Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

This is a piece of jade with a turquoise hue and a dark green tint. Judging from its size, it must weigh at least three or four hundred kilograms.

Not too small.

Li Long hurriedly welcomed He Yuqing and Meng Hai in and asked:

"Why did you pull such a thing over here?"

Meng Hai and He Yuqing followed the carriage into the yard, one in front and one behind. Meng Hai, who was leading the carriage, even pulled the carriage towards the east wing to prevent the horses from scaring the children playing on the west side.

"I saw this thing when I went fishing in the river the other day," Meng Hai said with a smile, "and I knew it was jade. I thought your yard was big and there wasn't much to put in it, so I asked a few militiamen to load it onto a truck and send it over. We can build a platform somewhere and put it on it so it will look good."

A small part of this piece of jade is exposed outside, and most of it is stone skin. It has been washed by water for many years and has no edges or corners. Li Long has not yet figured out what it looks like. He needs to observe it carefully.

However, judging from the quality of the jade exposed outside, there are no black spots of fly droppings, so it can be considered as very high-quality jadeite.

"Why don't you sell it?" Li Long asked, "This jade is of good quality."

"What are you selling?" Meng Hai said with a smile, "I think it would be nice to put it in your yard. Come on, Comrade Li Long, please make way for me. It should not block the road and should look nice... It's good here..."

He pointed to the north side of the east wing, which was the northeast corner of the first courtyard, and said, "I think it would be nice to build a platform here.

I came in a hurry today and didn't bring anyone with me. I'll bring a few young men over in a couple of days, build a platform here, lift the stones up, and everything will be done.

I took a look at it and saw that the stone was lying flat, just like a fat baby sleeping on its side, which was quite pretty.

As he spoke, he pulled the carriage forward a little further, and then he and He Yuqing got on the carriage together and rolled the jade down.

Li Long went over to help. The stone was very heavy and He Yuqing and Meng Hai could not lift it. They originally planned to let it roll directly to the ground. However, Li Long's yard was paved with bricks, so they were worried about breaking the bricks.

When the big rock rolled to the rear of the carriage, the shaft had already begun to tilt. Li Long said:
"Come on, come on, follow me, one, two, three!"

Meng Hai and He Yuqing didn't know how they ended up lifting it up along with Li Long, and then they lifted it up!

The two people's brains froze for a while - but their hands still moved mechanically, and they followed Li Long to lift the jade and put it in the corner.

"Comrade Li Long, you are so strong! If you participate in the sports meet, you will at least win the weightlifting championship, right?" Meng Hai said belatedly.

"That's not possible." Li Long shook his head, dusted off his hands and said with a smile: "I don't know how to lift weights, thank you, I think this stone is really good..."

"Hey, it's just a token of my appreciation. Compared to the help you give to our team, it's nothing." He Yuqing smiled and clapped his hands.

By this time, Sister Yang had already brought the water over and asked the three people to wash their hands. There was also tea poured over there.

It's already October, and the season for eating watermelon has passed, so it's just right to drink tea.

"Have you eaten? If not, let's go out for a good meal." Li Long asked.

"We ate it." Meng Hai and He Yuqing said with a smile, "We made some money making brooms this year, so we ate it when we got to the county. We just wanted to come over to unload the stones, chat and then go back."

Li Long looked at the time. It was still early, so he decided to chat.

"...Comrade Li Long, you don't know, there are really a lot of wild boars, and a lot of corn this year has been ruined. If we hadn't applied to the township in advance to open the weapons room and bring the guns back for maintenance and training, I'm afraid there would be no corn harvest this year."

Li Long knew this was true. In order to protect the environment, wild boars were listed as protected animals in later generations. At that time, a wetland park was built near Xiaohaizi, and a pair of wolves and a pair of wild boars were introduced to enrich the wild animals.

As for other species such as rabbits, foxes, badgers, etc., they were already there originally and had been lurking for a while. Later, they became more numerous after the wetland park was built.

After one of the pair of wolves died of illness, the remaining one rarely saw people. However, foxes, rabbits, badgers and the like could be seen almost every day, and pheasants were also flying everywhere.

The most troublesome thing is the wild boar. Locals said that the wild boars came down from the mountains, not the pair that were introduced here. A mother wild boar led a dozen little wild boars and ran rampant in the wetland. Because there were no natural enemies and people were not allowed to catch them, the corn and wheat planted on the edge of the wetland suffered. Later, no one planted corn nearby.

Later, the team members raised pigs at home for meat, but they still had to buy corn outside, which was quite embarrassing.

"Did you kill it? By the way, are there any wild boars now?" Li Long asked.

"There are fewer now." He Yuqing shook his head and said, "I haven't seen them for a while after the corn harvest."

"It seems that the Qin family said they saw a group of wild boars digging in the fields before dawn yesterday. They ran back to the mountains before the sun came out." Meng Hai said, "Comrade Li Long, why are you asking this?"

"I plan to raise cattle and sheep in our village, so I asked the team for a piece of land to build a pen. At that time, the team told me that they would give each family 10 kilograms of meat during the Chinese New Year as land payment. I do raise more than a dozen wild boars, but I thought, wouldn't it be better if I could kill one?"

After he said this, He Yuqing and Meng Hai looked at each other, and then He Yuqing said:
"Then let's go back and check. I'll let you know if there's any news."

"Okay, okay." Li Long thought that there wouldn't be much to do in the next period of time, so he didn't need to worry too much about the reed bundles. Instead, he could go into the mountains to hunt and get back the things he promised to the team.

Li Long was quite confident that he could catch anything. Although he was not as good as an experienced hunter, what he caught in the mountains was still worth a lot.

Except for the northern tiger, he has fought all the big guys in the mountains.

He Yuqing and Meng Hai sat for a while and then left. Li Long played with the child for a while, then went into the house to take out the five-six-and-a-half and clean the gun.

This gun has made great contributions to him, and he plans to make better use of it in the winter.

After dinner the next day, Li Long drove a jeep to Team 4 after playing the parent-child game of "You don't understand me and I don't understand you" with his children.

When he arrived at Laomahao, Li Long saw Wang Caimi and Lao Luoshu standing at the gate before he got out of the jeep. The Dongfanghong 75 track tractor was pushing the saline-alkali beach west of Laomahao.

There is a layer of grayish white crystalline alkaline soil on the surface of the salt-alkali beach, which makes a creaking sound when stepped on. The salt-alkali content here is too high, so only plants such as reeds and white thorns that are not afraid of salt and alkali can grow.

Seeing the bulldozer pushing the bulldozer easily, Wang Caimi showed a hint of pride. It was easy to earn this hundred dollars.

Li Long drove the jeep to the entrance of the stable and stopped. He turned off the engine, got out of the car, and walked up to Wang Caimi and Lao Shu Luo.

"You did it pretty early." Li Long took the initiative to say, "It made quite a big noise."

"This soil is easy to push. I originally planned to finish it in a week, but now it seems that it will be done in two or three days."

"Not necessarily." Li Long knew what Wang Caimi was thinking. He pointed to the upper layer that had been pushed away and said, "The top ten centimeters is loose soil, but the ground below is hard."

"It's okay, it's okay. Since I've promised you, I will definitely do the job well." Wang Caimi said with a smile.

"This tractor is really powerful." Old Uncle Luo sighed, "When we were cultivating the land, there were no tractors. It was all people and horses pulling the plow. It was so hard. Now it's so good! We can sit on the tractor and move our hands and feet, and the land will be pushed open and turned over with a rumble."

"By the way, Brother Wang, the thirty acres of saline-alkali beach to the west also belongs to me. After you have pushed the fence here, how about you plow out those plots of land?"

"No problem." Plowing the land is the tractor's main job, and it is also Wang Caimi's main job. Naturally, he doesn't mind too much work.

The tractor made a lot of noise when pushing the earth, which attracted many passers-by to watch.

Ma Jinbao was passing by with his sheep. He was planning to graze the sheep in the harvested but not plowed fields to the east. He happened to see Wang Jia pushing the pen for Li Jia. He was in a bad mood, and with a dark face, he swung the whip, whipping the sheep that were nibbling on the reeds on the roadside, and hurried away.

Li Long glanced at him and ignored him. He heard the sounds of other tractors amid the sound of the Dongfanghong No. 75 tractor.

After a while, Xie Yundong, Tao Daqiang and others drove over in a tractor with sand and gravel sticking out of it.

Li Long came over and said with a smile:

"You guys are going there to haul sand and gravel so early in the morning?"

"I have nothing to do, so I thought I'd finish the job early." Xie Yundong, Tao Daqiang and Liang Dacheng all got off the tractor. Liang Shuangcheng, Liang Zhongcheng, Jia Weidong and others were also on the tractor. What surprised Li Long was that Xu Haijun, Xu Dejun and others were also there.

These are people who have participated in the group work or have close relationships with Li Long. Looking at them, Li Long felt warm in his heart. "Come, take a break, unload the sand and gravel here, and then go to haul it." Xie Yundong took the initiative to take the role of organizer, "Let's take it easy when hauling, don't get too tired."

"Everyone has been busy these past few days. Let's have lunch at the Old Horse. I'll kill a wild boar later and we'll have a good meal!"

Li Long originally planned to take his time with this job and mobilize a few households with whom he was close. The process might take a long time, and then each family would send a wild boar over.

Now that so many people have come, things can't be handled in this way. He immediately changed his strategy. There are more than a dozen wild boars in the pen anyway, so he picked a fatter one and slaughtered it for meat.

Everyone has worked hard, we cannot treat them unfairly.

Wang Caimi laughed when he heard this. Hey, it’s great to get paid for work and get some meat for free.

"Okay." Hearing that there was wild boar meat to eat, Xu Haijun said with a smile, "Xiaolong is generous, we can't save our energy. Let's go, unload the truck, and then load it!"

Young people are easy to motivate. Just one or two nice words can get them excited and start working.

Unloading the truck is very simple. Just pull out the pins at the connection between the truck body and the chassis, lower the rear deck, and then lift both sides to unload the entire truckload of sand and gravel.

The gate of Lao Ma Hao is 20 to 30 meters away from the main road, and the gravel can be unloaded on the roadside and piled up. Li Long meant to wait for the bulldozer over there to push the foundation, and then push the gravel directly into the pit.

Machines are always better than manual labor - if there is an excavator, even if the bucket is small, Li Long will accept it.

That thing is convenient to use, it is first-rate for digging soil and gravel. Although the labor cost is a bit more expensive, it is better than manual labor...

Li Long suddenly realized that this was not necessarily the case.

At this time, labor costs were actually the cheapest, because most of the land had not yet been cultivated, and there were more young and strong people, so labor costs were not as expensive as in later generations.

Until the beginning of the 21st century, most people actually did not have much cash, so they tried to save as much as possible and would not hire others to do things they could do themselves.

Of course, harvesting wheat is an exception - it's too tiring. Li Long really admires those wheat harvesters, because harvesting wheat is the most tiring job in the farm.

After all, it is the hottest time of the year and the hardest work is done - the only comparable work is picking cotton and safflower.

In a place that claims to be the largest question-and-answer community but turns out to be the most brainless novel community, Li Long often sees a post asking why people from northern Xinjiang and the snowy areas are rarely seen working outside.

Actually, there are some, but they are few. After all, these places have few people and much land, and the cities are not clear. In Li Long's area, there is more land per capita. As long as you can calm down and take care of your own land, you can have enough food and clothing and live a comfortable life, and it is not a problem to exceed the average line.

It’s just that there was a time when some young people would rather work in the city with a monthly salary of 1,500 to 2,000 yuan than go back home to do farm work, which could earn them a lot of money at the end of the year.

Far away.

When economic conditions permit, people are actually willing to use machines instead of manual labor.

So it's quite contradictory.

Later, cotton pickers, pesticide sprayers, and stalk beaters were developed, and even tomatoes can be picked by machine. However, it seems that safflower cannot be picked by machine at present, which is more troublesome.

When Uncle Luo heard that they were going to slaughter a pig, he immediately turned around and walked inside, saying to Li Long behind him:
"These wild boars are not as fat as domestic pigs when they are raised at home. One of them is good, and can be slaughtered for 60 to 70 kilograms. It has grown for more than a year and almost two years. Fortunately, it was castrated, otherwise the meat would not be tasty."

Slaughtering pigs is a big deal in the team, but at Lao Mahao, it can actually be done by just Li Long and Lao Luoshu.

Tao Daqiang, who had unloaded the truck, came over to help and asked his brother-in-law to drive the tractor to load sand and gravel.

Li Long and Tao Daqiang jumped into the circle. The wild boars were not afraid of people and came up to them to push them away, so Li Long kicked them away one by one.

"That end, the one that's pushing against you right now - can you hold it?"

The wild boar was slightly long and not very big. Li Long bent down and grabbed the wild boar's leg when it wasn't paying attention. The wild boar immediately screamed and struggled violently.

Tao Daqiang wanted to come over to help, and Li Long hurriedly said:
"Go and drive the other pigs inside, don't let them run out in the chaos!"

He felt that the wild boar was struggling with great strength. After all, its wildness had not been completely tamed and it was still young and strong.

Unfortunately, he encountered Li Long, a humanoid monster, whose strength was beyond the reach of ordinary people - in his previous life, thirty or forty years ago, it took five or six people to barely hold down a pig when slaughtering it for the New Year, and that was just barely.

Among those short videos, there are quite a few videos of accidents while slaughtering the New Year pig, after all, this thing is extremely powerful.

But Li Long held on to the wild boar and refused to let go, and actually dragged it out of the door.

The other wild boars looked at this and pushed forward. Tao Daqiang picked up the stick that Uncle Luo used to drive the pigs from the wall and swung it, driving the wild boars into the warm circle.

These wild boars actually had a sense of shared hatred for the enemy, and they pushed forward together, as if they were trying to save the wild boar, or to escape from this place. Tao Daqiang no longer spared any strength, and hit the fastest young wild boar with a stick. The wild boar screamed and took a few steps back. The next stick landed on another wild boar.

Seeing Tao Daqiang really fighting, the wild boars became a little scared and hesitated.

Taking advantage of this hesitation, Li Long dragged the wild boar out of the pen, and Uncle Luo closed the pen door at once.

"Uncle Luo, how could you lock me up in here?" Tao Daqiang seemed to be complaining, but he was actually joking.

"I know you can jump out, just climb over the wall." Uncle Luo replied seemingly ruthlessly.

Tao Daqiang bent down and swept the stick across, scaring the wild boars away a few steps. Then he immediately turned around, grabbed the wall with both hands, exerted force with his arms, and rushed up.

"Hey, that's neat!" said Uncle Luo with a smile.

"No match for Brother Long. Look, he's pinning down the pigs!"

Li Long was really outside the circle. He grabbed the wild boar's front legs, then pulled it up hard and knocked it down.

But saying that it was held down was a bit of an exaggeration, as the wild boar was struggling violently and it felt like it could break free at any time.

Tao Daqiang rushed over to help hold the pig down, and Uncle Luo went to get the rope.

"Tie it up first. Don't rush to kill it. We still need to boil water." Uncle Luo said, "Do you want to skin this wild boar?"

"Yes, skin it." Li Long said, "It's hard to shave the hair, so why not skin it? I'll do it, and you just come over to collect the blood."

Uncle Luo went over and got a basin, put some flour in it, added some salt and a rolling pin.

Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to carry the wild boar and put it on the earthen platform nearby. He took out the knife he carried with him and wiped the wild boar's neck hair twice.

Seeing Li Long holding the wild boar, Tao Daqiang went to the well to fetch a basin of water and washed the pig's neck, saying as he washed:
"Don't get the blood dirty, that pig blood bun is delicious!"

Uncle Luo brought the blood basin over, and Tao Daqiang helped Li Long hold down the wild boar. Li Long stepped on the wild boar's shoulder blade, bent down, and stabbed a knife from the neck to the heart - to kill a pig, you don't cut the neck directly, you stab inside.

A stream of sticky, fishy-smelling blood spurted out.

Uncle Luo was quite skillful. He tilted the basin slightly and let the blood flow into it.

"Ow—!"

The wild boar's scream echoed throughout the village.

Many people were wondering, what's going on? Why is the pig screaming so miserably?
At this time, Wang Caimi frowned.

After the alkaline soil on the surface of the saline-alkali land was pushed away, the ground underneath was extremely hard. The tractor was emitting black smoke and moving extremely slowly.

This business may be a loss. (End of this chapter)