Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Deep in the Tianshan Mountains, on the plateau meadows, large flocks of sheep move slowly like white clouds dotted on the green grass.

Going further up, there are some cotton-like clouds moving on the top of the mountain, but they are whiter than the flocks of sheep.

"Halim, you just need to take care of my sheep. They are very obedient. As long as they don't go into the woods, you don't need to worry about them." Yushanjiang instructed Halim, "I will be back at sunset at the latest. If I come back late, you just need to help me drive the sheep back to the sheepfold."

"What are you running so far for?" Halim said as he rode on his horse, also with a gun on his back. "What on earth are you chasing?"

"I don't know either." Yu Shanjiang explained as he mounted his horse with his gun on his back. "Yesterday I saw a wild goat that was gnawed to the point that only a little skin, bones and head were left. I thought the one who killed it was either a wolf or a bear. I haven't saved up enough skins recently, so I wanted to hunt it down. If it's a bear, I'll hunt it down and give the skin to Li Long, so I can meet him. When I left, I specifically told him to clean up my winter den, and he will definitely not forget it."

"Now that you mention it, I want to go too." Halimu took down his gun and checked it, saying, "Last year he made my winter nest look like new..."

"You can't go. We have two herds of cattle and sheep, so there must be a man here. Otherwise, what if a pack of wolves comes?" Yushanjiang hurriedly dispelled Halim's idea. "I'll go and take a look first, but I may not be able to catch them."

Halimu also knew this, so he had to give up the idea of ​​following Yushanjiang to find the predator, and said, "It's fine if the dead one is a wild goat, but if it's a ibex or an argali, we can just take back the horns and the head. Li Long said that's also good."

"Well, they just like weird things like this. Okay, I'm leaving now."

"Did you bring naan? Are you going to eat lunch?" Halimu shouted at Yushanjiang's back.

"I brought it. I also brought water. You don't have to worry about me. Just take care of the cattle and sheep."

Yushanjiang rode his horse into the woods. When he was herding sheep yesterday, he wandered around the woods near the pasture and saw the "crime scene". A wild goat was dragged into the woods, its internal organs had been eaten clean, and there was not much meat left on its body. The claw marks nearby indicated that it was a big guy - the grass was too thick to tell whether it was a bear or something else.

But no matter what, the traces were very fresh and Yushanjiang had no intention of letting them go.

In fact, he could also ask for help. Halimu's wife was there, and Kazakh women could also do things like herding sheep, or he could go to other pastures and call a few young people, such as Talihar. He would definitely be very happy to hear this news.

But Yushanjiang didn't shout. He planned to fight on his own - Talihar was now the most famous hunter in this small tribe, but ten years ago, he was still not as good as Yushanjiang.

Yushanjiang is also ambitious. Although he is not so ostentatious as he enters middle age, who hasn’t been young?

Besides, last year Halimu killed a tiger, and this matter was not spread in the tribe, but Yushanjiang knew about it. He also knew that this tiger brought great help to Li Long, which made Yushanjiang think about it. In this regard, Yushanjiang didn't say much, but he had the idea of ​​competing with Halimu.

His wife went to stay at the place to take care of the children, and Yushanjiang was here alone. He thought that he could also catch a big one this year, and then give the skin to Li Long, so that he could repay the favor of building the winter nest for him.

That's what true friends are like. If you treat me well, I will treat you twice as well, and then I will feel comfortable.

Deep in the Tianshan Mountains, where few people go, this is a paradise for wild animals. The entire Tianshan mountain range stretches thousands of kilometers from east to west and hundreds of kilometers from north to south. Even the Kazakh herdsmen who have lived in the mountains for generations have only seen a small part of the scenery.

The local Kazakhs have never considered themselves the masters of the Tianshan Mountains. They understand that they are just residents living in the Tianshan Mountains.

Even forty years later, those who claim to have frequently crossed the Tianshan Mountains only dared to take a few ancient roads such as Xiata Wusun. No one had ever gone to the deeper parts of the Tianshan Mountains. There were no roads, no signals, many wild animals, and dangers everywhere. If you went there, you would most likely get lost, and neither the living nor the dead would be found. After all, even on a few well-traveled ancient roads, people would get into danger from time to time, not to mention those places that had never been visited by anyone.
Because no one comes here, the resources here are so rich that it is unimaginable. After Yushanjiang drove the horse into the forest, he saw patches of morels growing in the moss beside the horse's hooves. In places where the trees are sparse, thumb-thick Codonopsis pilosula stems grow everywhere. The Kazakh herdsmen do not think this thing is valuable at all, and they just beat it as sheep grass.

As for ordinary mushrooms - on the plateau meadow that he had just left, there were at least a dozen mushroom circles near and far. Some of those straw mushrooms with a strong mushroom smell had already rotted and become a playground for maggots, while some had just grown out, and were fresh and tender white, with even the film at the bottom of the umbrella not falling off. If Secretary Ma from the county committee saw them, he would definitely run over and pick them all away.

Straw mushrooms are everywhere on this alpine meadow, and cattle and sheep all despise them. Occasionally, a curious cow will come over to take a bite, then turn around and leave, never to take a second bite.

These mushrooms can be picked up in a sack in the morning if you just walk around here.

There's just no one.

(I am not bragging. In July 2000, in the Wild Wolf Valley of ZS County, my comrades and I went to dig sheep dung from the abandoned winter dens of herdsmen. While waiting for the second car to arrive, we wandered around the nearby mountain meadows. In half an hour, we came across seven or eight mushroom circles of different sizes. The big ones were more than ten meters in diameter, and the small ones were one or two meters in diameter. It was the first time that I combined the text "Records of Tianshan Scenery" with the actual situation. I was so excited.

In 2009, in front of Wusun Mountain, east of the th Company of a certain regiment of XJ Production and Construction, this time it was June - before a special day, I would go out for a walk every morning, and then bring back seven or eight kilograms of mushrooms and give them to the kitchen team. The kitchen team leader would be very helpless, and even a little contemptuous - what are you doing with these mushrooms? ) Note: Zhaosu, the average altitude is about to meters.

Yushanjiang used to like hunting and had consulted the elders in the tribe about hunting knowledge. Although he did not have as abnormal sense of smell and vision as Li Long, he had a strong observation ability.

After discovering this "crime scene" yesterday, Yushanjiang simply confirmed the direction in which the carnivore left and did not go deeper to search.

He also has to manage his own cattle and sheep, and he can't just abandon the flock.

After handing over the cattle and sheep to Halimu today, Yushanjiang can concentrate on looking for the prey. The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is loaded with ten bullets. He believes that no matter if he encounters a bear or a wolf, or even if it is a tiger, he can kill this guy.

The pine forest beside the meadow is not dense. Even wild animals are not dense here, so the traces left by the food animal yesterday are still very obvious.

Yu Shanjiang held the reins in one hand and held the gun in the other, riding on the horse, and walked in the direction that the big guy left. After a while, he had left the forest and arrived at another meadow.

This meadow is not big, it is long and narrow, running from east to west. On the sandy mountain far to the south, a group of wild goats discovered the Yushan River and quickly jumped and disappeared on the other side of the mountain.

Yushanjiang had no intention of hunting these wild goats. He had hunted a few red deer and roe deer some time ago, and after skinning them and drying them, he kept them in the yurt.

There are many wild animals like this in the grassland deep in the Tianshan Mountains. The skins of these herbivores are no longer rare here in Yushanjiang. He is not satisfied with always hunting these small guys. He just wants to hunt a big one, preferably a bear or a tiger, and then give it to Li Long so that he can save face.

The predator followed the edge of the forest and headed southwest, not entering the meadow or the forest. Yushanjiang followed its footsteps and walked forward. When he was almost at the end of the forest, the horse he sat on suddenly became reluctant to listen to Yushanjiang's orders, walking and stopping, not wanting to move forward. Yushanjiang guessed that there was a smell ahead that made the horse uncomfortable.

Seeing that the horse was unwilling to move, General Yushan simply got off the horse, put the reins on the saddle, and left it here to eat grass. He continued to move forward along the trail with his gun in hand.

The forest gradually disappeared, and the grass on the meadow gradually became thinner. Going further, there were more gravels on the ground, and shrubs grew on the grass. Some thorny shrubs, although not big, grew tenaciously in this high mountain area with an altitude of nearly 3,000 meters.

The surrounding environment was no longer boundless. Large and small stones blocked the view. Yushanjiang's pace slowed down and his expression became cautious.

After crossing a rugged rocky beach, Yushanjiang climbed up a high stone platform and looked forward. There was basically no trace of the predator at this point, but he didn't need to look for traces anymore - just on the opposite hillside, a big creature with yellow and black stripes, much larger than a snow leopard, was gnawing on its prey.

Looking at the horns of the prey, Yushanjiang recognized that the animal that was killed was an adult sika deer.

The creature that preyed on him was most likely the Northern Xinjiang Tiger that Yushanjiang had been thinking about all the time!

Yushanjiang raised his gun, slowly stepped back from the stone platform, and leaned against the big stone to test the quality of the big guy. However, he didn't expect that before he reached the predetermined position, the big guy over there suddenly stopped gnawing at the prey and turned his head to look at Yushanjiang.

Yu Shanjiang was shocked. This thing was so big, and its hearing and sense of smell were so sharp? Did he discover him?

The distance from here to the northern tiger is about 120 meters. If it is really discovered, this big guy is too alert!

Yushanjiang did not dare to delay and quickly adjusted the muzzle of the gun, aiming at the big guy. At this moment, the big guy moved, abandoned his prey, and suddenly ran on the meadow!
This big guy was extremely fast. After just a few take-offs and landings, it had already rushed forty or fifty meters towards Yushan River!
Faced with the threat of guns and strange humans, even animals like bears would usually just run away. But this big guy actually ran straight towards him, and it seemed like he was planning to take him as his prey!

Bang bang bang!
General Yushan fired decisively. He was calm and composed, and he fine-tuned the direction of the muzzle with each shot. Even if he couldn't hit the big guy, he could ensure that the bullet would cover the area near the big guy. Roar——

The big guy suddenly roared, and the roar was so loud that it shook the valley. Even though the distance was still 70 or 80 meters, Yushanjiang felt a deafening roar.

When he overcame the shock and fear brought by the roar and looked at the big guy again, he found that the guy had turned around and fled to the rocks to the north. When Yushanjiang turned the gun around, the guy had already climbed over the hillside and disappeared.

Yushanjia immediately took out a handful of bullets from the bag he carried with him, loaded the gun with bullets while chasing, and when it was full, he pushed the bullets into the chamber and ran quickly in the direction where the big guy had just passed.

Drops of blood fell on the narrow blades of grass, which smelled fishy. The big guy was shot and injured, otherwise he would not have been able to escape.

Yushanjiang guessed that the northern tiger was not seriously injured, otherwise it would not have been able to escape so quickly. But since it was injured, it should be easier to deal with, right? Yushanjiang strode after it with confidence.

However, when he climbed to the top of the mountain, there was no trace of the Northern Xinjiang Tiger in front of him.

The traces on the ground were very faint. This guy ran too fast. He jumped and leaped four or five meters. Yushanjiang tried hard to find his traces, and then followed the traces into the mountains. This search took most of the day. When he found a snow-capped forest, he found that the moss here was very thick. He stepped on it and lifted it up. The moss returned to its original state. The traces of the northern tiger disappeared here, and there was no blood. Yushanjiang looked around at a loss, not knowing how to find it.

After finally firing a shot, this guy actually ran away. Yushan Jiang was so frustrated.

There is no choice but to go back first.

He climbed to the top of the mountain, looked at the terrain around him, and then returned along the same route.

Halfway back, they encountered several wild goats jumping in the mountains. Yushanjiang took aim and shot down one, and dragged the goat to his horse.

The horse was waiting for Yushanjiang faithfully at the edge of the woods. When it saw Yushanjiang coming back, it snorted and walked forward, taking a few steps to Yushanjiang's side.

Yushanjiang carried the wild goat weighing thirty or forty kilograms onto the horse and turned back to his own pasture.

The sun was halfway down in the west, and Halim was patrolling between two flocks of sheep. Herding sheep on this high mountain was an easy job, as long as one was on guard against the occasional wolves and prevented the sheep from running into the woods beside the pasture. Such a large pasture was free for them to graze on. For these cattle and sheep, being able to graze freely without restraint was simply too comfortable.

Halimu saw Yushanjiang, and hurriedly whipped his horse on the butt, then trotted over to meet him.

"How's it going? Did you find it?"

"We found it. It was a pretty big northern tiger. We shot it a few times and injured it, but it ran away." Yushanjiang shook his head. "What a pity!"

"Alas, it's such a pity." Halimu immediately felt sorry when he heard it was a northern tiger. He had never seen such a thing in his life. Although he had fought it once, he was just a trick. Thinking about it now, he was scared. He had learned from Li Long that this thing was more precious than two bears!
"Since it is hunting prey nearby, it means that the tiger's activity range is in this area." Halimu got off the horse and helped Yushanjiang to skin the wild goat. While skinning, he said, "I think we will definitely encounter it again later."

"This guy is injured and has difficulty moving. It will be easier to hit him if we meet him later." Yushan Jiang also said, "I will just walk around nearby and see if I can run into him. If I do, I will shoot him down."

In the large yard, Li Longzheng and Jia Tianlong were inspecting and weighing bag of Fritillaria one by one.

Looking at the bags of clean, full-grained, high-quality Fritillaria, most of which were filled with seeds, Jia Tianlong weighed them and exclaimed:

"I went to other counties to collect Fritillaria these two days, and found that the production in several other counties has suddenly decreased a lot. On the contrary, not only has the production increased here, but the quality is also improving. For such a good Fritillaria, I would feel embarrassed if I don't raise the price for you.

I'm telling you, for the cleaned and screened Fritillaria granules this big, I'll charge 70 yuan per kilogram. The other ones will remain at the original price. Of course, if there are any, please choose the ones that are clean and have no residue, and I will also reduce the price. How do you do it?"

"That's definitely no problem. You get what you pay for. Everyone knows that." Li Long said with a smile. He had checked all the mother-of-pearl bags, and he was confident. At least 60% of the more than two tons of mother-of-pearl were of the quality that Jia Tianlong said was worth 70 yuan per kilogram.

According to this price, this batch of Fritillaria can be sold for about 140,000 to 150,000 yuan.

The money in the suitcase that Jia Tianlong pulled out might not be enough.

It took Jia Tianlong and Li Long more than two hours to check and weigh more than two tons of Fritillaria before they were completely loaded onto the truck.

It’s mainly about the rating of these mother-of-pearls. If there are fewer, just follow the crowd. It doesn’t matter if there are a little more or a little less.

But this time the quantity is large, and there are more high-quality Fritillaria, so Li Long will try to get as much as he can. Fritillaria is of good quality, but the cost is also high. The comprehensive cost of these Fritillaria is about 40 yuan, which is about 10 yuan more than before. Fortunately, he can make 30 yuan per kilogram. Although the comprehensive income is slightly lower than before, the overall income is much higher.

Jia Tianlong added up the kilograms of each grade of Fritillaria, and then multiplied the total price of each grade according to the price agreed in advance, and finally summarized it. After Jia Tianlong finished calculating each step, he showed it to Li Long, and after Li Long confirmed it, he calculated the next step.

"Look at the total price, 147,622 yuan." Jia Tianlong added up the total with a calculator and wrote it down in a notebook. Then he used the calculator again in front of Li Long, and the totals he got were the same.

It's no wonder he's cautious. This is hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is unimaginable for ordinary people in this era.

"Old Jia, do you have enough money?" Li Long joked, "Do you want to go get some? Or buy some less Fritillaria?"

"Let me tell you, I only brought 150,000 yuan this time, and you left me a little over 2,000 yuan. It's definitely enough, but if you count those dried fritillarias, it's not enough."

Jia Tianlong counted the money one by one from the suitcase. The two of them spent nearly half an hour counting the money.

Before they had finished counting the money, Gu Xiaoxia and Han Fang had already returned.

Sister Yang hasn't started cooking yet. The main reason is that Haohao can obviously stand and crawl, and is now very naughty. If no one is watching them, they may not cause any trouble.

Now the two little guys can’t be put into the bed car. If they are put in, they will escape.

Fortunately, the ingredients were ready. After Gu Xiaoxia came back to take over Mingming Haohao, Sister Yang quickly went to cook. With Han Fang's help, lunch was quickly prepared.

Li Long and Jia Tianlong had already handed over the money, and Jia Tianlong even handed the suitcase to Li Long.

"I won't eat. You're busy here. I have to take these Fritillaria to Wucheng and find a car to deliver them. Otherwise, I won't have the money to buy Fritillaria next time." Jia Tianlong said to Li Long, "When do you think it would be a good time for me to come next time?"

"Five days, no more." Li Long thought that there was still a batch of Fritillaria waiting for him to receive in the forestry team's warehouse, so he set a short date for Jia Tianlong, "When you come, there will be enough for you to load a truck."

"Okay!" Jia Tianlong responded, got in the car, and drove away from the yard.

Li Long also breathed a sigh of relief as he finally shipped the goods again.

(The next chapter will be later, no need to wait) (End of this chapter)