Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 188 Musk Shadow in the Forest

"No, I'm too tired!"

After eating, Lin Heng lay down on his cane bed. Today's shuttle was farther than before.

Uncle Gao looked at him and said with a smile: "This won't work anymore, you need to exercise more.

The mountain road we walked this day was only about fifteen kilometers. In the past, when we were marching and fighting, we often carried 40 to 50 kilograms of stuff on our backs and walked 50 to 60 kilometers a day, which was considered tiring. "

Lin Heng shook his head repeatedly: "You are at the pinnacle of light infantry, I can't compare to you, sir."

There was no way he could compare with soldiers.

Uncle Gao laughed and said: "With your physique, if you train hard, you will definitely be a good material."

Li Baiquan also smiled and agreed: "Lin Heng is indeed suitable. Your bow and arrow are so accurate, maybe you can become a sharpshooter with a gun!"

Lin Heng waved his hands quickly, not wanting to be a soldier: "I am suitable for hunting. I can't be a soldier and I can't stand restraint..."

……

While chatting, the three of them slowly fell asleep.

Early the next morning, I made sauerkraut gnocchi and then set off up the mountain.

Walking up the source of this creek, there is no water in the valley, but the mountains on both sides are still tall and steep.

From time to time there are some orchids growing in the gray rock crevices, and the green leaves sway in the wind, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

There are many large rocks in the valley, including snow-white, black, and gray.

There is sunshine today, but it is still very cold. The wind is blowing in the canyon. There is no sunshine in this place, it is all snow.

After walking about five hundred meters, the three of them found a place to go up the mountain, and quickly went up the mountain to look for prey.

Uncle Gao looked at the majestic Taibai Mountain in front of him and said, "This place is not far from Taibai Mountain. Let's go directly there."

They are actually already in the Taibai Mountains. The trees here have become low, and there are some large grasslands in some places, and some places are covered with large areas of moss.

Compared with tall forests, the terrain here is more complex, so there are more biological populations.

As soon as they went up the mountain, Li Baiquan pointed to the mountain opposite and said, "Look, it's the golden monkey again!"

The golden monkey was making a lot of noise, and Lin Heng and Uncle Gao also saw it immediately.

This guy was on some cedar trees opposite, eating usneas hanging from the trees.

They were still arguing and fighting while eating. When Lin Heng looked over, another one fell from the tree, but it seemed nothing happened. He got up and quickly climbed up the tree.

Uncle Gao said with emotion: "The ecology of this place is really good. It's shrouded in mist. Maybe there will be something harvested today."

Li Baiquan said: "Then let's explore separately, don't run too far."

After discussing it, Lin Heng took Xiong Ba aside. After walking away, he rubbed Xiong Ba's head and said, "I've eaten well these past two days. Try your best today and at least find me a muntjac or something." "

"Ouch~"

Xiong Ba raised his head in a humane manner and started looking around.

The altitude of this place is high, and there is still a thin layer of snow. After all, the altitude of this place is already three thousand, and the highest point of Taibai Mountain can even reach three thousand seven.

Although the sun came out, the snow in the forest still didn't melt so quickly.

After walking a few hundred meters, Lin Heng saw another red squirrel, sneaking away from behind a big tree root.

Xiongba chased one, and it ran straight to the top of a cedar.

"Hiding chestnuts again?"

Lin Heng smiled, ran behind the tree root and searched for a while, and sure enough he found a pile of chestnuts and acorns buried in the tree hole.

The chestnuts picked up by squirrels are all huge, plump and smooth, absolutely top quality.

"grumble!"

There seemed to be a squirrel protesting from the top of the pine tree. Lin Heng's behavior was so shameless.

Lin Heng grinned: "Don't worry, I left some acorns for you. I won't eat these."

I picked up another pound of chestnuts, which was really a pleasure. He was too lazy to beat the pine trees. The branches of the pine trees were too dense and difficult to beat.

If the arrow gets stuck on it, the tree really couldn't get through it last time.

But getting some chestnuts is effortless and can be earned purely with blood.

After searching for this mountain for two hours and finding nothing, Lin Heng headed towards Taibai Mountain.

There is grass on a hillside here, and there is still some greenery in winter. Lin Heng estimates that there should be something there.

Not far into the forest, Lin Heng suddenly saw some hoof prints.

"Xiongba, look for it quickly!"

Lin Heng rubbed Xiong Ba's head, feeling a little excited. The footprints were definitely left yesterday.

A man and a dog followed the footprints not far before they saw feces. New feces covered old feces.

This is a typical toilet. Whether it is a forest musk deer or a muntjac, they have a habit of pooping in the forest, usually not far from their nests.

Lin Heng knelt down and took a closer look, and he could tell: "This is the feces of forest musk deer!"

Identifying prey by sight is also a major skill for hunters, and Lin Heng has just learned it.

The reason why I am so sure is because I have two forest musk deer at home.

Although the forest musk deer is smaller than the muntjac, its feces particles are larger than those of the muntjac, similar to the seeds of green beans.

The feces of muntjacs are round, similar to soybeans.

Slowing down his pace, Lin Heng took Xiongba around to look around.

With the traces of prey, the wind in the mountains doesn't seem so cold anymore.

After walking through the forest for a while, they came to the shrubbery. In addition to low shrubs, there were various grasses and some green moss.

Lin Heng did not act rashly. He found a place where he could hide easily and slowly looked around.

The most taboo thing in hunting is being reckless. As long as you don't move and are not exposed, you will have great chances.

After searching for half an hour, Lin Heng saw a distinctive white streak in a green bush.

"found it!"

Lin Heng couldn't help but feel excited. This was the white hair on Lin Shek's chest.

After waiting again, he saw the backward canine teeth of Lin Deer as he moved.

Gonglin musk deer! !

Lin Heng's heart moved. This meant that there was musk, and he would be worth at least a thousand yuan if he hit it.

But he thought again and thought that he might be able to kill the king of hell nearby. Wouldn't it be more profitable if he got someone alive?

After thinking carefully, Lin Heng shook his head and said, "No, ten birds in the forest are worse than one in the hand. Let's fight first."

Who knows what will happen next, so let’s fight first and then talk about it.

It's not alarming yet. He's more than three hundred meters away. There should be a chance if he gets closer.

Putting down the bow bag, taking out the compound bow and drawing an arrow, Lin Heng found a suitable position and slowly approached.

Within a few minutes, they reached a distance of 200 meters. Lin Heng stayed for a while and found that Lin Sheng didn't seem to notice him.

He gritted his teeth and continued moving forward. After more than ten minutes, he unexpectedly arrived at a distance of more than seventy meters from it.

Lin Heng couldn't believe that such a big prey was only over seventy meters tall. He put on his bow and arrow, aimed for three seconds, and then shot out an arrow.

With a whooshing sound, the arrow shot from a bow with fifty pounds of tension can reach a speed of seventy or eighty meters per second, which means that it takes one second to reach such a long distance.

Almost as soon as it heard the sound, it penetrated its body, and the unrivaled hunting arrow penetrated directly through the body of the forest musk deer.

"Woof woof!!"

It instinctively turned around and ran away, and the bully gave chase.

Lin Heng walked forward slowly. The forest musk deer couldn't run very far. If the arrow penetrated its belly, it would die.

Three minutes later, he heard Xiong Ba's call. When he arrived, Lin Shek had already fallen to the ground and was motionless.

Apparently completely dead.

Lin Heng picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help but said: "It's a bit light!"

He estimated that the forest musk deer only weighed 13 or 14 pounds, but he didn't know if it contained much musk.

Presumably they have already been bred, so there probably won’t be too many musks.

But no matter what, you can definitely sell it for one thousand yuan. When he thought of this, Lin Heng couldn't help but grin.

"The resources near Taibai Mountain are so rich." Lin Heng said with emotion that he had such a harvest on his first day here.

After pawning the blood and feeding it to Xiong Ba, Lin Heng carried Lin She and walked back. Unknowingly, it was past two o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be almost dark by the time he got back.

He is now a little far away from his uncle, Uncle Gao, and others, and is ready to go back and meet up.

Not far away, he heard gunshots coming from a mountain opposite.

When they were reuniting, he saw his uncle holding a large gray rabbit in his hand.

Li Baiquan was just about to say that he had a good harvest, when he saw Lin Sheng held by Lin Heng, and he suddenly froze on the spot.

"Lin Heng, you hit Lin Musk!!"

He was shocked. Lin Heng must be very lucky. He has been hunting for so many years and has never caught a forest musk deer.

Lin Heng got three of them this year. This is really irritating.

Lin Heng laughed: "I was wandering around in the woods and discovered it by accident. Xiongba's contribution is in it."

He followed Xiong Ba in every direction, but he didn't expect it to actually exert its strength.

If it weren't for Xiong Ba, he might not have gone in that direction, and he might have missed the forest musk deer.

"Looks like I'm going to get a dog too." Li Baiquan looked at Xiong Ba. This dog was really majestic and useful.

When he met Uncle Gao, he was holding two grouse in his hand. When he saw Lin Heng holding Lin Musk, his eyes lit up and he said with a smile: "You are so awesome. You shot them on the first day you came to the foot of Taibai Mountain." Arrive at the forest musk deer.”

"It's all thanks to Xiongba, he found it." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Uncle Gao shook his head and said: "Don't be modest. This thing is very vigilant. You can't defeat it without some skills and patience."

"Haha, that is indeed a bit technical." Lin Heng admitted with a smile.

Uncle Gao patted him on the shoulder again and said with a smile: "We don't know the difference between musk and musk. It shouldn't be a problem if we go back and let us eat some forest musk deer meat."

Lin Heng smiled and nodded: "Of course, it's okay to eat them all, I'll cook them for you."

"Then I have to try the forest musk deer meat. I haven't eaten it yet. It is said to have a strong nourishing effect." Li Baiquan also said with a smile.

All three of them had caught prey and were very hungry, so they returned directly to the camp.

It was only five o'clock at this time, and there was still more than an hour until dark.

Lin Heng first took out the whole sachet of Lin She and placed it on a stone to dry.

Then the skinning work was handed over to Uncle Gao. He, his uncle Li Baiquan and Niba rebuilt the stove and exhausted the smoke outside.

Everyone brought a small pot with them when they went up the mountain. Lin Heng cut off a forest musk deer leg, cut off the meat and fried it.

The bones were stewed with two spare ribs, chestnuts and yams dug freshly by his uncle.

Lin She's meat is almost all lean meat. Lin Heng cut some pork belly and stir-fried it together, and the aroma came out after scratching it.

Add some soybean paste and pickled radish slices brought from home, and a fragrant pot of fried forest musk meat is ready.

The rice was cooked first, and the three of them drank rice wine while eating fried forest musk deer.

Uncle Gao took a bite and nodded: "This forest musk deer meat is tender and tastes better than beef."

Li Baiquan also nodded repeatedly: "Yes, no wonder there are less and less of these things."

Lin Hengda ate happily and then smiled and picked up the rice wine and drank a little with the two of them.

There wasn't much rice wine, and the three of them drank it very carefully.

The meat of forest musk deer feels more delicate than venison, with a finer grain texture. The thin slices are very soft. It has a strong meaty aroma in the mouth and is chewy enough, but not the kind that cannot be chewed.

"I would be satisfied if I could hunt a wild boar this time I go into the mountains." Li Baiquan said with emotion after drinking some wine.

Lin Heng smiled and said: "It's not difficult. There are many more wild boars than forest musk deer. If you look carefully, you will definitely find them."

"Yes, this place is probably quite a lot." Uncle Gao also nodded.

After drinking the wine, Lin Heng went to bring the pork rib soup over: "Here, have a sip of the pork rib soup."

"Well, it's so fragrant. This wild yam is also delicious."

Uncle Gao took a sip of the soup and nodded with satisfaction, feeling that he was satisfied with his trip to the mountains.

The bones and meat of the bone soup that had been simmered for more than an hour had completely separated. The yams added half an hour ago were so soft that it was difficult to pick them up with chopsticks.

Wild yams are like this. They are easier to cook than artificially grown ones. They become soft and rotten very easily. Generally, they can be cooked for a dozen or twenty minutes at most.

As for artificially cultured yams, some are still hard even after being cooked for two hours.

This soup also tastes better than pork ribs soup, and musk deer bones contain more nutrients than pork bones.

Lin Heng thought that he must take the rest back and give it to his wife and children to taste, and then to his parents and brothers to taste it.

In the end, there was a lot of pork rib soup left. It wasn’t that it didn’t taste good, but it was just too much to finish.

Meat and rice are enough.

After eating, Lin Heng found a rope to tie up the musk sachet and hung it in the air. After it dried, he stored it in paper.

The forest musk deer skin is hanging in mid-air for the time being, waiting for it to dry.

Early the next morning, when everyone got up, they all felt warm.

Li Baiquan said with a smile: "This forest musk deer meat is indeed a bit different. My body feels a lot warmer."

Uncle Gao nodded and said: "This stuff is really tonic, yam and chestnut are also great tonic, together they will definitely make your whole body strong.

But I can’t eat too much. I’ll just eat the grouse and pork I shot today, and let Lin Heng take the rest back for his family to try. "

Lin Heng was not stingy yesterday, almost giving more than four kilograms of meat to everyone to eat.

Li Baiquan also nodded: "That's for sure. We still have pig offal to finish, so we won't eat the forest musk deer meat."

"You can also eat the internal organs of forest musk deer, but they will probably be damaged when you take them back." Lin Heng said with a smile.

Uncle Gao smiled and said, "Let's make some pork noodles in the morning. Lin Heng did a great job."

(End of this chapter)