Chapter 193 Nosebleeds come out, young man can’t eat this!
Li Long had heard before that there was a very large party gathering in the mountains that had not been dug for many years. After all, this thing is not as valuable as ginseng, and there are so many Tianshan Mountains, stretching for hundreds of kilometers from the east to the west. There are few people and many resources, and no one is digging.
I just didn’t expect that just digging up a tree would have such a big head!
He was a bit dumbfounded. I just wanted to dig out a chopstick and chew it to quench my thirst!
But you’ve already dug it, so let’s continue.
He put one end of the stick on the ground, stepped on it hard, broke the stick, split a sharp wooden tip, and began to dig.
A section of about ten centimeters from the head of Codonopsis pilosula was dug out. It was really as thick as Li Qiang’s arm, which was no exaggeration at all. Moreover, as soon as it was dug out, the skin of the Codonopsis pilosula cracked. Li Long guessed that it was long. It is bound by the surrounding soil in the soil, so it is relatively complete. Once dug out, the surrounding soil is no longer bound, and the juice inside is relatively rich, so it bursts open.
This Codonopsis pilosula grows very neatly. There are no branches on this part of the head. It goes straight up and down. It is thickest when it reaches 30 centimeters. It becomes thinner and has hair roots, but Li Long didn't care. , it’s not a valuable thing anyway.
He seemed to have talked with Chen Hongjun. During the Codonopsis pilosula harvesting season in September and October, they purchased dry Codonopsis pilosula from stations and medicinal companies, and the purchase price for dried Codonopsis pilosula was only 20 yuan per kilogram.
If this root is dug out, it weighs half a kilogram. After drying, it weighs two to three hundred grams?
If you think about it this way, it's actually quite profitable. You should be able to dig a dozen roots a day, right? Thirty or fifty yuan?
Li Long suddenly felt like he had a headache!
He was thinking about digging, and when he was a little tired and ready to change hands, he saw Tao Daqiang also digging a hole three to five meters away. Tao Daqiang moved much faster than him. Li Long stood up and looked around, and found that although the root dug by Tao Daqiang was not as thick as his own, it was almost three centimeters in diameter.
Not too small.
Li Long dug for half an hour and dug out this nearly one meter Codonopsis pilosula. The overall shape is a bit like an irregular herringbone, divided near the lower quarter. Forks, one thick and one thin.
He filled the excavated soil back again, mainly because he was worried that if there was a heavy rain, the excavated hole would be easily washed out of the cliff, causing soil erosion.
It is possible.
Ten minutes later, Tao Daqiang's root was also dug out. It was shorter than Li Long's, but more like a humanoid with two "arms" but no legs.
"Brother Long, are you going to eat like this?" Tao Daqiang saw Li Long filling back the soil, so he followed suit and asked Li Long excitedly after filling it in.
"This..." Li Long felt that eating it like this was really a waste of resources, but if he kept this thing, there was no need to guess. After drying, it would definitely be empty, not full, and of little use.
"Let's go, wash up, and eat two bites from the root. Don't eat too much. I'm afraid you'll get a nosebleed." It's definitely not good.
Tao Daqiang took Tao Daqiang to find a spring at the bottom of the ditch. After washing it, Li Long took a bite, about five centimeters in length, and chewed it carefully.
Tao Daqiang also took a bite, then smiled and said while eating:
“It’s so delicious.”
He finished it in three or two bites and took another bite.
Li Long is speechless, you boy, just wait.
"Brother Long, you have a nosebleed..." Tao Daqiang suddenly pointed at Li Long and said.
Li Long wiped his nose, and sure enough!
Is it so fast?
"The same goes for you." Li Long said to Tao Daqiang while washing, "Okay, let's not eat it. Let's take it back and dry it."
I don't know how old this Codonopsis pilosula is, and the medicinal effect must be sufficient. powerful.
Li Long blindly guessed that another reason for their nosebleeds was that the young people had hot blood and sufficient qi and blood.
Tao Daqiang regretfully put Codonopsis pilosula into a urea bag. It was delicious, but he couldn’t eat it anymore.
The two people each carried a piece of Codonopsis root back to the wooden house. Li Long directly threw the Codonopsis root on the shelf in the small room and let it dry naturally. With the climate in the mountains, there was no need to worry about mold.
"Brother Long, can I take this back? I plan to boil water for my father to drink. Is it okay for them to drink this?"
"It's okay, it must be good." Li Long said with a smile, "Wait until we leave. You can dig more when the time comes. The effect of Codonopsis pilosula is not good now. Wait until the poles are dry and hang them up. That’s good.”
“Okay!” Tao Daqiang. Said excitedly.
Li Long went to wash the mushrooms, cut them briefly, then put a pot on the stove piled with stones outside, got a bucket of water from the spring not far away, came over and poured it into the pot, and started Cook mushroom soup.
Tao Daqiang walked around outside, picked up an armful of dead branches, and prepared to light a fire on another stone stove. He took a piece of burning wood from the fire lit by Li Long and stuffed it under the stove over there. Under the wood, he had already stuffed a few handfuls of hay and some twigs. Soon, the fire on the stove over there was also burning. It burned.
"Let's make some noodles." Li Long said, "Let's make something simple. Eat whatever you want today if you don't have anything to eat, and try to eat well tomorrow."
After dinner, we put out the stove fire. It wasn't dark yet, Li Long said to Tao Daqiang:
"Today Go to bed early and get up early tomorrow, even earlier than usual to get the net. Let’s go see if there are any wild boars. By the way, remember to lock the door at night. You must remember what I said last time.”
"Brother Long, I understand." Tao Daqiang entered the small room and locked it from the inside.
After a tiring day, Li Long lay on the wooden kang and fell asleep quickly.
The biological clock is such a magical thing, he remembered to get up early and woke up while it was still dark.
Looking outside, Li Long estimated the time. It should be almost time, so he rubbed his face and got up to put on his clothes.
It was quite cold in the room. He put on his clothes, slung his gun, opened the door and went out, and then knocked on the window of the small room.
The windows are wooden frames with plastic sheets nailed on them. As soon as he knocked, Tao Daqiang immediately responded:
"Brother Long?"
"Well, get up, let's go find the wild boar."
"Okay, I'll be out right away."
Tao Daqiang came out, carrying a small-caliber gun, Li Long pointed in the direction, he He followed immediately.
"Wild boars come out relatively early, so we have to get up early. However, we didn't see any traces of wild boars yesterday. Today we patrol the ditch and walk all the way to the east, approaching Xiaobaiyang Valley. Come back when the time comes and shoot if you can see it. If you can’t see it, we’ll wait until daytime to look for deer.”
“Okay,” Tao Daqiang nodded vigorously.
The two of them walked eastward along the winding path. Compared with yesterday when they walked deeper and deeper into the mountains, today they mainly walked through the outer mountains - from the outermost dirt mountain to the inner four or five-story mountain. There is a grassy slope to the north and a pine forest to the south. Pine towers will roll down. There are usually springs at the bottom of the ditch, and some plants that prefer shade and tide will grow. Based on Li Long's previous experience, wild boars usually like to come to such places.
After walking two ravines, there is a line of white fish belly to the east, but the stars in the sky are still bright and can be seen clearly.
Nothing was found, and Li Long himself was a little disappointed.
Did you look in the wrong place? He decided to walk another ditch to the east. If he couldn't find anything again, he would walk up another level of the mountain and then go back.
When walking onto the ditch, Li Long had a hunch that there was something down there!
Although he didn't hear any movement, he still took the gun off his shoulder and moved much slower.
Tao Daqiang followed suit and immediately held the small caliber in his hand and bent forward parallel to Li Long.
The top of the mountain on this side is a bit flat. Li Long quietly walked forward for more than ten steps and walked to the place where it was about to go downhill. He saw a wild boar grazing on the grass roots forty or fifty meters in front of him. He arched a few times and took a few bites, then raised his head and looked around.
To my surprise, there was only one half-grown wild boar. I don’t know if it got lost or was driven out of the wild boar herd.
Li Long had several experiences. This distance was just right. He immediately squatted down, opened the safety, pulled the trigger and loaded the bullet.
Although the sound of the gun being pulled was very quiet, it still spread far away in this silent night. The wild boar that was bowing its head suddenly raised its head!
Tao Daqiang subconsciously wanted to shout, but immediately covered his mouth!
“Bang bang!”
Li Long pulled the trigger twice, and when the wild boar was about to run, the bullets flew out!
So in Tao Daqiang's eyes, the wild boar suddenly jumped up in the air, and when he was about to run, his body suddenly softened, fell heavily to the ground, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.
“Let’s go!” Li Long closed the gun safely and ran there quickly.
He just ran halfway, and then looked into the distance.
The head of the ditch on this hillside is almost more than a hundred meters away. You can barely see a big guy running out of the ditch quickly. He quickly rushes up the opposite hillside and then disappears at the top of the mountain.
"Brother Long, what is that?" Tao Daqiang also saw the guy, but he felt it was too late. When he saw it, the guy had already rushed to the top and off the line.
"It should be a red deer." Li Long's expression was a little complicated, "And it might be a male deer."
He actually thought it was a big wild boar at first, but he soon found out that it was not, that male deer The antlers (antlers) on its head betray its identity.
Li Long is a little pity. If he didn't hunt the wild boar and kept observing, would he have been able to find the red deer?
But I didn’t regret selling the medicine. Li Long pointed at the wild boar that had moved and said:
“Let’s go down and clean it up.”
The wild boar is not big, and its gross weight is only fifty kilograms now. It should be a nest from last year, and it has not yet grown up.
As for why he left alone, Li Long didn’t know.
Tao Daqiang handed the small caliber to Li Long, directly carried the wild boar on his shoulders, and strode back.
"Be careful not to get blood on your clothes." Li Long reminded.
"What are you afraid of? I'll just wash it off later." Tao Daqiang felt that he had no effort in hunting wild boars, so naturally he had to do the heavy work himself, otherwise how could he have the dignity to eat the meat?
When carrying the wild boar to Dongwozi, no matter how strong Tao Daqiang was, he was still panting from exhaustion.
In fact, Li Long wanted to change his shoulder halfway, but Tao Daqiang refused to let him go.
It was already dawn. Li Long put the gun away. Tao Daqiang sat on the wooden floor outside and took a breath. Li Long went to set up a fire. After lighting the fire on the stove, he came out of the house again. He took out a big basin and said to Daqiang:
"You rest for a while, I will disembowel the wild boar and skin it."
Skinning is a delicate job, and Tao Daqiang cannot do it. Although disemboweling was relatively simple, Tao Daqiang didn't dare to do it, so he asked Li Long to do it.
After the wild boar was disemboweled, a burst of dirty air hit his nostrils, and Li Long quickly turned his head.
"It's a pity. I've been busy recently. Otherwise, if I had carried this wild boar back and called some young men in the team, I could have taken care of the horse number."
Li Long He said while pulling the wild boar's internal organs into the basin.
"There are many wild boars in this mountain. After we hunt deer, we will stay a few more days and hunt wild boars before going back down the mountain." Compared with being in the team, Tao Daqiang prefers to stay in the mountains.
"That's okay. Let's trim and smoke the wild boar meat today. Wash the internal organs in water at night and collect some blood here. Maybe we can hunt wolves in the middle of the night." Li Long has experience, or To teach him a lesson, he piled all the internal organs into a big basin, and then began to skin the wild boar. While peeling, he said, "It's not bad to have a wolf."
When Tao Daqiang heard about the wolf, he became a little nervous and said:
"Will that guy bite?"
"Then he will definitely bite if he is anxious, but there is no need to be afraid. We have a gun."
Tao Daqiang took the basin to process the internal organs, while Li Long peeled the skin. By the time the sun rose, the wild boar meat had been cut into many pieces, and the internal organs had been processed. .
Tao Daqiang has worked several times with the team members. Although he is not very skilled at turning the intestines, it is not damaged.
"I will fry wild boar offal for making pancakes in the morning." Li Long said, "If there is no green chili pepper, I will use dry chili pepper. This wild boar offal is delicious when it is fresh."
The wild boar belly asked him to put it away. I have saved a lot now.
There are several people doing this thing, and I don’t know if it works.
Tao Daqiang also knows how to bake pancakes, so this job is left to him, while Li Long cuts the pig offal on the big wooden chopping board and then starts frying it.
This meal left two people with mouths full of oil and it was very enjoyable.
After eating, Li Long went to the pine forest to cut some green branches. When he came back, he built a smokehouse next to the wooden house. He lit a fire under the smokehouse. After the fire was lit, he pressed the green pine branches and rubbed them with salt. Strips of meat hang above the smokehouse.
"Okay, let's smoke this meat, and wild animals won't dare to come over," Li Long said with his gun, "Let's go around again and see if we can find deer."
Li Long plans to go southwest this time, that is, in a deeper direction. This place is close to the Ma River, and there are not many hills to walk on. Li Long decided to go back after walking to the Ma River.
We ate better in the morning. We both have gas in our stomachs, so we should be able to walk a little longer today.
Walking to the edge of the Ma River, Li Long found no trace of the red deer. He was a little disappointed.
After climbing over a mountain, he planned to go back across a ridge.
Then I saw a few roe deer, grazing leisurely under the pine trees on the flat top of the hillside in front.
Li Long’s eyes lit up!
(End of this chapter)