Chapter 22: Digging Badgers!(Ask for Recommendations, Ask for Collections)

After digging ginseng, Jia Yijia took Jia Lei to dig a guise - a badger used to boil oil to cure diseases!

"This is the badger's hole, you help me find two more holes around that big. Jia Yijia found the prey's lair with years of experience and said, Jia Lei and Dasha immediately looked for it carefully.

"Dasha, have you found it?" Jia Lei shouted as he looked for it.

"No!" Dasha replied.

"I found it. Jia Yijia said, and then he cut a lot of branches and weeds from the side to block the hole.

"I've found both, what's next?" Jia Lei asked.

"Dig a hole! Come on, Dasha, just dig down this hole. Jia Yijia handed the hoe to Dasha, and Dasha immediately took it happily.

"Won't digging the badgers inside scare away?" asked Jia Lei.

"No, this thing is hibernating! Winter is a good time to dig badgers, this thing doesn't run. Jia Yijia said.

However, the badger hole is not so easy to dig, the deepest of the three caves is also more than thirty meters long, and there are many forks in the road like a labyrinth, but the old hunter has experience, Jia Yijia will not dig all the way according to the trend of the cave, it will be too laborious.

"Stop! This hole I picked is not the deepest, and we can't keep digging it, because some of the holes here are fake. Jia Yijia said when Dasha slashed into a fork, and then he jumped into the pit and looked at the two holes and pointed to the hole on the right.

"Dig this way. Don't dig along the hole, you come here to dig!" Jia Yijia pointed to the right side of the hole more than 30 centimeters and said, Dasha immediately passed.

After digging for a while and changing places, after four or five places in a row, Dasha finally dug a ditch that could be five or six meters long, during which Jia Yijia had to dig a pit with a hoe and he took turns digging a pit, after all, digging a pit with a hoe in winter was too laborious, and Dasha couldn't be allowed to work alone.

"Alright, you two go back and stretch the bag open for me, and I'll do the rest myself. Jia Yijia threw away the hoe and took out the long iron hook he brought from the wooden house.

"Uncle Lobby, what are you doing with the hook?" Jia Lei asked curiously, this hook is more than a meter long.

"Hooked badgers, human hands are not so long. And badgers are very fierce when they first wake up, and they will bite!" Jia Yijia said and lay on the ground, stretched the hook into the cave, and tried to hook left and right.

"Squeak!" a badger screamed, hooked out in a daze, Jia Yijia quickly grabbed it and threw it into the bag, it was too cold outside, and the badger was motionless and shrunk up.

"Caught, caught!" Jia Lei shouted excitedly.

"Anything else?" Dasha asked, looking at the cave.

"Also, it's too cold in winter! There can be three or four in a hole!" Jia Yijia said, and then he hooked two other badgers out of the same hole.

"Alright, no," Jia Yijia said, then he stood up and patted the snow and dirt stuck to his body, and crawled out of the pit with one step on his legs.

"It's not good-looking, it's hard to find meat, is it worth it to go to such great lengths to grab it?" Jia Lei asked, weighing the bag.

"This thing can be used as a brush, the price is not high! The skin is very warm, you can make a hand holder, and the most useful thing is probably badger oil." After the scald, the badger oil can be smeared without leaving a scar, and the badger oil can cure the old cough that does not heal for many years! It can remove the root of the disease! When making vegetable stew, put a small spoonful of badger oil, and when the cabbage comes out of the pot, it is still green as before it goes in. Jia Yijia said, that's why he worked so hard to catch badgers.

(The usage and effect of badger oil are real, the grandfather of the maker is a hunter, and he personally took out badger oil for my mother to cure cough!)

"Badgers have so many benefits, so they won't be caught and extinct?" Jia Lei asked.

"No, it won't. Although badger oil has many benefits, it is too difficult to catch! The holes are difficult to find, and there are many holes to be dug, which are rarely caught by ordinary hunters. With such a lot of effort, it is more money to shoot a deer or put on a few more sets of pheasants and rabbits than badgers, and it is too tiring to dig a pit in winter! Ordinary hunters will not do it!" Jia Yijia said, if it weren't for his mother, Mrs. Jia would not have come to dig out the badger if it weren't for his mother, Mrs. Jia, who had been coughing a little lately.

"It's going to be dark at 4 o'clock, shall we go back?" Jia Lei said as he looked at his watch and then at the sky. Winter in the Northeast is short, sometimes it gets dark at five o'clock, and the sun goes down earlier in the mountains than outside.

"We have to hurry up, or we won't be able to see the road when it's dark." The flashlight is too close to shine and it doesn't work!" Jia Yijia picked up the bag containing the badger and carried it, holding the hoe in her right hand and preparing to leave.

"Dasha, you put Jia Lei on your back, don't put it down all the way, otherwise we won't be able to go back!" Jia Yijia said, Dasha nodded hurriedly.

"Uncle give me the hoe, I'll take it!" Jia Lei shouted on Dasha's back, and Jia Yijia handed him the hoe and walked with the hook himself.

I don't dare to give this hook to Jia Lei and Dasha, two novices, otherwise if they hook a branch or something while walking, they will both fall.

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Jia Lei: When they hurried back to the wooden house, the sun was just setting, Jia Lei was not in the mood to enjoy the magnificent sunset at this time, he just wanted to go back early, spending the night in the deep mountains and old forests was not as good as it was on TV, the temperature in the northeast of the month could reach more than 30 degrees below zero at night, and it was possible to freeze to death if he slept outside.

"Big brother, you're finally back, and if you don't come back, we'll go looking for you. Jia Lao Liu took the bag from Jia Yijia at the door and said.

"Don't worry, I have a number! I didn't go far with my two children! But today I encountered an extra ginseng that delayed the time. Jia Yijia said.

"Uncle Six, I dug up ginseng, I dug it up with my own hands. Jia Lei hurriedly said, this is a big deal.

"No! I found the ginseng, I dug it with my own hands!" Dasha hurriedly said, knowing that he was going to take this treasure home.

"Don't talk nonsense, you two go inside and go to the fire, it's been freezing outside for a day. Jia Lao Liu pushed Jia Lei into the house and said.

"Huh, why is it so dark all of a sudden?" Jia Lei said as he looked up at the sun, only to see that half of the sun's body had already fallen behind the mountain, and the wooden house was in the shadow in front of the mountain, so it was dark quickly.

"This sun is so red! I have rarely seen a sunset so red outside!" Jia Lei said as he looked at the crimson sunset.

The winter sunset hung red in the sky, half of the body was buried under the silver snow peak, it looked as beautiful as an oil painting, and the sun at this time had no light at all, only the red round outline remained......

The sunset in the mountain was very fast, it had completely fallen in less than three minutes, Jia Lei looked at the bottom of the mountain and found that there was still sunlight shining in the clearing under the mountain, and there was no red light of the sunset.

"There are two heavens on the mountain and under the mountain! The desert is lonely, and the sun sets on the long river. It's a pity that no poet will go to the mountains and old forests to collect wind, otherwise he will definitely leave a lot of good stories. Jia Lei sighed, and immediately ran into the house to roast the fire.

"What is this?" As soon as Jia Lei entered the house, he collided with a prey on the ground with big eyes!

"Don't you know the deer, stupid!" Jia Xiaoliu jumped out and laughed at Jia Lei and asked.

"Of course I know, I was just unprepared to be scared by it just now!" Jia Lei said as he looked at the deer's big eyes.

"Okay, don't laugh at your cousin, Jia Lei is a child in the city, how have you seen a dead deer!" Jia Lao Liu walked over and kicked his son and said, Jia Xiaoliu screamed and ran away.

"We were lucky enough to meet a herd of deer today, and we shot two deer, one male and one female!" Jia Lao Liu said proudly.

Jia Yijia and the cousins around him whispered, everyone praised him for his ability to coax Jia Lei and them around, and the deer has very good ears!

Jia Lei and Dasha are not hunters, they will not walk lightly, if they go with them, let alone deer today, I am afraid they will not even be able to fight rabbits.

"This antler is awesome, don't sell it, sell it to me!" Jia Lei said as he touched the antlers on the buck's head that were half a meter wide and sharp.

"Don't be kidding, can this deer be sold for five or six thousand yuan?" can you afford it?" Jia Xiaoliu said politely.

"Little Liu, don't you know that my only strength is that I don't have bad money?" Jia Lei looked at him like an idiot.

"I'll give you 8,000 yuan for this deer!" Jia Lei said, it feels great to be rich!

"Who do you call Xiaoliu, I'm older than you!" Jia Xiaoliu jumped up and said.