Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

There were too many things for Li Long to carry, so he could only do it in two batches.

The first time, he put the fifty mutton directly into the water and packed them in bags, otherwise the tractor bed would not be able to hold them all.

Only two sheep offal can be put into one bag, and then they are stacked up in bags.

Fortunately, Li Long brought enough sacks, and thanks to the extra bags given to him every time he went to the sugar factory to collect sugar residue, these new sacks were very convenient to load after the sugar residue was poured out.

The sacks piled on the tractor this time were not as high as the last time with the sheep, but they were not low either. Li Long and Halimu said they would come back to catch the wolves in the afternoon, and then drove the tractor out of the mountain.

Although the mountain is not as high as the last time, I still need to be careful and go slower when I go back. The snow has filled up some potholes, so they are not visible to the naked eye. If you drive into them by accident, there is no village or store in the way, and you can't find anyone to help you tow the car.

Fortunately, there were tire tracks from the oncoming vehicles, so Li Long slowed down and drove along the original route all the way to Qingshui River. Only then did he dare to step on the accelerator and drive towards the county.

Seeing that it was still early, he drove the tractor to the county woodworking factory first.

There is still half an hour left before the woodworking factory closes, and the department with less work has already started packing up.

When the tractor rumbled in, He Changming was discussing year-end benefits with the deputy director. Sheep offal was one part, and other things had to be prepared as well.

However, sheep offal is the hard stuff, and the rest can be done with gloves, laundry detergent, etc.

As they were discussing, Li Long drove in on a tractor. He Changming was still a little confused, but Qi Xinzhi had already recognized the tractor and hurried out of the warehouse.

Li Long parked the tractor in the yard of the woodworking factory, got off and shook hands with Qi Xinzhi.

"Comrade Li Long, what are you doing..." Although Qi Xinzhi had already guessed it, he still asked.

"The sheep offal that I discussed with your factory director yesterday has been delivered." Li Long pointed at the car and said, "Isn't it time to get off work yet?"

"No no."

"Then let's call the factory manager to inspect the goods and unload them." Li Long was also anxious because he had to make another trip in the afternoon.

He Changming had already walked out by this time and recognized Li Long. He didn't expect Li Long to be so efficient.

Li Long shook hands with He Changming, then got on the tractor bed, unloaded a sack first, and opened it for them to see.

"This is the whole sheep's offal. The heart, liver, lungs, stomach and intestines have all been washed, plus the fat. This plate... is about seven kilograms." Li Long said as he took out a plate.

He Changming naturally wouldn't do it. Qi Xinzhi took it, held it in both hands, weighed it, and said:
"almost."

Seeing that the frozen offal did not contain much water and had bright colors, it must be new stuff. He Changming nodded.

"Let's find a place. I'll unload the stuff. The sacks need to be kept and loaded with other things." Li Long explained, "I have to go catch wolves in the afternoon, so time is tight."

"Okay." He Changming nodded, then looked at Qi Xinzhi.

Qi Xinzhi understood immediately and called out a few times. A group of young and strong men came out from the workshop and office. They were all strong laborers and unloaded these things very quickly.

The unloading place is in an empty warehouse with a red brick floor. A layer of sawdust is temporarily spread on the ground, so that sheep offal can be poured on it without getting dirty.

He Changming arranged the dishes one by one and ordered them himself. After twenty dishes were unloaded, He Changming saw that there were still some on Li Long's tractor. He actually had the idea of ​​asking Li Long to unload a few more dishes.

However, Li Long did not give him this opportunity. He put the sack on the truck bed, asked He Changming to write a receipt quickly, and then drove away on the tractor.

He Changming felt a little regretful, but these twenty dishes were enough to share.

Looking at the young men who were carrying the items into the water looking at these things eagerly, He Changming waved his hand:
"Everyone, get ready to leave work first. Don't worry! Our pre-New Year benefits are not just this, there are other things as well. We will distribute them to everyone after the purchase is completed!"

Although I wanted to move the offal back home right now to provide some income for my family, but since the factory director has spoken, I'll just have to wait.

But it seems that the sheep's offal will definitely be harvested. The people in the factory are in a good mood and they are much more energetic working in the afternoon than in the morning.

When Li Long drove the tractor to the yard, dinner was already served.

Hearing the sound of the tractor, Han Fang was the first to run over and open the door, followed by everyone else.

Seeing that Li Long was pulling half the stuff on the tractor, the others were not surprised. During the meal, Gu Xiaoxia had already told them about Li Long's experience of going into the mountains to pull sheep into the water and the wolves.

Li Long often appears and disappears mysteriously, and everyone has gotten used to it. Now when he comes back at noon, Sister Yang cooks extra food and is not worried about not having enough to eat.

After getting off the tractor, Li Long changed his clothes, washed his hands and ate, and also told him about what happened when he went into the mountains.

"You said you killed sixteen wolves in one night?" Gu Boyuan was also shocked when he heard it. "So many? Was anyone injured?"

"No, it was just that some elderly people and children were frightened." No one in the winter den on the Yushan River expected to be attacked by wolves, so this happened. Fortunately, there was no danger in the end.

"They are really ferocious, sixteen wolves. If they appeared in the plains, the whole village would be in trouble." Gu Boyuan sighed, "The herdsmen in the mountains have a really hard time!"

"That's right. If there really were a pack of wolves on the plain, the militia would have gathered to practice shooting long ago." Gu Xiaoxia, who had also served in the militia, said as she ate, "No matter how powerful this wolf is, it won't dare to come to the village."

"That's true." Gu Boyuan also felt that his imagination just now was a bit unreliable. He smiled and continued eating.

"Uncle, is the wolf big?" Han Fang asked curiously.

"The leader wolf is as big as a big bull." Li Long stretched out his hand and gestured, "The other wolves are as big as big dogs."

There were not many pet dogs at that time. Most of the dogs you could see were local dogs and Chinese pastoral dogs. The smallest one was several times larger than the little Teddy bears and Bichon Frise dogs of later generations.

"That's really big!" Han Fang exclaimed.

"It would be beautiful if this were made into a specimen," said Gu Boyuan.

"Yes, but it's too late. When I got there, they had already skinned it and packed up the contents of its chest."

Li Long was also amazed in his heart when he said this. He really had nothing to say about his friends in the mountains. After killing the wolf, he skinned it and removed its internal organs.

What else can I say?

He didn't look closely at the wolf king, but he thought the wolf fangs should be very good, right?

After lunch, Gu Xiaoxia didn't let Li Long send her off. Gu Boyuan originally wanted to stay in the yard to help, but Li Long didn't let him either.

The remaining thirty or so plates of offal were in sacks. He carried the sacks into the side room and stacked them one by one. They would be taken to Shicheng to be sold in two days.

Of course, it goes without saying that you have to keep some food for yourself.

Originally, Li Long wanted to ask Gu Boyuan to bring back a plate of fish from the water, but Gu Boyuan refused, saying that he had lunch and dinner in the compound and that the small crucian carps there would be enough, so there was no need to get more fish from the water.

After unloading the sewage, Li Long rested in the house for a while, then filled the tractor with oil and water and drove into the mountains.

When Li Long arrived at the winter camp in the mountains, Halimu and his friends had already had lunch, and Nathan and Susken were helping Halimu clear the grass in the pen that had been nibbled by cattle and sheep.

In winter, herders would let their cattle and sheep out on sunny days to graze on the grass covered by the snow.

But the wolves have been quite aggressive these past two days, so we didn’t have to worry about it. Anyway, there was plenty of grass to be harvested in the autumn, so we just focused on feeding the animals.

Li Long's tractor came over, and Halimu and the others stopped what they were doing and helped Li Long load the wolf skins and meat onto the truck, as well as the sheep heads and hooves that had been unloaded two days ago.

Sheep heads and sheep trotters are delicious when cooked. In his previous life, when Li Long was in his forties or fifties, he loved eating spicy sheep heads and sheep trotters.

As for those words like "pour it on", he was not used to it. He still had to clean the sheep's head and hooves and fry them himself. It was clean, safe, and tasted good.

Most of his cerebral hemorrhage was caused by what he ate.

Of course, it is very troublesome to clean up. When cleaning up the sheep's head, the hair is usually burned off first, but the skin is not peeled off. Then, a red-hot iron rod or iron hook is used to burn the hair roots, and then it is scraped off.

The dirt in the sheep's nose needs to be boiled and washed away, a layer of skin needs to be peeled off the tongue, etc.

It was very troublesome to clean up anyway, after all, blowtorches were hard to find at that time - looking at the mountain of sheep heads and sheep hooves, Li Long planned to go back to Wujiaohua Shopping Mall to buy a blowtorch.

Anyway, we use a jeep and there is gasoline at home.

There is not much to do before the winter, so I can take care of everything with my dad and elder brother.

Clean up, peel the meat, cut the chili skin, and cook spicy sheep's head and sheep's hooves...hmm.

Li Long wiped his saliva, pretending not to notice the surprised looks of Halimu's family, and first put the sheep's head and hooves in the truck bed, together with the wolf skin, and then the wolf meat.

As for the wolf heads, he did not let them go either, as they were all meat.

In this day and age, there are not many families in the countryside that eat meat like Li Long's family. Most of them still rely on the pigs they raise at home. Those who don't raise pigs carefully calculate their family's money before the New Year, save the money for farming after the New Year, and then save it to buy a few pounds of meat.

So even if wolf meat doesn’t taste good, it’s still meat.

There is meat on the wolf's head and hooves. If there is meat, it is better than vegetables!

No matter how bad it tastes, can it be worse than eating pickles every day? Li Long likes to eat pickles. He can't eat enough of them in his lifetime, but he doesn't eat them every day. He only stir-fries them two or three times a week, and he still has to put meat in it and add more oil to make it delicious.

If he really took the pickles out of the jar, washed them and cut them, he wouldn't be able to eat more than a few bites because of the bland taste.

Therefore, if he were to sell this wolf meat at one yuan per kilogram, there would definitely be people vying for it.

Reform and opening up, land distribution, household contract responsibility system, and land contracting. Although the current land output has not yet increased, it is better than the previous two years.

So the price of meat has obviously increased. The price of a large piece of meat that originally cost RMB 1.67 has increased to RMB 2.

The price of mutton, which originally cost one yuan or two yuan, has risen to one yuan and sixty or seven yuan.

However, the price of eggs did not increase. After all, every household raises a lot of chickens, and commercial chicken farms have also sprung up.

So Li Long was not worried at all that these things could not be sold.

It is still far from a buyer's market, and supplies have been in short supply, especially meat.

The food factory’s meat supply requires meat tickets. The supply is based on tickets, which can only mean one thing: there is not enough meat.

This is why the free market thrives - if planned materials are insufficient, the market must make up for it.

During the Chinese New Year, Xier's father was thinking about buying a red hairband for Xier. In the next ten years, the Spring Festival Gala always talked about dumplings. Who doesn't want to give the family a good meal during the Chinese New Year?
If I can’t afford the good ones, can’t I afford the cheaper ones that don’t require tickets?

Why is there often a "buy-out?"

Of course, the rush to buy eventually died down in China, and then spread to the north and west. After all, our country is still very capable of making things. Forty years later, it is still unmatched in the world.

After loading the wolves, wolf skins, wolf heads and wolf hooves, as well as sheep heads and sheep hooves, Li Long felt that he could not load any more things, and if he loaded more tractors, they would protest.

After entering the house and drinking a bowl of milk tea, Li Long told Halimu about the furniture and asked the other people to tell them to wait, as the furniture would be delivered after the New Year.

Halimu nodded, and his wife smiled after hearing what Nathan translated.

She asked for a cabinet. The cabinet for cooking and storing things was old and the boards inside were about to break, so she wanted a new one.

After drinking the milk tea, Li Long drove the tractor back.

From Halimu's winter den until he left the mountain, Li Long never heard the howling of wolves again.

Is it really wiped out?

Not necessarily, it’s just that these wolves have become stray dogs and can no longer be so arrogant.

After leaving the mountain pass, when Li Long was driving back, he saw a group of gazelles running through the gaps between the red willows on the right side, which was the east side.

If we get out of the car now and chase after them with guns in hand, we will most likely be able to hit one or two of them.

However, Li Long did not get off the tractor and continued driving.

There is plenty of meat at home, so there is no shortage of food. Besides, he is tired now and doesn't want to fight.

When the tractor drove to Qingshui River, the dogs in Qingshui River Village started barking.

Originally, Li Long's tractor passed back and forth here. At first, the dog barked quite fiercely, but later it gradually stopped barking because it got used to it.

Now the dogs suddenly started barking, and many of them ran out of the yard, gathered in groups, and barked at the tractor.

This shout startled many people and they rushed out of their houses, holding sticks and shovels to see what was going on.

It was also a bit strange when they saw Li Long driving a tractor pulling a cart of meat.

When someone carefully looked at the wolf heads, they would understand.

It turns out that the dogs were barking because of the smell of these wolves.

Someone shouted at Li Long:

"Did you get that wolf meat from the mountains? Is it all wolf?"

"All of them." Li Long slowed down. It would be fine if he could sell a few here.

"Are you selling it?" Someone else saw Li Long slowing down and immediately followed him and asked.

"Sell, one kilogram for one dollar." There were nearly twenty wolves, weighing more than 800 kilograms. Li Long thought that as many as he could sell would be the best.

When the man heard that it was one dollar per kilogram, he was a little tempted.

"Huh? Isn't this Comrade Li Long?" A familiar voice sounded.

Li Long took a look and laughed.

Militia company commander Meng Hai, I have eaten chicken at their house.

Li Long parked the tractor on the side of the road and turned off the engine. He got out of the car, shook hands with Meng Hai and said:
"Captain Meng, are you free?"

"I'm not free. I just took the militia to the village for a competition." Meng Hai smiled and pointed at the wolf meat on Li Long's tractor and asked, "Did you just fight?"

"Yes, my friends in the mountains shot them. There have been a lot of wolves in the mountains recently. They dare to attack herders in broad daylight. I brought them some bullets and ambushed them the night before yesterday."

"Wow, that's great!" Meng Hai exclaimed as he looked at the large amount of wolf meat. "That's a lot! Are there so many wolves in the mountains? There have been quite a few wolf howls recently. I've seen wolves scattered around the south slope, but they're not in packs and they don't dare to come to the village."

"Of course, if we really get to the village, we'll become your target." Li Long joked, "Wolves are cunning."

Some other people also recognized Li Long, and those who didn't know him explained that he was the man who collected brooms in the summer.

"Comrade Li Long, are you planning on selling this wolf?"

"Well, I plan to take it to Shicheng to sell it." Li Long said truthfully, "The New Year is coming soon. Wolf meat is not as delicious as beef or mutton, but it is still meat after all. Let's sell it at a lower price. I think someone should buy it."

"Okay, I'll help you shout." Meng Hai said immediately, "Old He is not here, I'll go to his house and use the loudspeaker to shout for you, you can go to my house and have a rest first."

"No, no." Li Long looked at the sun, which was still more than a pole high. He thought it would take another hour to drive to the county, so it would be better to go back early.

"Why are you in such a hurry? We have a tractor and a gun, what are you afraid of? At worst, I can take the militia to send you back. Comrade Li Long, we didn't see you go into the mountains before, but now that we see you, if we don't keep you and entertain you, Lao He will scold me when he comes back."

Meng Hai held Li Long tightly and Li Long couldn't walk, so he had to drive the tractor to Meng Hai's house.

Meng Hai was afraid that Li Long would leave, so he stayed with Li Long in the yard. Then he called another militiaman to go to the village director's house and shouted a few times on the loudspeaker.

Li Long thought that at most only a few people would come to buy wolf meat, after all, wolf meat is not as delicious as beef or mutton. Qingshuihe Village is on the mountainside, and the militia has guns, so it is not difficult to trap rabbits and yellow sheep in winter.

Who would have thought that just while he was drinking a cup of tea, more than ten people suddenly came into Meng Hai's yard, and more people were coming one after another.

Meng Hai was still chatting with Li Long and didn't care about it at this time. He asked his wife to find the scale and started selling meat on the spot.

"Everyone, the wolf that Comrade Li Long brought here was killed these past two days. Wolf meat is just like dog meat. It is a great tonic in winter. Please be careful when eating it. It is hot in nature and is a good thing."

Meng Hai knows what he is talking about. He first advertised for Li Long, and then said:
"The meat is frozen and hard to cut now. Comrade Li Long sells it cheaply, one dollar a kilogram, and everyone has heard about it. So let me tell you something. Let's buy a wolf together. That way it will be easier to calculate. When we get back, we can figure out how to divide it. How do you think?"

His words saved Li Long the trouble. He only had two knives, so it would be quite troublesome to cut the wolf meat bit by bit.

After Meng Hai said this, no one else had any objections, and then they started to form their "small group".

Li Long gave Meng Hai a thumbs up. (End of this chapter)