Chapter 25: Trapping a Wild Boar
Brother Lin arrived home at dawn, when some people were already washing or cooking in the yard. When they saw Lin Mo, they all stopped what they were doing.
"Where's Qiqi? Didn't you bring her back?"
Living in the same courtyard, no matter what happens at home, it will not escape the ears and eyes of the neighbors. The news that Brother Lin went to Yao County to find his sister spread in the courtyard the day after Brother Lin left.
Everyone was a little surprised to see Brother Lin coming back alone.
Brother Lin smiled helplessly, "Qiqi doesn't want to come back for the time being."
After saying this, Lin Mo didn't care whether they believed it or not. He took some grapes and jujubes from his backpack and gave a handful to each of the neighbors. "Qiqi picked these in the mountains. Uncle and aunt, have a taste."
After the distribution, the Lin family’s door opened.
Mother Lin came over quickly and pulled Brother Lin home. "Where's your sister? How is she? Tell me quickly."
Mother Lin pulled Brother Lin back home and closed the door. Father Lin and Lin Miaomiao at home heard the noise and came out of the room.
Brother Lin put the backpack on the ground, poured himself a glass of water, and said after drinking it, "Qiqi has adapted well to the countryside. She has gained weight."
Thinking of his sister, Brother Lin grinned.
"Grown weight?" Lin's mother's tone was full of doubt. In a place like the countryside, where is there anything to eat? How can you grow weight?
"Yes, you have gained weight." Brother Lin handed jujubes and grapes to my parents, "Try it, it's sweeter than the fruits in the supply and marketing cooperative."
Under the gaze of Big Brother Lin, Father and Mother Lin put a few pills into their mouths. The next second, both of them widened their eyes.
"It's very sweet, right? The mountain where Qiqi lives is full of wild fruits." Brother Lin said, and took out a glass jar from his backpack, "This is jujube honey, which is sweeter than honey. It's very fragrant and sweet when you drink it with water."
Brother Lin made a bowl for Lin’s father and mother on the spot.
Seeing her parents eating so happily, Lin Miaomiao felt a little jealous. She silently picked up a few grapes and jujubes, complaining in her heart, "They are just a few wild fruits. No matter how delicious they are, how can they be so delicious?"
But the next second, she couldn't help but exclaimed, "It's really sweet."
Brother Lin glanced at her and said nothing, but silently moved the backpack towards him.
"In addition to sweet wild fruits, my sister can also catch fish. She took me fishing several times. I was there for three nights and I could eat fish every night. One day we also ate pheasant, which was very delicious." Brother Lin continued.
"There are wild fruits, fish, shrimp and pheasants. The Anliang Brigade is rich in products. You can relax." Dad Lin patted his wife's hand.
Mother Lin nodded and asked, "What kind of farm work does your sister do? Is she tired?"
"Cutting grass for pigs only takes one morning, and she earns two work points a day. She earns few work points, so from now on, half of my salary and tickets will be mailed to my sister." Brother Lin said.
"No need." Lin's mother refused. "Your sister can be taken care of by your father and I. You should save your salary. You are not young anymore. It's time to start a family."
"Let's talk about it later. I'm going to go wash up first. I have to go to work soon. Mom and Dad, you can take some jujubes and grapes to the factory to share with my colleagues. I brought back a lot."
"Okay. You can also bring some for your colleagues. You took a few days off and they have done a lot of work for you these days. You should thank them."
"Got it, Dad."
On this day, Mr. Lin, Mrs. Lin and Brother Lin brought grapes and jujubes to the factory and received numerous praises.
The second sister, Lin Miaomiao, seemed to have been forgotten. She stole a few of them at the beginning, but never ate any more later. She couldn't even touch the jar of jujube honey.
It took Lin Qi an entire afternoon to make wine. When he came out of the mountain, it was already dark.
Xu Hexiao met Lin Qi who was coming down the mountain at the foot of the mountain. He naturally took the backpack from Lin Qi's back, and the two walked towards the village together.
"Is everything done?" Xu Hexiao asked.
Lin Qi hummed, "Okay. It needs time to ferment."
"How long?" Xu Hexiao was very interested in wine.
"Fifty days." The cave is cool, so it will take longer.
Xu Hexiao sent Lin Qi back to the educated youth center and returned the backpack to Lin Qi. "Are you going to the mountains again tomorrow?"
Lin Qi thought for a moment and said, "Go."
"Then I'll pick you up again." Xu Hexiao said.
Lin Qi still didn't refuse, "Okay."
After saying that, she took out three handfuls of noodles from the earthenware jar in the backpack, each handful weighing one pound. All the noodles that her eldest brother brought were here.
"For you." Lin Qi said.
Noodles are a fine grain, easy to digest, and suitable for old people like Old Man Xu.
Xu Hexiao couldn't see clearly what it was until he held it in his hand.
At this moment, his heart became sour and soft.
"Thank you," he said softly.
Lin Qi gave three catties of noodles to Xu Hexiao, put ten catties of corn residue in the rice jar of the educated youth camp, and used more than one catty of five catties of Fuqiang flour to make pancakes for Brother Lin, leaving more than three catties. Lin Qi took the remaining Fuqiang flour to the mountains, planning to make pancakes when she was hungry.
In addition, she also brought a taro seedling and a piece of sweet potato vine. She planned to plant them not far from the cave, so that when she ate sweet potatoes and taro in the future, she would not have to spend a lot of time explaining their origins.
Lin Qi didn't plan to pick wild fruits today. She wanted to go deeper into the mountains to set traps and hunt.
In order to avoid being disappointed, she spread a wild vegetable pancake in the mountains as bait.
Lin Qi was not familiar with the habits of wild animals, she only knew one thing - animals cannot live without water.
She carefully identified the water vapor in the air, walked along the way, and found a small stream half an hour later.
"It's here." Lin Qi said.
The trap she used was not a rope, but a very tough vine.
After setting the trap and placing the bait, she climbed up a large tree not far away, lay down on the trunk, covered her body with leaves, closed her eyes, and fell asleep soon.
The mountains were quiet, with only the sounds of insects chirping and birds singing. The breeze was blowing gently, and Lin Qi was sleeping peacefully.
A vine was wrapped around her wrist, and when it was touched, Lin Qi opened her eyes. She looked towards the stream calmly, where a wild boar with long black hair was gnawing at her vegetable cake.
What a big wild boar!
Lin Qi's heart beat violently twice. She was not so excited even when she successfully hunted a high-level zombie in her previous life.
The vegetable cake was not big, so the wild boar ate it up in no time. Just as it was about to move, five vines came out at once, four of them grabbed its limbs, and one wrapped around its neck.
receive!
The vines climbed up a big tree nearby and hung the wild boar alive.
The wild boar struggled violently, but its neck was locked and it could only make whining sounds.
On the tree, Lin Qi was sweating profusely, his teeth clenched, as if he was trying hard to endure something.
When the wild boar suffocated to death and stopped moving, Lin Qi on the tree also seemed to have lost her strength and leaned against the trunk, gasping for breath.
Lin Qi released her control over the vines, and the wild boar fell to the ground with a thud.
Wild animals may come here at any time. Lin Qi did not dare to delay. She dragged her exhausted body down from the tree and controlled the vines to entangle the wild boar.
A strange scene appeared in the mountains. A young girl was walking in front, and a vine as thick as an adult's wrist was dragging a wild boar weighing more than 300 kilograms behind the girl.
Xu Hexiao's task today was to pry and move stones. They cleared the rocks, and the people behind him cut weeds and hoe the ground.
The task of clearing stones today is heavy. The team leader was worried that people would get sick from overwork, so he asked those who were clearing stones to go home early.
According to reason, Xu Hexiao, a bad guy, was not on the list of people to be dismissed early, but the team leader saw that he was covered in injuries and that he looked like a 10-year-old child even though he was only 16 years old. He felt a little compassion for him and let him go with the others.
When the other team members saw Xu Hexiao leaving, they opened their mouths and wanted to speak, but when they saw the boy's bloody arm, they closed their mouths in disappointment.
Xu Hexiao's arm was injured when a team member slipped and a stone fell off his hand and hit him. His old injury had not healed yet, and the stone hit him, smashing his flesh and blood into a mess, which was unbearable to look at.
If it were their own child, they would probably be heartbroken.
Forget it, let’s just let him go today.
Xu Hexiao got off work more than an hour early and went straight to the mountains without going home.
Along the way, he carefully avoided the wounds and encountered prickly grass several times, but he did not stop. He walked very fast all the way and even jogged on the flat sections.
He had only one thought in his mind, to meet Lin Qi and ask Lin Qi to help him apply medicine.
Xu Hexiao went to the cave first. When he saw the stone at the entrance of the cave had been removed, his steps became more urgent.
Lin Qi is in the cave!
As soon as Xu Hexiao reached the cave entrance, he called out, "Lin Qi~"
However, the next second he was startled by the big guy at the entrance of the cave, "Wild boar!"
Xu Hexiao had seen wild boars before, but he only dared to look at them from a distance and never dared to go forward. This was the first time he had looked at one from such a close distance.
Why is there a wild boar here? Where is Lin Qi?
Xu Hexiao carefully walked around the wild boar and found Lin Qi lying on the ground, his life or death unknown.
"Lin Qi!"
"Lin Qi!"
"Wake up, Lin Qi!"
Calls that were more urgent than the last rang in her ears, and Lin Qi opened her eyes faintly, "Xu Hexiao."
Seeing that she finally woke up, Xu Hexiao breathed a sigh of relief, "Are you okay? Where are you injured? I'll take you to see Doctor Ma."
Lin Qi shook her head slowly, "I'm not injured, just exhausted."
Not only was I exhausted, I was also very hungry.
Lin Qi pointed to a clay pot beside her and said, "There are cakes in it."
She made the pancakes this morning in the cave on a thin stone. The flour mixed with the wild vegetables she had grown was still very delicious even when it was cold.
She spread out seven cards in total, the wild boar ate one, she had three, and Xu Hexiao had three.
The two of them sat there and ate cakes in silence. Xu Hexiao also used a clay pot to collect water and boiled half a pot of water.
After eating the bread and drinking some water, Lin Qi regained some strength.
"What's going on with this wild boar?" Xu Hexiao asked.
"Set a condom." Lin Qi replied.
Xu Hexiao was dumbfounded and said in disbelief, "How can you trap a wild boar? Wild boars are so strong that even a tiger may not be its match. How did you trap it?"
"Vines and wild vegetable cakes." Lin Qi said.
Xu Hexiao wanted to ask more carefully, but no matter how he asked, Lin Qi refused to say anything.
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