Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The next morning when Li Long arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, Li Jianguo immediately asked him to take back the processed little wild boar and most of the big wild boar.

"Leave the small one with you and cook it for Xiaoxia to nourish her, and also for Lao Gu to try. He has never eaten the small one." Li Jianguo's original words were:
"The big wild boar meat is not too old. Take it home and let your sister-in-law stew it for you to enjoy slowly."

Gu Xiaoxia was about to give birth, and Li Jianguo felt that now was the time to replenish her.

Li Long saw that the meat had been soaked in cold water, with the water being changed from time to time, so he immediately took the meat out, asked Lao Huang for some salt, applied a layer of salt on the meat, and then drove the jeep back in a hurry.

The jeep drove back to the big yard. Sister Yang had not returned yet, so Li Long soaked the little wild boar in a big basin, then drove to the free market and talked to Sister Yang who was pushing a cart to sell food.

Sister Yang was planning not to sell the meal and go back to deal with the business, but Li Long stopped her in a hurry and told her that there was no rush.

Then he drove back to Team 4.

My mother Du Chunfang was chopping pig food in the yard. My father and sister-in-law were not there, and the tractor was not there either.

"Your sister-in-law drove the tractor to the fields." Du Chunfang, the old lady, was very happy to see Li Long coming back. She said to him, "Your father and Daqiang's father went to Shicheng to sell fish. Today, they caught more than 30 kilograms of fish. They were so happy that they didn't eat them at home. They took them all to sell."

Li Long took the wild boar meat down and cut it into pieces in the kitchen. There was only one stove outside, and he had to prepare lunch, so the meat could only be soaked in a basin.

"Don't worry about it. After lunch, your sister-in-law and I will prepare it slowly." Du Chunfang couldn't bear to see Li Long busy in the kitchen, so she stopped him immediately, "You take a rest, I'll prepare the meal."

"What are you going to do at noon?" Li Long asked.

"What do you want to eat?" Du Chunfang put the chopped pig food aside. This was cooked for the pigs in the afternoon. The two remaining pigs at home had two meals a day, and they had already eaten in the morning.

"Steamed rice is convenient, so let's just eat rice." Li Long thought for a moment and said, "We have wild boar meat. My eldest brother just hunted it yesterday. I can just braise the meat and cook some rice."

Du Chunfang has been here for two years and has no problem cooking rice. There are two stoves in the yard. Li Long cooks braised pork on one stove while Du Chunfang washes rice and prepares to cook rice on the other stove.

Seeing Li Long working efficiently, Du Chunfang smiled, thinking that her youngest son was really capable!
Liang Yuemei drove the tractor back first. When she arrived at the yard, she saw the jeep parked inside. She parked the tractor outside to make it easier for Li Long to drive it when he left.

After getting off the tractor, Liang Yuemei took off her headscarf and smiled as she watched Li Long stewing braised pork.

There was already a cooked dish on the table outside, covered with a mesh to prevent flies from crawling on it. Liang Yuemei took a look and saw that it was fried eggs with leeks.

When Li Qingxia came back, the rice and dishes were all good. For the sake of his father and mother's stomach, Li Long stewed the braised pork very well, almost melting in the mouth, with the oil already stewed out, causing Li Qingxia to feel a little dissatisfied while eating:
“Why doesn’t this smell so good?”

Even though the old couple had lived in northern Xinjiang for two years and had meat almost every day, Li Qingxia had always liked to eat large slices of meat. If they were stewed for too long, the oil would not be as fragrant after being stewed out.

Li Long was speechless. It seemed that he would have to stew it for a shorter time next time.

"You're the one who chooses! The meat is so soft and delicious!" Seeing that Li Qingxia had a problem with Li Long's braised pork, Du Chunfang said dissatisfiedly, "Whatever you want to eat, make it yourself!"

Li Qingxia just laughed.

Although the old couple quarreled, it did not affect everyone's appetite. Each person had two bowls of rice on average - except Du Chunfang, who still had half a bowl of rice. Today, she ate two more pieces of braised pork in order to support Li Long.

While eating, Li Long told Liang Yuemei about the wild boar meat, and then he drove back after the meal.

Actually, I just wanted to have a meal with my parents. Otherwise, although we meet from time to time, it's just a one-time meeting. We come and go in a hurry, and there is no time to chat. My father is better, but my mother must have some complaints.

After dinner, Li Long drove into the mountain again. He planned to see what was going on with Sun Jiaqiang. If there were still people who refused to exchange with him and were waiting for him, he couldn't just keep them waiting.

When he got to the cabin, there was actually someone waiting there.

Sun Jiaqiang has gotten used to it. Today, he got about ten kilograms of Fritillaria, and he washed them there, and then hung them on the table and on the wooden floor in front of the wooden house to dry.

The wooden floor is swept clean every day - there will be wind at night, which will blow some grass or sand, so it has to be swept every morning.

After washing these mother-of-pearls, the moisture on the surface will dry up quickly in the sun, and the next step is the moisture inside.

Of course, basically the moisture inside will not be lost during the sun and will be taken back by Li Long.

Seeing the jeep coming, the man who was waiting for him immediately smiled and came over with the bag.

"What do you want to change?" Li Long asked after getting off the jeep.

"Change money." The man said firmly while holding the bag.

"Okay." Li Long naturally had no objection. It would be a profit anyway.

There were seven kilograms of fresh Fritillaria, and it could be seen that some of them were dug out this morning. Li Long gave the other party twenty-one yuan.

"Can I change it to smaller amounts?" The man looked at the two Big Unity notes and asked without taking them.

"Row."

Li Long usually carries a lot of change with him, just in case someone needs to exchange money.

The man took the change of one, two, and five dollars and divided it into three pockets, two of which were inside his clothes.

This man was not afraid of being seen by Li Long and Sun Jiaqiang. After putting the money in the bag, he smiled at Li Long and left with the empty bag.

Until the sun was about to set, four more groups came to exchange for Fritillaria. Sun Jiaqiang was helpless, because three of the four groups came directly to Li Long. If he had not exchanged some this morning, his income today might be less than five yuan.

Although it’s actually not a small amount, compared to what Li Long received, I feel a little jealous.

When Li Long left, he said to Sun Jiaqiang:

"I'll come later tomorrow. If there's any problem, just push it to me. As I said before, nothing is more important than safety. If someone really wants to rob you, and they're too strong, I'll just give you the things."

Although Sun Jiaqiang felt that Li Long's words were a bit cowardly, he also knew that it was for his own good, so he nodded and agreed.

Li Long drove the jeep back to the big yard. Gu Xiaoxia had already finished get off work and was sitting in the yard. Sister Yang was cooking, and Han Fang had finished her homework and was playing with two little roe deer.

After Li Long took down the Fritillaria and spread it out in the side room to dry, he came out and started playing with the dog.

The little black dog had grown a little bigger. It was very excited to see Li Long come back. It circled around him and jumped from time to time.

Li Long can only do simple training now. He doesn't know how to train a dog for hunting. The most he can do is take the dog out for some fun. He thinks hunting still depends on guns and oneself.

As a dog, guarding the house is the most basic skill.

After the dog was "trained", it was time to eat. The next day, Li Long went to sell some dried Fritillaria. This time Chen Hongjun was not there, but the buyer already knew Li Long. After seeing the condition of Li Long's Fritillaria, he still gave it a grade one.

When rating Li Long's Fritillaria, he also said something about the Fritillaria seller next to him:

"You are still not convinced by the third grade rating. Look at what other people's Fritillaria look like, and then look at what your Fritillaria looks like. If your Fritillaria can be like this, I can also give you a first grade!"

Grade one is seven or eight yuan more expensive per kilogram than grade three. Although the man was a little dissatisfied, he couldn't say anything to refute it when he saw that the Fritillaria brought by Li Long was clean and had no leaves or dirt at all.

This time, Li Long brought eight kilograms of Fritillaria cirrhosa, which he sold for more than four hundred yuan.

With the money, Li Long went to the department store to buy some goods, and then drove to Xiaobaiyanggou first.

The main purpose was to tell Big Brother about the meat, and also to see if he had any other gains.

In addition, Lao Huang also asked Li Long to bring some vinegar. In this weather, everyone likes to eat sour noodles, and vinegar is not enough.

When they arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, Li Long saw that there were no large pieces of meat near Lao Huang's stove. It seemed that his brother didn't encounter any prey last night.

He handed the vinegar to Lao Huang, said hello to his eldest brother, talked about the situation at home, and then planned to go to the wooden house.

"Will you come over this afternoon to inspect the work?" Two more days passed, and the number of work accumulated increased a lot, so Xie Yundong asked.

"Tomorrow," Li Long said, "I'll come over to inspect it tomorrow."

Driving the jeep towards the wooden house, Li Long felt that he was really busy. There were too many things to take care of every day.

He also planned to inspect the crane tomorrow. After pulling it back, he would drive the jeep to the transportation company the day after tomorrow and ask the experienced driver there to check the jeep and do some maintenance.

Although he can drive, he really doesn't know how to maintain it. Some technical work still needs to be done by professionals.

When Li Long was driving the jeep and approaching the wooden house, he saw three horses near the wooden house and several people were surrounding Sun Jiaqiang and talking about something.

Li Long saw Bolati and two strangers.

what's going on?
It seemed that the leader was not Bolati, Li Long became a little worried, and he immediately sped up.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Sun Jiaqiang felt like he had lost his parents at this moment.

Everything was fine in the morning, but two people came to exchange things. The Fritillaria they carried weighed nearly ten kilograms, which was a lot!
Li Long didn't come, so one of the two people asked, but the other one didn't even ask and just went straight to him to change.

Sun Jiaqiang changed the things and started to wash them.

While they were washing, another person came with more than three kilograms of Fritillaria. Sun Jiaqiang greeted him, but the person ignored him and just waited there, meaning that he had to wait for Li Long to come and exchange them.

Sun Jiaqiang naturally had no objection, so he washed the mother-of-pearl, thinking that if Li Long came later, maybe someone would come to him to exchange mother-of-pearl for him.

If you do this every day, the money you earn will be no less than if you dig the Fritillaria yourself.

As he was thinking this, he saw three horses coming from the east, among them was the familiar Bolati, and the others were two strangers.

Although he didn't know what the two people were doing, Sun Jiaqiang was not too nervous. After all, with Li Long's face, they shouldn't do anything excessive.

But what he didn't expect was that as soon as the three men got off their horses, before Bolati could explain, one of them came over with a gun and grabbed Sun Jiaqiang's collar and started questioning him.

"This is the person Li Long called over to help." Bolati explained to another unfamiliar middle-aged ethnic man.

Obviously, the three were headed by this one.

"Li Long is the forest ranger you mentioned? Isn't he from our forestry team?"

"It counts...right? It's given by the county, not on the staff." Bolati explained for Li Long, "It doesn't occupy our staff, but it's active here. With him around, there are fewer problems in our forest. He even saved our people last year..."

"I know about that, but let's keep it to ourselves. We are now vigorously cracking down on the theft of medicinal herbs, and he is collecting them here..."

The man saw the herb digger carrying the bag and waiting for Li Long, and pointed at him with his whip:
"What does this person do? And these..."

He pointed to the fritillaria drying on the wooden floor and the table and asked:

"What's up with these fritillarias? He's still our extra-staff forest ranger. Is this what he does?"

This man spoke Chinese very well and his tone was very stern. If it weren't for his slightly big belly, he would have looked really righteous.

"Deputy Captain, you know, this mountain is so big, it's impossible to clean it up." Bora treated Li Long as a friend, so he naturally spoke for his friend, "He's here, so he can prevent those people in the mountain from going too far. This piece of grass and forest is very good.

Besides, Li Long has a good relationship with the county and the herdsmen, so..."

"So what? So we just don't care about it?" The deputy captain didn't give Bolati face, and Bolati couldn't continue speaking.

"Catch these two first." The deputy captain ordered another person, "Collect all the Fritillaria, confiscate them! The things in here..."

He didn't give any orders to Bolati, obviously knowing that Bolati would not listen to him, but the other person was his confidant, so there would be no problem in giving orders to this person.

Two of the three men were carrying guns, and he was not worried that they would resist.

Sun Jiaqiang listened to Li Long and did not resist or argue - he knew it was useless to argue.

The herbalist felt that it was bad luck and was in trouble.

Although he wanted to resist, he knew it was useless because the other man was carrying five or six people on his back, so he simply gave up.

It was at this time that Li Long drove over in a jeep.

Bolati knew that this was Li Long's car, so he didn't show any expression.

The deputy captain was a little surprised and couldn't help asking:
"Which leader would come here at this time? This license plate... doesn't look like it belongs to the county?"

Bolati held back his laughter and did not explain.

Naturally he knew that the car belonged to Li Long, but he couldn't say it, so he let Li Long say it himself.

Of course, after Li Long got off the car, Bolati took the initiative to introduce him to the other party. (End of this chapter)