Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"Actually, when I first came here, I had already worked as a quartermaster in the Corps. If my father hadn't sent me telegrams again and again to ask me to go back, I would have been a Corps cadre by now." Li Jianguo said in the yard as he and Li Long were packing meat.

"Why did Dad ask you to go back?"

"Because your second brother and you are both young, he is the only one in the family, without a pillar, he can't support the family." Li Jianguo sighed, "My hometown is different from here, just like what happened today, it's more powerful when you have more brothers..."

Although Li Qingxia is of a higher seniority, in this age where if you eat one more bite, others may go hungry for half a day, seniority may not be useful.

So Li Qingxia asked Li Jianguo to come back so that he could set up his own business.

Li Long could understand, but he didn't agree. But there was no way to say who was right or wrong in this matter, because Li Jianguo was the eldest son.

"Less than a year after I went back, I knew I would be useless if I stayed any longer. I couldn't help my family and would be trapped there to death, so I came to Northern Xinjiang again.

When I arrived in the northern border, I didn’t want to go to the Corps anymore. I couldn’t stand the constraints, so I stayed in the county. Because I had some education, I was assigned to the planning team…”

"Planning team?" Li Long heard a new word and was a little curious.

"Yeah. At that time, there were no communes or villages like now. There were wastelands everywhere, and even if there were residents, they were scattered here and there. For example, in our team, there were only four or five families. Half a kilometer west of Dongdagou, there was one family at Hongliu Beach, one family in Dongzhuangzi, two families here, and two families in the west. At that time, if we called people to a meeting, we had to ride horses and carry guns to prevent wolves, and the road was long."

Li Long nodded thoughtfully. The family on the east side was gone, but the dilapidated house and the land were still there, with ruins, and it could be seen that someone had lived there.

"The planning team's task was to calculate the acreage of farmland in various places and the wasteland that could be reclaimed at that time, and then divide it into various communes, brigades and teams. Blind Liu was in the south at that time, and there was no village division at that time. He had received the kindness of Juan's grandfather, this bastard..."

Li Long nodded, it was indeed a coward.

"Who among those who came over from the team hasn't received kindness from Juan's grandfather? Each and every one of them...sigh."

Li Jianguo didn't continue.

"After the planning team completed its mission, I joined the well-drilling team and dug wells for people everywhere. Then I met Lao Gu, and I didn't want to run around anymore. My ancestors were all farmers, and there is a lot of land and good water here, so I thought about staying here.

When I was in the collective, I worked in the canteen... but then I gave up. I also worked in the state-owned fishery, but I came back. It’s not that I don’t want to do it, but I can’t do it.”

"Why can't I do it?" Li Long was still confused. "How much does the fishery pay you a month?"

"Fifty."

"Fifty? So high?" Li Long was a little unconvinced.

"Hehe, you never expected that, did you? At that time, the manager said that I could only give you fifty at most, because my salary as a manager is only fifty. I don't have the right to decide if it's higher. The main thing is that I can fish, manage the fishery, cook for others, and keep accounts... but fifty is not enough."

"Why isn't it enough?"

"Your sister-in-law is taking care of two kids, so that doesn't cost a lot? Plus you... Dad sent you here, and you were too young to help. I have to work at the fishery. The salary looks a bit high, but how much will be left after buying food and oil?..."

Li Long nodded silently. This was the truth. Money in the northern Xinjiang was not as valuable as in the inland areas. There were fewer people, so things were more expensive. On the contrary, farmers had an easier time at this stage. As long as they were willing to work hard, at least they would have enough to eat.

Li Long talked about these things with Li Jianguo when he delivered the meat to the Liang family and then rode his bike to the compound to deliver the remaining meat back to the Li family.

At this time, the Liang family's affairs had been resolved.

"Blind Liu did it on purpose." Li Jianguo now understood. "The Ma brothers are also troublesome in his village. He is not like the soldiers in our team. He can't control them. What should we do? We have to find someone who can deal with them. It's also the fault of the Ma brothers who are blind and have offended Juan's grandfather..."

Li Long thought to himself, isn't this just using his brothers as guns?

But it doesn't matter. No matter what plan you make at this time, the most important thing is to solve the problem. If you have to be a turtle and not show your face, how can the Liang family live in the village?
"Brother, what should we do if the Ma brothers come looking for Wen Yu and the others again?" Li Long was still a little worried.

"What should we do?" Li Jianguo sneered, "I just told Liu Xiazi that if there is any trouble in Juan's maternal grandfather's family, I will blame the Ma brothers! We usually don't say anything because we don't want to cause any trouble. If they really dare to have any bad intentions, I will tear down his house!"

"That……"

"Then don't worry. Juan's grandfather kept silent, but that doesn't mean she has no status. He joined the revolution in the 1930s and later returned home for some special reasons, but that doesn't mean he has no status. He just doesn't want to mention it... No one in his team knows about it, so that's why he's like this. When I left, I gave Liu the blind man a hint, and he should understand."

Damn, it turns out they are all hidden bosses!
Li Long felt relieved, but then he thought about it and decided to go over and take a look when he had time.

"You did the right thing today. Come to us early, otherwise this matter would be troublesome." Li Jianguo rarely praised Li Long.

"The main reason was that I didn't have a gun with me, and they were brothers, otherwise..."

"Be careful next time. The gun is tightly locked, so we can't just take it out easily. We can't give others a chance to talk about us."

"Okay. Then I'll go talk to the young men in the team, and we'll do it tomorrow...Brother, I have to go back to the mountains tonight. There's a fawn and some offal in the mountains..."

"Then go ahead and I'll take care of calling people. There's nothing to do in the team right now. The boys are all playing table tennis on the cement platform in front of the preschool."

"Concrete table? A table tennis table?" Li Long was a little surprised. How come he didn't remember it? "What? No. It was the cement board that the transport troops used to build the bridge. The long ones, one board was left unused, so they prepared extra ones. Now that the bridge is built, the board is useless, so the young people dug a pit on both sides, used the wooden boards they cut themselves as paddles, and placed bricks in the middle to play table tennis."

Li Long smiled. He remembered that he had participated in this activity in his previous life. The main reason was that there were too few cultural and entertainment activities in the village. A group of people would gather around to play table tennis.

Li Long rode his bicycle out of the village and went to the big yard to get his gun. Before Gu Xiaoxia came back, he went straight to the mountains.

When they arrived at the cabin, it was still light and Li Long began to deal with the little wild boar.

During this time, the hungry deer was released to eat some grass and drink some water.

What surprised Li Long was that the little deer seemed to be in good spirits and didn't seem so unfamiliar with him anymore.

Because I was in a very good mood, I skinned the meat very quickly. After that, I rubbed salt on the meat and started to turn over the intestines.

I was so skilled at this job that I could continue even after dark under the dim moonlight. I finished it quickly and started to boil water by burning firewood.

As he worked, he thought and realized that his eldest brother was also a legendary figure.

Think about it, at that time, when my eldest brother first went to the northern border, he was only a teenager, only a few years older than when my father sent him to Xinjiang. He was able to make it here by himself and even became the quartermaster in the Corps. How could it be easy?

This experience alone is enough to become a legend.

It’s just that I rarely heard my brother talk about these things before, so I’m not sure about it.

After finishing the work, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the wooden floor, watching the firewood burning. Occasionally, a ball of fire would burst out, flash, and then continue.

The two pots are full of water and intestines, so there is no way I can go to bed early tonight.

The smell of foul air drifted far away, and before the moon rose to halfway in the sky, the howling of wolves could be heard in the distance.

The little deer, which had been eating grass obediently, was suddenly frightened and panicked, and tried desperately to move towards the wooden house. Li Long simply led it back to the small room and locked the door.

Perhaps this small room could give it some security.

The food had been boiling for a long time. Li Long took chopsticks and poked it. Seeing that it was cooked through, he removed the firewood from under the pot. After the food became warm, he took it out and placed it on a wooden table that had been washed with water.

In the distance, there was the silhouette of a wolf probing back and forth at the edge of the pine forest. Li Long picked up the gun on the table and fired a few shots at that direction.

The wolf was so scared that it ran straight into the woods.

When you’ve had enough, and don’t want to clean up the rest, just scare them away.

Otherwise, Li Long would have to get a few pieces into the water and put them here as bait for an ambush.

The aroma was so fragrant that Li Long took out his knife and cut a piece of the belly. It tasted really good.

He brought these things into the house, then poured the soup in the pot into the stream to clean it, otherwise the cast iron pot would probably not be safe by tomorrow morning.

After all, the panda was said to be an iron-eating beast because it licked the salt off the pot. The soup is so delicious, who knows what will come to try it in the middle of the night. If a bear really comes, it will be quite troublesome.

Although Li Long also wanted to get a bear gall, that thing was really dangerous. If he couldn't kill the bear with one shot, the bear might just hit him.

After cleaning up the outside, Li Long went into the house, locked the door, and lay down on the bed to rest.

This was a very exciting day. I hunted in the morning, killed people in the afternoon, and almost killed a wolf in the evening... Oh, it was really wonderful.

The next day, Li Long slept until dawn.

After getting up, he opened the door with his gun in hand. It was indeed a bit chaotic outside. There were many claw and hoof prints when pouring the soup, and there were also traces of arching at the spring. Was there an animal crossing the border that night?

But now they have all disappeared.

He cut off some of the offal and ate it casually, then led the fawn out, tied up its hooves and placed it on the back of his bicycle.

As for the wild boar's meat and internal organs, he wrapped them in gauze, put them in two bags, and tied them on both sides of the bicycle handlebars. He put his gun on his back and rode his bicycle down the mountain.

When he arrived at the compound, he first put the deer down to exercise a little to prevent blood circulation and weakening of its legs. Then he left a bag of cooked offal for the kitchen and continued riding towards the team.

After finishing the work, you have to ask the team for housing land.

Whether to build a house or not is another matter, the homestead must be determined first.

PS: Thanks to the book friend Youqin's Thoughts for giving Li Long 500 coins. Thanks to the book friends Chunhe and Historical Records for their rewards. Qidian has launched a free promotion today, which is equivalent to a limited free sign-in. It is mainly to use the summer advertising promotion. Some book friends who have already subscribed feel that they have lost out. Of course, you can also use this chapter card to subscribe to other books. For example, the whole mountain is my hunting ground, which is the leader in hunting articles. Lao Li writes very well, and I am reading it too. (End of this chapter)