Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 7
Eating porridge and barbecue every day always has that little taste, and my mouth is so dry.

After Lu Lu found someone to exchange some food stamps and oil stamps, he bought some daily necessities of sorghum rice, corn flour, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar in the state-run store, and picked out some steel wires, ropes, and a few small tools for fiddling with wood. After sanding and sandpaper, I also bought some succulents for myself.

He was also thinking about rice and white noodles, but that thing is a rare thing these days, and it’s okay to eat once or twice once in a while, and eat it every day, and the shabby money in his pocket can’t bear it.

Seeing that the clouds in the sky had turned gray again, and the cold wind was blowing, he didn't stay in the area too long, and returned to his cellar early.

Not long after entering the house, there was a little snow.

He hurriedly lit the fire.

The weather suddenly turned cold, and he didn't have many clothes with him. The thicker ones were the military cotton coat and dog-headed hat that he bought in the later period of the Beidahuang Farm.

These things are rarely used in Haicheng. When I went back for a year, they were kept in the bottom of the box. Fortunately, I brought them out when I left home.

Without this thing, it’s okay when the weather is sunny, but once it snows and rains, it will be difficult in this season.

In the shady places in the mountains, the ice and snow will not completely melt until May and June.

Keeping warm is the top priority for survival in this mountain forest.

Fortunately, the cellar has been built, otherwise you would be shivering a lot if you shrank in the fairy column.

For a whole day, Lu Lu didn't go out, but put on his coat, built a fire outside, and used the gadgets he bought to make a steamer, which was usually used for steaming rice, and steamed buns occasionally. Not a big problem.

Yen Zi's timber is a section of Chinese fir sawn from the mountain, with a diameter of forty centimeters.

He is not from the Northeast, so he doesn't need to follow the way of life here.

Later generations have seen so many things, so he can do whatever is convenient for him.

Anyway, I have a lot of free time, and there are so many kinds of good wood on the mountain, it is not difficult to make some commonly used wooden tools such as wooden ladles, basins, bowls, barrels, etc. by myself.

It’s okay to be rough, as long as it can be used, just accumulate a little bit.

Gradually, all kinds of tools in the cellar increased, and it began to look like a home.

After spending an afternoon, I finally hollowed out the wood in the middle of the fir section, put it on the fire, burned the surface and internal burrs with the flame, polished it with sandpaper, and then weaved a piece of wood with grape vines found on the mountain. A hoop is placed in the center of the Zhenzi to prevent cracking, and a retort cover is made of fir wood.

In the evening, I made a bottom of the retort with reeds and ulagrass.

The utensils for steaming rice are finished.

The next step is to put it in a pot, add salt and cook it again.

Otherwise, the steamer made of fir will always have a strange smell.

After finishing his work, Lu Lu immediately steamed sorghum rice for himself, put miso and stewed a pheasant.

This little thing is enough for him tomorrow.

While it was still dark when the stewing was still underway, Lu Lu got out of the cellar to take a look. The snowflakes were scattered here and there, and at this time of year, it wouldn't fall much.

Snow falls on the mountains and frost falls on the valleys. It is not easy for this little snow to accumulate on the meadows in the depressions.

"Hiss...it's really cold!"

Lu Lu breathed out, rubbed his hands, and was about to go back to the house. Just about to turn around, he suddenly caught a glimpse of several roe deer standing on the meadow.

On this meadow, within a few days, I have seen roe deer three times.

"Seduce me..."

He turned and went back to the house, and under the lantern, he began to fiddle with the wire sleeve.

No guns, otherwise, as stupid as they are, they would be easy to hunt.

The roe deer, known as the number one beast in the Northeast, is a food delivery for most hunters.The leather is worthless and is mainly used for eating meat.

However, for Lu Lu, roe deer skin can also be used well.It is made into a robe, which is a good thing to resist the severe cold in winter.

Although he doesn't have this skill, people who live in this mountain should know it. If he comes into contact with it later, he can just ask someone to help him make it.

In short, if you get roe deer, peel off the skin and keep it well, it will always be useful and you will not lose it.

As for the meat, just one roe deer is enough for him to eat for a long time.

Roe deer meat is delicious, but unfortunately, roe deer has no fat on it, so it is difficult to get some oil.

These days, oil and gold are expensive, and it is also the era when fat meat is more expensive than lean meat.

On a trip to the district, Lu Lu was reluctant to buy more, so save as much as you can.

However, there is not enough oil and water to eat anything without being hungry, and the food consumption has also increased. It is really more edible than one meal.

We must find a way to get oil!
And in this mountain, the most oil-producing things are wild boars and bears.

However, even with weapons like guns, these two large beasts are not easy to get.

As far as wild boars are concerned, the smaller ones can still be entangled with wire ropes. Once they reach three hundred catties, even the wire ropes are not enough for them to break, let alone Xiong Xiazi.

Moreover, wild boar oil, especially boar, has a dry smell that is really not easy to accept. Xiong Xiazi's oil is much better, but that is not what he can think of now.

Lu Lu still has this self-knowledge.

Don't hurry.

For now, let's keep things simple.

Going back to the house, I got a wire cover, and Lu Lu planned to install it in the morning.

He boiled hot water for himself and scalded his feet. He went out to prepare for convenience and then came back to sleep. When he was outside, he was ready to pee, but he stopped abruptly.

I hurried back to the house, took out a wooden bowl and put it on the ground, poured water in a splash, filled more than half of the bowl, and just put it outside,
The next morning, Lu Lu got up early, went out of the cellar, and went outside to see that a bowl of urine ice had already taken shape.

The weather is still cold today, and there are still scattered snowflakes floating.

Lu Lu took the axe, chopped a bundle of birch sticks more than one meter long, and then took the urine ice to the place where the roe deer frequented the meadow.

Crush the urine ice in the wooden bowl, put the bowl on the ground together, and then insert birch strips around it, with a diameter of about [-] centimeters. Only on the side where the roe deer is facing, leave a [-]-meter-wide hole. centimeters, a gap of sixty centimeters high.

The prepared steel wire sleeve was laid on the gap, and the other end was fastened with a stake on the ground with an axe.

This is the method Lu Lu learned from others when he wanted to eat meat when he was on the farm.

Human urine has a salty taste, and most animals living in the mountains need salt, which is a good bait for roe deer.

The roe deer who found the pissing ice, when licking it, raised and lowered its head, and it was easy to get caught in the wire sleeve.

In the past, I used this method to get one from time to time. It is much better than going around to pinch and trap, which is more luck-based. Without guns, even if you find him, you can’t catch him. This thing is better than hunting dogs. I can still run.

After simply laying out a few nooses scattered around, Lu Lu went back to the house, made breakfast, and continued to go up the mountain with an ax and slingshot after eating.

What he didn't expect was that the weather cleared again less than two hours after he went up the mountain.

It is precisely because of this that Lu Lu went a little further.

Just as he turned over two mountain ridges, on the hillside, he suddenly heard bursts of clattering from the opposite side.

It was the sound of trees being knocked by shaking branches and leaves.

He took a closer look, and his heart suddenly lifted.

　Seek to read and collect!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)