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

Chapter 119 Mom, sister, dad is back!
"Brother Weidong, is Blind Bear finished yet? I haven't even fired yet!"

Bingzi said with some excitement.

Killing a blind bear was a very proud thing. You could brag about it when you got back to the village. Bingzi had always heard his father talk about how powerful the blind bears in the mountains were.
Just now when the blind bear rushed towards him, he was a little panicked, but he didn't expect that the blind bear was easily dealt with by Brother Weidong and the others in the blink of an eye.

Chen Weidong smiled. Bingzi had only seen them successfully hunt blind bears and had never seen any examples of failure.

"Weidong, leave the bear gallbladder cutting job to me!"

Li Shengli immediately drew out his knife.

"Brother Shengli, be careful. Blind bears are very tenacious!" Chen Weidong did not argue with him, but just gave him a reminder.

Blind bears have very strong vitality. He once saw a blind bear that was still alive with half of its face knocked off.

Of course, now that the blind bear couldn't move after being bitten by the dog, he was most likely dead, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

"Ok!"

Li Shengli agreed. He was also an experienced hunter and knew that blind bears had strong vitality.

Carrying the knife, he walked to a place three or four meters in front of the blind bear. After carefully observing for a while, he confirmed that the blind bear was dead, then stepped forward to disembowel him and remove his bile.

Li Shengli walked forward and drove away the six dogs first. Then he grabbed the blind bear's front legs and called Shitou. The two of them took some effort to turn the blind bear over.

Although Li Shengli was old, he had a lot of strength in his hands. Together, the two of them easily turned the blind bear weighing 400 to 500 kilograms over.

Then use a sharp knife to cut open the blind bear's throat from below and cut all the way down.

After opening the blind bear's stomach, Li Shengli successfully cut off the bear's heart limb and carefully removed the bear's gallbladder.

The bear gall was green in color and about the size of a baby's fist. Li Shengli inserted the knife next to the blind bear, held the bear gall with one hand, and took out a small white cloth bag from his trouser pocket with the other hand, poured out the contents, and then carefully put the bear gall in.

"Weidong, not bad, a grass gall!"

Li Shengli grinned and handed over the small bag.

Chen Weidong has said before that bear gallbladders are divided into oil gallbladder, grass gallbladder, iron gallbladder, and gold gallbladder. In fact, it is easy to distinguish them.
The entire bear gall is in the shape of an elongated, flat egg, narrow at the top and swollen and sac-like at the bottom, and varies in size.

The surface is black or brownish black, shiny, and wrinkled. The skin of the cyst is thin. When viewed from close up, the upper part is translucent and hard. When broken open, the cross section is shiny. The gallbladder inside the cyst is in the form of blocks, particles, or thick paste. The yellow amber-like one is called "gold gallbladder".
The yellow-green one is called "iron gall", the black or dark green one is called "grass gall", and the thick paste-like one is called "oil gall".

The better ones are those that are big, thin-skinned and have more kernels.

What are the causes of gold gall, iron gall, grass gall and oil gall? Some say it is related to the season, some say it is related to the waxing and waning of the moon, that is, it is related to the waxing moon and the waning moon.

But there is no authoritative statement yet, it is just related to the abundance of bear bile.

"Well, most of them are grass gall this season."

Chen Weidong took the small bag, weighed it, and then put it into his backpack.

This time he was the main person going into the mountain, so he would naturally collect the bear gall and distribute it after going down the mountain.

However, bear gall is the most valuable part of a bear. Chen Weidong had asked about the price in the county. A grass gall is priced at around 300 to 400 yuan.
Of course, this is the price in Hesong County. If it is brought to the nearest Hajiang City, it can be worth at least 500 or 600 yuan, if not doubled.
At this moment, Chen Weidong had an idea. Besides, the organs of a bear were worth a lot of money. He estimated that he could earn an extra three or four hundred yuan by going to Hajiang City.

"It seems that I have to prepare for a long journey..."

Chen Weidong couldn't help but think that although it is not easy to travel far now, it is still worth it if he can earn an extra three or four hundred yuan per trip.

Then Chen Weidong began to cut meat to feed Black Tiger, White Tiger and six dogs.

"Brother Shengli, I plan to keep the bear gall, bear skin, bear paws, etc. and sell them elsewhere. The price will be higher. How about we split the money when the time comes? If you don't want to, I can give you the bear skin and two bear paws!"

Chen Weidong said suddenly.

Li Shengli hesitated for a moment after hearing this: "Weidong, why are you being so polite to me? If it weren't for you, a blind bear, I wouldn't have been able to get it! I'll listen to you, how you say to divide it!"

"That!"

Chen Weidong smiled.

"What should we do with this blind bear?" Li Shengli asked again, looking at the blind bear on the ground.

"We'll get a sled and put the bear on it and drag it back."

Chen Weidong said without thinking.

Not only is the skin of this blind bear valuable, but bear meat is also a good thing in this era, especially bear oil.

"Depend on us?" Li Shengli was a little dumbfounded. This place is 20 to 30 miles away from the village.
It's not easy for them to go back while dragging a bear weighing four or five hundred kilograms, not to mention that each of them has a lot of things in their hands.

"Brother Shengli, you are so confused. Don't we still have six dogs? Let's make a simple noose and splint and let the dogs drag it back!"

Chen Weidong smiled.

"Brother Weidong, this is a good idea!" Shitou immediately agreed.

Then Chen Weidong took Shi Tou and made simple tassels and splints and put them on the six dogs.

Li Shengli took his soldiers to cut branches.

Earth sled is actually a way of saying it. It is actually a bunch of branches tied together.
Tie them up into a simple tray, put the bear on it, and let the dog drag it along.

Li Shengli and his companion quickly made a sled. The four of them worked together to lift the blind bear onto the sled and then put the sled on the dog.

"Let's go!" Chen Weidong called out.

Shitou, leading two yellow muntjacs, and the group of four started walking back.

Although it was difficult to walk because of the heavy snow on the mountain, the hunting dogs were born with the ability to walk on the snow, so even though they were dragging a sled, they were not walking slowly.

Finally, I returned to the village at four o'clock in the afternoon.

As soon as I entered the village, I found that Jiuqutun was more lively today than usual.

"Sister-in-law, what's going on today?" Chen Weidong asked a young woman curiously.

"It's Weidong! Are you back? Did you go into the mountains to dig out bears?"

The young woman stopped and saw the blind bear on the sled, then the yellow muntjac in Shitou's hand, and asked with some envy.

"Yes, we were originally going into the mountains to pick up flying dragons, and we happened to meet a bear, so Brother Weidong led us to beat him.

Bingzi said with some pride.

"Hey, hey! Weidong, listen to Bingzi's tone!!"

"Haha, sister-in-law, he speaks like this, straight to the point."

"Sister Xueting really found a good man. He can even beat a blind bear back home!"

"Sister-in-law, what's going on over there? Why is it so lively?"

"What else can happen? The Liu family and the Li family are quarreling again." The young woman explained.

The Liu family and the Li family are not considered big families in the village. In the beginning, there was only one family, but now they have been divided into three or four families.

These two families would quarrel every ten days or half a month. If it was minor, they would just curse at each other, and if it was serious, they would fight in a group.

Speaking of the conflict between the two families.

In fact, there was no big conflict. It was just some trivial matters at the beginning, but then gradually the conflicts became more and more serious.

Gradually, the grudge was resolved.

In addition, the two families are very close to each other. Every once in a while, they will find some trouble. When the two families fight, not only the old man will get involved, but the old ladies will also get involved.

First scolded, then beaten.

Fighting between old ladies is much more interesting than scolding.

Every time, almost half of the village would go to watch the fun.

It's not that the people in the village didn't help to mediate the fight, it's just that it's hard to say who's right and who's wrong between the two families, and every time they mediate, it's useless.
As time went by, they were ignored. When they had fought for a while, the village chief would come out to persuade them and then give each of them fifty lashes.

There is not much entertainment these days, people like to watch the fun the most.
The Liu family and the Li family have made outstanding contributions to the entertainment life of the entire village.

The villagers have gotten used to it and are just standing aside watching and laughing.

Chen Weidong didn’t care much about these things. Neither family had anything to do with him anyway.

Then Chen Weidong called Li Shengli and the other two to go home.

As soon as he arrived home, Chen Weidong saw Sanni, Sini and Wuni, busy making a snowman at the gate of the yard.

"father!"

As soon as the three little girls saw Chen Weidong and his companions coming back, they immediately ran over and hugged his thighs.

Then the little guys looked at the harvest of the few people without blinking.

"Third sister, fourth sister, look, these are little deer!" Wu Ni stared curiously at the two yellow muntjacs led by Shitou!

"Sanni, Sini, Wuni, this is a yellow muntjac!"

Stone said with a smile.

"Oh, Uncle Shitou, what is a yellow muntjac?"

Three little kids looked at the stone with curiosity in their big eyes.

Stone: “Uh…”

The most difficult questions to answer were those from the curious little kids. Fortunately, the little ones didn’t ask about the stone for long. When they saw the blind bear on the sled, they were so scared that they ran back and hugged Chen Weidong’s thighs.

Chen Weidong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly hugged the three little kids in his arms.

Fortunately, the little ones are still young, otherwise he really wouldn’t be able to hold the three little ones.

"Mom, sister, Dad is back!"

"Dad is back! Come and see!"

"..."

Chen Weidong had just put the three little kids back in the yard when he heard them yelling in baby voices.

Then Chen Weidong, Li Shengli and the other two carried the blind bear into the yard.

When they returned to the yard, Liu Xueting was holding Liu Ni, and brought Da Ni and Er Ni to greet them.

"father!"

"father!"

The two little girls, Da Ni and Er Ni, shouted happily. Liu Xueting was surprised to see the black bear carried by Chen Weidong and the other three. She quickly stepped forward and asked with concern:
"Weidong, you guys beat up the blind bear, but you didn't hurt him, did you?"

"Xue Ting, it's okay! You know how powerful your man is." Chen Weidong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he also enjoyed his wife's concern.

"Weidong's wife, we are all watching you..." Li Shengli said with a smile.

"Ahem, ahem, Brother Shengli, Shitou, Bingzi, I'll go get you some water."

After Liu Xueting finished speaking, she put Liu Ni on the ground. Liu Ni wanted to pounce on Chen Weidong, but when she saw the blind bear behind her, she decisively turned around and hugged Dani.

Dani and her sisters began to look at the two yellow muntjacs! Chen Weidong ignored them and started to skin the blind bear with Li Shengli.

(End of this chapter)