Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After Wang Caimi left, Li Long chatted with his family for a while and then drove the tractor to Laomahao.

He wants to see Uncle Luo.

The tractor was parked, but Uncle Luo didn't come out, which surprised Li Long. He pushed the door open and found Uncle Luo sitting on a chair with a slightly painful expression.

"What's wrong, Uncle Luo? Are you sick? Come on, I'll take you to the village to see a doctor!" Li Long said immediately.

"No, no, no, I'm not sick." Uncle Luo stood up quickly and said, "I'm really not sick, don't worry."

"Then I saw that you were in pain just now..." Li Long asked in confusion.

"Alas, I got butted by that bull roe deer." Uncle Luo smiled bitterly. "The antlers of the deer in our pen are cut, but the antlers of the roe deer were too short, so we didn't take care of them at the time. As a result, the antlers turned into horns in winter."

"Did it hit you?" Li Long asked.

"Yes." Uncle Luo said, "I got up early today to feed them. When I entered the pen, I had to collect the leftover grass stalks from yesterday's feeding. As a result, I accidentally let it fall over, and it twisted its arm when it fell."

"Then I'll go and kill it now. This thing dares to butt me, so I can't keep it alive." Li Long stood up. It was very easy to kill a roe deer.

"No, no, no, we can't kill it." Old Uncle Luo tried to dissuade him, "We need to keep it for breeding."

"It's not the only male roe deer."

"It's a bit fierce, so it can produce good offspring." Uncle Luo is a professional, so he said, "We have to keep it."

"Then saw off its horns." Li Long felt that he had to restrict it, otherwise it would hurt Uncle Luo again. So he might as well not raise it and just kill them all.

There are more than a dozen wild boars in this pen.

Uncle Luo wanted to help, but Li Long persuaded him to stop. He was not afraid of the big red deer, so how could he not control this little roe deer?
After finding the saw in the tool room, Li Long looked at it with disdain. The hand saws used in later generations were much more convenient, and this square-frame saw was really uncomfortable.

But there is no other way, this is the only one. Small saw blades are even worse and can easily get stuck.

When we reached the edge of the circle, Uncle Luo also came out wearing a cotton coat.

"I'll just take a look, don't bother me." Uncle Luo was still a little worried.

Li Long smiled, put the saw on the wall, opened the gate and walked in.

The outside of the roe deer pen is an open pen, where they graze during the day. The inside is a warm pen with a roof on top and a soft cotton curtain at the door. When the roe deer enter the warm pen at night, the cotton curtain can block the wind.

There are already quite a lot of roe deer, and fortunately the enclosure is big, so they are quite comfortable.

There were three or four male roe deer. The others had small horns and they all stepped back when they saw Li Long coming in, and then looked at him curiously. Only one male roe deer saw Li Long coming in, and not only did it not retreat, but it took two steps forward, obviously having intentions towards Li Long.

It is it.

When the male roe deer saw Li Long standing still, it lowered its head and charged forward. Its horns were about 20 to 30 centimeters long, with many small bumps at the base and a small fork in the middle, with a sharp tip like a small dagger.

If it hits directly in the front, wouldn't it go straight into the person's body?

While Li Long was still thinking, this guy had already come straight towards him!

Li Long didn't even try to dodge. When the creature rushed over, he grabbed the two horns with both hands and twisted and flipped the roe deer to the ground!
Although he borrowed the force of the roe deer's charge, Uncle Luo, who was watching from behind, couldn't help but shout "good"!
It’s so fucking neat!

Li Long stepped on the roe deer's neck with his foot, reached out to pick up the saw from the wall, then pressed the roe deer's head with one hand and started sawing.

At this time, the roe deer was scared and cried out in panic, but the other roe deer did not feel any sympathy. Instead, they looked at Li Long's actions curiously and stopped eating grass.

Roe deer antlers are very hard, and Li Long used a lot of force when sawing them. A lot of antler scraps fell to the ground. The little roe deer was not afraid at all, and even wanted to come over and lick what it was with its tongue. But it ran away after being scolded by Li Long.

"In half a month, the deer will probably give birth to a baby deer, as will these two roe deer." Uncle Luo said, "Then I'll grab the baby deer and freeze it, and you can take it when you come back."

"No hurry." Li Long said, "Uncle Luo, you have to pay attention to your arm. This is not a small matter. It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone..."

"How can I hurt my muscles? I just bumped into them. How can it be that serious?" Uncle Luo stretched his arms and said, "Don't worry about it. Just focus on your own things. I can take care of these animals."

The next pen is for red deer, which are obviously bigger than roe deer, but their antlers are cut off when they grow, so they don't have horns. They are also eating grass quietly now, probably because they have been in the pen for a long time and got used to it.

A few minutes later, one of the horns was sawed off. Li Long leaned the saw against the wall, picked up the roe deer with both hands and turned it over. The roe deer wanted to struggle, but Li Long was too strong and it couldn't get free at all.

A young roe deer tried to smell the saw, but Li Long waved his hand to drive it away.

After sawing off the other horn, Li Long let the roe deer go.

This guy was so annoyed by Li Long that he got up and ran to the corner after being let go. Li Long was originally prepared to deal with his counterattack, but it seems that he has no courage.

"Uncle Luo, should we saw off those too?"

"No, no, those are very well behaved. We've raised them since they were little and they're obedient. This is just a half-grown one that came over. I can't tame it."

"If you can't tame it, just keep it away. Put a shovel handle next to it and hit it with a stick when it makes trouble. If you hit it enough, it will be quiet."

Some animals just can't be treated kindly.

Since Uncle Luo said that the roe deer should be ignored, Li Long did not make any more noise and took the two roe deer horns out of the circle.

A little roe deer wanted to follow out, but was pushed back by Li Long.

Li Long gave two roe deer horns to Uncle Luo.

"What do I need this for?" Old Uncle Luo waved his hand, "It's useful to you, you can sell it for money."

"It's not a big deal to spend these few dollars. Take it and either keep it for yourself or wait until Chinese New Year when someone comes to pay New Year's greetings and thinks the doll is nice and they have a good relationship, then you can give it away."

"Okay." Uncle Luo said with a smile, "This thing is also a rare thing. When students are on vacation, groups of them come here to see the roe deer and deer here."

That was because, back then, only Wucheng and Shicheng had zoos nearby, and it was very difficult to see animals other than domestic animals and nearby wild animals.

Therefore, the wild boars, deer and roe deer raised here have become rare species.

Li Long chatted with Uncle Luo again and agreed to slaughter a few wild boars in a while, and a red deer and roe deer before the New Year. Then Li Long drove away on the tractor.

The sun is setting and it will soon be dark if we don't leave.

Students returning from school could already be seen on the road, and Li Long also ran into Li Juan, who was riding a bicycle with Li Qiang. He stopped to talk to the two children for a few words, and then headed back to the county.

After the matter was finalized, Li Long did not rush to Kuitun immediately. He needed to deal with the tiger's bones and meat first.

The next day after breakfast, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Han Fang went to school, and Sister Yang cleaned up the kitchen and pushed the cart to sell food. During this period, she got up in the morning to cook two meals, one for Li Long and his friends, and one for porridge, cakes, etc. that she was going to sell.

There are also chopped pickles, chili sauce, etc. on the car. It is said that people in the free market like them very much.

Li Long locked the door, then opened the door of the compartment and carried the bag of frozen tiger flesh to the glass room at the back.

An ordinary person who could carry a 100-kilogram bag of grain was considered a strongman - and at that time there were quite a few young and strong people who could do it.

Li Jianguo and his team of young and strong men who came to the frontier areas from places where they could not get enough food were considered the most hardworking in the village. According to what Li Jianguo told Li Long, there were several people in the team who could carry large sacks of wheat weighing 100 kilograms.

Li Long also knew that, not to mention now, even in another thirty years, there would still be old men in the team who, like Li Jianguo, could carry fifty or sixty kilograms of corn at a time.

But someone like Li Jianguo couldn't carry something weighing more than 100 or nearly 200 kilograms.

Li Long can do it.

He felt that his strength was still growing, but not as fast as before.

Put the bag into the glass greenhouse where the temperature is high. Li Long thinks it won't take long before the tiger's flesh and bones can be semi-melted.

Then it can be dismembered.

Bones are useful, and meat should be useful too.

Anyway, it’s good as long as there is no waste. He went to the tool room and got a large piece of plastic sheet and two large basins. He spread the plastic sheet on the ground and placed the large basins beside it.

Take the tiger's bones and meat out of the bag, place them on a plastic sheet, and slowly dismember them with a knife.

The tiger hadn't been gutted yet, so he suspected that the meat might not be edible. But it didn't matter, as long as the tiger bones were there. As for the tiger penis, it shouldn't be affected by the stink, right?

The first thing Li Long cut off was the tiger whip. After examining it carefully for a while, Li Long put it aside.

Next, start from the legs, use a knife to slowly cut the frozen meat along the grain, find the joints, and then cut it apart.

The tiger's body was frozen solid in the ice and snow, but after being kept in the Li family's room for some time, although it did not become soft, it was not as hard as it was at the beginning.

Li Long worked on it for more than an hour, but only managed to remove four bones. Fortunately, the bones were not small.

After removing about two or three kilograms of meat, Li Long stopped working because his legs were numb from squatting.

The temperature in this glass greenhouse will rise during the day, to above zero. He plans to wait until the tiger's flesh and bones have melted a little in the afternoon before decomposing them.

Li Long took the decomposed tiger bones, tiger penis and tiger meat and left the glass greenhouse. It was closed on all sides, with blue bricks on the floor. Li Long had carefully cleaned it up after taking the roe deer away, so there was no smell and no place for mice to run in, so he felt relieved.

Li Long put the cleaned tiger bones in the side room, together with the deer antlers and wolf teeth he had stored. Once this thing is picked out, nothing can be seen.

He planned to peel off the skin of the tiger's head first in the afternoon and hide it. In this way, no one would be able to tell what it was.

As for the tiger penis, put it aside and let it dry slowly in the shade, and then soak it in wine when you have time.

Li Long had almost finished cleaning up when the door rang and Sister Yang pushed the cart into the yard.

Li Long helped Sister Yang take the pot down, and he found that half of the porridge in the pot was still unsold.

"Business is not good today." said Li Long.

"Yes, there are people who went earlier than me and also sell porridge." Sister Yang didn't care and said, "There are also cakes, which are about the same as mine. I think I can add some eggs and egg drops to the porridge tomorrow, make it thinner, and sell it at the same price, which should be better."

Yes, Sister Yang is quite shrewd in doing business.

Sister Yang didn't care, so Li Long didn't say much. She went to cook and Li Long cleaned the rooms.

This courtyard has many rooms, most of which are filled with old stuff piled up by the previous owners. Li Long cleared out some of the rooms and used them either for living or for storing things.

But most of them have not been cleaned up yet, such as the back houses facing the street.

He planned to clean up the place bit by bit. If it could be used in the future, it would be nice to rent it out as a storefront.

At noon, Li Long asked Sister Yang to fry some of the tiger meat. However, they found that the meat was quite sour and had a slight stench, so no one wanted to eat it.

So Li Long decided to discard the remaining tiger meat, probably because it was stinky, or maybe tiger meat just tasted like that.

When he was handling it, he found that the tiger was still quite fat and had a lot of oil, but since he was not going to throw it away, he put all the oil in a bag and planned to put it in the tractor and throw it into the wild when he went to Kuitun.

Come from nature, return to nature.

Next, Li Long spent the entire afternoon and the morning of the next day removing all the tiger's bones and placed them in the side room, preparing to dry them for a while before soaking them in wine.

I don't dare ask anyone for the recipe anymore, so I can only send some to people I'm close to in the name of lynx bones, or directly soak them in wine and share some with them later.

This was a big deal, and Li Long felt that if he let it out, he wouldn't be able to bear the consequences.

As for the tiger meat, he put it into two bags and put them in the tractor bed. No one asked him what it was.

Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia that he was going to Kuitun. That afternoon, he went to the team again and told his parents about it.

"Since you are going, bring some rice and flour to your second brother, second sister-in-law, and the children." As the eldest brother, Li Jianguo was very thoughtful in this regard. "It's not easy for them to live in the city. I don't know if that little salary is enough to support a family of four."

Li Long loaded two bags of rice and two bags of flour onto the tractor, covered them with plastic sheeting, accepted his parents' advice, promised himself that he would be careful, and then drove the tractor to Yang Hua's house again.

He had to ask Yang Hua if he had any instructions for Yang Yongqiang.

Yang Yongqiang was not married, so he lived in the company dormitory and ate in the company cafeteria, so there was no need to deliver rice and flour. Li Long listened to what Yang Hua said and returned to the county.

He went to withdraw some more money before it got dark, intending to buy a harvester.

The next day, Li Long put the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle into a gun bag and put it on his back. Then he put on his thick leather coat inside out, put on a hood specially made for him like the robber, and then put on a leather hat. Then he drove the tractor westward.

The weather was particularly clear. Whether it was the west of Ma County or the south of Shicheng, it was all covered with snow. The only few clouds in the sky were as white as cotton.

Li Long looked at it and smiled. If he told the people here at this moment that in thirty years this place would be developed and there would be tall buildings everywhere, but the sky would be dark in winter, probably no one would believe it.

Can't even imagine it.

When the tractor drove to the old street, Li Long did not stop. It had been less than half an hour and he did not feel cold.

Li Long stopped the tractor only after he left the city of Shicheng and arrived at a regiment farm in the west. He bought two kilograms of sesame cakes in a small shop and asked for a bowl of hot tea.

In fact, even if he didn’t buy anything, he could still drink hot tea. Li Long thought this was good and it made him feel at ease.

After a short rest, seeing that there was still plenty of water in the tractor's water tank, we continued to move forward.

At noon, Li Long arrived at the uninhabited area. He saw groups of gazelles that were picking up something to eat on the roadside. When the tractor came over, they ran to the high ground in the south, and then stopped about fifty or sixty meters away from Li Long and looked over here.

Li Long immediately became interested. He stopped the tractor. The gazelles noticed him and immediately moved away twenty or thirty meters.

There were about thirty or forty gazelles in the group, big and small. Li Long got on the tractor's bed, squatted down, put his knees against the side of the bed, took out a Type 56 rifle from the holster, turned on the safety, pulled the bolt, and loaded the bullet into the chamber.

Then aim.

The gazelle in the distance was still very clear in Li Long's eyes. He took steady aim and pulled the trigger.

A huge gunshot echoed in the air, and a majestic gazelle with pointed horns fell down. The herd of gazelles suddenly exploded and scattered in a further southward direction.

Li Long planned to fire another shot, but the gazelles ran too fast and he could only see their shadows when he aimed, so he had to give up.

He unloaded the bullets from the gun, turned off the safety, put it on his back, and walked south with a bag in each hand. When he was about 20 to 30 meters away from the main road, Li Long began to lift the bags upside down and scatter the tiger meat.

By the time he arrived in front of the yellow sheep, Li Long had already spread the two bags of tiger meat evenly over an open area of ​​dozens of meters in radius, so it could not be seen from a distance.

Li Long looked at the dead yellow sheep. The bullet hit its head. Li Long clearly saw that the sheep was staring at him, so he chose it.

The horns on this yellow goat's head were about 30 to 40 centimeters long, which was quite rare. Li Long dragged the goat back by its horns.

When Li Long was about to get on the main road, a Dongfeng truck drove over, bringing with it a burst of snow and fog.

Seeing Li Long carrying the yellow sheep, the driver honked the horn, probably to express his admiration for Li Long's shooting skills.

Li Long smiled, and after the car passed by, he threw the yellow sheep onto the tractor and cut a short incision on its belly with a knife to let the heat inside dissipate.

That was not the end. He took out the intestines and other internal organs and put them into a bag. It was difficult to clean them up right now, so he put them in the truck bed and continued on his way.

This is just a small episode on the road.

Next, continue walking westward. There is a large Gobi desert between Shawan and Kuitun, with short red willows and saxaul growing on it. From time to time, you can see herds of gazelles and even wolves.

But in front of the huge monster of the tractor, these guys all ran away.

Li Long was originally thinking about whether he could shoot another yellow sheep, but he no longer had the chance.

During the break, Li Long ate a few sesame cakes with snow as lunch, and then stuffed some snow into the tractor's water tank. The top of the water tank was already heated, and the snow melted as soon as it went in, and soon the water was filled up.

If you walk a little further, you can already see the shadow of Kuitun Military Station. (End of this chapter)