Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

Mother Lin sighed and said, "Alas, the so-called gratitude is repaid with hatred, that's how it should be."

"There are too many poor people, even if they want to lend us this little money, it's not enough." Father Lin shook his head and said.

Lin Heng is actually willing to help some people in distress, but in many cases he will not be appreciated, but will cause harm.

What he wants to do is to set up a company, make it bigger and stronger, and let everyone make money. It's right. It's meaningless to borrow money like this.

"Let's not talk about this, let's eat meat." Lin Heng picked up the chopsticks and picked up a chopstick of mutton for Xiulan's parents.

Xiulan also smiled and said, "Indeed, we eat meat. Tomorrow is New Year's Day, and we can also celebrate it."

"Dad, I want to eat yam." Xiaoxia said with her head tilted. After eating some honey lilies, her cough symptoms have been very mild.

"Okay, I'll get it for you." Lin Heng went to the kitchen to get a yam, washed it, cut it into small pieces and brought it over. This wild yam does not need to be peeled, otherwise it will not be picked up.

The yam was cooked in a few minutes. Mother Lin took a spoon and scooped some for Xiaoxia and Xiulan.

"Grandma, put it in this bowl. I want to eat it with hawthorn jam." Xiaoxia took a bowl and said.

"Okay." Mother Lin smiled and put it in for her, and brought some hawthorn jam.

Father Lin ate a piece of mutton and asked with a smile: "Xiulan will give birth soon, right?"

Lin Heng nodded and said: "Almost, it will be more than a month. We may not be able to spend the New Year at home this year. We can only come back after the New Year."

There is a leap month in the lunar calendar this year. The Spring Festival will be on February 20th of the solar calendar in 1985. By then, he and Xiulan should still be in the city.

Mother Lin looked up and asked: "When do you plan to go to the city to give birth?"

She used to find a midwife to come to her house when she gave birth. She was a little envious of Xiulan being taken care of so well, but this was also reasonable. She wanted to hold her grandson.

Xiulan smiled and responded: "Lin Heng originally said he would go in January, but I think it's a bit early, so we decided to go on January 10th."

Father Lin nodded and said: "We should go to the hospital earlier. You see, many women in the village don't trust hospitals. Their babies died when they were delivered at home. We can't save this little money."

Although Father Lin has never been educated, he is still very clear about the issues of right and wrong.

"Then do you want to go together, mom and dad?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

Mother Lin shook her head: "No, we will watch the door. When your sister is on vacation, you can take her to help."

"That's fine." Lin Heng didn't force it. He knew this would be the result.

After saying that, he also scooped a piece of wild yam to eat. It was cooked for less than five minutes, and the yam was too big to be picked up with chopsticks. It was rotten with a bang.

Everyone spent the last half of the 84th year of the Gregorian calendar in a happy hot pot. In the evening, Caiyun came back and the hot pot was still there. She added some charcoal and continued to eat mutton hot pot.

At night, Lin Heng held Xiulan and slept until 1985. On the morning of New Year's Day, the two got up together. It was freezing outside, with white frost everywhere, and a thick layer of ice formed on the surface of the fish pond.

Xiulan exhaled white air and said, "It's strange to say that it hasn't snowed on New Year's Day this year, but it seemed to have snowed at the end of November last year."

Lin Heng looked at his wife and said, "Indeed, but it's good this way. I can go hunting in the mountains today. I will stay for two or three days this time and won't come back."

Xiulan said softly, "Go ahead. When you come back, we should go to the city, and you won't be able to hunt by then."

Her fetal movement has been quite serious in the past two days, so it's time to go to the hospital for a good check-up.

"Okay."

Lin Heng nodded, and went to the back mountain with Xiulan to squeeze milk. When they came back, Caiyun had woken up and went to dress Xiaoxia and called her up.

After exercising and eating breakfast, Lin Heng took hunting tools, food and other equipment, and then took Xiongba and called his eldest brother to go up the mountain together.

Lin Yue took his five black dogs with him today. It didn't matter whether they went hunting or not. He would be warm even if he slept with them in his arms at night. He looked at Lin Heng and asked, "Are you targeting Birch Cliff?"

"Yes, Birch Cliff." Lin Heng nodded.

Lin Yue sighed and said, "It's just that if we go there now, we can't find ginseng."

We had agreed to go there a long time ago, but we didn't expect to set off until now.

"That can't be helped." Lin Heng smiled and spread his hands.

The two chatted as they walked. Today they were mainly on the road, and hunting would not start until the afternoon.

Lin Heng asked Xiongba to lead the way in front. The two first arrived at the Shuijinggou side. The water in the ditch was frozen, and icebergs made of icicles formed on the stone wall.

They didn't encounter any prey along the way, and they didn't have much hope for this place, after all, cattle herders often come here.

When the sun came out, they had already reached the top of the hill on the Shuijinggou side. The trees gradually became taller. Lin Heng suddenly stopped while walking and took out a slingshot from his waist.

Soon a red squirrel appeared in his hand: "Today is the opening day."

Lin Yue said: "Let's go faster and see if there are any prey in Baishigou."

He was no longer interested in these small prey.

Then the two of them sped up and arrived at Baishigou at about 9:30. Baishigou in winter is quite desolate, with gray-white stones, scattered leaves, and bare trees that seem to be big hands reaching to the sky.

Looking up, there is no sign of life, only a few evergreen shrubs are still green.

They were a little disappointed when they found no trace of the prey. After resting here for a while, they continued to climb over the mountains and ridges towards the birch cliff.

The forest here became taller and denser. Lin Heng accidentally discovered some frozen and wilted Enoki mushrooms and reached out to pick them up.

"Come on, this is the excrement of a yellow muntjac." Lin Yue suddenly said.

Lin Heng came over and saw that it had been done recently. He asked Xiong Ba to follow him, but he only ran about half way up the mountain before losing track of him.

However, as we arrived here, the number of traces of animals gradually increased, and then we found traces of wild boars, which we tracked for a long time and lost again.

In the blink of an eye, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. The two of them looked up and saw snow-white trees appearing in front of them. These were birches.

Lin Yue took a sip of water and said with emotion: "We finally arrived at Birch Cliff. This place is really difficult to walk."

Lin Heng nodded and said, "It's hard to leave. Let's quickly find a place to build a shelter. Once we've built it, it's almost time to hunt at night."

Birch Cliff is too far away, there are almost no roads to get here, and all they walk through are animal paths.

The birch trees here are generally more than ten meters high, and there are some large trees that are more than twenty or thirty meters tall, with golden leaves on the ground. It is said that every autumn, the cliff is golden with no other colors, so it is called Birch Cliff.

The two climbed over the mountain and came to a ditch below. There was a mountain stream here, which was all frozen. They found a flat bank and built a shelter.

We used the surrounding birch trees as the skeleton, and then cut some small birch trees with thick wrists to build the frame. Finally, the frame was filled with branches and leaves, and a layer of thin film paper was laid on top for waterproofing.

It took them more than two hours to finally build the shelter, making a simple door and a smokeless stove using a hollow tree as a chimney.

After finishing, the two took a rest. Lin Heng took the pot and went out to collect water. When passing by the water, Lin Heng accidentally discovered a chaga mushroom.

"nice one."

Lin Heng broke it off and went to take a pot of water back to the shelter.

Lin Yue had also lit up the fire in the shelter, and it immediately felt a lot warmer. Lin Heng put the pot on the stove, threw the chaga mushroom in and cooked it.

"Can this chaga be sold too?" Lin Yue asked.

"Yes, it can lower blood sugar and prevent diabetes." Lin Heng nodded.

This stuff is a very good medicinal material, but they don’t have much of it here, and the purchase price is a little lower than Phellinus linteum.

After the water boiled, the two drank some hot water, then took out the noodles and put them in.

Mother Lin made the noodles herself. Lin Heng bought her a noodle mixer, and she thought about drying the noodles by herself.

After the noodles are cooked, take them out and mix them with the mushroom sauce that Lin Heng brought from home. This mushroom sauce is made from a variety of precious mushrooms and is extremely fragrant.

"Let's go, it's time to explore."

Lin Yue said impatiently after eating.

"Then let's go and have a look." Lin Heng didn't refuse, took Xiongba with him, and went out with the noose and clamp.

The male bully searches for traces of some prey, and he sets traps or rope traps on the animal paths where these prey have been.

At first, I only saw a few sparse footprints. Xiongba explored all the way and found a pile of feces like string beans in the first moment.

"Xiongba, come on, it's up to you whether we can get some meat tonight."

Lin Heng touched Xiong Ba's head and said excitedly.

"Woo~"

The male bully whined and continued searching, and after a while it stopped in front of a birch tree.

Lin Heng came closer and smelled it, and a strong odor hit his nostrils, but he became a little excited because these were the odor glands of the roe deer, which are used by male roe deer to mark their territory.

"It seems that we really have hope today." Lin Yue touched Xiongba's neck and became excited.

Then he quickly opened the bow bag and took the compound bow in his hand, ready to attack at any time.

And you will check whether there is anything reflective or a special smell on your body. He gave Xiulan the ring and other things when he went up the mountain. It was not suitable to bring those things with him when hunting.

Xiongba sniffed around for the scent information left in the air, distinguishing the traces of the roe deer.

Before they knew it, they were out of the birch forest. We came to a forest of mixed trees, and not long after walking, we saw another downhill slope. The slope was barren, filled with low shrubs.

Lin Heng carefully stood behind the tree and observed. After walking a few steps, he suddenly held his breath. He saw a silly roe deer with big ears not far below, eating grass and looking around warily.

It was only fifty meters away from him.

Lin Heng didn't hunt for a long time, so he felt a little unconfident. He looked around, got five or six meters closer, and then found an opportunity when the cat lowered its head to eat grass, took a bow and shot an arrow.

call out! !

"Ouch!! Ouch!!"

With an exhausted scream, the stupid roe deer jumped and ran down the mountain, with a sharp arrow pierced through its chest.

"Woof woof woof!!"

Xiongba finally stopped restraining himself and ran wildly to chase after him.

As soon as they reached the top of the mountain, the silly roe deer fell down, and blood continued to flow from his chest.

"rest in peace!"

Lin Heng came over and cut off its main artery with a knife, allowing the blood to flow out even more violently, allowing Xiong Ba to drink to his fill.

"It's so awesome Xiong Ba!"

Looking at the roe deer lying on the ground, Lin Heng couldn't help but pick up Xiongba and spin it around. This guy was so awesome today that he actually smelled the traces of a stupid roe deer.

"Awoo!"

Xiongba licked Lin Heng's hand happily, he wanted to eat meat tonight.

"Don't worry, you will definitely have meat to eat today." Lin Heng understood what he meant, he was never a stingy person.

Xiongba was even happier.

When the blood was almost drained, Lin Heng picked up the male roe deer and weighed it, grinning: "The roe deer just entering winter are fat, this one must be more than 50 kilograms."

He pinched the body, all of them were pieces of solid meat, and the two horns on the head had not fallen off, which was also a happy thing for Lin Heng.

He looked at the watch, it was already 5:55, it was almost dark in the deep mountains, and the distance they had chased was five or six kilometers.

"Let's go back."

Carrying the roe deer on his shoulders, Lin Heng led Xiongba back, took out the pendant compass from his chest, and walked along the easy road towards the shelter.

He was too focused when he was chasing, and now he is a little lost when he goes back. But it doesn't matter, everything will be fine with a compass.

It was dark in a blink of an eye, and he heard two gunshots. Obviously, his elder brother also found something.

But judging from the sound, he still had a long way to go home, and he couldn't walk fast with things on his shoulders.

It was dark, and it was still a little scary in this deep mountain. Fortunately, Xiongba was with him, so he didn't feel so lonely.

As he walked, Xiongba suddenly stopped. Lin Heng shone the flashlight over in confusion and was stunned.

Then he leaned over to take a closer look and said in surprise: "There are bear footprints in this place!"

Although this trace is a long time old, it is definitely a bear footprint. I just don't know if it is from a black bear or a panda. If you can see feces, you can see feces.

"Forget it, let's explore again tomorrow morning."

Lin Heng cut down two nearby trees as thick as his arms as a mark, and continued to walk back carrying the roe deer.

He didn't expect to be attacked by a bear, because it was winter now, and both pandas and black bears had already hibernated.

He walked back to the shelter at around seven in the evening. He could see the light of fire from afar, and his elder brother had already returned.

"Brother, you are finally back. If you hadn't come back, I would have been worried to death."

Seeing the flashlight, Lin Yue came out to greet him.

When he came to Lin Heng, he was stunned: "Oh my God, you shot a roe deer?"

His eyes were wide open, and his mouth couldn't close for a long time. He really couldn't believe that Lin Heng had shot a roe deer on the first day.

"It's also lucky that Xiongba tracked it down."

Lin Heng explained with a smile, and then said, "Let's go back to the shelter to deal with the roe deer quickly. It will be difficult to cut it up when it is completely cold."