Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 65 The Road Home is Long

"Bang bang bang!"

Li Long fired hastily. He felt that he should have hit a wild boar, but if he kept pulling the trigger for five or six times, the recoil would definitely affect the stability of the gun. He didn't know how many he could really kill.

After finishing the shot, he looked over there and saw that the wild boar was still standing and was still rushing up the ridge. Li Long immediately got up, half-crouched and roughly aimed again, increased the lead time, aimed at the high part of the ridge, and pulled the trigger continuously, firing all the remaining bullets.

While he was fighting, Halimu also did not stop. The sound of gunfire echoed continuously in the valley, which was quite deafening.

"Let's go and have a look." Halimu was also a little frustrated. He didn't choose the right place this time. He felt that the main reason was himself. Who could have known that the wind direction in this valley would suddenly change, and that those stupid and reckless wild boars would have such a good sense of smell?

The two men rushed down the mountain with guns in hand, and then walked up the ridge. When they were almost at the top of the mountain, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief.

A wild boar fell in a snowdrift a few steps before it reached the top of the mountain. Blood spread across a large area, and the nearby snow was messed up by the boar's dying struggle.

This was a half-grown pig weighing fifty or sixty kilograms. Li Long poked it with his bayonet and luckily, it was a sow.

Even if it is a piglet, the meat of a boar will have a fishy smell if it is not castrated. In comparison, sows do not have this problem.

Li Long took advantage of the fact that the wild boar was not dead yet and stabbed the wild boar's neck with his bayonet. At the same time, he stepped on the wild boar's heart and kept pressing hard. Blood gushed out of the wound on the wild boar's neck.

The cleaner the blood is drained from the pig, the tastier the meat will be.

Halimu rushed over Li Long to the top of the mountain, then looked down and turned to Li Long and said:
"There's one here too, but it's smaller, a little bigger than a big sheep."

Li Long smiled and said:
“Then this pork is delicious.”

Halimu dragged the wild boar to Li Long, which touched Li Long a little - after all, some taboos were still relatively strict in later generations. Now it seems that Halimu really treats him as his own.

Li Long did the same thing and drained the blood of the piglet. Unfortunately, the piglet was a boar, so it was still small. If it had grown another year, its meat would not have tasted good. After draining the blood, he cut open the wild boar's belly with a knife to release the air. He was reluctant to throw away the contents, so he didn't take them out. Last time, the two pigs were not gutted, and they both tasted bad. It was also rare for the team to eat meat, so no one said anything about it. But after Li Long ate the meat, combined with his experience in two lives, he knew what the problem was.

He needs to learn a lesson.

"I'll go back and get the horse," said Halimu.

"No need." Li Long waved his hand, pulled out the plastic sheet he had prepared from his sheepskin coat, unfolded it and spread it on the snow.

"Use this." He handed the gun to Halimu, then pulled the sow and placed it on the plastic sheet. Halimu didn't even need any help from the piglets, he just picked them up and placed them next to the sow.

The plastic sheet is thick enough and Li Long thinks it should be able to withstand it.

He tied the back two corners of the plastic sheet together, then pulled up the front two corners and slowly dragged it down the mountain.

With the downward inertia, the light weight, and the low friction of the snow, Li Long dragged the two pigs all the way to the valley.

It would not be easy to drag it up the mountain here, but Li Long had already observed the terrain of the mountain. He went diagonally to the northeast along the valley, where there was a rift leading to where the carriage was parked. He could get there without crossing the ridge, but he had to take a detour.

Halimu followed Li Long and said in surprise:
"This is a good idea! Li Long, next time you come, can you bring more plastic sheets like this? Maybe we can use them too."

"No problem." Li Long was proud of his idea. The main reason he did this was that he didn't want Halim to get involved. More than an hour later, the sky was already bright. Although the sun hadn't risen yet, the surroundings were already clearly visible.

"Look! Roe deer!" Suddenly, Halimu pointed to the ridge, and Li Long looked up hurriedly.

An animal that looked about the size of a fawn glanced down from the ridge, then rushed over there, losing its followers.

Aren't roe deer said to be stupid? Li Long didn't see why this guy was stupid at all. He was quite smart, wasn't he?

Or are the varieties here different from those in the Northeast?
But he didn't have time to think about it right now. Even though dragging the two wild boars was easier than dragging wood, Li Long felt exhausted after dragging for so long.

Halimu was about to lead the horse again, but Li Long waved his hand and said, gritting his teeth:
"There are only a few hundred meters left. Just hold on a little longer and you'll be there."

It’s really only a few hundred meters away, and you can already see the white smoke rising from the winter nest from here.

Halimu quickly went to the winter den, while Li Long dragged two pigs to the carriage. Originally, he wanted to load the wood, but now it seems better to load the pigs first.

With the experience from last time, he stuck the carriage on the downhill slope and carefully rolled the pigs down from above, landing them in the carriage. These two pigs were much lighter than the previous two, so Li Long didn't spend much time to load them.

Just think about it, if we add two more wolves, there won’t be much room for the wood.

Li Long decided not to install the wood, thinking that it would give No. 76 some relief.

When he returned to his winter home, Li Long couldn't wait to drink a bowl of milk tea, only then did he calm down.

After breakfast and a half-hour rest, Li Long and Halimu began to pack other things and prepare to leave.

This time he not only brought back wolves, wild boars, and jade, but also a bag of thigh stones, a wolf skin, a deer antler, and another deer antler that Halimu found.

Li Long planned to sell all these things to the purchasing station after he went down the mountain. This way he could save some money and be one step closer to buying a bicycle, a sewing machine and a hunting rifle.

Although the 50-60 rifles from Halimu and Yushanjiang are very good for hunting now, Li Long knows that once it is April or May, they will have to drive the cattle and sheep to the summer pastures in the mountains, and if they want to hunt then they will have to find their own guns.

After all, the summer ranch is very far from the mountain pass, and Li Long didn’t plan to go that far - it’s okay to go there occasionally, but it’s impossible to go there often.

He is not Tarzan.

The carriage slowly went down the mountain, and Li Long was in a good mood. Halimu originally wanted to give him some milk lumps, but Li Long refused, as he really couldn't get used to this "specialty".

By the time he saw the county town, Li Long had already gotten off the carriage and walked for quite a distance. Although it was not strenuous to sit in the carriage, it was really cold. He felt that he had almost mastered the art of shrinking his penis, and his face was frozen numb.

Therefore, when Li Long entered the county town, he went to the big meat canteen first to eat some hot food. But he didn't dare to leave the carriage, after all, the things in the carriage would cost several hundred yuan.

I could only hurriedly drink a bowl of free hot tea, spend 90 cents to buy three big meat buns, and eat while rushing to the purchasing station.

This time, we’ll have to see how much it can sell for.

(End of this chapter)