Chapter 7: Monsters

"What's wrong?" Jin Biguio looked at me suspiciously.

"Withdraw to the cave, slow down, the wild boar is not good hearing, it shouldn't have noticed us yet!" I whispered, the boar was about fifty meters away from us, and besides, we were downwind, and the boar couldn't smell us, so it hadn't spotted us yet.

"Why don't you do it?" Jin Biyao asked in a low voice.

"Because I can't do it! Evacuate! "I half-hugged and half-dragged the unwilling Jin Baguio back to the cave, and looked at the wild boar from afar, where it was still digging with its fangs, and I didn't know what delicious food it found in the soil.

"If it's a small wild boar, we can it, but it's a big boar." While guarding the entrance of the cave, I explained to Jin Biguio.

"Isn't a boar, isn't it also a pig, why are you so scared?" Jin Biguio leaned on my shoulder and asked, soft.

"Of course, pigs are not terrible, but with the word 'wild', it is completely different, we mountain people have an old saying, called 'one pig, two bears and three tigers', the most afraid is to encounter wild boars in the mountains."

"Can this thing beat the tiger?" Jin Biguio obviously didn't believe it, whether it was physique or weapons, wild boars were not on the same level as tigers, which was something that was visible to the naked eye.

"It's not that it can beat the tiger, but that it's a threat to humans, and wild boars, especially adult boars, come first. Tigers are very smart, if they encounter humans, they will most likely avoid, and the same is true for bears, unless they are extremely hungry, or the cubs are threatened, bears are the same as tigers, they will evaluate the results of the battle before fighting, and if they are likely to be damaged, they will not choose to fight hard, but wild boars don't care about this, once they fight, they will do their best, regardless of the consequences, so, unless it is a few hunters to cooperate, and they all bring firearms, otherwise, no one dares to compete with adult male wild boars. ā€

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ Where did you get all this knowledge? Jin Biguio rubbed her body on my back and said with some adoration.

"Hehe, rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, of course you have to know everything on the mountain, I know much more than that." I was rubbed very comfortably, and said proudly.

"Alas, it's a pity that you can't eat wild boar!"

"When it's gone, let's go out and try our luck." I was also a little helpless, if it wasn't for the "vulture" who arrived in Baihe Village early, I could have gone home and brought my grandfather's old-fashioned gun.

Grandpa used to be a forest ranger, there is a gun certificate, the "38 big cover" is what he saw in the mountains, it may be the weapon left over from the previous "anti-company", grandpa hid it privately, and took it out to wipe and oil if it was okay, although the gun age is older than grandpa's, but the maintenance is not bad, there is a box of ammunition, thirty purple eggs, grandpa has used three.

I stared at the big wild boar with a telescope, it arched for a long time, it didn't seem to dig anything, it breathed, and walked down the mountain, and when the sound of it passing through the grass disappeared, I cautiously came out of the hole, climbed the big rock of the "tiger's" skin, climbed high and looked into the distance, it was trotting to the foot of the mountain, the target should be the mountain next door - Boar Ridge, which is the most frequent place for wild boars, there should be many wild boar dens, and there are also "forbidden areas" for rangers and mountain catchers.

"Baguio, let's go!" I shouted, but she didn't get a response.

I jumped off the boulder and went back to the cave, this guy was curled up on the sleeping bag, and actually fell asleep, maybe she was too tired, I didn't wake her up, I went outside to find two thick branches, crossed them at the entrance of the cave, and went hunting alone.

The density of wild animals here is not low, and I didn't go far before I found two hares and three pheasants, but none of them stabbed until I met a fourth pheasant, this colorful rooster, which was blowing its wings and jumping repeatedly around a grass hole, probably courting, I quietly approached from behind the goose skin, and did not attack until it was three meters away, and a spear stabbed its skin stock.

A gray-brown female pheasant flew out of the grass, and she looked quite beautiful.

I pounced, grabbed the male pheasant struggling with the spear, pulled out the spearhead, and made a cut under its neck with the blade of a knife to bleed - the bloody chicken was not tasty, and after a while, when the pheasant had lost too much blood and stopped moving, I twisted its neck and sent it to Hades completely.

I pinned the pheasant to my waist, and on the way back, I picked up a lot of dry firewood and large branches with dead leaves, and dragged them back to the entrance of the cave, the cross seal did not move, I moved the door to open the curfew, at this time, the sky was getting dark, the temperature in the mountains dropped quickly, it was close to freezing, Jin Biguio felt cold, and had already got into his sleeping bag.

I took off the dead leaves from the branches and spread them on the ground in the cave, and set up a small pot in the mouth of the cave, boiled the water, and drank hot water when it was cold, and as for the pheasants, before it was time, I plucked the feathers first, and then dealt with the internal organs, and then picked up a few large leaves and wrapped them, and picked up some stones and threw them into the fire.

When the water boils, I pour it into the kettle, I burn the firewood more vigorously, and when it is almost burned, dig a small pit next to it, pull out the hot stones in the firewood, stuff it into the pheasant's belly, bury the pheasant in the pit, cover it with soil, and then transfer the burning wood to the top of the pheasant, so that it is roasted from top to bottom, the temperature is enough, and the pheasant will not be scorched - grandpa took me into the mountain to demonstrate, the roasted pheasant is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the thief is fragrant!

On this side, I spread the leaves on the firewood pile, which is very hot, equivalent to a clay kang, and the thick leaves can keep warm, and the residual heat can be supported until two or three o'clock in the second half of the night.

"Hey, come and sleep here." I woke up Jin Baguio in a daze, but she was limp and said that she was sore and didn't want to get up, so I had to carry her with a sleeping bag and put her on a bed of warm leaves.

"It's so hot!" Jin Biguio was pleasantly surprised, maybe it was overheated, she opened the zipper of the sleeping bag and climbed out of it, at this time, the fragrance of roast chicken came out of the ground, and the greedy Jin Baguio knelt on the ground and went straight to the fire!

Estimated that it was cooked, I shifted the fire again, dug out the pheasant, unwrapped the big leaves that wrapped the pheasant, poured out the stone, in recent days, I have been eating all kinds of nutrients at the Jin family, the nutrition is to keep up, but there is no taste, the aroma of the pheasant, stimulated my appetite, I took out a small bottle of pepper and salt from the supermarket from my backpack, broke off a thigh, sprinkled a thin layer of pepper and salt, and handed it to Jin Biguio.

Baguio took a bite, the oil was bubbling, and she exploded directly into a foul mouth when she ate it!

"! Too many handfuls are delicious! ā€

With the warm mountain spring hot water, after the two of them ate the chicken, Jin Biyao rubbed her little belly with satisfaction, and suddenly frowned: "Yifan, I want to go to the toilet!" ā€

"Big and small?" I asked.

"Small." Baguio said embarrassedly.

"Go, outside the hole, the whole world is full of toilets." I laughed.

"It's so dark outside, I—I don't dare! You're going with me! Jin Biguio grabbed my arm and said coquettishly.

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ All right. ā€

Accompanied her out of the hole, the temperature difference between the outside and the hole was very large, cold, I used a flashlight to shine, found a flat place, and trampled the grass with my feet - so as not to prick her legs, the girl is trouble, and have to squat, really.

"Turn your back! You! Jin Biguio put her hands on her waist and said to me seriously.

I turned around with a flashlight, and Jin Baguio immediately called out again: "Oops, black! You've got to follow me! Just turn your face away! ā€

I stifled a laugh, turned back and used my flashlight to help her illuminate, closing my eyes.

When I was done, I asked her to go back to the cave and solve it herself, but instead of solving it anywhere, I deliberately leaned on a few stakes that I had picked up.

When I got back to the cave, I moved the fire to the mouth of the cave and added the stakes that had been wet, so that it could burn for a long time.

"Sleep, get up early tomorrow, and you can get to Lao Yuling before noon." I say.

"Uh-huh," Jin Biguio got back into her sleeping bag, turned over twice, and asked me, "Why don't you sleep?" ā€

"I have to take care of the fire, you sleep, I don't lack sleep." I said that I basically slept every day for the past few days, and the muscles I slept on were about to atrophy.

Jin Biguio nodded and closed her eyes, but soon, she sat up again, unzipped her jacket, and complained, "It's too hot......"

"Then you're asleep! Anyway, in the sleeping bag, I can't see it again. ā€

"Yes," Jin Biguio said with a smile, pulling the zipper of the sleeping bag to the top, and his hand groped inside, first throwing out the jacket, then the jacket, then the pants, then the socks, then the warm underwear, and then ......

"Still procrastinating?" I frowned and said, there will be nothing more to delay!

"Wear and sleep, don't be tired!" Jin Biguio threw out the photo and said with a smile, "Good night!" ā€

With that, she found a comfortable position, closed her eyes, and soon began to snore.

I'll look at the firewood for a while, look at her for a while, no mobile phone to play, a little boring, I pulled the backpack over, took out the box that my grandmother gave me from it, opened it, took out the red rope, tied it to my wrist, shook it, the copper bell made a crisp sound, I don't know if tomorrow, can I find Miss Ginseng smoothly, after so many years, I have even forgotten her appearance.

As I was recalling, there was a noise in the corner, I turned my head to look over, maybe it was still too hot, Jin Biguio actually pulled down the zipper of the sleeping bag a lot in her sleep, and her body was exposed, so ...... Not quite right?