Chapter 326: The Prey Caught in the Trap
"No wonder it was a bit cold last night!"
Xiulan leaned her face on Lin Heng's strong chest and looked at the rain outside.
Lin Heng pinched her pretty face and said, "So this is why you two snatched all the quilts?"
It was already cold on the mountain, and it got even colder when it rained. Fortunately, he was strong and was fine even though he covered himself with half of the summer quilt.
"Then blame your precious daughter. I even warmed half of your body." Xiulan snorted.
Xiaoxia was sleeping soundly and peacefully next to me, wrapping herself up warmly.
"Forget it, I can't afford to offend either of them, so why not just leave?" Lin Heng shook his head, sat up and prepared to get up.
Xiulan pushed him and said in a tender voice, "Honey, go get me some black underwear. I want to change."
Lin Heng stood up and took a set of black underwear hanging on the shelf. After helping Xiulan change, he got out of bed quickly.
After opening the door, Lin Heng stood against the door, and Xiulan held his arm.
"The rain is not heavy, but it will probably last for a while." Xiulan said as she looked at the misty rain outside.
"It will take a while. We can't stop for a while." Lin Heng nodded.
He went to the back and got some firewood, lit it in the stove, boiled water, then poured water from the kettle to wash his face.
He also used the extra hot water to wash Xiulan's underwear. Since Xiulan couldn't bend down, he was the one who did all the work.
Compared to her last pregnancy, Xiulan feels particularly happy now. Lin Heng washes her clothes and cooks for her.
Everything she eats every day is arranged carefully, and she really enjoys the feeling of being arranged.
After breakfast, Lin Heng looked at the wild ginseng in the glass bottle.
The ginseng had been dried in the shade long ago and was stored in a glass bottle with quicklime wrapped in cloth at the bottom as a desiccant.
Only after observing the condition of the bottle through it did Lin Heng feel relieved. This was the most valuable thing in his hand, so he couldn't help but be careful.
"Aren't you going to sell this?" Xiulan looked at him and said.
"Don't sell it for now. We'll sell it when we need money." Lin Heng said with a smile.
He now likes to hoard some valuable items in the future, such as stamps, Angong Niuhuang Pills and other things.
These things are not precious and cheap now, but they will become valuable treasures in the future.
Buying it and keeping it at home is also a kind of heritage. If the family experiences a major change in the future and falls into poverty, descendants can exchange it for money so that they will not be too poor.
"I think it's a good idea to keep it too." Xiulan nodded.
Lin Heng looked at his wife and daughter and said, "Why don't I take you down the mountain to play? It's raining here and there's nothing to do."
"Okay, okay!" Xiaoxia was the first to agree. She couldn't even sit on the swing because it was raining. She didn't like this place at all.
"That's fine." Xiulan nodded and said, at least the house downstairs is big enough.
"That's fine."
Lin Heng nodded and found two umbrellas and a raincoat.
Xiaoxia asked her to hold the umbrella herself, while Xiulan put on a raincoat and held an umbrella. It would be very troublesome if a pregnant woman caught a cold.
"The dam is about to be filled with water." Xiulan said with a smile as they passed by the dam.
"We can only wait until the afternoon to see it." Lin Heng said after taking a look at the dam.
The water surface is still more than one meter away from the overflow outlet, and it will take some time before we can see the water flowing down to form a waterfall.
"Let's go." Xiulan said, and walked downstairs.
Soon the three of them came downstairs. Mother Lin looked at them and asked, "Why did you come downstairs?"
"It was raining and there was nothing to do up there, so we came down." Lin Heng explained, and then asked, "Did my dad drive Caiyun to school?"
"Yes, we just left not long ago and the cows haven't been fed yet." Lin's mother nodded.
"Then let me do it." Lin Heng nodded. After making arrangements for Xiulan and Xiaoxia, he went to the cowshed to feed the cattle and sheep.
On the way back, he ran to check on the chickens he had put into the chicken coop yesterday.
On rainy days, these guys squat under the chicken coop, occasionally plucking some thatch leaves to eat, and a few of them stare blankly at the moderate rain outside.
When Lin Heng came back, his mother was peeling young corn with Xiulan. He asked curiously, "Mom, are you cooking corn porridge or making steamed buns?"
"Make Jiangba steamed buns. Use the grinder to grind them for me later." said Lin's mother. She likes to eat some Jiangba steamed buns every year.
"Okay." Although Lin Heng didn't like to eat it, he could still help make some.
He quickly cut the corn with a knife, then replaced the sieve with a smaller one for the grinder, and used the machine to grind the corn kernels into a light yellow corn paste, or pulp, in just a few minutes.
Compared to the slow grinding with a stone mill last year, the crusher is many times faster.
The stone mill is not bad. He likes to use it to make tofu.
"When it's a little sour tomorrow, I'll make some steamed buns for you." Lin's mother said, carrying the bucket.
Xiulan smiled and agreed: "Sure, I haven't eaten for a long time."
A few people were chatting. Lin's mother just said that she was going to knead dough to make hand-rolled noodles for lunch when Lin Wei's roar and Lai Fu's shouting were heard outside.
"Brother Lin, a wild boar has been trapped, come and help!!"
Lin Hai's voice was filled with excitement.
"Did we trap a wild boar?" Lin Heng was shocked and quickly walked out to open the gate of the base.
Lin Hai ran in wearing a raincoat and said excitedly: "Brother Lin, come with me to the field to kill the wild boar. If we are late, the guy might run away."
"How big is it?"
Lin Heng was not very surprised. If the wild boar went to damage the crops again, the probability of being trapped was still very high.
"I estimated it was at least fifty or sixty kilograms. I was originally going to break corn to make steamed buns, but I heard the noise. I was sure that I was trapped, so I immediately ran to find you." Lin Hai explained.
"Then let's go to the mountain to get bows and arrows." Lin Heng said, then turned around and walked back.
After briefly explaining the situation to Xiulan and her mother, they quickly ran up the mountain, fearing that the wild boar would run away if they were too late.
When passing the small dam, the water had overflowed and shot out through a slightly upward slope made by Lin Heng, turning into a beautiful white waterfall.
But now Lin Heng was not interested in appreciating it. He ran into the cabin, took the bow bag and arrows and walked out.
I jogged down the mountain and it took me more than ten minutes to reach a cornfield near the forest on the upper river.
"It's right over there." Lin Hai said, pointing to a piece of fallen corn not far away.
Lin Heng approached step by step, and suddenly with a roar, the wild boar, which had been motionless, rushed towards Lin Heng, and the tree where the clamp was tied was pulled to the ground.
"not bad."
Lin Heng took a look at the black-haired, tall-backed, long-nosed wild boar, drew his bow and shot an arrow. With a whoosh, the sharp arrow pierced its chest, and its lungs began to bleed profusely.
“Roar!”
After struggling twice more violently, the wild boar fell down.
"Brother Lin is awesome!" Lin Hai ran over and said admiringly.
"Be careful, you're not dead yet."
Lin Heng reminded him and shot another arrow. When he found that it didn't move at all, he took out his dagger and walked over to cut the aorta and drain the blood.
"How many pounds does this weigh?" Lin Hai said excitedly.
"About 60 to 70 kilograms, little wild boar." Lin Heng roughly estimated and patted his shoulder again: "Thanks to you for discovering it, you have half of the wild boar meat."
Lin Hai waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, no, Brother Lin, just give me whatever you want. The trap is yours, and you killed the wild boar."
"That's how I say it is." Lin Heng shook his head and said, "Come and help tie him up. We'll carry him back to your house and kill him."
"Okay." Lin Hai came over to help tie up the wild boar, and then the two of them carried it back.
At Lin Hai's home, his mother Li Xue was already complaining because Lin Hai hadn't come back for a long time, while his father was trying to dissuade him.
As the two were talking, they suddenly saw Lin Heng and Lin Hai walking in one after the other.
"Third Mom, Third Dad." Lin Heng greeted with a smile.
Often he would shout loudly: "Mom and Dad, hurry up and boil some water to scald the wild boar."
Third Mother Li Xue stammered, "How did you get this?"
"Why ask? It must have been caught by the clamp. Look at that leg, the bones are exposed. Let's go and boil some water."
Third father Lin Xutao saw the clue and said, clapping his thigh.
"Oh, I'll boil some water then." Li Xue wiped her hands excitedly and ran into the house.
"Lin Heng, please sit down and have some tea and have a good rest." Lin Xutao helped to catch the wild boar and said with a smile.
Lin Heng sat down and drank a cup of tea. Lin Hai couldn't wait to explain the experience of hunting the wild boar, wanting to prove that he was a useful person.
Because of this wild boar, he felt a sense of accomplishment.
Lin Heng also emphasized his contributions and said that he didn't care much about these things.
"The water is boiling." After a while Li Xue came out and shouted.
"Okay, Third Aunt, I'll bring the pork soup right away." Lin Heng said, standing up.
Find a wooden basin, pour boiling water into it, add a little cold water and you can make pork soup.
Because there were no volcanic stones to smash the pig hair, they could only scrape it with a knife, which wasted a lot of time.
After shaving off the pig's hair and weighing it, it weighed 68 kilograms, which is considered a pretty good little wild boar.
Lin Heng was already very familiar with cutting pork, no worse than a butcher, and he quickly cut the pork into pieces.
"Hengwa, your technique is pretty good." Sandie praised.
Third Mother also agreed with a smile: "He's better than a butcher."
"It's okay." Lin Heng smiled.
When it came to dividing the meat, he was not polite. Although it was divided in half, he picked out the ones he liked.
A pig's head, a hind leg, large intestine, pig's tongue, pork fat, and the rest of the better ones were taken to make up the weight.
After Lin Heng finished choosing, his third father took another pig leg and handed it to him: "Take this pig leg too. The pig's head has no meat. You are at a great disadvantage."
"No, no, you guys didn't ask for money when you helped me with the work before. I'll be angry if you do this to the pork again."
Lin Heng shook his head, tied the bag, took the things and ran away.
Seeing Lin Heng running away, his third father chased after him and said, "Wait a minute, if you don't want to take it, forget it. Eat your meal first and then leave."
"We'll talk about it next time."
Lin Heng didn't even look back, walking quickly in his raincoat. He preferred the hand-rolled noodles at home.
Seeing Lin Heng coming back, Lin's father couldn't wait to ask: "Son, how big is the wild boar you killed?"
"Sixty-eight kilograms, and I only took half." Lin Heng said as he threw the bag into the basin.
Father Lin poured it out and looked at it, then nodded and said, "Except for the pig head with too many bones, everything else you took is pretty good."
Mother Lin said, "I like this pork fat. Let's make dumplings with the fat residue."
"The braising soup from before hasn't gone bad yet, so it can be used to braise the pig's head." Xiulan said, looking at the pig's head.
She was also very satisfied with the large intestine. She and Lin Heng both liked to eat it.
No one had any objection to Lin Heng giving half of the meat. His third father and Lin Hai had helped a lot these days.
"It's a good thing that you brought the meat back. I'll go fry a plate for us to try." Mother Lin said and turned to prepare the meal.
Lin Heng and his father processed the meat further. It was useless to smoke the meat in the summer as it would inevitably go bad, so they could only add salt and dry it into jerky.
But wild boar meat jerky is not delicious, so the last solution we thought of was to make part of it into jar meat, and braise the rest, leave it for a day and then braise it again to extend the shelf life.
Give some to his older brother and the problem will be almost solved.
"Why are you cutting off the pig skin?" Father Lin looked at his son's actions and was very confused.
“Making pig skin jelly is a gel makeup just like donkey glue.” Lin Heng explained.
After he said this, Lin's father understood and became curious about his production method.
"It's time to eat." At this time, Lin's mother shouted in the kitchen.
"Eat, eat."
Lin Heng was already hungry, so he put down the work in his hands and ran into the kitchen first.
Lin's mother's hand-rolled noodles are very chewy. The noodles are made of wild boar meat, sour beans, and sour and spicy vegetables. They are mixed into the noodles with a little garlic and chili, and the taste is very tempting.
"It's delicious. My mom is really talented." Lin Heng gave a thumbs up and praised.
"Of course." Mother Lin raised her head and said, feeling very comfortable.
Lin Heng ate two large bowls of noodles, and after finishing them he continued to make the pig skin jelly. He scraped the grease off the two pig skins, removed the hair, and then put them in the pot to cook.
When it is almost melted, add some salt and soy sauce to season it, pour it into a bowl and place it over cold water to cool, and the chewy pork skin jelly like gel is ready.
Add a little vinegar and oil, stir the chili and the dish is ready.
“I want to eat!”
Xiaoxia started shouting as soon as she took a bite and was mesmerized by the delicious taste.
"We'll eat the rest tonight."
In the end, it was her mother who stepped in and stopped it.
After Lin Heng made the pork skin jelly, his father also peeled off the pig's head. After processing, he threw it into the marinade pot together with pork and other ingredients.
In addition to the braised meat, there is also a pot next to it where lard is boiled. Lin Heng likes to throw some lean meat in and fry it for a while before eating. It tastes very delicious.
When he was a child, every time his mother cooked lard, he and his older brother would gather around and wait to eat.
Seeing Lin Heng enter the house, his mother habitually gave him a piece of fried lean meat, even though he was already grown up.
It was raining moderately outside and the fragrance was wafting through the house. Fortunately, there was no one else nearby, otherwise I would have been drooling with envy.
For the next three days, the rain came and went but the sky never cleared up. Lin Heng's family had meat on the table every day, and it was a rare sight to see raw materials.
There is no other way. We made so much pork in the summer and it is raining, so the only solution is to eat it.
After eating it in different ways, there wasn't much left, but the whole family was a little tired of the pork.
Early in the morning of September 4th, the blue sky appeared and the sun finally stopped asking for leave.
(End of this chapter)
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