Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long sighed as he helped Halimu and the others move the things down and started to arrange them. Halimu brought back not only the tiger skin, bones and meat, but also deer antlers, snow lotus and other skins. It took two horses to pull so many things.

These things almost filled up Li Long's jeep.

"You have to come over tomorrow. Talihar and his men will also bring over the goods they have brought over the past two months. Talihar also said that he will come over and drive the tractor back when the time comes. He will bring coal and other things."

"No problem. It's more difficult to start a tractor in winter, but once it's started, it's much more convenient to use." Li Long actually told Talihar and the others the process of starting a tractor in winter when they were cutting grass, but he needed to say it again when he thought about it.

"The money from selling this tiger skin and bones is enough to buy more than two tractors. I will come and bring you the remaining money tomorrow." Li Long said.

"No, no, no, this tractor is enough." Halimu was actually a little excited. He had been thinking about getting something good for Li Long. But Li Long drove the tractor back without waiting for him to speak. There was no need to calculate the rest so clearly.

Li Long did not say much. Since Halimu did not want money, he would do something else. Anyway, there was no rush. His friendship with this small tribe, Halimu, Yushanjiang and others would last a lifetime.

Because Halimu and the others still had to put their things away, Li Long did not stay long and drove his jeep down the mountain. When Yushanjiang came over on horseback, he had already left.

Li Long didn't have that much energy, so he just cleaned up the snow and the sheepfolds for Halimu and Yushanjiang's families, and didn't do anything else. Yushanjiang brought over the things he had found these days, thinking that he would take them away together when Li Long came. He originally thought that Li Long would leave after setting up the fire, but when Halimu said that Li Long was actually there just now, Yushanjiang said with some regret:

"I should have guessed that he was here with you. I should have thought of it when I saw the fire in the stove... Oh! By the way, he bought you the tractor outside, right? It's a new tractor, you didn't drive it, did you?"

"How can I have time to drive?" Halimu said while busy packing up. "There are so many things to do. Let's wait until tomorrow. We will drive to the animal husbandry team to visit our family tomorrow. Do you want to go?"

Halimu could drive a tractor, and so could Yushanjiang. But Yushanjiang's tractor was still in Li Long's yard, so he could either drive it or go in first and wait.

"Go ahead. After you finish visiting the family, go back to Li Long's place and drive the tractor back. Take Talihar with you as well. Oh, and load the stuff and deliver it to Li Long's house."

The matter was settled like that.

Li Long was quite excited when he drove the jeep out of the mountain.

To be honest, he really didn't expect to meet Halim today. He came here almost every day after the snow fell. After all, the snow in front of the winter den and the snow in the sheepfold could not be cleaned up in a short time. Fortunately, he had plenty of strength. When he was tired, he would rest, or when he was in the mood, he would go around the mountain to see if he could catch anything.

We didn't encounter any big wild animals, but we did encounter some small pheasants and rabbits. It was difficult to hunt them with the five or six and a half caliber rifle we brought on the first day, so we brought the small caliber rifle as well on the second day.

Today is the fourth day since he came here. He didn’t expect that Halimu and the others would come back. He didn’t expect that Halimu would bring him such a big surprise!

Before Li Long could recover from the surprise, the jeep was stopped.

As expected, the person who stopped him was Meng Hai.

Meng Hai waited for Li Long to get out of the car and said with a smile:

"Comrade Li Long, let's go inside, warm up by the fire, and drink some hot water."

"No, I have to go back quickly." Li Long waved his hand, "You are not busy recently, right?"

"Not busy, not busy," Meng Hai is in good spirits now, and said with a smile, "I'm too idle, with nothing to do, and I'm a little uncomfortable."

"Then wait and hunt gazelles." Li Long knew that gazelles would come over when the snow thickened in a while. "You can also hunt wild boars. The hides of gazelles will definitely be more expensive this winter. Ask your team to collect more hides and sell them at the purchasing station. I will buy them."

"Okay." Meng Hai responded. He actually guessed that Li Long would not stop, so he picked up the urea bag at his feet, opened the car door and put it in the car. As he put it in, he said, "We will eat one of the two wild boars we killed yesterday. This one has been skinned. You can take it back and eat it."

Li Long wanted to refuse, saying that he didn't need any meat, but Meng Hai had already stuffed the wild boar into the car, then slammed the door shut, waved his hand at Li Long and said:
"Okay, Comrade Li Long, go back quickly. The road is slippery, be careful."

Li Long felt warm in his heart. The militia captain of Qingshuihe Village was always grateful to him. In fact, what he did was mutually beneficial to them, or sometimes he earned more profit.

But Meng Hai and his friends firmly believe that it was Li Long who gave them the opportunity to get rich, so this gratitude always exists.

Quite proud.

After pulling a load of stuff back home, it was already afternoon when they arrived at the yard. The weather had been cloudy these days, with no sun and no warmth. After Li Long entered the yard, Sister Yang heard the door open and came out. Li Long asked her to go in and look after Mingming and Haohao while he unloaded the stuff.

This time, Li Long still didn't plan to let other people know about the parts of the tiger, especially the tiger skin. He planned to tan it himself and would decide how to use it later.

Without the tiger skin, tiger bones and tiger meat, nothing can be seen on the surface, or ordinary people can't tell anything. Without the tiger penis - this is a tigress.

However, it was obvious that the black dog in the house was very alert to the smell of the tiger and kept barking until Li Long brought all these things into the house.

The tiger skin was peeled off completely, even the head, so the skull was still there and the meat on it was frozen.

Li Long plans to distribute the meat to his family members and eat them slowly over the winter.

Tiger meat is also very nutritious, so of course it should not be wasted.

As for the tiger wine, just put it aside for now and slowly prepare it to make wine later.

After collecting all the tiger's parts, Li Long began to unload the skin and antlers.

Different from Halimu's calculation method, Li Long estimated that these things were worth about 3,000 yuan. As for the parts of the tiger, there was really no way to estimate them.

At least it's worth another Jeep, right? Of course, you have to find the right channel, otherwise, it should be able to sell for more than 10,000 yuan?

Of course, it won’t be sold for the time being.

The next day, Li Long got up, had breakfast, and was about to pack up to go to the mountains when he heard the sound of a tractor outside the door.

Halimu and others are here.

Whether it was Halimu who was driving the tractor or Yushanjiang and Talihar who were sitting in the truck bed, their faces, eyebrows and beards were all covered with white frost, but they were all happy when they saw Li Long.

"We are here with the tractor." Yushanjiang said with a smile, "and we will bring these things to you."

The bucket of Halimu's tractor was filled with leather, deer antlers and other things, which were what Yushanjiang and his team had obtained during this period of time after returning from grass cutting. Although Li Long said that the things they pulled were enough for two tractors, in the eyes of Talihar and his team, it was still not enough, so they just got more.

"You got up pretty early today." Li Long welcomed them in and asked Sister Yang to pour them tea, while he took Talihar and the others to move things.

There are nearly a hundred skins of various kinds. Li Long did not count them. There are not many antlers. After all, deer basically do not shed their antlers in the second half of the year. The velvet starts to grow into horns. If they want to shed their antlers, it is either in winter or when the velvet grows in the second year.

The pile of things were quickly moved, and Li Long asked Halimu and the others to go into the house to warm up and have a cup of tea, but Halimu and the others refused and wanted to start the two tractors quickly.

"It's winter, and it takes time to start the tractor. We need to add boiling water and heat up the engine." Li Long said, "It doesn't matter if we wait a little longer. Let's go back to the house and I'll boil some water first."

Since we have arrived at Li Long's territory, and what he said is right - Halimu and his friends got up very early this morning, and Yushanjiang and Talihar and their friends came over to help, and they started Halimu's brand new tractor and drove over.

So they know this is troublesome.

Sister Yang took Mingming and Haohao to play in the snow in the yard, while Li Long was boiling water in two pots in the kitchen. Previously, the two tractors were placed at the purchasing station, but later, because Sun Jiaqiang from the purchasing station moved into the yard next door, Li Long was a little worried and drove the tractors back to his own yard.

There is not enough space in the front yard, but fortunately there is a backyard with enough space for parking.

Now Li Long feels that buying Lao Ma’s yard is totally worth it.

The two tractors first cleared the snow on top, then added boiling water, and roasted it with red charcoal fire underneath. Someone had to watch over it, and by the time they started and drove away, it had already taken more than an hour.

Fortunately, it is a new tractor and the engine is fine, so there is no problem driving it.

Because Halimu and the others were in a hurry to go to the pastoral team's stay point, Li Long did not follow them. Today's action was cancelled, and he took the children to continue playing in the snow outside.

Mingming and Haohao were wearing thick clothes and hats, so they were not afraid of the cold when playing in the snow outside. This is what they call "children have fire in their bodies". Anyway, when Li Long felt his feet start to get cold, the two children were still having fun. Li Long was a little reluctant to pull them back into the house.

When Gu Boyuan came to eat at noon, he talked about Sun Jiaqiang. He said that Sun Jiaqiang's work during this period was quite normal, that is, he would go back to the yard next door to eat at noon after work, and then come back to work, just like going to and from get off work normally.

After Sun Jiaqiang moved out, Gu Boyuan moved into the yard of the purchasing station. After all, someone still needed to look after it. For Gu Boyuan, it was also good to look after it here.

"That Tielanhua has been running around the countryside collecting hides recently. Sometimes she doesn't even come back at noon, but she has a harvest every day. She is quite capable." Gu Boyuan also admires this independent-minded Hui girl. "When things are good, she can collect three or five pieces a day. When things are bad, she can collect one sheepskin. There is always something to buy."

"His family members haven't come over again, right?" Gu Xiaoxia asked while eating.

"No. I heard from Sun Jiaqiang that after her brother got married, he married a girl who was Tielanhua's elementary school classmate. After the girl entered the Tie family, she took on the work of Tielanhua's mother and started doing housework. She was busy from morning to night... Tielanhua said she was glad that she had made the right choice."

In Sun Jiaqiang's small courtyard, there are not so many right and wrongs. All you need to do is make money and live a good life.

And making money is exactly what Tielanhua is good at.

Sun Jiaqiang was also very satisfied. Tielanhua would prepare meals in the morning and evening. Even if she did not come back at noon, she would prepare lunch before leaving in the morning.

"Little Sun looks much better these past two days, and smiles more often." Gu Boyuan joked, "It seems like I made the right choice to marry this daughter-in-law."

"I wonder if she will continue to look for Tielanhua when her family runs out of money in the future." Gu Xiaoxia was a little worried.

"It's okay. Xiao Sun said his wife said that the incident was witnessed by the Imam. The Tie family dare not do anything else. Otherwise, they will not be able to face other people."

This incident was just an episode for the Li family. Li Long went to the purchasing station in the afternoon and found that Sun Jiaqiang looked much better, more energetic, and wore clean clothes.

Hope it can continue.

Snow falls every once in a while, and during this period the purchasing stations mainly collect various leathers.

Yellow sheepskin is the most abundant, mainly in the Gobi Desert in the north, where there are really many of these creatures. At that time, the national border was not perfect, and barbed wire could not be drawn along the entire border, so these creatures could run back and forth, and sometimes there were groups of thousands or tens of thousands of them.

So it’s really a lot.

Li Long's purchase price for yellow sheep winter hides this year is 51 pieces for a whole hide, and 20 to 30 pieces for a broken hide. As for the other large amount of rabbit hides, they are still 3 yuan each, because the leather factory has not raised the price yet.

Li Long did not go into the mountain the next day. When Halimu and the others came, they said that they would continue to pack up supplies in the next two days, that is, to haul coal and repair things in the winter camp.

So Li Long didn't go there for the time being, he went to Team 4.

Li Long cut all the meat from the tiger killed by Halimu yesterday and divided it into several portions. He plans to give the meat away today.

The first people to be given are naturally his own parents and eldest brother and sister-in-law. He also needs to give some to Lao Ma, Lao Luo and the others, and also give some to the families of Tao Daqiang who worked with him.

"What kind of meat is this?" Tao Daqiang asked.

Uncle Luo and the others were also asking, so Xie Yundong and the others naturally wouldn't avoid it.

Of course, the first one to ask was the eldest brother Li Jianguo.

"Tiger meat." Li Long did not lie to his family, but he did not want anyone to know about it. "It's good for your health. You can braise or stew it. Eat a little bit a day. Don't eat too much."

"Another tiger?" This time, not only Li Jianguo, but also Li Qingxia was surprised.

Is this tiger worthless? Why have we only bought two in the past few years?

"Yes, it's from the mountains," Li Long said. "My friend caught it a while ago. Let's eat it while the meat is still fresh."

Although it is not a rumor, we cannot keep all the meat at home, so we should share it. The family members can tell others, but Li Long told Tao Daqiang and others that it is leopard meat, which is also very nutritious, so these people are naturally happy.

Love tiger meat!
PS: Today the whole yard is full of sheep being slaughtered. The sheep bleated all night last night! (End of this chapter)