Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Xu Chengjun actually took a good look at the jeep in the yard.

He had also seen this thing in the army. It was used by the leaders of the division headquarters. There was also one in the regiment headquarters, which could be used by the two regimental commanders.

It is normal for the regiment commander to have two cameras, which is normal in later generations. But at this time, there was only one, and it was an old one.

That would be nice.

The Li family currently has one, which looks newer than the one their group leader is sitting on.

Have times changed, or is smoke coming out of the Li family’s ancestral tomb?
The Li family's ancestral tomb was in his hometown, so he couldn't see it. But now, he had to ask the Li family for help.

Hearing the Li family members talking inside, Xu Chengjun knocked on the window.

People rarely knock on doors these days. Whether familiar or not, people just push the door open and come in. Knocking on the window is actually a way to inform the host that someone is coming and give them a heads-up.

"Hey, the captain is here." Li Long was the first to greet them. As the youngest in the family, it was best for him to address them this way. Because the rest of them needed Xu Chengjun to greet them first.

"Xiaolong is back." Xu Chengjun responded first, and then greeted Li Qingxia, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei in the room.

After seeing Li Long coming back, Du Chunfang sat for a while and then went back to her room. She was a little mysterious during this period and no one knew what she was doing.

Li Long asked Xu Chengjun to sit down, and Liang Yuemei poured him some tea.

"Captain, haven't you been organizing militia training recently?" Li Jianguo asked, "How did you find time to come here?"

"Hey, then you have something to ask Xiaolong." Xu Chengjun said with a smile, "I'll leave the militia to Lao Xie, he will lead the training, and I'll do the real work."

"Captain, tell me what you want to do." Li Long said. The captain was fair and just, and he had done a lot of things for Li Long. As long as it was not difficult to come here, Li Long thought he could do it.

"Xiaolong, you shot a few gazelles a few days ago, right? I heard there's a herd of gazelles in the uninhabited area to the west?"

"Yes." Li Long nodded, "quite a few. I guess it's hard to find food in the sand pits in the north these days, so the gazelles have all run south."

"I plan to take the militiamen who have done well in the militia training and assessment to the uninhabited area to hunt yellow sheep after the assessment, so that everyone can have some yellow sheep meat to eat before the New Year. Do you think you can take everyone with you?"

"How to get there?" Li Jianguo asked the most fundamental question.

He didn't ask about guns, bullets, etc. At this time, the militia company commander had a lot of freedom in the management of guns and ammunition, so there was no need to ask.

"I want your families to provide tractors and the team to provide diesel, how about that?" Xu Chengjun said, "The militiamen should wear thicker clothes and ride the tractors.

If Xiaolong and Lao Li are all right, both of your tractors can go. The team will double the diesel fuel, how about that? "

Li Long looked at Li Jianguo.

Of course there is no problem with him, it mainly depends on the eldest brother.

Li Jianguo saw Li Long looking at him and smiled. He knew that Li Long respected him and was very happy.

Xu Chengjun came to ask Li Long, but in fact, Li Long could make the decision himself. But Li Long gave the decision to him in front of the captain, and Li Jianguo knew that this was his brother giving him face.

"Okay." Li Jianguo nodded. "After the land is divided, it's rare for the team to organize group activities, so we must participate."

"Okay, then it's settled." Xu Chengjun was very happy. "It may take some time, maybe ten days."

"No problem, just tell us two days in advance." Li Jianguo said.

Li Long suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly:

"Captain, I want to take over the small lake in the team, what do you think..."

"Contracting a small lake?" Xu Chengjun was a little surprised. "Are you planning to raise fish?"

"No, no, no, I'm worried that someone in the village will target Xiao Haizi. After all, this Xiao Haizi belongs to our team. I'll take it over first. If the village has any ideas later, you can refuse them."

"So after you take over the contract, do you catch the fish yourself?" Xu Chengjun asked again.

"No, it's fine as it is now. But the contract price will be lower." Li Long joked with a smile.

"Hey, what's the point of contracting then?" Xu Chengjun smiled and waved his hands, "I understand what you mean. I can also see that you care about the small lake very much, but since you don't plan to fence it off and fish by yourself, let's do this."

He picked up the tea bowl, took a sip and said:
"Xiao Haizi is still based on the current situation, so you shouldn't contract it, or you shouldn't contract it now.

When the township says it wants to contract the lake to someone else, I will tell the township that the lake has been contracted to you. You sign a contract with the team, but the money will not be paid yet.

I know you've made some money, but no one gets this money out of thin air. The team doesn't need this money right now.

So, when you need to raise them in a pen, or when the township has this idea, how about you take over the contract then?"

Li Long smiled: "Of course that's good, I couldn't ask for more."

"Hahaha, that's enough. Xiao Haizi is from Team 4. If you care about him, we care about him too. In the past two years, Xiao Haizi has brought a lot of money to many families in Team 4.

Our team has opened up more land this year, and the water allocated by the township is not enough, so we rely on the small lake. If we really let outsiders contract it out, everyone will be unhappy.

This isn't just about you, it's about the whole team. If I, as the captain, don't have as much to worry about as you, I might as well just resign."

This matter was settled.

After Xu Chengjun left, Li Long and his friends continued to discuss what to plant, and the atmosphere at home became noticeably more cheerful.

"Just plant chives and celery. If you can plant chili peppers, plant them. If you can't plant them, plant more leafy vegetables, like spinach and Chinese cabbage. We have the seeds at home," Liang Yuemei finally decided:
"You can plant it right away. If you tamp it down firmly after planting, it will grow fast."

So the matter was settled. When Li Long drove the jeep back, there was a large bag of seeds divided into several bags in the car.

These are vegetable seeds that have a short growing period and can grow even in cold weather, making them easy to plant.

The jeep roared over and roared away. Many people in Team Four were jealous and envious, and some even determined to get one for themselves.

Li Long went back home after lunch. On his way back, he visited Gu Boyuan's agricultural supply store and saw that there were still people buying seeds and fertilizers here, so he did not disturb his father-in-law and went straight back to the yard.

The main thing is to plant it in a hurry.

When he left in the morning, he set up a stove of charcoal. The temperature in the glass room was not bad, about 10 degrees, and the snow on the roof had disappeared. The main reason was that after a part of it melted, the water on the glass below directly brought the upper layer of snow down.

As a result, a long row of snow fell on the ground in front of the glass shed. Fortunately, it did not affect anything, so Li Long did not clean it up for the time being.

After he raked the land thoroughly with a rake, he divided it into four pieces. He planted leeks in a slightly larger piece, and celery, Chinese cabbage and spinach in the rest.

In winter, every family has pickled vegetables, but there are definitely no green leafy vegetables. It is also nice to eat some of these vegetables during the Chinese New Year.

This year is also an experiment. If the crops grow well, we can make a good improvement next year.

I'm not trying to make money, I just hope there will be more variety on the table in winter.

Li Long's ideas have also changed a little.

He planted three kinds of seeds and sprinkled some water on them. In order to plant this field, he bought an iron watering can, which was not cheap, after all, it was made of iron.

After finishing, Li Long added another load of charcoal into the stove, pressed it down with coal foam, and left.

He found an old mattress in the side room, which he had not had time to throw away. He did not even modify it and directly nailed it to the door of the glass room to serve as a cotton door curtain.

After get off work, Gu Xiaoxia followed Li Long into the glass house to take a look and felt a little curious.

"So, after a month, can we really eat green leafy vegetables?"

"It should be possible. Originally, this place was renovated by the old owner's family to be used as a greenhouse. Later, it was not used. We used it as a pen for roe deer, so it was actually a bit of a waste.

Right now, we are making the best use of it. We will wait and see. If the seedlings grow out after a while, it means we are halfway to success."

"Why only half?" Gu Xiaoxia was a little puzzled.

"Of course, it will only be considered a success after it is put into your mouth." Li Long said as a matter of course.

"Okay, then I'll wait to eat it." Gu Xiaoxia was already a little greedy. The leeks were very thin back then, and it would take two years for them to become thicker, but there was no need to think too much at this time. Leek seeds are usually soaked and germinated before being planted. Li Long used an enamel plate to soak the seeds, then covered it with a towel and waited for them to germinate.

In the next few days, Li Long paid attention to the condition of the seeds in the field while paying attention to the soaking of the leek seeds.

On the fifth day, more than 90% of the leek seeds sprouted, so he planted the seeds in the ground.

Two days later, the seeds that had been planted earlier also sprouted out of the soil, which made Li Long very happy. He even called Gu Xiaoxia to the glass room to see.

There was no other way. There wasn't much that could be done in the winter. Li Long wanted to go to the mountains again, but Gu Xiaoxia was pregnant, so he couldn't do anything if he went into the mountains and came back the same day.

It’s better to just stay in the yard.

So let's do something like this.

A few days later, when the thin seedlings grew as tall as fingers, Li Jianguo rode his bicycle to the county compound.

Li Long was a little surprised to see his elder brother coming.

"I came to see how the vegetables you planted are doing." Li Jianguo came into the house, took the water handed over by Li Long, drank it and said:

"Besides, the captain's militia assessment has ended. He asked me to ask you when you have time to go hunting."

"Anyway, we can go and come back on the same day, so we have time anytime." Li Long is free at the moment and has plenty of time.

"Okay, let's do it tomorrow." Li Jianguo immediately decided, "Let's go and see the vegetables you planted."

Li Long took Li Jianguo to the glass house.

A stove of charcoal was set up in the morning and the fire was burning. At this time, the temperature in the glass room was still quite high, and the sunlight could shine in. Although it could not shine directly on the dishes, but only on the walls, the lighting in the room was also good.

Looking at such a small piece of land divided into four small pieces, Li Jianguo frowned and said:
"Why not plant them all?"

"Let's experiment first. If the crops grow well this year, we'll plant them all later. I'm thinking of getting more black soil from the mountains next summer so the soil will be more fertile."

"That's fine." Li Jianguo nodded, then squatted down to look at the seedlings.

The leafy vegetable seedlings have already started to sprout, but they are not tall or strong.

"The fertility is poor, mainly because the temperature is not high enough." Li Jianguo pointed out the main reason, "Your house is too large, and one stove cannot raise the temperature. The temperature drops at night, and the vegetables grow slowly."

Li Long also knew this, but there was nothing he could do. It was winter now, and it was difficult to partition the glass house. If it could be partitioned, the heat could be concentrated.

"How about using plastic sheeting?" Li Jianguo suddenly said, "Tear off some wide plastic sheeting and seal the two sides. Even if it's not sealed tightly, it's better than leaving it open like now."

"This... is possible." Li Long thought that the supply and marketing cooperative did have wide plastic sheets. Although not this high, about two meters would be enough. If he pulled a few more meters to surround the two sides of the land, or the two sides of the stove, the area where heat dissipates would not be so large.

Let's just make do with this for now. If we plan to have more types next year, we can make the fire wall longer, the stove bigger, or get two stoves.

We may not burn two tons of coal in a winter, but the output is definitely in excess based on the winter price.

that is it.

The two brothers immediately went to the supply and marketing cooperative and spent more than ten yuan to buy a large roll of plastic sheeting. After returning, they nailed the plastic sheeting to the walls on both sides, letting it hang down to the ground, and rolled up bricks on the four corners to press it down.

Although there is still some distance on the top for ventilation, the heat is still gathered, and you can clearly feel that the space where vegetables are grown has become hotter.

Good.

We water here every day, and the house itself is well sealed, so the water vapor evaporates and finally falls down, so the humidity in the air is still quite high.

Li Jianguo had lunch in the big yard, chatted with Gu Boyuan, and then rode his bicycle back home after lunch.

After dinner, Li Long began to prepare things for tomorrow. He had to fill up the tractor with oil and put bags in the truck bed. He had to maintain his gun. It was getting colder now, so he had to prepare a cotton coat and knee pads.

Because they could go and return on the same day and there was a carload of militiamen following them, Gu Xiaoxia was not worried. She just told him not to get cold and that it didn't matter whether he caught the yellow sheep or not.

Li Long agreed.

After breakfast the next day, Li Long started the tractor and waited in the yard. After a while, the sound of a tractor was heard outside the yard.

When I opened the gate, I saw that Li Jianguo had parked his tractor outside the yard. There were seven or eight militiamen sitting on the tractor, all wearing cotton coats and cotton hats, but no guns were seen.

Xu Chengjun sat on the board, waved to Li Long, and then waved to the militia behind the tractor.

Immediately, four militiamen came out, picked up the guns in the tractor bed, got off the tractor, came to the yard, greeted Li Long, and climbed onto his tractor bed.

Li Long put a lot of bags in the bed of the truck, and these people simply sat down.

The tractor drove out of the yard, Sister Yang closed the door, and the two tractors drove westward, one in front and one behind.

It was rare to see two tractors running together in the county, and passers-by were paying close attention to the scene.

Li Long's tractor was in front, and Li Jianguo was behind. The two tractors were only 20 meters apart, and the militiamen on the tractors were quite excited.

Li Long knew all the people, including Xu Chengjun, Liang Shuangcheng, and Xie Yundong.

What surprised Li Long was that Tao Daqiang was also there.

He was the first to run over to the bed of Li Long's tractor, and there was no one sitting on the bed.

Those who are less familiar include Xu Feihu, Lin He and others who used to be the leader of Li Long.

The shooting experts in the militia change frequently. Target shooting requires talent, sometimes luck, and metaphysics.

The tractor drove through Shicheng Old Street and did not stop here. Li Long could hear the militiamen in the truck bed behind discussing loudly how to fight the herd of gazelles they would encounter later.

At this time, they were already discussing where each person should stand and how to distribute the rewards after hitting the gazelle.

Li Long got the general idea. When Xu Chengjun brought these people out, they had already agreed that whoever killed the yellow sheep would get it. If they couldn't be sure, the group would divide it equally.

When hunting, they are divided into several groups. If the herd is large, several groups will hunt together. If the herd is small, they will be divided into groups according to the size of the gazelles and hunted in rows.

If there are seven gazelles in a group, then take seven first, line them up and beat them in order, and whoever knocks down the sheep first gets the sheep. If everything gets messy and no one remembers the sheep, then the sheep will belong to everyone.

Of course, some of it has to be divided out in the end, one for the tractor driver and one for the team.

Of the portion left by the team, part of it belongs to the team headquarters, after all, the team headquarters produced bullets, guns, and diesel. The other part is to be distributed to the five-guarantee households in the team, no doubt about that.

That's fair.

The tractor drove across Shawan and gradually arrived at an uninhabited area, but there were no gazelles to be seen here for the time being. The tractor was going quite fast and there was no driving tower, so the view was wide and beautiful.

At this time, the militiamen stopped talking and stood up and looked around, trying to find the traces of the gazelle.

Li Long and Li Jianguo were concentrating on driving. With so many people watching them, they didn't need to bother looking.

Soon, the tractor drove completely into the uninhabited area. There were a lot of dung balls on the roadside, which should have been left by wild animals such as gazelles.

The first group of gazelles that were discovered was more than 100 meters north of the main road. The gazelles originally planned to go south, but two tractors drove over and frightened them. They stopped and planned to wait until the tractors left before moving on.

The gazelles were not afraid at a distance of more than 100 meters, but the militiamen were eager to try.

Xu Chengjun also thought it was worth a try, so he stopped the tractor and directed the militiamen to get off the tractor.

There were more than a dozen gazelles in the group. At present, there were only twelve militiamen including Li Jianguo and Li Long, so there were still some gazelles to spare.

However, the gazelles were relatively concentrated, so Xu Chengjun instructed the best shooters, including Li Long, to focus on shooting the gazelles that were more obvious targets.

We don't seek to annihilate the enemy, we just hope to gain something in the first fight.

This is a safe way to play, Li Long agrees. (End of this chapter)