Chapter 3 Into the Mountains
The fascinated Li Dai "had fun while thinking", and walked towards the village with a "click" in a happy mood.
In his mouth, he bit the dry food that Mother Li had just made this morning and was still "hot".
Although it is made with a mixture of whole grains, it is difficult to swallow for a while.
But fortunately, there is "chewiness", and after gradually getting used to it, it is barely acceptable.
If you accidentally get stuck in your throat, drink a sip of water to moisten your throat.
The kettle was made by Li's father from a bamboo jar, and there is a lot of clear spring water in the mountains.
Generally, as long as it is flowing living water, most of it is no problem to use it for drinking, and you can safely use bamboo cans to fill it.
The sky was blue and crisp, like a giant sapphire.
The air in the mountains is still very fresh.
The big tree at the head of the village "rustles" its leaves.
"fluttering" and "crumbling" golden leaves fall all over the earth.
It's getting cooler!
The weather in the morning is still relatively cool and freezing.
Fortunately, people in the mountains climb mountains all day long, and their physical exercise is relatively "strong", and they are generally not too afraid of cold and frost-resistant.
Li Dai and the others are still wearing thin clothes, and if they wear "thick" cotton clothes in the mountains, I am afraid it will not be too easy to walk.
Under the big tree at the head of the village is the place where the hunting team set off and gathered, and more than a dozen people came one after another, nearly less than twenty.
Some of them were reluctantly accompanied by the newlywed soon after.
Although the young couple is in love, it is somewhat affectionate.
However, Li Dai also knew that there were some things that could not be said nonsense, and if he really encountered any dangerous things, he, a little expert in collecting medicine, might not be much better.
Seeing that the people were almost there, Li He, the captain of the hunting team, asked casually in a low voice:
"Old Zhangtou, have all the people in your medicine collection team arrived?"
Although Li He is the captain of the hunting team, he, the captain of the hunting team, doesn't know how many times he has changed.
And the old Zhang Tou of the medicine collection group is not only older than him, but also can read and write, so he still respects him very much.
In addition, their medicine collection group is also an important source of income for everyone, and they have to look up to Lao Zhangtou, and many times he still needs to come up with ideas.
Lao Zhangtou's judgment is still very critical and accurate most of the time, after all, he is an old man in the mountains.
Although the force value is not too high, he has a lot of experience in collecting medicine.
Lao Zhangtou, as the leader of the herb collection team and the deputy captain of the hunting team, roughly counted the number of people:
"Dumb, Erniu, Dogdan, and Changgen, are they all here?"
Li Dai reacted quickly, first looked around, and saw that all the people in the medicine collection group were all together, and immediately responded smartly:
"It's coming, it's all here!"
Lao Zhangtou nodded slightly, turned around and smiled at Li He and said angrily:
"Dahe, we're all together!"
Li He, the captain of the hunting team, glanced at the members of the hunting group who had arrived one after another, roughly counted them, and once again made sure that they were basically all there, and then he was relieved.
Thinking that he would be able to make another fortune this time in the mountain, he was in a very good mood for a while, and said with a pleasant face:
"Today we go into the mountains, we may have to go a little farther away, we may come back late, everyone went back yesterday and said!"
Everyone's piecemeal reply:
"Got it!"
"It's all said!"
"I said it to my mother-in-law in the bed last night, and she had to come over to see me off early this morning. ”
"Haha......" caused everyone to laugh.
Li He mentioned this matter to everyone yesterday.
Let everyone say hello to the family so that the family can prepare in advance.
So as not to come back late at night, so that the family is too anxious and worried in vain.
After pondering for a while, and when everyone's laughter was a little quieter, Li He cautiously reminded:
"Okay, let's check it out first and see if there's anything else to prepare. ”
Everyone began to carefully check their belongings again.
When you enter the mountains, your life may be in danger at any time.
Any item is essential and can be the key to saving lives.
I can't help but ignore it, and carefully count it.
There are homemade weapons and tools for picking medicinal herbs, as well as homemade bandages and shoddy gold sore medicine and other items that must be brought into the mountain, and they are also checked one by one, so as not to find that this is missing and that is missing after entering the mountain.
Most of the weapons are homemade by the mountain people, and only occasionally go to the town to buy some important parts.
Some parts such as bows and arrows need to be purchased in the town, but most of them are made by the mountain people themselves.
After all, you can't even eat enough, where is there any spare money to trade other items.
The tools used to collect medicine are also very simple to make yourself.
The hoe was too heavy and not too convenient to carry, so I brought a small hoe.
The small hoe is much smaller, and the appearance is very small and exquisite, which is very convenient for medicinal use.
Li Dai also briefly checked the equipment he was carrying:
Small hoes, baskets for medicine, machetes for cutting trees, homemade snake medicine, bamboo pots for water, and food are simple dry food.
If you can't come back at night, you need to bring a lot of things, but fortunately, you only come back a little later.
The night in the mountains is not too safe, so it is better to be able to go home or go home to sleep.
If the conditions are better, you will also bring a homemade dagger.
However, Li Dai did not have that condition, anyway, with a machete, it was generally more effective than a dagger.
As for the shoddy gold sore medicine, the people in the hunting group generally bring more, and they are still more likely to be injured.
Does it work well?
Only when they use it will they know, anyway, the effect is much better than not using shoddy gold sore medicine.
Being able to stop bleeding easily is very good for the mountain people who have entered the mountains.
Like Li Dai, most of their medicine collection groups bring some homemade snake medicine.
It is mainly used to prevent the poisonous snake from being alarmed during the collection process, and if it is bitten, it can only rely on homemade snake medicine to temporarily maintain vitality, and there is enough time to find a more suitable antidote.
Not every antidote to poisonous snakes is the same, and sometimes this homemade snake medicine is sufficient.
Everyone counted almost, and then they replied intermittently one by one:
"Everything is brought. ”
"It's time to go. ”
"There's no problem on my side either. ”
Li He saw that everyone had checked it, and he didn't waste any more time, and said:
"Let's go!"
The hunting team was divided into two groups, one was the hunting group, and the other was the herb collecting group, which consisted of five people.
Don't underestimate the five people in the herb picking group, their income from picking herbs is no less than that of ten people in the hunting team.
On weekdays, when the hunting party is resting, the people in the medicine collection team will take the herbs and sell them at the town's pharmacy.
Generally speaking, the income will only be better than that of the hunting group, which also sells its prey.
However, the herb collection team does not have the ability to enter the mountain alone, after all, the danger in the mountain is too high.
If you don't have the protection of the hunting group, it will be difficult to pick any expensive herbs.
Just like this time, if there is no hunting group to escort them to a farther place, I'm afraid the herb collection team won't even have the ability to enter the vicinity of there.
The bamboo forest in the mountains is still as green and straight as it is in spring.
The forest stream is crystal clear, and at first glance it looks like a floating silk, lying quietly in the embrace of the earth.
A school of small fish swam quietly, and the mirror-like surface of the water suddenly rippled in a circle of fine ripples.
"There's water!"
Seeing the clear green stream in front of them, everyone in the hunting team was overjoyed, and there was a burst of cheers for no reason.
It is really a village with no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright.
Considering that the road is a little far today, I am afraid that the time will be too late in the evening, so the speed of today's rush is inevitably a little impatient.
Although I set off early in the morning, I got up earlier than usual, but I still left in a hurry, and the speed was naturally much faster than in the past.
Along the way, it can be said that it is over the mountains and mountains, and it is very difficult to walk.
In some places, it is difficult to walk an inch, and it will be terrifying to walk a few steps.
If there happens to be a gust of wind "whirring" blowing, one is accidentally falling off the cliff.
But compared to that, it's better to walk with some care.
In some places, the mountain road is indeed rugged and difficult, and it takes a lot of physical effort to climb up and down.
Fortunately, under the stumbling along the way, I finally completed most of the distance without danger.
This way is full of dust, and it is inevitable that you will need to "take a big gulp" of water to moisten your throat under the sweat.
A bamboo jar of water carried by each person, where is enough for these old men to drink, I'm afraid most people have already drunk it all.
Fortunately, there are a lot of mountain springs and small streams in the mountains, and the water quality in the mountains is not bad, and most of them are very sweet and delicious to drink, of course, there is no lack of bitterness and hard to swallow, but it is generally relatively rare.
As soon as they saw the clear and transparent stream, everyone saw that they were happy to hunt one by one, and said hello to Lao Zhangtou, the leader of the medicine collection group, and Li He, the leader of the hunting group, and hurriedly stepped forward to start drawing water with bamboo cans to drink.
"It's so sweet!"
"It's still good to drink water from the mountains!"
"That is, the water in the mountains contains the aura of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, can it not be delicious!"
"Then if I go down like this, I really have a lot of heaven and earth aura?"
"If you think about beauty, you still want to catch a few more hares!"
"How?"
"Maybe they drink this water every day, and the hare meat you eat has more aura in it. ”
The people of the hunting party drank the water of the stream and chatted casually.
Li He saw that he was about to reach his destination, and he no longer urged everyone to hurry up.
Everyone is tired enough to choke along the way, even if they are really in a hurry, I am afraid that it is somewhat unsatisfactory.
Even the old Zhang Tou, who has been climbing the mountain all year round, is a little out of breath, and Li He himself is not necessarily well-treated.
As for the youngest Li Dai, today is abnormal, and he still seems to be calm and relaxed, and he doesn't seem to have any problems at all.