Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

There is a light mist in the sky above the hot spring valley. The further you go in, the thicker the mist becomes, just like entering a fairyland.

But at this moment, Li Long had no time to appreciate the scenery which seemed to have the atmosphere of immortal heroes in later generations. He hated the fog a little bit, because because of the fog, his vision was only about ten meters ahead, and he could not see anything beyond this distance.

Li Long simply went up the hillside and entered the pine forest.

Sure enough, the fog in this pine forest was lighter, so you could see farther.

However, the pine trees in this area are relatively sparse, so the snow under the trees is quite thick. With every step I took, the snow sunk to my knees, and it was very difficult to pull up my legs and move forward.

Hunting is not as easy and simple as you imagine.

If you want to get something, you have to pay for it, and what you pay for is not necessarily proportional to what you get. Although it is unfair, that's how the world is and there's nothing you can do about it.

When walking in the pine forest, your steps on the snow will make a crisp sound. Although the sound is quieter than walking by the stream in the valley, it can also easily alert the animals.

Li Long tried to be as careful as possible, and the closer he got to the hot spring pool, the more vigilant his steps became.

When he was about thirty or forty meters away from the hot spring pool, he heard a humming sound, and more than one!
Wild boar!

A group of wild boars!
Li Long became excited. He finally encountered a group of decent prey. He suppressed the idea of ​​rushing out and continued to move forward in the pine forest, intending to get closer and shoot when he saw wild boars in the pine forest.

If you can hit one end, that’s good; if you can hit both ends, that’s even better!
As he walked, Li Long opened the safety of his rifle and tried hard to see the situation ahead through the gaps between the trees.

Unfortunately, the pine forest became so dense that I couldn't see the situation over there at all.

When he took a few steps forward, suddenly a wild boar roared loudly, and then he heard the wild boars running wildly, and the ground was still shaking. Li Long cried out inwardly that something was wrong and rushed to the bottom of the valley!

I don’t know if it was me or something else that caused the wild boar riot, but all the wild boars ran away!
When Li Long rushed down to the bottom of the valley, he found that the fog was thicker. For some reason, the water level of the hot spring seemed to have risen a little, and the temperature also increased a little. He vaguely saw the shadow of a wild boar fleeing in the fog dozens of meters ahead. It was too late to take a closer look, so Li Long raised his gun and shot!

"Bang bang bang bang!"

After four bullets were fired, Li Long heard the wild boar scream. He quickly chased after it. When he rushed to the hot spring pool, he found that the hot spring pool had become turbid, with snow and mud scattered everywhere. There were a few drops of blood in the snow where the wild boar was seen just now, and some blood was fainted in the water, but there was no wild boar.

He was hit and injured, but not killed.

Li Long hurriedly chased in the direction of the wild boars with his gun. The wild boars climbed up the hillside diagonally and ran into the pine forest.

Li Long had never entered this area before. Every time he hunted here before, he would ambush and leave with the prey. He never had to enter the woods.

But this time, due to the fog and other reasons, I was injured and failed to succeed, so I had to chase!
After Li Long entered the pine forest, he saw that the snow was trampled into a mess by wild boars, with hoof prints everywhere, both fresh and old.

There were faint drops of red blood in the snow mud. When the wild boar was running, the blood was dripping from its wounds, which just gave Li Long guidance.

Li Long followed the wild boar's hoof prints and bloodstains along the hillside. When he chased for about five or six hundred meters, the pine forest became sparse and the mountain became steeper. The wild boar's hoof prints turned into running sideways. Li Long ran breathlessly for another few dozen meters and finally got out of the pine forest. The altitude here was much higher than that of the hot spring pool.

A bare rocky mountain stood in front of the left, with a slightly gentler slope below. The wild boar ran over here.

And below this slope is where the hot spring water comes out.

At this height, the fog has disappeared. Looking down, you can see the valley below filled with fog.

Looking further ahead, the herd of wild boars had already run five or six hundred meters away. Li Long raised his gun and wanted to aim, but finally put it down.

At such a distance, shooting with a gun is basically a waste of bullets, apart from being a gamble on your luck.

The mountain road ahead was even steeper, so Li Long continued to chase forward, partly hoping to see if the injured wild boar would stop due to blood loss, and partly hoping to get back to the wooden house from here.

He couldn't run anymore, but he saw the wild boar in front of him running farther and farther away, and always on the hillside. The wild boar in front had already run into a bush nearly one kilometer away from here, and the one behind was also approaching.

Just when Li Long was about to give up, he suddenly saw a wild boar falling down the hillside!
He was overjoyed and quickly chased after him!
I guess my bet was right. The injured wild boar must have had difficulty moving and could not keep its body on the steep slope, so it fell down.

The wild boar that rolled down screamed miserably in the valley below, but the other wild boars turned a deaf ear to it and soon disappeared into the bushes and woods.

After running two or three hundred meters, Li Long had to slow down - there were many rocks here, and it was very steep. The snow was slippery, so he had to be careful, otherwise he would fall down.

After some effort, they arrived at the wild boar, and found that the unfortunate creature had a broken left front leg, with white bone fragments exposed, and a piece of wood stuck in its abdomen - it was obvious that it was pierced by the dead tree when it fell.

There was a large pool of blood under the wild boar. It was not dead yet, but it would not live much longer.

Li Long raised his gun and shot the wild boar in the head, thus sparing it the pain. The wild boar was dead, and Li Long took a good rest. His own work had just begun.

In the past, when we shot a wild boar, we usually took it back and killed it. This wild boar was not very big, about 50 or 60 kilograms, and the meat should be tender, but Li Long did not plan to take it back.

After running for such a long time and at a relatively high altitude, he felt himself out of breath, so he thought about skinning the wild boar on the spot, removing some of the internal organs and leaving them here, and then going back.

After looking around and finding no danger, Li Long placed his gun on a rock, pulled out the knife he carried with him, and dragged the wild boar out from the wood to a relatively flat place. He cut open the boar's stomach, took out the internal organs and put them aside, then began to skin it.

The wild boar is still soft now, so it is easier to handle. If we drag it to the cabin, it will take at least one or two hours, and by then it will be frozen and hard to handle.

Li Long is now considered an old hunter - at least among the people he knows, he hunts or catches the most prey. It is possible that Yushanjiang may not have caught more prey than him. After all, Yushanjiang is not a full-time hunter, he only uses a gun to protect his cattle and sheep.

The wild boar's skin was relatively easy to peel. After he finished peeling the skin, the meat on the wild boar's legs had already started to freeze.

Among the internal organs, the stomach must be kept. As for the rest, Li Long kept the liver and heart, and discarded the rest.

I poked a hole in the stomach and squeezed out the undigested food on the snow next to it. It was impossible to clean it up here, so after a simple treatment, I put the internal organs back into the wild boar's stomach.

At this time, the wild boar's body had become stiff. Li Long wrapped it with plastic cloth, tied it with a rope, put the gun on his back, then picked up the wild boar, held it under his armpit, and walked down the mountain.

The main reason is that there are a lot of rocks here, and he is worried that if he drags it, the plastic sheet will be scratched, and it will be difficult to use later.

Anyway, after skinning and throwing away some of the contents in the stomach, the remaining part of the wild boar weighed less than 40 kilograms. With Li Long's current strength, it was not too difficult for him to carry it around.

After going down the mountain, Li Long walked towards the wooden house according to the direction he remembered.

There is a wild boar under his left armpit and a rifle hanging on his right shoulder with the muzzle pointing downward. If the situation arises, he can throw the wild boar away at any time and shoot at the target with the gun in both hands.

Half an hour after he walked away, a black and white animal came out from the crevice of the rock where there was a pile of abandoned wild boar viscera. It looked vigilantly in the direction where Li Long had left. When it found no movement, it slowly came to the viscera, smelled them, and began to eat them in big mouthfuls.

It ate less than half of the pile of internal organs, then dragged the rest into the crevice of the rock.

The black and white colors have a natural camouflage effect in this environment. After entering the crevice, this guy disappeared as if he had never appeared.

Li Long took two breaks in the middle. After returning to the wooden house with the wild boar, he put the wild boar down and went to check the trap first.

Li Long was a little disappointed to see the traps had not been touched, but then he felt that he was a little too impatient. If he could get something immediately after setting the traps for half a day, then the wild animals in the mountains would be overrun.

Opening the door of the big room, Li Long carried the wild boar in, untied the rope and spread out the plastic sheet.

The fire in the stove was almost burnt out, so Li Long took some charcoal and added it in. He also used a fire hook to get the charcoal ash down. The fire slowly burned up. He let the wild boar burn here, while he opened the wild boar's belly, took out the stomach, and started to wash it in the spring.

Even when cleaning, Li Long did not relax his vigilance. He put the boning knife aside so that he could use it at any time.

However, there were no wolves around, so his vigilance and arrangements were in vain.

After washing the wild boar's belly, Li Long's hands were red from the cold. He picked up the thing and put it on the shelf in the small room. When he returned to the big room, the wild boar's meat had thawed a little, so he began to cut the meat.

As usual, the legs and tenderloins are removed. Wild boars are relatively lean, and the belly is called streaky, but in fact it is only three layers, which are cut off and placed aside separately. The remaining ribs and spine are broken down into pieces and piled up by category.

There were more harvests on the wooden shelves in the small room.

After cleaning the wild boar meat, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief. It was already mid-afternoon. Although he was a little too lazy to cook, he was already hungry enough.

He took a steamed bun and threw it under the stove to roast, then brought the pot over. There were not many pickles left, so he simply filled a pot with water and planned to boil some more bones to chew on.

Wild boar meat tastes better than wolf meat, especially since this wild boar is still half grown, so it should taste good. I took a few pieces of spine and threw them into the pot to cook.

Soon, the steamed buns under the stove were roasted until they were golden brown. Li Long took them out, shook off the charcoal ash on them, and put them on the table to cool. Then he went to the small room to find some dried chilies and soaked them in mixed water, planning to stir-fry some pork offal in the evening.

When the bun was not too hot, Li Long cracked it open and slowly ate it. While eating, he looked out and saw that the wolf head was still in the same place, without any changes.

There were no animals visible in the distance, but Li Long felt that there must be one or two or three wolves somewhere watching him.

Then let’s compete in patience and see who can outlast the other in the end! (End of this chapter)