Bianshanhan [farming]

It's snowing again, sitting in the tent, you can hear the sound of trees being frozen and cracked from time to time, and occasionally branches fall to the ground, making a loud noise.

Li Qingwen counted the sables on the sledge, there were 22 of them, all covered, and the fur of each was not damaged, this one can be crossed out in the booklet.

Three days ago, they trekked here. After finding the trace of the sable, they stopped immediately, lay in the snow for a long time, set up a trap, and then caught the sable.

The brochure stated that there were twenty mink furs, and there were two more for emergencies.

The sables feed on hazelnuts, pine nuts, and berries, and here they found a large hazelnut tree.

The sweet taste of the pine nuts and hazelnuts we ate last time is still unforgettable to this day. While being pierced and squeaked, we picked them from the trees and the ground, and never went back when the sack was not full.

The sack that was dragged back was placed outside, and the wooden stick was vigorously picked up and started to be smashed, the front and back were smashed hundreds of times, and then squatting on the ground, the outer layer with burrs was almost smashed, and then the hazelnuts were checked out .

Li Qingwen picked out the big hazelnuts first, and kept the good ones for seeds.Everyone is used to him now, and they help to choose together.

They came out this time and brought out the iron pot specially. The hazelnuts had just been picked out, and the pot was already set on the fire in the tent over there, and then they started frying the hazelnuts.

After the long journey, and lying in the snow for a long time, now I can finally catch my breath. Everyone smelled the increasingly strong fragrance, and their stomachs began to rebel.

After frying in the first pot, put it in a leather bag first, and then beat the leather bag on a wooden stake several times. Most of the shells are cracked and easy to eat.

The pot is so big that everyone can't get a share of the pot. Jiang Liping first gave it to Zhou Yao and Lin Xiuyun.

Zhou Yao first picked one with more than half of the flesh exposed and ate it, and immediately felt that she liked it very much, and then buried her head and began to kowtow.

Several people took turns frying. Li Qingwen sat by the fire and watched the pot burn. It was snowing outside, but he was sweating slightly from being roasted.

After a while, Li Qingwen's mouth will have an extra peeled hazelnut, some of which he will eat in one bite, and some he will take and stuff them into Jiang Cong's mouth with his backhand.

But no matter what, most of the two hazelnuts ended up in Li Qingwen's stomach.

Li Qingfeng felt that it was too troublesome to eat one by one. He put the hazelnuts on the fur and smashed them with a stone. He didn't know whether it was a coincidence or his strength. Every shell was broken, but the pulp inside was intact. lossless.

Then he picked up all the pulp and stuffed it into his mouth.

Ma Yongjiang was so envious, he handed over his hazelnut, "You smash it for me too."

Li Qingfeng took it and smashed it, Ma Yongjiang was happy to pick it up, but Li Qingfeng was faster than him, grabbed it and threw it into his mouth.

I didn't see how I chewed it, but I swallowed it.

Ma Yongjiang's outstretched hand froze in the air, his eyes widened slightly, "You, you, why did you eat mine?!"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot..." Li Qingfeng apologized sincerely, almost all the food in his hands went into his stomach, and he rarely gave it away.

Ma Yongjiang waited for a long time, finally got such a point, but now it is gone, he shook Li Qingfeng wanting to cry without tears, it seemed that he wanted to shake the contents of Li Qingfeng's stomach.

Li Qingfeng knew he was in the wrong, and said, "I'll share the pot with you, and I'll give it back to you, okay?"

When the pot came out, Ma Yongjiang didn't let Li Qingfeng touch the hazelnut, but he accidentally bit his mouth when he knocked on it, and he didn't know how hard he used it, causing a pool of blood to flow out.

Seeing how pitiful he was, Li Qingfeng offered to help, and Ma Yongjiang asked him to put his left hand behind his back and smash it with his right, so that he would not be able to grab the hazelnuts.

Ma Yongjiang covered his mouth and stared at the hazelnuts on the ground. When the snow-white nuts were exposed when they were about to be smashed, he immediately stretched out his hand. He didn't touch the hazelnuts, but caught Li Qingfeng's big head.

The moment it was smashed, Li Qingfeng lowered his head and licked away most of the flesh with his mouth and tongue. When he straightened up, he spat out the broken shell that he accidentally ate into his mouth.

Ma Yongjiang was stunned, Li Qingfeng looked at the ground, licked the corner of his lips, and said, "There are three or four more, do you want them?"

"I, I, I want, I want to kill you!" Ma Yongjiang pushed up like a calf, and the two of them rolled out of the tent.

His food was robbed and he was punched several times. Ma Yongjiang was so miserable that no one dared to look directly at him.

Knowing that the fourth brother didn't do it on purpose, in order to appease Ma Yongjiang, Li Qingwen specially fired a pot for him, and Jiang Cong smashed the shell for him.

Ma Yongjiang hugged a large bag of hazelnuts to his chest, sniffed, and glared at Li Qingfeng while eating.

Li Qingfeng regretted it too late, now Ma Yongjiang eats more than anyone else...

After the snow stopped, everyone shoveled off the snow from the tents and entered the forest in no hurry. A few people stayed behind, and the rest walked along the sunny slope first.

To find medicinal materials, Zhou Yao had to follow. She thought she had to slow down to take care of her, but after walking for a long time, Zhou Yao dug half a bag of medicine, but she was only slightly panting, but Li Qingwen began to pull the bellows.

While resting and eating, Li Qingwen asked her why she was so powerful, and Zhou Yao told him that since she was a teenager, she had to lift countless injuries every day, and even now, she can lift someone like Jiang Liping.

Li Qingwen felt that this was impossible to learn.

After walking for a day, Zhou Yao got two bags of medicine. Jiang Liping and the others caught a few pheasants. The pheasants near the forest are bigger than those in the wilderness, and one can feed several people.

Once the scallions and ginger in the soil baskets grow, they will be pulled out and planted again. The scallions and ginger that are pulled out are placed on the kang, dried slowly, and then ground into powder. This time they came out with a large bag of scallions ginger powder.

The chicken was sprinkled with scallion, ginger powder and salt before putting it on the fire. Li Qingwen turned two branches and gave one to Jiang Cong and the other to Zhou Yao after roasting.

Zhou Yao took it over, and said while blowing: "If you have something to say, just say it."

Li Qingwen said: "I remember all the medicinal materials you dug up, if any are valuable, I will look for them more."

Zhou Yao took a big bite of the chicken, took a deep breath, and said, "As far as I know, there are quite a lot of prey on the road, and most of them are killed by your brother Jiang. Pull these in the snow?"

Li Qingwen was not discouraged even after hearing this, "Who thinks too much money?"

They wandered around the edge of the forest for two or three days, Zhou Yao harvested the medicinal materials she said were useful, Jiang Liping and the others found out the surrounding situation, and then they returned.

Halfway there, I saw the old grandson who was supposed to stay where he was, looking around in the snow, calling Lin Xiuyun's name as he walked.

It was only after meeting that they found out that not long after they left, Lin Xiuyun sneaked away by herself. After searching for two days, she still disappeared.

Jiang Liping was very angry, and spouted white gas out of his mouth, "You didn't realize that a woman is gone?!"

"She went out in the middle of the night and said she wanted to go to the toilet, but we couldn't follow her." Old Sun said anxiously and angrily, "We didn't come back for a long time, and we didn't dare to find her, so we called her name, and no one answered for a long time." , Chased him for several miles, but no one was found."

It was also a coincidence that there was a moon in the first half of the night, and it was blocked by dark clouds in the second half of the night. Lao Sun and the others did not dare to chase too far for fear of getting lost.

A group of people said as they walked, Zhou Yao and Lin Xiuyun lived in a tent, and when they went back, they found that they were short of clothes and food. The others had never been here before, so Lin Yunxiu took them away.

Jiang Liping and the others were asking where Lin Yunxiu had gone, when Zhou Yao came out and said, "There's no need to look for her, she didn't get lost, she just wanted to go."

Anyone who goes out in the middle of the night will not bring clothes and dry food with him, he must have made up his mind to leave.

When everyone was overwhelmed by this, Li Qingfeng did not know where to find a piece of paper, he looked at it, and said: "She said that she is gone, and she will be married in the next life to repay her kindness..."

Everyone gathered around and looked at the letter left by Lin Xiuyun, their expressions constantly changing.

"She has already thought about it." Zhou Yao looked at the endless white snow in the distance, and said, "I'm afraid I wrote this letter when I was in the camp. She has no plan to go back this time."

Everyone felt that a woman, even with enough warm clothes and food, would not be able to survive here, so they couldn't help but sighed.

Although we meet by chance, it is a life after all.

I can only regret in my heart that they still have to continue walking into the forest. Cistanche cistanche and purple ganoderma grow on trees, and they can only be found when they go in.

They chose the direction that Lin Xiuyun might go when she left, and it would be great if they could come across it when looking for things.

In winter, the trees lost their luxuriant branches and leaves, and it looked a bit empty when walking in the forest. There were not many of them, so they didn't dare to rush like last time, and kept walking close to the edge of the forest.

Li Qingfeng's hard-practiced arrow technique has achieved initial results, and he hit a bunch of pheasants and rabbits.

There are more ferocious beasts in the forest than in the wilderness. Jiang Liping and the others did not dare to relax their vigilance at all. Li Qingwen and Ma Yongjiang helped Zhou Yao gather herbs and Ganoderma lucidum.

After the snow in the forest, other herbs are pressed under the ground, and the Ganoderma lucidum growing on the tree is easy to see.

After walking for a few days, most of what they picked were red and brown ganoderma, and there were only a dozen purple ones, and they were all crooked.

As he continued to walk in, Jiang Cong found a cave. Standing at the entrance of the cave, he could see a black mass undulating faintly inside. It was a bear.

After realizing it, Jiang Cong left quietly and told the news to others.

While Jiang Liping and the others were discussing how to dig a trap without disturbing the bear, Zhou Yao took out a pack of medicine and said, "Burn this at the entrance of the cave."

Everyone took half a step back, looking at the medicine with a look of bitterness and hatred. They had been hurt by this before.

"This is not to lure the bear, but to immobilize it. It takes about half a stick of incense, but not much, so hurry up." Zhou Yao said, "I have been digging in the snow for so many days, just want to pay back the bear." I owe you a debt for the second time."

"Will this work?" Looking at the uncommon powder in the bag, everyone hesitated.

The bear is so big, how can this little medicine immobilize it?

Seeing their concerns, Zhou Yao smiled and said, "Did the last one work?"

Everyone was shocked and immediately took her medicine.

To be on the safe side, everyone dug a trap a few hundred steps away from the entrance of the cave. The bears who were woken up in the winter are frantic. If the medicine is useless or the medicine is overpowered, they can still be lured here to deal with it.

After digging the trap and observing the wind direction for a long time, the light-handed man put the firewood at the entrance of the cave, lit the fire, and quickly sprinkled the powder into it.

Gao Yubao was unlucky, he stood in the limelight for some reason, when everyone was listening to the movement in the cave, he fell to the ground with a "bang".

After a while, Zhou Yao nodded, and Ma Yongjiang yelled tremblingly at the entrance of the cave, the sound was quite loud, and the crying sound was more obvious, and he ran away scrambling after shouting.

Sure enough, there was movement in the cave, and a black figure jumped out at a very fast speed.

Everyone was startled and fled in all directions.

Li Qingwen had long been hiding in the furthest distance. He knew he was incompetent, so he didn't go up to cause trouble.

As soon as the bear showed its head, Jiang Cong drew his bow. Before he could make a move, the bear suddenly seemed to be drunk, ran a few steps unsteadily, and fell to the ground.

Jiang Liping led someone forward with a knife in his hand, Jiang Cong didn't move, the cold arrow was still pointing at the bear on the ground.

Just as they killed the bear, an imperceptible cold light flashed behind the tree not far away.

Almost at the same moment, the arrow in Jiang Cong's hand flew out, collided with another arrow in mid-air, and after a sudden lag, broke the arrow and shot at the shadow in the forest.

Before everyone could react, Jiang Cong drew the second bow, following the direction of the first arrow, followed another arrow, and suddenly there was a muffled sound in the forest.

At this time, other people discovered that someone was attacking them in the dark!

Lao Sun and the others ran over quickly, only to see a man in strange attire nailed to a tree. He struggled in panic, trying to take off his fur coat and escape, but was surrounded by people.

"Who are you, why are you ambushing us here?!" Lao Sun put the steel knife on the man's neck.

The collar of the strange man's clothes was firmly nailed to the tree trunk by Jiang Cong's arrow. He knew that he could not escape, so he started talking.

This person couldn't understand a single word he said, and his clothes were weird, with strange patterns depicted on the back of his exposed hands, he didn't look like a commoner in Daliang.

Lao Sun chopped off the arrow with a knife, released the man, tied him tightly, and brought him back to the bear cave.

Zhou Yao was concocting the bear, Jiang Liping took the steel knife and slapped the man's face, "Why did you plot against us? If you can't tell, just poke a dozen holes in your body."

When the man heard this, his eyes visibly flickered, Lao Sun smiled and said, "Why don't you pretend?"

With a stiff accent, the man scolded: "You, you plague gods, the mountain gods who harmed us, will definitely be punished...I don't, I'm not afraid of death, kill, kill me..."

What he said was stumbling, it was already very vague, coupled with being very excited, Li Qingwen had to spend a lot of effort to hear what he said.

The man cursed Jiang Liping and others, saying that they harmed the mountain gods and did all kinds of evil. The tribesmen would never let them go. Even if they left the forest, the curse would stay with them until their bones rotted away...

He scolded, everyone told each other what they heard, and only then did they know what he said. Li Qingwen pointed to the bear on the ground and said, "Is this your mountain god?"

When he said a word, the man seemed to be completely enraged, cursed, and frantically broke free from the rope, trying to attack Li Qingwen.

Jiang Cong frowned, and drew out the steel knife and pressed it against the man's neck. The man accidentally rubbed against the blade, blood gushed out, and was quickly frozen.

Li Qingwen caught a few words in the cursing words, and quickly explained: "We didn't want to insult your mountain god. We only beat this bear after we came here... I don't know what your mountain god is, so I didn't intend to offend you..."

The man seemed to understand what he explained, and he spoke again, as if he was praising how powerful their mountain god is and has been protecting them. Anyone who dares to harm their mountain god will risk their lives.

Jiang Cong interrupted him suddenly, "Do you still have companions?"

The man couldn't hear clearly and was still talking. After a while, a calling sound came from a distance.

The captured man was startled, and he yelled a few words. The people in the distance heard him and came towards him.

Judging from the anger and annoyance on the face of the tied man, he should have told the person to leave, but the other party didn't listen.

Not knowing whether the opponent is an enemy or a friend, Jiang Liping and others took up arms.

Not long after, more than a dozen dogs first appeared in the distance, and then there was a wooden snowboard pulled behind it like a sledge, with only one man on it.

When the visitor saw the man being arrested, he stopped the dog a dozen steps away, and walked down, completely covered in fur, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

The person who came first looked at Jiang Liping and the others, and then said: "You are very unfamiliar, you are not with them, Dan has mistaken people."

The man's mouth turned out to be Daliang's words, which he knew very well.

Jiang Liping was thinking about the steel knife in his hand, and said: "I don't know who you are looking for, he is hiding in the woods and shooting cold arrows, our people almost died!"

The visitor said: "My name is Liu He. I was with the person you captured. He admitted the wrong person. We made mistakes first. We are willing to use compensation to scare you all. Please be merciful."

After speaking, he said a few more words to the person named Dan in words that everyone couldn't understand at all.

Dan took a look at Jiang Cong and apologized in a blunt tone.

Liu He was clearly dressed the same as the one who was arrested, but he was obviously a big man. Seeing that he didn't look like a liar, it should be a misunderstanding.

Li Qingwen listened to them before, but then he stared at the dogs. The dogs pulling the cart were tall and big. Judging from the leather rope that was stuck in it, the fur should be thick...

The dog didn't even recognize his life, and stuck out his tongue at Li Qingwen.

Li Qingwen didn't take his eyes off the dog, and asked, "Do you live near here? Have you ever seen a woman who came out with us but got lost?"

Liu He heard the words: "Lin Xiuyun? She was rescued by people from our tribe. You don't have to worry about that."

Hearing him call out this name, the remaining regrets in everyone's hearts dissipated, and at the same time, a thought came to mind-this woman's life is really too hard! !

Li Qingwen bent over for a long time, and the leading dog with black hair on his forehead gave him a sideways look.

The rope on Dan's body was untied, and Liu He said: "You are here in this weather, what are you looking for, we are very familiar with this forest, and will help you."

Jiang Liping showed him the booklet in his hand, but Liu He shook his head, "I can't read."

Jiang Liping told the herbs he was looking for, and Liu He nodded and said, "You have already got the bear and the sable, I know where the purple ganoderma is, and what does cistanche look like?"

As soon as Zhou Yao said, Liu He said: "There are many back mountains in our tribe."

Hearing this, everyone was very happy. They didn't expect the matter to be resolved so smoothly. They thought they would be wandering outside all winter.