Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long is not as respectful to Director Qian as Li Xiangqian is. He respects Director Qian and tries to build relationships with him, but he treats it as a friend to an older person and tries to repay the kindness of the person.

This is the benefit of being outside the system.

But Li Xiangqian couldn't do that. His becoming the section chief had a lot to do with Director Qian, who was very kind to him.

So even though Director Qian only mentioned it casually, for Li Xiangqian, this was a task that had to be completed.

But hunting doesn’t care whether you are a leader or not. The prey are also afraid of death. There is a risk of death during the day, so they can only pass the risk area at night.

There's nothing wrong with that.

But Li Xiangqian felt that if he said this to Director Qian, Director Qian would definitely be disappointed.

He thought for a moment, looked at the yellow sheep leg, and suddenly said to Li Long:
"Xiao Li, how about this, tonight, or tomorrow night? I'll go with you over there and we'll stay there for half the night. If we can find anything, I can tell Director Qian then.

After all, Director Qian told me about this, and I heard you say it, but I can't understand it even if I tell you again. It's not that I don't believe you, I just want to see it with my own eyes... Don't worry, the gas money and bullets are all paid by the society."

"Of course, no problem." Li Long smiled. "I'm free anyway, Section Chief, do you think it should be tonight or tomorrow night?"

"How about tonight? I'll go back and get the gun this afternoon, and you can pick me up when you get off work. We'll go out for a meal, so that we can have some food in our stomachs and won't be hungry in the middle of the night."

"You better prepare your coat, and wear something thicker. It will be very cold while you're waiting."

"Don't worry, I'm fat and I'm not afraid." Li Xiangqian smiled confidently.

Those who can gain weight at this time are usually envied by others.

Li Long didn't say much. Li Xiangqian used to be in the grain procurement team, so his experience in walking in the wild might be more than his.

But during these years in the supply and marketing cooperative, although he did not live a life of luxury, at least he did less dangerous work and business trips outside of the eight-hour workday.

With the experience and confidence of the past, he no longer had the awareness to keep up with the times, so he had to be beaten up in the severe cold of nearly minus 30 degrees Celsius at night, and he would behave himself.

Li Long returned to the courtyard and took care of the two children. Sister Yang prepared to cook and process the meat.

The two children are able to sit up and play, which is very important for them. It feels completely different to look at the world while lying down and to look at the world while sitting.

Their eyes were also developing, and when they saw Li Long around, the two children would smile from time to time.

The two of them would fight over a toy, or communicate over the same thing. Li Long basically did not interfere, just watched them fight, unless the fight got too intense.

This was different from Gu Xiaoxia. When Gu Xiaoxia was watching the children, once she saw two little guys starting to fight, she would subconsciously separate the two, and would even say, "You two are brothers, you must be good, just like your father and uncle..."

Well, at least in Gu Xiaoxia's opinion, the two brothers of the Li family are a model of being brothers. They support and help each other, and basically think of each other's families when there is something good.

perfect.

Although she is self-conscious about being an only child, she actually envies this kind of brotherly love. A good family atmosphere will not easily lead to internal friction.

In fact, Li Long and Gu Boyuan had already explained it clearly to her. She had a younger sister and her mother should not have died.

It's impossible to say that Gu Xiaoxia didn't miss them, but she also didn't expect to go to the extent of looking for them.

Of course, there is another major problem, which is that finding someone who has been missing for twenty years is as difficult as climbing a mountain.

This was not the era of the Internet, when twins were separated and could post a photo online, and everyone could spread the photo and information to every corner of the country, even abroad.

But at the moment, we can basically only look for it in Gu Boyuan’s hometown, and there is no way to look for it in other places.

Li Long also comforted Gu Xiaoxia, saying that since the person who looked like her sister had come here, there was an 80% chance that she would come again in the future.

Wait a minute, there's no rush.

Mingming suddenly stopped moving. Li Long knew something bad was going to happen, so he hurried over to get a diaper. Sure enough, when Mingming moved, it was obvious that he was not feeling well.

Li Long turned the child over, opened his crotch pants and saw that he had peed a lot.

He hurriedly took off Mingming's diaper, wiped his butt clean, and then put on a new one.

You have to wipe it, otherwise the urine will sour the crack of your butt.

As soon as Li Long changed Mingming's diaper, he immediately picked up Haohao and started to help him pee. As the months went by, the two brothers became more and more in tune with each other. When one peed, the other would follow within five minutes.

Sure enough, as soon as Haohao was lifted up, a stream of clear water gushed out and almost splashed out of the urinal.

After peeing to his heart's content, Haohao continued to play on the wooden bed with a happy smile, while Li Long put a diaper on him.

It is also very comfortable for children not to pee in diapers.

The child has a big appetite and needs to eat several meals a day. Gu Xiaoxia has begun to slowly wean him off breast milk and is now drinking milk powder.

It would be great if we were in the village, where people raise local cattle. Although the milk tastes slightly different from the milk from black and white cows and has a bit of a smell, it is nutritious.

Ma County is relatively small, and there is no milk delivery at that time.

There was no other way, they could only drink milk powder. Huayuan milk powder was easy to buy in department stores, and Li Long bought it in boxes and fed it to his two children with milk bottles.

Mingming and Haohao not only drink milk powder, but can also eat complementary foods now.

Think about what supplementary food Li Juan and Qiangqiang ate at the beginning? White flour steamed buns soaked in boiling water, with white sugar added, and the steamed buns were soaked and stirred into flocs.

At that time, Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei both had to go out to work, and there would be a housewife in the group who would take care of the babies. She would even put them in a big basket and feed whoever cried.

The conditions were so difficult back then.

Now Li Long naturally couldn't let Mingming Haohao eat this. He learned how to make complementary food from the old people, which is what the old northern Xinjiang people call sticky rice.

The beef and mutton are cooked until tender, and the soup with the stewed meat is used to cook rice. Also, chopped carrots and rice sprouts are added.

Stew everything inside, including carrots, sprouts, meat, and rice, add a little bit of salt, and feed it to the children. The two children ate very enthusiastically and grew obviously faster than children of the same age.

Of course there are side effects. I guess when I grow up, I will never want to eat such sticky rice again.

In order to avoid trouble, Sister Yang would make a pot of sticky rice at once, then freeze it, cut it into small pieces and put them outside in the snow. She would take one piece each time, which was just enough for the two little ones to eat.

Three to five meals of milk and three to five meals of sticky rice a day is enough.

Li Long took the bottle, mixed the milk, then held the bottle against the back of his hand to feel the temperature, and then fed the baby.

With two bottles in two hands, two children drink together. After they finish drinking, the baby is burped and the whole thing is over.

Li Long has strong arms and he doesn't feel tired at all holding the two children. The two children can even do some thrilling moves in Li Long's arms, and they will scream with joy.

It is obvious that Haohao is already quite heavy, and Sister Yang and Gu Xiaoxia cannot do such movements while holding them, so they quite like Li Long to hold them.

In the afternoon, Li Long tidied up the jeep, wiped the gun, and habitually prepared a few more bags and placed them in the trunk. The back seat and trunk of the jeep needed to be cleaned frequently, otherwise it would be inevitable that some miscellaneous items would be brought along when transporting the prey.

If you don't clean it, it will have a bad smell.

Sister Yang made some cushions for the jeep in her spare time. Nowadays, there are many people who are skillful and can piece together some scraps of cloth into some beautiful diamond-shaped cushions. In Sister Yang's eyes, this jeep is very high-end, but the cushions are a bit rustic.

Sister Yang made a seat cushion and sewed a seat cover with canvas according to Li Long's "instructions". Anyway, she had leather and cotton in the market, so she made a cotton cushion in winter, at least her butt wouldn't get cold when she sat on it. But the steering wheel handle was difficult to make, which was a bit troublesome.

So when Li Long went to pick up Li Xiangqian and Li Xiangqian got into the car, he praised:
"Xiao Li, your car is so comfortable. It's soft and warm to sit on!"

Li Long glanced at Li Xiangqian. He was wearing a coat, but it looked a bit thin. He knew he couldn't persuade him, so he said no more. He smiled, explained what Sister Yang did, and then drove out.

"Chief, do you want to go to the big meat canteen for dinner?" Li Long asked.

"No, no, no, let's go to Shicheng to eat. I'm tired of eating in the canteens in the county. Let's go to Shicheng and change our taste." Li Xiangqian waved his hand, "Let's go!"

Li Xiangqian brought a hunting rifle, as he always felt that hunting with a hunting rifle was more professional. Although it was a double-barreled rifle, he had to change the bullets after firing two shots, but Li Xiangqian knew that if he missed the target with the two bullets, he would not be able to hit the target even if he fired more.

Li Xiangqian brought bullets for Li Long yesterday. Li Long thought it was unlikely that he would have them. Unexpectedly, today, in addition to the ten or so single-headed bullets he brought himself, Li Xiangqian also brought two bags of bullets for Li Long.

"It will be worth it if we can kill a yellow sheep tonight." Li Xiangqian did not ask for much and said optimistically, "Just one, and then you can give me a slap on the ribs after you kill me."

"I'll give you both." Li Long was quite optimistic about being able to hit something at night. He thought that as long as he could hit something, it would definitely not be just one.

Li Long drove to the state-owned restaurant in Shicheng, which was run by a unit related to the Corps. Li Long parked the jeep outside and two people got out and went in.

Li Long originally thought that Li Xiangqian came to Shicheng specifically for dinner and would order something fancy. Unexpectedly, after Li Xiangqian entered, he went directly to the waiter and ordered two servings of mixed noodles.

Each person gets a serving of extra noodles and a bowl of noodle soup.

Li Long hurried over to pay, okay, I didn’t expect that.

It was already 1984, and what surprised Li Long was that he no longer had to pay for food coupons, but the price was slightly higher without food coupons.

also.

Just a few cents for a big piece of meat, what else do you want?
"The noodles here taste better than those in the big meat canteen." Li Xiangqian praised as he ate, "The taste is different. It's worth running these ten kilometers."

Well, actually, Li Long felt that there was not much difference. The noodles were similar, the taste of the dishes was a little different but not too big, there was enough oil and meat, and it was winter, so the ingredients were cabbage, spicy skin, and basil.

After eating and drinking the soup, Li Xiangqian actually didn’t want to leave.

After digesting their food in the restaurant, the two got up and went out.

When Li Long started the jeep, he could already feel the temperature outside was dropping. The sun hadn't completely set yet, but the temperature was already dropping. When the jeep drove out of Shicheng, he just happened to see the sun sinking below the horizon.

As the red light in front of him slowly disappeared, Li Long drove on and said to Li Xiangqian:

"Section Chief, let's drive further away. I shot the yellow sheep west of Wulanwusu yesterday. Let's drive towards Shawan today. We may encounter more of them this way."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Li Xiangqian felt warm and comfortable after having just finished his meal.

He sat in the passenger seat, holding his shotgun and looking at the scenery to the north, watching the original houses and farmlands disappear little by little, and finally turn into an endless snowy field.

By the time the jeep was less than five kilometers away from SW County, with Gobi desert on both sides, it was already dark.

Li Long saw many hoof prints in the snow on both sides and thought that this was the place.

He parked the jeep next to a slightly taller red willow bush on the north side of the road. At least from a distance, the jeep didn't stand out so much.

"Shall we wait here?" Li Xiangqian asked while sitting in the passenger seat.

"Well, we can wait or get off the car and ambush in the snow." Li Long said, "It's getting dark. I guess the gazelles should be here in an hour or two."

In fact, it might be better to come here early in the morning. The daily routines of wild animals are different from those of humans. When the sky is just getting light, wild animals have already started foraging or have finished foraging.

When the day breaks, people usually get up.

But it doesn’t matter. At least for a long time, there were quite a lot of wild animals like gazelles in this wild Gobi desert in the north.

Moreover, at this time, the borders between northern Xinjiang and several other countries had not yet been completely closed with barbed wire, and large groups of wild animals such as gazelles and wild donkeys came and went freely, and there were many tribes.

It was not long since they had finished their meal, the food in their stomachs had not been digested yet and they were also quite cold-resistant, so Li Long and Li Xiangqian got out of the car at the same time and moved towards the bushes.

Both of them were wearing coats - Li Xiangqian was wearing a cotton coat, and Li Long was wearing a sheepskin coat.

Two years ago, he went hunting in the mountains with Yushan Jiang Halimu. He lay in the snow and waited for more than an hour. He knew how cold it could be on that winter night.

Not only was he wearing a fur coat, he was also wearing a fur hat, and his feet were also covered with fur shoes - he put them on when he got off the bus. Inside were cotton-rubber shoes, which were not as convenient as felt boots, but at least there was a layer of cotton shoes inside the fur shoes, so it was no problem to keep warm.

Li Long found a piece of snow to sit down, took off his fur hat, removed the nose guard from the side of his ear and put it on, then put the fur hat back on.

It can be considered fully armed.

Li Xiangqian didn't have so much to say. When he got off the car, he laughed at Li Long for making himself too pampered.

"Thinking back to when we were in the grain procurement team and went to various grain depots to buy grain, we were on the road in the middle of winter at night and we could see wolves. I wasn't as old as you then, and it was colder than it is now, so I didn't wear such thick clothes."

Li Longxin said, "You can show off now, you will know later."

At first you were constantly moving, and the heat in your body was constantly radiating. Now you are sitting here, and in less than half an hour you will feel the biting cold.

In order to see the prey clearly, they couldn't start a fire at this time. The two men sat down in the snow on both sides of the bushes, 20 to 30 meters apart, and looked to the north.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the moon hadn't risen yet. Although the stars were quite bright and there was snow, it was still a little darker than when the moon was out.

Li Long's eyesight is very good. Even at night, he can see what is happening seventy or eighty meters away.

But right now, nothing is coming over there.

Li Xiangqian was very careful at first, and he kept looking north. His eyesight was not as good as Li Long's, and he could only see about 30 meters away. Beyond that, it was just gray and black, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

After waiting for twenty or thirty minutes, Li Xiangqian felt cold. He looked at his watch and realized that such a short time had passed. But why did he feel like his body couldn't take it anymore?
He couldn't help but ask Li Long:
"Xiao Li, do you think the gazelles won't come over at this time of night?"

"I don't know." Li Long didn't dare to guarantee it, and said, "From the area we came from, I can see that there are more gazelles passing through our area. In other areas, there are very few hoof prints on both sides of the road. I think this should be the passage they are used to walking."

After he said that, Li Xiangqian felt relieved, but Li Long's next words made him a little uncertain again.

"I don't know whether they came here at night or early in the morning.

Chief, I think we should wait for two or three hours. If the gazelles don’t come, we can start the car and drive forward a little to see if we can run into them. If not, we can come early in the morning in two days.”

Li Xiangqian already felt his hands and feet were cold. He thought, "I'm going to come again? I'm a little regretful about this trip. If I come again, won't I get frostbite?"
But it was he who proposed the matter, and Li Long also reminded him to wear thicker clothes. Now it's cold, who can he blame?

Li Long saw that Li Xiangqian was silent. He remembered something and started laughing.

Li Xiangqian wanted to ask Li Long what he was laughing at. He couldn't hear clearly, but he could feel that Li Long was laughing. Although it was just a laugh.

Then Li Long stood up, turned around and walked towards the jeep, then opened the trunk of the jeep.

Li Xiangqian wondered if Li Long knew that he was cold and was preparing to get him something.

What do you want? Wine?

He hoped it was wine, which was better than food. Li Xiangqian was not hungry, but cold. If there was wine, he would at least feel warmer after drinking it, right? (End of this chapter)