After the fever subsided, the old man was fine, and woke up for a few minutes halfway, which would be dazed and fell asleep.

Xue Lang already knew what the names of several people were.

The capable middle-aged man is called Dong Ku, the rugged man is called Cheng Weiguo, and the other three young people are Li Yanbin, Du Fei, and Gu Pengshun. The old man's surname is Jin, and his name is Jin Wanheng.

As for the identity of the group, a few people didn't say anything, and Xue Lang didn't ask.

At this time, under the candlelight, several people were eating beef jerky and drinking the spirits brewed by Xue Lang and his grandfathers, which were already very familiar.

Cheng Weiguo picked up the stainless steel bowl and said boldly: "Come on!" Brother, I respect you! If it weren't for you, I'm afraid my old Cheng's nose would have to open an umbrella when it rains! As he spoke, he took a sip of it, exhaled a strong smell of wine, and praised: "Good wine!" ”

Xue Lang smiled, and without waiting to speak, the wine bowl was Dong Ku's turn. Dong Ku picked up the wine bowl and said: "If you don't say it, the old man, we really don't know, this nose and ears can really be pulled off, and I am afraid when I think of the two holes left on my face, come, little brother, I respect you!" As he spoke, he also dried his mouth, let out a sigh of wine, and handed the bowl to Xue Lang.

Xue Lang took the wine bowl, took a sip and said: "Brother Cheng, Brother Dong, smoke bubbles together, at least two or three days, and it may be more than half a month, the little food I brought with me can last for two days at most, and the steamed buns have to be made porridge for the old man, so we have to get food, otherwise, your nose is saved, but your stomach is going to be famine." ”

Cheng Weiguo threw a piece of beef into his mouth, patted his chest and said, "Brother, you say, where can I find food, I'll get it!" I really can't go out of the mountain by myself and bring back food. ”

Without waiting for Xue Lang to speak, Du Fei took over the conversation: "Cheng ...... Big brother, didn't Brother Xue Lang say that the wind in Heifengkou is at least level eight, and he can't get out at all, so it seems that he can only find food here. ”

Dong Ku waved his hand and said, "It's all up to Brother Xue Lang, he is familiar with this, and it won't be wrong to listen to his arrangement." ”

Xue Lang liked these people very much, and this familiar feeling made him in a trance for a while. After Dong Ku's voice fell, he smiled and said: "It's almost midnight, after a while, your shoes are dry, I'll take you back to get a pig, I just don't know if you will get tired of eating meat every day." ”

"Pigs? What's the matter? Steal? ”

Looking at Cheng Weiguo, whose eyes were round, Xue Lang smiled: "Brother Cheng, it's not stealing, let's call it, digging pigs in the wild boar's nest." ”

"Boar, ......"

Cheng Weiguo breathed a sigh of relief, "Wild boars are easy to handle." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to his waist, and without waiting for Dong Ku to stop him, he pulled out a pistol and said, "Brother, go now?" Guarantee one shot at a time. ”

Xue Lang glanced at the Type 92 9mm pistol in Cheng Weiguo's hand, smiled and said: "Brother Cheng, it's just winter, don't say that the black light is blind and the fire can't be aimed accurately, the pine oil and mud on the wild boar haven't fallen off yet, and the distance is too far to penetrate, besides, the wild boar's nest is our meat freezer for the New Year, as soon as you shoot, you blow up the nest, and you won't come back this winter." ”

"Put it away!"

Dong Ku glared at Cheng Weiguo, turned his head to look at the calm Xue Lang, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, "Brother, don't listen to your big brother Cheng, you have the final say, we will cooperate." ”

"Good!"

Xue Lang said simply: "Leave one person to take care of the old man for a while, leave at eleven o'clock, go to the place before three o'clock, and get a pig back, it's enough to eat." ”

Cheng Weiguo was glared at by Dong Ku, but he also reacted, put away the gun in a daze, and asked curiously: "Brother, what are we going to do?" ”

Xue Lang stood up and said, "You can do it." ”

Exert oneself......

Several people were confused. Make a wild boar, just do it?

Dong Ku didn't know how to dig the pig, and after a short silence, he said: "Gu Pengshun stays, and the rest are up to Brother Xue Lang." ”

In the howling wind, Dong Ku and the others followed Xue Lang to the corner of the basin. They carried a finger-thick nylon rope estimated at fifty or sixty meters on their backs, and carried two wooden shovels, but they didn't know how Xue Lang pulled out the pigs.

Two hours later, wading through half a meter of snow to a col formed by the corner of a mountain, Xue Lang stopped and turned off the miner's lamp.

Several people couldn't see the surrounding landscape in the strong wind, and when they saw that they had stopped, they all followed and stopped.

Xue Lang said in a voice that several people could hear: "Follow me, don't make a sound." As he spoke, he walked diagonally.

Half an hour later, when several people felt a detour and changed from a tailwind to a headwind, Xue Lang stopped.

"That's it. You clear the snow here, two meters wide, thirty meters in a straight line along the slippery place, and wait for me to come back. ”

As he spoke, he threw down a few confused people, took the rope bundle, took off the lamp, turned around and rushed into the wind.

A few people couldn't see each other's expressions, but no one asked, and quickly started cleaning up in the direction pointed by Xue Lang.

Xue Lang quietly touched the front, and when he saw a black shadow, he put down the rope, took off his fur coat, revealing the leather tube he had put on in the manhole inside, holding the rope, against the wind, crawling forward.

Dong Ku and a few people ten minutes later, against the strong wind, cleared a straight road of more than 30 meters, except for feeling that the bottom was flat and seemed to be ice, they didn't know how Xue Lang had been going for so long, how to catch the pig.

was pondering, Xue Lang appeared in the darkness with his waist bent, and then called a few people to grab the rope, and said loudly: "I will start in a while, run along the cleaned road and pull the rope, use the greatest strength, don't stop until the end, then run dozens of meters, and then return." ”

A few people didn't know what to do, and the family grabbed a section, like a tug-of-war, waiting for orders.

Xue Lang slowly tightened the rope, and when he felt the rope, he shouted: "Run!" ”

When Dong Ku and the others heard the shouting, they pulled the rope and ran forward with all their might.

During the run, they already felt that there was a heavy object at the end of the rope, and they didn't know what it was, although it was heavy, it did not delay them from running.

Xue Lang followed and ran a few steps, and after confirming that the rope had been tight, he loosened the rope, flicked his coat, pulled out the thick-backed sharp knife on his leg, and stood against the wind.

In just a few seconds, a dull howl came from his throat and from far and near. Then, a black thing wrapped in snow mist rushed towards Xue Lang quickly against the ground.

Xue Lang clenched the sharp knife, and when the object was approaching, he turned around and began to run synchronously in one direction, and after a few steps, he saw the position and stabbed it with a sneer.

A terrible howl in his throat sounded immediately, but it was quickly blown away by the howling wind. The thick bloody breath spread with one howl after another, mingling in the snow grains, rolling rapidly with the footsteps of the wind.

Dong Ku and Cheng Weiguo had already heard the faint movement behind them, but they were not sure what it was, and when they ran to the end of the cleared road, they suddenly felt a lightness in their hands, and then they seemed to have something struggling. But the four of them still waded through the snow without stopping, and ran for dozens of meters, until they felt pulled and sank, and then they gasped and stopped.

Du Fei snorted, gasped twice and asked, "What's pulling behind this?" ”

"Who knows."

Dong Ku also gasped, not knowing what he was pulling.

When a few people returned and saw a dark shadow in the distance, everyone's nerves suddenly tensed. They smelled blood.

When several people saw Xue Lang, who was busy disemboweling, and the thing that exuded a thick bloody atmosphere, their brains were a little insufficient.

This boar was pulled down like this, and then slaughtered?

Soon, a few people poured their stomachs on Xue Lang's side, and only then did they understand while explaining.

It turned out to be a wild boar nest with hundreds of wild boars. Not far away, a few hundred meters away is a grass pond, that is, arthropod grass, covering an area of thousands of acres. Because it is a perennial herbaceous plant, it is still verdant in winter.

In winter, after the snow falls in the forest, the wild boar will go to the grass pond to forage for food, until it is exhausted, it will choose to go to the oak forest arch acorn.

And Xue Lang was just wearing a leather tube made of wild boar skin, and slowly got into the big nest of hazelwood thatch and thatch that the wild boar had in his mouth. Because in the limelight, the smell is not easy to be found by the sleeping wild boar immediately, after the smell of the body is completely assimilated by the smell in the pig's nest, the mouth of the wild boar is covered with a buckle made of nylon rope, hung behind the fangs, and the rest is to pull out, and then stab the throat with a knife.

The wild boar is sleeping soundly, or downwind, and when the wild boar that was dragged reacted, it has left the nest for more than ten or twenty meters, and the cry, the wind can't even reach thirty meters, and then tie up the mouth, naturally it will not alarm other wild boars.

"What the hell!"

Cheng Weiguo exclaimed: "Brother, just run two steps, and a wild boar will be in hand, so don't you eat pork every day?" How did you figure out this method, it's amazing! ”

Xue Lang said while dividing the pork into four portions and putting it in a bag dipped in snow: "This is what my grandfather figured out, in the early years, in the summer, he attracted water from a distance, and made a blister here to make it easy to pull,"

"It's really wisdom from the people!"

Dong Ku is already in his forties, and this is the first time he knows this method of hunting, and he sighs in his heart.

Although the four of them were amazed, it was hard to go back.

The family carried dozens of catties of meat on their backs, and it was not easy to return to the ground against the wind.

Dong Ku carried them into the water on his back, so that the stench would not fill them up. And Xue Lang's coat and leather tube didn't care about these, but in order to squat in the pit, they also deliberately got some animal smell.

After a difficult trek against the wind, the group returned to the ground after dawn. If it weren't for the fact that they all drank strong wine before they came out at night, except for Xue Lang, several people would probably have frostbite.

Halfway through, the old man woke up once, drank some water, and was confused again.

After Xue Lang returned, he didn't care about resting, so he went to pick some mountain raisins, dried schisandra, mountain peppers, and dried eleutherococcos, broke the steamed buns, and boiled a special bowl of hot and sour porridge for the old man.

With this meat, several people don't have to worry about food anymore, although it is windy outside, it does not delay them from drinking and eating meat.

At this time, although Xue Lang was in a hurry to settle accounts with Erlong, but with such a strong wind, not to mention the few people saved, just crossing the black wind outlet would be troublesome. Therefore, Xue Lang could only wait for the wind to stop for the time being.