Chapter 834 850: Wild Boar
Yang Chunyan cleaned up the dishes and boiled water for bath. Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding wore headlamps to bring Schisandra chinensis into the house, and went to the ditch in the backyard to clean the Paris polyphylla they had dug up in the morning. They cleaned the red root, Nox villosum and Echeveria and spread them out in a winnowing basket to dry.
When the two of them broke up the honeycomb and started filtering the honey, Yang Chunyan had already come out of the shower. "Huaian, you and Yiding go take a shower first. I'll help you filter the honey."
"That's right!" Zhou Yiding stood up and pounded his lower back. "I'm so tired that I can even fall asleep while standing."
"Me too. I almost fell asleep staring at the honey comb." Zhou Huaian went to the kitchen with him, brought out hot water, and went to the toilet in the backyard to take a bath.
Yang Chunyan waited until the broken honey combs in the filter cloth stopped leaking honey into the wooden barrel. She lifted the filter cloth to squeeze out the remaining honey, poured the beeswax into the bag, and continued to take out the honey combs and break them into pieces to filter the honey.
Zhou Huaian came out of the shower and helped filter out all the remaining honey. After cleaning up, it was already past ten o'clock.
Zhou Yiding said to Yang Chunyan, "Sister-in-law, you take the pheasant, badger pork, matsutake and mushrooms back tomorrow morning, and the youngest and I will bring back the herbs and mutton."
"Okay." Yang Chunyan thought that the old forest was beyond the pine forest, and she reminded them worriedly, "Don't go too far, and don't go to the old forest."
Zhou Huaian quickly assured, "Yan'er, don't worry. Let alone Lao Linzi, if there is anything wrong, we will not take risks."
Zhou Yiding also smiled and said, "Don't worry, sister-in-law! My youngest and I go hunting in the mountains just for fun. It's not like before when we were penniless and we risked our lives just to make money."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "That's right. I used to want to go to the old forest to look for cliff honey to make money, but now I would only do it if I have a brain tumor."
Yang Chunyan thought so too. The current situation at home was completely different from before. She believed that the two would not take risks. "Well! I'm going to bed first."
"Yeah! Let's go to bed too."
Yang Chunyan washed the rice and soaked it in a porcelain basin. Then she rubbed her aching waist, went back to the room, lay down, and fell asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow.
The next day, she got up at four o'clock, washed up simply, went to the kitchen to light the fire, put a piece of lean bacon in the pot, and then put the rice steamer in the pot.
Pour the rice wine that has been soaked in a porcelain basin overnight into a colander, drain the water, and then pour it into a rice steamer. After steaming it, take it out, pick up the bacon and put it on the chopping board, and start frying eggs.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding got up and saw that she had already packed up. "Yan'er, it's only five o'clock. What time did you get up?"
"I got up at four o'clock." Yang Chunyan pointed at the backpack, "Huaian, I packed two lunch boxes with two pieces of bacon. I put them in the cloth bag inside the backpack for you."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian and his friend quickly fetched some water, washed up, put on their backpacks, and ate rice balls as they walked.
At five o'clock, the forest was still dark. Occasionally, a bird's cry could be heard from a tree, and could be heard from far away.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding wore headlamps, and Yang Chunyan strode down the mountain with a flashlight. Dahei and Dahuang followed quietly behind the three.
Yang Chunyan recalled that two years ago, after they came to the forest farm to collect herbs and capture wild animals, they also got up early in the morning like today and traveled. She felt that although they got up early and worked as hard as before, their state of mind was different.
Zhou Huaian also thought of the past, "Do you two remember? We also got up early in the morning and hurried down the mountain two years ago. At that time, we were afraid that the goat meat and wild boar meat would go bad and we couldn't sell them. We wished we could grow a pair of wings and fly down."
Zhou Yiding recalled the time he came down the mountain in the middle of the night and encountered a wild boar again. "Yes, now that I think about it, it seems like it was just yesterday. It's been almost three years without me noticing."
"I used to feel that life was very hard to endure, as if I had been looking forward to the New Year for a long time but it was not coming. Now I feel that the year goes by very quickly, and before it has even started, it is already autumn and time to thresh the grain."
"I said the same thing to Xuejiao the other day. How come it's already coming to an end after we haven't been collecting mushrooms for long at Sancha Road? Time seems to be going faster than before. She also said that I used to have nothing to do and was just wandering around like a wandering soul, so I felt that time was slow."
"Xue Jiao's words make sense. I used to sleep until the sun was shining on my butt and I never seemed to have a clear mind all day long."
Zhou Yiding smiled and joked, "If you are still not sober now, your sister-in-law will not dare to let you go out. If you mistake the goods when collecting them, you will have to pay a lot of money!"
"Haha!" Zhou Huaian laughed, "If you do what Third Sister-in-law did and take the sundry Coriolus polyphylla back home as Coriolus polyphylla from mulberry trees, you will lose all your kiln pants."
Zhou Yiding asked curiously, "Youngest brother, how much money did Third Sister-in-law pay that time?"
"I was lucky. The miscellaneous wood mulberry yellow I harvested was not bad." Zhou Huaian thought for a while, "It seems that in the end I only lost two or three hundred yuan."
Zhou Yiding shook his head. "It's the same now. If it were before, two or three hundred would be a life-threatening expense!"
Zhou Huaian shrugged, "In the past, she wouldn't have had the chance to lose this money!"
"That's right. In the past, she didn't even have the money to collect Coriolus versicolor." Zhou Yiding said with a smile, "Every failure makes you wiser. I think she is much more down-to-earth now than before."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "It's indeed much better than before."
The three of them chatted along the way and unknowingly walked out of the woods. They saw the sun, as big as an egg yolk, slowly climbing up from the bottom of the mountain in the east.
Yang Chunyan stopped and put down the basket on her back, "Okay, you two can go up the mountain!"
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian put down the backpack and carried it to her back. "I'll wait for Uncle Daqing to go up the mountain and come back with Yiding."
"Well! You two should be careful. Don't just think you have guns and are fearless." Yang Chunyan put on the backpack and couldn't help but give another reminder.
"Got it!" Zhou Huaian waved at her, "Go back quickly, it will be hot when the sun comes out."
Yang Chunyan nodded and turned to walk down the mountain. Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding watched her walk away before they took Dahei and Dahuang up the mountain and walked towards the pine forest.
The two of them did not delay along the way and arrived there at more than ten o'clock. There were many more mushrooms and matsutake mushrooms in the morning than yesterday at noon. In just a short while, they picked up more than ten matsutake mushrooms and some mushrooms.
Zhou Yiding pointed to the place where they bled yesterday and said, "Youngest brother, come and see, this place has been dug up by wild boars. There's also all this pig manure. It looks like they just walked away not long ago!"
Zhou Huaian saw that the area had been turned into a muddy pit by wild boars, and there were countless wild boar hoof prints around it. "It looks like it went to the edge of the ravine."
Before he finished speaking, Dahuang and Dahei also barked and chased towards the ravine. The two followed them to the ditch and saw the dogs sniffing in front of several piles of feces by the ditch.
Zhou Huaian went forward to take a look and discovered that some of the feces were fresh musk deer feces and some were from wild boars. There were countless fresh wild boar hoof prints on both sides of the ravine. It seemed that the wild boars had already crossed the ravine and headed towards the old forest.
Sure enough, after Dahei and Dahuang followed the two men and jumped to the other side of the ditch, they followed the scent and ran into the woods. The two men followed them.
They chased them up the hillside and down to the middle of the valley, where they found a mud pit in the low-lying area below. There were more than a dozen wild boars, big and small, bathing in it. Dahei and Dahuang rushed towards the mud pit, barking fiercely.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding looked at each other and chased after him with guns pointed.
When the dog barked, the wild boars that were taking a beauty bath in the mud pit were suddenly in a panic.
The two boars with fangs didn't even care about their wives and children. They rushed out of the mud pit and ran away. One of them ran towards the old forest, while the other slipped and fell far away, crashing into the bushes.
As luck would have it, his head got stuck in the dense bushes. He could neither get out nor struggle to get free.
There was also an old sow who didn't care about her piglets, big and small, and ran for her life, screaming loudly.
When the spotted little wild boar saw that its mother and husband had run away, it screamed in panic and ran away in all directions.
Dahei went forward and caught a little wild boar, and bit it on the butt. The little wild boar screamed and turned its head to push Dahei, who bit it on the neck. The head shook a few times and blood spurted out.
Dahuang caught up with a half-grown wild boar that was more than twice its size and bit its ear. The little pig spun around trying to get rid of Dahuang, but no matter how it turned, Dahuang held on to its ear and refused to let go.
After Zhou Yiding arrived, he shot the boar stuck in the bushes in the waist. The boar let out a shrill howl, and in pain it burst out with strength and pulled out its stuck head.
He let out a strange cry of "Hehehe" and turned around and rushed towards him.
"Bang~" Zhou Huaian pulled the trigger and shot the boar in the forehead. The boar fell to the ground and rolled a few times before rolling back into the mud pit.
Zhou Yiding seized the opportunity and dealt with the small wild boar that Dahuang was holding. He continued to chase the fleeing small wild boars with his gun and shot them. These half-grown wild boars did not run as fast as the big ones and were easier to deal with than the big ones. He killed one with almost one shot.
Dahei caught up with a small spotted wild boar and bit its butt. The wild boar broke free and ran away, but Dahei caught up with it again and bit its leg. Zhou Huaian shot it in the head, and the small spotted wild boar fell to the ground. Dahei still bit it and tore it apart.
Zhou Huaian ignored it and chased after Dahuang who was holding the wild boar. He found that the two dogs seemed to have divided the hunt, Dahei liked to bite the buttocks, Dahuang liked to bite the ears, the big one would attack from the front and back, and the small ones would disperse.
"Dahuang!" Zhou Huaian shouted and shot the little wild boar in the waist. Dahuang, who had loosened his mouth, pounced on it again, bit its neck, and shook his head to tear it hard.
Zhou Huaian looked around vigilantly and saw that the escaping wild boar had disappeared. Zhou Yiding also came over with a gun in hand, "Gone, they all ran away."
Zhou Huaian took two breaths and asked, "How many did you kill?"
"Including this one, there are six in total. I wonder if three or four escaped?" Zhou Yiding pointed at the big one in the mud pit. "That one must weigh at least two or three hundred kilograms. Let's get it out of the mud pit first."
"Great!" Zhou Huaian and he each grabbed one of the wild boar's hooves, carried it to the side of the mud pit, and brought the other few over and piled them together.
(End of this chapter)
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