Chapter 169 Chapter 168: Sweet Troubles (asking for monthly tickets)
"Woof woof..." From the woods came the barking of dogs and the high-pitched screams of frightened wild boars, "Hehe~Hehe~..."
When the three wild boars in the woods saw the hunting dogs coming, they ran away. Dahei and Dahuang caught up with a wild boar that was slow to react. Dahei bared his teeth and bit the wild boar on its butt, while Dahuang circled around twice and bit the wild boar's ear.
The two dogs worked very well together, one in front and one behind.
Outside the woods, Zhou Yiding picked up his shotgun and rushed over.
"Yan'er, quickly climb up that tree." Zhou Huaian also raised his hunting rifle, "Damn it, good things don't work, bad things work, and we really encountered a wild boar!"
"Be careful." Yang Chunyan quickly climbed up the tree with a flashlight and shone it in the direction the two people were running.
When Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding ran into the woods, they saw Dahei biting the butt of a black-haired wild boar, and Dahuang biting its ear. The two dogs and the wild boar were circling in the woods.
"Dahei and Dahuang, well done!" Zhou Yiding raised his gun and shot at the wild boar's belly with a "bang".
"Bang~" Zhou Huaian also pulled the trigger, and the wild boar fell directly to the ground.
The sound of gunfire echoed far away in the silent forest.
Dahei and Dahuang ran up to Zhou Yiding, panting, wagging their tails and looking at him, "Praise us, reward us!"
Zhou Yiding bent down and patted the heads of Dahuang and Dahei who were trying to win the award, "Be good, we'll give you delicious food when we get down the mountain."
"Woof woof!" Dahei and Dahuang happily circled around him.
Zhou Huaian stepped forward to take a look, "Oh my god! Dahei has dragged out the wild boar's intestines."
Zhou Yiding stepped forward to take a look and said, "I'm not bragging, but my dog Dahei's ability to bite a pig's butt is better than any other mountain dog."
"Yes, it's a powerful one." Zhou Huaian touched Dahei, "I'll train my dog well after I catch it."
Zhou Yiding kicked the wild boar and said, "You should think about how to get this thing down the mountain first."
"Let's get them out of the forest first and then think of a solution." Zhou Huaian grabbed the pig's trotter and lifted the wild boar on the ground. "Oh my god! In the middle of the night, we caught another wild boar. Who knew it would become such a big problem."
"It would be great if we encountered them during the day!" Zhou Yiding put his gun on his back, and the two of them grabbed the two wild boar legs respectively and carried them out of the woods.
Zhou Huaian: "It's about 100 pounds, not as heavy as the one I beat last time."
"A boar meat that's too big will be very tough, this size is just right."
When Yang Chunyan saw Dahuang and Dahei running out of the woods, she also slipped down from the tree and saw the wild boar being carried by the two men.
Zhou Huaian looked at her with a smile, "We caught a wild boar, and there are so many things, how do we get them down the mountain?"
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "How about chopping some sticks and tying them together to make a raft, then tying the wild boar to it and pulling it down the mountain?"
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou Yiding and said, "I think it's okay. What do you think?"
Zhou Yiding nodded, "This is the only way. Be quick, just in case..."
"Pa!" Zhou Huaian patted him, "Say it again!"
Zhou Yiding quickly swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth, "I can't say it, I won't say it anymore."
The two men took machetes and cut four wooden sticks on the roadside. Yang Chunyan took a sickle to cut some vines and tore off tree bark to make ropes. Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding connected the wooden sticks together and tied a simple raft.
The two men lifted the wild boar and tied it up, then tied a thicker rope on it to pull the raft.
Zhou Huaian took two steps on the raft and said, "Yes, this is a good idea. My wife is smart."
"..." Yang Chunyan glared at him in reproach.
"Let me try it." Zhou Yiding also went up and pulled it for a few steps. "Not bad, it's less labor-intensive than carrying it. But I still need to lift it when I go down the slope."
"Let's carry it, as long as we can get these things down the mountain." Zhou Huaian asked Yang Chunyan to help him lift the basket and put it on his shoulder, then he stepped forward and grabbed the rope tied to the raft, "Yiding, I'll pull it for a while, then you can take over."
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding and Yang Chunyan helped each other carry the backpacks, "Youngest, do you think Brother Huairong and the others will come to pick us up?"
Zhou Huaian glanced down the mountain and said, "Maybe they are on their way."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan felt that this was really possible.
When the two dogs saw the three people moving, they rushed to the front, wagging their tails and leading the way.
The three men stumbled down the mountain, carrying their backpacks and pulling the wild boar, like refugees.
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At the foot of the mountain, Zhou's mother picked herbs for a while and went to the backyard door to check. She looked several times but didn't see any trace of the two people.
Looking at the dark sky, Zhou returned to the front yard worriedly and said to Zhou's father, who was weaving bamboo baskets at the door of the main hall, "The youngest knows that they have to deliver something to Huang Caigou tomorrow. They won't stay on the mountain tonight. Do you think something happened to them?"
"Nothing will happen. The youngest one has a hunting rifle." Father Zhou turned to the three brothers Zhou Huairong who were helping to select herbs and said, "You go up the mountain and take a look. Give them support."
"Yes!" Zhou Huairong and his two brothers went back to the house, got flashlights and went out.
Mother Zhou wiped her hands, sat back and began to pack the herbs she had received today, as well as the mountain radish she was going to send to Ning An.
The scientific name of mountain radish is Cirsium cirrhosa, a plant of the Asteraceae family. The whole herb or tubers are used as medicine. People here call Cirsium cirrhosa "mountain radish" and dig up its tubers to stew and eat.
Thistle is sweet and cool in nature, and has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, removing blood stasis, and eliminating carbuncle and swelling. This herb is a perennial root herb that grows mostly in the mountains and roadsides. The edges of the leaves and stems have small thorns, and the flowers are purple.
Zhao Huifang saw that Zhou's mother was worried and threw the selected herbs back into the unselected ones several times. She comforted her and said, "Mom, I think the youngest and the others may have found the Magnolia officinalis, otherwise they wouldn't have come back so late."
"Yeah, don't worry, the third brother and the eldest brother will know when they go and see it." Li Qiuyue said absentmindedly.
Ever since she paid two hundred yuan to the big house, and saw that Zhao Huifang and the others didn't even mention paying money to buy a place, she began to worry that she was being cheated. She wanted to ask but didn't dare to, and her mind was in turmoil with different thoughts every now and then.
Zhang Xiuxiang also said: "That's right. Yiding is on the mountain. If they find Magnolia officinalis, they may stay on the mountain and pick all the Magnolia officinalis before going down the mountain."
Today, there were a lot more people delivering herbs to the Zhou family than in the previous two days. A total of more than 400 kilograms were collected, including dandelions, sticky grass, half-flowered grass... Some people also delivered stretch grass and mountain incense.
She took her elder sister-in-law and elder brother to the forest where she and Yang Chunyan had been yesterday.
The three of them picked up a few pounds of morels, and the King Wen used a pen to dig up a few pieces of Polygonum multiflorum and two Millettia reticulata roots.
The Millettia reticulata is a bit old, and the appearance of the Polygonum multiflorum doesn’t look very good.
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