Chapter 0219 - Hunting Picnic with Beauty
Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom.
Although this poem in "Bai Xue Ge Sends the Military Judge Back to Beijing" by the great poet Cen Shen describes the spectacular scene of sudden heavy snow in the north, in Zeng Cheng's view, it is a true portrayal of his farm orchard in reality.
Less than three days after Zeng Cheng saw sporadic pear blossoms blooming in the orchard, the hill where the pear trees were planted had changed dramatically in a short period of time. Snow-white pear blossoms emerge from the flower bones, blooming their own beauty under the warm spring sun, and they are announcing to people that spring has really come!
Thousands of pear trees of different varieties are planted on a hill of nearly 100 acres, and from a high place, it looks as if it is covered with white snow.
Immediately after the pear blossoms bloomed, another mountain not far from this mountain was once again covered with snow. However, instead of pear trees, plum trees are planted on this hill.
The blossoming of pear and plum trees is like opening a floodgate to spring, and the peach and apricot trees on the hill of the nearby orchard are also blooming, turning the orchard into a sea of flowers.
Surrounded by high mountains, resulting in a relatively independent environment in Jiuli Township, so there are many sunny days here, long sunshine hours, and the watering of the spiritual energy spring water, so that these fruit trees that have just been planted for a winter have fully adapted to the environment here, and in the first spring of their lives, they will bloom to the fullest.
Zeng Cheng took pictures of these beautiful scenery and sent them to his penguin space, and his girlfriend said that she wanted to see how beautiful the spring in Qinglong Village was, and Zeng Cheng naturally had to meet her request.
It's just that the beautiful pictures that Zeng Cheng sent to Penguin Space were not only seen by Fan Xueqing, but also by his other friends. And some people took advantage of the opportunity of the weekend to come to Jiuli Township to play. It's none other than Zeng Cheng's former classmate, Gong Yuan, a current employee, and her classmate Song Shiyu.
After the two girls came to Jiuli Township, Zeng Cheng naturally didn't want to accompany them. Although they are their own employees, they are also their friends.
And after seeing the beautiful scenery of Jiuli Township, these two girls even became interested in the scenery of Qinglong Mountain.
At this time, Zeng Cheng already knew that Gong Yuan's girl turned out to be the daughter of Yuan Li, the current head of Jiuli Township, and she knew the beauty of Qinglong Mountain from her mother.
There was no way, this girl brought it up, and Zeng Cheng had to take them to see it.
If you want to enter Qinglong Mountain to play, you naturally need to get up early. Therefore, Zeng Cheng set off early with the two girls on Sunday morning.
Qinglong Village in March is already very warm, but in the early morning of Qinglong Mountain, the temperature has dropped to four or five degrees, coupled with the invasion of mist, the biting cold is not something that ordinary people can bear. Fortunately, Zeng Cheng and the others had already made all kinds of preparations when they set off, and this temperature test was not difficult for them.
This time, Zeng Cheng did not take the main road in the mountains, because the two little girls said that they wanted to experience the fun of climbing the mountain.
Zeng Cheng took the mountain knife to open the way, and vigorously chopped the vines, weeds, branches, etc. that appeared in front of him, which could be regarded as finding a way forward with difficulty.
The altitude of the foot of Qinglong Mountain is about 1200 meters, combined with the latitude of this place, it has quite strong subtropical jungle characteristics, and all kinds of broad-leaved forests and epiphytic vines grow very fast, creating a paradise for animals and plants, but also bringing some trouble to Zeng Cheng's travel.
The two girls looked at the surrounding scenery with great interest, but Zeng Cheng was carrying a bow and crossbow, vigilantly observing the surrounding environment, guarding against the sudden appearance of fierce beasts in the jungle, and his expression was focused.
Not long ago, a herd of wild boars came out of the mountain, although a few were killed, and the rest were also driven into the mountain, but Zeng Cheng did not dare to be careless.
Qinglong Mountain is rich in plant resources, Zeng Cheng and they found precious medicinal materials including eucommia, Coptis chinensis, Codonopsis radix, etc., as well as rare tree species such as metasequoia and ginkgo. It's just that this time they went into the mountains for sightseeing, and they took a hunting picnic with them, so they naturally didn't pay attention to these rare plants.
Gong Yuan and Song Shiyu saw Zeng Cheng raise his hand to signal quiet, and they realized that the situation had been discovered ahead.
Gong Yuan stepped forward and looked through the sparse branches of the bushes, and found that on the grass by the stream not far away, a group of pheasants were grazing grass seeds, making "clucking" sounds from time to time.
Seeing these pheasants, as a snack of Gong Yuan, saliva immediately showed signs of flooding Jinshan, you must know that these pheasants are made into flower chickens, but they are really delicious in the world.
The three of them did not make a sound, but exchanged gestures, and took out their bows and crossbows to aim at the group of pheasants who were unaware. And Xiaohua and Xiaohei, the two hunting experts, approached quietly in the grass.
Seeing that Xiaohua and Xiaohei were already in place, Zeng Cheng activated the carbon fiber synthetic bow in his hand almost at the same time, and a crossbow arrow flashed like a meteor, firmly nailing a pheasant to the grass.
Because of the reason why the wild boars went down the mountain a few days ago, Zeng Cheng went to Yudu and spent more than 3,000 to buy this crossbow with a scope, which was listed in the ranks of controlled weapons, Zeng Cheng bought it to deal with the wild boars that came down the mountain again, and now it is used to deal with these pheasants.
At the same time as the pheasants scattered, Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua jumped up from the grass, each staring at a pheasant and chasing after it.
After a while, Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua threw their respective targets to the ground, biting their necks and flicking them, and the pheasant's soul immediately returned to the west with a soft stomach.
While Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua were hunting for prey, Zeng Cheng once again quickly fired two crossbow arrows and hunted two pheasants.
From Zeng Cheng's activation of the crossbow arrows to the end of Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua's hunting, it took only a minute, and if it weren't for the storage of a few pheasants on the grass, it would almost be impossible to find out what had happened.
"Yay!" Gong Yuan raised her hands and cheered, almost jumping out of the bushes and coming to the grass to inspect the loot.
"Zeng Cheng, it's so simple?" Song Shiyu was still a little stunned and looked at the crossbow in Zeng Cheng's hand, a little incredulous.
Song Shiyu's hometown is in Qianzhou Province, south of Chongqing, which is also full of mountains. Even in her family's village, there are many hunters. Even her father was a hunter. However, in Song Shiyu's memory, old hunters like her father mostly relied on tools such as lassoes, traps, bows and arrows, and sandwood barns when hunting, and with experienced hunting dogs, to harvest prey with great difficulty.
However, now that she saw Zeng Cheng's hunting, she found that under the powerful bow and crossbow with a scope, it was extremely simple, just aim and pull the trigger.
"Isn't it a little enjoyable?" Zeng Cheng looked at Song Shiyu and said with a smile, "This is the price of technological progress!" ”
Zeng Cheng also knew that hunting in the most primitive way would be more exciting and rewarding, but he didn't have the time to learn this, and he just went into the mountains to relax, where could he manage so much?
Song Shiyu thought about it, and also felt that she was a little hypocritical, shook her head and stepped on the lawn, and cleaned up the spoils of Zeng Cheng's hunting with Gong Yuan. They can't be born in the hunt, but they can still be killed.
"Blackie, Flower, get a few more rabbits nearby!" Zeng Cheng patted Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua's heads and ordered.
The two hounds were already familiar with Zeng Cheng's instructions, and with two low roars, they burrowed into the nearby jungle and began their own hunting operations.
"Zeng Cheng, these two hunting dogs of yours are so human!" Song Shiyu watched the figures of the two dogs disappear into the jungle with envy.
Her father also had a hunting dog at home, but that guy was a scum compared to Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua, and sometimes he couldn't even remember people. It's like going home for the Chinese New Year this year, because she hasn't been back for more than a year, and the dead dog doesn't even know her anymore and almost bites her.
What Song Shiyu didn't know was that Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua had grown up eating food rich in aura since they were children, and their physique and IQ had greatly improved, which was no longer comparable to ordinary hunting dogs.
"If you have a good character, everything is possible!" Zeng Cheng's complacent attitude attracted two pairs of hygienic eyes of two girls.
Because it was close to noon, Zeng Cheng simply didn't leave this creek, anyway, the environment here is good, and it can be used as the best place for a picnic.
The three began to divide and work together, Zeng Cheng began to dig the soil and repair the stove to make a fire, plus plucked the feathers of the four pheasants and cleaned up the internal organs, while the two girls, Gong Yuan and Song Shiyu, were collecting firewood in the nearby woods, and things went in an orderly manner.
Before Zeng Cheng's water boiled, Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua each ran back with a hare with a drooping head in their mouths, both of which were quite fat, it should be that the spring grass had grown lush recently, making them fat and strong, but now it was cheap Zeng Cheng and them.
Zeng Cheng has often had picnics recently, which can be said to be familiar with the road, and this time he brought a lot of equipment and spices, this lunch was extremely rich.
Moreover, to Zeng Cheng's surprise, whether it was Gong Yuan or Song Shiyu, their mastery of cooking skills was not bad, and the pheasants and hares that Zeng Cheng had handled were grilled on the charcoal fire, and they did a good job.
With the cooperation and cooperation of the three people, lunch was prepared in less than an hour. The three of them feasted.
The four pheasants, plus the two fat hares, add up to twenty catties of meat, even if Zeng Cheng eats a lot, the three of them will definitely not be able to eat it all. However, with Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua next to them, the excess food will not be wasted, and it will all go into their mouths.
After eating and drinking, the three of them lay on the big rock by the stream and basked in the sun for a while, and after resting for a while, they got up and set off to continue today's trip to Qinglong Mountain. (To be continued.) )