[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw":3,"chapter-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-65":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 1981: Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1933946,2572,"Chapter 65: The road home is very long","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-65",65,"\u003Cp>\"Bang! Bang! Bang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long fired a bit hastily. He felt he should have hit a wild boar, but if he kept pulling the trigger on the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, the recoil would certainly affect the stability of the gun. He didn't know if he could actually bring down a few.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After firing, he looked over there. Not a single wild boar had fallen; they were still charging up the ridge. Li Long immediately scrambled up, crouched halfway, aimed roughly again to lead the target, and pulled the trigger continuously at the high point of the ridge, emptying the remaining bullets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he was firing, Halimu hadn't stopped either. The sound of gunfire echoed continuously in the valley, feeling quite deafening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go, let's go take a look.\" Halimu was also a bit frustrated. He hadn't chosen the location well this time, and he felt the reason was mainly his own fault. Who could have known that the wind direction in this valley would suddenly change, and that those wild boars, which looked so stupid and reckless, would have such a good sense of smell?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them rushed down the mountain with their guns, then headed up the ridge. When they were almost at the top, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wild boar had fallen in a snowdrift just a few steps before reaching the top of the ridge. Blood had soaked a large area, and the snow nearby was a mess from the boar's death throes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a medium-sized pig weighing fifty or sixty kilograms. Li Long poked it with his bayonet to check; fortunately, it was a sow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for a small boar, if it hasn't been castrated, the meat has a rank smell. In comparison, a sow doesn't have this problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking advantage of the fact that the pig wasn't completely dead yet, Li Long stabbed it in the neck with his bayonet, while simultaneously stepping hard on the boar's heart area, causing blood to spurt from the wound in the neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cleaner the blood is drained from the pig, the better the meat tastes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Halimu climbed over Li Long to the top of the ridge, looked down, and turned to say to Li Long:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's one here too, but it's smaller, bigger than a large sheep.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long smiled and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then this pork will be delicious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Halimu dragged that wild boar to Li Long, which moved Li Long—after all, some taboos were still quite strict in later generations; now it seemed Halimu truly treated him as one of his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long followed the same procedure and drained the blood of the small pig—unfortunately, that small pig was a boar, but fortunately, it was quite small; if it had grown for another year, the meat wouldn't have tasted good. After draining the blood, he used his knife to slit the boar's belly to release the gas; he couldn't bear to throw away the contents of the stomach, so he didn't take them out. Last time, the two pigs hadn't been gutted, and the taste hadn't been good. It was also rare for the people in the team to eat meat, so no one mentioned it, but after Li Long ate the meat, combining his experience from two lifetimes, he knew where the problem lay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to learn his lesson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll go back and lead the horse,\" Halimu said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need.\" Li Long waved his hand, pulled out the plastic sheet he had prepared from his sheepskin coat, unfolded it, and spread it on the snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Use this.\" He handed the gun to Halimu, then dragged the sow onto the plastic sheet. As for the small pig, he didn't even need Halimu's help; he picked it up directly and placed it next to the sow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This plastic sheet was thick enough, and Li Long felt it should be able to hold up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tied the two back corners of the plastic sheet together, then pulled up the front two corners and slowly dragged it down the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the downward momentum, plus the fact that it wasn't heavy, and the small friction of the snow, Li Long dragged both pigs all the way to the valley by himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once there, dragging them further up the mountain wouldn't be easy, but Li Long had long observed the terrain. He followed the valley diagonally toward the northeast, where there was a rift valley leading to the location where the horse cart was parked. He didn't need to cross the ridge to get there, it just required a bit of a detour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Halimu followed behind Li Long, saying with some surprise:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This method is quite good! Li Long, next time you come over, can you bring more of this plastic sheet? Maybe we can use it too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No problem.\" Li Long was proud of his idea. The main reason he did this was that he didn't want Halimu to get his hands dirty. More than an hour later, the sky was already bright. Although the sun hadn't risen yet, the surroundings were already clearly visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look, a roe deer!\" Suddenly, Halimu pointed at the ridge, and Li Long hurriedly looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An animal that looked about the size of a small deer glanced down from the ridge, then rushed down the other side and disappeared from sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn't it said that roe deer are very stupid? Li Long didn't see where this guy was stupid at all; it was quite clever, wasn't it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or was the breed here different from the one in the Northeast?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had no time to think about these things right now. Even though dragging these two wild boars was easier than dragging logs, after dragging them for so long, Li Long felt he was exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Halimu wanted to lead the horse again, but Li Long waved his hand, gritted his teeth, and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are only a few hundred meters left, just hold on and we'll be there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It really was only a few hundred meters; from here, one could already see the white smoke rising from the winter camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Halimu quickly headed toward the winter camp, while Li Long dragged the two pigs to the horse cart. He had originally intended to load logs, but now it seemed he should load the pigs first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the experience from last time, he positioned the horse cart on the downhill slope and carefully rolled the pigs down from above, landing them right in the cart. These two pigs were much lighter than the previous two, so Li Long didn't spend much effort loading them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that if he thought about loading two more wolves, there wouldn't be much room left for logs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decided not to load logs at all, Li Long thought, letting Number 76 have an easier time too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he returned to the winter camp, Li Long couldn't wait to drink a bowl of milk tea, which finally helped him recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breakfast and resting for half an hour, Li Long and Halimu began to load other things, preparing to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he not only brought back wolves, wild boars, and jade, but also a bag of astragalus, a wolf skin, a piece of deer antler, and another deer horn that Halimu had found.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long planned to sell all these things to the purchasing station after going down the mountain, which would add another sum to his savings, bringing him one step closer to buying a bicycle, a sewing machine, and a hunting rifle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although using Halimu and Yushanjiang's Type 56 semi-automatic rifle for hunting was very good, Li Long knew that once April or May came, they would have to drive the cattle and sheep to the summer pastures deep in the mountains, and at that time, he would have to find his own gun to hunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the summer pasture was very far from the mountain pass, and Li Long didn't intend to run that far—once in a while was fine, but going often was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn't Tarzan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The horse cart slowly went down the mountain, and Li Long was in a good mood. Halimu had originally wanted to pack some milk curds for him, but Li Long refused. He truly couldn't get used to this \"specialty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he saw the county town, Li Long had already been walking for quite a while. Sitting on the horse cart wasn't strenuous, but it was truly cold. He felt he was almost practicing the art of retracting his yang, and his face was frozen numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the first thing Li Long did upon entering the county town was to go to the meat canteen to eat some hot food. But he didn't dare leave the horse cart; after all, the things on the cart added up to several hundred yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only hurriedly drink a bowl of free hot tea, spend nine mao to buy three large meat buns, and rush to the purchasing station while eating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he would see how much money he could sell them for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 66 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1535,"2026-06-14T06:06:39.549Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","87b98b11e5cec4cf174b4d534864c01aa6a8ab50df7a5f29cd7ada09c225805c","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-66","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-64",180,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]