Li Long planned to go to the hot spring to have a look. It felt like he hadn't seen it for almost a year and he didn't know what the place was like.
When he left, he told Sun Jiaqiang that he must pay attention to his own safety, especially those who looked not in good health and stay away from them.
He also told Sun Jiaqiang about the suspected lung infection he encountered in the morning.
"Don't worry, I will definitely be careful. Boss, let me tell you actually, I have met a lot more disgusting people than you have met. People who make a living in this mountain forest don't have a very high moral limit. My things have been "I was robbed," Sun Jiaqiang smiled, "If it weren't for my cleverness, I would be a pile of bones now."
Li Long nodded, indicating that he understood. It seems that Sun Jiaqiang is also a person with a story.
Only with such an optimistic personality can he stay in the mountains and forests for such a long time without being emotionally affected, right?
Li Long drove a jeep to Wenquan Valley. This time the jeep cannot drive to the hot spring pool, but it can enter from the mouth of the ditch and drive up two to three hundred meters.
When he couldn't drive in, Li Long stopped, held the gun, locked the car door, and then went up the stream.
Smelling the faint smell of sulfur in the air, Li Long felt that this was the free life he wanted in the mountains. It was really uncomfortable being chained to the wooden house there.
There are also caladiums on both sides of the hot spring ditch, but the number is small and sporadic, so no one comes here to dig.
Although bathing in hot springs is good for physical and mental health, people who come to the mountains come here for money, and no one is in the mood to soak in hot springs every day.
If you have that time, you might as well dig more caladiums.
Li Long slowly walked to the hot spring pool and saw that the water in the pool was a little turbid and there were many hoof prints around it, but unfortunately there were no animals.
Apparently animals had been bathing here before, but they had now escaped.
He could make out wild goats, wild boars, and perhaps red deer.
Li Long looked at the direction in which those hooves were leaving. It was the mountains and forests on both sides, and they were walking upwards.
He thought for a while, gave up his current plan to soak in the hot spring, and climbed into the forest diagonally above with his gun in hand, intending to take a look up.
After those beasts take a bath in the hot springs, they will most likely go to high altitudes to eat grass and rest. If you can encounter a few after going up, you can bring them back after hunting them.
As for the hot springs, you can soak in them later.
The grass grew very luxuriantly in the forest, and Li Long saw morels on the moss in places where the grass did not grow. He picked what he saw and put it into his backpack——
The satchel can hold too little, so I asked Sister Yang to make two backpacks during the winter.
Li Long followed the style that later generations were more accustomed to. Although it did not have the cloth material of later generations, the style he carried was correct, and it could hold a lot of things.
By the time he walked out of the forest and onto a sloping meadow, Li Long's backpack was already half full of morels.
In order to ensure the cleanliness of the backpack, he did not ask for the roots of the morels. It would be difficult to wash them after carrying them, and the mud would seep into the folds of the morels.
So he cut it off directly. Although it was a bit wasteful, it could still be wasted at this time.
A lot, quite a lot.
If it weren't for Li Long's goal of hunting today, he would have to pick it up here. After all, Chen Hongjun's price for collecting morels is not low.
Well, we can let Sun Jiaqiang do it later. If Sun Jiaqiang has nothing to do later, he can collect black tiger palm fungus in the mountains during the wheat harvest season. That stuff is not cheap.
I didn’t have time to pick it up last year, which was a huge loss.
Holding the gun, Li Long looked around.
On the grassy slope thirty to forty meters ahead on the left, you can see a path made by treads. It's not very clear, but you can see that there should have been hoof prints running over it just now. It looks like it should be a red deer or something.
Li Long was very happy. He didn't really want to hunt the wild boar today. After all, if he did, Bolati wouldn't want it either. If it's a red deer, there might be velvet antlers and so on, and venison can be eaten by everyone.
Li Long followed the hoof prints and followed the southeast direction.
This grassy slope is between two mountain forests and is two to three hundred meters wide. The forest on it is relatively sparse. The road trampled by wild beasts entered the forest. When Li Long chased after it, he saw three red deer grazing and climbing up in the sparse forest.
One male deer and two female deer. The male deer has velvet on its head. They both look young, weighing 70 to 80 kilograms.
To the southwest of this forest is a pile of rocks, and Li Long vaguely remembers having been there.
Those red deer moved very quickly. Li Long immediately opened the safety button and the bullet was already in the chamber. When he was holding the gun, one of the red deer happened to look back, screamed in surprise, and immediately ran out!
The calls of red deer are not all as "fairy" as in the videos I have seen, and the screams are also quite unpleasant.
Li Long raised his gun and hit the male red deer behind him with a "bang", but he only hit the butt, and the bullet penetrated out. The red deer staggered, and then limped forward again.
Li Long hurriedly rushed out and ran for more than 20 meters. He shot again while he was going, and the deer fell to the ground.
The remaining two red deer had already climbed over the mountain and were out of sight.
Li Long was still a little unwilling and chased him to the ridge. He found that there were grassy slopes and shrubs. Occasionally, he could see the shrubs swaying in some places, but there was no red deer in sight.
Li Long had no choice but to put away his gun and turned back to look at the defeated red deer.
The red deer's antler was broken, and the stubble on both sides was still bleeding. Li Long was heartbroken. This is a good thing.
He hurriedly picked up the broken piece and put it into his backpack, then picked up the red deer and headed down the mountain.
Fortunately, he's not that big, otherwise it would be difficult for Li Long to carry him.
The first forest was better, relatively sparse and easy to live in, but the second mountain forest was difficult. The forest was relatively dense, with many horizontal branches. Li Long had to stoop forward from time to time.
If it weren't for his strength being far superior to ordinary people, there would be no way he could take all the red deer back.
When he arrived at the hot spring pool, Li Long let out a long breath, put the red deer down, and sat down on the grass slope, breathing heavily.
It’s really physical work.
But looking at this red deer, Li Long thought it was worth it.
After resting for about ten minutes, Li Long saw that flies and wasps had gathered around him, so Li Long once again carried the red deer to the jeep below, where his tiredness was over.
After putting the red deer in the trunk, Li Long sat in the driver's seat, rested for a while, turned on the ignition and turned back to the cabin.
There are often some things placed on the back seat of the jeep. In her free time, Sister Yang used old fabrics and plastic bags collected in the cabin to sew a cloth mat for the back seat, so that anything placed on it would not dirty the car.
After all, the mat can be easily washed after being removed.
When Li Long's jeep drove over, Sun Jiaqiang was explaining to a person. The person's voice was very loud, but when he saw the jeep coming, his voice immediately became quieter.
By the time Li Long drove the jeep to the wooden house, the man had already left with the changed things.
Li Long got out of the car, looked at the person's background, and then asked Sun Jiaqiang:
"What's going on?"
"I don't think my replacement is fair." Sun Jiaqiang poured the few kilograms of caladium he collected into a big basin and said while washing, "I said I wanted to give you more, but I said your caladium is not clean, so it's only worth it." These..."
Li Long understood that that person probably thought he was not him, so he wanted to suppress Sun Jiaqiang.
After all, Sun Jiaqiang is neither tall nor strong. He is quite tall.
"When I come here tomorrow, I will bring you a gun." Li Long remembered that he still had a small-caliber gun at home and said.
"No, no, no. With that thing, I think if I get angry and want to shoot, I will get into trouble. And if you live here with that thing, it won't be good if someone robs it." What surprised Li Long was that Sun Jiaqiang actually refused.
If you don't want it, just don't want it. Li Long took the red deer out of the trunk and took it to the spring, ready to skin and disembowel it.
"Hey, there are so many things in this mountain!" Sun Jiaqiang looked at the sun and said, "You have been walking for less than two hours and you have brought back such a red deer...what a hunter!"
"It doesn't matter, I just know the places where some prey often go." Li Long was modest and took out his knife to bleed and skin the red deer.
Of course, the most important thing is to get the antlers off. Although one of them was broken, the remaining one was intact, and the two broken ones were not light.
The wet weight of two sticks is two to three kilograms.
"This is deer antler." Sun Jiaqiang sighed, "It's quite big."
Li Long cut off the deer antler and put it aside, saying:
"Yes, I didn't see the antlers, and I don't know if there are any. This deer should be two or three years old based on its teeth."
Peel and disembowel. Sun Jiaqiang washed the fritillaries and dried them before coming over to help, mainly dealing with the stomach and intestines.
Li Long cut off the deer whip and put it aside. This thing will definitely be useful later and someone will want it.
The venison is quite fat, with a large bowl of internal organs. Seeing Sun Jiaqiang washing his stomach and intestines, Li Long went over to get salt, cut the meat into pieces and spread it on the salt.
The same goes for the leather. After finishing it, it was spread out on the grass to dry. Li Long went to light the two stoves at the door of the wooden house, set up the pot, added water, and boiled it. He put part of the meat into the pot, salted the rest and put it in a bag.
Some of the waste water was boiled in another pot, and most of it was divided into two bags and put in the car.
"Old Sun, after cooking the meat in these two pots, sprinkle it with salt and put it in the room to dry, as well as the offal." Li Long said, "I will take all the Fritillaria back.
I will settle the account for the fritillaries you harvested today. I will come over to settle the account for you tomorrow morning and once in the evening. Some of the cooked meat will be left for you to eat, and some will be exchanged for caladiums.
Take care of your own safety. Lock the door at night and be careful of wolves. After all, it smells of blood. Don't open the door after dark. Be careful of bad guys. ”
After all the instructions were given, Li Long paid Sun Jiaqiang's bill and drove away in the jeep.
Holding the eight yuan in his hand, Sun Jiaqiang felt that he could earn it quite quickly.
After all, he had only collected it for a short time, and he also knew that the further he went, the more people would come to exchange things.
Before the sun set, Sun Jiaqiang took out the cooked meat and put it in a big basin, sprinkled it with salt and let it dry, while he took a piece of mutton meat and gnawed it.
tasty!
Watching someone coming from a distance, Sun Jiaqiang put down his bones, drew a stick and watched warily.
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"I'll exchange for some meat..." The man shouted feebly from more than ten meters away, looking like he was about to starve to death.
Sun Jiaqiang was relieved.
Li Long's jeep drove to Xiaobaiyanggou, where Lao Huang had already started cooking dinner.
Dinner is just like Lao Huang said, noodles.
Li Long brought a bag to him:
"This is the offal from the red deer we shot today. Brother Huang, please deal with it."
"Did you catch something today?" Li Jianguo asked loudly.
"Well, with my grandson watching, I'll go hunting and catch a red deer." Li Long walked over and said to his eldest brother, "I'll keep some of the meat at the cabin to exchange for caladiums, and I'll take some back home." ”
"Do you want to eat before leaving?" Li Jianguo asked, "The food will be ready soon?"
"No, I can just go back in time to pick up Xiaoxia."
"Okay, then leave quickly."
Li Long drove the jeep quickly out of the mountain.
The feeling of being on top of everything.
When he arrived in the county, he hurriedly went to the big yard to unload the meat, lowered all four windows for ventilation, and drove to pick up Gu Xiaoxia.
It was already a bit late, Gu Xiaoxia had already come out of the Education Bureau and was on her way back.
She smiled when she saw Li Long's jeep.
Li Long parked the jeep beside her, got out of the car and helped Gu Xiaoxia get into the car.
"Why are the windows open?" Gu Xiaoxia asked as she got in the car, "Isn't it very hot?"
"I was hunting when I went up the mountain." Li Long said, "I brought back some meat. I'm afraid you'll feel sick."
"Not so squeamish." Gu Xiaoxia smiled, "The scenery in the mountains is very good now, isn't it?"
"Well, I picked up a lot of morels today." Li Long said as he spoke, "Wash them in a while and ask Sister Yang to make soup for you tomorrow. This will make up for it."
"I heard you say, it just tastes average."
The two chatted and returned to the big courtyard after a while.
After entering the yard, Li Long helped Gu Xiaoxia get out of the car and sit down before taking out the morels from his backpack.
This thing is too brittle. After all this tossing, some of it has broken into pieces, and less than half of it can remain intact.
Li Long didn't want the scum that was too broken and dumped it in the flower pond. He found a basin and poured the remaining intact and large pieces into it, and washed it slowly.
Sister Yang took a look at the meat and offal while cooking, and said with a smile while Li Long was washing the morels:
"This meat is good. Is it venison? Her uncle, are you hunting again?"
"Well, my elder brother did it the first two times, and I did it this time." Li Long washed the morels twice and put them on a round lid made of sorghum poles to dry.
"Sister Yang, this is morel, a valuable mushroom. I will get a chicken in the next two days and stew mushroom soup with chicken to nourish Xiaoxia."
"Okay." Sister Yang smiled and nodded. Li Long also brought back morels last year, but he didn't explain it to her. She just felt that the mushrooms Li Long brought back were quite strange, and some of the black tiger palm fungi he brought back last year were different from ordinary mushrooms.
Gu Boyuan heard Li Long say that the previous prey was hunted by Li Jianguo, so he came over to see what he had hunted this time.
The deer's skeleton was not small, and there was a lot of meat brought back. Li Long planned to get some for the fourth team.
"Red deer meat." Gu Boyuan remembered the first time he went to work with Li Long. At that stage, he often ate meat, which was really good.
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After dinner, before it got dark, Li Long drove a jeep to Team 4. He wanted to deliver some venison to his eldest brother's house.
The wheat on both sides of the road has already formed ears. I don’t know if it is filled, and the corn has grown quite tall.
The water in the Mohe Canal is still very large, and there are actually a lot of fish in it. Li Long vaguely remembers that sometime in the last life, during the construction of the middle school, the workers at the construction site used wires to electrocute the fish here. It seems that this small section of the river is I harvested several barrels.
Big crucian carp.
When the jeep returned to Team 4, the sun had completely set. Some people working in the fields had just returned home at this time. Li Long's jeep met several villagers driving horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts.
He rolled down the window and said hello from time to time, all the way to his eldest brother's house.
In the yard, Li Qingxia and Tao Jianshe were talking. Li Juan and Li Qiang were helping Liang Yuemei feed the pigs. Du Chunfang was sitting in front of the stove and lighting a fire. What seemed to be stewed in the pot was... fish soup?
Hearing the sound of the jeep, everyone in the yard looked over.
The jeep drove into the yard, and Li Long smelled a strong fishy smell after getting out of the car.
"Dad, have you caught fish in the past two days?" Li Long asked with a smile, and then greeted Tao Jianshe.
"Well, we brothers have been catching fish every day these days, and then we go to Shicheng to sell fish together." Li Qingxia said with some pride, "How can we earn ten to twenty yuan a day, no better than you guys?" ”
"That's good." Li Long smiled, and then took off the venison and the internal organs.
"Did you hit something again?" Li Qingxia came over and opened the bag to take a look and asked.
"Well, I shot a red deer. It was a little heavy. I brought back some meat."
"Did you keep it over there?" Du Chunfang came over to take a look, and then asked.
"I've stayed. I've stayed in the mountains, and I've stayed in the big courtyard."
After hearing what Li Long said, Du Chunfang nodded and continued to light the fire.
Li Juan and Li Qiang came over from the pig pen and greeted Li Long. Liang Yuemei also came over with a pig food bucket.
After Li Long greeted his sister-in-law, he talked about the meat and Li Jianguo's situation in the mountains.
"Drink the fish soup, drink the fish soup and then leave." Du Chunfang shouted as she watched the fish soup in the pot boil.
Although I just had dinner in the courtyard, I still feel hungry for a bowl of fish soup.
Li Qiang quietly asked Li Long if he could find some bullet casings for him. Li Long touched his head and said that he would bring them to him the next time he came back.
Li Qiang ran away happily.
After drinking the fish soup, Li Long said hello to his family and left in a hurry in his jeep.
With the cool breeze blowing, Li Long lowered the window and drove back while planning for tomorrow.
Tomorrow we have to pull back the lever in Xiaobaiyanggou. Fortunately, Sun Jiaqiang is there at the wooden house now. He only needs to make an agreement with the driver of the transportation company tomorrow, and after the inspection and acceptance in the afternoon, he will pick up the truck and let the car drive directly to Xiaobaiyanggou after get off work.
At most, we can bring a few young men back to unload the truck at night and then send them back.
If you've done this well, there won't be any problem.
Everything is on the right track, and Li Long feels that it is good as it is now. (End of chapter)