Chapter 110: The hunter who buys pork, the fishing method of the dumb rod, eat it if you like
The man's hunting rifle made Lin Heng and his father nervous instantly. Lin's father held the wooden stick, and Lin Heng held the bow and arrow tightly in his hand.
In the depths of the mountains, it is not just wild animals and poisonous insects that are dangerous, but humans are also one of them. If someone really has bad intentions and kills a person, it is impossible to find out in this era.
"Who are you?" Lin Heng asked coldly. It was really rare to meet someone in the depths of the mountains.
The person opposite was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties. He carried a backpack, had a Lu Xun-like mustache, a square face, high cheekbones, and a happy smile on his face.
As if he was aware of Lin Heng's tone, the man quickly raised his shotgun and fired twice at the sky, saying with a smile: "It's not fired, so you can't hit it. Don't worry."
This action made Lin Heng and his son relax their vigilance a little.
The man walked closer and said with a smile, "I am from Baimasi Village. My last name is Zhao, and my name is Zhao Aiguo. I came here because I heard the dogs barking. Which village are you from?"
Lin Heng frowned slightly. He had never heard of Baimasti Village.
"It's a village near Taibai Mountain. I've heard of it." Father Lin said in a low voice.
"We are from Fengshu Village, Huangtan Town. My name is Lin Heng, and the person next to me is my father." Lin Heng said slowly.
Zhao Aiguo smiled and nodded: "I have heard of Huangtan Town. It is really far away. You can actually hunt with a bow and arrow. That's amazing."
"It's okay, it's no different from a shotgun." Lin Heng said casually, and then asked: "What's the matter with you?"
"I want to buy some wild boar meat. My mother has gastric bleeding and people say eating some wild boar meat can cure it. I have been in this mountain for more than 20 days and have not caught any. You actually caught such a big one. You are so lucky."
Zhao Aiguo walked over and finished speaking, then he explained with embarrassment: "I suddenly showed up with a shotgun just now and scared you guys. I'm really sorry."
As he spoke, he handed a rolled welding cigarette to Lin Heng.
Lin Heng said he didn't smoke, so he handed the cigarette to his father. His father took it but didn't smoke it, instead he put it between his ears.
"If you want to buy wild boar meat, there is absolutely no problem, but we have to carry the wild boar back and cut open its intestines. It will be difficult to bring it back if we cut it open in the mountains." Father Lin looked at him and said, meaning that if you want to buy it, you have to go to my house.
Lin Heng didn't say anything. He believed what Zhao Aiguo said. Medical resources were scarce in rural areas, and people often used old folk remedies to treat illnesses, and even believed in superstition and prayed to gods.
When he was a child, he always had nosebleeds, so his family made him drink a strange substance made by mixing magpie blood and ashes from burnt yellow paper.
Zhao Aiguo was stunned. This was indeed a problem. He couldn't just let others cut a piece off for him.
"How about this, how much is your wild boar meat per pound? How about I buy half?" Zhao Aiguo said after thinking for a while.
Father Lin was stunned. Buy half? So rich? He originally wanted to sell the injured piglet to him. But if the other party wanted to buy half, he would definitely not tell him about the little wild boar. Everyone was poor these days, and pork was not easy to sell.
"Pork is 80 cents, and wild boar meat is 90 cents per pound. This wild boar must weigh 170 to 180 pounds, and half of it must weigh 80 to 90 pounds. If we count the money, it will be 70 to 80 yuan."
Lin Heng smiled and said that this was a considerable amount of money. Even if he wanted to exchange it for something, most things would not be worth so much money.
"I don't have any money, but I have this, a piece of suede. Would you like to exchange it?"
Zhao Aiguo put down the backpack and took out a suede from a snakeskin bag. Immediately, a rotten smell came out, causing Lin Heng and the others to step back and cover their noses.
"Haha, this is a dead muntjac I encountered. Its meat is rotten, but its fur is still good. Do you think it's worth seventy or eighty yuan?"
Zhao Aiguo threw the suede on the ground with a smile and looked at Lin Heng and the other man.
Lin Heng took a look and saw that it was a yellow muntjac. It was not as big as the male muntjac he had shot in Baishigou last time, but it was not small either. He estimated that it should be around 30 kilograms.
This suede is of medium size and in good condition, so it can be sold for seventy or eighty yuan.
Lin Heng turned it over and took another look. The suede was indeed not rotten, but it was stained with some rotten meat, which gave it a foul smell.
Scrape it clean, rinse it several times and dry it in the sun and there shouldn't be any major problems.
Lin Heng stood up and said, "This suede looks fine. But I'm not sure if it will shed hair after washing it, or if people think it stinks and refuse to buy it. I think it's better to pay in cash."
"The hair will definitely not fall off. I tried my best to pull it out but it didn't work. If you don't believe me, you can try. If you think it's not enough, I'll give you a white rice cat's fur. Then I must have 100 kilograms of wild boar meat."
Zhao Aiguo saw that Lin Heng was bargaining, so he took out another civet cat fur.
"By the way, are you far from the Heihe River? Are there a lot of mullets in your area?" Lin Heng suddenly changed the subject.
Zhao Aiguo was curious: "Why are you asking this? My home is not far from the Heihe River. There are a lot of plum fish in that river. Every year people use nets to catch them, and they catch hundreds of kilograms at a time."
"Oh, nothing, just asking." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He was asking for information because the Heihe River is the meltwater from the Taibai Mountain snowcapped mountains, which is very suitable for the growth of Qinling salmon.
If there are many, he plans to catch a large number and raise them himself since they are not protected animals yet.
In his previous life, he visited and learned how others farmed salmon, so he could be the first to do so in this life.
"If you want, come to me in Baimasti Village. I will introduce it to you or take you to catch it." Zhao Aiguo said with a smile.
"Okay, let's talk about it when we have the chance."
Lin Heng smiled and returned to the topic of wild boar meat. He turned back to look at his father and said, "Dad, what do you think?"
Father Lin smiled and said, "You killed this wild boar, you can deal with it yourself."
"Don't tell me how much. I'll sell you one side plus a pig's head. Is that okay?" Lin Heng asked Zhao Aiguo.
"Definitely not. You have to add a front leg. Although I didn't weigh it, this wild boar is definitely less than 200 kilograms. One side is at most 90 kilograms, maybe even less."
Zhao Aiguo shook his head and said that he also went hunting frequently and could tell how heavy a wild boar was at a glance.
"That's fine. Just consider it as making a friend of yours. Add a front leg and the pig's head will be gone." Lin Heng didn't think too much about it.
"Okay." Zhao Aiguo nodded.
"What about the pig hair? Should we try to burn it all or leave it for you to deal with when you get back?"
Lin Heng asked, it was really rare to meet someone in the wild mountains and buy wild boar meat.
Of course he was willing to sell it, but the wild boar meat might not be easy to sell even if he took it back to the village and sold it at a low price.
"Just cut open his stomach." said Zhao Aiguo.
Having made up his mind, Lin Heng stopped hesitating and put away the suede and white rice leather.
Then the three of them found a vine to hang up the wild boar and let it bleed to dry.
Xiongba lay on the ground and started licking it happily, just like he was eating at a buffet.
Lin Heng used the small knife he carried with him to cut the meat from the wild boar's back, revealing the spine.
"It's two fingers thick, which is OK." Father Lin said with a smile.
After fattening the back, cut along the pig's neck first, then use a hatchet to chop off the spine and remove the head.
Then cut open the belly and take out the internal organs one by one. After the internal organs are taken out, use a hatchet to chop the spine, so that the wild boar is divided into two halves.
Lin Heng's skills were naturally far inferior to those of a butcher, but he had no problem using brute force to cut up a wild boar.
After all, no matter how hard the bone is, it is not as hard as a knife. As for being ugly, just be a little uglier.
"Do you want me to cut it into small pieces for you?" Lin Heng asked again.
"Okay, that's troublesome." Zhao Aiguo said with a smile.
Lin Heng first cut off half of his front leg and handed it to Zhao Aiguo.
Zhao Aiguo took out a large bag of salt from his backpack and started to apply it.
He was planning to go up the mountain to hunt wild boars, so he naturally brought salt for preservation.
It sounds fast, but it is actually very tiring. Lin Heng and his father took turns chopping the meat, and it took two hours to cut all the meat into long strips weighing more than ten pounds.
This hasn’t even started with separating the ribs and such, otherwise two hours might not be enough to cook it.
After distributing the food to Zhao Aiguo, Lin Heng picked up his pork. The pig offal was placed in one bag and the pork was in another bag. The unprocessed large and small intestines and stomach were still on the ground.
Lin Heng roughly estimated that he had less than 50 kilograms of meat left. With the internal organs and pig heads, there might only be 70 or 80 kilograms.
After putting the pork into the backpack, Lin Heng and his father went to the waterside to process the pig's large and small intestines.
There is only rainwater here, so we can only simply dispose of the feces. We have to go back to the camp for the detailed cleaning.
"Thank you very much, both of you. I'm leaving now. If you have time to go to Baimati Village, remember to find me."
Zhao Aiguo carried the pork on his back, looked at the two of them and said with a smile.
He was quite satisfied because the portion of pork Lin Heng gave him was sufficient and he did not bully him.
"Okay, goodbye." Lin Heng waved his hand.
Father Lin politely handed the man a cigarette he had rolled himself.
After the people had walked away, Father Lin smiled and said, "We are so lucky today. Not only did we kill a wild boar, but we also met someone who bought so much meat at once."
"Yes, we may not be able to sell so much even if we take it back." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Wild boars are definitely the most common prey in the wild, and if too many are born at one time, it is easy for them to become an overpopulation.
After catching an animal, you can usually only sell its meat, as its fur is of little use. However, the meat is often not easy to sell. This is not the 21st century, and everyone is still living on the poverty line and does not have much money.
Father Lin chuckled and said, "But it's a good thing we came early and didn't let him find the wild boar first, otherwise we would have to share the meat between the two families."
Lin Heng smiled. He could see that Zhao Aiguo had this idea at the first moment, but unfortunately he was a little slow.
After cleaning the feces in the large and small intestines, the two men put the internal organs into a snakeskin bag and walked back with the basket on their backs.
“Woof woof!”
Xiongba walked beside Lin Heng, expressing his desire.
"Go back to the camp and you'll have something delicious to eat." Lin Heng touched its dog's head.
It was already noon when we got back to the place where we helped the little wild boar.
“Ahhh!!”
When the two little wild boars saw people coming, they immediately screamed.
"It's good that you're not dead. Son, you go and carry the little wild boar. I'll carry the heavy pork." Father Lin said with a smile.
Lin Heng had no choice but to carry the two little wild boars back to the camp.
I can’t go to Sanchagou for the time being, so fishing will have to be postponed.
Many times plans cannot keep up with changes. No one would have thought that when they encountered a group of wild boars, they could sell most of the money after killing one.
"Hey, why didn't Lin Wei come out to greet us?"
When they returned to the camp, Lin Heng felt something was wrong. The piglets were screaming so loudly, but his eldest nephew was not moving.
He hurried back to the camp, and when he got closer, he saw that his nephew was sleeping on a rock. He was startled, thinking something had happened.
I looked at the musk deer again and saw that it didn't run away, so I felt relieved.
"Lin Wei, get up quickly and see what we have got." Father Lin put the little wild boar down and walked over to wake his grandson up.
"grandfather!"
Lin Wei rubbed his eyes and sat up, and I couldn't tell the directions because I was half asleep.
Lin Heng didn't look at him and just took out the pork and hung it up.
Lin Heng asked his father for advice: "Dad, there's not much pork here. Why don't we just cut off the pig skin and feed it to the dog? I'm too lazy to go back and process it slowly."
"Yes, Xiongba deserves to eat so much meat." Father Lin said with a smile. He now also likes the dog Xiongba.
"Oh my God, Second Dad and Grandpa, you caught two little wild boars and there is so much pork. Did you rob the wild boar den?"
At this moment, Lin Wei belatedly realized and let out a cry of surprise, then he began to dance and shake his hips and head like a primitive man.
Lin Heng and Lin's father smiled and continued to cut the pork skin.
After cutting the meat into strips, cut the pork into smaller pieces, rub salt on them, and hang them up to ventilate.
"Lin Wei, go make a fire." Father Lin handed the lighter to Lin Wei.
Lin Wei turned around and ran to make a fire, and took a piece of wild boar meat to roast himself.
Lin Heng and his father went to the creek to process the pig's internal organs.
"These pig hearts, livers, and kidneys can only be eaten here. You can't take them back." Father Lin said as he turned over the pig intestines.
"Then eat it, eat more." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"That's all we can do. We can save the small and large intestines and fry them for the next meal."
Father Lin sighed and said that if possible, he would like to take it back and share it with his family.
After cleaning the large and small intestines, Lin Heng burned the hair on the pig skin, and cooked them together with the pig lungs and pancreas, and fed them to Xiongba.
Father Lin took out the suede, scraped off the rotten flesh, washed it repeatedly, and then placed it on a stone to dry.
After doing all this, a red glow appeared in the sky.
"Give."
Lin Heng chopped the cooked pig lungs, pig pancreas and pig skin into small pieces and poured them into a bowl for Xiongba.
“Ouch!”
Xiongba cried out happily and in a somewhat spoiled tone, then lowered his head and began to eat.
In fact, it didn't eat very much these days, because there was not much rice and flour, and people wanted to eat, so it could only eat a little.
Now that there was such a big pot of meat, it immediately started to eat it with gusto.
After feeding Xiongba, Lin Heng blanched the other pig offal and added some wild peppercorns and green onions to remove the fishy smell.
Then he sliced them, fried them separately and put them in boxes. There were not many pig hearts and kidneys, and he had to fry the pig liver in two batches in this small iron pan.
Lin Heng simply kept half a pound and prepared to go catfishing tomorrow.
"Son, look at this suede. It's still beautiful after washing. We made a profit."
Father Lin took the dried suede and said with a smile.
"Of course I made a profit. This suede has no holes burned through by gunpowder, so I can easily sell it for eighty or ninety."
Lin Heng grinned. He would not do business at a loss. Adding the white rice husks, he could be said to have made a lot of money.
"It's really worthwhile to go mountain climbing this time." Father Lin said with a smile.
"Of course. As long as you have the ability, there are plenty of valuable goods in the mountains." Lin Heng smiled.
"I can only say that you, Second Dad, are the most awesome person in the world, even better than my dad." Lin Wei praised loudly.
While chatting, Lin Heng scooped up the fried pork liver and put it in a wooden basin.
Then I cut a piece of pork fat and fried the large intestine. It is less likely to go bad if fried with lard.
The large intestines, small intestines and pig stomach are fried and put aside. Only salt and wild pepper are added to them.
Their main meal tonight was the heart, liver, and kidneys. The stir-fried pork kidneys and peppers tasted the best, and they were quickly finished with syrup and wine.
The pig heart tasted pretty good. Lin Wei ate a lot of it, and Lin Heng and his father ate the rest together.
Lin Wei didn't eat the pork liver, and Lin Heng and his father didn't finish it either, so they had to put it aside and eat it the next day.
"I didn't expect to eat too much meat. I never dared to think about it before."
After dinner, Father Lin said with a smile.
"It's okay, Dad. The good days of eating as much meat as you want are still to come." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Then I'm looking forward to it." Father Lin smiled and asked, "What weather are you going to go back in? Will you continue hunting?"
"No, let's go back the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll pick some tea tree mushrooms and see if there are any catfish or something like that."
Lin Heng said that after this time, it might be autumn before he comes again.
During the next three hottest days, we couldn’t bring back any hunting items.
"That's what I meant. Tea tree mushrooms are rampant recently. It would be a pity not to pick them. When your brother comes tomorrow, ask him to take Lin Wei and the wild boar back.
The day after tomorrow, call your mother Caiyun to help carry the things, otherwise there are too many things and we won’t be able to carry them all.”
Father Lin smiled and said that it was indeed impossible to catch a musk deer, two little wild boars, wild boar meat and the mushrooms to be picked later.
All in all, I have been here for twenty days, and it is not a waste.
The next morning, Lin Heng made a mixed soup and ate it with the leftover pork liver from last night, and then went to Sanchagou Canyon with his father.
"Counting the days, it seems like I haven't visited for a week. I don't know what the situation is over there." Lin Heng said as he walked.
Father Lin smiled and said, "Just go and take a look, you can never be sure. Just like yesterday, no one expected to encounter a group of wild boars."
"really."
The two of them chatted and laughed as they arrived at the Sanchagou Canyon. The water on the ground had almost dried up.
After two days of strong sunshine, not much moisture was left.
"The whole army was wiped out."
Lin Heng sighed and walked forward. The Yama's Crane was automatically triggered and the noose trap did not yield any results.
Judging from the traces at the scene, the water was about 40 to 50 centimeters deep after the rain, and all the animals that could not swim ran away.
"It seems to be the case, but it doesn't matter. We have already made a profit." Father Lin said with a smile.
All the ropes were pulled back and no one was going down. There was no point in doing that for a day or two.
When I came to the pond, I couldn’t even tell where I had placed the fishing hook last time.
"Try two poles. Get the pig liver and cut the bamboo."
Lin Heng smiled and said that this was also a good opportunity to turn his dad into a fisherman.
Let him have a hobby, otherwise it’s not good to work all the time, he needs to take a break.
Although the sun gradually came out, the fisherman was fearless.
Tie the nylon line to the tip of the bamboo, hang pork liver on it, throw it in like a whip, then use branches to prop up the bamboo at an angle over the water.
After getting four fishing rods, Lin Heng and his father sat down under a tree and watched. As long as the tip of the bamboo was pulled down, they could stand up and collect the rods.
The main point of the old man's fishing method is that you can eat the fish or not. If you don't want to eat it, then forget it.
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Guess what Lin Heng caught this time.
(End of this chapter)
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