Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 617 Going Home
After Wang An finished speaking, he ignored the laughter of the crowd and walked over to the basket containing the eagle eggs.

Wang An opened the lid and looked at the two eggs lying quietly inside. He thought for a while before starting to operate.

He first pulled out the sparrow feathers inside, then pulled out some of the Ula grass, and then Wang An put the two squirrels in with their backs facing up.

I have to say, the belly of this squirrel feels quite warm to the touch. It's just that squirrels are suffering from severe hair loss nowadays. A light touch will knock off a large clump of hair.

Then, Wang An put some sparrow feathers on the squirrel's belly, and then put the two precious eagle eggs on it.

The eagle egg is basically the same size as a chicken egg, but its color is different from that of the chicken egg.

Chicken eggs usually have red or white shells, while eagle eggs are grayish white with some red spots on them.

Of course, eagle eggs also have pure white eggs, but the color of these things is not important, just like chicken eggs, all colors are the same.

After placing the two eagle eggs and some sparrow feathers, Wang An finally put the remaining two squirrels on, but these two squirrels were lying on their bellies.

At this point, everyone gathered around curiously. It was obvious that everyone was still very curious about Wang An's bold move.

After Wang An covered it with some more Ula grass and stuffed the inner edges of the basket with Ula grass, Wang Shuai said with emotion:

"Xiao An, you are indeed my half-brother. You are so smart. Squirrels nesting together is something I have never seen or heard of before."

After Wang Shuai finished speaking, Wu Dong followed up by saying:

"Yeah, I don't even dare to think about it."

He Liang said with shining eyes:

"If you want to raise a bird in the future, just put a squirrel to hatch eggs. That's good enough."

Ma Guoqiang asked He Liang in confusion:
"There's a hen there, why do you have to put a squirrel in there?"

He Liang was stunned when he heard this, scratched his head and said:
"Yeah, you're just taking off your pants to fart."

After Wang An finished tinkering with the eagle egg, everyone discussed their experience in shooting slingshots before falling asleep.

There was no words all night, and in the blink of an eye it was dawn.

After breakfast and packing up, everyone continued walking towards home.

When passing by the two badger holes, I found that they had already been dug by someone.

That’s right, it was dug, not dug out.

Because badger holes are dug out by using smoke, or like Wang An, using bombs or firecrackers.

All you need to do is smoke or scare the badgers out of the hole, and then have someone guard the entrance to kill the badgers.

Digging a badger hole is a huge undertaking, and it is not something that can be accomplished by just one or two people.

Wang An had observed the two badger holes before, and they were both genuine old badger holes, which meant that there must be a large number of badgers inside.

This can be seen from the piles of earth dug out by the badgers.

Old soil added to new soil, new soil covered old soil, old soil covered old soil, and new soil covered new soil. It was impossible to tell how many years this badger hole had existed.

This was also confirmed by the excavation traces at the scene. The entire excavation area was about 100 square meters, which is the size of four large tiled houses. When Feng Chengmin saw this scene, he subconsciously sighed:

"The villagers in the whole village are desperate for food and have started to go into the mountains to find a solution."

In fact, everyone had thought of what Feng Chengmin said. The main reason was that the footprints here were too dense. There were both big and small ones, but most of them were from cloth shoes.

In other words, the people who participated in digging badger holes were basically ordinary people, and there might not be any hunters.

After hearing Feng Chengmin's words, Wu Dong asked doubtfully:
"Isn't there grain for sale? I remember that grain for sale can be bought on credit."

The returned grain that Wu Dong mentioned is actually a product unique to this era.

To put it simply, everyone had no food to eat, and then the superiors sold the public grain that everyone had paid back to everyone.

However, it should be noted that although the price of this kind of grain is slightly lower than that of grain at the grain station, and it can also be bought on credit in the name of the military garrison, it is limited in quantity.

The quota is normally based on population, that is, each person can only buy a certain amount, and it is not sold to you in unlimited quantities.

Of course, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that all of these are based on a premise.

The premise is that the area where the child is located is already poor and backward, or the area where the child is located has suffered from a natural disaster, resulting in severe grain harvest failures, etc.

In short, the people in this place really have no food to eat, so they will sell it to you.

So, after Wu Dong finished speaking, Feng Chengmin said:
"That could be because they didn't apply for the return of grain, or because there was too little to eat."

There is no certainty about this kind of thing, but in this season of lean season, life is not easy anywhere.

Since this badger hole was not dug out, there was no need to look for badger holes elsewhere. Even if they were found, they might have been dug out. In other words, Wang An's purchase of the ma Leizi would have been in vain.

On the following journey, everyone subconsciously quickened their pace. Except for shooting one or two slingshots and catching a few squirrels, sparrows, quails, etc., no one stopped intentionally.

But even so, when everyone arrived at DJ County, it was already two days later.

The injuries of Mu Xueli and Wang Li had also healed a lot, and most importantly, the bruises on their faces had disappeared.

However, the wounds on the faces of these two people had already scabbed over, and they looked quite hideous, which really affected their appearance.

Fortunately, the person is not seriously injured and is still as lively as ever.

However, when everyone passed by a small river, Mu Xueli and Wang Li were obviously in a bad mood after seeing their own appearance in the water.

Mu Xueli's mentality was pretty good, because after a while, he adjusted himself and continued with his talkative personality, as if the scar on his face didn't affect him at all.

Perhaps because Wang Li was still young, the disfigurement was a huge blow to him, so he basically remained silent.

It was as if he had completely forgotten what he said when he was rescued: "It's good to be alive."

Of course, everyone can understand this kind of thing. How much psychological endurance can a 17-year-old boy have?
At this moment, everyone who returned to DJ County had almost the same idea, which was "going home."

After a brief discussion, everyone separated. Wu Dong and Zhang Shuya and six others returned to the county town, while Wang An and Feng Chengmin and four others went directly back to Xing'an Township.

As for Zhang Shuya's concern about catching the forest frog, she seemed to have simply chosen to forget about it.

(End of this chapter)