Chapter 32 Encountering a Wild Boar
Aunt Guihua couldn't say no, so she had to go and help Qin Wan pickle the sauerkraut. After pickling, she went home and got some fermented beans and soybean paste for Qin Wan, who accepted them with a smile.
After pickling the sauerkraut, the weather was getting colder and colder, and it was about to snow, so Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao started running up the mountain every day.
When I see a dead tree, I put it directly into the space. When I go back, I chop it up with an axe and use it to heat the kang and cook.
After the two of them had been running up the mountain for two days, they were caught by Qin Wan: "You two are quite hard to catch. You run up the mountain before dawn every day. I've been waiting for you for several days but I still haven't seen you."
Li Ruolan smiled and explained, "It's going to snow and the mountains will be closed soon. We don't have enough firewood at home."
Qin Wan waved her hand and said, "Put the firewood aside for now. The chestnuts in the mountain forest will soon be picked by the villagers.
But Lu Yunxiao said that he found another chestnut forest deep in the mountains, and there are many red date trees next to it. I came to find you these two days just to ask if you want to go."
The chestnut forest we discovered before, although also on the mountain, is not considered a deep mountain. In addition, since all the members of our team are going there together, there is no need to worry about encountering wild boars, wolves, or the like.
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao didn't go there at all in the past few days, and forgot about the matter of Li Zilin.
"Go, of course I have to go." Deng Minghao said immediately. He had wanted to go to the mountains again for a long time, but he was tripped up by collecting firewood.
Now that Lu Yunxiao is leading the way, he must go to the mountains to take a look.
Qin Wan nodded: "Then you have to be prepared, you have to take your slingshot and a machete for self-defense, after all, it is deep in the mountains, and you may encounter wild boars and wolves.
And I also called Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun. They are both veterans. If we encounter danger, it will be safer with them around.
In addition to the two of them, Liu Kunming, Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua also went. "
Among these newly arrived educated youth, except Xu Tao and Guo Xiaoya, the others really came to the countryside and did not bring much money with them.
Even if they had some money, it was not enough for them to live in the countryside for a few years.
Of course, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao are exceptions. They are both rich, but they hide it very well.
So they also went to the mountain. Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao were not surprised. Besides, the mountain was so big and it didn't belong to them, so naturally anyone who wanted to go could go.
Qin Wan left after she finished speaking. Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao quickly heated up the oil in the pot and started cooking, while also preparing the dry food for lunch.
It is a boiled shepherd's purse flour pancake, mostly white flour with just a little sweet potato flour mixed in. It tastes okay and at least doesn't irritate the throat.
The two men prepared dry food and water bottles, each took an axe, and Deng Minghao even put his precious slingshot on his waist, and then the two went out.
Just in time, everyone was already waiting at the door, so the group went up the mountain and met Lu Yunxiao who had been waiting for them halfway up the mountain.
After everyone introduced themselves to each other, they started walking up the mountain.
Lu Yunxiao and Qin Wan walked in the front, Ji Hongjun and Shen Yi followed at the end, and the others walked in the middle.
Qin Wan has wood-related abilities, so the job of exploring the way is very suitable for her, and she can also help everyone avoid many dangers.
Not only that, sometimes Qin Wan would deliberately lead them to places where there were pheasants and hares. With Lu Yunxiao and Deng Minghao, two slingshot players, basically any pheasants or hares that showed up would be either killed or injured by these two men.
In the end, they all fell into Li Ruolan and the others' backpacks.
The group walked for nearly two hours and finally found the chestnut forest and red date trees that Lu Yunxiao had mentioned.
Many chestnuts have now fallen to the ground, so all you have to do is pick them up.
Li Ruolan and her friends used stones to smash open the chestnut shells, and then picked up the chestnuts inside and put them into a backpack.
A few men including Deng Minghao and Lu Yunxiao went to pick red dates. They climbed up the tree and shook around a few times, and then dates rained down from under the tree.
After everyone filled their backpacks, it was time for lunch. Lu Yunxiao, Chen Yi, and Ji Hongjun had experience in field operations and were good at handling pheasants and rabbits.
The pheasants and rabbits that they caught when they came here before will become their food.
After a hearty meal, everyone started to go down the mountain. It was easier to go up the mountain than to go down, not to mention that each of them was carrying a bunch of chestnuts and red dates, which made it even more difficult to walk.
By the time we safely got down the mountain and returned to the educated youth site, it was almost dark.
They went into the mountains once during the day and came back in the evening. For three consecutive days, they did not encounter any large prey and basically killed some pheasants and rabbits.
On the fourth day, Li Ruolan and the others were picking chestnuts when Qin Wan's face suddenly changed and she began to shout, "Come here quickly, something is wrong here."
Li Ruolan immediately paid attention to Qin Wan's movements. She must have sensed some danger nearby, and it was safest to follow her at this time.
Qin Wan hurriedly called everyone to run towards the male educated youth. Li Ruolan didn't even want the backpack and hurriedly followed behind.
When Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua saw Li Ruolan like this, they ignored the basket on the ground and ran away quickly behind the two of them.
Lu Yunxiao and Deng Minghao were the ones who reacted the fastest. When they heard Qin Wan's voice, they hurried over here, then one of them hugged Qin Wan and the other hugged Li Ruolan.
Qin Wan pointed in a direction: "Over there, there should be wild boars. I heard footsteps. They should be two big wild boars."
Wild boars are omnivorous animals and eat everything. Since there are chestnuts and red dates growing here, the wild boars may come here to eat them.
They were lucky enough not to encounter one before, and now it just happened to be the wild boar's meal time.
Deng Minghao quickly carried Li Ruolan behind him, took out a stone from his pocket, and began to aim at the direction Qin Wan pointed.
Lu Yunxiao did almost the same thing as him.
Shen Yi and Ji Hongjun each held a machete and blocked Liu Kunming, Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua behind them.
Then, everyone heard a grunting sound. It turned out to be two wild boars, one with black fur and the other with brown fur. Both had strong bodies, short and thick limbs, and very long heads.
There is a long and sharp fang on each side of the nose.
It was the first time for Li Ruolan to see wild boars. Her scalp went numb when she saw two wild boars that weighed at least 200 pounds.
Wild boars and domestic pigs really look different, and wild boars look very aggressive at first glance. If you get hit by a wild boar, your bones will really be broken.
Zhou Shengnan, Zheng Fanghua and Liu Kunming were all so frightened that their faces turned pale. Li Ruolan was slightly better than them. As for the others, they seemed very calm.
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