Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Halimu and his team have been back for two days. The summer pasture has already been covered with thick snow. In fact, there have also been two heavy snowfalls in the winter pasture. There were many thrilling experiences during their migration.

But after so many years, we have gotten used to it. Some herders lost their cattle and sheep, some were injured when their horses fell, and some were frostbitten themselves.

But they all came back safely.

Halimu and Yushanjiang were discussing things in the winter den, and his wife was making milk tea. A faint milky aroma filled the room.

Soon, two bowls of milk tea were brought to the table on the kang. Yushan Jiang put his left hand on his chest, took the milk tea with his right hand to express his gratitude, and said with emotion:

"I sent my family down the mountain. They are living a good life, but my life is miserable. Now I have to drink even the delicious milk tea at your place."

“Hahahaha,” Halimu took a sip of milk tea and said with a smile, “Yushanjiang, you are kidding, your milk tea is very good.”

This is the truth. Yushanjiang is very good at making milk tea and naren, but he also knows that what Yushanjiang means is that it is still a bit inconvenient for him to live alone in the winter nest.

After all, this place is different from the summer pasture. In the summer pasture, you have to graze the cattle and sheep every day, be careful of wolves, and there are many things to do. Now every day I just feed the cattle and sheep, clean the sheepfold, and spend most of my time in the house.

"If it weren't for the radio that Li Long got me, I would be really sad." Yushanjiang said while drinking milk tea. He quickly finished a bowl and handed the bowl to Halimu's wife who was sitting beside the kang.

"When do you plan to start the winter slaughter this year?" Yu Shanjiang asked.

"Li Long, come here. I'll slaughter the cow after he comes. I plan to slaughter a cow this year," Halimu had thought about it long ago, "and call everyone over for a good meal. As for the remaining meat, I'll air-dry it or freeze it, and the offal will be given to Li Long."

"That's what I thought, too." Yushan Jiang said with a smile, "I guess he should be here soon. I'm running out of rice and noodles at home, and I think he'll bring us some."

"Well, I have some here, take some when you go. I'm going to pack up these skins and have him zip them up when he gets here."

"Yes, I will send all the leathers I have over here tomorrow." Yu Shanjiang continued drinking his milk tea, "I think he will be very happy to see these leathers."

"He is married, and I don't know when he will have children. I plan to wait until he has children and give his children a pony," said Halimu.

"That's what I was planning too. Since you gave me a pony, I will..." Yu Shanjiang looked a little embarrassed, "What should I give you?"

Halimu smiled but said nothing. This matter should be said earlier. You see, now that Yushan Jiangwan has said it, we have to think about other things.

Nomadic people love horses, and among the Kazakhs, even three or four-year-old children can ride horses. When they are five or six years old, their parents will prepare a horse for them, and the horse will belong to the child from then on.

So when I went to the pastoral areas in the past, I often saw little children who had not yet gone to school riding horses covered with only a blanket, and nothing happened to them.

Of course, it is possible that he fell, but no one saw it.

Winter slaughter is an activity carried out by herders when winter comes and their cattle and sheep change from grazing to being kept in pens.

Some slaughter cattle, some slaughter sheep, and some slaughter horses. Smoked horse meat and horse intestines are traditional delicacies of the Kazakh people. The horses slaughtered are of course raised meat horses, and almost every herdsman's circle has some.

In early winter, horse meat nareng is the most common and popular delicacy for entertaining guests here.

Twenty years later in his previous life, Li Long went to the Yili pastoral area with his friends in the winter. He visited five families and ate four meals of horse meat, which made his nose blister.

Horse meat is hot in nature and can only be eaten in winter. Usually, the herders here cut a plate of horse intestines in the morning in winter, and add milk tea, naan, butter, honey, and another plate of horse intestines. It is perfect.

Smoking horse meat and making horse intestines is not something that can be done by one family alone nowadays. Usually, several families work together to slaughter a horse and share the smoked horse meat and horse intestines.

After Yushanjiang and Halimu finished discussing things, they declined the invitation to have dinner here, put on their hats, went out, and rode back to their winter home.

On the way, he was still thinking, when Li Long's child is really born, what gift should he give?

Give a puppy or a deer?
……

Li Long pulled the last batch of reed bundles into the yard of the supply and marketing cooperative and asked the warehouse manager to check them.

The inspection here is quite strict. When the amount reached 20,000, the warehouse manager asked Li Long to take away the extra items because he didn't want them.

Li Long smiled as he took the invoice issued by the warehouse manager, loaded the remaining dozens of reed bundles into the truck, and then went to the finance department in front to sign and get the money.

This matter has come to an end.

The money I received was not much, and most of it was saved.

Li Long roughly calculated that he could earn less than 4,000 yuan from tying reeds this time. This was mainly due to the loss of some fuel, the fact that he collected nearly 100 more reeds, and the fact that he only paid his elder brother Li Jianguo 50 cents.

Li Jianguo's family made nearly a thousand reed bundles, which means they paid nearly two hundred yuan more.

Li Long put the change in his pocket and saved the three thousand yuan. His savings are now one step closer to thirty thousand yuan.

It's been almost two years since I was reborn, and I've saved less than 30,000 yuan. It's really embarrassing for a reborn person.

But I feel that these two years have been really fulfilling, and I have hardly been idle at all.

Of course, the harvest was also huge. I had a home, a wife, a tractor, and soon I would have children.

In the previous life, except for the tractor, nothing else existed. Or rather, it didn't match.

Contented.

After staying at home for two days, Li Long spent the two days happily sleeping until he woke up naturally and doing nothing.

Gu Xiaoxia couldn't bear to watch it any longer and urged him to send some food to the mountains.

This matter must be done as soon as possible. In Gu Xiaoxia's words:
"The snow is so deep that it's not easy for our friends in the mountains to come down. You have to send them some food as soon as possible. Otherwise, they will be in trouble if they run out of food."

Li Long listened to his wife very much. After breakfast that morning, he went to the market to buy food and two sacks of potatoes and went to the pastoral team's stay-at-home point.

We have to send some food to the old and young here first.

Since the household contract responsibility system was implemented, the buying and selling of grain in the free market has become much freer.

When Li Long drove to the guard post, he happened to see Nathan and Susken carrying a bucket of water towards their home. The iron bucket was quite large, and the two men were lifting it with a stick. The water was swaying in the bucket, and a lot of water droplets were spilled along the way.

Li Long was a little puzzled. Was the well pressure in Halimu's house broken? Otherwise, how could they carry water from outside?

Nathan and Sasken had already seen Li Long driving the tractor and were shouting excitedly.

Li Long drove over quickly, parked the tractor at the edge of the yard, got off the tractor, and helped Nathan and the others carry the buckets. As he walked into the yard, he asked:
"Is the well pressure broken? How do we pump water?"

"The well is frozen and there's no water," Nathan explained. "We don't know how to fix it. I remember you mentioned it before, but I forgot." He lowered his head, a little ashamed.

The old lady walked to the gate of the courtyard and grinned when she saw Li Long.

"My father came back a few days ago. They have moved back from the summer pasture. He said he would take us over after the holiday." Nathan talked more and spoke without waiting for Li Long to ask.

Li Long nodded. He first poured the water into the water tank in the house, and then went to check the well.

The well was indeed frozen. The pumping rod could barely move, which made Li Long unsure whether it could be repaired.

In fact, it is not a repair. If you can't get water out of the well in winter, there is only one possibility, that is, the water in the pipe is frozen. If only the well head is frozen, then boil some hot water and pour it down to melt the ice.

But if it is deeply frozen, it will not be easy to thaw in a short time.

Li Long first moved the food and supplies off the tractor and put them into the house, then asked Nathan to tell the old lady to boil more water.

There was less than half of water in the water tank, so Li Long took a bucket and went to Yushanjiang's house to pump water. The well there was not broken.

Yushanjiang's children were older and remembered more clearly what Li Long had said before, so the well was not frozen.

Li Long drove the tractor to Yushanjiang's yard and unloaded the things. His family said the same thing as Nathan.

Li Long loaded two buckets of water onto the tractor and slowly drove back to Halimu's yard.

There was a pot boiling water on the stove in the house.

The pastoral team's rear point distributed one ton of coal to each household. Li Long thought that the coal was not enough, so he brought another ton of coal to Halimu and Yushanjiang's yards respectively.

Because students will move to winter homes when they are on vacation in winter, two tons of coal should be enough for a family.

Some of the water in the bucket on the tractor's bucket spilled, but it wasn't much. Li Long poured two buckets of water into the water tank, and the water tank was almost full.

While waiting for the water on the stove to boil, Li Long asked about Nathan and Susken's academic performance. Both children scratched their heads.

Well, I just started school and can’t ask for too much.

When the water boiled, Li Long scraped the water into the kettle, then poured the water into the pot to continue boiling it. He carried the kettle to the well.

Nathan and Susken hurriedly followed, but Li Long asked them to stay away, saying that pouring boiling water on them would be troublesome. The old lady also followed him out, closed the door, and stood at the door to watch.

The heat in the room cannot escape.

Li Long first poured some boiling water into the well to dissolve the connecting rod and rubber pad of the well. Then he removed the well handle and the plug and looked inside.

The water that had just been poured in was already a little cold. There was a layer of ice at the bottom of the well body, about two or three centimeters thick. It should be that after they pressed the well in winter, they did not drain the water, and it remained in the body and froze.

He poured some more boiling water into the ice to make it melt faster. Li Long turned around and asked Nathan to bring an old towel.

Nathan quickly took a towel from the house and handed it to Li Long.

Li Long reached his hand into the well and felt the water temperature was still quite high, so he found a short stick and stirred it continuously, allowing the hot water above to melt the ice below.

After a while, the ice layer below was almost melted, and then a palm-sized piece of ice floated up.

Li Long reached out to pick up the ice cube, then used a towel to dip out the cooled water inside.

The water inside was almost full, and Li Long reached out to take out the pin blocking the pipe opening at the bottom, but he couldn't do it.

This pin is used to lock the air, just like the mechanism of the cylinder door lock. When the well pressure rod is pressed down, the rubber plug is sealed, and the air pressure inside is different, so the pin is lifted up and the water is sucked up.

When the well-killing rod is raised and the rubber plug (piston) is lowered, the pin falls down and the water pressed out is stored in the well-killing body.

Now that the pin is frozen, the water below naturally cannot be sucked up.

Seeing that he couldn't pull out the pin, Li Long continued to pour boiling water into it.

Next time, pour less water to see how much it can seep down. Once the water gets cold, use a towel to absorb it and wring it out. This will at least ensure that the boiling water poured in next time will not be quickly neutralized by the cold water, and can maximize the removal of ice under the pin.

The pot of water was soon used up, so Li Long went to the house and scooped another pot of water from the pot and continued watering.

Unexpectedly, Nathan and Susken were very patient and kept watching from the side.

Neighbors also came to see it. When the well was working, everyone was using it. Later, it stopped working. Although we could go to Yushan Jiang's house to get water, it was far away and it would be troublesome if there were too many people going.

Now that the people who dug the well have arrived and are still repairing it, they naturally want to see if it can be repaired.

Another pot of boiling water was poured down. Li Long waited for the water to cool down, drained the water, and then moved the pin and found that it could move.

But the scope of activity is not large.

This is good news, indicating that the frozen ice below and the pin are together, and the pin can move, so a lot of the frozen ice on the pole below the pin has melted.

Another pot of boiling water was slowly poured down, and the pin was finally pulled out.

Li Long wasn't sure if there was any ice underneath, so he simply poured all the remaining boiling water on it.

"Uncle Li Long, is it repaired?" Nathan asked when he saw Li Long's expression become relaxed.

"Not sure, let's try it first." Li Long said.

He put the pin in, then took the well-pressing rod next to him and inserted the piston. After fixing it, he scooped a bucket of warm water and poured it into the well-pressing well and started pumping it.

Water quickly came out of the outlet and the people nearby cheered.

Li Long shook his head. It was very hard to press it down, which meant there was something blocking it, probably ice.

He removed the rod and piston, pulled out the pin, and then scooped a pot of boiling water and poured it over.

The water went under slowly, but soon the surface disappeared from the main body of the well.

Li Long looked at it and felt hopeful. He turned back into the house and scooped out another pot of boiling water and poured it in.

This time the water went down relatively quickly, and Li Long guessed that the ice was slowly melting and then being pushed down by the water. In fact, the temperature was already above zero two or three meters below the surface.

If the ice inside rises, it will be melted by the boiling water. If it is pressed down, it will continue to melt slowly. Both are solutions.

Li Long didn't stop until the boiling water in the pot was gone.

Feeling that it was about time, he put the pin in again. After the well-killing piston and rod were fixed, Nathan cleverly scooped up half a bucket of water and poured it in as an inducement.

Li Long pressed the pole and this time he didn't feel so tired.

Water was pressed out continuously.

This time no one cheered, they just watched Li Long's actions.

Li Long asked Nathan to bring the bucket and connect it to the water outlet.

A bucket of water was pressed out, and Li Long carried it and poured it into the water tank.

Another bucket of water was pressed out, and Li Long smiled.

This time, it's definitely fixed.

"Okay, you can use it from now on." Li Long said to others.

"Yeah!"

"Great, it can be used again!"

Li Long then taught Nathan:

"Every time you finish pumping water, you have to listen to the sound inside. Listen..."

The water was no longer being pumped, so someone hurried back to fetch buckets. Li Long told Nathan and Susken to listen quickly:

"Hiss..."

There was a sound of water gasping for air, and Li Long said:
"Listen, this is the sound. The water pumped up will no longer be pressurized and will flow back into the ground. You don't need to worry about it now."

"Don't you have to worry about it?" Nathan was a little puzzled.

"No, no, no, because you're not sure if anyone will come to pump water at night, and those people won't care. When you don't need water at night, just remove the well pump and bring it back to the house, and then turn on the pin..."

Li Long explained to Nathan while demonstrating the operation:

"Take this pin down and put it in the house. Just put a towel or something in it to keep the dirt out."

Nathan and Susken nodded seriously. They didn't want to carry water anymore. The family used at least four or five buckets of water a day, and carrying water from Yushanjiang's house was really too tiring.

How convenient it is to pressurize the well and pump water!

Li Long repaired the water well and felt very proud of himself. He also did a practical thing for Halimu's family - to be honest, if he didn't come, the three of them, old and young, might have to carry water until January when the children had their holidays.

When they arrived at the winter camp, Halimu and his wife would fetch water together, so there was no need for the old and the young to work.

Thinking of fetching water, Li Long suddenly had an idea.

Halimu and Yushanjiang have done so many things for me. Can I help them solve the water problem?

They fetched water from a stream about forty or fifty meters away from their winter den, which was actually not far.

But wouldn’t it be better if it were easier for them to get water?
With this idea in mind, Li Long's brain started working immediately.

At that time, thick hard plastic pipes were still quite valuable. After all, Dushanzi Petrochemical had not yet been built, and Karamay Petrochemical Enterprise's current production capacity was not strong enough.

It's a bit expensive, but you can buy it.

Moreover, for Li Long’s idea, only pipes are needed, and the rest is manual.

For Halimu and his people, the last thing they lack is labor. When spring comes and flowers bloom, there is really nothing else to do except herding.

Even if the cattle and sheep are scattered on the pasture, you don't need to check them for an hour or so. With a leader leading the way, they basically won't run around.

Well, this is feasible. Li Long smiled and thought that Halimu and the others would be very happy when he arrived.

If this thing is to be used in both winter and summer, then we have to discuss it with Halimu and others and choose a good place. (End of this chapter)