Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 108 Forest Musk deer? bold guy
  Taking Xiongba with me, I looked at the fishhooks arranged in two other places. Not only were the fishhooks rusty, but the corn had sprouted.

When they arrived at the last place where the hooks for catching pheasants were set, Lin Heng heard the sound of flapping in the distance.

"There is something!!"

Lin Heng smiled excitedly and quickly grabbed Xiong Ba's dog's tail, fearing that it would bite him to death.

When I came over, I saw a black-legged grouse struggling wildly, bleeding from the corner of its mouth, and the fishhook was stuck in its jaw.

But it was much better than the pheasant just now. The pheasant swallowed it directly. It struggled so violently that the fishhook opened a gash in its throat, and there was no hope of survival at all.

Lin Heng pounced on the grouse and held it down. He first tied the wings and legs with a rope, and then took the fishhook.

He would not do the stupid thing of taking the hook and letting the fish fall into the water while showing it off.

The same goes for grouse.

After binding it, I opened its mouth and found that the lower jaw had been pierced enough, but fortunately it was not a fatal injury.

"It's good to be alive. Although it's only a pound, I can take it home."

Lin Heng chuckled.

It’s not that they eat and drink in the mountains without taking care of their wives and children, it’s that they can’t catch the small prey at once, so they have to eat it.

The catfish could be taken back before, but they didn't eat it and kept it.

The same goes for this live grouse.

When Lin Heng returned to the camp, his eldest brother had already returned and was chatting with his son Lin Wei while handling fungi, his face full of happiness.

"Lin Heng, you got it... holy shit, how did you get this, and there's still one alive?"

Seeing Lin Heng, Lin Yuegang wanted to ask him how many mushrooms he had picked, but when he took a closer look, he immediately stood up.

"Damn it, Second Dad, you are too fierce!!" Lin Wei also widened his eyes.

"Of course it's not from hunting, it's from the hook I laid out before. The pheasant swallowed the hook and died, but the grouse didn't swallow the hook and the hook was caught on the edge of its mouth."

Lin Heng said with a smile that fishermen can catch everything except fish.

"Woof woof!!" Xiongba held his head high, as if to say that this was half of his credit.

"There is meat to eat today!!" Lin Wei danced again, like a primitive man.

Lin Yue had to look at Shu: "If the fish hooks are harvested, there must be other traps. Let's eat quickly and go take a look."

"I think so too." Lin Heng said with a smile, threw the pheasant on the ground, and tied the live grouse to the trunk of the tree.

"This pheasant is big enough. Let's eat half and leave half. Let's make fried chicken with mushrooms today."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll make a fire."

Lin Yue went to light a fire, while Lin Wei rushed to find dry firewood.

The chicken soup is ready, it's the same old thing, the offal is given to Xiong, the meat is divided into two halves, half is kept, and the other half is chopped into small pieces and stir-fried with the mushrooms.

Not long after, a fragrant pot of fried chicken with mushrooms was ready, packed in a small wooden basin made by Lin Heng.

Then they made another rice dish and ate it together. Needless to say how delicious it was, the three of them didn't say a word until they finished eating.

The mushrooms are tender and fragrant, and the pheasant meat is chewy, chewier and more fragrant than domestic chicken. Some of the bones are crispy and can be chewed together.

However, compared to domestic chickens, there is less meat.

After eating, the three of them burped and stretched.

"The sun has only been out for half a day, and it's already so hot. It's really killing people."

Lin Heng sighed and ate, his clothes were soaked.

However, the water in the stream has receded and is no longer so turbid. It will probably be clear tomorrow, so you can wash your clothes and take a bath.

"Brother, let's go there first. I feel like there will definitely be something else today."

Lin Yue was a little impatient to check out the rope trap.

"I guess I won't be able to go to Sanchagou Canyon today. We'll have to wait for the sun to shine for a day. I can only go to other places today. Let's go see if there are any harvests in the trap where I caught the forest musk deer."

Lin Heng thought for a while and said.

"Second father, I want to come together." Lin Wei said aloud.

"Then go."

Taking their knives, bows and arrows, carrying baskets on their backs, the three of them set off.

We walked in a straight line and didn't pick up fungi, unless we saw Ganoderma lucidum. The main goal was to first see the Hell King Diao on Lin She's side.

After walking for more than half an hour, we arrived at the forest.

"Huh? Is there anything that the King of Hell triggered? What's going on?"

Lin Yue asked puzzledly as he looked at the situation in front of him.

Lin Heng looked at it carefully and analyzed: "It should be that the trap was automatically triggered due to the rain. There is no trace of prey."

"Do you want the Air Force again? Second father!" Lin Yue looked sad. The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

"Don't worry, there are still a few left."

Lin Heng smiled, lowered the King of Hell hanging again, and then went to the next place.

He walked in front, and Lin Yue pulled his son behind. His eyes had turned to the mushrooms on the ground, and he was obviously disappointed.

The two places in a row were all empty, and everyone's mood suddenly felt lost. Could it be that the pheasants and grouse in the morning were not the beginning, but the end?

At the last place, Lin Heng had arranged three Hell King Crane. As soon as he reached it, Lin Heng was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly accelerated and sprinted over.

"Woof woof!!" Xiongba also ran wildly with excitement.

"No biting, I heard there is no bully." Lin Heng ordered as he ran.

He was so excited that his voice trembled.

"Oww!!"

In the distance, frightened screams and violent struggles spread. A gray figure retreated and was hung in the air, pulling the branches and shaking wildly.

"Holy shit, there's prey!!"

"Sent it!!"

Lin Yue and his son, who were picking up mushrooms at the back, were instantly startled. When they saw the King of Hell in the distance, they threw the mushroom in their hands and ran towards it.

"Dad, is this a muntjac?" Lin Wei asked as he ran. This was the first time he saw a living thing.

"No, this is a forest musk deer. Your second father has made it." Lin Yue was so excited that he couldn't help himself. This forest musk deer may be worth more than more than ten years of ginseng.

On the other side, Xiong Ba and Lin Heng had already arrived one after another.

Xiong Ba circled around, and Lin Shek struggled more violently, with feces and urine flowing out.

"Ow!!"

The miserable sound spread throughout the canyon.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!!"

Lin Heng grabbed its head, hugged its body and patted it gently to comfort it.

Forest musk deer are not big, weighing only twenty pounds at their maximum, which is not as big as a large yellow dog in the countryside.

Lin Heng was as steady as ever. He first put the rope around its neck and then passed it through its legs, making sure that it couldn't break free.

Then he untied the King of Hell and placed it on the ground, caressing it and comforting it.

"Xiongba, stay away, don't scare it." Lin Heng patted Xiongba.

A living thing is worth much more than a dead one, so don't scare it to death.

"Ow!"

Xiongba gave him a dissatisfied look, wagging his tail and walked away, his resentful eyes seeming to say that you have found a new love and forgotten the old one.

"Brother, you've lost your temper!"

Lin Yue gasped and rushed up, smiling and congratulating.

Lin Heng smiled bitterly: "This is a female forest musk deer, not a male, and has no musk scent."

Lin Heng didn't know if God was joking with him. This forest musk deer turned out to be the one he saw before.

When he just ran over, he was instantly disappointed.

It would be great if it was only a male. With musk deer, you can get more than a thousand yuan.

"Ah, here, let me take a look."

Lin Yue came over and took a look at her butt. She was really female.

"Haha, it's okay. Just keep it first and then catch a male to breed."

Lin Yue smiled and patted his brother on the shoulder.

"I think so too." Lin Heng said with a smile. He really had this plan. Raising forest musk deer is also very profitable.

Not only is the price of musk high, but the meat and fur can still be sold.

There's nothing I can do. If I didn't catch the male, I can only comfort myself like this.

"Second father, let me touch you."

Lin Wei ran over panting and said impatiently.

Just looking at it wasn't enough, so I reached out and touched it.

"Brother, help me tie my legs and I'll carry it back. I still don't feel comfortable holding it."

The hunter was too cautious and gave no chance to escape.

There was nothing I could do. This was the sequelae of running away from a big fish in my previous life. Even though the rope around my neck was very strong, I still felt uneasy.

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and helped tie his legs.

Lin Heng touched the forest deer again and tied its mouth to prevent it from whining.

It can be said to be a big bundle of flowers.

The poor female forest musk deer didn't expect that this man would miss her just from a distant glance in the forest a month ago.

Carrying this guy back to the camp, Lin Heng was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

He really didn't expect to catch it, and actually he had no hope. Because he had failed for too many days in a row, he was numb, so he just took a look with the last hope.

The result lasts forever.

It's like when you've been fishing for three days and haven't caught anything, and you're so angry that you throw your fishing rod to the shore and stop playing, only to have it dragged away as soon as you turn your head.

Hunting, like fishing, is full of uncertainty. You can't be sure when the prey will appear. Sometimes you just can't catch dozens of kilograms of nest material and you just can't catch it.

I watched this cute forest musk deer for more than ten minutes and touched it several times.

After confirming the tightness of the rope around its neck again, Lin Heng untied its legs and mouth. It was too hot and he was afraid it would die.

After looking at it, I still felt uneasy, so I tied a rope around my leg and connected a wooden stick behind it.

In this way, even if the rope around its neck is broken and the wooden stick is connected to its feet, it will not be able to run fast, and there is still hope of recovery.

"Brother, now that we've finished it, let's go take a look at some nooses and Hades hangings that dad and I arranged."

The eldest brother Lin Yue urged, saying that he now feels that today's hope is extremely high.

"Ok."

Lin Heng nodded and looked at his eldest nephew again: "Lin Wei, I tied the muntjac to the river. You watch and don't let it run away."

Lin Wei wanted to go hiking together, but Lin Heng spoke, so he nodded and agreed: "Okay, don't worry, I will take care of you."

After tying the forest deer to the edge of the stream, it started struggling and roaring again. After looking at it twice, Lin Heng stopped caring. When it got tired, it stopped.

"Let's go and see other traps."

Lin Heng also became more confident, and the two brothers set off upstream together.

Along both sides of the stream, there were not only traps arranged by Lin Heng, but also many traps arranged by Father Lin and Lin Yue.

The two of them walked up the hillside on the shore, picking mushrooms and checking the rope traps on the way.

"It's over. The King of Hell's Diao has been automatically triggered here. The chance of catching prey is slim."

Lin Yue said helplessly that they had checked a dozen of them, and six of the eight Hades were triggered by themselves.

Rains cause the ground to become soft, making this bouncy trap too easy to trigger on its own.

"Don't worry, there are also rope traps, I can't be sure of the details." Lin Heng said with a smile.

While repairing the automatically triggered Yama Hang, the two of them walked forward, picking up some mushrooms along the way.

In a blink of an eye, they had arrived at the place where he had hunted ducks that day. Still no prey was found. Both of them were a little uninterested and picked up the mushrooms, no longer having any hope for the next step.

"Wang Wang!!"

While I was picking mushrooms, the playful Xiongba in front of me called out, very urgently, not the calm and happy call that comes when he sees the mushrooms.

"Has a prey been trapped?"

"Go, go and see!"

Lin Heng and his eldest brother spoke at the same time and trotted past, covering a distance of several hundred meters in an instant.

From a distance, I saw Xiongba standing in the grass by the river. The grass was trampled to the ground, but there was no trace of its prey.

"Is this an ordinary shrinking noose?" Lin Heng asked, it was not made by him.

"I put it on, an ordinary noose." Lin Yue nodded and said.

The two people ran over excitedly. Beside the grass, a pig badger lay dead on the ground, its body slumped.

"He didn't die today, maybe a day or two." Lin Heng pinched the pig badger's body and looked at his eyes.

"But fortunately, it doesn't stink and can be eaten. Brother, you are considered to be well-developed. This is a big pig badger, weighing more than [-] pounds."

Lin Heng said with a smile that pig badger fur is also very valuable.

He just took a look and his eyes were not cloudy yet. He must have put on the condom yesterday. If it was four days ago, it would have stunk even on a rainy day.

Probably this guy wanted to take advantage of the rising water to run over to catch fish, but he encountered a trap and strangled himself to death.

"Haha, I didn't expect that I was so lucky." Lin Yue lifted the pig badger and took a look.

"This is not luck, it's inevitable. The traps we set are at least one to two hundred, and we can catch both of them no matter what."

Lin Heng said with a smile that the first thing to fight for was probability.

"Brother, put the pig and badger in the backpack for me, and let's continue walking up." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"it is good."

After mounting the pig badger, the two continued to move forward.

Not only did the traps have to be rearranged on the way, but two more nooses had to be set when new traces of prey were found.

"Brother, it seems I have to go back tomorrow morning, otherwise the pig badger will be broken."

Lin Yue said as he walked.

"Sure, you take it back first, then call dad to help, and I will go back after two days." Lin Heng nodded.

Unconsciously, the two of them came to the place where they picked mushrooms last time. Not much grew on the tree this time, probably because they didn't have enough nutrients for the time being.

"It didn't happen this time." Lin Yue was a little surprised. He knew about this huge mushroom tree from the last time he came here.

Lin Heng was about to speak when he suddenly saw the treetops shaking on the slope on the other side of the stream. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that several monkeys were climbing on the trees and watching them.

"Golden monkey, this is quite strange." Lin Yue said with a smile.

"Oh!!" Lin Heng yelled at them twice. He was not interested in these guys unless he was about to starve to death.

Regardless of whether he can beat him or not, he just can't accept eating a monkey that looks too much like a human.

"Whoa whoa!!"

The golden monkey on the opposite mountain also responded and was not afraid of people standing in the tree.

"damn it."

Lin Heng shook his head speechlessly, and he and his elder brother continued to walk forward for a while, and then crossed the other side of the stream.

Along the opposite bank, the two walked back.

"This bitch is so brave." Lin Heng looked at the two monkeys on the tree. They both came over and still refused to leave.

"It's nothing. I heard that in some villages, monkeys came down the mountain to steal the sweet potatoes from the courtyard to dry." Lin Yue said with a smile.

After a quick look, the two of them left, not wanting to pay attention to the two silly monkeys.

"Wang Wang!!"

Xiongba barked at them provocatively, causing them to yell and curse.

On the way back, no prey was found on this side of the stream, so the two re-set the trap.

It had just rained in the past two days, and many animals would come to the river to catch fish. Lin Heng felt that there was still hope.

"Brother, there is something here. The golden rooster has been eaten until only its feathers are left."

As they were about to return to the camp, Lin Yue made another discovery.

Lin Heng took a closer look and saw chicken feathers all over the ground. This golden chicken was hung up in the air by a little King of Hell, and it was also eaten.

"I don't know if it's a clouded leopard, a wild cat, or a civet. The footprints are all similar."

Lin Heng saw footprints on the ground, but he couldn't trace them and they were soon lost.

There is no point in waiting, as the visual noses of wild cats, clouded leopards are too sensitive.

"Then we can only wait until tomorrow to see the traps at Sanchagou. Maybe there will be something to gain."

Lin Yue said with some pity, the golden chicken is delicious, what a pity.

"Go back and deal with the pig badgers." Lin Heng said with a smile, now is not the time to fight the golden rooster.

When the leaves fall in winter, you can hunt golden roosters with certainty. They were all resting on the branches of trees, and they could be seen clearly without using a flashlight.

Unlike now, even if the golden rooster crows, it is difficult to tell which direction it is unless you are very close.

After returning to the camp, Lin Heng first went to see his baby Lin She. It lay down in the grass, as if it found it couldn't run away and didn't even bother to scream anymore.

On the other side, Lin Wei screamed very happily. His father got a pig badger, which was awesome.

After watching Lin Shek, Lin Heng helped a pig and badger, and he was already familiar with skinning and gutting.

"He definitely died yesterday. The color of his large intestine has not changed."

Lin Yue looked at the pig and badger intestines and said with a smile.

"Yes." Lin Heng also nodded. If it's not broken, it's the best news. If it's broken, it will be a big loss.

I regretted it so much that I couldn't sleep for days and nights, and I would get up and slap my thighs even if I died.

The lungs and spleen of pigs, badgers and badgers were boiled and fed to Xiongba. The heart, liver, kidneys, stomach, small intestine and large intestine were all prepared and fried for dinner.

You can't take these things back, so you can only solve them on the mountain.

All the pig and badger meat is heavily salted and will be taken home early tomorrow morning.

The only thing you don't have to worry about going bad is lard.

"It would be great if it's alive. You don't have to worry about it breaking." Lin Yue shook his head. At this time, Lin Shek felt a little envious of Lin Heng.

"Haha, brother, you are so greedy that a snake swallows an elephant." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"What are you talking about? Did you catch the prey?"

At this time, a voice came from the distant woods.

"dad!"

The two spoke in unison.

"Grandpa, we had a great harvest this time. My second father caught a live forest musk deer and live grouse, and my father caught a pig badger."

Lin Wei shouted in response.

"Musk deer, pig badger!!"

Hearing this, Father Lin immediately quickened his pace and ran over to check.

He looked at his dismembered pig badger and then at the living forest musk deer, grinned and clapped his hands: "Okay, okay, this trip up the mountain was not in vain."

Father Lin was more excited than the two of them, both seeing and touching.

(End of this chapter)