Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Life doesn't always mean having a wife, children and a warm bed, you also need to go into the mountains to hunt and make a lot of money.

So even though Li Long felt a little sad, Gu Xiaoxia had to go to work and it was boring for him to stay alone, so he got out of bed.

After all the tossing and turning last night, he felt that he had lived his previous life in vain as he had not experienced such a wonderful thing.

Fortunately, the good days are still long. Gu Xiaoxia got up, washed up, and went to the kitchen to cook. Li Long was not idle either, feeding the fawns, cleaning the grass stalks and feces in the glass house, and getting them some water. Now the fawns have become accustomed to staying in the glass house. Although they will come around and call when they see Li Long coming, they are not so resistant to staying inside. Maybe they know that they can't get out for a while, so they just accept their fate.

Li Long still felt soft-hearted. He opened the door and let the three little guys out to let them get some fresh air. He would then lock them up again after the people left.

The three little guys ran to the front yard shouting happily. One of them even pooped while running, and it was all over the ground. He looked very happy.

Li Long shook his head and said, "Let's clean it up later."

Gu Xiaoxia was busy in the kitchen. When she heard the little ones' cries, she poked her head out and looked at Li Long behind her and asked:
"Released?"

"Well, let them out for some fresh air. These little guys are used to running around in the mountains. They must be bored if they are locked up in such a small room. Let them out to play for a while every morning and evening."

"Okay, I'll see how it goes." Gu Xiaoxia smiled and continued to work.

After Gu Xiaoxia finished making breakfast, Li Long cleaned up the yard and then drove the kids in. The yard was very big, and Gu Xiaoxia went out early and came back late every day, so she could only clean up the general surface. Li Long simply cleaned up every corner, making it clean and tidy, which made it look like home.

Breakfast was cornmeal porridge with some beans added, boiled until soft; pancakes, fried eggs with spicy sauce, and pickled vegetables. It was not uncommon for farmers to eat pickled vegetables in this era, and some people could eat them until June. After all, most of them were pickled, and salt was used, so they could not be wasted.

The pickles were fried with oil and smelled delicious. The Li family had no shortage of oil. Because of the improvement in life caused by Li Long's "progress", the Li family, the Gu family, the Tao Daqiang family, and even Uncle Luo from the Lao Ma Hao were not stingy with the oil they used for cooking. Everyone knew that more oil would make the dishes more delicious.

The two of them ate and chatted, each talking about their experiences.

"You don't know," Gu Xiaoxia complained while eating, "I have a lot of work to do, but Sister Liu in the office asks me to help her with this and that. When I say I'm busy, she says that those who are capable should do more work, and that we young people have quick brains and know more, while she is old and slow to understand, so she asks me to take on more responsibilities. As a result, I have to work overtime every time after get off work."

"That's not what we call 'more work for the capable'. That's what we call 'whipping the bull'. Didn't you report this to Director Wang?"

"If I have to ask Director Wang to talk about such a small matter, what will Director Wang think of me?" Gu Xiaoxia also had concerns.

"So what do you want to do?"

"No."

"That's easy." Having experienced two lives, Li Long is very familiar with this kind of PUA in the workplace. He smiled and said:

"Next time she asks you to do something, pretend you didn't hear it. Don't agree, don't say no, and don't do it. Don't talk to her so much, just do your own work. Leave after get off work. If the work is not done in the end, it must be her who criticized it, not you. If she pushes it to you and says she gave it to you, just say you didn't hear it at the time. Otherwise, if you continue like this, you will definitely be the busiest person in your bureau, and others will have less and less time."

"Yes, yes. I'm very busy now. I have no free time all day long. But they are just reading newspapers, drinking tea and chatting... It makes me so angry."

After complaining, Gu Xiaoxia asked worriedly:
"Won't I get into trouble? After all, they are all senior..."

"Others won't give you too important work, right? The work given to you is probably trivial but time-consuming. This kind of thankless work is annoying for anyone who does it, but it's not particularly important, so the boss won't pay much attention to it. So if you don't do this kind of work, it won't affect the overall situation, but not doing it will also let others know that you are not someone who can be bullied. Do you understand?"

Gu Xiaoxia is not stupid, she just has too little experience in the workplace. Plus, she is on secondment, so she feels like she is inferior to others.

But in fact, the position has already been established, and her work ability is at the level at that time, and the leader will definitely rely on her. If she gets caught up in these trivial matters, she will definitely not be able to complete her job efficiently, and over time she will leave a bad impression on the leader.

"Will that make my colleagues target me?" Gu Xiaoxia was still a little worried about the impact on her relationship with her colleagues.

"If you are worried, then you should be clear at the beginning and say that you have too much work to do and don't have time to complete their tasks. If they still say this, then you can use the method I told you. In the company, you can't be a nice guy. If you are a nice guy, everyone will bully you. It's the turn of spring and summer, so you can have a cough. Don't we have Fritillaria at home? Bring some to the company and distribute it to the leaders and colleagues. Those who know should know that this is good for treating coughs and building relationships. You don't need to ask others to take care of you, as long as others don't take advantage of you. When working in the company, you should not only keep your head down to work, but also look up and see the road. Report your thoughts to Director Wang frequently, talk about the recent situation, and you can also talk about your troubles and solutions. It will work."

"You are amazing!" Gu Xiaoxia listened to Li Long's words, and her eyes were already shining with admiration. Although many people felt that it was not worth it for her, a state cadre, to marry an employee outside the government, Gu Xiaoxia always remembered that without Li Long, she would not be able to be a teacher, let alone work in the Education Bureau.

In Gu Xiaoxia's eyes, Li Long is very capable and if he wanted to, he would have become a state official long ago, but Li Long just doesn't want to.

Just look at the solutions to these problems that Li Long just talked about. They are all very coherent, how great!
Therefore, there is no question of whether the two are worthy or not, or whether they are compatible or not. Gu Xiaoxia and Li Long have the same idea that two people getting married is a very happy thing in itself.

Of course, it would be better if Li Long could stay at home every day.

"It depends on your actual situation during daily operations. Anyway, I believe in your ability," Li Long said while eating. "Sometimes being a little tougher is good for you."

Gu Xiaoxia thought about Li Long's words thoughtfully.

After dinner, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, and Li Long dried the bone-in meat that he hadn't processed last night, rubbed it with salt and put it in the room to dry. The meat that had been cut off had been roasted and sealed with oil, so it wouldn't go bad for several months.

After finishing all these, Li Long filled the tractor with gas, took some water, some steamed buns and dried meat, and drove the tractor into the mountains. The Fritillaria has not been dried yet, so there is no rush to sell it now. Li Long guessed that the price of Fritillaria this year should be higher. After all, with the liberalization of the market, the demand for Fritillaria will increase greatly both inside and outside Xinjiang. There is no artificial cultivation of Fritillaria in northern Xinjiang, so the price of wild Fritillaria is naturally high.

The tractor drove all the way into the mountains, and Li Long ran directly to Halimu.

Fortunately, Halimu had not moved away yet. The sound of the tractor made the dog bark, and Halimu came out when he heard it.

After greeting, Halim said:
"If you had come two days later, we would have left. Everything has been packed."

"That's just right. I need your help with something. I want to buy a dozen sheep from you. Either yours or Yushanjiang's will do."

"Yushanjiang's, or Buick's," Halimu thought for a moment and said, "I don't have many sheep left to sell. There are too many lambs, so I can't sell them. Do you need them urgently?"

"Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow is fine. I'll be waiting in the cabin. See if you can tell them. If anyone has sheep, just go there or tell me and I'll go get them."

"Well, I'll drive the sheep to the cabin for you then." Halimu said, "It will be convenient for you to transport them away."

After finishing his business, Li Long drank two bowls of milk tea and left to return to the wooden house.

What puzzled Li Long was that there were three people and a horse in the wooden house. Among the three people, he recognized at a glance that the one next to the horse was Bolati, and among the two people, the one sitting was Sun Jiaqiang, who was lying, no, he was tied up, with something stuffed in his mouth, and kept twisting there like a maggot.

Hearing the sound of the tractor, Bolati and Sun Jiaqiang both stood up and turned to look over.

Li Long drove the tractor to the front of the wooden house, stopped it, turned off the engine and got out. Bolati was holding the reins to prevent the horse from being startled.

"What's going on?" Li Long looked at the person on the ground. He recognized him as the one who was chased by the sow wild boar yesterday morning.

Bolati wanted to speak, opened his mouth, and then pointed at Sun Jiaqiang:
"Listen to him, when I came over, the two of them were fighting." Li Long looked at Sun Jiaqiang and found that there were black bruises on his face, his clothes were torn, and there were some straw sticks on his shoulders.

Sun Jiaqiang pointed at the man on the ground and said:

"I found the animal's tracks and came to tell you, but I found him trying to pry open the door of your house. I tried to stop him, but he hit me. Look at my face..."

It turned out that the day before yesterday, Sun Jiaqiang had eaten roe deer meat at Li Long's place and took some back. He thought this was a good way, so he went back and looked around. He didn't find any wild animals, but he found a ditch with a lot of Fritillaria exposed. He dug some Fritillaria and saved them. Then he got up early yesterday morning and wanted to look for wild animals again. He found traces of deer activity in a nearby ditch, and saw a group of three or four deer running away from the other end. He found traces of nibbling grass and moss in the ditch, so he thought about coming over to tell Li Long about it.

However, when walking this way, he found a lot of Fritillaria in a ditch, so he dug there for a day, thinking of digging out the Fritillaria and exchanging them for some things from Li Long, and also telling him the news. After all, the deer was frightened once, and he didn't know if it could come over.

This morning when I came here with the Fritillaria, I saw the man trying to pry open the window, probably planning to get in and steal something. Sun Jiaqiang hurried over to stop him, but he didn't expect that although the man was thinner than him, he was better at fighting. Sun Jiaqiang was an honest child at home and had never fought before. Then he was pinned down by the man and beaten. If Bola hadn't come over, he might have been beaten to death by the other party.

"I came over and saw them fighting, so I asked what was going on. But the thief said he was here to help. I knew he was not a good person!"

Li Long probably knew what was going on. He probably didn't give this person a share of the wild boar he caught yesterday, so he came over and saw that his tractor was not there, and thought of stealing things when he knew he was not there.

What a piece of shit!

Li Long was furious, stepped forward and kicked him hard, cursing:
"I saved you, and you came over to steal my things? Are you still human?"

The more he talked, the angrier he got. Li Long kicked the man hard a few more times. The man's mouth was blocked, and he was twisting and groaning there, unable to make any sound. It was very uncomfortable to hear.

Li Long bent down and took off the smelly socks that were blocking his mouth. The man coughed a few times and then kept shouting "please spare my life, please spare my life" and saying that he would never do it again.

How could Li Long believe him? He turned to Bolati and said:
"What do you usually do when you catch someone digging for Fritillaria?"

"Usually, they would take the Fritillaria away, give it a good scolding, and then let it go. If it's a disobedient one, they would arrest it and take it to the forestry team, and then they would send it to the detention center. What do you want to do with this person? Break his legs?"

When he heard that his legs were going to be broken, the man screamed in fear:

"No! No, no, no, I was just confused for a moment, thinking that it was not right for you not to give me meat, so I came to take - no, steal something, I won't dare to do it again! Don't break my legs!"

You have to know that there are not only wild boars and roe deer in these mountains, but also wild beasts such as wolves and bears. If your leg is broken, you will definitely die in the forest.

Li Long thought for a moment and said:
"Bolati, I'll leave that man to you. It's unlucky for him to die here after his legs were broken. It's better to send him to the detention center. He deserves it."

"Okay, okay." Bolati nodded, and was about to speak, but Li Long waved his hand, went over to pick up the man and threw him outside the east shed, then walked back and said to Bolati and Sun Jiacheng:

"Come, let's talk inside the house."

He was worried that this person heard what they said and then went to the detention center to make a complaint, which would be bad.

After entering the house, Li Long asked the two people to sit down and said:

"Okay, Bolati, I see you're carrying the bag of mother-of-pearl to exchange for something, right? Just tell me what you want to exchange for."

"Wine, of course, other food is also fine."

"I have some wine, but I suggest you don't exchange so much. I see you brought a lot of Fritillaria, nearly ten kilograms. Why don't you exchange some tea leaves, sugar cubes, rice and flour? There are people at home, so you can eat more good food."

"Okay, okay." Bolati listened to Li Long's words very much. Ever since he exchanged so much wine with Li Long last time, he felt that Li Long was a good person and worthy of making friends. After all, one should listen to friends.

"You are not bad either," Bolati pointed at Sun Jiaqiang and said:
"From now on, if you meet a ranger in the woods, just tell them that you are Bolati's friend and they won't embarrass you."

"Okay, okay!" Sun Jiaqiang didn't know Li Long's identity, but since Bolati was from the forestry team, he was really surprised. The reward for helping others this time was quite big!

"Bolati, you will be carrying something later. Tie it to the horse directly and don't let the man find out. Tie his hands and take him away on the horse. Don't let him know that you are here to exchange things. When someone from your forestry team asks you, just say that you are my friend and found it when you came to visit your friend. Otherwise, it will not be good if the leaders of your forestry team know that you brought Fritillaria here to exchange things."

"I know, I know. I know."

"Sun Jiaqiang, the same goes for you. You can leave after Bolati leaves. You can tell me what you want to exchange now or later."

"Okay, I'll talk to you later. I still have something to tell you about wild beasts." Sun Jiaqiang was quite excited today, but with his bruised face, he still looked a little funny.

Bolati was satisfied, and exchanged rice, flour, tea, sugar, and other things, as well as two bottles of wine and two small bottles of champagne, all of which were placed in a bag, tied tightly and tied to the horse's back. Then he took the rope and tied the man up again, rode on the horse and dragged him away.

"Slow down, the horse will kick me. Slow down, I can't keep up..."

The man screamed in fear all the way until his voice faded away. Only then did Sun Jiaqiang tell Li Long about his discovery.

"You mean, we found a family of deer there?"

"Yes, a big elk, a medium-sized one, and a small one," said Sun Jiaqiang. "I saw it clearly. The big elk was really big. It felt like the same size as Bolati's horse!"

Li Long was really tempted. He could get a big red deer, and sell its antlers, tendons, penis, etc., and it would also yield a lot of meat.

Sun Jiaqiang knew from Li Long's expression that he was interested, so he continued:

"That location is near the cave you told me about. I'll draw it for you. Also, it was early in the morning when I saw them. They were eating grass and moss in the ditch early yesterday morning. Judging from the marks, they stayed there for quite a while, so I think that might be a place they often go. But I scared them a little, and I don't know if they will go there again in the future."

"Don't worry about it. I'll go over and take a look when I'm free." Li Long had to wait for Halimu to find someone to deliver the sheep these two days, so he couldn't go over directly and had to wait.

After hearing what Li Long said, Sun Jiaqiang said:
"Just wait. It doesn't matter if you wait. I scared the herd of deer. Maybe they won't come over in the next two days. They may come over in two days."

After this was said, Sun Jiaqiang exchanged two kilograms of Fritillaria he had just dug yesterday for egg cake and fruit candies. Li Long asked him to exchange them for some rice and flour, but he waved his hand and said he would come back later.

Li Long was speechless. Did he come here to make money or just to have fun in the mountains? If he had Fritillaria, he could have exchanged it for something useful. Why was he so greedy?
However, since the other party had just helped him a lot and was injured, Li Long didn't know what to say. He gave Sun Jiaqiang some more things and watched him leave happily with a bruised face.

Not bad, the attitude is pretty good.

Li Long just commented and started to set up the stove. Since he couldn't go hunting, he would wash and clean the Fritillaria he collected today. Of course, he had to prepare steamed buns first. He found that the people who came to exchange things had special thoughts about steamed buns.

In this case, let’s steam more. (End of this chapter)