Era: My backyard is the garbage dump of the universe

Chapter 226 Poachers

"Did they poach anything?" Liu Qingsong asked with a frown after walking out of the door.

"We haven't found anything on them yet, but it's hard to say about the other accomplices who escaped." Zhou Mazi replied in a low voice.

"Really?" Liu Qingsong walked up to a tall poacher with a face full of black moles and asked: "Where are you from?"

The tall poacher lowered his head and did not answer.

Because he was sure that Liu Qingsong would not dare to do anything to them.

After all, in the past, when the Huaishu Production Team caught poachers, they would just lock them up for a night or beat them up and then let them go. They didn’t dare to do anything to them at all.

Liu Qingsong guessed what the tall poacher was thinking and was about to threaten him, but the hot-tempered Zhou Chuanxiong raised the butt of his gun and hit the tall poacher hard.

The tall poacher was beaten to a bloody mess and cried for his parents, which attracted Xiao Nuomi and Yaomei who were in the house to come out and watch the fun.

Xiao Taoqi, Ye Xiaoxiao and Pangdun also rushed over under the leadership of Tao Guoqing.

Liu Qingsong was afraid of scaring the children, so he reached out to stop Zhou Chuanxiong: "Okay, okay, stop hitting me. If you continue, someone will die."

"Since they won't say anything, just let them go."

"Don't cause any more trouble."

"But...but..." Zhou Chuanxiong wanted to argue with Liu Qingsong, but Zhou Mazi stopped him with a look: "Listen to Qingsong, what he said makes sense."

"Okay!" Zhou Chuanxiong had no choice but to nod and put away his shotgun.

Two outside poachers saw this.

He ran away immediately.

It soon disappeared into the night.

"Zhou Chuanxiong, take two people and follow them quietly. When you find their whereabouts, come back and tell us. Remember! Don't alert the enemy." Liu Qingsong suddenly lowered his voice and said to Zhou Chuanxiong.

"Ah?" Zhou Chuanxiong was stunned.

"What? Go quickly!" Zhou Mazi kicked Zhou Chuanxiong: "Why else do you think Qingsong let them go so easily?"

"Oh! Oh!" Zhou Chuanxiong smiled foolishly, waved his hand and took the two villagers beside him to chase in the direction where the poacher disappeared.

Liu Qingsong was afraid that something might happen to them.

He specially called the little black cat lying at the door over and asked it to escort Zhou Chuanxiong and the others from behind.

Seeing this, the little eagle on the roof quickly flapped its wings and flew into the night sky to help keep an eye on the two fleeing poachers.

"Qingsong, what should we do next?" Wang Yaoqing asked as he watched Xiao Heikui disappear.

"What else can we do? Just wait! Let's wait until Zhou Chuanxiong finds the whereabouts of these poachers from other places." Liu Qingsong replied.

"What if the destination is not in our Huaishu Production Team?" Wang Yaoqing expressed his concerns.

"That's impossible." Zhou Mazi took two puffs of his pipe and said, "We hunters hate walking at night. If these outside poachers don't have a place to stay in the Huaishu Production Team, they won't dare to roam in the mountains at night."

"That's right." Liu Qingsong nodded in agreement: "Once we find their base, it won't be too late to catch all these foreign poachers in one fell swoop."

"I'm not worried about finding their whereabouts, I'm just worried that they are hunting tigers."

"Hunting tigers?" Wang Yaoqing gasped.

Zhou Mazi's face also turned ugly.

Liu Qingsong nodded: "Well, the price of tiger skin and tiger bones is very high in the city now, which is why these poachers dare to take great risks to poach in our Huaishu Production Team."

"But even if we knew, what would happen?" Zhou Mazi sighed, "We'll just beat them up and let them go."

This is the truth. Although the government banned the hunting of tigers in 1979, the crime was not serious.

Even if they are caught, they won't be detained for long, at least that's the case in Songmu Commune.

Liu Qingsong naturally knew the inside story, so he didn't argue with Zhou Mazi and others anymore, but stood at the gate and waited.

I waited for about ten minutes.

Zhou Chuanxiong came running back, panting. "Uncle! Uncle! Qingsong really got it right. These poachers have a place to stay, and there are more than a dozen other poachers here too."

"Then where is the destination?" Zhou Mazi asked in a low voice.

Wang Yaoqing and Liu Qingsong also looked at Zhou Chuanxiong.

"It's in the thatched shed under the dam of the Crucian Carp Reservoir." Zhou Chuanxiong replied: "I asked Zhou Chaoxi and Liu Dong to take Xiao Hei Kui to hide in the mimosa grass and keep an eye on it!"

"Then let's go and take a look." Liu Qingsong said to Liu Lijuan at the door, and took Zhou Mazi, Wang Yaoqing, Zhou Chuanxiong and other villagers to run towards the crucian carp reservoir in the dark.

Ten minutes later, they met Zhou Chaoxi and Liu Dong in the sedge grass opposite the Crucian Carp Reservoir.

With the faint moonlight, they could clearly see a dozen poachers gathered in the thatched hut discussing something.

On the ground at the door lay the corpse of a large, gorgeous tiger.

When Liu Qingsong saw this scene, he frowned and felt angry for some reason.

Just as Zhou Chuanxiong was about to call for help to capture these dozen or so poachers from other places, suddenly a grenade was thrown at the thatched hut.

There was a bang.

A dozen or so poachers from other places who were hiding in the thatched hut were blown to the ground, and none of them could get up.

But the short old man who threw the grenade still did not let them go. After coming out of the woods, he and a dozen villagers raised their hunting rifles and sent the poachers away.

When Zhou Chuanxiong, Zhou Mazi, Wang Yaoqing, Zhou Chaoxi, Liu Dong and other villagers saw this scene, they were so scared that they broke out in cold sweats.

After all, these dozen or so poachers are human beings, not animals.

They were killed just like that. To be honest, they were scared just watching it.

Liu Qingsong was also shocked by the old man's cruelty.

Seeing the old man leading the way and dragging the tiger's corpse into the woods, he whispered to Zhou Mazi, "If I'm not mistaken, this old man should be Tang Yiqiang from the Toad Production Team."

"Yes, it's him." Zhou Mazi nodded.

"Then let's not worry about it anymore. Tang Yigun will take care of things here." Liu Qingsong glanced at the surrounding environment and said, "Let's go! Everyone pretend that you didn't see what happened today."

It's not that he is afraid of Tang Yiqiang.

But he knew Tang Yiqiang's past very well.

If I remember correctly, Tang Yiqiang's parents died of illness when he was just born, and it was his aunt who raised him until he was over three years old.

But that year, a flood hit the Toad Production Team, which drowned all of his aunt's family. Only Tang Yiqiang survived because he was rescued by a tiger.

That is, since then.

Tang Yiqiang became a legend in the Toad Production Team, and led the villagers to protect the tigers in the mountains from being hunted, in case any outside poacher was careless and touched him.

It is basically impossible to leave Songmu Commune alive.

In fact, this matter was not a secret in the eyes of the older generation of Songmu Commune. Even some township cadres knew that Tang Yiqiang had killed many people in order to protect tigers.

But no one reported Tang Yigun.

Because Tang Yiqiang hated evil and had fought on the battlefield when he was young, he had a good reputation in Songmu Commune! He was also protected by the relevant leaders.

"But what if the families of these poachers come looking for us?" Wang Yaoqing asked, expressing his concerns.

"Haha... This is something that Tang Yiqiang should be concerned about. It has nothing to do with us!" Liu Qingsong said with a smile: "Let me remind you! Even if the family members come to find us, we should not sell Tang Yiqiang out. After all, he did something that we dare not do."

"That's true." Wang Yaoqing nodded and followed Liu Qingsong towards the door of his house.

……

After returning home, Liu Qingsong did not mention anything about the poachers, but picked up his bowl and chopsticks to eat dinner.

Liu Lijuan did not ask any more questions, but took Xiao Nuomi and Yaomei's hands and said, "Qingsong, I'm going to the gate of Pangdun's house to watch the fun. Secretary Chen seems to be holding a meeting tonight to contract the fish pond in the team."

"Go! Go! I'll go over after dinner." Liu Qingsong waved his hand.

If possible, I will contract a fish pond to raise fish later.

"Yeah," Liu Lijuan took Xiao Nuomi and Yaomei away.

Liu Qingsong continued to eat dinner.

After eating.

Just as he was about to wash the dishes, the little eagle flew into the main room and landed on the eight-immortal table.

It’s not that the little eagle wants to eat, but that he has discovered new circumstances.

After frowning, Liu Qingsong followed the little eagle outside, turned on his high-tech shoes, jumped onto the Wild Boar Ridge on the back mountain, and ran towards Tiger Mountain.

soon.

He ran to the foot of Tiger Mountain.

Just about to look up to see where the little eagle is.

In the bushes ahead, there was a pair of big copper-bell eyes staring at him.

Liu Qingsong subconsciously took two steps back, and then he saw clearly that it was a wounded tiger crawling there.

He seemed to have seen this tiger before, no! To be exact, he had bandaged the tiger's wound before.

But now the tiger's right ear is gone and blood is oozing from its abdomen.

After taking a deep breath, Liu Qingsong walked over cautiously.

The big tiger also recognized Liu Qingsong. After looking up, it licked the wounds on its body.

Liu Qingsong originally wanted to bandage the giant tiger, but after thinking it over he decided not to do so.

Instead, he let the little eagle watch while he quickly ran back home and walked into the garbage dump of all worlds.

Inside the glass chamber, the liquid robot saw Liu Qingsong coming in and immediately went up to greet him: "Good news, I recently used the tracking mirror to track your parents' whereabouts again."

"Really?" Liu Qingsong was not happy about the surprise, but said in a low voice: "Don't worry about my parents' affairs for the time being. I want you to cooperate with the Lord Protector Vine immediately and teleport all the tigers in Tiger Mountain and Wild Boar Ridge to the Ten Thousand Worlds Garbage Dump."

Liquid Robot: "What's the reason?"

"Because if we don't do this, the tigers in the Huaishu Production Team will be killed to extinction by poachers." Liu Qingsong said in a low voice: "Instead of this, I might as well let them stay in the Ten Thousand Worlds Garbage Dump. They can help me resist invaders at critical moments."

In fact, he had previously wanted to raise a few tigers and put them in the energy shield to patrol, but when he thought that this would restrict the tigers' freedom, he gave up the idea.

But things are different now.

If he didn't take action, the tigers in Songmu Commune would probably become extinct, so after much deliberation, Liu Qingsong decided to send the tigers to the garbage dump of all worlds.

In this case.

At least little Fatty Tiger will have a companion.

"Then I'll go find the guardian vine." The liquid robot turned and left.

Liu Qingsong did not stay in the garbage dump outside for long. He walked out and went directly to participate in the fish pond contracting meeting within the team.

……

In the threshing ground in front of Pangdun’s house.

The place was surrounded by villagers who came to watch the fun.

But what was strange was that when Secretary Chen announced the start of contracting the fish pond, most of the villagers kept silent, and some even smiled and walked away from Secretary Chen and Zhou Mazi.

"What are you doing?" Secretary Chen got a headache after seeing this scene.

He thought he would be scrambling to contract the fish pond tonight!
I never thought I would encounter such a situation.

"Secretary, you don't know this." Liu Huagen lowered his voice and revealed the inside story: "This fish pond was mainly used to irrigate rice seedlings in previous years. In a good year, the team would have fish to eat, but if there was a flood disaster, all the fish in the fish pond would run away."

"That's right, especially in drought years, many fish ponds in our Huaishu Production Team will dry out and crack. Under such circumstances, the contract price of the fish ponds is still so expensive, naturally few people dare to take the risk." Zhou Mazi followed in a low voice.

"I see!" Secretary Chen nodded in sudden realization: "Then is there no way for you to change this situation?"

Liu Huagen couldn't answer.

Zhou Mazi also smiled and didn't dare to say anything.

If this could be changed, the Huaishu production team would not suffer a harvest failure in drought years.

Secretary Chen saw this and after a long silence, he said, "Then reduce the contract price of the fish pond by half. For a large fish pond like Luotang, there must be someone who will contract it for fifty yuan a year, right?"

Zhou Mazi and Liu Huagen still didn't speak.

Wang Yaoqing even smiled bitterly.

"What? The price is still high?" Secretary Chen asked.

"Well, that's too high. Ten dollars a year at most," Zhou Mazi suggested.

"That won't work. Ten yuan a year won't be enough to pay your salaries." Secretary Chen disagreed on the spot. Just as he was about to ask the villagers present to give their opinions, Liu Qingsong quickly appeared.

"Uncle, why did you come just now?" Seeing this, Little Nuomi handed over the roasted sweet potato: "Eat it quickly, it smells so good."

"Okay! Okay!" Liu Qingsong took the sweet potato and was about to peel it and take a few bites when Secretary Chen reached out and pulled him to sit beside him: "Why are you always the last one to come to every meeting? Now the fish pond can't be contracted anymore, so give us some ideas quickly."

"No...what's going on?" Liu Qingsong was very surprised when he heard it.

In 1979, contracting a fish pond was very profitable, so why did no one from Huaishu Production Brigade contract it?
"Alas! You don't know." Zhou Mazi sighed and gave the reason, then added: "If it were you, and there was a drought year and the water level of the fish pond was not guaranteed, would you dare to contract the fish pond to raise fish?"

"Then let's set a minimum water level!" Liu Qingsong suggested.

Villagers including Zhou Mazi, Wang Yaoqing and Liu Huagen stopped talking.

Because in their minds, the main function of the fish pond is to irrigate the seedlings. If there is water, it's fine. If there is no water, what is the minimum water level? As long as there is water, they will think of ways to steal it.

This is why there have been many cases of people being killed in rural areas over competition for water resources, because water is the lifeblood of farmers. Anyone who prevents them from pumping water to irrigate their crops is stealing their jobs!
Liu Qingsong also felt a headache after he realized what was happening.

But he thought that this was not a reason for the fish pond to fail to be contracted: "Secretary, how about this, you set the contract price of the fish pond a little lower, so that if there is a disaster year, the fish pond contractor will suffer less loss."

"But if it's any lower, we won't be able to pay the salaries of the cadres in your Huaishu production team." Secretary Chen said with a wry smile.

"How about this, all the fish ponds and reservoirs are contracted to me, and I will pay the salaries of the cadres in the team?" Liu Qingsong suggested.

"Then don't come crying to me if you lose money!" Secretary Chen said with a smile.

"Why am I crying? I'm just afraid that everyone will make trouble with me when they see that I've made money." Liu Qingsong spread his hands and said.

This is the truth, we are all in the same team, and if you are having a hard time, they will sympathize with you.

But if you live a good life and make a lot of money, a lot of conjunctivitis will come out, so he must say it in advance.

“Hahaha… Qingsong, you make it sound like we are all mean people.” Old man Yang from the team stood up and laughed, “Don’t worry, as long as you dare to contract all the fish ponds in the team, we won’t make trouble with you no matter how much money you make in the future.”

"That's right, but you can't stop us from using water to irrigate the crops." A villager followed up with another comment.

"Of course." Liu Qingsong laughed.

But Liu Lijuan, who was watching the fun, was anxious: "Qingsong, don't do anything stupid. You may work hard for a year and still not be able to buy the original money..."

The words are not finished yet.

Liu Qingsong interrupted her: "Don't worry, second sister, I won't lose money."

This year is 1979. With the implementation of reform policies, the prices of all kinds of materials will rise.

The fish in the fish pond are naturally no exception. If he does not take this opportunity to contract the fish pond, once other villagers find out about this, he will have no chance in the future.

Liu Lijuan naturally didn't know this.

I was about to speak again to persuade him.

Secretary Chen made the decision and said, "Qingsong, let's make a deal. The fish ponds of Huaishu Production Team, including the crucian carp reservoir, will be contracted to you, but you must pay the team cadres' salary for one year."

"It's settled." Liu Qingsong nodded.

"Then let's write it down as evidence." Secretary Chen took out paper and pen.

"Okay! Okay!" Liu Qingsong sat down and started writing according to Secretary Chen's dictation.

Seeing this, Liu Lijuan had no choice but to stop talking.

After all, in her heart she still believed in Liu Qingsong.

But the other villagers present did not think so. Some even showed a joking look, because they knew in their hearts that the fish in the fish pond were not so easy to raise.

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(End of this chapter)