Chapter 887

Li Long looked around, confirmed there was no more danger, and put the gun away.

Carrying half a sack of mushrooms, he walked towards the deer—the snow lotus couldn't be picked today; these two deer and one wolf had to be handled for a while.

Talihar and Biek also went straight to the position where the wolf was.

Talihar had a gun, Biek didn't bring a gun, just followed to see the world, and helped out by the way.

The two wolves weren't far apart. When arriving at the southern slope, Talihar saw the wolf Li Long hit at a glance—it wasn't very far from the one he hit. That wolf was even larger than the one he hit.

Seeing Li Long walk less than fifty meters and stop, he aimed, and saw the male red deer lying on the ground.

"Li Long, did you hit a deer?" Talihar was on the shady slope of the mountain, heard the gunshot and came over, only heard the gunshot, didn't see what Li Long hit.

"Two." Li Long looked at the male red deer still bleeding, a bit regretful. Two shots, one hit the head, a bit off, wore a groove on the face, then the bullet entered the right shoulder, and another shot hit the abdomen, this skin was residual.

Looking at that female deer, it was quite good, two shots, one head and one tail, didn't hurt the skin.

"Two?" Talihar was a bit surprised, carried the wolf and walked towards Li Long, Biek followed immediately, and picked up the other wolf by the way.

Both wolves were about forty kilograms. At this time, the two young men could still carry them—dragging was also dragging.

Walking to Li Long's side, looking at that large male red deer, and the female red deer carried by Li Long, Talihar couldn't help but praise:

"Beautiful—sigh, a pity, this male red deer's velvet was broken."

Li Long also saw it. When the male red deer was hit and fell, the long velvet on the right side of its head fell to the ground and broke into three sections, and the broken fracture was still bleeding.

"Li Long, quickly cut the deer velvet down, otherwise, if the blood runs out, the effect won't be good!" Biek looked a bit anxious, "Quickly!"

Li Long smiled, pulled out his knife, and went to cut the deer velvet.

He carried a machete, aimed, and slashed down fiercely. Biek and Talihar both wanted to cut it, how could they cut it like this? It had to be cut slowly, like sawing!

Didn't expect Li Long's machete to go down, actually directly cutting the broken velvet that was about a span long connected to the male red deer's head, almost at the root!

He took out a plastic bag from his backpack, picked up the broken velvet on the ground, wrapped it up, rolled it, and put it back into the backpack.

As for the good velvet on the left side of the deer head, Li Long didn't move, planning to handle it after getting to the jeep side.

"So many, how to take them back?" Biek looked at the two wolves and two red deer, especially that male red deer, which weighed two hundred kilograms, so heavy, it was tiring for him and Talihar to lift.

"Can you lift these two wolves and the female red deer?" Li Long asked.

At this time, leaving one here and taking the rest away was the best. After all, there were only three people in total, and he had a sack.

But there were wolves nearby. Li Long believed that as long as they left, that group of wolves would definitely come over, and what was left behind would be for the wolves.

"Can." Talihar had grown taller, and his strength was also great. He felt that he could carry a wolf and hold a female red deer without any problem, but the gun had to be handed to Biek.

"That's fine." Li Long smiled. He pointed to the sack and said: "This can only be left here."

Saying this, he hung the gun horizontally around his neck and carried it on his chest, carried the backpack upside down, then stepped forward to tie the two front hooves of the male red deer together, and the two hind hooves together.

After tying, Li Long squatted in front of the male red deer's abdomen, grabbed the tied front hooves and hind hooves with both hands, carried them on his shoulders, and while shouting "Hey", lifted the two-hundred-kilogram male red deer!

"Really powerful!" Biek widened his eyes. This male red deer's body was similar to a small horse or a yellow cow, and Li Long actually lifted it directly!

Mainly because he didn't want to get blood all over his body, otherwise he could have dissected the prey here now.

"Alright, let's go!" Li Long also felt great pressure, but fortunately, he could bear it—"I'll go first!"

He carried heavy things and couldn't stop. If he stopped, he had to put them down, so he walked quickly towards the winter shelter.

Talihar and Biek looked at each other and hurriedly got busy. Biek carried the gun, and after carrying the gun, he carried the heaviest female red deer, which weighed sixty or seventy kilograms, actually not small.

On the contrary, the two wolves were slightly larger than the dogs at home. Talihar clamped one in each armpit and followed.

Sure enough, not long after they left, several wolves rushed over from the distant mountains, sniffing and barking here, and even pulled the sack Li Long left behind. The black tiger-palm mushrooms inside were scattered all over the ground, but the wolves obviously weren't interested in this kind of thing, and then ran away.

Li Long and the others didn't carry the things to Yushanjiang's winter shelter in one breath. To tell the truth, it was impossible even for Li Long's heaven-defying strength.

There were several winter shelters in the middle, and they rested twice before returning to the jeep.

Three people carrying so many things also attracted the attention of others. Yushanjiang was also preparing lunch at the winter shelter, and was extremely surprised to see Li Long and the others bringing so many things over.

"Who hunted? Talihar? You or Li Long?" Someone asked.

"The deer was hunted by Li Long, he also hunted a wolf, and I also hunted a wolf." Talihar was also exhausted. The two wolves were eighty kilograms, dead heavy, he threw the wolves down, sat on the wood by the winter shelter, and had no strength to speak.

"Li Long is powerful!" The four herdsmen here praised one after another.

Li Long brought them good things, could drive tractors, drive jeeps, didn't expect hunting to be so powerful—they knew that Li Long learned hunting from Yushanjiang.

"I went to pick snow lotus and happened to run into it." Li Long still had energy, put down the male red deer, and said after relaxing, "Originally there was a group of argali, but they were scared away."

Li Long and the others brought back the prey, so there was no need for him to do the skinning. After Yushanjiang agreed, several herdsmen immediately drew their knives, one chose one, and started skinning and handling.

There were water pipes in front of the winter shelter, so it was convenient to handle now.

Yushanjiang originally thought about stir-frying a dish with potatoes. They brought air-dried meat and potatoes, so they would make a Huoldak. Now it seems they could boil meat to eat.

One stove inside was obviously not enough, so they built another stove outside with stones.

As for the pots, they weren't lacking. When Li Long drove the jeep to deliver things the first time, he brought pots.

No way, Yushanjiang and the others went down the mountain to mow grass, basically bringing one or two pots. There were more than ten people, and Li Long felt it wasn't enough.

So he simply brought a large pot, and he also thought that these people would definitely hunt, so boiling meat was inevitable.

Eating like this was satisfying.

Li Long watched them handle the meat, and still thought about whether to go pick up that large sack, and pick some snow lotus by the way, stood up and sat down again.

It was really beyond his power. Carrying the male red deer back all the way, he was exhausted!

Then just wait peacefully to eat.

Several herdsmen were skilled, and soon skinned and gutted the four preys. At Li Long's insistence, they first unloaded some bone meat to boil.

The male red deer meat was a bit smelly, but at this time, they couldn't care about so much. This thing had great strength and was large, so eat it first.

Originally according to Yushanjiang's statement, he would keep the red deer meat for Li Long to take back, and boil wolf meat here. Li Long refused, since they regarded him as a friend, how could he eat alone?

"I'll just take the red deer velvet and whip, everyone eats this meat!" Li Long made the final decision, and that was it.

However, that female red deer wasn't moved at all. After skinning, they rubbed salt on it, then wrapped it with skin, and put it into Li Long's jeep.

They also left one of the two wolves for Li Long, and all the skins were handed to Li Long.

As a result, some mushrooms picked by these people couldn't be loaded into the jeep—it couldn't fit.

The tut-tut-tut tractor sound rang out, and those who were working returned.

Smelling the meat fragrance and looking at the chunks of meat rolling in the pot, these people cheered—able to eat meat, who would want to gnaw on dry naan?

Lunch was very enjoyable. Li Long and the others had gains in hunting, and mowing grass over there was also quite good. Two harvesters worked together, and the speed was very fast. Some said it might not take ten days, and their grass mowing work could be finished. After all, it was hot now, and this grass could be dried in three or five days. After drying, bundle it and haul it back to pile it up.

This grass was the grass fodder used by herdsmen to spend the winter.

In later generations, the cultivated land area was much larger than now, and the livestock raised by herdsmen were also much more. In addition to mowing grass in the pasture, they would also buy straw and the like from farmers as feed grass. And the mechanization of North Xinjiang in later generations, one of which was that after harvesting wheat and corn, the straw would be packed into square or round grass blocks and grass rollers, which could be used directly after hauling back. This kind of grass might not be very good for sheep to eat, but cattle liked to eat it very much.

It wasn't now. Now, cattle and sheep didn't eat wheat straw, they disliked it. What they ate was the miscellaneous grass with leaves and flower spikes mowed in the wild.

Not going into the mountains wasn't possible. Even for Halimu and the others, Li Long would often go into the mountains.

With a gun and bullets in hand, and driving a car, he really wasn't afraid of anything—even if he really ran into a North Xinjiang tiger, could it pry open the jeep?

Probably it would run away upon seeing the jeep, right?

After all, the appearance was good, and the price Li Long sold was also high, so just treat this money as transfer payment.

The second day Li Long ate breakfast, told the family, and drove to the mountains.

What surprised Li Long was that it rained in the mountains yesterday.

After passing two layers of earth mountains and sandy stone mountains, and entering the mountain area with vegetation, Li Long felt that the air was exceptionally moist and fresh.

It smelled very comfortable.

Of course, the trouble was also quite large, which was that the road wasn't easy to walk. After the ground was wet, there was mud. Although the jeep's power was quite strong, the splashing of mud spots also had quite an impact.

Could only go back and wash the car properly.

Li Long was a bit puzzled that there was a tractor driving out of the gully—he didn't see the tractor, but saw the marks of the tractor driving out.

Was it because it rained and it wasn't easy to mow grass, so Yushanjiang went out to the animal husbandry team's stationing point to see his family?

Li Long guessed like this.

When arriving at Yushanjiang's winter shelter, sure enough, he didn't see Yushanjiang, but there were a few herdsmen chatting here.

Seeing Li Long come over, those few herdsmen hurriedly got up and waited for the jeep to drive over.

Li Long didn't drive the jeep to the winter shelter, there was too much mud, afraid of splashing everywhere. And the car was relatively heavy, pressing marks in the mud by the winter shelter, which wouldn't be easy to clean after it dried.

He got off the jeep, walked carefully to the winter shelter, and while cleaning the thick mud on his shoes, asked:

"Did Yushanjiang go to the stationing point to see his sheep pen?"

"Yes." The herdsman named Ye Erjiang said, "Left early—in the morning."

This early sound was pulled very long, indicating that he left particularly early.

The habit of North Xinjiang people, using the length of the sound to describe the distance of the road and the amount of time.

The longer the sound, the farther it was, or the longer the time.

"Is it impossible to mow grass today?" Li Long asked another sentence. Now there were still thin clouds in the sky, but looking at the clouds drifting east, and the northwest direction had cleared up, about an hour or two later, there would be a big sun in the sky.

"Afternoon, afternoon, after the sun dries the rainwater on the grass, it can be mowed." Ye Erjiang handed a piece of naan to Li Long. Li Long shook his head to indicate he had eaten, and Ye Erjiang ate it himself.

It could be mowed in the afternoon, and there was nothing in the morning, so Yushanjiang went to see his family, which was very normal, no problem.

After the sky cleared, mushrooms grew out. Li Long came over and actually couldn't help much with mowing grass, so he carried the sack into the mountains, thinking about picking some mushrooms first.

A sack of mushrooms dried could yield ten or so kilograms, exchanging for quite a bit of money. This speed and

On this point, Yushanjiang was very certain.

Early the next morning, the first thing Yushanjiang did when opening the door was to see how the tractor was.

The tractor was well there. When he wanted to go over to see, the horse was already calling in the enclosure.

Obviously, the horse was unhappy; the owner's attitude towards it these two days wasn't right.

Yushanjiang smiled and went to let the horse out of the enclosure, leading it to a place with lush grass to let it eat by itself, while he went to burn fire.

The tractor was there, so there was no need to look at it for a while.

Just as he was eating naan, those herdsmen rode over. This time only six or seven people came. Yushanjiang guessed that the rest of the people should be at Talihar's place.

"The new tractor is beautiful!" Someone exclaimed.

"With two tractors, this time it won't take half a month, and our grass will be enough."

"Exactly, two tractors driving together to mow, we just need to bundle it. This machine is really powerful." The young men highly respected this tractor, and they also thought it would be great if they could own one.

However, for one thing, their strength wasn't enough, and for another, their own winter shelters could be reached by riding horses, but wanting to drive a tractor over was relatively difficult.

So they could only look and envy. However, these two tractors belonged to the herdsmen. Although they didn't have them, driving them was no problem.

Yushanjiang asked:

"Have you all eaten?"

"Not yet, we came over as soon as we got up." A young man said with a smile.

"Then let's eat together." Yushanjiang pointed to the room, "Li Long bought some naan and brought it back yesterday. I've boiled tea, come, let's eat together."

Breakfast at this time was very simple, just naan and brick tea. Those who brought milk curds also shared them with everyone. There were also vegetables like onions in the tractor's cargo bed, but it was too late to cook them, so they just made do with a meal.

Soon, Talihar and the others also drove the tractor over. People gathered together to talk about work.

After breakfast, Yushanjiang began to assign tasks. Driving the tractor was of course him and Talihar, starting to mow grass from two directions.

Li Long came over, and Lu Yingming from across the way also walked over. Like Li Jianguo, he also just came back from cutting wheat. This money was earned refreshingly, so seeing Li Long, he came over to say a few words.

Although people in this village wouldn't say thank you straightforwardly, the meaning was placed there.

After eating a few pieces of melon, Li Long returned to the large courtyard in the county before dark. The family had also entered the house, and Sister Yang left food for Li Long. Li Long finished eating in the kitchen in a hurry, and before the mosquitoes attacked him, returned to the room.

Mingming and Haohao hadn't slept yet, and the two children were playing with a snow lotus flower each. The scent of the snow lotus flower was extremely good, and both children cherished it very much.

Li Long had time to tell Gu Xiaoxia about the situation in the mountains, hunting, of course, was downplayed, but he described the "snow lotus slope" quite well.

Li Long actually felt that he was quite lucky. Although he had experienced danger in hunting these past few years, to tell the truth, most of the time it was ambushing, and his luck was quite good.

Almost every time there was a harvest, and he really didn't eat less meat.

The next day Li Long planned to go up the mountain again, but Sun Jia Qiang ran over early to report to Li Long that Huang Lei had come.

It was normal for Huang Lei to come here every few days to collect mushrooms because there were many wild mushrooms during this period. Li Long thought it seemed he couldn't go into the mountains today. After all, doing business was serious business.

Moreover, Yushanjiang and the others could drive tractors in the mountains, and two tractors mowing grass basically didn't need him to do anything.

Then clear the dried mushrooms first! (End of chapter)