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Chapter 623: Bronze Courage! A 1000-pound brown bear

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Black Stone Pond, gravel beach.

The sunlight is red, dyeing the clouds red and yellow, forming a beautiful picture.

In Qing'an area in early October, the sun starts to set after 10 o'clock, and now it is completely dark after 4 o'clock.

The students arrived home around 4:5 p.m., and the workers arrived around :, just in time for dark.

Li Fuqiang, Wang Hu, Guan Lei and Xu Ning leaned against the rocks and chatted for a while, waiting for the brown bear to bleed to death.

Afterwards, Xu Ning took the boning knife from Guan Lei and stabbed it into the brown bear's abdomen to cut it open.

The three of them stood nearby and watched intently, and when they saw the thick fat on the brown bear's belly, they all exclaimed in surprise.

"Oh my god! This brown bear is really fat! It must be as wide as a palm..."

"Not really. Among the animals in this mountain, the black bear is the fattest. Wild boars, roe deer and deer don't have much fat, they are all lean meat!"

Guan Lei said with a smile: "My aunt must be very happy this time. She was complaining about running out of meat oil a few days ago. This brown bear can definitely make three jars of oil."

"What else is there to say? After we have cleaned up the place in a couple of days, we will go to the mountains to catch some badgers and make some badger oil... These badger oils are also delicious when fried with eggs!"

"Of course! Second brother, when are we going?" Wang Hu was a little impatient.

Originally the three thought that this trip would take some effort, but unexpectedly Xu Ning killed the brown bear by himself. The three of them came here purely for fun, and they felt a little frustrated that they had so much energy suppressed in their hearts, so the three of them were looking forward to entering Nanshan with Xu Ning again, no matter if it was to fight black hair or eight forks, as long as there was something to fight, the three of them would not be picky!
The three turned around and saw Xu Ning didn't say anything, so they looked at Xu Ning's hand reaching into the brown bear's belly. Li Fuqiang asked, "What's the matter, brother?"

"This is quite bold..."

Guan Lei grinned and said, "Isn't it better to be big?"

Xu Ning cut the bile duct and took it out with his left hand. The bear bile was exposed to the sunlight, and the three of them held their breath.

Then there was a surprised sound, and Wang Hu exclaimed: "Oh my God! Copper Gall!"

"Such a brave man?! Fuck..."

The big bear gall in Xu Ning's hand was as big as an adult's fist, even bigger than a fist, and it was filled with yellow bile.

Xu Ning stared at it for a while and said with a smile: "I have been hiking in the mountains for nearly a year, and finally I have found a bronze gall! Although it comes from a brown bear, its value is almost the same as that of a black bear's grass gall..."

"If this is given to Brother Li, Brother Li will give the highest price, right?" Guan Lei said with a smile.

"Then what else are you talking about!"

Li Fuqiang and the other two were all smiling happily, without any loneliness that had nothing to do with them. After all, Xu Ning had made a lot of money with them this year. What Li Fuqiang liked to say most was: People need to be content, and only when they are content can they be happy.

So the three of them were very happy that Xu Ning was able to kill the brown bear alone. First, it solved Xu Ning's problem, and second, it proved once again that little Xu Pao was good at hunting! Is there a second person like him in Qing'an?

Xu Ning raised his hand to search for the crotch pocket of his clothes. At this time, Wang Hu hurriedly took out a cloth bag specially used to hold bear bile and handed it to him.

"My aunt stuffed it into my cloth bag before we left."

"My mother really understands her son! Hahaha..."

Xu Ning tied the gallbladder tightly and put it in a cloth bag. He stood up and looked at the brown bear. He said, "This bear is not small. It's hard for the four of us to move it. Lianfang drove the tractor to bring you two here. Are you leaving now?"

"She probably didn't leave. We heard gunshots when we were climbing up the mountain. Then Hu Zi set off a bomb. She probably couldn't leave after hearing the noise."

Li Fuqiang said: "Or let Huzi go down the mountain to take a look. If Lianfang has gone home, let Huzi go home and drive the tractor over."

"Okay! I'll go now. Second brother, you guys should eat first. It's time for dinner now."

Xu Ning raised his arm and glanced at the time, saying, "It's 4:20. I'm a little hungry. I'll eat a box of the dishes that Lian Fang cooked for lunch..."

"What the hell? She cooks...Brother, do you enjoy the food?" Guan Lei asked carefully with a pursed mouth.

"It doesn't taste like anything. She told me to be a test subject. When she cooks good food, she will bring you food every day."

Guan Lei covered his head and said, "Come on, forget it. She's not as good as me in cooking that thing."

At this time, Wang Hu had already put down his cloth bag and turned around to go into the woods. Xu Ning shouted behind him: "If Lianfang hasn't left, let her wait at the foot of the mountain! Don't let her go up the mountain."

"Oh, I know!"

Xu Ning turned around and continued, "Go back and talk to Lianfang. Next time, just cook the food at home. Don't put it in the lunch box. Otherwise, it will be easy to get nauseous after eating it on the mountain. I'm still having dry heaves now."

"Hahaha, it's okay! Brother, you have suffered." Guan Lei laughed.

Li Fuqiang said, "I'll ask your sister-in-law to teach her later. You'll learn cooking after learning it twice."

"Come on, forget it. She has been learning from my sister-in-law for a long time. Last time she fried leeks and eggs, she even poured water into the pot. This really requires talent."

Xu Ning waved his hand and said, "Don't always say that about Lianfang. A couple should encourage each other. Why do you always criticize her? Besides, Lianfang has made progress now..."

I'm not sure what specific progress has been made, but the topic ends here.

Because in the woods south of Heishitang, a small animal suddenly appeared. It was the red-skinned man who brought the roe deer leg to Xu Ning.

The red-skinned man was not afraid when he saw the three people. Instead, he walked forward slowly, stared at Xu Ning with narrowed eyes as if smiling, and made a "whimpering" sound from his mouth.

The sound was similar to that of a child crying, and would have been scary if it happened in the woods at night, but at this moment the setting sun was hanging in the west, and visibility in the forest was very high.

"Hey, isn't this red one the one that dragged us to find the two little black ones last year?"

"How come you've grown so big?"

Xu Ning said: "It was not yet an adult last year, so it must have grown twice as much flesh after a summer."

The red-skinned man walked up to the three people, looked up, then lowered his head and walked towards the brown bear, sniffing the blood and making strange noises.

Seeing that its mouth was about to tear into the wound on the brown bear's abdomen, Xu Ning said, "You want to eat meat? I'll cut some for you!"

When the red-skinned man saw him coming, he stepped back a few steps, squatted under a rock and waited.

Xu Ning cut a piece of meat from the brown bear's belly and threw it on the stone. The red bear reached out his sharp mouth to grab it, then shook its tail and went into the forest with satisfaction.

"Oh my god, I was thinking of asking it to go back and tell its grandmother to bless us so that we can get more livestock."

Xu Ning laughed and said, "Hahaha, no need. It also put in a lot of effort in this fight. If it hadn't insisted on dragging me into the woods, I might not have been able to encounter the brown bear."

"Too……"

Afterwards, Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei took out the rope from the cloth bag, passed the rope through the armpits of the brown bear's front limbs, and then extended four ropes. When Wang Hu came back, the four people would pull him down the mountain.

Guan Lei and Li Fuqiang tried to pull it twice, but the brown bear didn't move at all. Li Fuqiang looked at his red palm and said, "It must be more than 1000 kilograms. We can't pull it at all."

"How about putting some branches under the brown bear?"

"The three of us can't turn it over, so how can we lay it? Otherwise, I'll go cut two ash trees to use as crowbars, maybe I can move it."

"Row!"

The two men left with the axe and the knife. Xu Ning sat on the rock and stared at the brown bear that had been dead for a long time.

The brown bear's skin had turned brown under the setting sun, with a hint of red. Its claws were very long, about 10 centimeters long. Its shoulders and back of the neck had bulging muscles, and it looked quite sturdy...

The brown bears we see on TV or in the zoo may look a little silly, but you need to know that brown bears have an irritable temperament. As you can see from the sharp claws on their front paws, they are much more aggressive than black bears.

The gravel beach was covered with blood. Xu Ning took out the lunch box from his cloth bag. He was indeed a little hungry, because when he was not running in the mountains, he would only eat until he was 80% full. So he felt exhausted after running for a while in the mountains.

After Guan Lei and Li Fuqiang came back, the three of them sat on the rocks to eat a few meals. After cleaning the lunch boxes, they laid a layer of branches and leaves on the back of the brown bear, and then turned the brown bear over with a crowbar.

"It's so heavy! When Hu Zi comes back, we may not be able to move it."

Guan Lei said: "It would be great if this was snow, we wouldn't have to put in any effort at all."

At this time, Wang Hu rushed out from the woods and shouted, "Lianfang was about to leave, but I called her back!"

Xu Ning waved his hand and said, "Take a break and eat first, we are not in a hurry."

"I'm not hungry, let's go back quickly."

Li Fuqiang said, "If you don't eat a little, the four of us won't be able to finish it."

"what……"

Wang Hu looked at the huge body of the brown bear and felt a little weak in his heart, but he still obeyed. He sat on a rock to rest for a while, then picked up the lunch box and started eating.

Xu Ning and the other two were chatting on the side, talking nonsense one after another. After Wang Hu finished his meal, the four of them packed up their cloth bags and slung the rope of Lao Juebazi's gun across their chests. Li Fuqiang wrapped the end of the rope twice with the handle of the axe and pulled the rope with the axe handle.

"Oh my god, this is so strenuous!"

"Did you move?"

Xu Ning glanced back and said, "We can't move... If it doesn't work, just unload it here!" Guan Lei threw the rope down and said, "The ground is full of rocks and uneven, and this is uphill... If it were on flat ground, the four of us would definitely be able to pull it."

"What else is there to say? It can definitely be pulled! In the early years, I went with the production team to deliver grain. At that time, there were no mules, horses, or donkeys, so we could only rely on manpower to pull the grain. Du Manzhi and I could easily pull 800 kilograms of grain."

Xu Ning said, "Don't we have wheels there? It will save a lot of effort. All right, let's unload the meat quickly. I'll peel the skin, and Shitou will chop the bear's paws. Big brother will chop with the axe later..."

Seeing that it was getting dark, the four of them did not waste any time and immediately started to skin and remove the meat.

Why was he unwilling to shed the fat before? The reason was that Xu Ning wanted to take the whole thing home to show off, so that the people in the village and his family could see that he was not just called "Xu Pao" for nothing!

It is human nature to show off, so Li Fuqiang, Wang Hu and Guan Lei are willing to cooperate. Besides, the three of them are also happy to show off...

Another reason is that Xu Ning wants to sell the bear to the city's specimen museum. The money he can earn from this will definitely be several times more than selling the meat or eating it at home!
Unfortunately, it could not be transported down the mountain intact and could only be unloaded into pieces.

The four men skinned and meated the bear very quickly, and in less than 20 minutes they had cut the 1000-pound brown bear into pieces.

Wang Hu took out sacks from his cloth bag, put the fat and liver together, and put the limbs together, filling a total of 8 sacks. The average weight of each sack was about 130 pounds.

"This will take two trips, brother, or you can just watch over it?"

Xu Ning waved his hand: "No need, the four of us can just run two trips. Let's go quickly, it's getting dark now."

"It's okay, second brother, I'll get two flashlights and six batteries."

"Okay! Let's go."

The four of them each carried a sack and ran towards Ximaduozi. Since they had food in their stomachs, they had plenty of energy.

They threw the sacks on the top of the west peak of Ximaduozi, and then turned back to Heishitang to get the remaining four sacks. They didn't feel tired after running two trips, but if they had run up and down the mountain just once, they would have felt exhausted after just one trip.

Xu Ning stood on the top of the West Peak to drink two sips of water. Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang hung flashlights on their shoulders to illuminate the mountain road. When the four of them carried the sacks, their shoulders, chests and backs were covered in blood, and even their necks and hair were stained with oil. The fishy smell could be smelled from a long distance away.

When Sun Lianfang saw the four people, she was shocked and exclaimed: "Oh my God! How did this happen? Did you just unload the black bear on the mountain?"

"If you don't unload it, you can't move it. It weighs more than 1000 pounds, and the four of us can't lift it no matter how hard we try."

Sun Lianfang quickly opened the fence behind the truck bed and said, "Heishitang is full of rocks, so it's normal that it can't be pulled."

"Well, wait here for a while. There are four more bags on the mountain."

Xu Ning looked at Sun Lianfang and smiled, "Lianfang, are you hungry?"

"I'm fine, right? Did you guys eat all of it on the mountain?"

Guan Lei nodded: "It's boring if you don't eat something! Hey, take the gun, and fire if there's any movement."

"I know, you guys should go and come back soon."

Then, Xu Ning and four others climbed up Ximaduozi and carried the remaining four sacks down the mountain.

They sat in the truck bed and felt the bumps, while Sun Lianfang held the steering wheel with both hands and slowly drove the tractor forward under the illumination of the yellow light bulb.

Xu Ning pointed at Wang Hu and said, "Huzi, you are quite good at work! I didn't know you could hold a sack and carry a flashlight..."

Wang Hu grinned foolishly, and Li Fuqiang said with a smile: "I don't know what's in those two bags on his back. I think they are lunch boxes and ropes."

"Hahaha, I have two sacks and a rope inside my clothes, believe it?"

Under the gaze of the three people, Wang Hu undressed and shone the flashlight on himself, revealing a sack attached to his chest and a rope wrapped around his shoulders.

"Oh my god! You are so awesome!" Li Fuqiang exclaimed.

Xu Ning couldn't help but laugh when he saw Wang Hu dressed like this, and gave him a thumbs up and said, "Awesome!"

"Wrapping the sack around your waist not only saves space but also keeps you warm, but it pricks your belly a bit..."

"Hahaha, it must have pierced my belly! This sack is full of little thorns."

Xu Ning said, "When I have time, I'll make you a set of canvas clothes and sew some more pockets on them."

"I think it works!"

"Hurry up and take down the sack and the rope. It's so uncomfortable to be strangled like this."

Wang Hu took it off after hearing this. Xu Ning lay on the bear skin and looked at the starry sky, while Li Fuqiang and Guan Lei leaned against the guardrail and smoked...

The tractor drove to the west entrance of the village, turned a corner and headed straight for Old Xu's house at the north end. Because the tractor made too much noise, Liu Lizhen, Xu Laonian, Ma Liu and others stood in front of the door waiting.

Sun Lianfang drove the tractor into the yard. After turning off the engine, the yard became quiet. Xu Laonian stood on the platform, deliberately put his hand on his brow, and shouted: "Hey, where is the black bear? Why can't I see it?"

Liu Lizhen turned her head and glared at him, raised her hand and pressed his arm down, saying, "Don't be so sarcastic, as long as my son can come back safely."

Xu Laonian pouted and dared not say anything. Everyone walked towards the tractor. Sun Lianfang jumped off the vehicle and shouted, "Auntie! My brother is so powerful. He killed the brown bear by himself!"

Liu Lizhen was stunned when she heard this, then she smiled and said, "Oh my god! It has to be my old son! Where is Hei Xiazi?"

Xu Laonian replied, "Yes, where is it?"

Xu Ning patted the sack in the tractor's bucket and said, "Isn't it in the sack?"

Guan Lei said: "Uncle, this brown bear must have weighed more than 1000 kilograms. The four of us couldn't move it at all. We broke it into pieces at Heishitang."

"Not bad, eight sacks in total, look at what's happened to me, it's all bloody and smells like blood."

At this time, Lao Jiang stood beside the tractor guardrail and said, "Then hurry up and unload it inside?"

Xu Ning said, "First, weigh it. I want to see how much this brown bear weighs."

Xu Laonian pointed to the lower room and said, "The scale is hanging on the wall of the lower room. Daming, go get it."

Liu Daming nodded and ran to the lower room, while Dababa asked, "Brother, can you sell all this meat?"

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Sell! We can't eat all of this. Let my mom pick some out later and see how much is left at home."

"Okay! Let Li Feng take care of it, and the three of us will add 1 cents to his price. Li Feng, you charge 3 yuan, and we will buy from you for 1 yuan. How about that, brother?"

Xu Ning waved his hand and said, "No need to do that, just charge 1 yuan."

"How can that work? This bear is full of fat. We have to charge it for 1 yuan!"

Liu Lizhen heard this and asked, "Guoxing, how much do you sell it for?"

"It's hard to say. We sell it based on the price of the parts, which is 1 or 5 yuan on average... Auntie, don't worry, we can't lose money."

Liu Lizhen nodded and said, "Then let's go with Erning's price and ask Li Feng to charge 1 yuan. How much you can earn is up to you."

"Okay, that's it."

After Xu Ning made the decision, Da Laba and others did not object.

After Liu Daming came back with the large weighing beam and weight, Li Fuqiang and Lao Jiang picked up the elm crowbar, hung the sack on the weighing hook and carried it up.

"This bag weighs 140 kilograms."

"..."

Eight bags of bear meat, including bear paws, bear head, heart and liver, weigh a total of 1029 kilograms. If the bear skin and lantern hanging are included, the weight of this brown bear can almost reach 1100 kilograms!
"Not small!"

"This brown bear is indeed heavier than a black bear. Usually, the black bears that Erning and his team have hunted back weigh 1000 to kilograms, but this brown bear weighs more than kilograms."

"Well, it's not that good."

Xu Ning turned around and asked, "Why haven't you eaten yet?"

"Your uncle and his friends had just finished digging the cellar, and were just about to put up the table when you came back."

"Ah, then let my sister-in-law fry some bear meat for them to go with their wine. Mom, take a look at what meat we have left, and let Brother Feng take the rest."

"Leave some fat and bear legs. Do you want to eat bear paws? You can leave the paws..."

Xu Laonian smiled and said, "You can just keep them all!"

"Stop talking so much, it's annoying..."

Liu Lizhen looked at the four people and said, "Go into the house first and wash up, then change your clothes. Throw these clothes on the kitchen floor after you change them.

"Okay! Wife, help me wash my head."

Xu Ning waved his hand to give orders, and Meng Ziyan bared her teeth and said, "Yeah!"

Liu Lizhen turned around and smiled: "My silly daughter-in-law..."

(End of this chapter)