Era: 1979 From mountain man to richest man

Chapter 25 Bear Trap and Song Li’s Target

With that said, the two of them headed towards the mountain.

I had gone there twice yesterday, so this time I went up the mountain and found the place with ease.

After a while, the two of them dug half of the basket.

There is still a lot of Gastrodia elata left in this ditch, and it feels like a good place now.

The soil is fertile, moist, and the altitude is suitable.

Song Chaoyang thought for a while and then searched around to see if there were any other medicinal materials.

No medicinal materials were found, but some wild black fungus was found.

There are not many of these things, and they won't fetch much if they are sold.

You can take it home and dry it for cooking.

There are quite a lot of dishes that can be cooked with fungus. Song Chaoyang put away these fresh fungus without saying a word.

He looked deeper into the forest and saw a path followed by wild beasts.

Song Chaoyang saw a large number of fresh hoof prints and feces of wild goats.

It seems that they often walk from here, and beyond are cliffs covered with vines. Except for monkeys and goats, no other wild animals will go there.

Song Chaoyang thought for a while, maybe he could move the animal trap to this place.

Maybe you can actually catch the goat.

I looked at the sun, which was now high above my head.

Song Chaoyang turned around and started walking down the mountain with the little girl.

Then they went to the place where Kong Yun was rescued last time.

I was going to move some space for the animal trap that no one wanted.

The little girl was still hoping that when they went over to look at the trap, they might even find a wild boar caught.

It's just that the idea is good, but the reality is always unsatisfactory.

Someone has been here before, and the wild boar is one of the smartest people in the mountains.

If it smells wrong, it will be detoured.

If the clamp wants to work again, it will at least rain and the people around it will be dispersed.

If you can really get a wild boar, just killing the wild boar and selling its meat can make hundreds of dollars.

The wild boars in this mountain grow very large and are extremely ferocious. When harvest time comes in autumn, they often come down the mountain in groups and destroy crops in the fields.

However, these guys are extremely cunning and difficult to catch.

I don’t know how the wild boars were obtained in the village that Song Xiaoren went to today.

Song Chaoyang put away the two animal traps, one large and one small.

Put it in your own backpack, and prepare to go back to the mountain to put the clip after eating.

If you can really catch a wild goat, although it is not as valuable as a wild boar, a thirty or forty pound wild goat can still be exchanged for some money.

There are fewer ways to make money these days.

Song Chaoyang would never let go of this kind of money-making thing.

After carrying the bear trap, I walked down the mountain for a while.

When they got down relatively close to the foot of the mountain and found a flat large bluestone, Song Chaoyang lit a fire and picked up a bamboo tube to start making lunch.

This is the simplest bamboo tube rice, and most mountain people can make it.

The rice bacon used by Song Chaoyang can be regarded as a very luxurious version.

After the bamboo tube bacon rice was ready, Song Chaoyang and his sister started eating.

The rice and the bacon fat are wrapped together, which makes it look very attractive. After being grilled in a bamboo tube, it already exudes a unique fragrance, which is even more exciting.

When you eat it, it not only has the aroma of rice and meat, but also the fresh smell of bamboo.

It actually makes people feel a lot cooler in the summer.

Today Song Chaoyang brought out the bacon hidden by Mrs. Jia, so there was extra meat in today's meal.

Cut the bacon into dices and mix them in the middle of the rice. You can eat several dices with every bite.

The little girl laughed while eating, feeling that she had not been so happy for a long time.

After the two of them finished eating the rice in bamboo tubes, they caught some bamboo bees nearby, which are as edible as cicadas. In the eyes of children who grew up in mountain villages, these bamboo bees are as delicious as pork.

Before Song Chaoyang traveled there, he heard that the larvae of bamboo bees are called bamboo insects, and they are a unique delicacy in Guangning.

It can be eaten raw, stir-fried, braised, or made into salt and pepper.

It is said to be rich in protein, amino acids, fatty acids, mineral elements and vitamins.

However, Song Chaoyang could accept eating bamboo bees, but he couldn't bear the bamboo insects. Of course, here in Qingsong Bay, there is only the custom of eating bamboo bees, and no one catches bamboo insects to eat.

The fire for cooking had not been extinguished yet, so I threw the bamboo bee on the fire and it was cooked in a short time. I tore open its hard armor and there were all the strands of meat underneath, which tasted a bit like tenderloin. , it tastes good without adding salt.

Song Chaoyang ate one, and all the others were wiped out by the little girl.

After finishing eating, the two of them headed up the mountain again.

Returning to the place where Gastrodia was dug, Song Chaoyang continued walking forward and came to the trail made by animals. Song Chaoyang placed the two animal traps and then marked them.

I even rubbed it with weed juice several times.

Then he took his sister down the mountain with satisfaction.

Let’s see if we can harvest a wild goat that went astray by then.

After such a tossing back and forth, it was already about three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

It took more than 40 minutes to get down to the bottom of the mountain. The sun was already hanging on the top of the mountain.

When I returned home and checked, I found that the Gastrodia elata dried on the roof had been almost dried. Although it was not completely dehydrated, it was no problem to sell it.

After all, the longer the sun is in the sun, the lighter the gastrodia elata will be, so I will suffer some losses.

After collecting the dried Gastrodia elata and spreading the fresh Gastrodia elata on the roof, Song Chaoyang planned to go to the commune medicine shop tomorrow to cash in all the Gastrodia elata.

By then the total money in hand will reach 400 yuan.

Four hundred yuan is a lot these days.

If an adult in a rural area only earns work points, he or she can only earn more than 100 yuan a year.

For a grassroots employee in the commune, the basic salary alone is about two to three hundred per year.

So more than four hundred is really a lot.

But not only does the little girl want to study, Song Chaoyang wants to buy a homestead and build a red brick house. This money is definitely not enough.

As the saying goes, the mountain depends on the mountain. Now the mountain behind their house alone produces hundreds of pieces of Gastrodia elata. He has not been to other mountains yet.

I don’t know if the prophetic dream will give him some information tonight.

The sun is setting in the west and it is getting late.

The little girl started to make dinner.

Third brother made it for lunch today, and she planned to make a meal by herself tonight. Grandpa sent a lot of vegetables, and they planned to eat winter melon in the evening.

When Song Chaoyang had nothing to do, he sat on the threshold of the hall to enjoy the cool air.

Not long after I sat down, I saw my grandma and aunt coming back, and with them came a young man wearing glasses.

Song Chaoyang took a look and recognized Song Li's postman partner.

He also carried two packets of pastries, five bundles of vermicelli, and about five pounds of pork suet and two pounds of fat meat.

It can be said to be quite luxurious as a gift in this era.

Along the way, I walked over talking and laughing with my grandma and aunt.

When passing by the door of Song Chaoyang's house, Mrs. Jia and Yi Zhenzhu didn't say anything. The young man even nodded to Song Chaoyang.

The two had met before, but he didn't expect that he still remembered Song Chaoyang's name.

Song Chaoyang just nodded, as a greeting, but this guy was miserable. A postman who was paid by the public servant fell in love with Song Li, a rural girl.

Song Li, that ungrateful person but not a human being at all, got involved with an educated youth from the village. She dreams of becoming a city dweller.

At this moment, the young man didn't know that he was being cuckolded.

Before he could say a few words, he was dragged away by his aunt.

The eldest aunt seemed to be afraid of chatting more, so she let Song Chaoyang defraud her of the gift.

Song Chaoyang shook his head. The upper beam was not straight and the lower beam was crooked. It was not surprising that the uncle and aunt could educate a daughter like Song Li.

Even the two cousins ​​Song Chaofeng and Song Chaofei are not very good birds, even though one works in the supply and marketing cooperative in the city and the other is admitted to university.

Just when Song Chaoyang was sighing, he heard the voice of his aunt looking for Song Li.

Song Chaoyang was a little surprised. Song Li went out in the morning and she hasn't come back yet?
It's almost dark now.

That's ten hours in total.

Is she too addicted?
After searching there for a while but unable to find anyone, the eldest aunt came over and asked Song Chaoyang again.

Song Chaoyang didn't want to get involved in their nonsense.

Ask three questions.

The eldest aunt had no choice but to go to other places to inquire.

At this time, I happened to meet people who were returning from work. Some of these people saw Song Li at the educated youth point, so the eldest aunt hurried to the educated youth point to find someone.

(End of this chapter)