Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long looked around and made sure there was no danger, so he put his gun away.

Carrying half a bag of mushrooms, I walked towards the deer - I couldn't pick the snow lotus today. I would have to deal with these two deer and one wolf for a while.

Talihar and Buick also went straight to where the wolf was.

Talihar had a gun, but Buick didn't. He just followed to gain some experience and to lend a hand.

The two wolves were not far from each other. When they reached the southern slope, Talihar saw the wolf that Li Long had killed at a glance—not far from the one he had killed. That wolf was even bigger than the one he had killed.

Li Long walked less than fifty meters towards this side and stopped. He took a look and saw the male sika deer lying on the ground.

"Li Long, did you kill a deer?" Talihar was on the shady slope of the mountain. He came over after hearing the gunshots. He only heard the gunshots but did not see what Li Long killed.

"Two." Li Long looked at the male sika deer that was still bleeding, feeling regretful. It was shot twice. One shot hit the head, which was a little off, leaving a groove on the face. Then the bullet entered the right shoulder. The other shot hit the abdomen, leaving its skin damaged.

Looking at the doe again, it was pretty good. Two shots, one in the head and one in the tail, did not damage the skin.

"Two?" Talihar was a little surprised and walked towards Li Long with the wolf in his hand. Buick followed immediately and picked up the other wolf by the way.

Both wolves weighed about 40 kilograms each, and the two young guys were still able to lift them at this time - just dragging them for a while was fine.

Walking up to Li Long and looking at the big male red deer and the female red deer that Li Long brought over, Talihar couldn't help but admire:
"Beautiful—oh, what a pity, the antler of this bull elk is broken."

Li Long also saw that when the male elk was shot and fell, the long antler on the right side of its head fell to the ground and broke into three pieces, with blood still flowing from the broken parts.

"Li Long, quickly cut off the antlers, otherwise the blood will run away and the effect will be bad!" Buick looked anxious, "Hurry up!"

Li Long smiled, took out his knife and went to cut the antler.

He brought a machete, took aim, and chopped down fiercely. Both Buick and Talihar were eager to chop, but how could they chop like that? They had to cut slowly, like sawing!

Unexpectedly, Li Long's chopping blow actually cut off the broken antler that was about a foot long on the male red deer's head almost completely!
He took out a plastic bag from his backpack, picked up the broken antlers on the ground, packed them up, rolled them up and put them back into his backpack.

As for the good velvet on the left side of the deer's head, Li Long did not touch it, intending to deal with it after getting it to the jeep.

"How can we carry so many back?" Buick looked at the two wolves and the two elk, especially the male elk, which weighed two hundred kilograms. It was so heavy that he and Talihar were exhausted even after carrying it.

"Can you lift these two wolves and the female elk?" Li Long asked.

It would be best to leave one of them here and take the rest away. After all, there were only three of them, and he had a sack.

But there were wolves nearby, and Li Long believed that as soon as they left, the wolves would definitely come over, and those who stayed would then be left to the wolves.

"Sure." Talihar had grown a lot taller and was stronger. He felt that he should have no problem carrying a wolf and hugging a female elk, but the gun would have to be handed over to Buick.

"That's fine." Li Long smiled, pointed at the sack and said, "This can only be placed here."

As he spoke, he hung the gun horizontally around his neck and across his chest, and put the backpack on his back upside down. Then he went forward and used a rope to tie the two front hooves and the two hind hooves of the male elk together.

After tying the buck, Li Long squatted in front of the bull elk's belly, grabbed the tied front and hind hooves with both hands and carried them on his shoulders. While shouting "Hi", he lifted up the 200-kilogram bull elk!

"How amazing!" Buick widened his eyes. The body shape of this sika deer was about the same as a foal or a cattle, but Li Long actually lifted it up!
The main reason is that I don’t want to get my body covered in blood, otherwise I could dissect the prey right here.

"Okay, let's go!" Li Long also felt a lot of pressure, but fortunately he could still bear it - "I'll go first!"

The things he was carrying were heavy and he couldn't stop. If he stopped, he would have to put them down, so he walked quickly towards the winter den.

Talihar and Buick looked at each other and hurriedly got busy. Buick carried the gun on his back, and behind him he also carried the heaviest female elk, which must have weighed about 60 to 70 kilograms, which was not small.

On the contrary, the two wolves were slightly larger than the dogs at home. Talihar held one under his armpit and followed them.

Sure enough, not long after they left, several wolves came from the distant mountains, sniffing and barking, and even tugged at the sack of mushrooms left by Li Long. The black tiger paw mushrooms were scattered all over the ground, but the wolves were obviously not interested in this kind of thing, and then ran away.

Li Long and his companions did not carry all the things to the winter nest in Yushan River in one breath. To be honest, it would not be possible to do so even with Li Long's incredible strength.

There were several winter shelters in between, and they rested twice before returning to the jeep.

The three people carrying so many things attracted the attention of others. Yu Shanjiang was also preparing lunch in the winter nest. He was very surprised to see Li Long and others coming with so many things.

"Who hit him? Talihar? You or Li Long?" someone asked.

"Li Long killed the deer. He also killed a wolf. I also killed a wolf." Talihar was almost exhausted. The two wolves weighed 80 kilograms and were very heavy. After he threw the wolves down, he sat down on the wood next to the winter den and was too tired to talk.

"Li Long is so awesome!" The four herdsmen here exclaimed one by one.

Li Long brought them good things. He could drive a tractor and a jeep. They didn’t expect that he was also so good at hunting - they knew that Li Long learned hunting from Yu Shanjiang.

"I was picking snow lotus and happened to run into them." Li Long still had some energy left. After putting the male elk down, he said slowly, "There was a group of argali there, but they were scared away."

Li Long and his team brought the prey back, so he didn't need to skin it. After Yu Shanjiang agreed, several herdsmen immediately started to draw their knives, each choosing a head and skinning it.

There is a water pipe in front of the winter den, which makes it much easier to deal with.

Yushanjiang originally wanted to stir-fry a dish with potatoes. They brought dried meat and potatoes, so he made a Huldak. Now it seems that he can cook meat.

One stove inside is obviously not enough, so we built another stove outside with stones.

As for pots, there was no shortage of them. When Li Long drove his jeep to deliver things yesterday, he brought the pots with him.

There was no other way. When Yu Shanjiang and his men went down the mountain to collect grass, they basically only brought one or two pots and a dozen people. Li Long felt that it was not enough.

So he simply brought a big pot with him. He also thought that these people must be hunting, so cooking meat would be inevitable.

This is the most enjoyable way to eat.

Li Long watched them process the meat while thinking about whether he should go pick up the big sack and pick some snow lotus. He stood up and sat down again.

I really couldn't do it. Carrying the sika deer back all the way must have been exhausting!

Then just wait patiently for your food.

Several herdsmen were skilled in the technique and quickly skinned and gutted the four prey. At Li Long's insistence, they removed some bones and meat first to cook.

The meat of the male elk is a bit smelly, but there’s no time to worry about that at this point. This thing is strong and big, so I’ll just eat it first.

Originally, according to Yushanjiang's suggestion, the red deer meat should be left for Li Long to take back, and the wolf meat can be cooked here. However, Li Long refused. Since they regarded him as a friend, how could he eat alone?

"I'll just take the elk antlers and whip, and everyone can eat the meat!" Li Long made the final decision.

However, the female elk was not moved at all. After skinning it, it was smeared with salt, then wrapped in leather and put into Li Long's jeep.

One of the two wolves was released to Li Long, and all the skins were given to him.

As a result, the mushrooms that these people had picked could not be loaded into the jeep - there was no room left.

The sound of tractors rumbling could be heard, and the people who were working came back.

Smelling the aroma of meat and watching the pieces of meat rolling in the pot, these people cheered - who would want to eat dry naan when they can eat meat?
We had a very enjoyable lunch. Li Long and his team had a good hunting experience, and the grass cutting was also good there. With two harvesters working together, the speed was very fast. Some people said that it might not take ten days to finish the grass cutting work. After all, it was hot now, and the grass could be dried in three to five days. After drying, it could be bundled and piled up.

These grasses are the fodder used by herdsmen to survive the winter.

In later times, the cultivated land area was much larger than it is now, and herders raised many more livestock. In addition to cutting grass on the grassland, they would also buy straw from farmers as fodder. One of the mechanizations in northern Xinjiang in later times was that after harvesting wheat and corn, the straw would be packaged into square or round grass blocks and grass rollers, which could be directly pulled back for use. This kind of grass may not be very good for sheep to eat, but cows like it very much.

But it is not the case now. Cows and sheep do not eat wheat straw now. They despise it. They eat weeds with leaves and flower spikes that are picked from the wild.

Alfalfa is the first choice, which is actually reed - because reed has leaves.

The weeds that grow in the mountains are naturally the best. Among them are medicinal herbs, alfalfa that cattle and sheep love to eat, and some other rare plants.

Li Long was also hungry, so he held a piece of naan in one hand and a piece of spine in the other and gnawed on it. Although the venison had a bit of a strong smell, it was not bad because it had been cooked for a long time and had wild onions from the mountains as a garnish.

After a hearty meal, I washed my hands, sat under the shade of a tree to rest for a while, and cut a watermelon to get rid of the grease. It felt so comfortable.

Then the herdsmen left one after another, as they still had work to do.

Li Long also calmed down, loaded the bullets in his gun, and continued to rush into the mountains.

He also wanted to take back the sack and the snow lotus on the mountain.

When Li Long returned to the winter den from the mountain, the sun had already set.

He originally wanted to see if he could find any traces of the argali again, but in the end he saw nothing.

It was expected that the sack would be torn open. He put the black tiger paw mushrooms back into the sack, took out a knife and picked the snow lotus flowers one by one to avoid damaging the roots, thinking that he could harvest them again next year.

A sack was filled with hundreds of snow lotus flowers. Fortunately, the flowers were very flexible and there was no need to worry about them getting damaged while being packed in the sack.

Li Long returned to the winter den carrying a sack on his back. Seeing that everyone was working, he packed up and prepared to go back.

The main reason was that the jeep was full of things. There were also some wild mushrooms picked by the herdsmen and placed outside the winter den to dry, so there was no more room.

He took away a female deer and a wolf, and left a male elk and another wolf in the winter den, which was enough for Yushanjiang and his men to eat for a few days.

Li Long said something to the herdsman who came to get diesel, then drove the jeep down the mountain. The deer and wolf meat in the car needed to be processed when he got back.

As the jeep drove out of the mountains, Li Long immediately felt the heat. Although the sun had already set and the hottest part of the day had passed, there was still more desert and less vegetation outside the North Mountain at this time, and the heat rising from the ground was still unbearable.

He opened the window wide, drove the jeep faster, and rode back in the wind, not caring about the long dragon of dust rising behind the car.

When we got on the Wuyi Highway and drove with our backs to the sun, we felt a bit of coolness. Of course, this coolness came largely from the nearby Ma River. The river water cleared the surrounding heat, which made us feel much better.

The car drove directly back to the big yard. Han Fang had not finished school yet, so Li Long opened the gate himself. He saw Sister Yang pulling Mingming and Haohao one by one to the side, mainly because she was worried that the car would hit the two children.

Mingming Haohao was so excited when he saw Li Long coming in that he could already call for help. Sister Yang held the two children tightly, and only let go after Li Long drove the jeep into the yard, turned off the engine and got out of the car.

The two children staggered towards Li Long, and Sister Yang went to close the door.

"Sister Yang, there is a deer and a wolf in the car. They have been skinned and we need to deal with them later." Li Long said to Sister Yang while holding the two children. "I will unload the meat later. I will take some to the team, and we can't finish the rest, so we will dry it."

"Okay." Sister Yang naturally had no objection.

After holding the two children and coaxing them for a while, Li Long took the deer and wolf's bones down to the kitchen and began to remove the bones.

After unloading, part of it is put into a basin to be taken to the team.

The leather had to be rubbed with salt, stretched and nailed to the wall. The velvet antlers also needed to be processed, and the black tiger paw mushrooms needed to be dried in the sun. By the time they were done, the sun was about to set.

When Gu Xiaoxia returned to the yard after get off work, Li Long was about to go out. He briefly explained the situation and then went out.

The meat should not only be given to Team 4, but also to Sun Jiaqiang. This guy is a simple cook and seems to have lost weight during this period.

When Li Long drove to the purchasing station, Gu Boyuan was just coming out and Sun Jiaqiang was about to lock the door.

"You went into the mountains?" Gu Boyuan asked, "How is it in the mountains?"

"There are still a lot of wild mushrooms. I'm going to send some to the herdsmen," Li Long said. "I went hunting today, so I'm going to send some meat to Xiao Sun. Uncle, you can also take some back later. I'm going to send some to my father and my eldest brother now."

"It's time to send it off." Gu Boyuan said with a smile, "Go ahead, go ahead. The sooner you go, the sooner you'll be back."

Li Long gave half a rib and some meat to Sun Jiaqiang, then drove his jeep to Team 4.

The jeep was driving fast and there were not many people on the road at that time, so Li Long drove to the team almost in a flash, put a deer leg and a wolf leg at Lao Mahao, and then put some meat at his eldest brother's house.

Li Juan and Li Qiang both came back and were playing in the yard. The eldest brother Li Jianguo also came back from harvesting wheat and was talking to his parents and sister-in-law about the harvesting process over the past two days.

Everyone in the family was very happy to see Li Long coming. Liang Yuemei said there was mung bean soup in the pot and asked him if he wanted to drink it.

Li Qiang had already brought a big watermelon and was ready to cut it.

"Your love for your nephew is not in vain!" Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Look, this family just cut the watermelon, and this one is cutting another one."

"It's just hot." Li Qiang defended with a red face.

Everyone laughed.

Li Long also laughed. He took the meat off the jeep and said, "Today, when I went into the mountains to pick snow lotus, I encountered deer and wolves. I killed them. This is the meat I brought back."

Li Long brought not only meat, but also wild mushrooms and snow lotus.

There were snow lotus flowers at home, which had been soaked in wine. Now these flowers are fresh, so the two children grabbed two and played with them.

The popularity of martial arts novels has resulted in the exaggeration of the efficacy of snow lotus, and children also know about it.

"Is this the snow lotus? It doesn't look like a lotus at all." Du Chunfang muttered.

"It's not the same family, just the same name." Li Long explained. His elder brother had already cut the melon, so he took a piece and started eating.

Li Long came over, and Lu Yingming from the opposite door also came over. Like Li Jianguo, he had just come back from harvesting wheat, and he was making a lot of money, so when he saw Li Long, he came over to say a few words.

Although the villagers would not express their gratitude directly, the meaning was there.

After eating a few pieces of melon, Li Long returned to the county yard before dark. The family members had all gone into the house. Sister Yang left some food for Li Long, who quickly ate in the kitchen and returned to the house before the mosquitoes attacked him.

Haohao was still awake, and the two children were playing with a snow lotus flower. The snow lotus flower smelled very good, and both children were very fond of it.

Li Long then had time to tell Gu Xiaoxia about the situation in the mountains and the hunting, of course he downplayed it, but he did give a detailed description of the "Snow Lotus Slope".

Li Long actually felt that he was quite lucky. Although there had been some dangerous moments while hunting in the past few years, to be honest, most of the time they were ambushes, so he was quite lucky.

There was a harvest almost every time, and we had a lot of meat.

The next day, when Li Long was planning to go up the mountain again, Sun Jiaqiang ran over early to report to Li Long that Huang Lei had arrived.

There are a lot of wild mushrooms during this period, so it is normal for Huang Lei to come here every now and then. Li Long thought that it seemed that he could not go into the mountain today, after all, this business was a serious matter.

Besides, Yushanjiang and his people in the mountains can drive tractors, and with two tractors they can cut grass, they basically don’t need to do anything themselves.

Then let's clean the mushrooms first! (End of this chapter)