Chapter 197: The first deer whip hunter on the north slope of Ma County?

When Li Long woke up, the room was already bright. He heard movement outside, thinking it should be Tao Daqiang getting up and working.

He rubbed his face and rubbed his eyes again, feeling eye discharge. Is this liver fire flourishing?

In the second half of his previous life, he started health preservation and was sensitive to these. He stretched and got up, feeling full of vitality again.

Youth is good, no matter how tired he is, he is still full of energy the next day, unlike in his fifties or sixties in his previous life, he had to take a long time to recover after being tired for a day.

He climbed up, put on clothes, opened the door, the dazzling sunlight shone in, Li Long narrowed his eyes, and saw Tao Daqiang chopping wood.

Tao Daqiang turned his head and saw Li Long come out, and said with a smile:

"Brother Long, are you up? Breakfast is already done, rice porridge, dead flour cakes, I mixed mushrooms, you wash and eat, I've eaten."

"Okay." Li Long went to the water to wash simply, and then ate at the table, saying while eating:

"Wait until the next time we go down the mountain, we have to bring some pickles, and some red tofu. By the way, send some flour today, see if we can steam some steamed buns. Eating dead flour cakes is not good for the stomach."

"Okay. Then bring some yeast next time, otherwise the flour won't rise." Tao Daqiang thought for a while and said.

Li Long thought it was right, he didn't buy yeast, and didn't know if the supply and marketing cooperative and the department store had this—should have, right?

Chatting while eating, after eating, Li Long washed the bowls and chopsticks, and went to handle the wolf meat.

Although that was a thin wolf, excluding the skin, plus internal organs, there were more than thirty kilograms. This meat couldn't be sent down anymore, Li Long planned to boil part of it, and make part of it into air-dried meat.

As for the internal organs, there was no way, let's eat them in the next two days.

Tao Daqiang finished chopping firewood, piled the chopped wood blocks on the side of the wooden house, and then came to help Li Long.

"Brother Long, there are really many good things here. The wood burned here can definitely make a lot of things at home."

"It could be transported out frequently before, but now it can only wait for the right opportunity." Li Long said, "Look at how many wind-fallen trees are on the edge of the pine forest, just watching them fall... but there will be forestry team people to clean them up."

Tao Daqiang naturally knew, he just felt it was a pity. If these woods were in the team, they would have been pulled home to make furniture long ago. Now everyone at home is poor, and it's not bad for a family to have one or two pieces of furniture with four or six legs. Some families don't even have decent furniture.

Mainly wood is expensive. But who knew that in this mountain, so much wood would just be left to fall and rot?

Strips of wolf meat were cut down, rubbed with salt and put away, Li Long asked Tao Daqiang to nail iron wires in the small room and the big room, and then hang this wolf meat on it to air-dry.

He planned to get some wormwood and other grass to put in the house after finishing, to prevent insects.

After finishing these, Li Long saw there was still time, so he said to Tao Daqiang:

"Daqiang, let's walk around nearby, pick some mushrooms, get some shovel handles, etc., eat lunch and rest for a while, let's go see if we can find red deer."

"Okay." Tao Daqiang agreed readily, and then asked, "Brother Long, what are you doing with shovel handles?"

"Sell." Li Long smiled.

Shovel handle is actually the common name for wooden poles as thick as a child's arm, one point six or seven meters long. The main standard is straight, without large knots. When handling, peel off the skin, then scrape it clean, and sharpen one end.

Shovel handle is the common name, actually it counts as a universal handle, because iron shovels, hoes, hoes, wooden forks, wooden shovels, etc. in production tools can use this as a handle.

But Li Long wants to do this, mainly for the supply and marketing cooperative task in autumn—Li Xiangqian said, at that time there will be a batch of needle grass big broom tasks. That big broom also needs such wooden handles.

There are plenty of needle grass in the wasteland near the team, as long as you are willing to spend effort, just hit it. But qualified broom handles are few.

Li Long guessed that this batch of broom tasks must be at least two or three hundred, and the production team nearby can only gather one hundred or eighty at most, which is basically the limit. So Li Long plans to hoard a batch, so that he can earn some pocket money at that time—for example, a broom is three yuan, this handle is five mao, not much, right?

Li Long's goal is clear, and Tao Daqiang's goal is also clear. Since the Codonopsis pilosula dug out is not of much use, then don't dig it, he plans to pick mushrooms.

Picking mushrooms and not eating them, slicing and drying them and taking them home as dry vegetables in winter is also okay—this was what Li Long said casually yesterday, and Tao Daqiang remembered it.

He doesn't know more mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, pine mushrooms, etc., he only knows the straw mushrooms that Li Long took him to pick, so he picked mushrooms on the grass slope with a bag.

Li Long crossed the mountain slope and walked into the pine forest. It is said to be a pine forest, but actually there are not only pine trees, but also cypress trees, birch trees, quite mixed.

After looking around, Li Long gave up. The trees that can be used as shovel handles here are those small trees that have grown for more than ten years, and growth is not easy. He felt it was better to go to the willow trees by the ditch to see.

The willow trees by the ditch here grow mixed, growing in clusters, and there are many various oblique branches, two or three-year-old willow mixed branches can just be used as shovel handles, and it's not a pity to cut them.

Li Long came to the bottom of the ditch, where there is a small stream, the place where willow trees grow is a small river bay, this area is quite flat, Li Long just arrived at the edge of the willow cluster, and saw a piece of hoof prints that had just been stepped on not long ago in the wet mud on the edge of the river bay.

Looking at the hoof prints divided into two petals, Li Long guessed that it was likely not a wild sheep or a red deer or a roe deer. He didn't have the ability to distinguish exactly what it was from the hoof prints, but it wasn't a plum blossom print, so it couldn't be a wolf or something.

Is it possible that deer-like things come here to drink water in the morning?

Li Long was excited immediately, he looked at the position around, and planned to ambush here early tomorrow morning to see if he could hit anything.

Best is a deer. Although he has only stayed for a few days, Li Long feels that life in the mountains is not very good.

He and Tao Daqiang are different. He feels that running back and forth between the mountains and the township is the best, staying here for two or three days, and staying down the mountain for two or three days, best.

Away from this piece of footprints, Li Long carried the gun, carried the machete and cut seven or eight shovel handles, scraped the mixed branches clean by the water, and then chopped them to almost the same height, hugged them and walked back.

On the way, he saw wormwood, so he cut some and brought them back. The smell of this thing can make mosquitoes and insects stay away, which is quite good for sleeping at night.

When returning to the winter nest, Tao Daqiang had already returned, and was cutting mushrooms. Li Long put that handful of shovel handles on the wall on the east side and said:

"At noon, let's steam rice. I'll get some wild vegetables to stir-fry, eat and rest, let's go find red deer."

"Okay." Tao Daqiang put down the knife and was about to stand up, Li Long waved his hand:

"Time is still early, you cut yours, wait until I bring the wild vegetables back and talk." It's late April, there are many wild vegetables, wild onions, wild leeks, wild celery, and Artemisia also grew out, plus the wild mushrooms picked by Tao Daqiang, enough to stir-fry several plates.

Of course, if Li Long is not afraid of trouble, he can also make the whole earth skin vegetable—that is, there is too much sand and it is too difficult to wash.

When Li Long came back with a large handful of wild vegetables, Tao Daqiang had already set up the cutting board and set up the fire on the two stoves.

"Brother Long, can you steam rice?" Tao Daqiang asked.

Li Long can naturally steam, but not very skilled, he put the vegetables on the big cutting board and said:

"Can steam, but don't be so troublesome. Put water in the pot, put on the grate, take a small basin, wash the rice in it, pour water, the water is one finger higher than the rice, burn water and steam. But this way of steaming rice is no rice soup, no pot crust."

"It's fine if it can be steamed." Tao Daqiang heard this way of steaming rice for the first time, he immediately went to get things and prepared to try.

Li Long remembered the stalk that the talk show actor said about Asian mothers steaming rice one finger high on the short video platform, and couldn't help laughing.

Steaming rice like this naturally doesn't worry about being undercooked, at most steam for a while longer, overcooked is better than undercooked. Li Long stir-fried three dishes.

When the last dish came out of the pot, Li Long let Tao Daqiang lift the lid of the rice steaming pot. Tao Daqiang looked at that basin of rice, and was also very surprised: this is done?

Li Long smelled the fragrant rice, really very satisfied, this rice is called rice!

The two swept away, ate, and after finishing, Tao Daqiang asked:

"Brother Long, what to do next?"

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"Wipe the gun, let's go see if we can find red deer after wiping."

The noon sun is hot, the two entered the wooden house, opened the door, spread out the gun cloth and started wiping the gun.

Tao Daqiang didn't know how to wipe much, Li Long taught him while wiping. The structure of the 56-semi and the small caliber is different, Li Long let Tao Daqiang be more familiar with it.

Tao Daqiang is trying to be familiar, but to be honest, he himself feels that it may not be of much use in the future.

After wiping the gun, the two locked the door, carried the gun and walked into the mountain ditch.

The sun is hot, but in the shady place, there is still a bit of coolness.

Li Long saw a piece of wild strawberry under his feet, and it had already bloomed with small white flowers. The local people call this ground gourd, the reason is unknown. This thing is not big when it grows, but as long as it is red, it is very sour and sweet, and the taste is very good.

Li Long plans to pick some and bring them back after this is ripe, because at this season, it is very difficult for Li Juan and Li Qiang to eat some fruit—even if tomatoes come down in August, they can't eat them at will.

At this time, children are still quite bitter.

The two carried the gun, Li Long's goal was not very clear, walked three ditches, saw traces of wild boars arching in the bottom of the ditch, but Li Long didn't plan to ambush here, now the meat is enough. It's not easy to sell, and he has tasks, so it's better to get the red deer first.

Li Long is so persistent in getting red deer, mainly hoping to reach a private cooperative relationship with the supply and marketing cooperative through Li Xiangqian. Every spring and autumn, there are tasks like lifting handles and big brooms, and Li Long can take a part of it.

This kind of money is easier to earn, and it can also bring real benefits to the team, why not do it?

Walking around all afternoon, Li Long picked up two deer antlers, but didn't see any deer.

Two deer antlers were in the grass, Li Long had picked them up, had experience, Tao Daqiang didn't find them after passing by, when Li Long saw and said it was deer antlers, Tao Daqiang was surprised.

The two deer antlers look like they were just taken off this year, weighing twelve or thirteen kilograms together, both are three-branched, Li Long decided to ambush by the river bay early tomorrow morning, if he can't hit it, then go there to see.

The next day Li Long got up early, he and Tao Daqiang put on clothes and carried the gun and went to the river bay.

When arriving at the river bay, the sky was just bright, Li Long first lay down far away, waited for half an hour and there was no movement, he couldn't wait, so he went down the mountain slope to the river bay to see. As a result, he found that there were more footprints here, some were stepped on just now, some should be stepped on last night, Li Long was a bit discouraged, and said to Tao Daqiang:

"Go, go see where we picked up the deer antlers yesterday."

Tao Daqiang also knew that Li Long was in a bad mood, didn't speak, and followed Li Long there.

When arriving at the mountain slope, Li Long slowed down, tried his best to be careful not to make a sound, bent over to the top of the slope, and saw three big and one small four red deer eating grass at the bottom of the ditch.

Only female, no male!

Li Long was disappointed immediately—that little red deer was a bit bigger than his own red deer in the horse pen, looking quite naughty, topping this and topping that from time to time.

Tao Daqiang also saw it, he whispered to Li Long:

"Brother Long, hit or not?"

Li Long himself was also hesitating, if not hit, the prey is in front of him, if hit, it is not what he needs.

"Wait a while." Li Long finally decided, "Let's go to that side, ambush in the forest at the top of the mountain for a while, see if any male deer will come over. If there is, then we hit, if these female deer want to leave, then hit!"

Li Long said what Tao Daqiang naturally is what, the two moved horizontally, quietly approached the red deer from the pine forest at the top of the slope, and then ambushed in a place where the vision was wide enough seventy or eighty meters away from the red deer.

Those red deer gnawed on the tender grass at the bottom of the ditch, the little red deer went to the female deer to drink milk from time to time.

Li Long waited patiently, occasionally insects came over, he just moved his body lightly, his eyes were always on those red deer.

Finally, just when these red deer planned to transfer and walk into the ditch, a crisp and pleasant deer sound came from the mountain slope.

Li Long was overjoyed:

"It should be here!"

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Li Long waited patiently. Occasionally, when insects came by, he would only move his body slightly, his gaze always fixed on those red deer.

Finally, just as these red deer were planning to move and head into the gully, a crisp and melodious deer call came from the hillside.

Li Long was overjoyed:

"They must have come!"

(End of chapter)