Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Your uncle and his friends are back." Lu Honggang said after listening.

"Yes, from the sound, let's go see what they caught."

Lin Heng put down the work in his hands and walked out.

When he came out, he first saw the returning Xiquan Fengshou, followed by his eldest brother, uncle and three others.

They all carried big bags, obviously they had caught prey.

"What did you catch these days?" Lin Heng asked.

Lu Honghai laughed and said, "This time the harvest is not bad. We caught a musk deer and a roe deer."

Lin Heng's eyes widened and his voice became louder: "You caught a musk deer, male or female?"

Musk deer is a good thing. If it's a male, it's a profit. The yield of musk is higher than that of forest musk.

"It's a male. The musk weighs about one or two taels. My uncle found it and I caught it." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"I've made a profit this time in the mountains." Li Baiquan grinned. If his gun wasn't rubbish, he could have shot it himself.

Now the distribution is 35% each for him and Lin Yue, and 10% each for Lin Heng and the other three.

"I'm not bad either. I shot a roe deer." Lu Honghai said with a smile. It was easy to find footprints in the snow. He shot a silly roe deer, but it was far inferior to the musk deer.

Both prey were not big, and the three of them took them back easily.

"You are so lucky." Lin Heng sighed.

While walking towards the camp, Lin Yue asked: "What did you guys shoot?"

Lu Honggang said: "I only shot two golden roosters. Lin Heng is amazing. He caught a wolf and a stone marten in the trap."

"Wolf and stone marten, brother, you are good." Lin Yue was shocked. Lin Heng's harvest was not less than theirs.

Li Baiquan was also a little surprised: "We have caught the wolf, it seems that I have to learn how to make traps."

"I haven't caught these two things yet, I have to see them today." Lu Honghai put the things down and first looked at the stone marten skin hanging next to it. It felt great to touch.

Lin Yue and Li Baiquan also took turns to look at the wolf skin and marten skin, asking for details, feeling a little incredible.

Lin Heng's wolf skin and marten skin also have shares with other people. He alone takes 70%, and the others each take 10%. Even if they hunt alone in a team, everyone has a share.

Then Lin Heng looked at the musk of the musk deer they got. As soon as the scent gland was taken out, there was a strong and smelly fragrance. The musk skin of the musk deer and the roe deer skin were also good.

They had eaten all the internal organs and brought back meat strips, which were salted and air-dried for a period of time.

After chatting, Lin Heng recorded the source of each prey, who hunted it, and each person's division, and let everyone review it.

This is to avoid forgetting later. When it comes to distribution, just take out the small notebook and distribute it according to the principles written on it.

After writing this, the others rebuilt a meat rack, and Lin Heng continued to deal with the stone marten. While dealing with him, he asked: "Do you want to eat spicy hot pot or barbecue at noon? Fresh marten meat should taste good when grilled."

Lin Yue said: "Hot pot, I picked up some enoki mushrooms and oyster mushrooms on the way, and my uncle also dug two yams."

"That's fine." Lin Heng nodded.

At noon, they made a spicy hot pot with marten meat. They drank the last bit of rice wine. The hot pot made by Lin Heng with homemade hot pot base was unanimously recognized by everyone.

The marten meat is more delicate and tastes like civet cats. It tastes very good.

At the end of the meal, Lin Heng asked, "I am going out tomorrow too, but I am still short of one person. Who will go?"

He was tired of staying in this place and had nothing else to do, so he was ready to go out for adventure.

"I'll go with you. Avoid the direction we went before, so that you don't have to go the same way again." Lin Yue said.

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Okay, let's set off tomorrow morning. You can rest this afternoon. I'll take my uncle and uncle to see the traps I set, so that they don't know where they are."

After resting for a while, Lin Heng took the two of them and told them the specific location. He felt that his traps would still catch prey, especially the traps set outside the salt mine. These herbivores would definitely lick the salt.

After the explanation, the two went hunting. Lin Heng returned to the camp alone and began to pack up the food for the adventure. He first boiled water and let it cool down and poured it into the squirrel water bag.

For food, they brought some potatoes, some rice, some smoked deer meat, and a piece of bacon. These are basically enough for three days. If they want to stay longer, they need to find food by themselves.

The three of them carried their things separately. Tomorrow, they will only bring Xiongba, a dog. If they bring Fengshou with them, there will not be enough food.

After packing up, there is still some free time in the afternoon. Lin Heng made some ropes with dragon beard grass, which may be useful on the road.

When he came back in the evening, his uncle brought back a grouse, and Li Baiquan dug a lot of yam. He is a good yam digger.

"It just so happens that I stewed bone soup. Let's have yam stewed with pork ribs tonight." Lin Heng took a yam and said.

Wild yam is delicious. Wash it and cut it directly and throw it in. You don't even need to peel it.

At night, they ate steamed buns baked with wood ash. The kneaded dough was pressed into small round cakes by hand and placed in the burning wood ash. It was cooked in a short while. You can eat it by blowing the ash.

Plant ash looks dirty, but it is actually very clean. The steamed buns cooked with it will not burn and have a special aroma. You can make delicious steamed buns in the wild without a good pot.

Lin Heng made a few more. In addition to eating them at night, he can also eat them while walking on the road tomorrow.

After finishing the meal, I looked up at the sky and saw sparse stars. I warmed my feet and got into the shelter to rest.

Early the next morning, Lin Heng took Xiong Ba and his eldest brother and uncle to set off with their things.

The direction Lin Heng chose was to go west. He originally wanted to go to the northwest, but that was where his elder brother had gone before, and the results were not good.

To the west, they were in the woods. Their idea today was to go straight through, wait until they found a suitable place, then hunt, and then go back and hunt at the same time.

It was already noon after arduously climbing over three mountains, and the location they now reached was beyond the normal hunting range.

"There is an east-west valley over there. Let's walk up the valley in a while, right?"

Lin Heng said while eating wild kiwi fruit.

I just passed by a forest and picked up a lot of wild kiwi fruits. They were not big but sweet and sour. Everyone took some with them.

"Okay, the valley is easy to walk, but the roadless forest is too difficult." Lu Honggang nodded and said.

"Then let's go, let's go down to the valley to find a place to eat." Lin Yue nodded and said.

Now that he was moving forward, after walking a few steps, Lin Heng suddenly saw a red squirrel jumping up and down on the tree. After a slight hesitation, he took out his slingshot.

Soon a beautiful red squirrel fell into his hands. He would not have hunted it if he were near the camp, but now he would be prepared for any danger when he ventured out.

It didn't take long for them to descend into the valley. There was water in the valley, but it was very small. It broke off in several places and formed pools several meters apart.

There are mostly rocks and dead trees in the valley, and there are not many plants. Now it is covered with leaves.

They found a stone to sit down and rest, eating the steamed buns made last night and some meat roasted last night.

After eating these things, everyone continued on their way. The valley was full of stone walls, and sometimes they encountered stone walls with a drop of three or four meters. The streams flowing down from them were all slippery.

At this time, we can only use some trees. If there are no trees, we can only run away.

They walked along the valley for a kilometer or two. As the direction of the valley changed, they switched to mountain climbing and climbed three mountains. Today they walked more than ten kilometers.

We didn't see much prey. The most common ones on the road were wild boar footprints, followed by muntjac's footprints. We didn't see any black bear footprints, which made Lin Heng a little disappointed.

As they walked, they climbed over another mountain. At this time, Lin Yue pointed ahead and suddenly said: "Look, why are there houses over there? There are actually people in this deep mountain."

Lin Heng also saw it. He felt a little bad and a little lucky.

The bad thing is that there may not be much prey close to the village, so traveling so far is in vain.

Fortunately, maybe he can go to the village to get some good stuff. The village is obviously isolated from the world. He also has a dozen cracking oils and more than twenty cooling oils in his backpack.

And there is also some change. If you are poor but rich, you must take money with you when you go out, just in case of emergencies.

These things were not heavy, and he had thought about this kind of thing while carrying them, but he didn't expect that he would actually encounter them.

"Then it seems that we can't catch much prey around here. Even if this village is isolated from the rest of the world, there will definitely be hunters." Lu Honggang said a little depressed.

"In that case, let's go and have a look. It's not very far." Lin Heng suggested.

"Okay, it's good to go and have a look." Lin Yue nodded and said.

They both agreed, and the third uncle naturally had no objections either.

We walked forward for about a few kilometers, but not too far away, a rough voice suddenly appeared in front of us: "Where are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?"

The dialect of this voice was very strange, but as a native of the Northwest, Lin Heng could barely understand it.

Following the sound, he looked over and saw a shotgun on one shoulder, a wooden bow in the other hand, and an arrow pot on his waist.

The man looked to be in his sixties, and he was actually a hunter who was skilled in shotgun, bow and arrow.

But this is normal. Gunpowder is difficult to handle, and filling the gunpowder with gunpowder is even more troublesome. You have to slowly compact it and then fill it with roller balls, and then you have to stuff it with a ball of cotton. The whole process is very troublesome.

Generally, if it is not a big prey, or there are several golden roosters together, it is obviously more cost-effective to use a bow and arrows, and the arrows can be recycled.

"Well, we are from Xiaozhuo Township. We came to the mountains to hunt. Cousin, do you know Xiaozhuo Township?" Lin Heng responded with a smile.

"Uh" is what they mean here, that's what the dialect says, and "cousin" is also a polite term.

"I definitely know Xiaozhuo Township. I've been there several times. You guys have traveled far, traveling dozens of miles to hunt."

The old man came down and smiled.

Lin Heng handed him a large front door, and he looked at it and smiled.

"We wanted to hunt black bears and wolves, but unfortunately we didn't meet them. Cousin, do you know where they are?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

"You also use a bow and arrow, let me see."

The old man did not answer Lin Heng's words, but focused on the arrow bag he was carrying.

"Okay, let me show you." Lin Heng did not refuse and took out the bow and wrapped it on the ground to show him.

As long as he has a preference, he will have a way to know the information.

"How come your bow is a lump of iron? What are these arrows made of, so straight, smooth and light?"

The old hunter's eyes popped out when he saw Lin Heng's stuff.

This was the first time he had seen a strange bow made of iron, and this arrow was his dream arrow. The texture was so beautiful that he didn't want to give it back.

Lin Heng smiled and explained, "This is called a compound bow. It can hit rabbits within 100 meters, wild boars within 200 meters, and it is still powerful at 300 meters. There are two types of arrows. The black one is made of carbon fiber, and the white one is made of aluminum alloy. They are all modern high-end materials."

"It's so awesome, I don't believe it." The old man shook his head. He didn't believe that this iron lump was so awesome.

His Mongolian bow was difficult to hit rabbits beyond 20 meters, but Lin Heng told him that such an iron lump could hit rabbits within 100 meters. He would never believe it even if he was beaten to death.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "Then let's have a fight and you'll know. If I lose, I'll give you all these arrows. If you lose, take me to hunt bears and wolves."

The course of events was exactly as he planned. The old man had never been out of Xiaozhuo Township, so how could he know the title of the king of modern compound bows and cold weapons?

This is the pinnacle creation made by human technology combined with cold weapons. In ancient times, this would be a true artifact.

The old hunter became interested when he heard this: "That's what you said. I won't bully you. I'll put a board for you 80 meters away. If you hit it, I'll agree to your request. If you don't hit it, you'll give me the arrows."

"Okay, find a place with less wind." Lin Heng nodded.

"No problem."

The old man nodded and led them forward. They soon came to the vicinity of the village. There were farmlands all around, and a beautiful stream flowed through here.

The old man took a 30-centimeter-high wooden stake to a rapeseed field beside the stream, walked 80 steps and set it up, then ran back and said, "Almost done, more than 80 meters, show me a show."

"Just watch."

Lin Heng adjusted the bow, took out the release device, took out a carbon arrow, and after putting it on the rack, he aimed for about three seconds, and then shot an arrow.

The black arrow pierced the wooden stake with a whoosh without falling, piercing it directly and knocking it down.

"Oh my god!"

The old man couldn't help but open his eyes wide and slapped his thigh suddenly.

He has been using bows and arrows since he was a child, and he knew that what Lin Heng said was true after shooting. This iron lump really has such a terrifying power.

He was a little shocked when he looked at this strange thing. How could it be so powerful?

Lin Heng smiled slightly, looked at the old hunter and said, "Cousin, you lost, you have to take me to fight black bears and wolves."