Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long took three tractors to Kader's grassland.

The grassland is located quite deep, and this section of the road is not easy to walk on. It goes along a small river, and there are some places where there is no road, so you have to wade in the river.

Fortunately, the tractor and jeep have strong off-road capabilities and can still make it.

Tursun also said on the way that there were actually some herdsmen further into the mountains, but their pastures could be passed by horseback, not by tractors, so they had to give up.

After arriving at the grassland, Li Long saw that the area was indeed relatively flat, but the grass was not growing very well.

He could tell that the soil was different. The two pastures were mainly humus soil, but here the soil was mainly loess and brown soil, with a lot of stones mixed in the soil, and there was little woodland nearby.

Kader's winter home was also nearby, and he prepared milk tea and naan for him.

Li Long took some of the things he brought this time from the jeep and gave them to Li Jianguo and others.

Sesame cakes, canned food, watermelons, etc. Mainly because I was worried that they wouldn’t have enough to eat here, I also brought some medicine.

Li Long calculated the money for the three visits, but didn't give it to them. After all, the three of them were staying here at night, and carrying money was really afraid of attracting the attention of someone with ulterior motives.

Kader warmly invited Li Long and his friends to eat first and then work. Tursun ate half a piece of naan and left because he had something else to do. Li Long did the same, but he left a little later because he wanted to find out more about the bear gall.

"Bear gall?" Listening to Xie Yundong's translation, Kader shook his head, "We are not selling this, we want to keep it. It is a good medicine, we should keep it in case we need it in the future."

Well, since they wanted to use it, Li Long did not force them. He asked about other things, and as he guessed, all the good things in these herdsmen's homes were taken away by Tuersun.

Tursun certainly wouldn't take their things for nothing, he would give them some supplies, or provide them with some conveniences in the pastoral team, such as cutting grass in advance.

This is different from Li Long exchanging supplies for Halimu and others, and providing them with water and cutting grass.

Li Long also saw that Kader's winter nest was more than 100 meters away from the water. Although it was a gentle slope, it was not very convenient to use water.

But he didn't mention the issue of water supply. These herdsmen were considered Tursun's people, and Li Long had no interest in helping them.

no point.

After talking with Kader, Li Long said goodbye to Li Jianguo and the others and drove back in the jeep.

The bear skin was not completely dry yet, so he planned to take it back and hang it up to dry as soon as possible.

We also need to pay attention to Halimu and the others. After all, there are three people here, and a group of basically amateurs are cutting grass on the tractor over there. Li Long still has to check on them every day, one because of technical issues, and the other is to make them pay attention to safety.

Li Long felt more at ease because Halimu and his men had thoroughly cleared away stones, tree stumps and other things that would hinder the grass cutting in the pasture, and there was no situation where the blades were knocked off.

What surprised Li Long even more was that these herdsmen could basically hunt something every day.

But it's normal to think about it. Although there are pastures in the mountains now, in fact, the mountains and fields are still dominated by these wild animals, especially wild goats, roe deer and ibex, which all appear in groups.

Five or six herdsmen spread out, and some of them would always discover traces of prey. Then it would become a matter of which was faster, the gun or the hoof.

So Li Long could bring back some fresh meat and skins almost every day. A week later, the herders had cleared the pastures that needed to be threshed and returned to Halimu's pasture. The grass here was almost dry and could be bundled and transported back to the winter camp.

The pasture is usually not far from the winter den. When Li Long came to see, he saw Halimu and others tied the grass that was nearby into bundles and carried them directly to the winter den, and the grass that was farther away was also piled together.

He knew that they were planning to wait until the tractor finished harvesting before taking the truck to pull the crops.

Li Long got out of the jeep and went to help - but he was chased away by Halimu. Now the tractor had already reached Zat and his team, and they needed Li Long's on-site guidance even more.

Li Long drove the jeep in. In fact, he felt that although the grassland here was close to the woodland, it was good, but it was still very different from the grassland in Yili.

Although some of the pastures there are also on the mountains, there are basically no trees on the mountains, only grass slopes. You don't need to pay attention to stones and tree stumps when cutting grass.

Now both Talihar and Zat are already skilled at driving tractors, and other herders are also learning. Everyone knows that Yushanjiang has the power to decide who drives the tractor, and one of the main reasons why Yushanjiang decides who drives the tractor is who brings the goods to Li Long.

So this is a big reason why Li Long was able to bring back prey every time.

Li Long talked to Yushanjiang about it in private, but Yushanjiang said it was nothing and didn't let Li Long get involved.

After all, you're just sitting around doing nothing - in Yushanjiang's words, fighting is also a way to improve your food.

Li Long runs to three places every day, and it is quite tiring to get through each day.

The first to finish were Li Jianguo and his team.

Although Tuersun wanted to give all the pastures of his tribe to Li Jianguo and his team, some pastures were deep in the mountains and difficult to access. Some of them couldn't wait to harvest them themselves, and some thought the price was too high and were unwilling or unable to pay the money.

So Li Jianguo and his team spent thirteen days raiding nine pastures, and in the end they got one thousand two hundred and fifteen yuan.

This money was paid to the last family. After Li Long brought Li Jianguo and others back to the county town, they had a meal of noodles in the big meat canteen and settled the bill with the three people in person.

Having earned so much money in less than half a month, Li Jianguo couldn't help but smile sincerely.

"Xiaolong, this shouldn't be right." Xie Yundong suddenly said while holding the money, "You introduced this job, so you should take some money. Otherwise, it will be too hot for us to handle, right?"

"Right, right, right." Liang Dacheng also said, "According to the original rules, half. Of the 1,215, I'll take advantage and take 615, and you take 600!"

Xie Yundong was also counting the money and wanted to give half to Li Long.

"No, no, no." Li Long waved his hands hastily, "This time they are exchanging things, the prices of these things are higher than the actual price, I just need to make a profit from the difference.

Okay, you have been out for almost half a month, your hair and beard have grown long, go back and take a good wash and rest. I can already smell the stench. "

"How can it not stink? You never take a shower, you wash randomly every day, and the place where you sleep smells really bad." Xie Yundong smiled, "But it's fun to make money like this!"

Since Li Long didn't want the intermediary fee, Xie Yundong and Liang Dacheng no longer insisted, and the three of them drove the tractor back together.

What Li Long said was true. He received more than 3,000 yuan for cutting grass, and he had a lot more to sell after selling leather, deer antlers, mother-of-pearl and other things.

The jade and bloodstone were extra. Among the seven jades, two were jasper. Although they were not big, they had no black spots and no cracks. They could at least be rated as Grade 1 and could be sold for a thousand yuan.

It’s impossible to put an estimate on the value of those three pieces of bloodstone, but they should be worth quite a bit.

So Li Long definitely won’t lose out.

Four days later, Yushanjiang and Halimu also finished their work. After cutting the grass, they dried it and took it to their respective winter camps to pile it into tall haystacks.

This is what the winter dens rely on to raise cattle and sheep in winter.

Although the current market supply of beef and mutton is slightly higher than the original price limit, it is still not enough to meet everyone's needs. In the autumn every year, people who raise sheep in the plains come to buy sheep.

The collected sheep will be penned up and fattened, and then slaughtered and sold in the winter before the New Year.

Sheep breeding is now gradually gaining scale. In the future, more and more people will pay attention to this aspect, and some with capital will start mergers and acquisitions to expand and become stronger.

Li Long once heard that in the next 20 to 30 years, at a certain special time, the prices of beef and mutton in southern and northern Xinjiang would be controlled by a very small number of people, rather than entirely by the market.

These people control most of the price trends of fattening sheep. Unless the government clears out large quantities of stockpiled meat, otherwise, everyone will pay for the meat, and it is really up to a few people to decide.

Of course, later on, due to the impact of large quantities of beef and mutton from abroad or other provinces, the price changes were different.

Li Long wondered if he could make some arrangements in advance. With sugar residue from the sugar factory as feed and herdsmen in the mountains providing a large number of cattle and sheep, this could actually be done now.

After all, in the next few years, it gradually became a habit that herders returning from summer pastures would usually clear out a batch of culled sheep around October.

On the one hand, it is to clear out the cattle and sheep that are not energetic enough in the flock, and on the other hand, it is to exchange some money for purchasing supplies for living in the winter nest.

At this time, cattle and sheep dealers usually buy a large number of these cattle and sheep, take them back to the pen to fatten them, and then sell them in the winter.

At this time, the prices of cattle and sheep in both official and spontaneous live cattle and sheep markets were very low. Ordinary people might buy one or two sheep in such markets if they wanted to have some good meat in the winter, but those dealers would buy dozens of sheep at a time.

This thought only flashed through Li Long's mind. He currently had no place to store cattle and sheep. He could store some in the Lao Mahao, but no more than two hundred sheep or fifty cows.

And if we really have to raise so many, Uncle Luo won’t be able to take care of them all, and he will have to find someone to raise them.

Just wait.

It was because the matter of sugar residues had further developed that he had this idea.

After all, sugar residue is really good feed.

Li Long was thinking whether he could expand the wasteland near the Lao Ma Hao. Anyway, the land certificate was not available in the short term, so he could talk to the team about the nearby land and consider it as an affiliated area of ​​the Lao Ma Hao, add some land, or pay the team a sum of money to rent it.

Thirty years later, all production teams including the township will support such industries and even provide subsidies. Although there is no support now, the team should support it, right?

After cutting grass, the last meal was still prepared in front of Halimu’s winter nest.

The grass was harvested yesterday. This morning, anyone with a gun was driven out by Yushanjiang to hunt. When they came back at noon, they had caught three wild goats, one red deer, and two roe deer.

There have been constant sounds of gunfire in this valley recently. Cunning creatures like wolves have already run far away and none of them have been shot.

On the contrary, the herbivores were relatively slow. Even the alert red deer only ran into a few ravines and did not go too far.

In the big pot in front of the winter camp, all kinds of meat were cooked. The skins were peeled quickly and the meat was unwrapped. Some were to be dried in the sun to be eaten on the road, but most were given to Li Long to take back.

Especially those bastards, they were all handed over to Li Long.

This time, Li Long drove the jeep to bring his elder brother Li Jianguo over.

The work in the melon field is almost finished. All that remains is to pick and crush the seeds.

So Li Jianguo was not very busy - more than half of the things he was carrying back were destined for Team 4.

In this era, entertainment activities are still relatively monotonous, including food.

Although there is so much good meat, people mainly eat it by boiling or grilling it.

Li Jianguo felt that it was a bit wasteful, so he asked for a pot, got some wild vegetables, asked for some spicy noodles, and directly braised and fried a pot of venison.

At the beginning, the herdsmen just watched. Li Jianguo and Li Long's elder brother, no matter what, should give this face. And the food was also made by them, most people meant to eat a few bites when the food came out of the pot.

Kazakhs also have stir-fried dishes, the most famous of which is Kazakh potato chips. There are few stir-fried meat dishes, and of course no braised ones.

While frying, Li Jianguo said that there were not enough ingredients. There were no dried chilies, no green chilies, and not even cooking wine.

Li Long hurried to the jeep and got a bottle of white wine.

Li Jianguo saw that it was Gucheng Daqu. He smiled and said:
"This is a bit of a waste...but it's okay."

He unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip first, and then poured one-third of the bottle into the pot - mainly because there was a lot of stir-fry, enough to fill a whole basin.

There is a lot of meat, so it is fried well.

As soon as the wine was spilled, many people lamented what a pity it was.

These days, some people have been reminding Li Long, openly or secretly, to bring some wine over. There is wine in Li Long's jeep, but he just doesn't take it out. The main reason is that he is worried that these people will drink too much and can't control themselves.

He had seen some people who were too honest, but when they got drunk, they became completely different people.

So those who wanted to drink looked at Li Jianguo pouring the wine into it, saying it was a pity, but at the same time thinking that they would at least have a few pieces later, since there was wine.

Wine is used to suppress the muttony smell of wild animals, otherwise it will taste bad.

The reason why it can be braised is that there are many ingredients in Li Long's jeep, not only wine, but also spicy noodles, vinegar, soy sauce, and condiments like daxiang.

Otherwise, even if you give Li Jianguo two deer, he won’t be able to get them.

After a while, the aroma wafted away, including the aroma of roasted meat and boiled meat, but neither of them overwhelmed the aroma of the braised venison.

More and more people gathered here.

With more people around, work can be done faster. The skins have been smeared with salt and hung up to dry, the internal organs have been washed and packed, the air-dried meat has been hung up, and the meat for Li Long and his friends to take away has been put into bags.

More than a dozen pieces of naan have been baked, and the barbecue is slowly becoming edible.

"Bring a basin, the meat is almost done, you can serve it now!" Li Jianguo's face was already sweating. In order to feed so many people, he cut a lot of meat, and just stir-frying the meat constantly was quite tiring.

He scooped out a piece of meat with bones with a spatula, blew on it and started eating. It tasted good, so he took the basin handed to him by Li Long and started scooping the meat into the pot.

Li Long quickly turned off the fire below, otherwise the bottom of the pot would have stuck to it and burned.

A pot of braised venison was placed on a makeshift log, and Li Jianguo said:
"Everyone, try it. You can eat it directly with chopsticks, or put a piece in naan."

Li Long took the pot and put it aside, then filled it with water and soaked it. Seeing that the others were too embarrassed to move, he smiled and said:

"Then I won't be polite." He went to get an enamel basin and scooped out a few pieces of meat for himself. Then he went to the naan pit and got a freshly made naan. He walked over and broke off half for his eldest brother, then sat on a piece of wood beside and started eating.

With Li Long's example, everyone else also got some venison to eat.

Two people ate two pieces and stopped eating, while more people ate two pieces and then continued to eat some more.

Apparently, they were quite receptive to the taste of braised venison.

Some people couldn't help but give Li Jianguo a thumbs up. Li Jianguo ate the meat and smiled reservedly.

The meal was very filling, and when Li Long and his friends left, they were left with a few pieces of cooked meat.

This was something Halimu and Yushanjiang forced on Li Long and his friends, asking them to take it back home for their families to eat.

Li Long also left behind a few bags of rice and flour, as well as batteries, salt and other things that everyone had previously asked to take back to the summer ranch.

These days, Li Long is like an ant moving house, bringing some things over every day, so that every family can take back two bags of rice and flour, a pot of oil, brick tea, salt and other things.

Although some people say yes, it’s okay to have too much of these things, but it’s difficult to deal with too little.

Everyone also kept the things Li Long brought properly, especially the medicines. Everyone followed Halim's example and wrote the marks they recognized on them, as they could save lives at critical moments.

Li Long was driving a jeep in front and Li Jianguo was driving a tractor behind. When passing Qingshuihe Village, Li Long saw that the stalks of the reed had begun to turn yellow, and it seemed that it was almost time to make brooms.

I wonder if there will be more tasks of making big brooms this year?
But it doesn't matter. Even if there is no money, Li Long doesn't think it's a big deal. He has earned enough this year. A little more would be icing on the cake, and a little less would not hurt.

So Li Long didn't care much.

Of course he knew that Meng Hai and the others cared a lot about it. After all, making broomsticks only makes money for a few people, but making big brooms makes money for the whole village.

At this time, most village cadres sincerely want to bring some benefits to their villagers and lead them to prosperity.

A car and a tractor drove into the yard, and Li Jianguo's harvester was left there without being moved.

Li Long drove a jeep to send his eldest brother and the meat that was prepared for his eldest brother's family back, and then came back.

He also has to help Sister Yang process the meat, otherwise it will easily go bad.

At this time, Li Longzhen missed the days of having a refrigerator and freezer. (End of this chapter)