forest developer

Chapter 12 Overnight in Zhangziling

Turn over the wild boar ridge and enter the secondary forest.

It didn't take long for Su Guoer to find a working passage built during logging.

Although it has been 30 or [-] years, the wide passage has long been covered by the jungle, and it will be blocked by thickets or dead trees that have fallen from the mountain from time to time. It is more convenient to walk around than in the dense forest. a lot.

Walking in the forest, the sun is like strands of golden sand, shining in through the overlapping branches and leaves, and sprinkled on the ground in mottled patterns.Occasionally, a hare would come out of the forest, causing the accompanying hounds to bark wildly, echoing in the quiet forest.

When the sun set on the hills to the west, Ling Zikai and the others had already traveled through the forest for nearly three hours, and traveled more than 40 kilometers to a place called Zhangziling.

Su Guoer found a wooden house where the lumberjacks lived when they were resting.

After experiencing wind and rain, the wooden reeds that were built have begun to rot on the outside, with some mushrooms growing.The door of the house has disappeared, the light inside is dark, and it is full of pungent musty smell.

Suguol said the smell was too strong to live in.

After exiting the wooden house, Su Guoer whistled, and the three hounds rushed into the woods and disappeared.By the time the two cleared up an empty space next to the wooden house, the three hounds had already returned.One of the hounds also had a hare in its mouth.

Ling Zikai couldn't help praising the three hounds for their ability to catch wild animals.

Su Guoer curled his lips, saying that the hound was lazy, if in the past, he could even catch the roe deer for such a long time, but now he only caught a wild rabbit for business, and he could only eat rabbit meat at night.

While speaking, Su Guoer started to pack up the prey, skinned it, opened it, and gutted it. In the blink of an eye, the hare was finished.

Ling Zikai didn't stay idle either, and picked up some dry branches and a large handful of dried moss according to Su Guoer's instructions, took out the lighter and lit it, and lit a bonfire.

Afterwards, Su Guoer set up a tripod with branches, hung the whole rabbit on the frame with old vines, moved it to the bonfire, and grilled it.

After a while, bursts of barbecue aroma began to diffuse in the forest.

Ling Zikai smelled the fragrance, and immediately felt his stomach start to gurgle, swallowing saliva non-stop.

After finally waiting for the meat to be cooked, before Su Guoer could cut it with a knife, he tore a rabbit leg with his hands and took a bite. The meat was fragrant and tender.

Seeing Ling Zikai devouring it like a wolf, Su Guoer said with some disdain, "The taste of rabbit meat is just average. If it's roasted pheasant, then it's delicious?"

While speaking, Su Guoer took a skin bag from the horse: "Drink?"

Ling Zikai shook his head. The last time he drank a bowl of white wine in Uncle Boer's bag, it made him uncomfortable for several days. Now when he mentions the word drinking, he would feel a headache.

"How can a man not drink!"

Su Guoer shook his head, and did not force himself, pulled out the cork, raised his head and took a big gulp, with a sigh in his mouth.

In a blink of an eye, a rabbit weighing five or six catties entered their stomachs.Su Guoer threw the remaining bones and meat to the three hounds, belching in his mouth, his face flushed.

Ling Zikai asked: "Tell me, what kind of danger will you encounter in the old forest?"

"There are many dangers in the old woods!"

"I'm asking under normal circumstances, just take your sister Du Juan as an example, what danger will she encounter?"

"Under normal circumstances, there will be no life-threatening situations when picking ginseng seedlings in the mountains. It is nothing more than encountering wild animals or being bitten by poisonous insects, but these situations can be discovered in advance and avoided!"

Su Guoer thought for a while and then said: "The other thing is that I accidentally slipped and fell off the cliff, and I was trapped when I met a 'smoke bubble'."

"What is a smoke bubble?"

"Yanbaozi refers to the swamp in the forest. Because the ground in the primitive forest is covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves, some places are two or three meters thick, it is difficult to find where there will be smoke bubbles. If it sinks in, the shadow will disappear in an instant. And because there are many rotting leaves and rich nutrition in these places, it is often the place where ginseng seedlings may grow."

"However, it is not difficult for the old mountain guest to find Yanpaozi. If there is a large area with thickets in the middle of a particularly lush bush suddenly appearing in the forest, there may be Yanpaozi. , be careful!"

"Did Cuckoo often go to the mountains to collect ginseng seedlings?"

Su Guoer understood Ling Zikai's thoughts, and said, "You don't have to worry about Dujuan sister getting stuck in a smoke bubble. Although we haven't entered the old forest a few times, don't forget that the entire Xing'an Mountains is the home of our Dulunke people." , Our ancestors have lived in this jungle for generations. We grew up listening to the stories of the mountains, and we have all remembered which forests are haunted by wild animals and which forests are dangerous!"

"Then why did the cuckoo disappear? It can't be lost!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Ling Zikai felt that he was asking too much. Since he is a person from Dashanli, how could he make such common-sense mistakes!
Su Guoer looked at Ling Zikai like an idiot, and didn't even bother to talk to him.

Ling Zikai ruled out all kinds of possible situations in his mind, and suddenly asked: "Will you meet a bad guy?"

"You think it's still the era when bandits were rampant before liberation, and you're worried that my sister will be robbed into the mountain and become the wife of the village!"

Su Guoer said jokingly, then seemed to think of something, and suddenly yelled: "No, my sister may really meet a bad guy!"

Seeing him startled, Ling Zikai didn't know what happened, so he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Recently, I heard on TV that there is a poaching gang in XA City. If my sister meets them, I will be in trouble!"

Ling Zikai asked suspiciously: "Poacher? Does it have anything to do with your sister?"

"Oh, it's very important! Do you know that my sister is not only a member of the Northern Province Green Forest Protection Volunteer Association, but also a member of the Provincial Wildlife Defenders Association! If you encounter poachers, with my sister's temper We must stop it. Those poachers are all ruthless guys with shotguns in their hands. If the two sides conflict, sister will definitely suffer!"

Hearing this, Ling Zikai seemed to see the slender figure of Du Juan angrily angrily annoyed a group of poachers who bared their teeth and claws, and those poachers brazenly pointed their shotguns at her chest...

Ling Zikai's heart turned cold, and he tried hard not to think wildly, but he couldn't help shivering.He had a premonition that Du Juan might be facing an extremely critical situation, so he couldn't help but appear in the old forest immediately, by her side.

"Let's set off now and rush to the old forest overnight!"

Ling Zikai said to Su Guoer.

Su Guoer was taken aback: "Are you crazy? How can you walk in the woods in the dark? If you lose your way, you will become a blind bear. You will find it difficult to find your way around in the woods. At that time, you may get faster and faster." The farther you go from the old forest!"

Ling Zikai looked at the dark forest around him, as if he looked like a monster with its mouth open, waiting for him to jump in!He knew that he was a little too anxious, thinking about the old saying, haste makes waste, so he suppressed the impulse in his heart.

The night was spent in anxiety.As soon as the sky was dim, Ling Zikai urged Su Guoer to go on the road.

Walking in the forest shrouded in white mist, the dewdrops on the leaves and branches on both sides of the road kept hitting the body, and slipped down to the ground along the leather clothes on the body.

Only then did Ling Zikai understand the benefits of Uncle Boer's decision to change into this hunting suit made of animal skin.If I were wearing ordinary clothes at this time, I'm afraid my whole body would be soaked like a soaked chicken!
Ling Zikai had to admire these Durunk people who lived in the mountains for generations. Even on the most common clothes, they have precipitated the historical epitome of survival of the fittest.

When the sun shines into the forest, the forest that has slept all night begins to be noisy for another day.

The ground glistens with dew, and smells of grass, flowers, and moist earth.

All kinds of countless small flowers raced out of the soil, white, red, and yellow, shining like stars, making the earth in the forest shine with colorful vitality.

But at this moment, Ling Zikai was not in the mood to enjoy the fragrance of flowers and plants, bathed in sunshine, and only thought about how long it would take to get to the old forest.

With the continuous deepening, the trees in the forest gradually thinned out.The trees also began to grow tall and strong.

When turning over a mountain ridge, a large thousand-year-old red pine forest appeared in front of him, Su Guoer told Ling Zikai excitedly that he had reached the edge of the old forest.

Ling Zikai also became a little excited.After reaching the red pine forest, the two rested in place, took out some dry food, and filled their stomachs.

Taking advantage of the rest time, Ling Zikai began to use his ancestral consciousness to investigate the situation within a radius of more than 50 kilometers.

When the picture appeared in the mind, a rush of wildness, condensed for thousands of years, was as thick as the essence of nature.

This kind of breath made Ling Zikai's ancestral god consciousness start to tremble, like a child who had been away from home for a long time, suddenly returned to the door of the house, full of incomparable excitement.And Lao Linzi in front of him, like a kind mother, opened his warm heart and began to embrace the long-lost child.

At this moment, Ling Zikai obviously felt that his ancestral god consciousness had been condensed a lot.Although the range of perception has not expanded, the perception has become more sensitive, and even ants crawling on the ground and beetles on leaves can be seen clearly.

Indistinctly, he seemed to hear a voice calling himself, and wanted to follow the sound to find it, but he couldn't tell the specific direction.

Ling Zikai gave up his curiosity and began to search carefully in the woods, hoping that he could find the trace of Du Juan.

(End of this chapter)