Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 652 Li Long, this benefit is for you!

It was Bolati who came.

What surprised Li Long was that there were two and a half bags on Bolati's horse.

Or Fritillaria?
What's going on? Is Bolati trying to catch up with sales recently? Or are there so many more people going to the mountains to collect herbs recently?

Bolati rode over at a trot, dismounted in front of Li Long, pointed his whip at the three people lying on the ground and asked:
"What's going on? What happened to them?"

"They came over to exchange something just now and told Xiao Sun that our price was too high and they couldn't do it. I came over and told them that if they wanted to exchange, they could do it, but if they didn't want to, they could leave. They wanted to hit me, and then I knocked them down."

"Hey, you didn't use your gun today?" Bolati took down the two bags of fritillary bulbs from the horse's back, and then took down the 56 semi-automatic rifle from his back, and gestured, "They don't know you have a gun, right?"

Upon hearing that Li Long had a gun, the man lying down in jeans wiped the blood from his nose and felt a little relieved.

"Don't they know that you've broken someone's leg before?" Bolati pulled the bolt of his gun, loaded the bullet, and then said to Li Long, "It just so happens that I haven't completed my mission this month, so I'll leave these three people to me."

"You guys still have a mission?" Li Long was a little surprised. "A mission to capture someone?"

"Yes. There is a reward for catching someone." Bolati smiled, "But the reward is not big. So when we meet those people, we just take their things. Since these three are so arrogant, then just...get up!"

The last sentence is about those three people.

These three people mainly felt that they had never played three against two before. In fact, they were mainly facing Li Long, so they were too embarrassed to speak.

Now that Bolati was pointing a gun at them, they naturally stood up obediently.

Li Long was happy. These three people would be taken away by the forestry team for at least ten days or half a month. By the time they came out, the Fritillaria season would be almost over, and it would be unlikely for them to come back - the forestry team might even send them back.

Don't worry anymore.

Sun Jiaqiang also understood and was very happy when exchanging things there.

The man who was exchanging things was a little nervous, fearing that Bolati would take him away as well.

However, from beginning to end, Bolati treated him as a transparent person and ignored him. After weighing Fritillaria and taking the money from Li Long this time, he rode on his horse and walked forward, pointing at the three men.

Li Long could still vaguely hear Bolati saying to the three men on horseback:

"You'd better not even think about running. If you want to run, I have ten bullets in my gun. Let's see whether you are faster or the bullets are faster!"

Li Long believed that Bolati really dared to shoot. If he was not more ruthless than these people, he would be bullied.

After the man changed his things, he waited until Bolati took the man away and he was out of sight before he quickly left with his things on his back.

Sun Jiaqiang shouted from behind:

"Don't worry, just exchange things normally, they won't catch you."

The man responded hastily, still moving very quickly.

This time, Bolati brought about ten kilograms of Fritillaria, and the man brought a little more than four kilograms. Bolati took the bags that the three men were carrying.

There must be some evidence to arrest someone, and the mother-of-pearl in the bag is the evidence.

"Do you want to live in the dugout? There are more people there and it's safer." Li Long said to Sun Jiaqiang, mainly because he was worried that someone else would come.

"No, no." Looking back now, Sun Jiaqiang feels that he was a bit too soft before. Since he came here to do business in a seller's market, he would be easily bullied if he was too soft.

As for fighting - if you pick up a stick and are prepared, how can you be bullied again?
Li Long didn't force them. He could see that the three men just wanted to steal something.

The things left in the cabin were not worth a hundred dollars. If someone really robbed it, it would be robbed. He was not afraid.

Taking all these Fritillaria with him, when Li Long went to Xiaobaiyanggou again, the car had already arrived.

Xie Yundong and others were loading the truck, while Li Jianguo and two drivers were chatting there.

Knowing that Li Jianguo was Li Long's elder brother, the two drivers were quite polite.

When Li Long arrived, two cars were being loaded at the same time, and both were already half full.

When they saw the jeep coming, those who were not busy all looked over.

Li Long got off the car, greeted the two drivers first, and then went to see the loading progress.

The young men had done it several times and were very experienced. When Li Long looked at it, he found that it was loaded very neatly and the sticks to attach to the carriage were ready, just waiting for the handle to be higher than the carriage so that the sticks could be inserted.

After all the porters were loaded into the car, several young men rushed to sit in the passenger seat, while Tao Daqiang and Liang Wenyu got directly into Li Long's jeep.

Li Long came to the jeep and asked Liang Wenyu:

"Now that you're gone, are they all right?"

"It's okay. They knew it was unsafe at night, so they hid in their cave early." Liang Wenyu said, "Besides, I'll be back at night. It's okay."

"Don't take too many people, otherwise there won't be enough space in the jeep." Li Long shouted with a smile, then said hello to Li Jianguo, Xie Yundong and others, and drove away in the jeep.

Two cars followed behind.

The days were getting longer and the sun hadn't set yet.

When the car drove back to the yard, Gu Xiaoxia had already finished get off work. She knew that Li Long was going to bring back the porters today and had no time to pick him up, so she walked back by herself.

Tao Daqiang and others who got off the car greeted Gu Xiaoxia one after another with a warm and polite attitude.

After all, Gu Xiaoxia is a state official and her status is different.

After unloading the handles in the yard, the noodles that Sister Yang had prepared for the young men were already out of the pot. Two drivers, including them, squatted in the yard, holding small enamel basins, and began to eat with big mouthfuls.

The scene is very spectacular.

After the meal, the car left. Seeing that it was still light outside, Li Long told Gu Xiaoxia and drove the jeep to take them to the mountains.

This is the happiest time for the young men - being able to ride in a jeep is the treatment given to them by county leaders.

The township leaders don’t even have a car now.

Tao Daqiang, who was sitting in the passenger seat, rolled down the window and felt the whistling wind, which was very refreshing.

Because there were so many people to transport, it was not convenient for Li Long to drive directly back to the Fourth Team or to the Liang family, so he simply drove back to the mountains. At this time, being away from home for a month was actually nothing.

Making money is the most important thing.

When the jeep arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, the sky gradually darkened and some stars began to twinkle in the sky.

After putting the person down, Li Long turned around and walked back, rushing all the way at lightning speed. Finally, he arrived back to the county before twelve o'clock.

Fortunately it was a jeep. If it was a tractor, it would still be rumbling around in the mountains.

When Li Long returned to the compound, he discovered that Sister Yang, Han Fang, and Gu Xiaoxia were all awake and waiting for him.

"There will be many more situations like this later. Let's go to bed when the time comes." Li Long saw the three people sitting on the steps of the main house and couldn't help but say:

"No need to feed mosquitoes here."

By late May, flies had already appeared and mosquitoes were slowly appearing as well.

In recent years, not much farmland has been reclaimed and less pesticides have been used, so there are quite a few flies and mosquitoes.

"It's okay, we are just chatting." Gu Xiaoxia stood up with the help of Li Long and said with a smile, "Sister Yang talked about the legends of those stars, but she didn't know which constellations they were.

My father pointed out those constellations to me when I was little, and I memorized them. I was just identifying them one by one."

The end of April in 1984 was the junction of the last month and the beginning of the lunar month. There was no moon, so the stars were particularly obvious.

The Big Dipper and the North Star can be seen very clearly, and at twelve o'clock, the Milky Way can also be seen clearly.

But it’s too late now, and he has something to do tomorrow, otherwise Li Long would really tell them one by one about the constellations that later generations learned about from short videos.

There are the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the Hunter Fairy, the big bear and the little bear and so on.

I am very familiar with this Li Long.

Since Li Long was back, Sister Yang and Han Fang went into the house to rest. After all, Han Fang had to get up early and go to bed the next morning.

Li Long helped Gu Xiaoxia to the bedroom. There was no TV program at that time. He helped Gu Xiaoxia sit down on the bed while he went to wash up.

When Gu Xiaoxia asked him about the situation in the mountains, Li Long told her about asking Sun Jiaqiang to look after the wooden house, but he didn't mention the fight between the three people, because he didn't want to make Gu Xiaoxia worry. The next day, Li Long went to the wooden house first, because he was worried about Sun Jiaqiang and wanted to see if there was anything wrong.

When Li Long went over, Sun Jiaqiang was cooking porridge at the stove outside. When he saw Li Long coming, he showed him the mushrooms he had picked in the woods as if they were treasures.

"It's okay. There are no poisonous mushrooms. What are you going to do?" Li Long asked when he saw that Sun Jiaqiang had not eaten breakfast yet.

"Stir-fry some mushrooms." Sun Jiaqiang said, "What else can I do?"

"With vinegar and salt, you can make a cold dish." Li Long said as he demonstrated to him, "Wash the mushrooms, boil them in boiling water, rinse them with cold water, squeeze out the water, tear them into thin strips, mix them with salt and vinegar, and sprinkle some chopped wild onions on top. It's great!"

He did it as he spoke, and it was done in a moment.

He looked around again and found that there were no steamed buns. He shook his head and said:

"So what do you eat for staple food?"

"Eat...I didn't plan to eat. I just thought I'd just make do with it." Sun Jiaqiang scratched his head.

"Hey, it's better to let you live in a cave than here," Li Long shook his head, "The food here is worse than over there, why don't you just live over there, and I'll come and pick you up every morning."

"No, no, no, please. I'll live here." Sun Jiaqiang shook his head hurriedly. "I've changed two people's Fritillaria from this morning to now. If I live over there, I'll lose two incomes!"

"Then you do your thing. I'll make some dough and steam some buns for you. Do you know how to steam buns?"

"No." Sun Jiaqiang said with admiration, "Li Long, I find that you know a lot!"

"Of course, for survival in the wild, how can we survive without some skills?" Li Long smiled proudly and went to knead the dough.

Sun Jiaqiang was having breakfast. When Li Long was kneading the dough and making it rise, Bolati came over again.

He called Li Long aside and said:
"The three men confessed yesterday that they had a hideout in the mountains where they kept a lot of the Fritillaria they had robbed. The leader asked me to come and look for it. I told you, and you go and look for it. I'll go back and say I can't find it."

As he spoke, Bolati told Li Long the approximate location.

The location was rather vague. Li Long listened to Bolati say it twice, and then made a combination of judgment and guesswork, calculating that the location should be not far from the winter nest in Yushan River.

"Why don't you go?" Li Long asked Bolati, is this a good job?
"I don't have time to look for it. If I have time, I might as well catch a few more people digging for Fritillaria. That way I can make money faster." Bolati shook his head. "Those ditches are too messy. I'm afraid I won't be able to find it."

Li Long nodded and said:

"Okay, I'll go over and take a look when I have time. I've been to that area a few times. I'll let you know when I find it."

"Don't tell me, whatever you find is yours, just buy me a bottle of wine. If you can't find it, just pretend I didn't say anything," Bolati smiled, "Okay, I'm leaving. There are quite a lot of people digging for Fritillaria these days, I have to go around the Fritillaria ditches nearby."

After saying this, Bolati rode away on horseback.

Li Long thought it was normal. How could those people just dig up that little bit of Fritillaria? Most likely they wanted to come and see if they could grab some.

If I hadn't arrived in time, Sun Jiaqiang might have been threatened and robbed by them.

This group of people are habitual offenders.

Li Long actually knew the location that Bolati mentioned, and he planned to go over there and take a look later.

At this time, there were still about two hours before lunch, and it would take about half an hour to drive the jeep to Yushanjiang Dongwozi.

It should take about half an hour to get from the winter nest in Yushan River to the ditch that Bolati mentioned. Excluding the time spent searching for the hiding place of those people, it would be barely enough time to come back and pick up Sun Jiaqiang.

Li Long went over to see if the dough had risen enough, and while kneading the buns he said to Sun Jiaqiang:

"I'm going to run something later and I'll pick you up at lunch time."

"No need to pick me up." Sun Jiaqiang looked at Li Long kneading the steamed buns skillfully and said, "When the buns are ready, I can just cook some vegetables and eat the buns. It's troublesome to go back and forth. This bun - I'll peel it myself later!"

"You have to open the cage yourself. Watch the time. It will take half an hour after the water in the pot boils. Turn off the fire after half an hour, and wait another five minutes before opening the cage."

Li Long put the kneaded buns into the cage one by one, then covered the cage with the lid and gave instructions to Sun Jiaqiang.

Sun Jiaqiang nodded repeatedly, indicating that he had taken note of it - after all, he still had a digital watch, so he could still tell the time.

Li Long drove the jeep to the winter nest of Yushanjiang. This road required him to first reach the winter nest of Halimu.

When passing by Halimu's winter nest, Li Long looked at the water flowing out of the pipe and saw that it had formed a relatively natural stream. Everything in the winter nest remained as it was, with no signs of damage, so he felt relieved.

When the jeep arrived at Yushanjiang Winter Village, Li Long frowned.

He got out of the jeep, locked the door with his gun in hand, and went to check the situation in the winter den.

The door here was pried open, and it was a mess inside, as if someone had lived there.

When Yushanjiang and his friends left, they took away all the things in the winter nest, leaving only the wooden kang.

The people who moved in did not damage the wooden kang, but left a lot of garbage inside.

Li Long simply cleaned out the garbage inside, closed the door, and then went to the ditch that Bolati mentioned.

Bolati indicated the approximate location. Li Long judged based on the terrain that it should be in this area. He walked west with his gun, passed a winter grassland of the Yushan Jiang family, turned into a ditch, and all he saw were bushes.

There are traces of cattle and sheep here, and there are many paths trampled out, so it is quite easy to walk on.

After walking across this ditch and turning northwest, you will enter another ditch.

Then Li Long saw a man with a bag on his back looking around in the ditch.

"What are you doing?" Li Long shouted at the entrance of the ditch.

The man turned his head hastily, and when he saw it was Li Long, he was stunned for a moment, then immediately ran into the woods next to him.

Seems to be very afraid of Li Long.

Li Long was a little surprised. He realized that this person was the one who was watching from the side when the three men were fighting with Li Long yesterday.

What is he doing?

Why is he here?

Li Long suddenly had a guess. That person should know the details of the three men in Jeans, right? Could he also come here to find the hiding place of the three men?

Li Long walked in with a gun. Bolati said that the three men told them that their hiding place was a cave, which seemed to have been dug by people in the past, but it was abandoned. Because of its good location, it was used by herbalists every year. This year, the original herbalists were beaten by them, and the Fritillaria was robbed and then driven away.

Li Long saw some Fritillaria in this ditch, and some traces of excavation, thinking it should be the original trunk of the cave. This is actually a Fritillaria ditch, but now all that is left are small seedlings.

We continued walking forward, and when we were halfway there, we found sparse trees and some rocks on both sides of the ditch.

I searched all the way to the end of the ditch, but still couldn't find the cave.

After climbing up the ridge, Li Long looked to the side again.

There was a rare ditch over there with pine trees on both sides, but the pine forest was not dense, so Li Long walked down with his gun.

In the distance, more than two hundred meters away, the man who was carrying the bag was looking at Li Long's back behind a pine tree. Although he was a little unwilling, he had no choice.

Since Li Long came here, he knew that the other party must have known the hiding place of those three people. It seemed that he would not be able to get any advantage this time.

Although he was somewhat unwilling, he had no choice. The rifle in Li Long's hand was the truth, and he did not want to fight against the truth.

He also didn't want to be captured by Bolati - people who were captured by forest rangers of the forestry team would basically face the fate of being sent to labor camps and then deported.

He doesn't want to at all!

After glaring at Li Long's back, the man turned and left.

Since there is no hope, I will find the next Fritillaria ditch as soon as possible and dig some Fritillaria. After all, these things can be exchanged for things and money after they are dug out.

Li Long walked down the ditch and not far inside before he determined that this should be where the three people were hiding.

There were many footprints at the bottom of the ditch, messy and disorderly. Usually there were only one or two people digging for herbs, and they all went for the Fritillaria.

But the footprints in this ditch are all in the easy-to-walk place at the bottom of the ditch. There are many Fritillaria on both sides. The location is very obvious, but it has not been excavated.

This means that the people here had no intention of digging for Fritillaria.

(End of this chapter)