Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Since Li Long promised to drive the tractor over, the herders were no longer in a hurry to cut grass, but started preparing food for the time being.

Hunting is necessary. Who doesn't like to eat meat these days? Li Long said that he would bring some food to them when he drove the tractor over tomorrow. Then everyone would make naan and stew meat and cook soup together.

It's okay to cook or make naren pilaf. Anyway, since you're out and have a gun with you, you have to get some meat to eat.

Li Long habitually distributed some bullets to each person - he received some more bullets from the supply and marketing cooperative during this period.

Li Long had two children. When he went to the supply and marketing cooperative to distribute candy to his leaders and colleagues and announce the good news, Li Xiangqian rudely gave each child fifty yuan as a gift. Li Long refused to take it, but Li Xiangqian insisted on giving it. In the end, Li Long took twenty - ten yuan for each child.

Fifty is a bit too much, it exceeds the standard, you can't have so much.

He also told Director Wei about the bullets. Since the militia was not training now, this was the only place where Li Long could get the bullets.

Director Wei was reported in the Northern Xinjiang Daily for repairing the water pipes for Halimu and his team in the spring, and now he is famous throughout the county.

Even the county leaders mentioned it from time to time. During the National Unity Education Month in May, the supply and marketing cooperative was rated as an advanced unit for national unity at the county and state levels, and Director Wei was also elected as an advanced individual for national unity.

This needs to be included in your resume.

So Director Wei naturally favored Li Long. When Li Long took the bullet approval slip, Director Wei doubled it and approved 400 rounds.

Li Long has been working in the supply and marketing cooperative for quite some time. Director Wei can see that this person is a man who knows what is important and will not do anything that could easily cause trouble.

So he was very relieved.

Bullets are also hard currency for herders nowadays. With guns and bullets, hunting becomes legitimate, and some rules can be left vague.

The boys happily took the bullets and went out.

After not seeing each other for a few months, Talihar unexpectedly became cheerful again. He took the bullets from Li Long, mounted his horse with a gun on his back, and walked into the mountains while shouting that he wanted to hunt some prey.

Apparently, they were planning to have meat for lunch.

Those who didn't bring guns went to look for firewood. They had brought some naan when they came out, but now that they were in the winter camp, they prepared some fresh naan to eat.

Li Long brought some flour, not much, but enough to make dozens of naan. Halimu had tools, and some people started to get water and knead the dough.

Li Long chatted with Yushanjiang for a while, and felt that it would not be good to just watch, so he went to get some wild vegetables, took out the net he brought from the jeep, went to the stream, and found a place with a little drop to hang the net.

He had done this kind of thing of guarding the net and waiting for fish many times. There were always some small fish in these streams, although not many, but if you waited long enough, some would appear.

Others went to nearby pastures to clear away some of the bushes that had grown this year.

Most of them came here to cut grass last year, and followed Li Long's harvester and knew the process. Before the harvester came to cut grass, they had to clear away the stones and bushes in the pasture, otherwise the harvester's blades would be damaged.

All the stones have been picked up, and except for the occasional ones that roll down from higher mountains, there is basically no such thing. However, shrubs grow fast, and some fast-growing trees can grow to the thickness of a thumb in half a year, making them difficult to harvest with harvesters.

After Li Long lowered the net, he came back and saw Halimu and Yushanjiang still watching at the sheep-washing pond. He walked over and said,
"Next year when you wash the sheep, I will come and bring you the medicine. Then you can bring the water over there, pour the medicine in, and wash the sheep."

"Hey, if we can wash here, we don't have to spend any money."

Washing a sheep costs money, and a family with two or three hundred sheep would have to pay a lot. Although the money can be paid at the end of the year, it cannot be avoided after all.

It is not good not to wash them. Once sheep get infectious skin diseases, the entire flock may be infected in one summer on the summer pasture.

In mild cases, the sheep will lose all their hair and not gain weight. In severe cases, the sheep may become too thin or even die.

So even if washing the sheep is a little more expensive, it still needs to be washed.

Now Li Long has dug a sheep-washing pool for them here, which is great.

Although a piece of Halimu's pasture was cleared, everyone in the tribe can come here to wash their sheep, which saves thousands of dollars.

Moreover, the distance is short, so the herders in their own tribe can come to wash the sheep and go back the same day. It is not like going to the herding team, which takes a whole day to get there, and they may have to wait in line to wash the sheep, and they may not be able to come back the same day after washing.

It’s very troublesome!

At present, more than a dozen herdsmen share this sheep-washing pool. With just a little discussion, several families can wash sheep in a day. What might have taken half a month before can now be completed in three to five days.

How good!

Li Long said he would provide medicine for washing sheep, and they believed him. Li Long has kept his promises over the past few years, and they believe in him.

In Li Long's eyes, it can be seen that because the herdsmen are from the same tribe, their cohesion is still very strong, even stronger than that of the four teams.

They also have work to do. Those who can hunt go hunting, and those who can make naan are busy heating the naan pit and kneading the dough.

Those who couldn't do either of these went to the pasture to prepare for cutting grass for tomorrow.

No one was idle, everyone was chatting and laughing, and no one was slow or lazy.

It may be because there are few people, or because they are in the same tribe and have a connection, and of course there may be other reasons.

Generally speaking, the people from this tribe are very united.

They had lunch late. Four or five men rode out on horseback with guns in hand. Only Talihar came back with a roe deer on his horse.

The others returned empty-handed.

Li Long was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Talihar, who had suffered a psychological trauma after encountering the giant bear, could successfully get out of the trauma and become a better hunter.

Without Li Long's help, Halimu Yushanjiang and his men quickly skinned and cut up the roe deer. Li Long's jeep had a lot of supplies, and salt was always available. They rubbed the skin with salt and left it on the grass to dry. The remaining pieces of meat were cut into pieces and cooked in a big pot.

Of course, not only boiling, but roasting is also a very popular cooking method among young people - the original dug grooves are still there, and they only need to be repaired before they can be used.

While Yushanjiang and the others were skinning the sheep, Li Long went to see where the net was set. There were about ten fish in the net, not many.

He didn't take the net, but turned back to say hello to Halimu and drove the jeep to the wooden house.

There were some daily necessities in the wooden house, but there was no point in leaving them there, so we just moved in.

Halimu and his family only have one pot here, so Li Long plans to take a pot from over there and use it here first.

When Li Long brought back the pot and food and looked at the net again, there were a few more fish in the net, weighing less than one kilogram in total.

Li Long processed the fish by the stream and then carried it to the winter nest.

Large chunks of roe deer meat have been cooked, and fresh naan has been made one by one. The aroma of the baked noodles wafts out all at once, which is really tempting.

Some people who were so hungry that they couldn't hold back had already started taking a piece of naan and eating it.

The charcoal fire had been set up at the barbecue trough, and two young men were skewering meat. Li Long put the fish aside, moved a few stones to build a simple stove, then put the pot on top, took a bucket to get a bucket of water and poured it into the pot, shoveled red charcoal from another stove and put it under the stove, added firewood on top of the red charcoal, and soon the fire was set up.

The young man who used to break branches from the red willow trees by the stream to use as sticks ran back with a big bunch of red willow branches and put them on the ground. Those who had nothing to do took out their knives and started to cut red willow sticks.

Li Long also joined in, and while cutting wood he asked others about the situation at the summer ranch.

"The grass in the summer pasture is very good this year! There are also a lot of mushrooms in it, but we don't eat them." Talihar and Li Long are more familiar with each other, and he said while cutting grass, "There are also more wolves in the summer pasture this year. They are very cunning. They run away as soon as we shoot. If we don't shoot, they will sneak attack the sheep at night."

"There were also bears. I saw a big bear with two small bears. I didn't have a gun with me at the time, so I didn't dare to shoot them." Another young man also said.

Some of them said they saw snow lotus, some said they saw snow leopards, and some said they saw herds of dozens of ibexes and herds of wild goats, and so on.

I can only say that there are so many things in Tianshan. Some things that are rarely seen in other mountains can be easily seen there.

As they were talking, some of them hoped that Li Long could bring back some batteries, which they planned to bring back to the summer pasture. Some people also said that they wanted to bring some other things. They were not short of daily necessities such as brick tea, salt, sugar cubes, and flour. What they were short of were small things that were relatively scarce, such as needles and thread, batteries, etc. Another person said that they were short of medicine, mainly because someone from another tribe exchanged things with them and brought some medicine back. They had enough medicine for themselves, but there were still a few months to go, and they were worried that something might happen.

Li Long wrote them down one by one.

Li Long thought it was natural that these people did not mention money.

They treated Li Long as one of their own. The things they brought were for Li Long, and they felt it was natural to ask Li Long for these things that were easy to buy in the county.

The sharpened skewers were quickly used to skewer the meat, and then placed in handfuls on the trough on the ground.

Two people who were considered to be better at grilling meat were pushed out to grill the meat. The broth in the pot was boiling and bubbling. Halimu was there with a spoon skimming off the foam on top. They usually just sprinkled a handful of salt when cooking meat, no other seasoning.

The barbecue was cooked first. Li Long took a piece of freshly baked naan and tore off a piece. He took the barbecue handed over by the boys and put it on the naan. He then clamped the barbecue with his left hand and pulled it from the inside out. The barbecue was completely clamped by the naan.

This is a simple dish of meat wrapped in naan. He threw the skewer into the grass, held the naan in both hands and started eating.

The aroma of naan, the spicy cumin flavor of the grilled meat mixed with the taste of the meat flow through your mouth and tongue. That feeling is really great.

The barbecued meat was grilled in handfuls, and the people who were grilling did not leave out any of them. The last few skewers of meat were theirs, and they ate them while grilling new ones.

Halimu was also holding barbecue in his hand. While eating, he used a chopstick to poke the meat in the pot to see if it was cooked.

The meat of roe deer is not like domestic beef or mutton. It has a bit of mutton smell, but when it is roasted, the taste of cumin and chili powder overwhelms the bad smell.

Although the piece of meat was large, the person who roasted it had great skills and it was very tender and cooked through.

Li Long ate five skewers in a row, plus most of a naan, and then stopped eating. He planned to try the cooked meat later.

As for the meat broth, he won’t drink it today. Today he wants to drink fish soup.

At this time, the water in the pot for stewing fish was boiling, and the pike were rolling in the pot. It didn't take long for the meat to become rotten. Because there was no oil in the pot, the soup was not white, but it tasted very good.

Li Long cut the wild onions he had obtained earlier into small pieces and threw them in, then turned down the heat and let the soup simmer.

The longer this stews, the better.

The meal lasted until about five or six in the afternoon. There was not much meat left of the roe deer.

Everyone was very satisfied with the meal. Some people wanted to drink, but were stopped by Yushanjiang.

After Li Long had eaten and drunk his fill, he rested for a while before saying goodbye to them and driving away in his jeep.

He also has to go back to Team 4 to get someone over.

He can't go into the mountains alone tomorrow, so he plans to find someone to drive a tractor into the mountains, and he will follow in a jeep. Then he will leave the tractor in the mountains and drive the jeep to bring the person back.

This way, he doesn't have to live in the mountains, and the tractor can be left in the mountains and driven by Halimu and others, which saves trouble.

Li Long now regrets selling the harvester in his yard. Now he has to go to the fourth team to get his brother's harvester.

But it doesn't matter. After the hay season is over, he plans to get a batch of harvesters from the agricultural machinery factory in Kuitun.

Recently, some people have come to ask about the harvester, but not many.

After all, if you want to use a harvester to mow grass, you need a tractor. Not many people can afford a tractor now.

Li Long drove the jeep back to the county. He first went to the yard to unload the things that those people had sent and piled them at the door of the east wing.

Xiao Hei came over following the smell, so Li Long had to open the side room and put the things in, planning to wait until he came back to check again.

Gu Xiaoxia looked at so many things and asked:
“People from the mountain are coming down?”

"Coming down." After putting the things in, Li Long locked the door and planned to play with the two children.

The children were playing in the yard. Gu Xiaoxia laid a reed mat on the brick floor of the yard, and then a bed sheet on top, and the children lay on it.

At this time, the sunlight is blocked by the kitchen on the west side, so the children cannot be exposed to the sun, but the scattered sunlight can also provide calcium for the children.

"You smell bad, wash yourself before touching the child." Gu Xiaoxia saw Li Long coming over and the two children who were originally smiling changed their expressions and said immediately.

"Then I'll go do some work in the team first." Li Long said, "I'll come back later to take a shower and hold the baby."

Gu Xiaoxia responded, and Li Long drove out on the tractor.

On the way back, Li Long thought about it and finally decided that it would be best to call his father instead of the strong laborers.

After all, everyone who has a tractor is using it. Now is the most important period for melons to set fruit, and whether it is the eldest brother Li Jianguo, Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong and others, they are all busy.

On the contrary, Dad is probably still fishing, so he should help him do it before he goes back home. After all, Dad is also good at driving a tractor - of course, in fact, Li Long thinks that if Dad can drive a jeep, then he can drive a tractor himself, but Li Qingxia has never driven a car, so Li Long doesn't dare to let him go.

Safety issues still need to be taken seriously.

Li Qingxia had just come back from fishing when Li Long drove a tractor into the yard. He thought it was Li Jianguo and the others who had returned.

Li Long entered the yard and happened to see a harvester placed against the wall, covered with tarpaulin.

Li Long told this matter to Li Qingxia who was feeding the pigs.

Before Li Qingxia could speak, Du Chunfang said directly:
"Why not? Let your father drive the tractor over there tomorrow morning."

Li Qingxia was even deprived of the right to speak.

But this was also a big deal, so he nodded and said:

"I'll go tell Daqiang's father later that he will go sell fish by himself tomorrow, so I won't go."

"Then I'll take the harvester away first, and I'll drive over to pick you up tomorrow." Li Long said, "Otherwise it won't be easy for you to get over there tomorrow. My eldest brother and his friends will definitely need to use tractors to work in the fields, and we can't drive theirs."

Li Qingxia helped Li Long put the harvester on, and Li Long drove away.

Du Chunfang grumbled about her son's hasty return and hasty departure, and Li Qingxia smiled and said:
"Then you go to his place and help him take care of the children?"

"Well... forget it. I do want to look after my grandchildren, but I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of them well. There are two of them! They're so young..."

Li Qingxia was amused. He didn't say anything and just sat there picking up the tarpaulin that the harvester had taken away.

When Li Jianguo came back, Li Qingxia told him about this. Li Jianguo wanted him to go, but Li Qingxia didn't let him go:
"What are you going to do? Don't you have to do all the work in the fields? I don't know how to make pesticides for melons. Just do your thing. I haven't been to the mountains for a long time, so I'll go over and take a look."

Li Qingxia insisted, and since there was indeed a lot of work to do in the fields, Li Jianguo just let him do it.

When Li Long drove the tractor back to the yard, the sun had already set and the temperature outside was slowly dropping. The two children had already been carried into the house by Gu Xiaoxia.

Sister Yang’s dinner was ready. Li Long simply washed it and planned to wash it thoroughly after dinner.

Otherwise it would be difficult to play close to the children - after all, there are more messy smells on my body today.

Nowadays, most families don’t pay much attention to this and don’t care too much. But the two children have a more sensitive sense of smell, so Li Long still has to pay attention.

He planned to go buy what those people needed tomorrow morning, and also to see what Halimu and the others had brought for him.

You have to take inventory, sort and store them, and sell what needs to be sold.

For now, let’s eat first. (End of this chapter)