Chapter 196 The No. 1 Deer Hunt on the North Slope of Ma County - Whipping Man?
When Li Long woke up, it was already bright in the room. He heard the noise outside and thought it was Tao Daqiang who was up and working.
I rubbed my face and then my eyes. I felt there was eye mucus. Is this because of excessive anger?
He started to maintain health in the second half of his previous life, and he was more sensitive to these things. He stretched out and felt that his whole body was full of energy again.
It is good to be young. No matter how tired you are the day before, you will still be full of energy the next day after a good sleep. Unlike in the previous life when you were 50 or 60 years old, it took a long time to recover from the tiredness.
He got up and put on his clothes, opened the door, and the dazzling sunlight came in. Li Long squinted his eyes and saw Tao Daqiang chopping wood.
Tao Daqiang turned around and saw Li Long coming out, and said with a smile:
"Brother Long, are you up? I've already made breakfast, rice porridge, flatbread pancakes, and I made cold mushrooms. "You can wash up and eat."
"Okay." Li Long. I went to the water to wash up briefly, and then went to the table to eat. While eating, I said:
"When I go down the mountain next time, I have to bring some pickles and some red tofu. By the way, today's post Make some noodles and steam some steamed buns. I feel bad eating just the noodles.”
"Okay. Then bring some facial expressions with you when you come back next time, otherwise you won't be able to maintain your facial expressions." Tao Daqiang thought for a while and said.
Li Long was right when he thought about it. He didn't buy baking powder, and he didn't know if supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores had this - there should be, right?
While eating and chatting, Li Long washed the dishes and chopsticks and went to process the wolf meat.
Although it was a thin wolf, excluding the skin and the internal organs, it weighed more than thirty kilograms. There is no way to send the meat any more, so Li Long plans to cook part of it and make the remaining part into air-dried meat.
As for the offal, there is nothing you can do about it. Take the time to eat it these two days.
Tao Daqiang finished chopping the firewood, piled the chopped wood pieces beside the wooden house, and then came over to help Li Long.
“Brother Long, it’s great that there are so many things here. You can definitely make a lot of things with the burning wood at home.”
“I could often transport it out before, but now I can We can only wait for the right opportunity." Li Long said, "Look at how many fallen trees there are on the edge of the pine forest. You can only watch them fall...but there will be people from the forestry team who will clean them up."
Tao Daqiang naturally knows, he just feels it is a pity. If these pieces of wood were to be kept in the team, they would have been taken home to make furniture long ago. Nowadays, everyone's family is poor. One or two pieces of furniture with four or six legs in a family is considered good. Some people don't even have any decent furniture at home.
The main reason is that wood is expensive. But who would have known before that so much wood in this mountain was left to fall and rot?
The wolf meat was chopped off strips, smeared with salt and put away. Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to nail wires in both the small house and the big house, and then hung the wolf meat on it to dry.
After he is done, he plans to go to the mountains to get some mugwort and other grasses to put in the house to prevent insects.
After finishing the wolf meat, Li Long broke off the four wolf teeth in the wolf's mouth, and then picked out the wolf teeth. This thing is good as a gift now, and it will be good in a few years. valuable.
The wolf skin is easy to deal with. Simply scrape off the oil on it, apply salt on it, and then nail it directly to the wall of the wooden house and wait for it to dry.
It seems that we really need to learn how to tan leather, otherwise, we will only be able to sell this kind of dry and hard leather.
After all these things were done, Li Long saw that there was still time, so he said to Tao Daqiang:
"Daqiang, let's walk around and pick up mushrooms and get some shovel handles for lunch. Let's take a break after dinner. Let's go and see if we can find the red deer."
"Okay." Tao Daqiang agreed readily, and then asked, "Brother Long, what are you doing with the shovel?"
" Sell it." Li Long smiled.
The shovel handle is actually a wooden pole as thick as a child's arm, with a length of 1.67 meters. The main criterion is that it is straight and has no big knots. When handling, peel off the skin, then scrape it clean and sharpen one end.
The shovel handle is the common name, but it is actually the handle of all things, because the shovel, chopping tool, hoe, wooden fork, wooden shovel, etc. in the production tools can all use this as a handle.
But Li Long wants to do this mainly to prepare for the tasks of the supply and marketing cooperative in autumn and winter - Li Xiangqian said that there will be a batch of tasks for the big brooms of Ji Ji. The big broom also needs a wooden handle like this.
There are plenty of splendens in the wasteland around the team. As long as you are willing to put in the effort, you can fight them. But there are fewer qualified broom handles.
Li Long guessed that there would be at least two to three hundred brooms in this batch, and the production team could collect at most one hundred and eighty in a short while, which was basically the limit. So Li Long plans to stock up a batch first, so that he can earn some pocket money - for example, a broom costs three yuan, and this one costs fifty cents, not much, right?
Li Long plans to make two or three hundred. There is a lot of wood around here, so it is easy to get some wooden handles. For example, if you set a task today, just get ten?
Li Long has a clear goal, and Tao Daqiang also has a clear goal. Since there is not much use in digging out Codonopsis pilosula now, he will not dig it out. He plans to pick mushrooms.
If you pick the mushrooms and don’t eat them, you can just slice them and dry them and take them home as dried vegetables in the winter. This is what Li Long said casually yesterday, and Tao Daqiang remembered it.
He didn't know any more mushrooms, such as porcini, pine mushrooms, etc. He only knew the straw mushrooms that Li Long took him to pick, so he picked up mushrooms in bags on the grassy slope.
Li Long walked over the hillside to the pine forest. It is said to be a pine forest, but in fact there are not only pine trees, but also cypress and birch trees, which are quite mixed.
After looking around, Li Long gave up. The trees here that could be used as shovel handles were all small trees that had been growing for more than ten years. It was not easy to grow. He thought it was better to go to the willow trees by the ditch. look.
The willow trees beside the ditch here grow in clumps, with many slanting branches. Two or three years old willow branches can be used as shovel handles, and it is not a pity to cut them down.
Li Long came to the bottom of the ditch. There was a small stream here. The place where the willow trees grew was a small river bend. This area was relatively flat. As soon as Li Long reached the edge of the willow bush, he saw something in the wet mud beside the river bend. A piece of hoof print that had just been stepped on.
Looking at the hoof prints that were divided into two parts, Li Long guessed that it was most likely either a wild sheep or a red deer, roe deer or something. He didn't have the ability to tell what it was from the hoof prints, but if it wasn't plum blossom prints, it couldn't be a wolf or something.
Could there be something like a deer drinking water here in the morning?
Li Long suddenly became excited. He looked around and planned to come and ambush him early tomorrow morning to see if he could hit anything.
Preferably deer. Although he had only stayed for a few days, Li Long felt that life in the mountains was really not easy.
He is different from Tao Daqiang. He feels that it is best to travel back and forth between the mountains and the countryside. It is best to live here for two or three days and live at the bottom of the mountain for two or three days.
Away from this trail, Li Long carried a gun and a machete and chopped seven or eight shovel handles. He cut off the miscellaneous branches at the water's edge, then chopped them into almost the same height, and held them in his arms. Just go back.
Seeing mugwort on the road, he chopped some and took it back. The smell of this stuff can keep mosquitoes away, which is good for sleeping at night.
When they returned to Dongwozi, Tao Daqiang had returned and was cutting mushrooms. Li Long placed the shovel handle by the east wall and said:
"Let's steam rice at noon. I'll get some wild vegetables to stir-fry. After eating, we'll go find the red deer."
"Okay." Tao Daqiang put down his knife and stood up. Li Long waved his hand:
< br>"Time It’s still early, I’ll wait until I get the wild vegetables back.” It’s late April, and there are more wild vegetables, including wild onions, wild leeks, wild celery, and mugwort, plus the wild mushrooms picked by Tao Daqiang. Enough to stir-fry several plates.
Of course, if Li Long doesn't mind the trouble, he can still cook the entire land - there is just too much sand and it is difficult to wash.
When Li Long came back with an armful of wild vegetables, Tao Daqiang had already set up the chopping board and set up the fire on the two stoves.
"Brother Long, can you steam rice?" Tao Daqiang asked.
Of course Li Long can steam, but he is not very skilled. He put the vegetables on the large chopping board and said:
"I can steam, but it doesn't have to be so troublesome. Put water in the pot and put it on Grain, take another small basin, wash the rice in it, and pour it into Water, the water is a finger higher than the rice. Just boil the rice and steam it. But if you steam the rice this way, there will be no rice soup and no rice.” He immediately went to get something to try.
Li Long remembered the joke about the talk show actor saying that Asian mothers steamed rice with one finger on a short video platform in his last life, and couldn't help but laugh.
Tao Daqiang brought the things, washed the rice and steamed the rice according to Li Long's instructions. He saw Li Long laughing and was a little confused. What's so funny about this?
You don’t have to worry about the rice being cooked in this way. You can just steam it for a while longer. It’s better to cook it than to eat it. Li Long cooked three dishes.
When the last dish came out of the pot, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to lift the lid of the steaming rice pot. Tao Daqiang looked at the pot of rice and was also surprised: Is this good?
Li Long smelled the fragrant rice and was really satisfied. This rice is called rice!
The two of them had a meal, and then finished cleaning up together. Tao Daqiang asked:
"Brother Long, what are you going to do next?"
"Clean the gun. Let's go see if we can do it after cleaning. Found the deer. "
The sun was shining brightly at noon. The two men entered the cabin, opened the door, spread out the gun cloth and began to clean the gun.
Tao Daqiang was not very good at wiping, so Li Long taught him while wiping. The structure of the five-six-and-a-half is different from that of the small-caliber one. Li Long made Tao Daqiang more familiar with it.
Tao Daqiang tried his best to get familiar with it, but to be honest, he felt that it might not be of much use in the future.
After cleaning the gun, the two locked the door and walked towards the ravine with the gun.
The sun is shining, but in shady areas, it’s still a little cool.
Li Long saw a patch of wild strawberries under his feet, with small white flowers already blooming. The locals call this dipper for unknown reasons. This thing is not very big when it grows up, but as long as it is red, it is very sweet and sour and tastes very good.
Li Long plans to pick some and take them back when they are ripe. Because this season, it is very difficult for Li Juan, Li Qiang and others to eat some fruits - even if the tomatoes come down in August, they cannot just eat them at will. eat.
Children at this time are still quite miserable.
The two men were carrying guns. Li Long's purpose was not very clear. After walking through three ditches, he saw traces of wild boar crossing at the bottom of one ditch. However, Li Long did not intend to ambush him. There's enough meat. It's not easy to sell, and I still have a mission to do, so I'd better finish the Red Deer first.
The main reason why Li Long is so persistent in acquiring Red Deer is that he hopes to reach a private cooperative relationship with the supply and marketing cooperative through Li Long. Every spring and autumn, there are tasks similar to carrying a handle and sweeping a broom. As long as Li Long can take over part of it.
This kind of money is relatively easy to make, and it can also bring benefits to the team, so why not do it?
Walking around in the afternoon, Li Long picked up two antlers, but did not see any deer.
There were two antlers in the grass. Li Long had picked them up before. Tao Daqiang didn't notice them after passing by them. When Li Long saw them and said they were antlers, Tao Daqiang was shocked.
The two antlers seemed to have been taken off only this year. They weighed a total of 12 or 3 kilograms, and they were both three branches. Li Long decided to ambush the river bend over there tomorrow morning. If he couldn't hit him, he would go there. Take a look here.
Li Long got up early the next day. He and Tao Daqiang got dressed and went to Hewan with their guns.
When we arrived at Hebend, Li Long was lying down far away, waiting for half an hour but nothing happened. He couldn't wait any longer, so he went down the hillside to the edge of Hebend. look. It turned out that there were more footprints here, some of which were just stepped on, and some of which should have been stepped on last night. Li Long was a little frustrated and said to Tao Daqiang:
"Let's go to the place where we picked up the antlers yesterday." .”
Tao Daqiang also knew that Li Long was not in a good mood, so he followed Li Long there without saying anything.
When he reached the hillside, Li Long slowed down and tried his best not to make any noise. He bent down and walked to the top of the hillside. Then he saw three large and four red deer grazing at the bottom of the ditch. .
There are only females but no males!
Li Long was immediately a little disappointed - the little red deer was a little bigger than the red deer in his horse number. It looked quite naughty and nudged this and that from time to time.
Tao Daqiang also noticed it, and he quietly asked Li Long:
"Brother Long, do you want to fight or not?"
Li Long himself was hesitating. If he didn't fight, the prey would be right in front of him. If he did, he wouldn't need it.
“Wait a little longer.” Li Long finally decided, “Let’s go over there and ambush in the woods on the top of the mountain for a while to see if there is a buck coming. If there is, then let’s fight. If If these doe want to leave, shoot them too!”
Tao Daqiang was naturally what Li Long said. The two of them moved sideways, quietly approaching the Red Deer from the pine forest on the top of the slope, and then found a place with a wide view more than 70 meters away from the Red Deer. Ambush was set up somewhere.
The red deer were gnawing on the tender grass at the bottom of the ditch, and the young red deer would go to the mother deer to nurse from time to time.
Li Long waited patiently. Occasionally, if an insect came over, he would just move his body slightly, keeping his eyes on the red deer.
Finally, just when these red deer were about to move to the ditch, a clear and sweet deer call came from the hillside.
Li Long was overjoyed:
“It must be here!”
(End of this chapter)