Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

It's very disappointing that there are no animals to fight in the pond.

To be honest, there was some action. When they approached quietly, a fox heard the noise first, jumped up from the edge of the pond, and ran into the woods nearby. The four men raised their guns, but did not fire.

Li Long felt that fighting was not worth it, while the other three simply did not react.

When they were almost in front of the pond, Li Long stood in a line with the three men and asked them to hold their guns without waving them, with half of their fingers pointing to the ground. Even when they were preparing to aim and fire, they had to make sure there was no one in their field of vision.

The three of them were very obedient and must have received training in this area, so they understood what Li Long said.

However, the valley was rather narrow and there was water in it, so if four people were to be lined up, it was inevitable that one of them would get close to the bushes and woods and make some noise.

The fox was not soaking in the hot spring, but was looking for something to eat nearby. It ran away when it heard the noise.

"I...found it too late." Yang Chen said a little embarrassedly, "The fog was too thick and I couldn't see clearly."

"My glasses are blurry." Xie Ruifeng also defended himself, "Besides, I was afraid that if I shot at it, the fox would break into pieces."

"You can set it to single shot." Qi Jingyue reminded, "I didn't see it clearly."

"Let's go and take a closer look." Li Long walked to the pond with a gun in hand.

There was a bloodstain on the ground, with some pieces of flesh and skin, and there was also some red in the water by the pool that was slowly being washed away.

"Something has been eaten here." Li Long pointed to the ground and said.

"I noticed that, too." Xie Ruifeng said quickly, "Looking at the skin, it should be goat or something."

"This morning." Li Long glanced at him and continued, "It should have come here to drink water or keep warm, and was ambushed by the wild animals here. The fox just now was eating leftovers here."

"Oh, Master Li, that's good. You also know the word 'leftovers'?" Yang Chen asked in surprise.

"I read books occasionally and it comes in handy." Li Long didn't care whether he was really surprised or joking. He explained, "So there are animals here sooner or later. If we don't catch anything this afternoon, we can come and take a look early tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Qi Jingyue was the first to agree.

"Let's go back." Li Long looked around and found that there was nothing valuable here.

"This is the hot spring, right?" Qi Jingyue suddenly asked, "These pools..."

"If it's summer, you can take a hot spring bath here. These pools... this one has a suitable temperature, and the bottom is also rocky, not deep, so it's nice to soak in." Li Long explained, "Of course, I don't know what the specific effects are, after all, this is a wild hot spring."

"If...if it can be developed in the future, we can build a road here and set up a hot spring resort or hotel." Qi Jingyue murmured.

Li Long didn't expect Qi Jingyue to be quite business-minded. However, it would take at least 20 years for this to be realized, and even then, the hot spring hotel would not make much money at the beginning.

After all, when the tourism dividend was at its peak during those years, this place was only affected by S101 and failed to become the center.

However, if you just want to enjoy it with your family, it is also quite good. After all, it is located deep in the layers of Northern Tianshan Mountains. To be honest, it is unlikely for ordinary people to find this place. From Hami in the east to Jinghe in the west, there are countless Nanshan in the same mountain range but in different regions, which can confuse outsiders.

He suppressed this thought for the time being, as this matter could not be resolved in a short time. Li Long led these people back.

"Where are we going next?" Qi Jingyue couldn't help but ask after leaving the hot spring valley.

"I'll take you to another important place. If we can find something there, then our trip will not be in vain.

On the way, I will visit an old friend and ask him if there are any wild boars or wolves nearby recently. If so, we can ambush them and fight them."

"Okay!" Qi Jingyue agreed readily.

Continuing to move forward, Li Long began to approach the valley where Halimu and the others were.

When they were almost at Halimu Winter Village, Li Long stopped and told Qi Jingyue:
"You guys wait here for a moment. I'll go ask my friends. I'll be back in about half an hour."

"Can't we go together?" Qi Jingyue was obviously curious about who Li Long's friends were.

"My friends are from a minority ethnic group, and their winter homes are not spacious. I'm not sure if they can accommodate you. I think it's necessary to ask first." Li Long gave a clear refusal gesture.

Qi Jingyue pursed her lips and said nothing.

"That's great, let's take a break." Yang Chen heard this and immediately came to the rescue, "I'm pretty tired after walking for so long. Luckily I had dinner at that time, otherwise I would be exhausted now."

Xie Ruifeng no longer cared about his image, he sat down on the ground, put his submachine gun aside, sighed and said:
"This hunting is really not easy... Look at Master Li, his physique is really different from ours!"

Li Long ignored them and walked straight to Halimu's winter den.

Smoke was coming out of the chimney of the winter den, and outside the open pen the sheep were eating grass. Halim was clearing the leftover grass stalks in the sheep pen. These grass stalks had to be cleared out of the pen regularly, otherwise they would mix with the scattered fodder later, wasting a lot of new fodder.

The barking of the dog startled Halimu. He stopped what he was doing, turned his head and saw Li Long.

After seeing Li Long, Halimu smiled, put down the fork, climbed over the railing of the sheep pen, and walked towards Li Long.

"Li Long, have you returned home? Are you here to hunt? Come on, go inside and have some milk tea!"

"No, no." Li Long waved his hands hurriedly. "I'm here with others this time, so I won't go into the house. I just want to ask, have you seen any wolves or wild boars roaming around recently? I brought some people here to hunt and make some money."

"Wolves and wild boars..." Halimu didn't even need to think, he just pointed to the north and said:

"On the other side of the mountain, at the entrance, I saw a group of yellow sheep the day before yesterday. They ran very fast, and I don't know where they ran to. As for wild boars, you know Xiaobaiyanggou, right? I have seen wild boar scratches there, but that was several days ago, and I don't know if they are still there now."

"Okay, as long as there is a place." Li Long nodded, "Then I won't bother you. Let's go to those places and have a look. If not, let's have a look tomorrow morning."

"No, no, no, you make me feel so rude. Your friends are my friends! Call your friends over. Since they are here, we should treat them well..." Halimu felt that he still couldn't let Li Long leave like this. He pulled Li Long's arm, trying to keep him here.

"Halim, I know you mean well. But these people are different from the friends I had before. It's hard to enforce the order when there are too many of them. I'm just taking them hunting, just like customers buying things. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, when they get something, they'll leave."

Li Long explained and then insisted on leaving. Halimu couldn't keep him and finally let Li Long leave.

It had not been half an hour when Li Long returned to Qi Jingyue and the others. Qi Jingyue was playing with the jade in her hand. The jade had been in her hand, so even though it was cold outside, the jade was warm. She felt that it was worth the trip to get the jade, but it was a pity that she didn't pick it up herself.

I must come back next summer to see for myself whether I can pick up jade in the stream.

Seeing Li Long appear, the three young men stood up.

"My friend said that a group of yellow sheep passed by the mountain pass where we entered the mountain recently. Their habitat should not be far away. We can take a look when we leave the mountain.

There is also an area where wild boars roam nearby. We can go check it out tomorrow morning. But if we want to hunt wild boars, we have to get up before dawn. Can you guys get up?"

"Of course we can!" Xie Ruifeng was the first to raise his hand. "We are here to hunt, how could we not be able to get up?"

Qi Jingyue and Yang Chen also immediately said they could get up.

"Okay then, let's go find a place to see if there is any prey. If there is, we will hunt. If not, we will return and prepare for hunting early tomorrow morning."

Li Long took these people to the salt cave.

He was not worried at all about exposing the locations of these two places - it was winter, and although the terrain had not changed much, by the summer, when the grass and trees grew, it would take a real genius for these three people to find their way here.

Only I can bring them here, no one else can. The salt cave is located between the ravine where Halim and his group are and the Xiaobaiyang Valley. On the topographic map, each fold is a valley, the only difference is the size of the valley. The valley where the salt cave is located is a small valley, like a branch. When Li Long and the three people arrived at the valley entrance, they could clearly see that there were more footprints of wild animals here than in other places.

"There isn't much grass here, so why are there so many traces of wild animals? There are both big and small ones, and I don't know what they are." Yang Chen observed carefully and asked after looking at them.

Li Long knew the reason, but he didn't say it. He just led them inside and whispered:
"There's a high chance you'll run into something in here. Keep your voices down and look carefully toward the left side of the mountain to see if anything appears..."

Having said that, Li Long also raised his gun. Although it snowed heavily, there were still many rocks exposed, and the terrain looked a bit complicated. If there were really animals hiding in it, you might not be able to see them without looking carefully.

When he reached the middle of the valley, Li Long saw that there were indeed quite a few footprints going upwards at the fork in the road. Moreover, some of the footprints were quite fresh, including hoof prints and plum blossom prints. It seemed that there might be something there this time!

"Go up and spread out!" Li Long whispered, and at the same time he held his gun and slowly walked up.

His main target was the salt cave, but Qi Jingyue and the others didn't know, and Li Long didn't tell them, so they thought their target was the pile of rocks above, which looked quite scattered.

"Fuck! There's a wolf!" Yang Chen was the first to spot the target. He shouted excitedly, and then Li Long also saw the target - who was on a pile of rocks about 20 to 30 meters to the right of the salt cave. He jumped up when he heard the noise, and after seeing Li Long and the others, he turned around and ran towards the ridge!

"Shoot!" Li Long shouted, raised his gun and aimed!

"Bang bang bang!" A series of gunshots rang out in the valley. The first to fire was from Jie Ruifeng's submachine gun!
The bullet hit the rocks and caused a stray bullet. The sound of the bullet sounded weird and scary!
But it poses no threat to the wolf!
Qi Jingyue and Yang Chen also fired their guns one after another, but probably because of excitement, they both missed.

Their bullets were still far away from the wolf, and the fight looked intense, but the wolf was running farther and farther away.

"Bang!" Li Long and the others stopped, and the last one fired. The wolf fell into the snow.

"Who shot it, who shot it?" Xie Ruifeng shouted there. He stopped when he felt that the dispersion of his bursts of fire was too large and he could not reach the wolf at all.

"It was called by Master Li." Yang Chen's tone contained envy and surprise.

He fired three or four shots, Qi Jingyue fired more than him, and Xie Ruifeng fired at least two or three bursts, almost ten bullets.

Not even a hair was touched!

But Li Long knocked the wolf down with one bullet!

"Don't worry, there should be more!" Li Long pointed upwards, "This wolf is waiting for food here, let's go up and take a look..."

As they were talking, a roe deer suddenly jumped out from the direction of the salt cave above. It was a male, not very big. It jumped over the stone, jumped down a few steps, saw Li Long and the others, stepped on the stone, turned around and ran to the left.

"Hit!" Li Long spoke again.

Since he was hunting with others, he was not in a hurry and waited for the last shot.

At this distance he was still confident that he could keep the things.

The roe deer was running and jumping at a very fast speed. Several people were originally lined up in a row, Xie Ruifeng was on the far right, followed by Li Long, then Qi Jingyue, and Yang Chen was on the far left. Yang Chen was the first to shoot because he had an advantageous position.

Xie Ruifeng also wanted to shoot. When he raised his gun, the muzzle was less than half a meter in front of Li Long. Li Long immediately took a step back and shouted at him:
"Jie Ruifeng! Watch out for the muzzle of the gun!"

Xie Ruifeng was startled by the shouting, and then he realized that his gesture was too dangerous. Not only did he put Li Long near the gun, but Qi Jingyue, who turned to the left, was also under the threat of his gun!
If something goes wrong during the shooting, he will be in big trouble!
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Xie Ruifeng immediately ran a few steps to the left, and then looked at the roe deer.

This time he switched to single shot, but the gun was short, so it was quite difficult to hit the prey in such an excited state.

Seeing that the roe deer was running farther and farther away without any harm after being shot by three people, Li Long had no choice but to take aim again and shot the roe deer in the leg with a "bang".

The roe deer fell down suddenly, then got up again, and continued to struggle forward while limping.

It's much slower.

"Bang!" This time, Yang Chen hit the roe deer on the back with the first shot. The roe deer fell to the ground, and then was shot in the neck by Qi Jingyue, completely dead.

"Okay, you three go get this roe deer down the mountain, I'll go check on the wolf."

"I want to see the wolves too!" Although Qi Jingyue shot the roe deer, she wanted to follow Li to see the wolves.

The three young men all understood that if Li Long hadn't shot, they wouldn't have been able to hit the deer. Now they really admired Li Long.

A young man of about the same age as me, with such good marksmanship, he must be an expert at hunting!

"Then let's do it together." Li Long reminded, "Turn off the insurance." He didn't say anything to Jie Ruifeng. The young man was just careless and didn't do it on purpose.

It's your first time hunting with a gun, and you're not alone, so mistakes are bound to happen.

Several people immediately turned off the safety and followed Li Long to take a look at the wolf first.

The wolf was not very big, about the same size as the scout wolf in Li Long's pack. Its fur looked shiny and glossy, so it should have been having good food during this period.

The salt cave played a big role in the Lone Wolf's ability to eat so much.

The gunshot hit the wolf's chest and abdomen, damaging its internal organs. It probably didn't die immediately, as could be seen from the snow nearby that the wolf struggled for a while after falling down.

It's just dead now.

The three young men stepped forward curiously and touched the wolf's fur. Xie Ruifeng suddenly spoke:
"Master Li, these wolf teeth and wolf thigh stones have the effect of warding off evil, right?"

"Yes, that's what we said." Li Long nodded.

"Then I want one of these wolf teeth!" he said immediately.

"I want one too!" Yang Chen also said, and then looked at Qi Jingyue. Qi Jingyue didn't say anything.

Li Long dragged the wolf's leg towards the roe deer. When passing by the salt cave, Qi Jingyue suddenly spoke:
"There's blood here!"

"We have hunted here before, and we skinned and gutted our prey on the spot."

Li Long pulled the wolf to the roe deer and looked at the roe deer's teeth. It was two years old.

He put the two prey aside and said to Qi Jingyue and the other two:
"Are you going to take the things back intact, or are you going to cut them open here?"

"We want to pull it back intact." Qi Jingyue, who was indeed the one in charge, said.

"Then you must be mentally prepared for the stinky chest." Li Long said, and then explained the matter of the stinky chest.

"Is it still like this?" Qi Jingyue was a little surprised. "I also want to make a specimen..."

"Make specimens?" Li Long looked at Yang Chen and Jie Ruifeng. These two also wanted wolf tooth and wolf thigh stones. If they really wanted them, how would they make specimens?
"Hehe, Jingyue wants to make a specimen, so she definitely doesn't want our wolf fangs. Let's help them." Xie Ruifeng said with a dry laugh.

In this case, Li Long thought for a moment and said:
"If you really want to make a specimen, you have to remove the contents of the stomach and fill it with other things later. The skin is mainly used for specimens. If the stomach is smelly, it may not be suitable for specimens."

As a half-baked hunter, he knew very little about this.

"Then... just cut it open." Qi Jingyue was at a loss for ideas, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I'll do as you say."

Li Long cut open the body here, and naturally discarded the contents of the stomach.

Of course, the roe deer could not be used as a specimen, but according to their request, Li Long only opened the belly and did not peel the skin, and he would let them take it back in the end. (End of this chapter)