Chapter 388 Discovery in the Mountain Stream
“Xiong Ba, look for it. If you find traces of this wild boar, you will be full for days.”
Lin Heng touched Xiong Ba’s head He said that as soon as he arrived at the mouth of the stream, he found wild boar footprints. It seemed that he had just been here last night.
“Ouch!”
Xiong Ba lay on the ground and smelled it, then followed the trail and walked forward, followed closely by Lin Heng and the others.
"The footprints of these two fingers are of a small wild boar." Hai An said while tracking.
Father Lin nodded and said: "The little wild boar is good, the meat tastes neither fishy nor woody."
"I hope I can find it." Lin Heng said with a smile, often relying on footprints for tracking. It's all very difficult.
After walking for more than ten minutes, they came to a pine needle forest, and the trail suddenly stopped. They searched nearby for a long time but could not find it again.
"It's okay, let's go back to find ginseng and dig up herbs." Lin Heng shook his head. Although he didn't find ginseng, he still picked up a lot of Ganoderma lucidum along the way.
When they went back, they focused more on ginseng and searched carefully for a whole day. It could be said that they searched all over the mountain but couldn't find it. During the period, they only dug up some other herbs and yams and picked up some chanterelles. .
In addition to these, there were several Hell King traps placed on the animal path. As for prey, they didn't even catch a pheasant.
At dusk and sunset, the three of them sat on the top of a high mountain to rest. They could see the endless mountains and the vast Taibai Mountains hiding under the sun at the end of their eyes.
Bathing in the evening glow, Lin Yue smiled and said: "What a day of failure."
"What's the point? Who dares to say that he has gained 100%."
Father Lin smiled and shook his head, took out a pot of rice wine he had brought with him in the mountains and said, "Drink a little, let's go back to the camp."
"Okay."
Lin Heng nodded with a smile, He folded a small wine bowl from the kudzu leaves nearby, filled three bowls of wine, drank it in front of the sunset, then got up and walked back.
"There are actually taro by the ditch. Dig it up and eat it."
When they reached the edge of the ditch, Lin Heng said in surprise. Their current location was further downstream than where they found the venomous snake yesterday. Some.
"It's indeed taro." Father Lin came over with a hoe and dug out more than ten fist-sized taros. They peeled off the skin and washed them on the spot, then filled two bags of water with a water bag and returned to the camp.
Here in the camp, Ganoderma lucidum and other herbs have been half-dried by the sun. The fire that was set up at noon has been extinguished, but a pot of uneaten chicken soup is still there.
"Dad, please pack up the medicinal materials. We will go hunting again. There may be a chance at dusk." Lin Heng looked at his father and said.
"Okay, but don't separate the two of you. It's not safe to run around alone." Lin's father explained.
"Don't worry." Lin Yue nodded.
They left Xi Quan Fengsheng here to accompany Lin's father, and continued to patrol the mountains with Xiong Ba.
They were holding flashlights, and they were mainly searching along the edge of the mountain stream. At night, those bamboo pheasants and golden pheasants like to rest on the trees beside the ditch. They usually still crow in the period before dark. .
“Hey, there are several little quails here.”
After walking two to three hundred meters along the stream, Lin Yue discovered it.
“Leave it to me. After hunting, check to see if there are any quail nests nearby.”
As he spoke, Lin Heng quietly walked up with his slingshot and killed two of them five or six meters apart, while the others flew away.
"There is indeed a nest, but unfortunately there are only three eggs." Lin Yue's voice sounded from behind.
“Take them all.” Lin Heng said. He took the slingshot and shot all the birds he could hit along the way, including the green-skinned frogs beside the mountain stream.
These are mainly cooked and fed to the two dogs. They are very tired from running in the mountains all day long. They cannot just eat starch, but need some meat to supplement it.
Unconsciously, the sun has set, there is still the last touch of dusk in the sky, and the moon and stars have also appeared.
"Listen, is this the bamboo chicken crowing?"
Suddenly Lin Heng stopped and said.
Lin Yue listened and said excitedly: "Yes, this is a group. They seem to be in the row of cypress trees opposite?"
Bamboo chicken is a very good prey. Although they are smaller than golden roosters, each one only costs about 7 taels, and they only cost 5 taels of meat when killed. However, there are usually six or seven of them in a group, and one shot will always yield a good harvest.
"Probably." Lin Heng nodded.
The two of them listened carefully after getting closer. After confirming the approximate location, they did not move forward immediately. They remembered the location and waited until it was completely dark.
Then they continued walking to other places and laid a noose wherever they found traces of prey.
It didn’t take long for it to get completely dark. Unfortunately, they couldn’t find any more golden pheasants or anything like that. They walked back to the thorn cedar forest and searched for them with a flashlight for a while but couldn’t find them.
“Here!”
Suddenly Lin Yue said something. Lin Heng turned around and saw six or seven bamboo chickens resting on the branches of the thorn fir tree above.
"You hit, I'll take care of you." Lin Heng said and silently opened his mouth.
When you can't cover your ears to avoid the sound, opening your mouth is the best option.
I saw Lin Yue standardizing for a moment. With a bang, two bullets from the double-barreled shotgun were fired at the same time. A large amount of iron sand was scattered towards the bamboo chickens.
With the continuous echoes, the bamboo chicken fell down like a stone without any struggle, and no one survived.
"Haha, there are six of them. Today's run is not in vain." Lin Heng went to pick it up and came over and said happily.
"Indeed, it's enough for us to eat for a few days." Lin Yue said with a smile
Lin Heng said: "This time we killed him and put them in the mountain stream's pool to freeze. The water was so cold that only five or six I doubt it. "
The reason why he said this is because he found tadpoles in that pool today, and they were tadpoles as big as the caps of mineral water bottles. It was incredible to find tadpoles in August.
But this is actually easy to explain. The development of tadpoles requires temperature. If the temperature is too low and there is no food, this situation often occurs.
He has seen this kind of extra-large tadpoles not only here, but also in some places in the Hongfeng Mountain stream and other places.
One thing these places have in common is the bone-chilling water. He reached into the water to catch tadpoles and the cold for thirty seconds was unbearable.
So such a low water temperature can definitely keep the meat in it for two or three days without spoiling.
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded. He also knew this. When he was a child, he caught normal tadpoles and threw them into that kind of super cold water pool. Then the tadpoles stopped growing and grew bigger.
After searching nearby but unable to find other prey, the two came to the edge of the stream and walked up to check if there were any fish or anything.
"It's true. Look, this fish is so big, about ten centimeters." Lin Yue said in shock as he looked in the water.
They saw creek groupers, horsemouths, and giant loaches in the water. Perhaps because no one caught them, each of these fish had grown to their physiological limits.
“I’ll catch it with a net tomorrow.” Lin Heng said with a smile. The water was a little big now, mainly because it was too cold, and he didn’t want to reach out to catch it at all.
And what they brought was a small fishing net. Tomorrow, they could cut down a tree and assemble it to catch fish.
"It's really big, and this fish is quite beautiful." Lin Yue sighed with emotion. The two of them walked up as they talked. Neither of them wanted to touch this giant of water and ice. Both sides of the mountain stream are completely blocked by trees, making it difficult to see sunlight.
The two of them kept moving forward with flashlights. Suddenly, before Lin Heng could say anything, he rushed forward and stepped on him.
After stepping on it, Lin Heng exclaimed: "Damn, it's such a big old turtle, this thing is going to bite my feet."
The biting water made him unable to hold on. When the water cleared, he saw an old turtle the size of a human face biting the upper of his shoe and struggling.
"Your hands are getting faster and faster." Lin Yue admired.
"That's not true. It would be bad if this guy runs away too late."
Lin Heng said as he gave the flashlight to his elder brother and reached out to catch the turtle. The cold water turtle in the mountains is more valuable and nutritious than those in the big river.
Lin Heng grabbed his neck with one hand and his body with the other, and pulled hard twice before pulling it off, but a piece of plastic on the shoe upper was missing.
"Although it only looks like three or four pounds, I estimate that this guy must have lived for at least more than ten years." Lin Heng looked at this guy and said excitedly.
The belly of this wild turtle is snow-white, with obvious scratches on it. There are many rocks in the mountains and they are not flat at all.
"I'm sure you can sell this for hundreds of yuan at Taibai Hotel." Lin Yue said with a smile. He had seen the wild animal purchase list Lin Heng got from Taibai Hotel. This kind of A deep mountain cold water turtle costs hundreds of yuan, which is very valuable.
"It's indeed the price." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Putting the turtle in a cloth bag, Lin Heng said, "Let's go, maybe we can meet him again as we go up."
"Yes, not many people come here in the mountains. There should be quite a few." Lin Yue nodded.
However, when they returned to the shelter, they could not find the turtle again.
After carrying the things back to the shelter, Father Lin saw the flashlights of the two of them and said, "How is your harvest today? I have already prepared the meal."
"The harvest this time is not bad. I shot six bamboo chickens, and my brother got an old turtle, many birds and frogs."
Lin Yue came over with the bamboo chickens and said.
Lin Heng placed the turtle on the ground and poured out a large bag of prey, including more than twenty small birds of various kinds and a dozen frogs.
"What are you doing with these? You can't eat anything except quail, right?" Father Lin's eyes widened.
"Did you boil water to give Xiongba and the others food?" Lin Heng asked. They came with an iron pot and an aluminum pot.
"No, I made the rice at night." Father Lin shook his head, then looked at the old turtle and bamboo chicken and said happily.
"Then let's boil water after dinner." Lin Heng nodded, and they had already brought the water.
We had rice for dinner, and the dish was yesterday's leftover pheasant, grouse and roasted taro. It tasted very good with a little shrimp and spicy sauce.
Tonight the three of them finished all the chicken soup and rice, then took the pot to the stream to wash it, filled it with water and came back to burn it.
After cooking, scald the bamboo chicken and the birds first, pluck out the feathers, add water to the pot again, boil all the birds and frogs in, and wait a while for them to be eaten.
They went to the streamside with flashlights, gutted the bamboo chicken, cleaned it, and cleaned all the internal organs to eat chicken noodles next morning.
The chickens found the pool that Lin Heng mentioned, tied six chickens together and put them in. There weren’t many groupers in this area, so they didn’t care. They couldn’t eat much.
But he was afraid that other animals would come to steal his food, so Lin Heng set up four Hell Cranes on both sides of the bank. If any prey came over, they would definitely be caught.
"What are you going to do tomorrow?" Father Lin asked on the way back.
Lin Heng said: "I will continue digging for herbs and pick Ganoderma lucidum during the day, and look for ginseng by the way. I will hunt during the golden hours in the morning and evening."
Lin Yue thought for a while and said: "I suggest that we go up the mountain stream tomorrow, look for prey and ginseng on the mountains on both sides, come back when we find the end, and then look down again."
" Okay.”
Lin Heng thinks this method is quite reasonable. There will be more prey and medicinal materials near the water source.
Back at the shelter, they ate two August melons and a little schisandra while watching the starry sky outside. The three of them returned to the rattan bed to rest.
There was nothing to say all night, and I was woken up at dawn the next morning. You can't sleep in in the mountains, these birds don't allow it at all.
The three of them got up early in the morning. In the morning, they fried a simple chicken offal in one pot, and fried noodles in another pot. Finally, they mixed them together and added some hot sauce to make a delicious breakfast.
The two dogs ate a lot of meat yesterday, but today they can only eat noodles. There is no other meat for them.
After eating, the three of them dried the medicinal materials and continued up the mountain. They hunted until seven o'clock and found nothing, and the traps set yesterday did not catch any prey.
So they changed from hunters to herb collectors and began to collect herbs.
This direction is not good today. There are very few Ganoderma lucidum on the road, but there are many heavy buildings. No trace of ginseng has been seen yet.
You won't be hungry on the road. You can see August melons and schisandra chinensis from time to time. The August melons are eaten and the schisandra chinensis is taken back to dry. Yesterday, they got a lot of schisandra chinensis.
Going up the stream, what surprised them was that the water flow didn't seem to decrease much as they went up.
At noon they stopped by a large waterhole, caught some creek grouper and roasted it, burned three yams, roasted nine Green Lake Diaozi, and the three of them nibbled some of the meat and fed it. dog.
Although there is no pot, this kind of lunch is not bad. The roasted wild yams are the most delicious, better than the meat.
"There are only two days left until five days. Our hope of finding ginseng is slim." Lin Yue sighed.
"Forget it if you can't find it. The Ganoderma lucidum this time can be sold for two to three hundred. It's also good to use other herbal medicines at home." Father Lin said with a smile.
“Let’s go, maybe the ginseng is just ahead.” Lin Heng said with a smile.
After walking a few steps, several thick masson pines appeared nearby, and the three of them suddenly smelled a scent.
“Could it be matsutake?” Lin Yue said in shock.
“It should be, you see Xiongba and Fengsheng have found their places.”
Lin Heng pointed to the hillside above and said.
“The umbrellas are all open, it’s been out not long ago.” Lin Yue smiled as he took a closer look.
“Look for it.” Lin Heng was already digging with a wooden stick. This thing is delicious to eat by yourself without selling it for money.
After a while, the three of them dug out the matsutake mushrooms here. Lin Heng and his father both dug out four, and the eldest brother Lin Yue dug out five.
Then the three of them searched the surrounding woods carefully and found eight more matsutakes. This was the place where Lin Heng found the most matsutake mushrooms ever. He guessed it was because no one came to this remote mountain. .
"It's a pity that this is all we have, so we can only go back and eat it ourselves." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"That's not bad." Lin Heng smiled, and they continued to explore.
After walking for more than an hour, Father Lin suddenly let out a strong exclamation in front of him: "Come over and see, my God!"
(End of this chapter)