Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

When Li Long entered the mountain, he found that the snow in the mountain was much thicker. There was no snow at the foot of the mountain during this period, so there might be a snowstorm in the mountain.

Harimu's winter home was much more lively. Nathan and Susken were sitting outside on a homemade wooden shovel, sliding down the slope, having a lot of fun.

The snow here is thick, so it's okay if the sled falls over.

Sasken was the first to see Li Long. He screamed and rushed over, and Nathan followed him and ran towards the jeep.

Susken suddenly stopped halfway through his run, turned around and ran back towards the winter den, shouting something as he ran.

Li Long couldn't hear clearly in the jeep. When he drove to the winter den, Halimu and the others had already come out.

Even the old lady came out of her winter nest, bent over, wrapped in a headscarf, and looked at Li Long with a smile.

Li Long got out of the car and took out the newly bought saddle from the trunk.

These saddles were made by the shop in the county. Thanks to Li Long's several suggestions, the saddles are now more exquisitely made and all the matching accessories are available.

Nathan cheered and came over to help Li Long move those things.

They have already had their holidays and are currently enjoying themselves - as for winter vacation homework, what is that? Usually, they only worry about it when school is about to start.

Seeing these two children so happy, Li Long was thinking whether to put some pressure on them. Now there is no five-year exercises and three-year reinforcement, but it is still okay to give Halim some tips and ask him to urge the children to do their homework in advance.

Forget it, let the child have an imperfect childhood.

Li Long took down three saddles and went into the winter den with Halimu. While drinking milk tea, he explained his purpose.

"You still want to slaughter cattle and sheep? No problem." Halim said no problem. Now that the mother and the child are back, there are many people in the winter nest, so when he goes down the mountain again, he is not as worried as last time.

Time was still a bit tight, so Halimu immediately prepared his horse and prepared to notify others.

Li Long didn't stop and drove the jeep back.

He also needs to prepare and come to pick people up early tomorrow morning.

When they returned to the courtyard, Gu Xiaoxia had already finished get off work. After dinner, when the two of them were in the bedroom with the child, she asked:

"Can we take a break for two days?"

"No." Li Long said honestly, "Tomorrow we will slaughter all the remaining fattened cattle and sheep, leaving only the small ones, the females with calves.

I just went to the mountain and talked to Halim and the others. We have to go down the mountain tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I thought I might as well finish it this time and not wait until the twelfth lunar month. Plans are really not as fast as changes!"

Gu Xiaoxia looked at her husband with some distress and said:
"We have enough money at home, and our living conditions are very good in the county. You should stop working so hard. When I saw the way you slept yesterday, I was thinking, is it necessary to work so hard? I know you are doing this for me and the children so that we can have a better life in the future. But if I tire you out, I would rather eat coarse food..."

"Yeah, I understand." Li Long smiled. He could feel the concern in his wife's words. He took Gu Xiaoxia's hand and said, "In fact, I thought it was a bit simple. At that time, we were thinking about fattening the sheep. Uncle Luo and others would take care of the sheep, and when it was time to slaughter them, we would just call Halimu and others over. Now the plan is still the same, but I can't stay out of it when it is implemented.

Don't worry, after this batch is finished, I will basically rest before the New Year, and there will be nothing to do. Then I can have a good rest. "

Gu Xiaoxia felt relieved after hearing what Li Long said.

Because of the back and forth, Li Long went to bed early and got up early these two days. After he got up, he set up the stoves in both rooms. Although Gu Xiaoxia had to go to work, the two children stayed in the room and could not catch a cold.

Children at that time were more hardy than those in later generations. They would not stay indoors all the time in winter, but would be taken outside to play, see the snow, and feel the winter temperature. On sunny days, they would also bask in the sun and look at the blue sky.

Sister Yang has also gotten up to prepare breakfast. Her biological clock seems to be more accurate than Li Long's. She wakes up at a certain time every day and starts to get busy as soon as she wakes up.

Then Han Fang got up to help her mother. They were also on holiday, and they did their homework during the day and occasionally went out to play. When there were classmates nearby, Han Fang would sometimes bring them to the big yard and play with them in her bedroom.

Because of Li Long, Han Fang has more than 20 thigh stones, the most in the class. This is a lot of wealth in the eyes of the little classmates, so it attracts many people to come and play with her.

Han Fang also uses ink to dye the femoral stones into various colors to distinguish each femoral stone. The colors are colorful and look very unique.

Sister Yang made a cloth bag to hold her thigh stones to prevent them from scattering.

Li Long watched Han Fang helping out in the kitchen, running around, and said with a smile:

"Xiao Fang, how about I get you a few more thigh stones today?"

"Okay, uncle. By the way, uncle, can I give two of my thigh stones to Wang Mei... She really wants them."

"Okay, the thigh stone is yours, you can give it to whoever you want, but it's best to keep enough for yourself to play with."

We will slaughter dozens of sheep today and get some thigh stones for Li Juan, Han Fang, and also for Hongqin, Xueqin and Xueping.

Girls all like hip stones, but boys in the plains here don’t play hip stones much now. In winter, they mainly play with old cows.

Li Qiang has them all, no shortage of them.

After breakfast, when Sister Yang finished cleaning up and took over Mingming and Haohao, Li Long went to start the jeep.

Han Fang actually wanted to take over and help take care of the two little ones. But now the little ones have started to act naughty, and Li Long is worried that she can't take care of them. After all, there are two of them, and Han Fang is not old enough, so it is inevitable that she will be in a hurry. If they really bump into something, Han Fang herself will probably cry out of guilt, not to mention others.

When they arrived at the winter camp, Halimu, Yushanjiang, Talihar and others were already ready. Li Long did not stop. After they got in the car, he drove towards the fourth team.

Uncle Luo and the others didn't know that Li Long was going to slaughter cattle and sheep. They had just finished feeding the cattle and sheep in the morning and were eating in the pen.

Seeing Li Long driving his jeep over from a distance, Yang Laoliu, who was picking grass at the edge of the circle, joked:

"It's different here with a car. Xiaolong is also very concerned about the cattle and sheep here, so he comes here every day..."

Then I saw a jeep driving over and stopping at the door of the stable.

When everyone came down and looked at the faces of those ethnic minorities, everything became clear to everyone.

It's time to slaughter the sheep!

"Uncle Luo, boil some water," Li Long said. "It's the same job. This time, we'll slaughter all the remaining fattened cattle and sheep - just keep the small females and raise them slowly next year."

Uncle Luo immediately assigned tasks. Yang Laoliu cleaned up the slaughterhouse, he and another old man cleaned the stove and boiled water, and Li Long asked his sister-in-law and others to help.

This time we might as well call Tao Daqiang and the others along. Since they will come over if they know something happens, we might as well bring them over in one go and get the job done.

Because I had done it once before, I was familiar with the process, and this time I slaughtered the remaining sheep and seven cows in two days.

Because there were too many of them, Uncle Luo had to clear out another room to store the beef and mutton - he was a little worried that if he continued like this, the sugar residue would have to be piled up outside.

Li Long gave him an idea. Anyway, the ones that should be slaughtered have been slaughtered now, and the vacant warm circle of Xinmahao outside can be cleaned up and covered with plastic sheeting to pile up the dry sugar residue.

The old horse farm was going to slaughter sheep again, and this time there were quite a few people in the team coming to watch. Most of the children were on holiday, and they were not afraid of the cold or the blood, so they gathered around the horse farm to watch.

The first sheep was cooked and eaten. When the mutton was cooked, Uncle Luo got an enamel basin, put some meat in it, tore it open, and gave each of the children a piece:
"Come on, each of you have a piece, and add a piece of naan. After you finish eating, go play. Don't run around here. We are all using knives to peel sheepskins. It's not good to hurt you!"

It's not that he doesn't want the children to play here. Usually, Uncle Luo likes the children to come and see the red deer, roe deer and so on. But now it's all bloody and he's worried that the children will have nightmares at night after seeing it.

There were not many people coming to buy sheep heads and sheep hooves this time, so Li Long just had some time to do other things.

In just two days, the newly built pen was empty, with only two small pens containing some cattle and sheep. The rest were slaughtered.

In front of the Xinmahao, the blood had dyed the snow red. As for the sheep and cow blood, Li Long simply asked each family that came to help to take some back and divide it up.

After slaughtering the cattle and sheep, he went to the sugar factory to find Chief Hu. He mainly wanted to ask which factory needed the goods, such as the tractor factory or the wool spinning factory, so that they could be delivered to the right place.

"I'll let Song Ming go with you to get it. You just need to bring it to my place." Section Chief Hu said with a smile, "They will come to me to get it when the time comes."

Li Long guessed that Section Chief Hu wanted to do him a favor, but he didn't care. As long as he could make the money, he took Song Ming to pull the cattle and sheep.

At the Lao Ma Hao, while Tao Daqiang and his team were loading the truck, Li Long pulled Song Ming aside and asked him:
"Are you free this Sunday? I mean, including the car."

"Yes, I can drive the car out. What's the matter? Do you have any work?" "Kuitun needs ten sheep, and I also need to bring back a harvester, so I need to make a trip."

"That's no problem." Song Ming said with a smile, "I'll come over early on Sunday morning?"

"Row."

This was settled. This time, when slaughtering cattle and sheep, some of the mutton was cut into pieces, unlike before when it was all meat. Li Long cut up the whole sheep that the factory wanted, leaving some for the meat, and let Halimu and his team cut the rest into large pieces after slaughtering them.

At this time, some thigh stones can be obtained. He plans to leave a few for Li Juan. Han Fang, Hong Qin, Xue Ping and Xue Qin all have them.

As a younger uncle, you have to give enough gifts to the younger generation.

A truckload of cattle and sheep was delivered to the sugar factory. Section Chief Hu asked the logistics department to settle the bill for Li Long. This time the beef and mutton had not been put into storage. Section Chief Hu had already called the related manufacturer and they would come to pick it up soon.

In this whole process, the sugar factory did not make any money but lost manpower, but it owed a lot of favors.

Sometimes the factories in Shicheng also need to exchange what they have with each other. You owe him, he owes me, and I owe you. Sometimes, this thing is more useful than a contract.

Halimu and his men stayed here for two days. After slaughtering the animals, they returned to the mountains. Later, Li Long sent them another batch of saddles for them to share.

Han Fang was very happy to receive the thigh stones given by Li Long, mainly because of Li Long's attitude.

After Li Long delivered the meat to Shicheng, he also went to give Hongqin a few thigh stones, which made Hongqin very happy.

On Sunday, Song Ming arrived at Team 4 shortly after the sun rose.

Li Long had told Uncle Luo about the trip to Kuitun. This time Song Ming didn't bring sugar residue, so Uncle Luo and his men loaded the ten sheep directly onto the car. This time Li Long didn't drive the jeep, he sat in the co-pilot seat.

When there was a jeep, he usually drove it, either by himself or with his family. Now that he finally had a chance to be the passenger, Li Long was just being lazy for once.

He counted and found that there were currently 166 sheep and four and a half cows sold, both whole and in pieces.

On average, each sheep gained 11 or 12 kilograms of meat in the past two months, and each cow gained about 30 to 40 kilograms.

After deducting the decimals, based on the market price and adding the profits from the increase in mutton prices during this period, the 166 sheep and two and a half cows brought him a profit of nearly 4,000 yuan.

The main sources of profit were that they were cheap when purchased; buying in groups made bargaining easier, and at that time the price of mutton was less than one dollar and twenty or three dollars, and the price of a live sheep was less than one dollar per kilogram.

The second is that he has plenty of almost free sugar scraps, which greatly reduces costs.

If it were someone else, these two items alone would have driven up the cost - not many people can afford to buy livestock on a large scale in late October when the cattle and sheep are moved to new pastures.

Moreover, Li Long is the only one who can hoard and regularly obtain so much sugar residue.

Don’t underestimate the sugar residue. There are dozens of people working around the big pit in the sugar factory every day to collect the sugar residue. How much can each person get? And how time-consuming and labor-intensive is it?

For individuals who raise pigs and sheep, the concentrated feed they give in winter is basically wheat tails, sunflower tails, or even sunflower heads. Occasionally, when the ewes give birth, it is good enough to give them some concentrated feed made from corn or bran.

This method of raising sheep cannot fatten them in a short period of time. Even if someone wants to fatten them, bran is only a few cents per kilogram at this time, and there are almost no people willing to buy it and feed it to cattle and sheep every day.

I haven't realized that yet.

However, seeing how much money Li Long makes, I think someone in the team will follow suit next year. After all, the mutton is real fat, and the money is also real money.

In addition to the cash we earned, we also got more than a hundred skins from the old horse shop and the meat that everyone shared. These were all extra.

The profit ratio is actually quite high, and Li Long himself was shocked.

I feel that this is more money than what I can earn as a porter.

I just feel busier.

We drove to Kuitun and first went to the agricultural machinery factory.

Director Du knew in advance that Li Long was coming, and even though it was the weekend, he still waited with a few workers.

When the car entered the yard, Li Long had already seen Director Du and the workers waiting in the yard to unload and load the car.

"Come, come, come and see if this mutton is really fat." After shaking hands with Li Long, Director Du couldn't wait to tell the workers, "We had good performance last year, so we're going to give out benefits, and we're going to give out the best. Fatty mutton... take a look, smell it, it doesn't smell like mutton at all, does it? Look at this fat - hey, it's really good!"

After the ten sheep were unloaded, the workers looked at them one by one, and then smiles appeared on their faces.

It is impossible for mutton not to have a smell, but if you eat saline-alkali marsh grass, the smell will almost disappear.

Li Long said to Director Du:

"How is it, are you satisfied?"

"Satisfied." Director Du said happily, "Not bad, not bad, this meat is really good."

"Get the scale and weigh yourself. I have other things to do."

"Okay, okay." Director Du hurriedly asked someone to come in, and he whispered to Li Long:

"Xiao Li, after you left a few days ago, I have been thinking about the air pump problem you mentioned. Are you planning to make a jet-like thing? But I never thought of it..."

Li Long didn't expect Director Du to be so persistent, so he said:
"It's really not the right time to do that now. But when the time comes, this thing will be as popular as the harvester for at least ten years."

"But there are already imitations of this harvester. I feel unsure now."

Director Du was right. Li Long didn't sell many 1984 harvesters, so he didn't know much about them. After all, it was just a sideline for him.

But the agricultural machinery factory sold hundreds of harvesters and the profits were very good.

But the side effect of the small factory also emerged. The production could not keep up. Then other agricultural machinery factories immediately followed suit, buying one machine, disassembling it, and then imitating it.

Don’t mention any professional methods at this time. There are no major difficulties or technical barriers in imitating this thing, so it is very easy to come out.

So by the end of the year, sales had dropped.

It is impossible for Director Du not to be anxious.

"Our factory was the first to produce it, so it must be well-known. So even if there are imitations, we should still be able to sell it here. In addition,"

Li Long thought for a while and said, "In the short term, there are no auxiliary machines that can be made. The main reason is that people don't have money. Even if you make a good thing, you can't afford it. Besides, it's not a rigid demand, so you can't open up the market. Why don't you just produce a wheelbarrow? There are many people who need this thing now, and it's not expensive."

"A cart?" Director Du asked doubtfully, "Will it work?"

"Everyone will probably buy carts and tricycles for quite some time. After all, for those units, having a cart is more prestigious than having a handlebar to carry things, right?"

Director Du understood it immediately.

Li Long is actually cutting off his own job. The rise of pushcarts will replace the handlebars.

But this is a matter of sooner or later. It doesn't mean that it won't happen if he doesn't do it.

Instead of that, it is better to follow the trend of the times.

Besides, he has many ideas to make money, so this one won’t be a big deal.

After weighing the sheep, the ten sheep had a net weight of 292 kilograms. As the current price of mutton has risen to two yuan, Li Long received 584 yuan.

The price of mutton will continue to rise before the New Year, then fall after the New Year, and even lower after the spring - by then another batch of culled sheep will flood into the market.

The market is like this.

PS: I took a look at the butcher shop at the entrance of the community yesterday. Mutton was 61 kg, beef was 51 kg, and steak was 45 kg - when did mutton become expensive again? How is it over there? (End of this chapter)