Catch the Mountain 1985

Chapter 3
It's finally over. The most important thing now is to deal with the wild boar. I pulled the knife out of the wild boar and wiped the blood on the pig's body with the spatula.
Rhubarb and Heizi were still biting the wild boar, as if they wanted to vent their resentment. They drove away Heizi and Rhubarb, thrust the knife into the ground beside them, grabbed the wild boar's right front hoof with one hand, and grabbed the right rear hoof with the other hand, and stabbed themselves hard. With a pull here, the wild boar lying on its side was turned upside down.

Before killing the wild boar, you need to drain the pig's blood. If the pig's blood is mixed with the meat, the meat will have a strong earthy smell, which will affect the taste. Because of the chase just now, the blood in the wild boar's body has almost dried up, so it can be disemboweled directly.Insert the knife under the wild boar's neck and slice downward.

Hanging the whole pig intestines, Zhang Peng hung it on a big tree nearby, and then bowed respectfully. This is the hunter's worship of the mountain god. Every time he hunts, he needs to give the mountain god some food to bless his safety.

Then he lowered his head and picked off the pig heart and liver from the pig. Because Rhubarb was a dog, the pig heart had to be fed to Rhubarb first, and then the liver was fed to Heizi. Watching them gobble it up, Zhang Peng stroked it up and down with his hands. Holding Rhubarb's neck, Rhubarb enjoyed the delicious pig heart and the caress of his little master. When he was about to finish eating, Heizi, who had finished eating the liver, also came over to fight for the caress of his master, which made Zhang Peng laugh. .

The autumn afternoon is cool and pleasant, and the sun shines warmly on your body, making your heart slowly calm down.
It is now [-], people's living standards are still not high, and the unified purchase and marketing of grain and oil still exists.

This situation is fine in the city.But in rural areas, forest areas, and mountain fields, compared with cities, it can be said that there is a huge difference.People here work hard all year round, and there is not much money or water on weekdays.

Therefore, even if it is a backer to eat mountains.In this year, if anyone can catch a wild boar, or a black bear or a brown bear, it will be more beautiful than the Chinese New Year.

Especially in autumn, it is the season when all kinds of mountain goods are harvested, and it is also the time for wild animals to catch autumn fat.

Whether they are bears or wild boars, they eat walnuts, chew acorns and hazelnuts all day long in the mountains, and accumulate fat.

Let’s just say that the wild boar we shot today was a female wild boar. In summer, she might not even weigh 280 pounds.But in the fall, I ate more than 300 kilograms.The fat from the belly is cut off and roasted in oil, and the lard produced can easily fill two jars.

You must know that in this era of food and oil supply by ticket, a family of four or five people can get so much oil in a year.

Moreover, after the fat meat is simmered in oil, the internal fat will be simmered out, and the originally soft and white fat will shrink and become a golden and crispy oil shuttle. Dip some salt noodles and chew it in your mouth, which is fragrant and crisp. Delicious.

Suddenly my stomach growled, and then I remembered that I had to sneak up the mountain in the morning, so I got up early to avoid my parents, so I didn't eat breakfast. I was so nervous just now that it was okay, but now I feel like I'm in the stomach as soon as I relax. empty.

He quickly cut off a strip of pork belly from the pork belly, cut it into large pieces, and then threaded the large pieces of meat onto thin sharpened tree strips.
Then I cleared an open space, picked up some dead branches, and picked up some pine oil seeds from under the nearby pine trees. Fortunately, I came out and took a box of matches at home. When I took it out, I saw that the box had been crushed, but fortunately there was no damage inside. The dead leaves were ignited, and soon the fire crackled.

After waiting for a while, when the branches as thick as wrists burned like charcoal and glowed with red fire, Zhang Peng inserted the meat skewers one by one around the fire. After a while, the meat skewers were sizzling and oily, and the surface was constantly boiling. There are small bubbles of oil and the color is golden, which can't help but whet your appetite.

The barbecue was almost ready. I quickly pulled it out to prevent it from getting too old to bite. I put it aside and ate it after it cooled down. Although there was no salt in the wild boar meat, it lacked a little flavor, but I was hungry anyway. When I was eating, I caught up with the fact that there was not much oil or water before, so it tasted very fragrant, and all the meat skewers were eaten up in a short time.

Zhang Peng wiped oil on his mouth with the back of his hand, unscrewed the kettle and drank a few sips of water. He was full of water and food, and when the afternoon sun shone, he felt a little lazily.After resting for a while, I went back to the previous place to find my backpack and hand axe, and started to unload the pork, one pig head, four pig trotters, four pig legs, two ribs, the whole spine, large tenderloin, small tenderloin... ..., after removing the skin, hair, and some losses, this wild boar still weighs about 200 kilograms including bones and meat.

He definitely couldn't get this whole pig back, so he could only pile the fat, tenderloin and pork legs into a pile, which weighed about a hundred kilograms. Then he took out a large sack from the bag and picked out the meat. Put them all in, and the rest, including the big pig head, can only serve to honor the mountain god.

Then, Zhang Peng put the pork on his back and whistled to wake up the two hunting dogs who were sleeping nearby. They went down the mountain road and went home.

It is said that it is easier to go up the mountain than it is to go down the mountain. This is true. Carrying a sack weighing more than 100 kilograms and having to walk on the mountain road made Zhang Peng very tired. He stumbled along the way. From around two o'clock in the afternoon, he walked until almost six o'clock. In October, it was already dark in the mountains.

After finally reaching the bottom of the mountain, I was almost exhausted from exhaustion. Rhubarb and Heizi were also wilted from exhaustion and couldn't keep up their energy. I had no choice but to rest at the foot of the mountain for another half an hour to calm down and grit my teeth. Pick up the sack and continue walking home.

The foot of the mountain is about 10 minutes away from the village. We entered the village in one go. It was almost seven o'clock at this time, and everyone who worked in the forest farm and those who were due to get off work had also gone home.Those who worked in the fields also called it a day.At this time, it was the time when every household was cooking and eating, and there was no one along the way.

When they reached the door of their house, Dahuang and Heizi had already arrived home first.

Zhang Peng took his dog out and ran around for a day.

At this time, the adults were managing like a hawk. When they woke up in the morning and found no one, they thought they had gone somewhere to play, and didn't think much about it. Zhang Peng usually fished and caught shrimps when he had nothing to do, and occasionally he didn't eat at home.

After having breakfast, Zhang Peng's mother, Wang Xiufen, left lunch for her children and went to work in the fields.

By the time she came back, it was already past four in the afternoon.When Wang Xiufen returned home, she found that Zhang Peng was not at home, but she didn't care.Think about it, how can a young man of this age have enough time?Maybe he went somewhere to play

Moreover, Wang Xiufen believed that this boy would be back when it was time for dinner.
When it was past five o'clock, Zhang Peng's father, Zhang Tiejun, took the commuter train down the mountain. When he entered the house, he saw Wang Xiufen burning chopped wood on the pot table. He opened his mouth and said, "Xiufen, what did you do today?" ?”

Wang Xiufen filled the stove pit with a piece of wood and raised her head and said, "Cabage, vermicelli and stewed tofu. Come in and have a rest. We'll start dinner when my son comes back."

Zhang Tiejun didn't say anything and just strode into the house.Zhang Tiejun took off his shoes and lay on the kang after a day of work. When he returned home, he felt physically tired. He leaned against the wall and his mind was a little drowsy. He wanted to take a nap before eating.

(End of this chapter)