"Splash~"

The stream water was cool in the morning.

After panning for gold for a while, Lu Fangfang felt that her legs below the knees were so cold that she could barely feel them.

She quickly went to the campfire and drank a sip of hot water.

She rubbed her calves for a while until they felt warm, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

While panning for gold is important, you can't let your legs get injured from the cold.

"Mingcheng, if you feel cold, come and warm yourself by the fire."

"It's not cold at all. After eating the rock goat kidneys, I feel warm all over."

"Virtue!"

Lu Fangfang spat. She had also eaten the rock sheep kidneys, but she didn't find them particularly amazing.

Turning her head to look at the large half of the ibex on the rock, she scratched her head again.

I was so focused on taking them back that I didn't even think about whether I could eat them all. It's hot now, and they won't last more than a few days.

"Mingcheng, there are still seventy or eighty catties of rock sheep meat left. How are we going to store it?"

"Go back and make smoked meat."

Lu Fangfang thought for a moment, then shook her head.

Don't go back to making smoked meat, just make it here.

Otherwise, the whole residential compound would smell the aroma of her meat. It's too high-profile, and she's been the subject of much gossip because of it before.

Holding a dagger and carrying a semi-automatic rifle, she led the little wild donkey, calling out to Little Flower and Little Tibetan Fox, and went into the forest.

She found a small spruce tree, cut it down, and had the little wild donkey drag it away.

Looking around, the woods were eerily quiet.

Fortunately, with Xiaohua and the little Tibetan fox by her side, she wasn't so scared.

She chopped down some more branches and carried them back.

"Mingcheng, stop what you're doing and come over here to butcher the argali. We can smoke the meat right here and then air-dry it when we get home."

Hearing his wife's words, Zhuang Mingcheng stepped out of the stream and quickly walked over.

Seeing that his wife had already set up the grill, he didn't say anything else and immediately got to work.

Holding the dagger, he first skinned the ibex.

He scraped off the grease from the skin and fed it to Xiaohua and the little Tibetan fox.

After finishing his work, Zhuang Mingcheng started cutting up the mutton.

“These ibex horns are really big.”

Lu Fangfang touched the horns of the ibex and still felt a little creeped out.

Her husband was really something; he cut off the ibex's head and put it directly on a large rock, which looked rather frightening.

“Hawk horns are a good thing. When we get back, I’ll make you two combs. Use them to comb your hair, and it will become darker and shinier the more you comb it.”

Lu Fangfang's eyes lit up, and she suddenly felt that the argali head wasn't so scary after all.

"Make another small one, I'll keep it for Xiaohua to comb."

"Meow~"

Zhuang Mingcheng cut off the parts of the argali sheep that couldn't be smoked, such as argali sheep legs, argali sheep ribs, and argali sheep heads, and set them aside.

He kept a tender piece of the remaining mutton to take home.

He put the rest of the mutton on the rack and slowly smoked it.

Soon, the valley was filled with the aroma of pine resin mixed with mutton.

Zhuang Mingcheng clapped his hands, walked to the stream, and started working again.

The two worked together quickly, and it looked like they were about to dig away all the sand and gravel that had accumulated in the stream.

Lu Fangfang looked on with a hint of regret.

I wonder if there are any other places like this upstream. Maybe I'll have to come back next year.

"Mingcheng, let's work harder and try to finish by noon!"

"become."

Zhuang Mingcheng responded and then buried himself in his work.

As the sun slowly rose, the stream in the valley finally cooled down, and the two felt a little better.

On the shore, under the spruce wood frame, thick blue smoke rose, smoking the mutton on it.

Little Flower and Little Tibetan Fox lay leisurely to one side, catching up on sleep with their eyes closed.

Suddenly, Xiaohua's ears twitched.

It opened its eyes and looked towards the eastern mountains and forests.

"Meow~"

Upon hearing Xiao Hua's shrill cry, Lu Fangfang didn't hesitate; she immediately dropped her shovel and picked up the semi-automatic rifle from the shore.

"Click~"

She opened the safety latch and then looked at Xiaohua.

Beside him, Zhuang Mingcheng also instantly became alert.

Upstream, by the stream, the snow leopard bit its tail, staring at them blankly.

"Cough cough."

Lu Fangfang, holding her rifle, took a step back and walked to Zhuang Mingcheng's side.

Oh no, they're about to come knocking on our door.

Not far away, the snow leopard hesitated for a moment, then walked into the stream, preparing to wade across to the other side.

The snow leopard sniffed and tilted its head in confusion, looking toward the source of the smoke.

"Meow?"

Upon seeing the familiar ibex head on the rock, the snow leopard instinctively released its grip and let out a puzzled cry.

Its long tail fell into the water with a "plop" and was instantly soaked.

But the snow leopard seemed oblivious. It glanced at the ibex's head, then stared blankly at the two people in the stream.

Lu Fangfang: "..."

Zhuang Mingcheng: "..."

"Listen to my excuse, no, my explanation: the ibex came here on its own, do you believe me?"

"Awoo~"

The snow leopard stood in the middle of the stream and roared.

It now realized that they were the ones who had stolen its prey.

The Tibetan fox cub, wild donkey, and chestnut horse on the shore were terrified by the snow leopard's roar, and their legs went weak.

Only Little Flower stood up straight, baring her teeth as she looked at the snow leopard.

Lu Fangfang sighed as she sat in the stream.

Seeing the murderous glint in her man's eyes, she raised the gun and decisively pulled the trigger.

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