Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Here at Halimu, these people were skinning the sheep, removing the bones, cleaning the internal organs and cooking them in a big pot. Li Long was driving a tractor, with Tarihar and another young man following him.

The pastures to be mowed today were those of Tarihar and the young man. Both pastures had been inspected and cleared of wood piles and rocks.

The two people came over to lead the way for Li Long and also to walk the route again as a recheck.

Li Long thought it was okay. After all, although this harvester was not expensive, it was just a big, black and rough thing, but it was the only one that was refined. In fact, before Wei Tianxing went to Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory, Li Long also thought that Director Du might have just said casually that he would not build it. How could he not build it if there was really business?
I didn’t expect that Wei Tianxing really didn’t buy it!

So you have to use this thing carefully. You must not hit it with stones. If the blade breaks, you will be in trouble.

Watching the two young men riding horses and patrolling carefully in front, Li Long drove the tractor behind them to cut the grass.

It would take some time for the grass to dry after it was cut, so they were not in a hurry. Li Long estimated that the grass from Halimu and his team's first grassland would be completely dried after the last one was cut.

Anyway, I have saved a lot of time, so I'll just wait and see.

After harvesting two hillsides in the morning, I went back. There is no rush to work, unlike harvesting wheat where you have to rush to complete the task to make money. There is no rush now, so I can do the work leisurely and go back when the weather gets hot. I was a little anxious when I came here, so I didn't bring any watermelons. Li Long regretted it a little.

Be sure to bring a watermelon with you when you go to cut grass in the afternoon. When you are tired, stop and pound the watermelon open, then each of you break off a piece and start eating. How wonderful it feels!

Cut? No, I won't feel it when I cut it. I rarely cut watermelon at this time, unless there are guests. When I eat at home, I cut it in half, and each person holds one half and eats it with a spoon.
At that time, there was no oil in the stomach, so the child had a big appetite and could eat half a large watermelon.

Now, let alone half a piece, just two pieces will be enough.

In the past, people chose the big melons, but now they choose the small ones. It's the other way around.

A tractor is not as fast as a horse in the mountains. When Li Long drove the tractor to the winter camp, Tarihar and his friends had already arrived for a while. They had put the horses in place and were taking bones out of the big pot.

Wild goats smell stronger than domestic sheep, but there is nothing to be picky about at this time, it is good to have meat to eat.

Li Long looked at a large pot of cooking offal. The color was a bit dark, indicating that it was braised.

This big pot of stew cannot be finished. I will have to take out the stewed food later and put it back in. It will take at least three or four pots to finish it.

He didn't care about anything else and just focused on mowing the grass. This time he didn't need to do the labor of making these smelly things himself, which was good enough. He could just eat the ready-made food.

They still had meat for lunch. Halim and his friends brought some yogurt dumplings, which surprised Li Long that the grown men had naan for lunch, which was a good thing.

It's delicious to eat naan soaked in meat soup and chew on the bones.

They continued cutting grass in the afternoon and finished the work on two hillsides. When Li Long came back, the wild goats, including the red deer and other roe deer, had all been picked up.

"Take these twenty skins back," Yushanjiang said, "and take these marinated offal as well, and take some of these dried meats. We can just eat what we have here."

It looked like Yushanjiang was planning to let Li Long take away most of the things he had obtained in the past two days, and they would only need to keep some for the duration of their work.

"Leave more meat for me." Li Long said, "I won't come tomorrow morning. The tractor is running low on oil. I'll go down the mountain to get some oil and come back in the afternoon. Then I'll deliver some meat to the animal husbandry team."

"No, no. Since you are going down the mountain tomorrow, Halimu and I will go down the mountain together tomorrow." Yushanjiang said, "We will go directly to the animal husbandry team and come back in the afternoon."

Li Long thought about it and laughed. That’s right. They were already at the edge of the mountain. It was impossible to ask Halimu and Yushanjiang not to go home.

"They can do whatever they want in the mountains. They will start mowing the grass the day after tomorrow." Yushanjiang said, "Will it be enough for you to stay back for half a day?"

"That's enough. Come back early and cut the grass here. I won't stay in the mountains anymore." Li Long said with a smile, "Okay, I have to move my things."

He collected the wild goat skins, deer skins, and roe deer skins. The two large pots were filled with meat and offal, but he hadn't finished yet. Li Long would have to make another trip for the rest.

Li Long had fought such a lucrative battle before, but this was the first time in such a form.

The first truck was pulled back, and the dried meat and offal were put into a small room. The dried meat was hung out to dry, and the offal was first put into a basin. Anyway, it was braised, so it wouldn't go bad in one or two nights.

When they pulled another cart back, the sun had already set, and it was difficult to put the offal in. There were not enough basins. Li Long simply cleaned the wooden rack, covered it with a clean fertilizer bag, and then placed the uncut offal on top.

Tomorrow we can just put it in bags and pull it down the mountain.

As for the sheepskins smeared with salt, there is no need to worry about them getting damaged for now. Just stack them up layer by layer and place them on the floor. We will load them into the car tomorrow and take them back for easy disposal.

Also brought back were two large pots of stewed meat, which were already soaked in oil. The two pots weighed a total of fifty to sixty kilograms.

Enough for the whole family to eat for a year.

Tarihar became everyone's hero. Not only did Li Long bring back so much, Halimu and Yushanjiang will also take away a lot of dried meat tomorrow. They will also bring some braised meat, but not much, after all, they are not used to eating it.

Li Long put his things in order. It was already dark. He took a piece of braised belly and ate it while going into the big house. He added coal to the stove, pressed it on, and then went to bed.

In the middle of the night, I heard wolves howling outside. Apparently, the smell of meat attracted the wolves.

He got up, took his gun and opened the window, but couldn't see where the wolf was. The grass was still quite deep and had never been cut, so it was hard to find the wolf hiding in the grass.

Li Long fired two shots outside and the wolf howling stopped immediately. He turned off the safety, put the window paper back, and continued to sleep.

The next morning, he poked the stove which was still on, sliced ​​and toasted two steamed buns, sandwiched them with the braised offal from next door, ate them simply with warm water from the thermos, and started moving things onto the tractor.

There were a lot of things, so he had to put them away carefully. The food couldn't get dirty, but the sheepskins were fine, he just rolled them up and put them in a corner. He planned to send the few whips that hadn't dried yet to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Anyway, I have a lot of talent now, so I don't care about this thing. I'll keep it for when I get a big one.

After loading the things, locking the door, the tractor started rumbling down the mountain.

When the tractor arrived at the county, Yushanjiang and Halimu had already arrived at the herdsman's stay on horseback. People came down the mountain from time to time, and everyone was used to it. Only Nathan, Sasken and others who were already on vacation happily ran towards their father.

It was the grass-cutting season, so it was normal for them to go down the mountain. But when Halimu and Yushanjiang told the family that Li Long used a tractor to cut grass, everyone was surprised.

For thousands of years, people have used sickles to cut grass for cattle and sheep. This is the first time I heard of using a tractor to cut grass, and it is very fast. This is quite interesting.

Nathan and Susken learned a lot of new things in school and were quite receptive to them, but the women at home couldn't understand them.

This is as amazing as telling uneducated people that a huge iron bird can fly in the sky without falling.

Then the deputy captain Adili came.

He came to see two people coming from the mountain. Halimu and Yushanjiang were considered employees of the animal husbandry team, so they had to say hello to him when they came down the mountain. But no one cared. Adili was more concerned about using the tractor to cut grass.

If this thing really becomes popular, it will save a lot of labor in mowing the grass in the future.

When he heard that it was Li Long again, Adili secretly envied these two people. With such a Han Chinese friend, someone would take care of the family, the yard would be repaired, meat and vegetables would be delivered, and now someone would take care of the grass cutting!

Can we popularize this grass cutting thing? After all, there are so many herdsmen in the animal husbandry team, and the amount of grass they need to store in winter is not a small amount!
Li Long didn't know that Adili was planning to take advantage of him. At this moment, he had already driven to the county town and headed straight for the big yard.

Before noon, Li Long unloaded the meat, oil, and skins from the tractor, put the edible things in the kitchen and storage room, and spread the skins out to dry in the wing room. As for the whips, Li Long found a newspaper to wrap them up and rode his bicycle to the supply and marketing cooperative.

The supply and marketing cooperative was still closed, and Li Xiangqian was on the phone when Li Long arrived.

After talking for a few words and hanging up the phone, Li Xiangqian first said to Li Long:
"The job of making big brooms has come. Forty days, five thousand big brooms. Can you take it?"

"No problem." Last year, there were 3,000 handles, each for 3 yuan. The trouble is the wooden handle. Achnatherum splendens is relatively easy to find. Although there are 2,000 more handles this year, to be honest, with the momentum of the team to make money, there is no problem in finishing it within 40 days.

As for the pole, Li Long still planned to do it in the woods. He put the bag containing the whip on the table. Li Qianqian glanced at it, sniffed, and asked:

"whip?"

"Yeah." Li Long said, "One from a deer and one from a roe deer. Both are pretty good."

"I have it here. You can take it to the director later. He is also interested in it." Li Xiangqian said, "But don't worry. The county propaganda people are discussing it in his office. It's just right for you to come back. It's about your business."

"What's the matter?" Li Long was a little surprised. The commendation had already been given, and there was such a long interval in between, so there shouldn't be anything wrong, right?
"It is said that the county wants to use you as an example to see if there is anything else they can dig up. The story of you driving a reaper to harvest wheat was published in the state newspaper. The county publicity people found out about it and thought it could be used as material to help everyone get rich."

Li Xiangqian was not interested in these things. He knew that Li Long was the same. His main concern was to make money and live a good life.

Li Long was indifferent. He had already made an appointment with the autonomous region, so it wouldn't matter if he became more prominent.

But he was also a little helpless. You guys are only picking on me, and you’re addicted to it, right?
After a while, a voice was heard in the corridor. It was Director Wei's voice, a young girl's voice. Li Long felt it was very familiar.

When they passed by the door of the purchasing department, Director Wei saw Li Long and smiled:
"Hey, Xiao Li, you're back. Just in time, two propaganda officers came to see you. I thought you were still in the village. Then you can take them to the meeting room. It's already noon after the interview. You can take them out for a working lunch, and the commune will reimburse you."

Director Wei was very thoughtful, and Li Long couldn't refuse, so he took the two girls to the meeting room.

Director Wei entered Li Xiangqian's office and asked with a smile:

"This Xiao Li came at a great time."

"I just came back from the mountains. Look, these two are deer penises. I was going to send them to you, but I said there was someone there and it was difficult to get through."

"Wow, not bad. Let me see... It's quite fresh. You're thoughtful. Okay, I'll take it." Director Wei rewrapped the newspaper and took it back to his office.

Li Long took Ma Xiaoyan and Ye Laya to the conference room. Someone came over to pour water and then left.

"Comrade Li Long, we saw in the newspaper that you drove a harvester and helped the villagers harvest wheat. It seems that you are not only a model of national unity, but also a model of getting rich through science."

Ma Xiaoyan first praised Li Long, then took out a notebook and began to interview Li Long.

They came to the supply and marketing cooperative to communicate with them first and then go find Li Long. After all, they knew that Li Long was a temporary worker and was basically not at the company most of the time.

It is of course a good thing to meet him right now, so I immediately threw out the questions I had prepared.

Of course, the main thing is how you think of using a harvester to harvest wheat, how many acres have been harvested recently, how wide the area is, how much money you have earned, and so on.

Li Long also gave some vague answers, for example, he exaggerated the scope and underestimated the number of acres, and of course he could not tell the truth about the amount of money.

"Comrade Li Long, what are you busy with recently?" Ye Laya asked a question.

Ma Xiaoyan didn't expect Ye Laya to ask Li Long questions on her own initiative. In fact, she was the one who took the lead this time, and Ye Laya's following was considered her cultivation. Now she asked questions while she was recording, which was considered crossing the line.

Got to make a note of this.

Ye Laya didn't know that she was in Ma Xiaoyan's notebook. She asked the question mainly because she didn't want the conversation to be dull, and this question didn't have much substance.

"The herders from your animal husbandry team came to the pasture to harvest grass. My harvester happened to be idle, so I helped them harvest grass." Li Long said, "We have harvested nearly a thousand acres. Today, the tractor ran out of oil, so I came down the mountain to refuel."

"What? Are you helping the herdsmen harvest grass?" Ma Xiaoyan didn't expect that Yelaya's casual question would directly lead to a big event. She asked excitedly:
"How many days have you been mowing the grass? Do you charge for it? How long will it take?"

"No money is charged. Halim and I are good friends. They help me and I help them. It's free." Li Long said, "We have been hunting for three to five days. Because the pasture for more than a dozen people is a bit large, it will take a few more days to finish."

"No money, isn't that the same as repairing their houses and digging wells? I understand, I understand." Ma Xiaoyan said excitedly, "Then... when will you go to the mountains again?"

"Let's go in the afternoon." Li Long didn't quite understand why she was so excited.

"Well... don't worry, how can I find you?" Ma Xiaoyan stood up suddenly, "Can you come here before you leave? Wait for us here?"

"Waiting for you?" Li Long was a little surprised. "Why are we waiting for you? Are you going into the mountain too?"

"Yes, such good material - no, deeds!" Ma Xiaoyan is also a bit ambitious. Zhang Xinhua was able to write about Li Long's yard and well digging in the Autonomous Region Daily. Now that Li Long is cutting grass for the herdsmen on a voluntary basis, does he also have the potential to be published in the Autonomous Region Daily?

If I can get published in one article, I can walk in the publicity field with my head held high this year.

Of course, we need the support of the leaders. After all, if we want to go into the mountains, we need at least a car. We can't go in with a tractor, right? Even if we go in with a tractor, how can we get back? We need to cut grass.

As for riding a bicycle, that was even more impossible. Just because Li Long could ride a bicycle into the mountains during the difficult times, it didn't mean that the two girls could do it. That was not something that ordinary people could do.

So what Ma Xiaoyan is thinking about now is to go back quickly and ask her leader to send a car.

This is no small matter. National unity is always a big deal in the autonomous region.

"Lunch time is almost here," Li Long said after looking at his watch. "You can go back after lunch. After all, even if you go back now, the leader should have gone to eat, right?"

Ma Xiaoyan thought about it and agreed.

Ye Laya was also very excited. If Ma Xiaoyan was accepted, she would most likely follow her, firstly as an assistant and secondly as a translator.

Li Long took Ye Laya with him on his bicycle - Ye Laya didn't have a bicycle, so Ma Xiaoyan took her with her on a women's bicycle. However, it was a little inconvenient to carry someone on a women's bicycle, so Li Long took the initiative to suggest that she take care of Ye Laya.

Yelaya agreed. Ethnic girls don't have so many ideas. It is naturally more comfortable to sit on a 28-inch bicycle than on the back of a women's bicycle.

Arriving at the halal cafeteria, Li Long asked the two girls for their opinions and ordered one bowl of mixed noodles and two servings of fried noodles.

At this time, the girl was not reserved. In addition, she had something on her mind and was anxious to go back to see her leader, who might even have to make a written request. So Ma Xiaoyan ate very quickly, gobbling up everything in sight. The three of them finished eating almost at the same time.

Li Long sent the people to the county compound, and then returned to his own compound.

I couldn't rest at noon, so I drove the tractor to Sister Yang's place first, said hello to Gu Xiaoxia, talked about things, and then went to the oil depot to refuel.

Gu Boyuan was also having dinner at Sister Yang's house. Seeing Li Long, he asked a few more questions, mainly about the situation in the mountains.

This time I bought two extra oil drums. After the tractor was filled with oil, it carried four more oil drums. I think it should be enough to last until I finish mowing the grass, right?

After adding oil, Li Long bought some daily necessities, mainly marinade ingredients and some vegetables.

In August, there are more fresh vegetables in the market. Bring some peppers, eggplants and beans with you to avoid getting a sore throat from eating meat every day.

Everything was ready and we returned to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Before Ma Xiaoyan arrived, Li Long used the phone in Li Xiangqian's office to call Xu Chengjun in the team.

"Captain, it's time to make the big broom. Can you please notify everyone and start cutting the sedge now to prepare?"

"Really? Ok then, how much?"

"More than last year." Li Long did not report the number directly.

"Okay, okay, great! I'll let you know right away!" Xu Chengjun was actually waiting for this job. (End of this chapter)