Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Even though the man had fainted, Li Long did not relax his vigilance. He took a look with his gun and found that the man had several wounds on his body, caused by teeth and claws. He did not know whether it was infected or for other reasons. His forehead was very hot and he was having a fever.

Since the other party offered the reward and Li Long did not have time to refuse, he could not just ignore it.

Li Long found an empty quilt and spread it in the shed on the east side. There was grass underneath. After flattening it, he carried the person over and placed him on top of it.

This shed is equivalent to a house without a door, with a wooden roof on top. It is better than the cave in the mountains. Li Long also doesn't want to put the person directly in the bedroom. It is easy to invite a god but difficult to send him away. If this person really has some problems, it will be very troublesome for him.

After settling the man down, he went to get two aspirin tablets and fed the man two. Then he poured hot water to clean the wound.

Fortunately, although there were many wounds, most of them were not deep, but the blood loss was a bit too much, so Li Long thought of adding more coal to the stove, and after the fire was lit, he would heat up the rice porridge. If this person wakes up, it would be better to drink some rice porridge and get some meat or something to supplement.

Three of the wounds needed bandaging, and the rest had scabbed over.

The medicine that Li Long bought from the herbal medicine company this time contained gauze, so he used the gauze to bandage the man. The temperature in the shed was not high at night, so Li Long lit a fire next to the man, to drive away the cold and scare away the beasts, which basically took care of him.

As for the wolf, he was too lazy to deal with it in the middle of the night, so he just dragged it and threw it into the tractor's bed. He thought that even if there were any carnivores, they might not be able to climb up.

After finishing all these, Li Long felt a little sleepy, so he went back to the house and continued to sleep.

When I was sleeping, I kept repeating to myself: Don’t blame me for being hard-hearted. When you are out there, you can’t be too soft-hearted. If you are too soft, you’ll easily get hurt.

Li Long slept for an unknown amount of time before he was awakened again by the noise outside. This time, it was the howling of a wolf that woke him up.

There was moonlight outside. Li Long put on his clothes and went out with his gun. He looked around and soon saw two wolves in the southwest direction, about twenty meters away from the tractor. One was howling and the other was staring at this side with a fierce look.

Li Long understood that these two guys were most likely here for revenge, but of course, they might have smelled the blood and wanted to get a piece of the pie.

Li Long was never polite to wolves. He picked up his gun, half-crouched, aimed, and pulled the trigger. The two wolves must have seen the world and reacted very quickly. As soon as Li Long raised his gun, they began to retreat and flee. "Bang bang" two shots hit the air, kicking up light dust.

Wolves are very cunning, no worse than foxes in this respect. After seeing that the other party had a powerful weapon, the two wolves immediately retreated and soon disappeared into the forest.

Li Long spat, put away his gun, turned around and went to the shed to look.

The fire in the shed was a little weaker, but it was still burning. Firewood is very durable, and the seven or eight pieces of firewood that Li Long put on the fire can burn for an hour or two.

He walked up and touched the man, and found that the fever had subsided a little and his breathing was stable, so he should be fine.

Just in case, Li Long walked around the wooden house with his gun in hand, and only entered the house after he found that there were no wolves.

After all, he had really experienced the cunning of wolves when he was with Halim. They could actually set ambushes and circumvent the enemy!

Damn, they are even more powerful than those black uncles’ child soldiers!

I entered the house and saw that the fire in the stove was almost out, so I put some more coal in. I looked at the time by the light of the fire. Hey, it was almost seven o'clock.

Why are you still sleeping? Boil some water and get ready to work.

Li Long was not in a hurry to deal with the wolf. He first boiled water in the house. Every day when he lit the stove, the first thing he did was to boil water and pour the hot water into the thermos. Then he would make breakfast and other things.

While the water was boiling on the stove, Li Long went outside and lit the fire under the two stoves. There was a wolf there, so the hot water must be used.

After pouring water into the two pots on the stove and boiling it, Li Long went to the tractor's bucket and took the wolf out.

I didn't have time to look at it last night, but now it seems that the wolf has wounds on its hind legs, and they are old wounds, which should not have been caused by the fight with the man in the Zhongshan suit. The wolf also has many wounds on other parts of its body, with a lot of blood foam at the corners of its mouth, a broken spine, and a broken neck, which should have been broken by gravity.

Even if this person fought the wolf with a broken leg alone and was able to kill it, it would be quite amazing.

In fact, if we really talk about fighting power, an ordinary adult with a stick in his hand will have no problem dealing with an ordinary wolf.

But this is just theory. Ordinary people live in a peaceful living space. It is rare for them to be bitten by dogs, let alone wolves. So usually, once they are bitten, the severe pain will reach the brain and they will not know how to react. They will only know to escape, and counterattack is only subconscious.

There are often news reports of people being bitten or killed by dogs. The rational people will analyze and criticize how could they be bitten by such a small dog, why they didn't beat the dog to death, why they didn't fight back...

In fact, they will not fight back. At the moment of being bitten, many people's attention is already focused on the pain point, not how to fight back.

Therefore, the one who can fight back and kill the enemy with tools when being bitten is a ruthless person.

Because once you can overcome the pain and focus on counterattacking, you have successfully made the pain less important. In fact, from a theoretical point of view, unless the wolf bites your trachea or aorta in your neck, it is very easy to kill it by giving up an arm or a piece of meat on your leg and letting it bite you while you pick up a brick or a stick.

It’s just that for most ordinary people, it’s easy to analyze but hard to implement. After all, some people will cry out in pain for a long time after getting a small cut on their hand.

Li Long felt that the man in the Zhongshan suit was a ruthless person. It was also based on this point that people of this era were generally more able to endure hardships and pain than people in later generations, but they would definitely still be somewhat timid when facing wolves.

What an amazing person!

Li Long carried the wolf in one hand and the basin in the other and went to the spring to start skinning the wolf.

This wolf skin is not easy to peel off because many bones on the wolf's body are broken and some bone stumps are sticking out, making it difficult to deal with.

Fortunately, Li Long was not in a hurry. He peeled half of the tea and came over to check the water in the house. When the water boiled, he poured it into the thermos, broke off a few brick tea blocks and put them in the teapot to make a pot of tea.

The next step is to make breakfast. The stove is now on fire. The high fire has just boiled water, so the temperature is not that high. It is just right to slice the steamed buns and bake them. Then put four eggs in the pot outside and boil them. It's just a simple meal in the morning.

After the steamed buns were baked, Li Long went to the shed to see the man again. He found that the man in the Zhongshan suit had not woken up yet and there was only a ember of fire left in the fire next to him. He threw a few more pieces of firewood into it, and waited for more than ten minutes. When he felt the eggs were cooked, he fished them out and ate his breakfast happily.

Steamed bread slices dipped in red tofu and eggs is a good breakfast.

After eating, Li Long simply cleaned up and continued to skin the wolf.

A wasp had come to harass him, but Li Long waved it away and continued to work. Half an hour later, the entire wolf skin was peeled off, and he breathed a sigh of relief, as this was his reward.

After opening the wolf's stomach and taking out the internal organs, there was still some fat on the stomach, which meant that the wolf had been eating well recently.

Squeeze out the feces in the stomach and intestines, bring a basin of hot water, mix it with cold water to make warm water, and start washing the stomach and intestines. You can't use cold water if there is oil in the stomach and intestines, but you can't use too hot water either, otherwise it will be half-cooked and the dirt will not be washed away, and then it will be inedible if mixed together.

In those days, the furry layer inside the belly had to be torn off. No one would have thought that a few years later, this thing would become a very popular tripe dish at hot pot banquets.

After washing it, Li Long disassembled the wolf and removed the meat, preparing to cook some and dry some.

There is no other way. There are not many people and we can’t finish it all at once, so we can only dry it into dried meat.

While processing it, Li Long suddenly turned his head and looked towards the shed.

This guy is awake.

Li Long came to the shed with a knife in hand and watched the man uncovering the quilt and preparing to sit up.

"You'd better lie down first. You have so many wounds on your body. Don't struggle and bleed again. I won't bandage you again."

"Thank you." The man smiled, sat up, and leaned against the wall of the wooden house and said:

“I thought I wasn’t going to survive this time.”

"How is that possible? You are so cruel, God will not spare you." Li Long joked, "You can kill a wolf with your bare hands, which is one of the best in this mountain."

"I didn't do it with bare hands, I was holding a stick." The man corrected. "Well, if it was an ordinary person, the wolf would probably have ripped his heart out."

"You can do it, too." the man said seriously.

Li Long suddenly felt that there was no point in saying this, so he changed the subject:

"Can I eat something? I have toasted steamed bread slices, red tofu, and boiled eggs..."

"I have no money." This man was very straightforward and honest, with a sense of aloofness, as if he was not going to eat without paying the price.

"It's okay. The wolf is worth more than what it saved you." Li Long said as he went to the cabin and brought out a large plate with toasted steamed bread slices, eggs, and red tofu on it. After Li Long put the plate down, he went to the cabin and poured a bowl of hot tea.

"I don't have any milk here, so I can't make milk tea. You'll have to make do with this."

"It's already very good." Zhongshan Suit said while eating, "Thank you."

"No need, we are just making a deal, we are even." Li Long waved his hand and continued to process the wolf meat.

The man in the Zhongshan suit watched Li Long skillfully cut the wolf meat, separating the meat from the bones, with the meat still on the bones. He couldn't help but ask:

"Why don't you just cut off all the meat?"

"No need. The meat with bones is to be made into dried meat. How to dry it without meat? Just pick out some and stew it for daily consumption. You don't need much." Li Long said as he picked out the meat, "You can't save that much."

Besides, there are many things in the mountains. Wolf meat is coarse and has a stronger fishy smell than the tender meat of herbivorous wild goats and roe deer. It requires heavy ingredients when cooking, so it is better to leave less.

After finishing the processing, Li Long poured all the internal organs into a large pot and started cooking, and put some wolf bones in another pot and cooked them at the same time.

He went to the small room and got half a bag of coarse salt, and started to rub it on the meat bones. Then he put them through an iron hook and hung them on a rope outside to let them air dry.

The smell of meat attracted many wasps and flies, but because there was salt on it, they didn't dare to land and were very anxious.

Li Long went to the big room again, took off the lid of the stove, put the pot on, and started to stew the meat.

There is not much fat in the wolf's stomach, which is one of the reasons why Li Long does not want to stew too much meat. Less fat can seal the meat, and too much fat cannot cover it, and the meat will grow hair and spoil over time.

Because of the quality of the meat, Li Long threw some peppercorns and star anise into the meat when stewing it to remove the smell.

The man in the Zhongshan suit ate while watching Li Long's skillful movements. He knew very well that Li Long must have done this more than once, or even more than ten times. Although the people of the Song Dynasty valued literature and martial arts, and used the oil seller to satirize the accuracy of archery as "only practice makes perfect", in fact, every profession has its own skills, and it is not as simple as practice. Mechanically completing a certain action a thousand times can certainly form muscle memory, but if the action is wrong or not the most efficient, it will not lead to a qualitative leap.

Only when people discover mistakes, correct them and make adjustments through constant practice, can they finally form the most efficient techniques.

It’s not as simple as “being skilled”.

After finishing the meal, Zhongshan suit wanted to bring the plate over. Li Long saw it and waved his hand and said:

"You'd better not move, or you'll cause me trouble. If you really bleed again, you don't have another wolf."

As he said this, he went to get a bottle of aspirin, and brought a bowl of warm water and said:
"Here, this water is for taking medicine. You should know that tea is an antidote. This medicine is aspirin. I feel that this is the only medicine suitable for you at the moment. Is your fever gone?"

"It's almost gone. I feel like I can take action in the afternoon." The man in the Zhongshan suit said as he took the medicine.

"Don't worry. Your wolf has not yet been fully utilized. The wolf skin can be sold for thirty or forty yuan, and the wolf meat can also be sold for twenty or thirty yuan. Although the wolf tooth and wolf thigh stone cannot be sold for a lot of money, there are many people who like them, so you can stay here for three to five days."

"No, I...I am in trouble and in a hurry."

The man in Zhongshan suit drank the medicine. He could see that Li Long didn't want to listen to him. In fact, he didn't want to talk either. Talking too much would only implicate others. Why bother?

"Just stay here and help me." Li Long went to the house and found a set of his old clothes and threw them on the quilt of the Zhongshan suit, saying, "Change. Although your clothes are not cheap, you can't wear them now. Put them on, and I'll find you a needle and thread. If you can't sleep, sew them yourself. Also, I have to drive a tractor to other places in the afternoon, so you can help me look after this place. There are many migrant workers in the mountains. Some people want to come here to exchange things, and some people want to take advantage of the fact that no one is here to pry open my house. That's too bad."

After Li Long finished speaking, he went to the small room to find money for needles and gave Zhongshan suit a thimble, which many people don't know how to use.

The man in the Zhongshan suit looked at the set and smiled bitterly.

"There's nothing I can do. I only have black and white threads. You don't have the blue one here, so you'll have to make do with this." Li Long said the same thing.

After saying that, he continued to get busy.

The sun had risen, the ground temperature had risen, and although the fire in the shed had not been extinguished, it was no longer necessary.

After changing into the Zhongshan suit, he began to mend his clothes. He cherished this set of clothes very much and sewed it very carefully with very fine stitches.

Li Long stopped paying attention to him and took advantage of the free time to pick mushrooms nearby. Before the grass grows tall in June, straw mushrooms will continue to grow in the grass nearby. These straw mushrooms are not eaten by herdsmen, cattle and sheep, but for Li Long, they are good things. Pick them up, wash them, and dry them. They are delicious when cooking, making soup and rice in winter.

You should know that in a few decades, the wild mushroom rice soup in Yili will be nearly ten yuan more expensive than ordinary rice soup!

At most, you can put one or two straw mushrooms in it, which is too much.

After picking up half a bag of straw mushrooms, Li Long began to look at the internal organs and wolf bones in the pot.

The meat in the pot on the stove in the house was already cooked and placed in a basin to cool down. Li Long saw that the wolf meat and internal organs outside were almost cooked, so he started to prepare lunch.

These meats need to be marinated, otherwise the meat will not taste good. Fortunately, Li Long still has a lot of seasonings. After he puts them in, he plans to steam some rice in the stove in the inner room.

The two stoves outside were occupied, so the stove inside the wooden house could only steam rice and not cook vegetables. Li Long thought it was better not to bother with it, and just keep it simple. Who would want to have two or three dishes for lunch when they eat meat every day these days?

As the rice was steaming, Li Long called those who had already finished sewing their clothes and were able to get up in their Zhongshan suits to come over and eat together.

I have to say that this person's physical condition is still good. He has lost so much blood and has several wounds on his body. At present, it seems that he just walks a little slower and his face is a little paler.

I don’t know if it’s because of the pain, but I’m just holding on.

During the meal, the man in the Zhongshan suit introduced himself. His name was Liu Shanmin. He came from the mainland to visit relatives and do something else. He didn't say why he went into the mountains. He just said that he listened to Li Long's advice yesterday and went upstream. When he got to the river, he found that the water was still high and he couldn't cross. He continued to go south. When it got dark, he wanted to find a place to rest for the night. Unexpectedly, he found a wolf's den.

There was a wounded wolf in the wolf den. When it saw Liu Shanmin, it was ready to attack. Liu Shanmin had a stick in his hand. He reacted very quickly and hit the wolf on the head. However, the wolf's head was too hard and it was not seriously injured. Then it grabbed Liu Shanmin with a claw. In the following fight, he killed the wolf and was also injured.

Liu Shanmin knew that there must be other wolves in the wolf den, and they might have gone out to hunt. He couldn't stay here, but he was injured and bleeding so much that he was worried that he couldn't escape to other places, so he thought about returning to Li Long.

"Luckily you're back," Li said as he ate. "Around six o'clock, two wolves came over following the scent. I scared them away with my gun. The wolves were cunning, so I didn't hit them."

"Thank you for saving my life again."

"No 'again', just one life. You said at the time that this wolf was a reward. I can't just take the wolf and ignore the consequences." Li Long waved his hand, "You lost a lot of blood, eat more of this wolf liver to replenish your blood."

Liu Shanmin didn't eat much and his movements were very slow, looking very well-mannered. But Li Long didn't care and wolfed down his food, creating a sharp contrast between the two men.

Li Long watched the other person's movements and thought that if this guy dressed up, he could be put in an idol drama in the future. He is a natural protagonist!
Unfortunately, I was born at the wrong time.

Just as the two were eating, a tall man in the distance was running towards them in a panic.

Li Long looked over and saw that this was the person who sold him the metal sheet. Why hadn't he walked out yet? (End of this chapter)