Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 250 There are treasures in the mountains, and there are dangers in the mountains

Li Long's idea of ​​keeping a little lynx as a pet was shattered.

When he threw away the sack and took out the gun, the big lynx seemed to know what Li Long was thinking. It flashed into the bushes and disappeared. Several little lynxes followed closely behind it. When Li Long chased it with a gun, they were nowhere to be seen.

Li Long was still unwilling to give up, so he searched in the woods for a while with his gun in hand. Unfortunately, the grass in the woods was very deep, and he could not see any claw marks at all, so he had no idea where to start looking.

Aren’t these guys too fast?
Li Long walked out of the woods somewhat disappointedly, returned to the sack, turned off the safety of the gun, put it on his back, and continued picking mushrooms.

There were almost no people in this ditch. When Li Long was picking mushrooms, he could see layers of dried and rotten mushrooms. The moss was very lush, and I think the mushrooms also contributed to it.

Before he finished walking along the ditch, Li Long had picked up a sack of mushrooms - in his previous life, he remembered that when he went to the Ili River Valley to play, he heard from fellow riders there that there was a ditch that was close to the border and was inaccessible to ordinary people. Those who could enter would drive in during July and August to pick up the black tiger's paw mushroom, which the locals called deer antler mushroom, and they could pick up several sacks at a time.

Li Long didn't believe it at that time, but now he really believes it.

In places where there are few people but suitable for growth, this thing can grow really fast and in large quantities.

Of course, there are dangers. If Li Long had been near those little lynxes, he would have been pawed by them again.

This thing moves so fast!
Ordinary people really can't keep up.

Li Long went down the mountain carrying a sack on his back, walking in the grass with one foot deep and one foot shallow. He startled a grouse and went to see where it flew away, but found no eggs or chicks.

By the time I returned to the cabin with the sack on my back, the sun had already set completely, and the top of the mountain in the west was still slightly red.

The stars were clearly visible. Li Long swatted mosquitoes while pouring all the black tiger paw mushrooms in the sack onto the floor of the small bedroom.

Li Long was more careful when picking them up. There was basically no dirt or moss on the roots, so the mushrooms lying in the house at this time were quite clean.

Li Long scraped the mushrooms on the floor, flattened them, locked the door and went to the big room to sleep.

The noodles he had at noon were quite filling, so he didn’t want to get anything else to eat anymore. He decided to wait until tomorrow morning.

After a busy day, Li Long was very tired. When he lay on the bed, his first thought was that it would be great if he had a solar panel. But then he thought, what’s the use of having electricity since he doesn’t have a mobile phone? As he thought about it, he fell asleep.

When he woke up, the window was already light. Li Long rubbed his face and got up.

I slept well this night, and all the tiredness I felt yesterday has disappeared.

He put on his clothes and walked outside. He still felt a little cool and saw some dew on the grass leaves. This mountain is different.

Li Long took some firewood and found some dry firewood for kindling in the house, and lit both stoves.

Put a pot on one stove to cook rice porridge, and use another stove to boil water.

While boiling water, he went to pick some wild vegetables. Although he was alone outside, he had the conditions and time, so he had to be nicer to himself.

He was having a light morning, so he planned to make some cold dishes. Artemisia and straw mushrooms were readily available, so he just fried them in water and mixed them with cold water.

There was vinegar on the shelf in the small room, some chili peppers fried in oil from the last time I was working on the pole, and some salt. That was enough.

When the water is boiling, throw the Artemisia in, turn it over, take it out, put it on a wooden table to dry, then break the washed straw mushrooms and throw them in. The mushrooms need to be "fried" for a while longer before they are cooked. No one in this mountain knows which grass has parasites - after all, the health center also went to the village to popularize science in the last life. The eggs of the cysticercus are usually on the grass and in the water, the larvae are in the bodies of cattle and sheep, and the adults are in the bodies of wolves, dogs, or humans.

So it’s better to cook it for a while longer.

By the time the mushrooms were fished out, the aroma of the porridge was already very obvious. Li Long went over and stirred it a few times, and the porridge became more and more fragrant. This was not learned from the Tang Dynasty novels, but from what his sister-in-law Liang Yuemei said.

After taking out the mushrooms, Li Long started to add water and strainer to fry the dry steamed buns before eating.

He regretted not making some dough last night. Otherwise, he would have eaten the not-so-authentic Xibe pancake today.

Scoop out a bowl of porridge, turn off the heat, and then start mixing the cold dishes.

The mixed cold dishes that Li Long knew when he was a child were very simple. After the dishes were "fried", he would simply add oil, chili peppers, vinegar, and a little salt and mix them well.

There is a common cold dish mixed with vermicelli at rural banquets these days, and it’s made this way.

After the two dishes were mixed, steam had been coming out of the pot for stir-frying steamed buns for a long time. Li Long turned off the fire, took out the steamed buns and put them on a plate. Then, he started eating!

One mouthful of steamed bun and three mouthfuls of vegetables was a luxury in that era... In the early 1980s, families were generally poor and did not have many vegetables. Usually, there was more rice than vegetables - especially in winter. It was normal to have two mouthfuls of rice and one mouthful of vegetables.

It was homemade and tasted good. In less than twenty minutes, two plates of cold dishes, four dry steamed buns, and an enamel bowl of porridge were all eaten up. By this time, the sun had risen and Li Long felt a little reluctant to move.

He had to move. He sat for a while before standing up. The porridge pot was already cold, so he took it up and put it in the big room. Then he took another pot and the stacked plates and bowls to the spring to wash them. After washing, he brought them back and put them in the big room. That was the end of the morning's work. He planned to pick up at least two more sacks of black tiger palm mushrooms today, try to dry them the next day or the day after tomorrow, and then go to Chen Hongjun to exchange them for money.

Of course, before picking mushrooms, he had to take out the mushrooms from the small room city.

After a night, the mushrooms are still tender, but the house is already filled with the smell of mushrooms.

After taking out all the mushrooms, he spread them out on the wooden floor in front of the cabin and on the wooden table outside the cabin to dry. Li Long now felt that the wooden table in front of the cabin that Yushanjiang and the others had made for him was really convenient.

After drying the mushrooms, Li Long picked up the sack and went to pick mushrooms.

After walking through several nearby ditches, Li Long, carrying his gun, planned to walk eastward - not far to the west was the Ma River, which was not easy to cross.

At noon, Li Long came back with a sack on his back. He had indeed picked up a sack this time, but he had walked a lot, and his pants were not completely dry yet - they fell into the stream in the middle.

After working all afternoon, Li Long didn't feel like cooking. He spread out the mushrooms to dry, went to the small room to cut a watermelon, took the half with the handle, took out a meat knife, and took out a few dry steamed buns.

Li Long first used a knife to cut several horizontal and vertical lines on the watermelon, then picked up small pieces of watermelon with the knife and fork and ate them, and then continued to pick out the watermelon. This time he did not eat it himself, but directly cut the watermelon into small pieces to let the watermelon juice become more and more, and then soaked the dry steamed bun in it.

After the dry steamed bun had absorbed the watermelon juice and become soft, he used a knife to eat it, taking a bite of watermelon and a bite of steamed bun.

I remember Li Jianguo once said, "Eat the handle of a watermelon and the flower of a melon." This is true. The handle of a watermelon is sweeter than the butt!

After eating half of the watermelon and putting the remaining half on the shelf, Li Long went to rinse his mouth and then lay down on the wooden kang in the big room.

So comfortable!

The sun outside is too strong, so Li Long doesn't plan to go out for the time being.

After picking all the mushrooms nearby, we wanted to wait for them to grow again, but it would take time and also a heavy rain.

In the short term, although there are clouds in the sky, there is really no sign of rain.

This reminded him of the small county town called Zhaosu he visited in his previous life.

It's really magical there. It rains every day. In the summer, it rains almost every day at noon. Then it clears up again, which doesn't affect the sun at all.

After waking up, Li Long felt lazy. He got up and looked outside. It should be around five or six in the afternoon. It was a bit late to go pick mushrooms, so Li Long suddenly had an idea to go take a hot spring bath!

Although it is not addictive to soak in this thing, once you feel that it can relieve fatigue after soaking in it once, you will want to soak in it for the second time.

Li Long did it as soon as he thought about it. He walked out of the big room with a gun on his back, locked the door, thought about it, and decided to carry the sack and walk towards the hot spring.

If you come across mushrooms on the way, pick them up.

Knowing the exact location, Li Long took a shortcut this time and went to the hot spring almost in a straight line. In less than an hour, he reached the ravine where the hot spring was located.

The temperature in the ravine was a bit low, and Li Long only picked up less than ten kilograms of mushrooms along the way, which was considered a small harvest.

Walking along the ditch, Li Long did not let his guard down, as there were wild animals roe deer and wild boars. Although he had encountered roe deer and wild boars before, no one could guarantee that there would be other animals.

When he was almost at the destination, Li Long was cautious. He crawled into the woods on both sides of the ditch and slowly moved towards the hot spring pool.

When there was still thirty or forty meters away, Li Long could no longer see, but he could already hear the sound of water splashing - not the sound of flowing water, but the sound of animals playing with water.

Li Long took two quick steps to see what was going on, and then he stopped.

About twenty meters ahead, there was an animal looking in the direction of the splashes.

Wolf!
Li Long's hands shook and he almost dropped the sack - luckily he was careful just now and the splash was loud, otherwise he would have alarmed this guy!

Is this wolf ambushing and preparing to hunt, or is the one playing in the water below also a wolf and it is on alert?
Li Long guessed for a moment and then tended to the former, because if it was a warning, shouldn't he be staring closely at the things in the water below?

But no matter what, if he encounters such a ferocious beast, Li Long will definitely fight it and be the one who takes advantage of it.

He slowly put the sack down, trying not to make any noise, then took the gun off his back, removed the safety, and slowly pulled the bolt to load the gun.

Just as Li Long was about to aim, a wolf howl suddenly came from the opposite hillside, and then the wolf in front howled and rushed down the mountain!

The hunt begins!

Li Long was startled and hurriedly chased after them with his gun in hand. When he arrived at the location where the wolf was before, he saw through the trees that in the hot spring pool below, three wolves were besieging four wild goats in two pools!
(End of this chapter)