Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 366

Han Li stood in the snow, repairing his big snowshoes, and waiting for the battle between the two little lynxes to end.

After the victory, the lynx dragged the wolf to Han Li's side and let out a whining cry.

The fur on this wild wolf is almost rotten, so one can imagine how aggrieved it was when it finally died.

Han Li knelt down and rubbed their heads, and looked at the blood stains on their bodies. Fortunately, the blood stains were not their own.

Standing up and shouting to the sparrow to continue to lead the way, Han Li once again set foot on the way home.

Due to the several times of changing routes on the way, Han Li no longer knew the path he was taking, and it could be said that there was no path at all, but he knew that if he was delayed, his hope of getting home today would dwindle again.

However, this afternoon Han Li unexpectedly picked up several pheasants and wild birds that had been frozen to death in the forest. Each one was frozen to death.

This icy and snowy place is like a large natural cold storage. The dead bodies of these animals are not spoiled. Even if you don’t eat them yourself, you can give extra meals to dogs and lynxes, so Han Li happily put them away.

This discovery made Han Li feel relieved. This situation showed that there were no wild animals nearby, otherwise the pheasants and wild birds would have been eaten long ago.

At the same time, the feeling of not being able to return home today was somewhat confirmed, because if this place was close to a village, these frozen pheasants and wild birds would have been picked up long ago.

When the evening was approaching, Han Li found a swarm of bees in the crevice of the cliff when he climbed over a mountain.

Naturally, the more of this cute, hard-working little animal, the better. The queen bee was subdued by Han Li, but he did not move the hive for the time being.

In addition, Han Li also reinforced the surroundings of the hive so that ordinary animals could not easily harm the hive. In the end, he only left the queen bee with an order to collect more honey from the linden tree in spring and left.

Since it was getting late, Han Li still planned to set up camp on the mountainside leeward today.

However, when he walked halfway up the mountain, he found a large shack that had collapsed. From the above, the big shack was about six meters wide and eight meters long, and the usable area inside was at least 40 square meters. There must be a lot of people.

Han Li stretched his mental strength and walked into the shack. The four corners of this big shack are made of thick wood as the main body, and the two ends are made of wood to build herringbone frames. The beams are embedded with rafters at intervals, and the rafters are horizontally bound with pieces of house foil made of tree slats. The house foil is coated with thick yellow mud, and the outermost layer is thatch.

The walls are covered with tree trunks and painted with mud. Only the south side of the whole big shack has a door and two windows.

Although it was the first time for Han Li to see this kind of big shack in the mountains, he had already heard it from the villagers countless times.

In the past, the "beards" either lived in caves or in woodcuts in the mountains. This kind of large shack that is not resistant to cold is usually built by ginseng collectors.

They usually go to the mountains to dig sticks in the summer, and once they find a good place, they will choose to build a big shack to live in. They call this "bangchui shack" or "pressed grab".

The ginseng collectors have to look at the mountain scenery with their heads, and they have to lead the ginseng gang to choose a place to "press and grab the house", that is, to build a residence.

Wherever the rob is pressed, that is home, and the herdsmen eat, sleep, shelter from the rain and rest in the "pressed rob".

The open space in front of the big shack was covered with dry grass under the snow, and the kitchen was where you entered the door. However, the situation at the scene was very strange. There were bird droppings, bird feathers, animal droppings, and weeds on the ground.

There are iron pans, kitchen knives, sea bowls and other items on the stove. Although the iron pan is rusted and can no longer be used, an iron pan means a lot of money no matter in the past or now. It's not normal for people to be casually abandoned here.

Unless all of this group of people had an accident, but based on the area of ​​this big shack, at least 20 people could live here, what would happen if none of the 20 people could come back?
Han Li then walked inside. The partitions here were made of tiny branches, and there was a rusty horse lamp and an oil lamp on a simple table inside.

There is also a table on the back wall, with two wine jars and a wooden box on it, and a small shrine in the middle.

Han Li scanned it with mental power, and found that there was a piece of elegant red cloth inside the wooden box, which was wrapped with deer bone sticks, club halter, club axe, club scissors, club knife, etc., as well as something made of sheepskin.

Except for the sheepskin, Han Li had seen other things in the villagers' homes. They were a complete set of tools for digging ginseng.

The shrine in the middle must be dedicated to the mountain god, because the ginseng collectors who go to the mountain, whether they are the leaders or ordinary team members, all believe in the mountain god.

After the two wine jars were opened, the smell of wine could still be smelled. Unfortunately, the fine wine here pretended not to be able to withstand the long-term evaporation. There were only circles of marks left in the wine jars, and there was an unknown layer on the bottom of the jars. of black matter.

Han Li thought for a while and put away all the wine jars and small boxes. As for the shrine, he should leave it here, but he brought two sea bowls from the kitchen outside, wiped them clean, and filled the bowls with the Beidacang that he decomposed space. liquor.

Turning his head to look at the kang, the bedding on it had been weathered into disrepair, and the cotton wadding inside had also turned into hard black lumps. Just like that, a few mice ran out of it, which was stunned by Han Li.

Han Li walked around the three rooms, and then he realized that there were a few things missing here, which were the mountain axes, mountain sticks, and even muskets that every mountain driver must have.

Because driving mountains to dig ginseng is a very dangerous job, and the bites of wild beasts and poisonous mosquitoes are just a child's problem. As long as there are enough people driving the mountains, it won't be a big problem.

Although not everyone has muskets, mountain axes and driving sticks are necessary and indispensable things for them.

Muskets and mountain axes can guard against wild animals, and dry pipes can guard against poisonous mosquito bites.

Mountain driving sticks can not only beat grass to scare snakes and pull grass to find ginseng, but the most important thing is to determine each other's orientation by beating on tree trunks, so as to prevent everyone from getting separated from each other.

Because getting lost in the deep mountains and old forests is the most fatal thing. Even a veteran who has driven the mountains all his life can't guarantee that he can find his way back every time.

Especially in summer and autumn, most people go to the mountains to dig ginseng. At this time, the most important thing in the mountains is various climate changes.

Cloudy, foggy, and rainy are its normal state, and sometimes it can even change several times in a day.

Sometimes the sun is direct and scorching, and sometimes there is a storm, black clouds, lightning and thunder, and heavy rain.

The most common cause of this kind of weather change is fog. Once it fogs up, the mountaineering stick in the hands of the mountaineering people, which can confirm the location of their companions, becomes their most important life-saving tool.

Judging from the current situation, something happened to the group of mountaineers who originally lived here when they went out to look for ginseng.

But the specific situation is hard to say. They may have dug up "big goods" and happened to meet their peers who wanted to make money, and they all silenced them.

Maybe they lost their way after encountering the fog, and as a result, they went in different directions, and finally all died in the depths of the forest due to various accidents?

Thinking of this, Han Li shuddered. Fortunately, he had a sparrow to guide him, so he didn't have to worry about getting lost.

But no matter what the situation is, he doesn't plan to spend the night here, mainly because it's too intimidating.

Han Li kept walking towards the foot of the mountain, and found a small river ditch covered by heavy snow here. This may be the place where the group of mountaineers used to fetch water every day.

Han Li walked to the side for a while, until the sparrow could not see the way and had no way to guide him. He could only choose the place to spend the night at a big slope next to it. Save effort.

Han Li had done this kind of temporary resting place many times along the way, so it took him a very short time to fix this overnight pothole.

After closing the door, lighting the fire, and boiling the water, Han Li was sitting on the edge of the fire pond waiting for the water to boil. He suddenly remembered the animal skin he found in the small box just now.

I don't know what is recorded on it?
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