Chapter 111 Meeting Hai Dongqing again
"Hey! Xiaotao! Okay, the pigs have been hammered to death! Stop fighting!!!"
Xiaowen shouted, Only then did he wake Xiao Tao up from his state of mind.
Xiao Tao looked up blankly and said, "Huh?"
"I said, stop beating me, the pig is about to expire!" Xiao Wenyou repeated it again.
"Oh! Damn, I didn't know where the knife was thrown when we chased the pig out. Please help me find it. Let's bleed the pig while it's still breathing!" Xiao Tao wandered around. Touching, trying to find his knife.
"Here it is! Here it is!" Xiaowen handed the knife with only half of its handle to Xiaotao. After all, the freshly cut ash willow wood has a little moisture, and it was dragged by the pig into the woods just now. , I don’t know which tree the handle was broken off by.
With the invasion knife in hand, Xiao Tao quickly reached the position of the wild boar's head, and decisively aimed at the main artery under the neck with the knife.
The pig has not yet expired, and it is logically best to bleed at this time. However, the main artery was obviously cut, and the expected scene of blood flowing out did not appear. The blood shed by this pig was not too much. .
"Hey, something's not right. Where's the wild boar's blood? I cut off the aorta!" Xiao Tao scratched his head, feeling confused for a moment.
"You're telling me, the blood is all on your cotton pants! Go home and wait to be beaten by your mother! You see, I won't tell Brother Feng later, you kid is good at everything, but when he sees blood, he will Transformed and completely lost your mind?" Xiaowen pointed at Xiaotao's lower body very speechlessly.
Xiao Tao then lowered his head and glanced, "Good guy, I just rode on the pig and punched him wildly. The wound left by the knife on the pig's butt, the blood shed was almost not wasted, and all the blood was lost to Mian. The pants are full.
At this moment, Xiao Tao looked like a lesbian who had something unexpected happen to her. Her crotch and half-stretched ass were all dark red, exuding a strong smell of blood.
"Um, aren't I afraid that the wild boar will run away again? This is a sow weighing 200 kilograms, and it can produce at least 130 to 40 kilograms of pork!" Xiao Tao said matter-of-factly.
"Okay, since you already have this virtue all over your body, then you can open the pig's chest with your hands! When the tip of the knife reaches the bottom of the pig's belly, be careful not to cut the intestines!"
"Okay, look at me!"
Xiao Tao directly knocked down the half of the wooden pole that was supported by the knife, and then quickly disemboweled the wild boar with his hands and feet, and soon put the steaming pig into the water. The whole thing was pulled out.
According to the rules, once the internal organs are hung on the branches of the tree, the ceremony of worshiping the mountain god is completed.
Xiao Tao wiped the blood on the edge of the knife with a pig's skin and asked: "What should we do with this pig? Let's drag it back?"
"What else can we do? It's not easy for you to do it." If you hammer him to death with your own hands, you must take him back! Help us carry him back!”
"Okay!"
The wild boar with its internal organs and blood drained still weighs one hundred fifty or sixty pounds. The two brothers joined hands to grab the pig's trotters and slowly carried the prey back.
Over there, brothers Yue Feng and Xiao Wu were still bleeding the wild boar one by one. Xiao Tao and Xiao Wen came back carrying the wild boar.
From a distance, Yue Feng saw that Xiao Tao's lower body was stained with a lot of dark red blood. He thought Xiao Tao was injured. At that moment, the pig's chest stopped opening, so he stood up and rushed away with concern. come over.
"What's going on, Ertao, where is he injured? Why is there so much blood on his cotton pants!"
"Hey hey hey hey hey!" Xiao Tao was a little guilty, so he just smiled when asked.
Yue Feng was a little anxious. He looked around carefully from beginning to end and couldn't find any wounds. Xiao Tao then said slowly: "No injuries, this is the blood from the pig!"
"What the hell did you do to this little sow? Why did you bleed all over yourself?"
Yue Feng was a little confused when he saw this scene. He didn't know what Xiaotao had done. operate.
Xiaowen said angrily: "Huh, don't mention it! I caught up with him slowly, but Xiaotao was chased by the pig and couldn't walk. He was riding on the pig, holding the pig's ears with one hand, and holding the pig's ears with the other. Hammer with your fist!
While hammering, he also cursed hastily. If he hadn't come to his senses after shouting, I would have thought this guy was crazy! "
Hearing what Xiaowen said, Xiaotao also scratched his head in embarrassment. Although this kind of thing was enjoyable at the time, it is actually irrational and extremely risky when you calm down and think about it.< br>
Yue Feng glanced at Xiao Tao with a smile: "Mr. Tao is mighty. When I get home, I will tell your father about your heroic deeds of punching a female wild boar on three posts. You can see if Uncle Li can take care of it. Just you! "
Hearing that Yue Feng was going to sue his parents, Xiao Tao immediately came up with his face dropped: "Oh, Brother Feng, I was wrong, but that's not enough. I won't dare to do it next time!" "
"What should we do next time? ”
"The next time...the next time I will...I will be a puppy!"
Xiao Tao couldn't think of any powerful punishment for the moment, so he simply said that the next time he will be a puppy.
Yue Feng was originally just trying to scare his stupid brother. In his previous life, let alone hammering wild boars with his bare hands, Xiao Tao dared even a blind bear to fight with his sword. The hunters who went up the mountain no longer had such bloody spirit, and he would never do it in this life. There is no future left.
“I believe you once, but I won’t be so reckless next time.
You have to think this way, if a wild boar bites your ankle in a hurry, even through cotton shoes, Do you need to be injured? When we go to the mountains to hunt, you can only keep it at home, and you can't even let the eagle fly!
The lessons learned from my uncle Li's mistakes are right in front of you, so don't take it seriously! "
Hearing Yue Feng mention the consequences of the injury, Xiao Tao's expression suddenly changed.
Not to mention, it would be very powerful to go home and tell his father that he was not recovering from his injuries and could not go up the mountain.< br>
“I will definitely be calmer next time. If you don’t let me go up the mountain, you can’t do it. This year’s hunting season has just started. If you let me stay at home all day, I won’t be able to hold my tail back! "Xiao Tao muttered with some fear.
"Okay, stop inking! There are still three pigs that haven't been cleaned up yet. Xiaowu and I have finished cleaning them up. You can take out all the lantern hangings and bits and pieces! "Yue Feng waved his hand, not scaring Xiao Tao anymore, and motioned him to continue working.
Anyway, the crotch of his pants was already blood red, so Xiao Tao didn't care so much about the clothes on his body when he continued to work. He disemboweled each pig one by one, then took out the internal organs of several pigs, took them out and put them aside to dry.
“These pigs are also hung on trees?” Xiao Wu looked at the pigs that were quite good in the water, feeling somewhat reluctant to part with them.
Yue Feng shook his head: "Get the biggest pig and hang it on the tree. We will freeze the rest and take it back. It won't be damaged in the winter. It will take some trouble to clean it up and stew it in a pot. "It's also delicious!" "Then I'll get the water set that Xiao Tao hung in the woods!" After hearing this, Xiaowen turned around and went to get the water again.
Hearing that Yue Feng wanted to take at least four or five sets of pigs into the water, Xiao Tao asked: "Brother, when we come here this time, we will drag a total of two sledges. What to do with so many wild boars?”
Counting the pig that Xiao Tao chased back, there were six pigs in total, two of which weighed more than 200 kilograms, one weighed more than 150 kilograms, and three of which had taken out the remaining 70 to 80 kilograms of yellow hair.
The total weight of these six wild boars of different sizes is more than 750 kilograms. If you include five pairs of pigs in the water, it will increase by more than 100 kilograms. It is difficult to drag it back with just two pairs of sledges.
However, there were four people in this team operation. Yue Feng didn't have to worry about the crowd. He swept around and chopped down a few low shrubs with the knife.
The branches were tied up with ropes, and a few small yellow haired pigs were bundled up. Then the slowly freezing pigs were tied into the water. They weighed about two hundred kilograms and were dragged on the snow. , although the speed is slow, it is far less labor-intensive than carrying it by people. There is absolutely no problem in getting home before dark.
As for the heavier pigs, they can be brought back all at once by dragging them with the large sledges they brought.
After working for more than half an hour, today's loot was tied up and fixed. However, the brothers have been working since the morning until now. They are tired and hungry. Yue Feng decided to make a fire and repair and have lunch first, and wait for a break after lunch. Rest and go back.
It takes more than two hours of walking without any weight. Even if we pull up a sledge, it will take twice as long to get home.
Yue Feng and his four brothers gathered some branches as firewood and built a fire in the pine forest.
In addition to the fat biscuits and pickles he brought from home, Yue Feng also took out a small bag of salt from his satchel.
Using a knife, I made a slit on the hind leg of the little yellow pig, and casually removed the fresh wild boar meat from the pig leg.
"Eat it now, just eat it fresh! I have some salt here. When the meat is cooked, sprinkle some on it!" Yue Feng greeted, skewered the meat on a sharpened pine branch, and handed it to his companion.
The fire lit by this pine branch is not a charcoal fire. There is a certain amount of smoke. To be honest, if you use this thing to barbecue, it will not taste very delicious, and it will be more or less smokey. the taste.
But in this era, who can care about the details if they can eat meat? The meat of Huangmaozi back then was very tender. Once roasted on the fire, it would quickly become sizzling and oily.
Everyone sprinkled some salty noodles on it and took a delicious bite of the dry food. It had a different taste in the wilderness.
Just like that, the four of them ate the dry food they brought along with pine branches and barbecue in the woods, and they quickly filled their stomachs.
"The yellow meat is still fragrant and tender! It's more delicious than the old sow's pork!"
This guy Xiaotao ate the most barbecue just now, and he didn't care that his mouth was smeared with a lot of ash. They are all black-mouthed.
Xiaowen wiped his mouth with his sleeve: "That's right, this yellow-haired meat is definitely more delicious than a large wild boar of several hundred kilograms! After all, it hasn't grown up yet, and the meat is tender. The only drawback is that this yellow meat is Maozi’s fat is a bit thin, and it probably won’t be very popular if sold to the villagers!”
“We won’t sell this thing to the villagers, and I don’t even plan to sell it to the villagers! Sell it to the villagers!" Yue Feng said calmly.
“You think you can’t sell for a high price?”
Yue Feng continued to explain: "Part of the reason! Everyone in the village has little money, and the first consideration when buying meat must be affordability.
Cannon eggs are affordable, and everyone buys it. If the meat is of good quality, the price is high If the sows or yellow-haired pigs are sold cheaply, we can’t afford them. If they are sold expensively, the villagers should scold us!” It’s all good meat! If it doesn’t work, let’s keep it for ourselves. It’s better than making dumplings or steaming buns and stewing meat.” Xiao Wu was already looking forward to dragging the prey back to the village today! How to eat.
The brothers were chatting and kicking the snow with their feet to completely extinguish the fire. Suddenly, Xiao Tao glanced into the air with the corner of his eye.
“Look, everyone, there is an eagle in the sky!”
Everyone looked up at the sky in unison, and it was really an eagle.
The eagle is hovering at a height of seventy or eighty meters above the ground. Looking up, only a rough outline can be seen.
It is actually normal to see eagles in the mountains. Although the migration season of raptors has passed, there are still raptors in the forest here who will stay in Changbai Mountain for the winter.
Yue Feng didn't think much about it. He looked up casually and said, "Maybe it's an eagle that spends the winter in the mountains in Walin. Its wings look a bit like a falcon, without wing fingers!"
[wings] Finger: When a raptor fully extends its wings when flying, the wing tips will take on different shapes due to different species. They resemble human fingers, so they are called wing fingers. Different types of raptors have different wing widths, lengths, and the shape of the wing fingers and the number of fingers. There are obvious differences, and experienced raptor enthusiasts can judge the raptor species by the different wing digits combined with the approximate body proportions of the raptor. Falcon raptors have narrow wings, shaped like scissors, and have no obvious wing fingers, making them relatively easy to identify]
"The long-winged, short-legged eagle you mentioned last time? That's of no use!" When Yue Feng said that the thing in the sky looked like a falcon, everyone suddenly lost interest in continuing to observe.
Conventional falcon-type raptors were played by the older generation of players for those princes, nobles and great men. In terms of efficiency in working in the fields, the kites and goshawks of the Accipitridae family are more practical.
Of course, this is not absolute. Among the raptors of the genus Falcon, there is an exception, and that is the gyrfalcon.
The Gyrfalcon is the largest existing individual among the Falcon genus of raptors. The male Gyrfalcon weighs 1.2 to 1.7 kilograms, and the female Gyrfalcon is said to be able to grow to more than 2.2 kilograms.
The name seems ordinary and lacks sense of existence. It also has another name, Haidongqing!
There are sixty out of three hundred feather insects, and the most handsome one is Hai Dongqing.
Haitongqing in the poem refers to the gyrfalcon.
Why do ancient emperors and elders care so little about this thing? In addition to its handsome appearance, its overall quality as a falcon is also the best.
This thing not only has the terrifying short-distance flying explosive ability of the eagle raptor, but also has the endurance and dive acceleration ability of the falcon raptor. It is almost the only one in existence that can be used for boxing hunting alone. Medium to large falcons are birds of prey.
It’s just that the overall quality is strong. What’s even more valuable is that the IQ of this sea turtle is far smarter than the eagle raptor. According to records in ancient books, in the Qing Dynasty, sea turtles could even be domesticated to replace homing pigeons. Deliver the highest-level military secrets.
Haidongqing does not have any natural enemies in the wild, so there is no possibility of the homing pigeon being killed by raptors and losing its information. The success rate of information transmission is extremely high.
Because this kind of raptor is extremely rare and precious, in the Qing Dynasty, offering an eagle to a bird of prey could avoid the death penalty. The value of an eagle for one life is evident.
(End of this chapter)