Chapter 63 Giant Creek Grouper
"Honey, is that you?"
Hearing the sounds in the woods, Xiulan turned on the flashlight and asked, seeming a little scared alone.
There are bears in the forest deep in the mountains at night.
"It's me, come and help!"
The excitement in Lin Heng's voice could not be suppressed at all, this forty or fifty kilograms of big muntjac was so exciting, it was the largest prey he had ever hunted, and it had already broken the record for the wild hog badger.
"Hit it?"
Hearing Lin Heng's excited voice, Xiulan hurried out, thinking that he must have been hit.
When she came over and saw the prey on Lin Heng's shoulders, Xiulan couldn't help but open her mouth wide: "Oh my God, such a big muntjac!"
She saw that the muntjacs hunted by the villagers weighed only 20 to 30 kilograms, but the one Lin Heng was carrying was as big as a goat, which was really scary.
"Hey, I'm awesome, right?"
Lin Heng chuckled and threw the deer on the ground.
"It's more than just amazing, it's simply invincible!" Xiulan nodded repeatedly, looking at the muntjac, and for a moment she couldn't find an adjective.
Hearing his wife's words, Lin Heng was in high spirits. He picked up a vine, tied the muntjac's hind legs, and hung it on the tree.
"Aren't you going to take it back to the cave?" Xiulan asked puzzledly while helping to carry it up.
"No, hang it here for ventilation, it won't spoil easily, and if it attracts some thieves at night, we can beat them up."
Lin Heng explained that another reason for doing so is safety.
The smell of blood must not be allowed into the shelter. If it attracts predators such as black bears, clouded leopards, and golden leopards, they will have no chance to escape.
If it is placed outside the shelter, more than ten meters away, it can be seen clearly and animals attracted by the muntjac can be discovered at the first time.
"Oh, so I see." Xiulan nodded. She naturally didn't understand any of this, but she just thought her husband was amazing and very thoughtful.
With Xiulan's help, Lin Heng easily hung the muntjac two meters above the ground.
After finishing it, Lin Heng returned to the shelter, sat down, and complained: “Xiu Lan, you don’t know, this thing is too cautious.
I stood there motionless for more than an hour before I got the chance and finally shot it dead with one arrow. "
"You've worked so hard, great hero. Are you covered in mosquito bites and your legs are sore?"
Xiulan smiled and took out some mugwort, rubbed the leaves to extract juice and had Lin Heng apply it on the mosquito bite.
She thought early in the morning that he might be bitten by mosquitoes, so she went to pick mugwort before dark.
"Thank you, my wife." Lin Heng smiled. Xiulan's gentle technique made him feel comfortable both physically and mentally.
"That's nothing. It's not hard at all. Hunting is tiring. Not only do you have to fight with the prey, but you also have to endure the harassment of mosquitoes. You have to squat for such a long time. If I were to sit, I wouldn't be able to sit still for half an hour."
As Xiulan spoke, she took out another steamed bun and gave it to Lin Heng. This was the one she didn't eat in the afternoon and was leaving for Lin Heng.
"Eat quickly. I ate so much meat this afternoon. I'm not hungry."
After stuffing the steamed bread into Lin Heng's hand, she picked up Lin Heng's legs and placed them on her own legs, kneading them gently.
"You eat too."
Lin Heng took a bite and passed it to his wife.
His gentle and considerate wife melted his heart. Everything was worth it. Marrying Xiulan was his greatest blessing.
Xiulan had no choice but to take a small bite. The two of them took turns eating the entire steamed bun.
Lin Heng also took his legs down and stopped Xiulan from pinching them. She was actually quite tired today.
"Come on, let's go out for a walk, it's still early."
Lin Heng pulled Xiulan and said.
Today is April 16th in the lunar calendar. There is a bright round moon in the sky, and the whole forest seems to be covered with a layer of silver gauze.
Since he had already shot a big muntjac, Lin Heng was not so eager for prey anymore. It would be tiring enough just to carry the muntjac back tomorrow.
As for other prey, he would just leave it to chance. He estimated that the possibility of encountering them was not high.
"good!"
Xiulan nodded. The canyon at night also had a unique scenery.
"Cicada monkey!"
When Xiulan turned on the flashlight, she saw a cicada monkey lying on a tree.
"Let's go take a look in the creek first, and then come back and catch some. We'll make a fire and roast them."
Lin Heng nodded and said that he still needed to have some food at night.
As for the stream in the mountains, he estimated that no one had ever come here on a summer night, so there might be a surprise there.
"good."
Xiulan nodded and walked towards the stream with Lin Heng.
Shine the flashlight into the stream, Lin Heng saw many stream groupers, but because it was night, they moved very slowly.
"The brook groupers here are so big." Xiulan said in surprise.
"Of course. Almost no one would come to this deep mountain for a few small fish. I'll catch a few big ones and we'll grill them and eat them."
Most of the stream groupers here are more than five centimeters long, with a distinct black horizontal stripe and three or four black vertical stripes on their bodies.
There were even a few individuals that grew to more than ten centimeters long, and Lin Heng estimated that they weighed one or two taels.
Xiulan shone the flashlight while Lin Heng caught the fish with his hands. It was very easy to catch fish at night. He just reached his hands from below, slowly lifted it up and caught it.
The only thing you need to pay attention to is to leave no gaps when closing.
“This one is big!”
Lin Heng had just caught two when Xiulan suddenly pointed to a stone and said.
“Oh my god!”
Lin Heng exclaimed and tiptoed over.
He reached out carefully, and didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he caught the fish: "It's really big! This is the first time I've seen such a big brook grouper."
This fish is slightly longer than his palm and looks like a small grass carp. Can a brook grouper really grow this big?
"I suspect this fish has become a spirit!" Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Why don't we let it go?" Xiulan blinked.
"Impossible! Even if he becomes a dragon, I would still eat him."
Lin Heng chuckled. Once the fish was in his hands, there was no possibility of it being let go.
After throwing the fish into the bag, the two continued to catch them, picking only the big ones and discarding all the small ones.
Plop!!
Xiongba jumped into the water, and when he found that he didn't catch any fish, he turned his head and looked at Lin Heng innocently.
"Get out of the way. If you try to fetch water again, I'll beat you up."
Lin Heng threw a creek grouper to it and gave it a warning.
“Bang bang!!”
After two bites, the creek grouper was gone. Xiongba's dog head stretched out again, as if asking the master to give him another one to try.
"roll!"
Lin Heng threw a fish behind and Xiongba chased after it happily.
After a while, he came back and continued to ask for more than ten times.
"That's enough. If we can't finish any more, it will be wasted."
We caught about twenty of them, Xiulan said hurriedly.
"Okay, let's find a bigger pond and kill the fish." Lin Heng also felt that it was about enough. There were already more than a dozen fish fed to Xiongba.
"There's one right up ahead."
Xiulan looked around and pointed to a pool of water in front of her and said.
The two of them walked to a pond of about five or six square meters, talking and laughing. Lin Heng was about to squat down to kill the fish when there was a sudden splash at the edge of the water, and then a black figure jumped out.
"Damn, there are turtles in this place!!"
Lin Heng exclaimed loudly and shone the flashlight over there. The front half of the old turtle had already burrowed into the sand.
"Really? This one is bigger than the one you caught last time. Catch it quickly and don't let it run away!" Xiulan said anxiously. This big turtle can be sold for at least twenty yuan.
Hearing this, Lin Heng couldn't help but smile: "Run? Let's see where it can run to?"
It's just a small pond with no big rocks. Now that he has seen it, there is no way he can run away. I will catch him even if I have to scoop out all the water.
(End of this chapter)
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