Li Long was woken up in the morning. He heard a small movement outside, got up quietly, got dressed, and came to the window carrying five or six bags.
Then I heard Harimu's voice:
"Let's put the leathers here - when Li Long wakes up, he will take them away..."
"Harimu," Li Long said a little dumbfounded, "I'm inside, I woke up and heard it."
After saying that, he opened the door.
Harimu and another young man were unloading things from their horses outside, including a few pieces of leather, two deer antlers, two roe deer antlers, and a bundle of snowdrops.
"I thought you were still asleep." Harimu said after putting the things away, "Are you going down the mountain now? We are not in a hurry."
What did the other young man want to say? , but didn’t say it out loud.
"Since you are here, let's get some noodles first." Li Long pointed to the small room and said, "I also put half a bag of rice, half a bag of noodles, and a can of oil in it. "
"Okay." Harimu didn't refuse, "Then we won't be polite."
After Harimu and the others left with the rice noodles, Li Long went to the spring water to wash his face and looked at the leather.
One roe deer skin and two wolf skins. The antlers looked quite fresh. They must have fallen off this year. There was blood on the base of the roe deer's antlers. Li Long guessed that they were taken directly from the roe deer's head.
The grass hunting season lasts for up to half a month, and the food bought with these skins and antlers is enough to eat.
Li Long pushed the bicycle out, clamped the leather on the back seat of the bicycle, then tied up the deer antlers and roe deer antlers and placed them on the leather, tied them again, locked the door, and carried the holster on his back. Went down the mountain.
Back in the county, Li Long went directly to the purchasing station.
Chen Hongjun was cutting watermelon with her colleagues under the shed in the yard of the purchasing station. When she saw Li Long coming over, she greeted him with a smile:
"Come on, let's eat melon together. You can do this. You can still do it at this time." As for the antlers...the antlers are of good quality.”
"My friend gave it to me. I need to exchange some things."
"Well, let's eat the melon first and then talk about it after eating."
Li Long was not polite and held up. Bicycle, stepped forward, picked up a piece of melon and started eating it. After eating two pieces of melon, Li Long stopped and went to the basin by the yard to wash his hands, and then took off the horns and skin.
"Well," Chen Hongjun said after washing his hands, "Here, let's take a look at your skin and horns. The horns are good, the deer antlers are six yuan per kilogram, and the roe deer horns are five yuan - skin. This wolf skin has bullet holes. The location of the bullet holes It's a bit disruptive..."
After deciding on the grade, Chen Hongjun went to the house to get a scale, weighed the antlers, roe deer and subantlers, and finally calculated the accounts and issued the invoices.
“A pair of deer antlers weighs thirteen kilograms and two, which is equivalent to seventy-nine and a half yuan. Three kilograms of roe deer antlers cost fifteen yuan and five cents. Roe deer skin costs twenty-seven yuan. Two wolf skins. One is nineteen, the other is thirty-seven, a total of one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seven cents. Come on, sign... Is that the snow you put in that bag? Lotus?"
"Comrade Chen, you have a very good nose," Li Long joked, "My friend brought it from the mountain and planned to give it to my partner."
"Well, this snow lotus. It tastes good, it must have been picked not long ago, not bad." Chen Hongjun heard what Li Long meant and said with a smile.
After signing and getting the money, Li Long said goodbye to Chen Hongjun and left. Seeing that it was almost noon, he went to the Big Meat Canteen and bought ten buns and returned to the compound.
After seeing that Gu Xiaoxia hadn’t come back yet, Li Long went to the vegetable garden and pulled out a handful of coriander and two spring onions, washed them and chopped them into pieces, mixed the dipping sauce with spicy oil and vinegar, and placed the buns on on the dining table.
Just eating steamed buns is definitely not enough, so he made another egg drop soup so that he could drink it after finishing the steamed buns.
About ten minutes later, Gu Xiaoxia pushed her bicycle into the yard.
Seeing Li Long, she smiled and said:
"Come from the team?"
"No, I came back from the mountains." Li Long said, "I was planning to go to the mountains to get some game, and I met a herdsman friend. Come on, come on, just in time. Look, they just picked the snowdrops a few days ago. "It's very fragrant. The fragrance is quite unique." Gu Xiaoxia put the car away and held it. After sniffing the bunch of snowdrops, "It feels a bit cold."
"This one grows on the high mountains, so it should have that characteristic." Li Long said, "Dry it in the shade and leave it for later. It can be used as medicine."
"Yes." Gu Xiaoxia put the snow lotus aside and washed her hands, saying:
"Then do you still want to go up the mountain?"
Li Long asked while serving soup for the two people:
"Yes. They brought some leather antlers down, and I sold them to them. Then go buy some food and bring it with you. "Are you busy these days?" "You will be busy in the next few days," Gu Xiaoxia said while sitting at the dining table. , "The school is about to start. After the village primary school is cancelled, the pressure on the brigade primary school will definitely be greater. We will have to inspect it then. Although I am a new member of the Education Bureau and a seconded cadre, I still have to get involved to see the preparations and enrollment of each school. "
"Well, this shouldn't be difficult for you." Li Long poured some dipping sauce into his bowl, picked up a bun, dipped it in, and started eating.
Of the ten buns, Li Long ate four and Gu Xiaoxia ate two. When Li Long persuaded her to eat more, she said she was full.
“I’ve been sitting at work lately, not much physical work, and the weather is hot, so my appetite is much smaller.”
“Is there any watermelon in the house? I’ll buy it later. How many are there?”
“Don’t go.” Gu Xiaoxia waved her hand, “I can’t eat a melon by myself. It’s a waste to buy too much. You should rest for a while and then go do some errands.” No less. ”
A lot indeed.
Gu Xiaoxia went to work, while Li Long started buying various things.
One bag each of rice and noodles, brick tea, sugar cubes, rope, whetstone, salt...
Zong Ling Zongzong, Li Long bought a lot of things and took them with him to the mountains. .
Taking the things to Harry Mudong's Nest, no one was seen. The door of Dong's Nest was not locked, the lock was just hanging, so Li Long moved the things in.
Going back to the wooden house and locking the bicycle, Li Long walked slowly towards the mountains with a half gun.
He planned to continue to look at the hot springs. If there were none today, then he would look at them tomorrow morning. Regardless of whether there is any tomorrow morning, I will go down the mountain again to buy something.
The sky is a little cloudy, the clouds are moving fast in the sky, there is still some wind, and it feels a little cold.
I wonder if it will rain at night.
Li Long thought this in his heart, and without stopping, but not very fast, he entered the hot spring ditch with a gun on his back and a sack.
Li Long found that the water level was higher than yesterday. He wondered if it had rained in the mountains, so the groundwater level had risen.
Walking up the stream, Li Long moved very slowly and searched very carefully. He walked all the way to the pool and found no movement.
But Li Long was not discouraged. He looked around and found that there was indeed new feces.
Li Long then turned around and went to the woods, waiting where he had ambush yesterday.
Now is the time to compete with luck and patience.
Time passed by, Li Long watched the sunlight shining through the woods move up little by little, until it was almost gone. Just when he was about to leave, there was a sound coming from the pool below. movement.
A small wild boar grunted and ran over.
This wild boar looked like it only existed at the beginning of this year. It is now less than 50 kilograms and is quite thin. After running over, it looked around, a little wary, and then rushed towards the two sides. The stream in the middle of the pool was rolling there. I don't even take a bath in the pool. Is it because there is no mud in the pool?
Li Long guessed.
He slowly opened the 56-and-a-half safety and aimed at the wild boar.
This wild boar seemed to be alone and had no companions. Li Long waited for a few minutes and watched the wild boar playing happily in the muddy water. He knew that he would not be able to wait any longer, so he went to fight.
Just lose some weight, it’s better than nothing.
“Bang!”
A shot passed through the wild boar’s shoulder blade and hit its head. The wild boar’s head suddenly raised, as if it was planning to jump up, and then it He fell down hard, and there was blood all over his body.
Li Long opened his bayonet, held his gun and moved forward until he was two or three meters in front of the wild boar. He looked carefully and saw that the wild boar was really lifeless, and then he felt relieved.
The wild boar was covered in mud. Li Long dragged one of its legs into the pool, turned it over vigorously, washed away the mud and water, then stuffed it into a sack and carried it downstream.
It is not safe to peel skins here. If wolves are attracted, it is not cost-effective.
There is wind in the valley, and it won’t take long for the smell of blood to dissipate, and the blood stains will be washed away by the water.
Li Long didn’t feel too tired carrying something weighing forty or fifty kilograms. When he returned to the wooden house, the sun had already set.
After resting for a while, he took the wild boar to the spring, fetched a basin, and began to skin and disembowel it.
Although Li Long was considered a hunter, the smell of dirty air during the disembowelling still made him turn his head.
It smells bad.
The knife passed between the skin and the meat, directly cutting the gap without damaging the skin - Li Long could already do this. Of course, he still admired Harimu. This man used his fists most of the time when skinning sheep. He directly put his fists between the sheepskin and the mutton and peeled off the skin.
The skin of the wild boar is different and difficult to work with.
Peel off the skin of the wild boar, disembowel it, and take out the internal organs. Li Long thought that Harimu and the others would not come over tomorrow morning, so he first picked out part of the meat, then rubbed salt on the bones and hung them. On that wooden pole, let it dry.
He put the meat in a basin and covered it first, and then processed the internal organs.
With enough time, he began to clean his stomach and turn his intestines.
The spring water is living water. This is the only benefit. If there is anything, it will be washed away directly.
What is not washed away is directly turned into fertilizer - the grass grows very well around the spring.
Li Long was even thinking about opening a vegetable plot in this area.
Then I thought about it, I couldn’t eat all the wild vegetables in the mountains, so why should I plant them?
After the intestines and stomach were cleaned, Li Long began to add firewood to the stove and boil water, preparing to boil and marinate the internal organs.
As for the boar skin, it was buried. Useless.
It was already dark and cold outside. Several wolf howls were heard in the distance, but Li Long was not afraid, and even felt a little emotional - in a few years, you will only be able to hear this stuff in movies and TV shows.
Those younger generations like Li Qiang have never really seen a wolf in the wild.
After the offal was cooked, Li Long looked at his watch, it was one o'clock in the morning.
At this time, I have just finished reading short videos and novels, and am ready to take a rest.
It feels very late at this time.
Looking up at the north, the Big Dipper and Polaris hung clearly in the sky, flashing from time to time.
Well, good.
It's a pity that I don't have a mobile phone - alas, I haven't left behind the habit of my previous life. I want to take pictures of anything I see that looks good.
Annoying Habit!
Sleep!
Early the next morning, Li Long got up, took out the contents of the pot, put them in a basin, carried them to the small room, and then went to the hot spring with his gun.
It was a bit late. By the time he arrived at Hot Spring Valley, the sun had already risen.
The pond was a bit dirty, and there were many hoof prints beside it. Li Long knew that these must be roe deer or wild goats coming over.
He was a little disappointed, but also a little happy. I was sure that there was indeed something inside, but I was just too late.
Then come over early tomorrow morning.
Returning back the same way, Li Long looked at the meat bones hanging on the shelf, and there was not much change. He pushed out his bicycle, stuck the pot of entrails on the back seat, and rode down the mountain.
Go back to the compound, put away the internal organs, and then go out to buy food.
He estimated that they might not have enough food. After all, it’s hard physical work, and modern people are short of oil and water—even herdsmen are the same, so it’s right to buy more.
Another bag of rice and noodles, and then I went to the market to buy a large basket of peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and sprouts, and a small basket of eggs. For people like Harimu, they usually only have these few dishes, and they can't cook many.
After buying the things and tying them up, Li Long rode his bicycle back to the big yard.
He looked at the time and saw that there was only steamed rice left. Steamed the rice, then cut a few more peppers, and fried a plate of shredded green pepper belly and a plate of green pepper fat sausage.
The portion was quite large, so I gave it to Gu Xiaoxia as dinner if I couldn’t finish it.
There is no waste of leftover rice at this time, and besides, it is still meat and vegetables.
Gu Xiaoxia came back ten minutes later than last night. When she saw Li Long, she explained while supporting the car:
"On the way back, I met the mother of Gangdan in our team and said I came here to do some shopping and chat with the team."
" "I'm not too busy now." Li Long said, "Wash your hands and eat."
"I'm not busy. She took her children to dig Cynomorium cynomorium and sold it to you a few days ago. I made some money right away." School is about to start. Let’s take the kids out to buy something as a reward today.”
"This is good." Li Long said with a smile, "This way the child will be motivated to go to school."
"I have been praising you for a long time, saying that you have done great things for the team. Otherwise, there will be no room for the family." I can’t afford the money to pay for my child’s schooling.”
“Haha, I love hearing this. "Li Long put a piece of pork belly with chopsticks in Gu Xiaoxia's rice bowl and said with a smile, "I have made money and gained a reputation. It seems that I will have to do this more often in the future."
The two of them were talking and joking. After finishing the meal, Gu Xiaoxia put away the dishes and chopsticks, while Li Long cut up the remaining braised food and hung it up to dry. We can't let this thing break, we can't afford to waste it. (End of this chapter)