Return to the small mountain village in 1983

After confirming it, Lin Heng did not act rashly, but left with Xiongba.

Because these guys are definitely not in the cave at this time.

After searching the area and finding no trace, he went to other places.

When it was almost dark, he heard the crowing of a golden rooster and headed towards that direction with Xiongba.

After walking a few steps here, Lin Heng heard other noises. He walked closer and said with a smile: "Hey, brother, you are here too."

"Shh, look over there, a golden rooster." Lin Yue hushed him, then pointed to the kudzu vine rack below and asked him to look.

Lin Heng took a look and found two golden roosters foraging inside, one male and one female. The female was hemp gray in color, while the male had bright red hair with a wisp of iconic golden hair on top of his head.

However, because they were far apart, it was difficult to kill two with one shot, so his eldest brother had not taken action yet.

After watching, Lin Yue pulled Lin Heng to a distance and said, "I came early. Now we'll wait until it gets dark and the golden rooster will go up to the tree to rest. Then we'll shoot them all."

"Then you wait for the fight. I'll go look for other places." Lin Heng said, and then said, "I found a marten cave. I think it's a yellow-throated marten. I didn't do anything. Let's go there and kill them all at noon tomorrow."

Lin Yue showed a surprised look: "The yellow-throated marten, the fur is very expensive, a litter must have at least three or four."

Lin Heng smiled and nodded: "Maybe, we'll go dig the hole when the time comes, they will definitely be in the hole at noon."

Mink meat tastes very good and its fur is very valuable, making it a very good prey.

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded in agreement.

Lin Heng said something to him again and then left to explore somewhere else.

As he walked, he listened to the calls of other birds. Not long after he walked, Lin Heng made a discovery.

There were two black balls on a tree in front of him. He walked closer but still couldn't see clearly, but he was sure they were two birds, most likely golden pheasants.

He took out his compound bow, found an angle, and shot the arrow without hesitation.

With a click, one chicken fell down, and the other flew away with a bang.

Lin Heng had no choice. The angle at which this guy was resting made it difficult to kill two birds with one stone.

When Xiongba picked it up, Lin Heng took a look and found that it was indeed a golden rooster. He happily put it away and rubbed Xiongba's head.

After walking down for a while, he heard gunshots coming from his eldest brother's side, and then he heard two more gunshots not long after.

"It looks like we have had a good harvest tonight." Lin Heng said to himself and walked towards the shelter.

On the way back, they had to pass a ditch. He looked around the ditch again. There were often bamboo partridges in this place, but he didn't find any after searching for a while.

It was already eleven o'clock when he returned to the shelter. When he came back, no one was in the shelter, so he lit a fire and boiled water to prepare cooking.

He felt that this place was quite ordinary. There were muntjacs and wild boars, but they were very cunning and he had not tracked down one in two days.

He boiled some water and made a cup of tea when his elder brother came back with two golden chickens and said, "The harvest wasn't very good today, so I killed these two."

"I'm just a golden rooster, even more miserable than you." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"It depends on what my uncles have gained. They fired several gunshots today." Lin Yue said after taking a sip of tea.

Lin Heng nodded and said, "Let's play for another day tomorrow and then go back."

"Okay, let's go back and try it in Sanchagou." Lin Yue also nodded, feeling that the effect here was not very good.

After waiting for half an hour, Lu Honghai came back, and his harvest was shocking.

"Uncle, your catch is too good." Lin Heng was shocked when he saw the dozen bamboo partridges hanging around his uncle's waist. He had been looking for a nest of bamboo partridges for a long time but couldn't find it. His uncle actually caught so many. It was really infuriating.

"Yes, it was me who poked the bamboo partridge. There must be more than a dozen of them, right?" Lin Yue was also very surprised.

Lu Honghai took the bamboo partridge down and said with a smile, "I was lucky enough to catch two nests of bamboo partridges, a total of 21. This was my best luck this year. I caught one nest first, and then I went over a mountain to catch another nest."

After pouring a glass of water, he shook his head and added, "Even this is not as good as your third uncle, he got a white rice seed."

"Bai Mi Zi!!" The two of them couldn't help but raise their voices a little.

Lu Honghai nodded: "Yes, I caught it before it got dark this afternoon. I don't know if I caught anything else."

After chatting for a while, they sat down and boiled water in an iron pot to scald the gilded chicken and bamboo chicken to make it easier to pluck their feathers.

Just after the golden chicken was scalded, Lu Honggang came back. Lin Heng asked with a smile: "Third uncle, besides the white rice, did you catch anything else?"

"No, I didn't encounter anything. This grain of rice weighs 20 kilograms. I found it under the kiwi fruit forest."

He threw the rice on the ground and distributed the kiwis he had picked up to everyone.

The kiwi fruit at this time of year is already soft, tastes extra sweet and has a very good texture.

After eating the kiwi fruit, everyone looked at the white rice, and then continued to soak the chicken. After plucking the hair, they took it to the puddle in the ditch with a flashlight to clean it.

The white rice grains were peeled and their internal organs were cleaned by the pond after being killed. I simply had a bowl of sauerkraut noodles in the evening.

The next morning, Xiongba set out hunting early and found a new wild boar trail, but it disappeared halfway through the chase.

"Let's go and hunt the yellow-throated marten you mentioned." Lin Yue followed and said.

"Let's go. I have prepared the resin." Lin Heng nodded. In the morning, he passed by a pine tree that was leaking resin and took some white resin.

Walking in that direction, we soon arrived near the cave, but we made a discovery before we got close.

Lin Heng suddenly stopped and patted his eldest brother, motioning him to look ahead. He saw five yellow-throated martens wandering in the woods, tearing open rotten bark to look for insects hidden inside.

"What should we do?" Lin Yue asked in a low voice.

"Just try shooting, hit as many as you can." Lin Heng said in a low voice.

There is no other way now. There is no way to wait for it to return to the cave. I don’t know how long it will take, so I will just fight it first.

Lin Yue nodded, slowly stretched out his hunting rifle and looked for an opportunity. Lin Heng took out his bow and arrow and prepared himself.

At a good opportunity, Lin Yue fired a shot without hesitation. With a bang, two yellow-throated martens fell to the ground, and the remaining three fled away at an incredible speed.

"Hongba!"

Lin Heng shouted and gave up archery because he couldn't aim at all.

Needless to say, the two dogs, Xiongba and Haoyun, chased out one after the other. A few minutes later, Xiongba came back with a yellow-throated marten in his mouth, while Haoyun returned empty-handed.

But it’s not its fault. Xiongba caught the injured yellow-throated marten, and the remaining two uninjured ones ran too fast.

"Not bad. The three of them weigh about 11 or 12 pounds in total." Lin Yue said as he held up three yellow-throated martens.

"Well, the remaining two can be used as seeds. It won't be good to kill them all." Lin Heng nodded. When he was short of money, he would naturally not let go of any possible prey. Now that he is not so tight on money, he is also willing to develop sustainably.

After taking the yellow-throated marten, they looked for other prey in the afternoon, but unfortunately, they didn't find any for the whole afternoon.

The yellow muntjac was still calling a few days ago, but it has not even called out in the past two days. It seemed to have sensed the presence of humans and ran away early.

"You can do it today. Three yellow-throated martens are more valuable than all of us." Lu Honghai said during dinner in the evening.

"It's also good luck." Lin Heng smiled. He had two yellow-throated martens and his elder brother had one. Now the marten skins have been peeled off. Lu Honggang sighed: "It's a pity that we didn't catch the deer. Deer meat is delicious."

Lu Honghai said: "Let's go back tomorrow morning, and then go hunting together next time when it snows."

"Okay, it looks like it's going to snow soon." Lin Yue nodded.

"If it snows, you can just come down and we'll go to Sanchagou." Lin Heng said.

After finishing their meal, the three of them fell asleep quickly on the straw beds. The next morning they did not continue hunting, but packed up and went back.

After returning to the house, the uncle asked his wife to cook, and he drank a few cups of wine with Lin Heng and others. He also fried some white rice meat and bamboo chicken meat.

Lin Heng gave some of the yellow-throated marten meat to his two uncles, and also harvested the bamboo partridge and centipede meat they gave him.

The two brothers walked back talking and laughing as they carried their things. Although they didn't get much in the past three days, hunting in the woods was still very fun.

When Lin Heng returned to the house and opened the door, he smelled a faint aroma of stewed food. He picked up all the children who rushed over and lifted them up high before walking into the house.

"Braising tofu!"

Lin Heng said with a smile as he looked at Xiulan who was busy in the kitchen.

"This is the third time I've braised it. It's delicious after being marinated for the third time." Xiulan said with a smile.

Lin Heng took out the harvest from the bag and said, "The harvest from this hunting trip was average. One grouse, two yellow-throated martens, white rice meat and three bamboo partridges were all given by my eldest uncle and third uncle."

"That's not bad at all, it's very good now." Xiulan said with a smile.

"Dad is the best!" Xiaoxia said loudly, raising her little hands.

"Dad is the best!"

“The best!”

The two little twin boys at the back also cheered like the cheerleaders.

Lin Heng patted the children's heads and said with a smile, "Take a rest for two days. I will go to Sanchagou again to see if I can bring back a big prey."

Xiulan picked the spider silk from his hair and said, "Then go sit down and have a rest. I'll make some braised tofu for you to eat."

Lin Heng nodded and took the children to the main room. He added some firewood to the fireplace and boiled a pot of water. Lin Heng made a dendrobium and saffron tea and poured a cup for Xiulan and the children.

After resting for a while, he took the electric kettle to the bedroom to take a shower. When he came out, Xiulan had already lit a pot of charcoal. She put the bamboo baking basket on it and put the tofu in it to dry.

"The noodles are ready." Seeing Lin Heng coming out, Xiulan went to the kitchen and brought him noodles. It was a bowl of oil-splashed pulled noodles. The rich aroma whetted Lin Heng's appetite.

“It smells so good!”

Lin Heng said this, sat down, stirred it evenly, and ate it all in a few mouthfuls. Then he drank a cup of tea and leaned comfortably on the sofa.

After drinking a sip of water, Xiulan sat beside him, and Lin Heng held her soft and white hand in his palm.

Xiulan blinked at him and said, "You need to put on some facial cream. Your face is all cracked from the wind these days."

"Well, I forgot to bring facial cream. It's windy on the mountain." Lin Heng said with a smile.

He laid his head on Xiulan's thighs and looked up at her. Xiulan reached out and touched his face, then let him lie there.

After resting for a while, Lin Heng looked at the dried tofu again. He smelled delicious and his appetite was aroused.

"You can eat it now. I can make it cold or stir-fry for you in the evening." Xiulan walked over and said.

"Just make a simple meal in the evening and eat it another day." Lin Heng looked at her and said.

She must be busy making tofu and must be tired, so I don’t want her to be tired of cooking a large table of dinner.

"That's fine." Xiulan nodded in agreement.

Lin Heng put the mink meat and golden chicken and bamboo chicken into the freezer, then asked Xiulan what she wanted to do in the afternoon and he would accompany her.

"There's nothing to do now, so just take a good rest at home." Xiulan said after thinking for a while.

Actually, she wanted to go out, but considering it would be troublesome for the children to follow her, she decided not to go.

"Okay then!" Lin Heng spread his hands, took a walk near his home, came back and ate an orange and two kiwis, then went to Red Maple Mountain.

He went to check on the slim fish he had raised, the water in the mountain stream was good so the fish were all safe and sound, but they didn't look very slim.

When he got back, he picked some wild garlic by the field. At this time, the wild garlic had generally grown a little bigger and looked like garlic sprouts.

I put a lot of wild garlic in the noodles in the evening. After a simple meal, I washed up and went to bed early.

After coaxing the two children to sleep, Lin Heng turned off the light and whispered something into Xiulan's ear.

Xiulan first slapped his face angrily, then tied her hair up with a rubber band.

Lin Heng looked at her pretty face which was flushed in the flickering firelight and kissed her.

Lin Heng, who was a little hungry, ate a lot of snacks and munched on the big white steamed bun.

As the love deepened, Xiulan also ate the food Lin Heng fed her and felt a little full for a while.

……

In a blink of an eye, it was the next morning. When Lin Heng woke up, he saw a beautiful scene. Xiulan was sleeping in his arms, with one of her long legs resting on his waist.

Lin Heng held her in his arms and continued to rest. The in-depth physical and mental communication made the two of them more harmonious.

Xiulan opened her eyes, stretched her sore body, looked at Lin Heng, and kissed him on the mouth.

Lin Heng responded to her that he didn't care about anything and had already tried everything.

"Get up, get up, today we are going to grind konjac tofu!"

Xiulan broke the kiss, climbed up from Lin Heng's arms, and put on her clothes one by one to cover up her nose-bleed-enough figure.

"It's time to get up." Lin Heng smiled. Today he just felt clear-headed and comfortable all over, as if he had entered a state of enlightenment.

After they finished their exercise, they made breakfast and woke up the children as usual.

In the morning they took out the konjac they had made last time, cleaned it, peeled it, and ground it into a fine paste on a grinder with scissors, adding alkaline water while grinding.

The couple cooperate with each other and do not feel tired at work. Their busy little life makes them feel very fulfilled.

"Okay, smooth it out and let it calm down for a while before cutting it into pieces and putting it in the pot to cook."

After grinding the konjac, Xiulan wiped the sweat off Lin Heng's face and said with a smile.

She especially liked watching Lin Heng working with her, and thought he was very charming, and her body and mind were completely occupied by him.

Especially after he sweated, she liked to wipe his sweat.

(End of this chapter)