My legs were so weak that I couldn't even lift them, and my heart was beating so violently that it seemed like it was going to burst through my chest.
She had only been exercising for about ten days, and it was still too difficult for her to do these things now.
Hu Lin stared back, staring at the poisonous snakes that were chasing after the chicken and circling around it.
The poisonous snakes were not interested in the faint smell of blood on her body, but were more interested in the pheasant with a strong smell of blood.
It is considering whether the prey still has the ability to fight back and where is the best place to attack.
Hu Lin took a breath, found the right moment, turned around and continued running for his life.
As soon as the pheasant tied behind him moved, the poisonous snakes swarmed over and chased the pheasant all the way to the front mountain.
Hu Lin didn't dare to stop, even though he was seeing stars, he didn't dare to stop.
There were so many poisonous snakes that she couldn't kill them all. If she stopped, she would be buried with the pheasant.
Fortunately, after the poisonous snakes realized that they had chased them too far and were getting farther and farther away from their territory, they gradually stopped chasing them.
Hu Lin had been paying attention to the movement behind him. When he heard no movement, he turned around to look.
After seeing those poisonous snakes circling not far away for a while, she had no choice but to go back unwillingly. Only then did she feel a little relieved.
Hu Lin ran forward another hundred meters or so worriedly. He looked back and saw that there was no trace of the snake anymore. He then fell to his knees with a plop.
A violent gasp was heard.
Although she looked very embarrassed at the moment, she was smiling.
This feeling of escaping life and death made her blood boil and her brain nerves excited.
Only now did she feel completely alive.
After lying on the ground for a while, Hu Lin struggled to get up.
It’s not time to rest yet. There are snakes even in the front mountain. We have to get down the mountain quickly.
My kneecap was hit pretty hard, and it slows down when I stand.
Hu Lin shook his legs to relieve the pain a little, then hurried down the mountain.
She looked down the hill from the hillside and saw that there was no one there. Then she went down the hill to the stream and cleaned the blood off her hands.
So as not to scare Li Aihua when she returns.
During this period, she observed the time and frequency of those who came to Daqingshan to pick wild vegetables.
It is almost never seen in the afternoon.
The weather is getting hotter, and people who pick wild vegetables go up the mountain in the morning.
Hu Lin untied the rope around his waist and dragged the two pheasants into the house.
Li Aihua was boiling medicine in the kitchen. She looked back and saw Hu Lin standing at the kitchen door, all dirty. She quickly dropped the firewood in her hand, stood up and asked, "Why is it so dirty?"
"He fell down." Hu Lin went into the kitchen and dragged the two chickens in.
She dropped the rope and poured herself a bowl of boiled water.
Li Aihua's eyes widened when she saw the two pheasants on the ground. She looked up at Hu Lin who was gulping down water and asked, "Where did these chickens come from?"
Could it be that my daughter stole someone's chicken?
Didn’t she go running in the mountains?
Hu Lin did not answer in a hurry. Instead, he drank a bowl of water, put the bowl heavily on the stove, and then answered: "I picked it up in the mountain."
These two chickens weighed more than ten pounds, but they made her tired to death.
"Picking it up?" Li Aihua obviously didn't believe it.
She had been digging wild vegetables in the mountains for several years and had never seen even a chicken feather. And her daughter suddenly picked up two?
"I was lucky. I don't know what bit it to death." Hu Lin said calmly, "I happened to see it and quickly dragged it back."
In order to make his words seem more credible, Hu Lin added, "I was afraid that the smell of blood would attract other animals, so I ran very fast and fell. It hurt a lot."
Li Aihua looked at the dusty Hu Lin and asked doubtfully, "Why do you bring a rope when you run up the mountain?"
During this period, my daughter said that she wanted to keep fit, so she ran up and down the mountain a few times every day. She knew this, but she had never seen her bring a rope.
“I had originally thought of finding some dead branches to tie up and drag behind me to make it more difficult, but I didn’t expect to encounter such a good thing.
It seems that I will have to bring a rope with me when I go up the mountain in the future. Who knows, I might encounter such a good thing again one day."
Hu Lin continued to talk nonsense, which was a good opportunity to give Li Aihua a shot of prevention.
So that you don’t have to make excuses every time in the future.
"I see."
Li Aihua was simple and gullible, and was easily fooled by just a few words.
"My girl, you are so awesome!" Li Aihua looked at Hu Lin with sparkling eyes full of admiration.
Hu Lin smiled and said, "I think I'm pretty good too."
"Then you should prepare the chicken quickly as it will be an extra meal tonight." Hu Lin took over Li Aihua's position of making the fire.
"Hey." Li Aihua untied the two chickens on the ground.
The wound on the pheasant's neck was bloody and covered by feathers. For a moment, Li Aihua couldn't tell how the chicken died.
The medicine in the pot was almost cooked. Li Aihua put the medicine in an iron basin and boiled water to scald the chicken feathers.
Hu Lin lit a blazing fire and the water boiled in no time.
Li Aihua put two chickens in an iron bucket, poured boiling water on them, and boiled water in a pot.
Li Aihua used a spatula to turn the pheasants in the iron bucket from time to time. After the two chickens had been soaked in boiling water for about ten minutes, Li Aihua began to pluck their feathers.
Hu Lin added firewood to the stove. When he saw Li Aihua start plucking the feathers from the chicken's neck, he said, "After you get the chicken out, boil some water for me to take a bath. I'm too dirty."
"Okay."
"What flavor of chicken are you going to make?"
"Let's make soup." Li Aihua was a little embarrassed when she said this. "Roasting chicken consumes a lot of oil. We don't have much oil at home, so let's save it."
Hu Lin nodded. "This chicken is quite fat, so there should be a lot of fat. When it is boiled into oil, it should be enough to last for a while."
Oil was indeed a problem, as there was not much oil in the can that Cao Zhaodi gave.
Except for the first day and today, Li Aihua is very frugal when cooking.
But after this, there is only two-thirds of the oil left in the tank.
There are still several months until the year-end settlement.
We have to find a way to get some oil.
"That's what I thought."
As expected, Li Aihua didn't pay much attention to the bloody hole on the pheasant's neck and put the plucked pheasant into the enamel basin used for washing face.
There are not enough pots at home, so the classification is not so clear.
Without any tools, Hu Xiaoyi only relied on an axe to make these furniture, and he was not very skilled, so the progress was very slow.
It will be ready in two days when Hu Xiaoyi finishes making the wooden basin.
"What kind of animal bit this? The wound is so strange." Li Aihua first plucked the neck feathers of another pheasant, saw the wound, and said in confusion.
"I don't know. There are so many animals in the mountains. It must have been killed by some animal we don't recognize." Hu Lin was distracted and didn't pay attention to Li Aihua's actions, and was exposed.
They escaped in such a hurry up the mountain that they had no time to disguise themselves.
After coming down the mountain, she was thinking about going home first, until just now she remembered this insignificant yet extremely important matter to her.
"It can't be poisonous!" Li Aihua was convinced by Hu Lin's words and had no doubts about it.
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