Chapter 231: Is lynx skin also very expensive?

Listening to Li Qing Xia ask like this, Li Long smiled bitterly and said:

"Saw a fox when cutting poles, thought about getting it out to skin it, didn't expect this guy was prey for something else, when I poked this fox, it startled that guy, it came up and gave me a claw..."

"What kind of guy is so fierce?" Li Qing Xia looked at the torn clothes and the injured arm of Li Long, and said with some heartache, "This large cut, how much blood must have flowed... Can't you go down the mountain to see a doctor?"

"No need, no need." Li Long waved his hand, "It stopped bleeding, there is medicine here, applied it, it will be nothing tomorrow."

"Didn't hurt the bone, right?"

"No, no. Skin injury, just a cut, looks scary, actually not that serious."

"Then you rest," Li Qing Xia waved his hand, "I'll handle this porridge and such."

"Don't I have to stir-fry two dishes?" Li Long said with a smile, "Dad, talking about cooking, you're not as good as me."

"Now care about that much? Just be able to eat it."

"Then alright... I'll go get some wild vegetables." Li Long said, "Just drinking porridge and eating steamed buns won't do."

"Isn't there red tofu? Just deal with it for two mouthfuls."

"With this condition, just stir-fry two dishes, we are doing physical labor, can't treat ourselves poorly."

Li Long had his own set of principles, and Li Qing Xia couldn't persuade his youngest son—mainly because Li Long grew up from his teens to adulthood, a stage he didn't participate in. Although as a father he had a certain authority, he lacked confidence.

And he could clearly see that although his youngest son was excellent in all aspects, he wasn't as persistent as his eldest son in terms of tradition, and he didn't have that much awe for himself as a father.

Li Long held a basin in his right hand, went to the mountain valley, first got some wild mushrooms—to tell the truth, having few people was truly the benefit of having few people, the resources in the mountains were plentiful, Li Long picked and chose, specifically looking for those tender mushrooms just poking out of the soil.

Wild onions were pulled easily, fresh and tender ones, wild celery was the same, if it was old, even if stir-fried with meat, chewing it in the mouth was like a rope, no one liked to eat it.

Cold-mixed pepper wormwood was something not everyone could get used to, so Li Long didn't pick it, looked at a basin of vegetables, and turned back.

Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang hadn't returned yet, the sun was about to set, so Li Long washed the vegetables at the spring, broke the wild mushrooms into small pieces, and after bringing them back, directly blanched them with boiling water.

The blanched mushrooms were soaked in cold water, squeezed dry of water, poured with salt, soy sauce, vinegar, then sprinkled with some chili powder, cut some wild onion vegetables and put them on top, finally washed the pot and heated oil, poured it on top, this was considered the universal cold dish method Li Long mastered.

"Oh, this oil is too much, right?" Li Qing Xia looked at Li Long operating there—finally couldn't help but ask.

Sniffed his nose, felt it was quite fragrant.

"Dad, is it fragrant?"

"That's truly fragrant!"

"Then that's it." Li Long said with a smile, "We are doing physical labor, consuming a lot of energy, so we have to eat more, eat nutritiously."

Fortunately, it was the left arm that was injured, the main right hand wasn't restricted, so after Li Long washed the wild celery, came over to cut vegetables, Li Qing Xia wanted to help, but was refused by Li Long.

"Dad, you just watch the porridge, stir it from time to time, I can handle this side myself."

The pot with hot oil didn't need to be washed, placed on the stone stove, continued to heat the pot, scooped a spoonful of meat from the rendered meat oil basin and put it into the pot, exploding a group of sounds, Li Long flipped the shovel while watching the fire, waited until it felt about right, poured in the wild celery, stir-fried a few more times, added salt, and then prepared to take it out of the pot.

Watching Li Long cook, Li Qing Xia said with a smile:

"Little Long, your craftsmanship is good! Later whoever you marry will be blessed."

"Hahaha, that's a later matter." Li Long took a rag, pinched the pot ear, lifted the pot down, broke half a steamed bun, wiped the vegetable residue in the pot, and then ate it.

The taste was not bad.

Li Jianguo and Tao Daqiang carried the poles back, and seeing the injury on Li Long's arm, they were also startled.

"This mountain is still so dangerous!" Li Jianguo was also a bit surprised, "Little Long, did you see clearly what that was?"

"Didn't see clearly, scratched me, then drilled into the grass, I saw the ears were a bit sharp, I suspect it might be a lynx or something..."

"Can there be that thing in this mountain?" Li Qing Xia knew about lynxes, a bit suspicious, "Isn't that on high mountains?"

"Hard to say." Li Jianguo also knew this thing, he shook his head and said, "In this year, what can be said for sure in the mountains?"

"Eat first, be careful later." Li Long said, "The problem isn't big, mainly because I touched that fox, otherwise, it might not have scratched me—that was its meal after all."

This joke didn't cause everyone's laughter, several people sat silently at the wooden table and began to eat.

"Brother Long, what is a lynx?" Tao Daqiang really didn't know this thing, asked in a low voice.

"Like a cat, same, but bigger than a cat, smaller than a wolf." Li Long described, "Fierce, catching things is very powerful, but don't be too afraid, generally won't hurt people..."

He gestured the size and said:

"Look, just this big, it also can't treat people as prey, at that time it should have just been anxious..."

"In short, be careful." Li Jianguo nodded in agreement.

"Tomorrow we cut poles, two people together," Li Long thought for a while and said, "Each group carries a gun, have a machete and a gun, that way safety can be guaranteed."

"Right." Li Jianguo nodded, "In another day we have to go down the mountain to send poles, in that case, the remaining people will be together. We cut poles to earn money, can't get ourselves involved... Little Long, do you want to go down the mountain to see a doctor?"

"No need, no need." Li Long stretched out his arm and said, "Look, scabbed, it will be much better tomorrow."

This matter was decided like this.

The next day, Li Long and Tao Daqiang together, Li Jianguo and Li Qing Xia together, went separately into the mountains to cut poles, Li Long's right hand could exert force, but cutting and trimming was troublesome, these jobs were replaced by Tao Daqiang.

The two cooperated and weren't slow, cutting more than a hundred poles in one morning, according to this speed, in another three or five days, the poles would be enough.

When the two carried the poles back to the wooden cabin at noon, Li Jianguo and the others had already returned, Li Qing Xia was handling the horse, Li Jianguo was stir-frying vegetables.

Li Long remembered Xie Yun Dong saying that Li Jianguo had worked in the cooking squad, cooking was no problem.

Eating ready-made meals is good!

On the third day, the injury on Li Long's arm basically didn't affect his actions anymore, this time they accumulated nearly a thousand poles, Li Long and Tao Daqiang went to send them back together.

"Dad, you and my big brother rest, there aren't many poles left, wait until we come back, two or three days and it will be finished," Li Long said to Li Qing Xia, "Don't be anxious." "Alright." Li Qing Xia said with a smile, "Just happen to pick some wild mushrooms to sun, these wild mushrooms sun-dried, eating them in winter is quite good."

The older generation is the most knowing of frugality. Seeing anything useful, basically they will collect it. To use an inappropriate metaphor, Li Qing Xia came to the mountains, if cutting poles wasn't the main task, he could pull a cart of things back a day.

Looking at everything, it was useful, wild mushrooms were so many, wild fruits were so many, wind-fallen wood was so many, and there were so many edible wild vegetables...

The feeling of a mouse falling into a rice jar.

So letting him stay in the mountains, he wasn't bored at all, with so many good things, could be picked for free, how could he be bored?

Happy was too late!

Riding to the county town, Li Long let Tao Daqiang stop at the purchase station, he intended to ask Chen Hongjun for advice.

"You said that sharp ear? Not big? Yellow fur? Isn't that a lynx?" Chen Hongjun determined it as soon as he heard, "You truly have good luck!"

"Good what?" Li Long lifted his clothes to let Chen Hongjun see his arm, "Scratched a claw, look at this long cut..."

"That lynx generally doesn't scratch people?" Chen Hongjun was also a bit strange, "Usually they run when they see people, or hide when they discover people from afar. After all, the size is small..."

"Maybe because of this." Li Long took out the fox skin to show Chen Hongjun, "It should have been catching this, was intercepted by me."

"That's possible." Chen Hongjun looked at that fox skin, shook his head and said:

"A bit small, also broke it, spring skin... If you want to sell it, sixteen yuan."

!.

"Alright." Unexpected wealth, Li Long naturally had no opinion.

"If you can get that lynx skin over, I can at least give you eight hundred!" Chen Hongjun gestured with his fingers, "How about it, is it possible?"

"No!" Although Li Long was very tempted, he still shook his head, "That thing is too fast, I didn't even see clearly what it looked like, just saw two sharp ears, scratched me, I was holding a machete and injured it a bit, then it ran... Even if I saw it from afar, I couldn't hit it with a gun."

"Depends on luck, maybe you hit it. Your luck has always been quite good." Chen Hongjun said with a smile, "Been here for several years, I never thought I could still receive snow leopard skin, didn't run into you, and received it..."

"That wasn't hit by me either." Li Long waved his hand, "Alright, I'm going back, still have things."

"Alright, go slowly."

Li Long and Tao Daqiang pulled the horse cart and returned directly to the team, and unloaded the poles at Xu Chengjun's home.

He didn't stay at the middle school, there was an injury on his arm, Gu Xiaoxia was meticulous, maybe she would discover it. Better not let her worry.

Tao Daqiang hurried home as soon as he left Xu Chengjun's home. Didn't bring anything back this time, but he was still a bit worried about his old father.

Li Long led the horse cart back to the Li family, rested for a while, ate something, and then hurried back to the mountains with Tao Daqiang.

Didn't let Du Chunfang and Liang Yumei know he was injured, to avoid everyone worrying.

When they were about to reach the mountains, Tao Daqiang suddenly pointed into the distance and said with some curiosity:

"Brother Long, look, that wheat is still green!"

This season, the wheat had already started to turn yellow, but that patch of wheat Tao Daqiang pointed to was mostly still green, with a bit of yellow in the green.

"Close to the mountain, the temperature here is lower." Li Long explained, "Growing slowly... Go, cut some back, let's go into the mountains and eat roasted wheat."

To say roasted wheat is particularly delicious, that's not it. Mainly eating a sentiment, right. This season, basically every household returns from work, either at their own home, or cutting a handful of wheat in someone else's field by the roadside, taking it home to roast under the stove, and then rubbing the wheat kernels to eat.

No one would say anything, even if the owner of the field ran into it, they wouldn't blame, instead they would let you get some more.

Tao Daqiang jumped off the horse cart, carried the machete and said with a smile:

"Brother Little Long, you don't need to worry, I'll go cut some... be right back!"

He darted into the field, picked those greener wheat, cut three or four handfuls, and then ran back to the horse cart holding them.

Tao Daqiang's movements were fast, and his work was also good, these wheat were all tied in handfuls as thick as an arm, directly wrapped with green wheat stalks.

Li Long picked up a handful and looked, pulled down a wheat ear and rubbed it, saying:

"Quite full, in a few days it will be hard."

Returning to the wooden cabin, Li Long saw quite a few wild mushrooms sunning on the table board in front of the wooden cabin, this whole area was the smell of wild mushrooms.

"Come, set a fire on the stove, let's roast wheat." Li Long was full of spirit, hadn't done such childish things for a long time, and just had a "old man chats about youthful madness" moment.

Roasting wheat is very simple, push the handfuls of green wheat onto the fire, first singe off the wheat awns, then rotate and roast the wheat heads on the fire, but still can't burn the wheat stalks, otherwise the wheat ears would fall into the fire and be difficult to take out, which would be a waste.

Tao Daqiang also had this interest, he lit the fire under the stove, added a few wooden sticks, and then together with Li Long, each with a handful of green wheat, pushed them onto the fire and roasted.

When Li Qing Xia and Li Jianguo returned, they saw Li Long and Tao Daqiang with black hands and mouths, rubbing wheat kernels there.

"Why did you think of eating this?" Li Jianguo said with a smile, "There's still green wheat in this season?"

"In the field by the mountain." Li Long explained, "The temperature is low, so it turns yellow late."

"I said so, look at this season, the wheat in our team should be yellow, in another ten days it will be time to open the sickle."

Cutting wheat!

Li Long immediately felt the fragrant green wheat kernels in his mouth weren't delicious—actually, they were very delicious, charred fragrance mixed with some green sweetness, and also toughness, of course, eating too much made chewing teeth tired.

Dinner naturally couldn't just eat roasted wheat, Li Jianguo steamed rice at noon, stir-fried vegetables with leftover rice at night.

"Eating in the mountains is the same as at home," Li Qing Xia said with a smile while eating, "Who would believe this if said out? Before in the hometown, every household said, marrying a daughter can't marry into the mountains. If you can eat this meal in the mountains every day, every household would be willing to marry in."

"It's just us here. Other families couldn't eat like this," Li Jianguo said with a smile. "If you ask me, we've all benefited from Without Xiao Long. If it weren't for Without Xiao Long, who would think of eating steamed buns and rice every day?"

"That's it, that's it." Tao Daqiang also said so.

Li Long hurriedly waved his hand:

"Everyone works together, don't just talk about me... Dad, you got quite a few wild mushrooms today."

"There are really many in that grass, there are still quite a few, they grow differently, I don't dare to pick, afraid of poisoning, just picked the ones you picked." Li Qing Xia explained, "In the next two days, the poles will be cut enough, let's turn around in the mountains, you tell me which mushrooms can be eaten, let's get quite a few!"

"Alright."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 232 =====