In summer, the small Xing'an Mountains are verdant with plants and birds chirping.

Looking at the big black bear in the distance through a ravine, Wang Yuan instantly became short of breath, and the way he thought of making money was - hunting bears!

Bear meat isn't very valuable, but bear bile is very valuable!

Even a bear bile is worth a worker's salary for a year!

The distance was a little far, and after the big black bear turned its head and got into the dense forest, Wang Yuan and his grandfather carried the big wild boar and continued to hurry.

Grandpa and Wang Yuan carried a wooden stick, he saw the eager look on Wang Yuan's face, so he smiled: "Xiaoyuan, do you want to beat that black bear?"

"Hmm!"

Wang Yuan nodded directly without concealing it, and said while carefully carrying the big wild boar down the mountain: "The bear bile of the black bear is too valuable, if you can get a bear bile, you can live very comfortably for the whole year!"

In the rural areas of Northeast China, food and vegetables are basically self-sufficient, and even many hard-working families still have a lot of surplus, but meat is not good.

You can eat it once when you kill a pig, you usually can't eat any pork all year round, pork is too expensive, but a bear bile can be exchanged for a lot of pork to eat.

"Black bears are not easy to kill, this thing is very tenacious, and the counterattack is very terrifying, our village has failed to kill bears before, and in the end it was killed by bears." Grandpa laughed.

"Well, I understand."

Then.

In the trees in front of the left, there is a bird call of "coo~coo~coo~", which is very crisp and pleasant, but the trees are dense and you can't see the birds.

"Huh! It's the call of a mallet bird, and you can run to the mountains to find ginseng! Cousin Wang Meng immediately laughed.

"yes!"

"If you can find a ginseng plant with six leaves, you will be rich."

"Six leaves? It's too hard to find, and the ginseng that can find a five-leaf ginseng is the mountain god Kaien. ”

Everyone laughed instantly.

Ginseng is a treasure in the mountains, and the older it is, the more leaves it has, and it is roughly divided into "Sanhua", "Slap", "Erjiazi", "Dengtaizi", "Four Leaves", "Five Leaves", "Six Leaves" and so on.

Artificially grown cucumbers grow very quickly, and sometimes 6-year-old cucumbers can grow six leaves – that is, six palmate compound leaves.

However, pure wild ginseng is completely different from artificial round ginseng, wild ginseng grows very slowly, and it may take more than ten years ~ decades to grow a palm-shaped compound leaf.

The six-leaf wild ginseng has probably been growing for more than 100 years, and it is priceless!

It is very difficult to walk in the mountains and forests, not to mention that the four people are carrying a big wild boar of 300 catties, so they walk very slowly, chatting while walking.

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "Grandpa, have you ever seen the real body of the mallet bird?" What does it look like? Some say that this bird is an owl. ”

"Goo Goo Goo Go

There is also the call of the mallet bird in the mountain forest, ethereal and distant, as if to tell people that the ginseng seeds in the mountains are ripe, and the red and bright ones are very beautiful, so go into the mountains to pick ginseng.

The local habit is to call ginseng "mallet", and the mallet bird is a ginseng bird, which likes to peck at the seeds of ginseng.

Grandpa smiled: "I have really seen mallet birds, not owls, some like small circles of pigeons, with gray hair."

"When did you see it?"

"Yo~ It's been more than 30 years, not long after the founding of New China, we encountered it when we were fighting bandits in the mountains, bullets were whizzing around, and we continued to fight after seeing the bird."

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By the time the four people carried the big wild boar out of the mountain, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the heat had already receded, and the breeze was very cool.

Walking along a dirt road more than 2 meters wide towards Tunzhong, there are rice fields on both sides, and the air is filled with the aroma of rice flowers.

The wind blows, and the ears of rice rustle when they collide.

Boom~

Occasionally, a toad jumped directly into the rice field after being disturbed, and in an instant, a circle of water waves rippled, dripping ~ rustling ~ The insects in the grass on the side of the road were calling, intersecting with the sound of cicadas, composing a unique melody.

Some villagers were working in the farmland, and after seeing Wang Yuan's grandfather and grandson carrying back a big wild boar, they all greeted them with novelty.

"Wow! Hit a big wild boar?? ”

"Old man Jiang is amazing!"

"Such a big wild boar is blessed, envy."

There are some mud houses in the tunzi, most of which are surrounded by low fence walls or earthen walls, full of the vicissitudes of time, and look very down-to-earth.

A group of children danced rubber bands, pumped spinning tops, and laughed in the paddock outside the village, including Wang Yuan's own sister "Wang Xiaodie" and the third uncle's youngest daughter "Wang Xiaohua".

The two little girls were dressed in gray clothes and pigtails, and their fleshy little faces were very cute, but they looked thin and small due to malnutrition.

After they found Wang Yuan and his party, they hurriedly ran over and circled around the big wild boar.

"Second brother, did you catch a big wild boar? It's amazing! Sister Wang Xiaodie's eyes were shining, and the crystal saliva was about to flow out of the corners of her mouth.

She craves meat so badly.

Playing too much, her fair and delicate little face was a little dusty, Wang Yuan carried the big wild boar with his right hand, stretched out his left hand and wiped her face.

Well~ I became a little flower cat in an instant.

"Well, go back and tell our parents that we're back from hunting wild boars!"

"Good, good."

Wang Xiaodie and Wang Xiaohua hurriedly got out of the crowd and ran home on their short legs, excited as if it was the New Year.

The closer you get to Tunzi, the more crowds of onlookers will be, some will be happy, some will be envious, and some will be jealous.

For example, "Wang Shuai", who is burly and wears a black cloth vest, he and Wang Yuan do not deal with each other, and have fought several times since he was a child.

Wang Shuai shouted "Jiang Ye" to his grandfather, and then looked at Wang Yuan and hummed: "Where did you catch the wild boar?" My family has laid a wild boar trap on the mountain, have you picked up the wild boar in the trap? ”

Wang Yuan glanced at him and snorted, "Roll the calf!"

"You!"

Wang Shuai's eyes widened and he was angry, but he was helpless. There are no scars left by the condom on the boar's body at all, so it is categorically impossible to be in the condom.

There was a lot of noise around, and many people were chatting with grandpa.

Walking along the dirt road in the village, I saw my grandmother, parents, second aunt and third aunt at the door of the house, and the second and third uncles should have gone to the ground and were not at home.

4 earthen houses are connected together.

The westernmost is Wang Yuan's house, and to the east is the second uncle's house, the third uncle's house and the grandparents' house.

The houses of the four families are connected together, located in the south of Wangjiatun, and each other has independent low-walled courtyards, so they can take care of each other when there is something.

Grandma, parents, two sisters-in-law, and some younger siblings greeted them, and they were all overjoyed to see the big wild boar.

Carrying the big wild boar to the easternmost grandmother's house, Wang Yuan stopped caring about the noisy crowd and went into the house.

Tons tons tons ~

The low farmhouse was dimly lit, the walls and roof were blackened, and the floor was also dirt, standing beside the large water urn, scooping some cold water from the black water urn with half a scoop, and drinking it directly into his stomach.

I drank too quickly, and the cold water dripped down the corners of my mouth, wetting a small piece of clothing on my chest.

"Brother, have you drunk enough?"

Cousins Wang Meng and Wang Hu walked in and stood behind looking at the scoop, they were also thirsty.

"Here you go, drink it."

Wang Yuan drank happily, and then gave the scoop to Wang Meng, he took off his short sleeves to reveal his sturdy upper body, came to the basin in the corner, and washed his face, and then washed the sweat stains on his body.

The yard was very noisy, and many villagers came to see the excitement, and the sound of discussion reached the house.

Then.

Her younger sister Wang Xiaodie ran into the house, squatted on Wang Yuan's right and said, "Second brother, how did you catch the big wild boar?" Tell me about it. ”

The little girl loves to listen to stories, and her eyes are shining.

Looking at the stains on her little face, Wang Yuan moistened the towel and wiped her face.

The little girl squatted there with her eyes closed, letting Wang Yuan rub her face roughly.

"I'll tell you later, what are they doing, grandpa?"

"Slaughter the pig."

"Well, if nothing else, we can eat pork tonight, do you like pork?"

"I like it!"

"Where's your eldest sister?"

"I'm out there watching the pigs slaughtered."

Wang Yuan went to the house and pulled the lamp rope, click~ As expected, he meowed out of power, because of the low power generation, so although the lights were installed, there were often power outages.

When he came out of the back room, he heard a cat meowing, and it turned out to be his big white cat smelling the fragrance.