Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

When Halimu saw the jeep, he was stunned for a moment, until he saw Li Long getting out of the jeep, he smiled.

Li Long remembered that the ditch between the road and Halimu's winter nest had been filled in the summer, so the jeep should be able to drive through, after all, the tractor had driven through it.

He shifted gears, adjusted direction and drove towards the winter den.

The off-road function of the jeep played a powerful role. It climbed out of the ditch and drove to Harimu's side.

Li Long got out of the car, shook hands with Halimu, and after greeting each other, he pointed at the two antelopes in the car and said:
"I killed him on the road. The horns are mine, and the meat is yours."

"No, no, no," Halimu looked at the two antelopes and said, "One is enough. I have to share one with Yushanjiang. We still have a lot of meat from the winter slaughter at home, so you can take the other one back."

"I have a lot of them too." Li Long explained, "I killed a lot of yellow sheep these past two days, so there's a lot of meat."

"You are many, keep it for yourself." Halimu insisted, "Come, drink some milk tea first, and then we will peel the skin."

Li Long was very happy. Halimu didn't need him to say a word and just helped to peel the skin.

"Let's unload the stuff first." Li Long said, "Drink the milk tea after unloading it, otherwise you will always have something on your mind."

"Okay." As Halimu said this, his wife came out of the dugout and smiled shyly at Li Long, which was equivalent to a greeting.

The two men took down the food, medicinal herbs, eggs, potatoes, sprouts and other things from the back of the jeep.

After entering the winter den, Li Long brought out the cardboard box containing the medicinal herbs, which contained oil pen, glue and paper. He asked Halim to mark the names of the herbs.

This is a big deal. Halimu tore the paper seriously. He wrote down a medicine as Li Long read it out. Li Long did not read out the name of the medicine, but only read out the effect of the medicine.

Halimu's wife was very happy looking at the bag of potatoes and the bag of sprouts. It was almost January, and Halimu's mother and their children would be back. With these things and the meat from winter slaughter, cooking would be much easier.

By the way, there is still so much flour and rice, so we can make naan, narendra, and pilaf.

that's nice!

Put a piece of paper with words on each bottle of medicine and put them back into the box. The milk tea is ready.

Li Long and Halimu were drinking milk tea and talking about their own things.

"The car outside was exchanged for tiger skin." Li Long did not hide it from Halimu, but he also hoped that he could keep it a secret. "I told the person who exchanged the skin that there were no bones, only skin and head."

"Okay, if someone asks me, I will say that the tiger head and skin were taken back, but the bones and meat were not eaten and were thrown into the mountains." Halimu knew what Li Long meant and said immediately.

Li Long smiled, it’s great to have such a friend.

"I recently drove this car to the uninhabited area in the west. There were herds of gazelles moving south from the sandbags in the north. They might come to your winter pasture to graze."

"Don't worry, you still have a lot of bullets for us. If they dare to come over, we will take their skins." Halimu would occasionally make a joke.

After drinking the milk tea, Halimu felt hot, so he took out his knife and prepared to skin the animal.

Li Long also came out to join them. The two antelopes would be faster if they were together.

Halimu's wife also came out with a large basin to help. Li Long guessed that she was mainly helping to take the internal organs, because they all knew that Li Long and his family ate the internal organs.

In fact, Halimu and his friends also eat it, but their food is not as complicated as that of Li Long and his friends.

The two antelopes were not completely frozen, and their bodies were not completely hard, so it was quite quick to skin them. Soon, a croaker was skinned out.

Li Long was slower than Halimu, so Halimu gave him guidance. Later, he found that there was not enough water, so he went to fetch some.

After bringing two buckets of water over, Halimu panted and said, "I'm really thinking about the water pipe you're going to make. It would be great if we could bring water to the winter den and it wouldn't freeze in winter."

Although the snow melts in winter, the snow nearby is trampled by cattle and sheep. In winter, their cattle and sheep are not all kept in pens. This is a winter den, which means there is a winter pasture nearby.

The grass in the winter pasture is not threshed because of the low altitude, less snow and less cold than in the summer pasture, so cattle and sheep can graze in the winter pasture. If the grass is pressed by snow, the cattle and sheep can kick it away.

When the snow melts in the spring and the grass hasn't grown yet, you can still eat grass here.

So in Halimu's small tribe, each family has three pastures: summer pasture, winter pasture, and pasture for cutting grass.

Li Long also finished skinning the antelope. He wiped the knife on the skin to remove some of the grease, and then said:

"We will come here to work as soon as spring comes. There will be more people here, so we can work faster. Then you can call all your tribesmen over, and they will watch us operate.

You must pay attention at this time. If you do it well, you can use it in winter. If you don’t do it well, it will freeze in winter.”

In fact, Li Long planned to inspect each household one by one, and fix any unqualified ones before they moved on. This way, he would not have to worry about water problems when they returned.

After all, when we moved back, it was basically snowing here, so it was impossible to carry out construction at that time.

That's what has been said.

After peeling the antelope skin, Li Long rubbed it with salt and rolled it up, otherwise it would freeze into pieces. Halimu only kept one antelope, so Li Long packed up the other one and the offal of the two antelopes and put them in the car.

The two antelopes did not move their heads. The horns of these two antelopes were more than 30 centimeters long, which was obviously different from the horns of yellow sheep. Li Long was very happy.

He planned to give one sheep's head to Director Qian, and keep the remaining one for himself.

"Halimu, if you kill an antelope like this in the winter pasture, you must keep its horns." Li Long thought for a moment, broke off one of the horns of the antelope head he wanted to keep and handed it to Halimu:
"If a child has a fever, scrape some off and soak it in water for the child to drink, and the fever will go down quickly."

"Really?" Halimu looked at the sheep's horn and asked curiously.

"It's true." Li Long remembered something else and continued:
"After a while, I'll get some wine to soak the tiger bones for a month. Let your mother drink a small glass of that wine every day. It will be good for her health."

Elderly people who often live in the mountains will have some problems with their waists and legs. Tiger bone wine can cure this, but of course it requires drinking for a period of time.

Although Halimu didn't know that tiger bones had this effect, he believed in Li Long.

Li Long felt that he needed to soak the tiger bones when he returned.

At noon, Halimu's wife fried Kazakh potato chips, ate naan, and drank milk tea. She knew that Li Long was not used to their kind of naan, so she didn't make it.

The portions were large, and Li Long was quite happy eating. He was not very picky about food, and at Halim's place, he could eat casually without paying too much attention to anything, and was very relaxed.

After eating and resting for a while, Li Long left. To be honest, Halimu was actually quite envious of Li Long driving his jeep and speeding away on the snowy road.

People on horseback sometimes wish there were other ways to move forward.

Who could have imagined that in a dozen or twenty years, there would be a group of Kazakh children who would like to herd cattle on motorcycles?

Li Long did not go to the wooden house. He had no intention of living there at the moment, so he did not go over to disturb them.

He just found a place with water, scooped two bags of black soil with a shovel and put them in the jeep. He planned to take it back to grow vegetables.

It was already afternoon when he returned to the county. Li Long first went to the food company to buy several large cages of wine. Glass bottles for soaking wine were hard to find, so he had to look for them slowly.

At that time, there were no glass jars of sorghum liquor sold in department stores, nor were there any jars made specifically for soaking wine in later generations. He remembered that there were small jars for pickling pickles sold on the side of the Wuyi Highway, with a bowl-like lid on top.

Li Long went to buy four of them, intending to use them to soak wine. As for the sealing problem, you need to put the bowl on and pour water on the edge of the bowl to seal it. This water needs to be added frequently, otherwise the water will dry up and it will not be sealed.

Originally, it could be sealed with wax, but considering that it could be drunk after soaking for a month, Li Long felt that wax was more troublesome.

He drove the wine and the jar home. No one was home, so Li Long cut up the antelope, put the meat in a large basin, and boiled water on the stove.

Halimu only simply cleaned the stomach and intestines, and he needed to wash them again before he could cook them.

Anyway, we were already home, so there was no need to rush. When he cleaned his stomach and intestines, Sister Yang came back. Seeing Li Long cleaning the meat, she hurriedly took it and "drove" Li Long out of the kitchen.

In the eyes of Sister Yang and her sister-in-law Liang Yuemei, men are supposed to make money and should not appear in the kitchen. Li Long came out of the kitchen, washed his hands, and went to clean the jar. After washing the jar, he moved it and the wine to the room between the master bedroom and the room where Sister Yang and Han Fang lived.

This room was originally occupied by Li Long. After he got married, the room became empty, but many of Li Long's things were stored in it. There is no fire in the room now, but it is fine to store wine, and it won't get cold.

Put three or four clean tiger bones into each jar, then pour 80% of the wine into it, cover it with a bowl, and then pour water to the edge.

He can guarantee that this wine is grain wine, the kind with a 55-degree alcohol content.

In fact, there is also a 60-degree version. Li Long thinks that a 60-degree version is not good, as it is harmful to the body.

After the wine was soaked, there were still a lot of tiger bones left. Li Long thought that after a while, he would give some to a few people with whom he had a good relationship, in the name of giant lynx bones, and keep the rest.

You may only be able to get the bones of this tiger in your lifetime, so you'd better use them carefully.

Then he thought of ginseng. Wild ginseng was not that expensive at the moment, so could he buy some?
The county supply and marketing cooperative won't accept this stuff, and the medicinal materials company only takes it in but doesn't sell it out, Li Long thought about it and walked out wearing his coat.

Sister Yang was braising the offal and preparing dinner at the same time. Seeing Li Long walking out, she hurried out of the kitchen and asked:

"Uncle, are you going out? Dinner will be ready soon."

"I'm going to the purchasing station to ask something. I'll be back soon." Li Long said, "You go about your business. Don't worry about me."

Li Long went out and closed the door, then walked towards the purchasing station.

At the purchasing station, Chen Hongjun was collecting leather. Seeing Li Long coming over, he smiled and asked, "Xiao Li, you brought leather again?"

"No, I came here empty-handed this time. I want to ask a question."

"Then wait a minute. I'll talk to you after I'm done."

Li Long stood aside and watched.

He didn't plan to take out the antelope skin. Chen Hongjun was well-informed and would probably recognize an antelope skin if he saw one. If it had skin, it would naturally have horns, but it was hard to say what the horns were.

In addition, Chen Hongjun and Li Xiangqian were familiar with each other. Li Long only had three horns. The first and second horns were reserved for Director Qian, and the remaining one was reserved for himself. If he caught another sheep later, he could share it with them. If he didn't catch it, he would keep the skin for now.

After Chen Hongjun collected the leathers, he asked Li Long to sit next to the stove.

He handed Li Long a handful of melon seeds and gestured for him to crack them while talking.

Chen Hongjun also grabbed a handful of melon seeds and threw the shells under the furnace door. This was where the ash fell, and he could just sweep it away when the time came.

"I want to ask if you know where I can get wild ginseng?"

"Why do you want wild ginseng?" Chen Hongjun was a little confused. "Is someone in your family sick?"

"No, I have to prepare some," Li Long said honestly, "I thought that the stuff will become less and less in the future, and the price will definitely go up, so I bought some now to prepare."

"Wild ginseng is not cheap," Chen Hongjun said. "The better ones cost several hundred, and some cost thousands. We don't produce it here, but I can find out that the autonomous region's medicinal materials company and the state's warehouse have it. However, after it has gone through several hands, the price must have increased a lot."

"It's fine if you have it, just add more money. I can't go to the Northeast to collect it. I don't know anyone there."

Li Long felt that his life was still very precious, so he decided not to go out. If he ran into a fool or someone who didn't know the law, he would be in trouble.

Just stay here, it's your own land after all, and no one here will cause trouble. If you want to travel, wait another 30 years, when the public security is better, then it won't be too late to go.

So the matter was settled. Li Long's requirements were not high. He just wanted to get one or two and soak them in wine. The wine could be refilled, how great.

I don't know if it can be soaked together with tiger bones. If tiger bones don't work, what about tiger penis?

Li Long returned to the compound. Gu Xiaoxia had just got off work and was riding her bicycle.

Seeing Li Long coming in, she said:

"I just asked my dad if he wanted to come over for dinner, and he said no, saying that there were too many people buying agricultural supplies these past two days, and he was too busy and didn't want to move."

"Then let's send some of the braised offal over later." Li Long said, "It's just right for eating and drinking in the evening and having a good sleep."

"Okay." Although Gu Xiaoxia was a little afraid of the cold, she thought about her father who had to run business and cook alone, so she decided to send him off.

"I'll go, so you don't have to go." Li Long remembered that Gu Xiaoxia was afraid of the cold, so he said, "I'll go and have a couple of drinks with Uncle Gu, and then I'll be back. You can watch TV at home."

"Let's go together. I'm not that squeamish." Gu Xiaoxia was worried about her father. When she heard Li Long say that he wanted to have a couple of drinks with his father, she was worried that Li Long would drink too much and would not be able to come back, so she decided to go together.

When Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia came to Gu Boyuan's yard with the braised meat, he was roasting steamed bread slices on the stove. On the table was a plate of freshly cut pickles, not fried. There was also a bowl of noodle paste, which should have been made in the morning. It looked like it had been heated up and had become like paste.

Seeing her father eating this for dinner, Gu Xiaoxia couldn't help herself. Her eyes turned red and she covered her mouth, unable to speak.

Li Long hurried over, put the cut braised meat on a plate, put the wine he brought on the table, and then said with a smile:

"Uncle Gu, you see, if we weren't here, you would have to make do. Come to our place for dinner in the future. You're busy here and don't have time to cook, so you can't just make do like this."

Gu Boyuan had already sensed his daughter's emotions and was a little at a loss. He wanted to refuse Li Long's words, but he knew that if he refused, his daughter would be even more sad.

Although Gu Boyuan made it clear when marrying his daughter that she was already a member of the Li family and that she should not always think about him, in his subconscious, he only had this one relative, could he really be considered someone else's family member?
"Okay, then after I finish my work here, I'll go over to eat at noon or in the evening."

"If not, let's go there in the morning." Li Long said with a smile again.

"No, no, no." Gu Boyuan said hurriedly, "Why don't you tell me that I'm moving in with you?"

"That's fine." Li Long laughed and said, "It's quite lively there."

"Go to hell." Gu Boyuan smiled. He glanced at Gu Xiaoxia, who also smiled. It would be good to persuade her father to have dinner at her place. She felt that Li Long still had a way.

Gu Boyuan and Li Long each drank two cups of the freshly braised "lamb offal", not much, just enough to feel the flavor.

On the way back, Gu Xiaoxia said to Li Long:

"Let's give Sister Yang some salary. She has done so much, it would be unreasonable for us not to pay her."

"As long as you can convince her that she wants the salary, I will give it to her." Li Long said with a smile, "She won't take it. She thinks that we have taken them in and given them a yard to live in, which is already a great favor.

She was waiting for a letter from her hometown to tell her her husband's address so that she could go look for him. Actually, I think she is quite conflicted now. Living here is good and she doesn't want to leave, but she wants to find her husband more, know where he is, and reunite with her family. "

Li Long analyzed with his own subjective ideas.

Gu Xiaoxia didn’t know whether it was right or not. She was reluctant to let Sister Yang leave, but Sister Yang had her own home, and she and Han Fang would eventually return to their own home.

She stopped talking.

When they finally reached the gate, Gu Xiaoxia said:
"Then let's help inquire about it. It would be best if we could find Han Fang's father. It's pitiful for a family to be separated."

Li Long nodded.

In the team, the militiamen who had completed training were listening to Xu Chengjun's speech.

"Everyone, listen up. If anyone can get a good rank in the village competition during shooting training, or if anyone can hit forty-nine rings or above in the final assessment, I will take them hunting!"

"Captain, will you keep your word?" someone couldn't help but ask.

"When do you think I've ever broken my promise?" Xu Chengjun asked back, "Remember, as long as you practice well and fight well, there will be benefits!"

PS: Only one chapter today. I drove from Yili to Ma County. It was fine in the front, but when I got to Gultu, the traffic police arranged for me to get off the highway, first on the dirt road, and then on the national highway. The traffic police in Wusu drove slowly for fear of accidents.

Because the road was icy, many cars crashed, slid, and fell. It was supposed to take more than six hours to get there, but it took eight hours. My back hurt and I couldn't run anymore. Well, I won't explain any more. These explanations don't count. I'm going to kill a pig tomorrow, so I might write another chapter tonight (end of this chapter)