"You can't do that. Although we make a living by hunting, we are still farmers at heart. What kind of farmer are we if we can't endure the hardship of farming?"
Chen Wang joked with a smile.
"You? Farmer?"
Chen Dazhuang looked him up and down with disgust on his face.
He managed to hold out for a few days, but Chen Wang never went to the fields to work, and even asked Lao Qiao to help him farm the few acres of land at home.
“Who says that if you don’t farm your own land, you can’t be considered a farmer?”
Chen Wang was stubborn and confident.
"hehe!"
"What are you laughing at? The master is still working. How can a young man like you not be able to hold on?"
"It's not your turn to say such things!"
Chen Dazhuang rolled his eyes speechlessly.
"Alas, it seems that we are indeed the same kind of people. If we were born ten years earlier, we would have starved to death."
"It's not that exaggerated. Hunting in the mountains isn't much easier. Farming is just a little more tiring."
"I can't grow anything anyway."
Chen Wang said with a smile.
"Come on, why can you say this so easily?"
"So what? Let me tell you, if hard work really makes you rich, wouldn't all the farmers have become rich long ago?"
"Um...why do you always say such amazing things?"
Chen Dazhuang was stunned.
In newspapers these days, you can often see examples of “getting rich through hard work” promoted by the country.
For example, someone became a millionaire by raising pigs, and someone else contracted barren hills and wasteland to engage in planting, and also became a millionaire that everyone envied, and so on.
The ideas that Chen Wang talked about are very inconsistent with the country's propaganda.
Yet it sounds reasonable.
Doesn’t that mean that “getting rich through hard work” is all a lie?
Chen Dazhuang quickly suppressed the thought and dared not think about it anymore.
The two chatted along the way and soon arrived in the mountains.
I came late today, it's already past ten in the morning.
After a short time, the two decided not to go too far and try their luck nearby.
Spring is the breeding season, and animals in the mountains are generally more active.
However, many animals will be relatively smaller after a winter of consumption, so the prey harvested at this time is often of unsatisfactory quality.
Therefore, although there was hunting in spring in ancient times, it was relatively more common in autumn, when the prey were often fat and meaty, and were the most valuable.
“Squeak…”
The little monkey stood on Chen Wang's shoulder and pointed to a big tree not far away, meaning that it was going to go out and play.
"Go ahead, go ahead. Don't run too far. Come find us if you find good prey."
Chen Wang smiled and pursed his lips.
“Chichi!”
The little monkey responded and nimbly jumped off his shoulder and jumped onto a tree not far away. In a few seconds, it disappeared from their sight. Only its chirping sound could be heard gradually fading away.
The two continued to search forward.
Ruyi suddenly called out and rushed out with a few dogs. In a few minutes, she brought back a wild rabbit for the two of them.
Chen Wang and the other man were used to this.
Chen Dazhuang took the hare from the marshal's mouth, opened a sack and threw it in.
The marshal looked up at his master, wagging his tail like a propeller, hoping for a reward.
However, Chen Dazhuang cruelly ignored it, thinking that a wild rabbit was not worthy of a reward.
Chen Wang squatted down, took out a few strips of meat from his pocket, and fed one strip to each dog.
"Awang, you will spoil them like this."
Chen Dazhuang couldn't help but complain.
"Don't be so stingy. Wild rabbits are meat too. If you are so careful, they will smell the scent of pheasants and rabbits and won't catch them anymore."
Chen Wang stood up and glanced at him with amusement.
"It doesn't matter. It also saves time!"
"You can't always catch big bucks. At least you won't go back empty-handed if you catch a few pheasants or rabbits, right? Aren't you ashamed?"
“That’s… true!”
Chen Dazhuang nodded suddenly.
Whether it's hunting or fishing, the Air Force seems to have a hard time.
It’s like many anglers. If they can’t catch big fish, they go fishing for small fish. If there are no small fish either, they go fishing for shrimps. If they can’t catch any shrimps, they pick some wild vegetables and take them back.
No wild vegetables?
At least you have to drink a few sips from the river before leaving.
The main point is one sentence:
Fishermen never come back empty-handed!
More than ten minutes later, Ruyi made another discovery.
This time, he did not bring a few dogs to hunt, but instead brought Chen Wang and the other man to a cave.
"It doesn't look like a badger or a hog badger, it looks more like a snake hole!"
Chen Dazhuang stared at the cave entrance and said in surprise.
Chen Wang nodded slightly to show his agreement.
By the end of March, most snakes in the mountains have woken up from hibernation, but some are still very dangerous.
However, some non-venomous and edible snakes can also be a pure wild game delicacy if cooked well.
"Your Ruyi is great. He even found the snake cave."
Chen Dazhuang praised with a smile.
"What do you mean? Do you want to catch him?"
Chen Wang looked at him and asked.
"Catch it, why not? Bring it back and add some vegetables to stew it. Many people like it!"
"So, should we find something to smoke?"
"Yes, that's fine. Let Ruyi and the others deal with the non-venomous snakes. If things don't go well, we can just run away!"
Chen Dazhuang suggested with a smile.
Chen Wang nodded.
The two quickly found some dead branches and leaves nearby and piled them in front of the cave entrance. Chen Dazhuang took out a matchbox from his pocket and lit the dead branches and leaves.
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