Chapter 626: The big guy who scared Talihaer silly

Before Li Long went to the furniture factory to receive that batch of furniture, he calculated that there had been seven batches of people from the Shicheng Corps companies coming to buy harvesters.

This frequency made him unable to help but wonder if this was a shill for the Kuitun Agricultural Machinery Factory?

After all, he had heard of many scams in later generations where sellers found shills to shout about buying a specific type of goods.

Of course, actually, in this lifetime, at least for now, the real scams he had encountered, or rather, empty-handed white wolves, were the one raising deer and the one making fried goods.

And they were both quite low-level setups, broken at a glance.

Li Long told all these people to come after the spring in March. Anyway, he had talked to Kuitun, and he counted as an agent on this side. Now it seems that Kuitun side was really trustworthy.

After breakfast in the morning, Li Long started the tractor and cleared the things in the trailer—actually, it was just snow. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, there was another heavy snow, and just clearing the snow in the courtyard took half a day.

Li Long also took time to clear the snow in the small courtyard to the south. Sister Yang had to cook, so Li Long didn't let her go over and cleared the snow himself.

Fortunately, he was strong, so this bit of work really didn't count for anything.

It was just that he felt that if it went on like this, driving the tractor into the mountains would be quite difficult. He didn't know if anyone had traveled the road into the mountains.

When the tractor drove to the furniture factory, Li Long found that there were already some customers here picking out furniture.

There were two groups of middle-aged and elderly people with young men and women. Li Long guessed they might be getting married in the spring and were now picking out furniture for their new house.

How many legs and such.

He just took a look, and Qi Xinzhi, who was greeting customers over there, walked over. After Li Long got off the tractor, he took the initiative to shake hands with him and said:

"The factory director went to the county to handle affairs. He told me this morning that if you came over, I should take you to load the car."

"Good, good, good, then I won't be polite, load it." Li Long said.

Qi Xinzhi greeted people to continue receiving those looking at furniture, and here he greeted some workers to help Li Long load the car.

There was quite a lot of furniture ordered later, and one car couldn't load it all—actually, it could be loaded, but they were easy to squeeze and damage each other, so Li Long thought about loading twice.

"I'll go to the finance side to settle the account." Li Long said, "I'll come back to pull the rest this afternoon or tomorrow."

"Good, good." Seeing Li Long take the initiative to pay first, Qi Xinzhi smiled, "I guarantee that when you come to pull this furniture next time, no one will touch it."

Li Long went to the finance side to pay, kept the receipt, greeted Qi Xinzhi, and drove the tractor toward the mountains.

In the morning, he had already told Gu Xiaoxia, and also told Sister Yang that he wouldn't eat lunch today, and he might not be able to catch the afternoon meal either.

Driving the jeep for a few days, then driving the tractor, although the temperature now wasn't as cold as those days in the third and fourth nine, Li Long still felt that driving a tractor in the middle of winter was really suffering.

There were more cars coming and going on the Wuyi Highway—this "more" meant that every seventy or eighty minutes, one might encounter one, either coming from the opposite direction or overtaking from behind.

The tractor speed wasn't fast, not comparable to those cars, so Li Long just ran slowly on the right, his body shaking with the tractor head, and he got used to it after shaking for a while.

When the tractor drove to Qingshuihe Township, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief. One could see traces of horse carts going into the mountains. Although it was just back and forth, those thick snows were pressed into marks, and it would be quite easy for the tractor to drive on them.

The sound of the tractor echoed in the mountains. When Li Long carefully drove the tractor to Halimu's winter quarters, his whole family had already come out of the winter quarters, waiting to welcome Li Long.

Li Long drove the tractor to the front of the winter quarters, turned off the engine, got off the tractor head, shook hands with Halimu, and after greetings, greeted his family one by one.

Unload the furniture, go into the house to drink milk tea.

Halimu's wife smiled and mixed milk tea for them.

"Have the wolves come back again later?" Li Long asked while drinking milk tea.

"There are still wolves at night." Halimu said, "But they just howl from afar and don't dare to come near. They should be the ones that escaped into the forest. By the way, let me tell you something."

Halimu pointed in the direction of the mountains and said:

"Not long after you left last time, Talihaer came over, and he said he encountered a big guy."

"Big guy? What? Did he shoot it down?" Li Long was a bit surprised and also a bit curious, asking hurriedly.

"It's a bear, a brown bear, this high!" Halimu stood up, stood on tiptoe, raised his hands to gesture, "This fat!"

Damn!

Li Long couldn't help but swear. This was at least two meters high and seven or eight hundred kilograms heavy!

Maybe even heavier!

This damn thing is an adult brown bear! Compared to the one he saw in the Yili Prefecture Museum in his previous life, this was truly the difference between a primary school student and an adult!

"Did he hit it?" Li Long asked after digesting the shock in his heart and taking a sip of milk tea.

"No... you also know, Talihaer had always wanted to be a competent hunter, but because there were no real hunters in our tribe, the ones best at hunting, Yushanjiang and I, actually only know how to shoot and understand some small tricks..." Li Long naturally knew this. His hunting knowledge was basically learned from Yushanjiang and Halimu, and later he figured it out himself. Fortunately, the resources of wild beasts and prey in the Tianshan Mountains were too abundant, and his equipment was too sharp, so he basically had a harvest every time.

This was simply impossible in places with many people.

Just like three or four decades later, on the China-Kazakhstan border, people on this side looked at the herds of yellow sheep running in the grasslands on that side—the herds of yellow sheep on this side, three or four decades later, were only small herds of a few, but on the Kazakh grasslands, there were still large herds of dozens or hundreds.

Why? Because even in a place like Northern Xinjiang with vast land and sparse population, the population density had already far exceeded that of the Kazakh side, and it was many times more than the population of Northern Xinjiang forty years ago.

With many resources, it's naturally easy to hunt. Even if it's a half-baked hunter, as long as the hand is steady, holding a 56-semi-automatic to hunt wild boars, wolves, and yellow sheep, isn't that just something that can be done with hands?

No skill required at all.

"Since Talihaer got those seventeen wild goats last year, he had always wanted to be a real hunter, but this time, he regretted it."

"Because of that bear?"

"Yes, this time he encountered that bear during the day. That bear ran extremely fast in the snow, possibly because it was woken up by wolves or wild boars while sleeping in winter, and it was very irritable, killing any animal it encountered directly. Talihaer was so scared at the time that he didn't dare to move..."

"Then was he injured?" Hearing that Talihaer was so scared he didn't dare to move, Li Long was also shocked. If he didn't move, wouldn't he become meat in the brown bear's mouth? Even if he was sat on by such a big guy, he couldn't take it, right?

"Fortunately, the ones that provoked this brown bear at the time were a few wolves that mistakenly broke into the bear's cave. Those few wolves attracted the brown bear's attention, and Talihaer managed to run away. After running away, he was sick at home for two days before running over to tell us about this matter."

Li Long nodded, this was very normal.

Being stared at by a big guy weighing nearly a ton, it was truly a life-and-death test, and it was very normal to be scared.

"After coming to tell us, Yushanjiang and I felt that so many wolves were driven out of the inner mountains before, it might have been caused by this big guy."

Halimu drank the milk tea in the bowl, handed the empty bowl to his wife, and continued: "Later, those wolves and wild boars might still run out from time to time."

Li Long nodded to show he understood.

It was reasonable to think so. Only such a big guy could force those packs of wolves to run out from the inner mountains.

A brown bear that had grown to nearly a ton, even facing a small pack of wolves, wouldn't be afraid, and it could win.

Not to mention this was an enraged brown bear woken up from hibernation.

Let alone a bear, even a person, when disturbed while sleeping soundly, would be very angry.

"Where did that bear go in the end?" Li Long asked.

"After we knew about this matter, we took guns and brought a few people to take a look there. The bear paw prints went to the west, it should have been chasing wolves. Later, the paw prints were pressed over by a group of wild boar hoof prints, so we don't know."

Halimu shook his head and said:

"Such a big guy, we are also afraid. As long as it doesn't come to harass our sheep, we don't want to provoke it."

This was the common thought of herdsmen. Who would want to have a conflict with a big guy whose lethality is comparable to a tank?

After all, they were just herdsmen, not real hunters.

It seems that after experiencing this matter, Talihaer's idea of wanting to be a hunter wasn't so persistent anymore, right?

That's good too. Being a hunter in these big mountains is far less safe than being a herdsman.

The Tianshan Mountains are six hundred kilometers wide and thousands of kilometers long. In such a large mountain range, except for the Yili River Valley where there are people, the rest of the places are almost inaccessible, and they are all paradises for wild animals.

It's very normal to hunt and hunt and finally be hunted by the prey.

After all, there are herds of wild boars, herds of gray wolves, and solitary brown bears, newly discovered Northern Xinjiang tigers, and lynxes...

And so on.

There are too many things that can kill people, but there are very few people.

Of course, there are also many good things. Just in the past two years, Li Long had obtained good things like fritillaria, jade, and even gold nuggets in the mountains.

The risk is too great, not suitable for ordinary people.

After sighing with Halimu, Li Long said:

"Those pieces of furniture are just a part. Tomorrow I will pull the remaining part over. If you have nothing to do, notify them. Tomorrow they can come over to pull the furniture away. Whoever registered it originally belongs to whom. Of course, if there is still a need, you can continue to order."

Li Long sincerely hoped to let these herdsman friends live a good life, and if he had contributed his meager strength to this, he would be super happy. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 627 =====