Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 110 The hunter who buys pork, fishing method with a dull rod, whether you like it or not
  This man's shotgun made both Lin Heng and his father nervous instantly. Lin's father held the stick, and Lin Heng tightened the bow and arrow in his hand.

It is not only wild beasts and poisonous insects that are dangerous deep in the mountains, humans are also one of them. If he really had evil intentions and killed a person, it would be impossible to find out in this day and age.

"Who are you?" Lin Heng asked coldly. It was really rare to meet people deep in this mountain.

The person opposite was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties. Carrying a backpack, he has a mustache like Lu Xun, a Chinese character face, high cheekbones, and a joyful smile on his face.

As if he was aware of Lin Heng's tone, the man quickly raised his shotgun, fired twice at the sky, and said with a smile: "It's not a cannon, so you can't hit it. Don't worry."

This move made Lin Heng and his son relax their vigilance.

The man came closer and said with a smile: "I am from Baima Ti Village. My surname is Zhao and my name is Zhao Aiguo. I came here when I heard the dog barking. Which village are you from?"

Lin Heng frowned slightly. He had never heard of Baima Shoe Village.

"It's a village near Taibai Mountain. I've heard of it." Father Lin whispered.

"We are from Fengshu Village, Huangtan Town. My name is Lin Heng, and the one next to me is my dad." Lin Heng said slowly.

Zhao Aiguo smiled and nodded: "I've heard about Huangtan Town. It's really far away. You can actually hunt with a bow and arrow. It's amazing."

"It's okay, it's no different from a shotgun." Lin Heng said casually, and then asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I want to buy some wild boar meat. My mother has a stomach bleed. People say eating some wild boar meat can cure it. I have been in the mountains for more than [-] days and I haven't hit anyone anywhere. You actually hit such a big one. What a blessing."

Zhao Aiguo walked over and finished speaking, then explained sheepishly: "I just suddenly appeared with a shotgun and scared you. I'm really sorry."

With that said, he handed Lin Heng a rolled welding smoke.

Lin Heng said that he did not smoke, and he handed it to Lin's father. Father Lin took it but didn't smoke it, and clamped it on his ear.

"It's no problem if you want to buy wild boar, but we have to carry the wild boar back and disembowel it. If you cut it on the mountain, it won't be easy to take back." Father Lin looked at him and said, meaning that if you want to buy it, you have to go to me. Buy at home.

Lin Heng said nothing. He believed Zhao Aiguo's statement. Rural areas lacked medical resources, so they often used some old folk remedies to treat diseases, and some even worshiped gods in superstition.

He always suffered from nosebleeds when he was a child, and his family made him drink a strange substance made by mixing magpie blood and ashes from burned Huangbiao.

Zhao Aiguo was stunned. This was indeed a problem. He couldn't just let someone cut off a piece for him.

"Otherwise, how much does your wild boar meat cost per pound? How about I buy half of it?" Zhao Aiguo thought for a while and said.

Father Lin was stunned. Buy half of it? So rich?
  His original intention was to sell him the injured piggy. But if the other person wants to buy half of it, he will definitely not tell about the small wild boar. Everyone is poor these days, and pork is not easy to sell.

"Pork costs [-] cents per pound, and wild boar costs [-] cents per catty. The wild boar must weigh [-] jins, and the half must weigh [-] or [-] jins. In terms of money, it costs [-] or [-] yuan."

Lin Heng said with a smile, this is a lot of money. Even if you have to exchange something, ordinary things are not worth so much money.

"I don't have money, but I do have this, a piece of suede leather. Can you exchange it for it?"

Zhao Aiguo put down his backpack and took out a piece of suede skin from a snakeskin bag. Immediately, a rotten smell came out, causing Lin Heng and the two to take two steps back and cover their noses.

"Haha, this is a muntjac I met that fell to death. The flesh is rotten, but the fur is still good. Let's see if it's worth seventy or eighty."

Zhao Aiguo smiled and threw the suede skin on the ground, looking at Lin Heng and the two.

Lin Heng took a look and saw that this was a yellow muntjac. It was not as big as the male muntjac he shot in Baishigou last time, but it was not small either. It was estimated to weigh about thirty kilograms.

This suede leather is medium-sized and in good condition and can indeed be sold for seventy or eighty.

Lin Heng turned it over again and looked at it. The suede leather was indeed not rotten. It had some rotten meat on it, which gave it a smell.

Scratching it clean, rinsing it several times and drying it out should be no big problem.

Lin Heng stood up and said loudly: "There seems to be nothing wrong with this suede leather. But I'm not sure if it will shed hair after washing it, or what if they don't accept it if they think it's smelly. I think it's better to give it in cash." .”

"The hair will definitely not fall out. I can't pull it out even if I try hard. If you don't believe it, you can try it. If you think it's not enough, then I'll give you another white mizi (civet) fur, so I have to have one. One hundred pounds of wild boar meat.”

Zhao Aiguo saw that Lin Heng was bargaining and took out another civet fur.

"By the way, are you far from the Heihe River? Are there a lot of plum blossoms in your area?" Lin Heng suddenly changed the subject.

Zhao Aiguo was curious: "Why are you asking this? My home is not far from the Heihe River. There are many plum blossoms in that river. Every year, people catch them with nets, and one catch can weigh hundreds of kilograms."

"Oh, it's nothing, just asking." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He was asking for information, because the Heihe River is melted water from the snowy mountains of Taibai Mountain and is very suitable for the growth of Qinling fine salmon.

If there are more, he is going to catch a large number of them and breed them himself while it is not yet a protected animal.

In his previous life, he visited and learned how others raised salmon, and he could be the first to do so in this life.

"If you want, come to Baima Shoe Village and find me. I will introduce you to you or take you to catch him." Zhao Aiguo said with a smile.

"Okay, let's talk about it when we have a chance."

Lin Heng smiled, talked about wild boar meat, and looked back at his father: "Dad, what do you think?"

Father Lin smiled and said: "You shot this wild boar, you can handle it yourself."

"Don't tell me how much. I'll sell you one side, plus a pig's head. Is that okay?" Lin Heng looked at Zhao Aiguo and asked.

"Definitely not. You need to add a front leg. Although I haven't weighed it, this wild boar definitely doesn't weigh two hundred pounds. It can weigh up to ninety pounds on one side. It might not be there yet."

Zhao Aiguo shook his head and said that he also hunted often, and he could tell the weight of the wild boar at a glance.

"That's okay, I'll just treat you as my friend. If I add a front leg, the pig's head will be gone." Lin Heng didn't hesitate too much.

"Okay." Zhao Aiguo nodded.

"What should I do with the pig hair? Should I find a way to burn it clean, or should I leave it for you to go back and deal with?"

Lin Heng asked, it was really rare to meet people in the wild mountains and buy wild boar meat.

Of course he is willing to sell it. It may not be easy to sell the wild boar meat at a low price back to the village.

"Just open the intestines and rupture the belly." Zhao Aiguo said.

Having made the decision, he no longer hesitated. Lin Heng put away the suede leather and white rice leather.

Then the three people found a cane to hang the wild boar up, and first bled it to let the blood drain.

Xiongba came up on the ground and started licking it happily, just like eating a buffet.

Lin Heng used the knife he carried to cut open the meat from the back of the wild boar, exposing the spine.

"Two fingers thick fat is not bad." Father Lin said with a smile.

After fattening the back, first cut along the pig's neck, then use a hatchet to cut off the spine and remove the head.

Then the belly is cut open to remove the internal organs piece by piece. After removing the internal organs, the wild boar is cut from the spine with a hatchet, so that the wild boar is divided into two halves.

Lin Heng's skills were naturally far inferior to those of a pig butcher, but there was still no problem in using brute force to break down the wild boar.

After all, no matter how hard your bones are, they are not as hard as a knife. As for being ugly, just be ugly.

"Want to chop it into small pieces for you?" Lin Heng asked again.

"Okay, that's troublesome." Zhao Aiguo said with a smile.

Lin Heng first cut off half of his front legs and handed them to Zhao Aiguo.

Zhao Aiguo took out a large bag of salt from his backpack and began to apply it.

He was planning to go up the mountain to hunt wild boars, so naturally he also brought antiseptic salt.

It sounds fast, but it is actually very tiring. Lin Heng and his father took turns chopping meat, and it took two hours to break all the meat into long strips of more than ten kilograms.

This doesn’t even include the ribs, otherwise two hours might not be enough.

After dividing it among Zhao Aiguo, Lin Heng picked up his own pork. The pig's offal was placed in one bag, the pork was in another bag, and the unprocessed intestines and stomachs were still lying on the ground.

Lin Heng roughly estimated that he only had fifty kilograms of meat left. With the offal and pig head, it might only be seventy or eighty kilograms.

Putting the pork into the backpack, Lin Heng and his father went to the waterside to process the pig's large and small intestines.

There is only water accumulated from rain here, so we can only simply dispose of the feces. For detailed cleaning, we have to go back to the camp.

"Both of you, thank you very much. I'm leaving now. Remember to find me if you have time to go to Baima Shoe Village."

Zhao Aiguo picked up the pork, looked at the two of them and said with a smile.

He was quite satisfied. The pork given by Lin Heng was very generous and he was not bullied.

"Okay, let's go slowly." Lin Heng waved his hand.

Father Lin also politely handed someone a dry cigarette he rolled himself.

After they had walked away, Father Lin smiled and said, "I'm so lucky today. Not only did I catch a wild boar, but I also met someone who bought so much meat at once."

"Yes, we may not be able to sell so much if we take it back." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Wild boars are definitely the most common prey species in the wild. If too many are born at one time, they can easily become overrun.

When you are beaten, you can often only sell meat. The fur is of no use, but the meat is often not easy to sell. This is not the [-]st century. Everyone does not have much money to live on.

Father Lin chuckled and said, "But luckily we arrived early and didn't let him find the wild boar first, otherwise the meat would have been divided between the two families."

Lin Heng smiled. He could see that Zhao Aiguo had this idea at the first time, but it was a pity that he was a little slow.

After preliminarily cleaning the feces in the large and small intestines, the two put the internal organs into a snakeskin bag and walked back with the baskets on their backs.

"Wang Wang!"

Xiongba walked beside Lin Heng and expressed his desire.

"Go back to the camp, there will be delicious food for you." Lin Heng touched the dog's head. It was already noon by the time I returned to where I helped the little wild boar.

"Oww!!"

The two little wild boars screamed when they saw the people coming.

"It's good that he's not dead. Son, you go and carry the little wild boar. I'll carry the pork." Father Lin said with a smile.

Lin Heng had no choice but to carry the two little wild boars towards the camp.

We can't go to Sanchagou for the time being, and fishing has to be postponed.

Plans often fail to keep up with changes, and no one expects that when they encounter a group of wild boars and kill one, they can sell more than half of it.

"Hey, why didn't Lin Wei come out to welcome him?"

Back near the camp, Lin Heng felt something was wrong. The piglet squealed so loudly, but his eldest nephew didn't even move.

I quickly picked up the pace and returned to the camp. When I got closer, I was helpless. I saw that my nephew was lying on the stone and fell asleep. He was startled and thought something had happened.

He looked at Lin Shek again and saw that he didn't run away, and he felt relieved immediately.

"Lin Wei, get up quickly and see what we have got." Father Lin put down the little wild boar and walked over to shake his grandson awake.

"grandfather!"

Lin Wei rubbed his eyes and sat up. I couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north, so I fell asleep.

Lin Heng didn't look at him and just took out the pork and hung it up.

Lin Heng asked Lin's father for advice: "Dad, there isn't much pork here. Why don't we just cut off the pig skin and feed it to the dogs? I'm too lazy to go back and process it slowly."

"Okay, Xiongba is worth eating so much meat." Father Lin said with a smile. He now also likes Xiongba the dog.

"Oh my God, you guys caught two little wild boars and there was so much pork. Did you poke into the wild boar's nest?"

At this time, Lin Wei belatedly exclaimed, and then danced, twitching his butt and shaking his head, like a primitive man.

Lin Heng and Father Lin smiled and continued cutting the pork skin.

After cutting the shreds of pork, cut the pork into smaller pieces, apply salt on it and hang it up for ventilation.

"Lin Wei, go make a fire." Father Lin handed the lighter to Lin Wei.

Lin Wei turned around and ran to light a fire, and also took a piece of wild boar to roast and eat.

Lin Heng and his father went to the creek to process pig offal.

"You can only eat these pig hearts, livers, and kidneys here. You can't take them back at all." Father Lin said while turning over the pig intestines.

"Then eat, you can eat more." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"That's all we can do. Just keep the small intestines and large intestines, stir-fry them every other meal and take them back to eat."

Father Lin sighed and said, if possible, he would like to take it back and share it with his family.

After cleaning the large and small intestines, Lin Heng burned the hair on the pig skin, cooked it with the pig lungs and pancreas, and fed it to Xiong Ba.

Father Lin took out the suede skin, scraped off the rotten flesh, washed it repeatedly, and then placed it on a stone to dry in the sun.

After doing all this, the red clouds appeared in the sky.

"Give."

Lin Heng chopped the cooked pig lungs, pancreas, and skin into small pieces and poured them into the basin for Xiong Ba.

"Ow!"

Xiongba screamed happily and a little squeamishly, lowered his head and started eating.

In fact, it hasn't eaten very much in the past few days, because there is not much rice and noodles. If people want to eat, it can only eat less.

Now that there is such a large pot of meat, it immediately starts to feast on it, and it is a joy to eat.

After feeding Xiongba, Lin Heng blanched other pig offal and added some wild vine peppers and green onions to remove the fishy smell.

Then they were sliced ​​and fried separately. There was not much pork heart and pork kidney, and the pork liver was fried twice in this small iron pot.

Lin Heng simply kept half a catty and prepared to go fishing for catfish tomorrow.

"Son, look at this suede leather. It's still beautiful even after it's been washed. We've made a profit."

Father Lin brought over the dried suede skin and said with a smile.

"Of course I made a profit. This suede leather has no holes burned by gunpowder. It can easily sell for eighty or ninety."

Lin Heng grinned, he would not engage in loss-making business, and with the white rice skin, it could be said that he made a lot of money.

"It's a great deal to go hiking this time." Lin's father said with a smile.

"That's natural. As long as you have the skills, there are a lot of valuable things in the mountains." Lin Heng smiled.

"I can only say that you, Second Dad, are the most awesome person in the world, even better than my dad." Lin Wei praised loudly.

While chatting, Lin Heng scooped up the fried pork liver and put it in a wooden basin.

Then I cut a piece of lard and fried the large intestine. Frying with lard will make it less likely to spoil.

The large and small intestines and pig belly are fried and set aside. Only salt and wild vine pepper are added to these.

They mainly cooked the heart, liver and kidneys tonight. The stir-fried pork kidneys and chili were the most delicious. They drank it with sugary wine and finished it quickly.

The pig heart tasted pretty good, Lin Wei finished a lot of it, and Lin Heng ate the rest with his dad.

Lin Wei didn't want to eat the pork liver, and Lin Heng and his father didn't finish it either, so they had to put it aside and eat it the next day.

"I didn't expect to eat meat until I was full. I never dared to think about it before."

After dinner, Father Lin said with a smile.

"It's okay dad, the good days of eating meat are still to come." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Then I'm looking forward to it." Father Lin smiled and asked, "What kind of weather are you planning to go back to, and do you want to continue hunting?"

"No, let's go back the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow we will pick some tea tree mushrooms and see if there are any catfish or anything like that."

Lin Heng said that after finishing this time, the next time he comes back may be in autumn.

In the next dog days of summer, I won’t be able to bring back anything I hunted.

"That's what I mean. Tea tree mushrooms have been flooding in recent times. It would be a pity not to pick them. Your brother will come tomorrow and ask him to take Lin Wei and wild boar meat back.

The day after tomorrow, call your mother and Caiyun to help us get the things. Otherwise, there are too many things and we won’t be able to finish them all. "

Father Lin smiled and said, a forest musk deer, two small wild boars, wild boar meat and the mushrooms picked later are really not enough.

All in all, I have been here for twenty days, so it is not wasted.

Early the next morning, after making a soup and eating the leftover pork liver from last night, Lin Heng went to Sanchagou Canyon with his father.

"Counting the days, it seems like I haven't been there for a week, and I don't know what the situation is over there." Lin Heng said while walking.

Father Lin smiled and said: "You'll know if you go and take a look. You can't tell for sure. Just like yesterday, no one expected to encounter a group of wild boars."

"really."

The two of them came to Yisanchagou Canyon talking and laughing. The water on the ground was almost dry.

Two days of strong sunshine left little moisture.

"The whole army was wiped out."

Lin Heng sighed with emotion, and as he walked forward, the King of Hell's Trap was automatically triggered, and the rope trap yielded no results.

Judging from the traces on the scene, the rainwater flooded the area to a depth of forty to fifty centimeters, and all the animals that couldn't swim ran away.

"It seems so, but it doesn't matter, we have already made money." Father Lin said with a smile.

All the ropes were retracted and there was no way down, so there was no point in doing it for a day or two.

When we came to the weir pond, we couldn’t tell where we had lowered the fishhook last time.

"Try two shots. I've taken all the pig livers and chopped the bamboos."

Lin Heng said with a smile that this happened to be an opportunity to turn his father into a fisherman.

Let him have a hobby, otherwise it won't be enough to work all the time. He has to take a rest.

Although the sun is gradually coming out, the fisherman is fearless.

Tie the nylon thread to the tip of the bamboo, hang the pig liver, throw it in like a whip, and then put the bamboo diagonally across the water and use tree branches to set it up.

After getting four fishing rods, Lin Heng and his father sat down under the tree and watched. As long as the tip of the bamboo was pulled down, they could get up and close the rod.

The main point of the old man fishing method with a stuffy rod is whether you like to eat or not, and if you don’t eat, you will lose.

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Guess what Lin Heng can catch this time.

(End of this chapter)