Chapter 108 Lin Shek? The bold guy
Took Xiongba and looked at the fishhooks arranged in two other places. Not to mention that the fishhooks were rusty and the corn had sprouted.
When they arrived at the last place where the hooks for catching pheasants were set, Lin Heng heard the sound of flapping in the distance.
“There is something!!”
Lin Heng smiled excitedly, and quickly pulled Xiongba’s dog’s tail, fearing that it would get bitten to death.
When I came over, I saw a black-legged grouse struggling wildly, bleeding from the corner of its mouth, and the fishhook was stuck in its jaw.
But it was much better than the pheasant just now. The pheasant swallowed it directly. It struggled so violently that the fishhook opened a gash in its throat, and there was no hope of survival at all.
Pounced over and held down the grouse. First, he tied the wings and legs with a rope, and then Lin Heng took the fishhook.
He would not do the stupid thing of taking the hook and letting the fish fall into the water while showing it off.
The same goes for grouse.
After binding it, I opened its mouth and found that the lower jaw had been pierced enough, but fortunately it was not a fatal injury.
"It's good to be alive. Although it's only a pound, I can take it home."
Lin Heng chuckled.
It’s not that they eat and drink in the mountains and don’t take care of their wives and children, but it’s that they can’t catch the small prey at once, so they have to eat it.
The catfish could be taken back before, but they didn’t eat it and kept it.
The same goes for this live grouse.
When Lin Heng returned to the camp, his eldest brother had already returned and was chatting with his son Lin Wei while handling fungi, with a happy face.
"Lin Heng, you did it... Damn it, how did you get this, and there is one alive one?"
Seeing Lin Heng, Lin Yuegang wanted to ask him how much he had picked. The mushroom, when he looked carefully, suddenly stood up.
"Damn, Second Dad, you are too fierce!!" Lin Wei also widened his eyes.
"Of course it's not from hunting, it's from the fishhook I laid out before. The pheasant swallowed the hook and died, while the grouse didn't swallow the hook and the hook was stuck on the edge of its mouth."
Lin Heng said with a smile, except for the fisherman If you can’t catch fish, you can really catch anything else.
"Woof woof!!" Xiong Ba held his head high and chest out, as if to say that he had half of the credit for this.
“There is meat to eat today!!” Lin Wei danced again, like a primitive man.
Lin Yue had to look at Shu: "If the fish hooks are harvested, there must be other traps. Let's eat our food quickly and go take a look."
"I think so too." Lin Heng said with a smile, threw the pheasant on the ground, and tied the live grouse to the trunk of the tree.
"This pheasant is big enough. Let's eat half of it and keep half. Let's make fried chicken with mushrooms today."
Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll light the fire."
Lin Yue went to light the fire, and Lin Wei scrambled to find dry firewood.
The chicken soup is ready, it's the same old thing, the offal is given to Xiong, the meat is divided into two halves, half is kept, and the other half is chopped into small pieces and stir-fried with the mushrooms.
Not long after, a fragrant pot of fried chicken with mushrooms was ready, served in a small wooden basin made by Lin Heng.
Then they made another rice and ate it together. Needless to say, it was delicious. The three of them didn't say a word until they finished eating.
The shiitake mushrooms are tender and fragrant, and the pheasant meat is chewy, chewier and more fragrant than domestic chicken. Some of the bones are crispy and can be chewed together.
But compared to domestic chickens, there is less meat.
After eating, the three of them burped and stretched.
"The sun has only been out for half a day, and it's already so hot. It's really life-threatening."
Lin Heng sighed, and after eating, his clothes were soaked through.
But the stream water has receded and is not so turbid now. It will probably be clear tomorrow, so you can wash your clothes and take a bath.
“Brother, let’s go there first, I feel like there will definitely be something else today.”
Lin Yue was a little impatient to check out the rope trap.
"I guess I won't be able to go to Sanchagou Canyon today. We have to wait for the sun to shine for a day. I can only go to other places today. Let's go see if there are any harvests in the trap where I caught the forest musk deer."
Lin Heng thought for a while and said.
"Second father, I want to come together." Lin Wei said aloud.
“Then let’s go.”
Taking their knives, bows and arrows, carrying baskets on their backs, the three of them set off.
Walking in a straight line, not picking up fungi, unless you see Ganoderma lucidum, the main goal is to first see the Hell King Diao on Lin She's side.
After walking for more than half an hour, we arrived at the forest.
"Huh? Is there anything that the King of Hell has triggered? What's going on?"
Lin Yue looked at the situation in front of him and asked in confusion.
Lin Heng looked at it carefully and analyzed: "It should be that the trap was triggered automatically due to the rain. There is no trace of prey."
"Do you want the Air Force again? Second Dad!" Lin Yue looked sad, The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
“Don’t worry, there are still a few more.”
Lin Heng smiled, lowered the King of Hell hanging again, and then went to the next place.
He walked in front, and Lin Yue pulled his son behind. His eyes had turned to the mushrooms on the ground, obviously disappointed.
The two places in a row were all empty, and everyone's mood suddenly felt lost. Could it be that the pheasants and grouse in the morning were not the beginning, but the end?
At the last place, Lin Heng arranged three Hell King Cranes. As soon as he reached it, Lin Heng was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly accelerated and sprinted over.
“Woof!” Xiongba also ran wildly with excitement.
"No biting, I heard there is no bully." Lin Heng ordered as he ran.
He was so excited that his voice was trembling.
"Ouch!!"
In the distance, frightened screams and violent struggles spread. A gray figure retreated and was hung in the air, pulling the branches and shaking wildly.
“Holy shit, there’s prey!!”
“It’s crazy!!”
Lin Yue and his son, who were picking up mushrooms at the back, were instantly startled. The King of Hell loomed in the distance, throwing the mushroom in his hand and running past.
"Dad, is this a muntjac?" Lin Wei asked as he ran. This was the first time he saw a living thing.
"No, this is a forest musk deer. Er Daddy has lost his temper." Lin Yue was so excited that he couldn't help himself. This forest musk deer may be more valuable than the ginseng that has been grown for more than ten years.
On the other side, Xiong Ba and Lin Heng have arrived one after another.
Xiong Ba circled around, and Lin Shek struggled more violently, with feces and urine flowing out.
“Ouch!!”
The miserable sound spread throughout the canyon.
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid!!”
Lin Heng grabbed its head, hugged its body and patted it gently to comfort him.
The forest musk deer is not big, weighing only twenty pounds at most, which is not as big as the big yellow dog in the countryside.
Lin Heng was as steady as ever. He first put the rope around its neck and then passed it through its legs, making sure that it couldn't break free.
Then he untied the King of Hell and placed it on the ground, caressing it and comforting it.
"Xiongba, stay away, don't scare it." Lin Heng patted Xiongba.
A living thing is worth much more than a dead one, so don’t scare it to death.
"Ouch!"
Xiong Ba glanced at him dissatisfied, wagging his tail and walked away. His resentful eyes seemed to say that you have found a new love and forgotten the old one.
"Brother, you've made it!"
Lin Yue gasped and rushed up, smiling and congratulating.
Lin Heng smiled bitterly: "This is a female forest musk deer, not a male, and has no musk."
Lin Heng didn't know if God was joking with him. This forest musk deer has no scent. The musk deer turned out to be the one he saw before.
When he just ran over, he was instantly disappointed.
It would be great if it was only a male. With musk deer, you can get more than a thousand yuan.
“Ah, here, let me take a look.”
Lin Yue came over and took a look at her butt. She was really female.
"Haha, it's okay. Keep it first, and then catch a male to breed."
Lin Yue smiled and patted his brother on the shoulder.
"I think so too." Lin Heng said with a smile. He really had this plan. Raising forest musk deer is also very profitable.
Not only is the price of musk high, but the meat and fur can still be sold.
There is no way, I can only comfort myself like this if I didn’t catch the male.
"Second father, let me touch you."
Lin Wei ran over panting and said impatiently.
Just looking at it wasn't enough, so I reached out and touched it.
"Brother, help me tie my legs. I'll carry it back. I'm still worried about it."
This hunter was too cautious and didn't give him any chance to escape.
No way, this is the sequelae of running away from a big fish in my previous life. Even though the rope around my neck is very strong, I still feel uneasy.
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and helped tie his legs.
Lin Heng touched the forest deer again and tied its mouth to prevent it from whining.
It can be said to be a big deal.
The poor female forest musk deer didn’t expect that this man would miss her just from a distant glance in the forest a month ago.
Back at the camp with this guy on his back, Lin Heng was so excited that he didn’t know what to say.
He really didn’t expect to catch it. In fact, he had no hope. Because he had failed for so many days in a row, he was numb, so he just took a look with the last bit of hope.
The result is a thousand years old.
It’s like you have been fishing for three days and haven’t caught anything, and you are so angry that you throw your fishing rod to the shore and stop playing. As a result, the pole is dragged away when you turn your head.
Hunting, like fishing, is full of uncertainty. You can’t be sure when the prey will appear. Sometimes you just can’t catch dozens of kilograms of nest material.
I watched this cute forest musk deer for more than ten minutes and touched it several times.
After confirming the tightness of the rope around its neck again, Lin Heng untied its legs and mouth. It was too hot and he was afraid it would die.
After looking at it, I still felt uneasy, so I tied a rope around my leg and connected a wooden stick behind it.
In this way, even if the rope around its neck is broken and the wooden stick is connected to its feet, it will not be able to run fast, and there is still hope of recovery.
"Brother, now that we have finished it, let's go and see some rope nooses and the King of Hell slings that my dad and I have arranged."
Eldest brother Lin Yue urged, saying that he now feels that today's hope is extremely high. big.
"Okay."
Lin Heng nodded and looked at his eldest nephew again: "Lin Wei, I tied the muntjac to the river. You watch and don't let it run away."
Lin Wei even wanted to go hiking together, but Lin Heng said , he still nodded and agreed: "Okay, don't worry, I will take care of it for you."
After tying the forest musk deer to the edge of the stream, it started struggling and roaring again, and after looking at it twice, Lin Heng just ignored it and stopped when he got tired.
“Let’s go and see other traps.”
Lin Heng also became more confident, and the two brothers set off upstream together.
Along the creek, there were not only traps arranged by Lin Heng, but also many traps arranged by Father Lin and Lin Yue.
The two of them walked up the hillside along the shore, picking mushrooms and checking the rope traps on the way.
"It's over, the King of Hell's Crane here has also been automatically triggered. The chance of catching prey is slim."
Lin Yue said helplessly that they had already checked a dozen of them, eight of them. All six of them were triggered by themselves.
Rains cause the ground to become soft, making this bouncy trap too easy to trigger on its own.
“Don’t worry, there are also rope traps, I can’t be sure of the details.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
While repairing the automatically triggered Hell Crane, the two of them walked forward, picking up some mushrooms along the way.
In a blink of an eye, he had arrived at the place where he hunted ducks that day. Still no prey was found. Both of them were a little uninterested and picked up the mushrooms, no longer having any hope for the next step.
“Woof woof!!”
While I was picking mushrooms, the playful Xiongba in front of me called out, very urgently, not the calm and happy call that comes when he sees the mushrooms.
"Is there a prey that has been trapped?"
"Let's go and have a look!"
Lin Heng and his eldest brother said at the same time, trotting towards him, almost The distance of a hundred meters was covered in an instant.
From a distance, I saw Xiongba standing in the grass by the river. The grass was trampled to the ground, but there was no trace of the prey.
"Is this an ordinary shrinking noose?" Lin Heng asked, it was not made by him.
"I put it on, an ordinary noose." Lin Yue nodded and said.
The two ran over excitedly. Beside the grass, a pig badger died on the ground, its body slumped.
"He didn't die today, maybe a day or two." Lin Heng pinched the pig badger's body and looked at his eyes.
“But fortunately, it doesn’t stink and you can still eat it. Brother, you are considered to be well-developed. This is a big pig badger, weighing more than 20 pounds.”
Lin Heng said with a smile that pig badger fur is also very valuable.
He just took a look and his eyes were not cloudy yet. He should have put on the condom yesterday. If it was four days ago, it would have stunk even on a rainy day.
Probably this guy wanted to take advantage of the rising water to run over to catch fish, but he encountered a trap and strangled himself to death.
"Haha, I didn't expect that I was so lucky." Lin Yue lifted the pig badger and took a look.
“This is not luck, it is inevitable. We have set at least one or two hundred traps, and we can catch both.”
Lin Heng said with a smile that the first thing to fight for was probability.
"Brother, put the badger in the basket for me and let's continue walking up." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Okay."
After putting the pig and badger on the rack, the two continued to move forward.
Not only did the traps have to be rearranged on the way, but also two more nooses had to be placed when new traces of prey were found.
"Brother, it seems I have to go back tomorrow morning, otherwise the pig badger will be broken."
Lin Yue said as he walked.
"Sure, you take it back first, then call dad to help, and I will go back after two days." Lin Heng nodded.
Unconsciously, the two of them came to the place where they picked mushrooms last time. Not much grew on the tree this time, probably because they did not accumulate enough nutrients for the time being.
“It didn’t happen this time.” Lin Yue was a little surprised. He knew about this huge mushroom tree from the last time he came here.
Lin Heng was about to speak when he suddenly saw the treetops shaking on the slope on the other side of the stream. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that several monkeys were climbing on the trees and watching them.
“Golden monkey, this is strange.” Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Oh!!" Lin Heng yelled at them twice, not interested in these guys unless he was about to starve to death.
Whether it’s okay or not, he can’t stand eating a monkey that looks too much like a human.
“Oh!!”
The golden monkey on the opposite mountain also responded and was not afraid of people standing in the tree.
“Fuck.”
Lin Heng shook his head speechlessly, and he and his elder brother continued to walk forward for a while, and then crossed the other side of the stream.
Along the opposite bank, the two walked back.
“This bitch is so brave.” Lin Heng looked at the two monkeys on the tree. They both came over and still refused to leave.
"It's nothing. I heard that in some villages, monkeys came down the mountain to steal the sweet potatoes from the courtyard to dry." Lin Yue said with a smile.
After looking twice, the two of them left, not wanting to pay attention to the two silly monkeys.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba barked provocatively at them several times, eliciting yells and curses.
On the way back, no prey was found on this side of the stream, so the two re-set the trap.
It had just rained in the past two days, and many animals would come to the river to catch fish. Lin Heng felt that there was still hope.
"Brother, there is something here. The golden rooster has been eaten until only its feathers are left."
As they were about to return to the camp, Lin Yue made another discovery.
Lin Heng took a closer look and saw chicken feathers all over the ground. This golden rooster was hung up in the air by a little King of Hell, and it was also eaten.
“I don’t know if it’s a clouded leopard, a wild cat, or a civet, the footprints are all the same.”
Lin Heng saw footprints on the ground, but he couldn't trace them and they were soon lost.
There is no point in waiting for the rabbit. The visual noses of wild cats, clouded leopards are too sensitive.
"Then we can only wait until tomorrow to see the traps at Sanchagou. Maybe there will be some harvest."
Lin Yue said with some pity, the golden chicken is delicious. Ah, what a shame.
"Go back and deal with the pig badgers." Lin Heng said with a smile, now is not the time to fight the golden rooster.
When the leaves fall in winter, you can hunt golden roosters with certainty. They were all resting on the branches of trees, and they could be seen clearly without using a flashlight.
Unlike now, even if the golden rooster crows, it is difficult to tell which direction it is unless you are very close.
After returning to the camp, Lin Heng first went to see his baby Lin She. It lay down in the grass, as if it found it couldn't run away and didn't even bother to scream anymore.
On the other side, Lin Wei screamed very happily. His father got a pig badger, which was awesome.
After watching Lin Shek, Lin Heng helped the pig and badger, and he was already familiar with skinning and eviscerating.
"He definitely died yesterday. The color of the large intestine has not changed."
Looking at the pig badger large intestine, Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Yes." Lin Heng also nodded. If it's not broken, it's the best news. If it's broken, it will be a big loss.
I regretted it so much that I couldn’t sleep for days and nights, and I had to get up and slap my thighs even if I died.
The lungs and spleen of the pig, badger, and badger were boiled and fed to Xiong Ba. The heart, liver, kidney, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine were all prepared and fried for dinner.
You can't take these things back, so you can only solve them on the mountain.
The pig badger meat is all marinated in heavy salt and will be taken home early tomorrow morning.
The only thing you don’t have to worry about going bad is pork suet.
"It would be great if it's alive. You don't have to worry about it breaking." Lin Yue shook his head. At this time, Lin Shek felt a little envious of Lin Heng.
"Haha, brother, you are so greedy that a snake swallows an elephant." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"What are you talking about? Have you caught the prey?"
At this time, a voice came from the distant forest.
“Dad!”
The two said in unison.
“Grandpa, we had a big harvest this time. My second dad caught a live forest musk deer and live grouse, and my dad caught a pig badger.”
Lin Wei shouted in response.
"Lin musk deer, pig badger!!"
Hearing this, Father Lin immediately quickened his pace and ran over to check.
Looking at his dismembered pig badger, and then at the living forest musk deer, he grinned and clapped his hands: "Okay, okay, this trip up the mountain was not in vain."
Father Lin was better than them The two of them were still excited, looking and touching.
(End of this chapter)