Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After cleaning all the bones, the bones of the venison in the pot are almost done. This guy is probably less than a month old, and the meat is very tender. You only need to sprinkle a handful of salt to cook it.

Li Long now thinks that he has lived for half a lifetime, but he is not very proficient in cooking. He is okay for ordinary meals, but if he comes across rare ingredients, although he can cook them, there is a high probability that they will be wasted.

He put the bones in a basket and put them on the table to dry, then went to prepare the meal, after all, he couldn't just eat venison. According to traditional customs, he still had to eat staple food for lunch.

As soon as the words "staple food rice" came out, Li Long thought of the announcer's words when the dining car on the train was selling food. Of course it couldn't just be rice, because Sun Jiaqiang didn't eat much rice.

He felt that these migrant workers in the mountains were probably from the north and liked to eat pasta. It was unlikely that people from the south would come here. It was not that there were no such people, but the probability was too small.

Steamed buns are easy to make, just bake them under the stove. Rice only needs to be simmered for a while, but it doesn’t need to be simmered for too long. It is the amount for two or three people. If you can’t finish it in one meal, you can fry it in the evening.

After the deer meat was cooked, it was scooped out and put into a basin to cool. The broth was placed in the pot. The fire under the stove was turned off and the pot was covered. Another stove was also burning, ready to cook. Since this lynx is also a cat, then the meat should have some effect, right? Li Long planned to braise the meat.

It was almost noon, and Li Long had prepared the meal and was waiting for Sun Jiaqiang to come.

He was still very grateful to Sun Jiaqiang. If he hadn't provided such a hunting spot, he wouldn't have been able to get this lynx. Li Long estimated that the lynx skin alone could bring him a profit of nearly a thousand yuan.

With this thing in the wooden house, Li Long didn't dare to go out for the next few days. If someone pried it open and took it away, the loss would be huge.

After waiting for a long time, when the food seemed to be getting cold, Li Long saw Sun Jiaqiang carrying a bag, followed by a young man on a horse.

It was the one who had traded things and meat with me the day before. It was also likely the one who took away Wu Benzhong's Fritillaria.

The man was riding a horse with a gun on his back, and it looked like he was driving Sun Jiaqiang forward.

"Old Sun, what's going on?" Li Long stood up and went over to him. "How did you two meet?"

Sun Jiaqiang said angrily:

"I ran into him when I was walking towards you. I told him that I was Bolati's friend and that Bolati allowed me to be in the mountains. I also told him that we had an agreement that I would sell the Fritillaria I picked to you. He didn't believe me and wanted to take my Fritillaria. I told him to come to you and ask him to prove it to me."

Li Long looked up at the young man riding on the horse.

When the young man heard Li Long and Sun Jiaqiang greet each other, he knew that the Han man with the bag on his back was right. He smiled and said to Li Long:
"I see. You guys know that we have been very strict recently. We need to check the area nearby. If we come across anyone, we will definitely ask about it."

"I haven't seen Bolati recently. Is he okay?" Li Long asked. "This guy is indeed my friend. I'm also from the forestry team, and I'm in charge of this area. This guy is indeed my friend. Bolati and I know each other. He dug for Fritillaria, and we allowed him to do so. So, if you see him next time, don't bother him. By the way, I cooked venison today. Would you like to have some?"

"Okay, okay." The young man was also very happy, so Li Long gave him two bones with meat on them and sent him away.

"It's such a waste to feed him!" Sun Jiaqiang put down the bag and waited until the young man walked away before complaining, "I can't believe a person like him can patrol the forest."

"Then you can talk to Bolati and spend some money to get you into the forestry team to patrol the forest." Li Long joked, "When you patrol this area of ​​the forest, the migrant workers here will definitely be very happy."

"I won't do it." Sun Jiaqiang waved his hands hastily. "Now I can dig Fritillaria every day, eat some game occasionally, and I am not supervised by anyone. If I really join the forestry team, it will be boring after the Fritillaria season is over. If I can save money, I would like to go down the mountain to do a small business. Let me tell you, I have discovered that doing business in this part of northern Xinjiang is actually the most profitable. After this Fritillaria season is over, I will set up a stall in the market to sell things. I think by winter, I can earn enough money to buy a house."

"Okay, okay, I wish you a lot of money." Li Long smiled, "Come on, come on, eat first, and then come and pick the bones."

"What else do you want to eat? Pick the bones first!" Sun Jiaqiang had already taken a fancy to those bones. He put the bag on the board of the tractor's bucket, walked to the side of the table and looked at the bones carefully. He touched this and that, and seemed reluctant to let go.

In the end, he chose a vertebra, and Li Long gave him a leg bone, which made him very happy.

As expected, Sun Jiaqiang didn't eat rice, but he was very interested in the rice crust. Li Long could tell that he liked to eat burnt things. He didn't know if it was because the burnt oil released made it more fragrant.

After the meal, Sun Jiaqiang asked Li Long to weigh the Fritillaria for him so that he could exchange it for money.

Li Long charged him twenty-five yuan for a little over eight kilograms of Fritillaria.

Sun Jiaqiang took the two pictures of Great Unity and one of Steel Workers handed to him by Li Long, looked at them again and again with a smile, then folded them in half, lifted up the corner of his clothes, and stuffed them into the inside pocket of his trousers.

"Where did you go this morning? Were there any traces of wild boars digging at the place?" Li Long asked again. He asked this question out of habit. Whether to go or not was another matter, but he had to know the news.

"Yes, but they didn't dig it yesterday." Sun Jiaqiang said, "It seems that wild boars don't go there every day recently. There are a lot of bushes and grass roots in that area, but wild boars don't lack food in this season. It seems that they go there every one or two days, and it's not certain when."

Li Long nodded, indicating that he understood. He wondered whether he should wait until dusk to get some wire traps and see if he could trap some wild boars.

After Sun Jiaqiang left, Li Long cleaned up the place and started to dry the Fritillaria.

The Fritillaria we have collected can no longer be dried in the small room, so they must be hung outside.

While drying the Fritillaria, Li Long took out the lynx's claw again. The entire claw was a little bigger than his fist, and the nail was about four or five centimeters long. No wonder it just scratched his arm with such a light scratch last year and left such a long wound.

Li Long wanted to preserve all these claws. This thing will definitely become less and less in the future. After the animal protection law is enacted, ordinary people will basically not be able to see them.

So staying here is just a wish, and in a few decades, I will have evidence to brag about it.

Then there were the lynx's teeth, which he carefully removed. The claws just needed to be dried in the shade, as long as they were free of worms. The teeth were also easy to deal with, as Li Long had experience in prying these things, after all, he had practiced with so many wolf teeth. Although the lynx was smaller than an adult wolf, the teeth were similar to wolf teeth, so he kept these teeth and placed them separately.

In the afternoon, two groups of people came to him to exchange things. One group was an acquaintance. They met each other in Xiaobaiyanggou last year. At that time, the team leader brought people to exchange Fritillaria for money with him. This time they came to exchange things, such as wine, rice and flour.

This person brought a lot of Fritillaria, more than ten kilograms, probably from quite a few people. Li Long exchanged five liters of loose wine, a bag of rice and a bag of noodles for him, which made this person very happy.

The other one was a migrant worker, whom Li Long did not know. He said that he had heard from others that he could exchange things here, so he came here to test the waters. He brought more than two kilograms of Fritillaria cirrhosa to exchange for some food and daily necessities. Li Long exchanged ten kilograms of corn flour, a bag of salt, two boxes of matches, a pair of rubber shoes, and two steamed buns for him.

These Fritillaria made Li Long a little worried, because they were all fresh and unwashed. He had no choice but to go to the spring first, wash the Fritillaria in a large basin, and then collect the Fritillaria on the table and the wooden floor, and hang these Fritillaria to dry.

He had originally planned to go to the back mountain to set a few traps for the wild boars that Sun Jiaqiang had mentioned, but that was a failure. Because there were too many things in the wooden house, he didn't dare to go far.

The main reason is that there are more and more forestry teams and migrant workers in the mountains now, and many of them know the situation here. Seeing that the tractors are gone, it is estimated that many people will definitely plan to take over this place.

In the next two days, Li Long collected some more Fritillaria. This year the weather in the mountains was warmer than before, and the real Fritillaria season had arrived. Li Long found that the Fritillaria he received was a little bigger than at the beginning, and there were more impurities.

There were probably too many Fritillaria in the ditch, so the men had no time to pick up leaves and remove mud. Some of the supplies in the cabin had run out, especially the rubber shoes, and the loose wine had been replaced. There were still three bottles of bottled wine and six bottles of small champagne. There were a few other things left, but not much. There was no rice or flour left, and he only had a little left to eat.

That afternoon, after he received the Fritillaria from the two brothers Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengting, he said to them:

"If you have more, come the day after tomorrow. I'll go down the mountain tomorrow. As you can see, there aren't many things left here, and I'm running out of money."

"Okay, that's right, we also found a Fritillaria ditch, it's not long, but there are so many Fritillaria in it. We'll dig it carefully tomorrow, and come back later to exchange money with you." With Li Long here to exchange things, the two cousins ​​of the Li family are no longer embarrassed as before. Although their hair and beards are still long and they still look a little sloppy, their faces are rosy and their voices are confident and confident. In addition to exchanging supplies from Li Long these days, they also exchanged more than 30 yuan.

Although the amount of money is not much for Li Long, this is just the beginning of the Fritillaria season. There is still at least one month left to dig. They are confident that by the end of the Fritillaria season, each of them can take home a few hundred dollars!
After Li Long sent the two brothers away, he washed the more than ten kilograms of Fritillaria they brought this time, put them directly into bags and put them into the truck bed without drying them.

Next, he moved things from the cabin to the truck bed one bag at a time. The most abundant thing was naturally Fritillaria, which amounted to more than 80 kilograms, some of which were already half-dried. Li Long estimated that more than 20 kilograms of dried Fritillaria could be obtained.

Then there are the lynx skins and bones, the fawn skins, which are the most valuable, and the meat. Some meat has been exchanged these days. The living conditions of the forestry team and the blind migrants are slightly better, so they have taken a fancy to the meat here at Li Long, and they have to get some to eat to improve their lives.

After putting all the things in the car, Li Long put his gun on his back, locked the door, drove the tractor, and drove out of the mountain.

Some people in the mountain heard the rumbling sound of the tractor and knew that Li Long was taking action. These people had different thoughts. Some people thought that Li Long would bring back a lot of good things when he came down the mountain this time. Some people were thinking that since there was no one in the wooden house, could they...

It was not yet completely dark when Li Long drove the tractor to the county town. He stayed in the mountains for nearly a week, and it was April 20th. He planned to sell the goods tomorrow and confirm the personnel. Now the Xiaobaiyanggou area has grown well, and it is time to organize people to go up the mountain to organize the carrying ropes.

When they arrived at the compound, Gu Xiaoxia had already finished get off work. When she heard the sound of the tractor outside, she was surprised and ran quickly to the gate to open it.

The gate opened, and Li Long, who had just got off the tractor, saw Gu Xiaoxia, smiled, then got on the tractor and drove into the yard.

Two fawns and a roe deer were running in the yard, but they were a bit far away from the tractor, so Li Long didn't dare to approach them until he turned off the engine.

Gu Xiaoxia stepped forward to help Li Long brush off the dust on his body and asked with concern:

"Why are you back at this time? Have you eaten? I'll heat up some food for you."

"No, no, I ate when I came back. I got some meat. I'm not hungry."

People of this era, even couples, are not used to intimate actions for a while when they reunite. But Li Long is not completely from this era. He smelled the cream and other fragrances on Gu Xiaoxia's body, and couldn't help but hugged her in his arms. While greedily smelling the scent of Gu Xiaoxia, he asked softly:

"Do you miss me? I miss you so much..."

He couldn't laugh at this time, and he didn't want to laugh. He really missed his wife.

Frightened by Li Long's slightly wild and unruly actions, Gu Xiaoxia was stunned for a moment before she whispered:
"Think about it."

"How much do you miss it?" Li Long asked subconsciously, and then he realized that this is not a novel!
"I miss you so much." Gu Xiaoxia could feel how Li Long missed her, both physically and mentally. She hugged Li Long and spoke softly.

Li Long originally wanted to enjoy this moment of happiness, but the three little ones didn't know what was good for them. They came over to push him and Gu Xiaoxia, which made him feel a little annoyed. After hugging them for a while, he let go and said:
"I'll go wash it. I brought a lot of goodies in this car today. I'll show them to you later."

Gu Xiaoxia laughed. This little guy really knows how to make trouble.

She drove the three little guys into the glass house, gave them water, and closed the door despite their protests. Usually, Gu Xiaoxia would let the three little guys outside for a while, but today she ended her walk early.

Li Long simply washed himself, shaved his long beard with a razor, and then unloaded the things from the car.

The Fritillaria should be placed in the wing room to dry. The ones that were dried last time were all dry, and there were several kilograms of them when they were collected. This time there were more, and there was not enough space in both rooms. Fortunately, there were not many other things in the big yard, but there were many houses, and most of them were cleaned up, so they could be dried on the ground, so there was enough space.

After finishing all this, Li Long took out the lynx skin and showed it to Gu Xiaoxia as if he were presenting a treasure:

"This is lynx skin. I sold it for 800 yuan last year. I think the price will go up this year. I'll see if I can sell it for 1,000 yuan tomorrow! And these bones. Look at them. I heard from people in the mountains that soaking these bones in wine can cure rheumatism and the pain in the waist and legs of the elderly. Each family will get some. I'll ask my eldest brother to bring some loose wine back. Uncle Liang knows Chinese medicine. Let him see if he can get a recipe for the wine. Each family will get some."

Li Qingxia and Liang Donglou are both old men, and although they are still in good health, they will probably need this thing soon. Although Gu Boyuan and Li Jianguo are still middle-aged, this thing will become less and less in the future, and ordinary people may not even be able to get it, so they should prepare it first if they can get it.

"It's this thing that cut your arm last year, right?" Gu Xiaoxia looked at the big claw of the lynx that Li Long took out and asked nervously, "It's so sharp, you must be careful!"

"Don't worry, I have a gun!" Li Long boasted. Now thinking back, he was quite foolish and brave. For the sake of the integrity of the leather, he did not shoot directly but took a detour for a long time.

He was lucky, otherwise if he got another cut he would never be able to hide it from his wife.

After putting away the things, the two of them went to bed while talking. Li Long had eaten venison and lynx meat in the past few days, and he felt very energetic. After tossing and turning for half the night, Gu Xiaoxia couldn't hold on for several times, and then ended the battle with a sense of unsatisfaction.

Well, that feels good.

Continue later.

The next morning, Li Long got up to make breakfast. After Gu Xiaoxia got up to wash up, Li Long felt that his wife had become plump and beautiful. He vaguely remembered a line from a folk song somewhere: "Gamei is a tender cabbage, you can squeeze out water from her with one finger." This is how he feels about Gu Xiaoxia now.

"Xiaoxia, you are getting more and more beautiful." Li Long praised sincerely.

Gu Xiaoxia smiled shyly. In fact, when she looked in the mirror, she could feel that she had changed a lot that night.

After dinner, Gu Xiaoxia went to work. After Li Long finished cleaning up and fed and watered the three little ones, he rode his bicycle and took the Fritillaria and lynx skin to the purchasing station.

He calculated the time and found that Chen Hongjun was on duty today. When he arrived at the yard of the purchasing station, he saw that the door was open and Chen Hongjun was talking to someone inside:
"It's not that the price I offered is low. The quality of your mother-of-pearl is not high. There are many impurities, and they are of different sizes. Some of them are even moldy. Normally, we would not accept such products. It's good enough that I can accept them..."

"But these were dug out with great effort..." The other party was obviously not interested in the price or reason given by Chen Hongjun, he just thought the price was low.

Li Long propped up his bicycle, walked in with the mother-of-pearl bag in one hand and the leather in the other, and stood aside to listen.

"…It's like this when you dig Fritillaria from the mountains. It's impossible for there to be no impurities, and it's impossible for every Fritillaria to be good. It's so humid there, it's normal for some to get moldy occasionally." This was the explanation given by the Fritillaria seller.

Chen Hongjun looked at Li Long, then at the bag in his hand.

Li Long felt something was wrong. (End of this chapter)