234. Back to the village
Riding on a horse with an exaggerated salamander head hanging from his saddle, Surdak followed the lizard hunters into the village.
The members of the Lizard Hunting Regiment had a smile of joy on their faces, and even the wounded Vaal followed the group, holding his chest up, preferring a broken wound to walk like an old man in the twilight.
Everyone crowded next to the dead tree at the entrance of the village, their eyes were attracted by the iron cage that walked in front, people looked curiously at the cage almost filled with limestone iguanas, the villagers cheered enthusiastically at once, and everyone knew that this winter would not be too difficult, and the joy in their eyes suddenly spread to their faces, making the old dark faces full of folds.
In the past, the lizard hunting group in the village walked into the Paglos Mountains, and the hunting cycle would never exceed one week, because the dry food and drinking water carried by the villagers were only enough for a week, which also doomed the lizard hunting group to be unable to leave the village too far, but this year's situation was different, the lizard hunting group actually entered the Paglos Mountains for nearly two weeks, if it weren't for the four villagers who returned to the village in advance with two iron cages of limestone iguanas, and brought back the news that the lizard hunting group was safe, I'm afraid the village would be fried.
The reason why the lizard hunting group can stay in the mountains for a week longer, in addition to the 'water gathering technique' scroll in Surdak's hand, also has a lot to do with the old village chief cooking a big pot of rice, before each dinner, the members of the lizard hunting group throw their share of food into the pot, everyone feels that they don't eat much, and the amount of food thrown into the pot is also the smallest, these chestnut rice cakes will quickly expand when boiled in water, turning into a pot of porridge, and often have a strong sense of satiety.
The members of the lizard hunting group brought a week's worth of dry food, but they actually ate it for two weeks.
Finally when he was about to go hungry, Surdak brought back hundreds of pounds of fresh salamander meat, and the villagers had a very delicious barbecue on the way back to the village of Wall. Although the old village chief complained a little about eating salamander meat, he thought that Surdak should not give such a high-end ingredient to the villagers to eat, this salamander meat was worth more than limestone iguana meat, and if it could be sold, it would make a profit.
However, after some of these salamander meat were handed over, the remaining part belonged to Surdak and the other five young people, and the old village chief had no say in how they distributed the salamander meat, but Surdak only took out his share of the roast meat and shared it with everyone, and the rest of the members still carried the salamander meat back to the village little by little.
The villagers who had eaten salamander meat got together to discuss it afterwards, and there were even villagers who rubbed their stomachs and chirped and said: "Actually, salamander meat is not much better than yellow mutton, but the meat is tender, very tender......
But now that everyone has come out of the Paglos Mountains, the lizard hunting group has entered the Paglos Mountains deeper this time, so just go out to hunt once, and the harvest of limestone iguanas is enough.
The women of the village welcomed the return of the men with a smile, and almost everyone in the village ran to the entrance of the village to greet them.
For Wall Village, hunting limestone iguanas every year is a big thing, which is related to whether the whole village has enough winter storage materials in winter, everyone sells the limestone iguanas, and uses the money to exchange for some winter food, such as sour pears, pickled cucumbers, ham, lard and other foods in the city of Hailanza.
The villagers of Wall Village hunt limestone iguanas very modestly, they believe that these iguanas are a gift from the mountains, just so that the people in the mountains can survive the harsh winter, so the villagers follow the laws of nature, the old village chief will stop hunting with enough limestone iguanas, and will never kill indiscriminately.
The mountain people here know that if they catch more this year, they may have to go further next year to hunt.
The villagers are hostile to foreign hunting groups, but the greystone iguana crawls out of the crevices of the rocks only in September, and disappears again immediately after autumn, so the alien adventure groups do not come to this barren land to hunt the greystone iguana exclusively.
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Sheila Sr. and Natasha stood in the crowd.
Rita dragged little Peter out of the crowd, she didn't want him to run wild with the other children in the village, little Peter was only four years old, and he only ate ashes behind the older children, seeing Surdak riding a horse and following the team of the lizard hunting group, little Peter no longer refused to accept his aunt's control, forcibly broke free from Rita's hands, and staggered towards Surdak.
Surdak also jumped off his horse at the first time, took two steps forward, lifted little Peter high above his head, turned over his horse amid the cheers of little Peter, and took little Peter around the outside of the village in a big circle before returning to the entrance of the village.
Only Sheila, Rita and Natasha were left at the entrance of the village.
The rest of the group had happily reunited with their families and returned to the village.
Rita crossed her feet and took little Peter off the horse, Surdak followed behind old Sheila, the family walked into the village, old Sheila saw the head of a salamander hanging on Surdak's saddle, and just heard about Surdak hunting a salamander in the words of the villagers, she just glanced at it lightly and asked, "Are you hurt?" ”
"Nope!" Surdak was slightly distracted, and then said, "It's that the boy is a little injured, but he should get better soon." ”
Sheila Sr. just nodded, and said no more.
Among the group, only little Peter was so excited that he shrank in Natasha's arms and kept talking about the good feeling of riding a horse, Natasha didn't even dare to look at her nominal husband, but just hugged little Peter tightly and walked with her head down.
Rita walked at the back, a pair of bright lake blue eyes fell on Surdak's body, Surdak's arrival not only changed the embarrassing life of the family, but also the atmosphere in the village of Wall seemed to change, and everyone laughed a lot more than before.
After the caravan came this year, everyone took out some agricultural products in exchange for living needs, which was much more than in previous years.
This time the lizard hunting group only took half a month, and completed the hunting goal ahead of schedule, if it was in previous years, the lizard hunting group went out for nearly a week at a time, and then rested for two more days, generally to go back and forth between Wall Village and Paglos Mountain at least four times, busy until the harvest festival came in early October, will stop hunting, ready to return home to harvest wheat and tree rice, and when it is really free, almost all the members of the lizard hunting group will lose a lot of weight.
Last year was miserable, the lizard hunting group failed to complete the planned hunting goal, the old village chief rushed to the mountain before the heavy snow closed the mountain, and took the strong labor of the village to the mountains near the city of Hailanza to cut wood, and when he came back, many villagers were frostbitten on their hands and feet.
Rita had a faint smile in her eyes, as if she had a very beautiful vision for tomorrow.
Stepping on the muddy dirt road in the village, my body seems to be much easier, and when I walk, I can't help but tap my toes on the ground, and I can't help but want to jump......
Like a forest fairy who wants to dance on the petals......