Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long drove the carriage back to the big yard first, put down a half sheep and a set of sheep offal, and kept the skins and small intestines. He also kept the four legs and horns of the yellow sheep.

Things like leather and sheep intestines will need to be sold separately later.

Gu Xiaoxia hadn't finished get off work yet, and Li Long didn't stay in the yard for long. After putting his things down, he went to the big meat canteen, bought a few buns, and ate while driving the carriage back to the team.

Students were on holiday and it was winter, so there were few people on the road. The sun, which was about to set, could only bring a little warmth to Li Long, but more of a sleepiness.

Firstly, I had completed another task and felt relieved. Secondly, after eating the buns, my brain was not getting enough blood supply and I wanted to sleep.

Since there was no car, Li Long didn't control the reins and let No. 76 slowly pull the carriage forward.

He wrapped himself in his cotton coat, sat on the shaft of the cart and leaned back, feeling the swaying of the cart, which was quite comfortable.

The wheels made a squeaking sound as they pressed against the snow on the road. Occasionally, they would bump against a stone or a frozen dung ball, and Li Long would open his eyes to take a look, then continue to doze off with his eyes closed.

When the carriage was about to reach Team Three, Li Long heard voices on the roadside and woke up.

The settlements of his team 4 were scattered in three places, all of which were a certain distance away from the road. The team 3 next door was different, with two settlements, the largest of which was built along the road. What Li Long heard was the villagers on the other side of the road talking.

Li Long sat up, stretched his arms and legs, looked to the right, and found that there were two women arguing over something across the courtyard wall. It seemed that one of the families had lost a chicken, and they thought the other family had stolen it and eaten it.

Li Long didn't care about so much. Next he had to cross Weigou. The road in Weigou had been repaired once because of a flood, and again because of a troop that came here to build it. It is relatively flat now, but overall it is lower than the original road and has not reached the level of later generations. It will have to go through repeated repairs before it will become its final appearance.

Someone was running in the cut reed stubble. Li Long stretched his neck and looked for a long time before he found a black dot running in front of the person. It should be a rabbit.

Chase the rabbit!

Li Long was wondering if the rabbit he chased would eventually be delivered to him?

When the carriage arrived at the Laomahao, Li Long unloaded a whole sheep and a plate of offal as meat reserves for the place, and then drove the carriage to the Li family.

There are still people coming to the Li family to sell rabbits. Li Long drives the carriage into the yard, finds a stool to prop up the shaft, unloads the horse and leads it to the pen, then wipes the sweat off the horse and feeds it.

"Hey, Xiaolong, are these the offal?" The woman who had just sold the rabbits looked at the things on the carriage and asked with bright eyes, "There are so many, do you want to sell them?"

The woman is He Wenhui, the wife of Lao Zhou from the old settlement. Lao Zhou is not really that old, in his forties, but he looks like a man in his fifties, with a face full of wrinkles. He is from Shanghai, and so is his wife. It is unknown why he came here.

"Selling." Li Long said, "Six dollars for a set. It was the same price last year, but the intestines and stomach were not cleaned well this year."

"Six dollars. Let me see. They are quite fat and oily... It just so happens that I just brought two rabbits over and your brother charged six dollars for them. Can I take the whole set?"

"Okay." Li Long was naturally happy to open a business right after returning.

He Wenhui left happily with a set of sewage. Li Long originally wanted to go to Xu Chengjun and shout with a loud speaker, but now there was no need. He Wenhui was an important member of the village women's gossip association. Once she knew about it, it would not take long for everyone in their settlement to know about it, and within three days, the whole village would know about it.

"You brought back quite a lot this time." Li Jianguo looked at the cart of rabbits that Li Long brought back and said with a smile, "Now the rabbits have been collected for 130 yuan, do you still want to collect them?"

"Yes." Li Long said, "We'll take the fish too. I'll deliver all the things the sugar factory needs in a couple of days, and then I'll sell the rest."

"Come inside first." Li Jianguo said, "Warm yourself up. Your sister-in-law and I will move the things in."

"Let's move it together, quickly." Li Long took off his cotton coat and put it on the shaft of the cart, then began to move the frozen sheep offal to the vacant house.

Liang Yuemei, who had just heard the noise, had already cleared out a space in the spare house and laid out a plastic sheet. Li Long, Li Jianguo and the other two started moving their things.

After moving all the things, Li Jianguo pulled the carriage under the shed and put it away. Then people from the team came over to buy water.

Last year, Li Long sold a plate of fish for six yuan, and it was sold out in the end, but not very quickly. Today, He Wenhui took the food away and people came in just an hour later. It seems that her "broadcast" effect has worked.

The two plates of fish were sold for twelve yuan. The money was handed to Li Jianguo. Li Long said:
"Brother, use the money from selling offal to continue buying rabbits." He knew that his brother must not have enough money.

"Okay." Li Jianguo didn't say much, "When you have time, take some of the mutton and offal to Xiaoxia's father. He really likes to eat offal."

"Okay." Li Long nodded. He was going to send it off. Gu Xiaoxia was very busy recently, and the days were short, so she usually only came back once every two weeks. He was also quite busy recently, and he didn't know how Old Gu was doing now.

Liang Yuemei cooked some dishes and steamed buns for Li Long. After Li Long finished eating, he felt refreshed. Then he rode his eldest brother's bicycle and brought half a sheep and a plate of offal to Gu's house.

On the way, we met a few people from the team. After seeing Li Long, they asked about going into the water.

"It's at my eldest brother's place. You can buy it there." Li Long replied and went to Gu Boyuan's house.

The snow in Gu Boyuan's yard was not very clear, and there was still thick snow in the corners. As soon as I entered the yard, I could hear the intermittent sound of opera singing coming from the main house - Gu Boyuan should be listening to the radio.

Because of the big jobs that Li Long brought last year, many people in the team made some money. The radios in the department store are not expensive. The team leader can get industrial tickets every month, and some people in the team also have other connections and can get some tickets, so many people buy radios. But no one has bought a TV yet - this thing is really a bit expensive.

Li Long propped up the bike and was untying the rope when Gu Boyuan opened the door and walked out.

"Xiaolong, come here. Are these sheep? Did you get them from the mountains? Why did you bring so many? I can't eat them all!"

"If you can't finish it, you can eat it slowly." Li Long said with a smile, "We still have a winter. Even if we can't finish it in the spring, we can stew the meat and seal it with oil, and continue to eat it when the weather gets hotter."

"That's right... You must have brought back a lot, right?" Gu Boyuan followed Li Long to move things, and said as he moved, "There are a lot of wolves in the mountains in winter, right? You have to be careful."

Compared to wolves, the robbers in Shicheng are actually more dangerous. Li Long complained silently, but did not say it out loud. He explained:

"I carry a gun, so I'm not afraid of wolves. The night before yesterday, when I was coming back, I saw a green-eyed creature on the way and I thought it was a wolf, so I shot it. The day before yesterday, I went back and found that it was a yellow sheep!"

"Then you are lucky." Gu Boyuan finished moving the things, washed his hands, and let Li Long into the house. He followed him in and said, "But you have to be careful anyway. One or two is easy to deal with, but if there are a group, it will be troublesome."

Li Long nodded and said yes, then asked:
"Uncle Gu, do you want me to unload that sheep?"

When he was putting things in the kitchen just now, he found a bowl of salted leeks on the chopping board. This should be what he had in the morning. There were no steamed buns in the cage, but there were a few unleavened flatbreads on the plate - most likely, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, and Gu Boyuan just made do with the meal to satisfy his stomach.

"Do I need you? I'm not old yet." Gu Boyuan glared at him and said, "I still know how to unload sheep."

"Uncle Gu, you live alone, and you haven't thought about finding a stepmother for Xiaoxia? Anyway, Xiaoxia is older now, and I plan to get married to her when I build a house in the spring. It's not good for you to have no one to take care of you."

"Go away and do your own thing. You are just as nosy as your brother..." Gu Boyuan slapped Li Long, "You are not that old, but you have a lot of free time!"

Li Long came out of Gu's house with a smile on his face and rode his bicycle to the stable.

He planned to go to the Laomahao to rest for a while. He had been running around these days and wanted to lie down when he had some free time.

Li Long knew that he was too tired, so he decided to take more rest. Anyway, his elder brother was there to help him collect rabbits and fish, and Yang Yongqiang and Tao Daqiang were still fishing. He only needed to take the goods to the sugar factory to deliver the goods and get the money the next day or the day after tomorrow.

Uncle Luo was cleaning the stomachs and intestines of sheep at the old horse shop. Seeing Li Long coming back, he smiled and said:
"Xiaolong, the offal we brought back this time is really fat! The braised meat with intestines and nets is really good!"

"The grass is good this year," Li Long explained. "Uncle Luo, I won't wash it. I'm tired. I'm going to take a nap."

"Go and take a rest! You are the one doing the big work, I will finish this small job in a short while. After I finish, I will cook a big meal, and we will have a drink tonight. After that, you can have a good sleep and you will be energetic tomorrow!"

Uncle Luo saw Li Long running back and forth. This young man was not greedy or stingy. He let himself live in the stable and ate the good things he brought back. He never hid anything. This touched Uncle Luo deeply. He came from the old society and had experienced a lot. He knew which people were sincere to you and which were just superficial.

Li Long used to be a bit out of tune, but he had nothing to do with Lao Luotou, after all, he used to raise and drive horses for the production team. Later, Li Long bought a stable, and Lao Luotou didn't want to leave, so he tried to live here, which coincided with Li Long's idea.

Old Luo must have been a little nervous at first, because he was no longer the usual Uncle Luo, but Li Long's employee. Coming from the old society, he knew the difference between an employee and a boss.

But he didn't expect that Li Long still treated him as an elder as always, never interfered with his work, and never treated him as a servant.

When people treat me with sincerity, the vast majority of them will return the favor with sincerity - more sincerity.

Although the saying of "a little bit of rice is a blessing, a big bit of rice is a grudge" is passed down from ancient times, in fact, when Li Long was about to die in his previous life, there were more cases circulated on the Internet. At this time, more people know how to be grateful.

Li Long went to his room and saw that the stove had been set up. The charcoal fire had already burned through and was now red. He shoveled some coal to suppress the fire, then lay on the bed, touching a book, flipping through the contents and found that it was "Seven Swordsmen from Tianshan". He casually turned to the part where Ling Weifeng used the Tianshan Divine Light and started reading, then fell asleep.

In the dream, Li Long himself also learned the Tianshan Divine Light. That thing in his hand was like a large-sized long-grain wild wheat. It could poke a big hole in a wild wolf when thrown out. It was extremely powerful.

Then I was woken up by Uncle Luo.

He thought about his dream and smiled. No matter how powerful the divine light was, could it be as powerful as a bullet?
Uncle Luo has already cooked the dishes: stir-fried tripe slices with spicy sauce, stir-fried lamb intestines, and steamed cornmeal cakes.

Li Long saw that the fire here was fine, so he added some coal, then washed his hands and started eating with Uncle Luo.

It was getting dark, and while we were eating, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang came over together.

"Brother Long, we caught a big black snapper today, weighing more than two kilograms. Look!" Yang Yongqiang excitedly showed a fish to Li Long, "We won't freeze the fish. Let's put it here for you and Uncle Luo to eat."

Li Long knew that there were fewer and fewer black carps in the reservoir, especially the big ones, and he didn't know where they had gone. The meat of this fish was delicious, and the villagers who liked to eat fish usually kept it for themselves after catching it if they had money. Of course, the Li family preferred to eat crucian carp.

But if you want to make a big dish, five-piece black carp, that is, river perch, will be more photogenic and more high-end than crucian carp.

"How was your harvest today?" Li Long pointed to the stools and asked them to sit down.

"It's OK, not too many fish, but there are quite a few big fish today." Tao Daqiang said, "I caught four carps, three of which weighed more than two kilograms. The five black ones were caught by Yongqiang, and he also caught a big silver carp, which looked to be at least five kilograms."

"The weather is getting colder," said Lao Shu Luo. "The big fish are even more desperate for air, so they like to come up more. They know they will be caught, but they still have to take the risk, otherwise they will die. Come on, come and eat with your chopsticks."

At this time, the amount of cooking is large, mainly because they have escaped poverty and are moving towards a well-off life. If they cook more, they can heat it up for the next meal. Another reason is that there are many young people coming to Mahao, so they are prepared for others to come and eat together.

Like now.

Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang did not pretend. They washed their hands, picked up chopsticks, took the steamed cake and started eating.

"My eldest brother has some sheep offal. When you come back later, each of you can take a plate and eat it." Li Long said, "The intestines and stomach are not washed, and only the feces inside are squeezed out. You have to wash it again after it thaws."

"That's great!" Yang Yongqiang said as he ate with a smile, "My dad likes to eat this."

"My wife likes it, too." Tao Daqiang said, "She just brought some fish back."

"Daqiang's wife is very capable." Yang Yongqiang's face was full of envy. "These two days, she fished with us during the day and went back to cook at noon. Then his father came over and came to catch fish again after lunch... Daqiang always caught more fish than me."

Li Long nodded thoughtfully.

When the time comes to divide the money, give Tao Daqiang more.

After dinner, Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang went to Li's house to get water. After Li Long peeled the black fish with five stripes, he put it in the kitchen and told Uncle Luo to cook it tomorrow.

When it got dark, Uncle Luo and Li Long drove the deer into the warm pen together. They also picked out the grass stalks with the leaves eaten and piled them beside the open pen, so that it would be convenient to feed the animals tomorrow morning.

Li Long was not worried at all about feeding these things, as Uncle Luo would take care of it.

Returning to the house and turning on the light, Li Long saw the fire blazing. He felt a little hot, so he turned around and shoveled some coal to put out the fire.

Li Long took off his clothes and half leaned on the bed. He couldn't sleep, so he just started reading a book.

By the time he felt sleepy, it was already past one o'clock. Li Long went out to the toilet and then went back to sleep.

It was a rare opportunity that he didn't have to travel the next day, so Li Long had a good sleep. When he woke up, it was already bright. He could hear Uncle Luo feeding deer and roe deer outside, and scolding the animals from time to time, as if he disliked some animal that was too impatient and snatching food.

Li Long smiled, got up, put on his clothes and went out.

A gust of cold wind blew through his clothes and Li Long couldn't help but shiver. He tightened his clothes and felt the temperature had dropped a lot.

When Lao Shu Luo saw Li Long coming out, he smiled and said:
"It seems you slept well tonight. Breakfast is in the pot, and I've already eaten. You can go about your business after you finish. By the way, will you come back for lunch?"

"Maybe I won't come back. I have to go to my eldest brother." Li Long said.

He needed to go and prepare the things that would be sent to the sugar factory tomorrow. If he had enough now, loading the truck in advance would save him a lot of trouble tomorrow.

"Okay, I'll cook the fish this afternoon." Uncle Luo nodded and continued to feed the deer.

Li Long originally wanted to let Uncle Luo eat the fish himself, but then he thought about it and didn't say it. The old man has this idea and will not change it easily. Besides, Uncle Luo is alone, so the meal will definitely be tasteless. It's also good for him to come over and have dinner with him in the evening. Two people always eat better than one person.

After breakfast, Li Long rode his elder brother's bicycle to Li's house.

Li Qiang was beating an old cow with a few kids on the road outside the yard. When he saw Li Long coming, he shouted:

"Uncle!"

"What about beating Lao Niu?" Li Long asked, leaning sideways and kicking the ground, "Have you finished your homework?"

“No…” Li Qiang immediately lowered his head like a deflated ball, fearing that he would be scolded: “There are still two more.”

"Okay, no rush, just write a little every day." Li Long didn't think it was necessary to finish the homework all at once. "You can play, but you still have to do your homework every day. After you finish it, you can play."

"Great!" Li Qiang was happy. His uncle didn't scold him for not finishing his homework. He thought his uncle was the best!

Liang Yuemei was feeding the pigs when Li Long entered the house and saw Li Jianguo putting fish into his bag, which contained urea bags, ammonium nitrate bags, and sacks that Li Long had brought from the sugar factory.

"Brother, that's enough fish, right?" Li Long understood at a glance.

"That's enough, more than one ton. I've weighed it here, and it weighs one ton when put together." Li Jianguo pointed to a large pile of fish on the plastic sheet and some that had been bagged and said, "Put them in bags so they can be easily stored and unloaded."

"That's what I thought. Let's pack it today and send it to Stone City tomorrow morning with Rabbit."

Actually, we could have delivered it today, but the carriage couldn't move fast with so many things on it. It would be fine when we went, but it might be dark when we came back, which is not very safe.

Let’s talk about it tomorrow! (End of this chapter)