Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Two or three kilograms of raw beef can produce one kilogram of cooked beef. When Li Long drove the tractor to the county, there were about twenty to thirty kilograms of cooked beef and offal in the tractor. If he really wanted to eat it all by himself, he would not be able to finish it even if he got sick.

Obviously, the extra ones were reserved for Gu Xiaoxia.

Although the family members didn't say anything, this was how it was done. After all, the meat was brought back by Li Long, and although Li Long said that the county had kept a cow leg, now that Li Long had separated from the family, it would be reasonable to keep half of the cow, let alone the cow leg.

This is how it is. We are still a family, and we will never do anything wrong out of friendship.

When the tractor left, it also took two barrels of diesel. The barrel of oil was placed in Li Jianguo's yard. Li Long would take two small barrels every time he came back. He planned to go to the agricultural machinery station to buy another large barrel of oil and place it in the yard when he met Daqiang and his friends next time. It was also convenient to use. It was not easy to load or unload a 180-liter barrel.

When eating meat in the evening, Li Jianguo also said that the melon seedlings have emerged and are growing well. In a few days, when they grow three or five leaves, they can be thinned out according to Li Long's instructions. Many people in the village are waiting to see the joke, but Li Jianguo is very ambitious and wants to grow this economic crop well.

As for crops such as winter wheat, corn, and oil sunflower, Li Long is not worried at all. My elder brother and his wife are really good at farming, and now that the land is their own, they are even more dedicated. I have come back three or four times and only saw them in the yard this time, otherwise they were always in the fields. They are very busy, and they are very happy.

By the time the tractor rumbled back to the yard, it was already dark. To say it was under the stars and the moon was very vivid.

Gu Xiaoxia seemed to know that he was coming back. When the tractor arrived at the gate of the courtyard, the gate had already been opened. She looked at Li Long who was driving the tractor with a bright smile, her eyes full of affection.

Li Long smiled, drove the tractor into the yard and turned off the engine.

Gu Xiaoxia closed the gate, locked it, and said as she walked to the tractor:

"I knew you would come back tonight."

"Of course not. It's only about ten kilometers away. If there's a tractor, it will definitely come back. It's just a matter of stepping on the accelerator." Li Long took a large basin from the truck bed:
"This is the braised meat we cooked at home. I know you and I don't have time to cook it, so I cooked the meat and ate it. You put some here, and I'll take some to the mountains to eat."

"Okay." Gu Xiaoxia saw Li Long carry the heavy basin into the kitchen, so she brought the light basin in as well.

Two pots of meat were placed on the chopping board, and Li Long asked:
"Have you eaten yet?"

"I ate it, but seeing that the meat is still hot, I want to eat some more."

"Would you like a drink?"

"Let's stop drinking. Let's..." Li Long understood Gu Xiaoxia's meaning immediately. Since they were preparing for pregnancy, they shouldn't do too many dangerous things.

Very good, Li Long smiled.

I simply cut some meat and made a dipping bowl, which was actually just oil, chili and vinegar. I then picked some small onions and cilantro seedlings from the vegetable garden outside, chopped them up and put them in, and that was it.

After eating, the two of them simply washed up and went to the bedroom to chat.

"Did your Director Wang collect the meat?"

"I received it, and he asked me who I gave it to. I said I gave it to her. I saw that Director Wang was very happy, and he also told me that we should be united in the office, but not be a pushover, just like you said before." Gu Xiaoxia was very excited when she talked about this. She turned her back to change into pajamas while continuing to tell Li Long:
"She also told me that I am now considered a backbone in the office. I am responsible for writing materials and going to the grassroots. Those older sisters have been here for a long time, but their work ability has declined greatly. I will definitely be the main person in the future. But they are old comrades, and we should still respect them. But we can't be careless in our work, and we must clarify the responsibilities. I can hear that Director Wang is giving me advice..."

"Yeah, that should be the meaning." Li Long also changed his clothes and sat on the bed watching Gu Xiaoxia packing up. He could no longer control his excitement. He pulled Gu Xiaoxia's arm and asked her to sit on the bed as well. Gu Xiaoxia sat down with a red face, and soon she got used to Li Long's restless hands and feet, and then rolled onto the bed.

Young is good.

After several twists and turns.

Silent all night.

The next morning, Gu Xiaoxia made breakfast. It was very simple. She just cut up yesterday's offal, fried an egg, cooked some porridge, and steamed some steamed buns.
Few families can eat meat every day these days, and even eggs are not eaten every day in the city. The two talked about their next plans while eating. It is now mid-April, and the midterm exams will be in half a month. Gu Xiaoxia will go around to various schools. Li Long is waiting to receive the work from the supply and marketing cooperative at the end of the month, and then he will start organizing people to organize the work.

"Can't we make it up now?" Gu Xiaoxia put forward her idea.

"I see you've only been away from the team for a year, and you're already out of touch with common sense? The willow branches in the team can be woven, but how many are there? It gets warm late in the mountains, and it'll take a few days for those branches to grow well."

"Oh, oh, oh," Gu Xiaoxia said with a smile, "I'm not very clear about those things in the mountains."

After dinner, Gu Xiaoxia was anxious to go to work and left in a hurry. When she left, Li Long hugged her and kissed her. She blushed and felt a little embarrassed, but Li Long felt that they would have to go into the mountains for several days, so he had to show his appreciation.

After cleaning up the kitchen, Li Long left a small half of the meat and put the rest into a large basin and took it to the tractor. After covering it, Li Long spread the Fritillaria he brought back yesterday in the side room to dry in the sun. He then took the sugar residue to feed the fawn and roe deer. After giving them water, he started the tractor and drove out.

After locking the door, Li Long saw Officer Guo talking to his colleagues at the entrance of the police station. He greeted him on the tractor and then drove towards the department store.

Since rubber shoes are popular, Li Long needs to prepare more.

He bought rubber shoes, replenished supplies such as brick tea and sugar cubes, and went to the market to buy a few bags of rice and flour. This time he took two bags of corn flour.

There were a few people from the team selling fish in the market, so Li Long greeted them, then left and drove into the mountains.

There is more green on both sides of the road. You may not have noticed it before, but now it feels as if overnight, the seedlings in the fields have become dense, the leaves of the woods are no longer tender yellow leaves, but large thick leaves, and there are more insects flying in the air. Summer is coming.

When the tractor drove into the ditch and could see the wooden house, Li Long saw a horse next to the wooden house. Was there anyone there?
It wasn't Bolati's horse. Li Long immediately became alert. Who could it be?
Halimu and the others have already gone to the summer pasture, so those who come here at this time are probably strangers.

By the time the tractor arrived at the cabin, the horse owner had already mounted the horse and looked a little awkward when he looked at Li Long.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Li Long had five or six semi-automatic rifles at hand. The other party did not have a gun on his back, only a horsewhip, and looked like a caught thief.

"I'm from the forestry team. I heard you can buy wine here, so I wanted to come over and buy some..."

"Do you have money?" Li Long glanced at the door and found that it was not pried open. He softened his tone and asked, "How much do you want to buy?"

"As for money, I don't have any, but I have some Fritillaria here. How much wine can I get for these Fritillaria?"

Li Long took a look and saw the young man taking a bag of Fritillaria from the saddle. The bag of Fritillaria weighed about five or six kilograms. It was unknown who had harvested them in a day or two, but the young man had collected them.

"I can exchange it for 15 kilograms of loose liquor. Do you want to exchange it? If you do, I'll give it to you right now." Li Long said, "But you don't need to exchange so much, right? You can exchange it for something else."

"What else have you got here?" The young man got off his horse and spoke more fluently.

Li Long also got off the horse. He took out the key to unlock the door, and then found that the nose of the door button had been pried open. He guessed that the young man might have not found anyone and was wondering if he could open the door.

He didn't make a fuss since he hadn't caught anyone in the act. He opened the door and said:

"I have drinks here. Have you heard of champagne? It tastes better than wine. I also have brick tea and sugar cubes. You can take them home. Do you want some sugar? We have fruit candies, sorghum candies, and egg cakes for the elderly..."

"I'll exchange them all! The candy, the champagne, do you have any meat in your car? Is it cooked?" The young man asked while looking at Li Long's tractor.

"Well, do you want some braised beef offal? If you do, I'll give you some."

"Eat, why not?" the young man said immediately, "Can I exchange it for these things?"

"Yes."

Li Long found a bag and put some of various things in it. He didn't take much wine, just three kilograms of loose liquor, and the rest were other things, including a bag of noodles.

The young man left with satisfaction, and Li Long put away the Fritillaria, swept the wooden floor at the door first, poured out the Fritillaria into a basin, washed them, and then dried them on the wooden floor.

He planned to put away the Fritillaria after they were almost dried and then go to the ditch that Sun Jiaqiang mentioned. He had been talking about it for several days, but he had never been there.

Of course, when Bolati came over, he also planned to talk to him. This young man might have dirty hands and feet, so he had to ask about it, or ask Bolati to remind him. These are all small things. It is always a good thing to receive five or six kilograms of Fritillaria as soon as he came back. Li Long is also happy to wait for money to fall from the sky. After all, this money comes easily. Of course, those who lose Fritillaria will definitely be sad and angry, but there is no way to do this. The forestry team has its own rules. Li Long can't control this. What he has now is actually a gray income. No one cares. In a few years, it won't be so easy.

Bring the cooked meat in the big basin in the tractor to the small room. It's cool in the mountains, so the meat can be kept for a while, but not much. Li Long plans to replace it if he can in the next few days, since he doesn't lack meat anyway. He also plans to dry some cooked meat in the sun at noon. Although dried meat doesn't taste as good as freshly cooked meat, it can at least be stored for a long time.

It actually takes a lot of time to do all these things one by one. By the time the meat is dried, it's time for lunch.

As usual, he boiled water on the stove and had porridge in the morning. He wanted to have some noodles for lunch. He mixed some noodles, went to the spring to pick some wild vegetables, and fried them with meat, planning to make noodles.

Although the soup and rice were not filling enough, there was plenty of ready-made food in the wooden house, so I didn't care.

After the noodle soup is done, pour a bottle of tomato sauce into it, it will taste a little sour. There is no green chili, so you can only use chili skin, which tastes a little worse. The noodles are pulled thin and tasty, so delicious.

When Li Long was eating, a figure came over from afar. Li Long recognized it as Wu Benzhong.

He was holding the deer antlers in his hand and looked so weak. Li Long felt that something might have happened to him.

"I'll sell this to you." Wu Benzhong saw Li Long looking at him while eating, licked his lips and said, "Exchange it for money, you decide."

The antlers were quite large and looked like they had just fallen off this year. Li Long estimated them and said:

"Fifteen dollars."

"Okay." Wu Benzhong placed the deer antlers on the steps of the wooden house next to Li Long, waiting for Li Long to pay.

"Don't worry, eat first. There's food in the pot over there, and there's an enamel basin in the house, take it yourself."

"This one……"

"Why are you being polite? I made your money anyway."

After Li Long said this, Wu Benzhong no longer hesitated, because he was really hungry anyway.

After scooping a full bowl of soup and rice, Wu Benzhong squatted not far from Li Long and began to eat with a slurp.

"My Fritillaria was taken away by the forestry team." Wu Benzhong suddenly said, "I have been digging for more than a day. I originally wanted to come to you today to exchange it for money, but in the end..."

Li Long's heart moved, thinking that the young man might have collected Wu Benzhong's Fritillary?
That’s such a coincidence!
"Those forestry teams are so mean. They specifically target the ditches with lots of Fritillaria thunbergii, and they don't harvest them right away. They wait until we have almost dug up all the Fritillaria thunbergii before coming to harvest them..."

Wu Benzhong became angrier as he spoke.

"Okay, I've collected the Fritillaria for you. It's good enough that they didn't capture your people." Li Long comforted her, "As long as the people are here, can't we still dig out the Fritillaria?"

Wu Benzhong thought about it and realized that this was the truth, and he felt better.

Li Long stood up with the bowl in his hand, put it on the table, and went into the house. When he came out a while later, he had a plate of chopped braised offal in his hand.

"Come, have some meat. Don't be angry. Next time, dig for Fritillaria in the ditches that are hard for horses to get into. Anyway, you don't have much to do, so just walk around in the mountains. There are many ditches like this, and there should be a lot of Fritillaria in them. Horses can't get in, and the ditches are small, so it's hard for the forestry team to find you. Try to come early or late to exchange things, so you won't run into people."

It doesn't matter who you exchange it with. Anyway, the price is about the same, Li Long still hopes to exchange it with the migrant workers, at least they really need something and have really put in the work.

Of course, after accepting the things from the young man, even if it was confirmed that they belonged to Wu Benzhong, Li Long would not give Wu Benzhong any more money or things because he had already paid the bill.

Wu Benzhong and his colleagues were actually mentally prepared to pay a price for doing this in the mountains.

Wu Benzhong listened and nodded, and then his mind was attracted by the offal. He glanced at Li Long, and then started to eat. He didn't know that this was Li Long's secret compensation, but he thought that the deer antlers could be sold for at least more than 20 yuan at the purchasing station. Now that Li Long paid more than 10 yuan, he felt at ease eating the meat.

After the meal, Wu Benzhong washed the enamel basin, put away the chopsticks, and said to Li Long:

"The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow morning, I will come over and I will definitely be able to get more than ten Fritillarias. I want to exchange them for money."

Li Long counted out fifteen dollars and handed it to him:
"Okay, I believe you."

Wu Benzhong carefully put the fifteen dollars into the inner pocket of his clothes, then strode eastward.

Li Long could see that after eating, he regained his confidence.

The meal was good value too.

The next day, when it was still dark, Li Long got up, prepared his gun and bullets, and drank hot water.

With a thermos, you can drink hot water when you get up, which is a very good thing in this era. After eating a cold steamed bun from last night and eating some chopped braised pork with solidified oil, Li Long went out with his gun and went to the place Sun Jiaqiang mentioned.

Hunting deer is always more cost-effective than hunting wild boars. At least if you hunt deer, you will have more valuable things on them, which can be exchanged for some funds. If you hunt wild boars, you can only eat them. Unless you get a group of them, you can sell them in the Shicheng market.

All kinds of thoughts were running through Li Long's mind, but he kept walking, striding towards the ditch to the east.

The location given by Sun Jiaqiang was a little vague. He had to go to Xiaobaiyanggou first, which required walking several kilometers. Fortunately, he had eaten early and was not hungry. In addition, he was tall and had big steps, so he arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou in less than an hour.

Not seeing Sun Jiaqiang, Li Long didn't know whether he had moved to another place or had gotten up early to dig Fritillaria. He turned south and walked towards the place he pointed.

He came here not only to see if he could catch a deer, but also to see how the strips here were growing and whether they were suitable for weaving into a harness. After all, weaving a harness requires a lot of strips, and if the wrong place is chosen, it may not be weaved well, affecting efficiency.

Li Long looked at the willow trees on both sides of the valley and found that they were growing well, even better than last year. If there were no other problems, he would choose this place.

Continuing to walk further in, when the sky in the east turned red, Li Long found the ditch that Sun Jiaqiang had mentioned.

In the morning, before the sun rose, there was still dew on the grass and it was quite cold. However, after walking all the way here, Li Long already felt hot and was sweating slightly.

He found a shallow spot, crossed the stream, and came to the mouth of the valley.

There are not many trees on both sides of this branch valley, probably because it has been visited by cattle and sheep, so the grass at the mouth of the valley has been eaten and has not grown well. There are many cattle and sheep hoof prints and feces.

Li Long was a little disappointed. If that was the case, there might not be a deer there. It was different from what Sun Jiaqiang said. Did the cattle and sheep pass by here in the past few days? Did they pass by here when they were moving to another pasture?

He walked into the ditch, but after walking only ten meters, he realized that his previous judgment was wrong.

The cattle and sheep only passed through the valley entrance, which was still overgrown with weeds and no roads, but there were quite a few shrubs.

Li Long had only walked one-third of the way when he heard the cries of a deer - the sound was very chaotic and short.

Is this something big hunting red deer?

Last time, Li Long took advantage of the wolves attacking roe deer and tasted the sweetness. This time, if he encounters a similar situation, he will definitely take advantage of it again.

So when Li Long heard the sound, he immediately ran, opened the safety of the gun, loaded the bullet, and ensured that he could shoot at any time.

However, he chased all the way to the valley entrance before he vaguely saw a large elk running past, followed by a slightly smaller female deer. They were chasing in the direction ahead.

Could it be that they are chasing other wild animals?

what's going on? (End of chapter)