Chapter 106

Hares in the mountains generally don't exceed 5 jin at their largest, and after skinning and removing the internal organs, they definitely won't exceed 3 jin!

This stuff has no fat on its whole body. Eating it alone is not good; besides the earthy smell, there is no fragrance at all!

The normal way to eat it is to stew it with pheasant or pork ribs. This stuff stewed with any meat tastes like that meat, and as long as there is oil, it's not tough at all!

Or you need a large amount of various seasonings to cook it, but the actual taste is just the taste of the seasonings! It has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of the hare meat.

Each hare, whether sold for its fur or sold whole, is worth over a yuan, but this kind of snared hare is basically like picking up money for free. Besides, the quantity is quite significant.

This time, the two of them had about 130 snares together. After checking them all, they harvested 36 complete hares!

There were also two that had been eaten by other mountain animals, leaving only a small half. After skinning them, there were only two mouthfuls of meat, which were useless, so they threw them away!

Checking and setting snares took an hour and a half. The two didn't delay, found the place where they had discovered the gazelle hoof prints yesterday, and began to track them with the sled.

Less than half an hour later, Mu Xueli couldn't help but shout from behind, "Brother-in-law, how about we leave the sled here and ride horses to chase them?"

"Let's bypass this section first," Wang An shouted.

At this time, Wang An was also incredibly irritable. In these mountains, driving a sled on the mountain ridge is fine; there are few trees and shrubs.

But driving a sled through the forest is truly damn exhausting!

It's fine where the trees are sparse, but when you hit a large area of shrubs, there's basically no way to go. The gaps left between the shrubs are over a meter high and half a meter wide!

Roe deer or gazelles can pass through just fine, and dogs can too, but horses? Forget it! For a horse pulling a sled to pass through, that's simply a fantasy!

No wonder gazelle meat is so delicious, yet no old hunter would ever track this stuff!

It's hard, damn hard!

Half an hour later, the two finally bypassed this large area of shrubs, only to discover that those many hoof prints had damn disappeared! They had disappeared so magically!

Wang An was at his wit's end, and Mu Xueli was directly dumbfounded!

Looking around, Wang An decided to continue circling back around this shrub area and gave up on the idea of the gazelles!

He had no choice but to give up; the gazelle herd's tracks were gone, and they hadn't gone in the direction of the county at all, or rather, that wolf pack hadn't chased the sheep in the direction of the county!

The two continued on their way, and after another half hour, just as they were about to bypass the road they had decided on earlier, the gazelle marks appeared again!

The two were naturally overjoyed; although there was no harvest, they had a feeling of recovering what was lost.

It turned out the sheep herd hadn't gone far into the shrubs before they all came out; the two had chosen the wrong direction to bypass!

So, the two continued to track and chase the gazelles; neither said any discouraging words about going back!

On the road, there were still all kinds of twists and turns, but the two clearly discovered that the higher they walked, the higher the terrain became, meaning this gazelle herd had already walked toward higher mountain ranges!

However, there were still many wolf paw prints appearing on top of the gazelle hoof prints. He didn't know if this wolf pack was chasing the sheep or if they had discovered the gazelle marks and were tracking them just like Wang An and the others!

In addition, other animal footprints appeared one after another.

Tiger cubs, red dogs (dholes), black bears, yellow-throated martens, etc. It seemed that there were quite a few animals in these mountains eyeing this gazelle herd!

He just didn't know if this black bear was a black bear or a brown bear, but no matter what it was, it made Wang An feel a bit uneasy!

This stuff is no pushover; in Wang An's heart, the shadow it cast was quite significant!

Every time they bypassed a road, they had to search for marks again, but the two weren't without harvest; they picked up two gazelle remains that had been eaten.

This stuff is about the same size as a roe deer, but shorter than a roe deer. The two remains added together only had less than 30 jin of meat left, and they were all legs and spine bones.

The internal organs and the rib meat near the belly had all been eaten.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the two couldn't chase anymore because they were starving, and the horses and dogs couldn't run anymore, so they found a wind-sheltered place to set up the pot, boil water, cook, and feed the horses fodder!

Gazelle meat is better than hare meat, so the two skinned the hares and fed the hare meat to the dogs. The hares were frozen very hard, and skinning them was very exhausting, but this work was all done by Mu Xueli, while Wang An stewed the meat and heated the big cakes!

Any meat frozen hard is very difficult to cut, but Wang An took the skinning knife and fought with the gazelle remains for a long time without being able to do anything to them!

His brain turned, screw it!

Wang An directly found the board axe on the sled!

Aiming at the remains, Wang An bared his teeth and swung the board axe. I have to say, this stuff is damn good for chopping bones!

After a few axe blows, the gazelle remains were dismembered. The places bitten by mountain animals were all chopped off. After chopping, these two remains were left with 6 complete legs, two half-legs, and two incomplete spine bones!

The head and the bloody, messy neck were all thrown away!

Seeing what was left, Wang An was very satisfied, and then he chopped the two half-legs and two incomplete spine bones into small pieces!

He filled more than half the pot with snow, put all the chopped bones and meat in, added salt and chili powder, covered the pot, and put it on the fire to stew!

He originally wanted to cut some small pieces to roast, but after comparing with the skinning knife for a long time and then looking at the board axe, he finally gave up helplessly!

Mu Xueli, who had finished feeding the dogs, opened his mouth from the side: "Brother-in-law, how about we just roast them whole like this."

Wang An rolled his eyes at his brother-in-law and said, "How long would that take to roast? Are we still going to work? We'll talk about it tonight!"

"We're not going back tonight?" Hearing this, Mu Xueli said excitedly.

"What? In this freezing cold weather, is it fun to hide in the mountains for a night?" Wang An asked helplessly, rolling his eyes.

"Yeah, how stimulating!" Mu Xueli said excitedly.

"You're different from other people!" Wang An said.

"Hehehe."

The food Wang An brought into the mountains was still cornmeal cakes. There was only that much white flour at home, and even if it was two-mix flour steamed buns, he couldn't get enough!

Every time Wang An saw these cakes frozen stiff and scratching his throat when eating, he felt that a happy life was far away from him!

It's not that people are bad, or that people are crazy, but this stuff going down the throat is really uncomfortable!

It's the feeling of a file filing your throat; every swallow files it, not missing a single one!

Stewing gazelle bones, roasting big cakes, the brother-in-law and brother-in-law were already starving!

Wang An suddenly remembered there was something good in the sack on the sled: a pot of loose liquor!

He had forgotten to drink it after filling it yesterday; it was truly shitty!

But fortunately, he forgot yesterday, so he could drink a few more mouthfuls today!

He got up to find it on the sled, returned to the campfire, unscrewed the lid, and gulped down a mouthful!

Oh my god, that burning feeling, it was like a ball of fire drilling into his stomach, and his whole body immediately felt warm. It was truly damn satisfying!

"Xueli, do you want a sip?" Wang An remembered his brother-in-law after he was satisfied.

"Liquor?" Mu Xueli was also a bit excited.

"Yeah, sorghum burn, one mouthful goes straight to the top of your head!" Wang An said with a smile while handing over the liquor pot.

Mu Xueli naturally liked this spicy taste too, took it, and drank a big mouthful, constantly spitting out hot air from the spiciness!

Actually, there really aren't many Northeast men who don't like liquor!

In this freezing cold weather, have a couple of sips! That taste, that feeling, is simply the ultimate enjoyment!

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