Chapter 238: Narrow road, gun wins

After eating, Li Long tidied up the stove, sliced the mushrooms on the wooden table, and by the time he finished cutting, it was already dark. He took a broom, swept the wooden floor in front of the wooden house clean, and laid the dried mushrooms on it.

After everything was done, he entered the large room to sleep.

When he woke up, it was still dark. Li Long rubbed his face, put on his clothes, went out, looked at the sky, felt the time should be about right, and carried his gun toward the mountains.

The mountains at night were not peaceful; there were the sounds of toads in the streams, the sounds of insects in the grass, and occasionally the sounds of crows in the distance.

Walking into the forest, he would occasionally startle one or two birds, and then the birds would fly away cursing.

Li Long crossed the mountain gully and arrived at the gully where Lv Dafeng was. He didn't disturb the other party, bypassed the tent at a distance of fifty or sixty meters, and then felt his way toward the gully Lv Dafeng had pointed out.

Li Long crossed a gully, slowed down his speed, held the gun on his shoulder in his hand, bent over, and slowly felt his way forward.

The sky was very dark, almost unable to see things twenty or thirty meters in front of him. Li Long felt he must have come too early.

There was wind on the slope. Li Long felt the wind direction and arrived at the leeward side. He knew wild boars had a very keen sense of smell and didn't want to be discovered by these guys when ambushing.

When walking down, Li Long saw that the deep grass in the gully indeed had traces of being rooted. It was too dark, and he couldn't see what the grass in this patch was specifically, but a large patch had been rooted, so this wild boar group shouldn't be small.

Li Long walked to the opposite side of the gully, feeling that this side was the leeward side. He turned around in the surroundings, found a stone half a meter square, and lay down.

Last time he was almost rushed by a wild boar, Li Long was still a bit worried, so finding a place to hide at the first opportunity was better.

Lying by the stone, Li Long could feel the dampness of the ground, so he adjusted his posture, first sitting by the stone, intending to lie down and open fire when he heard movement.

After waiting for a long time, there was no movement. Before he knew it, a wave of sleepiness struck. Li Long's head nodded, and he started to doze off.

The vibration of the ground made Li Long wake up immediately. He picked up his gun and looked toward the direction of the vibration.

The sky was already slightly bright, and he could see the situation dozens of meters away. Then he saw several wild boars rushing down from the forest on the higher mountain slope further away, rushing toward the mountain gully in his direction!

Damn it, these wild boars were coming exactly from his direction!

Li Long felt the place he chose was truly excellent, the only way for the wild boars...

Alright, since the demand for hunting wild boars this time wasn't high, he immediately turned his position, turned around, lay on the other side of the stone, rested the gun, and started aiming.

The momentum of the wild boars rushing down the mountain was very powerful. The distance of nearly a hundred meters was covered in half in no time. Li Long knew if he didn't shoot, he might be rushed into the wild boar group!

Leading the way were three half-grown wild boars of fifty or sixty kilograms, followed by several large sows, followed by a group of small wild boars of twenty or thirty kilograms, and further back, there were several wild boars with larger bodies.

This wild boar family was not small!

"Bang!"

Li Long aimed at the leading wild boar and fired!

Because it was facing Li Long's side, the area of the body presented to Li Long was relatively small, and it had been moving, so Li Long missed this shot, hitting the wild boar's ear, and then flew out brushing the right side of the belly!

A gunshot directly startled the wild boar group, and these wild boars that had originally rushed down in a line scattered and fled!

Li Long missed the first shot, but he didn't have any regrets. He had been aiming, and as soon as these wild boars scattered, he immediately seized the opportunity, fired "Bang, bang, bang, bang" continuously, and knocked a wild boar of about sixty kilograms to the ground on the spot!

When aiming at other wild boars, he found they had already run far away. Only one sow was followed by seven or eight small wild boars running slowly, and they were scurrying in that patch of grass. Li Long aimed at the small wild boars behind and fired continuously, directly emptying the bullets in the gun, only then stopping.

He took out a stripper clip, pressed ten bullets into the magazine, pulled the bolt to chamber, and then walked forward with the gun.

Two small wild boars were lying on the ground, one wasn't dead yet, crying incessantly, the sound very miserable.

The other one didn't move at all, and like that half-grown one, it should be dead through.

Li Long thought, after experiencing such a thing, these wild boars shouldn't come over again, right?

Then Lv Dafeng's problem should be solved.

One big one, two small ones, it was still a bit difficult to take them away.

Li Long thought for a while, looked around first, and found that not a single wild boar from the group was left, all having scurried away to who knows where.

He thought for a while, took off the rope he had brought, tied the two small wild boars together, then carried the half-grown wild boar, and then dragged the rope tying the two small wild boars, dragging them toward the mountain side together.

Going down to the bottom of the gully, crossing the mountain slope, and going down to the bottom of the gully again, Li Long saw Lv Dafeng's tent.

Li Long stopped halfway while dragging the wild boars—he didn't go to the tent, after all, bees were things that would go crazy when they smelled something, and Li Long didn't want to be besieged by a group of bees.

He started processing the large wild boar here.

It wasn't convenient to peel the skin here, so he simply opened the belly and took out the internal organs and such.

The sun hadn't risen yet, but the sky was already bright. After Li Long cleaned out the wild boar's internal organs and threw them on the grass, he shouted loudly:

"Lv Dafeng, Lv Dafeng!"

Actually, Lv Dafeng had already woken up. He had barely eaten something last night, slept for a while, and Li Long had left him medicine. He woke up in the middle of the night and took the medicine again, feeling much better.

Li Long said he would go hunt wild boars in the middle of the night, so he had been listening for movement. He had already heard the gunshots just now, but he didn't expect Li Long to have already finished and dragged the wild boars over.

Lv Dafeng came out, saw Li Long beckoning for people there, and walked over.

"I hit this wild boar, these internal organs and such are handed over to you. If you have time, process them. This hot weather can't be left for long, either put them in cold water to pull out the heat, or just cook them." Li Long saw he was still walking steadily, so he said:

"I also left you a leg of meat. Peel the skin when eating. I have to hurry and take the things down the mountain to process."

"Good, good, good, thank you so much!"

"Nothing, this is what you deserve. That wild boar stomach is also left for you, this thing can cure stomach problems." Li Long said, "Just put it away. That group of wild boars was hit by me and lost these three, they certainly won't come over again in a short time."

"Then I still don't want this stomach, I'll keep these heart, liver, and lungs." Lv Dafeng was very grateful. He only provided a little information, Li Long not only helped him drive away the wild boars but also gave him meat, which made him feel Li Long was a great person.

"You told me there were wild boars, so this meat is what you deserve." Li Long said, "Alright, you tidy up slowly, I still have to hurry on my way."

Li Long carried the wild boar that had been opened, continued to drag the two small wild boars, and went toward the wooden house.

Lv Dafeng carried the wild boar leg back to the tent, then took out a large basin, put these internal organs and offal into it, dragged it to the nearby stream, and started washing.

His spirit was better, and he had strength. After washing, he started a fire to boil water and continued processing.

Li Long returned to the wooden house, put down the bag, found firewood, lit both stoves, and while boiling water, boiled mushroom soup.

Fresh straw mushrooms and black tiger-palm mushrooms were sliced and thrown into the water. After boiling for a while, a rich mushroom smell wafted out.

In his previous life, Li Long also liked digging for wild mushrooms. In the large gully east of the village, there were reed mushrooms, which could also grow quite large, the largest growing to about one kilogram. They could be dug in spring, early summer, and autumn. When dug, they were fresh and stir-fried that day. When he got tired of eating them, he would slice them and dry them.

When there were no mushrooms, these dried mushrooms could be soaked in water and stir-fried in various ways. When Li Long was lazy, he would put some in when boiling instant noodles, and the taste was very good.

Letting it boil in the water, he took out the gun cloth from the small room, spread it out, and began to slowly wipe the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

After wiping the gun and tidying up, he removed the fire under the stove and began to put seasonings into the mushroom soup. While waiting, he went to the small bedroom and took out a basket.

In the basket were the steamed bun pieces dried earlier.

There were no refrigerators at this time. To save time, locals usually steamed buns in two or three layers at once, more than a dozen or twenty large buns. These buns were prone to mold spots if left out, so what to do? The locals started drying bun pieces. Breaking the buns into pieces and putting them in a basket, they would be dried out under the hot sun in two days.

Easy to store.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 239 =====

"Alright, stop looking. A young man buying these things must be engaged," the older woman next to her comforted her. "You are so pretty and have a good job, isn't it easy to find a partner?"

Li Long hung these items on the handlebars and rode back to the large courtyard.

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Although it was almost time for lunch, he still intended to hurry back home. In this weather, pork couldn't be kept for long.

He also hadn't expected to hit a wild boar so quickly.

If he had known, he would have delayed hunting by a day.

But this kind of thing couldn't be dragged out. What if he waited another day and the herd of wild boars didn't come? Wouldn't that be a wasted effort?

At least there was a harvest from hunting.

Riding all the way home, he arrived just in time for the meal.

Li Jianguo was washing his hands by the well in the courtyard. Seeing Li Long ride into the courtyard, he was quite surprised, and looking at the contents of the large sack, he asked:

"Did you catch something?"

"Caught it. One medium-sized one, two small ones," Li Long said. "The skin was already peeled off, and I was afraid the meat would spoil, so I brought it back immediately."

"You hunt fast enough... things in the mountains are like yours; you go and bring them back..." Du Chunfang was also very surprised. "Are there really that many wild boars?"

"That's not it. I ran into a beekeeper when I went there, and he told me where there were marks of wild boars rooting. I got up early today to wait there, and I caught them."

While explaining, Li Long took down the sack. Li Jianguo had already brought over a large plastic basin. Li Long put the meat in piece by piece, piling it up high.

Li Jianguo pumped water to pour over it, saying as he poured:

"This meat... hey! The meat of a small wild boar is very tender; we'll cook it for dinner!"

Li Qiang had already finished school and ran over to squat by the basin to watch.

Li Long took down the things hanging on both sides of the bicycle handlebars and put them in the spare room.

"I bought liquor, pastries, sugar, and tea leaves," Li Long said. "I bought four bottles of liquor; two will be sent over, and two will be kept at home to drink."

"Fine," Li Jianguo said casually. "The rest is the fish."

Liang Yuemei said while wiping her hands with an apron:

"Dinner is ready, let's eat. We can tidy these up after the meal."

"Good." Li Jianguo greeted Li Long:

"Xiao Long, come over, let's carry the meat into the house, lest a dog comes and snatches it away while we're eating."

"No need, no need!" Du Chunfang said. "I'll just sit at the door and watch, you guys eat."

"Eat together, why must we separate?" Li Jianguo shook his head.

"But I'm short, it's not easy to sit at the table..." Du Chunfang glared at him. "The table at home is a small square table, and you are so tall..."

Li Jianguo smiled embarrassedly. Li Long then said:

"Then I'll take the small square table from the kitchen and put it here. It just so happens that we brought back wood this time, so we can make a few more small square tables; that way, it will be convenient for Juan and Qiangqiang to do their homework later."

"That's true." Li Jianguo also had money in his hands, so naturally, he thought about making life at home better.

Isn't the purpose of earning money just for this?

"Big Brother, should this meat be sent over first? Or we can rub it with salt and put it in the spare room, otherwise it's easy to spoil," Li Long said. "Or we can keep the meat we need, rub it with salt and store it, and deal with the rest this afternoon."

"Fine." Li Jianguo was of the same mind; in the middle of summer, without a refrigerator, there was indeed no way to keep this meat.

"The rest can be boiled, braised, and then cured in the afternoon," Du Chunfang actively offered ideas. "Should we send some to Qiangqiang's grandfather's place?"

"Don't send, don't send." Liang Yuemei shook her head hurriedly upon hearing this. "We can't send it every time..."

"Send some. We can't finish it at home, and it's just sitting there," Li Jianguo said. "Xiao Long is going into the mountains again in a few days, maybe he can get more. Juan's grandfather isn't in very good health either, he needs to be nourished. Xiao Long, what do you think..."

"Send it." Li Long didn't hesitate. "It's just a few steps away."

The matter was settled just like that.

After eating, Li Long went to call Tao Daqiang, and the two of them went to set the nets together. Li Long took the opportunity to carry a wild boar leg and a piece of small wild boar ribs in a bag. After setting the nets, he let Tao Daqiang go back, while he took a shortcut from the Little Haizi side to the Liang family.

The Liang family was not there, but fortunately, Li Long vaguely remembered the location of the Liang family's plot, so he went directly to the Liang family's field and handed the meat to Liang Wenyu.

"Xiao Long, this made you run quite far." Liang Donglou was also a bit surprised. "Did you go into the mountains?"

"Yes," Li Long said. "In two days, I'm getting engaged, so I went into the mountains to hunt a wild boar as a gift."

"You're getting engaged? That's a good thing!" The Liang family was happy for Li Long. "He's grown up, it's time to start a family..."

After Liang Donglou finished sighing, he looked at his own son.

When will this Liang Wenyu be able to find a reliable partner?

(End of chapter)