Chapter 379 Now that it’s here, how can we miss it?
Author: Zhijianling
Chapter 379 Now that it’s here, how can we miss it?
Chen Xiuyu followed Lu Lu silently, both of them walking very slowly.
Along the way, I saw many abandoned thatched houses built with straw. These were the places where educated youths lived at that time. The houses were empty and no one took care of them. Some of the straw walls had collapsed.
, revealing the wooden poles with rammed grass inside that serve as connectors and frames.
The surrounding land is full of crops, mostly corn, melons and vegetables.
"The wilderness is vast and sparsely populated, and is surrounded by fertile wasteland waiting to be developed and utilized. The favorable weather and location gave us a good opportunity to plant private land. Therefore, the educated youth and workers showed their talents and competed to cultivate crops.
I bought a lot of corn, potatoes, radishes, melons and other things.
In autumn, every household has a good harvest. Golden corn hangs under the eaves, decorating every thatched house with color and gold.
Some people even plant rows of tree stumps like telephone poles in front of their door, with large iron nails on three sides at about shoulder height, and then tie the corns with soft leaves in pairs, and push them toward the iron from three directions.
Nailed and hung, it can be hung up to two meters high.
As a result, rows of golden pillars hung with corn stood up, shining brightly, forming a beautiful landscape, which is really beautiful."
Lu Lu looked at the dilapidated houses along the way and talked about the beautiful scenes full of life in his memory as he walked.
"Have you ever done it before?" Chen Xiuyu asked, blinking her big eyes.
"Growing, but it was only for the first two years. Later, after I met Mr. Zhao in the sideline team, I didn't take care of it much, so I simply planted some melons that didn't need to be taken care of. As for the others,
After I learned some hunting skills, I would go into the mountains to set traps, or borrow a gun from Raymond, go hunting in the wilderness, and exchange meat with them."
Lu Lu smiled and said: "Compared to vegetables, it is more difficult for everyone to eat meat. We all know that there are many wild animals in the wilderness, but it is not an easy task to catch them. We exchange meat with them for vegetables, and everyone is very happy."
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"Obviously just lazy!"
Chen Xiuyu curled her lips and easily grasped Lu Lu's pulse: "Do you like to eat noodles?"
She doesn’t plant anything else but melons. Chen Xiuyu doesn’t think it’s as simple as just not needing to take care of it.
"Yeah!"
Lu Lu didn't expect that Chen Xiuyu would guess this.
"Then let's plant some next year!" Chen Xiuyu thought for a while and made a decision.
In Lu Lu's opinion, Beidahuang's noodle melons are unique. They are round, dark blue, the size of footballs and coconuts, heavy, and have a very solid feel.
This thing, chopped into pieces, can be cooked into porridge or steamed. It is sweet and floury, better than sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, and can be called a delicacy.
But the strange thing is that after leaving the wilderness, you can hardly see them in other places.
Soon, Lu Lu arrived at the thatched house where he had lived before.
The house is still in good condition, but it has not been taken care of for a long time, and the door panels are a little skewed. The thatch on the roof has not been replaced for a long time and has become somewhat rotten. There are even new weeds growing in some places, swaying in the wind.
He pushed open the door and took a look. The ground inside was damp, and there were even inedible mushrooms growing in the corners.
The earthen kang, earthen stove and wooden shelves used to place things are still there.
The tables and benches had been moved away, and they looked empty.
Also, the mats on the kang that were roughly woven with urethane grass were gone.
Most of these things are not lacking in the homes of other workers, and they must have been picked up by outsiders who came to work on the farm.
Most of these migrant workers were housed in these vacant thatched houses. Lu Lu saw several occupied houses along the way.
After tying the horses to the wooden stakes next to the house behind the house, Lu Lu began to take care of it: "We will live here for the next few days."
Chen Xiuyu also came over to help clean up.
The two of them worked hard for more than half an hour, and the house looked much more comfortable.
"Get some firewood and light up the stove. The humidity in the room is a bit heavy, so we need to have a good barbecue! Dinner should be served in the canteen of the sideline team at this time. I'll go prepare some food and come back to eat together. After dinner, let's take a rest.
I'll take you to herd horses and hunt roe deer."
"good!"
Many people from the sideline team were transferred to help collect food, but after all, there were still so many chores to do in the sideline team, and half of the manpower was left, so the canteen still had to run.
Lu Lu first went to the small shop of the sideline team and bought two large enamel jars and two spoons. After fetching water from the well and cleaning them, he went to the canteen.
It was time for dinner inside, and the chef who was cooking had not changed. Suddenly he saw Lu Lu, and he was a little surprised. Lu Lu originally wanted to spend money to buy food, but the master directly blocked him and took him back. He put two large jars in and started cooking.
I ordered some rice, picked up delicious dishes, and filled two large jars.
Lu Lu thanked him gratefully and left with the vat in hand.
The main purpose was to visit Raymond. Although there were many familiar people here, Lu Lu didn't want to disturb them or cause them any unnecessary trouble.
He just considered that it was necessary for him to pack some game and bring it to the canteen.
Zhao Tuanqing would do this every time he came to the sideline team. He didn't want to take advantage of others. Anyway, now he is no longer a member of the farm, just an outsider.
When she returned to the thatched house, Chen Xiuyu had already lit the stove, borrowed a sickle from another house, cut a bundle of urala grass, and spread it on the kang.
The pipe of the stove fire is connected to the earthen kang, and the temperature rises, and you can see the steam rising above it.
Seeing Lu Lu coming back, she quickly greeted him.
“I’m lucky today, I have braised pork, fried potatoes and mushrooms!”
Lu Lu handed her a rice bowl, and the couple squatted in front of the thatched house, eating with gusto.
The ingredients in the cafeteria are much more abundant than Lu Lu's. The chefs in the cafeteria are also very good at cooking. The taste is no worse than what Lu Lu cooks at home. Of course, there is no comparison in terms of oil and water.
Even Chen Xiuyu couldn't eat enough of the rice bowl, let alone Lu Lu.
Rarely, Lu Lu saw Chen Xiuyu getting up and taking the rice bowl to clean up after finishing the meal, rubbing her belly again and feeling a little stuffed.
The two of them rested for more than half an hour. Lu Lu led Chen Xiuyu, led the horse, carried the hunting bag on his back, took Yuan Bao and others, and walked towards the edge of the forest.
This place is backed by Wanda Mountain and has a large wetland in front.
The fertile black earth is fragrant for thousands of miles, and the Wanda Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles are majestic and majestic.
On one side is the vast virgin forest, which is vast and green.
On one side are natural wetlands that gather the aura of heaven and earth and endless acres of fertile farmland, where birds soar and chirp.
Chen Xiuyu was surprised by the abundance of native mountain products such as mushrooms, hericium, pine nuts, Schisandra chinensis, and mountain grapes that could be seen everywhere in the forest. She was also surprised by the heavy ears of rice, the increasingly golden corn, the fiery red sorghum, and the flocks of cattle and sheep inside.
"Only now do I really know that in our mountains... ugh!"
Everything she saw along the way made her so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear.
"What's going on in our mountains?" Lu Lu asked with a smile.
"Brother Lu, you said that there is such a beautiful place in this world. I feel like I don't want to go back when I come here." Chen Xiuyu said with a smile: "You said that when you returned to the wilderness, why didn't you choose to come here?
A more familiar place? This is much better than Xiushantun."
"It's not because of you!"
Lu Lu wanted to say something like this, but when he said it, he changed it to: "If I didn't go to Xiushantun, how could I meet you? To me, everyone has his own advantages. I just want to change my life.
It's just a law. If I go back to the farm, I will probably have to do my job every day and live on thirty-eight yuan a month. But when I go to the mountains, it will be a different and exciting life. The key is freedom."
Lu Lu stepped forward to lead the way and quickly selected a piece of grassland for them to graze. He himself led Yuan Bao and Chen Xiuyu into the mountains.
Having lived here for eight years, Lu Lu often went into the mountains to hunt and set traps. He didn't know the specific situation deep in Wanda Mountain, but he knew what was around the sideline team.
Leading Chen Xiuyu into the mountain, Lu Lu quickly found the traces left by the passing cannons. Not long after, the murderous sound of Yuan Bao was heard.
Looking in the direction pointed by Yuan Bao, Lu Lu quickly found a group of roe deer wandering in the valley.
There are only six in this group of robes, and Lu Lu doesn't intend to fight more.
He called Chen Xiuyu, and after quietly approaching, each of them aimed at one and fired directly.
The gunfire rang out and the two roe deer fell to the ground.
The white hairs on the buttocks of the other four suddenly exploded. They did not run away immediately, but looked towards Lu Lu.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Lu fired again and placed another shot.
Yuanbao and the others rushed out immediately, and then the remaining three were so frightened that they jumped up and down among the bushes in the valley, until Yuanbao and the others drove them far away.
It's not winter yet, and in such terrain, hunting dogs can't outrun roe deer at all. But as long as they leave Yuanbao and the others for a short distance, they feel a little safer, so they stop and look back, causing Yuanbao and the others to keep chasing.
Lu Lu could only shoot and recall Yuanbao and the others.
Chen Xiuyu helped pull the roe deer's fur, while Lu Lu took the hunting knife and quickly skinned it.
After working for almost an hour, the skins of the three roe deer were peeled off and fed to the dogs in the water.
A roe deer went into the water, weighing only about 20 kilograms. Lu Lu cut a wooden stick and carried two of them. Chen Xiuyu packed one in a bag and carried it back to the place where they grazed in Zhui Feng. It was quite early.
The things were placed on the edge of the grass, and the six well-fed dogs were too lazy to move, so they lay next to them and guarded them. They had been running long distances for the past few days, and they were really tired.
Lu Lu lay directly on the grass, basking in the sun, while Chen Xiuyu couldn't stop wandering in the river beside the grass. Not long after, she ran back quietly: "Brother Lu, there is a section emerging from the river below.
There is a little thing on the stump of the water."
"What is it?"
"I can't even name him, I've never seen him before!"
"Let's go and have a look!"
Lu Lu followed Chen Xiuyu and walked along the river bank for about two hundred meters. From a distance, he saw a little thing lying quietly on a tree stump protruding from the river: "Water dog! You are so lucky!"
, just walking around like this, you can see water dogs, their fur and liver are quite valuable."
"Are you going to fight?" Chen Xiuyu asked in a low voice.
"They say it's valuable, so I'll definitely hit it!" Lu Lu said with a smile: "Here, if you want to hit this thing, just hit it on the head, otherwise the fur will be damaged and it will be worthless!"
Lu Lu said, raising the gun, aiming slightly, and then pulled the trigger.
The water dog fell into the river and floated slowly downstream on the gentle river. Yuanbao and a few puppies ran over, looking at the water dog still twitching on the river.
He immediately ran nearby and jumped into the river with Yuan Bao. The Yuan Bao who swam first picked up the water dog.
"After we met Raymond, we spent the next few days fetching water dogs and green-rooted martens here!"
Lu Lu has not forgotten that this wetland and the wetland over Jiayin are both places rich in water dog and green-rooted marten. They are all good furs. Now that they are here, how can they miss them?