Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Lu Yingming was the first to arrive at the Li family. Or rather, he had been paying attention to the situation at the Li family all day long. After hearing the movement of the jeep, he waited for half an hour and couldn't help but come over.

When he came over, Li Long and his friends had not finished their meal yet. The room was already crowded, and now it became even more crowded. Li Jianguo asked Li Juan and Li Qiang to go to the east room to make room for Lu Yingming.

Li Qiang was somewhat reluctant. He also wanted to hear how his father and uncle hunted.

However, Li Juan was more sensible and knew that adults tended to talk more at this time, so she pulled Li Qiang away and whispered to him to get him some candy.

In fact, Li Qiang didn’t like candies as much as other kids at that time. He had pocket money and good meals at home, so he thought that the fruit candies that ordinary kids liked were just so-so.

When did I stop caring about sugar?

"How is it?" Lu Yingming asked after he sat down, "Did you hit it? How many hits did you hit?"

"Hey, Brother Long, when we go hunting, there's nothing we can't catch," Tao Daqiang said with great pride. "We've caught quite a few gazelles and red deer!"

Lu Yingming was very surprised and asked:
"You all fired? That's all the sand gun is good for?"

"That's right. Just shoot if you're close." Liang Dacheng said while eating a steamed bun. "Thirty or forty meters away, you can shoot wherever you want. One shot and the yellow sheep will be dead!"

Although everyone knows that, if you really calculate, the sand gun is still not as good as the 56.5. First, it can only hold two bullets, and you have to reload it if you want to shoot again. Second, it has no rifling, so it can't shoot far.

But for Liang Dacheng and others, this sand gun is their own gun, how could it be bad?

It must be good.

"Really amazing..." Lu Yingming was not clear about the details of their hunting, but since they had caught quite a lot of prey, it was really amazing.

Li Long had finished eating, put down his chopsticks, and rubbed his face. His ears were a little itchy, from the cold, but it was not serious.

He looked at his watch and said:

"Brother Yundong and Weidong should be here in a while."

Lu Yingming originally wanted to go back after asking, after all, they were having a meal and it would not be good for him to stay for too long.

But now, hearing Li Long say that Xie Yundong, Jia Weidong and others were almost there, he decided to stay and see how much had been found.

Twenty minutes later, the sound of a tractor was heard. When they passed the reed ditch, some people went out to see. They were all shocked to see Xie Yundong sitting on the tied gazelles and red deer.

Last year, Xu Haijun and his men also caught some food, but it was almost the New Year, and everyone knew that there would be little food in the Gobi Desert at that time, so the wild animals would gather together.

It has only snowed twice now, but Li Long and his friends were able to come back with stuff when they went out. What does this mean?
This shows that Li Long is really good at hunting.

Of course, some people who heard this news would still say sourly, "The boy from the Li family is lucky."

They believe in luck, not strength.

When the tractor arrived at the door of Li's house, Li Long and his friends had already come out. They quickly asked Jia Weidong and Xie Yundong to come down to the house to warm up, while they began to unload the things on the tractor and redistribute them.

Lu Yingming didn't go up to help, he looked at them with envy. If he had bought a sand gun yesterday, would he have had a share of the prey today?
The skin of a yellow sheep alone can be sold for at least thirty yuan, and if it is all skinned, it can be sold for fifty yuan. Ten skins are almost the same as the price of a sand gun.

If I bought a gun myself, can I already buy the parts for the gun now?

Of course, regret is useless. Lu Yingming thought about it and went home.

He planned to persuade Mrs. Lu to go to the county to buy a sand gun tomorrow.

More than half an hour later, Jia Weidong drove the tractor back again, but he did not go home first. Instead, he delivered the things of Xie Yundong, Liang Dacheng, and Tao Daqiang back, and finally returned to his own home.

Although in the end there was only one yellow sheep left on the tractor, Jia Weidong was still happy. How could he not be happy when he got something for the first time he went out?

But there were also regrets. After listening to Li Long and his friends' hunting experience, he regretted choosing a single-barreled rifle. If it was a double-barreled sand gun, he could have shot two gazelles if he came across a group of them!

On the way back, the red deer and yellow sheep had frozen, so Li Long took two red deer and three yellow sheep back to the county. He shot four yellow sheep and one red deer, gave one to Jia Weidong, and originally planned to give the rest to his elder brother, but Li Jianguo disagreed.

Li Jianguo's meaning was very simple. Li Long was good at skinning. The skin would easily rot if he peeled it. If it rotted, wouldn't the skin be worthless? It would be better for Li Long to take it back and peel it slowly.

These people have actually agreed that they will not hunt again for at least a week. After all, there were so many gunshots in the sandbag nest that the gazelles were probably scared away.

Li Long was thinking of taking the animal back and peeling off the skin, then taking back some of the meat, as there were not enough people on his side to eat so much meat.

The main reason was that there was still a lot of meat in the big yard, and he was planning to go to the mountains after a while to hunt wild boars or something, so there would be plenty to eat.

Another thing is that I think it’s okay to eat game occasionally, but if you eat it in large quantities, it doesn’t taste as good as domestic beef and mutton, and it needs to be weighed down with heavier ingredients.

That night, Team Four was extremely restless.

Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong, Liang Dacheng, and even Jia Weidong's family all came to inquire about hunting.

Some people also went to Xu Haijun's home, and they even urged Xu Haijun to come up with a plan as soon as possible, such as when to go out hunting.

It is snowing heavily now, and some people have gone to the red willow beach in the east to chase rabbits, and they have reaped a good harvest.

But it's not as good as hunting yellow sheep. Chasing rabbits for two days is equivalent to hunting a yellow sheep. Anyone can do the math. And except Jia Weidong, almost all the people who went there had more than two sheep. Just this trip can earn at least 70 or 80 yuan.

If I could be like Li Long, it would be more than a hundred!
The people who came to find Tao Daqiang and Xie Yundong naturally hoped to join in, but these people could not make the decision. They only said that they didn't know when Li Long would lead the team hunting next time.

Lu Yingming went straight to Li Jianguo. He persuaded Mrs. Lu and planned to buy a shotgun the next day and then join in.

Li Jianguo naturally had no objection. He felt a little uncomfortable hunting with a group of young people. It was better when Lu Yingming joined in.

Lu Yingming was naturally happy. He immediately went home to prepare money and planned to ride his bicycle to the county to buy a gun the next day.

That night, Li Jianguo and his team warmed up the remaining prey and skinned it. Since they had hunted the prey, they had to get rid of it early, scrape off the grease on the skin, smear salt on it and hang it on the wall. When it was dry, they could take it to the purchasing station.

The next day, when Lu Yingming went to the Xinhua Bookstore in the county to buy a gun, he was surprised to find that several people from the team were there.

They were a little embarrassed, but then they all laughed. It seemed that everyone had the same idea.

However, what surprised them was that the double-barreled sand guns in the county Xinhua Bookstore were sold out!
Last night Lu Yingming had already found out and received advice from Li Jianguo that it would be best to use a double-barreled sand gun. If a single-barreled gun encountered a large group of gazelles, there would definitely be no time to change bullets.

So he tried to buy a double-barreled one, but it wasn't available.

Other people thought that if there was no double-barreled one, they could buy a single-barreled one, but Lu Yingming did not buy it and just pushed the cart out.

He plans to go to Shicheng and buy a double-barreled one!
If you want to buy something, buy a good one! If you really want to buy a single-tube one, you may regret it later if you spend several hundred dollars on it.

He really went to Shicheng, and then went to the Xinhua Bookstore in Shicheng and bought a brand new double-barreled shotgun and two boxes of bullets.

After returning home with the gun, Lu Yingming parked the car and went to Li's house immediately to tell Li Jianguo that he had bought a gun.

Li Jianguo was in the house with Liang Yuemei, cleaning the meat and internal organs of yellow sheep and elk, and he just said a few perfunctory words - just buy a gun, there's no need to be so serious.

Lu Yingming didn't notice Li Jianguo's perfunctory attitude. He was so excited that he didn't want to rest. He took his gun and went to the wasteland in the south to test the gun.

On that day, gunshots were heard from time to time in different places in the east, south and north directions of the four teams.

You can’t do that on the west side. Team Three is right next to us on the west side, so you can’t fire your guns here.

Li Jianguo suggested to Lu Yingming that he should go to the police station to apply for a gun license after buying the gun. Because the double-barrel sand gun was bought at Xinhua Bookstore, the source was legal, so it was very convenient to apply for a gun license.

But the police station has also been a little surprised these two days. Why did Team 4 buy so many guns? Is there something going on?

The director was worried, so he sent police officers to the fourth team to find out the situation.

Xu Chengjun naturally knew what was going on, and he used all his power to persuade the man to make it clear. Anyway, the country now allows the sale of hunting rifles, so this matter cannot be said to be illegal.

But the fourth team has since been on the township police station's list of key concerns. After all, if they have guns for hunting, if something really happens or there are conflicts in the village, will they use guns?
This is hard to say!

Li Long went back last night and did not unload the sika deer and yellow sheep from the jeep. He drained the water in the car and then took a rest.

This time the hunting trip was long and there were some twists and turns along the way. He was very tired and just decided to be lazy.

The next day, after I had enough rest, I dragged the deer and the gazelle into the kitchen. After they had recovered, I started to skin and gut them.

Mingming Haohao was not afraid. He was wearing warm clothes and just watched Li Long operate.

The sika deer had a pair of long horns, so Li Long simply broke off the horns and gave one to each of the two children.

The two children were already at a combative age, and could hardly lift the two or three kilograms of elk antlers, but they were already showing a tendency to start a fight. Sister Yang hurriedly stopped them, put the antlers away, and rarely said a few words to Li Long.

Li Long continued to peel the peel with a wry smile. He didn't think too much about it and didn't think that the sharp corners would hurt the child.

There were a lot of gazelles and deer, and even if Li Long was very skilled at skinning, he still had to remove the meat and gut them, which took a whole day.

Sister Yang was also washing the intestines and stomach. Actually, this stuff could be left alone, but Li Long liked it. He thought the intestines and stomach tasted better than the liver and heart, so he kept them all.

As for the price of the leather, he hadn't settled the score with his elder brother, and they hadn't settled the score long ago. There was no need to spend a hundred bucks on it.

Fortunately, it is winter, so there is no need to cook all the meat. Just hang it in the storage room and freeze it.

After finishing all this, Li Long suddenly felt that hunting was quite troublesome.

Just like the fighting and killing in the police and gangster movies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, for Guo Tiebing, these are actually trivial matters. The troublesome part is writing the report afterwards, which is the troublesome part!

The same goes for hunting. It’s fun while you’re hunting, but cleaning up after yourself becomes a hassle.

One or two is fine, but if there are too many, it will be annoying to clean up.

Thinking back to when I first started typing a lot of things, I didn’t seem to have this kind of mood. At that time, I thought the more I typed, the better.

Is it only in the past one or two years that I have this idea?
Is it because living conditions have improved that I have such thoughts? (End of this chapter)