Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Before Li Long went to the woodworking factory to receive the batch of furniture, he counted that there were a total of seven groups of people from the Shicheng Corps company who came to buy harvesters.

This frequency made him wonder if this person was an agent of the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory?
After all, we have heard of many scams in later generations where sellers find someone to ask someone to buy a certain kind of goods.

Of course, in this life, at least for now, the real scams, or the ones who make money out of nothing, that we have encountered are the one who raises deer and the one who speculates on nuts.

They were all relatively low-level situations that were easily cracked at a glance.

Li Long told these people to come after March in the spring. Anyway, he had already told Kuitun that he was their agent, and now it seemed that Kuitun was really trustworthy.

After breakfast in the morning, Li Long started the tractor and cleared out the things in the bed - actually it was just snow. There was another heavy snow on the seventh day of the first lunar month, and it took most of the day just to clear the snow in the yard.

Li Long also took the time to clear the snow in the small courtyard to the south. Sister Yang wanted to cook, so Li Long did not let her go and went to clear the snow himself.

Fortunately, he is very strong, so this little work is nothing.

I just think that if this continues, it will be difficult to drive a tractor into the mountains. I don’t know if anyone has ever walked the road into the mountains.

When the tractor arrived at the wood factory, Li Long found that there were already some customers here to pick out furniture.

There were two groups of middle-aged and elderly people with young men and women. Li Long guessed that they might be getting married in the spring and were now choosing furniture for their new house.

How many legs or something like that.

He just took a look, and Qi Xinzhi, who was greeting guests, came over. After Li Long got off the tractor, he took the initiative to shake hands with him and said:

"The factory director went to the county to do some work. He told me this morning that if you come over, I can help you load the truck."

"Okay, okay, then I won't be polite. Go ahead and pretend." Li Long said.

Qi Xinzhi called people over to continue receiving those people to look at the furniture, and then he called some workers to help Li Long load the truck.

Later, a lot of furniture was ordered, and it couldn't be loaded into one car - in fact, it could be loaded, but they would easily be squeezed and damaged, so Li Long thought of loading it twice.

"I'll go to the finance department to settle the bill." Li Long said, "I'll come back this afternoon or tomorrow to pick up the rest."

"Okay." Seeing Li Long took the initiative to ask for payment first, Qi Xinzhi smiled and said, "I promise that when you come to move these furniture again, no one will touch them."

Li Long went to the finance department to pay the money, kept the receipt, said hello to Qi Xinzhi, and drove the tractor into the mountains.

He had already told Gu Xiaoxia in the morning, and also told Sister Yang that he would not have lunch today, and he might not be able to make it in time for lunch.

After driving a jeep for a few days and then driving a tractor, although the temperature is not as cold as in the coldest and coldest days of winter, Li Long still feels that driving a tractor in this cold winter is really a torture.

The number of cars traveling on the Wuyi Highway began to increase. By "increased," I mean that every seventy or eighty minutes, you might encounter a car coming towards you or overtaking you from behind.

The tractor was not slow, not as fast as those cars. Li Long just leaned to the right and ran slowly. His body shook along with the front of the tractor. After a while, he got used to it.

When the tractor arrived at Qingshuihe Township, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief. He could see traces of a horse-drawn carriage going into the mountains. Although it was only a round trip, the thick snow had left marks, making it easier for the tractor to drive up.

The rumbling sound of the tractor echoed in the mountains. When Li Long carefully drove the tractor to Halimu's winter camp, his family, young and old, had already left the camp, waiting to greet Li Long.

Li Long drove the tractor to the winter den, turned off the engine, got out of the car, shook hands with Halimu, and after greeting him, he greeted his family one by one.

Unload the furniture and go into the house to drink milk tea.

Halimu's wife smiled and mixed milk tea for them.

"Are there any more wolves coming from behind?" Li Long asked while drinking milk tea.

"There are still wolves at night," Halim said, "but they only bark from a distance and dare not come near. They must be those that have escaped into the forest. By the way, let me tell you something."

Halimu pointed in the direction of the mountain and said:
"Talihar came over not long after you left last time and said he ran into a big guy."

"Big guy? What? He shot it down?" Li Long was a little surprised and curious, and asked hurriedly.

"It's a bear, a bear, so tall!" Halimu stood up, tiptoed and raised his hands to gesture, "So fat!"

I rely on!

Li Long couldn't help but curse. This thing must be at least two meters tall and weigh seven or eight hundred kilograms!
Maybe even heavier!
This is an adult brown bear! The one I saw in the Yili State Museum in my previous life is like the difference between an elementary school student and an adult!
"Did he hit it?" Li Long asked after he digested the shock in his heart and took a sip of milk tea.

"No... You know, Talihar originally wanted to be a competent hunter, but there are no real hunters in our tribe. Yushanjiang and I, who are the best hunters, can only shoot and know some tricks..." Li Long knew this. He learned hunting knowledge from Yushanjiang and Halimu, and then he figured it out on his own. Fortunately, the resources of wild animals in Tianshan are too rich, and his equipment is too sharp, so he basically gets a harvest every time.

This would be impossible to happen in other places where there are many people.

It's just like thirty or forty years later, when people on this side of the China-Kazakhstan border look at the herds of gazelles running on the grassland over there - the herds of gazelles here will be only small groups of a few individuals thirty or forty years later, but there will still be large herds of dozens or even hundreds of them on the grasslands of Kazakhstan.

Why? Because even in a sparsely populated area like northern Xinjiang, the population density is far higher than that of Kazakhstan, and is many times higher than that of northern Xinjiang forty years ago.

It is naturally easier to hunt with more resources. Even if you are a half-baked hunter, as long as you have steady hands, you can use five or six dozen wild boars to hunt wolves and gazelles. Isn't it enough to just have hands?
It doesn't require much skill at all.

"Ever since he got those 17 wild goats last year, Talihar has always wanted to be a real hunter. But this time, he regretted it."

"Because of the bear?"

"Yes, this time it was the bear we encountered during the day. The bear ran very fast in the snow. It might have been woken up by a wolf or wild boar while sleeping in the winter. It was very violent and killed any animal it encountered. Talihar was so scared that he didn't dare to move..."

"Is he injured?" Hearing that Talihar was so scared that he dared not move, Li Long was also shocked. If he didn't move, wouldn't he become meat in the brown bear's mouth? Even if such a big guy sat on him for a while, he wouldn't be able to bear it, right?
"Fortunately, the bear was provoked by a few wolves that accidentally entered the bear's cave. The wolves attracted the bear's attention and Talihar escaped. He was sick at home for two days before he came to tell us about it."

Li Long nodded, this is normal.

Being stared at by a giant beast weighing nearly a ton is like facing a life-and-death test. It's normal to be scared.

"After he came and told us, Yushanjiang and I felt that this big guy might have been responsible for driving so many wolves out of the mountains."

Halimu drank up the milk tea in his bowl, handed the empty bowl to his wife, and then said, "The wolves and wild boars in the back may run out from time to time."

Li Long nodded to show that he understood.

Come to think of it, only a big creature like this could force those wolves to run out of the mountains.

A brown bear that grows to nearly one ton in weight is not afraid of a small pack of wolves and can win.

What's more, this is an angry brown bear that was awakened from hibernation.

Not to mention bears, even if a person is disturbed when sleeping soundly, he will be very angry.

"Where did the bear go in the end?" Li Long asked.

"After we learned about this, we found a few more people with guns and went there to take a look. The bear's paw prints went west, probably chasing wolves. The paw prints were covered by a group of wild boar hoof prints, so we don't know where they went."

Halimu shook his head and said:
"We are afraid of such a big creature. As long as it doesn't harass our sheep, we don't want to provoke it."

This is a common thought among herdsmen. Who would want to have a feud with a big guy whose destructive power is comparable to that of a tank?

After all, they are just herders, not real hunters.

I guess after experiencing this incident, Talihar is not so obsessed with the idea of ​​becoming a hunter anymore, right?

This is fine. Being a hunter in these mountains is far less safe than being a herdsman.

The Tianshan Mountains are 600 kilometers wide and several thousand kilometers long. In such a large mountain range, except for the inhabited area in the Ili River Valley, the rest of the area is almost uninhabited and is a paradise for wild animals.

It is normal to be beaten by the prey while hunting.

After all, there are groups of wild boars, groups of gray wolves, solitary brown bears, the newly discovered northern Xinjiang tiger, and lynx...

and many more.

There are too many things that can kill people, but there are too few people.

Of course, there are also many good things. In the past two years alone, Li Long has obtained good things such as mother-of-pearl, jade and even gold nuggets in the mountains.

The risk is too great and not suitable for ordinary people.

After expressing his feelings with Halim, Li Long said:

"That's only part of the furniture. I'll bring the rest over tomorrow. If you're fine, just notify them and they can come and take the furniture away tomorrow. Whoever registered for it will own it. Of course, if you still need it, you can continue to place orders."

Li Long sincerely hopes to help these herdsmen live a good life, and he would be extremely happy if he could contribute a little to this. (End of this chapter)