Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long didn't hesitate at all. He pointed the gun at the gray wolf and pulled the trigger!

The wolf pack was at a forked ditch on the east side of the main ditch, about 40 to 50 meters away from the coal seam where Li Long was, with the main ditch in between and a stream at the bottom. Li Long acted decisively, but fired hastily, and the shot missed.

But the sound of gunfire echoed in the valley, startling the wolves. Since the herders were given guns in the 1950s and 1960s, the wild animals in the mountains have known the power of the stick, and the huge sound of gunfire is also a deterrent to them. The wolf was startled and howled, and the other wolves immediately gave up their prey and turned around to go back into the woods!
Li Long did not hesitate at all. After the first shot missed, he fired the second, third, and fourth shots continuously. The sounds of "bang, bang, bang" rang out continuously. The fourth shot hit the buttocks of the wolf at the back. The wolf howled miserably, its body collapsed, and its speed suddenly slowed down, but it was still struggling to run into the ditch.

Hearing the wolf's howl, the other wolves, except for the one that was closer to it, turned its head back and hesitated whether to save its teammate, all the other wolves had already run into the woods and disappeared.

Li Long had fired those shots in great haste, and it was an accident and luck that he succeeded. Now that a wolf had been hit, he immediately half-knelt down, took aim roughly, and fired again.

After the shot, the wolf's body tilted and it fell to the ground without a sound.

The other wolf, which was still hesitating, immediately rushed into the ditch with all its strength. Before Li Long could fire another shot, it had already disappeared.

In the past, hunting and shooting usually involved ambushes, just like militiamen shooting at fixed targets, and there were almost no misses. Moreover, the targets we encountered were clustered, with several or dozens at a time, and usually after hitting one, we would still have enough energy to hit the second one.

Now they suddenly met on a narrow road, and the distance between them was neither far nor close, so the sudden shot would lose its accuracy.

It seems that I am still far from being good at actual combat shooting.

While thinking, Li Long took out bullets from his bag, pulled the bolt, reached out to catch the bullets that popped out, and then pushed bullets into the chamber one by one. After the magazine was full, he pushed more bullets into the chamber, and then walked towards the ditch with the gun.

He would rather be more cautious than rush forward and get ambushed. He knew that the wolf was very cunning. Humans are making progress, and wolves are not bad either.

After getting down the ditch, his shoes were soaked with water when he crossed the stream. The stream was wide and the water was not deep, but it was cold. Li Long didn't care at this time. He jumped over the stream to the other side, climbed up a hill, and saw the place where the wolf had hunted roe deer.

When shooting, Li Long mainly aimed at the wolf that posed the greatest threat. The roe deer took the opportunity to run away, except for the one that was bitten to death.

Can it be said that I saved the lives of this roe deer family?
Li Long's mind was still a little confused, and then he saw the fallen roe deer.

This roe deer is slightly bigger than the one caught by Sun Jiaqiang. It should weigh about 17 or 18 kilograms, but it is considered medium-sized among the group.

Li Long looked at its short horns and saw that it was a male.

His neck was bitten open. The wolf's fangs were very fierce. The injury was fatal and even gods could not save him. The wound was still bleeding and a pool of blood had formed on the ground, attracting flies and ants.

Li Long didn't move it and continued to move forward. After walking about ten steps, he saw the dead wolf in the grass.

This wolf is bigger than a domestic dog. It has plenty of food in the mountains and forests. Its fur is shiny and smooth. It should weigh about 40 to 50 kilograms. Although it is dead, its mouth is open with its canine teeth exposed, and it still looks very ferocious.

The first shot hit the side of the buttocks and went out from the front of the hind leg. The second shot hit the front leg. He must have been lying sideways at the time, and the bullet went into the cavity and didn't come out, which must have crushed his internal organs.

Looking into the ditch again, there was no movement. Li Long did not dare to let his guard down. He did not dare to chase into the ditch alone. If there was an ambush, even if there were only two wolves, he would not be able to take care of them. After all, the grass in the ditch was quite deep, up to the thighs. If the wolf was lying in the grass, it would be impossible to see it.

Li Long dragged the wolf's corpse out of the ditch and walked to the roe deer. He picked up the roe deer and turned his head to look into the ditch. When there was no movement, he went down the hill and came to the stream.

He did not rush to deal with the two bodies, but continued to dig coal. Although he had some extra money, he could not give up his main business. The two bodies could only bring Li Long meat to eat, and the skins could only be sold for a few dozen yuan. It was not too important, so Li Long put them down first.

The coal seam was very shallow. Li Long dug a few times with a shovel and pried off a large piece of coal. It was mainly because it was exposed to the open air and was easily weathered, but it was not durable. Li Long was not picky. He took the outer layer and what he could dig out from the inside. He filled half a sack with coal, carried it on his back and walked out, holding the wolf's body in his hand.

If you need to put it on the tractor, go back and clean it up.

After going back and forth like this and getting most of the coal in the carriage, about six or seven bags, Li Long finally got the roe deer on the car.

After a short rest, we drove back on the tractor.

It was slow coming and even slower returning because the tractor was loaded with coal. Although it was heavier and more stable, he had to be more careful when crossing some ditches or bumps, otherwise it would overturn. He was alone in the mountains, and if the tractor overturned, there was really nothing he could do.

They drove carefully back to the cabin. The sun was already setting. Li Long was neither energetic nor in the mood to unload the coal. He opened the large room, lit a fire in the stove and boiled water. Then he took the wolf and roe deer to the spring to skin and gut them.

What made him a little depressed was that there were already flies and maggots on the wound of the wolf's corpse. There were so many thin white maggots that he had to use a knife to cut off the meat and throw it away before peeling it.

Fortunately, Li Long did not have any psychological burden. It was normal for wounds to appear on the corpse when there were flies. Although it was a bit disgusting to look at, it was not nauseating. After all, some people even specialized in eating this stuff. It was high in protein and was grown on meat.

Of course, people with trypophobia can't watch it.

After skinning the wolf, the fire on the stove in the house was already burning brightly, so he brought in several large basins filled with water, gutted the wolf, soaked the wolf meat and wolf entrails in the basins, and then went on to process the roe deer.

Spread the leather with salt and spread it out on the wooden floor in front of the house, and then nail it up when you have time.

After finishing the two, Li Long felt his waist was already sore and uncomfortable. He didn't know if it was because he had used it more recently. He had skinned two or three animals in a row before, but it wasn't so tiring.

It seems that the roe deer's whip needs to be kept.

The only thing that needed to be dealt with was the stomach and intestines. It was spring and the grass was lush and there were a lot of prey, so the wolves and roe deer were not skinny and there was fat on the outside of their intestines. Li Long first cut the meat into pieces and planned to make it into dried meat later. As for the stomach and intestines, he would deal with them later.

He lit the fire on the stove outside and filled it with water. The heart, liver, lungs and the like needed to be boiled or braised, otherwise they would easily go bad.

Li Long now misses having a refrigerator or freezer. I remember that in the last life when masks were in use, my family bought a freezer to store food. During that time, I felt that I could eat more than usual. A three or four kilogram native chicken could be made into a large pot of chicken, and three or four people could finish it in one meal. This was an era when there was no shortage of oil and water.

On the contrary, after I relaxed, my appetite decreased and I could neither eat meat nor rice.

It's just weird.

Cook the internal organs in two pots, then throw two leg bones with meat into each side. As for the rest, Li Long plans to take a break and then pick out the meat first.

The rest will not be cooked. After removing some of the meat, the meat and bones will be rubbed with salt to make dried meat. I think those who dig Fritillaria later will be willing to exchange Fritillaria for dried meat. Even if they don't want to exchange, they can take it back. After all, this thing is easy to store.

I was making plans in my mind, but my hands were not moving for the time being. The fire under the stove was blazing, and the water in the pot above was boiling. The internal organs such as the heart and liver floated with the water, and foam was precipitated, and then floated with the boiling water.

It didn't smell good, but Li Long was hungry.

He got up and went to the wooden house, took a steamed bun and put it under the stove to roast, then continued to process the meat.

The sun was about to set, and the meat was rubbed with salt. Although there were wooden poles and ropes outside, it was not suitable to hang it up at night, as it would attract wild animals. Li Long could not watch it all night, so he put it in the small room for temporary storage and waited until tomorrow to hang it outside to dry.

Without waiting for the meat to be cooked, Li Long scooped up a piece, put it in an enamel bowl, sprinkled salt on it, and slowly began to eat it.

It smells quite nice, although it has a bit of the fishy smell that only wild animals have.

The sun went down, and Li Long rested for a while before he started to process the intestines. There was no way, one person would be slower. When he finished, it was already dark, and there were wolves howling in the distance. I don't know if it was the wolf's companions howling, or if it smelled the fragrance and called its companions.

Li Long was exhausted after a day's work. Although he wanted to rest, he still had a lot of food outside. He didn't have time to cook his intestines. He washed them and soaked them in a basin to cook them tomorrow. He took the food cooked on the stove outside and put it in a basin to cool in the small room. He ignored the fire under the stove and the soup in the pot. He closed the door and went to sleep.

In the middle of the night, he did hear some noise outside, but Li Long didn't think about hunting anything. First, it was too dark to see, and second, it was dangerous. He couldn't make money from hunting these things, and it was troublesome to get them. He just wanted to have enough to eat. The next morning, he got up early and saw that it was already bright. When Li Long went out, he saw black claw marks on the stove. The claw marks came from the spring. The soup in the pot was also dirty. The claw marks were not small, and he didn't know whether they were from a wolf or something else.

Fortunately, the pot was fine, so he just had to wash it. And because the broth contained offal, Li Long himself had no intention of drinking it.

When I went to the back of the house to urinate, I felt that the urine had a strong fishy smell.

I went to the spring to wash my hands and found that the meat with maggots that I had cut yesterday was gone, and the scraps, lymph and other things on the ground that were removed from the skinning and gutting were also gone. Even the bloodstains on the ground had been licked.

It's really not a waste at all.

Li Long poured out the soup in the two pots, rinsed them twice with warm water, burned firewood and coal under the stove, put water in the pots, heated it, and rinsed the pots again. After cleaning the pots, he went on to cook the intestines.

While the food was cooking, he took out the dried meat and hung it on a rope attached to a wooden pole outside. When the wind blew, the meat swayed.

Li Long was finally able to eat. He cooked some porridge in the pot in the house. He had eaten wolf meat and roe deer meat yesterday, so he felt dry. He wanted to drink some rice porridge to cool down. He would bake some steamed bread slices as the staple food, and dip them in some red tofu. He didn't have time to cook, so he just cut a few slices of the braised heart and liver from yesterday, which would be enough.

After finishing the meal in a busy manner, leaving the stomach to cook, they began to unload coal from the tractor. The coal had to be placed in the firewood area, and in order to prevent it from weathering, they had to cut some branches to cover it. However, Li Long planned to find time to bring some back so that it could be burned until next year.

Since we have it here, we should prepare it. When we have time, we should find an older fallen tree and chop it up for use. Although the shed that Yushanjiang and his men built to keep horses is no longer used for keeping horses, it can now be used as an outdoor warehouse, and the open "door" should be closed inward.

These are all things that need to be done, and Li Long is not in a hurry. Anyway, he can get the Fritillaria now, so there is no rush to hunt.

Of course, I still need to go and take a look at the information provided by Sun Jiaqiang. Maybe I can get something good there.
When I first went into the mountains, I hunted mainly for meat, so that I could eat something good. When life got better, I started hunting again. Firstly, it was for fun, as they say that men stay young until they die. Secondly, of course, it was also to make money, and meat was secondary. Hunting deer and other valuable prey was naturally the first choice, and it would be even better if I could kill a lynx. One skin could be worth several years of hard work for ordinary people, so of course it was possible.

However, it is impossible to catch them all, so we can only rank them in the following order. Deer and roe deer are relatively better. If you catch a wild boar, you can only eat the meat.

After piling the coal, he went to the stove and saw that the stomach and intestines were almost cooked. The fire under the stove was almost out, so he went to wash his hands, went to the room to get a basin and chopsticks, and fished out all the stomach and intestines. All of them filled up a basin.

Add to that the heart, liver, and lungs in front, and it would take a while to finish eating them, so Li Long was a little worried.

But it would be uneconomical to send it back, and he didn't want to run back and forth, so he took it to the shelf in the small room and put it there for the time being.

When he put down the basin, he cut a piece of belly with a knife and put it in his mouth to chew, then he took the axe and went to the woods in front to chop some branches.

He walked out two steps and then backed up, carrying the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle on his back. The tiger-like thing he saw last time was right in front of him. Although it was closer to where he was going to cut branches, he didn't dare to be careless.

Maybe there is a big guy hidden inside?
Holding the axe and reaching the woods, Li Long slung the gun over his right shoulder, opened the safety, hung it on the shoulder strap, held the gun with one hand, put his hand on the trigger, and slowly walked into the woods.

If there was anything in the woods, he could shoot it in time.

When he reached the edge of the woods, he found it was quiet. Li Long walked a few more steps inside and didn't find anything, so he felt relieved, stepped back to the side, and cut some branches.

The noise was quite loud, with an echo reverberating through the woods - this forest was relatively sparse, with trees scattered around, so one could see quite far away.

After chopping off a bunch of branches with denser leaves, Li Long walked back with the arms. When he reached the coal pile, he covered them up and decided that it was almost done, so he prepared to continue chopping.

As a result, I had just walked out for a short distance when I saw someone walking towards me from the east.

Li Long took a look and found that it was neither Sun Jiaqiang nor Bolati, nor did it look like Li Zhengtang or Li Zhengting.

Stranger, never seen before.

Seeing that the man was walking towards the wooden house with a clear goal, Li Long turned back, walked to the front of the wooden house, put down the axe, hung the gun on his shoulder, and waited for the man to come over.

The man also noticed Li Long, hesitated for a moment, and then walked over. He was holding a bag in his hand. Surprisingly, his hair was not very long, but just cut in a mess. Li Long seriously suspected that he must have cut it with a knife or trimmed it himself, which was a bit like being bitten by a dog.

"Are you exchanging things here?" The man walked to about seven or eight meters in front of Li Long and stood still. He glanced at the gun on Li Long's shoulder and asked.

His voice had a hint of a southern accent and he looked to be about 40 years old, but it was possible that he looked a little older because he had been busy in the mountains.

"Change, what are you going to change? What are you going to change?"

"I picked up some jade and some mother-of-pearl, and I plan to exchange them for some rice." The man took out a stone from the bag he brought with him.

Li Long walked closer, took a look, shook his head and said:

"This jade...is of poor quality. I can't change it."

It is very ordinary jasper, and not a seed material. It looks like a mountain material, with cracks and many black spots.

Li Long remembered watching a video in his previous life. After the Nanshan Jasper Mountain in May County was closed, a blogger went into the mountains alone to explore for jadeite mines. He found a mine where jadeite was mined during the Qing Dynasty, and the ground there was full of this material.

"It's really jade." The man was a little anxious, "You don't know the value of it, do you?"

Li Long waved his hand and said:
"Your jade is of very poor quality. There are good materials in this mountain valley. I don't know where you picked it up, but to be honest, this material is really not good. You can take it out and try. I don't think anyone will buy it."

The man looked disappointed, obviously thinking that Li Long still didn't know what was good.

"Fritillaria, I have more than two kilograms here," the man said, "how much rice can I get in exchange?"

In terms of pounds, it should come from the mouth. Li Long said: "One pound of Fritillaria can be exchanged for two kilograms of rice, which is four pounds. Your two pounds can be exchanged for eight pounds."

"Okay, okay." Hearing that he could exchange it for eight kilograms, the man became happy, "Come here, this is my Fritillaria."

He poured the Fritillaria out of the bag and spread it all over the floor. Li Long looked at it and felt that there was about a kilogram of it, with all kinds of things, including grass leaves, mud, and sheep droppings. This man was a little embarrassed.

"Okay, you can put it here and I'll clean it up later. Do you have the bag? I'll fill it with rice for you."

"Just use this. I don't have any extra bags." The man was a little embarrassed.

"Okay, I'll get you a bag." Li Long thought about using this bag to hold the rice. Wouldn't it be uncomfortable to eat? Anyway, he still had a few bags, so he gave it to him. It wasn't worth much.

He led the man into the cabin and began to give him rice. The man saw the meat on the shelf, his throat moved, and he suddenly said:

"Can I have less rice and you give me more cooked meat?"

"Okay." Li Long naturally didn't mind. "Meat and rice are not the same price. How about I give you four kilograms of rice and one kilogram of meat?"

Raw meat and cooked meat have different prices, but Li Long doesn't intend to care too much about it. His store has just opened, so he can offer a discount to reward customers.

"Okay, okay, thank you." The man felt that he had met a good person. (End of this chapter)