Chapter 287

Li Long carried the gun and opened the door; it was indeed Halimu.

Halimu didn't enter the house. He dismounted, took two skins from the horse's back, and handed them to Li Long:

"Take them to sell, save them. When our sheep return from the summer pasture, we need to buy a big bag of salt."

Li Long wasn't sentimental either and put the skins away. Herdsmen usually need a large amount of block salt. Tanning skins, pickling food, and livestock eating all rely on this.

These two skins, one is a wolf skin and one is a roe deer skin, the skin quality is still fresh, it should be Halimu's recent catch.

"I came over a while ago," Halimu sat in front of the wooden floor with Li Long, and he said, "I saw a man tearing your window plastic, so I came over wanting to beat him up, I thought he was a thief. I didn't expect he was here to deliver honey to you."

Li Long looked at Halimu.

He didn't know if Halimu's face was red or not, it was dark, he couldn't see clearly, but he was also a bit embarrassed, and continued:

"Fortunately, I didn't hit him many times."

Li Long wanted to laugh, thought of Lv Dafeng, and didn't laugh out.

"It's not entirely my fault, he insisted on putting it early in the morning, the sky wasn't bright yet and he ran over to deliver honey..." Halimu explained again.

"How is your grass cutting?" Li Long didn't want to continue this topic, he was afraid he really couldn't help laughing.

"Hmm, the grass is almost cut, some dry ones are already being bundled," Halimu answered quickly, "I saw those things and knew you came over, I'll tell you something."

"You say."

"Give me some bullets."

"How many?" Li Long stood up to rummage through his satchel. His satchel was always prepared with fifty to one hundred bullets—now there were still more than seventy.

"Thirty is enough," Halimu said, "A pack of wolves came to our pasture, I hit one, the remaining four or five hid, I can see them occasionally, I have to hit them, otherwise when the cattle and sheep come back, they will bite."

"Then I'll go with you." Li Long took two packs, which was fifty bullets, for Halimu.

"No need, you don't need to go," Halimu waved his hand, "That wolf doesn't know when it will come out, I have to wait, maybe wait three days, maybe wait a week, no need for you to go, you busy with your own things."

"Alright." Since Halimu said so, Li Long didn't force it anymore, and asked him again, "When are you moving over?"

"In another half a month, my grass here will be cut. After cutting and drying, we will pile the grass to the winter nest, then go to the summer pasture in the mountains, another half a month or so, it will snow in the mountains, and we will come back."

Li Long calculated, it should be in the first ten days of November.

"Good, I will pull the salt over by then." At that time, there was no work in the fields, Li Long thought it was just right to pull salt and some daily supplies over, and then pull a few carts of manure back.

Halimu took the bullets, loaded them, and got on the horse.

Just as Li Long was preparing to watch him leave, Halimu suddenly said on the horse's back:

"I forgot to tell you one thing. That beekeeper said, in the ditch where he put the bees, a pack of wild boars came. If you want to hit them, you can go hit them."

Li Long smiled, this is the information he wanted.

After Halimu left, Li Long immediately returned to the house, locked the door, and slept.

Tomorrow early morning, go to the place Lv Dafeng said first. If there are wild boars, then hit them and bring them back directly. If not, then go to the hot spring.

Li Long believed that these wild animals should not give up the hot spring here. It's just that maybe for some reason, the time of coming is uncertain or they don't go for a short time temporarily.

The next day, before the sky was bright, Li Long got up, rubbed his face, put on his coat, carried the gun, and went out the door.

From the wooden house to the place where Lv Dafeng was, he could ride a bicycle. Li Long rode the bicycle and walked towards that side with the faint sky light. When he was almost there, he got off the bicycle, put it on the side, and walked to climb the mountain with the gun.

There was wind in the mountains, the grass was all yellow. When Li Long waded through the grass that was knee-high, some grasshoppers would be startled and fly up, jumping not far—there was still dew at this time. There were quite a lot of grasshoppers, Li Long thought, actually raising a pack of chickens in the mountains is also not bad, there are grasshoppers to eat, chicken meat must be good.

Of course, it's not very possible, there are too many natural enemies of chickens in the mountains, foxes, weasels, wolves... all can eat chickens, unless they are fenced up... thinking too far.

Arriving at the top of the mountain, he scanned with his eyes, found the position where Lv Dafeng originally set up the tent, and scanned half a circle more, but didn't find any wild boars.

The sky light was a bit brighter, Li Long originally thought of ambushing, but seeing that there seemed to be traces near the tent, he simply walked down.

When he walked over, he found that there were traces of rooting here—the wild boars had already left.

This piece of traces of rooting was very large, equivalent to covering the range where the tent was originally set up, including the range of the beehives. The traces were old and new. Li Long guessed it should be that the wild boars followed the human smell and came over, rooting here to eat garbage.

There are also news about bears turning over trash cans in Canada and North America. It seems that human domestic garbage has an attraction to these animals.

Li Long sighed and turned to leave.

If he couldn't hit anything at the hot spring, then come over again tomorrow, he had to come a bit earlier. There were quite a lot of traces in this piece, and the hoof prints were very complicated. Li Long guessed there should be quite a lot of wild boars.

Riding the bicycle to a mountain ditch on the edge of the hot spring ditch, Li Long hid the bicycle in the grass. At this time, the sky light was already quite bright. According to the usual time, he should be getting up and preparing to set nets.

He carried the gun and walked into the hot spring ditch, guessing in his heart, he didn't know if this side would also be "air force".

Yesterday afternoon, Li Long didn't go back. Li Jianguo took the nets and Tao Daqiang and the two went to the small lake.

They planned to set a few nets in the small lake. During this period, there was no farm work in the team. Li Jianguo planned to go sell fish when he had nothing to do—he also had an idea himself, to see if he could get a black and white TV back after earning money for a few more days.

Before, Li Long earned money by selling fish, but Li Jianguo didn't have any thoughts. That money wasn't his, and he wouldn't think much about it.

Only when he sold fish himself and got dozens of yuan in real money in a day did that feeling become real.

It turns out you can really earn money like this—the county seat charges management fees for the free market, and Li Jianguo was very happy to pay.

What does this prove? It proves that the country allows this! He even saved the tickets one by one!

Although he was still a bit embarrassed, after all, he was the elder brother and Li Long was the younger brother. Following the younger brother's footsteps to earn money, it was a bit hard to say, but thinking that his father didn't have so many words, what did he have to say?

There were still three or five people setting nets around the small lake. Now there were more people catching fish. They couldn't take care of it during busy farming times, but now that it was slack, some people with flexible minds couldn't stay idle and had to find a way to earn money.

The main thing was that Li Long led the people in the team to work twice, letting them know that as long as they work hard and find the right method, earning money is actually not difficult.

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Since others can earn money, he can too. Before, the competition made the fish price messy, but now everyone has a tacit understanding, just don't play so many small tricks when selling fish in the future.

So there were more people catching fish in the small lake. On the contrary, because the big lake is relatively far away, there is currently only Li Long's family. Because in everyone's mind, the small lake belongs to the village, and if you set a net, you can basically find it if it's lost. The big lake is so big, surrounded by several villages, if you lose a net, you can't even find it.

Li Jianguo watched Tao Daqiang sit on the tire to set the net and felt the speed was relatively slow.

But there was no way, Li Long's "mouth" method of setting nets is really not something an ordinary person can learn in half a time.

When Li Long arrived at the hot spring ditch in the morning, Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang had already started to retrieve nets in the small lake. They only set six nets, and the fish catch was obviously not as much as in the big lake, but the fish were beautiful, and it was happy to look at them.

The hot spring ditch was a bit darker than the outside. There were fewer broad-leaved forests and more coniferous forests on both sides of the mountains, blocking the light.

Li Long's pace was rapid, he was a bit irritable, and also a bit worried that there would be no harvest here at the hot spring, then it would be a bit troublesome.

Before, he rarely returned empty-handed when hunting, at most running twice. Is this the third trip today?

Thinking this in his heart, when he was almost at the pool, he didn't hear the sound of big water splashes, and Li Long's heart sank a bit.

But he still wasn't careless, went obliquely upward from the ditch to the forest, and then came to the familiar ambush position.

Here, through the trees, he could see the position of the four or five pools below.

When Li Long squatted down to observe, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, two deer, one big and one small, were there.

The big deer was in the pool, and the small deer was jumping and playing with water splashes on the side. It was only slightly bigger than a goat, with thin legs, very flexible.

Li Long aimed at the big deer, and then turned to the small deer.

When the figure of the small deer overlapped with the big deer for a moment, Li Long suddenly had a bold idea: can he hit two with one shot?

If the position is suitable, it should be no problem. After all, he had hunted several times before, and this 56-style bullet had passed through the prey's body. Now at such a close distance, even if it passes through the small deer's body and hits the big deer, it should still have lethality, right?

Li Long planned to experiment with this idea, and he waited patiently.

The big deer called out occasionally in the pool, the small deer listened sometimes and didn't listen sometimes, jumping and playing, occasionally stretching its mouth to taste the water, and then spitting it out.

Finally, Li Long waited until the small deer jumped in front of the big deer, but the big deer's body was in the water, and the position was not ideal.

Li Long hesitated for a moment and didn't pull the trigger. He felt he needed to wait a bit longer.

The big deer didn't know if it discovered something or had soaked enough, stood up from the pool, half of its body was on the water. When the small deer saw the big deer move, it immediately ran over, stretched its mouth to lick the wet hair on the big deer's body. At this time, the bodies of the two deer almost overlapped.

"Bang! Bang!"

Li Long fired two shots in a row. The first shot passed through the small deer's hind leg and hit a blood hole in the big deer's stomach. The second shot, the small deer fell down, and the big deer darted out from the pool with injuries. Li Long hit its neck with one shot, and the big deer fell down with half of its body lying on the edge of the pool.

Li Long stood up quickly and ran down carrying the gun. At this time, the sound of the gun was still echoing in the valley.

The small deer didn't die and was struggling in the water. Li Long didn't care about it, directly dragged the big deer out of the water. The small deer had already run out of the stream, and then Li Long ran over, grabbed its four hooves, and caught it in his hand.

Whether it can live, depends on fate.

Don't know when, the sunlight penetrated in. (End of chapter)