hunting in 1986

Chapter 141 140 fungus, two ginseng
The rain outside the window kept falling, crackling~ slowly the wind direction began to change, and the house became much quieter when the heavy rain stopped beating the windows.

Wang Yuan was lying on the kang with his overcoat on and fell asleep. After a long time, he heard a mess of voices and woke up in a daze.

It turned out that Zhang Qian, the younger sister-in-law, had come over.

She has neat short hair, slender cheeks, and bright eyes. She has been pregnant for several months, but her belly is not very big.

"Brother woke up, don't you know me?" Zhang Qian smiled beautifully.

Beautiful is beautiful, but the fights are also very ruthless, because the two families are separated by a wooden stick, so they can hear clearly every time Zhang Qian and Wang Meng fight, wailing, just like the one who fights wolves.

"When did you come here?"

"I just came here for a while, and your color TV looks good. People are all in color, unlike my gray and white TV, where everything is gray."

Li Yan and Zhang Qian picked up the beans very quickly, and soon the dustpan was full of beans.

Chatting casually about homework, Wang Yuan even put his coat on the little girl who was sleeping soundly beside him, and then stretched out his hands to stroke two big white cats lying on Li Yan's lap.

"Meow~"

The fat big white cat looked very warm. She let out a soft cry, stood up and stretched herself, then jumped onto the window sill, squatted there and looked at the rain flowers outside the window, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Is Mengzi still working at the forest farm?"

"Yes, he said that their leaders are very optimistic about him, and they may raise it after a while, and then they can get more than ten yuan a month."

Zhang Qian's tone was full of happiness, and she could do a lot more with more than ten yuan a month.

"Very good, by the way, how much money does Mengzi earn every month now?"

"72 yuan and 5 yuan. During the Chinese New Year and holidays, some things are given out, and sometimes money is given back. This is not the case when I was given 100 yuan during the Chinese New Year last year. Alas, his rank is low. Some old workers got more than 200 yuan."

"That's pretty good."

Zhang Qian played for more than an hour before leaving. When she left, Li Yan asked her to take some beans with her so that she could go back and grow bean sprouts.

Because of the dark clouds, it got dark very early.

Li Yan went to the kitchen to cook, while Wang Yuan woke up the sleeping little girl: "Little girl, wake up and go to sleep after eating. Now I sleep too much and won't be sleepy after eating."

"Oh, it's getting dark?"

The little girl got up from the kang, and the big white cat rubbed her head.

Wang Yuan went to the kitchen to cook with Li Yan, jingling~ occasionally there was the sound of hot oil, and the little girl herself was playing with the big white cat on the kang, giggling from time to time.

Not long after, dinner was prepared, and the little girl was called to serve the meal together, and soon the three of them sat around the kang table and began to eat.

“Fried pork with fungus is delicious.”

The little girl ate the fried meat with black fungus in big mouthfuls, her mouth was stained with oil.

"I found these fungus after it rained last time. Get up early tomorrow, let's go find fungus together." Li Yan smiled and picked up vegetables for the little girl.

"Looking for fungus? Okay, okay."

There was nothing to say all night, the next day the little girl really woke up very early, and when she woke up, she started making all kinds of noises to find the fungus.

The little girl was startled, and quickly hid behind Li Yan for protection: "Sister-in-law, save me!"

"Okay, okay, it's going to be noisy early in the morning, stop making noise, get dressed and let's go find fungus."

Li Yan dressed the little girl, and then the three of them left the house and started looking for it from their own wooden sticks.

The three of them started looking along one side of the stick, and soon found a large piece of fungus.

The wild fungus is brown, a little transparent, layered on top of each other like pieces of small ears, big and small, and the three of them only pick up the big ones.

"Second brother, second brother, come quickly, there are big fungus over here."

"Come on, come on, these things love to grow on basswood."

"It's quite a lot. These are enough to make a big plate of fried pork with fungus."

After the three of them searched for their own, they went directly to their mother's yard to search, and their father came out with his clothes on and helped them pick them up.

Mom is cooking, hula hula~ The sound of pulling the bellows can be heard clearly outside, and the smoke from the chimney is curled up, and the cold wind blows it and fills the whole village.

There was a smell of fireworks in the air.

Soon my younger sister Wang Qing also came out of the house. She will be in her third year of high school when school starts again, and she also becomes nervous, so even though it is summer vacation, she still studies late every day.

When I woke up in the morning, I still had big dark circles under my eyes.

Wang Yuan stood next to Ban Zhangzi and chatted with her: "Xiaoqing, don't be too tired. Rest when you need to. If you are physically exhausted, you will fail the exam."

"I know."

Wang Qing felt that she didn't work hard enough in her first and second grades, so she regretted it a bit.

It's a pity that the past time is like flowing water, and it can never come back. She can only work harder and harder to really get into a good university.

In the morning, my mother boiled some tender corn in the pot, and I just gave some to Wang Yuan and his wife. When they returned home with the fungus they had picked up, the couple hurriedly cooked for dinner.

I had some rice left over from last night, which just happened to make egg fried rice.

After eating, Wang Yuan gnawed on a golden corn:
"Try this corn, Yanzi, it's really delicious! The more you chew, the more delicious it will be!"

"Yeah, let me try half of it."

Li Yan directly broke a corn in half, and then ate the sharp part.

"It's really delicious. Shall we go peel some corn? Cook it in a pot and eat it."

"That's fine, why don't we cut it another day, there must be a lot of mushrooms on the mountain when it rains, let's go pick the mountain."

Wang Yuan Ka Ka Ka ~ soon finished eating a piece of corn, and then threw the cobs to the dog.

As soon as the big wolf poked his mouth out, he caught the corn kernels, and then crushed the kernels with his sharp dog teeth. He was eager to eat.

Wild fresh mushrooms are very delicious, and the excess mushrooms can also be dried into dried mushrooms, which are very good ingredients after snowfall.

Li Yan also nodded in agreement, so after eating, the two changed their clothes, carried the basket and shotgun, locked the door and set off.

There are so many branches on the mountain, scratching and scratching may even tear the clothes, so there is no need to wear particularly good clothes.

The three dogs followed them bouncingly, and they liked going into the mountains the most.

There were a lot of people picking mushrooms along the way, and they met the third uncle and the third aunt, Aunt Yue and Feng Hui.

However, everyone’s destinations are different, so we didn’t gather together, and it’s better to disperse the personnel for mountain mining, after all, there are very few mountain treasures in one area.

"Tweet Tweet ~"

After entering the forest, the sound of birdsong can be heard endlessly, but the sound can not be heard, and a sense of emptiness and distantness is rippling.

Li Yan likes picking mountains very much, because there is a feeling of picking up treasures for nothing without spending money:
"There are so many birds. When we were young, we used valve cores to make slingshots to shoot birds. A dozen can kill many birds."

"Yo~ Did you still hunt birds when you were young?"

Wang Yuan and his wife were walking in the forest, chatting while walking, saying that mining mountains was actually half-playful.

"That's not right, the birds that come back are fed to the cats, and my big yellow cat is fed to the old and fat."

Li Yan recalled the funny things when she was a child, her face was full of smiles, but soon a touch of loneliness appeared on her pretty face:
"It's a pity that I don't know what the big yellow cat ate outside. It may be a mouse that was poisoned to death by someone else. When it came back, it would scum, and it died within a long time.

My brother cried so badly that my father beat him up severely. "

Speaking of her younger brother being beaten, Li Yan almost laughed out loud, well, it's really her own sister.

The death of the big fat cat that had been raised for many years was really sad, so the two quickly changed the subject.

Searching while walking, I soon found Hericium erinaceus under the root of the tree.

Wang Yuan broke off the white mushroom and smelled a moist and delicious smell: "Some people say that this mushroom looks like a monkey's head, why didn't I see that it looks like a monkey's head, it looks more like a white one Cotton hat."

"When you put it that way, it's really a bit similar."

Li Yan found a clump of yellow elm mushrooms, and the color of yellow elm mushrooms stacked together is very bright. While picking mushrooms, she glanced at Wang Yuan:
"This mushroom is really yellow."

"You pick mushrooms, pick mushrooms, what do you see me doing?"

"Oh, don't make a fuss, don't make a fuss, and pick the mountains well."

Suddenly, three dogs barked loudly a few meters to the right.

"Wang Wang Wang ~"

Wang Yuan quickly took off the shotgun from his back as quickly as possible, and rushed over with the gun in hand.

"Xiaoyuan wait for me, what is it?"

"It's spicy noodles."

"Spicy strips?" Li Yan quickly followed and found that it was a snake.

sizzle~
The snake was about one meter long and blue-gray. It curled up and spit out a letter, its cold eyes were full of vigilance.

"Wang Wang Wang ~"

"Okay, okay, don't bark." Wang Yuan picked up the dirt and threw it at the snake, and the snake ran away dejectedly.

"Fortunately, it was discovered early. It would be a crime to let him take a bite."

The two continued to pick the mountain, and after two hours, they had more than half of the baskets of mushrooms in their baskets. They found an open space left after logging, and they sat on tree stumps to rest for a while.

"I didn't bring a watch, what time is Xiaoyuan?"

"It's almost 10 o'clock."

"Then let's go back, the journey will take a long time." Li Yan sat on the tree stump and wiped the sweat off her forehead with her hands.

There are many tree heads and branches dropped by the villagers around, and she couldn't help but feel pity when she saw it:
"These branches are easy to burn. It's a pity to just throw them here."

In this era, the mountain has not yet been closed, and the forest resources are very rich, so most of the villagers are very picky. Even if it is to burn firewood, they only need the body of the tree, not the head.

Even if the tree has only a small knot, it will be completely discarded, and it will not even be worthy of a fire.

Only some special families, such as Wang Yuan's family, who were formerly strong and half-disabled, or Li Yan's family, whose strong laborers ran away and disappeared, would like to pick up unwanted branches and burn them.

That way you don't have to cut down trees.

The two rested for a while, and after drinking the last bit of water in the canning bottle, they planned to go down the mountain.

Sudden.

The big wolf yelled not far to the right again.

"Why, did you see a snake again? Damn it, a wild boar!" Wang Yuan squatted and glanced to the right, just in time to see a wild boar.

The wild boar is covered with brown hair, and there are still some palm oil and mud on the belly on the right side.

The wild boar weighed 80 kilograms, which is not too big. After seeing Wang Yuan, he didn't know how to run and just stood there stupidly.

"Hey, the little thing is quite courageous."

Just as Wang Yuan raised his gun and was about to aim, the wild boar ran away, hitting some bushes that shook violently and rattled.

bang~
The bullets shot out and did not hit the wild boar. Wang Yuan put down the basket and chased after it. The three hounds rushed out like sharp arrows.

"Swallow, I'll catch wild boars and bring them back for you to eat."

"Run slowly, I don't eat wild boar."

Li Yan was so anxious that she finally put down the basket and ran forward following Wang Yuan's footsteps.

"Wang Wang~"

The second wolf was the first to catch up with the wild boar, jumped onto the wild boar's back, opened his mouth and bit, and instantly the wild boar's back was scratched with sharp dog teeth.

That is to say, it is not easy for the dog to bite down, otherwise it will not be a few bloodstains, and I am afraid it can bite off a piece of meat.

"Will!!"

At the juncture of life and death, the ferocity of the wild boar was completely aroused, and the dog was thrown off with a sudden flick, and after turning its head, it accelerated and bang~ directly hit the two wolves on the head.

"Wang~"

The big wolf bit directly at the wild boar's hind legs, its fangs piercing through the flesh, and blood splattered instantly.

The three wolves pounced on the wild boar's neck, intending to kill it with one blow.

"Will!!"

After the wild boar rolled around to avoid the big wolf and the second wolf, it went directly to the bushes on the right. The bushes were too dense, and the branches of the trees were stuck together.

The wild boar was not afraid of the pain of hitting the branch, so it used all its energy to feed and rushed straight away.

The wild boar escaped recklessly, and the three dogs were only hunting, so the dogs walked slowly through the bushes, and gradually lost track of the wild boar.

After chasing and fleeing, they quickly ran for two or three kilometers, but instead of getting closer, the distance became farther and farther away.

"There are so many small trees, and there are so many small holes on the ground."

When Wang Yuan ran past a stone ladle panting, he was suddenly attracted by a touch of red. He turned his head and took a closer look, and found that it turned out to be two ginseng trees!
Yes, not one, but two!
And one has five leaves, and the other has six leaves!
"Fuck, what kind of luck is this! It's really ginseng!!"

There are too many shrubs here, and the villagers don't come here at all, and on the right side of the two ginseng plants is a two-meter-high big stone ladle, and there are a lot of weeds on the left side, which is really good for hiding.

If Wang Yuan hadn't walked by at close range, they really wouldn't have been spotted.

Touched the tip of the right thumb and index finger, put it in his mouth and blew the whistle directly, with a sharp and loud voice:
"Woo~"

This is to call the hounds back. A little wild boar weighing less than a hundred catties is nothing in front of two ginseng plants. The most important thing now is to carry the ginseng back.

"wooden club!"

"Okay, I'll carry you back immediately." Wang Yuan took out two sections of red rope from the space, and tied them to the poles of two ginseng plants.

The three dogs quickly came back from the bushes, wagging their tails, but the dogs' eyes were full of doubts.

They didn't understand why they stopped chasing the pig, they still wanted to eat pork.

"Okay, okay, we have more important things to do." Wang Yuan patted the heads of a few dogs to calm their restless emotions.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him, and when he looked back, he found that it was his wife Li Yan who came over out of breath.

"Xiao Yuan, where's the pig?"

"The pig ran away and disappeared."

"Ah, why didn't that dog chase after him? It's really a waste of raising these three stupid dogs, and I won't give them meat in the future." Li Yan had long thought that the dogs were eating too well, and now she finally found a reason Come to cut their meals.

The tails of the three dogs stopped shaking very much, and they looked at Wang Yuan pitifully.

"Haha, I stopped them from chasing me."

Wang Yuan put his hands on Li Yan's shoulders, and pushed her to the side of Dashi Lazi: "Don't waste your time on wild boars, what is this?"

Li Yan looked around suspiciously, and soon saw the two ginseng plants, her almond eyes widened in shock: "Oh my god, it's ginseng!"

"Yes, it's ginseng! One plant has five leaves, and the other has six leaves!"

"My god, why is there ginseng here? Can they run away? Dig them out quickly, let's go quickly..."

Excited, Li Yan didn't know where to put her hands and feet. She knelt down to touch the leaves of ginseng for a while, then stood up and looked around to see if there were other ginsengs around.

It took Wang Yuan a long time to calm her down, and then let her go home to get deer bone drills, shovels, sickles, red cloth, matches, etc., and when she came back, she would carry the ginseng.

For safety, Wang Yuan asked her to take the three dogs back.

The reason why Wang Yuan didn't go back was because there was quite a commotion after chasing wild boars just now, and during this period of time there were many people digging, releasing, and crushing mountains. He was worried that someone would come to check.

If Li Yan was left here alone, and a few gentlemen came over and saw a beautiful woman here alone, with two valuable ginseng trees next to her, it might really be malicious.

Rural people are simple, but it doesn't mean that there is no evil in their hearts. Sometimes it is more direct and cruel to do evil.

Li Yan was trembling with excitement, her heart was beating like it was about to jump out of her mouth, she took the three dogs back home as fast as possible, and then looked for the few things Wang Yuan said .

in the yard next door.

Zhang Qian was wearing gray denim clothes and was using a sieve to sift the sand. When she gave birth to a child after a while, she would let the child sleep on the sand fried in a large iron pan.

This era is not as developed as later generations, and many children have to sleep in the sand.

"Sister-in-law, what are you looking for in such a hurry?"

"Oh nothing, where did you dig the sand from?"

Li Yan responded without saying a word, put all the things she found into a basket, and then walked out with the basket on her back.

"It was dug back from Nanwa." Zhang Qian watched Li Yan lock the door and leave, she frowned and muttered: "Mysterious, this is going to go haha? Did you find the treasure in the mountains?"

What neither Li Yan nor Zhang Qian noticed was that two men, one fat and one thin, were standing there on a slope nearly one kilometer to the east.

The tall and thin man looked at Wang Yuan's house with binoculars, and clearly saw Li Yan leaving the house.

"Fatty, it seems our chance has come."

"Really? Well, after waiting for a week, I finally found an opportunity. I'm going to leave as soon as I'm done. I'm about to be bitten to death by mosquitoes these few days."

The breeze blew, the leaves trembled, and soon there were no fat or thin people on the slope.

No one knew where they went, and no one knew why they followed Wang Yuan.

……

Li Yan ran all the way into the mountains with the basket on her back, her mouth was dry, her legs were sore and her feet were numb, and finally returned to Wang Yuan: "Xiao Yuan, you brought back everything you wanted."

(End of this chapter)