Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Bolati also lamented:
"Every year, it is said that people die in this mountain. Some die from drinking too much, like the one today who was eaten by wolves, and some die from falling and bleeding because no one rescued them..."

This was the first time Li Long had seen this, or rather, he had experienced part of it, and he felt a little emotional.

"Okay, I'm leaving now. I just want to tell you about this matter so that Sun will be careful. There are bad guys in the mountains."

After saying this, Bolati rode away on horseback.

After he left, Sun Jiaqiang came over and asked worriedly:

"Brother Long, are we still going to sell this knife? I think it's a bit dangerous to sell the knife to others..."

"Sell." Li Long waved his hand. "There should be no more than ten days left in the Fritillaria season. After this Fritillaria season, you can leave the mountain."

"That mushroom..." Sun Jiaqiang actually didn't want to go out yet. He still wanted to earn some more money.

Although it is comfortable to stay in the wooden house, there is not enough money.

"Oh oh oh..." Li Long slapped his head, "I totally forgot about it. You stay here, I'll go look for it in the woods now. There are still a lot of morels this year."

Sun Jiaqiang was about to follow.

"Then lock the door," Li Long said. "It's a good opportunity to show you where to find morels."

There are a lot of these things in the mountains, and Li Long doesn't have time to look for them himself. After harvesting the Fritillaria and weaving the bamboo strips in the past two days, he can only pick up some and bring them back to his parents and Gu Xiaoxia to replenish their bodies.

As for selling this, he was too lazy to do it.

Sun Jiaqiang excitedly packed up the things outside the door quickly, while Li Long took out the gun from the car, still carrying the backpack on his back.

Seeing Sun Jiaqiang carrying a bag, Li Long was happy and said:
"I'm telling you, you should keep an eye on it. I'll tell you where it grows and how to pick it up. Then we can pick up more of them. Whoever picks up the ones gets it."

As he spoke, he walked towards the woods in the southeast direction.

This side is the closest.

After entering the forest, Li Long walked in with ease and without stopping.

Sun Jiaqiang clearly saw a lot of mushrooms along the way, but Li Long didn't even look at them.

"Brother Long, these mushrooms...can't be eaten?"

“It’s edible, but the nutritional value is not as high as morels.” Li Long said as he walked, “and it’s not as expensive as morels.”

There are many edible mushrooms in the mountains, such as large white crispy mushrooms, porcini, and enoki mushrooms - the enoki mushrooms in the mountains are golden yellow, larger than those sold in supermarkets in the previous life, and the color is also better.

Li Long actually never understood why the white one was called Enoki mushroom. It was only when he saw the ones in the mountains that he realized that the real wild Enoki mushrooms are golden yellow.

But now is not the time to pick these mushrooms, so Li Long just wanted to pick more morels.

Li Long took big steps, and Sun Jiaqiang followed him at a trot, panting.

After walking more than a hundred meters and reaching a ridge in the pine forest, Li Long suddenly stopped.

"Come on, come on, take a look, do you see it?" Li Long called Sun Jiaqiang over.

Sun Jiaqiang took a quick look but saw nothing.

"Squat down." Li Long smiled and motioned Sun Jiaqiang to squat down and look.

He had such an experience. When he followed others to dig mushrooms, they dug here and there, and sometimes they even dug them right in front of his feet, but he couldn't see them at all.

In the words of those people, he has not changed his visual habits and has not opened his eyes.

This is what Sun Jiaqiang is like right now.

"Where is it?" Sun Jiaqiang squatted down but still couldn't see it.

"Here." Li Long pointed to a gray-black protrusion on the edge of a piece of moss. "See? This is a morel."

After saying that, he simply pinched the stem and "picked" the morel off.

"That's it! It looks really weird... Don't you want the roots?" Sun Jiaqiang sighed as he looked at the morels in Li Long's hand. He couldn't see it right in front of him.

The wrinkles on the head of this morel really look like a sheep's belly, with grids and ridges.

"You can keep the roots, and they'll be weighed when you sell them, but they'll be mixed with other ingredients, and it'll be harder to eat. I'm going to get some to take home and eat, so I don't want the roots. If you want to pick them and sell them, you can pull them up with the roots."

After squatting down, Sun Jiaqiang felt much better. He glanced around and immediately found another morel, which he pointed out to Li Long with surprise.

"Yes, that's the feeling." Li Long smiled. "Let me tell you, morels usually grow in groups, rarely alone. So once you find one, you should be able to find a lot of them nearby. Sometimes you can find 20 or 30 nearby."

After saying that, Li Long stood up, clapped his hands, put the morel in Sun Jiaqiang's hand, then pointed to the south and said:

"Okay, I'm going in. You can pick some, or you can go back now and wait for the Fritillaria to be replaced. It's up to you."

After saying that, Li Long continued to head south.

Sun Jiaqiang looked at the morels in his hand, then looked at Li Long's back hidden in the pine forest. After thinking for a while, he squatted down and started picking morels.

At the beginning, he did the same as Li Long. He simply cut off the stem of the morel and held it in his hand without putting it in a package.

After picking up a dozen morels nearby, Sun Jiaqiang stood up, took a moment to calm down, then turned around and went back.

I will wait until the Fritillaria season is over before picking them up. For now, I will collect Fritillaria first and make some cash.

Li Long carried a cloth bag in his backpack. After separating from Sun Jiaqiang, he continued to walk inside.

According to Li Long's experience in two lifetimes, Morchella edulis usually grows in two places on Tianshan Mountain: one is the thick moss on the shady slopes, and the other is the gentle slopes of the forests between the mountains. It needs slightly moist soil, but not too wet, otherwise it will not grow.

There are also morels in the plains, but the morels in the mountains are long and pointed, like pointed peppers, while the heads of the morels in the plains are mostly round, and gray instead of black and gray.

After Li Long separated from Sun Jiaqiang, he walked for a while and found a big morel in the grass. He squatted down and picked the morel as big as his palm and found that it was a bit old.

The difference between morels and other mushrooms is that they are generally not infested with insects. Even when they are old, they will rot or dry up. Most other mushrooms will have insects inside when they grow old, and then they will be eaten by insects and rot.

In the past, Li Long was superstitious and believed that mushrooms themselves were similar to living things, and that insect eggs were part of the mushrooms, so they would naturally grow insects. Later, there was a saying that mushrooms with insects were non-toxic, and poisonous ones would not have insects.

Only later did I realize that they were all wrong.

Morels are a bit unique. After they grow out, they can stand upright for several days until they get old or rot after a rain or wind.

Li Long immediately picked the morel and put it into a cloth bag, then squatted down and looked almost level with his eyes at the nearby grass, looking for other morels.

Soon he found a few small morels. When he went over to pick them, he suddenly discovered that a snake more than one meter long in the grass in front of him was also alarmed. It first coiled towards Li Long, then seemed to discover or sense something was wrong, and then rushed directly into the grass.

Extremely quick response.

Li Long was also startled, and by the time he reacted, the snake had already run away.

He had no interest in snakes, so he didn't chase them. He looked around and saw no other danger, so he picked the two morels.

Li Long picked about ten flowers nearby and thought they were pretty good.

He had a good eyesight and there were many resources nearby, so he quickly picked a bag of morels.

There must be more in the woods, but there was no need to bother anymore, so Li Long turned around and walked back.

He remembered hearing people say when he traveled to Yili in his previous life that when the morel season came, the vegetable shop owners in the market would drive to familiar mountain passes early in the morning to pick morels, and in two hours they would pick four or five bags of several kilograms, and then drive back when the market just happened to open, so they would start selling them right away.

How cool.

Around 2010 was the time when the market price of morels was the most expensive. It is said that at that time, dried morels in ZS County were sold at stalls for more than 2,000 yuan per kilogram.

It’s a sky-high price.

Seven kilograms of dry goods equals one kilogram, which is equivalent to more than three hundred yuan per kilogram of fresh goods.

too exaggerated.

The ones Li Long collected at the moment weighed more than two kilograms, and were packed in a large cloth bag. This thing was not heavy at all, mainly because it was hollow and had a thin skin. It was said that some counterfeiters directly stuffed a wire inside.

Also a talent.

After getting out of the mountain, Li Long saw Sun Jiaqiang talking to someone about exchanging things. He walked over, put his backpack into the jeep without saying much, and prepared to go to Halimu's winter camp to see how the sheep washing pool was going.

"Hey, hey!" Just as he was about to get into the jeep, someone shouted. Li Long turned his head and took a look. He didn't think it was someone calling him.

"You!" The shout was directed at him.

Li Long looked towards the source of the sound and saw two figures coming from the east.

Li Long vaguely remembered that he had seen these two people before. They were both herbalists and had exchanged things with him. At that time, Sun Jiaqiang was too busy to handle everything and that's why he came to him.

"Do you want to exchange things?" Li Long asked.

"Yes, yes, we want to get a few more knives."

"Change a few?" Although Li Long was a little confused about why they changed so many knives, since they wanted to change, then they should change them.

"I have three, he has two." The bearded man in the lead said hastily, "One is two kilograms of Fritillaria, right?"

"Yes." Li Long looked at the bag in his hand and said, "You should have more in here."

"Let's exchange the rest for noodles." The other party must have thought about it a long time ago. "I exchanged meat a few days ago. I thought I could have a good meal, but I didn't expect that eating meat alone is not enough. I still need food, otherwise I can't bear it."

Li Long smiled. Food is converted into energy. Humans are not cattle or sheep, so they cannot convert grass into energy. They can only convert food. So eating only meat or only vegetables is obviously not enough. You must have staple food.

There were things in Li Long's jeep, so he exchanged them for knives and noodles. The two men took five knives and divided them up, looking at Li Long from time to time.

Li Long patted the gun on his back lightly and said nothing.

The two men hurried away with their things.

It seems that you can't sell too many knives.

Li Long turned his head and glanced at Sun Jiaqiang. He found that Sun Jiaqiang was still quite vigilant when exchanging things with others.

After everything was changed, Li Long still went over to remind Sun Jiaqiang to close the door early every day and prop the door shut at night, and not to open it even if someone called him.

Sun Jiaqiang obviously knew all this. He nodded in agreement and began to wash the mother-of-pearls he had just exchanged for.

Only then did Li Long drive the jeep to Halimu.

When the car entered the ditch, Li Long heard a lot of people talking and joking.

It can be felt that the people working are very lively. It is normal to think about it. Usually, people in the team get together to work together, usually to do house plastering or build new houses for others.

In such occasions, many people gather together and work is lively.

Li Long drove the jeep to the door of Halimu's winter home and found that a simple stone stove had been set up and Lao Huang was cooking meat beside the stove.

Someone even shouted over here:

"Old Huang, we had boiled meat yesterday, are you eating it again today?"

"Yes, we have pilaf." Old Huang said with a smile, "If you don't want to eat the cooked meat, you can eat pilaf."

Li Long stopped his jeep and took a quick look, and found that the sheep-washing pool over there was already almost finished. In fact, the sheep-washing pool itself can be large or small. If you want to save trouble, you can dig a pool of three meters in radius, pour more medicine, and you can wash hundreds of sheep.

But Li Long wanted to make it bigger. After all, once it was built, herdsmen from nearby tribes could come and wash their sheep.

At that time, you only needed to buy sheep washing medicine, and you no longer needed to go to the pastoral team to pay to wash the sheep.

So this pond was dug relatively large.

Because time was tight and there was no time to expand the soil to build the wall, Li Jianguo directed everyone to pile the excavated soil on the side, and then hit both sides hard with wooden boards to build the wall in the form of rammed earth. This method is more durable than simply piling up the soil.

Others picked up stones from the nearby ditch, which would eventually be laid under the sheep pond, making it more convenient.

When Li Long came over, the project was already halfway done. He said hello to Lao Huang and then went over to take a look.

Li Jianguo saw him coming over, pointed to the bottom of the pool and said:
"After digging one meter down, there is some clay. It's good down there, so water won't seep in and it's easy to wash. It goes in one way and out the other, and there's a small drainage channel in the middle, so the water can be drained away directly after washing."

It turns out that the eldest brother knows more and has thought of everything that needs to be thought of.

"It looks like we can finish it in half an afternoon." Li Long said with a smile as he looked at the progress of the project.

"Yes, it's going to be quick. Look at his winter house, it's a little broken, and the grass on the roof is almost rotten. If you think it's okay, then we can put up some mud on the house and paste up the walls. Since we're here to work, let's do a good job."

"Okay." Li Long was happy to hear that. "Then you guys do it. I'll go grill some meat for you!"

His work actually only adds the strength of one more person, but he is good at grilling meat for everyone.

There were seasonings in the jeep, Lao Huang had salt, Li Long got chili powder and cumin powder, and then went to Lao Huang to get a piece of meat.

He first cut the meat into pieces and marinated it, then started to cut the grooves.

It turned out that the troughs left by the young men of the tribe when they gathered and worked here had not been completely destroyed. Li Long only needed to clean it up, and then get some charcoal and put it in the mud trough.

After finishing this, Li Long went to cut some red willow branches and skewered the pickled meat.

Time was short, so he made a relatively large piece of meat. Fortunately, the charcoal in the trough was not smoky charcoal but red charcoal, without an open flame, so it could be roasted slowly.

The smell of grilled meat was easier to spread and more tempting than the smell of boiled meat, and soon the people digging the sheep-washing pool over there began to shout.

To be honest, when Li Long was busy here just now, someone was watching him, watching him busying himself with one thing after another. At first, they were curious, but then they understood.

"Uncle Li, isn't it time to take a break? Let's eat first and then work on it, shall we?"

Some people began to make requests and suggestions to Li Jianguo.

After all, the smell of barbecue is really tempting.

Li Jianguo smiled:
"Okay, then, let's take a break, wash your hands, and prepare to eat. After eating, take a break for half an hour, and then we'll continue. We agreed just now that after we finish the sheep-washing pool, we'll also have to fix the winter nest over there with mud. Don't be lazy."

"Don't worry!" Xu Haijun climbed out of the pit with a smile, "If we have meat to eat, then isn't it our duty to work? When will we be able to eat both venison and wolf meat together?"

Everyone ran to the water pipes to wash their hands, chatting and laughing, and then most of the young people rushed to Li Long.

"Is it cooked?" Liang Wenyu and Xu Haijun thought they had a good relationship with Li Long, so they asked first.

"It's cooked, but there aren't many skewers. One skewer per person." Li Long handed them out one by one, "There aren't many left. If you want more, go cut the skewers yourself and I can grill them."

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make so many skewers of meat in a short time. One skewer would be enough for each person.

The skewers are big. To be honest, if you consider the appetite of the fairies in later generations, one skewer is enough to fill them up.

However, these days, young men and middle-aged people (people in their thirties, forties, and fifties) have very big appetites, so it is no problem for one person to eat five skewers of such meat.

So when they were given the meat, they took just one bite and immediately went over to cut the meat into pieces and skewer it to grill.

After Li Long distributed the snacks to everyone, he still had two strings in his hand. He kept one for himself and prepared to give one more to his eldest brother.

Li Jianguo didn't want it and let him eat it himself.

When Lao Huang saw this situation, he couldn't help but shout:

"We have pilaf here, but you only want to eat barbecue. Who will stack the pilaf and the barbecue?"

Everyone else was laughing, but they were all quick to start. Some couldn't wait for Li Long to come over and roast them, so they started roasting them themselves.

Anyway, the trough is long enough for four or five people to roast together, head to head.

Li Long was too lazy to take it easy.

As for barbecue, just taste it, the main thing is the rice.

He also wanted to try the pilaf made by Lao Huang.

In this day and age, a chef who can stand the test of a rural banquet must have good cooking skills. Although Li Long has lived two lives and is good at making pilaf, he is not as good as this big pot.

As soon as Lao Huang opened the pot, Li Long couldn't wait to fill an enamel bowl with meat and rice, then sat aside and started eating.

The same goes for Li Jianguo, Lu Yingming and others.

If you really want to fill your stomach, you still need to eat.

Barbecue, just try it for fun. (End of this chapter)