Chapter 230: Who would have thought there was this thing in the Tianshan Mountains?

By the side of the stream, Halimu used the clear stream water to open a bag of chicken cakes that Li Long had brought.

Li Long had brought this thing for his children before, and at that time he tasted a piece, it was delicious and fragrant.

But it was just tasting one piece, the rest were left for his own children, Nasen and Sasken.

Now he intended to eat a bag, because the naan was finished.

The amount of naan he originally brought wasn't many, his own plan was a bit optimistic, didn't expect that hurrying all the way here, he ate a bit much, and was hungry a bit fast.

It should be that during the process of hurrying, he consumed a large amount of energy.

Although the chicken cakes were soft, they were a bit choking, Halimu had to drink a mouthful of water after eating one piece.

After eating a bag of chicken cakes, Halimu turned the plastic bag mouth down, tilted his head, shook it toward his mouth, poured all the crumbs inside into his mouth, and only then did he fold the bag with lingering desire and put it into his bag.

This bag could still be used after taking it back.

Two days later at noon, Halimu returned to the summer pasture, and he saw his own felt tent.

The horse he was sitting on gave a happy cry and ran toward the felt tent.

Nasen was piling up the cow dung he had picked together. Hearing the horse cry, he turned his head and glanced, then shouted excitedly and loudly.

Very quickly, the family members all ran out, including Yushanjiang from the nearby felt tent family.

The two families' pastures were adjacent, so when they came over this time, they simply built the felt tents relatively close, which also meant they could look after each other.

"Are you doing well all the way?" Yushanjiang shouted loudly, "Seeing you brought back so many things, you must have run into Li Long, right? Is he still in the wooden cabin?"

"Yes, he is at the wooden cabin." Halimu got off the horse and unloaded things with Yushanjiang, "His father, brother, and that Daqiang are all in the wooden cabin, cutting that kind of pole, saying they want to tie brooms."

"These things were all bought by him for you, how could there be so many..."

"Because he said that skin was very valuable." Halimu explained, "After buying things for us, there was still one thousand yuan to give to me, I didn't want it, he said he would save it for us, I said that's his business..."

"Look, Li Long is just like this." Yushanjiang had an expression that he had guessed it long ago, "He doesn't want to take advantage of us, he is different from those cunning peddlers..."

"I told him, he said we are friends, helping us is what should be done. Told us, in the future we can't be like this, the things we take are usually of relatively high value, doing this will make us suffer a loss, guess how I told him..."

"Just find him later, he won't let us suffer a loss!"

"Yes yes, I asked him back, would you let us suffer a loss... hahahaha..."

"A heart like gold." Halimu sighed, he took out the remaining two bags of chicken cakes, handed one bag to Yushanjiang, and one bag to Nasen:

"This is what Li Long bought for me to eat on the road, the rest, divide it and eat it, there isn't much, so I won't leave it for others."

"I'll take some batteries first." Yushanjiang hurriedly said, "Not to mention anything else, this is too important."

"Don't worry, there are many things this time, it's no problem for you to take three boxes." Halimu said with a smile, "Li Long prepared thirty boxes—he also told me how to find him if he is not in the wooden cabin when I come down the mountain later."

"Tell me, maybe next time it will be me coming down the mountain." Yushanjiang joked, "Since that skin is so valuable, then hit another one and send it to him."

"He won't want it, that guy is too stubborn!"

"Don't worry, I have a way, I'll say it's a gift for his future wife, hahahaha, it's our gift—I don't believe he won't accept it..."

"Right! Why didn't I think of it? Li Long isn't married yet..."

The two teased Li Long half-jokingly while classifying the things. There were eleven or twelve herdsman families in this summer pasture, some of these things could be sent, and some could be exchanged for some things with other herdsmen.

Halimu's family didn't lack salt and sugar, but they were usually relatively frugal when using them, this time they could be slightly more generous.

In the afternoon, most of the herdsmen in the entire summer pasture already knew that Halimu had brought the batteries back, and they rode their horses to Halimu's felt tent one after another, preparing to exchange for batteries.

Yes, exchange for batteries.

No one came empty-handed, some brought sheepskins, some brought deer antlers, some brought dried meat, and some brought jade stones or wolf skins and such.

There was also a family that led over three small sheep.

Halimu didn't refuse anyone, he accepted everything. He knew these things were useless in the hands of the herdsmen, but handing them to Li Long could exchange for money and supplies.

Here, it was temporarily treated as a small shop, a small shop in the clouds—because once it was cloudy, there were truly clouds "flowing" past nearby.

The summer pasture had an altitude of nearly three thousand meters, it was very cool at night, and the ultraviolet rays were also very strong, but this was the traditional pasture of Halimu and their tribe, and generation after generation of Kazakh herdsmen came here to graze every year, they were used to it.

It was just that Halimu felt that it would be enough to stop at his generation. Nasen and the others, in another year or two, send them to school. Look at the outside world, he already saw that Nasen was very curious about the things Li Long brought.

He had said this to Yushanjiang, and Yushanjiang had similar thoughts. Although his children were older, he also wanted to ask Li Long to see if there was any way to let them go to the world outside the mountains to live for a while.

After being lively for a day, this patch of grassland returned to calm, but the sound of radios rang out again in the felt tents across the entire high mountain grassland, and occasionally there would even be the sound of a "small loudspeaker".

Although there weren't many herdsmen who understood Chinese, there were still some.

Although the herdsmen's lives seemed to have returned to the past, there was clearly more laughter.

Halimu wrapped up the things he collected, he intended to sun those skins every once in a while to avoid dampness, mold, and insects. If there was time, these things had to be sent down the mountain early, firstly because they took up space and were not easy to carry when transferring, and secondly, taking them down early was also good for handing them to Li Long to exchange for things he needed.

Sending Halimu away, Li Long returned to the wooden cabin, Li Jianguo and the others had already gone to cut poles.

Li Long opened the door and entered the small room, and a faint fragrance of snow lotus flowers wafted over.

Li Long had placed the snow lotus flowers on the shelf to air-dry, and this room was full of fragrance.

Li Long pushed the bicycle in and put it away, came out, locked the door, carried the machete, and walked toward the nearby gully.

The next time was to seriously cut poles.

The mountains were always cooler than the plains, as long as the sun wasn't shining directly, it felt quite comfortable.

Li Long arrived at a patch of miscellaneous woods by the gully, aimed at a thin willow branch, and began to cut.

Miscellaneous woods mostly didn't grow neatly, in this forest, only willow, poplar, pine, and cypress trees naturally grew straight, like elm trees, apple trees, etc., they grew crooked. Even the side branches rarely had any that could be used as shovel handles.

The machete was sharpened very sharply. After cutting a few times, he directly cut down that pole, and next was to trim the side branches, cut off one end, and then do some repairs, and a handle for a large broom was ready. About four or five minutes.

Then the next pole.

Another pole.

Although Li Long had more convenient and easier channels to earn money, having lived two lives, he knew very well that even if it was easy, as a person of this era, he still couldn't forget his roots.

And he didn't intend to have any grand goals. Just let himself live more comfortably, be happier than the previous life, and have fewer regrets.

Cutting more than twenty poles, this patch of poles was gone. Li Long cut some thin willow strips and twisted them together as rope, bundled the poles at both ends, placed them by the gully, and walked inside.

He intended to cut some more before returning.

Now it seemed that completing the pole task before the specified time limit was quite easy, after all, calculating by this progress, it was no problem for each person to cut one hundred poles a day.

Ahead was a patch of shrubs, and further ahead was a larger miscellaneous forest, but there were some rocks on the edge of the forest, Li Long walked to the side of a rock and intended to sit down and rest.

And then he saw in the rock crevice, a clump of red-yellow fur—what was this?

!.

Li Long didn't dare to grab it with his hand, he picked up a tree branch and poked it, that thing was soft, and also made a "chi-chi" sound.

A fox!

Li Long was happy, this was great, he could also get a fox skin while cutting poles, an unexpected harvest!

Li Long took the machete and poked inside, that rock crevice wasn't deep, Li Long's machete poked directly on the fox's butt, that fox desperately drilled inside, while drilling it was "chi-chi" calling.

Li Long saw this wasn't a way, poking the butt wouldn't kill it, and it was easy to poke the skin broken, he thought for a while, so he went to find long thin willow branches, twisted them into a rope and then circled it, intending to put this circle on the fox's leg and drag this guy out.

Just as Li Long walked back to the stone crevice, he heard something moving in the grass nearby. As he turned, he suddenly saw a dark shadow pouncing toward him. He instinctively dodged, blocked upward with the machete in his hand, and then felt a sharp pain in his arm. The thing also let out a miserable shriek, kicked off Li Long's body with force, and darted away, disappearing into the grass!

The speed was very fast, Li Long didn't even see clearly what that thing was!

However, at this time he was in no mood to pay attention to what that was, the injury on his arm made him understand, he had been attacked!

Fortunately, that thing wasn't big, half a body smaller than a wolf, and about the same as a half-grown pet dog, just a bit fierce.

Li Long looked at his arm again, his clothes were directly torn open a large hole, a ten-centimeter-long cut on his upper arm, half a centimeter deep, blood was gushing out!

Li Long took a deep breath, it hurt enough!

He couldn't care about that fox at this moment, hurriedly found horse thistle in the grass, which was the "thorn horse grass" everyone usually called, took off more than ten leaves, hurriedly tore off the thorns on the edge, then kneaded it and pressed it on the wound.

Don't know if that guy's claws had poison, at the moment there was no white medicine, no iodine, no gentian violet, couldn't disinfect.

A bit sad, in this year, it could only be like this.

Fortunately, his physical fitness was good, don't know if it was because the coagulation factor was relatively abundant or that medicine really worked, very quickly, the blood stopped, and then there was a not-so-strong scab on the wound.

Li Long let out a long breath, his excited and nervous mood calmed down, only then did he look around again, but he couldn't see that guy's shadow anymore.

That fox was still hiding in the rock crevice.

Li Long recalled it now, the more he thought, the more he felt the thing that attacked him just now was a bit like some kind of cat-like animal with very sharp ears seen in television programs.

But he had never heard that there was this thing in the Tianshan Mountains!

This thing actually appeared here... was his knowledge narrow?

Li Long was thinking wildly, dispersing the pain in his arm. He guessed that thing should have been treating the fox as food, chased it here, and as a result, he appeared, maybe it thought he was competing with it for food, so it scratched him.

He suddenly remembered hearing that guy scream when it scratched him, hurriedly went to look at the machete, and found a little bit of blood on the machete.

Was it injured by himself when he raised the knife at that time?

But the injury clearly shouldn't be heavy.

Li Long didn't dare to stay here, in case that thing went crazy, without a gun in hand, Li Long couldn't guarantee he could deal with its terrifying speed!

But he was also a bit unwilling, Li Long used his uninjured right hand to hold the machete, poked that fox hard, at this time he didn't care if it would destroy that skin.

A few minutes later, the fox had no breath, Li Long found a stick to poke the fox out, smashed it twice on the head with the machete to make it completely dead, and then carried it and hurriedly left.

Clamping more than twenty poles under his right arm, carrying that fox, Li Long walked back to the wooden cabin.

When Li Long returned, the others hadn't returned yet. He put down the poles, threw the fox aside, and went to the small room to find white medicine and sprinkled a layer on the place where the wound scabbed, just as psychological comfort.

Only then did Li Long let out a long breath.

But he still felt a bit stifled in his heart.

Hunting for half a year, how did he run into such a thing, and even got himself injured!

The point was he didn't even see the other party's full appearance!

Too stifled!

Although he was angry, what needed to be done still had to be continued.

Li Long added firewood under the stove and began to boil hot water. He intended to cook some porridge, the steamed buns from the day weren't finished, later he would go get some wild vegetables, stir-fry two dishes and that would be it.

It was just that this arm didn't seem to be able to bear force.

While cooking porridge and boiling water, Li Qing Xia walked back carrying a large bundle of poles.

Li Qing Xia was quite happy. This afternoon he cut more than sixty poles, a full large bundle!

According to the price Li Long said, this was more than thirty yuan!

Why didn't he know money was so easy to earn before?

Back in his hometown, that was truly a penny defeating a hero! Not to mention this kind of work, even a job for a dollar or eighty cents a day, many people would fight to do it!

Earning money like this, if he said it out, those old guys in his hometown definitely wouldn't believe it.

He saw Li Long was cooking porridge, put down the poles and said with a smile:

"Little Long..."

Just prepared to talk about his own style not being less than the hero of the past, and then saw the injury on Li Long's arm, and his face changed immediately!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 231 =====