Yuan Bao and a few puppies followed quietly, while Lu Lu led Zhui Feng and walked slowly.
He walked on the more than 30 kilometers of mountain road for almost six hours, and his legs seemed to be filled with lead, becoming heavier and heavier as he walked.
I was dragging Xiong Xiazi’s wooden dragg, but I changed it to two more on the way, probably because of some snow and ice, so it was quite smooth along the way.
At any rate, there was only about seven or eight miles of land. Lu Lu held a torch made of Mingzi and birch bark tied together to illuminate it. The flames were blown wildly by the whining north wind, and he almost came close several times.
extinguished.
Fortunately, there is more and more snow on the ground, and even at night, we can barely distinguish the general direction.
Lu Lu simply threw away the useless torch.
I already have a flashlight at home. It’s better to bring a flashlight when going into the mountains in the future. It’s convenient and saves trouble.
The main thing he didn't expect today was that it would take so long.
I walked like this for more than half an hour, and finally arrived at my fence.
He felt a little relieved and led the horse along the fence to the ridge, and then down the hillside to the gate of the fence.
Hearing the noise outside, the wooden door was suddenly opened. Chen Xiuyu took a flashlight and shined at the gate of the fence. When she saw it was Lu Lu, she immediately rushed over to greet him.
"Daughter-in-law, why aren't you asleep yet?" Lu Lu asked with a smile.
"I went into the mountain in the morning and didn't come back after dark. It snowed so heavily again. How could you let me sleep? If you don't come again, I will go to find Father Zhao and Brother Zhao. I will go to find Feng."
I'm leading people into the mountains to look for trouble!" Chen Xiuyu said worriedly.
"I could have come back quite early, but I was delayed just to drag this big guy!"
Lu Lu pointed at the blind bear placed on the wooden mop behind, and then said: "The journey that originally took me just over an hour to get back by riding a horse with Yuan Bao, ended up taking me six hours."
"It looks like it's snowing. Why don't you throw it up the mountain and come back early and drag it tomorrow? Which is more important, the person or the prey?" Chen Xiuyu said, clenching her fist and hitting Lu Lu on the chest.
Lu Lu fell down on the snow, startling Chen Xiuyu again, and hurriedly stepped forward to pull him out: "Brother Lu, don't scare me. Are you injured somewhere?"
The punch was obviously very light... She wondered if Lu Lu was injured.
"I think it's more important for me to go back to the house to light up the brazier, have a hot meal, and then lie down on the kang and have a good sleep!"
He has not had a drop of water since he left home in the morning.
After a busy day, I feel that my body is very tired. The most important thing is that I have been sweating a little while walking, and now I feel colder and colder.
"If this blind bear were placed deep in the mountains and was delayed by the heavy snow, I would probably have been eaten by other wild animals by the time I found it. It can burn a lot of oil, so I would be reluctant to throw it into the mountains."
He smiled and stood up, jumping up and down in front of Chen Xiuyu: "I'm not hurt, I was joking with you just now..."
Chen Xiuyu glared at Lu Lu: "Hurry and enter the house."
Lu Lu smiled and led Zhui Feng to drag Blind Xiong into the yard.
Chen Xiuyu followed behind, closing the fence gate and courtyard gate all the way. When Lu Lu took off the saddle and led Zhui Feng to the stable, she quickly entered the house, first went to the bedroom to find some clothes to change, and then
He added some charcoal to the charcoal brazier and burned it, then went outside to the kang stove and stirred the fire with a fire hook to make the kang stove burn more vigorously.
Then he used a flashlight to shine on Lu Lu and hung up the saddle, and Zhui Feng added corn and forage to the manger.
The two of them entered the house together. After Chen Xiuyu closed the door, she immediately poured hot water for Lu Lu to wash his face and feet. He also put his shoes next to the washbasin: "After washing, go inside and change your clothes. Let's warm it up first.
I’ll go and heat some food for you!”
Chen Xiuyu's considerate care made Lu Lu feel extremely warm in his heart, and he felt that no matter how much he paid, it was worth it.
"You boil the water first. There is a copper gall in the hunting bag. You need to dip it in it and boil it, and hang it by the kitchen chimney to dry it!" Lu Lu explained.
"Got it!" Chen Xiuyu took the hunting bag from Lu Lu and pushed her toward the bedroom. It wasn't until he entered the bedroom that Chen Xiuyu went to the kitchen with a flashlight.
Lu Lu washed his face and feet as promised, went to the bedroom to change his clothes, put on his own cotton coat, and then carried the brazier into the kitchen. After returning and bringing the oil lamp to the kitchen, Lu Lu lit up the fire.
While watching Chen Xiuyu busy.
Chen Xiuyu, who always waited for him to come back for dinner, had not eaten yet.
During this meal, Chen Xiuyu specially poured a lot of wild blueberry fruit wine for Lu Lu, and she also took a few sips. After eating and drinking, Lu Lu felt that he had finally recovered. He went to put the kang
I added some coal to the stove and returned to the bedroom. The bedroom was already warm with a jackal-skin stove.
When sleeping on this kind of kang, the quilt should not be too thick, but should be of appropriate thickness. Otherwise, you will be constantly warm, and if you cover it too thickly, you will easily sweat. After a night, you will suffer from severe dehydration. And the quilt is of moderate thickness.
Then this situation will not occur.
The couple got under the quilt, blew out the kerosene lamp, hugged each other, and fell asleep soon after.
When Lu Lu woke up the next day, he heard that Chen Xiuyu was already cooking in the kitchen.
He rolled over and got up, opened the window and looked outside. The whole world was completely white.
Looking at the snow on the roof of the warehouse, it must be at least twenty centimeters thick. The snow is still floating slowly, but it is much smaller.
In the yard, Chen Xiuqing was skinning the blind bear with a razor knife. He was almost done skinning it. It seemed that he had been here for a long time.
Lu Lu quickly got up, put on his clothes, a military cotton coat, and a dog-skin hat. When he walked out of the bedroom, he happened to meet Chen Xiuyu coming out of the kitchen.
"It's almost noon, why don't you call me?"
"It snowed so thickly, and you were so tired yesterday. I went to see you twice, and you were sleeping soundly. Why did I wake you up?"
"Of course I'm going to deal with the blind bear. Also, I want to learn skiing from Qingzi."
"Then you have to rest well to feel energetic! Besides, it's so cold, so Xiong Xiazi's meat isn't that easy to spoil."
After Chen Xiuyu finished speaking, she left the house and went to the warehouse to get mushrooms.
The wilderness in winter is like a natural refrigerator, and meat can be frozen for a long time without spoiling.
Lu Lu went to the kitchen to take a look and found that chicken was being cooked in a large iron pot on the stove. This was preparing to make chicken stewed with mushrooms.
Lu Lu came out of the house, grabbed some snow from the yard, rubbed his hands, then took some and put it on his face, rubbing it, thinking it was a wash.
Chen Xiuyu came out of the warehouse and saw Lu Lu doing this, and immediately shouted: "You just got off the kang, it's so hot, you can't catch a cold like this?"
"It's okay!" Lu Lu smiled.
He was used to washing his face with cold water. If Chen Xiuyu hadn't poured hot water last night, he would have washed his face with cold water.
I often wash my face with cold water. After I develop the habit, I will feel hot and uncomfortable if I wash my face with hot water. I wash my feet with cold water. At the beginning, my hands and feet will feel like needles.
It warms up quickly, but it is not easy to warm your feet if you wash them with hot water.
The reason why Lu Lu did this was mainly because he wanted to have a stronger ability to withstand the cold in winter.
When Chen Xiuyu returned to the kitchen to work, Lu Lu also took the hunting knife and helped Chen Xiuqing skin the bear.
"I killed such a big bear again and got a big copper gallbladder. Brother Lu, you didn't even ask me to go into the mountain..." Chen Xiuqing's face was full of resentment.
"Yesterday I just went into the mountains to hunt small animals, check out the environment, and prepare for hunting later. I didn't expect to encounter a bear. Besides, I was shopping for vegetables the day before yesterday. I saw that you still have a lot of firewood to cut in your yard. You
Tell me what I asked you to do...
Hurry up, help me process this bear meat, and teach me how to ski. If I can make the snow slippery, we will be very busy this winter. Then you, me, and Brother Feng, we will work hard all winter and earn some money.
One stroke!"
Lu Lu really didn't expect to find Blind Xiong yesterday.
He went into the mountain with the intention of checking the environment. He took Yuan Bao and the others in to escape, and it was mainly for self-defense, not to fight against the dogs.
Yesterday, the blind man was beaten purely on impulse. Who knew the traces left by the blind man were so fresh?
Hearing what Lu Lu said, Chen Xiuqing's eyes suddenly lit up.
Lu Lu had told him about this matter, and preparing early was to achieve greater gains in the future.
Now that Lu Lu said he would take him with him, of course he was happy.
But Lu Lu then asked: "By the way, Qingzi, can Brother Feng know how to ski?"
"Brother Fenghui, and his skills are also very good. His grandfather was on the anti-league boardboard team. When he was young, he always asked him to know how to ski. He said that as a Northeastern person, he must learn to ski, otherwise he would suffer a big loss.
I heard that when he was a child, he was beaten by his grandfather because of this."
Chen Xiuqing laughed when she said this.
"Why?" Lu Lu couldn't help but ask.
"He said at the time, 'The little turtles have already been driven away. Why should we learn to do this? All we need is that we can slide and walk.' Because of this, his grandfather beat him up. He said that even though the little turtles had been driven away,
, are there no other enemies? We must be ready for war at any time. Don't look at how good the old man is with us now. If you fall out one day, you may have to kill them... As a result, the old man really said
In that year, Lao Maozi withdrew his aid and fell out..."
Lu Lu fell silent for a moment after hearing this.
Lao Maozi withdrew the aid in June 1959. Zhang Shaofeng is now thirty years old. Lu Lu initially estimated that Zhang Shaofeng was probably six or seven years old when his grandfather said this to him.
People living in the wilderness have been ravaged by foreign enemies for so long. The heroes of the older generation are always ready for war. This is a mentality of being prepared for danger in times of peace. It is this mentality that has caused many potential dangers and hidden dangers in the land of China.
It was eliminated early and quickly became stronger.
"Brother Feng was severely drilled in those winters when he couldn't do anything. The old man even got him an old foreign cannon and let him practice target shooting while skiing... I also heard my dad say this later.
Yes, I even competed with him once, and it was really good."
Chen Xiuqing seemed to remember some things from the past.
"You are ten years younger than Brother Feng. When did you compete with him?" Lu Lu asked with some disbelief.
"When I was ten years old, he went to join the army and came back to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year. He didn't know what he thought, so he took out his grandfather's old pedals to play with. He heard that I was good at skiing, and he took the initiative to find them.
We climbed to the top of Houshan Mountain, and from there we skied all the way to Huilongtun. We were competing to see who could arrive first. The snow at that time was more than one meter thick. In the end, I won, and was left behind by a hundred or two hundred meters.
"
When Chen Xiuqing said this, he sighed and then continued: "Brother Feng and I are different. He practices skiing to prepare for war. I practice skiing so that one day I can have the ability to chase deer like my dad."
, Deer are good things, if you can catch them, you can get a lot of work points in the team, and you can live a good life."
Lu Lu was silent again.
He had heard of the Deer Chasers.
A deer chaser is a hunter who rides on a wooden horse to chase live deer in the forest, sea and snowy fields.
During the Qing Dynasty, among the Eight Banners of Jilin's Animal Hunting Wula General Manager's Office, there were hunters who specialized in hunting down live deer for the royal family.
The skill of chasing deer comes from this, and it is indeed something that only people with very high skiing skills can do.
Nowadays, there are still people who chase deer. They are rare in Xiaoxing'an Mountains, but there are still people who master this skill in Changbai Mountain and Daxingan Mountains. In Changbai Mountain, they chase red deer and sika deer. In Daxingan Mountains, they mainly chase deer that can be used as livestock labor.
Reindeer, of course, also chase red deer and sika deer, and are used to chase prey in hunting.
If you want to master the skiing ability that can chase sika deer, you have to endure a lot of hardships, and it is not an exaggeration to say that you are risking your life.
This was something Lu Lu didn't expect, that his elder brother-in-law would have such a tough side.
"You handle this bear meat. I'll go find Brother Feng and ask him to come over and teach me how to ski!"
Lu Lu wanted to learn skiing skills through Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing. More importantly, he wanted to learn shooting skills during skiing through Zhang Shaofeng. People who have been taught by the old heroes of the snowboard team must have unique skills in this aspect.
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After mastering this technique, Lu Lu believed that he could further improve his marksmanship.
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