During this season, only the grass and water plants by the ditches are the most abundant. Wild goats, muntjacs and sambar deer like to go there to drink water and eat grass. Badgers also like to go to the ditches to hunt frogs and crabs.
The two planned to go over there and try their luck. It would be worthwhile if they could come across any wild animal.
As soon as they entered the woods, Dahei and Dahuang rushed towards the fern in front like lightning, and several pheasants flapped their wings and flew up from the fern.
A hen was caught by the leg of a leaping big black man. The hen's shrill scream was still echoing in the woods when the big black man bit off her throat.
Dahuang grabbed a pheasant's tail, pounced on the ground, pressed it down with his claws, and bit it.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding had already raised their slingshots when Gouzi rushed out. After two muffled sounds, the other two pheasants also fell into the fern bushes. Gouzi rushed in and picked them out.
"Be good, we'll give you some big chicken legs when we get back!" Zhou Yiding and the other man picked up the pheasant, put it in a backpack, and continued walking forward.
Zhou Huaian found that many large trees had been chopped down again. "They chopped down trees too quickly! They didn't even give the trees a chance to grow back. If this continues, your forest farm won't even have wood to cut in the future."
"Of course not!" Zhou Yiding said angrily, "The most important thing is that they only cut down trees and don't plant anything. It's only a matter of time before all the trees are cut down. They've started cutting down the trees on the opposite side recently. I'm worried that if they keep cutting down trees, the wild animals hiding over there will be unable to hide and will run over here, which will be troublesome."
"It's a good thing you stopped doing this. It would be terrible if you encountered a wild animal while patrolling the mountains."
"It's only 30 or 40 yuan a month. I have to protect myself from illegal logging and wild animals. Even if I continue to do this, I'm too lazy to patrol the mountains alone."
The two men went along the way, shot a few rabbits and pheasants, and then arrived at a forest of green locust trees.
The wood of the Chinese oak is heavy and hard. People in the mountains like to cut it down to make wedges for farm tools. It is also the best material for making charcoal. It has the reputation of "no good fire without the Chinese oak, no good relationship without the mother".
The tree was already full of green pine nuts, but because the nuts were very bitter, no one ever picked them up to eat. After the children picked them up, they inserted a bamboo stick into them and spun them around. A few children could play with them for a whole day.
Green jujube fruit can also be used to make tofu, but because it has a naturally bitter and astringent taste, the fruit must first be ground into powder, soaked in water for a sufficient amount of time, and then the powder must be filtered out and dried.
When making tofu, put the green onion powder in boiling water to make a batter, pour it into a ceramic bowl and let it cool. It will become smooth and tender green onion tofu, which can detoxify and reduce swelling when eaten.
When the two were passing through the Qinggang forest, they saw a lot of wood ear and Qinggang mushrooms. Zhou Huaian thought that Yang Chunyan liked to eat them, so he picked up a lot of them and put them in a net bag.
The sun was getting bigger and bigger, and the forest was getting hot and humid. After walking on the thick rotten soil that gave off a sour smell for more than an hour, we arrived in front of the tree house.
Zhou Huaian and the other man put down their backpacks, went to the ditch to wash their hands, washed off the sweat on their faces and necks, and went back to sit on the rocks.
He picked up the water bottle hanging on the backpack, unscrewed the cap and took a sip, "I'll go down the ditch later."
"It would be great if we could get a musk deer or a red deer!" Zhou Yiding leaned against the tree trunk, took out a cigarette, handed it to him, and lit one for himself.
Zhou Huaian leaned against the tree trunk and took a deep puff of cigarette. "The forest musk deer is still better. If you get a male one, the musk can be sold for a lot of money."
"Yeah! Who wouldn't want to?"
After smoking, Zhou Yiding took out a piece of dried meat he had brought and gave it to the dog. After the two men and the dog had eaten their fill, they sat there and took a rest. Then they put on their backpacks and walked into the woods along the ditch.
Not long after walking in, Zhou Huaian saw a few clumps of Dendrobium growing on the tree in front of him, "Ding Ding Cat, take out the sickle."
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding took out a sickle from his backpack, tied it to a bamboo pole with a rope, and reached out to cut the Dendrobium off the tree trunk.
"I remember my sister-in-law said last time that this is called Dendrobium officinale."
"Yes! This kind of Dendrobium has the highest price." Zhou Huaian pointed to another tree, "There are more on that tree."
"There is also a tree tongue." After Zhou Yiding cut off the Dendrobium, he pointed to the tree in front and said.
Zhou Huaian turned his head and saw that there were indeed a few flowers growing on the trunk of the tree across from him. "They are just a few small flowers. They are not valuable. Let's wait until they grow longer."
Zhou Yiding smiled and put the dendrobium in his backpack, "If it's Coriolus versicolor and Ganoderma lucidum, you'll be interested."
Zhou Huaian smiled and nodded, "That's right, I've seen a lot of money now, so of course I won't be interested in this little bit of money."
"That's true. We used to hunt wild bees and hunt wild animals. Although we could make money, it depended on luck and was risky. It was only when I started collecting truffles that I realized I could make money by collecting wild products and selling them at home."
"We have to thank Wang Zhen. It's lucky that we met him. If it were the Fang family, a big pharmacy, we would at most earn some money running errands."
When he mentioned the big pharmacy, Zhou Yiding thought of Xiong Laoya, "That's right, if I were to cooperate with his family, I might not even earn enough money for running errands."
“It’s entirely possible.”
As they were talking, the two men walked to a fallen tree and saw a lot of mushrooms growing on it. Zhou Huaian called Zhou Yiding, and the two men put down their baskets and started picking them.
Suddenly, Dahei and Dahei ran to a tree, sniffed, barked twice, and ran into the depths of the forest.
Zhou Yiding went forward to take a look and saw a pile of animal feces and hoof prints under the tree. He saw that they were left by a wild boar. He turned his head in surprise and said, "Youngest, come and look at this feces and hoof prints."
"Shit, it's a wild boar, let's chase it!" Zhou Huaian threw the net bag into the backpack, picked up the gun on it, and chased after it with the gun in hand without even caring about the backpack.
It seems that the wild animals on the opposite side are really moving towards the mountain here. In case there are more ferocious beasts coming, they have to be careful when they go out tomorrow.
After chasing for a few minutes, they heard the barking of dogs and the screaming of wild boars in front of them. The two men hurriedly pulled down the safety of their rifles, held their guns, and quickly chased after them.
After turning a huge rock, we saw a mud puddle. Dahuang and Dahei were chasing a sow covered in mud, and there were seven or eight piglets also covered in mud.
Pigs are born to like playing in the mud. One reason is that pigs only have a small number of sweat glands on their noses, but no sweat glands on their bodies.
When they get hot and have difficulty cooling down, they like to roll in the mud, using the mud to adjust their body temperature. Covering themselves in thick mud can also prevent mosquito bites.
Dahuang and Dahei each grabbed a piglet running behind. The sow didn't care about the two useless ones and just ran away with the others.
Except for the sow, most of the other wild boars in this group seem to be piglets weighing about 50 to 60 kilograms each. It would be a pity to take them back and sell them for money or kill them and eat them themselves.
This sow weighs at least 300 pounds. Not only is it difficult for the two of them to bring back such a big wild boar, but they also feel that the meat of the wild boar is too old and too tough, and has a strong fishy smell. They are not very interested in it, and they won't feel too bad if it runs away.
After seeing this, the two men were delighted. They picked up their guns, rushed forward and shot the wild boar in front of them several times while running. After a few "bang bang" sounds of gunfire, the little wild boar running behind the sow fell down, making sharp howls.
The mother wild boar, who had already run into the woods, heard the wailing sounds, suddenly stopped and looked back at her cubs on the ground, then rushed towards the two men with murderous eyes. Dahei suddenly rushed up and bit the mother wild boar's ear.
The wild boar no longer cared about Zhou Huaian and the others and the little wild boars. It shook its head hard to get rid of Dahei. On the other side, Dahuang pounced on it and bit its butt, and Dahei pounced on it again and bit its ear.
Zhou Huaian and his companion quickly changed the magazines and followed the wild boar. Dahuang and Dahei were fighting with the wild boar, and the two could not find a chance to shoot.
The sow shook off the two dogs and fled into the woods without caring about her cubs. Dahei and Dahuang chased after her again, grabbed her crotch and tore it apart with all their might.
The sow wild boar let out a shrill and piercing scream.
While Da Huang and Da Hei were biting the pig's butt, Zhou Huaian and his companion rushed forward and pulled the trigger at the wild boar's head. Two shots were heard, and the wild boar's head was blasted through.
When Dahuang and Dahei saw the wild boar fall, they rushed forward and tore it apart for a few times, but were stopped by Zhou Yiding.
Zhou Yiding looked at Zhou Huaian, "Those few piglets are enough for us, what should we do with this big one?"
"Pig skin and pig stomach can be sold for more than a hundred yuan, we can't just throw them away!" Zhou Huaian thought of what Lao Xiazi said, "Let's gut it and remove the pig stomach and intestines. It should be at least a hundred pounds lighter. Then we can cut some sticks and tie them up and pull them back like last time."
"That's right!"
The two men left the dog to watch over the backpack and ran back quickly to bring it over.
Zhou Huaian took out a machete that shone with a cold light and handed it to Zhou Yiding, "You have to do this."
"Watch me!" Zhou Yiding lifted one of the wild boar's front legs and asked Zhou Huaian to hold down the wild boar's hind legs. He raised the knife and stabbed it hard into the pig's belly, cutting open the wild boar cleanly and neatly.
The contents of the pig's stomach flowed all over the floor. The pig's intestines were taken out and placed on a stone nearby. The pig's stomach was put into a urea bag, and the pig's heart was taken out, cut into two pieces and given to Dahei and Dahuang.
The two of them happily held the pig's heart in their mouths and lay aside to eat it.
The sow was taken care of, and Zhou Huaian also chopped sticks. Zhou Yiding then took care of a few piglets, a total of eight piglets. After cutting open their stomachs, Dahuang and Dahei ate only the pig hearts until their stomachs bulged.
A sow wild boar weighing over 300 pounds would still weigh at least 200 pounds after removing the internal organs. The eight piglets would still weigh at least 200 pounds after removing the internal organs.
Zhou Yiding rubbed his wrist, sat on a rock, and looked at the pile of wild boar meat. "Youngest brother, the intestines and liver of wild boars are not easy to get. Let's not throw them all away. How about taking a few back with us?"
"Sure! Pick a few to take back."
Zhou Huaian dragged the tied raft over, first lifted the sow onto the raft, then lifted a few wild boars and put them away, then picked out a few pairs of large and small intestines and livers, put them in urea bags, put them on the raft, and tied them up with ropes.
Zhou Yiding looked at the backpacks, went over and picked up the two backpacks, stacked them together and put them on the raft, "I'm too lazy to carry them, just put them on and drag them together."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian handed him a rope and said, "Let's go!" (End of this chapter)
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