Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

The yard is filled with the strong smell of wild mushrooms these days. Black tiger mushrooms are large, have a strong mushroom flavor, and taste good, otherwise they would not be sold at such a high price.

Li Long brings back dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of wild mushrooms every day, and they are dried everywhere in the yard.

His footprints are also spread across the mountains within dozens of kilometers of Nanshan.

With a jeep, he would drive into a ditch each time and then drive along the ditch. He had been to some places before and was familiar with them, but he had not been to some places, so he would walk through them again.

Anyway, Li Long has plenty of physical strength, his five senses are far superior to those of ordinary people, and he is much better at finding mushrooms than ordinary people.

Not only did he look for mushrooms, he also discovered many very large Codonopsis pilosula plants.

It is not the time to dig Codonopsis pilosula yet, so Li Long just took note of these places. If he has the chance in the future, he will come back to dig up these Codonopsis pilosula that look obviously huge.

There is no need to worry about this thing becoming extinct, as there are too many Codonopsis pilosula in the mountains, growing in large patches.

Although Codonopsis pilosula is called ginseng, it is actually a plant of the Platycodon family, and is different from ginseng, a plant of the genus Acanthopanax.

Moreover, this thing grows a lot and reproduces quickly. In the wild where it is suitable for growth, it grows in large areas. Li Long could see that the entire hillside was covered with densely packed lavender Codonopsis flowers.

Too much.

There is no end to digging.

What's more, from now on these Chinese herbal medicines in the mountains are under protection. From now on, whether it is Codonopsis pilosula, Fritillaria thunbergii or other more precious snow lotus, it is strictly forbidden to dig and pick them.

On the eighth day after entering the mountains, Li Longtou brought dried black tiger paw mushrooms to the purchasing station to sell.

He brought two sacks, more than 70 kilograms of mushrooms to sell.

The purchasing station itself was not big. When Li Long came, there were seven or eight people lined up in the yard. The things these people were carrying were also varied. Li Long smelled the scent of Fritillaria. He guessed that it was probably dug up before and never brought to sell.

There is also cashmere, which has probably been stored for a while.

To be honest, it’s a small county town, it’s not a very ancient place, and it doesn’t have any special products, so there aren’t many resources that ordinary people can sell to the purchasing stations.

Of course, the main reason is that it is far away from Nanshan. At that time, even bicycles are considered luxury goods. It is not easy to go to Nanshan. If you can't find valuable things in the mountains, your day will be wasted. Therefore, ordinary people are unlikely to go to the mountains.

The information gap plus the fact that Li Long has a car makes him rich.

Not to mention now, even if every family has a car forty years later, you can't go to Nanshan whenever you want - or in fact you can go whenever you want, but the fixed mindset has fixed the people who remain in the village. Even if it's just an hour's journey, it still seems very far, very far to them.

And those young people with ideas and energy have gone to work in the city, so it is even more impossible for them to go into the mountains.

I can only go around Highway 101 occasionally during holidays, but that’s not even in the mountains.

On the contrary, those "farmers" who drove electric tricycles and kept their land in cooperatives, waiting for dividends at the end of the year, and who had no work to do during normal times due to the widespread mechanization, had their activities expanded more and more, and finally ran to Nanshan and started digging for Fritillaria.

Forty years have passed and the cycle has repeated itself.

So to be honest, when the people in the queue saw Li Long carrying two large sacks, they were quite shocked.

They can also smell the scent of mushrooms, but they don’t know if people will buy the mushrooms that Li Long brings here to sell?

The person in front of Li Long was holding a basket of copper coins, and no one knew where they were dug out.

Li Long estimated that the basket contained about seven or eight kilograms of copper coins. Some were severely rusted and even the words could not be seen, but most of them were fine.

Seeing Li Long staring at the copper coins in his basket, the elder brother asked:

"Brother, are you talking about mushrooms? Do they also collect mushrooms here?"

"Well, I don't accept ordinary mushrooms. My mushrooms are different." Li Long took out a black tiger palm mushroom from the sack and showed it to him. "This mushroom is from Nanshan. It's different from the ones we dug out."

What is dug out is reed mushroom, which is similar to Chinese delicious mushroom. Of course there are also delicious mushrooms, but they are all dug out from the ground, so here it is called "digging mushrooms".

The old man took the mushroom and looked at it, both front and back, and even smelled it, and said:

"It's really different. Where did you get this mushroom... Nanshan?"

Li Long nodded:
"Go inside Nanshan, walk two or three levels up the mountain, and you'll find it somewhere in the ditch."

"It's too far." The old man shook his head and was about to return the mushrooms to Li Long when an uncle next to him carrying a cashmere bag took them over to have a look.

There are many places where mushrooms grow on the southern edge of the basin, but most of the mushrooms are picked and eaten by people.

If this mushroom could be sold for money, there would definitely be a lot of people who would want to get into it.

After all, money is really valuable these days.

The elder brother smiled at Li Long apologetically, but Li Long didn't care. He pointed at the copper coin and asked:
"Where did you dig them? There are so many!"

"We are from Letuyi. When we were plowing the land, we plowed over a grave from an unknown era. There were no bones in the grave, but a jar of hemp coins. Some of the hemp coins had rotted. I picked up some that hadn't rusted yet and brought them here to see if they would accept them."

"We should collect it." Li Long remembered that when he was chatting with Chen Hongjun, Chen Hongjun said to collect the copper coins. "We can collect it." The old man said with a smile, "Our wheat hasn't been harvested yet. Sell it for a few dollars and take it back to let our harvester harvest it. The harvester harvests wheat very quickly..."

When it comes to harvesters, people who were originally silent started talking at once. Some said that they could harvest quickly, some said that two yuan per mu was a bit expensive, and some said that there was not a single harvester in their township, and they had planted a lot of wheat at home, so they were planning to hire one.

Li Long was quite touched when he heard this. After all, this incident was like him moving history a small step forward and changing the lives of some people.

I don’t know what happened to those people who are now scattered and harvesting.

When the black tiger's paw mushroom returned to Li Long, the topic turned to "how much this mushroom can be sold for per kilogram".

Li Long said it was more than twenty yuan, which scared these people!
"I heard that my hemp is only a few dollars, but your mushrooms are more than 20 dollars?" The brother was stunned when he heard it, "What kind of mushrooms are so expensive?"

"Dried mushrooms." Li Long smiled and explained, "To make one kilogram of dried mushrooms from seven or eight kilograms of fresh mushrooms, you have to go to the South Mountain. If you can't come back on the same day, there are wolves in the mountain..."

Li Long took out the wolf tooth that he had put in his pocket and had not put it away at home.

As soon as they saw the wolf's fang, the others fell silent.

They are all locals and know that wolves have become rare in the plains in the past two years. After all, there are more people and more machines.

But everyone knows that there are wolves in the mountains. A lone wolf in the plains can only steal a chicken or something, but a pack of wolves in the mountains can really eat people.

So those who think it is expensive will keep silent.

"Brother Ga, does this mushroom only grow in Nanshan?" the old man asked somewhat unwillingly.

My basket of hemp seeds may not be worth someone else's kilogram of mushrooms.

There are so many mushrooms...how much do they cost?
But think about the mountains, look at the wolf teeth, the danger...that money should be earned by others.

Hearing the noise outside, Chen Hongjun came out with his hands behind his back. When he saw Li Long, he smiled. He came over and said to Li Long:

"Comrade Xiao Li, you've gained a lot this time... How is life in the mountains?"

"Not bad, I killed two wolves." Li Long weighed the wolf fangs in his hand and said, "There was also a bear, but I didn't kill it."

He didn't scare these people to stop them from picking mushrooms. He wanted them to take it seriously and not just think about going to the mountains because the mushrooms are expensive and valuable.

He magnified the dangers in the mountains to make these people understand that there are things worth collecting in the mountains, but they must be fully prepared, otherwise entering the mountains would be tantamount to suicide.

Chen Hongjun led Li Long into his office. After all, they were old acquaintances, so he personally collected the mushrooms for Li Long.

Taking out a handful of black tiger palm mushrooms, Chen Hongjun looked at them one by one, nodded, and said with emotion:

"Xiao Li, look at the mushrooms you picked. They are still of the same good quality as always."

There are no mushroom roots with soil, no fine debris, and no inferior products. Basically, every black tiger paw mushroom is complete.

Moreover, there are many large flowers, and the quality is very good.

"Level one, level one." Chen Hongjun decided on Li Long. "Wait a moment, I'll push a scale over for you to check."

The two sacks of black tiger palm mushrooms were sold for more than 1,000 yuan. This is because Chen Hongjun made a special "VIP" channel for Li Long. Otherwise, if they knew that the two sacks of dried mushrooms were sold for more than 1,000 yuan, even if there were wolves and bears, they would probably think about how to go into the mountains to pick mushrooms.

Li Long took the money and the sack and left the purchasing station and returned to the big yard. He didn't plan to go to the mountains today, but stayed with his family.

Gu Xiaoxia still had some time before she had to go back to work, so Li Long was thinking about taking her into the mountains to soak in a hot spring or something to relax.

But the two children are too young, there are no child seats these days, and the road is not good when the car goes into the mountains, so I decided to give up.

Just as Li Long was selling mushrooms, Tao Daqiang drove a tractor out of a wheat field.

The landlord looked at the cleanly harvested wheat field. Although he felt a little sad, he still smiled and handed the twelve yuan to Tao Daqiang.

It usually takes a couple one or two days to mow the six acres of land. Now, with the tractor, it only takes about ten minutes to mow the land after a few rounds.

Although there is still some work to do, such as tying and pulling, the heaviest work is over.

Tao Daqiang took the piece of melon handed over by the hostess, ate it while thanking her, finished it in a few bites, wiped his mouth, and drove the tractor to the next house.

This money is earned happily!

Almost at the same time, Li Jianguo, Liang Dacheng, Xie Yundong, and Liang Wenyu were in similar moods.

From the time the wheat was harvested to now, they have basically determined that if they continue like this, it will be no problem to earn enough to buy a tractor in one wheat season!

Although Xie Yundong, Liang Dacheng and others have to give half of the money to Li Long, even so, this year's income will far exceed that of previous years.

With this tractor and the harvester it comes with, becoming a millionaire is no longer an unattainable dream.

PS: I took my kids to see the Demon Child. I thought Taiyi spoke dialect, so should I speak Xinjiang dialect when I go to Kunlun? Sure enough, there is a little flavor, not very strong, it can be considered a northwestern dialect... (End of this chapter)