When Li Long's tractor drove out of the mountain pass and reached Qingshui River, the sun was only a pole high.
He estimated his speed. If he went to Shicheng now, the sugar factory would already be off work.
Then just drive back.
People who saw Li Long pulling a cart of Kelangzi sheep on the road were surprised. This was mutton.
Most people are guessing where the sheep will be sent. They thought it was most likely sent to a food factory.
After all, ordinary people can't eat so much meat.
Seeing so many sheep makes children curious at best and adults usually envious.
After all, although the output is distributed to each household these days, most families will have a lot of food left by the end of the year, but they really don’t have much money.
We still have to calculate the budget expenses for farming next spring, as well as the expenses for children’s schooling and daily necessities.
With the rest, apart from a little spare money, I can buy some cloth for my family to make clothes and weigh some meat.
Those on the edge of the wilderness are better, like those in Team Four, who can hunt for wild rabbits, fish and the like.
Like the third team and the second team, there is no place to groom rabbits. After all, it is surrounded by other villages, and Rabbit doesn't want to go either.
Fortunately, most households at this time will raise a pig or a sheep, just to eat meat at the end of the year. At this time, most of the food the pigs eat is pig grass, with a little bran or bran added.
It would be nice to add some oil residue.
There is one pig in the family, and it is counted as food. It is impossible to gnaw large pieces like the mutton that Li Long ate in the mountains. Of course, even herdsmen rarely eat like that.
The meat must be burned and sealed with oil. This will last for a year. The bones can be braised or boiled, but it is impossible to enjoy them all at once because you have to eat them until the Chinese New Year. A pig may be divided among several families.
So when adults look at these sheep, they are naturally tempted.
But it was impossible for Li Long to stop and ask them if they wanted to buy it. He was in a hurry to go home, and the tractor rushed towards the county town at a speed of 20 to 30 kilometers per hour in the ice and snow.
By the time we arrived at the county seat, the sun had already set on half of my face, and my face was covered with red clouds.
Gu Xiaoxia hadn't gotten off work yet. Li Long had gnawed bones and eaten naan at noon. He wasn't hungry yet, so the tractor drove directly to the big yard.
After school and get off work, this trip attracted a lot of people's attention.
Even when passing by the police station, Officer Guo took a curious look.
Li Long often pulls meat back, and he is quite used to it. But it was a bit surprising to bring back so many sheep this time.
Even the director of the police station was alarmed and called Officer Guo over to mutter something.
When Li Long's tractor arrived at the gate of the big yard, Han Fang had already run to the gate. After seeing it was Li Long through the crack in the door, she quickly opened the two gates and let Li Long drive in.
Li Long drove the tractor in, and when Han Fang was about to close the door, Officer Guo strode over.
Seeing the police approaching, Han Fang was a little curious and a little awed, so she called "Uncle Li". Li Long turned around and saw Officer Guo and smiled.
He turned off the fire, stepped forward, shook hands with Guo Tiebing, and asked:
"Officer Guo is not busy anymore? He hasn't gotten off work yet?"
"Soon." Guo Tiebing was not polite, pointed at the sheep and said:
"Just brought back from the mountains?"
"Yes. The Shicheng Sugar Factory asked for it and just collected it."
"Are there more? Our director said that if there are more, we want one."
"If it's just one..." Li Long thought for a moment and said:
"Okay, I'll give you one."
Li Long didn't distribute the three extra sheep much.
To be honest, right now, everyone in my family, including my eldest brother, including those who are close to me, are not short of meat to eat. Throughout the year, I distributed a lot of meat from the mountains and the pen to various families.
But you can’t just say that I have a lot. You have to pay attention to art in speaking.
If you say "evenly" to the police station, it means that the meat was originally distributed, and the original distribution plan was adjusted for Guo Tiebing's sake.
"Okay, how do you calculate this meat? I'll ask the finance department to come over." Guo Tiebing also had a lot of face and was very grateful to Li Long. Come here by yourself and others will give you face. This is a favor.
"I received a dollar and a half," Li Long said, "I gave the sugar factory a dollar and a half, and I gave it to you as a dollar and a half." Since I have given a favor, I will give it in full. Li Long told the truth, so he was very calm.
"That won't work. How can I make you bother and work hard?" Guo Tiebing immediately waved his hand, "Just one dollar and six. But you are not making any money. You only make ten cents per kilogram?"
Li Long explained:
"My eldest brother's family raises pigs. I often pull sugar residue from the sugar factory, and I am considered a related household there. The price of this meat must not be high, so I just earn the freight."
"Comrade Li Long, you are so kind and righteous!" Guo Tiebing gave a thumbs up, "Wait a minute, I'll call the finance department."
"Okay, let me take out the scale first." Li Long nodded and said.
After Guo Tiebing left, Li Long went to turn off the tractor, first found a basin to put water in, and then went to pull out the scale he bought in the summer. Han Fang followed and helped, and his movements were very agile.
Sister Yang poked her head out of the kitchen just now. When Guo Tiebing came over, she shrank back, then came out of the kitchen again and asked:
"Uncle, are you selling sheep?"
"Well, from the police station across the street," Li Long explained, "it's probably the Chinese New Year, so they must also be giving out welfare."
Within a few minutes, Guo Tiebing came over with the finances there. The treasurer is a policewoman in her thirties, carrying a small bag.
Li Long opened the back panel of the cart - the wood on top of the cart, with fifty sheep on it, was for the sugar factory.
The rack holds the sheep up, and the trunk panel can be removed, and the three sheep and three wolves contained in the truck compartment can be pulled out directly from underneath, along with the wolf skins.
Li Long first pulled out a wolf. Guo Tiebing was startled and asked:
"So big? Isn't this a sheep?"
"Wolves, we hunted wolves yesterday and today." Li Long explained, "The number of wolves in the mountains suddenly increased and they began to attack the sheep. We hunted them once yesterday and today."
When the policewoman heard that it was a wolf, she curiously bent her head to take a look.
Li Long didn't care. He pulled out another wolf skin, put the wolf body on the wolf skin, pulled out a sheep, and asked Guo Tiebing:
"Officer Guo, how are you doing here?"
"Okay." Guo Tiebing didn't understand very well, but he could tell that the mutton was fresh, not completely frozen, and looked fat and thin (in fact, the fat of sheep is basically oil), so he thought it was good.
Li Long put the sheep Kelangzi on the scale, and then began to adjust the weight and ruler.
"Twenty-one kilograms and four hundred grams, how about twenty-one kilograms?"
"Okay." Guo Tiebing nodded.
The finances are a bit surprising, this guy is quite generous. If you want to go to the butcher's shop, you have to calculate the 400 grams carefully.
According to the current market price, four hundred grams is only sixty-seven cents.
The financial calculation was very fast and the numbers were reported:
"Twenty-one kilograms, one pound and sixty-one kilograms, that is thirty-three dollars and six. Come on, sign."
Li Long used to sign skillfully, and the finance manager was a little surprised when he saw the slightly cursive handwriting. The name was signed so beautifully.
Li Long didn't mean to be cool. When he was bored in his last life, he designed a floral signature on a video platform. After practicing hard for a while, the cooperative later paid for the signature, which shocked the crowd.
So Li Long wrote down this signature.
I used it accidentally and it had some effect.
After signing and taking the money, Guo Tiebing and Li Long greeted each other and left holding the leg of lamb in both hands. Li Long politely offered to help, but Guo Tiebing refused, and Li Long did not insist. He just wanted to take a good rest now.
But not yet.
The two remaining sheep in the cart had to be taken to the storage room and hung up, as well as the two wolves and their wolf skins.
Don't worry about the fifty sheep on the tractor. The mice can't climb up in this winter, and there's no need.
Han Fang closed the door and quickly went to the room to pour a bowl of hot tea for Li Long.
Li Long smiled, this girl's pain was really not in vain.
Oh, niece.
I drank the hot tea in one gulp and felt my stomach warm. I went inside to change clothes and wash my face.
When he came out, Gu Boyuan had already arrived and was looking at the mountain-like pile of sheep piled on top of the cart in the yard.
"Well, it's really possible. It only takes a day..." Gu Boyuan sighed, "That's how efficient the food factory was in slaughtering sheep back then."
Li Long remembered that his eldest brother seemed to have said that they went to work as part-time workers in a food factory where sheep were slaughtered on an assembly line.
Of course, there were a lot more people slaughtered that day, and there were a lot more people.
"Are you in the water?" Gu Boyuan suddenly asked.
"Still in the mountains." Li Long said, "There are many wolves in the mountains, and I can't pull those down into the water. They plan to bury them in the snow and use them as bait to attract wolves to come over tonight and catch a group."
"Hey, are there a lot of guns?" Gu Boyuan became interested as soon as he heard this, but unfortunately he couldn't participate.
He was a scholar and didn't use guns as much as Li Jianguo, so he could only think about it. "I guess there are seven or eight bullets." Li Long thought for a while and said, "I got more than two hundred rounds of ammunition today, which should be enough."
"That might kill a lot of wolves." Gu Boyuan nodded, "This wolf is a scourge!"
There is no such thing as wildlife protection these days. Wolves were rampant in many places on the northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains in the 1950s and 1960s, including the 1970s.
Not only in the mountains and mountain sides, they can be found in the plains on the edge of the basin, in the reeds, in the sand nests, and on the Gobi Desert.
I don’t know how many people were harmed by wolves - there were so many people who fled to northern Xinjiang from their mouths in those days, and I don’t know how many people who disappeared were harmed by wolves.
People like Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan's generation all know how powerful wolves are.
"I killed several wolves yesterday and today." Li Long pointed to the storage room and said, "I brought back two wolves and three skins. I don't have time to clean them up now. I will kill them when I have free time tomorrow."
When it got dark, Li Long went out to pick up Gu Xiaoxia and then had dinner.
In the mountains, the young men who escorted the old man to Jiang's house in Yushan, except for the two with guns, returned.
There are seven rifles in the winter nest in Harimu alone.
The bullets Li Long brought this time asked Harimu to share them with them. In the evening, we will eat mutton for lunch and drink naan bread with soup. Living in the winter nest is a bit crowded, but everyone is used to it.
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Both adults and children know that if the majesty of this pack of wolves is not severely curbed, there will probably be no peace in any winter den.
Kill a group of wolves here. If the wolves are not in a pack, you will not be afraid of small-scale harassment later. Every house has a gun, and firing two shots at night can deter people for a long time.
Everyone knows that it is best to be the leader. The alpha wolf who can bring the pack together is the greatest threat.
After eating and drinking, the children went to rest, and the adults sat by the kang to discuss tactics.
When it got dark, everyone put on their fur coats, went out, and then found a suitable place to prepare for an ambush.
Yushanjiang and Halimu coordinate these young and middle-aged men. It is necessary to ensure that everyone's shooting areas can overlap without interfering with each other.
And pay attention to safety.
In ambush, the main character is to wait for work.
Harimu is a landowner, so he naturally knows when these wolves come. He patrols and checks everyone's ambush situation. Yushanjiang also got some horse dung eggs and sprinkled some on everyone.
In fact, these have a strong mutton smell. The mutton I ate at noon and evening, the mutton soup I drank, and the urine I pee smelled of mutton.
Finally, Yu Shanjiang and Harimu also wrapped themselves in coats and ambush on both sides.
The direction in which the wolf is coming is most likely to the south of the winter nest. But with the experience of the last time Harimu and Li Long ambush, he knew that there was a possibility that the wolf would come around from behind.
So still be careful. Harimu and Yushanjiang lurked in the snow, facing both sides.
It was past twelve o'clock, and the weather outside reached 27 or 8 degrees below zero. Although it was not the coldest period yet, the people in the ambush were already freezing.
It was at this time yesterday that a pack of wolves came to harass us. Harimu came out and fired a gun into the air to scare the wolves away.
There were more wolves, and he didn't dare to put them in front of him. One person couldn't deal with so many wolves - if he hit one and then hit the others, if seven or eight wolves rushed at him at once, one person would definitely not be able to deal with them.
One young man couldn't stand it and wanted to move, but was stopped by the people next to him.
Most people still endure it.
In fact, some people who have grown up in the mountains have never been frozen, so they are basically quite resistant to freezing.
Then I saw green eyes appearing on the hillside to the south.
Tonight, the wolf came over without howling!
One pair, two pairs, three pairs...
A dozen pairs of wolf eyes suddenly appeared on the south slope.
Yushanjiang and Harimu didn't see much, they were paying attention to both sides.
There are also on both sides.
The wolf formed a circle and pounced on it.
I don’t know if I plan to capture this sheepfold today.
Harimu worked hard to find the Wolf King.
The Wolf King usually does not appear at the beginning. It will only observe the overall situation from a high place where it is convenient for command.
Harimu knew that the attack would only be defeated if the wolf king was defeated. Even if only a few wolves were killed, the possibility of gathering for revenge later was slim.
If the wolf king is not killed, even if most of the wolves are killed, the wolf king may still entangle the wolves to come for revenge.
Yushanjiang is also looking for it. It can be said that most people here are looking for the Wolf King.
Being able to kill the Wolf King represents a kind of strength and honor in the tribe.
The young men didn't think so much anymore. Seeing so many wolves appearing, most of the young men had already begun to calibrate the wolf eyes according to their own positions.
The location where those wolves appeared was more than a hundred meters away from here. If these people really wanted to fight, they could hit them, but they were not very prepared.
And it was agreed in advance that they needed to wait for Yushanjiang's order.
Talihar did not go to see these ordinary gray wolves, he was also looking for the Wolf King.
In the darkness, his eyes were bright. The last time he killed seventeen wild goats, both he and everyone knew that there was an element of luck involved.
The best way to truly become a good hunter is to kill the Wolf King in this ambush.
There were more than a dozen wolves appearing on the front line, and there were a few wolves behind at the edge of the forest. They were responsible for reconnaissance.
The position of the Wolf King may be further back.
No one has found it yet.
No one was in a hurry. These green eyes slowly approached the winter nest. Apparently, the gunfire from Harimu yesterday also made them wary.
When the wolves walked less than a hundred meters away from the winter den, there was a short howl in the distance, and the fan-shaped wolves stopped immediately.
Really obedient.
Some young people couldn't bear it anymore, but Yushanjiang and the others matched them well, and the middle-aged man next to them immediately reminded them in a low voice.
The slightest movement cannot attract the attention of the wolves.
They have smelled the smell of blood here, and the horses that have not had time to be put into the warm pen are the targets of these wolves.
Although there is no shortage of food for wolves in the mountains, the running speed of those red deer and roe deer is not slow at all.
If you can eat delicious and inescapable mutton from the sheepfold in this winter den, how can the wolf choose something that is not easy to hunt?
Therefore, the pack of wolves was also restless. Some wolves even stopped after hearing the howl, and then continued to move forward tentatively.
That short howl revealed the Wolf King's position.
Harimu, Yushanjiang, and Talihar all looked over there.
Unfortunately, it was too far away and blocked by scattered shrubs. The ambushers at the lower level could not see the location of the Wolf King.
The Wolf King was also observing Dongwozi at this time.
The wolf is close enough to the winter den. If there is danger, the other party may have already taken action at this time.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was no movement. When one of the wolves was dissatisfied and started to howl, the wolf king gave another short howl and ordered the wolves to move forward.
The wolf king also appeared in the snow and walked towards the winter den.
The Wolf King walked very slowly, still very vigilant.
It found that the wolf arranged for reconnaissance had left the reconnaissance position and moved closer to the winter den.
Obviously, these scout wolves also hope to eat delicious food as soon as possible.
The wolf king howled dissatisfiedly again, and the scout wolves had to slow down, find a high place, and look around.
When Harimu and Yushanjiang saw the Wolf King, the wolves were already less than 40 meters away from the sheepfold in Dongwozi.
The wolf king was a head taller than the other gray wolves, and his stature was also much larger.
No wonder he became the Wolf King!
At the same time, three rifles were aimed at the Wolf King.
The other wolves were closer, and most of them were caught in the crosshair circle.
Although the moon on the eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month is not particularly circular, it casts a layer of silver light on the earth, allowing herders to see these ferocious beasts clearly.
"Hit!" Yushanjiang shouted, while pressing the trigger with his finger.
"Bang!"
"Bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang bang..." (End of chapter)