Chapter 367: A Good Catch in the Middle of the Night!

Li Long finally retreated from the pile of loose stones. It was too difficult to walk inside, and there were too many stones. He didn't know which stone might be hiding the fierce lynx behind it. If he let this thing scratch him again, he might not be able to take it.

Walking out of the pile of loose stones, Li Long looked back inside. Although he was a bit unwilling, he also knew that with his current skills, it wasn't the time to catch this thing. When he went back, he would get some traps, explosives, or something, or make preparations in advance, and then he could have a go at it.

He came excitedly, but felt a bit dispirited when returning. Li Long felt that his ability was still insufficient, and he lacked hunting experience and experience. Otherwise, if he really ran into this kind of thing, he would definitely not let it run away.

It was past two o'clock when he walked back to the cabin. The sky, which had been clear for many days, now had clouds drifting from the west. Not long after, they turned into dark clouds, and it started to snow.

Li Long had sufficient food and meat in the cabin, so he wasn't worried. Taking advantage of the snowing time, he brought the other two wolf heads to the front of the cabin and made two more wolf head platforms. He had originally wanted to make a wolf head Jingguan, but thought, forget it, it was too creepy and not good.

After freezing these two wolf heads as well, Li Long returned to the cabin and started to make his afternoon meal. The wild boar bones he boiled yesterday were still there. He heated the bone soup with meat, cut some potatoes, carrots, and an onion into it. After the meat soup boiled for a while, he poked it with chopsticks and saw that the potatoes were already tender, so he scooped a large bowl, took some naan left by Halimu and the others, soaked it in, and ate it beautifully.

After finishing one bowl, it wasn't enough, so Li Long ate another bowl, and only then did he feel satisfied and tidy up.

At first, it was light snow outside, but soon the snowflakes became larger, and then the wind picked up, blowing the snowflakes around. Even staying in the cabin, he could hear the howling wind outside.

It was big and urgent.

Staying in the room with nothing to do, Li Long now somewhat regretted not bringing the radio over.

If he had a radio, he could at least listen to a program—but with such heavy snow, he didn't know if there was a signal.

Of course, that was just a thought. Fortunately, he had brought a few books when he came this time. Li Long opened a copy of "Seven Heroes and Five Gallants" and started reading.

This book was quite popular for a long time in later generations, mainly because the TV series "Justice Bao" was very popular, which also drove this novel. After all, "Seven Heroes and Five Gallants" was derived from "Three Heroes and Five Gallants" at the beginning. Southern Hero Zhan Zhao, Northern Hero Ouyang Chun, Ding Brothers combined—at first, when Li Long heard about this novel, he thought the three heroes referred to Southern Hero, Northern Hero, and Little Hero Ai Hu. Later, he found out he was wrong.

The five gallants naturally didn't change much, but the TV series told it differently, and the ending also changed. Li Long only vaguely remembered it now.

It was snowing outside, and the sky was a bit dim, so Li Long lit the oil lamp and leaned against the head of the bed to read.

He had read this book before, so he didn't start from the beginning. He flipped through it and saw Bao Gong accepting Gongsun Ce, so he started reading from there.

The sky darkened unknowingly, and the wind outside seemed to have stopped. The dark clouds didn't seem so thick either. As far as he could see, those three wolf head platforms were still mounds, and that pile of wolf internal organs couldn't be seen clearly.

Li Long simply lifted the window paper to make a larger opening, letting the cold wind outside blow in, taking away the turbid atmosphere in the room.

A chill blew over, and Li Long shivered and hid to the side. He wasn't wearing thick clothes, so he couldn't take facing this cold wind directly.

The light of the oil lamp flickered because of the cold wind, stretching and shrinking for a while, and the shadows of things were also changing, which was quite strange.

Even though Li Long was quite bold, feeling like this made him feel a bit hairy in his heart.

Not long after, the air in the room became fresh. He immediately put down the window paper, covered his hands, and toasted them by the stove.

He was a bit hungry, but not very serious. Li Long took a mantou and sliced it, fixed the stove lid, added a grate on top, took two mantou slices and rubbed them, and rubbed the mantou crumbs into the bowl—otherwise, the mantou crumbs on the stove lid would burn and turn black in a while, which was wasteful and smelled bad.

After rubbing all one mantou and placing it well, he poured some water into the bowl, shook it, shook the mantou crumbs evenly, and drank it in one gulp.

He took out another piece of red bean curd and placed it in the bowl. Li Long intended to eat it sandwiched later.

It was a pity he didn't get some chili sauce in the summer, otherwise, it would be more comfortable to eat now. But in fact, most people now dried the chili peppers they couldn't finish into chili skins, and rarely made sauce. This was too expensive for staple food, and there wasn't that much oil.

Of course, this wasn't a problem for the Li family. Not just chili sauce, Li Long was also thinking about whether to get some meat in the summer and make some chili meat sauce. He didn't demand such high quality for himself; it was fine as long as it was delicious.

After all, it was all home-cooked flavor.

After the mantou slices were cooked, Li Long took them down one by one and placed them in a mantou tray made of sorghum stalks. This mantou tray made of sorghum stalks had six corners and was made by Liang Wenyu when she was free, which was quite practical.

Picking up a piece of mantou slice and dipping it in red bean curd to eat, Li Long didn't feel satisfied after finishing it. He thought for a while and went to the corner of the room, where there was a small covered basin containing pickled vegetables brought from home.

Pickled vegetables couldn't see oil. Li Long used a pair of clean chopsticks to scoop out a carrot, two cowpeas, a chili pepper, and a piece of ginger, then covered the basin again.

Pickled vegetables were best stir-fried with oil. If there was no time to stir-fry, it was also fine to cut them into shreds and splash them with hot oil.

But Li Long didn't want to do it now. He rinsed the foam on the pickled vegetables with warm water, and then directly picked them up with chopsticks and ate them with the burnt mantou slices, which was also quite good.

The pickled vegetables were crisp and refreshing, which made Li Long's appetite open up instantly. Seeing that one mantou wasn't enough, he went to cut a mantou and found that there were only two mantou left.

He had to ferment some dough.

Li Long cut a mantou and toasted it on the stove, while he picked up the basin, scooped a bowl of flour, broke the old dough head into pieces and put it in the basin, and poured water to knead the dough.

When kneading the dough, he also looked at the mantou slices on the stove from time to time. After turning them over, he toasted them for a while and then picked them up and placed them in the mantou tray.

After the dough was kneaded, the mantou slices were ready, and next was waiting for the dough to ferment and steam the mantou.

This would have to wait until tomorrow.

After Li Long finished eating, the room was tidied up, the stove was banked, a teapot full of water was placed on top, and then he went out to pee. Seeing that the snow had stopped, the clouds in the sky had a tendency to disperse.

He couldn't fall asleep for a while, so he continued reading, and after more than an hour, he washed up, blew out the lamp, and went to sleep.

In the middle of the night, Li Long was woken up by thirst. Pickled vegetables had this disadvantage: they were thirsty. After climbing up, he didn't light the lamp, took a teapot from the stove, poured a bowl of water, drank it in big gulps, felt unsatisfied, drank another bowl, and only then felt better, lay down, and continued to sleep.

However, not long after falling asleep, he was woken up by the urge to pee again. Seeing that the sky wasn't very bright, he looked at the watch, it was past six, and Li Long didn't want to get up, but his bladder couldn't take it, so he had to climb up and go out to pee.

Knowing it was very cold outside, Li Long put on his pants, threw on an outer coat, opened the door, and walked out.

Walking out of the wooden floor area, of course, he couldn't pee in the yard. He turned around and came to the north side of the cabin. Just as he was about to pee, he heard a fluttering sound not far away. Li Long turned his head and looked. At the wolf head platform, a dark thing was jumping vigorously!

Li Long was so scared that his pee almost held back, but at this time, peeing was more important. He took another look and saw that the figure was smaller than a wolf. Wouldn't it be that unlucky fox again?

Li Long peed for a full minute before finishing, shook it off satisfactorily, put it away, and tied his pants. He intended to go over and see what that thing was.

However, no matter what it was, Li Long didn't intend to let it go—the same for the fox. After all, he had let it go once. If it dared to come again, it really wasn't him not giving face. Walking closer, Li Long was startled—wasn't this the lynx he ran into during the day? Why did this guy run here again?

Looking at the traces in the snow, Li Long understood a bit—this guy came to steal food again.

Maybe it felt that hunting was inconvenient in this heavy snow, so it ran here again to eat cheap food?

It was a pity that when it scraped away the snow and intended to gnaw on the wolf's internal organs, it also scraped away the iron wire snare, and then it was caught.

The firewood connected to the iron wire snare was now frozen hard. Although this lynx was stronger than the fox, it couldn't break free for a while.

However, it was hard to say after a long time. After all, it was just a few strands of thin iron wire twisted together. Li Long could basically be certain that as long as he didn't discover it, this guy would probably be able to break the thin iron wire and escape before dawn!

Seeing Li Long approaching, the lynx bared its sharp teeth to threaten, lowered its body, and made a pouncing action at any time, which made Li Long have reservations. This guy was quite fierce!

He hurriedly turned around and ran into the room, picked up the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, disengaged the safety while running, and chambered a round.

That lynx saw Li Long take out the weapon and was suddenly a bit anxious, struggling desperately, scratching with its claws, biting with its teeth, and pulling hard, wanting to break free from the iron wire snare.

Li Long rushed to the front, almost holding the rifle against the lynx's head, and pulled the trigger when it was preparing to pounce!

This fierce feline animal died under Li Long's gun.

Two blood holes on its head spurted blood, and its body collapsed, no longer moving.

!.

Li Long stepped forward and kicked it, seeing that this lynx was dead. Li Long looked left and right and didn't find anything else, so he bent down and untied the snare. He didn't expect that this thing could still hang things; it was really luck!

Holding the lynx in his left hand and the rifle in his right, Li Long returned to the cabin happily.

The sleepiness was completely gone. This lynx pelt was much more valuable than wolf pelt, and he hadn't eaten lynx meat either. Today, he would take a good look.

Li Long took the teapot off the stove, lit the oil lamp, added coal to the stove, set the pot to boil water, and then took the knife and started to clean the lynx.

The lynx's golden fur, its size smaller than a wolf and larger than a fox, even if it was dead, looked fierce. Li Long hesitated with the knife in his hand, actually feeling a bit excited and not daring to start.

This wasn't a deer pelt or wolf pelt worth a few dozen yuan; it was worth several hundred! If he didn't peel it well, wouldn't he lose a lot of money?

Thinking about it, he laughed again. He was really ignorant! He was at least a ten-thousand-yuan household now, and he still had this worry?

Peel it!

Habitually using the knife to make a cut at the joint of the lynx's right hind leg, he removed the lynx's lower leg, then with the blade facing up, picked up the skin of the right hind thigh, and slid it toward the groin, and the skin was easily separated.

Skinning is best done by two people, with one person pulling the leg and stretching, and the other person easy to skin. It's not easy to use force by one person, so it's easy for a novice to peel the skin.

Fortunately, Li Long was used to it, and every time it was himself, now it wasn't worse than one.

After the hind leg skin was peeled, he cut a line on the abdomen and chest, peeled the skin to both sides, be careful at the beginning, don't bring meat, and don't cut it. After a palm-sized skin was peeled, he could pull the skin down with one hand and slide it with the other. A skilled person doesn't need to be careful at all, skillfully sliding the knife and pulling the skin between the skin and meat, and a large piece was peeled off soon.

Li Long was such a skilled person. He was nervous before peeling, but didn't care much when peeling.

Isn't it just a piece of skin?

Although it was obtained by luck, it was his own gain, right?

The whole skin was peeled off without any problems. Li Long spread it out after rubbing salt on it and looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction. Well, not bad.

Next was gutting.

He hadn't eaten lynx internal organs and didn't intend to eat them—he didn't know if they could be eaten.

Of course, the meat should be fine. After Li Long gutted it, he put all the internal organs in a basin, then opened the door, and poured the internal organs of this thing in the place where the wolf internal organs were.

The snares were all set up well. Li Long felt that this trick was actually quite good. It was quite good at attracting animals!

The lynx meat was removed and placed in the small room one by one. Li Long saw that the east side had already revealed a fish-belly white.

Wanting to sleep was unlikely. After washing his hands, the dough had fermented, and he could steam mantou.

It was really a life of toil!

Li Long first cleaned the room, wiped the blood spots on the floor clean, and then started kneading the dough to steam mantou.

He also had to leave a piece of dough head to prepare for the next steaming of mantou.

After kneading the mantou, he put it in the cage to steam, looked at the time, and then Li Long continued to clean the room.

The door was open, and the bloody smell drifted out, making the room cleaner, and then it was cleaning the snow on the wooden floor at the door.

The snow was more than ten centimeters thick, but it shouldn't be prepared, because the wind blew quite hard last night, and some places were blown thick by the wind, and some places were thin.

Going down the mountain would be quite troublesome, but in this weather, hunting after dawn should be relatively convenient.

If it also snowed in the village, this weather should be quite good for chasing rabbits.

Li Long was thinking wildly while sweeping the snow. He swept the snow on three sides of the cabin and swept a path to the spring, and only then did he come back.

The sky light slowly began to brighten, a red light appeared in the east, and the sun was about to rise. Li Long went to fetch two buckets of water, and when he came back, the newly steamed mantou was ready.

Everyone's skill points are different. Li Long knows how to steam mantou and learns very quickly, but he practiced pulling noodles for a long time. He is also not very good at steaming rice in a pot.

The mantou is large and white, fluffy, and looks and feels very good, and it tastes good too. Although he doesn't use much alkali, the one steamed with this dough head smells very fragrant.

After taking the mantou one by one and placing them on the table, he brushed the cage, washed the pot with the water, and this breakfast was relatively easy to handle.

First, scoop the pickled vegetables, rinse them with water, cut them into shreds, and then go to the small room to get a small piece of lynx meat.

The meat wasn't frozen hard, so it was just right for cutting. After cutting, he stir-fried it directly in the pot—stir-fried pickled vegetables with meat, with new mantou, that feeling, too good!

Of course, add a bowl of corn flour porridge, perfect.

If there was a salted duck egg, perfect score.

It's okay now.

If Gu Xiaoxia was also there, that would be perfect. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 368 =====

If Gu Xiaoxia were also here, that would be perfect. (End of chapter)