Volume 1 The Fledgling Three Brothers Chapter 140 Discoveries Under the Cliff
Yin Yuniu glanced back at the sun that was almost sinking to the horizon, and said with a smile: "It's going to be dark soon, my husband Huoha, Longjun will eat and talk for a while!"
Ji Longjun spread his hands: "Okay!"
At this hour, it was dark, and the road down the cliff was not very easy.
Ji Longjun estimated that it would take at least an hour to go down to the foot of the mountain, and it would be midnight to return to Yinjia Town, so why not rest here tonight and go down the mountain early tomorrow morning.
The three-day appointment, tomorrow is the third day, and it is not too late.
After making up his mind, Ji Longjun rolled up his sleeves and helped Yin Yuniu collect firewood to make a fire in the leeward of the boulder and prepare dinner.
Not far from the boulder, a mountain spring seeped out of a recess, slowly flowing down the mountain.
Here, Niu Niu skillfully cut open the big bird, plucked out the feathers, and cleaned the internal organs. By the time he returned to the top of the cliff, Ji Longjun had already lit a bonfire and laid a wooden frame on the ground.
"Longjun, your grill is better than what I made!" Yin Yuniu looked at Ji Longjun, who was busy, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Ji Longjun glanced back at Yin Yuniu and the big bird with red stripes in his hand, and said with a smile: "Hey, the skill of eating, I can't do anything else, I am the best at this." Niu Niu, do you have any spices?"
"It's just salt. ”
"It's only salt? Well, give me the big bird. ”
Ji Longjun looked at the large piece of salt in Yin Yuniu's hand and shook his head.
He took the big bird handed by Yin Yuniu, untied the small cloth bag hanging on his waist, and took out several small porcelain bottles from it and placed them on the ground in turn.
Yin Yuniu's eyes lit up: "Yes, Longjun, what kind of routine is this?"
"Haha, what a routine, barbecue. ”
Ji Longjun opened the porcelain bottle and introduced: "This is salt, this is cumin powder, this is five-spice powder, this is oil, this is chili powder......"
Yin Yuniu swallowed his saliva and said strangely: "My brother, do you always carry these things with you when you go out?"
"Of course, walking the rivers and lakes, sometimes I can't necessarily buy food if I have money, not to mention that I don't have money in my pocket!" Ji Longjun laughed.
He poured out a handful of fine salt and put it in the palm of his hand, smeared the black stork with salt, and stuffed the wild ginger and onion heads handed by Yin Yuniu into the black stork's stomach.
"Is there a rope?" asked Ji Longjun.
"Rope, there is no ......" Yin Yuniu didn't know what Ji Longjun meant.
"My brother, you rest today, I'll make you an authentic Ji's roast chicken (black stork)!"
Ji Longjun said and looked around, pulled out a thin vine from the weeds and vines behind him, tied the black stork's legs side by side, and tied its neck to its body, and tied it in a cross shape with a dissected abdomen.
"Alright, now let's start baking!"
Ji Longjun said, hanging the black stork's legs with a branch more than three feet long, and hanging the black stork upside down on the crackling bonfire.
"My brother, you used to be in the mountains and forests...... It's all like this?" Yin Yuniu asked in shock as he looked at the black stork that was gradually turning golden and even began to simmer.
"Otherwise, what's so delicious about a tasteless barbecue. ”
Ji Longjun smiled and carefully brushed the black stork with a layer of oil with leaves. Probably because there was not much oil in the small porcelain bottle, Ji Longjun just carefully brushed a layer and stopped.
As the black stork is brushed with this layer of oil, its whole body becomes golden faster, and the smell of meat begins to come to its nose.
Ji Longjun's subordinates did not stop, and in his left hand he picked up the porcelain bottle in turn and poured several powders into the palm of his right hand. After a simple mixture, Longjun carefully sprinkled the powder evenly on the black stork.
Yin Yuniu only felt that the entire mountain cliff top was shrouded in this fragrance, his stomach was violently protesting, cooing non-stop, and his saliva was like a mountain spring after the rain, which couldn't stop it from flowing out.
"Alright, call it a day!" Ji Longjun shouted, pulling up the branches that had been planted in the ground, and a black stork hanging from the roasted to perfection was steaming.
Ji Longjun untied the grass vine tied to the head and feet of the black stork, tore off a thigh and handed it to Yin Yuniu: "My brother, taste the salty!"
Yin Yuniu was already hungry, he took the bird's leg with both hands and hugged a big bite without hesitation, and muttered vaguely while gnawing: "It's delicious, it's delicious......"
This black stork weighed about four or five pounds, and the two brothers were half of their stomachs, and they were finally no longer so hungry.
Under Ji Longjun's questioning, Yin Yuniu hiccuped and talked about the bizarre experience of more than a year.
It all started when he fled into the mountains for the second time.
It was not as easy as he imagined to make a living in the mountains, and the poetry and painting depicted by Ji Longjun at the beginning were completely gone, but there were dangers everywhere.
In the past, I came to hunt with Uncle Wang's father and son, and everyone had complete blades and tacit understanding, even if they encountered a fierce beast like a tiger and leopard, they could fight it. But now that he was alone in the mountains, he had to be extremely careful every day to watch out for these beasts.
All he could catch was small beasts like hares and mountain rats, or climb up a tree and dig out some bird's eggs and roast them.
But it's good that he's very strong, and it's okay to be hard.
The first time he escaped into the mountains, he was seriously injured by Xu Ergou and his gang, and if he hadn't happened to find a lot of fish in the pond at the foot of the mountain, he would have starved to death in the mountains.
But the number of fish is limited after all, and the second time he escaped into the mountains, the fish in the pond were already gone, so he had to wander around the mountains to fill his stomach, searching, and finally climbed to the cliff.
Like Ji Longjun, Yin Yuniu stood melancholy on the top of the cliff, listening to the whistling mountain wind, and looking down.
However, he saw a different scenery from Ji Longjun!
Yin Yuniu saw many black storks hovering under the cliff, and they were returning from hunting to feed their young birds.
Yin Yuniu's eyes lit up, he hadn't eaten meat seriously for many days, and the black storks flying around were simply a roast chicken that could only fly in the eyes of Niu Niu!
The saliva is three thousand feet.
"Or ...... Grab a few and bake them and eat them?"
Yin Yuniu scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
These birds flew around under the cliff, let alone catching, and he felt dizzy when he lay on the top of the cliff and looked down a few times.
With such a high cliff, if you accidentally fall down, you are afraid that you will fall directly into a piece of meat!
"But I can't fly......"
Yin Yuniu was unwilling to give up no matter what, but his stomach was really hungry and uncomfortable, so he decided to take a risk: "Your uncle, the big bird can't catch it, I can always touch a few young birds in your nest, right?"
Although the cliff is steep, Yin Yuniu really can't bear to be greedy.
He mustered up the courage to forcibly restrain his fear, picked up the abrupt rocks on the cliff, dragged the vines, and carefully climbed down from the top of the cliff.
The hard work paid off, probably for a long time, there was no "man" to poach the young birds, and the nests of the black storks were scattered one by one on the entire cliff and halfway up the mountainside.
Yin Yuniu finally climbed up to a bird's nest with great effort, and there were four young birds in the nest, and the young birds were chirping at him vividly, as if asking him for food.
It's just that instead of getting a little food from Yin Yuniu's hands, they will become his food.
Yin Yuniu was overjoyed, and quickly took out the young birds one by one and stuffed them into his arms, and slowly climbed back along the cliff.
The meat of the young birds is tender and juicy, not to mention how fragrant and delicious it is when grilled!
Yin Yuniu was satisfied and remembered the dense bird's nest, and felt that this place was simply a big gift from God, and he never wanted to leave here again.
Coincidentally, Yin Yuniu found a small stream near the cliff, although there was usually little water in the stream, but it was enough for him to quench his thirst. On rainy days, the water in this stream will rise so much that you can even lie down in it and take a bath.
What's more, this place is far away from the foot of the mountain, far away from Yinjia Town, and he doesn't have to worry about Xu Ergou and his gang chasing him into the deep mountains.
It's just a pity for the countless black storks on this cliff, they fly out to forage during the day, and often when they come back, they find that the young birds in the nest are gone!
One less nest today, one less nest tomorrow, it's a tragedy among birds.
The black storks wailed and hovered over the cliff for a long time, refusing to return to their nests, which was simply desolate.
While Yin Yuniu was catching birds on the cliff, he also found that there were many medicinal herbs growing on the cliff. He had seen a lot of medicines for Master Yin, and knew that they were all good things, so he often picked some mixed with roasted little black storks and ate them as meals.
Speaking of this, Yin Yuniu laughed and said:
"Longjun, you don't know, the precious medicinal materials sold by ordinary pharmacies are almost everywhere on this cliff! The most is Ganoderma lucidum grass, I have read medical books, Ganoderma lucidum grass specializes in treating restlessness, fatigue and shortness of breath, and has the miraculous effect of protecting the liver and detoxifying. In addition to eating Ganoderma lucidum grass, I also picked a lot of other good things, He Shou Wu, do you know it, such a big He Shou Wu!"
Yin Yuniu said and gestured with his hand, about the size of a watermelon.
He smiled: "This kind of He Shou Wu in the pharmacy is used as a treasure, but I gnaw on the local melon, although the taste is not so good." Speaking of deliciousness, tsk tsk, 'beef head meat' is absolutely first-class! Longjun, do you know 'beef head meat'? It is not real beef but a kind of fungus, which has a miraculous effect on strengthening the foundation and increasing qi, strengthening muscles and bones, and the taste is similar to beef, very sweet!"
Ji Longjun was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.
"Niu Niu ...... You are a blessing in disguise. But I just saw that you are very good, are you sure you really have a fear of heights?"
"Haha, what is this, Longjun, don't be in a hurry to listen to me slowly. ”
Yin Yuniu said, took a bite of the barbecue in his hand, and continued to talk about his magical experience.
Speaking of which, he was lucky to have a good time to breed young birds. If it's early, the big bird hasn't laid eggs yet. It was too late, and of course the young birds didn't have to catch it after they learned to fly.
From this day on, Yin Yuniu not only climbed up and down the cliff every day, practicing cunning better than monkey apes, but also because he ate these great tonic herbs every day, Yin Yuniu's body became extremely strong in just one month.
Fortunately, he has to run around in the mountains every day, and he has to carefully climb up and down the cliffs to consume these excess energy, otherwise he can't consume such a tonic body, and sooner or later there will be problems.
It was a new day, and Yin Yuniu climbed down the stone wall from the top of the cliff as usual to check the bird's nest to see if there were any fish that had slipped through the net.