After coming out of Sister Yang's house, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia separated at the intersection, then drove the tractor to the oil depot, refueled and took two jugs of oil with them, and drove towards the mountains.
The sun is quite bright, but fortunately there is wind when driving a tractor, so it won’t be too hot. All the way to the west, when approaching Mahe, we turned to the south road leading to Qingshuihezi. There were occasional pedestrians on the road, and we could clearly feel that there were indeed more cyclists.
After crossing the Qingshui River, I felt that the temperature had dropped a bit. I could occasionally see wild animals in the bushes on both sides of the road. They did not run away, but looked at the roaring tractor with wide eyes and curiosity. And passed.
There was no jumping rabbit following the tractor during the day, and Li Long felt a little bored. But I'm glad that this thing didn't follow me around during the day, otherwise it would have been extinct long ago.
Less than a kilometer away from the mountain pass, Li Long saw a man standing in the middle of the road, carrying a bag and carrying a bag. He was carrying a sack, and the contents inside were irregular. Li Long guessed that they were daily necessities. Li Long was very familiar with the bag he was carrying.
Eighty percent of the contents are filled with caladiums.
Li Long stopped the tractor about ten meters in front of the man, without turning off the engine, and asked:
"Why are you blocking the road?"
"Selling Fritillaria. I've found the knot in your wooden house. You're not here, so I have to carry this thing out and drag it out. "Dang!" The man kicked the fritillary in the bag and said, "Should you accept it?" He got off the tractor and asked, "The ones sold in the county are more expensive, so I can get more money."
"I don't want to carry it anymore, I can't carry it. I want to get to the county early and see if I can catch the night bus to Wucheng. Carrying it will take at least more than an hour of walking."
Li Long stepped forward. Open the caladium pocket.
The caladium inside is quite clean, half dry and half wet. Li Long grabbed a handful and dug down, and found that the quality below was also the same.
He guessed that this person really wanted to take the bag of fritillaries to the mountain purchasing station to sell, but he probably couldn’t carry it back here after carrying it from the mountains.
This bag of caladiums weighs more than 20 kilograms. It’s okay to carry it for a short time, but it can be carried for several kilometers now. Carrying it for dozens of kilometers...this is no ordinary job.
"Okay, but there's no scale. I'll make an appointment for you. It's more than twenty kilograms. Your Fritillaria is clean. I'll give you seven yuan. How about I give you one hundred and fifty yuan?"
< br>"Okay." The man was a little surprised. He thought that he could just get one hundred and pay for the ticket.
Unexpectedly, Li Long gave more.
Li Long took out the money from his pocket and paid the bill. The man also didn’t want his bag. He took the money, dipped it in his saliva and counted it twice. He folded the money and stuffed it into his inner pocket, patted it. Then he said to Li Long:
“Okay, boss, I wish you fortune, I’m leaving.”
After speaking, he picked up a stick from the ground and strode northward.
"I wish you peace." Li Long said loudly to his back.
Actually, he has been on guard. He was also worried that a sap would suddenly appear on the side of the road while trading here. Therefore, the gun hung on the shoulder was clasped with the hand from time to time, and the eyes were constantly observing the surroundings.
Fortunately, nothing happened.
Tie the mouth of the caladium tightly and put it in the truck bed. Li Long got on the tractor and continued to move forward.
When we arrived at the cabin, the sun was heading west, it was past five o'clock, and no one was here.
No one sabotaged it either.
The sun is just right, not dazzling, and quite hot.
Li Long washed the fritillaries and dried them on a handle.
Yesterday I took all the caladiums from the cabin, and now I only have more than 20 kilograms. Although the man cleaned it up quite cleanly, that was relative, and the quality was still a little different from what Li Long did himself, so he had to wash it again.
The next step is to process the bear meat and offal.
Of course bear meat is not as delicious as domestic beef and mutton, but it is still meat after all.
Yesterday I just cooked it, and the bones were rubbed with salt to make air-dried meat. The removed meat was continued to be burned. Although the taste was not very good, there were a lot of people who wanted to eat this kind of meat.
The stove in the wooden house is also set up. Boiling water is the first priority, and then making noodles.
After eating dead dough pancakes here for two days, Li Long thought about steaming some steamed buns in the afternoon.
As expected, there were fewer people in the mountains. It was almost dark before a man slowly came over carrying half a bag of caladiums.
When he smelled the aroma of meat, Li Long saw that the man was in his forties or fifties, very thin and obviously malnourished, so he cut a piece of meat for him.
"Hey, I haven't eaten meat for a long time." The man was not polite. He took the bear meat and chewed it a few times. After swallowing it, he asked:
"Boss Li, Can your meat be exchanged for Fritillaria?"
"Yes, pour out the Fritillaria and have a look," Li Long said.
When the caladium is poured out, it can be seen that it is newly dug, but it is not very clean.
“The portion is not large and it is not very clean.” Li Long commented.
“There’s no way.” The man complained, “Now some of the caladiums have bloomed, and it’s hard to dig out the ones that haven’t bloomed. I dug them in three ditches, and you can do the same. Don’t pick any more, it will be gone this year.”
"It's best if I don't have it," Li Long smiled, weighed him with a scale, and said while weighing him, "I can go down the mountain without it. It's boring to stay here."
The man was originally I wanted to give Li Long some words, but I didn't expect that Li Long was more casual than him.
Li Long didn't raise the price for five and a half kilograms of Fritillaria, only three yuan. Some of the caladiums inside are already a bit deflated. Li Long guessed that they were dug and blooming caladiums. Once the caladium blooms, just like the lily, nutrients are supplied to the flower, and the bulb below will naturally deflate.
I exchanged a piece of air-dried cooked meat for the man, gave him another fifteen yuan, and sent him away. Li Long had to wash the fritillaries.
These caladiums will not be sold. Clean them and keep them to give away. Anyway, it works when you eat it, but it doesn’t look good.
In the evening, Li Long steamed the steamed buns, cooked a wild mushroom, and cut a plate of bear offal. It was delicious to eat with the steamed buns.
Packed the things outside into the house, locked the door, and Li Long went to sleep.
Li Long got up before dawn the next day.
The stove was not out. After he went outside and put in the water, he opened the stove, added some coal to boil the water, and baked two steamed buns under the stove. He took out two pieces of red tofu from the jar. Since I plan to save time, it’s not a bad idea to use this thing to prepare meals.
After the steamed buns were baked and hot tea was served, Li Long took the steamed buns and patted them a few times with both hands to shake off the floating ash on them, then broke them open, spread them with red tofu, and then sandwiched two pieces of yesterday The chopped offal that has not been eaten is eaten as meat buns.
After finishing the two steamed buns, he poured boiling water into the thermos and suppressed the fire in the stove with cinders. Li Long took a gun, a shoulder bag, tied his belt, stuffed two urea bags into his waist, and went out.
The sky was still dark, so he strode southeast with his gun in hand.
The big buck that he once thought was a two-headed deer was seriously injured, and its partner seemed to have died in the mountains. Li Long wanted to go and have a look.
With or without it, there is an ending.
Fortunately, the dew on the grass was not heavy at this time. Li Long was full and his goal was relatively simple. He climbed over the mountains and ridges without stopping for a moment. Before the sun came up, he arrived at the bear hunting place. That valley.
He smelled a faint smell of blood.
Walking to the place where the bear was killed, Li Long saw blood stains on the ground and something passing over it, probably a wild boar. There were also a lot of hoof prints and claw marks, so wolves must have been here too.
He turned around and headed in the direction where the buck had fled after being caught by a bear, in the grass below on the left side of the road.
After walking around in a circle, Li Long found the deer skull in the grass that he had mistaken for the other head of the buck.
Only one antler is left on the skull, but it looks very beautiful.
It would be great if it were two branches.
Li Long carried the deer skull to the roadside of Yangchang and placed it on the roadside. He held the gun and walked slowly into the tall grass.
There was no sound in the grass, so there was probably nothing nearby.
This area of tall grass is relatively mixed. After entering, Li Long found that there was actually a path where he was walking, but it was blocked by the grass growing on both sides.
After entering, you will know that the grass is not densely grown, there are gaps, and you can pass people, but you have to be careful after entering, because some grass grows in clumps, and no one is sure what will happen next. No danger hidden.
Li Long walked very slowly, the grass was deep, but the soil below was not moist, so he was not sure whether he would encounter a snake.
Through about two hundred meters of grass, the view ahead widens. The grass finally returned to its normal shape and became shorter.
The valley is still very wide, the grass is low, and it feels bigger when you look at it, and then Li Long's eyes fall in the distance.
There, a red deer was lying with its head held high. Opposite it is a small gray wolf. The wolf didn't notice Li Long, who was circling the red deer. Obviously, it was very patient and wanted to wait for the red deer to be weak before attacking.
The male red deer struggled to get up, but when it was halfway up, it whined feebly and lay down again. At this time, Li Long saw the remains of a red deer not far from the male red deer. Most of the flesh on the body was eaten away, exposing the bones.
The gray wolf saw that the male red deer had lost its strength, and boldly took a few steps forward to the carcass of the red deer. He took two bites of the smelly meat, but then set his sights on the male. On red deer.
Obviously, it wants to eat fresh meat.
The male red deer turned its head, lowered its head and threatened the gray wolf with its horns. The gray wolf went around behind the red deer and attacked, biting the red deer's leg hard. The red deer struggled to get up. The gray wolf hurriedly retreated, and the red deer fell down again.
The gray wolf saw that the red deer was really in danger, so it boldly rushed towards the red deer's neck and bit it. The male red deer seemed to be waiting for this moment. He lowered his head and stabbed the gray wolf hard with his antlers.
The gray wolf couldn't dodge, and one of its legs was picked up by the red deer, and its body was turned half over. It howled and retreated.
The male red deer had exhausted all its strength, and its raised head fell down, lying on the ground.
The gray wolf wasn't far away, and even though he was injured, he still felt like he might win.
Everything is worth it for this huge red deer.
Li Long watched for a while, thought for a moment, squatted down, and aimed his gun over there.
When the gray wolf attacked the red deer for the third time, it was sure to win. It believed that the red deer really had no strength and could not move. This time I was really able to drink deer blood.
“Bang!”
With one shot, the gray wolf that was about to pounce tilted its body, whined, and fell next to the buck.
The male red deer moved in fright when hearing the gunshot. The deer raised its head and looked towards Li Long. After seeing Li Long's figure, it finally lowered its head weakly.
Li Long slowly walked up to him with his gun in hand.
He saw the remains of the female elk, which was full of maggots and had been eaten by someone unknown. Less than half of the body was left.
The gray wolf is not big, it feels like a half-grown wolf cub of one or two years old that comes out to look for food. It was completely dead at this point. Li Long's shot hit it in the head, breaking several pieces of its skull.
The male red deer was also miserable, and the two wounds on his neck that were scratched by the bear also had a lot of maggots at the moment.
It also had injuries on its hind legs. It was unknown whether it was bitten by a wolf or injured by other animals. At this moment, the male red deer was also on its deathbed.
It glanced at Li Long and closed its eyes.
"Okay, if you die, you will die. I will avenge you." Li Long knew that it was suffering even if it was alive now.
Li Long looked around, but there was no sign of the deer. He didn't know if it was out of danger or had been eaten by other animals.
There was no danger, so Li Long put away his gun, took the knife to the male red deer, and wiped the deer's neck.
There wasn't much blood coming out of the red deer's neck. It seemed that most of the blood in its body had drained away in the past two days.
The sun hasn't come out yet, the temperature is very low, and the flies haven't come out to wreak havoc yet. Li Long doesn't dare to wait any longer, otherwise he won't be able to stay here for a while.
This male red deer weighs less than 200 kilograms. Li Long will definitely not be able to take it away by himself. Like the bear, he plans to take away the important ones and leave the rest here. .
After all, it is normal for wild animals from the mountains to eventually return to the mountains and forests.
He is just a predator.
The skin was to be taken away, so Li Long began to peel it.
I found a little bastard to pick out the maggots from my neck. He had done this kind of thing in two lifetimes. The one who suffered the most was a pastoral dog I raised in the 1990s. After fighting with other dogs, the owner hit him on the head with an iron rod.
Li Long went to beat the dog owner and came back to apply medicine on the dog's wound.
It was midsummer, and within two days the dog's head was covered with maggots - something that people with trypophobia cannot see. The maggots grew neatly in the hole, but the dog was still alive.
What Li Long had to do was to let his dog lie down. He used tweezers to pick out the chubby maggots one by one. Then he used the tweezers to hold cotton dipped in medicine to dip the necrotic meat from the wound, and then applied it to the wound. Smear it with Clarin.
This thing is used for washing sheep and removing bugs from the sheep.
In fact, Li Long was also a doctor at that time. This kind of thing was not common in the village. Maggots appeared on the dog's body due to injuries, including on its legs, mouth and even on its balls. The head is not surprising either, because when a dog attacks a person, the first thing a person hits with something is the dog's head.
In Li Long's opinion, if the skull is broken, the maggots can still grow, wouldn't they just grow in the brain? Can you still live?
It’s really alive.
There is not a single dog in the village that lives like this.
After picking out the maggots, Li Long skinned the deer.
I definitely want the deer head. The pair of antlers is so beautiful, with seven or eight bare branches.
The skin is also needed. Although it is rotten, the impact is not big and it is not in important parts.
The whip, tail, and deer sinews are all needed. Then there's venison.
Li Long brought two bags. He not only skinned the deer, but also skinned the wolf.
The wolf teeth and the wolf's shoulder stones have been removed, so forget the wolf meat, which is not as delicious as venison.
One bag contained deerskins, wolf skins and other odds and ends, and one bag contained venison, including venison steaks and legs. There were more than a hundred kilograms of venison after removing the internal organs. Li Long took oil and forty or fifty kilograms of meat strips, and that was about it.
The sun has just emerged, and wasps are already flying over against the dew.
Li Long put his gun on his back, carried the meat bag on his back, and another bag, turned around and walked back.
When Li Long returned to the wooden house, the sun had risen as high as a tree.
Li Long was also panting from exhaustion.
In fact, at this time, his strength was much stronger than ordinary people of this era. If you really want to bring it, you can bring back one hundred kilograms of venison. But he thought it was better to forget it, there was no need to tire himself out like a dead dog.
Putting the meat at the door, Li Long sat down on the threshold and began to rest.
After a few minutes, feeling relieved, he opened the door and went to the house to get salt. The first things to deal with are deer and wolf skins. At this time, flies had already smelled the smell and came over.
He spread the two skins with salt and spread them outside to dry, and then began to process the meat.
The deer steak needs to be cooked, the meat and oil need to be burned, and the whip and tail need to be dried.
Just as he was about to light the two stoves outside, two people came out from behind the peddle slope not far away.
Li Long looked at them, waiting for these two people to come over.
"Boss Li went hunting?" A man glanced at the gun beside Li Long and asked with a smile, "What is this? A deer?"
"Hmm. You... sell Fritillaria?"
"Well, we came here in the morning, knocked on the door to see if you were not there, and waited there."
Li Long knew they were I was afraid that patrollers like Polati would come over, so I hid first.
The two people brought more than ten kilograms of caladiums, and the quality was not very good. These people also made it clear that this is what the caladiums are now. This is their last time, and they will do more next time. Dig up some other things and bring them back.
Li Long calculated the money for them, and the two of them also ordered steamed buns and dried meat, then turned around and walked towards the mountains with the bags in hand.
Putting the caladium aside first, Li Long continued to process the meat.
Light the fire on the stove, collect the water, and cook the meat. Cut into oil and roast the meat.
After putting all these on, Li Long went over and washed the caladiums, and dried them outside together with the caladiums in the house.
This time I will hang it on the handle, so that the space in front of the house can be larger.
He went to look at the deerskin, and there were flies still falling on it. He took another handful of salt and rubbed it on it.
The water boiled, and the air in front of the wooden house was filled with the smell of meat, with some odor.
Li Long held the spoon meticulously and gently stirred the deer fat in the pot and the meat underneath.
This is the final outcome of the two-headed deer since I discovered it.
I don’t know whether he died a worthy death, but Li Long felt that he had done enough. If I have any regrets, I couldn't find the deer. If he finds it, Li Long doesn't mind taking it to the big yard and raising it.
But for now, let’s get rid of the venison first.
Shortly after Li Long left, an animal with yellow and black patterns came out of the woods, sniffed around, and then walked to the remains of the male red deer.
There was a fox eating here, and two vultures, but when this big animal came over, these little guys ran away.
This animal went ahead and devoured the red deer's internal organs.
My mouth is full of blood! (End of this chapter)