Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 115 Going into the mountain to dig out the badger’s cave
  "The badger's cave is so tight that you don't know how to find it. I'll go with you later."

Li Laosan continued.

"Uncle Lao San, weren't you scratched by a leopard? Can you go up the mountain?"

"Don't worry, it's just a badger hole, it doesn't have to go very far. My old bones can still bear it, and it's been a long time since I went up the mountain, so my hands are already itchy."

"Okay, let's set off after lunch." Lu Jiansheng said.

"You guys are cooking first, I'm going to make the dough, and we're rolling out the pancakes today. I'm frying some shredded venison, and we're going to make rolls and eat them."

Bai Ruoxi was not at home, so Lu Jiansheng had to cook by himself. After he finished speaking, he went into the kitchen and started working.

Lu Jiansheng soaked some leftover marinated venison in cold water and cleaned it.

Then I washed my hands, dug out a few more scoops of noodles, added some water, and started kneading the noodles.

Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu were also very proactive. Seeing that there was no firewood in the kitchen, they ran outside the yard and brought in a pile of firewood.

Then I found a dozen dried chili peppers and cut them into shreds.

A strong aroma of meat filled the kitchen.

"Brother Jiansheng, the shredded pork you fried is so delicious!"

The four of them finished their meal and drank two bowls of water.

They are all children of farmers. Even if they have never cooked, they have seen their families making pancakes and pancakes, so they know what needs to be done.

"Brother Jiansheng, what you made is so delicious."

Lu Jiansheng put the washed venison on the chopping board, then cut it with a knife. After a while, the venison turned into a pile of shredded meat.

The two of them divided the work and cooperated, and soon more than 30 single cakes were baked.

“The smell of this makes me want to eat it!”

Lu Erniu said.

After lighting the fire, Lu Jiansheng dug out a large spoonful of lard and put it into the pot.

It's a pity that I don't have soybean paste at home. If I put some soybean paste in the pancake and add green onions, it will taste better.

"Enough, enough! The portion is so big and there's so much meat in it, it's enough for the four of us."

Lu Erniu said with a silly smile.

Now Dabao and the others are two times bigger. In a month or two, Dabao and the others will be finalized.

"Brother Jiansheng, now that we are full, let's go into the mountains, shall we?" Liu Shengli patted his belly and said.

"Okay, uncle, we'll wait for you at the entrance of the village later."

Seeing that Lu Jiansheng was almost done with the dough, Lu Erniu started to light the fire and cook the pot.

"Okay, the third uncle and Shengli will go inside and wait for a while. Lu Erniu will help me cook the pot while I cook."

Stir a few times, then add the shredded pork and start stir-frying.

After feeding the dog, Lu Jiansheng washed his hands and returned to the main room.
  Seeing that Li Laosan and the other three had not started to eat, they were all waiting for him to come back.

"Everyone, eat!" Lu Jiansheng greeted with a smile.

Li Laosan said with a smile.

Without much humility, Lu Jiansheng directly picked up a piece of cake, picked up a few chopsticks of shredded pork, put it on the single sheet of cake, rolled it up, and ate it with big mouthfuls.

After the oil was hot, Lu Jiansheng put the chili shreds in, stirred out the aroma, and then added onions, ginger, and garlic.

Stir-frying shredded pork over high heat is very fast. In just a short while, the shredded venison was cooked.

Lu Jiansheng greeted with a smile.

Prepared onions, ginger and garlic.

Lu Jiansheng rolled out the cakes, and Liu Shengli was in charge of frying the cakes.

Lu Jiansheng added some wild vegetables and other vegetables and stir-fried them together.

Because there was a lot to fry, Lu Jiansheng directly poured it into a basin, walked into the house with the basin, and put it on the table.

"Brother Jiansheng, let's go home to change clothes and get guns."

"Jiansheng, your cooking skills are really good!" Li Laosan saw Lu Jiansheng's skillful dough kneading movements and praised him.

Liu Shengli praised.

Li Laosan, Liu Shengli, and Lu Erniu were no longer polite. They picked up the single pancakes and followed Lu Jiansheng's example, put shredded pork on them, rolled up the pancakes, and started eating.

"Come, let's eat! We have to go up the mountain later, so I will make a simple dish."

After Li Laosan finished speaking, he stood up and prepared to go home.

Lu Jiansheng went out, took some bone dog food, and fed them all to Dabao Laohei.

"It's delicious. Just eat more. You're welcome."

"Jiansheng, I'm going home first to get ready. I also need a shovel to dig a badger hole. I have it at home, so you don't need to bring it with you. You'll be in trouble if you stay far away."

"Eat quickly! I'm going to feed the dogs first."

Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli also followed suit.

"Okay!" Lu Jiansheng said.

After the three people left one after another,
  Lu Jiansheng picked up his 56 semi-automatic rifle and inspected it carefully.

Before entering the mountains, check for loot. This is the most basic homework for a hunter.

After checking the gun, Lu Jiansheng took out the bullets, loaded the clips, put on his leggings, loaded the clipped clips with bullets and pinned them to his waist.

"Old Hei, Dabao, Erbao."

Lu Jiansheng walked out of the yard with his three-headed dog and rifle.

I closed the courtyard door and waited at the door for a while.
  Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu came with guns on their backs.

So the three of them went to the small stone bridge at the entrance of Kaoshantun Village. After waiting for a while, Li Laosan came over with a gun on his back and a shovel and hoe in his hand. To dig out a badger's hole, a shovel or a hoe will suffice.

Three people can take turns digging,
  As for Li Laosan, forget it...

Beicha is not to the north of Kaoshantun, but to the northwest of Kaoshantun.

You have to leave the village from the west exit, cross a ravine, and then go north, which is about three or four miles.

According to Li Laosan, there are several nests of badgers living on the slopes on the Beicha side.

After leaving the village, Lu Jiansheng and four others walked on the mountain road.
  The snow on the mountain has long since melted, and the ground is still a little wet, making it difficult to walk on the mountain road. However, it is much drier on the ridge, so it is easier to walk along the ridge. Just be careful not to slip down accidentally. .

The four of them walked for more than an hour and finally arrived at Beicha.

"Over there! That corner over there."

Li Laosan looked around, then pointed with his finger and said.

"Let's go!" Lu Jiansheng nodded.

The four of them quickly came to the position of Li Laosan's finger.

Badgers are social animals. This hole is the badger's door, and the inside is their home.

Badgers have very large holes, and they are also experts at building houses in the animal world. Every year, they are busy building their own homes.

Moreover, badgers are very smart. When building their own homes, they will transport a large amount of soil dug out to the bottom of the mountain and pile it up far away, so it is difficult for ordinary people to find the entrance to their holes.

But there are traces to follow. They thought they could hide their caves by transporting soil to other places.

But they overlooked one thing. The soil they thought they were transporting far away was actually not very far away from their caves in the eyes of humans.
  Therefore, if an experienced hunter wants to find a badger hole, he will look around to see if there are piles of soil.

Of course, in the vast mountains, it is not that simple to find the badger's exclusive mound. You must know that there is more than one animal in the mountains that likes to do this.

And looking at the location pointed by Li Laosan, if Li Laosan hadn't led the way today, Lu Jiansheng and the others would definitely not have been able to get here.

Sure enough, not long after the four of them reached the sunny slope,
  Lao Hei and Dabao faced each other and shouted.

Lu Jiansheng followed their cries and looked over, and soon saw the entrance of a cave.

"Uncle Third, what should I do?"

"Shengli, Erniu, you two search both sides. There should be two more cave entrances. Once you find them, block the entrances with stones." Li Laosan was not polite and ordered Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli. .

"Yeah." Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli took the order to find the entrance of the cave.

After listening to Li Laosan's words, Lu Jiansheng nodded secretly. Li Laosan was indeed an old hunter, and he knew the badger's habits very well at first glance.

"Brother Jiansheng, there is indeed a hole."

After a while, Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli discovered other cave entrances.

More than ten minutes later, Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli came back to report that the entrance to the cave had been blocked.

"Get started!" Following Li Laosan's order, Lu Erniu took a hoe and started digging the soil.

After digging the soil for a while, Liu Shengli used a shovel to shovel the soil out.

Then he switched to Lu Erniu and continued digging the soil.

Soon, a fork was dug, and one hole turned into three.

Under Li Laosan's command, the other two cave entrances were blocked and a cave entrance was selected to continue digging.

After digging for a while, a lot of food, berries and the like appeared in the cave.

Badgers are very particular about hygiene. In the cave, just like humans, there are bathrooms, living rooms, bedrooms, and storage rooms.

What is dug out now is the badger's storage room.

There is a lot of food hidden in the storage room, which is the food reserve for a nest of badgers.

Liu Shengli skillfully took out a sack from his body and filled it with grain and berries.

A Badger's Cave's food is enough to fill half a sack.

"A few years ago, when there was a shortage of food in the village, I would take my pillar and go into the mountains to find badger holes. If I dug out a badger hole, I could dig out enough food for one person to eat for a whole winter. This It’s because it’s already April and the food has been almost eaten. If it’s winter, there will be more food in the cave.”

"Be careful, if you dig out grain, you're not far away from digging out badgers!" Li Laosan said with a smile.

Just as he was talking, a badger jumped out of the hole. Lu Erniu, who was swinging his hoe, never thought that a badger would jump out of the hole.

Even Li Laosan didn't expect that at this time, the badger would come out of the hole and hurt people if he didn't want to seize the time to dig a hole and escape.

At the critical moment, Lu Jiansheng kicked Lu Erniu away.

boom!
  follow closely,

A pistol appeared in Lu Jiansheng's hand, and he shot the badger to death.

At this close range, a pistol is much easier to use than a rifle, and it is powerful enough to deal with badgers.

Immediately afterwards, four more badgers jumped out and ran away as soon as they came out.

boom!
  Lu Jiansheng shot and killed another one.

Wang Wang Wang!
  Lao Hei went up, bit a badger's neck, and pinned it to the ground.

Dabao Erbao also bit a badger weighing about fifteen or six pounds.

However, the badger is also called the dog badger. As the brother of the African flat-headed brother, he is also very ferocious.

After all, Dabao Erbao has not yet been finalized, let alone grown up. Although they worked together to pin a fifteen or six kilogram badger to the ground, they did not bite the neck and kill him with one blow like Lao Hei did.

Therefore, Dabao and Dabao fought against a badger together and wasted a lot of effort. Although they finally tore the badger into two pieces, they were also injured.

Dabao was bitten and almost tore off a piece of meat.

Erbao was scratched with one paw, and his skin was torn open.

Li Laosan reacted quickly and kicked a badger directly, knocking the badger somersault, and then hit him with a shovel.

However, Liu Shengli's shovel did not kill the badger. The badger bared his teeth, howled a few times, turned around and continued to run away.

(End of this chapter)