Chapter 105

Halimu took Li Long to Yushanjiang's place. He saw that Yushanjiang was also chopping wood. By the side of the winter camp, there were already over a dozen wooden segments as thick as a basin and two or three meters long piled up.

Seeing Halimu and Li Long coming, Yushanjiang put down his axe and greeted them with a smile.

This honest middle-aged man hugged the two of them and asked with a smile:

"Our Adashi has come to send things again this time?"

"Hmm, good things." Halimu showed the shoes to Yushanjiang.

"Really good things, these shoes, wearing them in summer, too good!" As expected, Yushanjiang was also full of surprise, "So many, can't wear them out in one summer!"

"If you can't wear them out, wear them next year." Li Long said with a smile, "If they don't fit, tell me, you can exchange them." Exchanging was definitely impossible. Li Long planned that if they didn't fit, he would exchange them for new ones. Anyway, these hadn't been worn on feet, so it was easy to deal with them cheaply.

"They fit, they fit, they definitely fit," Yushanjiang said with a smile while holding the shoes, "if they don't fit, pad them with some felt and they'll fit. Go, go, go, enter the winter camp, drink milk tea!"

After drinking milk tea, Halimu and Yushanjiang communicated in Kazakh for a while, and he said to Li Long:

"If you have nothing to do these few days, first go with me to the vicinity of my winter camp, I'll finish telling you about the remaining useful places, and then Yushanjiang will take you to turn around this vicinity."

"Good." Li Long said with a smile, "I have nothing to do anyway, just right to turn around with you. When you go to the summer pasture, by then I'll be alone, come over every few days to go to a place, go back and forth in a month, hunt, dig herbs, quite good."

Halimu's eyes flickered, didn't say anything, and after finishing the milk tea, he took Li Long out.

"Here, this is the place where we picked up that piece of jade." Halimu pointed to the frozen stream and said, "Our grandparents said at that time, in the mountains, there are jade mountains. We haven't seen them..."

Li Long memorized this place.

Turning to another valley, this should have been a landslide or mudslide, and a large piece was missing from the shady slope on the south side.

Right where it was missing, there were traces of people and horses passing through.

"It's here," Halimu pointed with his horse whip and said, "there is coal underneath, very good coal. When you have time, you can come over and get some back."

Once he mentioned getting some things back, Li Long immediately thought of another thing and said to Halimu:

"Halimu, when spring comes, I want to dig some manure from your winter camp to take back for farming."

"You can dig as you please." Halimu didn't care, "When we move to the summer pasture, the winter camp will belong to you."

Li Long laughed.

He had asked Halimu, this winter camp had existed for decades, and after years of accumulation, the old manure was already ripe, no need to rot again, just dig it away and it's good fertilizer.

In this era, chemical fertilizer is not only expensive but also has a single nutrient and requires a large amount. Although farm fertilizer has a slow fertilizer effect, farming itself is a long-term process. After this division of land, the land will not have major changes for at least twenty years. It won't be a loss to spread a large amount of farm fertilizer later.

Both of them were carrying guns, and Halimu took Li Long to several places where wild beasts often appeared, but their luck today wasn't very good. Besides encountering two wild rabbits that ran very fast, they didn't see anything.

When they turned back at noon, they had already arrived at Hongshanzui, so they simply walked back along the earth mountain.

As they were walking, Li Long suddenly saw a group of yellow sheep gnawing on shrubs in the place where he hunted yellow sheep some time ago, but after hearing the movement, they immediately jumped and ran toward the north, running for three or four hundred meters before stopping to look back.

"Sigh, discovered too late." Halimu was somewhat regretful. "It's okay, there will be opportunities later." Li Long smiled.

Li Long stayed in Halimu's winter camp that day and continued to follow Halimu around the vicinity the next day.

The range of their activities was within a radius of five kilometers. Halimu said that further places were outside his grazing range and were someone else's territory.

On the afternoon of the second day, when Li Long and Halimu were preparing to turn back, they discovered traces of wild boars in a mountain gully.

"Look at these traces of digging, very fresh!" Halimu turned his head and asked Li Long, "Do you want to come over tomorrow?"

"Yes." Li Long nodded, "Since I'm here, I have to hunt something to take back, no matter what."

"That's good, we'll come over early tomorrow—I'll check the wind direction first."

Last time they hunted wild boars, although they finally shot two, Halimu had always been annoyed about being discovered by the wild boars beforehand. He felt it was his carelessness, and the place chosen wasn't right; otherwise, they could have left two more behind.

So this time, Halimu carefully observed around the valley, telling Li Long from time to time which factors would affect this wind direction.

"Generally speaking, the wind blows along the valley. Like this wind, it blows from over there." Halimu pointed to the west.

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"But, because there are trees and grass on the mountain, sometimes, when the wind blows to that tree, it will change the wind direction."

Li Long nodded, looked around, and felt that being familiar with the environment had quite a big impact on hunting.

At five o'clock the next morning, Halimu and Li Long put on their clothes, carried their guns, and came to this valley. The valley wasn't very far from the winter camp, but the road wasn't easy to walk, instead, it was closer to the mountain pass.

When Li Long and Halimu came over, he vaguely felt that something was following them, but when he looked back, he didn't see anything.

The two arrived at the chosen position. Li Long had already made a gun platform here yesterday, while Halimu was still habitually planning to squat and shoot.

The two waited here for only thirty or forty minutes. Just when Li Long felt he hadn't been frozen into anything, the sound of walking on snow and snoring came from the opposite ridge.

Here it comes!

The two immediately perked up and began preparing to aim, one on the left and one on the right, according to the pre-arranged area.

The sky wasn't bright yet, and they could only see a patch of dark shadows dashing down from the ridge, big and small, and then rushing toward the area dug up at the bottom of the mountain gully.

Li Long disengaged the gun's safety, just about to prepare to observe and see which one to choose, when a wolf howl suddenly came from the ridge on the right!

Damn it!

Li Long could tell that the wolf howl was only thirty or fifty meters away. He saw Halimu had already turned his gun muzzle over, so he dismissed this plan—if he turned his gun muzzle over again, it would be easy to accidentally injure Halimu.

Hearing the wolf howl, the wild boars in the mountain gully were startled first, and then immediately scattered and fled!

Li Long, relying on his feeling, held his gun and chased a sixty-kilogram half-grown wild boar, firing continuously, until he saw the wild boar finally fall on the hillside, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Then, he heard Halimu over there fire a shot toward the direction of the wolf howl!

(End of chapter)