Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Qingxia was sent back to Team 4 by Li Long the next morning.

Gu Xiaoxia was very happy to see Li Qingxia when she returned home yesterday afternoon. Li Long had said before that one important thing her father-in-law would do when he returned to his hometown was to write their names in the family tree.

Although Gu Xiaoxia, as a state official, did not care much about this, she could feel that Li Qingxia's move showed her respect for the women of the Li family.

After all, we are trying to get their names included in the family tree. This must be a costly, time-consuming and laborious task, and I am quite touched.

As a college student back then, Gu Boyuan's ideas were not particularly open, so he could only admire Li Qingxia's action. Therefore, in the evening, he accompanied Comrade Lao Li to drink a few glasses of wine and praised him a lot.

Li Qingxia immediately took out the family tree and showed it to Li Long and the others, pointing at the names and proudly saying:
"I'll go back and get this done in a month or so, and I'll feel at ease. Giving the position of clan leader to Anmin will be a favor to him."

Li Qingxia knew that after he left, there would always be people in each branch, or mainly in his own branch, who would slowly study the family tree and then see his little tricks, so he paid out so much extra money, actually to shut everyone up.

It is said that the patriarchs of the other clans only paid a few hundred dollars at most, and some even paid the same amount as other clan members.

After all, it is a new society now. The clan leader did not get more land than others, and the production teams were not managed by the clan leader. They all had a village director and a village party secretary.

He is the only one like him who pays so much money to get things done, so he must have some privileges.

After looking at those names, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia heard Li Qingxia say that his commendation in the autonomous region was written in the annals, so they flipped through them and saw that they were indeed there.

The major events in the family tree are recorded according to chronological periods. Li Long's incident happened in 1983 and is the second to last item on the last page of the annals.

Looking at this entry, both of them were quite proud. Although this was not an official newspaper or magazine, nor was it a county annals or something, as a family tree, Li Long had left a good name for himself.

As for how long you can stay, it’s hard to say.

This evening they basically talked about family genealogy, and Li Qingxia showed Li Long and the others the old items he had brought back.

Among them was a pile of silver dollars, all of which Li Qingxia had bought for a few dollars. Li Long vaguely remembered that some silver dollars in later generations were rare and more expensive, but he couldn't tell them apart, so he kept them.

There are also bronze mirrors, bronze incense burners, Buddha statues and so on.

There were no large porcelain pieces, but there were a few snuff bottles, some made of jade, some porcelain, and some colored glaze, and they looked quite beautiful.

There were no small hemp coins, but there were about ten of the larger copper coins, which looked like they were worth tens, hundreds, or thousands. All together they weighed about ten kilograms, and it was difficult for Li Qingxia to bring them back from afar.

They did not touch the Liang family's genealogy, which was kept intact in a paper box. Li Qingxia specially made a seal for it, mainly because he thought it would be more appropriate to let the Liang family members open it.

After sending Li Qingxia back to Team 4, Li Long didn't stop much and drove the jeep to deliver the Liang family's genealogy over.

Liang Donglou was very excited when looking at his family tree. He originally wanted to ask Li Long to stay for dinner, but Li Long said he had important business to attend to and did not stop. Then he drove to Qingshuihe Village.

Meng Hai and He Yuqing were waiting at Meng Hai's house. He Yuqing smiled when she saw Li Long driving a jeep.

When Li Long got out of the car, He Yuqing said with a smile:

"Comrade Li Long, you are really partial to Lao Meng. I guessed that you would go to their house as soon as you arrived, so I waited here. Come on, let's go to my house. The chickens have been slaughtered. Today, my family will use the method you told me last time, and we will also have a big plate of chicken."

During the previous meals, the Meng family slaughtered chickens, and Li Long casually mentioned the recipe of big plate chicken. He Yuqing and Meng Hai both took note of it. This time when inviting Li Long to dinner, He Yuqing decided to make this.

Li Long drove a jeep to bring He Yuqing and Meng Hai to He's house. He Yuqing's wife was already stewing chicken.

Potatoes, spicy skin and sprouts should be added to the big plate of chicken. At that time, bean paste was not available, so other ingredients were used instead.

At this time, every family raised a lot of chickens. This year, He Yuqing made some money by making broom handles and brooms, and she mostly ate the eggs and chickens at home.

"Should we go check for traces of the wild boar first?" Li Long asked, "It's not far, right?"

"Don't worry, don't worry. After making this big broom, you have finally come here, so you have to finish your meal before going to see it. Don't worry, I won't drink at noon today, so it won't delay things." He Yuqing finally managed to treat Li Long to a meal, and his current focus is on this.

The chickens raised at home can run and jump, and their meat is usually chewy and not easy to stew, but they taste good. Before dinner, He Yuqing talked about some of the situations in the village, such as how after the big brooms were made this year, several families bought bicycles, and some families bought donkey carts.

Needless to say, much of this can be attributed to Li Long.

Li Long was not impressed by this. He smiled and said:

"Let's not talk about this anymore. You guys made money, and I also got a reward for completing the task. It's a win-win situation. I'll also agree here. If there are similar jobs in the future, I will definitely give priority to you."

He Yuqing and Meng Hai were excited when they heard Li Long's words.

"Comrade Li Long, you don't know how much the people in the neighboring village envy us. Although the land has been distributed to each household, we farmers have no worries about food because of the land, and we can finally eat enough fine grains.

But when it comes to getting rich, other village teams really don’t have any particularly good ways. If it weren’t for you, our team would be no different from other teams.”

"That's right." He Yuqing said with emotion, "If there is no comparison, we don't have much feeling. But when compared with other teams, our village is better than other teams just in making big brooms. Each family can earn a few hundred yuan more, which is more than the total net income from the land."

The two people were telling the truth. At present, the output of the land must be paid as public grain, and the price of public grain is set by the state. The rest is enough for food and seeds, and then sold as negotiated grain. The average amount of money a family gets is only a few hundred.

The income from making broomsticks and big brooms is really not as much as that from making broomsticks combined - some people even make more money from making big brooms than from selling grain.

This is equivalent to doubling the income, and the contrast is very obvious.

Li Long waved his hand hastily and said:

"Alright, alright, you guys gave me jade and meat, I've already thanked you for that, let's just forget about this, I can already smell the aroma of meat..."

Knowing that Li Long didn't want to hear these words, He Yuqing and Meng Hai looked at each other and both felt that Li Long was a real person who did good things but didn't want others to talk about him. No wonder he was commended by the autonomous region.

The topic turned to wild animals.

"We are close to the mountains. There are not only wild boars and gazelles, but also roe deer occasionally. We can also see animals with horns like sheep, and strange noses..."

"Saiga antelope," Li Long said. "That horn is a good thing."

"Yeah, I've seen him twice, but he ran so fast that I couldn't catch up with him..."

Li Long smiled and said:
"I caught two of them last winter, up near your hill."

"Hey, it seems that Comrade Li Long really likes hunting." Meng Hai said with a smile, "It's good to have a gun."

It’s the same old saying, because eating meat every day is still a luxury nowadays, being able to hunt means that you have more opportunities to eat meat than others, which is still very enviable.

In addition, hunting is not just about watching the animals, you also have to be able to ambush and know how to chase the prey, etc.

Li Long was also a layman in the business, doing more ambushes than hunting. After his rebirth, his physical strength, endurance, and five senses were greatly enhanced, which also gave him the basis to easily catch prey.

Otherwise, I would be confused.

Hunting is not as simple as breaking through window paper, but with Li Long's physical fitness, it is really easy to break through the thick layer of brown paper.

"We've even seen a bear that can stand up here. It's not even as tall as me, but it's pretty scary. From a distance it looks like it's following a person." He Yuqing went on to say, "If a group of dogs from the village hadn't chased it away, it might have bitten someone!"

"No one is taller?" Li Long was puzzled. "Little Bear?"

"It doesn't look like one, but it should be an adult, right? It runs pretty fast, I don't know what it eats, but it looks about the same size as a teenager..."

Li Long immediately understood that since it was not a little bear, there must be two kinds of bears in the mountains.

One type is this kind of bear, which is not as big as an adult and is brown and black in color. The other type is a big guy that is more than two meters tall. It is a brown bear, or a brown bear.

Of course, for hunters, these are all good stuff - Li Long is actually looking forward to coming across this.

While they were chatting, He Yuqing's wife had already stewed the big plate of chicken and brought it up.

It was really served on a big plate, very full, pointed and very fragrant.

The three of them ate at a small table in the yard. Li Long invited He Yuqing's wife, but she didn't sit at the table and ate in the kitchen, saying that she wanted Li Long and the other men to chat while they ate.

The big plate of chicken is made with belt noodles, which are wide noodles. At this time, most women in northern Xinjiang can make noodles with strips. Wide noodles are easier to make than round noodles. You don't need to roll them into a ball, just pull them apart.

After stewing the big plate chicken, you need to keep the soup. The best way to eat it is to pour the vegetables into the bowl (plate) for noodles and let the soup soak the noodles first. Then eat the meat and potatoes. When the noodles are covered with the soup, take a chopstick and put it in your own bowl and eat it like mixed noodles. The taste is so delicious!
In order to stew the chicken well, it takes a long time. If the time is too long, the potatoes will basically be stewed out of their souls. There will be sandy potato powder in the soup, which is semi-mushy. Li Long likes to eat it in this state the most.

"Comrade Li Long, eat more meat." He Yuqing called out, "Don't just eat noodles. This chicken was killed this morning. It's not an old rooster. It's from this year. It tastes great!"

Li Long said while eating and smiling:

"I know, I know. They are all delicious."

"Comrade Li Long, this dish made with the method you described is really good. This is how my family eats chicken in the winter. In the past, we knew how to stir-fry chicken with chili, or boil or braise it. It's so satisfying this way!" Meng Hai said while eating.

The meal took about thirty to forty minutes. After finishing, the three of them drank a bowl of noodle soup to help digest the food, and then walked to the end of the field to help digest the food.

Large tracts of land had been plowed, some sown with winter wheat, some left for next year's planting of other crops, and some plots of land had not been plowed. Meng Hai led the way, and after walking about 700 to 800 meters, he came to the corner of a large field, where there was a field of alfalfa.

There was uneven growth of alfalfa in the field, and many pits were dug out in the field. Some alfalfa roots were dug out and gnawed off, and some alfalfa sprouts were also eaten.

There were hoof prints on the edge of the pit, and some feces that looked relatively fresh.

Li Long recognized it at a glance. It was indeed the hoof prints and feces of a wild boar.

He observed that there were about twenty wild boars in the group, half of which were young wild boars born in the spring of this year, weighing only about 20 to 30 kilograms.

However, the meat of such a big wild boar is the most delicious. It is tender and not smelly yet.

You can definitely beat them, but if you are alone, you can only beat one or two at most. If you want to beat more of this large group, you will need to call more people.

"How is it? Comrade Li Long, is it the latest one?" Meng Hai asked.

"Yes, these are the traces from today." Li Long said, "I plan to come here to ambush at around five or six tomorrow..."

"That's too much trouble. You can stay here today and come over at midnight. You have to travel such a long distance in the middle of the night to ambush us. Wouldn't that waste time?" Meng Hai asked directly. "Why, do you think our team can't accommodate you?"

"That's not the case. I have a hunting rifle at home. I want to bring that over to fight together... To be honest, I have a mission to hunt wild boars this time..."

Li Long told him about the agreement with the team. Meng Hai glanced at He Yuqing and said with a smile:

"What's that? Just stay here and I'll figure out the gun issue. If you're not here, it'll be hard for me to handle it. If you're here, I have a reason to get the gun. I'll accompany you at night, and if you feel it's not enough, I'll find two more militiamen.

Don't worry, as long as there are wild boars, we have set up an ambush and it will be no problem to kill a few more."

After he said that, Li Long thought about it and agreed.

Anyway, I told Gu Xiaoxia the day before that since she didn't come back today, she should understand that I was doing this.

"That's fine, Lao He. You stay with Comrade Li Long first. I'll go back and take care of this matter. But Comrade Li Long will stay at my house tonight. Let's make it clear first. You take care of lunch, and it's my turn to eat in the evening."

After saying this, Meng Hai turned around and walked quickly towards the village.

He Yuqing called him twice, but Meng Hai pretended not to hear.

"This old Meng is afraid that I will stop you from going to his house at night." He Yuqing smiled, and then said to Li Long, "Comrade Li Long, let's go, I will show you around us."

Qingshuihe Village is not far from Nanshan Mountain, located in an old river valley. In other words, there was a river here before, but now the upper reaches have dried up, and this area once washed by the river has become a good place for people to settle and farm.

Although it is called a river valley, in fact, it is not much different from the surrounding terrain in terms of height. This area has some undulations, while further south, closer to Nanshan Mountain, the terrain is relatively flatter.

There is another small river beside the village. The fish that Li Long ate at Meng's house before were caught in this river. There are willows and elms on the river bank, and you can see people grazing in the grass in the distance.

When the two of them returned to the village, everyone they met would take the initiative to greet them.

The villagers were already somewhat familiar with Li Long. They knew that he was the one who brought the job of making big brooms to everyone. They all had a smile on their face when they greeted Li Long.

Li Long was still a little uncomfortable with it - he was familiar with the people in Team 4, and even if they were grateful to Li Long, they usually wouldn't show it too much on their faces. But it was different here.

Only after returning to He Yuqing's house did Li Long finally relax.

Not long after, Meng Hai came over and drove Li Long back to his home in a jeep.

He Yuqing had other things to do, so he did not participate.

"I found four guns, two 56-and-a-half, one 56-charge, and one sand gun." Meng Hai excitedly introduced them to Li Long in the car, "I am one of them, there is one who has hunted before, and there are two militiamen. With five of us, we can at least kill four or five wild boars, right?"

"That's no problem." Li Long had already determined the upwind and downwind positions and ambush locations when surveying the terrain. "Let's go there early. We may have to lie down for a while."

"What's there to be afraid of? It's not winter. Even though it's a little chilly at night, just wear more clothes. I told them to bring their coats and lie on the ground to keep out the moisture. I've prepared some for you, too."

"it is good."

Meng Hai’s idea was very thoughtful and Li Long was very satisfied.

When he arrived at Meng's house, Li Long saw the gun he had prepared after getting out of the car.

Five or six and a half, it looks newer than Li Long's own club.

The other guns were in other people's hands, and Meng Hai told them to clean and maintain them.

"Whatever we catch today, we'll take it away for you." Meng Hai said with a smile, "Don't worry, even if we don't catch enough this time, there will be yellow sheep and other things near our team later. I'll tell you then."

Li Long smiled but didn't say anything. He certainly couldn't really take everything away. But if he expressed his thoughts now, Meng Hai would definitely refute him. It would be better to wait until the fight.

Maybe the wild boar won’t come tonight, then we’ll be caught in vain.

He had a full lunch, and in the evening, Li Long still ate a lot of the fish stewed by Meng Hai and the pancakes made at his home.

Meng Hai doesn't have a TV at home, so he goes to bed early at night. Li Long has a good biological clock and plans to get up at five o'clock.

Meng Hai and others had agreed on this time, and if anyone didn't show up, he would go and call them.

Li Long slept in the east room of Meng's house, which was originally the child's room. The child slept with his parents today. So don't be picky about it.

Li Long woke up on time at five o'clock. When he was getting dressed, Meng Hai knocked on the door.

"I'm up," Li Long went to open the door with his gun in hand, "You got up pretty early too."

"Hey, my wife didn't sleep much, and the child ate too much at night and is making a fuss." Meng Hai whispered, "Shall we go?"

"it is good."

The two of them went out in their coats, as it was still quite cold outside. When they reached the gate, they heard the sound of someone walking towards them.

Li Long had good eyesight and could see that there were two people traveling together, one carrying a hunting rifle and the other carrying a rifle, both wearing coats and chatting in low voices.

Of these two men, the one carrying a hunting rifle is about 40 years old, about 1.65 meters tall, of medium build; the one carrying a submachine gun looks to be less than 30 years old, tall and thin.

"Qin Hongbing, Qiao Haiyang." Meng Hai introduced them. "This is Li Long, you all know him. Where's Ma Dazhuang?"

"I went to take a shit. I'll be back in a while." Qin Hongbing explained.

"Hey, lazy donkey going to the mill - let's go over there." Meng Hai said.

As he said this, he walked towards the end of the field.

When they walked out of the village, a man hurried over from behind. Li Long guessed that it should be Ma Dazhuang. He was not tall and a little thin, but his movements seemed quite agile.

I don't know why he is called Da Zhuang.

"Da Zhuang, are you feeling uncomfortable in your stomach?" Meng Hai asked.

"No, I just have the habit of pooping in the morning." Ma Dazhuang responded with a smile.

Li Long didn't say anything. The group quietly walked to the alfalfa field, and then Meng Hai looked at Li Long.

"Right here, in the northeast corner, there are several pits dug by wild boars. Let's ambush them." Li Long took the lead in arranging the arrangements. "Each of you find your positions. I will tell you when to attack and the direction to attack. Don't confuse the target."

If five guns were all aimed at the same target, it would be a waste of bullets, so Li Long knew that it was very important to regulate the shooting range.

When the others heard this, they obediently went to find a place to lie down.

There was a slight northwest wind, so they lay in the northeast direction, which was convenient for ambushing the wild boars coming down from the south mountain, and they were in the downwind and not easily discovered.

The first one to find his position was Meng Hai. His position was on the far left, so Li Long asked him to aim at the target on the far left first, choosing the small pig or the easy one.

He believed in Meng Hai's marksmanship.

After Li Long had set targets for the other people and just lay down, he heard movement from the south.

The ground began to shake, and the wild boars rushed out from the red willow bushes in the Gobi Desert in the south and headed straight for the alfalfa field here!
Obviously, they are very familiar with this plot of land and know that they can get good food if they come early.

Li Long took a deep breath, gripped the gun tightly, and prepared to aim.

The timing was so good that it seemed as if these wild boars were being driven here to die.

Then let's give them a good beating! (End of this chapter)