Chapter 412 Wolf Hunting, Private Talk
Lin Heng looked at the distance. He was more than 200 meters away from the wolf pack. If he wanted to hunt them, he would have to grope forward another 100 meters.
After taking a look at the situation, he patted Xiong Ba's head and said, "Go call my eldest brother. He should be in the woods behind."
“Woo woo!”
Xiongba immediately understood what he meant and turned around and rushed out.
After Xiongba left, Lin Heng continued to observe carefully. The musk deer had fallen down, and its white exposed teeth could be seen from a distance, which indicated that it was a male musk deer.
The wolves were already preparing to eat, but he didn't dare to take action at this time. He was not brave enough to take on a pack of wolves alone.
After about ten minutes, the leader of the wolf pack had been eating for a while, and Lin Heng moved closer.
"Brother, what happened?"
Finally, the voice of eldest brother Lin Yue came from behind.
"There is a pack of wolves. You help me hold the line, and we'll go up and fight two of them." Lin Heng said, pointing to the front.
"Fuck, five wolves!"
Lin Yue was a little shocked when he saw the scene in front of him. It was the first time he saw so many prey.
"They are eating a male musk deer. We have to act quickly, otherwise I'm afraid the musk will be gone." Lin Heng said to his elder brother.
"good."
Lin Yue nodded, loaded his shotgun with two deer ball bullets, and followed Lin Heng's side.
The two of them advanced slowly along a hidden route on the upwind side, but when they got about fifty meters away, it became difficult to move forward.
There isn't enough cover any further ahead, so we can only hunt at this distance.
Lin Heng took out the compound bow, half-crouched and aimed for three seconds, then shot an arrow. The sharp black arrow accurately pierced the body of a gray wolf on the edge.
“Ah!!”
The wolf struggled to run a few meters and then collapsed to the ground, unable to get up.
“Ooooooooooo!!”
“Oh wow!!”
At the same time, the other four wolves roared at Lin Heng, sucked their teeth, and revealed ferocious and angry expressions.
These guys did not retreat. Instead, they made ferocious noises and dispersed, surrounding Lin Heng. They wanted to avenge their companions.
"You on the left, I on the right."
Lin Heng said this, and took another arrow and shot at the wolf on the right, but this time the wolf moved faster and the arrow hit the tree.
At the same time, his eldest brother fired a gun. With a loud bang, a brown wolf on the left fell down. The other three wolves were frightened when they heard the sound, and turned around and ran away.
“Woo woo!!”
“Woo!!”
Although they were retreating, the wolves were still angry and roaring. They remembered these two humans deeply.
"Go and have a look."
Lin Heng didn't care whether they held a grudge against him or not. With the shotgun in hand, they no longer dared to come over.
He first looked to the left at the wolf that his eldest brother had killed. It was a female wolf with brown-yellow hair. It looked like a dog and weighed about fifty or sixty kilograms.
After dragging it over to the musk deer side, Lin Heng checked the one he had knocked down. It was a gray-white male wolf, weighing about 60 to 70 kilograms, which was heavier than the female wolf.
As for the musk deer, half of its internal organs and meat had been eaten, but Lin Heng was fortunate that its scent glands were still there.
"It seems that the taste is too strong and the wolf won't eat it." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"That should be the case." Lin Heng nodded. Although the musk deer skin is no longer complete, the scent glands are still there, so it's not a big loss to you.
"Brother, you are lucky today." Lin Yue sighed as he looked at so many prey. He didn't find anything on his side, but Lin Heng had so many prey.
"Let's go, let's carry our stuff back and go to the cabin to clean up. It's impossible to kill the remaining three."
Lin Heng packed up the bow and arrow and said.
Lin Yue nodded, and the two of them packed up half of the musk deer, and each of them carried a wolf as they walked towards the wooden house.
“Ouch!!”
The three wolves behind were following them. They stopped and looked back, and they retreated again.
"Let them follow. They can't get far."
Lin Heng said something and ignored it. He was not afraid of these things as long as he had a hunting rifle.
They walked for an hour and a half and returned to the cabin. They thought there was no one here, but unexpectedly, his third uncle had already returned.
"Oh my god, you guys just killed two wolves!!"
Lu Honggang was shocked when he saw what the Lin Heng brothers were carrying on their shoulders. What does it mean to have two wolves? He felt like he was dreaming.
"Maybe we were just lucky. We saw five wolves hunting musk deer. My brother and I killed one each." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"I also said that I was lucky to have shot a wild cat today."
Lu Honggang said, pointing at the big wild cat he was dealing with.
"That's not bad, Third Uncle." Lin Heng said, threw the wolf down, drank some water and took a rest.
"This is your big harvest." Lu Honggang sighed.
After he finished speaking, he walked over and took a closer look. The more he looked, the more envious he became.
After a good rest, Lin Heng and his elder brother dealt with the musk deer first. He had collected the scent glands and hung them up to dry. They mainly removed the skin and gave the remaining internal organs eaten by the wolves to Xiongba to eat.
The head was temporarily hung on a pole, and all the meat on the body was cut into strips, rubbed with a little salt and left there to dry.
Lin Heng also prepared two skewers of meat with alternating fat and lean meat and grilled them on wooden sticks, preparing to eat them at noon.
After they finished these and drank some water, the two men were about to deal with the two wolves when Old Man Zhao and his son Zhao Shouxi ran out.
"Oh my God, you guys have such a big harvest today?" Zhao Shouxi's eyes widened when he saw these things.
"Hehe, this is called luck coming and nothing can stop it. As the saying goes, good luck never comes when the time is right. Fortune and luck are already arranged by fate. This is all Lin Heng's luck."
Old Man Zhao chuckled and recited some ancient sayings. He was a man who believed very much in fate and luck, and believed that everything was arranged.
"I also think I'm lucky today." Lin Heng said with a smile.
As the saying goes, when luck comes, heaven and earth are on your side. Hunting often really depends on luck.
"Then we won't be polite at noon today. We will give you a good meal of wolf meat." Zhao Shouxi said with a smile.
"That's no problem, everyone eat as much as you want." Lin Heng said with a smile.
After chatting, Zhao Shouxi and Old Man Zhao also came over to help skin the wolf. They were all veterans and worked very quickly.
While working, Lin Heng explained to them the hunting process. It was not thrilling, it was mainly due to good luck.
"If you can't take all the wolf meat, you can go to the village and exchange it for other things. Many people want to eat wolf meat."
After cutting up the two wolves, Zhao Shouxi looked at Lin Heng and said.
"We really can't take all of it. Let's go to the village to sell it tomorrow." Lin Heng nodded.
He no longer had any hope of hunting a black bear. Although he saw black bear footprints today, they were from a long time ago. The black bears must have been hibernating recently.
After thinking about it, Lin Heng decided to sell half of it, and make the remaining half into air-dried wolf meat, which he would cut into strips, apply some salt on it, and hang up to dry.
At noon, everyone ate some grilled musk deer meat and boiled wolf ribs.
Wolf meat is similar to dog meat, both are mostly lean meat, taste very fragrant and have little fishy smell.
His third uncle stayed here in the afternoon, while Lin Heng and others continued to search nearby.
In one afternoon, Lin Heng found a lot of black bear footprints and asked Xiongba to try to track them, but all ended in failure because the footprints were relatively old.
"Are you going to continue hunting tomorrow? We are going back now."
Zhao Shouxi said while having dinner in the evening.
He caught two golden roosters this afternoon, and his father, Old Man Zhao, caught six bamboo partridges in the evening, but their harvest was not as good as that of Lin Heng and his friends.
"Let's go back too. We'll go back to the village with you guys tomorrow to sell the wolf meat, and then we'll be ready to leave."
Lin Heng nodded and said that it would be December in two days and it was time to prepare to go home. They could spend the rest of the time hunting near the shelter.
"Okay, let's go hunting again tomorrow morning and go back at noon." Old Man Zhao nodded.
“Woo woo!!”
After everyone finished their meal and went to sleep, they suddenly heard the howling of wolves outside.
"These are the three wolves we failed to kill this morning." Lin Heng said.
Old man Zhao waved his hand nonchalantly: "Go to sleep, these guys don't dare to get close to us. With so many of us, if they get close, they will die."
"I heard that this thing holds grudges very well. Could it be that it's tracking us all the way?" Lin Yue said in the darkness.
"They do hold grudges. I killed a few of them and they followed me for half a month, but in the end, nothing happened." said Old Man Zhao.
"We were indeed afraid of this thing before we had hunting rifles. Now that we have guns, who would be afraid of it, unless it is not afraid of having its head blown off by a bullet." Zhao Shouxi also said.
"Let's set up some traps tomorrow morning and give it a try."
Lin Heng thought for a while and said that he thought maybe he could use this opportunity to hit another one.
"Give up, these guys are very cunning. I've tried, the traps are useless." Old Man Zhao said.
Lin Heng said "oh", but didn't believe it and decided to try it himself.
The next morning, they woke up as soon as it was light, ate some roasted potatoes, and went out to look for prey.
Lin Heng originally wanted to set a trap, but he couldn't even hear the wolf's howling, so he thought about it and decided not to bother.
The weather was getting colder and colder, and Lin Heng felt that the cotton-padded jacket he was wearing was too thin, so he didn't bring any thicker clothes at home.
After walking in the woods with Xiongba and searching for half the morning, Lin Heng returned to the cabin to pack up his things in annoyance. He didn't know why he felt a little listless today.
He thought maybe he should find a mountain top to see the view.
By the time he had finished packing his things, everyone else had returned.
"I was doing fine this morning. I shot a grouse." Lin Yue said with a smile while holding a grouse.
"I'm doing fine. I shot a pheasant." said Li Honggang.
Old man Zhao shook his head repeatedly: "It's true that good fortune doesn't come when the time is right. I'm not lucky today."
"It's okay, Dad. Let's come back in a few days. There will always be times when we get lucky." Zhao Shouxi said with a smile.
"Forget it, let's go back." Old Man Zhao waved his hand.
Everyone ate a few potatoes to fill their stomachs, and then walked towards Sanshan Village.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at the village. The villagers saw several people carrying a lot of things back and asked curiously, "What kind of prey did you catch?"
"I was lucky enough to kill some wolf meat. I'm going to sell some of it. If anyone wants it, you can exchange it for saffron, cordyceps, and other medicinal herbs." Lin Heng said with a smile.
There are definitely still some precious Chinese herbal medicines surviving in the village this time. Just because those who sold the cooling oil and cracked seed oil didn’t buy them before doesn’t mean they won’t buy the meat.
The two are completely different things.
"You killed the wolf, that's awesome!"
"Wolf meat, that's good stuff."
"How much is this wolf meat per pound?"
Some people asked curiously.
"Things with bones are two yuan per pound, and those without bones are three yuan. The internal organs are charged separately. It's best to exchange them with saffron, cordyceps, or silver dollars. You can get more by exchanging these things." Lin Heng said with a smile.
His price is not high, but game is always expensive.
"Wolf meat can nourish the five internal organs and cure fatigue. Anyone who needs it can come to the village center to buy it." Lin Heng added.
Having said this, he took his eldest brother and third uncle to an old cypress tree in the center of the village and took out all the wolf meat for everyone to observe and choose.
"So you beat two wolves, so awesome!"
"Good job, this thing is very harmful to people, it even bit someone a few years ago."
When they saw the two wolf heads on the bag, everyone started talking.
"I have a silver dollar here. How many pounds of meat can it buy?" After a while, an old woman came over with a silver dollar and asked.
"One silver dollar can buy five kilograms of bones. I can give you half a kilogram more." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
He asked about the approximate value of the silver dollar in the village, which was generally equivalent to ten yuan. This was roughly the price of silver dollars used in Xiaozhuo Township.
"Okay, give me five dollars." The old woman nodded and gave the Yuan Datou banknote to Lin Heng.
Lin Heng took the beam scale that his elder brother passed on, cut a piece of meat with bones and weighed it.
"I want some too. I have some saffron here." Soon a woman brought the saffron.
Lin Heng doesn't have a scale to weigh saffron, so he just estimates the amount by looking at the quantity.
As the news of them selling wolf meat spread, many people came to buy some meat. It was still very cost-effective to buy some meat from Lin Heng.
Originally they just wanted to sell some, but in the end there were too many people coming, so Lin Heng and the other two sold all the internal organs and the meat of one and a half wolves.
In addition to Chinese herbal medicines such as saffron and cordyceps, the items harvested included silver dollars and cash.
Lin Heng calculated that these things would be worth about three hundred yuan if sold in the city.
Wolf skin is a very high-quality fur, especially winter wolf skin, which can be sold for two or three hundred yuan each, and two pieces together can be sold for at least five hundred yuan.
Adding the musk of the forest deer, it is estimated that they can be sold for more than a thousand yuan. It can be said that the three of them made a lot of money this time, more than his uncle and his friends.
Moreover, this does not include the money that Lin Heng had previously earned from the cooling oil and cracked oil.
When they closed their stall and returned to Old Man Zhao's house, the three of them had happy smiles on their faces, feeling happy about their harvest.
Before the three of them arrived, Zhao Shouxi bumped into them and said, "You guys have sold out, so come over and eat quickly. The dishes are ready."
He was also very happy because Lin Heng generously gave his family five kilograms of wolf meat, so the whole family could have a meal of meat in the next two days.
"Okay, I'll be right there." Lin Heng agreed with a smile.
When they arrived at Zhao Shouxi's house, Lin Heng and others were invited to the table. Soon a large table of dishes was served and everyone started to clink glasses.
Lin Heng and the other two didn't drink much. After finishing their drink, they rested at Zhao's house this afternoon and set off early tomorrow.
"Lin Heng, come here, I want to talk to you about something."
In the evening, Old Man Zhao found Lin Heng alone and talked to him.
"What's the matter?" Lin Heng asked curiously.
(End of this chapter)
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