Forest Farm 1985: Raise a bear cub to climb the mountain

Chapter 60 The "little secret" of Wugengchui and Erhan (6900 words two-in-one)
Dai Song led Xie Shubao to Bangchuiwo.

Xie Shubao would look back at Erhan from time to time, his eyes full of admiration.

"Brother Song, why is Erhan here? It's all thanks to him!"

"Didn't I mention this before we went down the mountain yesterday? I said I would take you to its den after we got rid of the club today. It went there, so it's staying here today."

"Wow. So smart?!"

"Really? Why don't I feel anything?
My dog ​​is only this young, and he plays with my daughter all day long. Now he can understand a lot of words. I think in a month or so, I can drag him up the mountain to meet Erhan. Then we will see who will be the leader of the two of them."

"Hey! That must be Erhan, he's such a big guy!"

Dai Song shrugged. It didn't really matter who was the leader. The only thing to worry about was that the two sides would start fighting as soon as they met, resulting in casualties.

But there is still time now. I can slowly guide the puppy and make it familiar with the taste of Erhan. There shouldn’t be any big problem by then.

While helping Xie Shubao get his tools, Dai Song briefly mentioned that there was a boss in town who bought their hammers, and explained that this could save them a lot of trouble and that the price was guaranteed.

Xie Shubao nodded repeatedly after listening to this. His eyes were shining and his hands moved faster.

Then the two of them started digging from the gap that Er Han had dug out yesterday. Dai Song was digging and suddenly showed ecstasy.

"Little schoolbag, little schoolbag!"

"What's wrong, Brother Song?"

"Holy crap! I dug up a big one!!"

"Congratulations, Brother Song!"

"Congratulations! Come and help dig! Otherwise I'll have to spend the night here!"

"Whoa whoa!"

The two of them worked together, and the main root of the mallet slowly emerged;
"Awesome, Brother Song! This one is even bigger than yesterday's!"

"Well, let me test you. How old is this mallet?"

"Uh," Xie Xuebao scratched his head, "Brother Song, I'm not very good at it. If you insist, I estimate it will take forty years or more."

"why?"

"Because its skin is old and it's big. Didn't you teach me yesterday that this thing is like a person? The one with tender skin is young, while the one with wrinkled skin like an old vegetable is old."

"Hey!" Dai Song patted Xie Shubao on the head.

You have a good memory! You are right. From the current point of view, this is at least forty years, but the specific situation requires all the side roots and whiskers to be brought out before we can judge. "

"OK!"

While digging, Xie Shubao suddenly asked,
"Brother Song, I actually wanted to ask you yesterday, how can you be so at ease leaving such a large nest of clubs here?!"

"Why should we worry? The 78th Forestry Squad is under the jurisdiction of our Tuanjie Village. Except for hunters chasing prey, people from other villages can enter the forests of the 78th Forestry Squad. No one else, whether they are hunting in the mountains, chasing prey in the mountains, or chasing people in the mountains, can come to the 78th Forestry Squad to touch any grass or tree on the mountain. This is the rule!

In addition, my uncle is also a small leader in the forest farm. The logging plan of the forest farm clearly states that Forest Block 78 had just logged trees the year before last, and the next pre-logging patrol will be in two years. In other words, during this period, only people from our village will go to the mountains in Forest Block 78.

But in Tuanjie Village, besides the two of us, who else would go up the mountain? Everyone is farming or fishing, not even one is going up the mountain to pick hazel mushrooms!"

Dai Song secretly rejoiced while digging.

These are actually the unspoken rules among the various forestry teams in Zhazi Forest Farm. Li Pao told him this in his previous life. Otherwise, this group of idiots would be really troublesome.

It was also fortunate that his family members did not know these rules, otherwise his previous fabricated plan to go up the mountain with the "Hunting Gang" to escape would definitely be exposed.

Now we are not afraid anymore. Even though there are only two of us, we are still a hunting gang!

"Oh, that's what I thought. Eh? Brother Song, what if someone doesn't behave properly?"

"No, there were some unruly people before, but they died, and everyone behaved after that."

Dai Song straightened his back and changed the antler stick.

"At the time, the incident was also caused by a conflict over a club. It was quite a big deal, and in the end it turned into a conflict between villages. Several people died, and I don't know how it was suppressed."

"Ah? How could that be?!"

"No one is willing to give in. One side thinks that they found it, and if others dig it up, it's stealing. The other side thinks that the mountain's wealth cannot be enjoyed alone, and they also saw it, so why can't they dig it up.

Neither group was willing to give in. They confronted each other on the mountain for half a month. All their dry food was eaten up. Neither side was a hunter and did not know how to hunt. The only thing they could do was to gnaw on tree bark. So one person was left in one of the villages to watch over the place while the rest went back to the village to get dry food and call for help.

But when they went back the next day, the man who stayed behind and the people from the other village had disappeared, and several clubs had been taken away.

So they rushed to the other side's village to ask.

As a result, the other party refused to admit it, saying that they thought everyone had gone back, so they went back to the village to rest. They put the blame on the person who was left behind to guard, saying that the person had dug up the hammer and ran away overnight.

This statement has too many loopholes and no one believes it, but there is no evidence.

In the end, we had to let the matter go, and two of the other party’s herders went missing the next day.”

"Are the two villages fighting each other?" Xie Shubao's eyes were gloomy.

“Yes, the fight was very fierce, and it was quite a big commotion. In the end, the whole village was set on fire, and half of the forestry station was burned down.

The village was not rebuilt later because when a large machine was used to dig up the ground in the village, the bodies of the missing people were dug out from the ground.

Finally, the Zhazi Forest Farm privately set rules for each forestry team:
Chasing prey to other forests is fine. I hunted with my own ability, so there is nothing to say.

But you can’t touch other forest class’s things.

This is also the reason why one forestry group basically has one village. For example, the two villages in Forestry Group 76 were actually one village. I don’t know what happened and they were separated.”

Xie Shubao nodded, and his understanding of each forestry team deepened.

But the next moment, Dai Song suddenly said,
"No need to dig in the little schoolbag."

"Ah? What's up, Brother Song? I've basically cleared it all up."

Dai Song smiled bitterly and pointed to the ground.
"Damn it, I didn't notice it when I was chatting with you before, and only saw it when I cleaned it from the root to the end."

Xie Shubao took a quick look and immediately felt heartbroken.

"Ah! It's broken."

"Hmm." Dai Song flicked the root of the club, whose wound had shrunk, and gritted his teeth and said:

"That strike from Erhan cost him at least 300 yuan!!"

"Uh uh, it's okay! Brother Song, there are still so many! Erhan has been obedient now, hasn't he!"

"Don't speak for it!"

Xie Shubao pursed his lips and fell silent.

"I'll do it in a moment, please stop me."

"That works!"

Dai Song dug the broken mallet out of the ground. It was already broken, so why would he care about a few whiskers?!
I originally wanted to throw it directly into the forest, but after weighing it, I felt a little reluctant to throw it away after I had scooped up the mud so that it was only about 300 grams high.

Then he put it on the birch bark that Xie Shubao had prepared in advance.

Fortunately, there were still many hammers left to be lifted. Dai Song didn't care about it. He quickly adjusted his mentality, picked another one and continued digging.

Near noon, Xie Shubao brought out the hammer that he had previously taken a fancy to.

It was an old mallet weighing a little over 20 taels, and looked very abstract. Dai Song thought it looked familiar, but he didn't know how to describe it to Xie Shubao - he couldn't say it looked like a very expensive coffee pattern in later generations, right?
It doesn’t matter to Xie Shubao what the mallet looks like, as long as it is valuable.

After putting down the mallet, Xie Shubao did not continue digging by himself, but ran over to help Dai Song.

"Brother Song, take all these clubs home today."

"What's the matter?"

"Nothing."

Dai Song waited for a long time, but Xie Shubao didn't tell him the reason. He glanced at him and said,
"It's okay. Let's not expose it on the road. When you go back, find a more secluded place to put the one on the stove. There aren't many people around your house anyway, so you don't have to worry about someone suddenly coming to your house."

"Yeah. I think it's safer to go to Brother Song's place. When I sell the money, Brother Song will keep it for me and give me some money every once in a while."

Xie Shubao grinned.

"This is so troublesome! You should keep the money yourself to save yourself the trouble."

"Ok."

The two of them dug together for a while, and finally lifted out Dai Song's hammer at noon.

As if to compensate for the loss of the previous one, Dai Song's stick is a little heavier than the previous one, and it is also a spiritual hammer with rough skin and many pearl dots on the beard!
All of these indicate the age and value of this mallet.

Dai Song smiled, put it away happily, and went to find Erhan, having completely forgotten what he had said before about beating Erhan up.

Erhan was not busy eating. After he finished eating the pig's heart and liver, he actually dragged the big guy all the way towards Bangchuiwo, and they were almost there now.

The two men and the bear dragged the wild boar to the club's nest.

Dai Song patted the fool who was sitting next to him and pouting his lips to ask for praise.
"Well, I didn't expect that after getting hit so many times, your little head is getting smarter! Do you know that I'm going to give you some meat?"

"Puff!"

Erhan sneezed, then walked over to the side and sat down with a look of disgust. I have always been smart!
Dai Song thought Er Han was urging him, so he quickly leaned against the big guy, dug up the snow on the ground, and made a fire to heat the steamed buns.

"Don't worry, I'll make it for you when you're done eating!"

"call!"

Seeing Erhan lying obediently on the ground, Dai Song cut off the pig's nose from the big guy's bruised face.

He deliberately avoided this piece of meat when he fired the last shot.

The meat of wild boar may be smelly, but it has nothing to do with arching the nose.

Dai Song first put the pig's snout over the fire and burned it for a few rounds to burn off the hair, then threw it into the snow. He used the heat to melt the snow, washed the snout, cut it into slices, strung it with twigs, and slowly roasted it by the fire.

The cut pig snout shrank and curled up quickly under the roasting fire, and a small amount of blood flowed out from the incision due to the contraction of the meat.

If the blood is forced out, the meat won't have a strange smell.

When the blood has drained away, tiny bubbles begin to appear on the cut surface, making it look like it has been fried.

But don't think that these bubbles are caused by the oil encountering high temperatures.

The cut pig snout looks like it has only a little lean meat on both sides, but the middle part is actually not fat. It does not taste greasy at all, and the texture is not as tough as tendons, but not as tough as fat. It is very chewy when chewed in the mouth. To explain it with the words seen on Dai Song's mobile phone in later generations, it is full of collagen.

It would be wonderful if I could dip it in soybean paste and eat some green onions at this moment.

Dai Song sat next to the warm fire, leaning against his big body, while Erhan lay on Dai Song's legs with his round belly resting on his back, taking a nap to digest his food.

Dai Song handed a bunch of roasted gongbi to Xie Shubao.
"Here, eat it with a steamed bun."

As he spoke, he started to imitate, tearing open the steamed bun, putting a few slices of pig snout on the branch onto the steamed bun, pinching the two halves together, and stuffing them into his mouth impatiently, his eyebrows flying with joy at the delicious taste.

Xie Shubao swallowed his saliva and took a bite. His lips immediately pursed tightly, like the folds of a bun, locking the "filling" in his mouth tightly, and no fragrance leaked out.

After taking a bite, Xie Shubao looked at the steamed bun with meat in his hand in disbelief. He immediately took out the meat from it, picked up another steamed bun, sandwiched it and put it into the cloth bag.

Dai Song pretended not to see it.

This kind of thing cannot be resolved in a short period of time. The only thing I can do is to help him make more money.

Seeing Xie Shubao put away the steamed buns, Dai Song remembered the request he had made before but was rejected by him, so he asked while passing the skewers,
"Is everything okay at home?

After all, most of the money I used before was spent on buying things.”

"Yeah! Don't worry, Brother Song!"

"If you need help, you must ask for it, okay? We are all family, I don't treat you as an outsider, so don't be polite to me."

"Ok!"

Seeing that Xie Shubao didn't say much, Dai Song changed the subject.

"I suddenly remembered something. We are digging for sticks now!" "Well! What's up, Brother Song?"

"Don't you want to leave some for Auntie?"

Xie Shubao scratched his head, a little embarrassed, "Brother Song, is it okay?"

Snapped!
"You are a real tiger! What's the point of asking such a question? Stay! You must stay!"

"Yeah! Thank you, Brother Song!" Xie Shubao's eyes lit up, and he immediately seemed to realize something and asked, "Brother Song, are those broken mallets still nutritious? I'm afraid if I take the good ones back to my mother, she won't want to eat them."

"Yes, but didn't you tell her that we encountered such a large nest of clubs?"

"I said"

"Alright, alright, you do this, let's go back and dig out what Erhan dug yesterday, pick out the broken pieces and take them back, and don't let her see the good mallets left for Auntie. If she asks, just say that these are all you have to eat."

"Hey! What a good idea, Song-ge!"

The two of them had almost finished their discussion and had lunch. Dai Song pushed Erhan, who had drool on his legs.

It pretended that it couldn't turn over and stayed on Dai Song's legs and refused to leave.

Dai Song had no choice but to flex his fingers and blow out a breath, which frightened Erhan so much that he jumped up and did sit-ups.

"Little guy!" Dai Song walked around to the other side of the big guy with a knife in his hand and asked Xie Xuebao,

"Besides suet, what other meats do you want? I'll cut them for you."

"Brother Song I"

"Say!"

"How about pig tail? My mom likes it very much. She chokes on it."

"Don't be ridiculous! I'll cut off your front legs, but your pig's trotters are still very stiff!"

"Oh ok, thanks Song-ge."

Dai Song rolled his eyes and cut off the wild boar's front leg.

When Erhan saw Dai Song cutting the pig's trotter, he was immediately delighted. He jumped up to Dai Song with his front paws, squinting his eyes and smacking his lips vigorously.
"Roar! Roar!"

I love this! I love this!

"What? This isn't for you. Go away, don't get in the way."

Erhan's expression froze instantly.

But that was not all. When the bear saw Dai Song handing its front hoof to Xie Shubao, it felt completely unwell.

"Ah! Roar!"

It rolled to Dai Song's feet like a ball and immediately grabbed Dai Song, otherwise he would not be able to walk properly.
My legs! I want to eat hooves!
"Brother Song, what happened to Erhan?" Xie Shubao hurriedly tied the hoof and the cloth bag together.

Seeing this, Erhan shouted even louder.

"Stop making trouble~"

Dai Song felt funny but also a little distressed when he saw the little dog protecting its food. After all, Erhan only loved to eat legs and "treasures", so he didn't care if everything else was cut off.

He patted Erhan's head, grabbed its ears and made it look at the big lonely man.
"It still has three legs, doesn't it? This time the wild boar is really big! It's no smaller than the red deer you ate last time."

"Whoo~"

Erhan blinked his little eyes and calmed down.

But the next moment, it saw Dai Song walking towards the wild boar again, and it immediately got up from the ground, ran to the wild boar's hind legs, hugged the wild boar's hind legs with its whole bear body, and lay down on them, not moving.

"Puff!"

The front legs are not as meaty as the hind legs, but it is not confused!
"Look at your potential!"

Dai Song first cut off the two pig ears that looked like small fans. This thing is a good thing. It will be useful when he goes back.
Immediately, he cut on both sides of the wild boar's ribs. Then, holding up half of the ribs, he put one hand into the wild boar's cavity and cut along the connection between the spine and the ribs again and again. When he thought it was almost done, he lowered his body, lifted the ribs with his shoulders and pushed them upwards violently.

Click!

Dai Song removed half of the ribs.

These few lines flowed so smoothly that Xie Shubao was stunned.

Erhan was guarding his two pig hind legs with all his heart. When he saw Dai Song taking apart half of the pork chop, he pursed his lips in relief and let out a long breath.

“Pululu~”

The two of them tidied up and then got back to the busy work of lifting the mallet.

The sunlight becomes stronger in the afternoon, and people’s backs feel a little warm when exposed to the sun.

Dai Song scratched the junction of the groove and waist. He had been squatting for the past two days and that area had been exposed to the outside. It was a little stiff due to the wind. It should be fine if he went back and grabbed some of his sister's clam oil and applied it.

She has a small face, so she probably won't need that much.

Xie Shubao took a fancy to a big mallard. Dai Song, who was standing next to him, had already picked up two mallets weighing less than two taels, but he was still using a stick to clean the main root of the big mallard.

Dai Song went over to help, and when he finally came out, he saw that the mallet was as big as a pickled radish, and was almost as thick as Xiao Yingying's arm!
The surface is also rough and black, with grooves and filled with mud.

The main roots and side roots are twisted together, like an old man with his legs crossed and smoking a pipe, or like a young girl twisting her waist, waving her handkerchief and winking.

Dai Song shook his head and was a little unsure about his handle - this must be more than five taels? !

As the old saying goes, seven liang is for ginseng and eight liang is for treasure, but this eight liang refers to the old scale (one catty is sixteen liang).
This big hammer weighing more than five taels now weighs at least eight taels according to the old scale, or maybe even nine taels!

Dai Song and Xie Shubao's eyes widened, and they both held the big mallet and laughed foolishly for several minutes.

It was only because Erhan ate too much and farted that the two of them came to their senses.

Now Xie Shubao insisted on giving all the sticks to Dai Song no matter what.

Dai Song had no choice but to take away the two hammers from Xie Shubao.

He was under a lot of pressure. This thing was a "miracle drug" that could save lives, but it was also a knife that could take lives.

However, I decided to think about these issues after I got back, so I took my small schoolbag and went to identify Erhan’s tree nest, and helped drag the big wild boar over.

It took the two men and the bear at least forty minutes, and the whole way was uphill, before they finally moved the big wild boar to the place.

Dai Song looked around under the tree and patted Er Han on the head.

"Where's my backpack?"

"call!"

Erhan was so guilty that he kept his eyes on guard, then turned around and walked to the tree, stood up and kept rubbing against the tree, trying to divert Dai Song's attention with his flirtatious "pole dance".

Dai Song twisted its uninjured little ear until it became hot, and it reluctantly crawled into the tree hole, letting out a few angry roars.

Then, they saw a backpack filled with messy dead branches and leaves flying out of the cave and falling in front of the two people.

"What is this." Xie Shubao picked up the backpack, his face full of confusion.

Dai Song was also stunned, and pulled out a handful of white cotton and messy strips of cloth from the gap in the backpack - this was the cotton in his coat and the fabric of the cotton trousers that were torn into pieces by the black bear.

These things have his flavor.
Even Xie Shubao understood after recognizing those rags.

He finally opened his eyes. He originally thought that Erhan was just a smart guy who understood human nature.
At this moment, he felt that Erhan was no worse than those little bastards in the village who wore open-crotch pants and walked their birds in the middle of winter.

"Brother Song, I'll go up to the mountain in the spring to cut some branches and weave a few more backpacks."

Dai Song waved his hand and said, "No need. Go and unload the wild boar along the joints. If you don't know how, I'll teach you later. I'll give this backpack to Erhan first."

"Yeah! OK!"

Although this matter has nothing to do with Xie Shubao, he felt warm in his heart when he saw Dai Song make this decision.

Dai Song walked under the tree with the backpack in his arms.

Erhan stuck his head out, pursed his lips and made small noises, his expression really showing both aggrieved and angry.

Dai Song looked up at Erhan and smiled, then slowly took off his shoes.

And took off his socks.

Finally, I stuffed the two socks that were almost standing on the ground into the backpack, and shook them with a bang to even out the dead branches and socks inside.

No, it should be to let one's own taste fully contact with these fillings - Dai Song has been moved to tears by the friendship between himself and Erhan.

Dai Song looked up and found that Erhan's head had shrunk back at some point.

"Tsk, you're still angry."

Dai Song rubbed his hands, put on his shoes, and climbed up the tree carrying the backpack...

Not far away, Xie Shubao, who was butchering pigs with his head covered, didn't know what was going on. Anyway, he heard Dai Song calling him from behind. He turned around, but the first person he saw was not Dai Song who was smiling and waving at him.
Instead, Erhan hurriedly squeezed his big round, slightly red butt out of the tree hole, then trembled all over and slid and crawled down the tree.

"Look how happy Erhan is! He really can't leave Brother Song for even a second!" Xie Shubao couldn't help but smile like an auntie.

Seeing that it was getting late, Dai Song took over the work from Xie Shubao.
After cutting the wild boar into pieces that were easy for Erhan to drag up the tree, he stroked Erhan's fluffy hair and then took Xie Shubao to Bangchui's nest.

The two men took up the ribs and front hooves, and dug out a lot of whiskers and broken clubs from the pit before returning to the village.

The two stood outside the village. Xie Shubao looked at the sky which was not yet completely dark, and his face became more and more embarrassed.

He tried to bend the pig's front leg and stuff it into his crotch, but no matter how he hid it, it looked like he had a strange disease.

"Brother Song, this is me..."

"Where is your sack?" Dai Song covered his mouth to prevent the other person from seeing his expression.

"Medicine in the sack."

"No! You seem to be afraid of being seen. Is someone trying to rob you or what?"

Dai Song couldn't help but ask.

Thank you for touching my nose.
"My family can't afford meat. Now that we have meat, people will talk about my mother."

Dai Song was speechless. The gossips in the countryside in this era were really unpredictable.
He thought about it and found that there seemed to be something that didn't make sense, but he didn't have the nerve to ask any more questions at this moment, so he took the pork leg and
"Come to my house after dark and get it. I'll leave it by the door in the yard. Don't forget it."

"Yeah!" Xie Shubao's expression instantly relaxed and he ran away happily.

After Xie Shubao ran away, Dai Song waited for a few more minutes before entering the village.

He stopped when passing by Liu Laoliu's yard.

When I cut the ribs today, I brought some chops with me. At this moment, Dai Song cut off three or two pieces from them and took out two more.
Forget it, just give it one piece. The old dog may not be able to enjoy the two broken pieces, so don’t overwork it.

Dai Song put these things into the old dog's weathered dog bowl.
"Old dog, I'm sorry for what happened last time. I really can't control my two nephews."

The old dog huddled in the kennel without making any movement, but a large pool of yellow liquid spread out from the bottom of the kennel.

"Hey!"

Dai Song sighed and did not force the old dog. He looked at the window sealed with tape, measured it with his hand, and left quietly.

After returning home, Dai Song put the pig leg next to the door of the yard and checked his clothes and the five mallets in his arms - they were intact.

He then carried the pork ribs and held the pig's ears between his legs and swaggered into the house.

When Jiang Weiqun saw Dai Song, she glanced him up and down, and quickly started scolding Dai Song from the cotton jacket that was stained with blood and flesh.

But today Dai Song seemed to have grown stronger. In the past, he would let Jiang Weiqin beat and scold him, but today he did:
"You can scold me, but you can't hit me. Don't regret it if you cause any damage."

Jiang Weiqun's eyebrows raised when she heard this. She raised her leg and left a big footprint on Dai Song's left buttock.

In the end, the sister-in-law and daughter-in-law said a few nice words to him, and Jiang Weiqun kicked Dai Song twice, and the matter was finally settled.

Watching Jiang Weiqin's complexion gradually improve, Dai Song rubbed his buttocks and felt the mallet in his arms;

How should I confess the matter about the club later?

(End of this chapter)