Chapter 147 Before Entering the Mountain
Wang Laishun took the leaders and reporters who were wandering around the reservoir back home, and did not forget to tell Chen Ling that he would wait for four or five days, and once everything was ready, he would go in Mountain hunting.
The hunting was initially organized by Team Seven.
The men who went up the mountain were only from the seventh team, the fifth team and the fourth team.
These three teams are relatively young and strong.
Later, because the wild boar that broke into the village was sold for a lot of money, the villagers asked around and found that the prices of other wild animals and medicinal materials were much higher than in previous years, so they all clamored to go.
Just go. Anyway, this kind of hunting is not done together. Each team has its own preparations and plans. There are mountains on three sides, and no one can stop you from wherever you want to go.
While the county leaders came to the village this time, they also asked for more shotguns and bullets.
During the interview, the leaders followed the reporter to several homes.
Wang Laishun specifically showed them the wolves that were killed.
After the wolves were divided, not everyone was skinned.
After reading it and learning more about the wolves entering the village, the county leaders realized how serious this year's wolf disaster was.
I happily agreed to allocate more shotguns and bullets to the village.
Last time, I only gave about 2,000 rounds of bullets. It was only used to guard against wolves for a short period of time. I couldn’t let go.
In addition to these problems.
County leaders also talked about encouraging greenhouse planting in the past two years.
Vegetable greenhouses are expensive, so if that’s not possible, just grow mushrooms.
The mushrooms grown by farmers in this promotion are mainly oyster mushrooms, which can be grown all year round. It occupies an area of half an acre, one or two acres, and less than two or three cents of land. no.
However, this kind of technology only became popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
By 1994 last year, the total output of oyster mushrooms in the country had just reached just over 200,000 tons.
Encouraging planting at this time can actually make money.
There are still too few farmers planting on a large scale, let alone in a poor and remote place like theirs.
The main reason is that everyone goes to the mountains to pick mushrooms on weekdays. There are all kinds of mushrooms, and you can pick a lot casually.
People don’t think these things are valuable, and no one is willing to use their land to grow food to grow these things.
Yangtougou was planted last year, and it is the only family in Changle Township that does so.
Last winter and the beginning of this spring, I made a lot of money from selling it. This year, the greenhouse was washed away by floods, and a larger one was built.
In this way, there are examples in front of them, and many people in the village are really thinking about it.
After lunch, Chen Ling and Liang Yuemin, father and son, were playing cards. Wang Lixian and several brothers came to them for advice.
Ask whether it is possible to grow mushrooms in greenhouses.
The key is to look at the issue of investment.
Even if you lose money, don't lose too much.
I do know a lot about this Chen Ling.
Just tell them to build a small greenhouse outside their own yard, spread it with plastic film, let it warm in the sun during the day, and cover it with a thick straw mat at night, which is a waste of time for cultivating mycelium and building the shed. A little effort and effort, but really not much money.
After calculating the money for plastic film and some simple materials, I built a greenhouse with two or three parts of land. I asked a few familiar people to help me cut a few bamboos to support the greenhouse frame and build adobe walls. It can be built in three or four days without any rush.
Wang Lixian summed it up and found that he made a lot of money from selling watermelons this year. After filling in the holes owed by his family, he still has a lot of surplus. There happens to be a private land in the east of the yard. He won’t grow vegetables in winter, so he can try growing it. Mushroom, mainly because he now believes what Chen Ling said.
Brothers Wang Lishan and Wang Lihui thought about it carefully and decided to forget it.
They are busy raising pigs and selling clothes, so they are already very busy. I don’t know what will happen after the cultivation of this thing is finished, so it is better not to get involved in this matter.
Some things are profitable for one person to do, but it won’t work if everyone does it.
With this principle in mind, they thought it would be better to do what they are familiar with and feel more secure.
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The mountains are good, the water is good, and the autumn scenery is pleasant.
We interviewed several more families in the afternoon, and the reporters were not in a hurry to leave.
In the village, we took pictures and took pictures everywhere, under the guise of enriching the interview material, but in fact we had good food, drink, and fun, and wanted to stay one more day.
In the evening, they were still having dinner at Wang Laishun's house, and this time they called Chen Ling over.
There were many young reporters coming to the city, mainly women. Wang Laishun’s original intention was to have him come over to accompany them for drinks.
Chen Ling went, but he didn't want to stay any longer.
I only cooked two dishes, sat with him for a while and then went home.
As a result, reporters came to Chen Ling's door before leaving the next day and asked Chen Ling how to make wolf meat. They said that the braised wolf meat he made last night was very delicious.
After Chen Ling told them how to make it, everyone happily spent money to buy several kilograms of wolf meat.
After sending these people away, Wang Susu asked, "Is wolf meat really so delicious?"
After the wolf meat was divided among the village, Chen Ling had nothing to do and cooked it several times at home in different ways.
Although she thought it tasted better than the ones in their village, it was just that, far behind compared to badger meat.
Chen Ling shook his head and said: "It doesn't taste good to me, maybe they taste weird."
Though he said this, he actually knew it very well.
His and Wang Susu's tastes have been cultivated in the past six months.
Those wolf meats are heavily seasoned.
The marinating time is long enough. Whether stir-fried or braised, most people will find it a rare delicacy after eating it.
But I am afraid of comparison.
Just like Liang Yuemin and his son, they ate for lunch yesterday and said they were not as delicious as Chen Ling’s other dishes.
Cooking is nothing more than: removing the taste and adding flavor.
It only removes the bad taste of the ingredients and stimulates the amplified good taste.
Wolf meat is difficult to handle.
Tell them how to make it, but they won’t be able to make a very delicious dish. If you just add seasonings, you will end up with a mouth full of seasonings, which is not as refreshing as eating dog meat.
But most of this kind of thing is just for freshness.
There is also a saying that after eating wolf meat, wolves will not dare to come, and livestock will not be harmed by wolves. This is a superstition.
"Since it doesn't taste good, then you told Zhenzhen yesterday to catch a wolf cub and eat it. The wolf cub's meat is tender."
Wang Susu sat on the threshold of the main room, pounding the medicine, and said with a chuckle.
"Yes, catch some when you have the chance. The little wolf cub eats less miscellaneous food, and the meat doesn't have that much strange smell, so it will naturally taste good."
Chen Ling Of course he responded.
While talking, I found some herbs and put them into categories.
It’s time to enter the mountains, and the time won’t be too short.
Wang Susu is preparing some simple and effective hemostatic drugs and gold wound medicine for him in case he accidentally hurts something. If it is not treated in time in the mountains, suppuration and infection will be troublesome.
You also need to bring snake repellent powder, snake medicine and the like.
Wang Susu sorted things out in detail and asked Chen Ling to go find Chen Guoping to grab some cold medicine and medicine for treating diarrhea.
Even if many people grew up in the mountains, it is inevitable that they will not adapt to it. If they spend the night in the mountains, they will easily suffer from diarrhea or colds, which are the kind of minor ailments that can make people feel weak.
It’s not a bad thing to have all the medicines ready. It’s better to be prepared.
Although Chen Ling doesn't need it.
Mainly to ease my wife’s heart.
I went to Chen Guoping’s house and didn’t get much medicine. I'd rather pay for some wolf meat and two pieces of offal.
Wolf meat, as well as wolf heart, wolf gall and other parts, can also be used as medicine.
Sister-in-law Xiufen said that she had wanted to come to the house to ask for it for a long time, but Chen Ling happened to come to the door on her own.
I went home and got some.
When I left, I also told Wang Susu the method of making medicine.
He also said that whether wolf meat tastes good or not is secondary, the main thing is to replenish the body. Since Chen Ling can cook, it would be good for him to cook and eat more if he has nothing to do.
This is a good thing, let him not feed it to the dog all the time.
Chen Ling agreed to send her out, but saw his wife holding back a snicker.
On further questioning, I learned that wolf meat is used as medicine, mostly for aphrodisiacs.
Chen Ling's face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot and he scolded the old woman for her many wrongdoings.
A real man who can walk a horse on his arm.
Still using this? Who do you look down on?
Wang Susu laughed so hard that she couldn't stand up straight and said that Sister Sufen had good intentions and could not be blamed.
I don’t know what I thought of, and my eyes were filled with joy.
Looking at Chen Ling, his smile became sweeter.
Chen Ling felt strange and asked her what was wrong, but she just shook her head and said it was okay.
I discussed with him that we would send Wang Zhenzhen to school together tomorrow, and take a stroll around the county town. We would buy whatever we needed, and we would prepare things for him in the mountains in these two days.
This time when he went into the mountains, Chen Ling didn't care about the number of prey, and it wasn't just for entertainment.
He has a Taobao mentality.
Some things that will become extinct, rare, or useless in the eyes of ordinary people may be treasures in your own hands and can be of greater value.
Now that Wang Susu wants to buy things for him, he should also buy them, but only pick out the necessary items and don’t need to buy more.
The next day, after sending Wang Zhenzhen off and buying some good things, I was stopped by Liang Hongyu and his two elders. They had lunch at home, which was lively for most of the day.
Liu Yinhuan and her two children were dealing with work and school matters in the city, and the family did not plan to stay in the capital from now on.
Liang Yuemin has nothing to do and just spends these days playing around with his parents.
When Chen Ling said that the village was going to go hunting in the mountains, the father and son were very moved.
But the two of them are self-aware.
I know I can't bear the pain, so if I go, it will only be a hindrance.
That’s why I didn’t even mention it.
......an autumn rain and a cold.
On the first day of leap August, it rained all day and only stopped at night.
The mood of autumn is getting stronger unconsciously.
At this time, the cicadas on the tree no longer chirped endlessly.
Just like grasshoppers after autumn, they are about to finish the last period of their lives. They have become old and weak, their movements are slow, their claws cannot grasp the branches, and their once black and shining eyes have gradually turned gray. piece.
When the autumn wind blows, the remaining fire of life is extinguished, and they fall into the grass, unable to fly again.
However, the poultry in the village have become lucky. They have been wandering around the bushes every day these days. When they find cicadas falling from the trees, they immediately pounce on them and peck at them without feeding them at all.
These days, the news about Chen Wangzhuang's wolf beating has spread far and wide, and people from villages ten miles away often come here.
When I go to the county seat or the countryside and meet people from Chenwangzhuang, I am often stopped and asked questions.
There are also old men riding their cars, wandering back and forth in the village, shouting to collect the wolf skin.
But the price was too low and no one paid any attention to him.
Except for people like Chen Ling, most people in the village kill wolves mainly to sell them for money.
The dead poultry, sheep, and wolf meat were basically sold at county fairs and markets.
Keep the wolf skin, clean it up, and sell it when the weather gets cold. It will be more expensive.
This old man wanted to buy the wolf skin, but he was offered the same price as in previous years. Who would be so stupid as to sell it?
Chen Ling has been busy for half a day, picking two baskets of grass and picking some vegetables to go home. After the children got out of school, he let them take away the wild boar cubs. The five he kept were captured by two dogs.
Although he can eat in a trough now, he is still too small, so there is nothing wrong with raising him first, and he doesn’t eat much. When he feeds chickens, ducks and rabbits, he feeds them by the way.
But when the meat grows, I will kill it and eat it if I don’t like it.
Wild boars grow up just like domestic pigs. They eat and poop a lot, and the pig manure is so smelly that it is difficult to clean. After cleaning, whether it is piled outside the yard or pulled into the ground, the smell is too strong, so it is difficult to raise it. It's definitely worth the weight, so it's just right to kill and eat the meat.
Playing with the wind chime given by Liang Hongyu’s granddaughter Xiaolizi, Chen Ling thought that if the little girl came later next time, all the little wild boars might really get into her stomach.
......The autumn morning is slightly cool.
Chen Ling took a ladder to the house and poked out the blocked chimney, but he pulled out a big, burnt rat, which made his eyes tremble.
I don’t know how this guy got in.
He and Wang Susu steamed buns early in the morning and filled the furnace with firewood. The fire didn't light up for a long time, and he choked on the cigarette.
It turns out that this thing is causing trouble.
Normally, my yellow skin comes here every night, and kites often wander around, so there shouldn't be any mice.
Also got into the chimney.
Wang Susu was also surprised, saying that maybe he came from somewhere else.
The two of them worked for a long time, and the steamed buns were steamed in the pot.
The remaining dough was not wasted. I kneaded it into dough, picked up the rolling pin and rolled out a few dough cakes.
Asking Wang Susu to set up the frying pan, he went to the chicken coop to fetch a few fresh eggs, selected a few spring onions, washed his hands, and squatted by the stove to fry the egg pancakes.
Food pancakes have layers. Chen Ling used the method of filling the pancakes, poking a hole in the pancakes and filling the eggs with them.
Use a shovel to turn it over again, and it will be one in less than two minutes.
When the griddle was completely heated, Chen Ling became even faster. In less than ten minutes, all the remaining pancakes were burned, and there were a dozen more egg pancakes in the steamed bun sieve.
It was early in the morning, and the young couple were both hungry.
It takes at least forty minutes for the steamed buns to come out of the steamer. How can you wait to eat the steamed buns?
I picked up a piece of cake, wrapped it in pickles, added some chili pepper, and spread some sesame oil.
With fresh green onions, it tastes delicious.
Wang Susu ate three.
The rest went into his own stomach, not even his sister-in-law’s.
While waiting for the steamed buns to come out, Wang Susu went to get her sister up to eat.
Chen Lingze had already touched his belly contentedly, made a pot of hot tea, moved out the lounge chair, and basked in the sun in front of the main room.
The sun in the autumn morning is not harsh at all. It shines warmly on people. After eating and drinking, it is most comfortable to bask in the sun and read a newspaper.
Seeing him like this, Wang Zhenzhen also came over to join in the fun, moving a chair and a horse to do his homework next to him.
After about an hour, Chen Ling almost fell asleep.
Liang Yuemin and his son entered the yard. They didn’t drive much recently. They just rode a bicycle each. Qin Rong first carried the kettle, and Liang Yuemin took the slingshot Chen Ling made for him. The father and son went wherever they went to play. Where to.
I came here today and brought two people with me.
Said he was a new friend in the county.
Chen Ling looked at a well-dressed middle-aged couple who looked like they were not ordinary people. After asking, they actually ate the eggs he gave to his elders once and thought they were delicious, so they came here to buy them.
It surprised him.