Chapter 245 Next to the hot spring is a hunting ground!
The grass on the mountains near the periphery has begun to wither and turn yellow, but the vegetables in the mountains are still very green, all kinds of flowers are blooming, and honey is working hard.
While looking for fungi, Li Long was thinking about a popular science article he saw on a short video platform in his previous life.
Honey is made by bees eating pollen, turning it into honey in their stomachs, and then spitting it out.
After spitting out, because it contains water, the honey will continue to flap its wings to remove the water in the honey.
Doesn’t it sound disgusting?
In fact, it is similar to eating bird's nest.
In addition, if the beekeeper places the beehive in a place with a very rich nectar source, then the pollen collected from the honey will not have time to remove the water in the honey, and the honey will become raw honey.
Because there are enough nectar plants, the honey collected quickly fills up the hive, and there is no time to seal it. The honey is easy to ferment when cut, and it usually takes one or two years to become mature honey.
After Li Long in the previous life handed over the land to the cooperative, the team organized them, half-seniors, to travel to Yili. This is the honey they bought when the rapeseed flowers bloomed in Zhaosu.
Uncapped honey is uniformly called raw honey.
In fact, there is honey locally, but as a local, I never go to the team to buy honey. Because in those years almost all the local land was planted with cotton. In order to increase the yield of cotton, pesticides have been applied since the leaves began to grow. In fact, there were many diseases and insect pests in cotton in those years.
What about spider mites, cotton bollworms, cotton aphids, red bollworms, etc.? In those years, it was common to see piles of pesticide bottles in cotton fields.
In those years, I often heard that people were poisoned and fainted in the fields while applying pesticides.
That was the earliest era of carrying sprays for pesticides.
So not many people eat the honey produced by local beekeepers—and they don’t know how much pesticide it contains.
However, Li Long knew that mountain flower honey is usually ripe honey, because no matter how dense the nectar plants here are, they cannot compare to the millions of acres of rapeseed flowers in Zhaosu.
He was thinking that after picking up two sacks of black tiger palm fungus, would he need to buy some honey from Lu Dafeng?
I don’t know what happened to that guy.
As Li Long picked it up, he felt that this place seemed familiar. He suddenly saw a stone - wasn't this the place where he was scratched by the lynx?
Why did you end up in this ditch?
Li Long subconsciously looked around with vigilance.
There are no other animals here, some birds are chirping in the forest, it feels very leisurely.
Although he didn't find anything, Li Long was very vigilant and left here carrying the sack.
Although he is carrying a gun, to be honest, with the speed of that thing, it is really not easy to detect and avoid a sudden attack on him.
Before noon, Li Long had already picked up a sack of black tiger palm fungi and carried it back to the cabin.
He took a relatively tender black tiger palm fungus, cut it into slices on the wooden chopping board, and put it on a plate. I went to get some wild celery nearby. Wild celery needs to be tender, otherwise even if there is a lot of oil when fried, it will be as difficult to chew as a rope when eating.
Fortunately, there was a large patch of it growing on the edge of the nearby stream, so Li Long simply pinched the tenderest one. I made a lot of them, washed them in the stream, and then brought them back.
There was burned oil and meat in the small room. Li Long took out the basin and placed it under the board outside. The next step was to light the fire.
Light the fire on both stoves, steam rice and stir-fry vegetables at the same time. Li Long was humming a song while cooking, enjoying himself alone.
One person, a small bowl of rice and two dishes.
There is a lot of oil in the vegetables - wild vegetables eat oil, but less oil will not taste good. If any housekeeper saw Li Long using so much oil to fry a dish, she would scold him to death.
But it tastes really good when you eat it - the rice is fragrant. Put the vegetables on the rice and mix it, and it will taste even more delicious.
A half-grown man is a poor man. Li Long is now almost 1.78 meters tall and weighs more than 70 kilograms. His body seems to be growing and he has a large appetite.
This bowl of rice and two plates of vegetables were eaten up. After eating, I didn’t want to move much.
The wooden house has eaves, but Li Long ate inside. Although the temperature in the mountains is lower than that in the plains, the ultraviolet rays are stronger.
Li Long washed the pot before eating because he knew he wouldn't want to move it after eating.
Throwing the bowl and plate on the chopping board, he went into the house and locked the door to take a nap.
When he woke up, Li Long found that less than an hour had passed and the food in his stomach had digested a little - being young is indeed good. Think about it before you died in your last life, you didn't dare to sleep after eating. After you fell asleep, you either couldn't sleep at night or the food in your stomach couldn't be digested.
It seems that people don’t dare to eat a full meal. If they are full, they may not be able to digest it in a day.
It's great now. It's been less than an hour since I finished eating, and I feel like my stomach is already flat.
He finished washing the dishes quickly, looked at the sun without blinking, and began to cut the black tiger palm fungi on the chopping board.
Cut the black tiger palm fungus into strips, and then dry them on the wooden board. It will basically dry in one day.
After I finished slicing and drying the mushrooms I picked up in the morning, there was no space left outside the wooden house.
Seeing the sun setting in the west, Li Long no longer planned to pick up fungi. He walked towards the mountains with his gun on his back.
In winter, Yushanjiang pointed him to a hot spring. He was a little tired today, so why not take a dip in the hot spring.
Li Long is used to the weight of five to six and a half, and it doesn't feel very heavy.
Although he was not going to pick up fungi, Li Long still brought a satchel with some emergency medicines, some dried meat and dried steamed buns.
No one can say what unexpected events may happen.
Fortunately, there were no surprises all the way to the ditch where the hot spring is. I didn't find any prey that I could hunt.
The hot spring ditch is not spacious. The mountains on both sides are thirty or forty meters apart. Both are covered with evergreen trees such as pines and cypresses. Sunlight occasionally shines through the gaps between the trees.
So it’s quite cool in the ditch.
Li Long went to the creek in the ditch and felt the water temperature. It was cold, so he continued walking up.
After walking up four to five hundred meters, the ditch became a little narrower, and a faint steam began to rise from the water. Li Long bent down and touched the water again, feeling that the water had some warmth.
Twenty degrees is not enough.
But I can smell a faint smell of sulfur.
Continuing to walk up, the trees on both sides are much sparser, but the mountain is also higher, and the sunlight simply cannot shine in.
Walking up another two hundred meters, the upward terrain in the ditch became flat, the stream slowed down and widened, and occasionally small pools could be seen gathering together.
This is a natural hot spring pool!
Li Long looked very happy. He walked to the edge of a pool and touched the water. He felt that the water was not warm enough, so he continued to move forward.
After walking less than a dozen steps, he stopped.
Beside the pool in front, there are hoof prints of various sizes!
Look at the hoof prints. There are two petals. They should be wild boar, roe deer and the like. There are also plum blossoms. I don’t know if they are foxes or wolves.
Looking at the mark, Li Long should have made it in the morning. It wasn't particularly dry, but it wasn't from just now either.
These animals can do it, they actually know how to soak in hot springs!
Li Long even saw a little bit of blood in the hoof prints on the edge of a pond.
I don’t know if I came here to soak because I was injured, or if I encountered a natural enemy while soaking and was injured.
Li Long touched the pool where this animal often entered and found that although the temperature was slightly lower than that of his hand, it was already pretty good.
He had no intention of going inside and continued walking up.
Walking to the pool further ahead, Li Long touched the water temperature and felt it was slightly hotter.
Just right.
This pool is not big, it can accommodate two or three people, only about three to five square meters.
There were no people around, there were few birds chirping, and there was no wind.
Just the smell of wafting steam and sulfur.
This pool is a bit natural. Li Long first picked up some stones and made a platform beside the pool. After piling the stones, he began to prepare for a hot spring bath.
Put the gun on the table, within easy reach, and then take off your clothes and fold them up.
Then we entered the hot spring - it felt quite hot at first, but after getting used to it, I felt very comfortable.
After soaking in, there are pebbles of all sizes under the pool, so it won’t hurt your body.
Li Long leaned on a large stone, with only his head exposed, and soaked there comfortably.
Half an hour later, my hands felt white and wrinkled, so I came out of the hot spring pool with some unfinished thoughts.
So comfortable.
My body felt itchy at first, but then I got used to it. Could this be sterilization?
Li Long wiped his body randomly, put on his clothes, and walked several hundred meters higher.
There are several pools up there, but the water is starting to get hot.
He originally planned to walk to the end, but it became more and more difficult to walk as he went up. The shrubs on both sides of the stream above grew very lush, and there was no path left.
Had no choice but to return.
Li Long returned to the pond full of hoof prints. After thinking for a while, he thought he could come over and give it a try tomorrow.
Just like ambushing a wild boar, get up early in the morning, hide on the mountainside on both sides, and wait for the prey to come over and shoot directly. How great!
As for hunting or anything like that - it's best not to.
When hunting, it's best to lay an ambush!
For this reason, Li Long even climbed up the mountainside on both sides, and then he made an unexpected discovery!
On the mountainside to the west, there is a cliff. It should have been washed out by the previous rain. The soil and other things were directly washed away, and the four Codonopsis pilosula roots were almost completely exposed.
Except for one small one, which is almost 30 centimeters, the other three roots weigh at least half a kilogram. Two of them are long, at least over 80 centimeters, and one of them has Forks, one branch is straight up and down. The other one is short and thick, with many branches. Although it is less than 40 centimeters, it is the heaviest among the four Codonopsis pilosula trees.
An unexpected bonus!
Li Long dug out the four Codonopsis root root happily, found a soft branch, tied it up and carried it, and then went down the mountain.
The ambush place has been found, and the next step is to get up early tomorrow morning and come over and wait.
No wonder he thinks so well.
Isn’t this the case several times before?
As long as the trace of the prey is found, the rest is a competition of endurance and time sense.
Li Long has always been lacking in these two points.
The next step depends on tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)