Chapter 46: Skinning

As for using internal organs to go to the river to fish, Xu Qiang has no such plan, first, he has not yet figured out the situation in the sparse forest and grassland between the river, and he is afraid of danger if he rushes over; The second is that Xu Qiang has already set up traps here, as well as slingshots for hunting, and the output of this should be able to supply the daily needs of the two of them. They were going to build the perimeter of the camp before they thought about exploring the river.

Along the way, the two did not catch much in the trap, only catching a hare and a pheasant. The hare was obtained under a prop-up weight pressure trap, presumably touching the balance bar and being crushed to death by the falling heavy log. After restoring his original state, Xu Qiang tied a piece of internal organs to the balance beam to ensure that the internal organs would not be eaten easily, so that he could pull the balance bar, which was mainly aimed at small carnivores.

The pheasant, on the other hand, was caught by the sling, and hung powerlessly in the air. When he saw someone coming, he kept flapping his wings and struggling, hoping to get out of the clutches of the hairless monkey, but unfortunately his wish was difficult to fulfill, and he was grabbed by Luo Fat Man and broke his neck, Xu Qiang restored the trap, and put a large piece of bird's internal organs under the rope ring as bait.

After doing this, Xu Qiang and Luo Fatzi put the rest of the internal organs together in two newly built traps on the way back, one is a rockfall trap and the other is a sharp knife trap, the rockfall trap is the same as the supporting weight pressure trap, but the wood is replaced with stone; The sharp knife trap is to find an elastic branch, on which are tied to three sharpened short wooden sticks, the top is tied to a thin line, the branch is bent, stuck on a trigger device, after the animal touches the thin line on the trigger device, the bent branch quickly rebounds, and the sharpened wooden stick is fiercely pierced into the flesh of the animal, so as to achieve the purpose of killing or even killing the animal.

Both traps were very well camouflaged on the outside, placed on the inside of the edge of the tree line, and marked to remind the two of them that there were traps to avoid self-harm. These are all traps that the two have learned before, but have never dared to set up in modern society, and the specific reason is that they are too lethal to the target, not only animals, but also humans.

Next, the two of them collected two rolls of vines as they walked, and prepared to go back to make ropes. I also picked a large handful of dandelions in a meadow, and the taste of yesterday's porridge is still fresh in my memory. Besides, it's not good to eat meat all the time, and the halo and vegetarian combination is just right.

Back at the camp, the two carried out a simple division of labor, Luo Fatzi went to cook, and by the way, he used the hare to learn the skinning technique, while Xu Qiang had an important and urgent event to deal with, that is, the three black-backed brown wolves needed to be skinned quickly, and they had been placed for a long time, and they were already a little smelly.

After hanging the hanging pot on the shelf and waiting for the water to boil, Luo Fatzi first helped Xu Qiang light a bonfire in the bamboo forest for lighting, and then relied on two connected thick bamboos to build a horizontal log at a height of one meter and eight meters, and hung one of the brown wolves upside down on it, and Xu Qiang was ready to start peeling. And Luo Fat Man was watching the pot at the campfire in the camp while practicing skinning the hare.

Has Xu Qiang ever skinned animals before? To be honest, I really haven't, but haven't you ever eaten pork and never seen a pig run? When he was a child, he often saw an uncle in the village killing pigs and sheep, and skinning sheep was one of his crafts, and Xu Qiang and a group of friends followed along, and over time they remembered the process and techniques.

Since the wolf has been dead for a long time, and the whole body is hard and erect, it is difficult to get a knife, so Xu Qiang is especially cautious so as not to cut the wolf's skin or injure himself.

Xu Qiang first cut from the wolf's anus, gently cut down between the skin and the flesh, until the wolf's chin, all the cuts, and then cut along the inside of the limbs until the midline of the belly was cut just now, and be extra careful when going to the belly, because the belly is thin, and the heavy knife is easy to cut the flesh, so that the colorful internal organs in the stomach will all fall off. If you accidentally scratch the large and small intestines, the taste will definitely be too sour.

Next, he dragged the skin outward with his left hand, and gently cut the place where the skin and flesh were connected with a straight knife in his right hand, peeling it off little by little, and he was more careful when he encountered the wound that was cut by Xu Qiang and the two before.

When it came to the claws, Xu Qiang used a straight knife to directly pick off the tendons at the joints, and if the wolf's head was not easy to handle, he directly cut off the wolf's head, and the tail was gently peeled off after the wolf corpse was opened. After peeling from the wolf's belly to the wolf's back, the rest is much simpler, Xu Qiang dragged the wolf skin from top to bottom and cut off the meat little by little, even if a piece of wolf skin is still intact. Xu Qiang sprinkled a layer of grass ash on the peeled wolf skin and spread it on the grass next to it for simple nitration.

This is followed by a series of actions, including scraping off the grease and minced meat, applying plant ash, and then tensing it on a wooden board and placing it in a ventilated sunny place to dry. Once all is dry, take it off and knead it inch by inch until the wolf skin is soft. At this time, wolf skin or fur can be used to make clothing, of course, if you are worried about parasites in the fur, you can also use hot water steam to smoke or kill parasites.

The whole process of peeling and plastering grass and wood ash took Xu Qiang nearly an hour and a half, and at this time, Luo Fatzi had already prepared the meal, dandelion porridge and roast pheasant. And that rabbit had already been tossed by Luo Fatzi to a point where he was not presentable, and the skin he peeled off was full of holes, so that he didn't have the appetite to eat it himself. The pheasant was roughly skinned and skewered on a stick until it was cooked through, and the rabbit was ready for breakfast tomorrow morning.

Xu Qiang took out Luo Fatzi's work, and couldn't help but ridicule: "Haha, fatty, your skills are good, you can turn around and make a rabbit skin and dance on your buttocks, that's definitely quite bewitching!" ”

"Brother Qiang, don't laugh at me, I can't grasp the weight of the knife, the place where it should be heavy is light, the place where it should be light is heavy, it's really annoying, why is it so difficult? Teach me. ”

Luo Fatzi looked annoyed, and he didn't know how to deal with it properly, so when he saw Xu Qiang's ridicule, he hurriedly took this opportunity to ask Xu Qiang for advice.

Seeing that Luo Fatzi humbly asked for advice, Xu Qiang also put away his oily tone, first praised Luo Fatzi's cooking skills, and then told him about the skills and precautions of peeling, to build up his confidence.

"Fatty, you don't have to worry, this is skillful. It's like cooking, I think you're better than I do, that's your specialty, it's great to roast pheasants, come, you try this drumstick, we'll talk while we eat.

Speaking of this skinning, I often watch the second king in the village kill the sheep and peel the skin, and I learned to see more, but I also peeled it for the first time today. ”