Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Talihar was a little anxious.

He slowly climbed up the mountain with his gun.

There are quite a lot of wild animals near his winter den.

Last time we killed so many wild goats, but I didn’t expect that not long after, there were traces of other herbivores nearby.

He tied the horse in the circle of the winter den. He planned to make something and give it to Li Long, and then ask Li Long to teach him how to drive a tractor.

Talihar, like everyone else, knew that Li Long would definitely teach Halim and Yushanjiang. After that, they would probably take turns to cut grass, and Li Long would just come over to check on them from time to time.

He also wanted to learn how to drive a tractor, and he also wanted to experience the thrill of driving an iron bull.

If he wanted Li Long to teach him how to operate a tractor, he could just ask. He believed that Li Long would agree, but there were so many people, what if he asked and others said so?
It would be troublesome to decide who to teach and who not to teach, and it would cause trouble for Li Long.

So he planned to shoot a wild goat or a roe deer and give it to Li Long in exchange for the qualification to teach him tractor technology.

In this way, if other people want to be taught by Li Long like him, they can offer something in exchange.

Talihar thought his idea was absolutely feasible, so he came over with a gun.

Yesterday, he shot a roe deer in another ravine. There were five or six roe deer in a group, and he only shot one of them, while the others ran over here.

He thought that these roe deer wouldn't be able to run far, and it would be great if he could catch one here today.

But when I came to this ditch, I found nothing.

Talihar was a little disappointed, but it was understandable. He climbed up the ridge and wanted to see if there was anything in other ditches nearby.

He climbed up the ridge and just saw a hunt end.

Three gray wolves had killed a male elk and were preparing to have a feast.

Talihar looked and saw that the enemy was about fifty or sixty meters away from him, so he immediately raised his gun and started shooting.

If you can't catch the roe deer, you can just catch the wolf.

Although wolf meat is not delicious, at least the wolf skin is good.

In the past, when there were no guns, anyone who could kill a wolf in the tribe was a warrior. Now that there are guns, everyone can become a warrior.

This thought flashed through his mind, and his hand shook when he pulled the trigger. The bullet grazed the face of a gray wolf, leaving a streak of blood. The wolf howled, turned its head and dived into the woods.

The other two wolves also crouched down and rushed into the woods.

There were many bushes nearby, and although Talihar wanted to fire again, soon the wolf disappeared from his sight and only the fallen male elk was left.

Talihar was a little annoyed, but there was nothing he could do.

He walked over there with a gun in hand, looking around as he walked to guard against hidden attacks by wolves.

Fortunately, we didn't see the wolf come out until we reached the elk. It was obvious that it was really scared away.

The elk had many wounds on its body, the most fatal of which was on its neck. The blood vessels in its neck had been bitten off, and blood was all over the ground. It was now motionless.

Talihar would definitely not eat this kind of meat, and neither would Halimu or the others.

However, the deerskin was still intact, so he planned to take the deer back and see if Li Long and the others wanted it.

A freshly dead deer should still be useful to them, right?

Talihar picked up the deer and walked down the mountain.

This is a young elk, weighing about 40 to 50 kilograms, and it is a bit difficult for him to carry it.

Fortunately, this place was not far from his family's winter den. After resting for two minutes, Talihar finally arrived at the winter den. Then he put the sika deer on the horse's back, tied it up, and rode the horse to trot towards Halimu's winter den.

When they got there, seeing Li Long still teaching Halimu and the others, Talihar wondered if he could learn it quickly if he learned it himself.

After all, among these herdsmen, the young guys are the fastest to learn hunting on their own.

He had chosen to forget how miserable he looked when facing that fierce bear.

"Talihar, you went hunting?" Zat was the first to spot him, calling from his winter den. "Come and eat - what did you catch?"

"It's a red deer, but I didn't kill it." After Talihar rode to the winter den, Zat served him narin from the pot.

In order to keep the temperature of the naan, they were kept in the pot. The result was that the noodles became rotten in the end.

Talihar put the sika deer down and threw it aside. He was really hungry and did not bother to talk. After washing his hands, he took an enamel basin and filled it with food, then began to eat it with slurps.

"Didn't you kill this red deer?"

Zat asked again.

"I didn't kill it. It was killed by three wolves. I didn't kill the wolves, so I picked up the elk." Talihar explained.

He wouldn't lie, so there was no need to take this upon himself.

After dinner, Talihar began to skin the deer. Regardless of whether the venison was edible, at least the deer skin could still be worth some money.

Li Long had already taught Harimu how to use the harvester. Harimu excitedly drove the tractor and started to cut grass in the grassland. Yushanjiang was waiting on the side, planning to take over after Harimu came back after a circle.

Li Long had just seen Talihar coming back with something on his back, so he walked over to take a look.

"Talihar, is this the elk you shot?" Li Long asked.

"No, I wanted to kill it, but it was killed by three wolves. I wanted to kill the wolves, but failed." Talihar explained again.

His voice was a little muffled when he explained it and he felt a little embarrassed because he had missed the target after all.

"That's great. You're quite capable of finding prey as soon as you go out." Li Long praised, "Did you just kill it?" He looked at the bright red blood on the deer and asked again.

"Well, when I saw it, the wolf had just killed the deer and hadn't had time to eat it yet."

"Then leave the venison and the offal to me. You guys don't want to eat it?"

"Well, I thought I would peel the skin off for you." Talihar thought that he was right and said, "Then I would ask you to teach me how to drive a tractor."

"Okay." Li Long said with a smile, "I can even teach you how to drive a car."

Does this count as tuition?

Talihar is quite thoughtful.

Zat, who was helping Talihar pull the deer's leg, was very envious when he heard this. He didn't expect that Talihar had this idea when he went out hunting.

If I had known earlier, I would have followed him. At least now I would have been able to follow him and say that I wanted to learn how to drive a tractor.

Skinning is relatively easy for an experienced person like Talihar. After skinning, he also gutted the deer at Li Long's request. Several idle young men helped to clean up the offal, while Talihar and Zat removed the venison and rubbed salt on it.

They don't eat, but Li Long and the others do.

Li Long planned to wait for his father to pick mushrooms and then drive the jeep back. This deer was not light, it could produce at least 30 kilograms of meat and offal, which could be shared by both sides, and could be eaten for at least half a month.

Li Long took out two sacks from the jeep and packed the venison and offal separately. Because they were coated with salt, they were not afraid of flies or anything.

After receiving the gift, Li Long called Talihar to the passenger seat of the jeep and taught him how to drive a car.

"Driving a tractor is similar to driving a car. I will first tell you how to drive this. You may not learn it, but once you know the basic procedures, it will be much easier to drive a tractor. It is much easier to drive than this."

I guess every tractor driver would think so.

Talihar didn't expect that he was originally working on something with the intention of asking Li Long to teach him how to drive a tractor, but ended up sitting in the passenger seat of a car.

But Talihar was still very nervous after getting into the car. He had heard from Yushanjiang a long time ago that such a car was only for high-ranking leaders to ride in. Now that he was sitting in it, he felt very uneasy, if not like sitting on pins and needles.

Therefore, although he remembered most of the driving procedures that Li Long said, when Li Long asked him to drive a car, he immediately waved his hand. He dared not drive this thing. If it broke, he couldn't afford the compensation.

Li Long did not force him. He drove him around twice and then returned to the winter den. Then he took Talihar to the grassland. After Yushanjiang came back after cutting grass, he stopped the tractor and began to teach Talihar how to drive a tractor.

At this moment, some of the young men became excited.

Since Talihar was able to carry a red deer and then learn how to operate a tractor, could he also get something in exchange for the opportunity to learn tractor technology?

Although they had given things to Li Long before, everyone understood that Li Long's tractor could not be used to cut grass for everyone for free. Those things had already been exchanged for cutting grass for their own family, so they did not count.

Some people who are not so interested in driving a tractor don't think too much about it. Anyway, this trip will be as relaxing as last year, so just take a good rest.

It took Li Long less than an hour to teach Talihar how to drive a tractor. By then, the other herders had completely understood that driving a tractor was not an easy task.

Talihar was probably quite nervous and held his breath three times before he was able to drive the tractor smoothly on the grassland.

The grass around here has been flattened.

Fortunately, they did not crush the land indiscriminately, and the grass would grow again within two days after they drove past.

After finishing this, Li Long told Halimu and Yushanjiang about adding water and oil. He could come over tomorrow to add oil, after all, pumping oil out of the barrel was a technical job, but adding water was easier.

"As long as you see the water sinking down to this point, add water." Li Long gave a very intuitive standard. There is a filter pool in the water tank to prevent dirt from entering. It is about ten centimeters deep. Li Long pointed to the opening and told them to make sure the water does not sink down.

Although there are floats, there is no need to explain so much, and he believes that such intuitive standards are more acceptable to them.

Sure enough, seeing that the water level had dropped five or six centimeters, Talihar took down the bucket hanging on the back of the tractor without saying a word, ran over to fetch a bucket of water, brought it over, stepped on the wheel and poured the water into the water tank.

The float immediately floated up.

When Li Qingxia came out of the pine forest, Talihar had already handed the tractor to Halimu.

He planned to wait until the time came to harvest his own pasture, and then he could drive the tractor himself, so that when he returned to the summer pasture, he could also blow it at home.

When Li Long saw Li Qingxia coming back, he asked him to get in the jeep. After saying hello to everyone else, he drove away in the jeep.

"Why are you back so early today?" Li Qingxia was a little puzzled.

"Just now, Talihar brought back a red deer," Li Long explained while driving. "They don't eat this red deer, so we have to hurry back to clean it up, so we returned early."

"I was wondering why there was a bloody smell." Li Qingxia was happy. "There are so many good things in this mountain. There are so many mushrooms that we can't pick them all. There are also red deer and so many other good things..."

Li Long thought that if he didn't have so many good things, he would not have been able to develop to this level in just two or three years.

These are all the wealth given by the mountains.

When the jeep drove back to the county town, Li Long did not go back to the big yard first, but went to his eldest brother's house first.

Du Chunfang was in the yard. Li Juan and Li Qiang did not go to the fields today. Instead, they had just come back from collecting pig grass and were helping their grandmother chop the grass and prepare pig food in the yard.

Li Jianguo is no longer a professional pig farmer, and the five mu of feed land allocated to him will be returned to the team at the end of the year. However, the income from that little land and pig farming is less than half of the income from growing melons, so it is better not to have it.

The pigs they raise now are mainly for their own meat at the end of the year. After putting down the venison and the other half of the offal, Li Long chatted with his mother for a few words and then drove away.

He went to the Laomahao to give Uncle Luo a piece of venison, as Uncle Luo was cutting grass to feed the deer.

"Oh, did you catch a deer?" Uncle Luo looked at the meat and smiled from ear to ear. "We haven't finished the braised meat at home yet."

"That's different. This is fresh. My friend just caught it today." Li Long put the meat down and went to look at the wild boars and roe deer.

At present, the number of roe deer and red deer has increased to ten. Fortunately, the pen is large and can accommodate them all. However, Li Long plans to kill two in winter. If there are too many, Uncle Luo will not be able to raise them.

"Xiaolong, we don't have enough sugar residue." Uncle Luo said, "I usually feed grass to the deer, but this wild boar is too greedy and keeps crying when it's not full."

"I understand. I'll go to Shicheng and bring back a truck in a couple of days." Li Long said, "I'll be back in a few days."

You need a car to transport the sugar residue. His tractor had gone into the mountains, and his elder brother's tractor was needed. Li Long planned to go to the transportation company to find Captain Ma to see if he could use their car after get off work.

It might sound scary to use a car to transport sugar residue, but one car can carry the same amount of sugar as several normal trips. Anyway, the sugar factory will not use the sugar residue for anything in the short term. Therefore, given my relationship with Section Chief Hu, there should be no problem.

After coming out of Lao Mahao, Li Long drove the jeep back to the big yard. The sun had not yet set and Sister Yang was cooking dinner.

Li Long took down the venison and some remaining offal and began to process them.

Han Fang was about to start school, so she asked Gu Xiaoxia to remind her to review her lessons. Gu Xiaoxia opened the door when Li Long's jeep entered the house. The two children were lying on the mats playing, not making any noise.

Li Long was carrying the meat and smelled strongly of blood, so he just teased the two children a few steps away and then went to deal with the meat.

Sister Yang wanted to come over to help but Li Long refused. She still had to cook dinner and there was no need. She could take care of these things herself.

A few pieces of venison can be dried, and the rest needs to be stewed. Of course, some can be fried in the evening and tomorrow morning. As for the offal, it must be boiled first.

The cooking methods at that time were relatively simple. Even if Li Long wanted to eat hot pot, he needed a pot.

Just make one randomly, what if it burns through?
Besides, Gu Xiaoxia is currently breastfeeding and cannot eat anything she pleases.

In the mountains, shortly after Li Long left, two men rode horses from the east and arrived at Halimu's winter nest.

Tursun, the team leader at the pastoral team's rear post, and Adili, the deputy team leader, came on horseback to see how the herders were cutting grass.

Last year they found out that the herders in this small tribe used tractors with harvesters to cut grass. The team leader and deputy team leader at the time were thinking about whether they could promote this mechanical grass cutting method this year.

If this method can be promoted, the herders can save a lot of time and they can also get some credit.

After all, herders now basically use sickles to cut grass. If it can be changed to mechanized, the contribution will definitely be significant.

When Tursun arrived at Halimu's winter camp, he saw a tractor with a harvester mowing the grassland. The speed was really fast. After going up and down in a circle, the grass on the grassland was cut down and arranged into slightly neat long and thin strips.

The grass would be tied up and pulled back after it dried. He also saw a truck bed at Halim's winter home. He thought that he could use a tractor to pull the grass when he got there.

The same can be done for other pastures that are easily accessible to tractors.

So Tursun made a prompt decision and found Yushanjiang who was driving a tractor back after a circle.

Seeing Tursun and Adili coming, the other herdsmen were guessing why they were here, but Yushanjiang and Halimu had already guessed it.

All they wanted was to take the tractor and harvester over to help other herders cut grass.

Neither Yushanjiang nor Halimu could make the decision on this matter, so they certainly could not agree to it.

Tuersun rode to the edge of the pasture, dismounted, and shook hands with Yushanjiang Halim who got off the tractor, exclaiming:

"It's still faster to cut grass this way! In just a few moments, it takes as long as a person cuts grass all day!"

Adili knew most of the other herders, and he came over to greet them and shake hands. He knew about this matter, but since the captain was here, he just had to be a decoration and listen to the captain's orders.

"It's really fast." Yushanjiang said, "Thanks to our friend Li Long. This tractor is his, and the harvester is also his. If it weren't for him, we would have to cut the grass for a month. But he is also busy, he needs to earn money by doing work."

Yushanjiang’s hint was clear: Li Long’s tractor also had its own uses, and even if the pastoral team wanted to use it, the remuneration had to be clearly negotiated.

Tuerxun's face was a little stiff. He did plan to use it for free at the beginning - after all, Yushanjiang and the others could use it, so if he said something nice, it would be okay for others to use it.

I didn't expect that Yushanjiang would interrupt me here.

He was not an idiot, he figured it out quickly and asked:

"So did you pay for the tractor?"

"We didn't give money, but we gave things." Halimu said beside him, "Leather, deer antlers, jade..."

The other herdsmen who had gathered around heard what was going on and responded immediately.

Tuersun's face froze again. (End of this chapter)