Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Even when they were sitting in the car, Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong felt a little dreamy.

Five kilograms of Fritillaria to save one person?
It’s really cheap, too cheap!
The one bitten by the snake was Qiu Chunlei, the cousin of the two of them, a relative, who was brought out to make a fortune together. Originally, everything was fine, but today when they went to dig Fritillaria, there were not many Fritillaria in the ditch where the three of them were originally staying, so Qiu Chunlei said he wanted to dig in another ditch.

The two men didn't quite agree but they couldn't persuade the young man and let him go. As a result, they actually found a nice Fritillaria ditch. When it was almost dark, Qiu Chunlei hurried over with a bag of Fritillaria. But he was bitten by a snake before he got there. When it was bitten at first, he was so angry that he caught the snake and killed it. Later, he felt his legs numb and swollen, and then he realized it was a poisonous snake.

The two men couldn't look back now, so they picked up their nephew and ran out of the mountain. Now they thought of Li Long as the only one who could save their nephew, because Li Long had medicine.

"Are you two going?" Li Long watched two people lift the person onto the tractor, and then they both climbed on.

"Go, go, let's all go." Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong both said.

"Okay, sit tight. You'd better squeeze the blood from the wound to see if you can squeeze out the poisonous blood."

"Do you want to suck it with your mouth?" Qiu Bingzhong asked.

"If you don't have any wounds or ulcers in your mouth, you can try it, but it's best not to try it."

After locking the door of the wooden house, Li Long no longer cared about the things outside. Saving people was the most important thing.

The tractor rumbled out, and the sound could be heard far away in the night sky. There were people in the forest who were planning to come and sell Fritillaria. When they heard the sound of the tractor, they were a little puzzled. What was going on in the middle of the night?

Since I can’t change it, I have no choice but to go back.

But there were also some people who didn't believe it and ran to the wooden house to take a look.

Li Long shifted the gear to the highest position, and the tractor sped out of the mountain quickly. When they reached Qingshuihe Township, Li Long stopped and said to the two people in the bucket:

"Hurry up and go to the health center and ask the doctors there if they can save him!"

Qiu Bingyi was stunned for a moment, but Qiu Bingzhong reacted quickly, jumped out of the car and ran to the township clinic.

There was a doctor on duty at the health center at night. After hearing Qiu Bingzhong's words, the doctor who was eating dropped his chopsticks and ran out. He ran to the tractor, took a look, and then waved at Li Long:
"Hurry, go to the county hospital!"

Li Long was about to shift gears when the doctor called out again:
"Wait a minute!" He ran in again, came out with a scalpel, cut a cross on Qiu Chunlei's wound, and said to Qiu Bingyi:

"Squeeze. You just need to tie your legs at the beginning. Now... squeeze."

The tractor started again, and by the time it arrived at the county hospital, it was completely dark.

Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong carried Qiu Chunlei and ran inside. Li Long got off the tractor and went over to help, mainly to see if there was anything needed.

These two people were rich, so the hospital at this time focused on treating the disease first. When they heard that it was a snake bite, they took it very seriously and sent the patient to the emergency room immediately.

Li Long saw that he could only wait, so he said to Qiu Bingyi:

"Then you guys wait here. I have to go back to the mountain. Some of my things are still outside."

"Thank you, thank you so much!" Qiu Bingyi held Li Long's hand, "We must send the five kilograms of Fritillaria to me as soon as possible!"

After leaving the county hospital, Li Long turned on the headlights of the tractor and rushed to the county at night.

In order to save people, the pots, stoves, beaten eggs, rice, and more than ten kilograms of Fritillaria that were drying outside were not cleaned up.

I don’t know what it is like now.

It was too dark, and although Li Long's car lights were bright, they could only illuminate a small area.

After passing Qingshuihe Township, Li Long looked at the thing jumping in front of the car lights and laughed.

A long-eared jerboa was jumping quickly in front of the car following the headlights. This thing later became a second-class protected animal, but in this era, there are many in the wild and it is very interesting.

The fun part is that during the day they stay far away from human habitation and are basically invisible. But at night, as long as there are headlights, they will follow the headlights. Although they look fast, they are actually much slower than cars and tractors. In a couple of years, when there are more motorcycles, these creatures will also follow motorcycles, and the final outcome is likely to be death under the wheels.

In the 1990s, when asphalt roads were gradually becoming more popular, it was common to see the bodies of these creatures on the road, crushed into pieces of paper.

There were a lot of these things at the moment. At first there was only one, then two, and later many. Li Long didn't dare to drive fast, for he was afraid that if he stepped on the accelerator, all these cute little things would die.

But there was no other way. Compared with a human, this thing was faster, but it was much slower than a tractor anyway. Li Long could only turn the light on and off. This thing particularly liked light, and would scatter once the light was turned off. This way, he could still protect a few of them.

There are more things that are phototactic at night, sometimes they can even attract rabbits.

When they were almost at the mountain pass, Li Long stopped the tractor. He saw a round thing crawling on the side of the road and laughed.

It was a rare opportunity to drive the tractor at night, and it was really rewarding.

Li Long got off the tractor, took off his coat, wrapped up the round thing, looked around again, and when he didn't find anything else, he threw it into the truck bed and continued on his way.

This is a hedgehog.

nice one.

When the tractor drove up to the wooden house, Li Long looked at the scene in front of him, feeling angry and helpless.

The pot was still on the floor, but the beaten eggs were gone, the rice was gone, and the stove was cold. The dozen kilograms of Fritillaria that I had washed and hung out to dry were also gone.

There was no way to find out who took it. Li Long was a little angry, but he did not regret it.

It's important to save people.

He couldn't ignore human life. Lin Xiaohu and He Yiku deserved to die, so he wouldn't feel sorry for them, but if he didn't save Qiu Chunlei just now, he might regret it for the rest of his life.

After simply packing up his things, he still felt a little hungry. There was no more rice, so he went into the house, added more fire to the stove, and ate the rice crust. He had eaten a small piece of this rice crust at noon, originally intending to have it as a snack, but now it was just to fill his stomach.

The food was too dry, so I poured some hot water on it to soak it. Then I took a steamed bun and put it under the stove to roast. I only went to bed after I had filled my stomach.

I always feel a little unfair, but there is nothing I can do.

The next morning, Li Long got up and went out of the house, and heard a strange sound. He followed the sound and found the hedgehog in the truck bed crawling anxiously. He had just thought about forgetting about this guy.

The big hedgehog weighed about five or six kilograms. When it saw Li Long, it immediately retracted its body into its thorns. Li Long thought it was interesting, so he went into the house, broke off a piece of rice crust and put it in front of it, then went to add water.

The hedgehog waited until Li Long had finished walking, then showed its pointed beak, sniffed the rice crust, and then slowly began to nibble on it.

Hedgehogs are omnivorous. Li Long once raised one. It eats sunflower seeds, watermelon rinds, and various fruits. It also eats grains and can be fed with human staple foods. It also seems to eat insects.

Li Long originally planned to have a snack after catching this thing, but he didn't have time at the moment. He finished his breakfast first, and then prepared to go and see how the fish were doing in the place where the net was set.

Hulimata also had breakfast. What happened last night made him feel complicated. On the one hand, he felt proud of saving a person, but on the other hand, he felt upset because of his own loss.

In fact, the loss was not that much, just a few dozen dollars, but this was the first time, so I felt this way.

The sun rose, and the dewdrops on the grass tips absorbed the sunlight and flashed with colorful light. Li Long came to a valley less than one kilometer to the southeast with his gun on his back.

The stream here is bigger, the terrain is complex, there are many drops, and Li Long has seen fish swimming in it.

He walked along the grass and followed the stream to find the place where he set the net. Before he got there, he saw fish jumping at the bottom of the net.

Because they are all in the water, these fish are still alive, big and small.

The mesh of this net bag is only one finger wide, so the smallest fish that can be caught is about the length of a palm. Anything longer is as long as a chopstick, and any smaller ones will slip away.

When Li Long lifted the net, a few fish squeezed out of the net bag and fell into the stream. Then Uncle Huankai drilled to the bottom of the stone and disappeared.

I weighed it and it's about two or three kilograms, not bad.

There are mainly two kinds of fish, pike (mountain loach) and whitebait.

These two types of fish are more difficult to handle, but they taste extremely fresh.

Li Long walked back with a net bag in his hand and a gun on his back. The net bag was swaying above the stream. Occasionally, one or two fish would squeeze out of the bag and fall into the stream, which was considered a new life.

Li Long quickened his pace until he got out of the valley. When he was almost at the wooden house, he saw someone else coming over.

Two people, one in the east and one in the west, seemed to be minding their own business, and each of them had a bag of mother-of-pearl under their feet.

Bolati was farther away and ignored the two men. After Li Long came over, he rode over and asked with a smile, "Li Long, are you going to catch fish?"

"Yeah. Why are you here so early?"

"I collected some Fritillaria yesterday and came to sell them to you today. Oh, and exchange them for some wine. Loose wine, not for me to drink, I brought it for others."

Li Long ignored the two men, and they didn't dare to move. However, seeing that Bolati ignored them, they became a little bolder.

After Li Long weighed the Fritillaria for Bolati, gave him money and wine, and reminded him to be careful of snakes.

"This thing is very annoying!" said Bolati. "Every year, a few horses or sheep are bitten by them. Once bitten, it's over. It's a loss."

"Next time you see someone bitten, tell me and I'll buy it." Li Long's heart moved and he said immediately.

"Really? Can it be eaten after biting it?" Bolati didn't understand.

"Snake venom is different from other poisons." Li Long couldn't explain to him what neurotoxins and blood circulation toxins were.

"Okay, I'll come and call you if there's anything." Bolati said to Li Long and rode away on horseback.

The two men then came over.

"Boss Li, thank you." said someone.

"What?" Li Long didn't understand.

"We met the forest patrol and they didn't arrest us. They probably did it for your sake," the man said with a smile.

"Well, he doesn't take care of you in this area, but I can't take care of you outside this area." Li Long said.

"That's good enough." The other person finally realized what was happening and said immediately, "Luckily we met here today, otherwise we would have suffered a lot of losses."

It seems that these two people have suffered losses.

After Li Long weighed the two people, they probably wanted to thank Li Long, so they asked for half of the money and exchanged the rest for food, supplies, etc.

Together with Bolati, the three of them brought Li Long 47 kilograms of Fritillaria.

Li Long saw that some of the fish he brought back were already dead, so he put the Fritillaria aside and cut open the fish first.

Compared to crucian carp, this fish is like a thin stick, not easy to handle, but delicious, without small thorns. There are also wild wormwood nearby, which is perfect for cooking fish. Li Long has already thought about most of it, two kilograms of it will be used for stewing, and more than half a kilogram will be used for fish soup. The fish soup only needs a little salt, it must be very delicious.

When he heard the hedgehog moving in the truck bed again, Li Long threw the peeled fish entrails to it to see if it would eat it.

What surprised Li Long was that this guy actually ate it.

So easy to feed!

After cleaning the fish, Li Long soaked it first and then washed the Fritillaria.

After all, there is still some time before lunch.

These Fritillaria were newly dug and most of them were covered with dirt. Li Long washed them very carefully and spread them out on the carrying handle and the wooden floor.

He has thought about it now. Maybe he can check the source of the Fritillaria and see who took his Fritillaria away.

After all, washed Fritillaria is still different from fresh Fritillaria. Even if those vagrants clean the Fritillaria and then dry them, or send them back, they will definitely not be as clean as I do.

Of course, this hope is a bit slim, and I don’t know if I can come across it.

After drying the Fritillaria, Li Long lit the two stoves outside, poured half a pot of water into one of them and started boiling, while he prepared to make soup.

Although they had rice yesterday, they had fish today, so he planned to stew the rice. The fire in the inner room was just right, so he boiled water to prepare the stewed rice. Li Long went to the west and picked some pepper wormwood to prepare to stew the fish.

Now that there is no fresh chili pepper, we can only use dried chili peppers. Of course, the taste is also good.

After a while, the aroma of fish soup wafted around the wooden house.

The fish stew needs to be fried in oil so that the soup inside the fish will be milky white. As for the fish soup on the other side, Li Long has no idea, the longer it is stewed, the better.

Pour the fish on the rice and eat and drink at the same time, that feeling...

Drooling.

After eating and drinking, Li Long went to turn over the Fritillaria. The sun was strong at noon, and the sun dried quickly. He simply took out the bedding and continued to dry it. This can also prevent insects. Although the wooden house in the mountains looks windproof, some beetles can still get in through the cracks.

This wooden house is okay, but if you live in a tent at night in the summer, you will have to sleep with beetles.

When it was hot, no one came. Li Long was so quiet that he wanted to move. He lowered the net to the stream again and changed the location. He planned to send some to his elder brother if he could catch more.

When the sun was setting and the sunlight was not so strong, people came one after another to sell Fritillaria. Li Long examined them carefully, seemingly checking the quality of the Fritillaria, but actually wanted to see if there were any of his own Fritillaria.

Unfortunately, there was none among the more than 100 kilograms of Fritillaria that we collected. They were all fresh.

When the sun was about to set, Li Long cleaned up the place and prepared to go to Xiaobaiyanggou to inspect today's work.

When the tractor was halfway there, he saw Bolati riding a horse galloping towards him.

"Li Long, a sheep was bitten by a snake. Do you want to help? Five dollars will do!"

When Bolati saw Li Long, he shouted loudly.

"Yes." Li Long said, "Is it on your horse?"

There was a sheep tied to the back of Bolati's horse.

"Yes, yes. I was bitten by a snake on the North Mountain this afternoon. I was almost bitten. I am still alive now. I am not completely dead. You can take a look."

"I believe you." Li Long got off the tractor and went to Bolati's horse. Bolati hurriedly got off the horse, untied the rope that tied the sheep, held the sheep and put it into Li Long's truck, and then he saw the hedgehog.

"Are you still raising this? I see it every day. If I see it later, I'll catch it for you."

"Here, ten yuan." Li Long said, "This sheep weighs at least twenty kilograms. Five yuan is too cheap. Take it."

"Li Long, you are such a good friend." Bolati was actually helping others. In the past, if the snake bit the sheep and died, it would have to be thrown away. He originally thought that if Li Long accepted the five yuan, it would be considered as recovering some of the loss. But Li Long gave him ten yuan, which was really a bit unexpected.

"We are all friends, so we can't let our friends suffer." Li Long said, "Okay, go back and tell them. I'm going to Xiaobaiyanggou to collect the gang and skin the sheep."

"No, I'll have to help you skin the sheep. I'm better at this!" Bolati said, "I'll go first, let's see who gets there first."

Then Bolati rushed over there on horseback.

Li Long shook his head. This seems a bit... okay. Who made me popular?

After all, the mountain road was uneven and not completely straight, so Li Long's tractor drove a little slower. When he arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, Bolati was already waiting there.

Xie Yundong and the others didn't know that Bola was coming to work, and the other people who were working were a little nervous. However, Li Jianguo told Lu Yingming that it was okay and not to worry about it.

Bolati got off his horse about 20 meters away from the dugout, took out his knife, and found a stone near the stream to sharpen it. This behavior was a bit strange.

It was not until the sound of the tractor that everyone realized that this person was here and must be related to Li Long.

When Li Long's tractor stopped and he took a sheep out of the bed, Bolati immediately began to skin it.

At this point, no matter how dumb other people are, they will understand.

Li Jianguo came over to ask, and Li Long explained the whole story.

"So what are you going to do with this sheep?"

"I'll leave you one leg, and I'll take the rest back." Li Long said, "Eat some and sell some."

"Okay, that's good." (End of this chapter)