Chapter 81 Hunting in the Mountains
The next morning, when Lin Heng woke up, he felt that his waist and limbs did not feel like his own, and his whole body ached with the slightest movement.
A series of high-intensity labor is still too tiring for him who often does not work in the fields.
"If you are really tired, just rest at home and don't go."
Xiulan noticed Lin Heng's movements.
"It's okay, it's okay. Just exercise and it'll be fine." Lin Heng shook his head, sat up and pinched his legs and waist.
"I'm here to help you, lie down."
Xiulan went to the closet and took out the safflower oil, poured a little into her hands, and kneaded Lin Heng's limbs, waist and back For a moment.
"Is it better?" Xiulan asked after pinching it again.
"Much better, safflower oil really works." Lin Heng nodded and got up with his clothes on.
As a well-known external medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, it was invented as early as the Qing Dynasty. But people still use it, which fully illustrates the excellence of this medicine.
"Don't wake up my daughter. I'll cook for you. You can invite your uncle to come over and eat together."
Xiulan whispered.
Lin Heng nodded, Xiaoxia was sleeping soundly. The method he thought of was very good at avoiding his daughter's bad habit of kicking the quilt.
As soon as Lin Heng walked out of the courtyard gate, he saw a figure in black clothes walking down the other side of the river at a very fast speed.
Take a closer look, this is not his uncle, or who is it?
He was also convinced. When he woke up in the morning, he looked at his watch and it was half past five. In other words, he left home at five o'clock.
He shook his head helplessly and walked towards the old house.
After he came over, he saw that his uncle had just gotten up and his mother was about to cook for him.
Lin Heng looked at his mother and said, "Mom, you don't have to worry about it. Xiulan is making it right now. Just ask my uncle to come over and eat."
"Yes, Hongmei, don't do it. Let's eat together at Lin Heng's house." The uncle also said.
He washed his face, took his things and left.
The two came out of the door, and Lin Heng found that his uncle had already walked to the road below the door.
"Quan Wazi, you run so fast." His uncle said loudly.
"Can I do it if I don't hurry up? What if you run away?" His uncle chuckled.
"Li Baiquan, are you going too?" Tian Baishun came from not far away, with a shotgun on his shoulder and a dog on his side.
"Yes, there are many of us and we have company. This time the whole big wild boar is back." Li Baiquan chuckled.
"Come home and have a meal, my wife is cooking." Lin Heng invited everyone into the house.
Xiulan ordered pickled cabbage noodles. Each of them took a big bowl, sat down around the table, and talked while eating.
"By the way, which direction are we going today?"
Lin Heng asked after taking a bite of noodles.
Tian Baishun suggested: "Since there are four of us, let's go to Taibai Mountain. There are many things in that direction and the woods are big."
"Okay, I think it's okay."< br>
"I don't care, it doesn't matter whether it's near or far."
Lin Heng saw that both his uncle and uncle agreed, so naturally he had no objection: "Then let's go to Taibai Mountain."
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The direction of Taibai Mountain is the same as that of Baishigou, but a little further south.
There is still a small path to Taibai Mountain, which is easier than walking directly into the forest.
“Let’s go!” After finishing the meal, Lin Heng was the first to get up with his things on his back.
The other three people were all the same, holding guns and carrying backpacks as they ran away.
“Pay attention to safety.” He even asked three people to go to the door and warned them.
"Don't worry, there's no problem."
Lin Heng waved his hand and responded with a smile.
The four of them arrived at Hongfeng Mountain to the west of the village. They entered the mountain from here and walked southwest, about 20 kilometers to the bottom of Taibai Mountain.
Lin Heng did not take Xiong Ba with him this time because Tian Baishun’s dog kept trying to bite Xiong Ba in the yard just now.
In addition, he doesn’t want others to know what’s special about Xiong Ba.
After entering the mountain, Tian Baishun let go of his hunting dog. He walked in front and said: "I am familiar with this road. I have walked it back and forth ten times. I will lead the way."
"My suggestion is Let’s start looking for prey from here, don’t wait until we go to Taibai Mountain to look for it.” Lin Heng looked at the crowd and said.
"Well, let's spread out a little bit and look for traces of the prey." Uncle Li Baiquan said.
"Okay, let me know if you find anything big." His uncle said and walked to the left.
Lin Heng walked to the right and followed his uncle to see how he found prey.
After walking all the way up the mountain, no trace was found. When he was about to cross the bridge, Lin Heng smelled a foul odor.
"Who set the trap that killed the hairy mouse?" Uncle Li Baiquan saw the stone trap in the distance at a glance.
"There is nothing to do in this place, people come here all the time."
He shook his head, pointed to a trap not far away and said, "Look, this is the King of Hell."
The King of Hell Trap is a trampled ejection trap. It is a trap set by bending a tree to the ground through a rope.
If the prey steps on it, it will trigger the mechanism, and it will be ejected from the tree and hung in the air. It is very sensitive. Stepping on it basically means meeting the King of Hell, so it is called the King of Hell.
"Uncle, how did you make this?" Lin Heng knew this kind of trap, but he didn't know how to make it.
He knows the simplest rope trap, which is the kind of movable rope that the animal will get tighter and tighter after passing through it.
"It's easy, I'll teach you." Li Baiquan said with a smile, holding a wooden stick and directly triggering the King of Hell in front of him.
With a bang, the whole tree straightened up, and the rope flew into the sky with the stick.
"Actually, there is a wooden stake with a hook nailed to the ground. A small wooden stick is passed through the hook, the rope is cleverly stuck on it, and the branches and leaves are laid on it."
Li Baiquan explained. , and covered it up for Lin Heng.
"I understand." Lin Heng finally knew how to set it up.
“Then let’s go, there’s probably nothing on this ridge.”
Li Baiquan said and continued walking forward.
Lin Heng staggered with him and walked forward side by side. Unknowingly, it was noon. They had climbed three mountains, but there was still no big progress.
He found three squirrels and two crows, but he didn't have a chance to do anything.
My uncle Li Baiquan found traces of wild boar, but it had been a while and he couldn't determine the specific location.
No mushrooms or anything else were picked up, unless they were rare ones like Ganoderma lucidum.
Lin Heng looked around while eating Wowotou. In the forest here, the trees were basically fifteen meters tall, tall and thick, and many of them fell to the ground and rotted.
In the distance, you can already see Taibai Mountain. It is still winter on the mountain at this season, with temperatures around minus ten degrees.
There is no summer all year round in Taibai Mountain. Spring and autumn last for fifty days, and winter lasts for more than three hundred days. From a distance, it is covered with snow-white clouds and mist.
Even so, you can still feel its majestic momentum. The entire mountain range seems like a giant dragon lying down.
"Lin Heng, there should be something here. Pay attention. I found pig and badger poop. It must have been pooped recently."
While Lin Heng was looking at the scenery, something appeared in the distance. There were reminders from my uncle everywhere.
"Okay, I understand."
Lin Heng collected his thoughts and searched carefully.
“Ganoderma lucidum!”
Who would have thought that the prey would not find it, but saw a red ganoderma lucidum first.
I walked to the tree stump and saw that it was not one tree, but a cluster. There were eight flowers growing next to the tree stump, three big ones and five small ones.
"What a good luck."
Lin Heng couldn't help but smile. They were all freshly produced, and none of them had become woody.
He quickly looked around, and logically there should be some, but unfortunately he couldn't find them. At this time, he began to miss Xiong Ba.
“Buzzing!!”
While searching, Lin Heng suddenly heard a buzzing sound and thought it was a wasp. He was so frightened that he froze and held his breath on the spot.
Then I slowly searched for the honeycomb, searched around, and determined that the sound came from my left front.
Lin Heng took a look, and his worries suddenly turned into joy: "It's not a wasp, but a nest of wild bees."
He walked closer and confirmed again, that's right, that one What flies out of the rock ridge are bees.
"Uncle, come here quickly, good thing." Lin Heng called quickly.
“What is it?” Li Baiquan thought it was prey and hurried over.
"Wild honey, I don't know how to make it. Come over and help us, and we'll share it equally."
Lin Heng said in a low voice.
When hunting in a team, people are distributed according to their work. Those who are found alone will naturally belong to him alone. If he asks for help, he will naturally have to share some.
"Good thing, this is a big nest with a lot of bees." Li Baiquan looked at it and immediately grinned.
This natural wild honey collected from the depths of the Qinling Mountains has extremely high nutritional value and can be sold for four to five yuan per pound.
"I just discovered it while picking Ganoderma lucidum, but I have never harvested honey before, so I don't know how to make it." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"It's okay, I'll take care of it." Uncle Li Baiquan chuckled and patted his chest. He first found some pine needles, and then wrapped some fresh leaves around them. After lighting them, thick smoke billowed out.
Then he walked in front holding the smoke, and Lin Heng walked behind holding a knife and a plastic bag, still feeling a little uneasy.
“Don’t be afraid. Even if it lands on you, don’t hurt it. It won’t sting you.”
My uncle warned me and put the smoke under the stone ridge. When the bees were exposed to the smoke, all the bees flew out.
The instinct engraved in their bones tells them that this is a signal of forest fire.
“I’m ordering one.” Feeling that one was not enough, Li Baiquan ordered another one.
After the bees were sluggish from the smoke, he started to remove the stone ridge.
“This place is looser and much simpler. I made a nest of wild honey under the roots of the tree before, digging and cutting it, but it made me exhausted.”
After tearing it apart, Li Baiquan was still in the mood to chat. Lin Heng saw that the bees were indeed not that scary and relaxed a lot.
Not long after the stones were removed, the honeycomb was revealed a little, and Lin Heng saw many capped and plump spleens.
After a spring collection, the hive now has the most honey.
"When you are developed, you can cut at least four or five kilograms of honey. Pass me the knife."
The smile on my uncle's face could not be concealed, so he turned around and said.
"That's great." Lin Heng handed over the knife with a smile on his face. It was just the afternoon, and he had gained something like this on his first day. This trip was not in vain.
Li Baiquan pulled the stones and soil again to expose more of the honeycomb, then reached out and cut off the first piece of honeycomb.
“This piece weighs two kilograms.” He drove away the scattered bees on the nest before putting it into Lin Heng’s open plastic bag.
Lin Heng broke off a piece of honey and ate it together with the nest spleen. It was a bit sweet, but after a while, he could still smell the fragrance of flowers.
“I can’t take this bee back someday and keep it on the Red Maple Mountain.”
Lin Heng said with a smile that bees are very beneficial to people. Not only honey, but the buzzing sound produced by bees has a healing effect on the human body.
Research shows that beekeepers who regularly operate hives generally live five to ten years longer than normal people. If a bee bucket is placed at the door of the home, people will become more peaceful and less likely to be angry and irritable.
“Okay, you can get a bee bucket, and I can help you collect it. I collected my bees on the wild slope.
And this is the period when the bees separate their hives. At that time, some newly separated bees are easier to harvest, and they will be lured away with just a little honey."
My uncle said while cutting honey, because it is summer, there is no need to leave it for them, all four honeycombs are there. Cut.
After the cutting was completed, the entrance of the hole was covered with stones, and some leaves were sprinkled to restore it to its original appearance.
"Okay, when I get back, I will use wooden boards to make two honeycombs." Lin Heng nodded. It would be convenient to raise two buckets of honey for home use.
"With honey spleen, it's at least seven or eight pounds. Pure honey must weigh four or five pounds."
After cutting, the two returned to a safe place. Li Baiquan looked at the bag. The honey inside grinned.
“Yes, we each earned ten yuan.” Lin Heng chuckled.
"Sure enough, you are lucky, and I am also lucky with you." Li Baiquan said with a smile.
Lin Heng put another bag on the honey, put it in his backpack, and divided it up when he went back.
"By the way, uncle, have you found any trace of the pig badger?" Lin Heng asked.
"No, I guess it's in the Sancha ditch below. Looking at the sky, we may have to find a place to spend the night in the ditch tonight."
Li Baiquan said.
"Then let's search more nearby. I guess this place is alive."
The Sancha Valley below is where three streams come together, forming a small basin filled with Without the trees, you can still see many rocks and large wetlands in the distance.
There must be traces of animals in this place.
Lin Heng separated from his uncle again and searched everywhere.
As the sun sets more and more, various animals begin to come out of the mountains for activities. From 4pm to 12pm, it is the prime time for hunting.
At around four o'clock, Lin Heng saw the first prey he could hunt at noon.
A gray squirrel sitting on the trunk of a pine tree picked up a slingshot and hit a pottery pellet accurately on its head.
Basically, as long as you are within the shooting range and your slingshot skills are well practiced, it will be difficult to miss.
Crack!
The gray squirrel fell from the tree, and by the time Lin Heng picked it up, it had no life left.
Continuing walking, Lin Heng found no trace of prey, but he did find a small piece of chanterelles.
This time, he picked it up because it could be cooked and eaten at night, and it would also be good to stew it with squirrels.
Not found on the mountainside, Lin Heng looked for it and walked down the mountain.
"Big-fruited green skewer, a very precious tree species."
While walking, Lin Heng saw a big tree more than ten meters high, which looked like a spruce, with branches There are huge oval fruit balls hanging on the head.
This is a tree unique to the Qinling Mountains. He cherishes it very much. It is only found in the Qinling Mountains. It looks very beautiful, but it is a pity that it has no value to him.
After thinking about it, I picked up two fruit balls from the ground and threw them into the basket.
This thing produced quite a lot of pine nuts. He wanted to see if there were any squirrels nearby.
“Hey, there really is one.”
Lin Heng saw a red squirrel on a nearby big tree not far away. Although it was a little tall, he still wanted to try it. try.
"Bang!!"
Just when he was about to take action, there was a loud gunshot in the distance, followed by a series of echoes.
The squirrel on the top of the tree heard the sound and disappeared quickly.
But Lin Heng didn't care about this and hurriedly went to meet his uncle and walked towards Tian Baishun, wondering if he had caught some prey.
"Lin Heng, have you caught your prey?" Li Baiquan asked.
"A little squirrel, who are you?" Lin Heng showed the contents of the basket and asked again.
“I didn’t catch any prey, but I was lucky enough to find a clump of bergamot, which weighed six or seven kilograms.”
Li Baiquan took out what he dug and showed it to Lin Heng. Unlike ginseng, it is the root of an orchid plant. It looks like a human hand, so it is called ginseng or bergamot.
Its medicinal value is also very high, and it is a very valuable Chinese herbal medicine. Wild ones can be sold for seven or eight yuan a pound.
"It's even luckier than mine. It weighs one or two pounds even if it is dried in the sun." Lin Heng said enviously.
"Hehe, you are lucky, and I am also lucky if I follow you." Li Baiquan chuckled.
"Uncle, do you think they have caught a large prey over there?"
As he walked forward, Lin Heng asked.
"It's not possible. I guess it's just a pheasant or a golden rooster. It's just a white rice seed."
Li Baiquan shook his head.
The so-called white rice is civet, which is what they are used to call here.
“But I can’t say for sure, maybe they are very lucky.”
Li Baiquan said with a smile again.
“It’s possible.”
Lin Heng nodded.
The two of them hurried past, and after nearly a kilometer they saw Tian Baishun and Lin Heng's uncle Lu Honghai.
Lin Heng was the first to ask: "What did you catch?"
"Two golden roosters, these two prey were found today." Lu Honghai said.
"Your uncle and I found it together. The gun I fired was one for each of us."
Tian Baishun raised the golden rooster and shook it. They were two female golden roosters with hemp-gray hair.
"That's not bad." Lin Heng nodded. This golden chicken must not be saved. We can have a full meal tonight.
"You guys? What did you get?" Tian Baishun asked curiously.
Li Baiquan chuckled: "We got wild honey, bergamot ginseng, and Lin Heng also killed a hairy mouse."
"You are so lucky, I have nothing to say." Tian Baishun After looking at Lin Heng, I thought it was a novice halo. Although I didn't get anything, the things I collected were very profitable.
Compared to the golden rooster, they made these things able to be preserved for a long time. The best harvest is to take them back and sell them for money.
Their golden chicken can only be roasted and eaten tonight.
"It's probably past five o'clock. We have to find a place to sleep at night. After we find it, let's go hunting."
Lin Heng looked at the sky and said.
“Okay, it just so happens that all the prey nearby were scared away.”
Lu Honghai nodded.
The four of them walked down the mountain together. Although it was summer, this was high in the mountains. It was not very hot in the forest during the day, but it was only eight or nine degrees at night.
If you don’t find a place to take shelter from the wind and rain, in case of wind and rain, you may be gone overnight.
Everyone also understands this truth, and this matter cannot be taken carelessly.
There are no longer a few hunters who have died in the Qinling Mountains, and most of them died from the environment rather than poisonous snakes and beasts.
Sorry, there was something wrong with the computer, I just fixed it.
(End of this chapter)