Chapter 531: You will become a legend

When the sun was about to set, Talihar and the other young men said goodbye and walked toward their winter den with their guns on their backs.

He was a bit frustrated; after Yu Shanjiang finished speaking yesterday, he started looking for traces of wild beasts after returning to the vicinity of the winter den, but found nothing.

Actually, Talihar usually knew there was a group of wild goats nearby, on the mountain not far from the winter den. That mountain was very steep, and wolves and foxes were very difficult to climb up.

These wild goats ate grass on the mountainside or the top of the mountain, came down to drink water at a fixed time every day, and after drinking, returned to the mountain along the small paths they stepped on.

When Talihar was young, he once climbed up along those small paths, but slipped down halfway; it was too steep, and he felt that people couldn't climb up at all.

It was almost straight up and down, and he didn't know how those goats climbed up.

Wild goats usually move in groups on the mountainside. There were no forests on that mountain, only relatively sparse shrubs, and weeds growing under the shrubs. These wild goats fed on these weeds and the tender leaves of the shrubs.

Originally Talihar felt that hunting a wild goat was a sure thing, but after returning yesterday, he waited until dark, and the wild goats didn't appear.

He got up very early this morning, waited for nearly two hours at the stream at the foot of the mountain, but didn't wait for them either.

Could it be that the wild goats had already left this area?

Seeing other herdsmen either hunting roe deer or picking up jade, Talihar was a bit anxious.

His own grass slope had already been cut halfway, so he couldn't let others work for him for nothing, right?

If his old man knew, he would beat him.

Kazakh people are like the eagles in the sky, clear about love and hate. If you receive someone else's favor, you must know how to repay it.

He brought twenty bullets, which should be enough to hunt two wild goats. He heard Ha Li Mu say that the skins of two wild goats or roe deer, or a deer skin, were enough for the grass-cutting money.

Talihar felt it wasn't enough; how could it be enough?

Last year, he came down to cut grass with his old man. Their family's three hillsides, over a hundred mu of pasture, took a full month to cut.

Getting up early every day to gnaw on dry naan, gnawing on dry naan at noon, gnawing on dry naan at night. Although it was cool in the mountains in the morning and evening, the sun was scorching during the day, which was uncomfortable!

The scythe last year was new, and it was also sent by this Li Long, which was much easier to use than the previous ones. But swinging a scythe for over a month, his arms couldn't take it either. Talihar felt his arms had grown a circle thicker.

What can he do? He must cut more grass, otherwise, the cattle and sheep would have nothing to eat in winter and would starve to death.

Cattle, sheep, and felt tents are everything to Kazakhs, and none can be missing.

Talihar never thought that cutting grass could be such a simple and convenient way.

If he went back and told his old man, his old man would definitely say it's impossible!

Two people's pasture for a month, cut in two days by a tractor with a grass cutter, and it was cleaner and neater than what people cut!

In the eyes of the older generation, this is unimaginable!

Therefore, he must hunt that wild goat as his thank-you gift.

Talihar flicked his whip, and the date-red horse that lived with him day and night knew the master's meaning and accelerated toward the winter den.

Arriving at the winter den, Talihar unloaded the saddle, tied up the horse, drank water, gave grass, and walked toward the mountain in the south with his gun on his back.

The mountain was still that steep, he looked carefully at the foot of the mountain, and then found several clear hoof prints, as well as sheep droppings.

It seems the wild goats were still there, but the time they came down the mountain was not the two periods he was guarding.

He tried to climb up, but still couldn't climb up.

It was too steep, and he slipped down after a few steps.

The stone crevices that the wild goat's hooves could step on, Talihar's shoes couldn't grip at all.

He had to continue looking for places to go up at the foot of the mountain.

Walking nearly a kilometer away from the winter den, the mountain here was not so steep, although it was still not easy to climb, but it looked barely climbable.

Talihar carried his gun, passed through the shrubs and climbed up. Climbing up a hundred meters, the mountain became steep again, not easy to go up, he could only walk horizontally, hoping to find a suitable place.

However, walking horizontally for dozens of meters, there was still no suitable position, seeing the sun had set, the sky had darkened, Talihar had to slowly go down the mountain and return to the winter den.

Simply washed, lying on the wooden kang, Talihar was still thinking about how to climb the mountain.

The wild goats must be on the mountain, he couldn't guard them at the foot of the mountain, so he could only go up the mountain to find them.

The prey he could find nearby was just this wild goat. He had seen red deer and roe deer appear further away before, but those animals only passed by occasionally, unlike this wild goat, which lived here.

Talihar thought and thought, and really came up with an idea.

Hurry up and sleep, try it tomorrow morning!

The sky darkened, and Li Long had already driven the tractor back to the wooden house long ago.

He first hung the roe deer's whip and head in the small room. This thing is still quite useful.

Roe deer meat is ultimately better to eat than wolf meat. However, eating too much of this thing is also uncomfortable, some people say that the Han people's stomach is suitable for omnivorous, can't just eat meat, and can't just eat plants (grass), so it needs to be taken into account.

When he came back, the sky wasn't dark yet, the sun still had half a face exposed in the west, so he hurriedly went to the nearby forest to get some wild mushrooms.

No way, at present, wild mushrooms are the only things that are easy to get, wild onions, wild garlic, wild leeks are all out of season, and even if he can get them, they are only the ones below, there are basically no green ones above. Fortunately, there is a water source at the spring, and he can still pinch a few wild celery that grew later, he washed them very preciously and planned to stir-fry them.

Cold salad mushrooms, stir-fried wild celery, the vegetables for tomorrow morning will be there.

As for others, if he looks for them on a large scale, he can actually find them, for example, digging some Codonopsis and cutting it can also be eaten, but August is not the best season for Codonopsis, October is.

Just make do.

When he came back in the afternoon, he ate meat at Ha Li Mu's place, and when he came back, he just cut half a bun and roasted it, added some fermented bean curd and chili sauce to change the taste.

Tired for a day, go to bed.

Early the next morning, according to yesterday's plan, cold salad mushrooms, stir-fried wild celery—this thing still needs more oil and more meat, and can't be stir-fried until old, otherwise it will be like eating rope.

Roasted bun slices plus rice porridge, this meal is not bad!

After eating, Li Long went to Ha Li Mu's side, and when he arrived, he found that there was only Ha Li Mu here, skinning a half-grown red deer.

Male deer.

The male roe deer yesterday brought not only meat, but also horns and whips. The red deer today is the same.

Knowing that Li Long wanted to collect this thing, Ha Li Mu had already cut it off for him and put it aside.

Li Long rubbed it with salt and hung it up first.

"Did they not come?" Li Long asked, "Got up late today?"

"No, Talihar got a dozen wild goats, he couldn't handle it alone, so he ran over to call people for help."

"What? A dozen wild goats?" Li Long was startled, "Did he hunt the wild goat herd?"

"Something like that?" Ha Li Mu didn't know much, Talihar was panting when he came over, and didn't explain clearly, just called people, saying the more the better.

Yu Shanjiang and the others rode horses and followed.

This red deer was hunted by Yu Shanjiang this morning, originally there were big deer, but he didn't hunt them.

That big deer was too vigilant, heard the movement and smelled the scent, and ran into the forest early, this half-grown male red deer was not vigilant enough, had a big playfulness, and then fell under Yu Shanjiang's gun.

This half-grown male red deer actually weighed forty or fifty kilograms, quite a physique, but in the red deer herd, it was a teenager.

Ha Li Mu skinned it quickly, and after skinning, started to open the belly to process the internal organs. They didn't eat internal organs, but knew Li Long ate them, so they left the internal organs to Li Long.

Li Long didn't be formal either, this thing is actually the fattest part of the deer, otherwise how could those wolves and leopards drink blood and then hollow out the internal organs to eat after catching a deer?

It's nothing more than high oil content and high calories. He was very curious about how Talihar got a dozen wild goats, but those people didn't come back, so he had no way to ask.

Nothing to do, first built a stove with stones nearby, then set up a pot and started to boil the internal organs.

As for the stomach and intestines, they were washed directly at the stream. Now the sun is rising, the weather is hot, and washing in the stream is not very cool. After washing, rinse with warm water, and you can put it directly into the pot.

Ha Li Mu unloaded the deer meat, trimmed out twenty-odd kilograms of net meat, and the remaining bones were unloaded and tossed into the large pot to boil.

A lot of air-dried meat was made yesterday, and today he planned to boil all these bones.

As for these net meat, he planned to learn from Li Long, directly cut the suet in the belly and preserve it, so that it can be stored for a long time.

Of course, according to Ha Li Mu, these preserved meat and oil will all be taken away by Li Long after they finish cutting grass.

Li Long didn't agree.

There are still old people and children at the herdsmen team's station down the mountain, if he takes the things away, what is that?

However, if Talihar really got a dozen wild goats, then there is no need to argue. Just this meat, preserved, let alone one or two families, five or six families are enough.

When Ha Li Mu started to preserve meat with the small pot in the winter den, the sound of horse hooves rang out, and a group of herdsmen rode over, talking and laughing while running.

Look, there really are wild goats on every horse's back, some are one, some are two.

!.

Talihar was surrounded by everyone, he was still a bit embarrassed, the first time as the central figure in the tribe, the young man was not very used to it.

Of course, there was still a bit of pride in his expression.

This record is worth being proud of.

When they arrived in front of the winter den and piled the wild goats into a large pile, Li Long had a rough guess after looking.

Then listening to Talihar's narration, he truly knew the specific situation.

It can be considered that Talihar's luck slot was full, and he exploded a big one.

Early this morning, he climbed up when the sky was just bright, drank a bowl of cold water, grabbed a piece of dry naan, and walked out of the winter den while gnawing.

Walking to the place where he climbed halfway yesterday, he carried the gun on his back, climbed up again, and when he couldn't climb up anymore, he started looking for a suitable position.

There were quite a few shrubs nearby, most of them had thorns, a few didn't, he found one without thorns, pulled the root of the shrub, climbed up, and then stepped on the branches of the shrub.

One or two shrub branches couldn't support it, fortunately, these shrubs were in large clusters, which could withstand it.

Then he stepped on this cluster of shrubs, looking for other footholds.

Just looking for it slowly left and right, stepping on it, relying on these shrubs, he really climbed to the top of the mountain.

The sun had already revealed its head, Talihar knew his time was running out, if he delayed for a while, Ha Li Mu's side would start work.

He walked quickly on the top of the mountain, looking for the traces of wild goats, and he really found them in a while!

A group of wild goats, more than twenty, were lying in the shrubs on the mountainside. These wild goats should have eaten grass early in the morning, drank water down the mountain, and now their stomachs were full, lying here ruminating.

The top of the mountain is very safe, wolves and bears can't come up, there are no natural enemies, they basically have no awareness of prevention, until Talihar was close to thirty meters, they panicked, got up one by one, ran back and called, following a head goat with very long horns to find a way to live.

Talihar chased the flock of sheep with his gun, looking for the timing to fire. There were many shrubs, his marksmanship was not very accurate, so he didn't want to waste bullets, just wanted the flock to reach a suitable position, and then he would fire.

Didn't expect that his running scared the flock, the head goat panicked and rushed down along the road where it originally went down the mountain to drink water.

The sheep behind followed one after another and ran down, Talihar watched them run down the mountain, how could he be willing? He ran directly to the top of this group of wild goats and pulled the trigger at the one at the very back.

"Bang!"

The huge sound echoed in the valley, the wild goat was hit in the back and rolled down directly, hitting several companions.

The sound of the gun also scared the wild goats, these animals are timid, now that they met an enemy, they were even more panicked, the sound of the gun made them even more shocked, one by one speeded up, plus this sheep that fell, and then the flock exploded!

One wild goat after another rolled and fell down the mountain, like rolling a snowball, the wild goats that were originally walking steadily in front were hit by the ones behind, their bodies were unstable and they became rolling gourds, one after another falling down!

Some with good balance could roll and get up, most rolled faster and faster, some hit stones and some hit shrubs, some could be blocked by shrubs to slow down the downward momentum, others basically rolled down all the way, and by the time they fell to the foot of the mountain, basically all had fractures.

This group of wild goats had seven or eight scattered in other positions, not hit, safely ran to the foot of the mountain, and then panicked and ran into the nearby forest, disappearing.

Talihar watched this change, his mouth opened wide, until he saw the head goat with fractures struggling to get up and wanting to escape, only then did he remember and hurriedly wanted to go down.

He still couldn't walk the road the sheep walked, he could only return along the original road. By the time he returned to the foot of the mountain, several wild goats with fractures but not very heavy had already scattered and ran out for dozens of meters.

Talihar raised his gun to shoot, but finally put down the gun, then chased after them, and used a knife to cut their throats one by one to bleed them.

Looking at the dozen wild goats in front of him, he was both proud and worried, thought for a moment, and finally decided to go to Ha Li Mu's winter den to find help.

Otherwise, he couldn't bring these wild goats back by himself.

However, afraid that wolves would grab them, he dragged these wild goats into the circle next to his winter den, which served as a small protection.

Of course, how much it can protect is hard to say.

Fortunately, the gun rang here, animals in the mountains usually retreat three feet when they hear this sound.

As for the following things, everyone knows.

"Seventeen in total," Yu Shanjiang said with a smile, "Really didn't expect, Talihar made a big one this time. There are too many things, and it's not easy to clean up."

"Simple." Li Long had already thought about it, "You guys skin them first, I'll drive the tractor back to bring my two large pots over. You guys process them here, and two or three people go with me to the pasture to cut grass."

Li Long knew that their hunting was actually to provide skins for himself, so he needed to cut the grass well.

The matter was settled. Li Long drove the tractor to bring the large pots over, others were skinning wild goats here, mainly air-drying.

Of course, in order to make the most of it, the trimmed meat had to be preserved, so that it could be stored for a long time. When leaving, everyone could take some, those who didn't want to take it could leave it to Li Long, or leave it to Ha Li Mu, Yu Shanjiang's family.

Yu Shanjiang patted Talihar on the shoulder and said with a smile:

"Powerful, Talihar, you are the most powerful hunter among us! Hunting more than a dozen wild goats at once, our tribe has never had such a record from the past to the present!

This time, you will become a legend of our tribe!"

Talihar was both excited and proud listening to Yu Shanjiang's words, he didn't expect that his move just to thank Li Long would have such a great significance!

Others also surrounded Talihar, praising his behavior.

After all, even if there was a fluke, no one could hunt so much prey at once.

Tell the old people, the old people might not believe it!

"Alright, one sheep per person, start skinning. There is still a lot of work today." Yu Shanjiang, as the elder among these people, said when he saw Talihar was a bit unnatural, "Don't do anything else today, process these sheep clean first."

So everyone took out their knives and started processing these wild goats.

Because it was obtained by hunting, because these skins were for Li Long, they had no psychological burden when processing them.

Li Long drove the tractor *tut-tut-tut*, sent the two large pots over. Several stoves were built with stones outside, and after the pots came, poured water, and started processing.

Li Long not only brought pots, but also brought salt and halogen materials. They didn't eat those internal organs, Li Long planned to halogen them first, and then take them down when going down to add diesel tomorrow or the day after.

Anyway, they are all good things, can't be wasted, these things are put down the mountain, they are all scrambled to eat! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 532 =====