Not long after Li Long entered the forest, he saw a blind man digging for fritillaries. The man was startled when he saw Li Long and ran away with his bag.
Li Long felt that he had met this man two days ago, so he shouted:
"You dug yours, I was passing by."
The man also heard Li Long. The voice broke, he stopped, smiled awkwardly, and said:
"I thought the person from the forestry team... turned out to be Boss Li."
"Why are you digging here? There aren't many fritillaries here." Li Long asked casually.
"But no one is checking here..." The man told the truth, "There are a lot of fritillaries in the ditches to the east, but there are also many people who go to check, maybe they will be caught. . It’s more dangerous to go further into the mountains. There are wolves and bears, so I can dig here. I can dig a few kilograms a day.”
Okay, everyone has their own ambitions, Li Long nodded. Just left.
He has no ill feelings towards blind people. After all, the so-called blind people are just people who do not have status in northern Xinjiang now, but they might one day have status.
And like his eldest brother, who used to be considered a border youth, before he settled down, he was actually considered a type of blind migration, right? Most of the people in the fourth team could not live in their hometowns, or because of difficulties of one kind or another, they ran to Northern Xinjiang and settled down. Nowadays, it is stricter than before to settle down. Those who settled first call those who come after them "blind flow", which is not derogatory in fact. After all, most of the people who settled down had the same previous status.
In the past, Li Long thought that the term blind flow only existed in northern Xinjiang, but later he learned that it existed in the northwest and northeast. After all, these two large areas are vast and sparsely populated, making it easy for people to survive.
After passing this area, Li Long continued to walk forward. There was still dew in the mountains and forests. The man just now was not an experienced digger of caladiums. He was squatting there and still digging in the soil. Of course, he was not the same as this area. It is related to the environment. The density of caladiums is not that high, so each caladium is precious.
Although Li Long also harvested caladiums last year, he didn’t encounter many blind people digging caladiums. Not only was it because of the wooden house, there was also the possibility that the market in Northern Xinjiang was opened up last year. , the news takes a while to spread, so there will be more people this year than last year.
After leaving this area, Li Long quickly walked to another ditch. The terrain in front of the wooden house is relatively flat for a long distance, but after entering the mountain forest, the terrain becomes complicated, with large and small ditches, and some branch ditches, or the folds of the mountain are not long, just like the hot spring ditch, the ditch is also It's not wide, so it will be difficult to walk on.
It’s not like Xiaobaiyang Valley, which is a long ditch that can be walked for twenty or thirty kilometers from the mountains in the north.
The ditch where Sun Jiaqiang dug Fritillaria was a branch ditch of Xiaobaiyang ditch, with the same faults. The topography of Xiaobaiyanggou and its brother Baiyanggou is not complicated, but the terrain on both sides is difficult to say.
After Li Long crossed a few short ditches, his pants got wet. He was used to it. This thing would dry up in a short time anyway. Now he misses the 06-style split raincoat or rain pants he bought from the labor insurance store a few years before his last life. When wearing this thing, at least his pants will not get wet when the dew is heavy in the morning.
The ditch in front is where the tall and thin man mentioned when he first sold metal sheets. Li Long tightened his grip on the gun. This time he came here as a wild hunter, looking for things that no one wanted and seeing if he could pick them up. Of course, I did it during my break from hunting.
Going down to the ditch and searching for a while, we saw the place Tang Hongsheng mentioned.
This place is covered with footprints of people walking by. Some of the footprints are quite deep, obviously they were left by squatting down for a long time.
Li Long walked around twice and found some copper coins that had not been picked up in the stream - they were almost rusty.
He looked around, but there was no one. The mud around these footprints had dried at least a day ago. Li Long walked up the stream while watching.
Twenty or thirty meters out, he stopped. There was a fork in the stream here, and some copper coins appeared in the opening on the other side of the fork. Not only were there copper coins, but also some torn pieces of cloth.
A few meters into the branch ditch along this branch road, Li Long saw the traces of excavation. Several large stones were moved aside, and the soil underneath showed signs of being newly turned. Some broken porcelain was thrown aside. Li Long lowered his head and picked up an incomplete base. The words "Made in the Kangxi Year of the Qing Dynasty" were revealed. out.
This should be a plum vase.
Rags were thrown everywhere, some with dull patterns on them, and rusty copper coins were mixed in the soil. Li Long picked up a stick and pulled it a few times, and picked out a few smooth and hole-free copper coins.
The person looking for the thing obviously has no interest in copper coins, and he doesn’t know if there were any ingots or silver coins inside, but he can’t see them now.
The scope is not small, but there are not many things left. Li Long just looked through it briefly, and the harvest was seven or eight copper coins, a Yuan Datou, and a ruby gold ring. Maybe Because the objects were small, they were not picked up and were mixed in the dirt. The gold is a bit dull, but the ruby is so beautiful.
After putting it away, Li Long turned around and continued walking towards Hot Spring Valley.
These things cannot be exchanged for money in a short time, so he doesn't care much. If you have it, keep it. If you don’t have it, it’s okay. After all, there is no big obsession. The main thing is that the thing is right in front of you and it is easy to get it. To use a simple analogy, if he really wants to get these things, with his current wealth, he can buy a lot of good things by taking money to those cultural relics stores in his mouth and looking for connections.
But it's not necessary. I'm not a person in this industry. It's an antique. If it's at hand, just play with it. Don't be greedy.
So you still have to have a backpack. It’s okay to put these things in a satchel. If you get a copper incense burner, the satchel may not even be able to fit it.
After walking dozens of meters towards the stream, he found that there was nothing left, so Li Long climbed over the mountain and headed towards the Hot Spring Valley.
This location leads to the Hot Spring Valley, almost directly to the pool.
There are no wild animals in the pool, neither wolves nor wild boars nor wild goats nor roe deer. However, there are hoof prints on the side, which must have been there before. I don’t know if they were last night or this morning.
Li Long didn't care. He took off his clothes and put them on the grass. He put his gun on the edge of the pool. He got into the pool and was ready to take a dip.
I won’t talk about it when it rains. Even though I went back and wiped it off, I was still wet when I came back. Then Liu Shanmin was here and it was hard to wash himself, so he might as well come here. It will be difficult to get treatment like hot spring bathing in the future. I remember traveling to Ili in my last life. At the beginning, the famous hot springs were surrounded, such as Xiata. When the scenic spot was not yet famous, there were already hotels in the hot springs, as well as Bron, Barghetti, etc.
Later, even the wild hot springs in Kashgar were surrounded by people, and it was more troublesome to take a bath. If you can enjoy it now, enjoy it.
Soaked for about half an hour and then washed. Probably because there are minerals in the water, it feels slippery.
After wiping his body randomly, Li Long put on his clothes. Although the clothes were not completely dry, they were much better than before.
After he put it on, he took the gun and headed southeast. There are two directions where those beasts like to go after soaking in the hot springs, southeast or southwest. Li Long shot the wild goat in the southeast, and the bear was also killed in the crevices in the southeast. So he likes to come here.
Through the pine forest and up to the empty slope, Li Long found that there were a lot of caladiums on the shady gentle slope, and Codonopsis pilosula were also scattered in patches. The poles were particularly thick. He wondered if he should come and dig some in autumn?
Going further up, you will reach the rocky beach, which is not far from where Li Long fought the bear. He tightened his grip on the gun and walked slowly over there.
There are no traces of the original bear cave. The grass has grown up, and a few thatches have almost blocked the cave.
Li Long picked up the gun, opened the safety and walked inside. He found that there were traces of animals walking inside, the grass on the ground did not grow, and there was a fishy smell.
When I cautiously walked to the corner and looked inside, I found that there was nothing inside.
Li Long withdrew somewhat disappointedly. This is the farthest place he has ever walked. There are still mountains further up, but there is not much grass growing there and there are more big rocks, so Li Long simply climbed over.
When Li Long was about to reach the top, he stopped and was about to take a rest. He looked down and saw that the mountains and forests below were patchwork, green and full of vitality.
There are no people in sight, only the occasional hawk flying in the sky, or circling, or diving down, perhaps discovering a marmot or rabbit.
Li Long continued to climb up. When he reached the top of the mountain, a mountain wind suddenly blew over him, and he suddenly felt cold.
The mountain wind is quite strong. This is the highest mountain in the nearby kilometers, and the top is full of rocks. Not many plants grow, but there are some weeds among the rocks. Li Long looked towards the south slope and accidentally discovered some rocks below. , there are ibexes jumping.
Ibex!
Li Long immediately took aim with his gun - the location was less than fifty meters away from him. It was very steep. After taking aim, Li Long put down the gun.
It is easier to hit it, but it is impossible to get it. The south slope is too steep. If it rolls down, it will take Li Long about an hour to go around to the bottom of the mountain to carry the sheep back.
If you hit it but didn't roll down, and got stuck on a rock in the middle, you would be blind.
Li Long put away his gun with some disappointment, picked up a stone and threw it down.
The stone quickly fell behind the ibex herd. There were about ten sheep in the group. They were frightened by the stone and immediately ran away.
What surprised Li Long was that these ibexes did not run down the mountain, but ran parallel to both sides. The steep cliff was not a big trouble for them. Well, this is their territory.
The influence failed, and Li Long had no choice but to watch these mountain elves disappear.
Walking further east, Li Long found a corresponding ibex bone, not only the skull, but also other bones on the body.
Li Long lifted up his skull and counted it, twenty-two knots—an old sheep!
You have to take this back.
Grabbing the horns, Li Long thought for a while and walked west. It's been nearly two hours since I walked here, and I have to go back.
Walking past the Hot Spring Valley, Li Long remembered that he seemed to have chased a group of wild boars here and even shot one. It's just that now the cracks between the rocks here are covered with grass, and occasionally you can see feces and I don't know what it is.
After passing the Hot Spring Valley, then past the head of the valley where the golden ring was found, and further to the west, when Li Long was about to go down to a relatively flat place, he saw there, a gentle slope with a spring, almost A roe deer is eating grass.
Five, three big and two small. The largest male roe deer is about the same size as a small red deer, weighing thirty or forty kilograms. The smaller one is probably last year's calf, which has just grown to be about twenty kilograms, and is munching on grass innocently.
The old roe deer was very vigilant, looking left and right from time to time, while the younger one was more relaxed, jumping up and down from time to time, and even fighting with each other, butting heads and so on.
Li Long saw that there were seventy or eighty meters away from the roe deer. He could hit them, but he wasn't very sure. After all, they were all moving. So he took the horns and slowly walked westward from above, to the back of the hill less than fifty meters away from the roe deer. Looking over here, Roe Deer Zi is just on the side of Li Long, and behind Roe Deer Zi is the swamp formed by the gathering of spring water.
Putting down the sheep's head, Li Long bent down and walked slowly forward. When he came to the top of the hill, he half-crouched and picked up the gun.
When the safety sight was turned on, the male roe deer turned around and spotted Li Long, screamed in surprise, and then ran out to the north.
The female roe deer ran out immediately after the male, and another female followed closely behind. Their target was obvious, in the forest not far to the north of this swamp.
Fortunately, when Li Long was squatting half-crouched, the target he was aiming at was not the male roe deer Luzi and its target. He was aiming at one of the younger and stronger guys.
The male roe deer ran no more than two or three meters away when Li Long's gunshot rang out. This shot knocked the young male roe deer to the ground. When Li Long adjusted the muzzle again and prepared to shoot another young roe deer, he was surprised to find that the roe deer panicked and ran into the swamp. , it sank in, and soon, the water mixed with mud reached its thighs!
Hehe, Li Long happily held the gun, picked up the sheep's head and ran down.
The roe deer stuck in the swamp was extremely worried and kept screaming pitifully. However, the more it struggled, the deeper it sank.
When Li Long arrived, the roe deer's belly was already on the water. It looked at Li Long pitifully, obviously not sure whether the two-legged monster came to catch it or save it. .
Li Long first looked at the roe deer that was shot. It was not completely dead. The gun was hit in the neck, and blood was still flowing out. It was definitely not going to survive, but it was still twitching.
Li Long looked around and saw that the other three roe deer had long since disappeared and there was no one around. He put down his gun and sheep head and prepared to rescue the roe deer from the swamp.
Of course, the rescue is not in vain, you can take it back and keep it.
When the roe deer saw Li Long reaching out, he immediately panicked and hurriedly swayed in the water to avoid Li Long. However, the more it swung, the more it sank into the water. Li Long couldn't go down by himself. Who knew how deep the swamp formed by the spring was, and it would be impossible to sink himself in.
The roe deer was disobedient, so Li Long took out the rope from his bag and tied a looper. He wanted to learn how the Kazakh herdsmen put a loop on the roe deer, and it would be better to pull it out after pulling it on.
Whether it can be pulled out depends on fate.
I tried setting it twice, but the roe deer didn’t cooperate. In addition, Li Long’s accuracy was not very good. Either the set was off, or the deer got passed by. Li Long got a little impatient and pointed. The roe deer scolded:
"If you want to die, just shake like this. If you shake a few more times, you will be buried. Don't move!"
I don’t know whether it was its momentum that frightened the roe deer, or whether the roe deer knew that Li Long didn’t want to let him die now. This guy really didn’t move, and Li Long also caught the opponent’s neck. .
As the rope was pulled and tightened, the roe deer couldn't make a sound even if it wanted to scream, its mouth was open, and it was painful to be strangled.
Li Long didn't dare to exert too much force. He didn't know whether the mud underneath the roe deer would be thin or thick after the roe deer's son sank. Even if a deer is strangled, it may not be able to be pulled out.
Fortunately, after the rope was tightened, the roe deer was actually pulled by Li Long. He directly pulled it down on the water and slowly moved out.
It’s just that this guy looked a little miserable with his tongue hanging out, and his eyes were about to turn white, so Li Long could only loosen and pull.
Ten minutes later, the roe deer was pulled out and lay on the ground wet, too tired to move.
Li Long put the gun on his back, and now he was a little worried. Carrying the dead roe deer and holding it at the same time, the sheep head had to be discarded.
Well, if you give it up, let it go. There is no way, and there is no way to grow two more hands.
Picking up the dead roe deer, Li Long dragged the roe deer towards the north. The guy didn't want to leave yet, and Li Long didn't get used to it, so he just dragged it on the ground. Go forward.
After being dragged out for more than ten meters, the roe deer probably realized that if he didn’t follow, he would be dragged to death. When Li Long let go, he got up and followed reluctantly. Li Long leaves.
In the middle, it still wanted to run, but the rope was very strong and Li Long was very strong. He didn't tolerate him. He would pull hard as long as he ran, which would make him roll his eyes. After a few times, the roe deer became more obedient.
Just like this, it was already noon when we returned to the cabin.
To Li Long's surprise, there was a plate of fried mushrooms, two bowls of rice, and a plate of chopped offal on the table.
Liu Shanmin looked at him with some pride. After Li Long looked over, he explained:
"I'm hungry. I thought it might take a while for you to come back, so I started cooking. Sorry, the craftsmanship is average, so just make do with it.”
The craftsmanship was indeed average. Li Long could tell at just one glance that the rice was uncooked and the rice crispy rice was definitely black. There was a bit too much fried mushroom water. I guess this person probably didn’t go to the kitchen much when he was at home.
But it doesn’t matter, at least I have something to eat.
"You have gained quite a lot. You brought back two roe deer deer in one trip." Liu Shanmin said again:
"The marksmanship is good!"
"The main thing is There are a lot of resources in the mountains." Li Long said modestly, "Okay, let's eat and then clean up."
He was tired too.
As for whether the rice is cooked or not, the second priority is whether it can fill the stomach.
Liu Shanmin helped Li Long tie up the roe deer. After Li Long picked a bowl of rice, he took the lead in taking another bowl and started eating, not only rice but also vegetables.
Li Long knew that this was not because he was extremely hungry and he was rushing to eat, but he was signaling that the food was not poisonous.
Okay, quite honest.
Take care of yourself. (End of this chapter)