Chapter 351 A big prey was caught on the first day
Mother Lin sighed and said, "Alas, as the saying goes, a little kindness pays off, a big kindness pays off, that's how it should be."
"There are too many poor people. Even if they want to lend us this little money, it won't be enough." Father Lin shook his head.
Lin Heng is actually willing to help those in need, but most of the time he is not appreciated and instead it causes harm.
What he needs to do is to set up a company, make it bigger and stronger, and let everyone make money. There is no point in borrowing money like this.
"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's eat meat." Lin Heng picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of mutton for Xiulan's parents.
Xiulan also smiled and said, "Indeed, we eat meat. Tomorrow is New Year's Day, so we can celebrate it."
"Dad, I want to eat yam." Xiaoxia said with her head tilted. After eating some honey lilies, her cough symptoms have become very mild.
"Okay, I'll get it for you." Lin Heng went to the kitchen and took out a yam. He washed it, cut it into small pieces and brought it over. This wild yam does not need to be peeled, otherwise it will be difficult to pick up.
The yam was cooked in just a few minutes. Mother Lin took a spoon and scooped some for Xiaoxia and Xiulan respectively.
"Grandma, put it in this bowl. I want to eat it with hawthorn jam." Xiaoxia took a bowl and said.
"Okay." Mother Lin put it in for her with a smile, and brought over some hawthorn jam.
Father Lin ate a piece of mutton and asked with a smile: "Xiu Lan is going to give birth soon, right?"
Lin Heng nodded and said, "Almost. The baby is due in a little over a month. We may not be able to spend the New Year at home this year. We can only come back after the New Year."
There is a leap October in the lunar calendar this year, so the Spring Festival will be on February 20th of the Gregorian calendar in 1985. By then, he and Xiulan should still be in the city.
Mother Lin looked up and asked, "When are you planning to go to the city to give birth?"
She had always hired a midwife to come to her home for births in the past, and she was a little envious of Xiulan for being taken care of so well, but it was also reasonable, as she wanted to have a grandson.
Xiulan smiled and responded, "Lin Heng originally said he would go in January, but I thought it was a bit early, so we decided to go on January 10th."
Father Lin nodded and said, "We should go to the hospital earlier. You see, many women in the village don't trust hospitals. Their babies died when they were delivered at home. We can't save this little money."
Although Mr. Lin was illiterate, he had a clear view of major issues of right and wrong.
"Then mom and dad, do you want to go down together?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
Mother Lin shook her head: "No need, we will watch the door. When your sister is on vacation, you can take her over to help."
"That's fine." Lin Heng didn't force it, he knew this would be the result.
After saying that, he also scooped up a piece of wild yam to eat. It had only been cooked for less than five minutes, but the yam was so big that it could not be picked up with chopsticks and it fell into pieces in an instant.
Everyone spent the last half of the day of 1984 enjoying the hotpot. In the evening, Caiyun came back and the hotpot was still there. They added some charcoal so that she could continue to eat the mutton hotpot.
At night, Lin Heng held Xiulan in his arms and slept until 1985. Early in the morning of New Year's Day, the two got up together. It was freezing cold outside, with white frost everywhere, and a thick layer of ice formed on the surface of the fish pond.
Xiulan exhaled white air and said, "It's strange, it hasn't snowed on New Year's Day this year, but it seemed to have snowed at the end of November last year."
Lin Heng looked at his wife and said, "Indeed, but it's also good this way. I can go hunting in the mountains today. I will stay for two or three days and won't come back."
Xiulan said softly, "You go ahead. When you come back, we will have to go to the city, and you won't be able to hunt by then."
Her fetal movement has been quite severe in the past two days. It's time to go to the hospital for a thorough check-up.
"good."
Lin Heng nodded, and went to the back mountain with Xiulan to milk the cows. When they came back, Caiyun had woken up and went to put clothes on Xiaoxia and called her.
After exercising and having breakfast, Lin Heng took hunting tools, food and a series of equipment, and then took Xiongba and called his eldest brother to go up the mountain together.
Lin Yue brought his five black dogs with him today. It didn’t matter if they were hunting or not, he would just keep them warm when he slept with them at night. He looked at Lin Heng and asked, “Target Birch Cliff?”
"Yes, Birch Cliff." Lin Heng nodded.
Lin Yue said with emotion: "It's just that if we go there now, we won't be able to find ginseng."
We had made an appointment to go there a long time ago, but I didn't expect to be delayed until now.
"There's nothing we can do about it." Lin Heng smiled and spread his hands.
The two chatted as they walked. Today they were mainly on the road, as hunting would not begin until the afternoon.
Lin Heng asked Xiongba to lead the way, and the two of them first arrived at the well ditch. The water in the ditch had frozen, and icebergs made up of icicles had formed on the stone wall.
They didn't encounter any prey along the way, and the two didn't have much hope for this place, after all, cattle herders often came here.
When the sun came out, they had already reached the top of the hill on the Shuijinggou side. The trees gradually became taller. Lin Heng was walking when he suddenly stopped and took out a slingshot from his waist.
Soon a red squirrel appeared in his hand: "Today is considered the opening day."
Lin Yue said: "Let's go faster and see if there is any prey over in Baishigou."
He was no longer very interested in these small prey.
Then they quickened their pace and arrived at Baishigou at about half past nine. Baishigou was quite desolate in winter, with gray-white stones, scattered leaves, and bare trees that looked like giant hands reaching out to the sky.
Looking up, there was no sign of life at all. Only a few evergreen shrubs still had some greenness.
Not finding any trace of prey, the two were a little disappointed. After resting for a while, they continued to cross mountains and hills towards Birch Cliff.
The forest here gradually became taller and denser. Lin Heng unexpectedly found some frozen and wilted enoki mushrooms and reached out to pick them up.
"Come quickly, this is the feces of the yellow muntjac." Lin Yue suddenly said.
Lin Heng came over and saw that it was indeed pulled recently. He asked Xiongba to follow it, but he lost it after running about halfway up the mountain.
However, as we arrived here, we saw more and more traces of animals, and then we found traces of wild boars. After tracking them for a long time, we lost them again.
In the blink of an eye, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. The two looked up and saw snow-white trees in front of them. They were birch trees.
Lin Yue took a sip of water and said with emotion: "We have finally reached Birch Cliff. This place is really difficult to walk to."
Lin Heng nodded and said, "It's hard to leave. Let's quickly find a place to build a shelter. Once we're done, it'll be time for night hunting."
Birch Cliff was too far away, and there was almost no road leading there, so they had to walk along the animal paths.
The birch trees here are generally more than ten meters high, and there are some large trees that are more than twenty or thirty meters high, with golden leaves on the ground. It is said that every autumn this cliff is golden without any other colors, so it is called the Birch Cliff.
The two men climbed over the hill and came to a ditch below. There was a mountain stream here, which was now completely frozen. The two men found a flat shore to build a shelter.
The birch trees around were used as the skeleton, and some small birch trees as thick as wrists were cut to build the frame. Finally, the frame was filled with branches and leaves, and a layer of film paper was laid on the top for waterproofing.
It took them more than two hours to finally build the shelter, make a simple door, and create a smokeless stove using a hollow tree as a chimney.
After finishing, the two took a break. Lin Heng took the pot and went out to get water. When passing by the water, Lin Heng accidentally found a birch mushroom.
"nice one."
Lin Heng broke it off, went over to get a pot of water and returned to the shelter.
Lin Yue had already lit a fire in the shelter, and it suddenly became much warmer. Lin Heng placed the pot on the stove and threw the birch mushrooms in to cook.
"Can this chaga be sold?" Lin Yue asked.
"Yes, it can lower blood sugar and prevent diabetes." Lin Heng nodded.
This thing is a very good medicinal material, but they don't have much here, and the purchase price is slightly lower than that of Coriolus versicolor.
After the water boiled, they drank some hot water and took out the noodles and put them in.
The noodles were made by Lin's mother herself. Lin Heng bought her a noodle mixer, and she figured out how to dry the noodles herself.
After the noodles are cooked, take them out and mix them with the mushroom sauce that Lin Heng brought from home. This mushroom sauce is made from a variety of precious mushrooms and is extremely fragrant.
"Let's go, it's time to explore."
After dinner, Lin Yue couldn't wait to say.
"Then let's go and take a look." Lin Heng did not refuse. He took Xiongba with him and went out with the noose and clamps.
Xiongba searched for traces of prey and set clamps or noose traps on the animal paths where the prey had passed.
At first, only a few sparse footprints were seen. Xiongba explored forward all the way and soon found a pile of green bean-like feces.
"Xiongba, come on, whether we can have meat tonight depends on you."
Lin Heng touched Xiongba's head and said excitedly.
"Woo woo~"
Xiongba whimpered and continued searching, and soon it stopped in front of a birch tree.
Lin Heng leaned in and smelled it, and was hit by a foul odor, but he became a little excited because this was the roe deer's stink gland, which was used by male roe deer to mark their territory.
"It seems that we really have hope today." Lin Yue touched Xiongba's neck excitedly.
Then he quickly opened the bow bag, took the compound bow in his hand, and was ready to attack at any time.
He also checked himself for reflective objects or special smells. He gave the rings and other things to Xiulan when he went up the mountain. It was not appropriate to bring those things when hunting.
Xiongba sniffed the remaining scent in the air, trying to find the traces of the roe deer.
Unconsciously, they had walked out of the birch forest and came to a mixed woods. Not long after walking, they saw a downhill slope in front of them. The slope was barren and covered with low shrubs.
Lin Heng stood behind the tree and observed cautiously. After walking a few steps, he suddenly held his breath. Not far below, he saw a big-eared roe deer eating grass and looking around vigilantly.
It was only fifty meters away from him.
Lin Heng was a little unconfident as he hadn't hunted for a long time. He looked around, moved closer by five or six meters, and then found an opportunity when the monkey lowered its head to eat grass, drew his bow and shot an arrow.
call out!!
“Ahhh!! Ahhhh!!”
With a dry scream, the silly roe deer jumped and ran down the mountain with a sharp arrow piercing its chest.
“Woof woof woof!!”
Xiongba finally stopped restraining himself and ran out at full speed to chase after him.
As soon as they reached the top of the mountain, the silly roe deer fell down, with blood constantly flowing out from his chest.
“Rest in peace!”
Lin Heng came over and cut its aorta with a knife, causing the blood to flow out more violently, allowing Xiongba to drink his fill.
"That's awesome, Xiongba!"
Looking at the roe deer lying on the ground, Lin Heng couldn't help but pick up Xiongba and turned him around. This guy was so powerful today that he actually smelled the trace of a stupid roe deer.
“Ouch!”
Xiongba licked Lin Heng's hand happily. He wanted to eat meat tonight.
"Don't worry, you will definitely have meat to eat today." Lin Heng understood what it meant. He has never been a stingy person.
Suddenly Xiongba became even happier.
When the blood had almost drained out, Lin Heng picked up the male roe deer, weighed it, and grinned: "Roe deer are fat just after winter. This one must weigh more than 50 kilograms."
When you pinch his body, you will find that it is all firm flesh, and the two horns on his head have not fallen off yet, which is also a happy thing for Lin Heng.
Looking at the watch, it was already five fifty-five, and it was almost dark in the deep mountains. The distance they had chased was about five or six kilometers.
"Let's go back."
Carrying the roe deer on his shoulders, Lin Heng walked back with Xiongba. He took out the pendant compass from his chest and walked towards the shelter along the easy path.
He was too focused when he was chasing him, so he was a little lost when he went back. But it didn't matter, everything would be fine with a compass.
In the blink of an eye, it was dark and he heard two gunshots. Apparently his elder brother had also discovered something.
But judging from the sounds of it, he still had a long way to go before he got home, and he couldn't walk fast carrying the things.
It was dark, and it was still a little scary in this deep mountain. Fortunately, Xiongba was with me, so I didn't feel so lonely.
As they were walking, Xiongba suddenly stopped. Lin Heng shone the flashlight over there in confusion and was stunned.
Then he leaned over to take a closer look and exclaimed in surprise: "There are bear footprints here!"
Although this mark is very old, it is definitely a bear footprint. I just don’t know whether it is from a black bear or a panda. If you can see feces, you can see the feces.
"Forget it, let's explore again tomorrow morning."
Lin Heng cut down two nearby trees as thick as his arms as a mark, and continued walking back carrying the roe deer.
He didn't worry about being attacked by a bear because it was winter and both pandas and black bears were hibernating.
It was after seven in the evening when he walked back to the shelter. He could see the fire from afar; his elder brother had already returned.
"Brother, you are finally back. If you hadn't come back, I would have been worried to death."
Seeing the flashlight, Lin Yue came out to greet him.
When he came to Lin Heng, he was stunned: "Oh my God, you shot a roe deer?"
His eyes were wide open and his mouth couldn't close for a long time. He really couldn't believe that Lin Heng had killed a roe deer on just his first day.
"It's also luck that Xiongba tracked him down."
Lin Heng explained with a smile, and then said, "Let's go back to the shelter and deal with the roe deer. It will be difficult to cut it up once it's completely cold."
(End of this chapter)
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