Li Xiang was not here, so the scalper didn't send the bull out, so Li Long took it back to the big yard and asked Sister Yang to deal with it.
Anyway, there will be more later.
Li Long didn't rest either. Now he was still anxious to ask Harimu and the others how and where they killed the tiger. What he was thinking about was whether it was possible to get the tiger bones back. .
After all, tiger bones are more effective than tiger skin.
Of course, he felt that it was unlikely that he could get it back. After all, although the tiger skin looked fresh, there were so many carnivores in the mountains. They might be afraid of being skinned when the tiger has skin. , then it’s just food, right?
Li Long drove the tractor toward the mountains. There is something on my mind, and it doesn't seem to be that cold anymore.
Li Long drove the tractor directly to Halimu's winter nest.
Halimu’s wife came out of the winter nest and told Li Long in a sullen voice that Halimu had gone to the winter nest in Talihar to participate in the winter slaughter.
Li Long drove the tractor again, trying his best to find a suitable road in the mountains, and drove to Talihar's winter nest.
The winter den in Harimu and the winter den in Yushanjiang are easier to live with a tractor, but the winter den in Talihar's house is far away, so it is easy for horses to get in, but it is difficult for tractors to get in.
Li Long walked back and forth, and when he arrived at Talihar's winter den, the cattle had been slaughtered and the meat was almost cooked.
Seeing Li Long coming, the others were very happy, so Li Long took out the bullet and gave it to Yushanjiang, who came nearest, and asked him to share it with others.
He went to find Harimu and asked in a low voice about the tiger.
"We met on the way back from the transfer." Harimu guessed that Li Long would ask, so he said:
"At that time, we were driving the cattle and sheep this way, and we saw that everyone When we were having sex, it suddenly jumped out of the pine forest, knocked down one of our sheep, bit its neck and dragged it into the forest
I didn't react at that time, so I yelled at it. The guy turned his head and looked at me. At least he was quite angry. He put down the sheep with its neck broken and yelled at me, which shocked me. "
When he said this, Harimu's expression was frightened. Obviously, the tiger's roar was quite powerful at that time.
Think about it, this is not a wolf, this is a wolf. Tiger!
Li Long thought, this won’t be the last A Northern Xinjiang tiger, right?
Probably not. He heard about it in the short video introduction in his last life and found that the traces of the Northern Xinjiang tiger reached Qitai in the east and Tacheng in the west, a distance of nearly a thousand kilometers. , the time difference is also forty or fifty years, it cannot be the same tiger
"When he roared, my cattle and sheep immediately exploded and ran everywhere. I was also angry and shot at it. The result was that it was frightened and it didn't even want the sheep. He turned around and ran away. Unexpectedly, he fell into the nest."
Halimu continued with a little smile on his face. :
"At that time, I thought that since it fell into the nest, I would be rude. The horse did not dare to step forward, so I dismounted and held the gun. When I was more than 20 meters away from it, I fired several shots and killed it!"
Li Long sounded a bit unscientific. Is it that simple?
"How deep is the snow nest?" Li Long asked.
"About four or five meters. Anyway, after it fell, its whole body sank into the snow. It fluttered several times and didn't come out. It just happened for me to take aim."
Halimu finished speaking, left and right. After looking at it, he whispered to Li Long:
“Only Yushanjiang knows about this matter. "Don't tell others, I don't want them to know..."
"Okay, okay." Li Long was still in confusion, and it took him a while to remember his purpose, and he asked hurriedly. Said:
“Where are the big guy’s bones?”
"In that snow nest." Harimu said, "At that time, after I killed it, I hurriedly drove the cattle and sheep back. After I came back, I skinned the sheep that it had killed. The tiger skin was also peeled off.
It is not small, about two hundred kilograms. It cannot be carried, and even the sheep is buried in the snow.”
“Is it far away from here? If we two ride horses, it will be. How far?" Li Long asked.
"If it's just the two of us riding horses, we can leave in the morning and arrive in the afternoon, right?" Harimu said.
"How about we leave before dawn tomorrow morning?" Li Long said, "The bones of that thing are very useful!"
"Okay." Harimu agreed without any hesitation, "I just don't know if it's still there. You also know that wolves still have very sharp noses."
"Try to look for it." Li Long I am unwilling to give up such a small amount of hope.
Maybe this is the biggest chance he has in his life to get a tiger bone. If you give up, you may regret it for the rest of your life.
The next step is to eat meat.
But Li Long still didn't understand. How could such a tiger be killed so easily?
Think about the video I watched in my last life, how big the Siberian tiger was, and it looked like it was playing with an animal. There seems to be a video of a person falling into the tiger garden at the zoo, and the tiger easily picked it up, just like a toy.
In those hunting novels, tigers are so dangerous. It seems that when they see a person ten or twenty meters away, the tiger will immediately come to the person and then snatch the person away.
How come you were defeated so easily when you arrived at Harimu?
Li Long couldn't help but think of the scene where Monk Wei was beaten to death in a TV series he had watched.
Is this a boat capsized in the gutter?
Or is it because the northern tiger is not as big as the Siberian tiger?
These things can only be guessed out of thin air. No matter how hard Li Long restored what Harimu said in his mind, he could not really restore it to reality.
However, as a result, he has lost a lot of respect for creatures like tigers.
Perhaps the northern tiger is indeed inferior to the Siberian tiger. After all, the Siberian tiger is the largest tiger species in the world. Its body is large and its movements are naturally different.
Putting this matter aside, Li Long started eating meat with everyone.
The herdsmen boys were still in high spirits, but Li Long already felt a little unable to eat. After eating beef for three consecutive days, the same menu items no longer tasted good to him.
So I actually brought some spices with me when I came here. It would be good to find a wire and cut some beef and roast it.
After he did this, others followed suit and used branches if there was no wire.
As soon as Li Long saw that the fire was surrounded, he simply stopped roasting and used salt and chili powder to make noodles as a dipping sauce. It would also be good to tear the cooked meat into pieces and eat it as a dip.
With more ways to eat, everyone’s interest has risen again.
After eating the meat, Talihar took out some skins from the winter nest and handed them to Li Long:
"Li Long, I also want to use that water pipe. See, spring is here, can you give it to me? Get some plastic pipes?"
"No problem." Li Long nodded. There are a lot of plastic pipes in supply and marketing cooperatives. This is the kind of pipe he used to drill wells at the livestock team's left-behind sites in Yushanjiang and Halimu.
This kind of pipe supply and marketing cooperatives will buy in some from time to time. Although it is more difficult to build a few hundred meters, it is not said to be impossible.
Other boys came over one after another, saying the same thing.
"No problem, I will pull the pipe over when spring begins." Li Long agreed.
These young men also said that they would exchange some leathers and other things.
Most of the leathers that Li Long pulled back previously were made by Harimu and Yushanjiang, and a small number of them belonged to other people.
Every household actually has some inventory, and now they are thinking of taking it out and replacing it with plastic pipes.
Some people really want to use it conveniently. After all, the cattle and sheep will be let out after spring. Most of the work at home is done by the elderly, who have to carry water from the winter nest to the stream dozens of meters below. It's really inconvenient.
Some people follow the trend and feel that if others have done it but they have not, then they will lose face.
Don’t think that their simplicity is not good for face. In fact, face is also very important.
Li Long was thinking about it and suddenly had an idea, and said:
"There is no need to do so much, just one culling sheep from each family. How about Yang Kelangzi?"
After these herdsmen join the animal husbandry team, they have to hand over some sheep to the team every year, including cull sheep and two-year-old lambs.
Culled sheep are actually five or six-year-old sheep. These sheep will be sent to food factories, where they will be slaughtered, processed, and then sent to where they should go.
"Klangzi sheep? Is one enough?" Talihar asked doubtfully.
"Enough is enough." Li Long said with a smile. He doesn't expect to make any money from this, but will actually lose some money.
But it doesn’t matter. He has made a lot of money by dealing with these herdsmen Duosen, and he has friendships with them, so why bother with this?
"Then accept this skin, and I will kill a sheep for you." Talihar said.
During winter slaughter in Kazakhstan, someone needs to chant sutras before slaughtering. That's why Dongzai comes one after another.
Just as someone was there, Talihar told his parents, then went to the pen to bring a sheep out, quickly completed the process, and slaughtered it. Li Long said they only wanted Ke Langzi, so after they slaughtered the sheep, skinned and removed the internal organs, they carried Ke Langzi and placed it on the bucket of Li Long's tractor.
Some people are envious. This Talihar is equivalent to booking the third water recipient.
Some people are still hesitating, thinking that they only use water in spring and winter, but what about it? Some people were also thinking about whether the water pipes would freeze, and whispered about it.
Harimu and Yushanjiang were beside Li Long and were also asking this question.
"As long as the water at the water source keeps flowing, the water will not freeze." Li Long said, "This is the same as the water in the stream does not freeze. Of course, as long as it is blocked, then It will freeze. That’s why we need to clean the water inlet and cover it with gauze to prevent sand and small stones from getting in.”
Halimu and Yushanjiang nodded, indicating that they understood.
“It’s okay in the summer. It’s easy to repair if it’s blocked. But it’s hard to repair if it’s frozen in the winter.” Li Long said, “So try not to let it get blocked. But again, you’ll only know after you use it. How to solve it.”
This is the truth. Everything, including killing the well, only had problems with Nathan. After seeing Li Long solve it, he would understand why he had to lift the well head away every night.
Li Long still left earlier.
He wanted to go back to rest early and planned to go to Harimu's place early tomorrow morning before dawn, and then the two of them would ride horses to see if the tiger bones were still there.
It is much faster for two people to ride a horse than to drive a large group of cattle and sheep.
Hope to be back within a day.
There are a lot of plastic pipes in the warehouse at the supply and marketing cooperative, and there must be at least several hundred meters of stock.
It is obviously not enough to install such water pipes in the homes of the herdsmen here.
But step by step, it is impossible to install it all at once, and some people may not install it.
This definitely depends on personal wishes. Overall, it's a good thing. In fact, there is another way to prevent freezing in winter, which is to dig a trench half a meter deep and bury the pipe in it. However, if it really freezes in this way, maintenance will be more troublesome.
If you dig shallower, it will be easier to repair.
Let’s put it another way, Li Long wanted to gradually change the living environment of Harimu and the others.
The matter of grazing and transitioning was still going on in some places until Li Long left in his previous life.
Ma County basically moved out the herdsmen from the mountains around 2010 and settled down for herding. To put it bluntly, they grazed in the plains and mainly penned sheep in winter.
As for the source of pasture, the place where the herdsmen are moved will allocate some land to the herdsmen and use these lands to grow pasture.
There are large areas of grassland where grazing is still being carried out. The grassland deep in the Tianshan Mountains in the south of Ma County is not patchy, there are small patches, so there are few herdsmen that can be accommodated.
So we just moved it to make it easier to manage.
Judging from the subsequent situation, the herders who moved down also lived quite well.
Back at the cabin, Li Long took down the sheep and skins from the cart and put them into the cabin. Then he drained the water from the tractor and entered the house with the handle.
Set up the stove and boil water. Since he was not hungry anyway, Li Long made a pot of tea and planned to take a rest early.
The fire in the stove cannot be extinguished, and we have to get up early to start the tractor tomorrow.
Sure enough, it was a lot colder the next morning. After the beginning of winter, it has become colder day by day, but today is particularly cold.
Li Long added boiling water to the water tank and tried shaking it three times with the handle. When he was about to shake it again, the sound of the engine didn't sound like it could catch fire.
Having no choice but to go to the wooden house, Li Long took a few pieces of red charcoal from the stove and roasted it under the tractor engine.
He added some more charcoal to the stove, and after burning it, pressed it with coal foam.
After leaving the house, he took a look and saw that the charcoal fire under the tractor that had not been extinguished had not burned the pipe, which was fine.
Li Long felt that it was almost done. He took the rocker and pressed to reduce the pressure and shook it again. This time it started directly.
After cleaning up the charcoal ash underneath, Li Long went to the wooden house, put on his cotton coat and hat, then locked the door and put on the tractor, and drove quickly to Harimu's winter home.
It's still dark, and the sky is full of stars, which is very beautiful. The moon couldn't be seen, but fortunately the ground was covered with snow, so I could barely see the road.
When the tractor arrived at Dongwozi, Halimu had already come out of the house.
"Li Long, have you eaten?"
"Have you eaten."
"Okay, let's go into the house and have a bowl of milk tea. The horses are ready. We will leave after drinking."
"Okay."
What the two people said was simple. After entering the house, Harimu's wife poured milk tea for the two of them. There is still unfinished naan on the plate on the kang table, and there is honey and jam in the small bowl. This is their breakfast.
After drinking a bowl of milk tea, the two of them went out, mounted their horses and headed towards the mountains.
The horse walks quickly at first, and then starts to trot later. There are some flat places where you can run fast. Because of the transition, the snow here has been waded through, so it is easier to walk.
When daylight came, they had climbed seven or eight mountains. If there is a road, it will be quick to climb over the mountain. The transition itself is on a relatively flat road. It is indeed easier to drive the horse to a fast trot than to drive slowly.
"These roads, if you change places, will take you most of a day." When they stopped to rest, Harimu said to Li Long, "We ran through it in less than an hour."
< br>"Take a rest," Li Long said, "Do you want to wipe the horse's sweat?"
"Yes."
The horse was also tired and his neck was sweating. Li Long took a towel and wiped the sweat from the horse. Rest for a moment and then take a handful of corn from the side pocket and feed it to the horse.
Harimu is doing the same thing.
After resting for a while, the two people rode up again.
After daybreak, they could go faster. By the time the sun came out, they had climbed several more mountains.
While resting again, Li Long took out the dried meat he had brought with him and gave a portion to Harimu to eat together.
The two of them finished eating, got on their horses and continued on their way. Li Long felt that he had been deep in the mountains for a long time. He saw all kinds of mountains, some were covered with pine forests, and some were all rocks with only shrubs on them. There is heavy snow all over the place. According to Harimu, this place is a grassland in summer.
The road to transition passes through valleys, rarely going directly over mountains, following streams or river valleys, and occasionally going up gentle slopes.
The snow has been trampled out of the way by the cattle and sheep passing by, so at least they won't run into snow pits and are less likely to be in danger.
“If it snows again, then this road will be covered and it will be difficult to find it further into the mountain.” Harimu said as he walked.
At noon, the two of them ate some dry food again. Li Long also saw wild goats passing by on the top of the mountain in the distance. There were slowly more wild animals here.
“Five or six kilometers further on, we’ll reach the place.” Harimu said, “We’ll arrive in about an hour. This section is fairly easy to walk, but it’s not going to be easy to walk there.”
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Li Long secretly estimated that from morning to now, the two of them had been riding horses for six hours, covering a distance of fifty or sixty kilometers, and the straight-line distance should be twenty or thirty kilometers.
The Tianshan Mountains are really deep.
According to Harimu, this place is still a long time away from Xia Ranch, and the location of Xia Ranch is actually not yet at the center line of Tianshan Mountain.
When Li Long followed Harimu to the snow pit where the tiger fell, he felt the tiger's plight.
The snow pit is on the roadside at the transition point. The cattle and sheep are led by a cow-headed sheep, so they will not go the wrong way, so they will not fall into the snow pit.
The snow pit is right on the roadside. It looks flat on the surface, but the wind and snow will fill it up. It is as flat as other places, and you can't tell the height at all.
There is a road on the left side of the pit, a mountain wall on the right side, and ditches in front and behind. It is not easy to climb out at once.
Halimu skinned the tiger, buried it in the snow, and flattened the snow. It was not clear whether it had been dug out or not.
Li Long took out the rope. (End of this chapter)