Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Xiongba, look for this wild boar trace. If you find it, you will be full for several days."

Lin Heng touched Xiongba's head and said, as soon as he arrived at the mouth of the stream, he found wild boar footprints. It seemed that he had just been here last night.

"Ouch!"

Xiongba lay on the ground and smelled it, then followed the trail and walked forward, followed closely by Lin Heng and the others.

"The footprints of these two fingers are of a small wild boar." Hai An said while tracking.

Father Lin nodded and said, "The little wild boar is good. The meat tastes neither fishy nor woody."

"I hope I can find it." Lin Heng said with a smile. Tracking based on footprints and other things is often difficult.

After walking for more than ten minutes, they came to a pine needle forest, and the trail suddenly stopped. They searched nearby for a long time but could not find it again.

"It's okay. Let's go back to find ginseng and dig up herbs." Lin Heng shook his head. Although he didn't find ginseng, he still picked up a lot of Ganoderma lucidum along the way.

When they went back, they focused more on ginseng and searched carefully for a whole day. It could be said that they searched all over the mountain but couldn't find it. During the period, they only dug up some other herbs and yams and picked up some chanterelles. .

In addition to these, there were several Hell King traps placed on the animal path. As for prey, they didn't even catch a pheasant.

At dusk and sunset, the three of them sat on the top of a high mountain to rest. They could see the endless mountains and the vast Taibai Mountains hiding under the sun at the end of their eyes.

Basking in the evening glow, Lin Yue smiled and said, "What a day of failure."

"What's the point? Whoever climbs mountains dares to say that he is 100% rewarded."

Father Lin smiled and shook his head, took out a pot of rice wine that he brought with him in the mountains and said, "Drink a little, let's go back to the camp."

"good."

Lin Heng nodded with a smile, folded a small wine bowl from the kudzu leaves next to him, filled three bowls of wine, drank it facing the sunset, then got up and walked back.

"There are actually taro by the ditch. Let's dig it up and eat it."

When they reached the edge of the ditch, Lin Heng said in surprise that their current location was further downstream than where they found the venomous snake yesterday.

"It is indeed taro." Father Lin came over with a hoe and dug out more than ten fist-sized taros. They peeled off the skin and washed them on the spot, then filled two bags of water with a water bag and returned to the camp.

Here at the camp, Ganoderma lucidum and other medicinal herbs have been half-dried by the sun. The fire set at noon has been extinguished, but a pot of uneaten chicken soup is still there.

"Dad, please pack up the medicinal materials. Let's go hunting again. We might have a chance at dusk." Lin Heng looked at his father and said.

"Okay, but don't separate the two of you. It's not safe to run around alone." Lin's father explained.

"Don't worry." Lin Yue nodded.

They left Xi Quan Fengsheng here to accompany Lin's father, and continued to patrol the mountains with Xiong Ba.

They held flashlights and mainly searched along the mountain stream. At night, those bamboo pheasants and golden pheasants like to rest on the trees beside the ditch. They usually still crow before dark.

"Hey, there are quite a few little quails here."

After walking two to three hundred meters down the stream, Lin Yue made a discovery.

"Leave it to me. After hunting, check to see if there are any quail nests nearby."

As he spoke, Lin Heng quietly walked up with his slingshot and killed two of them five or six meters apart, while the others flew away.

"Sure enough, there is a nest, but unfortunately there are only three eggs." Lin Yue's voice sounded from behind.

"Take them all," Lin Heng said. He took the slingshot and shot all the birds he could hit along the way, including the green-skinned frogs beside the mountain stream.

These are mainly cooked and fed to the two dogs. They are very tired from running in the mountains all day long. They cannot just eat starch, but need some meat to supplement it.

Before I knew it, the sun had set, there was still the last touch of dusk in the sky, and the moon and stars had also appeared.

"Listen, this is the bamboo chicken crowing, right?"

Suddenly Lin Heng stopped and said.

Lin Yue listened and said excitedly: "Yes, this is a group. They seem to be in the row of cypress trees opposite?"

Bamboo roosters are a very good prey. Although they are smaller than golden roosters, each one only costs about seven taels and only five taels of meat when killed. However, there are usually six or seven of them in a group, and one shot will always yield a good harvest.

"Probably." Lin Heng nodded.

The two of them listened carefully after getting closer. After confirming the approximate location, they did not move forward immediately. They remembered the location and waited until it was completely dark.

Then they continue walking to other places and lay a noose wherever they find traces of prey.

It didn't take long for it to get completely dark. Unfortunately, they couldn't find any more golden pheasants or anything like that. They walked back to the thorn cedar forest and searched for it with a flashlight for a while but couldn't find it.

"here!"

Suddenly Lin Yue made a sound, and Lin Heng turned around and saw six or seven bamboo chickens resting on the branches of the cypress tree above.

"You hit, I'll take care of you." Lin Heng said and silently opened his mouth.

When you can't cover your ears to avoid the sound, opening your mouth is the best option.

I saw Lin Yue standardizing for a moment, then with a bang, two bullets from the double-barreled shotgun were fired at the same time, and a large amount of iron sand was scattered towards the bamboo chickens.

Accompanied by continuous echoes, the bamboo chicken fell down like a stone without any struggle, and no one survived.

"Haha, there are six of them. It's not like they ran away in vain today." Lin Heng went to pick them up and came over and said happily.

"Indeed, it's enough for us to eat for a few days." Lin Yue said with a smile.

Lin Heng said: "This time we killed them and put them in the pond in the mountain stream to freeze. I suspect that the water is only five or six degrees."

The reason why he said that is because he found tadpoles in that pond today, and they were as big as a mineral water bottle cap. It was incredible to find tadpoles in August.

But in fact, this is easy to explain. The development of tadpoles requires temperature. If the temperature is too low and there is no food, this situation will often occur.

He has seen this kind of super large tadpoles not only here, but also in some places in the Red Maple Mountain stream and other places.

And these places have a common feature that the water is freezing cold. He stretched his hand into the water to catch the tadpoles, and the coldness of thirty seconds was unbearable.

Therefore, such a low water temperature can definitely keep the meat in it for two or three days without spoiling.

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded. He also knew this. When he was a child, he caught normal tadpoles and threw them into that super cold pond, and then the tadpoles did not develop and became larger.

After looking around and failing to find other prey nearby, the two came to the stream and walked up to see if there were any fish or something.

"Really, look at these fish, they are so big, about ten centimeters." Lin Yue was shocked as he looked into the water.

They saw stream groupers, horse mouths, and big loaches in the water. Maybe because no one caught them, these fish have grown to their physiological limits.

"We'll use a net to catch them tomorrow." Lin Heng said with a smile. The water is a little big now, mainly because it's too cold, and he doesn't want to reach out to catch them at all.

And they brought a small fish net, and they can catch fish tomorrow by cutting a tree and assembling it.

"It's really big, and this fish is beautiful."

Lin Yue sighed, and the two walked up while talking. The Xiongba of this water ice didn't want to touch it. Both sides of the mountain stream were completely blocked by trees, and it was difficult to see the sun at ordinary times.

Holding a flashlight, the two kept moving forward. Suddenly, Lin Heng didn't have time to say anything, and rushed up and stepped on it.

After stepping on it, Lin Heng exclaimed: "Damn, it's such a big old turtle, this thing bit my foot"

The biting water made him unable to hold on. After the water cleared, he saw an old turtle the size of a human face biting his shoe upper and struggling.

"Your hands are getting faster and faster." Lin Yue said in admiration.

"That's right, it's not good if this guy runs away."

As Lin Heng spoke, he gave the flashlight to his elder brother and reached out to grab the turtle. The deep mountain cold water turtle is more valuable and nutritious than those turtles in the big river.

Lin Heng grabbed its neck with one hand and its body with the other hand, and pulled it hard twice before pulling it off, but a piece of plastic on the shoe upper was missing.

"Although it looks only three or four pounds, I estimate that this guy must have lived for at least more than ten years." Lin Heng looked at this guy excitedly.

The belly of this wild turtle is snow-white with obvious scratches on it. There are many stones in the mountains, and it is not flat at all.

"That's for sure. You can sell this for hundreds of yuan at Taibai Hotel." Lin Yue said with a smile. He had seen the wild animal procurement list that Lin Heng got from Taibai Hotel. This kind of deep mountain cold water turtle is worth hundreds of yuan each, which is very valuable.

"That's the price." Lin Heng smiled.

Putting the turtle in a cloth bag, Lin Heng said, "Let's go, maybe we can see it again if we go up."

"Yes, there are not many people in this deep mountain, so there should be a lot." Lin Yue nodded.

However, they did not find the turtle again when they returned to the shelter.

Carrying things back to the shelter, Lin's father saw the flashlights of the two people and said, "How did you get it today? I've prepared the meal."

"This time the harvest is not bad. I shot six bamboo chickens, my brother got an old turtle, and many birds and frogs."

Lin Yue came over with the bamboo chicken.

Lin Heng put the turtle on the ground and poured out a large bag of prey in the bag, more than 20 small birds of various kinds, and more than a dozen frogs.

"Why did you do these? Except for quail, other things can't be eaten, right?" Lin's father widened his eyes.

"For Xiongba and the others to eat. Did you boil water?" Lin Heng asked. They brought an iron pot and an aluminum pot.

"No, I made rice tonight." Father Lin shook his head, then looked at the old turtle and bamboo chicken and said happily.

"Then let's boil water after dinner." Lin Heng nodded, and they had already fetched water.

They had rice for dinner, and the dish was the leftover pheasant and grouse with taro from yesterday, which went well with a little shrimp and chili sauce.

Tonight, the three of them finished all the chicken soup and rice, then took the pot to the stream to wash it, filled it with water and boiled it.

After boiling, they first scalded the bamboo chicken and the birds, plucked the feathers, added water to the pot again, boiled the birds and frogs, and waited for enough to eat.

They went to the stream with flashlights, gutted the bamboo chicken, cleaned it, and cleaned the internal organs for chicken noodles tomorrow morning.

For the chicken, they found the pond that Lin Heng mentioned, tied six chickens together and put them in. There were not many stream groupers in this area, so they didn't care, they couldn't eat much.

But fearing that other animals would come to steal the food, Lin Heng set up four Yama Wang cranes on both sides of the bank. If there were any prey coming, they would be caught.

"What are you going to do tomorrow?" Lin's father asked on the way back.

Lin Heng said, "During the day, continue to dig herbs and collect Ganoderma lucidum, and look for ginseng by the way. Hunting is the prime time in the morning and evening."

Lin Yue thought for a while and said, "I suggest that we go up along the mountain stream tomorrow, look for prey and ginseng on the mountains on both sides, come back when we find the end, and then look down."

"Okay."

Lin Heng thought this method was quite reasonable. There would be more prey and medicinal materials near the water source.

After returning to the shelter, they ate two wax gourds and some Schisandra chinensis while looking at the starry sky outside, and then the three of them returned to the rattan bed to rest.

No one talked all night, and they were woken up at dawn the next morning. You can't sleep in the mountains, and these birds don't allow it.

The three of them got up early in the morning. In the morning, one pot fried simple chicken offal, and another pot cooked noodles. Finally, they mixed them together and added some hot sauce for a delicious breakfast.

The two dogs ate a lot of meat yesterday, but today they can only eat noodles. There is no other meat for them to eat.

After eating, the three of them dried the medicinal materials and continued to go up the mountain. Hunting until seven o'clock was fruitless, and the traps set yesterday did not catch any prey.

So they changed from hunters to herbalists and started to collect herbs.

This direction is not good today. There are few Ganoderma lucidum on the road, but there are more Paris polyphylla, and there is no sign of ginseng.

They will not be hungry on the road. From time to time, they can see wax gourd and Schisandra chinensis. They eat wax gourd and take Schisandra chinensis back to dry. They got a lot of Schisandra chinensis yesterday.

Going up along the stream, what surprised them was that the water flow did not seem to decrease much as they went up.

At noon, they stopped by a large pond, caught some stream grouper and roasted them, roasted three yams, roasted nine green lake diaozi, and the three of them ate a little meat and fed the rest to the dog.

Although there is no pot, this lunch is not bad. The roasted wild yam is the most delicious, a little better than meat.

"In two days, it will be five days. Our hope of finding ginseng is slim." Lin Yue sighed.

"Forget it if we can't find it. The Ganoderma lucidum this time can be sold for two or three hundred, and it will be good to grow other herbs at home." Lin's father smiled.

"Let's go, maybe the ginseng is just ahead." Lin Heng said with a smile.

After walking a few steps, several thick horsetail pines appeared nearby, and the three of them suddenly smelled a fragrance.

"Could it be matsutake?" Lin Yue said in shock.

"It should be, you see Xiongba and Fengshou have found the place."

Lin Heng pointed to the hillside above and said.

"They all opened their parachutes, and it won't be long before they come out." Lin Yue smiled as he approached.

"Let's look for it." Lin Heng had already started digging with a stick. This thing is delicious if you don't sell it.

After a while, the three of them dug out the matsutake here. Lin Heng and his father dug four each, and the eldest brother Lin Yue dug five.

Then the three of them searched the surrounding forests carefully again and found eight more. This is the place where Lin Heng has found the most matsutake in history. He guessed that it was because no one came to this deep mountain.

"It's a pity that there are only this much, so I can only go back and eat it myself." Lin Yue smiled.

"That's not bad either." Lin Heng smiled, and they continued to explore forward.

After walking for more than an hour, Father Lin in front suddenly exclaimed: "Come and see, my God!"