It was still sunny when Li Junfeng and the others were sent off in the morning. When Li Long had finished baking the steamed buns and was about to fetch water from the spring to steam the steamed buns, a cloud floated in the sky, and the weather suddenly became gloomy.
The weather can greatly affect your mood. The light transmittance in the wooden house itself is not very good, and after the clouds, it feels a little darker.
Seeing that Li Long was about to lose his temper, he simply opened the door to the big room. The case that was originally placed outside was also moved inside at this time, and he rubbed his face on the case. He kneaded a ball of dough the size of a basketball into a long pillow-like strip, then folded it and kneaded it again. The more you knead the dough, the more delicious the steamed buns will be.
While the steamed buns were being steamed, Li Long went to the small room to get some dried meat.
It turns out that in summer you can set up two stoves outside to cook, steam buns or stir-fry vegetables at the same time. Now that there is only one stove, things can only be done step by step.
The dried meat needs to be steamed before it can be eaten. Li Long prepared it first. He planned to wait for the steamed buns to be steamed, then steam the dried meat and make some broth to drink.
When he came here this time, he also brought some dried vegetables, and there were leftover dried mushrooms in the small room, which can be eaten with meat.
Otherwise, if you just eat meat, your body will not be able to bear it in a few days.
Before the steamed buns were steamed, shouts came from outside.
Li Long came out of the wooden house and saw Harim running over on horseback.
"Duosen, are you okay?" After Harimu got off his horse, he shook hands with Li Long and gave a sincere greeting.
"Okay, okay." Li Long smiled, "I'm steaming steamed buns."
"Well, I heard gunshots from your side yesterday, and I thought you might come over. "What's going on?"
"Hit two wolves." Li Long said. , "There are really many wolves in this mountain."
"Well, I also killed one a few days ago, and another injured one ran away." Harimu and Li Long felt the same "These guys are so annoying. They come to my sheepfold every night."
"I brought some extra bullets this time. Come on, I'll give them to you." Li Long said, "It should be enough for you to use for a while."
"That's great!" Harimu smiled. Said, "Actually, if you don't tell me, I want you to help find some bullets. Some of us asked someone to find some bullets when we went down the mountain. There is no place to buy the bullets for the guns we use. One round is missing..."
< br>Li Long smiled. He took out a cloth bag from the house and handed it to Harimu:
"There are three hundred rounds of ammunition in it. You can use it, or you can give some to others. Last time I have taken so many things, some of which have not been sold out yet, so I will use these bullets first.”
Li Long believes that as his network of contacts increases, it may be easier to get the bullets later.
After all, every village was conducting militia training some time ago, and these people would more or less keep some bullets.
If you hunt a lot this time, you can also use the meat to exchange for bullets in other villages.
You can ask Tao Daqiang to go to his father-in-law's village and talk about it. Someone will definitely be willing. Especially the Chinese New Year is coming soon, how can we do it without eating some meat before the New Year?
After all, Xi'er still has a red headband, so it is normal for ordinary people to get some meat to eat during the New Year.
“So many!” Harimu originally thought that one hundred rounds of bullets that Li Long could take out would be more than enough, but he didn’t expect to get three hundred rounds at once!
"Yes, in exchange for meat." Li Long said with a smile, "I've been wandering around these days. If I can find prey, such as wild boar, deer, etc., I can still exchange a lot of bullets for it."< br>
“Then leave this matter to us!” Harimu said upon hearing this, “Recently I have I haven't been around, so I don't know where there are wild boars or anything like that. But don't worry, we're going to start playing tricks and horse racing here in the next two days, and we'll definitely be able to find prey somewhere - don't worry! ”
With Harimu’s words, Li Long is really relieved.
"On what specific day will you come?" Li Long wanted an exact date.
"The day after tomorrow." Harimu said, "Today Yushanjiang and I will notify the people. Let's prepare tomorrow and come here to make trouble the day after tomorrow."
"Okay." In two days, Li Long can walk around the neighborhood calmly, and maybe he can get some unexpected results.
After Harimu left, Li Long steamed the steamed buns. After taking them out, he boiled water again and cooked the air-dried meat.
The fire in the stove was not very strong, so Li Long sandwiched a piece of red tofu with a hot steamed bun. After eating it in a hurry, he locked the door and walked around with his gun on his shoulder.
Li Long passed by the place where the smelly boar was found in the north again and found that the thin snow blown by the wind had covered the place where the wild boar had passed. Here you can only vaguely see the unevenness in the snow.
He kept walking north, actually wanting to see if he could encounter the group of yellow sheep that ran into the bushes that day - after all, this place was less than ten kilometers away from the place where the yellow sheep were found earlier. distance.
For yellow sheep that like to migrate, this is not a big distance.
Climbing to the outside of the northernmost mountain, Li Long saw the snow pressing down on the bushes below. Wherever he looked, except for some rabbit tracks, he found nothing else.
He walked west along the mountain until he reached the edge of the Ma River, but found nothing in the end.
The snow was so deep that every step reached his knees. Li Long regretted that he was so brave and ran so far.
When he struggled to return to the wooden house, Li Long no longer wanted to move. The room was filled with the aroma of meat, not the aroma of stewing meat directly, with a feeling that was not too fresh, but very tempting.
Li Long rested for a while, went to get a bowl, picked up a spoon from the case, filled a bowl of soup, blew on it and drank it.
A lot of salt is put on the air-dried meat, so the soup is a bit salty, but it is just right for Li Long at the moment.
With the air-dried broth, Li Long gnawed another steamed bun and added some water to the pot. After resting for half an hour, he felt full of blood and resurrected.
He walked out of the cabin again with a gun.
This time, Li Long planned to visit Hot Spring Valley.
The hot springs should not stop running in winter, so will there be animals going there to keep warm?
After all, when the sky is full of ice and snow, a warm place should be very precious to these animals.
Li Longshen walked towards the hot spring valley with one foot and one foot.
He was carrying a satchel with a bag of bullets and a steamed bun in it for emergencies.
The gun was slung over his shoulder and he was holding a bag. The bag contained a bundle of rope and a machete. These are the essentials - a lighter and a box of matches.
Double insurance.
It was already more than half an hour later when we walked into the hot spring valley. In winter, most of the leaves of broad-leaved trees have fallen, so the visibility in the valley is much stronger than in summer.
The stream in the middle of the valley mouth is frozen, but the ice is not thick, and you can hear the sound of water flowing below.
As Li Long walked and looked, he found that there were animal footprints going in from the mouth of the valley. In addition to the common rabbits, pheasants, etc., there are also five-clawed plum blossom prints. The footprints are not big. Li Long doesn't know what kind of animal they are.
When he was approaching the hot spring pool, Li Long put the bag aside, held the gun in his hand, and walked forward slowly.
Although it was inevitable that his feet would make noise when stepping on the snow, Li Long tried his best to be careful and keep his voice quiet.
First I saw the rising heat, then the pools.
There is snow around the pool, but the water in the pool does not freeze, and is still steaming. The water flowing down does not start to freeze until it reaches three to four hundred meters.
Li Long even saw a few small ditch fish in the flowing water.
There were some bones and a lot of messy footprints in the pool. Li Long was more than thirty meters away from the pool at this time. When he was about to walk forward, a yellow shadow suddenly jumped into the snow and jumped in a few seconds. Entering the woods, he disappeared.
Although Li Long didn't see clearly what it was - he moved too fast, he guessed that it was most likely the lynx he had seen before!
What is this guy doing here?
Li Long walked forward with his gun in a hopeful mood. When he reached the pool, he was stunned for a moment, a little surprised, and then smiled.
I interrupted the other person’s eating!
On the edge of the pond, there was a half-eaten hare - the head was still there, only the paws were left on the legs, the belly had been ripped open, and the intestines were half in the water and half on the ground. Obviously, the lynx should have been there just now. After eating this rabbit, he was startled and ran away.
This thing is of no use to me!
Li Long shook his head helplessly. He bent down and touched the water. The temperature of the water in the pool where he used to soak was now much lower, making it inappropriate for him to soak in it again.
Of course, Li Long has no plans to continue playing.
He went back to find the bag, then went up to the middle of the mountain opposite where the lynx escaped, and found a place to sit down, hoping to see if he could ambush anything good again.
The steamed buns were frozen solid. Li Long was not hungry yet and was not in the mood to eat, so he spread the bag on the snow, sat down, and put the gun in front of his legs, ready to take out the gun and shoot at any time.
Li Long plans to wait here for an hour. No matter whether he waits or not, he doesn’t plan to wait any longer.
An hour later, Li Long left helplessly. In this hour, the lynx appeared again, but it only flashed across the street and then disappeared again.
Li Long could also guess that with this guy here, he would not have the guts to come over if there was any other movement.
He can only go back.
When he was about to arrive at the wooden house, Li Long discovered that where the pieces of stinky pork were, a red fox was gnawing hard on the meat!
What a beautiful fur!
Li Long immediately put down the bag and picked up the gun!
Kill this fox down and use its fur to make a scarf for Gu Xiaoxia. It will be very beautiful!
The moment Li Long picked up the gun, the fox seemed to feel something. He turned to look at Li Long, turned around and "floated" into the woods!
It’s really floating! It feels like its body has no weight on the snow, and it "floats" far away with just a tap!
"Bang bang bang!" Li Long shot immediately! (End of this chapter)