Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long did not eat here. After putting down the pork, he went to the back of the mountain to see Xu Haijun, and then went to Liang Wenyu to take a look. These three places were relatively crowded, and they got up very early, and then they were all burning strips and making handles.

Someone who is fast has already compiled one and put it aside.

Li Long asked about every place, then came back and drove the jeep to the cabin.

There is a lot going on today, so I can't stay long.

When we returned to the cabin, we saw Sun Jiaqiang still holding a knife at the spring, trying to cut up the wild boar. The four legs had been removed, the ribs had been cut off, and now he was trying to remove the neck.

Because I was not very skilled, the meat was not cut into regular pieces and the cuts were not smooth, which looked a bit awkward.

There was also blood on Sun Jiaqiang's face. At this moment, he, who usually smiled cheerfully, looked a bit fierce as he held the knife.

that is it.

Hearing the sound of the jeep, Sun Jiaqiang looked up and saw Li Long getting off the jeep, then he smiled and said:

"Boss, I haven't finished unloading this wild boar yet... I'm a little slow."

"No need to rush." ​​Li Long went over and taught him the skills of using a knife, as well as the positions to remove the meat - he had heard of butchering an animal by dicing it, and it was about finding the joints of the prey. It was very easy to remove the joints with a sharpened knife.

Of course, this requires skill and experience.

Li Long had seen demonstrations online of how to neatly cut half a pork leg into parts within a few minutes.

The movement was so smooth that it was amazing.

Li Long himself does not have this ability yet, but he thinks he can achieve it with more practice.

"I'll go wash up." Sun Jiaqiang said, "There's blood all over my face..."

Before he finished speaking, he noticed that Li Long was looking into the distance.

From the southeast woods, two people came out carrying bags.

"Don't wash it." Li Long lowered his head and whispered, "Just leave it like this. I'll go cook the meat, and you can exchange things with them later... The standard for exchanging things is one kilogram of fresh Fritillaria for about three or four yuan. It doesn't matter if it's more or less. Don't throw away your knife."

"Boss, what about you?" Sun Jiaqiang was a little confused. Normally, doesn't it depend on the choices of those people at this time?
"Your current image is just right, you can suppress others." Li Long saw that those people were still far away, so he explained, "Normally you smile, and those people are not afraid of you. Now you are carrying a knife and there is blood on your face. As long as you don't smile, they will be afraid of you.

When I'm not around, you have to be more aggressive when you're here exchanging things all the time. This is not like the county town, there's no need to smile. Even if you're more aggressive and make people afraid, don't let people think you're easy to bully."

Sun Jiaqiang understood that this was Li Long's formal way of teaching him survival skills in the mountains.

After Li Long finished speaking, he stopped caring about Sun Jiaqiang. He carried some meat over and put it into the pot to cook. Then he looked at the offal over there, turned it over with chopsticks, and added some firewood under the stove. Before the two men came over, he took a bag and went to pick mushrooms on the grass.

Let Sun Jiaqiang handle this.

This was also a test - last year Sun Jiaqiang also exchanged things here alone, but today was different, Li Long would hand this place over to him in the future. The robbers yesterday made Li Long realize that the mountains seemed to be more dangerous than before, and Sun Jiaqiang had to be made stronger, otherwise he would be in danger.

Li Long walked more than 20 meters away from the wooden house, and saw straw mushrooms starting to grow in the grass.

Although he left the wooden house, his focus was still there, mainly to see how Sun Jiaqiang would deal with these two people.

The two people who came over were each carrying a bag, and the bags were mostly full.

When they arrived in front of the wooden house and saw Sun Jiaqiang, they were stunned for a moment.

At this moment, Sun Jiaqiang was holding a dagger in his hand, with blood splattered on his face. Although he did not look very fierce, with these two aspects added to his appearance, he exuded a fierce aura just by standing there.

"Want to change something?" Sun Jiaqiang had already stood up straight, stopped cutting up the wild boar meat, and asked, "Is it Fritillaria?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Originally the two of them had thought of coming together so that they could negotiate the price. After all, strength in numbers is not in vain.

But given Sun Jiaqiang's image now, they really don't have the courage to talk about raising prices.

"What are you exchanging for? The food here includes biscuits, egg cakes, sesame cakes, and the seasonings include salt, sugar cubes, fruit candies, canned food, as well as rubber shoes and gloves... What are you exchanging for?"

"Do you have rice or flour? Let's exchange some." One of them had already figured out what to exchange. "I have more than ten kilograms of Fritillaria here. I can exchange a lot, right? How did you exchange it?"

"One kilogram of fresh Fritillaria can be exchanged for three yuan worth of goods." Sun Jiaqiang said, "Of course, it also depends on the quality of your Fritillaria. If the quality is not good, then the exchange rate will be less. If the quality is good, the exchange rate will also increase."

He walked towards the cabin, wiped the blood off the dagger, and threw it on the ground.

The two men just followed two steps, then stopped again after seeing Sun Jiaqiang's gesture.

This guy looks a bit fierce.

The two looked at each other, and they were obviously a little timid. They also carried knives, but unlike Sun Jiaqiang, who had just dismantled the wild boar, their knives were for self-defense. This man's knife could kill wild boars, so could it also kill people?
"Isn't this price a bit low?" someone asked boldly, "It's not easy for us to dig Fritillaria in the mountains..."

"That depends on the quality of your mother-of-pearl." Sun Jiaqiang stood at the door of the cabin and asked, "If you are sure you want to change it, I will take a look at the things now."

"Look at mine." The man on the left said, "I picked up all the big ones to dig them up. You can see it by looking at them."

The man grabbed a handful from the bag and showed it to Sun Jiaqiang.

"Okay, it's pretty big." Sun Jiaqiang took a look, then took out a basket from the cabin and placed it in front of the man:

"Pour it in."

"Why?" the man asked, looking a little flustered. "Don't you believe me?"

"If you want to change it, then you have to weigh it. This basket is easy to peel."

The man hesitated.

"What? You don't dare to pour it? Is there soil mixed in the bottom?" Sun Jiaqiang had been digging Fritillaria for two years, so he naturally knew the trick. "I'm telling you, put away your little tricks." He picked up the short knife next to him and gestured twice, "If you really want to change something, then don't play tricks!"

Li Long walked slowly on the grass, turning his head from time to time to look at Sun Jiaqiang talking and exchanging things with two people over there.

The two men finally exchanged, one of them exchanged some rice, flour, salt, biscuits and the like, and the other exchanged rice and some cooking wild boar offal.

This surprised Sun Jiaqiang, but he still changed it. Since it was there, he would change it. After the two left, Li Long came over with a bag of mushrooms and saw Sun Jiaqiang picking out leaves and soil from the Fritillaria.

"The two people's Fritillaria totaled 27 kilograms, but at least 3 or 4 kilograms of soil and rotten leaves were mixed in." Sun Jiaqiang said to Li Long as he picked them up, "They are very bad."

"I see you taught them a lesson, that's fine."

"Your boss is watching, and I have a knife in my hand!" Sun Jiaqiang smiled. He was "playing the game" with the two men just now, partly because he was really in this position, and partly because he was pretending. With a knife in his hand, he didn't dare to attack the two men unless he had no other choice.

But just like Li Long said, when he was dissecting the wild boar, the fierce aura and the blood on his face made it impossible for him to laugh. This was quite intimidating.

Li Long and he put the Fritillaria in a basin, filled it with water and soaked it first, then cut up the remaining meat. Some of it was soaked in the basin, and Li Long planned to take it back later, and the other part was directly cooked in the pot.

There are two pots, one for meat and the other for offal, so cooking can only be done in the stove in the big house.

Fortunately, neither of them was picky, so they fried some mushrooms, cut the vegetables into pieces and put them in water, then had a simple breakfast with the leftover naan from yesterday, and then continued to process things.

The Fritillaria were washed and hung on the table to dry. Li Long asked Sun Jiaqiang to cover the two pots on the stove, reduce the fire below, and cook them slowly.

Sun Jiaqiang didn't understand why Li Long did this, but he didn't ask. If Li Long wanted to explain, he would tell him. If he didn't want to explain, as an employee, he should keep his mouth shut.

Sun Jiaqiang is very smart in this regard.

Soon, Sun Jiaqiang got the answer.

The sound of horse hooves felt like a herd of horses galloping towards us, making a very loud noise.

Li Long drove the jeep to the east side of the shed and cleared the space in front of the wooden house.

Previously, because there were too many Fritillarias, Sun Jiaqiang suggested that they could not be dried on the table, so he swept out the wooden floor in front of the wooden house and used it to dry the Fritillarias.

Li Long didn't let them go, saying that it would be useful later, and asked them to pile the twenty or so kilograms of Fritillaria on the table and spread them evenly, and just turn them over from time to time.

Now Sun Jiaqiang knew why - if such a large group of horses came and really drove to the wooden house, wouldn’t those Fritillaria be destroyed directly?
Soon, seven or eight horses galloped to the wooden house and then slowed down.

What surprised Sun Jiaqiang was that not all the horses had people on them. There were four people in total, riding four horses, and each of them was holding the reins of a horse, which meant that one person was riding two horses.

These horses were carrying things on their backs, some were fertilizer bags, some were sacks, some simply had cardboard boxes tied to the saddles, and some had deer antlers, roe deer horns and other things placed on the saddles.

After Bolati got off the horse, he shook hands with Li Long with a smile and said loudly:

"My friend, did you see that? I called my colleagues over. They brought a lot of stuff, right? Come on, come on, tell me what you want to change."

"I want to exchange money." said a man with at least three pairs of deer antlers tied to the back of the horse.

"I want to exchange for wine, rice, flour, and some brick tea." Another man spoke up. In addition to the bag, there was also a cardboard box on his horse's back. Li Long smelled a faint fragrance.

Snow lotus.

"I want to change everything. I want money and wine!" Another person shouted, "I also want rubber shoes. It's time to change my shoes!"

……

Bolati looked at Li Long proudly.

"Okay, one by one." Li Long smiled.

They are the people who are closest to the mountains, and only they can find things in the mountains that others want to find but cannot find.

The four men unloaded their belongings from the horses and exchanged them with Li Long one by one.

Sun Jiaqiang was helping on the side, and at this time he also realized that these forest rangers looked quite sloppy at ordinary times, but at this time, he found that they were all wealthy people who did not show off their wealth.

The items that each person exchanged were worth at least over a thousand dollars!
An hour later, the items brought by the four people were counted.

There were 107 kilograms of dried Fritillaria, four pairs of deer antlers, seven pairs of roe deer antlers, 203 snow lotuses, 27 kilograms of Codonopsis pilosula, and five pieces of fine jade, totaling 33 kilograms.

There are no ordinary jades, they are quite good at choosing.

What made Sun Jiaqiang most envious were three pieces of rough gemstones, two of which were light blue aquamarines and one was an emerald.

One forest ranger also said that he had picked up a piece of gold as big as a pigeon egg in the mountains. He took it home and asked his wife to have someone make it into a ring and earrings.

Otherwise, I was thinking of selling it.

Li Long paid 3,500 yuan and all the wine, brick tea, rice, flour, a few pairs of rubber shoes and other things in the store.

Fortunately, he brought a lot of money when he came here, otherwise he really couldn't afford it.

These people were also very happy. The county's purchasing station was closed, and they couldn't sell the things they got, and they didn't have time to go to Shicheng. The things they accumulated were getting more and more, but they couldn't exchange them for money or supplies, so they were very upset.

Now with Li Long, they can exchange things with ease - it feels so good to be able to exchange things for money!
They are so rich!
Sun Jiaqiang muttered softly.

Li Long has good hearing and said with a smile:

"Their belongings are not all for the four of us. Someone must have asked them to come here to sell or exchange them. Not all the forest rangers can come here."

"Yes." Bolati was also counting his money. "All the things accumulated by more than a dozen people in our forestry team are here. But don't worry, we can accumulate more than this this summer."

They exchanged the things they had accumulated last summer for money at the county purchasing station. These things were the leftovers from the exchange and some were collected in the winter.

They'll definitely be able to "get" more this summer.

Li Long felt that having a good relationship with Bolati and the others was a big advantage for him - apart from Halimu and the others, who else could understand the mountains better than these forest rangers?
Many treasures in the mountains were discovered during their patrols and searches. Of course, a considerable number of things were obtained by the rangers from those who begged for food in the mountains.

Li Long didn't care where the things came from. He estimated that these things could bring him at least 5,000 yuan in profit!

This money came too fast! (End of this chapter)