Chapter 16: Eaten Again by Stealing
To be honest, Liu Qing was very reluctant in his heart, he had never been a butcher, and now he had to start slaughtering fish and tigers and even dinosaurs...... In the past, it was at most a mouse or rabbit or something, small in size, very simple to skin and dismember, but now facing such a huge dinosaur, it really makes him a little worried.
What's more, Liu Qing plans to reserve this dinosaur meat and make it into jerky or something like that, which can be stored for a long time, and once there is a shortage of food, it can come in handy. After circling around the dinosaur corpse a few times, Liu Qing determined the location of the knife. According to the steps of slaughtering by ordinary butchers, the first thing should be to remove the hair, then disembowel, clean the water in the stomach, and then dismember, sort and put it away.
Liu Qing didn't know this, he followed his experience last time, and directly aimed at the hind legs of the dinosaur and slashed them. This hind leg was thicker than his whole body, and it was really a tiring job to cut, thanks to his sapper shovel that could also be used as a machete, otherwise it would have stumped him. The skin of the dinosaur is particularly tough, and a machete can cut a slit at most, the depth is only a few centimeters, and after breaking a hole of more than 20 centimeters, Liu Qing changed to a dagger and used the method of cutting.
In this way, it is indeed much faster, and sometimes, it is not that the knife is bigger, the more you use it, but like this, you can use the thin and sharp characteristics of the dagger to cut down the fiber and flesh inside, which is faster than cutting it with a shovel. Even the tough thick skin is refreshing to cut.
When he was cutting, he found one thing, the dinosaur still has hair on its body, although it is relatively rare, but it can be seen clearly, it is indeed hair, thin, long, slightly hard. It's really a strange thing, the dinosaur still has hair! But after thinking about it, it's nothing, he's seen an elephant, such a big guy, doesn't it have hair on his body, I think the hair on this dinosaur should be similar to that on the elephant.
Soon, he had a problem, the dinosaur's thighs were long, and the joints were connected to the hips, and he didn't know how to break this joint. At this time, he suddenly thought of an idiom, Ku Ding dismantles a cow, people can dismember a cow with a very thin knife, and he holds a "machete" and a dagger, but he can't even get a joint......
His hand reached into the thick flesh, felt it, and finally determined the tendon where the joint was connected, and found a wooden stick, cut it into one by one, and stuffed it into the cut gap, and stretched the gap open, so that he could roughly see the bones inside. It took hours of fumbling to finally cut all the exposed parts of the joints.
Raised his hand and wiped the sweat with his sleeve, his hands were full of dinosaur blood, but the effect was still relatively significant, the dinosaur's thigh had almost been taken off by him, and only the skin and flesh of the inner thigh were still connected. In fact, he had also chopped it with a sapper shovel before, but he found that the dinosaur's bones were too hard, and they were very thick, and he was afraid that when he cut it off, the sapper shovel would be scrapped. The shovel was now an important tool for him to rely on, and he was reluctant to let it go away like this. I'd rather spend a little more time and effort, time will prove that his decision is the right one, and a thick dinosaur leg has been completely taken off by him.
"Damn! It's so heavy!" Liu Qing tried to hold the severed dinosaur leg, but he almost didn't pick it up, and it was conservatively estimated to weigh more than 100 pounds! It was more than double the weight of the tiger leg he made that night! You must know that Liu Qing himself is only 150 pounds, and this dinosaur leg has caught up with most of Liu Qing's weight.
In line with the attitude of being able to do a little bit is a little bit, Liu Qing dragged the dinosaur leg back into the hole. Originally, he wanted to skin this leg directly outside the cave, shave off the flesh, cut it into pieces and put it in the hole, but time did not allow it, and the sky was gradually darkening, so Liu Qing struggled to get this dinosaur leg into the hole.
Putting down this thigh, Liu Qing was tired and quickly lay down, put down the pole at the entrance of the hole, slowly lowered it with his hand on the gate, stared at the gate for a while, and felt that it was not safe enough. After thinking about it, he found a thicker section of the trunk, cut it in two, sharpened one end, and smashed one on each side of the ground less than a meter from the fence gate. He picked out three vines of about the same thickness from the few remaining vines in the cave, and in a short time they were braided into a rope like a hemp rope.
Tie one end of the rattan rope to the crosspost of the fence gate, pull it over and wrap it around the two ground stakes, and then tie the other end to the crosspost, try it, it is quite strong. It's the equivalent of putting a lock on the door in the hole, and even if an animal grabs the door outside, it can't be pulled open.
Looking around the rattan rope, Liu Qing couldn't help but admire himself, he was really thoughtful! Just as he was about to go to the cave to peel the skin, he thought of something again, squatted down, took out a dagger, made it on the stake for a while, got up and put the rattan rope on it again, and then entered the cave satisfied. It turned out that he had just made two notches in the wooden stake, just enough to jam the rattan rope he had climbed.
Skinning a dinosaur is a tiring thing, its skin is so tough and very thick, especially since there is a white membrane between the skin and the muscles. It is a very thin layer, it is definitely not fat, it is more like fiber, this layer of white things Liu Qing thinks is one of the reasons for the toughness of dinosaur skin, it is difficult to cut, and it is very elastic when pulled, like a rubber band, it can be stretched very long when pulled hard.
Liu Qing was working, Xiao Wu was happily playing next to him, jumping around on the dinosaur's legs from time to time, and occasionally pretending to bite the dinosaur's legs with a fierce look, but unfortunately its small baby teeth didn't even leave a tooth mark.
It is said that practice makes perfect, and it is true. After Liu Qing stripped like this for a while, he finally found the trick. The key is still on that layer of white things, as long as you find this layer of things, pull the skin with one hand, and pull the knife between the thick skin and the white flesh film with the other, and soon the skin and flesh will be separated, but the remaining muscles are covered with a layer of this white film.
With the know-how, it was really much faster to peel it, and in a short time the whole thigh was all peeled. The ground was covered with huge leaves picked up outside, and the smooth and slippery dinosaur legs were now lying on the leaves, Liu Qing was very happy, this was all meat! For him, there was a large amount of food reserves, and nothing could make him happier than this.
Xiao Wu also seemed to feel Liu Qing's emotions, and jumped on the dinosaur leg excitedly, holding his little head high, and screaming non-stop.
Liu Qing was just about to tease it a few words, when he suddenly heard something seem to be moving outside the cave. Liu Qing reacted quickly, picked up the flashlight on the ground, turned off the power, and at the same time picked up Xiao Wu from the dinosaur's leg and held him in his arms. Xiao Wu should have understood Liu Qing's movements, and he obediently kept silent.
It was already completely dark outside, there was no moonlight, and there was a thick layer of black clouds in the sky. Liu Qing stood at the gap in the cave entrance and looked up at the sky, put Xiao Wu down, picked up a few stones, stepped on them, and quietly poked his head out of the gap. It was pitch black outside, and a few black shadows could be faintly seen, biting something outside the entrance of the cave.
"It's broken!" Liu Qing secretly screamed, this is special, the big tiger was robbed by an unknown animal last time, and now this dinosaur is going to be robbed again...... Liu Qing was so angry! But he didn't dare to mess around, even if he scared these animals away for the time being, so what? Besides, he didn't plan to mess with them now, his cave entrance was not so secure, and if it was a tin door, he might dare to confront them.
"Forget it!" Liu Qing said in his heart, let's get them cheaper! I also got a hind leg, and there is a lot of meat.
Just as he was about to come down, he suddenly noticed a dark shadow that seemed to be walking towards him. He became vigilant, hurriedly jumped off the pile of stones, and hid with Xiao Wu to the side of the cave entrance. Sure enough, after a while, there was a sound of stepping on a grass branch, it sounded like it was outside the door, Liu Qing hugged Xiao Wu tightly and listened with bated breath.
The unknown animal seemed to be very interested in this fence gate, and kept sniffing, and Liu Qing could even hear its snort. "Ahh
A kind of worry arose in Liu Qing's heart, if they wanted to force their way through the fence gate, they might not be able to stop for long. But soon, the animals whispered a few times to each other, and then walked away together, which made Liu Qing feel a little relieved. However, Liu Qing didn't even dare to pant loudly now, for fear that he would lure them over.
Holding Xiao Wu, he quietly returned to the cave, and lay down with one man and one beast next to each other. Xiao Wu fell asleep quickly, but Liu Qing kept listening to the movement outside the cave, for fear that the animals would break into the cave. I don't know how long it took, Liu Qing also fell asleep.
Early in the morning, the weather was not getting better, it was overcast and windy, and it looked like it was going to rain. Liu Qing was still woken up by Xiao Wu's licking, and after getting up, he fed Xiao Wu two fruits as usual, and he made a fire in the cave again, cooked a small pot of broth, and roasted some dinosaur meat by the way. When I went to see the tiger leg, I found that the tiger leg seemed to have deteriorated, and the meat was sticky and had a strange taste.
There is no way, this tiger leg has not even been skinned, and because of Xiao Wu, Liu Qing has not been willing to move. It's been three or four days, and the weather is still so warm, it's no wonder it's not bad. Come to think of it, let's throw it away!
Carrying the tiger's legs, he came out of the cave, found a place not far away, dug a pit with a sapper's shovel, and threw the tiger's legs into it. After burying it, Liu Qing clapped his hands and said to himself: "I'm sorry, I had to kill you at that time, but now that Xiao Wu is with me, I will take good care of it!"
After saying this, Liu Qing went to see the dinosaur corpse, and he didn't know what it was eaten into.
On the left side of the hole, the dinosaur corpse is still lying there, but most of the body has been gnawed, only the belly that sticks to the ground remains, and part of the right forelimb is still there, and the other parts are all gnawed clean, and there are still some red flesh and blood stains on the white bone shelf, and even the organs in the stomach have all been "eliminated".
"Obedient!" Liu Qing exclaimed, "How many animals must have eaten this!" According to its estimates, this dinosaur must weigh at least seven or eight hundred pounds, maybe more, but such a big dinosaur was gnawed like this overnight, I'm afraid there are no less than ten animals to eat it!
He also wanted to continue the "business" that was unfinished yesterday, and look for any clean meat on the remaining torso, so that he could cut it back and reserve it. When I looked through it, I suddenly found that there was a wound on the dinosaur's right forelimb, and although the blood there had been scabbed, the color was purple-black, which was completely different from the color of the blood coagulated on the ground! This made Liu Qing seem to think of something......