"Hello, are you Li Long?" A young man riding over was a horse, about the same age as Li Long. He rode his horse to the jeep and sat down and asked immediately.
"I am, are you from the forestry team?" Li Long asked beside the jeep as he looked at the young man carrying a rifle.
"Yes. I saw you. Last year, you drove a tractor to save our people." The young man smiled and dismounted and said, "I heard Bolati say you drove a car, and I didn't dare to recognize you just now. ”
"Hello, hello!" Since it is from the forestry team, even if it is his own, Li Long smiled and stretched out his hand and shook hands with the other party, "What's your name?"
"Aili, my name is Aili." The young man said, "Aren't you at the west side of Hongshanzui? Why are you here?"
"I heard that there is a Mantou Mountain here. It is said that there are treasures hidden by people in the past, so I came here to take a look."
Aili, who was dismounted, laughed and said, "Treasure? We have lived in this area for several lifetimes, but we have never heard of any treasure. You are a lie... By the way, those three people just now were What are you doing? ”
"I don't know, I saw them when I came here. They wanted to pay me to lead the way. I said I was not familiar with it, and I didn't know what the terrain here is." Li Long said, "They may also take me when I see me. Just gun, so I left."
"They carry guns, too?" Aili looked in that direction.
"Well, two sand guns." Li Long said, "It doesn't look like hunting."
"I'll go and see." Ali was about to ride a horse when he suddenly remembered something again. He took a bag from the horse's back and said:
"I just received the Fritillaria, Bolati said you would take it?"
"I'll accept it, do you want to change things or money?"
"Exchange money." Aili was a little excited, "How much can these be exchanged?"
Li Long visually measured that the bag of Fritillaria should be more than six kilograms and less than seven kilograms. He went over and weighed it, and it was almost that heavy, and said:
"Twenty dollars."
"Okay." Ali carried the bag and put it next to the jeep.
Li Long took out the money from his pocket, counted two and handed it to Aili.
His coat has two inner pockets, which are several hundred dollars on the left, and dozens of dollars on the right. Every time I take out the right pocket, it doesn’t look like many. I use up the right one and add it from the left in private.
At least you can't show off your wealth too much.
After Aili took the money, he waved his hand happily to Li Long and went to find the three people.
"Be careful, they all carry guns." Li Long couldn't help but remind him again.
"It's okay, I'm carrying a gun, too." Aili walked forward a few steps, then pulled the reins and said to Li Long:
"You go west from here and see the valley where you can get into the car. You drive in and continue to go west, looking two or three kilometers away, and then turn south. Then you can see there is something next to you There is a tree, and there is a round mountain, like a Mantou Mountain."
"Then why should I go to Xiaobaiyanggou to the west?" Li Long asked hurriedly.
"From the north of Mantou Mountain, you can go out of Nanshan, and walk from the road north of Nanshan to the north of Xiaobaiyanggou. Do you know?"
"I understand." Li Long nodded. It seemed that the car could not move in the mountains.
While Li Long and Aili were talking, the three people were looking here on the ridge in the distance.
"The driver must have been lying. Seeing that he had told the horse-riding Hassa so much, how could he not be familiar with this place? He lied to us..."
"Do you want to ambush him later?"
Two guns were talking, and the old man shook his head and said:
"How to fight? Are ordinary people who can drive jeeps? Do you want to send troops into the mountains to chase us? We are fine now with guns, and no one cares about hunting or something. But if we do this, it's okay. If someone beats me, do you think they will care?
Let me tell you two, if you really want to beat people, if you don’t leave today, hundreds or thousands of people will definitely come in the mountains to search for us. ”
He turned his head to look at the two people and said seriously:
"I'll tell you, we are here to make a fortune, not to cause trouble. Please tell me, no one can beat me without me..."
Both of them nodded seriously.
Aili rode his horse toward this side, and the old man thought for a while and said:
"Let's go, we'll meet this young man and see if we can make some comments."
Li Long drove the jeep at the position Aili pointed out. He was unhappy and kept paying attention to the back.
Fortunately, I drove to the round mountain that Aili mentioned, and didn't hear the gunshots, so I felt relieved.
The Mantou Mountain mentioned by Aili is actually hidden in the middle of a mountain. If he hadn't pointed out the location for Li Long, Li Long wouldn't have seen it if he drove here by himself.
After all, from the bottom, this round mountain is actually just a ridge that bulges out and turns around. Its top is not much taller than other mountains, but it is not far from other ridges. It is connected halfway up the mountain, but it is separated by dozens of meters close to the top of the mountain.
After Li Long got out of the car and confirmed that this was what Aili called Mantou Mountain, he climbed up with a gun.
The mountain is not very high, and the slope is only two or three hundred meters long. After Li Long climbed up, he stood at the top and found that it was indeed a bit like a steamed bun. The top of the mountain looked quite round, and there were many shrubs on the hillside.
The reason why I can't see it from below is that it is mainly because it is too close to the nearby mountains. It is connected from a distance, and you can only see a bulge when you look close.
He stood at the top of the mountain and looked down at the bottom of the mountain, and then found stones in the southeast part of the mountain, so he went down there.
If there is really a treasure hidden, it should be at least in the cave, right? Li Long understands that only by having stones can there be a cave.
Unfortunately, when I got down to the pile of rocks, there was nothing except for the many thorny shrubs in the pile.
Li Long walked around the mountain again, and found no pig iron piles or caves.
Probably not here, right?
He walked back to the jeep with some disappointment.
Sitting in the jeep, Li Long thought about it and laughed again. Are you really hoping to find the treasure that you don’t know is impossible, so why do you have expectations?
I felt relieved after thinking about it. Looking at the time, it was almost time to go to Xiaobaiyanggou for lunch.
When Li Long arrived in Xiaobai Yanggou, Lao Huang had not yet fully prepared the meal. Seeing Li Long coming, the people greeted him one after another.
The people led by Xu Haijun came over the mountain, and Liang Wenyu and the others were walking from the south.
The time is almost the same.
When Xu Haijun saw Li Long, he asked half-jokingly:
"How many fritillaria have you collected today?"
"Several kilograms." Li Long said, "I went to the east and didn't collect it."
Xu Haijun actually envies Li Long's life. But he has his arrogance, and he can't help but tell Li Long that like Sun Jiaqiang, he can only accept cooperation.
Just like now.
You can do your best to work, but you can't be a younger brother.
After lunch, Li Long brought some for Sun Jiaqiang and then went to the cabin.
Sun Jiaqiang was still washing fritillaria. Fritillaria are drying on the case and on the wooden floor, looking like it is about ten kilograms.
Halfway through, Sun Jiaqiang finally received a little more musbella every day.
Even so, someone still asked Li Long to exchange it in the afternoon.
Bolati also came here and asked Li Long to change some meat. Li Long felt something was wrong these two days. Is Bolati bringing a lot of Fritillaria every day?
"Oh, all of us asked me to change some meat." Bo Danla said, "They can't fight in the mountains. They usually go to the forest. When they ride horses, they will touch things. They have long heard of it. Run away."
He pointed to the meat that Li Long had pretended to be, and said:
"You guys slaughter it, we'll eat it, otherwise those that were beaten...hehe."
"Also, we have changed the rules recently. Some people think we have received too many rewards - you don't know, some of us were having fun with Fritillaria before, and they just handed it to the team. We can still do it in the first day. It's not bad to get a few dollars.
Later, I don’t know which bad guy said he had taken too much, so he changed it. He handed in one kilogram of Fritillaria, and only rewarded 50 cents - that’s all that. It’s better to come to you to change the meat from his family. Change things and money. ”
Li Long thought to himself, this is a teammate of the gods, a divine assist.
In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that some people are probably a little greedy and want to get more benefits, so they suppress the price of the Fritillaria handed over.
But I didn't expect that Li Long would be cheaper.
Bolati brought more than 40 kilograms of Fritillaria this time, but most of them were exchanged for money.
However, even if a small part of the meat was replaced, Li Long felt that the meat was much less.
He has to hunt again.
After talking to Sun Jiaqiang, Li Long drove to the Hot Spring Grotto with his gun.
He always felt that there should be something there.
Sun Jiaqiang has become accustomed to his daily work, washing and drying the fritillaria.
Although it is very boring, he is still very satisfied with being able to bask in the sun without having to search everywhere in the mountains and encountering so many dangers.
Therefore, when Li Long left, he also reminded him to pay attention to safety.
The water flow in the hot spring ditch became stronger, and Li Long drove the jeep to a position where he could not drive, got out of the car and walked in with a gun. The flowing water was a little muddy, and Li Long felt happy. It seemed that something was taking a bath upstream, otherwise the water should be clear.
The scent of sulfur became stronger and stronger. Li Long stopped walking along the stream, and he entered the forest.
With the obscurity of trees, he can better hide his body. As for the smell, don't worry about it. It has such a heavy scent of sulfur. No matter how good or bad the smell is, it is impossible to smell it.
Soon, he heard the humming sound-the wild boar.
A flock of wild boars.
Li Long looked through the gaps between the trees and saw that the group of wild boars were large and small, with at least twenty heads, not only occupied the hot spring pools, but also filled the upstream and downstream.
They are not afraid of being hot - the water temperature upstream of the hot spring pool should be at 40 degrees or 50 degrees.
Li Long slowly approached, looking for a suitable goal.
The prey I have been hunting recently are mainly wild goats, roe deer, red deer, etc. I haven't hunted wild boars for a while, and Li Long is a little picky about the meat of this creature.
Being a young man, mother. It is best not to fight a big or male one. If it is not delicious, it will be troublesome to deal with it.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
After finding a suitable location more than 30 meters away from the hot spring pool, Li Long squatted down halfway and slowly raised his gun.
There were five or six wild boars huddled together in the water and arched something. Most of these wild boars weighed forty or fifty kilograms, not big.
The largest end was soaking in the hot spring pool. From time to time, the pool had been damaged by it.
You could see the two fangs exposed outside like small knives in the water. Li Long felt that if this guy wanted to arch, he would not fly two meters high?
But of course, he didn't plan to get in the way with this guy. It is likely that with a gun, the group of wild boars would run to the opposite side together.
He has to seize the opportunity and fight two more.
After the plan was made, Li Long aimed at the farthest wild boar in the target and pulled the trigger when the other party lowered his head and pulled out a grass root in the water!
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
With four shots in a row, three wild boars fell to the ground on the spot. The main reason was that the wild boar blocked the other wild boars' path at the beginning. As soon as the gun rang, the wild boar exploded the nest, but the road to the dangerous direction was blocked, and the wild boar became in chaos, which happened to be suitable for Li Long to continue to replenish the gun.
However, when the fourth wild boar started to fire the gun, it reacted differently from what Li Long thought. It rushed towards Li Long in the direction of Li Long. After entering the forest, the trees blocked Li Long's vision. The wild boar was also He did not rush to Li Long anymore, but turned south in the pine forest and ran away hummingly.
The other wild boars had long been frightened by the huge movement. They ran around like a rock smashing into a puddle and quickly disappeared into the forest.
When Li Long went down with his gun, the stream was already stained with blood. Li Long stepped forward and poked it with a bayonet. The three wild boars died in depth.
These wild boars are bigger than wild goats. Fortunately, Li Long is stronger now and the jeep is close to each other.
He carried the gun behind his back, carried it downstream with one wild boar in one hand.
Anyway, my shoes are already wet, so I won’t be afraid even if I wade in the water again.
Li Long put three wild boars in the trunk of the jeep, and some of the original supplies in the trunk could only be transferred to the back seat of the car.
Then drive to the wooden house.
Although big-name families like Bolati do not eat wild boar meat, other people who change to Fritillaria should eat it, right?
So Li Long planned to keep a wild boar here and take the remaining two to home, after all, it won’t consume so much here.
Once upon a time, it was good to have meat to eat.
At this moment, Li Long began to dislike him. It is really easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.
When the jeep was driving back to the wooden house, Sun Jiaqiang was explaining to a person who brought Fritillaria. However, the man seemed to be unmoved by Sun Jiaqiang's explanation, and stood there without moving.
Li Long got off the car and realized that this wasn’t the woman pretending to be a man?
Seeing that Li Long was back, Sun Jiaqiang came over and said in disappointment:
"He insists on asking you to change the Fritillaria."
Li Long smiled and patted Sun Jiaqiang on the shoulder and said:
"There are wild boars in the trunk, we'll deal with them later."
"You are amazing." Sun Jiaqiang exclaimed and went to move the wild boar.
"What's the change?" Li Long went over and asked the man.
"Are there any knives?" the woman asked in a hoarse voice, "Also, exchange for money."
"Knife..." Li Long thought for a while and said, "I have one."
He went to the jeep and found a knife about twenty centimeters from the head to the tail that had been driven.
"Is this OK?" The knife also had cowhide sheaths.
In the 1990s, at the free market and some crossroads in Ma County, some ethnic minority comrades were supported by slanted shelves, with four or five rows of very beautiful knives and daggers.
The price is not expensive. When it started in the 1980s, it cost a few dollars a handful, and in the 1990s, it cost a dozen or twenty dollars a handful.
At that time, the knife was basically made by hand, and it was easy to use if you pick the meat.
Some young people will buy this when they fight, but of course they will basically not really stab someone, but they will be intimidating.
Li Long saw that he bought it when he was passing the market two days ago, so he bought it casually.
This knife is not as good as the one his elder brother Li Jianguo asked someone to use shell skin to hit, but it looks pretty.
Unexpectedly, someone changed it at this time.
The man pulled out his knife and looked at it, and asked:
"How to change?"
"Two kilograms of Fritillaria."
"Okay." The other party did not bargain and continued, "The rest will be exchanged for money."
This time, the woman brought nearly ten kilograms of fritillaria, and Li Long gave her sixteen yuan.
The woman left with an empty bag. At this time, the Sun family forced all three wild boars to be removed, but he was too busy to get them to the spring.
Seeing that man leave, Sun Jiaqiang came over and asked:
"Li Long, that knife costs only six yuan?"
"It's almost the same." Li Long bought it for five yuan in the city. If you exchange it for Fritillaria, you will make one yuan, not too much.
"Can you bring me one?" Sun Jiaqiang said with a smile, "I think the knife is pretty, it seems to be a sharp knife. I want to get a self-defense."
Li Long smiled:
"Okay, I'll bring it to you tomorrow."
As soon as he chatted with Sun Jiaqiang, he remembered that he forgot about morels.
Forget it, tomorrow.
Li Long lifted the wild boar over and came to Quanyan with one hand, pulled out his knife and started peeling it.
"Li Long, I see that your knife is not as beautiful as you have just replaced that person. Why don't you use that knife?" Sun Jiaqiang asked when he came over to help.
"My brother found someone to beat me with this knife, and I'm used to it." Li Long used the knife to cut the wild boar's skin, and grabbed the skin with one hand and cut the oil layer with the other hand, peeling off the skin bit by bit. "I'm used to it. I don't want to change it."
Sun Jiaqiang nodded thoughtfully.
There were three wild boars, Li Long planned to leave one of them here and air-dried them for fritillaria, and pull them back to each family to get one point.
He plans to completely change his family's eating habits. Although he has been eating meat frequently for two years, everyone is still quite saving. After all, other people's families can only get enough food and clothing.
What he wants is not food and clothing, but a full well-off life.
There is no way to solve the others. After all, it is impossible to be so rich and convenient at present, but he still has the ability to eat meat.
Li Long peeled and unloaded the flesh, and Sun Jiaqiang dealt with the internal organs. The two of them cooperated quite well.
It was not until the sun was about to set in the afternoon that the three wild boars were finished.
It's time for Li Long to go back. (This chapter ends)