Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In the past two years, everyone in the team knew that Li Long was capable of this matter.

Almost everyone is a beneficiary. If it weren't for him, Team 4 wouldn't have more funds than other teams, and the villagers wouldn't be richer than other teams.

Even the free time to go out and trap rabbits, chase rabbits, and dig holes in the ice to catch fish was caused by Li Long.

There is no gain without pain. If Li Long had not made money from fishing and also collected rabbits and fish, the people in the team would not have such a large range of activities in winter as it is now. They would basically stay at home or in their own settlements.

After all, the weather is cold and the snow is thick, so if you run a long distance, you will burn calories, right?
Because of Li Long's presence in the past two years, everyone has the motivation to dig holes in the ice to catch fish and trap rabbits.

You can make money!

Although Li Long no longer collects fish and rabbits this year, everyone has formed a habit. So going out and getting some rabbits and fish, which can be counted as net income, is better than losing money playing cards, right?

To be honest, it is because the villagers of Team 4 have earned more than those of other teams in the past two years, and some gamblers have already set their sights on this place.

Those people are not capable of doing proper work, and if you ask them to think of some crooked ways to make money, they will come up with more and more.

Li Long built the old horse and plowed out the saline-alkali land, which made many people laugh at him.

Human nature is complex. While they benefit from Li Long and are grateful to Li Long, it does not prevent them from making fun of what Li Long does that they think is stupid when their quality of life is not as good as Li Long's.

For example, building Laomahao to raise cattle and sheep, and reclaim saline-alkali land.

What can grow in saline-alkali land? Artemisia selengensis, Achnatherum splendens, and Nitraria tangutorum.

In the saline-alkali land, even the reeds that cannot be killed cannot grow tall, so what else can grow?
After a rain, the large saline-alkali lands of Team 4 were covered with white alkali. When you stepped on them, they made a crackling sound. There was a thick layer of alkali.

Crops can't grow at all with this thing.

Not to mention raising cattle and sheep. People like Ma Jinbao have been raising sheep for more than ten years, but he has not become rich. The cattle and sheep are caught in the autumn and raised until the winter, which is at most three months. How can they grow a few more kilograms of meat?
Not enough money for the meal.

Ma Jinbao has the most say in this regard, and he is also the person who makes fun of Li Long the most in the store gossip group.

After all, he has been raising sheep for the longest time in the team and has a say.

Everyone thinks this should be the case.

So everyone treated this matter as a joke when it was already in a semi-public state.

In the store, as long as there are people who are not members of the Li family, including those families with whom he has a good relationship, someone will bring up this matter almost every day to show off his foresight.

By the way, I want to complain about Li Long, saying that he is good at doing business, but he has too little experience in farming and raising cattle and sheep.

He is too proud and has too much money to burn.

However, after Xu Chengjun spread the news that Li Long would invite professors from the Agricultural College to improve his twenty acres of saline-alkali land next year, no one talked about it anymore.

If they can invite professors and experts from the Agricultural College, what else is impossible?
But isn't Li Long's power too great? He can even invite professors from the College of Agriculture!

At this time, "expert" is not a word with a complex meaning, an expert is just an expert.

Unlike those masters whose meanings are unclear.

People no longer complained about Li Long's reclamation of saline-alkali land, but instead were looking forward to it.

After all, there are several thousand acres of saline-alkali land within the scope of the Fourth Team. If it can be improved, then everyone can follow their example and reclaim some wasteland.

There are policies on reclaiming wasteland now. Although it is not a subsidy, at least you don’t have to pay taxes or public grain in the first three to five years, and the amount to be paid afterwards will be relatively less.

After tasting the sweetness of having their own land, no one would complain about having too little land.

The minimum contract period for reclaimed wasteland is fifteen years, so everyone feels that if crops can be grown and harvested in saline-alkali land, then it is not impossible to reclaim it.

As for raising cattle and sheep, I won't talk about that. They can even overcome the salinity and alkali, so we'll just have to wait and see about raising cattle and sheep.

Then people would come to visit Lao Ma Hao from time to time, and they found that the way they raised cattle and sheep might really be different from others.

I wouldn’t say it was like blowing up a balloon, but within just three to five days, the cattle and sheep really did see changes, becoming noticeably fatter and heavier.

How long has it been? Less than a month?
The cattle and sheep have gained weight in such a short period of time, so by the time the Spring Festival comes, they will gain ten kilograms, right?
It turns out that he is an expert!
These ten kilograms of meat should cost at least ten dollars, right?
If one sheep has so much, what about two hundred sheep?
I heard that the sugar residue Li Long brought was free, and the price of the bran was also low, only a few cents per kilogram.

Even if three kilograms of bran can produce one kilogram of meat, it would be worth it.

Too much value!

In the past, many people followed Ma Jinbao in laughing at Li Long’s wild ideas. But now it seems that Ma Jinbao knows nothing about raising sheep!

Such a good way to get rich, but he, a man who has been raising sheep for more than ten years, didn’t even know it!

Some people in the village raise three or two sheep at home. When they don't have time to graze them in the summer, they put them in Ma Jinbao's flock. The foster fee for each sheep is one or two yuan a month.

The same thing happened in winter. Since there was no heating system at home, we would just keep the animals at Ma’s house and wait until Chinese New Year to kill them and eat the meat.

As a result, before the Chinese New Year, the sheep was as thin as ever.

The same goes for the Ma family’s sheep, so there’s nothing much to say.

Now it seems that Ma Jinbao is just lazy and doesn't know how to raise sheep at all!
Later on, more people started to curse him in the store’s gossip group.

The damn old man didn't raise sheep properly and said that others didn't know how to raise sheep. Look at other people's sheep, they are fat and strong, with shiny fur, but his sheep are not of the same level, just like the fat son of a landlord and the stinky boy of a poor peasant family!
Some people have already made plans. They will build a sheep pen next year and buy some sheep to raise in the fall.

Although sugar residue is hard to pull, bran is easy to buy.

And it's cheap too.

Not to mention raising more, raising a dozen or so and earning a hundred or two hundred dollars, you'll be free anyway, right?

Some people are thinking of following Li Long’s example and raising fattening sheep next year, while others are thinking that they have some extra money at home, so should they partner with others to buy a fattening sheep from the Li family before the Chinese New Year?
At this time, the sheep are fat and delicious. Decades later, everyone wants to eat the sheep that grew up eating grass on the grassland, so at this time everyone wants to eat fatter sheep.

It’s just like we think about eating meat now, but in a few decades most people will eat more vegetarian food. It’s the same principle.

It's better to keep the lamb fat because there is oil to cook it and it can be eaten longer.

Li Long didn't know that his reputation in the eyes of the villagers was changing from time to time. He came out from his sister Li Xia's place, and drove the jeep to continue west amid Li Xia's farewell voice with complaints and instructions.

From Shicheng to Kuitun, you have to pass through the 143rd Regiment, Ulan Usu, Shawan, and Anjihai.

These places are inhabited, but the areas in between are basically uninhabited. Many of the lands have not been cultivated yet, and one point is separated from another by more than ten or even dozens of kilometers. The uninhabited areas in between are a paradise for wild animals.

Unlike later generations, after twenty or thirty years, all the areas between these relatively close points were reclaimed. Only when we continued westward, passed the Wusu Gaoquan, and saw the difference between the area and Jinghe River, and the area west of Jinghe River, there were large areas of uninhabited areas.

After passing Ulan Usu, in an uninhabited area near Shawan, Li Long saw a group of gazelles far to the south. When they saw the car, they quickly fled towards the Nanshan Mountain.

Further south, there are large areas of red willows. The gazelles ran into the red willows and soon disappeared.

Although he didn't catch the gazelle, Li Long was happy because at least the gazelle was still there.

He did not slow down. He was still dozens of kilometers away from Kuitun. He had plenty of time and a large area to observe whether there were any gazelles nearby.

However, after driving past Shawan, Li Long did not see the herd of gazelles again, but he did see bloodstains in the snow nearby.

The heavy snow had only stopped a few days earlier, but now there were traces of blood on the roadside, as well as large hoof prints and human footprints. Needless to say, someone was hunting here.

Li Long thought about this matter...he had no way to complain.

Nature belongs to everyone. If he can hunt, then others can hunt as well, no doubt about it.

What he couldn't understand was that after these people hunted here, they almost eliminated all traces, but they didn't skin the sheep or anything nearby, and just took the things away.

And judging by the hoof prints there didn't seem to be many.

Li Long parked the car and rummaged around in the snow. He found several shells, also 56-round bullets, and they looked similar to him, with similar firearms. The bottom of the shell was made in the 50s and 60s, and had already expired.

I don’t know who are the smart ones who come here to hunt.

Li Long drove forward again. After passing Anjihai and approaching Kuitun, when he was almost disappointed, he saw a wolf.

I didn’t see any gazelles, but in the Gobi Desert in the south, I saw three wolves patrolling in the snow.

Three wolves were more than a hundred meters away from the Wuyi Highway, preparing to besiege a lone elk.

Yes, it was not a gazelle, but an old and weak elk that had been abandoned by the herd.

Red deer are animals that live in a wide range of areas. Unlike gazelles, gazelles usually only live in the Gobi Desert and rarely go to the mountains and forests. If they do go, it is only in the mountains.

Red deer are different. They can be found in the mountains, in the jungles, and in the Gobi Desert.

Moreover, their distribution range is very wide, and their footprints can be found in the Gobi Desert of Gansu Province, the deep mountains of Tianshan Mountains, and the grasslands of Ili River Valley.

Li Long immediately stopped the jeep to the right. He touched the gun on the passenger seat and took off the holster. When he got out of the car, he had already pulled the bolt to load the bullet.

Li Long walked south with a gun in hand, aiming ahead as he walked.

A distance of more than one hundred meters was well within the effective shooting range for a five-six-and-a-half rifle. Li Long looked up at the sun and saw a faint glow. He saw that the wolves didn't seem to care much about him, so he stopped, squatted down, took out his lighter, and used the smoke to smoke the crosshairs.

The crosshairs become black, and the effect of vignetting is not that great.

When Li Long put away his lighter and aimed his gun again, the three wolves had already surrounded the old elk. One of the gray wolves pounced forward and bit the elk's right hind leg.

The elk felt pain and kicked the gray wolf with its left hind leg. The other two gray wolves also surrounded it and waded through the snow to attack the elk.

The elk was taller than the gray wolf, so it was easier for it to wade through the snow. The pain and threat of death made the elk unleash its physical potential. It leaped forward, kicking away the gray wolf that was biting it, and dodged the attacks of the other two gray wolves.

However, this rush also consumed the strength it had accumulated for a long time. The snow thirty to forty centimeters deep had a great impact on their movements. The elk slowed down, and the three wolves rushed from behind again to surround the elk.

The snow almost covered their bellies, and it was quite difficult for the gray wolves to move in the snow.

Li Long looked at the gray wolf and red deer in the distance. He hesitated for a moment, stopped, half-crouched and raised his gun.

Li Long is looking for a suitable opportunity.

When the three wolves pounced on the sika deer again, Li Long's gun fired with a "bang".

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the two gray wolves immediately dropped the elk in their mouths and ran south desperately.

A gray wolf and a red deer were bleeding and looked like big targets, so Li Long shot through them.

He slightly moved the muzzle of his gun and aimed at another gray wolf - these two gray wolves were also bursting with their potential at this moment, running desperately away.

Although there are red willows in this Gobi Desert, they are not tall and are very sparse, and the gray wolf's body cannot be completely blocked by the bushes.

Li Long squinted his eyes and aimed for several seconds, then fired again. A gray wolf fell into the snow.

The other gray wolf had disappeared.

Li Long looked again but couldn't find it, so he put away his gun and walked towards the sika deer.

Walking to the elk and the first gray wolf, Li Long took out a knife and bled the two prey.

Open the stomach and let out the air.

Li Long didn't even peel the skin, and went over to pull the gray wolf over.

Putting the gun on his back, Li Long dragged the three preys in both hands and walked back to the jeep.

He looked at the time. It was already noon and he was a little hungry, so he gave up the idea of ​​skinning the animals here. His stomach had been cut open anyway. Then he found a bag in the car and put the two wolves in it. The elk was a little too big to fit in, so he simply spread the bag on the back seat of the jeep and stuffed the elk in - it was because the elk was weak and not very big, otherwise it would not have fit in - even so, he still broke the elk's calf.

In just a short while, the blood on the elk and the wolf had frozen.

It was 2:00 in the afternoon when they drove to KT City. Li Long thought that he was going to his second brother's house now, and they should have eaten already, so he found a state-owned restaurant and had a bowl of noodles before driving to his second brother's house.

The construction and installation company still had little work at that time, so Li Anguo and his colleagues stayed at home.

He was a little surprised when Li Long came over. Chen Lirong, who had just finished her meal and had not yet cleaned up, was anxious to prepare another meal for Li Long. Li Long hurriedly waved his hand and said that he had already eaten.

He hurriedly unloaded the two wolves and the red deer and packed them up in Li Ang's yard.

Li Anguo also hurried forward to help, and Chen Lirong was busy boiling water.

The hustle and bustle in the yard immediately attracted the attention of other families.

This Li family is really extraordinary. (End of this chapter)