Originally, Li Long thought that Director Qian might decide not to fight, after all, a jeep can hold so much.
"Xiao Li, which yellow sheep meat do you think is not delicious?" Director Qian suddenly asked Li Long.
“It’s a big ram.” Li Long said smoothly, “The meat of a big ram is very tangy and has a pungent smell. It’s not as delicious as ewe meat.”
“Then Okay, keep the biggest ram and throw away the other ram. I figured it out, the horns are not enough, we have to go ahead and kill at least one more." Director Qian planned to have a good time before leaving. .
Li Long is still a little hesitant. Isn't this a bit wasteful?
Xiao Si over there had already taken action. He kept the largest ram, and he carried the two rams directly and threw them to the roadside.
"Okay, Xiao Li, I know you are reluctant to part with it. Don't worry. In the end, except for the biggest ram, I will take it away for specimens. How about leaving the other ewes to you?" Director Qian said with a smile.
Li Long actually also understands that people like Director Qian and even Li Xiangqian are not short of meat. For them, eating wild game is just a taste, and it must be the delicious meat of unraised beef and mutton.
At this time, unlike in later generations, where game was hard to find, everyone secretly ate some game, which was still novel and yearning for them.
In Northern Xinjiang at this time, there are really many such wild animals. Hunting yellow sheep here in winter is nothing. People with resources will drive jeeps and trucks to Shawo in the north. In the house, he was shooting yellow sheep with a submachine gun.
The deserts in northern Xinjiang are different from those in southern Xinjiang. They are basically solid sand dunes. There are many plants in the desert. When driving in the desert, you only need to avoid obstacles such as shrubs.
It is said that when the Corps was first stationed here to cultivate land, there was not enough food. They really drove to hunt. When they came back, the truck could be filled with yellow sheep.
At that time, there were dozens or hundreds of yellow sheep.
Even in another twenty years, there will be large groups of yellow sheep running towards us from Kazakhstan and Mongolia, because the management of deserts and pastures here is different.
Now that Director Qian has spoken, Li Long has no objection, but it is a pity for the two yellow sheep.
Of course, they cannot be wasted, picked up by passing drivers, or simply eaten by predators.
The jeep continued to move forward. At this time, it reached the area of Anjihai, but it was still far away from the area where people moved. Li Long sat behind the driver's seat and turned to look south. Li Long was beside him. Look north.
Li Long had good eyesight, and suddenly he saw a large group of snowflakes about a hundred meters away, and an animal was rushing in this direction!
Because of the obstruction of snow powder and shrubs, Li Long couldn't see what it was for a while, but he could tell that there was quite a movement!
“There’s something to the south!” Li Long couldn’t help shouting.
Xiao Si immediately stepped on the brakes and parked the car firmly on the side of the road.
Everyone in the car looked south, and Li Long simply got out of the car with his gun in hand.
More than a hundred meters away, there was a large area with a radius of thirty or forty meters, and snowflakes were flying. Because it was in the south, the light reflected was quite dazzling.
Director Qian couldn't see anything, but he could see that there must be something there. He took out a telescope from the side of his seat and raised it to observe.
Li Xiangqian said enviously:
"The director is still awesome, and he also has good equipment like a telescope!"
"Ask the city's Armed Forces Department to borrow it."
Li Long knew that at this time, the Armed Forces Department was transferred to the local government, and there was such a period The time is not active, and I don’t know if it is now.
His eyesight was excellent and he finally saw clearly.
Those are seven wolves, besieging a group of more than a dozen yellow sheep in a U-shaped position from south to north!
The wolves are chasing behind, and the yellow sheep are running in front. Logically speaking, the speed of the yellow sheep was originally much faster than that of the gray wolf, but the snow in the Gobi Desert is deep now, and the yellow sheep's legs are thin, so it is easy to sink when running.
The speed will have to slow down.
A slow-running yellow sheep was spotted by a nearby gray wolf. It pounced on it and knocked it to the ground, biting its neck, and then tasted the blood!
The yellow sheep struggled desperately, but its body was small and it was no match for the wolf!
“A pack of wolves is hunting the yellow sheep!” Li Long shouted in a low voice.
"Xiao Li has very good eyesight!" Director Qian also noticed it. He put the telescope back and looked at the direction where the yellow sheep was running, which was twenty or thirty meters west of the jeep. He picked up the shotgun and said:
“Come on, let’s shoot freely this time. We can hunt wolves or gazelles. After we finish, we will call it a day and go back!”
It’s not a bad idea to see a pack of wolves preying on gazelles. This trip is over.
I can play it for at least half a year when I go back.
Li Long is ready to fight the wolf. Of course, it would be better if he could kill two birds with one stone.
Everyone raises their guns and looks for the target individually. When the target is determined, they will inform each other to avoid wasting bullets if the target is hit hard.
"I hit the last wolf, which was biting a yellow sheep." Li Long said first. The wolf is almost a hundred meters away from here. To a normal person, a target of one hundred meters is just a small dot. This gray wolf was biting a yellow sheep in the snow, and the exposed part was not large.
However, Li Long's eyesight was much better than that of ordinary people. He walked a few meters to the roadside, squatted down and aimed his gun at the wolf.
The wolf is still biting the yellow sheep. The yellow sheep is still struggling, but the struggling movement is very weak.
The massive blood loss has already robbed it of most of its strength, and it looks like it will not survive.
The wolves sensed the threat from humans here and began to adjust their positions, preparing to drive the yellow sheep to the west, away from cars and people on the road.
The wolves approaching the jeep sped up, attacking the northeastern side of the yellow sheep like driving sheep, forcing the yellow sheep to change direction.
“This wolf is really cunning!” Director Qian was originally aiming at a big ram, but at this time, the sheep was driven into the bushes by the wolf.
He cursed and readjusted his goal.
Li Long had already taken aim, but he did not fire.
This gray wolf was far away and did not care about the threat from humans. It was sure of victory and did not panic at all.
The prey is in the mouth. He only needs to wait quietly for the yellow sheep to bleed dry and then die. Then he can enjoy the delicious yellow sheep internal organs.
The target chosen by Li Long is not good in the eyes of others, mainly because it is far away. The exposed part of the wolf in the snow is not large. It is really difficult to fight with the yellow sheep.
He chose a difficult one, and others were naturally happy to choose a closer target.
Although they are all moving targets, because they are coming diagonally in this direction, they only need to adjust the advance slightly, and they are easy to hit.
This is different from the kind that runs away. After all, it's hard to hit what's coming, so don't hunt.
At this time, another wolf knocked down a yellow sheep. The group of yellow sheep exploded, and three or four of them rushed directly in the direction of the jeep!
“Bang!”
The one who fired first was Director Qian. With a single bullet from his shotgun, he knocked down a gray wolf that was following.
In the end, he still shot the wolf, mainly because the position given by the wolf was so good that it happened to pass by his field of vision. Originally, he was aiming at a big male yellow sheep slightly in advance.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
As soon as Director Qian's gun rang, the guns of the other three people also rang. Then there was another gunshot.
This is Director Qian giving the gray wolf a shot. He shot him just now, and the gray wolf suddenly threw himself on the snow. He thought he was killed, but unexpectedly the gray wolf crawled back. He got up and struggled to run south. Fortunately, his speed was extremely slow, so Director Qian reloaded his gun.
Li Long looked at the group of wolves and yellow sheep that were scattered by the gunfire and did not fight again.
You can’t take it back with you anyway.
"Take your own." Director Qian was very happy, "I think they all hit, everyone's marksmanship is good."
They are not hypocritical people, even if they let the leader , is also limited, not like the unlimited kind in later generations.
Now that the leader said so, Li Long rushed over with his gun and ran towards the gray wolf he had beaten, taking the opportunity to see if the little yellow sheep could be saved.
The reason why he carried the gun was because he was afraid that the wolf would fight back if it was not dead. In fact, to be honest, with his strength, even if the wolf counterattacked and landed a solid kick, the wolf would still be dead.
But if you have a gun in your hand, why bother?
I ran forward and found that the wolf was already dead. The yellow sheep was still twitching. Every time it twitched, blood still overflowed from the hole in its neck that was bitten by the wolf's mouth.
Obviously he is not alive either.
Li Long put his gun on his back and drove towards the jeep with a wolf in one hand and a gazelle in the other.
Director Qian himself also dragged Gray Wolf back. Xiao Si refused to help him.
"A wolf weighs forty or fifty kilograms. I can carry it." Director Qian was very excited. "Take this wolf back and I'll find someone to make a good-looking specimen - not bad, not bad!"
Then he turned to look at the wolf Li Long was carrying, and asked casually:
"Xiao Li, you wolf...where did the bullet hit?"
< br>"Neck."
"Neck?" Director Qian was stunned when he heard this, and hurried over:
"Let me see, let me see?" Then he took a look, and sure enough, there was a hole in his neck.
Li Long was patient at the time and kept waiting. On the one hand, he was waiting for Director Qian to shoot, and on the other hand, he was waiting for the wolf to raise its head.
As soon as the wolf raised its head, he pulled the trigger and shot the wolf through the neck.
"Hey! His shooting skills are good!" Director Qian looked at the wolf in Li Long's hand, and then at his own wolf, "Swap?"
"That must be no problem." Li Long thought to himself how big this is As he said that, he handed the wolf over, and just as he handed it over, he took it back.
Director Qian thought that Li Long was unwilling, so he asked:
"Xiao Li, what are the conditions?"
Xiao Si, who came back next to him, looked unhappy. He turned around and glanced at Li Xiangqian, thinking to himself, let’s see who you introduced.
Li Xiangqian was not in a hurry at all. Li Long had never been an imprudent person. Since he took it back, he had a purpose.
"It's too cold along the way. Director, if you want to make a specimen, I think it's best to give the wolf a knife and take out the internal organs. I remember that when making a specimen, you need to fill it with something, so the internal organs must be removed. Removing it won’t affect anything, and it will prevent it from smelling.”
“Okay, you’re thoughtful! Xiao Si, you two should take out everything from the stomachs of these wolves!”
Director Qian is getting happier.
Li Long acted quickly. He first took out a knife and cut a slit on the wolf's belly, then took out all the intestines and threw it to the roadside. Someone or an animal would come to clean it up.
After taking care of the two wolves, he also took care of the little yellow sheep. If they were squeezed together like this, the jeep should be able to fit them.
Li Xiangqian shot a ram. He didn't ask for the body. He asked Li Long to help him cut off the head of the sheep from its neck and take it back with the horns to make a pendant.
This can barely fit in the jeep.
"Oh, it's a pity it's a wolf. It would be great if it was a leopard, bear or tiger!" Director Qian sighed as he watched the wolf being processed and stuffed into the trunk of the jeep.
"I know there are snow leopards here, and I know there are bears. There can't be tigers, right?" Li shook his head forward and said, "Isn't that thing only found in the Northeast?"
"We also have them here, but there are too few. It is said that there were quite a lot of them in southern Xinjiang a hundred years ago. A small number of them crossed the Tianshan Mountains and haunted us here. Some people have seen them, but no one has gotten the skin." Director Qian said.
"The leopard skin is not easy to get." Li turned forward and glanced at Li Long. He knew that Li Long had obtained the bear skin, so he didn't say bear.
"Snow leopards are rare beasts in the Tianshan Mountains. They almost always appear at high altitudes." Director Qian got into the car. Li Long and Li Xiangqian hurriedly got in the car. Xiao Si started the car and turned around. Go back.
"My herdsman friend once shot a snow leopard and asked me to sell the skin." Li Long said smoothly. Chen Hongjun knew about it anyway and couldn't hide it. Chen Hongjun himself has a good relationship with Li Xiangxiang.
"How much did you sell for?" Director Qian turned to look at Li Long and asked seriously.
"More than a thousand."
"So cheap? If so, I can charge you three thousand!" Director Qian sighed with regret, "That thing is so hard to come across in the world. There are very few leathers to be seen.”
Li Long didn’t expect snow leopard skins to be so expensive.
He would not think about Chen Hongjun lying to him. This should be the difference between the official price and the private purchase price. The official price itself will not be very high, nor can it be set very high.
From this moment on, Li Long knew that in the future, ordinary leathers could be sold to buying stations, but for precious leathers, it was better to find private buyers.
"Xiao Li," Director Qian's tone became eager, "I know you have good friends in the mountains. They have guns and can shoot good things. Do you think this is a good idea? You have good skin. Let you move forward. The unit chief contacted me, don’t worry, I will definitely give you a high price and I won’t let you suffer!”
Li Long nodded and agreed.
Director Qian sighed and said:
"Good things are hard to find. When we are in the city, we can only ask. You often go to the mountains and have many opportunities to see... By the way, Xiao Li, have you seen a tiger?"
"How could he see a tiger?" Li Xiangqian answered with a smile, "Why is there such a thing in our mountains?" He turned to look at Li Long, " Right? ”
Li Long hesitated.
Director Qian is so perceptive. He immediately stared at Li Long and asked:
"Xiao Li, have you seen it? Where have you seen it?"
Li Long looked He glanced at Li Xiangqian and hesitated whether to say something or not.
"What are you looking at me doing? Have you really seen me before?" Li Xiangqian also looked surprised.
"I... seem to have seen it before." Li Long said truthfully.
The car suddenly twisted. Director Qian turned to look at Xiao Si:
"Xiao Si, drive more slowly."
Xiao Si responded and blushed. red.
He was also a little surprised when he heard this. Before this morning, he would have thought that Li Long was bragging.
But Li Long's shooting skills let him know that the opponent did have two brushes under his hands.
So it might be true.
So he was also shocked: Are there really tigers in northern Xinjiang?
“It’s not summer yet, it’s almost that time anyway.” Li Long said:
“I have a wooden house in the mountains. When I was packing my things that morning, I saw something that looked very much like a tiger, running into the forest with a roe deer in its mouth. ”
"What's it like?" Director Qian asked.
"Black stripes, yellow fur." Li Long said.
"Could it be a lynx you saw?" Xiao Si couldn't help but said to the side, "There are lynxes in this mountain, maybe you haven't seen them..."
< br>Director Qian also suspected that Li Long was wrong.
Li Xiangqian was unwilling, and he defended Li Long before Li Long said anything:
"It's impossible for Xiao Li not to be able to tell the difference between a tiger and a lynx. He also shot a lynx and sold the skin. I also got a few bones. It is said that those things are the same as those of tigers. There is also a way to soak the bones in wine." Effect."
"Hey! Xiao Li, I didn't expect you to be such an old hunter!" Director Qian really believed that what Li Long saw was a tiger.
He thought for a while and said:
"Animals like tigers have their own sphere of influence. If they appear in one place, they usually won't move too many nests, covering a radius of dozens of miles. It's possible to meet... If I'm free next summer, would you like to be my guide?"
"That's definitely no problem." Li Long nodded.
"Tiger skin..." Director Qian sat back and murmured, "The tiger skins in our northern Xinjiang are very valuable. If you can get one, the people who want it will be gone."
< br>Li Long couldn't help but asked:
"Director, isn't it logical that the tigers in the Northeast are bigger and more precious? There are many tigers there. , it should be easier to find? The northern tiger is not big, it should be much smaller than the Siberian tiger..."
"Can it be the same? Siberian tigers can kill several of them every year. Jianghu, I haven’t heard of anyone hitting him in the past few decades. Rare things are more valuable.”
Li Long stopped talking.
He was calculating that if he calculated it this way, the value of the tiger skin in his hand might be beyond his imagination.
He thought that if the skin was intact, it would be no problem to sell it for 81,000 yuan.
But there are a lot of holes in the leather, so selling it for five thousand should be enough, right?
With what Director Qian said, it seems that this tiger skin is really valuable.
While Li Long was stunned, Director Qian turned around and took a look, and he saw something.
When Li Long raised his head, he met Director Qian's eyes, and Director Qian spoke:
"Xiao Li, let me tell you, if you can really get the tiger skin, you must give it to me, what?" When the price comes, you ask! I won’t bargain!”
Li Long didn't say anything. Li Xiangqian smiled and said:
"Director, what are you talking about? We are all our own people. If Xiao Li really has it, it must be for you!"
>Director Qian shook his head and said:
"Go ahead, I'm telling the truth. If Xiao Li really gets the tiger skin and can sell it to me, it will really be a huge honor for me. Do you know how many tiger skins there are in our state, including Wucheng?" Who wants such skin?"
He turned to look at Li Long again:
"Xiao Li I'm telling you, if you really want to get that leather, don't you like this Jeep? I can give it to you! As long as you can sell the leather to me... I'm telling you, that's it, you're helping me. My great favor, I still owe you a favor!" (End of this chapter)