Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 64 Wild Boars Are Not Stupid

The wolf meat was first buried in the snow to freeze, and Li Long took one of the two wolf skins. Halimu had one before, and now there was another one, so the wooden kang was almost full.

"I will go back directly after I finish hunting the wild boar tomorrow." Li Long said, "I originally planned to be out for two days, but this time it's delayed by one day. My family must be worried."

In the small lake, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang were fishing while estimating that Li Long would be back tonight.

"If you guys go to sell fish tomorrow, I'll go to the captain's house tonight and extend the carriage for another day." Li Jianguo said to Tao Daqiang while picking up fish, "I guess we won't sell them again. We should prepare for the New Year. Daqiang, have you prepared the New Year's goods?"

"Not yet." Tao Daqiang was no longer so reserved when talking to Li Jianguo. "I have the money to buy charcoal."

Li Jianguo nodded. He was very clear about the "salary" that Li Long gave Tao Daqiang. It was not much in terms of income, but it was already a lot in terms of the current average salary and per capita income.

The difficulty facing Tao Jianshe's family lies in the fact that Tao Dayong was arrested last time. It was a big blow and it will take some time for them to recover.

But what did it matter? There were many people in the team who were much poorer than theirs, but at least Tao Daqiang could still bring back fish every day.

Some people in the team were envious and jealous and said sour words, but there were only a few who could actually endure the temperature of minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius and run to the small lake to catch fish.

Some people cannot eat fish, some people are unwilling to eat fish - saying that it wastes oil and has bones, and some people think that fish is not as delicious as pork and mutton.

Of course, most of the time it’s because they prefer to stay at home and don’t want to go out to work.

A problem that occurred during large-scale production.

Of course, things were different after the New Year. After the land was distributed to each family, people became more diligent and each one was more capable than the other.

Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang were willing to do this because they saw the benefits. Every time Li Long went out to sell fish, Li Jianguo got 50 yuan and Tao Daqiang got 5 yuan.

But the people in the team saw that there were three families in total who escaped. Gu Ermao and Tao Dayong were arrested, but Li Long was fine.

They would say that Li Long is lucky and capable, but they themselves don't dare to try.

So far, Li Jianguo and Tao Dayong are not the only ones catching fish in Xiaohaizi, but only the Li family sells the fish. Even if others know that there are benefits here, they will not come. In their opinion, the risk is too great.

However, Li Jianguo and Tao Dayong also found that there were not as many fish today as last time.

When they returned after dark, Li Jianguo estimated that there were about fifty or sixty kilograms of fish on the sled.

It was a lot, but I was not satisfied. It was like making money from a street vendor. On the first day, I made five yuan, on the second day, I made thirty yuan, on the third day, I made a hundred yuan. I thought I could make a hundred and fifty yuan on the fourth day, but it suddenly became fifty yuan again. Naturally, I was not satisfied.

On the contrary, Tao Daqiang said:

"Uncle Jianguo, there are already a lot of fish. If we want to eat them all, we won't be able to finish them in ten days."

"That's true." Li Jianguo thought about it. Before Li Long came back, who in the family would have thought of breaking a hole in the ice to catch fish? It was not that he had not thought about it at the time, but at the time he thought that it was still uncertain whether he could catch anything. Even if he could catch anything, it would only be a few kilograms at most. But breaking the ice would take at least one or two hours, and the effort was not proportional to the reward, so he didn't do it.

It still has to be Li Long.

After returning home, Tao Daqiang refused Liang Yuemei's invitation to dinner and went back with a few fish.

"Xiaolong hasn't come back yet." Li Jianguo sighed, "Have some fish soup. I have to go to the captain to renew the carriage fare."

"If he hasn't come back, then he hasn't come back." Liang Yuemei was not very worried. "Xiaolong is a steady person. He must have something to do in the mountains if he hasn't come back." Of course Li Long had something to do. During the day, Halimu had to feed the cattle and sheep, and Li Long took an axe to chop the wood they dragged back into pieces, preparing to load it onto a truck and take it away tomorrow.

In the eyes of the locals, pine wood is always a good wood, which is incomparable to poplar wood, so it is more expensive. Although it is a fallen tree, it is probably not long ago, so it is more difficult to cut.

Li Long felt that he needed some exercise. After more than an hour, he managed to chop the wood that was as thick as a man's embrace, and then started to cut it into shorter pieces.

It would be a waste to burn this wood, but there are many such things in the mountains. Even if you don't burn them, they will decay after a few years. Halimu and Yushanjiang used pine wood and cow dung cakes to start fires. These things are easy to burn, otherwise they would not have been called pine torches in ancient times - probably because they have pine resin.

By the time he had cut the wood into pieces about two meters long, which were four or five pieces each, it was almost dark.

Halimu came over to help transport the wood to the frame so that it could be loaded onto the car tomorrow.

The horse was tied to the hay pile at Halimu's house, eating hay comfortably.

Li Long came over, and the red horse No. 76 even squinted at him. Li Long thought, you are comfortable now, but tomorrow you will be tired.

He went into the winter den - now he had gotten used to the smell inside, drank some milk tea, went to bed early, and then prepared to hunt wild boars in the middle of the night.

At around five o'clock, Li Long was called by Halimu. He dressed neatly, carried a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, wrapped himself tightly in a sheepskin coat, and walked out.

Halimu led the way in front, and Li Long followed behind, stumbling and stumbling, taking one deep step and one shallow step, and he had to protect the muzzle of the gun, walking very nervously.

After crossing a ridge and a valley, Halimu stopped at another ridge.

"Look over there." Halim pointed to the valley below the mountain. "It's a grassland in the summer, with many medicinal herbs growing there. The pine cones from the pine trees on the ridge have rolled down and piled up there. Now the wild boars have nothing to eat, so they come here to dig through the snow to find food."

Li Long looked down through the pine branches. There was an open space of about several dozen acres, which belonged to the mountain grassland and extended all the way to the bottom of the valley. Now only vague traces of digging could be seen.

"Is it too far here? Should we get closer?"

"We need to get closer." Halimu continued to walk down. "The wind is blowing from west to east. We just need to find a place to lie down at the edge of the pine forest and wait."

The two men came to a place about forty or fifty meters away from the snow that had been pushed open, and each found a place to wait.

The snow was too deep, and he couldn't see in front of him when he lay down. He had to pile up the ground where he lay down, or he had to squat and shoot. Li Long felt that he couldn't hold the gun as accurately when squatting, so he simply built a gun platform with snow, which was more convenient when he lay down.

Halimu didn't need to do that. He leaned against a pine tree and closed his eyes to rest, feeling very relaxed. Li Long was a little envious, but he didn't dare to do that, for fear of falling asleep and missing the time when the wild boar came.

After waiting for about an hour, Li Long felt the ground shaking. The movement came from the right ridge. He hurriedly whispered to Halim:
"Harimu, here we come!"

Halimu immediately opened his eyes, turned around, squatted, and prepared to aim his gun.

Seven or eight wild boars began to run into the valley. This group of wild boars was not as big as the previous ones. The largest one weighed only over 100 kilograms, and the smallest ones weighed only 40 or 50 kilograms. They did not seem to have any sense of defense.

Before Li Long could feel happy, Halimu suddenly said:

"The wind direction has changed, get ready to fight, the wild boar may have discovered us!"

Sure enough, the wild boars that had just rushed down suddenly rushed up to the opposite hillside again!

(End of this chapter)