Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 102 Little Fox

Carrying the silly roe deer on their backs, they walked towards the old pine tree, with the black tiger and the white tiger leading the way.

When they were almost at the old pine tree, Chen Weidong saw from a distance that Li Shengli and Shitou Bingzi were picking pine cones under the tree.

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"Good fellow! Weidong, weren't you going to catch pheasants? How did you catch such a stupid roe deer? Awesome!"

Li Shengli was surprised to see Chen Weidong coming back with a silly roe deer on his back.

Shitou and Bingzi were too busy picking up pine cones to bother with. They quickly stepped forward and gave him a thumbs-up, saying admiringly, "Brother Weidong, you are awesome!"

"Lucky, I happened to meet you."

Chen Weidong smiled and put the silly roe deer off his back, then tied up the two dogs, and then took out dog food from the backpack under the tree and fed Black Tiger and White Tiger. Then he asked Shitou and Bingzi calmly, "How many pine cones have you picked up now?"

"Brother Weidong, there are many pine cones under this old pine tree. We have only picked up a small area, but we have already picked up three and a half sacks."

Shitou said excitedly.

Chen Weidong took a look and found that there were indeed a lot. Li Shengli, Shitou and Bingzitou only cleared an area of ​​four or five square meters, and saw that the three sacks were mostly filled, which could be estimated to be more than 200 kilograms.

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 in front of us, which is who knows how many hundreds of years old. Looking up, the tree is full of pine cones, and there is a thick layer of pine cones on the ground.

"It's a good place for us to come here a few times a year to pick up pine cones. When we come, we can also take a look to see if there are any wild animals. If there are any, we can kill some."

Chen Weidong said slowly, and then instructed the two:
"Shitou, Bingzi, you two should gut this stupid roe deer first to prevent it from stink. Then light a fire. I'll go and prepare the pheasant we caught. We'll have dinner later."

"Weidong, just leave it to me to do such trivial things as making a fire. I didn't help much, so I can't eat for free!"

Li Shengli interrupted at this time.

"Brother Shengli, you are being too polite. We are brothers, so please eat as much as you want. I am still waiting for Brother Shengli to take us to dig badgers!" Chen Weidong joked.

Li Shengli: "Uh...are you waiting for me here?"

"Brother Weidong, Brother Shengli can also dig badgers?" Bingzi asked with some doubt at this time.

Upon hearing Bingzi's doubt, Li Shengli was immediately unhappy: "What a joke! I make a living with this skill. Go to Lijiatun and ask around. In our Lijiatun, no one is better than me at digging badgers!"

"Brother Shengli, it's not that easy to dig out a badger hole, right? Do you know where it is?" Shi Tou said honestly.

"It's not easy for others, but for me, your big brother Shengli, digging badger holes is easy. I dig out more than a dozen badgers every year."

Li Shengli said very proudly.

"I have already spotted a few nests, and I am going to go into the mountains to dig them out after a while. I will ask you to come with me then."

"Brother Shengli, that's a deal!"

Shitou and Bingzi nodded quickly.

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Chen Weidong had already arrived at the edge of the pond. He slaughtered both pheasants, cleaned out their internal organs, but did not pluck their feathers.

Then they dug a pile of soil at the foot of the hill and mixed it with water next to the pond.

Chen Weidong still planned to make beggar's chicken.
As for the greyhounds, I plan to wash them and roast four of them directly.

After mixing the mud, Chen Weidong washed his hands, took out the salt he had prepared in advance and rubbed it inside the pheasant's belly, then took out some prepared seasonings.

Stuffed into the pheasant's belly,

Finally, Chen Weidong wrapped the pheasant with the mud he had prepared earlier.

Many later cooking methods of Beggar's Chicken involve plucking the feathers, wrapping the chicken in lotus leaves, and then covering it with mud.

In fact, Chen Weidong’s method is the most original way to cook beggar’s chicken.

First carry the mud ball under the old pine tree.

Li Shengli had already lit a bonfire under the old pine tree. Chen Weidong took out a knife and dug a large shallow pit on the ground.

Put the mud ball in, then cover it with some dirt and move the campfire over the shallow pit.

Then Chen Weidong washed his hands, washed the four greyhounds, and asked Li Shengli to cut four branches.
Use branches to string the greyhounds together, then sprinkle some seasoning salt on them.
Roast it over a campfire!

Over there, Shitou and Bingzi also gutted the silly roe deer.

Then, the four of them sat around the campfire, and each of them held a wooden stick to roast the greyhound.

Chen Weidong took a dozen pine cones and threw them into the fire. He would be able to eat the roasted pine nuts after a while.

Four greyhounds were roasted on the fire. Not long after, oil beads began to sizzle, slowly turning golden and emitting a rich and tempting roasted aroma.

It’s cooked and smells so good!
Eat barbecue with the dry food you brought.

The four of them were enjoying their meal when suddenly Black Tiger started barking, followed by the other dogs barking crazily.

The black tiger and the white tiger were struggling to pounce forward, raising their two front legs and standing up, but they were tied with ropes and could not break out.

Chen Weidong also took out his gun and turned off the safety. Li Shengli and the other two also took out their guns at the same time.

Following the dog's line of sight, I saw movement in the grass about fifty or sixty meters away.

After a rustling sound, a little grey-yellow fox walked out from the darkness. "Brother Weidong, it's a little fox! You scared me!"

Stone said with a smile.

After seeing the little fox, it stopped and stared at Chen Weidong and the other two in a daze. Then it looked at the internal organs of the silly roe deer not far away, and then looked at the dogs. It just kept looking back and forth without running away.

Chen Weidong was indeed confused by the little fox's actions. He and Li Shengli looked at each other, neither of them understood what the little fox was trying to do.
Chen Weidong didn't stand up either, and just looked at the little fox that suddenly appeared.

There are many foxes in the Greater Khingan Range, and there are hunters who make a living by hunting foxes.

Among the foxes in the Greater Khingan Range, gray foxes and gray-yellow foxes are the least valuable, while the most valuable are pure white foxes, red foxes and black foxes.

Grey-yellow foxes and red foxes are actually the same species. They are both red foxes, also called fire foxes. Most of the local foxes are of this species.

There are also a small number of silver-black foxes, also called silver foxes. Most are pure white foxes, and there are also a small number of pure black foxes.

In addition, there are hybrid varieties of red foxes and silver and black foxes. The fur is mixed, so they are called colorful foxes.

The fur of red foxes and silver-black foxes continues to change as they grow older. This can be regarded as an alternative kind of evolution.

However, this kind of fur transformation is not that easy. Most foxes cannot evolve from gray foxes to fiery red foxes in their lifetime.

However, it is certain that the fox's fur will evolve to a certain extent as it ages.

Pure white, pure red, and pure black foxes are all genetically mutated species and are very rare.

Before liberation, if you could catch a white fox, a red fox or a black fox, it would be enough for your family to eat and drink for a lifetime.

This gray-yellow fox has mixed fur and is too small to be worth much. If it were a little bigger, it could be worth ten yuan. However, Chen Weidong has no interest in this small, mixed-fur fox.

The two sides looked at each other for a while, and the gray-yellow fox raised its two front hooves, arched towards Chen Weidong, and then squeaked twice.

As the leader of the five immortals in Northeastern legends, the fox is very spiritual.

Chen Weidong naturally realized at this time that this was asking for food from him.

Chen Weidong didn't mind a few pounds of little fox wanting to eat the entrails of a silly roe deer. He nodded and said, "Go ahead!"

The little fox didn't dare to go, but looked at Chen Weidong, then looked at the dogs.

Chen Weidong signaled to the dog to stop barking. The little fox bowed to Chen Weidong again, then trotted over to the roe deer intestines and started eating them in small bites.

It really feels elegant.

Eat a few bites, then look back at Chen Weidong, continue eating, then eat a few bites, look back at Chen Weidong, and continue eating...

Chen Weidong didn't care about the little fox, mainly because it was worthless. He didn't have any taboos about foxes. However, Li Shengli, Shitou Bingzi and the other two had heard the legend about the Five Immortals in the Northeast since they were young. It was the legend that accompanied them growing up, so they didn't dare to provoke it.

Chen Weidong continued to roast the fire and eat greyhounds, and did nothing else.

The little fox ate for a while, perhaps because it was full, so it bowed to Chen Weidong, then turned and ran into the bushes.

Disappear.

Still a polite fox.

Chen Weidong smiled and didn't take it seriously. Some animals in the mountains are smart, not to mention foxes, which are very clever.

After eating the greyhounds, move the fire away, pick out the pine cones from it, throw the roasted pine cones on the ground, and the pine nuts inside will fall all over the ground.

Most of the pine nuts inside had a hole exploded in them.

Then, Chen Weidong dug out the mud ball buried in the ground and put it aside.

After eating the pine nuts, the temperature of the mud ball over there had almost dropped. Chen Weidong went over and knocked open the mud ball, revealing the steaming beggar's chicken inside.

After lunch, Chen Weidong went to help pick pine cones.

There are indeed a lot of pine cones here, and I haven’t even picked those that are ripe and haven’t fallen from the trees yet.

Everyone didn't have time to pick up the pine cones on the trees. There were enough for them to pick up on the ground. The ground was filled with pine cones, a thick layer.

No one has been to this place for many years. Even if hunters come here, they will not think of picking pine cones.

Many pine cones fall every year, and as they accumulate year after year, they become what they are now.
The pine nuts inside the pine cones are the seeds of the pine tree. After the pine cones fall to the ground, small pine trees will not grow quickly.

This requires a lot of luck. First, the pine cones need to rot and the pine nuts inside need to fall out.
Only when pine nuts are combined with soil, and then with a series of conditions such as suitable water and sunlight, can small pine seedlings grow.

If the conditions are not right, the pine nuts will not germinate, but will slowly rot like the pine cones, eventually turning into humus and becoming nutrients for the trees.

It is obvious that the conditions for pine nuts to germinate are not met under this old pine tree.

Therefore, there are no sprouting pine seedlings around, only pine cones, thick pine needles, and pine cones that are about to rot.

You don't need to pick up the pine cones on the bottom layer, just pick up the top layer. Even so, there are still quite a few pine cones.

After picking up for a while, there were almost 400 kilograms, and the small black donkey probably couldn't put it all on it, so Chen Weidong put the sack on the black donkey, tied it with a rope, and then beat the gray dog ​​for a while.

This trip is complete, it’s time to go home.

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