Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Xiulan looked towards where Xiongba was and her eyes suddenly widened: "Oh my god, where did you catch him?"

"It's so powerful, you really gave me a big surprise!" Lin Heng happily walked towards Xiongba.

Xiong Ba disappeared for a while and suddenly appeared with a pig badger in his mouth.

"Woooo!!"

Xiongba put the pig badger down, looked at Lin Heng with his head held high and screamed.

Lin Heng tickled it, touched its head, and said excitedly: "You are becoming more and more useful. I will prepare a big meal for you when I get back."

The pig badger on the ground only had bite wounds on its neck, which were obviously scratched by Xiong Ba himself.

"It's still hot. It's really Xiongba who caught it. It's so awesome. Xiongba."

Xiulan touched the pig badger and praised Xiongba again. A pig badger is nothing to them now, but a Xiongba hunting alone is very powerful.

"Ouch!!"

Xiongba was very happy. He hugged Lin Heng and Xiulan's legs with his two front paws and acted coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, I'll give you something to eat now." Lin Heng took out the last two scallion pancakes from his backpack and fed them all to it.

"Ouch!!"

Xiong Ba was immediately happy when he got the reward, and started eating like crazy.

Lin Heng dug a hole in the ground, put a plastic bag in it, and then took out a dagger to drain the blood from the pig badger. Meat without bleeding would never work, as it would taste very unpalatable.

"This pig badger is very fat. It must weigh twenty-five pounds."

After draining the blood, Xiulan picked it up, weighed it and said.

"Absolutely." Lin Heng smiled and nodded. The pig badger was quite delicious. The meat tasted like a pig badger.

"Then should we continue to pick up fungi?" Xiulan asked again. It was not easy to carry such a heavy thing.

"Pick it up, it's okay, it's not very heavy, I'll carry it on my back." Lin Heng nodded and said, he also wanted to pick up some more Hericium mushrooms.

This stuff is also a very good tonic. You can use it in soups and dishes after drying it.

"But let's take a look at your yams first. If they are easy to dig, we will dig them." Lin Heng threw the pig badger on the ground and let it continue to bleed.

"The vine is as thick as your finger, it looks like you can pull it out." Xiulan said as she walked.

Lin Heng followed her and quickly walked over and found that the vines were indeed thick. If they were dug out, they could dig more than ten kilograms of yams.

Taking the medicine hoe, he dug first. After digging twenty centimeters, he saw the yam as thick as Xiulan's wrist.

"This place is okay. If there are no stones, I should be able to dig out a piece of it." Lin Heng nodded and said.

It is unrealistic to dig them all out. This large yam can grow to a depth of two to three meters underground.

"I'll dig for a while!"

Lin Heng dug half a meter, Xiulan wiped his sweat, put on gloves and took the medicine hoe.

The two of us dug for a while, while I dug for a while. We were sweating, and we were more tired than climbing a mountain, but we were very happy just to eat.

Don't be in a hurry, just sit down and rest for a while when you are tired, and then continue working.

"It's almost done. It's good to be able to dig out seven to eighty centimeters. Let's break off the rest."

Lin Heng looked at Xiulan who was digging the soil and said that the project of digging deeper would be huge.

"No, this yam seems to have turned around. There is a stone underneath it." Xiulan dug up the soil and raised her head.

"Let me see!"

Lin Heng was stunned, and immediately lay down to check. He dug a little more, and then raised his head in surprise: "This yam can be dug out. There seems to be a big rock underneath, and it grows diagonally."

It is much easier to dig along the slope of the hillside than just drilling deeper into the soil.

"Then dig them all out!" Xiulan decided immediately.

Lin Heng nodded, started cleaning with a hoe, and quickly cleared out a deep ditch. The soil above one meter on the mountain was considered easy to dig, and it was not very strenuous.

As the two men cleaned up, the yam gradually revealed its true body, which was thicker and already about five centimeters in diameter.

The two men dug for an hour and a half, digging a trench two meters long and one meter deep along the hillside before taking out all the yams.

"My mom is so exhausted. We can finally pick up the goods." Lin Heng wiped the sweat with his shoulder, then lay down and picked up the yam little by little. A large yam two and a half meters long was taken out completely.

Putting the yams next to them, they both took a good rest and drank some water.

While they were digging yams, Xiongba sneaked out to play twice and then came back.

"It's worth it. I'll definitely have ten kilograms of yam, maybe twelve or thirteen kilograms."

Xiulan touched the yam and said with a smile that although it took nearly two hours, it was worth it.

Lin Heng also nodded. It's a pity that he doesn't have a mobile phone now, otherwise he would have to take a video and post it online to show off.

He continued to rest while Xiulan took his Baidu Steel Dagger and cut the yam into twenty centimeter-long pieces and put them into a bag.

This kind of yam tastes soft and glutinous, and becomes soft when boiled in wine.

"Let's go, let's look for fungi for another hour, and then it's time to go back." Lin Heng looked at his watch and said. It was already half past three, and there was not much time left.

"good!"

Xiulan nodded in agreement. Lin Heng carried the pig and badger on his back, and she carried yams and fungi.

After another hour of searching, the fungi were not as expected. I only found three fist-sized Hericium erinaceus, about a pound of oyster mushrooms, and other fungi such as enoki mushrooms were not found.

They found two more big yams, but they were no longer interested in digging them. That one yam just now almost exhausted them to death.

In terms of medicinal materials, he found a small piece of Polygonatum japonica, but he didn't bother to dig it up.

"Let's go back. I don't know how big brother and the others will fare." Lin Heng looked around and said with emotion.

"I just heard a gunshot, I don't know if it hit or not." Xiulan said as she walked.

As they talked, the two of them and the dog walked down. On the way back, they were lucky enough to find three more bushes of Enoki mushrooms, which together weighed two kilograms.

This thing likes to grow on dead trees, and is often blocked by grass.

When they arrived at Baishigou, they found that their elder brother and sister-in-law were not here yet.

"Wash your hands and wait. They'll probably be here soon."

Lin Heng walked to the edge of the stream and said.

Xiulan nodded, and they put down their things, washed their hands and faces, and dusted themselves. They were all dirty from wandering around in the forest.

After washing, before his elder brother and the others came over, Lin Heng found a large bluestone and leaned against it. The stone was warm in the midday sun and was very warm against it.

Xiulan sat next to him and laid her head directly on Lin Heng's lap. Digging yams made her tired.

"Do you want to see the place where you dug black truffles before?" Xiulan rested her head on Lin Heng's lap and looked up at him and asked.

Lin Heng thought for a while and shook his head: "Forget it, if you don't have a good time today, we'll wait for another day."

Today was tiring enough, and he didn't want to run anymore.

"Let's go back the way we came, and go to the area where Gastrodia elata grows that I marked the year before last." Lin Heng touched Xiulan's face and said.

"That's okay." Xiulan agreed, and then set her sights on the sky. It was a unique experience to look up at the sky like this.

Lin Heng was a little hungry, so he peeled open the wild kiwi fruits he picked up on the mountain and ate them, one for his wife and one for each.

They stayed here for twenty minutes, and finally saw a dog running down first, and then the elder brother and sister-in-law came out.

"You guys came down so early. It seems we are late." Lin Yue said with a smile when he saw Lin Heng.

Liu Juan walked past and said with a smile: "We shot two golden roosters first, and we were delayed by digging yams just now. We dug about twenty kilograms of yams, picked up five or six kilograms of Hericium, and other fungi. Two kilograms, how about your harvest?"

"Sister-in-law, our harvest is slightly better than yours." Xiulan said with a smile. In fact, it is definitely incomparable if it doesn't include the pig badger, but she didn't expect that Lin Heng didn't even take the Xiongba hunting tools and actually got a pig badger.

"There are more than us, so you are extraordinary."

Liu Juan was a little stunned, and then quickly walked over to Lin Heng to look. When she saw the pig badger in the basket, her mouth suddenly opened wide, and her eyes seemed to have fallen to the ground.

"No... no, didn't you bring a bow and arrow or a shotgun? How did you kill this pig badger?" Liu Juan asked in a sharp voice. This was so contrary to common sense.

When Lin Yue heard his wife's words, he walked over in three steps. Looking at the pig badger, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xiong Ba in shock and said, "Could it be that Xiong Ba caught another pig badger?"

"Yes, we don't know how it caught it. When we saw it, it came back with the pig badger." Lin Heng smiled and nodded.

Lin Yue suddenly sighed: "Xiong Ba is still awesome, he is such a good dog."

"The dog caught it by himself, so this bully is really awesome." Liu Juan didn't know what to say for a moment, this dog is so prosperous.

Good Luck is also a descendant of Xiong Ba, so why doesn't Xiong Ba have the ability?

"We also dug a 2.5-meter-long yam. I'm afraid it weighs ten kilograms, and the rest will be nothing." Lin Heng added.

"Two meters and a half long, that's great. It's growing on the stone skin, right?" Liu Juan asked. He felt that Lin Heng and the others were very lucky.

Xiulan replied: "It doesn't count, it still has to be dug more than one meter deep."

"It's much easier to dig than ordinary ones. We dug seven or eight yams out of twenty kilograms before we dug this many." Liu Juan sighed.

After saying a few words, they went to wash their faces and hands. After washing, everyone carried their things and returned the same way. It was already dusk and the sunset had already come out.

At six o'clock, they had just reached the beam on the Shuijinggou side. Lin Heng looked at his elder brother and said, "Come on, let's go dig the sky. There are some in the woods below. I marked them before in May and June."

"It's not far away. Let's put our things together." Lin Yue said.

"Just a few dozen meters below the road." Lin Heng said, Gastrodia elata does not have above-ground plants, only foils grow in May and June. If the location is not marked at that time, the back door will not be found.

Lin Heng led the three of them down to the forest quickly. Although it had been a year or two, he still easily found the original mark: "It's right here. It's all around. You can dig around and take a look."

"Hey, I've already pulled one out. It looks like a sweet potato." Lin Yue laughed in surprise at the side.

"It's quite a lot. I also found a lot of them here." Xiulan also said in surprise.

Lin Heng also dug with a knife, and soon dug out some under a tree. They were as big as small sweet potatoes, and the yellow skin was very beautiful.

If there are small ones, there will be more, but they usually only dig out the big ones and keep the small ones.

It took them more than ten minutes to dig out a lot. The amount dug by Lin Heng and Xiulan weighed three to four kilograms per piece. His elder brother and sister-in-law's hands and feet were so fast that they weighed more than five kilograms.

"Let's go, there should be nothing big left." Lin Yue said after digging for a while.

Liu Juan looked at the half-packed Gastrodia elata and said happily: "I didn't expect that this dry and barren place would have so many Gastrodia elata. If it weren't for Lin Heng, I wouldn't believe it."

"This thing is like this sometimes. If you don't see it with your own eyes, you will miss it." Lin Heng nodded.

On the trail, his elder brother asked him to give him more, but he didn't ask for it. He could just take a little of it back and eat it, but he couldn't eat more of it. After all, the food itself was bitter.

"You don't need to cook tonight. Mom must have prepared it. Come over and eat together, and help kill the pigs and badgers by the way." Lin Heng said when he was about to get home.

"Okay, let's go home, take a shower and change clothes, then come over." Liu Juan agreed with a smile.

They returned to the house, opened the yard door and walked in. They heard the sound of children running. As soon as they walked past the stone screen, three children hugged their legs, and their parents kept shouting.

After not seeing each other for a day, they missed each other terribly. The two hugged each child before walking into the house.

In the room, Father Lin was making tea, and Mother Lin was already in the kitchen preparing dinner.

"How was your harvest?" Father Lin came out and asked.

"Xiong Ba did a great job. I caught a pig badger weighing more than 20 kilograms from somewhere. We mainly dug up a 2.5-meter-long yam, and also got some mushrooms and gastrodia elata."

"Xiong Ba is so powerful!!" Upon hearing this, Lin's father quickly walked over to check. When he saw the pig badger in Lin Heng's backpack, he shook his head in amazement.

"Xiongba is the smartest and most powerful dog, I know." Xiaoxia raised her little hand and said, Xiongba came over and licked her little hand as if she understood, making Xiaoxia giggle.

"I will prove it too!" Lu Ming and Du Heng imitated his sister.

"It's really amazing. Let's make a plate of stir-fries for tonight." Mother Lin walked out of the house and took a look and said.

"Dad, I'll leave it to you. Let's take a shower first. We're all covered in stinky sweat." Lin Heng put the things away and said.

"Then you go ahead, I'll do it." Father Lin nodded with a smile.

The two of them took two electric kettles of hot water and a bucket of cold water to my bedroom. Lin Heng came out to help as soon as he could wash, while Xiulan continued to wash slowly.

When he came out, Lin's father had already boiled a pot of water to make soup for the pig badger. The pig badger's skin had been bitten several times by Xiong Ba, so he simply didn't peel it off and just scalded and plucked it.

"Son, how do you use that pressure cooker? I don't know how to use it. I made some ribs and I haven't cooked them yet." Mother Lin said in the kitchen.

"That's just right, I'll stew it with Hericium mushrooms and yam." Lin Heng said as he walked into the kitchen and took out his mother's defrosted ribs and put them into the pressure cooker. These ribs come from pigs that eat acorn pasture, so they don't need to be blanched. Just skim the foam when the time comes.

After taking the ribs, he washed and chopped a Hericium mushroom and put it in, then added a Gastrodia elata, a few red dates, a section of Codonopsis pilosula, two young corns frozen in the freezer, and then covered the child and simmered it under high pressure.

If you cook this kind of wild yam for ten minutes, it will be too soft to hold with chopsticks, and if you put it in a pressure cooker, it will become mushy. (End of chapter)