Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Muntjac
After walking a mountain road, Cai Hongming and the other three were also tired, so they sat on the edge of the persimmon forest to rest.
There used to be a pond next to the persimmon forest, and there was a nunnery on the side of the pond, but now the nunnery has been destroyed, and only a few stone pillars are left standing alone in it, which looks extremely desolate.
After the nunnery was destroyed, the pond was gradually filled with sediment washed down from the mountain because it was untended, and it was overgrown with mango flowers.
Now it is the season when the mangzai flowers are in full bloom, the mangzags like dog's tails are swaying with the wind, the flying flotsam floats, such as the fireflies flying between the blue sky and white clouds, like a timeless poem, beautiful.
After taking a break, Cai Hongming went to chop a few straight branches, made them into wooden spears, and then practiced throwing them in the open space next to them. After a while, I felt that I was on good terms and wanted to use it to hunt wild animals in the mountains. When Cai Zhengxian saw it, he went to the woods to find some wild vines, made a few simple traps, and put them in the woods not far from the roadside. If you're lucky, you might be able to catch some rabbits and pheasants when you come back.
Cai Hongsheng saw the movements of the two and also ran into the woods to find something.
Luckily, he found a dry mountain vine. He took a knife and cut down a mountain vine of about two meters, and by the way took some skin from the mountain vine, then turned around and went to find a big tree, and found some tough tendons from under the bark, and returned to the place where a few people were resting, and used a knife to process the mountain vine into a temporary rattan bow. Finally, he went to find some straight branches and made arrows to be used for hunting.
The old vines in the mountains look soft, but when they are dried, they are very hard and elastic, and they can be used to make bows and arrows in addition to furniture.
It's just that the range is not very far, but Cai Hongsheng doesn't need it to shoot far. As long as you can shoot pheasants and hares. was blown away from his eyes by those two pheasants just now, and he was still very unwilling.
In the past, Caijia Village was very poor, and in addition to taking care of their own few acres of thin fields, the villagers relied on hunting to make a living. Cai Hongming and others often went up to the mountains with adults, and they also learned these hunting skills in the mountains. Now that the people in the village have money, few people go into the mountains to harm the animals. The mountains and forests have become an amusement park for these people, who often come to play, and by the way, get a few wild games to make a tooth sacrifice.
Cai Zhengxian didn't bring anything with him when he went up the mountain, so after making up the trap, he took a knife from Cai Hongsheng and went to the woods to cut a thick branch as a stick to defend himself.
Although large beasts such as tigers and bears are now gone, there are still many wild animals such as mountain dogs, wild boars, and porcupines, so you should be careful. Don't just watch out for these big guys, but also watch out for snakes. The weather in southern Fujian is not as cold as in the north, so sometimes snakes do not hibernate. If you accidentally get bitten, then God forbid.
Getting their things ready, the group continued to walk forward. Cai Hongming has no purpose in entering the mountains this time, just casually, wherever he goes.
The sky was blue, and the mountain breeze was blowing, swaying the branches and shaking the leaves.
The yellow leaves on the ground were all over the pile, creaking when stepped on, sounding a little scary in the silence of the mountain forest and the bleak cold wind.
Suddenly, there was an eagle cry overhead.
Cai Hongming looked up and saw several eagles hovering in the sky, as if looking for prey. It's a pity that the distance is too far, and Cai Hongsheng's new rattan bow can't shoot at all, so he can only watch it greedily. Eagles are very common here, and they used to fly to the village to eat chickens, but now they don't dare to, and most of them are active in the mountains.
After looking at it for a while, it didn't feel like there was anything to look at, so the three of them continued to walk forward. On the way, they were lucky enough to catch a pair of ** pheasants, and this afternoon meal was over.
Climb over a hillside and come to a stream lined with large rocks. It is now a dry season, and there are only some streams flowing on the stream. It was almost noon, and Cai Hongming and the others stopped to prepare for lunch.
There are some wild fish and mountain crabs in the water of the mountain stream, and although they are not large, they have a very sweet taste. After the three of them stopped, the fish catcher, the mountain crab catcher, and the pheasant handled, all got busy. When he went up the mountain, Cai Hongming planned to have lunch in the mountain, so he and Cai Hongsheng brought some light stainless steel iron pots and rice oil and salt respectively.
When the stream fish and mountain crabs are caught, Cai Hongming will deal with them. I set up a stone stove on the big stone on the stream, put the stainless steel pot on the rack, lit firewood, made some oil and fried the fish and crabs, and then put the water to boil.
A stainless steel pan was fried by him to black, fortunately the is not there, otherwise it is estimated that it will be another meal.
When the fish was ready, he boiled the washed rice on a stone stove, then set up a fire and skewered the two pheasants he had killed and roasted on them. After a while, the scorching wood roasted the pheasant to a fragrant taste. Cai Hongming hurriedly took a knife and made a few openings on it, sprinkled barbecue powder on them, and then continued to grill.
After another while, an even stronger fragrance wafted out, making Cai Hongsheng's saliva water.
"Brother, are you okay?" Cai Hongsheng asked with swallowing saliva.
"It's coming." Cai Hongming laughed when he saw him like that.
After a few moments, the fat pheasant is grilled to the point of dripping golden oil. Cai Hongming saw that it was almost roasted, so he took it down.
The pheasant was roasted, the rice was cooked, and the fish soup was snow-white, and the three of them began to eat. When he went up the mountain, Cai Hongming didn't know that Cai Zhengxian was coming, so he only brought two bowls and two pairs of chopsticks. But it doesn't matter, he and Cai Hongsheng each served a bowl of rice and let Cai Zhengxian eat it directly with the pot. The chopsticks are simple, he directly broke the chopsticks in his hand and divided them into two, although they were a little shorter, but they were barely edible.
The fragrant roast chicken, the snow-white and thick fish soup, and the full of wild fun make people have a great appetite. In the end, all three of them had eaten and leaned against the stone with their stomachs in their arms to eat.
"This pheasant tastes good, unlike the chickens in the store outside, which are not chewy."
Cai Hongsheng made a chicken bone to make a toothpick, and said while picking his teeth.
Suddenly, there was a sound in the forest, and Cai Hongming hurriedly interrupted him and told him not to make a sound. Pick up the wooden spear that you put next to you and be on guard. Cai Hongsheng and Cai Zhengxian saw it, and they also picked up their own things to be on guard.
This is the source of water, and there must be animals coming to drink from it all the time.
Although there are no large animals in the mountains, there are many wild boars, leopards, mountain dogs, etc., so it is better to be careful in everything.
After a few moments in the woods, there was no sound. After a while, after the three of them thought that the contents had escaped, there was another sound in the forest, and then a figure walked out of the forest.
The roe deer is not right, it is the muntjac
Cai Hongming saw the animal that came to the stream and thought it was a roe deer, but suddenly found that something was wrong, because the roe deer does not have horns, and the guy in front of him has a pair of sharp short horns on his head, which should be a muntjac. That's a good thing. Cai Hongming thought about it, quietly raised the wooden spear in his hand and aimed it at the muntjac by the stream.
The muntjac walked out of the woods, looked around vigilantly, and found that there was no danger, so he bowed his head and drank the water with peace of mind.
At this moment, Cai Hongming suddenly threw the wooden spear in his hand.
As he threw the wooden spear, the muntjac heard the sound and turned to run. But before it could be, the wooden spear came at a rapid speed and stabbed it in the left leg. The muntjac stumbled and fell to the ground. But he quickly got up and quickly drilled into the forest.
Cai Hongming quickly jumped out from behind the stone and chased after him.
One person and one muntjac shuttled quickly in the forest, and finally the injured muntjac lost too much blood and couldn't run away from Cai Hongming, collapsed to the ground, and was caught by Cai Hongming. Later, Cai Hongsheng and Cai Zhengxian caught up, and when they saw the muntjac that had been tied up by Cai Hongming, they smiled happily. Especially Cai Hongsheng, he was so happy that he was windy when he walked, as if he caught the muntjac.
With such a big harvest, and the fact that they had already entered the deep mountains and old forests, the three of them didn't bring anything, so it was not appropriate to go inside, so they packed up the guys who were eating and walked out of the mountain.