Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The first person to discover that the door of the wooden house had been pried open was Bolati. He saw that the doors of both rooms had been pried open, some of the bedding in the big house was missing, the thermos had been smashed, and a lot of things in the small room were also missing, so he knew something bad had happened.

Now that Li Long was not around, Bolati immediately rode his horse towards Xiaobaigou.

He knew that those who were making the porters in Xiaobaiyanggou were Li Long's men, and by finding them he was able to contact Li Long.

When they arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, Bolati looked around and saw that only Old Huang was still idle due to his old age. He rode up to Old Huang and was about to speak when Xie Yundong, who had already noticed him, came over and asked:

"Hello, are you looking for Li Long?"

"Yes, yes, I'm looking for Li Long." Bolati dismounted and said quickly:
"Li Long's wooden house was stolen. Tell Li Long quickly. I don't know how much stuff was stolen from it..."

When Li Jianguo heard that Li Long's wooden house had been stolen, he became anxious and dropped the rope he was making, jumped out of the pit, ran to Bolati and asked:
"I'm Li Long's eldest brother. Was the house broken into? Were other things destroyed? Did you see anyone?"

"Well, the lock was pried off. I didn't see anyone there, but it must have been done by those people digging for herbs. Those bad guys! If I see them, I'll tie them to the back of my horse and drag them to death..."

Li Long was Bolati's recognized friend, and he was very angry when Li Long suffered losses.

"Brother Li, don't worry." Xie Yundong pulled Li Jianguo who wanted to run over there, "It's useless for you to go now. We can only wait for Li Long to come back. If he wants to bring people into the mountains to look for him, we can just follow him."

Xie Yundong was right. Now we had to look for him. But where should we look in all directions?
In fact, everyone, including Li Jianguo himself, knew that this might be the end of the matter.

If they pried the lock off and stole the things inside, then the person must have run away. In this deep forest, if you hide inside, no one can find you at all.

"You go find Li Long and tell him. I'll go find a lock and lock the door for him first." After saying this, Bolati rode away on his horse.

"This friend of Li Long is really good." Old Huang came over and said, "He knew to help Li Long lock the door of the wooden house."

"What's the point of locking the door if something is lost?" someone said in the distance.

"It's still useful. It's impossible to throw away everything in there. The stove and other things can't be moved away." Xie Yundong said, "If it's not locked, and someone comes over and sees the door is open, won't they move other things away as well?"

This is true.

We cannot test human nature. After all, a few days ago, someone, an internet celebrity, took away the food and vegetables left by the herders in the transhumance house, and said, "I took them away because they are not mine." Is this what a normal person would say?
Li Jianguo returned to his position as the leader. He felt powerless at this moment - although he had a shotgun in his hand, he didn't know who to aim at.

Li Long's wooden house was five kilometers away from here. Even if he ran over now, the thief would have already run away. He was not a policeman and was not good at tracking. He had no idea where to start.

Li Long found out that the wooden house had been pried open the next morning after he sent Gu Xiaoxia to work and arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou.

He immediately drove the jeep to the cabin. Li Jianguo and Xie Yundong both shouted that they wanted to follow, but Li Long refused.

The door of the wooden house was indeed locked. Knowing that it was Bolati who did it, Li Long felt that this person was really nice and a true friend.

He didn't have the key and couldn't open the door, so after getting out of the car and locking the jeep, Li Long slowly walked towards the grass on the south side.

After just a few glances, Li Long discovered the clue.

In some places the grass had been trampled down and had not fully recovered.

I think a lot of things were taken from here, and the footprints of this person and the things were quite deep, and the damage caused to the grass on the turf has not yet fully recovered.

Li Long immediately returned to the jeep and chased after him with five or six semi-automatic rifles.

Thanks to his rebirth, God gave him extraordinary strength, vision, hearing and senses.

Li Long believes that he will find the thief soon!
When Bolati came to the cabin again, he saw the jeep.

He got out of the car happily, only to find that Li Long was not in the car and the door was locked.

Bolati saw that the door of the wooden house was still locked, so he waited here. He planned to wait until Li Long came back.

Bolati looked around and saw no one around, so he took down two bags of fritillary from the horse's back.

He hid yesterday's bag in the woods, and today he collected another half bag, intending to give it to Li Long in exchange for some things.

Li Long walked into the woods with a gun in hand, following the not very obvious traces.

When we got here, the traces became clearer - because the thief was carrying heavy objects, the footprints were left on the soft ground and were very obvious.

Li Long followed the footprints, climbed over two mountains and entered a ravine.

It is obvious that there are a lot of Fritillaria growing in this ravine, and there are more traces of excavation. Obviously, this place has been excavated.

The thief's traces stopped at a dugout.

Li Long looked at the empty dugout and realized that the thief must have stolen something and moved it away.

Li Long looked around again. The traces here were quite messy, with many footprints.

He looked around for a long time before following a deeper set of footprints.

Walking out and climbing over the ridge, Li Long saw a piece of cloth hanging on the bushes beside him, and he knew he had found the right place.

You damn thief, today I’m going to beat you so hard that even your mother won’t recognize you!

He could tell that the thief had left the cave yesterday, probably because he was afraid of being caught.

The general direction of departure was in the opposite direction of the cabin, but they deliberately circled the forest several times. There were several places with soft and very thick moss, and if Li Long hadn't had good eyesight, he would probably have lost it.

Even so, it took Li Long nearly two hours to finally find the thief's whereabouts in another Beimu Valley separated by two ravines.

This ravine is lined with dense pine trees on one side and shrubs on the other. There are many Fritillaria growing next to the pine forest, so it is no wonder that this person chose this place to build his dugout.

Li Long saw the figure at the edge of the pine forest. He was digging Fritillaria with skillful movements. He used the shovel in his hand to dig and dig out the Fritillaria. If there was any Fritillaria, he would pick it up immediately. If there was none, he would never dig a second time.

There was already a lot of stuff in the bag next to him, which looked like it must be at least two or three kilograms.

Li Long quietly moved over, and when the man heard the noise and turned around, Li Long's gun was already pointed at him.

Seeing the gun pointed at him by Li Long, the man's face turned pale, but he still said slowly:

"Comrade... could you please put down your gun? I'm just picking some Fritillaria... it's not a capital crime, right?"

"Picking Fritillaria? Where did you get the clothes you're wearing?"

The reason why Li Long was sure that this guy was the thief was because he was wearing the work clothes he left in the wooden house - the work clothes were issued by the supply and marketing cooperative, and Li Long wore them as work protection clothes and kept them in the wooden house to change occasionally.

It is now being worn by this person - like a coat.

This is a man in his forties, hunched over and very thin. Although he looks dull and honest, there is actually a cunning gleam in his eyes.

"You mean this dress?" The man looked down and suddenly realized, "I found this in the ditch this morning. I was wondering how such a nice dress got lost in the ditch. Did you lose it?"

"Bang!" Li Long put away his gun and slapped him in the face. Are you still trying to argue?

Li Long grabbed the man, and the man grabbed the bag, while he argued and begged for mercy.

Li Long had already observed it clearly. He dragged the man to a stone cave and pointed to the bedding drying not far away and said:
“Did you pick this up too?”

"Well, did you pick it up?"

"Did you pick that up too?" Li Long pointed at the stove built on three stones beside the cave, as well as the unfinished biscuits and the pile of noodles.

The man stopped talking.

Li Long was so angry that he knocked him to the ground with two punches, then stomped on him and kicked him.

If Li Long hadn't been worried that if he kicked the guy to pieces, there would be no one to pick up the things later, he would have thought of just beating him up.

When Bolati saw Li Long, he was carrying a bag and in front of him was a man carrying two bags.

Bolati was a little confused: What does this mean? Is this the person who stole Li Long's things?
At this time, it was not only Bolati who saw Li Long taking people away. There were two more people in the woods in the southeast.

The old herbalists all knew that things could be exchanged in the cabin, and most of the newcomers also received this information from the old herbalists.

Some people think that they have brought enough things with them and that food is easy to find in the mountains, so they should be able to survive this herb-picking season.

The old herbalist would only say, you think too simply.

Knowing there is a supply point, you will know how delicious it is when you wait until mid-May.

There are both old herbalists and newcomers watching here, and they are a little confused about what is going on.

This jeep is a bit shocking. Could it be that the original person is no longer here?
It was not until Li Long brought people over that they realized that the person had not changed.

As for why Li Long was holding this man, they soon understood. Li Long took the man to the wooden house, and Murati immediately asked:

"Li Long, what's going on? Is it him?"

"Yes. He stole my supplies, my clothes and blankets, and the shoes I was going to change... Damn it, I leave this guy to you!"

"I'll confess, I'll confess..." The man couldn't bear it anymore. He was carrying two large bags and was so tired that he wanted to rest when he was beaten by Li Long.

When he wanted to rest again, he was beaten again.

He just couldn't stand it anymore.

He wanted Bolati to take him away quickly, he didn't want to be beaten.

If you are taken away by the forestry team, you will be detained for a few days at most and then deported.

It's much better than being beaten.

Li Long handed the thief over to Bolati, and he took out the stolen quilt from the bag and hung it on the wire.

As for the clothes, he planned to soak them in a basin first and wash them thoroughly before wearing them.

Although it was not very strong, he could smell a sour odor on the clothes.

Li Long didn't want to wear it at all if he didn't wash it.

As for the noodles that had not been opened or had been consumed by the thief, Li Long used the seven or eight kilograms of Fritillaria he had dug up as compensation.

"By the way, Bolati, you can take some Fritillaria back with you so that you can report back." Li Long pointed at the thief, "If you destroy forest resources, you must have evidence, right?"

He planned to ask Bolati to take two or three kilograms of Fritillaria back to report, so that the people in the forestry team would not disbelieve him.

"No, no." Bolati was tying the thief's hands. He said, "I brought two bags this time, with seven or eight kilograms of Fritillaria. Just give some to me."

Based on the current situation, Li Long guessed that the price of Fritillaria would increase this year. The Fritillaria he got now was worth at least several dozen yuan, which was enough compensation.

"What do you want to exchange these Fritillaria for?" Li Long asked Bolati.

"Wine, tea, sugar cubes." Bolati wanted some of each thing.

Li Long did not take what he brought back this time. He opened the trunk of the jeep, took out some things from it, put them in a bag and handed it to Bolati.

"There are some canned food in here, so be careful when you eat it."

The can lids at that time were all pressed out, not the screw-on ones of later times. They needed to be pried open with a screwdriver, so it was very easy to hurt your hands.

Li Qiang's hand was once cut by a canning jar lid.

Li Long was there at the time and was deeply impressed.

"Okay, okay, I got it." With so many things and some money given by Li Long, Bolati was very happy. He left the bag, then dragged the thief onto the horse and left.

"Slow down..." the thief shouted, and was pulled down by Bolati and dragged for a while by the horse.

Even if it was on the grass, the man's face skin was worn out after being dragged for a while.

"Hurry up, or I will drag you all the way to the forestry team!" Bolati said immediately, waiting for the man to get up and continue moving forward.

The speed of a horse is naturally faster than that of a human, and soon this person fell again and was dragged a distance.

Everyone in the woods saw it.

They guessed almost the same thing, that this person stole Li Long's things.

"What the hell is a spoon? Can you steal things from this wooden house? If he steals things and doesn't come back again, won't everyone suffer in the future?"

The old herbalist started cursing.

Didn't anyone think of stealing from the cabin last year?
Of course there has been.

After all, Li Long's tractor is a symbol. As long as the tractor is there, the person is there. When the tractor is gone, the person has gone back.

But how many people really stole it?
Most people knew that even if they didn't want to exchange a large number of Fritillaria from Li Long, with Li Long around, if they got sick, or ran out of fire, or ran out of food, at least they had a place to ask for help.

Although the price Li Long paid for Fritillaria was low, at least he could exchange it for matches, food, and medicinal herbs.

You mean I can get it in the county?

How many kilometers do I have to run to get to the county? If I have a high fever and can run that far, I'm probably not far from death.

The young new herbalists don’t know what this wooden house means to the old herbalists.

But they will soon understand.

After Bolati left, Li Long finally had time to clean up the damaged things.

Bolati left the key behind, and Li Long opened the house and began to clean up the things that the thief had destroyed.

Looking at these things, he now regretted not hitting this guy lightly.

When he threw the things he swept out behind the house and prepared to dig a hole to bury them, he saw Bolati knocking the guy down again in the distance, and Li Long thought it was not bad.

When I think about this guy, by the time he gets to the front of the forestry team, he must be half dead, right?

After cleaning out and burying these odds and ends, Li Long took out some more from the trunk and placed them on the shelf in the house.

However, there are not many things played this time, so if they are stolen later, the loss will be considerable.

In the future, he planned to put extra things in the trunk and use it as a mobile store. Anyway, the trunk of a jeep could hold a lot of things, so he didn't care about this.

Today, Li Long harvested nearly 15 kilograms of fresh Fritillaria from Bolati and the thief. He found a large basin, soaked the Fritillaria, cleaned them, and then hung them up to dry on the wooden floor in front of the door.

Fifteen kilograms of Fritillaria covered the entire outside of the wooden house. Not only that, even the wooden table outside was covered with Fritillaria.

After all, if you want to dry out the moisture in the mother-of-pearl, you need enough space.

Although the sunlight is not very strong at this time, there is a breeze. After a while, the moisture on the mother-of-pearl has dried up, and the next step is the moisture inside.

This is a slow job.

After finishing all these, Li Long set up the stove again. The kettle had been smashed, and he boiled water just to fill the teapot with tea. He would stay here for at least half a day today.

Otherwise, if someone comes to steal things again, I will be very busy.

Although the thief can be found, it is still a waste of time, right?
Two figures appeared in the distance.

Li Long noticed it and he looked at the two men with some vigilance.

Both of them were carrying bags. He had some impression of the middle-aged man, but the young man was a stranger. Li Long was sure he had never seen him before.

I think you changed something last year?
"Hello, boss." The middle-aged man greeted from afar, "I came here to exchange some things last year, and I'm here again today to exchange some more..."

"Come on." Li Long nodded.

He did not let his guard down, after all, the previous thief was also a herbalist.

"That was a thief, wasn't he?" the middle-aged man took the initiative to speak. "What a bastard! If other people knew that he was breaking into the house and stealing things, they would beat him to death!"

Li Long was a little surprised. What does this mean? Are you saying this to please me?
"We will be staying in the mountains for more than a month," the middle-aged man said with a Gansu accent, "We ran out of things we brought in May, and we can only exchange things with you.

If you stop coming here because of a coward like him who stole something, we will be in trouble in the forest!"

Li Long reacted and realized that this was the case.

Mutual benefit and win-win situation were confirmed by the herbalists here, and Li Long was very happy.

So, change things.

The two people mainly exchanged medicines, salt, sugar, needles and thread, matches and other things.

According to the middle-aged man, they have been in the mountains for ten days and still have food, but these things are in short supply. After all, they are used up quickly. Maybe they will come to exchange for food next time. (End of this chapter)