[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw":3,"chapter-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-105":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 1981: Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1933986,2572,"Chapter 105: Treasures Abound Throughout the Mountains","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-105",105,"\u003Cp>Harimu took Li Long to Yushanjiang, who was also chopping wood; by the winter shelter, more than a dozen logs, thick as a basin and two to three meters long, were already piled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Harimu and Li Long arrive, Yushanjiang put down his axe and walked over with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This honest middle-aged man embraced both of them, then asked with a grin:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Has our friend come to deliver goods again this time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, good stuff.\" Harimu showed Yushanjiang the shoes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Truly good stuff! These shoes are perfect for summer!\" As expected, Yushanjiang's face lit up with surprise. \"So many—we won't finish wearing them all in one summer!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you don't finish them this summer, wear them next year,\" Li Long said with a smile. \"If they don't fit, tell me and we can swap them.\" Swapping was certainly not possible; Li Long planned that if they didn't fit, he would simply replace them with new ones. After all, since they had never been worn, selling them cheaply would be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They fit, they fit, they definitely fit,\" Yushanjiang said, hugging the shoes and smiling. \"If they don't, just add some felt and they'll fit. Come, come, come inside the winter shelter and drink milk tea!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After drinking milk tea, Harimu and Yushanjiang exchanged a few words in Kazakh, then Harimu said to Li Long:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you have nothing to do these days, come with me first to the area near my winter shelter. I'll finish telling you about the remaining useful spots, and then Yushanjiang will take you around the whole vicinity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Great,\" Li Long said with a smile. \"I have nothing to do anyway. It's perfect to go around with you both. Once you reach the summer pasture, I can come alone every few days to visit one spot, make a round trip in a month, hunt a bit, dig for medicinal herbs—it'll be nice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harimu's eyes flickered; he said nothing. After finishing the milk tea, he led Li Long outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the place where we found that jade,\" Harimu said, pointing to the frozen stream. \"Our grandparents used to say that in the mountains, there is jade from Yushan. We've never seen it ourselves...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long memorized the location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They turned into another valley, where a landslide or mudflow must have occurred; the entire southern shaded slope was missing a large chunk, cut off cleanly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right at the missing section, there were tracks of people and horses passing through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the spot,\" Harimu said, pointing with his whip. \"There is coal down below, very good coal. When you have time, you can come and get some to take back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Harimu mentioned getting something to take back, Li Long immediately thought of another matter. He said to Harimu:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Harimu, when spring comes, I want to dig up some manure from your winter shelter to take back for farming.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dig as much as you like,\" Harimu said casually. \"When we move to the summer pasture, the winter shelter will be yours.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long laughed heartily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had asked Harimu before: this winter shelter had existed for decades, and over the years, the accumulated manure had fully decomposed; no further composting was needed. Hauling it away would make excellent fertilizer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In these days, chemical fertilizers were not only expensive but also had single-nutrient content and required large quantities. Although farmyard manure worked more slowly, farming was inherently a long-term process. After this land redistribution, the plots would remain largely unchanged for at least twenty years. Spreading large amounts of farmyard manure now would not be a loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both carried guns. Harimu led Li Long to several places where wild animals frequently appeared, but today's luck was poor; besides encountering two rabbits that darted away very quickly, they saw nothing else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On their return at noon, they had already reached Hongshanzui, so they simply followed the earthen hill back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they walked, Li Long suddenly spotted the place where they had hunted Huang Yang some time ago. A herd of Huang Yang was grazing on the shrubs there, but upon hearing the disturbance, they immediately hopped and bounded northward, running three or four hundred meters before stopping and looking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, we spotted them too late,\" Harimu said regretfully. \"No matter, there will be chances later,\" Li Long smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, Li Long stayed in Harimu's winter shelter. The next day, he continued following Harimu around the nearby area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their range of activity stayed within five kilometers; beyond that, Harimu said, they would be outside his grazing territory and in someone else's domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the afternoon of the second day, as Li Long and Harimu prepared to turn back, they discovered signs of wild boars in a mountain gully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at these rooting marks—they're very fresh!\" Harimu turned and asked Li Long, \"Do you want to come back tomorrow to check?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" Li Long nodded. \"Since we're already here, we might as well bring back something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very well. Tomorrow we'll come early—I'll check the wind direction first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the previous wild boar hunt, although they eventually shot two, Harimu had been deeply annoyed that the boars had spotted them beforehand. He felt it was his own carelessness and that he had chosen the wrong spot; otherwise, they could have taken down two more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this time, Harimu carefully circled the valley, observing closely, and occasionally explained to Li Long which factors could affect the wind direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Normally, the wind blows along the valley. Like this wind, it's coming from over there,\" Harimu pointed westward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But because there are trees and grass on the mountain, sometimes when the wind hits those trees, it changes direction.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long nodded, looked around, and realized that familiarity with the environment greatly affected hunting success.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At around five o'clock the next morning, Harimu and Li Long, guns in hand, arrived at this valley. The valley was not far from the winter shelter, but the path was difficult; in fact, it was closer to the mountain pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Li Long and Harimu approached, Li Long vaguely felt something following them, but when he turned around, he saw nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once they reached the chosen position, Li Long had already built a gun rest there the day before, while Harimu, out of habit, planned to shoot while crouching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two waited no more than thirty or forty minutes. Before Li Long felt severely frozen, sounds of trampling snow and snorting came from the ridge opposite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They're here!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both immediately perked up and, according to their prearranged zones, began aiming preparations, one on the left and one on the right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was still dark; they could only see a mass of black silhouettes darting down from the ridge, of various sizes, then charging toward the rooted area at the bottom of the gully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long disengaged the safety on his rifle, just about to observe and decide which target to choose, when suddenly wolf howls erupted from the ridge on the right!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long could tell the howls were only thirty or fifty meters away. Seeing Harimu already swing his rifle toward the sound, he abandoned his own plan—swinging his rifle now would risk accidentally hitting Harimu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wild boars in the gully were startled by the howls, then immediately scattered and fled!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on instinct, Li Long raised his rifle and chased a half-grown wild boar weighing about sixty kilograms, firing repeatedly until he saw the boar finally collapse on the mid-slope. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, from Harimu's direction, shots rang out toward the source of the wolf howls!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1278,"2026-06-14T06:06:39.549Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","e8bb50c55ac1c108299da8161dca2a97940f0252c66ba3f762f033e8f6bf64fb","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-106","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-104",825,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]