Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long asked Sun Jiaqiang about the location where the two-headed deer appeared, and he had a rough idea in his mind.

The two-headed deer appeared twice in a ravine with a radius of four or five kilometers. Its activity range is relatively fixed. Li Long felt that there was a high possibility that he would encounter it again.

Once you encounter it, you can't let it go.

After dinner, I continued to check the handles and returned five or six that were unqualified. They were not particularly big problems, they were just not very tight and just needed some further processing.

Pulling a load of cargo, Li Long cranked the tractor and drove away with a rumble.

The sun had just set but it was not yet dark. After resting for a while, Li Jianguo and his colleagues continued to work and could still work for about an hour. Those who were quick enough could weave half a handle.

When Li Long drove the tractor to the wooden house, he was surprised to find that Liu Shanmin, who was wearing a Zhongshan suit, was chatting with two migrant workers there.

Seeing the tractor coming, Liu Shanmin stood up, pointed at Li Long and said something to the two men.

Li Long had sharp eyes and could tell that the two men's expressions were a little unnatural. He smiled and got off the tractor.

Just at this moment, a man on horseback came running towards them from a distance. The two vagrants took a look and were scared!
Isn’t this the forestry team patrolling the forest?

Are they here to arrest someone?
They saw with their own eyes that someone was captured along with the Fritillaria in the forest. The better ones took the Fritillaria and released the person, while the worse ones took the Fritillaria and arrested the person and sent him to the labor camp.

Isn't that the end?
Bolati was also carrying a bag of Fritillaria on his horse's back. Seeing two vagrants and a man standing in front of Li Long's wooden house, he originally wanted to go and see what was going on, but after thinking it over, he decided to ride his horse up to Li Long.

"Adasi, are you okay?" Li Long turned off the engine and got out of the car, smiling and asking, "Why are you here so late?"

The two vagrants over there saw Bolati and Li Long saying hello, and they wanted to take this opportunity to run away, not caring about the Fritillaria and the like.

"You'd better not move." Liu Shanmin whispered, "Can you outrun a horse or a gun? Didn't you see that the boss knows the people of that ethnic group? Don't worry, since he dares to let you stay here to exchange for Fritillaria, the boss will protect you."

"Will they really protect us?" The blind drifter obviously didn't believe it.

"Think about it, he's doing business here. If you're caught in front of his store, who else would dare to come? He must be related to these people. You should stay here quietly to avoid being shot. The ethnic people seem to have a good relationship with the boss, but they may not treat you like this. If you run away, the boss won't be able to do anything about it."

Liu Shanmin analyzed it purely on his own. Li Long was able to exchange Fritillaria here and gain a foothold, so he must have something to rely on. Sending that tall and thin man in the afternoon was one reason, and regardless of his own identity, even the forestry team patrolling the mountains would ask him to exchange Fritillaria for things, which was the third reason.

"Those two people..." Bolati pointed at the two vagrants with his whip.

"You asked me to exchange the Fritillaria for you, just pretend you didn't see it." Li Long had a good relationship with Bolati, and said half-jokingly, "This is my territory, and I would lose face if I let you take the person away."

"Okay, okay." Bolati said with a smile, "I'll give you a favor." He brought the Fritillaria to Li Long:
"Come on, weigh it."

"That's a lot today!" Li Long looked at the almost full bag of Fritillaria and said with a smile, "You've made a fortune."

"It's not just mine." Bolati smiled. Actually, most of it was his. "I want money this time. I have everything, so I won't take it."

"Okay, I'll weigh it for you." Li Long went to open the door of the wooden house and get the scale.

"As for you two, I'll leave it alone for his sake. From now on, you can exchange here, but if I find you in the forest, you won't have any more Fritillaria." Bolati pointed at the two drifters with his whip and said, "Do you understand?"

Intimidated by the gun he was carrying, the two vagrants nodded repeatedly.

Li Long weighed Bolati with a scale and got two points.

"Thirty-two kilograms, ninety-six... I'll give you one hundred yuan." Li Long said with a smile, "Not bad, not bad!"

"Hehehe, there are a lot of Fritillaria in the mountains now." When Bolati heard the one hundred yuan, he touched his face, unable to hide the excitement in his heart.

It’s almost equal to his four months salary in the forestry team!
Li Long took out money from his inner pocket, counted out ten Great Unity notes and handed them to Bolati, saying:

"Count them."

"No need to count. Adasi is trustworthy. Well, you can look after them. I'm leaving now."

After getting on the horse, Bolati said to the two blind migrants:

"Behave yourself here, or else you'll get your gun."

After saying that, he turned his horse around, whipped it at Li Long, and galloped away.

"Hey, let alone anything else, this horse riding skill is really good." Li Long praised, turned around and said to the two blind drifters:

"Are you here to exchange money or things?"

"I'll change the money."

"I want some money and some things." The two people said different things.

"Okay, the general price is three yuan. If the quality is good, I'll add a little, and if there are too many impurities, I'll deduct a little. Is that okay with you?"

"No, no." The two vagrants nodded hurriedly and opened the bags they brought.

Their bags were full of Fritillaria, some weighing more than 20 kilograms. These two were probably here for the first time, and they had originally intended to bargain, but after what happened just now, they couldn't bargain anymore.

Besides, I didn’t bring many bags with me, and it was the Fritillaria season. It would be inconvenient to carry them out to sell, so I might as well just get rid of them here.

It's safe to leave the bag alone.

"It looks OK." Li Long reached into the bag and found some impurities, but not much. After all, it is impossible to dig Fritillaria without any soil or leaves, so as long as there is not much, it is acceptable.

The first one was 24.5 kilograms, but Li Long charged it as 25 kilograms without removing the skin. The price was not high, so he didn't care about it.

The second one weighed slightly less, a little over twenty-two kilograms, and Li Long calculated it as twenty-two and a half kilograms.

The attitude of weighing the scales made the two migrant workers smile. The boss was generous and they were happy.

He first collected 75 yuan for the 25-kilogram bag, counted it twice, and put it in the inner pocket of his clothes.

The one who carried 22.5 kilograms received 60 yuan, and he used the remaining 7.5 yuan to buy some rice and flour and two boxes of matches. When he saw that there was dried meat in Li Long's wooden house, he asked for another piece.

The one holding the 75 yuan felt a little regretful. After his companions had exchanged their money, he took out five yuan and asked Li Long:
"Boss, can I exchange some meat? Is this meat cooked well?"

"It's cooked." Li Long said with a smile, "Have you seen this? Don't be fooled by the fancy words. This wolf was killed by him. I skinned the wolf after he killed it. This side is cooked, and this side is raw dried meat. It depends on which one you want."

"Then I want... three yuan of meat. I see you still have sesame cakes. How about two yuan? Do you still have shoes?"

After the two men entered the house, they found that there were so many things that could be exchanged. The more they looked, the more they wanted to exchange. As a result, when the one who had 75 yuan left, he had 62 yuan left in his pocket.

The man with sixty yuan also took out another five yuan and exchanged it for shoes and other daily necessities, including an enamel basin and a bag of salt.

When the two drifters left, the sunset in the west was almost setting. Liu Shanmin went to the rope and collected his clean Zhongshan suit.

"Here, Lao Liu, these ten dollars are yours. The two people just now, five dollars each, is the agency fee."

"Oh, you also know the word intermediary?" Liu Shanmin was not polite. He took the money and asked, "Not simple."

Nowadays, ordinary people call some intermediaries "pimps". It is not easy to say the word "intermediary".

"Hey, you underestimated me."

"A little bit." Liu Shanmin nodded and admitted, "Ten yuan is a lot."

"Not much. I just found out that if you hadn't persuaded the two people, they might have run away when Bolati came over. It would have been troublesome if they really ran away." Li Long explained, and then took a large basin to wash the Fritillaria. There were quite a lot of Fritillaria collected today, nearly 100 kilograms. He planned to wash the Fritillaria before going to bed and hang them in the small room, so that they could be dried out during the day tomorrow.

As for the handle on the tractor, we will unload it tomorrow.

"When you leave, there are people in the forest to the south watching this place. You may have to be careful these days." "Okay, I got it." Li Long's mind flashed with the faces of Lin Xiaohu and He Yiku. He guessed that it was probably these two.

Liu Shanmin put his Zhongshan suit in the shed and went to find firewood to light the fire. He could really understand why Li Long didn't let him sleep in the house. The ten yuan was not much for him, but it was enough to show his value. If he didn't have anything else to do, it would be nice to stay here and recuperate.

Li Long's opinion of Liu Shanmin was high enough. He was able to keep two drifters here today and also observed someone spying on this place, which showed that this person was not simple. It was actually quite good to have such a helper in the forest.

Unfortunately, this person may not be able to stay, and will most likely leave after recovering from his injuries.

After washing the Fritillaria, it was completely dark. Li Long put the Fritillaria into three basins and brought them into the small room.

Seeing that Liu Shanmin was already sitting at the door of the shed and preparing to rest, he thought for a moment and went to the big room to pour Liu Shanmin a glass of water:

"Have a drink. It's warm. It's troublesome if you get thirsty at night."

"Okay, thank you." Liu Shanmin took the water and drank it. After drinking it, he said to Li Long:
"Don't worry about me, just go in and get some sleep. Leave the bowl here with me, I'll wash it and use it tomorrow morning."

Li Long waved his hand, thought for a moment, and took out a large broomstick from last year and handed it to Liu Shanmin:

"This is for your self-defense. Normally there shouldn't be any problem, but you can be prepared for the unexpected."

Liu Shanmin took it with a smile. This time Li Long returned to the room, locked the door, turned on the stove, and went to sleep.

He certainly wouldn't be able to fall asleep for a while as he was thinking about Liu Shanmin.

From the beginning, it seemed that this person had no ill will towards him, and he had something to do, so he would not stay here for too long.

Li Long's attitude towards him was also very simple. He was not a stranger, after all, he was a talent, but he was also somewhat wary of him.

As for what happens next, he is a thoughtful person and it is impossible for him to follow my arrangements like Tao Daqiang did.

As for Liu Shanmin, he thought Li Long was also quite interesting. Usually, such local tyrants are ruthless and will not be too merciful when it comes to exploiting ordinary migrant workers. With the relationship with the forestry team, they will usually become more aggressive, but this one is even better, and he is willing to plead for mercy.

He is not a bad person, he has brains and principles, and he can speak the language of an "intermediary", so he should not be uneducated.

It's a pity to stay in this small place.

But I am already a clay Buddha, why should I care so much about others?
There were still wolves howling in the middle of the night, but unfortunately they didn't dare to come near us. They could only howl towards us from far away in the mountains.

There was no telling how many wolves had been killed here. They could smell the scent of their own kind, the scent of death. This place was almost a forbidden zone for them.

Wolves are also spiritual. Since it is dangerous here, they should not come here.

Liu Shanmin was a little worried at first, but after hearing the wolf howling, he sat up in his quilt and clenched the stick in his hand.

The firewood pile was not extinguished, but the flames were not big. Liu Shanmin thought about it and threw in two pieces of firewood.

The fire dimmed, then slowly rose again. Liu Shanmin turned his head to listen to the movement in the wooden house, but found that there was no movement at all.

I don’t know if Li Long was too careless and thought the wolf was fine, or if he was sleeping so soundly that he couldn’t hear anything.

Later, Liu Shanmin heard that the wolf howling was only in the distance and was not coming over, so he slowly put his mind at ease, put the stick beside the quilt, and lay down.

When he woke up again, he felt a slight chill on his face. When he opened his eyes, it was already daylight.

There was a sound coming from the side of the wooden house. Li Long had already gotten up and was making breakfast.

Liu Shanmin smiled, stretched his body, got up, tidied up the bedding, and prepared to go over to help.

Li Long was cooking porridge, and there was some newly acquired wild celery on the counter outside. He had a good harvest yesterday and was in a good mood, so he planned to stir-fry some hot dishes for breakfast.

It turns out that in my eldest brother's family, it is not considered a meal without hot dishes. It is not considered a meal without staple food. In other words, it is not considered a meal if the pot is not cooked. No matter how troublesome or busy life is, we have to prepare hot dishes in the morning. This is different from the customs in many places, including many places in northern Xinjiang, where some people are used to a bowl of hot tea, steamed buns or cakes, and a bowl of pickles.

But it's not like that at my eldest brother's house. There must be hot dishes.

Having been away from home for more than a year, Li Long had to make do with it sometimes, but when he was in a good mood, he would still be more formal.

Liu Shanmin didn't know how to fry wild celery, so he went over to help make porridge. Li Long put oil in the pot, poured the vegetables, stir-fried them, and added seasonings, all very quickly.

It was a bit cold outside, but the two of them didn't really care and ate breakfast outside. The sun had just risen, and a touch of golden sunlight shone on their bodies, which felt pretty good.

"Boss Li, you live a pretty good life now. It's leisurely and you have money." Liu Shanmin suddenly said while eating.

"Haha, that's your opinion." Li Long waved his hand. "In my opinion, this kind of life is only good for a few months a year. I got married this year, and it hasn't even been a month. In fact, I went into the mountains before my honeymoon was over. If I want to be intimate with my wife, I have to find time to go back. If it weren't for making more money and preparing for a life of lying down in the future, I wouldn't stay here."

Liu Shanmin didn't expect that the life that seemed like a paradise to him would be so unbearable here with Li Long.

But come to think of it, if I really ran to the mountains on my honeymoon, I would have to complain.

But this guy is quite honest.

After dinner and cleaning up, Li Long took out the Fritillaria and dried the meat that was not completely dried, and also took out the bedding to dry. Liu Shanmin was still a little weak, so Li Long said to him:
"I'm going to go out for a walk. I won't run far. If there are migrant workers coming to exchange Fritillaria for their wares, you can stay with them. If the forestry team comes, you can say they are my friends and they won't make things difficult for you."

After saying that, Li Long took out the gun and loaded bullets into it.

"Then you have to be careful. I always feel like someone is watching you."

"Don't worry, I value my life very much." Li Long loaded the gun with bullets, loaded it, turned on the safety, put on his backpack and walked south.

He didn't go hunting entirely. First, he wanted to see if he could encounter the two-headed deer. Second, he wanted to see the point where the tall and thin Tang Hongsheng mentioned something would come out. Third, he wanted to relax. Just waiting in front of the wooden house felt too idle.

Liu Shanmin didn't expect that Li Long would really leave as he said. The door of the small wooden cabin was locked, but the door of the big wooden cabin was not locked. Did he trust him so much?

Li Long thought that when he got back, he should go to the department store to see if there were any backpacks like that, as the shoulder bag he had now could not hold too many things.

His main direction of action was still the hot springs, but because the place the tall and thin man mentioned was not far from the Hot Spring Valley, Li Long planned to go there first, regardless of whether he found anything or not, and then go to the Hot Spring Valley to take a look.

It would be best if you can come across prey, but if not, go around to the place where you saw the two-headed deer before.

When Li Long entered the jungle, he turned his head to look at the wooden house and found that Liu Shanmin had already walked out of the shed and brought out his bedding to dry in the sun.

It’s okay. He knows how to improve his quality of life, which shows that he is not a stubborn person.

When Li Long entered the forest, Lin Xiaohu and He Yiku had already arrived at the last point on the map.

The previous three points were all exposed, either washed out by floods or dug by others.

Although they found some good things near the treasure spot, it was still far from their expectations.

Whether or not you can truly achieve your goal depends on this last point.

In fact, the final point was basically determined when the rain passed and they met Tang Hongsheng. However, in order to catch more fish, the two of them searched carefully at the two locations where Tang Hongsheng occurred.

Tang Hongsheng ran to Li Long, which saved him from danger. Lin Xiaohu did not want to have a conflict with Li Long now.

It's not time yet.

In his words to He Yiku, it was necessary to distinguish between the primary and secondary contradictions. The main contradiction now was to find all the things without causing any trouble. If there was too much noise, they would not have the time to find the things they wanted to find.

He Yiku didn't bother about it, but he silently made a note of Li Long. He thought that the tall and thin man must have sold some things to Li Long, otherwise he wouldn't have hidden in Li Long's place.

Humph, I'll get them all back double the amount then! (End of this chapter)