Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

With a week to prepare, Li Long was not in a hurry. After lunch, he sent Gu Xiaoxia to work, and after returning to the big yard, Li Long continued to clean up.

The snow in the front yard was basically cleared, and he didn't plan to do much in the backyard. He just cleared a few paths. It would be useless to clear more. Then he pushed the cart to the market and bought some coal, potatoes and other supplies to prepare the supplies for the big yard. At least if he was away for a while, Gu Xiaoxia would have supplies in the big yard.

After all, I have lunch at Yang Xiulan's house, and I basically take care of myself in the morning and evening.

The small-caliber rifle was also left to Gu Xiaoxia. In fact, it was quite safe here, after all, the police station was right next to it. It was mainly for protection. Gu Xiaoxia was also a female militia soldier, and she was not bad at shooting. Just like what some Zhihu jokes said, a few years ago, female militia soldiers could process and share their guns after they were finished. Who wouldn't want to? Isn't this much better than harvesting wheat in the fields?

He spent the whole day cleaning up the yard, repairing what needed to be repaired and buying what needed to be bought, especially some canned food, noodles and other supplies, which he bought directly from the department store. He still had some honey at home, so Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some more.

Originally I thought Gu Xiaoxia was a teacher and her voice was strained, but I didn't expect that she was transferred to the Education Bureau now. But this thing has only benefits when you drink it, so Li Long prepared some more.

After all, as long as it is properly stored, this thing will not go bad.

After breakfast the next day, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. Li Long said goodbye to her and returned to the team.

He still carried the gun on his back, after all, this was the guy who made a living.

On the way back, Li Long found that there were more people than before. In previous years, there were basically no people on the road at this time. After all, each household did not get much food at the end of the year, and the more activities one does in winter, the more food one consumes. So one of the important reasons for hibernating is that if one does not move, one will not eat as much.

But things have been different since this year. The production quotas have been set and food-grain fields have been distributed to each household. Although wheat was not planted in the first season, at least corn flour can be eaten as much as one wants.

When food is sufficient, people are no longer content to stay at home. They go out to move around, communicate with others, and those with active minds even think about finding a job that can earn money.

After all, everyone wants to live a good life.

At worst, going out to pick up some manure like Wang Caimi is better than staying at home doing nothing.

After entering the stable gate, Li Long saw Uncle Luo feeding the animals, so he walked over and said with a smile:
"Uncle Luo, this will keep you busy again."

"It's good to be busy!" said Lao Shu Luo with a smile, "It's good to have something to do. It's uncomfortable to be idle! Why didn't you stay in the county for a few more days?"

"Come back to take a look, then leave." Li Long said, "There is still work to do later, and we have to go into the mountains for a few days."

"Sure. Everyone has nothing to do in winter, so they can't make money. You can do this. I saw Daqiang and his men brought back a lot of meat. I heard they even brought back skins. You killed a whole pack of wolves by yourself. You're a real man!"

Li Long blushed slightly at Uncle Luo's praise. He knew his own worth. He raised the bag in his hand and said with a smile:
"Uncle Luo, look, I got the radio back. I can listen to it when I have nothing to do in the winter."

"Yeah." Old Uncle Luo was very happy. "They went to your eldest brother's place. It seems that they are going back. Do you want to go and take a look?"

"You want to go back?" Li Long was a little surprised. "You mean my second brother and my brother-in-law?"

"Yes!" said Uncle Luo as he put the grass into the circle. "He said he had made some money during this period and had to go home to visit his family. He planned to come back after the Chinese New Year. After all, he has been here for a few months. Some of them have wives and children at home, so how could he miss them?"

"That's the truth." Li Long said.

He looked inside the pen again and saw the doe and fawn (not small actually) in one pen, and two roe deer, a male and a female, in another. The male roe deer had probably not seen its kind for a long time, and kept sniffing around the female's buttocks. The female seemed not to be used to it yet, and kept hiding from time to time.

"Uncle Luo, are these two deer okay?"

"It's OK. It didn't eat much grass yesterday, but now it can. It's not making a fuss either. It looks bigger than the two deer." Uncle Luo said with a smile, "The female roe deer came just in time. She might get pregnant before the New Year. The male is in heat right now, so this female is just the right solution."

Well, it can be regarded as sending warmth.

Li Long turned a corner and went back to Li's house.

In the west room of the Li family, Li Jianguo, Li Anguo and Chen Xingbang were discussing how to return home.

"We plan to go back after New Year's Day." said Chen Xingbang. "We have made a lot of money with Big Brother and Xiaolong in the past few months. We originally planned to work for half a year to earn some money and go back, but now we have earned it in the past few months - it's like a dream. It's almost New Year, so we won't stay here. We will go back to celebrate the New Year, buy some things for our family, and come back after the New Year."

Li Jianguo had no objection. After listening to Chen Xingbang's words, he nodded and said:
"Well, it's time to go home for the New Year. There's nothing much to do here in the winter, so it's better to go home than to stay here. So after the New Year, will you all come over? Do some of you want to come over, and some don't?"

Several people looked at each other, and Chen Xingbang said with a smile:
"I will definitely come here. There are fewer opportunities and more people in my hometown, so it's really not as easy to make money as here. Some people go to the south to make money, but I think it's hard there too. I feel more comfortable here."

"I have to look after my parents." Li Anguo thought more, "It's okay to make money, but I can't stay here for long. After all, my parents are still there..."

"Yeah, I've been thinking about this, too." Li Jianguo said, "Anguo, when you go back, ask your parents and ask them to come over. Although it's colder here in the winter than back home, we have a stove and a fire wall, and it's not a big deal to set up a kang. It's so cold back home, and your parents are fine now, but how can they stand it in another ten or eight years? Several of our uncles have passed away in their seventies, and if your parents are going to live here in their old age, I think it won't be a problem for them to live to ninety."

"Haha, that's the truth." Chen Xingbang laughed and said, "Winter in my hometown is really hard. If my wife and children weren't there, I wouldn't want to go back. It's so good here. When it's cold, there's a stove. When it's hot in the summer, it's cool under the trees. There's also a lot of land and many ways to make money..."

It was mainly these few people who were talking, and Li Junfeng and Li Junshan had no say.

"Bring more things back when you go back." Liang Yuemei interjected, "There are some things here that we don't have back home, bring some..."

"Then bring some wine." Chen Xingbang said with a smile, "The loose wine that my father brought back last time is really delicious. When we came, my father was even saying that we should share some with each family. He didn't have enough to drink, hahahaha..."

Li Jianguo nodded. Although it was easy to make money in Northern Xinjiang, the supplies were still in short supply compared to his hometown, and the local specialties were not very good. He thought about bringing some money back for his father.

While a few people were talking, Li Long came back.

"Hey, Uncle Xiaolong, you have a great haircut!" Li Junfeng opened the door and started to tease Li Long when he saw him. The age difference was not big, and Li Long did not act like an elder, so it was normal for Li Junfeng to joke.

"That's right, I spent two cents!" Li Long joked seriously, "Why don't you go get it fixed too? I'm going home soon, so I have to show it to my wife and kids. You're not here to eat sand in the northern border..."

"Hahaha." Hearing this, everyone else laughed. After all, this was actually what Li Junfeng and his friends said when they were having dinner. When they were planning to come here to find a way to make money, some people in their hometown told them to just eat sand, because there was no way to make money in this desolate northwest. They also secretly said that the old man Li Qingxia was just talking nonsense and flattering his son.

In fact, they were a little worried when they came here, especially the section from a certain section in Gansu Province to Hami, where both sides of the railway were really desolate.

Eating sand is not an exaggeration at all.

Of course it seems like a joke now.

After the joke, Li Jianguo asked Li Long what was going on in the mountains. Li Long briefly explained and said that he would go back into the mountains in a few days.

Li Long, Li Jianguo, and Chen Xingbang all thought it was not right to lead others to hunt. Nowadays, the main thing is to make money and live a good life. It's just like opening a farmhouse in the future, or leading a small group of people to hike and pick mushrooms on the alpine grasslands. Make money in any way you can.

You pay the money, I pay the people, that's it. No one is nobler than the other, you pay the money, I pay the experience and skills.

Moreover, for quite a long time, in the dualistic society of China, urban hukou was more popular than rural hukou. Even when Li Long suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in his previous life, although many city dwellers envied the large courtyards in the countryside, 80% of them were unwilling to live in the countryside every day. The social structure was like this. After all, it was still led by the working class and based on the alliance between workers and peasants. Although peasants were the majority, they were only the objects of the alliance.

"That's great." Li Junfeng was quite envious. Ever since he followed Li Long on a hunting trip, he really envied him. Catch two deer and a wolf at a time. Not to mention the meat, just the skin, antlers, deer penis and so on, it would cost more than 200 yuan!
It would take ten days to earn that much from selling fish!

Now if I go out and help others fight, I’ll get two hundred for one wolf... Such a price, oh, I don’t have that kind of ability!

"It's not easy to fight in the mountains, is it?" Li Jianguo had been in the mountains before, so he knew what was going on there. It wasn't as fun as he made it out to be. It was really hard, it was really tiring, and it was really hard to fight.

"Not bad." Li Long felt confident. "It's best to hunt deer and wolves. If you can't catch them, take them to hunt wild boars. If one day doesn't work, take two days. There are always places where we can ambush wild boars. If we can't catch them, there's nothing we can do."

"Well, it's good to have this idea. Your second brother and brother-in-law are coming back, you see..."

"It's good to go back. I've been tired for two or three months. I'll go back and have a good New Year." Li Long was actually quite calm about this matter. "I guess my family has thought about it too. My second brother can go back and bring money back to Dad for us. I guess Dad has spent most of his money in the past six months..."

"Hahahaha, that's true." Everyone knows that the old man is very generous and spends money very quickly. Besides, it's the New Year, and the old man has so many younger generations. When they pay New Year's greetings, he must give them lucky money? Even if he gives only one or two cents, it will be a lot when accumulated.

The matter of going back was settled after a brief greeting. Chen Xingbang and the others chatted for a few more words and then went back. Li Long did not leave, as Li Jianguo also had something to ask him.

"Here is the money from the remaining fish sales." After Li Jianguo and others left, he took the key from his waist, opened the chest of drawers, took out a black shoulder bag and handed it to Li Long. The bag was bulging. Li Long unzipped it and saw that it was full of bills.

"So many." Li Long said with a smile, "It must be several thousand, right?"

"The fish sell out faster as time goes by," Li Jianguo said with some regret. "Who would have thought that there are so many people eating fish in Shicheng? Every day, a horse-drawn cart carrying more than 20 bags of fish is brought over, and they are all sold out before the afternoon."

Li Long knew the consumption power of people in Shicheng for fish. Many of the soldiers and educated youth there came from the Kouli River and had been eating fish since childhood. After arriving in Shicheng, they no longer had the conditions, but they still hoped to buy some fish when they had extra money. Farmed fish really had no appeal to them, and they didn't even like the big crucian carp that Li Long liked.

Why? Because the two strips of meat on the back of a one-year-old crucian carp don't have any tiny bones, so it's very delicious to eat, and the crucian carp has a strong flavor. Until Li Long's death in his last life, people from Shicheng often drove to the small lake to fish, and they named the small lake "Reed Marsh" and "Shajiabin".

Unfortunately, after that generation left, fewer people liked to eat the fish here.

Li Long took out a stack of money, about one thousand, and handed it to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, you keep this money. I won't be responsible for sending money to dad. We will need to add some things to our home later, so you can decide how to add them. I have to prepare to build a house next year."

"Yes, it's time to get married." Li Jianguo sighed, then waved his hand: "I won't take the money. I've made a lot of money with you this year, and there's still money at home. You don't have to give money home all the time, keep it for yourself, there are still many things you will need to buy later."

Liang Yuemei also tried to stop him and said:
"Yes. There is still a lot of money at home. It's not easy for you to earn money."

"Brother and sister-in-law, this money is easy to earn." Li Long said with a smile, "In the future, you two will definitely farm my land. I can't take care of so many things. Just help me with any expenses. I may not give money to the family in the future, so you must take this money."

After Li Long finished speaking, he put the money on the table, zipped up his bag, stood up and went out. Before leaving, he said to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, now that we have money, our family should live a better life. Let's buy the necessary things."

After leaving the Li family, Li Long knew that he would spend less and less time here.

It's quite sad. Although I didn't do anything in the past few years, I ate and lived here and enjoyed myself without making any contribution, but the truth is that my life here is very fulfilling and happy.

Now that life is good, I have to leave again.

But this is also necessary. People have to grow up, and seeds have to leave home.

Back at the Lao Ma, Uncle Luo and Li Junshan were cooking. Seeing Li Long coming back, Li Junfeng smiled and asked:
"Uncle Xiaolong, when are you leaving?"

"Maybe in two or three days." Li Long looked at the yard and said with emotion: "I worked all day yesterday! If I had known that I would not have let you go that night, there is a lot of snow in the yard, and there are a lot of piles. It is easy to clear the snow with you here, but it will be difficult to deal with it without you."

"Hey! When we were halfway there, Junshan said that there was so much snow in the yard and we should clear it before we go. It was at that time that everyone was tired and didn't think about coming back."

"It's just a joke. The snow is clear now." Li Long smiled. "Have you decided what to buy when you go back?"

"I've made up my mind. I won't buy anything." Li Junshan was very excited. "I'll just take the money back! Then we can get off in the city and buy anything! Things there are cheaper..."

"That's true." In this era, many things in my hometown are really cheaper than in northern Xinjiang, of course, with the exception of some specialties, such as the jade seeds that Li Long collected, and leather and the like.

But most things are still cheaper there, after all, the industrial level is different.

Lunch was ready, and Li Junshan came out to call Li Long and Li Junfeng to eat.

Rice, stir-fried vegetables, Lao Shu Luo said as he served the rice:

"Xiaolong, you're back. Let's improve our meal and make a good meal." On the table were stir-fried meat with dried beans, stewed wild boar bones, and stir-fried meat with sauerkraut.

Li Long could understand this. Although there was a lot of meat stored here, it was impossible to eat it like this on a normal basis. If you ate it every day, the meat would be gone in less than a month.

Basically, I'm very careful with my budget. When cooking, I just put some simmered oil and meat in it. I came home today and I want to cook something good. This is normal.

After dinner, several people cleaned up the table together. Li Long went to see the deer and roe deer, and Li Junshan followed him out to see them together.

"Did you give meat to Daqiang and Yongqiang after they came back?" Li Long asked.

"Uncle Anguo let them take it." Li Junshan said, "Each of them took a piece of meat back."

"That's good." Li Long nodded. "You can also bring some game meat back when you go back. Although this meat is not as delicious as the meat raised at home, it is game meat after all, so it sounds good when you talk about it."

He also planned to give some wolf-tooth and wolf-thigh stones back to his second brother, brother-in-law, and others, and give them to their children to wear, which would always be a good omen.

"Okay. Then Uncle Xiaolong, can you give me one of your wolf fangs?" Li Junshan was a little embarrassed.

"Here, two is fine." Although Li Long didn't know what Li Junshan wanted, he gave it to him since he had plenty.

"I might go on a blind date when I get back. If I meet a suitable girl, I will give it to her." Li Junshan expressed his thoughts, "I think this is a good thing."

Well, giving wolf teeth to a girl is a good idea.

I don’t know whether others are willing to accept it.

Li Long went into the house and took out the small bag of wolf teeth and distributed it to everyone.

To be honest, this thing is really popular, and everyone is very happy to hold it. (End of this chapter)