Chapter 197 This "Gathering" of Young People
Li Long raised his gun and aimed in the direction of Lu Ming. There was a young buck walking at a relaxed pace in the direction of the doe at the bottom of the ditch. go.
The male deer is quite big, similar to an adult cow - just not as fat as a cow, and his movements are very light. From time to time he raises his head and calls out, not sure whether it is to attract the attention of the doe or to call her. companion.
The doe deer also stopped when they heard the call of the male deer, and one doe responded.
The antlers on the male deer's head are not very big, much smaller than the antlers picked up the day before. The top looks still hairy, very blunt, and it will take some time before it turns into antlers.
Li Long stared at the male deer and whispered:
"Daqiang, aim at those female deer. When I shoot here, you can shoot again and see if you can hit them." ...You must not shoot if I haven’t fired, do you understand?”
“I understand.” Tao Daqiang didn’t even turn on the safety of the gun, because he was afraid that he would misfire again and ruin Li Long’s affairs.
Li Long slowly adjusted his breathing and aimed at the front chest of the buck. The deer skin was important, and a good hunter should aim at the deer's head, but Li Long thought it was safer to walk in the mountains for so long. I just met a buck in a few days. If it flies away again, I don't know how long it will be wandering around - there are still many things at home!
Pre-pressing the trigger, Li Long didn't let Tao Daqiang wait too long. With a "bang", the gun went off.
Tao Daqiang was highly nervous. As soon as he heard the sound of Li Long's gun, he immediately pulled the finger on the safety, opened the safety, and then aimed at the panicked doe and fired.
Unfortunately, I missed.
Li Long finished his shot with one shot, and quickly used the aiming circle to trap the buck, looking to see if he needed another shot - no need.
After being shot, the buck fell to the ground and is still twitching in the grass.
Li Long stood up and said to Tao Daqiang:
"I'm going to see the male deer, and I'm going to see what's going on with the female deer..."
"Brother Long, I didn't shoot..." Tao Daqiang felt a little ashamed.
“If you didn’t hit it, then you didn’t hit it. This is normal. I fired first, and if you shoot again, the doe will be frightened and run fast. Okay, let’s go and see the male deer. Deer, our mission is completed. By the way, close the safety of the gun."
Li Long put the gun behind his back, then quickly rushed down to the bottom of the ditch, then went up the slope, and came to the road. In front of the deer.
“Oh, what a huge loss!”
With just one glance, Li Long knew that the loss this time was not small!
The male deer fell forward and the antler on his head hit the ground directly and broke into four pieces - there were still two pieces of antlers in the grass on the ground, the sections were uneven and bleeding. .
The section of antler on the deer's head is also bleeding, and the price of this antler may be discounted.
But fortunately, the main reason for hunting this time was not deer antlers, Li Long comforted himself in his heart.
“Brother Long, this buck must be at least 100 kilograms, right?”
"No, it's still 120 to 30 kilograms anyway." Li Long said, "I'm sure it can't be carried on my back. It's troublesome for the two of us to carry it. We might as well handle it here, otherwise it will be difficult to get it back."< br>
"Well, what should I do now?" Tao Daqiang scratched his head and asked.
"You..." Li Long thought for a while and said, "You go to the wooden house and push the bicycle over. It's too late to go back to find the carriage or car now. I'll skin the deer directly and dispose of it. You can take the bicycle." Get the venison back."
"Okay." Tao Daqiang left immediately with his gun on his back.
Li Long put the five and six halves aside, took out the knife, and bled the buck first, and then prepared to skin it.
When dealing with this kind of thing, the skin cannot be completely peeled off, otherwise it will be troublesome when disemboweling. After all, it is in the wild, and the meat must be placed on the skin, otherwise it will be more troublesome if it is stained with grass and soil.
Li Long peeled the skin off the buck's belly and took off the deer whip first. Dealing with this thing involves a little bit of psychological discomfort, but the words are not pleasant to the ears. This is a hard task, and it is impossible not to do it.
After cutting the nearly two-foot-long guy, he put the two eggs together and peeled them off. Li Long put the final product aside with a look of disgust.
Although this is the most important task in the mountains these days, Li Long doesn't want to look at it now.
The next step was skinning - the smell of blood had already attracted the blowflies. Li Long grabbed a handful of mugwort next to him and waved it from time to time to prevent the blowflies from getting maggots on the deer meat.
After peeling off most of the buck's skin, Tao Daqiang was already panting while pushing his bicycle. There are no trails in this ravine, and it is difficult to push a bicycle.
"Brother Long, I brought a rope. Do you think I have to tie it up and take it back before handling it?"
"Okay." Li Long straightened up and looked around. There were more and more flies in the environment, so he said, "Wrap it up and go back. Just process the meat. Let's go back." Take this meat back for everyone to eat, and you can take care of the horse numbering issue."
"Is this meat delicious?" Tao Daqiang was a little confused, "Isn't the meat of a young buck sexy? ”
“I don’t know, I’ll find out later when I go back and cook some.”
Li Long didn't expect Tao Daqiang to think of this, but he felt that Tao Daqiang had eaten too much meat, so he picked it.
Normally, everyone can’t eat meat. The most they can eat is fish. It’s very good to have meat, so what’s the choice?
When he was skinning it just now, he found that the buck was still quite fat. Then he would boil it in a big pot, roast it some more, and add more seasonings. Don’t you believe those young men wouldn’t eat it?
It is impossible not to eat.
The living conditions of the team. Although the land was divided this year, the harvest from the land has not yet come out. Although it is watered, how can this venison compare to those fish meat?
Wrap the deer in skins, tie it up and put it on the back seat of the bicycle. Then tie it firmly with a rope. Li Long puts the deer whip and broken antlers into a bag. He holds the bag and supports the deer. Tao Daqiang pushes the bicycle in front. , the two people carefully went down the slope and walked out at the bottom of the ditch.
By the time they returned to the cabin, the sun had almost reached the top of the mountain.
Two people lifted the deer down, and Li Long disemboweled it directly. Tao Daqiang skillfully took the big basin and put the internal organs and other things into the big basin, and then went to the spring to wash the intestines and stomach.
Li Long took out two kidneys, put them together with the deer whip, and took them to the cabin to shade them. It would take a while for this thing to dry in the shade. He couldn't wait that long and planned to give the fresh stuff directly to Li Xiangqian.
The top priority was that he took the saw in the cabin and sawed off the two pieces of antler on the deer's head. Together with the two pieces of antler in front, he mixed it with salt and mud, wrapped it up and put it in. on the shelf of the cabin.
The next step is to prepare the meat.
The flies were swatted, the meat was smeared with salt, and then it was broken into pieces. There was salt on the meat. The flies stopped swatting at the meat and started to soak in the blood that flowed out.
Li Long began to decompose the meat, legs, ribs, tenderloins, necks, etc., even the hooves and heads. He completely peeled off the skin, removed the fat, rubbed salt on it, and held it. cabin.
Several skins have been nailed here, and this deer skin is almost full.
Tao Daqiang washed his intestines and stomach, came back with a big basin, and asked Li Long:
"Brother Long, do you want to cook now?"
"Let's do it. I'll fry some intestines or something," Li Long said. "After eating, let's go down the mountain. It's just that the distance is a bit far. It’s a bit troublesome to walk back.”
“That’s not a problem!” Tao Daqiang said with a smile, “It’s not like I’ve never walked before...”
“Well, I have one leg. The legs are yours. You can carry them home when you get back." Li Long said, "There is enough meat left for everyone. We still have some in the wooden house. I will give it to the supply and marketing cooperative first. Hand it over and walk slowly behind."
"Okay!" Tao Daqiang nodded vigorously, "Brother Long, you don't have to worry about me, I will walk back."
Li Long thinks this is okay. While Li Long was cooking, Tao Daqiang steamed some more rice. There wasn't much steaming this time. He was very curious about the method of steaming rice taught by Li Long. Although he couldn't drink the rice soup, at least it wouldn't be cooked or the rice would be burnt, which was pretty good.
At this moment, a man walked over slowly carrying a bag.
Tao Daqiang was focused on the pot of steaming rice, but Li Long discovered him first.
"What do you do?" Li Long took out the fried deer tripe with dried chili peppers and put it on the chopping board, and asked the man loudly.
"Are you... collecting caladiums?" The man smelled the aroma of the vegetables, swallowed, and asked from a distance of thirty or forty meters away.
"Come on, how much do you have?"
"I... have seven or eight kilograms here." The man said, "Do you have any meat? Can you exchange it for some money? Want some meat instead?"
"Bring the Fritillaria here and take a look," Li Long picked up the pot and put it aside to avoid burning it empty. He still had one dish to fry.
The man looked a little panicked when he saw Li Long and Tao Daqiang staring at him, but he was already here and couldn't leave directly, so he slowly walked over with the bag in hand.
This man should not have been out of the mountains for a long time. His hair was quite long, his beard was unkempt, and his clothes also smelled bad. Li Long suddenly asked:
"Is it because you have no food?" If the meat is out of oil, you might not even come here to sell fritillaries?”
“… ...Yes." The man was stunned for a moment, but he still said truthfully, "We are all like this, we dig more during this season, and we will stop digging when it blooms later. If we go out to sell it, we have to wait until autumn to dig Codonopsis pilosula. "
Tao Daqiang immediately became nervous when he heard that they were digging Codonopsis pilosula.
“Digging Codonopsis pilosula is not as convenient as digging Fritillaria pilosula.” Li Long said with a smile, “You can dig several kilograms of Fritillaria pilosula in a day, even with better tools. Digging Codonopsis pilosula depends on luck. There aren’t many roots under the Codonopsis pilosula that I encountered... Come on, let me see how your caladiums are doing.”
The man opened the mouth of the bag, and Li Long reached out and grabbed a handful of Fritillaria and put it in his hand to look at it.
The caladium should be dried, semi-dry, not washed very much, not very clean, and there are still some leaves and soil, all large and small, not too uniform, but no twigs, so please follow Chen Hongjun’s instructions According to the standard, it is considered as second-grade goods. This bag weighs seven or eight kilograms.
“This bag will cost you fifty yuan.” Li Long weighed it and said, “You have impurities, semi-dry goods, less than eight kilograms, I’ll give you six yuan per kilogram. "How about it?"
The man pointed to the big basin next to the wooden house and said:
"Can you give me another piece of meat? We haven't had any meat for several days." Already..."
"Okay." Li Long said cheerfully, "I'll give you a piece of meat. Do you want a fatter one?"
"A fatter one." The man said immediately.
Li Long took out a wad of bills, counted out five large bills and handed them over. The man looked at the bills in Li Long's hand, his eyes shining.
“Don’t look, I killed two people who came to this wooden house to steal money at night.” Li Long nodded and said, “Those two were also digging fritillaries, and one is now in Shihezi Prison. He was in labor camp, and the other one was carrying his life, and he has been killed now."
Tao Daqiang went to the cabin without saying a word, took out the small caliber, and looked at the man while playing with it.
The man immediately waved his hand:
"Don't dare, don't dare... We are all responsible people, but we don't dare to do such a thing..."
Li Long entered the cabin and took a piece of wild boar meat He came out and handed it to him:
"Here, this is wild boar meat. It has fat and is not very fat. It is better than the meat now. Take it away."
This piece of meat has three or four Kilogram, the man hugged it and left happily.
When the man disappeared, Tao Daqiang asked worriedly:
"Brother Long, we still have so many things in this house. When these people come and knock on the door, no one will be there. Do you think it will... ”
Li Long was also a little worried.
But there is no way to solve this matter.
He thought for a while and said:
"There's nothing you can do about it, let's leave it alone for now."
"Otherwise." Tao Daqiang said, "Brother Long, I'll stay here for a day. You can send some things back first and wait for the carriage to arrive tomorrow. , and then pull all the remaining things back, so you don’t have to worry. Otherwise, it would be a pity for these people to get rid of these skinny things..."
Li Long. Worry:
"Can you do it here alone?"
"What's wrong with that? I won't go out in the afternoon," Tao Daqiang said, "I'll pick up some mushrooms nearby and carry them on my back." Picking it up with a gun, I didn’t believe those people would dare to come over and touch me when they saw I had a gun. As soon as the sun went down, I entered the house and locked the door. I would shoot anyone who broke the door..."
"Okay."
Li Long nodded, "Then I'll send the things back now. If I can make it back today, I'll make it back today. If I can't make it back, I'll come over tomorrow morning."
"You're not in a hurry. , Brother Long, you have been alone in the mountains for many days. I can't compare to you, and I can't hunt. But you can still stay in the mountains. As you said, how can you meet murderers every day?"
Li Long got on his bicycle, put the salted venison into a sack, and put the deer in it again. I put whips, deer antlers, fritillaries and other things in my bag and hung them on the front handle of my car. I pushed them across the ditch and rode all the way back.
In less than two hours, Li Long had returned to the county. He first went to the compound, put down the venison, velvet antlers and caladiums, and then packed the deer whip and a deer leg into a sack. Supply and marketing cooperative.
Uncle Li was still at the gate. He saw Li Long and smiled:
"Xiao Li is here? Are you looking for Li Xiangqian? He is here, you go in!"
Li Long thanked him Uncle Li pushed the cart inside, then carried the sack to Li Xiangqian's office.
Li Xiangqian was smoking and chatting with a middle-aged man. When he saw Li Long coming with a sack, he was stunned for a moment, and then he was pleasantly surprised:
"Xiao Li is here, come in quickly and sit down. Sit down!”
Then he said to the middle-aged man:
"Old Wu, I have something to do today, let's talk another day..."
The man left knowingly.
“Did you get it?” Li Xiangqian asked impatiently after the others left.
“Well,” Li Long took out the deer whip, deer legs and two kidneys, “It’s fresh today. I didn’t know what to do with it, so I brought it to you directly. Look, this There are still hairs and hooves on the legs, making sure they are real.”
"I believe you... sit around, sit down, are you tired?"
"I don't want to sit anymore, I have to go back quickly. There are still some leathers in the mountains. I have to go back to the village to catch a carriage to take them back... ..."
"What carriage should I take? Send a car!" Li Xiangqian said proudly:
"We can't let you work in vain, just wait, I will approve the note for you now and ask the director to sign it, it will be very fast"
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