Chapter 405 I'm Not in a Hurry at All
The bushes were difficult to walk through, and by the time the two men came down, Xiongba and Fengshou had already caught the wild boar.
But as the saying goes, a wounded wild boar is as fierce as a tiger. Xiongba bit one of them by the neck and the other by the tail, but the wild boars rushed forward and shook them off.
After shaking off the two dogs, this guy did not run away. Instead, he opened his huge mouth and fangs and attacked Xiongba. For a moment, neither Xiongba nor Fengshou could get close to him.
"Brother, lend me your gun to play with." Lin Heng said to his elder brother.
"Here." Lin Yue handed it to Lin Heng without hesitation.
Lin Heng took a look and saw that there was a bullet loaded in it.
"Come back."
Lin Heng walked up and shouted, Xiong Ba Fengshou turned around and ran back immediately.
The wild boar, with red eyes, no longer wanted to run away, and came over when it saw people rushing towards it.
Lin Heng raised his gun and aimed and fired a shot. With a loud bang, the wild boar that was charging fell down.
Lin Heng's shot sent several balls into its brain, and any carbon-based creature would die.
"Damn, a wild boar. It's so sexy." Lin Yue ran over to take a look and was immediately disappointed.
"I knew it was a boar. Ordinary sows aren't so crazy." Lin Heng walked over and said.
After taking a breath, he smiled and said, "It's okay. I have two more pig eggs. I can roast them and eat them."
"That's all I can think of, but we're lucky to have had a good start at the beginning."
Lin Yue nodded, bent down and moved it, and said with difficulty: "This must be one hundred and fifty. The prey in autumn is fat and strong."
"I'll bleed him, and then we'll set a trap here. Maybe we can catch prey tomorrow."
As Lin Heng spoke, he took out a dagger and drew blood directly. Blood flowed all over the floor.
“Boohoo!!”
“Ahhh!!”
The two dogs, Xiongba Fengshou, came over, shaking their heads and tails, to lick the blood, looking very happy.
After draining the blood, Lin Heng and his eldest brother first set up a Yama King's Hanging on a nearby animal path, and then waited until the two dogs had licked the blood almost completely, and then placed clamps near the blood.
They set traps with stone cross marks nearby. The prey can't understand them, but humans can spot the marks at a glance.
Normally, it won't hurt anyone.
After everything was arranged, the two men tied up the wild boar and carried it back.
At this time, the sun was setting and there was a red glow in the sky, but it was still in time to go back.
We walked back home in a straight line, unlike when we came here where we had to take a detour to look for wild boars, so we returned quite quickly.
After walking for two hours, the sun was half hidden behind the mountains and they were getting closer to the camp.
In the camp, Lu Honghai and Lu Honggang had gone out hunting, and now only Li Baiquan was left.
On this side of the camp, all the leaves around were cleared away, and a windproof firewall was built with stones and soil.
A large rainproof roof was also raised in the middle of the five shelters.
It was supported by four pieces of wood as thick as arms, a wooden frame was built on the top, some branches were laid on it, and the surface was covered with a lot of mud mixed with loess and pine needles.
Because they need to make a fire under the roof, they use mud so that the roof won’t catch fire.
Under the roof, two chimneys were made with yellow mud and stones, which can be used for cooking and boiling water.
In addition to this, Li Baiquan has built his own shelter and is now cooking rice to eat with pickles in the evening.
Suddenly he heard someone talking outside. When he heard it was his two nephews, he immediately became happy: "Lin Heng and Lin Yue, you are finally back. Did you catch any prey?"
"This is a big wild boar weighing over 100 pounds. Come over and help us." Lin Heng shouted with a smile.
"Is this true? Don't lie to your uncle, kid." Li Baiquan didn't believe it and walked out while saying it.
When they saw Lin Heng and the other man actually carrying a pig, they were stunned where they stood, dumbfounded.
"Oh my God, you really killed a big wild boar!" Li Baiquan exclaimed finally.
It was incredible that we killed a wild boar on the first day we arrived.
"Of course, uncle will help kill it later." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"It's a pity that it's a wild boar. It smells very bad." Lin Yue also laughed.
"This is what you got, awesome!" Li Baiquan gave a thumbs up, came over to help Lin Heng lift it, and then said, "Tell me how you got it?"
"good."
The two men came to the camp, put their things down, drank some water, rested, and talked about their hunting experience.
"Oh my God, it seems that we have come to the right place this time. We even saw a sika deer. It's very valuable to kill one of them, and the meat is delicious." Li Baiquan said excitedly. He decided to go out for a walk tomorrow.
"My target is black bears. It would be best if I could take down two of them." Lin Heng grinned. Black bears are truly valuable commodities.
Of course, you can kill both the musk deer and the forest musk deer, but these creatures are harder to kill than black bears.
"By the way, hasn't my uncle come back yet?" Lin Yue asked.
"I came back in the afternoon and didn't catch anything. Then I went out again with your third uncle. He took a flashlight and said he wanted to hunt golden roosters and pheasants in the evening." Li Baiquan said.
After chatting for a while, they set up a rack and started to process the wild boar. There was no way to use water to scald the hair on the wild mountain.
So they chose the simplest method - fire.
They first cut the wild boar into strips, then put it on the fire to burn the hair, and then scrape it with a knife to finish it.
“Don’t be afraid of the smell of boar meat. Making it into bacon can remove 70% of the smell. Then boil it again and add onions, ginger and rice wine, and it will basically have no taste.” Li Baiquan said as he processed it.
After burning the hair, smear a heavier amount of table salt on the wild boar meat, spread a piece of plastic paper on the ground, sprinkle some wild peppercorns picked on the road, marinate it overnight, and hang it up to smoke and roast it the next day.
It was already past eight o'clock when they finished processing the meat. They kept the pork tenderloin for eating tonight and cooked the pig lungs to feed the two dogs.
Then the three of them took the pig offal to a stream in the distance to process it, as the small pond here was not suitable for processing the pig offal.
Everyone likes to eat ingredients like large and small intestines, and they taste very good when fried.
After processing the pig offal by the stream, it was almost ten o'clock when we returned to the camp.
The rice had been prepared long ago. Lin Heng cut the pork tenderloin, added some cooking wine and wild peppercorns when frying it, and then put in some enoki mushrooms and oyster mushrooms that he had picked up during the day.
"Here are some Hericium erinaceus picked by your uncle. Do you want some?" Li Baiquan took them out and asked.
"Let's eat it tomorrow." Lin Heng shook his head.
After the dishes were cooked, they ate first. They were so hungry that they couldn’t wait for their eldest and third uncles to come back to eat.
Just as they finished their meal, they heard some movement in the woods in the distance.
"Uncle, how did you harvest?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
"I shot two golden roosters, and your third uncle shot a hazel grouse. What about you guys?" Lu Honghai asked.
"We can eat chicken tomorrow morning." Lu Honggang also said.
"We also caught some prey, and it's piled on the ground." Lin Heng pointed to the pile of meat nearby. His elder brother and uncle were peeling a pig's head.
"No! This big??"
“You guys killed a big wild boar??”
When the two walked in and saw clearly, they were stunned and their eyes were as big as copper bells.
"No, how did you get it?" Lu Honghai couldn't believe it.
"In the northwest..." Lin Yue was very keen to explain.
Although Lin Heng had already told him to ignore Xiongba's effect, Lu Honghai still noticed something after he finished speaking.
"Your dogs are all extraordinary. Lend them to me." He said, looking at the two dogs. He had looked down on them before, but now his attitude has completely changed.
"Xiongba is not available for loan. Uncle, if you want to borrow it, please take Fengshou over." Lin Heng said as he touched Fengshou.
"I think your Xiongba is extraordinary." Lu Honghai asked while looking at the big wolfdog lying beside him.
"It's okay, but if it doesn't lend it to me, I won't lend it to you even if my dad comes." Lin Heng glanced at Xiong Ba and said.
Xiongba was too important to him, and he would not lend it to anyone else. If the dog was injured while hunting due to carelessness, he would have nowhere to complain.
On one side is an elder with whom he has a very good relationship, and on the other side is his beloved dog, so the best thing to do is not to lend it.
Xiongba is not only his guarantee for hunting, but he has also developed feelings for him over the years, and he is like a son to him.
When he went hunting, he usually only let Xiongba track and would never let him chase and kill the prey, for fear that he would get into danger.
"Okay, I'll lend you the harvest money." Lu Honghai was not angry.
Sitting down, he ate and everyone chatted again. He said, "I also found black bear footprints today. There are indeed a lot of bears around here."
"Where did you find your uncle?" Lin Heng asked immediately.
Lu Honghai said: "In the forest to the south, we saw traces of scratches left by a black bear. This guy is really scary and has too much strength."
In addition to the black bear, he also found traces of many other animals, and it seemed that there were more prey than on their side.
However, after hearing that Lin Heng saw a sika deer, Lu Honghai and Lu Honggang decided to follow him to the northwest tomorrow.
Li Baiquan will continue to stay to guard the camp and smoke the wild boar meat tomorrow.
The meat smoked from pine trees cut in the forest will have a fresh fragrance.
"How about you go hunting tomorrow, uncle, and I'll stay here to smoke the meat." Lin Heng said to his uncle.
He knew that his uncle was a runner and it would be boring for him to stay in the camp alone.
"It's okay. I'll smoke the meat first. I'll go when you guys are tired of running." Li Baiquan said with a smile.
"That's fine."
After chatting for a while, Lin Heng drank some rice wine before going to bed, and then returned to his shelter to rest.
Before going to bed, I wrapped two golden roosters in mud and made beggar's chickens. I would have them for lunch tomorrow when I went hunting. They were also cooked with a few potatoes that I had exchanged for from Yuanbao Village.
The nights in the mountains were getting colder and colder. He used film paper to seal the two ends of the herringbone shelter. With Xiongba inside, it was not particularly cold.
The next morning, they got up early, cooked noodles, cut the large intestine and stir-fried it with sauerkraut, made a bowl of pork intestine noodles, ate it, and then went hunting.
After setting off, I first went to the place where the trap was set yesterday and looked at it from a distance.
There is no movement. This is normal. These traps are not that fast.
There was no hope here, so they followed the same route they took yesterday towards the place where they found the sika deer.
"Why did you get on such a thing?"
Lin Heng was speechless when he arrived at the place where the pigs were bled yesterday. There was a weasel on the clamp and the stench from its stink glands could be smelled from a distance.
Because the clamp was so big, the guy was directly crushed to death, but the temporary stench left by the clamp could not be removed.
"Throw it away. We don't want it anymore." After taking a look, Lin Heng threw the weasel to Xiongba and Fengshou. They didn't want to eat it at all.
"Chop off half of the meat, and peel off the remaining skin to feed the dog."
Lu Honggang picked it up and took out a knife to deal with it. He felt it was a bit of a waste to throw it away directly.
After dealing with the weasel, they walked to the place where they found the sika deer yesterday. It was already noon.
They took out the potatoes and golden chicken that they had baked last night and shared them. After they had finished eating, they split into two groups and advanced in two directions.
Lin Heng was with his third uncle, and his eldest brother was with his eldest uncle.
Lu Honggang was honest and simple, and he followed Lin Heng and said, "Hengwa, you find the way, and I'll follow you."
"I don't think there's much hope of finding sika deer today. Let's look for places where they lick salt and set some traps."
Lin Heng thought for a moment and said.
"That's fine." Lu Honggang nodded in agreement.
Taking Xiongba with them, they searched all the way and found a salty place under a cliff at three o'clock in the afternoon. The soil and stones here had obvious signs of being licked and were round in shape.
"This is the place." Lin Heng nodded. He did not set the trap here, but went to the side and set it on the animal path.
It is still a trap without bait. Bait will only attract things like mice and voles.
Lin Heng’s strategy is to keep setting traps. A month is long enough, and as time goes by, something will definitely be caught in his traps.
There are not only clamp traps, but also noose traps. Lin Heng cannot make traps like the "bridge pair" in a short time.
After setting the trap, I spent the rest of the time searching for the sika deer, but as expected, I failed.
However, it is not easy to get hungry in autumn. When Lin Heng came to a wasteland, he saw two rabbits eating grass in the distance. He drew his bow and shot an arrow, killing them with one shot, piercing the rabbits and nailing them to the ground.
"sharp!"
Lu Honggang was very impressed. He thought he could never learn the skills of his nephew.
"This rabbit is not bad. Let's go back." Lin Heng said with a smile.
I also explored a bit on the way back. At dusk, I heard a golden rooster crowing and shot a golden rooster.
I didn’t see any other prey, so it’s still hard to find prey.
At night, at Lin Heng's suggestion, everyone gave up going out hunting because there were bears nearby and it was too dangerous at night.
Just get up early and hunt at dusk, set some traps, and there won’t be much else to do.
In the camp, Li Baiquan cooked the pork very beautifully, and the color from smoking with pine needles was very bright.
What they have been eating these past two days are pig offal, which tastes better than meat after being processed properly.
There was not much gain for the next two days. Lin Heng persisted in setting traps. When the ropes he brought ran out, he used vines and even made vertical bridges to set traps.
【Simplified schematic diagram】
This type of trap uses the tree's own strong toughness, and generally chooses tough trees about five centimeters in length.
Fix one end of the tree to a big tree, and tie rows of bamboo spikes on the other end. Pull it apart and use the wooden stick as a support. The support should also be connected to the pull wire, the stick and the roller, forming a state that can be triggered with very little force.
When the prey passes by here and triggers the rope trap, they will be nailed to the tree directly.
The traps are usually set on animal trails and are very lethal to creatures of the same size as muntjacs, musk deer, wild boars, etc.
Lin Heng was obsessed with setting traps and was not at all worried about the air force in recent days. Recently, he discovered something extremely interesting.
(End of this chapter)
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