Chapter 592 No Air Force
As early as when Gao Mingcheng climbed up the tree, he ordered Black Tiger and the Elf to run away quickly. However, although the sound of the pigs running reached their ears, the wild boars did not seem to notice them and ran past them from the nearby hillside, so it was a false alarm.
But Gao Mingcheng and Gao Yue didn't climb down from the tree until there was no sound at all.
When Gao Yue jumped down from the tree branch, he stepped on the snow and almost slipped.
Gao Mingcheng handed the snakeskin bag and the leg of meat he had taken down from the tree branch to Gao Yue and said, "Let's get down the mountain quickly."
Gao Yue was also a little frightened. He hid in the dark and shot at the wild boars. He was naturally not afraid, but a head-on conflict with a group of wild boars was still quite dangerous.
Gao Yue nodded and said, "Then let's go quickly!"
He was carrying a snakeskin bag on one shoulder and holding a leg of meat in one hand, and his walking speed suddenly increased a lot.
Gao Mingcheng also carried a wild boar and followed quickly.
Not long after, a rustling sound came from a cluster of trees in the distance. It turned out that the black tiger and the elf came out from somewhere.
After the man and the dog reunited, they hurried down the mountain. When they passed a bamboo forest, Gao Yue took a look and said, "The winter bamboo shoots are delicious after the snow, but it's a pity that they are hard to dig!"
Gao Mingcheng said: "You can find it by following the bamboo whips, but it is very tiring to dig. Some places in this mountain are frozen, so you have to be careful when walking."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Yue stepped on the ice, lost his balance, and slid forward, but his butt was attracted by the ground. Just as he was about to fall to the ground, Gao Mingcheng, who happened to arrive, caught him.
After Gao Yue stood firmly, he thanked him casually. This time he looked carefully at the road under his feet and dared not step on the ice again.
Compared to snow, ice is annoying. Freshly fallen snow is fluffy and makes a rustling sound when you step on it, leaving a deep footprint. But if it is frozen for a few days, the snow will become hard, and then when it is semi-melted, it will freeze again. It is easy for people to fall when walking on the ice.
Gao Yue was carrying about 70 to 80 kilograms of good meat, and the wild boar on Gao Mingcheng's shoulders weighed at least 100 kilograms. However, this weight was nothing to him, and he walked steadily on the rugged mountain road.
He matched Gao Yue's speed, and it took them more than an hour to get down the mountain and walk along the gentle slope to the gate of their own yard.
Finally they arrived home. Gao Yue quickly put down the snakeskin bag and placed the leg meat in his hand on the snakeskin bag so that it would not get dirty.
He twisted his neck and stretched his muscles, and then he felt a little more comfortable.
But the hands that were holding the things before still hurt a little.
Gao Mingcheng also put the wild boar down and looked around, but did not see Gao Mingli.
On the way down the mountain, he did not meet Gao Mingli, so he was a little worried.
Just when he was thinking about whether to go find Gao Mingli, he heard gunshots at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain. Gao Mingcheng was quite familiar with this gunshot, as it was the sound of his own musket.
It seems that Gao Mingli is still staying in the mountains.
"Oh, there was a gunshot. I wonder what good stuff your brother got!" Gao Yue also looked in the direction of the gunshot and joked.
The gunshots were heard at the foot of the mountain. If Gao Mingli was lucky, he could shoot hares, doves, sparrows and other prey. If he was unlucky, he would get nothing.
"You'll know when he comes back. I'll deal with the wild boar first." Gao Mingcheng went into the house to get a full set of tools.
For skinning and cutting meat, a butcher knife or a dagger is not suitable and is not as useful as a kitchen knife.
The kitchen knife had been sharpened before the New Year. Under the weak winter sun, the blade was shiny and very sharp when cutting meat.
Nowadays, kitchen knives are all made of iron knives. Once the edge becomes dull, it can be sharpened with a whetstone to restore its sharpness. A kitchen knife can be used for many years.
Therefore, many people have a whetstone at the door of their house.
Gao Mingcheng held a kitchen knife in his hand and peeled the skin and cut the meat skillfully. His movements were so smooth that Gao Yue was fascinated by him unconsciously.
While he was dealing with the wild boar, Dahuang came forward with two puppies, and their little tails were almost shaking like propellers!
Gao Mingcheng naturally would not let them down and threw some minced meat for them to eat.
Gao Yue stared at the fur color of the two puppies and said, "Are these the cubs of the black tiger? Why didn't you breed them with the elves?"
Gao Mingcheng laughed and said, "How can this be called breeding? It's a free love relationship!"
And they are too free and have kidnapped other people's bitches!
No one knew whose dog Dahuang belonged to. It had been so long and no one had come to look for him. Gao Mingcheng had already made up his mind that if someone came to look for Dahuang, he would just pay some money to buy him.
Dahuang has given birth to puppies for Black Tiger, so the dog is now their own. It would be hard to bear to let Dahuang go.
Gao Yue clicked his tongue twice and then said nothing more.
After Gao Mingcheng had dealt with all the wild boars, Gao Mingli finally returned from the mountains carrying a musket.
His cheeks and ears were frozen red, but he was still cheerful. It turned out that he was holding two turtledoves in his hands.
The rabbit was not hit, but at least Gao Mingli had no air force, and he shot down two turtledoves!
Turtledoves are similar to pigeons, with more meat on their bodies and a better taste. After cleaning and steaming these two turtledoves, you can have a meal.
"Hey, second brother, you and Gao Yue both killed the wild boar? Awesome! Awesome!" Gao Mingli praised immediately when he saw the wild boar being cleaned up, but he thought that the reason they were able to kill the wild boar was because of the pistol.
Gao Yue smiled and said, "You are not bad either. This turtledove is delicious. My father used to catch it with a net when I was a child. It has been so many years since I last ate it. Hey, Mingli, I will trade you the wild boar meat for these two turtledoves, okay?"
Gao Mingli hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.
Two turtledoves didn't look like a small number, enough for him and Zhang Jinling to eat one each, but... when he was in the village, he ate with his parents, and when he was in the county, he ate with his second brother. Although he had shot the turtledove, he couldn't eat it alone.
So just change to some pork.
After he agreed, Gao Yue immediately took a knife, cut off a piece of meat weighing about two pounds from his wild boar leg, and exchanged it with Gao Mingli for two turtledoves.
A turtledove weighs at most four taels, so in terms of weight, it's a good deal.
Gao Mingli returned the bird gun to Gao Mingcheng, picked up the two kilograms of wild boar meat, and prepared to go back to the old village. It was already noon, and it was time for lunch.
"Hey, wait, take this pig head too!" Gao Mingcheng handed the severed wild boar head to Gao Mingli and asked him to take it back to his parents.
It's not that the pig's head is not tasty, but it's too hard to prepare! He didn't want to do it. If he wasn't strong, he would have just thrown the pig's head away in the mountains like Gao Yue did.
He was willing to give it up, but Gao Mingli was a little reluctant. Gao Mingli said hesitantly: "Aren't you going to the county to eat it? These pig ears and pork lips are delicious!"
They were about to return to the county in the afternoon, and even if they took the wild boar head back, he wouldn't be able to eat it!
Gao Mingcheng was speechless for a moment, while Gao Yue burst into laughter.
"Then you guys do it?" Gao Mingcheng said.
"Okay, I'll do it when we get back to the county!" For the sake of a bite to eat, Gao Mingli agreed to do the job.
Since that was the case, Gao Mingcheng kept the pig's head. But it was not good to give nothing at all, so he cut a piece of pork belly for Gao Mingli to take back.
(End of this chapter)
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