Li Long didn't hesitate at all, pointed the gun at the gray wolf and pulled the trigger!
The wolves branched off into a ditch on the east side of the main ditch, forty or fifty meters away from the coal seam where Li Long was, with the main ditch in the middle and a stream at the bottom of the ditch. Li Long acted decisively, but fired hastily, and the shot missed.
But the sound of gunfire echoed in the valley, startling the wolves. Since guns were issued to herdsmen in the 1950s and 1960s, these beasts in the mountains have known the power of the stick. The huge gunshot is also a deterrent to them. The wolf was startled and howled, and the other wolves immediately gave up. Prey, turn around and dive into the forest!
Li Long did not hesitate at all. After the first shot was empty, the second, third and fourth shots were fired continuously. The sound of "bang, bang, bang" sounded continuously, and the fourth shot was fired. After reaching the buttocks of the last wolf, the wolf howled miserably, collapsed, and slowed down, but still struggled to run into the ditch.
Hearing the howling of the wolf, the other wolves, except for the one closest to it, turned to look back and hesitated whether to save their teammates, the other wolves had already rushed into the forest. Gone.
Li Long's several shots just now were all very hasty, and it was an accident and a fluke that he succeeded. Now that a wolf was hit, he immediately squatted down and took rough aim, and fired again.
After the shot, the wolf tilted and fell to the ground without making a sound.
The other wolf, which was still hesitant at first, immediately ran towards the ditch with all its strength. Before Li Long had time to fire another shot, it was gone.
In the past, hunting and shooting were usually carried out in ambush, just like militiamen shooting at fixed targets. They almost never missed. Moreover, all targets encountered were clusters, there were dozens or dozens of them at a time. Usually, if you hit one, you would still have enough energy left to hit the second one.
Now they suddenly meet on a narrow road, and the distance is not far or close. The sudden shooting will be inaccurate.
It seems that in actual shooting, I am quite far behind.
While thinking, Li Long took out the bullets from his satchel, pulled the trigger, reached out to catch the ejected bullets, and then pressed the bullets in one after another. After the magazine was full, he pushed the bullets Loading the gun, he took the gun and walked towards the ditch.
It would be better to be more cautious than to advance rashly and be ambushed. He knew that the wolf was very cunning. Humans are making progress, and wolves are not bad either.
I went down the ditch and got water on my shoes when I crossed the stream. The stream was quite wide and not deep, but it was cold. Li Long couldn't care less at this time. He jumped over the stream to the other side, climbed up a hill, and saw the place where the wolf was hunting the roe deer just now.
When he fired, Li Long mainly aimed at the wolf that threatened the most. The roe deer took the opportunity to run away, except for the one that was bitten to death.
Do you think you saved the lives of the Roe Deer family?
Li Long was still a little confused, and then he saw the roe deer lying on the ground.
This roe deer was slightly larger than the one the Sun family had lured. It should have weighed 17 or 18 kilograms, but it was considered average among the group just now.
Li Long looked at its short horns and saw that it was a male.
The neck was bitten open. The wolf's fangs were so fierce just now that it caused a fatal injury. Even the gods could not save it. The wound is still bleeding out. There is already a pool on the ground, attracting of flies and ants.
Li Long didn't move it and continued to move forward. After walking about ten steps, he saw the dead wolf in the grass.
This wolf is bigger than a domestic big dog. It has plenty of food in the mountains and forests, and its fur looks smooth and slippery. It should be about forty or fifty kilograms in size, although it is already dead. , but with his mouth open and his canine teeth exposed, he is still very fierce.
The first shot was on the buttocks and passed through the front of the hind legs. The second shot was on the front legs. He should have been sideways at the time. The bullet entered the cavity and did not come out. It should have caused confusion. Rotten internal organs.
Looking further into the ditch, there was no movement. Li Long didn't dare to take it lightly. He didn't dare to chase inside alone. If there was an ambush, even if there were only two wolves, he wouldn't be able to take care of it. After all, the grass in this ditch is quite deep, reaching up to my thighs. The wolf is hiding in the grass and cannot be seen at all.
Li Long dragged the wolf carcass out of the ditch and walked to the roe deer. He picked up the roe deer again and turned to look into the ditch. There was no movement. Then he got off the ridge and came to the small On the edge of the stream.
He did not rush to dispose of the two bodies, but continued to dig coal. Although I got extra money, I couldn’t lose my main business. The main thing these two corpses can bring to Li Long is meat, and the skins can only be sold for tens of dollars. It wasn't too important, so Li Long put them down first.
The coal seam is very shallow. Li Long dug a few times with a shovel and a large piece of coal was pried off. The main reason is that the coal in the open air is easy to weather, but it does not need to be burned. Li Long didn't choose, he wanted the outer layer and the inner one that could be taken out. He packed half a sack of coal, carried it on his back and walked out, carrying the wolf carcass in his hand.
If you want to put it on the tractor, pack it up when you go back.
After going back and forth like this, he got most of the coal in the carriage, including six or seven bags. Only then did Li Long get the roe deer seeds into the carriage.
Take a rest and drive back with the tractor.
It was slow on the way here and even slower on the way back because the tractor was loaded with coal. Although the tractor was heavier and more stable, we had to be more careful when crossing some ridges, otherwise it would be troublesome to overturn. He was alone in the mountains, and if the tractor had to overturn, there would be no way to do it.
Driving back to the wooden house carefully, the sun was already setting. Li Long had no energy or intention to unload coal. He opened the big room, put a fire in the stove and boiled water, and then carried the wolf and roe deer. Go to the spring and skin him and disembowel him.
What made him a little depressed was that there were flies and maggots on the wounds of the wolf corpse. Thin white maggots were so densely packed that he had to use a knife to cut off the piece of meat and throw it away before peeling it off.
Fortunately, Li Long doesn't have any psychological burden. It's normal for corpses to have wounds when there are flies. Although it looks a little nauseating, it's not disgusting. After all, some people even eat this stuff, so that's terrible. They are all high in protein and are based on meat.
Of course, people with trypophobia can't watch it.
After skinning the wolf, the fire on the stove in the room was already burning, so he brought several large basins, filled them with water, disembowelled the wolf, put the wolf meat and internal organs in the basin to soak, and then processed the roe deer roe.
Smear the leather with salt and lay it out on the wooden floor in front of the house, then nail it up when you have time.
After both guys finished, Li Long felt that his waist was already sore and uncomfortable. I don’t know if I’ve been using it more recently. I’ve skinned two or three animals in a row before, so it’s not so tiring.
It seems that the whip of this roe deer needs to be kept.
What needs to be processed among the internal organs is the stomach and intestines. Nowadays, the grass is rich in spring and there are many prey species, so the wolves and roe deer are not thin, and there is still oil on the outside of their intestines. Li Long first cut the meat into pieces, and later planned to make it into air-dried meat. As for the stomach and intestines, he would deal with them later.
He set up a fire on the stove outside and filled it with water. The heart, liver, lungs and the like needed to be boiled or stewed, otherwise they would easily spoil.
Now Li Long misses having a refrigerator or freezer very much. I remember that in the last generation of masks, my family had a special freezer to store food. During that time, I felt that I could eat more than usual. A three- to four-kilogram native chicken was made into a large pot of chicken, and three or four people could eat it in one meal. This was an era when there was no shortage of food and water.
On the contrary, when I let go, my appetite dropped, and I couldn’t eat meat or rice.
It’s very strange.
Cook the offal in two pots, and then throw in two meaty leg bones on each side. As for the others, Li Long planned to rest for a while and then remove the meat.
The rest will not be cooked. After a while, the meat will be cut off, and the bones and meat will be rubbed with salt to make air-dried meat. I think those who dig the caladium later will be willing to exchange the caladium for the air-dried meat, even if they are not willing to exchange it. , you can also take it back yourself. After all, this thing is easy to store.
I was making plans in my mind, but my hands were temporarily inactive. The fire was raging under the stove, and the water in the pot above was boiling. Internal organs such as the heart and liver floated with the water, foam precipitated, and then floated as the water boiled.
It smells bad, but Li Long is hungry.
He got up and went to the wooden house, took a steamed bun and baked it under the stove, and then continued to process the meat.
The sun is almost setting, and the meat is rubbed with salt. Although there are wooden poles and ropes outside, they are not suitable for hanging at night, as they will attract wild beasts. Li Long couldn't look at it all night, so he put it in a small room to store it temporarily and hang it outside to dry tomorrow.
Before the meat was rotten, Li Long picked up a piece, put it in an enamel bowl, sprinkled it with salt, and ate it slowly.
It's quite fragrant, although it has a fishy smell that only wild beasts have.
The sun went down, and Li Long rested for a while before starting to deal with his stomach and intestines. There is no way, a person will always be slower. By the time everything was done, it was already dark, and there were wolves howling in the distance. I didn't know if it was the wolf's companions howling in mourning, or if they smelled the scent and called out to their companions.
Li Long has been tired for a day. Although he really wants to rest, there is still a pile of things outside. There is no time to cook the stomach and intestines. After washing them, soak them in a basin and pull them out before cooking them tomorrow. Take the food cooked on the stove outside into a basin and put it in the small room to cool down. I don't care about the fire under the stove or the soup in the pot. I close the door and go to sleep.
I did vaguely hear movement outside in the middle of the night, but Li Long didn't think about shooting. Firstly, it was dark and he couldn't see, and secondly, it was dangerous. You can't make money by shooting this thing, and it's troublesome to do it. Just enough to eat. When Li Long woke up early the next morning, it was already bright. When Li Long went out, he saw black paw prints on the stove. The paw prints came from the spring. The soup in the pot was also dirty. Look at the paw prints. The seal is not small, and I don’t know if it belongs to a wolf or something else.
Fortunately, the pot is fine. I just need to wash it. And since the pot of broth was filled with offal, Li Long himself had no intention of drinking it.
When I went to pee behind the house, I felt that the urine came out with a strong fishy smell.
I went to the spring to wash my hands and found that the maggot-infested meat that was cut off yesterday was gone. The scraps and lymph that were removed from the skin and disembowelment were also gone. Even the blood stains on the ground were gone. Got licked again.
It’s really not a waste at all.
Li Long poured out all the soup in the two pots, filled it with warm water and washed it twice. He got firewood and coal to burn under the stove. He put water in the pot and heated it up, then washed the pot again, brushed the pot clean, and then Go and cook the intestines.
While it was cooking, he took out the dried meat and hung it on a rope tied to a wooden pole outside. The wind blew and the meat swayed.
Li Long then had time to eat. Some porridge was boiling in the pot in the house. Yesterday I ate wolf meat and roe deer meat, which made me feel a little dry. I drank some rice porridge to cool down the heat. Bake some steamed bun slices as a staple food and dip them in some red tofu. I don't have time to prepare vegetables. I just cut a few slices of the heart and liver braised yesterday, that's enough.
After finishing the meal in a hurry, my stomach and intestines were left to cook, and then I started unloading coal from the tractor. These coals have to be placed where the firewood is, and in order to avoid weathering, some branches have to be cut to cover them, but Li Long plans to get some more when he has time so that he can burn them until next year.
Since it is here, prepare enough. When I have time, I have to find an older piece of fallen wood and chop it up for later use. Although the shed that Yushanjiang and the others built to keep the horses no longer needs to be kept, it can now be used as an outdoor warehouse, and the open "door" needs to be closed inward.
They are all things that need to be done, and Li Long is not in a hurry. Anyway, he can receive the caladium now, so he is not in a hurry to hunt.
Of course, you still need to go and take a look at the information provided by Sun Jiaqiang. Maybe you can get something good?
I went hunting in the mountains before, mainly for meat and to eat something good. Hunting after a better life is firstly for fun, as a man is a boy until he dies. Secondly, of course, it is also for making money, and meat is the second most important thing. Hunting valuable prey such as deer is naturally the first choice, and it would be even better if we could also hunt lynx. A piece of skin can withstand an average person's years of hard work, of course.
However, it is impossible to catch them all, so we can only go down the list. Deer and roe deer are relatively better. If you catch wild boar, you can only eat meat.
After stacking the coals, I went to the stove to see that my stomach and intestines were almost cooked. The fire under the stove was almost out, so I washed my hands, went to the room to get a basin and chopsticks, and put my stomach in. Take out all the intestines, and there will be a basin of them all.
Coupled with the heart, liver, and lungs mentioned above, he couldn't finish eating in a while, and Li Long was still a little worried.
But it wouldn’t make sense to send it back. He didn’t want to run back and forth anymore, so he took this to the shelf in the small room and put it away first.
When I put down the basin, I cut a piece of the belly with a knife and put it in my mouth to chew. Then I took the ax and went to the forest in front, intending to cut some branches.
Take two steps out and then step back, putting the 56 semi-automatic rifle on his back. The tiger-like thing I saw last time was right in front of me. Although the place where I was going to cut the branches was closer now, I didn't dare to be careless.
Maybe there is a big guy hiding inside?
Carrying the ax and arriving near the woods, Li Long slung the gun on his right shoulder, turned on the safety, hung it on the shoulder strap, held the gun with one hand, pressed his hand on the trigger, and walked slowly into the woods.
If there is something in the woods, he can shoot it in time.
When he arrived at the edge of the forest, he found that it was quiet inside. Li Long walked a few more steps in and found nothing, so he felt relieved, stepped back to the edge, and cut down some branches.
There was a lot of movement, and echoes echoed in the forest - this forest is relatively sparse, with scattered trees, and you can see quite far away.
Chopping down an armful of branches with dense leaves, Li Long carried them and walked back to the coal pile. After covering them, they looked almost the same, and then he was ready to continue chopping.
As a result, not far after walking out, I saw someone coming from the east.
Li Long looked at it and saw that it was not Sun Jiaqiang, nor Bolati, nor Li Zhengtang and Li Zhengting.
Stranger, never seen before.
Seeing the man walking towards the wooden house with a clear purpose, Li Long turned back, went to the wooden house, put down the ax, hung the gun on his shoulder, and waited for the man to come.
The man also noticed Li Long. After hesitating for a moment, he came over. He was holding a bag in his hand. Surprisingly, his hair was not very long, but was cut messily. Li Long seriously doubted that he They should have been cut or snipped by themselves with a knife, which is similar to what a dog has chewed.
"You want to change something here." The man walked to a place seven or eight meters in front of Li Long and stood there, glanced at the gun on Li Long's shoulder, and then asked.
There is a bit of a southern accent in his voice, and he looks about forty years old, but it may be because he is busy in the mountains, so he looks older.
"Exchange, what are you going to exchange for? What are you going to exchange for?"
"I picked up jade and some fritillaries, and I'm going to exchange for some rice." The man said from the bag he brought He took out a stone.
Li Long took a closer look, shook his head and said:
"This jade...the quality is too poor, I can't replace it."
It's very ordinary jasper, and it's not a seed material, it looks like mountain material, it has cracks, and there are many black spots.
Li Long remembered watching a video in his last life. After a blogger sealed off the Nanshan Jasper Mountain in Ma County, he went into the mountain alone to explore the jasper mines and found the jasper mines where jasper was mined in the Qing Dynasty. There were everywhere on the ground there. This kind of material.
"It's really jade." The man was a little anxious, "You don't know the goods, do you?"
Li Long waved his hand and said:
"The quality of your jade is too poor. There is good material in this ravine. I don't know where you picked up this material, but to be honest, this material is really not good. You can take it out and try it. No one will accept it. . ”
The man looked disappointed, obviously thinking that Li Long still didn’t know what he was doing.
"Fritillaria, I have more than two kilograms here." The man said, "How much rice can I exchange for?"
On the kilograms, it should come from the mouth, Li Long Said: "One kilogram of Fritillaria can be exchanged for two kilograms of rice, which is four kilograms. You can exchange these two kilograms for eight kilograms." Come on, come on, this is my Fritillaria.”
He poured the fritillaries out of the bag and spread them on the floor. Li Long took a look and saw that he could probably touch a kilogram. They were all large and small, including grass, leaves, mud, sheep excrement and eggs. This man was a little embarrassed.
"Okay, you put it here, I'll pack it up later. Have you got the bag? I'll pack the rice for you."
"Just use this, I don't have it either Too many bags." The man was a little embarrassed.
"Okay, I'll get you a bag." Li Long thought about using this bag to hold rice. Wouldn't it make him feel uncomfortable eating it? Anyway, I still have a few bags, so I’ll just give them to them. They’re not even worth a lot of money.
Leading the man into the cabin and starting to load rice for him, the man saw the meat on the shelf, his throat moved, and he suddenly said:
"Can I order less rice and you give me some cooked meat?"
"Okay." Li Long naturally didn't mind, "Meat and rice are not the same price. I can give you four kilograms of rice." , how about giving you another kilogram of meat?”
The price of raw and cooked meat is different, but Li Long doesn’t want to care so much. His own canteen has just opened, so it can be considered as a discount.
"Okay, okay, thank you." That person felt that he had really met a good person. (End of this chapter)