Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Because it was too late after unloading the truck, the driver drove away after everyone finished eating the noodles made by Sister Yang. Li Long cleaned up the compartment for Tao Daqiang and others to stay in, planning to send them into the mountains early the next morning.

The next day, genius Mama Liang, Tao Daqiang and others got up.

When Li Long heard the noise and came out wearing his clothes, he saw these people cleaning up the room and sweeping the yard.

"Stop working. Come on, I'll take you to have breakfast. After breakfast, we'll go to the mountains."

Knowing that they were anxious, Li Long decided to take them away without waiting for Sister Yang to prepare breakfast.

After going into the house and saying something to Gu Xiaoxia, and coming out and saying something to Sister Yang, Li Long drove a jeep and took a few people to have breakfast.

Sister Yang still had some regrets. In fact, she got up earlier than usual, but Tao Daqiang and the others lived in the wing room, so she couldn't sleep well.

It was a bit crowded for six people to fit into the trunk of a jeep, but traffic control is not strict these days and people don't care about it, so it's normal to squeeze a little.

After breakfast, Li Long saw that it was too crowded and there was no way to buy anything, so he sent everyone directly to the mountain, and then he drove the jeep to the winter home in Yushanjiang.

It is more convenient to enter the mountain from here. The main reason is that it is relatively close to the Talihar winter nest. Going further in, the jeep will not be easy to drive.

Li Long didn't know much about the deeper parts of Nanshan, so he thought it would be better to go through familiar places to avoid getting lost.

Carrying a gun and a backpack, Li Long walked towards the depths of the mountains with steady steps and great interest.

Li Long easily found the place where Talihar described where he hunted a dozen wild goats. He was a little disappointed that the mountain was indeed very steep and it was difficult for him to climb up.

The point is that there is not a single wild goat here.

Li Long circled around and climbed up the ridge, then found that there were many similar steep mountains in the distance.

In other words, this area is all over.

It is no wonder that no other herdsmen built winter camps south of Talihar’s winter camp. Their winter camps are scattered in the east or west - there are no suitable pastures for cattle and sheep to graze in the south.

Li Long continued to move forward, because he vaguely saw something jumping on another ridge across a mountain.

These ridges are higher than the other. Li Long now suspects that the mountain he has climbed is more than two thousand meters in altitude. If he continues to move forward, the altitude will be even higher.

With the motivation of hunting, Li Long did not feel tired. He rushed down the ridge quickly, watching out for the thorny bushes while running to avoid getting pricked by them. He did not stop until he reached the bottom of the ditch.

Turning his head to look back, Li Long even admired himself a little bit - how could he rush down this slope of 50 to 60 degrees?

This rush must be several hundred meters, right?
While climbing up, Li Long saw some morels growing in the moss in the sparse bushes. He picked some and put them in his backpack, then continued to climb up.

When he passed another ridge, Li Long saw a little goat jumping on the opposite mountain.

It should be a goat kid from last winter. It has grown to about ten kilograms now. It is walking on a steep slope of about sixty to seventy degrees. There are not many bushes on that slope, and it is just made of neat stone slabs. An ordinary person cannot stand on it at all.

The little goat hopped left and right as if it was walking on an invisible road, and it jumped up to a place where Li Long thought it was impossible to land.

When it was halfway up the mountain, it was licking something in the mountains. Li Long guessed that there should be salt there, and the wild goat should be licking the salt.

Li Long wanted to get closer to take a look. He thought that this young wild goat could not be the only one. Although he could shoot down the little wild goat across the ravine with a gun, Li Long did not intend to do so.

This guy is like an elf in the mountains, and Li Long can’t bear to hit him.

Then find a flock of goats and hunt the big ones. Such wild goats are no fun when they grow up. They are better to be roasted or boiled when they grow up.

After licking the salt, the little goat turned its head and saw Li Long. It was stunned for a moment and stared at Li Long blankly for a few seconds. Then it felt frightened and scared. Then it quickly jumped up the mountain, left and right, very agile and flexible. In less than a minute, it jumped to the top of the ridge.

When it was on the ridge, it turned its head to look at Li Long. When it saw that Li Long did not chase it, it relaxed for a moment and then disappeared behind the ridge.

Li Long vaguely heard the cry of a wild goat.

He immediately ran down the mountain and saw some scattered mushrooms on the way, which seemed to be morels, but he didn't have time to pick them up.

He rushed down the hillside quickly with a gun in hand, making a loud noise that startled several pheasants in the bushes.

It is easier to rush down, but it is not easy to climb up. Li Long does not have the agility of a wild goat, so he has to move forward diagonally, trying to find a slightly gentler area where he can cross the ridge.

Then I saw a huge hole in the pile of rocks in front of me.

The entrance of the cave is more than three meters high and two meters wide, and it appears to have been artificially carved.

However, these traces are too old to be seen without careful observation. After all, weathering is still very severe if the time is long, unlike the clay tablets in some places, which have been the same as last year after thousands of years.

The “environment” is different?
Li Long saw light deep in the cave, which did not seem to be closed. He could see the path inside was going upwards. Could it be leading to the middle of the mountain?

He walked in with a gun.

The cave was dry and had traces of various animals, paw prints, hoof prints, as well as feces and hair rubbed against the walls.

Continuing to walk further in, Li Long found that the ground here was relatively flat, with just an upward slope.

He was anxious to go up the mountain, so he went straight inside. As he walked, he got used to the slightly dim light. Then he noticed from the corner of his eye that on some smoother spots on the stone walls on both sides of the cave, there were some simple drawings painted with brown paint.

Rock paintings are rare on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains.

Li Long vaguely remembered that there were Kangjia Shimenzi rock paintings in the Nanshan Mountain of Hu County next door.

The rock paintings there are mainly in the form of stone carvings. According to research, they were probably carved three thousand years ago and exist in the form of bas-reliefs. Their main content is primitive fertility worship, that is, things between men and women.

At present, these rock paintings are relatively grand. Li Long stopped and took a closer look. The content of these rock paintings seemed to be a goddess leading her people to defeat powerful animals and demons.

The main character is a woman who is larger than the other figures, with long hair and chest features. She must be a goddess.

In these rock paintings, the woman is very powerful. Not only can she lead her people to defeat the powerful beasts, but she can also defeat the birds of prey in the sky and the strange-looking demons alone.

The reason why those beasts are powerful is that in these pictures, the goddess and the beasts are relatively large, while the pictures of the people are relatively small.

I don't know if it was intentional or for some other reason.

Then, just below a rock painting of a goddess holding a stick alone, there were traces of burning.

Li Long wondered if this was primitive worship or sacrifice?

According to historical research, there were mountain people living in the Tianshan Mountains, but no one knows where they disappeared later.

No one knows what era the rock paintings in this cave are from, and no one knows where the people who painted them have gone.

Li Long was amazed that these paintings had been here for so long and still had relatively clear lines and visible colors.

It’s a pity that there are no smartphones at the moment and Li Long doesn’t have a camera, so he can’t take a picture.

He planned to buy a camera after leaving the mountain, and take pictures of these rock paintings when he had time to come here again, which would be a contribution to historical research.

After looking at these rock paintings, Li Long hurried forward again. The rock paintings are precious, but in Li Long's eyes, the group of wild goats are more important.

Continue walking inside. The cave is not too deep. It is about forty meters from the entrance to the exit diagonally forward.

The exit of the cave was much smaller than the entrance, more than one meter high, and Li Long had to bend over to pass through. After exiting the cave, Li Long saw that he had reached the halfway point of the mountain. Although it was still quite steep to continue going up, there was a stone path that could lead him up diagonally.

I don’t know whether this stone path is natural or carved out by the people who painted the rock paintings many years ago.

Walking up along this stone path to the top of the ridge, Li Long found that it was quite wide, about ten meters, which was different from the previous ridges. The ridges there were usually two or three meters wide, or even just over one meter wide, just like a spine.

He walked forward, and when he was almost downhill, he saw a group of wild goats climbing up the opposite hillside quickly.

This place is a bit far from the opposite hillside. These two ridges are not as close as the previous two ridges. It is estimated that it is at least seventy or eighty meters from here to the wild goats on the opposite side.

Li Long guessed that it was the little goat that had just jumped over that issued a warning, so these wild goats hurriedly moved away.

There were more than twenty wild goats in this group. Li Long quickly found the little wild goat he had met before. There were four companions of similar age with it. They were the most agile among the group.

Li Long raised his gun and took aim, then looked at the terrain, and was somewhat disappointed to find that he could not replicate Talihar's tactics.

The opposite ridge was relatively gentler than this side, so even if he shot the lead sheep, the rest would not be frightened and fall off the cliff. But he still raised his gun, thinking he would kill as many as he could.

When Li Long raised his gun and prepared to shoot, the leading sheep in front had already climbed onto the opposite ridge.

Then it disappeared behind the ridge. Apparently, the top of the ridge on the opposite side was narrower and more suitable for hiding.

Li Long knew that he had to aim as quickly as possible, otherwise all the goats would go to the back of the mountain in a few minutes.

But these wild goats are very flexible. They jump and run almost without stopping. It feels like they are walking on the mountains as if they are plains.

This made it extremely difficult for him to aim in advance - in the past, when he ambushed the prey, he usually did it at the moment when the prey was quiet, or even if the wild boar was running like this, it would run in a single line.

It is very easy to predict the course of action.

But these goats jump around in the mountains and you have no idea which direction they will go next.

Li Long had been observing for a while before he had some idea, but now there were less than five wild goats left on the hillside.

He couldn't wait any longer. Just as he was aiming at a goat and preparing to shoot at the moment it jumped up and fell, a roar suddenly came from the other side of the ridge, followed by the screams of the wild goat.

The wild goats that had just jumped over suddenly came back one after another, ran towards this side in a panic, and then jumped up desperately!

Li Long forgot to pull the trigger and was still guessing the reason why these wild goats came back when the murderer behind the scenes appeared.

A bear weighing at least three or four hundred kilograms and over two meters tall showed its head from behind the hillside. It held a little wild goat in its paw and stuffed it into its mouth!

Damn, the way this bear eats looks a bit bloody!

Although Li Long also knew in his previous life that bears not only eat honey and wild fruits, but also eat small animals and the like.

Just watch when bears appear. If you really encounter a bear, don't assume that they only eat honey, fruit and fish. Reports of bears eating people are not uncommon around the world!
Some wild goats that failed to escape fell down. Some were blocked by bushes and were able to get up and continue running down. Some simply fell from the top of the ridge to the bottom!

Li Long raised his gun and fired two shots at the bear.

Hunting a bear is much more exciting than hunting a wild goat!

It’s a pity that after two shots, the bear just roared, turned around and ran behind the ridge.

Li Long looked at the distance between the two ridges and then at the slope. He felt a little unwilling, but he also knew that unless he hit the bear's vital point, the bear would probably have run away by the time he climbed up the opposite slope.

He raised his gun and aimed at the wild goats that were fleeing in panic - the two gunshots just now also scared the wild goats. They originally planned to escape to the ridge on this side, but ended up running to the west when they reached the bottom of the ditch.

There were still four wild goats struggling in the ditch. It was obvious that they had just fallen from the mountain and were injured.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

……

Li Long started shooting.

After all, they are some very agile animals. As long as they were not injured, these wild goats were very flexible. When the shooting stopped, Li Long had hit two of them in total.

Compared with the past, the results are a bit embarrassing.

However, there were still four wild goats in the ravine that had not escaped, so Li Long thought it was not bad.

He put away his gun and found a way down the mountain. When he reached the bottom of the ditch, he wondered if he could climb to the top of the mountain to see the bear.

However, the hillside was too steep after all. After climbing up more than ten meters, Li Long could only hold on to bushes for the rest of the way. Most of those bushes had thorns, so he had to come down.

Just assume that the bear has escaped.

He came to the injured wild goats with a gun on his back. These wild goats were not big in size, and several of them were slightly smaller than domestic adult goats.

In order to bring them back more conveniently, Li Long picked up the two dead wild goats and prepared to put them back into the jeep first. This had to be done one trip at a time.

Of the six wild goats, only two were slightly smaller and larger than the one we saw at the beginning; the rest were all adults.

Bigger and older wild goats are very experienced when going down the mountain and most of them will not fall.

of course there are exceptions.

Although it is not safe to leave the remaining wild goats here, there is no other choice. The jeep cannot drive here, so we can only leave them there for now.

It takes nearly an hour to go back and forth, mainly because it is too troublesome to go up and down the hill, not to mention that I have to carry two wild goats weighing 20 to 30 kilograms and a gun on my back.

But Li Long did not dare to go without a gun. The appearance of the bear made him realize that there were dangers everywhere in this mountain, and no one could guarantee that he could see the sun tomorrow without a gun.

We put two wild goats into the jeep on the first trip, and there was no problem when we took them out for the second trip. The four wild goats were still there. One of them was even thinking about escaping and joining the herd, but it fell so badly that it couldn't move a few steps.

But when he came over for the last time, Li Long was surprised to find that there were only one wild goats left, where there were supposed to be two.

There was blood in the ditch, and then there were signs of dragging, and he followed the signs to the hillside, but it was difficult to climb any higher.

No one knows what animal dragged one of the wild goats away.

I don’t know if it’s that bear.

Or other animals like wolves and lynxes.

Li Long held the wild goat and looked around vigilantly, but there was no movement at all.

He had no choice but to consider himself unlucky and turned back.

Five wild goats are enough, and it takes a long time to process them.

It was already time for lunch, and Li Long drove his jeep to Xiaobaiyanggou.

It was time for dinner. Seeing Li Long's jeep arrive, Old Huang took out Li Long's enamel basin and served him rice - today's meal was a big stew with mixed grains and rice.

After dinner, Li Long drove his jeep to the wooden house.

There is no shortage of meat here at the moment, and everyone is busy making meat, so Li Long did not keep any goats.

He drove his jeep hurriedly to the wooden house and brought a meal for Sun Jiaqiang.

Sun Jiaqiang was lighting a fire in front of the stove outside, and it looked like he was preparing to cook for himself.

"Don't cook anymore. I brought it to you." Li Long handed the meal he brought to Sun Jiaqiang. While Sun Jiaqiang was taking it and eating, he dragged the five wild goats down and brought them to the spring. He also dragged over two large basins and prepared to peel them.

The door of the jeep was wide open, mainly to dissipate the bloody smell inside.

"Two people came to you this morning to exchange Fritillaria, but when they saw you were gone, they waited for almost an hour and then left." Sun Jiaqiang came over with a bowl, squatted beside Li Long, ate while watching Li Long peeling the fruit and said:

"Those two people said they would come back in the afternoon."

"Did you say what to change?"

"Say change..."

Li Longtou didn't even raise his head, and peeled off the wild goat skin neatly.

"There's not much left. I took people back to the mountains this morning and didn't buy anything."

"That's nothing. Maybe they just need meat." Sun Jiaqiang looked at the five wild goats and got excited. "I didn't expect you could kill so many goats in one trip. Are they wild?"

"Well, it's a coincidence." Li Long didn't explain in detail.

As the peeling started, the sun was about to set. (End of this chapter)