Chapter 237: Musk
Since you can't go back for the time being, you should go into the mountains to have a good time. After firing a few shots, Wang Manyin now really likes the feeling of gunsmoke.
In addition, if you have the opportunity, you can collect some more plant seeds and put them in the space. Especially for tree species, the more nature the better.
About hitting the tiger...... Although what Dong Gang said was conclusive, Wang Manyin did not hold out much hope. After several campaigns to eradicate pests, tigers are already very rare in the forests around Yuannan County, how can they be so easy to encounter.
However, the leopard has survived until later generations and has never been extinct. If you're lucky, you might be able to run into it.
There are also hares and pheasants or something, he is not interested at all, there are a lot of them in his space.
"You wait, I'll borrow two guns!" Seeing that Wang Manyin was interested, Dong Gang turned around and walked in the direction of the factory.
In later generations, the so-called members of the factory security section were security guards and doormen, who were mainly responsible for patrols and registration of visitors. Amazing, you can have an electric baton in your hand.
It was a completely different year, the factory security department was very powerful, and the members were generally equipped with firearms. Some of the more important factories are even equipped with various heavy weapons.
Another feature is that weapons management is lax.
If it is related, it can be easily lent out.
Dong Gang was originally in the factory, and coupled with his uncle's relationship, he didn't have to say anything to bring two guns.
Then, he stopped a car on the side of the road that was going to pull coal in Yuannan County.
Dong Gang and the driver knew each other, and after stuffing each other with a pack of cigarettes, the two sat in the cab, and the bicycle was thrown into the rear compartment.
The terrain outside Huangyuan City is not much different from that of Shibijie Commune, and there are ditches and ravines everywhere. On the sunny cliff face near the highway, there are holes and caves scattered in all directions.
Between the cliffs and rivers, many suffering people are working hard.
Flocks of dirty sheep occasionally appeared on the roadside, and the desolate and high-pitched Xintianyou also drifted with the wind:
The sun comes out a little red,
People who go out are distressed.
The moon buds come out a little brightly,
Who takes care of the people who go out......
Yuannan is the best county in Huangyuan.
Not only is there coal, but there is also a large area of forest, and there is no shortage of food and money. Even the road leading to Huangyuan City was made an asphalt road.
The car drove fast on a flat road, and it took more than half an hour to drive forty or fifty miles.
Along the way, the vegetation gradually increases on the earthy gray mountains, and you can see undulating shrubs from time to time. As you walk forward, more trees come into view, and many of the rocky hills are covered with red leaves and wildflowers......
After walking for dozens of miles, the driver stopped on the side of the road.
Immediately, the two rode bicycles and drove towards the destination of the trip, Ganshuigou Village.
It is also the hometown of Dong Gang's uncle Yang Quanyou.
In order to avoid trouble last year, Dong Gang lived in Ganshuigou Village for a period of time and was familiar with the situation in the village.
The living conditions in Ganshuigou Village are much better than those in Jar Village, and people can share 360 catties of grain a year, and a job in the year-end final account can be worth more than 8 cents.
In addition, backed by the mountains, there is no shortage of firewood in the members' homes all year round. There is even a hunting team in the village, which relies on hunting to earn money.
As soon as he came to the periphery of Ganshuigou Village, Wang Manyin was shocked.
The caves here are completely different from what I imagined, they are not directly dug earth kilns like in Jar Village, most of them are brick kilns and stone kilns built on flat ground, and some of them belong to interface kilns.
The kiln surface looks neat and tidy, giving people a bright and beautiful feeling.
Many caves are drying corn husk braids, which should also be supplied to weaving factories.
It's right to think about it, since Dong Gang's uncle Yang Quanyou is the person in charge of the weaving factory, he will definitely not forget to find a job for the village.
Of course, what really surprised Wang Manyin was that most of the cave walls were written with lines of text.
At first, he thought it was a slogan, but when he got there, he saw that it was a poem.
"How's it going, full of silver, it's been shaken. When I first arrived, I was shocked. The stationed officer of Ganshuigou Village is very thoughtful, and last year he held a poetry competition in the village and even appeared in the newspaper. Last year alone, the entire village wrote more than 1,000 poems, an average of three poems per person, right? ”
"It's really amazing," Wang Manyin nodded, carefully reading the poem written in lime and paint on the kiln surface.
This year, the grain is piled up, and I stand on the top of the mountain into the clouds.
Tear up the clouds to wipe the sweat, and lean close to the sun to light a bag of cigarettes.
Well, easy to understand.
In just a few sentences, Wang Manyin realized the farmers' joy for the harvest and their yearning for a better life, which was quite romantic.
The next song is also very popular: "XX songs fly all over the sky, and songs become ocean poems and mountains." Taibai Doujiu has 100 poems, and farmers only need half a cigarette. ”
There is also a poem describing "Big Pond": "There is a big pond at the entrance of the village, and it takes pictures of the whole village." There are 360 photos a year, and Zhang Zhang has an old captain. ”
In the village, the two met a production team leader.
The other party is very familiar with Dong Gang, and after listening to his explanation, he immediately spoke: "You came just in time, a group of wild boars have run out of the mountains in the past few days, and they have eaten and arched at night, arching the sweet potato field in the ditch behind the village. The hunting team had just entered the mountains in the morning to look for ...... If you want to go, I'll send someone with ......."
"Third uncle, that's great!" Dong Gang nodded again and again.
If you can't hit a tiger, you can also fight two wild boars.
Of course, he knew very well in his heart that the reason why people were so enthusiastic was naturally because of his uncle's face.
"Okay, you wait, I'll take the red paper." As he spoke, he rushed home.
"Brother Dong, what are you doing with red paper?" Seeing the other party leave, Wang Manyin asked puzzled.
Dong Gang smiled and explained: "The terrain near Ganshuigou Village is different from our original West County, and many mountains are densely planted with vegetation, and once the distance between the two sides is too far, it will not be clear to see. In order to prevent accidental injury, we must bring red paper into the mountain. The captain of the hunting team and my uncle are uncles and brothers, and with him, we will definitely have a chance to hunt wild boars......"
I see!
Wang Manyin nodded again, very admired by the wisdom of the working people.
When the production team leader returned, he also brought a villager named Yang Dalin.
The other party led the way in front, and Wang Manyin and the two followed closely with guns.
Not long after entering the mountains, Yang Dalin took out a whistle and blew it violently to establish contact with the village hunting team.
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By the valley stream, an excited voice sounded: "Uncle Yang, come and see, these seem to be hoof prints left by Xiangzi." ”
Hearing this, a strong man in the crowd quickly stepped forward and nodded:
"That's right, we were lucky today, and we met Kako in estrus. Usually these guys are loners and only gather together when they are in heat...... Looking at the hoof prints, there are at least seven or eight. ”
"Before it gets dark, let's see if we can catch up, if we kill a few, get two taels as a door, and sell them for a few hundred yuan, even if we don't hit the wild boar, this trip into the mountains is not in vain."
His name is Yang Quangui and he is the captain of the hunting team.
"Uncle Yang, what is Xiangzi and Dangmenzi, so expensive?" Wang Manyin asked in surprise.
According to the other party, one tael is almost a hundred yuan, which is equivalent to three months' wages of an ordinary worker.
Not long after entering the mountain, he and Dong Gang successfully joined the hunting team under the leadership of Yang Dashan. Along the way, Wang Manyin can be regarded as knowing the team members.
"Xiangzi is very similar to Tulu, but it is small, usually weighing twenty pounds. There is a hair follicle under the belly button of Gongxiangzi, which grows as a doorman. This thing is musk, like a ball, very fragrant. Now the supply and marketing cooperatives have purchases, one or two, sixty or seventy yuan, and they can be sold for more than a hundred ...... on the black market," Dong Gang said next to him.
He had followed the hunting party into the mountains before, and he knew something about these codes.
Wang Manyin immediately understood.
The last time he wandered around the consignment store, he also saw musk sachets for sale on the counter, each priced at fifty yuan. At that time, Wang Manyin had already bought a lot of porcelain, and he was afraid that it would attract too much attention, so he gave up a lot of good things, and musk sachet was one of them.
In this era, musk is also one of the products that create foreign exchange, and one or two foreign countries can be sold for more than 2,000 US dollars, which is dozens of times the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperatives.
It's a pity that Wang Manyin doesn't have this way, and he doesn't plan to toss around.
In addition, musk sachets are different from antique porcelain, if they are not well preserved, they will be left for too long and will cause incense to run away, and then lose their medicinal effect.
So Wang Manyin was slightly tempted and left it behind.
There are five species of musk deer in China, all of which produce musk, among which the original musk deer and forest musk deer are more common.
It was the first time that Wang Manyin knew that there were also musk deer on the Loess Plateau. It's normal to think about it, this mountain is at the junction of two provinces, stretching for thousands of miles, and there are even tigers and leopards in it, and it is normal for musk deer to exist.
Even if you meet the crested ibis later, it is not unusual.
Thinking of this, Wang Manyin's heart moved: There may really be a crested ibis in the Meridian Ridge now.
According to the data, ten years later, researchers found crested ibises in a county in the south of Qindi, which is also the only seven remaining in China.
Then, in just a few decades, the crested ibis population recovered at an astonishing rate, reaching thousands of individuals, creating a biological miracle.
However, this does not mean that there are no crested ibises in other parts of Qindi now.
In later generations, Wang Manyin was interested in the crested ibis for a while, and he really consulted a lot of relevant information.
When the staff investigated the crested ibis, they collected a lot of sightings in other places, and even found a few feathers.
Wang Manyin has already begun to think about it, if he really sees it, he must get a few to raise in the space.
The discovery of fresh incense hoof prints made everyone in the hunting party excited. They didn't care that it was getting dark, and kept driving the dogs to sniff along the stream.
It's a pity that these earth dogs and rhubarb are not comparable, and until it is completely dark, no results have been achieved.
Yang Quangui could only take everyone to an abandoned cave, and let people collect firewood to make a fire, and then put the two hares that he had caught in the afternoon on the fire to roast.
Eating roast hares, gnawing corn nests, and drinking a few sips of mountain stream water, Wang Manyin didn't feel hard.
It's just that there are too many people around, and it's not easy for him to enter the space.
When he had eaten and drunk his fill, he slept by the fire.
The night was uneventful.
In the early morning, a sudden gunshot woke everyone up.
"Who shot it!!"
"Where's Uncle Quan?"
"Everybody go out and find someone......"
Everyone rushed out of the cave in a hurry, and saw Yang Quangui standing with a gun dozens of meters away.
Seeing everyone running over, he responded loudly: "I got up in the morning to wash my face, and I happened to meet a fragrant seed drinking water...... It's not looking for death! ”
"It's really hit, this head, it shouldn't be small to be a doorman."
"It's worthy of Uncle Quangui!"
Seeing the dead earth-gray prey clearly, everyone was amazed.
Then, Yang Quangui squatted down, took a knife to the belly of the prey, and cut off a fist-sized lump.
This is what everyone talked about before. It has tan hair on the top and a small sac hole in the middle. If you gouge the opening, you can see that there are a lot of particles inside.
In the smell of blood, there is also an indescribable strange fragrance.
With this musk sachet, the hunting party will not enter the mountain in vain this time.
Next, the people did not mention breakfast at all, and drove a few hunting dogs towards the mountain, hoping to have a greater harvest.
It may have been the sound of gunfire that scared all the remaining musk deer away.
They pursued forward for almost half an hour, still finding no target, but finding more hoof prints in the nearby woods.
It's just that these hoof prints are too messy to alternate between the old and the new, so that several hounds completely lose the track of their prey and keep spinning in place.
"Let's split up, two people in a team, each aim at a hoof print, and shoot immediately when we find it!" Captain Yang commanded unwillingly.
Wang Manyin and Dong Gang formed a team and also looked for them in one direction.
This forest was lush with grass and trees, and when they walked thirty or forty meters away, they could no longer see the other team members.
After running seven or eight miles in the morning, Dong Gang was a little depressed.
It just so happened that I felt the urge to urinate, so I simply stopped and stood under the tree to release water.
Wang Manyin also came to the side and talked about taking the car back to Yuanxi County at noon.
He was worried about his family's affairs, and he didn't plan to accompany the hunting party to wander around the mountains all the time.
"Don't worry, I'll definitely let you rush back today. You don't have to go to Huangyuan City to take a bus, there are many coal trucks passing by on the asphalt road outside the mountain every day, and I will stop you on the side of the road to go to Yuanxi County. Dong Gang patted his chest and promised.
Wang Manyin relieved his heart and stretched out his hand to tie his belt.
Suddenly, he sniffed: "Brother Dong, have you smelled anything?" ”
"Yes, urine smells." Dong Gang shook his hand and replied subconsciously.
"No, the scent, you stand in this direction and smell it." Wang Manyin sniffed and confirmed that his feeling was not wrong.
"You don't have a nose problem, do you?"
Dong Gang walked up to him with doubts and sniffed suddenly.
Immediately, he spoke: "It seems to have a real smell, very similar to the musk just now!" Those guys must be nearby, let's look for them slowly, don't be alarmed! ”
With joy on their faces, both of them tiptoed towards the distance. There are also scattered hoof prints on the ground nearby, and it is not difficult to track.
Who knew that after walking more than ten meters away, the fragrance suddenly disappeared.
"It's strange, these guys won't be alarmed and run away again, right?"
"No, are we looking in the wrong direction? Why don't you go back and take a look......" Wang Manyin shook his head.
As he was on the way, he had been paying attention, observing the movements around him. The entire forest was silent, and no other anomalies were heard.
Let me tell you in advance, there may be three or five more chapters, and the time will transition to a few years later.