Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 160 Old Pine Tree

Fortunately, the number of these wolves was not too large, and they were not alone, so Lu Jiansheng was not too afraid of the wolves.

Especially under the threat of guns, these wolves did not dare to act rashly, and could only follow them furtively for several miles along the mountain road.

The wolves looked at the three of them and left their territory, then gave up and continued chasing.

This made Lu Jiansheng and the others heave a sigh of relief. If these wolves keep following you, even though they are not afraid,
But I definitely have to spend a lot of energy on defense, and if I'm not paying attention, I always feel a chill behind me...

Fortunately, these wolves have retreated now.

Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu carried the stretcher, Lu Jiansheng held the calf, and the three of them slowly walked down the mountain.

After leaving Wild Boar Ridge, a group of red deer suddenly appeared in front of us.

"Brother Jiansheng, look at the red deer herd," Liu Shengli said in surprise, putting down the stretcher and grabbing the gun.

This was not because Liu Shengli was too ambitious and forgot about Huang Zhong's injuries, but a hunter's instinctive reaction when he saw his prey.

"Yeah! Brother Jiansheng, I listen to you,"

The two dogs are not too heavy. Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu are now considered half-experts. They can walk very fast in the mountains as if they were walking on flat ground.

Then another man-made disaster occurred. Seven or eight meters from the root upward were completely hollowed out and almost turned into a dead tree.

Lu Jiansheng said slowly, if he had encountered a herd of red deer before coming here, he would have killed them immediately without any hesitation.
But in the current situation, if you should give up, you must give up. The most taboo thing in hunting is greed.

A group of more than a dozen red deer suddenly appeared not far from him. If he let this go, he would still be called a hunter.

Lu Jiansheng looked at Liu Shengli and said without doubt.

Liu Shengli didn't say anything else this time, and immediately carried the stretcher forward with Lu Erniu.

As for the herd of red deer, it’s okay not to have them.

"Shengli, we have already killed two wild boars, and now the dog is also injured. It would be too greedy to hunt red deer again.
Moreover, this herd of red deer is different from the lone red deer. Without hunting dogs, it is too difficult and basically impossible to catch them alive. "

Along the way, we didn't encounter any wild beasts.

After six or seven hours, we had walked most of the distance.

This time I go back and have a good rest before we talk about hunting in the mountains! "

Even if they were killed, we would not be lucky enough to go back dragging two injured dogs.

"Victory, forget it!"

"Let's go! It's better to go back early, it's important to treat Huang Zhong and Lao Hei!"

Lu Jiansheng said.

The three of them were really tired and hungry, so they rested for a while under a huge pine tree.
This is a tenacious old pine tree with a diameter of more than three meters, but I don’t know when it suffered a natural disaster.
For some unknown reason, the whole tree was almost split in half.

"Why?" Liu Shengli was a little confused.

These roads are less than 200 meters away. The three of them can't keep one or two red deer. It would be better if they can capture another one alive.
If the training is successful and he goes hunting in the mountains, he will have another good labor force.

As Lu Jiansheng said, you can’t be too greedy.
There's still a long way to go back,
Fortunately, there was a red deer dragging the wild boar this time. Otherwise, if the two dogs were injured, they might have given up their prey this time.
After all, when hunting in the mountains, the life of the dog is more important.

However, this tree is still tenaciously alive.

After bolting the road, the three of them sat under the tree, picked up dry food and started eating.

After a while, Lu Jiansheng turned around and saw Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu under the pine tree, bending down and not knowing what they were looking for. "What are you two doing?"

"Brother Jiansheng, look, we found a lot of pine cones, I'm the boss! Fry these things and they'll be crispy." Lu Erniu hurriedly held a pine cone and came over to offer it as a treasure.

"Good guy, he is really quite big!"

When Lu Jiansheng saw it, he couldn't help but look up at the old pine tree and sighed.

This pine cone is over thirty centimeters long, nearly forty centimeters long. It weighs three to four kilograms according to visual inspection. It is truly the ancestor of the pine cone world.

The pine cones here are relatively large. People from some villages go into the mountains to pick up pine cones. They are usually more than 20 centimeters in length, and rarely exceed 30 centimeters.

The two of them picked up a lot, all of which were large pine cones more than thirty centimeters tall.

It was still completely dry. If it had just fallen, the pine cone would have been over forty centimeters.

"You just picked up pine cones, are there any pine nuts in them?"

Lu Jiansheng asked.

"Yes! There must be! Look, the leaves outside this pine cone can still fall!"

"Okay, when we can't hunt wild boars next time, we can come over and pick up pine cones. These are worth one or two cents per pound, especially since they are collected in the county."

If you pick up several thousand kilograms of pine nuts, it is worth several wild boars.

"Brother Jiansheng, under the old pine tree, the pine cones are much older. We only picked up a small area, and there are so many of them."

When Lu Erniu heard that pine nuts were valuable, he immediately said excitedly.

Lu Jiansheng took a look and saw that there were indeed a lot of them. Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu only cleared three or four square meters of space and saw a bunch of pine cones. These were old pine trees that had been in stock for many years. By visual inspection, there were two to three hundred pine cones. catty,
The best pine cones are red pine cones. It takes a pine tree that is more than fifty years old to form a pine cone, and it takes two years for the pine cone to mature and fall to the ground.

The older the pine tree is, the larger the pine cones will be.

Just like this old pine tree that is hundreds of years old, looking up,
The trees were covered with pine cones, and a thick layer of pine cones fell on the ground.

It's a pity that this old pine tree is in this deep mountain and forest, and ordinary people can't reach this place.

“I think it would be good for us to come here a few times a year to pick up pine cones.

When you come, stop by and see if there are any wild animals. If there are any, shoot some. "

Lu Jiansheng took a bite of the pancake and said to Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu.

"Well, there are so many pine cones here! If you pick just a few, your whole family won't be able to eat them." Liu Shengli said with a smile.

Pine cones taste good. In the past, no one collected pine cones at all. Ordinary people only picked them up to eat.

The pine cones are crispy and sweet. Although they are not worth much now, in a few decades, a pound of pine nuts will be worth twenty or thirty yuan.

In later generations, Lu Jiansheng heard that many people went into the mountains and forests to make a living by knocking down pine cones.

Lu Jiansheng looked up at the old pine tree. He heard rustling and squeaking sounds on the pine tree.

So, look up at the old pine tree. Oh my god, the old pine tree is really lively.

At a glance, there were dozens of squirrels, jumping back and forth on the old pine branches, squeaking anxiously as they looked at the piles of pine cones under the tree.

This was because I was attracted by the pine cone under the tree. I wanted it, but I was afraid of Lu Jiansheng and the others.

(End of this chapter)