Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Ma Xiaoyan ate three pieces of roe deer meat before she went to wash her hands, still unsatisfied. Then she followed Li Long's example and scooped up the soup from the enamel basin to drink.

Li Long's tractor in the mountains is always equipped with an enamel basin, which can be used after rinsing. There is no need to be so particular at this time.

Li Long was shocked when Ma Xiaoyan was eating meat just now. She eats too much. Isn’t she afraid of getting a stomachache if she continues like this?

Obviously it won't hurt. Nowadays, no matter men or women, they have little fat in their stomachs, so it is normal to eat more when they see something delicious.

Liu Jun ate four pieces of meat directly and seemed to have some energy left.

Li Long ate two pieces, a leg bone with a femur. He gnawed the tendons on the femur clean and left them for Li Juan and Li Qiang to play with. Then he ate a piece of neck meat.

I originally wanted to eat the ribs, which are more delicious, but I felt that they were not cooked well enough, so I decided to eat the live meat from the neck.

After drinking the soup, it was already dark, so we went to the wooden house and agreed with Halimu and the others to continue tomorrow.

Tomorrow we will mainly go to the grassland, one to shoot the grass-cutting scene, and the other to continue the interview.

Ma Xiaoyan feels that there is still a lot of material worth exploring, and she will think about it carefully before going to bed at night.

With the tractor in front and 212 following behind, they finally arrived at the cabin before dark.

Looking at the wooden house, Ma Xiaoyan's eyes lit up.

Halimu’s winter nest was too shabby, which actually fits her impression of a winter nest.

Although Li Long's wooden house was covered with a layer of mud to keep it moist, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that it was newly built.

Add to that the shed, the poles for drying meat outside, and the table that has been left outside and has not been put away, it looks like the secluded residence of a master in a martial arts novel.

It fits so well!

Ma Xiaoyan was very excited. She ran over after getting off bus 212 and looked around, including the toilet at the back.

Li Long parked the tractor and opened the doors of the two rooms. He had to give the large room to Ma Xiaoyan and Ye Laya, and the small room was barely occupied by himself and Liu Jun.

The big room was easier, as there were already beddings on the wooden bed, so they just had to tidy them up. Some things in the small room needed to be tidied up, as two people had to sleep on the floor, so they had to bring beddings from the big room to spread out the bed.

Fortunately, although it is called a small room, it is actually only about 10 square meters in size. Excluding the shelves around it, it is enough for two people to sleep in. And they can also not interfere with each other.

After he made the bedding in the small room, he set up the stove and boiled some water.

He couldn't sleep for a while. He waited until the fire was burning and the water was boiled before he put on some coal foam, reminded the two people to be careful not to get gas poisoning, and then went to the small room with Liu Jun.

The two grown men had nothing to talk about and were both tired, so they fell asleep quickly.

Ma Xiaoyan couldn't sleep. Firstly, she had eaten a lot, and secondly, she was thinking about the interview tomorrow and was discussing it with Yelaya from time to time.

Ye Laya was very conscious and knew that she was only on secondment. Whether she could stay and work in the county depended on whether Director Ma would say something good about her. If he could, she might have a chance to stay.

Ma Xiaoyan discussed with her the topic and questions for tomorrow's interview, and she also took the initiative to help and cooperated very well, which Ma Xiaoyan thought was pretty good.

Because of the stove, the temperature outside dropped, but it was still warm inside. Ma Xiaoyan knew that Li Long and his friends didn't have a stove. Now she knew that she had caused a lot of trouble to others by staying in the mountains for one night.

For example, according to Li Long's idea, he could actually use a harvester to harvest dozens of acres of land on a hillside this afternoon, but he gave up because of the interview.

Li Long volunteered to go up the mountain to cut grass, so he must have wanted to go back as soon as possible. If he was delayed for half a day, he would be late for half a day, and he would definitely not be happy.

Ma Xiaoyan just wanted to finish the interview as soon as possible tomorrow so as not to delay their grass-cutting work.

Although she worked in a propaganda department, she did not have any bureaucratic habits or official-centered thinking at that time. If others gave them convenience, they would try their best to consider others.

In the middle of the night, there was a wolf howling outside. Ma Xiaoyan was frightened awake. She wrapped herself tightly in the quilt and tried to lean in. Ye Laya also woke up. Seeing Ma Xiaoyan like this, she comforted her:

"Officer Ma, it's okay. The door is locked, the wolf can't get in. And I saw Li Long with a gun, if the wolf dares to come over, he will shoot."

As we were talking, we heard a few gunshots from next door in the direction of the wolf's howling. The wolf's protest howl immediately turned into a scream of escape, and then there was no sound.

It turns out that the mountains are not safe either.

The next day, everyone got up very early. Ma Xiaoyan was worried, and there were wolves howling in the middle of the night. Li Long was thinking about how to prepare breakfast more fully because he had guests.

He got up early and picked a bunch of mushrooms. When Ma Xiaoyan and the others opened the door, Li Long had already lit the fire on the stove outside and was boiling water.

Ma Xiaoyan blushed. Women get up later than men and men have to cook for them. In this era, women would feel embarrassed.

"I picked some mushrooms this morning. There aren't many straw mushrooms left now, but I can still find some black tiger mushrooms, but they're not big anymore. I'll use the stewed meat to stir-fry some mushrooms, and then make a cold salad with mugwort. I finally found a handful, enough to make a dish."

Li Long did not embarrass Ma Xiaoyan. He said directly, "There are steamed buns in your room that I made the day before yesterday. Do you like to eat steamed buns or sliced ​​and baked ones?"

Yelaya didn't care and listened to Ma Xiaoyan. Anyway, she knew that Li Long respected Halimu and his people very much, and there was no wild boar meat here at the moment.

As for whether it existed in the past or in the future, she didn't care.

"Then I'll do the cooking. I like grilled food, it's crispy and fragrant." Ma Xiaoyan made the decision directly, "Xiaoye, help me watch the fire."

As for Liu Jun, he was not assigned any work. Drivers today are still a pretty cool profession, the kind that only listen to orders and not announcements, so when they need to do work, they basically ignore him. Anyway, even if he is assigned, he basically won't do it.

Ma Xiaoyan is not completely devoted to work. She is good at stir-fried mushrooms. When she stir-fried mushrooms, Li Long made cold mixed wormwood. Some people regard this thing as the king of wild vegetables. If you want to say it tastes good, it is definitely better than cold mixed wormwood.

The taste of that thing when served cold is as good as that of zheergen. It’s okay for those who like it, but it’s ok for those who don’t.

The Artemisia salad is quite simple to make, and after that he went to toast the steamed bread slices.

Liu Jun looked at the pile of mushrooms Li Long brought back. He was a little curious and a little surprised. He didn't expect that the resources in this mountain were so rich.

Most people in the plains don’t know much about the Tianshan Mountains, even though they are only a few dozen kilometers away.

So Liu Jun was so surprised that he went to the back to release some water, and then started searching in the grass and woods, and he actually found some mushrooms.

After he got it back, he asked Li Long to take a look. Li Long picked out a part and said:
"Brother Liu, these can't be eaten. The rest can be eaten - I'm not sure about the ones that can't be eaten. If you want to keep them, then leave them alone and go back and ask someone you know to take a look."

Liu Jun followed suit and simply threw away those that were inedible.

He didn't want his family members to get poisoned by eating mushrooms.

The three of them cooked very quickly together. Before the sun rose, they were already eating at the table outside.

The temperature hadn't risen yet, and it was actually quite cold outside, but since we were all young people, no one cared. Besides, the space inside the house wasn't suitable for four people to eat together, so it would be better to eat outside.

Ma Xiaoyan had already experienced eating meat yesterday, and when she was cooking today, she found that Li Long's wooden house had a sufficient supply of meat. Just now, when she was frying mushrooms, she put less meat, but Li Long actually asked her to put more, saying that it would not taste good if she put less!
Please! I put a lot of it myself. Ordinary people can only put half of this amount at home!
The amount Li Long requested was four or five times that of an ordinary family!
What a luxury!
The meal was eaten quickly. After the meal, Ma Xiaoyan and Ye Laya took the initiative to clean up, while Li Long took his enamel basin to the spring to rinse it.

Ma Xiaoyan saw the spring and sighed:

"Comrade Li Long, the location of your wooden house is simply perfect! If there is electricity here, it can be like a small villa in the mountains."

Li Long smiled and said nothing.

This is what people with a bit of petty bourgeoisie would think. Living in the mountains has too many inconveniences. Unless you have a car that allows you to go down the mountain whenever you want, most people probably can't stand staying here for more than two nights.

Like the wolf howling last night, even though they know the door is locked and the wolf can't get in, most women living here would still be afraid.

After cleaning up, Li Long put three bags of dried meat into new bags from the small room, each weighing about two or three kilograms, and then carried them out.

"It's not easy for you to come here, and I don't have anything good here. You can take the dried wild goat meat and roe deer meat home to eat. This meat is Kazakh style, Xiaoye should know, I think it tastes good." Ma Xiaoyan symbolically declined and put it away.

Liu Jun was not polite. Ye Laya didn't expect that there was one for her. Seeing that the other two people had collected it, she also collected it.

The three bags were put into the 212 vehicle. Li Long added water and oil to the tractor and drove to Halimu's winter home.

Everyone had already arrived and had eaten. What surprised Li Long was that Halimu and the others had made new naan this morning. Although he had already eaten it, Li Long still couldn't help but break off a piece and eat it.

Ma Xiaoyan also tried it after Li Long's introduction and found it delicious.

Then they went together to the grassy slope where they were going to cut grass.

212 was not easy to get through at this time, so Liu Jun simply stayed here. Ma Xiaoyan and Ye Laya went over on a tractor.

Originally, Halimu and his friends wanted to take Ma Xiaoyan and the others on horseback, but Ma Xiaoyan was a little worried and still felt that riding a tractor was more reliable.

The tractor stopped at the grass slope where they were going to plough. Ma Xiaoyan looked at the slightly steep slope and asked Li Long:

“Can this tractor go up there?”

"Sure." Li Long said, "You interview them first, and I'll start fighting."

As he spoke, he adjusted the position of the tractor and started mowing along the edge of the grass slope.

The sound of "thump, thump" echoed on the hillside. Ma Xiaoyan took a picture first, then put away the camera after thinking for a while. She planned to take a few more pictures after Li Long had mowed two circles. That was when she felt more.

Li Long was cutting grass, and the other herders had nothing to do. Usually at this time, everyone would go to other grass slopes to find wooden stakes and stones, but today because there were county cadres, they all gathered here to listen to what the cadres had to say.

Ma Xiaoyan did not refuse. On the one hand, she continued the interview, and on the other hand, she asked Halimu and others to pick the grass with wooden forks.

Although the grass is still green and not suitable for bunching, the photos are in black and white so it is hard to tell.

Sometimes expediency is necessary.

After taking appropriate photos, Ma Xiaoyan asked some more questions and then let them do what they should do, leaving only Halimu and Yushanjiang.

These two people have been friends with Li Long for the longest time and can provide the most material, so Ma Xiaoyan feels that she can dig deeper into them.

At noon, Ma Xiaoyan took suitable photos and went back to Halimu’s winter home with Li Long and others to have a meal of meat. Finally, she said goodbye to Li Long and others and went back to the county.

There was enough material accumulated for writing articles, and almost everything that could be dug up had been dug up. Although she was reluctant to leave, Ma Xiaoyan knew that she had to go.

Firstly, the approval for the car expires today, and secondly, Li Long and his team still have work to do, so we cannot affect them any further.

After 212 left, Talihar looked at the shadow of the car and sighed:
"This car looks so beautiful! When can we have a car like this?"

"Just ride a horse for the rest of your life." Another young man laughed at him.

Li Long said with a smile while gnawing on the bone:

"If you can get a dozen wild goats like we did that day every year, or a dozen deer, and sell the things on the deer, you can save up money in five years and buy a used car."

A private Santana was priced at 212 yuan at the beginning. But for ordinary people at that time, second-hand cars were not unacceptable. The cars eliminated from the army were actually very popular, and ordinary people could not get them.

Li Long was not bragging. In another three to five years, when the market is open, if you can't afford a Santana, you can still buy a second-hand minivan.

And it's cheap.

In 1983, the country decided to introduce a micro-car production line, and the next year, Tianjin's yellow Daihatsu van began to be assembled and produced, with a price of yuan.

Of course, it is said that because it is so popular, car dealers have almost doubled the price.

Li Long can't afford it for the time being, but it's only temporary. There is still hope if he tries hard.

What I told Talihar was true. Every year, a dozen deer, the deer skin, deer penis, antlers or antlers of a deer can be worth several hundred yuan. A dozen deer can be worth several thousand yuan.

If you can't afford a new car in three to five years, a used car should be fine.

Everyone else present took this as a joke, but Talihar took it seriously.

He said to Li Long:
"Is it really possible?"

"Okay, when you kill a deer, take off the antlers, deerskin, and deer penis and keep them. I will help you sell them later. Save the money. It will be enough in a few years." Li Long answered seriously.

"Good!" Because Talihar had shot a group of wild goats, he was very confident about hunting at this time. He felt that he had the ability to do it.

Continue mowing in the afternoon.

Two days later, all the wooden stakes and stones on the grass slopes were cleared away, and a dozen herdsmen worked together to clear the two pastures with more shrubs that could not be harvested with harvesters. Then they had some free time. Halimu meant that before the grass dried up, they would go hunting and get more skins for Li Long.

At lunchtime, Li Long remembered his task of sweeping the floor, and said to Halim:

"You guys are free anyway, why don't you do me a favor and cut some poles. I want to take them back to make a big broom, and I need the handles for the brooms. I don't have time to do it right now, so you can help me. It's fifty cents per pole..."

"Li Long, don't talk to us about money." Yu Shanjiang interrupted him, "How many do you want? We'll just go get them. Just tell us the standards and we'll definitely get them done. Don't talk about money, or we'll get angry!"

Okay, Li Long then told me the standards for the pole.

Following Li Long's standards, the herdsmen rode their horses towards different valleys.

They are all familiar with this area of ​​the mountain and know where to get such poles. They are also very skilled at it. Cutting poles is actually much easier than hunting.

When Li Long returned to Halimu's winter home after cutting grass in the afternoon, the herders who had returned one after another had more or less bundles of poles on their horses.

One end has been sharpened, the skin has been peeled off, and the twigs have been trimmed cleanly. It looks good.

After thanking them, Li Long put the poles in bundles into the bed of the tractor and pulled it towards the wooden house.

In the next few days, Li Long was cutting grass while the herdsmen cut poles. It was easy for one person to cut dozens of poles a day. When Li Long finished cutting all the grass slopes, there were more than 3,000 poles piled up by the wooden house.

The herders wanted to cut more poles, but Li Long stopped them. He thought the grass they had just cut should be dry after such a long time, so he asked Halimu and the others to bundle the grass. It would take a while to bundle so much grass.

The current harvesters are only used for harvesting, unlike the later lawn mowers that can bale the crops directly after mowing.

Halimu and his friends couldn't persuade Li Long, so they stopped cutting poles and started to bundle grass.

Because they were used to working together, and now only the grass in Halimu's pasture was dry, and the others would take some time, so all the herdsmen were tying grass in Halimu's pasture.

Li Long drove the tractor to the wooden house, loaded a cart of bucket poles, and pulled it down the mountain.

Although there were not enough poles, there was still time. He planned to go down the mountain to distribute the poles to each family, and then take his eldest brother and father up the mountain to cut poles.

If you want to make money, it is better to focus on making money for your family first.

This time of cutting grass, the total time spent in the mountains was no more than ten days, but Li Long experienced a lot.

What he didn't know was that after Ma Xiaoyan went back, she wrote another long article about Li Long's incident in just two days. After being read by the deputy and standing committee members of the propaganda department, she bravely submitted it to the autonomous region's daily newspaper.

Although Ma Xiaoyan was a little nervous, she was more confident: she believed that this article would definitely be published! (End of this chapter)