Chapter 224 This matter cannot be solved with two whips!
What surprised Li Long was that there were a lot of good things in these two guys' dens!
Three antlers, two of which are a pair, both have four branches. The other one is very large, with seven branches. Li Long weighed it and found that these three antlers had twenty branches. About kilograms.
He confiscated most of the bag of caladiums, the sun-dried kind, without ceremony.
There was a pile of pots, pans, and the like, most of which were obtained from Li Long's wooden house. They seemed to have been used, and Li Long didn't keep any of them that he disliked.
There were three machetes, and there was purple-black blood on the knife. It was very fishy, and Li Long was a little unsure of what kind of blood it was.
More than a dozen dug Codonopsis pilosula roots have been dried in the sun and are a little shriveled, but the body is quite thick. The total number of dozens of Codonopsis pilosula roots weighs one kilogram.
A small bag of corn noodles, some dried vegetables, and some dried mushrooms. Li Long doesn't want this thing either.
Li Long picked up a sack and packed the antlers, fritillaries, Codonopsis pilosula and other things. When he was getting dressed, he suddenly turned around, the gun on his shoulder slipped directly into his hand, and he held a wooden stick behind him. The young man who was about to attack him was shot in the calf!
“Bang!”
The young man threw the stick aside and lay on the ground screaming.
Li Long looked at it and saw that the blood flow was not too much. It was a penetrating injury and probably did not hit the artery.
"I'll give you a chance to live this time. Since you've gone to the mountains to beg for food, just work hard to get food from the mountains, and then do some things like animals. The next time I'm shot, you'll be shot in the head!"
Li Long carried a five-six-and-a-half rifle and a sack on his back, left a few harsh words and left.
The two people didn't wait until Li Long left before they hurriedly found something to bandage their wounds. The older man took out a paper packet of medicine from his burrow and sprinkled it on his arm. After a moment's hesitation, he sprinkled it on the younger man's wound.
"Consider yourself unlucky!" He said to the younger man, "At least we didn't take away the food, otherwise we would have starved to death here..."
The young man's face was filled with nothing but pain. , and a look of resentment.
But he also knew that it was of no use. He had a gun, so it would be a mercy to not kill him.
Li Long arrived at Halimu's winter home, cleaned the feces on the wooden kang, found some water to clean the wooden kang, and finally closed the door and pinned the wooden door with a few pieces of wood.
In fact, this thing is to guard against gentlemen and villains, but it is also a warning. If someone really wants to do something like this again, then Li Long will naturally not be polite anymore - in this mountain It's so big, that's probably the only group of people nearby, so there's no need to look for anyone else.
When they returned to the wooden house carrying the sacks, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang had already gone to chop wood poles. Li Qingxia stayed in front of the wooden house and looked at the pot of bones and sticks and the pot of brine.
"Xiaolong is back? What are you carrying?" Li Qingxia was a little surprised, "Where did you go?"
"Going to catch the thief." Li Long put down the sack. He took out one thing after another, "These are deer antlers. Three of them can be sold for six." Seventy yuan, this is Fritillaria..."
"Is this antler? Can it be sold for money?" Li Qingxia interrupted Li Long, "Is it true?"
"Really...Dad, are you..."
"Oops!" Li Qingxia slapped his thigh, "I met one when I was cutting poles in the morning. I thought it was quite rare, but I didn't know what it was. It looked like wood, so I didn't care. I was just looking at it. The pole was chopped...I'm going to get it back now Come on, how much does this stuff cost?”
“It’s only three or five yuan per kilogram!”
“Then I have to get it back quickly!” Li Qingxia didn’t wait for Li Long to finish. , and immediately ran to the place where he cut the pole in the morning.
"Dad, take the axe, be careful of wild boars!"
"Okay!" Li Qingxia turned back and picked up the axe, then saw the machete that Li Long took out and threw it down. Ax picked up a machete and left in a hurry.
Li Long placed the antlers, fritillaries and Codonopsis pilosula on the shelf in the small room. Fritillaria is dry goods, it should weigh about five or six kilograms, plus Codonopsis pilosula and antlers, these things should cost two hundred yuan.
Li Long is not ruthless enough, otherwise he will take away all the grain bags. In that case, the two people will either go out of the mountain to ask for help, or they will have to wait for death in the mountain.
Those who can endure it in the mountains for so long are either world-weary or have a case on their backs, nothing else. After all, the fritillaries have been dug now, there is no big money-making job, and most of the people who went to the mountains have left.
The remaining two machetes had blood stains on them. Li Long carried them to the edge of the spring, found a flat stone and began to sharpen them.
The rust has been worn away, and the two machetes are half a meter long, including the head and handle. They should have been made by the same blacksmith, and the materials used are very good.
There was no pole to cut near the wooden house, so Li Long went to cut some grass to feed the horses at night.
Horses not only need to eat grass at night, but also feed them. Horses will not be fat without grass at night.
Now the wooden house lacks a shed, so No. 76 was left to graze on the hillside, which was quite leisurely.
Li Long placed the cut grass beside the wooden house without spreading it out, otherwise the horse would not be able to eat it well when the grass rolled up in the sun at night.
After this busy meal, he was a little hungry, so he took another bone from the pot and started to chew it.
Before he finished chewing the bones, Li Qingxia ran over with two antlers.
Li Long looked at his father holding the antlers happily and wanted to laugh a little.
But thinking about my dad’s luck, he was able to pick up antlers in the mountains for the first time, which was no worse than his own.
The two antlers are not big, and they were not dropped this year. The quality is not good, and they look a bit gray. This may be one of the reasons why they were not picked up.
Li Qingxia excitedly came to Li Long carrying the antlers, raised his head and said:
"What, it's antlers, right?"
"It's antlers, bigger than antlers of a roe deer. These two antlers weigh seven or eight kilograms, so there's no problem selling them for twenty or thirty." Li Long said with a smile. , "Dad, you have made a small fortune."
"Hey," Li Qingxia pointed the antlers in front of Li Long, "It's yours!"
< br> "What do you want for me? I have more money than you. After two days, I will save a batch of poles. When we bring them back, we will take them to the purchasing station and sell them. You can buy something for my mother, and the rest will be You can take it and buy whatever you want."
"Okay...I'll save some money and buy a radio to listen to at home."
"Then why do you save money to buy it? When you go home, I will buy it for you... It's hard to take with you, forget it. When you go home, I will give you the money and you can buy it when you go back to your hometown. This thing, my hometown Cheaper than this.”
“Really?”
“Of course it’s true. It’s not easy to transport things to Northern Xinjiang. It costs a lot of money.”
"That's true." Li Qingxia nodded.
"Dad, are you uncomfortable living there?" Li Long asked.
"It's very comfortable. How can it be so comfortable..." "Then why do you still want to go home?"
"Then...then you can't live here forever, right?" Li Qingxia didn't know how to explain.
"What's wrong with that? Your eldest and younger sons are here, why can't you stay?" Li Long said, "Isn't it more comfortable here than at home, with good food and good housing? , the climate is better than that in my hometown..."
"This... well, I'm used to living in my hometown." Li Qingxia sighed and said, "Let's talk about it later."
This topic ends here.
Li Long also knew that his father would not agree immediately if he tried to persuade him. This thing would work slowly over time.
After Li Qingxia gave the antlers to Li Long, he solemnly told him another thing:
"Xiaolong, did the thief get this machete?"
"Yes." Li Long said.
"The blood on it is wrong...it doesn't look like animal blood, it looks like human blood! It's very fishy!"
Li Long looked at the machete put aside. At this time, there were flies hovering on it, He thought of those two people, maybe it was possible...
"Those two thieves might have actually chopped people, or they might have stolen from others. The machete I picked up or picked up has been used to chop people." Li Long analyzed, "I shot one of them, but it missed the vital point, which was enough for them."
"That's right, these thieves are not. Give it a try. When we leave later, this house will be in trouble."
Li Qingxia is worried that the two guys will retaliate later and burn the house down, which will cause trouble.
"They don't know that I am the owner of this house." Li Long said, "Of course, even if they know, they are not afraid..." He remembered the figure when he was braised meat, more than two hundred meters away, and wondered if the old guy could see it. Come out as yourself?
I changed my coat, and I am two hundred meters away. I shouldn’t recognize him, right?
You don’t dare to act wild here even if you recognize it, right?
Li Long decided to wait until a few of his own men had cut enough poles and left before making another trip to see the situation of those two people.
The next day started, Li Qingxia stayed in the wooden house to watch, while Li Long went out to chop poles.
He was very familiar with the area, so he found a ditch with more willow trees and started chopping. There were more miscellaneous trees here, and there were more handles suitable for large brooms. After two days, there were six or seven hundred poles piled beside the wooden house. .
During dinner in the evening, Li Long said to Li Jianguo:
"Brother, tomorrow morning you cut the poles. I will hitch the carriage and pull these poles back to the team to hand them over. I will pick them up by the way. I'll go with my father. Don't go too far while you chop the poles."
" Li Jianguo didn't care. See, if all these poles are cut down enough, the carriage will not be able to pull it. It is better to send it back a few more times. "You can also take a pot of the meat back."
"Okay." Li Long said, "I cut the pole yesterday and saw the mark of the wild boar arch. When I get back, I will take a morning to shoot it and see if it can be hit. Let's eat it in a different way!"
"You are so clever." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "We can't even see it, but you can see it from time to time."
"Then I can be a hunter." Li Long also said Joking, "We will go early and come back early tomorrow. What do you want to bring?"
"I won't bring anything." Li Long turned to look. He glanced at Tao Daqiang and said, "Do you think Daqiang should bring anything to the house? There's nothing left of the yellow mutton..."
"No, no, no, there is still meat at home." Tao Daqiang hurriedly said Waving his hand, "It's true, you don't need to bring it with you."
"Okay, let's go and come back early."
When they got up the next morning, Li Long and the others had already loaded the poles into the cart and tied them with ropes. After breakfast, Li Jianguo and the others went to chop the poles, and Li Long and the others drove the carriage to the county.
There was a mattress spread on top of the pole, and Li Qingxia sat on the mattress. It was a bit bumpy at first, but he got used to it later.
The items for sale were packed in a large sack and tied to the back of the car.
After leaving the mountain, the carriage picked up speed. When it was approaching the county seat, Li Long found someone in front of him.
A few people were riding horses and some were walking. It looked like some of the people walking around still had their hands tied.
Is this a kidnapping or an arrest?
Li Long was a little confused, so he drove the carriage faster. When he caught up with those people, he was surprised to find that one of the tied people was shot in the arm by his gun.
He glanced over again and saw that the man with the injured leg was riding a horse. The injured leg made it difficult to walk, but the treatment was good.
The man with the injured arm also saw Li Long, and then shouted loudly:
"He was the one who took away our things and injured us! Otherwise, our things would be enough It’s him who’s fined!”
With this shout, he called over those who were riding horses in front of them and those who were guarding the formation behind them.
The two men came over and asked the man who had been injured on his arm for details.
Li Long saw these two horsemen, one from an ethnic minority and one from the Han ethnic group, both carrying guns. After hearing what the man said, they came over to ask Li Long.
Li Long got off the carriage, and Li Qingxia also jumped down, holding a pole in his hand, apparently preparing to fight in self-defense.
"I am a part-time border guard of the forestry team." Li Long was not nervous at all, "I did injure these two people, and I did take something from them..."
"They illegally dug things in the area under the jurisdiction of our forestry team. Those things will be confiscated as fines..." The Han man said, "Where are the things?"
"Listen to me." Li Long glanced at him and said, "When you found them, did you see the things they used?"
"Yes, a lot of daily necessities."
"Those beddings, pots and pans, etc. were all stolen from my wooden house," Li Long said. "I took their things to compensate me. Also, they were in my Shiting in a friend's winter nest..."
"What? Shiting in a winter nest?" The ethnic minority forestry team member suddenly became angry after hearing this, "Really?"
"Really. I cleaned it up, but that... you think about people like this... So I fired at that time, and I was very angry. These people may still have lives in their hands. I took away their machetes. , that knife is stained with human blood.”
The ethnic minority team member turned his horse’s head and struck with the whip! The man with an injured arm was slapping and cursing:
"Damn it! Are you still human? This is where other people live, you are shitting..."
The Han players had a look on their faces Asked Li Long seriously:
“Are you sure there is human blood on their machetes?”
"Basically sure. So I suggest you take the person to the county, preferably to the public security department, and they will know after a trial. These days, Fritillaria can no longer be dug, and they are still hiding in the mountains. Think about it. Is there something good? You must have committed something, so you don't dare to go out!" Li Long told him his guess.
"Okay, thank you." The Han team member said, then stopped the minority team members, and pulled these people one after another to continue walking towards the county.
Although the two men were still riding horses, their rifles had been taken off, and they had obviously become a lot more cautious.
(End of this chapter)