Chapter 355

Seeing someone fall off a horse, Li Long had already opened his stance and rushed out, but was pulled back by Yushanjiang after only two steps.

"No need to worry about him, he will climb up." Yushanjiang waved his hand, "Look, the first place has changed. These people below all want to rush to the first place, so it depends on who is fast!"

"Really no need to worry? I see he hasn't climbed up yet..." Li Long was still quite worried.

"Falling like this won't be a problem, he wasn't pressed by the horse—look, he climbed up, and the horse also climbed up."

Sure enough, as Yushanjiang said, the horse that fell struggled to climb up, and the rider also climbed up. Looking at the posture of walking, he was limping, as if he was injured, and as if the injury wasn't heavy.

And in just a few minutes, the first place had changed several people in succession, and the competition was very intense.

When the horse ran to less than a hundred meters away from here, a black-red horse that didn't look very inconspicuous and wasn't very tall rushed to the very front. The rider was a teenager with slightly dark skin who looked less than eighteen years old. He rode on the horse not like Hong Kong horse racing with his body half-standing, but sat steadily on the horse's back, grabbing the reins with one hand and waving the whip with the other, but didn't wave it down.

That horse ran very steadily, its four hooves flying, but the upper half of its body seemed to always be on the same horizontal line, and the speed was getting faster and faster, slowly from one length behind the lead to two lengths, then to three lengths, and then rushed past Halimu's position. The teenager cheered and waved his whip, taking first place!

When the second place rushed over, Li Long felt a bit regretful. This was a black horse that looked very tall and also very beautiful. Its skin was like black satin, very much like those second-generation horses he had seen in Ili in his later life—the meaning of second-generation horses is hybrid horses obtained by crossbreeding purebred horses introduced by horse farms from abroad or other excellent horse farms.

Such horses often combine the advantages of the paternal and maternal lines and are not that expensive, and are usually the main horses of horse farms.

A second-generation horse often needs more than a hundred thousand yuan to be bought—of course, this was what Li Long asked at the horse farm at that time, and he didn't know if it was true or false.

This horse was very beautiful, and the rider also looked very experienced, but he didn't expect to lose to a teenager.

The third horse and the second horse were only half a length apart, and behind them was a group of third-echelon riders—what made Li Long a bit surprised was that the rider who fell and rode the horse that had fallen also followed.

Judging from the posture of the horse running, there was no big problem.

Not bad.

Halimu gathered the people together again and said a few words. Li Long heard him seem to shout a few names. Every time he shouted a name, those people would cheer.

This should be talking about the winners.

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Li Long.

Li Long asked:

"Are you giving out prizes now?"

"Give them out now."

"Alright, let the top three stand out, I'll go get the prizes." Li Long turned around and walked into the house with a smile.

There was a feeling of being both an etiquette officer and a leader—giving out prizes to the winning contestants was something leaders did!

Just kidding, just kidding.

Li Long went into the house. He had already thought it through: first place gets a portion of brick tea, granulated sugar, and salt each; second place gets brick tea and granulated sugar; third place only gets brick tea.

Because Halimu brought back some bullets, Li Long gave the top three winners five bullets each.

"I'll give out first place, second place... Yushanjiang, you give it out, third place, Halimu?"

After Li Long brought out the prizes, he said to the two people.

"Alright." Yushanjiang had no opinion, Halimu smiled and let the three people stand out.

What Li Long had an opinion about was not giving out prizes, but the top three coming over to receive the prizes, which was quite interesting.

The other riders behind showed envious expressions. When Li Long gave the prize to the teenager named Bahati, the riders cheered.

Bahati's face was a bit red, partly because of the bloodshot eyes, and of course, more because of excitement. I'm afraid he himself didn't expect to take first place, right?

"Congratulations!" Li Long stuffed the things into his hands. Bahati first took the bullets and stuffed them into his pocket, looking very precious, then held the things, paused for a moment, then nodded at Li Long with a smile, turned around, waved the things in his hand at everyone, and walked back happily.

The riders laughed loudly.

Li Long was very touched. The relationship between these people was truly not bad. He could hear that most people's cheers were very sincere.

Yushanjiang and Halimu gave prizes to the next two people, and it was also a cheer. The two riders held the rewards, proudly raising them to show others. They were more mature than Bahati and were more familiar with other young guys. They were truly happy that they could win a place and would not hide their clumsiness or be modest at all.

If you have honor, you should show it. Young people, showing off a bit is very normal.

Halimu said a few more words, and Yushanjiang came over and said:

"Halimu's meaning is, rest for a while, then sheep-snatching. After the sheep-snatching ends, whoever wins, that sheep belongs to whoever. Of course, the sheep won't be taken away, it will be boiled here for everyone to eat, counting as the winner treating everyone!"

The young people cheered again, then got off their horses one after another. Some wiped sweat for their horses, and some came over to find water to drink and things to eat.

The naan and milk curds brought by Halimu were placed on the table, letting these young people take them and eat them themselves. There was hot water in the teapot, and there were bowls on the side. They didn't care either, and didn't mind. One person drank, and the second person took the bowl and continued to drink.

The young guys were laughing and making noise there, while Li Long was asking Yushanjiang for advice on the situation nearby.

He mainly wanted to know where there were places to hunt nearby.

"Hunting, I know there are a few places on my side. I have seen wild goats and wolves, but they, they don't have a fixed place." Yushanjiang said, "I can only tell you the general location, you can go and take a look. Usually, we mainly hunt wolves. This wolf, it will actively attack my sheep. This time with these bullets you gave, my sheep flock will be much safer!"

He squatted down and started drawing the terrain in the snow:

"Here, is Halimu's winter nest. Across these two mountains, here, is my winter nest, and then, toward your direction, look, here, there are three mountains from your place, and then in this gully, I have seen wild goats, that flock of wild goats runs very fast!"

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Li Long looked at that location. It was just one mountain away from the Hot Spring Valley. It seemed that he had to find time to go over and take a look.

Compared with yellow sheep, wild goats have their own merits. Because yellow sheep are a kind of antelope, they seem to be rarer, but when it comes to meat, don't say who is powerful.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Halimu called the young guys up and said something loudly.

"Halimu said, now sheep-snatching begins. Before, sheep-snatching was divided into two teams, confronting each other like playing ball. Today, sheep-snatching is based on individuals, fifteen minutes time, whoever finally holds the sheep counts as the winner. The winner, apart from owning this sheep, will also receive other rewards!"

Yushanjiang saw Halimu pause and then said, so he translated again: "His meaning is, this other reward is five bullets."

Perhaps worried that Li Long didn't recognize the value of five bullets, Yushanjiang said again:

"For these young guys, five bullets are much more tempting than a bottle of wine! Bullets in their hands, or in the hands of their fathers, can play a particularly big role. We Kazakh herdsmen are not hunters, but we need to use the weapons in our hands to hunt wolves and protect our sheep flocks and cattle flocks.

Under normal circumstances, this gun is in the hands of their fathers, and they also have very few opportunities to get bullets. If they can win bullets now, then they will have a certain right to speak in front of their fathers."

Li Long finally understood Yushanjiang's meaning.

"Do you want to increase some bullets?" Li Long asked, "There are still quite a few bullets left now."

"No need. Bullets are too many, which is not a good thing for them either." Yushanjiang shook his head, "When we called people, every family was given some bullets, especially those herdsmen who brought things over earlier, they were given more bullets. Li Long, bullets are something that is enough to hunt wolves. Too many is not a good thing."

Li Long didn't speak. He always felt that Yushanjiang had something to say. Thinking about it, it was also true that if you carry a sharp weapon, the desire to kill will arise. A considerable number of these herdsmen have guns in their hands. Originally, bullets were relatively scarce. Now, if there are many bullets, no one can guarantee whether they will use guns to do other things.

So bullets, have a little, enough to remove the threat of wolves.

The young guys participating in the sheep-snatching competition had already ridden their horses to the flat ground and started to gather. Halimu carried that headless sheep that hadn't frozen yet to a place fifty meters away from the young guys. After he put the sheep down, he rode his horse away from that place. When he returned to the vicinity of the wooden cabin, Halimu looked at Li Long.

"You give the order." Li Long waved his hand, he didn't intend to shoot anymore.

Halimu raised his hand toward those young people, and after those young people all noticed him, he suddenly shouted loudly.

The young people cheered, and rode their horses toward the headless sheep on the ground. Li Long focused on Bahati, who had taken first place in horse racing.

Bahati fell behind at the first time. The one running at the very front was that black horse, the speed of the sprint was shockingly fast. When it was one horse length ahead of other horses, the rider bent down, both legs still clamping the horse's body, the whole upper body fell toward the direction of the headless sheep, reaching out almost touching the ground, and when passing the ground, grabbed the headless sheep, and the horse speed flew out without almost dropping!

This made Li Long think of the scenes where riders reached out to grab the Hada ribbons on the ground during horse riding performances.

Compared with that, it was not bad at all!

The riders behind naturally wouldn't be outdone, and all rushed over at once. A few also flanked left and right, intending to intercept the rider who had already grabbed the headless sheep.

The exciting sheep-snatching competition, started! (End of chapter)