Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Li Long returned to the courtyard. Gu Xiaoxia was looking after the children. Seeing Li Long running to the east room to pack his things, she asked through the door curtain, "Are both parents okay? What are you looking for?"

"Sand gun." Li Long said habitually, "The team will go hunting the day after tomorrow, and Dad wants to go with us, so I have to prepare a gun for him."

Gu Xiaoxia was stunned at first, then she laughed.

She had heard Li Long say that a man remains a boy until he dies.

Li Long mentioned it inadvertently during the conversation. Before Gu Xiaoxia could react, Li Long explained it, such as a straight stick, a tree branch that looked like a sword, and so on.

Gu Xiaoxia recalled it and felt that it was true!
My father, Gu Boyuan, is a relatively stable man.

But when working in the fields, he would sometimes come across very straight tree branches with hand guards or sword-like branches. Gu Boyuan would go to the edge of the field with a little excitement and knock off the grass heads.

When the gray-gray vegetable grows taller, it becomes gray strips. The top is relatively soft, and several strips can be cut off with one stick. Gu Xiaoxia didn't know what was fun about hitting this thing, but she could feel that Gu Boyuan was very excited when he used the tree branch to cut the gray strips.

This is probably what Li Long meant when he said, "A man dies as a teenager."

Li Long didn't know what Gu Xiaoxia was laughing at. After he found the sand gun, he saw that it was still early, so he simply wiped it.

The last time Li Jianguo used this gun was when he was making the handle, and he wiped it after use. Now he wiped it again, just to see if there was any rust, and then prepare the bullets.

There are two types of bullets used in hunting rifles, shotgun shells and slugs - although some people call them shotgun shells, that's just how people here are used to calling them.

Shotgun bullets can be reloaded. Li Long not only has the shells, but also a box of primers. It is not complicated to reload this thing, and a skilled worker can reload a lot of it quickly.

Primers are available for sale at Xinhua Bookstore and are not expensive.

At that time, there were a large number of guns in the private sector, and the country had not yet begun to tighten the management and use of guns.

It will take another ten years for civilians to legally own guns.

By that time, Li Long will be in his thirties and it will be about time for him to stop.

At worst, you can go to the neighboring country to own a gun. Oh, it seems that Kazakhstan, the neighboring country, did not allow private gun ownership at that time?
You're overthinking it. It will take another six or seven years for the Soviet Union to disintegrate.

Not urgent.

After the mess in his mind was over, Li Long prepared the gun and bullets. After putting them away, he returned to the west room to see the two children who were still awake.

My mindset changed immediately. It’s amazing to say that I didn’t have any children in my last life, but in this life, I’m only in my twenties and already have two children.

After playing with the children for a while, Gu Xiaoxia felt it was magical. She had been playing with them for a long time, but the two children were still making noises. Li Long just coaxed them and they fell asleep.

Are all men so casual when coaxing their children? But the two children seem to fall for it.

The next day, Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative, but Li Xiangqian didn't give him any news, which meant that Director Qian didn't call.

It’s best not to call.

Li Xiangqian had already found out the news. He told Li Long that the state headquarters was going to do a summary and Director Qian would not be available for the time being. Li Long was naturally relieved.

Li Xiangqian also sighed, and then immediately immersed himself in playing cards with Section Chief Hou and the others.

Anyway, idle is idle.

On the second day, Li Long took the jeep to the motorcade for maintenance and filled it with gas. On the afternoon of the third day, he drove the jeep to the fourth squad.

Gu Boyuan was sitting in the car. When he knew that Li Long and his friends were going hunting, Gu Boyuan strongly requested to follow them.

Just follow him, Li Long lent him a 56.5-caliber rifle from the gun cabinet of the supply and marketing cooperative. His small-caliber rifle was good for hunting red deer and yellow sheep, but if he missed the vital part, the prey would easily run away.

Section Chief Hou didn't say anything, so Li Long simply wanted to borrow two guns, but Section Chief Hou refused to lend them to him.

"You are considered a member of our company, so it's no problem to borrow one." Section Chief Hou said this was a matter of principle, "It would be wrong to borrow two. It's hard for people to fill these things when they leave the warehouse, so just take one and play with it."

Well, I originally wanted to give my dad five or six and a half, but it didn’t work out.

But it doesn’t matter. Anyway, hunting at night is just like waiting for a rabbit to come to you. The gazelles are already running over. I think my dad will be able to catch one or two of them, right?
At Li Jianguo's home, Gu Boyuan was chatting with Li Jianguo while holding a five-six-and-a-half.

Li Jianguo took the hunting rifle and gave the five or six half pieces he had borrowed to Li Qingxia.

"Everyone, wear something warmer." Li Qingxia also said, "Bring your fur coats and wolfskin mattresses. It's cold outside at night."

He has spent most of his life in his hometown. After coming to northern Xinjiang for two or three years, he has truly experienced what winter in the north is like.

Li Long had already talked to Gu Boyuan about it at the dinner table, so the two of them were actually very well prepared.

Moreover, Li Long is also relatively resistant to cold, mainly because of Li Jianguo and Li Qingxia.

When we packed all our things and put them in the jeep and were ready to set off, Lu Yingming also came with a gun.

When Li Jianguo saw that he was only wearing a cotton coat and cotton-rubber shoes, he immediately sent him back to wear leather shoes.

Lu Yingming also listened to the advice and changed his clothes as soon as he got home, and even put on a thick scarf.

When Li Long drove a jeep with his family and Lu Yingming to the door of Xu Chengjun's house, he was surprised to find two tractors parked there, one of which was brand new.

It looks like it was just bought.

Xu Chengjun was chatting with Xu Haijun in front of the tractor. When he saw Li Long's jeep coming, he walked over with a smile.

The jeep stopped, Li Long got out and asked:

"Captain, did you buy this tractor?"

"Well, I drove it back yesterday. How was it?"

"Okay." Li Long smiled. "Once the new tractor is back, I will definitely be able to send another one next year. This thing is much better than a horse-drawn or donkey-drawn cart."

"Hehehe." Although he felt a little proud and wanted to suppress it, he couldn't.

Although the tractor is not very useful in winter, it is just like when Li Long first bought a bicycle and a TV. The feeling of having it and not having it is different.

One after another, people came over with guns and coats. The other one of the two tractors belonged to Xie Yundong. He had just gone to the toilet in Xu Chengjun's yard. When he came out and saw Li Long, they chatted for a few words, and then he asked people to get on the tractor.

There were a total of ten people sitting in the two tractors, including Tao Daqiang and Jia Weidong.

There were not many people, but they got two tractors. Li Long thought that the captain had a big appetite this time and planned to get more things to load.

Everyone is wearing five or six and a half, and they all look like they have been well maintained.

Li Long went over to Xu Chengjun and said:

"Take the Wuyi Highway and drive west all the way to SW County. We'll go ahead and wait for you there."

"Okay." Xu Chengjun nodded and asked everyone to get in the car.

The jeep went first, and Li Long planned to drive past the place where they hunted the day before and then drive west to see if there were still a large number of animal hoof prints on both sides of the road. If there were, he would change the place to ambush, if not, he would stay in the original place.

We all had dinner before we set off, so even though it was cold outside, we were all quite warm.

Lu Yingming was also sitting in the jeep at this time. He planned to wait until the return trip before sitting in the tractor. By then, the jeep would be loaded with prey, and there would be no room for him to sit. But for now, he could still sit for a while and enjoy it.

Li Qingxia sat in the front passenger seat. In everyone's eyes, this was the seat for the leader. Behind him were Gu Boyuan, Lu Yingming, and Li Jianguo. When the jeep passed Shicheng, Lu Yingming asked Li Jianguo:
"Old Li, how many yellow sheep do you think we can hunt tonight?"

"I don't know. It's hard to say whether we can run into a herd of gazelles."

Li Jianguo is quite modest. He doesn't want to make such a guarantee. He will take what he can get.

"I think we can kill at least ten of them." Lu Yingming was holding a five- or six-step rifle. He looked at Li Jianguo's double-barreled sand gun and continued:

"I have ten bullets loaded here. Even if I use up half of them, I can still hit two or three, right?" He felt that he had an advantage over Li Jianguo.

Li Jianguo didn't think too much about it. He hadn't loaded the double-barreled shotgun yet. He thought that if there really was a herd of gazelles, it would be worthwhile if he could shoot one. If he could shoot two, that would be a blessing.

After all, the gazelle runs so fast that if it really hears the gunshot, it will run as fast as flying - at night!
After running twenty or thirty steps, I disappeared from sight. It was impossible for me to wait and attack.

Lu Yingming knew that this time when Xu Chengjun led people out hunting, it would be different from the previous times. If they hunted less, everyone would take what they hunted for themselves. If they hunted more, the team would share it.

Lu Yingming was thinking about how he could catch a yellow sheep for his family.

Gu Boyuan also gestured five or six steps and said to Lu Yingming:
"Then let's compete then?"

Lu Yingming smiled: "Just because you have a high level of education doesn't mean you are good at hunting!"

Everyone laughed.

When the jeep was about to reach the no-man's land, Li Long suddenly saw a horse-drawn carriage coming from the front.

It was not dark yet, so it was normal to see a carriage coming.

But he had good eyesight and he felt something was not right about the thing being pulled on the carriage - wasn't that a yellow sheep?
The man driving the carriage was carrying a gun, and the man following the carriage was also carrying a gun. Both of them looked very cheerful and happy.

There were at least four or five yellow sheep on that carriage!
At this time, Li Qingxia also saw it. He turned his head to look at Li Long and asked:
"Xiaolong, do you think the things they are pulling on the cart are yellow sheep?"

"I didn't hear any gunshots, but that was a yellow sheep." Li Long felt a little depressed. Could it be that it was shot in the same place where he went hunting two days ago?
The jeep stopped beside the carriage, and Li Long rolled down the window and asked:

"Comrade, where did you kill that yellow sheep?"

"It's west of Shawan, between Anjihai Lake and the bay." The man driving the carriage slowed down and said with a smile, "We came across a large group of gazelles. If it weren't for the two of us, we wouldn't have caught so many!"

"Okay, thank you." Li Long knew that he might have misjudged the situation. Yellow sheep were also passing by these places in broad daylight!
Fortunately, they were not fighting in the place where they had fought in the past two days. It seemed that they had to either continue to rush to the west of Anjihai or wait in the east of Shawan.

The carriage continued to move forward, and Li Long drove the jeep further west. He had already found out that the carriage driver was from Shicheng Township. Some time ago, they heard from relatives who were transporting goods that when they passed through an uninhabited area, they saw a large group of yellow sheep crossing the road, so they thought of going over to beat them.

In fact, they had already made three trips, but they didn't catch anything in the first two trips. Today they ran in the uninhabited area for a whole day, and only in the afternoon did they see a large group of gazelles passing by.

Li Long finally understood that there were not many gazelles passing by during the day, so there was still a chance.

The jeep soon drove to the place where Li Long and Li Xiangqian had ambushed that night.

Li Long drove west for a while and found a lot of hoof prints on both sides of the road, so he parked the car here.

There are also red willows on the roadside, but not as lush as the previous place. Li Long means that there are shrubs everywhere in this area, so let's ambush here.

Anyway, there are many people coming, so the battle line can be extended.

The sun has set and the sky is slowly getting darker.

What happened in the carriage just now made the four people a little discouraged. They didn’t know whether they could encounter a group of gazelles or other prey today.

This also made Li Long understand that with so many cars passing by, there must be a lot of people who knew about the yellow sheep and elk. He was not the only one who could think of such a good thing.

"If there's a fight over there, maybe the gunshots will scare the gazelles and make them run over here." Li Jianguo suddenly said, "Maybe there will be a large group of them here by then."

Li Long smiled and said, "It's possible. There's not much grass in the sandbags on the north side, so the gazelles have to run to the south if they don't have anything to eat. They're not very courageous, so if they hear gunshots over there, they might really run over here."

After the two of them said this, Li Qingxia, Gu Boyuan and Lu Yingming's expressions all relaxed a lot.

Li Qingxia was thinking, what if the yellow sheep was frightened and didn't dare to come over? He wasn't worried about not being able to hit it. It was okay if they couldn't hit it themselves, but if someone from the team came over, wouldn't some people blame Li Long if they couldn't hit it?
Gu Boyuan had a similar idea to him.

Lu Yingming was thinking that he had gone through great pains to borrow a gun from Xu Chengjun, and if he couldn't hit anything, it would be a loss.

They waited here for more than an hour, and it was already dark before two tractors came rumbling over.

Li Long ran forward hurriedly, and after running more than a hundred meters away, he gestured to Xu Chengjun and others to stop the tractor.

Two tractors were parked on the roadside more than 100 meters apart. Xu Chengjun turned off the engine and got out of the tractor, checking his gun while asking Li Long about his condition.

Li Long asked a question, and it turned out that they did not encounter any horse-drawn carriages pulling yellow sheep. Li Long explained the situation, which meant that they would ambush in this area at night, with a person every seventy or eighty meters, all in the ditch on the north side of the road. They must wait until the yellow sheep or red deer are within ten meters of the road before attacking.

Xu Chengjun had already said this when he came. These people were also the backbone of the basic militia, and they all knew the rules. Once they were told about these things, everyone understood. They had all practiced lying on the ice of Dahaizi before, so they were not worried.

"It's ten o'clock now. Let's wait until half past eleven. If nothing arrives, we'll go back." Xu Chengjun gathered everyone and told them his plan.

"It's better to wait until twelve o'clock," someone suggested. "It doesn't matter if you wait half an hour. You've already put on your fur coat, so you can just lie down for a while."

"That's fine." Xu Chengjun said, "Let's just treat it as a field training. Practice more. It will be helpful during the assessment."

There wasn't much to say, and after that everyone went to find their seats.

Li Long and his men also set up an ambush. In fact, when the jeep stopped, Li Long had already found a good position for his father. He told Li Qingxia that it was better to sit in the jeep than to lie in the snow. Li Qingxia only needed to stay in the jeep, and when prey really came, he would open the door of the jeep and shoot at the scattered prey.

Li Long only remembered this after he returned. At that time, the sika deer had no defenses against the jeep. He and Li Xiangqian could have stayed in the jeep, using it as a shelter, and would not have to suffer from the cold.

As for the others, they all found their own positions.

Li Long was still wearing a wolfskin mattress and a fur coat in the snow, just like Li Jianguo. Although it was a bit cold, it felt much better than when he hunted wild boars with Halimu Yushanjiang.

The next step is to wait.

Li Long thought that he would have to wait at least an hour, or even two hours.

Those gazelles, elk and other animals are also very alert. Maybe because of the gunshots in the west, they will wait until dawn before setting off.

However, to his surprise, after waiting for less than twenty minutes, he with his excellent eyesight saw movement in the north!

And it’s a big movement!

Li Long saw that the distance was at least more than 100 meters, and Li Long immediately whispered to the east:
"There's movement in the north! A gazelle or a red deer is coming. Get ready and stop talking!"

Not far to his east was Lu Yingming, and further east were Tao Daqiang, Xie Yundong, and then Xu Chengjun.

As this word spread, everyone immediately became alert and excited.

It hasn't been long since we waited!
In fact, most people are prepared to wait for an hour or two.

Some people even prepared themselves mentally in advance, thinking that they might not be able to be hit at all.

Isn't this just like waiting for a rabbit? Li Longtou waited for two days and got a rabbit, so is there another one today?
Unexpectedly, there really are!
In order to eat good meat this winter, I’ll do my best!

When those dark shadows came closer and were less than eighty meters away, Li Long could see them clearly.

There were at least a hundred gazelles scattered over an area of ​​nearly a hundred meters in radius, walking towards this side at a very fast speed!
Obviously, after passing one group of animals after another, there is not much food left along the way. These gazelles must rush to the south side of the road, near the mountains, to find food as soon as possible, otherwise they will freeze to death!

Seeing the herd of gazelles getting closer, the militiamen in ambush became more and more excited, and some of them had already started to shoot.

Fortunately, they remembered what Xu Chengjun said at that time, and waited until the gazelle was about ten meters away before shooting. At least at this time, the shooting would be more accurate.

Moreover, the militiamen at that time still had some basic qualities. They lay in the snow, wearing warm clothes, and could not move at the critical moment.

When the group of gazelles was right in front of him, Xu Chengjun could no longer wait and pulled the trigger impatiently!
This is right at the muzzle of a gun. If we can't hit the target, we won't have the face to call ourselves militiamen.

A gunshot was heard, followed by a series of gunshots, and the ground was immediately covered with blood. It seemed that each person fired more than one shot.

Li Jianguo was very satisfied. With two shots, two gazelles fell down about ten meters in front of him.

Almost everyone killed more than two gazelles. There were simply too many of them! (End of this chapter)