Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

"Master Li, do you have to get up so early every time you hunt wild boars?"

It was still dark, Li Long led the way, followed by Qi Jingyue, and then Yang Chen and Jie Ruifeng. There was no wind, and the only sound that could be heard was the crunching sound of feet stepping on the snow, which was quite dull.

Yang Chen found a topic to ask Li Long.

"If you want to ambush wild boars, then this is the only time. At this time, the wild boars will come down the mountain and dig for food in places where there is more food. When it is almost dawn, they will go back into the mountains. The habitat of wild boars is not fixed, and it is quite far in the mountains, where people don't often go, so it is difficult to find them. The best way is to ambush them when they are foraging."

"Then you haven't hunted wild boars in other places?" Xie Ruifeng asked, panting. Among the three people, his physical strength was the worst. Qi Jingyue, who was shorter than him, was stronger than him.

Perhaps to ease his embarrassment, Xie Ruifeng would ask questions from time to time, and they were quite sharp.

"Yes, I once encountered a wild boar habitat in the mountains and killed two." Li Long said as he walked, "I also chased wild boars and killed two. I also encountered wild boars in the hot spring valley and killed them too."

Li Long's words made Xie Ruifeng silent for a while, and then he continued to ask:
"Master Li, have you ever killed a wolf, a lynx, or any other large carnivorous animals?"

"No." Li Long's words made Xie Ruifeng a little excited. He was about to make a few jokes when he heard Li Long say:
"No. A bear saw me from a distance and ran into the woods. I didn't catch up with him."

Well, it’s not that I haven’t encountered it before, it’s just that I haven’t encountered it very often.

Qi Jingyue was a little annoyed by Jie Ruifeng's words. She could hear that Jie Ruifeng was targeting Li Long, but she also wanted to hear about Li Long's hunting experience through his answer. So she just kept moving forward in the midst of the contradiction.

It was not bright at all, and Yang Chen was a little doubtful about how Li Long found the way. But seeing that Li Long took big and firm steps, he should not get lost.

Xie Ruifeng began to have trouble keeping up. He had to jog a few steps with heavy breath from time to time before he could catch up with Yang Chen. It was still dark at this time, and there were large shadows on both sides of the valley. Although he knew it was a forest, Xie Ruifeng was still a little scared, afraid that he would not be able to keep up and would not be able to find the way out of the valley, so even though he was very tired, he still followed closely.

It feels like the submachine gun is getting heavier and heavier. Xie Ruifeng regretted carrying so many bullets. He should have just brought one magazine - maybe even one magazine wouldn't be enough to finish them all!
This time, not only Li Long brought plastic sheeting, but Yang Chen also brought a large piece of plastic sheeting, which was originally in the big room. When he brought it, he also specifically said that if we really encountered a group of wild boars, we should drag them back - the better to drag more!
After more than half an hour, not only was Xie Ruifeng extremely tired, he was already more than ten meters away from Yang Chen. Qi Jingyue was also exhausted and out of breath, and the distance between Yang Chen and her was also seven or eight meters.

Qi Jingyue even suspected that Li Long left so fast just to get revenge on Jie Ruifeng.

Of course there is this reason, another reason is that Li Long wants to get to that point as soon as possible, no one can say whether the wild boar will go there earlier. If there is really a wild boar there, it will be too late for us to come, and we will regret it!
"Okay, behind the ridge ahead is a spot where wild boars once gathered. Let's go up the ridge, and then I'll check the wind direction and ambush downwind. You guys don't move yet, I'll go up and take a look. It would be best if the wild boars haven't arrived yet, so we'll have plenty of time to ambush."

After Li Long finished speaking, he quickened his pace and rushed towards the ridge.

Only after watching Li Long go up did Qi Jingyue and the others have time to take a good rest.

"Master Li is really strong!" Yang Chen sighed, "I think I won't be able to walk another kilometer. I think he can walk another ten kilometers without any problem."

"Every profession has its specialties." Xie Ruifeng finally caught up, holding his knees with both hands and breathing heavily, saying, "He is in this line of work, it is normal for him to be able to walk. If you talk about history or scientific research, that is not his strong point."

Qi Jingyue rolled her eyes after listening to his words. He was really a stubborn person who refused to give in even after it came to this.

Is it so difficult to recognize the strengths of others?
Li Long climbed up to the top of the mountain ridge, slowed down his pace, and then slowly looked into the valley.

There was no movement in the valley. He took off his gloves, licked his index finger, and then held it in the air to feel the direction of the wind.

I am in a disadvantageous position here, fortunately, I don't need to move.

Seeing that the place where the wild boar was digging was more than 200 meters away from here, he waved towards the people down the mountain.

Yang Chen and Jie Ruifeng were talking and didn't see it. Qi Jingyue had been observing and could barely see Li Long waving, and immediately said:
"Let's go!"

"What?" Xie Ruifeng asked. Yang Chen reacted quickly and followed Qi Jingyue's pace, saying as he walked:

"Master Li, let us go!"

Xie Ruifeng hurriedly followed with his gun in hand.

Li Long led them to walk a distance below the ridge, then found a suitable place and whispered:

"Let's go a little higher. Let's line up and build a target platform with snow to ambush the wild boar. If the wild boar comes today, we'll set an ambush..."

"What if you don't come?" asked Xie Ruifeng.

"Then go back." Li Long said seriously.

"Then this trip was in vain?"

"You don't think you can get a good harvest every time you go hunting, do you?" Li Long asked back, "No one can guarantee a good harvest every time you go hunting."

After saying that, he moved to the far right and used snow to build a target platform.

It has been a long time since I last did this, and Li Long still misses it a little.

As for whether there would be a herd of wild boars coming today, he was also looking forward to it. Hunting, sometimes the waiting time itself was quite exciting. With yesterday's harvest as a foundation, whether the wild boars came today was actually not particularly important. If they came, it would be icing on the cake, and if they didn't come, it wouldn't matter much.

The gun platform is simple to repair, the main thing is to compact the snow so it doesn't affect the shooting later.

Turning his head to see Qi Jingyue and the others who were still repairing the gun platform honestly, Li Long lay down, looked at the area below that had been bullied by the wild boar, and marked the approximate range where he would shoot.

He set a standard for himself: don't hunt big wild boars, just hunt small ones because they are easier to deal with.

Of course, if it were Qi Jingyue and the others, they would definitely like to catch the big ones, because if they took the big ones back to make specimens, they would definitely look good!
Suddenly, Li Long felt the ground shaking.

coming!

He immediately turned to Qi Jingyue and the others and said:

"Stop moving! It's coming!"

Qi Jingyue was on Li Long's left, Yang Chen was on the left, and Xie Ruifeng was on the edge. This was in the order they had advanced. Except for Qi Jingyue's gun platform, which was almost finished, the other two had only piled up half of the snow.

But no matter what, now that I heard the noise, I didn’t dare to move.

Li Long was not sure whether he could really wait for the group of wild boars to come. He could only say that the information provided by Halimu was really good, and he really waited for it!

He turned on the safety, pulled the bolt to load the bullet, and then began to prepare to aim.

Soon, a group of wild boars rushed over from a distance along the valley. In the front were three or four small wild boars, the kind that were two or three years old. These wild boars were the most lively and the loudest, and they would occasionally butt each other and fight while running.

It seems that this group of wild boars is not very large, Li Long guessed.

It doesn't matter. Since wild boars are coming, it means that our waiting here is not in vain. Now the group of wild boars is about 100 to 200 meters away from here. We can just wait until they are within shooting range and ambush them.

This mission is a sure thing!
Li Long thought so and planned to do so. He held the gun steadily, aimed at the designated area, and just waited for the wild boar to come here.

"boom!"

Suddenly a gunshot rang out, disrupting Li Long's rhythm and also stopping the wild boars' rushing steps!

The wild boars startled by the gunshots suddenly became agitated. The half-grown wild boar in the front turned around and ran back, the sow in the middle failed to brake and crashed into the other wild boar, and the male wild boar at the back roared and turned around and ran, while also calling for its clan to escape quickly!

Li Long didn't bother to see who fired the shot accidentally. He turned the gun around and shot at the wild boars!

There was still more than a hundred meters to go, and even if there was a little light in the sky, he could only see a group of black individuals fleeing there. At a distance of more than a hundred meters, the group of wild boars was actually relatively small, and coupled with the lack of light in the sky, the fight was a little blurry.

Then Qi Jingyue's gun also went off, bang bang bang bang, a rhythmic sound. This girl is quite able to hold her temper. "Yang Chen, what's wrong with you?" Xie Ruifeng asked angrily, "You accidentally fired at such a critical moment?"

Li Long didn't expect that the one who got angry was not Xie Ruifeng who had a grudge against him, but Yang Chen?
But it doesn’t matter. The most important thing now is to see whether the shooting between him and Qi Jingyue will have any results.

The wild boars ran back very quickly. Within a dozen seconds, the vibration of the ground had disappeared and they had already fled into the mountains and forests. It was unlikely that they would return to this place in the short term, or even for the entire winter.

Qi Jingyue fired four bullets and then stopped shooting. Li Long turned off the safety and said to the others:
"Turn off the safety, let's go and see if we hit the target."

He estimated that even if he hit them, he could only hit one or two at most. These wild boars had strong vitality. If he didn't hit them in the vital parts, they would desperately follow the wild boars and run deep into the mountains, even if they died.

"It's closed." Qi Jingyue spoke.

“I… my hand slipped…” Yang Chen’s voice was full of self-blame. “I didn’t expect it. I was a little excited, thinking that I would be able to hit a few people later… I didn’t expect the trigger of this gun to be so sensitive…”

Xie Ruifeng said dissatisfiedly:

"Didn't you say when you came here that you picked the most suitable gun and even had someone specially calibrate it? How could it be..."

"Turn off the safety first." Li Long reminded again, "Just now we were targeting a wild boar, so an accidental discharge would have been enough to miss the target. Now we are moving forward together, and if there is another accidental discharge, you should know the consequences."

Xie Ruifeng stopped talking and quickly turned off the safety of his gun. Yang Chen did the same.

"Put your gun on your back, come on, follow me." Li Long picked up his gun and walked into the valley.

Qi Jingyue followed, and Yang Chen hurriedly followed behind. Although Xie Ruifeng was still dissatisfied with Yang Chen, he had no choice but to follow.

He was the only one who failed to catch any roe deer yesterday. Although he was a little resentful when he came here today, he was also determined to catch something to show his strength.

At first he suspected that Li Long brought them here just to try their luck, but when the wild boars came, he no longer suspected Li Long. When he was determined to fight, he didn't expect that Yang Chen's accidental firing would drive the wild boars away!

His submachine gun had a short barrel and could only fire at short distances. As a result, he didn't even fire a shot when he was more than a hundred meters away - the wild boar had disappeared before he was ready!
It would be strange if there was no resentment!
But there was nothing he could do, the wild boar had already run away. Although he really wanted to kick Yang Chen who was walking in front of him, he still held back.

Li Long strode to the place where the wild boar turned its head after hearing the noise, and then he was a little happy to see a half-grown wild boar lying on the ground.

If calculated according to the size of a domestic pig, it should have grown to about three or four months old, but for a wild boar to be this big, it should be two or three years old.

The wild boar was shot once in the stomach and once in the head. It died suddenly, lying on the ground without any blood.

There was blood dripping forward, and it seemed that other wild boars were injured, but Li Long looked over and there was no trace of wild boars until the end of the valley several hundred meters away.

Apparently, the injured wild boar ran away.

"And it hit another one. Who did it?" Xie Ruifeng walked up and asked curiously.

Qi Jingyue squatted down and looked at the wild boar. Yang Chen was a little at a loss.

"I don't know." Li Long shook his head. "It's too dark to see clearly."

"I didn't shoot him." Qi Jingyue shook his head. "Master Li shot him. I wasn't aiming at that end."

Li Long smiled and said, "Not necessarily. The dispersion of the projectiles... it's hard to say. No matter who fired it, it's good enough that it exists."

"There are still injured!" The sky became brighter, and Yang Chen also saw the bloodstains in front of him. He shouted excitedly, "Let's catch up!"

Qi Jingyue and Jie Ruifeng both looked at Li Long, waiting for his decision.

"I can't catch up." Li Long waved his hand. "With all the gunfire, these wild boars won't stop until they run three or four kilometers. Can you keep up with them all the way up and down the mountain?"

Several people hesitated.

In fact, if we wait a little longer, we can still catch them, but Li Long thinks that's enough, he doesn't want to cause any more trouble. We have the wolf, the roe deer, and now the wild boar, can we tell them now?

"You can chase it if you want. Who will take this wild boar back? Now we need to skin it open, take out the internal organs and drain the blood." Li Long continued, "After that, if anyone still wants to chase it, then we can go and try."

Li Long turned the wild boar over and said to Yang Chen:
"Hold on, I'm going to cut you open!"

The wild boar's body was not yet stiff, so he put the gun behind his back, pulled out the knife, let the blood flow first, stepped on it hard to squeeze out as much blood as possible, and then cut open the boar's stomach.

Because Qi Jingyue wanted to transport the wild boar back, Li Long simply opened it up, drained the blood, and took out the internal organs. After asking for her opinion, he threw away the internal organs and left only the boar.

Of course, Li Long kept the wild boar's stomach. He squeezed out the feces inside, then wrapped it in plastic cloth and stuffed it into his backpack.

"Master Li, what's the use of that thing?" asked Xie Ruifeng.

"Wild boar stomach, a folk remedy for stomach problems." Li Long said casually, "This is the state of the wild boar now. If we want to chase it, someone has to guard it, or just drag it back to the cabin, and then I'll lead the others to chase it. After all, if we leave it here, the wolves will probably come and eat it, and then our efforts will be in vain."

Qi Jingyue and the other two were in a dilemma.

To pursue or not to pursue?
Li Long didn't care. In fact, if he really wanted to chase, he could walk a little further and maybe he could actually kill one or two wild boars, which would allow him to earn more money.

But he was not sure if these young people could keep up. After all, they had used up a lot of energy yesterday, and got up so early today. Could they keep up the rest of the way?
The next step might be five or six kilometers, or seven or eight kilometers, no one could guarantee it. If he wanted to catch up, he had to catch up. Giving up halfway was not his style. If it was him, it would be fine, but what about the others?

That's why he threw this difficult problem to the three young people.

"Well... forget it." Qi Jingyue looked at the wild boar, then looked at her two companions. She actually wanted to chase them, but it was still dark. In this big mountain, if she let Yang Chen drag the wild boar alone, or the two of them dragged the wild boar back, what if they got lost?
Among the four people, only Li Long could pass through unimpeded. She couldn't, and the remaining two people probably couldn't either. Even though there were footprints from the way there, Qi Jingyue was still worried. What if there were wolves?

When we came, our parents told us that we must go together, and even if we can't hit each other, nothing can get into trouble.

She was sure that it would be fine for her to follow Li Long, but it was hard to say about the other two people.

After all, when I heard Uncle Li say this before, I knew that Li Long had encountered a pack of six wild wolves.

She didn't know the specific situation, but she knew that if a group of wolves surrounded Yang Chen and Jie Ruifeng, it would be difficult for her two companions to escape - even if they had guns.

The hunting experience of the past two days has made her realize that even with a gun in hand, it is not safe.

Although it is a bit frustrating, this is a reality that we have to face.

Li Long could roughly guess what Qi Jingyue was thinking. He admired this girl who considered the overall situation. She obviously wanted to go, but gave up for the sake of the overall situation.

Be responsible.

Then Yang Chen dragged the wild boar back.

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and I could see the way I came clearly.

But even so, Yang Chen and Jie Ruifeng still couldn't be sure whether the route Li Long was taking them was the same route they took here.

After all, there are not only traces of their footsteps in this mountain, but also traces of cattle and sheep. A section of the path they are walking on overlaps with the path walked by cattle and sheep, and sometimes the path walked by cattle and sheep will branch off. If they are left to come back alone, they are not sure whether they can find the way to the cabin.

It turned out that without a guide, they were actually quite insignificant in the mountains.

Finally, the wooden house came into sight, and smoke could be seen coming out of the chimney on the wooden roof. It must be the driver who started the fire, right? (End of this chapter)