Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 17
Animals have a very keen sense of breath.

Even though the blind man had been cut into pieces, the aura he emitted still caused the horses to instinctively panic.

Lu Lu was on the mountain, watching Wang Demin lead the startled carriage away, and then he continued to search in the forest.

Having just eaten a big bowl of dumplings, Lu Lu was not in a hurry to return to Dixianzi.

The weather is very good, which is exactly what the sentence said: I am flying Lao Leng in the blue sky, and I am looking at the mountains in Gaogang.It happened to be a good search in the forest.

His main target now is not entirely the small animals that the slingshot can handle, but the wild vegetables in the mountains.

In the Xing'an Mountains at the beginning of April, apart from the evergreen plants, everywhere is still in depression.

Compared with the south, the real spring here is later and shorter.

The dry leaves are all over the hillside, and the temperature rise during this period can easily make them dry and brittle again, turning into ringing leaves.

People walked in the woods, rattling, as if they were wading across a river.

It is also this withered color that makes the new greens during the hidden period stand out.

Clusters of mother-in-laws are scattered among these dead leaves.

The same is true for the small root garlic that looks like a weed.

Lu Lu didn't bring a hoe or shovel, so he directly used the knife and started digging.

A greyhound with a blind eye broke into the surrounding area and directly used a slingshot to fix it.

It's not the same thing.

In the evening, Lu Lu harvested a lot of mother-in-law and small root vegetables, which he tied up in bundles with mountain vines.

Such wild vegetables will be put on the table in later generations. Pure natural wild vegetables are deeply loved by the public and the price is not low. However, in these days, for people, they are extremely common.

The winter in Northeast China is long, and the temperature is often [-] to [-] degrees, which makes it difficult to preserve vegetables.

Chinese cabbage, radish, and pickled vegetables that have been eaten all winter are seasoned with these wild vegetables. Every family will go to the mountains or go to the fields to get some to try.

As for selling...

The state-run stores in the district or the purchase points of foreign trade companies mainly target higher-end things, such as mushrooms, fur, nuts and other mountain products.

These wild vegetables can be sold, after all, not everyone has the time to go to the mountains to dig, especially those in the city who have jobs.

However, sending it to the city from here is a long way, and the price is too low to make any money at all.

Therefore, in this year, it is limited to eating.

The mother-in-law diced and small garlic that Lu Lu dug must weigh a few catties each.

The weather is still cold, these vegetables don’t need special storage, and they can be stored for a few days. This area grows a lot, so I just get more, so I can eat more meals, and I don’t need to dig temporarily.

After picking up wild vegetables, Lu Lu didn't stop all the way, and when he returned to his cellar, it was already dark.

Just as he was about to enter the house, he suddenly heard rustling in the woods not far away.

His expression was shocked, and he immediately grabbed the big ax he was carrying with him and looked in the direction of the sound.

There are many dangerous beasts in the mountains, so we have to guard against them.

He looked intently, and saw a yellow figure walking slowly out of the forest...

What came out of the woods was a yellow-haired bitch with mange all over his body. His fur was bald here, bald there, and some places seemed to have festered.

Seeing that it was a stupid dog, Lu Lu's tense heartstrings relaxed a little.

The yellow dog was also very cautious. When he walked out of the forest and came to the side of the Immortal Column, he stopped moving forward and just looked at Lu Lu steadfastly.

It is said that dogs come to get rich, but here comes such a useless mangy dog...

"Alas...all pitiful!"

When Lu Lu saw this dog, he suddenly thought of himself.

In the nearby villages, many people keep dogs. Most people use them to watch their homes, while hunters bring them to hunt.

But not all dogs are treated well.

There are always some sick and useless dogs that are abandoned, and there are puppies that are just born with a full moon and open eyes. The good ones are picked away, and the rest of the owners can't keep them. deliver.

Some died, and some survived and became stray dogs.

Such situations are common.

Lu Lu suddenly felt this way, mainly because of what happened to him.

He looked around and noticed that the yellow dog was looking at the hearts, liver and lungs that had been pulled out of the roe deer next to the cellar. before.

Originally, he planned to keep the heart of the roe deer for himself to eat, but he forgot to take back the cellar last night, and he was busy with Xiong Xiazi's affairs this morning, so he just hung it on the branch of a tree.

The yellow dog took two steps back very vigilantly, looked up at Lu Lu, then turned his head to look at the heart of the roe deer on the ground, hesitated for a moment, took two steps forward and lowered his head to sniff, then looked up at Lu Lu again.

"Eat it, eat it, it's for you!" Lu Lu smiled.

As if understanding Lu Lu's words, Huang lowered his head and swallowed those pieces of meat one by one.

"It's quite edible..."

Lu Lu simply took the whole set of roe deer livers off the tree branch, and tentatively brought them to the yellow dog.

This time, although the yellow dog was still looking at him vigilantly, he didn't deliberately retreat and dodge, and even wagged his tail at Lu Lu.

When he got close, Lu Lu was shocked when he saw the yellow dog's physical condition clearly.

Although there are many scabies on this yellow dog's body, there are more claw marks and tooth marks.

Some have healed, and some have just scabbed over, and there are new wounds, the flesh is rolled up, and the blood is still dripping down, what kind of festering.

What happened to this?

Looking at the situation, this yellow dog has lived in this mountain forest for a long time. It was often injured while hunting, and was even attacked by wild animals, or it was injured when it took the initiative to attack.

The wounds on its body were shocking.

The most important thing is the swollen tits on the yellow dog's abdomen, which should be nursing for a while after giving birth to puppies.

At this stage, when the female dog needs nutrition most, she cannot get enough nutrition supplement, so she can't help the puppies sucking.

Lu Lu guessed that nine out of ten it failed to hunt and was injured instead, unable to catch prey, so smelling the smell of blood, he found his cellar.

He shook his head slightly, and put all the livers in front of the yellow dog.

It looked up at Lu Lu, picked up the liver the next second, turned around and ran into the woods.

It's a pity that the sky is already dark now, so it's not easy to enter the forest again.

Lu Lu could only give up temporarily the idea of ​​following up to have a look.

According to what he knew about dogs, if he ate here once, he might come again.

There are still opportunities in the future.

Without thinking too much, Lu Lu went into the cellar to prepare dinner for himself.

Wash the diced mother-in-law and small root garlic, and simply marinate it with miso to make a cold dish.The rice steamed with sorghum rice is still in the wood scorpion, just steam it hot. In addition, he took a piece of roe deer meat and cut it into small pieces.

These are his dinner tonight.

After eating and drinking, Lu Lu was not allowed to rest.

The bear paws and meat strips taken from Xiong Xiazi still need to be processed.

He went inside the Immortal Column and set up a fire. The temperature was higher, and the skin of the robe in the Immortal Column would dry faster.

I dug some yellow mud with a hoe and came back, added a little water, mixed it, pasted a thick layer of mud shell on the two bear paws, and burned them in firewood.

Using this yellow mud can effectively remove the thick fur on bear paws, which is more convenient and quicker than scalding with water.

Taking advantage of this moment, he went back to the cellar again, cut the meat strips into pieces, put them in the pot, and cooked them with oil.

Both sides worked hard for more than an hour, and the fur on the bear's paws was plucked, and soaked in cold water.

The bear oil was also boiled out, with less meat and less oil, and it was just filled up the jar that was bought when the oil was bought, but it was no problem to eat it for ten days and half a month.

After finishing the work, I boiled hot water for a simple wash, and climbed into bed. It was estimated that it was after nine o'clock in the evening.

The next morning, Lu Lu was woken up by the humming sound coming from outside the house.He turned over and got up, put on his overcoat, picked up the big ax beside the bed, first went to the small window of the cellar, looked out, and suddenly laughed.

Three puppies who have just opened their eyes are chasing and playing awkwardly in the open space in front of the basement, one is black, one is white, and there is a black and white, chubby, really cute.

The yellow dog lay quietly on one side, licking the wound on his body.

Unexpectedly, without having to look for it by itself, it brought its cub to the door.

Good omen!

(End of this chapter)