Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 83 Dragon and Phoenix Soup and Starry Sky Drink
  "Thank you for being around here, otherwise I would have been buried here, old man." Tian Baishun grinned when he saw Lin Heng coming over.

"How can you still laugh at this time?" Lin Heng shook his head, tied the 'pot vine' he had just cut on the road to a tree, and threw it away.

He only brought a small piece of rope and left the rest in the shelter without taking it because he felt he wouldn't need it.

"It's just because you are here, old man, that I can laugh, otherwise I would still be crying." Tian Baishun chuckled.

"Put it under your armpit and tie it twice, then I'll pull you out." Lin Heng shook his head, looked at Old Man Tian and said again.

"Okay, be careful not to step on the wrong one." Tian Baishun warned, took the cane and tied it twice around his armpits, then grabbed the cane tightly.

"Harder!!"

Lin Heng yelled and pulled hard, and Old Man Tian also tried his best, but both of them underestimated the power of the swamp.

Old Man Tian didn't pull, but Lin Heng was pulled closer.

"No, just wait for me to think of a way." Lin Heng let go of the rope and shook his head.

Turning his head to look at a bowl-shaped willow tree not far away, he took out the rope from his backpack and tied it to the cane, lengthened it, then looped it around the willow tree and tried harder.

This willow tree is equivalent to a fixed pulley, which can save half the effort.

"Try again, work harder." Lin Heng stretched his body from shoulders to armpits twice more this time.

"One, two, three, try harder!!"

With an angry shout, Lin Heng stepped on the tree and pulled the rope back. This time Tian Baishun finally moved some.

"Come again!!"

Lin Heng gave another low drink and used up all his energy to suck the milk.

"what!!"

Tian Baishun also pulled hard, and his body finally came out little by little.

"Phew, he finally came out." With most of his body on the swamp, Tian Baishun took a deep breath.

"Wait a minute, I'll bring this silly dog ​​out too. It's not buried deep enough."

Tian Baishun said something, reached out, grabbed the dog's front legs and pulled them out.

Fortunately, this dog is relatively light and the force-bearing area is large, so it can be easily pulled out.

Holding the dog with one hand, he grabbed the shotgun with the other hand and said to Lin Heng, "Pull it."

Lin Heng used force to pull it back. As long as it was no longer in the swamp, it didn't take much effort to pull it back.

"How did you fall in? Didn't you fire the gun in the first place?"

Lin Heng pulled him ashore and asked curiously.

“I saw a civet, and when I chased it, I didn’t pay attention to my steps, and I was careless.

After falling in, the gun's cannon became wet and it became impossible to fire. "

Tian Baishun said with lingering fear.

After saying that, he suddenly knelt down again and kowtowed to Lin Heng three times.

Lin Heng quickly stopped him: "What are you doing?"

"If you hadn't come here today, I would have died here, and I should kowtow to you.

When I go back, I will bring some things to visit in person to say thank you, and I will also go to the temple to get you a merit monument to erect. "

Tian Baishun said solemnly.

Lin Heng pulled him up and waved his hand: "Don't do these things. If you saw me falling in, you would definitely save me."

"That's what I say, but I must repay you for saving your life, otherwise I will really become a beast."

Old Man Tian was very stubborn and would not listen to Lin Heng's words.

Lin Heng waved his hand: "Let's talk about it later. Let's go back first. It has been dark for a while. My uncle and the others should be anxious."

He turned around, picked up his things and walked out.

"Oh, old man, I was blinded by an eagle's pecks, and my shoes got wet with water."

Old Man Tian shook his head, sighed, glanced at the flower dog who had already stood up, and followed Lin Heng with his gun in his shoulder.

The two groped along the stream for more than [-] minutes before returning to the shelter.

"What happen to you guys?"

Uncle Lin Heng and his younger uncle had been looking for the two of them for a long time, and they quickly ran over when they saw the flashlight.

"Old man Tian, ​​did you fall into the mud?" Uncle Lu Honghai took a flashlight and saw Tian Baishun covered in smelly mud.

"Stop talking, old man, I almost died in the mud pit. If it weren't for Lin Heng, I wouldn't have come back. He heard a dog barking on his way back and saved me."

Tian Baishun shook his head, sat by the stream and began to take off his clothes.

"You old boy, you are so careless. Fortunately, Lin Heng saved you. Otherwise, if you died, the people in the village would still say that we were destitute."

Uncle Li Baiquan smiled and said, "And why don't you repay Lin Heng with a monument?"

"You don't have to tell me, I will definitely repay you when I get back. Don't do it, my old man is going to take off his pants."

"Hehe, I don't care to look at your little sparrow either." Li Baiquan laughed and turned off the flashlight.

But no one left. The old man had just come out of the swamp, and everyone was afraid that something might happen to him.

He washed his body and clothes, and washed the gun. He poured out the gunpowder and other items, which were all wet and useless.

"Uncle, please help me peel this squirrel." Lin Heng threw the squirrel to his uncle.

He took advantage of Tian Baishun's bathing time to kill two King of Hell traps nearby and got some snake intestines as bait.

"Let's go and eat something good to warm up. I almost couldn't eat this dragon and phoenix soup."

Tian Baishun wore a pair of gray pants and went to the shore to complain.

"It's just that you old boy has no virtue and insists on eating snakes. You must be punished." Li Baiquan was joking with Tian Baishun along the way, making the old man want to give him a try.

This is so normal. This old man is usually very venomous. Now that he has been caught, Li Baiquan must repay him.

Back at the shelter, Old Man Li hung his clothes on the tree trunk to dry, and sat by the fire wearing a pair of big underpants to warm himself.

The golden rooster and black snake in the pot had been stewed before they went hunting. Uncle Lin Heng came back and ordered water twice. By now, the meat was fragrant and appetizing.

"Damn, cook the Radix Pseudostellariae too and make up for it." Tian Baishun threw the Pseudostellariae he dug to Li Baiquan and asked him to wash it.

"Hehe, this is a good sentiment. I just added some wild taro into it."

Li Baiquan smiled and walked towards the stream with Pseudostellariae Radix Pseudostellariae.

"I still have some astragalus and fungi here. Uncle, please wash them together."

Lin Heng took out a small plant of astragalus and the chanterelles he picked.

"Hey, this pot of soup will add ten years to your life." Li Baiquan joked, took the things out, washed them, came back and threw them into the pot.

"Stew for a while and you'll be able to eat it. I brought some spicy food." Lin Heng's uncle Lu Honghai took out a bottle of spicy food and two steamed buns.

"I have spicy tofu." Lin Heng also took out his own tofu.

He took the cup and scooped out some soup and tasted the taste.

"Delicious!"

It's fresh and fragrant, and the meaty aroma fills your lips and teeth.

"Come on, drink!"

Tian Baishun took out a wine bag made of red squirrel skin and handed it to Lin Heng.

Lin Heng finished the soup, poured some wine into it, and handed it to his uncle and uncle.

"Come on, drink!!"

Seeing that everyone had drinks, Old Man Tian poured some for himself and raised his glasses to clink with the four of them.

Bang!

The white porcelain jars made a clear clanging sound as the four of them drank in front of the moon on the empty white stone beach.

In the sky, the crescent moon hangs high, the stars and rivers hang upside down, the mountains and streams are tinkling on the ground, and the mountain breeze is caressing. Drinking in this environment has quite an atmosphere.

"Lin Heng, my benefactor, I will toast you alone, old man."

Tian Baishun picked up the cup again and said.

"Drink!" Lin Heng said only one word, touched him and took a sip.

After taking two sips of wine, Uncle Lin Heng took the pot down, put the lid upside down, and fished out the golden rooster first.

"Everyone just tear it up with your hands." Li Baiquan said, and first tore a chicken drumstick for Lin Heng.

Lin Heng took it and ate it first. It was delicious without dipping it in spicy sauce. The chicken legs were completely stewed and half of them were torn off in one bite.

"It's delicious!" The uncle took a piece, dipped it in some spicy pepper, and praised it.

"I'll have one too, old man." Tian Baishun pulled another chicken leg.

It was just that the mountain wind that was getting colder at night made him shiver a little.

"Here, put on my coat." Lu Honghai took off his coat and handed it to Old Man Tian.

"Thank you." Tian Baishun quickly took it and put it on, and he felt much better immediately.

In this way, the four of them were eating meat and chatting.

After finishing the chicken, I fished out the snake meat. The snake meat became softer and softer. The bones and flesh were separated by just tearing it apart. It was delicious to eat with some spicy pepper.

Whether it is golden chicken or snake meat, they all taste better than white chopped chicken. All the ingredients are natural and pollution-free, and many Chinese medicinal materials and fungi are added, which are very nourishing and delicious.

After the meat was finished, Lin Heng was the first to scoop out a cup of soup and drink it. Even eating the steamed buns, he thought it was the best in the world.

After eating and drinking, the four of us had bulging stomachs.

Lin Heng lay down contentedly, resting his head on his hands and staring at the starry sky in a daze.

My uncle Li Baiquan was eating a few remaining taros, and my uncle Lu Honghai went straight back to the shelter to take a nap.

"Hey, I forgot to ask, who fired that shot this afternoon?" Only then did Lin Heng remember the matter and raised his head and asked.

"The one I drove was a civet, but it was on the top of a tree. I missed it and ran away." Li Baiquan said helplessly.

"Actually, the book is not very high, only about ten meters, but it is hidden in the branches, and the rolling balls are blocked by the branches."

Li Baiquan added another sentence.

"That's a pity. A piece of white rice skin can be sold for twenty or thirty."

Lin Heng sighed.

"Yeah, what a pity." Li Baiquan shook his head sadly.

Then suddenly everyone fell silent again.

Lin Heng was looking at the stars and thinking about his wife and daughter. He didn't know what others were thinking.

"Well, it seems that I am almost really old, and I will stop running in the mountains in the future."

Suddenly Tian Baishun sighed and said.

He was leaning against a rock, his hair as messy as a bird's nest, and greasy on his scalp.

Guozi's face was full of ridges, his nose was a little sunken, and his eyes looked cloudy and dim, with only a ray of light visible from time to time.

"Old man, I'm fifty-eight this year, and I'll be sixty soon. I'll give it up after another two years."

Tian Baishun sighed with emotion and said according to the starry sky.

"I'm afraid you saved a lot of money from hunting. Why don't you find a wife to live with and cook for you?"

Li Baiquan answered.

"This bitch is going to take care of me? It's impossible, old man, I will die alone!!"

Tian Baishun snorted coldly.

He looked at the sky and was silent for a while and then said: "I think I went to Shanghai Beach when I was young. The girls there were so beautiful, and the clothes they wore were so coquettish.

At that time, I was thinking that I would definitely be able to make a name for myself and become a big boss, hugging those beautiful women on both sides.

The result was that he worked as a coolie on the dock for several years, went to the theater only once every few months, and occasionally helped poor women.

Even if I haven't gotten out, I am still a person who has seen the world. You want me to be the ugly woman in Murakami? it's out of the question. "

"Then why did you go back to the village to hunt? Why don't you continue to hang out in Shanghai?" Li Baiquan felt that the old man was bragging.

"Oh, it's no fun to be used to wandering. I just want to be with the mountains and live a leisurely life.

Hey, don’t tell me, I’m so cool without a wife and kids. I can feed myself and the whole family is not hungry. "

Old Man Tian chuckled.

Lin Heng glanced at him: "I'm afraid he was cheated in business and lost all his money.

Then he returned to the village and found that the woman he liked before had also married someone else as his wife. "

Old Man Tian: "..."

Li Baiquan: "Hahahaha, that's what I'm saying."

Old Man Tian's face darkened: "How do you know this, kid? Do you know that you don't reveal your shortcomings when you pick someone up? If you hadn't saved my life, I would have given you a shot."

Lin Heng shook his head and went back to the shelter to rest. He found a piece of film and spread it on the grass he had cut during the day, and soon fell asleep.

"Old man Tian, ​​I heard that you often harm women in the village. Is this true?" Li Baiquan was still asleep and started chatting.

"Bullshit on your mother, what do you mean by harm? Those women volunteered, and I'm not a married woman. I don't want to be beaten to death."

"Hey, do you think I believe it?"

……

……

I don’t know how long they chatted, and finally Li Baiquan also fell asleep. Old man Tian was leaning on the stone and looking at the sky, warming the fire that was almost extinguished, as if he was sad for spring and autumn.

Lin Heng fell asleep quickly after lying down. The mountains were a bit cold at night. He woke up once due to the cold and had to cover himself with grass to feel warmer.

Early the next morning, just after five o'clock, Lin Heng got up.

"Where is my uncle?" Lin Heng got up and found that his uncle Lu Honghai was no longer in the shelter.

"He got up before dawn." Tian Baishun huddled in the haystack and hugged the flower dog, his nose was a little weird and he said.

"Come on Lin Heng, let's go to search the mountains together. Morning is also a good time for hunting."

Li Baiquan got up and said with a smile.

"Okay, I'm going to see if I got anything from messing with the King of Hell last night."

Lin Heng put on his shoes and walked out.

"Old man Tian, ​​won't you get up?" Lin Heng turned around and asked.

"No, let's take a rest. It almost killed me yesterday."

Old Man Tian shook his head and looked at Lin Heng: "How did you know that I was cheated in my business last night?"

Lin Heng glanced at him, spread his hands and said, "Can you come back to the village without being desperate?"

He could guess the ending by hearing the beginning.

"Hehe, you are right, old man, I was deceived by a stupid woman." Old Man Tian sighed with emotion, and he actually laughed.

Without chatting with him, Lin Heng walked out with his uncle, and first went to have a look at the King of Hell under his own roof.

The first one, from a distance, was intact and motionless, but the snake's internal organs were gone.

"It must be stuck!" Li Baiquan came over and tried the trap, and it was indeed stuck.

"Go and see the second one. I've landed three in total." Lin Heng said as he put away the rope.

"There's something on the second one, it seems to be a weasel." Li Baiquan saw the weasel hanging in the air from a distance.

"Damn, the rope stinks now." Lin Heng was speechless. This thing was so smelly that he was completely uninterested.

I walked over to take a look and found that the King of Hell was worthy of its reputation. The weasel was directly tied to its head and hanged to death.

"Forget it, just collect it when you get back." Lin Heng shook his head and was too lazy to collect it.

I went to look at the third one, but found nothing. The snake's internal organs were still there, so no animals were visiting.

"Uncle, follow me. I found a good thing yesterday. Let's go take a look." Lin Heng turned to look at Li Baiquan.

"What good stuff?" Li Baiquan asked quickly.

"I'll tell you if I find it. If I can't find it, forget it." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.

"It's just a lie, it's nothing more than a muntjak, a pig, a badger, or a wild boar. Could it be a golden monkey or a takin?"

Li Baiquan looked at Lin Heng and guessed.

Seeing Lin Heng's silence, Li Baiquan guessed again: "It's none of these. Could it be a clouded leopard and a black bear? Giant pandas cannot be killed. They have been protected for more than seven years."

"Uncle, don't guess. I'll know exactly when I meet you." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.

"Okay, let's go."

Li Baiquan and Lin Heng distanced themselves and moved forward together.

Lin Heng didn't feel weak at all today, and he was still a little lively. It seemed that it was due to the dragon and phoenix soup last night, which was really replenishing.

The two searched all the way and soon came to the location where Lin Heng found Lin Shek yesterday, but still found nothing.

"What did you find yesterday?" Li Baiquan asked again.

"It's a female forest musk deer. I was wondering if there were any males nearby. Once I hit one, it would be strong." Lin Heng said.

"It's actually this thing."

Li Baiquan was shocked and shook his head: "I guess there's no hope, this thing is amazing, I've encountered one before.

It also ran away before it got close. I searched for it many times but couldn't find it. This thing won't stay in one place for long. "

Lin Heng didn't quite agree with this, shook his head and said, "Let's look for it again."

"Then let's spread out a little more." Li Baiquan said and walked towards another ridge.

Lin Heng continued to move forward. He felt that he would be more productive on the ridge near Sanchagou.

"It's Ganoderma lucidum again, I want the forest musk deer."

After walking a few hundred meters, he saw two more red Ganoderma lucidum flowers. Lin Heng shook his head and went to pick them.

It seemed that the forest deer sensed his malice yesterday, and not even a hair was found this morning.

Lin Heng did not give up and continued to move forward. In the blink of an eye, he had walked four or five kilometers and reached the upper reaches of Sanchagou.

The mountains here are steep, and there are exposed gray and white stones everywhere. A stream flows down from the mountain in the distance, and the water mist is filled with water. The golden sunlight shines through, forming several beautiful rainbows.

"That's a pig badger!!"

Lin Hengzai suddenly discovered something. Under the trees south of the waterfall, a pig badger was eating something, with its butt facing outward, and he was not noticed at all.

"How is this going?"

Lin Heng was so anxious. The farthest distance in the world is when you are on the mountain and your prey is at the bottom of the mountain.

The mountain was nearly eighty or ninety degrees high, and there were no trees growing there. For a while, he couldn't find the way down at all.

After searching for a long time, I couldn't find a path. I watched the pig badger disappear into the bushes and disappear.

"It's the second one!" Lin Heng was furious. How could he do this? Let him see it but not give him a chance to take action.

Lin Shek could forget it. After all, he was discovered first. He really thought he had a chance with this pig badger, but he just couldn't find a way out.

You can't just jump from such a high mountain.

"Ok?"

Lin Heng's eyes suddenly moved. He couldn't find the way down the mountain, but he saw a piece of good stuff growing on the cliff.

"Am I only interested in plants lately?" Lin Heng didn't know what to say.

You can't find the prey you want, but the medicinal materials you didn't deliberately look for always appear in your sight.

(End of this chapter)