Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Of course, not delivering fish today is also related to the fact that Li Long doesn’t want to work today.

The original plan was to set out tomorrow. Although everything was prepared today, it was a tiring job, so Li Long thought it would be better to stick to the plan.

Li Long and Li Jianguo put a ton of fish into the bag together. There was not much left, estimated to be only about 100 kilograms. Li Long decided not to pack any more.

A hundred rabbits are also put in one pile, and the rest are in another pile.

"I packed 106 this time and gave the remaining six to them." Li Long said, "It's a favor to them."

"Okay." Li Jianguo is very clear about this. He is okay at doing small business, but he is definitely not as good as Li Long in doing business like this.

All you have to do is raise good pigs and cultivate good land.

The rabbits were piled one by one in the carriage box, and the fish bags were placed on top. As usual, the shaft of the carriage was placed on a stool, which was one of the furniture made by Li Jianguo when he got married. The light yellow wood grain paint on it had fallen off a little, revealing the original pine wood grain underneath, but the stool was still very solid and did not seem to shake at all.

Li Long looked at the stool and thought that in the spring, he would have to bring back some wood to make furniture for his new home.

No, we couldn't wait until spring. When the snow melted in spring, the road from the team to the mountains was muddy. At that time, the road from the team to the township was still a dirt road, not even paved with gravel. When the snow melted into water, the road became a muddy road. The same was true from Qingshuihe Township to the mountains. At that time, no matter people or horse-drawn carriages could pass, because people would step on thick mud, and even if they shoveled it away, it would soon appear again. Horse-drawn carriages were even more uncomfortable. The mud stuck on the wheels was difficult to remove. At that time, if No. 76 was asked to pull wood in the mountains, it would probably be exhausted to death.

If we want to stop walking on the muddy road, we have to wait another five or six years. The government will allocate funds to turn this dirt road into a gravel road, and then everything will be fine.

After covering these things with plastic sheeting and tying them up with ropes, Li Long and Li Jianguo walked back into the house and closed the door.

Li Jianguo sat on the bedside and started rolling a cigarette, while Li Long began to silently calculate the profits.

He made about 200 yuan from selling the sheep, and mainly spent about 300 yuan on buying food, which Li Long would gradually give to his friends in the mountains.

He could earn about 500 yuan from the fish and a little over 100 yuan from the rabbits. He planned to give 150 yuan each to Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang, and the money from selling the more than 30 mutton offal from his eldest brother's family would be left to his eldest brother's family.

There are still two sheep and other things left as extra, and I also have some skins, sheep intestines, etc. that can be sold for about a hundred yuan. I have made about 500 to 600 yuan on this trip, and some of it will be used to buy things to give back to my friends in the mountains before the New Year.

Not bad. Although it is not as profitable as taking Qi Jingyue and his friends hunting, the nature of this business is different. If we maintain such a good relationship, such things will happen every year, but it is not necessarily the case that Qi Jingyue's business will happen again.

It's most likely a one-time deal.

After Li Long finished his calculations, Li Jianguo's Mohe cigarette cannon had been rolled up. He pinched off the small tuft on his head, put the cigarette in his mouth, took out the lighter and pressed it to light himself, took a deep breath, and then exhaled the smoke.

Li Long bought him the lighter, otherwise Li Jianguo would not have bought it based on his current personality. He would think that matches are more cost-effective.

"Brother, you can keep all the money from selling the offal." Li Long said, "I won't share the rest with you. When I come back tomorrow, I'll give you some more money for the fish and rabbits."

"Why are you talking about that?" Li Jianguo waved his hand. "I have something else to tell you. I plan to take a set of offal from Juan's grandfather and half a sheep."

"That's as it should be." Li Long said with a smile, "We need to get some fish. I remember Uncle Liang likes to eat crucian carp, especially small crucian carp. Bring more fish when the time comes."

"Okay." Li Jianguo nodded, "I have to discuss this with you anyway."

"There's no need to discuss this kind of thing. In the past few years, because I was here, our family received a lot of help from Uncle Liang, which made Juan's second uncle unhappy."

"Hahaha, then he is incompetent. They are in the same team. If he can handle the situation, Juan's grandfather will have less trouble."

Li Jianguo suddenly remembered Li Long's reaction when the Liang family had a dispute with the neighboring family last fall. He really underestimated his younger brother in the past.

There were heavy footsteps outside. Li Long and Li Jianguo looked at each other and Li Long said:

“Could it be the rabbit seller?”

Li Jianguo stood up and said:
"Let me see."

The door was pushed open and the person who came in was Zhao Laoshi - which surprised both Li Long and Li Jianguo.

"Old Li, Xiaolong, you are all here." Zhao Laoshi came in empty-handed, obviously not selling rabbits, so Li Jianguo let him in.

"Yes, how did you find time to come here?" Li Jianguo asked directly. Zhao Laoshi broke a hole in the ice to catch fish and went to Shicheng to sell them, but they were robbed. Li Jianguo found out about this later. What made him angry was that on the third day when Li Long went to Shicheng to sell fish, Zhao Laoshi concealed the fact for a day. If he said it was not intentional, no one would believe it.

So he was not polite to Zhao Laoshi.

"Hey, I heard that Xiaolong was going to Shicheng, so I came to ask him." Zhao Laoshi was actually not honest at all. He was quite smart, or cunning, with a peasant-like cunning. He smiled and said:
"We plan to go to Shicheng to sell fish tomorrow, and we're thinking of going with Xiaolong. I see your car is loaded outside. Are we leaving tomorrow morning?"

"Let's go tomorrow morning." Li Long interrupted Li Jianguo before he could say anything. He knew that if his elder brother wanted to do it for him, he might refuse directly.

But he didn't want his elder brother Li Jianguo's image in the village to suffer any damage because of this incident, so he said, "Are you afraid of being robbed? Wouldn't it be better if you had more people?"

"That's not human. Even if there are more of us, we are just unarmed. How can we defeat others?" Zhao Laoshi smiled bitterly, "I thought you had a gun..."

"But I will just unload the stuff and come back. I don't know if you can sell all the stuff in a short time. I can't wait for you there, can I?" Li Long said, "Besides, you will definitely go to Shicheng often in the future. I protected you this time, but what about next time? What about the next time? I can't protect you every time, can I?"

Li Jianguo didn't say anything. He looked at the two people who were talking. If Zhao Laoshi wanted to force Li Long to express his opinion, he would definitely fight back!
Although Zhao Laoshi is old, he, Li Jianguo, has more experience and is not afraid at all!
Zhao Laoshi knew this was the truth, but he didn't know how to break the impasse.

Li Long knew that he was being fooled, or that the limitations were too great, and couldn't help but say:
"You are afraid that they have guns, but can't you borrow one? The team has one, the brigade has one, and some people in the village have one. If you have one, you can fight against them. What are you afraid of? At most, you can give them a few fish. You don't even want to pay for this, do you?"

Li Long's words revealed Lao Laoshi's thoughts. After Li Long's reminder, he really thought about borrowing a gun, and thought of several people.

But he really meant to "borrow" it and had no intention of giving anything to anyone.

"I understand. Okay, Xiaolong, Lao Li, you guys go ahead and do your work. I'm leaving." Zhao Laoshi got the idea and left in a hurry.

"I don't believe he didn't think of this idea before." Li Long returned to the fire wall and sat down and said:
"Still stingy."

"That's just how he is." Li Jianguo threw the cigarette butt down on the ground, stomped it out, and crushed it with his shoe. He said, "Maybe he suffered a disaster when he was young in his hometown. His family was poor, so he was reluctant to give anything away."

Li Long also sighed. People in later generations cannot imagine what people of Li Jianguo's age have experienced. They were born in the old society, watched the country's liberation, witnessed social transformation, participated in the people's communes, mutual aid groups, youth support for border areas, educated youth going to the countryside, movements, and the current household contract responsibility system.

The complexity of this is much greater than what people in later generations experienced.

So in fact, even in later generations, even if the country's doors are wide open and many war-torn places abroad are much better than at home, some young people begin to reflect, but in fact, the people of this age are still the most grateful to the Party.

Because they have truly experienced and witnessed people starving to death, people dying in wars, being too poor to afford education, and eventually having to eat meat for every meal and even losing weight to advocate green and healthy living.

So even though Li Jianguo had the intention of looking down on Zhao Laoshi, after all, the times are different now than they were back then, but he could understand this person a little bit - they have different experiences, so it's hard to comment.

"You're right. Although he likes to take advantage of others, it's not a good idea to keep going like this. Some people just won't give up until the last minute. They won't think of a solution until the last minute."

Procrastination.

Li Long remembered that this kind of people were represented by this word in his previous life. They would not do the work report until the last minute of the deadline, would not upload the online article until 23:50, would not think of a way to solve the problem until the credit card loan expired... and so on.

In fact, there are quite a lot of people like this.

"Is your gun okay? Do you want to take two more people with you tomorrow?"

"No need." Li Long waved his hand. "I'll just take the gun. It's troublesome to have more people. Besides, it's mainly in that poplar forest. I'll go to another place when I go back tomorrow. Those people have specific targets for robbing. I'm not going to the market tomorrow. They can't find me, so they won't wait there."

What Li Long said made sense, so Li Jianguo didn't say anything else.

At noon, Liang Yuemei made pancakes and offal soup. The offal was washed very clean, and the soup was covered with a layer of oil and green garlic sprouts, which looked very appetizing.

"Uncle, these garlic sprouts were planted by my sister and I!" At the dinner table, Li Qiang was showing off his achievements, while Li Juan smiled and said nothing.

"Well, you two did a great job."

Li Long turned his head and glanced at the plate of garlic sprouts on the fire wall that had been cut halfway and said with a smile:
"The reason we can eat green leafy vegetables in the middle of winter is because of this."

"Let's grow some mung bean sprouts tomorrow," Liang Yuemei finally came over with her bowl and said after listening to Li Long's words, "Eat them cold. The crunchy ones are good too."

"I heard that someone grows chives in an abandoned sheep pen, so we can eat chives in the middle of winter before the New Year." Li Jianguo soaked the pancakes in the offal soup and said, "It is said that they sold them secretly during the New Year last year. They cost more than 100 yuan per kilogram. It is not cheap. It is more expensive than meat!"

Li Long had heard of this method. The soil in the sheep pen was changed, mixed with manure, and leek roots were planted. After the leeks grew up, the top of the sheep pen was removed in the summer. When winter was approaching, the top was raised, and then old cotton wool was covered on the leeks. In this way, the leeks grown were not exposed to sunlight and turned into leek yellows.

It became much easier in later generations. People just used black triangular cone buckets to cover the clumps of leeks, which was more convenient.

It is just not suitable for places like northern Xinjiang where it is freezing cold. The method Li Jianguo mentioned is actually similar to the greenhouse vegetables that were popularized in later generations. In short, it is to keep warm and avoid sunlight.

"That doesn't taste good. Eat seasonal vegetables all year round." Li Long remembered that two years before his death in his previous life, this saying had already become popular. Off-season vegetables actually contain things that are bad for the body. It is best to eat seasonal food in the four seasons of life.

"For example, in winter, pickled cabbage and vermicelli with meat is the most delicious." Li Long pointed at the table, "So is fried meat with pickled vegetables. In spring, there are all kinds of wild vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage and leeks. In summer, it is the best..."

Li Qiang suddenly interrupted:
"Uncle, are you saying this because you can't eat? Who wouldn't want to eat green vegetables in the winter?"

Li Qiang's words broke the effect of Li Long's preaching. Li Jianguo laughed, and Li Long couldn't help laughing too.

Yes, it is too early to talk about health preservation and suitability. The average level of diet of Chinese people is still far from being well-off. Why should we talk about suitability? When we are rich and have more choices, we can talk about health, health preservation and longevity.

After eating two bowls of mixed soup and a pancake, Li Long felt warm all over and his stomach was full. He wanted to sleep at that moment.

Haven’t you made up for the sleep you’ve gotten these past few days?

Li Long said something to Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei and walked back to the stable.

Uncle Luo was listening to the storytelling of Mr. Shan Tianfang in the stable, while Li Long read a book for a while and then fell asleep in the warm room.

He didn't sleep for long. When he got up, he looked out through the window covered with plastic paper. It was still bright outside. Li Long got up. This time he felt completely rested. He walked out to take a look. The sun was setting. The sunlight could only shine on the opposite wall but not in the yard. It was gloomy and cold.

It was still a little late, otherwise Li Long would have thought it would be possible to take a bus to the county now.

It just felt a bit like running away - he was not sure if Zhao Laoshi would come to find him tomorrow. He remembered hearing from the villagers that Zhao Laoshi went to Shicheng by pulling a sled, and his money was robbed at the time, but the sled was not taken away, or maybe others didn't like the sled he made himself. If he left now, there was no guarantee that Zhao Laoshi would not say in the team - in order to prevent him from following, Li Long ran away first.

Can't afford to lose that person.

Li Long followed Uncle Luo to feed the wild boar, deer and roe deer. The two deer did not change much, but the female roe deer seemed to have a bigger belly. Li Long asked Uncle Luo, who smiled and said:
"It will be either before or after the New Year. I will then spread some grass in the warm circle and make the curtains thicker. He should be able to survive after coming down."

Looking at the lame male roe deer, Li Long didn't expect that this guy was so powerful!

The wild boar continued to make noises and snort loudly, but it was much better than in the mountains. It didn't look as irritable as the wild boars in the mountains, probably because it had gotten used to life in captivity.

There are still many separated from the horse pen. Li Long is thinking that since these wild herbivores give birth in early spring or late winter, should we go into the mountains to search for them in early spring? If we can get more fawns, gazelles or roe deer, our life will be better in the future.

After all, the current management is relatively broad, and when people want to raise animals in the future, they will need to apply for some kind of certificate.

Now that it has become a fait accompli, it will be much easier to get permission later.

The old horse has been saved, and the next thing is the things inside.

In the afternoon, I ate the five black dishes that Yang Yongqiang and his team brought over yesterday with Uncle Luo. Li Long kept saying how delicious it was. The meat of this garlic-filled fish was really delicious, in chunks, and the burrs were easy to remove.

Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang didn't come over that night, and Li Long fell asleep early. He wanted to leave early the next morning. If he hadn't left when Zhao Laoshi came over, they would go together. If he had left by himself, he wouldn't wait.

The next day, when Li Long woke up, it was still dark. By the dim light of the stove fire, he saw that it was already past seven o'clock. Li Long was already awake, got up, washed up, and made breakfast. Uncle Luo also got up after hearing the noise. After the two of them had breakfast, Li Long went to his eldest brother's place.

Li Jianguo's family was also making breakfast. When Li Long went to the pen, he led No. 76 out and fed him. After eating, he rested for a while, then with the help of Li Jianguo, he harnessed the horse to the carriage. He dressed himself, stuffed the gun bag into the carriage, and drove out.

Zhao Laoshi's home is in the old village. Li Long waited there for a few minutes but saw no one. At this time, the sky was already turning pale, so he drove the carriage across the reed ditch and headed west.

An hour later, Zhao Laoshi carried his gun and pulled the sled out of the village with his son.

"Li Long must have passed by." Zhao Laoshi's son said, "Should we hurry up and catch up?"

"What are you fighting for?" Zhao Laoshi patted his gun and said, "We have a gun, what are we afraid of? I'm not afraid anymore! I should have borrowed a gun earlier..."

He felt sorry for the money that was stolen.

Li Long drove the carriage to the county, bought a few big meat buns as usual, drank a bowl of hot tea in the big meat canteen, ate the buns and continued on his way.

By this time the sky was already bright, with a hint of red in the east, and the sun was about to rise.

When Li Long arrived at the Shicheng Sugar Factory, the sun was already high in the sky. The factory was already open for business, the machines were running, and the rumbling sound continued.

When the guard saw Li Long, he smiled and waved his hand to let him in, and he called the logistics department.

Knowing that Li Long was here to deliver New Year benefits, how could he not let him go as soon as possible?
Although the carriage was covered with plastic, the guard was well-informed and knew that there were fish and rabbits inside. Thinking that he could eat a lot of good things during the Chinese New Year, the guard was also very happy and naturally treated Li Long better.

Section Chief Hu came out and looked at Li Long. He was very satisfied.

It was said to take half a month, but Li Long finished it in less than ten days. His efficiency is very high!

I sent the sheep to the factory director's house yesterday, and today he praised me for the delicious mutton.

This made Section Chief Hu very satisfied, and Li Long was also very happy! (End of this chapter)