Chapter 231: Search
However, before Li Qin was about to take Xiaohu into the mountain, Xiaohu was in a hurry to grab Li Qin's clothes. www.biquge.info At first, she thought that Xiaohu was a little irritable after being injured, but later she found out that Xiaohu was not like this. Xiaohu is in trouble!
When the people in the mountains heard that Aunt Ge and Li Qin were going into the mountains to look for Uncle Ge and Yu Fei, they all thought that the two of them were crazy. Entering the deep mountains is different from the path that they have to go out of the mountains, and it is even more different from the place where they usually pick mushrooms, fungus, and mountain vegetables! Entering the mountains, accidents will happen at any time, just rely on the only three hunting dogs left between the two of them, can you do it? All of them now don't dare to easily plan a route into the mountain, just with the two of them?
Aunt Ge also knew the danger of entering the mountain, she agreed to give ten taels of silver for an IOU for a hunting dog, and if she came back safely later, she would exchange the IOU with a hunting dog, and in addition, she would give the other party an additional honorarium of two taels of silver.
A well-trained, brave, and pure-blooded hound is only eight taels of silver, so the price given by Aunt Ge should be very high. But in the mountains at this time, there are very few hunters themselves, and hunting dogs are even more precious, even if everyone knows that the price given by Aunt Ge is attractive, they don't dare to agree casually.
However, others disagree, but Aunt Yao has to agree. First, her relationship with Aunt Ge and Li Qin is there, and secondly, there is no man in her family, and the hounds are far less valuable to her than others.
Aunt Ge still has two hunting dogs left in her house, Aunt Yao's family has three, and Li Qin's family has one. Aunt Ge left Ge Xiaoyun to take care of the house, and asked Aunt Yao to help take care of it, so she went into the mountain with Li Qin, six hounds and a lynx.
Except for the place where he left home at the beginning, which was trampled by the hunter for a long time, there was a road, and after walking for about two hours, there was no road, and everything could only rely on Xiaohu's sense of smell and move forward slowly.
Not only the little tigers, but even the hounds are constantly sniffing, leaving marks at the roots of the trees from time to time.
The more it was in the afternoon, the more cautious Li Qin and the others became, because they might have reached the range of activities that used to be blind bears.
It is impossible to say that you are not afraid, or to go forward bravely. Even if Aunt Ge has lived in the mountains for more than 20 years, it is the first time she has actually entered the mountains. The fear of the unknown and the uncertainty of the future make them feel furious. Coupled with the occasional rustling sound in the grass and the strange cries of animals in the woods every once in a while, the cold hairs of the two of them stood on end. People in the mountains said that they went into the mountains to be whimsical, and when they arrived in the mountains, they also realized that what they thought at the beginning was indeed too simple.
Suddenly, Li Qin and the others saw a cloth bag on the ground! This is a small bag that hunters will carry around diagonally, and they will carry some things that they can pick up at any time, such as wild eggs, lion's mane mushrooms, and so on. The top of the cloth pocket has become sunny because of a few rains, and there are some dead leaves on it, and there is probably something scratched, and the cloth on the face is somewhat open, and the strap is broken, but it is not opened. Because the normal cloth pocket will have a folded ear on it, and there is a button on it. In this way, while the hunter is running, there is no need to worry about the contents falling out.
Li Qin hurried over and was about to pick it up, when he heard something moving in the grass in front of him!
The hound made a low warning sound, and Li Qin knew that this was not the time for her to be curious!
Quickly, Li Qin stopped moving, and then slowly touched the knife in his hand in the direction of the grass, and then slowly made a defensive posture, and then, gently retreated-
Like her, Aunt Ge is also retreating, and they have to try to stay away from this range-
Finally, I felt that I had retreated a few feet away, Aunt Ge pointed to a low branch, Li Qin looked, it turned out that on the branch, a blind bear with a round figure was lying there!
It's dangerous!
At this time, the big guy could only follow Xiaohu around again, and after looking for a while, he finally found the smell left before.
Both understand the difficulty of entering the mountain. The traces left by the hunters, after a few days of heavy rain, were almost washed clean. It also took many days for the two lynx to have a clue. And now, three days have passed since Xiaohu came back, and the mountains and forests are so big, how many traces of Xiaohu can be left?
The hunters' feet were very fast, especially when they were still in order to avoid the bear blind, they were a little panicked, and they ran faster, so Li Qin's speed was much slower than them, and when they couldn't see the sun in the woods, they still didn't find any of the iconic spots that the hunters said.
The dark night in the mountains is dangerous. Fortunately, they brought Xiaohu with them.
The tiger cub is a cave animal, and it is usually very good at finding a nest that suits him. So soon, it found a cave, but the cave was really small, and it could only barely be bent in, and it was almost impossible to lie down.
Actually, it's nice to have a place to rest, and it's less dangerous than sitting on the ground in the open. So the two took advantage of the time before dark to clear a large area in front of the cave, and they needed to light a few bonfires around it to prevent the beasts from attacking at night.
There are a lot of dead branches and rotten leaves in the mountains. With a lot of effort, the two of them built a total of three bonfires, just enough to block the place in front of the cave. In addition, a good amount of firewood was prepared, ready to be added to the fire at any time.
Six hounds fan-shaped on the outside of the cave and on the inside of the bonfire, protecting the cave from the wind.
Naturally, dinner was not as good as what they had eaten at home, and even they didn't dare to catch game to roast. I'm afraid that the taste is too fragrant and will cause trouble.
So they ate dried meat made by Li Qin at home for dinner.
This kind of jerky is improved by Li Qin on the basis of salted bacon. Usually the salted bacon made by hunters is to dry in the shade at home after marinating until the skin is hard, and then take it to the eaves to continue to dry, sometimes it will be sun-soaked for a period of time during the day, but the mountain breeze at night can keep the jerky a certain amount of moisture. Li Qin cut the meat into small strips, added things such as pepper powder, large material powder and mountain pepper seedling powder before pickling, and then took out these small meat strips to air dry like making salty bacon, and when the air dried to be relatively dry, but still had a certain toughness, take it back, smear some oil, and then put it in an empty iron pot to bake. When it's cooked, take it out and dry it again. It looks simple, but the whole process takes a few days.
However, one of the benefits of this jerky is that it smells small, but it tastes meaty. And this is serious meat, it is very hungry, and it is just right to carry it when you enter the mountain!