Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 266 Harvest and New Camp

The slope in front of them was already very gentle, but there was no way to continue exploring.

Because the cave in front of you has water at least half a meter deep, you have to go in with the water flowing if you want to continue moving forward.

The water in this cave is even colder than the melted water in the snow mountains, so it is really dangerous to move forward through the water.

"Brother, how deep do you think this hole is?" Lin Yue said, looking at the dark hole in front of him.

"I don't know. It may lead to an underground river that has no end, or it may only end after a few meters of walking. This is a pool."

Lin Heng shook his head and shined his flashlight on the water.

The water is crystal clear, with fine gravel and yellow mud at the bottom, and a coral-shaped stalactite can be seen.

Lin Heng didn't know if the mud contained rust or what, but he saw a lot of small red stones and reached out to pick up two, both of which were only the size of pigeon eggs.

This kind of red stone is bloodstone, which was formed by volcanic eruptions in ancient times. It is as bright as jade on the outside, but it is dyed with different colors like ink on the inside.

They only need to get some stones and simply surround a half-meter-high arc-shaped wind-blocking wall. There are stones everywhere here and it is very simple to build.

Lin Heng estimated that the water in this cave must have grown and receded frequently, or that it had been like this at one time, otherwise it would have been difficult to form such a round stone.

Xiongba was unhappy with being restrained all the way and rubbed against Lin Heng's legs as he walked.

"Finally out!"

"Brother, how much do you think this is worth?" Lin Yue asked curiously.

"I don't know about that. Let's pick up a few stones and go back. It's getting late."

There were some red-looking rocks deeper that were out of reach. The two of them were unwilling to go into the water, so they picked some up and put them in bags before heading back.

Like the antiques and somber wood furniture in his house, he wasn't planning on selling them. It's not too late to sell it when you really need money someday. This thing will not depreciate in value.

"Okay." Lin Yue put the torch on the side and started searching with Lin Heng. There were not many things and they couldn't carry them on their backs, so they had to pick the ones they wanted.

Lin Heng shook his head and looked at his watch. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon, and if we didn't go back, we might have to walk in the dark.

The strong light outside was not used to for a while. After a while, Lin Heng put out the torch and turned off the flashlight, then poured out the snakeskin bag to check the harvest of the two.

After returning to the location, they saw Hong Zao lying on the ground and both of them felt relieved. Nothing happened again this time.

The biggest one was naturally his elder brother's bloodstone, which looked like an ostrich egg. The surface is round and smooth, and feels cool to the touch, like jade.

The two of them were cautious along the way, hoping to look for traces of large animals. After all, they found fresh feces during the day, but unfortunately they kept walking out into the river and found nothing.

"Are there any fish underground?" Lin Yue asked curiously.

"Ow~"

Now that the economy is not doing well, the prices of these things are average. When the economy develops and people have spare money, these things can be sold at good prices.

"gone."

It has been three days since he came here. Except for his eldest brother who shot a decent white rice, he didn't catch any good prey at all.

The yellow side is a little more ordinary, it is an ordinary tan color, very pure, with no pattern at all.

Lin Heng looked at his rectangular bloodstone. The background color of this stone is light white, and the red color looks like blood has been poured into it to form many strange lines. In some places, there are large patches of blood, and in other places, there are little drops of blood. '.

Lin Heng said with a smile: "Just one night, just make a simple one."

Compared with his elder brother's, his one looks more jade-colored and has a fleshy texture.

Lin Heng nodded: "I have the same idea. Let's find a place to cross the river with the red dates. The mountains here are gentler, so we should be able to come over."

"I understand." Lin Yue nodded and began to look at his other stones.

Lin Heng nodded, not paying much attention. He had been dead for who knows how long.

In addition to this, he also has a large crystal disk, as big as a human face, disk-shaped, with clusters of crystal pillars growing inside, part of it transparent and part of it pinkish-yellow, which looks better than in the cave.

"This is a muntjac, with horns on its head." Lin Yue said.

This place was chosen during the day because we might not have time to build a shelter at night. The mountains on the shore are sloping, forming a small shelter from the rain.

"Alas, I made a mistake today. The shelter was not set up." Lin Yue sighed, having spent a lot of time exploring the mountain.

While walking on the road, Lin Yue said: "Let's find a way to bring Hong Zao up tomorrow. We will probably take a detour. Otherwise, we won't be able to explore much by walking back every day. Night is a good time for hunting, but we have to go back."

Although I didn't catch any big prey, the rewards from exploring the cave were not small.

"Silly dog, I'm afraid you'll die from lack of oxygen." Lin Heng glanced at it.

The ones they picked were of good quality and round as jade.

It was already dark before they returned to where Hong Zao was. The two of them crossed the river and felt their way down in the dark.

As Lin Heng sighed, they saw the light again and walked out of the underground cave.

The other small chicken blood stones and crystals are also quite good. Lin Heng has six small chicken blood stones and three crystals, and his eldest brother has eight small chicken blood stones and five crystal pillars.

Lin Heng shook his head: "It's hard to confirm the price of this thing. It's no problem to sell it for hundreds or even thousands. If you find someone you like, you can sell it for more money. My suggestion is not to sell it, but to keep it at home and sell it later. "

When I was about to leave the cave, my flashlight suddenly found an animal corpse. It died on the edge of the cave and had become bones.

After packing their things and taking a look at the sky, the two of them walked back with a smile.

The blood on the red side forms wavy lines, giving it the feeling of a sea of ​​flames and a vast ocean.

It only took the two people half an hour to build the windshield, and then lit a fire inside the windshield. The heat of the flame was reflected by the windshield to the mountain wall inside, making this area very warm.

As long as the fire doesn't go out at night, there won't be much of a problem.

The shelter from the rain under the mountain wall is entirely covered with sand and covered with some moss and leaves for insulation, and you can rest.

After the shelter was set up, Lin Heng took out the iron pot to cook. He chopped up all the porcupine internal organs that he had cleaned in the morning and stir-fried them, then threw in the last bit of sauerkraut and added water to stew. When the water boils, add the flour and water, mix into small lumps and put them into the water to make pork offal, sauerkraut and lump soup. His elder brother brought two wooden bowls, and the two of them took out most of them, and fed the rest to Xiongba, adding two plum blossoms to it.

Neither of them ate the porcupine meat anymore. They made it into strips and prepared to dry it and take it back to the people in the house to taste it. The porcupine skin has been stretched and dried in the sun, and the porcupine quills are still on it.

After finishing the meal, they started to process the white rice seeds again. The skin of the white rice is peeled off, stretched out and dried, and the internal organs are taken to the river to be cleaned and eaten tomorrow morning. The head was stewed directly in the pot until it became rotten, and the meat was removed and fed to Xiong Ba.

After processing the large and small intestines by the river, Lin Heng took a flashlight and said, "Let's see if there is anything good in the river."

"Just in time to eat, I'm a little stuffed."

Lin Yue nodded, immersed the processed internal organs in ice water, and followed Lin Heng along the river.

A half-moon hangs in the sky, dotted with countless stars. The night in the mountains is quiet, and the river breeze blows gently, making people tremble all over like a heat-sucking demon.

After looking around along the river, it seems that there are no special native species. I have seen mandarin fish, giant catfish and so on.

"Damn, what a big turtle."

Suddenly Lin Heng let out a cry of surprise and watched helplessly as a large tortoise the size of a plate swam into the deep water. There was absolutely no way he could do anything about it.

"This turtle runs so fast." Lin Yue said in surprise, giving no one a chance to catch it.

Continuing down, we saw some eels and loaches. The eels in this big river were not easy to catch, because there were rocks underneath that were hard to hold down with our hands. There was no way to dig in the mud and pinch them like in a muddy field. Therefore, Lin Heng's professional eel catching techniques were useless.

Moreover, the water was cold and he didn't want to do anything. He didn't come to the depths of the mountain to catch such things, and it wouldn't be easy to carry too much.

I'm quite interested in a big turtle like this, and it's fun to take it home and keep it. I still have the little tortoise I caught before.

After walking along the river for six to seven hundred meters, they found nothing good. The two turned around and walked back. When they arrived at the place where the large intestine of white rice was processed, they saw that the intestines of white flowers were torn apart and a group of fish were gnawing there. But I couldn't chew it.

"Babyfish, catch it quickly!!"

Lin Yue's sharp eyes spotted the giant salamander eating secretly not far from the shore, and he rushed over to hold it down. But even if this guy wasn't swimming fast in the water, he was much faster than him. Even if his shoes got wet, he couldn't even touch the fish's tail.

"Brother, you are too excited. It's too difficult to catch with your bare hands. You have to set up a trap."

Lin Heng looked at his elder brother's excitement and smiled and said, It's not that easy to catch the giant salamander in the water with bare hands. Even if it touches it, it will be too slippery to catch.

"I want to give it a try. The shoes dried out overnight." Lin Yue laughed, put away the intestines and internal organs and walked back.

"Let's set up a enchantment trap in two days when we have time." Lin Heng thought for a while and said that he could still catch some fish and take it back in the next few days before leaving.

Returning to the shelter, Lin Yue took off his shoes and socks to bake, while Lin Heng lay directly on the dry moss to rest. With a wind-blocking wall, a fire, and soft sand on the ground, it felt better than the previous shelter where I could only sleep upright.

The only thing I'm afraid of is rain.

There was nothing to say all night, except for getting up in the middle of the night to add some firewood, and both of them fell to the ground and fell asleep. With Xiongba, you don’t have to worry about dangers at night. If anything comes close to Xiongba, you will be able to detect and alert it as soon as possible.

It was already seven o'clock when I woke up the next day. I was a bit tired yesterday. For breakfast, I had steamed plum fish, which was relatively light, and the soup was made with morels.

I was originally going to talk about eating white rice with offal, but I just ate a lot last night and wanted to eat a little lighter today, so I chose these two.

"Let's go."

After the meal, the two of them packed up large and small bags, put some on Hong Zao's back and carried some on their backs. Then they walked down with Hong Zao and found a shallow place to cross the river, then took a detour and walked up.

After exploring in the past few days, it was initially determined that there were many animal traces near the river where he went yesterday. Lin Heng planned to build a shelter on the mountain not far from where the black bear footprints were found.

It was troublesome to bring the red dates, and we didn’t arrive near this area until 12 noon. Finally, we found a small piece of slope halfway up the mountain, and settled the red dates here. They built a shelter near the slope and close to the water source.

"This place is nice, average."

Lin Heng quickly found a suitable small platform, about five or six square meters, with two huge evergreen camphor trees next to it.

Lin Yue looked at Lin Heng and asked, "What kind of camp should we set up?"

"That conical cactus pillar is not suitable. Just build a sloping shed on the top and put a windshield around it."

Lin Heng thought for a while and said, he didn't want to build any luxurious and exquisite shelter. If he didn't have the time, there was no need. Maybe if he couldn't catch prey here, he would have to change the place again.

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and went to chop down a few small trees to use as ceiling beams.

After it is built, add small branches to fill it, and then various fresh green leaves. After filling, lay the film paper Lin Heng took, and lay some dry leaves on the surface to prevent the wind from blowing.

The surroundings are even simpler. Just surround it with dead branches to a height of one meter, and then cover it with some moss and leaves. It can prevent the wind from blowing people when you lie down. There is no need to make it fully enclosed.

Although it sounds simple, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon when the two of them set it up, so a lot of time was wasted.

"Finally done." Lin Yue stretched and said with emotion. Although he was tired, building a house with his brother was not boring at all.

This shelter was chosen here to be easily defended even if there are black bears. The top and back are steep and there is no need to defend, mainly the front and downstream.

"I'll get the water and we can eat."

Lin Heng took the pot and went to the mountain spring nearby.

It is said to be a mountain spring, but it is actually a small stream of water of two thicknesses flowing out from the cracks in the rocks and flowing down the cracks in the steep stone walls. You have to use a rope to guide the water, otherwise the water will flow along the cracks in the rocks and you won't be able to catch it.

After receiving the water, Lin Heng turned around and went back to cooking. He cut the internal organs of the white rice seeds and sauteed them with morels until fragrant. Then he added water and boiled them, then added the mixed gnocchi to make gnocchi soup.

When they came, each of them brought ten pounds of flour, some sauerkraut and a small jar of fermented bean curd. After eating the flour, five kilograms of sauerkraut have been eaten, and less than half of the fermented bean curd has been eaten.

"It tastes pretty good. I'll try some thorn sprouts tomorrow." Lin Yue said with a smile. He hadn't eaten green vegetables for several days in the mountains.

"I saw bracken and garlic yesterday. I'm going to get some tomorrow."

Lin Heng nodded, stood up after finishing his meal and said.

It’s almost six o’clock after dinner, and it’s dusk when animals come out to look for food. The two of them glanced at the sun, put some survival tools they carried in their backpacks, and carried them into the forest.

The two of them walked quietly along the mountain forest, and before they knew it, the sky turned completely dark. However, the stars hung brightly in the half moon. Although there were a few dark clouds, they could already see clearly at night.

Lin Heng suddenly stopped while walking and looked warily at the tree not far away. When he saw clearly what he was holding, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

(End of this chapter)