Bianshanhan [farming]

A few more pots of wax oil were boiled out, and there were enough people. The big guys stopped letting Jiang Cong make candles.

Li Qingwen happened to be going to look for wood in the forest, so he decided to take a walk inside.

Li Qingfeng went out to collect herbs, carrying a basket on his back and a bag in his hand. Inside the basket were Yunzhi and Phellinus, and inside the bag were frozen hard fruits.

The fruit is red, yellow, orange, and black, and the jelly is harder than a rock. If you accidentally hit it, it hurts for a long time.

Among this pile of fruits, Li Qingwen only knew brown-black frozen pears.

The frozen fruit is pulled out with cold water, and it melts faster. Everyone collected some snow and took it back to turn it into water, and then poured the fruit into the snow water. After a while, the water slowly condensed into ice, and the fruits were frozen in it one by one. But after waiting for a quarter of an hour or two, I stretched out my hand to poke the peel, but the peel became softer.

Li Qingfeng didn't have much patience, so after soaking for an hour or two, he smashed the ice shell and gnawed the fruit.

The fruit has melted in half, the juice on one side is sticky and very sweet, while the pulp on the other side is still smoothie-like, bite it with your teeth, well, it has a different taste.

Li Qingwen glanced at it and turned his head away, his teeth chattered just looking at it.

Frozen pears are also available in Bingzhou. The pears here are bigger and more juicy. After being plucked out of the ice by cold water, you pick up one and take a bite, and the icy, sour and sweet juice rushes out.

Li Qingwen and Zhou Yao especially liked the sour taste. They held the pear and began to suck the juice in it. They had almost sucked it. They bit another hole next to the pear and continued to suck.

After three or four bites, the frozen pears were almost absorbed, and the remaining pulp was sour and unpalatable, so I discarded it.

Roasting on the fire and eating the cold fruit, Li Qingwen ate a few in a row, his lips were cold, and suddenly shivered, Jiang Cong took away half of the frozen pears in his hand.

I heard that Jiang Cong and Li Qingwen were going out, so Li Qingfeng also wanted to follow.Since he came to the forest, he has been picking fruits, herbs, lighting fires, and making candles every day. The farthest place is to go to the Nuanhe River. He didn't come here to do these things.

Apart from Li Qingfeng, there were also a few people who were so depressed that they yelled together.

They only came out with more than 40 people this time, and they should not be too scattered. Jiang Liping counted a dozen people to go out, and there were quite a few left, so he nodded and agreed.

While talking, I heard a "plop" sound from outside the tent.

"Some prey fell into the trap!" Ma Yongjiang jumped up and ran out, working every day, not eating meat, he was a little greedy.

Jiang Liping didn't even move his eyebrows, Qi Min poked his head out and asked, "Is it Gao Yubao or the prey?"

"Do you even need to ask?!" The people outside were standing by the trap pit, shouting, pulling people out, scolding: "You dug this pit yourself, how can you fall into the trap you set?"

Gao Yubao was dragged up covered in snow and said in a muffled voice, "When the wind blows, the snow falls flat, I didn't recognize it."

Everyone sighed. They stayed here and planned to stay longer, so they set up traps around the tent. After digging the traps, the prey was not caught, and Gao Yubao fell into it several times.

Fortunately, there were no deadly traps in the trap, otherwise he might have been completely cold at this time.

Zhou Yao was cutting medicine, Gao Yubao walked around her from a distance.When he was catching a bear last time, he accidentally smelled smoke and fell into a coma for a day. It was Zhou Yao who put a particularly smelly thing under his nose to wake him up.

Since then, he has been afraid of this woman who is two heads shorter than him.

Ma Yongjiang ran out full of expectations, and came back full of disappointment.

Everyone wanted to eat meat, so Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong packed up their things and pulled three sledges into the forest.

Five miles away, we could see obvious pine tree paw prints on the snow. We walked slowly, looking for the squirrel's cave.

Li Qingwen had already made preparations. After finding several pine tree nests, he distributed two small bags to each of the big guys, one was empty and the other was filled with sorghum rice.

Li Qingfeng climbed the fastest, and the squirrel was smarter. As soon as he climbed the tree, he was startled and ran away dragging his big tail.

Li Qingfeng was a little bit regretful, but he still quickly climbed to the pine tree nest, first poked it with a wooden stick, then reached in, grabbed the grain inside, and put it into an empty bag.

He grabbed a lot, but not a single grain leaked, and emptied the inside, and then poured the sorghum rice he had brought into the pine nest.

This is the method Li Qingwen came up with, to force the exchange of food, so that if you dig a lot, you won't be afraid that the squirrels will starve to death, and they will dig in another place next year.

Now he doesn't covet hazelnuts, pine nuts, etc. After all, there are many seeds in the ground outside, but there are many seeds in the pine tree holes. He can't collect them like a squirrel. He can only use this method to enrich his seed bank.

Squirrels are small, but they store a lot of food. A hole can take out dozens of catties, and a few holes can fill a bag.

Seeing more and more harvests on the sledge, Li Qingwen thought, squirrels are really hardworking, next year they can't fool these migrant workers with sorghum rice, and mix it with other delicious food.

After a while, the sledge was full, and I couldn't go any further, so I had to go back.

Jiang Cong didn't go up the tree. He walked around the area with a bow and arrow and caught two pheasants with colorful feathers. The pheasants looked like ostriches and had a big body. What was left was a thick layer of soft fluff. The chicken was dead, but the fluff was still warm.

Li Qingwen suddenly remembered the pheasant feathers piled up in the wooden shed. He had saved them for two years and hadn't had the time to get them...

When they were about to walk back, Jiang Cong didn't move. He turned to look at a small hill in the distance, "There is a wild boar."

Everyone immediately followed his line of sight, but they could only see trees covered with frost and white snow.

"Spread out, it's coming!" Jiang Cong let out a low voice.

The big guy walked away excitedly, holding the wooden stick in his hand, worrying about having no meat to eat, this was delivered to his door on his own initiative!

Jiang Cong asked Li Qingwen to climb up the thickest tree next to him, and then the ground shook, and a black spot in the distance rushed towards him like a rolling stone.

Looking at the wild boar as tall as a cow, the faces of the people who were thinking about how to eat the pork froze a little bit, and some people had already thrown away their sticks and climbed up the tree.

The wild boar has a black mane, sharp fangs turned out, and shiny fur all over its body. It charged forward, and its hooves lifted up the soil under the thick snow. It directly smashed a nearby tree and sent Li Qingwen flying. their sledges.

Lao Sun hugged the tree with both hands, his face turned pale, "If you beat a pig, you don't kill an orphan."

Their fur has long been infiltrated by pine resin, which can be said to be invulnerable.

At this time, there were only Jiang Cong, Li Qingfeng and two other people on the ground. The wild boar didn't want to let go of any of them, so it lowered its head, stomped on the ground with its four thick hooves, and swooped down on the first person.

The man was so frightened that he hid backwards, but tripped over a tree branch under the snow. Seeing that he was about to be crushed by the wild boar's hooves, an arrow went straight to the wild boar's eyes.

At the same time, Li Qingfeng dragged the man on the ground by his collar and dragged him away.

This solitary pig has a small head, a big body, and a protruding snout. The huge fangs just block the barely visible eyes. Jiang Cong's arrow shot from the side and shot into the pig's eyes obliquely.

The wild boar with an injured eye screamed fiercely, and it slammed into Jiang Cong even more frantically, and the ground under its feet seemed to be cracked.

Li Qingwen's heart trembled while watching from the tree, and he shouted: "Quick, hurry up the tree!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the wild boar bumped into a nearby tree, and Jiang Cong, who was standing by the tree, escaped without any risk.

Zhang Yuhai happened to be hugging this tree. When the wild boar hit it, not only the tree was shaken, but he was also knocked out of the ground to the height of only one person. Underneath were the huge fangs of the wild boar. If he fell, he would be stabbed pair wear.

"Help, help!" Zhang Yuhai yelled with his eyes closed. After yelling, the tree broke with a "click", and he rolled to the side with all his strength.

As soon as he landed, the wild boar's iron hooves stepped on him mercilessly. Zhang Yuhai yelled and fled in all directions.

The people on the tree also screamed in fright, "Don't lean against my tree, run away!"

Except for Li Qingwen's, none of the trees they climbed could hold back the boar.

Li Qingfeng saw the opportunity, swung the steel knife, and slashed at the wild boar's tail.

He tried so hard, but the wild boar's tail was not cut off. The painful wild boar turned its head and pointed its dead fangs at Li Qingfeng.

"Little Fourth Brother!" Li Qingwen immediately slipped under the tree in fright, and threw his belongings at the wild boar.

The hit was a hit, but the wild boar didn't seem to feel the pain. After roaring angrily, it spread its hooves and slammed into Li Qingfeng.

Even though it was so big, it moved very quickly, as if a black shadow rushed over.

The moment it moved, Jiang Cong's arrow also shot out, hitting the wild boar's butt at a faster speed.

Almost in the next moment, the second arrow he set up hit the same place again.

Li Qingfeng ran fast, grabbed the vines hanging from the nearby tree, and leaped far away like a monkey.

Li Qingwen was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and hurriedly climbed up his own tree.

The wild boar was in excruciating pain, and more and more blood flowed from its buttocks. It ran around in place and hit more than a dozen trees.

The people who fell from the tree were all messed up, squeezed together, and their faces were not very good-looking. If they knew it, they would run away quickly. It would be better to catch a few more chickens than to meet such a deadly thing.

Li Qingfeng gasped and sighed: "I've never seen a wild boar before. This thing is really different from the ones raised at home. No wonder Big Brother Jiang was injured so badly on the road."

"We met a nest on the road, but it wasn't so fierce!" Lao Sun rubbed his head when he hit the ground, and said: "We were wearing shackles at that time, which was a lot of inconvenience. If we met today, I'm afraid half of them would be killed or injured. .”

Everyone sighed, the badly wounded wild boar finally remembered to run away, Jiang Cong was not willing to let it go, so he picked up the wooden stick and broke its front legs.

Finally, the wild boar could no longer wreak havoc, and everyone immediately came out from behind the tree and picked up the squirrel's food that had fallen on the ground.

The sack was torn, so I quickly replaced it with a new one, and put the snow and seeds into the sack.

This wild boar weighed at least a few hundred catties, and was still panting when it was placed on the sledge. Li Qingwen glanced at the tusks and swallowed. This thing was probably sharper than anything else.

As soon as they were walking back with their things, Jiang Liping brought people over, and someone who was collecting medicines heard some movement here, so he went back to talk about it.

After all, it was not far from where they lived, so Jiang Liping and others came to check out the danger, and the two groups met.

"A wild boar made you look like this?"

Jiang Liping was very surprised to see their group in a state of distress. It was different from the past. They had all kinds of weapons when they went out, and Jiang Cong was there. How hard was it to deal with a wild boar?

When he saw the squeaking wild boar pressing the sledge, he lost his doubts and waved his hand, "Go back to eat meat!"

When he arrived at the place where he was stationed, Jiang Cong immediately ended the wild boar's life with a knife. No matter how hard he fought before, he would try his best to make the wild animals that were going to eat them suffer as little pain as possible.

When he was in the woods, he wanted to do something. Old Sun Fei yelled to eat pig's blood. At this time, the ground was already filled with two basins of blood, and someone sprinkled salt on it.

Zhou Yao stood by and said, "Keep the pigskin and teeth, go back and fiddle with them."

The wild boar skin is tough and the teeth are sharp, both are good things.

Jiang Cong was chopping bones, and Qi Min took out the pig's intestines to clean up. Everyone gasped when they saw the intestines pierced by the arrows from the pig's buttocks.

Li Qingwen often listened to Lao Xing's talk about making wine with pig gall, and after looking for a long time, he couldn't find where the pig gall was, so he wanted to give up.

Jiang Cong cut off the viscera of the wild boar one by one and put them in the basin next to it, exposing the oval lump inside. He pinched it and took it out for Zhou Yao to palm.

Zhou Yao was not afraid of getting dirty at all, so she put it in her hand and looked at it carefully, and smelled the smell again, showing surprise on her face, and said, "It's really pig litter."

Everyone was taken aback when they heard the words, and asked what pig sand was.

"Pig sand is the stone in the gallbladder of pigs. Its medicinal use is similar to that of bezoar. Bezoar is taken from ox gallbladder, and pig sand is taken from pig gallbladder." Zhou Yao explained, "It takes a long time for this kind of thing to form in the body of cows and pigs. Cows have a long lifespan, and bezoars are very rare, while pigs with a short lifespan are even rarer.”

Li Qingwen listened with gusto, and there were only two words in his mind - valuable.