Chapter 178 Red Deer, it turns out it’s because of the horse, not the deer!
After locking the door, Li Long got on his bicycle and went to Xiaobaiyanggou.
In Xiaobaiyanggou, everyone is still burning strips and making up their hands. Li Long walked around and saw that nothing happened, then greeted Xie Yundong and rode his bicycle towards the mountains. He remembered that Harimu and Yushanjiang seemed to have mentioned some valleys with "specialties" when they left. In fact, Li Long has not turned around well until now.
Riding a bicycle, he came to a ravine. He had been here twice. The first time was brought here by Yushanjiang, saying that there were red deer here. The second time Li Long came here by himself, he wanted to see if he could pick up antlers here, but he found nothing.
Hide the bicycle in the grass at the mouth of the ditch. After locking it, Li Long went into the ditch with his gun.
The grass in the ditch is not very dense. It runs east-west. The shady hillside is covered with pine trees. The lower part is covered with grass and is a little damp. The hillside to the north is a large area of grass with some small shrubs growing on it. It looks thorny and not easy to walk on.
Li Long took a closer look after entering the ditch with his gun. He found that the ditch did not run all the way to the end. There were some turns. There was a stream at the bottom of the ditch. The amount of water was not large and it appeared and disappeared.
At this time, the sun had risen. He walked diagonally up the shady hillside and found that there was no trail here. There should be no herdsmen grazing here, so it still maintained a relatively primitive state.
Stepping in the grass step by step, holding a gun in both hands and walking forward step by step, Li Long felt like a lucky man. It was really childish to come here to gamble on luck.
It is better to just stay in Xiaobaiyanggou, see who can help find the traces of the prey, and just go hunting.
But now that he was here, Li Long didn't intend to give up. He walked forward one foot at a time and saw a lot of Fritillaria seedlings and Codonopsis pilosula seeds as he walked.
It's hard to dig out the Codonopsis pilosula now. It's all empty inside. After drying, it has only one layer of skin. But the caladium has not bloomed yet, so it's time to dig it up.
It’s just that Li Long doesn’t like the money now. After all, as a layman, he might dig out one kilogram in half a day, and sell it for five or six yuan when dried.
If you really want to find a deer, you can earn hundreds of dollars by hunting it down!
Now that you have a gun, let's do some hunter's work.
Ignoring the Codonopsis and Fritillaria, including some straw mushrooms, he avoided the thorny shrubs and continued walking into the ditch.
This ditch was relatively long. When it was nearly halfway, Li Long suddenly stopped.
This place is located at the turning point of the ditch. You can see both the mouth of the ditch and the head of the ditch. The entire groove is like an uneven obtuse angle, and now Li Long is at the tip of this angle.
He saw a huge red deer grazing twenty or thirty meters below the head of the ditch, shaking its head as it ate.
The antlers on its head are one long and one short, I don’t know why. From a distance, this red deer looks as tall as a half-grown foal. It’s no wonder it’s called a red deer!
This red deer looked very leisurely, strolling in the grass, lowering its head to take a bite of grass from time to time. It seemed that it was not very hungry, but also seemed to be waiting for something.
Li Long visually measured the distance. The red deer was seventy or eighty meters away from him. He could definitely hit it at this distance, but the power of a small caliber was too much for this red deer, which was about the same size as an ox. , he felt it was not enough.
So Li Long opened the safety of the small-caliber gun, pulled the trigger and loaded the bullet, then slowly moved over there with the gun in both hands.
If we could get closer, that would be almost the same.
Li Long carefully moved forward while observing the movement of the red deer. He was worried that if he didn't pay attention when walking, the red deer would run away and his success would be in vain.
There is no road in the grass, so it is very troublesome to step deep and shallow. Occasionally, there will be small thorny bushes that catch the pants and clothes, preventing Li Long from moving forward.
At this time, it was a competition of patience. Li Long carefully solved each trouble. Seeing that he had advanced more than 20 meters, the grass in front was a bit deep. He planned to cross this piece of grass and find a good position to shoot.
When he just walked to the deep grass, something flew out of the grass and flew directly to the other side of the hillside. Li Long was startled, and then he knew, Oh no! Got it!
This thing is a pheasant!
He no longer cared about being cautious, and jumped out of the grass with a gun and raised his legs. Sure enough, he saw that the red deer had been alarmed, turned around and ran up the slope. He hurriedly squatted He took a brief aim with the gun and then fired!
"Pop!"
Before the two shots were fired, the red deer had disappeared on the top of the opposite slope. Li Long was still a little unwilling, so he ran over there with his gun. When he ran to the top of the slope panting and looked down, he could no longer see the red deer.
Below the slope is a patch of deep grass, with not very dense pine forests and shrubs on both sides, but it is more than enough to hide a red deer.
Li Long was extremely disappointed. He looked around carefully and finally saw a little blood stain on the leaves of a shrub - not blood beads.
He was hit, but he probably wasn’t seriously injured, so he ran away.
Is this Li Long’s first failed shooting?
I'm really disappointed. As he walked back, he kicked the grass on the ground from time to time, thinking that it was still the fault of the flying pheasant, or maybe it would have been better if he had shot in advance. At least he could have shot two more times, and maybe he would have stayed. .
As a result, I kicked something and kicked it up.
Li Long took a look and bent down to pick it up in surprise - it was an antler!
Nearly half a meter long, with four or five pronged antlers!
The antlers were quite heavy in his hand, probably weighing seven or eight kilograms. Li Long was in a better mood, which was an unexpected surprise.
Weighing the antlers, he put the gun on his back with the safety off, and walked forward at a leisurely pace. As he walked, he suddenly thought of another thing - what was the pheasant doing in the deep grass?
He hurried over and dug through the grass to look for it.
Sure enough, a nest of wild eggs was soon discovered!
These eggs are smaller than ordinary eggs, both green and white, and there are seven of them.
Li Long happily picked up the eggs and carefully put them in two pockets on both sides of his clothes. At first, he thought about picking a handful of wild leeks and frying them directly when he went back, but considering that the pheasants were clearly hatching eggs, could he take them back and find an old hen to help hatch them?
The more I think about it, the more I think this should be possible. He happily walked out of the ditch, kicking the grass from time to time to see if he could kick out another nest of eggs.
Until he kicked something like a rope into the air, Li Long immediately understood that he couldn't kick it anymore!
This season, these guys are out!
Fortunately, Li Long was wearing high-waisted rubber shoes. Fortunately, he kicked him from time to time, otherwise he might have been ambushed and bitten!
Plateau vipers are highly venomous!
After Li Long was startled, he immediately ran towards the mouth of the ditch, holding a gun in one hand and antlers in the other as he ran very fast. When he reached the mouth of the ditch, he felt wet on his ribs.
Broken, the egg is broken!
He put the antlers on the ground and carefully took out the eggs. Sure enough, there was a broken egg, a little bit of egg liquid, a bit smelly - and a hatching little pheasant with a piece of egg stuck to its butt. Egg yolk.
He threw the thing away in disgust, then grabbed a handful of hay from the roadside and wiped his pockets, packed the wild eggs, tied the antlers to his bicycle, and rode back.
Li Long went directly back to the big yard. After putting away the antlers, he found a cloth bag to pack the wild eggs and rode all the way back to the team.
It was already noon when he returned to the team. What surprised Li Long was that Tao Dayong was pressing water in the well in the yard. When he saw Li Long coming back on his bicycle, he said with a smile:
"Xiaolong is back?"
Li Long and Tao Dayong didn't talk much. He nodded and responded, then set up the car and entered the kitchen with the wild eggs.
Liang Yuemei was cooking. When she saw Li Long come in, she smiled and was about to speak. Li Long raised the wild eggs and said:
"Sister-in-law, I picked up a nest of wild eggs in the mountains. Our old hen Is there anyone holding a chicken baby?”
“No. Yes... we have two hens with chicks. Tietou’s family has an old hen nesting in it. Do you want to put it in his chicken coop?”
Li Long thought for a while and said:
“Okay, I’ll go over and talk about it.”
When Li Long came out, Tao Dayong was about to leave with a bucket. He looked at Li Long and said with a smile:
"When will Xiaolong enter the mountain? How is Daqiang there?"
< br>"Da Qiang is okay, I think he will be back in half a month." After Li Long said that, he went to Lu's house.
The Lu family was also cooking. Li Long explained his intention. The Lu family's sister-in-law asked curiously:
"Wild eggs? What do they look like? Let me see?"
Li Long took out six wild eggs from the cloth bag.
"It's a bit small...Give it to me, I'll put it in the chicken coop. This chicken of mine has just laid a nest, and I said it has a few eggs...Can you take it out and give me one?"
"How can one, three "Six eggs, three for each of our families." Li Long said with a smile, "If you can't hold them out, why don't you keep them at your house?" "Okay, okay," the Lu family said with a smile. Take the wild eggs and walk to the chicken coop in the yard. As soon as the old hen saw the person coming, she immediately made a threatening sound. Mrs. Lu was very experienced. She first handed the chicken into one hand and held it half against her belly. She picked up the old hen with her right hand, then quickly stuffed the six eggs into the chicken coop, and then put the old hen in.
"Okay, let's wait until we get out of the nest!" Sister-in-law Lu clapped her hands, "Xiaolong, will you stay for dinner?"
"I won't eat. My sister-in-law is also doing it at home, and she has to rush to the county after eating."
"Then get busy, I won't keep you."
Li When Long left, he heard the sister-in-law of the Lu family saying in the room: "Xiaolong has made his mark..."
After lunch, Li Long took a rest for a while. When Li Jianguo and the others went to work, he So I got on my bike and went to the county.
He made a special trip back, not just for a few chickens. He went to the supply and marketing cooperative and found Li Xiangqian.
"More than two hundred have been compiled?" Li Long was a little surprised. "The action is quite fast. It will be over in less than ten days?"
"Yes." Li Long sat in Li Xiangqian's office Inside, he drank leisurely from an enamel jar with the words "Serve the People" written on it. Shui asked, "Commander, I want to ask about the exact three hundred lifters. You can't have more than one, right?"
"It's not a problem to have a few more." Li waved forward and said. , "A few less won't do, but a few more won't be a problem. Then I'll contact the team here to make sure It's ready - if you want to pull it all in one trip, you need to prepare at least three large trucks, and your people will have to help load the trucks."
"It will definitely be no problem." Li Long. Taking another sip, he remembered that the last time he used this enamel jar in his previous life was to go to the southern Xinjiang scenic spot to eat vat meat. When asked, "I would also like to ask when this account will be settled?"
"Pull the handle back, check and put it into storage, and it will be settled." Li Xiangqian said cheerfully, "Don't worry about this, this kind of tool Now every unit is in urgent need, and we won’t charge any money.”
When he said this, Li Long felt relieved.
"The chief, you are busy, I'll leave first. I have to go into the mountains today, supervise them and let them finish it as soon as possible. The work in the village will also start to be busy."
"Then I I won’t keep you here anymore. Let’s talk again when you come back.” Li Xiangqian was very satisfied with Li Long. The young man was very practical and smart. Such a person must be in his own land. A good hand.
Li Long did not go back to the mountains directly, but went to the big yard, packed up the dried caladiums, put them in a urea bag, and went to the purchasing station.
Chen Hongjun was not around, so Li Long went about business and asked the middle-aged lady behind the counter:
"Hello comrade, I'm here to sell Fritillaria."
"Fritillary? Which forestry team are you from?" the elder sister behind the counter asked curiously.
"No, I am a buyer for the supply and marketing cooperative." Li Long felt that his non-staff status was really useful, "These caladiums were collected from some people in the forestry team."
The eldest sister showed a clear smile and said:
"Yes, dry Fritillaria or fresh Fritillaria?" the eldest sister asked.
"Dried Fritillaria, look at this stuff." Li Long put the bag on the counter, took out a handful and showed it to the elder sister.
"It's in good condition and very clean. Have you washed it?" the elder sister asked curiously.
“No, I picked it up after digging it out.” Li Long said, “We are laymen and don’t dare to mess around.”
“I’m quite cautious. The size and color of this fritillary They are all good. They are considered first-class goods. They cost thirty-seven yuan per kilogram. "
Li Long was very satisfied. He weighed them and found that they were more than five kilograms in total and sold for one hundred and ninety-eight yuan.
Li Long was naturally just exploring the way this time. Since individuals can come to sell, it means that although the forestry team has divided the boundaries of the mountains, the acquisition stations are not connected here, and individuals are not prohibited from harvesting fritillaries.
After packing the money, Li Long went to the Big Meat Canteen and bought some meat buns and took them to Xiaobaiyanggou.
In the next two days, Li Long had breakfast every day. After waiting for a while, if no one came to look for him, he would go to Xiaobaiyanggou and watch everyone making mistakes.
One time later, someone came over to sell caladiums. The quality of caladiums was also good, and the quantity was large, weighing more than twelve kilograms, and it was semi-dry. This made Li Long feel that the harvest was quite good. He spent five I received the other party's goods for RMB 1 kilogram.
Just a few days later, no one came.
On April 16th, at night, Li Long counted three hundred and seven poles. This was expected. He had already communicated with Li Xiangqian in the morning and would send a car to pick him up tomorrow.
Among the ten people, Tao Daqiang compiled the most, forty-one of them alone.
The least number is Xu Jianjun, who compiled twenty-two. All in all, over the past month or so, everyone has gained a lot.
Before leaving in the evening, Li Long specifically told Xie Yundong to be careful at night to avoid anything happening.
(End of this chapter)