Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

What Meng Hai brought to Li Long was the pike that he had caught in the afternoon and had been skinned.

After peeling it, there were about three or four kilograms - I don't know how they got it out.

"You seemed to like it when you were eating it," Meng Hai said with a smile, "so I went to catch it this afternoon, thinking you would definitely come back, and I really ran into you."

Li Long took the basin, looked at it, and said with a smile:

"Then I'm going to live in the mountains, so you can just wait until I'm free, right? Thank you. Take this back. I'll make some for my wife. She's pregnant, so she can eat more."

"Pregnant? Congratulations!" Meng Hai said with a smile, "Then we have to go back quickly."

Li Long put the fish bowl in the trunk, waved to Meng Hai, got in the car and drove away.

The fish is still fresh, even though it’s not particularly hot right now, but it certainly can’t be kept for too long.

When he drove the jeep back to the yard, the sun had not yet completely set and Li Long was feeling quite proud.

This car is fast!

Sister Yang was cooking, and Li Long hurriedly took the basin down and went into the kitchen.

"Wow, so many little minnows—hey, they're not small!"

"Will we have enough time to stew the fish?" Li Long asked.

"Yes, but you can't finish it, right?" Sister Yang wiped her hands on her apron, took the basin, looked at it, and said:

“Let’s stew some first, and then fry the rest.”

"Okay." Li Long nodded with satisfaction and left the kitchen.

The puppy kept circling around him. Li Long originally wanted to give it a fish to see if it would eat it, but then he thought better of it, as he didn't want to get hurt.

He went back to the kitchen, got a steamed bun, came out and sat on the steps of the wing room and started playing with the dog.

A good dog needs to be trained, and all animals should be easier to train the smaller they are.

Seeing Li Long holding the steamed bun, the puppy immediately came over.

Li Long then began to "train" the dog by imitating the dog training techniques of later generations.

The little black dog was still confused and didn't know anything, so Li Long just gestured and fiddled with it with his hands, just treating it as a game.

When Gu Boyuan entered the yard, he saw Li Long feeding the puppy with steamed buns, and two young roe deer were playing around, so he was a little dissatisfied:

"How can you feed a dog with steamed buns? That's such a waste."

"Hey, Uncle Gu, don't look down on this dog. Maybe when it grows up, it can chase a wild boar into the mountains and bring it back."

"Forget it." Gu Boyuan shook his head. "Using dogs to hunt? This thing requires practice, right? How can it be that easy?"

Li Long just smiled and didn't answer. Anyway, let's just have fun, we can talk about the rest later.

Dinner was originally a simple meal of porridge, steamed buns, and stir-fried vegetables. Li Long brought back peeled pike, which made the meal more delicious. Gu Xiaoxia really liked the pike - it was better than stewed small crucian carp.

After all, this puppy fish has tender meat and a single spine, without any fine thorns, so it does not require any special attention.

Sister Yang stewed the fish very well. She put the whole fish into her mouth and gently pulled the fish tail spine, not too hard. By the time she pulled it out, there was no meat left on the spine.

Really fragrant!

I ate so much that I don’t feel like moving anymore.

After eating and cleaning up, Sister Yang started frying fish, and the whole yard was filled with the aroma.

At this time, Li Long felt as if there was room in his stomach again, so he ate a few more fried fish.

The dogfish was fried in flour, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Although the bones were still there, it did not affect the taste. Gu Xiaoxia and Li Long did not like the ones that were fried too crispy. Although they could chew and eat them directly without worrying about the bones, they felt that the fish taste was lighter.

This kind of food tastes good.

As a snack.

The next morning, Li Long returned to the team after breakfast and told Li Jianguo about the assignment.

Li Jianguo didn't expect the news to arrive so soon. He definitely planned to go with them this year. In fact, Xie Yundong had already contacted him.

In the past few days, Xie Yundong has looked for all the original ten people, including the chef Lao Huang.

Almost all of these people were willing to follow them into the mountains again to become the gang leaders - but the Tao family was different, as this time Tao Jianshe did not go, but Tao Daqiang did.

His child is almost six months old, and has lived with his grandmother for nearly half of the time. A row of houses has been built to the east of the Tao family's yard, which was built in the spring. When Li Long was helping Halim and his friends bury water pipes in the mountains, they had already started to build them.

Tao Daqiang did not ask outsiders for help in the work of digging up the soil and getting the wood. He worked with his brother-in-law Yang Yong. He only asked people from the team to help with the wall beams, and he also bought half a sheep.

Not long ago, the Tao family could not even have meat to eat during the Chinese New Year. Now, after building a small house, they can afford half a sheep to treat everyone to meat.

Tao Jianshe called people to help, all of whom were close friends, such as Yang Hua, Xie Yundong, the three Liang brothers, and his elder brother Tao Dayong. Li Jianguo was definitely called, not to do the work, but to provide guidance.

After the house is built, it only takes one or two days to paint the walls and plaster the inside.

Some furniture had already been prepared in the winter, so we waited for the walls to dry, set up the stove to dry it, and then moved in.

This means that they have not separated from Tao Jianshe, but when Tao Daqiang is not around, his wife and children stay in the east room to avoid suspicion.

So this time, Tao Daqiang was the one who was in charge of the group.

In addition to Tao Daqiang, Li Jianguo, Lu Yingming, Jia Weidong and others also went last year.

As for who Xu Haijun called, Li Long didn't care.

After Li Long finished talking to Li Jianguo, he drove his jeep to find Xie Yundong.

As for Li Jianguo, Liang Yuemei knew that Li Jianguo was going to go into the mountains to weave a bag. Last year, he earned nearly a thousand yuan by weaving a bag. It was such a good thing, and she would definitely not stop him.

So while Li Jianguo was packing up, she followed him to help.

Li Qingxia was a little envious when he saw this, and then asked Li Jianguo:

"Boss, do you think I can go with you? I may not know how to weave, but I can learn, right?"

"Forget it!" Du Chunfang spoke up before Li Jianguo could say anything. "The boss is gone for a month, how can you stay there? Besides, who are you going to learn from? If you learn from the boss, won't that delay the boss from making money? If you learn from Xiaolong? Xiaolong has to take care of other things, so will he have time to take care of you?"

Du Chunfang rarely talks so much, which surprised Li Qingxia a little.

But what his wife said made sense, so he smiled and said, "I'm just talking."

"If you have time, you might as well go fishing. You can feed your family with fish and earn some money at the same time." Du Chunfang's voice became smaller.

There was not much work in the fields during the following period, and he only had two pigs left. He even sold the old sow. Li Jianguo decided to stop being a professional pig farmer.

So Liang Yuemei can manage it all by herself.

As for the vegetable garden, the old couple Du Chunfang and Li Qingxia can help, so they can handle it.

While Li Jianguo was preparing things, he also told Lu Yingming who lived next door.

Lu Yingming has actually almost finished preparing everything, and all he needs to do now is to make the bedding.

Mrs. Lu was in charge of making the bedding, so he came over and asked Li Jianguo:

"Old Li, do you think you will let Xiaolong take us over first this year?"

If we go there first, we can recruit more people to help us, and Lu Yingming already knows that Xu Haijun will also bring a few young people over this year.

Those young people have to go there first, and we don’t know if they will occupy their dugouts. So if we don’t want to avoid disputes, it’s better to go there early.

"When Xiaolong comes over, I'll ask him if he's going into the mountain in the next two days."

Li Jianguo naturally understood Lu Yingming's thoughts, and he agreed with this idea.

After Li Long told Xie Yundong about this, he went to inform Xu Haijun.

After Li Long left, Xie Yundong immediately rode his bicycle to inform the others one by one. He had to prepare himself and give others time to prepare. He had even thought about it and decided to set off in two days.

Xu Haijun was sorting wood in the yard. He planned to build a house after he finished weaving the wood.

He was able to do the work of making the handles, but he was not outstanding. However, Li Long promised to give him extra money according to the management work, which made Xu Haijun find a place to realize his own value.

So he was quite concerned about this matter. As soon as Li Long said this, he immediately put down the work at hand and went to notify other people.

Because the team had more tractors, the transportation was assigned to the Tao family and the Liang family. This was agreed upon by Xie Yundong. Tao Jianshe and Liang Shuangcheng would drive the tractors to pick up the people and come back after they were done. Xie Yundong took the initiative to talk to Xu Haijun about this, meaning that the people Xu Haijun had found would also go with them, since the two tractors would have room for them anyway.

As for the shipping fee, Xie Yundong meant that he would pay ten yuan from his own "management fee" and the other party would give five yuan.

Although five yuan is only the salary for a porter, it is actually not a small amount. It is equivalent to more than two days' salary of a worker.

He doesn't have as much money as Li Long, so it's impossible for him to be so generous.

After notifying the team, Li Long returned to the Li family.

He and Li Jianguo had the same idea and thought that if they wanted to go there earlier, they would drive a jeep to take them there.

After all, the Jeep is fast.

When Li Jianguo saw the jeep coming, he put aside the bedding he was making.

When he was the quartermaster in the Corps, he also needed to carry a backpack for training, and he still remembered the three horizontal and two vertical ones.

Li Long got off the jeep, and before he could ask, Li Jianguo asked:
"Xiaolong, do you have time tomorrow? If you do, send us to the mountains."

"I came here just to ask you something." Li Long smiled, "Then I'll come over early tomorrow morning?"

"Okay." Li Jianguo nodded, "Do you still need to inform Juan's uncle?"

"Well, we have to inform him as soon as possible. I don't know what happened to the people he gathered there. I think if it doesn't work, I will put them in a ditch near you and eat with you."

"That's fine. We need to talk to Old Huang about this... I'll go and talk to him. Anyway, he can cook a big pot of rice. Fifteen or twenty is about the same."

Li Long also offered four yuan a head to everyone in the team. He told Liang Wenyu it was five yuan, so I had to go over and talk to him to see how much he told others.

Li Long drove a jeep to the Liang family. Liang Wenyu was very happy to see him and he couldn't wait any longer.

"The mission has been assigned, you can go. By the way, have you told your people how much money each of them will be paid for carrying the load?" Li Long asked.

"I didn't say that. I just said there was this job and that the price you offered last year was four dollars," said Liang Wenyu.

"Okay, that's four dollars." Li Long smiled, "The remaining one dollar is yours, don't mention it."

"Okay." Liang Wenyu said, "Then I'll go into the mountains tomorrow?"

"Can they pack in time?" Li Long was a little surprised. "You notify them, and they should tell their families and pack their things. Oh, I forgot to tell you that it's not worth it for five or six of you to cook. I told my eldest brother to let you eat with them. That way, you won't be far away from them when you go."

There are many ditches near Xiaobaiyanggou, including Dabaiyanggou, Yushugou, Guaishigou and so on.

There are also many shrubs and willow trees that can produce strips, so there are many places to choose from.

"We can make it in time! It would be best if we have a place to eat." Liang Wenyu smiled, "We also thought that several people would take turns to cook, and then we would bring more dry food. Since there is a place to eat, we should bring some food."

"Not only do we have to bring food, but we also have to pay the chef." Li Long added, "We have to give the chef 20 cents for each person who carries the bag."

"That's no problem!" It costs four yuan to make a handle, and the chef takes two cents, which is very cheap.

Xu Haijun didn't need Li Long to tell him, he could ask Xie Yundong about the things he should pay attention to. Liang Wenyu's side was different, Li Long explained them one by one.

Last time we talked mainly about intentions. Liang Wenyu also made sufficient preparations under the guidance of his father, but this is different.

Li Long told him about digging holes in the ground, preventing moisture and insects, and bringing cooling oil and red tofu.

Liang Wenyu had already prepared some of them, but he had not thought of some of them, so he quickly wrote them down and told others about them.

"In that case, we may not be able to leave tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow." Liang Wenyu thought about it and said. If he wanted to take people away, he would have to drive his own tractor, and Liang Donglou would drive it back when the time came.

As for where to go, Li Long has already agreed, and he will arrange it when the time comes. But we have to go early, after all, we have to dig out the cave on the same day, otherwise it will be troublesome to have no place to stay at night.

Li Jianguo and his team had the most convenient situation. They already had their old dugout, so all they had to do was renovate it.

He told Liang Wenyu everything that needed to be said, including reiterating the quality issue of the handles, asking him to pay close attention to this, then said goodbye to Liang Donglou and Chen Xiuzhu and went back.

After lunch, Li Long went to the department store, Wujiaohua Shopping Mall, and the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a lot of things.

Tomorrow I will send Li Jianguo and the others to the mountains, and also go to see Halimu, as they will be moving soon.

The pastoral team will provide part of the food needed for the migration, and Li Long’s focus is to bring them some other things.

For example, batteries, sugar, salt, tea, bullets, etc.

In addition, he also needs to gradually add some things to the cabin. When he went to set the net yesterday, he saw Fritillaria growing near the stream, which means that Fritillaria can be dug. I think those people who dig for herbs should also go into the mountains soon.

I wonder how many of the people I met last year I will meet again this year?

The main things replenished in the wooden house are food, salt, shoes and other things. Some of these things overlap with what was given to Halimu and his friends - the pastoral team would not give Halimu and his friends shoes, this is very important.

As for whether he can get Fritillaria from the herbalists, Li Long is not sure this year. This is different from making a fortune, after all, that is stable, while this depends on luck.

The next day, when Li Long came to the yard of Li Jianguo, the eldest brother of the fourth team, chewing fried pike, he found that his father and eldest brother were picking up the nets, while his eldest sister-in-law and mother were cleaning the fish.

I think my dad went to Xiaohaizi to fish yesterday, and he had a pretty good catch today.

It looked like there were only three fish, and the fish in the basin weighed at least twenty kilograms.

There were not many big fish, only six in total, one carp, one grass carp, one black carp, two silver carp and one bighead carp.

The largest one was the silver carp, which looked to be three or four kilograms, and the others were only one or two kilograms.

The rest are all crucian carp.

Seeing Li Long arrive, Li Jianguo picked up the last bit of the net, washed his hands, and started moving his things into the car.

Seeing that his elder brother had a lot of things stored there, Li Long suddenly thought of the big backpacks issued to soldiers in the army in later generations.

If you can make that thing, you can carry these things easily by yourself.

Although it looks simple, it is actually quite difficult to make. After all, the backpack is not just made of cloth, but also a light metal tube. It has to be strong and light.

If you just sew a big backpack out of cloth, it won't be comfortable to carry.

So he was just thinking about it. It would be OK to get a backpack that was half the size, and stuff the bedding and other things in it, and carry the rest in a handbag.

We’ll talk about this later.

Li Jianguo put the things in the trunk of the jeep, which could no longer hold anything else. There were already a lot of things stuffed in it - Li Long was going to take them to the mountains.

So the things Lu Yingming brought were placed on the co-pilot seat.

Of course a shovel won’t work, that thing can only be put at the back.

"Take some fish back with you when you leave." Liang Yuemei said, "Take the peeled ones and bring them back to make Xiaoxia a supplement."

"Okay. I'll bring some more for Uncle Liang and the others." Li Long said, "The jeep is fast, and this is something we can do on the way."

"Okay." Liang Yuemei smiled.

Li Qingxia originally wanted to follow the jeep to the county to sell the fish that were still fresh and had not been peeled, but later he thought better of it.

The market in the county is so small that I can’t sell much, and it’s also troublesome to come back by myself.

He would never admit that he just wanted to ride in a jeep.

Li Long took the fish, started the jeep and drove to the county. He put some of the peeled fish in the kitchen of the big yard, and then went to Liang's house. After putting the fish down, he said hello to Li Jianguo and Liang Donglou and others, and then Li Long drove the jeep to the mountains.

Knowing that his elder brother-in-law could also weave bands in the mountains, Liang Wenyu's originally somewhat uneasy heart suddenly felt much more at ease.

Anyway, if it doesn't work, you can always ask your brother-in-law for help. Li Long also said that he would arrange for them to stay in a nearby ditch, which is not a big deal.

Liang Donglou and Chen Xiuzhu were also relieved.

Li Long had neglected to tell them that Li Jianguo was also going.

Although Li Long is in charge, now that they know Li Jianguo is also there, their feelings are obviously different.

When passing by Qingshui River, Li Long smelled a strong smell of burning noodles.

Apparently, the Qingshuihe Village had already started making the carrying handles.

He Yuqing and Meng Hai acted quite quickly.

Li Long even felt that even if he gave all the 4,000 jobs of carrying handles to this side, they might be able to do it.

After all, it is closer to the mountain, so there will be many more people that can be gathered. (End of this chapter)