Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long originally wanted to force this guy to clean up the small room, but then he thought better of it. He shouldn't give this guy a chance, or he might do something bad.

He picked up the thing and threw it onto the grass outside. Then he tied its feet to the tractor with a rope and began to pack up the things.

The loss of rice and flour was not big. When the bag was cut open, some of it spilled, but the rest in the bag was still edible. The dried meat was a bit more troublesome. Li Long took a basin and scooped up the dried meat and took it outside, planning to wash it later and tidy up the house first.

He made a rough calculation and found that the lost supplies were worth about 20 to 30 yuan, and what the man stole was worth about 10 yuan. However, in the bag the man brought, there were 14 or 15 kilograms of fresh Fritillaria, which could barely make up for the loss.

After rearranging the items on the shelf, the rice and flour on the floor had to be swept up. If it were an ordinary family, they would probably have to wash the rice before eating it, but Li Long simply swept it away. He tore off the window paper to disperse the smell of alcohol, and put the broken rice and flour bags on the shelf to barely keep the smell away.

There weren't many damages in the big room. Only some enamel basins were taken away by this guy and put into bags. Also, cooked food such as steamed buns were taken away. The stove was kicked and was a little loose. Li Long calculated that he would have to apply mud and fix it again later.

Otherwise it is inconvenient to use and may cause premature smoking.

After everything was in place, Li Long went to the spring, washed the dried meat twice, and then hung it on the rope.

I got angry just thinking about it, so after washing I ran over and kicked that guy twice.

What a bad luck!

When Li Long was smearing mud on the stove, Bolati came over on horseback.

The tied-up man noticed Bolati coming over and immediately shouted "Help!"

Bolati glanced at him and ignored him. He got off the horse and walked towards the house with the whip in hand.

"You're here?" Li Long asked as he smeared mud on the stove. "What's the matter?"

"Well, I got some Fritillaria to exchange for some things. What's the matter? I think you beat that guy pretty badly just now."

"I went to the animal husbandry team to visit my friends' families, Halimu and Yushanjiang's families." Li Longyi got angry again when he talked about this. He wiped the mud in his hand on the stove, stood up and said:
"This morning, I shot a wild goat and wanted to send some to the two families. But when I came back, this guy picked my lock and stole the things inside. He also spilled the wine and food all over the floor, wasting a lot! He also stepped on my dried meat and destroyed some brick tea, sugar cubes and other supplies. When I came back, he tried to run away, so I caught him. Beating him up is a light punishment. If it weren't for the fact that murder is illegal, I would have wanted to beat him to death! He is so mean!"

"That's right, too bad!" When Bolati heard that this man had even spilled his wine, he immediately became furious. He picked up the horse whip and whipped him hard a few times, cursing as he whipped:
"You are just an animal. Can you waste the food? Can you waste the wine? Even if you steal some, can't you treat the rest well? If you die, no one will bury you!"

At that time, ethnic minorities had few channels to obtain food, and they themselves grew very little food and harvested very little. Their attitude towards food might be more pious than ours, so they could not tolerate the waste of food.

After Li Long fixed the stove, Bolati came over, still angry. Li Long glanced over there, and he was a little worried that Bolati might beat someone to death.

It’s okay, although the man is not moving, his chest is still rising and falling, so he is alive.

"These are the Fritillaria I collected these past two days. I didn't collect all of them, so I left some for people. Since I collected the Fritillaria, I won't chase them away." Bolati explained, "Or let them take the Fritillaria out and don't come back. If they come, I will arrest them along with the Fritillaria next time."

He still knows how to give others a way out. Li Long smiled and weighed him. He weighed him and found that he weighed a little over 13 kilograms.

"What are you going to change this time?"

"Wine, change some wine. Someone took my wine away." Bolati really treated Li Long as a friend, and explained, "I don't drink much, but my colleagues and friends insisted on having my wine. I gave them to them to save face, and ended up having no wine to drink myself."

"Okay, let's change the wine and get you some other supplies." Li Long thought that if he really wanted to change the wine, it wouldn't be enough even if he changed all the wine here. So he matched it with rubber shoes, labor protection gloves, brick tea, sugar cubes and other things.

"Take him away. I don't want to see him. I'm worried that I'll get angry and beat him to death later." Li Long pointed at the man and said, "It's a good opportunity for you to take him back and get your job done."

"Okay." Bolati smiled. This was a good thing for him.

Tie the thing to the saddle. The man was beaten so badly that he couldn't walk, and might be dragged to death if he was dragged behind the horse. Bolati prepared to put it on the horse's back and carry it back.

When he put the man onto the horse, Li Long finally saw the man's face clearly.

His hair and beard were not very long, so he probably had not been in the mountains for many days. His face was very young, about twenty-three or twenty-four years old. His eyes were somewhat vicious as he stared at him, and that expression seemed to tell Li Long "I will come back for revenge."

"What are you looking at? If you keep looking, I'll dig your eyeballs out!" Li Long stepped forward and slapped the man on the face. "If you don't have the ability, don't try to break into houses and pick locks. If you get caught, just accept the beating and punishment!"

Bolati saw that Li Long's slap had caused blood to come out of the man's mouth, and he said hurriedly:

"Alright, alright. If you hit him a few more times to kill him, we'll have to find a place to dig a hole and bury him. What a hassle. Okay, I'm leaving now!"

As he spoke, he picked up the man and put him on the horse's back behind the saddle like a package, then rode away.

Only after sending Bolati away did Li Long feel hungry.

Although he was in a bad mood and lost supplies, Li Long still felt that he had to eat well. He went to get some wild vegetables. He didn't want to eat rice at noon, so he planned to cook some vegetables and make some noodles.

Knead the dough, apply oil on it and cover it with a cloth to let it rest. The temperature in the mountains is lower than outside, so let it rest for a while, and then prepare to cook. Stir-fry meat with wild mushrooms, add a tomato sauce to scramble eggs, and put some chili in it. If you put green peppers in this dish, it will be a mixed noodle dish, but now it can only be barely considered a dish.

Two dishes were enough. The stove outside was not damaged. After the fire was lit, the pot was quickly put into use. Both stoves were used. One was cooking while the other was boiling water. The main reason was that I didn't want to waste time.

After frying, put it on the table and knead the noodles. One person cannot eat so much, so Li Long pulls more to prepare fried noodles in the afternoon or tomorrow morning to eat as a meal.

After everything was ready, she turned off the fire, put half a bowl of noodles in an enamel basin, poured most of the dishes in, and then Xili started to eat with a slurp.

Young people usually chew noodles two or three times before swallowing them in one big mouthful. The stomach digests them well, but Li Long is different. He still pays attention to chewing and eating slowly in this life. Since no one is snatching the noodles, he sits outside in the sun and eats them slowly, taking big mouthfuls and eating slowly.

After finishing a bowl of noodles, he didn't even wash the bowl. He scooped out the noodle soup directly from the pot, shook the bowl, and let the noodle soup wash down the vegetable residue and other things on the edge of the bowl, mixed them and lowered the temperature of the soup, and then drank it in one gulp.

My stomach is already 100% full. I don't want to move at all. I feel like if I move, everything I've eaten will come out of my mouth.

Well, very satisfied.

I sat on the chair for seven or eight minutes, until I felt comfortable, then I got up and started to clean up.

After cleaning up, I washed the Fritillaria left by the thief, cleaned out the leaves and dirt inside, and then poured it on the table to dry.

The remaining noodles and vegetables were packed up and put in the room to be prepared and eaten later.

After finishing all these tasks, Li Long went into the house to take out the bedding to dry in the sun. It was very comfortable to sleep under the hot quilt every day.

In the afternoon, he had nothing to do, so he went to Xiaobaiyanggou to help the gang when the sun was about to set. Li Jianguo asked him what was going on, and he told him. He handed the Mohe cigarettes to Lao Huang, who was very happy. These Mohe cigarettes were not only for him, but also for others to smoke. Not only Mohe cigarettes, but also newspapers for rolling cigarettes. Although some stalls selling Mohe cigarettes would provide special paper, smokers unanimously agreed that newspapers and Mohe cigarettes were the best match.

After returning to the cabin, Li Long took off his handle and prepared to go to bed. He woke up in the middle of the night and heard the sound of rain outside.

Heaven has changed.

Li Long didn't care. The occasional thunder was nothing. After all, it was almost May and it was normal to have some rain.

Rain in the mountains usually only lasts for an hour or two, or less often. After all, rainy days are rare in the north. It usually comes and goes as soon as it falls, which is very refreshing.

Unexpectedly, when Li Long got up at dawn, he felt the coldness on his body and the coldness in the room. The stove went out, and he opened the door. A gust of cold wind blew in with rain. It was still raining outside, and although it was not heavy, the temperature dropped a lot.

He was in a hurry to go to the bathroom, so he put on two layers of clothes and ran out to the toilet at the back to solve the problem. Then he rummaged through the pile of firewood, found a few pieces of dry firewood at the bottom, and carried them back to the room.

In fact, there was firewood and coal in the room, but he was just afraid that it was not enough.

Li Long lit the stove again. He didn't expect that his plan yesterday would actually come true. He beat eggs, cut the green onions that were almost shriveled, and fried some noodles.

After finishing his noodles with no appetite and cleaning up, Li Long felt that he might have nothing to do today. There should be nothing to do in Xiaobaiyanggou. After all, the braiding of the handles needs to be baked to make them soft and tough. Now that it is raining, no fire can be started, and no one should want to go out to work in the rain.

Let’s go to bed. He went over and lay on the bed, preparing to take a nap. After all, since he was a child, he felt that rainy days were the most suitable for sleeping.

But I didn't expect that someone would knock on the door.

"Who?" Li Long asked vigilantly, holding a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

"I'm Li Zhengtang." A familiar voice came from outside.

Li Zhengtang?
Li Long remembered, isn't this the eldest of the two brothers?
Li Long opened the door with a gun in hand and saw Li Zhengtang standing outside the door, drenched in the rain, with two bags beside him, also covered in water.

"Boss Li, I brought Fritillaria here." Li Zhengtang wiped the water off his face. Li Long could see that he tried his best not to shiver, but his body could not control it.

"Come in." Li Long turned around and made way. "Come in and warm up. Why are you running here on such a rainy day?"

"It's raining so we can't dig up Fritillaria. My brother hasn't recovered yet, so I let him rest. I carried the Fritillaria here. On the one hand, I owe you the five kilograms, and on the other hand, I plan to sell the rest."

Li Long could understand his idea. It was sunny and it was the season for digging Fritillaria. If you wasted a little time, you would earn less money. It rained today, which was God's rest. Some people might sleep in the cave, but some people took this opportunity to deal with the things they didn't want to do on sunny days as soon as possible.

After Li Zhengtang came in, he squatted beside the stove and warmed himself by the fire. After a while, he felt a little warmer.

Li Long took out the scale and prepared to weigh the Fritillaria.

"There is water. Please remove one...two kilograms." Li Zhengtang said proactively.

Li Long opened the bag and grabbed a handful. Seeing that the Fritillaria was relatively clean, he said:

"Forget it. It's not easy for you either. I won't remove the skin and water. It's what it is."

Li Zhengtang showed a grateful expression.

"Fourteen kilograms in one bag, seventeen kilograms in another bag, thirty-one kilograms in total. Minus my five kilograms, there are twenty-six kilograms left. Do you want to exchange it for something or do you want money?"

"Six kilograms in exchange for things, and the rest for money." Li Zhengtang had already thought about it, and the money had to be an integer so that it would be easier to pack and divide.

Li Long took out the money from selling Fritillaria yesterday, counted out six bills and handed them to Li Zhengtang, then said:

"What do you want to exchange for the rest?"

"Rice, flour, salt, meat, if you have any, I'd like to exchange it for some. By the way, Boss Li, can you give me two pieces of your firewood? We are out of firewood in our cave, and the firewood outside is all wet and can't be used. It looks like it will rain all day, and I'm afraid my brother will freeze again."

The supplies they brought back from the county were left in the crevice of the mountain. When he went to look for them after settling Li Zhengting down, the place had been visited by wild beasts. He didn't know what they were, but the place was in a mess when he went there, and less than a third of the things he could pick up were usable.

There was no other choice but to exchange it from Li Long.

Li Long took him to the cabin next door, packed him some rice and flour, and some dried meat. He watched Li Zhengtang take off his coat and wrap the bag of rice and flour, because after all, rice can be eaten when wet, but it would be more troublesome to eat noodles when they are wet.

Li Long felt sorry for him, so he took a dry urea bag, folded the bottom corner in, and gestured to Li Zhengtang:
"Put this on your head to keep out the rain. Use it as a raincoat."

Li Zhengtang was stunned for a moment, then smiled gratefully:
"Hey, Boss Li, thank you so much! I'll bring it to you next time I come!" The bag is considered hard currency in the mountains. It can hold anything. It is almost equivalent to the sack of the Beggar Gang.

Urea bags are easier to use than ordinary bags because they have a layer of plastic paper stuck inside, which makes them incompletely waterproof.

Li Long wanted to let Li Zhengtang stay in the house to warm up for a while, but he refused. He held the bag of supplies in one hand and a few pieces of dry firewood in the other, and hurried into the rain, taking one deep step and one shallow step, and soon disappeared in the rain.

With the appearance of Li Zhengtang, Li Long guessed that today would be very busy.

Sure enough, the vagrants showed up one after another, all of them bringing Fritillaria to exchange for things, money, and firewood. They were all wearing very simple clothes, some had broken shoes, some only had one coat, and some really looked like wild men, with very long hair and beards.

Fortunately, seeing Li Long holding a gun, everyone was very well behaved. This time, Li Long did not let anyone in. He waited outside for anything else. The Li brothers knew a little bit, so he dared to let them in. Now almost all the people who came were strangers, and he didn't dare to gamble on that probability.

Besides, there is a wanted criminal in the mountains.

Li Long was so busy that he could only eat intermittently at noon. He also saw Wu Benzhong coming to exchange things. He didn't need anything. He exchanged a few pieces of meat for a few pieces of firewood, and then asked for two boxes of matches. Finally, he exchanged more than ten kilograms of Fritillaria for money.

By the time it was almost dark, there were more than 100 kilograms of Fritillaria piled up in Li Long's cabin. He had spent nearly half of the money he earned from selling the Fritillaria yesterday, and there were not many supplies left in the cabin.

Li Long saw that the rain was still going to fall, and wondered whether he should go down the mountain now. Otherwise, if someone came to exchange things tomorrow, there would be nothing left.

Even the air-dried meat is gone!

Wow, this is the first time Li Long knows that there are so many migrant workers in the mountains. Why are these guys rarely seen?

But think about it, the Tianshan Mountains are so big, it's really easy to hide a few people.

He thought about it and decided to move the fritillaria onto the tractor. Then he put on his coat, put a urea bag on his head, and went to drive the tractor.

The temperature was low, and Li Long shook his head three times before doing so. The rumbling sound did not travel far in the rain. After Li Long locked the door, he drove the tractor out of the mountain.

Because they were walking on mud, they couldn't go fast, and mud splashed behind the wheels. Soon, Li Long's back and the bag of Fritillaria in the truck bed were all covered with mud. Fortunately, when Li Long put the Fritillaria on the truck, he covered it with two layers of bags to prevent some rain.

By the time the tractor drove out of the mountain, it was covered with mud and felt like a dump truck, literally.

The road from the mountain to Qingshui River was still full of mud, and the tractor left deep ruts on the ground. And because of the rain, the tractor slipped from time to time, and Li Long had a hard time driving.

It was not until Qingshuihe Township that the road became a little easier, with gravel on it. Although he was wearing gloves, the outside of the gloves was already wet. If he had not had the foresight to wear winter leather gloves, he probably wouldn't be able to use his hands now.

By the time the tractor arrived at the yard, it had already gotten completely dark. The rain here was lighter than in the mountains, turning into a drizzle, and it wasn't that cold anymore.

When Gu Xiaoxia opened the door and saw that it was Li Long, she was also shocked. Li Long drove the tractor in and was about to unload the Fritillaria, but was pulled into the kitchen by Gu Xiaoxia.

"You're all wet, why are you still bothering with Fritillaria? I'll get you some water, quickly wipe it with hot water!" (End of this chapter)