The next morning, when the old couple and Xiao Fuxing got up, they were all wearing new clothes prepared for them by Yang Baiyi.
"Grandson, the cotton-padded clothes we are wearing are actually new. You don't need to prepare new cotton-padded clothes for me."
Mu Xue's words were not out of courtesy. It was just the beginning of winter, the first snow had just fallen, and she had just changed into her cotton-padded clothes.
"Grandma, then you can wear them alternately. Your eldest grandson may be earning money."
Yang Baiyi has a space in his hand, so he can look for whatever he needs in the space and doesn’t worry about not having tickets at all.
While eating breakfast, Yang Baiyi remembered the delicious food he saw in the mountains.
"Uncle, let's go into the mountains after breakfast. I saw something good there a few days ago."
"Okay, let's eat quickly then."
Yang Baiyi wanted to take him up the mountain, and Xiao Fuxing was more than happy to do so. He was eager to do something for his family.
After finishing breakfast, Yang Baiyi went to the utility room in the west room and took out the prepared tools.
The last time he came down from the mountain, Yang Baiyi started making tools. If he hadn't thought of bringing Xiao Fuxing along, he would have caught the wild forest frogs on the mountain long ago.
"Bai Yi, are we going to catch fish? There can't be any fish in the mountains, right?"
Seeing the ice pick, ice shovel, and scoop net that his eldest nephew took out, Xiao Fuxing thought that Yang Baiyi was going up the mountain to fish.
"I'm not fishing. Last time I saw wild wood frogs in a small ditch on the mountain. I didn't have any suitable tools at hand, and the frogs were so lively and jumping around that it was hard to catch them.
Now that the wood frogs are hibernating, they have stored a lot of fat and eggs in their bodies. Autumn and winter are the best time to eat them and they are the most delicious.”
After making the stirring sieve, Yang Baiyi tried it and found it was quite handy. He asked Dahuang and the others to pull the sled, and asked Xiao Fuxing to change into high leather boots.
The snow on the mountain is so deep that ordinary cotton shoes are useless.
"Bai Yi, the snow is too deep. Are you sure you can still find that small ditch?"
Xiao Fuxing followed Yang Baiyi with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and he didn't know how many times he fell along the way.
"I can find it. I'm very familiar with this forest. Don't worry."
After crossing two hillsides, Yang Baiyi stopped in a canyon.
"Why don't you leave?"
Xiao Fuxing, who was behind him, almost bumped into Yang Baiyi.
"We're here. It's right here."
Yang Baiyi pointed to a patch of snow in front of him.
"Uncle, take a break. I'll shovel the snow away."
Yang Baiyi let Dahuang and the others move freely, and he picked up the shovel on the sled and started shoveling snow.
Xiao Fuxing also wanted to go up and help, but his strength did not allow it. He had to use all his strength to barely keep up with Yang Baiyi's pace.
"Okay, I'll take a break."
Xiao Fuxing sat down on a rock, breathing heavily.
The snow on the ditch was very soft. With a few shovels, Yang Baiyi cleared out a space with a diameter of more than one meter, revealing the ice layer underneath.
Yang Baiyi put down the shovel in his hand and picked up the ice pick beside him.
Because the temperature had just dropped, the ice in the ditch was not thick, only about ten centimeters.
The sharp ice pick pierced through the ice effortlessly, and the water under the ice seeped out.
After stabbing dozens of times, a hole was pierced in the ice surface, and Yang Baiyi used a raft to scoop up all the floating ice.
"Bai Yi, didn't you say that the wood frogs are hibernating now? What if they don't come out? Should we go down?"
Looking at the hole in the ice, Xiao Fuxing couldn't help but shiver. It must be very cold to go into the water now!
"No, it's not worth it to spend so much money just for a stutter. Just watch me."
Yang Baiyi held the wooden handle of the stirring sieve tightly with both hands and began to stir it slowly in the ice hole.
A trace of wood energy silently entered the ice hole, and countless water plants grew wildly at the bottom of the ditch.
One after another, the hibernating forest frogs were dragged out of the mud by the water plants and slowly brought to the ice eye.
When Yang Baiyi pulled the net out of the water, there were dozens of forest frogs in the net.
"Uncle, pack up the frog."
Yang Baiyi controlled the water while calling out to Xiao Fuxing.
"Ah? Oh!"
Xiao Fuxing, with a look of shock on his face, came to his senses and quickly went to get the nylon bag.
It turns out that catching forest frogs is so easy. Is it because there are too many forest frogs in the ditch, or are their IQs too low?
With the help of water plants, it was so easy for Yang Baiyi to catch the forest frog.
First, use a stirring sieve to stir the ice clockwise to let the frog rotate with the vortex, then scoop it counterclockwise and easily get half a net bag.
After raiding three nets in a row, the nylon bag in Xiao Fuxing's hand was already half full.
"That's enough, uncle. Just grab this much. It's enough for us to eat for several meals."
Yang Baiyi stopped what he was doing. It would be better to leave some of the forest frogs, a natural tonic, to let them reproduce, instead of draining the pond to catch all the fish.
"I don't know where Da Huang has gone to."
Yang Baiyi put the thumb and index finger of his right hand in his mouth and whistled loudly.
The sharp whistle startled the birds in the forest, the squirrels hid in the tree holes alertly, and the hare lay motionless in the snow nest, observing the situation around it.
“Woof woof woof…”
Deep in the dense forest, there were a few dog barking sounds. That was Dahuang's response to his master.
With a rustling sound, five dogs rushed out of the forest. What shocked Xiao Fuxing was that none of the five dogs came back empty-handed. Each dog was dragging a prey.
Two silly roe deer and three wild boars, this is the food they hunted for themselves.
"This is too much! The wild boar is even bigger than Dahuang and the others. How could they just carry it in their mouths?"
If Xiao Fuxing hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it.
"That's not right! Bai Yi, why didn't I hear any sounds of fighting or wild boars calling?"
"Uncle, go over and take a look. Are the wounds on the wild boars all on their necks? They are very docile to us, but they are very ferocious when hunting.
They bite the prey's neck, severing its windpipe in an instant and killing it instantly."
Yang Baiyi smiled confidently. He had cultivated them for such a long time using wood energy. If they were still slow to kill a wild boar, there would be no need to cultivate them.
Xiao Fuxing's eyes changed when he looked at Dahuang, and he touched his neck unconsciously.
The dogs placed the prey in front of Yang Baiyi and wagged their tails to show off to their master.
"Well done, you can eat one and take the rest home to enjoy slowly."
Yang Baiyi said generously.
“Woof woof woof…”
The dogs barked a few times at Yang Baiyi ingratiatingly, as if to express their gratitude, then circled around the prey and finally chose a half-grown wild boar weighing more than 200 pounds.
The dogs showed their sharp white fangs and surrounded the wild boar to eat it.
It was obvious that the blood in the wild boar's body had not been drained completely, and every time the dogs bit it, blood would splatter.
“It’s so brutal.”
Xiao Fuxing turned his head and suppressed the discomfort in his stomach.
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