Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long did not stay long at his eldest brother's house. After drinking two bowls of hot tea, he drove away in a hurry in his jeep.

It was already dark, and he turned on the headlights. The light was far inferior to the high beams of later generations, but at this time, it was enough to illuminate the road ahead.

Lu Yingming came to Li's house only after the jeep left.

He knocked on the window of the west room and shouted:
"Is Lao Li here?"

"Here, here, here. Tietou's dad, right? Come in quickly." Liang Yuemei shouted in the room.

Many families in the village made some money this year, and several of them bought TVs. Although they were all black and white, they were still watchable. So not many people came to the color TV in Li Qingxia's house, especially at this time, when it was cold and people were not willing to go out.

It will not be until the New Year, when the children have their holidays, that this place will become lively again.

Lu Yingming entered the house and saw that all the Li family members were there. The children were talking on the west floor, and there was a strong smell of mutton in the house.

"Your family is really busy today." Lu Yingming said with a smile, "That jeep looks really beautiful, that is..."

"Xiaolong drove it here," Li Jianguo said. "The leader of the state supply and marketing cooperative asked him to do something, so he was given the car to drive so that it would be more convenient for him to do his job."

"Xiaolong is driving? Xiaolong can drive a car?" Lu Yingming was also surprised, "He's really good!"

"Haha, it's because the leader trusts him." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "That job takes a long time, so the car is left here. We went out to do the work, and Xiaolong took us back."

"A small car! That's a small car." Lu Yingming was still shocked. "Xiaolong is really promising."

"What kind of future can you achieve? You're still just a temporary worker." Li Qingxia said with a smile, and then let Du Chunfang pat his leg.

Although she knew that her husband was being modest, Du Chunfang still didn't want to hear any bad things about her youngest son.

"Tietou's father, this is a yellow sheep leg. Juan's grandfather and his father went out to hunt them. You can bring it back and have a taste of it."

"That won't do..." Lu Yingming came here to get information, not to get food for free. He waved his hands hastily, "I have meat at home, no need..."

"Take it." Li Jianguo said, "We went to the uninhabited area in the west to hunt. There were many yellow sheep there, and we caught quite a few."

Lu Yingming had no choice but to take the yellow sheep leg.

This leg weighs five or six kilograms and smells fishy, ​​but as Lu Yingming often deals with the Li family, he knows that as long as he adds more ingredients, the mutton can be cooked deliciously.

After Lu Yingming returned, he told Mrs. Lu about Li Long driving the jeep given by the state leader.

The next day, the whole village knew about it.

Even when Li Jianguo went to the team headquarters to return the gun, Xu Chengjun asked with a smile:
"Brother Li, your Xiaolong is driving a jeep? That's awesome! Only county leaders can ride in this jeep, right? Did you ride in it? Was it comfortable?"

"It's definitely more comfortable than a tractor," Li Jianguo said with a smile. "It has a canopy, so your face won't get cold in the winter, but you can't load much."

"Have you gone to hunt gazelles? Are there many gazelles over there? When Xiaolong comes back, can you ask him, Brother Li, and then go hunt again?" Xu Chengjun also became interested.

We have guns and bullets now, but it is not easy to go to a place where there are gazelles.

"Okay, I'll ask Xiaolong when he comes back." Li Jianguo said.

He also brought a yellow sheep leg for Xu Chengjun, and another one for Uncle Luo.

Of course, Li Jianguo didn’t call Lao Luo Uncle, they just called him by their own name.

Uncle Luo is the most carefree person among the older generation in the village. Although he has to feed a lot of animals, he doesn't have to worry about fodder, as someone else will bring him the fodder.

They had meat to eat and wine to drink every day, and received wages, just like the workers in the city.

Other elderly people of the same age are very envious.

Maybe people in later generations think that not working is comfortable. But it is different these days. People who are used to working will feel uncomfortable if they don’t work.

Uncle Luo is very familiar with this job. Although there are still a lot of livestock now, more than when he raised horses for the team, he is still very happy. He thinks it is good this way. Being able to raise more livestock means that he is still useful and can still do it.

This is much better than the suffering before.

When Li Long returned to the compound, it was already completely dark. The lights of the jeep illuminated the road, which frightened the officers on duty at the police station. Then they remembered that the jeep was diagonally opposite the door, and their vigilance faded.

I originally thought that some leader was on a secret visit.

Li Long entered the yard, parked the jeep, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Gu Xiaoxia was wearing a cotton coat, looking a little bloated but cute. She called Li Long to come into the house quickly.

Sister Yang made dumpling soup, which is just right for drinking to drive away the cold.

Li Long was holding an enamel basin and drinking the dumpling soup in big gulps. There were several old basins in the storage room, filled with soil, with seeds of Chinese cabbage and green vegetables planted in the soil. Although it was snowing heavily, the seeds in the basins had sprouted and grown into seedlings, and now they were edible.

Add some shredded green leafy vegetables to the dumpling soup, and it will taste especially delicious.

Li Long was thinking whether he could use the glass shed at the back as a greenhouse in a couple of days. Regardless of how much he could grow, at least he could have some fresh leafy vegetables to eat in the winter.

This is actually pretty easy. The greenhouse itself is made of glass, and there are a few cracks in the glass, but it's not broken. It's quite hot when the sun shines in during the day, and when it snows, the snow can be cleaned off quickly from the bottom because the roof is slanted.

If you put a stove inside and build a long fire wall, or build a long ground dragon on the north gable, you can warm up the entire glass shed.

According to later practice, straw curtains would be added to the shed, but Li Long thought it was unnecessary. He didn't plan to grow much, just some chives, celery and small greens, so that he could eat something green during the New Year.

In fact, some people have already covered the leek fields with straw in early winter, and then pressed them with old quilts. When the Spring Festival comes, they remove the snow on top, then the quilts, remove the straw, and there will be leek greens underneath.

This thing isn't cheap.

Li Long was thinking about these things while drinking the dumpling soup.

It’s a bit late to think about it now, mainly because the soil is difficult to deal with. If it really doesn’t work, just keep those in the storage room first.

In fact, it is not completely impossible. Although the soil in the fields around the county town is frozen, the soil near the running water in the mountains is not frozen yet. It is still easy to dig if you want.

Li Long was thinking about whether he should find some time to go into the mountains, deliver some things to the mountains, and dig some soil back.

Of course, we'll talk about it later. He wasn't in a hurry to leave, so he could slowly think things through.

After this trip up the mountain, he planned to wait until the snow melted before going back in. The main hunting targets in the mountains were deer, roe deer and wild boar.

He had all three of these in his old horse stable, but he hadn't yet raised any yellow sheep, and he didn't know if he could keep them alive.

Next, Li Long stayed at home for a week. When he had nothing to do, he thought about what to plant or went to Gu Boyuan's agricultural supply store to chat.

In the meantime, he went to Chen Hongjun's purchasing station.

The winter purchasing station was not as deserted as last year. Occasionally, people would bring in various kinds of skins. When Li Long came across it, he saw people bringing in rabbit skins, fox skins, and even badger skins.

Li Long was considered a wealthy man. He sold ten yellow sheepskins and one wolfskin at once, shocking everyone else.

He also gave Chen Hongjun a yellow sheep leg as a personal gift.

Chen Hongjun did not hide the fact that he knew Li Long at all. He greeted him and asked him to sell last while he would deal with the things in other people's hands first.

Li Long sat aside and waited.

These furs are indeed expensive. Rabbit fur can be sold for three yuan, fox fur can be sold for thirty-five yuan, and badger fur, which is not big, is also sold at the same price.

When it came to Li Long, those people didn't leave. They wanted to see how much money Li Long, the big investor, could get in the end.

They didn't have many skins. Except for the one with rabbit skins, which had twelve and sold for thirty-six dollars, the others were only one or two.

The money I received was less than a hundred.

Most of Li Long's skins were whole skins. Chen Hongjun looked through them one by one and bought seven whole skins for 70 yuan each, three broken skins for 50 yuan each, and the wolf skin for a high price of 80 yuan.

Seven hundred and twenty dollars.

Now that the land has been distributed, each household has tens of acres of land. The annual income may not be half of this money!
These people were envious and jealous, and some of them asked where so many yellow sheepskins came from.

"There are large groups of gazelles in the sand pits in the north and in the uninhabited areas of the Gobi Desert in the west." Li Long also told the truth, "But you have to use guns. People will definitely not be able to catch up with them."

It was not difficult to get a gun for hunting at this time, and it was obvious that these people had made up their minds.

After everyone left, Chen Hongjun pointed at Li Long and said:

"You are tempting others to be greedy." "I am helping you to increase your sales. They get the leather and will sell it to you in the end." Li Long joked, "You should thank me."

"Okay, okay, thank you." Chen Hongjun patted him on the shoulder, "It seems like you guys have done a lot."

"There are indeed many groups of gazelles in the uninhabited area east of Kuitun. If you go there with a gun and wait, you will definitely be able to see the gazelles."

"It has to be able to run that far. You have a tractor, but others don't." Chen Hongjun didn't know that Li Long had got a jeep. Li Xiangqian didn't tell anyone else about this.

After all, Director Qian said it should be kept confidential.

Li Long chatted with Chen Hongjun again before returning home.

Seven hundred and twenty yuan is enough to spend this winter.

At least enough to buy supplies for the trip to the mountains.

In the next few days, Li Long would go out every day, either to the medicinal materials company to buy common winter medicines; or to the free market to buy some eggs - Kazakh herdsmen also eat eggs.

As for potatoes, onions, etc., they must be stored well after purchase, otherwise they will be bad if frozen.

For herders, their daily food mainly consists of naan and milk tea. It is impossible for them to eat meat every day, even for ordinary Bayi masters.

When the cows are not producing milk, they drink tea. The main way to get vitamins is from tea.

Therefore, brick tea is a must-have. Like flour and salt, this thing is consumed in large quantities.

Since Li Long started transporting food to the mountains, the herders have been eating less and less coarse food. At first, Li Long transported corn flour to the mountains, but later he simply transported white flour.

Affordable.

Judging from the skins and deer antlers that Halimu and others gave to Li Long, it was more than enough for him.

Li Long also needs to buy some batteries. In winter, families do less activities and the radio is basically turned on every day, so the battery consumption is also extremely high.

Some radios have been damaged.

So I have to make up for the radio for two days. There are more types of portable radios now.

Although the special effects in the frontier areas, especially industrial materials, are not as complete as those in the mainland, industrial products have gradually become more abundant in the past two years.

Another week passed like this, and Li Long said goodbye to Gu Xiaoxia and drove into the mountains in a jeep.

When people or cars in the county saw the jeep, they all moved to the sides to avoid it. Li Long drove out of the county and headed west to the intersection leading to Qingshuihezi. Then he went south and found that only the middle section of the road was covered with snow. There were two rows of tractor marks, but the road was not completely cleared.

He was a little worried about whether there would be any problems with the road into the mountains. After all, Li Long thought that jeeps were not as good as tractors in driving on snowy roads.

Fortunately, after crossing Qingshuihezi, he found a carriage track leading into the mountain. Li Long guessed that someone must have gone into the mountain to pull wood. After the snow was pressed, it was easier to drive the jeep.

When the car was two kilometers away from the mountain pass, the red willow bushes on the roadside were suddenly startled, and several animals ran hurriedly to the west.

Li Long was also startled and turned his head to look over. It seemed to be... some kind of animal similar to a gazelle.

Looking at the nose with very distinctive features, Li Long almost shouted:
Sagami antelope!

It must be it!

Although Li Long had never seen these things in real life, including in his previous life, but just by looking at the big nose on the face that looked like a large caterpillar, Li Long was sure that these were them!
Looking at their fur, a certain memory suddenly flashed through his mind, and Li Long realized at once that this was the group of creatures that didn't look like gazelles that he encountered when he was hunting with his father and elder brother that day.
That group, or another group?
Li Long stopped the jeep and rushed down with his gun in hand.

Because he was in the jeep and he wasn't wearing a cotton coat, he ran very fast.

Those antelopes naturally ran faster than him, but the snow was extremely thick and their legs were thin, so they sank into the water with every step they took. Although they were slowly distancing themselves from Li Long, the gap was not much.

Li Long opened the safety while running, pulled the bolt to load the bullet, and waited for the opportunity breathlessly. There were seven or eight antelopes in the group, and he was staring at the three males with horns.

Just hit any one.

However, the distance between them was gradually widening. After all, these antelopes were animals that were very good at running. When they encountered danger, the potential they unleashed was beyond Li Long's reach.

His physical strength and endurance far exceed those of ordinary people, otherwise he would have been left behind by now.

In fact, we are now about seventy or eighty meters away from the antelopes, but the bushes here are much more numerous and denser than those in the no-man's land, so there are not many opportunities to shoot.

Li Long chased the antelopes for about two or three kilometers. He felt his throat was about to smoke. The antelopes in front of him suddenly seemed to be frightened by something, and their running direction suddenly changed from west to southwest!
The opportunity is coming!

Li Long immediately squatted down and aimed his gun. At this time, the antelope only left him with most of its body, not just its butt.

This is just like the naval fleet in World War II who had to seize the T-head during the battle and could use their own cannons to hit the enemy's ship.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Li Long fired three shots in a row, and one of the antelopes fell down. Li Long then ran over quickly with his gun in hand.

A minute later, he passed by and saw the dead male antelope, but he did not stop, but continued to chase the herd of antelopes.

Because he not only killed one, but also injured another!
The injured antelope was running with the other antelopes, bleeding, but it ran slower and slower, bled more and more, and blood foamed out of its mouth.

The bullet hit the edge of its lung, leaving it with a wound that was not fatal.

If you can take care of it quietly, it may live for a while.

But how could it be allowed to rest during the process of fleeing in a hurry?

Li Long was chasing the antelope with a gun from behind. He had the chance to fire one more shot, but he didn't. He chased for a few dozen meters. The injured antelope finally couldn't run anymore. It lay in the snow, coughing up blood foam.

Li Long stepped forward, and the antelope struggled to get up, but ultimately failed.

Li Long put away his gun, drew out his knife, and slit its throat to give it a quick death.

Both antelopes are males. You can see that this one is older and the spiral pattern on its horns is heavier.

The one that just fell down is younger.

Li Long waited until the antelope's blood had been drained and he had rested enough, then he carried the antelope back.

He couldn't carry the other antelope, so he could only drag it back.

When running this way, he was very excited and didn't care about anything, but when running back, it was really difficult to walk. Dragging the antelope in the snow, occasionally hitting a tree stump or a rock under the snow, it would pull Li Long back.

When he finally reached the jeep, Li Long felt smoke coming out of his head.

He hurriedly got into the jeep, took out his cotton coat and put it on, and put on his cotton hat, otherwise he would definitely catch a cold today.

Looking at the two antelopes, Li Long thought for a moment and decided to just cut them open to release the heat inside. The blood had already flowed out, so he didn't have to worry about it smelling bad.

After resting for a while in the jeep and the antelopes were half frozen, Li Long put them into the car and continued driving into the mountains.

Now is not the time to deal with it, mainly because there are a lot of things in the trunk of the jeep. Now that the antelope is dealt with, there is no place to put it.

Even so, the two antelopes had to be placed on the front seat uncomfortably.

Let's wait until we get to Halimu's house to deal with it. Anyway, his skinning skills are definitely better than mine.

The snow path created by the carriage turned into a ditch at the third level of the mountain.

Li Long knew that there were large tracts of snowy forests there.

Next, the jeep has to move on its own.

Fortunately, the snow in the mountains was blown by the wind into different thicknesses, and in some places the soil layer was almost exposed, so it was better to compact it.

Not long after, Li Long saw Halimu's winter den. Smoke was coming out of the den, indicating that the owner was inside.

Before Li Long's jeep stopped, the sound of dogs barking was heard from the other side.

Then, Halimu bent down and walked out of the winter den. (End of this chapter)