Chapter 152 Tangpaozi
The first time I smelled this strange smell, it smelled like rotten apples, but it was mixed with an inexplicable aroma. It smelled quite good, but the more it smelled, the more it smelled. When you inhale it into your nose, the smell gets weirder and a little irritating. Smelling it too much makes you want to sneeze. Chen Ling rubbed his nose, his curiosity aroused. He looked left and right and searched around, but he couldn't find where the smell was coming from.
"What kind of weird thing is this? I can't find it no matter how hard I look for it."
Chen Ling frowned and muttered in a low voice.
Looking at the sun, it was very early, but he still wanted to go to the small valley where he went. He didn’t know what this thing was. Since he couldn’t find it, forget it. He didn’t look for it anymore, deep in the mountains. There are always a lot of strange things in there.
With this thought in mind, he was ready to leave.
Unexpectedly, when Hei Wa saw what he was doing, he started sniffing up his nose. Then he tilted his head, yelled at him, and trotted out of the wild bamboo forest.
"Have you found it? It's really a dog's nose."
Chen Ling raised his eyes and looked in the direction. The distance was quite close, so he followed him.
As soon as they left, the squirrel stopped pretending to be dead. It jumped up from the ground, slithered up the tree, hid among the branches and leaves and secretly watched the people and the dog leaving. When it saw them It seemed that he was really gone, so he stuck out his little head and looked around curiously.
... Chen Ling followed Hei Wa, and as he got closer, the smell became stronger and stronger.
This is another stream nearby. The water flow is small and slow, and the terrain is much lower than other places. Looking up and looking around, there are green mountains all around, dense forests and vegetation, and wisps of mist floating in the mountains in the morning.
Hei Wa jumped over the weeds and shrubs, lowering his head and sniffing fiercely in the forest. Chen Ling followed him and took a look. It turned out to be a small wild fruit forest, with a thick layer of ripe fruit falling on the ground. The fruit is about the size of a baby's fist, pear yellow, and very round in shape, but most of it is rotten.
Hei Wa walked over and trampled a lot of them. The smell immediately became a few degrees stronger and it was very spicy to the eyes.
It turns out to be the smell that this wild fruit emits after it rots...
Chen Ling was a little disappointed.
He took a deep breath again and smelled it carefully. He felt that it was both fragrant and smelly. The strange smell was so strong that he choked and sneezed several times in succession.
I couldn't help cursing my bad luck, and quickly retreated. This trip was purely because I felt uncomfortable.
"Hei Wa, it's time to go."
Chen Ling said hello and prepared to take the dog away. The smell was too strong.
Heiwa was also very nervous. He sneezed repeatedly after being choked, and ran around happily, lowering his big head and sniffing on the ground. He picked out the intact fruits and ate them in two or three mouthfuls. The bite caused juice to splash everywhere.
Even if my nose is choked with snot and tears flow, I refuse to go out.
I shook my head and continued to look for good fruits to eat.
Chen Ling called it, but it just looked up, ran to him with a fruit in its mouth, put it at his feet, then turned around and ran back, continuing to squirm around.
Chen Ling’s face was full of doubts: “Is this fruit really so delicious?”
He picked up the fruit at his feet and smelled it. Chen Ling's eyes lit up. The intact fruit was really fragrant. He didn't know what kind of wild fruit it was. The fragrance was too strong.
But Hei Wa picked it up, so he held his nose and walked into the forest again, found two ripe fruits on the tree and picked them.
This kind of wild fruit tree seems to be very old. The trunk and branches are covered with cicada husks, and the roots under the fallen leaves are thick and strong, breaking through the surface, but the trunk is not thick. , not high either, like low and vigorous old peach trees.
Chen Ling picked two fruits, rubbed them, and took a bite. The flesh was yellow with red, no sour taste, and tasted soft, waxy, and sweet.
Import chewed it for a while and found that it was very sweet, like sugar and honey, juicy and delicious. It really gave him a big surprise.
"What kind of wild fruit is this? I've never seen it before."
After Chen Ling finished one fruit, the core was relatively large. He took a closer look and then looked twice at the yellow-orange fruit. There are wild fruit trees, but I don’t see why.
But since it tastes good, I threw the core into the cave. When everything is collected, I will arrange a place to plant it.
"It's time to go, Hei Wa. You've had your fill of your mouth. If you don't leave, you might get beaten."
Chen Ling shouted and walked forward.
When Hei Wa heard that he was about to be beaten, he ran over quickly.
However, as soon as it ran out of the wild fruit forest, it staggered under its feet, then called out sadly twice, and fell down in the bushes.
Chen Ling looked back and was shocked.
“Hei Wa?!”
Hei Wa’s appearance frightened him. Isn’t this fruit damn poisonous?
But as soon as he approached, Hei Wa suddenly stood up and shook his head vigorously, causing his hair to tremble. Then he tilted his head and glanced at him, his eyes were hazy, and his legs were still swinging. He seemed to be unsteady on his feet.
Hold on, and after taking only two steps, he staggered and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Chen Ling became even more anxious and hurriedly dragged it into the cave.
I thought this was too toxic.
Hei Wa, who was raised by Dongtian and had a body like a calf, was poisoned.
I won’t dare to eat randomly in the mountains from now on.
The scene in front of me suddenly changed.
A man and a dog appeared next to the stream in Dongtian. Chen Ling bent down and poured a handful of water into Heiwa's mouth. The guy was closing his eyes and sticking out his tongue. When he tasted the refreshing and sweet stream water, he immediately felt He opened his eyes slightly, glanced at Chen Ling, licked his hand, then yawned widely, and continued to close his eyes.
“You are such a fool and you know how to eat randomly. You need to improve your memory this time.”
Seeing that Hei Wa didn’t look like anything was wrong, Chen Ling scolded him angrily. One sentence.
But soon, he suddenly frowned and sniffed hard.
"The smell of alcohol is so strong..."
Chen Ling fanned in front of his nose, and suddenly his face changed again, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"Could it be that...this idiot is not poisoned, but drunk?"
This is incredible. How can anyone get drunk by eating wild fruits?
Chen Ling bent down to Hei Wa's head and smelled it. Sure enough, the smell of alcohol was very strong.
That’s weird!
Could it be that eating too much fruit will make you drunk just like drinking too much wine?
However, I have never heard of anyone saying that there are such strange fruits in the mountains.
Chen Ling kicked Heiwa twice and saw that it rolled over and continued to sleep soundly with its tongue drooping from the corner of its mouth. She felt helpless.
He immediately ignored it and left the cave in a blink of an eye.
Enduring the choking smell, Chen Ling walked into the wild fruit forest again. He looked around and found that apart from this kind of wild fruit, there was no other special stuff.
As for the so-called monkey wine, it may be made up, or it may really exist, but it definitely does not exist in this place.
So Chen Ling picked a lot of fruits from the tree and prepared to try them himself to see what happened. The first time I ate it, it tasted good, but after eating too much, it made me feel tired and a little bit uncomfortable.
This is not the point. The point is that after eating several fruits in succession, Chen Ling really felt the feeling of being tipsy after drinking.
Qi Qi ate two more pills and burped, feeling a real smell of alcohol coming from his stomach.
Smell it carefully.
It made him look happy.
“It’s really a magical fruit. If you eat too much, you will actually get drunk. If you put it in a cave to cultivate it, I don’t know what it will become.”
“Would it happen if you eat it? Just drunk?”
"This guy, if you make it into wine, it will have a lot of stamina."
Then he thought about it, and next he wanted to go to the small valley to collect that kind of stuff. He immediately clapped his hands and said, "What a coincidence. Now we have all the wine and cigarettes."
At first, the orchids all over the valley attracted him. Later, Chen Dazhi reminded him, Only then did I realize that there were also many wild tobacco leaves growing.
He himself does not like smoking.
Carrying a cigarette on one's body is a social habit.
But it would also be a good thing if the tobacco leaves were really cultivated and transformed into something good for health.
In addition to orchids and wild tobacco leaves, Chen Ling also marked August melons, kiwis, plums, pecans, and wild sunflowers.
These are all good things.
It doesn’t matter whether you sell them for money or not, the key is that they are all delicious.
Chen Ling walked through alone and took all these things into the cave.
Just wait until tonight to make arrangements for planting.
Otherwise, it will grow into a messy pile, which will be very annoying.
When he finished doing this and walked to the landing place according to the marks, Heiwa was already quite awake, but after Chen Ling released it from the cave, it still staggered and drooped when walking. The tongue is like a drunkard's, running around and getting drunk everywhere.
The birds and small animals in the forest were frightened and fled everywhere.
When they were almost at their destination, Chen Ling simply ignored it and let it make a fuss.
When he returned, Chen Ze was already cooking on a simple stove made of stones. Chen Ling took a look and saw that he was boiling a pot of wild yam.
It’s okay, it’s good to have something simple in the morning.
After chatting for a while, everyone saw what was wrong with Hei Wa, and everyone asked what was wrong, so they went out and walked around. They were such a big dog, but why did they look like they were suffering from epilepsy?
Chen Ling had no choice but to talk about that strange wild fruit.
Everyone was a little dumbfounded after hearing this, saying they had never seen this thing before.
Only Chen Dazhi's expression changed and he said: "Are you talking about Tangpaozi? There are very few of them in this mountain of trees."
"What is this? Tangpaozi?"
Everyone was confused by this name.
"If you eat too much wild fruit that can make you drunk, I will definitely not say anything if you call it Jiupaozi. How can you call it Tangpaozi? Uncle Dazhi, you must be mistaken."
"That's right, Uncle Dazhi, don't pretend to understand. If you haven't eaten it, just say you have."
"Hey, you guys, who hasn't eaten it? Why can't you call us Tangpaozi? Go back. Ask your mother to go there. It's so sweet when you eat it. The whole fruit is like a bubble of sugar. When you eat it, it becomes like a glutinous rice wine. "
"There was a famine before. When I was young, I ate everything I could find in the mountains. Many people in our village have eaten this stuff, and all the elderly people know about it.”
“But after this stuff is cooked, you can eat it. You'll get drunk if you eat too much. When it's not ripe, it's like a hawthorn. It's sour to your teeth. It doesn't matter how much you eat. If you can't get drunk, your teeth can handle it."
Chen Dazhi said angrily. replied.
When everyone heard what he said, most of them believed it.
Turn around and became curious about the "sugar bubbles", and said one after another: "Fugui, you didn't pick a few back, otherwise we would have to try them."
"That's fine with me. Forgot, there must be some in the mountains, we will definitely meet each other, if we can’t go back, we will pick some specially, I left a mark.”
Chen Ling said, he was in a hurry to go somewhere else. I still have time to pick it.
After eating so much, I felt drunk and the smell of alcohol was thrown into the cave.
"Just leave a mark. There were few of these things before, but I haven't seen them for many years now."
Chen Dazhi rolled up a cigarette and pinned it to his ears: "Even if we go deeper into the mountains, You may not encounter it.”
“We went into the mountains to look for food, and we encountered that one time. We were so hungry that we ate a huge meal, including two kilograms of sorghum. I was so drunk that I almost let the wolves eat me. Later, I heard from the old people at that time that these things were very rare in the mountains, and wild animals would not dare to eat them. They would just wait to die if they were drunk. It’s like this. Without wild animals to harm it, the tree won’t grow well, and it will still look like a small tree for decades.”
When he said this, Chen Ling felt that he was right.
After chatting and having breakfast, we set off again.
The weather today is not very good. The sun only came out for a while and the sky became overcast.
The weather was bad, and their luck seemed to be affected.
In the morning, they only caught some small prey such as pheasants and wild ducks. Wang Lixian found traces of some more prey, but he missed them and couldn't even touch a hair.
Let Xiao Jin smell the smell. This time Xiao Jin can’t smell it either.
The guys had no choice but to kill the wild duck and start preparing for lunch.
Compared with pheasants, wild ducks are cheaper.
Everyone is eager to eat worthless food.
Like Chen Dazhi, he is afraid that he will not be able to catch any more prey, and then the wild ducks will be reluctant to eat them.
He led the dog to catch mountain mice again.
After a while, when the mountain mouse was not caught, a dog barked quickly.
Chen Ling had good eyesight. He glanced over there and saw Chen Dazhi standing face to face with several other men. They were not people from the village who had entered the mountains, but strange hunters.
I quickly called Wang Lixian and others over.
"Woof woof woof!" Seeing so many people showing up together, the dog opposite suddenly started barking like a pot, barking wildly.
Looking closer, there are five people. The leader is an old man, and behind them are men carrying shotguns on their backs, standing on the rocks by the water. The dogs they bring are also native dogs, about ten of them. Let’s stand together in the water and shout this way. But these dogs seemed to have been specially trained. They bared their teeth and looked very ferocious.
The dogs on Chen Ling's side were naturally not easy to mess with. They rushed up to block the water and roared.
Not to mention Hei Wa and Xiao Jin, these local dogs in the village have also fought against wolves, so how can they be timid?
The dogs on both sides barked more and more fiercely. Because the dogs on their side had two dogs from Chen Ling’s family as their backbone, the formation was not chaotic. The two dogs did not move even if they did not move. In the end, the dog on the opposite side took the lead. Unable to bear it, he rushed forward and bit him aggressively.
In the end, both Heiwa and Heiwa didn't need help. The other's dog couldn't resist for a few times, and was bitten until it whimpered. It ran to the opposite hunter with its tail between its legs, snorted softly, and looked at him in fear. This way.
At this time, the old man scolded the dogs lightly and said: "Dazhi, Li Xian, the dogs in your village are quite ferocious. Aren't there no hunters in your village anymore? Why do you do this? What are you doing with so many hunting dogs?”
“It’s not a hunting dog, I’ve trained my own dog, the others are kept at home to look after the house,...”
Wang Lixian walked up to them and while he was talking, he looked behind them calmly and said with some surprise: "Uncle Guangli, you have a lot of prey. Five of us can kill more than ten of us." . ”
When Chen Ling and the other young men saw that these people knew Chen Dazhi and Wang Lixian, they were relieved.
Then he also looked at the opponent's prey, and couldn't help but be surprised. Not to mention anything else, he actually shot a big wild boar.
They looked at each other and followed Wang Lixian, listening carefully to their conversation.
I learned that these hunters are from Kinmen Village.
Jinmen Village is small, but there are many hunters in the village. In the past, they hunted in the mountains on the other side of the Jinshui River, but this time they came to their side.
There have been wolves in the mountains over at Kinmen Village recently.
Not only are there wolves, but there are also local leopards that often appear in the mountains. Each one is fiercer than the other.
Nothing happened in Kinmen Village, but there were few people there, so they didn’t dare to go into the mountains.
(End of this chapter)