Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In the end, Li Long put away the four pieces of metal.

This thing is quite heavy and feels very strong. Li Long feels that it should be a set, but he can't understand the words on it and has no way to tell.

The man took the thirty yuan and happily threw the bag to Li Long. He smiled and said:

"Okay, okay, I have the money for the trip. I have had enough of staying in the mountains! I will go down the mountain today and go to Stone City tomorrow!"

"I think you'd better stay in the mountains and go down tomorrow during the day," Li Long advised kindly. "The sun is about to set now. It will be dark when you leave the mountain. There is still a long way to go from the outside of the mountain to Qingshui River. There are wolves there. I have encountered wolves when walking at night. With your physique, you are not strong enough to be attacked by a wolf."

After Li Long said this, the man really became worried. He looked at Li Long's wooden house and suddenly asked:
"Boss, can I stay here for one night? I'll pay you two dollars for the room. How about that? A dorm bed in the county costs only two dollars!"

"No." Li Long refused decisively. "I suggest you go back to where you originally lived. It's not safe here either. Besides, we don't know each other. I'm worried about you living here. By the way, since I've given you the money and you've gotten a great deal, can you tell me the exact location where you found these pieces of iron?"

The man smiled and said:
"You still want to pick it up? I tell you there is no place there. The most you can find is some rusty coins. No one will buy copper."

"Then don't worry about it, just tell me the location first." Li Long asked about the location of the person who picked up the item with the idea of ​​collecting information.

He planned to go over and take a look when he had free time. From what this person said, it didn't look like a cemetery, but more like something had been washed out from somewhere.

After the man left, Li Long turned the metal pieces over and over for a long time but couldn't figure out what they were. There were only two things he could be sure of. First, the piece was very heavy and had some wear and tear, but the writing was still clear, so it should not have been exposed directly in the mountains before, but must have been buried somewhere.

Second, this thing should not be a copper sheet. If it were a copper sheet, it would definitely be rusted like the bronze mirror. How could it still be so shiny?

Could it be that both I and that person were mistaken, and this should be gold?

When Li Long had this thought, his heartbeat suddenly quickened.

This piece of metal is less than 20 centimeters long, 5 or 6 centimeters wide, and less than half a centimeter thick. It feels like each piece weighs nearly a kilogram. I don't know how this person got four of them out of his waistband.

Unable to figure it out, Li Long didn't think much about it. He put away the four metal plates and the bronze mirror, and then saw that the sun was about to set, so he started to collect the mother-of-pearl and dried meat. While he was collecting them, he heard shouting outside again. Li Long came out of the small room and found that it was the same person as before.

He probably ran over a few steps, saw Li Long and asked:
"Boss, can I have a piece of meat? I haven't eaten well all day, and I always feel that these things I brought are not as delicious as meat. I see that you have a lot of meat..."

"Then the money I just charged you is already a lot!" Li Long originally wanted to give him meat, but he was afraid that this person would be suspicious, so he deliberately said in a difficult way, "This meat is not cheap."

"Hey, just give me one piece. You have so much!" the man said with a grin.

"Okay, okay, I'll give you one piece." Li Long pretended to be impatient and said, "It's agreed, this is it. Eat tonight and have a rest. If you can't do this job, leave this mountain quickly tomorrow. There are many Fritillaria in this mountain, but it seems that you are not cut out for this job. It's better to change your career as soon as possible."

Li Long said, taking a piece of dried meat from the rope and handing it over.

"Yes, yes, I know everything." The man took the meat and agreed with Li Long. Then he put the meat to his nose and smelled it, revealing an intoxicated look. Judging from his expression, he was about to take a bite.

"Okay, let's go. The meat is only half-cooked. Go back and cook or grill it and eat it. Don't get a stomachache when you leave. There's no hospital in this mountain!"

"Okay, okay, I know you are so kind, boss. Thank you!" With meat and money, the man happily turned around and walked back into the mountains.

Li Long looked at him for more than ten seconds before continuing to put all the things outside in, covering the bedding and other things, locking the door, carrying half a cage of liquor and two pieces of dried meat, and driving the tractor towards Xiaobaiyanggou.

He didn't dare take more. There were ten people there, and they took two liters of wine, so each person averaged less than 200 milliliters, which was nothing. At that time, people's alcohol tolerance was also high, and it was normal for someone to say that drinking a bottle was fine. He actually just wanted to relieve everyone's fatigue.

No matter what future science or medicine says, in this era, after a tiring day at work, drinking a glass or two of white wine while eating dinner really helps to relieve fatigue and help you sleep well.

But Li Long saw in short videos later that it seemed that sleeping after drinking did not relieve fatigue. Anyway, some things are not popular now, so we should still follow the customs of this era.

When the tractor rumbled to Xiaobaiyanggou, dinner was not yet served.

Everyone was weaving the handles in the shallow pits they dug. Li Long came every day these two days, so they didn't have to be so polite, just nodded and smiled, or simply ignored it. Weaving handles was the most important thing now. If they could weave one more handle before going to bed, they would earn four more dollars!

At that time, the tuition and fees for children to go to school were only two dollars!

Four yuan is enough to buy thirty or forty kilograms of corn flour, which a family can eat for a month if they save. Four yuan can buy ten kilograms of white flour, and you can steam buns for your child every two days, and the child will be happy for a month.

Li Long turned off the engine and got off the tractor. Seeing that Lao Huang was cooking soup and rice, he brought the dried meat over to him and asked him to clean it up.

Old Huang, holding a cigarette in his mouth, looked at the cage in Li Long's hand and asked:
"well?"

"Let's drink some wine at dinner to help us feel better. I dare not bring too much, for fear that we will drink too much and not be able to get up tomorrow."

"Hey, this stuff is good! If I had known this treatment, I should have argued with your father-in-law last year and come here last year!" Old Huang was happy when he saw the wine. He actually didn't like drinking, but who wouldn't want to drink free wine? So he grinned with his big teeth.

"Brother Huang, I smell something wrong with your cigarette." Li Long didn't give him the wine cage, but took it to give to his eldest brother Li Jianguo later. In any case, among these people, the eldest brother has the highest prestige, so he knows the limits when giving the wine to him.

"Hey, I forgot to bring cigarettes, so I just picked up some dry leaves and rolled them up to smoke, to soothe my mouth."

"Then I'll bring you some Mohe cigarettes tomorrow." Li Long actually had cigarettes in his small room, but he would not take the initiative to exchange them for those vagrants. He mainly exchanged them for forestry team members like Bolati.

Migrants do not have a comprehensive understanding of forest fires. They do not care whether they will cause a forest fire or not. As long as they do not burn themselves, they do not care even if the mountain is burned down.

On the other hand, people like Bolati are very concerned about this and will consciously put out cigarette butts when smoking.

"That's great!" Old Huang's eyes narrowed so narrowly from laughing that they were almost invisible.

Li Long went over and handed the wine cage to Li Jianguo, who asked him to put it aside. Li Long put the wine cage down and then checked the quality of the braided handles one by one.

It's okay, basically everyone is qualified, and everyone's efficiency is quite high. At a glance, basically everyone has three or four handles in front of them, and there is also an unfinished one fixed in a shallow pit.

Li Long nodded and went to Xie Yundong. Xie Yundong also organized four bearers today, and there was another one in the pit in front of him. He had organized less than a quarter of it, and he might not be able to finish it today.

"Brother Yundong, do you have anything to do today?"

"No, someone from the forestry team came over and said there was a wanted criminal roaming in the mountains, and asked us to be careful." Xie Yundong stopped what he was doing, straightened up and said:
"It's easier for us. There are more than ten of us. That person won't dare to come over anyway. But you are alone..."

"Then don't worry. Bolati also told me that I have a pistol." Li Long smiled and patted Wuliuban on his back and said, "If I find something wrong, I will shoot. Am I afraid of them?"

"That's true." Xie Yundong looked at the gun on Li Long's back with envy. With such a gun in the mountains, hunting should be easy and safety can be taken care of.

Li Long looked again and found a hole at the edge. Only one handle was woven, and the other was less than half woven. He guessed it was done by Lao Huang. The quality of the woven handle was OK, probably because Li Long was very strict yesterday and dared not fool around.

Ten minutes later, Lao Huang called for dinner. They got up one after another, washed their hands by the stream, and then went to get their own bowls.

"Xiaolong brought two pieces of dried meat today. I cooked and cut it. Each of you will get two pieces of meat. Eat slowly later. The more you chew it, the more delicious it becomes. Don't just chew it a few times and then swallow it. That would be a waste!" Old Huang said loudly.

Hearing that there was dried meat to eat, most of the people laughed. Lao Huang really put meat in his cooking, but the meat was cut into cubes, so the taste was not that strong when eaten. The dried meat was cut into chunks, so it must taste different.

The soup and rice were quite thick, so Li Long filled a large bowl with it, asked Lao Huang to add two pieces of meat, and then took it to Li Jianguo and the others. When Li Long was about to eat, he realized that Sun Jiaqiang had not returned.

"The guy who was digging for Fritillaria came back at noon and said he found a Fritillaria ditch. We need to dig more today so we might be back late. He said the ditch is quite far away." Li Jianguo saw what Li Long was thinking and said, "By the way, do you know about the wanted criminal?"

"Yes, Bolati went over and told me. Didn't you see I always carry a gun with me? If anything goes wrong, I will just shoot."

"Yes, yes, that's enough for you to know." Li Jianguo has rich experience and a decisive and ruthless character. He supports Li Long's idea.

It's hard to distinguish between good and bad people in this mountain. If you don't provoke me, we will all go our separate ways. But if you have any bad ideas, don't blame me for being rude.

While eating, people gradually gathered around and some of them set their eyes on the wine cage next to Li Jianguo.

"Eat first. If you don't have food in your stomach, you will get drunk in a short time!" Li Jianguo said, "You can drink, but you have to see how your porters are doing. Let's drink at night when we are not working. After dinner, those porters in the pit who haven't finished their work can still do it for a while and make it complete. Now you are drunk and dizzy, how can you do it?"

Li Jianguo's words made sense, so we didn't force it. But knowing that we could drink at night made us happy.

While we were eating, Sun Jiaqiang came back excitedly with a bag in his hand, shouting from a distance:

"Brother Huang, did you leave any food for me?"

"I'll stay." Old Huang quite likes this migrant worker. He has a good personality, greets him proactively when he comes back and forth, and can help him with work. He can also help him when he is making the ropes in the morning and evening.

Hearing that the meal was left for him, he was no longer so anxious. Instead, he brought the bag to Li Long and said proudly:

"Boss Li, look at what I gained today!"

"Oh, this bag must be eight kilograms!" Li Long was also a little surprised, "So much today?"

"Hey!" Sun Jiacheng suppressed his excitement and whispered, "You don't know, I found a good place today. There are Fritillaria next to each other in the ditch. I can get half a kilogram without moving much! I will go there tomorrow!"

"Okay, eat first, I'll settle the bill for you later."

After dinner, Li Long collected the Fritillaria and the carrying handles. He declined others' suggestion to drink together and drove the tractor to the wooden house.

He was very careful along the way, and luckily no one blocked his way. When he returned to the wooden house, it was not completely dark yet, so Li Long took down the handle. He originally wanted to wash Sun Jiaqiang's mother-of-pearl this time, but it was dark after he took down the handle, and he didn't want to move anymore, so he simply locked the door and went back to sleep.

Li Long didn't climb much in the past two days, so he was not that tired. He got up early in the morning. Seeing that he couldn't sleep, he ate two bites of cold steamed buns, drank some water, then walked out with his gun and bag.

He wanted to see if he could get some more harvest early in the morning.

It was still dark, but Li Long could see the situation nearby clearly and was familiar with the area, so he ran straight to the hot spring.

Animals' biological clocks seem to start earlier than humans'. Many animals have already started moving around at this time. However, after the sun comes out, many animals hide, probably to avoid natural enemies.

Li Long walked lightly in the mountains with a gun on his back. He was familiar with the road. He hadn't walked for several days and felt a little excited.

We didn't see any animals along the way. We could occasionally hear the calls of pheasants. There were a lot of birds singing, but we couldn't see them.

When Li Long entered the hot spring ditch, he smelled a faint smell of sulfur. The sky had already brightened by then. Although the ditch was narrow and dark, he could still basically see clearly.

There were some hoof prints beside the stream, and I could tell there were some from wild boars and wild goats.

Li Long went upstream along the stream and arrived near the pond after more than twenty minutes.

Then he made eye contact with a wild goat.

The wild goat was extremely agile. It only glanced at Li Long before turning around and running into the woods. It jumped very high and moved very quickly. When Li Long aimed his gun and fired, the wild goat had already entered the edge of the woods.

"Bang bang" two shots, one shot hit the branch next to the goat, and a ball of green stuff mixed with bark and sawdust exploded, and the other shot grazed the goat's neck and took out a ball of flesh, but it didn't seem to be a serious injury, and it didn't affect its movement. Instead, it made the goat more agile, and it ran into the woods in a few seconds.

Li Long immediately picked up his gun and chased after him. Since he had hit the man, he couldn't let him go.

In the past, he liked to set ambushes and fight prepared battles, which made hunting very reliable. As long as he found a spot to ambush, he would usually get something in return.

But in the past two years, the wild beasts have become smarter and their locations are erratic, making it difficult for Li Long to ambush them. The only thing he can do is to find them and then hunt them.

Hunting is a test of physical strength, but fortunately Li Long has no shortage of it.

The wild goat ran desperately up the mountain, seeming to be in a panic and making a lot of noise. In addition, the terrain was complex and there was only woods, so Li Long could barely keep an eye on it.

The wild goat's neck soon turned red, and blood kept flowing down, dyeing the neck red while still dripping. In addition, the goat's movements were very violent, so it was difficult for the blood to clot in the wound.

After running out of the woods and coming to an open area, Li Long aimed at the goat above and fired again. The sound of the gunshot was heard from far away, but he missed. The goat darted into the bushes, its figure looming and making it extremely difficult to aim at.

Li Long had no choice but to continue chasing. He was now thankful that he had eaten something when he woke up in the morning, otherwise he might not have the energy to keep up.

Although it was only one shot, it spread more widely in the mountains than the two shots just now. Many people in the mountains heard the gunshot and had different reactions.

Everyone was having breakfast at Xiaobaiyanggou. When they heard the gunshots, Sun Jiaqiang asked while holding a basin:
"Who is hunting? Could it be Boss Li?"

"Maybe." Li Jianguo didn't say anything. Lu Yingming said, "Xiaolong used to hunt with a gun in the mountains. He hunted wild boars, roe deer and so on."

"Hey, it's nice to have a gun!"

Lin Xiaohu and He Yiku also got up. After hearing the gunshot, they looked at each other without saying anything. However, Lin Xiaohu could see the envy in He Yiku's expression.

Lin Xiaohu could understand He Yiku's idea. It was good to have a gun! They had to hide when it got dark, for fear of being spotted by wolves. If they had a gun, what would they be afraid of?

Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengting heard the gunshots and were trying to determine whether it was someone from the forestry team or Li Long. After all, the gunshots were not close to them, so they had to be careful not to get hurt by mistake!
Thinking of this, Li Zhengtang said to Li Zhengting who had just recovered:

"Zhengting, we are going west to dig for Fritillaria today. Don't go to the direction where the gunshots came from. Guns don't have eyes. Let's not make things difficult for ourselves."

"Okay." After this incident, Li Zhengting became much more obedient.

……

Li Long chased to the top of the mountain and saw the wild goat rushing down, still about forty or fifty meters away from him.

However, the goat slowed down when going down the mountain. He held the gun steadily, half-crouched on the top of the mountain, and aimed at the wild goat weighing thirty or forty kilograms.

I took the lead and pulled the trigger when the goat was about to reach the bottom of the ditch and started running sideways! (End of this chapter)