There was so much to hit this time that the tractors were packed flat, so the militiamen had no choice but to sit on the rams of the trucks. Fortunately, when we arrived, wooden boards were tied to the clasps of the car, so that our buttocks would not get too cold while sitting.
"Are there any unhunted sheep?" Xu Chengjun asked loudly in front of the tractor, holding the yellow sheep he had hunted.
No one answered.
Last time, because the yellow sheep were spread out relatively widely, everyone had ample opportunities to aim, so all the ones that were not hit were hit.
After all, the people brought out this time are all good at shooting. At first, they couldn't hit. One was far away, and the second was nervous. After all, there is a difference between shooting a live target and shooting a dead target.
But then everyone started playing, and after two or three rounds, we were no longer nervous.
The target is bigger and easier to hit.
"It's good if you have them all. If you fight a lot, you can contribute some to the team. You can also get a leg."
"Then I'll give one to the team." Li Long said, "I have more here."
He hunted four by himself, three yellow sheep and one antelope, which was the largest number.
Xu Chengjun chuckled and said with a smile: "You are an old hunter after all. In the past two years, everyone has been envious of how much meat your family eats. With this shooting and fighting style, how little can you eat?"
said Then he talked about others:
“Look at you, the same gun Fa, some people are better than Li Long. What's the harvest today? Whether you can eat meat or not depends on your ability! Okay, Xiaolong, we want you, you yellow sheep."
< br>Seeing Li Long directly handing over a sheep, some people were envious, while others were a little bitter.
Li Long handed a yellow sheep to Xu Chengjun, and his remaining three prey were put into a pile, which was still enviable to look at.
When he was preparing to load the car and leave, someone came to see Li Long.
"Xiaolong, shall I change with you?" The person who spoke was Huang Laoer, twenty-seven years old, almost on the edge of the basic militia, and he would not be able to work in another two years.
These days, the team has the largest number of young people. One after another, there are many in their teens, 20s, 30s, and 40s.
When you are young and strong, you can easily pull out a young and strong team of dozens of people.
Unlike forty years later, when a pig was slaughtered, the average number of people who came to help was sixty, and a 130 kilogram pig had to be held by several people.
When they were young, two good guys could bring down this pig!
"What's the change?" Li Long vaguely remembered that Huang Laoer seemed to be hunting an antelope, and he didn't remember whether it was a male or a female.
"I'll trade this for you." Huang Laoer was holding a male antelope, which was not too big, smaller than the one Li Long was hunting:
"Change Huang Sheep, I don’t know if this thing is delicious or not. The male ones are definitely not as delicious as the female ones. I think you beat the female ones..."
He laughed along with it, after all, in his eyes. Come on, Li Long will obviously suffer from this change. The lamb meat is delicious. The meat of a large ewe is also more delicious than the meat of a large ram.
But seeing how generous Li Long gave a yellow sheep to the team, he thought maybe Li Long wouldn't care, right?
"Okay." Li Long pointed to the ewe and said, "Then you can take it away."
Huang Laoer did not expect that Li Long agreed so happily. I was thinking that Li Long was really generous, but I didn't think about anything else.
He placed the antelope here with Li Long and carried the female gazelle over.
Li Long vaguely remembered that Tao Daqiang also seemed to be hunting a male antelope, so he would have to let him keep his horns.
The two tractors and the people on the two tractors took a brief rest, arranged their clothes, wrapped them tightly, put away the guns, sat on them and held on, then the tractors drove back suddenly.
After the tractor drove until Shawan, some people felt hungry and it started to get cold.
I couldn’t feel it when I was hunting. After the hunt was over and the excitement had passed, I felt the biting cold wind.
Some people said it was cold. Tao Daqiang, who usually didn’t talk much, communicated more with the people in the team after having a child. He smiled and said:
“That’s nothing. ? I’ll wait for you to go to the mountains in January. You know what it means to be cold. Do you really think Brother Long can make money that well? It’s 30 degrees below zero in our team, right? It’s seven or eight degrees colder in the mountains! Last year Brother Long’s money was worth his life. Earned..."
Even if he endured it before, he wouldn't say anything. From the beginning of this year, no one dares to underestimate him anymore. Tao Daqiang's life at home is getting better and better, and more and more people are taking the initiative to talk to him, and more people will take the initiative to ask him questions and say hello.
These people can also feel it.
Just like today, hunting is fun and you can catch a lot of things. If you don’t go out there, you really don’t know that there are so many resources outside.
They also know why Li Long comes back with something every time he goes out.
The origin of the Li family’s meat consumption is now known.
The problem is, they can hardly stand it now. When the time comes, will they be willing to go hunting for wild things in the mountains?
Most people would think that it would be better not to go to Maodong now.
Of course, in the past two years, if you couldn’t eat meat all year round, you would still go there no matter how cold it was, right?
After I went out, I realized that many things can be exchanged for money.
"Da Qiang, when you followed Li Long, did you hunt like this?" Some people think this hunting is too simple, right?
"How can it be so easy?" Tao Daqiang smiled, "Nowadays, there are tractors, which can travel dozens or hundreds of kilometers.
At that time, carriages sometimes had people running, how could they do this? Like our team, nearby Where are these things?
At that time, you had to run for a long time in the mountains, and you had to lie down in the snow in the middle of the night. What a clever nose the wild boar had. The wild boar smells it and won't come at all!
Waiting for the wild boar to come, it was still dark, and I looked at it vaguely, which means Brother Long has good eyesight and can hit. Like me, I can hit, but after the fight, I can't get up and freeze. .
Brother Long can still do it after the fight. Chasing, when hunting a wild boar, you can catch him up and kill him. After hunting, you can get a piece of plastic sheet and use it as a sledge to drag it back. The plastic sheet will rot on the way, so you have to carry it. Come back..."
Thinking about the hard work at that time, Tao Daqiang also felt bitter.
Others say that he is with the right person, so even if one person can reach heaven, he has worked hard to get there.
Compared with the hard work back then, this is nothing now.
Sitting on the same tractor, someone kept asking Tao Daqiang about following Li Long in the past.
Some things Tao Daqiang will say, some things he will definitely not say.
When the tractor arrived in Shicheng, Li Long stopped the vehicle and the water tank was boiling. He wanted to find a place to add some water.
Xu Chengjun saw that the time was about the same, so he asked Li Long and others to go to the state-owned canteen, and the team used militia training subsidies to treat everyone to dinner.
The tractor drove to the canteen, and the two vehicles of yellow sheep and two vehicles of militiamen really attracted many people to stop and watch.
Li Long first asked people to look at the cars. He went to the canteen to collect water and filled up the water tanks of the two tractors.
Xu Chengjun arranged for two people to look at the things in the tractor. The militiamen went in and ordered noodles, which Xu Chengjun paid for.
By this time, dinner time had passed, and there were few people inside, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to sit down.
After adding water, Li Long went inside, and Xu Chengjun immediately asked him to come over and sit down.
Everyone is hungry and cold. As soon as I entered the hot room, I was rubbing my ears. I can’t feel it while hunting, and now my ears feel itchy.
This is completely different from lying down and shooting at Dahaizi's place. The tractor is running, the wind is blowing, and the hat is not worn properly, which is quite troublesome.
Those who eat quickly will go and eat with people outside. People who came in joked that someone asked if the yellow sheep on the tractor could be sold.
Li Long knew that Shicheng was more industrialized after all, with many factories, workers' wages were slightly higher, and they had money to buy meat.
At present, supplies are still relatively scarce. The meat in the butcher shop of the food factory is sold out every morning. This is why Chen Xingbang's meat stall is so prosperous.
So when seeing yellow sheep, naturally someone wants to buy some.
After eating, two tractors drove to Ma County. The people on Li Long's tractor and other people's yellow sheep moved to Li Jianguo's tractor.
It’s time to eat. If you squeeze, you can squeeze it out anyway. At this time, there was no such thing as overloading, especially in rural areas. More than ten years later, tractors were specially changed from small buckets to large buckets, and small horses and large carts were not paid much attention to.
"Take out all the remaining bullets and give them to Li Long." Xu Chengjun said, "It's good if we can fight like this once a year. It's useless for you to keep the bullets, so give them to Xiaolong. Without him, we can't survive I can’t hunt this time.”
Everyone took out all the extra bullets. As for whether anyone left one or two, no one cared. It was up to them.
Xu Chengjun also took out all the reserve ammunition he had brought and handed it to Li Long. There were more than a hundred rounds in total.
Then Li Jianguo drove the tractor and rushed towards the team.
Li Long’s cart contained two antelopes and one yellow sheep, which was quite a harvest.
When we drove into the big yard, the sun was already high in the west. Sister Yang opened the gate and Li Long drove the tractor in.
Enter the yard and drive the tractor close to the wall. After turning off the engine, Sister Yang has already come over with a basin.
Li Long placed the basin under the front of the tractor, turned on the water tank switch, and drained the water. This tractor probably won't be used much in the winter.
At this time I felt a little tired.
But he couldn't rest yet, he had to take care of the three prey.
That is to say, I gave one to the team, otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with.
Sister Yang is used to Li Long getting things like this back every once in a while. She skillfully brought a big basin to Li Long.
It was a bit cold to skin them outside, but fortunately there were many rooms. Li Long put the gazelles and antelopes in a clean room to clean them up. There is no stove here, so it is cooler than the bedroom and living room, but warmer than outside.
First put the frozen sheep in, Li Long changed out of his coat, went into the bedroom to warm up, and drank a cup of hot tea to soothe his throat.
When eating noodles, the canteen usually provides noodle soup, but the noodle soup is not as refreshing as tea. There is also free tea in the cafeteria, but after brewing it many times, it is definitely not as good as what I drink at home.
After drinking, I felt my body warmed up. I looked at the time and saw that the sheep had melted a little, so I took the knife to the side room and started to peel it.
First remove the heads of the two antelopes and put them aside. After they are all processed, saw off the horns. The large basin contained offal.
The internal organs of the three sheep were not too much, and all the feces in their stomachs and intestines were cleared away after hunting.
Others' yellow sheep didn't take care of them much, but Li Long was quite concerned about his own. Some people followed him and learned from him, and some people just ignored them, but he didn't care either.
Sister Yang saw Li Long starting to handle the prey, so she came over and took the internal organs to clean, and then prepared to marinate them.
Liver cannot be frozen raw. Once frozen, it will become dregs. It must be cooked before being stored. If you fry it, you won't be able to finish it and it will be troublesome to reheat it. It's better to braise it and cut it into small pieces when you want to eat it.
Easy to put.
Others are similar. After marinating, freeze it. Take a piece and melt it when eating. It is good for stir-frying or eating cold.
She already has experience.
Li Long peeled off the skins of the three sheep, and this time they can sell them together with the two antelope skins.
Of course the sheep's horns must be kept.
Five skins should be sold for three to four hundred yuan. When Li Long was beating, he paid attention to the whole skin. The quality of winter fur is good and the price is high.
If the meat is untied and you can’t eat it now, just hang it on an iron hook in the storage room and take it out when you want to eat. There are still rats in the big yard, and you need to pay attention to these things that eat them.
The leather is better. If you put salt on it and hang it on the wall, mice can't get on it.
Finally there are the horns. The horns of his three sheep were sawed off. The horns of the yellow sheep are different from those of the antelope, so they can be easily distinguished.
Two horns were given to Director Qian, one horn was given to Chief Li, the remaining one was given to the elder brother, and finally he was kept here.
Get ready.
There are really not too many of these things. This is also different from wild ginseng. The antelope horns can really be put away, and there will be no worries about changes if they are kept put away for a long time.
Same as tiger bones.
As for the sheep's head and hooves, he was too lazy to take care of them in two lifetimes, so he simply planned to take them to his eldest brother in two days.
The eldest brother has the patience to clean up this thing, including Li Qiang, who will also have the patience to clean up this thing when he grows up.
This thing needs to be burned first with a blowtorch, then scraped, then burned and then scraped.
At this time, there is no blowtorch, so I can only use a red-hot iron rod to burn it repeatedly, which is too troublesome.
The same goes for hooves, especially the two-petal hooves that are prone to wool boils, which makes them unpalatable. It is said that wool can grow on people, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.
The middle of the two hooves is difficult to wash. The hoof nails need to be knocked off. Li Long remembers that children like this. In winter, put some oil in it and add a twist to use it as a lamp.
Put the heads and hooves of the three sheep into a basket and hang them up. Li Long wiped the oil off the knife and then returned to the bedroom.
The sun has set. It was getting dark earlier and earlier. Gu Xiaoxia hadn't gotten off work yet, and Han Fang had already finished school and was helping her mother in the kitchen.
Seeing Li Long, Han Fang called "Uncle Li" and went to work.
Li Long smiled and didn't go to help. He went back to the bedroom to watch TV and take a rest.
After breakfast the next day, Li Long got on his bicycle and headed to the supply and marketing cooperative with an antelope horn in his arms.
When he arrived at Li Xiangqian's office, Li Xiangqian had just finished a meeting and the fire in the stove had just started.
"You came early today." Li Xiangqian saw Li Long and said with a smile, "I just happened to have something to look for you. If you didn't come, I would have to go to the big yard to look for you."
< br>Speaking of which, Li Xiangqian was also very envious of Li Long's big yard. His house also has a yard, but although the yard is not small, it is still far behind Li Long's.
But Li Long’s yard is large, and the area that needs to be cleared of snow is also large. Snow clearing is a big job these days, and if both workers have to go to work, they can only do it on their way to and from get off work.
The snow is falling heavily at this time, and usually it can fall halfway up the calves or up to the knees in one snowfall, so the yard of a two-income family can be swept for a week after one snowfall.
Li Long’s yard is much larger than other places, and clearing snow is really a big job.
"What's the matter, Chief?" Li Long walked up to Li Qianqian, opened his drawer and put the antelope horn in.
"What?" Li glanced forward. He was half a hunter, so he could tell that this thing was different from the yellow sheep's horn.
"Real antelope horns." Li Long whispered, "I have shot two in the past two days. I plan to give two to Director Qian, and the remaining two, one here for you and one for me. Only, I didn’t give it to Director Wei.”
"Hey, you kid!" Li Xiangqian smiled and closed the drawer.
Although he was not very clear about the preciousness of antelope horns, Director Qian came twice to get yellow ram horns, a substitute for antelope horns, so he naturally understood.
As for Li Long giving Director Qian two horns, he had no objection at all.
However, Li Long explained after sitting back:
“This is mainly to clear away heat and detoxify. If the child has a fever, scrape off some powder, not too much, just a little bit, and mix it in warm water. Drink it to relieve fever. ”
Li Xiangqian understood what Li Long meant. If you have a fever, just scrape a little bit. This horn weighs three to four hundred grams. How can it be used hundreds of times?
Then it won’t be used up for decades?
One for each family is enough.
“What kind of antelope horn is this?” Li Xiangqian still wanted to find out.
"The one with the high nose," Li Long said, "the nose is so long." Li Long gestured, it should be called the high-nosed antelope.
Well, this explanation is not wrong.
Li nodded forward, and then said:
"Okay, let me tell you what I told you. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I have to give everyone some benefits during the Chinese New Year this year. You can give it to everyone earlier I brought mutton..."
"That's what the herdsmen brothers want," Li Long explained hurriedly.
"Okay, okay, who doesn't know that you are the one pulling the strings?" Li Xiangqian said with a smile, "No need to explain, we are not stupid. Everyone knows that you don't want this credit, but everyone also knows that there is no What do we have to do with those herdsmen?”
Li Long smiled and stopped talking.
“Well, there is mutton. It is difficult to provide welfare this year. What I told the director is that in addition to the necessary seafood, peanuts and other things, let’s get some fish.
< br>If you can get fish there, we don’t want too much. Carp of one ton or one kilogram or more is best, grass carp is also fine, and Wu Daohei is naturally the best. You can decide what to do, and it shouldn’t be too big. Just keep it evenly distributed. "
"What about the price?" Li Long asked.
"One dollar and a half per kilogram." Li Xiangqian said, "It is slightly higher than the market price. But I think the price will definitely be raised during the Chinese New Year, so this price is no problem."
"Okay, then I'll be ready. When is the deadline?"
"One week before the Chinese New Year, is that enough time?"
"That's enough." Li Long calculated that the Spring Festival is here It’s early February, and there’s almost a month left to prepare.
Based on the fishing situation in Xiaohaizi, it should be enough, right?
This winter just won’t stop.
The cat can’t survive the winter! (End of this chapter)