Chapter 109

Li Long flipped open the triangular gun bayonet, walked to the wolf, and stabbed it fiercely into the wolf's neck.

Yushanjiang, who was following behind, looked at this scene and nodded slightly.

The gun bayonet passed through the wolf's neck and went deep into the snow. Feeling that the wolf didn't move at all, Li Long was completely relieved.

"Go, drag it to the door of the winter camp, and I'll skin it for you." Yushanjiang said to Li Long.

Li Long closed the triangular bayonet, slung his gun, and dragged one of the gray wolf's legs back.

"You did well this time, although the shot was a bit early, but the few shots later were chased relatively well." Yushanjiang spoke again, "Hunting, you still have to look at the timing. When the timing is good, one shot kills it. In the mountains, we have to save bullets. Sheep, dozens can be born in one winter, but bullets, one is less for every one fired."

Li Long understood Yushanjiang's meaning. He wanted to say that it was best to fire when the wolf bit the sheep, but Li Long was early. But he supplemented a few shots later, which could be considered as achieving the goal of hunting—it was just a bit wasteful of bullets.

The values of the two were different—Li Long felt that he wasn't short of bullets. He decided that before coming over next time, he would get some more bullets from the team, at least to give Halimu and Yushanjiang some confidence when they go to the summer pasture.

It is said that in the summer pasture, one can encounter not only wolves, but also snow leopards and brown bears. Those guys are more dangerous!

Yushanjiang took advantage of the fact that the wolf's corpse hadn't frozen yet and quickly skinned the wolf skin in the night. As for wolf meat, Yushanjiang and the others didn't want it, so Li Long planned to take it back together with the wolf skin.

The next day, Yushanjiang took Li Long around to the southeast.

"In these few mountain gullies, each has mushrooms. More than ten years ago, Han people who picked mushrooms came here and said the mushrooms inside were very valuable. By the way, there are also medicinal herbs, something like ginseng." Yushanjiang stood on the ridge, pointed to the mountain gully below and said, "Our medicine is different from yours. You can come over in summer, or find someone who knows the business to come over, and you should know."

Li Long looked at those terrains that were all about the same and felt somewhat worried. He could barely memorize some of the locations Halimu pointed out before, after all, those places had some geographical features, but here, looking at the mountain valleys, they were all similar, so it was really not easy to distinguish them.

Yushanjiang saw Li Long's trouble and said with a smile:

"It's okay, you, just memorize the location of my winter camp, and then walk around from the winter camp, don't walk far. As for the nearby places, you'll walk through them in a week, and by then you'll know what's where."

Alright, this is really treating him as a universal hunter.

Staying at Yushanjiang's place for two days, Li Long returned to Halimu's place with a wolf, two wild rabbits, and two deer antlers. After drinking milk tea, he rode his bicycle, carried the wolf that had already frozen hard, and returned to the county seat.

Putting the wolf meat, wolf skin, and wild rabbits into the big house, Li Long took the deer antlers and went to the purchasing station.

Chen Hongjun wasn't there. Li Long saw that woman who gave him a cheap price last time again.

The woman felt familiar when she saw Li Long, didn't recognize him, saw those two deer antlers, and said with a smile on her face:

"Young man, the quality of these deer antlers is not bad, I'll give you four yuan and five per kilogram, this is a high price."

Li Long knew that this woman definitely wouldn't give a normal price, so he picked up the deer antlers and said:

"I heard that the price of things has risen now, your four yuan and five is a bit low."

"Four yuan and five is not low." The woman shook her head, "It was only three yuan a while ago, it has already risen by half."

"No, then I'll wait a bit longer, anyway deer antlers are not hard to sell." Li Long didn't want to suffer a loss for nothing.

"Then... five yuan, five yuan is okay, right?" The woman's eyes turned and she said, "We can't get a few of this price in a winter."

"Six yuan." Li Long opened his mouth, "Six yuan and I'll sell!" Actually, five yuan wasn't bad either. Last time Chen Hongjun purchased them for five yuan, Li Long just didn't want to sell them directly to this woman.

"Six yuan is definitely not okay!" The woman immediately refused, "At most I'll give you five yuan and five!"

Has it really risen in price again?

Li Long nodded. The two deer antlers weighed seven point six kilograms, and he sold them for forty-one yuan and eight jiao.

After collecting the money and leaving, Li Long unlocked and rode his bicycle to the department store.

School is about to start, and spring is about to come. He planned to buy a pair of sneakers for Li Juan and Li Qiang each, and buy two pairs of thin socks.

There weren't many people at the department store now. Li Long knew the shoe sizes of Li Juan and Li Qiang, and there was nothing to pick, so he bought two pairs of shoes and two pairs of socks, bought some sesame cakes, river noodles, and weighed some seasonings, went out, rode his bicycle, brought the wild rabbits and the wolf, and returned to the team. When the bicycle entered the team, Li Long was somewhat surprised to find that there were no children playing on the road, or maybe it was mealtime and they all went home.

Instead, the place where children often played had been slid into an ice path five or six meters long and smooth as a mirror. He had to avoid it when riding, otherwise he would definitely fall.

Li Long picked up an electric nozzle (a small spinning top made of a spark plug) that some child had dropped by the roadside, and then pedaled his bike back home.

Hearing the bicycle sound in the house, Li Jianguo pushed the door and walked out, followed by Li Juan and Li Qiang.

"Little Uncle, you hunted a wolf again!" Li Qiang looked at the things on the back seat of the bicycle and shouted.

"And two rabbits." Li Juan looked at the rabbits hanging on the handlebars and added.

"Quick, quick, enter the house, it's cold outside." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "You've been gone for several days, and someone called you from outside."

"Called me?" Li Long was somewhat surprised, "Who? Who called?"

"Said it was from the supply and marketing cooperative." Li Jianguo said, "Asked you to go to the supply and marketing cooperative when you have time, find Section Chief Li."

Li Long understood, it should be that Section Chief Li of the purchasing section.

Could it be that those sheep had problems? Shouldn't be, the sheep were all slaughtered on the spot, Kelangzi sheep, and there were no internal organs, so there wouldn't be any infectious diseases or anything.

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"Said it was to ask you to help hunt yellow sheep," Li Jianguo added, and Li Long understood.

It turned out to be hunting, then it was fine.

Several people unloaded the things on the bicycle together. Li Long put the car under the window and locked it, and then entered the house.

The house was steaming with heat, and the fragrance was nose-piercing. Li Long said with a smile:

"I came back just in time, I caught up with the mealtime."

Seeing that what was served on the table was corn flour steamed cake, Li Long asked Liang Yumei:

"Sister-in-law, why not eat fine grains?"

"I know you feel sorry for the two of them," Liang Yumei said with a smile, "this is what the two of them said they wanted to eat steamed cake."

Alright, heaven and earth are great, children are the greatest. Li Long didn't say anything more.

Actually, it was already mid-afternoon, Li Long inferred that the family had returned to the habit of eating two meals a day, and didn't say anything more, but Li Jianguo said:

"A few days ago, Daqiang and I went to dig for fish, but didn't go later. There aren't many fish that can be dug in the small lake now, Daqiang said he wanted to go to the big lake reservoir behind to take a look..."

"There are quite a few more people selling fish at the black market now." Li Long thought about it and said, "Sell the fish stored at home first, if not, then we'll have to wait."

"That's true, the ice is about to melt, this season's fish can't be handled." Li Jianguo was still somewhat regretful.

"Snow melted, then we can set nets to catch fish." Li Long said with a smile, "I bought sticky nets, set the nets the night before, and take the nets to sell fish early the next morning, very fast!"

"Can it work?" Li Jianguo asked.

"There are more people selling things at the black market now, I estimate that no one will care in a while, it can work."

"That's good..."

In the eyes of the Li family, they were full of hope.

(End of chapter)