Build a farm from the mountains

Chapter 237 Seeing a touch of red
After walking less than ten miles, he ate four more fruits, two of which were overripe and almost rotten.

Sorghum fruit is a unique wild fruit in the Daxinganling forest area. Its scientific name is Oriental Strawberry, and its aliases are Gaoliguo and Piaoer.

The shape resembles a sorghum spike in autumn, and the fruit is about the size of an index finger belly. The top is red and the bottom is white, and there are neatly arranged pockmarks on the surface, which are its seeds.

It is very similar to the mini version of strawberries. It tastes sweet and delicious, and has a strong fragrance. After eating a few, the aroma of strawberries is all over your hands. Compared with wild strawberries, it is heaven and earth.

Thick plums are also known as stinky plums. Thick plums can be eaten directly. The ripe fruit is black and the pulp contains a lot of juice. Thick plums taste sour and bitter.

Goat's milk, the scientific name is indigo fruit honeysuckle, black blind fruit, mountain eggplant fruit.

The fruit is a berry, and the juice is a vivid deep rose color. Compared with blueberries, the fruit is as good as it gets.

Toba.The fruit tastes sweet and sour.

Because when it is ripe, the skin covering the fruit is held underneath, scientific name: raspberry.

Guan Zilong patted his stomach and said, "I can't, I'm full."

Guan Ziyun behaved similarly to him, and couldn't help eating a toba and said: "These fruits can make a lot of money when they are transported to the capital, and they can also be refrigerated."

"We'll have to wait until next year." Guan Zilong looked regretful after he finished speaking. The price of small commodities has not been lowered, and so many fruits rotted in the woods.

Now it can be sold for two to three cents at most, and the cost of shipping it out is too high, even if there are a lot of wild fruits, he can't afford to bother.

Wu Hao pointed to the top of a birch tree trunk and said: "This one is not bad, it looks old."

There are chaga velvet on the tree, which is not small. He doesn’t know much about chaga velvet. He only knows to choose healthy birch trees, because the chaga velvet from dead or diseased trees is basically worthless and inactive.

The longer the growth period, the thicker and darker the natural birch extract formed, and the higher its active ingredients and medicinal value. It is the most essential part of chaga.

Chaga Velvet has a very hard surface, usually black, with cracks, and the inside is actually mycelium, which is not particularly hard, and likes to co-exist with birch trees.

However, birch trees are passive symbiosis with it, and they will also suffer backlash. Most of the parasitic birch trees will completely wither within 20 years.

However, only chaga velvet that is more than ten years old has medicinal value, and it is almost non-renewable, and the price is getting more and more expensive.

Wu Meng saw the chaga velvet, took out an ax from behind and climbed up the birch tree directly. The chaga velvet grows on the dead branches and trunks of the birch tree.

It was like a "tumor" growing on the tree. The Chaga Velvet grew six to seven meters above the trunk. He climbed up and clamped the trunk with his legs, hugged the tree with one hand, and chopped with an ax in the other.

When the chaga velvet fell, Wu Hao reached out to catch it and handed it to Guan Zilong: "It weighs more than seven catties, and it should be more than ten years old. If we are looking for a few yuan, let's go back."

"Okay." Guan Zilong nodded, put the Chaga Velvet into the basket and continued to search.

They circled south and then northeast, and after walking for a day, they found four pieces of chaga, all of which weighed more than five catties.

As the sky was getting darker, the four of them found a highland with few forests to eat barbecue, and they still slept surrounded by fire at night.

After breakfast the next day, Wu Hao led the way to the east. There was no need to look for linden tree honey, as there were linden trees behind the village.

Hei Feng raised by Han Caizi can collect linden tree honey, which is formed after the wild linden tree honey is collected by bees.

Just send some to Mrs. Fu for them to bid, and the newly collected linden tree honey in Han Caizi's family is enough.

"Cuckoo~Gang~"

The four of them were walking in the woods, when a different bird call faintly came from ahead, Wu Meng was stunned and said, "It seems to be the sound of a club bird."

Guan Zilong's eyes lit up, and there is a folk rumor: "If you want to dig ginseng treasures, you have to find the mallet bird."Soon after the white dew, they ate the ripe ginseng seeds and stopped singing.

"Follow the sound to have a look." Wu Hao led the way, also wondering in his heart, there are very few mallet birds in Daxing'an Mountains, could there be ginseng near here?
It is normal for him not to go through some forests, but the mallet bird does not necessarily shit anywhere after eating ginseng seeds.

It can only digest the peel, and ginseng seeds may grow new ginseng when it falls to the ground, and there may be only one plant.

If it is an old ginseng that has never been discovered, there may be a lot of sticks in it.

"Woo~"

Going six or seven miles, Xiao Zong suddenly stopped and looked at the footprints in the woods, sobbing softly, and raised his head to smell the scent and look to the southeast.

The four walked over with their guns in hand, and they could see the footprints of wolves at a glance. They crossed the path in the forest and entered the other half of the forest.

Wu Hao squatted down to observe and said: "It should have just left for a few minutes."

It is only more than 30 miles away from the pasture. The wolf pack will enter the woods to hunt, and it seems that the number is about fifteen.

Thinking of the experience of being bitten by a wolf, Wu Meng said angrily: "Fuck it!"

"Let's go!" Wu Hao nodded to lead the way, with four guns plus a dog and two minks, if he were to ambush, the wolf would not be his opponent.

It's okay to be ambushed by wolves, there are four grenades, throw one out, and the wolves will definitely escape.

It just happens to be the direction they want to go, and they must go and see.

The ambush pack of wolves cannot "call sticks", and the pack of wolves can walk through the forest. The four of them must take a detour for fear of being bitten by a snake.

After walking six or seven miles, Xiao Zong had already assumed a fighting posture, not far from the pack of wolves.

Here is a miscellaneous forest of oak trees, linden trees and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests, and there are not many bushes in it.

There are quite a few Daqingshi and Gutangzi. They came from the northwest, and the wolves should be in the southeast of Shilazi.

Xiao Brown listened attentively, sniffed the scent, and then stared at Shilazi in the distance.

Wu Hao observed the terrain, the pile of blue stones extended eastward like a wall, with a height of five or six meters.

He beckoned to the three of them and chose to go south, preparing to ambush the wolves on the west side of the bluestone wall. They should hunt in front of the stone.

The wolves seldom go east of the forest. If the grass in the meadow was not too low to hide their bodies, they would seldom come here to hunt.

There is an [-]% chance that they will go west to the wetland, and then return to the pasture.

Ahead came the cry of an animal dying.

Xiao Zong heard the sound and took the lead to go around to the west of Qingshi.

Wu Hao observed the terrain while walking. On the left side was a stone, and on the right side was a shady hillside. This is a piece of land, that is, a dustpan-shaped mountain depression. There are several kinds of trees on the hillside.

There was a distance of more than 30 meters between Qingshi and Weizidi. He asked the three of them to spread out and approach quietly under the cover of trees in front of them.

A red deer carcass was found behind a tree, surrounded by footprints of wolves. The red deer had just been killed, but the wolves moved on without eating it.

This is the direction Xiao Zong was looking at just now. Wu Hao guessed that the wolf sentinel might have found prey ahead and came back to report and lead the pack of wolves to catch it.

He just glanced at the red deer, then took the lead and continued to walk more than 200 meters, stopped, hid behind the trees and observed, through the gaps between the trees, he could see the wolves hovering tens of meters in front of the bluestone.

He lowered his head to smell the smell on the ground, and looked up at the pile of rocks five or six meters high from time to time.

"Oh~"

This slight cry came from the pile of rocks, and a wolf weighing more than 80 kilograms instantly rushed to the front of the bluestone.

It stopped and looked above the pile of rocks. There was a depression two meters high, and the sound came from there.

The three of them couldn't figure out what the slight cry was, but Wu Hao could tell that it was the cry of a tiger cub.

The wolves dared to hunt here, not only because the smell in the forest was mixed and there was no smell of tigers, but also because the tigers had just brought their cubs here to change their dens.

Hungry from the journey, it left the cub to hunt alone, before leaving a scent nearby.

It is useless even to leave a smell, as long as the tiger is not around, wolves, leopards and lynxes dare to kill its cubs.

These animals are all killing each other, including their young.

"Oh~"

Another cry of the little tiger came out, and the wolf king stepped on the rocks and climbed up into the depression without hesitation.

A dozen or so wolves gathered below, and one of them also jumped up. Within a few seconds, two wolves brought down two cubs.

The wolf king's eyes were full of ferocity, and he bit the little tiger's neck hard, and the little tiger let out a miserable scream.

The four of them looked at each other, Wu Hao clamped Xiao Zong between his legs to prevent him from moving, and raised his gun just as he was about to shoot.

"roar~"

The cloud followed the dragon and the tiger followed the wind, a gust of wind accompanied the roar of the tiger, and a scar-faced tiger jumped up from behind the east of Qingshi.

There was still blood on its mouth, and it may have run back in a hurry when it heard the cub's scream when it came back from its prey.

Even though it was out of breath, it didn't hesitate at all in the face of the dozen or so wolves attacking its cubs. With a roar, it jumped off the blue stone and rushed towards the wolf king.

Even if there are a large number of wolves, their first reaction to a mad tiger is to run.

Fifteen wolves desperately killed the tiger, but three or four of them were seriously injured and dying.

"Woooo~"

The wolf king didn't dare to go all out, and let out a short howl when he left the little tiger to escape.

When the tiger rushed up, it slapped its claws on the waist of the nearest wolf that hadn't escaped in time, and the wolf collapsed to the ground with a scream.

The five-hundred-jin tiger jumped up and overtook a wolf, knocked down and locked its throat, shook its head vigorously, and twisted the wolf's neck.

It ignored the fleeing wolf king, and ran after a wolf with a tiger cub in its mouth.

It didn't take long to kill the two wolves, but the pack had already moved six to seventy meters to the west.

It will take time for it to catch up with the wolf. During this time, the wolf may kill the cub.

Wu Hao felt that the howling of the wolf king was to let the wolf hold the cub in its mouth to attract the attention of the tigress and buy it time to escape.

Because the tiger can tell which is the wolf king, if it does not attract attention, it will surely die.

There were trees blocking it and it was difficult to aim. He predicted the escape route of the wolf and said, "Shoot the wolf!"

"boom!"

A shot hit the wolf's abdomen, and it happened to run not far from Weizidi, where it screamed and fell to the ground.

The little tiger was thrown aside and struggled a few times without standing up. It weighed [-] jin and did not die. Maybe the wolf was too frightened to run away before killing it.

"bang bang bang"

Each of them fired five shots in a row, and the forest more than 30 meters wide in front was blocked, and the wolves scattered back and fled in fright.

Some rushed towards Weizidi obliquely, and some ran directly towards the tiger. They would rather run from the tiger than be shot.

The tigress was rushing towards the cub, when she heard gunshots, she lay on the ground and hid behind a tree. When the gunshots stopped, a wolf ran up ahead.

It rushed over and slapped the wolf's neck with its paw, and the wolf fell to the ground without even screaming.

The trees were densely packed, and the tiger ignored the other fleeing wolves. It poked its head out from behind the tree to look at the cub, and then at the place where the shot was fired.

It was able to escape under the cover of the forest, but it couldn't let go of its cubs. Through the gap between the trees, it was looking at Wu Hao who was less than a hundred meters away.

The three of them were four or five meters apart, and they couldn't see the tiger.

Wu Meng asked: "Second brother, have you seen it?"

"I see." Wu Hao nodded, he and the tiger saw each other clearly.

Guan Ziyun said: "A piece of tiger skin can be sold for five thousand or more if there is a suitable buyer."

Guan Zilong glared at him before reminding him: "This thing is protected, no one will know if you hit it here, but the leather is not easy to shoot."

"Put up the gun and go." Wu Hao said, stood up, with Xiao Zong between his legs, aimed at the tiger and slowly retreated more than 100 meters to put down the gun.

Seeing this, the tigress came out and stared at him for a while before running to pick up the cub. It looked back and then ran to another cub.

Only then did the three put down their guns, and no one mentioned why he didn't shoot. People who entered the mountain were the leaders, even if they didn't carry the mallet, they were the ones who took the lead, and they had to be obedient.

Wu Hao carried two minks on his back, and led Xiao Zong to walk forward slowly with a gun in hand. From the gap in the trees, he could see the tigress leaving with her cubs. Although the two cubs were staggering, they were not dead.

Tiger poison does not eat its offspring, it can work hard for its cubs, but the cubs will grow up to disown their relatives.

When the four walked out of the woods, they could see the last figure of the tiger disappearing in the woods.

Wu Hao said to himself: "There is a folk saying that there are three branches and five leaves, and the sun is facing the shade. If you want to ask me, the linden tree will find you."

"I walked through many woods and mixed forests without encountering ginseng. When I killed the wolf with the tiger cub just now, I vaguely saw a smear of red in the sputum field."

"Do you think this is what the mountain god meant?"

The three of them were taken aback for a moment, and then their faces were filled with joy. Guan Zilong spoke first: "If there is really a club, maybe it was given by the mountain god. This tiger should not be killed."

Guan Ziyun rubbed his chin and said to himself, "It's hard to talk about it."

"Go and have a look." Wu Meng seemed impatient.

"Let's go." Wu Hao went to Weizidi, and the three followed behind to observe each tree.

Seeing this, he said: "The forest here is too dense. My grandfather and I passed by twice and didn't go deep into this place. We can spread out and look for old signs."

Signing omens: Peel off a piece of skin from a tree near Ginseng, cut a few seals with an axe, record the number of people in this group of mountaineers, how big the ginseng was dug out, and cut the old ginseng on the lower right. day of the month.

The purpose is to pass on information to later mountain hunters, and anyone who comes here can carry a stick.

The mountain wealth cannot be enjoyed by itself, even if you meet someone who comes to drive the mountain when you lift the stick, you must share it.

In a few years, many people will not abide by this rule. Anyone who knows an old man will definitely keep his mouth shut.

As the saying goes: turn around the old man, and eat enough food for a lifetime. There are spikes of ginseng seeds on the top of the ginseng stems, which turn red in autumn and August, and are called red hammers.

There are four seasons for digging ginseng in a year, and the digging of ginseng in warm spring is called "Yaocao City".The end of summer and the beginning of autumn are the seasons when ginseng seeds are red, which is called "red hammer market".

Going into the mountains to dig ginseng during Bailu is called "Huang Luosan", because the branches and herbs are all yellow at this time.Going into the mountain before the snow falls, it is called "Broom City", because at this time Ye'er has already landed.

(End of this chapter)