Chapter 175 Picnic in the Mountains
Gao Mingcheng had been tracking the tiger all day, and he felt a secret excitement in this act of voyeurism.
It is said that in 1990, there were no traces of South China tigers in the wild, and this year is 1987!
He had to take a closer look, as he might never have the chance to observe a wild South China tiger again. He followed the tiger all the way and saw it walk ashore from the water and enter another forest.
There are yellow muntjacs living in this forest. It seems that it is forced to change its taste and plans to attack the yellow muntjacs.
Compared to wild boars, yellow muntjacs are much weaker and have no attack capability. Their only advantage is that they can run fast, but they are also cute and silly. After running away, they will actually return to the previous place to stay.
This time, after spending a lot of effort, the tiger finally hunted a yellow muntjac as it wished!
It was hungry and started to eat, but the hidden crisis was approaching quietly.
Gao Mingcheng, who was hiding behind a tree, frowned. From his perspective, he could see a group of jackals quietly surrounding them.
Fortunately, there were only six jackals in this group.
At this time, the tiger who was eating also felt the crisis. It raised its head and growled threateningly at the jackal. However, the jackal did not retreat, but did not move forward either. It just stayed not far from the tiger.
Seeing this, the tiger lowered its head and continued to eat, but it did not finish it all. There was a small half left, and then it left.
As soon as it left, the jackals rushed forward and started to enjoy the remaining prey of the tiger.
This can also be considered a symbiotic relationship. When a tiger faces a jackal, hunting it is no problem. But when faced with a group of jackals, even if it is the king of the forest, it will choose to retreat, because when the jackals besiege the tiger, it is possible to bite the tiger to death by ripping its anus!
After the tiger left, Gao Mingcheng continued to follow it, and then saw the tiger find a cave halfway up the mountain and go in to sleep.
The tiger rarely moves during the day, and now that it is full and satisfied, it naturally feels sleepy and wants to sleep.
Gao Mingcheng found that the tiger had no intention of chasing the people it had trapped before, so he stopped staring at it.
As he was following the tiger all the way, he couldn't tell where he was.
This forest was very unfamiliar to him, and it was his first time to enter such a deep mountain.
I looked at my watch and found that it was already noon.
He had only eaten a few French bread and a little water in the morning, so he naturally felt extremely hungry.
But he was able to find food in the unfamiliar mountains and forests. In May, there were already some wild fruits to eat in the mountains, among which the better tasting ones were mulberries, wild cherries, and wild loquats.
Gao Mingcheng had just walked a short distance when he saw the hillside in front of him covered with loquat trees.
Loquat seeds have a high germination rate. Once the fruits are ripe and fall to the ground, small loquat trees will grow in the second year. Over time, the loquat trees will be able to grow into a large patch.
Now these loquat trees are full of golden loquats, but compared to the loquats sold in the market in the past life, wild loquats are much smaller, have larger seeds, and taste a little sour.
But it also has an advantage, that is, it has a strong fruity flavor.
Gao Mingcheng had eaten some loquats in his previous life. They were very big and beautiful, and very juicy, but they had no taste and were just watery.
He picked some ripe loquats, peeled them and put them into his mouth. As soon as he took the first bite, his facial features were distorted by the sourness. After the sourness, there was a slight sweetness. It was actually not too bad.
But Gao Mingcheng stopped eating after eating a few, mainly because the more he ate, the hungrier he got!
Gao Mingcheng decided to catch some small prey such as pheasants and rabbits to eat. He didn't dare to think about large prey because the wild animals in the mountains and forests here are very ferocious.
With his experience and skills, he successfully killed a rabbit and found a few pheasant eggs under a bush.
He carried the rabbit and followed the sound of water to the edge of a ditch.
He first squatted by the water, skinned the rabbit, took out the internal organs, and cleaned it. Then he inserted a sharpened wooden stick into the rabbit's body and used a tough twig to pry open the rabbit's chest.
After processing, you need to use a dagger to make cuts on the rabbit's body, then apply salt and marinate it.
He stuck the branch with the rabbit meat on it upside down into the soil, and then went to pick up some dry firewood nearby.
He moved three stones to the streamside and built a simple stove. Then he put firewood into the simple stove and took out a lighter to light it.
The reason for setting up a stove was that in addition to roasting rabbit meat, he also planned to cook a pot of soup.
When it comes to cooking soup, many people subconsciously think that it should be cooked in a pot, but in the wild, there is also a substitute, that is bamboo.
There is quite a lot of space inside each section of a fist-thick nanmu bamboo. As long as there is water inside, the bamboo will not burn even if you put it on fire.
Not to mention bamboo, even paper pots can be used to cook soup.
When the stove fire was burning, he stuck the rabbit meat upside down on the edge of the stove, not too far or too close, so that it could be grilled but not burnt.
Then he went to cut bamboo. Bamboo was a very common plant in their mountain area. He selected the largest bamboo and cut it down. Finally, he cut out a bamboo tube, filled it with clean stream water, and then threw the cleaned rabbit intestines into the tube, chopped them up, and put them on the stove to cook.
At this time, the rabbit meat near the fire was already emitting sizzling oil, so Gao Mingcheng immediately moved it to the other side and continued roasting it.
The soup will take longer to cook when cooked in the bamboo tube. When it is almost cooked, Gao Mingcheng will break a few pheasant eggs he picked up and pour the egg liquid into the bamboo tube.
It may taste a little weird, but it’s nutritious!
After the offal and egg soup was cooked, Gao Mingcheng took the bamboo tube aside to cool down and began to concentrate on roasting the rabbit meat. The rabbit meat was already half cooked, but needed to be further roasted.
Ten minutes later, Gao Mingcheng started eating the roasted rabbit and drinking the soup. To be honest, it tasted pretty good!
Gao Mingcheng looked around and thought to himself that he lacked a live broadcast device, otherwise he would be able to start live broadcasting of wilderness survival content!
After eating and drinking, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
Gao Mingcheng didn't plan to stay in the mountains any longer. He had to go down the mountain and return home before dark.
Just yesterday he promised Xuanmei that he would go to the cooperative to buy fertilizer today, but in the end... he had to break his promise.
He climbed up a fir tree. The tree was extremely tall, with a long trunk and very few branches, making it easy to climb. However, when he climbed to a high place, there was no suitable place to stand, which made him feel timid.
Gao Mingcheng quickly climbed to a high place, then looked at the surrounding environment, looking for the direction to return to Gaojia Village.
"Found it, it's over there!" Gao Mingcheng looked at a familiar mountain and was secretly happy.
He got down from the tree and started running towards the familiar mountain.
(End of this chapter)
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