Chapter 168 The Leopard Full of Treasures
"Hmm~"
“Hmm…”
The watery moonlight shines through the translucent windows and falls onto the windowsill. The dried flowers made of red maple and ginkgo emit a faint bright luster.
The scattered moonlight made the whole room slightly bright. Under the light blue printed quilt, Lin Heng and Xiulan were tasting the delicious coconut milk-flavored White Rabbit candy together.
"Hmm...Is that enough now?"
Xiulan hugged Lin Heng's neck and spoke breathlessly. Her voice was charming and the air she exhaled had the sweet smell of coconut milk.
"No!"
Lin Heng grinned, lowered his head, and went to taste the real White Rabbit milk candy.
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More than half an hour later, Xiulan lay limply in Lin Heng's arms, her snow-white skin glowing faintly.
"You bad guy~"
She pinched Lin Heng's flesh and snorted softly: "I was waiting for you to come home with good intentions, but you still bully me like this."
"I feel sorry for my wife. Look, your skin is becoming more and more moisturized and fair." Lin Heng inhaled the fragrance of his wife's hair and said with a smile.
"snort!"
Xiulan bit Lin Heng on the chest and taught him a lesson.
"No, wife."
Lin Heng hugged her and put his face against hers, feeling each other's warmth and both of them could feel each other's heartbeat.
People can feel more lonely in the silent night. It is such a great happiness to be with someone you love wholeheartedly.
Xiulan pressed close to Lin Heng, her red lips opening and closing beside his ear: "It's definitely three o'clock now. I still have to deal with the prey tomorrow morning. I definitely don't have time to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms."
Although her tone contained blame, it was more filled with love.
"It's okay. Let's go the day after tomorrow." Lin Heng stuck close to her, wanting to take good care of her for no reason.
"Of course this is the only way. Do I have to beat you up?" Xiulan pouted and pressed close to him.
In such late autumn, it was unusually warm and comfortable to be so close to each other, especially since both of them loved each other deeply.
They fell into a drowsy sleep, and when the goddess of night was awakened by the dawn and the moon fairy was driven away by the sunlight, the two were still clinging to each other.
Whenever he opened his eyes and saw the little face in front of him, Lin Heng felt that the day was beautiful and smoothed her messy hair.
Xiulan opened her eyes and smiled at him. She put her arms around his neck, blinked her eyes and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to try more coconut-flavored milk candy?"
Before Lin Heng could say anything, she took the initiative to let him taste it, and she wanted to be with him for no reason.
After several minutes, Lin Heng looked at his wife's rosy and plump lips, and said with lingering satisfaction: "The coconut-flavored milk candy is so delicious~"
"Okay, you've had enough for today. I'll give you a different flavor next time." Xiulan said softly, then she found her underwear that she had lost somewhere and put it on before getting up.
After washing her face, she sat in front of the mirror and combed her hair, applied the skin cream and lipstick that Lin Heng bought for her, and drew her eyebrows.
She doesn't dress up every day, but she uses skin-protecting products regularly, and she finds that they really make her look better.
Lin Heng washed his face and went out to look at the clouded leopard again. It looked even more ferocious in the morning. It was really a lot of luck that he was able to catch it last night.
Shaking his head, he called his wife to go exercise in the backyard.
After the exercise, the two were just about to go cook when there was a knock on the front door: "Lin Heng, open the door quickly."
"Here I come."
Lin Heng walked over and opened the door. His parents and older brother and sister-in-law were all outside.
Father Lin was standing outside the door and couldn't wait to ask, "Did you kill the leopard?"
"Yes." Lin Heng grinned and led the two into the house.
Father Lin looked at the clouded leopard hanging on the pole with an expression of disbelief on his face.
"It's incredible that we killed such a big leopard." Father Lin shook his head and sighed.
"No one expected this at the beginning." Lin Yue also sighed. He was even more shocked when he saw this big guy during the day.
Liu Juan envied Lin Heng more and more, and said with emotion: "This is luck, it can't be stopped."
"It's all here, let's peel it." Lin Heng said with a smile. He was not so excited now.
Father Lin smiled and nodded: "Okay, an hour should be enough."
It's half past six now, so it should be before eight by the time we finish peeling.
"You guys peel them, I'll go boil the chicken for soup."
Lin Heng said with a smile, handed his tempered steel dagger to his father, and left the task of skinning the leopard to them.
He was a little tired, and seeing that his dad seemed very interested, he asked him to experience it too.
"Leopard meat is a good thing. As the old saying goes, it can heal severe injuries and strengthen the five internal organs. It's usually hard to get it, so I'll just give some to your grandma to nourish her body."
Mother Lin looked at the big clouded leopard and said that this thing was different from ordinary prey and had great medicinal value.
The so-called fatal injury refers to the situation where a person is extremely ill, his face is blue, he looks exhausted and is beyond recovery.
An old recipe circulating in rural areas says that leopard meat can cure this disease and heal serious injuries.
"Yes, this leopard meat costs only two or three yuan per pound and there are many people who want to buy it. You don't usually see this kind of thing." Liu Juan also said enviously, this thing is in short supply.
Lin Heng also knew this, but he had never eaten leopard meat, so he didn't know whether it was true or not, but there should be some truth to it.
After returning to the house to boil some water, Lin Heng watched them skin the leopard.
When the water boiled, they peeled half of the leopard. When Lin Heng was about to scoop out the boiling water to make chicken soup, the gate of the yard was pushed open.
Old Man Tian walked in with several people from the village.
"What's the matter?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"You are just skinning the leopard. Please sell the leopard meat. We are here to buy the meat." Tian Baishun said with a smile.
"Lin Heng, you are really amazing. You can even hit this thing. You will make a fortune."
"Your skills are second to none. I've never seen anyone who can hit a leopard."
"This is a good thing. It can nourish the five internal organs, replenish qi and blood, strengthen the tendons and bones, and cure kidney deficiency and strengthen yang."
The five or six people who followed in were very envious of the clouded leopard that Lin's father and others were skinning. This thing was too precious.
"How are you going to buy it?" Lin Heng asked Tian Baishun.
Tian Baishun smiled and said, "I'll just buy a pound to replenish my body. You can only sell it for three yuan at most."
"I don't really want to sell it, but since you're here, I'll just sell it for three dollars a pound." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
"Okay, give me a pound." Tian Baishun didn't hesitate.
"I'll buy a pound of it, too, to give my little son some nutrition."
"I want one pound too, to give to the old man when I get home."
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Some other people also said that they were very keen on leopard meat.
"Okay, I'll weigh it for everyone after I peel it off." Lin Heng nodded.
"Lin Heng, are you selling leopard whips?" someone asked curiously.
The people around immediately started to make a fuss and started to make dirty jokes.
"Yes, but the price is different. Do you want to buy it?" Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Haha, forget it, I'm just asking." The man waved his hands immediately. It was obvious that this thing would not be cheap.
Lin Heng had all seven bamboo partridges, golden pheasants and egrets permed, and Lin's mother and sister-in-law Xiulan came over to help pluck the feathers.
The villagers who came to buy leopard meat nearby were drooling with envy when they saw these prey. Lin Heng's hunting skills were so amazing.
Apart from anything else, just the bamboo partridge and golden rooster are enough to prove who can catch so many in one night.
"Finally I've peeled it. Let's see how much meat it is."
After Lin Heng and his companions had dealt with all the chicken feathers, Lin's father and eldest brother finally peeled off the leopard skin.
They peel it very slowly because they are afraid of tearing the skin, which would greatly reduce the price.
"I'll go get the scale." Lin Heng ran into the house and got the scale.
I weighed it on the scale and found that after peeling it, it still weighed 42 kilograms.
"It's so heavy." Lin Heng was a little surprised.
Tian Baishun smiled and said, "Of course. In autumn, all prey is fat. Your leopard meat can be sold for more than 100 yuan, not to mention the leopard skin."
"Not that much. There are still internal organs. And I'm only selling this much. I don't want to sell the rest." Lin Heng shook his head.
There aren't many of these things to begin with, and you won't get much money if you sell them, so you might as well keep them for yourself.
"Yeah, you, a millionaire, don't lack this little bit of money." Tian Baishun said sourly. He was so envious.
He watched this kid Lin Heng take off step by step.
Hang the leopard up, cut open its stomach, and its internal organs will be exposed.
Leopards are precious from head to toe. Leopard hearts are said to have the effect of strengthening yang and tonifying the kidneys. Leopard gallbladders are even more precious, having the good effects of reducing swelling, relieving pain, detoxifying and clearing away heat.
Father Lin took these out one by one and put them in a bamboo sieve. There was quite a bit of fat in the clouded leopard's body.
After finishing all these, it seems that there is not much leopard meat left. The meat is bright red and tender with almost no fat visible.
Father Lin separated them and cut out six pounds of pure meat and sold it to several people who came to buy meat.
"If you meet someone, tell them that I won't sell the rest." Lin Heng gave them the meat and reminded them.
"Okay, don't worry." Tian Baishun said with a smile.
After these people left, Lin Heng asked his father to cut the meat into small pieces.
Bones and such don't matter. The skeleton is no different from that of a cat, and a skeletal specimen won't look that good.
After taking out the internal organs of the bamboo chicken and golden chicken, Lin Heng gave three bamboo chickens and three pounds of leopard meat to his eldest brother, and five pounds of leopard meat to his parents.
"Don't refuse. Take it back and eat it to replenish your body. I'm saving the meat for my grandma." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Then I will give you some Pueraria powder and yam, don't refuse." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"I never refuse." Lin Heng nodded with a smile.
After his parents and his elder brother and his wife left with the meat, Lin Heng squatted and took the leopard meat into the house and hung it up, then started to process the chicken innards. He wanted to make some chicken offal to eat.
Although it is difficult to handle, it tastes really good. The chicken gizzards, chicken hearts and chicken intestines are all very chewy, and the more you chew them, the more fragrant they become.
"Cooking rice?" Xiulan looked at Lin Heng and asked.
Lin Heng looked at his wife and nodded with a smile: "Sure, let's fry some leopard meat and try it."
"Okay, so you're going to wait until you get back from Red Maple Mountain to eat it, right?" Xiulan looked at him and said.
"Yes." Lin Heng nodded.
The chicken hearts, livers and kidneys do not need to be processed, and the chicken gizzards are not difficult to process either. Only the chicken intestines need to be cut with scissors and cleaned. In order to retain the original flavor, it is best to wash them with cornmeal.
After finishing, Lin Heng said goodbye to Xiulan and went to Hongfeng Mountain with his father and elder brother.
We can't dig the pond today without his guidance.
When they arrived at Hongfeng Mountain, everyone was present and a group of people sat together discussing Lin Heng's killing of the leopard.
"Brother Lin, you are so awesome." Lin Hai said admiringly.
"You're capable." Lin Hengsan's father, Lin Xutao, also patted him on the shoulder.
"You are lucky. Come to my house to eat leopard meat at noon." Lin Heng said a few words to everyone with a smile, and then began to arrange work.
Li Shiwei and his uncle-in-law had not come down yet, but he still dug in a group of eleven people, led by his father, eldest brother and six others.
There were six groups, each with a pond. After explaining each one, he led everyone to start working.
"Dad, why don't we call a hundred people? It will probably take a long time to handle so many ponds with sixty people."
Lin Heng discussed it with his father and now that all the land has been leveled, they can start construction on all the ponds at the same time.
Father Lin shook his head: "One hundred is too many and hard to manage. You can order another forty, which will add up to ten groups. I think that will be enough."
Lin Heng thought about it and felt that this made sense. He was very busy recently and might not have the time to manage things, so it was indeed not easy to have too many people.
"That's it."
Lin Heng nodded, stayed at the construction site for a while and then left. He went to find Tian Dongfu to tell him about the matter and asked him to help find another forty people.
Naturally, Tian Dongfu agreed to this matter. He could get a lot of benefits just by talking, so why not do it?
When Lin Heng returned home, Xiulan had not only prepared meals for the adults, but also chopped the leopard meat into puree and made a bowl of garlic fried pork with rice for Xiaoxia. When Lin Heng walked into the house, Xiaoxia was eating with a spoon.
"Please scoop some rice for me and I'll serve the dishes." Xiulan said to him.
"Okay." Lin Heng washed his hands and served two bowls of rice.
In the morning, Xiulan not only made stir-fried pickled radish slices and leopard meat, but also made spinach and egg soup, and stir-fried winter melon slices.
Lin Heng took a bite of leopard meat, chewed it for a while before swallowing it, and commented: "It's pretty good. The meat is very delicate and chewy like beef, but it doesn't have the sour taste they say."
"I think it's delicious too. It's more delicate than beef and has no fishy smell." Xiulan nodded.
Leopard meat has a unique aroma that is different from that of other animals.
"Well, let's eat more. Lean meat won't make people fat." Lin Heng nodded. This dish goes well with rice.
Stir-fried winter melon is also good, with a sweet taste. Xiaoxia likes it very much.
After finishing the meal, Lin Heng took a rest and went back to bed to catch up on a nap. He was too tired last night and didn't sleep well.
Xiulan took her daughter to continue helping to grind sweet potato flour, so they couldn't go to the mountain to pick mushrooms today.
When Lin Heng woke up, it was already one o'clock. He rubbed his eyes and felt refreshed and a little warm.
"It seems that this leopard meat really has some effect." Lin Heng said to himself.
Go out and dry the leopard whips, prepare to dry them and use them to make wine, and just grill the leopard eggs directly over charcoal.
When he went out to his parents' place, he found that his uncle-in-law and Li Shiwei had come down and were chatting animatedly.
"Lin Heng, you came at the right time. I have something to tell you." Li Baiquan said hurriedly when he saw Lin Heng.
"What's the matter?" Lin Heng showed a hint of curiosity.
I’m sorry, I’ve been updating later and later recently. It’s almost the New Year and I’ve been busy during the day, so I always don’t have time to write.
I can only write 4,000 words today, but I will definitely make up for it, believe me.
(End of this chapter)
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