Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 318 The Mountain Donkey

Chapter 310 Nine Mountain Donkeys
As the night deepened, the wind began to blow in the forest, and the rustling of leaves sounded in the distant forest.

It is still early spring, and the chirping of insects in the mountains and forests has not yet risen. Li Junge listened intently, and there were only the crowing of cuckoos and the cooing of owls.

At two o'clock in the morning, Li Junge, who was getting sleepy, suddenly woke up, feeling that there were eyes in the woods spying on the campsite.

Li Junge's six senses are very sharp now, and sometimes his body will go ahead of his head, forming a subconscious perception.

Two bright lights lit up in the forest a hundred meters away, they were the eyes of a pair of wild animals.

Li Junge raised the muzzle of the small-caliber rifle, but aimed at another dark corner instead of between the eyes, and whispered, "Dude, don't do this."

Then, with Li Junge's sharp ears, he heard the panting in his throat mixed with the sound of wind and leaves in the distance, coming from the darkness.

Li Junge continued: "Let's go, don't force me to turn on the flashlight, I know you are there."

The panting sound continued, and some light spots lit up in the forest again, moving slowly, full of weirdness.

Li Junge held a gun in one hand and said, "Are you sure you really want to play?" With the other hand, he grabbed an oil bottle and sprinkled some on the fire. The flames shot up half a person's height, and the camp suddenly became much brighter.

The panting in the distance stopped, and after a while, the light spots disappeared one by one, and finally only the sound of wind and leaves remained in the woods.

The fire light gradually weakened again, Li Junge sat down again, heaved a sigh of relief, feeling that his vest was a little damp.

After another hour, Uncle Orion came out and said, "Pi Wa, go to bed, I will watch in the middle of the night."

Li Junge said: "A group of things came to the forest over there in the middle of the night, but they have already left now, and they probably won't come again."

Uncle Orion looked at the dark forest and asked, "Red-haired dog?"

Li Junge said: "It should be."

Uncle Orion said: "Then it's okay, that thing is very clever, and it won't come back after it leaves, otherwise it would have been entangled for a long time."

Li Junge said with a smile: "That's fine, then I'll go and put away the shrimp pots and dry them in the middle of the night, and I'll have all the snacks for the next few days."

When I came to the stream to put away the shrimp cages, this one was much more than the one in the evening.

Still baking the small fish on the hay as in the evening, Li Junge said to Uncle Orion: "Then I'm going to rest."

Uncle Orion leaned against the fire with his gun in his arms, waved his hands and said nothing.

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Nothing happened all night, and when I woke up early in the morning, the sun had already entered the camp.

Li Junge got out of the tent, stretched his body, and asked Uncle Orion, "Uncle Orion, it was quite quiet last night!"

Uncle Orion smiled and said: "Well, I said that the red-haired dog will not come back after leaving, try it once, if it doesn't work, immediately leave, this is how they behave!"

Li Junge collected the baked small fish together, sprinkled some red oil, sesame oil, sesame seeds and fine salt, and mixed it into more than two catties of dried fish.

Uncle Pharmacist came over, twisted one and put it in his mouth, said: "Smell! It's really fragrant. It would be great if it was mixed with dried radish and served with rice porridge in the morning, or mixed with peanuts for wine at night!"

The breakfast was simple. Li Junge cooked a big pot of porridge. With the uneaten cakes and dried fish from yesterday, the group ate their fill and continued to set off.

Passing the forest where the wild animals appeared yesterday, Uncle Orion picked up a bunch of red animal hair hanging on a dead branch, and said to Li Junge: "Look, Piwa, they are really red-haired dogs, and now they are shedding their winter hair. "

Wei Wei took Mao over, and said belatedly, "Oh, a jackal came last night? It's still so close to us?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "It's okay, the jackal group is only a dozen or so big, and there are six of us here. They are ghosts and ghosts, so they will not come to do such a laborious thing."

Uncle Orion said: "Hahaha, not only will we live in peace, maybe we can cooperate with each other if we have the opportunity."

Continuing to walk up the forest, Professor Li and Professor Ding collected plant specimens along the way, and they also learned a trick from Uncle Pharmacist, "If you go up the mountain and catch them, you will separate when you camp."

Not long after walking, Professor Li found an interesting plant and said to Li Junge: "Piwa, A Yin likes to grow flowers and plants, and she will definitely like this when she takes it home."

Li Junge went over and saw a strange grass growing on the ground. On the ground was a brown oblate ball, about the size of two bowls. I don’t know if it was a root or a tuber. Thin vines, with small lotus-like leaves on the vines, like green copper coins.

Li Junge laughed heartily when he saw it: "This plant is so interesting! Why is it like the grass growing on a turtle's back?"

Professor Li said with a smile: "It's called 'Money Fishing Turtle'. Many people keep it as a small potted plant! Legend has it that placing it at home can gather wealth."

Uncle Pharmacist also laughed: "What, that name must have been given by you people in the city. We call it 'Mountain Turtle', also known as 'Golden Buchang'. It is also a traditional Chinese medicine. It can clear away heat and poison, reduce swelling and treat malaria."

Li Junge said with a smile: "Never mind it, get it back for Ah Yin to play with!"

Squatting down to dig out the mountain tortoise, Uncle Yaoshi also explained: "This thing is very good at climbing vines, it can compete with loofah, and it needs to be pruned frequently to keep it looking good."

Out of the forest, there is a steep slope in front of you. There are big stones on the slope, covered with lichens and covered with moss, which turns the stones into blue-black. There are fine grasses between the stones, and there are no shrubs. It looks like a cliff that collapsed many, many years ago.

This section of the road was a bit difficult to climb, and everyone began to use their hands and feet again. Uncle Orion reminded everyone to pay attention to their feet from time to time. This kind of terrain is easy to sprain the feet, and second, the feet are easy to slip into the cracks of the rocks and cannot be pulled out. You need to be very careful.

The area here is quite large, and everyone climbed for half an hour before reaching halfway.

Suddenly a red figure appeared on a high rock in front, like a fox, with a big red tail, but with a wide head, wide mouth, short round ears, bulging cheeks, and a ridge between the eyebrows, looking quite energetic.

"Jackal!" Weiwei shouted out, her hands and feet were nimble, and when she raised the camera, it started clicking.

Uncle Orion told everyone to stop, then took off the gun and held it in his hand, and Li Junge did the same.

Uncle Orion gestured for everyone to retreat, and everyone retreated behind a big rock.

Uncle Orion pointed his gun down and said to everyone: "It's okay, they will leave in a while, just wait a bit."

Li Junge explained to the scientific research trio: "Mountain runners will not engage in unnecessary fights with these wild animals, just like encountering snakes, as long as everyone lives in peace and harmony."

After finishing speaking, he smashed his mouth: "Unless you want to eat meat."

The research trio rolled their eyes together.

Uncle Orion smiled and said: "We don't know how to hunt jackals. The meat is not good and the skin is thick, but they are good at catching yellow skins, badgers, and scorpions. It is equivalent to protecting the village in a disguised form." As long as they don't get too close to the village, we won't mess with it."

Then he said: "That was the jackal king just now, I guess the jackals have hunted their prey ahead, Pi Wa, have you seen the blood on the jackal's chest?"

Li Junge nodded and said: "Look at this posture, what kind of wild things are there in such a terrain?"

Uncle Orion said: "That's too much, argali, muntjac, and deer are all possible, but wild boar will not come to this kind of place."

Everyone waited for more than half an hour before Uncle Orion led everyone to move on. When they reached the position just now, the jackal king did not appear again.

Uncle Orion smiled and said, "It looks like I'm leaving, let's go, there must be some meat to eat today!"

Sure enough, when he walked to the location where the jackal appeared just now, he could see a rocky slope, and beside a big rock at the bottom of the slope, a strange hoofed animal fell to death.

The reason why it is called weird is that this animal seems to be a complex of donkey, goat, cow and horse.

The body is short, the limbs are thick, and there is a tuft of long hair between the tail, which is like a donkey.

The head is like a cow, but it has a pair of long donkey ears and a pair of black short horns.

From the root of the horn to the nape of the neck, there is a gray-white mane of more than ten centimeters long, hanging down the neck, which is very obvious, and it looks like a horse.

The hair on the body and tail is black, and the hair on the limbs is auburn above, turning yellowish brown downward.

Li Junge scratched his forehead: "Uncle Orion, what is this? I haven't seen it before."

Uncle Orion said, "This is a mountain donkey."

Weiwei turned on her phone and checked it out, "Its scientific name is Serow."

Li Junge's eyes became straight: "Great mentor?"

This time, everyone around me was overwhelmed.

Weiwei rolled her eyes and handed over the phone: "Look for yourself!"

Li Junge glanced over and said, "Hahaha, it turned out to be an antelope with a mane! Oh, it's still a national second-class protected animal!"

Uncle Orion checked the serow and said, "The cavity is hollowed out. This mountain donkey weighed [-] to [-] catties before it died!"

After speaking, he pointed to his buttocks and said to Weiwei: "Look, it's the mouth that came from here. After dragging out the internal organs to kill him, he tore along the wound and took out the internal organs to eat. This method is just like the jackal king with the jackal They were gangworkers. They were dumped almost before dawn."

Li Junge took out the plug and said, "Anyway, there is meat to eat these two days! By the way, you won't object to eating meat after we untie it?"

Professor Li shook his head again and again: "I don't object, I don't object, they are dead anyway, how does this stuff taste?"

Uncle Orion smashed his mouth and said: "It's almost like veal! Hahaha, I said that I might cooperate with jackals! That's what I'm talking about!"

Wei Wei covered her mouth and smiled, "Uncle Orion is putting gold on our faces! This is no cooperation! It's obviously picking up other people's leftovers!"

Li Junge said: "Who said that! We really cooperate! You will know after watching."

After speaking, he put down the backpack and started skinning with Uncle Orion.

Uncle Orion peeled and said: "Good leather, the skin of the mountain donkey is considered to be the best in the wild, and it is hard! Now there are so few mountain donkeys, the reason is that the meat is good and the skin is good, and it is almost gone after beating."

After untying the skins and tying them into a bundle, the two began to untangle the meat again.

Li Junge took a piece of lean meat along the donkey's back, and a hind leg of the donkey, picked the meat off, put all the herbs in the back basket of Uncle Pharmacist into the back baskets of the two professors, and mixed the hind leg meat and The back willow meat is all packed in.

Uncle Orion disassembled the rest of the mountain donkey into several pieces, then picked strips of meat from several legs and threw them around, stood up and wiped the plugs clean, and said, "It's over! Hahaha, I have to rest early tonight, Everyone, have a good meal!"

Weiwei was surprised and said: "Why are they thrown everywhere! Don't you want any of these?"

(End of this chapter)