and hits the big deer, it should be lethal, right?
Li Long planned to test this idea, so he waited patiently.

The big deer occasionally called out from the pond, and the little deer sometimes listened and sometimes didn't. It jumped around and played, and occasionally stretched out its mouth to taste the water and then spit it out.

Finally, Li Long waited until the little deer jumped in front of the big deer, but the big deer's body was in the water and its position was not ideal.

Li Long hesitated for a moment and did not pull the trigger. He felt that he needed to wait a little longer.

I don't know if the big deer discovered something or just had enough of soaking, so it stood up from the pond with half its body above the water. When the little deer saw the big deer moving, it immediately ran over and licked the big deer's wet fur. At this time, the bodies of the two deer were almost overlapping.

"Bang! Bang!"

Li Long fired two shots in succession. The first shot went through the small deer's hind legs and then made a bloody hole in the big deer's belly. The second shot made the small deer fall down. The big deer rushed out of the pond with injuries. Li Long shot it in the neck. The big deer half-lying over the edge of the pond and fell down.

Li Long quickly stood up and ran down with his gun in hand. At this time, the gunshots were still echoing in the valley.

The fawn was not dead and was struggling in the water. Li Long ignored it and directly pulled the big deer out of the water. The fawn had already run out of the stream, and then Li Long ran over and grabbed it by its four hooves and held it in his hands.

Whether you can survive depends on fate.

I don't know when, the sunlight came in. (End of this chapter)