Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long planned to go to the hot springs. It felt like he hadn't been there for almost a year and he didn't know what the place was like.

When he left, he told Sun Jiaqiang to pay attention to his own safety, especially to stay away from those who looked to be in poor health.

He also told Sun Jiaqiang about the suspected lung infectious disease he encountered in the morning.

"Don't worry, I will be careful. Boss, let me tell you, I have met many more disgusting people than you have. The moral standards of those who make a living in this forest are not very high. My things have been stolen and robbed before," Sun Jiaqiang smiled, "If I hadn't been smart, I would be a pile of bones now."

Li Long nodded, indicating that he understood. It seems that Sun Jiaqiang is also a man with a story.

Only with such an optimistic personality can one stay in the mountains for such a long time without being emotionally affected?

Li Long drove the jeep to the hot spring ditch. This time the jeep couldn't drive to the hot spring pool, but it could enter from the ditch entrance and drive up two or three hundred meters.

When he couldn't drive in, Li Long stopped, picked up his gun, locked the car door, and then went upstream along the stream.

Smelling the faint smell of sulfur in the air, Li Long felt that this was the free life in the mountains that he wanted. Being tied to the wooden house there was really uncomfortable.

There are also Fritillaria on the slopes on both sides of the hot spring ditch, but there are not many of them, just a few scattered around, so no one comes here to pick them.

Although bathing in hot springs is beneficial to physical and mental health, people who come into the mountains are here to make money, and no one has the mood to soak in hot springs every day.

If you have that much time, you might as well dig more Fritillaria.

Li Long walked slowly to the hot spring pool. The water in the pool was a little turbid and there were many hoof prints around it, but unfortunately there were no animals.

Apparently some animal had been bathing here before, but it had now run away.

He could make out wild goats, wild boars, and what seemed to be red deer.

Li Long looked at the direction the hooves were leaving from. It was the forests on both sides, and they were going upwards.

He thought about it and gave up the idea of ​​taking a hot spring bath. He climbed up into the woods with his gun in hand, intending to look up.

After the wild animals have bathed in the hot springs, they will most likely go to high altitudes to eat grass and rest. If you can come across a few of them, you can kill them and bring them back.

As for the hot springs, you can soak in them later.

The grass in the forest was lush, and in some places where the grass didn't grow, Li Long saw morels on the moss. He picked up whatever he saw and put it in his backpack.

A shoulder bag can hold too little stuff, so I asked Sister Yang to make two backpacks for me in the winter.

Li Long followed the style that was more common in later generations. Although it did not have the cloth material of later generations, the carrying style was correct, and it could also hold a lot of things.

By the time they walked out of the forest and onto a sloping meadow, Li Long's backpack was already half full of morels.

In order to ensure the cleanliness of the backpack, he did not take the roots of the morels. It would be difficult to wash them if he carried them with him, and the mud would seep into the folds of the morels.

So he just cut it off. Although it was a bit wasteful, he could afford it at this time.

A lot. Quite a lot.

If Li Long's goal today was not to go hunting, he would at least have to pick some here. After all, the price for morels from Chen Hongjun is not low.

Well, we can let Sun Jiaqiang do this later. If Sun Jiaqiang has nothing to do later, he can pick black tiger paw mushrooms in the mountains during the wheat harvest season. That stuff is not cheap.

I didn’t have time to pick them up last year, so it was a big loss.

Holding a gun, Li Long looked around.

On the grass slope about 30 to 40 meters to the left front, you can see a trampled path. It's not very clear, but you can see that there should have been hoof prints running there just now. It looks like it should be from a sika deer or something like that.

Li Long was very happy. He didn't want to hunt wild boars today. After all, even if he caught one, Bolati wouldn't want it. If it was red deer, there might be antlers and other things, and venison was edible by everyone.

Li Long followed the hoof prints and headed southeast.

This grassy slope was between two mountain forests, about 200 to 300 meters wide, and the forest above was relatively sparse. The path trampled by the wild animals led into the forest, and when Li Long chased after it, he saw three red deer grazing and climbing up the sparse forest.

There was a male deer and two female deer. The male deer had velvet on its head and looked quite young, weighing about 70 or 80 kilograms.

In the southwest of the forest was a pile of rocks. Li Long vaguely remembered having been there before.

Those elk moved very quickly, and Li Long immediately took off the safety. The bullet was already in the chamber. When he raised the gun, a elk happened to look back, then let out a scream, and immediately ran away!
The calls of elk are not always as "fairy-like" as in the videos I've seen before, and they can also be quite unpleasant when they scream.

Li Long raised his gun and shot the male elk behind him with a "bang", but he only hit its buttocks and the bullet went through. The elk staggered and then limped forward again.

Li Long rushed out and ran more than 20 meters. He fired another shot while walking and the deer fell to the ground.

The remaining two elks had already climbed over the hill and were no longer visible.

Li Long was still unwilling to give up, so he chased to the top of the mountain ridge and found that there were grass slopes and shrubs over there. Occasionally, he could see the shrubs swaying in some places, but he could not see the sika deer.

Li Long had no choice but to put away his gun and turned back to look at the fallen sika deer.

The antler of the red deer was broken and the broken ends were still bleeding. Li Long felt heartbroken because it was a good thing.

He hurriedly picked up the broken part and put it in his backpack, then carried the elk down the mountain.

Fortunately, it was not a super big one, otherwise Li Long would have had a hard time handling it.

The first forest was better, as it was sparse and easy to pass, but the second forest was more difficult. The forest was denser, with many horizontal branches, and Li Long had to duck his body from time to time to move forward.

If it weren't for his strength far exceeding that of ordinary people, he would not have been able to bring back all the elk he had shot.

When they arrived at the hot spring pool, Li Long let out a long sigh, put the sika deer down, and sat down on the grass slope, breathing heavily.

It's really a physical job.

But looking at this sika deer, Li Long thought it was worth it.

After resting for about ten minutes, seeing that flies and wasps were gathering around, Li Long once again carried the sika deer to the jeep below, and only here did his hard work end.

After putting the sika deer into the trunk, Li Long got into the driver's seat, rested for a while, started the engine and turned back to the cabin.

Some things are often placed on the back seat of the jeep. When Sister Yang is free, she sews a cloth mat for the back seat using old cloth and plastic bags collected from the compartment, so that the car will not be dirty if something is placed on it.

After all, the mat is easy to wash after being removed.

When Li Long's jeep drove over, Sun Jiaqiang was explaining to someone. The man's voice was very loud, but when he saw the jeep coming, his voice immediately became lower.

By the time Li Long drove the jeep to the wooden house, the man had already left with the changes.

Li Long got out of the car, looked at the man's background, and then asked Sun Jiaqiang:
"what's going on?"

"You think my exchange is unfair." Sun Jiaqiang poured several kilograms of Fritillaria he collected into a large basin and said as he washed them, "You said you wanted to give me more, but I said your Fritillaria is not clean, so it's only worth this much..."

Li Long understood that the man probably didn't see him, so he wanted to suppress Sun Jiaqiang.

After all, Sun Jiaqiang is not as tall or strong as myself, and that guy is quite tall.

"I'll bring you a gun when I come over tomorrow." Li Long said, remembering that he had a small-caliber gun at home.

"No, no. If I hold that thing in my hand, I might want to shoot when I'm angry, and that would cause trouble. Besides, it would be bad if someone snatched it away if I lived here with that thing." Li Long was a little surprised that Sun Jiaqiang actually refused.

If you don’t want it, then don’t want it. Li Long took the sika deer out of the trunk and brought it to the spring, ready to skin and gut it.

"Wow, there are so many things in this mountain!" Sun Jiaqiang looked at the sun and said, "You have been walking for less than two hours and you have brought back such a big red deer... You are a good hunter!"

"Not really, not really. I just know some places where prey often go." Li Long was modest and took out a knife to bleed and skin the sika deer.

Of course, the most important thing is to get the antlers off. Although one of them was broken, the remaining one was intact, and the two broken ones were not light.

The wet weight of two sticks is about two or three kilograms.

"This is deer antler." Sun Jiaqiang exclaimed, "It's quite big."

Li Long cut off the antlers and put them aside, saying:

"Yes, I didn't see any antlers, so I don't know if it has any. Judging from its teeth, this deer must be two or three years old."

Skinning and gutting. Sun Jiaqiang washed the Fritillaria and hung them up to dry before coming over to help, mainly dealing with the stomach and intestines.

Li Long cut off the deer whip and put it aside. This thing will definitely be useful later and someone will want it.

The venison was quite fatty, and the internal organs were in a large bowl. Seeing Sun Jiaqiang washing his stomach and intestines, Li Long went over to get some salt, cut the meat into pieces and rubbed the salt on them.

The same thing happened with the skins. After finishing, they were spread out on the grass to dry. Li Long went to light the two stoves at the door of the wooden house, set up the pots, added water, and boiled them. He put some of the meat into the pot and put the rest into the bag after applying salt.

Some of the offal was being boiled in another pot, and most of it was divided into two bags and put into the car.

"Old Sun, rub salt on the meat in these two pots after cooking and put them in the room to dry, as well as the offal." Li Long said, "I will take all the Fritillaria back.

I will pay you for the Fritillaria you harvested today. Come to settle once tomorrow morning and once in the evening. I will keep some of this cooked meat for you to eat, and some for the Fritillaria.

Take care of your own safety. Lock the door at night and be careful of wolves. After all, there is a smell of blood. Don't open the door after dark and be careful of bad guys. "

After giving all the instructions, Li Long paid Sun Jiaqiang the bill and drove away in his jeep.

Holding the eight dollars in his hand, Sun Jiaqiang felt that he earned the money quite quickly.

After all, he had only been collecting for half a day, and he knew that the more time passed, the more people would come to exchange things.

Before the sun set, Sun Jiaqiang took out the cooked meat and placed it in a large basin, sprinkled salt on it and let it dry. He also took a piece of deer meat and chewed it in big bites.

good to eat!

Seeing someone coming from afar, Sun Jiaqiang put down the bone, picked up a stick and watched vigilantly.

"I want some meat..." The man shouted weakly more than ten meters away, looking like he was about to starve to death.

Only then did Sun Jiaqiang feel relieved.

Li Long's jeep drove to Xiaobaiyanggou, where Lao Huang had already started cooking dinner.

Dinner was just as Lao Huang said, noodles.

Li Long held a bag and handed it to him:
"This is the offal from the red deer we shot today. Brother Huang, please take care of it."

"Did you find anything today?" Li Jianguo asked loudly.

"Well, Xiao Sun is watching, so I went over to hunt and killed a red deer." Li Long walked over and said to his eldest brother, "Leave some of the meat at the wooden house to exchange for Fritillaria, and I'll take some back."

"Do you want to eat before you leave?" Li Jianguo asked, "Is the meal almost ready?"

"No, I'll be back just in time to pick up Xiaoxia."

"Okay, then you can leave now."

Li Long drove the jeep quickly out of the mountain.

The feeling of being far ahead of others.

When he arrived at the county, he hurriedly unloaded the meat in the big yard, rolled down all four windows for ventilation, and drove to pick up Gu Xiaoxia.

It was getting a little late, and Gu Xiaoxia had already come out of the Education Bureau and was on her way back.

She smiled when she saw Li Long's jeep.

Li Long parked the jeep next to her, got out and helped Gu Xiaoxia into the car.

"Why are all the windows open?" Gu Xiaoxia asked as she got into the car, "Isn't it very hot?"

"I was hunting when I went up the mountain." Li Long said, "I brought back some meat. I'm afraid you'll feel sick."

"Not so delicate." Gu Xiaoxia smiled, "The scenery in the mountains is very nice now, right?"

"Well, I picked up a lot of morels today." Li Long said as he drove, "Wash them later, and let Sister Yang make soup for you tomorrow. This is very nourishing."

"I heard you say it just tastes average."

The two chatted and returned to the yard after a while.

After entering the yard, Li Long helped Gu Xiaoxia get out of the car and sit down, then he took out the morels from his backpack.

This thing is too fragile. After all this tossing and turning, some of it has been broken, and less than half of it remains intact.

Li Long didn't want the too broken pieces and dumped them into the flower bed. As for the remaining complete and large pieces, he found a basin and poured them into it and washed them slowly.

Sister Yang took a look at the meat and internal organs while cooking. When Li Long was washing the morels, she smiled and said:
"This meat is good. Is it venison? Uncle, are you hunting again?"

"Well, my eldest brother beat them the first two times, and I beat them this time." After washing the morels twice, Li Long placed them on a round lid woven with sorghum stalks to dry.

"Sister Yang, this is morel, a valuable mushroom. I'll get a chicken in the next couple of days and make chicken soup with mushrooms for Xiaoxia."

"Okay." Sister Yang nodded with a smile. Last year, Li Long also brought back morels, but he never explained it to her. She just felt that the mushrooms Li Long brought back were all very strange. Some black tiger palm mushrooms he brought back last year were also different from ordinary mushrooms.

When Gu Boyuan heard Li Long say that the prey in front was killed by Li Jianguo, he came over to see what was killed this time.

The deer skeleton is quite large, and the meat obtained is quite a bit. Li Long plans to give some to Team Four.

"Eel deer meat." Gu Boyuan recalled the first time he followed Li Longbian to lead the team. During that period, he often ate meat, which was really good.

I miss you.

After dinner, before it got dark, Li Long drove his jeep to Team 4. He wanted to deliver some venison to his eldest brother's house.

The wheat on both sides of the road has already formed ears, I don’t know if they have filled with grain, and the corn has grown quite tall too.

The water in the Mohe Canal is still very large, and there are actually quite a few fish in it. Li Long vaguely remembers that at some point in his previous life, when the middle school was under construction, the workers on the construction site used electric wires to electrocute fish here, and it seemed that they harvested several buckets of fish in this short section of the river alone.

Big crucian carp.

When the jeep returned to the fourth team, the sun had already set. Some people who were working in the fields were returning home at this time. Li Long's jeep met several villagers who were driving horse and donkey carts.

He rolled down the window and greeted everyone from time to time all the way to his eldest brother's house.

In the yard, Li Qingxia and Tao Jianshe were talking, Li Juan and Li Qiang were helping Liang Yuemei feed the pigs, Du Chunfang was sitting in front of the stove, lighting a fire, and the pot seemed to be stewing... fish soup?
Hearing the sound of the jeep, everyone in the yard looked over.

The jeep drove into the yard, and after Li Long got out of the car, he smelled a strong fishy smell.

"Dad, have you caught any fish these two days?" Li Long asked with a smile, and then greeted Tao Jianshe.

"Well, we two brothers have been fishing these days, and then we go to Shicheng to sell the fish together." Li Qingxia said with some pride, "We can earn at least ten or twenty yuan a day, which is not much worse than you guys."

"That's good." Li Long smiled, then took down the venison and the internal organs.

"Is there something missing again?" Li Qingxia came over, opened the bag and took a look, then asked.

"Well, I killed a heavy elk, and brought back some meat."

"Did you leave any there?" Du Chunfang came over to take a look, then asked.

"Yes. I kept it in the mountains and in the big yard."

After hearing Li Long say that they were all kept, Du Chunfang nodded and continued to make a fire.

Li Juan and Li Qiang came over from the pigpen and greeted Li Long. Liang Yuemei also came over carrying a pig food bucket.

After greeting his sister-in-law, Li Long talked about the meat and then about Li Jianguo's situation in the mountains.

"Drink the fish soup. Drink the fish soup before you leave." Du Chunfang shouted as he saw the fish soup in the pot boiling.

Although I just had dinner in the compound, I still have enough space for a bowl of fish soup.

Li Qiang quietly asked Li Long if he could find him a few bullet shells. Li Long touched his head and said that he would bring them to him when he came back next time.

Li Qiang ran away excitedly.

After drinking the fish soup, Li Long said goodbye to his family and drove away in a hurry in his jeep.

A cool breeze blew, and Li Long lowered the car window and planned for tomorrow as he drove back.

Tomorrow we have to pull the porters from Xiaobaiyanggou back. Fortunately, Sun Jiaqiang is at the wooden house now. He only needs to talk to the driver of the transport company tomorrow to inspect the porters in the afternoon and have the car go directly to Xiaobaiyanggou after get off work.

At most, we can bring a few guys back at night to unload the truck and then send them back.

This is something I'm familiar with, so there's no problem.

Everything is back on track, and Li Long feels that this is fine for now. (End of this chapter)