Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Finally saw it again.

Two-headed deer.

However, the distance was too close, so Li Long could see it clearly this time.

It's not that this deer really has two heads. It only has one head with very long and big horns. There is another head with horns hanging on it, but now only bones are left of the head.

This reminded Li Long of a video he had seen in his previous life. Two deer were fighting, and one was killed by the other. However, the horns of the two deer were entangled and could not be separated. In order to survive, the victorious deer could only drag the dead deer's body along. It was not until the dead deer's flesh rotted and its head and neck fell off that the deer was slightly relieved.

But for some reason, the horns of this majestic male deer did not fall off, nor did it grow antlers.

Are deer antlers now too strong?
Li Long is not an zoologist, so he doesn't know why. But when he saw the deer, the deer also saw him. At this moment, the deer had another deer's skull on its head, and one horn was still hanging on the skull. The other horn had fallen off and no one knew where it went.

It looks quite weird.

When the deer saw Li Long, it accelerated instantly, then stood in front of the deer and protected the deer with its body.

However, at this moment, a roar came from the bushes, and a brown bear as tall as an adult jumped out. Seeing the deer in front of him, he immediately pounced over with his palms raised!
The adult male elk panicked and turned around to protect the calf. The calf also became anxious when it heard the brown bear's roar, and ran towards the woods above, staggering. Then it tripped over the grass, fell, and tried to get up twice but failed.

The fawn's anxious cry distracted the male elk, and when he turned his head to look, the brown bear had already launched an attack - it slapped the male elk with its paws.

Only then did Li Long see that the male elk had several wounds on its body. However, it was also brave. Its head and horns were much taller than the brown bear's. It lowered its head and charged towards the brown bear!
Li Long felt like he was watching a movie. Is this male elk so brave? He actually dared to confront a brown bear head-on!
The deer's antlers hit the brown bear first. Although they didn't penetrate, they still hurt the bear. It roared and grabbed the deer's face with its claws. The claws, which were like small daggers, left deep blood marks!

The male deer wailed, but struggled hard to get out of the bear's claws, took a step back and pushed forward again. This was the only way it could resist the bear.

The brown bear learned its lesson this time. It dodged and then grabbed the elk's neck with its claws.

The male elk knew he was outmatched, so he turned and ran away, running in the direction of the calf, heading down the ditch. The brown bear was a little confused, wondering which one to chase.

Li Long was waiting for this moment. He aimed at the brown bear's head and pulled the trigger!
"Bang bang bang!"

Three bullets were fired in succession. After the brown bear was hit by one bullet, it roared and rushed over here. Then it was hit by two more bullets. The brown bear wanted to turn around and run into the bushes. It was not stupid at all. It knew it could not win, so it just turned its head and fell to the ground.

The power of five or six and a half bullets cannot be underestimated!
Li Long did not take it lightly. This time he was able to ambush someone by accident, which was even easier than the last time. He turned his head and looked down. The two-headed deer had disappeared into the grass. Looking up again, the fawn was still struggling in the grass. He didn't know if it was too badly injured. It didn't cry at this time, but just fluttered there.

It seems that this fawn is the calf of a two-headed deer, and the two-headed deer has fatherly love for it, but I guess this love is limited. I don't know where the mother deer is, and whether she has died in the grass in front.

Li Long observed carefully and found that the brown bear's body did not move, and it did not seem to be pretending to be dead. However, he did not dare to be careless and raised his gun again and fired at the bear.

The bear remained motionless.

Li Long was relieved. If the brown bear could pretend to be dead and not move even after being shot, then Li Long would be willing to be fooled.

But he stopped where he was, loaded his gun with bullets, and then walked towards the bear with the gun in hand.

The bear was not very big and was somewhat similar to the bear he had hunted last time. It gave people the feeling of a 15 or 16-year-old boy of that era, not yet an adult, but already rebellious, not wanting to follow around adults and wanting to carve out a career on his own.

And then he died.

Li Long walked up to the bear and poked it with his bayonet. The bear did not move, so he put his gun aside, took out his knife and prepared to skin it.

The most valuable part of a bear is naturally its gallbladder. Having had experience before, this time it was very easy to take the gallbladder out of the bear's body. I wrapped it in the prepared cloth and put it in my bag.

Then, facing such a half-grown bear, Li Long was really worried.

The tractor couldn't get in because the bear was about the same size as an adult and weighed more than 100 to 200 kilograms.

At most I can bring back two legs, the rest will be wasted.

But there is nothing we can do.

Finally, Li Long decided to take the bear skin away, and as for the meat, just a slab and a leg would be enough.

While he was skinning and picking the meat, there was movement in the bushes again. Li Long quickly put down his knife and picked up his gun.

Then I saw a wild boar coming out from the grass, sniffing its nose, obviously because it smelled blood.

Li Long raised his gun and started shooting, but the wild boar was also very alert. When it saw Li Long, it turned around and retreated into the tall grass.

I don't know if I hit it or not.

Li Long did not chase after it. At the moment, he could not catch the bear completely, and if he caught a wild boar, he would be stuck with a white ball if he could not get it back.

It’s better not to fight.

Continue to skin the bear. The bear is quite fat, if it is not too big, it is easy to skin. Li Long skinned the whole bear, then took off the ribs and legs, put them in the skin, tied them up with a rope, and left.

Take two steps out and return. There is another better thing on the bear, which is the bear's paw.

I can't make it myself, but this thing can be given as a gift.

Li Long turned back, cut off two bear paws, tied them with a rope and hung them around his neck. He really couldn't carry the rest.

The little deer struggled and ran into the forest at some point, and Li Long thought it might not survive.

But I don’t have time to look for it.

It took Li Long nearly two hours to return to the wooden house with the spoils, and then he saw Sun Jiaqiang.

"What are you doing..." Sun Jiaqiang was sitting on the tractor seat. When he saw Li Long, he was also startled. He jumped down to help. While helping Li Long take the things down from his neck, he asked:
"What is this? It doesn't look like a wild boar. Is it a bear?"

"Yes, it's a bear." Li Long put the bear skin and bear meat on the tractor rack and said:

"Yesterday I heard a guy digging for Fritillaria say that he encountered a bear in the mountains. It wasn't a big one, so I thought about going over to shoot it. I didn't expect that I actually encountered one and shot it."

"Your luck is too good, isn't it?" Sun Jiaqiang said enviously, "I heard about it, saw it, and shot it. When I was in my hometown, I never heard that hunting was so easy."

"I'm lucky." Li Long said with a smile, "It's always been like this when I hunt."

Li Long was telling the truth. He had been hunting in the mountains with a gun since last year, and he almost always got the results on the spot. There was rarely any continuous pursuit. This was really different from what he had imagined hunting to be.

It’s okay if it’s different, as long as there are gains.

"Where is the remaining bear meat? Did you throw it into the mountains?" Sun Jiaqiang asked.

"Yeah." Li Long waved his hand. "If we can't bring it back, we can only throw it in the mountains."

"Where is it? Tell me, I'll go find it!" Sun Jiaqiang got anxious after hearing this. "That's a bear, so big... Can we eat it for a long time if we bring it back? It looks so fat..."

Li Long did not hide it from him and drew a detailed map for Sun Jiaqiang on the ground. Sun Jiaqiang had been wandering around the area for quite some time. After Li Long said this, he found out the specific location after a few questions. Then he took the bag from Li Long, grabbed a kitchen knife and quickly ran into the mountains.

Li Long only remembered Sun Jiaqiang after he ran away, and didn't ask him why he came.

But when he saw a bag of Fritillaria standing next to the tractor, Li Long understood.

He didn't have time to take care of the Fritillaria for the time being. He first boiled water to process the bear bile. Then he smeared salt on the bear skin, spread it out and hung it on the tractor bed to dry.

Then they processed the bear meat. The two bear paws were rubbed with salt to avoid attracting flies. The meat from the bear chops and legs was removed, and the bones with meat were cooked in a pot on the stove outside. The removed meat was cut into small pieces and stewed with the lard that Li Long brought back specially.

The bear was not big, but its bear fat was comparable to lard. Soon, the pot for stewing meat began to produce oil as clear as water, which was bubbling and spreading a slightly different aroma.

Li Long stood by the pot, looking in the direction of Sun Jiaqiang from time to time. After a while, another person came to sell Fritillaria. What surprised Li Long was that the Fritillaria this person brought was also half-dry and half-wet. Li Long also charged him six yuan.

The man was about to explain, but then he stopped talking. But the bear skin caught his attention, and he asked:

"Boss Li, did you hit me?"

"Ah."

"You got the guts?"

"Yes."

"Can you sell it to me?" the man said with a smile, "I have something good here, let me exchange it with you!"

"What do you want to exchange with me?" Li Long asked curiously.

"Take a look." The man took something out of the bag that contained his personal belongings.

Li Long was delighted when he saw it. This is Jasper.

The quality of this jasper is pretty good, but it's not big, weighing about two kilograms. If you look closely, you can see slight black spots on it, which is not as good as the jade he got from Halim the first time.

"Jade, you know? This piece sells for hundreds of dollars. If you meet someone who knows the business, it's not impossible to sell it for thousands of dollars!" The man said mysteriously, "I'll exchange this for you, and you have to give me some money."

"Forget it, I don't understand this stuff and I don't want it. I think bear bile is good enough."

As soon as he said this, the man was held up.

I originally wanted to exchange it for bear gall and sell it back in the county for more money, but no one was willing to take it.

But then the man understood. Li Long is a local. It is impossible for him to have never seen jade, and it is impossible for him not to know the value of bear gall.

I was blinded by my desire to make money.

Li Long was a little puzzled as to why he didn't go down the mountain to sell these dozen kilograms of Fritillaria.

"It's still dozens of kilometers down the mountain. I'll have to carry this thing until tomorrow. It's too tiring. Why not exchange it for money here?" The man said it very frankly.

But Li Long really didn't understand. As for being able to endure hardships, these people stayed in the mountains for more than a month, just like wild people, which was definitely hardship.

But if you say they can't endure hardship, it's obvious that if they take these Fritillaria to a county dozens of kilometers away and dry them, they can get twice the price, but they are unwilling to carry them for just these dozens of kilometers.

Well, I can't understand.

After exchanging the money, the man saw that the pot of meat was boiling, and he pestered Li Long to cut him a small piece of bear meat, saying that he wanted to try it.

Li Long fulfilled his wish.

While eating the bear meat, the man carried the bag and walked towards the back mountain with satisfaction.

Li Long poked the meat with chopsticks, and it was not yet rotten. However, the meat and oil over there were almost cooked, so he turned off the fire. Wait for it to cool down, scrape it into the basin, and then cool it down again. After it has soaked, you can take it away directly with the basin.

Seeing that Sun Jiaqiang had not returned yet, Li Long went to the wooden house and planned to steam some rice. After the bear meat was cooked, he would cut some and mix it with cold sauce, and then fry some eggs.

After the rice was steamed, Li Long scraped the meat and oil from the stove outside into a basin and brought it back to the house to cool. There was some oil left in the pot on the stove, so Li Long went to get some wild onions and fried some wild onion eggs with the oil.

He beat eight eggs, and that, along with the meat, should be enough for two people.

When Li Long saw that the bear meat was cooked, Sun Jiaqiang's figure appeared in the distant forest.

What made Li Long laugh and cry was that Sun Jiaqiang was carrying a bag and dragging another bag in his hand. He had obviously brought back all the remaining bear meat.

Li Long hurriedly went forward and took the bag from him. He could feel that Sun Jiaqiang was almost exhausted.

Li Long carried the bags in each hand back to the wooden house and said to Sun Jiaqiang:
"Why did you take so much? Why don't you leave any... Look at your clothes, they are all soaked with sweat."

"Since you've got them, take them all, otherwise your efforts will be in vain." Sun Jiaqiang leaned against the tractor and panted while laughing. "When I went there, I saw that strange deer, the one with two heads. It ran away as soon as it saw me. Hey, this time I can see clearly that it's not a real two-headed deer. It has a skull deer head with a horn on it. I don't know how it got there."

Li Long didn't expect that the deer didn't go far away. He wondered if the female deer was really dead in the mountains, or half-dead?
Or maybe the deer didn't find its child, so it came here to look for it again?

But I don’t want to think about it too much right now. I have to eat first.

There are so many good things in the mountains, it is impossible for you to get them all.

However, Li Long wanted to go there again after returning from the county to see if there would be any other gains.

Sun Jiaqiang rested for a long time before standing up. At this time, Li Long had already served the rice and cut the meat and arranged it on a plate. He didn't hesitate and started eating as soon as he went to the table.

"Not bad, not bad, this meat is delicious." Sun Jiaqiang said with a smile, "Boss Li, your cooking skills are not worse than Lao Huang's."

"Of course it's not good. But it's a home-cooked meal, that's what it means." Li Long said with a smile, "Besides, you must be hungry, otherwise you wouldn't eat like this."

The two of them ate two bowls of rice each. Li Long ate all the fried eggs and cut meat. He was worried that Sun Jiaqiang was not full and wanted to cut more, but Sun Jiaqiang waved his hand and said no. After all, he was already full.

"What are you going to do?" Li Long pointed at Sun Jiaqiang's bag of mother-of-pearl and said, "Are you going to dig more later?"

"No more digging." Sun Jiaqiang said, "Now that you have the bear meat, when are you going to return?"

"In the afternoon." Li Long pointed at the meat that Sun Jiaqiang brought back and said, "You have to let me process this meat, right? I'll go back after I'm done with it."

"What do you mean my meat? This is your meat." Sun Jiaqiang waved his hand, "Why should I take this meat? It's useless. I brought it back for you. I just need to eat it. I've already eaten the meat. You can do whatever you want with the meat."

Li Long didn't expect Sun Jiaqiang to think this way. He was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said:
"I can't do this. If I do this, I will be embarrassed."

“Alright, alright.” Sun Jiaqiang waved his hand. “I can earn money safely this month and have a place to eat, so I have to accept your kindness. Let me tell you, there are almost no blind drifters like me who have not been caught by the forest patrol in the dozens of kilometers around this mountain. Once caught, the Fritillaria dug in a day is gone, and the day’s work is in vain. Some people have even been caught several times, but what about me? I can dig Fritillaria safely and don’t have to worry about the problem of food. Old Huang’s cooking skills, plus you send meat every day…”

"You have also paid for the rice and flour, haven't you?"

"Without you, who would Old Huang know me as?" Sun Jiaqiang laughed. "Okay, don't beat around the bush. I'll ask you for money for the Fritillaria, but you can take the bear meat with a clear conscience. I want to be your friend, but I can't just take advantage of you and say nothing, right? That's not how you make friends."

Well, since he had said it, Li Long had nothing to say. He went to weigh the Fritillaria for Sun Jiaqiang and then gave it to him at six yuan.

Sun Jiaqiang didn't act pretentiously. After receiving the money, he leaned against the wall of the wooden house and said:
"You are good at handling meat, so I won't bother with it. I'll take a rest for a while. Let me know when you leave, and I'll take your car down the mountain."

Li Long nodded and went to process the meat.

Not only meat, but also offal.

"When I went there, the meat had not been eaten yet. It was quite strange." Sun Jiaqiang said with his eyes closed.

"When I was walking, I encountered a wild boar, and later a deer. Maybe the wild animals nearby knew there were bears, so they didn't dare to go over." Li Long guessed.

The meat and internal organs were covered with a lot of grass leaves, mud and other dirt. After Li Long washed them, he turned the stomach and intestines inside out and then cooked them again.

Because I have to go back today, I can’t wait until it is completely cooked before I have to take it out and put it in a bowl.

The remaining meat had to be chopped up and cooked in a pot in the house. Once the door was locked, it would not be affected even if someone left.

In the afternoon, Li Long drove a tractor, carrying four bear paws, a bear skin, a pot of stewed bear meat and oil, Sun Jiaqiang and the Fritillaria he had received in the past two days, to the county. (End of this chapter)