Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The next day, when Li Long got up, it was already bright. In fact, his biological clock did work a little, but Li Long opened his eyes and fell asleep again. Because he didn't need to get up, he slept peacefully and didn't even notice that Gu Xiaoxia got up to cook.

Yesterday's ride and the thrills in the middle made him feel a little tired both physically and mentally, so he just took a good rest.

When he got up, the temperature in the room was quite high. He knew that Gu Xiaoxia had added coal to the stove.

Such an ordinary life is actually quite good. But he still has to work hard to save money. At this moment, he is a little envious of those people in the village who can now live a warm life with a wife and children. Although they are not as rich as he is, at least they are happy now.

Not necessarily. As a famous female writer from northern Xinjiang said many years later, people always worry about something. If they don't worry about one thing, they will worry about another.

There are not many people who can truly be content with what they have.

Or rather, very little.

He got up, rubbed his face, put on his clothes, went outside to use the toilet, came to the kitchen, and saw the breakfast that Gu Xiaoxia had prepared.

Rice porridge, leavened flatbreads, fried pickles, and chili oil.

Li Long washed up and ate. After eating, he cleaned up the kitchen and continued his work.

Arm yourself fully and ride your bike back.

In Li Long's opinion, he had only been gone for two days, and when he returned to the team, he should be able to collect thirty or forty rabbits at most.

But he really underestimated everyone's enthusiasm for making money.

When he returned to Li's house and saw seven or eight people smoking and chatting in the yard without going into the house, Li Long knew that this matter might not be as simple as he thought.

These people are most likely not just doing it for the money, there are other reasons as well.

"Hey, Xiaolong is back." Li Long didn't expect that the captain Xu Chengjun was also there. After seeing Li Long, he smiled and greeted him, "Are you back from the county?"

"Well, I went to Shicheng." Li Long said, "Why don't you go inside? It's so cold outside."

"It's okay, it's not cold." The others smiled and responded, "It's fun to chat, and there's no room to stand inside."

"We all come here to deliver rabbits. Each rabbit is three yuan. If we catch seven or eight rabbits a day, it's equivalent to a month's salary for an apprentice." Xu Chengjun took a puff of a Mohe cigarette and said, "It's worth it! You've done something good this time!"

Some other people were too embarrassed to say this, but Xu Chengjun was fine. He was the first to know about this matter and the first to ask Li Long if he would accept the rabbits. Now everyone standing in the yard had a good relationship with him, and he was the one who notified them, so he said this without any embarrassment.

Both he and Li Long understood that this was a win-win situation. The villagers made money and Li Long was able to complete his task.

"Then you guys continue chatting, I'll go in and take a look." Li Long heard a sound coming from the idle house, so he parked his bicycle, said a word and went into the house.

"Just do your own thing and don't worry about us. We'll leave sooner or later. We still have to get condoms in the afternoon." Xu Chengjun said with a smile.

Li Long pushed the door open, and a burst of hot air rushed out. The room was very hot. In the other room, Li Jianguo was talking:
"… Three rabbits over three kilograms, I'll charge you three yuan, a total of nine yuan. This big one is almost six kilograms, so I'll charge you four yuan, isn't that a good deal? That's thirteen yuan. And this small one, at most two kilograms. You can't harvest these rabbits, so you can take them home and cook them for yourself."

"What are you eating? Put it here, put it in there." The man with his back to Li Long took the money from Li Jianguo and said loudly, "Old Li, you are so generous in giving me money. I can't be stingy, right? Okay, I'm leaving. I'll see if I can get a few more this afternoon!"

The man turned around, and Li Long said with a smile:

"Brother Hao, are you trapping rabbits too?"

"Of course not." Hao Xinzhong said with a smile, "You have given us a way to make money, so why don't we do something about it? Xiaolong, you are this!"

He gave Li Long a thumbs up, gestured to him, then patted him on the shoulder and went out.

Hao Jianzhong is older than Li Jianguo, and he also came here during the period when the village was built. He came here first, and then his wife and children came here. He is a good worker, but his brain is not very flexible. In the next few years, the family can only make ends meet. He only knows how to work in the fields, and the range of crops he grows is also very narrow, which is wheat, rapeseed and other basic necessities of life and can pay public grain.

Li Jianguo is different from him, or rather, Li Jianguo is different from most people in the village. In addition to raising pigs, Li Jianguo used the 20 to 30 mu of land at home and the 20 mu of land he later contracted to grow beets, carrots, melons, sunflowers, lettuce, etc. In short, after a few years of hard work, he bought a tractor.

pity……

Li Long stopped thinking about it and walked towards the empty house.

There is no fire wall or stove here, so the temperature is low. Once the door is closed, the heat can't get in, so it's more suitable for putting things here.

What surprised Li Long was that there was a pile of frozen rabbits next to the wall. At a glance, there were at least fifty or sixty of them!

"Brother, so many!"

"Haha, no!" Li Jianguo said with a smile, "I didn't expect to have collected so many rabbits in just two days! I think in two days, these rabbits will be enough. Will we collect more later?"

"Let's collect it." Li Long said, "It's enough for the sugar factory. We can sell the rest in Shicheng."

"That's right." Li Jianguo said, "We can just be middlemen."

"That's not quite the same. We call this an intermediary, or an agent." Li Long said with a smile, "We find a way for everyone to make money, and earn some hard-earned money and travel expenses at the same time."

"Haha, you are really good at learning." Li Jianguo knew that this was a sure-win job, so he was actually quite happy. Then he asked:
"How's the mountain? What's the deal?"

"It was agreed that they didn't want any money, but they asked me to bring more food and other supplies up there."

"That's right. There's no point in them holding the money. They might as well exchange it for supplies." Li Jianguo nodded. "Come on, let's go out. I'll close this door to prevent the heat from getting in."

After leaving the idle house, Li Long heard that there was no sound in the yard, so he smiled and said:
"I didn't expect the captain to lead people to catch rabbits."

"Haha, he's just trying to get back to the old days. Think about it, in the past, when the team was working, everyone would go out together after a call was made through the loudspeaker. Last year, the land was divided, and later it was said that the remaining land would also be contracted out. In the future, fewer people will want to work like this. At most, they can go out together when digging canals and planting trees in the spring. He's not satisfied with being the team leader!"

"I'm also worried that the team members will do something when they have free time. This year, we have distributed food rations and fields, and you found some jobs for everyone to earn money. Now everyone has some money in their pockets, and some people are restless. Some play cards for money, and some even steal.

The captain gathered these people together to catch rabbits. Running around outside and tiring themselves out can be considered an entertainment activity. After being tired for a while, they won’t have so much time to think about other things when they return home.”

Li Long didn't expect that there were so many tricks involved. It seems that management is really a science. Whether it is managing a company or a production team, it requires thinking, ability and methods.

He knew he couldn't do it and didn't have the ability.

Liang Yuemei was cooking, Li Qiang and Li Juan were out playing, and Li Jianguo and Li Long were chatting in the west room.

"I plan to send a telegram to my family before the Chinese New Year," Li Jianguo said, "and then tell my parents to come over after the Chinese New Year. Last year I saw that they were getting used to staying away from home, so I'll let them continue to come over. It doesn't matter where we celebrate."

"That's right. The house here is warm and we can survive in the winter. The winter in my hometown is just endurance." Li Long still has some memories of his life in his hometown in his mind.

When the meal was almost ready, someone knocked on the door and then pushed it open.

Li Long stood up first and listened to Liang Yuemei say:
"Weiguo? Are you here to sell rabbits? Come in, come in!"

Then Liang Yuemei shouted inside:

"Juan's father, Xiaolong, Weiguo is here to sell rabbits."

Weiguo's surname was Jia, and they were a family that joined the team later. Li Long vaguely remembered that when he first came, he was like a refugee from famine, wearing tattered clothes. At that time, there were not many people in the team, so he joined. After staying for two years, he brought his wife over, and then he had a daughter in the team.

Both husband and wife are not in good health, especially his wife who has a chronic disease and is not very able to work, so the family does not live well.

Li Jianguo and Li Long went over together and saw Jia Weiguo standing by the door awkwardly, holding two rabbits.

Jia Weiguo's clothes were a bit big, and the cotton coat inside was a bit thin, feeling like the clothes put on the outside of an empty barrel. The clothes were still shaking and looked like they couldn't be held up.

Seeing Li Jianguo and Li Long coming over, he smiled, and perhaps a little embarrassed and uncomfortable, he lowered his head.

"Weiguo is here. Did you catch the rabbit? Not bad! Come on, come inside!"

Li Jianguo opened the door of the vacant house and motioned Jia Weiguo to follow him. "This big rabbit is three dollars." Li Jianguo looked at the rabbit Jia Weiguo handed over and said, "For the small one, I'll give you two dollars and fifty cents..."

Li Long could see that the rabbit weighed less than three kilograms. He had previously announced that he would not accept it, but now he did not say anything. They were all in the same team, and the eldest brother did not want to embarrass Jia Weiguo, so he naturally had no objection.

"Then...thank you, Brother Li." Jia Weiguo moved his lips and said something, his face a little red, "I know...this rabbit is a little small..."

"It's okay, it's okay. Big ones have different prices, and small ones have different prices." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Here, you keep the money. Here, give me the rabbit."

Jia Weiguo took the money and held it in his hand, feeling a little at a loss.

"You haven't eaten yet? Eat before leaving?" Liang Yuemei asked in the middle room.

"No, no, I have to go back...Guixiang has cooked at home." Jia Weiguo said hurriedly, feeling like he was about to sweat.

"Then take a few steamed buns back." Liang Yuemei said as she neatly wrapped a few steamed buns in a cage cloth and tied a knot. "Feed them to the child. Your Xiao Cui looks really thin. She needs to eat something good." As she said that, she stuffed the steamed buns into Jia Weiguo's hands.

Jia Weiguo wanted to refuse, but Li Jianguo smiled and said:
"Take it. It's okay for the adults, but we can't delay the baby's growth."

Jia Weiguo moved his lips, not knowing what to say.

Li Long opened the door and sent the person out.

When he came back, Li Jianguo sighed:
"This is a miserable person. If he hadn't had problems in those years, he might have been a good teacher, and he might even have a job in the city."

Li Long didn't know this, so he asked curiously, "Has he been to school?"

"He graduated from high school. At that time, it was quite a feat to be able to go to high school." Li Jianguo said, "I vaguely heard him say that while we were working. He is a good person, but he is not very good at talking."

"Guixiang is also a pitiful person." Liang Yuemei, who came in with a plate of food, continued, "When she was pregnant with her first child, Jia Weiguo happened to have an accident, and the result... was gone. Then she got pregnant with Xiaocui after joining the team. Her health was not good to begin with, and the child was born with congenital defects..."

What a poor man.

Li Long shook his head and sighed. Character and ability are the first priority, and family situation is not the main factor. It is much better than what he heard from novels and the elders in his hometown.

"Eat, eat. You guys eat first. I'll go call Juan and Qiangqiang."

"I'll go, I'll go." Li Long said with a smile, "I'll just go out and shout and that'll be enough."

As they were talking, they heard the voices of children talking outside. Li Long smiled and said:
"See, we're back. The kids have a sense of time."

"What? He's probably hungry." Liang Yuemei said.

The door opened and Li Qiang shouted loudly:

"I'm starving, Mom! What kind of meal are you cooking? Is my uncle back? When did he arrive? Why didn't I see you?"

"I've been back for less than an hour." Li Long said with a smile.

Li Qiang is better than me. He said silently in his heart. When he was Li Qiang's age, he would not even say hello when relatives came to his house. Li Qiang was the same before, but now he is obviously more proactive and confident.

Is this also a change brought about by myself?

After dinner, Li Jianguo took Li Long to see the fish in the east room. In the past two days, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang had brought in 70 to 80 kilograms of fish, and the Liang family and two other families had brought in about 100 kilograms of fish. In general, at this rate, they could get one ton in five or six days.

Li Long's idea is to keep doing it. Save more and go to Shicheng to sell more before the New Year, and the money will come.

Li Jianguo had no objection. He had no income in the winter before, so why not do it now that he had such a good opportunity? He was thinking that if he had known earlier, he should have kept a pig until the New Year to slaughter it and sell it in Shicheng. It would definitely sell very quickly and at a good price.

Li Long did not go to Xiaohaizi. After dinner, he went to Mahao.

Uncle Luo was picking up the straw from the pen. When he saw Li Long coming over, he complained:

"Deer and roe deer are so picky! The grass is so good, but they don't eat it well. They just think about sugar residue and cornmeal every day! Cows are so good, they can eat everything..."

"Uncle Luo, you have to think about it. When a deer grows up, it will be sold for at least 500 or 600 yuan. A cow will be sold for at most 300 yuan. There is a difference!"

"That's right..." Uncle Luo thought about it and smiled, "Gold is really valuable."

In the evening, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang came over. Li Long could see that both of them were very excited.

"What? Did you catch a big fish?" Li Long asked with a smile.

"No, but there are quite a lot of fish these past two days. As the weather gets colder, the ice gets thicker and the fish underneath lack oxygen, so we can catch quite a lot every day!"

"That's a good thing." Li Long said with a smile, "Get one ton as soon as possible, then I can send it to Shicheng."

"Will that exceed the limit?" Yang Yongqiang asked.

"We'll keep the extra. When the sugar factory is done, we can continue to sell it in the old street." Li Long said, "We can never have too much money!"

"That's right, I don't think it's too much!"

"I don't mind either!" Tao Daqiang blurted out, "The more the better!"

"Hahahaha!"

The three of them laughed together.

After breakfast the next day, Li Long went to his eldest brother's place to harness the carriage and drove to the county.

He had to prepare the supplies as soon as possible and then send them to the mountains. Li Long guessed that Halimu and his men would definitely prepare the sheep in one or two days. If it was just Halimu and Yushanjiang, it might take a few days. But if he gathered the people nearby, it would be fast.

Li Long went to the market first and saw that there was not much grain for sale, so he went to the grain store. Unfortunately, there was no special price grain for sale. Li Long took out all the grain coupons in stock and bought eight bags of rice and eight bags of flour, each weighing 200 kilograms.

The carriage had a rack, so it couldn't hold much. He went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought four bags of fifty kilograms of coarse salt, which herders used to feed their livestock in winter. Of course, sheepskin also needed to be rubbed with salt to preserve it and prevent insects.

They were not used to using refined salt, so coarse salt was just right for them. If there was no coarse salt, they would also use rock salt, but rock salt contained a lot of impurities, so Li Long thought it would be better to let them use coarse salt.

After packing everything, Li Long went to the department store again and bought 50 yuan of brick tea, 20 yuan of sugar cubes, and 20 bags of refined salt. Finally, he went to the market and found two vegetable stalls, where he packed two bags of potatoes and two large bags of cabbage. These two vegetables can be eaten frozen. The main reason is that the herdsmen don’t have much vegetables in winter, and relying on tea alone to solve the problem of vitamins is not very good.

Before leaving, I went to the herbal medicine company and bought some common medicines.

The director still remembered Li Long, so there was no problem with him buying the medicine.

Driving a horse-drawn carriage with a lot of stuff on it, Li Long stuffed the holster into the front of the carriage and drove off into the mountains.

All the way to Qingshui River, No. 76 was traveling at an easy pace, but after passing the last village and heading into the mountains, it slowed down.

It would have been fine if it was just an empty carriage, but the carriage was loaded with seven or eight hundred kilograms of stuff, so even if No. 76 was very strong, he was using all his strength to pull it up.

Li Long would take a break every half hour because the snow was too thick - and then he would go to the place where the shooting took place the night before.

Li Long just wanted to see if he had hit the green-eyed thing.

When he looked over, Li Long was surprised and delighted:

That's not a wolf, but a gazelle!
He was shot in the neck and died on the spot, with blood all over the floor!
Frozen solid.

Li Long happily carried the thing and threw it onto the carriage. Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected gain! (End of this chapter)