Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After steaming the buns, Li Long learned from his last lesson and left some of the buns open, and took a few others and broke them open to dry in the sun outside.

After making the steamed buns, Li Long was hungry, so he had a simple lunch with the new steamed buns and red tofu. Then he took the Fritillaria to the spring and started washing them.

Think about it, this thing costs hundreds of yuan per kilogram in the future, and even thousands of yuan for better quality ones, it is really amazing. But to be honest, he has never used it in this life, but he really used it in the previous life. He used the old recipe that some people said, pickled Fritillaria with honey. After pickling for one or two months, people with long-term coughs can eat it and get better quickly.

Of course, people who actually read more books should know that this thing also needs to be dialectical, and it is not effective for all diseases. But as long as it cures a few, it will inevitably be widely circulated. Especially after the mask incident, people's immunity has generally declined, and more and more people are coughing. Various prescriptions are circulated in the market. Anyway, the price of Chinese herbal medicines has risen accordingly. There are good and bad mixed together, and it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish.

Li Long wondered if he should save some of this stuff in the future. After all, it would be illegal to dig this up in the mountains in the 21st century.

The Fritillaria that Bolati and Sun Jiaqiang brought over weighed a total of about ten kilograms. Li Long cleaned them, spun them dry, and placed them on the table outside the yard to dry. The sun was strong outside, and there were gusts of mountain breeze. The moisture on the surface of the Fritillaria had dried before the afternoon. Then he took the Fritillaria back to the small room and spread them on the ground to dry.

It would be fine to leave it outside to dry in the sun, but Li Long didn't quite understand. He just felt that drying in the sun seemed different from drying in the shade, and he didn't know whether it was true or not, so he just decided to dry it in the shade.

After putting away the Fritillaria, the sun had already set in the west. There was still an hour or two before setting the mountain, so he didn't dare to go far, so he simply picked up some vegetables in the nearby grass. By the time the sun had set, he had picked up two or three kilograms of straw mushrooms and some wild vegetables, which he had just enough for dinner when he came back.

The stove outside the yard was still a bit crude, after all, it was made of stones, which was too casual. Li Long thought that he didn't dare to go far tomorrow anyway, so he might as well get up early and get some mud to build the stove, making it more standardized, so as to avoid the need to adjust the position of the stones from time to time.

Porridge was cooked on the stove in the house, wild vegetables were blanched in boiling water on the stove outside, and then some mushrooms were fried. Together with the steamed buns from lunch, it made a very nutritious dinner.

After Li Long finished eating, he cleaned up the pot and saw that the coal in the house was almost used up. In two days, he would have to burn firewood. He remembered the open-pit coal mine that Halimu Yushanjiang pointed out to him last year, so he planned to pull a tractor of coal back after he finished the sheep business. Anyway, the resources in the mountains are not controlled much now, so he can use them at will. Even in the 21st century, forest rangers in the deep mountains are doing this. It is normal to drag back pine trees that are too heavy for two people to carry and use as firewood.

It was dark, and the wind began to howl. Li Long could vaguely hear the howling of wolves outside, but he was used to it. Holding his gun, he peeled back the window paper and looked out, but it was pitch black outside and he could not see anything. He could see the green eyes of wolves before, probably because there was a little light in the sky, so the green light of the wolf's eyes could be reflected. Now there was nothing, and he did not know whether the moon had not come out or was blocked by clouds.

Since he couldn't see it, Li Long no longer thought about hunting the wolf. He pressed down the window paper, put away his gun, and continued to sleep.

Although there was a layer of mud on the outside of the wooden house, it was still a bit windy and not as solid as a house made of dry-rammed earth, so he planned to add a layer of mud on the exterior walls of the house when he had time.

Many plans have to be implemented step by step, so Li Long now feels that the task on his shoulders is very heavy.

He tightened the quilt and fell asleep.

He got up very early the next day, but when he saw the light, he got up. He had thought that if he woke up early, he could go to the place where the wild boars were active, but it was definitely not possible now, because even if there were wild boars there, they would have run away long ago.

After setting up the stove and making a simple breakfast, Li Long began to make mud at the spring.

As there was no mold to make the adobe bricks, Li Long had to rely on the original stones, reinforce them with mud and fill the gaps, which saved him a lot of trouble.

A lot of mud was needed, and mud alone was not enough, so Li Long went to the hay pile and the firewood pile and got some chopped grass residue and wood chips to mix with the mud. Then he brought the mud to the stove, arranged the stones first, filled them in, and smoothed the outside.

Li Long is not very qualified as a bricklayer, but this is just like playing with mud. The main thing is to be casual. It does not require such a high level of skill. It just needs to be roughly regular.

He shoveled mud over and smeared it on the stove, then began to trim it with his hands. Although his hands, arms, and even clothes were covered with mud, Li Long was still very happy as the two stoves gradually became three-dimensional and standardized.

The stove that was originally made of four or five stones has now become a regular earth stove with a square outside and a round inside, and a smoke outlet. Li Long is very satisfied with it. He put the pot on it and saw that there were still gaps in some places that would smoke, so he took some mud and smeared it on to make it fit tightly.

He took the pot off and let the stove dry for a while. After the moisture on the surface evaporated, he put some firewood in it, filled the bottom with hay and branches, and started a fire. This way, the stove would dry faster.

It took Li Long the whole morning to cook on the two stoves. After he was done, it was almost time for lunch and there was no movement from Halimu and the others, so Li Long started to cook lunch.

After eating noodles for two days in a row, Li Long planned to cook rice and stir-fry vegetables for lunch. Of course, he could still scrape out the rice crust and scoop out the rice soup according to the old method. Since the advent of electric rice cookers, people have never been able to drink rice soup again.

Yes I do.

Li Long was humming "Under the Northern Sky" while washing rice to prepare for stewing. The fragrance of rice at this time was incomparable to the rice in supermarkets in later generations. When washing the rice, Li Long was reluctant to wash it a few more times. Anyway, he had already picked out the stones and sand, so washing it once would be enough, right?

Pour the rice into a pot on the stove and prepare to stir-fry.

There are still some mushrooms left over from yesterday, and then I can just stir-fry some wild celery with the meat. There are clumps of wild celery growing next to the spring, and although they are not very tall, they are already edible.

This thing is quite oil-consuming. Many people don't make this at this time because it doesn't taste good without enough oil. This is not a big deal for Li Long. There is a lot of oil in the wooden house, and there is also meat. It tastes good when fried together.

The water in the rice pot in the room boiled, and Li Long took an iron spoon in one hand and a basin in the other to skim out the rice porridge. The rice porridge cannot be skimmed too dry, otherwise it will become sticky, and it cannot be left too much, otherwise it will become sticky rice. The amount needs to be controlled well.

Li Long skimmed off most of the rice porridge and put the basin aside. Then he used an iron spoon to slowly smooth the rice in the pot. He watched the bubbles coming out of the rice and the aroma of the rice slowly spread out. He knew that this time it should be stable.

The fire is not too strong, which is just right. The fire is relatively even and the rice can be cooked well.

Then he quickly went to the table outside to cut wild celery and meat. He put a pot on the stove outside. There was already a fire in the pot, so he added oil when the pot was heated.

One of the great advantages of using firewood and coal is that you don’t have to cook and light a fire at the same time. Cooking in rural areas of northern Xinjiang requires burning firewood, and women at this time usually add firewood to the stove while cooking, which requires quick eyes and hands, and multitasking. Otherwise, there will be either not enough fire or too much firewood or it will burn out, which can easily cause fire accidents.

It is not uncommon for stoves to get burned. Usually, such incidents can make the whole village laugh for half a year.

Of course, in order to avoid such things from happening, someone would light the fire in front of the stove, two people would work together, and sometimes when making noodles, the person who lights the fire would also have to stir the noodles and pick them up, anyway, they were busy.

Later, the invention of gas stoves liberated people.

But the firewood and coal used by Li Long don't have to worry so much.

The dishes were fried very quickly. When a plate of dishes was brought out, Li Long poured a ladle of water into the pot, took the time to look at the rice, and then tilted the pot slightly. The purpose of doing this was to make the rice crust at the bottom of the pot burn more evenly.

Of course, this requires moving it a few more times and moving it faster, otherwise the base will also be burnt.

After cleaning the pot and frying some wild mushroom meat, Li Long stopped staying outside and slowly adjusted the rice on the stove. In fact, as long as there is enough time, and the heat at the bottom of the pot is not too strong, the rice will usually not fail.

But not many people can persist from beginning to end and make adjustments to the end.

In less than ten minutes, Li Long opened the lid of the pot and saw that the rice in the pot was crystal clear and full of fragrance, and he knew that the rice was ready.

He found two worn gloves to hold the pot down, then covered the stove lid, clapped his hands, served himself a bowl of rice, and put it aside. Not in a hurry to eat, he used a spatula to shovel it down, and then he saw the brown rice crust underneath, which was particularly tempting.

Good, there are snacks.

Li Long was eating lunch alone at the table outside. Although the sun was very strong, he was in a good mood. He ate while looking at the sky. There were high mountains in front of him and blue sky above him. Occasionally, eagles circled in the sky. Something flashed by in the distant woods. Then Li Long saw an animal similar to a lynx, but much larger than a lynx, jumping out of the woods. In front of it was a panicked wild goat. The wild goat spread its four thin legs and ran very fast. However, the big animal behind it was faster, with its body stretched out, showing the ultimate beauty of movement.

When the big guy was several meters behind the wild goat, he suddenly pounced like a tiger, and it felt like flying seven or eight meters away, and directly pounced on the wild goat that jumped into the air in front of it and bit it. The wild goat struggled twice and then stopped moving. Its whole body fell down and was dragged into the woods by the big guy.

When the big guy entered the woods, he glanced at Li Long, and Li Long almost dropped the chopsticks in his hand.

Although the distance was more than one hundred meters or nearly two hundred meters, he felt that he was absolutely right in his guess. That guy should be a tiger!

Although its size is not as exaggerated as that of the Siberian tiger, it is much larger than the gray wolf and snow leopard that I have seen before. Its body length including tail is at least two meters and five meters, which is tall enough. Looking at it, it is really not an ordinary animal!
But isn’t it said that the XJ tiger became extinct at the beginning of this century?
Of course, there was also XJ who said that he had seen it with herdsmen in Tacheng a few years ago, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.

Now Li Long knows that this thing really exists!
He thought about it and realized that if it were him, he would not be able to dodge that attack even if he had five or six semi-automatic rifles in his hands!

After all, it is hard to say how much of a threat a Type 50 or 6 semi-automatic rifle can pose to this thing, and in such an extreme environment, it is also unknown how accurate one's shooting can be.

Ordinary people may lose their lives due to panic when facing a mad dog, let alone this is the king of beasts!
Li Long felt that he was not mistaken, but he couldn't understand why this guy would run to the outskirts of Tianshan Mountain?
There were few tigers or even bears in the outskirts of the mountain, after all, humans were their natural enemies. An unarmed human was no threat to them, but humans were divided into groups, and the forestry and animal husbandry teams had guns, so they would not show mercy when they encountered these big guys.

Seeing this scene, Li Long felt that his meal was tasteless. After finishing his meal in a hurry and cleaning up simply, Li Long took out the 56 semi-automatic rifle and spread out the gun cloth to wipe it. I have neglected this old brother recently. It seems that I am still a little lax.

Li Long cleaned the gun carefully, oiled it, loaded it with bullets, and took a look into the woods. Only then did he feel relieved.

With this in hand, as long as you don't do anything stupid, you should be able to ensure your safety.

In the afternoon, Halimu and his men did not come, so Li Long continued to look for some wild vegetables and mushrooms nearby with his gun on his back. He thought that even if he got more and ate them all, he could also dry some vegetables. However, this feeling of not being able to stay away was not very good. There were a few places he wanted to go but could not go, and Li Long felt very annoyed.

When it got dark, Li Long ate a quick dinner, closed the door, and lay down on the bed, but he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

After thinking about it, he realized that the tiger-like creature had given him too much of a shock. After all, even when a gray wolf attacks a wild goat, it still takes a lot of effort to bite it to death. But the wild goat he saw today was not small and had horns. Its attack power was not weak at the moment of life and death, but it could not last more than three seconds in the tiger's mouth. It felt as if the tiger had bitten it to death with just one bite.

So shocking.

The shock to Li Long was too great, so he lost his composure, right?

I don’t know what time it was before Li Long fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up, the sun seemed to be just rising.

His head was a little dizzy, but he couldn't sleep, so Li Long simply got up and prepared to go out to take a shower. He put on his clothes and walked to the door, but then turned around and took the gun, opened the door, and looked out. He found that there was no movement outside, so he was relieved.

After filling the water at the back of the house, Li Long wondered whether he should build a better toilet, otherwise it would be inconvenient if Gu Xiaoxia came over later.

After returning to the house and setting up the stove to boil water, Li Long fried the leftover rice from yesterday with some wild onions and ate them. Because of the tiger incident yesterday, he didn't even taste the rice crust properly. This thing is like a freshly made naan, it tastes good when it's hot right out of the pot. Although it still tastes good when it's cold, it's not as delicious.

Before he finished his meal, he heard some noise outside. Li Long went out with his bowl in his hand and saw Halimu and Yushanjiang driving a flock of sheep over.

Li Long hurriedly put down his bowl and went over to greet him.

After greeting each other, Li Long glanced at the sheep and said:

"It's a bit too much. My tractor's bucket can't hold it all."

"It's okay. We'll help you tie a bundle. Your tractor is fast anyway." Yushanjiang said with a smile, "We want to exchange the Buick family's sheep for some rice, flour, and some daily necessities."

"No problem, I have a lot here." Li Long pointed to the cabin and said, "Since you are here, please help me load the sheep onto the car."

He definitely can't do it alone.

There was naturally no problem for Halimu and Yushanjiang, and after a while, Buick also came over.

The young man Buick is still a little shy, but he has no problem catching the sheep.

The cart was loaded with eighteen sheep, which surprised Li Long. After all, he and Chen Xingbang had worked hard to load fifteen sheep that day. Fifteen yuan per sheep, these sheep were worth two hundred and seventy yuan. Buick wanted rice and flour, but he could only carry four bags of one hundred kilograms with his horse. The rest of the daily necessities were packed into a large bag, and there was still a lot of money left.

Li Long simply handed the money to Buick. He was different from Halimu and Yushanjiang. After all, they were at a certain distance from each other, so it was better to settle the accounts.

Buick didn't refuse and took the money with a smile.

"The sheep can't be tied up for too long. You should leave now." Yu Shanjiang reminded, "Half a day is fine, but if you tie it up for too long, the sheep's legs will be ruined."

"Okay. But you have to be careful. Yesterday I saw an animal that looked like a tiger eat a wild goat. That creature was too fierce. Be careful when you go back and when you move to another place. Take your gun with you if you can."

"Okay, okay." They chose to believe Li Long's words and nodded in agreement.

Li Long put on his coat. Although it was hot at this time, the tractor was moving very fast. It was morning and the temperature was low with cold wind. It would be easy to get sick if he didn't wear a coat.

After locking the door of the wooden house and driving the tractor, Li Long said hello to Halimu and the others, then drove out of the mountain.

The rumbling sound of the tractor mixed with the bleating of sheep attracted a lot of attention when crossing the Qingshui River. Li Long did not slow down all the way, wanting to get to Shicheng as quickly as possible and hand over the sheep to Chen Xingbang.

More and more people are traveling from Ma County to Shicheng. You can see one from time to time, some walking and some riding bicycles. Occasionally, you can also see buses and shuttle buses traveling between the two places, or going to farther places.

When Li Long's tractor arrived at Shicheng Old Street, the sun had already risen high in the sky. There were a lot of people here, so Li Long could only drive slowly and then go to Chen Xingbang's yard.

However, before he reached the yard, he saw Chen Xingbang's stall, where several old men and women were gathering to buy meat.

It seems that business is good. (End of this chapter)