Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

On the train, there was an unpleasant smell. It was close to the New Year, and there were fewer trains running, so the hard-seat carriages were packed with people. The seats were full, some were leaning on the sides, some were lying on newspapers under the seats, the connecting parts of the carriages were full, and even the toilet door was always lined up.

It was dark outside, but the lights in the carriage were bright. Li Anguo and Chen Xingbang sat in the middle, Li Junfeng and Li Junshan sat outside, and in the innermost were two young strangers who were also wary of Li Anguo and the other three, and spoke very little along the way.

Late at night, Li Anguo and Chen Xingbang fell asleep on the table. The six-person table in the hard seat compartment of the train was slightly longer than the four-person table, but it only reached the middle position. Li Junshan and Li Junfeng, who were sitting on the outer seats, had no way to lie down. Li Junfeng leaned on Chen Xingbang's back, while Li Junshan pulled the lining of his coat over himself with both hands and fell asleep with his head tilted back.

Then he felt something unusual moving in his body. When he opened his eyes slightly, he saw a short middle-aged man leaning on the arm of a chair next to him, pretending to rest, but in fact his hand had already reached into his arms.

Li Junfeng suddenly became angry!
Although I have no money, but he is targeting me. Is this bullying me, a man from eastern Henan, for being spineless?

He closed his eyes slightly, loosened his grip on the coat, clenched his fist, suddenly turned around, grabbed the other person's wrist with his right hand, and smashed the other person's cheek with his left hand!
The middle-aged man screamed and fell over.

Li Junshan was still not satisfied, so he stood up and kicked Li Junfeng. When he woke him up, he turned around and beat the middle-aged man hard.

After throwing a few punches, he felt someone pulling him, but the force soon disappeared. Li Junshan didn't care. He punched the other person a few more times, spat at him, and then stood up with a sense of relief.

When he turned around, he found that Li Junfeng and Chen Xingbang were beating another person. Li Anguo also stood over. There was another person in the aisle holding a dagger. Li Anguo was holding a large shovel used by a skilled worker. Neither of them took action and they just confronted each other.

"We accept defeat!" The man with the dagger looked at the men fiercely and shouted, "Go!"

After saying that, he put away the dagger and ran towards the connection between the carriages.

Several of his accomplices also got rid of the entanglement of Li Junfeng and others and left with bruised faces.

The fight woke up many people. Some of them began to cry out that they had lost their money, some had their clothes cut, and some were lucky to have escaped.

When Li Anguo and his companions left, they hid the money well, and with four strong men together, they were not worried about it being stolen. But now it seems that things are not that simple.

The attendant came over and asked about the situation. After knowing that Li Junshan and his team had fought with the thief, he came over to ask about the situation. As for the passengers whose money was stolen, he could only tell them to report the situation to the train police and the conductor. As for whether the money could be recovered, the attendant did not hold out much hope.

After all, there were too many people on the train at that time, and there were too many stations to get off at along the way. There was no surveillance, so it was very difficult to find someone.

"Let's take turns sleeping for a few nights. Just these few nights, let's hold on." Li Anguo thought for a while and said, "It will be better during the day. At night, two people will sleep in the first half of the night and the other two will sleep in the second half. If anything happens, we can wake them up immediately."

Rotation would be much better.

This is also a last resort.

The day passed peacefully. Because there had been a night burglary, everyone was very careful and no thieves came at night.

When we were almost at the intermediate station and everyone's vigilance dropped, another accident occurred.

A group of people blocked the carriages on both sides with a lot of noise and closed the doors. Two people restrained the conductor who came forward to question them.

The leader held a dagger in his hand, and seven or eight people began to search everyone one by one.

"Hurry up, hurry up, we're almost at the station! Hurry!"

This is a bit arrogant!

Li Junshan and his team were at one-third of the way there, and they would soon be searched here. The two juniors looked at Li Anguo, waiting for him to make a decision.

"No! Get out the shovel and the tile knife!" Li Anguo whispered, "We'll be at Chang'an Station soon. There will be train police outside the station. They won't be able to hold out for long! As long as they don't dare to get on all at once, we'll have to wait! Drag them to a big station. I don't believe they dare to drag them until the train stops."

This gave Li Junshan and his men the backbone, and several of them took out large shovels, tile knives and other tools from their black bags, holding the tools and moving in. The two strange guys looked a little dumbfounded, they didn't expect these four to be so fierce!

"If you two are not in the same group as them, get down to the bottom!" Li Anguo said to the two young men, "Otherwise I'll hurt you later, and I'll be sorry!"

The two young men immediately huddled under the chairs, and Li Anguo and the other three huddled near the seats against the wall of the carriage, two facing outward and two facing the opposite seats.

The gang immediately spotted them and four or five of them surrounded them.

Li Junshan took a look and was glad that these people didn't have guns.

"Friend, what do you mean?" The leader gestured with his machete, "Do you want to fight with us?"

The guys who were searching and approaching the passengers to get their money gathered around.

Just when the onlookers thought that a big battle was about to break out, a dramatic scene occurred. Li Junshan would remember this for the rest of his life and would be able to tell his children and grandchildren about it for decades.

The two young men who had hidden under the chairs reached the periphery at some point, and together with several other passengers, they pinned down the robbers.

It turned out that they were plainclothes police.

Nothing serious happened afterwards. Before the plainclothes officers took the people away, they thanked Li Anguo and his men, saying that they were grateful for bringing these guys together.

After getting off the train, Li Anguo was still wondering, nothing happened when he went to northern Xinjiang, but he encountered two incidents when he came back. Is this a physique that attracts thieves?
You’d better go home quickly.

The train station square has a large flow of people and the temperature is much higher than in northern Xinjiang, basically around zero degrees.

But after leaving the station, Li Junfeng couldn't help but wrap his clothes tightly and said:
"It's so cold today! So damp and cold! It feels like even when I was fishing in the lake, it wasn't this cold... It's so uncomfortable!"

"Let's go, have lunch, and then take a train home. I've only eaten food from Northern Xinjiang for the past few months, and I'm starting to miss the food here." Chen Xingbang didn't have any big thoughts about this. Different places naturally give different feelings. He was mentally prepared before getting off the train.

"Hey, that's right, the taste is different." When Li Junfeng heard about food, he didn't feel so cold anymore, "What to eat?"

"Besides stewed noodles, what else can you eat?" Chen Xingbang said with a smile.

"middle."

"middle!"

Li Anguo didn't say anything. He could go home today. Although he had a lot of money in his arms, his mood suddenly became a little bad when he stepped into this place.

Northern Xinjiang is pretty good, because even though he only stayed there for a few months, he could see that in the village where his elder brother and younger brother stayed, there was no preference for boys over girls. It was normal for some families to have two girls, and some even had three girls.

Xiaolong's girlfriend only has one girl in her family, and she also came over.

Li Anguo has two daughters. In this village, traditional concepts are very strong. If he doesn't give birth to a son, his family line will be cut off.

It won’t lead to the extinction of the family in the future, but it will always be a pity if it is cut off.

In the village, those who have daughters will basically give birth to sons, even if it is an extra birth.

If Li Anguo wants to have another child, it will be an extra birth.

There were many people in the village who had more children than allowed and they had to pay fines, so he went to northern Xinjiang to get some quiet time and also to earn money from the fines.

Chen Xingbang is similar to him. He only has one daughter now and plans to have another one.

Although Li Junfeng is young, he is lucky because he has two sons, so he is happy.

I had noodles in the city at noon, then went to the bus station to buy a ticket and took the bus home.

The four of them got off the car halfway when they arrived at the county. Then they walked towards the village. The road was four li, or two kilometers, away from the village where the Li family lived, which was not far.

"It's still good to walk here." Although the road leading to my hometown is not asphalt, it is basically gravel road, and there are many people walking on it. There is no snow now, so it is convenient to walk. From time to time, you can also run into familiar people.

Compared to this, it is stronger than Northern Xinjiang.

That's why Li Junfeng had this feeling.

"Each has its own merits." Li Junshan felt differently. The snow in northern Xinjiang was also comfortable to look at. Thinking about the damp and hard quilt when he returned home later, he felt uncomfortable.

The stove and fire wall at Lao Ma are still more comfortable!

Unfortunately, don’t think about it in the short term.

There is not much grass on the roadside, and fallen branches have been picked up by people. These days, the firewood that can be legally used is basically gone. Unlike the wasteland in northern Xinjiang, which is full of shrubs and dead branches, this place feels much "cleaner".

I met more and more familiar people, including children, and we greeted them along the way and returned to the village.

Knowing that they had returned from northern Xinjiang, many people stood at the gate of the courtyard to watch the fun and ask a question or two.

Before returning, the four of them changed into new clothes. The inner clothes were new cotton-padded clothes bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, and the outer clothes were made of torn cloth, which Liang Yuemian and Lu Dasao hurriedly made.

I was wearing cotton-rubber shoes, and it was actually a little hot to wear them.

But comfortable!
He was wearing new clothes and carrying lots of bags. It was obvious that he was making a lot of money.

"Didn't they say that the second son of the Li family took his people to work in the sandy area of ​​northern Xinjiang? Why do they seem to be taking advantage of the money?" someone raised a question.

"Who knows if he's pretending?" Someone had a fixed impression, "How can that bitter cold place in the northwest, where prisoners are exiled, be a good place?"

"That's hard to say." Someone analyzed rationally, "When the old man of the Li family came back, the money he spent was definitely not fake. He must have spent hundreds of dollars in the past six months, right? Someone has calculated it. I heard that the eldest brother of the Li family sent tens or even hundreds of dollars before, so how could that money be fake?"

not talking anymore.

Watching these four people "parading in the city", I felt quite envious.

The first family members to rush over were Li Anguo's two daughters, the older one was eight years old and the younger one was five years old. Both of them were wearing patched clothes and had pigtails. Their faces were red from the cold, but they were very excited to see their father coming back. They hugged Li Anguo's arms one by one and helped him carry his bag.

Li Anguo didn't let him carry it because the bag was very heavy and contained things for the old man.

Li Anguo, Li Junfeng and Li Junshan are in the same village, and Chen Xingbang's village is less than a hundred meters away.

Li Qingxia already knew that his second son and son-in-law had returned. As an old man, he naturally couldn't come out to greet them, so he waited at the gate of the courtyard, feeling a little restless.

Du Chunfang sat at the door of the house, watching him go out to take a look, and couldn't help saying:
"If you want to go and welcome him, what's there to be afraid of? He's your son. If you don't want to welcome him, just stay put. He will always be the first one to come and see you when he returns home."

This is true.

Li Qingxia didn't have much else to say. He felt like he was just an old man from the countryside and had nothing to brag about. The only thing that made him feel gratified was that his children were all relatively filial.

He was eager to meet Li Anguo, but more importantly, he wanted to hear about how Li Anguo and his friends spent the winter in northern Xinjiang.

Li Jianguo sent telegrams, mentioning more than once that he wanted the two elders to live in northern Xinjiang and spend the winter. He didn't want to do that before, but after staying there for a few months last summer, Li Qingxia thought it was really nice there.

Although there are many old friends here, winter is really hard to get through. It is cold and gloomy, and I cough from time to time, and I feel like I can cough out my lungs.

My old bones are feeling uncomfortable!
This made him miss the sun in northern Xinjiang especially. The summer sun was hot everywhere!
Old people are afraid of the cold, and Li Qingxia is no exception. He is now hesitating whether to go to the Northern Frontier, so he wants to hear what Li Anguo has to say.

Li Qingxia didn't have to wait too long. Li Anguo brought the things to the yard where the old couple lived.

"This is the money that my elder brother asked me to bring to you. This is the honey and wine that Xiaolong brought to you." Li Anguo brought the things together and said with a smile, "My elder brother told you to move to the northern border. It's very cold here."

"How can it be hot over there?" Du Chunfang was puzzled. "It snows over there, right? It's colder than here, right?"

"There is a stove and a fire wall!" Li Anguo explained, "My eldest brother's family brought a truckload of coal, poured it on both sides, and burned the stove every day. The house was so hot that we could only wear thin clothes..."

"A truckload of coal? How much does that cost..." Du Chunfang said distressedly. We can't afford coal here, so we can only use honeycomb coal mixed with loess, which costs several cents a piece.

"Coal is cheap over there, only 20 to 30 yuan a ton. A ton! Two thousand kilograms! If you don't want to burn coal, you should know that there is firewood everywhere in the wasteland..."

"Did you make money this time?" Li Qingxia asked.

"I made a profit." This is what Li Anguo is most proud of, but he hasn't had the chance to tell his wife about it.

"It's OK as long as I make money." Li Qingxia looked at Li Anguo's new clothes and understood, "It's not a small amount."

"That's right!" Li Anguo sighed, "Xiaolong is really capable. He has been leading the four of us through a lot. In the past six months, he has earned... several hundred dollars!"

He didn't dare say that he had earned almost a thousand dollars.

I never dreamed that I could make so much money!
"Xiaolong... is really capable." Thinking about himself following his youngest son to the mountains to cut poles, Li Qingxia couldn't help but smile.

He asked in detail about life in northern Xinjiang in winter. After Li Anguo went back, Li Qingxia could no longer sit still in the yard.

Du Chunfang brought the honey, wine and other things into the house and put them away. He came out and looked at Li Qingxia wandering in the yard. He couldn't help but asked with a smile:
"Are you planning to go to Northern Xinjiang? It's hard to buy tickets right now."

"Oh." Li Qingxia thought, if nothing bad had happened at that time, it would have been better if he hadn't come back.

When Chen Xingbang returned home, his wife Li Xia had already heard the news and had been looking out at the gate. When she saw him carrying the bag, her daughter Hongqin also ran over to greet her father.

Hongqin is five years old and has not yet started school, but she already knows how to kiss her father. Chen Xingbang has been gone for a few months and she misses her father very much.

Looking at Hongqin's patched clothes and the dilapidated yard, Chen Xingbang had the urge to move away - he had earned enough money to build a new house in less than half a year with his brother-in-law in northern Xinjiang. Now that he was back here, if there was no new income, the money would be all spent in less than a year.

Think about the days in northern Xinjiang, with meat to eat every day, wine to drink from time to time, and money to spend. What about now?
"Come in quickly, the food is getting cold, eat something first." Li Xia didn't ask her husband how much money he earned, but asked him to eat first.

We had eaten on the way, but the meal at home was different. Li Xia served cornmeal steamed cake, fried cabbage with a few oil spots floating on it, a big bowl of batter with sweet potato chunks in it. There was also a plate of black dried sweet potatoes on the table - this was the mother and daughter's usual staple food.

"Come here, Hongqin, Dad bought you something delicious." Chen Xingbang opened the bag, took out the sesame cakes and egg cakes he brought back, put them on the table, and opened them for his daughter to eat.

"Just eat one piece." Li Xia said hurriedly, "You've had lunch, so leave it for later."

"It's okay. We made some money this time, so we'll have food to eat later." Thinking about how he ate delicious food every day in the stable in Northern Xinjiang and hardly ever ate coarse meat, and how his wife and children were eating these hard-to-swallow dried black sweet potatoes, Chen Xingbang had the urge to punch himself.

"You can't spend money carelessly even if you make money." Li Xia is a thrifty person. "The New Year is coming soon, so you have to buy some things for your parents, which will cost money? You also have to buy clothes for your brother and sister-in-law, right? You have to spend money, right?"

The parents Li Xia was talking about were Chen Xingbang's parents, her father-in-law and mother-in-law.

My daughter is going to school soon, and I need to prepare money. Money is needed everywhere.

"It's okay. We made a lot of money this time." Chen Xingbang emphasized again that he did not say how much because he was worried that Hongqin would hear it and tell it out, which would be bad.

It's different here from northern Xinjiang. There are people with conjunctivitis, people with bad intentions, and people who want to do bad things.

Be careful!

"By the way, Hongqin, I also bought you a doll! I went to the department store to buy it especially for you. Look at how pretty it is!"

"So beautiful!" Hongqin had never dreamed of having such a beautiful doll. She hugged the toy and wouldn't let go.

Children are easy to coax.

"There's one for you, too." Chen Xingbang looked at his wife. "Xiaolong bought some jade in Wucheng. Here's one for you. Take a look..."

"What about me?" In Li Xia's impression, the younger brother was just a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old, a little spoiled, a little stubborn, and didn't talk much.

Can you make money now?
Are you so sensible?

Chen Xingbang then told Li Xia about Li Long.

Li Junfeng was at home, telling his wife and children about things in Northern Xinjiang. Although he was the protagonist, Uncle Xiaolong was still an important character that could not be ignored.

At this time, the story of Li's youngest son spread in the village.

This was something Li Long didn't expect.

Legend degree +1. (End of this chapter)