Chapter 109 What to do when you encounter a group of wild boars?
"Dad, you came at the right time. We were preparing to fry the badger's innards tonight."
Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Then I did catch up." Father Lin laughed, very happy.
With these two things, the trip to the mountains to hunt is not in vain.
With the help of Lin's father, the badger meat was quickly processed, smeared with heavy salt, and a rack was set up next to the shelter for ventilation and drying.
"I brought pickled radish, garlic sprouts, shallots, and chili peppers, just right for stir-frying large intestines or something like that."
Father Lin went to take the things out of the backpack and said with a smile.
"This is great. I haven't eaten anything sour in several days." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Human beings are the most acid-resistant creatures in the world. There is a saying that if you don't eat acid for three days, you will feel unsteady when walking.
Lin Heng and the other two did miss things like pickled radishes.
The pickled radish shreds were all fried. Lin Heng cut the large and small intestines and stomach of the badger into sections and put them in a pot with the pickled radish shreds and chili peppers.
The badger liver is stir-fried with chili peppers and garlic sprouts.
The kidneys were also stir-fried.
Finally, there was half a pheasant left over from the morning, so I put it in the pot to make soup, making a total of three dishes and one soup.
Father Lin and elder brother Lin Yue went to move a large stone slab to use as a table.
When the dishes were served on the table, both Lin's father and Lin Yue felt that it was a little unreal.
"Even the food during Chinese New Year may not be as good as what we have tonight. Three dishes and one soup, all of them are meat."
Father Lin sighed.
"Moreover, Lin Heng's cooking skills are extraordinary. I just discovered in the past two days that every dish he cooks is very delicious." Lin Yue also said with a smile.
"Haha, I figured it out myself, and it tastes good." Lin Heng smiled.
Cooking is just a basic skill for someone who has experienced hardship.
"Here, I brought some syrup, let's drink some."
Father Lin took out a plastic bottle of syrup and poured it into everyone's bowls with a smile, even Lin Wei got a portion.
"Come, drink!"
In rural areas, people don't say cheers, they just clink glasses and start drinking.
After taking a sip, the sweetness of the syrup and the spicy taste of the wine blended well. Lin Heng was not good at drinking, but he also thought it was very good.
A sip of wine and a bite of meat, it can be said to be free and easy, very happy.
As for wine, just a small sip can create a very meaningful mood. You will feel as if you are half drunk and half awake. At this time, you can experience the feeling of Li Bai who wrote hundreds of poems while drunk.
The whole world has become different, but Lin Heng has no cultural literacy and can only say that it is really beautiful.
We didn’t need to eat dinner, the four of us were very full after eating all the dishes.
It was quite hot today, but Lin Heng was not tired. He found a big rock by the stream and lay down to play. The rock was still a little hot because it had been exposed to the sun all day.
The sky after the rain was exceptionally clear. Lying on the stone, billions of stars countless light years away seemed to be right in front of you.
In my ears, the gurgling sound of the stream is like a light song.
The eldest brother Lin Yue took his nephew to bathe by the stream. It was quite lively. Lin's father was also soaking in the water, interjecting a few words from time to time.
Apart from the annoying mosquitoes, life here is really peaceful.
"Look, there's a shooting star!"
Lin Heng pointed to the sky and said, a meteor slid from the east to the west, leaving a straight white line.
"Really, it is. It is so beautiful!"
Lin Wei said in surprise.
Lin Yue and Lin's father also looked up at the sky, somewhat absent-mindedly. People who work hard with their heads down seldom look up at the stars, or else they will inevitably doubt the meaning of life.
But now, they all find the starry sky charming, because their lives are getting better and better, and they seem to be qualified to appreciate the scenery.
"Woof!"
The silly dog lying next to Lin Heng also looked up at the sky, curiously watching the falling meteor, and felt like chasing it.
Even though it is very smart, it does not understand the meaning of the starry sky, nor does it understand the distance and size of the meteor.
After digesting the food, he gradually lost interest as the mosquitoes became more and more numerous. He sat up and patted the silly dog's head.
"Let's go to bed."
Back in the shelter, Xiong Ba wanted to go to bed, but was pulled down by Lin Heng.
"It's not cold tonight, you can sleep on the ground." Lin Heng patted its head.
"Ouch! (▼ヘ▼#)"
Xiong Ba had a resentful look in his eyes. He bit Lin Heng's hand, but he didn't dare to use force and could only hold it in his mouth.
Yesterday when it was cold, you begged me to get on your bed, and now you kick me under the bed. What a hateful human being.
"Silly dog, you have to distinguish between having a full meal and not having every meal." Lin Heng glanced at it.
Xiong Ba let go angrily. After all, the dog had saved his stupid dog owner, so he was not the kind of dog that would repay kindness with enmity.
Fortunately, Lin Heng was considerate enough to provide it with some straw so that it didn't have to sleep on the damp and cold ground.
The next morning, the four of them got up early.
Lin Heng first glanced at the grouse and was speechless: "Alas, you really want to die."
I don’t know what happened, but this guy died. He could have lived a few more days, as he wanted to take him back to his wife.
"In this case, I can only eat you."
Shaking his head, Lin Heng hurried to look at his musk deer.
“Ouch!”
The musk deer was eating grass with relish, but when it saw Lin Heng coming, it dived into the grass to hide.
"It's good that you're not dead."
Lin Heng smiled. This was a treasure. If he caught another one, he could start breeding it.
When I turned around, my eldest brother Lin Yue had already packed everything.
"How about we eat first?" suggested Lin's father.
"I won't have breakfast. I'll go back first. It's cool in the morning." Lin Yue shook his head.
"Then go ahead, brother. Be careful." Lin Heng smiled and waved his hand.
Father Lin was worried and sent Lin Yue away.
Lin Heng and his eldest nephew made a fire, cleaned the grouse soup, and fed Xiongba the internal organs.
Because there was sauerkraut among the things that Lin’s father brought, I made a sauerkraut soup in the morning which I hadn’t eaten for a long time.
When Lin's father came back, the food was just cooked.
After dinner, Lin Heng turned over stones everywhere, looking for earthworms.
"Lin Heng, are you going fishing?"
Father Lin asked.
"Yes, I reckon there's little hope today, so I'll get some earthworms and go fishing. When the water rises, there's fish; when the water recedes, there's shrimp. I think today's fishing will yield a lot of fish."
Lin Heng looked up at his father and said.
"Then I'll catch two earthworms, maybe I can really catch that big fish that escaped from you." Father Lin also came to help look for it.
The earthworms they caught were black earthworms as thick as a little finger, which are larger than red earthworms and more attractive to fish.
Lin Wei also wanted to go, but he could only stay in the camp and watch the musk deer.
"You'll let you and your grandfather go mushroom picking this afternoon, and I'll watch over you."
Lin Heng saw that he was a little depressed and comforted him with a smile.
"Okay." After hearing this, Lin Wei finally had hope.
After catching enough earthworms, the father and son took Xiongba and set off. They didn't need any fishing rod. They just had to cut a bamboo when they arrived at the Sanchagou Canyon.
"First, let's go to the ridge where I dug herbs. I also set some traps there."
Father Lin said.
"Okay." Lin Heng nodded, distanced himself from his father, and walked forward at the same pace.
The Yama Diao here are the same, almost all of them are triggered automatically.
"What a shame. There was a grouse here, but something ate it all."
After walking for a distance, Lin's father shouted from a distance.
Lin Heng took a look from a distance and guessed that it was most likely a weasel, but civet cat, badger and wild cat might also have committed the crime.
"It looks like there's no catch. There are four or five more ahead. Let's go fishing after seeing this."
Father Lin shook his head. It seemed that luck was not his.
As the two men climbed over the ridge, they looked up and were stunned.
“Ahhh!!”
I saw a small wild boar weighing more than ten pounds being pulled up in the air by its hind legs.
But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that next to the little wild boar, there is a female wild boar weighing one or two hundred kilograms and has not left yet, and is biting the rope.
Behind it, there were seven or eight small wild boars, and two large wild boars weighing eighty or ninety kilograms. It was a group.
Apparently, the trap had only been set for a short time, and the sow hadn't given up yet.
"Lin Heng, let's go. If we get angry, we might not be able to escape."
Father Lin was a little scared. When wild boars gathered in groups, the danger would be even greater.
"Then there is nothing to gain, right?"
Lin Heng shook his head and looked at the wild boar on the lower right. They were now in a high position and the wild boar was below, more than 300 meters away.
"It's no joke if you get close to them. Wild boars are very fierce. Someone's intestines were pushed out by a wild boar. Don't take any risks."
Father Lin held Lin Heng back and tried to dissuade him, saying that he was extremely speechless.
After much difficulty, we encountered prey, but it turned out to be a group of wild boars. Without more than ten people, who would dare to take action?
Lin Heng knew his father was right, but he didn't want to give up, so he thought of a solution: "Let's let Xiongba bark, and the two of us will scare them with stones.
If the wild boar gets scared and runs away, it may leave behind a cub, and Xiongba may be able to catch another one if he chases it.
If you don't run, then forget it. It's really dangerous to get too close."
"That's fine." Father Lin thought about it and nodded.
"Xiongba, speak!" Lin Heng looked at Xiongba and picked up a rotten piece of wood.
“Woof woof woof!!!”
Xiongba rushed out and roared angrily.
“Ooooohhh!!”
“Ooooohhh!!”
Lin Heng and his father threw stones and sticks and roared like monkeys.
The wild boars below noticed someone coming and immediately panicked, with the boar cubs being the first to scatter.
The remaining two big wild boars also moved away. Before being forced into a desperate situation, wild boars were still very afraid of humans because they didn’t have red eyes.
After driving it away for a while, the mother wild boar gave up on her cub and ran away.
"Let's go. Go down quickly and catch this wild boar."
Lin Heng showed a look of delight. Perhaps he could catch a few more piglets this time. After all, they were scattered all over the place.
Father Lin was also a little excited and ran down with Lin Heng.
“Ah!!”
When the little wild boar saw people coming, it let out a cry of fear and roared wildly.
“Ah!!”
The father and son had not yet gotten close, and were still more than fifty meters away from the little wild boar. The female wild boar in the distance heard the screams of her cub and turned back, rushing towards the two men.
"Oh no, the sow is protecting her piglets!" Father Lin was shocked and picked up a long wooden stick.
"If you don't want to live, then don't live."
Lin Heng looked at the wild boar more than fifty meters away from him and directly raised his bow and arrow.
call out!!
A sharp black arrow shot out, and the triangular arrowhead with a blood groove reflected a cold light in the air, and the arrow penetrated into the front shoulder blade of the female wild boar.
“Ah!!”
With a scream, the female wild boar's front leg became lame. In pain, she limped back.
Compared to its children, it cares more about its own pig life. After all, it can have another child if it loses it, but it is in real pain, and if it doesn't leave, it will lose its life.
"Want to run!"
Lin Heng sneered. If this female wild boar was not afraid and rushed towards him, he would be afraid of her. But it would be too stupid to run away.
He pulled out another arrow, took aim, and let it fly out with a whoosh.
"You're lucky to be so fast."
The arrow missed its target and flew more than thirty meters before being blocked by a tree trunk. The arrow hit the tree trunk.
"Son, you are awesome." Father Lin gave him a thumbs up. He was not afraid of danger and shot an arrow into his front leg. It was so cool.
Just now, the wild boar was only twenty meters away from them. He was so scared that his calves were shaking, but Lin Heng was able to withstand such pressure and hit the target with one arrow.
"Dad, go catch that little wild boar, and I'll go after the others. Xiongba, let's go."
Lin Heng said this, and then took Xiongba to chase in the direction where the four or five little wild boars had just escaped.
As for the sow wild boar, let it bleed and weaken first. If we look for it now, it will definitely put up a desperate fight.
“Woof!!”
Xiongba let out a roar and chased after Lin Heng happily.
The wild boar cub was nowhere to be seen, but we knew the general direction and continued to move forward.
Lin Heng believed that these wild boar cubs would not run far.
Soon, they came to a little wild boar that had stopped to dig the ground in the woods.
When it saw people, it turned around and ran away, and Xiongba immediately started chasing it.
“Ahhh!!”
In less than thirty seconds, the wild boar cub was pinned down and bitten by Xiongba, making a miserable cry.
“Well done.”
Lin Heng walked over. The wild boar cub, weighing more than ten pounds, had been bitten and was bleeding, but it would not die for a while.
"Let's get the live ones first, so we can roast the suckling pig when we get back."
Lin Heng held him down, and walked back with his hind legs raised. When he chased him, he had nothing but the bow and arrow.
“Ahhh!!”
The little wild boar was being carried, bleeding continuously, and letting out miserable roars.
Lin Heng didn't care about him. He would howl for a while and then stop.
When we returned to the place where we hunted the sow wild boar, the little cub could no longer cry.
"You actually caught one." Father Lin was a little surprised. He had already tied up the wild boar that was hung by the King of Hell and threw it into the backpack.
"Of course. After all, the little wild boar can't run far."
Lin Heng smiled and held the little wild boar down. Lin's father tied a rope around it and threw it in together with the other one.
"What do you think we should do with these wild boar cubs? Should we eat them or keep them?" Father Lin hesitated as he looked at the two wild boar cubs in the backpack.
"Of course we kill them and eat them. If we raise pigs, we must raise domestic pigs."
Lin Heng said as a matter of course that wild boars are far inferior to domestic pigs that have been domesticated and cultivated for thousands of years.
“Indeed, raising wild boars seems to be pointless. We can see if anyone wants to buy them and then sell them.
And I heard that the meat from the cross between domestic pigs and wild boars is tastier.”
Father Lin also said that he didn't want to eat anything as long as it could be sold for money.
"That's fine. It's up to you. Let's carry the piglets back and put them down first, and then we can track down the sow."
Lin Heng looked at his father and said.
Father Lin waved his hand and said, "No need. Both of them weigh less than 40 kilograms. I can carry them. You lead Xiongba in the front and I will just watch from behind."
He was afraid that if time went on for too long, the sow wild boar would be lost, which would be a huge loss.
"Why not find a hole to hide the piglets and get them when we come back? There's no one on the mountain anyway," Lin Heng suggested.
"That's fine too."
Father Lin thought this was a good idea.
They found a small cave nearby, put the piglet in the backpack, and then crushed it with rocks to prevent it from escaping.
After checking twice and making sure everything was OK, the two returned to their original place.
"Xiongba, it's up to you." Lin Heng smiled and touched Xiongba's head.
“Ouch!”
Xiongba smelled the bloody scent and walked forward quickly.
The bloodstains were so obvious that you didn't even need to use your nose to see.
"Son, that sow was so close to you just now, were you really not afraid at all?"
As they walked, the father and son started chatting.
Hearing this, Lin Heng smiled and said, "Compared to the wild boar last time, it's much smaller. The main reason is that I'm mentally prepared."
The last time he fought the big wild boar, he had no experience. After going back to review and think about it, Lin Heng already knew how to deal with the wild boar.
If the arrow cannot penetrate the neck or internal organs to cause fatal damage, then the fatal shot will be shot at the shoulder blade of the front leg. With one front leg disabled, its ability to attack or escape will be greatly reduced.
Lin Heng told this to his father, who couldn't help but give him a thumbs up: "Your summary is spot on, you are a qualified hunter."
There was a relieved expression on his face. His son was indeed different from before.
We continued forward and soon climbed a mountain.
"This wild boar is really fast."
Lin Heng was speechless. They had been tracking it up a mountain, but there was still no sign of it.
"Maybe it got scared and ran down the ditch. It would be hard to track it if there was water."
Father Lin looked ahead with some worry.
The two continued to move forward, and when they reached halfway down the mountain, a large pool of blood suddenly appeared in front of them.
"There's more blood. The wild boar should be ahead. I think it's dying. No matter how much blood it bleeds, it won't be enough."
Lin Heng showed a happy smile and immediately quickened his pace.
Father Lin also quickened his pace, and the two walked all the way to the valley. There was no water flowing in this place, only some rainwater that had accumulated, which was dim in color.
"Lin Heng, look quickly."
Father Lin pointed in the downstream direction and saw a black-haired wild boar staggering with blood oozing from its shoulder blade. It was obviously in a dying state.
Lin Heng's arrow hit the front shoulder blade too hard. It would limp when walking and the wound would be pulled and bleed.
"Xiongba, be quiet and leave it to me."
Lin Heng touched Xiongba who was eager to try, took the bow and arrow and approached quietly.
At first he was a little worried about encountering a desperate resistance, but he soon became bolder. The female wild boar was exhausted and had lost too much blood and was already unconscious.
It has reached its end.
Lin Heng took a look, raised his hand and shot an arrow, hitting the wild boar in the neck. Blood spurted out, and with a bang, the wild boar fell to the ground, with no chance of getting up again.
"We still need to summarize more. We didn't do well enough this time."
Lin Heng secretly said in his heart that he could actually sneak up and kill the wild boar with one arrow. As long as he shot the internal organs, the wild boar would surely die with such a thick arrow.
But he was afraid, because the wild boar was too terrifying last time, and the scene of it charging towards him was still vivid in his mind.
He even thought that all wild boars would be so ferocious, and was afraid that if he shot one, a group of them would pounce on him and bite him, so he took his father's advice.
But now it seems that most of them are still afraid of people, unless they are forced into a corner or are really born ferocious.
"It's rich, it's rich, this time I got rich by going up the mountain."
Father Lin came over, his voice loud and high, full of joy.
"Can you give me some?"
Lin Heng was about to speak when a man came down from the hillside in the distance, looking at the father and son with a shotgun in his hand.
(End of this chapter)
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