Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

These past two days, when Yu Shanjiang went out to herd sheep, he always walked along the edge of the forest. He wanted to see if the tiger would come over and run around here again.

It is reasonable to say that these wild animals are very smart and have a strong desire for revenge. Once they make an enemy of a human, they will fight to the death. When Yushanjiang was grazing on the summer pasture, he was retaliated by a pack of wolves, but he had a gun, and the wolves were killed in the end.

So Yushanjiang thought that once the tiger recovered from its wounds, it would definitely come back to seek revenge on him - since it could find him from such a distance, Yushanjiang was not worried at all that the tiger would not be able to find him.

So he kept his gun in his hand for the past two days, thinking about shooting the big tiger if it came back.

At that time, Li Long said that tiger skin was very expensive. Yushanjiang thought that if he could kill the tiger, peel off the skin, dry it and give it to Li Long, then he would have repaid the favor of renovating the winter den.

But for two or three days, there was no movement at the Xia Ranch. Not to mention tigers, not even wolves were seen. The herd of wild goats that were often seen on the gravel hills in the distance were also gone. Yushanjiang knew that the tiger might not come back.

However, he still did not give up. In the past two days, he tried to expand the grazing range as much as possible, driving the cattle and sheep to graze near the mountain, and they were almost at the edge of his summer pasture.

The boundary of the summer pasture is abrupt high mountains, which block the grassland like a wall.

Wild goats and mountain goats often roam the top of this high mountain. But this time when Yushanjiang came over, there were no wild animals on the top of the mountain. I wonder if they were scared away.

Yushanjiang knew that there were many snow lotuses growing on this hillside, but they had not yet bloomed. In the past, Yushanjiang only went to take a look occasionally, but never paid serious attention to it. This time, he let the cattle and sheep graze at the foot of the hillside, and left the horse there as well, while he climbed up the hill along the wall.

The slope was not very steep at the beginning, and there were large patches of ice and snow in the shady and concave areas that had not completely melted.

Among the rocks, snow lotuses are growing tenaciously, and beside them there are some wild grasses that are also not afraid of the cold. Although the green color mixed among the gray rocks is not very rich, it bursts with vitality in this harsh environment.

Yushanjiang was patrolling the area with his gun. He usually saw herds of wild goats or argali from afar, but today he saw nothing. The wild animals seemed to have sensed some danger and disappeared. He couldn't even shoot one or two.

Yushanjiang came down from the top of the mountain feeling a little depressed, hurried back to his horse, mounted it and continued herding sheep.

Although he was very disappointed, he also knew that hunting was not something you could get just because you wanted to. There was some element of luck involved.

In the evening, Yushanjiang drove the sheep back to his yurt. He drove the cattle and sheep back to the pen and started cooking.

Yang Gangzi was not at home, so he had to make his own meals. He had gotten used to it in the past two years.

Every year when the herds moved, Li Long would prepare a large amount of daily necessities for them. As the two families with the best relationship with Li Long, Halimu and Yushanjiang brought the most things.

There are baked naan, jam and honey in the yurt.

Yushanjiang first took out the broken naan wrapped in a bed sheet and placed it on the kang table, put jam and honey on a small plate, then added two pieces of coal into the stove and started to make milk tea.

When the fire in the stove was burning brightly, he took a piece of dried beef from the shelf on the north side of the yurt, trimmed the dirty edges, and placed it on a plate.

After the milk tea was ready, Yushanjiang picked up the teapot and poured himself a bowl, then put it aside, then took off the stove lid, put the pot on, poured water into it, added a coir, and put the plate of dried meat in to steam.

While the meat was steaming and drying, Yushanjiang took a bucket and went to a stream about 20 meters away from the yurt to fetch water.

One of the main reasons for choosing this place for the yurt is that there is water nearby and trees to block the wind. The sheep pen was built in the early years and only needs to be maintained every year.

The water was poured into a large square iron bucket, which was also prepared by Li Long. Yushanjiang and his friends originally thought that plastic water was easier to use, but they believed Li Long's words that plastic water was not clean.

After all this was done, the dried meat in the pot was almost steamed. Yushanjiang took out the dried meat and placed it on the kang table. He sat at the side of the kang table and started to eat. He took out a knife, drank milk tea, dipped the naan in some jam and ate it, then cut the dried meat and took a bite. It was a bit strange. He simply didn't eat the jam, and just cut the dried meat.

The Kazakhs cherish food very much, and there are many proverbs about cherishing food. This piece of dried meat was not enough to fill Yushanjiang's stomach.

But with naan and milk tea, it's almost the same.

After eating the large piece of meat, Yushanjiang used a small knife to scrape off the little bits of skin attached to the bones and put them into his mouth.

Although living conditions are getting better and better now, it is no problem to slaughter a sheep every day.

But the life habits formed over a long period of time make Yushanjiang still very frugal when eating every day. Now it is much better than before, so we can't be too wasteful.

The sun had completely set, the sky gradually darkened, and the stars twinkled in the sky. The moon had not yet risen, and the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, extremely clear. If there were stargazing enthusiasts here, they would be very happy, but Yushanjiang and Halim were used to it. They could see it every year, but after half a year, no one would feel amazed anymore.

After dinner, Yushanjiang cleaned up the kang table and stove, walked out of the yurt with a flashlight, and inspected the stables and cattle and sheep pens.

A few horses were still grazing leisurely, their tails wagging. The cattle and sheep had already laid down, some were chewing the cud, but most were already asleep.

After returning to the yurt, Yushanjiang closed the door, turned on the radio and listened to the programs playing inside.

Life in the mountains is lonely. It would be much better if there was a radio here. Yushanjiang heard from Li Long that there is a kind of TV that does not need to be plugged in. I don’t know if it can be bought now. If it can be bought, I don’t know if it will work if I bring it here.

As for the price, Yushanjiang no longer considered it. According to the price Li Long gave for the fritillaria and snow lotus, Yushanjiang felt that as long as he wandered around in the mountains, he could easily earn enough money to buy a radio and a TV before the winter migration.

The attitude of these middle-aged people towards money is different from that of young people. The middle-aged and elderly Kazakhs are more persistent in their ancient traditions and do not think that money can change everything. They are more concerned about whether the traditions of the tribe can be passed down from generation to generation. Young people want a better life, more material enjoyment, and do not want to be out of touch with society.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the surroundings became quiet. Occasionally, the howling of wolves could be heard from the depths of the distant mountains, but this was not enough to alert Yushan and his men, because the distance was too far, and the wolves often ate them, so they had become accustomed to it.

Every year when they first move to the summer pasture, the tribe’s herders will kill a few wolves that come to explore.

Once the wolves feel that the tribe is too powerful and they cannot contend with it, they will leave to look for other prey.

There are many wild animals in the deep Tianshan Mountains. Wolves are very smart. They don't necessarily have to risk their lives to get food here.

The program on the radio ended, and Yushanjiang was also very sleepy. He turned off the radio, retracted the antenna, put it away, and then lay down on the wooden kang, covered himself with a quilt and prepared to sleep.

The altitude here is high, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, the ultraviolet rays are strong, the sun is very strong during the day, and the temperature is very low at night. If you sleep without a blanket, you will feel cold and you may catch a cold.

In the middle of the night, there was a sudden fierce barking of dogs from the direction of the sheepfold outside. Yu Shanjiang woke up suddenly, threw off the quilt and got up. He quickly put on his clothes, picked up his gun and flashlight, and rushed out.

In the light of the flashlight, he found that the family dog ​​was barking at the sheep pen, and something inside the sheep pen was attacking the flock.

Yushanjiang quickly opened the safety, pulled the bolt and loaded the bullet, then headed for the sheepfold. He was thinking, could it be the northern tiger?

Walking up to the sheep pen, Yushanjiang shone the flashlight inside and quickly locked onto the target.

In the sheepfold there was a furry black and white creature that was a little smaller than he had imagined, but a little bigger than an ordinary wolf - it was a snow leopard.

It was not known whether the adult snow leopard was extremely hungry or wanted to taste the cattle and sheep, so it came down from the mountain and sneaked into the flock of sheep in the middle of the night.

Now two sheep have fallen in the sheepfold. The big snow leopard did not eat the two sheep, but was pouncing on a big ram to kill it. Yushanjiang appeared and saved the big ram.

The snow leopard heard the noise outside the sheepfold and turned to look at Yushanjiang. Feeling threatened, he was not afraid, nor did he run away. He opened his mouth and roared in a low voice to protest to Yushanjiang. Looking at the four big teeth of this guy, Yushanjiang raised his hand and shot him!
Although I heard from Li Long that this snow leopard will become a first-class protected animal in the country in two years, and that if it is killed, the victim will be fined and imprisoned, but for the time being, it will be killed. Who let it get into the sheep pen and kill the sheep?
And at this time, for Yushanjiang, it was a valuable skin. The snow leopard didn't know what the tube that Yushanjiang stretched out was for, but it felt threatened and immediately pounced towards Yushan.

The snow leopard's head just happened to meet the bullet shot by Yushanjiang
With a bang, the snow leopard fell to the ground after it pounced in mid-air. The sheep were frightened and scattered, all leaning against the sheepfold, their eyes full of fear.

The snow leopard twitched twice on the ground and stopped moving. Yushanjiang had originally fired his gun hastily, aiming at the snow leopard's body, but he didn't expect the snow leopard to be more cooperative and came straight towards him, so the shot hit his head.

After the snow leopard died, Yushanjiang took a flashlight and shone it around the sheepfold again, but found no other predators. It seemed that the snow leopard was a loner.

The dog stopped barking this time and stood obediently by the Yushan River. I don’t know if it was scared by the gunshot or because Yushan River had already knocked down the intruder.

The crisp sound of gunfire echoed in the mountains for a long time before disappearing. This time, two sheep were lost, but a snow leopard was killed. Yushanjiang was still quite satisfied.

Li Long told him that the skin of this snow leopard was worth at least 1500 yuan. It shouldn't cost that much to renovate his winter nest, right? Although it wasn't a northern Xinjiang tiger, a snow leopard would be fine.

Yushanjiang put the gun belt on his shoulder, went into the sheep pen and pulled out the two dead sheep and the snow leopard one by one.

Then Yushanjiang checked and found that there was no damage in the sheep pen, which meant that the snow leopard jumped in from outside - how amazing.

The sheep pens in the summer pasture are all made of wood. The wood chosen by Yushanjiang is pine wood that is about 1 meters thick and as thick as an arm. This snow leopard can jump quite high.

Unable to sleep at night, Yushanjiang held a flashlight in his mouth and started to skin the snow leopard. After a while, the sound of horse hooves came from the northeast. He stopped what he was doing, took out the flashlight and shone it in that direction. Before he could see the human figure clearly, he heard Halim's voice:
"What's going on? Why did they shoot?"

"A snow leopard entered the flock, killed two sheep, and then I shot it to death," Yushanjiang explained.

"That's great. I'll help you peel the skin."

"Okay, peel the snow leopard skin, dry it and bring it back to Li Long."

Yushanjiang and his men would not eat the sheep that were killed by wild animals, but would only leave a sheepskin.

Li Long would definitely feel regretful about this, but this is the tradition of the tribe and they will not break it easily.

Two people could skin the sheep very quickly together, and they finished in just over an hour. They also dug a hole and buried the skins of the two sheep.

Halimu rode back to his yurt. Yushanjiang smeared salt on the snow leopard skin and hung it in the yurt. As for the snow leopard meat, he planned to taste it tomorrow.

Li Long didn't know that Yushanjiang had also shot a snow leopard for him. After Jia Tianlong left, Li Long finished his lunch and drove his jeep to the bank to deposit money.

It's not appropriate to keep so much money at home. He planned to save 80,000 yuan and use the rest as acquisition funds. The reason why he kept so much money was that the bulk of it was in the warehouse of the forestry team. According to Bolati, there were more Fritillaria stored in the warehouse than in the previous times, so the money needed was at least 10,000 yuan.

Now the purchasing station receives about 100 kilograms of dried fringe shells every day, and occasionally one or two big buyers come out. Such big buyers usually bring more than to kilograms of dried fringe shells, which can be worth to yuan. The fringe shells they bring are of good quality, and Li Long offers a high price, so cash is essential.

Although there are fewer people selling Fritillaria these days than in the past two days, there are more people selling leather.

In the northern Xinjiang, there are no people who actually make a living by hunting. There are not even many people like Li Long who can hunt prey in the mountains on a regular basis.

But occasionally, red deer, yellow sheep and wild goats are killed, and small amounts add up to a lot - these skins are collected by the middlemen, and in previous years they would be sold to bigger dealers, but this year they will be sold to purchasing stations in various counties and cities.

Although they knew that the private purchasing agencies were trying to lower the price, they had no choice but to sell.

Now Li Long's purchasing station has become famous. Everyone knows that the prices here are high and fair, so the second-hand dealers from several nearby counties and cities will tacitly bring the good things they have received here in exchange for more money.

Although the cost of transportation will increase, compared with the round-trip fare, the extra money from the sale is much more than the transportation cost.

So Gu Boyuan has been quite busy these days, and he is slowly getting used to it. He has his own share of the income from the purchasing station, and every extra item he collects is equivalent to making more money for himself, which is a great thing.

After getting a heads-up from his friends at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Li Xiangqian thought about it and decided that there was no need to alert Director Qian about the situation for the time being, so he called Director Wei first.

Although Director Wei was transferred to Beiting City as the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, Beiting City and Ma County are different after all. There are many people and units here.

The supply and marketing cooperative is a very powerful unit, and many people need to look for him to build relationships, but he does not need to ask anyone for help.

Director Wei wants to retire in his current position. After all, he is about the same age as Director Qian, but their ranks are very different.

It is difficult to be promoted to Director Qian's position, but it is no problem to stay in this position for a few more years.

Now that he is the director, many people ask him to do things for them, and the treatment he enjoys when he goes out is much better than that in Ma County.

Li Xiangqian seldom called him, so when Director Wei picked up the phone and heard the voice of his old subordinate, he was a little surprised.

After the two exchanged pleasantries on the phone, Director Wei took the initiative to say:
"Xiang Qian, let's not be polite when we're on the same page. Just tell me what you want. I'll do whatever I can."

"Okay, I won't be polite either. I'll tell you straight out that someone wants to take action against Li Long."

"What? You want to touch Li Long? What?" Director Wei was shocked. If they want to touch Li Long, shouldn't they check the relationship behind Li Long? That's Director Qian!
He naturally didn't know. Jiang Chunlin also asked around. After knowing that Li Long was a temporary worker in the supply and marketing cooperative, he thought that Li Long must not have a big relationship, otherwise how could he be temporary?

"Who else could it be? Someone from your side." Li Xiangqian said, "Yesterday, someone from the Industry and Commerce Bureau called me and said that the owner of the private purchasing station in Beiting City, Jiang Chunlin, thought that Li Long had engaged in unfair competition and poached some of his clients.

Then we found the people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau on their side, and asked them to say hello to our people and ask them to deal with Li Long.

This guy is trying to put the blame on Li Longtou, don't you think we should give him a beating? Otherwise, some people will think that the people in our county supply and marketing cooperative are easy to bully!"

Director Wei understood what Li Xiangqian said. He breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile:
"So that's what happened. The Jiang Chunlin you mentioned has some background. His brother-in-law is a member of the Beiting Municipal Political Consultative Conference.

This guy used to be in the system, but he made some mistakes and got out, then he relied on his connections to do business - this private purchasing station is not his main business, but it is a large cash flow to support his expenses.

He probably really doesn't know the relationship between Li Long and us, and Director Qian. We once ate at the same table, and of course I don't need to have any contact with him. Since Li Long is involved, I will find someone to give him a beating. If he is sensible, he will know what to do. If he is not sensible and wants to make trouble again, then you don't need to tell me, I will let him know who to provoke and who not to provoke. "

"Okay, I feel relieved with your words, Old Wei. I'll tell Li Long about it later, and he will definitely thank you."

"Does he need to thank me? Our own people are being bullied, so shouldn't we leaders step up to help? What? You want to exclude me? I'm telling you, it's impossible!"

"Hahahaha, Director Wei, your words are really inspiring!" (End of this chapter)