Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Qingxia originally thought that he could finish the family tree continuation in half a month, and then go back to Northern Xinjiang and wait.

I didn’t expect to stay in my hometown for more than a month.

Li Anmin finally agreed to Li Qingxia's plan and added the names of all the people in his sect.

As Li Qingxia had expected, everyone in the four sects of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter mainly looked at whether the continuations of the genealogy in their own sect were correct, and basically no one cared about those in other sects.

Why bother with so many things? They're not from your own sect. To put it bluntly, they're already five generations away from you.

It’s just that he is still a disciple of the same ancestor.

Li Qingxia lived in his own house, and from time to time he received notifications from Li Anmin to go to meetings. The main purpose was to discuss whether to accept some other branches into the family tree. The four of them were the main branches, but there were other branches. Some of them were recorded and could continue to be included in the family tree, and some came to the door themselves to say which generation of the Li family went out and took root in where they branched out.

This is quite complicated. Some people were lost, and they established a new branch, and later found their roots; some people had died in the original family tree, but a branch came up and said that they were not dead at the time. In this case, all branches need to hold a meeting to discuss whether to join the family.

When Li Qingxia came over, he acted like a good guy and basically didn't say anything. If people asked him what he thought, he would say whatever he wanted.

Anyway, he had already decided to hand over the position of patriarch of this clan to Li Anmin, so there was no need for him to make his presence felt at this time.

As long as he finishes the next task of continuing the genealogy, he will want to rush back.

Just think about how comfortable it is to stay in northern Xinjiang. You can cast nets to catch fish in the summer and break holes in the ice to catch fish in the winter. You can work when you want to and stay at home when you don’t want to. It’s so comfortable.

There is also a big river next to Li Lou. It was cleaned up a few years ago, and a lot of dead bones, rusty guns and other miscellaneous things were cleared out of it. This lake leads to the Grand Canal. In a few years, when the cultural relics become valuable, someone will sail a boat in the Grand Canal and use strong magnets to suck up those things that sank in ancient times.

When Li Qingxia and Li Jianguo were young, there were many fish and shrimps in this river. But later on, there were fewer and fewer of them. After all, there were too many people living along the river, and when they were short of food and clothing, everyone looked for food to eat in the river.

At that time, there was little firewood, and things like clams were the most despised. It was best to pick up wild duck eggs, but catching some fish was also good. If you couldn't catch any fish, you could get some snails. The worst was clams, which were difficult to cook and a waste of firewood.

Another great advantage of the northern Xinjiang is that as long as you go out, there is no shortage of firewood, and coal is cheap. Even in 30 or 40 years, the coal in the northern Xinjiang will not be that expensive, at most a few hundred yuan a ton. In another 20 or 30 years, the price of coal in Lilou will be more than 1,000 yuan a ton, and it will not be as good as the coal from the northern Xinjiang.

Although I have lived here for most of my life, I still feel that life over there is better. I don't know about the future, but at least for now.

The work of continuing the family tree could not be completed in a short time, so Li Qingxia could not leave. In his free time, he would go to the market and buy something interesting when he came across it.

At this time, everyone in the market started to get busy and sell everything. He collected a lot of old items and planned to take them back to Northern Xinjiang to see if Li Long wanted them.

That's all the fun left for now.

It is not a simple matter to continue compiling a family tree. Every branch must be counted clearly, including the additions and subtractions, and all major events must be recorded clearly after each branch is completed.

Once during a meeting, someone questioned the authenticity of the commendation that Li Long had received from the autonomous region in the annals. Before Li Qingxia could say anything, Li Anmin said that he had called the county in northern Xinjiang to check and confirmed that it was a real commendation.

It's a public inquiry, so they won't hide anything.

Li Qingxia was quite proud, but he still had some complaints about the sect that targeted him. If he didn't intend to stop being the clan leader and really wanted to retaliate, this would be a small matter.

After the meeting, the genealogy was finalized, and the next step was to carve the stone blocks and print them. All that was left was waiting.

This time, each family had to contribute money, after all, carving a stone was quite expensive. As the second clan leader who had not yet stepped down, Li Qingxia set an example himself and contributed one thousand yuan each.

This was truly a big deal - although the sum of money contributed by each of the other subjects was more than his, the most a single person contributed was only three hundred.

Money is still valuable at this time.

The four sects agreed that each sect would contribute 2,000 yuan, and that was the total printing cost. Li Qingxia contributed half of the money, so the other tribesmen contributed much less, and everyone was very grateful to him.

But the aftereffects are also huge. Think about how long it has been since his family went to northern Xinjiang, and how they were able to pay so much money in one go. What does that mean? It means that it is easy to make money in northern Xinjiang.

Many people were eager to follow Li Qingxia to develop in the northern border.

Li Qingxia was rather ambiguous at this time, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

Li Junfeng actually felt very regretful, but he didn't say anything at the moment. He would send some food from home to Li Qingxia from time to time, and would let Li Qingxia handle any difficult matters.

He also knew what other people were thinking. Many people had found out about his whereabouts and came here. He knew that Li Qingxia definitely didn't want to take anyone away, so naturally he couldn't say anything.

Although Li Qingxia and his wife moved their household registration, they did not take back the land, and now Li Junfeng is cultivating it. There is also the ancestral grave of Li Qingxia's branch on the land, and Li Qingxia also asked him to take care of it.

If Li Junfeng wanted to go to Northern Xinjiang, he would go there himself, after all, he had been there once, but in the end he decided not to go. His family had more land than others, and he had earned some money in Northern Xinjiang, so his family was more solid. Both his and his wife's families were here, so he decided to stay here honestly.

Li Qingxia went out from time to time, firstly because he couldn't stay idle, and secondly to go to the Liang family. They were also compiling a family tree, and when he found out, he called Li Jianguo's team through Li Anmin and told them the situation.

Liang Donglou did not come back, he just sent back a hundred yuan. Li Qingxia meant that once the family tree was completed there, there was no need to send it back, he would just help bring it back.

Many people here were waiting for Li Qingxia to leave. At first, they often saw him leaving home and were a little wary, but later, seeing that he often went out and didn't carry any packages, they relaxed.

They had no idea that the important things Li Qingxia brought were all kept by Li Anmin, and he had given him two jugs of wine. Now that his family tree had finally been published and the Liang family tree had also been obtained, he didn't even go back to the team, but took the things from Li Anmin and went to the county town directly.

gone.

When someone in the team wanted to follow him to Northern Xinjiang, seeing that Li Qingxia had not returned home for two or three days, went to ask, they found out that Li Qingxia had already returned to Northern Xinjiang.

This time, Li Qingxia took the initiative to buy a sleeper ticket - he knew that his next visit to his hometown would probably only happen once every few years.

The most important thing is that the things he brought back this time are very important. Not only is there a set of four genealogies for his Li family, but there is also a set of four genealogies for the Liang family.

The bag also contained a lot of old items bought for Li Long wrapped in old newspapers, as well as a bag of sesame cakes, which were to be taken back for the grandchildren to taste.

In order to prevent them from getting damaged on the road, I asked the chef to bake them very dry and crispy, so that nothing could be lost. I simply bought a sleeper berth, since I had the money anyway!

There is another important reason why Li Qingxia didn't want to bring the team out, which was that he didn't want to cause trouble for his children and grandchildren. If he brought people, he wouldn't be able to arrange it himself, so he could only let Li Long find a way. Wouldn't that cause trouble for Li Long?

If it was the first time he came back, he would like to show off his son Li Long's ability to settle people. But now it's different. Since he has decided to settle his family in Northern Xinjiang, his branch will basically take root in Northern Xinjiang in the future, so he has to consider it from that side.

When Li Qingxia returned to Ma County, Li Long had just finished the reclamation work of the saline-alkali land.

After the new horse stable, or the new cattle and sheep pen, was built, the villagers no longer needed help. Li Long asked Wang Caimi to plow the remaining twenty acres of saline-alkali land, and then opened two drainage ditches on the west and north sides. He also asked him to plow a canal on the south side, which was a main canal leading to the cultivated land north of the western residential area of ​​the production team.

Li Long planned to wait until the team released water to irrigate the winter wheat, then water his more than 20 acres of saline-alkali land thoroughly to soak the alkali layer on top, and then see if he can plant something next year.

It doesn’t matter whether something can grow on it or not. The main thing is to cultivate the land, so it can’t just sit there idle.

In fact, some people in the team disagreed with Li Long's reclamation of the saline-alkali land. Those who had a good relationship with the Li family would openly find Li Jianguo or Li Long to persuade him to give up this plan, after all, the development of the saline-alkali land was too difficult.

Those who don't have a good relationship with their family are secretly waiting to see the joke.

Although Li Long has brought a lot of money-making jobs to the team in the past two or three years, benefiting almost every household in the production team, this does not prevent there from being a few families in the production team who think that Li Long is going too smoothly and want to see him fall.

There's nothing you can do about it, that's human nature.

According to Xu Chengjun's idea, Li Long slaughtered two pigs and ensured that most of the people in the production team had a few good meals. The meat he promised to distribute to the team could be just a token of his appreciation, and there was no need to be so strict.

But Li Long declined the captain's kindness. He said that he planned to go to the mountains in a few days to hunt some wild boars or roe deer, and then distribute the meat to each family in the team.

When Li Qingxia walked from the bus station to the big yard with her bag in the afternoon, Li Long was talking to Meng Hai about wild boars.

"Dad, you're back? We should send a telegram." Li Long opened the door and saw Li Qingxia, who was exhausted and carrying a bag. He took the bag while speaking.

"I'm not someone who doesn't remember the way, and I don't have much with me, so why would I send a telegram? You're all busy, and I'm not too old to walk..."

The Li family has a tradition of old people not wanting to cause trouble for their children. As long as they can do something, they would rather do it themselves than tell their children.

When Meng Hai heard Li Long's address, he knew that this was the old man of the Li family, so he hurried over to greet him and helped Li Long carry things.

Sister Yang was watching the children. When Li Long and the others came over, she greeted them and asked Li Long to play with the children while she went to prepare food for Li Qingxia.

"No, no, I ate some sesame cakes on the way." Li Qingxia hurriedly stopped him, "You're welcome."

Due to Li Qingxia's strong request, Sister Yang did not cook, but poured tea for Li Qingxia.

Meng Hai saw Li Long and the others sitting down, and thinking that the old man was back and would definitely want to talk, he stood up and was about to leave.

He came to the county to do some business and also to report a message to Li Long.

According to Meng Hai, although there are fewer wild boars coming down the mountain to look for food recently, there are still some. He has observed for a few days that there is a group of wild boars in the fields southwest of the village. They are active before dawn every day and leave at dawn.

The alfalfa planted there had been harvested in the fall, but was now sprouting again. The wild boars were eating it right up to the roots, destroying the land.

Li Long also discussed with him that he would drive there with his men in the next two days to survey the terrain first, and if there were really wild boars, they would ambush them directly.

Another big reason why Meng Hai came to find Li Long was that the guns of his production team were sent back to the township armed forces department after a short period of inspection and maintenance.

At this time, the state has slowly begun to tighten the control of guns - the control was quite loose during the basic militia training period, which was winter. Now it is late autumn, and guns are not allowed to be kept in the village for too long.

There are very few people like Li Long who own a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

In fact, Meng Hai himself also has a gun, but it is not easy to take out his gun. As the militia company commander, many people are watching him. Especially this year, although he and He Yuqing have provided benefits to the villagers by doing the big broom work, only a few people participated in the previous work of making handles and making money.

Some people didn't think about the benefits he brought, but only wondered why the leader didn't call them. If Meng Hai went hunting with a gun at this time, someone would definitely do something bad.

Sometimes some people in the village have a very high moral upper limit, but sometimes some people have a very low moral lower limit.

After making an appointment with Meng Hai to visit tomorrow, Li Long saw him out the door.

Li Qingxia asked after Meng Hai left:

"Xiaolong, what did you talk to him about? Hunting wild boars?"

"Well, I plan to start raising some cattle and sheep next year or the year after next, and sell the meat in winter. I applied to the team for land for cattle and sheep pens. The team didn't ask for money, and I promised to give each household in the team 10 kilograms of meat."

In fact, Li Long still wanted to go hunting. If he wanted to go hunting, he had to have a good excuse. He couldn't just leave his wife and children behind and go out to play.

Sister Yang takes good care of the two children. There is milk and milk powder at home. Gu Xiaoxia has also gone to work. Li Long feels that he still needs to be busy from time to time.

Li Qingxia originally wanted to go with him, but then he thought better of it. Li Long was going to do his business, or wait until winter to hunt yellow sheep before going there himself.

Li Long actually understood what his father meant. He wondered whether he would agree or not if his father asked.

Unexpectedly, Li Qingxia said directly:

"Then I won't go this time. You can send me to the team later and go back to my hometown. I need to go back and rest after all this traveling. When you go hunting yellow sheep again in winter, I will go with you then."

Li Long naturally agreed.

Li Long was in no hurry to send his father away. He finally came back, so he had to talk to him anyway. Besides, Gu Xiaoxia would be off work soon. If he let his father leave, Gu Xiaoxia would scold him when she came back. (End of this chapter)