Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

After the dark clouds, there will be heavy rain.

It rains frequently in the mountains, and the closer you get to the mountains, the more frequent it rains. However, these rains are usually just showers, which stop after a while and then the sun comes out.

Only the raindrops on the grass and trees proved that it had rained here.

Of course, there is also something that can be proven, and that is the mushrooms in the forest after the rain.

Mushrooms do not grow immediately after the rain, and being too humid is not conducive to the growth of some mushrooms.

Although Li Long had a jeep, he had already had lunch in Xiaobaiyanggou when it started raining. Although he could have gone back directly, Li Long looked at the clouds in the west and thought that the rain would not be heavy, so he might as well stay here.

If you go back later, you will be able to bring back more Fritillaria.

Li Long sat at the door of the big house, and Sun Jiaqiang sat at the door of the small house, and the two chatted.

"Xiao Sun, where are you going after digging Fritillaria?" Li Long was a little curious last year, and this year he just asked.

"I'm going to work at my relative's house to earn money." Sun Jiaqiang looked at Yu and said, "In fact, it's not about making money, the main thing is to have a place to eat and live. In the end, there is not much money left for me, and there is not much left for buying a ticket.

But there is nothing to do when I go back home. The land at home is so small, and the harvest is little, just enough to eat. If I go back, I can eat more, and my family will be in more trouble. "

"If you can't make money by going to your relatives' house, you might as well stay in this mountain."

"What are you doing here?" Sun Jiaqiang shook his head, and then thought that Li Long couldn't see it, so he continued, "The Fritillaria is gone, and it's not the time to dig Codonopsis. You'll starve to death if you stay here."

"I'm not going to starve to death," Li Long said. "There are morels and tiger's paw mushrooms in this mountain. If you pick them, I'll take them. There are so many wild mushrooms, how can I starve to death?"

"You buy? How much?" Sun Jiaqiang really didn't know. He only knew that Fritillaria, Codonopsis, and Deer antlers could be sold for money. He didn't know anything else.

If it can really be sold to Li Long, then doesn't it mean...

"Morels are hard to pick, but black tiger mushrooms are okay. I'll take as many as you pick. Don't worry, as long as you work hard, the money you get will be better than working at your relatives' homes." Li Long said, "Of course, if you don't want to pick mushrooms, then help me work in the mountains and I'll pay you."

"What kind of work do you do?"

"My herder friend wants to dig a sheep-washing pool at his doorstep. If one person does it, it may take a month. If you want to do it, I'll tell you."

"Then you should tell me about mushrooms. I think picking mushrooms is more suitable for me." Sun Jiaqiang immediately changed his words.

Li Long smiled and described to him what the morels looked like. He also said that when he had time, he could pick some and bring them back for him to see.

Sun Jiaqiang was noncommittal at first, but after hearing the price of dried morels offered by Li Long, he immediately felt tempted.

If you can keep picking this stuff, if there are a lot of them, it's better than digging Fritillaria, Fritillaria are too small, and bending over every day is too tiring. Picking mushrooms is different, you don't have to dig.

"Black tiger's paw mushrooms are actually the most cost-effective." Li Long continued, "Once you find them, you can find a large area of ​​them. They are also large in size. A heavy one can weigh more than one kilogram, and a light one can weigh several hundred grams. They are also very heavy when dried."

I didn’t have time to pick black tiger paw mushrooms last year, but this year if Sun Jiaqiang could stay and pick them, Li Long thought he could cooperate with him.

He didn't say that the purchasing station would buy these things. He could see that Sun Jiaqiang didn't know that the purchasing station would buy these things.

Whether or not he can make a profit from the price difference depends on whether Sun Jiaqiang cooperates.

However, at present, those people who come to the mountains to collect herbs are not clear about the value of morels and black tiger paw mushrooms.

What a huge bug.

Less than half an hour later, the rain began to subside, the sky brightened in the west, and then cleared up. The dark clouds above were also moving rapidly to the southeast.

"It's raining now. No one will come to replace the Fritillaria for a while, right?" Sun Jiaqiang asked Li Long without any experience.

Li Long thought about it and wondered if it had rained at this time last year.
Looks like there are some changes too?
As he was speaking, Li Long saw someone coming out of the woods in the southeast, carrying a bag.

Li Long recognized at a glance that this was the disguised woman who came to exchange things last time.

At the moment, she was still dressed as a man, with her head lowered, clothes on her head, and a heavy bag in her hands, walking towards this side despite the rain that was not stopping yet.

Her clothes were already soaked, but she didn't care about it at the moment. She walked a little quickly and even slipped occasionally.

When the person was almost there, Sun Jiaqiang also recognized him. He was a little nervous. At this moment, Sun Jiaqiang and Li Long were standing at the door, one at each side. Where would this person go?
As expected, the man took a look and walked straight up to Li Long without any hesitation.

"I heard you can change clothes here?"

It was still that deliberately hoarse voice.

"You can change." Li Long nodded, turned around to get a basket, and said, "Can you change all your clothes, Fritillaria?"

It is estimated that these mother-of-pearls weigh about five or six kilograms, and are worth a maximum of 18 yuan. If you exchange them for second-hand clothes, you can get one or two pieces.

"Change two sets of clothes and bring me some noodles." The man poured the Fritillaria into the basket and said, "The bag is waterproof, so the Fritillaria is not wet."

It was indeed not wet. Li Long nodded and went to the bed to get the clothes for the man to choose.

He smelled a faint scent of blood.

Not a good thing.

The man took a coat and a pair of trousers. Although they were not a set, the material looked quite sturdy.

Li Long went to Sun Jiaqiang again and took a one-kilogram bag of noodles, and gave her a pack of matches.

"The matches are free." Li Long said, "In the pine forest, you can dig up the thick pine needles and find dry ones underneath. Then you can break off some dry branches away from the wind and you can start a fire."

The man looked at Li Long in surprise, wrapped the bun with dry clothes and was about to leave.

Li Long looked outside and said:

"The rain will stop in a while, why don't you wait a few more minutes."

The man hesitated for a moment, turned his head, and then went to the east to shelter from the rain under a shed.

Li Long didn't talk to her anymore. He lowered his head to look at the Fritillaria in the basket. It was slightly cleaner than those brought by others. Maybe this person would subconsciously pick out the leaves and mud from the Fritillaria bag.

That's it.

Seven or eight minutes later, the rain stopped completely and the sun had already appeared from behind the clouds. The man hurried into the woods with his things in his arms.

What surprised Li Long was that this person actually changed his clothes in such a short period of time!
Less than a minute after this man entered the forest, someone came out of the forest in the south and hurried here.

Unexpectedly, during the rain, many people wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to come and exchange Fritillaria for other things.

Li Long and Sun Jiaqiang soon became busy.

It had just rained, and those people were also wet, so they didn't want to be too picky. After they saw that the things that Li Long and Sun Jiaqiang exchanged were both taken out of the small room, two of them also went to Sun Jiaqiang to get Fritillaria to exchange things.

The clothes that Li Long brought from the cave were the first to be changed, followed by noodles, then steamed buns, and air-dried venison. There were still some leftovers such as canned food and biscuits.

Li Long was a little confused. Last year, more people exchanged rice and flour, but this year everyone likes to exchange for finished products.

Is it because cooking is inconvenient, or do you think eating ready-made food saves time?

It seems I need to get more noodles and other finished products tomorrow.

After these people left, Li Long began to knead the dough, planning to steam buns now.

After the food is steamed, Sun Jiaqiang will just have to uncover it, and he will drive the jeep back himself.

Today I exchanged nearly 100 kilograms of Fritillaria. I washed them and took them home to dry. After a week, I will have at least 20 kilograms of dried goods, which is nearly 1,000 yuan.

As for how much he could earn, Li Long didn't do any calculations. He would settle the accounts after the Fritillaria season was over.

Of course, before leaving the wooden house, the mother-of-pearl that Sun Jiaqiang exchanged had to be converted into money and given to him.

Although it was not much, only about ten yuan, Sun Jiaqiang was very happy to receive it. This was more than ten yuan, which was more than ten days' salary for a worker outside.

After the dough was fermented, Li Long kneaded it, steamed the buns, put them in the pot, and gave instructions to Sun Jiaqiang before driving hurriedly down the mountain.

It was raining and the road was slippery, so the mud stuck to the wheels and kept rolling up. Fortunately, the jeep sped up and was able to roll up the mud on the wheels and throw it away.

In this way, although the back and top of the jeep were covered with mud, at least it would not get stuck in the mountain.

If he really gets stuck in this, I'm afraid Li Long won't be able to solve it in a short time.

The jeep drove all the way to Qingshui River. Li Long found that the rain on the road was not as heavy as in the mountains. The ground was wet, but not soaked through, so there were no mud spots.

This rain is really strange.

In Xiaobaiyanggou, because of the rain, they couldn't light a fire to roast the strips, so the people could only take sickles to cut the strips.

Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming walked together towards the southeast.

The police nearby had almost all been chopped down, and they were unwilling to argue with the young people about this, so they thought of looking further away.

Since I can’t finish weaving it this afternoon, I’ll just go somewhere farther away and cut more strips.

Li Jianguo still carried the gun. Old Huang waited until the rain stopped before coming out. Seeing Li Jianguo carrying the gun, he started joking:

"Old Li, you are addicted to hunting. It has just rained heavily, it is not easy to hunt those animals."

"Whether we can kill them or not, let's run inside. That place is not safe. We have to bring a gun." Li Jianguo did not admit that he wanted to hunt. As he spoke, he walked into the mountains with a sickle in his hand.

"Hey, it's you. It's you who has a gun." Lao Huang actually wanted to play with a gun as well. It would be nice if he could encounter a wild boar or something and fight it.

But Li Jianguo refused to lend him the money, and there was nothing Huang could do.

It was because in the early days of building the village, he was the worst shooter among those who had guns in the team. Once, he accidentally fired and almost hit one of his own people.

So later on everyone acquiesced and didn't let Huang touch the gun.

Li Long and his generation no longer know about this. The basic militia training in the team is also attended by young people, and Lao Huang has no chance to touch a gun. The older generation basically does not tell the younger generation about such things, at most they joke about it when they are together.

So if Li Jianguo refused to give it, there was nothing Huang could do.

Everyone knows their own business.

Of course, young people are also envious.

Because there were more than 20 people weaving the carrying handles in this scattered area, a lot of strips were needed, and they had already spread to many ravines within a radius of two or three kilometers.

They would inevitably come across animals in the mountains, and would talk about them during lunch.

There are many small ones like pheasants and rabbits, and everyone has seen them. But the big ones are not so common. If you see one occasionally, it will become a topic of conversation during lunch.

Of course, when talking about these things, we also say that if there were guns at the time - in fact, it's just talk, but everyone has served in the militia, at least there is that confidence, with guns in hand, maybe they can shoot down some prey, and then eat some, and bring some back home.

When Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming went to a distant ditch, they were not thinking about hunting. They were just thinking about preventing gray wolves from appearing in the ditch. At least if they encountered a pack of wolves, it would be safer with a gun in hand.

When he was building the team and defending the city, he often carried an old Type 79 rifle. Now he carries a double-barreled sand gun, and he doesn't know whether it is an improvement or a regression.

This ravine is relatively narrow, and the bottom of the ravine can basically only accommodate one person. There are slopes of about 30 degrees on both sides, and the slopes are covered with shrubs of various sizes.

Some shrubs have strips that can be cut and made into carrying handles, while others have tiny thorns.

Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming planned to walk further in. If there was no suitable large forest inside, they would change to another ditch.

Anyway, there are so many gullies and ditches in this mountain that you don't have to worry about not being able to find it.

"That is..." Lu Yingming was walking at the bottom of the ditch, and Li Jianguo was on the slope. He looked farther and saw something at the edge of the woods in front. He immediately whispered a reminder, but before he finished his words, he handed the sickle to Lu Yingming and picked up the shotgun himself.

A group of wild boars were eating grass roots or something at the edge of a forest at the mouth of a ditch in the distance, and the sound of grunting could be heard from time to time.

Li Jianguo immediately bent down and walked forward. He wanted to get closer before fighting so that he would have a better chance of winning.

However, wild boars have very sensitive hearing and sense of smell. They had already discovered him when he was less than 50 meters away. Several small wild boars looked over here, while the big wild boars were very smart and ran straight into the woods.

"boom!"

"boom!"

Li Jianguo fired two shots, and two wild boars, one big and one small, that were standing there looking at this side fell to the ground.

They used single-point bullets, so they killed him instantly.

When Lu Yingming and Li Jianguo arrived at the edge of the dense forest, they saw a wild boar weighing fifty or sixty kilograms and a small wild boar weighing about ten kilograms.

There was blood all over his body.

"Hey, there's meat to eat again." Lu Yingming was happy, "You hold the gun really well!"

Li Jianguo had already replaced the bullets in his hunting rifle. He held the gun and looked at the dense forest. After thinking for a while, he decided to go in and take a look. He would have to cut some stripes in here later, so he couldn't help but check if there was any danger inside.

It would be troublesome if a big wild boar suddenly came out while they were cutting the strips.

In the evening, when Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming appeared in front of everyone carrying a wild boar and policemen, everyone was shocked again.

Then it's more than just envy.

It's only been a few days, and Li Jianguo has already done so much?
There are so many wild animals in this mountain? (End of this chapter)