Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

He had spent a long time with Halimu Yushanjiang and knew some simple Kazakh, so he spoke in Kazakh. The two men spoke Kazakh.

When they heard that Li Long could speak Kazakh, the two men immediately smiled. They were not stupid and could tell that Li Long and his men were here to buy livestock, so they started to communicate.

It was similar to what Li Long thought. Cattle and sheep were not expensive, and could even be said to be cheap, and you could choose from a variety of options.

So Li Long directly bought fifteen cows and fifty-five sheep here. It was not that he was unwilling to buy more, but firstly, he could not fit them all in. Secondly, the two men said that they could not sell too many to Li Long because the rest had been reserved by another person and had to be kept for them.

If the five tractors were not equipped with racks, they would not be able to accommodate all the cattle and sheep.

Because some of them were culled sheep, Li Long thought they were quite cheap, and the cattle were not too old either. Li Long paid less than 3,000 yuan in total to buy them.

The next day, the traders knew that Li Long and his team could speak both Kazakh and Uyghur, so they did not come to harass them. Li Long and his team bought 80 sheep from an elderly Uyghur man. This Uyghur old man was quite stubborn and cute. He did not allow the traders to intervene and wanted to sell the sheep and cattle himself. He happened to run into Li Long and his team, so Xie Yundong approached them and the deal was done.

On the third day, Li Long bought more than fifty sheep and eight cows, which was almost enough.

"The movie we saw yesterday wasn't that good." Liang Dacheng said as he was unloading the sheep as he came back. "It wasn't as good as the one with the martial arts scenes."

Li Long knew he was talking about "Shorebrak", so he smiled and said, "Do the scenery in the movie look familiar to you?"

"It looks very familiar, including the houses and the trees." Liang Dacheng was telling the truth.

"That was filmed in our northern border, Zhongtian Mountain, across the mountain," Li Long said, "so you have to take a look."

Also.

After three days of showing movies, everyone in the team was still not satisfied, but they also knew that was it. It was pretty good, at least they showed movies for three consecutive days. No one in the team had ever done that before.

Li Long put the cattle and sheep in the old horse house. Uncle Luo and his men did not get along well with the new cattle and sheep they had brought in. They wanted to let the sheep roam for a while to see if they had any diseases.

I have been feeding sheep for more than a year and have some understanding of this.

With more cattle and sheep, the sugar residue feed that had been stored for a long time had a use. The sugar beets grown on the 20 mu of land next to the old horse could also be used. When Li Long came back, he also brought a jar of sugar syrup, which was made by Lao Shu Luo and his friends when they were free. Li Long tasted it and it tasted pretty good.

Tao Daqiang and his family each took two or three sheep back home to raise themselves, mainly because there was nothing much to do in winter, and having sheep at home would allow them to exercise from time to time.

Fortunately, he really got a dairy goat. The goat was not very old and had a lamb. The seller was a Han Chinese who bought the goat because he had a child at home. He had raised it for two years. Now that his child could eat, he thought of selling the goat and getting some money to improve his life.

Jia Weidong was quite envious and told Tao Daqiang that if the little goat grew up to be a dairy goat, he would buy it back and squeeze out its milk for his family to drink.

Tao Daqiang naturally had no objection. One of these animals was enough. It was not an ordinary goat, but a dairy goat. It could produce one or two kilograms of milk a day, which was enough for the children to drink.

As for adults, they are not so delicate, it is okay to have it or not.

Once the issue of cattle and sheep was settled, Li Long felt much more relaxed. The purchasing station had long since returned to normal, and there were no more bulk items appearing. Every day, there were more items like Codonopsis pilosula and leather, and occasionally there would be Cynomorium songaricum and licorice, which were also obtained from the autumn land reclamation.

As for bronze ware, mother-of-pearl and the like, they were becoming increasingly rare, so Gu Boyuan and Sun Jiaqiang had less time to spare.

In the meantime, Li Long also went to the animal husbandry team's stay point and gave Halimu and Yushanjiang's family half a sheep, and also sent some other supplies, such as vegetables, rice, flour, oil, brick tea, salt, etc. Life here is still the same. Li Long did not communicate much with them, and could only ensure that they lived a better life.

Then it was back to daily life. Every afternoon when Gu Boyuan came to the courtyard to eat, he would occasionally mention Sun Jiaqiang's situation. Tielanhua now came to see Sun Jiaqiang more frequently, basically at noon and in the evening, and stayed for a long time. Sometimes Tielanhua was still there when Gu Boyuan finished his lunch and went to work.

"Now his brother doesn't follow him anymore. After all, the gifts he sends are not much and not as valuable as before." Gu Boyuan also said, "I heard that his brother has a girlfriend and is about to get married."

The reason why Tie Jinbing was able to find a partner and get married was largely because his family harvested melon seeds this year. To be more precise, Tie Lanhua made money from harvesting melon seeds. Making so much money in such a short time, Tie Yinhu suddenly became more confident. A girl from his own tribe that Tie Jinbing had his eyes on, but her family didn't like him, now they can talk about marriage in a calm manner.

When Gu Boyuan talked about the matter between Sun Jiaqiang and Tielanhua, he actually wanted to ask Li Long whether he wanted to intervene in this matter.

He had a lot of experience and knew that there would be a lot of trouble. Beiting was a Hui Autonomous Prefecture with some ethnic policies, and Li Long himself was an advanced individual in ethnic unity. Would this incident have any negative impact on him?

"Don't worry about it." Li Long smiled. "Although Tielanhua is a Hui, our country now advocates freedom of marriage. Whether they are dating or getting married, as long as it complies with our country's laws, we don't need to worry about it."

Li Long had a hunch that if Tie Lanhua wanted to pursue happiness, she would handle this matter well.

Of course, if she didn't handle it well, or wanted to shift the blame to someone else, Li Long wouldn't mind demolishing the temple.

At the end of October, the leaves had turned yellow and fallen, and the world was bleak. On the last day of the month, Zhao Hui came over.

"I plan to buy all the summer and autumn furs, and next time I come, I will buy winter furs." Zhao Hui explained his purpose to Li Long. "You know, the price of winter furs is different from that of furs in other seasons. Although we are old friends, we are doing business on our own terms."

"Okay, there will definitely be no problem on my side." Li Long smiled.

In fact, before Zhao Hui came, he had already gone to the county leather factory twice. The purchasing station not only bought those rare skins, but also sheepskin, cowhide, and rabbit skins. When these ordinary skins accumulated to a certain amount, they were taken to the county leather factory to be sold.

So Li Long became quite familiar with the technical staff of the leather factory. He asked about it and found out that the prices of the leathers they bought there, such as yellow sheepskin and deerskin, had increased a bit, but the increase was not high and was not as good as the price given by Zhao Hui.

Therefore, it would be more cost-effective for Li Long to sell these leathers to Zhao Hui at the moment.

As for winter fur, we’ll talk about it when the time comes.

After all, whether it is the forestry team or Halimu and others who are returning from the transfer site, they will definitely bring a large number of them to Li Long.

Forest rangers still have to go into the woods in winter, but they don’t go deep into the mountains. They will also kill wild animals, and most of the skins are kept.

So Li Long is not in a hurry.

What Zhao Hui said made sense. Winter leather was different from leather from other seasons and could not be mixed together. His practice was normal.

Li Long took Zhao Hui to the purchasing station - Jia Tianlong, Zhao Hui, and Huang Lei all knew where Li Long lived. These people, including Bai Xiuming, were already important nodes in Li Long's network of relationships.

"Take a look, there are not many skins, about a hundred or so." Nothing special happened during this period. These skins were collected by middlemen and sold here, and then Li Long, Sun Jiaqiang and others classified the skins according to their quality.

"More than a hundred, not a lot." Zhao Hui was a little disappointed, "I don't know if winter..."

"Don't worry in winter, there will definitely be more than this. In autumn, these wild animals start to run deep into the mountains, and everyone is busy and has no time to hunt. It's different in winter, everyone is free, so they will definitely go hunting."

Yellow sheep winter skin is so valuable, Li Long believes that it would be strange if he didn't hunt people like Xu Haijun.

Although it was a small amount, Zhao Hui quickly started looking at the leather with Li Long.

"You should get the car here first, or find someone first, and then look at the leather." Li Long reminded him, "You can't move after you look at it, and you have to leave again, which is troublesome."

"I believe you." Zhao Hui smiled. Even though he said that, he still put down his hands after flipping through a few skins. He had to find a car first. More than a hundred skins had to be transported to the station before they could be taken away.

The leather was sold for more than 7,300 yuan. Li Long put the money in his bag. It was almost time for lunch, so he planned to leave with Gu Boyuan. Then he saw Tielanhua carrying a wicker basket into the purchasing station.

The girl was a little surprised to see Li Long. She smiled, said hello, and went to the corner, waiting quietly for Sun Jiaqiang.

Li Long and Gu Boyuan returned to the courtyard to eat, not caring about anything else. They waited until the evening when the purchasing station got off work. Gu Boyuan told Li Long during the meal that Sun Jiaqiang wanted to meet Li Long to discuss something.

After dinner, Li Long went to the purchasing station.

"Boss, I'm getting married." Sun Jiaqiang's first words shocked Li Long.

"You're getting married? Are you ready?" Although I knew that the two of them could overcome difficulties and eventually get married, I didn't expect it to be so soon.

"Well, the yard is almost ready. I gave her money these days, and she went shopping, and the yard is almost ready." Sun Jiaqiang was a little embarrassed when he first said it, but gradually it became smoother. "Her brother is getting married in a few days, and she told her family that she wants to marry over then...but her family told her that there is no dowry, and I have to give her family 500 yuan as a betrothal gift..."

Five hundred yuan for the bride price?

so tall?
Li Long knew that Sun Jiaqiang was able to save money, but he also knew that after he bought the yard, he wouldn't have much money left.

After all, that yard costs nearly a thousand.

He knew how much money he had been paid, and he still had to buy things, so the money was definitely not enough.

"So, boss, I want to get some salary in advance," Sun Jiaqiang said, "I don't have enough money. Don't worry, boss, I will work hard in the future. She also said that when she goes to collect the things, the money earned from the sales will not be given to her family, and she will pay you first."

Seeing Sun Jiaqiang's confident look, Li Long was reluctant to dampen his enthusiasm, but there were some things he had to say in his two lives:

"Then are you sure that after you marry her, her family will stop looking for you? After all, you make a lot of money, and she is also a money-maker for her family. Can they give her up? What will you do if her family keeps staring at you and sucking your blood?"

"She said that we went to handle the formalities on the day of her brother's wedding. When her brother and her sister-in-law got married, they didn't do any formalities here, they just asked the imam to recite some scriptures, and it seemed that they would only do the formalities after a boy was born.

She had also agreed with her family and asked the imam to testify that after she married, her family would have nothing to do with her. Her family would not listen to her, but they would definitely listen to the imam, otherwise they would not be able to survive in that circle.

This is a solution.

Li Long didn't expect that Tielanhua could be so decisive and do this. She is indeed a brave girl.

This is also good, as it saves Sun Jiaqiang from having to make a choice. After all, if some girls keep kissing, the Han guys who marry them may have to convert to Christianity, or be baptized, change their eating habits, and that kind of thing.

"Okay, how much do you want in advance?" Li Long said, "When are you planning to get married?"

"An advance of 400 yuan. I still have some left. After collecting enough for the bride price, I will have to keep some as capital for her to receive the goods. Also, boss, when I get married, I won't be able to live in the purchasing station every day..." Sun Jiaqiang said apologetically.

"No problem." Li Long waved his hand. "Even after we get married, we can't let you live in the purchasing station all the time. You have your own home, so you must live there."

He asked Sun Jiaqiang to go with him to get the money, and the matter was settled.

Although Tie Jinbing did not go through the formalities for his marriage, Tie Lanhua and Sun Jiaqiang did and had a marriage certificate - the two of them got their marriage certificate almost quietly.

What surprised Li Long and made him angry was that Tie Lanhua left home on the day of Tie Jinbing's wedding. When she left, Tie Yinhu asked Ma Haimai to search Tie Lanhua's body, but she didn't bring out a penny, and she didn't bring out any extra clothes except what she was wearing.

The purchasing station had not closed for the day that day. At noon, when Li Long's family and Gu Boyuan came to Sun Jiaqiang's yard with things to congratulate him, Tie Lanhua was wearing plain clothes, not at all dressed like a bride.

But her mental state was very good, and she seemed like a completely different person from usual.

At this time, Tielanhua was like a happy girl, free from the cage, as if she had suddenly come alive. Seeing Li Long and the others coming, she smiled and welcomed them, busy pouring tea and stuffing candy into Mingming and Haohao's hands.

After entering the house, Li Long found that it was very clean, things were neatly arranged, and there was no sign of mess at all.

Obviously, this is a woman who can keep her house clean.

Sun Jiaqiang accepted the blessings of Li Long and others with a simple smile, and said apologetically that because the time was short at noon, he could only treat them to dinner in the evening.

"Have you told your family?" Li Long asked Sun Jiaqiang, "At least you should notify them, right?"

"Well, I wrote a letter back." Sun Jiaqiang replied, "It's enough for my family to know about this. I can't come anyway."

"Then will you go back later?" Gu Xiaoxia asked.

"Let's talk about it when the time comes. Maybe we have to wait until after the baby is born." Sun Jiaqiang has experienced too much and doesn't have much thought about going back to his hometown.

Li Long had to go to work in the afternoon, so he wanted to give Sun Jiaqiang a day off, but Tie Lanhua refused:

"Boss, we don't need to take a holiday. He's right next door, so I can walk there in two steps when I miss him. To be honest, I really have to thank you, otherwise, if I couldn't collect enough betrothal gifts, I might really be finished. The only chance I have is when my brother gets married, otherwise, I might never be able to break off this relationship for the rest of my life."

Li Long waved his hands hurriedly: "It's because you two have a good relationship and are persistent, otherwise you wouldn't have come this far. Okay, since there's no holiday, then you stay here and we'll go back, live a good life."

Back in the courtyard, Gu Xiaoxia was also full of emotion. She learned about what Tielanhua had done from Li Long, and she admired the girl's decisiveness.

Most Hui girls cannot do this and can only be bound tighter and tighter by their families and circles step by step, and finally live like Ma Haimai.

This incident was just an episode in Li Long's life and soon faded away. He occasionally paid attention to the lives of Sun Jiaqiang and Tielanhua, and what surprised him was that Tielanhua's family really didn't come to see her.

It seems that the role of the Imam is really significant.

The first snow of the winter of 1985 fell quickly, and Li Long knew that Halimu and the others would be back soon.

He wondered whether he should buy the tractor for Halimu before he came back.

After all, Yushanjiang and Talihar already have it, and it would be unreasonable if Halimu didn't have it.

Moreover, Halimu's mother and children are still at the pastoral team's stay point. It will be very painful to take them back to the mountains by horse.

How nice to use a tractor!

When Li Long was planning to buy a tractor for Halimu, Halimu was running in the snow with a gun in his hand, and he met the injured tiger again.

This time, Halimu wants to shoot it down!
The tiger was injured somewhere again and was running very slowly in the snow. Halimu could barely see it, but the distance between them was getting farther and farther.

How to do?
PS: Today is Eid al-Adha, and I just arranged for the brave but pitiful Iron Orchid to get married. I would like to wish all my friends who are celebrating Eid al-Adha a happy holiday! (End of this chapter)