Chapter 409: The Isolated Taoyuan Village
"Your uncle and his family are back." Lu Honggang said after listening.
"From the sound of it, yes. Let's go see what they got."
Lin Heng put down the work in his hands, stood up and walked out.
When he came outside, the first person he saw was the greyhound Fengshou running back, followed by his elder brother, uncle and two others.
They were all carrying large bags, obviously they had caught some prey.
"What did you get these days?" Lin Heng asked.
Lu Honghai laughed out loud and said, "This time the harvest is not bad. We killed a musk deer and a roe deer."
Lin Heng's eyes widened immediately, and his voice became louder: "You guys shot a musk deer, a male or a female?"
Musk deer are good things. If you get a male one, you will make a profit. The musk yield is higher than that of the forest musk deer.
"It's a male one. I estimate the musk to weigh one or two ounces. My uncle discovered it, and then I caught it." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"I can say that I made a profit by going into the mountains this time." Li Baiquan grinned. If his gun wasn't rubbish, he could have shot it himself.
The current distribution is that he and Lin Yue each have 35%, and Lin Heng and the other three have 10% each.
"I'm not bad either. I killed a roe deer." Lu Honghai said with a smile. It was easier to find footprints in the snow. He killed a roe deer, but it was far inferior to the musk deer.
Both types of prey were not big, and the three people took them back easily.
"You are so lucky." Lin Heng said with emotion.
While walking towards the camp, Lin Yue asked: "What did you guys get?"
Lu Honggang said, "I only killed two golden chickens. Lin Heng is very powerful. He caught a wolf and a stone marten in the trap."
"Wolves and stone martens, you are really good, brother." Lin Yue was shocked. Lin Heng's harvest was no less than theirs.
Li Baiquan was also a little surprised: "Now that I have caught the wolf, I have to learn how to make traps."
"I haven't beaten these two things yet. I'm going to see them today." Lu Honghai put the things down and first looked at the marten skin hanging next to it. It felt great to touch.
Lin Yue and Li Baiquan also took turns looking at the wolf skin and sable skin, asking for details, and felt it was a little unbelievable.
Lin Heng's wolf skins and sable skins also have a share with other people. He alone takes 70%, and the others each take 10%. Even if they form a hunting team and hunt alone, everyone gets a share.
Then Lin Heng looked at the musk of the Spanish musk deer they had obtained. As soon as the scent gland was taken out, there was a strong and stinky fragrance. The musk skin and roe deer skin of the Spanish musk deer were also quite good.
They had already eaten all the internal organs and what they brought back were strips of meat that had been salted and air-dried for a while.
After the chat, Lin Heng recorded the source of each prey, who shot it, and each person's division, and let everyone review it.
This is to avoid forgetting later. When the time comes to distribute the tasks, you can just take out the notebook and distribute them according to the principles written on it.
After writing this, the others set up a meat rack again. Lin Heng continued to process the marten. While processing him, he asked, "Do you want to have spicy hot pot or barbecue for lunch? Fresh marten meat should taste good when grilled."
Lin Yue said, "Let's have some hotpot. I picked up some enoki mushrooms and oyster mushrooms on the way, and my uncle also dug up two yams."
"Okay then." Lin Heng nodded.
At noon, they made a spicy hotpot with mink meat. They drank the last bit of rice wine. The hotpot made with Lin Heng's homemade hotpot base was unanimously recognized by everyone.
Mink meat is relatively delicate and tastes the same as civet cat, and the taste is very good.
At the end of the meal, Lin Heng asked, "I am also going out tomorrow, and I am still short of one person. Who will go?"
He was a little tired of staying in this place with nothing else to do and was ready to go out for an adventure.
"Let me go with you, and avoid the direction we went before, so that you don't have to take the same route again." Lin Yue said.
Lin Heng nodded and said, "Okay, let's set off tomorrow morning. You take a rest this afternoon, and I'll take my uncle and uncle to see the traps I set up so they don't get lost."
After resting for a while, Lin Heng took the two of them for a trip and told them the specific location. He felt that his traps would still catch prey, especially the traps set outside the salt mine. These herbivores would definitely lick the salt.
After giving the instructions, the two went hunting. Lin Heng returned to the camp alone and began to pack food for the adventure. He first boiled water, let it cool, and poured it into the squirrel water bag.
For food, I brought some potatoes, some rice, some smoked deer meat, and a piece of bacon. These are basically enough for three days. If you want to stay longer, you will need to find food by yourself.
The three of them separated and carried the things on their backs. Tomorrow they would only take Xiongba and the dog with them. If they took Fengshou with them, there would not be enough food.
After packing up, Lin Heng still had some free time in the afternoon, so he made some ropes out of dragon beard grass, which might be useful on the road.
When he came back in the evening, his uncle brought back a grouse. Li Baiquan dug a lot of yams. He was a good hand at digging yams.
"I just made some bone soup. Let's have yam and pork ribs stewed with it tonight." Lin Heng said as he picked up a yam.
Wild yam is delicious. Just wash it, cut it and throw it in without peeling it.
What we eat in the evening is steamed buns roasted with wood ash. The kneaded dough is pressed into small round cakes by hand and placed in the red-hot wood ash. It will be cooked after a while. You can take it out, blow off the ash and eat it.
Wood ash looks dirty, but it is actually very clean. The steamed buns cooked with it will not burn and will have a special fragrance. Even if you don’t have a good pot in the wild, you can make delicious steamed buns.
Lin Hengduo made a few more. In addition to eating them in the evening, he could also take them with him and eat them on the road tomorrow.
After finishing the meal, I looked up at the sky and saw sparse stars. I warmed my feet and went into the shelter to rest.
The next morning, Lin Heng took Xiongba, his eldest brother and his third uncle and set off together with their belongings.
Lin Heng chose to go west. He originally wanted to go to the northwest, but his elder brother had been there before and the results were not very good.
To the west is the woods. Their idea today is to go straight through, wait until they find a suitable place to hunt, and then hunt while walking back.
It was already noon after they had climbed over three mountains with great difficulty. The location they had now arrived at was beyond the range of their usual hunting trips.
"There's a valley running east-west over there. Shall we go up along the valley?"
Lin Heng said while eating wild kiwi fruit.
We just passed by a forest and picked up a lot of wild kiwis. They were small but sweet and sour and delicious. Everyone took some with them.
"Sure. It's easy to walk in the valley, but it's too difficult to walk in this forest without a path." Lu Honggang nodded.
"Let's go, let's go down to the valley and find a place to eat." Lin Yue nodded.
As he continued to move forward, after walking a few steps, Lin Heng suddenly saw a red squirrel jumping around on a tree. After a slight hesitation, he took out his slingshot.
Soon a beautiful red squirrel fell into his hands. If it had happened near the camp, he would not have killed it, but now it was better to be prepared before going out on an adventure.
Soon they went down the valley. There was a stream in the valley, but it was very small and the flow was interrupted in several places, forming pools of water several meters apart.
The valley was mostly made up of rocks and dead trees, with few plants, but now it is covered with leaves.
They found a stone to sit down and rest, and ate the steamed buns they had made last night and some meat that had been roasted the night before.
After eating these things, everyone continued on their way. The valley was full of stone walls, and sometimes we would encounter stone walls with a drop of three or four meters. The stream water flowing down from them was all slippery.
At this time, you can only rely on some trees. If there are no trees, you can only run away.
After walking along the valley for a kilometer or two, as the direction of the valley changed, they changed to climbing mountains. They climbed over three mountains and had walked more than ten kilometers today.
Not many prey were seen. The most common footprints on the road were those of wild boars and muntjacs. No black bear footprints were seen, which made Lin Heng a little disappointed.
As they walked, they climbed over another mountain. At this time, Lin Yue pointed ahead and suddenly said, "Look, why is there a house over there? There are actually people living in this deep mountain."
Lin Heng also saw it. He felt a little bad but also a little lucky.
The bad thing is that there may be no prey near the village, so it would be a waste of time to run so far.
Fortunately, maybe he could go to the village to get some good stuff. The village was obviously isolated from the world. He also had a dozen bottles of crack oil and more than twenty bottles of cooling oil in his backpack.
And there is also some change. As the saying goes, "poor at home, rich on the road, you must bring money with you when you go out, in case of emergency."
These things are not heavy, and he had thought about this kind of thing when he brought them with him, but he didn't expect to actually encounter it.
"It seems that there is no prey to be found nearby. Even though this village is isolated from the world, there must be a lot of hunters." Lu Honggang said a little depressed.
"In that case, let's go over and take a look. It's not very far." Lin Heng suggested.
"Sure, it's good to go over and take a look." Lin Yue nodded.
Since both of them agreed, my third uncle naturally had no objection.
We walked a few kilometers and not far away, a rough voice suddenly appeared in front of us: "Where are you from? I have never seen you before."
The dialect of this voice was very strange, but as a native of the Northwest, Lin Heng could still barely understand it.
Following the sound, I saw a man carrying a shotgun on one shoulder, a wooden bow in the other hand, and a quiver on his waist.
The man looked to be in his sixties, and he was actually a hunter who was proficient in both hunting rifle and bow and arrow.
But this is normal. Gunpowder is not easy to get, and filling a homemade gun with gunpowder is even more troublesome. You have to tamp it down slowly and then add the ball bearings, and then stuff a ball of cotton in it. The whole process is very troublesome.
Generally speaking, if it is not a big prey, or there are several golden roosters together, it is obviously more cost-effective to use a bow and arrow, and the arrows can be recovered.
"We are from Xiaozhuo Township. We came into the mountains to hunt. Cousin, do you know Xiaozhuo Township?" Lin Heng responded with a smile.
"Uh" is what they mean here, that's how they say it in the local dialect, and "cousin" is also a polite term.
"Xiaozhuo Township, I know it for sure. I've been there several times. You guys must have traveled a long way to come here to hunt."
The old man walked down, chuckling.
Lin Heng handed him a big front door cigarette. He looked at it and took it with a smile.
"We wanted to hunt black bears and wolves, but unfortunately we didn't encounter any. Uncle, do you know where we can find them?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.
"You use a bow and arrow too, let me see."
The old man did not answer Lin Heng's words, but instead cast his eyes on the quiver he was carrying.
"Okay, I'll show you everything." Lin Heng didn't refuse. He took out the bow bag and showed it to him on the ground.
As long as he likes it, he will find a way to get the information.
"Why is your bow made of a lump of iron? What are these arrows made of? They are so straight, smooth, and light?"
The old hunter's eyes popped out when he saw Lin Heng's things.
This strange bow made of iron was the first time he had seen it, and this arrow was the arrow of his dreams. The texture was so beautiful that he didn't want to give it back after holding it in his hand.
Lin Heng smiled and explained, "This is called a compound bow. It can hit rabbits within 100 meters, wild boars within 200 meters, and still be powerful at 300 meters. There are two kinds of arrows. The black one is made of carbon fiber, and the white one is made of aluminum alloy. Both are modern high-end materials."
"It's so awesome, I don't believe it." The old man shook his head. He didn't believe that this lump of iron was so awesome.
It was difficult for his Mongolian bow to hit a rabbit at a distance of more than 20 meters. However, Lin Heng told him that this iron lump could hit rabbits 100% of the time within a hundred meters, but he would never believe it even if he was killed.
Lin Heng smiled and said, "Then let's have a fight and we'll know. If I lose, I'll give you all these arrows. If you lose, you'll take me hunting bears and wolves."
The course of events developed exactly as he had planned. The old man had never left Xiaozhuo Township, so how could he know the title of the king of modern compound bow cold weapons?
This is the pinnacle creation made by combining human technology with cold weapons. In ancient times, it would have been a true artifact.
The old hunter became interested when he heard this: "You said it, I won't bully you. I will put a board for you 80 meters away. If you hit the target, I will agree to your request. If you miss, you can give me the arrow."
"Okay, let's find a place with less wind." Lin Heng nodded.
"no problem."
The old man nodded and led them forward. They soon arrived near the village. There were farmlands all around and a beautiful stream flowing through.
The old man took a 30-centimeter-high wooden stake and went to a rapeseed field beside the stream. He walked 80 steps to set it up, then ran back and said, "Almost there, more than 80 meters. Show me a show."
"You watch."
Lin Heng adjusted the bow, took out the release device, and took out a carbon arrow. After putting it on the rack, he aimed for about three seconds and then shot the arrow.
The black arrow hit the wooden stake with a whoosh before it even fell, piercing through it and knocking it down.
“Oh shit!!”
The old man couldn't help but open his eyes wide and slapped his thigh suddenly.
He had been using bows and arrows since he was a child. Just by seeing Lin Heng's shot, he realized that what he said was true. This lump of iron really had such terrifying power.
He was a little shocked when he saw this strange-looking thing. How could it be so powerful?
Lin Heng smiled slightly, looked at the old hunter and said, "Uncle, you lose. You have to take me to fight black bears and wolves."
(End of this chapter)
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